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Annotations upon the late protestation: or, A true character of an affectionate minde to King and Parliament.
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T. L.
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1642
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Wing L67; Thomason E114_28; ESTC R22327
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ANNOTATIONS UPON THE LATE PROTESTATION OR A TRUE CHARACTER of an affectionate minde to King and Parliament Feare God and honour the King HEre is a command from above by the Supreme power touching himself and his Lievtenant which Lievtenant of the Lords being his Majestie whose power comming from above and being Viceroy to the Supreme he is to be obeyed in all just commands in obedience to the highest powers For the powers that be are ordained of God and they that shall resist the powers resisteth thâ— Ordinance of God And S. Peter teacheth us in his first Epistle second Chapter ver 13. That we should Submit our selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to King as Supreme or unto Governours as the two Honourable Houses of Parliament which are called by the King and set up by him for the punishment of evill doers and for the reward of them that doe well For so is the will of God that with well-doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men Now for he whomsoever he be that shall set himselfe against the Parliament a pleader and great paines taker for the King and Common-wealth who by them were chosen and with their approbation to stand to their judgement what they shall in their wisdomes doe in our behalfe I say he that shall set himselfe in the least manner to wrong a member of that Honourable House of Lords or Commons in their lawfull employments by either of the Houses for the honour of God and his Religion safetie of his Majesties person and the good of his country is an absolute traytour For he that will first choose his advocate and then betray him toucheth the apple of Gods owne eye and it were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the depth of the sea How mad then are those Cavaliers who are without grace or the feare of the Almightie which no doubt but are borne in some shires or counties of this Kingdome and have both Knights of their shires and Burgesses of their Corporations to stand for their good and welfare as well as for the good of the very wives of their owne bosome and children of their owne bodies we must not then kill these men seeing we have chosen them for our substitutes in Parliament we must not hurt them God forbid we should and they that shall go about or attempt or advise upon such ungodly actions tending to the wrong of his blessed Majestie or the Parliament now shall they thinke or looke to escape the vengeance of Eternall fire for S. John in his first Epistle Chap. 3. ver 15. saith Whosoever hateth his brother is a murtherer and ye know saith he that no murtherer hath eternall life abiding in him and in the second Chapter of the same Epistle he saith If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him and if the love of the Father is not in that man that loveth the world then surely the Father hateth and abhorreth that man that will set upon his neighbour brother or countryman and kill him out of a meere love to the things of this world and for the things of this world absolutely the men of these courses love not God nor his Religion if they say they doe they are lyars S. John in his first Epistle Chap. 4. ver 20. so saith For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen Now to run against the 6. Commandement of God Almightie wilfully is no small sin and to kick against so strong a thorne issuing from so great a hand And whosoever he be that shall not grant his Majestie his right and that which doth truly belong unto Caesar is an absolute enemie to the King and Common-wealth and a sower of sedition for our Saviour Christ himselfe saith Give unto Casar that which is Caesars and to God that which is Gods that is that which belongeth to the Lord in his due Worship and that to him must be given and that which is the due of the people they ought to have by the very same rule of our Saviour Christ for he that would have Caesar have his due wils also that God in his members should have their right also the one as well as the other the Lord is so mercifull that he would have both have their due rights without going together by the eares and they that doe otherwise are Pharisaicall like making a question what belongs unto Caesar and what not as if people being masters in Israel and knew not these things which if they did not then they were not liable to the censure of our Saviour Christ who telleth all and every one that knoweth the will of his master and doth it not shall be beaten with many stripes and what simple Gentleman is there in combustion and in traitorisme setting his Majestie against the Ordinance of Parliament but is sensible of a Conviction by law and guiltie of high treason against the State and that most palpably for he that will chuse his friend in trust for him in Parliament in hope of his fidelitie to him as well as for his owne selfe wife and children and if any of these men or counties shall rise up against any of his or their Parliament men advocates or any of his neighbouring counties advocates and Parliament men and not be content to stand to the judgement of their best endevours and to helpe them against all their opposites and against unequall and unworthy persons they are much to be blamed and traitours to the State who will not justifie and assist the Houses of Parliament in their Councels and judgements against all opposition contrary to the Law of the Kingdome And Saint Paul for his part he wishes them to be marked that are the cause of the division both in the Church and Common-wealth and they that trouble the true Protestant Religion the way to everlasting life the very same Apostle wisheth they were even cut off And to trample upon the Crown which God forbid any one should it is to touch the Lords anointed and there is an expresse command against this from the Lord who saith Touch not mine anointed and doe my Prophets no harme and no honest man will doe this that is to wrong his Majesty for if his Majestie hath not his immunities how shall we be settled in our proprieties It is against reason and civill honesty for Judges to take all the right that is due to them to be sure and not to allow their Neighbours their just rights and priviledges Or is it equitie for a Taylour to looke on one side of him where his hell is under his shopboard to throw his piece of silver-cloth he hath over and above his Masters worke and not looke on the other side of him to thinke it is his Customers he must not take it which to doe
from Boaz Shem from Japhet the King from his faithfull Ones the Parliament the Royall Head from so amiable a bodie ecce signum their paines and money with the hazard of their dearest blood and sequestring of themselves from their deare wives and sweet Children to attaine and win and bring home their beloved King who is led away by the wild boares of the Forrest to the mountaines of Lebanon Shinar and Hermon where they keep him in the Lions den and among the mountaines of the Leopards Notwithstanding the bodie Politick hath wooed along time the Head to come in and to be joyned to the same that it may not be miscarryed nor lose out of it that rich glistering Diamond which yet praised be God stickes fast to it even Ireland I remember very well what a Scottish Minister said in Delph long since and I cannot hold it in That when a King or people refuse to heare Councell and advice and refuse the harkning one to the other to be advised one by the other it was he said a signe God had appointed some destruction there I beseech God it be not so now here among us for the King will neither heare nor be advised by his Councell nor his Councell will not heare nor hearken to the severall Declarations of the King but be at so great distance one from off the other as if they were afraid one of another and no body praised be God is about to hurt them if they would be but quiet between themselves and it is deplorable to think how that the King and Parliament hath vowed and sworn each to other in love and yet should so quickly in one twelve moneths forget as they seem to do their solemne tye one to another and in stead of being true and faithfull friends each to other begin to wrangle between themselves neere daggers drawing and about that too which should be for both their safeties against our enemies even the Militia God of heaven helpe us is the cause of our combustion and God forbid that that which the Lord hath appointed us for our preservation should be for our destruction Now the way to prevent the mischiefe is that all the Counties of England joyne as one man not crossing nor wrangling one with another but as you did all Petition for the Militia to the Parliament for the setting of your Counties in a posture of safety for the defence of his Majestie in these troublesome times and the Kingdome so you would beseech his Majesties favour not to be against nor goe about to crosse his Parliaments proceeding who studies night and day for his good and call in his Commission of Array which makes the disturbance and his mad Cavaliers which breake his Majesties peace and will begger his Majestie if he be not carefull of himselfe as his Majestie I hope will begger the Papists who lend him money to undoe himselfe and if they could would have him fight against the Protestants his loving Subjects which into my heart it cannot enter that so pious and so gracious a King will do ungracious actions too nay he cannot doe it belonging to God for the Child of God cannot sin and Paul in the Romanes saith he shall not for he there saith Sin shall not have dominion over him where now is then the simple Papists vaine hopes These things most humbly are studied not that the chiefe Cedar of this our Lebanon our gracious King and the other attendant lower Cedar knowes not what is made in Promises Vowes and Protestations each to the other and is past betweene themselves but this is humbly as Saint Peter in another case speakes to put high and low rich and poore in remembrance knowing we must shortly all leave this tabernacle as the Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed himselfe Let us therefore in the feare of the Lord cast away strife anger envie debate hatred bickering with jeering one at another and beare one anothers burden in love and so fulfill the Law of Christ and be joyfull Head and members all one in another and rejoyce together and I say rejoyce The truly well affected to the honour and happinesse both of his sacred Majestie the King and both Honourable Houses of Parliament humbly so prayeth T. L. FINIS