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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40962	An expedient for the king, or, King Charls his peace-offering, sacrificed at the altar of peace, for a safe and well-grounded peace the welfare and happiness of all in generall, and every subject in particular, of his kingdom of England Behold! all ye that passe by, stand stil, and see the wonderful salvation of the Lord, which he hath wrought for the people of this kingdom, by his servant King Charls : Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God : Aske of the King, and he shal give you not stones, for bread, nor scorpions, for fish / studied and published for the honour of the King, and his posterity, and the universall happiness of the whole kingdom of England, by Richard Farrar, Esq.	Farrar, Richard, Esq.	1648 (1648)	Wing F520; ESTC R8687	30,129	43

and behold the Candor of my Heart and I do here bury in the grave of Oblivion all things contained in the Act of Oblivion in my soul not desiring to remember it and vowing never to revenge it So help me God and the Contents of this holy Book and this I confirm by the taking of the Sacrament TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of Richard Farrar Esq Sheweth THat as an addition to his former Expedient for the Peace and Safety of the Kingdom he is very confident by the mercy and goodness of God he can express something more unto His Majesty so convincing in Reason and Religion whereby there may be a sudden and unhoped for happy settlement of the Kingdom and that in a way unanswerably Rational and Religious for the satisfaction of all Interests whatsoever and of all men not wilfully and wickedly opposite to Peace who have any sparke of Reason or Religion left in their hearts Your Petitioner doth therefore most humbly pray that he may have free liberty from both Houses of Parliament upon the score of his own abundant folly to go to the Isle of Wight and there to present His Maiesty in writing with such particulars as your Petitioner hath long since conceived and prepared for the sudden and happy setling of the Peace of this unhappy Kingdom without further shedding of innocent blood which hourly cries up to Heaven for vengeance on all hands your Petitioner being more confident then formerly if possible it may be that he is capable by the mercy of God who he believes hath enabled him for this Expedient to answer any obiection whatsoever that His Majesty shall be pleased to alleadg in opposition to what your Petitioner shall propound to him for a safe and well-grounded Peace And the whole Kingdom with your Petitioner shal as in duty they are bound dayly pray c. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT MY Lords of the House of Peers and you the Members of the Honorable House of Commons the Representative Body of the Kingdom of England since I have taken the boldness as a Subiect and Servant to His Majesty to signifie to him what I conceive his duty to be in the setling or towards the setling of a safe and well grounded Peace Give me leave I humbly pray to say thus much at least that the welfare and happiness of every Member of both Houses as of the whole Kingdom lies at the stake either for good or ill according as God shall move your hearts in the tender and speedy care of the Peace of this Kingdom and this Peace you can neither well begin nor happily end but by following the example of His Majesty Regis ad Exemplum c. in taking out and practising a true Self-Denial of any the least private Interest of your own either of Honor Profit or Revenge making it subordinate to the publike good and welfare of the Kingdom your Nurse and Mother who expects a speedy accompt of you at the present she being wounded all over from head to foot weltring in her blood ready to give up the ghost as God doth likewise look for a strict accompt and will do to all Eternity of your true and faithful performance of your duty for the instant Peace and quiet of the Kingdom To this purpose you were chosen for that end was your Call by God and Man and nothing else but that ought to have been from the beginning to the end your care and study day and night but how you have performed this trust in your Endeavours and eight years sitting and what success hath been let the world not I Judg This I am too sure of the neglect of many in attending their duty at the Houses in the beginning as if they had not been called to any such purpose as to wait there daily the divisions amongst the Members of both Houses from the first sitting to this present time and the absenting of others or worse the breaking out of the pale of Parliament which ought on no terms to have been done hath been no small cause of the Miseries of this unhappy Kingdom who hath been still every way wounded by her own unnatural Children Then after that the great Eruptions the differences of opinions in Church and State the setting on foot of Self-Interests of several persons and those not mean ones neglecting the Peace of the Kingdom as if it might have been had with whistling for or at a beck all these put together were no small addition to our common Calamities Add to this the Reproach cast upon Soveraignty the promulgation of contentions and strifes the prosecution of it to a War and so an engaging of the whole Kingdom on both sides in it the taking of a Covenant not of love I fear to the extirpation of that Church-Government that had been so long setled by so many Acts of former Parliaments and the inducing of a new Government more different in name then in essence and truly if rightly examined scarcely differing much in either at least not worthy the making of such bloody differences as have been about it al this without any good success to the Kingdom or content to many of your own particular Members who have varyed many of them even from the Covenant they once took for what ends or Interests I know not I cannot forget to put you in mind or remember you also the several Design of the Army and the Grandies thereof under the Earl of Essex though they were put to a nonplus in it nor of the backwardness to make Peace when it might have been nor of those whose Counsels modelled the new Army which yet for all their successes successes I confess many great and high had they made right use of them for the settlement of the King and Kingdom as they might as they ought to have done who yet not 18. moneths since when the Army was at Newmarket it was a question whether they should have been an Army or no Army kept a foot or disbanded Nor can I omit their rise again if not upon the head yet at least upon the shoulders both of King Parliament City and Kingdom what Designs on all sides and to what ends or how the poor Kingdom hath been shaken with this long and yet terrible Earthquake through Self-Interests and Divisions I press not but this I must say If Designs were well meant and for the good of the Kingdom as I hope they were there was no blessing went along with them for they have not so well succeeded as was by some hoped and by all wished for And then those yet unhappy Votes of no Addresses to nor from His Maiesty which I fear God Almighty is not well pleased with or rather highly offended at God never denyed Addresses to him from the greatest Sinner had he come with true repentance to Cain himself God says If thou

dost well shalt thou not be accepted c. and how amazed would the soul of any man be unless he were feared up by a total hardness of heart if God should from Heaven tell him Pray not to me come not to me with your Addresses I will not hear you I will shut my ears and be deaf to your Prayers But we all know the contrary of God At what time soever the wicked man forsaketh his wickedness c. and who knows whether the scales may not turn Let not him boast that puts on his armor c. And then if Addresses were sought and refused and that the King should say Did you not hate me and expell me out of my Fathers house How is that you come to me now in the time of your Tribulation as Jephta did to the men of Gilead might not this seem to be a just Reproach or as God in the same Book Go to the Gods whom you have served Remember what Solomon says The Wrath of a King is as Messengers of Death but a wise man will pacifie it And in another place The Kings Weath is as the roaring of a Lyon but his Favour as the dew upon the grass For your own sakes for this bleeding Kingdoms sake proceed to a sudden Personal Treaty with His Majesty God treats with his greatest Enemies nay he invites them continually hourly and minutely in their consciences and cries Return O Shulamite Return Return And again How oft would I and ye would not O yet if in this thy day c. The sum of all is and let it never be sum'd up what is past for actions cannot be recalled such offences or sins against God or man may be repented not repealed but a wilful continuance in such horrid and bloody wars as these are and not to seek and endeavour Peace by all fair means in the world would prove but a sad story to this age and to posterity I hope better things on your part and my poor aime is that all things amiss between King and Parliament for who can free himself from guilt be from henceforth forgotten forgiven and amended on all sides and that by a true and perfect not counterfeit Love and Union to which end I published my poor Expedient for Peace and Safety in Print and I would to God it had an Impression on all those who are opposite to Peace if there be any such which although for the present it be laid aside as not worthy a thought must and shall if ever a Peace conclude it and the all-devouring Sword consume us not totally be made use of Let the Honorable Houses look in Reason and Religion what they can expect more from the King then he doth if he will do them as I am confident he will in these Propositions preceding can you demand more for the good of the Subject he will do it he that will do so much will refuse nothing in Reason and Religion and beyond these I know these Honorable Houses will not demand the honor and restoring of the King how many of your selves have fought for and for the safety of the Kingdom Priviledges of Parliament and liberty of the Subject all have profest vowed it covenanted it sworn it hold to that the work is done the King doing his part as doubtless he will and I take it for granted turn the Tables as the Proverb is and let the Kings Game be yours yours his and then in Gods Name act according to Reason and Religion Remember the Golden Rule Whatsoever you would that men should do unto you do that unto them and I am confident the King shall be glorious your selves and the Kingdom happy and for me poor wretch I know you wil censure no worse of me then that I am an earnest desirer and hunter after Peace and the publike good and so he will live and die who is My Lords Yours and the most humble Servant of the KINGDOM Richard Farrar TO THE SYNOD OR THE Assembly of Divines AT WESTMINSTER AND To all the Clergy of the Kingdom of ENGLAND SInce I have presumed to speak to his Majesty the two Honorable Houses of Parliament and the Army why should I spare to say something to you O you sons of Levi You that take liberty to tell all men of their fanlts why should not you be told of your own Sure I am you have as much need if not more to be put in mind of Self-Denial as any profession whatever and it had been happy for this poor unhappy Kingdom if you who profess your selves our shepherds had practised it a little better then you have hitherto done The Accompt that you of the Clergy of this Kingdom for I exempt neither side are to give to God Almighty at the great day will I fear lie heavy on you For sure I am had you been what you would have the world esteem you the Embassadors of Jesus Christ and his Ministers you would never have added so much oyl to this flame as you have done but on the contrary you would have brought the cold water of patience humility love and meekness on all hands to have quenced it And this our Saviour and your Master as you call him taught you and all the world How the Clergy of this Kingdom behaved themselves towards God and the Kingdom in their duty to both before the beginning of this Parliament I leave to God and the world to judg but how unanswerably diametrically contrary to the example and precepts of our Saviour you have demeaned your selves both in the Pulpit and in the Press since these unhappy differences between the King and Parliament and how great Incendiaries and fomenters you have been needs no witness to testifie Had the Clergy on the Kings part and the Clergy on the Parliaments part plainly and truly without fear or flattery told both of them the danger and the devillishness of a War both for soul and body the wickedness and unlawfulness of it on both sides and perswaded them both to love meekness and forbearing one another told the King his own and the Parliament theirs and yet nothing but truth neither according to the Word of God I doubt whether it had ever come to a War at all I am sure they would never have been so forward on either side as they were The truth is I speak to the hearts of all honest men the Clergy on both sides had they been of the mind of Christ and his Apostles should have preached against it printed against it and if that would not have served the turn should have denyed both King and People the Sacrament of the Lords Supper for with what consciences could either side give or take it in the fury and rage of Blood and War wherein they were hourly engaged I understand it not And if that would not have prevailed they should not have afforded the Word nor their Prayers in Publick if they had continued still to persist in