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parliament_n	ireland_n	king_n	scotland_n	4,095	5	8.1855	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91163	Accommodation cordially desired, and really intended. A moderate discourse: tending, to the satisfaction of all such, who do either wilfully, or ignorantly conceive that the Parliament is disaffected to peace. Written upon occasion of a late pamphlet, pretended to be printed at Oxford; entituled a Reply to the answer of the London-Petition for peace.; Contra-replicant, his complaint to His Majestie.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing P392A; Thomason E101_23; ESTC R21031	28,922	35

yeeld therein the Parliament being trusted by the whole Kingdome that if a just fit Accommodation be intended the King ought to trust the Parliament in part as well as the Parliament ought in part to trust the King That both parties being equally disarmed the Protestants being lesse countenanced by the King and more obliged in Conscience by oathes and agreements would be more obnoxious to disadvantages then that party wherein so many Papists are predominant That though the Parliament might submit yet a faire Accommodation it could not obtaine except the King would equally condescend thereunto That if the Petitioners had found out a more safe and honourable Accommodation then the Parliament had yet discovered for that was possible the Parliament would embrace it That if none such could be found out the affections and judgements of the Parliament ought not to be censur'd or distrusted That it behooved the Petitioners to addresse themselves by the like petition to the King if no want of affection to peace were apparent in the Parliament as certainly none was In contradiction and opposition to all the severall poynts in this Analysis what the Replicant hath set forth wee shall now see in the same order 1. The great contrivers of our sad divisions which abuse the weake reason of the people to keepe up an unfortunate misunderstanding between King and Subject are not named by the Replicant but they are clearely pointed out to be the Chiefe Lords and Commons in Parliament for he saith Every new Vote of late hath been a new affliction and he makes Pennington and the Citty Lecturers to be but Iourney-men Rebels under them and even this Hellish slander he venteth under the name of the Petitioners whom he stiles the most considerable persons of the Citty and at the same time affirmeth that the people generally are of honest affections And the Answer to the Petition in which the words he saies are softer then oyle though the matter of it be poison of Aspes he attributes only to some Chiefe Engineers of mischiefe in the House though it carry in it the Authority of the whole House Here is a wonder beyond all wonders A few factious persons in Parliament over-awe the major better and wiser part in Parliament and by a few factious Instruments in Citty and Countrey abuse the major better and wiser part there also into the most miserable distempers and calamities that ever were and though the honest generality begin to grow wiser and are instructed by the sence of their miseries and by other advertisements from loyall Papists and Prelates and other pious Courtiers and souldiers to shake off their few Tormentors Nay and though the King himself has not onely publisht the most eloquent and subtill Declarations to disabuse the people that ever were himselfe being the most beloved and honoured Prince that ever was for his indulgence to Liberty and Religion but ha●h also advanced a most puissant and victorious Army to releeve these undeceived wretches yet the incantation holds no humane force either of Armes or Arts can dissolve it The miracles of Moses had an impression of divine vertue upon them and did therefore triumph over all the Egyptians spels but in this case Mr Pym with I know not what infernall engines distors and wrests all the Orbes of a Kingdome from their naturall motions and yet no divine Art can resist him 'T was never beleev'd before that any but God could work contrary to nature but now it must be beleeved But is it so apparent that the Parliament is averse from peace yet saies the Replicant For withdraw the fuell and the fire is soon extinguisht Let the Parliament not foment the ill humour by supplyes of men Armes and Ammunition and the wound will heale of it selfe In the petition nothing but an Accommodation safe and honourable was pretended but now we see a meere submission is intended in this replication T is not prooved That the Armes of the Parliament are unjust 't is not prooved that it may be safe for the Kingdome to prostrate and subject Parliaments to the discretion of that faction which now has bereav'd us of the Kings presence and favour yet because the Replicant will take upon him to condemne Parliaments we must also allow of his Judgement But ' its further say'd by the Replicant that even Accommodation it selfe is not pleasing in Parliament witnesse that speech of one I like not daubing and that of another I hate the name of Accommodation Hee which hates the name of an Accommodation as it has been used of late to signifie a totall submission may love a true Accommodation in it selfe and he that likes not the daubing of those which under the colour of Accommodation ayme at nothing but division and dissention amongst the people may more heartily affect a safe and honourable agreement then the Replicant himselfe Can the Parliament expresse zeale to peace better then by contracting all its rights and priviledges into one compendious proposition for the setling of union To purchase true peace the Parliament desires nothing but to retain the meere being of a Parliament that is to be the supreme Court of King and Kingdome And if it can stand with the essence of such a Court to be arraign'd tryed and sentenced by a faction of Papists Prelates Delinquents and Souldiers the Parliament will submit to that Condition also 2. When we expresse our feares of the Kings party and therefore deny submission thereunto as dangerous and dishonourable the Replicant tels us further we are required not to submit to our fellow subiects but to the King only and he tels us further that the Lawes are the best security and those we shall enioy and to claime any higher securitie is to assume the power of Kings How farre the Lawes of the Land have been sufficient to preserve to Parliaments and the be●ter part of loyall Protestant subjects their rightfull portion and interest in the Kings favour for these 17. yeares last past is knowne to all The Lawes of Scotland could not secure the better and greater part there The Lawes of Ireland have not saved the Brittaines and Protestants from Massacres there and yet certainly both those Kingdomes are intitled to Lawes of as ample benefit and vigour as ours now is But what speake we of Common Lawes when even at this instant such a free subjects house is burnt and plundered by the Kings party in derision and despight of the Kings owne Proclamation and particular Placard granted for the safegard of himselfe and his family As our Judges preyed upon us heretofore in matters of State and Divines oppressed us in matters of Religion so our Martialists now have a power of spoyling above the generall Law or any particular protection If the King thinke fit to grant safety to such a person or such a Towne it must be provided alwayes that such a Dutch or Scotch Commander who conceives himselfe more skilfull in war then the

shed in Ireland and for all that protestant blood which armies of papists and delinquents are now ready to shed in England if all this blood finde no pity in thee yet is it an offence to thee that it extorts teares and lamentations from us O thou unbowelled sanguinary wretch if God be the God of protestants he will judge these cruelties of papists and their abettors and if he be the God of papists we know our slanders and calumnies cannot deceive him wee submit our selves and our cause to his revenging hand But thou wilt say the Kings party in this warre are good Protestants and we are Anabaptists c. The tyranny and superstition of Bishops has driven some of our tender and strictor protestants into utter dislike of Ceremonies and that pompous or rather superstitious forme of Church discipline which has beene hitherto used in England Some of us desire an alteration of some things in our Lyturgy by advice of a learned and uncorrupt Synod others perhaps scruple Church musick and any set forme of divine service to be imposed of necessity liking better the single order of Scotland What new Creed is there in all this or what change of Religion were this if there were any great numbers of men so opinionated But it is well enough knowne to our Adversaries that there is not one man of both Houses of Parlialiament that is violent against all publick set formes of prayer or that forme which is now in use or that desires any alteration of Doctrine in Essentialls nay nor of Discipline except in things very few and inconsiderable And it is well knowne that the Parliament as it would loosen the rigour of Law in some scruples for the ease of tender consciences so it abhors utterly all licentious government in the Church and all by-wayes of confusion In the City the King has instanced in Pennington Ven Foulk and Mannering as notoriously guilty of Schisme and doubtlesse they were named for want of worse try these men now by the old Creed or by the nine and thirty Articles nay examine them concerning the Common prayer Book and it will soon appeare how farre they are strayed into Brownisme or any other Schisme it will appeare how they are wounded in schismatick and all protestants in them and the true Religion in us all it may be they have not put pluralities or the Parliamentary Votes of Bishops into their Creed it may be they have reserved no implicite faith for Convocation acts and Canons which the Replicant may perhaps judge very irreligious but they hope this never had any anathema pronounced against it in the old Church by any Councell before Antichrists dayes Let not railing pulse for impleading and condemning and we will all be tried in the same manner and if any new Creed be found amongst us differing in substance from the old let our adversaries themselves give and execute sentence upon us If Brownists could be as well distinguisht and nominated in our Army as papists are in the Kings or were really as many and as far countenanced we would distrust our cause whereas we now beg no otherwise the blessing of God upon our Armies then as we are enemies both to Popery and Brownism Dares our Replicant make such a prayer no somtimes he owns Papists and somtimes he seemingly disowns them speaking of the Kings party once he saies As for the establisht religion we will become suiters to you that you will severely punish all persons whatsoever that transgress against it Papists certainly have transgrest against our religion if the rebellion in Ireland be a transgression or if the instant taking up of arms here against the parliament be a transgression yet see at the same time when they call us to punish the papists they themselves arm enable papists to punish nay to destroy us is this all the ingenuity we shall expect well to our law notion it is argued in the next place that a Papist fighting for the King though in a notion of Theology he may be accounted an enemy quatenus a Papist yet in understanding of Law hee was accounted the Kings friend as to his fighting Priest squires Doctrine just hee that fights for the King or rather at the Kings command let the cause be what it will he is the Kings friend When Saul gave a furious command to fall upon the Priests of Iehovah amongst all his servants he had no entire loving friend but Doeg so when his unnaturall rage incited him to take away the life of Ionathan the whole Army that defended Ionathan were his foes and if it had proceeded to parties as it had if Saul had had as many Idumeans in his service as King Charles now has those onely which had been the execrable instruments of the Kings Tyranny had been the Kings friends and had fought for their King so those six hundred men which adhered to David out of a pious intent to preserve his innocent soule from the bloudy hands of Saul and his three thousand impious murderers and the Keilites also if they had been faithfull to David as they ought to have been were guilty of Treason and drew their swords against their master But I expect now that the Replicant insist upon the Iustice of the Kings cause as not taking armes to master the Parliament but to defend themselves against the Parliament this if it could be proved would over-rule all but it being in question and as resolutely denied by one side as affirmed by the other the Replicant must evince by reason all that he expects to gaine from us 'T is not so probable that a Parliament should invade a King as a King a Parliament 'T is not so probable that a Parliament should be misled and have ends to enrich it selfe by oppression as a King 'T is not so probable that that Army which consists all of Protestants should be so adverse to the reformed Religion as that which admits and favours all Papists and Delinquents 'T is not so probable that that Army which is raised and payed by Parliament that is by the flower of all the English Nobility and Gentry should fight for Arbitrary government and against propriety liberty and priviledge of Parliament as that which hath nothing considerable but rapine and pillage to maintaine it If many evidences of facts many pregnant proofs and many lively circumstances of time and place did not absolve the Parliament of trayterous conspiring against the Kings Crowne Dignity and person and convince Digby Percy Iermin and divers of the Kings and Queens party of conspiring against the priviledges of Parliament and the lives of many of our noblest Parliament men If all other arguments did faile the very invitation of Papists to the Kings Standard the rising of the Papists with such generall consent now that all Ireland is almost lost to the papists and some hopes were else to recover it would sufficiently assure me that religion and liberty stand

in more danger of the Kings party than of the parliaments I could not with more cleare and cheerfull confidence die for the truth of the protestant Religion then for the Iustice of the parliaments cause in this warre noscitur ex Comite c. Let the papist plead for the Delinquent and the Delinquent for the papist those ends which have so closely cemented and kindly incorporated both together make a sufficient discovery to me as well what the papist as what the Delinquentis And this age must prove monstrously unnaturall in producing a wonder never heard of in all former ages If Iustice doe now rest in the Kings side For surely no King ever till now having a iust cause was opposed therein by the maior and better part of his subiects much lesse was it ever seene or heard of that any King in a iust cause was deserted by the maiority of his Orthodox subiects and supported by the unanimous aid of such as hated his true protested Religion God send the King to lay these things seriously and pensively to heart for since none of his wise and worthy Ancestors ever yet had cause to wage war either with the Collective or Representative Body of the People so none at all ever in any warre sided with a false Religion or against the true till this unhappy day in the King Charles is the first and I hope will be the last and therefore this is worthy to make a sad impression upon his soule But our Replicant will tell us That the Kings Iustice may yet govern and awe both parties by the same Law whatsoever their antipathy be The King has Law and power by the Law to protect the better partie and to provide for the peace of both parties But notwithstanding that Law and that power the poore British Protestants in Ireland have beene left unprotected and lamentably exposed to a generall Assassination And had they not beene betrayed by their vaine confidence in the Law and in the Kings protection they perhaps might have found other meanes to defend themselves therefore it is no refuge or comfort to them now to hear the name of Law proclaimed reiterated when as things hapned there it has been the very shelfe and rock whereon the Protestants have been miserably bulyed and wricked then pardon pray if the same name of Iustice also sound but harshly at this time in our eares when papists which have destroyed our religion in Ireland are raysed to preserve it in England and protestants which were sending succours and supplyes into Ireland are in the instant invaded here in England for the better suppression of Popery both here and in Ireland T is a strange kinde of assurance or ioy to us to see the names of Religion Liberty and parliamentary priviledge stamped upon our coyne or interwoven in our Standard when at the same time we see the same Coyne imprested for the entertainment of a Popish Army and the same standard marching against the representative body of our Nation and the supreame Court of Iustice in our State Nay and the strange time that is taken for the righting of Religion Law and Liberty amongst us makes our assurance and joy the lesse triumphant for we plainely see that as the season now is no one Protestant falls here by the Kings sword but by the same stroak three Protestants at least are cut off in Ireland And lastly the manner of rightting Religion Law and Liberty is most strange of all for open warre is not now sufficiently destructive though it be spread all over the face of the Kingdom subterranean plots are brooded further in the dark and by privie intelligence the whole City of London is to be engaged in a tragicall conspiracy to murder it selfe in one night What the benefit therefore is of Law and Power and Iustice for the disabling of Papist and Delinquents and for the safe guarding of loyall Protestants we all know But when papists and delinquents finde countenance and the true religion is abandoned and left obnoxious to mischiefe by the perversion of Law Power and Iustice the names alone will not availe us but our Replicant further saith Subjects must not give Lawes to Princes courtesies In matters of a private nature Princes are absolute but not so in publike affaires where the publike safety or liberty is touched In their own pallaces Princes may dispose of Offices but in the State if they make Patents prejudiciall to their revenues to their prerogatives or to the peoples interest the Iudges shall pronounce them deceived in their grants and make the deeds void and null in Law Princes cannot alien any parcells of their Crownes Hull may not bee transferred to the King of Denmark nor Portsmouth to France nor Falmouth to Spaine for Kings have no sole propriety in such things and the same reason is in the super intending Offices of Royalty it selfe they are not transferible at pleasure Some Princes to use the words of Tacitus are so infirme and credulous that they remaine jussis alienis obnoxii and non modo Imperii sed libertatis etiam indigent they are so enslaved sometimes to their basest flatterers that their very Diadems are as it were aliend and made prostitute to seducers and these their flatterers and seducers in the expressions of the same Tacitus Minore metu majore praemio peccant The unhappy Protestants in Ireland were of late undone by the vaste power which was put into the hands of the Earl of Strafford and all the Ecclesiasticall if not Civill disturbances and distractions which have of late infested these three Kingdoms were in great part caused by excesse of power over the Church delegated to the Archbishop of Canterbury Without doubt when the foundation of Popery was first to be laid it did not prosper and advance so much in sixscore yeers under the first Popes as it did in six yeeres here under Canterbury And Nero himselfe in his first three yeeres did not attaine to so much insolence and tyranny as Strafford did in one yeare The Kings freedom therefore in favours will never justifie the preferring of such men to an unquestionable command nor the subjecting the lives liberties and soules of so many millions of Religious Protestants to their corrupted disaffected wills Neverthelesse for ought I can see we have since but changed one Strafford for another and one Canterbury for another Only to stop our complaints This Replicant tell us That the courtesies of Princes are not to be questioned by subjects The Queen has now attained to a great heigth of power as formidable as she is to us in regard of her sex in regard of her Nation in regard of her disposition in regard of her family in regard of her Religion and lastly in regard of her ingagments in these present troubles some think shee has an absolute unlimitable power over the Kings sword and Scepter which if it bee so no end of our feares and calamities can