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The
LlFEof
the
I.,IB.Iö
rather than they that
provide
not
for
their Families° when
Infidels have
not
thought their
Lives
too good tofave the Commonwealth. And
as
for
a
War,
the
danger of
it
may
be avoided
:
It
is
a thing uncertain, and therefore
a
prefect
certain Ruine,
and
that
by
our
own hand,
is
not
to
be chofen to avoid
ir.
TheeKing
may
fee
thedanger
of
it
as
well
as
we, and avoid
it
on better
Terms
:
Or
if he
were willing, he may
not
be able
to do any great harm
:
Do you think that
the
People
of
England
are
fo
mad,
as
to
fight
agar&
chafe
whom
they have chofen
to
reprefent them
?
to
deltroy
themfelves,
and the
hopes
of
their Pofterity
?
Do
they
not know
that
if
Parliaments
be deftroyed,
their
Lives
and
Effaces
are meetly
at
the
Will
and Mercy
of
the
Conquerour
?
And do
not you
fee
that
the People are
every wherefor the
Parliament?
And for
Revenge;
what need
we fear
it
when
the
Parliament maycontinue
till
it content
to
its
Diffolution
?
And fure
they will
not
confect till they
fee themfelves
out
of
the danger
of
Revenge]. Such
as
theta'
were
the
Reafonings
of that Party
whichprevailed.
But otherstold them,
That
thofe
that adhered
to
the
Bithops
,
and were offend-
ed at the Parliaments Church Reformations,
would be
many
;
and the King will
never want Nobility
and
Gentry to
adhere to him
;
and the Common
People
will
follow their Landlords, and be
on
the Itronger fide: and the intelligent part,
who
underhand their own
Intereffs, are but
few :
And when you begin
a
War
,
on
know not
what you do]. Thus were Mens minds then in
a
Divifion: but fume
unhappy
means
fell
out
to
unite them
fo
as
to
caufe
them to proceed
to a
War.
4
39.
The
things
that heightned former
Difpleafures
to
a miferable
War were
fuch
as
follow, on both Parts: On the Parliamentspart were principally,
e.
The
Peoples indifcretion
that
adhered to
them;
2.
The
imprudence
and violence
of
fòme Members
of
the Houle, who went
too high
:
3.
The
great Diffidence
they
had of the King
when
they
had provoked him.
On
the other
fide
it
was
battened, r.
By
the Calling up
of
the
Northern Army.
2.
By the King's impofrng
a
Guard upon the
Houfe.
3.
By his
entring the Houfe
to
accufe
Come
Members. 4.
By
the mifcarriage
of
the Lord
Digby
and other
of
the King's
Adherents.
y.
But above
all
by
the
terrible
Maffacre
in
Ireland,
and
the
Threatnings
of
the Rebels to Invade
England. A
little
of
every one
of
thefe.
440 r.Thofe that
delred
the ParliamentsProfperity were
of
divers forts.Some
were
calm andtemperate, and waited
for
the Fruitsof their Endeavours
in their
feu.
fon
:
And
Tome
were lò glad
of
the
hopes
of
a
Reformation, and
afraid
left
their
Hearts
and
Hands lhould tall for want of Encouragement,
that
they too
much
boalted
of
them, and
applauded them
:
which mutt
needs offend
the King,
to
fee
the People
rejoyce in others
as
their
Deliverers, and
as
faving them
from him
;
and
fo to
fee
them preferred in Love and
Honour
before
him.
But force were
yet more
indifcreet
:
The
remnant
of
the
old Separatifts
and Anabaptifts in
London
was
then
very fmall, and fcarce confiderable
; but
they were enough to ftir up the younger
and unexperienced
fort
of
Religious
People, tofpeak too
vehemently and intempe-
rately againft the
Bithops
and
the Church
and Ceremonies, and to
jeer and
deride
at the Common Prayer, and
all
that
was
againft their
minds
:
(For
the young and
raw fort
of
Chriftians
are ufually
prone to
this kind
of
Sin;
to
be
fed
:conceited,
petulant,
wilful,- cenforious,
and
injudicious
in
all
their management of their Dif-
ferences
in Religion, and
in all
their Attempts
of
Reformation)
:
Earning and
clamouring at
that
which they think evil, they
ufually
judge
a
warrantable
Courte:
And it
is
hard
finding any fort
of
People in the World, where many
of
the more
unexperienced are
not
indifcreet, and proud
and paflionate.
Thefe
hired
up
the Apprentices
to
joyn with
them in Petitions
,
and to go
in
great numbers to
Wefimanfler
to prefent
them
:
And
as
they went
they met
with
Lome
of the
Bithops
in
their
Coaches going
to the Houle
;
and (as
is ufual
with
the
paflìonate and indifcreet
when they
are
in great Companies) they too much
forgot Civility, and
cried
out,
No
Bii)hspr
;
which either
put them
really
into
a
fear, or
at
leaft
fo difpleafed
them,
as
gave
them
occafion
to meet
together, and
draw
tip
a
Proteftation
againft any Law which in their Abfence
fhould be
palled
in
the
Parliament,
as
having themfelves
a place
there, and
being,
as
they
faid,
de.
terred fromcoming thither
by thofe
Clamours and Tumults.
This Proteftarion
was lb
ill
taken by
the Parliament,
as
that the
Subfcribers
of
it
were voted Delinquents, and
feet to Prifon,
as
going about to deftroy
the
pow-
er
of Parliaments
;
(and among them
even Bithop
Halt
himfelf).
There