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fpeech. Neither would I be mistaken for one that thinks it unlawfull to take up armes upon a good call in a good caufe as for the juft defence of Religion, Laws,& Liberties, the Ark about which all the Tribes of Ifracl thould encamp for the fafetie thereof; or for one that beares a fpleene againft military men; God forbid. I know the fecond battell we read of in Scripture was fought by the father of the faithful, that he was a Centurion who received that ample teftimonie fro our Saviours own mouth, Verily I fay unto you, I have not found so great faith, no not Matth.8.8,99 in Ifrael. That David the man after Gods heart, and fof the great type of Jefus, were both fo renowned for martiall proweffe, as ftill to be reckoned among the nine Worthies of the world; that the primitive Chriftians made no more fcruple of being Souldiers then of being Merchants; of going to warre, then of going to Sea or to plough, as may be gathered from Tertullian. Onely I Navigamus cannot but declaime against that which all good men, cum & mili& nos vobif yea all ingenuous Souldiers abhorre,to wit,blood-thir- tamus, & ru ftines and rapine. Why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord (faid the woman of Abel to foab) And Foab Tertul. apol. answered and faid, Far be it, far be it from me that I fhould ca. 42. fwallow up or destroy. 2.Sam.20.19,20. Mounfieur Bayard a French Commander when his Souldiers found fault with his paying for what he took in a place by him conquered, faying, that money was loft, anfwered, Sirs, I Caufin. holy do what I ought; God hath not put me into the world to live Court Part.2. upon rapine. And Sir Thomas Rookefwood a Justice in Ire- p. 119. land was wont to fay, That he would eat in wooden dishes, the state of but would pay for his meat gold and filver.

fticamur &

mercamur.

Discovery of

P. 28.

· Ireland, print- Ifin particular you be pleafed to caft your eyes upon ed Ann. 1613. that which we call Civill, but which indeed is the most barbarous warre; when Tribe rifes up against Tribe, C

brother

brother against brother, Marte cadunt fubito per mutua Ovid. Metam. vulnera fratres; you will hardly be able to invent any expreffion fierce enough to delineate that. I have

thought of Plinie's Dragon fucking out the Elephants Plin.l.8.c.12. blood, till the dying Elephant by his fall crufh the Dra

gon to death.Of Philip Duke of Burgundy his Emblem, Paradi.fymbo. Flint and fteele beating one upon another, till both be

wafted; affording no other iffue but fire. Of Jeremies earthen bottles dafhed one against another till all be broken, as you have it in that terrible paffage not to be, read with drie eyes by fuch as duely reflect upon the ftate of things here among our felves, Jer. 13. 12, 13, 14 Every bottle fhall be filled with wine, &c. Thus faith the Lord, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of thisdand even the Kings that fit upon Davids throne, and the Priefs, and the Prophets, and all the inhabitants of ferusalem with drunkenneffe: and I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the fons together, faith the Lord, I will not pitie, nor fpare, nor have mercie, but deftroy them. Much might be added touching the danger to which civill war expofes the State wherein it happens. A forraigne Ene.. mie cannot with us a greater mifchief, or themselves a greater advantage then domefticall diffentions, which Camer.Mcdit. makes the Turks pray God to keep the Chriftians at va biftor.cent.2, riance: and encouraged one of their Emperours to fay (when his Councell diffwaded him from a warre again the Germanes by reafon of their multitude) that he fear ed them not, becaule fooner would his fingers be all of one length, then their Princes all of one mind. But I haften to application: wherein,

6,23.

Richter. Axio.

politic. p. 865,

First, be we all exhorted from hence to contemplate the fad condition of thofe Common-wealths that have the fword raking in their bowels. All Acheldama's are

Bochims;

Bachims; none more fit for places of weepers then fields of blood. Every feat of warre becomes a feat of wrath, an Ire-land. Now I have named that bleeding Kingdome like enough to bleed to death for want of help, which of us hath not occafion to fay, O that mine head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the flain of the daughter of that people Who knows not that the Rebels there have acted within fifteen moneths whatever Poets dared to faine, more then pofteritie will dare to beleeve: And yet, me thinks, I heare Ireland faying to this Nation, as our Saviour did to the daughters of Jerufalem, weep Luk, 23.28. not for me, but for your felves and for your children. "O England, England, thou that didft lately fit as a "Queen and faweft no forrow, how have this last yeers "troubles worn and broken thee? what clouds of blood "hang over thy head? yea what floods of blood have "run alreadic out of thy veines how like are thy con"vulfions to end in a deadly confumption! Well maist "thou fear what I have felt and more too;because thine "enemies, many of them, are disguifed, while mine are "profeffedly for Rome. Beleeve it, beleeve it, there is "no feind to the white Devil; no Acheift to the Church Papift; no Recufant to him with the Proteftant face, "that hath learnt from the new mafters to fwallow the Sec Vertumnus "oaths: So a Serpent (they say) having fwallowed a Romanus, publithed by "Serpent becomes a Dragon. It hath been faid that Dr. Featly. in one Cefar there were ten fuch as Marius. I wish thous "mayeft not find here and there in fome one of thy Ma- Serpens nifi ferpentem co"lignants ten O'Neales. Wherefore let thy children be- mederit non fit "ware,thy Counties be carefull to affociate them felves. draco. Era. It was want of this (as is well informed by Tacitus) in uno Cefare that firft betrayed Brittaine into the Romanes hands; decem Marii.

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their

Adag.

Sueton.

verfus vali

pro nobis uti

in commune

"their not confulting, not combining City with Citie Nec aliud ad- "to oppofe a common danger. Ita dum finguli pugnant "univerfi vincuntur. So, faith he, while they fought one diffimas gentes by one all were conquered; A faire warning for thee. lius quam quod "Rome hath not done with Brittaine yet. When I con"fider that blood of thine lately fpilt at Edgehill on the non confulunt. Rarus duabus fame day of the moneth * in which the rebellion brake tribus ve civi- "out here the yeer before; yea and upon the self fame tatibus ad pro- cc day (if my intelligence be true) in which that bloody commune peri- "battellwas fought neer Leipfick in Germanie; this conculum conven- « juncture is to me a fad prefage (God almightie avert "the omen) but to me it prefageth Englands being to nant univerf drink deep in Germanies and Irelands cup. Father if it vincuntur.Ta- « be thy will, let this cup paffe from us.

pulfandum

tus. Ita dum

finguli pug

cit, in vita

ful. Agric.

.

In the fecond place, if the sword be fuch an engine as *Octob.23. comes with a vengeance where ever it comes, wonder not (O ye Worthies of our Ifrael) if your eares and eyes be plied with daily fupplications for Peace. While hufbands are afraid to behold the forcing of their wives, wives the murdering of their husbands before their face; parents to fee their children fprawling upon pikes, children their parents weltring in blood: while fome feare ravifhing, others plundring; fome a prifon, others a grave, all the vengeance of a fword; wonder not, if, having fo faire an opportunitie, I take the boldneffe this day to prefent you with an humble Petition in the name of all well-temper fpirits throughout the Land (as for fuch as have a mind to fell God for peace my foul enters not into their fecrets) a Petition for a sweet conjunction of accommodation and reformation. They profeffe themselves undone if either be wanting. Our house, they fay, without Reformation will have no windows to let in light; without accommodation no walls to combine

the

Pulchrius vofplendet, bidens quam baAta; melius ferro vervacta agrorum quam

mer quam enfis

agmina agri

the foundation and roofe that they fall not afunder: Accommodation like the veines would convey a chearing blood, Reformation like the arteries carrie a fupply of fpirits all over the bodie. They fear nothing more then cutting an arterie while you are tampering with a veine. Without fome accommodation they know that reformation cannot proceed, and that an Accommodation ought not to go on without it. You are all, I beleeve, as far from delighting in this war as you were from procuring it: all of his mind that faid, A plough-fhare fhines with much more beautie then a fword, a fork then a fpeare. Iron is much better employed in plowing up of fallow grounds, then in mowing down of men. And therefore no doubt but you ftudie for wayes of charming the Sword into a scabberd. O turn over, I befeech you, turn over all your State-difpenfatories, and trie if. there may not a cordiall be found ftrong enough to kill the malignitie of the times without letting more blood. fcinduntur. That of Solomon, Prov. 29.8. Scornfull men bring a City Putean. ftateinto a fnare, but wise men turn away wrath makes a deep impreffion in me. It is too apparent who they be that have brought our Kingdome into the fnate of civill warre. A generation of scornfull men, that laugh at our Nehem. 2.19; builders as Sanballat and his complices did at Nehemiah and his, faying, What is this thing that ye do will ye rebell against the King? A generation which can neither find in their hearts to afford a good word of advise to our dread and deare Soveraigne, nor of approbation to his great and faithfull Councell: that having divided the King from his Parliament, go alfo about to divide betweene the people and them; endeavouring to make poore England as fick of her Phyfitians as the was of her difeafes before. In few words, a generation that hath in

gener

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ra liter. X.