I Preſent thee here with pars de toto, and will indeed ſerve pro toto, to a judicious man to Calculate by. I know not thy temper, therefore cannot tell how thou wilt accept of this little great Accompt caſt up by me, if it goes againſt thy ſtomack I ſhall know thee what thou art (for an honeſt man will embrace truth, eſpecially when it diſcovers ſo much falſehood and injuſtice) to which end I tooke the paines, not caring how it diſgeſts with thee, knowing the fault to be in thy corrupted ſtomack, not in the meat, for I have herein uſed much modeſtie and more truth, uſing the greater paines to bring it as neere truth as poſſible (I am certaine I have not gone beyond it.)

Neither would I have thee altogether ruminate upon the ſums onely, but reflect a little backe to the Cauſe and Cauſers; The cauſe our ſinnes, the cauſers our ſelves; For who is there in the whole world hath had ſuch ſhowers of bleſſings poured on them? Inſomuch that our Manna was loathed by us, our godly gap-ſtopping Preachers rejected with their Doctrine, and willingly entertained and hearkned to Factious Levites, thereby becomming a Seditious people and a bewitcht generation of Vipers, wholly given to Warre, Sedition, Strife, Hereſies, Rebellions, and what not? And for the upholding of it, remember how ready wee offer'd, not onely our Eſtates, O but our Lives! yea, expoſing (without Gods great mercy) even our Soules in it to the mercy of the mercileſſe devourer of them. And now what may wee expect leſſe then lately hath beene, and now is, beſides what hereafter may be, if Gods mercy doe not timely prevent it?

And that wee may a little diſcerne by a little, what and how much wee have juſtly drawn on us, behold and ſee our Oppreſſion in this one angle (and but a ſmall one) of this Looking-glaſſe (not ſo much to diſcover our owne madneſſe, as the illegall proceedings of the Oppreſſors.)

And now to begin with our owne County (for I would not in the leaſt meaſure be thought partiall though I foule my neſt) and the other ſeven Counties ſhall be rated proportionably to this.

had not ſetled in our climate which now wee ſee is and ready to overwhelme our whole Kingdome. So as we ſee the Electors aſwell as the elected are in fault, neither ignorant yet both wanting in the executing of their charge and duty.

The Kingdome ſtands in need of Parliaments, as well for the moderating of too ſevere Lawes, and the ſtrengthning of thoſe that have not power enough, as redreſſing grievances and making new Lawes, and yet what infinite Petitions from the people to the Parliament lyes in obſurity by them, as well for particular as generall wrongs, moſt occaſioned by themſelves, and yet not any redreſſed, and why, becauſe lawfully they can aſwell doe the one as the other, both illegall, (there Orders not being Acts, as appeares by their requeſting it might be ſo)

As for thoſe that concerne themſelves their leiſure (or rather their charity cannot permit their redreſſing of them. Could this land (nay the world) parrallell this our gracious Soveraigne for mercy and goodneſſe in being as ready and willing to redreſſe as the people to complaine, yea, preventing as much as in His Majeſty lay) the occaſions of all future complaints as plainly appeares by the Acts Hee hath paſſed in this preſent Parliament, ſharing His Crowne, Honour, and Prerogatives with his people, And behold notwithſtanding in the poſſeſsing of this inch ſo freely given, how they have neer gained the whole ell by uſurpation; how ſtiffely they ſtand to maintaine the leaſt Priviledge of their owne (which hath been graciouſly beſtowed on them by the King, and by them acknowledged by a remuneration of a lawfull generall Tax, as all precedent Parliaments can witneſſe) and how little regard they His Majeſties Rights being ſo farre from remunerating as they ſtrive as much as in them lies, to have the remainder.

Acts of grace from his Majeſty firſt enacted are ſo lawfull and binding till repealed, and the King muſt repeale as well as enact, otherwiſe it remaines a ſtatute-Law, then followes the act of his ſubjects remuneration, and then the ſoveraignes free pardon.

But here I muſt needs take notice of one thing (and I thinke worthy the hinting) that I have obſerved in former Parliaments; they have been ſo honourable that in theſe acts of pardon they never moved their Soveraigne to exempt Murthers and Treaſons, I beleeve this will have both incerted, or as the Judges uſe to ſay after ther ſentence paſt on criminall offenders, Lord have mercy upon thee (which will ſtand a brand on both houſes for perpetuity) from 〈1… pages missing〉 for Parliaments ſhould proceed nothing but Piety and Juſtice, otherwiſe why make wee our appeale to them, they ought to crave grace and favour from His Majeſtie to the people (of whom they are the repreſentative body) of both which we have from him receaved ſufficiently, were we not wholly poſſeſt with the ſpirit of madneſſe and folly, we very well hereby ſee that the diminiſhing of the Crowns, power is augmenting of ſubjects bondage, we may then ſay with the woman of Samariah help O King, and have as comfortleſſe a reply, for what redreſſe or remedy can he give that is wholly diveſted of the power to give it.

The Writs (by which all Members are choſen and ſummoned) expreſſe that it is to adviſe and Councell with the King, and not to do or act (which by God neither the Lands Law can they) any thing without him.

His Majeſty cannot make a ſuperintendent power, none, nor all more powerfull then himſelfe,

If there be any make themſelves ſo, it is a ſurrepted, not a delegated power. The Lawes declare the Title ſuch deſerve, and the puniſhment they ought to have; Ambition, Pride, and Covetouſneſſe hath but farthered a bloody Faction, Theft a Civill Rebellion, In which I thinke, from the higheſt to the meaneſt Family in the Kingdome not one of them hath eſcaped from the loſſe of a Father, a Son, a Brother, a Kinſman, or a deare friend, or Husband; which had not hapened, had we taken Gods Law, and the Law of our Land for our Guide; and now we do not bluſh to ſay (though with impious impudence enough) that it is for the maintenance of our eſtabliſhed Religion, and yet we ſee all ſo byaſed that few or none know of what Religion they are of.

We have all ſeen the true Proteſtant Religion which hath been ſealed with the bloud of ſo many Martyrs, maintained by truly Orthodoxe and moſt Learned Divines, and eſtabliſhed by the wholeſome Laws of our Land, Mauger the malice and rage of the Church of Rome, and all other Schiſmatickes and Heretickes, now moſt impiouſly ſuppreſt.

And now behold the juſt heavy hand of God on us, never bolder Treaſons, publique Murthers, open Sacrilege, Common Theft, and all Impiety raigning and ruling without controle, as if the way to heaven in all things were to diſobey the devill and our own luſts in nothing. The Iſraelites could plead want of a King when every man did as it ſeemed good in his own eyes, we cannot plead want