Englands division, and Irelands distraction. The feares and disasters of the one, the teares and distresses of the other; being the just cause and sad occasion of both kingdomes deploration. Containing a declaration, or remonstrance of the present state and condition of this realme of England, and that of Ireland. Written by one, who in unfained love to his native countrey, and entire affection to the neighbour-nation, would sacrifice his life for the peace of either. 1642 Approx. 12 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2011-12 (EEBO-TCP Phase 2). A83957 Wing E2961 Thomason E124_9 ESTC R4856 99872738 99872738 125184

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Englands Diviſion, AND Irelands Diſtraction.

The feares and diſaſters of the one, The teares and diſtreſſes of the other; Being the juſt cauſe and ſad occaſion of both Kingdomes Deploration.

CONTAINING A Declaration, Or Remonstrance of the preſent ſtate and condition of this Realme of ENGLAND, and that of IRELAND.

Written by one, who in unfained love to his Native Countrey, and entire affection to the Neighbour-Nation, would ſacrifice his life for the peace of either.

LONDON, Printed for Thomas Bates. 1642.

DOCTRINA PARIT VIRTVTEM device consisting of an open book with a sword, scepter, and surrounding motto
Englands Diviſion, AND Irelands Diſtraction.

VErſamur in prelio, we are in a ſot-battell. Death is already marched into the field, and a univerſall deſolation, like a Meteor, hangs over our heads. Such are the growing miſchiefes of the two Kingdomes of England and Ireland, that if theſe deſtructive warres continue (without Gods great mercy) all in the common Fate will inevitably be involved. Ireland is ſufficiently dyed in skarlet, and England lackes but a graine of it: Our ſences of ſeeing and hearing are taken up with Armes and Amunition, Powder and Shot, Drums and Trumpets, Pikes and Muskets, skirmiſhes and battels, fights and overthrowes. Each houre is an Herault of homicides, each day a meſſenger of miſchiefes, each weeke a Diurnall of dangers, each moneth a Motto of miſery, this whole yeare but march, and no language now amongſt us but war. In being victors we are victed; in Overcomming we are overcome, and in winning lives we loſe lives. In bellis civilibus omnia ſunt miſera, & nihil miſerius quam ipſa victoria. It was the ſaying of Cicero the Roman Oratour, Omnis pax bello civils praſtantior, any peace is better then a civill war. In civill wars (indeed the moſt uncivill and barbarous of all other) the Father ſights againſt the Sonne, and the Sonne againſt the Father, Brother againſt Brother, Kinſman againſt Kinſman; Theſe maſſacres are moſt inhumane and unnaturall, wherein all bonds of affinity, conſanguinity and humanity are violently broken and diſſolved.

Thus in the civill wars between the two Houſes of Saul and David, between Iſrael and Judah, and of later times betwixt the white Roſe and the red the two Houſes of Yorke and Lancaſter, the Kings owne friends and loyall Subjects have been conſtrained to march into the field againſt him, and have there dyed in that fight. In the Raigne of Edward the fourth, there were no leſſe then nine civill and bloudy battels fought in England, whereby moſt of the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdome either fell by the ſword of the ſouldier in the field, or by the Axe of the Executioner on the ſcaffold. Of all war the civill war is the worſt: And if ever it was bad, it is moſt malignant at this time; For it is a fatall war in the very bowels of the Nation, with our owne Brethren and Countrey-men in the fleſh, and will be moſt deſtructive to the whole Kingdome. It hath been a long time begun, and end when it will end, it will be bitterneſſe in the latter end, as Abner once ſaid to Ioah, and if it longer continue, as it doth at this preſent, without a pacification, it will bring repentance enough with it when it is too late, both to the vanquiſhed and to the victor. What horrid ſlaughters of mankinde doc accompany this kind of bloudy war, the Hiſtory of theſe times doth ſufficiently reſtifie. The loſſe of goods, eſtates, liberties, lands and lives, this diſmall ſhower of war raines downe upon the ſonnes of men to their ruine and confuſion.

Manifold are the ſad and blacke calamities which wait upon this illegall and unnaturall war: It makes the breaches wider, and the wounds deeper. Theſe water-breaches that have been ſo long broken in upon us (if they be not ſpeedily ſtopped, but given way unto) will lamentably prove an inundation and deluge of deſtruction to the whole Kingdome. It expoſes a people to the fury of a forraigne Nation, that whileſt we are together by the eares amongſt our ſelves, our adverſaries have the advantage and opportunity to come upon our backs; ſo that beſides being liable to the pitty of onr friends, the deriſion and malignity of our foes, in this reſpect we may ſay as David ſaid in another caſe unto Gad, we are in a great ſtraight. Bellum Dei Flagellum, War is the ſcourge of God; It is one of the Arrowes which the Almighty hath in the quiver of his Juſtice which he ſhoots at a Nation for the iniquity of the people. And what miſchiefes doe not accompany war? It never comes ſingle, but is attended upon by all the imaginable evils that are in the world, which like thoſe Eumenides, the hags and ſuries of Hell doe torture men to their perpetuall ruine. Nulla ſalus bello, there is no ſafety in war. When the Dye of war is once throwne, it is a great hazard, and what the iſſue and chance of it is, is moſt uncertaine. The ſword regards neither high nor low, noble nor ignoble, rich nor poore, the King in his Throne, nor the Beggar in the ſtreet.

When Ahab warred at Ramoth Gilead, a certaine man drew a bow at adventure, and ſmote the King of Iſrael as he was in his Chariot. Ye may reade the Story at your leiſure in the 1 Kin. 22. 34. where ye may take notice of theſe remarkable circumſtances; firſt of a certaine man, ſome obſcure, or ignote fellow, God knowes who or what he was, it ſeemes not worth the naming only a certaine man drew a bow at adventure, light where it will light, he ſhoots at randome, and aymes at no man, but ſmites the King of Iſrael: Where note, that the baſeſt coward or villaine in the Army of the Aſſyrians peradventure ſmites the nobleſt. From which premiſſes, the inſerence that I deduct is this, that in war the Lords anointed, who is Pater Patrioe, the Father of his Countrey, and is better then ten thouſand, may fall as ſoone as the baſeſt what ſoever, to the great hazard of the State, and to the grievous crime of thoſe that ſhall expoſe His Majeſty to that perill. The conſideration hereof made the people of King David ſay, when Iſhabenob the Gyant in a battell had like to have ſlaine David, but that ſome of his Wortnies reſcued him from that danger, Thou ſhall no more goe forth with us to bat tell, lest thou quench the light of Iſrael, 2 Sam. 21. 17. For thou art better then ten thouſand of us, 2 Sam. 18. 3. Nay not onely the people of the King, but the Prophet of the Lord, the King of Kings, ſpeaking of a King, and none of the beſt neither, makes this one maine part of his ſorrow and lamentation, The breath of our moſtrils the Lords anointed, under whoſe ſhadow we had rest, was taken in their pit, by the Babylonians in their wars againſt Ieruſalem. In the time of civill (or rather uncivill) war, not only the King, but the whole Kingdome is in danger. If I could reckon up all the miſchieſes and miſeries that ever were, or will be among men in the world, they might all ſufficiently be expreſſed in this one word War. Si bellum dixeris, omnia dixeris. The famine and peſtilence (two ſore and ſevere judgements of Almighty God) are not comparable to this of war. God himſelfe (the Lord of Hoſts) put an end to Sauls life and Kingdome, by the wars of the Philiſtims upon Saul. He ſwept away with the beeſome of this deſtruction the houſe of Abab, by the wars of Iehu upon Ahab.

The City of Samaria was brought to that calamity, that women did eat their children by courſe, to ſatisfie their hungry ſoules; and all this miſery befell by the wars of the Syrians upon Samaria. The moſt famous City of Troy was ruined and turned into a tilled field by the wars of the Greekes. The Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites and Pereſites, the Gigaſites, great and mighty Nations, who had walled Cities, and Chariots of yron, and the ſons of Anack, mighty men among them, were all ſpewed out of their land by the wars of the Iſraelites upon them, Ioſh. 12. I could produce a cloud of witneſſes out of divine and humane Authours, to confirme this blacke cloud, which at this time hangs over our heads. To inſtance one for all, That mirrour of the World, the Metropolis and chiefe of all Cities, was brought to that extremity, that the beautifull women (the ſole of whoſe foot might not touch the earth) ſuch was their nicety and tenderneſſe, did make their own bowels the ſepulcher for their children of a ſpan long, the fruits of their own bodies; and all this was by the wars of Nebuchadnezzar upon Ieruſalem, and was afterwards reduced to as great miſery by the wars of the Romans under the conduct of Titus and Veſpaſian. Theſe are the miſerable effects and wofull conſequents of war, which goe along inſeparably with it. Bleeding Ireland hath ſufficiently taſted of this bitter cup: What horrid villanies and outrages have bin there committed by the barbarous Romiſh Rebels, on men, women and children, rich, poore, Prieſt and people, without reſpect or regard of age or ſexe, of calling or profeſſion, it is needleſſe at this time to rehearſe. Lamenting England is now ſomewhat near the like wofull condition. Difference in opinion hath bred difference in affection, and both theſe have wrought civill contention. Our long peace hath bred proſperity, proſperity hath brought forth plenty, plenty pride, pride diſcord, which hath deſtroyed our peace. That which God denounced againſt his people, we may juſtly fe re will befall us: I have taken away my peace from this people, Jer. 16. 5. It hath been a great b •• ſſing heretofore, that in our time there hath bin no going out, nor comming in, nor complaining in our ſtreets, through forraine or domeſticall war. Happy are the people that be in ſuch a caſe Pſal. 144. 15. And I pray God grant this happineſſe unto us his people. It was the happines of Salomons time, that he was a man of peace, and God did give h m reſt from all his e emies round about, 1 Chr. 22. 9. And it was a great bleſſing upon Ieh ſhaphat and his Kingdome, that the feare of God fell upon all the Kingdomes that were round about Judah, ſo that they made no war againſt Iehoſhaphat, 2 Chron. 17 10. Quid am niſi vota ſuper unt? What now remaines, but that we pray for peace to the God of peace, that there may be no comming into our land by invaſion, nor any crying in our ſtreets by the miſeries of civill war in the bowels of our Nation. In the midſt of our feares and jealouſies, let us be ſo wiſe, not to be enemies to our owne peace; but let it be our care and endeavour to prevent war, and preſerve peace, that there may be no offenſive hoſtility amongſt us. Let us not ceaſe to importune the King of Kings, the ſupreameſt Majeſty of Heaven and Earth, that the waters of the Kings diſpleaſure may be abated, that His Majeſty and His Parliament may have a happy meeting and concurrence together; that both being united as a peeced Arrow (now made the ſtronger) may fly againſt the common Enemy more effectually; that peace may be within our wals, and plenty within our dwellings, and that our gracious Soveraigne may with all poſſible ſpeed returne to His long deſerted Palace at White-hall, with the Olive branch of peace in his mouth, to the glory of God, the honour of His Majeſty, the content of his Parliament, and comfort of his people.

FINIS.