WEre it suitable to your gravi­ties to fancie Raptures from Poetick braines, I would satisfie your Appetite with golden Ver [...]e: or had I my selfe but Tullies wealth, I would deliver my Arrand in words exactly placed, like Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: but you all know my Gifts, I never had that of Eloquence, therefore I shall not flatter you in either Straine.

I bring you Thanks attended with all the cir­cumstances of Love, to prove a gratefull Acce­ptance of your good Affections you have so free­ly [Page 2]exprest: I come not from a bare Friend, from whom you might justly challenge that poore re­ward of Thanks, but which adds Glory to the Message) am sent by her that may command what you have done, though (which adds to her Goodnesse) she promiseth Repayment: may no [...] ENGLAND your Mother justly claime a maintenance from her Childrens estates, when as she made them capable of inheritances? sure­ly, tis justice every one to have the Crop of his owne Seed: As, tis more than crueltie in these that bite the Breasts from which their Infancy at first received Nourishment, so they are not lesse unnaturall, that suffer an unrevenged Kicke upon the Womb where they first received breath: This is your Mother ENGLANDS case, and shall not she command her Childrens Aid, to keepe her aged Selfe from an untimely Grave: Yes, yes, she may, and you like good Children have shewed your selves no lesse undu­tifull to her, than she tender to you: and shee sends you Thanks to encourage your farther on­set in case of greater necessitie.

Shall the Faith the brought you up in, and that purchased at first, not with the expence of a little Bloud, and since maintained gainst many Oppositions, be checkt now for feare of Bloud­shed? Shall the Religion you have hitherto en­joyed be now basely betrayed, when your Adversaries the Papists have lest convenience? Shall the Liberties your Ancestors bought so [Page 3]dearely, and bequeathed to you so freely unvio­lated, be now captivated with I know not what oppression? Will you now prove Bastards to your Fathers blouds, and make your Mother guiltie of a generall Whoredome? Or can any men be so Degenerate, as if their Fathers had sold all their Vertues with a generall Warranty? have you enjoyed a Parliament you so long ex­pected, and will you not stand close to them that endanger their owne lives and fortunes to preserve yours? 'Tis a Rule you may take now from your dying Mother (unlesse God be more gratious than Physitians skilfull) that a power­full Parliament makes a glorious Prince, a weak Enemy, and a rich and quiet Kingdome: and you all, or at least, ye Aged among you, find, or have found that Rule without exception: Is not the Parliament a sure Revenger of an injured Cause? and when malignant favourites barre you of your Appeale to your most gracious and religious meaning Prince, are not they (being not subject to delusion) impartially ready to heare thy Conplaints? Surely you have all found them so, and if so, ought not you then to puze them at too high a rate to be sacrificed to the bloud thirsting crueltie of Papist call and ill affected Cavalliers? Yes, yes, your Mother sayes you ought, and therefore shee upon her blessing commands those that have beene hi­therto backward to let them see how they re­lish their Mothers affronts: and for you that have [Page 4]beene forward, she blesseth those fruits of her Wombe.

But something els I am to tell you from your Mother, which as a charge she laid upon all her Children in generall, but especially upon her youngest Children, I meane the Vulgars: shee bid me tell it you all, not as if the better breed­ing and greater knowledge of you her eldest Sons were not sufficient to tell you your duties, but that you might call upon them being more ignorant to learne theirs: her charge is this.

Shee sayes your cause is just and noble, els you should never have had encouragement from her: But yet she sayes you must not stand so much for your Mother Englands right, as to de­stroy your Fathers, the Kings: Shee saye Gods command of Obedience to your Parents, doth not except against the honour you owe your Father: Therefore her charge is, that as you are willing to assist the Parliament, so you bee sure your private hopes or inward thoughts bee not beyond the intent of the Parliament, for feare lest their just cause should faile, notwith­standing your large contributions) by reason of your just intentions.

If you still give me leave to explain her words, her intent I will take to be this, she knowes the intent of the Parliament to be good and honest, and shee takes notice of the allegeance, respect, and reverence they give his Majestie, and shee desires you to see that your younger brethren, [Page 5]the Vulgars, doe not transgresse with immodest language, whereby scandals may be laid upon the King your Father, and the blame at last bee cast upon that guiltlesse and wisely innocent Councell, the Parliament.

The Law sayes the King can doe no wrong, and the Parliament intimate as much by laying the fault upon his evill Councellors: and ought those Inferiours then to bee commended or thought Religious, that do their best endeavours to staine Majestie it selfe, with that impudence that Superiours blush at? Can undue and scan­dalously unlawfull Expressions be thought the fruits of a good and zealous Spirit? Surely if those of authoritie (I meane the Parliament) should lay no better a foundation than those Vulgars do, our Church would soon be Ruina­ted not Reformed, I cannot judge of Mens hearts Certainly, but am bound to think Chari­tably, and therefore I doe confesse, that many nay all the Multitude may have honest Hearts, and yet the Zeale of their Houses (I mean their Conventicles) may eat them up: I mean when the vertue Zeale for want of Knowledge and Di­scretion is turnd to vitious Passion) and such Men like blind Horses that are mettlesome may d [...]sh their braines against the Wall for want of a carefull Rider.

This is that for which your Mother does desire all her knowing and religious Children to cor­rect their ignorant Brethren: I have no more to [Page 6]say to you his good Children that have beene forward to joyn with this happy and blessed par­liament to relieve your distress'd mother, but on­ly to deliver her blessing to you all, which comes as heartily from her, as the great testimonies I have received from you of your good affections.

May all Accidents conspire to blesse you with an happy Successe: May you all Flourish, like the Tree planted by the River side, in despight of wicked Opposers. May you be Crowned with the accomplishment of your Religious aimes. May the reward of you and your Posteritie bee the enjoyment of the true Catholike and Apo­stolicall Religion, the worldly Peace and the Li­bertie of Subjects here, and may you all be na­turallized in Heaven hereafter. May your migh­ty arme be stretcht out in defence of your just Cause, and may the memory of your good Af­fections and of this blessed Parliament, never meet a Grave in comming Ages.

Thus I have done with you, but let me tell you your Mothers Curse to those her Children that still perish, not only slighting but encreas­ing her too great Miseries, for those she prayed that either better Qualities may possesse them, or suddaine death destroy them; and after their untimely Dissolution, may their injured Mo­thers causlesse sufferings rise up in judgment a­gainst them, and may their unnaturall Violence to their murthered brothers and ravished sisters, add severall degrees to their deserved torments.