. The workes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames, by the grace of God, king of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. . AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER. Ccept, ffray you (my deare countrey-men ) as thanhfully this Pamphletthat f offer vnto you, as louingly it iswritten for your weale^. ff would beI atb both to befafchious,andfeblleffe:(tAnd therefore , if it be not fenten-tious, at lea/i it isffort. ft may beyeenn/Je many things thatyeelookgforinit: Hut for excufe thereof, confider rightly that lonely lay downeherein the trew grounds, to teach you the right-way, w
. The workes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames, by the grace of God, king of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. . AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER. Ccept, ffray you (my deare countrey-men ) as thanhfully this Pamphletthat f offer vnto you, as louingly it iswritten for your weale^. ff would beI atb both to befafchious,andfeblleffe:(tAnd therefore , if it be not fenten-tious, at lea/i it isffort. ft may beyeenn/Je many things thatyeelookgforinit: Hut for excufe thereof, confider rightly that lonely lay downeherein the trew grounds, to teach you the right-way, withoutWatting time vpon refuting the aduerfaries. (tAndyet Itrusljfye will tal^e narrow tent j/e /hall finde mofl oftheir great gunnespayed home againe0 either with contrary cmclu/ions yor taciteob-ieftions fuppofe in a dairned formeryandindircUly: Fur my in~ tention. Ip2 To the Reader. tent ion Is to inflruB, and not irritat, iff may efchew it. Theprofile [would mjhjou to mal^eofit^is^as wellfo to frame allyourafttonsaccording to thejegiounds, as may confirmeyouintbt^courft ofbones~t and obedient SubieBs to your Kfng in all timescomming, as alfo, when ye fh all fallin purpofe with any tbatfbaUpraife or excufe the by-pasl rebellions that braise foortb either inthiscountrey, or in any other 0yefhall herewith bee armed againsttheir Siren efongs > laying their particular examples tothefquareofth fe grounds. Whereby yeefhaU foundly l^ecpe the courfe ofrighteous judgement, decerning wifely ofeuery a&ion onely ac-cording to the cjualitie thereof , and not according to your pre-mdged conceits of the committers: Sofhallyefy reaping profit toyourfelues, tume my paine into plea/ure^. But leas! the wholeTamphlet runne out at the gaping mouth of this Treface^, ifit were any more enlarged-^ lend, with committingyou to Cfod^nd me toy our charitablecenfure
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