A Union of Hearts, Title page – Table of contents
Redintegratio Amoris, OR A Union of Hearts, between The Kings Moſt Excellent Majesty, the Right Honorable the LORDS and COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT, His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Army Under his Command; The Aſſembly, and every honeſt man that deſires a ſound and durable Peace, accompanied with ſpeedy Juſtice and Piety.
By way of reſpective Apologies, ſo far as Scripture and Reaſon may be Judges.
By JOHN COOK of Grayes-Inne, Barreſter.
The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
London, Printed for Giles Calvert, and are to be ſold at his ſhop at the black ſpread-Eagle neer the Weſt-end of Pauls.
The principal matters are,
That
1. NAture is of Gavelkind Tenure.
2. All lawful authority is derived from the people, who cannot by any Covenant inſlave themſelves.
3. Good Kings raign by Gods approbation, Tyrants by his permiſſion, till the people can free themſelves.
4. What Law is, what Rebellion is.
5. That Anarchy is better then Tyranny.
6. That in quiet Kingdoms much Iniuſtice is to be ſuffered rather then to oppoſe the Governors till it be inſufferable, and then it is ne reſiſtance of authority, becauſe God never did, nor man can give any ſuch authority.
7. Some Scriptures anſwered and ſuch reverence to be given to divine authority as to beleeve that there was a reaſon for every thing, though we cannot reach it.
8. That Biſhops for Religion and ſome former Judges, in point of Prerogative, are of equal credit.
9. What und…d Lord Keeper Littleton and others.
10. Twelve politick Judges to execute quick and cheap Juſtice, requiſite to felicitate this Kingdom, with an Expedient for it.
11. Eſſentials not to be loſt for Formalities.
12. The Law and the Prophets to be rather ſtudied then law and profit.
13. A Cauſe at firſt as plain as a bul-ruſh comes to be as hard as an oak.
14. That Parliamentum is parium lamentum, and that Kings originally agreed to refer the peoples complaints to whom ſoever they would chooſe, and that Parliaments never dye intentionally.
15. The mixture of the three eſtates commended, yet if one of three o…ligors fail, the other two muſt pay the debt, for Juſtice muſt be d…n….
16. That the Judgment of Parliament is inevitable for all poſitive Laws by vertue of the fifth Commandment.
17 Kings are not leſs free, by reaſon of Parliaments, no more then men are leſs ſafe upon Pauls for the Rails.
18. To queſtion the Juſtice of the Parliaments Cauſe is to doubt whether Proteſtant or Popiſh be the true Religion.
19. Yet ſo as the King had ſome colour for what he did in Gods Ordinance, which the Parliament, if they ſhould break truſt, have not, and his late party adhering to the letter of Scripture and ſome Law caſes, Touch not mine anointed, &c. had the ſame colour as Papiſts for tranſubſtantion, by This is my body.
20. Mr Jenkins eaſily anſwered and Dr Fearns matter combuſtible.
21. Reaſons to induce his Maieſty to beleeve that the Parliament did nothing but in diſcharge of their great truſt, without which they could not have anſwered it to the Kingdom; and that his Maieſty would frame arguments for that purpoſe.
22. That the Parliament would conceive that his Maieſty acted according to his preſent light, for the ſatisfaction of his Royal Conſcience, his Royal Allies and many of his people at home, & would frame arguments for his Maieſty, beſides that the Law lays all the blame upon his evil Counſellors.
23. That this is a principal expedient to beget a right underſtanding and endeared and loyal Affection between his Maieſty and people.
24. How his Maieſty is head of the Church, and one Argument for his Maieſty, when the ſeveral Parliaments in England and Ireland preſent acts for eſtabliſhing of the Proteſtant and Popiſh Religious ſeverally, what his Maieſty is to do, and that the King of Poland ſwears to maintain both thoſe Religions.
25. That the Lords are intruſted by the people (though not elected) as Guardians of the Kings Contract with the people, and that all ſubordinate Officers are to mind the duty of their places, more then the deſires of thoſe that preferred them.
26. Two things in the Houſe of Commons queſtioned, the Members not being ſworn and their not Adminiſtring oaths, and Anſwered.
27. The Lords ſupplicated to be indulgent to tender Conſciences, being exempted from the Preſbyterian diſcipline.
28. Three Ordinances begg'd. 1. Redemption for our poor brethren, ſlaves to the Turks. 2. Liberty for poor Priſoners that are ready to ſtarve. 3. Some ſpeedy courſe to abate the price of corn, leaſt poor people be famiſh't.
29 An Apologie for the Armies not diſbanding, who have bin true to the Covenant, and ſeek nothing but for what they firſt ingaged, and have been the breath of many of their noſtrils, who would not have their breath in the Kingdom.
30. The Declaration againſt them a Nullity, the Revocation of it, a great honor to the Parliament and Army: What ſpirits the Armies oppoſers are of.
31. The two great expedients for a ſubſtantial ſettlement of the Kingdom, Reformations in Courts of Juſtice, and Liberty for tender Conſciences, cannot as mens intereſts now ſtand, be effected without the Continuance of the Army.
32. That the main intereſt of this Kingdom, is to be as zealous for the Proteſtant Religion, as Spain is for Popery.
33. The Intereſt of all honeſt men, is ſpeedily to Ʋnite, ſpecially for Gods people.
34. That the difference was not whether the Kingdom ſhould be Proteſtants or Papiſts, but Proteſtants at large, or ſtrickt Profeſſors.
35. That ſhould the Army diſband til Liberties are ſecured, they would be a ludibrium to all the world, and culpable of all the ſufferings of Gods people.
36. Some late Arguments againſt the Parliament anſwered, and the Honor of that high Court in all things to be maintained, ſo as the Honor of God do not ſuffer, nor the peoples liberties deſtroyed.
37. No man to grow rich in a time of Civil War, Nor uſury then to incur; ſome Ʋſurers within the ſtatute de judaiſmo, and a proviſion that there may not be a begger in Iſrael.
38. God wil not ſuffer any good Governors to be deſtroyed, ſo long as they Adminiſter Juſtice, but tis dangerous for the ſupream Court to deny the people their Juſt Liberties.
39, Forreign Negotiations againſt Proteſtants, and the private Intereſts of ſome which are contrary to Publique Liberties are Grounds for the Armies continuance.
40 Religion introduced by blood every where but in England, a Propheſy concerning the ſword to that purpoſe, therefore truths which coſt dear are to be loved.
41. That war is lawful to defend Religion, not to promote it; that the ſword maybe imployd for Religion as the ſervant of juſtice.
42. Who are the hinderers of Irelands Releif, and how Antichriſt with his left hand may fight againſt his right.
43. That H. 7. did wel to kil R. 3. and long may his Royal race inherit in our preſent Soveraign Lord King Charles and his princely Progeny.
44. The Author loves the Aſſembly, yet conceives that Liberty had been long ſince ſetled but for them, who make the ſmal differences between the Conformiſts and Reformiſts wider.
45. The abſurdity of that Common Argument, that if Independents be permitted, then Papiſts muſt: Errors in Religion, to be tolerated, but not againſt Religion.
46. That there are more differences between the Papiſts then are in this Kingdom; therefore we are to ſpend our wit upon them and our love upon Proteſtants: Pope Joan, in the dark, as good as my Lady.
47. A moderate Preſbytery commended for reſtraining vice, and for external beauty, but a rigid Preſbytery dangerous to this Kingdom: men wiſer in the South then in the North, the danger of Coactive violence in matters not fundamental.
48. Whether it be as lawful to fight for Chriſts Kingly Office as for his Prieſtly Office, and whether Chriſtians may preſume of Gods extraordinary power in caſe of Arms without an extraordinary warrant.
49. What Liberty of Conſcience is deſired, and that natural men know not what belongs to ſpiritual priviledges, and what uſe may be made of the late Common-prayer-book.
50. A requeſt to the Aſſembly to become ſuitors for juſt Liberties, and to the Army, not to mingle their intereſts, by any means, with thoſe that ſhal oppoſe the High Court of Parliament.