A Discourse of the Warr in Lancashire
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Btecoursc irf tl)e 2itor in iUncasinre, A Trew and Impartial Relation of some of that vnhappie Intestine Warre that was betweene King Charles and the Parliament soe much as Happened of it with in the countie Palaintine of Lancaster. As also what fforces were raised, and by whome what Garrisons was kept in it and for whome and their redidition : all as exactly related as possible, by him that never had thought of writeing any thing concerning it till a yeare or twoo at the least after the Warrs were ended. Behould how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwel togither in vnity. Psal. 133. 1. Be affraid of the sworde : for wrath bringeth the punishment of the sword : that ye may know there is a Judgment. Job 19. 29. chapter{Section 4TO THE FFRENDLY AND IMPARTIALL'R£ADER. READER, thou. (unless very yong) s
...aw the beginning and ending of the Warr, and might see (if thou observoi" . how through the strength of corrupt and vnmortified lust'; boyling in the hearts of men the raynes of civill Gouernment being in part broken through the prevailing of Divisions and parts taking: so that many men shewed outwardly to the very sight of the world what then they were, and its doubtfull yet are (though now they be bridled and kept in thorough ffeare) Ravenous unruly without pitty, and such as were unwilling y' those they then had malice against should have liffe or any thing to subsist upon; if the power they acted vnder had lasted and continued. Were not some fierce bitter and cruell as possible against their frendly dore neighbors, of whom before they had received many neighbourly curtesies, and yet in that heat of malice would have eatten them vp, if they durst, as if they had beene their deadly enimiea and without either fear of God or s...
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