A second admonition to the parliament

If they be not singular / if they mean plainly / let them do thus. If it will abide the trial / then let them use it still. They shall not be disgraced / but we for disquieting of them. They have f•cendes that will say for them / they are a learned company and ne•oe not the help of any §20other churches. Then let them offer to defend their course by learning. Let them never go over sea for the matter (and yet surely I would some toke that translation in hand / & toke some pains in the matter / to procure the judgements of those reformed churches) but let them offer free conference here at home. Nay / let them take our offer for conference (by writing to avoid much brabble if they will) and show themselves ready to the state / without cunning practise to §30stop it by their friends / and let us join in it freely / and then we will think better of them / and yield our selves to have been deceived in them / if they deal plainly. O Lord that we were deceived •n them. That they were not wickedly bent / to maintain that which they are entered into / to the great disquieting of this Church of Christ in England / until the Master come / ⟨image 23⟩(which they think will defer his coming) and disquiet them / whom he findeth like lordly Epicures / eating & drinking with y• worldly drunkards / and beating their fellow servants. They that are poor men / already beggared by them / and which have many ways b•ne molested and imprisoned / some in the Marshalsea / some in the white Lion / some in the Catchouse¹ at Westminster / others in the counter / or in the Clink / or in the Fleet / or in Bridewell / or in §10Newgate / they which have these many ways and times been hampered & ill handled by them / they still offer themselves to all their exercinities / and therefore put for the their treatises / because they pass not how dear they bought it / so they might redeem our state out of this deformed reformation / to a right platform drawn out of the scriptures. They say / such are men pleasers. Surely / if they soughe advantage that way / it were best for them to please my Lords.