Animadversions upon a book entituled Inquisition for the blood of our late soveraign &c., and upon the offence taken at it wherein in order to peace the ground, reason, and end of our wars are discovered, the old cause stated and determined, the late insurrection animadverted, and a way of peace propounded / by William Sedgwicke.

The Contents.

• SECT. I. SHews the nature of the offences taken at the Inquisition, and the Authors sense of them.
• SECT. II. Shews the justice due to them: and the friendly way of dealing with them.
• SECT. III. Censures the Book: and first for its un∣seasonableness; with the cause of it: and the Authors suffering for it.
• SECT. IV. Censures the multiplicity of things in the Inquisition: and the sharpness of its reproofs: Of several kinds of re∣proof.
• SECT. V. Opens the Allegories in the Inquisition:

• and shews the thing intended in it: A tryal of principles in order to peace.
• SECT. VI. Prosecutes the same thing of peace, and shews the necessity and possibility of it: And examines the ground upon which the opposition stands.
• SECT. VII. Compares the Old Cause, 1. With the deli∣verance of the Israelites out of Egypt. 2. Out of Babylon. 3. With the mi∣nistry of Christ and the Apostles.
• SECT. VIII. Measures the same cause, by the Propheti∣call Scriptures, and compares it with Zion her self.
• SECT. IX. Further examines the ground of the enmi∣ty, and advances a standard of love.
• SECT. X. The original cause of the war it ceased.
• SECT. XI. Hatred blinds the eyes, else we may see that there is good in enemies, with which we may agree: There is good and evil in both Parties.

• SECT. XII. Shews the root of enmity is the Devil. How opposite it is to the Kingdom of Christ.
• SECT. XIII. War and enmity are not for, but against holiness.
• SECT. XIV. Common liberty, not to be in, nor to be at∣tained by war and opposition.
• SECT. XV. Liberty of Conscience animadverted: Not to be obtained, but by agreement with the Magistrate.
• SECT. XVI. Animadverts the late sufferings, and shews the nature and kind of them.
• SECT. XVII. Considers the late Insurrection, with re∣spect to what hath been written, and the use of it to both sides.
• SECT. XVIII. Shews a rational and easie way, for all op∣posite Parties, to obtain a Treaty, and by it, an Agreement with his Majesty: both for his security and their safety.