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<HEAD>The Sentinels REMONSTRANCE,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">OR, A Vindication of the Souldiers to the People of this <HI>Common-wealth,</HI> &amp;c. laying open the manifold wrongs, abu&s;es, and cheats put upon them, and the People who have duely payd their Taxes, to the enriching of &s;ome, the &s;everall calamities and ruine both of people and Souldiery.</HEAD>
<BYLINE>By <HI>W. B.</HI></BYLINE>
<P>THe Souldery having &s;ince the beginning of the&s;e late unnanatural Wars (being &s;oothed up by long expected Liberty) hazarded their Blood and &s;ucceeding Fortunes for promoting of Equity and Ju&s;tice; and having from time to time evidenced their unalterable Affections to the&s;e primitive Principles, <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Dem. turned &s;tate&s;man,</NOTE> though by an unworthy matchivilian Pen&punc; they are termed a changing and mutable Crew, ready to embrace all Governments; and that their mi&s;carriages are no ways pardonable. Give us but leave in the plain language of Souldiers to publi&s;h our Vindication to the known and unbia&s;&s;ed judg|ments of the&s;e Nations, to whom we are willing to &s;ubmit our Ca&s;e, le&s;t we be judged ra&s;h in rendring tho&s;e that are really culpable guilty without rea&s;on, and fools if we conceal what may conduce to a general good.</P>
<P>At the beginning of the&s;e inte&s;tine and clande&s;tine broyles, mens minds and con&s;ciences were &s;o much abu&s;ed for want of Liberty, that the godly of the&s;e Nations were enforced to engage in an unanimous way, to petition fir&s;t the Almighty for tho&s;e endeared promi&s;es of Soul-comforts; and thereafter the lawful Power by him e&s;tabli&s;hed; but &s;eeing it plea&s;ed God either for the puni&s;hment of the then power, their pa&s;&s;ing by the faults of Great Ones and men in Authority, and op|pre&s;&s;ing the poor needy Subject, or the Nations in general for their murmurings and back &s;lidings, we dare not judge: But thus it fell out, that the late King and Parliament did &s;o far di&s;agree, that Armies were rai&s;ed on both &s;ides; the King to defend his Power and Laws by him e&s;tabli&s;hed; the Parliament to remove the iniquities then u&s;ed by the Clergy, and &s;upercilious carriages of many high minded, and Bi&s;hop-oppre&s;&s;ors, who to the di&s;grace both of their Church, King and Country; en|gro&s;&s;ed not only the wealth of the Land, but carried them&s;elves above the gravity and dignity of their Functions; as al&s;o the removal of bad Councel from him, who were known &s;ome of them, to be the mo&s;t bla&s;peming and unworthy Athei&s;ts ever God (who&s;e name &s;hould and mu&s;t be glorified by all men) &s;uffered to live under Heaven. Albeit, on the other hand (though Je&s;uitical and Helli&s;h Pamphlels renders us incapable of charity) we do really expre&s;s the integrity of our Soules, that we ap|prehend there were as good, &s;ober, religious and pious men with him, as ever &s;hall &s;ucceed them, of the undoubtedly an|cient Nobility and Gentry of <HI>Britain.</HI> But he being ob&s;tinate and unwilling to curb tho&s;e in&s;olencies which introduced the&s;e untimely in&s;urrections again&s;t him and his po&s;terity; until he found his own time, was &s;o far from yeilding to the rea&s;onable de&s;ires of the godly at that time (who&s;e integrities were as candid to the welfare of the&s;e now di&s;tracted and impoveri&s;hed na|tions, as to the &s;alvations of their own &s;ouls) that he gave way both to forraign and dome&s;tick Intere&s;ts to blow the bellow and to enflame all. But the Wars being bloody, inhumane, and barbarous in many re&s;pects, &s;eeing Country men murther|ed one another, nay more, the Father Warr'd again&s;t the Son, and the Son again&s;t the Father, yea, and Brother again&s;t Bro|ther. After the lo&s;s of &s;o many thou&s;ands of innocents, &s;ome Matchivilians mu&s;t &s;till (to promote their helli&s;h ends) pre|vent the King one while from his conde&s;cendency to the Parliaments ju&s;t demands; and the Parliaments in another way to hear his rea&s;ons to the contrary: But thus Heaven frowning at the unworthine&s;s of &s;uch juggling brings things &s;o to pa&s;s, that he is overthrown, and we become Ma&s;ters of the field: all which hazardous and hard encounters the poor Souldiery were for|ced cheerfully to undergo; and did with loyal hearts and hands endure. Then was it our expectation to &s;ee Liberty flouri&s;h, and all corrupt Judicatories removed; but on the contrary, we now &s;ee (as we are fellow &s;ufferers) our poor Countries to be more cheated than before, and we &s;lighted in the highe&s;t nature; nor dare we &s;ollicit the Supream Court of Ju&s;tice to en|form them of the tyrannies committed again&s;t us and the&s;e Nations from time to time, becau&s;e of &s;elf-&s;eeking-men &s;et over us, who by our means were rai&s;ed from the meane&s;t Mechanicks to Lord-like Inheritances.</P>
<P>Nay, this is not enough, but when we offer in the lea&s;t to commi&s;erate our conditions, or make known our Ca&s;es to our Ma&s;ters the Parliament, for whom we have expended our lives and fortunes, we are enjailed, beaten, and abu&s;ed by our Officers, in a mo&s;t barbarous manner. All which we tru&s;t the Almighty will con&s;ider, and impower us to redre&s;s both the injuries of you the good people of the&s;e Nations, and our &s;elves.</P>
<P>Thus have we lived to aboli&s;h the tyrannies and oppre&s;&s;ions of pa&s;t times, but never expected to have erected and e&s;tabli|&s;hed wor&s;e, as their Succe&s;&s;ors, who&s;e maskt de&s;igns and &s;pecious pretences, are not only made known to the meane&s;t of the Nation, but will appear more palpable every day. Now we be&s;eech the Lord of life to pardon both your and our &s;ins, and to enable us more and more to make di&s;coveries of &s;uch Apo&s;tates, &s;eeing Religion con&s;i&s;ts more in the Practique, than in the Theorick.</P>
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