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<P>PLAIN DEALING OR A Fair Warning TO THE Gentlemen of the COMMITTEE FOR UNION: IN A LETTER Intended to <HI>ALDERMAN FO&V;LKS,</HI> To be Communicated unto them accordingly at Gurney Hou&s;e, or el&s;ewhere. Written by a Friend to the Parliament, City and Kingdom, and for their Vindication, is now publi&s;hed to the World.</P>
<BIBL>MATH. 18. 7.</BIBL>
<Q><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">o unto the world, becau&s;e of offences: but it mu&s;t needs be that offences come: but wo unto that man by whom the offence cometh.</Q>
<P>Printed in the fir&s;t Year of the Agitators Raign, MDCXLVII.</P>
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<HEAD>PLAIN DEALING OR A Fair VVarning TO THE <HI>Gentlemen of the COMMITTEE</HI> FOR UNION.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THat this meeting may prove effectuall by Gods ble&s;&s;ing to the end pretended, even a &s;weet union between the godly, and a hap|py Compo&s;ure of this unhappy difference; I thought it my duty to give you (as briefly and plainly as I can:) that which I conceive, mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily be debated in order to this union: and were not Religion, Gods cau&s;e, the King|dom, nay three Kingdoms &s;o nearly con|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">ned, I would have been &s;ilent for my brethrens &s;akes, for whom it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> me at the very heart. But it may be remembred, the fathers dan|gers
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made the dumb child to &s;peak, you know there is no &s;ore can be throughly cured, but it mu&s;t indure &s;ome &s;mart; if this &s;ore be not skil|fully handled, and throughly cured, it may prove fatall to the Go&s;pel, throughout all <HI>Europe;</HI> and in truth, what&s;oever &s;pecious pretext to the contrary, a perpetual farewel to <HI>Englands, Irelands</HI> and <HI>Scot|lands</HI> Common Right and Freedom <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">For do not Soldiers u&s;urp the Parlia|ments autho+rity, which is one fair &s;tep to it? and for the Mini&s;try, they'l be prea|chers; <HI>Rome</HI> may keep their <HI>Ie&s;uits</HI> at home the&s;e wil do their work for them if God prevent not.</NOTE>; what&s;oever <HI>Mr. E&s;twick</HI> is plea&s;'d to &s;ay, I am confident his own Con&s;cience tells him, The Gen|tlemen he accu&s;eth for promoting a new War, and his inveighing again&s;t the City Remon&s;trance, Declaration, and all the late Carriages of the promoters thereof, is really from a deep &s;en&s;e of their duty, and the danger, this Parliament was in by the Armies di&s;obedience, who&s;e proceedings all along &s;ince, doth &s;ufficiently ju&s;tifie, and make mani|fe&s;t, and whether or no the fundamental Laws of the Land be not now &s;ubverted, and the very being of Parliaments &s;truck at, when the Ar|my hath not only refu&s;ed to obey the Parliament, but contrarily hath for&s;t obedience from them, both in voting and unvoting, and hath ta|ken upon them to judg the ca&s;e of the Kingdom, nay, to be the Parli|aments Judges, and to require Rea&s;ons of their votes, to be given them, or &s;uch as they confide in, as appears by that Declaration of the 18, of <HI>June,</HI> and Parliament like, to receive the Countryes Petitions, &s;et up a <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Junto or Mock Par|liament at <HI>Putney.</HI></NOTE> General Coun&s;el again&s;t the Great Coun&s;el of the Land undertake to do that there, only proper to Parliaments; vote down the Kings nega|tive voyce, the Hou&s;e of Pears, &s;et periods to Parliaments, give Rules and Directions to Parliaments. I would I could not add that bold fac'd Trea&s;on, when they declared the Parliament to be no Parliament. In a word, as they have devided the Parliaments, &s;o have they Fomented and Promoted all the divi&s;ions in the Kingdom, that &s;hakes the very founda|tions of this Common-wealth; what exceeding <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Is there not jugling in the Kings being found at the Ifle of <HI>Wight.</HI> I wi&s;h his per|&s;on be not &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">l in danger; and that we knew the Truth.</NOTE> Juggling hath bin in the Army from the beginning, and al&s;o, withall the world be&s;ides: <HI>Ab&s;olon</HI> like to &s;teal away the hearts of the people, and to cozen and cheat them out of their very under&s;tandings, to the betraying of them|&s;elves, the Parliament, even to the indangering the ever having more Parliaments? What &s;trange and undutiful expre&s;&s;ions? What &s;lander and Reproaches? Nay, what trea&s;onable &s;peeches and actions hath bin attempted again&s;t this Parliament? Was not the Kings taking from <HI>Holdenby</HI> di&s;owned by the Army &s;ince own'd, upon very great pretences of loyally and duty to him, but what performances all the world may now
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&s;ee by his Maie&s;ties pre&s;ent e&s;cape for the &s;afety of his per&s;on, as well as by the attempts of the Agitators <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">If you &s;ee them &s;hot to death for their attempts upon the <HI>King, Par|liament &amp; City,</HI> then I hope al wil be wel, no as bad as ever without <HI>Peters</HI> Repentance; even among the head Offi|cers, who &s;in in that al&s;o; is it not as ju&s;t for the Agita|tors to di&s;obey their Officers as for them to di&s;obey the Parliament.</NOTE>, to Impeach him without any Au|thority or Countenance of the Parliaments; and &s;uch other attempts upon the Parliament and Mini&s;tery of the Go&s;pel, that if <HI>Ab&s;olon</HI> were now alive to act his Trea&s;on, it might wel enough pa&s;s among the Croud, for Common Right and Freedom Was not the Petition di&s;own|ed &s;ince owned? Was not their di&s;obedience di&s;owned with a great deal of fained &s;orrow, &s;ince own'd with a great deal of real Joy; doth a|ny man know what to make of the Army now, one piece of it is for <HI>Paul,</HI> and other for <HI>Apollos,</HI> and an other for <HI>Sephaes,</HI> but all out of order, all di&s;obedient to the Parliament, ever and anon profe&s;&s;ing that the Parliament is not yet for their turn; &s;o that the truth is, and I think all the world can never make it out, that there is any thing to be &s;aid for them, but that whil&s;t they were obedient, God honoured them to be In&s;truments to this poor Kingdom; which very &s;ervice makes me pour out many a prayer to God, to pour upon them the &s;pi|rit of Repentance and Obedience, without which I much doubt of any good by your meeting: for when God comes to enquire after all tho&s;e things, I am afraid he wil charge upon the Armies di&s;obedience, the new <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">What is your own Child turn'd a Mon|&s;ter that you are a&s;ham'd to own it.</NOTE> War you talk of, the accu&s;ation of the Impri&s;oned and bani&s;hed ones, the renting and tearing in piec<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s the Parliament, the City, the whole Kingdom, nay 3, Kingdoms, the hinderers of Ire|lands Relief; promoters of the Famine, both of bread, and of the word of the Lord, and of all the &s;ad Con&s;equences we fear may follow: So that the Subiect or matter that tends to a godly union in my opinion wil be &s;peedily to make a Religious Retreat, if nature prevail &s;o with you that you canot own the new War, yet let grace be &s;o predominant as not to continue to charge it upon tho&s;e you know are <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Lord Maior, Alder|men, the Mem|bers of both Hou&s;es, and divers others occu&s;ed of High Trea&s;on or Mi&s;demea|nors.</NOTE> innocent, &s;et at li|berty all tho&s;e Gentlemen, mo&s;t of which I know you have had &s;uch &s;ignal Te&s;timonies of their faithfulne&s;s to this Parliament, that as I am confident, Trea&s;on wil not &s;tick by them, &s;o the &s;everal foot|&s;teps of Gods providence ever &s;ince hath given &s;trange Commendation to their endeavors, as if God would have the world to &s;ee, that they then did but attempt to do their duty: Put both Hou&s;es and the City into the &s;ame po&s;ture they were in, when you fir&s;t medled with them, and then know, that there is much doubt too, whether unity and unifor|mity be not twins to live and dye together. I am per&s;waded there is many great Officers of the Army in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ool bloud, could heartily wi&s;h
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them&s;elves where they were when they begun, but they are now in a &s;nare, and Subiect to many Temptations: yet I hope their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">|genuity is &s;uch, that though ambition bids them goe on, that they will Remember they have not &s;o learned Chri&s;t; and the further they go the more mi&s;ery they wil run them&s;elves into; for I am confident, without Repentance, God wil bring them to a &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> reckoning, at la&s;t: and indeed Gentlemen: how can a true I&s;raelite, a true Engli&s;h man, di&s;pence with his duty? Nay can <HI>England,</HI> that has obleiged it &s;elfe by &s;o many Solemn Vows <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">How y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">u have k<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">pt the Coven<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nt let your con&s;ci|e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ces &s;peak, that have not only <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">uffered the priviledges of Parliament to be b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ken, but have bro|ken them your &s;elves. Do not your own con|&s;ciences check you if they do defer n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">t Re|pentance, un|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">avel &amp; und<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> what you have ra&s;hly done; for I hope you &s;ee what it is to let the <HI>gol|den <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> of <HI>Government</HI> loo&s;e, and if you be real <HI>converts</HI> leave jugling.</NOTE> and Covenants, to pre|&s;erve the Parliament, when &s;o apparently it is indangered? were not the 11. Members fain to leave the Parliament, or el&s;e they would turn them out by force? Did not the Parliament Vote &s;ix days one after an|other, That, that was a Parliament the Army Voted was none; and would, as I think, have Voted &s;o til this day, could we &s;ay they were not now under a force? But I believe the la&s;t great turn given to the Parliament by that 1000 Hor&s;e, commanded by Major <HI>De&s;borough</HI> into <HI>Hide Park</HI> (to execute that dreadful Declaration or poy&s;onous purge, of which the Parliament hath never yet recovered, and was &s;uch a blow to the Go&s;pel of Je&s;us Chri&s;t and to the&s;e three Kingdoms <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> cannot yet be paralel'd) wil require a thorough REPENTANCE: And though we cannot &s;ee all the plots and de&s;igns of men, yet God knows all the pre&s;ent juglings of this Age; and we have had &s;o much experience in all the tran&s;actions, &s;ince this unhappy difference, as to &s;ay, &s;urely this putting of the Army thus out of joynt is to try the skil of &s;ome or other. But, I hope, the Gentlemen that pre&s;s an Union upon that ground, wil &s;ee a providence in it, and &s;ay of their policy, <HI>all is uanity:</HI> and that &s;urely by this divi&s;ion in the Army, God minds us of our di&s;obedience, and that we &s;hould tru&s;t God more in his ordinary way of providence: and let Parliaments alone with the &s;etling of Church and State, as only proper to them: And if the Soldiers act without, or in oppo&s;ition to their Officers: is it not <HI>Lex Talionis?</HI> Is it not the bitter fruit of their own ra&s;h Councels and Actions? Believe it, all the would, that ob&s;erves the Army, may with good rea&s;on conclude, that they are gone &s;o far, that they now re&s;olve only to depend upon their own &s;trongth for Indempnity: their own Papers do more then intimate as much: if &s;o then, what good i&s;&s;ue of this meeting can be expected without &s;ome better incouragement from that party: but &s;ome kind of acknowledgment, or &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">bmi&s;&s;ion or &s;omething akin to it? And indeed,
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what ever is pretended that &s;eems to be their aim, if Ma&s;ter <HI>E&s;twick</HI> &s;pake their Meaning at the la&s;t Meeting; and if &s;o, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">hen know that an ungodly Union cannot hold; for if you could out-reach or out-wit men, its to no purpo&s;e, for God wil laugh you to &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">orn and have you in deri&s;ion; as its good to forget on all &s;ides, &s;o its dangerous to countenance any of the late pa&s;&s;ages &s;ince this difference, or to comply while they have power to drive on their own de&s;igns <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">To be &s;ure they have not power to de|fend <HI>King, Par|liament</HI> and <HI>Kingdom,</HI> as appears by the Kings flight at their confe&s;&s;i|on &amp; practice dayly. Do not the <HI>Gen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ral Counc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">l</HI> drive one way and the <HI>Agiltators</HI> another <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> the be&s;t Lie, Gen. <HI>Cromwel</HI> can do is but to ob&s;truct their <HI>trea&s;on,</HI> which they chu&s;e to <HI>&s;uffer</HI> in h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">es of a <HI>better op|portunity to</HI> act it; and its wel known have no &s;mal <HI>Party,</HI> and are in a <HI>de&s;perat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">|dition.</HI></NOTE>. It would be too tedious to give you a ta&s;te of all the bitter fruit of the Armies di&s;obedience: but in one Paper they take Liberty of Con&s;cience, to de&s;ire the puni&s;hment of tho&s;e Gentlemen that out of con&s;cience, and in obedience, left the Army: And M. <HI>E&s;twick</HI> more then intimated, that he great|ly de&s;ired an Union between the Parliament and City, only &s;ome particular Gentlemen &s;hould lie under the guilt of a new War; of who&s;e innocency, by this time, I pre&s;ume he cannot be ignorant: but that &s;elf defence, which he is plea|&s;ed to cal a new War, I am fully &s;atisfied, had been the only way to pre&s;erve the Parliament, City and Kingdom from all tho&s;e dangers both felt and feard, had they not by their craft and &s;ubtilty, &s;own &s;o much divi&s;ion among the godly, that we thereby were in danger of a common Enemy. To conclude, &s;o long, I am confident&punc; as a coun&s;el of Agita|tors is &s;et up to oppo&s;e the great Coun&s;el of Parliament, and we humble not our &s;elves for it, there is little hopes of an Union; nay it is a great di&s;honor to our Engli&s;h Nati|on, a hi&s;&s;ing &s;tock and by-word in all Countries. Can you read, without trembling, the <HI>Ca&s;e of the Army,</HI> and <HI>Call</HI> to the <HI>Army,</HI> the <HI>Diurnal,</HI> &amp; &s;everal other Papers, what danger our <HI>Religion</HI> is in, what <HI>dishonor is ca&s;t upon our God, what Here|&s;ies and Bla&s;phemies are fomented and maintained, what Hy|pocri&s;ies in reference to Ireland, what double dealing in refe|rence</HI>
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<HI>to England.</HI> Witne&s;s their own Relation of his Ma|je&s;ties e&s;cape or retirement; indeed they have as many &s;e|veral de&s;igns as they are parties in the Army; and all tend to a New War, if hiding or driving of King, Parliament and Religion our of the Kingdom wil do it, under the notion of Peace and Truth or common Right and Freedom. What indeavoring to charge their own trea&s;ons <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">What diffe|rence between privat tampe|ring now and Sir <HI>Io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">|thans</HI> trea&s;ons or is there li|berty for <HI>&s;aints</HI> to act what was trea&s;on as they &s;ay in the 11. Members or any elle? or is this the way to <HI>peace</HI> to keep the <HI>Parliament</HI> in the dark, or if they wil &s;ee to putout their eyes? this Ma|chivil an pol|cy wil never re&s;tore <HI>Eng|lands</HI> peace &s;urely its nei|ther the victo|ry over the A|gitators, nor the General Councel, nor any other &s;e|lect number of officers in the Army but the Armies obedi|ence to the Parliament, &amp; the freedom of <HI>Parliament</HI> and application of both <HI>Kingdoms</HI> to his Maje&s;ty thats likely to procure a firm &amp; la&s;ting <HI>peace</HI></NOTE> and mi&s;chiefs up|on other mens &s;houlders; all which together with the pre&s;ent nece&s;&s;ity of &s;ettling the King and Kingdom, relieving <HI>Ire|land,</HI> ea&s;ing the Kingdom of tho&s;e unnece&s;&s;ary, Taxes, as Free quarter and all other charges upon the poor Country&punc; occa&s;ioned by the Armies di&s;obedience; I &s;ay, as all the&s;e Cals for Fa&s;ting and Prayer, and for humbling our &s;elves to a happy &s;peedy Union; &s;o &s;hal it al&s;o be the dayly prayer and &s;incere indeavor of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours and the Kingdoms humble and faithful Servant, A. T.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<Q><L>ENglands &s;ickne&s;s, Irelands dying, and Scotlands &s;ad Com|plaints</L>
<L>Are from our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">rethrens mi&s;chiefs we thought to be the Saints.</L>
<L>Our Religion and Liberty the glory of this Nation,</L>
<L>Is through their di&s;obedience brought neer to de&s;olation.</L>
<L>And without our God &s;tep in to &s;top their per&s;ecution,</L>
<L>We may expect at la&s;t, the Parliaments di&s;&s;olution&punc;</L>
<L>And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;tead of King &amp; Parliament, the Pillars of this kingdom</L>
<L>Have Community and parity for Common right and freedome.</L>
<L>But that &s;incere Repentance may be their Re&s;olution.</L>
<L>God give them grace, and pardon too, and &s;end a good conclu&s;ion</L></Q>
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