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<HEAD>Five PROPOSALS PRESENTED To the General COUNCIL of the OFFICERS of the ARMIES Of <HI>ENGLAND, SCOTLAND</HI> and <HI>IRELAND.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Friends and Gentlemen:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe wi&s;e man tells us, that <HI>Hope defer'd, makes the heart &s;ick:</HI> as our hands are weakned by your delayes, &s;o our hearts would faint, except &s;omething &s;atisfactory be &s;peedily done by you. For the common &s;afety of the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e,</HI> and the A&s;&s;ertors of it, are in emi|nent danger to be &s;wallowed up by the Common Enemie; and great Rea&s;on we have to fear, that while you thus &s;lowly proceed to purge your Army, our de&s;truction, and yours al&s;o, (de|&s;igned by the friends to the fir&s;t Monarchique Family) will like an overflowing &s;courge, break in upon us; except he that neither &s;lumbers nor &s;leepes, by no le&s;&s;e then a Miracle pre|vent it. Our Apo&s;tacies having rid Po&s;t, and our Repentance &s;carce going a Foot-pace, gives &s;mall ground of hope that his &s;peciall pre&s;ence will &s;o Eminently appeare for us. If you on|ly were imbarqued in the bottom, and that the Cau&s;e were not common, we &s;hould be &s;ilent; but &s;ince our blood, Prayers and Pur&s;es challenge and claim a Share in the Purcha&s;e, and &s;ince we mu&s;t breathe under that bondage or freedom you are now bringing forth, we humbly pro|po&s;e,</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>That you vigorou&s;ly and unpartially proceed in the &s;peedy and total Purging of the Army; remembring that Right &s;tands in a direct oppo&s;ition to Wrong, in all Per&s;ons and all Ca&s;es; and let no Allegations or pretences &s;way your judgement to the contrary.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>That the Old Parliament may have the Door opened unto them, and that by you they be invited to re-po&s;&s;e&s;s that place where they in &s;ome mea&s;ure honourably A&s;&s;erted our Rights, both as Men and Christians.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>That you would no longer tamper with the</HI> Petition and Advice; <HI>but cast it a&s;ide as abominable, dangerous, and de&s;tructive to the common &s;afety of the Na|tion.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>That you would lay a&s;ide the thoughts of a Government by a &s;ingle Per|&s;on, in any &s;ence what&s;oever; as being repugnant to your own Engagements, and the Publique Liberty.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>That &s;ome faithful Per&s;ons, and Friends to the</HI> Good Old Cau&s;e, <HI>be added to your Councils and Conventions, that the&s;e things may be effected, that &s;o our Fears and Jealou&s;ies may be removed.</HI></P>
<P>In performance of the&s;e things, you will encourage us to a&s;&s;i&s;t you in our Prayers unto the mo&s;t High, and with our Per&s;ons and Pur&s;es al&s;o, in any Exigent or Straits you may be brought unto: But by your temporizing, and denying to follow God fully; you will meet with his re|bukes in your way, and Reproach and Infamy from all good men in the end.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>From many thou&s;ands Well-affected to the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e</HI> in and about the City of <HI>London.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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