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<HEAD>CONSIDERATIONS Upon the late tran&s;actions and proceedings of the ARMY, In reference to the DISSOLUTION of the PARLIAMENT:</HEAD>
<P>_TIs evident to unbia&s;&s;ed men, that the Parliament had a de&s;ign to break and &s;poil the good intere&s;t of the Army (which hath been as the bulwark of the Cau&s;e of God and his People) and to form it up to an intere&s;t to &s;erve the wills and lu&s;ts of their Ma|&s;ters, endeavouring to put many into commands who are per&s;ons of loo&s;e and profligate principles, and of a mercenary &s;pirit, voting of the Commander in chief, a per&s;on of mo&s;t approved godline&s;s, tenderne&s;s to all the People of God, and fidelity to the Cau&s;e he hath been engaged in, ca&s;ting out &s;everal eminent and faithfull Commanders, who have been as Pillars in the Army, being &s;uch who had &s;pecially engaged again&s;t the common Enemy in the late in&s;urrection, falling up|on them at their return (taking occa&s;ion from a mode&s;t Petition) with great animo&s;ity and &s;everity, when the Pri&s;oners they took in Arms again&s;t them were all let alone.</P>
<P N="2">2. Tis ea&s;ily ob&s;erved, that they were under the &s;ame &s;pirit and de&s;igns as they were before their fir&s;t interruption, which was to perpetuate them&s;elves, there not appearing upon them a &s;pirit to doe any thing effectually for promoting the good work of God, and Re|formation in the Nation, according to their profe&s;&s;ions and engagements.</P>
<P N="3">3. This Parliament was &s;pecially to be con&s;idered as the Tru&s;tees of the good and well-affected people of the Nation, (having been de&s;erted and oppo&s;ed in Arms by others) to a&s;&s;ert the good intere&s;t of the Nation and the people of God therein, who called forth the &s;aid good people to &s;tand by them with their lives in their hands in the a&s;&s;erting their own intere&s;t, upon which call, the Army upon principles of con&s;cience, and not as the &s;ervants of men, offerd them&s;elves, and this Army in &s;pecial manner was modelld by the Parliament for tho&s;e good ends, and have been eminently owned by the Lord in their undertakings in the three Nations, and the hearts of the people of the Lord have been knit to them, (unle&s;&s;e &s;uch who turned back to the Royal Intere&s;t) and have &s;till an adherency to them, looking upon them as entru&s;ted with this Cau&s;e they have been honoured of God in; Now when the Parliament &s;hall be found going about to pervert their tru&s;t (&s;o comitted to them by the good people) to the ruine of the good intere&s;t of the Army, and with that, the cau&s;e that hath been contended for, as is the judgment of mo&s;t of the &s;ober-minded people upon their late actings, It is then ju&s;tifiable in the Army, yea duty and faithfulne&s;&s;e, to with&s;tand them as they have done, and are ju&s;tified in the con&s;ciences of their friends in &s;o doing; It being a received Maxim (and that with &s;uch as are no very good friends to the Army) as &s;uitable to all ends of Government, that when a Community of people &s;hall commit a tru&s;t to a few of them&s;elves (which is the pre&s;ent ca&s;e) upon ends declared and profe&s;&s;ed by both, that &s;uch a Community may revoke that tru&s;t, by calling off their Tru&s;tees, when they &s;hall go about to make void tho&s;e ends for which they them&s;elvs have profe&s;&s;ed to be entru&s;ted, (and yet not be found under any undue re&s;i&s;tance of Powers) that tru&s;t being not irrevocable by any law of God, Nature, or Nations.</P>
<P N="4">4. When the Officers of the Army called this Parliament to &s;it again, after their long interruption (or rather former di&s;&s;olution, for &s;o indeed it was, upon a righteous account, though now &s;ome of late in Print condemn the former General of the Army in &s;o doing, when them&s;elves ince&s;|&s;antly pre&s;t him to it, as is notoriou&s;ly known) the &s;aid Officers did it, as conceiving it the be&s;t expedient to ca&s;t off the Government of a &s;ingle per&s;on, which they found and acknowledge to have been a &s;nare to them; but in &s;o doing, the Officers propo&s;als were as a Compact and Covenant, on their part with them, in behalf of them&s;elves and the good people that owned them; and &s;everal eminent members of the Hou&s;e before their &s;itting, being treated with by &s;ome of the Army, promi&s;ed an amicable clo&s;ure with them on tho&s;e grounds, which were al&s;o &s;o accepted after their &s;itting, which in their late actings they have even wholly ca&s;t off; but the Officers of the Army thereby peremptorily obliged them&s;elves to con&s;i&s;t to the &s;ame with a <HI>full and fixed re&s;olution,</HI> (as to the &s;ub&s;tance of them) as they &s;hould be found &s;ub&s;ervient to the promoting of the Cau&s;e of God.</P>
<P N="5">5. That many of the good People, who any ways a&s;&s;ented to the late calling together of the Parliament, profe&s;&s;ed in their applications to the Council of Officers of the Army, that they looked upon their calling together as a meet expedient to &s;erve the pre&s;ent exigency, and they &s;ailing the expectations of mo&s;t &s;ober people, they are equally &s;atisfied with their removal.</P>
<P N="6">6. That this very Parliament at their fir&s;t di&s;&s;olution, declared in one of their papers, That it was ju&s;tifiable for the Army to keep out the major part of the Hou&s;e, when they were de&s;igning to give back the cau&s;e into the hands of the King at the I&s;le of <HI>Wight</HI> Treaty, when there would have been no|thing left but a Paper to &s;ecure it; And if ju&s;tifiable &s;o to deal with a major part, there is the &s;ame rea&s;on of dealing &s;o with tho&s;e that remained, if they &s;hall be found (though in another way) doing the &s;ame thing, which is clearly our pre&s;ent ca&s;e.</P>
<P>Upon all which it will appear there was a true and real nece&s;&s;ity, upon righteous principles, leading the faithfull Officers of the Army to what they have done, profe&s;&s;ing it the great grief of their Souls, that they &s;hould be nece&s;sitated to &s;uch an extremity, and hope it &s;hall not be judged ficklene&s;s, lightne&s;s, or incon&s;tancy, that they are put upon &s;uch overturnings in which they have been of late engaged, but rather a con&s;i&s;tency to an unwearied pur&s;ute of that <HI>Good Cau&s;e of the Lord Je&s;us Christ,</HI> which out of all the&s;e confu&s;ions and &s;hakings, will ari&s;e in its own beauty and glory in the be&s;t &s;ea&s;on of the Lord; and the &s;aid Officers hope, if the Lord will take plea&s;ure in them, to make it appear, that their Hearts are &s;till towards the exaltation of the &s;aid <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> to the refre&s;hment of the Hearts of all good people; profe&s;&s;ing al&s;o they have no other intere&s;t but wherein the people of God are equally concerned, and are begging a &s;hare in their prayers to the Father of Lights for them.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By one that is no Member of the Army.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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