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<P>A WORD TO Lieut. Gen. Cromwel: AND TWO WORDS For the &s;etling of the <HI>King, Parliament and Kingdom.</HI></P>
<P>Written by a Friend to them, the Peace, the Mi|ni&s;try, and Fundamental Laws of the Land; and for their Re&s;toration and E&s;tabli&s;hment is now publi&s;ht to the World, by way of REMONSTRANCE.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Jeremiah 14.19.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Ha&s;t thou utterly rejected <HI>Judah?</HI> or hath thy &s;oul loathed <HI>Zion?</HI> why ha&s;t thou &s;mitten us, that we cannot be healed? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of health, and behold trouble.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Ezekiel 18.24.</HI></BIBL>
<P>But when the righteous turneth away from his righteou&s;ne&s;s, <HI>and</HI> committeth iniquity, <HI>and</HI> doth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doth, &s;hal he live? all his righteou&s;ne&s;s &s;hal not be mentioned: but in his tre&s;pa&s;s that he hath tre&s;pa&s;&s;ed, <HI>and</HI> in his &s;in that he hath &s;inned, in them &s;hal he die.</P></Q>
<P>Printed in the Year, MDCXLVII.</P>
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<HEAD>TO His Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> General by the Parliaments Commi&s;&s;ion.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Am &s;orry I am put upon this unhappy nece&s;&s;ity to mind you of your wonted religious and dutiful compliance to the Parliament of England; You have not lo&s;t a little in the e&s;teem of godly men; <HI>A word in &s;ea&s;on,</HI> &s;ays <HI>So|lomon, is like apples of gold in pictures of &s;ilver:</HI> I know very wel, you act not, but you &s;uffer &s;o much, and hand it when they have contrived it, that when God comes to cast out the Coun&s;els of the wicked, and taketh the wi&s;e in their own craftine&s;s, you wil hardly e&s;cape the danger, being found among the croud; the&s;e late carria|ges, managed by Lieut. Gen. <HI>Cromwel</HI> and his Privy Coun&s;el, do more then intimate a kind of repentance they have made an end of the Wars &s;o &s;oon; or, at lea&s;t, to give this interpretation upon the former &s;uc|ce&s;&s;es, that it proceedes only from Gods meer mercy to the Kingdom, and not from any &s;incerity of their indeavors, they ran on, tis true, at fir&s;t to gain a plau&s;e and a name as its very plain by the whole mana|ging of the Wars, as wel as by the&s;e late Trea&s;ons, when ever they &s;ent any, not of the right &s;tamp, for this after Rebellion, they ever &s;ent &s;ome when the danger was pa&s;t, of the right faction, to take the honor of the &s;ervice and &s;ucce&s;s; and &s;o they put all in print one after another, they could confide in, not wanting their Agents in London, even under pen&s;ion on purpo&s;e to blaze their good &s;ervices up and down the Kingdom, and having the advantage of your Excellencies favor, not &s;eeing this deep layd de&s;ign was able to ca&s;t out, blemi&s;h or cru&s;h all the orthodox and hone&s;t oppo&s;ers, at lea&s;t keep them low in the e|&s;teem of the people, and cry up them&s;elves and their Faction as the only in&s;truments God would u&s;e, thereby to gain the better advantage and e&s;teem to carry on tho&s;e desperate De&s;igns of ordering or new|molding the Parliament, which is nothing el&s;e but to &s;ubvert the Fundamental Laws of the Land, and de&s;troy Religion, which your &s;elves pretended to fight again&s;t, for the Parliament; all this while let
<PB N="4" REF="3"> not tho&s;e &s;ucce&s;&s;es God has given this Parliament, you have &s;hattered in pieces, and in them to this Kingdom, puff you up: but know, that I know it to be true, that Major Gen. <HI>Skippon</HI> is the Father of that Army, and that mo&s;t of you u&s;urp the honor of many faithful, valiant Gentl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">men of the Hou&s;e of Commons, be&s;ides tho&s;e that you have ca&s;t forth of your Army, or could not in con&s;cience &s;tay any longer with you; be&s;ides many others that God made in&s;trumental to the giving the Parliament the victory, which, if it be as you &s;ay, that they are not Godly, then mu&s;t you conclude, it is his meer mercy to the Parliament and Kingdom, and not the worth of the In&s;truments, that is to be looked at in all your &s;ucce&s;&s;es. Have you not rob'd of their honor, <HI>Manche|&s;ter, Brereton, Ro&s;&s;iter, Brown, Morgan, Ma&s;&s;ey, Birch, Poyntz, Wal|ler,</HI> and many others? thank God, too many to recount; &s;peak the truth, if any of them have not profe&s;t Religion, I am &s;ure none of them have &s;o di&s;honored Religion, as you have done: and what trea|&s;on you are now about, God only knows; but many think you cannot pa&s;s without the other purge, to the Hou&s;e of Commons, and to further curb the City? Do you not think that mo&s;t of the Officers that act now in this de&s;ign, would have trembled when they were fir&s;t rai&s;ed, to have entered into &s;uch an Engagement, and refu|&s;ed to obey the Parliaments Commands, and capitulate with them, and force them to &s;end down Commi&s;&s;ioners, to treat with you, as with an Enemy; and have required them to turn out their M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mbers, accu&s;e them, and &s;end the Lord Maior <HI>and</HI> Aldermen to pri on: whiles this unparaleld arbitrary power is unrepented, you wil remain under a cloud, and Englands peace <HI>and</HI> truth further indanger'd, as wil appear by this in&s;uing Remonstrance; and could I be any way in&s;trumental to obtain the righting the Freedom of Parliam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt, the flouri&s;hing of Religion, the &s;etling of Peace, with his Maje&s;ties happy concurrence in all his Maje&s;ties three Kingdoms, with the &s;acrifice of my life, I beleeve I &s;hould find more comfort in death, then you with all your earthly prosperity, without repentance: Therefore be plea&s;ed either to exerci&s;e your authority for the vindication of the Parliament, or if you cannot oppo&s;e the faction, yet declare your di&s;like of tho&s;e apo|&s;tates, that they may not have the countenance of your Commi&s;&s;ion, which is the only &s;incere aim and indevor of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>The Parliaments truly devoted Servant, the</HI> A&V;THOR.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A Word to Lieut. General <HI>Cromwel</HI> and his Privy Councel. And two Words for the &s;etling of the King, Parliament and Kingdom.</HEAD>
<P>WHen by the ble&s;&s;ing of God upon the Ar|my and other Forces of the Parliaments, the adver&s;e Forces and Gari&s;ons within this Kingdom were di&s;&s;ipated and redu|ced, and an hopeful way made for the &s;etling of a &s;ound and la&s;ting Peace, on good terms, for the intere&s;t of the Kingdom, in &s;tead of the hoped fruit of our labors and hazards, and of the Kingdoms va&s;t expence in the di&s;pencing of Ju&s;tice and Righteou&s;nes, and the &s;etling and upholding of common Right and Freedom, as if you repented of all your former &s;ervice; we found immediatly the cro&s;s wor|kings of a prevalent party in the Army, who walking under the mask of Saints, and of our only Saviors; and by the advantage of the un&s;etledne&s;s of the Kingdom, and the great pre&s;&s;ures and heavy burthens that the Country groans under, took upon you to receive Petitions and become pretenders to be the only &s;en&s;ible men and likely means to relieve the Kingdom; but in truth we fear now, wil prove men of corrupt and private ends and intere&s;t, different from, and de&s;tructive to the real and common Intere&s;t of the Kingdom, even to ob&s;truct and pervert Ju&s;tice, to in|jure, oppre&s;s and cru&s;h the peaceable people of the King|dom,
<PB N="6" REF="4"> to abridg and overthrow all ju&s;t Freedom and Liber|ty, and drive on de&s;igns to &s;et up a party and faction of their own in the Parliament, City and Kingdom, by the advantage thereof, to domineer over and in&s;lave the King|dom to po&s;terity; and in the pur&s;uance of your de&s;igns of &s;etting up your own irreligious or Phari&s;aical domineering faction to the oppre&s;&s;ion of all other people and the certain ruin of the Kingdom: you have al&s;o had, to further your de&s;igns, the great advantage of &s;uch pretences as afore&s;aid, and of all the jealou&s;ies among the godly; and what&s;oever is ami&s;s in the Kingdom as you have not &s;pared to charge it upon the Parliament; &s;o <HI>Ab&s;alon</HI>-like you have playd your parts and called your &s;elves the only Sa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nts, the only Saviors, the only &s;en&s;ible, the only able, the only willing men, both to &s;etle Religion and the di&s;tempers of the Kingdom; but how you have either &s;etled the King, pre|&s;erved the Parliament, relieved <HI>Ireland,</HI> ea&s;ed <HI>England</HI> of their Taxes, &s;etled Religion, removed Jealou&s;ies and e&s;ta|bli&s;ht Peace, or what hope we have to enjoy them from you, we wil now examine together with the Cal or War|rant that you have to undertake tho&s;e cour&s;es under pretext thereof: For though Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax</HI> bear the name, yet its wel known you are the man, you are the <HI>primum mobile,</HI> that moves all in the Army; you are that <HI>Deme|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ius</HI> that cries up the magnificence of this great <HI>Diana,</HI> the Army; Gain cloked with a &s;hew of Religion is the very cau&s;e of the&s;e Divi&s;ions; and why your di&s;obedience is &s;o &s;tubbornly defended, committing Idolatry by wor&s;hipping this Godde&s;s above all <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> all <HI>England,</HI> even the Par|liament, to the rai&s;ing &s;edition again&s;t the Parliament and all the <HI>Pauls</HI> that per&s;wade the people again&s;t &s;uch vile opinions, and with this &s;ilver Smith for to compa&s;s the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">lver of all earthly pro&s;perity, you run the hazard, if you <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> not the gol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of all cele<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ial felicity.</P>
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<P>Review the Cities Petition and that la&s;t from the free born people to the Parliament; you may &s;ee by the one into what a labyrinth the Army hath brought the Parlia|ment; and by the other, how the City, like a dutiful peo|ple, &s;trives to bring it forth again with honor; although indeed the free-born people are in the Right, that the Pre|tences, Grounds and Rea&s;ons of the Armies Proceedings, and what pre&s;idents they have forced from both Hou&s;es of Parliament thereupon, do &s;peak and countenance theirs; but is in truth both alike de&s;tructive to the very being of Parliaments, only there is a great deal of difference in power, policy and intere&s;t, or el&s;e no doubt the Army would take their part, and cal it a providence or foundati|on God has given them, and &s;o take extraordinary cour&s;es to make the Parliament and City grant their Petitions. Wel, Gentlemen, let me per&s;wade you to repent, to un|ravel, undo what you have ra&s;hly, and in hot blood done, to the di&s;honor and &s;ubverting of the Freedom of Parlia|ment, and right the Members thereof, and of this City, for the Kingdoms &s;ake, or el&s;e know that deliverance &s;hal come &s;ome other way.</P>
<P>Were it not my duty with righteous <HI>Lot</HI> to be vexed with tho&s;e unrighteous doings and horrible hypocri&s;ies, and God-loathing juglings; or could I &s;ee any other way left to mind you with any hopes of &s;ucce&s;s, of that great account you have to give to the al-&s;eeing God, both for your parts and power; that I have often thought you might certainly be more excu&s;able, if you had hid them in a nap|kin; beleeve it, I would have attempted it and have now been &s;ilent; but all other ways have hitherto proved &s;o fruitle&s;s, and indeed as to men, &s;eems hopele&s;s, and in the opinion of many godly men, your friends, your princi|ples are &s;ounded &s;o much upon machivilian policy, that you mu&s;t needs lie under great temptations, and run
<PB N="8" REF="5"> great hazards of making &s;hipwrack of a good con&s;cience, and of the plain truth of <HI>Gods</HI> holy Word, as wel as you do of the good and whole&s;om Laws of the Land, and of that good old Truth, <HI>The &s;afety of the People is the &s;u|pream Law,</HI> which you &s;o often mi&s;apply to your &s;elves, and yet would not allow it to the City, upon your ap|proach in a ho&s;tile manner, after all the blood and trea&s;ure this City hath expended; which indeed is all the vi&s;ible cau&s;e of all that triumph and glorious victories, which you too much attribute to your &s;elves, with &s;uch &s;inful neglect of the good hand of <HI>GOD,</HI> making good that divine complaint, <HI>That you remember not the hand of the Lord, nor the day he delivered you from the enemy; but unworthily &s;in becau&s;e his grace hath abounded:</HI> making all the&s;e your &s;ucce&s;&s;es &s;o many arguments, that you are his Saints, and may undertake &s;uch cour&s;es as are indeed a &s;hame to Reli|gion, and that even the wicked are a&s;hamed and blu&s;h at; whereas you know, that we can neither know <HI>Gods</HI> love nor hatred by all that is before us; and if tho&s;e &s;ucce&s;&s;es were undeniable &s;igns and badges of <HI>Gods</HI> love, yet it remains, that you make it out, how <HI>God</HI> has given you any Cal or Warrant to undertake the medling with the &s;etling of the State and of Religion, which I think un&s;etling; to&s;&s;ing the King up and down to the danger of his Maje&s;ties Per|&s;on, &s;etting periods to Parliaments, taking upon you to prote&s;t again&s;t the Parliament, and &s;uch like: but to be|gin with you, where you began your di&s;obedience.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="I"> Fir&s;t, Did you not at <HI>Bury, Newmarket,</HI> and el&s;ewhere, without all colour of authority, contrive and &s;et on foot in the Army, and many of them entred into a mi&s;chievous and de&s;perate Engagement, be&s;ides the fir&s;t Petition ten|ding to the &s;ubvertion of the Freedom of Parliament, and of the Liberties of the Nation, to the fru&s;trating of tho&s;e ju&s;t and publick ends for which &s;o much blood and trea&s;ure
<PB N="9" REF="5"> hath been &s;pilt and &s;pent in the late Wars to the rai&s;ing a new War again&s;t the Parliament and Kingdom: Did you not &s;ummon the City as wel as Court it, only to let you have your wils and &s;ati<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fie your lu&s;ts, upon the Parliament, which you cal <HI>Ju&s;tice indeed against &s;ome in the Parliament:</HI> A &s;trange and unheard of Trea&s;on, that an Army mu&s;t be brought up again&s;t the Parliament <HI>to force them to deliver up the Members, or do any other thing,</HI> which they would, all the world mu&s;t needs &s;ay, have fain done, if there had been the le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t &s;hadow of Ju&s;tice or Rea&s;on, or could with|out the apparent violation of their Con&s;ciences, have &s;uf|fered to be done; and what undutiful &s;peeches, what &s;lan|ders and reproaches, and what trea&s;onable attempts you then made upon the Parliament and City, &s;urely you in|tend, by your dayly practices, &s;hal never be forgotten: Be plea&s;ed to review the whole Journal of your Procee|dings, ever &s;ince your fir&s;t di&s;obedience and traiterous Comment upon the Ordinance of the Lords and Com|mons for disbanding your Army, which though the Parli|ament therein expre&s;t it to be their care and duty to this Kingdom, to relieve them from the va&s;t charge of an Army, and for the relieving our di&s;tre&s;&s;ed brethren in <HI>Ireland;</HI> yet the &s;uffering of both which &s;ince, through your di&s;obe|dience too and clamors upon the Parliament are both in|tolerable, and without Gods great mercy irrecoverable, and how you have changed your principle with your condition let the world judg; that when ever the Parliament came neer to grant your de&s;ires, you flew off, either giving &s;ome further interpretation of your former, or asking others, whereby the mo&s;t charitable, that is not an engaged party with you, can hardly think tho&s;e carriages, as they offer them&s;elvs to our con&s;ideration daily multiplying to be con|&s;i&s;tent with grace and godline&s;s; becau&s;e I would put you upon the examining your &s;elf, give me leave, it is but
<PB N="10" REF="6"> a piece of your own courage, and the &s;ame Liberty of Con&s;cience you plead for your &s;elvs; and if the truth of the matter &s;eem to be&s;peak me not altogether ignorant of your &s;everal pa&s;&s;ages, let them work &s;o much the more effectu|ally upon your con&s;ciences to a <HI>timely repentance;</HI> b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">leeve it, without it you may as wel be que&s;tion<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d here, as it is certain you cannot e&s;cape the <HI>&s;earcher of all hearts,</HI> with a thou&s;and Armies, and al your fine words and &s;pecious pre|tences in your <HI>long-winded Declarations,</HI> though they may deceive the poor people, having the advantage of a <HI>very distempered and burthened Kingdom,</HI> which the people is not long able to bear. Con&s;ider the <HI>An&s;wer of the</HI> 11. <HI>Members to their Charge,</HI> &amp; this great Victory God has lately honored the Lord <HI>Inchiquin</HI> with, for poor bleeding <HI>Ireland,</HI> together with very many other &s;ucce&s;&s;es given him, all which very much reflects upon the validity of the re&s;t of your <HI>Ar|ticles</HI> again&s;t them; for if the L. <HI>Inchiquin</HI> had been <HI>&s;acrificed</HI> to your fury, or removed from thence, which you make an <HI>Article against the eleven Impeached Members, for defend|ing,</HI> in all probability <HI>Ireland</HI> had been helple&s;s and hope|le&s;s, for all your <HI>fair pretence,</HI> as far as I can &s;ee. And as there is not <HI>any thing</HI> in your <HI>Declarations,</HI> but what makes again&s;t you, and wil be without <HI>repentance, a perpetual reproach</HI> unto you as rendring you willing to &s;ay anything that wil take a|mong the people, though never &s;o much out of your &s;phear and as far from your meaning, &amp; that which could never be effected by an Army. Are not your <HI>pretences</HI> of &s;etling the <HI>King,</HI> &amp; giving the <HI>Country an account of their money</HI> &amp; <HI>ea&s;ing them of Exci&s;e and Tithes, and all other Charges and Taxes, and the rectifying of the &s;everal Committees, relieving Ire|land, and what&s;oever is ami&s;s in the Kingdom?</HI> I &s;ay, did you not ob&s;erve the&s;e to be popular and &s;peciou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>pretences,</HI> and therefore made u&s;e of them to take the people without <HI>any real intentions,</HI> as being things impo&s;&s;ible to be e&s;ta|bli&s;ht
<PB N="11" REF="6"> by an <HI>Army?</HI> As for what el&s;e you lay down as the <HI>ground and rea&s;on of your not Di&s;handing,</HI> that concerns your &s;elves, either as Soldier or Subjects, was it not offred both in point of <HI>indemnity &amp; Liberty of Con&s;cience, with pre&s;ent pay to the Soldiers in the Army,</HI> which being <HI>con&s;idered</HI> truly, the Soldiers in conclu&s;ion may come to be &s;en&s;ible into what a <HI>lo&s;s,</HI> as wel as a <HI>l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">byrinth,</HI> you have brought them into; &s;o that now there rem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ins not any thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g to defend your <HI>di&s;o|bedience,</HI> but what <HI>provocations</HI> you h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ve &s;ince put upon the <HI>Parliament and Ci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y,</HI> as the <HI>Ingagement in the City, and the force and violence upon the</HI> 26. of <HI>July</HI> you know wel enough, were but the evil <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ffects of your <HI>di&s;obedience and ingagement against the Parliament at Bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y and N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">wmarket,</HI> nay of your <HI>be&s;ieging the Parliament, and of that bold &s;ei&s;ure of his Maje&s;ties per&s;on</HI> at <HI>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lmby;</HI> all which being con&s;idered, it wil appear, the De&s;ign of a <HI>New War</HI> is your own, and the <HI>mon&s;ter</HI> you have bin forming in the bowels of the Kingdom; only it &s;eem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> you would take <HI>Liberty of Con&s;cience</HI> to rather it &s;ome where el&s;e.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="IIII"> Now, the next thing to be enquired into is, <HI>year ad|vance to Saint A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hans, and your Summons and Courting the City to give you leave to break the Priviledges of Parliament, or to de&s;troy the very being of it, or both,</HI> which indeed you cal <HI>Ju&s;tice again&s;t &s;ome that the Parliament prot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cts;</HI> truly then we were mad in an ab&s;olute trance, &s;tark blind, what with your fair and &s;pecious <HI>pre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ences,</HI> and by the advantage of your former good &s;ervice, together with the pre&s;ent di|&s;tempers of the Kingdom, or el&s;e you might wel enough then have come &s;hort home; it &s;eemed the <HI>quarrel</HI> was this, <HI>The Parliament was re&s;olved to disband you, and you were re|&s;olvd not to disband;</HI> Now you mu&s;t break the temper of the Hou&s;, or el&s;e you could never expect either Ju&s;tification for what was pa&s;t, or indeed <HI>impunity or protection</HI> for the time to come, to this <HI>purpo&s;e</HI> when the City pre&s;t you to parti|culars
<PB N="12" REF="7"> who they were that you came for Ju&s;tice again&s;t: Is it not true? was it not then to&s;&s;ed up and down among&s;t you, <HI>how many and who &s;hal we pitch upon?</HI> You through <HI>Gods mercy</HI> having &s;o good choyce of <HI>Gentlemen</HI> in that Hou&s;e that &s;tands fa&s;t to the <HI>Interest of England,</HI> and not long after you had agreed to the number, then the men, though not without much grief to you, to leave &s;o many be|hind, fearing you may be put upon another bout, the num|ber were &s;o &s;mal: and was it not as true, <HI>that it made you &s;cratch where it did not itch,</HI> to pump for <HI>Articles;</HI> and at la&s;t, if you had had no more men then matter, to have back't your <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> you might wel enough have &s;uffered for the <HI>Traitors</HI> your &s;elves.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="III"> The next bout to be inquired into is, <HI>your Propo&s;als;</HI> I am not willing to &s;peak to every one, nor indeed to any of them, as not doubting but &s;omething may be worthy of con&s;ideration; but yet there is not <HI>any thing</HI> worth the free quarter you had while you were making them, nor of the blood and trea&s;ure of <HI>Ireland,</HI> that might by <HI>Gods ble&s;sing</HI> have been &s;aved had you then obeyed the <HI>Parliament:</HI> and how contemptible you have rendered the <HI>Parliament,</HI> as by many <HI>other w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ys,</HI> &s;o by <HI>your Propo&s;als</HI> al&s;o, let all men judg in what <HI>danger Religion is in, and the Fundamental Laws of the Land, and the very being of this Common-weal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h al&s;o:</HI> I &s;ay; as all the&s;e are &s;haken by your undervaluing the wi&s;dom of <HI>Parliament</HI> by your making <HI>Propo&s;al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> &s;o do they al&s;o render you more inexcu&s;able before <HI>God,</HI> who is the <HI>God of order and not of confu&s;ion.</HI> Truly I cannot but think you &s;top the mouth of <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> and of &s;uch <HI>motions</HI> as you might more truly think from the <HI>Spirit of God,</HI> then any of tho&s;e <HI>delu&s;ions of the Devil</HI> you &s;o oft<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n cal a <HI>providence,</HI> I mean, its impo&s;&s;ible &s;uch notorious, perfidious and dam|nable <HI>De&s;igns,</HI> as you have all along attempted &amp; carried on, ever &s;ince <HI>your refu&s;ing to disband,</HI> and hath been already ex|pre&s;t,
<PB N="13" REF="7"> even the very be&s;t of your fine&s;t but cheating ex|pre&s;&s;ions, and your gilded and &s;mooth actions, as you think, but indeed horrid and black in their own nature, and may ea&s;ily appear in their nakedne&s;s and proper colours even to all indifferent men; Are you never upon your pillows, or in any of your <HI>contemplations</HI> put upon no mi&s;-givings; take heed of <HI>Pharaohs</HI> hard heart; take heed <HI>God</HI> give you not over to your own lu&s;ts, and to beleeve lyes, as if to de|&s;troy a Kingdom, nay three Kingdoms, and that which far exceeds all, to de&s;troy the <HI>Go&s;pel</HI> of <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> Re|ligion, the glory and happine&s;s of this Nation, and indeed of all <HI>Europe,</HI> were to do God good &s;ervice. I am &s;ure I know the time when <HI>Hu&s;on, Oaky, Back&s;ter, Grimes, Wat&s;on,</HI> and mo&s;t of the whole Catalogue of the drivers on of the&s;e de&s;tructive de&s;igns to &s;ubvert the Freedom of <HI>Parliament,</HI> was &s;o hone&s;t and low in their own e&s;teem that they did ac|count them&s;elves hardly &s;it to have waited upon the Mem|bers of Parliament to the Hou&s;e; and I may po&s;itively affirm, would not then have intermedled &s;o trayterou&s;ly to thru&s;t the true Pilots out of doors, and &s;tear the &s;hip of the Common wealth them&s;elves. Wel, <HI>Gentlemen,</HI> would it advantage the peace of this Kingdom, I could, what ever you think, implore your repentance with rivers of tears, to &s;ee, <HI>O Lord my God,</HI> men, nay profe&s;&s;ors of Religion thus to break thy Law, and to teach men &s;o to do, nay to puni&s;h men that wil not do &s;o, that cannot in con&s;cience and duty to <HI>God</HI> and the <HI>Parliament,</HI> but make good the <HI>Covenant</HI> to oppo&s;e tho&s;e ungodly doings, that his &s;oul abhors, if it were for nothing el&s;e but for the&s;e di&s;&s;em|blings and juglings, &s;eeking all advantages and occa&s;ions to draw men into &s;nares, provoking the Parliament and City to defend them&s;elves; and making lyes your refuge, accu&s;e them with what&s;oever you know your &s;elves to be guilty of, as a New War; and what&s;oever el&s;e you made
<PB N="14" REF="8"> Articles of Impeachment again&s;t others is truly your own: I am per&s;waded you would have been much more at a lo&s;s, when you were &s;o put to your trumps for Articles, had you not then &s;een them written in your own carriages; nay you are gone &s;o far, that I am &s;ometimes in hope, as it is in the &s;econd Epi&s;tle to <HI>Timothy,</HI> Chap. 3. Ver&s;. 9. <HI>That you &s;hal proceed no further; but that your doings and folly &s;hal be made manife&s;t to all men;</HI> By the former Ver&s;es of this Chapter, you may &s;ee your &s;elves in your colours, and the Lord &s;an|ctifie it unto you, that you may know, in this your day, the things that belong to your peace, before they be hid from your eyes. <HI>This know al&s;o, that in the la&s;t days perilous times &s;hal come: For men &s;hal be lovers of them&s;elves, cove<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ous, boasters, proud, bla&s;phemers, di&s;obedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, fal&s;e accu|&s;ers, incontinent, fierce, de&s;pi&s;ers of tho&s;e that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re good; Trai|tors, heady, high-minded, lovers of plea&s;ures more then lovers of God; Having a form of godline&s;s, but denying the power there|of; from &s;uch turn away. For of this &s;ort are they which creep into hou&s;es, and lead captive &s;illy women lad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n with &s;ins, led a|way with divers lu&s;ts, Ever learning and never a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">le to come to the knowledg of the truth. Now as Jann<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s and Ja<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hres with|&s;tood Mo&s;es, &s;o do the&s;e al&s;o re&s;ist the tru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">; men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the Faith.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="II"> The next bout is your two thundering <HI>Declarations</HI> be|fore and after your <HI>March through the City,</HI> in which you pre&s;ume <HI>to judg the Parliament to u&s;urp Parliamentary autho|rity,</HI> nay <HI>to protest again&s;t the Parliament:</HI> And after you had provoked the <HI>Parliament</HI> and the <HI>City,</HI> as is before expre&s;t, <HI>to defend them&s;elves from your violence and force,</HI> then you make that an <HI>accu&s;ation,</HI> and tel the <HI>Kingdom</HI> of a &s;trange De&s;ign to make a <HI>New War:</HI> I be&s;eech you tel me what you find either in the <HI>Law of God</HI> or the <HI>Land,</HI> that may ju&s;tifie you for tho&s;e attemp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">; for, I think, <HI>without &s;ome extraor|dinary
<PB N="15" REF="8"> Cal a godly man &s;hould not dare to attempt &s;uch things as the&s;e:</HI> Let me per&s;wade you not to bury in <HI>oblivion</HI> all your former good &s;ervice, or that which is wor&s;e by your apo&s;tarizing and degenerating to turn it into <HI>perpetual &s;hame and reproach, not only to your name, but to the profe&s;sion of Religion:</HI> Con&s;ider what advantage all &s;orts of men now take <HI>to reproach the Parliament and to pre&s;s destructive things from your late forc'st pre&s;idents;</HI> as particularly review the two late <HI>Petitions,</HI> intituled, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he humble Petition of many free born people to the &s;upream Authority of England,</HI> with <HI>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ervations</HI> to one of them, never paraleld before your l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">te <HI>cour&s;es:</HI> but now, with brazen fac'd impudence, claim what they plea&s;e and clamor as they plea&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gain&s;t the Parliament, upon this ground, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t it is the Liberty the Army purcha&s;ed for them and promi&s;ed to them, and which is but the &s;ame thing i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> effect you have forc'd the Parliament to do for you; remember when the affections were mutual between the Parliament and the City, how plentiful money was, and how terrible was it to the Parli|ments enemies, and I hope, wil, once again, prove a &s;afe|guard to Ki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g and Parliament, when there &s;hal be no Ar|my in <HI>England.</HI> But you mu&s;t think your thus forcing the Parli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ment, to Vote and Unvote what you plea&s;e, makes men to keep their money in their p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;es, to let you &s;ee the difference between dutiful carriages to a Parliament and undutiful c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ges and &s;landerous accu&s;ations both again&s;t them and the City; I dare warrant you from ever &s;eeing open pur&s;es in this City, until they &s;ee the Parliament righted&punc; and rheir Members with the Cities re&s;tored, that every ba&s;e fellow may not ask of the Parliament even things again&s;t their Con&s;cience and de&s;tructive to the Kingdom; and yet upbr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">id them, if they deny, with &s;ome of your late forc'd pre&s;idents for it, even to the non-plu&s;ing of our godly Senators, the Freedom and Vindication of
<PB N="16" REF="9"> whom, with his Maje&s;ties happy concurrence, I pray <HI>GOD</HI> ha&s;ten, that Religion and Peace, the glory and happine&s;s of this Kingdom may be e&s;tabli&s;ht in Peace and Truth.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="V"> And in the next place, particularly to be con&s;idered is the many &s;everal Letters and other Pa&s;&s;ages, in order to the afore&s;aid de&s;igns, which by cu&s;tom, though finely worded, yet indeed &s;peaks more plainly your meaning then former|ly, as your Letter to my Lord Maior and Common Coun|cel for <HI>money.</HI> Your continuance as an Army and conti|nual pay, I beleeve would prettie wel &s;top your mouthes from ever attempting the &s;etling the <HI>King</HI> or Kingdom, or releeving <HI>Ireland,</HI> or taking any of the Taxes from off the the poor Country, without it be to take off three&s;core thou&s;and pound a moneth, and put one hundred upon the Kingdom in liew thereof; but as it is an unparaleld affront to the City, medling with that you have no colour of au|thority for, &s;o can you not expect they &s;hould lend or di&s;|bur&s;e any money for your u&s;e, or do you the lea&s;t favor, more then pray for your <HI>Repentance,</HI> being every day &s;o ill requited for their old matchle&s;s favors to your Army, though it &s;eems by you now forgotten, or very ungrateful|ly remembred: If there be any Arrears due, upon any <HI>Or|dinance</HI> of <HI>Parliament,</HI> from particular men, who have &s;o laid out them&s;elves in their zeal for the Kingdoms good, that they now want it to buy bread; though you &s;o ungrate|fully requite them. Whats this to the <HI>Repre&s;entative</HI> body of the City? from whom you cannot in Rea&s;on expect they &s;hould lend you one groat, before you return to your <HI>obedience,</HI> and right the Members of both Hou&s;es, and of this City, you have &s;o maliciou&s;ly and fal&s;ly accu&s;ed in your <HI>&s;everal Declarations.</HI> And &s;til when the <HI>Parliament</HI> is upon any Debate, and re&s;olves upon any Particulars in or|der to the Peace and Setlement of the <HI>Kingdom,</HI> you &s;et upon &s;ome debate in your <HI>Junto</HI> or mock-Parliament, I
<PB N="17" REF="9"> mean, the General Councel of the Army, to &s;top it; &s;aying, it is again&s;t your ingagement or proceedings, and indeed I think &s;o it is; as this la&s;t weeks <HI>Diurnal</HI> &s;ays you &s;ay of the Votes for disbanding the &s;upernumerary Forces of the Kingdom; but the world &s;ees how you u&s;e the Par|liament, City and Kingdom, nay the three Kingdoms in them; and how fain you would, nay you wil have a New War, without they wil part with their Religion, their Liberty, and a free Parliament, to have one made up of Mechanicks, and &s;uch of their &s;ervants as are in the Army, now indeed their ma&s;ters; continual threatning of the Parliament, and your late threatning the City for &s;pending money while&s;t you take free-quarter, meat and drink, on the Country, all &s;et you out pretty wel, that a man may almo&s;t conclude beforehand, what your next attempt mu&s;t be, in order to your de&s;ign, if they be but diligent ob&s;er|vers, and compare your pa&s;t proceedings with the pre&s;ent face of things: Dare you promi&s;e never to force the Par|liament more, or while you &s;hoot others to death for your offences, to &s;til the noi&s;e, wil you not compleat the Levellers begun trea&s;ons, and turn out the other parcel of Members your &s;elves, and de&s;troy the Government of this famous City? and to &s;ay no wor&s;e, make King, Parliament and City all your &s;laves at a clap; they &s;ay you threaten a &s;udden &s;torm, if M. <HI>Peters</HI> prove not a fal&s;e <HI>Prophet:</HI> If you talk of Monopolizing, this is a Monopoly with a wit|ne&s;s, to Monopolize the Religion, Liberty and property of <HI>England and Ireland,</HI> all under the devotion of an Ar|my, at once; no doubt if you can get your pattent &s;ealed, though with blood, you wil, having left a blank, put in <HI>Scotland</HI> afterwards.</P>
<Q><L>O England, do&s;t thou yet want eyes to &s;ee,</L>
<L>What gallant Saints are digging graves for thee;</L>
<PB N="18" REF="10">
<L>And can&s;t thou &s;til give credit to the&s;e elves,</L>
<L>Who &s;teal thy wealth, for to make fat them&s;elves!</L>
<L>The&s;e Hypocrites, though cloth'd with holy zeal,</L>
<L>Are thy obnoxious fates, destroy thy Weal.</L>
<L>They are meer out&s;ides, have an holy tone,</L>
<L>Yet are but devils masked, every one.</L>
<L>Their actions tend to Murder, Lust and Pride,</L>
<L>Sacriledg, Trea&s;on, and all ills be&s;ide.</L>
<L>For &s;hame then &s;it not &s;til, until you be</L>
<L>Pa&s;t hope, recovering this Con&s;piracie.</L>
<L>They drive amain, til all about is hurld,</L>
<L>And their ba&s;e fol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y fire our Engli&s;h World.</L></Q>
<P><MILESTONE N="VI"> But in the la&s;t place, as I find not any thing you have &s;aid to have the lea&s;t &s;hadow of rea&s;on, or matter, to war|rant any of your proceedings; which if they were granted, yet is there &s;o much jugling, hypocri&s;ie and fraud through the whole Journal of your proceedings, that they favor not at all of godline&s;s, nor of a true <HI>Nathaniel, in whom there is no guile,</HI> it were worth the while for <HI>Lieu: General Cromwel</HI> to examine him&s;elf, and &s;ay, <HI>whats the matter with me that was once the object of all your love, in all your prayers and prai&s;es, but now thus under a cloud:</HI> The truth is, to deal candidly with you, you have walked in the clouds, ever &s;ince tho&s;e unhappy back&s;lidings of yours, if all &s;orts of men be not mi&s;taken.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="I"> Fir&s;t, His Maje&s;ties late partakers, as you cal them, a|gain&s;t whom you have fought all the&s;e Wars, &s;ometimes take you for a new man, but make the old reckoning, to <HI>love the Trea&s;on but hate the Traitor;</HI> &s;ometimes they take you for a Jugler, or one of <HI>Peters</HI> Hocus-pocus Comrades, or at be&s;t a politick Enemy that hath &s;elf ends in all your pretences; that unle&s;s you can e&s;tabli&s;h the King &s;o, that you may be e&s;tabli&s;ht in the head of an Armie, thereby to
<PB N="19" REF="10"> have your de&s;igns e&s;tabli&s;ht by Act of <HI>Parliament;</HI> its thought You re&s;olve to venter a bru&s;h yet with both King|doms.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="II"> Secondly, Lieut. Colonel <HI>Lilburn,</HI> with the re&s;t of the free-born people, you may take the Levellers among the croud, doth charge you with much di&s;&s;embling and hy|pocri&s;ie, a &s;in that but indifferent Prote&s;tants abominate; if you review their Papers upon mature deliberation, there is hardly any trea&s;on or mi&s;chief ever attempted by them, but they &s;ay they received incouragement to have your countenance and concurrence; but it may be, you wil &s;ay, &s;o they &s;hal; when their de&s;igns are ripe, but its not time yet for me to appear.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="III"> Thirdly, The hone&s;te&s;t Independents do conclude you are now under a temptation, and do think that you have taken too much Liberty of Con&s;cience to &s;huffle and cut; I was informed that Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> much doubted, how your carriages in things, he then in&s;tanced in to you, could &s;tand with grace and godline&s;s, when he told you, <HI>If you proved not an honest man, he would never tru&s;t a fellow with a great no&s;e again, for your &s;ake;</HI> its very like him, he is very down-right u&s;ually according to his principles.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="IIII"> Fourthly, The Presbyterians they &s;tand amazed, mour|ning in private, &s;pending whole days in prayer, that God would give you grace, and that the Go&s;pel might not be di&s;honored and wounded through your &s;ides; if you would but take notice, you may &s;ee a general palefac'dnes through the Kingdom in &s;ome for the dearne&s;s of bread, and in o|thers for the great cau&s;e of fear there wil be a famine of the Word of God, the great contempt and &s;corn of the Mini&s;ters and Mini&s;try; countenancing a few di&s;&s;enting brethren, nay abundance of di&s;&s;olute and Je&s;uitical prin|cipled per&s;ons to affront the godly Mini&s;try and the Go|vernment of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, to the apparent breach of the
<PB N="20" REF="11"> <HI>Covenant</HI> you made with the high God in that point, not oppo&s;ing Here&s;ies and Schi&s;ms, but if you &s;peak as long as you live, you can never wipe away that palpable breach of the Covenant, that not only &s;uffered the priviledges of <HI>Parliament</HI> to be broken; but have broken them your &s;elvs &s;o impudently and notoriou&s;ly, that Heathens wil condemn you and reproach Religion: There is two remarkable ex|amples of Gods wrath again&s;t Covenant-breakers and De|&s;pi&s;ers; the one Divine, the other Humane; both worth your Ob&s;ervation: as,</P>
<P N="1">1. Jo&s;hua <HI>having made a</HI> League <HI>and</HI> Covenant <HI>with the</HI> Gibeonites, (<HI>notwithstanding they had craftily circumvented and deceived</HI> Jo&s;hua <HI>therein) which remained inviolable a|mong the children of</HI> I&s;rael, <HI>til the days of King</HI> Saul, <HI>who, in his Zeal, had (it &s;eems) &s;lain &s;ome of the</HI> Gibeonites, <HI>and en|devored to have de&s;troyed them all from among the</HI> I&s;raelites: <HI>Hereupon the wrath of the Lord was greatly incen&s;ed again&s;t</HI> I&s;|rael, <HI>which brake not out til King</HI> Davids <HI>days, who was &s;orely vexed with a fearful Famine over the whole Land, for at lea&s;t three years together ince&s;&s;antly; which &s;o greatly grieved and troubled</HI> David, <HI>that he enquired of the Lord what might be the cau&s;e thereof; And the Lord an&s;wered him, that it was for</HI> Sauls <HI>&s;ake, and for his</HI> bloody-hou&s;e, <HI>becau&s;e he had broken the</HI> Covenant, <HI>and &s;lain the</HI> Gibeonites, <HI>and his wrath would not be appea&s;ed, til holy</HI> David, <HI>in ju&s;t revenge of this breach of</HI> Covenant, <HI>had delivered up unto the</HI> Gibeonites <HI>(as they, by Gods wil, had demanded)</HI> 7 <HI>of</HI> Sauls <HI>Sons, or nearest Kindred to be hanged by them, as they were, and then (and not til then) was God pacified, and the Famine immediatly cea&s;ed.</HI> Io&s;h. 9. <HI>and</HI> 2 Sam. 21.</P>
<P N="2">2. Uladi&s;laus <HI>King of</HI> Hungary, <HI>and</HI> Amurath <HI>the great</HI> Emperor <HI>of</HI> Turky, <HI>after fierce wars between them, having concluded a happy and honorable peace for the &s;aid King of</HI> Hungary, <HI>and they having entred into &s;olemn</HI> League <HI>and</HI>
<PB N="21" REF="11"> Truce, <HI>by interchangeable writings, &s;ealed and delivered each to other; not long after,</HI> Julian, <HI>a</HI> Cardinal <HI>of</HI> Rome, <HI>having per&s;waded him to renounce and violate this</HI> Covenant <HI>and</HI> Peace; <HI>the King of</HI> Hungary <HI>&s;ecretly prepared mighty forces &s;uddenly to invade and &s;et upon the</HI> Turks <HI>Territories, and</HI> A|murath <HI>the great</HI> Turk, <HI>at la&s;t hearing of this unexpected in|va&s;ion by</HI> Uladi&s;laus, <HI>made mighty preparation, pre&s;ently, to oppo&s;e him; entred into a pitcht field again&s;t him, in brief,</HI> A|murath, <HI>ob&s;erving a mighty &s;laughter of his men, and him|&s;elf, and his whole Army in great danger to be di&s;comfitted, and beholding al&s;o in the</HI> Hungarian-<HI>di&s;played-banners, the picture of a</HI> Crucifix, <HI>he pre&s;ently pluckt forth the</HI> Writing <HI>out of his bo&s;om, wherein the late</HI> League <HI>or</HI> Covenant <HI>was compri&s;ed, and holding it up in his hand, with his eyes ca&s;t up to heaven, he &s;aid the&s;e words.</HI> Behold, thou crucified Chri&s;t, this is the League thy Chri&s;tians, in thy name, made with me, which they have without cau&s;e violated. Now if thou be a God, as they &s;ay thou art, revenge the wrong now done unto thy name, and unto me, and &s;hew thy power upon thy pernicious people, who in their deeds deny thee their God, <HI>pre&s;ently after this, the fight was fiercely followed on both &s;ides, but it plea&s;ed the Lord, that</HI> Uladi&s;laus <HI>was put to the worst, and in the fight, &s;lain by one of the</HI> Turks Janizaries, <HI>and his head cut off, and pre&s;ented to</HI> Amurath, <HI>in the mid&s;t of the battel, who commanded it to be &s;et upon the top of a Lance, and carried up and down in the field, to the terror of the</HI> Chri|&s;tians, <HI>who pre&s;ently fled and left</HI> Amurath, <HI>total Victor, with a mo&s;t mighty and lamentable &s;laughter of the</HI> Chri&s;tians. <HI>From both which mo&s;t pregnant and eminent examples, we may profitably make this per|tinent u&s;e and application. That if the Lord God hath &s;o tender a re|&s;pect to the exact performance of</HI> Leagues <HI>and</HI> Covenants, <HI>made not only 'twixt</HI> Man <HI>and</HI> Man, Chri&s;tian <HI>and</HI> Chri&s;tian, <HI>but even between</HI> Chri&s;tians <HI>and</HI> Turks, <HI>or</HI> Infidels (<HI>&s;uch as the</HI> Gibeonites <HI>and this</HI> A|murath <HI>were) O how much more tenderly affected,</HI> and <HI>&s;everely exa&s;|perated, wil he be for the breach of</HI> Covenants, <HI>made betwixt</HI> his own glorious Holine&s;s, <HI>who is a</HI> Con&s;uming fire, <HI>and</HI> Wormling-Man, <HI>who is but as</HI> Combu&s;tible Stubble <HI>in his pre&s;ence.</HI></P>
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<P>But now you wil &s;ay, we have not broken the <HI>Covenant,</HI> nor done any of the&s;e things you &s;uppo&s;e we have; and if you review our Declarations, you wil &s;ee we &s;tand for the <HI>Freedom of Parliament, the &s;etling of the King, the relieving of Ireland, the taking away of all Taxes, the giving a good Account of the Countreis money, the rectifying the Committees, and the mending what&s;oever is ami&s;s, defending the City, and endevoring a right understanding with the Scots, the hindering of a New War, the di&s;pencing of Ju&s;tice and Righteou&s;ne&s;s equally unto all the Nation, to this purpo&s;e was our advance to London, to &s;etle the Speakers in a free Par|liament.</HI> Indeed your Declarations are ful fraught with many fair and &s;pecious pretences, and not without &s;ome notorious contradictions, and are in truth all, from fir&s;t to la&s;t, excepting what they exceed, the very lively relation of the acting of <HI>Ab&s;aloms</HI> Trea&s;on over again; if you read the &s;tory and your own Declarations and practices, you wil find them all along run paralel: But in particular, all your pretences cannot &s;o blind the world, but they wil very wel remember that the Parliament was a <HI>Free Parliament</HI> before you medled with them; indeed had it been your good fortune to have changed Trea&s;ons with that Rabble Rout on the 26. of <HI>July;</HI> or could you, with all your wit, have procured &s;uch a bout before your Petition and in|gagement, or your refu&s;ing to disband and advance to St. <HI>Abbans,</HI> you might, for ought I know, have cozened the wi&s;e&s;t, and have ruined, with a great deal of applau&s;e, the mo&s;t innocent in all the Hou&s;e of Commons; and in &s;tead of eleven you might have dozend them up in faggots for the fire of your fury. But you mu&s;t not think we &s;hal al|ways be in a trance, fears and dangers continuing long the &s;ting wil vani&s;h, and we grow better acquainted with you and your de&s;igns, then always for &s;ober men, men that are come to them&s;elves, to think the turning out of the 11.
<PB N="23" REF="12"> Members, by the power and force of an Army, and extra|ordinary cour&s;es, is the way to make a <HI>Free Parliament;</HI> indeed, I think, its the way to make a <HI>Free Parliament Hou&s;e,</HI> if they be forc&s;t to leave it to avoyd your fury: I remember the good ordinary old way of having a Free Par|liament, was, <HI>That not any &s;hould take notice without, what was done within the walls of that Hou&s;e:</HI> You mu&s;t have an ex|traordinary Cal for this your extraordinary Cour&s;e; or it mu&s;t be extraordinary mercy that mu&s;t pardon your extra|ordinary &s;in; for upon that &s;core &s;tands all other of the mi&s;chieves you pretend to remove, and indeed are really the fruit and evil effects of your di&s;obedience, which you very wel know would all vani&s;h, if the cau&s;e, your di&s;o|bedience were removed; which makes godly men wonder you dare thus di&s;&s;emble to pretend the removing of tho&s;e mi&s;eries, you do, nay you mu&s;t, as long as you are an Ar|my, continually multiply. What has occa&s;ioned all the Taxes upon the Kingdom, but their Armies? And whe|ther or no it has ever been abated &s;ince you have taken upon you the Government of the Kingdom, or ever is like to be, as long as you continue, I wil leave it to all rational men to judg. Be&s;ides, what wil become of <HI>Magna Charta,</HI> the known Laws of the Land, of the Subjects Liberty and property; what of our Religion? I think we &s;hal enjoy as much as the Martyrs did, <HI>either to turn or burn.</HI> Do you think the Kingdom is &s;o fooli&s;h to beleeve an Army can e|ver &s;etle a happy Peace, while you undertake the&s;e unlaw|ful cour&s;e? Certainly you are mad, I doubt you make ill application of the foot&s;teps of Gods providence towards you, in the &s;everal &s;ucce&s;&s;es he gave you in the&s;e late Wars. Are you not grown drunk with pride, pa&s;&s;ion, and idle|ne&s;s; attributing to your &s;elves Gods only precious ones, as I have heard &s;ome &s;ay, they now live above means, and therefore now conclude, that becau&s;e your de&s;igns have hi|therto
<PB N="24" REF="13"> &s;o wel pro&s;pered; that its the meer providence of God, and by and by fancy &s;ome divine revelation, as &s;ome ex|traordinary Cal hereunto, or, with M. <HI>Sedgwick,</HI> that Dooms day is pa&s;t; as indeed it were wel for &s;uch practi|ces as yours, that it were; but its truly rather &s;ome de|vili&s;h temptation, taking the advantage of this opportuni|ty, to wit, the &s;word in your hand, together with the prone|ne&s;s of mans nature, to be medling with forbidden fruit, &s;trives to draw you under that Cur&s;e in <HI>Deut.</HI> 29.19. <HI>that though you hear the word of the Cur&s;e, yet you &s;hal ble&s;s your &s;elves in your wickedne&s;s, and &s;ay you &s;hal have peace and pro&s;|per, though you walk in the &s;tubbornne&s;s of your own hearts.</HI> How many times hath the Hou&s;e of Commons given an|&s;wers to Petitioners, That it is the duty of the Subjects of <HI>England</HI> to <HI>acquie&s;ce</HI> in the Wi&s;dom and Ju&s;tice of the Par|liament, and e&s;pecially very lately; &s;ince your non-com|pliance, as you cal it, but indeed really preferring your own before theirs, inviting the people to Petition you for Ju&s;tice; and &s;eeing you have thus inthralled the Parlia|ment, the City, to &s;alve it as wel as may be, without con|tracting too much di&s;honor or &s;eeming guiltine&s;s, by own|ing your faults, to recover the Parliaments honor, have in|deed given way to your Agents to &s;crue in words in their late Petition, that might out of the lea&s;t &s;ence of duty you ow to the Parliament, move you to meet them with im|braces of Love and tears of Repentance, if you prove not Principle-&s;haken as wel as Planet-&s;haken; for God knows and your own con&s;ciences tels you, all tho&s;e di&s;honors, af|fronts, trea&s;ons and force, put upon the Parliament, are from and followed your di&s;obedience and fir&s;t ingagement. I heard the Reformadoes &s;ay, they took examples from you; but if you can play the Machivilian to draw in the City to betray their own innocency, and lay your trea|&s;ons upon their own &s;houlders: I wil &s;ay, if <HI>Achitophel</HI> or <HI>Ab|&s;alom</HI>
<PB N="25" REF="13"> were now alive, they were but fools to <HI>Oliver Cromwel.</HI> They &s;ay Lieut. Colonel <HI>Lilburn</HI> wil di&s;cover the time, place and de&s;ign you have been driving on, all this while: And thus much I can tel you, if he does not, others wil, that is more privy to your de&s;igns then you think of, when its &s;ea&s;onable, without your <HI>repentance,</HI> which you have good rea&s;on to ha&s;ten, con&s;idering the blow God hath late|ly given to the Rebels in <HI>Ireland,</HI> which doth exceedingly di&s;cover your <HI>Articles</HI> to be meerly maliciou&s;ly invented from the pride of he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rt, that you could not rule all in the Hou&s;e as wel as in the Army; your notorious fal&s;e a&s;per|&s;ions you ca&s;t upon that incomparable gallant and godly Chri&s;tian Soldier Major General <HI>Skippon,</HI> to the endan|gering, as much as you can, the total giving up of <HI>Ireland</HI> to the Rebels mercile&s;s hands, and the utter de&s;troying of all our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Forces there; for, you mu&s;t think, none wil contribute to <HI>Ireland,</HI> as long as they &s;ee, if ever you &s;end any, its like to de&s;troy tho&s;e we have already there, and lo&s;ing what we have gained, to &s;end &s;uch as are of your own Faction to affront my Lord <HI>Inchiquin,</HI> as he hath already declared, and play &s;uch pranks as you do in <HI>England,</HI> to the de&s;truction of all together. What hath been &s;aid to any of your pretences is &s;ufficient to &s;ay to all; they are e|qually without the precinct of your power to perform; and then in point of Hypocri&s;ie, jugling, defraud, di&s;&s;em|bling, &s;ins, far from Saints, you mu&s;t needs be guilty in al&s;o, &s;ave only the relief of <HI>Ireland,</HI> that I confe&s;s you have forc'd within your power to perform, and made very large promi&s;es to the Kingdom upon it; but con&s;idering the opportunities and advantages you have had, together with all your dealings with the Parliament and Kingdom, and your &s;taying and breaking the neck of that Army they had prepared to &s;end thither, under the notion, <HI>that it was a de&s;ign to break your Army;</HI> I &s;ay, as we may gue&s;s by that,
<PB N="26" REF="14"> what performances we might expect in the re&s;t, were they in your power; &s;o truly we may fear the blood of <HI>Ireland</HI> wil &s;tand upon your &s;core; &s;urely it was a much better de&s;ign, if any, to break your Army, then your de&s;ign of hindering <HI>Irelands</HI> relief, to keep an Army upon free quar|ter in <HI>England,</HI> only to e&s;tabli&s;h your &s;elves and your party <HI>to domineer over and in&s;lave the Kingdom to po&s;terity;</HI> But you mu&s;t needs be guilty al&s;o of the <HI>&s;in of Hypocri&s;ie, when you ingaged your &s;elf the Army &s;hould disband at the Hou&s;es Com|mands, and when you wi&s;ht you and your &s;ons lives might be the &s;acrifice to appea&s;e the Mutiny and di&s;contents of the Soldiers;</HI> when &s;ince it appears, by your practices, you had a deep hand in it your &s;elf, e&s;pecially by your late <HI>compliance</HI> a|gain with the <HI>former Agents</HI> and <HI>your mul iplied Trea&s;on</HI> you have &s;ince builded upon that <HI>foundation,</HI> to the a&s;toni&s;h|ment of the godly, to &s;ee you thus &s;in again&s;t <HI>your knowledg,</HI> to the wounding of <HI>your con&s;cience,</HI> that cannot but know, <HI>That obedience had been much better then &s;acrifice, and to hearken then the fat of Rams.</HI> And whereas it is <HI>apparent,</HI> by all that has been &s;aid, and many <HI>other evidences,</HI> too many to recount, yet there being &s;ome <HI>Trea&s;ons</HI> crept in among the <HI>Croud,</HI> which neither the <HI>People,</HI> nor <HI>your Soldiers,</HI> nor <HI>your &s;elves</HI> either &s;ees not or thinks them not much, for <HI>your credit,</HI> to be &s;een, <HI>you</HI> &s;trive &s;o much to thru&s;t them in, in the dark; Therefore I &s;hal in&s;tance in &s;ome more, be&s;ides <HI>Your Engagement and force done upon the Parliament,</HI> much unlike the <HI>Rule our Savior</HI> hath given you, as all tho&s;e &s;trange <HI>expre&s;sions and extraordinary cour&s;es,</HI> as You cal them; and I am &s;ure without anie Cal from God, or War|rant from the Law of the <HI>Land,</HI> to make the <HI>Parliament</HI> recal their <HI>Declaration</HI> again&s;t you, and then lay the blame thereof upon them&s;elves; mark how you dance up and down in gli&s;tering <HI>words,</HI> though with much &s;welling <HI>pride,</HI> impudently requiring them to <HI>Unvote their Votes,</HI> that cal'd
<PB N="27" REF="14"> any from the <HI>Armies Rebellion;</HI> then they mu&s;t Vote, <HI>that You are their Army;</HI> then they mu&s;t Vote you <HI>pre&s;ent Pay, equal with them that, in obedience to the Parliament, left your Army.</HI> What <HI>horrible di&s;honor</HI> do you force upon the <HI>Par|liament?</HI> and &s;urely <HI>wound your own con&s;ciences,</HI> if they be but half &s;o <HI>tender</HI> as you <HI>pretend:</HI> And were your cau&s;e ju&s;t and Gods cau&s;e, yet I am &s;ure <HI>Gods children</HI> had never <HI>any Commi&s;sion</HI> from him to u&s;e any <HI>indirect means</HI> to bring it to pa&s;s, or <HI>carry on</HI> his work <HI>in their hands,</HI> as hath been &s;hewed you have done all along in your proceedings; and exerci&s;e &s;uch in&s;olency over the <HI>Parliament</HI> as was never pa|raleld before, but by a fooli&s;h Proverb, among the &s;harp Country Dames, <HI>That if they &s;ay the Crow is white, they wil make their maids &s;ay &s;o too;</HI> they u&s;ed that to &s;hew their authority over their <HI>&s;ervants,</HI> but I never met with any that exerci&s;ed &s;o much in&s;olency over their <HI>ma&s;ters,</HI> before your <HI>Papers and Practices;</HI> be&s;ides, your very foundation is lavd upon lyes and fal&s;hoods, as particularly in the <HI>Nar|rative</HI> to your Threatnings, you lay down as the ground, to ju&s;tifie the Re&s;ult of that <HI>Declaration,</HI> to be this, <HI>That be|&s;ides the pretended Hou&s;e of Commons, with four or five Lords of the &s;ame model for an Hou&s;e of Peers, they pre&s;ume to proceed to act as a Parliament:</HI> I need not tel you of the fal&s;hood of this pretence, becau&s;e, I hope, by this time, all men &s;ees it; for all the world may know, there is but part of this model in que&s;tion, though my Lord of <HI>Pembroke</HI> e&s;caped but nar|rowly; and yet there is &s;even Lords now under the <HI>Black-Rod</HI> of the &s;ame model. Is not this a lye think you?</P>
<P>But to draw all to a <HI>Conclu&s;ion;</HI> it may be, you wil &s;ay, <HI>the world may &s;ee your good intentions, by the good &s;ervice you did at the late Randezvouz of the Army, in quelling and qui|eting the Levellers;</HI> truly thats one of your &s;malle&s;t pieces of Machivilian policy, when you, like a skilful Phy&s;itian or rather a &s;ubtil Mountebank, have deadly wounded a
<PB N="28" REF="15"> Kingdom, &s;hould now and then give it &s;ome ea&s;e and re|fre&s;hment, e&s;pecially to lay by &s;uch blades that were too plain dealers for your turn; and it made much for your own profit and &s;elf-ends, no doubt, you hoping thereby to gain applau&s;e, and yet cal it a <HI>providence;</HI> if you can ever &s;ee a better opportunity for &s;o good an exchange, as to get your de&s;igns countenanced by Parliamentary authori|ty. This has been your only &s;in, that in all the Tran&s;acti|ons, &s;ince this unhappy difference, you have playd the Wa|terman, <HI>look one way and row<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> another;</HI> or, at lea&s;t, &s;peak <HI>Tre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;on,</HI> in &s;uch ambiguous terms, that if it take not, like the new <HI>Vice-Admiral,</HI> you can either make a Recantation or de&s;ire Liberty of <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> to give it another interpre|tation; &s;o that it is not all your Speeches in the Hou&s;e of Commons, but <HI>Repentance,</HI> that mu&s;t bury in Oblivion your late mi&s;carriages; for if you &s;ay you have performed what you promi&s;ed, then wil the Kings un&s;etlement, the Parliaments Renting, <HI>Englands</HI> Taxes, <HI>Irelands</HI> mi&s;ery, the Cities Trading, the palefacedne&s;s of the poor, the cries of the Country again&s;t free quarter, the increa&s;e of divi|&s;ion, the mourning of the Godly, the de&s;pi&s;ing of the Mi|ni&s;ters and Mini&s;try, the contempt of the Parliament; all witne&s;s again&s;t you; and do as wel proclaim to the world your hypocri&s;ies as your trea&s;ons; as its trea&s;on for you to attempt the doing of them, &s;o you then al&s;o wel knew, if your de&s;igns took effect, you mu&s;t e&s;tabli&s;h Peace and Free-quarter both together, or at lea&s;t all other burthens that lie upon the Kingdom at this day, with [I may po&s;i|tively affirm) the increa&s;e and not the decrea&s;e of any of our fears either of a New War, Di&s;contents, Divi&s;ions, Taxes, or any other mi&s;chievous de&s;ign, either again&s;t the Go&s;pel or Civil Government; for, to be &s;ure, whatever is not e&s;tabli&s;ht by the King and a Free <HI>Parliament,</HI> wil not be la&s;ting to this Kingdom, which you wofully and &s;hame|fully,
<PB N="29" REF="15"> <HI>in the whole Journal of your proceedings,</HI> endevor to &s;ubvert and overthrow. Was not the <HI>Parliament</HI> as free, when they Voted <HI>your Disbanding,</HI> as they were when they gave Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax</HI> his <HI>Commi&s;sion,</HI> and e&s;tabli&s;ht the New Model? Do not you infinitely betray your own cau&s;e you have fought in? Did ever any but his Maje&s;ty, and tho&s;e that defend his Cau&s;e, ever thus que&s;tion the <HI>Parliament,</HI> nor his Maje&s;ty, &s;ince your Army was rai&s;ed; and now, upon the clo&s;e, is plea&s;ed to recal his <HI>Proclamations and De|clarations;</HI> and yet you, as if you re&s;olved to make them <HI>contemptible,</HI> and render invalid all they have done, even to the betraying of your own &s;elves, and telling the world, <HI>You either know not, or care not, what you fight for, or whether you have any authority or no, more then &s;ome bare fancy of a cal from the Spirit,</HI> but indeed wil rather prove &s;ome delu&s;ion of the devil, that your good meaning wil bear you out; &s;urely I think either it mu&s;t be granted by the free people of <HI>England, That the freedom of Parliament con&s;ists in the major part of the Members,</HI> or el&s;e it mu&s;t <HI>needs bring all to confu&s;ion, and overthrow the Fundamental Laws of the Land;</HI> and if you grant that, I am &s;ure you can never ju&s;tifie that Act <HI>of forcing the major part either to forbear their coming to the Hou&s;e, or to &s;ubmit them&s;elves to the Judgment of the minor;</HI> All which you did require in that <HI>Decla|ration,</HI> of the eighteenth of <HI>Augu&s;t;</HI> which I know you would fain have <HI>obtained</HI> more clo&s;ely, and with le&s;s noi&s;e in the Kingdom, if all your policy and party in the Hou&s;e could have effected it; but you knowing your whole cour&s;es &s;o <HI>de&s;tructive, not only to the Freedom, but even to the very being of Parliaments;</HI> and your &s;elves in &s;uch a <HI>tottering and dangerous condition,</HI> not only in danger to lo&s;e your de&s;ign, but even to receive your <HI>ju&s;t Rewards,</HI> re&s;olved to adde drunkenne&s;&s;e to thir&s;t, and to make the <HI>PARLIAMENT</HI> the OFFENDERS.
<PB N="30" REF="16"> And when you had made way with your &s;words, through tho&s;e difficulties you have met with, and &s;aw a ge|neral calm through the Kingdom, then Mr. <HI>Peters</HI> ap|pears in his Colours; and tells you his judgment was, that you might well enough, as farr as he &s;aw, leave juggling, or taking &s;o much pains to &s;tudy for fine phra&s;es, or gli&s;tering pretences, to colour over your black de&s;igns, or for any more Articles of Impeachment; and without any more ado, take all that are not of your party and confederacy, as men not for common Right and Freedom, or for the In|tere&s;t of <HI>England,</HI> and turn them out of the Hou&s;e by head and &s;houlders. What think you did M. <HI>Peters</HI> mean el&s;e in his la&s;t Pamphlet by the&s;e words, <HI>That he could wi&s;h the people might now know what they mu&s;t tru&s;t to, and tru&s;t God with the management of it;</HI> It &s;eems by this, your de&s;igns have been &s;uch, as you dare not tru&s;t God with, all this while. Well, I tremble to read over all your Papers, to &s;ee how impudently, all along, you appropriate the pre&s;ent &s;word in your hand, the victory and &s;ucce&s;&s;es, you have hitherto had, in any of your &s;inful and trea&s;onable attempts, upon the Parliament, City and Kingdom, to be the foun|dations God hath given you; and therefore wil now take &s;uch extraordinary cour&s;es, to make the Parliament &s;atisfie you, by Thur&s;day next as God &s;hal direct you: when you per&s;ued your re&s;olutions, we &s;aw no directions from God, in print, for your warrant, and I beleeve Repentance wil be your be&s;t plea, when you come to give an account to the Almighty for that trea&s;onablebout; Is not this, think you, to ble&s;s your &s;elves in your hearts, &s;aying, <HI>you &s;hal have peace again&s;t the word of his Cur&s;e;</HI> for I think that Gods cur&s;e wil follow the extraordinary cour&s;e without your extraor|dinary Repentance; and then you &s;ay, in the front of one of your Declarations, That by the manifold di&s;pen&s;ations of Gods Providence, the Army was led to advance again&s;t
<PB N="31" REF="16"> the Parliament and this City; you may remember that would not &s;erve the Earle of <HI>Straffords</HI> turn, for but en|deavouring to bring up the Northern Army again&s;t the Parliament: Truly it were wel worth the while for you to Review the <HI>Parliaments fir&s;t Remon&s;trance,</HI> and the <HI>Im|peachment</HI> of the <HI>Earl</HI> of <HI>Strafford,</HI> and the BP. of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> and what&s;oever el&s;e was the ground and rea&s;on of the Par|liaments making War, and compare them with your Pa|pers and Practices, and you wil &s;ee only this difference, that you have a better art to cover them with the cloak of Religion, and al&s;o the very trick of making the people beleeve <HI>God is of your Confederacy;</HI> and for you that ingaged in this quarrel, and hath done a great part of this work, to act the &s;elf-&s;ame things your &s;elves, in the face of the Son of God, what a &s;hame is this to the Go&s;pel? <HI>how wil the Heathens triumph and wicked men rejoyce?</HI> I cannot, without tears, &s;et pen to paper, but break forth and &s;ay with <HI>David, Wo is me that I am con&s;trained to dwel in Me&s;ech and to have an habitation in the tents of Kedar.</HI> What remains there|fore, but that you pre&s;ently examine your own &s;elves, and not any longer thus &s;infully make application of the pow|er of the Sword, to be by <HI>God</HI> given you for any of the a|fore&s;aid ends: true it is, <HI>God</HI> &s;uffers it to be in you hands, for our &s;ins <HI>God</HI> may ju&s;tly &s;courge us by you, and for other ends be&s;t known to him&s;elf; but for you to cal it the foun|dation <HI>God</HI> has given you, to alter and change the govern|ment both of Church and State; thus boldly to teach, check and balance the power of Parliament, to force them to do and undo what you plea&s;e, to appoint periods to Parlia|ments, and give rules and directions for the &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of <HI>Parliaments,</HI> to take &s;uch extraordinary cour&s;es as you think fit, to make the minor part of the Members puni&s;h the major, and to require rea&s;ons why &s;uch and &s;uch Mem|bers give their con&s;ents to Votes, and to araign, adjudg and
<PB N="32" REF="17"> condemn Members in <HI>your Papers</HI> for things done in the Hou&s;e, with a thou&s;and other particulars, either before mentioned or may be read in your <HI>printed papers and pra|ctices;</HI> which if the whole Catalogue were naked before the whole <HI>Army,</HI> I <HI>pre&s;ume</HI> to be <HI>confident</HI> they would blu&s;h to &s;ee how they have been meerly abu&s;ed and drawn in by the craft and &s;ubtilty of many of you, even with a great deal of <HI>dete&s;tation and hatred,</HI> &amp; even <HI>brand upon</HI> them that black badg of the Gunpowder <HI>traitors,</HI> as their <HI>Ju&s;t Livery,</HI> who&s;e <HI>Religion</HI> is <HI>Rebellion,</HI> and who&s;e <HI>Faith</HI> is <HI>Faction.</HI> Nay I am <HI>confident</HI> your <HI>ingenuity</HI> was &s;uch, that if all the <HI>undutiful expre&s;sions, and all the breaches of Parliament priviledges, and all the mi&s;chieves,</HI> though very neatly dre&s;t in the <HI>gaudy ap|parrel</HI> of <HI>your dainty fine wits,</HI> &s;hould have been <HI>pre&s;ented</HI> to you, at once, in any of your <HI>General Councels,</HI> you would have &s;aid, <HI>What am I a dog that I &s;hould do the&s;e things?</HI> and, at lea&s;t, have <HI>&s;erved him, as you &s;erved</HI> Joyce <HI>for ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;h|ing the Kingdom of their Soveraign;</HI> or as you did with Ma|jor <HI>White</HI> for offering his <HI>opinion,</HI> which you ju&s;tifie in your practice, <HI>that there is no Law but the Sword;</HI> and have di&s;|countenanced it at lea&s;t for the pre&s;ent, as being more a|&s;hamed to own it, before men, then commit it before God, although you puni&s;hed him with the lo&s;s of his <HI>Cornets</HI> place, to be a <HI>Captain,</HI> or from a <HI>Captain</HI> to be a <HI>Major:</HI> But indeed if you wil but &s;ee that your &s;elves, that others &s;ee, <HI>as clear as the Sun at noon day,</HI> you may &s;ee, that all <HI>your Papers and Carriages,</HI> from fir&s;t to la&s;t, are <HI>nothing</HI> but an <HI>Arraignment</HI> of the whole <HI>proceedings</HI> of the <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons,</HI> and a <HI>Commending of the Wi&s;dom and Ju&s;tice of your General Councel of the Army before them; traiterou&s;ly indevo|ring to rai&s;e up an univer&s;al di&s;e&s;teem among the people, to this Parliament;</HI> and if you could but live without <HI>Pay, and yet pay your quarters,</HI> peradventure you might always rule the Ro&s;t, and the <HI>Kingdom be &s;o content.</HI> But, <HI>Gentlemen,</HI> the
<PB N="33" REF="17"> <HI>Kingdom,</HI> by this time, &s;ees, its impo&s;&s;ible for you to do them any good but by being <HI>obedient to your ma&s;ters;</HI> your <HI>di&s;obedience</HI> hath co&s;t <HI>England, Ireland and Scotland,</HI> as much trea&s;ure, be&s;ides what blood, God only knows, by <HI>your hindering</HI> Major General <HI>Skippon,</HI> and gallant <HI>Ma&s;&s;eys</HI> Army from going; I &s;ay, its thought it hath lo&s;t them as much as would have payd your whole <HI>Army,</HI> and have eas'd the <HI>Kingdom,</HI> and have welnigh recovered its <HI>wonted happi|ne&s;s,</HI> at wor&s;t have freed us from tho&s;e fears we now he un|der, and you <HI>continually increa&s;e</HI> with &s;ome <HI>N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">w De&s;ign</HI> of Your own, or <HI>crying up</HI> one plot or other, to give the <HI>better advantage</HI> to Yours: Whereas a man may read all the <HI>ground and rea&s;on of your conte&s;t</HI> only to be, with <HI>Haman,</HI> to get the Victorie over all the <HI>Mordecays</HI> in the Hou&s;e, by the <HI>advantage</HI> of the <HI>Army</HI> and the &s;ervice that hath been done by them, cozening the <HI>Soldiers,</HI> under the <HI>pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tence of standing for thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> pay and other benefits <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or them,</HI> while You only <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">im at Your &s;elf-intere&s;t, to their extream prejudice and undoing, who would be glad of their <HI>Pay</HI> as it was of|fered them; which they were made beleeve, never was. And they being al&s;o to be &s;harers of this <HI>de&s;igned &s;lavery and common calamity,</HI> when You have &s;erved Your own turn of them, by committing this <HI>horrid de&s;ign,</HI> which all the world &s;ees clearly now is to e&s;tabli&s;h your own greatne&s;s and the affected <HI>domination</HI> of Your &s;elves and Your partie over all others; and in truth is, what ever You <HI>pretend,</HI> the prejudice, trouble and &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of all, that appear for the <HI>truth and power of Religion,</HI> or <HI>for the Rights and Li|berties of the Kingdom, to the advancing, at once, both of Civil and Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Tyranny upon all the&s;e con&s;iderations:</HI> I &s;ay laying a&s;ide what ever your wits may afford you to carp at, either in re&s;pect of the plainne&s;s of the &s;tile or any thing el&s;e, although, I may in prudence de&s;ire to be concealed whi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> I &s;ee you, through Gods mercy, in a more godly
<PB N="34" REF="18"> temper, &s;o, I thank God, the truth of the matter and &s;in|cerity of my aim would carry me, with more comfort, through the fire of your fury, then I could have in being &s;ilent, though a man indeed may better write again&s;t the <HI>Father, Son and Holy Ghost,</HI> then &s;uch Scripture Truths as meet with your own impieties in the&s;e days; but for <HI>Sion</HI> &s;ake I cannot hold my peace; and, according to your own principles, I may take a piece of your courage to write as wel as you; Therefore I be&s;eech you, for the Go&s;pel &s;ake, for the Peace of <HI>England, Ireland</HI> and <HI>Scotlands</HI> &s;ake, for your own &s;ouls &s;akes, return to your obedience, <HI>Ari&s;e and waken your &s;elves, and &s;eek the Lord, while he may be found, cal upon him, while he is neer;</HI> while you were obedient, God honored you with many Victories, honor you God now, in the clo&s;e, with this glorious Conque&s;t, even over your own hearts, to the &s;ubduing of all your lu&s;ts, pride and ambi|tion, the reducing you to the obedience of the Parliament; that in our Land <HI>mercy and truth may meet together, and Righteou&s;ne&s;s and Peace may ki&s;s each other.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>AN APPEAL To the <HI>Parliament, City and Kingdom:</HI> By way of ANSWER To the <HI>F&V;RTHER PROGRESS</HI> in this REBELLION: To wit, The Armies la&s;t <HI>Declaration,</HI> of the 7. of <HI>December;</HI> in order to the con&s;um|mating and compleating of their intended De&s;ign, To bring all men under the power and &s;ubje|ction of the wils and lu&s;ts of &s;ome in the Army, by the force and power of the Sword.</HEAD>
<P>ALthough it is too apparent, by what already hath been, and much more that might be &s;aid, <HI>That the proceedings of this Army, all along, ever &s;ince the beginning of this Rebellion and refu&s;ing to Disband, tend to the great di&s;honor of almighty God, and of the pro|fe&s;sion of the Go&s;pel of JESUS CHRIST, and al&s;o to the &s;ubver&s;ion of the Freedom and very Being of Parliaments,</HI>
<PB N="36" REF="19"> in whom the <HI>Right, Liberty and property of the S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bje<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> de|pendeth and is &s;ecured;</HI> Yet it is further and more clearly evidenced and made manife&s;t by this la&s;t <HI>Declaration,</HI> which if you plea&s;e to compare with all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> re&s;t of their pretences and actings everyway, together with the <HI>Parlia|ments</HI> &s;everal Votes and Proceedings, and do but trace them both in their own tract, and all the affronts and &s;trange Pe|titions, and as &s;trangely managed, all occa&s;ioned and in|deed backt, and but one and the &s;ame thing required and forced to pa&s;s the Hou&s;e by the <HI>Army,</HI> as the Free born people take the boldne&s;s to pre&s;s for their upon the afore|&s;aid pre&s;idents, wil, I &s;ay, &s;ufficiently declare and proclaim to the world, the u&s;age of this <HI>Parliament,</HI> and in what a <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">byrinth</HI> they are now brought into, through the a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, force and threatnings, continually multiplied upon them.</P>
<P N="1">I. What is this <HI>Declaration,</HI> but, in plain terms, the pro&s;ecution of the <HI>Levellers doctrine,</HI> already Voted again&s;t as de&s;tructive to the <HI>Peace of the Kingdom,</HI> and That the Of|ficers of the Army made &s;uch a huge noi&s;e and bu&s;le to op|po&s;e, as if there had been &s;uch a mighty, <HI>antipathy</HI> between them really in matter of de&s;ign?</P>
<P N="2">II. Did not the <HI>Parliament</HI> Vote, <HI>That it was the duty of the Subjects of England to acquie&s;ce in the Wi&s;dom and Ju|&s;tice of Parliament, when the Free-born people did petition?</HI> where then is the <HI>Army</HI> that wil have what they plea&s;e, and when they plea&s;e, and be their own Judges, as if they were our very &s;overaign Lords and Ma&s;ters?</P>
<P N="3">III. What &s;ay you now to the jugling of the <HI>Army?</HI> Do you think it is of God, to play thus fa&s;t and loo&s;e in the face of a righteous God, that loves plain dealing? Hath not the whole de&s;ign been carried on by craft, lyes, deceit, and all manner of filthine&s;s and naughtine&s;s?</P>
<P N="4">IV. Whether is it not the &s;adde&s;t day that ever <HI>England</HI> &s;aw, that an <HI>Army,</HI> that would be called <HI>Saints,</HI> &s;hould ever
<PB N="37" REF="19"> attempt to force a Parliament by &s;uch Menaces and Threa|tenings, to execute their ba&s;e lu&s;ts, wils and tyrannical crueltie upon &s;everal Lords, Gentlemen, the 11. Members and others, whom the Parliament, upon the que&s;tion, in the Hou&s;e, Voted, <HI>That, according to Law and Con&s;cience, they could not do, nor &s;uffer to be done.</HI></P>
<P N="5">V. Is not the New War, they talk of, properly their own, the very Anvil they hammer all the re&s;t of their vil|lany on? Can you think the&s;e men do not &s;mother many a check of con&s;cience, when they are penning, or indeed rather drawing, as with a pen&s;il, their own pictures? or is not this a true looking gla&s;s, wherein they may &s;ee their own faces? <HI>Even as face an&s;wereth face in a gla&s;s,</HI> &s;o doth all their Papers &s;et forth what manner of men they are, though with the Harlot <HI>they wipe their lips and think none &s;ee them.</HI></P>
<P N="6">VI. What may all Rich-men, all Landed Gentlemen, Merchants, and all men of E&s;tates, Traffique and Trading expect to &s;ee, when the Army &s;hal thus demand money of this famous <HI>City of London,</HI> after all the kindne&s;s of this City: <HI>O the horrible ingratitude and brazen-faced impu|dence!</HI> you now &s;ee they begin to &s;hew them&s;elves in their colours, that without all colour of authority begin to threaten, and, in their own words, <HI>Joyn them&s;elves, as equal &s;harers, in the Government of the Kingdom, with the Parlia|ment,</HI> in the&s;e words, &s;ay they, &s;ome &s;eeing the Parliaments and the Armies Lenities, pre&s;ume; now to that let me add thus much, that, I think, there is none but &s;corns any more favor or mercy from them, then he would accept at the hands of a thief he meets upon the high-way, which is in|deed, <HI>to give all a man has to &s;ave his life, in danger of being murdered.</HI></P>
<P N="7">VII. What think you, is it not clear to all the world, that tho&s;e men mean to de&s;troy all Government now in
<PB N="38" REF="20"> force by any Law, and govern them&s;elves? Ob&s;erve how they la&s;h the Parliament and the Government of this City, the Common Councel, and upbraid them and the Hou&s;e of Commons, however they dance, up and down, to u&s;her it in with fine glo&s;&s;es and words, to make the be&s;t of a bad mat|ter, and cover the hook with gilded &s;hews and baites, yet do they now and then &s;tab to the heart of this Kingdoms hap|pine&s;s.</P>
<P>Wel, to draw all to a <HI>conclu&s;ion,</HI> and leave it and them to the righteous God, with this prayer, <HI>That if it may &s;tand with his glory, that he would di&s;cover to this poor Kingdom, who are the Traitors to it, who &s;eeke to rob it of all its glory, peace and happine&s;s;</HI> For certainly this Army cannot but &s;in again&s;t much Light and many checks of Con&s;cience; the whole matter and &s;ub&s;tance of their Declaration is truly a mo&s;t traiterous Comment and an undutiful and &s;landerous com|plaint upon our wi&s;e and religious <HI>Senators;</HI> the <HI>Parlia|ment,</HI> and their whole <HI>proceedings,</HI> whom I pray God <HI>ble&s;s, pre&s;erve and inable, with courage and wi&s;dom, to carry things &s;o, as God may not be di&s;honored, their own peace of Con&s;cience wounded, this Kingdom in&s;laved by their negligence or cowar|dize, as knowing the&s;e light afflictions, which are but for a mo|ment, work for us a more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.</HI> For, you may be confident, <HI>God</HI> wil ea&s;e him&s;elf of &s;uch as walk thus oppo&s;ite unto him: But to return unto my inten|ded purpo&s;e, this and all other of their <HI>Declarations</HI> affords us, in &s;hort, this plain, evident and undeniable <HI>conclu&s;ion, That the</HI> Army <HI>expects and requires that the Parliament of England mu&s;t acquie&s;ce in the Wi&s;dom and Ju&s;tice of the</HI> Army, and is really a pro&s;ecution and avowing of the <HI>Levellers do|ctrine,</HI> they &s;o di&s;&s;emblingly &s;eemed to oppo&s;e, that they might have the better advantage to carry it on them&s;elves: and it wil clearly appear to every indifferent Reader, by the&s;e following <HI>particulars,</HI> worth ob&s;erving in their la&s;t <HI>Declaration.</HI></P>
<P N="1"><PB N="39" REF="20">1. By their own admired patience, <HI>that they have quiet|ly waited upon the Parliament, for this four moneths together,</HI> as they &s;ay in the front of their <HI>Declaration;</HI> O the mon|&s;trous pride and intolerable in&s;olency exerci&s;ed over their ma&s;ters, <HI>that by their Commi&s;sions they &s;hould only obey!</HI> Surely this is the evil effect of that foggy, cock-brain'd, blu&s;tering Hocus-pocus <HI>Peters,</HI> that common applica|tion of his prittle-prattle in the Pulpit, one of the trumpeters of Rebellion, as in his la&s;t Letter, before this Cannon came thundering about the &s;treets, <HI>With a tantara, tantara, come away, I &s;ay, come away, there wil be a &s;udden &s;torm:</HI> When our &s;torms cea&s;e, we &s;hal quick|ly &s;ee <HI>Peters</HI> back-&s;ide, for he is a trout, that, yet, hath hardly lived any lived any where but in troubled waters. But to the purpo&s;e, they &s;ay they have waited; wel, I know the time when they would have waited as long upon one of the <HI>Parliament Clerks,</HI> with much more diligence and meekne&s;s, for a <HI>Commi&s;sion,</HI> to be put in imployment. Yet now to the purpo&s;e; Are you not their &s;ervants? Are they not wel payd? How many hundred thou&s;and pound hath this <HI>patient waiting</HI> co&s;t the Kingdom? the Free-quarter they have had, and the &s;e|veral fifty thou&s;and pounds they had &s;ince; as for their <HI>just reward,</HI> I leave to the <HI>Righteous GOD,</HI> who, in his due time, wil pay them all, no doubt. They ought to wait, I am &s;ure, upon the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and not thus in&s;olently to domineer over it, and clatter their Votes about their ears, thus contrary to their Commi&s;&s;ion, their duty as Engli&s;h men and Chri&s;tians, and double, if not treble, tyed by Prote&s;tations and Covenants; they may &s;ay what they wil, but there is neither Greek nor Hebrew, nor any ambi|guous termes in that clau&s;e of the Covenant,
<PB N="40" REF="21"> <HI>for defending the privil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dges of Parlia<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">t;</HI> which all the world mu&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ch &s;ay, p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">rily con&s;i&s;ts in pre&s;erving the free Debate and Vote of the Hou&s;e, which cannot admit of breaking, upon any pretence what&s;oever, without &s;ub|verting of the very being of <HI>Parli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ment:</HI> So that thus &s;tands the ca&s;e, they are now &s;o pre&s;umptuous, that they re&s;olve <HI>nothing &s;hal <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">er<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">gn that pa&s;&s;eth bo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">, b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> what pa&s;&s;eth al&s;o their V<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">s, in the Councel of the Army, as the &s;overaign L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rds and Ma&s;ters of the Kingdom:</HI> They ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, become <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n e&s;tate; Do they not mean that &s;hal &s;erve for the <HI>Royal A&s;&s;ent,</HI> and &s;o &s;ave the labor of any <HI>Per&s;onal Treatys.</HI> Or otherwi&s;e, I am &s;ure, we have good rea&s;on to conlude, <HI>That they mean the Parliament &s;hal mea&s;ure their corn by their bu&s;hel;</HI> they mu&s;t enact the &s;ence of the Army on do no|thing in order to the Peace of the Kingdom: but I hope our God wil be &s;een in the Mount to t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ke them by th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> bridle and &s;top them in their ful carreer; <HI>Let God ari&s;e, and let h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> enemies be f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">attered, and let all them that hate him flee before him.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. By the Armies prejudging the Lord Maior, Alder|men and Citizens, and the appointing the di&s;po&s;ing of the e&s;tates in &s;uch an unu&s;ual manner, as is very much incon|&s;i&s;tent with the Liberty of the &s;ubject.</P>
<P N="3">3. By the contracicting of the la&s;t Vote of the Hou&s;e <HI>for disbanding the &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ernumerary forces,</HI> and many other Votes of Parliament, and by the manner thereof.</P>
<P N="4">4. By the money, that they, without all colour of au|thority, demanded from the City, and the manner thereof.</P>
<P N="5">5. By the work they have appointed the Parliament to do for the pre&s;ent.</P>
<P N="6">6. By the time they have limited to the Parliament to do it in, wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> by Saturday next.</P>
<P N="7">7. The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">ruct<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">s they have given to the Parliament to that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P N="8"><PB N="41" REF="21">8. By their menacing and threatning language, they in|&s;ert, <HI>That if the Parliament do not &s;atisfie them, they must either &s;atisfie their Judgments to take &s;ome extraordi|nary cour&s;es, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">r that which is wor&s;e will follow,</HI> as they &s;ay.</P>
<P N="9">9. By many, yea too many to recount, of undutiful &s;peeches, &s;landers and Parliament-de&s;troying expre&s;&s;i|ons, nay whole &s;entences or what they could do with the PARLIAMENT and CITY, and all men that oppo&s;e them, if they li&s;ted; very &s;trange Language to &s;end to a PARLIAMENT from an ARMY of SAINTS, that &s;hould be their &s;ervants and defend them.</P>
<P N="10">10. By their taking notice and upbraiding the <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons</HI> with what they do and &s;uffer to be done, but breach of <HI>Parliament Priviledg</HI> may pa&s;s wel enough among the Croud of <HI>their Trea&s;ons,</HI> and never be &s;een, now adays.</P>
<P N="11">11. Their many other petty la&s;hes, in every page of their DECLARATION, to di&s;honor, and, if po&s;&s;ible, to rai&s;e and conjure up a Spirit of <HI>Univer|&s;al Di&s;obedience</HI> and <HI>hatred</HI> to the <HI>PARLIAMENT,</HI> throughout all the Kingdom, and thou&s;ands of other particulars, which I mu&s;t pa&s;s by to avoyd prolixity, that may be &s;een almo&s;t in every line, that it might not amount to too great a volumne.</P>
<P N="12">12. By their refu&s;ing to obey any thing that tendeth <HI>to the &s;etling of the Peace of the Kingdom,</HI> &s;aying, <HI>its con|trary to their Engagement, or that</HI> Sir Thomas Fairfax <HI>hath engaged him&s;elf to the contrary;</HI> It &s;eems thats enough, if they had done no more, to bind the <HI>Parliament</HI> to <HI>obedi|ence</HI> or, at lea&s;t, not to oppo&s;e their <HI>Engagements and Pro|mi&s;es,</HI> &s;o that we may &s;ee how the ca&s;e &s;tands with the <HI>Parli|ament,</HI> &amp; we may ble&s;s God, for them, that when they cannot
<PB N="42" REF="22"> act for the peace of the Kingdom, that yet they wil be &s;o faithful and courageous, as not to act again&s;t it, notwith|&s;tanding the threats of this Army, though they thus try all their power, skil &amp; parts to have their villany countenanced by Parliamentary Authority; I hope, through the faith|fulne&s;s and courage of our <HI>Parliament Worthies,</HI> their Trea|&s;ons wil come in ru&s;hing with great noi&s;e, and not creeping upon us, before we are aware, by force, and not by craft, that all men may &s;ee and abhor it; that the <HI>Parliament men</HI> may have no &s;hare in lo&s;ing the <HI>Kingdoms Liberties,</HI> but may enjoy the honor and comfort, what ever befals the <HI>Kingdom,</HI> that they did their duty, and would not betray their tru&s;t, nor de&s;ert the &s;hip of this <HI>Common wealth,</HI> in all tho&s;e dangerous &s;torms and tempe&s;ts.</P>
<P N="13">13. By their traiterous, reproachful and opprobrious language, they take the boldne&s;s, to the horrible di&s;grace and affront of the <HI>Parliament of England,</HI> and to the perpe|tual &s;hame and reproach of Religion, and the unfained pro|fe&s;&s;ors therof, to be of all men hated &amp; unu&s;eful to the State or Kingdom wherein they live; were it not the meer mer|cy and goodne&s;s of our God, which gives me great cau&s;e to hope, <HI>He hath not quite for&s;aken us,</HI> only hath hid his face in his <HI>just di&s;plea&s;ure,</HI> becau&s;e of our &s;ins, but wil return in mercy to re&s;tore this poor bleeding Kingdom to its long longed for peace and happine&s;s, to the eternal infamy and &s;hame of this generation of men, who&s;e carriages we have ju&s;t cau&s; to ble&s;s God, that he hath opened the eys of &s;o many, of late, to &s;ee, that was formerly &s;educed and decei|ved, judging hopefully of their good intentions, by what they had done in the time of their obedience, but now &s;hamefully turned <HI>wolves in &s;heeps clothing</HI> I wil only give you their traiterous and impudent Explication, in &s;tead of obeying the Votes of the <HI>Parliament,</HI> though the Coun|try can wofully tel, how needful, and of nece&s;&s;ity in order
<PB N="43" REF="22"> to peace they were; If the&s;e men were for any, you &s;hal find it in the&s;e words, in the 9. and 11. <HI>pages</HI> of this la&s;t <HI>Declaration,</HI> pa&s;&s;ing by all the re&s;t of their &s;tabs to the <HI>Parliaments hearts, and at Englands very being,</HI> &s;peaking of the la&s;t di&s;temper they, on purpo&s;e, for the ends be&s;t known to them&s;elves, put the Army in, &s;aith, <HI>yet now the danger is over, we &s;ee little better care of the Parliaments performance, then before, but after many days &s;ince elap&s;ed, and &s;ome &s;pent in profe&s;&s;ed con&s;ideration of it;</HI> the whole care of that bu&s;i|ne&s;s &s;eems to be wrapt up in one bare Vote, <HI>That all &s;uper|numerary forces &s;hal be Disbanded;</HI> This being compared with what language you wil find in the 12. <HI>pag.</HI> in the&s;e words, <HI>We cannot imagine that Vote to be ab&s;olute and &s;ove|raign;</HI> So that <HI>England</HI> may &s;ee, that unle&s;s, to the Govern|ment of the Kingdom, the Army may be joyned with the Parliament, nothing &s;hal take effect, to a &s;udden di&s;patch of ea&s;ing the Kingdom of its burthens; which can never be, while an Army thus domineers over our <HI>Parliament,</HI> which is, next under God, the only &s;ecurity, with his Maje&s;ties happy concurrence, for our very lives and e&s;tates, and any comfortable being in the Kingdom.</P>
<P N="14">14. And la&s;tly, By their invitations and cunning in|&s;inuations to draw any il-affected and di&s;&s;olute per&s;ons to improve this opportunity of their <HI>Rebellion,</HI> to do the City all the mi&s;chief they can; I hope the <HI>Country,</HI> e&s;pecially the neer neighbors of the City, hate their offer; as &s;eeing the fal&s;ene&s;s of their <HI>pretences,</HI> and the evil and <HI>malignity</HI> of the <HI>de&s;ign;</HI> &s;urely the&s;e are no <HI>Saint-like doings,</HI> to &s;hew &s;o much envy and malice to tho&s;e &s;o wel-de&s;erving from them, and wel known to all the <HI>Country,</HI> where they quarter, who, by this time, may wel enough wi&s;h they had <HI>never &s;een them,</HI> and &s;ee who de&s;ire and have de&s;igned a <HI>New War,</HI> if the lo&s;s of all, that were neer and dear to us, wil <HI>procure</HI> it, &s;ave only our good <HI>con&s;ciences,</HI> which they cannor plun|der
<PB N="44" REF="23"> us of, &s;ince their conte&s;t; they &s;eemed to contemn Pay much, and pretended they valued not that; &s;o that we may now &s;ee more clearly what their de&s;ign is; they mu&s;t not think we are &s;o weak to imagine it their only De&s;ign to plunder the City, that are the Contrivers or <HI>Cabbinet Coun&s;el,</HI> though it may &s;o fall out, by a <HI>Pro|vidence,</HI> as they wil cal it, to be ca&s;t in as an <HI>Overplus;</HI> but the De&s;ign is to plunder us of our Go&s;pel, Right, Property and Liberty, and make all &s;ubject to their own wils and lu&s;ts; what is it el&s;e, think you, if they will not be guided by the Judgment of the PARLIAMENT, or if it mu&s;t only con&s;i&s;t of &s;uch Members, as, they &s;ay, have not forfeited the publick Tru&s;t? but I hope this noble and famous City wil peep &s;o far into their de&s;igns as not to fear the plundering of this City, knowing they are too wi&s;e, if not too hone&s;t, then to think that for their advantage; For, no doubt, if they can New-mould the Parliament, fit for their turn, they &s;hal chu&s;e a <HI>Common Councel,</HI> to drein the City dry, to &s;upply their wants with money: thats the way to make better u&s;e of them and their e&s;tates, for the carrying on of this intended &s;lavery, even to the ruine of all the three Kingdoms, according to the burthen of the Song they now &s;o much u&s;e, <HI>that they have three Kingdoms to &s;pend;</HI> Therefore, I hope, the City wil contemn and &s;corn all fear of plundering, rather, then, for the prevention thereof, give any opportunity, advantage or countenance to them, while they thus watch for the <HI>ruine of the Parliament,</HI> which indeed mu&s;t needs prove fatal to the <HI>Religion and Liberty of the&s;e three Kingdoms.</HI> And as for their Army of Soldiers, and mo&s;t of the Officers, I know very wel, are abu&s;ed, not know|ing they might, and may have their Pay, at an in&s;tant, with|out in&s;i&s;ting upon &s;uch <HI>demands and conditions as are de|&s;tructive to the Freedom of Parliament,</HI> which, I am &s;ure,
<PB N="45" REF="23"> they would gladly do, were they not deceived, abu&s;ed and deluded by Lieut. Gen. <HI>Cromwel</HI> and his <HI>Privy Councel,</HI> if I do not mi&s;-cal him; for, it may be, he only acts by <HI>Providence,</HI> and has no <HI>Commi&s;sion;</HI> for, I am &s;ure, it was often renewing in time of &s;ervice, and is very long, if it be not now out of date: But that is but a punctillio, it may be he wil &s;ay, in this time of <HI>Liberty of Con&s;cience;</HI> There|fore I heartily wi&s;h him to deceive him&s;elf, no longer, and the <HI>Kingdom, with fancies and frothy pretences;</HI> but &s;eriou&s;ly to con&s;ider, <HI>That Rebellion is as the &s;in of Witch|craft.</HI> And &s;eeing he <HI>continues</HI> &s;til to delude the Sol|diery, and to oppre&s;s the <HI>Country,</HI> and oppo&s;e the <HI>Par|liaments ea&s;ing of them,</HI> and <HI>wil &s;uffer no remedy, but &s;uch as is wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e then the di&s;ea&s;e,</HI> as is more fully expre&s;t in their own imperious and domineering <HI>Repre&s;entation.</HI> And if you &s;ay, <HI>We are not &s;o imperious and traiterous, as its &s;aid, for we act not at all of our &s;elves, but with the advice of a con&s;iderable part of the Members of both Hou&s;es; who, though not the major part, yet they are tho&s;e in whom the publick Tru&s;t only remains;</HI> and that I find to be the <HI>&s;ence</HI> of mo&s;t of their <HI>Declarations,</HI> and indeed is &s;o much in|&s;i&s;ted on, as if it were not only true, but a &s;ufficient war|rant to ju&s;tifie and &s;ecure them from the breach both of the Law of God and the Land: as to the truth of it I de&s;ire not to &s;ay any thing, nor to dive into it, but admit it to be true, though I may hope and wi&s;h it otherwi&s;e; and, it may be, they may only &s;peak as they would have it, being it doth not at all either ju&s;tifie, mi|tigate, or le&s;&s;en the trea&s;on on either part, if any &s;uch COMBINATION, COVENANTS or INGAGEMENTS were, no doubt, all
<PB N="46" REF="24"> all men wil grant <HI>that mo&s;t apparently de&s;tructive and in|con&s;istent with the very Being of Parliaments, that is not de|bated and voted by the major part of the Hou&s;e;</HI> el&s;e might an incon&s;iderable number of the Hou&s;e plot and contrive without again&s;t the &s;ence of the Hou&s;e within, to the ruin of the <HI>Kingdom and Religion al&s;o;</HI> only we may thank God that we have not only &s;uch <HI>Parliament Worthies</HI> that are courageous, but al&s;o wi&s;e, tho&s;e that wil not only oppo&s;e, but are able to &s;ee and di&s;cern their de&s;igns; tho&s;e are worth gold now; and I doubt not but God reckons them among his Jewels; therefore, I hope, in vain do his enemies &s;trive, like tho&s;e two <HI>Artificers,</HI> who &s;hal draw the &s;ub|tille&s;t line of policy to compa&s;s their de&s;ign. Let Lie. Gen. <HI>Cromwel</HI> and his <HI>Privy Coun&s;el</HI> know, that they are happy; I &s;ay, <HI>happy are they that draw the &s;treighte&s;t line of piety, and &s;o draw in God to be of their confederacy.</HI> But to conclude, let <HI>Italy</HI> be called the <HI>Garden of the World, for plea&s;ure;</HI> let it be enough for <HI>England,</HI> to be called the <HI>Garden of God for Religion;</HI> the be&s;t flower in our <HI>Garden</HI> is <HI>Religion,</HI> the greate&s;t happines of any Nation; but <HI>Peace</HI> and <HI>Religion</HI> both are the <HI>compleat happine&s;s</HI> of a <HI>Kingdom;</HI> and how its now endangered by the Conducters of this <HI>Army:</HI> for, I know, many, if not mo&s;t of the Soldiers, are aver&s;e to it, and would be more and more, did they know the depth of the de&s;ign, but what it is; the famous <HI>Works, the Catechi&s;m and Confe&s;sion of Faith</HI> of the <HI>A&s;&s;embly of Divines,</HI> all this while &s;mothered and oppo&s;ed by that faction, may di&s;cover, as wel as the &s;haking of the very foundation of all <HI>Order and Government.</HI> Wel, let them and us all remember, to our comfort and their terror, that God is the be&s;t &s;hield to a|ny per&s;on, the be&s;t &s;afeguard of any <HI>Nation;</HI> if <HI>God be our enemy, nothing can &s;ecure us; if God be our friend, nothing can hurt us:</HI> Though the Army begirt the <HI>Parliament</HI> and <HI>City</HI> with the &s;traite&s;t &s;iege, yet they cannot &s;top the pa&s;|&s;age
<PB N="47" REF="24"> from <HI>Heaven;</HI> &s;o long as that is open there may come relief from thence, if he be our Friend, if he be in League with us; when there is no other way to e&s;cape the Army, and when as M. <HI>Peters</HI> puts them upon it, they tel us the wor&s;t, and go to execute it upon us with never &s;o much cruelty, yet <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> may go by <HI>Heaven</HI> and e&s;cape: Let <HI>Pharaoh</HI> be behind, the <HI>Red Sea</HI> before, and the <HI>Mountains</HI> on each &s;ide, yet the <HI>I&s;raelite</HI> can find a way; indeed Peace is a good <HI>Jo&s;eph,</HI> a good Nur&s;e to <HI>Religion,</HI> But <HI>Religion is the Mother of Peace it &s;elf;</HI> I mean not theirs who&s;e <HI>Re|ligion</HI> is <HI>Rebellion,</HI> and who&s;e <HI>Faith</HI> is <HI>Faction;</HI> who with M. <HI>Peters</HI> love to fi&s;h in troubled waters, and therefore &s;ow Divi&s;ion; that while&s;t the world is bu&s;ie, playing their cruel games of War, he may have the better lea&s;ure to go away with the &s;takes: <HI>The Bramble thus, by renting and tearing, became King of the Trees,</HI> and &s;o may Mr <HI>Crom|wel;</HI> and with Champion <HI>Milo,</HI> when he thru&s;t his hands in the cleft of an Oak, thinking to make the <HI>rent</HI> greater, if he again venter the other bout, with the Hou&s;e of Com|mons, for all his craft, be caught and held al&s;o, as the Oak clo&s;ed together and caught and held <HI>Milo,</HI> until he was de|voured by the wild bea&s;ts, and &s;o peri&s;hed; Even &s;o Lord put it into the hearts of our Pilots, the Parliament, that &s;hould &s;teer the Ship of this Common-wealth, but have been too much divided and trampled under foot by the ene|mies thereof, row to joyn together, that the envious men, that are thus continually &s;owing tares of Divi&s;ion in this Kingdom, may be, by their Wi&s;dom and Courage, fru|&s;trate of their hopes, &amp; may reap a ju&s;t reward, even their own confu&s;ion; For certainly, as the Artificer wrought his name &s;o cunningly in the Buckler of <HI>Minerva,</HI> that not a letter could be pickt out without the di&s;&s;olution of the whole frame, &s;o cannot any of the Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons be pickt out or excluded otherwi&s;e, then by
<PB N="48" REF="25"> Vote of the major part, without the di&s;&s;olution of the whole frame, and real being of that Hou&s;e in point of Freedom; yet Mr <HI>Cromwel</HI> proceeded to force out Sir <HI>John Maynard,</HI> though he &s;ince confe&s;t, to &s;ome of his friends, they had nothing again&s;t him, but that he was an active man again&s;t their party and de&s;ign, and therefore mu&s;t <HI>turn out:</HI> Indeed he is &s;o compleat a Polititian, that it is as natural to him, as meat and drink, to play fa&s;t and loo&s;e with God and the Kingdom: but &s;urely, methinks, the clear Sun-&s;hine of the Go&s;pel, &s;o plentifully preacht to our Engli&s;h Nation, &s;hould &s;ufficiently di&s;cover the foggy, frothy fancies, or rather devili&s;h delu&s;ions, that Mr <HI>Cromwels</HI> extraordinary Cal or Cour&s;es are mo&s;t apparent|ly oppo&s;ite to the revealed Wil of God, and all the Sta|tute Laws, now in force, in <HI>England:</HI> When the Parlia|ment is upon the rack, as in the Ca&s;e of the Supernumera|ry Forces, he can Disband, and he can chu&s;e; he can draw them to the highe&s;t torment, and then give them ea&s;e by degrees: You know when a Kingdom is deadly &s;ick, a litle ea&s;e is comfortable; but &s;urely <HI>England</HI> thou wilt grow wi&s;er, thou ha&s;t payd <HI>Cromwel</HI> pretty wel for thy learning. Brave <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Spirits, methinks, &s;hould &s;corn either his <HI>canning in&s;inuations, proud menaces, gli&s;tering new-nothings, fanta&s;tical gu-gums, or any thing el&s;e, but &s;udden repentance, and obedience to the revealed Wil of God and Statute Laws of the Realm.</HI> Let all true <HI>Engli&s;h-men</HI> &s;ay to <HI>Cromwel,</HI> as <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> &s;aid to <HI>Phraates,</HI> that &s;ent him a Crown, when he was up in Arms again&s;t him, but <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> returned it back with this An&s;wer, <HI>Facint Imperata prius,</HI> let him fir&s;t return to his o|bedience, and then he would accept of the Crown by way of <HI>recognizance.</HI> I heartily wi&s;h they would entertain and ob&s;erve the&s;e lines, as a <HI>providence,</HI> that have &s;o much pretended to be great ob&s;ervers of <HI>providence,</HI> For truly I wonder they dare continue in this way of trampling upon
<PB N="49" REF="25"> the <HI>Parliament,</HI> nay <HI>upon the revealed Wil of God and the known Laws of the Land,</HI> which, I am &s;ure, they <HI>can never ju&s;tifie, either upon any ground they have di&s;covered, or indeed any ground they can have undi&s;covered;</HI> what they have di&s;|covered, in &s;hort, is only this, <HI>That they were rai&s;ed by the Parliament, at fir&s;t, to redeem the People out of &s;lavery;</HI> and it is not yet effected; therefore they wil not Disband un|til they &s;ee it done, nay until they &s;ay it is done, and <HI>That,</HI> I wil tel them, they have already given us ground enough to &s;ay, <HI>wil never be,</HI> until it be undone: But this, I am &s;ure, the Parliament never &s;aid in any of their <HI>Declarations,</HI> that they &s;hould be Judges, when the people were in, &amp; when they were out of &s;lavery. May not any number of men what&s;o|ever quickly have as good call as their pretences are? I think I may wel enough conclude they never wil e&s;tabli&s;h Peace, it being &s;omething again&s;t their profit, and that which wil &s;poil their trade, but admit their intentions good, whats this to their Gal either from God or men, to undertake that only proper to <HI>Parliaments.</HI> Be&s;ides, I am &s;ure Lieut. Gen. <HI>Cromwel</HI> had no Warrant, either from God or man, to &s;end <HI>Joyce</HI> for the King at <HI>Holdenby,</HI> and then declare to all the world, he never knew of, nor had a|ny hand in it. I wil give you their principal Arguments that in any di&s;cour&s;e I can hear from them, which I have not already &s;o clearly expre&s;t: They &s;ay fir&s;t, their <HI>Commi&s;si|on</HI> was to this purpo&s;e, <HI>To reform all things ami&s;s in the Kingdom, and &s;et the free People at Liberty out of all manner of Bondage; and to this purpo&s;e they were rai&s;ed.</HI> For an&s;wer hereunto, I am &s;ure they have granted it, that if they had undertook to have fought in the&s;e Wars, as they have done, without Authority from <HI>Parliament,</HI> that they had been but Traitors, and that they could not pro&s;ecute the War, but by the <HI>Parliaments</HI> In&s;tructions. And I know the time when Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> and all the re&s;t of the Comman|ders,
<PB N="50" REF="26"> would not undertake to do any thing, though it ne|ver &s;o much tended to the advantage of the <HI>Parliament,</HI> with|out &s;ome clau&s;e in &s;ome Order or Ordinance of <HI>Parlia|ment</HI> to bear them out. Can any men be &s;o unrational to to imagine, or any &s;o impudent to affirm, That the <HI>Parlia|ment</HI> &s;hould ever give any other <HI>Commi&s;sion</HI> then what ob|ligeth them to the <HI>obedience</HI> of the <HI>Parliament;</HI> and what|ever alteration, orders and direction, from time to time; they &s;hal give, which is the very tenor of their <HI>Commi&s;sions,</HI> and there can be no doubt but they might as wel have rai&s;ed them&s;elves without authority from <HI>Parliament,</HI> as for them now to continue in a Body, when both Hou&s;es by <HI>Ordinance</HI> hath commanded their <HI>Disbanding;</HI> And they might as wel and upon the &s;ame ground have proceeded, acted and done all the&s;e things, which of late they have done, when they were fir&s;t rai&s;ed as now: That now after all the blood and trea&s;ure they have &s;pilt and &s;pent, to que&s;tion the <HI>Par|liament,</HI> nay the very <HI>Parliament,</HI> upon who&s;e authority they have only acted, and without which, I pre&s;ume they would have thought, as no doubt it is, even plain murder and robbery; and for them to tel the Kingdom of making a free Parliament, is as &s;trange a cheat as the re&s;t of their proceedings, that they &s;hould act all this while, while there was any money or plunder to be got, or until they were ju&s;t to be disbanded, which more then intimates, that if the Army had been Voted, in &s;tead of Disbanding, to have been e&s;tabli&s;ht for &s;even years, with good pay, the <HI>Parliament</HI> had been free enough to have done that; as it was ever &s;ince they were rai&s;ed until that time, and if the City of <HI>London</HI> had been but as noble and generous to continue di&s;|bur&s;ing the old plentiful loans of money, they had been the gallant City &s;til, but if they joyn with <HI>Parliament</HI> to ea&s;e the Kingdom of an Army, then they are clearly for a New War; for either they mu&s;t continue undisbanded, or it
<PB N="51" REF="26"> &s;eems there mu&s;t be a new War, if they can procure it, all the Members mu&s;t turn out, but who wil Vote for the <HI>Armies continuance,</HI> and then <HI>we have a free Parliament</HI> &s;ay they; for many of their Commanders &s;ay <HI>they have o|ver-&s;lipt their opportunity, that when they marched through the City they did not make the Hou&s;e of Commons for their turn, for now they could not do it without too much noi&s;e in the King|dom; yet they doubted it would never be until it was done:</HI> Be|&s;ides, all may now &s;ee there was nothing but jugling in all the pretended divi&s;ions in the Army, and that they can be out and in as often as they plea&s;e, when it is advantageous for their De&s;ign. May not one conclude, That their de&s;ign cannot be compleated before they come to quarter in <HI>Lon|don;</HI> and deface that glorious and excellent Government, the wonder of the world; and the principal defenders of the true Religion and Fundamental Laws of the Land, and of the Liberty and Property of the Subject, that they may make &s;ure work with al the Kingdom, &amp; fini&s;h the work by forcing out the Members, and chopping and changing them until they wil act the &s;ence of the Army; Let them &s;peak the truth, if this be not their De&s;ign, in attempting to come to <HI>London,</HI> which inevitably mu&s;t de&s;troy thou&s;ands of Trade&s;men wholy, and crack the whole frame of this fa|mous City by an univer&s;al decay of Trade and ruine of the whole Nation, under <HI>pretences,</HI> which being inquired into wil appear to be meer bubles and vani&s;hing &s;hadow, that hath nothing but deceit and couzenage in them; Though what&s;oever Vote pa&s;&s;es to their benefit to bring them in money is very &s;overaign, and that, I wil warrant you, they wil act upon to the ful; &s;o that, I think, upon the matter, it is as clear as the Sun, that the quarrel between the <HI>Parlia|ment</HI> and the <HI>Army</HI> is in whom the Supream power con|&s;i&s;ts: For now adays there is hardly any <HI>Command</HI> goes from the <HI>Parliament</HI> but the <HI>Army</HI> expects it &s;hould be taken for
<PB N="52" REF="27"> a great favor, if they obey it, and there is not any <HI>obedience</HI> to be given, until it receive the <HI>concurrence</HI> of the <HI>General Councel.</HI> Do they not think they are fine youths, that the Votes of the Hou&s;e cannot be obeyed except they &s;end a Committee down to intreat for it, or to treat and debate it over again, as they are fain to do about Di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">banding the <HI>Supernumeraries,</HI> and what other Votes then al&s;o pa&s;t the Hou&s;e; The <HI>Parliament</HI> mu&s;t give the <HI>Army</HI> content, and not the <HI>Army</HI> the <HI>Parliament;</HI> It &s;eems the <HI>Parliament</HI> mu&s;t walk up to their principles, and not the <HI>Army</HI> come down to theirs: But &s;urely all the world wil now &s;ee this <HI>Trea&s;on and intended ruin of the Kingdom,</HI> and not any longer be deceived and deluded with a rebellious, proud and di&s;con|ted faction in the Army, that, to have their wils, care not to ruin a <HI>Kingdom,</HI> nay <HI>three Kingdoms</HI> at a clap. What|ever was to be done by them, or was &s;et forth in any <HI>Decla|ration</HI> of the <HI>Parliaments,</HI> I am &s;ure, did never make them Judges of <HI>Parliament,</HI> nor of the <HI>Ca&s;e of the Kingdom;</HI> and can they be &s;o impudent to plead any extraordinary Cal or Direction from God for them to take upon them to judg the very Hou&s;e it &s;elf and their Members: but I have &s;aid &s;o much that I hope I need not &s;ay any more, to clear their practices to be without any &s;hadow, either of godline&s;s or common Chri&s;tianity; and ever heartily wi&s;h that they may ob&s;erve it for a providence that are &s;o much pretenders to ob&s;erve <HI>providences;</HI> and even lay a&s;ide every &s;in that hath &s;o ea&s;ily be&s;et them, and &s;eek <HI>the Lord mightily, while he may be found,</HI> lea&s;t he &s;hew, by &s;ome imminent token to the Kingdom, his mo&s;t high di&s;plea&s;ure again&s;t them, and even &s;uffer them to be wholy &s;wallowed up and devoured with tho&s;e <HI>&s;trange delu&s;ions,</HI> that &s;o many of the Army are &s;o &s;hamefully infected with, at this day, very dangerou&s;ly back &s;liding from the revealed Wil and Truth of God. So that upon the whole matter we mu&s;t needs make this evi|dent
<PB N="53" REF="27"> <HI>construction, that the Officers of the Army &s;urely remem|ber the infinite di&s;proportion between their Wor&s;hips now in the head of an Army, and their own &s;everal conditions and quali|ties in their ordinary Callings, being once out of their Military imployment,</HI> who, being <HI>con&s;cious</HI> of their own guilt, dare not tru&s;t the <HI>Ju&s;tice of the Law</HI> or <HI>Goodne&s;s of the Parliament</HI> but chu&s;e rather to pre&s;erve them&s;elvs by the power of an Army, though it endangers the <HI>impoveri&s;hing and utter ruin of this poor Kingdom:</HI> and it certainly is a mo&s;t high degree of <HI>pride</HI> and <HI>malice</HI> that put them upon tho&s;e cour&s;es: They could not, with <HI>Haman,</HI> indure a <HI>Mordecai</HI> in the Hou&s;e of <HI>Com|mons;</HI> for notwith&s;tanding all their Victories in the field, if they had it not in the Parliament al&s;o, that &s;o thereby they might lord it over all men as the Conquerors, it would not be la&s;ting. To that purpo&s;e they had got the length of the peoples feet, as we u&s;ed to &s;ay, and what&s;oever was a|mi&s;s, they pretended to be very &s;en&s;ible of, and would re|move, and &s;o takes the only cour&s;e to &s;end us head long to de&s;truction, in &s;tead of falling upon them, or that, or there, where truly the fault lies, they fel upon breaking down the very banks, to let in the whole flood or ocean of <HI>destruction</HI> to unavoydably drown us, which the <HI>Parliament</HI> hath much ado to <HI>prevent.</HI> Alas the people knew <HI>things</HI> were ami&s;s, but upon whom, or where the fault lay, they knew not; but all willing to beleeve, and they as undutifully, as fal&s;ly and maliciou&s;ly charged it upon the <HI>Parliament</HI> and their &s;eve|ral Committees and Officers, who&s;e mi&s;carriages, that they <HI>complain</HI> of, <HI>principally</HI> lay where and upon whom they protect, as particularly, the <HI>Money Merchants:</HI> &s;peak truly, are not they, their <HI>friends and faction</HI> the only re|ceivers and devourers of the <HI>Kingdoms trea&s;ure;</HI> and be|cau&s;e others &s;hould not bring them to <HI>account,</HI> and <HI>prevent</HI> any more <HI>opportunities</HI> or <HI>advantages,</HI> for them to hord up more, have done all this: would not the <HI>Disbanding</HI> of the
<PB N="54" REF="28"> <HI>Army</HI> remove all or mo&s;t of the burthens that lie upon the <HI>Kingdom?</HI> and mu&s;t not the continuance of it bring &s;uch debts as are impo&s;&s;ible to be payd with &s;uch havock and every where de&s;truction to the provi&s;ion of the <HI>Kingdom,</HI> that its like to bring a Famine; be&s;ides the Soldiers domi|neering over every man in his own hou&s;e, that we are upon the matter, no beter then &s;laves; though we could not &s;ee this before, we &s;ee it now; bi&s;ides they know Religion and Peace are not to be e&s;tabli&s;ht by men of War; when the Church had re&s;t, in the <HI>Acts,</HI> then it multiplied. <HI>David,</HI> a man of War, mu&s;t not build the Temple, but <HI>Solomon</HI> a King of Peace. You know, in <HI>Nehemiahs</HI> time, they were forced to &s;tand with a trowel in one hand, and a &s;word in the other, Religion went but &s;lowly forward; and the rea&s;on was, be|cau&s;e the earth mu&s;t &s;tand &s;til, on purpo&s;e, that it may &s;up|port us to run the way of Gods Commandments. And as <HI>Antigonus</HI> told the <HI>Sophi&s;ter</HI> he came out of &s;ea&s;ons when he pre&s;ented a Treati&s;e of Ju&s;tice to him, that was at that very time be&s;ieging a City: and as its &s;aid, <HI>Soldiers cannot po&s;sibly hear the voyce of the Laws for tho noi&s;e of the Drums;</HI> and that, I beleeve, did make Mr <HI>Peters</HI> &s;o inveigh again&s;t the Lawyers going up and down to <HI>Westmin&s;ter,</HI> in his la&s;t Pamphlet: and indeed if the Army may come to quarter in the City, and M. <HI>Peters</HI> advice followed, few wil have any e&s;tates to go to Law for; but becau&s;e the Laws of God and the Land and the voyce of the Go&s;pel cannot be heard, let us pray for the peace of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> but if no peace, then let the Parliament and the City know, that though this generation of men &s;hould re&s;olve to have their wils, though with the lo&s;s of a good <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> and with the <HI>Scythians,</HI> that &s;coffingly an&s;wered <HI>Alexander,</HI> when he, hoping they would have an&s;wered of him&s;elf, asked them who they were mo&s;t afraid of; &s;aid, they were mo&s;t afraid lea&s;t Heaven &s;hould fal upon them, meaning they feared
<PB N="55" REF="28"> no enemy. Let not us therefore indeed fear any thing, but this only, lea&s;t God &s;hould be our Enemy; For as <HI>Noah,</HI> when the deluge of waters had defaced the great Book of Nature, had a Copy of every kind of Creature in that fa|mous Liberary of the Ark, out of which all were reprin|ted to the world; &s;o we, that have God, have the Original Copy of all ble&s;&s;ings, out of which, if by this generation of mon&s;ters, I mean tho&s;e that have put the Army into this di&s;temper, all were peri&s;hed, all might ea&s;ily be re&s;tored again, for God is the be&s;t &s;tore hou&s;e a people can have; <HI>The Name of the Lord is a &s;trong tower, and the righteous flie unto it and are &s;afe.</HI> Remember how lovingly the City late|ly in their <HI>Petition</HI> offered to take them by the hand to help them out of this labyrinth. I am &s;orry to &s;ee the Army &s;hould make &s;o ill u&s;e thereof, and with the Dog <HI>to return to the vomit again,</HI> and &s;hake hands with the Levellers. Wel, let the City take notice, its not good walking any more up|on the very brink of danger; let them take heed of tempting of God, they owned &s;ome, if not too in any, of their faults, and &s;et that upon their own &s;core they were innocent in, and I am &s;ure offered to pay the Armies debts, though but &s;cor|ned. For a final clo&s;e, if with the fool, <HI>they wil &s;ay in their hearts there is no God,</HI> and &s;o go on to ruin the Parliament and City, in their own &s;trength and wi&s;dom, let them re|member, le&s;t as <HI>Philip</HI> branded that Soldier that begged the lands of one that had entertained him kindly, with <HI>ingratus ho&s;pes</HI> on his forehead, &s;o that God brand not them with this ignominious note of an unthankful people, an ungrateful Army: I think their late disobedience wil be as litle honor to the Army, as for <HI>Pilates</HI> name to be mentioned in the Creed; Religion cannot be practiced without reward, and wil not be contemned without danger. I wil conclude with <HI>Artabazu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> in <HI>Xenophon,</HI> who complained, when <HI>Syrus</HI> had given him a cup of gold, and <HI>Chry&s;antes</HI> but a ki&s;s, in token
<PB N="56" REF="29"> of &s;pecial favor, that the cup of gold was not &s;o good as the ki&s;s he gave <HI>Chry&s;antes:</HI> and <HI>Socrates</HI> was wont to &s;ay, That he had rather have a Kings countenance then his coyn: I am &s;ure I had rather have a good look from God, then all the gli&s;tering pro&s;perity this wo ld affords, or this Army doth enjoy: A Chri&s;tian thinks him|&s;elf richer, when he is able to &s;ay God is mine, then if he had a thou|&s;and Mynes of Gold: and then, though much amazed at the Armies proceedings and &s;ucce&s;&s;es in all their trea&s;onable undertakings and God-loathing-di&s;&s;emblings; yet when I remember wherefore <HI>the way of the wicked pro&s;per, and wherefore they are happy that deal treacherou&s;ly with the Lord,</HI> then <HI>in the multitude of my thoughts his comforts delight my &s;oul:</HI> And &s;o ca&s;ting the anchor of my faith up|on his never-failing Word of Truth, I fully acquie&s;ce and conclude, <HI>Verily there is a reward with the righteous, verily there is a God that uprightly judgeth the earth.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Courteous Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>SOme change of words there is in this Book, for want of the Authors com|pany at the printing, which wil require thy care in reading, that a good interpretation may be put upon that which is ea&s;ily di&s;cerned not to be the Authors meaning; The greate&s;t mi&s;take you &s;hal find in the &s;ixth page, and very little el&s;where. Tel me if it be not a &s;trange cheat to the Kingdom, that the Army &s;hould act all this while, as long as plunder and pay was plenti|ful; and yet after al this, and not before they were Voted to disband, &s;hould then fal upon that very Parliament, &amp; then &s;hamefully tear it in pieces, limb by limb, and yet tel us they are making us a free Parliament, but that all the world may &s;ee they only aim at the in&s;laving of this Kingdom, and to be a perpetual Army, remember the particulars in this Book, &amp; that the Parliament was never mole&s;ted before but free, as they have acknowledged, and e&s;pecially confirmed by their actions: for, if it were not a free Parliament, they ought not to have acted up|on their Commi&s;&s;ion and other &s;everal Orders and Ordinances; &s;o that now all the world mu&s;t needs &s;ay they &s;trive for a New War, &amp; have done nothing el&s;e, ever &s;ince they were Voted to be Disbanded, but promote it &s;ometimes rai|ling again&s;t the Parliament, &s;ometimes forcing them, &s;ometimes inveighing a|gain&s;t the Mini&s;ters, &s;ometimes again&s;t the Scot, and every day &s;tudying new quarrels, how to bring about more imployment for them&s;elves, that they might prevent their own disbanding. I wonder they dare, in the face of the Son of God, contnue in a body to eat and drink the &s;weat of other mens brows and labors to the hazarding a &s;udden Famine by their acce&s;s and wantone&s;s, and indeed even the peri&s;hing of many poor families in the Country <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> above all I am &s;orry to &s;ee Sir <HI>Tho. Fairfax</HI> thus drawn in to continue among the croud, for all the &s;everal &s;teps of their proceedings, ever &s;ince their advance to Saint <HI>Albius,</HI> have been the promoting a New War; you &s;hal &s;ee if they do not procure one at la&s;t, without God, in his great mercy, to this poor Kingdom, prevent it.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Farewel.</SALUTE></CLOSER>
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