Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its Members. To convince them of, humble them for, convert them from their transcendent treasons, rebellions, perjuries, violences, oppressive illegal taxes, excises, militiaes, imposts; destructive councils, proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie kings, the old dissolved Parliament, the whole House of Lords, the majoritie of their old secured, secluded, imprisoned fellow-Members, the counties, cities, boroughs, freemen, commons, Church, clergie of England, their Protestant brethren, allies; contrary to all their oathes, protestations, vowes, leagues, covenants, allegiance, remonstrances, declarations, ordinances, promises, obligations to them, the fundamental laws, liberties of the land; and principles of the true Protestant religion; and to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels, as tend to publike unitie, safetie, peace, settlement, and their own salvation. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 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To convince them of, humble them for, convert them from their transcendent treasons, rebellions, perjuries, violences, oppressive illegal taxes, excises, militiaes, imposts; destructive councils, proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie kings, the old dissolved Parliament, the whole House of Lords, the majoritie of their old secured, secluded, imprisoned fellow-Members, the counties, cities, boroughs, freemen, commons, Church, clergie of England, their Protestant brethren, allies; contrary to all their oathes, protestations, vowes, leagues, covenants, allegiance, remonstrances, declarations, ordinances, promises, obligations to them, the fundamental laws, liberties of the land; and principles of the true Protestant religion; and to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels, as tend to publike unitie, safetie, peace, settlement, and their own salvation. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. [2], 48, [2] p. printed, and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, London : 1660. With a final errata leaf. Annotation on Thomason copy: "9ber [i.e. November] 5". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- History, (17th century) -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A91165 R203226 (Thomason E772_3). civilwar no Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, Prynne, William 1660 21291 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 B The rate of 2 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 John Latta Sampled and proofread 2008-07 John Latta Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Conscientious , Serious THEOLOGICAL AND LEGAL QUAERES , Propounded to the twice-dissipated , self-created Anti-Parliamentary Westminster Juncto , AND ITS MEMBERS . TO Convince them of , humble them for , convert them from their transcendent Treasons , Rebellions , Perjuries , Violences , Oppressive illegal Taxes , Excises , Militiaes , Imposts ; destructive Councils , Proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie Kings , the old dissolved Parliament , the whole House of Lords , the Majoritie of their old secured , secluded , imprisoned fellow-Members , the Counties , Cities , Boroughs , Freemen , Commons , Church , Clergie of ENGLAND , their Protestant Brethren , Allies ; contrary to all their Oathes , Protestations , Vowes , Leagues , Covenants , Allegiance , Remonstrances , Declarations , Ordinances , Promises , Obligations to them , the fundamental Laws , Liberties of the Land ; and Principles of the true Protestant Religion ; And to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels , as tend to publike Unitie , Safetie , Peace , Settlement , and their own salvation . By William Prynne Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne . Levit. 19. 17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart , thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour , and not suffer sin upon him ; or , bear not sin for him . 1 Tim. 5. 20. Them that sinne openly , rebuke before all , that others may fear . Prov. 9. 8 , 9. Rebuke a wise man , and he will love thee ; give instruction to a wise man , and he will yet be wiser . Jude 11 , 12. Wo to them , for they have gone in the way of Kain , and perished in the gainsaying of Core . They are trees whose fruit is withered , TWICE DEAD , plucked up by the roots . London Printed , and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain , 1660. Conscientious , Serious Theological and Legal Quaeres , &c. THe Wisest of Men , and God only wise , informs all Sons of Wisdom capable of Instruction ; that a open rebuke , is better than secret love ; because faithfull are the wounds of a friend , but the kisses of an enemy are deceitfull : whence b he that rebuketh a man , for his exorbitant transgressions , afterwards shall finde more favour , than he that flattereth with the tongue ; by extenuating , excusing or justifying his Offences . Upon this consideration , I reputed it both a seasonable and Christian duty incumbent on me in this day of the late Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes dissipation , humiliation , confusion , and Army-Officers division amongst themselves , to reminde them fully of , and * rebuke them plainly , sharply , for their manifold Treasons , Perjuries , and other exorbitant Offences against their lawfull Protestant Kings , Kingdom , the late dissolved Parliament , the whole House of Lords , the Majoritie of their fellow-Members , the whole English Nation , Church , Ministrie , their Protestant Brethren , and Allies , against all their sacred and civil Obligations to them , in a serious , impartial , convincing , least-offensive manner , by way of Quaeres drawn from Gods word , and plain sacred Scripture-Texts , and our known Laws , which they have most presumptuously trodden under foot , and c would not hearken to , in the daies of their late self exaltation and Prosperity , like their Predecessors of old among the Jewes : when I minded and reminded them over and over , not only in my Speech , Memento , Collections of our antient Parliaments , and other publications in the years 1648 , 1649. in my Epistle to , and first Part of My Historical Collections , and Legal Vindication ; 1655. My Republicans Spurious Good Old Cause briefly and truly Anatomized ; My True and Perfect Narrative , and Concordia Discors in May , and June last , and Brief Necessary Vindication of the old and new secluded Members , in September following ; ( wherein I truly predicted their former and present dissolutions by those very Army Officers with whom they confederated ) which they would not credit , till dissolved by them ; being in good hopes , that they will now at last Hear counsel and receive instruction , that they may be wise in their latter end , as God himself adviseth them , Prov. 19. 20. 1. Whether their Speaker Mr. Lenthall and those confederate Members of the Commons House , who against their duties , upon pretext of the unarmed London Apprentices tumult at the House in July 1647. ( though they secured , secluded no Members , but only kept them in the House , till they had read , answered their Petition , and then quietly departed ) went away privily to the Armie , by the invitation , instigation of some swaying Army-Officers , without the leave or privitie of the House ; brought up the whole Army to Westminster and London to conduct them in triumph to the House , caused them to * impeach , declare against , suspend , imprison sundry Members of both Houses ; nulled all Votes , Orders , Ordinances , Proceedings in their absence , by reason of a pretended force upon the House by the Apprentices during that space , and declared them meerly void to all intents , by the Speakers Declaration , and an Ordinance of 20 Aug. 1647. when as there was no force at all upon the Houses during that time , and these Members might have freely , safely returned to the House alone , had they listed , without the Army , or any one Troop to guard them : and afterwards mutinied and brought up part of the Armie again to Westminster , to * force the Houses to passe the Votes for No more Addresses to the King , ( contrived in a General Council of Army-Officers , and seconded with their Declaration when passed by force and surprize in an emptie House ) After that most traiterously and perfidiously f confederated with the Army-Officers to break off the last Treatie with the King in the Isle of Wight ; to seise the Kings person by a partie of the Armie and remove him thence against both Houses Orders , notwithstanding his large Concessions and consent to their Propositions ; to secure , seclude all the Members of the Commons House , who after many daies and one whole nights debate , passed this Vote according to their judgements , consciences , duties ( carried without dividing the House , notwithstanding the Armies march to Westminster , and menaces to prevent it ) That the answers of the King to the Propositions of both Houses , were a ground for the House to proceed upon for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom : which Vote of the whole House when there were above 300 Members present , about 40 of them only soon after repealed , expunged , ( the manner of carrying on of which design against the King and Members , was concluded by a Committee at Windsor , consisting of 4. Army-Officers , wherof Col. Harrison ( their chair-man , and a Member ) and Col. Rich were two ; 4. Members of the Commons House , whereof Cornelius Holland yet living was one , the 3. others since dead , 4. Independents , and 4. Anabaptists of London ; wherein a List was made by them what Members should be secluded , secured , and who admitted to fit ; this Committee resolving to dissolve both Houses by force , and to trie , condemn , execute the King by a Council of War , if they could not get 40 of the Common g House to sit and bring him to Justice , as John Lilburn one of that Committee hath published in print ; ) approved , abbetted the Armies forcible , treasonable securing of many Members , secluded the Majoritie of the House by their vote of Jan. 11. 1648. upon the Armie-Officers false and scandalous printed Answer to them , Jan. 3. touching the grounds of their securing and secluding them , contrarie to their Protestation , Covenant , the Privileges , Rights of Parliament , the Great Charter , the Fundamental Laws and Liberties of the Nation ; And not content therewith , by their own Anti-Parliamentarie , antichristian Usurpers , to out-act the old Gunpowder Traytors many degrees , by the Armies assistance , and e opposing , advancing themselves against all that is called God and worshipped , they most traiterously set aside , voted down , suppressed the whole House of Lords , as dangerous , uselesse , tyrannical , unnecessary ; usurped , engrossed the stile , power of the Parliament of England , and Supreme Authority of the Nation , to themselves alone , without King , Lords , or Majoritie of their fellow secluded Members ; created a new Monstrous High Court of Justice , ( destructive to all our fundamental Laws , Liberties and Justice it self ) wherein ( beyond all presidents since the creation ) they most presumptuously condemned , murdered , beheaded their own lawfull Hereditarie Protestant King ( against all their former Oathes , Protestations , vows , Covenants , Remonstrances , Declarations , Obligations , Allegiance , the Laws of the Land , the principles of the Protestant Religion , and dissenting votes , Protestations , Disswasions of the secluded Lords , Commons , Scots Commissioners , London Ministers ; the intercessions of forein States , and our 3. whole Kingdoms , ) together with 3 Protestant Peers soon after : After that , close imprisoned my self , Sir William Waller , Sir William Lewes , Major General Brown , with sundrie other Members divers years in remote Castles , without any hearing , examination , cause expressed , or the least reparatiō for this unjust oppression ; exercising far greater Tyrannie over the Peers , their old fellow Members , and all English Freemen , during the time of their Regality in every kind , than the beheaded King or the worst of his predecessors ; were not by a most just , divine retaliation and providence ( when they deemed themselves most secure and established ) even for these their transcendent Treasons , Perjuries , Tyrannies , violations of the rights , privileges of parliament , their own sacred Oathes , Protestation , League , Covenant , suddenly dissolved , dissipated , thrust out of doors , Apr. 20. 1653. by Cromwel and the Armie-Officers in a forcible shamefull manner , with whom they confederated all along , though they received new Commissions from , & engaged to be true and faithful to them without a King or House of Lords , and branded by them to posteritie in their printed Declaration , April 20. 1653. as the corruptest , and worst of men ; intollerably oppressing the people , carrying on their own ambitious designes , to perpetuate themselves in the Parliamentarie and Supreme Authoritie , the archest Trust-breakers , Apostates , never answering the ends which God , his people , and the whole Nation expected from them , &c. Col. Harrison himself ( the Chairman at Windsor Committee to secure us ) being the very person imploied by Cromwell to pull their Speaker Lenthall out of the chair , and turn him with his Companions out of doors ; Cromwell himself then stigmatizing Sir Henry Vane , Henry Martyn , Tom Challoner and others of them by name , with the Titles of Knave , Whoremaster , Drunkard , &c. And not long after to requite his good Services , he suddenly turned Col. Harrison , Rich , and their party out of the Com-House by Force , dissolved their Anti-Parliamentarie Conventicle ( elected only by the Armie ) Dec. 11. 1653. whiles they were seeking God for direction ; and soon after cashiered both these * Collonels , ( his former greatest Instruments ) out of the Armie , sent them close Prisoners to remote Castles garded with Armie Troops ; And as they and their Troops when they seised Major General Brown , with other Members , and conducted them to Windsor Castle , and other Prisons , refused to acquaint them whither they were to be sent : So M. Jossop the Clerk of their Council of State , ( who brought these Colonels to the Coach at Whitehall garden door , when they were conveyed prisoners to remote Castles ) and their Conductors denied to inform them to what places they were committed ; whereupon they cried out to the Troopers which garded them ; Gentlemen , is this the Liberty you and we have fought for , to be sent close Prisoners to remote-Garrisons from our wives and families , they will not tell us whither ? Will you suffer your own Collonels , Officers , who have fought for Laws , Liberties , and have been MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT TO BE THUS USED ? To which they answered , as themselves did in the like case to other secured Members , conducted by them : We are commanded , and must obey , not dispute our Orders ; and so were hurried away : as an eye and ear witnesse of the old Parliament , related to me within one hour after . Yea young Sir Henry Vane himself ( the bold prejudger of our Debates and Vote in the House touching the Kings concessions , if not a promoter of our unjust seclusion for it , ) was-unexpectedly and suddainly , not only thrust out from all his Imployments , as well as out of the House , but sent close Prisoner by Cromwell to Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Weight , the very place where he betrayed his trust to the King and Parliament at the Treaty , to gratify Cromwel , who by an extraordinary strange providence , sent him close Prisoner thither for sundry months , to meditate upon this divine Retaliation . Whether may not all this dissolved Juncto and its Members , from these wonderful Judgements , providences , now conclude and cry out with that heathen cruel Tyrant Adonibezeck , Jud. 1. 7. As I have done , so God hath requited me ? And acknowledge the truth of Gods Comminations against all treacherous betrayers and potent oppressors of their Brethern ; Obad. 15. As thou hast done , it shall be done unto thee , thy reward shall return upon thine own head . Ps , 7. 15 , 16 He made a pit and digged it , and is fallen into the ditch which he made ; his mischief shall return upon his own head , and his violent dealing upon his own pate . Rev. 13. 9 , 10. If any man have an ear to hear , let him hear ; He that leadeth into Captivity , shall go into Captivity ; He that killeth with the Sword , shall be killed with the Sword . Here is the patience , and faith of the Saints . O that all real and pretended Saints , in the dissolved Juncto and Army , would now consider and believe it : as I lately pressed them to do , in the cloze of my Good Old Cause truly stated , and the false Vncased ; yet they would not regard it . Whether their illegal forcible wresting the Militia of the Kingdom totally out of the Kings hands into their own ; as their only security to sit in safety ; and perjurious engaging all Officers , Souldiers of the Army in England , Scotland , and Ireland , to be true , faithfull and constant to them without a King or House of Lords ( by subscriptions in Parchment Rolls returned to them under all their hands ) contrary to their former Votes , Declarations , Remonstrances , Protestations , Oaths , Vows , Covenants , Trusts , yea the very writs , returns which made them Members , their own Souldiers , Army-Officers first Commissions , Declarations , Remonstrances , Proposals ; and depending on this g arme of flesh , or broken h reed of Aegypt , as a most sure invincible Guard , security , from all forces , and enemies whatsoever that might assault , dishouse , dethrone them from their usurped supream Regal and Parliamental Authority over the three Nations , and their Hereditary Kings , * whom they would not have to reign over them ; hath not been most exemplarily and eminently requited by Gods avenging providence , in making the very self-same Army most treacherous and perfidious to themselves , to rise up , rebel against them several times , and turn them out of House , power on a sudden when they deemed themselves most secure ; to make themselves more than Kings and Lords over them and our whole 3. Kingdoms ; and i An host of the High ones that are on high upon the earth : reviving that Ataxie , which Solomon complained of as a great error in Government , and a divine judgement upon the Authors of State-Innovations . Eccles. 10. 6 , 7 , 8 , 9. Folly is set in great dignity , and the rich sit in low place ; I have seen servants on horseback , and Princes walking as Servants upon the earth . He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it , and who so breaketh an hedge a Serpent shall bite him : Whosoever removeth stones shall be hurt therewith , and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby ? Whether that curse and judgement , Jer. 17. 5 , 6. Thus saith the Lord , cursed be the man that trusteth in man , and maketh flesh his arm , and whose heart departeth from the Lord ; For he shall be like the heath in the desart , and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inherit the parched places in the wilderness , a salt land , and not inhabited : hath not justly befallen them and our Nation , for relying on & trusting to an arm of flesh , an * Assembly of treacherous men , whom themselves taught , encouraged to be treacherous , perjurious to the King , Parl. Lords , their fellow-Members , and k thereby to themselves ; yet voted , cried them up for their faithfull Army , Saviours , Deliverers , Protectors , Shields , and only Safeguard , after they had dealt treacherously with themselves , and all their other Superiors ; and proved like m Aegypt to the Israelites who trusted on them : When they took hold of thee by the hand , thou diddest break and pierce through the hand , and rent all their shoulder , and when they leaned upon thee , thou brakest and madest all their loins to be at a stand ; yea , dissolved , and n broke them in pieces like a potters vessel , so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it , a sheard to take fire from the hearth , or water out of the pit . And may we not then take up this Song of the Lamb ? Rev. 15. 3 , 4. Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty ; Iust and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints ; who shall not fear thee , ô Lord , and glorifie thy name , for thy Iudgements are made manifest ? Whether their clandestine , sudden , indirect stealing into the Commons House again , May 7. 1659. upon the Army-Officers invitation and Declaration , ( who formerly turned them out of it with highest infamie , contempt and desamation April 20. 1653. ) after about 6. years dissolution , and 4. intervenient Vnparliamentary Conventicles , ( wherein manie of them sat as Members , and acted as in Parliaments ) by pretext of their old Writs and Elections as Members of the long Parliament , actually and legally dissolved by their traiterous beheading of the King near 11. years before , as I have * elsewhere proved ; without any new writs of summons , resummons , elections , or the privitie of their former electors or fellow-Members : Their forcible secluding of my self , Sir George Booth , Mr. Ansly , and all other formerly secluded Members , and others not fitting with them from 1648. til April 20. 1653. by Army-Officers and Guards of Souldiers placed at the door for that end , and their justification , and continuing of this new seclusion as well as the old : Their usurping to themselves the Title , power of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England , Scotland and Ireland , and Supreme Authority of the Nation : their exercising both the Highest Regal , Parliamental , Legislative , Tax-imposing Power over our Nations , ( the worst , highest of all other Treasons ; ) their creating new unheard of Treasons , Exiles by their bare Proclamations , imposing New intollerable Taxes , Excises , Militiaes on the whole Nation , against all Laws , and our Fundamental Liberties , Franchises . Their most injurious , illegal , unpresidented proclaming of Sir George Booth , Sir Thomas Middleton , with other old and new secluded Members of the long Parliament , and all their adherents , Traytors , Enemies to the Common-wealth , and Apostates , not only in all Counties and Corporations , but Churches and Chapels too throughout the Nation , to abuse both God and men , only for raising forces by virtue of Ordinances and Commissions granted them by the long Parliament ( which themselves pretended to be still continuing ) to defend the Rights and Privileges of Parliament , to call in all the surviving Members of both Houses to fit with them , or procure a free and full Parl duly summoned , aecording to the Protestation , Vow , League , Covenant , and Laws of the Land , being their own and the whole Nations Birthright , for defence whereof the Armie it self was both raised , continued , and themselves in their Proclamation of May 7. 1659. and Declaration of March 17. 1648. promised inviolably to maintain ; which their own consciences knew to be no Crime nor Treason at all , but an honest , legal , honorable , necessarie undertaking , justified by all their former Votes , Orders , Ordinances , Commissions for raising forces against the Kings partie for the self-same end : And themselves greater Traitors , Enemies to the Kingdom and Republike , than Strafford , Canterbury , or the beheaded King , in proclaming their defence of this undoubted Inheritance of all English Freemen against their Tyrannical usurpations thereon , to be Treason and Apostacy : Their sending out Major Gen. Lambert , ( who invited them into the House May 6. conducted them into it , but secluded Sir G. Booth & other Members out of it , May 7. took a new Commission from them afterwards in the House , and promised with manie large expressions , to be true , faithfull , constant , and yield his utmost assistance to them , to sit in safety and support their power ) with great forces against Sir George Booth and all his adherents in this cause , being the Majority of the old Parl. and of the people of the Nation , and the true old Parliament if continuing , to levie actual warr against them ; declared * high Treason by sundrie Votes and former Declarations , and so resolved by themselves in their Impeachments against the beheaded King , the Earl of Holland , Lord Capel , and sundrie others ; who accordingly levied war against them , routed their forces , reduced their Garisons , imprisoned their persons , sequestred , confiscated their estates as Traitors ; secured , disarmed Sir Will. Waller , Mr. Holles , with sundrie other old Members , promised rewards for bringing in the persons or heads of others they endeavoured to secure , against all rules of Law , and Christianitie ; kept a publike humiliation for their good successe against Sir George Booth and his adherents , and after their defeat a publike thanksgiving through Westminster and London , to mock God himself ( * who will not be mocked ) to his very face , and ordained a publike thansgiving throughout the whole Nation , to abuse both God and them , for their Great Deliverance from the most Dangerous Plot and Treason of Sir George Booth , and his party ; ( to bring in all the old Members to sit with them , without turning those then sitting out , or to procure a free Parliament , ) that so their Anti-Parliamentary Conventicle , by this pretext , might exercise a Perpetual Tyrannie , and Parliamental Authority over them ; and none thenceforth dare demand a full and free Parliament for the future , under pain of highest Treason , Apostacie , and the losse of their very Heads and estates ? Whether all these their transcendent High Treasons , with their former 1648 , against the K. secluded Members , Lords , Parliament , people , were not by a most signal miraculous Providence and Justice of God himself recompenced immediately after upon their own , Lamberts , and other Armie-Officers heads , by making their routing of Sir George Booth and his party , after their first thanksgiving for it , before the next day of general thanksgiving came , the very occasion of their sudden unexpected dissolution : 1. By over-elevating Lamberts , his Officers and Brigades Spirits , ( notwithstanding the signal Marks and Rewards of their Favours towards them , for the present , and future promises of advancement for their Fidelity to them in this Service ) to enter into contestations with them by their Petition and Representations . 2ly . By raising the differences and jealousies between them to such a height and open enmitie , notwithstanding all their large Votes & compliances to satisfie them , all means , mediations of Friends , and the Londoners publike Feast on their thanksgiving day , to reconcile them ; as to incense the Juncto to vote Major Harrison ( a chief agent , Chairman for the old Members first seclusion ) uncapable of any publike Trust or Office : to vote Lambert , Disbrow , Creed , and 6 more field Officers out of their commands , null their Commissions , and dispose of their Regiments to the next Officers , without any hearing or examination ; if not threatning to commit Lambert to the Tower as a Traytor ; to repeal Fleetwoods Commission and Knack to be Lieutenant General of their Forces in England and Scotland ; and put the command of the Army and new Militia under 7. Commissioners , to wrest the power of them both into their own hands . 3ly . By exasperating Lambert and his confederates by these Votes so far against them , & giving them such favour with the Armie , as to draw up the greatest part of the forces about London in battel array against them ; and notwithstanding their partie in the Armie , whereof they had made many of themselves Colonels , their interest in the Militia of Westminster , London , Southwark , and Sir Henry Vanes two Regiments of Gathered Churches ( who were disgregated and kept their Chambers all that day , not one of them appearing in the sield , because their valiant Collonel took a Clyster pipe into his fundament , instead of a Lance into his hand in the day of battel , and durst not hazard a broken pate in the quarrel ; ) and then in a hostlle warlike manner to besiege many of them in Whitehall , block up all passages to the House , seise upon their old Speaker with his Coach , Mace , and new General ( without a Sword , Armie , Troop or Company ) from whose hands they had freshly received their Commissions , turning him back from whence he came ; to charm all the Junctoes forces so , as to march away without drawing one sword , or shooting one bullet in their defence , so true , faithful , were they to their good old cause , as well as to their New Protectors , as to deem neither of thē worth one bloodie nose . 4. By engaging Lambert & his party , notwithstanding all endeavoured & seeming accommodations between them , to seise upon their House , and their provisions of ammunition and victuals in it : to lock up the doors , and keep constant Guards upon the stairs to seclude all these their new Lords and Masters , as they did on May 7 , 9. and afterwards seclude their fellow-Members ; and not content herewith , by a printed Plea for the Army , and Declaration of the General Council of the Army , sitting at Wallingford House , which called them in , and thus shamefully not long after turned them out of doors , ( usurping to themselves both a Regal Authority to call and dissolve Parliaments , ( as they repute and stile them ) and a Parliamental too , in making and repealing Acts of Parliament ( as they deem them ) at their pleasure ; ) they not only justifie this their forcible ejectment , seclusion to all the world by Lex talionis , even their own abetting , approving , justifying the Armies former seclusion of the Major part of their fellow Members , who were the House , & the whole House of Lords , and securing the leading Members , when overpowred by them , and appealing to the Armies Judgements therein : but also put a period to their Assemblie : branded , nulled , repealed , declared their last Votes , Acts , Proceedings void to all intents and purposes whatsoever , as if they had never been made ; Censured them as imperfect , ineffectual , irregular , unparliamentary , illegal , pernicious , rash , inconsiderate ; branding each other in several printed Papers , for Traytors , Trust-breakers , Treacherous , Perfidious , Faithless , Vnrighteous , Ambitious , Self-seeking usurpers of the Soverain Power , Oppressors of the free people of England , and invaders , betrayers of their Liberties & Birthrights : thereby declaring the old secluded Members , the only honest , faithfull , constant , consciencious Men , adhering to their good old Cause , Oaths , Covenant , Principles , and the publique interest ; and Sir George Booth himself to be No Traytor , but truer Patriot of his Country than any of themselves , as dying Purefoy openly acknowledged before his death , and others of them confesse in private , since even Lambert himself hath done and exceeded that work , they feared he would doe , by dissolving their Conventicle , & turning thē out of house & power , which Sir George did not design . Whether all these strange unparalleld , sudden , unexpected animosities , divisions between themselves ; their uncommissioning , dissolving , cashiering , disofficing one another , ( which I truly predicted to them from Scriptures and former Providences , in My Good Old Cause truly stated ; My True and Perfect Narrative , p. 94. 98. and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members , p. 61 , 62. ) be not the very finger of God himself , the Lords own doing , truly marvellous in all our eyes ; yea the very particular Judgment menaced by God himself against all such Traitors and Innovators , as most audaciously and professedly violate , with the highest hand this divine Precept , Prov. 24 , 21 , 22. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King , and meddle not with those that are given to change ; for their Calamity shall soddenly arise , and who knoweth the ruine of them both ; and a verification of Prov. 29. 1 ? If not a divine infliction of the very Confusion and punishment denounced by God himself against Aegypt of old for their crying sins , Isay 19. 2 , 3 &c. I will set the Aegyptians against the Aegyptians , and they shall fight every one against his brother , and every one against his neighbour , City against City , and Kingdom against Kingdom : And the Spirit of Aegypt shall fail in the midst thereof , and I will destroy the Counsel thereof . Surely the Princes of Zoan ( the Juncto , and Armies General Council ) are become fools ; the Princes of Noph are deceived ; they have also seduced Egypt , even they that are the stay of the Tribes . thereof . The Lord hath mingled a spirit of Perversities amongst them , & they have caused Egypt , ( yea England , ) to erre in every work thereof , as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit ; Neither shall there be any work for Aegypt , which the head or tayl , branch or root may do ; to defend or establish themselves or their pretended yet unformed Free-State . And may not they all then and others too upon the consideration of all the premises , justly cry out with the Apostle in an holy admiration , Rom. 11. 33. O the depth of the Riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his Iudgements , and his wayes past finding out ? 4. Whether the Juncto and their High Court of Injusticemen , who had any hand , vote , in the Traiterous , Perfidious beheading of their late Protestant King , the head of the Parliament ; dissolving and blowing up the whole House of Lords , the Majoritie of the Commons House , the whole old Parliament , Kingdom , Kingship ; the Prince of Wales , next heir and successor to the Crown ; the rights , privileges , freedom of Parliament , the fundamental Laws , Liberties , Government of the Nation , and our established Protestant Religion , against all their Oathes , Allegiances , Trusts , Duties , Votes , Declarations , Remonstrances , Protestations , Vows , Solemn Leagues , Covenants obliging them to the contrarie ; can with any faith , boldness , confidence , pietie , or real devotion appear before the presence of God , Angels , Men in any of our Congregations on the 5 of November , the * joyfull day of our deliverance , from the Popish Gunpowder Treason , publikely celebrated every year ; to render publike thanks to Almighty God , and ascribe all honour , glory and praise to his name , for his great and infinite mercy in delivering the King , Queen , Prince , Lords-Spiritual and Temporal when assembled in the Lords House , Nov. 5. An. 1605. ( from this plot of malicious , divellish Papists , Jesuites and Seminary Priests , who maligning the happiness and prosperity of our Realm , Church and Religion under a Protestand King , and its promising continuance to all posterity , in his most hopefull , royal , plentiful Progeny , intended to blow them all up suddenly with gunpowder , but were through Gods great mercy miraculously delivered from this suddain horrid Treason , by a wonderful discovery thereof some few hours before it was to he executed ; ) when as themselves have outstripped them by many degrees in executing , accomplishing far more than what they only intended , but could not effect ; yet reputing themselves Protestants , and the eminentest of all Saints ? Whether they can without the greatest horror of conscience , confusion of face , spirit , consternation of minde , and grief of heart , henceforth presume to appear before the presence of God , or any English Protestants at any time , especially on this day , before they have publickly lamented , confessed , repented , and made some open eminent satisfaction , for those transcendent new Gunpowder-Treasons , far worse than the old of the Jesuits and Papists , by whom they were acted in this ; especially if they consider Gods expostulation with such sinners . Ps. 50. 16 , 17. What hast thou to do to declare my Statutes , or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth ? Seeing thou hatest Instruction , and hast cast my words behind thee . When thou sawest these Powder-Traycors , thou consentest with them , and hast been partaker with these Murderers , and Adulterers . And that of Rom. 2. 1 , 2 , 3. Therefore thou art inexcusable , O man , whoever thou art that judgest : for wherein thou judgest another , thou condemnest thy self : For thou that judgest , dost the same things . But we know that the judgement of God is according to Truth , against those who commit such things . And thinkest thou this , O man , that judgest them which do such things , and dost the same , ( nay worse ) that thou shalt escape the judgement of God , & c. ? 5. Whether those turn-coat Peace-abhorring , self-seeking , shameless Members , and Lawyers , who ( though not fifty in number ) sitting under a force after the seclusion of the Majority of their fellow-Members , Decemb. 13 1648. resolved , that the Vote passed in a full House July 28. 1648. That a Treaty should be had in the Isle of Wight , with the King in Person , by a Committee appointed by both Houses , upon the Propositions presented to him at Hampton Court : was highly Dishonorable to the procéedings of Parliament , and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom . And that the Vote of 5. Decemb. 1648. ( passed without dividing the House when there were 300 Members in it ) That the answers of the King to the Proposition of both Houses , are a sufficient ground for the House to proceed upon , for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom : is highly dishonorable to the Parliament , and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom , and tending to the breach of the publick faith of the Kingdom . And in their Declaration of 15. January 1648. expressing their Reasons for annulling and vacating these Votes in this manner ; declared them to be highly repugnant to the glory of God , greatly dishonorable to the proceedings of Parliament , and apparently destructive to the good of this Kingdom : ( adding ) Yet we are resolved , and that speedily , so to settle the peace of the Kingdom by the Authority of Parliament , in a more happy way than can be expected from the best of Kings ; Which they never since performed in the least degree , but the direct contrarie , embroiling us in endless Wars , Seditions , Tumults , Successions , Revolutions of new-modelled Governments , and Anti-Parliamentary Conventicles ever sithence . After that suppressed our Kings and Kingly Government , as the Instruments , Occasions of Tyranny , Injustice , Oppression , Luxury , Prodigality and Slavery to the Commons under them ; together with the whole House of Lords , as Dangerous , Vselesse , Dilatory to the Procéedings of Parliament , &c. in their Votes of Febr. 6. and Declaration of 17 Martii 1648. expressing the grounds of their late Proceedings , and setling the Government in way of a Free State . Next , prescribed , subscribed an Ingagement to be true and faithfull to the Commonwealth established by them without a King or House of Lords . Yet afterwards in their New modelled Parliament ( as they reputed it ) April 1657. by their Petition and Advice , ( as first penned , passed and presented to Cromwell for his assent : ) Declared the revival of Kingship and Kingly Government , absolutely Necessary for composing the distractions , and setling the peace and tranquillity of our Nations ; advised , petitioned , and pressed him to accept the Name , Title , Power and Soveraign Authority of a King , over our three Kingdoms , and the Dominions thereunto annexed ; Voted him to be King thereof , with a constant revenue of no lesse than Twelve hundred thousand pounds a year in perpetuity , and five hundred thousand pounds more for 3. years space , out of the peoples exhausted purses , after most of the antient lands and Revenues sold , when as they themselves affirmed and published in their Declaration of March 17. 1648. p. 19. that the justisiable , legal Revenue of the Crown under King Charls ( besides the Customs and some other perquifites , charged with the maintenance of the Navie and Forts ) fell short of one hundred thousand pounds per Annum . This new-augmented Revenue for their New King Olivers support being above 3. times more than any of our lawful Kings ever enjoyed . And when Cromwell pretended dissatisfaction in point of conscience , to receive the Kingship and Kingly Government on him ; the very Lawyers , Members , Officers , who drew the Declarations and Reasons for abolishing Kingship , Kingly Government and House of Lords , were the Committee appointed to confer with him 3. several times , & draw up reasons to satisfie him , why he might and ought in reason , law , policie , conscience to accept the Kingship and Kingly Title , for his own and the publike Safety . Which he refusing ( against his desire ) they voted him their Royal Protector , took an Oath to be true and faithfull to him , and to his Son Richard after him , and to act nothing against their Persons or Power ; created themselves Another House , assumed to themselves the Title of Lords , and THE HOUSE OF LORDS , notwithstanding their Engagements against is under all their hands . Yet soon after dethroned their young Protector , nulled all his Conventions wherein they sate , with all Lordships , Knightships , and Offices granted by their Protectors , as illegal ; revived their Anti-Parliamentary Juncto , after it had layen buried in oblivion above 6 years space , in May last ; and in July following prescribed a New Oath and Ingagement to all Officers , & others who would enjoy the benefit of their Knack of Indemnity ; To be true , faithful and constant to their Common-wealth ( though yet unborn ) without a Single person , Kingship , or House of Lords ? Whether such double-minded men , unstable in all their wayes , Jam. 1. 8. can ever be deemed chosen instruments ordained of God , to settle the Peace , or Government of our Nations ? Whether the Prophet Isay chap. 59. and the Apostle Paul , Romans 9. 10. &c. have not truly characterized them : There is none righteous , no not one ; there is none that understandeth , there is none that seeketh after God ; they are all gone out of the way , they are all together become unprofitable , there is none that doth good , no not one : their throat is an open Sepulcher , with their Tongues ( yea Oathes , Protestations , Declarations , Covenants ) they have used deceit , the poyson of Asps is under their lips : Their feet are swift to shed bloud , ( the bloud of their Protestant King , Peers , Brethren , Allies , Fellow-Subjects , by Land and Sea , at home and abroad , in the field , and in new Butcheries of Highest Injustice , ) destruction and misery are in their wayes , and the way of peace they have not known ; there is no fear of God before their eyes : they have made them crooked pathes , whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace . Therefore is judgement far from us , neither doth Justice overtake us ; we wait for light , but behold obscurity ; for brightness , but we walk in darkness : we grope for the wall like the blind , as if we had no eyes , we stumble at noon-day , as in the night ; we are in desolate places like dead men : we roar all like Bears , and mourn sore like doves ; we look for judgement , but there is none ; for salvation , but it is farr off from us . 6. Whether God himself hath not given the Anti-Parliamentary Juncto , and General Council of Army-Officers hitherto , in their Jesuitical Project of bringing forth a mis-shapen monstrous Commonwealth , and whymsical Freestate , to establish things amongst us , a miscarrying womb , and dry brests ; so as we may justly say of them as the Prophet did of Ephraim , Hos. 9. 12 , 14 , 15. 16. Ephraim is smitten , their root is dryed up , it shall bear no fruit ; yea , though they bring forth , yet will I even slay the beloved fruit of their womb : their glory shall fly away like a bird , from the birth , and from the womb , and from the conception ; as their Commonwealth whimsies have done ? Whether Gods signal over-turning , and forcible dissolving the Juncto by the Army-Officers , twice one after another in the very generation of this Jesuitical brat , before it was formed in the womb , to disinherit our antient hereditarie legitimate Kings and Kingship , and their turning of all things upside down ( our Kings , Kingdoms , Parliaments , Lords House , Lawes , Liberties , Oathes , Church , Religion , to make way for its production ) hath not been like the Potters clay , ( a rude deformed Chaos , without any lineaments , or shape at all ; ) so as the work yet saith of him that made it , he made me not ; and the thing formed saith of him that formed it , he hath no understanding , Isa. 29. 16 ? Whether these new Babel-builders , whiles they have been building this new City and Tower , to keep them from being scattered upon the face of the whole earth , * have not like the old Babel-builders , been confounded in their language by God himself , that they might not understand one anothers speech , and scattred abroad thence upon the face of the earth , though guarded by their faithfull Army , on whom they relyed for protection , so that they left off to build their Babel , like them ? Their City of Confusiō is broken down , & every house ( yea their own Parl. House ) shut up ; In the City is left desolation , and the gate is smitten with destruction . Isay 24. 10 , 12. It shall lie waste from generation to generation , none shall passe through it for ever and ever ; But the Cormorant & the Bittern shall possess it ; the Dwl also & the Raven shall dwell in it , and he shall stretch out upon it the line of Confusion , and the stones of emptiness ? Whether their and the Armies endeavours to set up an Vtopian Commonwealth , instead of our old Hereditarie Kingship , is not a * direct fighting against God , and the express precepts , ordinances of God himself , Prov. 24. 1 , 2. c. 22. 28. c. 8. 15 , 16. Rom. 13. 1 , 2. 1 Tim. 2. 1 , 2 , 3. Tit. 3. 1. 1 Pet. 2. 13. 17 ? Yea against the good providence , mercie , favour of God towards our Kingdoms and Nations for their establishment ; the want of a lawfull , hereditary King , to reign over a Kingdom and Nation , and a multiplicity of Governors , Kings , ( especially of inferiour rank ) and reducing the people to such a confused sad condition ; That they shall call the Nobles thereof to the Kingdom , but none shall be there , and all her Princes shall be nothing ; so that she hath no strong rod left to Rule , being a matter of present and future lamentation , a severe judgment of God for their sins , and wickednes , yea an occasion of all wickedness , licentiousness , villanies , confusion , and an immediat forerunner or concomitant of tha kingdoms and Nations desolation , ruine by Gods own resolution , Hos. 3. 4. c. 10. 3. 7. Ezech 49. 11 , 12. 14 , Isa. 33. 11 , 12 , 13. Judges 17. 6 &c. c. 18. 1. &c. c. 21. 25. Prov. 28. 2. c. 3021 , 12. Hab. 1. 10. 14 , 15. And is it not so now of ours ? 7. Whether the late Peition and Advice 1657. to reduce us again to a Kingdom and Kingship , to which W. Lenthal , Mr. Speaker , Whitlock , & many others of the dissolved Juncto assented , as it was first penned , voted , passed by them and many Army-Officers , as the only means to settle us in peace , honor , safety , prosperitie ; be not a convincing Argument , that in their own Judgements , Conscience ; Kings & Kingly Government , are Englands only true Interest , to end our wars , Oppressions , distractions , prevent our ruine , and restore our pristine unitie , peace , honor , safety , prosperitie , trade , glorie ? And whether it be not a worse than Bedlam Madness , and grosse error both in policie and expeperience in our Republican Juncto and Army-Officers , to endeavour to erect Utopian , Jesuitical Republike among us , ( which hath produced so many sad publique changes , confusions , and made us a meer floating Island , tossed about with every winde of giddy-brain Innovators ) as the only means of our firm , lasting happinesse ; and to prevent all future relapses to Monarchie after King Charls his beheading ; which this notable censure of the incomparable Philosopher * Seneca passed against that great Republican and Anti royallist , M. Brutus , will abundantly refute . Cum Vir magnus fuerit in aliis , M. Brutus , mihi videtur in hâc re vehementer errare , qui aut Regis nomen extimuit , cum optimus Civitatis Status sub Rege justo sit : aut ibi speravit Libertatem futuram ubi tàm magnum praemium erat , et imperandi et serviendi ; futuramque ibi aequalitatem civilis juris , et Staturas suo loco Leges , ubi viderat tot Millia hominum pugnantia , non ne serviret , sed utri : ( our present condition between the ambitious , usurping Antiparliamentary Juncto , and divided Army-Commanders , all contending which of them shall be the greatest , and who shall most oppress , enslave our Nations to their Tyrannie , farr more exorbitant than the very worst of all our Kings ) Quantum verò illum , aut rerum natura , aut vrbis suae tenuit oblivio Qui uno interempto ( Rege ) defuturum credidit alium qui idem vellet ; Cum Tarquinius esset inventus post tot Reges ferro et fulmine occisos ; even in Rome it self , and we in England since the beheading of King CHARLES , and voting down Kings , Kingship , with the old House of Lords , and Ingagements against them , have soon after found , a more than Royal Protector OLIVER , usurping the Wardship of our poor Infant Common-wealth , aspiring after a Kingship and Crown whiles living ; and crowned in his Statue , Herse , Scutcheons as both KING and CONQUER OR of our three Kingdomes after his death ; bearing Three Crowns upon his sword , as an emblem of it : a momentanie Protecter Richard after him ; a new self created other House , assuming to themselves the Title of LORDS & THE HOUSE OF LORDS ; after an old Lords House suppressed ; since that , a CHARLES FLEETWOOD , and JOHN LAMBERT , aspiring after the Soveraign Power , as their late and present actions , Declarations more than intimate , and dissolved Juncto affirm : and an exiled Hereditarie KING CHARLES , with a numerous ROYAL POSTERITIE after him , claiming the Crown and Kingship by lawfull indubitable Right , declared , ratified by the Vnrepealed Statutes of 1 Jacobi , c. 1. 3 Jacobi , c 1 , 2 , 4 , 7 Jacobi c. 6. the * Oathes of Supremacy , Allegiance , Fealty ; of all Mayors , Recorders , Freemen of every Corporation and Fraternity , of all Justices , Judges , Sheriffs , Officers of Justice , Graduates in Vniversities or Innes of Court , Ministers , Incumbents , all Members of the Commons House of Parliament , and all other Freemen sworn in our Leets ; who by the powerfull assistance of their forein Friends and Allies , and domestick , oppressed , discontented , divided , ruined Subjects , will in all probabilitie be restored to the Crown , sooner or later , ( as Aurelius Ambrosius after the murder of his Father and Brother by the Vsurper Vortigerne , ) was called in , restored and crowned King by his own British Subjects , to deliver them from Vortigerns and his invading Saxons Tyranny , after 21 years usurpation ; and Edward the Confessor , called in and crowned King by his Nobles and Subjects , after 25. years dispossession of his right by the Danish Vsurpers , and all the Danes expelled , without any effusion of blood ; as I have * elsewhere evidenced at large out of our best Historians . 8. Whether Gods extraordinarie sudden treble miraculous overturning 1. of the Juncto when best established and most secure , after their victorious Successes against the Irish , Scots , Hollanders , Worcester-fight , and League with Spain by their own General Cromwel April 20. 1653. without one drawn sword or drop of bloud , 2. Of Protector * Richard ( and his Brother Henry too , Deputy of Irel. ) by his Brother Fleetwood , Unkle Disbrow , & other Army-Officers , after all their Oaths , and Addresses to him from them and all the Officers , Soldiers , Navy , most Counties , Corporations in England , Scotland , Ireland to be true , faithful , loyal , obedient to , and live and die with him , in the midst of his Parliament , declaring , voting for , and complying with him ; when most men thought it impossible to overturn or depose him . 3ly , Of the revived Antiparliamentary Juncto , after Sir George Booths , and all their visible Opposites total rout and disappointment , when * themselves and others esteemed them so well rooted , guarded , that there was no hopes nor possibility left of dissipating , dissolving them , or abolishing their usurped Regal and Parliamental power , even by the very instruments that called them in , and routed their Enemies ; be not a real , experimental verification of Ezech. 21. 26 , 27. by way of Allusion to our own Governours and Kingdom , Thus saith the Lord God ; Remove the Diadem , and take off the Crown ; exalt him that is low , and abase him that is high : I will Overturn , Overturn , Overturn it , till he shall come whose right it is , and I will give it him ? 9. Whether the late Junctoes and Army-Officers doubling , trebling , quadrupling of our Nations Monthly Taxes , Excises , Militiaes , Grievances , Oppressions of all kinds by their usurped power ; their consumption , devastation of all the Crown-lands , Rents , and standing Revenues of the Kingdom ; of Bishops , Dean and Chapters lands , and many thousands of Delinquents real and personal estates , and greatest part of most mens privat estates , only to make them greater Bondslaves to them than ever they were to any Kings ; without benefiting or easing them in any kind ; and to murder one another by intestine , unchristian warrs , Butcheries : And their Monstrous Giddiness , Intoxication in all their premised Councils , New Models , and Rotations of Government , ever since they turned the Head of our Kingdoms ( which should rule , direct the whole body ) downwards , and the Heels uppermost , to animate and steer it , against the course of nature , the rules of Law , Policie , Christianitie : and Gods * hedging up all their new By-wayes with thorns , and making a wall cross them , that the people are not able to find their pathes : nor to overtake , nor finde their New Lovers they have hitherto followed and sought after , and those mad new whymfies the Jesuites infuse into their Pates from time to time , to make them and our Nation ridiculous to all the world till utterly destroyed : may not justly engage our three distracted Nations , and themselves too now , at a total loss ; to resolve and say with the Israelites , ( when revolted from their rightfull Kings of the House of David in the like case ) Hos. 2. 7. I will go and return to my first Husband , for then was it better with me than now : And to imitate the Israelites in the case of King David when expelled his Realm by his usurping son Absoloms rebellion , after his rout and slaughter , 2 Sam. 19. 9. &c. And all the people were at strife throughout all the Tribes of Israel , saying ; The king saved us out of the hands of our Enemies , and he delivered us out of the hands of the Philistins ; and now he is fled out of the Land for Absolom , and Absolom whom we anointed King over us , is dead in battel ( as their Pro. Oliver , Richard and dissolved Juncto are in a moment ) now therefore why are ye silent , and speak not a word of bringing back the King to his House : And Zadok and Abiathar the Priests , spake unto the elders of Judah saying ; Why are ye the last to bring the King back to his House ; seeing ye are his brethren , of his bone and his flesh ? And Amasa bowed the heart of all the Men of Iudah , even as one man , so that they sent this word unto the King ; Return thou and all thy servants . So the King returned to Jordan ; where all the people of Iudah , and half the men of Israel met him , and conducted him safe to Gilgal ; and the men of Judah c●ave unto their King from Jordan even to Ierusalem ; and re-established him in his Kingdom . Whether this be not the only safe , true , legal , prudential , Christian , speedy and ready high-way to their present and future Peace , Ease , Safety , Settlement , Wealth , Prosperitie , both as Men and Christians , without any further effusion of Christian bloud , expence of Treasure ; not other new Vertiginous Models , Army Councils , Treaties , tending to further confusions ; ( out of which the Nobilitie , Gentry , Ministry , Freeholders , Citizens , Burgesses , Merchants , Commons , Sea-men , Parliaments of our 3. Nations are totally secluded , like meer Cyphers , by the Juncto and Army-usurpers , as if they were meer Aliens , and wholly unconcerned in their own Government , Settlement , who will never acquiesce in any thing , but what themselves in a free Parliament shall resolve on . ) * Consider of it , take advice , and speak your minds , without fear , hypocrisie , or partiality . And whether we be not a people marked out and fitted for inevitable destruction ( having all the symptoms , fore-runners of it and sins that hasten it now lying upon us ) if we * brutishly reject this only means of our preservation , and follow the destructive whymsies of those Giddy-pated usurping raw Stears-men ? of whom we may justly say with the Prophet Isay 3. 1 , 4 , 12. Behold the Lord of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and Judah the stay and the staff , the Honourable man and the Counsellor : And I will give Children ( in State-affairs and understanding ) to be their Princes , and Babes shall rule over them . And the people shall be oppressed every one by another , and every one by his neighbour : the child shall be have himself proudly against the ancient ; and the Base against the Honourable ( as now they doe ; ) O my people , they which lead thee , cause thée to erre , and destroy the way of thy pathes ; and they that are led of them ( in their new Jesuitical By-wayes ) are destroyed , by intestine divisions and forein invasions , as in Isay 9. 12. to 21. A sad emblem of our present condition , and approaching destruction , worthy our saddest meditations . Whether the twice dissolved Anti-Parliamentary Juncto by their own Knack of the 12. of October , and paper printed by their special permission and command since their dissolution ; intituled , The Parliaments Plea ; declaring , resolving , p. 5 , 6 , 7. That the people of England are of Right , a Frée people , to be governed by their own elected Deputies and Trustees in Parliament ; it being owned on all hands , both by Parliament and Army , and all the good people engaged with them . That the people under God are the original of all just Authority ; and other original and foundation no man may lay . That to deprive or deny the people of this Inheritance , is Treason , Rebellion and Apostacy from the Good Did Cause of the English Nation ; for as much as a people free by Birth , by Laws , and by their own Prowess , are thereby rendred and made most absolute vassals & slaves , at will & power ; and greater Treason than this no man can commit . That to levy money upon the people without their consent in Parliament is Treason , for which every man that so Assesses , Collects , or gathers it , is to be Indicted for his life , and must dye as a Traytor ; not only by their late Knack , but by the Fundamental Good Did Laws of the Land , against which no By-law is to be made : this being a Fundamental law , and one of the main birth-rights of England ; That no Tax or Levy is to be layd upon the people but by their consent in Parliament ; Be not guilty of the greatest , highest Treason , Rebellion and Apostacy from the Good Old Cause of the English Nation , ( and the Army-Officers too confederating with them ) by depriving and denying the free people to be governed by their own elected Representatives & Trustees in a free Parl. by secluding four parts of five of the Knights , Citizens , Burgesses , & Barons of Ports out of the long Parl. whiles in being Dec. 1648. with armed power : by usurping to themselves the Royal , Parliamentary Legislative supream Authority over the people , and laying , assessing , levying , intollerable excessive Taxes , Excises , Militiaes upon them , without , yea against their consents and protestations ; and without the consents of the farr greater part of the Commons House , the King or House of Lords , which they forcibly secluded , suppressed , destroyed , against their fundamental Laws , Liberties , Privileges , Birth-rights , Protestations , Declarations and solemn League and Covenant ; by making them most absolute slaves , vassals from 1648. till their dissolution in April 20. 1653. and invading , inslaving , destroying their Protestant brethren of Scotland , and Allies of Holland by Land and Sea , to the undermining , endangering of the Protestant Religion ; by imposing New Oaths and engagements on them diametrically contrary to the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance ( which they all solemnly took as Members before they entred the House ) and disabling all to sue in any Court , or enjoy the benefit or protection of the Laws for which they fought , and to which they were born heirs , who refused to take their Treasonable , perfidious Ingagements ; by securing , imprisoning thousands of Freemen , close imprisoning sundry Members of the old Parliament , ( my self amongst others ) divers years in remote Castles , and keeping us from Gods publike ordinances , without any accusation , hearing , trial , or legal cause of commitment , expressed in their warrants . By presuming upon the Army and Officers sodain invitation after the old Parliaments dissolution by the Kings death , and their above 6. years dissipation by the Army , without the election or privity of the people , to sit and act as the Parl. and supream power of the Nation ; to seclude at least 3. parts of 4. of the old surviving Members by force , and proclaiming Sir George Booth , Sir Thomas Middleton and other Members and Freemen of England Traytors , and levying war against them , only for raising forces to induce them to call in all the old secluded Members , or to summon a new free Parliament , and for opposing their new illegal Taxes , Excises , Militiaes , imposed and levyed on the people , without their Common consent in Parl. deserve not to be all indicted , executed , and their estates confiscated as Traytors , for these their successive reiterated high Treasons by their own resolutions , & Sir George & his adherents totally acquitted frō the least imputation or guilt of Treason ? Whether their branding , sequestring them for Traytors , Apostates , Enemies to the publike against Law & Conscience too , hath not justly brought that wo & judgment upon their conventicle , Isa. 5. 20 , 23 , 24. Wo unto them that call evil good , and good evil ; that put darknesse for light , and light for darknesse ; that put bitter for sweet , and sweet for bitter ; and take away the righteousnesse of the righteous from him . Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble , and the flame consumeth the chaff , so their root shall be rottennesse , and their blossom shall go up as dust ; because they have cast away the Law of the Lord , ( and of the Land too ) and despised the name of the holy one of Israel . For all this his wrath is not turned away , but his hand is streched out still . Whether the Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes and Army-Officers , beheading of their late Protestant King , against the Votes , Protestations , of the generality of the Parliament and his 3. Protestant Kingdoms , and Mediations of all foreign Protestant Agents then in England ; their banishing , expelling his Royal Protestant Heir , Successor to the Crown , with all the rest of his Children ( professing the reformed Religion ) out of all their Protestant Realms and Dominions ; their invading of their Protestant Brethren in Ireland and Scotland , in an hostile manner with potent Armies , and waging warr against them in their own Countries , and after that against their own Protestant Brethren in England , as professed Enemies , Traytors , Apostates ; slaying divers thousands of them in the field ; imprisoning , banishing , disinheriting , sequestring many thousands more of them , only for owning , crowning , assisting their own hereditary Protastant King ( according to their Oathes , Covenants , Lawes , Homage , Allegeance , duties , and principles of the Protestant Religion ) to regain and retain his Royal Authority and Kingdoms . Their waging of a most bloudy destructive war with our antient Protestant Allies of Holland above 3. years space together , to the slaughter of many thousands of their and our gallantest Protestant Seamen , Admirals , Sea-Captains , of purpose to banish their own exiled Protestant King , his Brethren and followers out of the Netherlands from the Societie and charitable relief of their Protestant friends where they lived as exiles , enjoying the free prosession of the Reformed Religion , and Communion , prayers , contributions of the Protestant Churches ; on purpose to drive them into Popish Quarters amongst seducing Jesuites , Priests , Papists , to cast them wholly upon their Alms , Mercy , Benevolence , and by these high indignities , and their pressing necessities , to enforce them ( if they can ) to renounce the Protestant Religion and turn professed Papists : Their most unhuman , unchristian barbarism , in depriving them totally of all means of Subsistance , by seising all their revenues without allowing them one farthingout of them towards their necessary relief ; yet enacting it High Treason for any of their Protestant Subjects , Friends , Allies within their Realms or Dominions , to contribute any thing toward their support , to hold the least correspondency with , or make any publique prayers unto God for them : as if they were worse than Turks , Jews , Infidels , and most professed Enemies ; for whom we are not only commanded , obliged to pray , but also to love , feed , cloth , relieve , harbor them in their necessities , overcoming their evil with goodness , by Christs own example and expressprecepts , under pain of everlasting damnation ; be a conscientious Saint-like performance of and obedience to , or not rather an Atheistical obstinate , presumptuous rebellion against the 1 Tim. 2. 1 , 2 , 3. Mat. 5. 44 , 45. c. 22. 21. c. 25. 34 , to 46. Luke 6. 35. to 39. c. 10. 30. to 38. c. 23 , 34. Acts 7. 60. Rom. 10. 13 , 19 , 20 , 21. c. 13. 1 , to 12. c. 15. 26 , 27. 1 Cor. 16. 1 , 2. Jam. 2. 13. and other sacred Texts ? A religious , zealous observation of their * sacred solemn Protestations , Vows , Covenant , Remonstrances , Declarations , Oathes for the maintenance , defence and propagation of the true Reformed Protestant Religion , the Profession and Professors of it , against the bloudy Plots , Conspiracies , attempts , practices of the Iesuites , and other professed Popish Enemies and underminers of them ? Or not rather a most perfidious , treacherous violation , abjuration , and betraying of them ? A loving of their Protestant Brethren , with a true heart , fervently , and laying down their lives for them , and being pitiful , mercifull , compassionate towards them , according to these Gospel-precepts , Eph. 4. 32. c. 5. 1 , 2. 1 Pet. 1. 22. c. 2. 17. c. 3. 8. 1 John 3. 11. 14. 33. c. 4. 7 , 11 , 12. 20 , 21. John 13. 34. c. 15. 12. 17. Or not rather a shuting up their bowels of compassion towards them ; a grieving , offending , persecuting , murdering of their bodies and souls too ; and an infallible evidence , that they are yet no real Saints or children of God , but the very children of the Devil , abiding in death , having no true love of God , nor eternal life abiding in them , by Christs own resolution , John 8. 44 , 45. 1 John 2. 10. to 18 ? A professed Antichristian contradiction to the reiterated command and voice of God from heaven , Isay 52. 11. 2 Cor. 6. 17. Rev. 18. 2 , 3 , 4 , &c. Depart ye , depart ye , Come ye out of ( mystical , Romish Babylon , ( the mother of whoredoms , the habitation of Devils , and of every foul spirit , and the cage of every unclean and hatefull bird ) O my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes , and that ye receive not of her plagues : by their forcible driving of their own Protestant King , Brethren into Babylon , and keeping them therein , to have their habitation among Devils , foul spirits , & unclean birds of every kind , that so they may participate both in her sins and plagues ; instead of calling thē out from thence into their own Protestant Dominions and Churches ? * Verily , if the righteous shall scarcely be saved , where shall these most transcendent , unpresidented , unrighteous , ungodly sinners ( who obey not , but contradict all these Gospel Texts ) appear ? and what shall their end be ? Verily the Gospel it self resolves : ( and O that they would with fear and amazement of spirit now seriously consider it ) when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire to take vengeance on them , they shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord , and from the glory of his power , 2 Thess. 1. 7 , 8 , 9. * and shall receive judgement without mercy , because they have shewed no mercy , but the utmost extremity of malice and cruelty to the Souls and bodies of their Protestant King and Brethren ? Whether the Junctoes and Armies late Proceedings against the King and Kingship , were not the direct Plot of the Spaniolized Priests and Jesuites , who contrived and promoted it to their power ; as I evidenced in my Speech , Memento , Epistle to my Historical Collection , My true and perfect Narrative , and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members at large , and shall further clear by this ensuing Letter , the original whereof I have twice read , found by Mr. Sherman a Book-seller in Little Britain , ( in whose hands it is ) amongst the Books of Mr. Patricke Carre ( Priest to Don Alonso de Cardenas the Spanish Ambassador ) which he bought of him at this Ambassadors house , when he was departing hence upon the breach with Spain , 1653. within a year after this Letters date , which he soon after shewed to divers Gentlemen , one of them ( who took a coppy thereof ) promising to shew it to Cromwel himself . The Superscription of it is in Spanish directed ( as is conceived and the Letter imports ) to this Patricke Carre ( an Irish Priest and Jesuit ) under the name of Don Pedro Garsia : the Letter it self is in English , written it seems by some English or Irish Priest or Jesuit , sent as an intelligencer , by the Spanish Ambassador into Holland & France , ( with whom the English were then in hostility ) but the direction for Letters to him is in French . In the cloze wherof the Jesuitical and Spanish party in Paris , expected our Anti-Parliamentary Juncto ( whom they stile , our brave Parliament , as set up by and acting for them ) should espouse their quarrel and act their parts against the French ; and joyne with the Prince of Condie , to cut off the King of France his head , & all Kings else , as they did the King of Englands , by their instigation , such Antimonarchists , Traytors are these Jesuits , and Spanish Freers to all Kings and Monarchie . Paris , 10. of January , 1652. SIR , I Was no sooner in Holland , then I writ to you , but hearing nothing from you I concluded , either you were very sick , or that you received not my Letter ; I came hither in an ill time , for the Kingdom is in great disorder , upon the Kings recalling the Cardinal , against all his Declarations . This Town ready to declare in favor of the Prince and the Duke of Orleance , who is now treating with the Duke of Lorrain for his Army . If your dull * Archduke make no more advantage of this , than of the disorders of the last Summer , it 's pity but he were sent to keep Sheep . WE EXPECT HERE OUR BRAVE PARLIAMENT WILL NOT LET THE GAME BE SOON PLAYED OUT : I could wish Gallant Cromwell AND ALL HIS ARMY WERE WITH THE * PRINCE : for I BEGIN TO WISH ALL KINGS HAD THE * SAME THE KING OF ENGLAND HAD : I le say no more untill I hear from you , but that I am Your unfeigned Friend , T. Danielle . I pray remember me to both my Cozens . Direct your Letters A Monsieur Monsieur Canell demurant chez Mons : Marchant a la rne de pulle . The Superscription is thus , viz. A Don Pedro Garsia en Casa de Embaxador de Espanna que * Dios garde . En Londres 9d . There were many Papers and Notes written in Irish , some concerning the affairs & transactions of the late wars in Ireland , found amongst these Books , whence I conceive this Patrick Carre was an Irish Priest and Jesuite ; and that the Spaniard had a great hand in that horrid Rebellion . From the cloze of this Letter let all consider . Whether it can be safe for any Popish , as well as Protestant Kings to harbour such Jesuitical Antimonarchists and Regicides in their Kingdoms , Courts , who thus wish ALL KINGS beheaded and brought to Justice , as well as the late King of England , by Cromwell and his Army , or their own Subjects ? and how much they ought to detest his president ( of the Jesuits contriving ) let them now cordially and timely advise for their own securitie . Whether the Great swarms of Jesuites and Popish Freers in and about London , by the Junctoes , and Army-Officers tolleration and connivence ( whose Jesuitical Antimonarchical Plots , Counsels they have vigorously pursued ) be not the principal contrivers , fomentors of all our changes of Government , New Sects , Opinions , Mutinies in and Usurpations of the Army , ( in whose Councils most intelligent Protestants have just cause to fear they have been and still are predominant ) there being multitudes of them in and about London , under several masks ; some of them saying Masse in their Pontificalibus in Popish Ladies Chambers one day ; and speaking to and praying with their Soldiers in the Army , or in Anabaptistical or Quaking Conventicles the next day , of which there are some late particular Instances ; I shall relate one only more general and worthy knowledge . Two English Gentlemen of quality ( one of them of mine acquaintance ) travelling out of England into France in May 1658. and hiring a vessel for their passage , three strangers ( who came from London ) desired leave to passe over with them ; which they condescending to , suspected one of them at least , to be a Jesnit , by his discourse ; and during their stay at Paris , saw all three of them there walking often in the Streets in their Jesuits habits . In August following , they being at Angiers in France , there repaired to their lodging an Englishman , in his Friers weeds , who informed them , That he was an Englishman by birth , but a Dominiean Freet by profession , newly come from Salamanca in Sapin , and bound for England ; that he had been at Rome , where he had left some goods with an Irish Iesuit , who promised to return monies on them in France , but had failed to doe it ; whereupon he was in present distress for mony to transport him to England , desiring their favour to furnish him with monies , which he would faithfully repay in London , and if they had any Letters to send to their friends in England , he would see them safely delivered . The Gentlemen finding him to be an excellent Scholar of very good parts and education , entertained him 5. or 6. daies at their lodging , till they could furnish him with monies , and upon his Account as a Freer , had a very good intertainment in the Monastery at Angiers by the Freers thereof : During his stay there they had much discourse with him : He told them he had been formerly a Student in Kings College in Cambridge ; after that at Salamanca in Spain , for 8. years . Being demanded by them , Whether there were not many Jesuites and Freers then in England ? He assured them upon his own knowledge , they had then above five hundred Iesuites in London and the Suburvs ; and that they had at least four or five Iesuites and Popish Priests in and about London , to every Minister we had there . Whereupon they demanding of him ; How so many Jesuites and Priests were there maintained ? He answered , That the Iesuites and every Order of Fréers had their several Treasurers in London , who by Orders from their Provincials furnished them with what ever Monies they wanted by Bills of Exchange returned to them ; That all the Jesuites and Priests in England were maintained according to their respective qualities ; A Lords Son , like a Lord , and a Knights Son like a Knight ; and if they chanced to meet him in London at their return , though he were now in a poor weed , they should find him in Scarlet , or Plush , & a better equipage than what he was in . He would not discover his true name to them , but upon discourse on a sudden , he mentioned His Cozen Howard in England , which made them suspect he was of that family . He told them further ; that though we were very cunning in England , yet the Jesuites and Priests there were too crafty for us , lurking under so many disguises that they could hardly be discovered : That there was but one way to detect them ; which they being inquisitive to know . He said , it was for those who suspected them to be Priests to feign themselves Roman Catholicks , and upon that account to desire the Sacrament from them , which they could not deny to give them ( after Confession to them ) being bound thereto by Oath , by which means some of them had been betrayed . He further informed them : That himself had been at all the several Gathered Churches , Congregations & Sects in London , and that none of them came so near the * Papists in their Opinions and Tenents as the Quakers , among whom himself had spoken . This relation one of the Gentlemen ( a person of honor and reputation , the other being dead ) hath lately made to me three several times with his own mouth , and will attest it for truth , having related it to sundry others since his return into England . Which considered , Whether it be not the very High-way to our Churches , Religions , Ministers , Nations ruine and destruction to list so many Quakers , Anabaptists , Sectaries , in the Army and New Militiaes in most Counties , where they bear the greatest sway ; and to disarm the Presbyterians and Orthodox Protestants , as the only dangerous persons , and put all their arms into Quakers , Anabaptists , and Sectaries hands ( headed , steered by Jesuits , Popish Priests and Freers ) as they have done in Glocester , Colchester , Cheshire , Lancashire , and endeavour to doe in other parts , to cut all true Protestants throats , and set up Popery by the Army ( which hath so much advanced it of late years ) before we are aware ? Let all true zealous Protestants timely , seriously consider , and endeavour speedily to prevent ( and the Council of Army-Officers , with their new Committee of Safety too , if they have any care of their Native Country , or Protestant Religion ) before it be over-late . Whether we may not justly fear , that God himself in his retaliating Justice , for the Junctoes and Armies unparalleld Exile of their Protestant King and Royal posterity into Popish Territories ; and yet permitting such swarms of Jesuits , Monks and Romish Vermin to creep in and reside amongst us ; may not give up the dissolved Juncto , Army , Council of Officers , Soldiers , and their posterities , with our whole three Nations , as a prey and spoil to these seducing , dividing , ravening , all-devouring Wolves ; yea to the combined forces of our Spanish and French Popish adversaries , to the utter desolation , extirpation , ruine of our Protestant Religion , in the midst of our present divisions and distractions , under a just pretext of restoring the exiled Royal issue to their hereditary rights , and avenging the manifold indiguities to them and their relations , unless timely and wisely prevented by a prudent , voluntary clozing with , & loyal , christian restoring them , by common consent our selves , upon just , safe , and honourable terms , becoming us both as Men , Christians , and Professors of the Reformed Religion ? And whether we be not ripe for such a universal desolating judgement as this , if we consider , Is . 24. 16 , 17 , 18. c. 33. 1 , 2. c. 59. 1 , to 19. 2 Chr. 3. 6. 15 , to 21. Mich. 2. 2 , 3 , 4 , 5. Ezech. 35. 14 , 15. Joel 3. 6 , 7 , 8. or the late and present sufferings of most other Protestant Churches abroad , not half so Treacherous , Perfidious , Wicked , Exercrable as we , who are now become the very Monsters of Men , the scandal , shame , reproach of Christianity , and humanity in the repute of all the world ? Whether the Juncto and Army-Officers who have ( like the a Hypocritical Israelites ) very frequently ordered , celebrated many Hypocritical irreligious Mock-facts from time to time , to fast for strife , and debate , and to smite with the fist of wickednesse ; never yet observing , practising that fast which God himself requireth , to loose the bands of wickednesse , to undo the heavy burthens , to let the oppressed go free , to breakevery yoke , to deal their bread to the hungry , to bring the poor ( exiled Protestant Royal issue and their English followers ) that are cast out ( by them ) to their Houses , to cover the naked , and not hide their selves from their own flesh : who have hitherto made their publike and private dayes of Humiliation , a constant Prologue to their ambition , pride , b and rebellious self-exaltation ; their dayes of praying to God , a preface to their preying upon their brethren ; their seeking of God for direction and assistance in their designs , a means to colour and promote the very c works of their father the devil ; their pretended following the secret impulses of the spirit of God , the sole justification of d walking according to the Prince of the air , the spirit that now worketh in the Children of disobedience : their making , taking of solemn Oathes , Vowes , Protestations , Covenants , Engagements to be true , faithfull , oonstant , loyal , obedient to their Lawfull Kings their heirs , successors , superiors , the Privileges , Rights of Parliament our Fundamental Laws , Liberties , Religion , &c. a meer engin and diabolical stratagem , more cunningly , boldly , audaciously , perfidiously to betray , undermine , supplaut , subvert them ; have not now just cause to keep many publike , private Fasts , and dayes of Humiliation , to confesse , bewaile , repent , renounce , and reform these their transcendent-crying , wrath-provoking sins and abominations : together with their e building up of Zion ( their New Republike , Free-state , Churches , Kingdom of Jesus Christ ) with blood , and establishing Jerusalem with iniquity , f their devising iniquity and working evil upon their beds , and practising it when the morning is light , because it is in the power of their hand , and swords : their coveting ( other mens ) fields , houses , and taking them away by violence ; so they oppresse a man ( yea their Protestant King , and thousands more of their Protestant brethren ) and his house ; yea a man and his inheritance : for fear they incurre the fatal inevitable Woes , evills , Judgements , denounced by God , against such crying Sinnes , oppressions , violences , to the utter desolation , extirpation of them , their families , yea of our English Zion and Jerusalem , Mic. 2. 1 , to 6. Is . 32. 1 , 2. c. 3 , throughout : with that of Hab. 2. 7 , 8. Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee , and awake that shall vex thee , and thou shalt be for booties unto them ? Because thou hast spoyled many Nations , all the remnant of the people shall spoyl thee : because of mens blood , and for the violence of the Land , of the City , ( Army ) and all that dwell therein ? Whether the Junctoes and Army Councils utter subversion of all our Fundamental Laws ( especially Magna Charta , c. 29 , 30. the Petition of Right and all other Lawes , Statutes which concern the preservation of the Lives , Free-holds , Liberties , Properties , Franchises of the Subjects , the inheritance and succession of the Crown , the Rights and Privileges of Parliament ) their ending the last Easter Term , with very little Law , and no conscience at all ; their beginning Trinity Term with very little Conscience ( monopolized in their conscientions Speakers brest alone ) without any Law at all ; and their holding part only of Michaelmas Term without any Chancery or Conscience ( voted by some to be both useless and dangerous ) or any real Law in the judgement of understanding Lawyers , and breaking it off , without any Law or Conscience , to the undoing of many poor oppressed Clients left without relief ; with their manifold transcendent obstructions , subversions both of Law , Equity , Justice , Conscience , Property , Liberty , in their most arbitrary lawlesse Committees of Indemnity , and Courts of High Injustice ; be not a transcendent violation of all their former Remonstrances , Declarations , Votes , Protestations , League , Covenant ; and a meer Jesuitical design ( as I have * elsewhere evidenced ) to work our utter dissolution ( the Laws being the only Ligaments to unite , and Pillar to support our State and Kingdom ; whereby not only the Regal and Parliamental authority , but the peoples security of Lands , livings , lives , privileges both in general & particular are preserved , maintained , by the abolishing or alteration whereof , it is impossible but that present Confusion will fall upon the whole State , Frame of this Kingdom and Nation : as the Statute of 1 Iac. c. 2. resolves , and we finde by woful experience ? Whether the Army Council of Officers , have not most exemplarily and satisfactorily performed this part of their last printed Declaration , 27 Octob. 1659. p. 28. We earnestly desire and shall endeavour , That a full and through Reformation of the Law may be effected ; by their new Committee of Safeties imperious Order sent to Mr. Dudley Short ( a Citizen of London ) whom Mr. Thurlo ( whiles Secretary ) committing close Prisoner to a M●ssenger several weeks , so as neither his wife nor friends could have any access unto him , upon a meer Trepan , and supposed matter of Account between him and a Scotsman with whom he traded , & enforcing him at last ere released to enter into a Bond of 6000 l. with sufficient security for appearing before the Council of State , & to go in person into Scotl. when ever he should be required , & ordering him to go into Scotland soon after ( under pain of forfeiting his 6000 l. bond ) upon his own expence , where after many weeks attendance , and frequent , examinations before the Council there , touching this account , the Scotsman appeared to be indebted to him above 120l . whereupon he was dismissed thence . For which most unjust vexation , oppression and false Imprisonment against the Great Charter , c. 29. the Petition of Right , with other Acts , and the late Statute of 17 Caroli , c. 10. For Regulating the Privy Council , ( to Mr. Shorts great expence , losse of trade , reputation , and his damage of Ten thousand pounds , as he declared ) he brought his Action at law in the Common Pleas Court , which was set down to be tried at Guildhall , the 12. of this November . Whereupon Mr. Thurlo procured an express Order from the new Committee of Safety , wherein they presume to indemnifie him ( by their exorbitant arbitrary power ) against this action of false Imprisonment , and to enjoyn the Plaintiff both to surcease and release his sute , and never to prosecute it more ; and command his Counsel , Attorney , Sollicitor , the Judge himself , and all other Officers , not to proceed therein at their utmost peril , upon this ground ; because if this Trial should proceed , any others of the late and present Council of State might have actions brought against them for illegal commitments and imprisonments : Upon this the Officers of the Count refused to seal his Record for the Triall , and his Attorney and Counsel durst not proceed for fear of being layd by the heels . Whereupon he complained against this abuse , and moved for a triall in open Court , urged these Statutes with the Statutes of 2 E. 3. c. 2. 20 ▪ E. 3. c. 1 , 2. and the Judges Oath , That it shall not be commanded by the great Seal , nor little Seal , to disturb or delay common right ; And though such commandements do come , the Justices shall not therefore cease to do right in any point : And that the Justices shall not deny nor delay to no man common Right by the Kings Letters , nor none other mans , nor for none other cause . And in case any Letters come to them contrary to Law they shall do nothing by such Letters , and go forth to do the Law , notwithstanding such Letters : And pressing the Judge to doe him right accordingly , and to give him an answer in open Court ; yet their Order countermanded these Statutes and Judges Oath : So that no man , though never so unjustly committed , oppressed , grieved by the Old and New Council of State , to his ruine ; shall have any remedy at all against them : since they may thus indemnify each other against all Actions commenced . And if they bring an Habeas Corpus for their enlargement , and be bayled according to Law by the Judges ; the new Gardians of our Liberties , Preservers of our Safety , and Thorough Reformers of our Lawes , ( by extirpating them root and branch ) will even in the very face of the Court , as soon as they have put in bayl , in contempt of Law and Justice command Soldiers and their Serjeant at Arms , by new Orders to arrest and carry them to other Prisons , as they did Mr. Nuport and Mr. Halsey on the 18. of this instant November : notwithstanding they had put in bail of ten thousand pounds a piece for their peaceable deportment : Yea if any henceforth move for Habeas Corporaes they will remove them unto New Prisons , or Gards of Souldiers , or send them into Forein parts to prevent their returns and enlargement by our Laws ; as some have been newly dealt with , by these New full & through Reformers of the Laws , Whether these very first-fruits of their full and through pretended Reformation of our Laws , proving so bitter , trampling all Law and Justice under foot , with greater scorn , contempt , impudence than ever any Kings , Old Council Table Lords , Strafford or Canterbury were guilty of : And their leaving not so much as one Judge or Justice to act under them in any one Court of Justice at Westminster , nor no face of any real or pretended Legal Authority in England or Ireland to execute Justice between man and man : and dismounting all those Judges , Grandees of the Law who formerly complyed with them , and acted under them in all their Innovations , ( a just reward for their temporizing against their Judgements , Law and Conscience ) their future harvest of our Lawes Reformation will not probably prove so lawlesse and exorbitant , that the whole English Nation ( and Army too , if they have not abandonned all humanity , christianity , charity , justice ) will revive this prayer in our antient Liturgy , against such a full and through Deformation and Deformers of our Lawes . From all evil and mischief ; from all blindness of heart , from pride , vainglory and hypocrisie , from envy , hatred , and all uncharitableness , good Lord deliver us . And exhort their fellow brethren of Scotland and Ireland in the Apostles words , 2 Thess. 3. 1 , 2. Finally , brethren , pray for us , that the word of the Lord ( and good old Laws of the Land ) may run and have free course , and be glorified ; and that we may be delivered from absurd , ( or unreasonable & wicked men , who thus reform and purge out the Laws very bowels ) for all men ( and such reforming Saints especially ) have not faith : whatever they professe , who under pretext of a most transcendent Reformation and purgation of the Gospel and Law , would reduce us into the condition of the Israelites , 2 Chron. 15. 3. Now for a long season Israel had been without the true God , and without a teaching Priest , and without Law ? And why so ? The Apostle resolves us in direct terms , 1 Tim. 1. 4. &c. The end of the Law is charity out of a pure heart , and of a good conscience , and of faith unfeined : from which some having swerved have turned aside to vain jangling : desiring to be teachers , ( yea Reformers ) of the Law , understanding neither what they say , nor what they affirm . But we know that the Law is good , if a man use it lawfully ; knowing also that the Law is not made for a righteous man ; but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners . For Murderers of Fathers and murtherers of Mothers , for man-slayers , &c. for men-stealers , for lyars , for perjured persons , & every other thing that is contrary to sound doctrin : And our Army-Grandees , Juncto , and new Reformers being such ; would abrogate all Lawes , and Lawyers too , least they should restrain and punish them for these their Capital crimes : Forgetting this lesson , that though they null all the Laws and Courts of Justice in Westminster-hall , and elsewhere ; yet they shall never abrogate nor escape the Law , Judgement , Execution , Justice and vengeance of * God himself , who will render indignation and wrath , tribulation and anguish to every soul of man that doth evil , whether Jew or Gentile . For as many who have sinned without Law , shall also perish without Law , and as many as have sinned in the Law , shall be judged by the Law Enough to disswade them from their intended Reformation , to reform their own and the Armies lawless exorbitances , before they reform our Laws , or others far better than themselves . Whether all the old conscientious , faithfull , publike spirited , secured , secluded , and re-excluded Members , who to the uttermost of their powers opposed , voted , protested against all the late dismal Jesuitical Powder-Treasons , Violences , Innovations , Exorbitances of the dissolved Juncto and Army , and have h vexed their righteous souls , from day to day , yea i shed rivers of tears from their mournfull eyes , because of these their heinous transgressions against the Laws of God and the Land , may not with much comfort apply this promise of God to themselves , and their uncharitable brethren , who secluded all , & imprisoned sundry of them . Isa. 66. 5 , 6. &c. 26. 11 , 13 , 14. Hear the word of the Lord , ye that tremble at his word : Your brethren that hated you , that cast you out for my name sake , said , Let the Lord be ( thereby ) glorified , but he shall appear to your joy , and they shall be ashamed . ( by reason of their own double ejection , dissolution in a strange unexpected manner ) A voice of noise from the City ; a voice from the Temple ; a voice of the Lord that rendreth recompence to his enemies . Lord , when thy hand is lifted up , they will not see ; but they shall see , and be ashamed for their envy towards the people ; yea the fire of their Enemies ( their very fierie Guards and Powder-men ) shall devour them . O Lord our God , other Lords besides thee ( our New Supreme Lords , Powers , Protectors of the dissolved Junctoes counsel and tother House have had dominion over us , but by thee only will we make mention of thy name : They are dead , they shall not live ; they are deceased , they shall not rise : therfore hast thou visited and destroyed them , and made all their Memory to Perish : Even k so let all thine Enemies ( and the publike impenitent , malicious Enemies of our Churches , Kings , Kingdoms , Parliaments , Peoples Liberties ) fall and perish , O Lord : but let them that love thee ( and the publike peace , welfare , settlement , prosperity of our Churches , Kings Kingdoms , Nations ) be as the Sun when he goeth forth in his might ; That so the Land may have rest forty years together : as the Land of Israel had , after l the Lord had discomfited Sisera , and all his Chariots , and all his host with the edge of the Sword , before Barak and Deborah , Amen . Whether the General Council of Officers and Army-Saints former and late slandering , false accusing , forcible secluding , the Members of the long Parliament , as Trust-breakers , and the whole House of Lords , for whose defence they were raised , waged , commissioned ; and their subsequent dissolving , dissipating with high scorne , their own Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes from whom they received their new Commissions , end engaged several times , to yeeld their utmost assistance to them to sit in safety , to be true , faithfull and constant to them , and to live and die in their defence : be a conscientious saint-like performance . 1. Of John Baptists Evangelical Injunction to all Souldiers , Luke 3. 14. Do violence to no man , neither accuse any falsly , and be content with your allowance . 2ly . Of St. Pauls description of a good Souldier of Jesus Christ 2 Tim. 2. 3 , 4. Thou therefore endure hardness : No man that warreth , intangloth himself with the affairs of this life , that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a Souldier . ( not disobey , betray , supplant or destroy him ) 3ly . Of Pauls and Peters expresse commands to all Officers , Souldiers whatsoever , as well as others , Rom. 13. 1 , 2 , &c. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers : for there is no power but of God : the powers that be , are ordained of God . Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinance of God : and they that resist , shall receive to themselves damnation , &c. Wherefore ye must needs be subject , not only for wrath , but also for conscience sake . Tit. 3. 1 , 2. Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers ; to obey Magistrates , to be ready to every good work : To speak evil of no man ; to be gentle , shewing all meekness unto all men . Ephes. 6. 5 , 6 , 7. Col. 4. 22 , 23 , 24. Servants ( & such are all Mercenary Officers , Soldiers , under pay to the old Parliament and Kingdom ) obey in all things , your Masters according to the flesh , in fear and trembling , in singleness of heart , as unto Christ , Not with eye service , as men-pleasers ; but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart . With good will doing service , as to the Lord , and not to men ; for ye serve the Lord Christ . 1 Pet. 2. 13 , to 20. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lord sake , whether it be to the King as supreme , or unto Governors , as unto those who are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers , and for the praise of them that do well ; for so is the will of God , that with well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of foolish men . As free , and not using your liberty , as a cloak of maliciousnesse , but as the servants of God . Honour all men , ( in lawfull authority ) Fear God , Honour the King . Servants , be subject to your Masters with all fear , not only to the good and gentle , but also to the froward . For this is thank-worthy , if a man for conscience toward God endure grief , suffering wrongfully . Whether by their former & late rebellions against the King , Parl. & all their lawful Superiors , and exalting themselves above all their former Lords and Masters , they have not given Christ himself the lye , and falsified his reiterated Asseveration , Resolution . Mat. 10. 24. John 13. 16. c. 15. 10. Verily , Verily I say unto you , the Disciple is not above his Master , nor the Servant above , or greater than his Lord ; neither he that is sent , greater than he that sent him . If ye know these things , happy are ye if ye do them ! And whether they will not prove bitternesse and damnation to them in the latter end ? Whether the Juncto and Army Council , upon serious consideration of all the premises and their former miscarriages , have not all cause with penitent hearts and bleeding Spirits to cry out and make this old publike confession in the Book of Common Prayer . Almighty and most mercifull Father , we have erred and strayed from thy wayes like lost sheep . We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts ; we have offended against thy holy laws ; we have left undone those things which we ought to have done , and we have done those things which we ought not to have done , and there is no health nor truth in us . But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable Offendors . And grant that we may hereafter live a godly , righteous , and sober life , to the glory of thy holy name . Amen . Which if these Workers of iniquity shall still refuse to do , as if the Lord did neither see nor regard it ; and thereby provoke our 3. Nations to cry out with united prayers to God against them ; * Help Lord , for the godly man ceaseth , for the faithfull fail from among the children of men . O Lord God of revenges , O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth , shew thy self ; lift up thy self thou Judge of the Earth , render a reward to the proud : Lord , how long shall the wicked , how long shall the wicked triumph : how long shall they utter hard things , and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves ? They break in pieces thy people , O Lord , & afflict thine heritage ; they slay the widow and murder the fatherless ; They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous , and condemn the innocent bloud . Whether they must not then expect that inevitable doom of God himself , ensuing after such practises and Prayers , Psa. 94. 23. And the Lord shall bring upon them their own iniquity , and shall cut them off in their own wickednesse ; yea the Lord our God shall cut them off ? * The transgressors shall be destroyed together , the end of the wicked shall be cut off : But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord , he is their strength in the time of troble . And the Lord shall help them , and deliver them , he shall deliver them from the wicked , and save them because they trust in him . Jer. 36. 3 , 7. It may be they will ( now ) present their supplications before the Lord , and return every one from his evil way , that God may forgive their iniquity and their sin ; for great is the anger and the fury that the Lord hath pronounced against this people . An Exact Alphabetical List of the Old and New secluded Members of the Commons House in the long Parliament , surviving May 7. 1659. when the dissolved Juncto began their new Session . Baronets , Knights and Viscounts . LOrd Ancram , Sir Ralph Ashton , Sir John Barrington , Sir Thomas Barnardiston , Sir Robert Benloes , Sir George Booth , Sir Humphry Bridges , Sir Ambrose Brown , Sir John Burgoin , Sir Roger Burgoin , Sir Henry Cholmley , Sir John Clotworthy , Sir John Corbet , Sir John Curson , Sir Thomas Dacres , Sir Francis Drake , Sir William Drake , Sir Walter Earl , Sir Charles Egerton , Sir John Evelin of Surry , Sir John Evelin of Wiltes , Sir John Fenweck , Sir Edmund Fowel , Sir Gilbert Gerard , Sir Harbotle Grimston , Sir Richard Haughton , Sir John Holland , Sir Anthony Irby , Sir Martin Knatchbull , Sir John Leigh , Sir William Lewis , Sir William Lister , Sir William Litton , Sir Samuel Luke , Sir Nicholas Martyn ; Sir Thomas Middleton , Sir Robert Nappier , Sir Robert Nedham , Sir Dudly North , Sir John Northcot , Sir Richard Onslow , Sir Hugh Owen , Sir John Palgrave , Sir Philip Parker , Sir Thomas Parker , Sir Edward Partridge , Sir John Pellam , Sir William Platers , Sir Nevil Poole , Sir John Pots , Sir Robert Pye , Sir Francis Russel , Sir Beauchamp Saint-John , Sir John Seymor , Sir Thomas Some , Sir William Strickland , Sir John Temple , Sir Thomas Trever , Sir Humpy Tuston , Sir William Waller , Thomas Viscount Wenman , Sir Henry Worsly , Sir Richard Wynne , Sir John Young . In all 64. Esquiers , Gentlemen and Lawyers . John Alford , Arthur Ansley , Mr. Andrews , William Ardington , John Arundle , Mr. Ascough , Francis Bacon , Nathaniel Bacon , Edward Bainton , Col. John Barker , Maurice Barro , Mr. Bell , James Bence , Col. John Birch , Edward Bish , John Bowyer , John Boyes , Major Brooks , Major General Brown , Samuel Brown , Serjant at Law , Francis Buller , John Bunkly , Hugh Buscoen , Mr. Button , Mr. Camble , William Carrent , Col. Ceely , James Chaloner , Mr. Clive , Commiss. Copley , John Crew , Thomas Crompton , Mr. Crowder , Thomas Dacre , John Dormer , John Doyle , Mr. Drake , Robert Ellison , Mr. Erisy , Mr. Evelin , Edward Fowel , William Foxwist , John Francis , James Fyennis , Nathaniel Eyennis , Samuel Gardiner , Francis Gerard , Thomas Gewen , William Glanvil , John Glynne Serjant at Law , Samuel Gott , Thomas Grove , Elias Grymes , Brampton Gurdon , Edward Harby , Col. Edward Harley , Major Harley , John Hatcher , John Haidon , James Herbert , John Herbert , Mr. Hobby , Thomas Hodges , Denzel Hollis , Francis Hollis , George Horner , Edmund Hostins , John Hungerford , Col. Hunt , Mr. Jennings , William Jones , George Keckwich , Richard Knighly , Col. Lassels , Henry Laurence , Col. Lee , Mr. Lewis , Col Walter Long , Mr. Lowry , Col. John Loyde , Mr. Lucas , Mr. Luckin , John Mainard , Christopher Martin , Major Gen. Edward Massey , Thomas Middleton , Thomas Moore , William Morrice , George Mountague , Mr. Nash , James Nelthrop , Alderman Nixon , Mr. North , Col. Norton , Mr. Onslow , Arthus Owen , Henry Oxinden , Mr. Packer , Mr. Peck , Henry Pellam , William Peirpoint , Jervase Pigot , Mr. Potter , Mr. Poole , Col. Alexander Popham , Mr. Povy , Mr. Prisly , William Prynne , Alexander Pym , Charles Pym , Mr. Rainscraft , Mr. Ratcliffe , Charles Rich , Col. Edward Rossiter , Mr. Scowen , Mr. Scut , Col , Robert Shapcot , Col. Shuttleworth , Mr. Spelman , Mr. Springats , Henry Stapleton , Robert Stanton , Edward Stephens , John Stephens , Nathaniel Stephens , Mr. Stockfield , John Swinfen , Mr. Temple , Mr. Terwit , Mr. Thistlethwait , Mr. Thomas , Isaac Thomas , Mr. Thynne , Mr. Tolson , John Trever , Thomas Twisden Serjeant at Law , Mr. Vassal , Mr. Vaughan , Thomas Waller , Mr. West , Henry Weston , William Wheeler , Col. Whitehead , Henry Wilkes , Captain Wingate , Mr. Winwood , Thomas Wogan , Mr. Wray , Richard Wynne . The Total Number , 203. besides the House of Lords . An Alphabetical List of all Members of the late dissolved Juncto . JAmes Ash , Alderman Atkins , William Ayre , Mr. Baker , Col. Bennet , Col. Bingham Daniel Blagrave , Mr. Brewster , William Cawly , Thomas Chaloner , Mr. Cecil the self-degraded Earl of Salsbury , Robert Cecil his son , John Corbet , Henry Darley , Richard Darley , Mr. Dixwell , John Dove , Mr. Downes , William Ellys , Mr. Feilder , Mr. Fell , Col. Charles Fleetwood , Augustin Garland , Mr. Gold , John Goodwin , Robert Goodwin , John Gurdon , Mr. Hallowes , Sir James Harrington , Col. Harvy , Sir Arthur Hasilrig , Mr. Hayes , Mr. Herbert the self-degraded Earl of Pembrook , Roger Hill , Cornelius Holland , Col. Hutchinson , Col. Ingolsby , Philip Jones , Mr. Leachmore , William Lenthall Speaker , John Lenthall his son , John Lisle , Philip Viscont Lisle , Thomas Lister , Nicholas Love , Col. Ludlow , Henry Martyn a prisoner in execution , Mr. Mayne , Sir Henry Mildmay , Gilbert Millington , Col. Herbert Morley , Lord Viscont Munson , a prisoner in execution , Henry Nevil , Robert Nicholas , Michael Oldsworth , Mr. Palmer , Alderman Pennington , Sir Gilbert Pickering , John Pine , Edmond Prideaux , William Purefoy , Thomas Pury , Robert Reynolds , Col. Rich , Luke Robinson , Oliver Saint-John , Major Saloway , Mr. Say , Thomas Scot , Major General Skippon , Augustin Skinner , Mr. Smith , Walter Strickland , Col. Sydenham , James Temple , Col. Temple , Col. Thompson , Serjant Thorpe , John Trencher , Sir John Trevor , Sir Henry Vane , Col. Waite , Mr. Wallop , Sir Thomas Walsingham , Col. Walton , Sir Peter Wentworth , Edmond Weaver , Mr. White , Serjeant Wilde , Sir Thomas Witherington , Sir Thomas Wroth. The totall Sum , — 91. ¶ Note , That of these Members there entred only 42. into the House at first ; that the rest came in to them by degrees , either to keep their old preferments , gain new , or regain the places they had formerly lost ( especially the Lawyers , who notwithstanding their former complyances , are turned quite out of Office , and dis-Judged ; ) that 8. or more of them , came in by New Writs issued in the Name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England , after the Kings beheading , and were no Members of the long Parliament ; That there were never 60. of them together in the House at once whiles they sate : and but 57. on the 11. and 12. of October last upon the great debate between them and the Army Officers : And some that sate formerly with them ( as the Lord Fairfax , John Cary , and others ) refused to sit with them now , as having not the least colour of Law , to sit or act as a Parliament . Yea , their Speaker Mr. Lenthal , told the Officers of the Army and Members , who came to invite him to sit again , May 6. That he had a Soul to save ; and that he was not satisfied in point of Law , conscience or prudence that they could sit again : But at last when he considered , he had an estate to save ( as he told another Friend ) that over-ballanced all his former Objections : and made him , and other Members act against their judgements , consciences , and to forget our Saviours sad Quaeres , Mat. 16. 26. What is a man profited if he should gain the whole world and lose his own Soul ? Or , what shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? FINIS . ERRATA . Page 4. Usurpers , read usurpation . page 17. l. 31. read Rom. 3. 9 , 10. Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A91165e-320 a Prov. 27. 5 , 6. b Prov. 28. 23. * Tit. 1. 13. c Jer. 22. 21. c. 5. 5. Ezech. 22. 27. * See a Collection of the Armies Engagements , Remonstrances , &c. p. 106 , ●0 145. * Animadversions upon the Armies Remonstrance , Nov. 20. 1648. p. 10 , 11 , 12. f See the 2. Part of the History of Independency . g See the Republicans spurious good old Cause briefly and truly anatomized . p. 1 , to 6. e 2 Thess. 2. 4. b See their Declarations and Papers of April 20. And August 12. 1653. And true State of the Common-wealth of England p. 8 , to 12. * As he did Col. overton , Okey , and sundry others . g Jer. 17. 5. h Isay 36. 6. * Lu. 19. 27. i Isay 2. 4. † Jer. 9. 2. &c. k Isay 33. 1. Jer. 9 , 2 , to 22. m Isay 36. 6. Ezeck. 49. 6 , 7. n n Isay 30. 14. * In Prynne the Member reconciled to Prynne the Barrester . A Legal Vindication against illegal Taxes , A True and perfect Narrative , p. 24 , to 34. A brief necessary Vindication of the old and new secluded Members , p. 5. * Exact Coll. p. 576 , 613. A Collection of Ordinances , p. 13. 219 , 220 * Gal. 6. 7. a See the Armies Plea and Declaration , 27 october . The printed Votes , Diurnals , and Parliaments Plea . a Exod. 8. 19. Psal. 118. 23. * 3 Jac. c. 1 , 2. * Gen , 11. 3 , to 10. * Acts 5. 39. c. 23. 9. * See my True and perfect Narrative , p. 92 , 93. * De Beneficiis , l. 2. c. 20. * See my Concordia Discors * See my Legal Historical Vindication , &c. * Isay 14. 20. The seed of evil doers shall never be renowned . * Ps. 30. 6 , 7. * Hos. 2. 6 , 7. * Judges 19. 30. * Understand ye brutish among the people : O ye fools , when will ye be wise ? Ps. 94. 8. * See My Concordia Discors . * 1 Pet. 4. 18 , 19. * Jam. 2. 11. * Leopold . * Condie . * Execution he means . * This intimates he was a Priest or Jesuit who writ it , * See Mr. Smiths 2. New Books against the Quakers , and Dell , proving them to be Papists . a Is . 58 3 , to 8. b Psa. 66. 7. c John 8 44 , 45. Ephes. 5. 19 , 20 , 21. d Ephes. 2. 2 , 3. e Micah 3. 10. Hab. 2. 12. f Micah 2. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5. * My true & perfect Narrative , p. 58 , to 64. * Rom. 2. 2 , 3 , 8 , 9 , 12. h 2 Pet. 2. 7 , 8. i Psal. 119. 136 k Judges 5. 31. l Judges 4 15. * Psal. 12. 1 , 2. Psal. 94. 1. * Ps. 37. 38 , 39. 40.