Theological and Legal Queries, Treatise

Theological and Legal Queries · Treatise

p. 1Conſcientious, Serious Theological and Legal Quaeres, &c.

THe Wiſeſt of Men, and God only wiſe, informs all Sons of Wiſdom capable of Inſtruction; thataaProv. 27. 5, 6.Prov 27:5Prov 27:6 open rebuke, is better than ſecret love; becauſe faithfull are the wounds of a friend, but the kiſſes of an enemy are deceitfull: whencebbProv. 28. 23.Prov 28:23 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**Tit. 1. 13.Titus 1:13 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 ccJer. 22. 21. c. 5. 5. Ezech. 22. 27.Jer 22:21Ezek 22:27would not hearken to, in the daies of their late ſelf exaltation and Proſperity, like their Predeceſſors of p. 2old 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**See a Collection of the Armies Engagements, Remonſtrances, &c. p. 106, …0 145. impeach, declare againſt, ſuſpend, impriſon ſundry Members of both Houſes; nulled all Ʋotes, 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**Animadverſions upon the Armies Remonſtrance, Nov. 20. 1648. p. 10, 11, 12. force the Houſes to paſſe the Votes for No more Addreſses to the King, (contrived in a General Council of Army-Officers, p. 3and ſeconded with their Declaration when paſſed by force and ſurprize in an emptie Houſe) After that moſt traiterouſly and perfidiouſlyffSee the 2. Part of the Hiſtory of Independency. 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 chairman, 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 CommonggSee the Republicans ſpurious good old Cauſe briefly and truly anatomized. p. 1, to 6. 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 p. 4Uſurpers, to out-act the old Gunpowder Traytors many degrees, by the Armies aſſiſtance, andee2 Theſſ. 2. 4.2 Thess 2:4 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 p. 5King or Houſe of Lords, and branded by them to poſteritie in their printed Declaration,b See their Declarations and Papers of April 20. And Auguſt 12. 1653. And true State of the Commonwealth of England p. 8, to 12. 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 Ʋane, 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**As he did Col. overton, Okey, and ſundry others. 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 p. 6diſpute 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 Ʋncaſed; 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, p. 7Oaths, 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 thisggJer. 17. 5.Jer 17:5 arme of fleſh, or broken hhIſay 36. 6.Isa 36:6reed 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,**Lu. 19. 27. 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; andiiIſay 2. 4.Isa 2:4 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, † Jer. 9. 2. &c.Jer 9:2an * Aſſembly of treacherous men, whom themſelves taught, encouraged to be treacherous, perjurious to the King, Parl. Lords, their fellow-Members, andkkIſay 33. 1. Jer. 9, 2, to 22.Isa 33:1Jer 9:2–22 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, p. 8and all their other Superiors; and proved like mmIſay 36. 6. Ezeck. 49. 6, 7.Isa 36:6Aegypt 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 nnn Iſay 30. 14.Isa 30:14broke 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?

3Whether 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 Ʋnparliamentary 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**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. 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 p. 9Taxes, 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 Commonwealth, 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 p. 10Nation, and the true old Parliament if continuing, to levie actual warr againſt them; declared**Exact Coll. p. 576, 613. A Collection of Ordinances, p. 13. 219, 220 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 (**Gal. 6. 7.Gal 6:7 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 p. 11for 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: a See the Armies Plea and Declaration, 27 october.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;The printed Votes, Diurnals, and Parliaments Plea. 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, p. 12as 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, Ʋnrighteous, 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 p. 13and 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.a Exod. 8. 19. Pſal. 118. 23.Exod 8:19Ps 118:23 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, aud 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! p. 14how 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 **3 Jac. c. 1, 2.Jas 1:2joyfull 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 p. 15Proteſtants 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, 5ſhameleſs 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 p. 16proceedings 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 p. 17ſupport 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 Commonwealth (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 p. 18bloud 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 miſſhapen 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 p. 19this new City and Tower, to keep them from being ſcattered upon the face of the whole earth, **Gen, 11. 3, to 10.have not like the old Babelbuilders, 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 **Acts 5. 39. c. 23. 9.Acts 5:39direct 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, merciemercy, 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, * See my True and perfect Narrative, p. 92, 93.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 7us again to a Kingdom and Kingſhip, to which W. Lenthal, Mr. Speaker, Whitlock, & many others of the diſſolved Juncto p. 20aſſented, 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**De Beneficiis, l. 2. c. 20. 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, p. 21have 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**See my Concordia Diſcors 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 Ʋniverſities 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 Ʋſurpers, and all the Danes expelled, without any effuſion of blood; as I have**See my Legal Hiſtorical Vindication, &c. elſewhere evidenced at large out of our beſt Hiſtorians.

p. 2288. 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**Iſay 14. 20. The ſeed of evil doers ſhall never be renowned.Isa 14:20 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**Pſ. 30. 6, 7.Ps 30:6Ps 30:7 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?

99. 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, p. 23Butcheries: 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 **Hoſ. 2. 6, 7.Hos 2:6Hos 2:7hedging 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 p. 24their 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.)**Judges 19. 30.Judg 19:30 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**Underſtand ye brutiſh among the people: O ye fools, when will ye be wiſe? Pſ. 94. 8.Ps 94:8 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.

10Whether the twice diſſolved Anti-Parliamentary Juncto p. 25by 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, p. 26deſtroyed, 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, p. 27ſequeſtring 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, 11beheading 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 p. 28the 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**See My Concordia Diſcors. 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 p. 29their 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?**1 Pet. 4. 18, 19.1 Pet 4:181 Pet 4:19 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? aud 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.**Jam. 2. 11.Jas 2:11 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 p. 3012the 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 p. 31the 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**Leopold. 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 **Condie.PRINCE: for I BEGIN TO WISH ALL KINGS HAD THE **Execution he means.SAME THE KING OF ENGLAND HAD: Ile 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**This intimates he was a Prieſt or Jeſuit who writ it, Dios garde.

En Londres 9^d.

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 p. 3214Freers 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 p. 33as 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 **See Mr. Smiths 2. New Books againſt the Quakers, and Dell, proving them to be Papiſts.Papiſts in their p. 34Opinions 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.

15Whether 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, p. 35unleſs 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 16theaaIſ. 58 3, to 8.Isa 58:3–8 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, bbPſa. 66. 7.Ps 66:7and 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 ccJohn 8 44, 45. Epheſ. 5. 19, 20, 21.John 8:44John 8:45Eph 5:19Eph 5:20Eph 5:21works of their father the devil; their pretended following the ſecret impulſes of the ſpirit of God, the ſole juſtification ofddEpheſ. 2. 2, 3.Eph 2:2Eph 2:3 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, p. 36Rights 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 theireeMicah 3. 10. Hab. 2. 12.Mic 3:10Hab 2:12 building up of Zion (their New Republike, Free-ſtate, Churches, Kingdom of Jeſus Chriſt) with blood, and eſtabliſhing Jeruſalem with iniquity, ffMicah 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.Mic 2:1Mic 2:2Mic 2:3Mic 2:4Mic 2:5their 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?

14Whether 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 p. 37breſt 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**My true & perfect Narrative, p. 58, to 64. 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 p. 38own 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 p. 39an 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 p. 40(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 manſlayers, &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 p. 41of **Rom. 2. 2, 3, 8, 9, 12.Rom 2:2Rom 2:3Rom 2:8Rom 2:9Rom 2:12God 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 havehh2 Pet. 2. 7, 8.2 Pet 2:72 Pet 2:8 vexed their righteous ſouls, from day to day, yea iiPſal. 119. 136Ps 119:136ſhed 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: EvenkkJudges 5. 31.Judg 5:31 ſo let all thine Enemies (and duplicate page p. 40duplicate page p. 41p. 42the 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 llJudges 4 15.Judg 4:15the Lord had diſcomfited Siſera, and all his Chariots, and all his host with the edge of the Sword, before Barak and Deborah, Amen.

21Whether the General Council of Officers and Army-Saints former and late ſlandering, falſe accuſing, forcible ſecluding, the Members of the long Parliament, as Truſtbreakers, 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 p. 43man; 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, 22have 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 p. 44laws; 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; **Pſal. 12. 1, 2.Ps 12:1Ps 12:2Help Lord,Pſal. 94. 1.Ps 94:1 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?**Pſ. 37. 38, 39. 40.Ps 37:38Ps 37:39Ps 37:40 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.

p. 45An 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 p. 46Ardington, 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, p. 47Mr. 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, p. 48John 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.

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