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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48473	Plaine truth without feare or flattery, or, A true discovery of the unlawfulnesse of the Presbyterian government it being inconsistent with monarchy, and the peoples liberties, and contrary both to the protestation and covenant : the end of establishing the militia of London in such hands as it is now put into by the new ordinance, the betraying votes and destructive practices of a traiterous party in the House of Commons concerning certain petions for liberty and justice : also, a vindication of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, concerning certaine scurrulous words uttered by some of the said faction : with the meanes and wayes that must be used to obtaine reliefe against the said cyrannous usurpers, and for reducing the parliament to its due rights, power and priviledges, in the preservation of the kingdomes laws and liberties / written by I.L.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2156; ESTC R12537	30,822	22

and money of the People without the Peoples consent make Judges create Lord Keepers or Chancellours and yet the King in presence for they cannot now pretend a necessity by his absence and making use of his name to violate all Law oppresse the People and to commit all injustices in a word to destroy our Liberties and to execute their own Arbitrary wills They speake of having the Kings power with them virtually but we can neither see nor find any of its proper vertue either among them or from them for his Majestres Regall power is just and mercifull regulated by Law preservative and corrective and not unjust cruell irregular and illegall desacing and destructive as the effects have been of the power which the Parliament hath exercised And concerning the Kings estate and revenues no question but it is accumulated and that they have it in bank for they have been very parcimonious Stewards they can hardly spare either the master money for his necessities or his servants any for wages He like a Ward or Pupill is at their set allowance and content with the pittance his late tutors and guardians will allow him I doubt not but it will prove that some of them have made better allowance to themselves both out of his estate and the Republiques also Second how by reason of the predominancy and power of this tyrannous Party in both Houses whose malignant pernitious influence hath been and still is diffusive throughout all the Parliaments actions all these which have taken this Vew and Protestation are and have been defended in pursuance of the same it is sufficiently manifest For who but they that endeavour to maintain the true reformed Protestant Religion according to the doctrine professed in the Church of England in the power and purity of it are hated illegally prosecuted and persecuted vilifyed and reviled and he is most favoured and soonest preferred that can shew himselfe most virulent and violent against them And if you do but sken or looke like a Hare on the one side at the Kings Crown and Dignity you presently incurre through the powerful Votes of this Party the Parliaments high dislike and displeasure and it is a sufficient badge that you are an enemy because you are so to Traitors to the State witnes the high diss●●e of the Armies wise and just demand of his Majesties royall assent to an Act of indempnity truly if they take a bare Parliament ordinance without the Royall assent I will not give them one farthing for their security and it will be found that their Iudges Chancellours Excise men and Sequestrators are in the same case as the Souldiers And to endeavour or petition for liberty according to the Protestation is as much as to ●eg a Prison to sue for justice is to be accounted seditious in a word to be sincere and honest is to be adjudged worthy of no trust imployment or preferment But to make the truth and the wicked practices and purposes of this destroying Party in both Houses yet more plain and open these cunning contrivers of our intended Vassalage and thraldom frame a combination and confederacy by covenant with the Scots and by power and subtilty surprize and ensnare therein the whole Parliament and Kingdom the which I pray read and observe In their feigned profession of sorrow they acknowledge that their not prizing the Gospell nor labouring to receive Christ into their hearts and they say truly hath been the cause of all other sinnes amongst us And therefore with their hands listed up to the most high God they do solemnly swear sincerely to endeavour a reformation of religion in the three Kingdomes in doctrine worship discipline and government according to the word of God and the example of the best reformed Churches now what meanes this juggle and to the example of the best reformed Churches above they swear● and endeavour a reformation and what sincerity is here to make mens impure inventions equivalent to the infallible rule of Gods word to make dogma Presbyteri the opinion of the Priest adaequate to the unalterable last Will and Testament of Jesus Christ only here by this F●yst these deceitfull Spirits endeavour to bring in something of their own that with their claw-back Priests they may seem to have something to do with Christ in his Church government and to sit checke by joule with him in his throne and thus they do still dis-esteem the inestimable benefit of the Gospell and oppose it in the power and purity of it even as their Fathers did so do they harden their hearts against the Lord. If the word of God be a sufficient rule to reform and govern the Church by what need then of any other pattern or platforme The best reformed Churches which are this day in Europe need reformation yea the pure Church of Scotland notwithstanding all their pretence For if you observe our Brethrens various double dealings turnings and windings self seeking and advantage-making in every businesse they transact or negotiate with us far unbeseeming men pretending so great conscientiousnes in all things so highly professing the power of Religion in purenes of life and conversation At first they were against the King then while he was with them they spek and write highly for him and now they have made the most they can of him The Scots have made more of the King then Judas did of the King of heaven they are again become adversaries to him one while they press one part of their deceitfull Covenant as at first they did that part for bringing evill instruments unto condign punishment whilst that Delinquents troubled them Afterward where by craft they had gotten the King among them hoping thereby to have had him established their Presbyterian Church-government within this Kingdom they were very zealous for that part of the Covenant which concerns the preservation and defence of his Majesties person and authority Now both the former are forgotten and they are at this instant extreme urgent and importune for that part of the Covenant which concernes the reformation of Religion in the three Kingdomes in dextrine worship discipline and government according to the word of God and the example of the best reformed Churches by which words the example of c. they would have it granted that their Kirke of Scotland is the best reformed in all the world● and therefore we are bound by this clause of the Covenant they conceive to reforme by their pattern and to make their government our example as if they blind Beetles had obtained the very S●●mum grad●m of the government of the Church of Christ comprehended in the Gospel thus using the Covenant as a Waterman doth his Saile to turn every way and hereby they justify the Scripture which saith a double minded manty unstable in all his wayes Iam. 1. 8. but not one Word do they speak for justice or liberty of the Subject though they see all oppression and violence rage