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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93511	Some queries propounded to the Common-Councell, and citizens of London, concerning the armies demand of having the militia of London of the 4th of May changed. Wherein the unreasonablenesse and great danger of that proposall, and the justifiablenesse of the cities refusall both in law and conscience, are fully demonstrated.		1647 (1647)	Wing S4561A; Thomason E400_26; ESTC R201757	10,141	15

SOME QUERIES Propounded to the Common-Councell and Citizens of LONDON concerning the Armies Demand of having the Militia of London of the 4th of May changed Wherein the unreasonablenesse and great danger of that Proposall and the Justifiablenesse of the Cities refusall both in Law and Conscience are fully demonstrated 1 Sam. 13. 19. Now there was no Smith found throughout all the land of Israel for the Philistines said Lest the Hebrews make them swords or speares 20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share and his coulter and his ax and his mattock 22 So it came to passe in the day of battell that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan 1 King 21. 3. And Naboth said to Ahab The Lord forbid it me that I should give the INHERITANCE OF MY FATHERS VNTO THEE 1 King 2. 22. And why doest thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah ASK FOR HIM THE KINGDOM ALSO Prov. 30. 21 22. For three things the earth is disquieted and for four which it cannot bear For a SERVANT when he reigneth and a FOOL when he is filled Nulli deterius dominantur quam servi LONDON Printed in the Yeer 1647. O Foolish Citizens of London who hath bewitched you what spirit of madnesse hath possessed you that you should beleeve any of the lying and fained words of the Army and not see slavery and destruction coming upon your selves and posteritie as travail upon a woman with childe which you cannot escape if once you give up your Militiae upon the Demand of the Army O London London thou hast befooled thy self already almost irrecoverably by thy compliances and Treaties with the Army by thy interposing for the Army with the Parliament to grant severall things as that all Listings might be forborn that the Reformadoes might be put out of the Line of Communication with divens other things whereby that wicked party in the Army that rules all Cromwell and his Fellows have forced by their threatnings the 11. Members to withdraw from the House many others to go to their own homes and so all things whatsoever are carried according to the will and pleasure of that Sectarian faction in the Army and in the House of Commons both joyned together to destroy Religion Laws Liberties and to enslave this Kingdom by bringing it into the condition of the Turkish Empire to rule all at pleasure by an Army Cromwell being turned Turke the Sectarian faction must be as the Janizaries to uphold him The strange daily and endlesse Proposals from the Army of having all the Forces of the Kingdom in the hand of Sir Thomas Fairfax of having all the Laws of the Land concerning Religion taken away of releasing Lilburne Overton out of prison and all persons whatsoever for matters of conscience unlesse proved Papists though Antiscripturists Antitrinitarians Blasphemers with the demand of changing the Militia of London are clear and evident proofs of full intentions to destroy Religion Liberty Property and to rule all by the Sword and a Councell of War O London London would to God thou knewest even at least in this thy day the things whïch belong unto thy peace Behold now is the accepted time behold now is the day of salvation preserve thy Militia from being changed shew thy self this once to stand upon thy rights and liberties and thou mayest yet break the neck of all the cursed designes on foot and be the Saviour of the King Parliament and Kingdom and shall be called The Repaiter of the breach the Restorer of paths to dwell in But suffer thy Militia to be thus taken away and now altogether hold thy peace sitting down and loosing the present opportunitie and thou art lost for even according to humane help and thou shalt find that verified of thee Time was Time is Time is past and thou shalt repent when 't is too late And O thou London and thou Kingdom of England to make you sensible and to stir in time know assuredly the work now on foot by chief Agents in the Army and some of the House of Commons is not of yesterday nor a businesse of not disbanding till full Arrears and an Act of Indempnity for the Souldiery however these have been held out as pretences and made use of to draw the Souldiery in to carrie on their designes long before layed but 't is a Designe and Plot that hath been layed these foure yeers last past by force of Arms ☞ an Army of the Sectaries modelling to bring into this Kingdom a Generall Toleration of all Religions to destroy the Civill Government in the fundamentall constitution of King Lords and Commons and to bring King Charles to Justice so they call it as the grand Delinquent in all the three Kingdoms the Common Law and Statutes of this Kingdom the Ministery the Reformed Churches to possesse themselves of and be Masters of the City of London to get to themselves and their party all the estates riches and great places of the Kingdom and to rule all by an Arbitrary new modelled Government of their own setting up and by a perpetuall Army for the full Demonstration of which besides that their daily actions and Proposals of getting all Power into their hands speak as much there are two Books already Printed called The totall and finall Demands of the Army and Works of Darknesse brought to light that give a great deal of light in divers of these particulars and there are two other Discourses ready for the Presse written by Authors that have observed and layed all things together both in the Army and the House of Commons by that Partie that will more fully prove every part of this Designe by laying down all the Preparations to it and all the Proceedings in it and how there is nothing wanting to the perfecting and compleating of it but to have the full power upon the City of London ☜ and the Navy in their hands Onely in the interim till those Gentlemens Books can be Printed I will give two or three proofes of the Designe of the Sectarian Partie to bring the King to Justice as they phrase it and to take off his head To say nothing of the many speeches spoken by some of that Party both in the Army House of Commons and City of bringing the King to Justice nor of the many wicked passages printed to that purpose I will onely relate three passages that have come lately to my knowledge The first that presently after the King was seized on by the Army two persons here in London one a great Agent of Cromwels and very intimate wich him the other a great Agent of Rainsboroughs told an understanding Citizen that the Designe of taking the King was not to joyn with him against the Parliament however they held fair with the King and his Party but to bring him to Justice for if he ever came in