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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91232	New Presbyterian light springing out of Independent darkness. or VI. important new queries proposed to the Army, and their friends and party of the Houses; concerning the late ordinance for repeal of the new militia of London, setled by an ordinance of both Houses, when full and free, for an whole year, (not yet one quarter expired;) and other late repeals of ordinances and votes; and the high declaration against the intended petition and engagement of the Londoners and others, for the speedy settlement of the kingdomes peace: occasioned by the debates thereof in the Common Councel in the Guildhal on Saturday last, the 24 of this instant Iuly. Discovering the dangerous consequences of repealing ordinances and votes, and the Independents, sectaries, and Armies plots, to blast the honour, justice, and reputation of this Parliament, thereby to dissolve it and all others in it; their false pretences of peace, when they intend nought lesse; and their strange injustice and malice against Presbyterians, which will end in their own dishonour and downfal.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1647 (1647)	Wing P4021; Thomason E400_24; ESTC R201756	7,680	12

Sectary is become a commendable vertue at least an irreprehensible offence and a Presbyterians meer performance of his Solemn League and Covenant which this Declaration it seems would utterly repeal become no less then Treason so much are Presbyterians down the wind and such is the Independents and Sectaries brotherly affection and Liberty of conscience towards them even for doing their conscience What may they expect from them hereafter who are so injurious and harsh towards them already The Independent and Sectarian party now are grown so confident that they think the whole Kingdom and both Houses theirs and the Presbyterians quite defunct And thereupon have newly published a Libel with this Title The last Wil and Testament of Sir John Presbyter who dyed of a new disease called The Particular Charge of the ARMY c. With his Life DEATH and BVRIAL also his Epitaph discovering their mortal hatred to Presbyterians and the Armies design to kill and bury them which they presume already done by the Armies Charge But Gentlemen be not over hasty Sir John Presbyter though he hath silently slept a while is now awaked and neither dead nor buried but alive and alive will be when King John of Leyden the Anabaptist and Saint Ignatius Loyola the Jesuited Independent may be strangled at Tyburn or lose their Pates on Tower-hil for their sacred Treacheries the whole series and History whereof with the names places of meeting Debates Letters and Resolutions of the chief Heads of the Faction from time to time and those who have Treacherously revolted to them for base private ends he wil speedily publish to the world to their eternal Infamy to shew he is still alive and unburied and privy to their deepest secrets which he wil not only charge but make good against them in a more honorable and Parliamentary manner then the ARMY did or can make good their Charge against the MEMBERS they impeached who dare trie their Innocency by Battle in the open feild so many to so many and one to Boote against the Gallant General and Lievt. General and any 9. or ten Officers of the Army more that are Gentlemen born to end the Controversy and Wars without more expence of blood as wel as answer them at the Commons Bar and wil prove themselves more faithful to the state then any of their greatest Accusers if both sides may come to a free and fair Tryal In the mean time he wil pray that the Armies Sectaries and Independents private ends and self-seeking Designs may never be able to obstruct the speedy settlement of our Publick Peace in England or releif of desperate Ireland now gasping out it 's last breath whose loss and blood must onely rest on their score Whom their great Friend and Patron John Lilburn in his new-printed Epistles to Cromwel thus paints out in their Saint-like colours p. 9 10. You have robb'd by your unjust subtilty and shifting tricks the honest and gallant Agitators of a●l their power and authority and solely placed it in a thing called a Councel of War or rather a Cabinet Juncto of 7 or 8 proud self-end d fellows that so you may without controul make up your own ends The chiefest of them are as base as base may be and wil sel Christ their Country Friends Relations and a good Conscience for a little money or worldly riches And are such Saints to be trusted by Parliament or King In fine if Parliament Members out of by-ends or fear of or compliance with any particular Party whatsoever wil pass any unjust dishonorable or inconsiderate Votes or Ordinances it is a just judgment of God upon them that they should be enforced and induced publiquely to retract them with shame and dishonor even by the meanest of the people whose late tumultuous proce●dings though no ways justifiable or excusable but deserving exemplary Censure and carefully to be prevented suppressed on all hands by the Militia and other Officers appointed for that purpose for the future yet they must be looked upon by all wise conscientious people as fruits of the Armies pernicious disobedience and exorbitancies and permitted ordered by Gods providence to punish correct if not reform the obliquity and iniquity of such timerous self-seeking or time-serving warping Members who out of fear self-interests or to please a prevailing party or Army care not what they pass or Vote to the Parliaments dishonor and the publick prejudice or hurt of those who side not with them the late sad effects and dangerous consequences whereof may through Gods blessing convince them of their former Errors in this kind and engage them to vote and act with more syncerity and publique generous spirits for the future aiming only at the Common good Peace and speedy settlement of our distracted and almost ruin'd Kingdoms A Post-script JOhn Lilburn the Armies Champion cheif Advocate and Councellor in his Letters to Leivt. General Cromwel p. 13. hath this notable passage which proclaims them a meer unlawful rout of Rebellious Mutiners acting without a Commission from the King or Houses whose orders and Commands they positively disobey and protest against and therefore all Wel-willers to the Parliament are bound by their Covenant to withstand and protest against them and their proceedings and endeavor their present disbanding for the peoples ease and settlement of the Kingdoms Peace The Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax IS NOT NOW AN ARMY ACTING BY A COMMISSION from the King OR THE TWO HOVSES for although they were raised by an Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled at Westminster for the defence of the King and Parliament the true Protestant Religion not the Scotch Jewish Antichristian inslaving Presbytery and the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom not the Arbitrary wils of the Houses as appears by the Ordinance 15. Feb. 1644. 2. part book declar fol. 599. which possitively Commands Sir Thomas Fairfax from time to time to submit to and obey all such Orders and Directions as he shal receive from both Houses of Parliament or from the Committee of both Kingdoms Yet now he and his Army apprehending and beleiving that the wicked and swaying faction in both Houses would destroy them and inslave the whole Kingdom DO NOT ONLY DISPVTE THE TWO HOVSES ORDERS and COMMANDS BVT ALSO POSSITIVELY DISOBEY THEM AS VNJVST TYRANNICAL VNRIGHTEOVS And being now thereby dissolved into the Original Law of Nature hold their swords in their hands for their own preservation and safety which both Nature and the two Houses practises and Declarations teacheth them to do and justifies them in and now act according to the principles of safety flowing from Nature Reason and Justice agreed on by common consent and mutual agreement amongst themselves in which every individual private Souldier whether Horse or Foot ought freely to have their Vote to chuse the transactors of their affairs or else in the sight of God and all rotional men are discharged from obeying stooping or submitting to what is done by them And p. 4. in his Letter to Cromwel March 25. 1647. he lays down this as a ground Why the Army should not lay down their Arms upon any conditions in the world before they see the Laws and universal wel-known Liberties of England settled seeing I wil undertake publickly and hope shortly to prove the Parliament Tyrannizeth ten times more over Vs then ever the King did and I wil maintain that by the Law of this Kingdom it is ten times easier to prove it lawful for us to take up Arms against them in the ways they now go then it was for them to take up Arms when they did against the King And I profess I would do it if I were rationally able to morrow For this good Antiparliamentary Doctrine the Army in their late Demands require the enlargement of this Arch-traytor who by his own confession in his printed Letters was the Principal instrument to instigate Cromwel and them to their present Rebellion against the Houses their Members and proceedings as arbitrary and Tyrannical to subvert both King and Parliament And therfore it is high time for the City and Kingdom to take up Arms to withstand them in defence of the Parliament King Kingdom according to their Covenant FINIS This Lilburne affirmeth in his Epistles p. 13 See Lilburns Letters to Cromwel and the Armyes Solemne Engagement Of Iune 8. 14. 20 23. Yea high treason punishable with the forfaiture of life and estate so are the words of the Declaration