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A96054	No nevvs, but a letter to every body. Prescribed, to your truly beloved self; any where: so that you be not resolved to be, who and where you should not be; with care and speed, these be presented. / And subscribed, your daily orator at the throne of grace, R.W.	R. W.	1648 (1648)	Wing W101; Thomason E526_12; ESTC R205656	20,082	16

could not perswade them that their Liberty and propriety would be lost with his Prerogative both ensuing the ruines of the Church So in the State also the King of GODS own institution became layd aside and a constitution of humane wisdom set up in his Place and Power For no man can affirm that GOD whose are all the Kingdoms of the Earth The ruine of the Church more afflictive to the State then to in self and whose Prerogative it is to set up and pull down his own Deputies did ever constitute any other Government but Monarchicall And this no man can deny that GOD is able hath promised yea performed an hundred fold compensation to each man who in obedience to his Ordinance hath suffered as a Christian That for his Churches sake He hath reproved even Kings much more will he those who assume that power which is sacred and his to themselves without his Commission That the Church in the Red Sea is in comfortable safetie persecuting Aegyptians are drowned in it Yea that under CHRIST we owe the Religion which we have unto the sufferings of those whose doctrine discipline and worship the world now accounts folly so far forth that it may be doubted whether if the Church had wanted persecuters it had not now wanted Members And certainly he is a very evill man whom the badnesse of the times hath not made better And surely it concerneth the glory of GOD to meet with man in his own kinde and to make him to see to the full the folly of that wisdom which makes him esteem himself never free enough till he have cast off his yoke whose service onely is his perfect freedom Which now he may if he will One yeer of this Jobilee having cost the Land more beloved pelf then all it's Kings have drawn from it since the Conquest So that in this place it is considerable whether or no our present misery was not then enacted when the King by humane ordinance The first foundation of these our miseries but never by Divine was debarred from looking into his Subjects purses without consent in Parliament By which means Kings especially usurpers for such pottage as hath been presented to them have been necessitated to sell their Birthrights originally GGDS Which the present King in part denying was enforced to break off a former Parliament and to Declare against the usurpation irreligion and injustice thereof And withall to make use of a small part of the Prerogative which God had given him Which the Factious having blasted amongst the generality too well loving their purses their policy was by sinister means at home and abroad both in Scotland France to bring him into such streights as might force a Parliament from him for them to play their prizes in But now the truth of this late unsufferable Court flattery is at length made clear by those who at Present sit at the Helme And now it is no flattery to proclaim for them that where the Soveraign Authority is there the lives and livelihoods of all must be at command And yet still the question sticks whether the wisdom of GOD or Man be best to be trusted In order to these followed on The peoples surprise the universall bent of the people in many places blindly led on by those whose spirit of opposition commended for the onely Patriots to choose none but such for this present Parliament The Serpententine policy diligence and activity of the Faction prevailed against the carelesnesse of the many of the better sort and the few of the best So that in divers places men were elected not so fit for that employment as peradventure for other Advancement So that it is here considerable whether it doth not concern the sleepers to bewail their former neglects and to take care if GOD have not decreed the utter ruine of their ill sought Liberty that they be not out-witted and out-acted by those who are in their generation wiser then themselves Secondly The idle City multitude fitto be practised on this Parliament being met and that in a place fitting for the designes of the Contrivers they had their desire relying upon the multitude of the Plebs urbica whose wantonnesse and idlenesse had made busie-bodies and whose naturall weaknesse or wickednesse had made detesters of the Government and virtues of those whom GOD had raised up amongst them and set in his own place over them The Ringleaders knowing themselves to be thus backed neglecting the busines of His Majesty by whose Authority they met first fell on work against the peoples the Electors Priviledge casting out of doores or out of countenance all those whom they could not bring into the same excesse with themselves though by the people presented unto the King to be by him invested in as high Authority as any of them This beginning with the like continuance hath brought upon you that which you now see and feel which no Chronicle shall be able to represent to you and yours My Letter presumes not on the particulars But yet to some The two Houses whether free it may seem worthy the consideration whether or no the present two Houses be free that is free from force If they be not why without more ado are not we free from them Sit liber Dominus qui volet esse meus And it is an heavy judgement of GOD that Servants should rule over a People If they be at this present to let passe former writings why is not the History of Independency confuted Sundry arguments If they affirm their Freedom we have multitudes of Arguments for their solution If they be free and wise why doth one and the same Body alter continually into contrarieties And those in things at least morall whereof if one be good the other must of necessity be bad At the beginning of the Parliament Scandalous writings and Petitions were justified by a Decree Petitions and free writings that it was Parliament time and all Petitions were to be received and all free writers protected But now it deserves death to Petition and little lesse to use that conscionable advice which the Laws of GOD command us for the snatching our of the fire those whom we see in danger If the former was Liberty what by the Rule of Contraries is the latter And what is become of the resolution of holy Job If his Adversary should write a book against him to binde it to his Soul But by this they have hindred many wholsome Books from being written more from being published 2. But not to mention the multitudes too well known to the most At first Arbitrary Power was declared against and the Noble Strafford put to death Arbitrary power not for acting but for a surmised intending of it Now nothing but Arbitrary power is practised yea and that in the hands of such Committee-men as shame it self is ashamed of 3. At first the Birthright of the Subject the Laws of the

NO NEVVS BUT A LETTER TO EVERY BODY PRESCRIBED To your truly Beloved Self Any where So that you be not resolved to be who and where you should not be With Care and Speed these be presented And Subscribed Your daily Orator at the Throne of Grace R. W. Piscator nisi eam imposuerit hamis escam quam appetituros esse noverit Pisciculos fine spe praedae moratur in Scopulo Petr Arb. Beloved Sir VVIthout some at least seeming insolency and little above the price of 2 d. nothing now will be read But pardon his presumption in writing to all since he faithfully and truly does as he is commanded in praying for all Let him have leave to send to thee who must send to GOD for thee of what spirit soever thou art who neither dares nor can exempt thee from his Prayers who dares not but daily make use of the most pretious and Christian English LITURGIE So that since Personall Treaties are so difficult let me treat with thee thus as I may The subject is of most High and Generall Concernment our Nationall Miseries Causes and Cures thereof Nor can this Treaty be more beneficiall to any then to those who without an hardened Heart are most Averse from it or engaged against it and the Conscientious moments thereof First concerning those who are now the first in the eye of all the two Houses The two Houses 2. Oaths c. And first it is worthy of Consideration whether or not they have blasphemed GOD and the King by the foule sins of Perjury and Treason As having given unto GOD and the King their Oaths for his Supremacy and their Allegiance But have made themselves Supreme imprisoning and denying to the King not onely his Native Rights but also the poore comfort of Addresses so much as by Letters of Wise Children friends or servants Whereas neither the meanest worm nor odiousest Serpent in the Kingdom by the Laws thereof either is or ought to be soused And if so who in Justice may make Addresses unto them who may give Credit unto them or what Hopes can any man have from persisters in wilfull Perjury or who may dare to be any wayes Assisting Aiding or of Councell in most barbarous Treason Such as should not be so much as named among Heathens CONCERNING PRIVILEDGES OF PARLIAMENT Priviledges of Parliament If they be so great as is pretended It is great pitie that some reasonable and peaceable course is not taken for the manifestation of them their just Grounds When whence and How they had their Beginnings That men might understand How farre they are engaged to them and how far they ought to engage for them If in this point matters be clear How comes it to passe that in all this time care is not taken for the Answering of the FREEHOLDERS GRAND INQVEST which with other Books of that Nature tels us of Sir Edw Coke no friend to the Prerogative that in his whole Section of Parliamentary Priviledges He sets down but one viz. Freedom from Arrests and brings no proof for That If Freedom of Speech wherein GOD forbid that Blasphemy and Treason should be included be one of them Freedom of Speech How come so many to be ejected daily by the prevailing Faction as the winde sits out of both Houses Or how shall their mouthes be stopped that Affirm That for these many yeers there hath been no Freedom for any thing but Blasphemy and Treason with their Appendants The direct Contrarieties to all the Ten Commandments of GOD either in the whole or a principall part of each Or that the Priviledges of Parliament have more need to be defended against themselves then against the King and the whole Kingdom besides Or that whereas the Army was formerly the Parliaments Army Now the Parliament is the Armies Parliament It is likewise considerable Invasion of Priviledge whether or no as the Grandees have done by the rest of the Members the pretended Priviledge of the House of Commons hath like Pharaohs lean kine eaten up the Priviledges of the House of Lords If no How comes it to passe that for the satisfaction of the world and for the clearing of the Accused punctuall Answers are not given or Ordered to the forecited Books If yea How shall any other man rest secure from their Invasions who invade one another and rob amongst themselves being empowred to do so by every one else So also Vsurpation over the Laws whether or no Both Houses have invaded and trampled down the Laws of the Land heretofore celebrated as the most glorious Birthright of the English people above all other Nations If no why is not satisfaction given or endeavoured to the honoured writings of that Death-Defyer Justice Jenkins who assuredly hath a very good Cause or else is a very unadvised Man And certainly if his Cause proves good He deserves to have his Statue erected in all Places of publick Judicature and Societies of the Laws yea his Memoriall in each Heart and his Picture in each private House which with the hazard of his head he endeavours to defend from violence Do your Lawyers indeed know that he is an impregnable Defender of those Laws which they pretend to but fight against If the Laws be not invaded How comes it to passe that it is generally even in all mens mouthes that nothing is now so punished as keeping of the Laws And that as the greatest of all guilts But if yea and the Laws be indeed trampled down who shall dare to be so undaring as to prefer before them by which he glories to hold all three either Liberty Propriety or Life Against any Opposers whatsoever under any lawfully retriving the same Which Laws if they be not in force How comes one man to exercise lawfull Authority over another If they be Is not the Murderer murthered who is puc to death by virtue of a Commission under the present Broad Seal And the whole Land involved in the guilt of nocent as well as of innocent Blood And are not they deepest in that gulf who sit judge against the Laws But it is far more considerable whether or no Vsu pation against the King they have invaded the Prerogative Royall Inasmuch as the Lawmaker must needs be of more sacred Authority then the Law it self In the violations of particular Statutes the Fruits of Justice are either spoiled or stolne or else a Branch is murdered In the Body of the Laws the Body of the Tree of Justice is hewen down But in the Regall Authority the Tree is plucked up by the Roots Neither do the Laws of the Land acknowledge any other Root then the King If it be otherwise why then are not all our law-Law-books burnt yea Mr. Pims and St. Johns Speeches If it be so Alas poore Rootlesse Headlesse People Amongst whom nothing is visible but devouring Crowes or devoured carkasses And doubtlesse it is not more unnatural to have no Head then