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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	act_n	parliament_n	power_n	1,452	5	5.0027	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40063	Fourteen queries offered to the consideration of all the faithful adherents to the Parliament, and publick interests who are not corrupted into the present design for oligarchy.		1659 (1659)	Wing F1683; ESTC R38890	2,539	12

Fourteen QUERIES Offered to the Consideration of all the Faithful Adherents to the PARLIAMENT And Publick Interests VVho are not corrupted into the present DESIGN FOR OLIGARCHY LONDON Printed in the Year 1659. Fourteen QUERIES Offered to the Consideration of all the faithful Adherents to the Parliament and Publick Interest c. Taking the great Cause so long contended for to be the pulling down of Kingly Power to make way for the securing of both Civil and Spiritual Liberty the question follows I. VVHether the Parliament who never swerved from their principles of rooting our all footsteps of Monarchy the irreconcileable enemy to liberty of conscience with a full intent to settle an equal Commonwealth under which kinde of Government the persecution of conscience is incompatible Or whether those who with the notorious breach of faith and engagements have once already essayed to set up Monarchy under which Government liberty of conscience is inconsistant and cannot be preserved are the fittest persons in reference to liberty of conscience as least likely to berray it to be intrusted with the settleing of the Government II. Whether the late Interruption of Government under pretence of securing liberty of conscience when there had been the greatest tenderness of it that is imaginable and not the least approach made to the infringement of it be not hypocritical fraudulent and deceitful onpurpose to colour the design in some for a Single Person and of others for an an Oligarchy or Triumvisate III. Whether an Army who makes themselves a distinct Corporation or a Commonwealth within a Common-wealth are likley to settle an equall Government upon the single interest of publick and common good Or whether in the framing of the Government they are not rather likely to set up their own particular interest above and superiour to the publick and common Interest as that which will be as natural to them to do as it alwayes hath been to Monarches and as it is to all mankinde to prefer themselves before all others IV. Whether Souldiers whose genious's are of a different nature to that of Government and whose breedings have not ben at all in Polliticks nor out of their own Countrey and who according to ancient Maximes are good servants but bad masters good defenders of Laws in some cases the worst makers and executioners of them in the world witness the late Reign of our Bashawes are fitting persons to frame a new Government especially those that joyn with them being no other to them then Jurnymen V. Whether if any Government be settled upon the foundations of a double interest we do not thereby utterly lose all that we have fought for our engagements having been all along against the interest of Monarchy to the end to reduce all to the single interest of publick and common good VI. Whether it is to be believed that those persons intends to set up a free State upon the single interest of the publick who takes into their counsels the greatest enemies to it as such who out of love to Monarchy deserted the Parliament at the death of the King and were as violent maintainers of the late Usurper in all his Tyrannies Or whether they are not likely to set up another single person or an Oligarchy and whether grapes of thorns and figs of thistles are to be expected VII Whether Cromwells crooked and by wayes are not exactly followed in designing the bringing these Nations into confusion that thereby they may be necessitated according to the healing question to put the Sovereignty into one or a few hands VIII Whether these Nations can expect any happy settled peace or quiet until all powers are kept to their distinct offices without double capacities and acting onely within their own shire being all subject to the supream civill power and whether if the Souldiers aim at good and righteous things they will not in their Model of Government lay down some such foundation as the self-denying vote not to be violated to keep every one in a single equall and unbyassed capacity and when they have done so subject themselves to it recommending all to the Parliament for their Sanction who can onely derive it lawfully to future ages IX Whether the chief Authour of the present Interruption did not in Richards convention argue strongly against the being of the other House of Parliament from the Military Officers that was in it saying that so long as they were there Parliaments might vote what they pleased but the other would do nothing but what they pleased And whether doth not the same argument lye against himself and the rest of the Officers of the Armies their being in any Civil power so long as they will remain Souldiers X. Whether the interruption of the Parliament who onely can lawfully derive any new form of Government unto posterity doth not render all settlement by other powers unlawful and usurped and therein takes away all tyes of Conscience and the obedience of such powers and exposeth them to be justly overturned by the first Root or Rabble that can get the Sword XI Whether the supposed Author to the healing question his former denying to own Cromwel and his Adherents because usurpers doth not teach all others to do the same towards himself and those he is joyned with And whether his present engagement doth not argue that his former opposition proceeded from his being cousened of that share of Government he should have had and not from any sound and right principles And whether the little Secretary who in Richards convention told him of his sneaking Oligarchy did not therein speak his knowledge and is not able to prove the same XII Whether the whole party of honest men who have throughout been constant to the great Good Cause are not in number small compared to their enemies and whether this last interruption hath not by dividing them weakened their heads and strengthened the hands of their implacable enemies to the great hazard of them and their causes XIII Whether the private Interest of three or four persons ought to be put in ballance with the publick and common Interest and whether former services be a sufficient ground for the Army to maintain them now upon in their disservices and unjust designs by such a horrid Rebellion and breach of Faith as if not repented of God will surely punish XIV Whether that since the Army of themselves cannot maintain the Government and that by the late horrid Rape upon the Parliament they have lost most of their friends there is any way left to preserve themselves the good Old Cause and the Adherents to it but by once more calling together the Members of Parliament to the discharge of their duties God having alwayes owned them in their actings and sufficiently expressed his manifest displeasure against these Nations when with the breath of Faith they have been interrupted And whether the Army hath not cause to cast that person out from amongst them and abominate him who at their meeting whilest the Parliament was sitting and some time before the interruption stirred them up to this detestable Rebellion by telling them that all power was devolved upon them and therefore wished them to take the government upon themselves especially he being one that is known to be no lover of Liberties but a great fovourite of Harry Cromwell when he was in Ireland and a Votary to his Tyranical Government FINIS