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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
A81548	The dispersed vnited: or, Twelve healing qvestions propounded to persons of ingenious principles and tempers. Tending to stop the mouth of frowardness, scandals, and reproaches cast upon those that submitted unto and acted under the several governments and governours (propter commune bonum) that have been exercised over this Commonwealth, since the interruption of this present Parliament on the 20th of April, 1653. By a friend to friends of the civill [sic] and religious interest of all good men.		1659 (1659)	Wing D1674; Thomason E986_17*; ESTC R207793	5,424	8

The Dispersed Vnited Or Twelve Healing QVESTIONS PROPOUNDED To Persons of ingenious Principles and Tempers TENDING To stop the mouth of frowardness Scandals and Reproaches cast upon those that submitted unto and acted under the several Governments and Governours propter commune bonum that have been exercised over this Commonwealth since the Interruption of this present Parliament on the 20th of April 1653. By a Friend to Friends of the Civill and Religious Interest of all Good Men. Si variâsse vocas crimen variavimus omnes Gall. 5.15 If ye bite and devour one another take heed ye be not consumed one of another Printed in the Year 1659. The Dispersed United OR Twelve Healing Questions c. I. WHether the truth and measure of mens good affections unto this present Parliament be to be estimated by their ancient and constant adherence unto them with their lives and fortunes without the least defection from first to last during the whole time of their former sitting under all the hazards Expences and ●harges of a long dangerous and doubtful War having neither heart nor hand in their interruption but were most passionately grieved and troubled thereat or by their vain and fruitless declamations dishonourable reflections vile reproaches and bitter invectives against him or them that by force and violence did interrupt the said present Parliament assuming the Supream Authority into his or their own hands II. Whether many if not most of those persons that sharpened their tongues like a Serpent against the late Single Persons dignified with the Titles of Protector were not the very self-same persons that did whet their tongues like swords and shot out their arrows even bitter words against this very Parliament before their said interruption and either were personally active therein or abetting the same or signified their apprrobation thereof by their great joy and rejoycing thereat and wheth●r it be not most probable that if their importune desires and impatient expectations be not soon satisfied though with publick dammage in the Judgment of the Parliament they will gather up their old stones of scandalous reproaches calumnies and falshoods and cast them against the same men of their quarrell ●II Whether that Thing called the Little Parliament did not assume unto themselves the highest dignity power and authority of this Nation as much as the pre●ent Parliament can do and whether they ●ad the least shew of right thereunto but the power of the sword to assert and secure them therein and whether the said late Protectours had not the same and whether many of those very persons who now seem to be eaten up with the zeal of this House were not the self-same persons that were then so zealous to pull down this House and to build up that other in the room thereof and whether some of them were not chief Pillars in that building and many others great Votaries for and Benefactors unto the same and whether it was not as lawfull to submit unto and to act under the late Protectors as to submit unto and to act under the said Little Parliament how passionately partial are some men in this age as if John an-Oake did deserve an Euge boneserve for that which John a-Stiles must have an ito maledicte IV. Whether the quiet submission of the Old assertors of this present Parliament and their peaceable subjection to the said Little Parliament during their reign and afterwards unto the said Protectors whilest they were in power there being no other visible authority among the people can rationally argue any defection in heart good will and affections unto the present Parliament The necessity of their submission might be their affliction but not their sin but their submission under that necessity could not possibly be their sin V. Whether the said known well-affected to this present Parliament acting under the said Little Parliament or Protectours in their several capacities of Justices for the Peace Commissioners for the Militia c. for the preservation of the publick peace and the interest of their own well-affected party the punishment of Vice the encouragement of vertue c. without any subscription or other testimony of their owning that Act of Violence in interrupting the Parliament and assuming the power of Government unto themselves but leaving that to the decsion of the great Judge of all Men Whether I say such persons so acting may therefore be justly accused of defection in their respects to the present Parliament or in the least to be disrespected for their so acting whether it was not their duty so to act and whether they ought to be sorry for it and to repent of it And whether this present Parliament ought not to bless God and them for the preservation both of them and their friends and the Good Old Cause viz. the Civill and Religious Rights and Liberties of the known well-affected party so far as they could by their so acting VI. Whether If all the Gentlemen of the present Parliament that did act under the several powers and forms of Government set up since their interruption 20th of April 53 either as Members of the said little Parlimaent or as Commissioners for the Peace or for Assesments made since that time or as Parliament men chosen by vertue of the Protector 's Writs issued out to summon Parliaments or as voting for others in that case or in some other capacity were excluded this Parl. there would be a sufficient number left legally capable of the name of a Parliament And if not Whether Justice and equity as well as goodness and charity do not provoke and invite yea obl ge them to indulge others as well as themselves for so acting VII Whether That by the Laws of true Religion or right Reason the people of this Nation are obliged or ought to oblige themselvs so to own assert and adhere unto the present Government in the way of a Commonwealth as it is now established as not onely to have no hand in the alceration thereof in any case under what circumstances soever but also never to submit unto or act under any other Government whatsoever which either by God's prouidence or permission might be brought upon them VIII Whether those Counties Cities Towns corporate Magistrates Ministers or others that made their respective addresses unto the late Protector owning him as the lawful Successor to his late Father in the Office of Protector according to an Act of Parliament supposed then to be authentick desiring him to protect those that are good to punish those that are bad to maintain the just Rights and priviledges of the people of God and the whole Nation engaging to assist him in so doing with their lives fortunes and imploring the assistance blessing of God upon his endeavours herein and furthermore being induced hereunto by an honest and innocent policy viz. The procurement of his favour assistance in their publick occasions as they may stand in need thereof as also for the disheartning of