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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82059	The declaration and resolution of many thousands citizens of London concerning the army, under the command of the Lord Generall Fairfax, and their present proceedings touching the treaty; and the further proceedings of the citizens concerning the papers sent up from the army. Also, ten propositions from His Majesties loyall subjects within the realm of England, to the citizens and army, concerning the reign and goverment of their dread soveraign Lord King Charles.		1648 (1648)	Wing D552; Thomason E467_18; ESTC R205257	2,624	8

THE DECLARATION AND RESOLUTION Of many thousands Citizens of LONDON CONCERNING The Army under the Command of the Lord Generall Fairfax and their present Proceedings touching the Treaty And the further proceedings of the Citizens concerning the Papers sent up from the Army Also Ten Propositions from His Majesties loyall Subjects within the Realm of England to the Citizens and Army concerning the Reign and Government of their Dread Soveraign Lord King Charles 8ber the 12th 1648 Printed for C. VV. and are to be sole neer the Royall Exchange in Cornhill THE PROPOSALS Of the Subjects of ENGLAND Concerning The Reign and Government of their Dread Soveraign Lord the KING SUfficient Authority makes a just and lawfull Parliament endued with absolute power and not to be dissolved by any departure To which may be added the third Record or Act of Continuance against the which the King hath no power nor any Court in the Kingdom and whatsoever is done without it about it or against it is void in Law Hear then poor people these poysoned positions penned in papers against the King Legis non habet vigorem quod principi placet Bract. f. 107. Gods Minister ought to do that which is only right and his will is of no force for a Law because it ought to subscribe to the Law and not the Law to it See Errours for Arguments to move you There is Art in Errours and Errours in Arguments are armed with truth The King is to be obeyed his life preserved and his Laws observed and by them both he and his people are to be protected His promises art to them that shall obey his personall Comands in his Camp against his highest Court condemned of Ordinances As first that of the Militia which devests his Majesty of his power to protect his people 2 That of Men and Money to be laid upon them to protect themselves 3 To rebell against his personall Commands 4 To kill him in his Army 5 To rule him and all his people by an arbitrary Government 6 To change Religion 7 Maintain Rebellion 8 Commit his best subjects 9 Commend and countenance his enemies Lastly Keep him from his Parliament I shall easily answer all these The Kings power to protect his people must be known what it is where it is and in whom it is What it is No Regalt personall or private power but a righteous politike and publike power In a word not the judgment of the King meerly Royall Imperiall and Arbytrary but the judgment of the Kingdom legally and judicially performed Where it is Not in the Camp and Cabinet of the King but the great Councell of the Kingdom In whom it is Not in the persons departed but in the three Persons that remain by the Writ of Suwmans and Act of Continuance For the persons departed against both have no cause to call their powers after them but are condemned by both as violaters of their own Acts and therefore the businesse to be considered is left in trust with them forsaken by the others and it is not the Parliament but the King himself that devests himself of his owne power by his own Act and default and having transferred his power to his Court he may not recall it from them 2 Men and Money Answer but the iminent danger the Parliament is to take care for and most against them that are departed and call as many as they can at home and abroad to rebell against their owne Authority for out of Parliament they have none and the Royall power rebels against the politique and the politique defends it where it ought to be and resists it where no Law can justifie it 3 To rebell against the personal Commands of the King is no rebellion but the resistance of wrong and Rebellion is properly against the Kings Authority which defends the person and the person cannot be safe without it but casts it self wilfully into peril to perish with Rebels against the care of the common protection 4 To kill the King is no good mans intention and his party is the Argument of the war which being against his own authority must be suppressed for his safety in his own body 5 The Parliament is no Arbitrary Government and what the three powers do is judiciall in cases extraordinary and Ordinances need no other Lawes then their own powers 6 To change what is humane is no alteration of Religion 7 Rebellion is against the Parliament not by it 8 They are not the best subjects that reject the Parliament 9 They are not the Kingdoms enemies that fight for the Parliament Lastly his Majesties fears cannot be in his supreame Councell where He and we all are safe A Declaration of the power of a King and the Loyalty of His Subjects THE Oath of God binds every Subject to keep the Kings Commandement which he may doe when he is deemed to doe the contrary and shall not need to make hast out of his sight that face shall change for the better that boldly holds out in well doing We must not stand in any evill for so we may suffer his just displeasure that hath dominion over us And therefore all men ought to be carefull of what they are justly commanded and fear not words that want warrant Kings are men and have their passions and must have time to digest them and return where they should be and happy shall they be when they understand their powers aright We have waded through a most wearisome way clogged with clamour as the thickest clay or as clouds of dust that blind every mans eyes and the more we stir the more we strive to choak our selves and it were happy we were out of the way in some other Kingdom to seek our own peace if the Parliament may not make it The Assembly was confused Acts 19.32 and the major part knew not why they met Such Assemblies there be too many where multitudes meet Can any man rejoyce that Tumults turned the King from his Councell and now we hear men rejoyce that they hope the like Tumults will turn the Councell out of the Kingdom And if we lose both where shall our happiness be The best desire is that both may meet and except that be we are like to expect greater Tumults to take all from Us We should see better betwixt parties if we our selves would not be parties The beauty of truth is her nakednesse and therefore she seeks no corners but falshood is ugly and therefore like ill complexions useth varnish The Parliament paints not but is plain and they that have erred set Colours on their Causes to contend with truth it self The Declaration of the Citizens of London concerning the Treaty and the Army DIvers of the Citizens of London having received severall papers from the Army touching the Treaty and bringing to condigne punishment the abettors and fomenters of the late war and commotions within this Kingdom have declared their unanimous Resolutions to joyn with them therein and to live and die and stand and fall with them in the said Ingagement even for those particulars of common Right and Freedom for which they first took up arms and doe further declare that they will by Gods assistance second them with their utmost power and might in their greatest straights and difficulties against all opposition whatsoeve This is the sense and resolution of many thousands well affected Citizens in and about the City of London who subscribed to the large Petition presented to the House of Commons concerning a personall treaty with the King FINIS