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cause_n	authority_n	king_n	parliament_n	1,836	5	6.6012	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75429	An ansvver to the cities representation set forth by some ministers of the Gospel, within the province of London. Concerning the proceedings of the army. By a Presbyterian patriot, that hath covenanted to preserve the rights and priviledges of Parliaments, and the Kings Majesties person and authority; in the preservation, and defence of the true religion and liberties of the kingdoms; and not otherwise. February 7. 1648. Imprimatur Gilbert Mabbot.		1649 (1649)	Wing A3399; Thomason E541_23; ESTC R205927	13,928	26

the Kings Freedome Honour and Safety Giving out that what he granted in restraint he might lawfully break at liberty In the next place page 4. are severall Scriptures cited which are all true in a Scripture sense but misapplyed like that in the frontise-peece Prov. 24.11 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death and those that are ready to bee slain Such wrestings of Scripture from Innocents to nocents will make Ministers in as bad a name as Lawyers After the naming of which Scriptures they say they are afraid of medling with those who without any colour of legall Authority shall attempt such changes We have had too much colourable authority under the cloake whereof hath been acted so much wrong and injustice to the publike and infinite particulars so that its high time to see it native and naked With what colourable Authority did the Divines in Scotland take part with the Minor against the Major part of the Parliament there and protest against the Acts of Parliament but because they saw them fraudulent and destructive notwithstanding all the specious Declarations of the Parliament to the contrary and wherein doe the proceedings of the Army towards our Parliament differ from theirs whose service in protecting the Minor and inabling them against the Major was in Scotland counted a vertue and commendable and the self-same thing in England to the self-same purpose counted a vice and damnable How Doctors differ Put case his Excellency the Lord Fairfax having power in his hands should have attempted to have set up the King in freedome honour and safety and a considerable part of his Army should have opposed it knowing they were raised to a quite other end I doubt not these Divines would have thought well of and commended this their opposition to such a design though acted by those under Authority against their chief Commander without colour of Authority only upon the equity of their intentions and justness of their cause Such is the case of the Army towards the Parliament who not contrary to their trust as is after asserted but in discharge of their trust and ingagements have against their wills taken these courses for though they were raised by the Parliament yet for the Kingdome and its safety His Excellencies Commission is the Card and Compasse that he must sail by and not be turned out of his course by every wind of Parliamentary Doctrine for so he should not have been the servant of the Parliament but of this or that Faction and wrought about at last by turning round to fight for those he was Commissioned to fight against and against those he was commissioned to fight for well knowing that those of the Parliament which were against the Armies raising were for its destroying though with the ruine of the Kingdom and restoring of the King which was therefore laboured as the aptest means for it In the next place these Ministers compare the Act of the King in relation to the five Members and this of the Army in relation to the Secluded Members together page 5. A comparison ill beseeming the candor of such and so many worthy Divines knowing the different Actors and their different ends they may as well compare the Execution Phinehas did with the Murthers Joab committed or Moses his zeale in slaying those of the family of Ahab for his own ends Next they say p. 6. both Houses of Parliament who are joyntly together with the King intrusted with the supream Authority of the Kingdome an observable Parenthesis at the latter end of a seven yeers war betwixt the King and Parliament though they saw cause to take up Arms against the King yet that does not justifie the Armie to usurpe an authority over King and Parliament If either the defence of themselves or the preservation of the Kingdome or both justified the Parliament then doe they also justifie the Army in what they do for they have both those apparently on their side the Plots and practices of the King and secluded Members being above all things to level this Army and so to make way for the Kings restoration or the Kings restoration to ruine the army The consequence of which two is undisputably the Kingdoms I mean all the well-affected destruction and if defence be allowed to a private man in behalfe of himselfe it is much more allowable to a considerable community of men lawfully put into arms in behalf of the whole whereof they themselves are a part In the next place they say page 7. the Parliament when they took up armes did not intend to divest the King of his authority as appears by their Declarations much lesse to overthrow the frame of Government The Parliaments chief intention was according to their trust to preserve the Lives and Liberties of the people and that in an orderly and unaltered course if it were possible and therefore did they make so many supplications to the King to return to them and rule by their advice according as he ought to doe and accompanied them the more to move him with those Declarations all which hardned in stead of softned him towards them and thereby thinking them to doubt their cause and himselfe to be unresponsible sets up his standard and commences first one War proclaims them Traitors the insolentest and treasonablest act that ever was committed by a King of England yet they offer again and again to be friends upon conditions of peace and safety tendred he refuses and will have no friendship but upon his own terms so ended the first war by a defeat of his purposes and restraint of his Person and then began a second after which never issued out any more of those Declarations spoken of but seeing him incorrigible they resolve in pursuance of their trust and discharge of their Consciences to the Publique weale to settle the Peace of the Kingdome without him which they saw could never be setled with him In order whereunto they vote no more addresses as a necessary expedient thereunto which upon a recruit of Lords and secluded Members was unvoted again and all new to seek the King as bad as he was and had been must be trusted and his own tearms granted against Covenant and Publick-Faith to ground a Peace upon in order to his restoration as the onely probable means to ruine the Army by putting him into a capacity to raise another against them an attempt of that nature having been put in practice at London but not effected for want of the King and thus is necessity brought home to our doors of doing what is done both to the King and present government by Lords and secluded Members These things considered it shews how well they by this their Representation doe appear for maintenance of Liberties as they say they doe against malignant designes of an arbitrary tyrannicall power in the King and introduction of Anarchy by private persons but it is not enough to say so it is not wise mens parts