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A45518	The nations claim of native right Wherein the gross and extreme defection and injustice of the court martial, and of all courts; the destructive abuse of the law, and pressing necessity, that the nation speedily unite (as one man) for an agreement in righteousness, is by particular example, and an appeal to the general councel of the army, and by several considerations cleerly demonstrated and proved. Secondly, the nullity of order, matter, and form of a free people is asserted, and proved by scripture: and how (to persons, families, people, and churches) right order, matter, and form may be attained. Thirdly, a brief pourtraict of a right government of the nation, and agreement of the people; and how such government and agreement may be with ease attained; a new representative freely elected: the laws rectified: the poor relieved: and the peoples, and armies, and every particular persons just interests (in peace with truth) satisfied, is proposed to the nation. By Thom. Harbye, late Quarter-master in the Regiment late	Harby, Thomas.	1650 (1650)	Wing H684; ESTC R216528	94,995	134

empty functions which they call duties whereof just consideration might be had in their due respects and as some filled spunge with vineger and gave it to Christ so they sacrifice these empty spunges or take and fill them with all filth and defilement of oppression and wickedness and offer them up to God these sacrifices without salt of sincerity or substance of truth are their owne righteousness which is extrem wickedness and in this their own righteousness they are very zealous they are also forward to execute true righteousness so far as it conduceth to the satisfying of their own lusts or advanceth their own designes and unjust ends But for pure religion and undefiled and perfect righteousness without respect to their own corrupt ends and interests they will not once see it nor looke towards it their love to true righteousness is cold that is indeed dead or dying for coldness is as contrary to life as light to darkness therefore the original sourse and cause of life in the people of God being cold and dying all its effects the whole body of true righteousness in them is dying and dissolving they are slippery as ice brittle as glasse you may put your life in their hands and be sure they will deceive you ask not their counsel in any thing for they can give none nor receive any but carp at without cause those men and that means wherein and in whom their own safety most consists 't is dangerous to advise them for they can give no advice but to destroy themselves nor take any but to destroy those that give it Moses advised two striving Israelites to agree and he that was in fault betrayed him and in him all Israel and questioned him for his life for which cause he was forced to flee from Aegypt to Midian so if any faithfully advise the people of God to agree in righteousness they are the first that will betray and destroy them and it is their best safety that are faithful amongst them to flee from them as Moses did and not come neere them for they will betray and destroy both them and themselves such are the violent evils and effects of slavery the furnaces of base and slavish bondage separate as fire separtes gold from drosse or oare all vertues from the people of God and deprives them of wisdom prudence and reason This imbased the Israelits spirits and made them slavish and wicked Num. 14.12.10 But it separates occasionally the dross from their gold that are his people indeed as in Moses Caleb and Ioshuah and makes them more compact and refined yet the people of God have a great noyse of a name as Sardis had that she lived and was dead Laodicea that was most fallen from her love to true righteousness boasted more than all the other six Churches that she was rich and increased with goods and needed nothing but knew not that she was wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked So the people of God are rich and increased in the riches of their own righteousness that is in Babels scarlet sins and apostasies the eyes of their faith look back like Lots wife to her Sorcerers they are fallen or falling from God and from all love unto true righteousness and have imbraced a righteousness of their own a righteousness contrary to true righteousness of their own fansies and deceitful hearts as the Iewes and Churches of Sardis and Laodicea did which is an immediate fore-runer of sure destruction to the people of God as it was to them without their vigourous and speedy care to prevent it which they may and must endevour but can hardly do it without being transient or passing into another body The people of God are so far from supporting her by their righteousness that their sins are the chifest cause of her fall and they most guilty of her sins she is fallen from truth and righteousness and they from faith towards her and themselves she is wholely putrified and corrupted and they her salt have lost ●ts savour she was a City of defence they her watch-men but she is surpriz'd and become a habitation of divels and they did not warn her but betray her they have seen as the Prophets of Israel did foolish things for her and themselves have not discovered their own and her iniquity but have loved vaine visions and flattering divinations Ezek. 12.24 Lam. 2.14 They have betrayed her and themselves by suffering their hearts to be deceived and hardned by her Sorcerers she hath committed main crying sins and they like the men of Iabish Gilead have sitten still and have not gathered themselves together as one man unto the Lord to convince her and to free her and themselves from these sins and have thereby dyed her sins in a scarlet dye upon their own spirits she had not fallen had not they fallen her power to stand was in them and their righteousness and they have dissolved and destroyed her and their own power to stand they have drawn one another and those that have bin farthful amongst them to unite and engage in righteousnesse for her and their own support and then have apostated perfideously and broken their faith to God and Man leaving these that were faithfull that in Conscience could not betray their faith and revolt as sacrifices to the yron teeth of her tyranny and oppression They have been forward to condemn them themselves for their faithfulnesse and have seen her grind and destroy them whiles they stood and lookt on as those Parents that offered their children to Molech The blood of those that have been most faithfull and their perfideous infringement of their just faith to God and Man will be required at their hands if they do not vigourously and faithfully quit themselves Therefore they are so far from supporting her by their righteousnesse that their wickednesse and guilt of blood and their slothfull unfaithfulnesse hath polluted her and their sins are the cause of her fall Fourteenthly The People of God cannot support her or themselves and therefore must come out of her because they are divided and scattered The Israelites because straw was not allowed were scattered over all Egypt The cause is the same here Gods people are Pharaohs Brickills those in Egypt burnt with fire these in the fire and rage of slavery and food maintains their lives as straw did their fires Pharaoh denyed Israel straw afflicted them with burdens and hard bondage and all their service wherein their Task-masters made them serve was with rigour The oppressors of Gods people deny them straw afflict them with burdens and hard bondage and all their service wherein they make them to serve is with rigour Israels oppressors kept back Straw but these both straw and corn they kept back fuel these food and raiment they kept back that straw which was the Egyptians but these keep back that Straw that food and raiment which belongs to Israel and if they would eat straw or if straw

what highly concerns the entire safeties of them and it Eighthly For relieving of the rest of the poor and for preserving of the middle sort of people from extream poverty and beggary Let every parish be brought into a Body represented and constitute a Representative and Representators of its own in its self Let the body represented Conveen as oft as there shall be just cause the body Representative if need be every week Let the end of the Conveening of the body represented and of the body representative be especially at first to determine who are the poor of that body that must be relieved and how relieved Secondly Who are the middle sort that cannot relieve and need not be relieved And Thirdly who are the rich that may relieve and bear some burden and what burden they may bear towards the discharge of the Debts of the Nation and relief of the poor The poor are to be relieved by having all Commons Fennes Forrests Parks and donations of Houses Lands and Monies that have been anciently their due restored to them and a stock of cattel raised for them to improve it for their maintenance They that cannot improve Land or Cattel by their labour are to be relieved by being set at work and what they want of sufficiency to relieve them by their labour must be allowed by Contributions Secondly The middle sort that cannot relieve and need not relief and the poor must be freed from all burdens that they may the better provide for and maintain their own Families and to this end let Excise and Tythes be taken off from all 2 Where Tythes have been bought let just recompence be given to the Buyer if it may be by the Seller and let the Seller in like manner require his satisfaction 3 The considerations and original grounds upon which Tythes were first granted by the people are to be considered If they were at first freely demised and granted by the people and not extorted and if the considerations and grounds upon which they were demised and graunted were in those times visibly just and equal then there is some reason they should be re-bought by the people they not paying more then what the buyer paid Thirdly Let all Taxes Sessements and Quartering be taken off from the poor and middle sort of people and let their Landlords bear their burden Fourthly Let no Farmers pay any Taxes or Sessements nor bear any burden of Free-Quarter or otherwise in relation to the Land they Rent For Free Quarter is not nor can be quite taken away as Rates of Provisions are and the Souldiers Pay being no more Fifthly Let no Souldiers Quarter in Cities and Market-Towns which causeth scarcity and famine in the Land and destroyes the poor and middle sort of people Representors of every Parish are to be but two their Office is to see and provide that the poor and middle sort of people whose Representors they are be not oppressed or deprived of their just Rights and to obtain them where wanting that all due administrations of Right and Justice be extended to all persons and to decide and end all differences and cause strife to cease in their respective Parishes without going to Law as Heathens to destroy one another To compleate a perfect Representative in every Parish let eleven or twelve more be added to the two Representors to performe the same Office with them where they have first done their endeavours and cannot determine or end any difference Let every compleat Representative consist of twelve men and a President Let their Representors especially and also the body Representative be men fearing God dealing truly and hating Covetousness haters of Oppression enemies to Vsurpers and Oppressors impartial to all free from Pharisaical bloudy rigour and lovers and approvers of the Nations and Armies just Engagements for the Nations Freedom and the just Liberties and Interests of all persons If two or twelve so qualified cannot be found in some Parishes then they are to joyn with some other Parish or Parishes until so many may be found No person or grieved parties shall be tyed to refer their grievances to the said two or twelve unless they freely chuse them themselves otherwise they may equally and freely chuse any other two or twelve Every person in every Represented and Representative may freely give his Vote and Advice but if the Sentence and Result be recented as unjust their sufferage and Voyce only that are known to be conscientious and qualified as aforesaid shall stand and the Voyces of others though never so rich and powerful usurpers and oppressors be of no force Two Representors in every Parish elected by the Represented or by the poor and middle sort of people in it may by the approbation and assent of their respective poor and middle sort of people chuse two for the County or Shire to perform the like Offices to the poor and middle sort of people of the Shire or County Also two Representors chosen in every Shire or County may by approbation and assent of their respective Parochial Representors and of the middle sort of people and poor of the Nation chuse and appoint two Representors for the middle sort of people and poor of the Nation who being fitly qualified may reduce the sad and afflicted condition of the poor and middle sort of people into an expeditious and right order of speedy and effectual redress Consider that slavery is the most vile and miserable condition and blackest curse that is or can be incident to men the bond of sin and death to their bodies and spirits the chain of destruction to the Nation and therefore it requires our earnest care to quit our selves and Nation from it A Pillar of a cloud and of fire did direct Israel out of Aegyptian Bondage into the promised Land of Liberty The light and truth of God in the Judgements and Spirits of men is that real and true Pillar of fire which all free-born people of God do and must follow That was outward this inward That gave light to the Body this to the Spirit God in and by that Pillar of fire led and delivered Israel Abrahams Free-born from their chains of cruel bondage into their land of promised liberty God in and by this Pillar of light and fire in the judgements and Spirits of his people leadeth and delivereth his Free-born from real bondage of body and spirit under all burdens of bloudy guilt and cruel oppressions into the land of promised peace truth and perfect freedom Israel moved not but after that cloud by day and moved and did all things by night in and by the light of that pillar of fire So the Free-born of God in the Army and Nation must in all their motions and actings follow after and act in and by the light of the Pillar of God the pillar of light and truth in their own Spirits They must not sell or enslave their own or others lives light liberties interests bodies and

is the strength of it Impress and intense righteousness of bondage reliefe and support from and against the evils of it without righteousness of Freedom out of it is like Sions strong Tower in the Iebusits hands which deceives and hardens their hearts that extend it destroys their lives Families and estates and is so far from all righteousness of Freedom that it ratifies and fortifies an opposit habit of spurious and imposturous deceits against all perfect and legitimate righteousness of Freedom it stirs them up to say Soul Soul take thine ease thou hast many parcels of good words and works too of releif support and refreshings done to oppressed imprisoned and undone Saints the people of God That Fool that put his confidence in deceitful riches for that cause lost his soul and his riches that night So the people of God for and by their puting confidence in rotten deceits of imperfect righteousness of bondage as the Iebusits did in their lame and blind gods 2 Sam. 5. lose their souls Families and their deceitful temporal riches and of supposed righteousness Their relief and support they boast of and confide in is straitned in its bowels and theirs it is their blood their Soul is in it and goes with it and by much strugling in their striving spirits t' is strangled a dead birth destructive to both its parents their Families and estates Blood and things strangled are forbidden Why should the people of God ●un such real hazards worse far than the curse layd upon women in bringing forth children to bring forth these straitned and strangled dead births of the bondage of corruption who requires it to what use let them pay not this mint and cumin of the righteousness of bondage but that only one necessary main debt of the righteousness of Freedom out of bondage due to God and to each other to the Nation to the whole Creation to their own Souls and Consciences Estates Families and to all their interests intire let them seale to God and to each other in perfect and legitimate righteousness of Freedom and there will be no need of this strangled and slavish righteousness of the corruptions of bondage Bondage and the powers thereof are inward and outward the righteousness of inward bondage is real wickedness of outward violence and unrighteousness both are destructive to their subjects and objects their Families estates and entire beings but inward bondage causally outward bondage occasionally Nabals bowels were straitned by inward bondage which brought imminent destruction upon him his Family and estate and he by it lost with his life both Family and estate This straitness of bowels by inward bondage destroyed Ananias Nabal Iudas whole Nations and the first world filled thereby with violence and this straitness of bowels by inward bondage hath filled the hands of the rich oppressors of this Nation and the rest are not free ful of blood and violence the greatest that ever was The miserable objects of this violence the poor wronged and oppressed are murdered meerly by their oppressors straitned bowels of inward bondage and are robbed of their most just Rights due not for keeping sheep or without indentment but upon better accompts of most deeply engaged Faith and extremest hazard Nabals words were churlish yet he did not destroy Davids messengers but the words of these are churlish and they also destroy those that come or are sent peaceably in meekness for their rights and for redress of their wrongs therefore these straitned subjects of extremest violence oppressors may much more expect destruction of their Lives Families and Estates then Nabal or the old world if they seek not free deliverance and full acquittance from this inward Abaddon this inward straitned spirit of bondage the destroyer of their Souls Families and Estates Ahimelech was not straitned by inward but outward bondage his relief to David a very good and just work could cause no evil effect but being in outward bondage of corruption under the power of Saul that wicked power took occasion by his good work and made it through corruption what in it self it was not the cause of destruction of the Priests of the Lord of his and their lives and of the lives of their Families man woman and child Such are the rage and cruelties of outward bondage of corruption that the people of God in bondage under these powers cannot so much as exercise the outward carcass of dead righteousness but their lives and estates are extremely in danger for it or destroyed by it A necessity from God binds all to provide for their Families He that does not denies the faith and is worse then an Infidel But no man in bondage can provide for his House and Family but by seeking Freedom out of bondage Providence of inward bondage is perfect wickedness of outward oppression There 's no Providence but of Freedom only Freedom and Bondage as Fire and Water eagerly cast out each others joynt Beings and Powers Cast out the Bond-woman and her son saith Sarah the Free-woman for he shall not inherit So bondage alternately suffers not the Free-born to inherit any thing no fruits of faithfulness industry providence not their lives nor goods What just providence goodness and justice builds Bondage casts out and destroys Aegypts bondage dis-inherited the Hebrew males of their lives cast them out of all so real bondage dis-inherits the true Israel of all they have or can provide lives liberties and goods yet they may provide things not honest but corrupt fruits of deceit and those inherit Gods people in bondage cannot provide but to destroy their own lives Families and Estates No Providence but of perfect Freedom out of bondage by possessing their mansions and Families prefigured by those in the Ark and in Aegypt can preserve their Lives Families or Estates All providence of men and creatures without this of perfect Freedom out of bondage deceived and destroyed utterly all creatures and men from the earth in a figure when the floud came The first fruit of Faith and ground of true Righteousness is providence of Freedom out of bondage The first object of providence of the Free-born in bondage is that they may have being and begining of right order matter and form as Families People and Churches It s preposterou● fondness and improvidence for a person or a people to act before they are or seek to be or have begining of form and power They that act or cease to act without or against providence deny the faith and destroy themselves without remedy The people in inward bondage are really wicked and they that are in outward bondage must be wicked or destroyed by constraint there 's no safety but in hypocrisie and deceit therefore a most urgent and pressing necessity is laid upon the people of God from God their consciences the creature and their duties to God and each other from their joynt Interests and just Liberties from their own Lives Families Estates as to their security entire