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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25844	The armies vindication of this last change wherein, is plainly demonstrated, the equity, power and right of the army to settle these nations upon the foundations of righteousnesse and freedome : together, with answers to the most material objections made against them.		1659 (1659)	Wing A3719; ESTC R13587	14,976	25

THE ARMIES Vindication of this last CHANGE WHEREIN Is plainly Demonstrated the Equity Power and Right of the Army to settle these Nations upon the Foundations of Righteousnesse and Freedome TOGETHER With Answers to the most material Objections made against them I will also make thy Officers Peace and thy Exactors Righteousnesse Esa 60. v. 17. Published by special Command LONDON Printed by T. M. and are to be sold at the Grey-hound in Paul's Church-yard 1659. The Armies Vindication of this last Change THe late King by his Writ called the long Parliament and that not by any voluntary act of his own but as forced thereunto by the coming of the Scots with an Army into England This Representative thus Convened were the Body of the People of whom he was Head But afterward the King instead of joyning himself with this great Counsell through pretended fears and jealousies did most unnaturally separate and estrange himself from it withdrawing Protection from the People forfeited all obedience due to him as King For as much as he betook himself to force and acts of open Hostility by setting up his Standard by which he put himself into the condition of a private Person laying claim to no more than he could purchase to himself by force and Military Power Thus wholly laying aside his Civill Government turning it into a Military at length he as Saul perished by his own sword by sheathing it in the bowels of his own body politick By this means the Parliament became possessors of the Soveraignty Greatness Honour and riches of the King whereby there was a plain transmitting or translating of power from the King to the Parliament the peoples Representatives who at that time was as a nursing Mother to succour and tenderly embrace the well-affected and good people of the Nation by which means the hearts and affections of all the people of God in the land were gathered up to and went along with them because they were a Bulwark to keep Tyranny and Oppression from all that did adhear unto them and gave encouragement and Protection in the external Exercise of Religion and the service of God These things not being forgotten we cannot but mention the long Parliament with Honour The Parliament not being able to go on in their work without the assistance of an Army were forced to make several Appeals to the people whose Representatives they were and those of them that were well-affected to the cause of Religion and Liberty willingly accepted of the Parliaments Call and did joyn a helping hand by concurrance of their good affections and prayers also by their purses and persons to carry on the great work that was on foot The Parliament being thus constrained to constitute a Military body different from their own and to make a Power of much greater force and strength than that which was Civill The power and greatness of the Parliament did hereby necessarily descend into the Army and the good people thus called to their assistance and adhearing to them and they themselves became a lesser and more inferiour power by pouring out and devolving their greatness and strength into another Society of men more formidable than themselves and their acting as it were in away of subserviency to them for what considerable thing did the Parliament else but to raise money for the Army and supply it with such necessaries that were sutable to their work and designe The Army being thus taken out of the good people of the land and united in such a formidable body obtained great Victories and successe and through the rich mercy and blessing of God overcame all their Enemies in the three Nations the King and his party together with the Irish and Scots were wholly subdued This being done there was no legall form of civill Government left the King being taken away both in Person and Office the House of Lords dissolved the Soveraignty must needs fall into the hands of the People from whence it first sprange The Kings party and such as were Neuters having lost their Right and Priviledge the good people imbodied in an Army together with those that adheared to them must of undoubted right be receptable of all Power and Soveraignty For all greatnesse and Authority that takes its rise from the people when its shattered and broken must necessarily return thither again as retyring to its true Centre As the Sap of a Tree after it hath put forth it self into the Branches and comes to be nipt by Winter storms its course is to sink down again into the root so it fares with all Governments Honours and greatnesse in the world when they are broken and ruined they dissolve into their first principle and beginnings The principal thing to be cleared is that the Soveraignty should resolve it self more into the people imbodied in an Army than into the peoples Representatives in Parliament To evince this consider that the Parliament had no legall Constitution or Right to Government by any law of this Nation that 's most evident the Office and Person of the King being taken away the House of Lords being dissolved as I said before It was not in the power of the Commons being but a third State in the Government to Constitute themselves a Commonwealth without some new act of the people to make them so unlesse they had a Power of themselves inherent that they might doe such things as was never intrusted them by those that chose them The Kings Writ calling them and the Peoples election waxed old and antiquated as out of date And hence their standing as a Government after the death of the King was onely as they were upheld by the power and necessity of the Army and when they were of no farther use to the Nation they were by the Army gently laid aside and the great approbation the people gave to their dissolution did clearly recall their former elections and all further trust reposed in them The next thing is to prove that the Army is the principall body of the People in whom the Soveraignty doth at present reside That such a power should naturally descend into the Army and much superiour to that of the Parliament that raised them will appear by all humane and divine reason I. The Members of the Army for the most part of them were raised out of the ordinary and common bulk of the people which are the greatnesse and strength of the Nation in whom lies the greatest and the most common Interest of the whole with all its concernments II. The Army were such as did answer the call of the Parliament when they made their appeal to the people for to judge of their Cause Now to whom I make an appeal I make him superiour to my self I set him as a Judge and Lord over me thus did the Parliament by their Declarations to the people calling upon them to be Judge of their own Rights and Liberties These of the Army being more valiant than others in