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A48473	Plaine truth without feare or flattery, or, A true discovery of the unlawfulnesse of the Presbyterian government it being inconsistent with monarchy, and the peoples liberties, and contrary both to the protestation and covenant : the end of establishing the militia of London in such hands as it is now put into by the new ordinance, the betraying votes and destructive practices of a traiterous party in the House of Commons concerning certain petions for liberty and justice : also, a vindication of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, concerning certaine scurrulous words uttered by some of the said faction : with the meanes and wayes that must be used to obtaine reliefe against the said cyrannous usurpers, and for reducing the parliament to its due rights, power and priviledges, in the preservation of the kingdomes laws and liberties / written by I.L.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2156; ESTC R12537	30,822	22

fruits and effects are nothing but impiety and hypocrisie a Reli on which consists more in outward formes and rites after the manner of Moses then in power and piety according to the Gospel which conduceth as appears more to tyranny then Christianity And so I will pretermit their Vowes and Oaths and come to some of their speeches and sayings and here I will shew you another truth by the discovery of another falshood and treacherous vanting act of the same traiterous party or faction which serves as a patterne representation or image of the forme of the yoake of bondage which it may be suspected they study and intond to put upon all the Counties and Corporations in the Kingdome and by which with the helpe of their determined new Army of Horse it is probable they purpose if they can to subjugate the whole Land and to consorme the People to their arbitrary wills even to pay and bease doe and suffer whatsoever they shall thinke sit to enjoyne them or exact upon them as well in respect of things spirituall as civill In the Parliaments Remonstrance of the 2 of November 1642. Book Decl. pag. 700. they tell us That all Rights or Interest of publicke trust are only for the publicke good and not for private advantages nor to the prejudice of any mans particular interest much lefle of the publique And in May 1642. Book Decla 172. They call God to witnesse that the safetie of the Kingdome and peace of the people is their onely aime and because the King would not believe them therein and well had it been for us if we bad never so done nor trust them wholly therewith great grew the contestation as yee may well remember betweene the King and the Parliament about the setling of the Militia of the Kingdome and indeed it was one unhappy cause of the quarrell between them The Parliament then pretending that the King ought not to lettle it without them that it behoved them to have the nomination of such persons as were to be intrusted therewith in whom they might conside the King affirmes and they afterwards grant That the whole power thereof was intrusted by Law in him for the preservation and defence of the Kingdom yet because the King would not passe the Ordinance in Febu 1641. for the setling it in such forme as they desired though the persons they nominated were not refused they presently protest I with they were as quick to doe justice as they are to take exceptions to dispose of it without him and accordingly resolve Rebus sit stantibus nolenti Regi that is they expresse in extream distraction when sorreigne forces are probably invited and a malignant Pepish paritie offended c. the ordering it to be in them for the observe preservation of the Republicke and to prevent the turning the Armes of the Kingdome upon it selfe see the Parliaments answer to their owne question pag. 150. of the Booke of Decla But I hope the case is now altered for although our distractions be still continued by the destructive Councell of a pernicious sactions partie in both Houses the heads of which were and are the cause both of those distractions and these who like katchers of Eeles love to fish in the troubled waters here is now no seare of invited forreign forces and as for that malignant Popish partie then so much condemned it is utterly subdued and suppressed and therefore in all reason Rebus nunc sic stantibus that is the so much feared publicke adversary being long since conquered all visible danger removed and the King recovered out of the hands of evill Counsellors and at present with themselves and not legally divested of his Regall power and right of trust in a word all just pretext and colour of extremity being taken away they take too much upon them and abuse both King and People who in this opportunitie 〈…〉 Royall Assent may be had doe dispose of the Militia without him neither requiting his consent therein nor admitting the People according to the Law to the Election of a thing the King allowed them the persons who are to be intrusted with the dispose and command of their strength and armes and so by consequence of 〈◊〉 estates liberties and lives I am certaine in case as God ●o●bid the Royall Throne should by ●xige●t be●ome vold the Parliaments are not their owne Mesters nor can by the fundamentall Law and constitution of this Kingdome dispose of us the Commons of England and out power armes or interest without our consents how much lesse at this instans All the Commons of England have more just ground of jealous●e from them in now so doing and of complaint and accusation against that malevolent ill-affected party among them by whose power and influence it hath beene effected considering the persons unto whom the Militia and strength of the Kingdome is in divers places of late 〈…〉 then the Parliament ever had from and against the King for refusing onely to 〈◊〉 in their way and manner for they chose the persons and he approved them but the Parliament are herein both choosers and approvers as in many things many of them are both Judge and Witnesse though we neither approve nor assent and thus wee as 〈…〉 the King are in this particular debarred from them of our right and priviledge but this is not the greatest detriment we sustaine and are likely without prevention to suffer and which this predominant malicious partie intends hereby for doe but cast your eye and see and consider what persons are put out of the Militia and what persons are continued admitted and intrusted and yee will presently judge by a little what the whole meanes For example first for for an introduction the pretended Lord Maior Aldermen and Comon-Councell must petition in the name of the Citie though the Citie never propounded it to them to have the Militia setled in their owne hands as they had formerly and why not then to have it by their Charter but by Ordinance for a certaine time and this by the power and prevalency of the malevolent partie is forthwith obtained because it tends to their predominant tyrannous ends approved Alderman Pennington who stood in the breach when they all were afraid whose sidelitie and abilitie was throughly experimented at such time when as the winds blew highest and the stormes grew strongest a man adjudged by the Citie worthy to be their Parliament-man and by the Parliament worthy to be Lieutenant of the Tower of London is now no longer worthy to be intrusted with the Militia but turned out as a man suspected so are the Aldermen K. Foulk Weaver and 〈◊〉 Col. Wilson though a Member of the House also Col. Player Tichburn and others And why they are not absolute for the Faction they were opposite to Bunce and Bellamy the Court of Aldermen and Common-Councell in the prosecution of the last indirect illegall and factious Remonstrance of Presbytery and therefore they are

and money of the People without the Peoples consent make Judges create Lord Keepers or Chancellours and yet the King in presence for they cannot now pretend a necessity by his absence and making use of his name to violate all Law oppresse the People and to commit all injustices in a word to destroy our Liberties and to execute their own Arbitrary wills They speake of having the Kings power with them virtually but we can neither see nor find any of its proper vertue either among them or from them for his Majestres Regall power is just and mercifull regulated by Law preservative and corrective and not unjust cruell irregular and illegall desacing and destructive as the effects have been of the power which the Parliament hath exercised And concerning the Kings estate and revenues no question but it is accumulated and that they have it in bank for they have been very parcimonious Stewards they can hardly spare either the master money for his necessities or his servants any for wages He like a Ward or Pupill is at their set allowance and content with the pittance his late tutors and guardians will allow him I doubt not but it will prove that some of them have made better allowance to themselves both out of his estate and the Republiques also Second how by reason of the predominancy and power of this tyrannous Party in both Houses whose malignant pernitious influence hath been and still is diffusive throughout all the Parliaments actions all these which have taken this Vew and Protestation are and have been defended in pursuance of the same it is sufficiently manifest For who but they that endeavour to maintain the true reformed Protestant Religion according to the doctrine professed in the Church of England in the power and purity of it are hated illegally prosecuted and persecuted vilifyed and reviled and he is most favoured and soonest preferred that can shew himselfe most virulent and violent against them And if you do but sken or looke like a Hare on the one side at the Kings Crown and Dignity you presently incurre through the powerful Votes of this Party the Parliaments high dislike and displeasure and it is a sufficient badge that you are an enemy because you are so to Traitors to the State witnes the high diss●●e of the Armies wise and just demand of his Majesties royall assent to an Act of indempnity truly if they take a bare Parliament ordinance without the Royall assent I will not give them one farthing for their security and it will be found that their Iudges Chancellours Excise men and Sequestrators are in the same case as the Souldiers And to endeavour or petition for liberty according to the Protestation is as much as to ●eg a Prison to sue for justice is to be accounted seditious in a word to be sincere and honest is to be adjudged worthy of no trust imployment or preferment But to make the truth and the wicked practices and purposes of this destroying Party in both Houses yet more plain and open these cunning contrivers of our intended Vassalage and thraldom frame a combination and confederacy by covenant with the Scots and by power and subtilty surprize and ensnare therein the whole Parliament and Kingdom the which I pray read and observe In their feigned profession of sorrow they acknowledge that their not prizing the Gospell nor labouring to receive Christ into their hearts and they say truly hath been the cause of all other sinnes amongst us And therefore with their hands listed up to the most high God they do solemnly swear sincerely to endeavour a reformation of religion in the three Kingdomes in doctrine worship discipline and government according to the word of God and the example of the best reformed Churches now what meanes this juggle and to the example of the best reformed Churches above they swear● and endeavour a reformation and what sincerity is here to make mens impure inventions equivalent to the infallible rule of Gods word to make dogma Presbyteri the opinion of the Priest adaequate to the unalterable last Will and Testament of Jesus Christ only here by this F●yst these deceitfull Spirits endeavour to bring in something of their own that with their claw-back Priests they may seem to have something to do with Christ in his Church government and to sit checke by joule with him in his throne and thus they do still dis-esteem the inestimable benefit of the Gospell and oppose it in the power and purity of it even as their Fathers did so do they harden their hearts against the Lord. If the word of God be a sufficient rule to reform and govern the Church by what need then of any other pattern or platforme The best reformed Churches which are this day in Europe need reformation yea the pure Church of Scotland notwithstanding all their pretence For if you observe our Brethrens various double dealings turnings and windings self seeking and advantage-making in every businesse they transact or negotiate with us far unbeseeming men pretending so great conscientiousnes in all things so highly professing the power of Religion in purenes of life and conversation At first they were against the King then while he was with them they spek and write highly for him and now they have made the most they can of him The Scots have made more of the King then Judas did of the King of heaven they are again become adversaries to him one while they press one part of their deceitfull Covenant as at first they did that part for bringing evill instruments unto condign punishment whilst that Delinquents troubled them Afterward where by craft they had gotten the King among them hoping thereby to have had him established their Presbyterian Church-government within this Kingdom they were very zealous for that part of the Covenant which concerns the preservation and defence of his Majesties person and authority Now both the former are forgotten and they are at this instant extreme urgent and importune for that part of the Covenant which concernes the reformation of Religion in the three Kingdomes in dextrine worship discipline and government according to the word of God and the example of the best reformed Churches by which words the example of c. they would have it granted that their Kirke of Scotland is the best reformed in all the world● and therefore we are bound by this clause of the Covenant they conceive to reforme by their pattern and to make their government our example as if they blind Beetles had obtained the very S●●mum grad●m of the government of the Church of Christ comprehended in the Gospel thus using the Covenant as a Waterman doth his Saile to turn every way and hereby they justify the Scripture which saith a double minded manty unstable in all his wayes Iam. 1. 8. but not one Word do they speak for justice or liberty of the Subject though they see all oppression and violence rage