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A92927	The Army anatomized: or, A brief & plain display of the humble, honest and religious actings of the General Sir Tho. Fairfax, and his army of saints, toward the good of the King and Parliament, and the whole kingdom, since the famous victory, at Naseby, June 14. 1645. Occasioned upon the serious consideration of 4 Scripture-properties of every true saint and Christian soldier. 1. Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you ('tis our Saviors own Golden-Rule) even so do ye unto them. Mat. 7. 12. 2. Not to do any evil (a general Rule, which admits of no exception, either in Kings, or in Commanders) that good may come thereof. Rom. 3.8. 3. To abstain from every appearance of evil; much more from every apparent evil. 2 Thes. 5. 22. 4. Do violence, or wrong, to no man; neither accuse any man falsly. Luke 3.14. Now, how Sir Tho. Fairfax's army of saints and Christian soldiers have performed all these, or any of these, shal be faithfully and plainly declared, in 20. following observations. / By a loyal lover of peace and truth; but a hearty contemner of sedition and schism.	Loyal lover of peace and truth.	1647 (1647)	Wing S2600; Thomason E419_6; ESTC R203539	29,584	39

and painfull Presbyterian Ministers of the City of London are as we hear for certain threatned to be call'd in question also yea and some are already questioned as Doctor Burgess Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Byfeild and Mr. Ienkins Minister of Christs-Church and to be punisht in their persons an they are and long have bin most vilely and abominably in their purses and livelihood under pretence by our wicked Sectaries of unlawfulness of paying Tythes to the eternall shame and indelible infamie of those that should but will not help it and all and every of them thus suffering only for acting according to their sacred and solemn Covenant and the most exact and upright rule of a good Conscience backt by the authority of Parliament also if at least now a days we know what and where a Parliament is or ought to be and that also justified to be most legal and authentick by 5. severall votings of a free Parliament against one single vote of a most apparent Army-forced and over-awed Parliament which hath thus made all those actings of the Parliament and City Treasonable by their Remonstrance upon the Thursday and their force of 1000. Horse at Hade-Park on the next day being Fryday and this also made both our Covenant and our Parliament a meer snare to honest-hearted and Religious people as I think hath bin abundantly fore-specified by the intolerable and unexpressible Hypocrisie and double-dealing of the Independents and Schismaticks of these our days both in Parliament Army City and Country Who thus think to mock God as they hope to gull and abuse too credulous men If this be not persecution and that in a high nature for honesty and Conscience sake I know not what is And if these be principles and practises of Independents Sectarian Saints and of the Anabaptistical-Godly-Party as they like proud Pharisaical-Justiciaries call themselves I pray God deliver me and all my Friends from such White-Devils in Saints-shapes from such bloody Wolves in sheeps-skins To conclude al hath not this precious Army of Saints now of late also most craftily and cunningly contrived more and more to confound all by their deep-digged even palpable Iesuiticall Machinations as low as hel it self in their last most strangely woven design even to the deep astonishment of the wisest of men among us and to the very posing of the quintessence of wit it self in suddenly conveighing our most unhappy Soveraing King from Hampton-Courts endurance to the impregnable prison of the Isle of Wight thus hurrying this poor Prince from post to pillar even as the Proverb is Out of the Frying-pan into the fire as we all have great cause to fear as knowing the spirits of the Sectaries in generall so wel as we do by thus either traiterously enforcing or craftily perswading his Majesty for the avoiding of the devouring Gulf Charibdis to dash against the Sharp Rock of death-threatning Scylla according to that old verse and if ever now too truly verified Adagy Incidit in Scyllam cupi●ns vitare Charibdim Thus in English Hee 's dasht ' gain Scyllas Rock and quite destroyd Hoping Charibdis Whierl-pool to avoid And certainly this is too evidently at least in our present distracted apprehension and just fear poor King Charles his sad condition tost and tumbled up and down by most Trayterous and Rebellions Sectaries and Schismaticks and now under a colour of avoiding the deadly danger which in truth I am apt enough to believe was too really intended of the Lilb●●ni●● faction the so most audatious Agitators I had almost said Agitraitors of the Army that rude rabble of Levellers indeed as they are fitly termed by his Majesty himself in his Declaration said to be his left on the table at Hampton-Court Under this colour and pretext I say to hurry his Majesty into the grasping paws and Captivity of Cromwel and his Confederates Hammond the present Governor of the Isle of Wight being his hopefully intended Son in Law thus to make up their own mouths and work out their own weal if possibly it may be though with the inevitable ruin and destruction of a thus poor tottering torn and most miserably distracted Church and State if the Lord in his insinite meer mercy and grace interpose not to our miraculous preservation We being thus now by these wofull factions and fractions both among our selves and in this dissembling Saint-like Army brought into the same or into a worse condition then King Iehosaphat was by another Army and with him enforced to cry out and say Lord we know not what to say or do neither is there any strength in us but our eyes are only up unto thee And thus far we all see they have most undenyably already proceeded How much farther yet they will wade into this their unfathomed Ocean of deceit cousnage and abuse of Gods people the Lord only knows To which most righteous Judg of the world who sits in heaven and sees and smiles and laughs them to scorn and hath them in most high derision and who in his own due time will by his power through their own pride and Hipocrisie break them in pieces like Potters-vessells with his Iron-mace of irresistible justice I leave them And since this is most certain Pro. 21.30 That there is no wisdom nor understanding nor Counsel that can prevail against the Lord Therefore I wil say only thus much in brief to all my dear Presbyterian Brethren in the words of Moses Stand stid with godly 〈◊〉 holy Wisdom precious Faith and Christian Resolutions and see the Salvation of our God which he undoubtedly will in his own due time and by his own best way work for thee Amen and Amen A Merricall Corollarie upon the Armies full performance of the Scripture-Properties of true Saints and Christian Souldiers prefixed in the Front of this Treatise THus Reader thou hast had a sight By this most brief survay Of th' Armies Actions just and right The clean contrary way How they have done to Other Men as Christ to them did say As Other Men should do to Them The clean contrary way How they have kept the Rule most wise Which Paul before them lays To do no Ill that Good may rise All clean contrary ways And how each Small Appearing Sin The Army doth gain-say Abhorr and Shun just praise to win The clean contrary way Yea how intact from doing wrong The Army is I say And how exact from a Slanderous-Tongue The clean contrary way Yea here thou seest what friends they are To th' Crown and Regal-Sway To Monarchy what love they bear The clean contrary way What fervent love to Government They piously display With Godly-Order how content The clean contrary way Then to this Army of pure Saints Who fast and lose thus play Let us give thanks free from Complaints The clean contrary way A Scripture Cordiall and Encouragement to all Constant Presbytertan Covenanters against all temporizing Dissemblers and Backsliders RIghteous art thou O Lord when I plead with thee Yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper Wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously with thee and thy children But thou O Lord knowest all thine thou seest that and triest their hearts how they are toward thee And will pull thin● Enemies out like beasts for the slaughter and thou preparest them for a day of certain Destruction Jerem. 12.1 3. Art not thou from everlasting O Lor my God mine Holy-one We shal not die O Lord thou hast ordained the wicked for judgment And O mighty God thou hast establisht them for correction Thou art of purer eyes then to behold evill and canst not look upon iniquity Wherefore then O Lord lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous then he Habakkuk 1.12 13. Thus with holy David Psal 73. Gods Children oftentimes become envious when they see the prosperity of fools and woked men untill they retire into the Sanctuary of God and consult with his unerring Word then they clearly see and understand the end of these men to wit how God sees them in slippery places casts them downe into sud●ain Destruction soon cuts them downe like the grass that withereth so that in a moment he is not and the place where he lately flourished like a green Bay-tree in an instant that cannot be found Psal 37. Thus the hope of Hypocrites shall certainly perish an● be cut off and cast away as a spiders-web Job 8. So that in due ●●me Gods Children shall in holy exultation have just cause to rejoyce in the justice and righteousness of our God and to say Psal 58. Verily there is a reward for the righteous verily there is a God that uprightly judgeth the earth Magna imo maxima est veritas quoniam veritatis dominus Est potentissimus et prudentissim●● super omma praevalebit FINIS