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A78464	Certain considerations: being the legitimate issue of a true English heart: presented to the free-holders, and to the free men of the several corporations in this nation; to regulate their elections of Members to serve in the next Parliament, to be holden the 25. of Aprill, 1660.		1660 (1660)	Wing C1691; Thomason E765_8; ESTC R207146	8,330	7

and engage God and the three Kingdoms against them if they should proceed as since they have done to Destroy the King and Disinherit his Posterity Oh! Consider then whether these men be ever to be trusted with Power or to sit within those Walls again Meddle not with them that have been given to such Changes as have Crumbled the Nation into so many Parties and Factions Are they not guilty of the greatest Perjuries of the greatest Murther since that of our Saviour that ever astonish'd the world Wherefore was it that the Earl of Essex before his Death declin'd them Wherefore was it that the Lord Fairfax the Earl of Manchester Sir William Waller Mr. Hollis Sir George Booth Coll. Popham and many others of great note quitted their Stations and by that testified enough how much they abominated these Impicties in their fellow Members And yet how ready were these men in the late little pretended Parliament called the RUMP to make the Nation drink deeper of their Tyranny had not his Excellency the present Lord General clipt the wings of their Pride and Ambition by over ballancing them with a return of the formerly oppressed and secluded Members And though they be now dissolved though against their wills yet being most unwearied and Industrious persuers of their former evil designs they are earnestly at work in all Counties using all means in which their friends and Partisans the Anabaptists Quakers and other Sectaries are the instruments to procure themselves to be elected again to serve in the next Parliament And should you Dear Brethren be swayed to such elections after such a miserable experience the Nation hath had of them you would make the last error worse then the first and by such elections Justifying what they have done you would give them the opportunity to make your selves more miserable and then they had your own consent to justifie your undoing Consider how much the Church and State flourish'd before these Men rooted up the foundations of both Consider how long the Nation hath groaned under their oppressions Consider how they would perpetuate their Usurpation and our Thraldom by endevouring to entail their power upon their Posterities that so within a generation or two Tyrany might be natural to them and slavery to us Consider whether these Men have made the Nation rich or themselves Consider whether these Sacrilegious Men who have got the Revenews of the Church into their hands are ever likely to advance Religion or that those who have used their Prince so ill can love the people Consider that there is but one way under heaven to make the Nation happy and that the guilt of these Men is so great that they had rather drown the Nation in its own blood and make your lives the Bulworks to preserve their own then consent to it for great Guilt is ever suspitious and hardly made to believe it is pardoned though it be so And now the spare is broken by their dissolution let not your own hands weave nets to entangle you but by your Elections shew you are willing to be redeemed should you put these Men in power again your now bleeding Religion would give up the ghost your Laws those great distinguishers betwixt right and wrong would hang at the point of their swords your Estates would be no more then they would spare you from those Multiplied Necessities which their Ambition and guilt will still Create Consider that in the Elections you do Consign over all these and whatsoever is dear unto you to the trust of those you do elect Trust not those who have so oft deceived you and believe it it concerns you next to the Eternal State of your Souls to make a prudent Election And do not suffer your selves to be cheared into an opinion of a Free Parliament when you have no such thing And consider that these Men took care before they dissolved to shuffle in such restrictions and Qualifications as should almost shut out all Men from being Elected but themselves And consider that these Men had no power to impose such Qualifications upon you and you will be but too forward to Seal to your own Mischiefs if you observe them And consider besides that the hatred of these Men to the KING lives still though he be dead in their hatred to those who out of Conscience of their duty hazzarded themselves in defence of his just Cause For those Qüalifications tell us that not onely no person who hath been in Arms for the KING shall be elected but that their Sons shall not be Capeable of being elected and yet some of those Sons were not eight years old and possibly some unborn These great pretenders to Religion love not to immitate God in shewing Mercy unto thousands but yet can visit the Iniquity of the fathers upon the Children and perhaps if ever they have power again to more then the third and fourth Generation by which they have broke all the engagements of honour as they have done those of Allegiance for by the Articles of Oxford at the surrender thereof and by the Articles of other Garrisons it was agreed that all Comprised in those Articles should enjoy all the priviledges and Immunities of other subjects and yet a lawful Election may preferre their Innocent Sons to a forfeiture of a 1000 l. for daring to serve their Country No Civil war not that of the Barons did ever yet abridge the people of their Electing Liberties but this Act was Contrived that under the pretence of a Free Parliament they might be free onely to choose them who have already offended the Nostrils of God and Man and for that ill savour as well as for that they were but the remaining part of a Parliament they have been called the Rump but let the people take heed for should these Rumpers appear in Parliament again like Sampson's Foxes they would turn tail to tail and between every two tails you shall be sure to have such a fire brand as would kindle new Combustions they having no way of safety but the Nations general danger All this considered dearest Countrey men stand fix'd to assert your Freedoms you cannot be out-numbred and should not therefore be out-vallor'd and I hope you will not be outvapored By the self denying Ordinance of the third of April 1645 never to be repealed though never yet observed by those who made it it was ordained that no officer whether Militarie or Civil should be a Member of Parliament for the sword will Create occasions to exercise it self for by that Craft they get their living And let not the Importment of Barebones Petition be forgot which was so authenticated by the Speakers sollemn thanks and that Petition moved the abjuration of King James his line by Act of Parliament and that a Motion for a Single Person as also the Motion to revoke that Law when enacted should be High Treason and the thanks of the House so affectionately bestowed upon Barebone shews what priviledges they would leave to succeeding Parliaments when the Laws of this must be unalterable of this did I say I must recant that for they were none the KINGS death the several Interruptions the Change of Government with several intermediate Parliaments makes them none And yet they have taken upon them to issue Writs in the Name of the Invisible Keepers of the Liberties of England summoning a new Parliament which notwithstanding by the prudence of the Electors in the fit choyce of persons may heal all those wounds of which the Nation hath so long Complained And they cannot manifest that prudence better then in steering the Elections by these rules First that they choose no purchaser of any of the Lands of the late KING nor of the Bishops Deans and Chapters nor of any Lands pretendedly forfeited for delinquency Secondly That they choose none who have gained Offices or made any Advantage by the late troubles Thirdly That they choose none who have been or are Commanders in the former or present Armies Fourthly That they choose no person who hath been or is a Commissioner for Excise Monethly Taxes or any other burthens of the people And lastly That waving all Consideration of the new pretended Qualifications as English Men they steer by the Laws which in short direct the Electors thus That the Knights to be chosen shall be notable Knights of the same Shire Stat. 7. Hen. 4. ca. 15. Stat. 11. Hen. 4. ca. 1. Stat. 1. Hen. 5. ca. 1. Stat. 8. Hen. 6. ca. 7. Stat. 10. Hen. 6. ca. 2. Stat. 23. Hen. 6. ca. 14. or else some notable Esquire or Gentlemen born of the same County and that no Yeoman or Person inferior shall be chosen And that the Electors and Knights elected must be such as were resident in the County for which they serve on the day of the date of the Writs and that Citizens and Burgesses be resident in and free of the Cities and Burroughs for which they serve And the punishment of a Sheriff making a false return or of a Maior or Bailiff so offending would be Considered also and may be found in the Statutes cited in the Margin And now Dear Country Men you have as I may say Life and Death before you Good and Evil Happiness and Mifery choose Life and Good and Happiness Make the Children yet unborn to praise God for you Let your Management of this Election be the Monument of your love to your Country Make up your breaches Redeem the Captived Nation by such a choyce as may heal all our Distempers and help those to right who so long have suffered wrong that there being no leading into Captivity and no Complaining in our Streets we may once more make our boast of God and say Happy are the People that be in such a Case yea blessed are the People that have the Lord for their God Printed for publick good with hearty desire it may be read before or at all Elections