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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77279	Heaven and earth, spirit and blood, demanding reall commonwealth-justice: or A letter to the Speaker of the present House of Commons. By Captain William Bray; for his captivity in Windsor-Castle.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4303; Thomason E562_9; ESTC R206078	3,506	8

Heaven and Earth Spirit and Blood DEMANDING REALL Commonwealth-Justice OR A LETTER To the SPEAKER of the present House of Commons By Captain William Bray From his Captivity in Windsor-Castle ROM 2.2 6. But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things Who will render to every man according to his deeds Imprinted at London 1649. Mr. Speaker I Did long since make my APPEAL in Parliament as the fundamentall Legal birthright of the People for righteousness and justice and might have expected that after such glorious and unparallel'd Declarations Covenants Imprecations Engagements and actions I should have had a Legal righteous Christian Parliamentary and impartial hearing between the General and Me according to the Ancient and just constitution of Authority in its first institution in Scripture Deut. 1.16 17. and according to the many obligations that lye upon you from the Commands thereof Deut. 16.19 20. ‖ Is not judgement wrested hitherto when instead of a hearing I have a prison and an illegal one too contrary to the infallible and fundamental Rights of the people and of just Government Thou shalt not wrest Judgment Thou shalt not respect persons That which is altogether just shalt thou follow 2 Chron. 19 6●7 The contrary is abhorred and judgment denounced against it Esay 1.23 24 Jerem. 5.28 29. 22.16 17 18. Amos 5.12 6.12 14. Mich. 3.9 11. Job 20.6 7 19. Though his Excellency mount up to the Heavens and his head reach to the clouds yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung they which have seen him shall say Where is he because he hath oppressed Acts 10.34 James 2.9 You have cut off the late King A just substantiall and irrevocable Covenant or Oath cannot be acted contrary unto without the guilt of perjury unspeakable dammage to the people so arbitrarily and forcibly violating the Lawes and Liberties of the People you have solemnly Sworn and Covenanted to sight for and maintain the Laws and Liberties of the people and wished the wrath and vengeance of Heaven and Earth to fall upon you if you did not maintaine the laws and liberties as I have declared in my third appeale for Common-wealth-Justice which remaines dead in your hands as I heare and he that delivered it to you viz. Cornet Cheeseman was imprisoned by Lieutenant Generall Cromwel c. By Arbitrarinesse lawlessenesse power force strength or the sword for it will amount to no other as to men the Lord Jesus the precious Sonne of the Most High and the head of Saints was Crucified butchered and massacred in his Liberties Mat. 10.30 Freedoms and Rights of his humanity c. as appeares by the whole Scriptures of his Life the confessions of his Judge and his sufferings God the People the Laws and Conscience Mat. 7.12 are to be accounted unto for the losse of the meanest Member or of any person or persons unjustly destroyed For the Lord and a just Law tender innocent Bloud and the Liberties of his People Christ the glorious Sonne of God perfectly declared the Laws of nature and justice You professe your selves Christians yet in this you live beneath the Common principles of nature and in the path of former Tyrants whose bloud you have spilt as water upon the ground if you walke contrary to the Law of nature by power you justifie the Crucifying butchering and massacring of the Lord Iesus c. and so fill up more and more the measure of bloudy abominations I have not only been stifled in the rights of nature according to the reason of God If a mā should complaine to a Justice of Peace that such a man rob'd him or sought his life would it be just that the Justice of Peace should commit the accuser or complainer and also to the Jurisdiction of him that rob'd him c. What Law Scripture Principles of God or nature is for this and been dealt with contrary to the Scriptures and sent to an unlawfull Prison and to the Jurisdiction of him that hath dealt cruell y barbarously unnaturally unchristian like and tyrannically with me to my unsupportable dammage losse and prejudice as to humane considerations But the Warrant by which I am committed is contrary to Law Generals being no crimes in Law The Lord Cooks 2 part of Inst fol. 52 53.315.318.511.615.616 1 par Book Dec. pa. 38.77.20.845 and the Votes upon the impeachment of the eleven Members and the Petition of Right the third of King C. and the Act that abolished the Star-Chamber And I am also committed by the words of the Warrant during pleasure whereas if the Warrant had been legall it would should have bin Til delivered by due course of Law righteousnesse or justice And here after I have expended my selfe and wasted my precious dayes and time in the Common-wealth in expectation of a glorious issue of the bloud that hath been shed I have been barbarously kept in prison without any humane consideration all the while for my subsistency far beyond the dealings of the late King c. Sir I have only this as my last unto you or your House seeing I have been so much neglected by you in the cause of Justice and consequently of the people so that neither love to justice nor importunity hath moved you from me nor from others neither for me nor for others that you would move the House that I may have freedom from my oppressive and illegal Imprisonment and bonds and have reparations for the same according to declared principles of the Almighty God Nature Scripture the splendid Declarations of your selves and my Adversary acknowledged reason and the fundamentall Justice Law and Constitution of the Nation and that I may have the undoubted freedom of a Commoner a Christian and member of the People to follow my Appeal in freedom temperance and judgment which is certainly to come at which Felix trembled and to have a lawful impartial and publick hearing according to the nature of Law Righteousness and the being and honour of Authority and if neither wil be heard by your House I desire you to acquaint them that the Nature of Justice and the aforementioned principles do requre a just respect from them to me and for my subsistency in prison which the King himself granted to his prisoners and so was more just and merciful as to humane considerations I having not had any just allowance from them since my barbarous and arbitrary imprisonment knowing that I have been cruelly and arbitrarily dealt with by the General to my great dammage as my third Appeal expresses Which cruelty and injustice considering my almost seven yeers Service in the Wars for the cause of the kingdom is one of the manifold occasions and engagements to an adamanine heart much more to a true Patriot And therefore now I will the Lord willing shut up my mouth if I cannot have justice by this last Address and will surrender up my Body Spirit and Cause to the high and mighty God Judg and Father before whom all things are naked bare and appeal to the next free Representative or Parliament in whom I hope there wil be faithfulness holiness wisdom and justice And however my enemies may deal with my body whether by murther or otherwise I being under the illegal Jurisdiction of my Adversary who hath dealt cruelly and unjustly with me yet my Cause shall live in the presence of the Lord and the Generations present and to come and shall be brought forth in the eternal judgment where my Adversary shall not appear in his gallant Equipage and where his large Summs and Lands of the Common-wealths or being Generall of an Army which should be the Peoples shall be found too light and where he shall have no Parliaments to terrifie from the doing of justice And if they do murther me I shal go before The Grandees of the Armie said in Deel of the 14. of June That Justice is one of the witnesses of God in the earth Beware and they wil follow after And moreover let me tell you Mr. Speaker my blood may as sensibly rise as living blood in the hearts if not faces of your House who have unjustly committed me to the Jurisdiction of my adversary who its probable thirsts after my blood aswel as to rob and deprive me of my liberties and rights But I trust the Lord wil make me willing to resigne up my blood aswel as my Liberties to satisfie his pleasure aswel as the crueltie and inhumanity of Justice-enemies for in a due and serious consideration it is the Lords and the Peoples Sir I hope you will excuse me that I speak what I do and consider that the Lord hath given me an opportunity to hold forth his Excellency and Soveraignty against one that is called Excellency and nature hath given me an occasion as to my Country and my self and also that the Tyranny and cruelty I am under is no small force upon my spirit So leaving you and your House to the judgment of the great day of the Lord and the Lords faithful people in the Land I take my last farewel and rest Yours If you will be the Nations WILL. BRAY. From my cruell arbitrary and causelesse Prison and Indurance by that everlasting to be accursed principle by which Abel Naboth and the Lord Jesus Christ and many in our late dayes were crucified and massacred FINIS