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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82177	A declaration of the Lord Generall and his Councel of Officers; shewing the grounds and reasons for the dissolution of the late Parliament.	England and Wales. Army. Council.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1653 (1653)	Wing D701; Thomason E692_6; ESTC R4424	3,952	11

A DECLARATION OF THE LORD GENERALL AND HIS COUNCEL of OFFICERS Shewing the Grounds and Reasons for the dissolution of the late PARLIAMENT LONDON Printed by Hen. Hills and Tho. Brewster Printers to the Army and are to be sold at the sign of Sir John Old-castles in Pye-Corner and at the three Bibles at the Westend of Pauls 1653. A Declaration of the Lord General and his Councel of Officers OUr intention is not to give an accompt at this time of the grounds which first moved us to take up armes and engage our lives and all that was dear unto us in this cause nor to mind in this Declaration the various dispensations through which divine Providence hath led us or the witness the Lord hath born and the many signall testimonies of acceptance which he hath given to the sincere endeavours of his unworthy servants whilst they were contesting with the many and great difficulties as well in the wars as other transactions in the three Nations being necessitated for the defence of the same cause they first asserted to have recourse unto extraordinary actions the same being evident by former Declations published on that behalf After it had pleased God not onely to reduce Ireland and give in Scotland but so marvelously to appear for his people at Worcester that those Nations were reduced to a great degree of peace and England to perfect quiet thereby the Parliament had opportunity to give the people the harvest of all their labour blood and treasure and to settle a due liberty both in reference to civil and spiritual things whereunto they were obliged by their duty their ingagements as also the great and wonderful things which God hath wrought for them it was matter of much grief to the good and well affected of the Land to observe the little progress which was made therein who thereupon applied to the Army expecting redress by their means notwithstanding which the Army being unwilling to meddle with the civil Authority in matters so properly appertaining to it it was agreed that his Excellency and Offices of the Army which were Members of Parliament should be desired to move the Parliament to proceed vigorously in reforming what was amisse in Government and to the settling of the Common-wealth upon a foundation of justice and righteousnesse which having done we hoped that the Parliament would seasonably have answered our expectation But finding to our grief delayes therein we renewed our desires in an humble Petition to them which was presented in August last and although they at that time signifying their good acceptance thereof returned us thanks and referred the particulars thereof to a Committee of the House yet no considerable effect was produced nor any such progresse made as might imply their real intentions to accomplish what was petitioned for but on the contrary there more and more appeared amongst them an aversion to the things themselves with much bitternesse and opposition to the people of God and his spirit acting in them which grew so prevalent that those persons of Honour and integrity amongst them who had eminently appeared for God and the Publique good both before and throughout this warre were rendered of no further use in Parliament then by meeting with a corrupt party to give them countenance to carry on their ends and for effecting the desire they had of perpetuating themselves in the Supream Government For which purpose the said Party long opposed and frequently declared themselves against having a new Representative And when they saw themselves necessitated to take that Bill into consideration they resolved to make use of it to recruite the House with Persons of the same Spirit and temper thereby to perpetuate their own sitting Which intention divers of the activest amongst them did manifest labouring to perswade others to a consent therein And the better to effect this divers Petitions preparing from several Counties for the continuance of this Parliament were encouraged if not set on foot by many of them For obviating of these evils the Officers of the Army obtained several meetings with some of the Parliament to consider what fitting means and remedy might be applied to prevent the same But such endeavours proving altogether ineffectuall it became most evident to the Army as they doubt not it also is to all considering Persons that this Parliament through the corruption of some the jealousie of others the non-attendance and negligence of many would never answer those ends which God his People and the whole Nation expected from them But that this Cause which the Lord hath so greatly blessed and bore witness to must needs languish under their hands and by degrees be wholly lost and the lives liberties and comforts of his People delivered into their Enemies hands All which being sadly and seriously considered by the honest People of this Nation as well as by the Army and wisdom and direction being sought from the Lord it seemed to be a Duty incumbent upon us who had seen so much of the power and presence of God going along with us to consider of some more effectual means to secure the Cause which the good People of this Commonwealth had been so long engaged in and to establish righteousness and peace in these Nations And after much debate it was judged necessary and agreed upon that the Supream Authority should be by the Parliament devolved upon known Persons men fearing God and of approved integrity and the Government of the Commonwealth committed unto them for a time as the most hopefull way to encourage and countenance all Gods People reform the Law and administer Justice impartially Hoping thereby the People might forget Monarchy and understanding their true Interest in the Election of Successive Parliaments may have the Government setled upon a true Basis without hazard to this glorious Cause or necessitating to keep up Armies for the defence of the same And being stil resolved to use all means possible to avoid extraordinary courses we prevailed with about twenty Members of Parliament to give us a Conference with whom we freely and plainly debated the necessity and justness of our Proposals on that behalf And did evidence that those and not the Act under their consideration would most probably bring forth something answerable to that Work the Foundation whereof God himself hath laid and is now carrying on in the World The which notwithstanding found no acceptance but instead thereof it was offered that the way was to continue still this present Parliament as being that from which we might reasonably expect all good things And this being vehemently iusisted upon did much confirm us in our apprehensions that not any Love to a Representative but the making use thereof to recruit and so perpetuate themselves was their aym They being plainly dealt with about this and told that neither the Nation the Honest Interest nor we our selves would be deluded by such dealings they did agree to meet again the next day in the afternoon