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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02900	A declaration of the Lord General and his councel of officers; shewing the grounds and reasons for the dissolution of the late Parliament.	England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); England and Wales. Council of State.	1653 (1653)	Wing D702A; ESTC R174632	4,509	16

A DECLARATION OF THE Lord General 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 ARMIE And by special Order Reprinted at Dublin by Will. Bladen 1653. A Declaration of the Lord General and his Councel of Officers OUR Intention is not to give an account at this time of the grounds which first moved us to take up Arms 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 signal testimonies of acceptance which he hath given to the sincere endeavours of his unworthie servants whilest 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 Declarations published on that behalf After it had pleased God not onely to reduce Ireland and give in Scotland but so marvellously to appear for his People at Worster that those Nations were reduced to a great degree of Peace and England to perfect quiet and thereby the Parliament had opportunitie to give the People the harvest of all their labor bloud and treasure and to settle a due libertie both in reference to Civil and Spiritual things whereunto they were obliged by their dutie their engagements as also the great wonderful things which God had 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 applyed to the Armie expecting redress by their means notwithstanding which the Armie being unwilling to meddle with the Civil Authoritie in matters so properly appertaining to it it was agreed That his Excellencie and Officers of the Armie which were members of Parl. should be desired to move the Parliament to proceed vigorously in reforming what was amiss in Government and to the settling of the Common-wealth 〈◊〉 a foundation of Iustice and Righteousness which having done we hoped that the Parliament would seasonably have answered our expectation but finding to our grief delays 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 he thanks and referred the particulars thereof to a Committee of the House yet no confiderable effect was produced nor any such progress made as might implie their real intentions to accomplish what was Petitioned for but on the contrarie there more and more appeared amongst them an Aversion to the things themselves with much bitterness and opposition to the people of God and his Spirit acting in them which grew so prevalent that those Persons of Honor and Integritie amongst them who had eminently appeared for God and the Publick good both before and throughout this War were rendered of no further use in Parliament than by meeting with a corrupt Partie to give them countenance to carrie on their ends and for effecting the desire they had of perpetuating themselves in the Supream Government For which purpose the said Partie 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 recruit the House with Persons of the same spirit and temper thereby to perpetuate their own fitting 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 these evils the Officers of the Armie obtained several meetings with some of the Parliament to consider what fitting means and remedie might be applyed to prevent the same But such endeavours proving altogether ineffectual it became most evident to the Armie as they doubt not it also is to all considering Persons that this Parliamēt through the corruption of some the jealousie of others the 〈◊〉 attendance and negligence of many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 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 〈◊〉 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 Armie and Wisdom and Direction being sought from the Lord it seemed to be a dutie 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 Common-wealth had been so long engaged in and to establish Righteousness and Peace in these Nations And after much debate it was judged necessarie and agreed upon That the Supream Authoritie should be by the Parliament devolved upon known Persons men fearing God and of approved integritie and the Government of the Common-wealth committed unto them for a time as the most hopeful way to encourage and countenance all Gods People Reform the Law and administer Iustice impartially hoping thereby the People might forget Monarchie and understanding their true interest in the Election of successive Parliaments may have the Government settled upon a true Basis without hazard to this glorious Cause or necessitating to keep up Armies for the defence of the same And being still resolved to use all means possible to avoid extraordinarie courses we prevailed with about Twentie Members of Parliament to give us a Conference with whom we freely and plainly debated the necessitie and justness of our Proposals on that behalf and did evidence than those and not the Act under their Consideration would most probably bring forth somthing 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 insisted upon did much confirm us in our apprehensions That nor any love to Representative but the making use thereof to recruite and so to 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 after-noon for mutual satisfaction it being consented to by the Members present that