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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78498	Certain queries vpon the dissolving of the late Parliament: likewise, vpon the present proceedings of the army; and on the many adresses to them, by the militia-officers of the city, and others (as they say) the godly people: and pretendeth to our good old cause, in order to preserve our rights and liberties both civil and riligious [sic].		1659 (1659)	Wing C1746A; Thomason E980_14; ESTC R207749	4,314	8

Certain QVERIES Vpon The Dissolving of the Late PARLIAMENT LIKEWISE Vpon the present Proceedings of the ARMY AND On the many Adresses to them by the Militia-Officers of the City and others as they say the godly People and pretendeth to our Good Old Cause In Order to preserve our Rights and Liberties both Civil and Riligious London Printed in the year 1659 Queries upon the Disolving of the late Parliament likewise on the Proceedings of the Army and the many Adresses to them by the Malitia Officers of the City and others as they pretend the godly People for the Good old Cause in order to preserve our Rights and Liberties both Civil and Religous I. SEing there are but two Reasons as I opine which may Patronize our proceeding to and in the late War one derived from Aristotle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the other from Renter qui j●ss●s habere Consiliarios jussus ●isdem ne obtemperet haud examinet Whether ever was it so excellently stated by any of our Advocates and by our Mulifarious Abetters so universa●ly understood as might or did truly entitle us to begin and prosecute the same carrying in its forehead the irrefragable evidence of a good Old CAVSE II. When upon supposal of our setting aside of all such as appear to have followed the cause from Faction and Interest Whether could we ever have found a considerable party to encounter the Cavaliers and so to have begun and continued this bloody Contention III. When upon these Innovations in matters Ecclesiastical and some i●legal impositions in things Political we gained so great advantage against the late King Whether was not the truth of our good Old Cause so far as it touched the Interest of all and of the State for the genuine purity of a regular Reformation and not for the gross deformity of any disorderly alteration at all IV. Seeing that the late King in thate laborate Monument which he hath left protesteth so fai●ly against all obstinacy of Will preocupation of opinion or prejudice of Spirit as to the altering or setling of any thing upon free and sober Debate so solemnly appealing not to the world only but as I remember to GOD's all-seeing eye then if we be not captivated into some vitious passion against all generous candour and Ingenuity Whether can any justly and truly or without robbing God of his Glory deny viz. that we might have had the Reformation abovesaid in such a perfection for Religion just liberty for all irregular erronists being reserved as the Church of Christ never saw since Christianity gained Authority with the Law yea and such exactness of Policy as Aristotle cannot parallel But for the sottish ignorance sensual error or self particular interest of such who alone like Mr. Rainsborough the Admiral had and would have conference with him when ever they coveted the same though for ought appeareth they understood not either what to reply or with what to press him according to any principles either of Law Reason or Religion V. Seeing it hath often appeared upon any small essay to wards an amendment how easily the Army hath put a stop to all proceedings and a period to all expectations by some one or other trick of untimely Dissolution In case this error be attributed to the Officers then how can or dare these Military Statesman offer any such affront as exclusion and not tremble at that odious imputation which branded those Stigmati●al Satellites of the Decem viri 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. as if they scorned us and our Liberty in the eager lust of their own licentiousness VI. Seeing that the omitting of that advantage by the self-over-weaning ignorance of some and the loss of that opportunity by the Sacrilegious avarice perchance of others hath made many to abandon themselves through despair unto some superficial appearances and shallow brain'd fancies which have no setled foundation nor evertend to any consistence Whether is not this the spring of that posion which hath so horribly overspread our body Politick appeating in all disorders of action and opinion and the very root of all those temerations Edicts which have armed ignorance weakness and envious partiality against all sufficiency knowledge and vertuous Integrity VII I having lately heard the Narrative by a certain Trooper then under the Cornets Command how Joyce attached the late King without any legal Commission and now considering that all of us have seen and many of us have selt the horrour and mischief of those succeeding exorbitancies as to Law Equity Iustice Religion and Morality Do inquire whether all the wise and honest of what ever party or Interest ought not to be jealous of and opposite unto all such Acts of will and power as run without any certain rule of Law Reason or Religion VIII Seeing that the house of Parliament are said to have Voted many things in order to our wealth and security being in the nature and after the manner or according to the condition of a copulative axiome that either all should be allowed or nothing stand Whether doth not such a dissolution as this turn us into the Chaos or Anarchy of universal unsetledness as to Order Justice and all Politick Government Q. 9. Seeing none have less promoted or secured our Rights and Liberties then these of late who have most deeply pretended thereunto so gaining a kinde of Mastery over us by the mysterious malignity of their engaging for us as was once fully insinuated to the Agitators and Souldiery in 1647. Q. 10. Which we have sufficiently experimented ever since without any taking notice of those taunts and reproaches wherewith our new Saints have upbraided one another How can we except charity ought to cozen and befool our Judgement and conscience give any credit to these curious pretenders unto the protecting of our Rights c. Without once thinking them as Briars and Thorns which may boast of bearing Corn and Grape to bear rule over better Trees though we finde nothing but the Darnel of damage and disturbance from or amongst them Q. 11. Seeing there are but two superlative gross errors in the Act of Government generally considered as the Anteutopian will instruct you from Aristotle himself viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. as I Opine when any Statizing Medicors misunderstand both what is a perfect or sound constitution of the body Politick as also what particulars are by discussion to be cull'd out as necessary to the scope and end of a right formed constitution And that all one Statizing Mechanicks yea a●d Military Statesmen have most pitiously stumbled on both these to the danger of splitting our Body Politick in all their Attempts whether towards alteration or establishment Q. 10. How can we commit this our weather beaten Bark so tossed with winds waves and Pilots to so many and different Designs to the conduct of ignorant Cunners in hopes ever to arrive at any Port of Peace or Political Composure Or may we not so well commit our Vissel