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B01421 An apologeticall declaration of the conscientious Presbyterians of the province of London, and of many thousands of other faithfull and Covenant-keeping citizens, and inhabitants within the said city and suburbs thereof. Wherein their firmnesse and faithfulnesse to their first principles and to their solemn league and covenant is conscientiously declared; and the covenant-breaking and apostacie of others is disclaimed and abhorred before God and the whole world. Ianuarie the 24th, 1649. 1649 (1649) Wing A3539AA; ESTC R176217 6,833 11

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wee propounded in our Freedome from our former Egyptian Taskmasters the Prelates In the next place we further declare against the perverting of our Cause in relation to the preservation of the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament For although we were not able to preserve and defend them when violated by that unpattern'd and horrid force upon the House Decemb 6 and 7 last 1648. Yet we conceive our selves obliged to Declare against it and against the imprisoning and secluding so many of the faithfullest Patriots and assertors of the publick interest of the Kingdome And also against the most insolent subversion and alteration of the constitution of the Supreme judicatorie of the Kingdome consisting of the Kings Personall or Virtuall Presence Lords and Commons without whom as we have been alwayes taught and informed no Law can be enacted or repealed The confirmation and inviolable settlement of which happie Nationall constitution with its preservation were the grounds of our Engagements and no change or alteration of the same Whereas now to the unexpressible grief of our Soules we see a most strong and fierce combination in the Generall and Armies Counsell of Warre and others of their partie set forth to the view of us all in that Modell of theirs called The Agreement of the Pe●ple and presented to that which they call the Parliament Januarie 20th 1648. utterly to subvert and overthrow the whole frame of our foresaid Legall Government and to introduce and enforce upon us a most uncouth strange and headlesse confused Arbitrary and tyrannicall Government of their own devising and by a new as headlesse Representative of their own compacting and yet all this while even whiles they are most violently endeavouring to overthrow all our Nationall Fundamentall Government the very traiterous act for which the Earle of Straford and Can 〈…〉 dyed and which they now lay to the Kings charge to destroy him most fallaciously and hypocritically they protest and strugle to perswade us as in pag 29. of their foresaid Agreement of the People that they are farre from any desire or thought to assum or exercise a Law-giving these are their own words or judiciall power over the Kingdome or to meddle in any thing save the fundamentall settling of that power in the most equall or hopefull way as they pretend for common Right and Safety and this they say they humbly tender to us to consider and accept of if we please Whereas alas we know and ancient experience hath taught us to know that a Tyrants or Conquerors Pray is an irresistible Command And this also is it we thus justly complain of and declare against But in the third place in relation to our Engagement by the Sword and Covenant to defend and preserve our Liberties and Freedoms in this our late most famous and honourable City of London according to Law we are most heartily sorie for the too just occasion that we have to publish and reveal the most evident Perversion of our Cause under this consideration also For whereas to enjoy a Propriety in our estates with a Freedome from Pattentes Monopolies Ship-money and other illegall Impositions and Taxes the Liberty of our Persons from unlawfull Arrests and Imprisonments contrary unto Magna Charta our freeborn English Spirits were raised for their Preservation and defence most freely and even prodigally to lay out our persons and purses We are now not onely in danger of intolerable slavery instead of Freedom and liberty according to Law But to have our Franchises and Priviledges as Freemen of this City votes and rent from us The deep wounding thoughts whereof do so affect and peirce our hearts that we cannot any longer forbear mournfully to complain and Declare That since the 7th of December last we are not onely deprived of our Freedome and liberty to make choice of such Common Counsell-men who have all along approved themselves to God the Parliament and City men faithfull in their trust they being now made uncapable of being chosen thereunto because of their honest Activity for the Personall Treaty And that by an Ordinance made after this supposed crime was acted And now as a sad fruit of it through many Common-Counsell-men most illegally and forcibly chosen in part of a Common-Counsell is passed a Petition which at best shews the framers and promoters thereof onely to minde Earthly things not a word of any Religious or Heavenly concernment being once mentioned in it And it is intituled The petition of the Commons of the City of London Which is not only a foule injurie and blemish unto the truly religious and cordiall Commons thereof but fills us also with fear of future sore breaches of our Franchises and City-liberties if not to the totall subversion of the whole Frame of the well-constituted and long experienced good Government of one of the most glorious and renowned Cities in the Christian world All which most injurious irregularities we cannot chose as Citizens but with ineffable greif of heart here Declare and complain of being in conscience obliged hereunto even by the Oath of Freemen viz The Franchises and customes of this City you shall maintain So that whereas we fought for the defence of our Liberties by Law that our English Spirits might not be intimidated or beslaved by the Kings designe of bringing in of Germane-horse We are now so farre from seeing any sure Foundations for our Liberties and Freedome according to Law that we look upon our selves in exceeding great danger upon that Common plea of the Army Necessity to be miserably subjected to Martiall Law instead of being ruled by the Municipall-Law of the Kingdom And yet as if nothing should be wanting to make us completely miserable and exquisitely to pervert our Cause throughout When both King and Parliament were in an hopfull way not onely of being reconciled but of settling the Kingdome in a way that would have answered in some competent measure for the present the expense of our blood and treasure and our Covenant-engagement also we are now not onely disappointed in our hopes thereof But his Majesties Royall Person the defence and preservation whereof though so carefully provided for by the many Declarations of the Parliament the frequent Proclamations in our streets by the beat of the Drum at the beginning of these Wars by our Protestation May 5th 1641 and by our Solemn League and Covenant yet as if the end of our engaging with the Parliament had been for the ruine of the Kings person and regall Authority His Majesties Person we say is not onely in extreme danger by being exposed unto a Tryall without warrant either from the Word of God or the Laws of the Land But also is thereby plunged into such a nature and condition as is altogether derogatorie to and inconsistent with the Kings Honour which we professe in our Covenant is the 3d part of our Cause for which we engaged Artic 6 That the world therefore to whom we appealed when we entred into Covenant