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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94235	A scandalous, libellous, and seditious pamphlet entituled, The valley of Baca: or, The armies interest pleaded, the purchasors seconded, the danger of the nation demonstrated in 34 quæries, answered. And the present state of affaires briefly vindicated. By a true lover to the peace and wellfare of his countrey.		1660 (1660)	Wing S815; Thomason E1034_16; ESTC R203483	12,863	16

A Scandalous Libellous and Seditious PAMPHLET Entituled The Valley of Baca OR The Armies Interest pleaded the Purchasors seconded the danger of the Nation demonstrated in 34 QUAERIES ANSWERED And the present state of Affaires briefly vindicated By a True Lover to the Peace and Wellfare of his Countrey LONDON Printed in the Year 1660. THE Valley of BACA Answered 1. VVHe●her seeing it was the Parli●ments Army that brought in his Majesty when his own Party and Armies could not do it They deserve not all due respect and tenderness And whether proportionable encouragement ought not to be given t● such who shall be found to merit it according to his Ma●esties late Declarations Answ His Ma esty hath given assurance to confer a Character of Favour upon those Person of the Army who were Instrumental in his Restauration and in order thereunto there is Care taken that those Lands purchased by them or Received for Service in their possession to be secured to ●hem and their Posterity 2. Whe●her it can be call'd tenderness or encouragement to turn out so many of the old Officers ●nd Souldiers of the Army and Garrisons contrary to the known Laws Martial and contrary to his Ma esties Royal Promise and Engagement not paying ●heir Arrears before disbanding nor letting them know any cause for which they are Outed onely to make way for such who have been known Enemies to Parliament and Army not having left above one Comm●ssioned-Officer in many Regiments And whether the rest of the Army who engaged for the Parliament are not like speedily to follow if not prevented And whether the Nations are not insensibly brought hereby to ruine and slavery before they see it Answ To the Second Let the Querist inform himself aright and he shall find tho●e onely of the old Army divested of their Imploymen●s that have been Instrumen●s actively or passively under all Changes and are person tempered fit for the swallowing down of any Change whatsoever And those Continued are either Persons that have given Testimony of their dislike of those Grand Inconveniencies that were daily practised upon these Nations by a Giddy Unconstant Proud Insolent Ignorant and unprincipled Generation Or else such who were wearied out with the often Changes abhorred to be Instruments longer in using their Arms to defend Faction and therefore they did readily adhere to that Noble Northern Conductor The Querist in these words viz. Turning out many of the Officers of the Army to make way for known Enemies discovereth his spirit to be turbulent and factious to keep up distinctions of Parties A thing Dangerous and Unprofitable and not permitted by any Wise Princes or States But as the Case now standeth it is the most wise and adviseable course that can be taken to put Arms in the Hands of such Persons of both Parties as really desire Settlement If the Arms of the Nation were not so disposed of there would be new Matter for Jealousie which is endeavoured to be fomented by the Author of these Queries 3. Whether the Justice of the Long Parliaments Cause hath not been sufficiently owned by the late King his concessions at the Isle of Wight And by the Solemn Covenant and Declaration of this King made and taken at his Coronation in Scotland Answ No doubt but ●hat Publike or Sacred Act or Thing was done either by his late Majestie or his now Majesty due respect will be had thereunto However the Scene of Affairs are altered his late Majesty was under Restraint and a powerful Army in being his Majesty present had a Crown offered him upon Terms it is not to be believed or supposed otherwise then Enviously that what His Father did or what He did Himself will be by Him disowned although peradventure not in the sense of the Author of these Queries His Majesty now was called in out of a perfect necessity to bring the Nation to some kind of Settlement and the security the Nation hath is his own Interest that is it is his Interest to do all or more than what justly or legally could have been expected by the Undertakers of the late War It is evident for that by any thing his Majesty hath already done and will be led by his Principles of just preserving Policy his deep Judgment and Skill in Government that he will be a King of Vertue a Rectifier of Abuses a Ballance to Justice a Prevention of Exorbitancies in Ministers of State and Justice an Expeller of bad and grievous Lawes a Discountenancer of Debauchery and Vice an Encourager of those that do well by which he will find Favour of God and Man 4. Whether this Convention now sitting are not like to endanger the Cause of the Long Parliament our Religion and Liberties by bringing the guilt of the blood shed in the late War upon their heads and all who adhered to them if the bold and saucy incroachments of Prelatical and other intruders be not timely prevented Answ I shall answer this Quaere with another whether that the Long Parliament did not suffer their Cause to be overthrown by Cromwel the Usurper and his Acomplices in the secluding of Members putting to Death of the King and other Actions that made the Nation to loath them and weeded them out of an Interest to back them in carrying on of what they undert●ok 5. Whether the Old Parliament may not yet have another Resurrection seeing they could not be d●ssolved without the joynt consent of both Houses which hitherto hath not been done according to the Legal intent of the Act for that purpose Answ To the first part I answer yes 19000 years hence if the Doctrine of that Philosopher be true that once in 19000 years all Beeings shall Act the same part over again they have already Acted hereupon Earth In this Age it is not likely they shall have a Resurrection in regard they preserved not their Authority free from those Violations and Alterations that passed upon them To the other or last part of this Quaere I answer As the Saylor cannot Sayl by the Compass in a Storm and that it is convenient to restrain the Sick from Food and to give him Physick Laws that are made to respect such and such Reasons of State are in force as long as the occasion lasteth Affairs have changed themselves into many forms and shapes since insomuch that that Act will not at all fit or sort with Affairs now it is become Null and Void of it self If they had con●inued without those Vicissitudes and Changes and the same Reasons of State on foot and the same Interest able to support it self in that Case the Act had been pleadable Bracton Fleta Horn and Littleton agree That if the Lord shall fail to protect his Vassal the Vassal's Oath 's dissolved for that the Law intendeth a Condition and the Law freeth him from his Obedience Even so is it that Parliament seased to be a Parliament by being not able to protect the People from those frequent

hath referred the prevention of his fears to his Majesty who is a merci●ull ●nd wise Prince who will do that which shall not be ●ustly sensurable by hi● worst of Enemies that he may be so we must pray to the Almighty to lead him by the hand of Providence and still watch over him for good to these Nations 16. Whether those who opposed his Majesty's c ming in upon conditions have not shewed themselves unfrienaly both to their King and Country and whe her they who should have been the People's refuge have not proved their ruine by not asserting the old Parliament's Cause to be just and lawful as their Brethren did in Sco●land Answ It is very certain as before alledged That it is better that his Majesty came in without Tearms than with Tearns for if that he had come in upon Tearms those Tearms must have been made with one Party or Interest or with all the Parties and Interests if with one of the Partie that had been to the prejudice of the rest if it had been with all the Parties that could hardly have been effected The Differences were so irreconcilable that without an Umpire it would have produced another War and unto which of the Parties Success might have happened is uncertain so that all had run an equal danger therefore it is much better that his Majesty came in as an equall Arbitrator of all our Differences Moreover at that time when his Majesty was invited into the Nation Lambert was forming a new War which would have been safe for no Party whose Principles were nothing but Ambition who as he hath said himself did Interrupt the then sitting Parliament the 13 of October 1659. upon no more than half an hours consideration being led thereto by a violent Impulse of the Spirit such a person as shall attempt such a thing upon the face of Authority without more deliberation Let it be Legal or Illegal is not at all to be trusted So that it is evident that there was a necessity of his Majesties coming in at that time that it will be for the better to the Nation that he came in without Tearms For as he is King of all so he now must equally respect all and Frame all his Reasons of State to that End by which he will lay a sure Foundation to his Soveraignty 17. Whether seeing there is above four hundred Thousand Families engaged to that old Parliament's Cause by way of purchase in this Nation who are like to lose their Purchases It be not onely dangerous at present to inflame the Spirits of these mea But whether it be not a ground to espouse a quarrel to their posterities if their Estates should not be confirmed Answ See the Answer to the 9th Quaery Moreover the Interest of the Purchasors was not able to buy it self up to make Terms nor support that Interest that sold the Lands unto them Therefore His Majesty is not bound to make good those Sales farther then his Royall Word shall oblige him or his Interest lead him unto Which no doubt will be Honourable 18. Whether any confidence can be put in a giddy multitude who crying Hosanna to day are ready to cry Crucify to Morrow especially of the English Nation who are ever fluctuating Answ His Majesty knoweth full well That no Confidence is to be put in the Multitude but that he must put Confidence in Actions of Justice and Honour which will Establish His Throne Adorn his Crown and strengthen him to display his Scepter to the satisfaction of all Interests 19. Whether seeing Prelacy was a main Ingredient into the late Wars they having intruded so many English Popish Ceremonies into the Church and his Ma esty is bound by Covenant and Declaration to root it up in his Dominions it can therefore be safe to re-establish it And whether Mr. Duglas his Sermon was not a spirituall Prediction of some speedy Judgment to follow if such a horrid violation of the Covenant be tolerated Answ His Majesty's proceedings in that particular are just and honourable He intendeth a Synod to reconcile those differences in the Church It is as reasonable for the Presbyterians to abate of what they would have as for the Episcopal to abate of what they desire for that as to Government or Ceremonies in the Church neither of their Forms are absolutely necessary to Salvation So that his Majesty by the advice of a learned and wise Synod to moderate things between them that they may unite and agree will as He is Head of these Nations do a Good Office and answer the Ends of the Covenant which seemeth to drive principally at a Government according to the Word of God and not ab olutely this or that Government farther then in opposition to that of Popery c. 20. Whether it be not the duty of the Ministry to prevent the Apostacy of their People from the Cove●ant by their Preaching and Doctrines now we are running ●nto another extream as well as they did lately when in a former extream especially when the Wolf is already amongst their flocks And whether it be not the duty of all Cities and Counties to follow the Examples given from Wiltshire and Dorsetshire by petitioning to settle Religion according to the Covenant Answ The Author soundeth the Trumpet of Sedition in this Quaery but he will be prevented by his Majesty's care in that particular in his Reconciling the two grand and considerable Interests of these Nations 21. Whether the turning out near three thousand learned and godly Ministers to intrude such who neither know how to pray or preach will not encrease discontent in all their Congregations when they shall see how their Souls are like to be starved and cheated Answ That there hath not been any as yet turned out because Presbytērians but because in others Rights if they cannot pray and preach doubtlesse upon due proof thereof Remedy may be had against them in that case for his Majesty hath declared that he will maintain a godly Ministry And no Prince yet that ever lived upon the Earth hath ever accounted his Word more sacred than he doth 22. Whether it will not renown his Majesty in the hearts of his People to hasten a full Indempaity to all his Subjects in his Dominions as an Act of Council till the old Parliament sits and to expunge all Provisoes which may any way invalidate the operation of the Act and to do the like by an Act for Sales Answ How often hath his Majesty out of his own grace urged the passing of the Act of Indempnity with as much earnestness as the partie themselves that are concerned can in modesty desire 23. Whether the making of Dr. Reynolds Mr. Calamy and Mr. Baxter Chaplains at Court be not a Prelatical design either to draw them by preferme to that party or to lull the Presbyterians asleep till they are all turn'd out o their places as many are served already Ans The 3 Persons here