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A56217 Ten quæres upon the ten new commandements of the general council of the officers of the armies, Decemb. 22, 1659 ... Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1659 (1659) Wing P4101; ESTC R19378 4,907 10

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Unsaint-like malice part●ality injustice of these guilty Voters in indempnifying themselves and all their Adherents only against the highest Treasons and Rebellions Crimes that possibly can be perpetrated by men and yet exposing all Royallists to the extremity of Justice if Delinquents as they doom them only for their loyalty to their Liege-Soveraign Surely Dat veniam Corvis vexat censura Columbas was never so really verified by any as these gracious Army Councellors 7. Whether their extraordinary zeal care in providing That such who profess Faith in God by Jesus Christ though differing from the Doctrine Discipline and 〈◊〉 publickly held forth shall not be restrained from but shall be equally protected and encouraged in the profession of the Faith and exercise of their Religion so as they abuse not that liberty to the civil injury of oth●rs doth not open a wide door to all damnable Heresies Blasphemi●● Sects Opinions whatsoever to the ruine of our Churches and Religion and give a free toleration encouragement and protection to all Jesuits Popish Priests Fryers and Romish Emissaries whatsoever under the disguises of other Sects seperate Congregations professing Faith in God by Jesus Christ into which they creep to introduce the body of Popry and Jesuitis●● amongst us both in Theory and Practise as they have done of late years in a higher degree than ever Whether any Doctrine Worship or Discipline can be said to be publickly held forth when all of all sorts are thus equally protected and encouraged by their Agreement How they can in conscience or Justice in words provide that this Liberty be not extended to Popery or Prelacy when they so freely allow it to all others though Hereticks or Blasphemers far worse than bare Papists or Prelacy And whether their last restriction nor to such as under the Profession of Christ hold forth and practise Licentiousness extends not principally to themselves who under the Profession of Christ hold forth and practise the greatest Licentiousness even to act all kind of Treasons Rebellions Violences Rapines Murders Plunders Oppressions Perjuries Hypochrisies Atheistical Impieties Sacrileges Treacheries and Villanies with greater Impudency Indempnity and Incorrigibility after * publick and private seeming Humiliations for them than they were ever yet acted in the world by men professing Faith in God by Jesus Christ or the true reformed Religion 8. Whether the impoverished undone people of our three Nations have not far juster cause and reason to detain the Arrears of pay pretended to be due to most of all the rebellious Officers and Forces of this Common-wealth as forfeited by their manifold Treasons Rebellions and Mutinies against their Superiours and obeying only the wills lusts orders of their ambitious mutinous chief Commanders whose devoted Servants they are than they thus peremptorily to demand That the arrears of pay to the Armies and Forces of the Commonwealth now due or incurred to them or any of them though never so treacherous rebellious to their Lords and Masters the Parliament and people who must pay them be with all convenient speed satisfied and paid before their repentance and declared future obedience to the Parliament and people whose Servants and Mercinaries they only are and ought to be in truth 9. Whether the old secluded Members Rump Nobility Gentry free people of England Scotland and Ireland or any free Parliament elected by them can with honor justice or the publick peace safety settlement after so many former and late Rebellions Treacheries Perjuries breaches of Protestations Covenants Commissions and Ingagements of all sorts by the Army and their Officers condescend to their 9th Law That the Armies Forces and Navies of this Commonwealth as the same stood upon the 9. of Octob. last be continued and maintained under the same conduct as the same stood upon the said 9. day of October for the security service and Peace of this Commonwealth and not to be disbanded nor the condust altered until the cause contended for be secured and what that is we know not unless that the Army-Generals and their Council of Officers may be our only Kings Lords and Parliament Legislators call and dissolve Parliaments at their pleasures vote unvote what they will without punishment and ruine our 3. Nations without opposition and the Government of this Commonwealth as is before proposed be effectually setled Be not a most unjust unreasonable command exempting the Army and Officers from all subordination and obedience to any Parliament Council or power of the Nation whatsoever An absolute imposing of a perpetual uncontrollable Army and Iron Yoak of Bondage upon the 3. Nations and their Parliaments galled necks who must only pay and raise monies for them and obey their Prescriptions And whether the Officers and Conductors of this Army who have so frequently disturbed subverted the Security Service Peace and Settlement of our Nations both heretofore and at present and been so treacherous mutinous can be continued undisbanded for any other end but only to act over their former Tragedies and pranks of Rebellion at their pleasures and then force a New Act of Indemnity and Oblivion to expiate them and make themselves Monsters of Treachery and Parliaments the very scorn shame dishonour of our Nation and the world 10. Whether their 10th and last Agreement That we whose names are subscribed do hereby promise and engage by the help of God it had been truer by the assistance of the Devil the * Spirit who ruleth in the children of disobedience to stand by and assist each other in the obtaining of the things before mentioned Be not a New Treasonable Engagement against the Lawes Liberties Freedom Privileges Birthrights of our Nations and Parliaments in opposition to the Cities and Common-Councils Declaration Dec. ●0 well deserving all past arrears and future pay without disbanding Whether those Officers who have subscribed this Engagement be likely to observe it better than they did their late and former Engagements to be true faithfull and constant to their New Lords and Masters from whom they received their Commissions the faith property of an Army-Officer and Souldier being now refined to this Quintessence of Atheism to be faithlesse treacherous perfidious to all others and faithfull loyal unto none any longer or further than consists with his own interest and self-designs Whether there can be any probable or lively hope of curing the manifold desperate Wounds Fractures Convulsions Confusions in our expiring Church State or of establishing any lasting Peace Government Unity or Tranquillity in our distracted Nations without an impartial restitution of all real Members of our English Parliaments to their antient indubitable Privileges to meet sit vote with all freedom and security without the least forcible suspension or seclusion And whether there be any possibility they should thus sit and act till the prodigious Parliament-interrupting secluding securing-dissolving General Council of Officers of the Army be totally dissolved and the Army in some good measure purged from all mutinous Innovators and masked Romish Emissaries The Lord give them all grace unfeignedly to lament and repent the premised Exorbitances and this their new Agreement before they go hence and be seen no more Amen FINIS * 2 Thess. 2 3 4. ‖ James 1. 8. * Eccles. 8. 11. Ps. 55. 19 20 21. * 1 Jac. c. 1. 3 Jac. c. 1. 4. 7 Jac. c. 6. * Mat. 6. 14 15. c. 18. 23 to 35. c. 7. 12. * This Fleetwood confessed at the Guildhall last week * Ephes. 2. 2.