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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93233	A shrill cry in the eares of Cavaliers, apostates, and presbyters, for the resolve of XIII queries touching the primitive state of this nation, since the Conquest: the late proceedings of the Army, the Covenant, and other weighty matters, tending to the publique peace of the nation. By a well-willer to peace and truth. February 5. 1648. Imprimatur Theodore Jennings.	Well-willer to peace and truth.	1649 (1649)	Wing S3698; Thomason E541_10; ESTC R203571	8,415	17

some of them being likewise threatned to be murdered whereupon the Speaker and many more were forced to flye to the Army for refuge whilst they in the mean time were moulding their Faction into a (b) Which doubtlesse would have been acknowledged so by those persons that oppose this present supreme Power which is conceived upon better grounds undisputable Parliament chusing a new Speaker that so in the absence of those who stood in their way they might carry on their destructive Councells by a Parliamentary Authority Now whether the Generall should not betray his trust if he did not restore these Members although with the hazard of much blood-shed these men having to their power engaged both City and Country to oppose him in the same And whether it was not a great provocation to the Souldiery of the Army who were imbarked and ingaged in the same publick interest and have ventured their lives in the Conquest of the common Enemy to seize upon the person of the King to prevent the carrying on of corrupt interest by these home-bred Enemies VII Query Whether when those Members were restored the other charged fled and the House in a probability to be settled to pursue their former declared ingagements which they did for a while untill the same designe which was againe secretly hatched began to appear being cunningly acted by the same party within and others at distance New Members are called in from those places where the King had the greatest influence fit for the over-ballancing those who stood for the Kingdomes Interest The Scots secretly invited the City and Country moved to present turbulent Petitions that the eleven Members might be recalled the Militia settled in the hands of those of the same Faction The Scots answered in their unreasonable demands presented in their Commissioners Papers the Army to be disbanded the onely rub in their way and such Propositions to be sent to the King as might best promote their designes Upon which the House before framed for the purpose the eleven Members were recalled and restored without any inquiry into those crimes charged against them who no sooner come but the Kingdome is suddenly in a new flame (c) Some Members publickly acting in the same Insurrections in many parts of this land the Scots upon our borders with a potent Army whilst the City was endeavouring with the Parliament to recall the Generalls Commission for pursuing the Rebels in Kent and other places themselves refusing to give any assistance either of men or mony though the Enemy were at the very walls of the City and in that very nick of time violently pressing for a personall Treaty which was not onely granted but covertly carried on (d) Who durst not publickly own these Rebellions by those Members in the House in the pursuance of the same designe whilst many of the faithfull Members were employed abroad to quench that fire which was almost in every place kindled I demand then God having by the Generall and those under his Command so miraculously delivered this Nation againe from a second War whether they were not ingaged by all the bonds both of Nature Religion and right reason upon the cognizance of some of these Members and the apparent defection of others appearing by their Votes to seclude such from the great Councell acknowledging them only fit to be confided in though the lesser number who have continued faithfull untill orderly provision shall be made by them for a free and unbyassed election of new members VIII Query Whether this then being the Supreme Power the people of England are not to rest quiet in their determinations and are not bound to maintain them in the same IX Query Whether it is not the undoubted priviledge of this Supreme Power upon the observation of interchangeable occurrences as they shall see cause alter their Resolutions since their power is such as to repeale Laws and make new the Kings refusing to consent or by treasonable practices make himself uncapable of trust it being in their power upon good grounds so to declare X. Query If the King have not power to deny what the people shall chuse by their Representative why then should the Lords claime priviledge above him since the chiefe burden and charge lyeth upon the Commons of England The Eleventh Query Whether it is at all to be doubted that any alteration of Government by them shall not much more tend to the good of the Commonalty rather then that by the King since these Laws made must be equally binding to themselves The Twelfth Query Whether it is possible as the Land is now divided those Laws agreed upon though never so good should please all interests and whether the imposing of just Laws impartially without respect of persons is not approveable to God and all good men The Thirteenth Query Whether it stand with the Majesty of this supream Court and Peace of the Kingdome to suffer their authority or any power under them to be contemned and the people stirred up to Rebellion because justice according to the Covenant is done upon the King h Who Machivilian-like following the Example of Strafford and Canterburie by his pretended Innocencie and resolute dying hath endeavoured to act a greater revenge by sowing the seeds of Discord amongst the Ignorant people then ever he did in all his life and other Delinquents although it should be promoted by them who by their pretended holy function and perverted Scriptures may thinke to scape punishment for the same These Queries I leave to be resolved by any impartiall man not doubting of any but those who are in a spirit of slumber and will neither hear see nor understand they are King Cavalier Apostate Parliamentarians and the malicious waspish Presbyter who endeavour to set the whole Kingdome on fire because a brat of their own begetting will not be received for a child of Truth such as by their false glosses pervert the very Letter together with the end of that which they call the holy Covenant breaking every part of it themselves and yet audaciously charging it upon others For is not our ingagement to the King conditionall upon keeping the Laws and other things therein expressed upon breach of which he proving a Delinquent as indeed hee did the chief Are we not bound by the same Covenant to bring him with others to condigne punishment and for that part that is for the extirpation of Popery Prelacy Heresie and Schisme I know none more guilty of breach in this particular then themselves for is not this Poperie to compell men in matters of Faith implicitely to beleeve and obey what they impose and this Prelacie to exercise dominion and reign as Kings over their faithfull Brethren in Christ And hath not these been formerly acknowledged by themselves Hereticall Besides is not this Heresie to tie the Priesthood of Melchisedech to any learned Tribe whatsoever since it was one main end of Christs Ascension to give gifts