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VVorks of darkness brought to light. Or A true representation to the whole kingdome of the dangerous designes driven on by sectaries in the army: as also laying down the unreasonableness of their demands, which if not granted, they refuse to disband. Together with VII. new queries propounded to the army.
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Tell-Troth, Thomas.
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1647
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Wing W3585; Thomason E399_36; ESTC R201735
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VVorks of Darkness Brought to LIGHT OR A true Representation to the whole Kingdome of the Dangerous Designes driven on by Sectaries in the ARMY As also laying down the unreasonableness of their DEMANDS Which if not granted they refuse to DISBAND Together with VII new QVERIES propounded to the ARMY LUK. 3.14 And the Souldiers demanded of John saying And what shal we do And he said unto them Do violence to no man neither accuse any man falsly and be content with your wages LONDON Printed in the Year 1647. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO The disobedient Army under the Conduct of Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX Much to be lamented Gentlemen and Soldiers IT greives your freinds and glads your enemies that you who have been famous for your victories should now become infamous for your disobedience It may be said of your practises as it was of the writings of Origen ubi bene nemo melius ubi male nemo pejus what things he did wel none did better wherein he did ill none did worse the same may be said of you whiles you did wel in obeying the Parliament encountring with your enemies none did better but when once you did ill in disobeying the Commands of this state you serve and in picking quarrels with your freinds when you had no enemies to fight withall in this none did worse It hath made me wonder that you whose Tenets are you must not fight for Religion should stretch your Consciences so far on the tenter-hook of your own designs as to fight against it I know most of your Persons and have read all your Papers with a bleeding heart and weeping eye my very soul mourning in secret for the proud and imperious language vain and carnal confidence Peremptory and high demands weak and groundless jealousies sinful and ungodly compliance with all parties to carry on your own which is scattered up and down throughout all your papers Lies have been your refuge and under falshood have you hid your selves That your selves and the Kingdom might see I do you no wrong I shal produce your own party and Papers to give palpable Demonstration to all the world that you have contrived and carried on your designs with falshood and deceit From your Party I might evince it thus did not Cromwel your great Ring-leader into Disobedience solemnly protest and promise upon his life and honor many times and oft in the House of Commons * Cromwels Promise falsified that the Army should disband and lay down all their Arms at their door when ever the House Commanded them now whether your papers agree with his promise the world wil witness It seems he can take that liberty of Conscience with the Papist to promote the Catholique cause per fas et nafas by right means or wrong by truth or falshood This palpable breach of Cromwels ingagement makes all indifferent men beleive that this promise of obedience was only made that your purpose of disobedience might be the less suspected and the practise of it the more easily promoted Is not this like the practise of Garnet and Jesuite who a little before the powder-plot was to be acted did lay his Commands on the Papists to obey their King and keep themselves quiet and all was that the plot might not be suspected If Cromwel follow Garnets steps I would have him take heed of Garnets end 2. The falshood of your Papers I could declare in many particulars which I wil scan and survey in this following Treatise I shal in my Epistile instance in one Palpable falshood only In your letter to the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Councel of the City of London a These in breif are our desires and the things for which we stand beyond which we shal not go See the Letter from Sir Thomas Fairfax and the cheif Commanders in the Army to the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Council of the City of London Dated from Royston June 10. 1647. P. 4 li. 14. you signify what your desires are and the things for which you stand beyond which you promise you shal not go And in your b See the Declaration from Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Army from St. Albanes June 1â— 1647. P 12. l. 29. Declaration 4. daies after this you have these words There are besides these many particular things which we could wish to be done and some to be undone but these proposals afore-going present being the principal things we bottome and insist upon we shal as we have said before acquiesce for other particulars in the justice and wisedom of the Parliament In which words I cannot but give you to take notice both of Pride and falshood 1. Pride in that in some particulars only you wil acquiesce in the wisedom and justice of the parliament in other things it seems you wil not Touching those proposals in your Declaration you wil not acquiesce in the justice and wisedom of the House in those you seem your selves the most Competent judges on intollerable pride 2. The falshood of those words appear in this although you bound up your selves by promise that beyond your desires exprest in your letter Dated 10. of June and your Proposals in your Declaration at St. Albanes June 14. you would not go but acquiesce in the justice and wisedom of the Parliament for other particulars yet have you since the time you made that promise imperiously demanded and Peremptorily insisted upon about 20. Particular Proposals more in your Humble Remonstrance dated June 23. and in your manifesto dated June 27. and in other Papers Thus have you made lies your Refuge and under falshood have you hid your selves Having thus dealt plainly with you I shal now retire into a corner and weep for you and that upon these 4. Considerations 1. Considering the Temptations you lie under at this day Your selves confess it in the opinion and humble advice of the Councel of War at Bury 29 of May 1647. pag. 7. line ult Oh 't is the houre of your Temptation the Temptation that I conceive lies upon you is this that you have many of you been used so long to Command that you have forgotten to obey that many of you from deep penury have aspired to gainful offices and from being cloathed in raggs are now arrayed in Scarlet this I fear wil be a prevailing Temptation upon you to make you unwilling to disband knowing that then you must return to your obscure dwellings and callings to be Tinkers Tapsters Taylors Tanker-bearers Porters Coblers Bakers and other such mean trades of which you could not subsist before these wars 2. Considering the Designs you drive at among many this is the summ of your desires to new-mould the House of Commons which you call purging but others think corrupting the House Oh then M. Peters would be busy abroad to get in some famous Common-wealths-men such as Hughson the Shoo-maker Hobson the Taylor Quarterman the Marshal These in your account would be faithful Members in the
forth your merit before the people Remember your selves or shal we remember ye which of you before this Parliament minded any thing so much as your pleasures plaies masks feastings buntings gameings dancings c For what other have you been but a meer clogg to the House of Commons in all their proceedings how many necessary things have ye obstructed how many evil things have ye promoted And in another Pestilent Pamphlet 't is affirmed f See Remonstrance of many thousands p 7. that the Lords must stand to be chosen for Knights and Burgesses by the people as other the freemen and gentry of this nation are Yea there is another seditious Book intituled An Al-arm to the House of Lords which contains in every page of it railing against the Peers of the Realm g See the book intituled an Al-arm to the House of Lords the several passages would be too tedious for you to read or me to write let this suffice to let you see the endeavours of the Sectaries to overthrow and alter the very foundamentals of the government of the Kingdom now least you should imagine that this spirit of dis-affection to the House of Lords should be confined only within the breasts of the unknown Authors of these seditious books it is meet I should let you know that this malignant humour runs as blood throughout the veines of all the Sectaries when the Sectaries in and about London Petition 't is only to their own House of Commons they never take notice of the Lords House at all witness that factious Petition from Lambes Congregation and another Petition from the Sectaries of London delivered to the House of Commons by that Turn-coate Samuel Warner Tichbourn and others in opposition to the Renouned Remonstrance of the City which was humbly presented to both Houses but their seditious Petitions but only to the House of Commons By this it appears that destroying the Lords House is the 2. Design driven on by the Sectaries Ye nobles all be ware a fall The Brownists do against you brawl They say you shal not sit an houre If th' upper House yeeld not to th' lower To cut off the King if he sides not to the Independent party 3. Design 'T is true of late they seem to appear for him to gain Malignants on their side but 't is notoriously known how their Principles are directly against Monarchy What desperate speeches have some Independent Members uttered against the King yea it wil never be forgotten how inraged the Independent Members of the House and Sectaries of London were against the City Remonstrance chiefly because there was this passage in it for the preservation of the Kings person according to the Covenant Yea the Sectaries publish to the world in Print that the King for his mis-government must lose his life h See the just mans Iustification P. 1. 't is said in one Pamphlet 〈◊〉 that You meaning the House of Commons or else the rude multitude should think of that great Murtherer of England meaning the King for by the impartial Law of God there is no exemption of Kings Princes Dukes Earls c. more then of Fishermen Coblers Tinkers or Chimney-sweepers and elsewhere 't is said i See Arguments proving that we ought not to part with the Militia Arg. 10. that according to Protestations Oathes and Covenants He meaning the King ought to be brought to exemplary and condign punishment he being the greatest and most notorious Delinquent in the whole Kingdom c. Yea they speak their minds more fully in another Pamphlet k See the Remonst of many thousands p. 6. We do expect according to reason that ye should in the first place declare and set forth King CHARLS his wickedness openly before the world and withal to shew the intolerable incoveniences of having a Kingly Government from the constant evil practices of those of this Nation and so to declare King CHARLS an enemy and to publish your resolution never to have any more By all this it appears that the Sectaries intend as the 32 Syrian Captains did 1 King 22.31 to fight neither with smal nor great but with the King of Israel In laying down this Design I would have none of you conceive as if I were a Malignant Royalist I hate Arbitrary power and Tyranny in Princes as much as any I only mention this that Malignants might not be brought into fools paradise to joyn with the Army conceiving them to be for the Kings honor and safety who are the greatest enemies of both Malignants all beleeve this thing Sectarians would destroy the King Yea they do wish there might be none For to succeed him on the throne To introduce an universal Liberty and Toleration for all sorts of false and heretical opinions 4. Design All the sectaries in the Kingdom labor with might and main to promote this in one Pamphlet 't is boldly asserted l See Williams Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the cause of Conscience in the preface to the Parliament p. 2. that it is the wil and command of God that since the coming of his son the Lord Jesus a permission of the most Paganish Jewish Turkish or Antichrist an Consciences and Worships be granted to all men in all Nations and Countries And elsewhere 't is said m See Compassionate Samaritan p. 5. that Liberty of Conscience is to be allowed to every man or sort of men to worship God in that way or manner as shal appear to them most agreeable to Gods Word Numerous Pamphlets there are abroad besides broacht by the seducing Chaplains of the Army and their accomplices as Mr Dâ—lls Sermon before the Parliament many smal and trivial Tracts of M. Saltmarshes M. John Goodwin in his blasphemous book intituled Hagio mâ—stix c. and in his impudent Queries against an Ordinance of Parliament for the Suppression of Heresies with abundance of other Pamphlets which cry up this their Diana of Toleration yea these Army-Chaplains have so corrupted their hearers and disciples from the simplicity of the Gospel that the whole Army now contends for Toleration by the sword in the Field which their Teachers could never make good by Argument eit er in Press or Pulpit Yea the whole Army declare this to be the design I le give you the Armies words n See a Letter sent from Sir Tho Fairfax and the cheif Commanders in the Army to the Lord Mayor Aldermen Common Councel of the City of London Dated from Royston Jun. 10. We wish that every good Citizen and every man that walks peaceably in a blameless conversation and is beneficial to the Common-wealth may have liberty and encouragement it being according to the qust policy of all States even to justice it self By this you may see the intendments of the Army if they prevail in this present undertaking The great Diana cry'd up in the Nation Is a licentious lawless Toleration All in the Land own not this