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A45518	The nations claim of native right Wherein the gross and extreme defection and injustice of the court martial, and of all courts; the destructive abuse of the law, and pressing necessity, that the nation speedily unite (as one man) for an agreement in righteousness, is by particular example, and an appeal to the general councel of the army, and by several considerations cleerly demonstrated and proved. Secondly, the nullity of order, matter, and form of a free people is asserted, and proved by scripture: and how (to persons, families, people, and churches) right order, matter, and form may be attained. Thirdly, a brief pourtraict of a right government of the nation, and agreement of the people; and how such government and agreement may be with ease attained; a new representative freely elected: the laws rectified: the poor relieved: and the peoples, and armies, and every particular persons just interests (in peace with truth) satisfied, is proposed to the nation. By Thom. Harbye, late Quarter-master in the Regiment late	Harby, Thomas.	1650 (1650)	Wing H684; ESTC R216528	94,995	134

life in anti-type and truth shall then bring forth and not till then its first fruits of righteousness of life and freedom when the order of its mansions that is the prefigured mystical families there shall be compleated and full The righteousness which is now and hath bin is the righteousness of false appearance covetousness and filthy corruptions of bondage born and begotten by and for base designes and ends the off-spring of illegitimacy and seed of incest conceived like Moah and Ammon in the heat and zeal of blind and empty profession and bloudy hypocrisie the fruit of perfideous trechery and deceit If any righteousness of life and freedom hath bin or is that Righteousness or they that produce it have or hath bin or is the first fruits to God and the Lamb but the Text is express That the sealed Tribes or Families of Israel shall be the first fruits to God and the Lamb There was no righteousness of deliverance from the curse of destruction bondage and death of Adams sin in a type until those creatures that were saved the shadow of the free people of God came as it were by their families into the Ark after their kind and there hath not bin any perfect but dead spurious and illegitimate righteousness no righteousness of deliverance life and freedom from real destruction sin and death nor shall be any until the free people come into the true Ark by their anti-typical Tribes and Families and possess their proper mansions in truth and substance The people of God absolute free and their righteousness shall be equally legitimate in relation to God their father and in relation to the new policy or City their mother descending which shall be free And they and their righteousness shall be perfect as their heavenly father is perfect and as their mother descending from God out of heaven shall be perfect Perfect not of the essence of God but after the pattern and image of the mind of God as the Tabernacle was the figure of that pattern in the Mount and as the Rain-bow is the Image of the Sun so they shall be created and formed by the free Spirit of life in Christ after the Image of God For the Creator Former and Inhabitant is not the creature thing formed or house Howbeit God shall dwell in them more fully The perfection of a free people and of their righteousness consists in an impress intermediate and express act of Life and Freedom but the last gives their and its denomination and being and the first two without the third are properly the righteousness of bondage This perfect righteousness of a Free people is a commutative three-fold righteousness of deliverance from evil in evil and out of evil of bondage a figure of this righteousness was in Moses his visiting of his brethren three times the first time he went forth he seeing an Egyptian and an Israelite at strife slew the Egyptian and freed the Israelite in a Type from evil of bondage The second time he went forth he seeing two Israelites at strife sought to reconcile and unite them and so to releive and support them in the evil of bondage These actions were properly the righteousness of bondage for Moses was then in bondage and therefore it inslaved him and them and hazarded his life much more for which cause he fled and left them forty yeers Men may not be faithful indeed nor do impress or intense works of Freedom in bondage but extremely hazard their lives or estates they their righteousnes must be corupt by constraint or they must act if strictly faithful single For the people of God in bondage having no order nor unity deceive and betray each other Moses in his first visit acted but with one Israelite and delivered him and that one betrayed him The second time he acted but with two and one of them betrayed him and he fled for his life such are the perfidious treacheries deceits of the righteousness of bondage but Moses did not desist but sent came the third time and Freed Israel and their intire beings out of bondage all Israel therein joyned with him and this his and their joynt work was the proper righteousness of Freedom in a Type To avert evils of bondage in bondage or relieve and support those that groan under the rigour of it and rest so being works of bondage strengthens the power and rage of it and depresseth all means of deliverance So Moses did and fled for his life and left all Israel desperately helpless and worse inslaved than ever Ahimelech relieved David with the shew-bread and Goliahs Sword which was a very just and good work yet it occasioned that Ahimelech and all the Preists of the Lord and their City were cut off and destroyed man woman and child such are the violent evils of the bondage of corruption that the best and most perfect righteousness of bondage causeth through corruption the worst evils and effects because corruption of the best things is the most destructive corruption that can be It s the greatest and most desparate hazard of utter ruine to a mans life or estate to be conscientious and exactly faithful in bondage Also performances of impress and intense acts of righteousness in bondage without the express act of the righteousness of Freedom out of bondage is dead and imperfect righteousness and meer impostury which deceives and hardens like the works of Pharaohs Sorcerers all mens hearts in vanities and corruptions of bondage For whiles they follow and mind sorceries and deceits imperfect righteousness of relief or support in bondage they dream not nor once think of any legitimate or perfect righteousness of Life and Freedom out of bondage These rotten deceits destroy or hazard as in Moses and the Priests of the the Lord their Lives Families and Estates for the righteousness of relief and support in bondage and not of Freedom out of it rouseth up the power and rigour of it as a sleepy lyon to destroy them he that pricks a sleepy lyon must also kill him or be sure to be destroyed This corruption of bondage under which the Creation groans and travels in pain to be delivered out of it is briefly this The Creation was at first subservient to bruit beasts till man a figure of the Creatures Freedom was made the head of all creatures and thus far the creature was not properly subjected unto vanity under bondage of corruption Satan and the serpent the parents of all corruption of bondage sin and death co-inspired into the spirit of man the corrupt nature of bruit beasts from the bruit beast the serpent the mother of sin in a type and of fallen Angels from Satan the Father of sin and filthy corruptions of bondage So the spirit of man the head of the Creation became bruitish and divelish and then the creature was properly subjected unto vanity and bondage of corruption The corruption of bruitishness in man did corrupt and darken the Image of

ordained to be Pillars to support the Safeties Lives and entire Beings of the Innocent when wronged and oppressed may not become Mills to grind them to dust and to destroy them and Pillars to support the contrary I contemn no Court Councel or Person I condemn none I shal ever intercede for that Councel and the members of it that past Sentence upon me and pray for your Honors and shal ever do all Offices of Faith and Trust to your Honors Them and the Army Thomas Harby Quartermaster To all the Cordial Friends of the Armies and Peoples Rights and Liberties The sincere Lovers of Truth and Peace DEer Friends Shall Tribulations shall Anguish or Persecutions shall fiery Tryals shall love of filthy Lucre Life or Death divide you or me from the free discharge of our Consciences to God or Duties to Men God forbid If any be ignorant of any necessary Truth or guilty of any Sin or Error it is your and my Duty if we know it to seek in all Wisdom of Meekness to rectifie and convince their Judgements lest they perish in the multitude of their sins and their sin guilt and destruction be double upon us and we our selves become the greatest Transgressors though actually in our own persons never so innocent The sins of Ely's sons were Ely's sins which he committed not but his sons made themselves vile and he stayed them not therefore he especially was guilty of their sins and of his own and their destruction A man that sees and suffers the blind to fall into a Ditch and perish is far more guilty of his destruction then he himself Therefore that I and every one of you may be free from the sins and from the bloud and destruction of all men I exhort earnestly all and every one of you to improve your Talents for the good of this Nation and of all men for which end I set before you what most concerns you to consider because all our evils if wisely fore-seen and well considered are more then half remedied I herein somtime assert mine own advice and judgement wherein if I err and if any will convince my judgement I shall with hearty thankfulness accept it and willingly recede from and forsake any known error 1. In order to what ensueth I briefly set before you what hard measure I had from the Court Martial in censuring me to be cashiered without suffering me to prove my charge or to have any tryal or any witnesses examined 2. And thereby my great and most unjust disadvantage because I being already cashiered for that charge no witnesses will dare to testifie the Truth lest they should be censured to be cashiered or destroyed for so doing I being a President before them in the same thing 3. Consider the superlative injustice of enforcing not the Body as the Levites Concubine in Gibeah of Benjamin to Sodomitish filthiness but the Spirit and Conscience of any man and that upon penalty of being destroyed to deny and renounce God and wittingly to embrace professed Atheisme against a cleer light and conviction of Soul and Conscience to be forced to confess and acknowledge a Ly to be Truth contrary to knowledge and conviction of Conscience is to be forced to deny and renounce the Truth of God and to deny and renounce God contrary to knowledge and Conscience Which because I utterly refused I was censured to be cashiered and certified by Lieut. General Hammond President of the Court that I deserved to dy but that the Court favoured me And this was my sentence for seeking Justice and for seeking Right and Redress for the greatest wrongs done to the State and to private Persons without being admitted to have any witness heard or tryal had 4. Consider the transcendent misery of the Army and people the honest party especially who when wronged and oppressed may not approach a Representative or Court of Justice for Justice without inevitable peril of being destroyed for so doing 5. Consider the extreme misery of the disbanded sick and wounded Souldiers deprived of the price of their lives their due pay in Arrears which countervails not their pains in seeking after it for want of which many thousands have miserably perished and do perish Secondly Consider that these miseries upon them and the poor and the middle sort of people are exceedingly augmented and occasioned by the Souldiers quartering in Cities and Market-Towns especially in Inns and Ale-houses where the Souldiers learn loose conversation and waste the short pittance of their slender pay Thirdly By means of their quartering in Cities and Market-Towns the Country being free enhanceth and almost doubleth the price of all provisions whereby a general scarcity and famine is procured Fourthly By means of this scarcity the Souldiers and the poor of the Nation but the disbanded Souldiers and the poor of Cities and Market-Towns especially perish for want of food and rayment Fourthly By this means the middle sort and Trades-men of Cities and Market-Towns being also over-burdened with Taxes Excise and Quartering and not having trading nor visible Estates are forced to become suddenly extreme poor and which is worst the remedy of all these evils is the root of the disease that is they that should redress all these miseries are the cause of them To redress which and to take away this cause of all the rest Sixtly Consider the many intolerable incumbrances incident to Representatives and Courts of Justice through their several Administrations and multiplicity of business whereby if any of them desire to do Justice and to redress the cruelties and oppressions which the Souldiers the middle fort and the poor of the Nation suffer yet they cannot do it because they are overcharged and incumbred with more business then they may possibly discharge amongst whom all just causes of all sorts of people and of the poor are like good seed sown amongst thorns that choke it So that while they are busied Martha-like about many things they must of necessity omit in all things the only one thing necessary which is To do righteous Judgement By this means War and Destruction hath bin and is continued upon this Nation and the people every where perish for want of their proper food the fruit of the Tree of Life which is Justice and Righteousness For remedy hereof and to take from Courts and Representatives this burden which they can no more bear then a new born child can bear the weight of a Mill-stone let the order and method of going to Law after the manner of Infidels be what may be declined and abrogated and let the Rule of God in the Gospel to end all Differences and cease strife be strictly observed and followed The manner of going to Law as Heathens is when two or more at variance betwixt themselves cannot judge their own cause but go to a corrupt Representative or Court for Judgement that hath no judgement or that hath less judgement then themselves because it knows less of their business and

people or persons that corrupt and abuse the Powers of God or that obey those Powers as corrupted and abused rebel against the Power of God and do not keep but lose and abuse the richest Talent of his goodness Lastly Just Powers in relation to the People are the breath of their life from God and the Form and Essence of their Beings without which the people are as they ever have bi● dead carcasses of destroyd and slain men What power or force have dead men and what force and life have a people that want their own just power The want of just power is their chain of slavery unto all misery sin and death Esau to save his life sold his birth-right for pottage but that people that will sell their lives and birth-rights for misery sin slavery and destruction are miserably and slavishly wicked and profane Secondly That the People may improve their Talent of just power with all faithfulness to God whose it is and to themselves to whom for their joynt preservation from bondage and destruction it is commited they must consider that the people are many several or single and there can be no joynt improvement by many single or several A single file or hair of silk hath no strength and millions of files or hairs of silk single or several have no more strength than one single file If they let their Talent this power rest in every mans hand single they bury it in the earth and improve it not but bring infinite destruction upon themselves for where many are together single and untwisted there must needs be great dis-union and division from whence utter confusion and destruction to all severally must follow Therefore the peoples chief and speedy care must be to find out the fittest and best means and expedients to unite and twist them in this power The means and expedients that are best and fitest to unite and twist them in this power of God are Representors and Representatives freely chosen by them in such manner as I have already set down to which I refer the Reader Faithful and just Representors freely chosen are like the stalks in bunches of grapes that feed nourish and unite all the berries and they derive pure wine life and power to the people from the root and stem of the true Vine The people must be careful as God hath committed the richest Talent of his goodness their just power into their own hands that they do not set light by slight or profane it that they be not slothful wicked and unfaithful in improving of it nor chuse such as are slothful wicked and unfaithful to be Representors or Representatives lest they lose or abuse the Talent which God hath given them and God strictly require it at their hands and lest they mis-improve it against the people and destroy the people and themselves by it to avoid which let them chuse men most endowed with the spirit not of bondage but of Freedom just faithful fearing God dealing truly and hating Covetousness They are to chuse the rich so qualified as soon as the poor or midle sort and them as soon as the rich to officiate as their Representors in Parliament or in any other Representative God respects not the persons of men neither must they but in righteousness only why may not a poor man or the middle sort be as faithful and able in Parliament or in any other Representative as the rich neither must the rich if righteous be rejected because they are rich but if the poor and middle sort of people respect the persons of the rich and chuse them to be their Representors in Parliament or in other Representatives because they are rich then they misse their just ends and interests and the boule runs cross to all their ●imes because the bias is set the wrong way for how can rich men and oppressors be Representors of the poor and middle sort that are oppressed betwixt whom their is no shadow of similitude yee have dispised the poor saith the Apostle Iames 2.6 Therefore the rich do oppresse you do not rich men oppresse you saith the Apostle and draw you before the judgement seats Such Representors will rob the people of life and power render them wicked and unfaithful to God in wasting his talent and betray and destroy the people and themselves God hath chosen the poor of this world rich in faith Iames 2.5 So it is better for people to chuse the poor of this world rich in faith to God and them then the rich of this World poor in faith to God and them to be their Trustees Representors God offered the Gospel to the Iewes and such as were saved gladly received it but God cast off those that rejected it and the Apostles and people of God departed from them and turned to the Gentiles so an Agreement and Government in righteousness must be speedily and faithfully offered to the whole Nation that the whole Nation may be joyned as one man unto the Lord in an Agreement in righteousness as all Israel was gathered together unto the Lord at Mizpah such as shall resist or refuse such Agreement or Government or shall harden their hearts as Pharoah and his servants or shall sit still as the men of Iabish Gilead did or that shall reject such a government and Agreement as the Iewes rejected the Gospel are to be left to themselves and the people of God that they may be freed from Babels sins and plagues and from her fall and destruction must come out from them and turn unto such as shall freely close and joyn with them as one man unto the Lord in righteousness The direction of this constituted Government consists in a right regulating of it that it may reach and attaine the supreame ends and objects of its being this regulating of it and these supreame ends consist in a twofold action and an intermediate action of the people This twofold action is a moving and turning to or from the termini or bounds to which and from which they must move their intermediate action is a constant joynt perseverance in their twofold action this twofold action or motion in the people of God rightly constituted and to be constituted is a a moving or turning from darkness and error to light and truth from implicite faith in blinde guides to clear and free conviction in their own spirits from slavish obedience to the Wills of wicked usurpers and oppressors to a spontaneous and free concurrence with those that are faithful from being scattered as Israel was in Egypt to be gathered as one man unto the Lord in righteousness from cruel calamities burdens and oppressions the needless fruits of wicked slavery to the just power and liberty of a free people from the seat of the Beast the sourse of violence the seat of darkness to the white Throne which impartially dispenceth righteous judgement from the vallie of dead and drie bones of men slain by slavery to be a