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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

to labor with all speed and fidelity to g●t a just power of Freedom and Being of their own in manner as is declared All Armies upon earth could not hinder the rallying of the dry bones into a living exceeding mighty Army They came together bone to his bone as it were by their Families into their own houses natural their own bodies and were sealed and cemented with strength and sinew in life and power All Armies and Powers of death that opposed them were utterly dasht in pieces and destroyed by them Moses in bondage lookt this way and that way least he should be seen and the people of God in bondage must act warily and watch narrowly if they do any good or just action if they relieve any or support any that none see them If any Doeg or Edomite be nigh them or amongst them they are verily betrayd utterly destroyed and so must and shall be till they get a power of Freedom of their own the Free power of God which now is the easiest thing to atttain God freely giving it that is or can be But this relief and support so dangerous to the people of God is but vain boasting they releive none and support none but in talk as the Amalekit told David he kild Saul whereas he was free from his death so are they from relieving or supporting any David slew that Amalekit because he said he kild Saul though he did not and they and their Families and estates are ruinated and destroyed because they say and pretend they relieve and support the people of God in and against their evils of bondage whereas they releive none and support none but in word only and indeed destroy those that have sacrificed liberally their lives and estates for their support and relief The Spirit of bondage inward avaric● and the irregularities and rage of it kills and consumes as the worm smote Ionas Gourd and consumed it the slavish lives families and estates of each other with their own entire they releive and succour none but by deceits and shaddows of doing good without doing any But if any fragment of relief fall or if they fancy they have done or do any good or just work in bondage there they rest and there they stay Ioabs soldiers followed him till they came to slain Amases dying carkass and they stood still so but few yet some Free people in bondage follow righteousness until they come to some fragments of this dead carkass of releif and support in bondage and here they sit still there they rest they go no further The chief pretenders to Freedom look no farther they think not of any legitimate and perfect righteousness of Freedom out of bondage The slavish Spirits of the people of God in bondage desire private Freedom only a tanto but not a toto If they could have but so much of their just Right for themselves they care not they wish no more the Harlot so she had but half the Child was indifferent the mind of a murderous and bloody Harlot so satisfaction in the people of God with half righteousness or part or with imperfect righteousness denotes the basest mind of bloody Iezebel mother of all abominations and filthyness So long as Israel were of this wicked and base mind and demanded no more then Freedom in part their cruel burdens and ridged slavery was justly greater and they were never freed nor fit for deliverance till Moses demanded all and they accordingly acted with him and had all their Rights entire All imperfect righteousness whatsoever is impostury and deceit of the curse of bondage and a main cause of rejection and destruction to those that do it or joyning rest in it as Sauls imperfect righteousness was the cause of his utter rejection and of his and his whole Families destruction All true righteousness is of Freedom only a fruit of the tree of life from death for ever a freeing righteousness so soon as the creatures that came into the Ark did but one work of Freedom out of bondage they were all freed from destruction So soon as the Israelites did but that one work of Freedom out of bondage in coming by their Families into their own houses c. they were all freed from destruction and so soon as the people of God shall perform but this one work of Freedom out of bondage which is to come out of great tribulations reall bondage by their Anti-typical Families into their Oeconomick bodies and houses mystical they shall be freed from all coercive externall power of bondage destruction sin and death for ever these works were the first fruits of the Tree of life in a Type this work shall be the first fruit of the Tree of life prefigured When man Christ mystical shall put forth his hand and taste this legitimate and perfect fruit of the righteousness of Freedom out of bondage he shall live in the power of life and Freedom of God for ever and never be wholy subjected to vanity corruption and death of bondage any more The people of God and their righteousness shall be perfect after their pattern their mother the new Policy or City descending that City shall be four square equally without convex or indents every way and on every side exactly just and even Secondly the height and bredth and length of that City shall be equal So the reallity of things what they are and the judgments and estimations of the people of God upon them and their executions according to their iust estimations shall be exactly paral or equal Thirdly that City shall be perfectly square the most firm pattern of immovable stability So shall they and their righteousness be permanent in a progressive way in the righteousness of Freedom for ever and not generally revolt any more but if any as particular persons shall look back they shall return back and cease to be the people of God Lots wife delivered out of Sodom lookt back and returned back to destruction They that look back unto the horour of darkness of bondage shall return back unto that horour of darkness Nothing so displeased God as the spirit of apostacy and slavery in his people in looking back unto the house of bondage the land of their destruction after they were delivered out of it The Free people of God indeed must and will constantly press forward in the power of perfect and legitimate righteousness of Freedom and follow after Rev 14.4 and be led by the Lamb wheresoever he goeth I have herein as in the sight of God discharged my Faith Faithfulness reapes what it doth not sow destruction to those that are Faithful but this God disposeth The sequel to my self whether love or hatred bonds or liberty life or death I leave to God it is sufficient for me If I may by all meanes discharge my duty and disoblige my Conscience FINIS ERRATA Page 5. l. 22. Lieut. Col. Hammon read Lieut. Gen. Hammon p. 18. l. 7. their own cause r. their cause p. 18. l. 23. that are r. that act p. 21. l. 3. Representative r. represented p. 21. l. 6. as destroyeth r. and destroyeth and l. 10. tdatare r. that are p. 30. l. 2. where r. wherein p. 32. l. 18. time past r. in time past p. 41. l. 6. really r. real p. 41. l. 14. defaultings r. defalkings p. 52. l. 16. to be repented of r. and to be repented of p. 53. l. 3. Widdows r. The Widdows p. 55. l. 2. are broken r. were broken p. 63. l. 9. vilest r. the vilest p. 63. l. 9. there the affections r. their affections p. 63. l. 12. the sorcerers r. their sorcerers p. 67. l. 29. there food r. these food p. 69. l. 8. the oppressors r. their oppressors p. 69. l. 9. these authors r. the authors p. 87. l. 24. begin r. began p. 88. l. 10. emisary r. immissary p. 90. l. 2. define r. defie p. 96. l. 1. did which fell r. which fell p. 98. l. 36. them naturally r. them really p. 102. l. 2. That Souldiers r. that Souldiers with a little t.

life also Want is Vertues clog and the most violent spur and provocation to all wickedness It fits men for all vassallage and slavery It puts out the eys of reason and renders mens minds brutish It subjects their Spirits to all servile wickedness and their Bodies to all unjust burdens of corporal calamities and miseries It maketh Souldiers slaves to bloudy Designes Vassals of base and wicked enterprises to kill if commanded or not commanded one another or their best friends and to engage in bloud against any or against all the Free-born People to destroy them Extreme and unjust Poverty caused by cruel oppression is the iron chain of cursed bondage which makes men slaves to other mens wills and wickedness Slaves to their own sins slaves to all miseries slaves to their own utter ●uine slaves to destruction of Body and Spirit They that put the poor and the Souldiers and the middle sort of people in iron chains of unjust wrongs and oppressions and they that do not effectually endeavour to break their chains and to redress their wrongs and oppressions bring the guilt of the bloud of the poor and of the Nation upon themselves and upon the Nation The poor of the Nation for the most part are Souldiers undone in service turn'd out and deprived of their proper Rights the price of their bloud Many of the Nation are made poor in pursuing their and the Peoples Rights and Liberties and the rest of the poor for the most part are such as are undone by slavery and oppression I mention these things for no other purpose but that the bloud-guilty defilement of the Land if possible may be purged from it and for redress of it I propose First that the Foot may have 12. d. per diem from the begining of the Service as was promised or as due by a better right the just claim of Equity and Necessity Why should the Souldiers eat ashes and be clothed in rags by those for whom they have purchased by their hazard and bloud to be clothed in Scarlet and to eat the fat of the Land Secondly That the constant future pay for the Foot be at least and when things are as cheap as they have bin twelve pence per diem and that their present and future pay be as rates of all provisions are now and may be so much above twelve pence per diem as may competently maintain them and their charge in due health with honesty 3. That Troopers and Dragoons may have 2. s 6. d per diem from the begining of the Service and for future what more may justly countervail their necessities the deerness and scarcity of all things considered 4. That the sick and wounded Horse and Foot that for that cause are out of Service may have the same pay that they in service have but not pay for horses except they keep horses for the Service The Souldiers when sick and wounded have most need of their pay and they best deserve it who in discharge of their faithfulness have suffered most 5. That the sick and wounded Officers may the same pay which they had in service it being extreme hard and unjust measure that they or the Souldiers should be then most destitute when they have most need or that their faithfulness wherein they have hazarded their lives and bin wounded should be punished with privation or abridgement of their pay 6. That all Officers and Souldiers that have bin faithful to their trust and for that cause or otherwise unjustly turn'd out dismissed or cashiered may be forthwith restored to their respective charge and places of trust and have all legal and due administrations of Right and Justice and equal and answerable reparations given them in all just relations For it is unreasonable and unjust in the Nation and in its Trustees and Officers and dangerous to the Nation That they that have bin ever faithful to their trust and born the burden of the Service should be turned out or cashiered especially without due satisfaction and other Officers and Souldiers perhaps false to their present Trust or late enemies to it or newters or not fit for Service should ' be trusted with the charge and trust of the Nation Seventhly That all Widdows and Orphants or the next kindred of all such Souldiers or Officers if they have been faithful to their Trust as have been or shall be dead or slain in Service may have their Arrears Audited and paid them that the Nation may be free from the guilt and sins of bloud and oppression least God say to it or to many of it as Elisha to Ahab for Naboths bloud Hast thou killed and also taken possession or least God plead the Cause of the many thousands of Souldiers slain by cruel and unjust murder and oppression and the Cause of their desolate widdows and fatherless with the Nation and Representative of it and say Have you killed not one man as Naboth was but one but many thousans not who denied you their vineyards but gave their lives for you to do you service Have you killed them by keeping back the slender pittance of their deer purchase their due Pay which should have kept them alive Have you killed there by keeping back the price of their blouds who kept not back their own bloud that they might preserve your lives and Estates entire Did you enthral their bodies in all corporal calamities exigences extremities even unto death and did you kill their bodies did their calamities and extreme exigents enslave their Souls and Spirits in all excess of wickedness for ●so greater inforcement can be to all wickedness then necessity are they utterly cut of and killed Body and Soul in and by their and in them your wickedness And have you cut off and killed them in body and soul To keep back and bridle them from wickedness had been your duty and did you set your steely spurs of oppression in their sides and cause them to rush headlong into all wickedness and perish in it Did you kill them by keeping back the price of their hazard and bloud which had you paid them they had not perished or you had bin guiltless And have you taken possessian of it Did you possess the whole Land in peace and did you keep back when you had no need the price of their lives from their desolate widdows and forsaken fatherless Did you give possession of it to others that had no right to it and did dogs to whom it was not due lick their bloud Did you when you had power free the Nation from bloud or by not doing it plunge and re-involve it in a new bloudy War Did Ahab when sharply reproved humble himself and have you hardned your hearts when friendly admonished in the spirit of meekness Did you harken to corrupters and seducers and despise imprison persecute and destroy those that did faithfully admonish and friendly exhort you Let the Nation at least the Conscientious Party seriously consider these things as

may be easily and freely chosen which cannot be otherwise obtained Secondly by them the soveraignity power and freedom of the people may be derived and convayed to their Representatives that they may improve it in righteousness for the profit peace and safety of the Nation Thirdly by them the increase and benefit of the peoples soveraignty power and freedom may be returned back from their Representatives to the people otherwise it is and wil be wholy obstructed 9ly The reasons of an Agreement are because if an Agreement be not the dissolution of the whole Nation must follow When the clay and Iron in the feet of the great image could not agree and mix the whole body of the Image was dasht in peices and dissolved It is every mans dutie to discharge his utmost faith and care to continue all just wayes and meanes to procure the peace and Agreement of the people and Nations safety And that only which can cause and continue a firme Agreement is just satisfaction of all Interests without which no right Agreement can be made or kept and the nations destruction must follow Therefore let the nation rouse up it self and let the people of it stir up one another to joyn as one man unto the Lord as Israel did unto the Lord at Mizpah and agree that all just interests may be satisfied that the poor and middle sort of people may have their just interests the rich theirs the Nation it s the Soldiers theirs the disbanded sick and wounded Soldiers and Officers theirs and that Widdows Orphans and friends of those that are dead and slain their interests that all evil doers may have their due interests and they that do well theirs That Presbyterians and Independents may have their proper interests the late Kings party theirs Papists and Protestants theirs the conscientious party theirs and that all sects nations and persons may have their just rights Let the Nation and Army at least they that are conscientious in both cal upon and stir up the people and one another to vindicate and dis-oblige their faith in truth and righteousness unloose the bands of wickednesse undo the heavy burthens break every yoak and let the oppressed go free Let them feed the hungry harbour the poor and cloth the naked at least in their own houses and with their own food and rayment To say the satisfying of all just interests would undo or impoverish the Nation is absurd and wicked for the not satisfying of all just interests is the utter undoing and destruction of the Nation and that real crying sin and guilt of blood filling the hands of all persons and overflowing as a boundless River the whole Land whereof the rivers of Aegypt turn'd into blood were but types and shaddows But grant that the satisfying of all just interests would undo and impoverish the Nation yet to do it were but justice and what God absolutely willeth and requireth and the not doing of it is in every person under what specious pretence of holiness soever a rejecting and renouncing of God and a rebeling against him And to suppose or say it would impoverish and undo the Nation is most absurd and false for suppose a man having many bones broken and shivers causing violent feavers and symptomes of death a Chyrurgeon should set right all his bones asswage his feaver and recure the party to perfect health of body limbe and life it were most senseless for that party to say he were impoverisht and undon because all his joynts and bones are set right and he fully restored to perfect health Iust interests unsatisfied are fractures and distortions in the body Politique the nation and shivers causing feavers and death and every man in the Nation is a distorted member a limbe out of joynt a broken bone or shiver because every man is deprived of his or depriveth others of their proper rights and interests Now suppose every distorted and broken limbe shiver and bone were set right in its proper compage and place that is if every several person of the Nation did reciprocally give afford to and receive from each other their respective rights and just interests it were most unreasonable and absurd that the Nation or any of it should say that all its bones and limbes are broken and out of joynt but now all are set right and healed therefore the Nation is impoverished and undon that every person in the body Politique was deprived of his or did deprive others of their proper interest but now every man injoys his own just due and proper right therefore the Nation is impoverished and undon That the not satisfying of all just interests caused violent feavers and evils of war and famin and desperate symptomes of destruction to the Nation But now the Nation by satisfying all just interests hath happily recovered perfect health and peace in truth therefore the Nation is impoverished and undon all such conclusions are most false and wicked and the contrary conclusions are infallibly true therefore they that shal bring the guilt of the Nations sins and their and its destruction upon it and upon themselves are and must be without all colour or excuse 10 But lastly if the people like Jabesh Gilead shall sit under the shadow of their own destruction in chains of bondage and death and shall not as one man unite to pursue and Agreement in Righteousness or if no such Agreement shall or can be procured Then all the Free-born of the Nation are with all Christian speedy care and providence to constitute such a Government amongst themselves as may by Justice absolute and impartial preserve the Persons Estates Lives and entire Beings of each other and of all those that close with and adhere unto them and to come at the call and command of God forth from Babel falling down as a Milstone cast by the hand of a mighty Angel into the midst of the Sea The reasons are because there is a necessity laid upon them from the call and command of God and also God gives the reasons of this necessity Rev. 18.4 Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues Her that is Babylon is the great City called spiritually Sodom Aegypt Babylon where also our Lord was crucified this and all Nations the whole World Her sins and plagues are the sins of those Cities and the plagues of their sins in the Truth and substance which were in these Cities in a type Gods call and command for his people to come out of her is the substance of his call to Lot in Sodom by Angels to Israel in Aegypt by Moses to the Iews in Babylon by Prophets and to the Saints in Jury by Apostles My people that is all that are so far as man may judge obedient to the call and command of God to be delivered from her sins and plagues and their own destruction as Lots Family in Sodom and Noahs Family in

the earth chandle and trade their high prised deceits of no value which they exchange for the treasure of the earth to make themselves rich some teach against some some against all forms of Godliness and deny all the power of it others press empty forms of fruitless profession and make these and all other painted Sepulchers seem to arise out of this Cup They seem to make the blindest bra●s of Aegyptian darkness their brain-sick conceits of grossest folly and blasphemy to arise out of this cup. All base Sorcerers and seducers take up this cup for a pretence to dissimulation for lucre sake and make it their instrument to deceive and inslave the Nations subordinate to their own unjust gain and ends The Scriptures are but nets spread only to catch their prey their shaddow of darkness to deceit their vessel of divination to ensnare and destroy the earth for reward All Impostors take up out of this cup forms to deceive for gain unto themselves and they that receive the marke of bondage hardness of heart drink deceit and all deceivers the wages of lying divinations out of this cup. The word of God shall be but is not but the wills and power of wicked Impostors and their filthy lusts and desires are the power of the dead subjected and inslaved Scriptures Therefore the Scriptures in bondage under the formes of vilest and most slavish disuse and death cannot be the form and power of the Image of God nor of reason nor reason of the Law nor the Law of the free people of God But as the abomination of desolation was instead of the Arke of God set up in the Temple of God so right order matter and form of Freedom life and power in the people of God is by a general falling away from what they seemed null and voyd and positive opposit forms and powers of bondage the substance shaddowed by that abomination of desolation set up in the Temple the people of God and in all powers of their being Law reason and Scripture And the matter joyned to these forms is their proper matter in being and the order ends and effects must necessarily as effects their causes follow their productive matter and forms therefore the people of God as families persons people and Churches and all their powers and forms Law reason and Scriptures and the order ends and effects of these forms are wholly in the power of bondage and basest disuse dead to Freedom life and power of God alive and active to slavish destruction sin and death and shall be untill God call them and they come and bring with them all that is theirs out of the power of bondage unto the power and freedom of God in their anti-typical families While Israel was in bondage their persons estates law reason traditions and intire beings were wholly in the same bondage and they never had being nor begining of Freedom until they were called out of the power of bondage unto their proper form of Freedom the power of God and of the Lamb and were gathered and sealed in that power typically by their families So the true Israel and all that is theirs are alike in the same bondage their bodys spirits power rights estates and their forms of being law reason and Scriptures are to life and Freedom voyd of being and begining But by occasion vials of slavish disuse destructive sinful and must so remain untill God gather Israel and all that is theirs from being putrified dust rebelling against him to a being and begining in his power of Freedom by their anti-typical families The dust which after was Man had no order unity nor figure of body whiles it was dust nor fleshly form untill it was transmutated into flesh nor life until the flesh had liniaments and breath of life and not till then it had the begining and being of a man So Israel were and and the true Israel are scattered dividuals of dust and Atomes most contrary to order and unity of a body and form of life When Israel rebelled against God and being cald out of bondage hearkned not Exod. 6.12 they were putrified and scattered dust warring against the life and power of God when they readily hearkned to prepare and keep the Passeover as God comanded then they were changed from dead and scattered dust into fit matter of a redeemed people when all their families were gathered together into their own houses or so many as could eat the Lamb into one house and kept together without going out or stirring from one another then they were rallyed and knit in a compact body when they did eat the Passeover together as God commanded then the life and power of God their breath of life from bondage of death was in a Type breathed into them and that night they were delivered and all the first-born the power of Egypt in a Type were that very night destroyed and God ordained that moneth by an Ordinance for ever to be the beginning of all moneths unto them and the first moneth of the yeare because it was indeed really the first beginning of their being So the true Israel the free people of God and all that is theirs have bin and are in that deep sleep and horror of great darkness of bondage and death in the substance of it did which fell upon Abraham in a figure Gen. 15. and are really those divided peices of flesh betwixt which the furnace and burning lampe passed which peices of flesh putrified That deep sleep and great darkness and those peices of flesh were a twofold figure of Abrahams seed after the flesh and after the spirit in bondage dead disobedient and putrified dust which being called hearken not When they shall readily hearken to prepare and keep the true Passeover the substance and truth of the typical then they shall be changed from putrid dust repugnant to all life and freedom of God into fit matter of a free people When their anti-typical families shall be gathered in the unity of the spirit of life and freedom unto the power of God in their natural and mystical houses to prepare and keep the true Passeover and not revolt not stir out nor desert one another then they shall be rallied into the com-pages and joynts of a body of a Free People When they shall eat the Passeover together as God commandeth that is when they shall do really the works of righteousness not the Type but the truth and substance of what God and the Lamb requires of a people redeemed to life and Freedom then the power of God their breath of life from real bondage shall be breathed into them and that time which is at hand shall be unto them and all that is theirs really the very first begining of being Then Israel and theirs first began in a Type and then the true Israel as persons families people and churches shall first begin really That shall be the first time wherein their proper Rights Estates Law Power and the

fault was in the mouth that was enticed by the taste of it or in the eye that was allured to it because the fault is in all the parts of the whole body alike Eighthly If any Plaintiffe Witness Councel Judge or Jury give a false Indictment Evidence Decree Sentence or Verdict and if the said Indictment Evidence Decree Sentence or Verdict upon just tryal and due examination first had shall be found to be wholly false let the Authors be judged and declared by those persons or Courts that shall find them false guilty respectively of the same Crimes and receive the same Sentence and punishment which had been the proper issue and result of their respective false Indictments Evidences Decrees Sentences and Verdicts if they had been true against the Innocent and unjustly wronged Defendants and they are to satisfie the law unto death if they have acted unjustly to the death of any Also all Officers Marshals and Persons whether Souldiers or others that execute such or any unjust commands or decrees by vertue of any injuncti●n or order from any Representative or Commanders whatsoever are strictly accomptable to the Law and lyable to the same sentences of guilt and punishment and that if the breach of Law which they execute deserve death unto death The reasons of such proceedings against all such Plaintiffs Witnesses Courts Judges Juries Officers Martials and Persons that execute such Decrees are first Because all such proceedings are according to Law which is equity Secondly Because such violations of Law and Equity by Trustees and Representatives sill the Land and the Representatives of it with all excess of cruelty and guilt of crying and bloudy sins Thirdly Because Plaintiffs Courts Witnesses Judges and Juries that act unjustly in Councel and all Officers and Persons whether Souldiers or others that execute their unjust Acts or Decrees are Trustees and all Trustees that arrogate and usurp Trust and Authority to themselves or that are false to the Power and Trust that is committed to them are Traytors Good and just Trustees conjunct in bodies Representative are like Trees of Life which by their good fruits of Justice and Righteousness sustain and preserve alive their respective bodies represented Plaintiffs and Witnesses are Trustees impressive as the root of the Representative Tree Courts Councells Judges and Juries are Trustees intensive as the Stem They that execute their Edicts and Decrees whether sub-Officers Martials Souldiers or others are Trustees expressive as the Branches False Trustees by fair but deceitful fruits betray their respective represented and themselves to sin and death Trees nourish if acquired or ingrafted contrary natures and fruits but according to nature the fruits of their own kind If Plaintiffs and Witnesses be roots of bitterness and dispense death the Stem may not derive sap from these roots If the Stem Courts Councels Judges and Juries derive its sap from such roots the Branches the Executioners whether Sub-Officers Souldiers or others are not to derive their sap from that Stem or these roots to put forth their wicked Councels and unjust Decrees into execution or if they do the body represented must with due severity sharply reprove and punish their evil fruits of unrighteousness and if Justice require destroy Root Stem and Branches at least from being any more a Representative That Body Representative which does not with Justice and due Severity sharply reprove and punish its Representatives evil fruits of unrighteousness eateth their deadly fruits as destroyeth it self as Eli not reproving and punishiag his sons made their sins his own and himself most guilty of them and so destroyed himself them and his house Trustees that shed innocent bloud or shed not their bloud tdatare guilty of bloud are murderers All oppressions wrongs cruelties and unjust actions are degrees and species of real bloudshed and murder and they usually differ from visible and express man-slaughter or murder no otherwise then as the wickedness of hypocrisie differs from visible and apparent sin For it was all one for David to have slain Vriah with his own sword or with the sword of the Ammonites onely that had a better colour of hypocrisie So it is all one to slay the poor and the middle sort of people and the Souldiers by immediate stroke of violence or to slay them by oppression or by extorting from them unjustly that which should maintain their lives or by needless delays of doing right or by keeping back their proper estates pay and just interests onely this hath a better colour of hypocrisie So it is all one to kill the conscientious and honest party or others as Doeg did the Priests of the Lord by immediate violence or to kill them by oppressions or imprisonment or as Naboth was by false witnesses or by starving and famishing of them onely this hath a fairer pretense and better colour of hypocrisie and therefore is more wicked And those Trustees that either in Counsel or Execution do act or commit such things are Law-breakers as persons and betrayers of their Trust as Representatives and embrue the hands of the Nation and their own in the deepest guilt of bloud Therefore all Plaintiffs and Witnesses that know certainly any oppression cruelty or unjust actions done unto or by any person the Nation or themselves must as Trustees faithfully discharge their Consciences to God and duties to themselves and Nation to free it and themselves from guilt of bloud and breach of the Law and to free themselves from breach of Trust and that in the cause of any and of every particular and distinct person within the limits of their relation whatsoever Ninthly And therefore the Law that is equity and the just ministers of it need not nor do nor can admit of any unjust or corrupt connivances indulgencies or indempnities whatsoever Adam when he had sinned and saw himself naked sought Fig-leaves to cover his nakedness So let them that break the Law and that betray and destroy it and those that stand to maintain it seek unjust ●egments and shelters But the Law that is Equity and the just ministers of it must be impartially free to bring forth judgement into righteousness without respect of Persons or Relations and without regard of the Office Eminency or multitudes of any Tenthly That all Representatives for their own justification and security and satisfaction of all men keep a complete and perfect record of all their Decrees and Executions expressing the whole series of all their proceedings and the Votes of every particular person of their Representative their names and places of residence and the particular examinations of every witness with their names and place of residence These Records to be attested by two or three men of known integrity under their hands men if it may be no way concerned in the cause nor engaged to any parties that do try or are tryed and that the parties tryed may have if they desire it Copies of the Representatives whole proceedings as aforesaid so attested For

spirits to serve under all barbarous calamities and bloudy wickedness of blind obedience the vi●est vassals of slavery as the sons of Jacob sold their brother the preserver of their lives and beings into the house of bondage They must in all their motions and actions walk and act in the liberty of the light of God in their own spirits and not act or acquiesce from principles of an implicite-faith in the Arbytrarie commands of will and power in any Representative or person whatsoever It is small satisfaction or security to any man that may see if he will but will follow and be led by a blind man till both fall into a ditch and perish to think to say for himself a blind man led him and it was his own will and he would be led by him So if any sub-Officers Souldiers or others shall execute any unjust decree by order of or from any Commanders or Representatives whatsoever the plea of their order were weak and without all satisfaction They must not think their Officers command if unjust can free them or their Officers from the just doom and due penalty of the Law no more then a murderers plea at the Bar that his fellow robber commanded him to kill the murdered can quit him or his fellow from guilt of murder or from death due to murderers Neither may any person or persons or Representatives Courts or Councels vainly conceive that any imposed Trust Place or Office or personal Eminency or that their being many is or can be of any force to free them more then any one privat mean man from due punishment though it be death which the Law inflicteth for breach of it or to free any person or persons whom they employ from the like punishments Howbeit the Free-born of God in Army or Nation Officers Souldiers or private men that groan under the cursed burdens of bloudy wickedness and barbarous oppressions which they have born themselves or laid upon others if they seek earnestly and effectually endeavour the redemption of their bodies and spirits and to free others from the same bondage whereof the Israelites bondage in Aegypt and deliveranoe out of it was but a type and shaddow may and ought to be in some measure commiserated and their cruelties time past if utterly renounced and really repented of may be so far passed by as the Law can admit also some unjust actions o● infirmity and weakness so far only as may stand with law and equity may be born withal God keeps not the children of light in chains of darkness but willeth that all men should be saved from cursed servitude and bondage of body and spirit by coming unto and following after the pillar of God the knowledge of the Truth in their own Judgements and Spirits and that they walk and act at all times and in all relations in the light of this pillar of fire within them Wherefore let all the Free-born of God in the Army and Nation cast off the wicked burdens of cursed and blind obedience to Representatives Arbytrarie commands of Will and Power and fix the eys of their understandings upon the pillar of God in their own Judgements and Spirits Let them seriously consider in and with themselves and with one another the grounds of all their actions engagements and executions and be well advised and satisfied in their Spirits to what end and where unto they tend whether to liberty or bondage light o● darkness to Zion or Sinai whether they be works of Hagar o● Sarah Sem or Cham and whether they tend to enslave oppress and wrong themselves the people and Nation and other persons people or Nations or to right and free themselves and Nation and other Nations from slavery wrong and oppression Let them improve the most rich and precious Talent of their Birth-right and Freedom to debate dispute pleade question and examine the causes grounds and terms upon which they act engage or execute any thing Eph. 5.15 And in all things walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise Heb. 15.14 And as those that are of full age who by reason of perfection and use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil Let them consider their Representatives Propositions Counsels and Decrees whether they be just or unjust whether they are to be observed by them or to be reproved or punished in their Representatives whether they tend to involve them and the Land in bloud and massacre or to free it and them from it If Chams cursed Sons compel or perswade them to forsake Freedom and imbrace bondage to mo●l themselves by doing all base and dirty drudgery of vile and servil wickedness and to wallow in all unjust and extream wants and cursed calamities caused by unjust oppressions and cruelties let them fix their eyes upon the pillar of God in their own Spirits and walk in the light of it and follow after it If they command them to couch under all burdens of cursed servitude and to be with them as they are servants of servants slaves of servile and blind obedience and bruitish ignorance to act from an implicite Faith in their usurping task-masters arbritary commands of Will and Power to kill and murder at their command their best and most faithful friends and fellow Souldiers to enterprize any bloudy act of massacre and slaughter upon each other or upon the nation to perpetrate and execute at their command all oppression and crueltie upon the nation and through wicked blindness and brutish ignorance upon and against themselves also and to involve the nation at their wills in new Wars to destroy it and themselves Let them renounce and detest such cursed servitude and cast off slavish bondage of such blind obedience and fix their eyes upon the pillar of God the pillar of light and truth in their own Spirits and let them walk in the liberty of that light Let them try all things and hold fast the truth for this liberty is the proper peculiar and most rich and precious Talent of all the free-born of God which God hath given them Therefore let them try and examine with all exactness in themselves and advise together whether the light in their own Spirits be the light of the pillar of God or a delusion and whether it be the light of truth or a lying dream in their own fancies For if it be a true light to discover the truth of God and if they walk in that light and follow after that truth it will be certainly and infallibly a pillar of support and deliverance to free them from the most extensive and deepest guilt of bloudy and desperate wickedness and from the fruit and reward of such bloudy wickedness the most cruel and accursed calamities and destruction of bodie and Spirit All that observed and followed the commands of Chams cursed sons being free from danger before were drawn into a sea of death and destroyed not one escaped All Israel that observed and followed the

pillar of God being before involved in the greatest troubles that ever were were all freed and delivered not one perished That this pillar of Light and Truth may be more conspicuous and apparent to all the free-born of the Army and Nation I propose first for the Army That all Troops and Companies select and appoint in each Troop of horse and Company of foot two Representors men if it may be that have been ever firm to all the Armies and Nations just Interests and Engagements and faithful and wel-affected to the conscientious and honest party in both impartial to all yet free from Pharisaical bloudy rigour and indiscreet rashness Let these sit and act in all Councels of their Regiments with those Officers that concur with them in their Agreements according to their just Engagements Secondly Let them have liberty to sit and act in general Councels with concurring Officers as aforesaid Thirdly To sit and act in Councel in their own Troops and Companies Fourthly To sit and act in Councel in their proper Bodies represented the Souldiers of their respective Troops and Companies Their Office in Councel in and with their proper represented the souldiers of their respective Troops and Companies is to inform satisfie and convince their understandings and judgments what their and the armies and the nations proper Rights and Interests are what the proper Rights of the poor of the nation are and to re-present the Proposals Results and decrees of superior Councels to the Souldiers of their respective Troops and Companies in all things wherein their concurrence in execution is to be required They are to assert sign and attest under their hands superior Councels Proposals Results and Decrees to their said Troops and Companies that the truth may be firmly ascertained and established to them by testimony of two witnesses in all things wherin their concurrence in execution is to be required They are to represent to them and from them reciprocally to superior Councels such things as are profitable and honest for the Army and Nation and those things that are good just and lawful for them and for all men Without this or the like Order the particular Bodies Represented and their Representatives and the general Body Represented the State and its Representatives must sit in darkness and the shaddow of death without guide of light or pillar of truth to deliver them from the most execrable slavery of bondage and misery in body and Spirit and both Army and Nation must remain a dead Babylonish Chaos of confusion darkness and disorder without light or form Let the Representors of Troops and Companies by concurrence and assent of their respective Represented chuse in every Regiment two Representors for the Regiment to concentrate the work of many into unity and to avoid confusion Let the Representors of Regiments by concurrence and assent of their respective Troops and Companies and their Representors chuse two Representors for the whole Army who may sit and act in any Councel in the Army and also sit and act in the general Representative of the Nation for and in behalf of the Army as Commoners and Souldiers Let the people of the Nation the poor and middle sort of people especially select and appoint for them Representors to perform like offices to them to preserve them from iminent and otherwise irresistable necessity of perishing and to free them from most vile and miserable bondage of body and Spirit Let the poor and middle sort of people in every parish chuse two Representors for the poor of their parish or at least for every 120 or 200 families of poor Representors that fear God deal truly and hate covetousness and that are qualified as aforesaid are to the Army Nation and poor of it as Anchors in violent storms to ships and as strong cords binding arrows in bundles whereby they cannot be broken 14 Consider the Impostury and guilt of those that what they can cast infamy and odium upon the conscientious and honest party of the Army and Nation calling them Levellers Jesuits c. putting them upon vile and unjust actions turning them out of employment and places of Trust oppressing killing or cashiering them without cause and feigning many a●persions and slanders against them as to which I enquire whether there is not the same Anal●gy in anti-type and substance betwixt these and the usurping and tyrannical Egyptians in type and shadow The Egyptians wicked and unjust fear was That the Israelites by their might and multitude would Level the powers of Egypt and therefore sought by all means to Level their number and power by drowning their Males in rivers by imposing heavie burdens and servile labour upon them to keep them under by with-holding straw for fuel by restraining them their proper rights and liberties and the use of their own goods wherewith to sacrifice unto God and to serve him Whereas the Israelites from the time they came first into Egypt were under God the only supporters of the power and might of Egypt and the only freers of the whole Land from all destructions and plagues So these real and indeed self Levellers the true sons of Cham servants of wicked Jealousies and Fears doubting the honest party of Army and Nation will level and over-power their might begin first and that effectually to level them They level their power and number by casting their male Children that is such as have the spirit and courage of a man to stand for the Armies and Nations just Rights and Liberties into the violent streams of unrighteous judgments rash executions unjust oppressions starving prisons where they sink and perish And none but Females that is such as are of feeble spirits and courage to seek and stand for Right and Justice are suffered to survive and live They level them by imposing upon them heavie burdens not only of hard service but of wicked and unlawful actions and by setting the vilest and basest persons to be over-seers and task-masters over them They Level them by putting them out of places of Trust by Disbanding them without satisfying their and the Nations just Interests without considerable recompence for their faithful service and some without any pay or recompence by cashiering them without cause or for being true to their Trust conscientious and faithfull by condemning them contrary to all Law of God or Nature their enemies being Judges accusers and witnesses against them They Level them by reducing their pay already due for their service past in deducting part for free Quarter without showing or proving what or how much or to whom or from whom in particular any part of it is due They Level them by reducing the future past and present pay of the Horse in general and of divers Officers of Horse and Foot contrary to the Faith of this Nation and their own just engagements By this means they that are conscientious and honest both Souldiers and Officers and their families perish and are destroyed or at least

God reason righteous judgement in man as dense earth darkens the light of the Sun and satanical corruption impressed the Image of Satan that is an opposite corrupt and contrary light of reason and judgement in the spirit of man This two-fold fall from which God and Nature to which the Beast and Satan was not full till the Floud came at which time all flesh was corrupt the earth filled with violence and the thoughts of mens hearts only evil continually But this was but a shadow of the bondage of corruption under which the whole Creation and the free people now groan and travel and must travel in pain to be delivered out of it Man then fell from the first Adams righteousness now from the righteousness of the first and second Adam Then the creature was subjected to all sorts of evil beasts to serve them whiles they devoured the most innocent and best creatures Men are now those evil beasts that devour the best men Pharaohs lean beasts ate the fat Fire went out of the bryars and devoured the Cedars of Lebanon so it ever was but is now indeed The thoughts of mens hearts were then only evil continually now their thoughts and works are continually only evil Now all flesh is wholy corrupt in Spirit and Judgement as it was then in a Type The spirits of men were then corrupt after the similitude of their parents the best the Serpent their mother and Satan their father but now expresly Judgement is onely preposterous and precedes knowledge and sentence goes before examination Right Judgement is the sourse of Righteousness but all Judgement is now meer rottenness and corruption M●n learned and unlearned wise and ignorant judge and speak evil of what they know not and corrupt themselves like bruit beasts in what they know and all light and form of Judgement in them is satanical and divelish in antithesis to true light as the light of the judgements of the Pharises judged Christ and released Barrabas Then the earth was filled with violence every one was an oppressor and murderer or murdered and oppressed none free but all were full of violence Now bond-masters and oppressors are full as fountains pouring forth and the oppressed are full as vessels receptacles of all cruelty and oppression there 's no vacuum none are empty all are ful The Prophet writs to the Church of Smyrna that the devil should cast some of them into prison Revel 2.8 but these cast many of the most faithful into Prison yea all the faithful their Interests external Liberties and Consciences are by them kept in greatest Imprisonment of real bondage that ever was They give Liberty of Conscience to the Free people in profession they may sacrifice as to outward form the fruit of the ground or of their flocks herein is no Liberty nor Conscience These were shaddows Liberty of Conscience is free Liberty to exercise perfect righteousness of life and Freedom out of bondage they inhibit this Liberty wholly and all righteousness of bondage is made by them out of measure destructive The wicked Steward laid violent hands upon a poor man took him by the throat and said pay me what thou owest me But Bond-masters and Oppressors now lay violent hands upon the perishing poor and middle sort take them by their throats and say pay us what you ow us not and what you have not to pay pay us what by right and necessity is due to your selves that little reliefe the support of your lives and of the lives of your Families The Pharisees layd the Crosse the instrument wherewith they crucified and killed Christ upon Simon and compelled him to bear it So these lay heavie burdens of cruel bondage the instrument wherewith they crucifie the poor and impoverish the rich upon poor and rich and compel those by day labor and those with their estates to bear these cursed burdens of violence to crucifie and kill themselves These are the burdens of cruelties the corruptions of real bondage under which the creature is subjected and under which the Creation and they that have by the Fathers side the first fruits of the Spirit groan and travel in pain to be delivered As it was in the daies of Noah so now at this time in which the Son of man Christ mystical is coming to raign in his mystical families as Noah in the mansions of the Ark until time and they be transient and pass into eternity The first means in a Type that freed the groaning Creation and the earth filled with violence from violence and the curse of bondage was the coming of the freed creatures as it were by their families into their mansions in the Ark. The second typical means that freed the Creation and the free people of God was the coming of all Israel and sealing of them by their families in their own houses The third means of efficacy and truth that shall deliver the burdened earth filled with violence and the Creation and People or God groaning under it shall be by the coming of the true Israel into their own Mansions mystical by their anti-typical Tribes and Families God sealed that is shut in the creatures delivered from destruction in the Ark by their Tribes and Kinds God sealed all Israel delivered from Egypts bondage with the blood of a Lamb the Signe of the life of righteousness and shut them in their own houses by their Families and God will seale all his servants the true Israel with the Seale of the living God the blood of the Lamb ●in truth by their mystical Tribes and Families expresly Rev. 7. When the Creatures in the Ark delivered from destruction were shut in then was the beginning of a new policy or City and of a new Heaven and a new earth in a Type When Israel sealed with the blood of the Lamb in the power of God came into their own houses by their Families then was the beginning of a new policy Oeconominick Civil Ecclesiastick and of a new Heaven and of a new Earth in a Type And when the true Israel shall come into and shall be sealed and shut in as the Creatures in the Ark were in and by their mansions and Families mystical then and there shall be a reall beginning of a new policy or City Oeconomick Civil and Ecclesiastical and of a new Heaven and of a new Earth in Anti-type and truth Impresse and intense acts of charitable civilities in bondage are dead carkasses of righteousness as the Law is a dead carkass or letter Therefore they are just good and lawful as a carkass or body of righteousness but as the Law is the strength of sin by occasion so are they by occasion the strength of bondage sin and death for they being dead to righteousness of Freedom live in and unto the life and power of bondage and are the strength of it as a strong Castle is his strength that keeps it or as a strong and healthful body liveth in and unto the soul and