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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92926	A letter from an ejected Member of the House of Commons, to Sir Jo: Evelyn: shewing, the constitution of that councell, and the influence it hath had on the present times, with a judgement of future events.	Skutt, George.; Evelyn, John, Sir, 1591-1664.	1648 (1648)	Wing S26; Thomason E463_18; ESTC R203469	15,283	28

belonged to persons of Parliamentary affections and how the others were either put off with terrour or so long tired with delaies for which there were a hundred known tricks among Committee-men and after a while grew no more to be any of the secrets of their Courts that they were undone with hoping to be relieved and had nothing left them but the memory of their innocency and right which was now referred over to the day of Judgement for a hearing where no art of a Chair-man or power of a worthy Member can forestall the action or pervert the just judgement It well beseemed indeed the wisdome of the House wandring in a wildernesse of various matters without end or order to take care that all Committees concerning private matters should be nulled and yet when fourscore Committees were reduced at one time M. Hollis had the favour to have that Committee continued which concerned a suit of his own in the Court of Wards as I remember because he was then a leading Member which was noted at that time a grosse partiality But this you know was the common use of all Parliamentary references for no Committee was so soon made as it was immediately converted to serve the revenge envie avarice or other corrupt humours and passions of the Authors So that to commit a businesse signified no more for the most part but to give the Members advantages of working their own or their friends businesse and designes with successe But your partiality to friends was not more conspicuous then to your reputed enemies was your indistinct rigour impartiality for as if you had stoically held all men to be equall sinners you did indeed make them all equal in oppression the King with his meanest Subjects For you have oppressed all alike in their consciences understandings honours dignities fames in their wives children kindred friends and servants in their lives liberties persons goods and properties Notwithstanding that both of us have often heard some of these things called Tyranny in the King and others and occasion thence taken to punish the Actors with the acts Which kind of Justice how you will avoid your selves having been Judges in the case already I cannot see 'T will be no plea to say you were fooles or knaves though all the world think you are both The best you can say for your selves is that you were mad that you may prove perhaps by some of your late actions For what else was the voting of your Members in and out so often Your Voting men into Prison for High Treason and Voting them out agen for you know not what Your Voting there shall be no more Addresses to the King and then Voting that there shall A temper something like to that of Hen. 8. who advanced men in a good humour he knew not why and ruined them agen presently in another he knew not for what But these resolutions of yours are answered abroad with the like discourses Some saying that you are and other that you are not a Free Parliament Some saying that many of you are and others that you are not Members duly elected Which how true it is I examine not but I have heard that the vertue of the Army hath been at severall elections to keep the peace as they call it to say no more Many there are who think you a mad company in sensu composito as well as diviso You have two Speakers a white Speaker a Black Speaker But the white Speaker like the white witch soon unravelled all the spels of the black Speaker when he once appeared with his Familiar in both Houses Which was also such a deep dissembled ceremony that no man but saw through it and did beleeve with reason that the Members brought his Excellency to the Parliament and not he them I am sorry to hear that you were one that ran upon this Errand though I know many Presbyterians did it whom temporall respects prevailed with to be of the sure side Yet who would have thought that any worldly profit or preferment could have moved old Rous a man in matters of Religion and Conscience alwayes esteemed severe and resolute now in his old age when he can keep nothing long to runne away from his imbibed Principles and perswasions to be continued yet a little longer Provost of Eaton Oh Sir God will have an account of these things and will let you see that all those calamities that attend great alterations in States are better prevented with wisdome then punished with justice and the day will come when the memory of your own Votes shall torment you more then a thousand deaths For if whatsoever comfort shall remaine of our elapsed humane life will consist in the charity which we exercised living and in that Piety Justice and firme Faith for which it pleased the infinite mercy of God in Christ to accept of us and receive us what shall we think of you whose actions have tended to banish all Charity quite out of Christian Churches Societies to dissolve in all families and neerest relations the Bonds of naturall Piety to supersede in all Courts the execution of Common Justice and to frustrate the vertue and power of all Religion towards God and Man under pretences of higher perfection A state as dangerous as that of the old Pharisees whose strictnesse far exceeded yours and yet because they justified themselves in their sins and busying themselves in small popular duties omitted the weightier matters of the Law Judgement Mercy and Faith what woes unchangeable and eternall doth our Saviour Christ fulminate against their affected hypocricie Now if you are not guilty 't is well But how you have kept your Faith with Heaven in your Protestations Vowes and Covenants How you have kept your Faith the with King in your Oathes of Allegeance and your many Declarations to make him glorious and great How you have kept your Faith with the Church in matters of Reformation After you had declared die Sabbati 9 Aprilis 1642. That you intend a due and necessary Reformation of the Government and Lyturgie of the Church to take away nothing in the one or the other but what shall be evill and justly offensive or at least unnecessary and burdensome And to establish Learned and Preaching Ministers with a good and sufficient maintenance throughout the whole Kingdome wherein many dark corners are miserably destitute of the meanes of Salvation and many poore Ministers want necessary provision As if to take away nothing in the one and the other but what shall be evill and justly offensive signified to take quite away both the one and the other and to establish learned Ministers with good maintenance in dark corners signified to put out Learned Ministers and put in young confiding dunces divert the Church profits to your owne uses and make tenne dark corners for one that was before How you have kept your Faith with the Scots in your Treaties made when you were