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A82107 A declaration of many thousand well-affected persons, inhabitants in and about the cities of London and Westminster, expressing their adherence to this present Parliament; as also their sense of a Free Parliament, so much cried up by the cavaliers and others, that know not what it is; but go along in company with them; together with divers other expostulatory particulars. 1660 (1660) Wing D613; Thomason 669.f.23[5]; ESTC R211491 3,730 1

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and Agents for Charles Stuart to sit in this Parliament nor do we own a Free-Parliament in the generall unlimitted notion of it at all nor for any Members to sit in future Representatives without due and fitting qualifications to be agreed on by this Parliament without which we must necessarily set up our enemies and the enemies of God and Religion to be Judges of our lives and dearest properties which neither reason safety nor yet prudence will prompt us to 4. That we detest and abhor the wicked and prophane Pasquills every day uttered abroad against the Parliament and divers other eminent and worthy Persons as tending to the scandall of Magistracy and the corruption of manners which we humbly conceive the civill Magistrates ought to withstand and severely punish these Pasquills being observed to be the griping of the bowels of the Nation and portending civill tempests and troubles 5. That we shall willingly according to our abilities pay our proportion of Taxes and other necessary impositions for maintenance of the Army and Navy in pursuance of the Authority of this Parliament while it shall be thought necessary to continue them 6. That we do and will own the Universities and Nurseries of Learning as very much conducing to reduce Men to purer Morals and as Handmaids of the Gospell of Peace 7. That we do and will own the Laws of the Land as our Birth-right derivable to our Posterities and as the fences of our Lives Liberties and Estaes and make it our requests to this Parliament that where they are defective oppressive tedious or chargeable they may be in due time reformed 8. That we shall and will assist the Parliament their Army one another and all other Persons in the three Nations in pursuance of the particulars before mentioned to the utmost of our power maugre the most stareing difficulties that we shall meet withall and will not be drawn therefrom by fear or favour or any other the plausible pretensions of any Man or Men whatsoever And now having unbosomed our selves to all Men First We desire our Adversaries we wish they were not so to consider what it may cost them before they invade our Lives Religion and Liberties and to consider what they now enjoy and yet may enjoy by a quiet submitting to the present Government and to the Hand of God bowing themselves before his past fearfull rebukes before they provoke him again and to put these in Ballance and wisely to weigh which will counterpoise a present security and injoying more then they deserve or a hazard of more wrath as well as War In the strength of God we dare say we fear them not He that delivered us from the Lion and from the Beare he will deliver us still Secondly We desire our friends imbarqued in the same common cause with us to consider what salvations God hath wrought for them and now to feare before him alone Doth not the Lord say Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of man that shall dye and of the son of man that shall be made as grass and forgettest the Lord thy Maker that hath stretched forth the Heavens and laid the foundations of the earth and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor as if he were ready to destroy AND WHERE IS 51. 22 23. THE FURY OF THE OPPRESSOR Lo he appeares would destroy you and us but cannot then he disappeares If the enemies of God be vigilant to hurt you be you vigilant to defend your selves if they be active for their Master the Devill be you more active 64. 1 c. for God your better Master He will rend the Heavens he will come down and the Mountains shall flow down at his presence c.