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A97198	A vvarning-peece to the Commons, Commissioners, Army ge, nerall [sic], which now sit as judges on His Majesties sacred person, in the behalfe of the whole kingdome. Written by one that feares God, and honors his King, and prayeth for the peace of England	One that feares God, and honors his King.	1649 (1649)	Wing W935D; ESTC R204002	7,496	16

against the Lords Commons and City making their crimes and errors as it were a cloke for your enormities and misdoings give me leave to speak and to propound a question to you or two to you in the name and behalf of the Lords Commons and City For if you truly be as you pretend to be the rod and sword of God appointed to reward and punish ungodly and unjust offenders yet boast not your self neither say in your prosperity you shall not be moved your mountain is made so strong or that because these are sinners and transgressors whom you have judged and condemned that therefore you are inexcusable and clear from all unrighteousnesse for know that God who breaketh the bow and cutteth the speare in sunder and casts the rod of his anger into the fire when they have fulfilled his will can and will do the like to you unlesse you have good evidence and warrant from Gods revealed Will for what you have or shall intend to do or if your designes or actions have any other biassed ends or selfe-interests besides Gods glory and the publike good And whether these things be so let me interrogate you Why and with what face can you complaine of the late Treaty the Movers thereof and the Propositions therein who your selves so lately did Court the Royall party and wooe the King to a peace and pardon by the tender of more advantagious Proposalls on his behalfe and his friends then were offered in the Treaty 2. Why and with what face can you so suddenly call for fire from heaven to destroy such and such Delinquents whenas in your former Declarations and Remonstrances you professed and rightly the contrary way to be most agreeable both to Gods Word and humane prudence 3. Why and with what face can you so suddenly cashiere the Lords and levell them who so lately professed the maintenance of them in all their Priviledges and Honors 4. Why and with what face can you who have sworne to maintaine and defend the Lawes of this Kingdome dare now not only in your own persons and places to act but to professe against all those Lawes and to hold nothing binding but your owne will and desires or the desires and wills of such of your own Party whom alone you stile the godly honest well-affected 5. Lastly can you think that if self-love pride or ignorant zeal have so blinded your eyes that you cannot see your selves nor discover your own hearts that therefore neither other men no nor God himself doth espie and abhorre all hypocriticall and abominable wayes Be not deceived nor think that you can long blind and deceive the world with vaine pretences and windie words of Godlinesse Justice Righteousnesse for God wil not thus be mocked no nor man will ever be thus fooled cheated rather fore-see feare and prevent the just judgement of God who doth and will in his time repay both in weight and measure for Vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord who is the Lord of Hosts Rom 12.19 and therefore can do it as he hath done to an Army which twenty times exceeds yours And that you may stop the mouthes of those that murmure and repine at your Power Greatnesse and that you may in part redeem or satisfie for what you have trespassed upon and wronged your Countreymen suffer a word of exhortation as from the whole Kingdome of England We confesse you have propounded 12 Herculean Labors and how we affect or rellish them you may ghesse by some hints or glances in the preceding passages but above the rest that one for the abridging Englishing and regulating the superfluities defects and abuses of our Law as now in use we so farre approve and commend that we wish our Votes and desires might be sent up with yours viz. 1. That we conceive the present Common Law now in practise to be little more then as you tearm it an hair-loome of the Norman Conquest 2. That contrary to the Lawes of all best and wisest Nations our Law is a dis-joynted scattered confused thing or a thing like a Taylors Cushion so patched together out of many pieces and that without all or any authoritie given thereunto that it looks more like the new Serjeants Coats or a motley Cloak-bag then the Law of a wise and great People 3. That this Law all or the most part of it is written in an unknowne Pedlar-like Language which edifieth not the poore Subject though it benefiteth the Lawyer 4. That the Law as now used may have that word given it which was written on the head of the woman Revel 17.5 Mysterie and such as worketh 2 Thess 2.10 with all deceivablenesse of unrighteousnesse 5. That many Lawyers but especially Pettifoggers and Officers may the mutability of worldly happinesse and the just reward of Ambition and Treachery And though at this time some of your Army and of the people for your sake may he droven to so much wickednesse as to depose or murther their Liege Lord the Vicegerent or God without all Law yet conceive you not that either these the rest of the people of the old Army or even of your owne new Modell may not either return to their right wits or retaine so much Loyalty or Religion as to requite this act according as they are bound by all the Lawes of God Nations and this Kingdome And whether your designe be to depose or murther the King because he did leave you lean to your opposites or to destroy the Preshyterian leaders because they did adhere to the King against you yet be assured that as your aym is blood destruction so destruction and blood shall be your end remember Adonibezek Judges 1.6.7 as I have done so God hath requited me and heare the Poet nec enim lex justior ulla est Quam necis artifices arte perire suâ But above all heare God Hof 1 4. I will avenge the blood of Iezrael upon the house of Jehu And although God gave Iehu an extraordinary Commission for putting Aha● to death yet this in Hos 1.4 was denounced and executed against Jehu because he executed the Commission with a by-end of his own and in an undue manner and this Decree on Iehu's house and posterity was to take affect speedily yet a little while sayes the text and I will avenge saith the Lord c. and this little while was within one yeare and a halfe after the Decree Zanch. in Hos And let that be written as a perpetuall Memento over the doores of your private Closets and publike Councells or Courts which you reade 2. Kin. 21.23.24 That although King Amon as King Aha● was a great and most grosse Idolater such as by Gods expresse Law had incurred the penalty of death from God the Law-giver yet his servants his subjects for attempting and executing the death of their lawfull King are by God himselfe judged and so stiled Conspirators and they accordingly by the providence and justice of God are slaine and that presently upon their wicked act by the people of the Land which certainly it so exprest recorded that it might teach all how much it is against Gods wil that subjects should in any case conspire plot or execute the death of him who is their Lawfull Annoynted King And accordingly as you shal act or repent the Lord prosper you and this undoubtedly is the prayer of the greatest and best part of this Kingdome who joyntly cry Amen Amen FINIS