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A55779	The cloudie clergie, or, A mourning lecture for our morning lecturers intended for a weekly antidote against the daily infection of those London preachers, who de die in diem do corrupt the judgments of their seduced auditors, against the governours and government of the common-wealth of England, grounded upon received aphorismes, digested into chapters, fit to be considered by those froward [sic] chaplins that have been the Quondam Beautefews against the late King of England, and are the present beadsmen for the now King of Scotland : the like whereof they may expect from week to week, while they abuse the Parliament and army from day to day / by a friend, who for their timous recovery doth cri in hope.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1650 (1650)	Wing P3341; ESTC R983	16,180	22

Noes such Noes and Yeas in a Parliament before was it ever like that a Parliament so constituted so uncertain tottering staggering so fast and loose so up and down would ever accommodate the interest of this Nation as the case stood Nay did not all men see that these treacherous Members were ready to deliver all up into the hands of him that would quickly ruine and destroy us for our adherence even unto them so that it was high time for those that were faithful amongst them to consult how they might though by force of Arms separate these false-hearted men from those that would still keep firm to their profest principles of preservation of the peace and just liberty of this Nation and if it was just to oppose the King and his Lords and Commons and that by force of Arms that would have ruin'd us out of the House in the open field it is as lawfull to drve away and that by force of Arms too those that did endeavour likewise to destroy us by a Law the Houses of Parliament the common safety of the people being the supream and soveraign end both of Parliament and Armies by all this it appears that they had authority rebus sic stantibus to do what they have They are a rightfull authority being those that were chosen by the people and did adhere unto the ends of their first Election when the test did not Secondly that they had sufficient reason for the altering of the Government they have declared and because the reason thereof is not impleaded but the Authority therefore I shall wave that Thirdly they had an opportunity hereunto by the power of the Army as you very well know for the thing was done and they had been unfaithful in their trust having such a means at hand to save the Nation had they not made use thereof accordingly so that you see the grounds why we cannot grant that the present authority did come by their authority by unjust means though they got it by force of arms and that against the consent of the major vote of the Parliament for here were votes against votes the former contrary to the latter those importing the peoples good these their hurt those made when the Parliament was free these when they were under new fears of bringing in the late King by force of arms those votes beckt with reason and arguments * certified by the Parliament to the whole Nation these grounded upon pleasure We know that a Parliament may vote and revoke and revote again and again order unorder and reorder ordain repeal and reordain the same things over and over all conducing in their best apprehensions to common safety and faithfulness to their trust may require them so to do because it is the end viz. common safety and not the means viz. their Votes Orders Ordinances c. that must prostrate them and as the case may stand we may be bound in conscience to submit thereunto but when they have praepossessed our reason and judgement not by bare votes orders and ordinances but by strong and effectuall reasons and arguments against treating with the then King as bringing upon them and consequently the whole Nation all the bloud that hath been shed in these wars yea as plucking up the foundatation of ever setling a peace with him which should be just and sure yea that it tended to the apparent destruction of the persons which have engaged and loss of the ends for which both the Nations of England and Scotland did engage in these wars rendring themselves thereby according to their own Declaration base and dishonorable being in that condition as they were in to treat under the Gallows to treat as traitors their cause being not justified nor the Declarations against them as rebels recalled yea and Fools too being possest of the Sword according to their right not to secure it to themselves and posterity before they treated of any thing that neither they nor their posterity might be put to play another bloudy game for the same thing when we say they themselves did thus praepossess our judgements should those of them that did stil remain faithfull unto the Nation suffer the rest because the major vote having an opportunity in their hands thus to ruine themselves and friends and must the people submit unto such votes so conducing because the major part turn base and dishonorable yea fools and take upon them the guilt of traitors must the minor part of a contrary mind be concluded and not hinder and prevent such things if they can Can a Parliament vote down their own reasons and arguments which they have argued up in the minds and judgements of others doubtless the people ought to acquiesce rather in those votes enforced by reason then in those contrary Votes evidenced meerly by voting there they have their reason here their will Can we think that it is the duty of the Army or others in Parliament or out of Parliament to content themselves with and to submit unto the meer wil and pleasure of the Parliament in such things as according to their ownjudgements and reasons yea and according to the argued demonstrated grounds and principles of reason of those very persons that after without shewing any reason for what they did decline the same that in such a case they should submit having an effectuall opportunity a well resolved power and strength to prevent the same No surely They that told us that a Kingdom must not be ruin'd at the meer will and pleasure of a King have taught us to infer the like touching the meer will and pleasure of a Parliament if it be not salus Regis it cannot be voluntas Parliamenti but salus Populi that is the supream law surely he that did never appoint that the lives of millions of men should be prostrated to the meer arbitrary will and pleasure of a ●…ing did never ordain that they should be thus subjected to the reasonless vote of a Parliament but if a King should rise up against a people to enforce his pleasure upon them by the sword to their apparent destruction the people may rise up in Arms and resist him for so you Ministers have instructed the Nation will it not then follow that if a Parliament should do the like by a Vote that in such a case the like resistance is alike lawful neither will it here avail to say Who shall judge For it is already answered that the Parliament themselves did judge and determine the matter and that not simply by bare Votes but by many reasons and a very large Declaration was published by them importing their many reasons to the satisfaction of the people therein and therefore if a Parliaments reason according to common principles shal rise up against a a Parliaments Votes impugning the same especially when the life or death of a Nation or the honest party thereof is concerned therein it behoves the people to rise up

The Cloudie Clergie OR A Mourning Lecture For our Morning Lecturers Intended for A weekly Antidote against the Daily Infection of those London Preachers who de die in diem do corrupt the judgments of their seduced Auditors against the Governours and Government of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND Grounded upon received Aphorismes Digested into Chapters fit to be considered by those froward Chaplins that have been the Quondam Beautefews against the late King of England and are the present Beadsmen for the now King of SCOTLAND The like whereof they may expect from week to week while they abuse the Parliament and Army from day to day By a friend who for their timous recovery doth CRI IN HOPE August 15. 1650. London Printed for Henry Cripps and Lodowick Lloyd and are to be sold in Popes-head-Alley CHAP. I. Of Iust Power and Government IUst Government is Gods ordinance for mans good●… and the kinds thereof are mans ordinance for Gods glory to live without Government becomes beasts and not men to live under the absolute arbitrement of any governor i●… to make men become beasts the rise of government or the species thereof is the peoples vote a the rules thereof the peoples reason b and the end thereof the peoples safety c all soveraignties are virtually the peoples though formally their rulers the majesty of magistraci●… is di●…erst amongst the people and contracted in their rule●…s which is not conferred upon their magistra●… to devest the people thereof but the better to preserve the people there d neither hath the people right to wrong themselves by passing away that patrimon●… irreversibly which was first given the●… to preserve th●… from slavery the peoples power 〈◊〉 is of little use and of great danger for the●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will b●… 〈◊〉 ty mans 〈◊〉 ●…and each neighbor may prove a Tyger each to other without control the peoples power so transferred as that it should be irreversible irrevocable tempts the rulers into T●… and the people into slavery which if i●… hath b●…en the sin of a forme●… generation should be the sorrow of this and 〈◊〉 occasion 〈◊〉 the providence of God in the 〈◊〉 of means ●…o a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…on to their primitive privileges e the children being bo●…d to repent and forsake and not to p●…t in their father●… wickedness God exalts no man for his own b●… other mens 〈◊〉 the greatest ●…ds are the greatest for●… 〈◊〉 greates●… glory 〈◊〉 be d●…gent conservators of the p●…oples 〈◊〉 God hath ma●…e rulers consorts of his dignity 〈◊〉 have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therefore they are not despicable but they shall die like me●… and therefore accomptible God is as full of goodness as greatness of mercy as majesty of grace as glory when men are as good as great they render themselves like God not onely honorable but amiable the glory of greatness is goodness which being commensurably mingled together in rulers renders their precapts preswasives to obedience majesty alone terrifies and a simple potentiality by divine permission may be in Sathan love constrains and the vine may better compel in government then the Bramble command and natural ingenuity makes men willing rather to be slaves to love then servants to meet power So endeth the first Chapter Application Is just government Gods ordinance and that for mans good and are the kinds thereof mans ordinance and that for Gods glory These principles thus connext may serve as a bundle of rods for the backs of those fools who like the unjust judge neither fear God nor regard man but by their pettish pens and unruly tongues in Sermons in prayers c. do as much as in them lies cast thereins of government upon the necks of the people suffering them to run without controle to the Devil if they will intimating unto them that they are not obliged to the present government and by consequence at least pro tempore to none at all there being no other government in actis exercito but onely that that is now established and is not this the practise of severall of our morning preachers whose early supplications to the God of heaven are little better then envious ventilations of their distempered minds against his Vice-gerents on earth and whose morning Sermons de die in diem are little other then nauseous vomitious and servent ebullitions of their restless thoughts against our present rulers who it seems with Solomons wicked men cannot sleep except they have conceived some mischief against them and whose sleep is taken away by their pillow meditations how they may rise in the morning manage the matter so in the Pulpit that they may cause some to fall into the like contempt who make no other mention of our governors in prayer Sermons before the Lord in the assemblies of his people then such as Sathan did against Iob accusing them and enviously repining and complaining of that hedge of protection which God hath made about their house and about all that they have on every side that he hath blessed the works of their hands and that their substance is increased in the land most sollicitously pleading with God that he would put forth his hand against them and touch all that they have with his finger of his displeasure and pull them down and raise up their enemies whom they have displaced in their room who do so principle their people against authority as if their education was in the Scholes of those whose Religion is rebellion and whose faith is faction who to establish the holy chair and themselves therein hold it not only lawfull but meritorions to sacrifice the peace and tranquillity of whole Commonwealths yea and the very lives of our governors to the service of their distempered passions and discontents if they fast it is for strife and debate pretending a sacrifice unto God and to worship him but designing nothing more then as Herod in his pretence of worshing Christ sought his ruine to destroy this young Commonwealth whilst it is in its swadling cloths or as Baalam did in multiplying his sacrifices from hill to hill so these from Pulpit to Pulpit presuming they shall bless the Lord by cursing his people making their fasts from day to day in publike in private with pretence of much zeal for the glory of God for no other purpose then as Iezebal did the end whereof is to set Naboth on high in the sight of the people viz the Parliament and Army to procure the sons of Belial the rude multitude falsly to charge them for blaspheming God by toleration of error heresie blasphemy c. that so they may rise up and stone them and take away their Vineyard their present Authority which the Lord forbids them to part with all If they pray instead of making supplication for those that are in Authority over them that under them they may live a peaceable and quiet life in all godliness and honesty which favor they