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end_n	law_n	people_n	safety_n	1,280	5	9.1725	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97094	The bloody proiect, or a discovery of the new designe, in the present war. Being a perfect narrative of the present proceedings of the severall grandee factions, for the prevention of a just peace, and promoting of a causelesse warre, to the destruction of the King, Parliament & people. Whereunto is annexed several expedients for an happy accommodation tending to the satisfaction of all parties, without the further effusion of blood. / By W.P. Gent.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1648 (1648)	Wing W681; Thomason E460_4; ESTC R3843	10,073	16

just grounds and upon the greatest necessity it being the saddest work in the world For the preventing whereof let us I beseech you examine what good things there are wanting that are essential to the Peace Freedom and happiness of the Nation that may not be obtained without fighting 1. Is there wanting the certain knowledg where the supream Authority is and of right ought to be It is confest no one thing is more wanting nor can the Nation ever be quiet or happy without it But can it be any where justly and safely but in the House of Commons who are chosen and trusted by the People Certainly did men consider that in opposing thereof they renounce and destroy their own freedoms they would not do it for any thing in the world If the consideration of the manifold evils brought upon us by this House of Commons deter them the next thing that is wanting is That a set time be appointed for the ending of this Parliament and a certainty for future Parliaments both for their due elections meeting and dissolving And who will be so unreasonable as to oppose any of these certainly the number cannot be considerable Is it also necessary that That Parliaments be abridged the power of impressing men to serve as bruit beasts in the Wars who will be against their being bounded therein a good Cause never wanted men nor an authority that had money to pay them Hath it proved destructive in Parliaments to meddle in Religion and to compel and restrain in matters of Gods Worship Are they evidently such things as cannot be submitto Judgment Doth every man find it so that hath a living Conscience Who then will be against their binding herein though they be entrusted to establish an uncompulsive publike way of worship for the Nation Is it unreasonable that any person should be exempt from those proceedings of Law unto which the generality of the People are to be subject Who is there then that will not willingly have all from the highest to the lowest bound alike That Parliaments should have no power to punish any person for doing that which is not against a known declared Law or to take away general property or to force men to answer to questions against themselves or to order tryals or proceed by any other ways then by twelve sworn men who would not rejoyce to have such boundaries Then that the proceedings it Law might be rectified and all Laws and the duty of Magistrates written and published in English That the Excise might have a speedy end and no Taxes but by way of subsidies That Trade might be free and a less burthensom way for the maintenance of Ministers be established then that of Tythes and that work and necessaries be provided for all kind of poor people Certainly for the obtaining of these things a man may justly adventure his life all these being for a common good and tend not to the setting up of any one party or faction of men These then are the Causes to be insisted on or nothing And if the supream Authority adhere to this Cause they need neither fear Scotch French nor English Enemies but if they decline this Cause they are to be declined the just freedom and happiness of a Nation being above all Constitutions whether of Kings Parliaments or any other For shame therefore Royalists Presbyterians Independents before you murther another man hold forth your Cause plainly and expresly and if any Adversaries appear either within or without the Land reason it out with them if it be possible deal as becometh Christians argue perswade and use all possible means to prevent another War and greater blood-shed your great ones whether the King Lords Parliament men rich Citizens c. feel not the miserable effects thereof and so cannot be sensible but you and your poor friends that depend on Farmes Trades and small pay have many an aking heart when these live in all pleasure and deliciousness The accursed thing is accepted by them wealth and honor and both comes by the bleeding miserable distractions of the Common-wealth and they fear an end of trouble would put an end to their glory and greatness Oh therefore all you Soldiers and People that have your Consciences alive about you put to your strength of Judgment and all the might you have to prevent a further effusion of blood let not the covetous the proud the blood-thirsty man bear sway amongst you fear not their high looks give no ear to their charms their promises or tears they have no strength without you forsake them and ye will be strong for good adhere to them and they will be strong to evil for which you must answer and give an account at the last day The King Parliament great men in the City and Army have made you but the stairs by which they have mounted to Honor Wealth and Power The only Quarrel that hath been and at present is but this namely whose slaves the people shall be All the power that any hath was but a trust conveyed from you to them to be employed by them for your good they have mis-imployed their power and instead of preserving you have destroyed you all Power and Authority is perverted from the King to the Constable and it is no other but the policy of Statesmen to keep you divided by creating jealousies and fears among you to the end that their Tyranny and Injustice may pass undiscovered and unpunished but the peoples safety is the supream Law and if a people must not be left without a means to preserve it self against the King by the same rule they may preserve themselves against the Parliament and Army too if they pervert the end for which they received their power to wit the Nations safety therefore speedily unite your selves together and as one man stand up for the defence of your Freedom and for the establishment of such equal rules of Government for the future as shall lay a firm foundation of peace and happiness to all the people without partiallity Let Justice be your breast-plate and you shall need to fear no enemies for you shall strike a terrour to your now insulting oppressors and force all the Nations Peace to fly before you Prosecute and prosper Vale. Postscript CAn there be a more bloody Project then to engage men to kill one another and yet no just cause declared Therefore I advise all men that would be esteemed Religious or Rational really to consider what may be done for the future that is conducible to the Peace of the Nation If the Peace of the Nation cannot be secured without the Restauration of the King let it be done speedily and honorably and provide against his misgovernment for the future let his power be declared and limited by Law If the Peace of the Nation cannot be secured by the continuance of this Parliament let a Period be set for the dissolution thereof but first make certain provision for the successive calling electing and sitting of Parliaments for the future let their Priviledges be declared and power limitted as to what they are empowred and what not for doubtless in Parliaments rightly constituted consists the Freedom of a Nation And in all things do as you would be done unto seek peace with all men But above all things abandon your former actings for a King against a Parliament or an Army against both for the Presbyterians against the Independents c. for in so doing you do but put a Sword into your enemies hands to destroy you for hitherto which of them soever were in power they plaid the Tyrants and oppressed and so it will ever be when Parties are supported Therefore if you engage at all do it by Lawfull Authority let your Cause be declared and just also and let it be for the good of the whole Nation without which you will not only hazard being Slaves but also contract upon your selves and Posterities the guilt of Murtherers vale FINIS