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A87773 The Kingdomes grand quere. What warrant there is for such proceeds about the King. Resolved by a Presbyterian minister. Also a quere taken from the representation of the judgement of the ministers in the Province of London delivered to the Generall, Ja. 18. 1648. With resolutions to them both for better satisfaction of tender consciences, that scruple the late proceeds of the Parl. and of the Army with the King. 1649 (1649) Wing K585; Thomason E545_21; ESTC R206046 6,760 11

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the murtherer that swayed the Scepter to be put to death then the Lord shewed his approbation in giving the City rest and quiet thereupon 2 Chron. 23.1.15.21 The second Quere is therefore How is it if ye be Embassadors of Christ as you say that you lift up your voyces against the Army that would not have the guilt of blood to lye upon this Kingdome and have done in some respect like Iehoiada upon an urgent occasion though these seeme to have more authority being cloathed with the authority of the Kingdome from the high Court then more pure to fight for the Priviledges of Parliament and liberty of the people against all Opposers in the Kingdome and the Kings person no further which he hath violated as the Scottish Kirk charge him and you know and there were opposers thereof in those so betrusted in Parliament which was the most unsufferable of all And yet that you lift not up your voyce against the Parliament when they were like by corrupt ones swayings there to conclude a Treaty without satisfying justice for the blood of many thousands that one person is guilty of and not exempt by Gods word from justice Would you have the Land defiled with bloud and Gods wrath upon the Land rather then to have justice done upon that one person Are you not partiall in justice Is it for no private interest Is it not because some of you feare the losse of your Tithes that some of you have drawn on some others to subscribe And did the Embassadors of Christ ever exact or take Tithe as you read of Were any ordinary Ministers to receive Tithe but only the legall Ministers that were also bound to pay a Tithe thereof for a heave-offering to the high Priest and the people must eate of the Tithe before the Lord Numb 18.26.28 Deut. 14.22 23. What God hath joyned why doe you sever or what God hath equally anulled why will you uphold any part thereof more then other any of you And why is not your contest as much against this course all of you but only for private interests Have you not read what David did warrantably in case of private extreamity and those that were with him which was not lawfull for him or them in an ordinary case to have done Mat. 12.3 4. And doth not Jesus Christ rehearse this and is it not written for our instruction what warrantably may be done in case of private much more publique extreamity by persons impowered for publique good may be done warrantably I say for that end what ordinarily would be unlawfull By what authority did many persons high and low in Scotland raise Armes against the authority of their late Parliament 1648. or against those Forces that were raised by the authority of that Parliament that had broke their Covenant in invading England and did seeke the ruine of all that opposed their proceedings what president or law had they to take up armes against them Or to make lawes of themselves before a lawfull Parliament and contrary to the last Parliament and to the declared priviledges and liberties of the Subjects That none should be chosen to be of the next Parliament nor be Electors of them but that were so and so qualified was salue populi suprema lex the safety of the people the supreame law a warrant for them alone and for no others doe you blame others for the like course and condemn them Are you not then partiall and walke as men not as Christians Whether is it not to be lamented that many persons that have been in high esteeme when they preach'd the Gospell of Faith and love should come to have a beam in their own eye and yet be insensible thereof and then be lifting up the voice and crying aloud against their Brethren because a mote if so much as that is in their brethrens eye In the feare of God consider whether it be not thus with any of you Have none of you blasphemed and railed against those that were in the highest Court of the Kingdome Have none of you beene partakers of the late Scottish invasion against the authority and good of the Kingdome Have not some of you of the Assembly acted there directly contrary to the Commission by which you sate there viz. Requiring that you should act nothing there but according to their appointment Have not some of you publiquely contested against the Parliament of whom you desired to have great power in the Kingdome because they yeelded not to the giving of you an unlimited power in almost ten thousand Courts of Judicature in the Kingdome as that forced the Parliament to complain April 17. 1646. before you would yeeld to set upon the Church-governments Reformation that you had power to doe And this your contest if not contempt you published to the world and all this it 's feared out of selfe-love or selfe-ends seeing and corrupting your judgements And now before you have publiquely recanted for this but the root of it abiding in you to heare you crying out against others for wronging authority because in such an extreamity and for such good ends they have done something like the act of Jehoiada that famous excellent act in the behalfe of the Kingdome Consider what is said and the Lord give both to you and to us more understanding in all things Amen FINIS