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A45518	The nations claim of native right Wherein the gross and extreme defection and injustice of the court martial, and of all courts; the destructive abuse of the law, and pressing necessity, that the nation speedily unite (as one man) for an agreement in righteousness, is by particular example, and an appeal to the general councel of the army, and by several considerations cleerly demonstrated and proved. Secondly, the nullity of order, matter, and form of a free people is asserted, and proved by scripture: and how (to persons, families, people, and churches) right order, matter, and form may be attained. Thirdly, a brief pourtraict of a right government of the nation, and agreement of the people; and how such government and agreement may be with ease attained; a new representative freely elected: the laws rectified: the poor relieved: and the peoples, and armies, and every particular persons just interests (in peace with truth) satisfied, is proposed to the nation. By Thom. Harbye, late Quarter-master in the Regiment late	Harby, Thomas.	1650 (1650)	Wing H684; ESTC R216528	94,995	134

what highly concerns the entire safeties of them and it Eighthly For relieving of the rest of the poor and for preserving of the middle sort of people from extream poverty and beggary Let every parish be brought into a Body represented and constitute a Representative and Representators of its own in its self Let the body represented Conveen as oft as there shall be just cause the body Representative if need be every week Let the end of the Conveening of the body represented and of the body representative be especially at first to determine who are the poor of that body that must be relieved and how relieved Secondly Who are the middle sort that cannot relieve and need not be relieved And Thirdly who are the rich that may relieve and bear some burden and what burden they may bear towards the discharge of the Debts of the Nation and relief of the poor The poor are to be relieved by having all Commons Fennes Forrests Parks and donations of Houses Lands and Monies that have been anciently their due restored to them and a stock of cattel raised for them to improve it for their maintenance They that cannot improve Land or Cattel by their labour are to be relieved by being set at work and what they want of sufficiency to relieve them by their labour must be allowed by Contributions Secondly The middle sort that cannot relieve and need not relief and the poor must be freed from all burdens that they may the better provide for and maintain their own Families and to this end let Excise and Tythes be taken off from all 2 Where Tythes have been bought let just recompence be given to the Buyer if it may be by the Seller and let the Seller in like manner require his satisfaction 3 The considerations and original grounds upon which Tythes were first granted by the people are to be considered If they were at first freely demised and granted by the people and not extorted and if the considerations and grounds upon which they were demised and graunted were in those times visibly just and equal then there is some reason they should be re-bought by the people they not paying more then what the buyer paid Thirdly Let all Taxes Sessements and Quartering be taken off from the poor and middle sort of people and let their Landlords bear their burden Fourthly Let no Farmers pay any Taxes or Sessements nor bear any burden of Free-Quarter or otherwise in relation to the Land they Rent For Free Quarter is not nor can be quite taken away as Rates of Provisions are and the Souldiers Pay being no more Fifthly Let no Souldiers Quarter in Cities and Market-Towns which causeth scarcity and famine in the Land and destroyes the poor and middle sort of people Representors of every Parish are to be but two their Office is to see and provide that the poor and middle sort of people whose Representors they are be not oppressed or deprived of their just Rights and to obtain them where wanting that all due administrations of Right and Justice be extended to all persons and to decide and end all differences and cause strife to cease in their respective Parishes without going to Law as Heathens to destroy one another To compleate a perfect Representative in every Parish let eleven or twelve more be added to the two Representors to performe the same Office with them where they have first done their endeavours and cannot determine or end any difference Let every compleat Representative consist of twelve men and a President Let their Representors especially and also the body Representative be men fearing God dealing truly and hating Covetousness haters of Oppression enemies to Vsurpers and Oppressors impartial to all free from Pharisaical bloudy rigour and lovers and approvers of the Nations and Armies just Engagements for the Nations Freedom and the just Liberties and Interests of all persons If two or twelve so qualified cannot be found in some Parishes then they are to joyn with some other Parish or Parishes until so many may be found No person or grieved parties shall be tyed to refer their grievances to the said two or twelve unless they freely chuse them themselves otherwise they may equally and freely chuse any other two or twelve Every person in every Represented and Representative may freely give his Vote and Advice but if the Sentence and Result be recented as unjust their sufferage and Voyce only that are known to be conscientious and qualified as aforesaid shall stand and the Voyces of others though never so rich and powerful usurpers and oppressors be of no force Two Representors in every Parish elected by the Represented or by the poor and middle sort of people in it may by the approbation and assent of their respective poor and middle sort of people chuse two for the County or Shire to perform the like Offices to the poor and middle sort of people of the Shire or County Also two Representors chosen in every Shire or County may by approbation and assent of their respective Parochial Representors and of the middle sort of people and poor of the Nation chuse and appoint two Representors for the middle sort of people and poor of the Nation who being fitly qualified may reduce the sad and afflicted condition of the poor and middle sort of people into an expeditious and right order of speedy and effectual redress Consider that slavery is the most vile and miserable condition and blackest curse that is or can be incident to men the bond of sin and death to their bodies and spirits the chain of destruction to the Nation and therefore it requires our earnest care to quit our selves and Nation from it A Pillar of a cloud and of fire did direct Israel out of Aegyptian Bondage into the promised Land of Liberty The light and truth of God in the Judgements and Spirits of men is that real and true Pillar of fire which all free-born people of God do and must follow That was outward this inward That gave light to the Body this to the Spirit God in and by that Pillar of fire led and delivered Israel Abrahams Free-born from their chains of cruel bondage into their land of promised liberty God in and by this Pillar of light and fire in the judgements and Spirits of his people leadeth and delivereth his Free-born from real bondage of body and spirit under all burdens of bloudy guilt and cruel oppressions into the land of promised peace truth and perfect freedom Israel moved not but after that cloud by day and moved and did all things by night in and by the light of that pillar of fire So the Free-born of God in the Army and Nation must in all their motions and actings follow after and act in and by the light of the Pillar of God the pillar of light and truth in their own Spirits They must not sell or enslave their own or others lives light liberties interests bodies and

spirits to serve under all barbarous calamities and bloudy wickedness of blind obedience the vi●est vassals of slavery as the sons of Jacob sold their brother the preserver of their lives and beings into the house of bondage They must in all their motions and actions walk and act in the liberty of the light of God in their own spirits and not act or acquiesce from principles of an implicite-faith in the Arbytrarie commands of will and power in any Representative or person whatsoever It is small satisfaction or security to any man that may see if he will but will follow and be led by a blind man till both fall into a ditch and perish to think to say for himself a blind man led him and it was his own will and he would be led by him So if any sub-Officers Souldiers or others shall execute any unjust decree by order of or from any Commanders or Representatives whatsoever the plea of their order were weak and without all satisfaction They must not think their Officers command if unjust can free them or their Officers from the just doom and due penalty of the Law no more then a murderers plea at the Bar that his fellow robber commanded him to kill the murdered can quit him or his fellow from guilt of murder or from death due to murderers Neither may any person or persons or Representatives Courts or Councels vainly conceive that any imposed Trust Place or Office or personal Eminency or that their being many is or can be of any force to free them more then any one privat mean man from due punishment though it be death which the Law inflicteth for breach of it or to free any person or persons whom they employ from the like punishments Howbeit the Free-born of God in Army or Nation Officers Souldiers or private men that groan under the cursed burdens of bloudy wickedness and barbarous oppressions which they have born themselves or laid upon others if they seek earnestly and effectually endeavour the redemption of their bodies and spirits and to free others from the same bondage whereof the Israelites bondage in Aegypt and deliveranoe out of it was but a type and shaddow may and ought to be in some measure commiserated and their cruelties time past if utterly renounced and really repented of may be so far passed by as the Law can admit also some unjust actions o● infirmity and weakness so far only as may stand with law and equity may be born withal God keeps not the children of light in chains of darkness but willeth that all men should be saved from cursed servitude and bondage of body and spirit by coming unto and following after the pillar of God the knowledge of the Truth in their own Judgements and Spirits and that they walk and act at all times and in all relations in the light of this pillar of fire within them Wherefore let all the Free-born of God in the Army and Nation cast off the wicked burdens of cursed and blind obedience to Representatives Arbytrarie commands of Will and Power and fix the eys of their understandings upon the pillar of God in their own Judgements and Spirits Let them seriously consider in and with themselves and with one another the grounds of all their actions engagements and executions and be well advised and satisfied in their Spirits to what end and where unto they tend whether to liberty or bondage light o● darkness to Zion or Sinai whether they be works of Hagar o● Sarah Sem or Cham and whether they tend to enslave oppress and wrong themselves the people and Nation and other persons people or Nations or to right and free themselves and Nation and other Nations from slavery wrong and oppression Let them improve the most rich and precious Talent of their Birth-right and Freedom to debate dispute pleade question and examine the causes grounds and terms upon which they act engage or execute any thing Eph. 5.15 And in all things walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise Heb. 15.14 And as those that are of full age who by reason of perfection and use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil Let them consider their Representatives Propositions Counsels and Decrees whether they be just or unjust whether they are to be observed by them or to be reproved or punished in their Representatives whether they tend to involve them and the Land in bloud and massacre or to free it and them from it If Chams cursed Sons compel or perswade them to forsake Freedom and imbrace bondage to mo●l themselves by doing all base and dirty drudgery of vile and servil wickedness and to wallow in all unjust and extream wants and cursed calamities caused by unjust oppressions and cruelties let them fix their eyes upon the pillar of God in their own Spirits and walk in the light of it and follow after it If they command them to couch under all burdens of cursed servitude and to be with them as they are servants of servants slaves of servile and blind obedience and bruitish ignorance to act from an implicite Faith in their usurping task-masters arbritary commands of Will and Power to kill and murder at their command their best and most faithful friends and fellow Souldiers to enterprize any bloudy act of massacre and slaughter upon each other or upon the nation to perpetrate and execute at their command all oppression and crueltie upon the nation and through wicked blindness and brutish ignorance upon and against themselves also and to involve the nation at their wills in new Wars to destroy it and themselves Let them renounce and detest such cursed servitude and cast off slavish bondage of such blind obedience and fix their eyes upon the pillar of God the pillar of light and truth in their own Spirits and let them walk in the liberty of that light Let them try all things and hold fast the truth for this liberty is the proper peculiar and most rich and precious Talent of all the free-born of God which God hath given them Therefore let them try and examine with all exactness in themselves and advise together whether the light in their own Spirits be the light of the pillar of God or a delusion and whether it be the light of truth or a lying dream in their own fancies For if it be a true light to discover the truth of God and if they walk in that light and follow after that truth it will be certainly and infallibly a pillar of support and deliverance to free them from the most extensive and deepest guilt of bloudy and desperate wickedness and from the fruit and reward of such bloudy wickedness the most cruel and accursed calamities and destruction of bodie and Spirit All that observed and followed the commands of Chams cursed sons being free from danger before were drawn into a sea of death and destroyed not one escaped All Israel that observed and followed the

opened the locks and iron barres of all otherwise impossibilities in Israels way out of bondage into the land of promised liberty was the pillar of fire which after they hearkened to Gods call and command in coming out of Egypt and had manifested perfect obedience in a type went before them and led them And the people of God that shall manifest perfect obedience to Gods call and command shall find the pillar of light and truth from God in their own spirits which is the true key of liberty from all burdens destruction and bondage of soul and body They that manifest not the life and power of God by ready obedience to Gods call and command in coming out of bondage to all oppression misery unrighteousness and destruction of soul and body are not only dead and drie bones but they rebel against God and sell his talent and power their breath of life from him into bondage God called upon the drye bones that they might live and did they rebel and reject life no but as the Prophet called upon them to hear the word of the Lord there was a noyse and a shaking and the bones came together bone to his bone That noise was the rallying noise of a re-uniting Army These dead and dry bones were all the people of God slain and destroyed by slavery into whom the breath of life from God was re-enterings and they by ready hearkening and obedience willingly received it Did they then return to the valley of bones never but became an exceeding great Army and never sould themselves into bondage unto death and destruction any more Israel being gathered out of bondage wherein they were scattered in Egypt was an exceeding great Army before the most miserable and slavish but then the freest-people that ever were They that were poor amongst them before were then rich and the persons and estates of poor and rich were-freed from bondage all the house of bondage durst not lay their hand upon a Kid of the Hebrews to bring it back into bondage Before there was no appearance of the life and power of God in them The drie bones when God called upon them to hearken and live did hearken and live but Israel at first when God called upon them to hearken and live did not hearken but refused life Exod. 6.9 The life and power of God in his People is first manifested by their real hearkening and resolved obedience when God calls them out of bondage to all that he commandeth and when their hearkening obedience and righteousness are not Sorceries that is are not sayings but doings not shaddows but substance and not parcels of obedience which are but Hypocrisie but perfect obedience The first real appearance of the life and power of God in Israel in a Type was when first they being called out of bondage did all joyntly hearken unto and do all that God commanded them which was when the Passeover was first kept by them wherein as Moses was faithful in all the house of God in a Type so were they every man faithful in his own house in all that God commanded This their joynt faithfulness in keeping the Passeover in a Type was the present and immediate insertion and the ingraffing of them into the life and power of God and that very night they re-united and rallied into a living Army and were delivered from bondage and destruction of body and spirit in a Type the Lambe which they were commanded to kill and eat was called the Lords Passeover Exod. 12.11 and their observance of that command was called the Sacrifice of the Lords Passeover vers 27. It was the first Ordinance which God gave unto Israel and the first fruits of their faith and obedience That Ordinance was an Propheticall Act of a thing really done in Israel or an actuall Prophesie of the same thing in truth and substance which shall be done in and by the true Israel For as all Israel did that very night they were delivered observe and keep the Passeover so all Gods people the true Israel shall and must as certainly observe and do the whole substance of that Ordinance at the instant time of or immediately before their deliverance from reall bondage and destruction whereof the Egyptian was but a Type or shaddow their obedience in that Ordinance was Typically inward and outward Their inward Typicall obedience required and done was in that each family or so many together as might eat up the Lambe did that very night they were freed from bondage eat it in one house without carrying any part of it out and none of them might go out of the house untill the morning vers 22.46 Which shews that Gods People must and shall with one accord depart out of bondage and not by cowardly fears or faithless backslidings betraye and destroy one another or be scattered all over Egypt but co-unite indissolubly in the life and power of God Secondly they did eat the whole Lambe to shew that Gods People must and shall readily do and observe all which God in Christ the Lambe their perfect Freer and Redeemer shall command them that they shall gladly and willingly receive as the best meat when they are most hungry Freedom from all bondage to all unrighteousness sin misery and destruction and come not only out of Egypt but out of Sodom and Babylon and out of bloody and Pharisaical Ierusalem Thirdly they might not eat it soden in water at all but rosted with fire to shew that the spirit of Freedom in Gods People must and shall be fervent as fire and that their love of deliverance from bondage and slavery shall not be as it is cold decayed and dead as Water is the coldest of all Elements God would not accept of but rejected their service that bowed down to drink Water when they were to pursue their deliverance from slavery Iudges 7. They that thirst more after ditch water than Freedom from bondage are sit for nothing but slavery Fourthly they were to eat it with their shooes on their feet and their staf in their hand c. and they were to eat it in hast and the reason is given for it is the Lords Passeover verse 11. to shew that Gods people must and shall pursue their deliverance from bondage with a ready and dilligent preparation to depart and not remissely but in hast the reason is for it is the Lords Passeover that is because if they do not haste to make diligent preparation to come out of Aegypt and Babylon to which God calls them and which God commands and out of all bondage and if God when he comes to passe through Egypt and Babylon find them there he will lay upon them their and their own sins and rebelion and their and their own due plagues and destruction But his People are not ready for deliverance if God should deliver them they can no way use it but mis-improve it to destroy themselves because they make not any reall and faithful