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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85519	The grand concernments of England ensured: viz. liberty of conscience, extirpation of popery, defence of property, easing of taxes, advance of trade, soveraign powers of Parliaments, reformation of religion, laws and liberties, indempnity, settlement, by a constant succession of free Parliaments, the only possible expedient to preserve us from ruine or slavery. The objections, answered; but more largely, that of a senate. With a sad expostulation, and some smart rebukes to the Army.		1659 (1659)	Wing G1492; Thomason E1001_6; ESTC R204729	70,399	77

such necessity as he pretends since he useth such Artifices to reduce us to other extremities It is not for nothing that he turns Mutineer and would create jealosies between the Parliament and Army not doubting if he could effect that he might bring in his King upon what tearms he pleased t is therefore that they must believe that the security of the one is founded in the ruine of the other 'T is for no other reason that he tels the Army They have been ill requited for their good services by being stopt in Pay defeated of their Arrears in danger of Disbanding not suffered to communicate Councels or meet at a General Randezvous That their recompence for their greatest merits have been only exposing to new and greater dangers That their certainest pay hath been suspicion affronts and injuries Let any sober and impartial man judge at the drift of this Gentleman especially let not the Army misunderstand him who while he is perswading might and main for an agreement doth what in him lies to break us to pieces and render us uncapable of defending our lives Having then dispatched a great part of his work viz. Shewn our undone condition which he hath Prophesied not Proved and ushered in his expedient as you have seen his next work is to apply his Plaster to the Wounds he had made He begins with the common National interest and pretends to accommodate his expedient to all its distempers wherein he thinks a bare assertion to be sufficient Demonstration goes on like an Emperick or States Mountebanck telling this it is good for that it is good for wherein if I should follow him I should lose my self and my Reader too but I shall give him a turn by and by however this is very observable that he layes much stresse upon the merits of his King being it seems the best reason in his Budget to commend him to the Nation but Needham hath galled him so severely on this wing that I shall make no stay here but put on full speed to the main Battel taking only a slight view of some inconsiderable forces that way-lay me which I shall soon breake thorough First he tels It is the interest of the Roman Catholick to bring in the King for saith he by this means the heavy payments now on their Estates with other burdens will be taken off and as to the pressures of Penal Laws they cannot but remember how far from grievous they were in the late Kings time the Catholicks living here notwithstanding them in more flowrishing condition then they of Italy France or Spain under their respective Princes and would do infinitely more under their natural King then if any forainer should acquire the power by conquest Besides having generally adhered to the late King in his Wars have no reason to distrust finding favorable treatment from his Son and to share that indulgence he is ready to afford even his greatest enemies And yet these are the men that our Author tels us before would restore the Pope his ancient Revenue and Jurisdiction in England and to the Church all that was alienated in Hen. 8. time and would utterly eradicate all he cals Heresie so far you are right we doubt not they will get better terms then the poor Presbyters Secondly It is the Interest of the Royalists c. Yea it is so although he have no reparation for his losses I cannot passe this without a smile our Author tels us before That it is the design of the Royalist to bring in the King a Conqueror and to recover his losses in the late War and in the very next leaf he tels us That he is confident the Cavaliers expect no satisfaction at all It seems then t is their interest though they have no satisfaction I leave them this as a bone to pick in the mean time I want an Interpreter of this mystery The design of the Royalist is to recover his losses in the late War I am confident the Cavaliers expect no satisfaction at all Very well bowled in good earnest they will and they won't Anglice-good skill why all the craft is in catching Thirdly The Presbyterians are concerned also As how for example to leap out of the Fryingpan into the fire for fear of those lesser parties to prostrate themselves unto the revenge of a Pontifical zeal what courtesie is to be expected at their Graces hands Mr. Pryn is yet a memorable example of but the Presbyterians do not consult him as their Oracle for all your hast he having borne his witness with sufficient bitterness against them enough almost to unchristian any man but himself Fourthly It is the interest of the Baptized Churches as also to acquiesce in a Moderate Episcopacy enjoying the liberty of their consciences I wonder how this shall become practicable or sort with the honour of Episcopacy which he throws in the dish of Presbytery to suffer those lesser parties as he cals them to grow up with it who utterly oppose all government in the Church and being of the Ministery No doubt your knowledge of the practices of the Anabaptists in Germany their cruelty and all manner of disorder their taking away all property of Estates founding it in Grace and Saintship with the hard treatment the Papists in Ireland have found from them these are his own words will instruct you into some pretences why you ought to be more partial in your affections towards them and your better Sons of the Church then why a Father should be fond of one Son and discourage another upon pretence of their divers hairs or complexions which our Author would willingly skrew into their belief but it will not be Fiftly It is saith he the interest of the Army Under this head he grows out of measure copious but the wonder is not so much since here lies his work to bring the Army into disorder T is their concernment to be under a single person and consequently to be under his King he proves it thus Because there is scarce a Common Soldier who is not sensible of it Verily this is notable Demonstration the whole Army is sensible that they are concerned to be under a Single Person therefore not long since they restored our Common-wealth and declared unanimously against a Single person without so much as any muttering among the Common Soldiers to the contrary and since all their Commanders have given up their old Commissions and received new from the Parliament Our Author is in very deed a notable Sophister he goes on and tels By this means the Army putting themselves under the Standard of his King they shall be out of danger of being Disbanded and without fear of Wars Very good arguments to Soldiers to be afraid of enemies but better to Christians that when the danger is over they should refuse to disband shall we know our friends from our foes Gentlemen What are they who kill our honours and good names while they court our friendship But

And therefore it was not unlike the Disciples of Machiavell to drive us from a settlement hoping to crumble us to dust before we could arrive to a better constitution If it were their plot as I know no great ground to believe and Mr. Rogers hath well answered more then to distract us I suppose they meant us no good by it but they are fallen into the pit they digged for us the Lord is known by the Judgements he executeth the wicked are snared in the work of their of their own hands Higgaion Selah We are now in a hopefull way of setling a Common-wealth and we shall quickly understand what advantage such a settlement would yield to the Papist It is not at all to be disputed but another Queen Mary would do their businesse as well as a Common-wealth who would hardly be perswaded to joyn our Nation to Saint Peters Patrimony I appeal to all the World whether their designs be not more easily wrought out of a private interest then a publique Whether it should be harder to make one person for them or the whole Nation We are no strangers to the genius of our Native Countrey If the single person should deny to pleasure them it were no hard matter to take their revenge there by Poyson Ponyard or Pistoll They could quickly remove out of their way an Edward the Sixth or a Prince Henry if they were like to spoyl their designs Were they not more likely to advantage themselves by matches of our Kings with Popish Women Doth not Mr. Pryn acknowledge the Jesuites had a great number of Colledges in England in his forecited Book Do we not all know the Papists had as much countenance as they can imagine under our Free State Remember what my Author saith which I mentioned before Yea have not our Parliaments been their greatest Enemies I appeal to Mr. Pryn If the House of Commons have been any of their best friends since our Nation hath been Protestant He tells us himself How angry the Papists were at the Propositions of the Isle of Wight which the King consented to against the Papists We all know whose was the contrivance Yea all the Papists of England appeared for the King in his warres against the Parliament you will judge then whether they be for a Common-wealth against Monarchy or whether they mean us a settlement of our Common-wealth especially since Monarchy is now cryed up hotter then ever by that party and their Agents or any thing rather then we should settle in the way of an equal Common-wealth which certainly if ever they put us in pursuit of they never meant we should reach or overtake But let my Expedient be put in practice the Nation setled upon the Foundations of Parliaments and my life for it the Papists shall receive their deadly wound which shall not be healed nor shall they have power to vex our Nations any more for they have been the mortall enemies of Parliaments engaged in wars against them all along and alwayes practising sedition against them Instances are familiar here and in Ireland whereby they have engaged the Parliaments their everlasting foes so that those of the Parliament that would have restored the King shewed their good will unto the Papists by causing the King to agree to their persecution Yea Parliaments ever since Queen Mary especially have shewn their teeth at them and bitten too as often as they have been able to reach them till they have been rated off by their Masters And it cannot be but their sins must come in remembrance before our Parliaments And then falling into their hands whom they have obliged not to befriend them they may expect what will follow even the wages of their iniquities which I see by their bustling they are well aware of their Religion is an enemy to our Peace They have done nothing to merit the Parliaments favour nor can finde any advocates in that Assembly that dare speak out for them no Cottington no Digby There shall be Episcopal Presbyterian Independant and Baptized all vying their zeal against them who shall most fervently express his anger at them Yea and he shall think he hath sufficiently purged himself from all Damnable Errors that shall wou●d the Hairy Scalp of the Scarlet Whore The Papist will have good luck if they do not receive at their hand double for all their villanyes being more like to give them bloud to drink who have drunk bloud in abundance then to give them any encouragement or toleration among us Yea the very Fift Monarchy-men who of late years have been mentioned with as much detestation and indignation as if they maintained some damnable Opinions or Doctrines of Devils are as forward as any to shew their zeal in this particular Thirdly Defence of Property This Parliaments must necessarily make good for their own credits 'T is irrationall to fear that Property in generall should be endangered by a Parliament but those Estates which have been sold by former Parliaments must be made good by following Parliaments else they crack their reputation and undo their credit They who have been faithfull to the Parliament need not fear no nor the Cavaliers for having compounded there will remain no more sacrifice for their sin if they live peaceably in the Land Besides for Crown-lands and Church-lands they can have no temptation to alienate them from the Purchasors since it cannor be but they will have a Stock going in them themselves and Kings Bishops Deans and Chapters being outed the Nation there will be no occasion of those Lands to maintain their Grandeur And for Delinquents Estates that are sold there can be no thought of their restitution for care will be had that their Provender do not prick them to sedition against the State However if any of their Estates have been sold without due proof of their Delinquency as it is pretended of some God forbid but their estates be restored them the Purchasors receiving their Money from the State or satisfaction some other way So that without peradventure Every man shall enjoy the purchase of his Penny under the Supremacy of Parliaments And yet would there be no cause of Contest but it would be a matter of generall content and applause if the Parliament should be so highly just as to enquire in good earnest into the frauds of the Common-wealth and make them pay the full value of their Purchases who have plaid the Knaves and cheated both the Souldier and the State and then they too may enjoy their Purchases when they have paid the same rate for them with other men who were forced to pay to such a value or go without them Fourthly Easing of Taxes This is so absolute a benefit that we have had by the House of Commons formerly so called that our Kings looked upon them only as our Pursers And our last Lord Protector in his Speech to the other House and the Commons assembled in the late Lords House directed himself to

in the progress take notice how much the calling in his King will answer the expectations of some while he promiseth to keep the Army up notwithstanding the dangers will be over and for this end the King is the only person to raise Taxes and Contributions they are his own words He goes on to tell this only can secure their Pay and satisfie their Arrears very good Sir but I hope you will make no scruple to pay us in our own coyn He proceeds No body else dare trust you as a standing body and endevours to exasperate the Army from the treatment they received from the old Protector but I conceive he was a single person Ay but his King being supported by his just title hath no such grounds of suspicion but may repose himself upon the loyalty of his people which Usurpers dare not do How now Sir this is strange forgetfulness remember the late King I hope you deem him no Usurper and would you perswade that the Son would repose himself upon that Army that hath opposed him and his Father unto bloud when the Father put so little confidence in his Parliament methinks his King should con him little thankes for this unhappy distinction between a Prince with a just title and a Usurper More yet His King hath a particular respect for the Army yea in spite of all their Rebellions A strong argument in good sooth Oh strange that they should not envy any other the honour of being commanded by such a Prince who is the only expedient upon earth to render them and their posterity happy I shall end this by inverting the force of his own conclusion and turning its point upon himself Were this directed to the Spanish or French infantry those Venal souls that understand nothing but pay and plunder these arguments of Pay and keeping themselves from being disbanded would passe their Pikes and be well received but the English Army that have still owned a Publique Spirit where every common man knows how to judge as well as execute will not fail to steer themselves as prudence shall instruct who ever hath conversed with my Author will finde I observe his own phrases and I assure you I am not a little delighted in his style Lastly It is the interest of the Protectors party and the Parliament to call in his King He is in great hast I see his wildefire being nigh spent else he would still have maintained the distance he had been fomenting between these two before which he had twice treated of distinctly and not have joyned them together at last but he cannot part them I will leave them as he hath brought them together to think whether they are so nearly concerned to jump in this Gentlemans judgement as he would have them imagine I have been forced to mispend some time in picquering with small Forces that were ambushed to intercept me but have moved with as much speed as I could securing such passes as might seem of any advantage to the enemy that I might not be surprised in the rear I shall burn no more day light but fall in with him pell mell and as plainly deny what he hath as peremptorily asserted and do say That the calling in the late Kings Son is neither a certain nor yet probable means much lesse the only means for preservation of the Nation and the Rights and Interests thereof I shall think I have well acquitted my self of this undertaking when I have done two things First Evidenced it That the calling in the late Kings Son is directly against the common National interest in several particulars whereby it will also appear to be against the Rights und Interests of most single persons in it Secondly When I have exhibited another expedient that shall do the work For the first The common National Interests for I own no particular interest at variance herewith that I shall mention are such as these First Liberty of conscience It is the common interest of the Nation to be secure that they may without disturbance worship God according to their consciences while they destroy not the Doctrines or life of Christianity and live peaceably in the State this our Author concedes with a greater latitude then I propound it whether in jest or in earnest or between both matters not much saying So all agree in Loyalty though they differ in other matters There is no reason why they should not all be alike dear unto their Prince their differences being of no more consideration then the complexion of Children to their Father The Episcopal party claim this as their right and think it hard usage if at any time they are forbidden publique assemblies upon Christmas day and other good times or are forbidden to read the Common Prayer book in their Churches and really if no body were wiser then I they should have no cause given them to be angry at it so they would neither directly nor indirectly promote Sedition against the Government The Presbyterians would cry out of Oppression if they should be bound to Surplesses and such like Crotchets to read Common Prayer or be Lorded over by Metropolitan Bishops to do reverence to Altars or bow at the name of Jesus to observe Saints Holy-dayes to keep Lent in a word to have any thing imposed on their consciences The Independent must not be confined to his Parish Church or be determined by the judgements of neighbour Churches nor have the liberty of expounding Scripture by a Lay-brother be denied These and some others every one for themselves claim this priviledge of a Free-born man accounting it slavish to be imposed upon in matters of Religion and if I would be indulged my self and hold it my right as a man and a Christian to be at liberty to serve God according to what I know of his Will in his Word Why should we set at naught our Brother Why should we grudge that to him that we claim for our selves That every one claims this as his right and interest is out of doubt yea that they who would deny it to others think themselves wronged to be without it themselves and would dispute it with the hazard of their lives rather then this Liberty should be infringed is evident to every mans experience That hence it is become though no other reason could be assigned for it the common interest of the Nation without which no quietness can be thought of that so many as fear God and are sound in the substantials of Christianity howsoever they may differ in those things that the Scriptures are not so expresse and clear in and in modes and forms of Worship and Discipline that such should be suffered without any discountenance or disturbance is as little to be had in question Whether the calling in the late Kings Son be a probable means for the salving this difficulty is not hard to resolve that his affection if not his interest is so linked with the Episcopal and Romish party as