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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

hand Oh my soul enter not thou into their secrets nor let any honest man say a confederacy with them let them associate themselves they shall be broken to pieces God will finde them out in due time I beseech you what do you mean are ye Christians and yet will not be men to passe by all former Obligations did you not the other day bewail your Apostasie that you had wandred from your GOOD OLD CAUSE did you not tell us You took shame to your selves and remembred from whence you were fallen and repented and would do your first workes and therefore finding that God blessed you all along till you forced the Long Parliament but after that made you labour as in the fire and no good came of all your after actions therefore you assured them that now they should sit freely and you would strengthen their hands and be their servants Is not all this truth in these very words or to this effect and much more if I had leasure to repeat but it is fresh in every bodies mouths and mindes though you have forgot it and are you not past shame now must we bewail your Apostasie now as fearing since you are fallen away after being enlightened it will be hard to restore you again by repentance especially since ye have tasted of the powers of this world But besides this did you not every Mothers childe of you Officers did you not take your Commissions from the Parliament and one by one promise your obedience Yes that most faithful and gifted Brother Collonel Packer promised when he received his Commission at Mr. Speakers hands That he would not only promise them to be faithful and obedient but they should see by his actions that he would be a true servant to them and the Common-wealth Yea Lambert himself was the greatest stickler for the Parliament God forgive him for what ends I know not and yet these men Act like as they had given the Parliament Commissions and turn them out whom they just now promised so seriously to obey a Tu●k a Heathen would have scorned this falshood and baseness What not be faithful to our trust O faithlesse and perverse generation Add to this that flattering and insinuating Petition and Representation but the other day wherein they so sadly bemoan themselves that the Parliament should so sharpely rebuke their humble servants their faithful servants that meant nothing but to Petition in a peaceable manner where they artificially conceal their int●ntions for a General only desire that Fleetwoods Commission may be renewed other things they Petition for we understand what your Petitioning signifies some to insinuate into the favour of the Militia others to secure the Government of the Nation in the hands of the Officers of the Army it is so in the effect and then most Saint-like promise all to be well-meaning men to be Servants to the Parliament and the most sweet expressions imaginable But we have tryed them that say they are Saints they are the faithfull Servants of the Common-wealth but are not and have found them Lyars Who Lambert put the Northern Brigade to petition for a Generall no such matter he perswaded them good man all he could against it yes I 'le warrant you And yet the Fift Monarchy-men the Mad ones of them think now Christs Kingdome goes on amain and flock down in Shoals to Wallingford-house to make way for Christs coming who may be coming for ought that I know as he saith When the Son of Man comes shall he finde faith upon the earth Upon my word these were fit to live and reign with Christ a thousand years who cannot keep Faith an hundred dayes Let me say with the Psalmist Help Lord for the Godly man ceaseth for the faithfull fail among the Children of men they speak vanity every one with his neighbour with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak 'T is a most senselesse ridiculous and insignificant action you pleasure your Enemies and make your selves and us the whole Nation a scorn a derision and a Proverb in the earth In the beginning of this book I have been dealing with a Malignant Impostor whose whole busin●sse was nothing else but to make you break the Parliament to serve his designs for I tell you they fear their Wisdome more then your power Are the Cavaliers your friends are ye bewitched to believe them and to slight your old true friends I thought I had not needed to say much in the beginning of the Book to answer that treacherous Cavalier I thought it was enough to tell you whose was the plot to perswade you to break the Parliament But before I could bring my Book to light ye are cheated into a belief of his Imposture Ah me are ye not proud of your wisdome Whose is this Invention who put you upon this exploit Oh sad Will you please your enemies and grieve your friends Know him or them that put you upon this grosse piece of folly and avoid them We that put you upon calling back this Parliament and encouraged you in the day of your straights and told every body we met how honest the Army would be now they understood themselves that they would standby the Parliament while they did settle the Nation upon the foundations of righteousnesse and truth We even we are laughed to scord and I must speak to you in the words of Joab Ye have shamed this day the faces of all your servants that have saved your lives that have saved your credits which should be as dear as life and that have appeared for you in the day of your distresse in that you love your Enemies and hate your friends for you have declared this day that you regard neither Princes nor Servants for this day I perceive that it pleaseth you well though all we dye so Absalom live We know not how to look any body in the face though we thought we had done well when we appeared for you against your enemies But every one of us get away by stealth as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in Battell Not only so but you have made your selves the most absolute Changelings in the world It is a Proverb beyond Seas to expresse any Uncertainty thus As certain as England Our Agent Lockhart is laughed at when he comes to treat with the Spanish Favourite What a peace with you who are your Masters you have as many Masters at Moons Goe make peace among your selves and then talk of peace with us Ambassadors here in England know not who to make their Addresses to and have said What shall we treat we know not who to trust to You will have new Masters within this Six Weeks and then we must begin again This is greatly for your honour 't is your interposing hath begot all these changes still as we have been setling you have broken us to pieces this is all your wit you mend the matters wisely if we will have any

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