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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01770	The humble advice and earnest desires of certain well-affected ministers, lecturers of Banbury in the county of Oxon, and of Brackly in the county of Northampton, to his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, General of the forces raised by the authority of Parliament; and to the General Councell of Warre: / Presented Januray 25. 1649, by two of the subscribers. Also, a letter to the reverend ministers of the Gospel within the province of London, dated the 21 of this instant January.	Breedon, Zachariah.; Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4341AA; ESTC R175578	5,583	12

The Humble Advice AND EARNEST DESIRES Of certain well-affected MINISTERS LECTURERS of BANBVRY in the County of Oxen and of BRACKLY in the County of Northampton To his Excellency THOMAS Lord FAIRFAX General of the Forces raised by the Authority of PARLIAMENT and to the General Councell of WARRE Presented January 25. 1649 by two of the Subscribers ALSO A LETTER to the Reverend Ministers of the Gospel wi●hin the Province of London Dated the 21 of this instant January Imprimatur James Crauford Jan. 25. 1649. LONDON Printed for James Boler at the Mary-gold in Fleet-street 1649. To his Excellency the Lord Generall FAIRFAX and his General Councel of WARRE The humble Advice and earnest Desires of certain wel-affected Ministers Lecturers of Banbury and Brackley MAy it please your Excellency and You Honoured Gentlemen Whereas by the blessing of God upon your unwearied endeavours subduing the common enemy more then once we were in a fair way of being restored to a long desired enjoyment of our Religion in purity our Persons and Estates in freedom we accept at all times and this day acknowledg it with great thankfulnesse Neverthelesse when we compare the sacred and solemn Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy by Statute Law the Protestation and Nationall Covenant by authority of both Houses of Parliament obliging us to the Reformation of Religion preservation of his Majesties Person and just Power the defence of the Priviledges of Parliament and Liberties of the Subject tendered unto prest upon and all or most taken by us and so considerable a part of this Kingdom Together with some late Petitions Declarations and Representations to your Excellency and the Generall Councel of War and your late Remonstrance to the Commons of England assembled in Parliament and some proceedings thereupon both in relation to his Majestie and severall Members of Parliament And withall our own Station and Commission from God to be Watchmen and Seers to his people to stand upon our Watch-tower and give warning either of approaching sin or ruine to the Nation We cannot without wounding our own consciences and betraying the trust reposed in us sit down in silence but are constrained with all due respects to your Excellency and your Councell and we hope without the least offence to represent and desire as followeth First In reference to his Majestie That although we are not ignorant of nor can in the least approve the profanation and abuse of our solemn Covenant by the late unlawfull Ingagement from Scotland yet we cannot but represent to you and manifest to the world our utter dissent from all proceedings against his Majesties Crown and Life and that upon these ensuing grounds of Conscience and Prudence 1. The sacred Scripture the onely unerring rule for all undertakings neither by precept or precedent or other way doth warrant or countenance such actings of Subjects against their lawfull Soveraign But this remaineth upon divine Record That when the ten Tribes forsook their King they also forsook their God and had neither a good King nor scarce a good day afterwards And our own Chronicles do sadly tell us of a Deluge of bloud and calamities overflowing our Ancestours upon the Deposition of Edward the Second and Richard the Second both Kings of England 2. Our Law-books as we are informed by Parliament Declarations and as hath been lately acknowledged by your Remonstrance suppose the King can do no wrong If so then as wee conceive hee cannot by any written Law forfeit his Crown and Life to his people 3. We have solemnly bound our selves by Oaths and Covenant from which no Authority on earth can absolve us not to prejudice the Person nor diminish the just Authority of the King and therefore without manifest perjury as we conceive we cannot consent either to the Deposition of his Majesty or the deprivation of his life And here we humbly present to your most serious consideration Gods remarkable avenge upon the House of Saul of the breach of Covenant made by Joshuah with the Gibeonites some hundreds of yeers before and that although the Scriptures tell us hee did it out of his zeal to the House of Israel and Judah Fourthly The way of proceeding against his Majestie will be so far from speeding a Settlement that we beleeve it will unvaoydably tend to the scandal and hazard of Religion and losse of Liberty 1. In the judgement of our enemies This will be thought to verifie those foul aspersions so often abjured by the Parliament us and other their friends that the designe in our late just Defence was the ruine of his Majesty and the subversion of Regal Government 2. It will hazard Religion by rendring the Professors of it odious to the Common Enemy without by shaking the foundation of our Union with Scotland and by making an irreparable breach amongst men of the same pious and honest interest at Home 3. As for Liberty so much contended for it cannot be denied but it must be an invitation to forraign Princes to invade us their interest being the same And the rather considering the German-Peace so lately concluded by means whereof they cannot but be supplyed with Armies of Mercinaries that gape after such an opportunity But principally we fear this may give Life to the present design now on foot in Ireland which your and our Souls abhor for the utter ruine of our Friends there and speedy invading of this Kingdom And finally that this may tend to a perpetual engagement of the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland in blood all being so deeply interessed in the person of the King and that inevitably because the Prince of Wales the Heir apparent to the Crowns of all the three Kingdoms is now at liberty and may probably be proclaimed and crowned in Scotland and Ireland and so not likely to want power to seat him on his Fathers Throne here in England yea and that possibly without Conditions to the utter ruine of all that have adhered to the Parliament Fifthly whereas it is said That by his Majesties departing from his Parliament setting up his Standard and levying War against his People they are absolved from their allegiance to him notwithstanding the Oaths before mentioned We well remember that those Oaths together with the Covenant have been Constantly prest upon several Members of the Parliament and other Subjects in this Kingdom to the Time of the Late Treaty if not since and that notwithstrnding the aforesaid particulars now charged against his Majesty and therefore must needs be either vain and so a High prophanation of the dreadfull name of God or else obligatory And were they not so judged we know no convincing reason why they should be now suspended or abolished As to the execution of Justice upon Delinquents covenanted for we protest that the Dethroning or death of his Majesty in prosecution of Justice never entered into our hearts The same Covenant making speciall provision for the preservation of his Majesties Person Honor and Authority Sixthly