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hand_n	body_n	head_n	member_n	5,319	5	8.1605	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53582	Eighteene reasons propounded to the soldiers of the body of the Army, why they ought to continue the several adjutators of their respective regiments, troopes, and companies, for the good of the Army, Parliament and Kingdome.	Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.	1647 (1647)	Wing O628A; ESTC R214547	7,602	10

shall streng then the wise man more then ten mighty Princes that are in the Gitty 8. A Millitary Commission doth not conferre wisedome to the Officer but it is properly and purely the gift of God distributed according to his good pleasure Therefore wisedome in their Councell is as probably to be expected from the Soldier as well as from the Officer and so as much ground to continue the one as the other 9. It is against the just Nature and being of any free Councell for any party thereof to usurp over the rest in any wise or to impropriate or incroach to themselves the whole power into their hands to the dispossession or displacing of others 10. It tendeth to the perversion of the Engagement of the Army from generall safety and peace to the private interests factious and sinister designes of some sew 11. The Soldier was not only appearing and active in the foundation prosecution and settlement of the said solemn Engagement when few or none of the Officers either durst not or would not ingage or be seene therein till the worke was even fitted to their hands Therefore not now to be dispowred by the Army or in reason justice or honour to the equity of the said solemne Ingagement to be slighted or disesteemed by the Officer but by all honest and just men to be esteemed instruments to be continued till the accomplishment and perfection of the worke 12. Their assistance agitation and counsell hath hitherto been successefull faithfull wholesome and conducent to the good and safety of the Army prosperous judicious and upright for the peace prosperitie and settlement of the Kingdome honour of the King freedom of Parliament and people Therefore there is no reason for their dissolution before satisfaction and security as aforesaid till they have committed matter of crime worthy thereof 13. Such as shall so attempt their dissolution before any just desert or reason for the same and contrary to the Ingagement it selfe may justly be suspected of some evill intent to their persons or to the Ingagement it selfe or else why should their wholesome advice be dispised or themselves without all desert be cast out of the Counsell For who knowes after they are so ejected and dispossessed of all power that through the change of times and things co-operating with naturall corruption and vanity too subject to places of command and profit those Soldiers who with great wisedome hazzard and difficulty begun and hitherto with prudence and fidelity proceeded in the carriage on of the worke may be cast upon the pikes of distruction and so left to the mercy of their enemies Therefore no Officer or Soldier that is honest and wise and simply and faithfully intends and indeavours the good safety and preservation of the Adjutators the Army and Kingdome will not in any wise except against making sure the safety of the Adjutators whether Officer or Soldier And all the world knowes that there is more probabillity and certainty of their safety while they keep the power or staffe in their own hands till all things be firmly setled and secured for their safety and peace then when they are dispowred and the staffe in the hands of another before the said covenanted satisfaction and security And who knowes what a day may bring forth therefore it is good to make sure of the worst 14. The best pretence may be suspected but where no manner of good is or can be pretended or proposed there evill of necessity must be concluded but there is no manner of good to the Armie to the Adjutators or to the Kingdome pretended or can be pretended or proposed for the dissolution of those faithfull Adjutators For what good can be intended to the Army Adjutators or their solemn Engagement by impairing distroying and dismembring the lively usefull members of the body of this Counsell Therefore evill must needs be intended and concluded in the designe and from whence it comes I leave that to the judgement of the dilligent and wise observator 15. It is a great disparagement and dishonour to those Adjutators that now after the heat of the day and their toylesome and faithfull endurance thereof they should not be esteemed as worthy to continue and helpe to carrie on the worke to a period as well as to undertake and begin or as such as at the beginning thereof either durst not or would not appeare in the undertaking countenance or management of the worke 16. The Soldiers are more knowing of the mind of their severall Regiments Troops and Companies then the general Officers probably can be for they are more conversant free and familiar one with another then with their head Officers and can unto them as unto their Peers and Equalls more freely communicate their minds and deliver the sence of the Countries gathered from their severall quarters all ever the Kingdome So that no sort of people can be more experimentally knowing of the severall oppressions grievances and necessities of the people in generall then themselves Therefore there is as little if not lesse reason to dissolve or devide the Soldier from this Counsell as the Officer therefrom 17. It is a limitation of the wisedome of the Armie which God in a wonderfull manner hath dispersced and conveyed through the Body thereof yea an ablolute stoppage to the inlets and influence thereof upon its Counsells For the Adjutators of the severall Regiments Troops and Companies are as the Cunduit●pipes from the severall parts of the body of the Army or as meet instruments at all times and occasions at all straights and necessities for communication and conveyance of the wisedome thereof for the safety of the Armie the Parliament and Kingdome And on the contrary a contrary effect must be concluded if the whole body of the Army were an eye where were the hearing if the whole were hearing where were the smelling but now in their wise and regular disposall they are many members yet but one body And the eye cannot say unto the hand I have no need of thee nor againe the head to the feet I have no need of you Nay much more those Members of the body which seeme to be more feeble are necessary Therefore I hope it will be the industry of every wise and judicious person that minds the safety of that body and the prevention of Scisme imperfection or lamenesse therein to preserve it intire and safe in all its members accordingly as wherewith all it hath pleased God to indow it 18. The Dissolution of the Adjutators of the severall Regiments Troops and Companies will necessitate and reduce the Armie to a blind ignorant and implicite faith even in that worke wherein their very lives and liberties doth consist and which hath been begun and hitherto continued and must be continued in the name of the Armie which kind of blind course in such a matter wherein most light is required will to the knowing and judicious persons of the Armie be so offensive and burthensome and so fill them with feares and jealousies over those which lead them hood wink'd that they will never be able to beare it neither indeed ought they to beare it the which will be so extreamly dangerous to the unity of the body that nothing but discord heart-burnings repinings distraction and mutiny may justly be expected thereby For persons who have their sight and injoy the light cannot endure to be led as if they were blind over hedge and ditch at the pleasure of their leader or to be made a nose of wax or hurried hither or thither to this or that they know not whether or to what as they must needs be if those their meet instruments of mutuall communication of the mind of the one and proceedings of the other be taken away Lastly All that I shall say to you of the body of the Armie concerning this new enterprize of recalling and suppressing the Adjutators is this Let reason goe before every enterprize and counsell before every action Eccles 37.16 And so I shall referre my reasons and advice to be pondered before you proceed to the action and remaine Your Cordiall friend and servant Richard Overton Newgate August 13. 1647.