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A67666	A vvarning-peece to the Commons, Commissioners, Army ge, nerall [sic], which now sit as judges on His Majesties sacred person, in the behalfe of the whole kingdome. Written by one that feares God, and honors his King, and prayeth for the peace of England	One that feares God, and honors his King.	1649 (1649)	Wing W935F; ESTC R186287	9,424	15

to comply with the Grandees and Parliament drivers to keep them from these just things which now the Army so earnestly doe desire Why and with what face complaine you of us because we being your servants would rule and govern you when as you have been our masters and teachers in the art and accordingly under the pretence and name of Religion Justice and publike good have ridd your Masters the people of this Kingdome not only out of their fat but their flesh and almost off their leggs too And why may not we being so many thousands who have with our blood conquered all rule and reap the sweet as well as 3. or 400. of you have all the while injoyed the benifit of our travailes and hazards dayly raking Offices and heaping up riches to the impoverishing the Kingdome And to you we may add as to the whole people of this Land that as well may we be their rulers as you or any other sorts of the people for while they come to their ancient government let them be assured that they shall be rid one while by one another by another Faction and ever by that which by turnes shall get the power till in a short time all will and must fall into such confusion that we can expect no other rule or government but cutting of throats But if any seriously ask me why may not this State come to be governed by an Aristocracy as well as Venice and some parts of lower Germany I must answer that the question discovers so much ignoranee in Politicall government that it deserves no answer yet in a word who is so ignorant that he knowes not besides the unspeakable danger of new modelling a State as of new altering the temper of an old crazy body that in this the body naturall and civill agree that that diet exercise physick government which preserves the one body may and will destroy the other and that as Suits fit not every body so neither are the tempers and dispositions of all men taught and guided by the same rule and power England within these 8. last yeares past hath payed deare for the learning her Latine tongue as Delinquent Malignant Sequester Secure Compound and I dare say two or three Greek words shal be more worth to it then all those and the like if they will understand and follow these which is no more then Homer read long ago 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 each State a rule and Government must have which the many destroy while the one doth save or if you beleeve not reason and truth because it comes from a Poet yet heare and beleeve God which is truth it selfe and who can neither deceive nor be deceived and he tells you Prov. 28.2 For the trangressions of a land many are the Princes thereof but by a man of understanding and knowledge the State shall be prolonged In a word O ye Commons nor murmure nor complain any longer against us for ruling you and the rest for God hath spoken it and it shall come to passe with what judgement ye judge ye shall be judged Math. 7. 2. And with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again and Rom. 2.2 We are sure saith S. Paul That the judgement of God is according to truth to them which commit such things and v. 3. thinkest thou that doest such things that thou shalt escape the judgement of God But of all others ô ye Lords who are least to be pittied why and with what face complain ye of the Army for taking away your negative Voices in the upper House when as you who vote only for your selves yet after that at two severall times ye had voted and so sent it down to the House of Commons that ye could not with justice and honour remove the Bishops out of the Lords House yet after with injustice and dishonour ye voted them forth and from that House which was their proper free-hold by the just and lawfull prescription or above 8000. yeares to the third part of which time no Peer now in England can pretend and who sate and voted there not for themselves alone but for God the Church and as the Representative of all the Churchmen in England 2. Why and with what face complain ye of the Army for endeavouring to subject you to the Lawes of the Land equally with other Subjects who have been the principall Authors and Actors in destroying both the Lawes and the freedoms of all the Subjects in England 3. Why and with what face complain ye of this Army as Rebellious when as you your selves so lately in a storme or rather stroken with a Pannique feare like your selves that is like valiant Lords run away from a few boyes unarm'd and fled to this Army for help as to your Tutelar God 4. Why and with what face can ye complain of the Army for levelling you with other free-borne Subjects and bringing you down to the Commons when most of you have neither so much honesty nor true honour as most of the ordinary Gentlemen in England have no nor yet can plead anything of worth in your selves for sitting there in that high place more then either purchase of titular honour for money or Royall favour to some of your entituled Predecessors to whose vertues notwithstanding ye are as little of kin as perchance ye are rightly if all were known to their blood 5. Why and with what face complain ye of the Army for censuring and sentencing you who suffered the Commons to censure and sentence your own Members contrary to the Priviledges of your House and the Lawes of this Kingdome Heare the righteous Judge of all the world speak With what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged Math. 7.2 And with what measure ye mete it shal be measured to you again For it is written vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord. Rom. 12.19 And yet O ye Lords Commons and City why stand ye as men affrighted at our Remonstrances and Declarations know rather that though we are and would be accounted just and righteous yet we may and will act according to reason and prudence with which God hath inriched us above other sinners And therefore be assured that if ye shall repent and turne unto us and go our waies which are the waies of our Lord God we likewise will repent and turne and be mercifull unto you we will receive you into our favour and with us ye shall eat the good things of the land and be satisfied plentifully therewith But and if ye shall not speedily returne and joyne with us and to be commanded by us into whose hands the Lord of Hosts hath delivered you and all yours then know for a certain that what ever we have denounced shall come to passe that is you shall be scattred among the People and shall be devoured by wild beasts the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it But O Army least that I seem partiall in pleading

your cause against the Lords Commons and City making their crimes and errors as it were a cloke for your enormities and misdoings give me leave to speak and to propound a question to you or two to you in the name and behalf of the Lords Commons and City For if you truly be as you pretend to be the rod and sword of God appointed to reward and punish ungodly and unjust offenders yet boast not your self neither say in your prosperity you shall not be moved your mountain is made so strong or that because these are sinners and transgressors whom you have judged and condemned that therefore you are inexcusable and clear from all unrighteousnesse for know that God who breaketh the bow and cutteth the speare in sunder and casts the rod of his anger into the fire when they have fulfilled his will can and will do the like to you unlesse you have good evidence and warrant irom Gods revealed Will for what you have or shall intend to do or if your designes or actions have any other biassed ends or selfe-interests besides Gods glory and the publike good And whether these things be so let me interrogate you Why and with what face can you complaine of the late Treaty the Movers thereof and the Propositions therein who your selves so lately did Court the Royall party and wooe the King to a peace and pardon by the tender of more advantagious Proposalls on his behalfe and his friends then were offered in the Treaty 2. Why and with what face can you so suddenly call for fire from heaven to destroy such and such Delinquents whenas in your former Declarations and Remonstrances you professed and rightly the contrary way to be most agreeable both to Gods Word and humane prudence 3. Why and with what face can you so suddenly cashiere the Lords and levell them who so lately professed the maintenance of them in all their Priviledges and Honors 4. Why and with what face can you who have swerue to maintaine and defend the Lawes of this Kingdome dare now not only in your own persons and places to act but to professe against all those Lawes and to hold nothing binding but your owne will and desires or the desires and wills of such of your own Party whom alone you stile the godly honest well-affected 5. Lastly can you think that if self-love pride or ignorant zeal have so blinded your eyes that you cannot see your selves nor discover your own hearts that therefore neither other men no nor God himself doth espie and abhorre all hypocriticall and abominable wayes Be not deceived nor think that you can long blind and deceive the world with vaine pretences and windie words of Godlinesse Justice Righteousnesse for God wil not thus be mocked no nor man will ever be thus fooled cheated rather fore-see feare and prevent the just judgement of God who doth and will in his time repay both in weight and measure for Vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord who is the Lord of Hosts Rom. 12.19 and therefore can do it as he hath done to an Army which twenty times exceeds yours And that you may stop the mouthes of those that murmure and repine at your Power Greatnesse and that you may in part redeem or satisfie for what you have trespassed upon and wronged your Countreymen suffer a word of exhortation as from the whole Kingdome of England We confesse you have propounded 12 Herculean Labors and how we affect or rellish them you may ghesse by some hints or glances in the preceding passages but above the rest that one for the abridging Englishing and regulating the superfluities defects and abuses of our Law as now in use we so farre approve and commend that we wish our Votes and desires might be sent up with yours viz. 1. That we conceive the present Common Law now in practise to be little more then as you tearm it an hair-loome of the Norman Conquest 2. That contrary to the Lawes of all best ana●●●●●st Nations our Law is a dis-joynted scattered confused thing or a thing like a Taylors Cushion so patched together out of many pieces and that without all or any authoritie given thereunto that it looks more like the new Serjeants Coats or a motley Cloak-bag then the Law of a wise and great People 3. That this Law all or the most part of it is written in an unknowne Pedlar-like Language which edifieth not the poore Subject though it benefiteth the Lawyer 4. That the Law as now used may have that word given it which was written on the head of the woman Revel 17.5 Mysterie and such as worketh 2 Thess 2.10 with all deceivablenesse of unrighteousnesse 5. That many Lawyers but especially Pett●-foggers and Officers may truly speaks to their shame though to their owne gaine as Demetrius the Silver saith did Act. 19.25 By this Craft we have our wealth We therefore desire you will in the Kingdomes name and behalfe earnestly petition presse the two Houses in Parliament to pick and chuse through England such as may be rightly judged fit instruments for this service that these may si●t all the severall Laws thereby to cast by the chaffe and retain heap up the known good grain of the Law Which when they have finished let it be commended to the consideration and Vote of the Parliament thereby to make it a sure binding Law And to the effecting this we dare say that ye shall have the Votes thanks and prayers of all the people in this Kingdome nemine contradicente no one gainsaying the justice equitie generall benefit thereof except only the Silver-smiths which work for Diana and such as live by the subjects losse feed fat upon foule corrupt matter But lest our good intentions and just desires may be mif-construed give us leave to adde for a Close of this Exhortation or Declaration what S. Paul spoke of the Mosaical Law 1 Tim. 1.8 that we may truly say of our English Law when once it shal be regulated qualified We know that the Law is good if a man use it lawfully And we acknowledg that the grave Sages good Students in the Law if they use it accordingly deserve both honor reward We speak not therfore against these or the like but being you desire a through reformation of all or most of the greatest abuses in this Kingdome we wish that all ignorant Petti-foggers base Hucksters greedie exacting Officers about the Law may either be utterly removed or reformed And when you shal bring to passe this just proposall we dare confidently say you wil prove your selves greater Conquerors in subduing this many-headed subtill strong Hydra then in overcomming your open enemies And lastly this Conquest will certainly eternize your names cause them to be written or remembred by all generations to come for an act of the greatest justice and most publike benefit O Armie urge presse and prosecute this