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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79850	Hyporites [sic] unmasked, or, The hypocrisie of the new usurpers discovered, and their often saying, God set it on their hearts; in a few questions propounded to the inferiour officers and souldiers of the Army, whom some do now indeavour to seduce from their obedience to their masters the Parliament. Wherein the Parliament, and their General Monck are vindicated, from the aspersions cast upon them by their enemies: in which General Monck is proved to have been alwaies true to his trust, and that he hath no design to set up the King or his interest. Propounded by a lover of his countrey, and a sufferer for the good old cause.	Clarges, Thomas, Sir, d. 1695.	1674 (1674)	Wing C4429A; Thomason E1005_18	5,424	8

of the Army subject to them as if it were a crime to expect subjection from their hired Servants Whether the Officers of the Army viz those lately Cashired and their accomplices calling all their Papers the Papers of the Army and presuming the whole Soldiery of the three Nations to be engaged in all their Ambitious Actions and quarrells doth not plainly declare that the said great Officers account the inferior Officers and Soldiers to be their menial Servants Lackeys and Gromes to whom they give Housing Food and Cloathing whereby they are oblig'd implicitly to espouse all their Lords and Masters quarrells as the manner of Servants is to do right or wrong And whether these great Officers thus thinking do not abuse themselves and their Brethren the inferior Officers and Soldiers who are only Servants to the Common-wealth and their Parliament from whom they have their Pay and from whom they may expect lawfull preferment Whether it is not a thing Incongreuous to say and scarce Imaginable to think that Gen. Monck should bring in the King or be for his Interest as some would maliciously Insinuate seeing he hath alwayes as well as now been true to the trust Committed to him and never was so forward to set up a Single Person as these men which have now Interrupted the Parliament in Octob. 12 59. who were the men which contrary to all Vowes Covenants Promises and Ingagements did set up the late Tyrant Oliver Cromwell and his Son Richard And whether Gen. Monck hath not given a sufficient testimony to all the World that he is against the Kings Interest for when Sir George Booths party was up he caused all the Lords and great men in Scotland to take an Oath not to stir for or in the behalf of the King and hath now againe Ingaged them to stand by the Parliament And is it not great Folly and Madness to think that these nine men which were once Officers of the Army and their Confederates who have now violently thrust out the Parliament should reforme our Lawes and take away Tithes or do us any good who have already laid violent hands upon that fundamentall Law which of all other is the most ease and greatest security to the people that is to say the Act againe asserted or made by this Parliament Octob. 11th 59. viz that no money should be Levied but by consent in Parliament which indeed is not a new Law but that old Fundamentall Law which all our Parliaments have asserted and the late King in the Petition of Right confirmed and all our Fore-Fathers have challenged it as their Indubetable Right that no money should be Levied on them upon any pretence whatsoever without consent in Parliament by which Law and by no other meanes our Estates are secured from all Tyrants And no King or Single Person though the greatest Tyrant that ever was set over us durst presume to violate that old standing Law and hence it was that Cromwell though he and his Confederates were in their hearts against Parliaments yet they was fain to call pretended Parliaments to get them money of the people and indeed riches were an Intollerable burthen if the Possessors were not the Master thereof and allow any in supream Authority but the Power or Right to take a penny without consent in Parliament and they may if they please take a pound and by the same rule ten pounds so all that any man hath and the people have no way to releive themselves but by the Sword of Military Justice But had these nine men which the Parliament voted out of Commission and these their Confederates that are in Commission still in the Army power to Abollish Lawes and a mind to do the people any good they would first have Abollished those Lawes which were grievous to the people the Law by which the Lords of Manners vex the poor people of England and the Law for Excise and new Impost and such other Lawes by which the Persons and Estates of men are prejudiced but instead of so doing they have pretended to Abolish and have declared that Law voyd by which the peoples purs is eased and there Estates secured from being at the Wills of Usurpers Oh blind Souls which cannot see that these men do but flatter us with good words and fair promises of good things and in the mean time they do us all the evil they can But one thing is very observable in these men when they declare against our good Lawes they are peremptory but when they talk of doing us good then its doubtfull whether they can or not and therefore they tell they will do their indeavour to reform the Law suppose they should presume to give Lawes that might seem good yet should we accept of any thing at their hands we should therein make our selves slaves for ever Some say that if we receive any thing of the Devil though it be but the worth of a pin we make our selves his slaves forever Whether that be true or not yet I am sure if we should receive any Lawes of these men or own them for our Masters once we should therein make our selves slaves to them for ever Whether the Warr with the King and the contest which the Parliament had with Sir George Booth and his party was upon any other account then this that they denyed the Parliament to be the Supreame Authority of the Nation and that the Parliament only had the dispose of the Militia and of the Purss of the Nation and that none had power to make or Abolish Lawes but the Supreame Authority of the Nation viz the Parliament In all which Wars these men and their Confederates served the Parliament in Asserting these things And do they not now stand condemned in their own Consciences whilst they do the contraty things According to that of the Apostle Rom. 2.1 therefore you are In-excusable O men which have fought against the King and his party Sr. George Booth and his party and yet do the same things your selves dare you slay thousands sire Townes destroy Familyes and all to assert the Parliaments power to despose of the Militia and to make and Abolish Lawes and da●e you now fight against the Parliament sure the Judgment of God according to truth is against you which commit such things Rom. 2.2 but I know you are Scripture proof who have forsoken the Laws of God and Reason Nature and Nations and follow the sudden rash figments of your own brains and call it the leadings of Gods providence because you had not half an hours time to consider and resolve upon the Treason and rebellion committed against the Parliament Oct. 13.59 as if Traytors and Rebels were the more to be commended because they do their business quickly See your Letter Oct. 29. to General Monk and the Officers in Scotland 2. Papraph 3.4 Laines Whether it 's not great madness and folly to believe the promises of these men now whose present actions are contrary to all the Promises Engagements Oaths and Declarations that ever they made in their lives yea contrary to the Solemn Promises made when they received their Commissions of the Parliament Whether its safe for the Commissioners of the Fxcise or Custom or any Treasures of the Nation to part with any mony to Lambert and his party seeing all men know they have not power to demand a penny or authority to command on man their Commissions being taken away by Authority of Parliament yea by the same authority of Parliament which gave them and all other men the Authority by which they act as servants of the Common-wealth Good people keep your Money and then no body will care for or strive to be Lords over you Whether such Commissioners of Excise and Custom will not be in as much danger as Packer and the rest of them that were partys in that conspiracy and to suffer as Rebels and Traytors or at least to repay the mony out of their own Estates again which they pay at their command Why the Queries signed by VVill. Clark Secretary and the other Papers as the Declarations and Letters from Gen. Monck may not be seen and understood by the honest people in the City that if they be good we may adhere unto them if bad we may bear our Testimony against them And whether the Lieutenant of the Tower will not fall under the same condemnation of high Treason if he shal furnish them with Arms and Amunition Thus have we discovered by these Queries the spirit of the men of this age who have presumed to put the examples of heathen Souldiers in rebellion And yet pretend to be Christians in Religion FINIS