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law_n	king_n	power_n	prince_n	14,123	5	5.8563	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81548	The dispersed vnited: or, Twelve healing qvestions propounded to persons of ingenious principles and tempers. Tending to stop the mouth of frowardness, scandals, and reproaches cast upon those that submitted unto and acted under the several governments and governours (propter commune bonum) that have been exercised over this Commonwealth, since the interruption of this present Parliament on the 20th of April, 1653. By a friend to friends of the civill [sic] and religious interest of all good men.		1659 (1659)	Wing D1674; Thomason E986_17*; ESTC R207793	5,424	8

ill affected persons waiting for commotions tumults and insurrections upon such changes of the chief Governour as also for the discouragement of the known enemy in forreign parts in Flanders and else where full of expectations of risings of the people at that time c. Whether I say the said persons might not make their said Addresses for the said honest and publick ends with an ingenious retention of their first principles of reall affection unto that cause wherein they engaged themselves at first with the present Parliament And whether having no hand in their interruption nor approving thereof their said Addresses can rationally argue against their most cordial rejoycing at the return of the present Parliament unto the free exercise of their authority and the finishing the work of a happy Reformation that lies upon their hands And whether that the undue reflections unchristian scoffs cast upon the said persons for their said Addresses do not argue rather the ventosity of their brains and the vanity of their minds than the so●idity of their judgments and the becoming gravity of their Spirits and behaviour that use the the same IX Whether the present Parliament indulging those of the Army upon their acknowledgment of their misprisions mistakes and misdoings in interrupting them on the 20th of April 1653. and in their setting up or at least assisting aiding defending and securing them that have set up other Governments and Governours since that time have not much more reason to indulge those that had no hand at all in their said interruption did never justify or own the same were heartily afflicted at it did onely submit unto and act under the said Governments and Governours since that time for publick peace sake And whether such indulgence countenance and favour unto their old friends renued and continued may not be a very good pledge unto the said Army that there is a true and real oblivion of their said interrupting them But c. X. Whether that even the present Parliament Army with all the distributed divided subdivided parties Peresbyterians Independants Anabaptists and others that at first made one single party united together against the common enemy have not had their mistakes miscarriages weaknesses and infirmities Whether they have not sometimes been in the dark and walked in untroden paths and sometimes stumbled and fallen therein Yea whether in some ca●es or other they have not made some detection or other little or much from that good cause wherein they were ingaged at first and if so whether it be not Christian Policy as well as true Piety to bear one anothers burthens to be tender-hea●ted towards one another to consider of one anothers temptations and snares and with the Spirit of love meekness compassion to endeavour to reduce one another to that primitive zeal and unity in the common cause against the common enemy wherein they were all ingaged to take heed of devouring one another lest they be d●voured one of another of the common enemy that would devour them all That sithence God is judge who pulleth down one setteth up another builds throws down kills makes alive scatters in his displeasure gathers together ag●in in his favour sithence he judgeth men for their sins and then in judgment remembers mercy whether these things considered Piety and Policy Religion Reason do not invite them all to fear and tremble before God not to snatch at advantages one against another but to imitate their Heavenly Father who passing by the infirmities of his people endeavours hy mercy kindness and goodness to gather them up unto himse●f and to make them all one in him If every of them that hath been faulty should be ●●oned to death which of them could live but if onely the innocent amongst them should cast the first stone at the guilty which of them could be hurt XI Whether that the appearance of this Parliament again at Westminster in the 7th year after their seeming dissolution death and burial be not Gods work and his strange work his Act and his strange Act beyond the wisdome of the wise and the understanding of the prudent that Sarah should give suck and the barren bring forth that Nebuchadnezzar driven from his Kingdom turn'd a grazing for 7 years together should again be restored to his Dominion Power Majesty that the rejected stones shoul● be made the chief corner stones are not these things the Lords doing and marvellous in our eyes And is not this a Vision of fear dread terrour unto the old adverse party like the coming of the Ark of God among the Philistines causing them to say Wo unto us for there hath not been such a thing heretofore wo unto us who shall deliver vs ou● of their hands these are they that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the Wilderness do not their faces gather blackness and their countenances look pale do not their hands hang down their joynts wax feeble th●ir knees knock together and their hearts sink like stones dye and fall within them Are not their hopes like the Spiders web and the giving up of the Ghost Can any thing imagin●ble be an anchor of hope unto them to quiet their troubled minds in this day of their fear except it be the divisions of their adversaries amongst themselves were they united who could hurt them but if continually divided how can they stand when one party shall divide into many and spend their respective opportunities powers and advantages to suppresse and weaken one another will not this in time prove ruinous unto them all if these prove goads in the sides and thorns in the eyes one of another in matters Civil or Religious if the Praelatical Presbyterian the Presbyterian Independent the Independent Anabaptist or any others shall assume unto themselves the s●irit of infallability in matters disputable branding others differing from them with the odious names of Schismaticks hereticks c. and not onely throw the fire-balls and thunder-holts of excommunication against one another but incense and stir up the Civill Magistrate for their imprisonment corporal punishment banishment or death because of these differences if upon advantages and opportunities some of the same party get up into th● Seat of Civil Government and cast down others as cordial to the old well-affected party and publick interest as themselves shall gore one another with the horns of their power and greatnesse will not this prove destructive at last unto them all XII Whether the great ends of Government publick peace and liberty the Civil and Religious Rights of the People be not more to be regarded then the forms thereof whether by Kings Protectors Parliaments or others And did not all the Vows Covenants Engagements Prote●●ations and Oaths made unto Kings Protectors Parli●ments pretend un●o these ends and not unto the Persons Powers and Places of any of these but with reference hereunto what are any or all those unto the people but for the sake of their peace and liberty when greatness of place power and authority make men forget themselves and the ends of their advancements which is no new thing under the Sun when because they are above every one therefore they judge themselves above all and unto the foresaid ends they prove Physitians of no value but when the people look for peace no good comes for a time of healing and behold nothing but trouble their yoaks are still made heavy rods whips and Scorpions are still upon their backs and that without remedy will they not argue in this case let it respect Kings Protectors Parliaments or whomsoever else all 's one as the Israelites against Rehoboam What portion have we in David or inheritance in the son of Jesse To your Tents O Israel and let David see to his own house And although it is sad and dangerous that instead of Crowns and Scepters the People should be under the power of Swords and Pistols and instead of Kings and Princes Servants should bear rule yet is Protection by the sword more desirable than destruction by a Law safety by a Servant than ruine by Lords and Masters Can the Parliament be safe except under God by the protection of the Army Can the Army regularly legally and honourably secure themselvs and friends but by the authority of the Parliament Hath not either need of the other for the good of both and their whole party If henceforth this Parl. and Army be knit together like David and Jonathan if each be friends to each others friends adversaries to each others adversaries if each be to other as their own soul resolving as friends to stick closer to each other then brothers will not their adversaries melt like snails before them their hearts fail them the stout-hearted amongst them be discouraged their men of might be weak as water and all their late great boastings and expectations pine away and come to nothing in The End