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30. Tyrants of Athens the Decemviri in Rome you have felt their hands enough already and will feel them again more to purpose if you let them sit who will call for any mans life and estate at their pleasures or displeasures whose Pride and power is to treasure up unrighteous Mammon against the Day of Wrath Their right to sit is nothing but force and violence a Monster in nature and a company of Theeves on the High way calling a Councel in a Wood and inlarging their unjust power by a Confederacy have as much right to sit in Councel as these unsatiable Usurpers and may give themselves the name of Parliament as well as these but all pious and truly affected to their country hope these will prove a Fleeting Parliament as Fleetwoods Mock Parliament The pact persons of the Councel of War with the old conspiring Members of the kingdoms miseries being all Conspiratots in this misery for the nation against Truth and Justice That Parliament of which these were unruly and excremental Members was absolutely dissolved by three waies the force and violence upon the House of Commons by expelling and imprisoning their Members and then the utter expulsion and extirpation of the rest by Cromwel and his Conspirators many now sitting being part of them which made that house sine Die● and then the force and violence upon the House of Lords after adjournment to a Day the meeting of the Lords and their Speaker being prevented by the Souldiers guarding the House who writ upon it This House is to be Let made it also sine Die a natural dissolution But the chief and main reason was the Kings death a most absolute dissolution who called them by his Writ to consult with him and where his Soul now is it is feared many of them wil never come without great unfeigned Repentance A Parliament is the great and free Councel of the kingdom not called as this Juncto is by the Speakers or other persons giving notice to one another for their meeting but lawfully and freely called and chosen for the making and mending of Laws for the subjects good whereby they may have protection and security consisting of King Lords and Commons whereunto the subject may have address for his Grievances and redress of the same fully confirmed by Act of Parliament of King Lords and Commons the great security of the kingdom And if the Judges and Ministers of the Laws do not their Duties they are loyable to legal judgements and sentences according to the dismerrit of their offences And England will never be happy without these Parliaments in Freedome but otherwise most miserable as at this time you feel by experience And while that long Parliament called by the King in Anno 1648. kept its integrety and sincerity God blessed it but when it was cruel to its fellow Members and unjustly intruded upon the King and kingdoms Rights after full satisfaction given by his Majesty as the Bill passed for taking away the Star Chamber Court and other offensive Courts in the kingdom Bishops out of the Lords House and after that passed a Bill for a Triannual Parliament and whatsoever else was for the kingdoms good and offered the Parliament after wards only to treat with the Synod of Divines himself or else for his Majesty to chuse 20 Divines to sit amongst them for the settlement of the Discipline of the Church as by his message of the 20. of May which 20. persons could not overvote 120. or more But by the Guilt and Ambition of some of the Parliament Members when that Parliament made it self a Court to tyrannize over its fellow subjects their lives liberties and estates and accumulate the wealth and treasure of the kingdom to its self ●nd Pentioners to ●…vel and their ●…ittee-men God ●…t low and con●…ble in the eyes of ●…ple and at last ●…wn Members and its mercinary Members to turn one another out of the House and will ye serve the scum and offile of that Parliament that create themselves a name and power without Law Right and Justice whereby to murther your persons consume your estates and give you nothing but changes and uncertainties for security and settlement O England England repent repent of all thy Perjury and breach of Faith with God and Man of the breach of thy Allegiance thou hast sworn to thy lawfull King and his Heyors after him sworn unto and declared to the whole World by the Members of that Parliament and by these now sitting at Westminster and all the other several Oaths Vows Covenants Protestations and Declarations in order thereunto for the honour and happiness of the King and kingdom That you will with your Estates and Lives mutually preserve the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and Liberties of the kingdom and Preserve and Defend his Majesties Person and Authority that the World may bear witness with your Consciences of your Loyalty that you had no thoughts nor intentions to diminish his Majesties just Power and Greatness O England England Repent Repent of all the multiplication of Illegal Oaths and Engagements thou hast taken and never take any Illegal Oath more although it seem never so religious but such as are confirmed by King and Parliament the wholesom and only lawfull constitution of the kingdom you feel the event of illegal oaths well enough And London the great Metropolis of the kingdom sell not your estates liberties lives and consciences as you do your wares and goods you have done too much already and make not your selves abominable to all succeeding generations you could fight well enough to bring your selves into slavery but not to free your selves out of it the time was when you had the prize in your hand and may yet if ye will put on wisedom and courage to redeem your honors and your selves from slavery and preserve the rights and priviledges of Parliaments and restore the King upon the principles of honor and justice and for your own and the kingdomes liberties and security you had those which stood in the gap for you who thirsted to have hazarded their lives for your redemption and their King and Country But you suffered your selves to be cheated and betrayed into a Treaty by two or three of your Aldermen and some others Citizens and Ministers who were Cromwels Factors and betraied you as Iudas did Christ or like Synon who brought in the Grecian horse into Troy when the power of the whole Army was not one quarter equivolent to the power and strength of the City whereas if you would have defended your own and the Parliaments liberties and maintained your Declarations which you so unworthily recalled as the Parliament also did theirs most of the Army had come off to you and this you were told by some of your very faithfull and good friends and was there any appearance of blood If you had not accepted the message for acceptance of the treaty by 6. of the Clock at night one