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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97198	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 W935D; ESTC R204002	7,496	16

A WARNING-PEECE TO THE Commons Commissioners Army Generall 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 Printed in the Yeere 1649. A Vindication of the Army by way of recrimination against the Lords Commons c. THe name and title of Army and Souldier hath of late been as formidable and odious as Sequestrator Excize Committee or Parliament-man And the complaint of the Lords Commons and City of London have caused the greatest part of this hate and rancour against the Army I therefore challenge them not with sword for they are most of them errand cowards but with my pen and bid them severally answer if they can And first thou ô City why and with what face canst thou complain of me while I call for Justice and the strict execution thereof when as thou thy self first madest the loud cry to the Parliament for Justice and thereby most unjustly sheddest the blood of the innocent 2. Why and with what face complainest thou of the Army for excluding some Members from the Parliament who didst never cease bawling at the Parliament doores for the ejection of the most ancient and most rightfull Members in Parliament 3. Why and with what face complainest thou of the Army for taking assesse and quartering upon you who were the first principall raiser of this Army and were ever well content that others should pay and give free quarter 4. Thou O City who hast raised and first hast maintained this Army to be as a rod or sword of God why and with what face canst thou deny them 40000. l. granted them and much more by an Ordinance when thou hast most ambitiously sued that thou mightest freely give many millions for the conquering the King abolishing Religion and subjecting the Lawes Liberties and properties of all the Subjects in England to an arbitrary power Yea and when it was put into thy hands to have remedied all yet then for fear falshood or trechery thou forsookest thy self and betrayedst the whole Kingdome Thinkest thou therefore ô City that judgest them which do such things and doest the same that thou shalt escape the judgement of God Rom. 2.3 No heare what God hath spoken The spoiler is come upon her even upon Babilon the great City Revel 18. and her mighty men are taken for the Lord God of recompences shall surely requite Jer. 51.5.6 And ye Commons why and with what face can ye complain of the Army for their Remonstrance and Declarations tending to Justice and publike good when your selves have publisht such grosse slanderous and impudent lies both in Declarations and Remonstrances thereby to cheat the People to the Kings destruction and the Kingdomes ruine 2. Why and with what face can ye complain of the Army for imprisoning some of your Members in Royal and great houses when your selves have driven so many thousands of Clergy and Laity out of their freeholds and thrust too many by thousands into noysome and close prisons to the losse both of liberty and life and yet never to this houre shewing any cause why 3. Why and with what face complaine ye of the Army for excluding some of your Members from your house when ye your selves a first second and third time sent up forged Bills for the utter casting out of the Bishops from their most ancient and most just sitting in the upper House and at last by threats and menaces put upon the Lords forced them to give their most dishonourable and unconscionable assent thereunto Yea and did not this alone to the Members of the Lords House but did as much or more even to your own either by not admitting such though rightly elected or by threats and force driving them away by 200. at a clap which was the onely true cause of their sitting at Oxford 4. Why and with what face complain ye of the Army for breaking the Lawes and Priviledges of Kingdome and Parliament when ye your selves have been not only Authors and Actors but Teachers and Instructers of them by your examples to do the like to you as you have done both to your Soveraigne Lord the King and to your fellow Subjects 5. Why and with what face complain ye of the Army for banishing all ill affected to them 10. miles from London for a moneth when as your selves have banisht all ill affected to you 20. miles thence sometimes for 2. at other times for 6. moneths and that on no lesse penalty then High Treason and accordingly to be arraigned tryed and executed as Traytors without mercy 6. Why and with what face complain ye of the Army for committing your Members to custody when as your selves the 15. June 1648. authorized any 3. of your House though those Colonels and close friends to the Army to seize imprison and carry away Subjects free from Delinquency to our Army lying then before Colchester 7. Why and with what face complain ye of the Army for calling you corrupt false trayterous Members who 21. April 1648. gave power to any 3. Committee-men in all the severall Counties in England to sequester and imprison any whom these Committee-men should judge or deem to have spoken reproachfully against the proceedings of this Parliament I could be infinite in the inlarging your unjust and unequall complaints against the Army judging and condemning them for those and the like things wherein your selves have been most guilty but I shall end all in this kind with a word to the Gent. of the long Robe Lawyers as Members of your House 8. And why and what face complain ye of the Army for desiring 1. That thescattred and unknowne Lawes of this Kingdome may be wisely and carefully collected and the best and fittest being culled out to have them all printed and publisht in one volum or body 2. That they may be translated or put into our own English and known tongue whereby every subject may be able to read understand and know what he is to do and what to eschew what may save and what may destroy him and that he may not be constrained to give twenty shillings or more for every spoonfull of compounded or sophisticated hot-water which may perhaps poyson him or his Estate 3. That the subject may not be compelled to trudge to four standing Marts or yearly Faires kept in Westminster Hall there to be forced to buy and to be cheated in such pedling commodities to say no worse as they might have better for lesse money in their own Countreys I say why and with what faces complain you of the Army for this when ye your selves these eight yeares and upwards have not only been silent but consenting voting acting to the destruction of all our ancient best Lawes yet few or none can conceive to what end ye have done all this except either for the advance of your own present base gaine or else hereby 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 benefit 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 goverment 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 ignorance 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 of 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