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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88877	The independants militarie entertainment. Or, Certaine reasons and arguments why independants ought not only to be admitted into the army raised for defence of church and state, but also both by law of God, nature, and nations, are required to put their hands to the plough of the kingdome. Together with the answering of such grand objections as tend to the contrary. / By W.L. Licensed, entered, and printed according to order.	W. L.	1645 (1645)	Wing L88; Thomason E278_28; ESTC R200023	5,891	8

THE INDEPENDANTS MILITARIE ENTERTAINMENT OR Certaine Reasons and Arguments why Independants ought not only to be admitted into the Army raised for defence of Church and State but also both by Law of God Nature and Nations are required to put their hands to the Plough of the Kingdome TOGETHER With the answering of such grand Objections as tend to the contrary By W. L. Licensed Entered and Printed according to Order LONDON Printed for Henry Overton and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes-head Alley 1645. THE INDEPENDANTS MILITARIE ENTERTAJNMENT SInce it hath pleased God to put into the heart of and to inable our ever honored Parliament to new forme and constitute the armies raised for the defence of themselves and Kindom by which means consequently many Malignant and disaffected instruments formerly imployed are outed whose spirits daily speake out their former disaffection and profane insides the Devill also begins to bee very busie to blow the coal of contention and to sowe the seed of strife and division amongst such who are yet Ingaged in the worke and who under God are like to be very Instrumentall to put a timely end to our unhappy troubles And therefore labour might and main to beget such a disaffection betweene them to wit the Presbyterian and Independant party as if the entertainment of both in the Armie were inconsistent with the well being and successe of it Now seeing that both of them have ever been ingaged in the worke since the beginning and that party so much poynted at no whit behinde any other either in faithfulnesse or courage I thought good to declare to the publique that Independant party so much stumbled at are not only very precious Instruments to promote the present military affairs but are no waies to be discountenanced or thir assistance and brotherly helpe declined for these reasons ensuing FIrst that our divisions are the enemies hopes and our owne hurt and they daily endeavor to disunite us that they may have the greater advantage upon us 2. Those our friends whose absence we would so willingly wave are neither Heathens nor Turkes but men professing the same Religion with us having the same God the same Christ of the same faith partakers of the same hope borne with us in Baptisme in the same Covenant onely differing in and about Circumstance not the substance of Gods Worship not any fundamentall points of religion 3. If Papists Malignants and desperate Delinquents are the common adversaries of the Kingdome these men of all other are most likely to be reall in their undertakings against them whose principles are so utter contrary to them they being formerly the objects of our Prelats persecution for that they knew them utter enemies to Prelacie Poperie and profanenesse 4. They have through Gods assistance behaved themselves in the Field and in the face of the Enemie very gallantly as the common adversarie himselfe confesseth and certainly if it be a received tenent among Commanders to entertaine fighting men although otherwise dissolute and prophane certainly these men that are consciencious that abhor oathes blasphemies and prophanenesse should not only be admitted but required and desired to assist the State if for nothing else yet because they will fight 5. It hath been too too apparant that divers professing themselves Protestants at large as our adversaries themselves do have proved very perfidious who having taken up armes for their owne ends have made use of their best opportunities to attain them by betraying their trust and although we have had too many experiments of this kinde yet I never heard of any usually called Independant since the war began that proved perfidious 6. Consider our Enemis are accounted ould Souldiers and Polititians and they tell us it is lawfull for the King to call to his assistance papists out of all Countries yea and the most desperate wretches in the world nay and our Malignants will tell you hee doth well in receiving any that will sticke to him in his necessitie although by experiece they are such as indeavour both the ruine of himself and kingdome and whose tenents are so utterly inconsistent with the wel-being or the being of the Church or Kingdome that a man may safer live with a Turke a Jewe a Pagan then with a Papist and shall we be so voide of reason to decline the helpe of our faithfull friends of whose courage and zeale we have had sufficient testimonie Let us not suffer the children of this world to be alwaies wiser then the children of light especially in this Generation wherein such abundance of light is discovered 7. It is displeasing to God when men of one and the same religion whose judgements differ in point of Ceremonie not substance are disunited in affection and so either decline or denie each other assistance and indeed we can expect little peace in the Kingdome so long as we have wars and fightings in our spirits one against another God who is our wise Father will lash his children if they fall out one with another beleeve it he will make a third man among them till they agree better 8. The cause of God and Kingdome lyes at stake and they as well as others are bound in Conscience to helpe against the Common adversaries and shall we tye their hands behinde them in opposition to our owne assistance not suffering them to helpe the Lord against the mighty shall Herod and Pilate become friends to Crucifie Christ and Christians suffer themselves to become a prey to the Adversarie rather then mutually to be helpefull 9. They are not truly called Independant otherwise then to distinguish them from the Episcopal and Presbyterians for no true Church is independant neither know we any such in New-England or elsewhere that wholly decline the brotherly advice and assistance of the Neighbouring Churches in Points of difficultie either in Doctrine or discipline 10. What occasion of slighting have they given have they not bin active and zealous to promote the affaires of the Kingdome both with their persons and purses or do we emulate and envy them for that they are more zealous then our selves although in conscience they are bound to it knowing a heavie curse hangs over the heads of such as do the work of the Lord deceitfully or negligently 11. Me thinks above all men our brethren the Scots should be so far from disaffecting them that they should joyne heart and hand with them for these men were especially those that in the day of their trouble stuck closest to them although at that time not baptized into the Name of Independants Prelates were not acquainted with any such titles 12. Herein we shall use the same method to ruine our selves that the enemy doth to destroy us they fight against us under the notion of Brownists Anabaptists Separatists and Roundheads under which termes they comprehend all not so vilde as themselves and we quarrell one with another under the notion of Presbyterian Independant nay we use the