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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77287	True excellency of God and his testimonies, and our nationall lawes against titular excellency. Or, A letter to the General his excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, with a complaint and charg against tyrannicall Whitchcock the Governour of Winsor for arbitrarily, designingly and maliciously walking contrary to the Scriptures of God, and the laws and liberties of the people. / From Captain VVilliam Bray at his un-Christian indurance there.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4315; Thomason E571_32; ESTC R206130	11,419	8

True Excellency of GOD and his Testimonies and our Nationall Lawes against TITULAR EXCELLENCY Or A LETTER To the GENERAL his Excellency THOMAS Lord FAIRFAX With a Complaint and Chart against Tyrannicall Whitchcock the Governour of Winsor for arbitra ily d●fig●●rly and maliciously walking contrary to the Scripture● of God and the laws and Liberties of the People From Captain VVilliam bray at his un-Christian Indurance there Prov. 21.3 To doe Justice and Judgment is more a●ceptable to the Lord then sacrifice Prov. 27. Open Rebuke is bet●er then secret love To Levell all to LAVV we must To Levell all to LUST'S not just And I do exclaime and Cry out unto Thomas Lord Fairfax to perfo●me engagement to the people while it is cal●'d to day and unto all the Officers and Souldiers of the Army and other the Free People of the Nation that truly own God Scripture and Law Murther Murther Murther I say Murther Sir I Had thoughts never to have written to you more but love to my Country and Tyranny justly provokes me I wll once more see whether the Lord or common reason the latter of which hath prevailed w●th Pagans will prevail with you as for the former if the Lord hath manifested himself to you surely you will then be won to righteousnesse and justice and if principles of neither will prevail you may quickly judge whether you are a Christian or a reasonable mans I know the wise God is able to give and restore principles of nature and ri●hteousnesse though by your conversation you act as if there was no such things dwell●ng in you To do impartiall judgment and justice is sutable to scripture and the infallible evident commands thereof and judgment denounced against the violators of justice It is the reason why authority was constituted Isa 30.18 Isa 61.8 Exod. 18.21 23. 26 Deut. 1.16 17. 16.19 25.1 2 Chron. 9.6 7. Isa 2.23 24. Ier. 5.28 29. ● 22.16 17 18. Amos 5 12. 6.12 14. Micha 39.11 Zach. 18.16 17 Will you praunce upon the Scriptures of God ●ow I am by force a Slave a Prisoner in an an illegall Goal in walking in an undoubted Christian naturall Parliamentary way of appeal and this is destructive to a stifeling and strangling the foundations of nature of humane societies of justice of Scripture of the c●pit●ll obligations of God to man man to God and one man to another as you may see in my Book Intituled Innocency and Bloud of the Slaine Souldiers and People mightily complaining and crying out to the Lord and the people of the land against those Forty Knights and Burg●sses that sit or that you have left in the House of Commons and in that you may see the cruelty exercised against a freeman of England at large If any the people of the land or a nation have lost the right of appeal against you or any man for their eight yeers bloud and treasure then that man or men must needs be a Tyrant I am deal with just as if a child should ask bread of a father and he should give him a Serpent this is the ●●ing and poison of our miseries and casting out of ●ut fundamentall liberties and safeties this is unaccou●tablenesse indeed this is idol●zing of persons indeed and yet you have out off the King and told the people that he was an Idoll But to me there is but one God and Father of whom are all things c. This is lawfulnesse this is as much as in you lies to be supreame to God to nature to Scripture Did we fight for our Laws and Lib●rties and is there no Law Did your House as you may call it Vote since they cut off the King that you would maintaine the fundamentall laws and is there no law shed blood for law and is there no law Are not you one of the murtherers then if no law Could the King or the Kings party transgresse if there was no law Will you make the Apostle a lyar for he saith Where there is no Law there is no transgression Rom. 4.15 Truly Sir M●ster Peters your Chaplain did never read Peter throughly if he hath he may weep bitterly Was not Christ the head of Saints the only Son of the most High Crucified and butchered by meer subtilty conjoyned with force Contrary to Law Reason God and Nature And the designe of God from eternity did not take away their blood-guiltinesse so as to make them without blemish and the murther no murther Sir the souldier● though they were may be commanded had a hand in the innocent blood aswell as Pilate and the chief Priests Souldiers are some of the best of men or some of the basest of men Did the Parliament invite the King to bloud for their Laws and Liberties and did they desire the King to rely for his security upon the Laws and affections of the people and will not you do what you would have had him do with many other eminent and transcendent expressions to maintaine the Laws and Liberties of the people which were violated as they declared 1 par of the Parli Dec. p 8 9 10 11 12 13 16. 38. 140. 150 151. 200 209 259 266 267. 272. 278. 323. 464. 466. 473 687. 689. 692 693 694. 697. 698 699 700. 702 703. 710 711. 721 722 723. 727. 729. All these are worthy perusall It is the greatest evidence of an unchristian spirit that can be to maintaine the principle and practise of force against reason Justice Law and Scripture Law Reason and Scripture should be above force and force should be alwayes a servant to just Law to obey the commands of it against such whomsoever as would make force supreame to Law and Justice and no authority is to command any thing unjust 1 part of the Book of Dec. of Parl. p. 207. 690. Master Cook in King Charles his Case pag. 23. For by it authority doth break all the reins of order and government and become Tyrants as Master Solicitor St. Iohn said against the Earle of Strafford Wolves Bears Polcats Foxes beasts of prey not men not Christians but capitall murtherers chief Robbers of Nations of Families of Persons pray Sir have a care stand and make a hault and acknowledge Lord the Scripture and the Law above your selfe and your fawning proselytes The Parliament charged the King in the first part of the Book of Declarations pag. 689 693. That he intended to govern the Kingdom and People by the violent Laws Martiall And say they accurs●d be that advice to ways of force and let all the people say Amen The King told the Parliament they intended such things themselves as they charged him with O Lord arise and judge By the Law of England such was the justice of the Law in the former and late King his Reigne whom you have cut off That if Catile be destroyed and impounded in a Castle or Fortresse and withheld against gage or pledges and if they be solemnly demanded by

Arist●cracie o● Democracie but I must confesse I had rather l●ve under a well bounded Monarchy by Laws and Liberties then a corrupt Aristocracy The Scriptures and the Laws of England are favourable and tender of the life and Liberty of humane Nature of Mankind Gen. 49 6 7 Num. 35.31 33 Ezek. 35.5 ● 1 King ● 5 6. Exod. 21.14 D●ut 19.10 11 12 13 21 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Mic 2.1 most eminent and glorious Scriptures worthy of the Nations faithfull reading and use And saith Mr. Steele in Duke Hamiltons Case If di●ers pe●sons do come to do an unlawfull act and one commit murther or Treason it s so in all 1 M. Dyer 38. 11 H. 4. 13. 19. Edw. 2. Fitz Cor. 4.33 And The Law of England saith the Lord Cook is a Law of righteousnesse and mercy 1 part of Instit sect 483 fol 2 0. 2 part of Instit fol. 42. 43. 46. 55 56. 115. 186. 189. 190. 526. and 4 part of Instit fol. 168. See Lieut. Col. John Lilburn● Case of the Sentence in the Star-chamber and the Votes upon it for his reparations that the Sentence was wicked cruel bloudy illegall barbarous and tyrannicall The Nations right of appealing is not only strangled and stifled but I am sent unto your Jurisdiction and am in the custody of a Tyrant that hath dealt contrary to the Law with me as if he were Lord Paramount not onely ●o those that committed me but to the Law and Liberties of the People For a Prison in case I had been legally and righteously committed ought to be only for safe custody as the Lord Cook saith Prisons ought to be for keeping men safe to be tryed acco●ding t● the just Laws and Customs of the Land but not to punish or destroy them or to remain till the parties committing please as the illeg●ll Warrant by which I am committed shews his Exposition of the 26 Chap. of Ma●na Charta But here I am unjustly committed and uncapable of a tryall in a fair righteous and Nationall w●y I am onely a prisoner of lust since the 19. of March 1648 without cause in Law or Reason or Christianity for what is not a just cause in Law is no cause Rom. 4.15 Deut. 11.3.8 Num. 15.30 The judgment of M. Tho. Goodwin when he was banished to Amsterdam as I take it by the Bishop in his Book intituled The aggravations of sin and sin●ing against mercy and knowledge See your own pretended Agreement of the People in 4 5 or 6 particulars thereof pag. 23. wherein your faith and honour is lately ingaged which you have broken by your actions And indeed it is that which God did charge against Satan concerning Job cap. 2.3 And the Lord said unto Sathan c. Thou movedst me against him to destroy him without cause So that you may see See Ki●● Charle● his case 〈◊〉 11. conc●ning Si● Jo. Elio● that die● by crue● induranc● even you and the rest that committed me do imitate the Divel as M. Caryl sweetly treats upon the three first Chapters of Joh pag 131. against the arbitrary Courts Touch men in their Liberties by Imprisonment saith he in their Estates by vast Fines in their Names by disgrace in their Bodies by whipping and cutting in their Relation● by keeping all friends from sight of them and when those Courts and persons cam● to have their power and actions sc●●ned it was not moderating or rest●aining or regulating or limiting but they must down and be taken away Mercilesse m●n saith he think there is nothing done u●l●sse m n be undone they never give over touching till they come to ruining I hear that Cromwel or Ireton or both have sent a Letter to his Councel of State of very high language and designe concerning me but as M. Solici●or Cook said against the King The people should not live at the nod and beck of Tyrannicall men And the 10 page charges the King that the Kings wicked designe was to tear up the foundations of Government and Law that Law should be no protection to any mans person or estate But I value it not though I lament that his tyrannicall influence and power should have such extention upon the present Councels of both Nations I desire to wait upon the Lord of hosts the high and mighty God and my everlasting Father And I hear also that Ha●rison did tear his hair almost and gnash his teeth with indignation and en●ie at me for my last Book which is indeed a Book of the light of their excessive illegall Tyranny and cruelty unto me which kind of action was just like the Queens who when as it was reported the late King went to the House with an intention as it was bruited abroad to have murthered those members that stood in his way viz. The Lord Kymbolton M● Pym c. But Sir for such men to have influence upon you and the command of the Councels and power of the Kingdome will make you dishonour the Lord to your ruine and infamie to all g●nerations And as for Harrison● bitte● hatred of me I care not for it so long as the Lord loves me The actions of Tyranny and lust are sufficiently displayed by Mr Pym and Mr. St. J●hn against Strafford and indeed in the whole Scriptures of the high and mighty God and all rationall men such wicked m●n are judged to bee the cause of bloodie wars though they would turn it upon the innocent person that are their opposers and are under thei● horrible cruelty Therefore in my cruell bonds I cry out to you and to all my fellow S●uldiers and the good people of the Nation that are for righteousnesse justice and freedome from sl●very as I would against so many Murtherers that would set upon me in the high way Murther Murther Murther and I say Murther and if you and they doe intend to murther me I say as Christ said to that Apostate Judas What you doe do quickly for I am more willing to go to God my Father then to live with cruell men and see my native Country unde● lust and spoil Blame me not seeing I am so cruelly dealt with by those that have bin the highest Pretenders to righteousness in the World and I am sute I was used with far more civility and humanity from the late Kings party when I was their prisoner in pursuit of them at York fight then I am from you and your House for when they had gotten all I had from me they gave me good accommodation with them gratis though I did reason freely against their cause for the Parliament face to face viz. with Col. Tildesly and Lieutenant Colonel Ger●ard sometimes an hour togethe● but for your parts I have not had any of my Arreers from you though I moved your House to it no consideration of my dammages charges and losses by you and beyond my ability to bear losses in my horses since I came to prison one by death the others