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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86876	The humble representation of some officers of the Army, to the Right Honourable Lieutenant General Fleetwood. November 1. 1659.	Morley, Herbert, 1616-1667.; Fleetwood, Charles, d. 1692.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3639; Thomason E1005_8; ESTC R202467	6,924	13

invited how did they break through those dis-couragements and undertooke difficillimam Provinciam who were no sooner assembled but a general desperate and deep laid-plot stares them in the face and in many places breaks forth upon them and can it be denyed that the Lord was pleased in every part of the Nation where the plot brake forth to take the honour of the success chiefly to himself and we may truly say that by Grace we were outwardly saved least any man should boast and can any be so injurious as not to acknowledge that by the late sudden Calming of the storm God was pleased afresh to own and that signally the Counsels of this Parliament Yet this Parliament must againe be interrupted and that by those who had several wayes engaged solemnly to them afresh and in the late Petition how many times do the Officers engaged therein seem to take a pleasure in styling themselves the faithfull servants and faithfull Army of this Parliament Yet now with what reality we shall with griefe of heart consider and the world will judge especially because already there are so many at worke with Tongue yea some with pen to bespatter the Armies acknowledged Masters and consequentialy to bring Parliaments out of credit if possible so as to besool people into a belief that Parliaments will not do the work but the eys of Englishmen are not so easily put out We have not forgotten that it was an old Court designe not only to allure but to affright Englishmen out of their love to and their very discourse of a Parliament yet there was a Parliament at last which found work enough for all the Courtiers in the Nation We are not ignorant how that there have been Attempts of later date to wean this English Nation from love unto their Parliament and fair things have been promised and some good things have been endeavoured to have been done by another hand yet there was still a necessity of calling Parliaments and when an intire house of Commons would not doe a part thereof shall be made use of and when a part would not serve the turn it also must take its turne to goe off the stage and when now Parliaments seemed troublesome the long Parliament styled by the Army the famous long Parliament must be called again which is not an obscure evidence that the spirit of the free-born Englishmen notwithstanding Parliament interruptions yet is still working towards a Parliament and that old Maxime will not easily be obliterated out of the Tables of English hearts Quod omnes tangit ab omnibus tractari debet This English Nation will be loth to lose their Hereditary and Birth-right priviledge of making their own Laws by which they shall be governed We have had such experiences of a Parlamentary States-Physitians that have attempted in an uncouth way to heale the Nation and this with so little success as that we and we do believe that there are many thousands of our minde doe know no helpe under God like that of a Parliament But now wee are told that as there is noe Authority in the Nation so all Authority is devolved upon and resides in the Army that is in the Officers and our Government must be a Sword-Government And shall this be spoaken by any that shall preesume to take the name of an holy just God into his mouth Is Englands Dear bought freedome come to this Our hearts would sinke but that we know the Lord doth raign and if it were possible for to prevent it we would say Tell it not in Gath and let it not be published in the gates of Ashkelon lest the Daughters of the Philistims triumph Have men been beheaded banished and slain in the Field for doing things contrary to English Lawes and shall this Army bury English Lawes and the Legislature it self all at once and take all into their own hands But no question some will say there shall be just things It is not the doing of some seeming righteous things that will satisfie the just expectations and Claims of this English Nation when they see that all that they have lyes at the mercy of their Fellow-servants We have not forgotten what was once told to the late King and that by a Parliament That it is better to rule in the hearts of men by love and justice then to rule over them by force and power An Arbitrary Sword may tyrannize over mens persons and estates for a time but it doth never conquer Spirits We would have hoped that no part of this Army that professeth so much for Christ and his Kingdome would have ever so much as coasted upon the course of the Egyptian Mamalukes or the Romane Pretorian Bands But let men make sure of this that what God did seem to wink at amongst ignorant Heathens that were no better taught he will not so easily overlook when acted by those who should have better learned Christ For Christ hath said it That he that takes the Sword shall perish with the Sword And for certain what was lately acted and now acting will come under the judgement of Christ who is no respecter of persons and before whom all the power and force of this world is as nothing but as the drop of the Bucket and as the dust of the Ballance We are not ignorant of the great Argument why this Parliament was interrupted What Must nine Families be undone at once Far be it from us to desire the undoing of any much less of those for whom we have so great a respect And we could heartily wish that affairs might be composed to mutuall satisfaction and we are apt to fear that all good men will at the long-run find the smart and inconvenience of these unhappy Divisions But what are Military Commands so essential to the well being of men if not to their beings that they shall count themselves undone if their Commissions be but vacated by Parliament If vacating of Commissions be an undoing how many hundreds of Families have been undone time after time at the pleasure of the Parliament Did not the Parliament in the year 1645 think fit to lay aside these General Officers ensuing namely the Earl of Essex the Earl of Warweck the Earl of Manchester Ferdinando Lord Fairfax Sir William Waller Major General Massey Sir William Brereton Collonel Ressiter and many other Officers Yea how many Commissions have been vacated lately by the Committee of Nominations and the former have for many years sate down in silence and peaceably at home who have been known in their time to have done as good service and happily divers of them might be thought to deserve a Military trust as well as some others But let the utmost be granted which cannot be imagined that it were a kind of outward undoing must the Parliament be broken up Must the only Authority of the Nation be trampled upon to prevent such an undoing Nay more must the saving of nine Commissions be of such weight in