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A83525 To the High Court of Parliament. A dilemma, from a parallel. Humbly presented. Published according to order. Edwards, Thomas, 1599-1647,; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). 1646 (1646) Wing E237A; Thomason E341_10; ESTC R200905 6,449 16

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able assertours of Protestant Religion are to the unspeakable joy of the Adversaries to our Religion disregarded and oppressed In the Kings Answer to the Declar of the Lords and Com of the 21 of June 1642. This all men are bound to beleeve though they see the Protestant Religion and the Professors thereof miserably reproached and in danger of being destroyed by a vitious and malignant party of Brownists Anabaptists and other Sectaries the principall Ring-leaders of whom have too great a power even with some Members in both our Houses of Parliament our Authority despised and as much as in them lies taken from us and reviled in Pulpits and presses by persons immediately in their protection and recommendation In the Kings Answer to the Declaration of the Lor and Com of 19 of May 1642. What a strange time are we in that a few impudent malicious to give them no worse terme men should cast such a strange mist of errour before the eyes of both Houses of Parliament as that they either cannot or will not see how manifestly they injure themselves by maintaining these visible untruths In the Kings Declar of August 12. 1642. We were able to discover that there was still a faction of a few ambitious discontented and seditious persons who under pretence of being enemies to Arbitrary power and of compassion towards those who out of tendernesse of Conscience could not submit to some things enjoyned or commended in the Government of the Church had in truth a desire and had entred into a Combination to that purpose to alter the Government both of Church and State The former Declaration begins thus T is more then time now after so many injuries and indignities offered to our Royall person to vindicate our Selfe from those wicked and damnable Combinations and Conspiracies which the implacable malice and insatiable ambition of some persons have contrived against us In the Conclusion of that Declaration Our quarrell is not against the Parliament but against particular men who first made the wounds and will not now suffer them to be healed but make them deeper and wider by contriving fostering and fomenting mistakes and jealousies betwixt body and head us and our two Houses of Parliament whom we name and are ready to prove them guilty of high Treason Wee desire that the Lord Kimbolton M r Hollis M r Pim M r Hampden Sir Arthur Haslerigge M r Stroud M r Martin Sir Henry Ludlow Alderman Pennington and Capt. Venne may be delivered into the hands of Justice to be tryed by their Peeres according to the knowne Lawes of the Land In the Kings Answer to the Declaration of the 26 of May 1642. But wee doubt not all our good Subjects doe now plainly discerne through the maske and vizard of their Hypocrisie what their Designe is and will no more looke upon the Framers and Contrivers of that Declaration as upon both Houses of Parliament whose freedome and just Priviledges wee will alwayes maintaine and in whose behalfe wee are as much slandred as for our Selfe but so a Faction of Malignant Schismaticall and ambitious persons whose designe is and alwayes hath been to alter the whole frame of Government both of Church State to subject both King and people to their own lawless arbitrary power government In the Kings Answer to the Declaration of the Lords and Com of 26 of May 1642. For the Contrivers of that Declaration though they have no minde to be Slaves they are not unwilling to be Tyrants what is Tyranny but to admit no rule to Governe by but their own wills and we know the misery of Athens was at the highest when it suffered under the Thirty Tyrants From the foregoing Parallel ariseth the DILEMMA That either the HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT is chargeable with Obstinacy and Hypocrisie against God and the publick Good a thing horrid to apprehend or The Author of the Pamphlet fore-mentioned is as guilty of the breach of Parliamentary Priviledge and sedition against the Kingdome as the Contrivers of the Kings papers have been by the Parliament declared to be TO THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT A POSTSCRIPT NOW the Adversary of yours and this Kingdomes welfare Right Honourable sees he cannot keep the field against you any longer he findes it best to recruit himselfe by working his broken Swords into Pen-knives and betake himselfe to his Study He remembers how keen the Royal Stile was and how neare it came to the heart of the Parliament when He expressed greatest confidence in the Parliament and onely struck at some particular Members thus in Answer to your Declaration of the 19 of May 1642. We shall never and we hope our people will never account the contrivance of a few factious seditious persons a Malignant partie who would consecrate the Common-wealth to their owne fury and ambition the wisdome of Parliamen The Honourable House of Commons in their late famous Declaration of the 17. of Aprill have discovered that there are still the same spirits stirring and humours working though under other disguises and upon other grounds Since this discovery these spirits doe not blush to proceed according to the first beginnings and to reflect the like crimes on the Parliament under the persons of some particular Members and this done by men professing great Zeale for you and that now after you have almost brought this Kingdome by the good hand of God upon you to feast upon the remembrance of the fore-passed gall and wormewood and to satiate it selfe with the fat of securitie Truth and Peace But as Solomon speaks a Foole is never so troublesome as when he is filled with meat even so now Ingratitude hath taken the Ballance into her hand and Fancy sits upon the beame and judgeth that the Talents of precious mercies which by you Noble Senatours we enjoy are light in respect of some still wanting neither can all you have done be pawne enough of adding them hereafter no nor any thing you can say though never so solemnly and therefore cannot obtaine the Credit much lesse the Obedience as to have your Declaration in that kind published and because they despaire in a way of duty to obtaine their desires have now borrowed the pen of Insolency out of the hands of Malignity and as these formerly stiled you Rebels Traitors Schismatiques c. and another Party acted to a frenzie of zeale wrote you Antichristian Popish tyrannous So these here spoken of expresse themselves of you as Fautors of Errour Sectaries Anarchy intolerable Toleration unlesse you put life into and take it from what they point you to Now this sheet of paper hath humbly presented to your Honours the Designe and Language of these in Parallel with the former aspersing the Honour and enervating the Authority of Parliament under the Notion of accusing some particular Members and that done with expressions so high and dangerous whether respect be had to the Consciences of the people over awed or to the safety