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A92421	A remonstrance concerning the grievances, and maladies of the kingdome of England rightly stated in X positions. VVith remedies prescribed for the speedy help of each of them: viz. The King, Parliament, Army, Assembly of Divines. Citizens of London, the people in generall. Apostate round-heads. Newters, Cavaliers, Scots. Licensed and entered according to order.		1648 (1648)	Wing R975; Thomason E421_8; ESTC R22238	14,482	16

Centurion preachers and yet one built a Synagogue and had so great a faith that Christ himselfe marvelled at it but he had deep humility withall and yet a great Commander moving in his sphere as a Souldier and not out of it The other is renowned for a devout man fearing God with all his house there indeed it seemes he taught as a pater familias a giver of almes and frequent in prayer but neither before nor after Peter came to him doe we read that he tooke upon him to preach It seems though they were both gracious men yet neither of them was a Gifted Brother They abound in Victories and so they do in Errours it is pity they should do so that they who have been the Lords Hoste and fought his Battailes should now be the Devils seeds-men and sow his Tares The Remedy Be not so bitter against the Assembly and the rest of those that are reverend and godly Ministers in the Land because of Ordination you know not what spirits ye are of nor whose Designe you drive therein they have the same Seal for their Ministry that Paul had for his Apostleship 1 Cor. 9.2 they have by it converted not a few to Christ and that too as the truth is in Jesus which we do not finde to be the property of Antichrist or his Ministers An orderly call addes both beauty and efficacy to the Word preached Take h●ed by disparaging them or their Function in the eyes or eares of their People you weaken not their hands in the Lords worke for which they ought to be had in estimation or of being an occasion of putting out such lights who have shaken the kingdome of Darknesse and by the blessing of God upon their labours have made England famous for powerfull Preaching and professing in all the Christian World and those of you that are sonnes and not bastards I am confident under God have had them for your fathers Beware of a spirit of Antichrist amongst your selves it is he that 〈◊〉 to both Swords and whose comming is after the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying wonders and with all deceivablenesse of unrighteousnesse viz. false Doctrine and Errour and the reason is rendred because they receive not the love of the truth which is not then so light a matter as you take it for when as the Gospel of peace if it understand it selfe aright bids us contend for it against men of heretical judgements Dote not so much upon the word gifted Brethren it is a proud word since extraordinaries ceased and makes grace a younger brother those of you that are gracious communicate your graces and spiritual experiences unto edification as fellow-members and private Christians and be not many Masters in opinion do not the worke of an Office in the Church I speak not of cases extraordinary which have their extraordinary priviledges and dispensations without being an Officer of the Church one of those that Christ hath ordained Gifts no more intitle men to publique Offices in the Church than in the Common-wealth or Army without a call An outward call is not nothing Study not confusion God is not at all the God of it and least of all in his Church There is no better nor no worse argument against you th … that of Christ. The tree is known by its fruits Some of your Converts shave soon and talked with full of opinion but very empty of grace and the vital Principles of Religion put them upon dispute 〈…〉 but upon Christian communion and they have not a word to say The good old 〈◊〉 that is not ashamed of faith and repentance is the man of sulstance your proselytes must ●eeds be strange creatures that are strangers to the sincere milke of the Word borne and bred amongst foolish janglings for your Sermons which tends to singularity and plurality of opinions conduce not to devotion but to disputation which old M. Dod whose very name is precious for his practical piety was wont to say made his heart the worse a long time after And indeed a practical hearted Christian loves not to hear Truth doubted for that makes faith take wind and the whole Soul consequently fare the worse but knows they are ordained to other use viz. to be a whet-stone to our graces not to our wits Such preaching disputants hatch addle eggs fil empty hearts with empty notions How forcible are right words but what doth your arguing avail but to distune the soul Opinion begets pride and that keeps out every thing but it self If you will needs preach then preach Truth and not Errour as you will answer it at the dreadfull day of judgement and gather the sense of Scripture from its scope and drift comparing spirituall things with spirituall and not incoherently making it speak what it never meant You have been victorious over Error therefore let not Error at last get victory over you like the Israelites that having conquered Idolaters worshipped their Idols Cry not up liberty of Conscience to the losse of conscience and countenancing licentiousnesse of opinion see ye not how his Majesty himself pretends deeply to it for the setting up Prerogative and Episcopacy what Snake may not lie bid under that herb when once it s grown a word in fashion Liberty of conscience will be as common as not guilty at the Assizes and of equall credit Divine Truth is alwaies the same of an inflexible nature varies not according to mens judgements shall the judgement of a man be the rule of Gods unerring Truth Truth is truth and error error whether ●en think it to be so or no principles of nature vary not like languages and if they be inviolable and indispensible much more is Divinity for the known will of God is obliging which way soever it be revealed whether by nature or by the word though against nature as when Abraham was commanded to kill his son or 〈◊〉 nature as in the union of the two natures in one person or the being of three persons in one God-bead nay of the two the word it the more forcible and binding because nature is so much defaced therefore was the Law given to the Israelites the more obliging and their sins the more provoking Opinion ought not to be the rule of things but the nature of the thing it self There is a Truth of God and that but one which we must maintain in the death else the Martyrs dyed in vain if for but opposing anothers lawfull liberty not only in resisting impiety but in oppugning heresie Thus saith the Lord Jer. 6.16 Stand ye in the wayes and see ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall find rest for your soules IX The Parliament I mean those of them which are true to their trust are unhappy in taking so much pains for a thanklesse people whilst they were unanimous touching Church and Commonwealth they had mens hearts hands and purses but divisions and

A REMONSTRANCE Concerning The Grievances and Maladies of the Kingdome of ENGLAND RIGHTLY Stated in X POSITIONS VVith Remedies prescribed for the speedy help of each of them VIZ. The King The Parliament The Army The Assembly of Divines The Citizens of London The People in Generall The Apostate Round-heads The Newters The Cavaliers The Scots Licensed and Entered according to Order LONDON Printed for John Hickman 1648. Maladies and Remedies 1. THE Scots to dispatch them first because they have furthest home are a people that would be thought more wise than honest and yet because it is no wisdome to renounce honesty none therefore are greater pretenders to it They are singular School men in State-matters and can distinguish to a bristles bredth for instance They can break their Faith and keep their Covenant come like Brethren to help the English and never strike stroak for them but at New-Castle and Cannon Froome the one to keep it the other to leave it because it was worth no more and yet hate with perfect hatred those that did better service because they did so The old Modell and they whilst it was on foot were then scarce Brethren but now they and the Old Modell men against the Army are sworn Sisters They March'd to Hereford and back again and all the way comming and going took the winde of the Enemies Garrisons as if the plague had been in them If the Parliament wish'd them advance Southward they retreated Northward by a Scotch figure because the North of England is the South of Scotland And lay just so long before Newark till by private confabulation the King came to their Leaguer and then and there broke their word but kept Covenant with the Parliaments Commissioners against their promise carrying away the King to Newcastl● in all post haste as if they had meant to have invited him to Edinburgh in freedome honour and safety but no such matter my Lord touching the Kings dignity and greatnesse the Covenant onely bindes on this side Tweed for beyond it hee 's little enough but it seemes they have bargain'd with him like the two Tribes and half so they may have all beyond Jordan they 'le see him in safe possession of Canaan therefore for that end must there needs be a personall Treaty and an invitation of him whom they 'le heere invite into Scotland to London in honour safety and freedome the Kings own words fiddle and stick which makes Pragmaticus the Court jester ready to leape out of his skin for joy to heare this tune played upon the Scotch Bag-pipes so that hee 'le goe neere to want a Theame to rime upon next weeke being reconciled to this loyall faternity But they tell you the reason and for my part I beleeve them why they would have the King entertained at our cost because they say their happinesse is in him for you must consider the two great wheels of the Scotch engine is now in perpetuall motion the one to make England Scotland in matters Ecclesiasticall so that It is and It is not so in Scotland were urged in the Assembly like ipse dixit in the Schooles the other is to make Scotland England in things civill and though an English man in Scotland must not untie the Kings shoe latchet yet they sticke not to propose to have the third part of offices about him here They cry out of the abuse offered a single Commissioner at Hampton-Court and that no repare is made the whilst they sanctuary Knox and nose us with Cheesley those arch incendiaries that in whole volumes abused the whole state of England with breach of priviledge of Parliament to boote which by Covenant is to be maintained and they punished but a tricke at maw will helpe that for they can in their printed Papers those Scotch spectacles to blinde English men take the Covenant in peeces and quote it in abstract Propositions leaving out the principall verbe still the conditionate coherence of one thing with another so that the reason why they so cry up themselves wherein they have an excellent faculty for transcendent Covenanters is because they do by the Covenant as some sectaries of these times doe by the scriptures bring their sense to it and not take sense from it And for most part what is their religion Presbytery they do by it as the Iewes did by the Temple worship it instead of God and though swearing lying dissembling be even nationall vices amongst them yet by vertue of this bare badge they cry up themselves for the people of the Lord as if heaven also could be caught by craft but forma dat esse is a maxime undeniable with them they are the best Christians and Covenanters because the best Presbyterians which they make their staulking-horse to catch city and country and the Assembly also and their skreene to be-spatter the English Parliament except the eleven Members whose devotion to Presbytery and the old Model prefers them in favour above the rest From State Presbyters Libera nos The Remedy Let us doe them all good Offices and keepe them at all due distances mix not interests keep Covenant in the intire plaine English sense of it avoid their tedious Haran●s pond speeches and voluminous Papers which they onely speake to the Parliament first to the end that after they may speake them in print to the People which they know so great a body as the Parliament pressed with infinite and weighty businesses cannot suddenly answer and so think to cary the cause by cajoling the vulgar and to devide betwixt the body reall and representative and then the towne 's their owne too much Serpentine wisdome to stand with the innocency of Doves Thinke not the worse of Presbytery because they Idolize it but let power of godlinesse and purity of worship goe hand in hand Let in a word the Parliament be true to their trust and England to it selfe II Next Vous-avez Cavaliers t is fit these two should goe together since Pragmaticus saies the Scots are turned Royallists these degenerate English men that fight to be slaves but had more wit than to stand to it For the ingenuousest of them say that if the King had got the better the Kingdome had beene undone they see so farre now into his disposition and yet they in hope to be sprinkled with Court holy water are content to sell their birth-right which their Progenitors nobly purchased with their blood and they as ignobly sell it with theirs They complaine of compounding which yet is a Cheaper tenure to hold by then disseising which had fallen to our share if they had been paramount as themselves sticke not to say and threaten to try us all for Traytors at the Kings-Bench barre where proud Banks and pricket Heath must have given sentence and then there had beene old worke for new Tiburne The two Germaine Princes must have beene denizoned with the Estates of Northumberland and Pembrooke and their blew Ribbands to boote as judging most