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A92209	Little Benjamin or truth discovering error: being a clear and full answer unto the letter, subscribed by 47 ministers of the province of London, and presented to his Excellency, January 18. 1648. To inform the ignorant satisfie the desirous of the concurrent proceedings the Parliament and Army. In taking away the life of Charles Stuart, late King of England, together with, &c. / By a reall lover of all those, who love peace and truth. February 17. 1648. Imprimatur Gil. Mabbot.	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing R449; Thomason E544_4; ESTC R205982	14,178	22

Kingdome from further war Seventhly hath not the Parliament the Power and Authority for making and executing Law and is it not most righteous and just for the reasons foregoing that the King and other the heads of his adherents should be subject unto the Power Authority and unto Law and Justice Now upon all the foregoing considerations and conclusions of Scripture and reason is it not abundantly prov●● that the Generall and his Councell are now in Gods way and may expect successe and a blessing from God and are safely guided by the Spirit of truth that the meanes they ●●e are justifiable with in their sphere charge and duty agreeable to the Lawes of God nature and Nations together with the dictates of reason But as for you you have murmured reproached and traduced them very much in this your Letter and have most highly provoked the Lords wrath against your selves by opposing of those unto whom the Lord hath manifested his own power love and goodnesse and therefore you have added this evill unto all your sins to ask you such a King to rule over you one who was corrupted stained and rejected of God in point of Government and not without blemish as Saul was when desired by the people And yet God saith in so doing they had rejected him And the people did very sensibly confesse the Lords Justice and wrath against them for that they had added this evill of asking them a King unto all their sins In creating Samuel to pray unto the Lord for them that they dye not O that you and all the people in this Nation who are guilty in this kinde were but as sensible of Gods wrath against you all and that you would confesse and forsake your sin that ye may finde mercy but if ye will not walke in Gods way and counsell according to the truth plainly and sincerely set forth unto you If ye shall still do wickedly ye shall he consumed both ye and your King but I hope better things of you for the future and that you will keep your selves within your own sphere preach wholsome doctrine and not meddle injuriously with State-matters but if at any time you are thereunto called or invited I beseech you to speak and publish nothing but the words of sobernels and truth FINIS Febr. 17 1648. Imprimatur Gilbert Mabbot Judg. 12 1. c. Minst 1. Answ * Act. 26. 24. c. * Luk. 1. 3 4. Minist. 2. Answ Minist. 3. Answ Minist. 4. Answer * As in 1 Kings 1. 52. chap. 2. 12. c. to ver. 35. is very apparent and in the former part of the first Chapter * For that Abiather escaped away Minist. 5. Answ * In this case the Tyrant Nero was by the Senate of Rome sentenced to be whipt thorow the City and thrown down the Tarpeian Rock so then even nature it self concurred with St. Paul in those very people to whom he had written c. the Athe●ians and Lacedemonians were full of these examples Act. 22. 4 5. 23. 3 5. Parliament Declaration 20 May 1642. ●… Rich. ● ●Hen 4. * Witnesse the Iermine Horse Spanish Fleet and the Scots invasion Iosh. 15. Exod. 4. 22. 19. 5. Zach. 2. 8. Psal. 105. 14 15. 1 ●●…a ch. 22. ●inist Answ Note 〈…〉 I say 58. 1● * Here you wilfully forget that part of the Covenant viz. to bring delinquents to concligue punishment and was not he the cheif Jude * To wit the Parliament and his Excellency Their owne words retorted * O most shamefull presumption and pride for they are all quite contrary to you t. c. Alstedius c. remember the Scribes and Pharises 10. 7. 47 48 49. * Retorted Gal. 6. Minist. 8. Answer * Stiled Parliam Decl. 20 May 1642. Iudg. 5. 6 7. Sam. 15. 32 33 Psal. 2. Rev. 20. 9. Psal. 149. * In some of his Declarations praying God to deal with him and his according to his integrity when he disquite contrary to what he had avowed * Which God hath already fulfilled Prov. 28. 15. * Yet he was an anoynted tipe of Christ as all the Kings of Israel were 2 kin 24. 25 26. * And was not the first blood shed in ●r neer the Place wher the King died countenanced by himsel●e 〈◊〉 his own 〈…〉 ement * Psa. 14. 9. * Note this wel Iudg. 11. 19 20. Ier. 22. 24. 30. * To within respect of Kingly Government else not Conclusion ● Sam. 12. ult.

losse of member and blood and stigmatizings c. Thirdly Persisting in full opposition to the Parliaments humble Suits and Declarations made unto him shewing that whensoever the King makes warre upon the Parliament it is a breach of the trust reposed in him by his People contrary unto his Oath and tends to the dissolution of this Government which truth fully appeares at this day They further declared that whosoever shall serve and assist him in such warre are Traytors by the Fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome and have been so adjudged by two Acts of Parliament and ought to suffer as Traytors Fourthly he afterwards did indeavour with a high hand utterly to subvert salus populi and to destroy this Nation by setting up his Standard and waging open warre upon the Parliament and against all his good and loyall Subjects Fiftly by his prosecution of two warres in destroying the precious lives of very many together with the rapines and ruines of millions of people in these three Nations Sixthly for that the King despising good and faithfull counsell when seasonably given him by the Parliament of whom he ought to have received it wholly adhered unto animated and followed perverse foolish slanderous wicked proud malitious haughty deceitfull and murtherous mens counsell who endeavoured utterly to root out extirpate and extinguish the very name and being of all those who were the faithfull of the Land and endeavoured a thorow Reformation of all wicked and unrighteous practises in the King his family and Kingdomes Seventhly by betraying his Subjects into the Enemies hands abroad to wit in the Isle of Hee and in neglecting to relieve his Subjects in Ireland against those most barbarous and bloody Enemies and in bringing of them and other Forraigners from other * nations in upon us Eightly for that the King with all his trayterous Forces did continue to resist the Parliament and this Army raised by their Power and Authority for the defence of this Nation untill they had subdued them and made the King their conquered Prisoner after which time he ceased not to persist in his former designes Ninthly by his transgressing transcendently more than Saul did for he onely spared Gods enemies for which his Kingdome was taken from him and given unto David but our Saul destroyed the Lords dearest friends his first borne his peculiar Treasure and Jewels most deare and tender unto him he that toucheth them toucheth the apple of his eye these are his truly annoynted ones he hath reproved Kings for their sakes saying Touch not mine annoynted and do my Prophets no harme Now forasmuch as the Powers that be are ordained or ordered of God and God hath so ordered it that this Army contrary to the endeavours strivings and expectations of their Enemies multiplied plots and practises openly perpetrated against them in all parts of England Wales Ireland and Scotland c. besides all the in-workings and secret plots in the Parliament and City and in all other places against them as also by many of them who call themselves Ministers of the Gospell I say seeing God hath so ordered all that this Army should prevaile against all and subdue all unto the Immediate Supreame Power of the Parliament and by their Authority and Commissions given to them How is it then that ye who are teachers of others your selves are not yet ashamed to violate Gods Ordinance by piercing and wounding of that Authority which God hath set up in the Parliament through the sides of the Generall his Councell and this Army you having presumed upon the fluid and vulgar opinion of your Authority with the rude multitude of Malignants to counter-check and controule all and with one breath to have cried up the Kings life into safety and to have freed his person from Justice saying The Lord hath said it as those 400. Prophets said to Ahab Zedekiah smiting Micaian on the cheek because he declared Gods will for Ahabs death Sixthly whereas you say We have not forgotten those declared grounds and principles upon which the Parliament at first took up Arms and upon which we were induced to joyne with them from which we have not hitherto declined and we trust through Gods grace never shall c. I answer to page 5 6. That it is well knowne the first grounds and principles of the Parliament were for Salus Populi and it had beene well if you your selves and every Member of the House also had not declined but acted upon that principle ever since And although I grant you The Kings practises upon the Parliament was an high violation to their Priviledges and an act so injurious and destructive to the good of the Kingdome Yet I answer It was but while the Parliament and those five Members were fixed for the publick good and safety of the People but since that many of the Members declining that Principle desired the King rather than the safety of the People by whom they were intrusted for the good of this Nation Therefore upon that occasion they were very justly secluded and imprisoned without that that the Army did act any violence upon the Parliament or made any breach of their priviledges as you have inferred and for that the foresaid members were not seized upon when they were assembled in the house but without doores and for acting against the safety of the people And without that that the Parliament is not now free and full and as really as when the King would have seized on the five Members for the Parliaments being free and full doth not consist in a multitude who are contrary minded and principled but the Parliament is free and full because they now do act unanimously for the safety of the people and the good of the Nation blessed be God for it and blessed bee the repairers of the breach and the restorers of paths to dwell in And without that that his Excellency or the Councell of Warre are but private persons in referrence to the power of Magistracy or have usurped an Authority over King and Parliament or have medled with affaires which belong not to them as is suggested by you but have onely performed their duty to that end for which they were entrusted and authorized by the Parliament in defence of this Nation and therefore they could not have neglected what they have done without breach of publicke trust reposed in them And most repugnant to the Lawes of God nature and Nations together with the dictates of reason and neglect of their Commission Seventhly And to pag. 7 8● together with the rest of your Letter tending to that purpose I answer and retort the matter falsly surmised by you against the Generall and his Councell That the King alone did divest himselfe and by his owne doings subvert and overthrow the whole frame and foundamentall constitution of the Government of the Kingdome according to the Parliaments forecited Declarations of May 20 1642. And

have of late been put in practice against lawfull Authority especially by the late Remonstrance and Declaration published in opposition to the proceedings of Parliament as also by seazing and imprisoning the Kings Person without knowledge and consent of Parliament I answer Men who are authorized and intrusted by the Parliament to act for the Nation in generall as the Lord Generall and his Officers are may not be able at all times to stay for particular directions and yet attempt nothing against lawfull Authority so long as they act onely for the good and safety of the People as they did and therefore are now cleered by the Parliament for their so doing You might also very well re-mind how they remonstrated to the Parliament what they would do upon good grounds long enough before they proceeded to action all which time there was no Ordinance or Act of Parliament made to restraine them as there is now made to justifie them in all their proceedings Fourthly and whereas you accuse them of their late actions towards many of the Members of the Honourable House of Commons forcibly hindering above one hundred of them for sitting in Parliament and imprisoning many of their persons calling it an unparalleld violence many of them being knowne to be men of eminent worth and integrity who have given most ample 〈…〉 of their reall affections to the good of the Parliament I answer That if they did seclude so many and imprison many of their persons yet their worthines either as Members of the House or men of eminency and integrity who had given most ample testimony of their reall affection to the good of the Kingdom was not the cause therof as you say but their persisting to do an unworthy act after they were admonished pursuing their designe in behalfe of the King against the safety of the People and some other unworthy actions of some of them preceding that one act You have the like case in * Ad 〈…〉 jah Joab and Abiather men of eminent worth and two of them of great trust and integrity who had suffered with David in all his afflictions Joab exposing his life in all Davids and the Peoples warres for the safety of the Kingdome all his daies save onely in this last action consulting with and helping Adoniiah Davids eldest Sonne alive and not yet declared against as Heire apparent to the Kingdome Nor had David then declared for Solomon whom God had designed to be Ruler of his People and yet upon this occasion not onely Joab must have his other personall transgressions put into the Ballance with this Nationall one and be put to death but Abiather also although the Lords Annoynted having by this one offence forfeited his Authority and deserved to die must be thrust out of the High Priesthood and be sent to Anothoth to his owne Lands as a peculiar favour shewed to him in that his life was spared because he bare the Arke of the Lord before David and yet his father and all his family save onely * himself were destroyed by Saul for Davids sake and Abiathers Sons did also hazard their lives to give David intelligence when he fled from Absolom Fiftly whereas you say page 4. Remember the advice of Solomon Feare thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change c. And then say The feare of God therefore whose Ordinance is violated when Magistracy is opposed makes us afraid of medling with those who without any colour of legall Authority meerly upon presumption of strength shall attempt such changes as these are c. I answer That what you have peremptorily asserted is not proved and may be retorted for St. Paul Rom. 13. 1 2. having laid downe every Christians duty to the end that they knowing these Higher Powers when lawfull Kings Rulers c. may not resist them he sets them forth by their constitution viz. that Rulers are not a terrour to good works but to the evill Wherein he implies this Doctrine That what Rulers soever Kings or others who decline their duty and contrary to their constitution become a terrour to good works and justifie the evill viz. wilfully and publiquely perverting the Law and do ordinarily introduce an Arbitrary Tyrannicall and unjust course acting against the publique good and safety to the ruine of the People who have intrusted them such do thereby lose their power and cease to be Rulers and ought to be declared * and proceeded against for such For these Tyrants calling good evill and evill good are abomination to the Lord and do forfeit their Authority thereby by the testimony of the Gospell St. Paul Acts 22. 45. appealing unto Annanias as High Priest in the Jewish acceptation and as he had esteemed of him when he was a persecutor and received Authority from him being one of the Estates of the Elders of Jerusalem St. Pauls saying I persecuted this way to wit which he now professed unto the death binding and delivering unto Prison both men and women as also the High Priest doth beare me witnesse but within a few daies after he denieth his Authority and Rule calling him the accident whited wall a colour that makes faire shew but hath no substance for in truth Ananias had forfeited his Authority and Rule And St. Paul gives the reason saying For sittest thou to judge me after the Law and commandest me to wit arbitrarily and tyrannically to be smitten contrary to the Law And therefore he affirmed That he knew not that he was the High Priest although in the Jewish acceptation he both knew and had appealed unto him as High Priest and confirmeth it with Scripture saying It is written thou shalt not speake evill of the Ruler of the People This truth considered how then could you charge his Excellency and the Councell It have violated Gods Ordinance by opposing Magistracy without any colour of legall Authority seeing they have concurred with and are justified by the Parliament in all their proceedings against the King and for that he long since had forfeited his Power and Authority much more than Ananias detesting himselfe of all and dis-obliging this Parliament Army and People of their Allegiance to him and also subjected himselfe unto the power of the Parliament and Justice of the Lawes of this Land for the following reasons First because the Kings of the Gentiles were alwaies by humane institution intrusted for the safety of the People and are no sacred annoynted Types of Christ King of the Church as the Kings of Iudah and Israel were and received their institution to that end from God Secondly because our King hath been a terrour to good works and justified the evill and evill doers for many yeares before he raised warre upon the Parliament and People by forcing Ship-money and Loanes by his Privie Seale and Monopolies of all kindes oppressing and persecuting his Subjects in an Arbitrary way by Star-chamber and Counsell-board Censures