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A92927	The Army anatomized: or, A brief & plain display of the humble, honest and religious actings of the General Sir Tho. Fairfax, and his army of saints, toward the good of the King and Parliament, and the whole kingdom, since the famous victory, at Naseby, June 14. 1645. Occasioned upon the serious consideration of 4 Scripture-properties of every true saint and Christian soldier. 1. Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you ('tis our Saviors own Golden-Rule) even so do ye unto them. Mat. 7. 12. 2. Not to do any evil (a general Rule, which admits of no exception, either in Kings, or in Commanders) that good may come thereof. Rom. 3.8. 3. To abstain from every appearance of evil; much more from every apparent evil. 2 Thes. 5. 22. 4. Do violence, or wrong, to no man; neither accuse any man falsly. Luke 3.14. Now, how Sir Tho. Fairfax's army of saints and Christian soldiers have performed all these, or any of these, shal be faithfully and plainly declared, in 20. following observations. / By a loyal lover of peace and truth; but a hearty contemner of sedition and schism.	Loyal lover of peace and truth.	1647 (1647)	Wing S2600; Thomason E419_6; ESTC R203539	29,584	39

dead lift and that together with those Lords and Commons they had sent also Major General Skippon and Major General Massey whom the Parliament had thereupon ordained Commanders in chief of all the Forces in the Kingdom of Ireland both Horse and Foot and notwithstanding that divers Commanders and Souldiers were willing to accept that service and to go under the Command of those brave Generals yet the prime Commanders and Officers of the Army laid unremoveable blocks and obstructions again in the way to hinder this work and unless they might change and choose their own Generals Commanders and Officers themselves they would not stir by any means or fair intreaties nor did not go to this very day See here then still the charity of the Saints to their distressed brethren and their humble obedience to their supream Masters the Parliament whom thus contemptuously and highly they affront and what could they do more then as that excellent Author of the Religious R●treat saith to contemn God himself by such most palpable obstinacy and unparalleld Rebellion Fourthly the Army thus now lying lazily stil among us most heavily burthensome to the Kingdom and not having as was touch't before any visible enemy to encounter with and thus often ordered by the Parliament to disband but thus obstinately and disobediently refusing so to do how could they be otherwise looked upon then as the foresaid Author said as Challengers of or Champions against the Kingdom And for no little confirmation of this just jelousy let us take notice of that most notable and remarkable affront yea Traiterous attempt of this Saint-like and Submissive Army to the Parliament acted at Holmby in Northampton Shier where the King then lay and abode by speciall order of Parliament by one Joyce a beggarly Botcher or Tayler by profession and but a Reformade Trooper in the Army c. who by a Commanded Troop of 2 or 300 Hourse sent out by the Agitators and as t is believed by Cromwels direction too not known to the General till afterwards most desperately and traiterously undertook to come suddainly to Holmby and there most audaciously assaulted and set upon the King in his very bed-Chamber scarcely suffering his Majesly to take his rest that night and so besetting the House with a strong armed guard of his own Col. Graves who was placed there by authority of the Parliaments of both Kingdoms being for his own peace and safety forced to fly away his own Souldiers having been before hand debauched by the Agitators basely deserting him the next mourning betimes he violently forced the King out of his bed seized on his Royal person and all this without yea contrary to the power and authority of the Parliament and forcibly carryed him and the Commissioners of both Kingdoms as prisoners along with him into the Army where most Trayterously they carryed his Majesty Captive to and fro with them wheresoever they rambled just almost as Tamberlain carryed Amurathes the great Turk up and down in triumph in an Iron-Cage Thus have we seen Pesants in pomp to ride Whiles Princes poorly lackey it by their side Fiftly the Armies General himself though when he heard of this most Trayterous prank thus acted by such an obscure and inferiour fellow he seemed utterly to disclaim the knowledg of it assent unto it or assistance in it yet although as General he might or should have executed Martial-Law upon that Traytor Joyce and some of his chief accomplices and instantly to have hang'd them up the best way to have clear'd his integrity there in for so Traiterous a fact and unsufferable an affront against the King and Parliament and for so audatious an attempt and motion in the Army without his Generals order or allowance yet was so far from it as that insteed of being presently hanged as he most justly deserved he hath bin advanced as is generally reported and affirmed to a Captains place at least and is made one of the Agitators of the Army At this time also Cromwel had got the Parliament though with much a do upon his engagement for the Armys obedience to vote that no forces should be raised against the Army nor any thing done to distate them just when the King was thus ceased on and stolen away without leave And he and Peters being come to the Army at their Randezvouze neer Newmarket told his Regiment and others of the Army that this was the best days work that ever England saw meaning thus the Kings being thus got into their hands And yet for all this the General in a Declaration publish't under his own hand in print excused the whole Army from the knowledg of these things although it was credibly assured by some of his own Regiment that the party of Horse aforesaid that took the King was of 8 out of every Troop in the Army Only thus much I must ingenuously acknowledg of the Generals ingenuity that he was willing to dispose of the King back again as the Parliament should order it till Cromwel as t is generally reported alter'd it otherwise And were not here now to most Sanctimonious Acts of humility and justice in this Army of Saints so arrogantly and audaciously in a most high measure to affront the Parliament in thus not only wresting the King most violently out of the Parliaments power and custody but so highly encouraging the fact as to manifest to the whole world that high treason and boldest rebellion are no criminal offences but famous Virtues in this Sir Thomas his Army of Saints Sixtly after all this the noble Lord Damforlin one of the Scottish Commissioners appointed by both Parliament of England and Scotland to be one of the Attendants on the King● person as a Commissioner was most highly affronted and much abused by a party of the Saints of this Army who now under Whalty boldly guarded the King and would not suffer him to speak with his Majesty as was fit he should but when they pleased and as they pleased and they must hear whatsoever he had to say to the King touching any private businesses and thus at last drove him away from his attendance Yea and the Lord Louderdail also coming as a special Messenger or Embassador to the King from the Parliament and Estates of Scotland was most insolently abused by this guard of the Army of Saints about the King and even in his bed-chamber where he lay to take his rest after his journey to the King and neither suffered to stay there nor once to speak with the King to deliver his message and despatch his business with the King but was forced immediatly to depart away without so much as once seeing the King And was not here then think you stil a very humble and honest Saint-like Army thus to dare to affront all Civil and Moral Constitutions of Nations and Kingdoms for just Political purposes and causes allowed by all Laws of Arms and Nations and only thus boldly opposed by this holy

humble Independent Army of Saints Men prone to Pride Errors and Heresy Reject all Justice yea Civility Seventhly Notwithstanding that the Independents and Sectaries both in City and Country had formerly but most falsly vehemently taxed and reviled the Presbyterian Partie from time to time that but only upon meer suppositions ungrounded jealousies for too much complying with the Royalists Malignant party both in subscriptions of Petitions and other such like Combinations as things not to be admitted in point of Conscience nor to be endured by them Yet now that they have gotten the King into their power and possession they themselves not only most notoriously complywith and give strange allowance to Royalists and Malignants of all sorts and degrees to come to the King and to have ordinary and familiar recourse unto him which as you heard before they utterly denyed to the whole Presbyterian State and Kingdom of Scotland in their special Messenger or Embassador but which is far more transcendently notorious in this Army of precious and reforming Saints they also permit most desperately Malignant Prelatical Doctors of Divinity the Kings former Chaplains to preach before him which they judg they say most just and reasonable for the Kings outward and inward contentment though against particular orders to the contrary and to wait upon him yea and which is yet more notorious and remarkably audacious in them it being most directly against the Ordinances power and authority of the Parliament they a●●ow unto the King the Common-Prayer Book in most full and ample use of it with all Prelatical Coremenies in and about it and the like also is allowed by this Army of Saints and Godly party both at Oxford and divers other places where the Army quarters Absolutely contrary I say to our solemn and sacred Covenant and to the Ordinances of Parliament and that which I am sure the Presbyterian party neither did nor in conscience durst allow unto the King when he was in their guard and custody And is not this as the excellent Auther of the Religious Retreat truly sayes to build with one hand and to pluck down with another to seem at lest to set up again what God and the State with much pains and many prayers would have utterly raced and ruinated from among us Surely as he goes on when God gives the Kingdom to his Saints he wil not suffer them to give such large tolerations to sinful humane inventions in his pure and holy worship nor like dogs to return to their old vomit This undoubtedly must needs blast the too high esteem of your Army in the hearts of good men who verily beleeve these things cannot be of God And this makes all most justly to cry aloud to our honorable Parliament in these words which that reverend and religions Author gave his Reader in Latin but I have Englished thus Take heed O take heed most noble Senators and Fathers of your Country as ye tender the high honor of our eternal God least whiles ye seem to settle a present Peace yea utterly lose an everlasting Peace And so say I Take heed all ye that deal with Schismaticks Troy found in Grecian Guifts destructive tricks Eighthly This Army of Saints thus domineering and doing what they please the General with his Councel of War and brave or rather beggarly Agitators which now make up a pretty Picture and representation of the three Estates of a Martial petty Parliament whereby we are now in great fear to be mainly governed if not timely prevented begin to prescribe Rules I had almost said to make Laws to the Parliament and they must now be presently voted and avouched to be the Parliaments Army and it Thomas Fairfax sole Commander and Disposer of all the Forts Cinqueports and strong holds of the Kingdom and a substantial course taken to pay them their Arrears with certainty and constancy from time to time But yet this is not enough considering all the distoyal service thus already done to and for the Parliament to make the General as it were the Vice-Roy or Soveraign and sole Commander of the whole Kingdom and to make or repute the Army the principal Propugnators and Defenders of the whole Realms safety and felicity But Petitions must also be pretended and reported to be exhibited to the General and his humble Sainted Army from all Counties and Quarters whereas in very deed as t is wel known it was but at most a Sectarian blustring plot of some few inponsiderable Anabaptists Independents and such like Jugling chismaticks in some few Counties the fixst of those Petitions to the Army was set on foot at Bechyn in Essex by seditious Mr Salt marsh thus to make a huge noise to blinde the eyes and daunt the heart if it might be of too credulous people 〈◊〉 protection and preservation of their pretended Peace and Liberties or rather most licientious Libertinism in their said Petitions prossering and promising to the General All their homage and honor as to their sole Salvator in way of bounden gratitude Yea and now the General himself in his own name only with the testimony or subscription of his principal Secretary Worth-●-rush sending forth his Deelartaions alias Proclamations like a King indeed both to the Parliament and People to shew his powerful Demands or rather Commands to all form and degrees of men whomsoever as he sent a very plain and peremptory Summons to the City of London that they should give way to or comply with his Armies Proceedings or else the blood and misery that would befal the City must be upon their own heads not upon the Armies And as they did especially in August last 1647 in a most emment and transcendent manner of boldness even to the Parliament it Self in a book intituled A Declaration from Sir Thomas Fairfax and Proposals agreed on by the Councel of the Army to be presented to the Parliament as the Armies desires or I say Commands to the Parliament for the setling of a just and lasting Peace say they but so says not God Esay 57.21 For among many most unsufferable and insolent Proposals of turning the Triennial Parliament setled by an act of Parliament into a Biennial and that with such bold and licentious limitations as they themselves please to prescribe regulating our Common-Laws and Courts of Justice the Militia of the whole Kingdom and generally all matters of highest concernment both by Land and Sea in Church and State yea I say these conquering Keisars take upon them as it were to make and manage all Laws almost and to regulate us all according to their humor and pleasure But among all the rest I cannot nay who can choose but take special notice of their horrible and hellish impiety against God and true Religion Proposal 12. pag. 9. And so also in their last sort of Proposals Propos 9. pag. 13. against Conformity in Rellgion Where they most wickedly desire a repeal of all Acts of Parliament or Clauses of

any Acts imposing any penalties upon men or women for not coming to Church or for meetings elswhere that is in private Comers Houses Shops Cellars or Barns for prayer or other religious duties exercises or ordinances that is of any kind whatsoever whether Heretral Seditious Idolatrosu Plasphemous yea or Trayterous too if upon pretence of Religion for there 's no exception of any one of these in that or any other the Proposals whereby men may thus run head long to hel by authority and no man dare to molest or stay them O most abominable and desperately accursed Proposal hateful to God and men I have read of Alphonsus King of Aragon a famous Prince who hearing a Gentleman in his Court pleading against Learning and especially that it was unfit for Courtly Lords and Gentlemen to be trained up in literature or to be learned Schollars he in high indignation thereat cryed out presently That it was the Voyce of an Ox not of a man And certainly whosoever that has the least spark of piety or grace and reads or hears of this most hellish Proposal must needs most pathetically cry out in extream abhorrency thereof O the voyce of some accursed Turk or apostate Julian not of a Saint or professed Christian Yet thus you see how like most insolent and arrogant Rebels to God and all Goodness to Religion and the whole Realm this Army of Saints dares do or desire any thing to be done be it ever so destructive to Christanity or Civil Policy their desires they must have granted per fas aut nofas what care they being Saints and Conquerors of All. Hence then I conceive any man may clearly conclude that If monstrous Pride and gross Impiety Be signs of Saints These then are Saints most high Ninthly But for the yet more subtile corroboration and strengthning of their wicked design of an Vniversal Toleration the General the Councel of War and Agitators having thus as is aforesaid felt the pulses of the people in many places as they rambled up and down to be all for Peace and Freedom from Taxations and that almost upon any conditions they do first most illegally accuse 11. of the most loyal active and faithful Presbyterian Members of the House of Commons and nothing wil please them but a present expulsion of them out of the Parliament though the Parliament Voted they could not either in Law or Conscience do it as Complotters or Contrivers of a Second or New War the grand Anvil whereon now they must hammer and hatch all their subsequent mischievous plots thus by the very name of a Second War so opposite and odious to desired peace to render those worthy Gentlemen and all that in this sort they must now hereafter have to do with all the more odious and contemptible to all people both in City and Country Whereas 't is most apparent to God and the rightly intelligent whole Kingdom that the Army it self was the only rise and original cause of all our fears and jealousies of a Second War by their so bold and rebellious refusal to disband at the Parliaments just Command thereof as also upon their most notorious denial to be lessened in their numbers yea though it were for the most necessitous helping of the poor gasping and dying Kingdom of Ireland then in most sad distresses as aforesaid Thus Pride and Malice and Impiety Are ne'er without deep strains of Policy Now therefore in the tenth and next place They began to quarrel with the City of London also which had been O impious ingratitude even their principal Foster-Fathers as I may wel say both in making them an Army at the first and also in maintaining them in no smal measure all along ever since they were first New medelld to this very day And the ground of this their quarrel must be their secret complotting also with those 11. worthy Members of Parliament for the advancing and setting forward of the foresaid Second War and to this end their procuring of an unjust power says the Army from the Parliament for the alteration and managing of their own City Militia thereby to place and displace to put in or put out whom they pleased and that thereupon they had thrust out of their Militia divers precious deserving men says the Army men without all exception and most worthy to be confided in whereas indeed they were known Schismaticks some of them preachers yea some of them countenancing Paul Bests abominable blasphemies most of them desperate Enemies to our Covenant and Reformation of Religion as to the point of the power of godliness and of Presbyterian Church Government and these men say they were thus put out the better to carry on the wicked Design for so they now termed it of a Second War in the City against the Army and so consequently against the whole Kingdom and that the City also secretly listed Soldiers and conspired with the 11. accused Members and others to occasion a fresh effusion of blood in the Kingdom And thus by this abominable lying Engine I say of a Second War which now they cry out of in all their Letters Declarations and Remonstrances to the Parliament and people hereby as I said before to cry down all just defence against the Armies intended all-overtopping-All-overtopping-power and thus to cry up more and more their own most crafty design of over-mastering all others that durst indevor to oppose or resist them with their stil continued and strongly embodied Army and yet which me thinks is a most strange madness in men to beleeve in all this they must be accounted the only men of peace in the Kingdom and the chief protectors of a Free Parliament in its power and priviledges and of the peoples Hereditary Liberties Whereas indeed the clean contrary is most evidently true in them they themselves mainly and only intending nothing less than a Second or New War in case they may not have their will of the Parliament in all their Demands especially in the point of a Vniversal Toleration and Liberty of Conscience for al men in all religions they being thus I say in a strong ready body of an Army And having also for a most strong confirmation of the truth of all these premises brought all their Artillery from Oxford dayly listing Soldiers of all sorts Cavaliers and others possessing themselves most strongly of all our most considerable Holds Forts and Castles And thus I say most evidently resolving to fight with all that oppose them and to get into their power by force what they cannot by fraud and hypocrisie And thus the poor City of London hath hatcht up a bird to pick out her eyes or like the Country-man in the apologue reviv'd a Snake to infest and infect his whole House as afterward we shal yet more apparently perceive and shew you in a yet more fit place If ever Any Schismaticks indeed In black Ingratitude do All exceed Eleventhly For the more exquisitely ripening of their design they now