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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81548	The dispersed vnited: or, Twelve healing qvestions propounded to persons of ingenious principles and tempers. Tending to stop the mouth of frowardness, scandals, and reproaches cast upon those that submitted unto and acted under the several governments and governours (propter commune bonum) that have been exercised over this Commonwealth, since the interruption of this present Parliament on the 20th of April, 1653. By a friend to friends of the civill [sic] and religious interest of all good men.		1659 (1659)	Wing D1674; Thomason E986_17*; ESTC R207793	5,424	8

The Dispersed Vnited Or Twelve Healing QVESTIONS PROPOUNDED To Persons of ingenious Principles and Tempers TENDING To stop the mouth of frowardness Scandals and Reproaches cast upon those that submitted unto and acted under the several Governments and Governours propter commune bonum that have been exercised over this Commonwealth since the Interruption of this present Parliament on the 20th of April 1653. By a Friend to Friends of the Civill and Religious Interest of all Good Men. Si variâsse vocas crimen variavimus omnes Gall. 5.15 If ye bite and devour one another take heed ye be not consumed one of another Printed in the Year 1659. The Dispersed United OR Twelve Healing Questions c. I. WHether the truth and measure of mens good affections unto this present Parliament be to be estimated by their ancient and constant adherence unto them with their lives and fortunes without the least defection from first to last during the whole time of their former sitting under all the hazards Expences and ●harges of a long dangerous and doubtful War having neither heart nor hand in their interruption but were most passionately grieved and troubled thereat or by their vain and fruitless declamations dishonourable reflections vile reproaches and bitter invectives against him or them that by force and violence did interrupt the said present Parliament assuming the Supream Authority into his or their own hands II. Whether many if not most of those persons that sharpened their tongues like a Serpent against the late Single Persons dignified with the Titles of Protector were not the very self-same persons that did whet their tongues like swords and shot out their arrows even bitter words against this very Parliament before their said interruption and either were personally active therein or abetting the same or signified their apprrobation thereof by their great joy and rejoycing thereat and wheth●r it be not most probable that if their importune desires and impatient expectations be not soon satisfied though with publick dammage in the Judgment of the Parliament they will gather up their old stones of scandalous reproaches calumnies and falshoods and cast them against the same men of their quarrell ●II Whether that Thing called the Little Parliament did not assume unto themselves the highest dignity power and authority of this Nation as much as the pre●ent Parliament can do and whether they ●ad the least shew of right thereunto but the power of the sword to assert and secure them therein and whether the said late Protectours had not the same and whether many of those very persons who now seem to be eaten up with the zeal of this House were not the self-same persons that were then so zealous to pull down this House and to build up that other in the room thereof and whether some of them were not chief Pillars in that building and many others great Votaries for and Benefactors unto the same and whether it was not as lawfull to submit unto and to act under the late Protectors as to submit unto and to act under the said Little Parliament how passionately partial are some men in this age as if John an-Oake did deserve an Euge boneserve for that which John a-Stiles must have an ito maledicte IV. Whether the quiet submission of the Old assertors of this present Parliament and their peaceable subjection to the said Little Parliament during their reign and afterwards unto the said Protectors whilest they were in power there being no other visible authority among the people can rationally argue any defection in heart good will and affections unto the present Parliament The necessity of their submission might be their affliction but not their sin but their submission under that necessity could not possibly be their sin V. Whether the said known well-affected to this present Parliament acting under the said Little Parliament or Protectours in their several capacities of Justices for the Peace Commissioners for the Militia c. for the preservation of the publick peace and the interest of their own well-affected party the punishment of Vice the encouragement of vertue c. without any subscription or other testimony of their owning that Act of Violence in interrupting the Parliament and assuming the power of Government unto themselves but leaving that to the decsion of the great Judge of all Men Whether I say such persons so acting may therefore be justly accused of defection in their respects to the present Parliament or in the least to be disrespected for their so acting whether it was not their duty so to act and whether they ought to be sorry for it and to repent of it And whether this present Parliament ought not to bless God and them for the preservation both of them and their friends and the Good Old Cause viz. the Civill and Religious Rights and Liberties of the known well-affected party so far as they could by their so acting VI. Whether If all the Gentlemen of the present Parliament that did act under the several powers and forms of Government set up since their interruption 20th of April 53 either as Members of the said little Parlimaent or as Commissioners for the Peace or for Assesments made since that time or as Parliament men chosen by vertue of the Protector 's Writs issued out to summon Parliaments or as voting for others in that case or in some other capacity were excluded this Parl. there would be a sufficient number left legally capable of the name of a Parliament And if not Whether Justice and equity as well as goodness and charity do not provoke and invite yea obl ge them to indulge others as well as themselves for so acting VII Whether That by the Laws of true Religion or right Reason the people of this Nation are obliged or ought to oblige themselvs so to own assert and adhere unto the present Government in the way of a Commonwealth as it is now established as not onely to have no hand in the alceration thereof in any case under what circumstances soever but also never to submit unto or act under any other Government whatsoever which either by God's prouidence or permission might be brought upon them VIII Whether those Counties Cities Towns corporate Magistrates Ministers or others that made their respective addresses unto the late Protector owning him as the lawful Successor to his late Father in the Office of Protector according to an Act of Parliament supposed then to be authentick desiring him to protect those that are good to punish those that are bad to maintain the just Rights and priviledges of the people of God and the whole Nation engaging to assist him in so doing with their lives fortunes and imploring the assistance blessing of God upon his endeavours herein and furthermore being induced hereunto by an honest and innocent policy viz. The procurement of his favour assistance in their publick occasions as they may stand in need thereof as also for the disheartning of

ill affected persons waiting for commotions tumults and insurrections upon such changes of the chief Governour as also for the discouragement of the known enemy in forreign parts in Flanders and else where full of expectations of risings of the people at that time c. Whether I say the said persons might not make their said Addresses for the said honest and publick ends with an ingenious retention of their first principles of reall affection unto that cause wherein they engaged themselves at first with the present Parliament And whether having no hand in their interruption nor approving thereof their said Addresses can rationally argue against their most cordial rejoycing at the return of the present Parliament unto the free exercise of their authority and the finishing the work of a happy Reformation that lies upon their hands And whether that the undue reflections unchristian scoffs cast upon the said persons for their said Addresses do not argue rather the ventosity of their brains and the vanity of their minds than the so●idity of their judgments and the becoming gravity of their Spirits and behaviour that use the the same IX Whether the present Parliament indulging those of the Army upon their acknowledgment of their misprisions mistakes and misdoings in interrupting them on the 20th of April 1653. and in their setting up or at least assisting aiding defending and securing them that have set up other Governments and Governours since that time have not much more reason to indulge those that had no hand at all in their said interruption did never justify or own the same were heartily afflicted at it did onely submit unto and act under the said Governments and Governours since that time for publick peace sake And whether such indulgence countenance and favour unto their old friends renued and continued may not be a very good pledge unto the said Army that there is a true and real oblivion of their said interrupting them But c. X. Whether that even the present Parliament Army with all the distributed divided subdivided parties Peresbyterians Independants Anabaptists and others that at first made one single party united together against the common enemy have not had their mistakes miscarriages weaknesses and infirmities Whether they have not sometimes been in the dark and walked in untroden paths and sometimes stumbled and fallen therein Yea whether in some ca●es or other they have not made some detection or other little or much from that good cause wherein they were ingaged at first and if so whether it be not Christian Policy as well as true Piety to bear one anothers burthens to be tender-hea●ted towards one another to consider of one anothers temptations and snares and with the Spirit of love meekness compassion to endeavour to reduce one another to that primitive zeal and unity in the common cause against the common enemy wherein they were all ingaged to take heed of devouring one another lest they be d●voured one of another of the common enemy that would devour them all That sithence God is judge who pulleth down one setteth up another builds throws down kills makes alive scatters in his displeasure gathers together ag●in in his favour sithence he judgeth men for their sins and then in judgment remembers mercy whether these things considered Piety and Policy Religion Reason do not invite them all to fear and tremble before God not to snatch at advantages one against another but to imitate their Heavenly Father who passing by the infirmities of his people endeavours hy mercy kindness and goodness to gather them up unto himse●f and to make them all one in him If every of them that hath been faulty should be ●●oned to death which of them could live but if onely the innocent amongst them should cast the first stone at the guilty which of them could be hurt XI Whether that the appearance of this Parliament again at Westminster in the 7th year after their seeming dissolution death and burial be not Gods work and his strange work his Act and his strange Act beyond the wisdome of the wise and the understanding of the prudent that Sarah should give suck and the barren bring forth that Nebuchadnezzar driven from his Kingdom turn'd a grazing for 7 years together should again be restored to his Dominion Power Majesty that the rejected stones shoul● be made the chief corner stones are not these things the Lords doing and marvellous in our eyes And is not this a Vision of fear dread terrour unto the old adverse party like the coming of the Ark of God among the Philistines causing them to say Wo unto us for there hath not been such a thing heretofore wo unto us who shall deliver vs ou● of their hands these are they that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the Wilderness do not their faces gather blackness and their countenances look pale do not their hands hang down their joynts wax feeble th●ir knees knock together and their hearts sink like stones dye and fall within them Are not their hopes like the Spiders web and the giving up of the Ghost Can any thing imagin●ble be an anchor of hope unto them to quiet their troubled minds in this day of their fear except it be the divisions of their adversaries amongst themselves were they united who could hurt them but if continually divided how can they stand when one party shall divide into many and spend their respective opportunities powers and advantages to suppresse and weaken one another will not this in time prove ruinous unto them all if these prove goads in the sides and thorns in the eyes one of another in matters Civil or Religious if the Praelatical Presbyterian the Presbyterian Independent the Independent Anabaptist or any others shall assume unto themselves the s●irit of infallability in matters disputable branding others differing from them with the odious names of Schismaticks hereticks c. and not onely throw the fire-balls and thunder-holts of excommunication against one another but incense and stir up the Civill Magistrate for their imprisonment corporal punishment banishment or death because of these differences if upon advantages and opportunities some of the same party get up into th● Seat of Civil Government and cast down others as cordial to the old well-affected party and publick interest as themselves shall gore one another with the horns of their power and greatnesse will not this prove destructive at last unto them all XII Whether the great ends of Government publick peace and liberty the Civil and Religious Rights of the People be not more to be regarded then the forms thereof whether by Kings Protectors Parliaments or others And did not all the Vows Covenants Engagements Prote●●ations and Oaths made unto Kings Protectors Parli●ments pretend un●o these ends and not unto the Persons Powers and Places of any of these but with reference hereunto what are any or all those unto the people but for the sake of their peace and liberty when greatness of place power and authority make men forget themselves and the ends of their advancements which is no new thing under the Sun when because they are above every one therefore they judge themselves above all and unto the foresaid ends they prove Physitians of no value but when the people look for peace no good comes for a time of healing and behold nothing but trouble their yoaks are still made heavy rods whips and Scorpions are still upon their backs and that without remedy will they not argue in this case let it respect Kings Protectors Parliaments or whomsoever else all 's one as the Israelites against Rehoboam What portion have we in David or inheritance in the son of Jesse To your Tents O Israel and let David see to his own house And although it is sad and dangerous that instead of Crowns and Scepters the People should be under the power of Swords and Pistols and instead of Kings and Princes Servants should bear rule yet is Protection by the sword more desirable than destruction by a Law safety by a Servant than ruine by Lords and Masters Can the Parliament be safe except under God by the protection of the Army Can the Army regularly legally and honourably secure themselvs and friends but by the authority of the Parliament Hath not either need of the other for the good of both and their whole party If henceforth this Parl. and Army be knit together like David and Jonathan if each be friends to each others friends adversaries to each others adversaries if each be to other as their own soul resolving as friends to stick closer to each other then brothers will not their adversaries melt like snails before them their hearts fail them the stout-hearted amongst them be discouraged their men of might be weak as water and all their late great boastings and expectations pine away and come to nothing in The End