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A91456 The Parliaments nevv and perfect catechisme. Fit and necessary to be known and practised by every old Christian and loyall subiect. 1647 (1647) Wing P518; Thomason 669.f.11[87]; ESTC R210657 2,541 1

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THE PARLIAMENTS NEVV AND PERFECT CATECHISME Fit and necessary to be known and practised by every old Christian and loyall Subiect Quest WHat is your name Answ Reformation A blessed one Quest Who gave you that name Answ The Parliament A blessed one Quest What did the parliament then for you Ans They did promise and vow three things in my name First to maintaine the true Ancient Catholick and Apostolicke Religion Secondly to defend his Majesties Royall Person in his just Prerogatives Thirdly to preserve the Priviledges of Parliament and the liberty of the Subject Quest Dost not thou thinke that thou art bound to beleeve and the Parliament to doe as they have promised for thee Answ Yes verily charity obligeth me to beleive no Parliament can be so damn'd as to take an oath with intention and resolution to breake it and make the Covenant a very stalking horse to all their designes blinding the People with specious pretences only Quest Hath the Parliament truly and faithfully kept their Covenant Answ No verily but violated every particular branch thereof Quest What texts have you to prove that Answ Their severall apocriphall orders and ordinances extant which at pleasure they vote and unvote doe and undoe as they see occasion to the necessitating and undoing of us all Quest Is not the true Religion established and maintained according to the best reformed Churches of Christendome Ans No indeed but the best Reformed Church of Christendom is deformed by irreverently forcing her to conforme to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Kirke of Scotland Quest Dost thou not believe thou art bound by the Covenant stedfastly to labour and earnestly endeavour the setling of Presbyterie in this Kingdome Ans Truly no but rather to destroy all possible hopes of it and the very covenant it selfe which is impossible to keep for if the Scottish Presbiterie be allowed to be the best and we confirme and establish that forme of Government we confound the second Article which is to preserve the King in his just Prerogatives Monarchie his due and Presbiterie being incompatiable and altogether inconsistent nor can the libertie of the Subiect be at all maintained where an usurping power challengeth the priviledge to exercise Tyrannie over the very consciences of freeborn Subjects Quest Is not the King defended in his royall Person and his just Prerogatives Answ Yes indeed as well as Colonell Whallyes Regiment can defend him and of his just Prerogatives as yet he enjoyes just nothing Quest How is the condition of the King then good or bad Ans The Kings own conditions are extreamly good but he stands in a very bad condition being in the nature and extremitie of a Prisoner Quest Is the King a Prisoner Ans Certainly not so free as he ought to be amongst those many high and just Prerogatives of a King he enjoyes not the liberty of a Subject to goe where he pleaseth Quest How is the priviledge of Parliament and Liberty of the Subject maintained A The priviledge of Parliament hath confounded the Libertie of the Subject and the liberty of the Subject destroyed the Priviledge of Parliament Quest Is it not then a free Parliament A. The parliament is free enough to give to themselves what they take from us but no free Parliament Q. Is it not very just and reasonable that this present Parliament should be dissolved A. No expectation of peace and happinesse without the dissolution of this most dissolute Parliament and it should be the desire and resolution of the whole Kingdome to free it selfe from the tyrannie and oppression it suffers and the feare otherwise of an evitable second war c. The Houses consisting of two severall irreconcileable Factions the weaker and opressed will be alwayes plotting and practising to maintaine and support their reputation in the Country which shall ever be preserved in their ancient ignorance to their own undoing and confusion Q. What hopes have you that the Army according to promise and just expectation will dissolve this Parliament A. Truly little for now that Partie prevailing in the House the Army hath an Authoritie and Vote to countenance all their Actions which otherwise might have been questioned So they will preserve mutually each other to the destruction of us all Q. What necessity is there for the Synod to sit longer A. None for if Libertie of Conscience be allowed there will be no use of forme or priscription for Church Disciplince Q Why are they not dismissed without further trouble to themselves and us A. There is a mysterie in that they serve for better use to the Parliament The Synod hath in Sequestration Church livings to the value of six hundred thousand pounds yearly comming in The Parliaas much otherwise they are well contented to devide the spoyle The Parliament borrowes conscience from the Synod the Synod derives law from the Parliament Q. Will the long deluded People endure this long which conduceth not to the good but ruine of the King and Kingdome A. Certainly no nor can it be long safe for those that thus imprison and enthrall the King captive and enslave the Kingdome that will not be longer subject to the usurpation and controlement of fellow Subiects Q You speake as if there were a probabillitie of resistance if they should maligne the King or infest the Subiect What power could any obtaine to oppose and impede their designes they having posest themselves of that ever famous and memorable City of London the Navy at Sea and maintaining a powerfull Army at Land A. The eyes of the whole Kingdome are intent and fixt on the King and looke upon him as the only uniustly suffering and injured Partie crucified between to Factions The Army by not executing their pretences and not perfecting their promises hath contracted a generall hate and by delaying the Kingdomes peace and welfare which depends altogether on the Kings happinesse and safety are grown burthensome and intollerable so that their continued sufferings will force them to shake off their tamenesse and rouze up thoughts thirsty of revenge Q. If the Army have good intentions as they have plauceable pretences what meanes this cruell delay why is not the King setled Prisoners of warre released the Parliament dissolved and the Army disbanded A. Their tedious delayings draw their intentions into a suspect of being ill that they meerly pursue designes of their own interests without reflecting on the great concernment of King and Kingdome that by their flow motion they gaine the advantage of reducing the whole Kingdome under the power and command of the Army which they will never be able to compasse for if they reflect on their present state there is a division in their Army as well as in the Houses of Parliament which cannot be cemented but in the King the proper Center where we must meet and agree in Q. What is the best and readiest way to procure and establish our constant durable Peace and happinesse A. The most Certaine and infallible way is to referre all to his Sacred Maiestie offer him innocent and spotlesse hearts white and nnblotted Paper He writes a faire hand let him imprint his own conditions and that is the way to perpetute our blisse ye doe violence on his modestie far but doing our dutie would so overcome him that he would not aske so much as we ought and should most chearfully submit to him FINIS London Printed in the Yeare 1647.