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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

conside in many Sectaries and neutrally disaffected persons having then crept in among them or at least discovered themselves then to be disaffected to the Covenant and Presbyterian Government the City promising and assuring their readiness and cheerfulness to raise monies for the payment of the Armies arrears if these things might immediately be done for them and the Kingdom For satisfaction to all which the Cities desires though by the craft and power of the Independents in the Parliament that famous Remonstrance and their other most excellent necessary and honest Petitions were most strangely discountenanced and seandalized yea and voted to be scandalous papers yet many fair promises were made unto them but stil from time to time obstructed and retarded and nothing to any purpose done for them but the City yea and the whole Kingdom was most grosly baffled and deluded by the Sectaries and Independent party and their noutrakadherents Thus we see When God intends for Sin a ●and to lash Mens sheltring Hopes and Helps turnall to trash But now in the first place to come to the main matter of this our Army of Saints so most falsly called by proud Sectaries themselves and their seduced Ones And herein also not to rake in the dunghil of its most deboyst deportment for the generality of them in most places where they are quartered continually complained of almost by all that see and truly know them and have had experience of them both for their most beastly drunkenness even to vomiting and death in their drunken vomits for their frequent andmost fearful cursing and swearing by no less oaths than dam me wounds blood and other Cavalierian oaths their most profane sporting playing and fighting deperately one with another even on our Fast-days yea and Lords-days too and for their most abusive insolent and proud refusal of the moderate and wholesom dyet in poor and mean mens houses even beyond their abilities oftentimes But I say to omit all these to a fitter opportunity hereafter and to take a brief view of the seeming fairest flowers in this Armies garden even of their most speciously pretended honest Actings all along of late And first I say notwithstanding that Cromwel that fly Ringleader to all the Armies disobedience and rebellion had solemnly protested and promised oftentimes even upon his life and honor in the face of the whole House of Commons in Parliament that the Army should and would disband and lay down all their arms at the doors of the Parliament whensoever the House pleased to command them yet afterward when as upon the many Petitions of the Kingdom to the Parliament to have the Army disbanded Both Houses of Lords and Commous sent to have them disband they utterly refused so to do except they might first have their Arrears payd and all their own terms and conditions granted unto them and amongst them one Condition most destructive to the Parliament viz. an Act of Indempuity with the Royal Assent As for that late and too stale yea false and frivolous plea of the Armies that they saw an absolute necessity of their not disbanding because they had discovered a most desperate and dangerous Plot against their Army as they termed it and so consequently against the Parliament and Kingdom this I say was most false and frivolous and they might as wel perswade us there were strong castles built in the ayr against them or any such strange Chymera's of non-Entities or things that never were in rerum natura For at this time there was not any such thing objected to the Parliament or then once dream't of to be the cause of their not disbanding but only their want of Arrears and an Act of Indempnity as aforesaid neither to this day hath or can any such Plot be proved or was once mentioned til they upon this pretence contrived to accuse the 11. worthy Parliament Members of a plot who have to some of their faithful friends taken it on their Salvation they never had the least thought of any such plot and as it may easily be asserted had no ground or cause to intend such a plot And hath not Cromwel who is I say believed to be not only the main Moderator but Machinator also of this and all other the Armies principal transactions hath he not here at the first fairly playd the Saint and performed his promise to the Parliament Secondly notwithstanding Irelands extream necessity the Parliaments stil earnest importunity and the Armies stil pretended proclivity to disband and to have a part of the Army speedily sent away for poor gasping Ireland relief yet as was remarkably evident in Collonel Hammonds andacious demands and articling with the Parliament upon most arrogant and high terms ere he would stir a foot thither Together with a most Seditious and Trayterous Petition as the Par liament it self voted it which was subscribed by a considerable Party of the Army for a combination of not disbanding except they might have their own demands and conditions first granted and confirmed unto them Yea notwithstanding that the Parliament condescended herein also to them as much as possibly they could for the present and had prepared money to pay them as much of their Arrears as possibly they could and promised the publike faith of the Kingdom for the rest in due time And thus again they utterly refused to obey the Parliament herein also and would neither disband nor go to the help and assistance of that greatly distressed and almost utterly ruinated Kingdom for want of our help whatsoever fair Pretences and Protestations they made of Both. And was not here think you an humble and honest demeanour of a Saint-like Army And had not these Saints strangely forgotten here what they have often heard and therefore should the better have remembred that the Prophet Samuel inspired by the holy-holy-Spirit of God said most truly 1 Sam. 22.23 To obey is better then Sacrifice and to hearken then the fat of Rammes For rebellion is as the sin of Witcheraft and stubborness is as iniquity and idolatry Or can any wise or good man believe that this was a Right and Religious way to credit the Gospel to Crown themselves with the Title of Saints or to purchase present or future prayses I surely think not Well said King David Trust not Princes great Nor Sons of Men prone to delude and Cheat. Thirdly notwithstanding that the Parliament in deep sense of the absolute necessity of the business of Ireland had after that again sent divers Lords and Commons in person to the Army both for the disbanding of it as was still promised and mightily now pretended and days prefixed for the disbanding of such and such Regiments of the Army and for the seeming serious appropriating and preparing of such and such forces of Horse and Foot to be speedily dispatch't away for Ireland Yea and money procured at least 200000. l. of the City of London who still were ready to help the Parliament and Kingdom at a