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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96821	The history of independency, with the rise, growth, and practices of that powerfull and restlesse faction.	Walker, Clement, 1595-1651.	1648 (1648)	Wing W329A; Thomason E445_1; ESTC R2013	65,570	81

Tyrant was ever so barbarous so indiscreet as to do the like It was moved that Offendors of this kind might be bound to the good Behaviour and the offence proved openly at the Assizes or Sessions before so destructive a punishment be inflicted There are three principles in law of which the Laws are very tender and will not suffer them to be touched but upon great offences cleer proofs and exact formalities observed life liberty and estate by Magna Charta the Petition of Right and many other Statutes these principles are so sacred that nothing but the Law can meddle with them Nemo imprisonetur aut disseisietur nisi per legale judicium parium suorum you have made the people shed their money and bloud abundantly pretending defence of Religion Laws and Liberties let them now at last being a time of peace enjoy what they have so dearly paid for and delay them not with a pretended necessity of your owne making you now make all that is or can be neer and deer to them lyable to the passions of three Committee men to judge and execute according to their discretion without Law or so much as a formality thereof And yet both Houses of Parliament have often heretofore offered to abolish those Committees as men whose wickednesse and folly they and the whole Kingdome were ashamed of The Grandees of the Parliament and Army when the Houses are called and full have resolved to draw their Forces nearer about the Towne and by that terrour to try the temper of the Houses such Members as will not comply with them they will with fresh Charges purge out of the Houses and publish base and infamous scandalls against them to which if they submit with silence they betray their reputations for ever and spare the credits of their jugling enemies If they make any defence for their honours by way of apology they shall be brought within the compasse of this devouring enslaving Ordinance as men that reproach the Parliament and their proceedings Thus the same whip shall hang over the shoulders of the Presbyterian party who wil not agree to King-deposing Anarchy Schism as it did formerly over the Kings party And the Presbyterians shall be squeezed into the Independents coffers as formerly the King's party were so long as they had any thing to lose for the whole earth is little enough for these Saints who are never satisfied with money and bloud although they never looke towards Heaven but through the spectacles of this world The old elogium and character of the English Nation was that they were Hilaris gens cui libera mens libera lingua But now Country-men your tongues are in the stocks your bodies in every gaole your souls in the darke and estates in the mercy of those that have no mercy and at the discretion of those that have no discretion Farewell English Liberty 90 90. Generall Conclusions Out of these Premises I shall draw these Conclusions following 1 1. The Grandees have subverted the fundamentall Government of the Kingdome and why 1. THe engaged Party have laid the Axe to the very root of Monarchy and Parliaments they have cast all the mysteries and secrets of Government both by Kings and Parliaments before the vulgar like pearle before swine and have taught both the Souldiery and people to looke so far into them as to ravell back all Governments to the first principles of nature he that shakes fundamentalls means to take down the fabrick Nor have they been carefull to save the materialls for posterity What these negative Statists will set up in the room of these ruined buildings doth not appeare only I will say they have made the people thereby so cur●●us and so arrogant that they wil never find humility enough to submit to a Civill rule their ayme therefore from the beginning was to rule them by the power of the Sword a military Aristocracie or Olgarchy as now they do Amongst the aincient Romans Tentare Arcana Imperii to profane the mysteries of State was Treason because there can be no forme of Government without its proper mysteries which are no longer mysteries then while they are concealed Ignorance and admiration arising from Ignorance are the parents of civil devotion and obedience though not of Theologicall 2 2. They have subverted the Church 2. Nor have these Grandees and their party in the Synode dealt more kindly with the Church then with the Common-wealth whose reverend Mysteries their Pulpits and holy Sacraments and all the functions of the Ministery are by their connivence prophaned by the clouted shooe the basest and lowest of the people making themselves Priests and with a blind distempered zeal Preaching such Doctrine as their private Spirits spirits of illusion dictate to them But let them know that their burning zeal without knowledge is like hell-fire without light Yet the greatest wonder of all is The Sacrament of the Lords Supper discontinued and why That they suffer the Lords Supper that Sacrament of Corroboration to be so much neglected in almost all the Churches in the Kingdome Is it because men usually before they receive our Saviour that blessed guest sweep the house cleane casting out of their hearts those living Temples of the holy Ghost Pride Ambition Covetousnesse Envy Hatred Malice and all other unclean Spirits to make fit roome to entertaine Jesus that prince of peace whereby the people having their mindes prepared for Peace Charity and Reconciliation may happily spoile the trade of our Grandees who can no longer maintaine their usurped dominion over them then they can keep them disunited with quarrels and feudes and uphold those Badges of factions and tearmes of distinction and separation Cavaleers Round-heades Malignants Well-affected Presbyterians and Indedendents or is it because they fear if the Church were setled in peace unity it would be a means to unite the Common-wealth as a quiet cheerfull minde often cureth a distempered body I will not take upon me to judge another mans servant but many suspect this is done out of designe not out of peevishnesse 3. That these Grandees governe by power 3 3. The Grandees rule by the arbytrary power of the Sword not by the Lawes not by lo●● and the the Lawes of the Land which was my last assertion appears by 1. The many Garrisons they keep up and numerous Army they keep in pay to over-power the whole Kingdome more then at first the Parliament Voted 2. Their compelling the Parliament to put the whole Militia of England and Jreland by Land Sea into the power of Sir Tho Fairfax and their party 3. Nor do they think the Laws of the Land extensive enough for their purposes therefore they piece them out with Arbitrary Ordinances Impeachments before the Lords and Marshall Law which is now grown to that height that the Councell of War Generall and judge Advocate of the Army doe usually send forth instructions to stay suites and release