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A91641 A remonstrance to the people. Ordered by the high court of reason, that twelve thousand copies hereof be forthwith printed and published in the severall counties of this kingdome respectively. 1649 (1649) Wing R1030; Thomason E568_18; ESTC R203386 7,311 14

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A REMONSTRANCE TO THE PEOPLE Psal 7.9 Oh let the wickednesse of the Wicked come to an end but establish the Just Job 34.30 That the Hypocrite reigne not lest the People be insnared Psal 21.7 For the King trusteth in the Lord and through the mercy of the most high he shall not be moved ORdered by the High Court of Reason that twelve thousand Copies hereof be forthwith printed and published in the severall Counties of this Kingdome respectively LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1649. A REMONSTRANCE TO THE PEOPLE Royall and Loyall Fellow-subjects WHat honest Heart doth not bleed to see this lately glorious Nation thus lie gasping who can refrain from utterance who conceives he thinks of any thing which may advance the reuniting of our distracted obedience Suffer me also therefore to disclose my heart in this sad Case wherein every good Man hath an Interest though the Great Ones have the guilt the braines of a wise Man and the bowels of a common Father met together in one counsell to you Feare GOD and the KING and meddle not with them that are given to change here is our warrant beyond a Gypsies knot or a dow-bak'd Ordinance we may be Royalists and Religious too But the destruction that dogs the contempt of this advice you or your Children will live to see and suffer in the desolations of your Countrey which is ready to be laid waste the dissolution of its Government which even at this instant tottereth and in the miseries and judgments upon your Posterity which are ineffable worthy of God to the horrid production of these calamities you are all promiscuously made accessary impeached by a Confederacy that would be thought meek in Murther that usurp a Saintship in Sacriledge and labour to skreen themselves from obloquy by an imputation of their villanies to your consent and abetting If we demand why the last Parliament was called They answer to ease the Grievances of the People If we enquire who chased the KING from His Parliament They must still answer the People If we aske who pursued Him insnared Him Imprisoned Him who called for Justice against Him who Butcher'd Him Eccho is the same the People Thus these Anachims of Hell these Zanzummins for the Devill who flatter themselves under Gods vengeance and whose transgressions are Registred to all eternity in the successe of their impieties practice upon your stupified coldnesse and take advantage through your feares to scandalize your Loyalty If a tile onely from the house-top fall on your heads you are sensible and now the Kingdome is falling are you stupid shall other Mens Rebellions taint your Families and pose succeeding Generations to distinguish between the Patriots of their Country the Cut-throats who waded in their Princes bloud A Remonstrance to the People was the first invention to unsoder your obedience from your KING that was Machiavel's Master-piece whereby they made you and your Purses the rash Instruments of their ends but never acquainted you with their bloudy and confused purposes there they revealed a visible designe but concealed their capitall intentions The Protestant Religion which hath cost you so much bloud and money yet is now scoffed at under the reproach of Pulpit-doctrine was in danger Popery was comming in the Government of the Church oppressed tender Consciences and off went Canterbury's Head Evill Counsellors laboured to subvert the fundamentall Lawes which they are now abrogating and to introduce an Arbitrary Government but they scorned to give this Honour to any but themselves and away flew Strafford's Head Thus they made a strict profession of Zeale justice and piety and by a subtile inversion of the precept of God they pretended to doe some good that much evill might come thereof In one place they lay before your eyes their Jealousies and Feares when God knoweth the greatest feares were lest thorow some cranny of their dissimulation you should discerne their fraudulency In another place they are full of immodest bitternesse peremptory presumption popular insinuations and a medley of slanders and flatteries all tending to rumour and impression in seduceable Spirits Thus at first they dissembled themselves into your unwary hearts and now they force themselves into your purses your houses your barnes and your very beds yet still you are led by them like the Oxe that goeth to the slaughter or the Foole that laugheth when he is carried to the whipping-post but let me speak as to wise Men and judge ye what I say imagine how glorious a comparison is made both by God and man between those that put a Kingdome out of frame and those that reduce it into order think how diffusive that Honour would be over all the Christian world and how firme permanent that comfort would prove to your Posterity if you return to your obedience re-establish your KING and by a just retaliation leave these Traytours Paramount these Crumeni-mulgent Rebels to catch cold at their backs and perish by themselves but because duty taught and rightly understood is a surer obligation than a blind custome of obedience as a seeing Man may tread surer by a light than a blind Man can by a Guide I will in a compendious indeavour dig to the ground of the Constitution of this Kingdome and shew you the very root of your obedience that seeing the reason and the reasonablenesse of it you may also see your errors and seeing them forsake them and with them your perfidious or blind Guides And here I must declare my selfe to be such an Admirer of this Architecture that whether it had the influence of a supernaturall wisdome whether it were contrived at once or perfected by an act of time I presume no frame of Government in the whole world doth transcend it for exactnesse of true policy here is a regulated provision for the Soveraignty of the KING and here is an ample dowry set apart for the People here is the counterpoize of the Nobility to restraine Tyrannicall excesse and here are also the Priviledges of the People to curbe the insolence of the Barons But lest I lose my selfe in admiration I proceed We must beare regard to Government as an indivisible beame of divine perfection and as is the Constitution of it such is the Ordinance of God and as is the Ordinance such ought to be the proportion of our Duty Subjection The customary distinctions of it are three-fold In relation to the Measure of it it is either Absolute or Limited In relation to the Manner of it it is either Supreme or Subordinate And in reference to the Meanes of acquiring it it is either Elective or Successive That of Prescription and that also of Conquest is reducible to these Secondly Government is either Nomotheticall understanding by it the power of making new Lawes and interpreting the old or Gubernative intending by it the power of putting those Lawes in execution This leads us on to the subject wherein this Supreme power and trust is resident And that