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A56219	A true and perfect narrative of what was acted, spoken by Mr. Prynne, other formerly and freshly secluded members, the army-officers, and some now sitting in the lobby, house, elsewhere, the 7th. and 9th. of May last ... by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4112; ESTC R19484	104,478	113

of God or prudent Senators or Statesmen No no but to be that generation of spoylers and treacherous men no more to be believed trusted by any though you speak fair words nay swear and vow who have spoiled and dealt very treacherously with your brethren and the House of your Fathers who raised entrusted you for their defence and preservation against whom God denounceth a Woe and answerable retaliation in conclusion to be spoiled and dealt treacherously with your selves as some of you your new Protector and those now sitting have been already dealt with and others who made them treacherous Is. 33.1 Jer. 12.1 2 6. c. 3.4 Yea such Neighbors brethren as will utterly supplant deceive slander their very nearest dearest relations whose habitation is in the midst of Deceit whom God himself commands us to take heed of and not to trust for they are all an assembly of treacherous double-minded men unstable in all their wayes empty clouds carried about with a tempest raging waves of the sea which cannot rest foaming out their own shame casting out mire and dirt wandring stars to whom are reserved the blackness of darkness for ever as three Prophets and 3 Apostles resolve in express terms Isay 57.20 21. Ier. 9.2 3 4 5 6. Mich. 7.5 6. Iam. 1.6 7. 2 Pet. 2.17 Iude 12 13. O therefore now at last repent repent with greatest grief shame horror of this your Treachery Inconstancy and harden not your hearts as in the day of temptation and provocation Decemb. 6. 1648. May 7. 1659. when you erred in your hearts wandred out of the way of God peace truth justice righteousness honesty piety duty into such Iesuitical paths wherein there is nothing but wasting and des●r●ction as God resolves all men find by 11 years sad experiment else he will swear in his wrath you shall never enter into his rest If these Evangelical Scriptural Expostulations will not perswade you to sound a present retreat sue out a Bill of divorce from your false Good Old Cause for our future publike safety peace settlement M. P. shall then intreat you to believe your own Declarations In your last May 6. 1659. you truly declare to the world That the only wise God in the course of his providence hath disappointed all your endeavours and rendered all your means to obviate the dangers and settle these Nations in peace and prosperity VTTERLY INEFFECTVAL Will you know the true reason of it It is because ever since you have interrupted and forcibly dissoved the Treaty of Peace between the late King and his Parliament Decemb. 6. 1648. you have walked in such crooked counsels pathes of iniquity bloud violence Treason destruction as whosoever goeth therein shall NOT KNOW PEACE and have neither known nor pursued the true way of Peace as God himself resolves you if you dare credit him Isay 59.2 to 16. which you may do well to study If you will not believe God nor Mr. Prynne herein pray then believe your own selves whiles in your right senses before the good spirit of God departed from you and now pursue that only way to our peace and settlement you then at least 4. times successively prescribed In your humble Remonstrance from his Excellency and THE ARMY under his command presented to the Commissioners at St. Albans 25 June 1647. p. 12. these are your own printed words We doe further clearly confess We do not see how there can be any peace to the Kingdom firm or lasting without a due consideration of and provision for the Rights Quiet and Immunity of His Majesties Royal Family and late partakers And herein we thinke that tender and equitable dealing as supposing their case had been ours and a Spirit of Common love and Iustice diff●sing it self to the good and preservation of all will make vp the most Glorious Conquest over their hearts if God in mercy see it good to make them and the whole people of the Land lasting friends The like words expressions to the same effect you use in your Representation of the Army 14 Iune 1647. in your Generals Letter to both Houses of Parliament 6 Iuly 1647. Declaring it the General sense of all or most of the Officers of the Army to avoid all Harshness and afford all kind usage to his Majesties person Family aud late Party as the most honourable prudent and Christian way and the most hopefull course to take away the present and future seeds of Warr amongst us to posterity and to procure a lasting Peace and a Government in this distracted Nation And in your Proposals 1 Aug 1647. for The settlement of a firm peace you have the like expressions again as Mr. Prynne in his Speech in Parliament Dec. 4. 1648. p. 79 80 81 82. evidenced to the House of Commons perswading them to pursue this only way of Peace and not your quite contradictory Remonstr 20 Nov. 1648. when debauched by the Iesuits the only way to unsetlement tumults warres desolation as experience hath now sufficiently demonstrated O therefore now at last embrace pursue this true and only way to safety peace settlement by your own quadruple Resolutions and then we shall soon have peace quietness safety and assurance for ever Mr. Prynne having thus discharged his Conscience towards the Army-Officers and Swordmen the Primum mobile of all our late present motions and commotions wheeling about all the rest he shall in the second place addresse himself to their subordinate selected Westminster Conventicle now sitting under their force and lure to act vote what they prescribe them forcibly separating their old fellow Members from their company and himself above all others who hath lost suffred spoken written acted more from time to time for God Religion Laws Liberties Properties Parliaments and their privileges against all Iesuitical underminers than all of thē put together notwithstanding all discouragements ingrate requitals from them and others He shall only desire them in relation to the old and newly secluded Members to answer that one expostularie Text Mal. 2.9 Have we not all one Father Hath not one God created us yea one Mother Church Countrey engendred nourished entrusted us all alike Why then doe ye deal treacherously every man against his brother by prophaning the Covenant of our Fathers As for your New erected revived Republike you so much dote on Wherin ye have reigned as Kings without yea against us and we would to God ye did reign that we also might reign with you He shall desire you for your own our Churches Religions sake safetie honour to consider its Papal Jesuitical Antichristian Spanish French originals and its sad effects to their advantage and the ruine of our Religion alreadie discovered which you cannot gain say To weigh his former expostulations with the Army-Officers Soldiers and these few Scriptural to omit manie other Political Historical considerations beyond all refutation and more to be valued than all Politicks of carnal heads or hearts to enamor

and protesting engaging against them both as no Members of it Neither can they pursue any one of those ends for which this Parliament was continued Therefore they are doubtlesse beyond dispute no Parliament at all within the words or intention thereof their own Consciences Reason being Judges whatever they pretend nor yet by their own Republican principles a free and equal Representative of the people 6 ly By the Law and Custom of all Nations Nature Reason Justice Equitie the laws of England and of all publick or private Ecclesiastical Civil or Militarie Councils or Corporations the Majority of persons Members Voyces Votes are alwayes reputed the Parliament Council Synod Corporation and do yea ought of right to bind the lesser part as well in making Laws Ordinances as Elections and all else that concerns the publick Yea the General and General Counsel of the Army-Officers in their Petition to those and others now sitting in Parliament and draught of an Agreement of the people for a secure and present peace framed prepared and presented to them to be established and subscribed by the people Ianuary 20. 1649. not onlie subscribed thereto but proposed That 150 Members at least be alwayes present in each sitting of the Representative at the passing of any Law or doing of any Act whereby the People are to be bound saving that the Number of sixty may make the House for Debates or Resolutions that are preparatory thereunto Therefore the 42 Members secretlie skipping into the House secluding the rest May 7 9. being not the 10th part of the Members of the old Parl. now surviving by all Nations Laws Consents can be no Parliament nor House of Commons within this Act nor pass anie thing to bind the Majoritie of the Members or people in anie kind whatsoever what ever anie imprudent illiterate shameless namelesse Scriblers or themselves against their own Reasons Consciences Iudgements principles resolutions pretend to the contrarie but dare not once affirm in good earnest It being a received Maxime in all Ages Populi minor pars Populum non obligit 6 ly It is a rule our Lawbooks That all Statutes ought to be interpreted according to Reason and the true mind meaning intention of those that made them but it is most certain That it is against all reason and the true intents minds meaning of the Makers of this law to make a Parliament without a King or House of Lords or Majoritie of the Commons House Or that all or anie of them when they made this Act did ever dream of such a Iuncto as this now sitting Or to seclude themselves and resign up their own interests freedoms privileges right of sitting in Parliament with them to constitute them the onlie Parliament of England as everie line syllable throughout the Act demonstrates Therefore they neither are nor can be a Parliament within it neither can the Bedlam Turkish Bruitish unreasonable Argument of the longest Sword or Armie-logick nor the petitions addresses of any Crack-brain'd Sectaries and vulgar Rabble of inconfiderable illiterate people nor the presence of anie Lawyers sitting with or acting under them as a Parliament to their own and their Professions dishonour make them so in their own or any Wisemens or Iudicious honest Lawyers Iudgement whatsoever And therefore out of Conscience shame justice prudence and real Christianitie have they anie left they must needs disclaim themselves to be a Parliament and no longer abuse the Nation or others under their disguise All whith Mr. Prynne if admitted would viva Voce have pressed home upon them but being forcibly secluded by their Gards because unable to answer or contradict his Law or Reason he now tenders to their view and the Judgement Resolution of the whole English Nation to whom he appeals with this publick Protestation That if they will freely call in all the surviving Members of the Lords and Commons House sitting till December 1648. without secluding anie by force or new unparliamentarie Impositions or seclusive Engagements which they have no power to impose If they upon a free and full debate shall resolve the old parliament to be still in being and not actually dissolved by the Kings beheading notwithstanding his premised Reasons to the contrarie He will then submit his private Iudgement to their Majority of Voyces in this as well as in all other Parliamentary debates and contribute his best assistance and advice as a Fellow-Member to heal the manifold breaches prevent the approaching ruines of our indangered Church Realms Parliaments Laws Liberties Peace and establish them upon better foundations than those now sitting to promote their own and the Armies interests rather than the peoples or Nations are ever likely to lay Who if they can prove themselves a true and lawfull English Parliament within this Act without either King or House of Lords or this their clandestine forcible entry into and seclusion of their Fellow-Members out of the Honse and Actings in it to be lawfull equitable righteous honorable parliamentarie Christian and such as well becomes either Saints Members or true good Englishmen by anie Records Parliament Rolls Acts Presidents of like kind in former Ages Law-books Customes Common or Civil-law Scripture Divinitie Reason Ethicks Policks except Machiavils and the sole Argument of the longest Sword the most bruitish unjust unchristian Turkish of all others Mr. Prynne will then publicklie declare them to be that in truth which as yet he neither can nor dares to acknowledge them to be so much as in appellation either a Member of the Old Parliament a Covenanter a Protester a Lawyer a Scholar a Man an Englishman or a Christian. And hopes that upon the perusal hereof they will as much disown themselves to be the Parliament within this Act or anie lawfull Parliament of England even in their Judgments consciences much more in actings for the premised Reasons as he or anie other secluded Members do not out of anie spirit of contradiction but Conscience and common dutie to themselves and their native Country That which principallie elevated yea inflamed Mr. Prynnes zeal both now and heretofore with all his might to oppose all late publick Innovations changes of our antient Government Parliaments Laws was this sad and serious consideration which he shall with all earnest importunitie intreat advise all Army Officers Souldiers sitting or secluded Members of the Lords or Commons House with all well-affected persons to the safetie settlement of our Religion Church State throughout our three Nations most seriouslie to lay to heart and engrave upon their Spirits not to read it as they do News-books only to talk of them for a day or two but as they read the evidences of their Inheritances whereby they hold all their earthlie yea heavenly possessions that they may remember act according to it all their lives That William Watson a secular Priest of Rome in his Dialogue between a Secular Priest and a Lay Gentleman printed at Rhemes 1601. in his

world nor receiving the least reward for all his faithfull publick services nor recompence for his manifold losses sufferings expences for the Publick to whom he hath ever been a faithfull unmercinarie Servant is in good hopes that the serious perusal of the premises will convince the Good Old Cause now cryed up to be a cheat of the Iesuites put upon the Army as Hugh Peters apprehends stiles it in his Letter the 10th of this May to a chief Officer of the Army and also wipe of all the Mis-reports Scandals Reproaches Censures yea acquit him from the heavy charge of Sedition Mutiny Treason against the Infant House and Republick cast upon him for his actions or discourses here related by those who are reallie guiltie of these Crimes in the highest degree by subverting our antient Kings Kingdomes Kingship Parliaments Peers Privileges Laws Liberties Properties Oaths by their Iesuitical plots and innovations and making a prey of all the publick wealth Lands Revenues of the Crown to enrich themselves and maintain a seditious Army utterly to devour the small Remainder of our publick and private wealth almost drained to the dregs and betray us into the hands of our forein Enemies when they have left us neither hearts hands wills mony nor means manfully to resist their invading power and reduced us to that slavery as rather to live under any forein Tyrannie than an oppressing Sword of their own domineering Hirelings As for the thing they stile Sedition it is but seorsum itio when a few confederated Innovators shall seperate themselves from the General body or Assembly of the Kingdom Chuch Parliament House whereof they are Members and act a part by themselves as a divided Republick Church Parliament House without and against the Generalitie and true lawfull Members and seperate them from their company And if this be truth as our Statutes Lawbooks Casuists Canonists and Historians accord we shall know in whose Hearts House Sedition truly dwells And if Aristotle Aquinas Angelus de Clavasio and sund●y others who write of Sedition may be credited He who disturbs the Rule or Government of any unlawfull Vsurper is no seditious Person because such a usurped Government or Power is not ordained for the commo● good whatever pretended but for the private advantage of the Usurper Therefore the disturbance of such a Vsurper hath not the reason of S●dicion yea it is to be commended because it freeth the Generality of the People from a Tyrannical Power usurped over or forcibly imposed on them against their wills and it is the ●surping Tyrant only who truely is seditious as they all define in direct words And whether Mr. Prynne and other secluded Members and Lords being ●ive times their number or those who seclude them be seditious let the whole Kingdome resolve Mr. Prynne not knowing whether he shall have the like opportunity again shall for a Conclusion of this Narrative addresse himself and direct some things he intended to have spoken 1. To the Army-Officers and Souldiers Remember I beseech you in the bowels of Jesus Christ what your own Army-Chaplain Iohn Sedgewick in his Iustice upon the Armies Remonstrance from St. Albons Nov. 16. 1648. and Rebukes of that evil Spirit that leads them in their Counsels and Actions hath written to them therein and to the Lord Fairfax then General and the General Counsel of war in his Epistle Dedicatorie to them when they first espoused their present Good Old Cause His words are home and piercing Destruction you practise it is your work it is your end you cannot see beyond it and you are hastning to it it is the center to which you tend and therefore I cannot but shew it to you that you may stay your course before the pit shut her mouth upon you You are full of glorie in the great things you have done wonderfull thing a mighty presence of God But in sum what is it You have torn a poor sinfull Kingdom in pieces you have executed wrath upon your Brethren Friends and Countrymen you have laid desolate your Father the King the Parliament your Mother your own Country This is your glorie to be Executioners Assyria the Rod of mine Anger what a Crown is this Have you restored blessed healed comforted saved any No You have but plunged the Kindome and your selves into a Pit of Darknesse and Confusion You drive furiously over the King Parliament Laws Conscience Loyalty Privileges so as no human nor sacred thing can stand before you It is high time to withstand you for it is not men onlie that suffer from you but the Lord Your Sword goeth so deep that it pierceth through his Soul also You are gone is farre in dissolving the Foundations of Government that you are come to him who upholds the Pillars of the earth you reach to the head of Principalities and Powers to the Lord who is the Author and Upholder of all these things He is in these despised broken Ordinances of his and sensible of everie blow that is given to them You have digged through the wall of Flesh and men and through the partition wall that divided them from God and now you are in the bowels of the Lord these miserable broken Powers are now the Lord. Go on tear and rend you will at last look upon him whom you have pierced and mourn O that you would now do so in good earnest as you pretend only in your Declaration of May 6. 1659. and yet go on still in your former Trespasses for which God will wound your hairy Scalps O consider that Jesus Christ whose Servants ye pretend to be is both a King of Glory a King of Saints That the Gospel you professe is the Gospel of the Kingdom not Republick yea the Kingdom of God and of Heaven in Gospel-language That his Church whereof you pretend your s●lf Members is frequently styled a Kingdom never a Common-wealth or at least bnt once and that not in opposition or contradistinction to a Kingdom which is the first excellentest of all Common-wealths as Heathen Philosophers Polititians and Devines accord but as the verie same with it That the Saints themselves are styled the Children of the Kingdom not Republick Companions in the Kingdom of Christ even in this world yea a Kingdom of Priests a Royal Priesthood Nay Kings and Priests to God the Father and that by Christs own constitution Consider yet further that Heaven it self into which you expect at last to enter is ever stiled the Kingdom of Heaven an heavenlie and everlasting Kingdom a Kingdom which cannot be moved a Kingdom which shall have no end never a Common-wealth That in this Kingdom we read of nothing but Crowns Scepters Thrones Robes of Glory and Majesty and of reigning in it for ever and ever That Christ himself hath promised appointed and his Father given to all his Saints the

Captain● of thousands or hundreds nor yet of Souldiers or Armed men but of mean Fisher-men and others altogether averse from war commanding them in expresse terms to take neither Gold Silver nor Brasse in their purses nor scrip nor two coats nor yet Staves much lesse Sword Pikes Horses Pistols nor any thing else belonging to a Souldier no offensive or defensive Arms at the most but a single walking staffe like Travellers to help support them Yea Christ expresly resolves That his Ministers are and must be no Fighters no Strikers nor Strives much lesse than professed Warriers Iohn 18.36 1 Tim. 3.3 2 Tim. 2.24 They have no Sword but that of the Spirit and their Mouth the word of God and fight with it only against mens Sins Lusts not Persons Eph. 6.17 Heb. 4.12 Rev. 19.15 21. Yea when Peter once did but draw his Sword to defend King Jesus against the Souldiers who came with Swords and Staves to apprehend him he said unto him Mat. 26.52 Put up thy Sword again into its place for they that take the sword shall perish with the sword Nay the state of the Gospel is so inconsistent with Souldiers Arms War That upon the sincere profession of it God requires the Professors thereof to beat their Swords into Plowshares and their Spears into Pruning-hooks Nation shall not lift up Sword against Nation Neither shall they learn VVar any more but to live in peace with all men and keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace Isay. 4. Mich. 4.3 Luke 2.14 1 Cor. 7.15 c. 14.53 Gal. 5.22 2 Cor. 13.11 Eph. 4.3 Col. 3.15 2 Thes. 3.16 Heb. 12.14 Never was the Kingdom Gospel Church of Jesus Christ promoted advanced in any Age or place by war Swordmen but many Churches have been utterly destroyed extirpated depraved corrupted none ever edified planted enlarged much lesse reformed by them Our present Armie-Saints and new Military-Apostles by their fighting praying preaching fasting instead of promoting the Gospel Protestant Religion and Church of England have almost totally subverted them by broaching countenancing protecting all sorts of Heresies Blasphemies Sects Schisms Errors Opinions Religions setting up new Conventicles of Sectaries Seducers in all places opposing slighting traducing the very Church Doctrine Ministry of England the very Function Ordination of Ministers by decrying detaining their Tithes and former maintenance as litigious Jewish Antichristian by swallowing up all the Lands Revenues of Bishops Deans Chapters Arch-Deacons and a great part of our Ministers maintenance by sequestrations and monthly Contributions to maintain their Army Evangelists now ready to swallow up the remainder that is left and continuing in a body for that purpose by the very Jesuites instigation who not only professedly teach in their publick University at Madrid the Art of War by Land and Sea the making of Guns Gunpowder fireworks all manner of Military Engines of which they read Lectures as most agreeable to the Name Profession of their Martial Father Ignatius as Alphonsus Vargas a Spanish Priest records but boast That the General of the Iesuites can bring into the Field more Souldiers of his own order in a shorter time than any Christian King whatsoever and likewise expresly affirm That their Gopsel and Religion is to be propagated set up the Heretiques and Evangelical Sectaries who resist them refuted extirpated abolished with Fire Armies Sword and War in England elsewhere as Iacobus Cruciger Rector of the Iesuites at Lansperg in his explication of the Rules of their Order Paulus Windeck De extirpandis Heresibus Antid 10 11. p. 404 412 480. Thuanus Hist. l. 65. p. 238. l. 66. p. 299. Franciscus Verona Apol. pro Iohanne Castle par 5. c. 13. Hospinian Hist. Jesuitica l. 4. p. 212 213 214. Hasenmullerus Hist. Jesuit c. 1. Spec. Jesuiticum p. 61. unanimously attest O then discern at last whose Gospel Kingdom you are now propagating by your Army Arms and Westminster Conventicle not Iesus Christs but the very Jesuites his greatest Underminers Many of you especially Millinaries and Fifth Monarchy-men pretend that Jesus Christ is now comming to reign personally on Earth a thousand years and that you shall all reign together as Ioynt-Kings with or Vice-royes under him But the setting up of a New Republick and Aristocracy is wholly inconsistent with this Kingdom and Monarchy of Christ you now expect which suites only with a Temporal King and Kingdom How this Opinion will accord with Christs own description of it John 18. 16. My Kingdom is not of this World or Pauls Rom. 14.17 The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink nor yet Arms and Armies but Righteousnesse and Peace and Ioy in the Holy Ghost which Souldiers Armies usually destroy not produce or propagate let those who maintain it consider When Mr. Prynne was kept close Prisoner in Pendennis Castle by Iohn Bradshaws and our New Republicans illegal warrant in July 1651. some four dayes after his imprisonment there divers Officers and Souldiers of the Garrison who had long debated every day for sundry Months before their present expected personal reign of Christ on Earth repaired to him to know his Opinion concerning it as he was taking fresh Air in the Bowling-Alley standing in a ring about him Upon which he first demanded their Opinions of it when they had all fully uttered their Conceits in the Affirmative with much confidence M. Pryn briefly answered That now they had beheaded one of our Kings and almost conquered another and our 3. Kingdoms they thought talked of nothing but being all Kings themselves and of reigning personally on Earth cheek by joll with Christ himself as his Fellow-Kings no Earthly King being fit to be a Companion for such transcendent sublimated Saints as they thought themselves But they were all most grosly mistaken for that very Text of Rev. 20.4 5. which he read out of one of their Bibles whereon they principally grounded their Opinions and Reign was pointblank against them And I saw the Souls OF THEM THAT WERE BEHEADED not of them who took off their own Christian Protestant Kings and Nobles Heads for the Witnesse of Iesus and the word of God and which had not worshipped the Beast nor his Image neither had received his mark upon their foreheads nor in their hands and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years is it not added on the Earth and Chap. 22.5 rather proves their reign to be in the New Ierusalem in Heaven But the rest of the dead who were not thus beheaded lived not again much lesse then reigned with Christ till the thousand years were past By which it is most apparent That if Christ shall reign personally on Earth for a thousand years as they all conceived and that this time was now at hand yet not one of them should or possibly could reign with him if this Text be Vmpire For the words are most positive that none else shall thus reign with Iesus Chris● a thousand years but