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A35948 Complaints and queries vpon Englands misery acted Octob. 13, 1659, by some officers of the army, against the Parliament of the common-wealth of England / by a true lover of the lawes and liberties of England, E.D. E. D., True lover of the lawes and liberties of England. 1659 (1659) Wing D14; ESTC R12374 8,590 9

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in the eyes of all true English-men and to leave it on record when they are dead in the Chronicles of England Yea have not this supposed cure wounded the repute and hearts of all the sober Godly people of England that adhered to the Parliament by the taunts of Enemies at home crying to them where is now your Parliament and by the rejoycings of the Enemie abroad in all Nations round about us animated in all likelyhood hereby to invade us yea whether the Officers by this breaking off of Parliament have not rendered themselves a scorn to their own Soldiers whiles they now jeer saying every month or quarter they have a new Master Compl. Others say shall the Parliament Vote all the Godly out of the Army Querie Are those nine all your Godly ones Yea are those nine all Godly Cold we ever heare or learne so much touching some of them though it would have been joy to us to have heard it Is not he Godly that doth Godly Tit. 1. 11. 12 Or can true Godliness be seperated from Righteousness by the same place Or is he a Righteous man that doth not that which is Righteous 1 Joh. 3. 7 Or are these violences against the grand Government of a Nation the fruits of Godliness Jam. 3. 17 Is this to Learn meekness of Christ as we are commanded Math. 11. 29 Do Soldiers herein as becomes Godly ones obey the Command of God Luk. 3. 14 And John Baptist said to the Soldiers Do violence to no man neither accuse any falsly and be content with your wages Is this according to that rule Dearly beloved Avenge not your selves Rom. 12. 19 Can men be Godly according to the first Table whilst unrighteous according to the second Table Jam. 2. 10. Must these nine Godly ones if so be redressed at no cheaper a rate then by pulling up the Foundation of the ancient only supream Authority of this Nation to the great grief of thousands of Godly people to the stopping of the Trade of thousands of Tradesmen to the preventing the timely reliefe of thousands of poor Prisoners Orphans and Widdowes for whom the Parliament were preparing to relieve them Is this according to 1 Joh. 3. 16. to lay down our lives for the Godly Brethren Or in it not rather like Matchiavels Maxim Let our friends Perish so as our Enemies perish together with them If ye from thence call to mind and object your ventering your lives for the good people and Parliament of England the query is whether most of you did it not when ye had but little else to venter And whether the Parliament and many of the good people of England did not venter their lives and great Estates viz hanging up and Confiscation if the King had prevailed besides ventering their lives a many of them in battle receiving many honourable wounds And whether all the people of England have not well paid you ever since thousands becomming very poor to make you rich And whether they making you their Servants and thus daintily bringing you up ye have not most ingratefully made your selves their Masters Compl We will not say others of them serve the Parliament or any Forme contrary to the Common main interest viz Of Freedome as Men and Freedome as Christians Querie Touching Liberty as Christians that is Liberty of Conscience what signes or tokens were there of the Parliaments infringing this were there not many for one in the Parliament for large Liberty of Conscience Yea did they not manifest it in a Resolve at a Committe for that purpose and 't is in print for a larger allowance of Liberty of Conscience then the Army Petitioned for Let us set down both word for word and then see whose expressions for that thing are larger The humble Petition and Address of the Officers of the Army to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England May 12. 1659. Proposall the sixt That all persons who profess Faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ His Eternall Son the true God and in the holy Spirit God coequall with the Father and the Son one God blessed for ever and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures 〈…〉 Testament to be the revealed or written word or will of God shall not be restrained from their profession but have due encouragement and equal protection in the profession of their Faith and exercise of Religion whilst they abuse not this liberty to the civil injuries of others or disturbance of others in their way of Worship So that this Liberty be not extended to Popery or Prelacy nor to such as shall practise or hold forth licentiousness or prophanness under the profession of Religion Thus the Army in their Address afore●●d The Committee of Parliament for Government October the 8th 1659. Resolved That the Supream deligated power is not intrusted to restrain the pro●●ssion of any person or persons who profess faith in God the Father and in Jesus ●hrist God manifested in the Flesh and in God the Holy Spirit God blessed for ●vermore And do acknowledge the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testa●ent to be the revealed or written word or will of God but ought to give due en●●uragement and equal protection to them in the profession of their Faith and ●●cercise of Religion whilst they abuse not this liberty to the civil injury of others 〈◊〉 disturbance of others in their way of VVorship Thus the Commttee of Pa 〈…〉 ment Now the Quaery is Whether the Committee doth not express themselves in ●●ger and softer termes for Liberty of Conscience then the said Officers of the ●rmy And if any Reader cannot perceive it Whether if he as a Quaker or a ●ocinian to name no more though more might be named according to what hath ●een truly recited out of the said printed Copies Whether we had not rather ●ubscribe to that of the Committee then to that of the Officers of the Army Yea 't is quaeried further whether this were the way to secure Liberty of Con●cience to disperse the Parliament the only Legislative power to restrain the Adversaries of Liberty of Conscience by a Law to give way to the said Liberty Yea whether whilst we look on the present and former breaches made on Parliaments and invasion of worse things in their room ushered in commonly with 〈◊〉 cry for Liberty of Conscience do not render this cry very suspicious that it is used only as a Visard to palliat every ugly design 2. Touching Liberty as men that is of our persons that we be not unlawfully ●mprisoned and of our Purses and Estates that they be not drained by illegall ●awless Taxes and of our Familes that they be not molested with force and Free-quarter upon and in our Houses and upon which the Quaere is whether the way to attain this Liberty securely be to take off the Parliament the only Legal Assertor of that Liberty whilst there are 3 great Armies in England Scotland and Ireland that must or at least will be