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A45518	The nations claim of native right Wherein the gross and extreme defection and injustice of the court martial, and of all courts; the destructive abuse of the law, and pressing necessity, that the nation speedily unite (as one man) for an agreement in righteousness, is by particular example, and an appeal to the general councel of the army, and by several considerations cleerly demonstrated and proved. Secondly, the nullity of order, matter, and form of a free people is asserted, and proved by scripture: and how (to persons, families, people, and churches) right order, matter, and form may be attained. Thirdly, a brief pourtraict of a right government of the nation, and agreement of the people; and how such government and agreement may be with ease attained; a new representative freely elected: the laws rectified: the poor relieved: and the peoples, and armies, and every particular persons just interests (in peace with truth) satisfied, is proposed to the nation. By Thom. Harbye, late Quarter-master in the Regiment late	Harby, Thomas.	1650 (1650)	Wing H684; ESTC R216528	94,995	134

nations require all men in behalf of themselves and in behalf of every man to make present resistance against all unjust violent and murderous assailents whatsoever for the safety of their own and their lives and beings Fifthly The Reasons that the people at least the conscientious party of the Army and Nation should earnestly seek God in secret by Prayer and Fasting that the Nation and its Representatives may harken to satisfie effectually all just Interests as aforesaid and free it self and them from its Nation sins and destruction are 1 Because Israel by so doing were oft delivered 2 Because all the Jows under Ahashuerus designed by an irrevocable Law for slaughter and destruction earnestly sought God by Prayer and Fasting and they that were hardened against them and resolved to destroy them harkened to them and delivered them from being destroyed 3 Because the Disciples of Christ could not cast out a Dumb and Deaf Spirit and our Saviour gives this Reason why they could not Mark 9.29 Because that Kind can come forth by nothing but by Prayer and Fasting But a more deaf and dumb Spirit possesseth this nation that neither the people nor their representatives nor the conscientious party can or will call upon one another to harken nor harken when called upon to break off their nation sins by Righteousness and though the cryes of ●he free-born of God and of the poor and of the murdered and oppressed people and souldiers ascend as the cryes of Israel in Egypt to heaven continually they harken not and these kinds of deaf and dumb Spirits can come forth by no thing but by Prayer and Fasting Sixthly The Reasons that the drift and aime of the nation in ●his recipocral and joynt Address for an Agreement in righteousness be to convince the Judgements and Spirits what is possible of all the people in the Truth of all things by which their nation sins may cease and their and its safety be procured are 1 Because Truth discovered is the rock of righteousness upon which the City of Peace is built 2 Because as when the eyes cleerly see the whole body seeth and may see whatsoever might profit or hurt the body So if the Judgements of the people be rightly convinced the nation seeth and is convinced and may see and shun all things that might prejudice or destroy it and likewise these things that conduce to its peace and how to improve them 3 Because conviction of Light and Truth is the key that unlocketh and dissolveth all chains of darkness and bondage And as when Peter imprisoned by Herod was kept by 4 quaternion of Souldiers bound with two chains watched by two Souldier that lay with him having likewise a doubl guard and his Keepe● watching him without and then an iron gate fast lockt and as when the Angel raised him his chains fell from him and the iron gate opened and he past all guards and was freed from death and imprisonment So conviction of Light and Truth is the key of deliverance from bondage in the hand of Christ the Angel of the Covenant which openeth the Prison doors and iron gate of blindness and hardness of heart which sets the free-born o● God free from death and imprisonment causeth their iron fetters of ignorance and misery to fall from them frustrates all watchings of these that seek to enslave them and makes them pass the strongest gaurds set to ensnare and destroy them An● this key of conviction only can free the nation and people of i● from the double chains of their Nation sins and from their an● its destruction Seventhly The Reasons that this conviction the drift an● aime of a joynt Address for an Agreement in righteousness b● endeavoured by peaceable Missives in wrighting from one two or three equally selected and appointed by and for each dis-satisfied party is 1 Because as Mushroms that spring up in one night are spungy profit little and many of them poyson so suddain verb●… Results are for most part spungy and profit little and oft lik● the Fire-brands betwixt Sampsons Foxes destroy those to whom they relate 2 Because as Trees generally put forth first leaves and afterwards leasurally Fruits but the fruits are the proper and natural product of their kind and are gathered and the leaves no● regarded So the Spirit and Judgement of man puts forth firs● suddain verbal results as it were leaves and afterwards leasurally its more mature and deliberate results but the mature and deliberate Results of it are the perfect and natural product of the Judgement and Spirit whilst its rash and suddain Results as the leaves of it are not to be regarded 3 That this conviction be endeavoured and all differences what are difficult especially debated by peaceable Missives from one two or three as aforesaid the reasons are because unadvised words cause violent evils and so much folly and offence may issue from the lavish verbal rashness of two or three men as may suffice as the Apostle saith Iam. 3.6 to set on fire the course of Nature If any man offend not in Word the same is a perfect man saith the Apostle and able also to bridle the whole body But men perfect and that offend not in word are now no where or are seldom found But be it that such men were or might be found that offend not in word yet their ripe fruits of mature and deliberate results collected and gathered are to be preferred before their fruitless leaves of verbal unadvisedness Whereas the Nations and Armies just engagements for the peace and safety of both were by both perfidiously violated and broken such as were true to those just engagements turn'd out of the Army imprisoned or destroyed The Nations and Armies just proprieties and interests no waies satisfied The Nation generally discontent and a new desperate and bloudy war raised I enquire whether if peaceable Addresses by Missives in this manner had bin used all these violent evils and those bloudy Nation sins and breaches of faith to God and man might not have bin easily prevented 3. Whereas divers Well-affected of the Army and Nation to prevent all misunderstandings and evils thereby ensuing did in February 1648. humbly petition the House that they might freely debate by peaceable Missives in writing all differences that either were or might seem to be and whereas the House did not grant then nor since their just desires the best expedient to satisfie and convince the judgements of the people and procure thereby peace to the Nation and now a new war is the third time strongly threatned and bloud already spilt I enquire whether had their just desires bin granted or yet shall be granted all these eminent evils and miseries bloud-shed and the guilt of it upon the Authors and upon the Nation might not have bin easily prevented and whether all differences might not have bin or may not be by conviction and satisfaction of reason fully ended in peace with Truth 3. I enquire whether the

with-holding of the best means to manifest Truth by Reason for the peace of all men be not a privation or restraint of the use liberty and benefit of the image of God in man which comprehends all Rights and Liberties or not 4. I determine nothing positively or absolutely but for my own and the Nations cleer conviction in all Truths concerning the peace and safety of it I further enquire whether there is not a necessity from God laid upon all men in the Nation and Army to maintain and stand to all their just promises and engagements made in Righteousness 5. Whether the Armies Engagements at New-Market and Triploe Heaths were not just and for both Army and Nation safe profitable and honest Or if not whether what was deficient might not or may not by Missives in writing as aforesaid be cleerly discovered and rectified 6. Whether the Souldiers and Officers that perfidiously persist to break their just Engagements made to maintain the just Laws of the Nation and to procure to all persons their proper Rights and Interests be not breakers of the Law as persons breakers of their faith to God as Christians and of their Trust to the State as Trustees of the Nation and are not thereupon quit and dissolved from all Trust as Betrayers of it 7. If they that stand firm to their just Engagements made in Righteousnes in order to the ends aforesaid are for this cause cashiered or without due satisfaction of Just Interests to the Army and Nation disbanded imprisoned or murthered whether are they that disband them without satisfaction cashier imprison or murder them usurpers over and oppressors and murderers of the most faithful Free-born people and destroyers of the conscientious party of the Nation or not 8. Whether ought such as are so cashiered disbanded imprisoned or murdered or their survivers to have just reparations and satisfaction or not and whether are such as are living to be restored to their former places of Trust and employment 9. If they that stand firm to their Just Engagements made in Righteousness wherein all the people and Representatives of the Nation as true and not Traytors to the State ought to stand firm are or should be for this cause engaged against in bloud or violently assailed Whether do all laws of Nature God and Nations require those that are in such sort engaged against or assayled to resist those that engage against them or assayl them whatsoever as enemies to the State as hostile Assailants and murderers of the most faithful free-born people and as destroyers of the conscientious party of the Nation or not 10. And whether all Officers Trustees and Representatives whatsoever in whose Name and by whose order and authority all such engagements in bloud and hostile Assailments shall be moved acted and carried on be not primarily guilty of the premises and guilty of betraying their Trust as Trustees 11. Whether all they whether they be Justices of the Peace Constables Sergeants Bayliffs Pursuivants or other persons whatsoever that shall by vertue of any Warrant or Order whatsoever assayl apprehend or imprison any such persons for standing firm to their and the Nations faith made in Righteousness and in defence of it or shall cause any such persons to be assayled apprehended or imprisoned are not strictly lyable to satisfie the Law as usurpers over the persons and just liberties of the free born people 12. Whether all Representatives Military or Civil and all Jury men and Judges or other persons whatsoever that shall condemn to death or imprisonment any such persons for the causes aforesaid be not strictly accountable to satisfie the Law for their lives or imprisonment or for any other unjust punishment upon them The Nation for want of clear conviction is made guilty of their blood that stand most firme for the Peace and safety of it because the judgements and spirits of the People are not convinced who are faithful and who not and what blood is shed justly and what unjustly therefore the Nation sin of blood shed is set upon it as the dye of scarlet dy'd in wool neither can it be freed from it without conviction of the judgments and spirits of the People because it cannot repent of it for how should the People repent of that blood shed and those wrongs and oppressions for which they conceive they ought rather to rejoyce or know nothing to the contrary therefore that the Nation may be freed from these chaines of its sins and destruction all faithful endeavors by joynt addresse of the Nation must be made to convince the judgements and spirits of the people that they may be convinced and satisfied who are and have bin faithful and who not who stand or have stood firme to their just Engagements for the Nations safety and who against the peace and safety of it what and whose blood is justly spilt in order to free the Nation from guilt of blood shed and what blood and oppressions polute and defile the Nation and are earnestly to be repented of I determine not who are or have bin faithful and who not what blood is spilt justly and what unjustly to be repented of But had all differences bin peaceably and freely debated by missives in writing as divers well-affected of the Nation and Army did humbly Petition the Parliment there had bin no ground of the last desperate war nor danger of a third and all differences and grounds of war might have bin by reason and satisfaction reconciled and composed in peace 8ly The reason of the necessity and the manner of chusing representors are shown already and further are because they are the fitest instruments to convince the judgments and spirits of the people in these things by which the general safety of the Nation may be procured and wherein satisfaction of all just interests to all persons doth consist Secondly because they are fittest to take cognizance and notice of every particular and private mans wrongs and grievances and to procure ful and through redresse of them Thirdly because they are the fittest meanes to gather the people into order and unity and to keep the just power of freedom and soveraignty in their hands How oft saith our Saviour would I have gathered you together as a hen gathereth her chickens under her and you would not nothing tendeth more to cause and conserve the intire safety and peace of the Nation or to constitute a firme Agreement of the people than to gather the people into order and unity which cannot be done but by Representors whom they chuse by their own power and freedom and who remain continually liable to be questioned deposed or continued by the same power and freedom Fourthly because Representors are the proper intermediate instruments betwixt the people and all subjects ends and objects of their freedom peace and safety as the neck instrumentally dispenceth and returneth life and sence to all parts of the body by them a new Representative of the Nation

Image of God and Reason and the Scriptures shall have in reference to right use begining of Freedom from desolation slavish dis-use sin and death The Text is express Rev. 14. That the hundred forty and four thousand sealed in their fore-heads were the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb redeemed from the earth And it is not supposed but cleerly proved by Scripture that these one hundred forty and four thousand shall be the same in truth and substance that the Israelites sealed in the bloud of the Lamb in Egypt were in Type and shaddow They came out of the greatest Thrall and Oppression that ever was these come out of great tribulations Rev. 7.14 They overcame Pharaoh and all his servants and seducers these shall overcome the Beast Chap. 15.2 They sang a song of deliverance the song of Moses These sing a song of deliverance the song of Moses expresly v. 3. They came forth out of Aegypt by their Families Tribes and Armies which may be a figure of the sub-ordination of anti-typical families Oeconomical Provincial and National They were wholy freed from all slavish rigor of bearing any Aegyptian burdens in the least measure for ever These shall be freed from all affliction tribulation and oppression for ever Rev. 7.16 That night was a still and silent night wherein Israel prepared the Pass-over against whom not a dog moved his tongue Exod. 11.7 but a night of the greatest cry amongst the Aegyptians that ever was before or after They received not the outward but the inward seal also and did eat the Pass-over and could not be diverted in that action by going about any other occasion because they were to eat it standing and they were to eat it in hast therefore they would not speak much or be diverted or hindred by talking and they might be well satisfied eating in hast in about half an hours time therefore that time for about half an hours space was a time of the greatest stilness and silence and more was done in that half hours time of silence then was done in all the time from the begining of the world before for all Israel received the inward seal of the life and power of God and of the Lamb in a Type in the time of that half hours silence There was silence in heaven about ths spate of half an hour Rev. 8.1 We need not enquire what was said but what was done in that half hours space There is not the like expression in all the Scripture nor any place so pertinent and express for the action of that time In heaven that is in the houses of the hundred forty and four thousand immediately fore-mentioned Large mention is made of the outward seal but insteed of any mention of the inward seal it is only said That there was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour The Tongue interprets the Spirits secresie and the outward seal of the Name of God in their fore-heads declares the secret actings of this half hours silence The following and fore-going coherence shews That as all Israel did not prepare only but eat the Pass-over so Israel their anti-type shall not receive the outward only but the inward seal of the free Spirit of life in Christ the Lamb and this is to eat the flesh and substance of the Lamb It s soon gathered what hungry men are doing that have meat set before them and are silent When all free people the true Israel shall be gathered together in their anti-typical families to eat the flesh and substance of the Lamb after this manner as all Israel were by their families in a Type and shall thus conveen to take real not verbal councel to accomplish these ends then the yoke of bondage upon them and upon all they are and have shall be broken for ever then the seal of constant conformity or real sincerity in true righteousness of freedom shall be engraven upon their spirits then the vanity that is the nullity of right use and slavish dis-use to which the people of God and what they are and have is subjected and the bondage of corruption under which they their just rights and estates the Image of God in them their Laws Power Scriptures and the whole Creation groan and travel in pain to be delivered Rom. 8.21 shall be taken off for ever and their and the creatures earnest desire and expectation of the manifestation of the sons of God v. 15. shall be then accomplished that shall be the time of the great Marriage-Supper of the Lamb Rev. 19.7 9. And these shall be the high and serious transactions of this half hours silence More was done in a Type in that short space by the seeming weakest means then had bin done in all the time before and more shall be done by the seeming weakest means in this half hours silence then hath bin since time had begining Actual redemption is the hardest work that ever was yet done upon the easiest terms What easier terms of redemption can be to hungry weary bond-slaves then to say go home to Supper you have bin heretofore in rigous of cruel bondage ever restless go home and hence-forward rest quiet for ever God offers the same terms in substance to the true Israel to redeem them and the whole Creation from bondage unto vanity and corruption As if he should say Israel in Aegypt was opprest and murdered with heavie burdens and by rigour of cruel bondage you really and indeed I redeemed them naturally and will redeem you effectually Free grace freely given them was all the ransom they paid and Free grace from me the greatest that was ever and your acceptance in it shall be all your ransom required from you Their task was most easie and acceptable yours the easiest and most acceptable in truth and substance I bid them go home rest and refresh themselves for ever Go ye home and be free from all burdens rest and refresh your selves for ever A dog did not open his mouth against any of them nor shall against you I did not busie their memories with many observations onely to prepare and eat the Pass-over neither be you busied Martha-like about many things but mind the only one thing necessary to follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth and to do and observe in your Oecunomical consults and executions all which God and the Lamb saith That was the first feast and sacrifice that ever was kept in Israel they kept it by their families the first subjects of begining and being of all Power and Government I in like manner call and redeem you by your families out of the greatest and most slavish tribulation and destruction that ever was to keep the same feast in truth and substance and your anti-typical families so called and redeemed shall be really and indeed the first subjects of begining and being of all true Power and Government Government is the intense Order of Agreement Oeconomical Agreements are conjunct political Forms of right