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truth_n	life_n	spirit_n	worship_v	1,905	5	8.8109	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94470	To the Honourable the Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of divers well-affected people inhabiting in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, hamblets, and places adjacent. Promoters and approvers of the petition of the 11. of September, 1648.		1650 (1650)	Wing T1430; Thomason 669.f.15[54]	4,999	1

as is evident in many Acts of this Parliament If it were deemed of dangerous consequence that almost all Officers Magistrates both civil military as Judges Sheriffs and Justices c. were not chosen in a free way by the People as by right they ought but were chosen and imposed by the Court thereby to incline all men and things to the bent of one particular party or Interest rather then to the impartial good of all is it not as prejudicial to be so now If monopolizing of the principal Marchandizes of the Nation by Companies were then esteemed a most pernitious evil they remain still much after the same manner and so also do Law-sutes and all proceedings in Law continue as full of tedious chargable perplexities as ever and the numbers of Lawyers Attorneys Solicitors Goalers and their Officers all feeding themselves fat as the other Officers forementioned by the spoyles of the distressed never more countenanced yea 1000. pounds a peece per annum added to the Judges above their ordinary Fees which alone was formerly accounted a large proportion and great preferment If tryals by extraordinary packt Commissions of Oyer and Terminer and Tryals by Court-Martials though of loose and dissolute people were esteemed utterly destructive to the Lives Liberties of the People as appeareth by the Petition of Right are not those kinds of Tryals more frequent now or can any thing exceed in dangerous Tryals by High Courts of Iustice a Court against which no legal defence or priviledge is permitted it being to be admired that in times pretending liberty there should be found persons to serve in such a Court If these are the effects of Freedom then are we free indeed but if they are we have lost our understandings If then be considered the manifold miseries accompanying these ten years strife for liberty as decay of Trade excessive Taxes Poverty and War to supply which a new and never before heard of grievance is added as the loss of Servants and Children through a liberty given them to betake themselves to Arms though against their Master or Parents liking to the impoverishment of whole Families and to the unexpressible grief of many tender-hearted Fathers and Mothers And then if the Parliaments Declarations in behalf of Magna Charta and the Petition of Right with all things concerning Life Limb Liberty and Estate be duly weighed and after them those of the Army manifesting a most deep sense of the long suffering of the Nation for want thereof would it not pierce and grieve the most hard and stony heart that yet all things should remain in this woful condition as is evident they now do And that through discontents divisions and distractions arising from so continued an unsettlement and the presumption of enemies thereupon a War should frequently be threatned within the bowels of the Land as more then once hath been seen and that a more dangerous one then any yet is now already begun and yet no regard taken for the real restoration of our liberties or redress either of old or new grievances the only means of reconcilement but in place thereof all mouthes are stopt with the meer Title of a free Common-wealth and of a free people to the heightening of all discontents and withholding from the Army the assistance of thousands of zealous cordial people that upon the real but not verbal restoration to just Liberties and the real redress of those known grievances would readily assist them And therefore as you tender the preservation of Parliaments from utter annihilation a thing much to be feared upon prevalence of an Enemy which God defend the supply and recruit of this Army the speedy ending of this most threatning War as you regard the end for which the people chose you or that for which the Army reserved you when they excluded the greater number of your own Members as you regard you own safeties or that which is above all the known will of God in the keeping of a good Conscience and performance of all your promises and vowes made in his all-seeing presence We beg and beseech you for the tender mercies of Christ that you will be pleased instantly to make a plenary restoration to our fundamental liberties and really redress all the grievances foremencioned and for a clear pledge of your full purpose therein that you will immediatly and for ever abolish the High Court of Justice that Serpent ready with open mouth to devoure us and from which none can be safe whilst treacherous Informers can be found and to null all things and proceedings appertaining thereunto as a Plant which our fore Fathers never planted but would have ventured all they had willingly to have rooted out any jurisdiction of so forraign a breed so expresly opposite to all English Liberties as is manifest by what trouble and danger they under went in all former times But if so be the whole work be too hard for you or that you cannot agree therein before the War growes to fast upon you We beseech you then to remember the humble Petition and advice of his Excellency and Councel of Officers the 20. of Jan. 1649. with those other Petitions to the same effect concerning the way of settlement by an agreement of the People and that you will be pleased to give countenance and protection to all peaceable people in entering into such an agreement as themselves shall judge most effectual to their own safety Freedom and well-being and whereby they may set such express bounds and limits to all kinds of Authorities so restore and establish their fundamental Liberties and so unrevocably remove their burthens and redress their grievances as shall not be in the power of future Authorities or persons without certainty of punishment to supplant the one or to re-impose the other and this work we trust in God you will freely incourage having acknowledged by your votes the People to be the original power from whom all just Authorities are derived which were unavailable if you should which God forbid withhold them from exercising the same in a work wherein they are so nearly concerned and which once effected would render the Nation absolutely free not in word only but in deed and in truth to the exceeding joy of your humble but as yet grieved Petitioners and of all well-minded people restore it to much more unity within it self and so would become more formidable to all sorts of Enemies your labours would be exceedingly abated And in countenancing so just so due a work would bring great Honour to God Peace Freedom and prosperity to the Common-wealth be at rest in your own Consciences guarded by the cordial volentary affection of the People whilst you live here and remain as a sweet savor to all Posterity And thus as faithful Witnesses to the Truth and in behalf of the Nations just Rights we have discharged our Consciences referring the Issue and our selves wholly to God whom we continually worship in spirit and in truth and before whose righteous judgement we must all one day appear and therefore although for the Truths sake our portion in this life should be scofs reproaches afflictions poverty imprisonment or Death We have chosen it rather then at that great and terrible day of the Lord to have our portion with the Hypocrite or that our Consciences should then testifie against us that we have made lyes our refuge This is printed only for the better gathering of Subscriptions 't is desired you would make no other use of it