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A96933 VVorks of darkness brought to light. Or A true representation to the whole kingdome of the dangerous designes driven on by sectaries in the army: as also laying down the unreasonableness of their demands, which if not granted, they refuse to disband. Together with VII. new queries propounded to the army. Tell-Troth, Thomas. 1647 (1647) Wing W3585; Thomason E399_36; ESTC R201735 11,775 16

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House of Commons 3. Considering the indirect means you use to drive on your designs and that by fraud falshood stattery and Compliance with all sorts of men Comply you do with the King to permit his malignant Chaplins to come to him and have common prayers read before him contrary to the order of both Houses Comply basely you do with malignants a new smooth tearm for them you have in your Remonstrance found out least you should displease them too much in calling them Malignants therefore you call them the Kings late Partakers See humble Remonstra P. 12. l. 27. and desire for them more then ever they durst desire for themselves Doubtless these helpers shal be your shame and ruin as the reeds of Aegypt shal they be unto you to fayl and wound you 4. Considering the ill Consequences that either have or may fall out as 1. Have not you strengthned the hands of the wicked and greived the hearts of the godly wise 2. Have not you stirred up a spirit of disobedience in many people of the land against the Parliament 3. Have not you rendred the Parliament base and low before the people 4. Have not you countenanced and encouraged all the desperate Sectaries in the Kingdom 5. Have not you blemisht and contemned a godly and Orthodox Ministry and encouraged illiterate mecanick unworthy fellows to preach where and when and what they list 6. Have not you permitted all scandalous Ministers that wil to read the Common-prayer-book within your quarters 7. Have not you hardned the Kings heart in his former wayes in allowing him his seducing Chaplains who have caused him to erre and to have as free a use within your quarters of the Common-prayer-book as ever he had when he was at White-hall 8. Have not you exceedingly retarded the releif of Ireland had you not rather to pick quarrels with your freinds here then to fight with your enemies there 9. Hath not your approach to London raised the price of Provisions and interrupted the Trade of this City above 200000. l. weekly These inconveniences we have already felt what yet we may further undergo the Lord knows I have no more to say but to Commend this following subject to your Patronage wherein I shal endeavour to set forth to the world and your own Consciences the Dangerousness of your designs the unreasonableness of your demands together with some new Queries to your Consciences in the mean time rest Your humble Servant if you wil not presume to be the Kingdoms Masters Tom Tell-troth VVorks of darkness brought to LIGHT OR A true Representation to the whole Kingdom of the dangerous Designs c. driven on by the ARMY Oye Inhabitants of ENGLAND WIth what face can ye endure a smal Councel of war to controul and disobey the great Councel of state Are ye weary of the Common Law or rather willing the Marshal Law should rule you wil ye delight rather to see Souldiers in Buff then Nobles in their Parliament Robes Had ye rather the Land should run down with tears and blood then flow with milk and honey wil ye be beguiled with the flattering words and plausible pretences of a Revolted Army wil ye suffer the Army under pretence of justice to bring you under oppression and under the notion of Liberty to bring you into bondage and under the name of Saints of light to act the part of the Angels of darkness That you might not be deluded for time to come I shal breifly dispatch these 3. particulars 1. Shew the Armies dangerous designs 2. Unreasonable demands together with some new Queries to their Consciences touching their refusal to disband at the Command of the two Houses of Parliament I begin with the first viz. the dangerous designs driven on by the sectaries in the Army why they refuse to disband I shal reduce to 7. heads which I shal make appear by plain and Demonstrative Reasons The first grand design the Army drives at is to new-mould the Honorable House of Commons ● Design to increase the numbers of Independent Members that so they might carry the Votes of the House as it shal please themselves that if it were possible they might promote their wicked designs in a Parliamentary way This design is so clear that he that runs may read it since the writs were Issued forth for new elections to fil up the House how Industriously have the Independent Party endeavoured to fil the House with Independent Members using M. Peters by perswasion in the Pulpit and the Army by terror to deceive and affright the people forcing many places in the Country to chuse Souldiers and others men of no considerable interests in the Kingdom to be Members of Parliament yea their violence against the XI Accused Members manifests this to be the design declaring to the Parliament in their Papers a See the Armies humble Remonst p. 14. that they must take some extraordinary courses til the XI Members be suspended the House and some other of their demands satisfied And not being content with this they vent their spleen also against other Members of the House of Commons branding them with the ignominious tearm of b See the Armies humble Remonst P. 10. P. 14. a Party men that drive their own interests Accomplices to the Members accused accusing all them to be disaffected to the publique good who are not affected to their own Party T is clear by this the new moulding the Parliament is the first and grand design The grand design and main intent is to new mould the Parliament The Army then and Country-clown wil turn the Kingdom upside down To destroy the House of Lords 2. Design The Petition of Lambes Congregation to the House of Commons c See that seditious Petition from Lambes Congregation that none might have a negative voyce doth directly justle out the power of the House of Peeres The Sectaries are not ashamed to say that the Lords of this Realm ought not to sit in Parliament unless they do come in by Election as Members of the House of Commons do this wil more evidently appear if ye read those seditious Pamphlets against the House of Lords written by the Sectaries It is said in one Sectarian Pamphlet d See the just man in bonds P. ● that the Lords are but painted puppies and Dagons that our superstition and ignorance their own craft and impudence have erected no natural Issues of Laws but the mushromes of Prerogative the wens of just government putting the body of the people to pain as wel as occasioning Deformity sons of conquest they are and usurpation not of choyce and Election intruded upon us by power not constituted by consent not made by the people from whom all power place and office that is just in this Kingdom ought only to arise And in another seditious Pamphlet 't is said thus e See Pearl in a dunghil p. 3. why presume ye thus O ye Lords set
Parliament 2. Their second Demand is more unreasonable r See the Armies humble Remonst p. ●1 l. 1.2 We have ground to claim more then they or rather that they or some of them should forfeit their Arrears that they that deserted the Army though out of obedience to the Parliament should forfeit their Arrears or at least that the Army should have more of their Arrears payd them then the deserters of it shal were not this to justifie the wicked and condemn the righteous to punish the one for obedience and reward the other for disobedience which would be a provocation in the eyes of God neither consisting with equity and conscience in the Army to demand nor with the justice and honor of the Parliament to grant to punish one for obedience and reward another for disobedience 3. Their third unreasonable Demand is to require more security for their arrears then any in the Kingdom ever yet desired ſ See the Armies humble Representation p. 15. l. 3. the credit of the Excise and the profits arising out of Delinquents Estates and Ordinance of Parliament wil not content them though millions of money have been lent upon this security Were these terms offered to all other Officers and Souldiers in the Kingdom they would thankfully accept it as a due and safe recompence for their service 4. Their fourth unreasonable Demand is to limit the Parliament to a very day to grant their desires else to threaten them to their faces which is such an affront to a Parliament that never was offered in this world In one of their Papers they prescribe the very day when they must have a moneths pay t See Humble Remonstrance p. 14. l. 15. in another paper they declare that it they receive not security and assurance to themselves and the Kingdom of a safe and hopeful proceeding and that by Thursday night they must be forced to take extraordinary courses 'T is worthy your notice that this Demand of theirs was presented to the Commissioners at S. Albans Iune the 23. being Wednesday and yet were so impudent to terrifie the Parliament that if they did not gratifie their desires the very next day following they must be forc'd to extraordinary courses they would allow but a day to the Parliament to consider of their Demands which is such a high breach of the priviledg of Parliament that I cannot but stand amazed and wonder with what conscience we can suffer or with what face they can indeavor the subverting of the indubitable priviledges of Parliament 5. Their fifth unreasonable Demand is u See the Armies humble Remonst ● 2. l. 6. that there be no listing of new forces in or about London when themselves do gather together the most notorious Sectaries in the Kingdom to their Army yea draw their Train of Artillery from Oxford take many loades of new arms out of Windsor Castle seize upon powder coming from Northampton to London fortifying some Garrisons and do all things in preparation to a new war yet the Parliament and City must sit stil look on and all lie at their mercy whether this be reasonable I leave to all indifferent men to judg 6. Their sixth unreasonable Demand is that w See humble Remonst p. 15. l. 12. the Members accused be forthwith suspended or sequestred the House and that before any particular Charge or Proofs were brought in against them Is it reasonable that those honorable persons who are but Members accused should be suspended the House and yet Nathaniel Fines a condemned Member should sit still in the House Is he fit to sit as judg to condemn others that is a condemned man himself Behold O ye people the justice of the Army Is it reason that Colonel Long who is only charged but not proved by the Army to be a Coward should be suspended the House and yet poor Nat. Fines who is a Coward upon Record adjudged by a Councel of WAR to dye for Cowardize must still sit in the House 7. Their seventh unreasonable Demand is in the behalf of the King and Malignants for whom the ARMY is now become dissembling Mediators they desire that x See humble Remonst p. 12. l. 26. provision be made for the rights quiet and immunity of his MAJESTIES Royal Family and his late partakers c. How far they will extend this comprehensive term Immunity for the KINGS Family and his late partakers none but themselves know in part we may know what they mean so much Immunity hath the KING and his late partakers already from the ARMY viz. His Chaplains about him and Cringings and Common prayers in use before him which how agreeable this is to the Directions of PARLIAMENT which have been given or the Covenant which hath been taken I leave to wise men to consider