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A56151 Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its members... by William Prynne ... Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1660 (1660) Wing P3931; ESTC R2988 41,322 57

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and depending on thi● g arme of fles● or broken h reed of Aegypt as a most sure invine●ble Gu●rd security from all forces and enemies wha●soever that might assault dishouse dethrone them from their usurped supreme Regal and Parliamental Authority over the three Nations and their Hereditary King● * whom they would not have to reign over them hath not been most ●xemplarily and eminently requited by God● avenging providence in making the very self-same Army most treacherou● and perfidious to themselves to rise up rebel against them several times and turn them out of Hous● power on a sudden when they deemed them●elves most secur● to make themselves more than Kings and Lord● over th●m and our whole 3 Kingdom● and i An host of the High ones that are on high upon the earth reviving that Att●xie which Solomon complained of as a great error in Government and a divine judgement upon the Author● of State Innovation● Eccles. 10.6 7 8 9. Folly is se● in great dignity and t●e ri●h sit in l●w place● I have see● servants ●n ●orseback and Princes walking ●s Servants upon the earth He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it and who so breaketh a beged a Serpent shall bite him Whosoe●er removeth stones shall be hurt therewith ●nd ●e that cle●veth wood shall be endangered t●ereby● Whether that curse and judge●●nt Jer. 17 5● 6 Thus saith the Lord cursed ●e the man that tru●teth i● man and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departet● from the Lord For he shall be like the heath in the desar● and shall not see when good cometh but shall inherit the parc●ed places in the wild●rnesse a salt land and not inh●bited● hath not justly b●f●ll●n them our Nation ●or relying on trusting to an ●rm of flesh an Army * Assembly of tr●acherous men whom themselves t●ught encouraged to be treacherou● per●urious to the King Parl. Lords their fellow●Memb●r●● and k thereby to themselves yet voted cried them up for their fait●full Army Savi●u●● Delivere●● Pro●ect●●● Shields and ●o●ly Safegua●d after they had dealt ●rea●●erously with themselves and all their other Sup●rior● and proved like l Aegypt to the Israelites who trusted on them When they ●ook ●old of thee by the hand thou didd●st break and pierce throug● the hand● and rent all their shoulders and when they leaned upon thee th●u breakest and madest all their loins to be at a stand ye● dissolved and m broke them in pieces like a po●ters ves●el so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a s●eard to take fire from the hearth or water ou● o● the pit And may we not then t●ke up thi● Song of the Lamb Rev. 15.3 4. Great and marvellous are thy work● Lord God Almighty Iust and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints who shall not fear thee ô Lord and glorifie thy name For thy Iudgements are made manifest Whether their clandestine sudden indirect stealing into the Commons House again May 7. 1659. upon the Army-Officer● invitation and Declaration who formerly tu●ned them ●ut of it with high●st infamie contempt and defam●tion April 20. 1653. after about 6. year● dissolu●●on ●nd 4. intervenient Vnparliamentary Conventicle● wherein many of them sat as Members and acted as in Parliament● by pretext of their old Wri●● and Elections as M●mber● of the long Parliament ●ctually and legally dissolved by their traiterou● beheading of the King near 11. years before as I have * elsewhere proved without any new Writs of Summon● Resum●ons Electio●s or the privitie of their ●or●er ele●tors or fellow Members Their forcible s●cluding of my self Sir George ●ooth Mr. Ansly all formerly s●cluded Member●● and others not fitting with them from 1648. till April 20. 1653. by Army-Officers and Guards of Souldiers placed at the door ●or that end and their justifi●●tion and ●ontinuing of this new seclu●ion as w●ll ●s t●e old Their usurping to themselves the Title Power of the Parliament of the 〈◊〉 of England Scotland a●d●●eland and Supreme Authority of the Nation Their ex●rcisin● both the Highest Regal Parliamental Legislative Tax-imposing Authority over our Nation● the worst highest of all other Treas●●●s their ●r●ating new unheard of Treas●●● Exile● by thei● 〈◊〉 Proclamations imposing N●w intollerable Tax●●● Excises Mill●●a●● on the whole Nation against all Laws and our Fundamental Liberties Franchis●● Their mo●t injurious illegal unpresidented proclaming of Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Middleton with other old and new ●ecluded Members of the long Parliament and all their adherents Traytors Enemies to the Common-wealth and Apostates not only i● all Counties and Corporation● bu● Churches and Chapels too throughout the Nation to abuse both God and men only for raising forces by virtue of Ordinances and Commissions granted ●hem by the long Parliament which themselves pretended to b● still continuing to defend the Rights and Privilege● of Parliament to call in all the surviving Members of both Houses to sit with them or procure a free and full Parl. duly summoned according to the Protestation Vow League Covenant and Laws of the Land being their own and the whole Nations Birthright for defence whereof the Army it sel● was both raised continued and themselves in their Proclamation of May 7. 1659. and Declaration of March 17. 1648 promised inviolably to maintain which their own consciences knew to be no Crime nor Treason at all but an honest legal honorable necessary undertaking justified by all their former Votes Orders Ordinances Commissions for raising force● against the King● party for the self-same end And themselves greater Traitors Enemies to the Kingdom and Republike than Strafford Canterbu●y or the beheaded King in proclaiming their defence of this undo●bted Inheritance of all English Freemen against their Tyrannical usurpations thereo● to be Treason and Apostacy Their sending out of Major Gen. Lambert who invited them into the House May 6. conducted them into it but secluded Sir G. Booth other Members out of it May 7. took a new Commission from them afterward● in the House and promised with many large expressions ●o be true faithfull constant and yield his u●most assistance to them to set in safety and support their power with great forces against Sir George Booth and all his adherents in this cause being the Majority of the old Parl. and of the people of the Nation the true old Parliament if continuing ●o levie actual war against them declared * high Treason by sundrie Votes and former Declarations and so resolved by themselves in their Impeachments against the beheaded King the E. of Holland L. Capel other● and late Pamphlets against the Army who accordingly levied war against them● routed their forces reduced their Garison● imprisoned their persons sequestred confiscated their estates as Traitors secured disarmed Sir Will. Waller Mr. Holles with sundrie other old Members promised rewards for bringing in the persons or heads of others they endeavoured to secure against
Thou shalt not sow thy Vineyard with divers seeds lest the fruit of thy seed and Vineyard be defiled Thou shalt not plow with an Ox and an Asse together Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts as of Wollen and Linnen together And as great an Absurdity as that in Horace Humano Capiti cervicem jungere Equinam 3ly Whether it will not be the Extremity of folly and frenzy for this twice dissolved Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto to conceit that Lambert and those Army-Officers who have twice turned them out of Doors with greatest Infamy and branded them with so many deserved Marks of Treachery Injustice Vsurpation Rashnesse Oppression self-seeking or the surviving numerous Members of the ou● long Parliament or the Counties Cities Boroughs Ports for which they served the old House of Peers or our three Kingdoms will ever patiently permit them to sit or Act as a lawfull Parliament of England Scotland and Ireland or submit to any of their Anti-Parliamentary Knacks Taxes Excises Imposts Militia●s Orders or Usurped Regal P●rliamental soveraign legislative Authority without rising up unanimously against them as the worst impudentest sottishest of Trayt●rs Vsurpers Enemies to the Peace and settlement of our 3. Kingdoms as their last Knack of Octob. 12. their Plea and other late publications of their own proclaim them to all the world which they have so miserably oppressed impoverished rent in pieces by their forementioned Treasons Innovations and complying with those ambitious covetous Army-Officers and Jesuitical Emissaries whose designs and their own self-ends they have only pursued to the publike desolation of our Kingdoms and Churches And whether their re-secluding of the Lords House and their old surviving fellow-Members will not be a justification and ground for their own third ejec●ment dissolution by the Army or others if they presume to sit and act again without them 4. Whether there be any probability or possibility considering all the premises that any Common Souldiers Mariners or other inferior Officers in the Army or Navy can expect any real payment of their arrears or future pay or the People of our 3. Nations any Trade Peace Ease Settlement in the least degree but inevitable speedy desolation confusion destruction unless they all cordially unite their endeavours counsels forces for the speedy convening and secure un-interrupted fitting of a full free and Legal English Parliament according to the Act of 17 Caroli cap. 1. and declaring all such Members of the twice-dis●ipated Juncto and Army-Grandees Traitors and Enemies to the publike who shall openly and wilfully oppose this their just and necessary only probable means of their Tranquility Safety Prosperity Which they pretend to aim at in words and Declaration● but diametrically contradict by their Proc●edings as experience manifests past all contradiction 5. Whether our Protestant King his Brethren and follow●rs expelled out of their Protestant Realms and forein Allies Territories into Popish idolatrous forein Quarters where they sojourn to the hazard of their Religion Souls Bodie● by the malice of the dissolved Iuncto Army Republican Saints may not now justly use that Speech of ●nnocent persecuted exiled David to King Saul in the like case and condition 1 Sam. 26.19 If the Lord hath stirred thee up against me let him accept an offring but if they be the Children of men Cursed be they before the Lord for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the Inheritanc● of the Lord saying On serve other Gods And whether God by way of requital for this their transcendent impietie and other premised Crimes Treasons of all sorts wherein they impeni●ently persevere may not justly inflict on the Iunc●o Army-Grandees● and their posterities that severe judgement threatned to the Israelites Jer. 16.13 Deutr. 4.27 28. c. 28.64 65 66. Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not neither ye nor your fathers and the Lord shall scatter you among the Nations and ye shall be left few in number among the Heathen whither the Lord shall lead you and there you shall serve Gods day and night the work of mens hands wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell where I will not shew you favour And amongst these Nations thou shalt find no ease neither shall the sole of thy feet ●ave rest but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart and fa●ling of eyes and sorrow of mind and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee day and night and thou shalt have non● As●uranc● of thy life In the morning thou shalt say would God it were even and at even tho● shalt say would God it were morning for t●e fear of thine hea●t and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see And there shall ye be sold unto your En●mies for bondmen and bondwomen and no man shall buy you O tremble at the serious thoughts thereof and be no more stiff-necked 6. Whether the memorable Example of Gods divine Iustice upon Lockier an active Agitator and Leveller in the Army who had a principle hand in seising bringing the King to his death cried out Iustice Iustice Iustice openly against him and spit in the Kings face in Westminster Hall when going to his Trial before his condemnation conducted him to the block and was within 3. Moneths after condemned in a Council of War by some of the Kings own Iudges and shot to death as a M●tineer in London 27 April 1649● The tragical self-execution of Thomas Hoyle Alderman and Knight for the City of Yorke one of the Juncto and High Court of Iustice though he signed not the Kings Sentence and one who consented to and subscribed the New Engagement against a King and House of Lords against his conscience fo●mer Oaths Covenant and Protestation he had taken● the horror whereof so terrified his conscience that on the 30. of Ianuary 1649. the very day● Twelvemoneth of the Kings execution he hanged himself with a cord in his Chamber at Westminster about the very time of the day the King was there executed the year before The Execution of sundry Levellers at Burford that year with Iohn Lilburnes double Trial for his life soon after by Cromwels own Prosecution his proceedings against Saxbey Syndercombe and other Levellers though his chief Instruments to bring the King to Justice to seclude the Majority of the Members and suppress the whole House of Lords The sudden and fearfull deaths of Col. Ven Rigby and others of the Kings Judges the cashiering close Imprisonments suff●ings of M.G. Harrison Col. Rich Col. Overton Col. Okey Lord Grey of Grooby and others of the Kings condemners by Cromwell himself who engaged them therein The Removal of Iohn Bradshaw from his Presidentship and Feudes between Cromwell and him who secluded him ou● of his f●●st Instrumental Parliament in 1654. and after that threatned to imprison and question him for his life With the la●e pangs of conscience which Col. William Purefoye sustained