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A76758	Mene tekel, or, The council of officers of the Army, against the declarations, &c. of the Army. Wherein is flatly proved by the express words of the Armies declarations, that the sixth article of the * late address of the said council of officers to the Parliament, point-blank changeth the cause of liberty of conscience, from the good old one, to a bad new one; from that which at first, and all along the Army engaged in, and for, and declared to that which they engaged against. Moreover, that the imposition therein is agreeable neither to the Armies solemn declarations and engagements, nor to liberty of conscience, nor to the Scriptures of truth, but is contrary to them all ... Geo. Bishop.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3000; Thomason E999_13; ESTC R207833	40,890	51

MENE TEKEL OR The Council of Officers of the Army Against The Declarations c. of the Army WHEREIN Is flatly proved by the express Words of the Armies Declarations that the Sixth Article of the * May 12. 1659. late Address of the said Council of Officers to the Parliament point-blank changeth the Cause of Liberty of Conscience from the Good Old One to a Bad New One from that which at first and all along the Army engaged in and for and Declared to that which they engaged against MOREOVER That the Imposition therein is agreeable neither to the Armies solemn Declarations and Engagements nor to Liberty of Conscience nor to the Scriptures of Truth but is contrary to them All. DIRECTED To the said Council of Officers for their Convincement AND PUBLISHED For the Information of all who are concern'd in the Cause of Liberty GEO. BISHOP Heù quantum Mutat●sab illo For if I build again the things I destroyed I make my self a Transgressor Gal. 2. 18. LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Tho. Brewster at the Three Bibles by Pauls 1659. TO THE COUNCIL OF THE Officers of the Army FRIENDS HAving seen Your late humble Petition and Address to the Parliament and considered the Matter and Language of the Sixth Article I was grieved in my spirit for your sakes to see that ye should be so quickly removed from your Stedfastness to the Good Old Cause contained in your Declarations and engaged in a New as this more than seems to be and I shall shew it you by and by even that of your enemies in opposition to the former and so provoke the Lord to anger against your Selves whose loving kindness hath so tenderly visited you when ye cryed unto him because of your Oppression who heard and delivered you Therefore bear with me whilst in bowels of love I lay before you the one and the other to the end that ye may see your State and be recovered out of the Snare in which ye are taken captive by the subtilty of men who lay in wait to deceive and so repenting the judgment of God which is ready to break forth may be turned from you Ye know Friends that the Good Old Cause was chiefly Liberty of Conscience which being oppressed by the Bishops and that Generation cryed out so loud as raised the first War on the Bishops and Kings part to oppress and keep it under on the Parliaments to defend and deliver it and the Liberties of the Nation which with the Liberty of Conscience were bound up and joyned together as two lovely Twins that cannot be divided but with the mutual Suffering if not the Dissolution of each other The Bishops Yoaks of Wood being taken off some who but now Suffered under them rise up in their steads to oppress Conscience and these prepare other yoaks yoaks of Iron for the necks of their Brethren who Suffered in and with them and together fought for equal Liberty and nothing would serve these who Suffered themselves but yesterday as it were for Conscience but to bring the Consciences of all others to their size the Souls of all to their Diametre or square who differed from them or the Nations must swim in blood and peace be denied them as if the Cause engaged in had been that they might have Liberty and that it was so to be and as of right and the Consciences of all others made their Slaves and Vassals a more arrogant and unsufferable Usurpation in these than the Bishops by how much the more they cryed out against and opposed it in them Hence it came to pass that they so soon divided from the joynt prosecution of the common Cause of Liberty to the hazzard of the publick distinguishing themselves and others into terms and things and endeavouring the setting up their private upon it with such imperious Lordliness as no Age hath pararell'd and when as the most desired peace was trilling down the Mountains of Blood to the weary Inhabitans of these Nations who had tugg'd hard for it through the extremities of War it must all be turned back again and the Bloody issue again opened and the common Enemy joyned with after he was overthrown King and Irish and Scots raised up and assisted for that purpose against those of their Brethren who continued faithful and were blessed of God because they were so blest against their wills and endeavours to the contrary to the overthrowing of the common Enemy and never would they be at rest so strange was their itch at the Consciences of others and so insatiable their desires to be dealing with the Souls of men who yet injoyed the Liberty of their own raising and carrying on War after War till they were all vanquisht and their whole strength together broken down at Worcester which quickly ended the Wars in these Nations Thus Friends briefly as to the Cause or State of the Case in reference to Liberty of Conscience and the publick Contest thereabouts in which how deeply ye were concerned viz. in the former as Puritans Non-conformists and factious Fellows so called and persecuted in common with the rest in the latter as Hereticks and Schismaticks I shall not nor need I further to repeat These things I may well presume are engraven in you in an indeleble Charecter Nor shall I treat how honest men in these Nations joyned with and assisted you for this purpose as in a common Cause wherein they and you were so equally concerned as that One could not fall or miscarry without the dammage or the detriment of the Other how readily they flowed to you whilst that moved you to any extraordinary actions and what grief of heart it occasioned to them and sufferings when ye have at any time swerved therefrom is manifest the things are fresh and but of yesterday the late Revolutions speak them sufficiently but this I shall shew you plainly out of your own Declarations and in your own words how this Article changeth the Cause from the Old to a New from a good Old one to a bad New one from that in which at first and all along ye engaged for and in to another to that against which ye engaged And this I shall endeavour to do with as much brevity as the weight of the Case will admit not clogging ye with a large Recital of all that ye have said in this particular though what ye have taken liberty to speak ye should endure to hear But contracting the proof of what I have laid down to two of your Declarations as my two instances or witnesses viz. The great Remonstrance St. Albans Nov. 16. 1648. and your draught of the Settlement of the Nation Whitehal Jan. 15. 1649. Both drawn up by you and presented this Parliament upon two of the most weighty occasions ye then had met withal and the greatest Subjects The one the the bringing of the King to justice and changing of the Government into that of a free State or Common-wealth

upon which ye pretend to build now that ye are returned thither again The other your asserting after the then Wars and the Justice done on the King and the change of the Government thereupon what your selves and the People did expect and ought to reap of Liberty therefrom and Right as to All. First in the Sum of the Publick Intrest which had been the great Subject of the contest all along in the late Wars drawn up by you in your said Remonstrance and laid down as that which ye say the King had all along opposed to set up his and his posterities Will and Power and whereupon ye ground your charge against him ye assign nothing in the least of power in Parliaments that there was or ought to be any such or that it was any part of the Contest to impose in matters of Religion or Conscience but charge him with the opposing the Reformation intended and endeavoured by the Parliament as their proper work of what he had imposed in matters of Conscience and Religion For the proof of this see what ye have said Remonstrance pag. 14 15. The sum of the publick Interest say ye of the Nation in relation to Common Right and Freedome which hath been the chief subject of our Contest and in opposition to Tyranny and Injustice in Kings and Others we take to lie in these things following That for all matters of Supream Power or concernment to the safety and welfare of the whole the People have a Common or Supream Council and that the power of making Laws Constitutions and Offices for the Preservation and Government of the whole and of altering repealing and abolishing the same for the removing of any publick grievànce therein and the power of final Judgment concerning War or Peace the safety or welfare of the People and all Civil things whatsoevir here 's not a tittle of Religious without further appeal to any created standing Power and the Supream Trust in relation to all such things may rest in that Supream Council By this it is plain that to Settle or Create a Power in Parliaments to impose in matters of Religion or Conscience was no part of the publick Interest in contest in the Wars Now that the King had imposed in matters of Conscience or Religion and opposed the Reformation intended and endeavoured by the Parliament of what he had so imposed Here what ye also say in your own words The Matters aforementioned say ye * Remonstrance St. Albans page 18. to the Parliament being the main parts of Publick Interest originally contended for on our parts and them that engaged with you viz. the Parliament and thus opposed by the King for the Interest of his Will and Power many other particular or special Interests have fallen into Page 20. the contest on each Party As first on the Parliaments part to protect and countenance religious men and godliness in the power of it Who hath discountenanced and put such out of protection Now to the witness of God in you all I speak To give freedome and enlargement to the Gospel for the encreasing and spreading of Light amonst men Who endeavours to stop it now To take away those corrupted Forms of an out-side Religion and Church-Government whether imposed without a Law or rooted in the Law in times of Popish ignorance and Idolatry or of the Gospels dimmer light Who establishes such now whose light is dim now By means whereof chains and snares were laid upon conscientious and zealous men Who have laid chains and snares for such men now And the generality of the People held in darkness and superstition and a blind Reverence of persons and outward things fit for Popery and Slavery Who holds them so now and fits them for such And also to take away and loosen the dependance of the Clergy and Ecclesiastical affairs on the King Who hath put it on the Magistrate yea as the bottome of a Free State declared so now Which the craft of both in length of time had wrought for each other How crept it in and by whose craft hath it wrought it so and in so short a space now Which several things were the proper subject of the Reformation endeavoured by the Parliament Who hath pray'd the Parliament to do and at whose address and request have they done the contrary now Contrariwise on the Kings Party Whose Party is it now become and Interest Who is it now that hath laid a foundation for the following particulars The Interest was to discountenance and suppress the power of godliness or any thing of Conscience obliging above or against humane and outward Constitutions to restrain or lessen the preaching of the Gospel and growth of light among men To hold the Community of men in a darksome ignorance and superstition or formality in Religion with an awful Reverence of Persons Offices and outward dispensations rendring them sit subjects for Ecclesiastical and Civil Tyranny And for these ends to advance and set up further forms of Superstition or at least hold fast the old which had any foundation in the Laws whereby chains and fetters might be held upon and advantages taken against such in whom a zeal or Conscience to any thing above man should break forth and to uphold and maintain the dependance of the Clergy and Church matters on the King and greatness of the Clergy under him Who hath done and is doing all this now And in all these things to oppose the Reformation endeavoured by the Parliament Who hath set the Parliament now to oppose the very Reformation themselves endeavoured of which ye say it was the proper subject Read these things in the spirit of honesty in which ye wrote it and then read your selves and see how you are in a moment as it were beguiled and surprized after all and darkened into the Kings Interest as ye your selves have here stated it out of and from the Parliaments doing your selves the very things with which ye here charge him and for which among other things ye took him off The matters are so plain and obvious as they need no further demonstration Consider them seriously in the fear of God for it is no slight thing that ye are deceived into But that on which doth hang the guilt of all the blood that hath been shed in the late Wars ye have given Judgement against your selves in the Case in this your Judgment against the King I shall close this instance with your own words in the close of this particular pag. 21. In all or most of which respects say ye of what hath been repeated it hath been the great happiness and advantage to Parliamentary and publick Interest that it hath been made One very much with ●●e Interest of the godly or for the name whereof it hath been so much derided the Saints as on the other side the Kings one with their greatest opposites By occasion whereof God hath been doubly engaged in the Cause