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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67060	A word to the army, or, A friendly representation and humble request to the Honourable the L. Charles Fleetwood, commander in chief, and the Lord Lambert and the rest of the officers and souldiers of the army in England written a while since by a lover of his countrey, peace, truth the Parliament and Army.	Lover of his countrey.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3570A; ESTC R26404	4,818	10

A VVord to the Army Or A Friendly REPRESENTATION And Humble Request to the Honourable the L. Charles Fleetvvood Commander in Chief and the Lord Lambert and the rest of the Officers and Souldiers of the Army in England Written a while since by a Lover of his Countrey Peace Truth the Parliament and Army PROV 22.3 A prudent man fore-seeth the evil and hideth himself but the simple passe on and are punished Prov. 14.22 Do they not err that devise evil But mercy and truth shall he to them that devise good Printed for Richard Wodnoth at the Bible in Leaden-hall-street 1659. To the Right Honourable Charls Fleetvvood Esq Commander in Chief of the Forces in England and the Lord Lambert and other Officers of the Army and to all among them that fear GOD. Right Honourable and much Beloved GIve your servant leave I beseech you to deal freely with you The Son of Craesus a dumb man opened his mouth when he saw his Father in danger to be killed saying Do not kill Craesus and should not I when our politicall Father the Parliament the Supream legal Authority in these three Nations is so dealt with by you These are not the words of an enemy but of a friend who hath prayed a thousand times for you and doth still and they are not my sense only but the sense I dare be bold to say of very many ten thousands of the godly and well-affected people in these Nations You do know and we do know put out that you do know and have acknowledged That the holy Scriptures are the Word of God and the only Rule of Faith and Life and the only means of Salvation and not old Traditions or new Revelations That Jesus Christ is the Son of God and very God the only Saviour of men That the preaching of the Word by a Learned faithful godly Ministery lawfully called and solemnly set a part to that work is an Ordinance of Jesus Christ to continue to the end of the world for the gathering and building his Church And sure you do or may know the great design of the Romish Priests Jesuites and Quakers and many others amongst us though on different grounds is to take away our Minister a established maintenance in order to overthrow the Ministery it self for they well know that if Tythes be once down no other maintenance will or can be be settled that will please all or the greatest part of them you count godly not to maintain others or to continue and so to overthrow the Gospel it self to pull down Christs Kingdom and advance Antichrists this is the work of Rome which we hope you do abhorr Also you do know that Magistracy is an Ordinance of God That all men ought to be subject to the Magistrate for Conscience sake in all things lawfull though the men be bad And that they that resist do resist the Ordinance of God and shall receive to themselves damnation Also you do know That the Parliament of England is the Supream Authority in these Nations That it is the undoubted priviledge of the Parliament to sit Act and determine freely according to their Judgment and Consciences I may add That it is not to be presumed or imagined That a Parliament equally chosen by the good people of this Nation can betray or desert their Trust and Native Countrey in whose welfare their own doth so much consist though some perticuler persons may and have done And that it is the undoubted Right of the people not of the Army or some few persons only to choose their own Representatives also to Petition and represent their desires and thoughts to them as they conceive cause and then to acquiesce in their determination and to obey them in all things lawful That if matter of controversie do arise concerning any publick Affairs not you or we are the publick Judges but the Parliament Our Representatives duty is to judge and determine for us both and your and our duty is to obey either actively or passively according to our private judgment of discretion And you do know that you had your Call and Commission from this Parliament to fight for the preservation of the true reformed Protestant Religion the Priviledge of Parliament the just Liberties of the People and the good old Lawes of the Land This is the true good old Cause and that not according to your apprehensions but according to the directions of the Parliament both at your first call and Commissioning and lately since you invited and entreated them to sit again In your Decla May 11 1559. and to go on to perform the trust reposed in them by the people And you did declare That you did greatly rejoyce to see and read their Declaration of May 7 and that you would assist them in settling the Commonwealth And you do know that Souldiers ought to obey their Superiors that did call and commission them to do violence to no man to accuse none falsely and be contented with their wages and not turn their Masters out of doores and take the Power to themselves with what face then can you lift up your hands and with what Conscience appeare before God or men who have by force took on you the Supream power of judging turned out the Parliament also contrary to Laws of God and the trust reposed in you by them and us and contrary to your own late free engagement and this when they were doing their duty and had not betrayed their trust and quite contrary also to the intention and desire of us the farr greatest part of the honest and well-affected of the people And since this was written voted down as t is commonly reported the Ministers Lawfull Antient Established maintenance which is their freehold and in which doing the work they have as good a propriety as you have to your Lands Swords Horses or any thing you have to the great scandall of Religion which you profess above all us to the great grief and sadding the hearts of I am sure the farr greater part of the truly Godly and well affected to the common good you have hereby also much hardened the hearts of the old Malignants Royalists and Episcopall party given them great hopes and advantage to ruin both you and these three Nations and opened their mouths wide too justly to reproach the famous long Parliament as you your selves not long since find it the Army and all the good people who have spent much blood and treasure to further an happy and just reformation and settlement in the Church and civil State Opend a door for the deluded bewitched Popish Quakers and all Blasphemers to poyson seduce and destroy souls and for the Romish Priests and Jesuits and such like Emissaries which many feare have secretly a great influence in your Counsells and actings to make and widen our breaches and divisions to undermine and overthrow Religion and civill Government and seduce us againe to be Slaves to Rome though