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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78556	They must needs go, that the devil drives: or, a whip for traytors: comprising, the charge, and articles of impeachment, against all those commissioners, treasurers, exoize-men, clerks, overseers, and surevyors, who have collected great sums of money, cheated the common-wealth of many thousands, oppressed the poor, favour'd the rich; and heap'd up chests of gold and silver for themselves. Also, a declaration to the people, for the taking off all taxes and assesments; and gallant propositions for the increase of trading, relieving the poor, and seting the bondmen free (throughout city and countrey) from rich and cunning assessors, and crafty catch-poles and collectors. Sent in a letter to the Parliament of England; and published by special authority.	Chambers, Peter, fl. 1652.	1652 (1652)	Wing C1918; Thomason E656_7; ESTC R206601	3,883	8

They must needs go that the Devil drives OR A WHIP FOR TRAYTORS Comprising The Charge and Articles of Impeachment against all those Commissioners Treasurers Exoize-men Clerks Overseers and Surveyors who have collected great Sums of Money cheated the Common-wealth of many Thousands oppressed the poor favour'd the Rich and heap'd up Chests of Gold and Silver for themselves Also a Declaration to the People for the taking off all Taxes and Assesments and gallant Propositions for the increase of Trading relieving the poor and ●eting the Bondmen free throughout City and Countrey from rich and cunning Assessors and crafty Catch-poles and Collectors Sent in a Letter to the Parliament of England and published 〈…〉 special Authority LONDON Printed for G. Hor●on 1652. They must needs go whom the Devil drives OR Articles of Impeachment against many hundred of those Committee-men Treasurers and others who have cheated the Common-wealth of many Thousands of pounds Sent in a Letter to the Parliament of England Ye choice men of England I Cannot but honour whom the Lord hath been pleased to honour I am commanded to love you give me then leave to be jealous of you Love lyeth not in flattery for the Law saith Thou shalt not hate thy brother but freely tell him of his faults Ye are many and there was one Judas amongst the Apostles I know him not but he that beareth the bag will certainly betray you He that perswadeth you to sell that precious oyntment which cost so much bloud whose Odor might perfume all the Nation with the sweet savor of charity doth he do it that he loveth you or becaus he hath the bag Such you have declared have been amongst you If any yet remain give him this fop and discover him Note the man that dippeth with you in the Dish whose lips are still ready for the guilty sop of new Assesments or saue't with Birdlime G●lly of Delay kisse●h you with the seeming ●enderness of Bull-begger ca●●i●● and blindeth your ways w●th a prudential Forehead of politick diversion ●●o●fess you are all above me and see over 〈◊〉 but I am under you and see under you yea I see you are supplanted and blown up if you prevent it not Taxes will eat up the grass under your feet How came th● Son of Sol●mon to lose his Kingdom None more fo●d of a King then the English yet they departed from him to ease their purses and their consciences If they forsook their King I speak it to some of your House in the beginning of this Session will they not forsake their fellow subjects for the same causes Few honest men will ingage to be Taxers and knaves will tax none willingly but your friends nor will Collectors gather from others unless compel'd nor Clerks discharge any but your bribing Enemies So you still spur the free horse and necessitate your friends against you Will your Enemies then be for you I write this feelingly as not onely cloy'd with Taxes but overcome with the infinite abuses in them Now when no more Taxes are to be had must not the souldier fall upon his masters Be pleased to remember the first occasions for money It is high time you should find a remedy and this it is Keep whole the publike stock provide for the poor they will provide for you destroy the poor and they will destroy you And if you provide not for the poor they will provide for themselves Though you would pardon all and take the debts upon you proclaiming with the Apostles Let him that stole steal no more Set but 200000 poor at work and if they clear but 20 l. a head as that 's the least the meanest Hine can do that payes his Rent The year will bring about 4000000● to the publique Treasury beside all other profits herein mentioned Hasten this work of God and establish the Honor of your memories in the hearts of all men They are not weary of you but of your Taxes and Delayes And with this joyful Work proclaim a Jubilee of Conscience but let it not usher in a babel of sin How much bloud and expences had been saved had honest men distinguisht between Liberty of Sin and Liberty of Conscience between punishment of sin and punishment of Conscience Tie up sin leave Conscience free Let no man here presume above his senses God onely judgeth the heart He that breaketh the Law is judged by the Law and there the senses are sufficient He that despiseth the Gospel is judged by the Gospel but that 's discerned by the spirit God loves not linsey-wolsey He appoints no Gospel censures for legal Transgressions nor legal censures for Gospel sins The Magistrate for the Law the Church for the Gospel Herein if we are guided by the supream Authority and Power of all the World and the fundamental Laws of Nature written to Moses by God we may all agree concerning the Authority Power and Laws of England unlesse we must ever continue pen●●us toto divis● ab orbe out of the World Verbum sapien●i I am not tedious unlesse displeasing And can there be displeasure in love the Christian love of him that is Your Honours In all humble Christian Duty P. Chambers A Declaration to the People WHereas the enemies of the republick in Parliament and elsewhere seeing the cure mistaken prest forward the mistake to bleed instead of purging and were ever hastning the Parliament to new necessities to invent new Engagements and so new Loanes wherein they confederated with the wary Money-masters and they with their subtle Crafts-masters till they were incorporated with their own common guilt And they that were but half wicked at first were insensibly drawn on to share with each other in all adventures having the temptations of gold before them and the Idoll-covetous●ness within them They must needs go whom the Devil drives These having gotten the precious Jewel of Publick Faith in pawn into their custody by being trusted with the stock that should discharge it Undervalue it at what rates they please so as to be sometimes worth half sometimes worth but a quarter and even at that rate swallow up the Free-Loanes of the first lenders who are forced to remember that half a loaf is better then no bread Sometimes making it worth nothing at all and therefore cry to their confederates in Parliament for new pawns which rather then they shall be wanting they themselves will occasion by withholding the due from the Souldier maintenance from the poor setting of many inventions on work for the decay of Trade causing divisions in the House the City and the whole Kingdom raising up parties countenancing incendiaries withholding all succour from Ireland provoking and inviting forraign Nations Yea with-drawing all comfort from Sea-men and evermore distasting what is last in design or action That thus they might fish in troubled waters and yet keep fair with all parties It were well therefore if our present Patriots who have born the heat of the day and are but