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A92927	The Army anatomized: or, A brief & plain display of the humble, honest and religious actings of the General Sir Tho. Fairfax, and his army of saints, toward the good of the King and Parliament, and the whole kingdom, since the famous victory, at Naseby, June 14. 1645. Occasioned upon the serious consideration of 4 Scripture-properties of every true saint and Christian soldier. 1. Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you ('tis our Saviors own Golden-Rule) even so do ye unto them. Mat. 7. 12. 2. Not to do any evil (a general Rule, which admits of no exception, either in Kings, or in Commanders) that good may come thereof. Rom. 3.8. 3. To abstain from every appearance of evil; much more from every apparent evil. 2 Thes. 5. 22. 4. Do violence, or wrong, to no man; neither accuse any man falsly. Luke 3.14. Now, how Sir Tho. Fairfax's army of saints and Christian soldiers have performed all these, or any of these, shal be faithfully and plainly declared, in 20. following observations. / By a loyal lover of peace and truth; but a hearty contemner of sedition and schism.	Loyal lover of peace and truth.	1647 (1647)	Wing S2600; Thomason E419_6; ESTC R203539	29,584	39

●e●●ment of the Parliament City and whole Kingdom whereon 〈◊〉 by and by but now to look back to the Army of our humble-hearted Saints The Army having as was forementioned all rubs now removed and their way fair before them to do what they pleas'd and having quickly sear'd away the City-guard from the Parliament and confined them now within their own City-walls and intreated the City Trained-Bands whether they would or not to give them possession of all the City For●s and Lines of Communication whereof now they were become Masters Shortly after the whole Army en●●r● the City and that in a most Martial and triumphant equipage The General himself like a second Casar or some famous Roman Consul riding through the City in princely pomp and stately triumph amended by his whole Army who rode all of them with green Bays and Laurels in their hats in token of Conquest both before and behind him and immediatly before him rode 8 or 10 of his brave conquering Officers in arms all bare-headed even like as to a King or Keisar indeed the Lord Maior also Aldermen and Common Councel of the City having before met his Excellency at Hyde-Park to kiss their golden-fetters and to tender to his Excellency the promised gift of a golden Bason and Ewer of a 1000 l. price together with the invitation of him and his brave Commanders to a sumptuous feast within their City yea and as t is credibly affirmed those two foresaid Ambi-dexters would have the City to have had invited the Atators by name unto this feast a most base absurdity in requital of their kindness in thus easily reducing their City into sordid Captivity yea and the Common people through the whole City filling the streets as the General and Army thus past along admiring and applanding with the highest punegyricks that their greedily gazing eyes could manifest like so many sottish and dull Issachars Asses to their late most mean Martial Servants now become their Martial Masters Which sitly brings this proper distick into my thoughts Stark Dolts and Fools I do them justly hold That love their Fetters though they be of Gold And now in the eighteenth place for a speedy and most conspicuous Demonstration of the truth of these premises and to shew thee the sad beginnings of this poor Cities growing if not future groaning miseries and calamities The Parliament having made the General in part of present requital of his late good service to them High-Constable of the Tower of London with power also to put in as his Substitute whom he pleased to be Lieutenant thereof the General to shew his zeal and fervour for the yet more effectual promoting of the grand Design fore-spoken of going now to the Tower to take possession thereof and having been with all honor and humanity entertained by the noble and both for his Piety and Martial Prowess in the face of his Enemy most highly deserving then present Lieutenant of the Tower Colonel West at a sumptuous feast or dinner of purpose there provided for him and after many seeming friendly salutations and hoped cordial regreets mutually past between them at the table After dinner this new High-Constable having the keys of the Toner delivered to him and notwithstanding also that the Lord Major Aldermen and Common Councel had highly recommended to his Excellency the said noble Lieutenant Col. West yet he presently displaces this brave and every way wel-deserving Colonel and gave the keys and Lieutenantship of the Tower to a pretty young Pageant-stripling viz. one M. Titchburs a hopeful young man indeed and one that to be sure is very likely to be herein very useful to the Tower precinct and inclosure viz. to save the hyre of a Preacher there in that himself has a dexterious faculty in preaching already After this also the General causes the City Militia to be new-moulded and modelld into a former condition to wit of having the Schismatical Militia-men reinvested into the power of the Militia in satisfaction and pacification of the late quarrel and complaint herein against the honest Presbyterian Citizens who had by a full and a free Parliament obtained the just expulsion of all such Independents and Schismaticks from bearing any Office of power or trust in our Common-wealth as either refused to take the Covenant or were Enemies to the Ends and Intentions thereof in point of Reformation and godly Church Government according to an Ordinance of the Lords and Commons formerly voted printed and published by authority I say of a full and free Parliament but now thus alter'd and nullified by the over-awing power of this Army of Saints upon this their Parliament That Proverb 's thus made good by th' General Might orecomes Right and Weaklings must to th' Wall And now the Parliament and City being pretty wel brought under the terror and power of the Army the Army begins stiffly to prosecure the consummating of the Sectaries great Design of Toleration and Liberty of Conference to All And wel knowing they could not throughly effect this til the Parliament were throughly purged of all the opposite and active Presbyterian Members therein therefore as was briefly toucht before they vehemently stil inveigh against about at least 70 others of the more honest and pious party of the House of Commons who also sate and acted in the Parliament in the absence of the others who most unworthily deserted the Parliament and fled to the Army which now like an Army of Saints indeed ful I beleeve of Serpentine Craft but not of Dove-like Innocency protested against their sitting in the House and voting there as Members of the House and most earnestly and urgently threatned again and again even by their beggarly Agitators also of their Army to thrust and force them out as it were by head and shoulders even by a day of their appointment or else they could forbear no longer but would immediatly force them out if they durst stil abide and vote there Insomuch that now at last not only the first 11. accused worthy Members were forced to sly away for fear of them whereof one most eminent Member much honored Sir Philip Stapleton is since dead beyond the Seas by this Armies of dissembling Saints most bold and bloody persecution of them and whose most innocent blood I hope the Lord the most righteous Judg wil when he makes inquisition for blood remember and require at their hands but also the most if not all the rest of the other 70 most worthy Members have been thus enforced to forsake the House and to desert that trust which the Kingdom and Counties for which they were chosen had imposed and invested on them An affront I beleeve unparalell'd and far transcending all presidents of all former ages and Parliaments that ever this Kingdom saw since it was a People and Nation And yet it is a high indignity offered to this Army of Saints to say or think that such a chast and modest Army as this is