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A91165	Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its Members. To convince them of, humble them for, convert them from their transcendent treasons, rebellions, perjuries, violences, oppressive illegal taxes, excises, militiaes, imposts; destructive councils, proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie kings, the old dissolved Parliament, the whole House of Lords, the majoritie of their old secured, secluded, imprisoned fellow-Members, the counties, cities, boroughs, freemen, commons, Church, clergie of England, their Protestant brethren, allies; contrary to all their oathes, protestations, vowes, leagues, covenants, allegiance, remonstrances, declarations, ordinances, promises, obligations to them, the fundamental laws, liberties of the land; and principles of the true Protestant religion; and to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels, as tend to publike unitie, safetie, peace, settlement, and their own salvation. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3930; Thomason E772_3; ESTC R203226	35,699	53

Conscientious Serious THEOLOGICAL AND LEGAL QUAERES Propounded to the twice-dissipated self-created Anti-Parliamentary Westminster Juncto AND ITS MEMBERS TO Convince them of humble them for convert them from their transcendent Treasons Rebellions Perjuries Violences Oppressive illegal Taxes Excises Militiaes Imposts destructive Councils Proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie Kings the old dissolved Parliament the whole House of Lords the Majoritie of their old secured secluded imprisoned fellow-Members the Counties Cities Boroughs Freemen Commons Church Clergie of ENGLAND their Protestant Brethren Allies contrary to all their Oathes Protestations Vowes Leagues Covenants Allegiance Remonstrances Declarations Ordinances Promises Obligations to them the fundamental Laws Liberties of the Land and Principles of the true Protestant Religion And to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels as tend to publike Unitie Safetie Peace Settlement and their own salvation By William Prynne Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Levit. 19. 17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him or bear not sin for him 1 Tim. 5. 20. Them that sinne openly rebuke before all that others may fear Prov. 9. 8 9. Rebuke a wise man and he will love thee give instruction to a wise man and he will yet be wiser Jude 11 12. Wo to them for they have gone in the way of Kain and perished in the gainsaying of Core They are trees whose fruit is withered TWICE DEAD plucked up by the roots London Printed and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1660. Conscientious Serious Theological and Legal Quaeres c. THe Wisest of Men and God only wise informs all Sons of Wisdom capable of Instruction that a open rebuke is better than secret love because faithfull are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitfull whence b he that rebuketh a man for his exorbitant transgressions afterwards shall finde more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue by extenuating excusing or justifying his Offences Upon this consideration I reputed it both a seasonable and Christian duty incumbent on me in this day of the late Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes dissipation humiliation confusion and Army-Officers division amongst themselves to reminde them fully of and * rebuke them plainly sharply for their manifold Treasons Perjuries and other exorbitant Offences against their lawfull Protestant Kings Kingdom the late dissolved Parliament the whole House of Lords the Majoritie of their fellow-Members the whole English Nation Church Ministrie their Protestant Brethren and Allies against all their sacred and civil Obligations to them in a serious impartial convincing least-offensive manner by way of Quaeres drawn from Gods word and plain sacred Scripture-Texts and our known Laws which they have most presumptuously trodden under foot and c would not hearken to in the daies of their late self exaltation and Prosperity like their Predecessors of old among the Jewes when I minded and reminded them over and over not only in my Speech Memento Collections of our antient Parliaments and other publications in the years 1648 1649. in my Epistle to and first Part of My Historical Collections and Legal Vindication 1655. My Republicans Spurious Good Old Cause briefly and truly Anatomized My True and Perfect Narrative and Concordia Discors in May and June last and Brief Necessary Vindication of the old and new secluded Members in September following wherein I truly predicted their former and present dissolutions by those very Army Officers with whom they confederated which they would not credit till dissolved by them being in good hopes that they will now at last Hear counsel and receive instruction that they may be wise in their latter end as God himself adviseth them Prov. 19. 20. 1. Whether their Speaker Mr. Lenthall and those confederate Members of the Commons House who against their duties upon pretext of the unarmed London Apprentices tumult at the House in July 1647. though they secured secluded no Members but only kept them in the House till they had read answered their Petition and then quietly departed went away privily to the Armie by the invitation instigation of some swaying Army-Officers without the leave or privitie of the House brought up the whole Army to Westminster and London to conduct them in triumph to the House caused them to * impeach declare against suspend imprison sundry Members of both Houses nulled all Votes Orders Ordinances Proceedings in their absence by reason of a pretended force upon the House by the Apprentices during that space and declared them meerly void to all intents by the Speakers Declaration and an Ordinance of 20 Aug. 1647. when as there was no force at all upon the Houses during that time and these Members might have freely safely returned to the House alone had they listed without the Army or any one Troop to guard them and afterwards mutinied and brought up part of the Armie again to Westminster to * force the Houses to passe the Votes for No more Addresses to the King contrived in a General Council of Army-Officers and seconded with their Declaration when passed by force and surprize in an emptie House After that most traiterously and perfidiously f confederated with the Army-Officers to break off the last Treatie with the King in the Isle of Wight to seise the Kings person by a partie of the Armie and remove him thence against both Houses Orders notwithstanding his large Concessions and consent to their Propositions to secure seclude all the Members of the Commons House who after many daies and one whole nights debate passed this Vote according to their judgements consciences duties carried without dividing the House notwithstanding the Armies march to Westminster and menaces to prevent it That the answers of the King to the Propositions of both Houses were a ground for the House to proceed upon for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom which Vote of the whole House when there were above 300 Members present about 40 of them only soon after repealed expunged the manner of carrying on of which design against the King and Members was concluded by a Committee at Windsor consisting of 4. Army-Officers wherof Col. Harrison their chair-man and a Member and Col. Rich were two 4. Members of the Commons House whereof Cornelius Holland yet living was one the 3. others since dead 4. Independents and 4. Anabaptists of London wherein a List was made by them what Members should be secluded secured and who admitted to fit this Committee resolving to dissolve both Houses by force and to trie condemn execute the King by a Council of War if they could not get 40 of the Common g House to sit and bring him to Justice as John Lilburn one of that Committee hath published in print approved abbetted the Armies forcible treasonable securing of many Members secluded the Majoritie of

Freemen close imprisoning sundry Members of the old Parliament my self amongst others divers years in remote Castles and keeping us from Gods publike ordinances without any accusation hearing trial or legal cause of commitment expressed in their warrants By presuming upon the Army and Officers sodain invitation after the old Parliaments dissolution by the Kings death and their above 6. years dissipation by the Army without the election or privity of the people to sit and act as the Parl. and supream power of the Nation to seclude at least 3. parts of 4. of the old surviving Members by force and proclaiming Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Middleton and other Members and Freemen of England Traytors and levying war against them only for raising forces to induce them to call in all the old secluded Members or to summon a new free Parliament and for opposing their new illegal Taxes Excises Militiaes imposed and levyed on the people without their Common consent in Parl. deserve not to be all indicted executed and their estates confiscated as Traytors for these their successive reiterated high Treasons by their own resolutions Sir George his adherents totally acquitted frō the least imputation or guilt of Treason Whether their branding sequestring them for Traytors Apostates Enemies to the publike against Law Conscience too hath not justly brought that wo judgment upon their conventicle Isa. 5. 20 23 24. Wo unto them that call evil good and good evil that put darknesse for light and light for darknesse that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter and take away the righteousnesse of the righteous from him Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble and the flame consumeth the chaff so their root shall be rottennesse and their blossom shall go up as dust because they have cast away the Law of the Lord and of the Land too and despised the name of the holy one of Israel For all this his wrath is not turned away but his hand is streched out still Whether the Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes and Army-Officers beheading of their late Protestant King against the Votes Protestations of the generality of the Parliament and his 3. Protestant Kingdoms and Mediations of all foreign Protestant Agents then in England their banishing expelling his Royal Protestant Heir Successor to the Crown with all the rest of his Children professing the reformed Religion out of all their Protestant Realms and Dominions their invading of their Protestant Brethren in Ireland and Scotland in an hostile manner with potent Armies and waging warr against them in their own Countries and after that against their own Protestant Brethren in England as professed Enemies Traytors Apostates slaying divers thousands of them in the field imprisoning banishing disinheriting sequestring many thousands more of them only for owning crowning assisting their own hereditary Protastant King according to their Oathes Covenants Lawes Homage Allegeance duties and principles of the Protestant Religion to regain and retain his Royal Authority and Kingdoms Their waging of a most bloudy destructive war with our antient Protestant Allies of Holland above 3. years space together to the slaughter of many thousands of their and our gallantest Protestant Seamen Admirals Sea-Captains of purpose to banish their own exiled Protestant King his Brethren and followers out of the Netherlands from the Societie and charitable relief of their Protestant friends where they lived as exiles enjoying the free prosession of the Reformed Religion and Communion prayers contributions of the Protestant Churches on purpose to drive them into Popish Quarters amongst seducing Jesuites Priests Papists to cast them wholly upon their Alms Mercy Benevolence and by these high indignities and their pressing necessities to enforce them if they can to renounce the Protestant Religion and turn professed Papists Their most unhuman unchristian barbarism in depriving them totally of all means of Subsistance by seising all their revenues without allowing them one farthingout of them towards their necessary relief yet enacting it High Treason for any of their Protestant Subjects Friends Allies within their Realms or Dominions to contribute any thing toward their support to hold the least correspondency with or make any publique prayers unto God for them as if they were worse than Turks Jews Infidels and most professed Enemies for whom we are not only commanded obliged to pray but also to love feed cloth relieve harbor them in their necessities overcoming their evil with goodness by Christs own example and expressprecepts under pain of everlasting damnation be a conscientious Saint-like performance of and obedience to or not rather an Atheistical obstinate presumptuous rebellion against the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. Mat. 5. 44 45. c. 22. 21. c. 25. 34 to 46. Luke 6. 35. to 39. c. 10. 30. to 38. c. 23 34. Acts 7. 60. Rom. 10. 13 19 20 21. c. 13. 1 to 12. c. 15. 26 27. 1 Cor. 16. 1 2. Jam. 2. 13. and other sacred Texts A religious zealous observation of their * sacred solemn Protestations Vows Covenant Remonstrances Declarations Oathes for the maintenance defence and propagation of the true Reformed Protestant Religion the Profession and Professors of it against the bloudy Plots Conspiracies attempts practices of the Iesuites and other professed Popish Enemies and underminers of them Or not rather a most perfidious treacherous violation abjuration and betraying of them A loving of their Protestant Brethren with a true heart fervently and laying down their lives for them and being pitiful mercifull compassionate towards them according to these Gospel-precepts Eph. 4. 32. c. 5. 1 2. 1 Pet. 1. 22. c. 2. 17. c. 3. 8. 1 John 3. 11. 14. 33. c. 4. 7 11 12. 20 21. John 13. 34. c. 15. 12. 17. Or not rather a shuting up their bowels of compassion towards them a grieving offending persecuting murdering of their bodies and souls too and an infallible evidence that they are yet no real Saints or children of God but the very children of the Devil abiding in death having no true love of God nor eternal life abiding in them by Christs own resolution John 8. 44 45. 1 John 2. 10. to 18 A professed Antichristian contradiction to the reiterated command and voice of God from heaven Isay 52. 11. 2 Cor. 6. 17. Rev. 18. 2 3 4 c. Depart ye depart ye Come ye out of mystical Romish Babylon the mother of whoredoms the habitation of Devils and of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hatefull bird O my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes and that ye receive not of her plagues by their forcible driving of their own Protestant King Brethren into Babylon and keeping them therein to have their habitation among Devils foul spirits unclean birds of every kind that so they may participate both in her sins and plagues instead of calling thē out from thence into their own Protestant Dominions and Churches * Verily if the righteous shall scarcely be saved where shall these

in Kings College in Cambridge after that at Salamanca in Spain for 8. years Being demanded by them Whether there were not many Jesuites and Freers then in England He assured them upon his own knowledge they had then above five hundred Iesuites in London and the Suburvs and that they had at least four or five Iesuites and Popish Priests in and about London to every Minister we had there Whereupon they demanding of him How so many Jesuites and Priests were there maintained He answered That the Iesuites and every Order of Fréers had their several Treasurers in London who by Orders from their Provincials furnished them with what ever Monies they wanted by Bills of Exchange returned to them That all the Jesuites and Priests in England were maintained according to their respective qualities A Lords Son like a Lord and a Knights Son like a Knight and if they chanced to meet him in London at their return though he were now in a poor weed they should find him in Scarlet or Plush a better equipage than what he was in He would not discover his true name to them but upon discourse on a sudden he mentioned His Cozen Howard in England which made them suspect he was of that family He told them further that though we were very cunning in England yet the Jesuites and Priests there were too crafty for us lurking under so many disguises that they could hardly be discovered That there was but one way to detect them which they being inquisitive to know He said it was for those who suspected them to be Priests to feign themselves Roman Catholicks and upon that account to desire the Sacrament from them which they could not deny to give them after Confession to them being bound thereto by Oath by which means some of them had been betrayed He further informed them That himself had been at all the several Gathered Churches Congregations Sects in London and that none of them came so near the * Papists in their Opinions and Tenents as the Quakers among whom himself had spoken This relation one of the Gentlemen a person of honor and reputation the other being dead hath lately made to me three several times with his own mouth and will attest it for truth having related it to sundry others since his return into England Which considered Whether it be not the very High-way to our Churches Religions Ministers Nations ruine and destruction to list so many Quakers Anabaptists Sectaries in the Army and New Militiaes in most Counties where they bear the greatest sway and to disarm the Presbyterians and Orthodox Protestants as the only dangerous persons and put all their arms into Quakers Anabaptists and Sectaries hands headed steered by Jesuits Popish Priests and Freers as they have done in Glocester Colchester Cheshire Lancashire and endeavour to doe in other parts to cut all true Protestants throats and set up Popery by the Army which hath so much advanced it of late years before we are aware Let all true zealous Protestants timely seriously consider and endeavour speedily to prevent and the Council of Army-Officers with their new Committee of Safety too if they have any care of their Native Country or Protestant Religion before it be over-late Whether we may not justly fear that God himself in his retaliating Justice for the Junctoes and Armies unparalleld Exile of their Protestant King and Royal posterity into Popish Territories and yet permitting such swarms of Jesuits Monks and Romish Vermin to creep in and reside amongst us may not give up the dissolved Juncto Army Council of Officers Soldiers and their posterities with our whole three Nations as a prey and spoil to these seducing dividing ravening all-devouring Wolves yea to the combined forces of our Spanish and French Popish adversaries to the utter desolation extirpation ruine of our Protestant Religion in the midst of our present divisions and distractions under a just pretext of restoring the exiled Royal issue to their hereditary rights and avenging the manifold indiguities to them and their relations unless timely and wisely prevented by a prudent voluntary clozing with loyal christian restoring them by common consent our selves upon just safe and honourable terms becoming us both as Men Christians and Professors of the Reformed Religion And whether we be not ripe for such a universal desolating judgement as this if we consider Is 24. 16 17 18. c. 33. 1 2. c. 59. 1 to 19. 2 Chr. 3. 6. 15 to 21. Mich. 2. 2 3 4 5. Ezech. 35. 14 15. Joel 3. 6 7 8. or the late and present sufferings of most other Protestant Churches abroad not half so Treacherous Perfidious Wicked Exercrable as we who are now become the very Monsters of Men the scandal shame reproach of Christianity and humanity in the repute of all the world Whether the Juncto and Army-Officers who have like the a Hypocritical Israelites very frequently ordered celebrated many Hypocritical irreligious Mock-facts from time to time to fast for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickednesse never yet observing practising that fast which God himself requireth to loose the bands of wickednesse to undo the heavy burthens to let the oppressed go free to breakevery yoke to deal their bread to the hungry to bring the poor exiled Protestant Royal issue and their English followers that are cast out by them to their Houses to cover the naked and not hide their selves from their own flesh who have hitherto made their publike and private dayes of Humiliation a constant Prologue to their ambition pride b and rebellious self-exaltation their dayes of praying to God a preface to their preying upon their brethren their seeking of God for direction and assistance in their designs a means to colour and promote the very c works of their father the devil their pretended following the secret impulses of the spirit of God the sole justification of d walking according to the Prince of the air the spirit that now worketh in the Children of disobedience their making taking of solemn Oathes Vowes Protestations Covenants Engagements to be true faithfull oonstant loyal obedient to their Lawfull Kings their heirs successors superiors the Privileges Rights of Parliament our Fundamental Laws Liberties Religion c. a meer engin and diabolical stratagem more cunningly boldly audaciously perfidiously to betray undermine supplaut subvert them have not now just cause to keep many publike private Fasts and dayes of Humiliation to confesse bewaile repent renounce and reform these their transcendent-crying wrath-provoking sins and abominations together with their e building up of Zion their New Republike Free-state Churches Kingdom of Jesus Christ with blood and establishing Jerusalem with iniquity f their devising iniquity and working evil upon their beds and practising it when the morning is light because it is in the power of their hand and swords their coveting other mens fields houses and taking them away by violence so they