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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56421	A Parliamenter's petition to the army, the present supreme authority of England		1659 (1659)	Wing P510; ESTC R14795	14,455	15

they also set on foot in divers other Regiments If this became faithful servants I wonder who are Masters but for the honesty of the matter they thus combined to effect to instance only in one particular No Officer must be displaced but by a Council of Officers What is the mystery of this iniquity why all must turn out that will be faithful to the interest of the Nation and the trust reposed in them they would pack their Officers to their own mindes shuffle and cut both verily then if they should Petition in a peaceable way as they call it a priviledge not to be debarred the meanest Englishman I wonder what Supreme Authority durst say them Nay this is a thousand times worse providence then to grant them a General and to give him power to place and displace at pleasure worse providence for the Nation I am sure we might possibly finde one honest man in England whom we might trust if it could not otherwise be avoided but how to make a whole Councel of Officers honest most of whom have sprouted up from no very generous principles this is next of kin to an impossibility What a Corporation of the Army what the Army the Representative of England Must your General as of late be the Archon or Sole Legislatour your Council of Officers our Senate and your small Officers the people of England out upon it this is too bad in all conscience why not a Corporation of the Navy too as much reason every jot What the Supreme authority of England that pay you your wages that can put in and out at their pleasure and it is reason they should the Lords Keepers of the Great Seale the Judges of the Land the greatest Officers of State yea and Besides whom none can give you Commissions but they are Rogues Robbers as bad as any High-way-men and worse who take upon them to act and have no Commission from them it is the case of some among you T is a Combination and a Conspiracy among you to make a GENERAL and give him Commission and then he to give you Commissions or to set up any number of men as Supreme but such as the good people of the Land chuse and then to take Commissions from them this is Idolatry to fall down and worship the work of our own hands and to cry aha we are warmed aha we are warmed What not the Supreme Authority be able to remove a Lieutenant an Ensign a Serjeant a Corporal But by your leave most omnipotent Councel of Officers 't is true it is dangerous trusting a General with this Power he may turn all to his own interest which most commonly accords but little with that of the Nation you have had wonderful experience of this already but the Parliament whose interest is the interest of the Nation and can be no other that their noses should come under the girdle of an Army Oh sad contrivance What was it the Good Old Cause that the Parliament must have the Militia and not the King was it then reason they should command the Sword who carried the Purse and carried the interest of the Nation among them and poor King must he suffer death ●or standing upon his terms with them And now when the Parliament is by Your selves declared the Supreme Authority of England now they must touch none of your anoiyted now they must not so much as remove one single Officer of your Army but through the meditation of your grace and favour could the Pa liament say Amen to this part of your Petition and Representation and not betray the Nation and their trust and make themselves the scorn and hatred of the Nation and future Parliaments Yea could they understand this private Combination to force this unreasonable desire and proceed with lesse tokens of their displeasure and not give the Nation a jealousie that they would betray them And is this the reason why you hugge these 9 powder-plotters to effect this most horrid hellish mischief I can imagine nothing so like the truth of the Design if there be any design in it as this well should this be effected for you that you should give Law to England pray what will be the design of it to what end I pray to bewray your deep insight into the afrairs of State To gain your selves Honour and Renown for your rare Conduct of the State no I fear shame would be your promotion you would have little better successe then you have had you may joult your Jobernouls together long enough before you can hammer out a Settlement for us no body thinks that saying true of you I am wiser then all my Teachers Where will be the Design if when you have run your selves out of Winde and out of your Wits too you shall be reduced to the like exigency as of late and be forced to bewayl your Blindness and Apostasie again I say what is become of the Design then And it is not in reason to foresee how you can manage the Chariot of the State long but all must run into disorder your Sin yea and your undertaking will be a burden a punnishment greater then you can bear Very considerate men think you can hardly carry it a Moon Oh shallow oh incogitant oh pitiful oh foolish Army who hath bewitched you you did run well who hindred you will you now altogether run in vain will you lose the things you have wrought will you sell the righteous for nought Our Lawes Liberties our Good Old Cause for lesse then a pair of Shoos Will you harm us and do your selves no good Oh peevish oh wilful Are ye Children are ye Fools are ye Mad Do you discover your Gallantry by grapling with Impossibilities For shame men for shame give over Oh but you mistake us all this while our Design is To carry on the Refined Interest the Spirit of the Cause Good good is this the businesse what is this new thing nothing you may make sp●rt withal a Refined Interest the spirit of the cause hard words what is the English on 't I wonder whether Sir Henry Vane hath opened these abstruse terms to your understanding you apprehend things more nimbly then it seems then honest old English-spirited Sir Arthur Haslerig●e that most highly deserving patriot I think it will be hard to understand the thing you drive at by the terms you dresse it in you will teach us to speak English after a new cut certainly such an Interest was never till now phrased a Refined one The Refined Interest saith Mr. Harrington is that which carries so much reason in it and so much the Interest of the Nation that it being once understood and we in possession of it needs not a Mercenary Army to keep it up Is your Interest refined in this notion you so much bless your selves in what course will you take for the carrying on the spirit of the cause the Refined Interest what will you preserve our choice