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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95335	Truth seeks no corners: or, Seven cases of conscience humbly presented to the Army and Parliament.		1659 (1659)	Wing T3159; Thomason E989_21; ESTC R203836	4,943	11

TRVTH Seeks no CORNERS OR Seven CASES of Conscience Humbly presented to the Army and Parliament Claud. Nec tibi quid liceat sed quid fecisse decebit Occurrat Have in your thought Not what you may effect But what you ought He seldome returns in safety that fights unjustly Cl. Printed in the Year 1659. Gentlemen THe ensuing Cases of Conscience are intended only to set you strait wherein you have swerved from the way of Truth and Charity though they be not so well ordered yet they were better meant and the true purport of them only is if possible that I amongst others might cast my mite also into the Treasury for the safety and preservation of this most glorious and most splendid Island from slavery bondage war and blood Gentlemen Souldiers sometimes you know its better to make an honourable retreat then to hazard your country by engaging an over-powerful enemy and many times more discretion by far So whether it be not much more convenient for your selves and this Nation to retreat from this heap of confusion disorder and incertainties wherein we are now plunged to that settlement with some amendments wherein the generality of the Nation of late did so much rejoyce 1 Because its the likeliest way to come to a settlement and at unity amongst our selves and to have a free Parliament called and chosen and so a conclusion put to the distractions of the Land which are otherwise likely to continue 2 Because in so doing you will discharge a good conscience you will perform your vows and covenants oaths protestations to God your Country and the Protector which else I cannot in my poor judgement discern how you can eseape the dint and stroke of Gods judgements 3 You will wipe off that calumny and reproach which will for ever remain upon you and your posterity of being some of you perjured and forsworn except Sir H. V. can help you out with a distinction to salve your consciences for a while and all of you Nallifidians men of no Faith or truth For my part I speak the truth and lye not I know not which way you can escape these most notorious imputations all that I have further to say is that you vvould accept these things kindly from the hand of your faithful friend to serve you Truth seeks no Corners OR Seven Cases of Conscience humbly presented to the Army and Parliament 1 Case HOw we can in conscience so highly magnifie this Convention by the specious Epi●hites and titles of the Parliament of England the Rep esentatives of the People a Commonwealth-Government a Free-State and what not Because First there is now remaining but abo●t 80 persons when the compleat number should be neer five hundred and yet these Gentlemen have the confidence of terming themselves the Parliament the Representatives of the People c. and doubtless esteem it not an ace less then Treason for any man to deliver his opinion otherwise Now suppose these Gentlemen should trust an Army of ten thousand men as the people hath trusted them to defend such a country or place this Army through the casualty of war and the like are reduced to about fifteen hundred or two thousand at most but so it is having power in their hands they will admit of no other supply though there be the same reason hazard and danger as at first would not this Parliament judge and conceive think you that these were dangerous persons and ran a direct course to hazard overturn and ruine all or for the East-India Company to send a 100 Factors and Agents to manage their affairs to their best advantage in the East-Indies and that eighty or more of this hundred should miscarry by the way do you think it either fit or would it not be presumption for the twenty remaining to undertake that trust and the mannagement of that which was both trusted ordered and disposed of for a hundred or having power in their hands they will admit of no other help or assistance from their imployers whose servants they are Now the plain and naked case is that if such a kind of demeanour was to be seen in and practised by others whether it were not most abominable tyrannical and the greatest usurpation lightly imaginable Secondly because the people of England yea according to their own qualifications and rules have intrusted other persons to sit in Parliament several times since and if this be a rule which doubtless it is that the people were not made for Parliaments but Parliaments were made and constituted for the peoples good then the people and their sense and notion of things ought to be preferred accepted and entertained before ten or twenty mens apprehensions of things for the rest stand but for cyphers who are only a remnant or a broken end of a rejected and distrusted Parliament for it is a strange Solecisme in Oeconomy or governing a mans family or houshold affairs that I shall not have liberty to alter or change my servants though under the greatest trust if I have opportunity put into my hand to fit my self as I conceive with more able honest and faithful persons and having thus furnished and fitted my self that the old servants that I rejected finding me either from home or otherwise dispose of my self should thrust themselves into my imployment without my consent leave or approbation is certainly a temper not to be endured or tolerated amongst men Thirdly because the present power did not only allow but approve and commend the Armies act in dissolving or incapacitating their Brethren in 1648. although they were the major or prevailing part of that Parliament then if the Armies power and practise was good and commendable in 1648. upon the most eminent and prevailing part of a Parliament what is it that hath made the difference that their power and practise was not as good in 1653. upon themselves For certainly if I allow and approve of any thing done to my brother I cannot disallow or disapprove of the same thing done to my self so that it plainly appears that if the Armies authority was good which they exercised upon their brethren their Fellow-Trustees it must needs be good also upon themselves and if it were neither lawful to the one nor to the other in 1648. nor in 1653. then ought they all to return to their trust had not the people passed their judgement and delegated their trust to others in the mean time so that these three things considered the question and case of conscience is how either they or any man else can lawfully give them the terms and appellations of a Parliament the Representatives of the people c. 2 Case How then in conscience can these Gentlemen thus impose or irrogate themselves upon the people as their Parliament when they have not their approbation or consent let any mans conscience but speak without quenching smotheting or diverting it and will it not speak usurpation and tyranny because the people of