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A92209	Little Benjamin or truth discovering error: being a clear and full answer unto the letter, subscribed by 47 ministers of the province of London, and presented to his Excellency, January 18. 1648. To inform the ignorant satisfie the desirous of the concurrent proceedings the Parliament and Army. In taking away the life of Charles Stuart, late King of England, together with, &c. / By a reall lover of all those, who love peace and truth. February 17. 1648. Imprimatur Gil. Mabbot.	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing R449; Thomason E544_4; ESTC R205982	14,178	22

losse of member and blood and stigmatizings c. Thirdly Persisting in full opposition to the Parliaments humble Suits and Declarations made unto him shewing that whensoever the King makes warre upon the Parliament it is a breach of the trust reposed in him by his People contrary unto his Oath and tends to the dissolution of this Government which truth fully appeares at this day They further declared that whosoever shall serve and assist him in such warre are Traytors by the Fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome and have been so adjudged by two Acts of Parliament and ought to suffer as Traytors Fourthly he afterwards did indeavour with a high hand utterly to subvert salus populi and to destroy this Nation by setting up his Standard and waging open warre upon the Parliament and against all his good and loyall Subjects Fiftly by his prosecution of two warres in destroying the precious lives of very many together with the rapines and ruines of millions of people in these three Nations Sixthly for that the King despising good and faithfull counsell when seasonably given him by the Parliament of whom he ought to have received it wholly adhered unto animated and followed perverse foolish slanderous wicked proud malitious haughty deceitfull and murtherous mens counsell who endeavoured utterly to root out extirpate and extinguish the very name and being of all those who were the faithfull of the Land and endeavoured a thorow Reformation of all wicked and unrighteous practises in the King his family and Kingdomes Seventhly by betraying his Subjects into the Enemies hands abroad to wit in the Isle of Hee and in neglecting to relieve his Subjects in Ireland against those most barbarous and bloody Enemies and in bringing of them and other Forraigners from other * nations in upon us Eightly for that the King with all his trayterous Forces did continue to resist the Parliament and this Army raised by their Power and Authority for the defence of this Nation untill they had subdued them and made the King their conquered Prisoner after which time he ceased not to persist in his former designes Ninthly by his transgressing transcendently more than Saul did for he onely spared Gods enemies for which his Kingdome was taken from him and given unto David but our Saul destroyed the Lords dearest friends his first borne his peculiar Treasure and Jewels most deare and tender unto him he that toucheth them toucheth the apple of his eye these are his truly annoynted ones he hath reproved Kings for their sakes saying Touch not mine annoynted and do my Prophets no harme Now forasmuch as the Powers that be are ordained or ordered of God and God hath so ordered it that this Army contrary to the endeavours strivings and expectations of their Enemies multiplied plots and practises openly perpetrated against them in all parts of England Wales Ireland and Scotland c. besides all the in-workings and secret plots in the Parliament and City and in all other places against them as also by many of them who call themselves Ministers of the Gospell I say seeing God hath so ordered all that this Army should prevaile against all and subdue all unto the Immediate Supreame Power of the Parliament and by their Authority and Commissions given to them How is it then that ye who are teachers of others your selves are not yet ashamed to violate Gods Ordinance by piercing and wounding of that Authority which God hath set up in the Parliament through the sides of the Generall his Councell and this Army you having presumed upon the fluid and vulgar opinion of your Authority with the rude multitude of Malignants to counter-check and controule all and with one breath to have cried up the Kings life into safety and to have freed his person from Justice saying The Lord hath said it as those 400. Prophets said to Ahab Zedekiah smiting Micaian on the cheek because he declared Gods will for Ahabs death Sixthly whereas you say We have not forgotten those declared grounds and principles upon which the Parliament at first took up Arms and upon which we were induced to joyne with them from which we have not hitherto declined and we trust through Gods grace never shall c. I answer to page 5 6. That it is well knowne the first grounds and principles of the Parliament were for Salus Populi and it had beene well if you your selves and every Member of the House also had not declined but acted upon that principle ever since And although I grant you The Kings practises upon the Parliament was an high violation to their Priviledges and an act so injurious and destructive to the good of the Kingdome Yet I answer It was but while the Parliament and those five Members were fixed for the publick good and safety of the People but since that many of the Members declining that Principle desired the King rather than the safety of the People by whom they were intrusted for the good of this Nation Therefore upon that occasion they were very justly secluded and imprisoned without that that the Army did act any violence upon the Parliament or made any breach of their priviledges as you have inferred and for that the foresaid members were not seized upon when they were assembled in the house but without doores and for acting against the safety of the people And without that that the Parliament is not now free and full and as really as when the King would have seized on the five Members for the Parliaments being free and full doth not consist in a multitude who are contrary minded and principled but the Parliament is free and full because they now do act unanimously for the safety of the people and the good of the Nation blessed be God for it and blessed bee the repairers of the breach and the restorers of paths to dwell in And without that that his Excellency or the Councell of Warre are but private persons in referrence to the power of Magistracy or have usurped an Authority over King and Parliament or have medled with affaires which belong not to them as is suggested by you but have onely performed their duty to that end for which they were entrusted and authorized by the Parliament in defence of this Nation and therefore they could not have neglected what they have done without breach of publicke trust reposed in them And most repugnant to the Lawes of God nature and Nations together with the dictates of reason and neglect of their Commission Seventhly And to pag. 7 8● together with the rest of your Letter tending to that purpose I answer and retort the matter falsly surmised by you against the Generall and his Councell That the King alone did divest himselfe and by his owne doings subvert and overthrow the whole frame and foundamentall constitution of the Government of the Kingdome according to the Parliaments forecited Declarations of May 20 1642. And

Little Beniamin OR Truth Discovering Error Being a clear and full Answer unto the Letter Subscribed by 47 Ministers of the Province of LONDON And presented to his Excellency January 18. 1648. To Inform the Ignorant of the concurrent proceedings To Satisfie the desirous of the Parliament and Army IN Taking away the life of Charles Stuart late King of England together with c. By a reall lover of all those who love peace and truth Goe in dethrone sin Psal. 149. 9. Execute upon them the Judgement written this honour have all the Saints Job 32. 22. I know not to give flattering titles In so doing My Maker would soon take me away February 17. 1648. Imprimatur GIL MABBOT Printed at London for George Whittington at the Blew Anchor in Cornehill neer the Royall Exchange 1648. The Epistle to the Reader Courteous Reader c. I Doubt not but this like Benjamine although the least and last brought forth May nevertheles be much desired imbraced have a portion with his Brethren not to say a double one he comes in a plain dresse and speaks in a home clear and genuin sence with faithfullnesse to the matter in hand with Arguments well grounded upon Scripture reason all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable comprehending all truth in the Letter of the written word whereunto we do well to take heed as unto a light that shineth in a darke place to wit our understandings darkned through the ignorance that is in us untill the day of the light of the Lord dawne and the day Starre of the spirit of life arise in our hearts Then shall wee not thinke more highly of our selves then we ought to thinke but thinke soberly according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith but for those whosoever they bee that will walke in their owne way pretending truth where none is and like proud Ephraim reproach and provoke that supreame Authority which God hath honoured and the Nation chosen let them take heed they no more peirce at their heart through the sides of the Generall and his Councell who act by their authority But let them feare and remember that justice may and must reach them if they persist as those Ephramites did which God forbid and lost 42000 of that Tribe by so doing in that War And now I recommend you to the ensuing Treatise and to the spirit of truth to discover and to guide us into all truth And rest a hearty lover of every son of Truth J. R. Truth discovering Error FOr as much as divers Ministers of the Gospell as they stile themselves in the Province of London in their Letter to the Lord Generall and his Councell presented to his Excellency Febr. 18. 1648 did neglect the grace of truth and sobernesse contrary to their duty as appeares in St. Paul who when reproached by Festus answered I am not mad most noble Festus but speake forth the words of truth and sobernesse Therefore according to the gift of the Spirit and measure of grace that is given to me the weakest of Christians I shall proceed to answer the untruths and manifest reproaches cast upon his Excellency and the Generall Councell therein First therefore unto pag. 1. 2. whereas you acknowledge You were invited but did refuse any such meeting as was proposed unto you by the Generall Councell and that you do give his Lordship and his Councell the reason of that refusall c. To this I answer That the reasons of this your refusall are meere pretences grounded upon your owne wils and upon a bare opinion of some of your Brethrens dislike of their late actions c. you not considering that your Brethren are as fallible as your selves And that you have done contrary to the Gospell practise in refusing any such meeting as was proposed unto you to informe and instruct them cleerely by reason well grounded upon Scripture truth also by your carping at and traducing their honest just and faithfull proceedings legally grounded upon their Commissions and their Authority derived from the Parliament for the welfare and safety of this Nation besides your reproaches cast upon them whereas you ought to have dealt with them in all humility and love much more then * Paul did to F●st●● for that you were much more obliged unto them also to King Agrippa and Bernice And thus St. Luke presented his Gospell unto most excellent Theophilus * which you have not done and therefore it is evident that you have passed your owne bounds and acted beyond your sphere the which you have most injuriously and unjustly applied unto them not onely in this but in many other calumniations in the rest of your Letter as shall be cleerely proved Therefore to proceed Secondly whereas you tax them of injustice pag. 3. saying But as if the justnesse of your way were already granted by us we were onely invited to contribute our assistance in prosecution of what you had undertaken which we conceive to be out of your sphere and for us to have joyned in any consultation of this nature would have made us accessary unto them and guilty of the evill which is in them and even partakers of other mens sinnes contrary to the Apostles rule who bids us abstaine even from all appearance of evill and have no fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darknesse but reprove them rather I answer Friends had you any reason to cast this odium upon them except to exasperate the malignant spirits of the people to sedition by perswading them that the Generall and his Councell are the vilest of sinners acting without their sphere in the unfruitfull works of darknesse And do you not in this make way to the malignant multitude to thinke that the Generall and his Councell are in as evill a capacity as themselves in acting according to their owne wils for that you do perswade them that they act without their sphere and that their consultations and concurrence with the Parliament in execution of justice upon the King and his adherents might have been opposed by them not considering with your selves that his Excellency and his Councell are authorized and impowered by their Commissions from the Parliament for the defence of the People from which they ought not to decline and in which thing God hath helped them against all his and their enemies in the greatest exigencies of distresses from time to time as much as any Army since the daies of Gideon And are they not also bound by their Covenant to bring Delinquents to condigne punishment of whom the King was chiefe O that you had seene and pull'd the beame out of your owne eye first else how can you see cleerely to cast the mote out of your Brothers eye but I spare c. onely Judge not that ye be not judged Thirdly againe whereas you alledge It is already sufficiently knowne besides all former miscarriages what attempts