Habeas Corporaes they will remove them unto New Prisons or Gards of Souldiers or send them into Forein parts to prevent their returns and enlargement by our Laws as some have been newly dealt with by these New full through Râformers of the Laws Whether these very first-fruits of their full and through pretended Reformation of our Laws proving so bitter trampling all Law and Justice under foot with greater scorn contempt impudence than ever any Kings Old Council Table Lords Straââord or Canterbury were guilty of And their leaving not so much as one Judge or Justice to act under them in any one Court of Justice at Westminster nor no face of any real or pretended Legal Authority in England or Ireland to execute Justice between man and man and dismounting all those Judges Grandees of the Law who formerly complyed with them and acted under them in all their Innovations a just reward for their temporizing against their Judgements Law and Conscience their future harvest of our Lawes Reformation will not probably prove so lawlesse and exorbitant that the whole English Nation and Army too if they have not abandonned all humanity christianity charity justice will revive this prayer in our antient Liturgy against such a full and through Deformation and Deformers of our Lawes From all evil and mischief from all blindness of heart from pride vainglory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and all uncharitablenesse from all deceits of the World the Flesh and Devil good Lord deliver us And exhort their fellow brethren of Scotland and Ireland in the Apostles words 2 Thess. 3.1 2. Finally brethren pray for us that the word of the Lord and good old Laws of the Land may run and have free course and be glorified and that we may be delivered from absurd or unreasonable wicked men who thus reform and purge out the Laws very bowels for all men and such reforming Saints especially have not faith whatever they professe who under pretext of a most transcendent Reformation and purgation of the Gospel and Law would reduce us into the condition of the Israelites 2 Chron. 15.3 Now for a long season Israel had been without the true God and without a teaching Priest and without Law And why so The Apostle resolves us in direct terms 1 Tim. 1.4 c. The end of the Law is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeined from which some having swerved have turned aside to vain jangling desiring to be teachers yea Reformers of the Law understanding neither what they say nor what they affirm But we know that the Law is good if a man use it lawfully knowing also that the Law is not made for a righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners For Murderers of Fathers and murtherers of Mothers for man-slayers c. For men stealers for lyars for periured persons every other thing that is contrary to sound doctrin And our Army-Grandees Juncto and new Reformers being such would abrogate all Lawes and Lawyers too least they should restrain and punish them for these their Capital crimes Forgetting this lesson that though they null all the Laws and Courts of Justice in Westminster-hall and elsewhere yet they shall never abrogate nor escape the Law Iudgement Execution Iustice and vengeance of * God himselfâ who will render indignation and wrath tribulaâion and anguish to every soul of man that doth evilâ whether Iew or Gentile For as many who have sinned without Lâwâ shall also perish without Law and as many as have sinned in the Law shall be judged by the Law Enough to disswade them from their intended Reformation to reform their own and the Armies lâwless exorbitances before they reform our Laws or others far better than themselves Whether all the old conscientious faithfull publike spirited secured excluded and re-excluded Member's who to the uttermost of their powers opposed voted protested against all the late dismal Jesuitical Powder-Treasons Violences Innovations Exârbiâances of the dissolved Iuncto and Army and have h vexed their righteous souls from day to day yea i shed rivers of teârs from their mournfull eyes because of these their heinous transgressions against the Laws of God and the Land may not with much comfort apply this promise of God to themselves and their uncharitable brethren who secluded all imprisoned sundry of them Isa. 66.5 6. c. 26.11 13 14. Hear the word of the Lord ye that tremble at his word Your brethren that hated you that cast you out for my name sake said Let the Lord be thereby glorified but he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed by reason of their own double ejection dissolution in a strange unexpected manner A voice of noise from the City a voice from the Temple a voice of the Lord that rendreth recompence to his enemies Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy towards the people yea the fire of their Enemies their very fierie Guards and Powder-men shall devour them O Lord our God other Lords besides thee our New Suprâme Lords Powers Protectors of the dissolved Junctoes counsel and tother House have had dominion over us but by thee only will we make mention of thy name They ââe dead they shall not live they are deceased they shall not rise therfore hast thou visited and destroyed them and made all their Memory to Perish Even k so let all thine Enemies and the publike impenitent malicious Enâmies of our Churches Kings Kingdoms Parliaments Peoples Liberties fall and perish O Lord but let thâm that love thee and the publike peace welfare settlement prosperity of our Churches Kings Kingdoms Nations be aâ the Sun wâen he goeth forth in his might That so the Land may have rest forty years together as the Land of Israel had after l the Lord had discomfited Sisera and all his Chariots and all his host with the edge of the Sword before Barak and Deborah Amen Whether the General Council of Officers and Army-Saints former and late slandering false accusing forcible secluding the Members of the long Parliament as Trust-breakers and the whole House of Lords for whose defence they were raised waged commissioned and their subsequent dissolving dissipating with high scorne their own Anti-Parliamentary Iunctoes from whom they received their new Commissions end engaged several times to yeeld their utmost assistance to them to sit in safety to be true faithfull and constant to them and to live and die in their defence be a conscientious saint-like performance 1. Of Iohn Baptists Evangelical Injunction to all Souldiers Luke 3.14 Do violence to no man neither accusâ any falsly and be content with your allowance 2ly Of St. Pauls description of a good Souldier of Iesus Christ 2 Tim. 2.3 4. Thou thereforâ endure hardness No man that warreth intangleth himself with the affairs of
and depending on thiâ g arme of flesâ or broken h reed of Aegypt as a most sure invineâble Guârd security from all forces and enemies whaâsoever that might assault dishouse dethrone them from their usurped supreme Regal and Parliamental Authority over the three Nations and their Hereditary Kingâ * whom they would not have to reign over them hath not been most âxemplarily and eminently requited by Godâ avenging providence in making the very self-same Army most treacherouâ and perfidious to themselves to rise up rebel against them several times and turn them out of Housâ power on a sudden when they deemed themâelves most securâ to make themselves more than Kings and Lordâ over thâm and our whole 3 Kingdomâ and i An host of the High ones that are on high upon the earth reviving that Attâxie which Solomon complained of as a great error in Government and a divine judgement upon the Authorâ of State Innovationâ Eccles. 10.6 7 8 9. Folly is seâ in great dignity and tâe riâh sit in lâw placeâ I have seeâ servants ân âorseback and Princes walking âs Servants upon the earth He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it and who so breaketh a beged a Serpent shall bite him Whosoeâer removeth stones shall be hurt therewith ând âe that cleâveth wood shall be endangered tâerebyâ Whether that curse and judgeâânt Jer. 17 5â 6 Thus saith the Lord cursed âe the man that truâteth iâ man and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departetâ from the Lord For he shall be like the heath in the desarâ and shall not see when good cometh but shall inherit the parcâed places in the wildârnesse a salt land and not inhâbitedâ hath not justly bâfâllân them our Nation âor relying on trusting to an ârm of flesh an Army * Assembly of trâacherous men whom themselves tâught encouraged to be treacherouâ perâurious to the King Parl. Lords their fellowâMembârââ and k thereby to themselves yet voted cried them up for their faitâfull Army Saviâuââ Delivereââ Proâectâââ Shields and âoâly Safeguaâd after they had dealt âreaââerously with themselves and all their other Supâriorâ and proved like l Aegypt to the Israelites who trusted on them When they âook âold of thee by the hand thou diddâst break and pierce througâ the handâ and rent all their shoulders and when they leaned upon thee thâu breakest and madest all their loins to be at a stand yeâ dissolved and m broke them in pieces like a poâters vesâel so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sâeard to take fire from the hearth or water ouâ oâ the pit And may we not then tâke up thiâ Song of the Lamb Rev. 15.3 4. Great and marvellous are thy workâ Lord God Almighty Iust and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints who shall not fear thee ô Lord and glorifie thy name For thy Iudgements are made manifest Whether their clandestine sudden indirect stealing into the Commons House again May 7. 1659. upon the Army-Officerâ invitation and Declaration who formerly tuâned them âut of it with highâst infamie contempt and defamâtion April 20. 1653. after about 6. yearâ dissoluââon ând 4. intervenient Vnparliamentary Conventicleâ wherein many of them sat as Members and acted as in Parliamentâ by pretext of their old Wriââ and Elections as Mâmberâ of the long Parliament âctually and legally dissolved by their traiterouâ beheading of the King near 11. years before as I have * elsewhere proved without any new Writs of Summonâ Resumâons Electioâs or the privitie of their âorâer eleâtors or fellow Members Their forcible sâcluding of my self Sir George âooth Mr. Ansly all formerly sâcluded Memberââ and others not fitting with them from 1648. till April 20. 1653. by Army-Officers and Guards of Souldiers placed at the door âor that end and their justifiââtion and âontinuing of this new secluâion as wâll âs tâe old Their usurping to themselves the Title Power of the Parliament of the ãâã of England Scotland aâdââeland and Supreme Authority of the Nation Their exârcisinâ both the Highest Regal Parliamental Legislative Tax-imposing Authority over our Nationâ the worst highest of all other Treasâââs their ârâating new unheard of Treasâââ Exileâ by theiâ ãâã Proclamations imposing Nâw intollerable Taxâââ Excises Millââaââ on the whole Nation against all Laws and our Fundamental Liberties Franchisââ Their moât injurious illegal unpresidented proclaming of Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Middleton with other old and new âecluded Members of the long Parliament and all their adherents Traytors Enemies to the Common-wealth and Apostates not only iâ all Counties and Corporationâ buâ Churches and Chapels too throughout the Nation to abuse both God and men only for raising forces by virtue of Ordinances and Commissions granted âhem by the long Parliament which themselves pretended to bâ still continuing to defend the Rights and Privilegeâ of Parliament to call in all the surviving Members of both Houses to sit with them or procure a free and full Parl. duly summoned according to the Protestation Vow League Covenant and Laws of the Land being their own and the whole Nations Birthright for defence whereof the Army it selâ was both raised continued and themselves in their Proclamation of May 7. 1659. and Declaration of March 17. 1648 promised inviolably to maintain which their own consciences knew to be no Crime nor Treason at all but an honest legal honorable necessary undertaking justified by all their former Votes Orders Ordinances Commissions for raising forceâ against the Kingâ party for the self-same end And themselves greater Traitors Enemies to the Kingdom and Republike than Strafford Canterbuây or the beheaded King in proclaiming their defence of this undoâbted Inheritance of all English Freemen against their Tyrannical usurpations thereoâ to be Treason and Apostacy Their sending out of Major Gen. Lambert who invited them into the House May 6. conducted them into it but secluded Sir G. Booth other Members out of it May 7. took a new Commission from them afterwardâ in the House and promised with many large expressions âo be true faithfull constant and yield his uâmost assistance to them to set in safety and support their power with great forces against Sir George Booth and all his adherents in this cause being the Majority of the old Parl. and of the people of the Nation the true old Parliament if continuing âo levie actual war against them declared * high Treason by sundrie Votes and former Declarations and so resolved by themselves in their Impeachments against the beheaded King the E. of Holland L. Capel otherâ and late Pamphlets against the Army who accordingly levied war against themâ routed their forces reduced their Garisonâ imprisoned their persons sequestred confiscated their estates as Traitors secured disarmed Sir Will. Waller Mr. Holles with sundrie other old Members promised rewards for bringing in the persons or heads of others they endeavoured to secure against
this life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a Souldier not disobey betray supplant or destroy him 3ly Of Pauls and Peters expresse commands to all Officers Souldiers whatsoever as well as others Rom. 13.1 2 c. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers for there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation c. Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for conscience sake Tit. 3.1 2. Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates to be ready to every good work To speak evil of no man to be gentle shewing all meekness unto all men Ephes. â 5 6 7. Col. 4.22 23 24. Servants such are all Mercenâry Officers Soldiers under pay to the old Parliament and Kingdom obey in all things your Masters according to the flesh in fear and trembling in singleness of heart as unto Christ Not with eyâ service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart With good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men for ye serve the Lord Christ 1 Pet. 2.13 to 20. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lord sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto Governors as unto those who are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well for so is the will of God that with well-doing ye put to silence tâe ignorance of foolish men As free and not using your liberty as a cloak of maliciousnâsse but as the servants of God Honour all men in lawfull authority Fear God Honour the King Servants be subject to your Masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward For this is thank-worthy if a man for conscience toward God endure grief suffering wrongfully Whether by their former late rebellions against the King Parl. all their lawful Superiors and exalting themselves above all theâr former Lords and Masters they have not given Christ himself the lye and falsified his reiterated Asseveration Resolution Mat. 10.24 John 13.16 c. 15.10 Verily Verily I say unto you the Disciple is not above his Master nor the Servant above or groater than his Lord neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them Whether they will not prove bitternesse damnation ruin to them in the latter end and teach engage all Common souldiers under them to be treacherous rebellious disobedient unto them and thrust them out of all their commands now they have neither legal Commissions nor aâthority to rule them nor monies to pay or quarter them nor imployment under them for the peoples welfare but only for their own ambitious ends and self-preservation for which they were never raised since their own presidents and principles of treachery and disobedience to all their former Superiours animate them thereunto Whether the âuncâo ând Army Council upon seriouâ coâsideration of all the premisâs ââd their formâr miscaââiages hâvâ not all cause with penitent heaâts aâd bleedâing Spirits to cry out and make this old publikâ confeââioâ in the Book of Common Prayer Almighty and mâst mârcifull Father we have erred and strayâd from thy âayeâ liââ losâ sheep We have followed too much the deâices and desires of our own hearts we have offended against thy holy laws we have leât ândone those things which we âught to hâve done and we have done those things which we ought not to haâe done and there is no health nor truth in âs But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable Offenââââ And grant that we may hereafter live a godly righteous sober life to the glory of thy holy name Amen Which if these Workers of iniquity shall still refuse to do as if the Lord did neither see nor regard it and therby provoke our 3. Nations to cry out with united prayers to God against theÌ * Help Lord for the godly man ceaseth for the faithfull fail from among the children of men With flattering lips and with a double heart do they âpake every one to his neighbor O Lord God of revenges O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth shew thy self lift up thy self thou Iudge of the Earth render a reward to the proud Lord how long shall the wicked how long shall the wicked triumph how long shall they utter hard things and all the workers of iniquity boâst themselves They break in pieces thy people O Lord afflict thine heritage they slay the widow and murder the fatherless They gather themselves together against the soul of the rightâous and condemn the innocent bloud Whether they must not then expect that inevitable doom of God himself ensuing after such practises and Prayers Psa. 94.23 And the Lord shall bring upon them their own iniquity and shall cut them off in their own wickednesse yea the Lord our God shall cut them off * The transgrâssors shall be destroyed together the end of the wicked shall be cut off But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord he is their strength in the time of troble And the Lord shall help them and deliver them he shall delivâr them from the wicked and save them bâcause they trust in him Jer. 36.3 7. It may be they will now present their supplications befâre the Lord and râturn every one from his evil way that God may forgive their iniquity and their sin for great is the anger and the fury that the Lârd hath pronouâced against this people An Exact Alphabeâical Liât of the Old and Nâw secluded Membârâ of the Commâns House in the long Parliament surviving May 7. 1659. when the dissolved Juncto began their new Session Baronets Knights and Viscounâs LOrd Ancram Sir Ralph Ashton Sir John Barringâon Sir Thomaâ Barnârdiston Sir Robert BenloeâSir George Booth Sir Humphry Bridges Sir Ambrose Brown Sir John Burgoân Sir Roger Burgoin Sir Henry âhâlmley Sir John Clotworthy Sir John Corbet Sir John Curson Sir Thomas Dâcreâ Sir Franciâ Drâke Sir William Drake Sir Walter Earl Sir Câarles Egerton Sir John Evelin of Surry Sir John Evelin of Wilres Sir John Fenwick Sir Edmund Fowel Sir Gilbârt Gerard Sir Haâbotle Grimston Sir Riâhard Hânghton Sir John Holland Sir Anthony ââby Sir Marâin Knatchbull Sir John Leigh Sir William Lâwââ Sir William Liâââr Sir William Litâon Sir Samâel Luke Sir Nicholââ Martyn Sir Thomas Middlâton Sir Robert Nappirr Sir Roberâ Neâhâm Sir Dudly North Sir John Noâthcot Sir Richard Onslow Sir Hugâ Owen Sir John Pâlgrave Sir Philip Parker Siâ Thomaâ Parker Sir Edward Partridge Sir John Pellam Sir William Plâterâ Sir Nevil Poole Sir Jâân Poââ Sir Robert Pye Sir Fâanâis Russel Sir ãâã Sainââ John Sir John