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 Râ—formers 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 Straâ—â—ord 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 tribulaâ—ion and anguish to every soul of man that doth evilâ— whether Iew or Gentile For as many who have sinned without Lâ—wâ— 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 lâ—wless 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 Exâ—rbiâ—ances of the dissolved Iuncto and Army and have h vexed their righteous souls from day to day yea i shed rivers of teâ—rs 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 Suprâ—me 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 â—â—e 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 Enâ—mies of our Churches Kings Kingdoms Parliaments Peoples Liberties fall and perish O Lord but let thâ—m that love thee and the publike peace welfare settlement prosperity of our Churches Kings Kingdoms Nations be aâ— the Sun wâ—en 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
Members secluded the Majoritie of the House by their Vote of Ian. 11. 1648. upon the Armie-Officers false and scandalous printed Answer to them Ian. 3. touching the grounds of their securing and secluding them contrary to their Protestation Covenant the Privileges Rights of Parliament the Great Charter the Fundamental Laws and liberties of the Nation And not content therewith by their own Anti-Parliamentary anti-christian Usurpation to out act the old Gâ—npowder Traytors many degrees by the Armies assistance and opposing advancing themselves against all that is called God and worshiped they most traiterously set aside voted down suppressed the whole House of Lords as dangerous uselesse tyrannical unnecessary usurped engrossed the â—â—ile power oâ—the Parliament of England and Supreme Authority of the Nation to themselves alone without King Lords or Majoâ—ity of their fellow secluded Members created a new Monstrous High Court of Iustice destructive to all our fundamental Laws Liberties and Justice it self wherein beyond all presidents since the creation they most presumptuously condemned murdered beheaded their own lawfull Hereditarie Protestant King against all their former Oathes Protestations Vows Covenants Remonstrances Declarations Obligations Allegiance the Laws of the Land the principlâ—s of the Protestant Religion and dissenting votes protestations disswasions of the secluded Lords Commons Scots Commissioners London Ministers the intercessions of forein States and our 3. whole Kingdoms together with 3. Protestant Peers soon after After that close imprisoned my self Sir William Waller Sir William Lewes Major General Brown with sundry other Members divers years in remote Castles without any hearing examination cause expressed or the least reparation for this unjust oppression exercising far greater Tyranny over the Peers their old fellow Members and all English Freemen during the time of their Regality in every kind than the beheaded King or the worst of his predecessors Were not by a most just divine retaliation aâ—d providence when they deemed themselves most secure and established even for these their transcendent Treasons Perjuries Tyrannies violations of the Rights Privileget of Parliament their own sacred Oaths Protestation League Covenant suddenly dissolved dissipated thrust out of doors Apr. 20. 1653. by Cromwel and the Army Officers in a forcible shamefull manner with whom they confederated all along though they received new commissions from engaged to be true â—aithful to theÌ„ without â— King or House of Lords and branded by them to posterity in their printed Declaration b Apr. 20. 1653. as the curruptest and worst of men intollerably oppressing the people carrying on their own ambitious designes to perpetuâ—te themselves in the Parliamentarie and Supreme Authoritie the archest Trust breakers Apostates never answering the ends which God his people and the whole Nation expected from them c. Col. Harrison himself the Chairman at Windsor Committee to secure us being the very person imploied by Cromwell to pull their Speaker Lenthall out of the chair and turn him with his Companions out of doors Cromwell himself then stigmatizing Sir Henry Vanes Henry Martyn Tom Châ—lloner and others of them by name with the Titles of Knave Whoremaster Drunkard c. And not long after to requite his good Services he suddenly turned Col. Harriâ—on Rich and their party out of the Commons House by Force dissolved their Anti-Parliamentary Conventicle elected only by the Army Deâ— 11. 1653. whiles they were seeking God for direction and soon after cashiered both these * Collonels his former greatest Instruments out of the Army sent them close Prisoners to remote Castles garded with Army Troops And as they and their Troops when they seized Major General Brown with other Members besides and conducting them to Windsor Castle other Prisons refused to acquaint them whether they were to be sent So Mr. Iessâ—p the Clerk of their Council of State who brought these Colonels to the Coach at Whitehall garden door when they were conveyed to remote Castles and their Conductors denied to inform them to what places they wâ—re committed whereupon they cried out to the Troopers which garded them Gentlemen is this the Liberty you and we have fought for to be sent close Prisoners to remâ—te Garrisons from our wives and families they will not tell us whether Will you suffer your own Collonels Officers who have fought for Laws Liberties have been Members of Parlâ— to be thus usedâ— To which they answered as themselves did in the like case to other secured Members conducted by them We are commanded and must obey not dispute our Orders and so were hurried away aâ— an eye and ear-witnesâ— of the old Parliament related to me within one hour afâ—er Yea young Sir Hen. Vaâ— himself the bold prejudger of our Debaâ—es and Vote in the House touching the Kings concessions if not a promoter of our unjust seclusion â—or it was unexpectedly suddenly not only thrust ouâ— from all his Imployments as well aâ— out of the Hâ—use buâ— sent close Prisoner by Cromwel to Cariâ—brook â—astle in the Islâ— of Wight the very place where he betrayed his trust to the King and Parliâ—ment at the Treaty to gratify Cromwel who by an extraordinary strange providence sent him cloâ—e Prisoner thither for sundry months to * mediâ—ate upon this divine retaliation Whether may not all this dissolved Iuncto and itâ— Members from these wonderâ—ul Judgementâ— providenceâ— now conclude and cry out with that hâ—athen cruel Tyrant Adonibezeck Judg. 1.7 Aâ— I have doneâ— so God hath requited me And acknowledge the truth of Gods Comminations against all treacherous betrayers potent oppressorâ— of their Brethren Obad. 15. As thou hast â—one it shall be donâ— unto thee thy râ—ward shall return upon thine own head Ps. 7.15 16. He made a pit and digged it and is fallen into the ditch which be made his mischief shall return upon his own â—ead and his violent dealing upon his owâ— paâ—e Rev. 13.9 10â—If any man haâ—e an ear to â—ear let him heaâ— He that leadeth into Capâ—ivity shall go into Captivity He that killeth with the Sword shall be killed with the Sword Here is the patience and faith of the Sâ—ints O that all real and pretended Saintâ— in the dissolved Juncto and Army would now consider and believe it as â— lâ—tely pressed them to do in the cloze of my Good Old Cause truly staâ—ed and the false Vncased yet they would not regard it Whether their illegal forcible wresting the Militia of the Kingdom totally out of the Kingâ— hands into their own as their only security to sit in safety and perjurious engaging all Officerâ— Soldiers of the Armie in England Scotland and Ireland to be true faithful and constant is them without a King or House of Lords by subscriptionâ— in parchmenâ— Rollâ— râ—turned to them under all their handâ— contrary to their former Votes Declaratiâ—nsâ— Remonstrances Protestations Oathâ— Vows Covenants Trustâ— yea the very writs returns which made them Members their own Souldierâ— Army-Officers first Commissionâ— Declarationâ— Râ—monstranceâ— Proposâ—lâ—
of calling them out from thence into their own Protestant Dominions and Churches * Certainly if the righteous shall scarcely be saved where shall these most transcendent unpresidented unrighteons ungodly sinners who obey not but coutradict all these Gospel Texts appear and what shall their end be Verily the Gospel it self resolves and O that they would with fear amazement of spirit now seriously consider it when the Lord Iesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire to take vengeâ—nce on them they shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 Thess. 1.7 8 9. * and shall receive judgement without mercy because they have shewed no mercy but the utmost extremity of malice and cruelty to the Souls and Bodies of their Protestant King and Brethren Whether the Junctoes and Armies late Proceedings against the King and Kingship were not the direct Plot of the Spaâ—iâ—lized Priests and Jesuitâ— as well in France as England Spain and elsewhere who contrived and promoted it to their power as I evidenced in my Speech Memento Epistle to my Historical Collection My true aâ—â— perfect Narrative and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members at large and shall fâ—rther clear by this ensuing Letter the original whereof I have twice read â—ound by Mr. Sherley a Book-seller in Little Britain in whose hands â—t is amongst the Books of Mr. Patricke â—arre Priest to Don Alonso de Gardenas the Spanish Ambassador which he bought of him at this Ambassadors house when he was departing hence upon the breach with Spain 1653. within a year after this Letters date which he soon after shewed to divers Gentlemen one of them who took a copy thereof promising to shew it to Cromwel himself The Superscription of it is in Spanish directed as is conceived and the Letter imports to this Patricke Carre an Irish Priest and Iesuit under the name of * Don Pedro Garsia the Letter it self is in English written it seems by some English or Irish Priest or Jesuit sent as an intelligencer by the Spanish Ambassador into Holland and France with whom the English were then in hostility but the direction for Letters to him is in French In the cloze whereof the Jesuitical and Spanish party in Paris expected our Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto whom they stile our brave Parliament as set up by and acting for them should espouse their quarrel and act their paâ—ts against the French and joyn with the Prince of Condee to câ—t off the King of France his head and all Kings else as they did the King of Englands by their instigation such Antimonarchists Traytors are these Jesuits Irish and Spanish Freers to all Kings and Monarchy Paris 10. of Ianuary 1652. SIR I Was no so ner in Holland then I writ to you but hearing nothing from you I concluded either you were very sick or that you received not my Letter I came hither in an ill time for the Kingdom is in great disorder upon the Kings recalling the Cardinal against all his Declarations This Town ready to declare in favor of the Prince and the Duke of Orleance who is now treating with the Duke of Lorrain for his Army If your dull * Archduke make no more advantage of this than of the disorders of the last Summer it 's pity but he were sent to keep Sheep WE EXPECT HERE OUR BRAVE PARLIAMENT WILL NOT LET THE GAME BE SOON PLAYED OUT I could wish Gallant Cromwell AND ALL HIS ARMY WERE WITH THE * PRINCE for I BEGIN TO WISH ALL KINGS HAD THE * SAME THE KING OF ENGLAND HAD I le say no more untill I hear from you but that I am Your unfeigned Friend T. Danielle I pray remember me to both my Cozens Direct your Letters A Monsieur Monsieur Canell demurant chez Mons-Marchant a la rue de pulle The Superscription is thus viz. A Don Pedro Garsia en Casa de Embaxador de Espanna que * Dios garde En Londres 9d There were many Papers and Notes written in Irish some concerning the affairs transactions of the late wars in Ireland found amongst these Books whence I conceive this Patrick Carre was an Irish Priest and Jesuite and that the * Spaniard had a great hand in that horrid Rebellion From the cloze of this Letter let all consider Whether it can be safe for any Popish as well as Protestant Kings to harbour such Jesuitical Antimonarchists and Regicides in their Kingdoms Courts who thus wish ALL KINGS beheaded and brought to Iustice as well as the late King of England by Cromwell and his Army or their own Subjects and how much all Kings ought to detest his president of the Jesuits contriving let them now cordially and timely advise for their own securitie Whether the Great swarms of Jesuites and Popish Freers in and about London by the Iunctoes and Army-Officers tolleration and connivence whose Jesuitical Antimonarchical Plots Counsels they have vigorously pursued be not the principal contrivers fomentors of all our changes of Government New Sects Opinions Mutinies in and Usurpations of the Army in whose Councils most intelligent Protestants have just cause to fear they have been and still are predominant there being multitudes of them in and about London under several masks some of them saying Masse in their Pontificalibus in Popish Ladies Chambers one day and speaking to and praying with their Soldiers in the Army or in Anabaptistical or Quaking Conventicles the next day of which there are some late particular Instances I shall relate one only more general and worthy knowledge Two English Gentlemen of quality one of them of mine acquaintance travelling out of England into France in May 1658. and hiring a vessel for their passage three strangers who came from London desired leave to passe over with them which they condescending to suspected one of them at least to be a Jesâ—it by his discourse and during their stay at Paris saw all three of them there walking often in the Streets in their Iesuits habits In August following they being at Angiers in France there repaired to their lodging an Englishman in his Friers weeds who informed them That he was an Englishman by birth but a Dominican Fréer by profession newly come from Salamanca in Spain and bound for England that he had been at Rome where he had left some goods with an Irish Iesuit who promised to return monies on them in France but had failed to doe it whereupon he was in present distress for mony to transport him to England desiring their favour to furnish him with monies which he would faithfully repay in London and if they had any Letters to send to their friends in England he would see them safely delivered The Gentlemen finding him to be an excellent Scholar of very good parts and eduâ—â—tion entertained him 5. or 6. daies at their lodging till they could furnish him
Thou shalt not sow thy Vineyard with divers seeds lest the fruit of thy seed and Vineyard be defiled Thou shalt not plow with an Ox and an Asse together Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts as of Wollen and Linnen together And as great an Absurdity as that in Horace Humano Capiti cervicem jungere Equinam 3ly Whether it will not be the Extremity of folly and frenzy for this twice dissolved Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto to conceit that Lambert and those Army-Officers who have twice turned them out of Doors with greatest Infamy and branded them with so many deserved Marks of Treachery Injustice Vsurpation Rashnesse Oppression self-seeking or the surviving numerous Members of the ouâ— long Parliament or the Counties Cities Boroughs Ports for which they served the old House of Peers or our three Kingdoms will ever patiently permit them to sit or Act as a lawfull Parliament of England Scotland and Ireland or submit to any of their Anti-Parliamentary Knacks Taxes Excises Imposts Militiaâ—s Orders or Usurped Regal Pâ—rliamental soveraign legislative Authority without rising up unanimously against them as the worst impudentest sottishest of Traytâ—rs Vsurpers Enemies to the Peace and settlement of our 3. Kingdoms as their last Knack of Octob. 12. their Plea and other late publications of their own proclaim them to all the world which they have so miserably oppressed impoverished rent in pieces by their forementioned Treasons Innovations and complying with those ambitious covetous Army-Officers and Jesuitical Emissaries whose designs and their own self-ends they have only pursued to the publike desolation of our Kingdoms and Churches And whether their re-secluding of the Lords House and their old surviving fellow-Members will not be a justification and ground for their own third ejecâ—ment dissolution by the Army or others if they presume to sit and act again without them 4. Whether there be any probability or possibility considering all the premises that any Common Souldiers Mariners or other inferior Officers in the Army or Navy can expect any real payment of their arrears or future pay or the People of our 3. Nations any Trade Peace Ease Settlement in the least degree but inevitable speedy desolation confusion destruction unless they all cordially unite their endeavours counsels forces for the speedy convening and secure un-interrupted fitting of a full free and Legal English Parliament according to the Act of 17 Caroli cap. 1. and declaring all such Members of the twice-disâ—ipated Juncto and Army-Grandees Traitors and Enemies to the publike who shall openly and wilfully oppose this their just and necessary only probable means of their Tranquility Safety Prosperity Which they pretend to aim at in words and Declarationâ— but diametrically contradict by their Procâ—edings as experience manifests past all contradiction 5. Whether our Protestant King his Brethren and followâ—rs expelled out of their Protestant Realms and forein Allies Territories into Popish idolatrous forein Quarters where they sojourn to the hazard of their Religion Souls Bodieâ— by the malice of the dissolved Iuncto Army Republican Saints may not now justly use that Speech of â—nnocent persecuted exiled David to King Saul in the like case and condition 1 Sam. 26.19 If the Lord hath stirred thee up against me let him accept an offring but if they be the Children of men Cursed be they before the Lord for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the Inheritancâ— of the Lord saying On serve other Gods And whether God by way of requital for this their transcendent impietie and other premised Crimes Treasons of all sorts wherein they impeniâ—ently persevere may not justly inflict on the Iuncâ—o Army-Grandeesâ— and their posterities that severe judgement threatned to the Israelites Jer. 16.13 Deutr. 4.27 28. c. 28.64 65 66. Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not neither ye nor your fathers and the Lord shall scatter you among the Nations and ye shall be left few in number among the Heathen whither the Lord shall lead you and there you shall serve Gods day and night the work of mens hands wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell where I will not shew you favour And amongst these Nations thou shalt find no ease neither shall the sole of thy feet â—ave rest but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart and faâ—ling of eyes and sorrow of mind and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee day and night and thou shalt have nonâ— Asâ—urancâ— of thy life In the morning thou shalt say would God it were even and at even thoâ— shalt say would God it were morning for tâ—e fear of thine heaâ—t and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see And there shall ye be sold unto your Enâ—mies for bondmen and bondwomen and no man shall buy you O tremble at the serious thoughts thereof and be no more stiff-necked 6. Whether the memorable Example of Gods divine Iustice upon Lockier an active Agitator and Leveller in the Army who had a principle hand in seising bringing the King to his death cried out Iustice Iustice Iustice openly against him and spit in the Kings face in Westminster Hall when going to his Trial before his condemnation conducted him to the block and was within 3. Moneths after condemned in a Council of War by some of the Kings own Iudges and shot to death as a Mâ—tineer in London 27 April 1649â— The tragical self-execution of Thomas Hoyle Alderman and Knight for the City of Yorke one of the Juncto and High Court of Iustice though he signed not the Kings Sentence and one who consented to and subscribed the New Engagement against a King and House of Lords against his conscience foâ—mer Oaths Covenant and Protestation he had takenâ— the horror whereof so terrified his conscience that on the 30. of Ianuary 1649. the very dayâ— Twelvemoneth of the Kings execution he hanged himself with a cord in his Chamber at Westminster about the very time of the day the King was there executed the year before The Execution of sundry Levellers at Burford that year with Iohn Lilburnes double Trial for his life soon after by Cromwels own Prosecution his proceedings against Saxbey Syndercombe and other Levellers though his chief Instruments to bring the King to Justice to seclude the Majority of the Members and suppress the whole House of Lords The sudden and fearfull deaths of Col. Ven Rigby and others of the Kings Judges the cashiering close Imprisonments suffâ—ings of M.G. Harrison Col. Rich Col. Overton Col. Okey Lord Grey of Grooby and others of the Kings condemners by Cromwell himself who engaged them therein The Removal of Iohn Bradshaw from his Presidentship and Feudes between Cromwell and him who secluded him ouâ— of his fâ—â—st Instrumental Parliament in 1654. and after that threatned to imprison and question him for his life With the laâ—e pangs of conscience which Col. William Purefoye sustained
Confusion and punishment denounced by God himself against Aegypâ— of old for their crying sins Isay 19.2 3 c. I will set the Aegyptians against the Aegyptians and they shall fight every one against his brother and every one against his neighbour City against City and Kingdom against Kingdom Aâ—d the Spirit of Aegypt shall fail in the midst thereof and I will destroy the Counsel thereof Surely the Princes of Zoan the Juncto and Armies General Council are become fools the Princes of Noph are deceived they have also seduced Egypt even they that are the stay of the Tribes thereof The Lord hath mingled a spirit of â—erversâ—ties amongst them they have caused Egypt yea England to erre in every work thereof as a drunken man staggereth in his vomitâ— Neither shall there be any work â—or Aegypt which the head or toyl branch or root may doâ— to defend or establish themselves or their pretended yet unâ—â—â—med Free-State And may not they all then and others 〈◊〉 the consideration of all the promises justly cry 〈◊〉 with the Apostle in an holy admiration Rom. 11.33 O the depth of the Riches bâ—â—â— of the wisdom and knowledge of Godâ— how unsearcheable are his Iudgements and his wayes part finding out 4. Whether the Juncto and their High Court of Injâ—stice-men who had any hand vote in the Traiterous Perfidious beheading of their late Protestant King the head of the Parliament dissolving and blowing up the whole House of Lords the Majority of the Commons House the whole old Parlâ—â—ment Kingdom Kingshâ—p the Prince of Wales next heir and successor to the Crowâ— the rights privileges freedom of Parliament the fundamental Laws Liberties Government of the Nation and our established Protestant Religion against all their Oathes Allegiances Trusts Duties Votes Declarations Remonstrances Protestations Vows Solemn Leagues Covenants obliging them to the contrary can with any faith boldness confidence piety or real devotion appear before the presence of God Angels Men in any of our Congregations on the 5. of November the * joyful day of our deliverance from the Popistâ— Gunpowder Treasonâ— publikely celebrated every year to render publike thanks to Almighty God and ascribe all honour glory and praise to his name for hiâ— great and infinite mercy in delivering the King Queen Prince Lords spiritual and temporal when assembled in the Lords House Nov. 5. An. 1650. from this plot of malicious devillish Papists Iesuites Seminary Priests who maligning the happiness and prosperity of our Realm Church and Religion under a Protestant King and its promising continâ—ance to all posterity in his most hopeful royal plentiful Progeny intendâ—d to blow them all up suddenly with gunpowder but were â—hrough Gods great mercy miraculously delivered from this suddain boâ—rid Treason by a woâ—derful discovery thereof some few hours before it was to be executedâ— when as themselves have outstripped them by many degrees in executing accomplishing far more than what they only intended but could not effect yet repute themselves Protestants and the emineniest of all Saints Whether they can without the 〈◊〉 est horror of conscience confusion of face spirit â—â—â—â—sternation of mind and grief of heare henceforth â—â—â—sume to appear before the presence of God or any English Protestantâ—â—t any time especially on this day before they have publickly lamented confessed repented and made some open eminent satisfaction for those transcendâ—nt new Gunpowder-Treasons far worse than the old of the Iesuits and Papists by whom they were acted in this especially if they consider Gods expostulation with such sinners Ps. 50.16 17. What hast thou to do to declare my Statutes or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth Seeing thou hatest Instruction and hast cast my words behind thee When thou sâ—west these Powder Traytors thou consentest with them and hast been partaker with these Murderers and Adulterers And that of Rom. 2.1 2 3. Therefore thou art inexcusable O man whoever thou art that judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thy self For thou that judgest dost the same things But we know that the judgement of God is according to Truâ—h against thâ—se who commit such things And thinkest thou this O man that judgest them which do such things and dost the same nay worse that thou shalt escape the judgement of God c 5. Whether those turn coat Peace-abhorring self-seeking shameless Members and Lawyerâ— who though not fifty in number sitting under a force aâ—ter the seclusion of the Majority of their â—ellow-Members Decemb. 13. 1648. resolved that the Vote passed in a full House Iuly 28 1648. That a Treaty should be had in the Isle of Wight with the King in Person by a Committee appointed by both Houses upon the Propositions presented to him at Hampton Court was highly Dishonorable to the procéedings of Parliament and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom And that the Vote of 5. Dâ—cemb 1648. passed without dividing the House when there were 300 Members in it That the answers of the King â—o the Proposition of both Houses are a sufficient gâ—â—und for the House to proceed upon * for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom is highly dishonorable to the Parliament and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom and tending to the breach of the publick faith of the Kingdom And in their Declaration of 15. Ianuary 1648. expressing their Reasons for annulling and vacâ—ting these Votes in this manner declared them to be â—igâ—ly repugnant to the glory of God greatly dishonorable to the proceedings of Parliamenâ— and apparently destructive to the good of this Kingdom adding Yet we are resolved and that speedily so to settle the peace of the Kingdom by the Authority of Parliamentâ— in a more happy way than can be expected from the best of Kings Which they never since performed in the least degree but the direct contrarie embroiling us in endless Wars Seditions Tumults Successions Revolutions of new-modelled Governments oppressing destructive Anti-Parliameâ—tary Conventicles ever sithence After that suppressed our Kings and Kingly Government as the Instruments Occasions of Tyranny iâ—Iâ—justice Oppression Luxury Prodigality and Slavery to the Commons under them together with the whole House of Lords as Dangerous Uselesse Dilatory tâ— the Procéedings of Parliament c. in their Votes of Febr. 6. and * Declaration of 17 Martii 1648. expressing the grounds of their lute Proceedings and seâ—ling the Government in way of a Free Stateâ— Next prescribed subscribed an Ingagement to be true and faithfull to the Commonwealth established by â—hem without a King or House of Lords Yet afterwards in their New modelled Parliament aâ— they reputed it April 1657. by their Petition and Advice as first penned passed and presented to Cromwell for his assentâ— Declared the revival of Kingship and Kingly Government absolutely Necessary for composing the distractions and setling the peace and tranquillity of our Nations advised peâ—iâ—ioned and pressed hiâ— to accept the Name Title Power and Soveraign Authority