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VVorks of darkness brought to light. Or A true representation to the whole kingdome of the dangerous designes driven on by sectaries in the army: as also laying down the unreasonableness of their demands, which if not granted, they refuse to disband. Together with VII. new queries propounded to the army.
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Tell-Troth, Thomas.
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1647
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Wing W3585; Thomason E399_36; ESTC R201735
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forth your merit before the people Remember your selves or shal we remember ye which of you before this Parliament minded any thing so much as your pleasures plaies masks feastings buntings gameings dancings c For what other have you been but a meer clogg to the House of Commons in all their proceedings how many necessary things have ye obstructed how many evil things have ye promoted And in another Pestilent Pamphlet 't is affirmed f See Remonstrance of many thousands p 7. that the Lords must stand to be chosen for Knights and Burgesses by the people as other the freemen and gentry of this nation are Yea there is another seditious Book intituled An Al-arm to the House of Lords which contains in every page of it railing against the Peers of the Realm g See the book intituled an Al-arm to the House of Lords the several passages would be too tedious for you to read or me to write let this suffice to let you see the endeavours of the Sectaries to overthrow and alter the very foundamentals of the government of the Kingdom now least you should imagine that this spirit of dis-affection to the House of Lords should be confined only within the breasts of the unknown Authors of these seditious books it is meet I should let you know that this malignant humour runs as blood throughout the veines of all the Sectaries when the Sectaries in and about London Petition 't is only to their own House of Commons they never take notice of the Lords House at all witness that factious Petition from Lambes Congregation and another Petition from the Sectaries of London delivered to the House of Commons by that Turn-coate Samuel Warner Tichbourn and others in opposition to the Renouned Remonstrance of the City which was humbly presented to both Houses but their seditious Petitions but only to the House of Commons By this it appears that destroying the Lords House is the 2. Design driven on by the Sectaries Ye nobles all be ware a fall The Brownists do against you brawl They say you shal not sit an houre If th' upper House yeeld not to th' lower To cut off the King if he sides not to the Independent party 3. Design 'T is true of late they seem to appear for him to gain Malignants on their side but 't is notoriously known how their Principles are directly against Monarchy What desperate speeches have some Independent Members uttered against the King yea it wil never be forgotten how inraged the Independent Members of the House and Sectaries of London were against the City Remonstrance chiefly because there was this passage in it for the preservation of the Kings person according to the Covenant Yea the Sectaries publish to the world in Print that the King for his mis-government must lose his life h See the just mans Iustification P. 1. 't is said in one Pamphlet 〈◊〉 that You meaning the House of Commons or else the rude multitude should think of that great Murtherer of England meaning the King for by the impartial Law of God there is no exemption of Kings Princes Dukes Earls c. more then of Fishermen Coblers Tinkers or Chimney-sweepers and elsewhere 't is said i See Arguments proving that we ought not to part with the Militia Arg. 10. that according to Protestations Oathes and Covenants He meaning the King ought to be brought to exemplary and condign punishment he being the greatest and most notorious Delinquent in the whole Kingdom c. Yea they speak their minds more fully in another Pamphlet k See the Remonst of many thousands p. 6. We do expect according to reason that ye should in the first place declare and set forth King CHARLS his wickedness openly before the world and withal to shew the intolerable incoveniences of having a Kingly Government from the constant evil practices of those of this Nation and so to declare King CHARLS an enemy and to publish your resolution never to have any more By all this it appears that the Sectaries intend as the 32 Syrian Captains did 1 King 22.31 to fight neither with smal nor great but with the King of Israel In laying down this Design I would have none of you conceive as if I were a Malignant Royalist I hate Arbitrary power and Tyranny in Princes as much as any I only mention this that Malignants might not be brought into fools paradise to joyn with the Army conceiving them to be for the Kings honor and safety who are the greatest enemies of both Malignants all beleeve this thing Sectarians would destroy the King Yea they do wish there might be none For to succeed him on the throne To introduce an universal Liberty and Toleration for all sorts of false and heretical opinions 4. Design All the sectaries in the Kingdom labor with might and main to promote this in one Pamphlet 't is boldly asserted l See Williams Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the cause of Conscience in the preface to the Parliament p. 2. that it is the wil and command of God that since the coming of his son the Lord Jesus a permission of the most Paganish Jewish Turkish or Antichrist an Consciences and Worships be granted to all men in all Nations and Countries And elsewhere 't is said m See Compassionate Samaritan p. 5. that Liberty of Conscience is to be allowed to every man or sort of men to worship God in that way or manner as shal appear to them most agreeable to Gods Word Numerous Pamphlets there are abroad besides broacht by the seducing Chaplains of the Army and their accomplices as Mr Dâ—lls Sermon before the Parliament many smal and trivial Tracts of M. Saltmarshes M. John Goodwin in his blasphemous book intituled Hagio mâ—stix c. and in his impudent Queries against an Ordinance of Parliament for the Suppression of Heresies with abundance of other Pamphlets which cry up this their Diana of Toleration yea these Army-Chaplains have so corrupted their hearers and disciples from the simplicity of the Gospel that the whole Army now contends for Toleration by the sword in the Field which their Teachers could never make good by Argument eit er in Press or Pulpit Yea the whole Army declare this to be the design I le give you the Armies words n See a Letter sent from Sir Tho Fairfax and the cheif Commanders in the Army to the Lord Mayor Aldermen Common Councel of the City of London Dated from Royston Jun. 10. We wish that every good Citizen and every man that walks peaceably in a blameless conversation and is beneficial to the Common-wealth may have liberty and encouragement it being according to the qust policy of all States even to justice it self By this you may see the intendments of the Army if they prevail in this present undertaking The great Diana cry'd up in the Nation Is a licentious lawless Toleration All in the Land own not this
House of Commons 3. Considering the indirect means you use to drive on your designs and that by fraud falshood stattery and Compliance with all sorts of men Comply you do with the King to permit his malignant Chaplins to come to him and have common prayers read before him contrary to the order of both Houses Comply basely you do with malignants a new smooth tearm for them you have in your Remonstrance found out least you should displease them too much in calling them Malignants therefore you call them the Kings late Partakers See humble Remonstra P. 12. l. 27. and desire for them more then ever they durst desire for themselves Doubtless these helpers shal be your shame and ruin as the reeds of Aegypt shal they be unto you to fayl and wound you 4. Considering the ill Consequences that either have or may fall out as 1. Have not you strengthned the hands of the wicked and greived the hearts of the godly wise 2. Have not you stirred up a spirit of disobedience in many people of the land against the Parliament 3. Have not you rendred the Parliament base and low before the people 4. Have not you countenanced and encouraged all the desperate Sectaries in the Kingdom 5. Have not you blemisht and contemned a godly and Orthodox Ministry and encouraged illiterate mecanick unworthy fellows to preach where and when and what they list 6. Have not you permitted all scandalous Ministers that wil to read the Common-prayer-book within your quarters 7. Have not you hardned the Kings heart in his former wayes in allowing him his seducing Chaplains who have caused him to erre and to have as free a use within your quarters of the Common-prayer-book as ever he had when he was at White-hall 8. Have not you exceedingly retarded the releif of Ireland had you not rather to pick quarrels with your freinds here then to fight with your enemies there 9. Hath not your approach to London raised the price of Provisions and interrupted the Trade of this City above 200000. l. weekly These inconveniences we have already felt what yet we may further undergo the Lord knows I have no more to say but to Commend this following subject to your Patronage wherein I shal endeavour to set forth to the world and your own Consciences the Dangerousness of your designs the unreasonableness of your demands together with some new Queries to your Consciences in the mean time rest Your humble Servant if you wil not presume to be the Kingdoms Masters Tom Tell-troth VVorks of darkness brought to LIGHT OR A true Representation to the whole Kingdom of the dangerous Designs c. driven on by the ARMY Oye Inhabitants of ENGLAND WIth what face can ye endure a smal Councel of war to controul and disobey the great Councel of state Are ye weary of the Common Law or rather willing the Marshal Law should rule you wil ye delight rather to see Souldiers in Buff then Nobles in their Parliament Robes Had ye rather the Land should run down with tears and blood then flow with milk and honey wil ye be beguiled with the flattering words and plausible pretences of a Revolted Army wil ye suffer the Army under pretence of justice to bring you under oppression and under the notion of Liberty to bring you into bondage and under the name of Saints of light to act the part of the Angels of darkness That you might not be deluded for time to come I shal breifly dispatch these 3. particulars 1. Shew the Armies dangerous designs 2. Unreasonable demands together with some new Queries to their Consciences touching their refusal to disband at the Command of the two Houses of Parliament I begin with the first viz. the dangerous designs driven on by the sectaries in the Army why they refuse to disband I shal reduce to 7. heads which I shal make appear by plain and Demonstrative Reasons The first grand design the Army drives at is to new-mould the Honorable House of Commons â— Design to increase the numbers of Independent Members that so they might carry the Votes of the House as it shal please themselves that if it were possible they might promote their wicked designs in a Parliamentary way This design is so clear that he that runs may read it since the writs were Issued forth for new elections to fil up the House how Industriously have the Independent Party endeavoured to fil the House with Independent Members using M. Peters by perswasion in the Pulpit and the Army by terror to deceive and affright the people forcing many places in the Country to chuse Souldiers and others men of no considerable interests in the Kingdom to be Members of Parliament yea their violence against the XI Accused Members manifests this to be the design declaring to the Parliament in their Papers a See the Armies humble Remonst p. 14. that they must take some extraordinary courses til the XI Members be suspended the House and some other of their demands satisfied And not being content with this they vent their spleen also against other Members of the House of Commons branding them with the ignominious tearm of b See the Armies humble Remonst P. 10. P. 14. a Party men that drive their own interests Accomplices to the Members accused accusing all them to be disaffected to the publique good who are not affected to their own Party T is clear by this the new moulding the Parliament is the first and grand design The grand design and main intent is to new mould the Parliament The Army then and Country-clown wil turn the Kingdom upside down To destroy the House of Lords 2. Design The Petition of Lambes Congregation to the House of Commons c See that seditious Petition from Lambes Congregation that none might have a negative voyce doth directly justle out the power of the House of Peeres The Sectaries are not ashamed to say that the Lords of this Realm ought not to sit in Parliament unless they do come in by Election as Members of the House of Commons do this wil more evidently appear if ye read those seditious Pamphlets against the House of Lords written by the Sectaries It is said in one Sectarian Pamphlet d See the just man in bonds P. â— that the Lords are but painted puppies and Dagons that our superstition and ignorance their own craft and impudence have erected no natural Issues of Laws but the mushromes of Prerogative the wens of just government putting the body of the people to pain as wel as occasioning Deformity sons of conquest they are and usurpation not of choyce and Election intruded upon us by power not constituted by consent not made by the people from whom all power place and office that is just in this Kingdom ought only to arise And in another seditious Pamphlet 't is said thus e See Pearl in a dunghil p. 3. why presume ye thus O ye Lords set