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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84892	VIII. problems propounded to the Cavaliers: for conviction of their consciences; with a discovery of certain plots and conspiracies. Declared by Captain Francis Freeman. With an answer thereunto returned by Colonell Francis Windham. And a reply to the said answer. These are printed by the originall papers, and published according to order of Parliament.	Freeman, Francis.; Windham, Francis.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1646 (1646)	Wing F2128; Thomason E343_6; ESTC R200943	20,583	25

upon our English ground then the Bishops found it not according to their expectation a treaty of Peace must be proclaimed and a Pacification must be concluded the Scots received into his Maj. gracious favour called by this Epethite our Brethren the Scots then there must be a Parliament summoned differences must be composed reconciled there must be an Act of Oblivion betwixt our Brethren the Scots Us and the Kingdoms must be setled in peace tranquility but that the Lord had otherwise determined it the Parliament began had not sate long but presently the Rebellion in Ireland burst forth their bloody Plots being contrived before-hand what they did they had good warrant for it under the Kings own Hand and Seal as they said but certainly it was signed with C. R. and it might very well be so for a Porter kept the Seal as I said before but it did not alwayes lye dorment with Endimion but howsoever Delinquents must be punished here in England by the Parl. Straffords head must be cut off Finch and Windebank must fly for it an Act had passed for the continuance of this Parl. and for a tryannal Parliament under the Kings own Hand signed with C. R. so that it could not be dissolved after this the King with his Cavaliers came to the Parl. to demand the five members Kymbolton as traytors and proclaimed them so but being crossed disappointed of his purpose and resolution he returned in much wrath to White-Hall where the Queen was exceedingly vexed and troubled being crost in her design then the Bishops with the Popish Spanish and French Factions together with the Monopolists and such as were not Parliament proof seduced the King from his Parl. into the North Country the Standard must be set up at Nottingham the Commission of Array must bee put in execution in those Heathenish Northern Counties by the E. of Newcastle and others of the like stamp the Commission of Array must b● put in execution in the West Country by the Marquis of Hartford Hopton such as had a kind of profession of Religion having a forme of godlinesse but denying the power therof and they as the Divels Instruments set a work drew on all their ungodly Tenants acquaintance which were not grounded upon good principals to be on that side Rupert and Maurice must be Overseers of the ruines of their Unckles Kingdoms they must see the ruines of those who gave them their first milk as it were and have paid for the very breeding of them ever since they were born Thus I have shewed you who you fight for what sort of people you side withal how and where the King have raised his Armies he hath got them from all parts of the Earth even among the very worst of the Sons of men the very scum of the Earth as it were a company of Dammee-boyes such heathenish ungodly wretches as if he had rak'd Hell scum'd the Divel for them and so from Bellum Episcapale it was come to bee Bellum Regale the Bishops stir'd up the Wales and the King with his Monopo ists blowed them up into a flame I had almost forgot the cessation of arms in Ireland after the surrender of Bristol a most divellish Plot hatcht in the bottome of Hell it selfe meerly to cut the throats of the rest of the Protestants and do the like for us if they can for the greatest Rebels that were in that grand Rebellion were sent for hither and received into great favour and called his Maj. Catholike Subjects then after the cessation of arms in Ireland there must be a new Fast proclaimed here in England as if all had been well in Ireland but it was for nothing else but to blind the eyes of the world to make them beleive it was out of pure zeal to the Protestant cause and the publike good of his Maj. Kingdoms but certainly your Fast was invented of your selves Did you fast un●o me saith the Lord doe I approve it and when ye did eat and when ye did drinke did you not eat for your selves and drink for your selves Zach. 7.5 6. you did abstain according to your own fantisies and not after the prescript of the Law of God nor yet looking upon the right object for which Fasting Humiliation was ordained and so I passe to the other particulers which shall be very brief in the handling because I know that any thing that hath a savour of Religion and Godlinesse will be very tedious to you Cavaliers although Godlinesse is profitable to all things it hath the promise of this life and of that which is to come I shall give you a hint of the particulers and but a little touch them and so come to the application according to the Times and so conclude First you say that Papists and Irish Rebels are better subjects to the King then the Parliament are and that the Parliament seek to deprive him of his Prerogative Royal his Sinck-Ports and Shipping you say also that they do of right belong to the King only and are to be at his disposing or else you would not fight for him Furthermore you do believe that the Parliament are Protestants but because there are so many Sects and Schismes amongst them that they are far worse then Papists and Irish Rebels for you say they raise up arms against the King seek to deprive him of his rights and priviledges And lastly you do believe that if the Parliament should be destroyed that you should enjoy the same Law still as before and that you shall enjoy all your own with advantage if you stick close to the King and help him to destroy the Parliament rebels and traitors Now if it be so that the Parliament do seek to deprive the King of his Prerogative Royal his Sinck-Ports and Shipping as you say they do then certainly they are worse then Papists and Irish Rebels but the Parliament have alwayes strived to maintain him in all these witnesse those many Petitions sent unto him in the North with this gracious Epethite Your sacred Majesty c. with many solicitations and invitations expressing much sorrow for his absence with loyalty obedience fidelity towards him humbly praying his Sacred Majesty to return home unto them forsake those wicked Councellours that they might receive condigne punishment according to their severall offences ergo the Parliament are his best Subjects for his Sink-Ports and Shipping do not of right belong unto him only but to the whole Kindgdom and State in generall for their preservation from all forraign invasion for if so be they did of right belong unto Him only then he might joyn with those wicked Councellours that are about him without the knowledge or advise of his good Councell to let in the Turk or any forraign Enemy to invade his Kingdoms and would do it rather then to be crost in their wills for I am perswaded that they had rather the Turk or

some extraordinary valiant acts of Chivalry or else by some extraordinary gifts of Learning wherby they were had in high estimation above other men in respect of their qualifications endowments but most of your Gentlemen have bin so notoriously wicked along time that they have cast a foul stain upon their Gentility and at this present day there lyes a staine upon their soules as black as Hell it self besides there have bin many Generations since Gentility first came in and so consequently many bastards for all Cavaliers do but do the Divels drudgery they doe the works of the Divell ye are of your Father the Divell the Lusts of your Father ye will do Iohn 8.44 Now certainly if the Divel be their Father they must of necessity be bastards and so I come to the second particuler You say you are of the Protestant Religion I answer that the Protestant Religion is a Christian Profession of the Gospell of Christ according to the Word of God wherein men did enter into a Covenant and bound themselves both to God and Man each to other protesting that they would stand to maintain the true Faith in Christ Jesus and him crucified which they then professed even to the hazard of their lives lands and personall estates hence it came to passe that so many godly and holy Patriarks suffered martyrdome in the time of Q. Mary and this protestation of theirs was in the nature of our Covenant that was lately set forth by the Honourable Court of Parliament and both for God and his Glory for Gods hand shall be either for us or against us according to the performance of the duty either by truth or deceit those godly men in their Protestation entred into an Oath and into a Curse Neh. 10.29 and so have we in our Covenant so that every one that taketh an oath doth bind himself either to the performance or to the punishment Num. 30.2 3. so that we make God our witnesse our Party and our Judge besides we entred into a Covenant in our Baptisme there we promised to forsake the Divel all his works c. and Baptism is a Seal of the Covenant of Grace but we have commited all manner of actual rebellions since that time all manner of sin impiety and now at this time here is a Nationall sin raigning amongst us it deservs a National judgment punishment and when a Nation or a People are a guilty of an extraordinary heinous sinne it is both lawfull and needfull for them to enter in a Covenant and to renew their Covenant to bind themselvs against sinne to forsake it in their own persons and to hinder punish it in others Esa 10.3 8. and this shall suffice for the second particuler I come now to the third you say you fight for the King but because the fourth particuler have so neer a relation and dependencie on the third I shall therfore handle them both jointly and severally you say likewise that the King stands to maintain the true Protestant Religion the Laws of the Land the Liberties of the Subject and Priviledges of Parliament and call all his Declarations Proclamations and Protestations to witnesse I answer It s true there have bin many set forth in his Name and signed with C. R. although he never knew of the publishing of them therefore do not deceive your self there are and have bin many evill Councellors about him and a Porter keepes the Seal besides how can you say that you fight for the King whereas the King himself fights to destroy his Kingdoms It s true you fight for him so far forth as to help him do it To proceed farther suppose the King should offer violence to his own Person to destroy Himself which God forbid he should would you help further him in it Certainly you are in a most miserable condition as the case stands but if it were lawfull for the King to go to warre against his Subjects then it were lawfull for you to fight for him but I shall make it evidently appear that you fight cleerly against him against God himself his Church and People against your self against the whole Kingdom and State First you fight against the King in striving to set up an Arbitrary Government which no Earthly King can have unlesse of Subjects we should become Slaves as they are in France but the King of Kings who sits in Heaven and seeth all things here below and is present in all places and disposeth of all things according to his own will and pleasure but if it were possible that our King could be present in all places as the King of Kings is then he might claime and chal●enge an Arbitrary Government to himself and govern his People according to his own will and we as Subjects would obey him according to the French fashion Secondly you fight against God and against Christ nay you fight against all the members of Christ for all those which make a profession of Christ and indeavour to regulate their lives and conversations according to the gospell of Christ you doe not onely hate their person but their very profession Thirdly you fight not onely against you selfe but against the whole Kingdome and state for you fight to destroy the law by which every men ought to possesse and injoy that which he had successive●y from his predecessors or purchast with his owne money 4 You fight against the Parliament which the King himselfe both by law and oath is bound to maintayne besides all this although you Cavileeres have stole away the Kings Person from his Parliament yet his Power is their with them still for the King is subject to his inferiour Courts of Justice much more is he subject to his high Court of Parliament which commands all other inferiour Courts for if the Kings Writ be issued out of his inferiour Courts of Justice and put in due execution although he be a hundred or two hundred miles off yet the Law goes on in as full force and power as if he himself were personally present and the King himself ought to be with his Parliament in which he ought to joyn with them in the ordination and establishment of Lawes Thus you see you fight against God and against Christ and all his Members you fight against your self and against the whole Kingdom and State you fight against the Law and indeavour to destroy the Parliament the representative body of the whole Kingdom and so consequently you fight against the King But the Lord sits in Heaven and shall laugh he will have you in derision Psalm 1.2.4 He lets you alone till the measure of your iniquities be full as it was with the Amorites Gen. 15.26 Then the Lord will power forth the cup of his fury and will destroy them utterly because you are so incensed and inraged against the Church people of God Isa 41.11 you shall be as nothing and as a thing of naught vers

the Pope should enjoy his Crown then the Parliament together with all his best Subjects should enjoy their Laws Liberties and Priviledges which doth evidently appeare by his entertaining so many Popish Rebels and Traytors and all to cut the throats of his poor Protestant Subjects but certainly he have had many a free pardon and indulgence for these things and those many Declarations Proclamations and Protestations for of all that ever was yet set forth in his Name there hath not been any performance at all in the least tittle if it be so that you can tell me of any one Proclamation or Declaration that hath been performed on his part then will I turn Cavaleer and joyne with you to fight against the Parliament and as for His Prerogative Royall so much talkt off certainly it was ever maintained by the Law and what would become of it if the Parliament should be destroyed besides the glory of a King is to governe His Kingdoms with his Subjects love and Mercurius Problematicus will tell you that the safest Armour for a King is his Subjects love and a good head-piece and if he had had such Armour he need not have set up his Standard nor put the Commission of Array in execution which was done contrary to Law unlesse it had been against a forraign Enemy for what necessity was there for the execution thereof when as the Parliament had made provision for the defence of the whole Kingdome against any forraign Enemy such was their provident care for the Kingdoms safety but that the Lord had a scourage for his People for their sinnes and made you Cavaliers to be the Executioners thereof but it was to bring them more neere unto himselfe and although you rob plunder and spoyle them of all their goods and good Name yet they will be but afflictions unto them and will take away their sinne for by this the Iniquity of Iacob shall bee purged Isai 27.9 and this is all the fruit of it nay sometimes the Lord sets wicked Kings to reign over his People c. But I hasten and this much I can assure you that the Parliament have alwayes stood faithfully for the Vindication of the Kings Honour Crown and Dignity for His Lawes Rights and Priviledges for the Liberty of the Subject and Priviledges of Parliament as much as ever any PARLIAMENT did since the Kingdome ever Being And whereas you scandalize them by the Name of Schismaticks Round-heads Rebels and Traytors I can assure you they are Religious Godly and Holy Patriarks placed there by God him else for the Vindication of his own Honour and Glory for they endeavour a Reformation which is the main cause of your inveterate hatred and malice against them You cannot endure such a curb for your sins and your old course of living which you so often accustomed your selves unto which makes all you Cavaliers to hate a Reformation you are so opposite to the Doctrine of Christ but commonly where God will have his Church there the Divel will have his Chappel and you Cavaliers are as Instruments and fellow-Labourers set on work by him against the Church and People of God and although there are Errours in the Church now as there hath bin in the Apostles times yet it is but errour in judgment opinion but we will agree in the Fundamentals it is somtimes necessary that there should be errours that the truth may the better appear in its lustre and glory shine the more cleerly in its purity besides if the Parl. and their Armies are Rebels and Traytors to the King as you say they are yet I am confident their Rebellion is lawfull as the case stands for if you do but look into the 2 of Kings 17.7 there you shal find that Hezekiah rebelled against the King of Ashur and served him not and yet he prospered in all things he took in hand he put down the brazen Serpent and destroyed their Idols this you may see cleerly in the text that it was for their Idolatry Then how can you look to prosper in your Armies where Idolatry is set up and so highly prised amongst you but the Lord seeth your doings and puts up all your iniquities in a Bag and although you may prosper and flourish for a while yet the Lord will suddenly cut you off for the very prayers and supplications of his servants will ascend up unto Heaven which will cause the Lord to make you destroy one another as he did the Children of Moab and Ammon 2 Chr. 20.23 certainly the Lord will be glorified in his own work and will deliver his People out of your hands so if you look into the 32. chap. of the same Book of Chron. there you shall find how Zenacharis King of Ashur came to war against Iudah Ierusalem and if you please to read the whole Chapter throughout it will be worth your pains there you shal find how Zenacharis blasphemed God saying What God is be that can deliver his people out of my hands and this is just the condition of you Cavaliers for you will blaspheme the Name of God are so over-sweld with pride that you think your selvs able to resist overcome even God himself and comparing foolish and vain Idols which were invented and made by Man to the living God as in the 19. vers of that chap. and in the 20. vers there you shall see how Hezekiah and the Prophet Isaiah prayed unto the Lord against these things and cryed unto Heaven and in the 21. vers there you shall finde the issue and successe they had by prayer the Lord heard their prayers for hee sent an Angel and destroyed all the valiant men and the Princes and the Captains of the Host of the King of Ashur and what became of the King of Ashur and his mighty great Army which contained in number one hundred fourscore and five thousand why surely they came to nothing for they destroyed one another and the King himself returned with shame to his own Land and as the text saith when he came to the house of his God they that came out of his own bowels slew him there with the sword intimating unto us how prevalent and effectua l the prayers of the faithfull are with God especially against such Tyrants for where a Tyrant an Idolator raigneth there can be no peace and quietnesse for the very plagues of God are alwayes among such people And thus you see how these Kingdomes are disquieted by Tyranny and Idolatry and what distractions distempers there are and have bin even among Kings and Princes and mighty men of this world and you your self have a share in the exercise of their cruelty in upholding Idolatry and Tyranny against the people of God and now by this time I have shewed unto you who you fight for and what dangers you are in both soule and body and now I come to shew you how to avoid escape these dangers