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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80044	The foundations of freedome, vindicated: or, The reasons of VVilliam Ashurst Esquire, against the paper, stiled, The peoples agreement, examined and discussed. Wherein it appeares, that the particulars proposed in the said paper, are no foundations of tyranny and slavery; nor destructive to religion, liberty, laws, and government, as is pretended: but foundations of freedome for this poore deluded and enslaved kingdome. / By William Cokayne, a wel-wisher to Englands freedomes; but an opposer of tyranny and oppression in any whomsoever.	Cokayne, William, fl. 1649.	1649 (1649)	Wing C4904; Thomason E541_25; ESTC R14353	9,316	15

THE FOVNDATIONS OF FREEDOME VINDICATED OR THE REASONS OF WILLIAM ASHURST Esquire Against the Paper stiled THE PEOPLES AGREEMENT Examined and discussed Wherein it appeares that the particulars proposed in the said Paper are no foundations of Tyranny and Slavery nor destructive to Religion Liberty Laws and Government as is pretended But foundations of Freedome for this poore deluded and enslaved Kingdome By WILLIAM COKAYNE a wel-wisher to Englands freedomes but an Opposer of Tyranny and Oppression in any whomsoever Every man seems just in his owne cause but his Neighbour comes after and tries him LONDON Printed for John Harris 1649. To the Reader REasons against Agreement however besmeared with golden phrases are too much I feare studied by such whose endeavours are to keep us in bondage under an Arbitrary Government where will must be undisputable law whose finger will prove heavier than their Fathers loynes as in part appears by the Reasons against Agreement which title had it there stayed had most suited the subject whose seeming sugered words are mixed with wormwood promising fairnesse but viperously stinging the poore despised Army as endeavoring to enslave and ruine the Kingdome which under God they have so oft miraculously preserved to alienate the Peoples affections from them instead of a reward answerable to their long and tedious miseries and to divide them amongst themselves thereby to obtaine what neither violence of protested Enemies nor subtile devices of pretended Friends could yet doe endeavouring to starve them for want of pay as not worthy of their wages when done their worke or to live under and amongst those they have sacrificed their lives for But as God hath hitherto owned and honoured their undertakings so I trust will maugre the malice of all Calumniators I doubt not but the Gentleman is already Answered by abler Judgments yet being thereto importuned as concerned with others in the Kingdomes freedomes I have though the unworthiest of thousands cast in this small mite which of it prove like the stone from from David's ●●●● let God have the honour All I desire from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Reader is impartiality who not being overpoised in a regall ballance may without forestalledness weigh what is written and if in any thing I erre from right principles to convince me by sound reason and I shall be induced easily to close with him and freely renounce what I have written Farewell REASONS against the foundations of Freedome or the agreement of the people Examined I Shall now proceed to the Reasons which for the most part are but his own suppositions fighting with his shaddow and putting down the fabrick himself reared For First he saith it proposeth that the People Reas 1 or rather a small part of them may agree to alter c. But how such conclusions can be squeazed from it I see not seeing what is written is but propounded to the Parliaments considerations and as they see cause to Act and if we way not declare our pressures as also propound wayes of redresse to our Trustees what are we but perfect slaves And is there the like equality in taking away mens Estates and Lives as in altering the choice of Members where the divisions are so unequally distributed as to have ten or twelve in some Countries and but four in others not inferiour to those but I cannot much blame him for so strongly pleading the interest of that County himself is a member of And what president or ground can it be to any be they few or many to attempt such things he mentions from what is propounded by the people and assented unto acted by the Supreme Judicature in the Kingdome the Parliament And it s no wonder he fears mutation all men being mutable having so fresh a president from those who should be the Kingdomes supporters as no Addresses Addresses and no Addresses Vote out in and our again not acting by Fancy or suddain Apprehensions but forced through the prevalency of corrupt interests in some which also became a midwife to that Monster viz. a Treaty with a conquered Eenemy Reas 2 He saith it is unreasonable c. If the inconveniences be not sufficiently discovered by the many thousands slaine in these unnaturall bloody Warres with the persecutions and oppressions of old acted under this so much applauded Government to the ruine of thousands what would we have more to doe it And hath not eight yeares time been sufficient to debate it and finde out remedies for it though the Gentleman wants patience in other matters yet it seemes he hath patience enough to see the Kingdome by groaning under Tyranny and Oppression almost ready to give up her last breath but seeing the disease through delay is become gangrenous and through overly daubing corrupt at heart its high time to seek out a sharp Chirurgion and lance to the bottome yea and cut off too by impartiall Justice rather then destroy the whole Body which are reasons sufficient for so great a work Reas 3 The third reason is from King Lords Protestations Experience former Warres and Kingdomes distractions Are Kings and Kingly Government of divine Institution It s true Government is but whether by Kings or otherwayes is of man a humane Ordinance and not by a holy unction from God by peculiar immediate command from God but elected by a People So that the same Power which sets up may pull down when the cause is Just the right understanding whereof as also the vast difference between Israels Kings and ours would remove the vaile from the peoples eyes that they would not so much adore the name and person of a King especially when we see their ambitious nature mounts them up so high that nothing will content unlesse all must be their slaves As for the Lords when either themselves or the author have cleared their rightfull sitting in the Supream Judicature of the Kingdome for and over those who never called nor entrusted them being meerly the Kings creatures it might with more colour have been objected And what if the Parliament protested to maintaine such a Government I suppose it was before they had that experience of the evill of it they now have and must their Protestations be of more weight now then the Kingdomes safety and Peoples freedomes so as to restore those to their former Dignities who have left no meanes unassayed to enslave and ruine us And to reflect back upon your hundred years of experience under what Government was the Marian Persecutions your Butchers and Bonner your Ship and Pole Monies with thousands other Monopolizes and Oppression under which this poor Nation hath so long groaned And doth not experience tell us that almost every Age hath had a new Religion established by humane Law and yet all of them persecuting the Saints and was it not at present posting after them though under a new garb with no lesse rigor and violence then their Predecessors had not divine providence prevented And what if in former Wars the people