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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87156	Plain dealing: or, The countreymans doleful complaint and faithful watchword, to the statesmen of the times, whether in the Parliament or Army. Wherein is set down, the rise, nature, and species of right government, with the corruption thereof in former, and this our generation, to this present time. / By Edward Harrison of Keensworth in Hertfordshire, sometimes preacher to Col: Harrison's regiment.	Harrison, Edward, of Keensworth in Hertfordshire.	1649 (1649)	Wing H889; Thomason E554_22; ESTC R13821	12,317	16

PEOPLE to such righteous Principles of Justice and Common Right that as to humane Reason it should be impossible for any Tyrants in this or future Generations to introduce bondage upon the People that Justice upon all Offendors should be impartially executed That all Publique Officers should be called to an account That the Publique Debts of the Nation should be paid That this Parliament should have a Period set for its dissolution and a Succession of future equal Representatives ascertained And that the Petition from many about London dated September 11th should be considered and the Grievances and Pressures therein complained of removed Witness the Demand of the Army in the large Remonstrance from page 62. to page 68. who in the prosecution thereof purging the House seizing upon the City and thereby gaining into their hands the whole power of the Kingdom who would expect but that which was by them Demanded and because not granted so ill rescented and severely punished by Imprisonment as to some and expulsion of the House as to others would have been by themselves now inabled to effect them speedily given to the People as their due and right And he therefore much rejoyced in the extraordinary Action of sifting the House of Commons wholy taking away the House of Lords erecting an High Court of Justice trying and executing the King and Lords as the pulling down an old House ready to fall upon and ruine the Nation and the burning of rotten post● onely fit for the fire in order to the setting up a new frame consisting of sound and well seasoned Timber under which the English Nation might finde shelter from future Storms and Tempests but his hope makes him ashamed his joy is turned into sorrow and his mirth into mourning and that upon these grounds First The AGREEMENT OF THE PEOPLE is waved in order to which the other actings were onely justifiable either before God or man the old Government in force according to Law was by King Lords and Commons and there was yet never any Reason alledged to vindicate the maner of the altering and the High proceeding in order thereto but that all power was Originally in the People and that all former must give place to the end of forms the COMMON GOOD of the PEOPLE and therefore till there be a foundation layed by an AGREEMENT of the PEOPLE it is no State blasphemy to affirm that there can be no true form of Government in the nation As for the present House of Commons he would be glad to have cause to bless God for it as being instrumental in keeping ill minded men in awe by their Title until a more full and formal power in a just and equal Representative to be speedily indeavored can be introduced Secondly No Justice is executed upon any Members of Parliament that betrayed their Trust which hath been and is by the Cavaliers thus interpreted That the Parliament and Army executed the King and Lords not out of Zeal to Justice but for sinister ends else say they Why should not Waller Clotworthy Brown and the rest accused of so great crimes be all this while brought to their Tryal Thirdly No Account is taken of the Treasury of the Kingdom how it hath been disbursed which makes many of the Enemies report That Mulus Mulum scabit that the Parliament Army and countrey Committees connive at each other while they share the riches of the nation among them Fourthly Though King Queen Princes Revenue Delinquents Estates Dean and Chapters Lands are wholly at their disposing yet there is no burthen removed neither Excize nor Tythes a burthen so contrary to any Profession the Gospel and the very Covenant it self repugnant to the Gospel Read the story of Walter Brute in Foxes Martirology pag. 446 447. and you will finde it clearly proved That Tythes are not in any sence due by any Law of God in the times of the Gospel Read also that learned Exhortation of the Bohemians to the King and Princes pag. 602. and the Examination of William Thorp pag. 494 495. where it is quoted out of CISTERCIENSIS That Pope Gregory the tenth in the year of our Lord 1211. first ordained Tythes to be given to his Priests Augustine in his Iuchyridion 76 Chap. and Chrisostome upon the 11 of Luke affirms Tythes to be pure Alms and it is recorded That they were not paid in the primitives times at all and that the Priests wresting Scriptures to their profit at the first obtained them as Beggars do Alms pag 426. By all which it appears That Tythes or any inforced Maintenance are contrary to the minde of Christ in the Gospel and to the very Letter of the Covenant wherein all Covenanters ingaged to take away all Popery and Popish innovations root and branch and over and above the aforesaid burthens the Tax for the Army swells from 60000 l to 90000 l a Moneth Fifthly There is a new Councel of State erected which much amuseth poor ignorant souls in the Countrey who fear that instead of succession of equal Representatives they shall be popt off with a perpetual Parliament or Everlasting Councel of State and Omnipotent councel of War that can make it justifiable to break all Forms themselves one day and yet Vote it mutinous in others to act any thing that displeaseth them though neither against any true Form or Order as lately they have done I love and honor many of their persons and should rejoyce if the Lord by me would reclaim them from the evil of their present way I shall lay down some Considerations which may be useful for them and trust God with the success First That Honesty is the best Policy The deep plots and witty Contrivances of men in power when inconsistent with the Will of God requiting them to do Judgement and Justice and to take off the ●●kes from the Oppressed have always been abortive for God will not be mocked and Experience tells us That Self-seekers though otherwise godly and gallant men yet are and shall be saved as by fire witness many worthy Members of Parliament who endeavoring by a Treaty to secure themselves are by the Lord with disgrace laid aside he thereby no doubt intending much good to their souls Foelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cantum he is a happy man that takes warning by other mens harms Secondly Carnal mixtures with corrupt interests are destructive to them that make them Mixtures are carnal when made upon fleshly and sinful considerations and interests are corrupt when incroaching upon Christs Kingdom in Spiritual Administrations or when found repugnant to righteous Government in civil Hence it follows First That under pretence of taking in the Generality of the people into their party or pleasing these or these great and potent men or which is the best the bearing with the weakness of godly men for any to incroach upon the Kingly Office of Christ take upon them to judge of

Judges and Kings by Gods immediate appointment They could neither Enact Laws appoint Governors nor make War or Peace but by express and immediate command from God Paul calls Magistracy an Ordinance of God Peter stiles it an Ordinance of man which seeming discrepancy is thus reconciled All Power and Authority to do Justice and Judgement is the Ordinance of God and is not left to the will and pleasure of men to alter vitiate or contemn without the incurring the displeasure of God for the same But the choosing or appointing Officers and the making of Laws is left to men and is the Ordinance of man and can onely be called the Ordinance of God in that when men proceed righteously therein it is owned and approved of by him If this distinction be not admitted but that every Superior power in both sences is of Divine institution and so properly the Ordinance of God these absurdities will follow viz. That Paul and Peter were not guided by the same Spirit they writing things irreconcileable That the Supreme Authority exercised by the Pope is the Ordinance of God read Dr. Willets Exposition upon Rom. 13.1 who there concludes That Monarchical Aristocratical and Democratical Governments are all of them the Ordinance of God and that the State may for their preservation resist a Tyrant and quotes Pareus pleading for the same which without the aforesaid distinction were false to affirm In the Parliaments Declarations and other rational discourses you may finde enough to discover the foppery of the forenamed Tenets I shall therefore go on to confirm the truth held forth in my third and fourth Propositions viz. That all right Government is from Consent of parties and that both parties are bound to the Laws and Articles agreed upon between them the first whereof is proved by the Authority of Demosthenes Aristotle and Cicero who unanimously affirm That true Soveraignty was instated upon the good will and liking of the PEOPLE who chose out of themselves and submitted to such as excelled most in vertue in those times By the formal and ceremonial Election and Oath made and taken at the late Kings of England admission to their Government and by the many Declarations of this Parliament especially the last against Monarchy wherein it is acknowledged That they were Elected Trusted and Authorized by the PEOPLE for the Common good page 5. And by the pressing for an Agreement of the PEOPLE as a foundation of future Government in the Remonstrance of the Army page 67. where it is propounded that none may be capable of being admitted to the Crown or any Office or Place of Publique Trust without express accord and subscription to the same The second By that saying of Seneca that the Magistrate together with the People have one God to serve one Law to keep and one death to fear By the Reason alledged in the Remonstrance of the Army for the bringing of CHARLS STUART to Justice By the Parliaments last Declaration page 13. And by the practice of the Roman State of Swetheland and Scotland who have brought their Supreme Magistrates to account for breach of Laws The Ordinance for a City or Nation and Order among Magistrates especially among them that had the Soveraign rule over all was called by the Ancients Commonwealth or Weal Publique and those Commonwealths that tended to Common benefit were said to be right those that respected the profit of Superiors onely were accounted corrupt I read of three kindes of right Government and three of corrupt 1. The first of right is Monarchy when the Soveraignty is in one alone who seeketh publique profit onely and preferreth Common benefit before his own private will and particular Commodity and when he endeavoreth to advance his own Interest and to govern by his absolute will then he becomes a TYRANT and the Government Tyranny which is the first kinde of corrupt Government 2. The second of right is Aristocracy the power of the best men viz. when a few approved and tryed men for righteousness have the Soveraignty joyntly together and make Laws for the rest of the People directing their thoughts at no other marks then publique Peace Freedom Vtillity and Profit as among the Lacedemonians of old But when these reject the poorer sort aym at nothing but their own advantage without any care of publique Commodity take part with their equals in riches and greatness to the oppression of their Inferiors then the Government degenerates into Oligarchy the second sort of corrupt Government 3. The third of right is Democracy the power of the People when mean and indifferent men are by them chosen neither of the richest to avoid Tyranny nor of the poorest to avoid Confusion Of which Aristotle saith That those societies which consist of mean persons in power is very good and those Cities and Commonwealths are well governed wherein there are many of the middle sort who have more power then both the other parties or at least then any one of them for where saith he many are very great or many very mean there followeth either an extream Oligarchy or Anarchy a confused multitudinous hodge podge which is the third sort of corrupt Government Thus having spoken of several sorts of right and corrupt Governments and given you the description of them that you may know them one from another when you meet them I shall proceed to particularize how and by whom right Government came to be corrupted in former and in this our Generation The first breach upon right Government that I read of was made by Nimrod Chams Nephew of whom we read Gen. 10.10 whom Historians report was the first that brought men into subjection by force and violence establishing his Principality in the Kingdom of Assyria which Tyranny of his was successively exercised upon the People and submitted unto for a long time in the days of succeeding Tyrants during the continuance of the Assyrian Mede Persian Grecian and Roman Monarchies till the People of Rome coming to the knowledge of their own Power and Liberty threw the Tyrant Kings out of their saddles then succeeded the Government by Consuls Decem Viri and Tribunes all which lasted 1084 years till at last Cesar taking advantage by their manifold divisions first got the Office of perpetual Dictator and afterwards the Title and Power of an absolute Emperor Et nunquam postea nisi deprincipitatu quaesitum saith Tacitus that is Then came no other question to be debated but who should be the Soveraign Prince of the State which was the condition of the generallity of the World especially since the Civil and Ecclesiastical States were by Antichrist jumbled together for then Kings and Priests conspired together to inslave both Souls and Bodies of the People which Mystery of Iniquity hath been fully discovered in these times of Light wherein God hath begun to stain the pride of glory especially in England How far and wherein Tyranny and Slavery was brought in upon the