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A96470	Plain truth vvithout feare or flattery: or a true discovery of the unlawfulnes of the Presbyterian government, it being inconsistent with monarchy, and the peoples liberties; and contrary both to the Protestation and Covenant. The end of establishing the militia of London in such hands as it is now put into by the new ordinance. The betraying votes, and destructive practises, of a trayterous party in the House of Commons, concerning certain pettions [sic] for liberty and justice. Also a vindication of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax concerning certain scurrulous words uttered by some of the said faction. VVith the meanes and wayes that must be used to obtain reliefe against the said tyrannous usurpers; and for reducing the Parliament to its due rights, power and priviledges, in the preservation of the kingdomes lawes and liberties / VVritten by Amon VVilbee.	Wilbee, Amon.; Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing W2112; Thomason E516_7; ESTC R204095	30,871	22

the lives and money of the People without the Peoples consent make Judges create Lord Keepers or Chancellours and yet the King in presence for they cannot now pretend a necessity by his absence and making use of his name to violate all Law oppress the People and to commit all injustice in a word to destroy our liberties and to execute their own Arbitrary wills They speake of having the Kings power with them virtually but wee can neither see nor find any of its proper vertue either among them or from them for his Majesties Regall power is just and mercifull regulated by Law preservative and corrective and not unjust cruell irregular and illegall defacing and destructive as the effects have been of the power which the Parliament hath exercised And concerning the Kings estate and revennues no question but it is accumulated and that they have it in banke for they have been very parcimonious Stewards they can hardly spare either the master money for his necessities or his Servants any for wages He like a Ward or Pupill is at their set allowance and content with the pittance his late Tutors and Guardians will allow him I doubt not but it will prove that some of them have made better allowance to themselves both our of his estate and the Republiques also Second how by reason of the predominancy and power of this tyrannous Party in both Houses whose malignant pernicious influence hath been and still is diffusive throughout all the Parliaments actions all those which have taken this Vow and Protestation are and have been defended in pursuance of the same it is sufficiently manifest For who but they that endeavour to maintain the true reformed Protestant Religion according to the doctrine professed in the Church of England in the power and purity of it are hated illegally prosecuted and persecuted vilifyed and reviled and he is most favoured and soonest preferred that can shew himselfe most virulent and violent against them And if you do but sken or looke like a Hare on the one side at the Kings Crown and dignity you presently incurre through the powerfull Votes of this Party the Parliaments high dislike and displeasure and it is a sufficient badge that you are an enemy because you are so to Traytors to the State witnes the high dislike of the Armies wise and just demand of his Majesties royall assent to an Act of indempnity and truly if they take a bare Parliament Ordinance without the Royall assent I will not give them one farthing for their security and it will be found that their Judges Chancellours Excise men and Sequestrators are in the same case as the Souldiers And to endeavour or petition for liberty according to the Protestation is as much as to beg a Prison to sue for justice is to be accounted seditious in a word to be sincere and honest is to be adjudged worthy of no trust imployment or preserment But to make the truth and the wicked practises and purposes of this destroying Party in both Houses yet more plain and open these cunning contrivers of our intended Vassalage and thraldome frame a combination and confederacy by covenant with the Scots and by power and subtilty surprize and insnare therein the whole Parliament and Kingdome the which I pray read and observe In their feigned profession of sorrow they acknowledge that their not prizing the Gospell nor labouring to receive Christ into their hearts and they say truly hath been the cause of all other fames amongst us And therefore with their hands lifted up to the most high God they do solemnly sware sincerely to endeavour a reformation of Religion in the three Kingdomes in doctrine worship discipline and government according to the word of God and the example of the best reformed Churches now what meanes this juggle and to the example of the best reformed churches above they sweare to endeavour a reformation and what sincerity is here to make mens impure inventions equivalent to the infallible rule of Gods word to make dogma presbyteri the opinion of the Priest adaquate to the unalterable last Will and Testament of Jesus Christ only here by this Foyst these deceitfull Spirits endeavour to bring in something of their own that with their claw-back Priests they may seem to have something to do with Christ in his Church government and to sit cheeke by joule with him in his throne and thus they do still dis-esteem the inestimable benefit of the Gospell and oppose it in the power and purity of it even as their Fathers did so do they harden their hearts against the Lord. If the word of God be a sufficient rule to reform and govern the Church by what need then of any other pattern or platforme The best reformed Churches which are this day in Europe need reformation yea the pure Church of Scotland notwithstanding all their pretences For if you observe our bretherens various double dealings turnings and windings self-seeking and advantage-making in every busines they transact or negotiate with us farre unbeseeming men pretending so great conscientiousnes in all things and so highly professing the power of Religion in purenes of life and conversation At first they were against the King then while he was with them they speake and write highly for him and now they have made the most they can of him they are again become adversaries to him one while they press one part of their deceitfull Covenant as at first The Scors have made more of the King then Judas did of the King of heaven they did that part for bringing evill instruments unto condigne punishment whilst that Delinquents troubled them Afterwards when by craft they had gotten the King among them hoping thereby to have had him established their Presbyterian Church-government within this Kingdome they were very zealous for that part of the Covenant which concernes the preservation and defence of his Majesties person and authority Now both the former are forgotten and they are at this instant extreame urgent and importune for that part of the Covenant which concernes the reformation of Religion in the three Kingdomes in doctrine worship discipline and government according to the word of God and the example of the best reformed Churches by which words the example of c. they would have it granted that their Kirke of Scotland is the best reformed in all the world and therefore we are bound by this clause of the Covenant they conceive to reforme by their pattern and to make their government our example as if they blind Beetles had attained the very Summum gradum of the government of the Church of Christ comprehended in the Gospell thus using the Covenant as a Waterman doth his Saile to turne every way and hereby they justify the Scripture which saith a double minded man is unstable in all his wayes Jam. 1. 8. but not one word do they speake for justice or liberty of the Subject though they see all oppression and

violence rage and raign amongst us this part of the Covenant they lifted up their hands as high to God and swore as solemnly to performe as any other but because they have no use for it they regard it not the truth is they profess they know God but in workes they deny him being abominable and disobedient and to every good worke reprobate But to speake more particularly of our own Presbyterian Reformers the Scotists of our Kingdome M. Hollis Stapleton and the rest of the zealous hipocrites with their Antichristian Priests Covenanters they sware you see my Friends to endeavour a reformation in Religion according to the word of God and the Parliament as seeming to adhere only to this sure and alone necessary and sufficient rule for reformation and not to take the bare opinions of men for granted truths without justification from the word of God to which end they long since propounded queries concerning the said government for the Assembly to prove by the word of God for the justification of it the which queries I have here inserted for every mans better information and consideration to wit First whether the Parochiall and Congregationall Elderships appointed by Ordinance of Parliament are jure divino by the will and appointment of Jesus Christ Secondly Whether all the members of the said Eldership are members thereof or which of them are jure divino and by the will and appointment of Jesus Christ Thirdly Whether the supreame Assemblyes or Elderships viz. the Classicall Provincicall and Nationall whether all or any of them or which of them are jure divino and by the will and appointment of Jesus Christ Fourthly Whether appeales from congregationall Elderships to the Classicall provinciall and Nationall Assemblies or to any of them are jure divino and by the will and appointment of Jesus Christ Fifthly Whether Oecumenicall Assemblies are jure divino and whether there be appeales from any of the former Assemblies to the said Oecumenicall Assemblies jure divino by the will and appointment of Jesus Christ Sixtly whether by the word of God the power of judging and declaring what are notorious and scandalous offences and of conventing before them tryall and actuall suspending from the Sacrament such offenders accordingly either in the congregationall Eldership or presbytery or in any other Eldership or presbytery Presented to the Houses as the advice of the Assembly and whether such powers are in them only or any of them and in which of them jure divino and by the will and appointment of Jesus Christ Seventhly Whether there be any cettaine and particular rules expressed in the word of God to direct the said Elderships or Presbyteries or any of them in the exercise and execution of the powers aforesaid and which are those rules Eightly is there any thing contained in the word of God that the Supreame Magistracy in a Christian State may not judge and determine what are the aforesaid notorious and scandalous offences and the manner of suspension from the same and in what particulars concerning the premises are the said Supreame Magistracy in the word of God excluded In answer of which particulars the House of Commons desired of the Assembly of divines falsly so called their proofes from Scripture and to set downe the severall texts of Scripture in the express words of the same And it was also ordered that every particular Minister of the said Assembly that was or should be Present at the debate of any of these questions should upon every resolution that was to be presented to the House concerning the same subscribe his respective name either with the affirmative or negative as he should give his vote and that they which should dissent from the major part should set downe their positive opinions with the express texts of Scriptures upon which their opinions were grounded Here you see an excellent way for the proofe of this Scotish creature prescribed and a great deale of seeming care in the Parliament to set up a Religion according to the word of God and not according to the Church of Scotland and yet though these severall queries or questions were by the fallacious Assembly never answered unto this day nor are they able to answer them satisfactorily for they can neither immediate or mediate directly or by consequence prove by the word of God and Gospell of our Lord Jesus Christ their so much pres'd Presbiterian government to be jure divine by divine Law or right as they most presumtuously and andatiously have alledged yet nevertheless although these queries were never resolved nor the Parliament ever satisfied by sufficient proofe out of the word of God of the lawfulness of this government whether it be the government of Jesus Christ or not hath this evill party whereof Mr. Hollis a man ever factious is reputed chiefe by their heady presumptuous courses to raise to themselves a faction from London and the Scots for their owne security and to drive on their owne premeditated designe of dominion and soveraignity prevailed to have it established by Ordinance enjoyning it in all places and upon all persons with as much rigour and severity as ever the Bishops did their conformity all which ye see is directly against their Covenant and no other then plaine perjury but unless they can establish this Scotish Presbiterian government they can never absolutely establish tyranny for the expedients of this Presbiterian government conduce directly unto tyranny even to abolish all rules of Law and civill liberty it is an antipathy to Monarchy and the legall power of civill Magistracy and brings under a yoak where it is predominant both King and People as shall God willing be demonstrated fully in due time and by this means these asspirers hope through the helpe of the Priests to order King Charles as the Presbiterians in Scotland did King James whom they did restraine affront disobey and raise tumults against if he prove refractory to any of their arbitrary Councels and to suppress and curb us the free Commoners that we shall not be able either to helpe him or remedy our selves Yet questionless if ye aske any of these our master Reformers if when they made and took the Covenant they did not intend to make Gods word their direct rule of Reformation They will answer yes otherwise they must confess themselves most hatefull hipocrites denying the truth and sufficiency of the holy Scriptures men that intend no Religion but a treasonable designe against King and People under that notion and I wish it doe not prove so in the end by some men If they did intend as they will not deny to make Gods word their Rule to Reforme by why doe they make the Church of Scotland the rule of their Reformation and cast the word of God behind them Why doe they enforce upon us the reformation or rather deformation of another Kingdome no waies justified or approved by the holy Scriptures and not endeavour as they have sworne sincerely to