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A91165	Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its Members. To convince them of, humble them for, convert them from their transcendent treasons, rebellions, perjuries, violences, oppressive illegal taxes, excises, militiaes, imposts; destructive councils, proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie kings, the old dissolved Parliament, the whole House of Lords, the majoritie of their old secured, secluded, imprisoned fellow-Members, the counties, cities, boroughs, freemen, commons, Church, clergie of England, their Protestant brethren, allies; contrary to all their oathes, protestations, vowes, leagues, covenants, allegiance, remonstrances, declarations, ordinances, promises, obligations to them, the fundamental laws, liberties of the land; and principles of the true Protestant religion; and to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels, as tend to publike unitie, safetie, peace, settlement, and their own salvation. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3930; Thomason E772_3; ESTC R203226	35,699	53

I will set the Aegyptians against the Aegyptians and they shall fight every one against his brother and every one against his neighbour City against City and Kingdom against Kingdom And the Spirit of Aegypt shall fail in the midst thereof and I will destroy the Counsel thereof Surely the Princes of Zoan the Juncto and Armies General Council are become fools the Princes of Noph are deceived they have also seduced Egypt even they that are the stay of the Tribes thereof The Lord hath mingled a spirit of Perversities amongst them they have caused Egypt yea England to erre in every work thereof as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit Neither shall there be any work for Aegypt which the head or tayl branch or root may do to defend or establish themselves or their pretended yet unformed Free-State And may not they all then and others too upon the consideration of all the premises justly cry out with the Apostle in an holy admiration Rom. 11. 33. O the depth of the Riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his Iudgements and his wayes past finding out 4. Whether the Juncto and their High Court of Injusticemen who had any hand vote in the Traiterous Perfidious beheading of their late Protestant King the head of the Parliament dissolving and blowing up the whole House of Lords the Majoritie of the Commons House the whole old Parliament Kingdom Kingship the Prince of Wales next heir and successor to the Crown the rights privileges freedom of Parliament the fundamental Laws Liberties Government of the Nation and our established Protestant Religion against all their Oathes Allegiances Trusts Duties Votes Declarations Remonstrances Protestations Vows Solemn Leagues Covenants obliging them to the contrarie can with any faith boldness confidence pietie or real devotion appear before the presence of God Angels Men in any of our Congregations on the 5 of November the * joyfull day of our deliverance from the Popish Gunpowder Treason publikely celebrated every year to render publike thanks to Almighty God and ascribe all honour glory and praise to his name for his great and infinite mercy in delivering the King Queen Prince Lords-Spiritual and Temporal when assembled in the Lords House Nov. 5. An. 1605. from this plot of malicious divellish Papists Jesuites and Seminary Priests who maligning the happiness and prosperity of our Realm Church and Religion under a Protestand King and its promising continuance to all posterity in his most hopefull royal plentiful Progeny intended to blow them all up suddenly with gunpowder but were through Gods great mercy miraculously delivered from this suddain horrid Treason by a wonderful discovery thereof some few hours before it was to he executed when as themselves have outstripped them by many degrees in executing accomplishing far more than what they only intended but could not effect yet reputing themselves Protestants and the eminentest of all Saints Whether they can without the greatest horror of conscience confusion of face spirit consternation of minde and grief of heart henceforth presume to appear before the presence of God or any English Protestants at any time especially on this day before they have publickly lamented confessed repented and made some open eminent satisfaction for those transcendent new Gunpowder-Treasons far worse than the old of the Jesuits and Papists by whom they were acted in this especially if they consider Gods expostulation with such sinners Ps. 50. 16 17. What hast thou to do to declare my Statutes or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth Seeing thou hatest Instruction and hast cast my words behind thee When thou sawest these Powder-Traycors thou consentest with them and hast been partaker with these Murderers and Adulterers And that of Rom. 2. 1 2 3. Therefore thou art inexcusable O man whoever thou art that judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thy self For thou that judgest dost the same things But we know that the judgement of God is according to Truth against those who commit such things And thinkest thou this O man that judgest them which do such things and dost the same nay worse that thou shalt escape the judgement of God c. 5. Whether those turn-coat Peace-abhorring self-seeking shameless Members and Lawyers who though not fifty in number sitting under a force after the seclusion of the Majority of their fellow-Members Decemb. 13 1648. resolved that the Vote passed in a full House July 28. 1648. That a Treaty should be had in the Isle of Wight with the King in Person by a Committee appointed by both Houses upon the Propositions presented to him at Hampton Court was highly Dishonorable to the procéedings of Parliament and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom And that the Vote of 5. Decemb. 1648. passed without dividing the House when there were 300 Members in it That the answers of the King to the Proposition of both Houses are a sufficient ground for the House to proceed upon for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom is highly dishonorable to the Parliament and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom and tending to the breach of the publick faith of the Kingdom And in their Declaration of 15. January 1648. expressing their Reasons for annulling and vacating these Votes in this manner declared them to be highly repugnant to the glory of God greatly dishonorable to the proceedings of Parliament and apparently destructive to the good of this Kingdom adding Yet we are resolved and that speedily so to settle the peace of the Kingdom by the Authority of Parliament in a more happy way than can be expected from the best of Kings Which they never since performed in the least degree but the direct contrarie embroiling us in endless Wars Seditions Tumults Successions Revolutions of new-modelled Governments and Anti-Parliamentary Conventicles ever sithence After that suppressed our Kings and Kingly Government as the Instruments Occasions of Tyranny Injustice Oppression Luxury Prodigality and Slavery to the Commons under them together with the whole House of Lords as Dangerous Vselesse Dilatory to the Procéedings of Parliament c. in their Votes of Febr. 6. and Declaration of 17 Martii 1648. expressing the grounds of their late Proceedings and setling the Government in way of a Free State Next prescribed subscribed an Ingagement to be true and faithfull to the Commonwealth established by them without a King or House of Lords Yet afterwards in their New modelled Parliament as they reputed it April 1657. by their Petition and Advice as first penned passed and presented to Cromwell for his assent Declared the revival of Kingship and Kingly Government absolutely Necessary for composing the distractions and setling the peace and tranquillity of our Nations advised petitioned and pressed him to accept the Name Title Power and Soveraign Authority of a King over our three Kingdoms and the Dominions thereunto annexed Voted him to be King thereof with a constant revenue of no lesse than Twelve

Hos. 3. 4. c. 10. 3. 7. Ezech 49. 11 12. 14 Isa. 33. 11 12 13. Judges 17. 6 c. c. 18. 1. c. c. 21. 25. Prov. 28. 2. c. 3021 12. Hab. 1. 10. 14 15. And is it not so now of ours 7. Whether the late Peition and Advice 1657. to reduce us again to a Kingdom and Kingship to which W. Lenthal Mr. Speaker Whitlock many others of the dissolved Juncto assented as it was first penned voted passed by them and many Army-Officers as the only means to settle us in peace honor safety prosperitie be not a convincing Argument that in their own Judgements Conscience Kings Kingly Government are Englands only true Interest to end our wars Oppressions distractions prevent our ruine and restore our pristine unitie peace honor safety prosperitie trade glorie And whether it be not a worse than Bedlam Madness and grosse error both in policie and expeperience in our Republican Juncto and Army-Officers to endeavour to erect Utopian Jesuitical Republike among us which hath produced so many sad publique changes confusions and made us a meer floating Island tossed about with every winde of giddy-brain Innovators as the only means of our firm lasting happinesse and to prevent all future relapses to Monarchie after King Charls his beheading which this notable censure of the incomparable Philosopher * Seneca passed against that great Republican and Anti royallist M. Brutus will abundantly refute Cum Vir magnus fuerit in aliis M. Brutus mihi videtur in hâc re vehementer errare qui aut Regis nomen extimuit cum optimus Civitatis Status sub Rege justo sit aut ibi speravit Libertatem futuram ubi tàm magnum praemium erat et imperandi et serviendi futuramque ibi aequalitatem civilis juris et Staturas suo loco Leges ubi viderat tot Millia hominum pugnantia non ne serviret sed utri our present condition between the ambitious usurping Antiparliamentary Juncto and divided Army-Commanders all contending which of them shall be the greatest and who shall most oppress enslave our Nations to their Tyrannie farr more exorbitant than the very worst of all our Kings Quantum verò illum aut rerum natura aut vrbis suae tenuit oblivio Qui uno interempto Rege defuturum credidit alium qui idem vellet Cum Tarquinius esset inventus post tot Reges ferro et fulmine occisos even in Rome it self and we in England since the beheading of King CHARLES and voting down Kings Kingship with the old House of Lords and Ingagements against them have soon after found a more than Royal Protector OLIVER usurping the Wardship of our poor Infant Common-wealth aspiring after a Kingship and Crown whiles living and crowned in his Statue Herse Scutcheons as both KING and CONQUER OR of our three Kingdomes after his death bearing Three Crowns upon his sword as an emblem of it a momentanie Protecter Richard after him a new self created other House assuming to themselves the Title of LORDS THE HOUSE OF LORDS after an old Lords House suppressed since that a CHARLES FLEETWOOD and JOHN LAMBERT aspiring after the Soveraign Power as their late and present actions Declarations more than intimate and dissolved Juncto affirm and an exiled Hereditarie KING CHARLES with a numerous ROYAL POSTERITIE after him claiming the Crown and Kingship by lawfull indubitable Right declared ratified by the Vnrepealed Statutes of 1 Jacobi c. 1. 3 Jacobi c 1 2 4 7 Jacobi c. 6. the * Oathes of Supremacy Allegiance Fealty of all Mayors Recorders Freemen of every Corporation and Fraternity of all Justices Judges Sheriffs Officers of Justice Graduates in Vniversities or Innes of Court Ministers Incumbents all Members of the Commons House of Parliament and all other Freemen sworn in our Leets who by the powerfull assistance of their forein Friends and Allies and domestick oppressed discontented divided ruined Subjects will in all probabilitie be restored to the Crown sooner or later as Aurelius Ambrosius after the murder of his Father and Brother by the Vsurper Vortigerne was called in restored and crowned King by his own British Subjects to deliver them from Vortigerns and his invading Saxons Tyranny after 21 years usurpation and Edward the Confessor called in and crowned King by his Nobles and Subjects after 25. years dispossession of his right by the Danish Vsurpers and all the Danes expelled without any effusion of blood as I have * elsewhere evidenced at large out of our best Historians 8. Whether Gods extraordinarie sudden treble miraculous overturning 1. of the Juncto when best established and most secure after their victorious Successes against the Irish Scots Hollanders Worcester-fight and League with Spain by their own General Cromwel April 20. 1653. without one drawn sword or drop of bloud 2. Of Protector * Richard and his Brother Henry too Deputy of Irel. by his Brother Fleetwood Unkle Disbrow other Army-Officers after all their Oaths and Addresses to him from them and all the Officers Soldiers Navy most Counties Corporations in England Scotland Ireland to be true faithful loyal obedient to and live and die with him in the midst of his Parliament declaring voting for and complying with him when most men thought it impossible to overturn or depose him 3ly Of the revived Antiparliamentary Juncto after Sir George Booths and all their visible Opposites total rout and disappointment when * themselves and others esteemed them so well rooted guarded that there was no hopes nor possibility left of dissipating dissolving them or abolishing their usurped Regal and Parliamental power even by the very instruments that called them in and routed their Enemies be not a real experimental verification of Ezech. 21. 26 27. by way of Allusion to our own Governours and Kingdom Thus saith the Lord God Remove the Diadem and take off the Crown exalt him that is low and abase him that is high I will Overturn Overturn Overturn it till he shall come whose right it is and I will give it him 9. Whether the late Junctoes and Army-Officers doubling trebling quadrupling of our Nations Monthly Taxes Excises Militiaes Grievances Oppressions of all kinds by their usurped power their consumption devastation of all the Crown-lands Rents and standing Revenues of the Kingdom of Bishops Dean and Chapters lands and many thousands of Delinquents real and personal estates and greatest part of most mens privat estates only to make them greater Bondslaves to them than ever they were to any Kings without benefiting or easing them in any kind and to murder one another by intestine unchristian warrs Butcheries And their Monstrous Giddiness Intoxication in all their premised Councils New Models and Rotations of Government ever since they turned the Head of our Kingdoms which should rule direct the whole body downwards and the Heels uppermost to animate and steer it against the course of nature the rules of Law Policie Christianitie and Gods *

the House by their vote of Jan. 11. 1648. upon the Armie-Officers false and scandalous printed Answer to them Jan. 3. touching the grounds of their securing and secluding them contrarie to their Protestation Covenant the Privileges Rights of Parliament the Great Charter the Fundamental Laws and Liberties of the Nation And not content therewith by their own Anti-Parliamentarie antichristian Usurpers to out-act the old Gunpowder Traytors many degrees by the Armies assistance and e opposing advancing themselves against all that is called God and worshipped they most traiterously set aside voted down suppressed the whole House of Lords as dangerous uselesse tyrannical unnecessary usurped engrossed the stile power of the Parliament of England and Supreme Authority of the Nation to themselves alone without King Lords or Majoritie of their fellow secluded Members created a new Monstrous High Court of Justice destructive to all our fundamental Laws Liberties and Justice it self wherein beyond all presidents since the creation they most presumptuously condemned murdered beheaded their own lawfull Hereditarie Protestant King against all their former Oathes Protestations vows Covenants Remonstrances Declarations Obligations Allegiance the Laws of the Land the principles of the Protestant Religion and dissenting votes Protestations Disswasions of the secluded Lords Commons Scots Commissioners London Ministers the intercessions of forein States and our 3. whole Kingdoms together with 3 Protestant Peers soon after After that close imprisoned my self Sir William Waller Sir William Lewes Major General Brown with sundrie other Members divers years in remote Castles without any hearing examination cause expressed or the least reparatiō for this unjust oppression exercising far greater Tyrannie over the Peers their old fellow Members and all English Freemen during the time of their Regality in every kind than the beheaded King or the worst of his predecessors were not by a most just divine retaliation and providence when they deemed themselves most secure and established even for these their transcendent Treasons Perjuries Tyrannies violations of the rights privileges of parliament their own sacred Oathes Protestation League Covenant suddenly dissolved dissipated thrust out of doors Apr. 20. 1653. by Cromwel and the Armie-Officers in a forcible shamefull manner with whom they confederated all along though they received new Commissions from engaged to be true and faithful to them without a King or House of Lords and branded by them to posteritie in their printed Declaration April 20. 1653. as the corruptest and worst of men intollerably oppressing the people carrying on their own ambitious designes to perpetuate themselves in the Parliamentarie and Supreme Authoritie the archest Trust-breakers Apostates never answering the ends which God his people and the whole Nation expected from them c. Col. Harrison himself the Chairman at Windsor Committee to secure us being the very person imploied by Cromwell to pull their Speaker Lenthall out of the chair and turn him with his Companions out of doors Cromwell himself then stigmatizing Sir Henry Vane Henry Martyn Tom Challoner and others of them by name with the Titles of Knave Whoremaster Drunkard c. And not long after to requite his good Services he suddenly turned Col. Harrison Rich and their party out of the Com-House by Force dissolved their Anti-Parliamentarie Conventicle elected only by the Armie Dec. 11. 1653. whiles they were seeking God for direction and soon after cashiered both these * Collonels his former greatest Instruments out of the Armie sent them close Prisoners to remote Castles garded with Armie Troops And as they and their Troops when they seised Major General Brown with other Members and conducted them to Windsor Castle and other Prisons refused to acquaint them whither they were to be sent So M. Jossop the Clerk of their Council of State who brought these Colonels to the Coach at Whitehall garden door when they were conveyed prisoners to remote Castles and their Conductors denied to inform them to what places they were committed whereupon they cried out to the Troopers which garded them Gentlemen is this the Liberty you and we have fought for to be sent close Prisoners to remote-Garrisons from our wives and families they will not tell us whither Will you suffer your own Collonels Officers who have fought for Laws Liberties and have been MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT TO BE THUS USED To which they answered as themselves did in the like case to other secured Members conducted by them We are commanded and must obey not dispute our Orders and so were hurried away as an eye and ear witnesse of the old Parliament related to me within one hour after Yea young Sir Henry Vane himself the bold prejudger of our Debates and Vote in the House touching the Kings concessions if not a promoter of our unjust seclusion for it was-unexpectedly and suddainly not only thrust out from all his Imployments as well as out of the House but sent close Prisoner by Cromwell to Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Weight the very place where he betrayed his trust to the King and Parliament at the Treaty to gratify Cromwel who by an extraordinary strange providence sent him close Prisoner thither for sundry months to meditate upon this divine Retaliation Whether may not all this dissolved Juncto and its Members from these wonderful Judgements providences now conclude and cry out with that heathen cruel Tyrant Adonibezeck Jud. 1. 7. As I have done so God hath requited me And acknowledge the truth of Gods Comminations against all treacherous betrayers and potent oppressors of their Brethern Obad. 15. As thou hast done it shall be done unto thee thy reward shall return upon thine own head Ps 7. 15 16 He made a pit and digged it and is fallen into the ditch which he made his mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing upon his own pate Rev. 13. 9 10. If any man have an ear to hear let him hear He that leadeth into Captivity shall go into Captivity He that killeth with the Sword shall be killed with the Sword Here is the patience and faith of the Saints O that all real and pretended Saints in the dissolved Juncto and Army would now consider and believe it as I lately pressed them to do in the cloze of my Good Old Cause truly stated and the false Vncased yet they would not regard it Whether their illegal forcible wresting the Militia of the Kingdom totally out of the Kings hands into their own as their only security to sit in safety and perjurious engaging all Officers Souldiers of the Army in England Scotland and Ireland to be true faithfull and constant to them without a King or House of Lords by subscriptions in Parchment Rolls returned to them under all their hands contrary to their former Votes Declarations Remonstrances Protestations Oaths Vows Covenants Trusts yea the very writs returns which made them Members their own Souldiers Army-Officers first Commissions Declarations Remonstrances Proposals and depending on this g arme of

most transcendent unpresidented unrighteous ungodly sinners who obey not but contradict all these Gospel Texts appear and what shall their end be Verily the Gospel it self resolves and O that they would with fear and amazement of spirit now seriously consider it when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire to take vengeance on them they shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 Thess. 1. 7 8 9. * and shall receive judgement without mercy because they have shewed no mercy but the utmost extremity of malice and cruelty to the Souls and bodies of their Protestant King and Brethren Whether the Junctoes and Armies late Proceedings against the King and Kingship were not the direct Plot of the Spaniolized Priests and Jesuites who contrived and promoted it to their power as I evidenced in my Speech Memento Epistle to my Historical Collection My true and perfect Narrative and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members at large and shall further clear by this ensuing Letter the original whereof I have twice read found by Mr. Sherman a Book-seller in Little Britain in whose hands it is amongst the Books of Mr. Patricke Carre Priest to Don Alonso de Cardenas the Spanish Ambassador which he bought of him at this Ambassadors house when he was departing hence upon the breach with Spain 1653. within a year after this Letters date which he soon after shewed to divers Gentlemen one of them who took a coppy thereof promising to shew it to Cromwel himself The Superscription of it is in Spanish directed as is conceived and the Letter imports to this Patricke Carre an Irish Priest and Jesuit under the name of Don Pedro Garsia the Letter it self is in English written it seems by some English or Irish Priest or Jesuit sent as an intelligencer by the Spanish Ambassador into Holland France with whom the English were then in hostility but the direction for Letters to him is in French In the cloze wherof the Jesuitical and Spanish party in Paris expected our Anti-Parliamentary Juncto whom they stile our brave Parliament as set up by and acting for them should espouse their quarrel and act their parts against the French and joyne with the Prince of Condie to cut off the King of France his head all Kings else as they did the King of Englands by their instigation such Antimonarchists Traytors are these Jesuits and Spanish Freers to all Kings and Monarchie Paris 10. of January 1652. SIR I Was no sooner in Holland then I writ to you but hearing nothing from you I concluded either you were very sick or that you received not my Letter I came hither in an ill time for the Kingdom is in great disorder upon the Kings recalling the Cardinal against all his Declarations This Town ready to declare in favor of the Prince and the Duke of Orleance who is now treating with the Duke of Lorrain for his Army If your dull * Archduke make no more advantage of this than of the disorders of the last Summer it 's pity but he were sent to keep Sheep WE EXPECT HERE OUR BRAVE PARLIAMENT WILL NOT LET THE GAME BE SOON PLAYED OUT I could wish Gallant Cromwell AND ALL HIS ARMY WERE WITH THE * PRINCE for I BEGIN TO WISH ALL KINGS HAD THE * SAME THE KING OF ENGLAND HAD I le say no more untill I hear from you but that I am Your unfeigned Friend T. Danielle I pray remember me to both my Cozens Direct your Letters A Monsieur Monsieur Canell demurant chez Mons Marchant a la rne de pulle The Superscription is thus viz. A Don Pedro Garsia en Casa de Embaxador de Espanna que * Dios garde En Londres 9d There were many Papers and Notes written in Irish some concerning the affairs transactions of the late wars in Ireland found amongst these Books whence I conceive this Patrick Carre was an Irish Priest and Jesuite and that the Spaniard had a great hand in that horrid Rebellion From the cloze of this Letter let all consider Whether it can be safe for any Popish as well as Protestant Kings to harbour such Jesuitical Antimonarchists and Regicides in their Kingdoms Courts who thus wish ALL KINGS beheaded and brought to Justice as well as the late King of England by Cromwell and his Army or their own Subjects and how much they ought to detest his president of the Jesuits contriving let them now cordially and timely advise for their own securitie Whether the Great swarms of Jesuites and Popish Freers in and about London by the Junctoes and Army-Officers tolleration and connivence whose Jesuitical Antimonarchical Plots Counsels they have vigorously pursued be not the principal contrivers fomentors of all our changes of Government New Sects Opinions Mutinies in and Usurpations of the Army in whose Councils most intelligent Protestants have just cause to fear they have been and still are predominant there being multitudes of them in and about London under several masks some of them saying Masse in their Pontificalibus in Popish Ladies Chambers one day and speaking to and praying with their Soldiers in the Army or in Anabaptistical or Quaking Conventicles the next day of which there are some late particular Instances I shall relate one only more general and worthy knowledge Two English Gentlemen of quality one of them of mine acquaintance travelling out of England into France in May 1658. and hiring a vessel for their passage three strangers who came from London desired leave to passe over with them which they condescending to suspected one of them at least to be a Jesnit by his discourse and during their stay at Paris saw all three of them there walking often in the Streets in their Jesuits habits In August following they being at Angiers in France there repaired to their lodging an Englishman in his Friers weeds who informed them That he was an Englishman by birth but a Dominiean Freet by profession newly come from Salamanca in Sapin and bound for England that he had been at Rome where he had left some goods with an Irish Iesuit who promised to return monies on them in France but had failed to doe it whereupon he was in present distress for mony to transport him to England desiring their favour to furnish him with monies which he would faithfully repay in London and if they had any Letters to send to their friends in England he would see them safely delivered The Gentlemen finding him to be an excellent Scholar of very good parts and education entertained him 5. or 6. daies at their lodging till they could furnish him with monies and upon his Account as a Freer had a very good intertainment in the Monastery at Angiers by the Freers thereof During his stay there they had much discourse with him He told them he had been formerly a Student

proving so bitter trampling all Law and Justice under foot with greater scorn contempt impudence than ever any Kings Old Council Table Lords Strafford or Canterbury were guilty of And their leaving not so much as one Judge or Justice to act under them in any one Court of Justice at Westminster nor no face of any real or pretended Legal Authority in England or Ireland to execute Justice between man and man and dismounting all those Judges Grandees of the Law who formerly complyed with them and acted under them in all their Innovations a just reward for their temporizing against their Judgements Law and Conscience their future harvest of our Lawes Reformation will not probably prove so lawlesse and exorbitant that the whole English Nation and Army too if they have not abandonned all humanity christianity charity justice will revive this prayer in our antient Liturgy against such a full and through Deformation and Deformers of our Lawes From all evil and mischief from all blindness of heart from pride vainglory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and all uncharitableness good Lord deliver us And exhort their fellow brethren of Scotland and Ireland in the Apostles words 2 Thess. 3. 1 2. Finally brethren pray for us that the word of the Lord and good old Laws of the Land may run and have free course and be glorified and that we may be delivered from absurd or unreasonable wicked men who thus reform and purge out the Laws very bowels for all men and such reforming Saints especially have not faith whatever they professe who under pretext of a most transcendent Reformation and purgation of the Gospel and Law would reduce us into the condition of the Israelites 2 Chron. 15. 3. Now for a long season Israel had been without the true God and without a teaching Priest and without Law And why so The Apostle resolves us in direct terms 1 Tim. 1. 4. c. The end of the Law is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeined from which some having swerved have turned aside to vain jangling desiring to be teachers yea Reformers of the Law understanding neither what they say nor what they affirm But we know that the Law is good if a man use it lawfully knowing also that the Law is not made for a righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners For Murderers of Fathers and murtherers of Mothers for man-slayers c. for men-stealers for lyars for perjured persons every other thing that is contrary to sound doctrin And our Army-Grandees Juncto and new Reformers being such would abrogate all Lawes and Lawyers too least they should restrain and punish them for these their Capital crimes Forgetting this lesson that though they null all the Laws and Courts of Justice in Westminster-hall and elsewhere yet they shall never abrogate nor escape the Law Judgement Execution Justice and vengeance of * God himself who will render indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish to every soul of man that doth evil whether Jew or Gentile For as many who have sinned without Law shall also perish without Law and as many as have sinned in the Law shall be judged by the Law Enough to disswade them from their intended Reformation to reform their own and the Armies lawless exorbitances before they reform our Laws or others far better than themselves Whether all the old conscientious faithfull publike spirited secured secluded and re-excluded Members who to the uttermost of their powers opposed voted protested against all the late dismal Jesuitical Powder-Treasons Violences Innovations Exorbitances of the dissolved Juncto and Army and have h vexed their righteous souls from day to day yea i shed rivers of tears from their mournfull eyes because of these their heinous transgressions against the Laws of God and the Land may not with much comfort apply this promise of God to themselves and their uncharitable brethren who secluded all imprisoned sundry of them Isa. 66. 5 6. c. 26. 11 13 14. Hear the word of the Lord ye that tremble at his word Your brethren that hated you that cast you out for my name sake said Let the Lord be thereby glorified but he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed by reason of their own double ejection dissolution in a strange unexpected manner A voice of noise from the City a voice from the Temple a voice of the Lord that rendreth recompence to his enemies Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy towards the people yea the fire of their Enemies their very fierie Guards and Powder-men shall devour them O Lord our God other Lords besides thee our New Supreme Lords Powers Protectors of the dissolved Junctoes counsel and tother House have had dominion over us but by thee only will we make mention of thy name They are dead they shall not live they are deceased they shall not rise therfore hast thou visited and destroyed them and made all their Memory to Perish Even k so let all thine Enemies and the publike impenitent malicious Enemies of our Churches Kings Kingdoms Parliaments Peoples Liberties fall and perish O Lord but let them that love thee and the publike peace welfare settlement prosperity of our Churches Kings Kingdoms Nations be as the Sun when he goeth forth in his might That so the Land may have rest forty years together as the Land of Israel had after l the Lord had discomfited Sisera and all his Chariots and all his host with the edge of the Sword before Barak and Deborah Amen Whether the General Council of Officers and Army-Saints former and late slandering false accusing forcible secluding the Members of the long Parliament as Trust-breakers and the whole House of Lords for whose defence they were raised waged commissioned and their subsequent dissolving dissipating with high scorne their own Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes from whom they received their new Commissions end engaged several times to yeeld their utmost assistance to them to sit in safety to be true faithfull and constant to them and to live and die in their defence be a conscientious saint-like performance 1. Of John Baptists Evangelical Injunction to all Souldiers Luke 3. 14. Do violence to no man neither accuse any falsly and be content with your allowance 2ly Of St. Pauls description of a good Souldier of Jesus Christ 2 Tim. 2. 3 4. Thou therefore endure hardness No man that warreth intangloth himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a Souldier not disobey betray supplant or destroy him 3ly Of Pauls and Peters expresse commands to all Officers Souldiers whatsoever as well as others Rom. 13. 1 2 c. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers for there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God

Conscientious Serious THEOLOGICAL AND LEGAL QUAERES Propounded to the twice-dissipated self-created Anti-Parliamentary Westminster Juncto AND ITS MEMBERS TO Convince them of humble them for convert them from their transcendent Treasons Rebellions Perjuries Violences Oppressive illegal Taxes Excises Militiaes Imposts destructive Councils Proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie Kings the old dissolved Parliament the whole House of Lords the Majoritie of their old secured secluded imprisoned fellow-Members the Counties Cities Boroughs Freemen Commons Church Clergie of ENGLAND their Protestant Brethren Allies contrary to all their Oathes Protestations Vowes Leagues Covenants Allegiance Remonstrances Declarations Ordinances Promises Obligations to them the fundamental Laws Liberties of the Land and Principles of the true Protestant Religion And to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels as tend to publike Unitie Safetie Peace Settlement and their own salvation By William Prynne Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Levit. 19. 17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him or bear not sin for him 1 Tim. 5. 20. Them that sinne openly rebuke before all that others may fear Prov. 9. 8 9. Rebuke a wise man and he will love thee give instruction to a wise man and he will yet be wiser Jude 11 12. Wo to them for they have gone in the way of Kain and perished in the gainsaying of Core They are trees whose fruit is withered TWICE DEAD plucked up by the roots London Printed and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1660. Conscientious Serious Theological and Legal Quaeres c. THe Wisest of Men and God only wise informs all Sons of Wisdom capable of Instruction that a open rebuke is better than secret love because faithfull are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitfull whence b he that rebuketh a man for his exorbitant transgressions afterwards shall finde more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue by extenuating excusing or justifying his Offences Upon this consideration I reputed it both a seasonable and Christian duty incumbent on me in this day of the late Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes dissipation humiliation confusion and Army-Officers division amongst themselves to reminde them fully of and * rebuke them plainly sharply for their manifold Treasons Perjuries and other exorbitant Offences against their lawfull Protestant Kings Kingdom the late dissolved Parliament the whole House of Lords the Majoritie of their fellow-Members the whole English Nation Church Ministrie their Protestant Brethren and Allies against all their sacred and civil Obligations to them in a serious impartial convincing least-offensive manner by way of Quaeres drawn from Gods word and plain sacred Scripture-Texts and our known Laws which they have most presumptuously trodden under foot and c would not hearken to in the daies of their late self exaltation and Prosperity like their Predecessors of old among the Jewes when I minded and reminded them over and over not only in my Speech Memento Collections of our antient Parliaments and other publications in the years 1648 1649. in my Epistle to and first Part of My Historical Collections and Legal Vindication 1655. My Republicans Spurious Good Old Cause briefly and truly Anatomized My True and Perfect Narrative and Concordia Discors in May and June last and Brief Necessary Vindication of the old and new secluded Members in September following wherein I truly predicted their former and present dissolutions by those very Army Officers with whom they confederated which they would not credit till dissolved by them being in good hopes that they will now at last Hear counsel and receive instruction that they may be wise in their latter end as God himself adviseth them Prov. 19. 20. 1. Whether their Speaker Mr. Lenthall and those confederate Members of the Commons House who against their duties upon pretext of the unarmed London Apprentices tumult at the House in July 1647. though they secured secluded no Members but only kept them in the House till they had read answered their Petition and then quietly departed went away privily to the Armie by the invitation instigation of some swaying Army-Officers without the leave or privitie of the House brought up the whole Army to Westminster and London to conduct them in triumph to the House caused them to * impeach declare against suspend imprison sundry Members of both Houses nulled all Votes Orders Ordinances Proceedings in their absence by reason of a pretended force upon the House by the Apprentices during that space and declared them meerly void to all intents by the Speakers Declaration and an Ordinance of 20 Aug. 1647. when as there was no force at all upon the Houses during that time and these Members might have freely safely returned to the House alone had they listed without the Army or any one Troop to guard them and afterwards mutinied and brought up part of the Armie again to Westminster to * force the Houses to passe the Votes for No more Addresses to the King contrived in a General Council of Army-Officers and seconded with their Declaration when passed by force and surprize in an emptie House After that most traiterously and perfidiously f confederated with the Army-Officers to break off the last Treatie with the King in the Isle of Wight to seise the Kings person by a partie of the Armie and remove him thence against both Houses Orders notwithstanding his large Concessions and consent to their Propositions to secure seclude all the Members of the Commons House who after many daies and one whole nights debate passed this Vote according to their judgements consciences duties carried without dividing the House notwithstanding the Armies march to Westminster and menaces to prevent it That the answers of the King to the Propositions of both Houses were a ground for the House to proceed upon for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom which Vote of the whole House when there were above 300 Members present about 40 of them only soon after repealed expunged the manner of carrying on of which design against the King and Members was concluded by a Committee at Windsor consisting of 4. Army-Officers wherof Col. Harrison their chair-man and a Member and Col. Rich were two 4. Members of the Commons House whereof Cornelius Holland yet living was one the 3. others since dead 4. Independents and 4. Anabaptists of London wherein a List was made by them what Members should be secluded secured and who admitted to fit this Committee resolving to dissolve both Houses by force and to trie condemn execute the King by a Council of War if they could not get 40 of the Common g House to sit and bring him to Justice as John Lilburn one of that Committee hath published in print approved abbetted the Armies forcible treasonable securing of many Members secluded the Majoritie of

hundred thousand pounds a year in perpetuity and five hundred thousand pounds more for 3. years space out of the peoples exhausted purses after most of the antient lands and Revenues sold when as they themselves affirmed and published in their Declaration of March 17. 1648. p. 19. that the justisiable legal Revenue of the Crown under King Charls besides the Customs and some other perquifites charged with the maintenance of the Navie and Forts fell short of one hundred thousand pounds per Annum This new-augmented Revenue for their New King Olivers support being above 3. times more than any of our lawful Kings ever enjoyed And when Cromwell pretended dissatisfaction in point of conscience to receive the Kingship and Kingly Government on him the very Lawyers Members Officers who drew the Declarations and Reasons for abolishing Kingship Kingly Government and House of Lords were the Committee appointed to confer with him 3. several times draw up reasons to satisfie him why he might and ought in reason law policie conscience to accept the Kingship and Kingly Title for his own and the publike Safety Which he refusing against his desire they voted him their Royal Protector took an Oath to be true and faithfull to him and to his Son Richard after him and to act nothing against their Persons or Power created themselves Another House assumed to themselves the Title of Lords and THE HOUSE OF LORDS notwithstanding their Engagements against is under all their hands Yet soon after dethroned their young Protector nulled all his Conventions wherein they sate with all Lordships Knightships and Offices granted by their Protectors as illegal revived their Anti-Parliamentary Juncto after it had layen buried in oblivion above 6 years space in May last and in July following prescribed a New Oath and Ingagement to all Officers others who would enjoy the benefit of their Knack of Indemnity To be true faithful and constant to their Common-wealth though yet unborn without a Single person Kingship or House of Lords Whether such double-minded men unstable in all their wayes Jam. 1. 8. can ever be deemed chosen instruments ordained of God to settle the Peace or Government of our Nations Whether the Prophet Isay chap. 59. and the Apostle Paul Romans 9. 10. c. have not truly characterized them There is none righteous no not one there is none that understandeth there is none that seeketh after God they are all gone out of the way they are all together become unprofitable there is none that doth good no not one their throat is an open Sepulcher with their Tongues yea Oathes Protestations Declarations Covenants they have used deceit the poyson of Asps is under their lips Their feet are swift to shed bloud the bloud of their Protestant King Peers Brethren Allies Fellow-Subjects by Land and Sea at home and abroad in the field and in new Butcheries of Highest Injustice destruction and misery are in their wayes and the way of peace they have not known there is no fear of God before their eyes they have made them crooked pathes whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace Therefore is judgement far from us neither doth Justice overtake us we wait for light but behold obscurity for brightness but we walk in darkness we grope for the wall like the blind as if we had no eyes we stumble at noon-day as in the night we are in desolate places like dead men we roar all like Bears and mourn sore like doves we look for judgement but there is none for salvation but it is farr off from us 6. Whether God himself hath not given the Anti-Parliamentary Juncto and General Council of Army-Officers hitherto in their Jesuitical Project of bringing forth a mis-shapen monstrous Commonwealth and whymsical Freestate to establish things amongst us a miscarrying womb and dry brests so as we may justly say of them as the Prophet did of Ephraim Hos. 9. 12 14 15. 16. Ephraim is smitten their root is dryed up it shall bear no fruit yea though they bring forth yet will I even slay the beloved fruit of their womb their glory shall fly away like a bird from the birth and from the womb and from the conception as their Commonwealth whimsies have done Whether Gods signal over-turning and forcible dissolving the Juncto by the Army-Officers twice one after another in the very generation of this Jesuitical brat before it was formed in the womb to disinherit our antient hereditarie legitimate Kings and Kingship and their turning of all things upside down our Kings Kingdoms Parliaments Lords House Lawes Liberties Oathes Church Religion to make way for its production hath not been like the Potters clay a rude deformed Chaos without any lineaments or shape at all so as the work yet saith of him that made it he made me not and the thing formed saith of him that formed it he hath no understanding Isa. 29. 16 Whether these new Babel-builders whiles they have been building this new City and Tower to keep them from being scattered upon the face of the whole earth * have not like the old Babel-builders been confounded in their language by God himself that they might not understand one anothers speech and scattred abroad thence upon the face of the earth though guarded by their faithfull Army on whom they relyed for protection so that they left off to build their Babel like them Their City of Confusiō is broken down every house yea their own Parl. House shut up In the City is left desolation and the gate is smitten with destruction Isay 24. 10 12. It shall lie waste from generation to generation none shall passe through it for ever and ever But the Cormorant the Bittern shall possess it the Dwl also the Raven shall dwell in it and he shall stretch out upon it the line of Confusion and the stones of emptiness Whether their and the Armies endeavours to set up an Vtopian Commonwealth instead of our old Hereditarie Kingship is not a * direct fighting against God and the express precepts ordinances of God himself Prov. 24. 1 2. c. 22. 28. c. 8. 15 16. Rom. 13. 1 2. 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. Tit. 3. 1. 1 Pet. 2. 13. 17 Yea against the good providence mercie favour of God towards our Kingdoms and Nations for their establishment the want of a lawfull hereditary King to reign over a Kingdom and Nation and a multiplicity of Governors Kings especially of inferiour rank and reducing the people to such a confused sad condition That they shall call the Nobles thereof to the Kingdom but none shall be there and all her Princes shall be nothing so that she hath no strong rod left to Rule being a matter of present and future lamentation a severe judgment of God for their sins and wickednes yea an occasion of all wickedness licentiousness villanies confusion and an immediat forerunner or concomitant of tha kingdoms and Nations desolation ruine by Gods own resolution

Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation c. Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for conscience sake Tit. 3. 1 2. Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates to be ready to every good work To speak evil of no man to be gentle shewing all meekness unto all men Ephes. 6. 5 6 7. Col. 4. 22 23 24. Servants such are all Mercenary Officers Soldiers under pay to the old Parliament and Kingdom obey in all things your Masters according to the flesh in fear and trembling in singleness of heart as unto Christ Not with eye service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart With good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men for ye serve the Lord Christ 1 Pet. 2. 13 to 20. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lord sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto Governors as unto those who are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well for so is the will of God that with well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of foolish men As free and not using your liberty as a cloak of maliciousnesse but as the servants of God Honour all men in lawfull authority Fear God Honour the King Servants be subject to your Masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward For this is thank-worthy if a man for conscience toward God endure grief suffering wrongfully Whether by their former late rebellions against the King Parl. all their lawful Superiors and exalting themselves above all their former Lords and Masters they have not given Christ himself the lye and falsified his reiterated Asseveration Resolution Mat. 10. 24. John 13. 16. c. 15. 10. Verily Verily I say unto you the Disciple is not above his Master nor the Servant above or greater than his Lord neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them And whether they will not prove bitternesse and damnation to them in the latter end Whether the Juncto and Army Council upon serious consideration of all the premises and their former miscarriages have not all cause with penitent hearts and bleeding Spirits to cry out and make this old publike confession in the Book of Common Prayer Almighty and most mercifull Father we have erred and strayed from thy wayes like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts we have offended against thy holy laws we have left undone those things which we ought to have done and we have done those things which we ought not to have done and there is no health nor truth in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable Offendors And grant that we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy name Amen Which if these Workers of iniquity shall still refuse to do as if the Lord did neither see nor regard it and thereby provoke our 3. Nations to cry out with united prayers to God against them * Help Lord for the godly man ceaseth for the faithfull fail from among the children of men O Lord God of revenges O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth shew thy self lift up thy self thou Judge of the Earth render a reward to the proud Lord how long shall the wicked how long shall the wicked triumph how long shall they utter hard things and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves They break in pieces thy people O Lord afflict thine heritage they slay the widow and murder the fatherless They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent bloud Whether they must not then expect that inevitable doom of God himself ensuing after such practises and Prayers Psa. 94. 23. And the Lord shall bring upon them their own iniquity and shall cut them off in their own wickednesse yea the Lord our God shall cut them off * The transgressors shall be destroyed together the end of the wicked shall be cut off But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord he is their strength in the time of troble And the Lord shall help them and deliver them he shall deliver them from the wicked and save them because they trust in him Jer. 36. 3 7. It may be they will now present their supplications before the Lord and return every one from his evil way that God may forgive their iniquity and their sin for great is the anger and the fury that the Lord hath pronounced against this people An Exact Alphabetical List of the Old and New secluded Members of the Commons House in the long Parliament surviving May 7. 1659. when the dissolved Juncto began their new Session Baronets Knights and Viscounts LOrd Ancram Sir Ralph Ashton Sir John Barrington Sir Thomas Barnardiston Sir Robert Benloes Sir George Booth Sir Humphry Bridges Sir Ambrose Brown Sir John Burgoin Sir Roger Burgoin Sir Henry Cholmley Sir John Clotworthy Sir John Corbet Sir John Curson Sir Thomas Dacres Sir Francis Drake Sir William Drake Sir Walter Earl Sir Charles Egerton Sir John Evelin of Surry Sir John Evelin of Wiltes Sir John Fenweck Sir Edmund Fowel Sir Gilbert Gerard Sir Harbotle Grimston Sir Richard Haughton Sir John Holland Sir Anthony Irby Sir Martin Knatchbull Sir John Leigh Sir William Lewis Sir William Lister Sir William Litton Sir Samuel Luke Sir Nicholas Martyn Sir Thomas Middleton Sir Robert Nappier Sir Robert Nedham Sir Dudly North Sir John Northcot Sir Richard Onslow Sir Hugh Owen Sir John Palgrave Sir Philip Parker Sir Thomas Parker Sir Edward Partridge Sir John Pellam Sir William Platers Sir Nevil Poole Sir John Pots Sir Robert Pye Sir Francis Russel Sir Beauchamp Saint-John Sir John Seymor Sir Thomas Some Sir William Strickland Sir John Temple Sir Thomas Trever Sir Humpy Tuston Sir William Waller Thomas Viscount Wenman Sir Henry Worsly Sir Richard Wynne Sir John Young In all 64. Esquiers Gentlemen and Lawyers John Alford Arthur Ansley Mr. Andrews William Ardington John Arundle Mr. Ascough Francis Bacon Nathaniel Bacon Edward Bainton Col. John Barker Maurice Barro Mr. Bell James Bence Col. John Birch Edward Bish John Bowyer John Boyes Major Brooks Major General Brown Samuel Brown Serjant at Law Francis Buller John Bunkly Hugh Buscoen Mr. Button Mr. Camble William Carrent Col. Ceely James Chaloner Mr. Clive Commiss. Copley John Crew Thomas Crompton Mr. Crowder Thomas Dacre John Dormer John Doyle Mr. Drake Robert Ellison Mr. Erisy Mr. Evelin Edward Fowel William Foxwist John Francis James Fyennis Nathaniel Eyennis Samuel Gardiner Francis Gerard Thomas Gewen William Glanvil John Glynne Serjant at Law Samuel Gott Thomas Grove Elias