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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

PLAIN TRVTH 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 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 ways 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 Isaiah 3 12 13 14. Children are extortioners of my People and women have rule over them O my People they that lead thee cause thee to erre and destroy the way of thy paths The Lord shall enter into judgement with the Ancients of his People and the Princes thereof for yee have eaten up the Vinyard the spoyle of the poore is in your houses What have yee to do that yee beat my People to pieces and grinde the faces of the poore saith the Lord even the Lord of Hosts Woe be to the wicked it shall be evill with him for the reward of his hands shall be given him Printed and published for the information advice and benefit of the poore oppressed betrayed and almost destroyed Commons of England 1647. PLAIN TRVTH VVithout Feare or Flattery IN the 28. Psalm Verse 6. the Spirit of God speaking there of Judges and Rulers saith they are Gods and all of them children of the most high but he telleth them they shall dye like men and fall as one of the Princes We unhappy men of England have at this time a generation of ambitious imperious men some of both Houses of Parliament whose names ye may elsewhere find who by their power and subtill practises do frame and assume to themselves a supreame power over us and would faine be taken for Gods and sonnes of the most high by us yet they neither rule us like Gods nor demeane themselves amongst us as children of the most high but rule us like Tyrants a degenerate kind which God never made nor owned and demean themselves more like children of disobedience serving their own base lusts and pleasures then children of the most high for were they such they would seeke the will of their Father in heaven and good of his People But the Spirit saith they shall dye like men the which it may be doubted these men believe not but rather with the Athiesticall Epicure thinke they shall dye like Beasts and that the soule aswell as the body returnes to the primam materiam and so if they can but escape the stroake of justice here they dreame not of hearing of their wicked deeds hereafter and therefore they have resolved it appeares for the accomplishment of their own unrighteous ends after the manner of all Athiesticall Statesmen who cast the feare of God and consideration of death and judgement behind them to assay all wayes and meanes of wickednes as to vow and not pay to promise and not performe sweare and forsweare covenant and breake to feign flatter and play the hypocrite I had almost said the devill to betray destroy rob spoyle oppress and violate all law and rule of government infringe all rights and liberties imprison persecute deceive their trust requite evill for good and do all manner of mischiefe and injustice even whatsoever Sathan and their wicked hearts shall prompt them unto insomuch that whatsoever they say or make shew of their evil doings declare that they believe not an immortallity and judgement they profess themselves Christians but if yee observe and consider their actions you must say and if you were a stranger you would sware they were heathens yea they do worse then heathens for did ever heathens take the name of their insensible Gods of wood and stone so frequently and solemnly into their mouthes by way of oath and covenant as these men have done and had it so little in reverence and so little respect to what they have sworne as these men have had the name of the great and terrible God of heaven and of their oathes made unto him read all Stories and search all Centuries of Ages and if there be any such example of perjury and swearing falsly by their God equivalent to the example of these men of this generation I will freely offer my selfe for a sacrafice to expiare my offence against their holines and yet they are ready with Agurs Harlot Pro. 30. 20. to wipe their mouthes and say we have done no wickednes But that the truth may be made apparent and expatiated let us heare their promises vowes and speeches and compare their deeds and practises First they do in the Protestation promise vow and protest in the presence of Almighty God whom sure they thinke is like the God of Baals Priests that could neither heare nor see to maintain and defend with their lives powers and estates the true reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the doctrine of the Church of England against all Popery and Popish innovations within this Realme contrary to the same doctrine c. Yet they are now setting up and have set up so farre as in them lyeth a Religion never before heard of within this Realme and quite contrary to the professed doctrine of the Church of England it being wholly opposite unto Christ and a meere Popish innovation brought out of Scotland and violently imposed upon us And thus it comes to pass by the confederacy of a haughty trayterous Party in the Houses of Parliament of which are the Earles of Manchester and Stamford Sir Phillip Stapleton M. Hollis and others with the proud covetous Priests for the advancement of their designe of usurpation and lordlines both over his Majesty and us vow and protest in like manner to maintain and defend the Kings royall person honour and estate and the lawfull rights and liberties of the Subject and every one that should make the said Protestation in pursuance of the same and that they will not for hope feare or other respect relinquish this promise vow and protestation And do they not accordingly maintain and defend the Kings royall person honour and estate His person with a company of Commissioners of their own stamp and temper and with a guard of able Horsmen and Souldiers debauched Graves his Regiment as if they were affraid to intrust any of the honest Commanders about him as if he were rather a Prince of Theeves then a Prince of three Kingdomes or of a free People and his honour and estate they defend with all the power and might they can taking the Supream power upon themselves to grant Pardons sell the Lands purchased with

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

his actions by his Masters Rule and power of the Recorder who is the Executors friend nothing can be done all passages are blockt up honest men dare not speake and knaves will not so the poore orphans are left altogether remidiless but to proceed the aforesaid Petition being referred to a Committee and the Citizens put off with faire words till this grand Ordinance for the Militia was passed and then presently they thundered as if the Petition had tended to the prejudice of Church and State 4. If they want money or a new Army to secure themselves that old Asse the City must raise men or send out their trained Bands for them and the poore Commons of London must pay and beare or else be plundered and what remedy and whatsoever the Parliament will exact and the Military men execute the Commons of London must obey and submit to though never so unjust a tax or imposition But you will say the trained Bands will not be all of a mind but this Party having prevailed to new Modelling of the Commissioners you shall see them new Model the train Bands also and here is the first piece of the frame of Englands slavery must serve if they can carry it for a leading cast unto the whole Kingdome The effects yee Commons of London which yee may expect hence are the vtter ●●lition of your free elections of your Mayors Aldermen Sheriffs Common-councell men and other publick Officers of your body and Corporation so that now ye may bid all you priviledges adue and the free borne Apprentices after seaven yeares hard servitude * Marke yee Apprentices expect a perpetuall vassalage by this meanes the hopes yee had of the recovery of ancient Rights and immunities are srustrate and yee after all your costs and adventures for your liberties become the first absolute slaves in England if God doe not otherwise prevent or raise up some Othniel Ehud Shamger Barak or Gideon to deliver you And in such hands as these this desperate domineering faction by all symptomes and signes purpose to settle the Militia in all the Counties and Corporations of the Kingdome and have already in Durham Cumberland and other places northward put it principally into their hands who are declared Traytors and enemies to the State Malignants and Delinquents some of which have been actually in warre against the Parliament and their Country as Sir George Vane old Sir Henryes Sonne who was in armes with the King and is now made one of the Deputy Lieutenants of the Militia for Durham a Justice of Peace and a Committee-man and yet scarce good commodity for the hang-man S. Wilfrid Lawson of Cumberland such another yet by the prevalency of this party intrusted with the posse-Commitatus whereby he may raise the County and cut all honest mens throats if he imagine cause To tell you of the commands and power wherewith Lieutenant Col. Offeere Cap. Musgrave Story Stoddert and divers others are invested and intrusted in those parts who have beene in armes against the Parliament and their Country to the great trouble hazard and affliction of all the faithfull and wel-affected there besides many others in other places of the Land would be to tedious let these for present suffice for example And all rather then to trust the honest and approved in the Land because they are contrary to their treasonable designes and practices and will not suffer themselves nor the Country to become their vassals and pack-horses I wish those Northern Countries had no just cause of complaint against that deceitfull double dealing Lord Wharton I will for speciall cause not that I fear or regard him or any man farther then he is sincere and vertuously honourable spare him but it it is good both for him and others to repent and doe their first workes lest a worse thing befall them there is nothing hid but it may be made manifest to runne away from a fight for feare is tollerable and is contingent to the greatest * Witnes Generall Leshley Generall but for a professed Souldier of Jesus Christ to turne his back and flee from the truth is to be abhorred Hath not Christ said He will be ashamed of such when he shall come in his Fathers glory with the holy Angels Marke 8. 38. And did Jehosaphat prosper that tooke part with Ahab Or did ever any escape by iniquity And if Meroz was cursed yea bitterly cursed because they would not helpe what are they that doe hurt and are not they also cursed though they be doing that doe Gods worke negligently Consider these things seriously all yee that are sunke and setled upon the lees all ye Neuters and indifferent ones that plead moderation non-season and prudence for your baseness of Spirit negligence and cowardice in the great cause of God and this distressed Kingdome and yee Timidi yee fearefull ones who are more afraid of the face and displeasure of man whose breath is in his nostrels and whose councels perish then of the power and wrath of God Who is a consuming fire and whose councels abide forever That feare more the loosing of your places and profits then the losing of Gods favour and countenance and the peace of a good conscience Read that 21. Rev. 8. and tremble remember your selves rouse up your spirits and shew your selves couragious for truth and justice and zealous for the glory of the Lord of Hosts if yee will not know that deliverance will come to Gods People some other way and yee shall not escape As for M. Hollis and others whose councels and practices tend principally to treason and tyranny injustice and violence I know what I say and doubt not yet but in time to see it proved so who live without Law and act contrary to Law like traytors and Rebels Let such men know that God will render unto them according to their workes and I am confident that they shall never be able to accomplish their wicked enterprize and that the pit they have digged for others they shall fall into themselves God will take them by their own counsels as he did in old time Achitophell and Haman and as he did Strafford and Canterbury in these dayes yea in those two presidents they have prepared a halter for their owne necks and their owne words shall be their Judges Strafford and Canterbury were condemned for treasonable councels and speeches endeavours and intentions of subverting the fundamentall Lawes and frame of government and of setting up an arbitrary power and rule of government And whether Hollis and others his presumptuous complices have not been not only the intenders and indevourers but the reall authors and actours of these things I doe appeale to all inteligent men who have taken any cognizance of their councels and actions So that if the King as it is a question did want just matter of occasion in his charge of treason against M. Hollis and others in 1641. both he and the whole Kingdome may

Tenants at will unto a company of traytors and tyrants Vp in Gods name up demand redress and vindicate your selves and native rights against Votes and Voters hodie mihi cras tibi what these men doe to this or that parte or place of the Kingdome and people to day they may and will doe to another parte or place to morrow And they have injustly refused more then a few as that of the Counties of Bunckinham and Hereford and divers others from all parts petitioners for redress of grievances and granting of liberties already and in this late particular president is the very essence and end of a Parliament perverted the rights of Parliament and the ancient course of Parliamentary proceedings subverted and our native rights and priviledges so much as lies in this distructive party wholy vacated and destroyed And whether this strange Vote and fact doe not justifie the fifth article exhited by the King against Hollis and others 1641. Book Decl. page 35. by which he chargeth them To have trayterously endeavoured to subvert the very rights and beings of Parliaments I beseech you all yee lovers of Englands liberties consider and judge And also part of that first seaventh Article exhibitted by the House against the Earle of Strafford Yea consider I beseech you compare and see if the words waies councels and practices of the Earle of Manchester Hollis Stapleton and others their complices and confederates doe not fully answer the 1 2 5. and Part of the 6. Article exhibited in 1641. by the King and to the first and part of the 2 3 4 6 7. Articles and some others only mutatis mutandis which were exhibited by the House of Commons against Strafford and also to some which were exhibited against Canterbury even as face answereth to face in water Truly wee are no longer free but absolute slaves already if wee may not Petition for our liberty what unless wee will first aske them what we shall petition we must not it seems at all petition Away with such Traytors from the Earth This Act and Vote answers those trayterous speeches of Harvy and Solloway two corrupt men of the House of Commons who impudently said note That the Parliament might doe what they would and were not to be questioned for it One of the Articles of high treason charged upon the Earle of Strafford was as appeares in the fourth article of his second impeachment or accusation that he should declare and say That Ireland was a conquered Nation and that the King might doe with them what he pleased and is not here as much spoken and more by these two trayterous spirits Harvy and Solloway For Ireland was indeed a Nation by us conquered and his speech related to the King who was their head and had a Power over them but these mens words are spoken of us a free People who though formerly conquered yet have long since redeemed our liberties with our swords and relate to a company of men who are but subjects and the Kingdomes servants only called and chosen to councell and advise not to reigne and tyrannize But let us argue it all other Courts in the Land whatsoever have rules of jurisdiction and limmits and hath the supreame Court of Parliament none It is very unreasonable even against all rule of reason that that Court which prescribes rules to all other Courts should be without all rule it selfe The Lord chiefe Justice Cook in his treatise of the jurisdiction of the high Court of Parliament declares and proves otherwise and I am certaine that it is against the very constitution and being of it for there is both * See Cooks Instituts Rotu Parli Lex confuetudo Parliamenti both a Law and a custome or usage of Parliament Besides there is a fundamentall Law of the Land against which the Parliament cannot that is lawfully as a Parliament act for whatsoever act is made or done in Parliament that is contrary to Magna Charta is void no Law and not to be * See 42. Ed. 3. chap. 1. obeyed and what force then if well examined are most of our present Parliament Votes Orders and Ordinances by which it is evident that the Parliament is not * But new Lords new laws without a law and rule nor may doe what they will nor any thing onely in case of extremity and then also for good of the publicke and not unto example contrary to the fundamentall Lawes and constitutions of the Kingdome And was not one Wentworth of the House of Commons questioned yea and committed in the daies of queen Elizabeth for his words and deeds in the House And can they themselves deny but that for Treason fellony and breach of the Peace they are questionable By all which it is cleare that the proudest of them may be questioned and is accountable for any misdemeanour or illegall unjust act done by them within the House They say to question them for any thing out of the House is a breach of their priviledge and must we question them neither in the House What is a Parliament man lawlels Neither without nor within there is a new priviledge as their Ordinances are a new manner of Lawes it was not so of old The King who is the Supreame head is not without the Law he may not doe what he list Sure then much less may they who are but subjects and only councellers not Commanders Servants not Masters But is not this strange doctrine my friends that a Parliament man must not be questioned for whatsoever he doth in the House Lo here is a new hidra-headed prerogative for you to suppress which yee never expected Lop it betimes for this position tends directly to the subversion of all our Lawes and liberties and the exaction of an arbitrary rule over us And if this Vote Be not treasonable what is For by this rule they may within the House consult contrive and act high treason againg King and Kingdome commit murder pick pockets and breake the peace devise and conspire to destroy and massacre us to robbe and spoyle us and not to be questioned because it was resolved and done within the House Brave Parliamentary principles Is it not more then high time fellow Commoners to rouze up our spirits and bestir us to to bring such as are the authors and promoters of these and such like destructive comands and actions to condigne punnishment shall not the Judge of all the world saith Abraham do right and shall not the Court of Courts the supreame Court of all the Kingdome we may say do right Woe is to us for lamentable is our case our streame must needs be puddle dirt when our very fountain is filthy and corrupt Corruptio optima est pessima that which is best being corrupted is the worst that which was formerly Englands Balsum and Antidote is now become Englands greatest Coros ive and poyson yet not in it selfe but by accident through the boundles ambition and