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A82107	A declaration of many thousand well-affected persons, inhabitants in and about the cities of London and Westminster, expressing their adherence to this present Parliament; as also their sense of a Free Parliament, so much cried up by the cavaliers and others, that know not what it is; but go along in company with them; together with divers other expostulatory particulars.		1660 (1660)	Wing D613; Thomason 669.f.23[5]; ESTC R211491	3,730	1

and Agents for Charles Stuart to sit in this Parliament nor do we own a Free-Parliament in the generall unlimitted notion of it at all nor for any Members to sit in future Representatives without due and fitting qualifications to be agreed on by this Parliament without which we must necessarily set up our enemies and the enemies of God and Religion to be Judges of our lives and dearest properties which neither reason safety nor yet prudence will prompt us to 4. That we detest and abhor the wicked and prophane Pasquills every day uttered abroad against the Parliament and divers other eminent and worthy Persons as tending to the scandall of Magistracy and the corruption of manners which we humbly conceive the civill Magistrates ought to withstand and severely punish these Pasquills being observed to be the griping of the bowels of the Nation and portending civill tempests and troubles 5. That we shall willingly according to our abilities pay our proportion of Taxes and other necessary impositions for maintenance of the Army and Navy in pursuance of the Authority of this Parliament while it shall be thought necessary to continue them 6. That we do and will own the Universities and Nurseries of Learning as very much conducing to reduce Men to purer Morals and as Handmaids of the Gospell of Peace 7. That we do and will own the Laws of the Land as our Birth-right derivable to our Posterities and as the fences of our Lives Liberties and Estaes and make it our requests to this Parliament that where they are defective oppressive tedious or chargeable they may be in due time reformed 8. That we shall and will assist the Parliament their Army one another and all other Persons in the three Nations in pursuance of the particulars before mentioned to the utmost of our power maugre the most stareing difficulties that we shall meet withall and will not be drawn therefrom by fear or favour or any other the plausible pretensions of any Man or Men whatsoever And now having unbosomed our selves to all Men First We desire our Adversaries we wish they were not so to consider what it may cost them before they invade our Lives Religion and Liberties and to consider what they now enjoy and yet may enjoy by a quiet submitting to the present Government and to the Hand of God bowing themselves before his past fearfull rebukes before they provoke him again and to put these in Ballance and wisely to weigh which will counterpoise a present security and injoying more then they deserve or a hazard of more wrath as well as War In the strength of God we dare say we fear them not He that delivered us from the Lion and from the Beare he will deliver us still Secondly We desire our friends imbarqued in the same common cause with us to consider what salvations God hath wrought for them and now to feare before him alone Doth not the Lord say Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of man that shall dye and of the son of man that shall be made as grass and forgettest the Lord thy Maker that hath stretched forth the Heavens and laid the foundations of the earth and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor as if he were ready to destroy AND WHERE IS 51. 22 23. THE FURY OF THE OPPRESSOR Lo he appeares would destroy you and us but cannot then he disappeares If the enemies of God be vigilant to hurt you be you vigilant to defend your selves if they be active for their Master the Devill be you more active 64. 1 c. for God your better Master He will rend the Heavens he will come down and the Mountains shall flow down at his presence c.

A Declaration of many thousand well-affected Persons Inhabitants in and about the Cities of London and Westminster expressing their adherence to this present Parliament as also their sense of a Free Parliament so much cried up by the Cavaliers and others that know not what it is but go along in company with them Together with divers other expostulatory Particulars VVE should wonder at the late and still bruitish loosness of mens Tongues and Pens did we not without much scrutiny know that the spirit of the unreasonable and unplacable Cavaliers we mean mostly the sottish prophane beggerly and spend-thrift ones appear in all the sordid Pamphlets that daily flie abroad without check or controll who by these means we know would put upon us Bears skins and when they should do it would inflame the windy headed vulgar to rend us to pieces as Monsters not fit to converse amongst sober men We do therefore hereby declare and let them and others know that though we have been hitherto silent yet we are not sottish or afraid through the strength of Jehovah of their fury the Lord will in his due time rebuke them again after often former rebukes unheeded and enable us to say Where is the fury of the Oppressour And although we shall not at all justifie the late heady and faithlesse expulsion of this Parliament in October last past by the once renowned Officers of the Army who we hope do as we are confident they ought bitterly lament their miscarriages therein In pursuing good ends by indirect and unjustifiable means in breaking Gods Institutions in pursuit of his glory Or in a word In doing evil that good may come thereby by reason whereof they are for the present rejected Because they rejected the word of the Lord and what wisdome is in them Yet we cannot but sadly deplore that they are tolerated to be scandalously reproached almost every day by the Jer. 8. 9. publick and filthy gazets and pasquils of tinkerly brains that scarce drop so much common sense or modesty as deserves the cursory perusal of a man that hath but a slender value of time nay that do nauseate men of meer honest morals for fear of being tainted with the contagion of their familiarnesse and frequency And it is our sad observation That the spirit of prophaneness is now triumphant every where in this Nation yea so triumphant that Magistracy and Ministry are debased even at the unhallowed feet of the rabble and ready to be kicked at by them upon the least pretended occasion insomuch that none that ought in duty dares without danger punish or reprove things done even against the common light of men as men even that of nature We observe also to our great grief an unparalleld Apostacy from once common and undeniable principles among those that once encouraged themselves in their God and strengthened the hands of one another in the late sharp civil Warres so that now they cry up that which once they helped to pull down and call back exploded abominations and lick up what they once vomited into the nastiest corners they could finde to discharge themselves We are aware and have considered who they are that with a wide yet wry mouth cry up a Free Parliament a thing taken in some sense that is very desirable in times of a long continued peace but where was it ever known in a prudent State after a Civil War Did the wise and politick State of Rome suffer free Conventions without due qualifications after a Civil Warre We say no we know this is the Cavaliers Trojan-horse lined within with rapines murders and what not of them that fought and acted against them Nay we boldly affirm That England in the vulgar notion of a Free Parliament never had any such since Magna Charta and some of us are not altogether ignorant of the Laws of this Nation nor was Magna Charta neither free Was not that a forced Charter in its creation this cannot be denied us Nay in the continuance too through thirty Parliaments by the strict Rules of Law who can give us instance of a Parliament in England where no armour were worn in or neer the Town or place where the Parliament sate but by Parliament men and Officers of Justice during their sitting Or that no games and playes were used in or neer the Town or place where the Parliament sate by men women or children during its sitting If not which we are sure no man living can deny then when was there Coke 3d Inst 160. a Free Parliament by strict Rules of Law if these free Parliamentiers mean not this which yet the intention of a Free Parliament includes What do these men mean They must be ingenuous to confess they mean three Estates of King Popish and other Lords Archbishops Bishops c. the prodigious concomitants and effects of such an Assembly are too long and too foul as much as to touch upon here yet are easily discerned by men that have not made themselves blind in the colours of good and evil These or most of these they once decried and crucified and now they cry Hosannah to Are not these things abominable incosistencies Oh where are you English men And what are you men still If you be not the Lord bring you back from grass like Nebuchadnezzar again and lift up your eyes to Dan. 4. 33 34. Heaven and make your understanding to return to you that you may praise the most High c. We may not also but take notice of the Cavaliers and malecontents publishing without colour of truth divers Declarations Subscribed with the names of severall Persons who never knew of such Declarations or of their names put to them till they saw them in Print as divers of the Persons whose names are to the said Declarations have told some of us this is an old Artifice of the Father of lies and forged upon his infernall Anvill and will prove we hope to the Authors expectation but a broken reed and a disappointment suitable to the design Having thus far observed some of the raging evils of this day and suspecting the Devils chaine to extend to a greater length then we have yet discovered we here openly Declare our Resolutions to stand to whether it be unto life or death these Principles folowing 1. That we do own this present Parliament as it now sits as the Supreame Authority of these Nations and that we will adhere to them with our lives and other dearest concernments in pursuance of their setling a Free-state without single Person King or House of Lords and in pursuance of their Declaration of the 7th of May last past 2. That we will stand by a godly Gospell Ministry in these Nations adheare to them and countenance them against all Opposers together with a publick comfortable maintenance for them 3. That we are not either for the Secluded Members though we honour and highly respect some of them who have not been Advocates