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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

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

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

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

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

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

Freemen close imprisoning sundry Members of the old Parliament my self amongst others divers years in remote Castles and keeping us from Gods publike ordinances without any accusation hearing trial or legal cause of commitment expressed in their warrants By presuming upon the Army and Officers sodain invitation after the old Parliaments dissolution by the Kings death and their above 6. years dissipation by the Army without the election or privity of the people to sit and act as the Parl. and supream power of the Nation to seclude at least 3. parts of 4. of the old surviving Members by force and proclaiming Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Middleton and other Members and Freemen of England Traytors and levying war against them only for raising forces to induce them to call in all the old secluded Members or to summon a new free Parliament and for opposing their new illegal Taxes Excises Militiaes imposed and levyed on the people without their Common consent in Parl. deserve not to be all indicted executed and their estates confiscated as Traytors for these their successive reiterated high Treasons by their own resolutions Sir George his adherents totally acquitted frō the least imputation or guilt of Treason Whether their branding sequestring them for Traytors Apostates Enemies to the publike against Law Conscience too hath not justly brought that wo judgment upon their conventicle Isa. 5. 20 23 24. Wo unto them that call evil good and good evil that put darknesse for light and light for darknesse that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter and take away the righteousnesse of the righteous from him Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble and the flame consumeth the chaff so their root shall be rottennesse and their blossom shall go up as dust because they have cast away the Law of the Lord and of the Land too and despised the name of the holy one of Israel For all this his wrath is not turned away but his hand is streched out still Whether the Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes and Army-Officers beheading of their late Protestant King against the Votes Protestations of the generality of the Parliament and his 3. Protestant Kingdoms and Mediations of all foreign Protestant Agents then in England their banishing expelling his Royal Protestant Heir Successor to the Crown with all the rest of his Children professing the reformed Religion out of all their Protestant Realms and Dominions their invading of their Protestant Brethren in Ireland and Scotland in an hostile manner with potent Armies and waging warr against them in their own Countries and after that against their own Protestant Brethren in England as professed Enemies Traytors Apostates slaying divers thousands of them in the field imprisoning banishing disinheriting sequestring many thousands more of them only for owning crowning assisting their own hereditary Protastant King according to their Oathes Covenants Lawes Homage Allegeance duties and principles of the Protestant Religion to regain and retain his Royal Authority and Kingdoms Their waging of a most bloudy destructive war with our antient Protestant Allies of Holland above 3. years space together to the slaughter of many thousands of their and our gallantest Protestant Seamen Admirals Sea-Captains of purpose to banish their own exiled Protestant King his Brethren and followers out of the Netherlands from the Societie and charitable relief of their Protestant friends where they lived as exiles enjoying the free prosession of the Reformed Religion and Communion prayers contributions of the Protestant Churches on purpose to drive them into Popish Quarters amongst seducing Jesuites Priests Papists to cast them wholly upon their Alms Mercy Benevolence and by these high indignities and their pressing necessities to enforce them if they can to renounce the Protestant Religion and turn professed Papists Their most unhuman unchristian barbarism in depriving them totally of all means of Subsistance by seising all their revenues without allowing them one farthingout of them towards their necessary relief yet enacting it High Treason for any of their Protestant Subjects Friends Allies within their Realms or Dominions to contribute any thing toward their support to hold the least correspondency with or make any publique prayers unto God for them as if they were worse than Turks Jews Infidels and most professed Enemies for whom we are not only commanded obliged to pray but also to love feed cloth relieve harbor them in their necessities overcoming their evil with goodness by Christs own example and expressprecepts under pain of everlasting damnation be a conscientious Saint-like performance of and obedience to or not rather an Atheistical obstinate presumptuous rebellion against the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. Mat. 5. 44 45. c. 22. 21. c. 25. 34 to 46. Luke 6. 35. to 39. c. 10. 30. to 38. c. 23 34. Acts 7. 60. Rom. 10. 13 19 20 21. c. 13. 1 to 12. c. 15. 26 27. 1 Cor. 16. 1 2. Jam. 2. 13. and other sacred Texts A religious zealous observation of their * sacred solemn Protestations Vows Covenant Remonstrances Declarations Oathes for the maintenance defence and propagation of the true Reformed Protestant Religion the Profession and Professors of it against the bloudy Plots Conspiracies attempts practices of the Iesuites and other professed Popish Enemies and underminers of them Or not rather a most perfidious treacherous violation abjuration and betraying of them A loving of their Protestant Brethren with a true heart fervently and laying down their lives for them and being pitiful mercifull compassionate towards them according to these Gospel-precepts Eph. 4. 32. c. 5. 1 2. 1 Pet. 1. 22. c. 2. 17. c. 3. 8. 1 John 3. 11. 14. 33. c. 4. 7 11 12. 20 21. John 13. 34. c. 15. 12. 17. Or not rather a shuting up their bowels of compassion towards them a grieving offending persecuting murdering of their bodies and souls too and an infallible evidence that they are yet no real Saints or children of God but the very children of the Devil abiding in death having no true love of God nor eternal life abiding in them by Christs own resolution John 8. 44 45. 1 John 2. 10. to 18 A professed Antichristian contradiction to the reiterated command and voice of God from heaven Isay 52. 11. 2 Cor. 6. 17. Rev. 18. 2 3 4 c. Depart ye depart ye Come ye out of mystical Romish Babylon the mother of whoredoms the habitation of Devils and of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hatefull bird O my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes and that ye receive not of her plagues by their forcible driving of their own Protestant King Brethren into Babylon and keeping them therein to have their habitation among Devils foul spirits unclean birds of every kind that so they may participate both in her sins and plagues instead of calling thē out from thence into their own Protestant Dominions and Churches * Verily if the righteous shall scarcely be saved where shall these

in Kings College in Cambridge after that at Salamanca in Spain for 8. years Being demanded by them Whether there were not many Jesuites and Freers then in England He assured them upon his own knowledge they had then above five hundred Iesuites in London and the Suburvs and that they had at least four or five Iesuites and Popish Priests in and about London to every Minister we had there Whereupon they demanding of him How so many Jesuites and Priests were there maintained He answered That the Iesuites and every Order of Fréers had their several Treasurers in London who by Orders from their Provincials furnished them with what ever Monies they wanted by Bills of Exchange returned to them That all the Jesuites and Priests in England were maintained according to their respective qualities A Lords Son like a Lord and a Knights Son like a Knight and if they chanced to meet him in London at their return though he were now in a poor weed they should find him in Scarlet or Plush a better equipage than what he was in He would not discover his true name to them but upon discourse on a sudden he mentioned His Cozen Howard in England which made them suspect he was of that family He told them further that though we were very cunning in England yet the Jesuites and Priests there were too crafty for us lurking under so many disguises that they could hardly be discovered That there was but one way to detect them which they being inquisitive to know He said it was for those who suspected them to be Priests to feign themselves Roman Catholicks and upon that account to desire the Sacrament from them which they could not deny to give them after Confession to them being bound thereto by Oath by which means some of them had been betrayed He further informed them That himself had been at all the several Gathered Churches Congregations Sects in London and that none of them came so near the * Papists in their Opinions and Tenents as the Quakers among whom himself had spoken This relation one of the Gentlemen a person of honor and reputation the other being dead hath lately made to me three several times with his own mouth and will attest it for truth having related it to sundry others since his return into England Which considered Whether it be not the very High-way to our Churches Religions Ministers Nations ruine and destruction to list so many Quakers Anabaptists Sectaries in the Army and New Militiaes in most Counties where they bear the greatest sway and to disarm the Presbyterians and Orthodox Protestants as the only dangerous persons and put all their arms into Quakers Anabaptists and Sectaries hands headed steered by Jesuits Popish Priests and Freers as they have done in Glocester Colchester Cheshire Lancashire and endeavour to doe in other parts to cut all true Protestants throats and set up Popery by the Army which hath so much advanced it of late years before we are aware Let all true zealous Protestants timely seriously consider and endeavour speedily to prevent and the Council of Army-Officers with their new Committee of Safety too if they have any care of their Native Country or Protestant Religion before it be over-late Whether we may not justly fear that God himself in his retaliating Justice for the Junctoes and Armies unparalleld Exile of their Protestant King and Royal posterity into Popish Territories and yet permitting such swarms of Jesuits Monks and Romish Vermin to creep in and reside amongst us may not give up the dissolved Juncto Army Council of Officers Soldiers and their posterities with our whole three Nations as a prey and spoil to these seducing dividing ravening all-devouring Wolves yea to the combined forces of our Spanish and French Popish adversaries to the utter desolation extirpation ruine of our Protestant Religion in the midst of our present divisions and distractions under a just pretext of restoring the exiled Royal issue to their hereditary rights and avenging the manifold indiguities to them and their relations unless timely and wisely prevented by a prudent voluntary clozing with loyal christian restoring them by common consent our selves upon just safe and honourable terms becoming us both as Men Christians and Professors of the Reformed Religion And whether we be not ripe for such a universal desolating judgement as this if we consider Is 24. 16 17 18. c. 33. 1 2. c. 59. 1 to 19. 2 Chr. 3. 6. 15 to 21. Mich. 2. 2 3 4 5. Ezech. 35. 14 15. Joel 3. 6 7 8. or the late and present sufferings of most other Protestant Churches abroad not half so Treacherous Perfidious Wicked Exercrable as we who are now become the very Monsters of Men the scandal shame reproach of Christianity and humanity in the repute of all the world Whether the Juncto and Army-Officers who have like the a Hypocritical Israelites very frequently ordered celebrated many Hypocritical irreligious Mock-facts from time to time to fast for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickednesse never yet observing practising that fast which God himself requireth to loose the bands of wickednesse to undo the heavy burthens to let the oppressed go free to breakevery yoke to deal their bread to the hungry to bring the poor exiled Protestant Royal issue and their English followers that are cast out by them to their Houses to cover the naked and not hide their selves from their own flesh who have hitherto made their publike and private dayes of Humiliation a constant Prologue to their ambition pride b and rebellious self-exaltation their dayes of praying to God a preface to their preying upon their brethren their seeking of God for direction and assistance in their designs a means to colour and promote the very c works of their father the devil their pretended following the secret impulses of the spirit of God the sole justification of d walking according to the Prince of the air the spirit that now worketh in the Children of disobedience their making taking of solemn Oathes Vowes Protestations Covenants Engagements to be true faithfull oonstant loyal obedient to their Lawfull Kings their heirs successors superiors the Privileges Rights of Parliament our Fundamental Laws Liberties Religion c. a meer engin and diabolical stratagem more cunningly boldly audaciously perfidiously to betray undermine supplaut subvert them have not now just cause to keep many publike private Fasts and dayes of Humiliation to confesse bewaile repent renounce and reform these their transcendent-crying wrath-provoking sins and abominations together with their e building up of Zion their New Republike Free-state Churches Kingdom of Jesus Christ with blood and establishing Jerusalem with iniquity f their devising iniquity and working evil upon their beds and practising it when the morning is light because it is in the power of their hand and swords their coveting other mens fields houses and taking them away by violence so they

Grymes Brampton Gurdon Edward Harby Col. Edward Harley Major Harley John Hatcher John Haidon James Herbert John Herbert Mr. Hobby Thomas Hodges Denzel Hollis Francis Hollis George Horner Edmund Hostins John Hungerford Col. Hunt Mr. Jennings William Jones George Keckwich Richard Knighly Col. Lassels Henry Laurence Col. Lee Mr. Lewis Col Walter Long Mr. Lowry Col. John Loyde Mr. Lucas Mr. Luckin John Mainard Christopher Martin Major Gen. Edward Massey Thomas Middleton Thomas Moore William Morrice George Mountague Mr. Nash James Nelthrop Alderman Nixon Mr. North Col. Norton Mr. Onslow Arthus Owen Henry Oxinden Mr. Packer Mr. Peck Henry Pellam William Peirpoint Jervase Pigot Mr. Potter Mr. Poole Col. Alexander Popham Mr. Povy Mr. Prisly William Prynne Alexander Pym Charles Pym Mr. Rainscraft Mr. Ratcliffe Charles Rich Col. Edward Rossiter Mr. Scowen Mr. Scut Col Robert Shapcot Col. Shuttleworth Mr. Spelman Mr. Springats Henry Stapleton Robert Stanton Edward Stephens John Stephens Nathaniel Stephens Mr. Stockfield John Swinfen Mr. Temple Mr. Terwit Mr. Thistlethwait Mr. Thomas Isaac Thomas Mr. Thynne Mr. Tolson John Trever Thomas Twisden Serjeant at Law Mr. Vassal Mr. Vaughan Thomas Waller Mr. West Henry Weston William Wheeler Col. Whitehead Henry Wilkes Captain Wingate Mr. Winwood Thomas Wogan Mr. Wray Richard Wynne The Total Number 203. besides the House of Lords An Alphabetical List of all Members of the late dissolved Juncto JAmes Ash Alderman Atkins William Ayre Mr. Baker Col. Bennet Col. Bingham Daniel Blagrave Mr. Brewster William Cawly Thomas Chaloner Mr. Cecil the self-degraded Earl of Salsbury Robert Cecil his son John Corbet Henry Darley Richard Darley Mr. Dixwell John Dove Mr. Downes William Ellys Mr. Feilder Mr. Fell Col. Charles Fleetwood Augustin Garland Mr. Gold John Goodwin Robert Goodwin John Gurdon Mr. Hallowes Sir James Harrington Col. Harvy Sir Arthur Hasilrig Mr. Hayes Mr. Herbert the self-degraded Earl of Pembrook Roger Hill Cornelius Holland Col. Hutchinson Col. Ingolsby Philip Jones Mr. Leachmore William Lenthall Speaker John Lenthall his son John Lisle Philip Viscont Lisle Thomas Lister Nicholas Love Col. Ludlow Henry Martyn a prisoner in execution Mr. Mayne Sir Henry Mildmay Gilbert Millington Col. Herbert Morley Lord Viscont Munson a prisoner in execution Henry Nevil Robert Nicholas Michael Oldsworth Mr. Palmer Alderman Pennington Sir Gilbert Pickering John Pine Edmond Prideaux William Purefoy Thomas Pury Robert Reynolds Col. Rich Luke Robinson Oliver Saint-John Major Saloway Mr. Say Thomas Scot Major General Skippon Augustin Skinner Mr. Smith Walter Strickland Col. Sydenham James Temple Col. Temple Col. Thompson Serjant Thorpe John Trencher Sir John Trevor Sir Henry Vane Col. Waite Mr. Wallop Sir Thomas Walsingham Col. Walton Sir Peter Wentworth Edmond Weaver Mr. White Serjeant Wilde Sir Thomas Witherington Sir Thomas Wroth. The totall Sum 91. Note That of these Members there entred only 42. into the House at first that the rest came in to them by degrees either to keep their old preferments gain new or regain the places they had formerly lost especially the Lawyers who notwithstanding their former complyances are turned quite out of Office and dis-Judged that 8. or more of them came in by New Writs issued in the Name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England after the Kings beheading and were no Members of the long Parliament That there were never 60. of them together in the House at once whiles they sate and but 57. on the 11. and 12. of October last upon the great debate between them and the Army Officers And some that sate formerly with them as the Lord Fairfax John Cary and others refused to sit with them now as having not the least colour of Law to sit or act as a Parliament Yea their Speaker Mr. Lenthal told the Officers of the Army and Members who came to invite him to sit again May 6. That he had a Soul to save and that he was not satisfied in point of Law conscience or prudence that they could sit again But at last when he considered he had an estate to save as he told another Friend that over-ballanced all his former Objections and made him and other Members act against their judgements consciences and to forget our Saviours sad Quaeres Mat. 16. 26. What is a man profited if he should gain the whole world and lose his own Soul Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul FINIS ERRATA Page 4. Usurpers read usurpation page 17. l. 31. read Rom. 3. 9 10. a Prov. 27. 5 6. b Prov. 28. 23. * Tit. 1. 13. c Jer. 22. 21. c. 5. 5. Ezech. 22. 27. * See a Collection of the Armies Engagements Remonstrances c. p. 106 ●0 145. * Animadversions upon the Armies Remonstrance Nov. 20. 1648. p. 10 11 12. f See the 2. Part of the History of Independency g See the Republicans spurious good old Cause briefly and truly anatomized p. 1 to 6. e 2 Thess. 2. 4. b See their Declarations and Papers of April 20. And August 12. 1653. And true State of the Common-wealth of England p. 8 to 12. * As he did Col. overton Okey and sundry others g Jer. 17. 5. h Isay 36. 6. * Lu. 19. 27. i Isay 2. 4. Jer. 9. 2. c. k Isay 33. 1. Jer. 9 2 to 22. m Isay 36. 6. Ezeck. 49. 6 7. n n Isay 30. 14. * In Prynne the Member reconciled to Prynne the Barrester A Legal Vindication against illegal Taxes A True and perfect Narrative p. 24 to 34. A brief necessary Vindication of the old and new secluded Members p. 5. * Exact Coll. p. 576 613. A Collection of Ordinances p. 13. 219 220 * Gal. 6. 7. a See the Armies Plea and Declaration 27 october The printed Votes Diurnals and Parliaments Plea a Exod. 8. 19. Psal. 118. 23. * 3 Jac. c. 1 2. * Gen 11. 3 to 10. * Acts 5. 39. c. 23. 9. See my True and perfect Narrative p. 92 93. * De Beneficiis l. 2. c. 20. * See my Concordia Discors * See my Legal Historical Vindication c. * Isay 14. 20. The seed of evil doers shall never be renowned * Ps. 30. 6 7. * Hos. 2. 6 7. * Judges 19. 30. * Understand ye brutish among the people O ye fools when will ye be wise Ps. 94. 8. * See My Concordia Discors * 1 Pet. 4. 18 19. * Jam. 2. 11. * Leopold * Condie * Execution he means * This intimates he was a Priest or Jesuit who writ it * See Mr. Smiths 2. New Books against the Quakers and Dell proving them to be Papists a Is 58 3 to 8. b Psa. 66. 7. c John 8 44 45. Ephes. 5. 19 20 21. d Ephes. 2. 2 3. e Micah 3. 10. Hab. 2. 12. f Micah 2. 1 2 3 4 5. * My true perfect Narrative p. 58 to 64. * Rom. 2. 2 3 8 9 12. h 2 Pet. 2. 7 8. i Psal. 119. 136 k Judges 5. 31. l Judges 4 15. * Psal. 12. 1 2. Psal. 94. 1. * Ps. 37. 38 39. 40.