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A92927	The Army anatomized: or, A brief & plain display of the humble, honest and religious actings of the General Sir Tho. Fairfax, and his army of saints, toward the good of the King and Parliament, and the whole kingdom, since the famous victory, at Naseby, June 14. 1645. Occasioned upon the serious consideration of 4 Scripture-properties of every true saint and Christian soldier. 1. Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you ('tis our Saviors own Golden-Rule) even so do ye unto them. Mat. 7. 12. 2. Not to do any evil (a general Rule, which admits of no exception, either in Kings, or in Commanders) that good may come thereof. Rom. 3.8. 3. To abstain from every appearance of evil; much more from every apparent evil. 2 Thes. 5. 22. 4. Do violence, or wrong, to no man; neither accuse any man falsly. Luke 3.14. Now, how Sir Tho. Fairfax's army of saints and Christian soldiers have performed all these, or any of these, shal be faithfully and plainly declared, in 20. following observations. / By a loyal lover of peace and truth; but a hearty contemner of sedition and schism.	Loyal lover of peace and truth.	1647 (1647)	Wing S2600; Thomason E419_6; ESTC R203539	29,584	39

which for a little season they had done And notwithstanding the City of Londons now choosing out and sending Commissioners to treat with the Army for to such a height it was now grown as if the City and Army had been two distinct advers Parties to keep a supposed and pretended fair correspondency between them for peaceable conclusions yet the Army grown now to a high pitch of power and now therefore more apt especially by their active Agitators to pick quarrels both with the Parliament their Parents and Masters and with the City their Foster-Fathers if their licentious humors of Pride and Schism were crost ever so little holding themselves much affronted and stil much discontented that the aforesaid 11. accused Members were not yet put out of the House of Commons though most unlawful to be done that so the Schismatical Party in that House might carry on their grand Design of an accursed Toleration with the fuller and freer concurrence of Votes and Suffrages when once it was ripe enough to be discust and s●and in the House And because also the City of London would not consent to alter the power of their Militia nor lie altogether idle secure and supine from making some just preparations for the defence of their often and highly menaced and threatned City to be plundered burned and made a prey to this Army of Saints which defence God knows at best was very little and inconsiderable but especially by occasion of a Petition and Engagement whereinto divers most honest and religious peaceable Citizens Seamen and Apprentices of London and the parts about it only by reason of the Armies often and insolent threats and formidable preparations for war and frequent incroachments and approachings neer unto their City had entred into to stand to their Covenant which above all this Army of sweet Saints could not endure made with God and the three Kingdoms to endevor with their lives and fortunes the defence of their true Religion City and Liberties to preserve the Kings person and dignity now in great danger in both he being in the Armies wicked custody and to bring his Majesty to the City and Parliament for the perfecting of a happy and wel-grounded Peace and Truth ●ogether and all these upon such terms and conditions as the Commissioners of the Parliaments of both Kingdoms of England and Scotland should see most fit and salubrious for the best good of all the three Kingdoms and this Petition and Engagement they purposed according to their honest and orderly custom of proceeding in these kinds to present to their Common Councel with their humble and peaceable desires that the Lord Maior Aldermen and Common Councel if they liked and allowed thereof would be pleased in all their names and then joyntly of the whole City to present the same to the Par. for their ratification and establishment of their desires therein But the Army instantly having private intelligence thereof by some false brethren even whiles this business was but in the Embrio of it with all possible speed posts away their most imperious Demands rather indeed Commands to the Parliament forthwith to suppress this desperate and dangerous yea this bloody and treasonable design as thus they most craftly and frightingly termed it and upon this to change the City Militia which was done all in one day and to cal the Contrivers and Actors therein and main Abettors thereof into severe question as traiterous fomentors of a Second or New War because indeed such a just defence as this was like to prove and would as they justly feared mightily impede yea utterly break the neck of the Armies grand Design or else they with all their Martial power must of necessity come up presently and compel and inforce it Besides to aggravate their accusations against the City the Army had gotten perfect intelligence that about or somewhat before this time the Lord Maior Aldermen and Citizens of London had sent Letters and subscribed them with their names into Kent c. to crave those their neighbors assistance to help to defend the City if force were made against it by the Army which it seems became a foul offence in the City and most worthy to be severely punisht 〈◊〉 Treasonable Design against the Army just as if a man his house being in danger of fire to be burned down or of theeves and robbers coming to assault him in his house should send forth presently to his neighbors to ayd and assist him against those dangers and just fears of his and for this cause the theeves and robbers should make a sore complaint of him how they were wronged thereby and procure the Master of the house and his Servants or associates to be punished for thus endevoring to save and preserve their house and goods from rapine and ruine If ever now Sea Saints turn'd Sinons vile A Parliament and City to beguile Hereupon in the fifteenth place the Parliament being now apparently forced by the 〈◊〉 of this overpowering Army together with the help of the Independents and Secturies in the House of Commons voted all those that were Author of and Actor in the said Petition and Engagement though but intended to be Traitors and to be proceeded against with the lost of their lives undestates And presently painted and published an Ordinance of Parliament to have them all 〈…〉 all over the City by Drum and Trumpet At which most strange proceedings of the Army and Parliament the City in general being mightily discontented presently sent the Lord Maior Aldermen and Common Councel of London to petition the Parliament for a present removal of divers grievance● and chiefly for an instant revocation or repealing of that conceived unjust Ordinance aforesaid But especially very many Apprentices of London and young men with divers others mixed mong them went also the same day to Westminster in a tumult●ous manner as the Army called it though multitudes petitioning make not a tumult but have been very much countenanced and encouraged yea and approved of by a Declaration of the Parliaments formerly s●t forth But therein also the honest Citizen were most wickedly abused by many Cavaliers Malignants y●● and Sectaries too who mixed themselves among the honestly young men the more to abuse them and their work but all of them unarmed thus urging the Parliament for the instant nullifying of the said Ordinance and so much the more vehemently they urged the immediate performance hereof because they then 〈◊〉 nay heard for certain a present adjournment of the Parliament was resolved on and therefore they pressed the more mightily upon Both Houses of Parliament whiles they were yet ●● sitting with earnest cries and intreaties to all that past in or out for the nulling of that severe and as they humbly conceived most unjust Ordinance of Parliament against them only for action as they conceived and in their consciences were assured according to their Covenant which their desires being at last though indeed with much ado

Seria Exercitus Series THE Army Anatomized OR A brief plain Display of the humble honest and religious Actings of the General Sir Tho. Fairfax and his Army of Saints toward the good of the King and Parliament and the whole Kingdom since the famous Victory at NASEBY June 14. 1645. Occasioned upon the serious Consideration of 4 SCRIPTURE PROPERTIES of every true Saint and Christian Soldier 1. Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you 't is our Saviors own Golden-Rule even so do ye unto them MAT. 7.12 2. Not to do Any Evil a general-Rule which admits of no exception either in Kings or in Commanders that Good may come thereof ROM 3.8 3. To abstain from every Appearance of Evil much more from every Apparent Evil. 2 THES 5.22 4. Do Violence or Wrong to no man neither accuse Any man falsly LUKE 3.14 Now how Sir THO. FAIRFAX's Army of Saints and Christian Soldiers have performed All These or any of These shal be faithfully and plainly declared in 20. following Observations By a loyal Lover of Peace and Truth But a hearty Contemner of Sedition and Schism JUDE 11. Wo unto them for they have gone in the way of Kain and ran greedily after the Error of Balaam for Reward and perished in the Gain-saying of Core Printed in the Year 1647. THE ARMY ANATOMIZED AFter the most renowned fight glorious victory which the great Lord of Hosts and God of Battels gave to our Army at Nafeby wherein although next under God we must give the Noble General Sir THO. FAIRFAX the prime part of the honor thereof both for his magnanimity and prudence therein Yet next unto him I dare be bold most justly to give as great a share of the honor of that glorious Victory to valiant and faithful Colonel Rossiter a brave Presbyterian Commander in the Northern parts of the Kingdom as Any Commander in the whole Army deserved Who in the very nick of a necessitous time of the battel fell in with his fresh and valiant Troops of Horse upon the Kings forces and by Gods great mercy gave an admirable turn to the day for us And after the happy recovery of the West into the Parliaments hands wherein also God honored another most renowned Presbyterian Commander even noble and ever to be honored Major General MASSEY with as full a portion of the honor of that Conquest as any the loudest boasting Independent or Sectary in the whole Army not one excepted could justly challenge to himself so whom let me here all this one more brave badg of honor the rather because he now most unhappily lies under a cloud of Englands gross ingratitude to him which reverend Mr Vines in his famous and most learned Funeral Sermon for the ever to be renowned Lord Gen. Essex p. 33. most deservedly engraved upon him in these words That renowned Governor of Glocester whom I may borrowing Cicero's word most justly cal under God Hujus Regni Stator The Stator of the Kingdom of England Because he took the Enemies horse by the bridle in his full carreer and bravely stopt him and being resolved to sell that City to them by the candle he was by the renowned Lord General ESSEX rescued before the candle dropt out and thus preserved the said City and the whole Kingdom therewith And to proceed now after the reducing of Exeter and Oxford to the Parliaments power but upon such terms and conditions as had not Cromwel too boldly urged the Parliament would never have condescended unto or owned O had the Army now spontaneously tendered themselves in a Christian manner as that most excellent Author of the Religious Retreat most worthily noteth to lay down their Arms and be disposed of by the Parllament they had crowned the Gospel and themselves with perpetual praise and honor But the Army being upon those Conquests too much idolized almost by every body in City and Country began contrariwise with the strong help of the Schismaticks in the Parliament and by the crafty assistance of Mimical M. Hugh Peters that blazon-sac'd and blattering Hocus Pocus or blustring jugler of the drmy who together with his other two Brethren in iniquity Dell and Saltmarsh a triple knot of Jesuitical Incendiaries and Firebrands of Sedition and Rebellion preaching or rather prattling to the Army among many other their poysonous positions That the Earth is the Saints and the fulness thereof and that they are now Lords and Masters of all and thus encouraging the Army to put forth their horns of pride oppression hypocrisie and notorious dissimulation for the better acting and conniving of their great Design of Vniversal Toleration of all Opinions Parity and Community of all mens estates over the whose Kingdom and Liberty of Conscience in all Religions notwithstanding that Sir Thomas Fairfax and the rest of the Army had oftentimes and especially in one of their late Declarations promised and protested that they would not have to do with matters of Religion either concerning Presbytery or Independency but would refer themselves therein to the wisdom and piety of the Parliament Yet notwithstanding this grand Design hath been carryed on with so much craft and industry by the Sectaries both in the Army Parliament City and Country that it was high time for the honest and plain hearted Presbyterian-Party to look about them and O that they had done so indeed and been as zealous for their God their Covenant and Country in time as they should and then might have been and that especially considering that the Army of our loyal Brethren of Scotland was most honestly and peaceably upon their departure out of the Kingdom but this our own Army remaining stil in a strong body among us although no visible Enemy appeared save only Chymards and imaginary Enemies of our own contriving to oppose them The City of London therefore that main eye-sore to all the Designs formerly of Royal Malignants and now of late of Seditious Sectaries together with many other Counties of the Kingdom earnestly and often petition the Parliament that our Army might be disbanded that Presbyterian Church-Government might be as the Parliament had often promised established and that the heavy taxations of the Kingdom by reason especially of the Army thus stil embodyed might be eased and ended But the City of London by reason of very many and very strange and unexpected I am sure most undeserved delays herein especially if we as justly we may cal to mind the Parliaments former promises to live and dye with the City of London yet I say the City was at length necessitated to exhibite to the Parliament a most famons just deliberate and righteous Remonstrance of theirs and the Kingdoms many grievances and insupportable disgusts in high measure offered unto them by the Independent party in Parliament and elswhere and especially for the most necessary disbanding of the Army and for the setling of their City Militia in the hands and power of such persons as they might safely

humble Independent Army of Saints Men prone to Pride Errors and Heresy Reject all Justice yea Civility Seventhly Notwithstanding that the Independents and Sectaries both in City and Country had formerly but most falsly vehemently taxed and reviled the Presbyterian Partie from time to time that but only upon meer suppositions ungrounded jealousies for too much complying with the Royalists Malignant party both in subscriptions of Petitions and other such like Combinations as things not to be admitted in point of Conscience nor to be endured by them Yet now that they have gotten the King into their power and possession they themselves not only most notoriously complywith and give strange allowance to Royalists and Malignants of all sorts and degrees to come to the King and to have ordinary and familiar recourse unto him which as you heard before they utterly denyed to the whole Presbyterian State and Kingdom of Scotland in their special Messenger or Embassador but which is far more transcendently notorious in this Army of precious and reforming Saints they also permit most desperately Malignant Prelatical Doctors of Divinity the Kings former Chaplains to preach before him which they judg they say most just and reasonable for the Kings outward and inward contentment though against particular orders to the contrary and to wait upon him yea and which is yet more notorious and remarkably audacious in them it being most directly against the Ordinances power and authority of the Parliament they a●●ow unto the King the Common-Prayer Book in most full and ample use of it with all Prelatical Coremenies in and about it and the like also is allowed by this Army of Saints and Godly party both at Oxford and divers other places where the Army quarters Absolutely contrary I say to our solemn and sacred Covenant and to the Ordinances of Parliament and that which I am sure the Presbyterian party neither did nor in conscience durst allow unto the King when he was in their guard and custody And is not this as the excellent Auther of the Religious Retreat truly sayes to build with one hand and to pluck down with another to seem at lest to set up again what God and the State with much pains and many prayers would have utterly raced and ruinated from among us Surely as he goes on when God gives the Kingdom to his Saints he wil not suffer them to give such large tolerations to sinful humane inventions in his pure and holy worship nor like dogs to return to their old vomit This undoubtedly must needs blast the too high esteem of your Army in the hearts of good men who verily beleeve these things cannot be of God And this makes all most justly to cry aloud to our honorable Parliament in these words which that reverend and religions Author gave his Reader in Latin but I have Englished thus Take heed O take heed most noble Senators and Fathers of your Country as ye tender the high honor of our eternal God least whiles ye seem to settle a present Peace yea utterly lose an everlasting Peace And so say I Take heed all ye that deal with Schismaticks Troy found in Grecian Guifts destructive tricks Eighthly This Army of Saints thus domineering and doing what they please the General with his Councel of War and brave or rather beggarly Agitators which now make up a pretty Picture and representation of the three Estates of a Martial petty Parliament whereby we are now in great fear to be mainly governed if not timely prevented begin to prescribe Rules I had almost said to make Laws to the Parliament and they must now be presently voted and avouched to be the Parliaments Army and it Thomas Fairfax sole Commander and Disposer of all the Forts Cinqueports and strong holds of the Kingdom and a substantial course taken to pay them their Arrears with certainty and constancy from time to time But yet this is not enough considering all the distoyal service thus already done to and for the Parliament to make the General as it were the Vice-Roy or Soveraign and sole Commander of the whole Kingdom and to make or repute the Army the principal Propugnators and Defenders of the whole Realms safety and felicity But Petitions must also be pretended and reported to be exhibited to the General and his humble Sainted Army from all Counties and Quarters whereas in very deed as t is wel known it was but at most a Sectarian blustring plot of some few inponsiderable Anabaptists Independents and such like Jugling chismaticks in some few Counties the fixst of those Petitions to the Army was set on foot at Bechyn in Essex by seditious Mr Salt marsh thus to make a huge noise to blinde the eyes and daunt the heart if it might be of too credulous people 〈◊〉 protection and preservation of their pretended Peace and Liberties or rather most licientious Libertinism in their said Petitions prossering and promising to the General All their homage and honor as to their sole Salvator in way of bounden gratitude Yea and now the General himself in his own name only with the testimony or subscription of his principal Secretary Worth-●-rush sending forth his Deelartaions alias Proclamations like a King indeed both to the Parliament and People to shew his powerful Demands or rather Commands to all form and degrees of men whomsoever as he sent a very plain and peremptory Summons to the City of London that they should give way to or comply with his Armies Proceedings or else the blood and misery that would befal the City must be upon their own heads not upon the Armies And as they did especially in August last 1647 in a most emment and transcendent manner of boldness even to the Parliament it Self in a book intituled A Declaration from Sir Thomas Fairfax and Proposals agreed on by the Councel of the Army to be presented to the Parliament as the Armies desires or I say Commands to the Parliament for the setling of a just and lasting Peace say they but so says not God Esay 57.21 For among many most unsufferable and insolent Proposals of turning the Triennial Parliament setled by an act of Parliament into a Biennial and that with such bold and licentious limitations as they themselves please to prescribe regulating our Common-Laws and Courts of Justice the Militia of the whole Kingdom and generally all matters of highest concernment both by Land and Sea in Church and State yea I say these conquering Keisars take upon them as it were to make and manage all Laws almost and to regulate us all according to their humor and pleasure But among all the rest I cannot nay who can choose but take special notice of their horrible and hellish impiety against God and true Religion Proposal 12. pag. 9. And so also in their last sort of Proposals Propos 9. pag. 13. against Conformity in Rellgion Where they most wickedly desire a repeal of all Acts of Parliament or Clauses of