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A77081
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A book without a title
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1649
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Wing B3722; Thomason E559_12; ESTC P1342
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A BOOK WITHOUT A TITLE HAving long observed the folly of this Nation to be taken most with highest Titles and lowest Matters in all weekly Transactions and much pittying the People in this Delusion could find no other way herein for their future prevention then to present them with A Sheet without a Title And as it may seem strange to some though not so strangeas true because not usual so it will appear honest to all in speaking truth without fear to every Interest for undeceiving the people which others dare not do though never so prejudicial I shall begin with the Act this day published for setting a part a day of Publick Thanksgiving which recites How God hath appeared in the Cause of the Parliament and People against the Common Enemy since the first beginning of these late Wars God is still put in the Van to maintain and support the unjust Causes of all people under the Sun as the Scripture is to prove all Religions best and sonndest But why the Peoples Cause They are not the Original of your Authority and therefore you nor any other can pretend to hold out their Cause unless intrusted and required by them But all still must go in the name of the People because there is no other way to ruin and enslave them But they did well to put the Parliament and People together though they are very impudent to put Parliament before People as if the People the Supream were Inferior to a few of their pretended Servants whom they own not either as to call or enforcements They go on and judge of the Cause by success which is both absurd and ridiculous against the Common Enemy both of the true Religion and the Liberties of the Nation but who so common an Enemy as they that sit by an unjust power the original whereof being cut off and stile themselves the Supream Authority of England Tax Assess and Dispose of all the Estates of the Free Commoners without then consent making them beleeve they sit for restoring their Freedoms to give them ease set up a true Religion reforme all things in Church and 〈◊〉 are whereas like cuning Cheats they sit only to enrich themselves with all the vast Receipts of the Publicke upon Excise Customs Dean and Chapters and Bishops Lands Assessements Forrest Lands Parks Chases King Queen and Princes Revenue sale of all the Royal Goods c. which though it amount to neer a hundred and sifty thousand pounds a mouth yet they lay greater Assessements upon the people then ever they did before they had these Revenues in their possessions and continue Fre-Quarte upon them though all Assessements paid and yet the whole Charge of the Army and Navie is under the incombe of their Publick Receipt And doth it not appear by their daily purchasing great Estates sending over Coffers of Silver beyond Sea marrying their Children to the greatest for tunes in the Nation though most of themselves had but small Estates before that with these Publick Monies and the great benefit they have by all the great Places and Offices in the Nation which they have bestowed upon themselves but ought to be imployed for the publick good of the Notion they still sit to Delude the people and inrich themselves with the ruins of the Nation and can the people have greater Enemies or sadder Judgements then these Catterpillers that devoure all before them And are they not good preservers of the Liberties of the Nation when as they destroy al the Laws of the Land which only gives Liberty to the Nation and Act by Arbitrary Acts and Ordinances whereby no man hath any certainty of his Estate Life or Being mixing the Martial power with the Civil as in the time of the cursed Conqueror seizing the Persons and Estates of the people with Souldiers for pretended Civil offences and killing the pour Watermen and others with Musketiers for Rowing upon the Sablâ—â—â— though they had not any Prohibition before for so doing yet they willingly allow of Coaches on that day an offence every wayes equal to the former Examine men upon matter of Fact against themselves and commit them close Prisoners without any allowance only upon suspition of Treason and continue them so without Tryal or Discharge contrary to the Law of the Land and in violation to our chiefest Liberties and Freedoms Then they tell us of another Cloud that threatned a Storm by the list Summers Insurrection the Scors Invasion and the Revolt at Sea is al which most of themselves by subtile connivance private assistance or publick action had as deep a finger therein as the Common Enemy by whâ—â—â— many of them had both assurance of Pardon and Reward And yet they say they cannot but transmit the memory of these Mercies to Posterity that the Generations to come may praise the Lord and still the name of the Lord must be used prophanely to make the people believe all their vain Delusions though they make it their sole work and end of all their Designs to impoverish and enslave them which is most cleer and apparent if you consider the substance of what L. G. C. lately delivered upon Discourse with other Officers of the Army viz. That the only way to settle and maintain an Arbitrary Power and Government in this Nation was To oppress the People with Assessements and Free-Quarter and when they were in a low and poor Condition they should submit to any thing And if we compare the present proceedings of the Army with those of the things called the Parliament and Councel of State we shall easily find those Expressions now put in Execution for the ruining of the Free People of this oppressed Nation Then they tell us That after all these Deliverances and strange providences of the Almighty carrying on the Parliament in execution of Justice on the chief Author not the hundredth part so great an Oppressor and cruel Tyrant as themselves and some of the eminent Instruments of both these Wars which they did on purpose to exalt themselves into the Throne and stile themselves the Supreme Authority of this Nation whereby they might the better exercise their Tyrannie and cruelty upon the People And that some hopeful Progress hath bin made in setling the Government of this Common-wealth upon the rotten Foundations of Injustice Oppression Self-Interest Bloud Tyrannie and what not in such a way as by Gods blessing well jest not too long with your hypocrifie for God will not be mocked as may secure it from the like Tyranie for the future not a greater then now we are under and be a foundation of Happiness and Freedom why do you jeer the poor people so often with those most desired words and never intended things Freedom and Happiness You know well their Freedom will be your ruine And that the Parliament having by these Troubles in England occasioned onely for your own Promotions and Self-Interests as we now find by woful expérience bin â—â—nterrupted for sending relief