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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

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

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