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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97208	A just vindication of the armie wherein all that doubt may have large satisfaction, in relation to their late proceedings. As touching the cause, beginning, continuance, and their end therein. Or, a book entituled, The examination of the late passages of the armie (especially of the grounds laid down for their justification in their declaration, June 14. 1647). / Examined, refuted, by A. Warren.	Warren, Albertus.	1647 (1647)	Wing W952; Thomason E410_18; ESTC R204455	39,961	61

well-grounded purposes and principles of the Army and what those late proceedings of theirs should be whereat you take occasion to with-draw your first love I am altogether ignorant of unlesse because the Army are by divine power contriving how righteousnesse and peace might kisse each other justice and judgement run downe our streets like a mighty streame and for your studying to serve the Army according to your place and ability and not persisting therein whilst they in the whole progresse of this late businesse have not in the least desired ought but what the Parliament in their many Declarations have faithfully promised I wish they had been as really performed then our troubles had ceased might be sufficient cause of sorrow and sadnesse unto you And to speake in justification of their very adversaries in this one respect I dare boldly affirme it the Army have received more civill usage curteous respect and affectionate expressions of love from them then from many of the neare pretended friends of the Parliaments Cause and this not out of any hopes they have that the Army should effect that at last which at first they opposed and the other partie stood for or that they looke for any curtesie or favour from them more then what in conscience and equity they are bound to allow them but meerly from the observation of their good ends whereof many are convinced civill deportments and honourable performances of Articles and Covenants which merits no lesse then cordiall affection from very Enemies But now you say all your glorying in them is turned into shame and your prayers and praises to God for them into mourning and astonishment I had rather heare this were for the fore-cited reason to wit your strange revolting from the Kingdomes cause then that you seem to mention viz. to see that under the generall notions and colours of Gods glory and good intentions to the Liberties and peace of the people of this Nation the late actions and practices of the Army in disobeying and opposing the Parliament if persisted in will appeare to be contrary to the Lawes of God and the Kingdome and to their duty trust and ingagement to the Parliament of England c. I am sorry the eye of your judgement is so much obscured and you so much mistaken in the affaires and proceedings of the Army Doth it derogate more from Gods glory when the Army present their humble desires to the Parliament by way of Petition then it did when they freely powred forth their blood against the stubborne Adversaries of our Tranquillity and Freedome Are the good intents of the Generall to the Liberties and peace of this Nation lesse good because he hath gained them vi Armis from the irreconcileable enemies thereof and now desire the enjoyment of them for the Nation from those who arbitrarily and unjustly detaine them Is it more disobedience or opposition in the Army to demand the price of their blood even their hardly gotten Liberties of the Parliament then it was in the Parliament at first to raise warre against the King The Army might say to the Parliament in relation to their late proceedings as they said to the King at the beginning of this unhappie fraction It is a levying of warre against the King when it is against his Lawes and Authorities Book Dccl. part 1. pag. 276 where by the Statute of 25. â—â—d 3. though it be not immediately against his Person and the levying of force against his personall commands though accompanied with his presence if it be not against his Lawes and Authority but in maintenance thereof is not levying warre against the King but for him c. So and no otherwise it is disobedience and opposition against the Parliament when it is against their Lawes and Authorities though it be not immediately against their persons and disobedience and opposition to their personall commands though accompanied with their presence if it be not against their Lawes and Authorities but in maintenance thereof is not disobedience and opposition to the Parliament but the defence of the Parliament and their due Priviledges In the judgement of any ingenuous man that which you call disobedience and opposition in the Army is no more then what the King called Rebellion in the Parliament and their actions then will appeare as contrary to the Lawes of God and the Kingdome and to their duty trust and ingagement to the King and Kingdome of England as the present progressions of the Army will to the Parliament of England for it is evident to all the world that the Army are guided by the very selfe-same principles now that the Parliament were grounded on at the beginning of this unhappy distraction Novemb. 2. 1646. Declar. 1 parâ— 696 page 150. observe but their owne expression That obedience binds not men to cut their owne throats c. had the Army obeyed the groundlesse personall Commands of the Parliament how unhappie had both themselves and the whole Kingdom been The Parliament at first alarumed the whole Kingdom crying Arme arme arme with beating of Drums and soundings of Trumpets the sad precursors of insuing War and woe assuring the people the King and his Counsell then intended to destroy their Religion subvert their Lawes enslave themselves c. Whereupon the people suddenly set themselves in a defensive Martiall posture for the Parliament against the King and both parties resolved and to that purpose declared to stand by each other in safe-guarding their Freedoms immunities the justest cause of any War whereupon an Army was immeadiatly sent forth who took upon them to restore or lose their lives the peoples Freedoms this being done and liberty purchased with the effusion of bloud were it not perjury and perfidiousnesse in the Army to suffer some Members of Parliament after all this to inthrall the people and undo themselves Which was evident enough they would have done had they power answerable to their malice as appears by Sir Philip Stapleton who was heard to report when the Army but intended to Petition for their dues That it was come to that passe that either the Army must down or They meaning himself and his corrupt Rivals must downe And if the Armies refusing to forfeit for ever their own and the Kingdoms freedomes and surrender it though earned with the invaluable price of their dearest bloud to an inconsiderable party of Arbitrary merciless men in both or either House of Parliament be disobedience and opposition as you terme it to the whole then how will you define obedience Do you imagine the Parliament cannot oppresse And if they do must not ease be petitioned for but for so doing the Petitioners must be accounted disobedient and opposers Parliaments were called for the benefit and not dis-ease of the people There are severall things Four causes of a Parliaments being which are chiefly the considerable Causes of a Parliaments Being 1 The out-cries of a free people inslaved to their

King for his Summons 2 The Kings Summons for the calling of a Parliament 3 The peoples Election of their Members 4 The Members appearance upon the foresaid Summons and the peoples Election to any place appointed by the King for to order and dispose of the great Affairs of the Kingdom Now when this Assembly thus lawfully gathered shall forget the ends of their Constitution and not rectifie or cause to be rectified the known wrongs and greivances of the People and restore liberty to the enslaved the people may and are bound thereunto by the Lawes of Religion Reason Nature and Nations sue and Petition for their just rights Neither have the Parliament power to Act Ier. 38.5 or order any thing but that which tends to the mutuall good and known weal of the people If King Zedekiah by his own confession could not imprison a man without or against the advice of his Princes then by what Law can the King or Parliament of England or both together assume such a power to themselves as bereave the people of their liberties and birthrights The people of this Nation and so the Army as a substantiall part thereof being equally born free may refuse obedience to any Acts or impositions of King or Parliament whose apparent tendency is to their own ruine and overthrow and if it be so that the Kingdom and Army must neither refuse obedience to unjust commands nor Petition for redress of manifest wrongs without being branded with disobedient opposers infringers of the peace of the Kingdom and enemies to the State and that which will be the sad consequence of all these even the whole Kingdome and Army exposed to the limitlesse pleasures of mercilesse men whose tender mercies as the wise man saith are cruell then farewell indeered Freedomes for ever Object But to this you will happily object Who shall judge when the Acts of the Parliament be destructive to the people Answ In this case I know at present no better judge then their owne common and frequent experience that undergo oppression and wrong who can better informe a man that he hath lost the use of one of his joynts or members then he that wants it But not to stay longer here I shall proceed to your next clause to wit by * Parliament whose Commission they are an Army and are but a tumultuous number of men when they act or do any thing that is not in order to or within the limits of that Commission which I take to bee the utmost bounds of their calling as an Army and when any man or number of men step out of their calling or if in their calling run out into by and unwarrantable waies they can upon no good grounds looke either for protection or expect a blessing c. It is true it was by the Parliaments Commission and none others they were an Army yet that was not the onely cause of their being an Army but something in relation to the Kingdome in generall and something also in relation to themselves in particular and therefore observe these things considerable in the raising and levying of a lawfull Army Three things to be considered in the raising of a lawful Army 1. The lawfulnesse of the Cause 2. The lawfulnesse of the Call or Commission 3. The collection or gathering together of the people in a formidable posture For the cause of raising this Army it was the preservation of His Majesties Royall Person and Kingdome restauration of our almost lost Lawes and Liberties defence of the just Rights and Priviledges of Parliaments c. their Commission was from the Parliament and their collection from themselves freely and willingly without constraint or force and this last they were induced and provoked unto by vertue of the two former to wit the Cause and Commission all which have a necessary dependence each on the other and are inseparable in the levying of a lawfull Army insomuch that a Commission without the peoples free consent cannot raise an Army nor both of them as some have untruly said make a lawfull Army without a lawfull Cause And now I appeale to you and the whole Kingdome if the Army have not to their power inviolably observed and with the price of their blood effected the substantiall end of their Commission which was for the defence of the Kingdome c. as their owne Ordinances import Ordin Feb. 15 1644. Apr. 1. 1645. and if some dis-affected Members in both or either House of Parliament did betray the confidence and trust reposed in them and by their too effectuall insluence on others who perchance have no great desires to close with or can discerne their base ends therein so carry on their deep and darke designes that the Kingdome suffers too much prejudice by them must this constraine the Army to doe so likewise Shall none be ready to stand in the gap in behalfe of this almost ruined Kingdome and stop that inevitable inundation of misery ready to overwhelme us through the inhumane malice of those who make their lust their Law Is there no meanes left of freedome from Aegyptian Task-masters Was it lawfull for the Army to oppose vassallage and thraledome to the death in the Kings party and shall they so easily subject themselves and by their meanes the whole Kingdome to a farre worse tyranny in some Members of Parliament Or shall they out-strip their Commission which is just and equitable which is still in force till the ends thereof bee performed by the Parliament as well as by them and now run themselves into extravagant courses of Injustice and Tyranny because others doe so Must they bid adieu to their Commission and the fruits of their labours because they have laboured and those who gave them their Commission command them But I shall retort this assertion into your owne bosome againe thus The Parliament are a Parliament by the Kings Warrant and the Peoples Election for hearing complaints and redressing wrongs in the Kingdome But when they act or doany thing that is not in order to or within the limits of that Warrant or Commission unlesse they pretend a Commission limitlesse as the sequele of your discourse imports and tending also to the peoples benefit by whom they were chosen which I take to be the utmost bounds of their calling as a Parliament they are but a tumultuous number of men and though any particular man or number of men in the Parliament step out of their calling or if in their calling run out into by and unwarrantable waies they can upon no good grounds that I know of either looke for protection or expect a blessing And then as you import in the next place however such proceedings being back't with policy and power may have successe at present yet they are sure to be bitternesse in the end For the rest of your Exordium or Introduction into your discourse or pretended Examination I shall leave as impertinent my ordinary imployments not favouring

A JUST VINDICATION OF THE ARMIE WHEREIN All that doubt may have large satisfaction in relation to their late proceedings As touching the Cause beginning continuance and their end therein OR A Book entituled The Examination of the late passages of the Armie especially of the grounds laid down for their Justification in their Declaration June 14. 1647 Examined Refuted By A. WARREN Micah 2.1 2. Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evill upon their beds when the morning is light they practise is because it is in his hand c. Mal. 3.5 And I will come near to you to judgment and I will be a swift Witnesse against those that oppresse the Hireling in his wages the Widdow and the Fatherlesse c. Ipsae etenim leges cupiunt ut Jure regantur In Republica max. ma conservanda sunt Jura Belli LONDON Printed in the Yeere 1647. A full Vindication of the Armie I Have a long time waited and with waiting longed to hear or see somewhat proceed from some of the Army in order to their own justification more able for such imployment and in Answer to the forementioned Book styled The lawfulnesse of the late Passages of the Army c. Examined But hitherto my hopes have been frustrate which hath forced me unapt for such a work to crowd amongst others not out of vain ostentation upon the common Theater ' to each mans publick view my sincear indeavours aspiring no higher then to give satisfaction to my doubting friends if I can next to that main mark whereunto relation ought chiefly to be had in all things even the glory of God I was at first incouraged hereunto by the opprobious and despitefull language I frequently heard in the mouths of divers ill-affected persons against the Army and many times my self being scornfully hit in the teeth by the shewing of this and such like Pamphlets unto me And knowing well enough it can be no affront to Justice to speak the truth in behalf of the condemned Innocent it no whit opposing the just Law of this Kingdom nor right reason which is or ought to be the ground of all Law for Lex est summa Ratio I have undertaken the insuing discourse And as it is the greatest glory that any Nation or People are invested with to be under the Command and Jurisdiction of a sound impartiall and well principled Government and upon good grounds not to fear slavery vassalage thraldom a yoak too ponderous for any to puton especially those who are born free and have the very name of freedom written in so fair a Character in their foreheads Ab Origine that it is conspicious to the whole universe and the remotest Nations can read it as well as themselves So on the contrary for such to lye tamely under the corrupt Constitution of an inslaving power being clothed from their creations with admirable Immunities Nature her self crowning them with so rich a favour and abhorring thraldom in any is the greatest obloquie and brand of shame sorrow and infamie that can befall a free State or Kingdom Oppression injustice and vassalage is not ought not to be indured in any by whomsoever or howsoever imposed it being abominated and detested by the sacred Lawes of Religion Reason Roma Tybur amo vent su Tybure Romam Verg. Nature and Nations It is a very sad disaster and a great sign of instability when men and their principles differ upon every occasion nay sometime without the least visible occasion thereunto I know no one place or text of Scripture the truth whereof hath been better backt and attended in all foregoing ages and our present times Obad. 7. ver with more credible testimonies of verity then Davids so often repeated Maxime That those of a mans own house commonly prove his greatest enemies I shall not make any Application of this to the present opposer only give me so much favour as to tell you with all meeknesse that though you had not that relation to the Army as serve the State with them in particular ingagements in the Field yet that you should pretend friendship when their hearts and hands were active and successefull in fighting for freedom and now desert and deny them for desiring the fruition of the same things they contended for is no lesse then a wonder to me insomuch that I fear you as well as others in cases of the like nature and concernment do hoise saile more for some private unhappy respect then for publick good and interest but beware lest your unsound vessell meet with rocks and there God find you out to your shame Will you give the Army leave to sight and spill their bloud for the recovery of the just wholesome Lawes of the Nation and shall they not be permitted now to speak for the execution of them Will you be a friend when they fight and a foe when they have obtained because they desire the reasonable performance of undeniable ingagements Have not the whole Kingdom cause to look about them and suspect yea and in time prevent a design when men dissent from the Army because their tongues concurre with their hearts hands and the end of their Commission But not to tarry any longer here we will come to the preface or Introduction to your Examination which in the first place you lay down thus â—f the late Declaration from the Army of June 14. 1647. had given satisfaction to all their friends as it seemed to promise in the first line I should then have been silent c. It was not the intent of that first line that the Declaration could without a blessing give satisfaction unto any much lesse to all their friends for it s not in the power of any but God himselfe either to perswade or prevaile with the judgements of men and the Declaration is but a meanes thereunto tending And that the Declaration concluded on by his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Councell of VVarre afterward read in the head of every Regiment in the Army and at last consented unto by the Officers and Souldiers thereof did not give satisfaction though intended for that use to all their pretended friends or reall enemies is not through any insufficiency in the thing it selfe which is to all rationall men satisfactory enough considered as an instrument but either their owne incapability stubbornenesse or selfe-ends by which meanes they will not incline their eares to the truth thereof Then you say who have ever untill some of their late proceedings not onely had the Army in great esteem and honour but studied and endeavoured according to my abilities and place to bee serviceable to them Truly Sir for your pretended esteeme and honour of the Army formerly whilst it lasted they were beholden to you but it sills me with admiration that you were no more reall nor stable and that your principles should be so slippery as degenerate from what they were and your judgement so darkned as to mistake the

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