Conscientious, Serious THEOLOGICAL AND LEGAL QUAERES, Propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created Anti-Parliamentary Westminster Iuncto, AND ITS MEMBERS. TO Convince them of, humble them for, convert them from their transcendent Treasons, Rebellions, Perjuries, Violences, Oppressive illegal Taxes, Excises, militias, Imposts; destructive Councils, Proceedings against their lawful Protestant hereditary Kings, the old dissolved Parliament, the whole House of Lords, the majority of their old secured, secluded, imprisoned fellow Members, the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Freemen, Commons, Church, clergy of ENGLAND, their Protestant Brethren, Allies; contrary to all their oaths, Protestations, vows, 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 persuade them now at last to harken to and embrace such counsels, as tend to public unity, safety, Peace, Settlement, and their own salvation.  
By William Prynne Esq a Bencher of Lincoln's inn.  
The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.  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 sin 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. 
Woe 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 Quaerés, &c.  
THe Wisest of Men, and God only wise, informs all Sons of Wisdom capable of Instruction; that 
a Prov. 27.5, 6●  open rebuke, is better than secret love; because faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful: whence 
b Prov. 28. 23●  he that rebuketh a man, for his exorbitant transgressions, af●erwards shall find more favour, than he that flattereth with the tongue; by extenuating, excusing or justifying his Offences. Upon ●his consideration, I reputed it both a seasonable and Christian duty incumbent on me in this day of the late Anti-Parliamentary juncto's dissipation, humiliation, confusion, and Army-Officers division amongst themselves, to remind them fully of, and 
* Tit. 1.13.  rebuke them plainly, sharply, for their manifold Treasons, Perjuries, and other exorbitant Offences against their lawful Protestant Kings, Kingdom, the late dissolved Parliament, the whole House of Lords, the majority of their fellow-Members, the whole English Nation, Church, ministry, 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 Q●aeres drawn from God's word, and plain sacred Scripture-Texts, and our known Laws, which they have most presumptuously trodden under foot, and 
c Jer. 22.27. c. 5.5. Ezech. 22.27.  would not harken to, in the days of their late self-exaltation and Prosperity, like their Predecessors of old among the Jews: when I minded and reminded them over and over, not only in my Speech, Memento, Collections of our ancient 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 anatomised; My True and Perfect Narrative, and Concordia Discors in May, and June last, and Brief Necessa●y Vindication of the old and n●w secluded Members, in S●ptember●ollowing; (wherein I truly predict●d their former and present dissolutions by those very Army Officers with whom they confederated) which they would n●t cr●dit, till dissolved by them; being in good hopes, that they ●ill now at last Hear Counsel and receive instruction, tha● they may be wise in their latter end, as God himself adviseth them, Prov. 19.20.  
1. Wheth●r their Speaker Mr. Lenthall and those confederate Members of the Commons House, who against their duties, upon pretext of the unarmed London Appren●ices tumult at the House in July 1647. (though they secured, secluded no M●mber●, but only kept them in the House, till they had read, answered their Petitio●, and then quietly depa●ted) went away privily to the Army, by the invitation, instigation of some swaying A●my Officers, without the leave or privity of the House; brought up the whole Army to Westminster and London to conduct them in triumph to the Hous●, caused them to 
* See a Collection of the Armies Engagements, Remonstrances, &c. p. 106, ●o 145.  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 merely void to all int●nts, by the Speakers Declaration, and an Ordinance of ●0. 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 Army again to Westminster, to 
* Animadversions upon the army's Remonstrance, Nov. 20. 1648. p. 10, 11, 12.  force the Houses to pass the Vo●es 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 surprise in an empty House.) After that most traitorously and perfidiously 
f See the 2. part of the History of Independency.  confederated with the Army Officers to break off the last treaty with the King in the Isle of Wight; to seize the King's person by a party of the army, & remove him thence against both Houses Orders, notwithstanding his large Concessions & consent to their Propositions: to secure, seclude all the Members of the Commons House, who after many days and one whole night's debate, passed this Vote according to their judgements, consciences, duties (carried without dividing the House, notwi●hstanding 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 & Members, was concluded by a Committee at Windsor consisting of 4. A●my officers, whereof Col. Harrison (their chairman, 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 sit; this Committee resolving to dissolve both houses by force, and to try, condemn, execute the King by a Council of war, 
g See the Republicans spurious good old Cause briefly and truly anatomised, P. 1. to 6.  if they could not get 40 of the Commons 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 majority of the House by their Vote of Ian. 11. 1648. upon the army-officers false and scandalous printed Answer to them, Ian. 3. touching the grounds of their securing and secluding them, contrary 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-Parliamentary, anti-christian Usurpation, to outact the old G●npowder traitors many degrees, by the army's assistance, and 
2 Thess. 2.4.  opposing, advancing themselves against all that is called God and worshipped, they most traitorously set aside, voted down, suppressed the whole House of Lords, as dangerous, useless, tyrannical, unnecessary; usurped, engrossed the ●●ile, power o●the Parliament of England, and Supreme Authority of the Nation, to themselves alone, without King, Lords, or Majo●ity of their fellow secluded Members; created a new Monstrous High Court of justice, (destructive to all our fundamental Laws, Liberties and Justice itself) wherein (beyond all precedents since the creation) they most presumptuously condemned, murdered, beheaded their own lawful hereditary Protestant King (against all their former oaths, Protestations, Vows, Covenants, Remonstrances, Declarations, Obligations, Allegiance, the Laws of the Land, the principl●s of the Protestant Religion, and dissenting votes, protestations, dissuasions of the secluded Lords, Commons, Scots, Commissioners, London Ministers; the intercessions of foreign States and our 3. whole Kingdoms,) together with 3. Protestant Peers soon after: After that, close imprisoned myself, Sir William Waller, Sir William jews, Major General Brown, with sundry other Members divers years in remote Castles, without any hearing, examination, cause expressed, or the least reparation for this unjust oppression; exercising far greater Tyranny 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 a●d providence (when they deemed themselves most secure and established) even for these their transcendent Treasons, Perjuries, Tyrannies, violations of the Rights, Privileget of Parliament, their own sacred Oaths, Protestation, League, Covenant, suddenly dissolved, dissipated, thrust out of doors, Apr. 20. 1653. by Cromwell and the Army Officers in a forcible shameful manner, with whom they confederated all along, though they received new commissions from, & engaged to be true & ●aithful to them without ● King or House of Lords, and branded by them to posterity in their printed Declaration, 
b See their Declarations and Papers of April 20. And August 12. 1653● And true State of the Commonweal●h of England p. 8, to 12.  Apr. 20. 1653. as the curruptest, and worst of men; intolerably oppressing the people, carrying on their own ambitious designs, to perpetu●te themselves in the parliamentary and Supreme authority, 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 employed by Cromwell to pull their Speaker Lenthall out of the chair, and turn him with his Companions out of doors; Cromwell himself then stigmatising Sir Henry Vanes, Henry Martin, Tom Ch●lloner 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. Harri●on, Rich, and their party out of the Commons House by Force, dissolved their Anti-Parliamentary Conventicle (elected only by the Army) De●. 11. 1653. whiles they were seeking God for direction; and soon after cashiered both these 
* As he did Col. Overton, Okey, and sundry others.  colonels, (his former greatest Instruments) out of the Army, sent them close Prisoners to remote Castles guarded with Army Troops; And as they and their Troops when they seized Major General Brown, with other Members besides, and conducting them to Windsor Castle, & other Prisons, refused to acquaint them whether they were to be sent: So Mr. Iess●p the Clerk of their Council of State, (who brought these Colonels to the Coach at Whitehall garden door, when they were conveyed to remote Castles) and their Conductors, denied to inform them to what places they w●re committed; whereupon they cried out to the Troopers which guarded them; Gentlemen, is this the Liberty you and we have fought for, to be sent close Prisoners to rem●te Garrisons from our wives and families, they will not tell us whether? Will you suffer your own colonels, Officers, who have fought for Laws, Liberties, & have been Members of Parl● 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: a● an eye and ear-witnes● of the old Parliament, related to me within one hour after. Yea young Sir Hen. Va● himself (the bold prejudger of our Deba●es and Vote in the House touching the King's concessions, if not a promoter of our unjust seclusion ●or it) was unexpectedly & suddenly, not only thrust ou● from all his employments, as well a● out of the H●use, bu● sent close Prisoner by Cromwell to Cari●brook ●astle in the Isl● of Wight, the very place where he betrayed his trust to the King and Parli●ment at the Treaty, to gratify Cromwell, who by an extraordinary strange providence, sent him clo●e Prisoner thither for sundry months, to 
* See his re●ired Ma●s (unintelligible) Meditation●.  medi●ate upon this divine retaliation. Whether may not all this dissolved Iuncto and it● Members, from these wonder●ul Judgement●, providence●, now conclude and cry out with that h●athen cruel Tyrant Adonibezeck. Judg. 1.7. A● I have done● so God hath requited me? And acknowledge the truth of God's Comminations against all treacherous betrayers & potent oppressor● of their Brethren, Obad. 15. As thou hast ●one, it shall be don● unto thee, thy r●ward shall return upon thine own head. Ps. 7.15, 16. He made a pit and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which be made; his mischief shall return upon his own ●ead, and his violent dealing upon his ow● pa●e. Rev. 13.9, 10●If any man ha●e an ear to ●ear, let him hea●; He that leadeth into Cap●ivity, shall go into Captivity: He that killeth with the Sword shall be killed with the Sword. Here is the patience, and faith of the S●ints. O that all real and pretended Saint● in the dissolved Juncto and Army would now consider and believe it: as ● l●tely pressed them to do, in the close of my Good Old Cause truly sta●ed, and the false Vncased; yet they would not regard it.  
Whether their illegal forcible wresting the Militia of the Kingdom totally out of the King● hands into their own; as their only security to sit in safety; and perjurious engaging all Officer●, Soldiers of the army in England, Scotland, and Ireland, to be true, faithful and constant is them without a King, or House of Lords (by subscription● in parchmen● Roll● r●turned to them under all their hand●) contrary to their former Votes, Declarati●ns● Remonstrances, Protestations, Oath●, Vows, Covenants, Trust●, yea the very writs, returns which made them Members, their own Souldier●, Army-Officers first Commission●, Declaration●, R●monstrance●, Propos●l●; and depending on thi● 
g Jer. 17.5.  arm of fles●, or broken 
h isaiah 36.6.  reed of Egypt, as a most sure invine●ble Gu●rd, security, from all forces, and enemies wha●soever that might assault, dishouse, dethrone them from their usurped supreme Regal and Parliamental Authority over the three Nations, and their Hereditary King●, 
* Lu. 19.27.  whom they would not have to reign over them; hath not been most ●xemplarily and eminently requited by God● avenging providence, in making the very selfsame Army most treacherou● and perfidious to themselves, to rise up, rebel against them several times, and turn them out of Hous●, power on a sudden when they deemed them●elves most secur●; to make themselves more than Kings and Lord● over th●m and our whole 3 Kingdom●; and 
i isaiah 24.21.  An host of the High ones that are on high upon the earth: reviving that Att●xie, which Solomon complained of as a great error in Government, and a divine judgement upon the Author● of State Innovation●. Eccles. 10.6, 7, 8, 9 Folly is se● in great dignity, and t●e ri●h sit in l●w place● I have see● servants ●n ●orseback, and Princes walking ●s Servants upon the earth. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it, and who so breaketh a beged a Serpent shall bite him: Whosoe●er removeth stones shall be hurt therewith, ●nd ●e that cle●veth wood shall be endangered t●ereby● Whether that curse and judge●●nt, Jer. 17. 5● 6 Thus, saith the Lord, cursed ●e the man that tru●teth i● man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departet● from the Lord; For he shall be like the heath in the desar●, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inherit the parc●ed places in the wilderness, a salt land, and not inh●bited● hath not justly b●f●ll●n them & our Nation, ●or relying on & trusting to an ●rm of flesh, an Army & 
* Jer. 9.2, &c.  Assembly of tr●acherous men, whom themselves t●ught, encouraged to be treacherou●, per●urious to the King, Parl. Lords, their fellow●Memb●r●● and 
k Is●y 33.1. Jer. 9●, to 22.  thereby to themselves; yet voted, cried them up for their fait●full Army, Savi●u●●, Delivere●●, Pro●ect●●●, Shields, and ●o●ly Safegua●d, after they had dealt ●rea●●erously with themselves, and all their other Sup●rior●; and proved like 
l isaiah 36.6. Ezeck. 49.9, 7.  Egypt to the Israelites who trusted on them: When they ●ook ●old of thee by the hand, thou didd●st break and pierce throug● the hand● and rent all their shoulders, and when they leaned upon thee, th●u breakest and madest all their loins to be at a stand; ye●, dissolved, and 
m isaiah 30.14.  broke them in pieces like a po●ters ves●el, so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it, a s●eard to take fire from the hearth, or water ou● o● the pit. And may we not then t●ke up thi● Song of the Lamb? Rev. 15.3, 4. Great and marvellous are thy work● Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways thou King of Saints; who shall not fear thee, o Lord, and glorify thy name, For thy judgements are made manifest?  
Whether their clandestine, sudden, indirect stealing into the Commons House again, May 7. 1659. upon the Army-Officer● invitation and Declaration, (who formerly tu●ned them ●ut of it with high●st infamy, contempt and defam●tion April 20. 1653.) after about 6. year● dissolu●●on, ●nd 4. intervenient unparliamentary Conventicle●, (wherein many of them sat as Members, and acted as in Parliament●) by pretext of their old Wri●● and Elections as M●mber● of the long Parliament, ●ctually and legally dissolved by their traiterou● beheading of the King near 11. years before, as I have 
* In Prynne the Member recon●iled to Prynne the barrister. A Legal Vindication against illegal Taxes, A True and perfect Narrative, p. 24, to 34. A brief necessary Vindication of the old and new secl●ded Members●●. 5.  elsewhere proved; without any new Writs of Summon●, Resum●ons, Electio●s, or the privity of their ●or●er electors or fellow Members: Their forcible s●cluding of myself, Sir George ●ooth, Mr. Ansly, all formerly s●cluded Member●● and others not fitting with them from 1648. till April 20. 1653. by Army-Officers and Guards of soldiers placed at the door ●or that end, and their justifi●●tion, and ●ontinuing of this new seclu●ion as w●ll ●s t●e old: Their usurping to themselves the Title, Power of the Parliament of the 〈◊〉 of England, Scotland a●d●●eland, and Supreme Authority of the Nation. Their ex●rcisin● both the Highest Regal, Parliamental, Legislative, Tax-imposing Authority over our Nation●, (the worst, highest of all other Treas●●●s) their ●r●ating new unheard of Treas●●●, Exile● by thei● 〈◊〉 Proclamations, imposing N●w intolerable Tax●●● Excises, Mill●●a●● on the whole Nation, against all Laws, and our Fundamental Liberties, Franchis●●. Their mo●t injurious, illegal, unpresidented proclaiming of Sir George Booth, Sir Thomas Middleton, with other old and new ●ecluded Members of the long Parliament, and all their adherents, traitors, Enemies to the commonwealth, and Apostates, not only i● all Counties and Corporation●, bu● Churches and Chapels too throughout the Nation, to abuse both God and men, only for raising forces by virtue of Ordinances and Commissions granted ●hem by the long Parliament (which themselves pretended to b● still continuing) to defend the Rights and Privilege● of Parliament, to call in all the surviving Members of both Houses to sit with them, or procure a free and full Parl. duly summoned, according to the Protestation, Vow, League, Covenant, and Laws of the Land, being their own and the whole Nations Birthright, for defence whereof the Army it sel● was both raised, continued, and themselves in their Proclamation of May 7. 1659. and Declaration of March 17. 1648 promised inviolably to maintain; which their own consciences knew to be no Crime nor Treason at all, but an honest, legal, honourable, necessary undertaking, justified by all their former Votes, Orders, Ordinances, Commissions for raising force● against the King● party for the selfsame end: And themselves greater Traitors, Enemies to the Kingdom and republic, than Strafford, Canterbu●y, or the beheaded King, in proclaiming their defence of this undo●bted Inheritance of all English Freemen against their Tyrannical usurpations thereo●, to be Treason and apostasy: Their sending out of Major Gen. Lambert, (who invited them into the House May 6. conducted them into it, but secluded Sir G. Booth & other Members out of it, May 7. took a new Commission from them afterward● in the House, and promised with many large expressions, ●o be true, faithful, constant, and yield his u●most assistance to them, to set in safety and support their power) with great forces against Sir George Booth and all his adherents in this cause, being the Majority of the old Parl. and of the people of the Nation, & the true old Parliament if continuing, ●o levy actual war against them; declared 
* Exact Coll. p. 576, 613. A Collection of Ordinances, p. 13.219, 220.  high Treason by sundry Votes and former Declarations, and so resolved by themselves in their Impeachments against the beheaded King, the E. of Holland, L. Capel, other●, and late Pamphlets against the Army; who accordingly levied war against them● routed their forces, reduced their Garison●, imprisoned their persons, sequestered, confiscated their estates as Traitors; secured, disarmed Sir Will. Waller, Mr. Holles, with sundry other old Members, promised rewards for bringing in the persons or heads of others they endeavoured to secure, against all rules of Law, and Christianity; kept a public humiliation for their good success against Sir George Booth and his adherents, and after their defeat a public thanksgiving through Westminster and London, to mock God himself (
* Gal. 6, 7.  who will not be mocked) to his very face, and ordained a public thanksgiving throughout the whole Nation, to abuse both God and them, for their Great Deliverance from the most Dangerous Plot and Treason of Sir George Booth, and his party; (to bring in all the old Members to sit with them, without turning those then sitting out, or to procure a free Parliament,) that so their Anti-Parliamentary Conventicle, by this pretext, might exercise a Perpetual tyranny, and Parliamental Authority over them; and none thenceforth dare demand a full and free Parliament for the future, under pain of highest Treason, apostasy, and the loss of their very Heads and estates. Whether all these their transcendent High Treasons, with their former 1648. against the K. secluded Members, Lords, Parliament, people, were not by a most signal miraculous Providence and Justice of God himself recompensed immediately after upon their own, Lamber●s, and other army-officers head●, by making their rou●iing of Sir George Booth and his party, after their first thanksgiving for it, before the next day of general thanksgiving came, the very occasion of their sudden unexpected dissolution: 1. [By over-elevating lambert's, his Officers and Brigades Spirits, (notwithstanding the signal Marks and Rewards of their Favours towards them, for the present, and future promises of advancement for their Fidelity to them in this Service) to enter into contestations with them by their Petition and Representations. 2ly. By raising the differences and jealousies between them to such a height and open enmity, notwithstanding all their large Votes & compliances to satisfy them, all means, mediations of Friends, and the Londoners public Feast on their thanksgiving day, to reconcile them; as to incense the Juncto to vote Major Harrison (a chief agent, Chairman for the old Members first seclusion) uncapable of any public Trust or Office: 
a See the army's Plea and Declaration, 27 October. The printed Votes, Diurnals, and Parliaments Plea.  to vote Lambert, Disbrow, Creed, and 6. more field Officers out of their commands, null their Commissions, and dispose of their Regiments to the next Officers, without any hearing or examination; if not threatening to commit Lambert to the Tower as a traitor; to repeal Fleetwood's Commission and Knack to be Lieutenant General of their Forces in England and Scotland; and put the command of the Army and new Militia under 7. Commissioners, to wrest the power of them both into their own hands. 3ly. By exasperating Lambert and his confederates by these Votes so far against them, & giving them such favour with the army, as to draw up the greatest part of the forces about London in battle array against them; and notwithstanding their party in the army, whereof they had made many of themselves Colonels, their interest in the Militia of Westminster, London, Southwark, and Sir Henry Vanes two Regiments of Gathered Churches (who were disgregated and kept their Chambers all that day, not one of them appearing in the field, because their valiant colonel took a Clyster pipe into his fundament, instead of a Lance into his hand in the day of battle, and durst not hazard a broken pate in the quarrel;) and then in a hostile warlike manner to besiege many of them in Whitehall, block up all passages to the House, seize upon their old Speaker with his Coach, Mace, and new General (without a Sword, army, Troop or Company) from whose hands they had freshly received their Commissions, turning him back from whence he came; to charm all the juncto's forces so, as to march away without drawing one sword, or shooting one bullet in their defence, so true, faithful, were they to their good old cause, as well as to their New Protectors, as to deem neither of them worth one bloody nose. 4. By engaging Lamber● and his party, notwithstanding all endeavoured and seeming accommodations be●ween them, to seize upon their House, and their provisions of ammunition and victuals in it: to lock up the doors, and keep constant Guards upon the stairs to seclude all these their new Lords and Masters, as they did on May 7, 9 & afterwards seclude their fellow-Members; and not content herewith, by a printed Plea for the Army, and Declaration of the Ge●eral Council of the Army, sitting at Wallingford House, which called them in, and thus shamefully not long after turned them out of doors, (usurping to themselves both a Regal Authority to call and dissolve Parliaments, (as they ●epute and style them) and a Parliamental too, in making and repealing Acts of Parliament (as they deem them) at their pleasure;) they not only justi●ie this their forcible ejectment, seclusion to all the world by Lex talionis, even their own abetting, approving, justifying, the Armies former seclusion of the Major part of thei● fellow Members, who were the House, and the whole House of Lords, and securing the leading Members, when over poured by them, and appealing to the Armies Judgements therein: but also put a period to their assembly: branded, ●●lled, repealed, declared their last Votes, Acts● Proceedings void to all intents & purposes whatsoever, ●s if they had never been made; Censured them as imperfect, ineffectual, irregular, ●nparliamentary, illegal, pernicious, r●sh, inconsiderate; branding each other in several printed Papers, for traitors, Trust-breakers, Treacherous, Perfidious, F●ithless, Vurighteous, Ambitious, Self-seeking usurpers of the sovereign power, oprressors of the free people of England, & invaders, betrayers of their Liberties & birth-rights: the●eby declaring the old secluded Member, the only honest, faithful, constant, conscientious men, adhering to their good old ●ause, Oaths, Covenant, Principles, and the public interest; & Sir George Booth himself to be No traitor, but truer Patriot of his Country than any of themselve●, as dying Pure●oy, openly acknowledged before his death, and others of them confess in private, since even Lambert himself hath done and exceeded that work, they feared he would do, by dissolving their Conventicle, and turning them out of house and power, which Sir George did not design. Whether all these strange, unparalleled, sudden, unexpected animosities, divisions between themselves; their uncommissioning, dissolving, cashiering, disofficing one another, (which I truly predicted to them from Scriptures, and former Providences, in my Good Old Cause truly stated; my True and Perfect Narrative, p. 94.98. and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members, p. 61, 62.) be not the very finger of God himself, 
a Exod. 8.19. Psa. 118.23.  the Lord's own doing, truly marvellous in all our eyes; yea the very particular Judgement menaced by God himself against all such Traitors and Innovators, as most audaciously and professedly violate with the highest hand this divine precept, Prov. 24. 21● 22. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King, and meddle not with those that are given to change; for their Calamity shall suddenly arise, and who knoweth the ruin of them both: and a verification of Prov. 29.1? If not a divine infliction of the very Confusion and punishment denounced by God himself against Aegyp● of old for their crying sins, isaiah 19.2, 3, &c. I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour, City against City, and Kingdom against Kingdom: A●d the Spirit of Egypt 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 ●ervers●ties amongst them, & they have caused Egypt (yea England) to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit● Neither shall there be any work ●or Egypt, which the head or toil, branch or root may do● to defend or establish themselves or their pretended yet un●●●med Free-State. And may not they all then and others 〈◊〉 the consideration of all the promises, justly cry 〈◊〉 with the Apostle in an holy admiration. Rom. 11.33. O the depth of the Riches b●●● of the wisdom and knowledge of God● how unsearchable are his judgements, and his ways part finding out.  
4. Whether the Juncto and their High Court of Inj●stice-men, who had any hand, vote in the traitorous, Perfidious beheading of their late Protestant King, the head of the Parliament; dissolving and blowing up the whole House of Lords, the Majority of the Commons House, the whole old Parl●●ment, Kingdom, Kingsh●p; the Prince of Wales next heir and successor to the Crow●; the rights, privileges, freedom of Parliament, the fundamental Laws, Liberties, Government of the Nation, and our established Protestant Religion, against all their oaths, Allegiances, Trusts, Duties, Votes, Declarations, Remonstrances, Protestations, Vows, Solemn Leagues, Covenants obliging them to the contrary; can with any faith, boldness, confidence, piety, or real devotion appear before the presence of God, Angels, Men in any of our Congregations on the 5. of November, the 
* 3 Jac. c. 1, 2,  joyful day of our deliverance, from the Popist● Gunpowder Treason● publicly celebrated every year; to render public thanks to Almighty God, and ascribe all honour, glory and praise to his name, for hi● great and infinite mercy in delivering the King, Queen, Prince, Lords spiritual and temporal when assembled in the Lord's House, Nov. 5. An. 1650. (from this plot of malicious, devilish Papists, Jesuites & Seminary Priests, who maligning the happiness and prosperity of our Realm, Church and Religion under a Protestant King, and its promising contin●ance to all posterity, in his most hopeful, royal, plentiful Progeny, intend●d to blow them all up suddenly with gunpowder, but were ●hrough God's great mercy miraculously delivered from this sudden bo●rid Treason, by a wo●derful discovery thereof some few hours before it was to be 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 repute themselves Protestants, and the emineniest of all Saints? Whether they can without the 〈◊〉 est horror of conscience, confusion of face, spirit, ●●●●sternation of mind, and grief of hear, henceforth ●●●sume to appear before the presence of God, or any English Protestant●●t any time, especially on this day, before they have publicly lamented, confessed, repented, and made some open eminent satisfaction, for those transcend●nt new Gunpowder-Treasons, far worse than the old of the Jesuits and Papists, by whom they were acted in this; especially if they consider God's 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 s●west these Powder traitors, 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 thyself: For thou that judgest, dost the same things. But we know that the judgement of God is according to Tru●h against th●se 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 Lawyer●, who (though not fifty in number) sitting under a force a●ter 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 dishonourable to the proceed of Parliament, and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom. And that the Vote of 5. D●cemb. 1648. (passed without dividing the House when there were 300 Members in it) That the answers of the King ●o the Proposition of both Houses, are a sufficient g●●und for the House to proceed upon, 
* These Voters certainly intended to make an endless trade of war, and never to have any Peace.  for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom: is highly dishonourable to the Parliament, and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom, and tending to the breach of the public faith of the Kingdom. And in their Declaration of 15. January 1648. expressing their Reasons for annulling and vac●ting these Votes in this manner; declared them to be ●ig●ly repugnant to the glory of God, greatly dishonourable to the proceedings of Parliamen●, 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 contrary, embroiling us in endless Wars, Seditions, Tumults, Successions, Revolutions of new-modelled Governments, & oppressing, destructive Anti-Parliame●tary Conventicles ever sithence. After that suppressed our Kings and Kingly Government, as the Instruments, Occasions of Tyranny, I●justice, Oppression, Luxury, Prodigality and Slavery to the Commons under them; together with the whole House of Lords, as Dangerous, useless, Dilatory t● the proceed of Parliament, &c. in their Votes of Febr. 6. and 
* Penned by Mr. Whitlock.  Declaration of 17 Martii 1648. expressing the grounds of their lute Proceedings, and se●ling the Government in way of a Free State● Next, prescribed, subscribed an engagement to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth established by ●hem without a King or House of Lords. Yet afterwards in their New modelled Parliament (a● 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 settling the peace and tranquillity of our Nations; advised, pe●i●ioned, and pressed hi● to accept the Name, Title, Power and sovereign 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 less than. Twelve hundred thousand pounds a year in perpetuity, and five hundred thousand pounds more for 3. years' space, out of the people's exhausted purse●, after most of the ancient Crown-lands and Revenues sold, when as they them●elves affirmed and published in their Decl. of March 17. 1648. p. 19 that the justi●iable, legal Revenue of the Crown under King Charles (be●●des the Customs and some other p●●quis●●es, cha●●ed with the maintenance of the Nav●e and Forts) fell shors of ●n● hundred thousand pounds yet 〈◊〉. This new-augmented Revenue for their New King Oliver's 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 ●ery 
* Lenthall, Whitlock, &c.  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 satis●ie him, why he might and aught in reason, law, policy, conscience to accept the Kingship and Kingly Title, for his own and the public Safety● Which he r●●using (●gainst hi● 
* through fear of some Army Officers.  desire) they voted him their Royal Protector, took an Oath to be true and faithful to him, and to his Son Ri●hard after him, and to act nothing against their Persons or Power; created themselves Ano●her House● assumed to themselves the Title of Lords, and THE HOUSE OF LORDS, notwithstanding their Engagements against it under all their hands. Yet soon after dethroned their young Protector, nulled all his Conventions wherein they sat, with all Lordships, Knightships, and Offices granted by their Protectors, as illegal; revived their Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto, after it had lain buried in oblivion above 6 years' space, in May last; and in July following prescribed a New Oath and engagement to all Officers, & others who would enjoy the benefit of their Knack of Indemnity; To be true, faithful and constant to their commonwealth (though yet unborn) without a Single person, Kingship, or House of Lords? Whether such treacherous, perjured double-minded men, unstable in all their ways, Jam. 1.8. can ever be deemed chosen instruments ordained of God, to settle the Peace, or Government of our Nations? Whether the Proph●t isaiah c. 59 and the Apostle Paul, Rom. 3.9.10. &c. have not truly characterised 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 threat is an open sepulchre, with their Tongues (yea oaths, Protestations, Declarations, Covenants) they have ●sed deceit, the poison of Asps is under their li●s: Their feet are swift to shed blood, (the blood of their Protestant King, Peers, Brethren, Alli●s, 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 ways, and the way of peace they have not known; there is no fear of God before their eyes: they have made them crooked paths, 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 noonday, as in the night; we are in desolate places like dead men: we roar all like Bears, and mou●n sore like doves; we look for judgement, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.  
6. Whether God himself hath not given the Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto, and General Council of Army Officers hitherto, in their jesuitical Project of bringing forth a misshapen monstrous Commonwealth, and whymfical Freest●t●, to establish thing● amongst us, a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts; so as we may justly say of them as the Prophet did of Ephraim; Hos. 9.12, 14.15, 16. Ephraim is smitten, their r●●t it dried 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 w●mb, and from the conception; as their Commonwealth whimfie● have done? Whether God's signal over-●urning, and forcible dissolving the Iuncto by the Army-Officers, twice on●●ft●r another in the very generation of this jesuitical brat, before it was formed in the womb, to disinherit our ancient hereditary legitimate Kings and Kingship, and their turning of all things upside down (our Kings, Kingdom●, Parliaments, Lords' House, laws, Liberties, oaths, Church, Religion, to make way for its production) hath not been like the potter's clay, (a rude deformed Chao●, without any lineaments, or shape at all;) so as the work yet saith of h●m that made it, he made me not; and the thing formed saith of him that formed it, he hath no understanding, Isa. 29.16? Wh●ther these new Ba●e●-builders, whiles th●y have been building this new City and Tower, to keep them from being scattered upon the face of the whole earth, 
* Gen. 11.3, to 10.  have not like the old Babel-builders, been confounded in their language by God himself, that they might not understand one another's speech, and scattered abroad thence upon the face of the earth, though guarded by their faithful Army, on whom they relied for protection, so that they left off to build their Babel, like them? Their City of confusion 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. isaiah 24.10, 12. It shall lie waste from generation to generation, none shall pass through it for ever and ever; But the Cormorant & the Bittern shall possess it; the Owl 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 Utopian Commonwealth, instead of our old hereditary Kingship, is not a 
* Acts 5.39. c. 23.9.  direct fighting against God, and the express precepts, ordinances of God himself, Prov. 24.21, 22. 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, mercy, favour of God towards our Kingdoms and Nations for their establishment; the want of a lawful, hereditary King, to reign over a Kingdom and Nation, and a multiplicity of Governors, Kings, (especially of inferior 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; 
* See my True and perfect Narrative, p. 92, 93.  so that she hath no strong rod left to Rule, being a matter of present and future lamentation, a severe judgement of God for their sins, and wickedness, yea an occasion of all wickedness, licentiousness, villainies, confusion, and an immediate forerunner or concomitant of the Kingdoms and Nations desolation, ruin by God's own resolution, Hos. 3.4. c. 10.3.7. Ezech 49.11, 12.14, Isa. 33.11, 12, 13. Judges 17.6 &c. c. 18.1. &c. c. 21.25. Prov. 28.2. c. 30 21, 12. Hab. 1.10.14, 15. And is it not so now of ours?  
7. Whether the late Petition and Advice 1657. to reduce us again to a Kingdom and Kingship, to which W. Lenthal, Speaker, Whitlock, and many others of the dissolved Iuncto assented, as it was first penned, voted, passed by them and many Army-Officers, as the only means to settle us in peace, honour, safety, prosperity; be not a convincing Argument, that in their own Judgements; Consciences; Kings & Kingly Government, are England's only true Interest, to end our wars, Oppressions, distractions, prevent our ruin, and restore our pristine uni●ie, peace, honour, safety, prosperity, trade, glory? And whether it be not a worse than Bedlam Madness, yea gross error both in policy and experience in our Republican Juncto and Army-Officers, to endeavour to erect an Utopian, Jesuitical republic among us, (which hath produced so many sad public change●, confusions, and made us a mere floating Island, tossed about with every wind of giddy-brain Innovators) as the only means of our firm, lasting happiness; and to prevent all future relapses to monarchy after King Charles hi● beheading; which this notable censure of the incomparable Philosopher 
* De Beneficiis, l. 2. c. 20.  Seneca passed against that great Republic●n and anti-royalist, M. Brutus, will abundantly refute. Cum Vir magnus fuerit in aliis, M. Brutus, mihi videtur in hâc re vehementer errare, qui aut Regis nomen extimuit, cum optimus Civitatis Status sub Rege justo sit: aut ibi speravit Libertatem futuram ubi tàm magnum praemium erat, et imperandi et serviendi; futuramque ibi aequalitatem civilis juris, et Staturas suo loco Leges, ubi viderat tot Millia hominum pugnantia, non ne serviret, fed 〈◊〉: (our present condition between the ambitious, usurping Antiparliamentary Juncto, and divided Army-Commander●, all contending which 
* Mark 9.34. Luke 9.46. c. 21.24.  of them shall be the greatest, and who shall most oppress, enslave our N●tions to their tyranny, far more exorbitant than the very worst of all our Kings) Quantum verò illum, aut rerum natura, aut vrbis suae tenuit oblivio Qui uno interempto (Rege) defuturum credidit alium qui idem vellet; Cum Tarqvinius esse● inventus post tot Reges ferro et fulmine occisos; even in Rome itself, and we in England since the beheading of King CHARLES, and voting down Kings, Kingship, with the old House of Lords, and Ingagemen●s against them, have soon after found, a more than Royal Protector OLIVER, usurping the Wardship of our poor Infan● commonwealth, aspiring after a Kingship and Crown whiles living; and crowned in his Statue, hearse, Scu●●heons as both KING and 
* The Sexton● boy at Westminster, who showed his hearse, at first said, Here is the hearse of Oliver late Protector; THE CONQUEROR OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND & IRELAND, whose CROWNS he ●ears upon his SWORD: and said he had order to say so.  CONQUEROR of our three kingdoms after his death; bearing Three Crowns upon his sword, as an emblem of it: a momentany Protect●r Richard after him; a new self-created other House, assuming to themselves the Title of LORDS & THE HOUSE OF LORDS; after an old Lord's House suppressed; since that, a CHARLES FLEETWOOD, and John LAMBERT, aspiring after the sovereign Power, as their late and present actions, Declarations more than intimate, and dissolved Juncto affirm: and an exiled hereditary KING CHARLES, with a numerous ROYAL posterity after him, claiming the Crown and Kingship by lawful indubitable Right, declared, ratified by the Vnrepealed Statutes of 1 Jacobi, c. 1. 3 Jacobi, c 1, 2, 4, 7 Jacobi c 6. the 
* See my Concordia Discor●  oaths of Supremacy, Allegiance, Feal●y; of all Mayor●, Recorders, Freemen of every Corporation and Fraternity, of all justices, judges, Sheriffs, Officers of justice, Graduates in universities or inns of Court, Ministers, Incumbents, all Members of the Commons House of Parliament, and all other Freemen sworn in our Leet●; who by the powerful assistance of their foreign Friend● and Allies, and domestic, oppressed, discontented, divided, ruined Subject●, will in all probability be restored to the Crown, sooner or later, (as Aurelius Ambros●us after the murder of his Father and Brother by the usurper Vor●igerne,) was called in, restored and crowned King by his own British Subjects, to deliver them from Vortigern's and his invading Saxons Tyranny, after 21 years' usurpation; and Edward the Confessor, called in and crowned King by his Nobles and Subjects, after 25 years' dispossession of his right by the Dani●h usurpers, and all the Danes expelled, without any effusion of blood; as I have 
* See my Legal Historical Vindication, &c.  elsewhere evidenced at large out of our best Historians.  
Whether God's extraordinary sudden tr●ble miraculous overturning 1. of the Juncto when best established an● mo●t secure, after ●heir victorious Successes against the Irish, Scots, Hollanders, Worcester-fight, and League with Spain by their own Gen. Cromwell Apr. 20. 1653. 2. Of Pr●t. 
* Isay. 14.20. The seed of evil doers shall never be renowned.  Richard (& his Brother Hen. too Deputy of Irel.) by his Brother Fleew. uncle Disbrow, & other Army-Officers, after all their Oaths, and Addresses to him from them and all the Officers, Soldiers, Navy, most Counties, Corporations in England, Scotland, Ireland, to be true, faithful, loyal, ob●dient to, and live and die with him, in the midst of hi●Parliament, declaring, voting for, and complying with him; when most men though● it impossible to over●urn or depose him. 3ly, Of the revived Antiparliamentary Juncto, after Sir George Booths, and all their visible Opposites total rout and disappointment, when 
* Ps. 30.6, 7.  themselves and others esteemed them so well rooted, guarded, that there was no hopes nor possibility left of dissipating● dissolving them, or abolishing their usurped Regal and Parliamental power, even by the very instruments that called them in, and routed their Enemies; all ●● of them without any one drawn sword or drop of blood, & that in a moment, be not a real, experimental verific●tion of Ezech. 21.26, 27. by way of Allusion to our own governors and Kingdom, Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the Diadem, and take off the Crown, this shall not be the same● exalt him that is low, and abase him tha● is high: I will Overturn, Overturn, Overturn it, till he shall come whose right it is, and I will give it him?  
9 Whether the late junctoes and A●my-Officer● doubling, trebling, quadrupling of our Nations Monthly Taxes, Excises, militias, Grievances, Oppressions of all kinds by their usurped power; their consumption, devastation of all the Crown-lands, Rents, and standing Revenues of the Kingdom; of Bishops, Dean and Chapters lands, and many thousands of Delinquents real and personal estates, and greatest part of most ●ens private estates, only to make them greater Bondslaves to them than ever they were to any King●; without benefiting or easing them in any kind; and to murder one another by intestin●, unchristian warr●, Butcheries: And their Monstrous Giddiness, Intoxication in all their premised Councils, New Models, and Rotations of Government, ever since they turned the Head of ●●r Kingdoms (which should r●le, direct the whole body) downwards, and the Heels uppermost, to animate and steer it, against the course of nature, that rules of Law, policy, Christianity: and God's 
* Hos. 2.6, 7.  hedging up all their new byways with thorns, and making a wall 'cross them, that the people are not able to find their paths: nor to overtake, nor find their New Lovers they have hitherto followed and sought after; and those mad new whimsies the Jesuits infuse into their Pates from time to time, to make them and ou● Nation ridiculous to all the world till utterly destroyed: may not justly engage our three distracted Nations, and themselves too now, at a total loss; to ●esolve and say with the Israelites, (when revol●ed from their rightful Kings of the House of David in the like case) Hos. 2.7. I will go and return to my first Husband for then was it better with me than now? And to imitate the Israelites in the case of King David when expelled his Realm by his usurping son Absoloms' rebellion, after his rout and slaughter, 2 Sam. 19.9, &c. And all the people were at strife throughout all the Tribes of Israel● saying; The King saved us out of the hands of our Enemies, and he delivered us out of the hands of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the Land for Absolom, and Absolom whom we anointed King over us, is dead in battle (as their Pro. Oliver, Richard and dissolved Juncto are in a moment) now therefore why are ye silent, and speak not a word of bringing back the King to his House: And Zadok and Abiathar the Priests, spoke unto the elders of Judah saying; Why are ye the last to bring the King back to his House; seeing ye are his brethren, of his bone and his flesh? And Amasa bowed the heart of all the Men of Judah, even as one man, so that they sent this word unto the King; Return thou and all thy servants. So the King returned to Jordan; where all the people of Judah, and half the men of Israel met him, and conducted him safe to Gilgal; and the men of Judah clave unto their King from Jordan even to Jerusalem; and re-established him in his Kingdom. Whether this be not the only safe, true, legal, prudential, Christian, speedy and ready highway to their present and future Peace, Ease, Safety, Settlement, Wealth, Prosperity, both as Men and Christians, without any further effu●ion of Christian blood, expense of Treasure; not other new Vertiginous Models, Army Councils, Treaties, tending to further confusions; (out of which the Nobility, Gentry, Ministry, Freeholders, Citizens, Burgesses, Merchants, Commons, Sea men, Parliaments of our 3. Nations are totally secluded, like mere ciphers, by the Iuncto and Army-usurpers, as if they were mere Aliens, and wholly unconcerned in their own Government, Settlement, who will never acquiesce in any thing, but what themselves in a free Parliament shall resolve on.) 
* Judges 19.30.  Consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds, without fear, hypocrisy, or partiality. And whether we be not a people marked out and fitted for inevitable destruction (having all the symptoms, forerunners of it and sins that hasten it now lying upon us) if we 
* Understand ye brutish among the people: O ye fools, when will ye be wise? Ps. 94.8.  brutishly reject this only means of our preservation, and follow the destructive whimsies of those Giddy-pated usurping raw Stears-men? of whom we may justly say with the Prophet Isai. 3.1.4, 12. Behold the Lord of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and Judah the stay and the staff, the Honourable man and the Counsellor: And I will give Children (in State-affairs and understanding) to be their Princes, and Babes shall rule over them. And the people shall be oppressed every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient; and the Base against the Honourable (as now they do;) O my people, they which lead thee, cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths, and they that are led of them (in their new Jesuitical byways) are destroyed, by intestine divisions and foreign invasions, as in Isai. 9.12. to 21. A sad emblem of our present condition, and approaching destruction, worthy our saddest meditations.  
Whether the twice dissolved Anti-Parliamentary Juncto by their own Knack of the 12. of October, and paper printed by their special permission and command since their dissolution; entitled, The Parliaments Plea; declaring resolving, p. 5, 6, 7. That the People of England are of Right, a Free People, to be governed by their own elected Deputies and trusties in Parliament; it being owned on all hands, both by Parliament and Army, and all the good people engaged with them. That the people under God are the original of all just Authority; and other original and foundation no man may lay. That to deprive or deny the People of this Inheritance, is Treason, Rebellion and apostasy from the Good Old Cause of the English Nation, for as much as a people free by Birth, by Laws, and by their own Prowess, are thereby rendered and made most absolute vassals & slaves, at will & power; and greater Treason than this no man can commit. That to levy money upon the people without their consent in Parliament is Treason, for which every man that so Assesses, Collects, or Gathers it, is to be Indicted for his life, and must die as a traitor; not only by their Knack, but by the Fundamental Good Old Laws of the Land, against which no By-law is to be made: this being a Fundamental Law, and one of the main birthrights of England; That no Tax or Levy is to be laid upon the people but by their consent in Parliament; Be not guilty of the greatest, highest Treason, Rebellion, and apostasy, from the Good Old Cause of the English Nation, (and the Army-Officers too confederating with them) by depriving and denying the free people to be governed by their own elected Representatives and trusties in a full & free Parl. by secluding four parts of five of the Knights, Citizens, Burgesses, & Barons of Ports out of the long Parl. while in being Dec. 1648. with armed power by usurping to themselves the Royal, Parliamentary Legislative supreme Authority over the people, & 
As the new Committee of Safety have 〈…〉 impose a new Tax of, and quarter Sold●e●● on the deniers of it.  laying, assessing, levying, intolerable excessive Taxes, Excises, militias upon them, without, yea against their consents & protestations; and without the consent of the far greater part of the Commons House, the King or House of Lords, which they forcibly secluded, suppressed, destroyed, against their fundamental Laws, Liberties, Privileges, birthrights, Protestations, Declarations and solemn League and Covenant, by making them most absolute slaves, vassals from 1648. till their dissolution in April 20. 1653. and invading, enslaving, destroying their Protestant brethren of Scotland, and Allies of Holland by Land and Sea, to the undermining, endangering of the Protestant Religion; by imposing New Oaths and engagements on them diametrically contrary to the oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance (which they all solemnly took as Members before they entered the House) and disabling all to sue in any Court, or enjoy the benefit or protection of the Laws for which they fought, and to which they were born heirs, who refused to take their Treasonable, perfidious engagements; by securing, imprisoning thousands of Freemen, close imprisoning sundry Members of the old Parliament, (my self amongst others) divers years in remote Castles, and keeping us from God's public ordinances, without any accusation, hearing, trial, or legal cause of commitment, expressed in their warrants.  
By presuming upon the Army and Officers sudden invitation after the old Parliaments dissolution by the King's 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 supreme power of the Nation; to seclude at least 3. parts of 4. of the old surviving Members by force, a●d proclaiming Sir George Booth, Sir Thomas Middleton and other Members and Freemen of England traitors, 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, militias, imposed and levied on the people, without their Common consent in Parl. deserve not to be all indicted, executed, and their estates confiscated as traitors, for these their successive reiterated high Treasons by their own resolutions, & Sir George and his adherents totally acquitted from the least imputation or guilt of Treason, & by consequence from all ●mprisonments, Sequestrations under which they now suffer. Whether their branding, sequestering them for traitors, Apostates, Enemies to the public, against Law and Conscience too, hath not justly brought that woe & judgement upon their conventicle. Isa. 5.20, 23, 24. woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter; and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him. Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the cha●s, so their root shall be rottenness, 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 stretched out still.  
Whether the Anti-Parliamentary juncto's and Army-Officers beheading of their late Protestant King, against the Vote●, Protestations, of the generality of the Parliament and his 3. Protestant Kingdoms, & Mediations of all foreign Protestant Agents then in England; their banishing, ●xpelling his Royal Protestant Heir, Successor to the Crown, with all the rest of his Children (professing the reformed R●ligion) out of all their Protestant Realms & Dominions; their invading of their Protestant Brethren in Ir●land and Scotland, in a hostile manner with potent Armies, & waging war against them in their own Countries, and after that against their own Protestant Brethren in England, as professed Enemies, traitors, Apostates; slaying divers thousands of then in the f●eld; imprisoning, banishing, disinheriting, fequestring many thousands more of them, only for owning, crowning, assisting their own hereditary Protestant King (according to their oaths, Covenants, Laws, Homage, allegiance, duties, and principles of the Protestant Religion) to regain and retain his Royal Autho●ity and Kingdoms. Their waging of a most bloody 〈◊〉 wa● with our ancient Protestant Allies of Holland above 3. years' space together, to the slaughter of many thousands of their & our gallantest Protestant Seaman, Admirals, Sea-Captains, of purpose to banish their own exiled Protestant King, his Brethren and followers out of the Netherlands from the society and charitable relief of the●r Protestan● Friends, where they lived as Exiles, enjoying the free profession of the Reformed Religion, and Communion, prayers, contributions of the Protestant Churches; on purpose to drive them into Popish Quarters amongst seducing Jesuits, 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 inhuman, unchristian barbarism, in depriving them totally of all means of subsistence, by seizing all their revenues, without allowing them one farthing out of them towards their necessary relief; yet enacting i● High Treason for any of their Protestant Subjects, Friends, Allies within their Realm● or Dominions, to contribute any thing toward their support, to hold the lea●● correspondency with, or make any public prayers unto God for them: as if they were worse than Turk●, Jews, Infidels, and most professed Enemies: for whom we are not only commanded to pray, but also to love, feed, clo●h, relieve, harbour them in their necessities, overcoming their evil with goodness, by Christ's own example and express precepts, under pain of everlasting damnation; be a conscientious saintlike performanc● 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. 2●. 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, ●9, 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 
* See my Concordia Discors.  sacred solemn Protestations, Vows, Covenant, Remonstrances, Declarations, oaths for the maintenance, defe●ce & propagation of the true Reformed Protestant Religion, the Profession and 〈…〉, against the bloody Plo●s, conspiracies, attempts, practices of the Jesuits, and other prof●ssed Popish Ene●ies and underminers of them● Or not rather a mo●● perfidious v●olation, ●bjuration, betraying of & confederating with the Jesuits & Papists against them? A loving of the●● Protestant Brethren, with a true heart, fervently, and laying down their lives for them, and being pitiful, merciful, 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 2.11.14.33. c. 4.7, 11, 12, 20, 21. John 13.34. c. 15.12.17. Or not rather a shutting up their bowels of compassion towards them; a grieving, offending persecuting, murdering of their bodies & souls too; & 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 Christ's own resolution, John 8.44, 45. 1 John 2.13. to 18? A professed Antichristian contradiction to the reiterated command and voice of God from heaven, isaiah 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 hateful bird) O my people that ye be not partakers of her sins, 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 them out from thence into their own Protestant Dominions and Churches? 
* 1 Pet. 4.18, 19  Certainly, if the righteous shall scarcely be saved, where shall these most transcendent, unpresidented, unrighteons, ungodly sinners (who obey not, but coutradict all these Gospel Texts) appear? and what shall their end be? Verily the Gospel itself resolves: (and O that they would with fear & amazement of spirit now seriously consider it) when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire to take venge●nce on them, they shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power, 2 Thess. 1.7, 8, 9 
* Jam. 2.11.  and shall receive judgement without mercy, because they have showed no mercy, but the utmost extremity of malice and cruelty to the Souls and Bodies of their Protestant King and Brethren?  
Whether the juncto's and Armies late Proceedings against the King and Kingship, were not the direct Plot of the Spa●i●lized Priests and Jesuit●, (as well in France as England, Spain, and elsewhere) who contrived and promoted it to their power; as I evidenced in my Speech, Memento, Epistle to my Historical Collection; My true a●● perfect Narrative, and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members at large, and shall f●rther clear by this ensuing Letter, the original whereof I have twice read sound by Mr. Shirley a bookseller in Little Britain, (in whose hands ●t is) amongst the Books of Mr. Patrick ●arre (Priest to Don Alonso de Gardenas the Spanish Ambassador) which he bought of him at this ambassador's house, when he was departing hence upon the breach with Spain, 1653. within a year after this Letters date, which he soon after showed to divers Gentlemen, one of them (who took a copy thereof) promising to show it to Cromwell himself. The Superscription of it is in Spanish directed (as is conceived and the Letter imports) to this Patrick car (an Irish Priest and Jesuit) under the name of 
* Had he writ ●t to a Spaniard, no doubt the Letter would have been in Spanish, (not English) as well as the suprescription.  Don Pedro Garsia: the Letter itself is in English, written it seems by some English or Irish Priest or Jesuit, sent as an intelligencer, by the Spanish Ambassador into Holland and France, (with whom the English were then in hostility) but the direction for Letters to him is in French. In the close whereof the Jesuitical and Spanish party in Paris, expected our Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto (whom they style, our brave Parliament, as set up by and acting for them) should espouse their quarrel and act their pa●ts against the French; and join with the Prince of Condee, to c●t off the King of France his head, and all Kings else, as they did the King of England's, by their instigation, such Antimonarchists, traitors are these Jesuits, Irish and Spanish friars to all Kings and Monarchy.  
Paris, 10. of January, 1652. SIR,  
I Was no so ne'er in Holland, than I writ to you, but hearing nothing from you I concluded, either you were very sick, or that you received not my Letter; I came hither in an ill time, for the Kingdom is in great disorder, upon the Kings recalling the Cardinal, against all his Declarations. This Town ready to declare in favour of the Prince and the Duke of Orleans, who is now treating with the Duke of Lorraine for his Army. If your dull 
* Leopold.  Archduke make no more advantage of this, than of the disorders of the last Summer, it's pity but he were sent to keep Sheep. WE EXPECT HERE OUR BRAVE PARLIAMENT" WILL NOT LET THE GAME BE SOON PLAYED OUT: I could wish Gallant Cromwell AND ALL HIS ARMY WERE WITH THE 
* Condi●.  PRINCE: for I BEGIN TO WISH ALL KINGS HAD THE 
* Execution he means.  SAME THE KING OF ENGLAND HAD: I'll say no more until I hear from you, but that I am  
Your unfeigned Friend, T. Danielle.  
I pray remember me to both my cousins. Direct your Letters A Monsieur Monsieur Canell demurant chez Mons-Marchant a la rue de pull.  
The Superscription is thus, viz.  
A Don Pedro Garsia en Casa de Embaxador de Espanna que 
* This intimates he was a Priest or Jesuit who writ it.  Dios garde.  
En Londres 9d.  
There were many Papers and Notes written in Irish, some concerning the affairs & transactions of the late wars in Ireland, found amongst these Books, whence I conceive this Patrick car was an Irish Priest and Jesuit; and that the 
* See my hidden works of darkness, brought to public Light.  Spaniard had a great hand in that horrid Rebellion. From the close of this Letter let all consider.  
Whether it can be safe for any Popish, as well as Protestant Kings to harbour such Jesuitical Antimonarchists and Regicides in their Kingdoms, Courts, who thus wish ALL KINGS beheaded and brought to justice, as well as the late King of England, by Cromwell and his Army, or their own Subjects? and how much all Kings ought to detest his precedent (of the Jesuits contriving) let them now cordially and timely advise for their own security.  
Whether the Great swarms of Jesuits and Popish friars in and about London, by the junctoes, and Army-Officers toleration and connivance (whose Jesuitical Antimonarchical Plots, Counsels they have vigorously pursued) be not the principal contrivers, fomentors of all our changes of Government, New Sects, Opinions, Mutinies in and Usurpations of the Army, (in whose Councils most intelligent Protestants have just cause to fear they have been and still are predominant) there being multitudes of them in and about London, under several masks; some of them saying mass in their Pontificalibus in Popish ladies' Chambers one day; and speaking to and praying with their Soldiers in the Army, or in Anabaptistical or Quaking Conventicles the next day, of which there are some late particular Instances; I shall relate one only more general and worthy knowledge.  
Two English Gentlemen of quality (one of them of mine acquaintance) travelling out of England into France in May 1658. and hiring a vessel for their passage, three strangers (who came from London) desired leave to pass over with them; which they condescending to, suspected one of them at least, to be a Jes●it, by his discourse; and during their stay at Paris, saw all three of them there walking often in the Streets in their Jesuits habits. In August following, they being at Angiers in France, there repaired to their lodging an Englishman, in his friar's weeds, who informed them, That he was an Englishman by birth, but a Dominican Fréer by profession, newly come from Salamanca in Spain, and bound for England; that he had been at Rome, where he had left some goods with an Irish Jesuit, who promised to return moneys on them in France, but had failed to do it; whereupon he was in present distress for money to transport him to England, desiring their favour to furnish him with moneys, which he would faithfully repay in London, and if they had any Letters to send to their friends in England, he would see them safely delivered. The Gentlemen finding him to be an excellent Scholar of very good parts and edu●●tion entertained him 5. or 6. days at their lodging, till they could furnish him with moneys, and upon his Account as a Freer, had a very good entertainment in the Monastery at Angiers by the friars thereof: During his stay there they had much discourse with him: He told them he had been formerly a Student in King's College in Cambridge; after that at Salamanoa in Spain, for 8. years. Being demanded by them, Whether there were not many Jesuites and friars then in England? He assured them upon his own knowledge, they had then above five hundred Jesuites in London and the Suburbs; and that they had at least four or five Jesuites 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 Jesuites and every Order of Fréers had their several Treasurers in London, who by Orders from their Provincials furnished them with what ever moneys 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 Lord's Son, like a Lord, and a knight's 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 cousin 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 Catholics, 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 
* See Mr. Shiloh's 2. New Books against the Quakers, and del, proving them to be Papists.  Papists in their Opinions and tenants as the Quakers, among whom himself had spoken. This relation one of the Gentlemen (a person of honour 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 highway to our Churches, Religions, Ministers, Nations ruin and destruction to list so many Quakers, Anabaptiss, Sectaries, in the Army and New militias 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, Anabaptiss, and Sectaries hands (headed, steered by Jesuits, Popish Priests and friars) as they have done in Gloucester, Colchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, and endeavour to do 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 in London and else where timely, seriously consider, and endeavour speedily to prevent (and the Council of Army-Officers, with their new Commit● 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 juncto's and Armies unparalleled 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, ruin 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 indignities to them and their relations, unless timely and wisely prevented by a prudent, voluntary closing with, & loyal, christian restoring them, by common consent ourselves, in a full and free Parl. upon just, safe, honourable terms, becoming us both as Men, Christians, & 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, Execrable 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 Iuncto and Army-Officers who have (like the 
a Is. 5 c 3. to 8.  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 wickedness; never yet observing, practising that fast which God himself requireth, to lose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, to break every 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 public and private days of Humiliation, a constant Prologue to their ambition, pride, 
b Psa. 66.7.  and rebellious self-exaltation; their days 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 John 8.44, 45. Ephes. 5.19, 20, 21.  works of their father the devil; their pretended following the secret impulses of the spirit of God, the sol● justification of 
d Ephes. 2.2, 3.  walking according to the Prince of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the Children of disobedience: their making, taking of solemn oaths, vows, Protestations, Covenants, Engagements to be true, faithful, oonstant, loyal, obedient to their lawful Kings their heirs, successors, superiors, the Privileges, Rights of Parliament our Fundamental Laws, Liberties, Religion, &c. a mere engine and diabolical stratagem, more cunningly, boldly, audaciously, perfidiously to betray, undermine, supplant, subve●t them; have not now just cause upon consideration of Isaiah 1.2, to 17. and chap. 58. to keep many public, private Fasts, and days of Humiliation, to confess, bewail, repent, renounce, and reform these their transcendent-crying, wrath-provoking sins and abominations: together with their 
e Micah 3.10 Hab. 2.12,  building up of Zion (their New republic, Free-state, Churches, Kingdom of Jesus Christ) with blood, and ●stablishing Jerusalem with iniquity, 
f Micah ●. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.  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 men's) fields, houses, and taking them away by violence; so they oppr●sse a man (yea their Protestant King, and thousands more of their Protestant brethren) and his house; yea a man and his inheritance: for fear they incur the fatal inevitable Woes, evils, judgements, denounced by God, against such crying sins, oppressions, violences, to the utter desolation, extirpation of them, their families, yea of our English Zion and Jerusalem, Mic. 2.1, to 6. Is. 32.1, 2. c. 3, throughout: with that of Hab. 2.7, 8. Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? Because thou hast spoiled many Nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee: because of men's blood, and for the violence of the Land, of the City, (Army) and all that dwell therein?  
Whether the juncto's and Army Councils utter subversion of all our Fundamental Laws (especially Magna Charta, c. 29, 30. the Petition of Right and all other laws, Statutes w●ich concern the preservation of the Lives, Free-holds, Liberties, Properties, Franchises of the Subjects, the inheritance and succession of the Crown, the Rights and Privileges of Parliament) their ending the last Easter Term, with very little Law, and no conscience at all; their beginning Trinity Term with very little Conscience (Monopolised in their conscientious Speakers breast alone) without any Law at all; and their holding part only of Michaelmas Term without any Chancery or Conscience (voted by some to be both useless and dangerous) or any real Law in the judgement of understanding Lawyers, and breaking it off, without any Law or Conscience, to the undoing of many poor oppressed Clients left without relief; with their manifold transcendent obstructions, subversions both of Law, Equity, Justice, Conscience, Property, Liberty, in their most arbitrary lawless Committees of Indemnity, and Courts of High Injustice; be not a transcendent violation of all their former Remonstrances, Declarations, Votes, Protestations, League, Covenant; Inviolably to defend these laws, and a mere jesuitical design (as I have 
* My true and perfect Narrative, p 58, to 64.  elsewhere evidenced) to work our utter dissolution (the laws being the only Ligaments to unite, and Pillar to sup●ort our State and Kingdom; whereby not only the Regal and Parliamental authority, but the people's security of Lands, livings, lives, privileges both in general & particular are preserved, maintained, by the abolishing or alteration whereof, it is impossible but that present Confusion will fall upon the whole State, Frame of this Kingdom and Nation: as the Statute of 1. Iac. c. 2. resolves, and we find by woeful experience? Whether the Army Council of Officers, have not most exemplarily and satisfactorily performed this part of their last printed Declaration, 27 Octob. 1659. p. 18. We earnestly desire and shall endeavour, That a full and through Reformation of the Law may be effected; by their new Committee of Safeties imperious Order sent to Mr. Dudley Short (a Citizen of London) whom Mr. Thurlo (whiles Secretary) committing close Prisoner to a M●ssenger several weeks, so as neither his wife nor friends could ●ave any access unto him, upon a mere Trepan, and supposed matter of Account between him and a Scotsman with whom he traded, & enforcing him at last ere released to enter into a Bond of 6000 l. with sufficient security for appearing before the Council of State, & to go in person into Scotl. when ever he should be required, & ordering him to go into Scotland soon after (under pain of for●●iting his 6000 l. bond) upon his own expense, where after many weeks' attendance, and frequent examinations before the Council there, touching this account, the Scotsman appeared to be indebted to him above 120 l. whereupon he was dismissed thence. For which most unjust vexation, oppression and false Imprisonment against the Great Charter, c. 29. the Petition of Right, with other Acts, and the late Statute of 17 Caroli, c. 10. For Regulating the Privy Council, (to Mr. Short's great expense, loss of trade, reputation, and his damage of Ten thousand pounds, as he declared) he brought his Action at law in the Common Pleas Court, which was set down to be tried at Guildhall, the 12. of this November. Whereupon Mr. Thurlo procured an express Order from the new Committee of Safety, wherein they presume to indemnify him (by their exorbitant arbitrary power) against this action of false Imprisonment, and to enjoin the Plaintiff both to surc●ase and release his suit, and never to prosecute it more; and command his Counsel, Attorney, solicitor, the judge himself, and all other Officers, not to proceed therein at their utmost peril, upon this ground; because if this Trial should proceed, any others of the late and present Council of State might have actions brought against them for illegal commitments and imprisonments: Upon this the Officers of the Court refused to seal his Record for the trial, and his Attorney and Counsel durst not proceed for fear of being laid by the heels. Whereupon he complained against this abu●e, and moved for a trial in open Court, urged these Statutes● with the Statutes of 2 E. 3. c. 2.20 E. 3. c. 1, 2● and the judge's Oath, That it shall not be commanded by the g●eat Seal, nor little Seal, to disturb or delay common right; And though such commandments do come, the justices shall not therefore cease to do right in any point: And that the I●stices shall not deny nor delay to no man common Right by the King's Letters, nor none other man's, nor for none other cause. And in case any Letters come to them contrary to Law they shall ●o nothing by such Letters, and go forth to do the Law, notwithstanding such Letters: And pressing the Judge to do him right accordingly, and to give him an answer in open Court; yet their Order countermanded these Statutes and Judges Oath: So that no man, though never so unjustly committed, oppressed, grieved by the Old and New Council of State, to his ruin; shall have any remedy at all against them: since they may thus indemnify each other against all Actions commenced. And if they bring an Habeas Corpus for their enlargement, and be bailed according to Law by the Judges; the new guardians of our Liberties, Preservers of our Safety, and through Reformers of our laws, (by extirpating them root and branch) will even in the very face of the Court, as soon as they have put in bail, in contempt of Law and Justice command Soldiers and their sergeant at Arms, by new Orders to arrest and carry them to other Prison●, and foreign Islands, as they did Mr. Nuport and Mr. Halsey on the 18. of this instant Nov. notwithstanding they had put in bail of 10000 l. a piece for their peaceable deportment: Yea if any henceforth move for Habeas Corporaes they will remove them unto New Prisons, or guards of soldiers, or send them into foreign parts to prevent their returns and enlargement by our Laws; as some have been newly dealt with, by these New full & through reformers of the Laws, Whether these very first-fruits of their full and through pretended Reformation of our Laws, proving so bitter, trampling all Law and Justice under foot, with greater scorn, contempt, impudence than ever any Kings, Old Council Table Lords, Stra●●ord 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 complied with them, and acted under them in all their Innovations, (a just reward for their temporising against their Judgements, Law and Conscience) their future harvest of our law's Reformation will not probably prove so lawless 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 ancient Liturgy, against such a full and through Deformation and Deformers of our laws. From all evil and mischief; from all blindness of heart, from pride, vainglory and hypocrisy, from envy, hatred, and all uncharitableness, from all deceits of the World, the Flesh and Devil 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 profess, 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 unfeigned: 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 murderers of Mothers, for man-slayers, &c. For men stealers for liars, for perjured persons, & every other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine: And our Army-Grandees, Juncto, and new Reformers being such; would abrogate all laws, and Lawyers too, lest 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 
* Rom. 2.2, 3, 8, 9, 12.  God himself● who will render indignation and wrath, tribula●ion and anguish to every soul of man that doth evil● whether Jew or Gentile. For as many who have sinned without L●w● shall also perish without Law, and as many as have sinned in the Law, shall be judged by the Law. Enough to dissuade them from their intended Reformation, to reform their own and the Armies l●wless exorbitances, before they reform our Laws, or others far better than themselves.  
Whether all the old conscientious, faithful, public spirited, secured, excluded, and re-excluded Member's, who to the uttermost of their powers opposed, voted, protested against all the late dismal Jesuitical Powder-Treasons, Violences, Innovations, Ex●rbi●ances of the dissolved Iuncto and Army, and have 
h 2 Pet. 2.7, 8.  vexed their righteous souls, from day to day, yea 
i Psal. 119. 13●  shed rivers of tears from their mournful 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 rendereth recompense 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 fiery Guards and Powder-men) shall devour them. O Lord our God, other Lords besides thee (our New Supr●me Lords, Powers, Protectors of the dissolved Junctoes, counsel, and t'other House) have had dominion over us, but by thee only will we make mention of thy name: They ●●e dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their Memory to Perish: Even 
k Judges 5.31.  so let all thine Enemies (and the public impenitent, malicious En●mies of our Churches, Kings, Kingdoms, Parliaments, people's Liberties) fall and perish, O Lord: but let th●m that love thee (and the public peace, welfare, settlement, prosperity of our Churches, King's Kingdoms, Nations) be a● the Sun w●en he goeth forth in his might; That so the Land may have rest forty years together: as the Land of Israel had, after 
l Judges 4.15.  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 scorn, their own Anti-Parliamentary junctoes from whom they received their new Commissions, end engaged several times, to yield their utmost assistance to them to sit in safety, to be true, faithful and constant to them, and to live and die in their defence: be a conscientious saintlike performance.  
1. Of John Baptists Evangelical Injunction to all soldiers, Luke 3.14. Do violence to no man, neither accus● any falsely, and be content with your allowance. 2ly. Of St. Paul's description of a good soldier of Jesus Christ 2 Tim. 2.3, 4. Thou therefor● endure hardness: No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. (not disobey, betray, supplant or destroy him) 3ly. Of Paul's and Peter's express commands to all Officers, soldiers 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. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinance of God: and they that resist, shall receive to themselves damnation, &c. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. Tit. 3.1, 2. Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers; to obey Magistrates, to be ready to every good work: To speak evil of no man; to be gentle, showing all meekness unto all men. Ephes. ●. 5, 6, 7. Col. 4.22, 23, 24. Servants (& such are all Mercen●ry Officers, Soldiers, under pay to the old Parliament and Kingdom) obey in all things, your Masters according to the flesh, in fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as unto Christ, Not with ey● service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart. With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men; for ye serve the Lord Christ. 1 Pet. 2.13, to 20. Submit yourselves to every Ordinance of man for the Lord sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto Governors, as unto those who are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well; for so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye put to silence t●e ignorance of foolish men. As free, and not using your liberty, as a cloak of maliciousn●sse, but as the servants of God. Honour all men, (in lawful authority) Fear God, Honour the King. Servants, be subject to your Masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. Whether by their former & late rebellions against the King, Parl. & all their lawful Superiors, and exalting themselves above all the●r former Lords and Masters, they have not given Christ himself the lie, and falsified his reiterated Asseveration, Resolution. Mat. 10.24. John 13.16. c. 15.10. Verily, Verily I say unto you, the Disciple is not above his Master, nor the Servant above, or greater than his Lord; neither he that is sent, greater than he that sent him. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them! Whether they will not prove bitterness, damnation, ruin to them in the latter end, and teach, engage all Common soldiers under them to be treacherous, rebellious, disobedient unto them, and thrust them out of all their commands, now they have neither legal Commissions nor a●thority to rule them, nor moneys to pay or quarter them, nor employment under them for the people's welfare, but only for their own ambitious ends and self-preservation, for which they were never raised, since their own precedents and principles of treachery and disobedience to all their former superiors animate them thereunto.  
Whether the ●unc●o ●nd Army Council, upon seriou● co●sideration of all the premis●s ●●d their form●r misca●●iages, h●v● not all cause with penitent hea●ts a●d bleed●ing Spirits to cry out and make this old publik● confe●●io● in the Book of Common Prayer. Almighty and m●st m●rcifull Father, we have erred and stray●d from thy ●aye● li●● los● sheep. We have followed too much the de●ices and desires of our own hearts; we have offended against thy holy laws; we have le●t ●ndone those things which we ●ught to h●ve done, and we have done those things which we ought not to ha●e done, and there is no health nor truth in ●s. But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable Offen●●●●. And grant that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, & sober life, to the glory of thy holy name. Amen. Which if these Workers of iniquity shall still refuse to do, as if the Lord did neither see nor regard it; and thereby provoke our 3. Nations to cry out with united prayers to God against them; 
* Psal. 12. ●, 2. ●sal. 94.1.  Help Lord, for the godly man ceaseth, for the faithful fail from among the children of men. With flattering lips, and with a double heart do they ●pake, every one to his neighbour. O Lord God of revenges, O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself; lift up thyself thou judge of the Earth, render a reward to the proud: Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph: how long shall they utter hard things, and all the workers of iniquity bo●st themselves? They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, & afflict thine heritage; they slay the widow and murder the fatherless; They gather themselves together against the soul of the right●ous, and condemn the innocent blood. Whether they must not then expect that inevitable doom of God himself, ensuing after such practices and Prayers, Psa. 94.23. And the Lord shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea the Lord our God shall cut them off? 
* Ps. 37.38, 39● 40.  The transgressors shall be destroyed together, the end of the wicked shall be cut off: But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord, he is their strength in the time of trouble. And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them, he shall deliv●r them from the wicked, and save them b●cause they trust in him.  
Jer. 36.3, 7. It may be they will (now) present their supplications bef●re the Lord, and r●turn every one from his evil way, that God may forgive their iniquity and their sin; for great is the anger and the fury that the L●rd hath pronou●ced against this people.  

An Exact Alphabe●ical Li●t of the Old and N●w secluded Memb●r● of the Comm●ns House in the long Parliament, surviving May 7. 1659. when the dissolved Juncto began their new Session.  

Baronets, Knights and Viscoun●s.  
LOrd Ancram, Sir Ralph Ashton, Sir John Barring●on, Sir Thoma● Barn●rdiston, Sir Robert Benloe●Sir George Booth, Sir Humphrey Bridges, Sir Ambrose Brown, Sir John Burgo●n, Sir Roger Burgoin, Sir Henry ●h●lmley, Sir John Clotworthy, Sir John Corbet, Sir John Curson, Sir Thomas D●cre●, Sir Franci● Dr●ke, Sir William Drake, Sir Walter Earl, Sir C●arles Egerton, Sir John Evelin of Surry, Sir John Evelin of Wilres, Sir John Fenwick, Sir Edmund Fowel, Sir Gilb●rt Gerard, Sir Ha●botle Grimston, Sir Ri●hard H●nghton, Sir John Holland, Sir Anthony ●●by, Sir Mar●in Knatchbull, Sir John Leigh, Sir William L●w●●, Sir William Li●●●r, Sir William Lit●on, Sir Sam●el Luke, Sir Nichol●● Martin, Sir Thomas Middl●ton, Sir Robert Nappirr, Sir Rober● Ne●h●m, Sir Dudley North, Sir John No●thcot, Sir Richard Onslow, Sir Hug● Owen, Sir John P●lgrave, Sir Philip Parker, Si● Thoma● Parker, Sir Edward Partridge, Sir John Pellam, Sir William Pl●ter●, Sir Nevil Poole, Sir J●●n Po●●, Sir Robert Pye, Sir F●an●is Russel, Sir 〈◊〉 Sain●● John, Sir John S●ymo●, Sir Thoma● So●e, Sir William Stri●kl●nd, ●ir John Temple, Sir Thom●● Trever, Sir Humph. Tu●ton, Sir William Waller, Th●m●● Viscount Wenman, Sir Henry Wo●sly, Sir Ri●hard Wynne, Sir John Young. In all 64.   

Esquiers, G●ntlemen and Lawyers.  
Joh● Alford, Arthur Ansley, Mr. Andrews, William Ardington, John Arundle, Mr. A●cough, Francis Bacon, Nathaniel Bacon, Edward Bainton, ●ol. John Barker, Maurice Barro, Mr. Bell, James Bence, Col. John Birch, Edward Bis●, John Bowyer, John boys, Major Brooks, Major General Brown, Samuel Brown, sergeant at Law, Francis Buller, John Bunkly, Hugh Buscoen, Mr. Bu●ton, Mr. Camble, William Carren●, Col. Ceely, Jame● Chaloner, Mr. Clive, Commiss. Copley, John Crew, Thomas Crompton, Mr. Crowder, Thoma● Dacre, John Dormer, John Doyle, Mr. Drake, Robert Ellison, Mr. Eri●●y, Mr. Evelin, Edward Fowel, William Foxwi●t, John Francis, James Fyennis, Nathaniel Fyennis, Samuel Gardiner, Francis Gerard, Thomas Gewen, William Glan●il, John Glynne sergeant at Law, Samuel Gott, Thomas Grove, Elias Grymes, Brampton Gurdon, Edward Harby, Col. Edward Harley, Major Harley, John Hatcher, John Ha●don, James Herbert, John Herbert, Mr. Hobby, Thoma● Hodges, Denzel Hollis, Franci● Hollis, George Horner, Edmund Ho●kin●, John Hungerford, Col Hunt, Mr. Jennings, William Jones, George Keckwich, Richard knightly, Col. Lassel●, H●nry L●urence, Col, Lee, Mr. Lewis, Col. Walter Long, Mr. Low●y, Col. John Loyde, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Lu●kin, John Mainard, Christopher Martin, Major Gen. Edward Massey, Thomas Middleton, Thoma● Moor●, William Morrice, George Montague, Mr. Nash, James Nelthrop, Alder●an Nixon, Mr. North, Col. Norton, Mr. Onslow, Arthur Owen, Henry Oxinden, Mr. Packer, Mr. Peck, Henry Pellam, William Peirpoint, Jervase Pigot, Mr. Potter, Mr. Poole, Col. Alexander Popham, Mr. Povy, M●. Pri●ty, William Prynne, Alexander Pym, Charles Pym, Mr. Rainscraft, Mr. Ratcliff, Charle● Rich● Col. Edward Rossiter, Mr. Scowen, Mr. Scut, Col. Robert Sh●peot, Col. Shuttleworth, Mr. Spelman, Mr. Springat●, Henry Stapleton, Robert Stanton, Edward Stephen●, John Steph●ns, Nathaniel Stephens, Mr. Stockfield, John Swinfen, Mr. Temple, Mr. Terwit, Mr. Thistlethwait, Mr. Thomas, Isaac Thomas, Mr. Thynne, Mr. T●lson, J●hn T●ever, Thomas Twisden sergeant at Law, Mr. Vassal, Mr. Vaugha●, Thomas Waller, Mr. West, He●ry Weston, William Wheeler, Col. Whitehead, Henry Wilkes, Capt●in Wingate, Mr. Winwood, Thomas Wogan, Mr. Wray, Richard Wynne.  
The Total Number, 203. besides the House of Lords.    

An Alph●betical List of all Members of the late dissolved Iuncto.  
JAmes Ash, Alderman Atkins, William air, Mr. Baker, Col. Bennet, Col. Bingham, Daniel Blagrave, Mr. Br●wster, Willi●m Cawly, Thomas Chaloner, Mr. Cecil the self-degraded Earl of Sali●bury, Robert Cecil his son, John Corbet, Henry Darley, Richard Darley, Mr. Dixwell, John Dove, Mr. Downe●, Serj. Earl, Will. Ellys, Mr. Feilder, Mr. Fell, Col. Charles Fleetwood, Augustin Garland, Mr. Gold, John Goodwin, Robert Goodwin, John G●rdon, Mr. H●llowes, Sir James H●rrington, Col. Harvy, Sir Arthur Hasilrig, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Herbert the self-degraded Earl of Pembroke, Roger Hill, Cornelius Holland, Col. Hut●hi●son, Col. Ingol●by, Philip Jones, Mr. Leachmore, William Lenthall Speaker, John Lenthall his son, John Lisle, Philip Viscont Lisle, Thomas Lister, Nicholas Love, Col. Ludlow, Henry Martin a prisoner in execution, Mr. maine, Sir Henry Mildmay, Gilbert Millington, Col. Herbert Morley, Lord Viscont Munson, a prisoner in execution, Henry Nevil, Robert Nicholas, Michael Oldsworth, Dr. Palmer, Alderman Pennington, Sir Gilbert Pi●kering, John Pine, Edmond Prideaux, William Puresoy, Thomas Pury, Robert Reynolds, Col. Rich, Luke Robinso●, 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, sergeant Thorpe, John Trencher, Sir John Trevor, Sir Henry Vane, Col. Waite, Mr. Wallop, Sir Thomas Walsing●am, Col. Walton, Sir Peter Wentworth, Edmond Weaver, Mr. White, sergeant wild, Sir Thomas Witherington, Sir Thomas Wroth.  
The total Sum,— 92.   

¶ Note, That of these Members (whereof two are since dead) there entered 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 (●specially the Lawyers, who notwithstanding their former compliances, are turned quite out of Office, and disjudged;) that 10. or more of them, came in by New Writs issued in the Name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England, after the Kings beh●ading, and were no Members of the long Parliament; That there were never 60. of them together in the House at once whiles they sat: and but 57 on the 11. and 12. of October last upon the great debate between them and the Army Officers: And some that sat formerly with them (as the Lord Fairfax, John ●ary, 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: B●t at last when he considered, he had an estate to ●ave (as he told another Friend) that overbalanced all his former Objections: and made him, and other members act against their judgements, consciences, and to forg●t our saviours sad Q●aeres, Mat. 16.26. What is a man profited if he should gain the whole world and lose his own Soul? O●, what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? With that of Jer. 5.29.31. Shall I not visit for these things? Shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this? And what will ye do in the end thereof?  
To fill up the Vacant Pages of this sheet, I shall propose 7. Quaeres more to this late dissipated Rump, to which I expect their satisfactory Answer, ere they presume to sit again, as many of them endeavour.  
1. Whether they could with any colour of Law, truth, reason, justice, co●scien●e heretofore, or can hereafter by virtue of their first Writs and Electio●s, entitle themselves, The Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, & Ireland; when by their Writs, Elections and Indentures, by which they pretended to sit, they were only a small inconsiderable Fragment, of the Parliament of the late King and Realm of England, but never of the Realm of Scotland or Ireland, which have their 
* cook's 4. Instit, c. 1.75, 76.  distinct Parliaments from England, and no legal Parliament of England, Scotland or Ireland: ever hitherto was or can be held without a King and House of Lords, and a full House of Commons, of which they are not the fift part?  
2. Whether those Interloping Members Elected since the Kings beheading, and old Parliaments dissolution by his death, by Writs only in the name of the Gaolers of the Liberties of England, can fit, act, or join with the tail of the old Commons House, elected only by the beheaded Kings Writs, and so owning his Royal Authority in Deeds, though abjuring it & Kingship, by their Declarations, Votes, Knacks, engagements and new-coined oaths? Whether such a strange model as this, be not a Violation of Deut. 22.9, 10, 11. Thou shalt not sow thy Vineyard with divers seeds, lest the fruit of thy seed and Vineyard be defiled. Thou shalt not plow with an Ox and an ass together. Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together? And as great an Absurdity as that in Horace, Humano Capiti cervicem jungere Equinam?  
3ly. Whether it will not be the Extremity of folly and frenzy for this twice dissolved Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto to conceit, that Lambert and those Army-Officers, who have twice turned them out of Doors with greatest Infamy, and branded them with so many deserved Marks of Treachery, Injustice, usurpation, rashness, Oppression, self-seeking, or the surviving numerous Members of the ou● long Parliament, or the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Ports for which they served, the old House of Peers, or our three Kingdoms, will ever patiently permit them to sit or Act as a lawful Parliament of England, Scotland and Ireland; or submit to any of their Anti-Parliamentary Knacks, Taxes, Excises, Imposts, Militia●s, Orders, or Usurped Regal P●rliamental sovereign legislative Authority; without rising up unanimously against them, as the worst, impudentest, sottishest of traitors, usurpers, Enemies to the Peace and settlement, of our 3. Kingdoms, (as their last Knack of Octob. 12. their Plea, and other late publications of their own, proclaim them to all the world) which they have so miserably oppressed, impoverished, rent in pieces by their forementioned Treasons, Innovations, and complying with those ambitious, covetous Army-Officers, and Jesuitical Emissaries, whose designs, and their own self-ends they have only pursued, to the public desolation of our Kingdoms and Churches? And whether their resecluding of the Lord's House, and their old surviving fellow-Members will not be a justification, and ground for their own third ejec●ment & dissolution, by the Army or others, if they presume to sit and act again without them?  
4. Whether there be any probability or possibility, (considering all the premises) that any Common soldiers, Mariners, or other inferior Officers in the Army or Navy, can expect any real payment of their arrears, or future pay, or the People of our 3. Nations any Trade, Peace, Ease, Settlement in the least degree, but inevitable speedy desolation, confusion, destruction, unless they all cordially unite their endeavours, counsels, forces for the speedy convening, and secure uninterrupted fitting of a full, free and Legal English Parliament, according to the Act of 17 Caroli cap. 1. and declaring all such Members of the twice-dis●ipated Juncto, and Army-Grandees Traitors and Enemies to the public, who shall openly and wilfully oppose this their just and necessary only probable means of their tranquillity, Safety, Prosperity? Which they pretend to aim at in words and Declaration●, but diametrically contradict by their Proc●edings, as experience manifests, past all contradiction.  
5. Whether our Protestant King, his Brethren and followers expelled out of their Protestant Realms, and foreign Allies Territories, into Popish idolatrous foreign Quarters, where they sojourn, to the hazard of their Religion, soul's Bodie●, by the malice of the dissolved Iuncto, Army, Republican Saints; may not now justly use that Speech of ●nnocent persecuted, exiled David to King Saul in the like case and condition, 1 Sam. 26.19. If the Lord hath stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the Children of men, Cursed be they before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the Inheritanc● of the Lord, saying, On serve other Gods? And whether God by way of requital for this their transcendent impiety, and other premised Crimes, Treasons of all sorts, wherein they impeni●ently persevere, may not justly inflict on the Iunc●o, Army-Grandees● and their posterities, that severe judgement threatened to the Israelites, Jer. 16.13. Deutr. 4.27, 28. c. 28.64, 65, 66. Therefore will I cast you out of this land, into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and the Lord shall scatter you among the Nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the Heathen whither the Lord shall lead you; and there you shall serve God's day and night, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell; where I will not show you favour. And amongst these Nations thou shalt find no ease neither shall the sole of thy feet ●ave rest, but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and fa●ling of eyes, and sorrow of mind; and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee day and night, and thou shalt have non● As●uranc● of thy life: In the morning thou shalt say, would God it were even; and at even tho● shalt say, would God it were morning, for t●e fear of thine hea●t, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see: And there shall ye be sold unto your En●mies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you? O tremble at the serious thoughts thereof, and be no more stiff-necked.  
6. Whether the memorable Example of God's divine justice upon Lockier, an active Agitator and Leveller in the Army, who had a principle hand in seizing, & bringing the King to his death, cried out justice, justice, justice openly against him, and spit in the King's face in Westminster Hall, when going to his Trial, before his condemnation; conducted him to the block; and was within 3. months after condemned in a Council of War by some of the Kings own judges, and shot to death as a M●tineer, in London, 27 April 1649● The tragical self-execution of Thomas Hoyle, Alderman and Knight for the City of York, one of the Juncto, and High Court of justice, (though he signed not the King's Sentence) and one who consented to, and subscribed the New Engagement, against a King and House of Lords, against his conscience, fo●mer Oaths, Covenant, and Protestation he had taken● the horror whereof so terrified his conscience, 
Nota.  that on the 30. of January 1649. (the very day● twelvemonth of the King's execution) he hanged himself with a cord in his Chamber at Westminster, about the very time of the day the King was there executed the year before. The Execution of sundry Levellers at Burford that year, with John Lilburne's double Trial for his life soon after by Cromwel's own Prosecution: his proceedings against Saxbey, Syndercombe, and other Levellers, though his chief Instruments to bring the King to Justice, to seclude the Majority of the Members, and suppress the whole House of Lords. The sudden and fearful deaths of Col. Ven, Rigby, and others of the King's Judges; the cashiering, close Imprisonments, suff●ings of M.G. Harrison, Col. Rich, Col. Overton, Col. Okey, Lord Grey of Grooby, and others of the King's condemners by Cromwell himself who engaged them therein; The Removal of John Bradshaw, from his Presidentship, and feuds between Cromwell and him, who secluded him ou● of his f●●st Instrumental Parliament, in 1654. and after that threatened to imprison and question him for his life; With the la●e pangs of conscience which Col. William Purefoye sustained before his death in September last, for having a hand in the King's blood, which lay heavy on his heart, (as he told some Friends.) To say nothing of Oliver Cromwel's own death, Septemb. 3. on which day he shed much Protestant Christian blood in the battles of Dunbar, and Worcester, against the present King and his Adherents: and his two sons sudden dismounting: May not justly awaken the stupid, seared consciences of all the dissolved Juncto, and Army-Officers now living, who had any hand in the Tragedies and Powde●-plot against the late King and Parliament; to bring them to speedy, sincere, real public Repentance for them, before they sink down quick into Hell; or fall into like exemplary Terrors, judgements, and self-executions; and likewise deter all others from treading in their nnwarrantable paths: 
(1) 1 Cor. 10.6.11.  all these thing● happening to them for their examples, to the intent th●y should not lust after nor act those evil things, which they attempted, accomplished to their own prejudice, as well as the public desolation: it being 
(2) Mat. 26, 24  better for such men never to have been born, than to become traitors to their own Christian Kings, Parl. Country, and to be registered to posterity amongst such who were born only for public mischief, & happier never to have or enjoy the least power or strength, than to abuse it to the public nuisance of others. 
(3) Seneca de Cleme●●ia● l. 1.  P●stifera vis est valere ad nocendum. Such a power, force as this, which some in late and present power have exerci●ed, if 
(4) Enarratio in Psal. 78.  St. Augustin mistake not; Non sanitatis est, sed insaniae. Nam & phreneticis nihil fortius, valentiores sunt sanis; sed q●anto majores vires, tanto mors vicinior: Avertat ergo De●● ab imitatione nostra fortes istos.  
7. Whether if the twice dissolved Rump shall audaciously presume to sit and act again as a Parliament, notwithstanding all outgoings of God's former signal providences, judgements, and the People, Armie● general indignation against them; we may not justly apply S. Peter's sentence concerning Apostates to them, 2 Pet. 2.2, 22. W●iles they promise themselves (and others) Liberty, themselves are servants of corruption (and of the Army too that turned them twice out of doors) for of wh●m a man is overcome, of the same is he brought into BONDAGE: But it is happened unto them according to the old proverb; The dog is returned to his own vomit again, and she sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire; and the latter ●nd 〈◊〉 (and will be) worse with them than the beginning. With that parable of our Saviour, Mat. 12.43, 44, 45. Lu. 11.24, 25, 26. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, h● walketh through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none; The●● saith he, I will return to my House from whence I came (and was cast) out, and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept and garnished: Then goeth ●e and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they ●●ter in and dwell there: and the l●st state of that man (yea of our Kingdom, Church, Nation through their usurpations, whym●ies, pressures,) is worse than the first: Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation, 
* Theophylacti Enar. in Mat. C. ●●. See Opus Imperfectu● in Mat. Hom. 30.  Extrema captivitas vestra gravior erit quàm prima; as I told Sir Arthur Haslerig in Westminster Hall May the 5. 1659. two days before their las● Session, when the Commons House was sweeping and garnishing for the juncto's return into it; which they and we have found true by experience, and shall do so again if they presume to return into i●.   
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●rrata. P● 46. l. 26. James, r. John Nelthrop.