with a legion of hellish fiends, the spirit of contradiction to publish a scandalous libel against the good old cause and the defenders thereof, in such a juncture of time, wherein most spirits are facti. ous, and apt to take fire, like tinder, at the least spark of encouragement dropping from a fiery pen? XIV. Whether a Plagiarius, a Demetrius, a jailer of our liberties, and one who, in the last assembly, was in a probability to suffer for his unparalleled crimes, be fit to be trusted with the command of the most important place of the nation? And whether it be not necessary to expose him to the sword of justice, who hath so much abused the sword of the commonwealth? XV. Whether it will not be wisdom to look back to the occasion of the late bloody and unhappy war, and gradually to the prosecutions thereof, and the end that was proposed at the beginning; and when the continuance of the medium conducing to that end was everted; and then to return to the place where passion captivated reason, and there to build a happy government upon the basis of the true old cause, according to the first principles that were owned by all good people? XVI. Whether it be not the purest and safest kind of free state, to have a free parliament elected annually, or twice a year, as it was before the conquest, and after many years, without restraint on the wills of the free people of the nation; which parliament may constitute and elect a senate, that shall act according, and subject to the law of the land, in the interval of parliament, and so to be elected from year to year by each parliament; which par. liaments, being the free people of England's representatives, ought not to be restrained, or curbed, by any sort of court convention, or council enjoying co-ordinate power, for that will be to abolish the grand inconvenience of one negative voice so much brayed against, and to set up a monstrous hydra of negatives (for great care ought to be taken to preserve unity in a republick, which lieth most obnoxious to popular commotions, and factions) [the epidemical disease of this schismatical age:] And further, that such men may be elected for representatives in parliament councils, and senates, as be wise, honest, prudent, and religions; and not factious sectaries, or such as wear both law, equity, reason, and religion in their scabbards, and father all their prodigious wilful and exorbitant actions on providence? XVII. Whether the army's declaration, and seclusion of the parliament in 1653, were an absolute dissolution of that session; and, whether the people making new elections by virtue of O. P. his writ, and also most of the members of the said parliament owning the said elections to be legal by their endeavours to be elected, and sitting by vertue of such election, was a confirmation thereof; and moreover, whether they can be remitted to their ancient right, by getting possession without the concurrence of an ancient remediable right, which is absolutely necessary to work a remitter? XVIII. Whether it consists with policy and national prudence to keep such a lawless army on foot, who are carried away with a whirlwind or tempest of ambition, and walk antipodes to all settled and peaceable government, and are ready instruments for any insolent apostate, or tyrannical dictator, that will equal them in pretences of religion (yet denying the power thereof) and, like Pompey, will make it his design, by secret engines, to cast the state into an absolute anarchy and confusion, that the state might cast itself into his arms, in necessity, for a protection, and so the sovereign power be cast on him; who, probably, hath neither reason, nor law on his side, save only to make good the saying of Solon, who, when Croesus shewed him his treasury of gold, said to him: That, if another came, that had better iron, he would be quickly master of his gold? XIX. Whether it be not safer, and more agreeable to the present government of this commonwealth, and all other free states, where due course of law is admitted for recovery of rights, or deciding of meum and tuum, and liberty of subjects favoured (which we have, with great expence of blood, so long fought for) to raise the militia in each county, under the command of prudent and religious men, that have interest in their country, and are concerned in the welfare of the commonwealth; and not mere hirelings, that will be apt to take any impression, to the disturbance of the publick peace, for their own private ends, and will make their swords patronise intolerable rapine? XX. Since the apostles call religion, our reasonable service to God, insomuch as the very ceremonies and figures of the old law were full of reason and signification, but more especially the christian faith under the gospel, as in all things, so in this, deserveth to be highly magnified; holding forth the golden mediocrity in this point, between the law of the heathen and the law of Mahomet, which have embraced the two extreams (for the first had no constant belief or confession, but left altogether to the liberty of professors; and the last, on the other side, interdicteth all arguments about the matter, and enjoineth unity in the manner of the profession of religion, the one having the very face of error, the other of imposture; whereas the faith doth both admit, and reject disputations and professions with difference) whether then it be not requisite to settle such a religion in this nation, as may consist with the apostle's words, and such a mediocrity, that we be neither tied on the one hand to a Mahometan unity of accidental discipline and manner of worship, nor, on the other hand, be left to a heathenish liberty both in the articles and principles of religion, and also in the substantial matter of belief, and decent manner of discipline and confession, since such boundless liberty is the mother of all sects, heresies, and atheism (which this age abounds with, though veiled under the specious garment of tender conscience, who are enemies to all settled government, whether monarchy or oligarchy) except their heretical opinions be favoured, and themselves mounted to the zenith of preferment, and stern of government, which is hoped will never be, though highly at present endeavoured? 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THE ambition, treachery, turbulency, avarice, and late infused jesuitical principles of some swaying officers in the parliament's army, aspiring after the supreme authority, government, and publick revenues of our three kingdoms, having so far corrupted their judgments, seared their consciences, depraved their wills, and hardened their hearts, as openly, frequently to violate all sacred oaths, vows, covenants obligations, trusts, commissions, engagements to the late king, his heirs and successors, the old parliament, kingdom, nation, for whose defence they were originally raised, and commissioned, and, to their own new-created anti-parliamentary junctos, conventions, protectors, and conventicles, which they have all successively subverted, engrossing the sovereign, royal, and parliamental power into their own hands, opposing and advancing themselves (by mere treachery, perjury, violence, and other desperate ways of unrighteousness) like that man of sin, and mystery of iniquity, above all that is worshiped and called God; making no less than three publick revolutions of our government, and forcibly dissolving two parliaments, as they deemed them, of their own modelling, convening, within six months space, last past; and thereby made our formerly renowned nations, the scorn, reproach, wonder, derision of all the world; themselves the monsters of men, the shame of christianity, chivalry; exposed our three nations to the uttermost extremity of danger by new unpre cedented ataxies, divisions, incroachments upon their hereditary rights, liberties, properties; caused a total decay of all sorts of trade, justice, legal proceedings at home, and occasioned a speedy much feared invasion from our potent combined popish adversaries abroad, when thus miserably distracted, discontented, impoverished, and totally disabled to repulse them: It is high time for every publick-spirited Englishman in this strange, distracting con VOL. 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