The qualifications of the succeeding Parliament

The qualifications of the succeeding Parliament

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THE QUALIFICATIONS OF THE SUCCEEDING PARLIAMENT.

THE QUALIFICATIONS OF THE SUCCEEDING PARLIAMENT.

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THE holy Ark of the Church and State having been ſo long and ſo highly toſſed under divers tempeſtuous ſtorms, threatning a Shipwrack; the inſolent Mariners found out a ſtrange Expedient to preſerve the almoſt foundred Ship, by throwing the Pilot over board, that they themſelves might ſit at Stern; which they have manag'd ſo ill, that the Ship had been long ſince ſunk under their baſe and unskilful Conduct, had not that Celeſtial Pilot by a ſtrong hand moſt miraculouſly protected her from the moſt dangerous Rocks and Sands, by whoſe wiſe and powerfull ſteerage (a Calm being made) I hope ſhe will ſuddenly Anchor in the Old and ſafe Haven. The late deſperate Pilots, the new State-mongers (the better to contrive their curſed Deſigns, and ſecure their guilty actions from a future juſt account, and keep their ill-gotten Eſtates by the deluge of Church and Crown) have ſacrificed two of the moſt honorable Eſtates of Parliament to the fury of their horried Avarice and Ambition, and by the aſſiſtance of their Maſters the Jeſuites, under the ſpecious titles of Godlineſſe, Liberty, and common Safety, have ſo far made themſelves Saints, as wholly to inherit the Land; which to effect, they have ſacrilegiouſly prophan'd whatſoever is ſacred, and barberouſly murthered the King, and baniſhed his Royal Relations, pulled down the Reverend Fathers of the Church, killed the Perſons, and poſſeſſed themſelves of the Eſtates of the moſt eminent men for Religion and Loyalty; and in a word, have almoſt quite deſtroyed our truly reformed Church, and heretofore flouriſhing Nation; ſo that there is no means left us (under God) to ſettle the Church and State, but a full and free Parliament, compoſed of the three Eſtates of the Kingdom, each complying with other in a handſom correſpondence, and regular ſubordination; the Houſe of Commons being commiſſioned ad inquirendum, the Lords ad deliberandum, and the King ad determinandum de negotiis Regni: the ſeveral Acts of Parliament being ſo many happy Reſults and Products of their mutual Counſels, which receive their firſt conception, and imperfect delineation of parts from the contrivance and deliberation of the two Houſes, and afrerward Life, Liberty, and perfection, from the Kings moſt excellent Majeſty in the Signature of his Royal Conſent and Approbation. This moſt admired frame of Government (the Glory of our own, and the Envy of forreign Nations) in which the ſeveral particular Intereſts of the Kingdom are ſo handſomly involv'd in that publick concern of Parliamentary Government, which ſpeaketh a high ſatisfaction to all degrees of Perſons, who have their Affairs tranſacted by their own Delegates, both in the preſentment and redreſſe of their Grievances, and the conſtitution of wholſom Laws for the ſecurity of their lives and Fortunes, to which they have reaſon moſt readily to ſubmit in all due obedience, ſeeing they are enacted by their own Repreſentatives in Parliament: which that it may be rightly elected, I make bold to preſent the Honorable City and Kingdom with theſe Qualifications.

1. That no Perſon be Elected a Member of the ſucceeding Parliament that is an Enemy to Kingly Government.

2. That none of the Sectaries may be Elected, who are generally acted with Factious Jeſuitical Principles inconſiſtent with the Ancient Eſtabliſhed Government.

3. That no Purchaſer of Kings or Church, or commonly called Delinquents Lands; or any Perſon that hath an Office in the Exciſe, Cuſtom, or the like, be Elected, they being intereſſed Perſons, and obliged to maintain a Commonwealth, in oppoſition to the King and Houſe of Lords: two eſtates of Parliament according to its former legal Conſtitutions.

Now I have diſcharged my conſcience to God and Man, in ſpeaking my humble Deſires of a free and full Parliament, as the great concern to build up the ruined Church, and repair the breaches of the decayed State, according to the Ancient known fundamental Laws, to the Glory of God, and the happineſs of the Nation.

⟨March .17. 1659⟩

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The qualifications of the succeeding Parliament

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1660

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Wing Q38

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Thomason 669.f.24[17]

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ESTC R211657

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99870367

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163748

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