Certaine seasonable quærie's [sic] propounded for divers parties of different interest, and very necessary to be considered of at present. Viz. [brace] For the two Houses of Parl. For the City of London. For the reformadoe souldiers. For the kingdome in generall. For our brethren the Scots. For Major Gen. Laughorne. For the Presbyters. 1647 Approx. 11 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2013-12 (EEBO-TCP Phase 2). A78500 Wing C1755 Thomason E396_17 ESTC R201653 99862153 99862153 160348

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A78500) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160348) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 63:E396[17]) Certaine seasonable quærie's [sic] propounded for divers parties of different interest, and very necessary to be considered of at present. Viz. [brace] For the two Houses of Parl. For the City of London. For the reformadoe souldiers. For the kingdome in generall. For our brethren the Scots. For Major Gen. Laughorne. For the Presbyters. [2], 5, [1] p. [s.n.], London, : Printed ann. Dom. 1647. The words "For the two ... For the Presbyters." are bracketed together on title page. Annotation on Thomason copy: "July. 3d". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

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CERTAINE SEASONABLE QVAERIES Propounded For divers parties of different Intereſt, and very neceſſary to be conſidered of at preſent. viz. For the two Houſes of Parl. For the City of London. For the Reformed Souldiers. For the Kingdome in generall. For our Brethren the Scots. For Major Gen. Laughorne. For the Presbyters.

LONDON, Printed Ann. Dom. 1647.
Certaine ſeaſonable Quaeries propounded for divers parties of different Intereſt and very neceſſary to be conſidered of at preſent.

For the Houſes of Parl. VVHither the Kingdome be deſirous to ingage it ſelfe in a new warre, or that the people of England have ſo irrevocably obliged themſelves to their truſtees that they will hazard more bloodſhed and a common confuſion by protecting of ſome faulty members from being brought to common Juſtice? and whether (as the Scots ſaid in the Earle of Straffords caſe) it bee not better that a few rather then unity periſh?

2. Whether it be a juſt Privilege of parliament, that every Member ſhall be free from being queſtioned for any crimes; and whether they ought not to be liable to the cenſure of the law for miſdemeanors?

3. Whether the Army or any man can imagine that juſtice will be done againſt a Member of the Parl, for any offence whatſoever, either by the Houſe or any of the Committees (notwithſtanding the late Order, giving liberty and invitation to all men, to queſtion them for bribe taking and corruption) for they will not condemne themſelves or their fellowes?

4. Whither it ſtand with the honour and dignity of a Parliament, and conforme to the practice of former times to vote Contradictions, and re-aſſume to the queſtion matters that have been reſolved upon full debate by the whole Houſe: and whether there was ever heard of ſuch a breach of Privilege of Parliament, as to order the expunging of the Declaration of the 30 of March 1647 againſt the Army, without any grounds that were not knowne before?

5. Whether it be not to be wiſhed by all men who are tender of the dignity and reverence that is due to Parliaments, that this preſent Parliament ſhould be diſſolved rather than the charged Members ſhould be plucked out of the Houſe by the Army, which they muſt be neceſſitated to doe in order to their own ſafety, and for preventing another imbroilment of the Kingdome in blood, if the Houſe inſiſt on their Votes of the 25 of Iune, for the charged Members vindication.

6. For the City of London. Whether the ingaging in a new warre doth not concern the City of London a little, and therefore whether it be not important that a common hall be called before any thing be reſolved on in that kinde, ſo that they be not lead blindly by the Common-Councell, (many of whom are as fearefull to be called to an accompt as the charged Members) to act any thing that may hazard the ſafetie of the City and Kingdome?

7. Whether in caſe of another civill War, the Exciſe, Twentieth, and Fifth parts, Contributions, and all the other heavy taxes will not be ſet on foot againe, and greater oppreſſion uſed to raiſe Monies, and to maintain it then before, and conſidering that the Countries which were the ſeat of the late Warre are almoſt wholly exhauſted, whether is not this City like to pay all the reckoning?

8. It is very remarkable that this City (above any in the world) hath never been ſacked: Our Hiſtories attribute its preſervation to the great wiſedome and providence of the Magiſtrates and Inhabitants, who in times of danger timeouſly declined ſuch hazards, Therefore is it not good Counſell to wiſh the preſent age to follow the example of their prudent Anceſtors, and to uſe the ſame meanes whereby to obtaine the like bleſſing of peace and ſafety?

9. Whether there can be hoped for either peace or ſafety untill the King bee reſtored to all his Rights in honour, the Law enlivened, the Army paid their full Arrears, ſatisfied in their juſt dernands and disbanded, that wide breach of love and charity be cloſed up by an Act of oblivion, and tender Conſciences be regarded in what is meet?

10. For the Reformadoe Souldiers. Whether the Reformadoe- Officers and Souldiers doe believe in their Conſciences that the Parliament have now at length paid them their Arreares out of a good will, and whether if the Army had not ſtood upon it they ſhould have received any Mony at all, and therefore are not all ſuch as have got benefit by the Army bound in gratitude not to oppoſe their friends?

11. For the Kingdome in generall. Whether this Kingdome can ever hope for any eaſe or juſtice during the ſitting of this Parliament, ſince the Lords have weekly for theſe eighteen moneths ſent down to the Houſe of Commons to deſire their concurrence for diſſolving that great oppreſſion Country Committees, and yet the Commons would not vouchſafe hitherto to put it to the queſtion?

12. Whether it be not neceſſary that all the Members of Parliament, all Committee men, Exciſe men, Cuſtomers and others, who have been imployed in the publique Receipts of the Kingdome ſhould be called ſpeedily to a ſtrict accompt; And ſince it is cleer that above forty Millions of Mony have been levied upon the Kingdome ſince the late Warre, for the publick uſe, and yet not a Twentieth part thereof imployed to that end, Whether the Countries ought not juſtly to refuſe and withſtand the raiſing of any more Monies, till they have a good accompt how what is already paid hath beene diſpoſed of, and whether it be not fitter that all the Publick Receivers aforeſaid ſhould pay downe what is remaining in their hands, & that the gratified Members ſhould diſgorge their large remunerations towards the ſpeedy diſcharge of the Army, and the reliefe of our diſtreſſed Brethren in Ireland, then that the Kingdome ſhould be further impoveriſhed by new Taxations, as the Ordinance of ſixty thouſand pounds monethly, which if ſubmitted to will be endleſſe?

13. Whether the people of England did not ſo well like of the Scottiſh Armie's behaviour, that they will eſteem thoſe men their friends who labour to bring them into the Kingdome againe, and whether the North-Countries (if they come) will not bid them welcome to England with a vengeance?

14. For our Brethren the Scots. Whether the Scots can be ſo impudent as to hope His Majeſtie can thinke well of them? And whether they are not more diſpleaſed with their Parliament Friends for looſing the King, then the Cavaliers were with the Scots for ſelling Him? And though they have no mind to reſtore the money (as Iudas did in the like caſe) yet it is a queſtion whether they are not ready to hang themſelves to heare that the King is with the Army?

15. For Major Laughorne. Whether Major Generall Laughorne hopes he ſhall be better rewarded for adhering to the two Houſes of Parliament againſt the King and the Army, then he was for his former Services, for which when a Committee-man of Wales moved that Laughorne and his men might be imployed for Ireland and the Countrey rid of him, Michaell Oldſworth, the Earl of Pembrockes Directorie made, Anſwer, that they did not onely thinke them unfit for that Service, but not to deſerve the Character of Chriſtians?

16. For the Preſbyters. Whether the Aſſembly of Presbyters have not juſt cauſe to be offended with the two Houſes for not Voting them to be Iure Divino when they could not prove it? And whether the Aſſembly might not have had a Creed as cheape as the Direstory and Covenant from their deare Brethren of Scotland? And whether we ſhall ever ſee their New Confeſſion of Faith, becauſe we have not heard of it almoſt theſe two moneths (that is) ſince the Houſe of Commons (as their Diurnalls ſpeake) upon debate of it, Voted and paſſed God the Father?

17. Whether the Aſſembly doe not now find that the Conſtitution of the people of England will never admit of the Presbyterian Government? And whether they ought not to implore the prayers of all good people, that God and the King will be pleaſed to take them to his mercy now they are at their laſt gaſpe?

18. But if any of them or their Elders, continue obſtinate in their Rebellion and madneſſe, whether the Receipt commended by Who in his booke, called The Fire of the Sanctuary newly uncovered, pag. 360. hath theſe words: If hee that ſeemes Religions will yet be idle, falſe, undutifull, and ſtubborne, rayle at Ceremonies, Biſhops & Common-Prayer, disdaine to be corrected and maintaine his faults, That man or Woman wil never have any true Religion in him till with a cudgell all theſe counterfeits be beaten off. D. Cornelius Burgeſſe (who is one of themſelves) being well applyed, will not ſooner bring them to right wits and underſtanding, than Hellebore or any other Medicine the College of Phyſitians can preſeribe?

19. Whether moſt Parliament-men, all Committeemen, Exciſe-men, Sequeſtrators, Aſſembly-men, CLſſes, &c. wiſhed not now that they had not medled with the buſineſſe? And whether they would not willingly give all they have got, to purchaſe that repoſe of Conſcience and ſecuritie that many honeſt loyall men whom they have undone poſſeſſe with comfort?

Reſolved upon all theſe Queſtions, That none but deſpetate conſcious perſons, and ſuch who care not for their own ends to ſacrifice the peace and glory of the Engliſh Nation, will act or incourage men to their certaine deſtruction by a ſecond War, and the oppoſition of the King and the Army: And if any ſuch be, they muſt expect to be torne in pieces, as being the worſt of men, and the moſt pernicious enemies to the Common-Wealth.

FINIS.