There is a natuarll discord between tyranny and free­dom, slavish popery and Christian liberty; Acubrese renders the reason thus, because Christ the King of Kings by his righteousnes, hath made his people free, therefore the Kings of the earth, by tyrany injustice or popish in­terest, cannot make themselves.

And do the Lawes of God, man & nature justifie the people in opposing, fighting against and imprisoning of Kinds who act contrary to their Oaths, and the trust im­posed on them by the people? And do not the same laws as much justify them in opposiug the power of Par. when they betray their trust, in pleading the interest, & justifying the cause of such tytannous P [...]inces joyn with them to levy war against the poor people, whose trustees they are only, and by whose Votes & election they sit in parliament, to preserve, and nof to destroy them, to con­demn, and not justify their enemies, who have brunke with the bloud of Saints, & have confest themselvs guil­ty of the bloud of three hundred thousand souls, that have perished by war in the 3 Kingdoms

The Parl. gave great encouragement by their letter the 3 of Aug. last, to the Ministers of the Generall As­sembly of the Kingdom of Scot. to oppose the Parl. of Scot. then siting a [...] Edenb. who had made breach of their solemn league & Covenant and their many agree­ments and Acts of Parl. passed in both kingdoms, in po­sessing of Barw. & Carlile, and for your further satis­faction take the words of the letter,

And being assured these impious, and unwarantable actions (of the Parl. of Scot.) cannot be done with the approbation, and consent of the well affected people of the kingdom of Scot. and that they understood there were very few amongst these who were in this engage­ment against them, that first engaged with them in the Covenant and cause, but such as have been professed e­nemies unto the kingdom of Scotland (which were the Parl.) however they were content to pretend thereunto, that they may the better deceive the people of this kingdom.

That they were unwilling to impute such evills to the nation ingenerall but to those present that own, and ap­pear in them, whom they were confident, God in his due time would judge whatsoever they may suffer in the mean while.

Therefore they now send unto them that it may ap­pear they will not by any provocation, be induced to withdraw themselvs from those in Scotland, who retain their former principles, & still own their cause, (though against the Pa [...]l. of Scot.) wherein they have with bles­sing from heaven, bin so long solemnly United. vide P. 4. and 5. of that letter.

Upon this score and that encouragment, the minor dart of the people of Scot. raise an Army to oppose the Parl. of that Nation, and the Army raised by the su­pream authority thereof, and put themselves under the Command of the E. of Argile, to fight with kill and slay them.

And did not L. G. Cr [...]mwel, in pursuance of the Com­mands of the Parl. of Eng. joyn with those handfull of people in Scot. to oppose the Parl. of Scot. and the ar­my raised by that authori [...]y, and did not the eff [...]t ther [...] of produce an absolute dissolution of that Parliament & Committee of Estates?

By this time, the Reader may expect the authors In­ference upon the whole, which he once thought to have wav'd, and therefore resolved only to tosse the Ball a­mongst the multitude, that so each judgment might cach at it, but because my fellow Commoners may not be ignorant herein, I have set down a few undeniable con­clusions upon the whole.

1. We se that the K. may erre, notwithstanding the maxim, in the law (Lex non potest errari) by laying ille­gall taxes Monopolies, and Impositions upon the peo­ple Introducing Popery, and Levying warre against them &c.

2. That in committing such errors, he falsifies the trust which the people of the land repose in him, & then his Commands being unlawfull, and destructive, it is lawfull for the people to disobey them, and on the con­trary, it is no lesse then sinne, and the forsiuire of all the Liberties, Freedomes and Birth-rights of the people to give obedience thereunto.

3. That it is lawfull and of necessity for the people to [Page 6] Leavy war against their King, and all that adhere to him for defence of themselvs, and preservation of their birth rights and freedoms, having once broken the [...]rust repo­sed in him, and put them out of his protection by levy­ing war against them, ruling them as a tyrant at his plea­sure oe not as a Kiug by the law of the Nation. 4. That it is lawfull for the peoples Trustees in Parl. to declare to the nation the miscarriages of such a tyranous prince, and to state the matters of fact therein, by way of charge against [...]m. 5. That it is a breach of trust in the peoples Trustees and a great dishonor for the E [...]glish Nation to charge the King with such high crimes, and neither to prove them against him, nor to clear him of them. 6. It is a great breach of the trust, and the Nationall League and Covenant, not to bring delinquents to condigne punishment there being no person exempt by the same. From the second part of the assertion plainly appears. That a Parl. by breach of Covtnant, Treaties, and Acts of Parl. voting & acting against the Covenant, and siding with, and pleading the interest of the enemies thereof, and of that Nation, for which they are Trustees may erre. 2. That by breach thereof they have forfeited their Trusts to the people, for whom they seve, and by whom they were elected. 3. That it is lawfull for the people of that Nation to Levy war against them for the maintenance of ther Lives and Freedoms, which that Parl. endeavours to give to their enemies and make them and their posterity slaves for ever to them.