A88587:104
A modest and clear vindication of the serious representation, and late vindication of the…
A modest and clear vindication of the serious representation, and late vindication of the ministers of London, from the scandalous aspersions of John Price, in a pamphlet of his, entitled, Clerico-classicum or, The clergies alarm to a third war. Wherein his king-killing doctrine is confuted. The authors by him alleged, as defending it, cleared. The ministers of London vindicated. The follies, and falsities of John Price discovered. The protestation, vow, and the Covenant explained. / By a friend to a regulated monarchy, a free Parliament, an obedient army, and a godly ministry; but an enemy to tyranny, malignity, anarchy and heresy.A modest and clear vindication of the serious representation, and late vindication of the ministers of London, from the scandalous aspersions of John Price, in a pamphlet of his, entituled, Clerico-classicum or, The clergies alarum to a third war. Wherein his king-killing doctrine is confuted. The authors by him alledged, as defending it, cleared. The ministers of London vindicated. The follies, and falsities of Iohn Price discovered. The protestation, vow, and the Covenant explained. / By a friend to a regulated monarchy, a free Parliament, an obedient army, and a godly ministry; but an enemy to tyranny, malignity, anarchy and heresie.
London: printed for Stephen Bowtell, 1649
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2. Suppose the Ministers had not declared against that act of the Apprentices, yet doth that any way extenuate that act of the Army?
3. Whereas you say that to give any other answer were but to beat t•e air, I'll say so too; I verily believe you had as good beat the air as go about to justify the Armies forcing the House of Commons; and yet condemn the violence offered by the King at one time, and the Apprentices at another. For 1. the King demanded but 6. the Army imprisoned 42. secluded 100. and forced away 100. Members more. 2. The King did take away none out of the House; but that they Army did, they pulled out Mr. Stevens and Colonel Birch by force and violence out of the House. 3. The King was one of the three States who together with the two Houses was entrusted with the Supreme Authority of the Kingdom, but the Army can lay no legal claim to any such authority. 4. The King relinquished the prosecution of the Members, and promised to have a tenderness of the Parliaments Privileges for the future, but the Army avows the act and persists in their force to this very day. Again for the violence offered by the Apprentices, on July, 26. 1647. (though I go not about to extenuate it, yet consider, 1. They came unarmed to the Houses, the Army came in a Hostile manner. 2. They pulled none of the Members out of the House, but the Army plucked Mr. Stevens, and Col. B•rch out of the House where they were doing their Country service. 3. They hindered none of the Members from coming to fit in the House, but the Army excluded and kept by force above a hundred Members from •itting in the House. 4. They when they heard of an O•der forbidding •hem to co•• to Westminster, the next day did ⟨p. 27⟩desist, & did so no more; but the Army persists in what they have done to this very day. If these things were compared together, John Price had as good bat the air, yea his brains too against the wall, as to go about to justify that unparalleled violence offered the Parliament by the Army, yet condemn a lesser violence offered by the King and the Apprentices.