A88587:52
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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and for us to have joined in any consultations of this nature, would have made us accessory unto them, guilty of the evil that is in them, &c. Thus was the letter. And because you are but of a vulgar capacity, I shall relate a comparison Mr. Ash used to Col. Titchbourne, ⟨p. 11⟩Suppose (said he to the Colonel) your servants should offer you violence, and lay you under restraint, and should then come to a Minister, and pray him to advise them, how they shall distribute their Masters goods, and what or how much each of them should take to themselves; now should that Minister consult with those servants, he should be an abettor in their horrid insolencies against their Master; the Minister should rather tell those undutiful servants, that it were more proper for them to ask whether they had not sinned in thus abusing their Master, and to charge them, to restore their Master to his liberty, and the enjoyment of his authority, by them unduly usurped, to obey him for time to come, &c. The drift Mr. Ash aimed at is easy to conjecture, the Army who are as servants to the Parliament, did lay violent hands on, and restrain their Lord and Master the Parliament of England, (whose Army they were, raised by their authority, for preservation of their privileges, &c.) and when the Army had done that, they sent to Ministers to advise what was yet further to be done; and how they must manage their Masters work, (I mean, dispose of the affairs of the Kingdom) but never desire to be resolved whether they had done well or ill in offering violence to their Masters the Parliament, but as if it were to be taken for granted that the Army had done well in forcing the Parliament, the Ministers are only desired to join in consultations with them, to advise about those things which are not legally within their cognizance to settle, what ever satisfaction they should receive from the Ministers.
and for us to have joyned in any consultations of this nature, would have made us accessory unto them, guilty of the evill that is in them, &c. Thus was the letter. And because you are but of a vulgar capacity, I shall relate a comparison Mr. Ash used to Col. Titchbourne, ⟨p. 11⟩Suppose (said he to the Colonell) your servants should offer you violence, and lay you under restraint, and should then come to a Minister, and pray him to advise them, how they shall distribute their Masters goods, and what or how much each of them should take to themselves; now should that Minister consult with those servants, hee should bee an abettor in their horrid insolencies against their Master; the Minister should rather tell those undutifull servants, that it were more proper for them to ask whether they had not sinned in thus abusing their Master, and to charge them, to restore their Master to his liberty, and the enjoyment of his authority, by them unduly usurped, to obey him for time to come, &c. The drift Mr. Ash aimed at is easy to conjecture, the Army who are as servants to the Parliament, did lay violent hands on, and restrain their Lord and Master the Parliament of England, (whose Army they were, raised by their authority, for preservation of their priviledges, &c.) and when the Army had done that, they sent to Ministers to advise what was yet further to be done; and how they must manage their Masters work, (I mean, dispose of the affairs of the Kingdome) but never desire to be resolved whether they had done well or ill in offering violence to their Masters the Parliament, but as if it were to be taken for granted that the Army had done well in forcing the Parliament, the Ministers are only desired to join in consultations with them, to advise about those things which are not legally within their cognizance to settle, what ever satisfaction they should receive from the Ministers.