Numb.33.
The Moderate:
Impartially communicating Martial
Affaires to the KINGDOM of
ENGLAND.
From Tuesday February 20. to Tuesday February 27. 1649.
WIsdom shines in the midst of Anger, and Treachery clouds
the end of Conquest: Humane policy including both,
make them subject to for did slavery. If this wordly
Wisdom cannot stand, Treachery must by consequence ;fall
and if Humane policy be not yet satisfied with the cup of
Fury, let her be drunk with the diegs of Gods eternal displeasure.
To take down Episcopacy, and ctect 'Prisbytery,
is equal folly: And to pull down on e Idol, and set up mother,
is equal Popery. Shall a persidious discovered Steersman,
be again capable of that great trust, to sit at Helm, and the Martiners not guilty
of their ensuing misery? or can the Master and Commanders of the ship be cleeted
herein. without breach of sidelity? Was it the Kingly office, or matter of fact,
that took off Charls Stuart? If upon the former, unjust; the latter, lawfull. But
to the Question indeed. How came it, that the House of Peers became berthensome,
and useless, and dissolved was it because Peers oneby; or else for passing
the Ordinance, to raise Forces in City and Suburbs under Massey; to man the Line,
and oppose, fight with kill, and slay this Army? For taking off the Votes of the
Non Addressed; Ordering a Personal Treaty with the late King, after twice conquered,
and when he had nothing to treat for; and likewise declaring the Kings
Concessions a sufficient ground of settlement? Answer. If the House of Peers
had not been guilty of the same offences, as many of the Members of the House
of Commons (for which they were ejected) they had doubtless be can yet continued:
That being equally guilty herein, It was equally just, in dissolving who one, as excluding
the other. That being equally dissolved and excluded, for the same offences,
Why should tho Lords, not onely have the freedom to be dected Members of Parliament;
during this Session, but likewise be capable of that right, to be chosen of