Certain Queres, NOT unfitting TO Be red, and taken into serious CONSIDERATION By all His MAJESTIES Subjects in these disloyal Times.  
Whereunto is added XXXI. SVPPOSITIONS Concerning The Proceedings of this present Parliament.  
Very Fitting to betaken into the like consideration.  
red and judge.  
OXFORD, Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the university. MDCXLIII.   

Nine Queries, Fit to be taken into serious Consideration In these disloyal TIMES.  1 JOHN. 4.1. 
believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of GOD.  
Quae. 1. WHether that be the spirit of God or no? Which First, Seeketh by unworthy and sinister ways to accomplish their own desires; As 1. By bringing in the Scots. 2. By robbing the Kingdom for their pay. 3. By relieving the distresses of Ireland.  
Quere 2. Whether that be the Spirit of God or no? Which by bitter scandals, and lying Reports, seek to abate the Loyalty of the people from their sovereign, as by accusing His majesty, First to have a hand in the Rebellion of Ireland, and to favour their Proceedings: 2. To seek the destruction of the Parliament, and to bring up an army against them. 3 With an intention, First, To bring in Popery, Secondly, To bring in a foreign army. Thirdly, To rule in an Arbitrary way.  
Quae. 3. Whether that be the spirit of God, &c. That seek to uphold their designs by lies, as appears, 1. By Pamphlets. 2. By Votes. 3. By Letters. 4. By Speeches.  
Quae. 4. Whether that be the spirit, &c. Which expresseth an inveterate Rancour and Malice to the grave and reverend clergy of our kingdom, 1. By Countenancing, and delighting in all Accusations against them, how unjust and scandalous soever. 2. By uhholding all those who Exdiametro, are opposite to them and enemies to the established government of the Church. 3. Not punishing the Riotous assaults made upon the persons of the Bish ps 4. Accusing after a malicious, but ridiculous way, the BB of High Treason, and committing them to the Tower. 5. By putting them from their Votes in the House, which hath been one main Cause of all the miseries and distra●tions of the state, and certainly had been prevented by them, if they had had Voices.  
Quae. 5. Whether that be the spirit of God, or no? Which upon false Surmises and Suggestions, Vote things to be Law contrary to the fundamental Laws, As 1. That the KING is bound by Oath to settle the Militia, as they would have it. 2. That the KING hath no Right in His Castles, Forts, &c. but only in Trust, which is forfeitable. 3. That they may by the fundamental laws, dispose of this trust, which implies a Forfeiture in the King. 4. That all Governments by Corporations by the Kings Grants are voided. 5. That the Houses may make new Laws and Ordinances without the KINGS Consent. 6. That the KING cannot execute the Commission of Array, without the Houses consent.  
Quae. 6. Whether that be the spirit, &c. Which maintaineth Sedition. 1. By Sermons which incite the people against their sovereign, and the Church. 2. By Appellations of uncharitableness, first Malignant, secondly, Ill-affected, third, Popishly-minded. Whereby the nobility, gentry, clergy, and other Religious men are abused. 3. libels and Pamphlets against sovereignty. 4. Speeches, which tend to the great derrogation of His majesty.  
Quae. 7. Whether that be the spirit, &c. Which dispenseth with the Oaths, 1. Of Allegiance. 2. Of supremacy. 3. Of Offices. 4. Of Protestations. 5. Of dueties of loyalty: and punisheth those that make conscience of them.  
Quae. 8. Whether that be the spirit, &c. Which maintaineth desperate and Treasonable designs, 1. In Hotham. 2. Warwick, 3. Essex, &c. by 1. Killing the KINGS Subjects. 2. Drowning the Country. 3. Taking arms against the KING. 4. Surprising the Kings Provision. 5. Taking Passengers their prisoners. 6. Opening the KINGS and QUEENS Letters.  
Quae. 9. Whether that be the sppirit, &c. Which against common mon sense, Pretend, 1. His majesties safety, and yet declare all that offer loyalty to their PRINCE, to be His enemies! 2. His Honour, and yet seek to make him Infamous to all Ages and Nations: 3. His Wealth, and yet take away His Childrens bread! 4. The safety of the commonweal, and yet imbrue it in a desperate and Civill war. 5. The liberty of the Subject, and yet, first Imprison them for discharging their Conscience; secondly, Deny them the liberty of Petitioning; thirdly, scorn and vilify the gentry. 6. The privilege of Parliament, and yet, first, Root out all them that use liberty of speech against their Votes: seconply Take away Bishops and temporal Lords: thirdly, scandalise all the nobility which adhere to the KING.   

Thirty one Suppositions, Fit to be taken into serious Consideration in these disloyal Times.  
sup. 1. THat they who take notice that the King is in the army, and summon Him to fight, and yet declare, they fight to save His Person, do not declare Truly, but a true lie.  
sup. 2. That they who aclowledge, it was no breach of privilege of Parliament in Queen Elizabeth, to sand for Mr. Wentworth from the House, and then to sand M. Wentworth to the Tower, and yet protest it to be a breach of privilege of Parliament in King CHARLES, to sand, or come for the Five Members, to have them tried according to Law, do not protest Materially, but a material lie.  
sup. 3. That if the Intention of Rob. late earl of Essex, in raising forces to remove evil Counsellors from Queen Elizabeth, was by the Law construed to be high Treason; then the actual raising of Forces, and the Executing of those ●orces by Rob. now earl of Essex, to remove evil counsellors from King CHARLES, must by the same Law, be a construed High Treason, and they that speak otherwise, speak not so much Formally, as a formal lie.  
sup. 4. That they who say it is no Tumult for multitudes to Petition for achieving their just desires in january. 1641. though they come with swords and staves, and yet do say it is a Tumult for a few selected Members to prefer a Petition for the achieving of their just desires in january 1642. though they come without swords and staves, do not say Constantly, but a constant lie.  
sup. 5. They who pretend the chief aim and End of all their Consultations is the Glory of GOD, and the maintenance of His true Religion, and yet sand Armed men to plunder GODS House, wherein He is chiefly glorified, and to Imprison Orthodox Religious Ministers, by whom His true Religion is chiefly maintained; It may be they do not intend so much Gloriously, as a Glorious lie.  
sup. 6. They who tell us, their next aim and end is to Preserve the laws of the kingdom, and the KINGS just Prerogative, the True privileges of Parliament, and the Subjects right liberty; and yet destroy the ancient Laws of the Kingdom, and divest the KING of His known Prerogatives, and make a way to take away the undoubted Priviviledges of the Parliament, and rob the Subjects of their unquestioned Liberties; It may be supposed, they do advisedly tell us an advised lie.  
sup. 7. They who confess the Ecclesiasts to be canonical, which forbids us to harbour an evil thought of Governours, and yet do themselves, and encourage others to speak evil of Governours; It may be supposed they confess not so much Canonically, or Ecclesiastically, as a canonical lie, as an ecclesiastical lie.  
sup. 8. They who make laws not to be broken by any, no not by a Prerogative Power, until they be repealed, and yet do break them themselves by a Legislative power, before they be repealed; It may be supposed they speak Legislatively a Legislative lie.  
sup. 9. They who speak of Fears and Jealousies from abroad, and beyond Sea, by Letters and the like, and yet themselves frame those Fears and Jealousies by forged Letters at home; It may be supposed they speak not indeed Fearfully, but a fearful lie.  
sup. 10. They who say they desire nothing but only a pure Reformation of the Church present, according to the Purity of the Church primitive, and yet go against all the Institutions of the primitive Church, by crying down Common Prayers, episcopacy and the like; It may be supposed, they speak not Purely Primitively, but a primitive pure lie.  
sup. 11. They who confess a Meum & Tuum, or propriety of goods in the Subject, which cannot be taken away by the King, though to prevent an Imminent and public danger, but by course of law, and yet again, they may be taken away by the consultation and advice of a Close Committee, or Five Members, upon a public pretended danger, by force and violence; It may be supposed they confess publicly, a public lie.  
sup. 12. They that above board, offer to adventure all means, liberty, life and all, for the Kingdoms safety, and yet under-board convey away all they have into remote parts, when they have made the Kingdom fit for ruin and Destruction; It may be supposed they speak falsely, a safe lie.  
sup 13. They that to compose a Civill war, tender such Propositions to the Injured Party, which he cannot with honour and a good conscience yield unto, thereby to cast the Odium from themselves upon others; It may be supposed they tender politicly, a politic lie.  
Sup. 14. They that give their general Instructions patent, when the Armies are joined, not to shoot at that Regiment, where the King is in chief, thereby to preserve the King; and yet give Instructions latent, chiefly to rout that Regiment, thereby to destroy the King; It may be supposed they instruct traitorously a traitorous lie.  
Sup. 15. They who protest, next to Gods glory, they seek nothing more then to make the King a Glorious and rich King, feared abroad, and honoured at home, and yet by aspersions, and casting dirt in his face, by callumnies and scandals, make him infamous abroad, and slighted at home; It may be supposed they protest Infamously, an infamous lie.  
Sup. 16. They who take the Oath of Allegiance, as all English men do either actually or virtually, and thereby aclowledge the King to be supreme in all Causes, ecclesiastical and Civill, and swore to maintain him, and defend him against all men, and to obey him in all his lawful commands, and yet disobey him in his most lawful commands, and set another Head over him; It may be supposed they swore judicially, a judicious lie.  
Sup. 17. They who believe S. Pauls Epistle to the romans was indited by the Spirit of God, and thereby aclowledge all matters of Faith therein contained ought to be believed, and all matters of manners ought to be observed, and amongst the rest, That Custom is due, to whom custom belongeth, and yet put out those Customers, who will pay custom where it is due, and put in Customers to pay it where it is not due; It may be supposed they do knowingly, or feelingly, a feeling lie.  
18 They that say, God saw it as equally necessary to call this present Parliament for the reforming of abuses in Church and State; as for sending of Jesus Christ into the world, to save Man-kind; It may be supposed they say most Blasphemously, a most Blasphemous lie.  
19. They that lye in a Saw-pit, or Gravill-pit all the time of the fight at Edge-h●ll, and post the next morning to London, and openly in Guild-hall vow upon their Honour, That the Kings Army was utterly defeated, his Standard lost, and most of his Souldiers slain, when the contrary was somewhat truer; It may be supposed they vow openly, dishonourably, an open dishonourable lie.  
20. They that cause Bells to be rung, Bon-fires to be made, Sermons to be Preached by way of Thanksgiving for a happy victory upon Prince Rupert and his Cavaliers, when P. Rupert and his Cavaliers had obtained the victory upon the Troopers and their Cudgelliers, though the more is the pitty, English Christian blood was  shed by English Christians; It may be supposed they rung not their Bells, burn not their fires, preach not their Sermons so much victoriously, as in a victorious lye.  
21. They that to take off Straffords head, do pled, If the Law be not executed, every thing will become a Law, Riot will become a Law, drunkenness will become a law, Ambition will become a Law, Lust will become a Law; and yet to keep on their own heads, do heighten their own Lusts and Ambitions to a law; It may be supposed they speak Ambitiously and lustfully, an ambitious lustful lie.  
22. They that Imprison Judges for denying a Habeas Corpus before the Parliament, because it was against the old fundamental laws of this Kingdom, whereby the Subjects liberty might be maintained: and in Parliament Imprison the same Judges for granting a Habeas Corpus, and by a new fundamental Law detain the Subjects from liberty; It may be supposed, They would destroy the laws Fundamentally, by a fundamental lie.  
Sup. 23. They that come from St. Peters in Westminster to Gog-Magog in Guild-hall London, and make eloquent Orations to engage the poor abused and deceived Citizens into as deep Rebellion as themselves, by bringing in Plate, money, Jewels, Bodkins and Thimbles, for furthering the good Cause in hand, by an unnatural and Civill war; It may be supposed they speak Eloquently, an eloquent lie.  
24. They that imprison Bishops, and other grave and Learned Ministers, pretending they brought in Innovations and Superstitions, though they did only renew the ancient and harmless Ceremonies of the surplice, cross, and Ring, and recommand the reverend Gestures of kneeling at Prayers, and Sacrament of the Supper, standing at the Creed, and Gloria Patri, and uncovering the head the whole time of Divine Service; and themselves in the mean time introduce true Innovations, by encouraging non-sense extempore Prayers and preachments; It may be supposed they intend Irreligiously, to set up an Irreligious lie.  
25. They that banish all Popery, because the Pope exalts himself above all that is called God, and is therefore Antichrist; and in the mean time super-exalt themselves above Kings, who are called Gods, and so translate Antichrist from S. Peters in Rome, to S. Peters in Westminster; It may be supposed they intend to set up Antichrist here, by Antichristian dealing with an Antichristian lie.  
26. They that banish all jesuits, because they are the chief Pillars of, and agents for the papacy, by their mental Reservations and Equivocations, and in the interim equevocate themselves, by Protesting that nothing is more dear and sweet to them then the Common-wealth, by wealth meaning Money; It may be supposed, they intend little less, then to exchange one jesuit into another, the Popish clergy jesuit, into an English Lay jesuit and so play fast and loose Jesuitically, by a Jesueticall lie.  
27. They that forbid Ministers to Preach at all, because at all times they Preach against the sins of the Times, and particularly, for breaking the late Covenant and Protestation, whereby they bound themselves to maintain and defend the Kings Honour, Person, and dignity; It may be supposed, they are hardened in their sins, because they are vexed to have their sins reproved; and so would go on obstinately to maintain an obstinate lie.  
28. They that sand Armed Souldiers to apprehended and Imprison peaceable Ministers, because they are reputed Malignants; and then cannot, at least do not lay any greater malignancy to their charge, then praying for Bishops, to which crime being answered, They do therein onely obey an Act of Parliament, and discharge their Oaths, which being replied upon, They are discharged from that Oath, because that Act of Parliament was made to confirm King Edwards Common Prayer-Book, and not that which is now extant; with not Issue being joined, because that very Prayer for the BB. is in K. Edwards Common-Prayer Book; It will be supposed they endeavour to maintain the scirvy cause in hand scirvily by a scirvie lie.  
Sup. 29. They that against the customs of kingdoms, Nations, and Countries, against the Precidents of all councils and Synods provincial, national, and general, will now have a Synod called, and none to be of that society, but such as are chosen by the Layetie, that Article of Religion may be established, not by the measure, but number of Voices, thereby to set up in this Nation a pariticall Presbytery in stead of an Hie●archicall episcopacy; It may be supposed; that as much as in them lay, they would Nationally make the whole kingdom guilty of a national lie.  
30. They that take away from the King all His Forts and Castles, and Provisions, whereby He might maintain himself, His Queen, and Children, and prescribe all such as contribute to Him in such necessity; and afterwards, being stung with the shane of this fact, do lay down a Feather of charity, for a whole Body of Justice, and feed the royal Issue by alms; It may be charitably supposed, that it is a most Charitable lie.  
31. They that guild their subtle Intentions with humble Expressions, to keep the King and His heir near them, till their stratagems were perfect, that so they might seize upon the Prince, and crown him, in C●se his Father should not yield to their unreasonable demands; This in truth may be supposed, had it taken effect handsomely, had been an handsome lie.   
FINIS.