CERTAIN SEASONABLE QVAERIES Propounded For divers parties of different Interest, and very necessary to be considered of at present. viz. 

For the two Houses of Parl.  
For the City of London.  
For the Reformed Soldiers.  
For the Kingdom in general.  
For our Brethren the Scots.  
For Major Gen. Laughorne.  
For the Presbyters.    
LONDON, Printed Ann. Dom. 1647.   

Certain seasonable Queries propounded for divers parties of different Interest and very necessary to be considered of at present.  

For the Houses of Parl.  1. Quaere. Whither the Kingdom be desirous to engage itself in a new war, or that the people of England have so irrevocably obliged themselves to their trusties that they will hazard more bloodshed and a common confusion by protecting of some faulty members from being brought to common Justice? and whether (as the Scots said in the Earl of strafford's case) it be not better that a few rather than unity perish?  
2. Whether it be a just Privilege of parliament, that every Member shall be free from being questioned for any crimes; and whether they ought not to be liable to the censure of the law for misdemeanours?  
3. Whether the Army or any man can imagine that justice will be done against a Member of the Parl, for any offence whatsoever, either by the House or any of the Committees (notwithstanding the late Order, giving liberty and invitation to all men, to question them for bribe taking and corruption) for they will not condemn themselves or their fellows?  
4. Wither it stand with the honour and dignity of a Parliament, and conform to the practice of former times to vote Contradictions, and reassume to the question matters that have been resolved upon full debate by the whole House: and whether there was ever heard of such a breach of Privilege of Parliament, as to order the expunging of the Declaration of the 30 of March 1647 against the Army, without any grounds that were not known before?  
5. Whether it be not to be wished by all men who are tender of the dignity and reverence that is due to Parliaments, that this present Parliament should be dissolved rather than the charged Members should be plucked out of the House by the Army, which they must be necessitated to do in order to their own safety, and for preventing another imbroilment of the Kingdom in blood, if the House insist on their Votes of the 25 of june, for the charged Members vindication.  
6. 
For the City of London.  Whether the engaging in a new war doth not concern the City of London a little, and therefore whether it be not important that a common hall be called before any thing be resolved on in that kind, so that they be not lead blindly by the Common-council, (many of whom are as fearful to be called to an account as the charged Members) to act any thing that may hazard the safety of the City and Kingdom?  
7. Whether in case of another civil War, the Excise, Twentieth, and Fifth parts, Contributions, and all the other heavy taxes will not be set on foot again, and greater oppression used to raise moneys, and to maintain it then before, and considering that the Countries which were the seat of the late War are almost wholly exhausted, whether is not this City like to pay all the reckoning?  
8. It is very remarkable that this City (above any in the world) hath never been sacked: Our Histories attribute its preservation to the great wisdom and providence of the Magistrates and Inhabitants, who in times of danger timeously declined such hazards, Therefore is it not good Counsel to wish the present age to follow the example of their prudent Ancestors, and to use the same means whereby to obtain the like blessing of peace and safety?  
9 Whether there can be hoped for either peace or safety until the King be restored to all his Rights in honour, the Law enlivened, the Army paid their full Arrears, satisfied in their just dernands and disbanded, that wide breach of love and charity be closed up by an Act of oblivion, and tender Consciences be regarded in what is meet?  
10. 
For the Reformadoe Soldiers.  Whether the Reformadoe- Officers and Soldiers do believe in their Consciences that the Parliament have now at length paid them their Arrears out of a good will, and whether if the Army had not stood upon it they should have received any Money at all, and therefore are not all such as have got benefit by the Army bound in gratitude not to oppose their friends?  
11. 
For the Kingdom in general.  Whether this Kingdom can ever hope for any ease or justice during the sitting of this Parliament, since the Lords have weekly for these eighteen months sent down to the House of Commons to desire their concurrence for dissolving that great oppression Country Committees, and yet the Commons would not vouchsafe hitherto to put it to the question?  
12. Whether it be not necessary that all the Members of Parliament, all Committee men, Excise men, Customers and others, who have been employed in the public Receipts of the Kingdom should be called speedily to a strict account; And since it is clear that above forty Millions of Money have been levied upon the Kingdom since the late War, for the public use, and yet not a Twentieth part thereof employed to that end, Whether the Countries ought not justly to refuse and withstand the raising of any more moneys, till they have a good account how what is already paid hath been disposed of, and whether it be not fit that all the Public Receivers aforesaid should pay down what is remaining in their hands, & that the gratified Members should disgorge their large remunerations towards the speedy discharge of the Army, and the relief of our distressed Brethren in Ireland, then that the Kingdom should be further impoverished by new Taxations, as the Ordinance of sixty thousand pounds monthly, which if submitted to will be endless?  
13. Whether the people of England did not so well like of the Scottish Army's behaviour, that they will esteem those men their friends who labour to bring them into the Kingdom again, and whether the North-Countries (if they come) will not bid them welcome to England with a vengeance?  
14. 
For our Brethren the Scots.  Whether the Scots can be so impudent as to hope His Majesty can think well of them? And whether they are not more displeased with their Parliament Friends for losing the King, than the Cavaliers were with the Scots for selling Him? And though they have no mind to restore the money (as judas did in the like case) yet it is a question whether they are not ready to hang themselves to hear that the King is with the Army?  
15. 
For Major Laughorne.  Whether Major General Laughorne hopes he shall be better rewarded for adhering to the two Houses of Parliament against the King and the Army, than he was for his former Services, for which when a Committee-man of Wales moved that Laughorne and his men might be employed for Ireland and the Country rid of him, Michael Oldsworth, the Earl of Pembrockes Directory made, Answer, that they did not only think them unfit for that Service, but not to deserve the Character of Christians?  
16. 
For the Presbyters.  Whether the Assembly of Presbyters have not just cause to be offended with the two Houses for not Voting them to be jure Divino when they could not prove it? And whether the Assembly might not have had a Creed as cheap as the Direstory and Covenant from their dear Brethren of Scotland? And whether we shall ever see their New Confession of Faith, because we have not heard of it almost these two months (that is) since the House of Commons (as their diurnals speak) upon debate of it, Voted and passed God the Father?  
17. Whether the Assembly do not now find that the Constitution of the people of England will never admit of the Presbyterian Government? And whether they ought not to implore the prayers of all good people, that God and the King will be pleased to take them to his mercy now they are at their last gasp?  
18. But if any of them or their Elders, continue obstinate in their Rebellion and madness, whether the Receipt commended by 
* Who in his book, called The Fire of the Sanctuary newly uncovered, pag. 360. hath these words: If he that seems Religions will yet be idle, false, undutiful, and stubborn, rail at Ceremonies, Bishops & Common-Prayer, disdain to be corrected and maintain his faults, That man or Woman will never have any true Religion in him till with a cudgel all these counterfeits be beaten off.  D. Cornelius' Burgess (who is one of themselves) being well applied, will not sooner bring them to right wits and understanding, than Hellebore or any other Medicine the College of Physicians can prescribe?  
19 Whether most Parliament-men, all Committee-men, Excise-men, Sequestrators, Assembly-men, CLsses, etc. wished not now that they had not meddled with the business? And whether they would not willingly give all they have got, to purchase that repose of Conscience and security that many honest loyal men whom they have undone possess with comfort?  
Resolved upon all these Questions, That none but despetate conscious persons, and such who care not for their own ends to sacrifice the peace and glory of the English Nation, will act or encourage men to their certain destruction by a second War, and the opposition of the King and the Army: And if any such be, they must expect to be torn in pieces, as being the worst of men, and the most pernicious enemies to the Commonwealth.  
FINIS.