THE DECLARATION AND RESOLUTION Of many thousands Citizens of LONDON CONCERNING The Army, under the Command of the Lord General Fairfax, and their present Proceed touching the Treaty; And the further proceed of the Citizens concerning the Papers sent up from the Army.  
Also, Ten Propositions from His Majesty's loyal Subjects within the Realm of England, to the Citizens and Army, concerning the Reign and Government of their Dread Sovereign Lord King Charles.   blazon of the City of London 
8ber the 12th 1648 Printed for C. W. and are to be sole near the Royal Exchange in Cornhill.   

THE PROPOSALS Of the Subjects of ENGLAND Concerning The Reign and Government of their Dread Sovereign Lord the KING.  
SUfficient Authority makes a just and lawful Parliament, endued with absolute power, and not to be dissolved by any departure: To which may be added, the third Record or Act of Continuance, against the which the King hath no power, nor any Court in the Kingdom; and whatsoever is done without it, about it, or against it, is void in Law. Hear then poor people these poisoned positions penned in papers against the King, Legis non habet vigorem, quod principi placet, Bract. f. 107. God's Minister ought to do that which is only right, and his will is of no force for a Law, because it ought to subscribe to the Law, and not the Law to it. See Errors for Arguments to move you.  
There is Art in Errors, and Errors in Arguments are armed with truth:  
The King is to be obeyed, his life preserved, and his Laws observed, and by them, both he and his people are to be protected.  
His promises art to them that shall obey his personal Commands in his Camp against his highest Court, condemned of Ordinances.  
As first that of the Militia, which devests his Majesty of his power to protect his people. 2 That of Men and Money to be laid upon them to protect themselves. 3 To rebel against his personal Commands. 4 To kill him in his Army. 5 To rule him and all his people by an arbitrary Government. 6 To change Religion. 7 Maintain Rebellion. 8 Commit his best subjects. 9 Commend and countenance his enemies. Lastly, Keep him from his Parliament.  
I shall easily answer all these. The King's power to protect his people must be known, what it is, where it is, and in whom it is. What it is? No Regalt, personal, or private power, but a righteous, politic, and public power. In a word, not the judgement of the King merely Royal, Imperial, and Arbytrary, but the judgement of the Kingdom legally, and judicially performed.  
Where it is? Not in the Camp and Cabinet of the King, but the great Council of the Kingdom.  
In whom it is? Not in the persons departed, but in the three Persons that remain by the Writ of Suwmans, and Act of Continuance.  
For the persons departed against both, have no cause to call their powers after them, but are condemned by both as violaters of their own Acts, and therefore the business to be considered, is left in trust with them, forsaken by the others, and it is not the Parliament but the King himself that devests himself of his own power, by his own Act and default; and having transferred his power to his Court, he may not recall it from them.  
2 Men and Money; Answer, but the imminent danger the Parliament is to take care for, and most against them that are departed, and call as many as they can at home and abroad to rebel against their own Authority, for out of Parliament they have none; and the Royal power rebels against the politic, and the politic defends it where it ought to be, and resists it where no Law can justify it.  
3 To rebel against the personal Commands of the King is no rebellion, but the resistance of wrong, and Rebellion is properly against the King's Authority which defends the person, and the person cannot be safe without it, but casts itself wilfully into peril, to perish with Rebels against the care of the common protection.  
4 To kill the King is no good man's intention, and his party is the Argument of the war, which being against his own authority, must be suppressed for his safety in his own body.  
5 The Parliament is no Arbitrary Government, and what the three powers do is judicial in cases extraordinary, and Ordinances need no other Laws than their own powers.  
6 To change what is humane, is no alteration of Religion.  
7 Rebellion is against the Parliament, not by it.  
8 They are not the best subjects that reject the Parliament.  
9 They are not the Kingdoms enemies that fight for the Parliament.  
Lastly, his Majesty's fears cannot be in his supreme Council, where He and we all are safe.  

A Declaration of the power of a King, and the Loyalty of His Subjects.  
THE Oath of God binds every Subject to keep the King's Commandment, which he may do, when he is deemed to do the contrary, and shall not need to make hast out of his sight, that face shall change for the better, that boldly holds out in well doing. We must not stand in any evil, for so we may suffer his just displeasure that hath dominion over us.  
And therefore all men ought to be careful of what they are justly commanded, and fear not words that want warrant. King's are men, and have their passions, and must have time to digest them, and return where they should be and happy shall they be when they understand their powers aright.  
We have waded through a most wearisome way, clogged with clamour as the thickest clay, or as clouds of dust that blind every man's eyes, and the more we stir, the more we strive to choke ourselves, and it were happy we were out of the way in some other Kingdom to seek our own peace, if the Parliament may not make it. The Assembly was confused, Acts 19.32. and the major part knew not why they met.  
Such Assemblies there be too many, where multitudes meet.  
Can any man rejoice that Tumults turned the King from his Council, and now we hear men rejoice that they hope the like Tumults will turn the Council out of the Kingdom.  
And if we lose both, where shall our happiness be? The best desire is, that both may meet, and except that be, we are like to expect greater Tumults to take all from Us We should see better betwixt parties, if we ourselves would not be parties. The beauty of truth, is her nakedness, and therefore she seeks no corners: but falsehood is ugly, and therefore like ill complexions useth varnish. The Parliament paints not, but is plain, and they that have erred set Colours on their Causes to contend with truth itself.   

The Declaration of the Citizens of London, concerning the Treaty, and the Army.  
DIvers of the Citizens of London having received several papers from the Army, touching the Treaty, and bringing to condign punishment the abettors and fomenters of the late war and commotions within this Kingdom, have declared their unanimous. Resolutions to join with them therein, and to live and die, and stand and fall with them in the said Engagement, even for those particulars of common Right and Freedom for which they first took up arms; and do further declare, that they will by God's assistance, second them with their utmost power and might in their greatest straits and difficulties against all opposition whatsoeve.  
This is the sense and resolution of many thousands well affected Citizens in and about the City of London, who subscribed to the large Petition, presented to the House of Commons, concerning a personal treaty with the King.    
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