NO NEW PARLIAMENT: Or some QUERIES OR CONSIDERATIONS Humbly offered to the present PARLAMENT-MEMBERS.  
By a Friend to them and their Cause.  
London, Printed in the Year, 1660.   

NO NEW PARLIAMENT: Or Some QUERIES Or Considerations humbly offered to the present PARLIAMENT-MEMBERS.  

I.  
WWhether this be not the Parliament, and these the Persons who began the War with the late King? And if so, whether it do not highly and nearly concern them, even for their own sakes, to be the Parliament that shall take up and Close the Quarrel, and not leave it to others, especially, if as the general voice goes, the Kings Son must be brought in?   

II.  
Whether this Parliaments first undertaking and prosecuting the War with the late King were Just, and upon good and Warrantable Grounds? If it were( as no doubt it was) and God having by his Providence, after a long Interruption of some of them, and a longer Seclusion of the rest, restored them to their Trust, whether they ought not now to stand to their First Good Principles, maintain their First Good Cause, and secure all the good people that have been Engaged with them and by them?   

III.  
Whether this be not that Parliament, and these the very persons, who by the good esteem they had among the people of their Integrity, Faithfulness and Constancy; whether, I say, this be not the Parliament who by these and other means engaged the Honest and Well affencted of the Land in the aforesaid War? And if so, whether this Parliament, having now power in their hands, are not obliged in Duty and good Conscience to secure all the said honest and well-affected people for this their Engaging and Acting under them, and not leave them as a prey to their professed enemies, nor their terms of Peace to be made by they know not whom? Another Parliament, which there is too great cause to fear, will be too much made up of such as neither have been nor are friends to the Parliaments cause, nor to those that engaged in it.   

IV.  
Whether this be not the Parliament who by many Declarations and Remonstrances, by Protestation and Vow, by Solemn League and Covenant have declared and engaged themselves before God, Angels, and Men, and have thereby drawn in and therewith engaged all honest People to assert and defend their just undertaking and one another therein? whether as things now stand,( when this just Cause which through Gods assistance could not be won from us in the field, is in great danger to be stolen from us by the dark contrivances of its and our adversaries) if this Parliament should dissolve at such a time as this, and leave all, both Cause and all engaged by them in it to another Parliament, the greatest part whereof may be no friends but enemies, or at least strangers, or but little concerned in the first undertaking; whether this would not be exceeding contrary to all those former Declarations, Remonstrances, protestation, Vow and Solemn League and Covenant.   

V.  
Whether it be not more then sufficiently manifest, what will be the carriage of these Enemies to the Parliaments Cause, and its Adherents when they get power into their hands, since they are so forward already in their discourses to charge the Parliament with Treason and Rebellion in their first undertaking the War, and look on all their Friends as Rebells and Traytors for assisting them in the Prosecution of it, and who are now in all places continuing and promoting the electing of such into the New Parliament as are Enemies to the present Parliament, their Friends and Cause, wherein if they prevail( as tis too likely) their work is done? how absolutely necessary is it then for the present Parliament to continue their Session, for prevention of these Mischiefs, which otherwise will ensue.  
Upon these and many other very weighty Considerations, it can by no means be accounted either honourable, or just, or safe, or prudent for the present Parliament to dissolve themselves, till first they have fully asserted and vindicated their own just undertaking, and the faithful adherents to it and them, and not to leave both themselves and their Friends to the Malice and Revenge of a vanquished Enemy.  
If this should be, we may bid Adieu to the Honour and Renown of English Parliaments, and to all future hopes of assistance from the People, whatever the necessity may be: And let English men bid farewell both to their Civil and Religious Liberties, if after so high a Conflict for them, with the expense of so much blood and treasure, and having by Gods blessing subdued their opposers, yet after all to be exposed to a far worse Condition then before, which O God forbid: We hope for better things from our present Parliament: All that we add is only this, If the KING must come, none so fit to bring him as our present Parliament.  
March 12. 1659.   
FINIS.