Works of Darkness Brought to LIGHT. OR A true Representation to the whole Kingdom of the Dangerous Designs driven on by Sectaries in the ARMY: As also laying down the unreasonableness of their DEMANDS, Which if not granted, they refuse to DISBAND.  
Together with VII. new QVERIES propounded to the ARMY.  LUK. 3.14. 
And the Soldiers demanded of John, saying; And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any man falsely, and be content with your wages.  
LONDON, Printed in the Year, 1647.   

THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY. TO The disobedient Army under the Conduct of Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX.  
Much to be lamented Gentlemen and Soldiers,  
IT grieves your friends and glads your enemies, that you who have been famous for your victories should now become infamous for your disobedience: It may be said of your practices, as it was of the writings of Origen, ubi bene, nemo melius, ubi male nemo pejus: what things he did well, none did better; wherein he did ill, none did worse; the same may be said of you, whiles you did well in obeying the Parliament, encountering with your enemies, none did better; but when once you did ill, in disobeying the Commands of this state you serve; and in picking quarrels with your friends when you had no enemies to fight withal, in this none did worse. It hath made me wonder that you whose Tenets are, you must not fight for Religion, should stretch your Consciences so far on the tenter-hook of your own designs, as to fight against it: I know most of your Persons, and have read all your Papers with a bleeding heart and weeping eye, my very soul mourning in secret for the proud and imperious language; vain and carnal confidence, Peremptory and high demands, weak and groundless jealousies, sinful and ungodly compliance (with all parties to carry on your own) which is scattered up and down throughout all your papers; Lies have been your refuge, and under falsehood have you hid yourselves. That yourselves and the Kingdom might see I do you no wrong, I shall produce your own party and Papers, to give palpable Demonstration to all the world, that you have contrived and carried on your designs with falsehood and deceit. From your Party I might evince it thus; did not Cromwell (your great Ringleader into Disobedience) solemnly protest and promise upon his life and honour many times and oft in the House of Commons, 
* Cromwel's Promise falsified.  that the Army should disband and lay down all their Arms at their door, when ever the House Commanded them? now whether your papers agree with his promise, the world will witness. It seems he can take that liberty of Conscience with the Papist to promote the Catholic cause, per fas et nafas, by right means or wrong, by truth or falsehood: This palpable breach of Cromwel's engagement makes all indifferent men believe that this promise of obedience was only made; that your purpose of disobedience might be the less suspected, and the practice of it the more easily promoted. Is not this like the practice of Garnet and Jesuit, who (a little before the powder-plot was to be acted) did lay his Commands on the Papists to obey their King, and keep themselves quiet? and all was that the plot might not be suspected. If Cromwell follow Garnets' steps, I would have him take heed of Garnets' end. 2. The falsehood of your Papers I could declare in many particulars, which I will scan and survey in this following Treatise; I shall in my Epistile instance in one Palpable falsehood only. In your letter to the Lord Mayor, aldermans, and Common Council of the City of London: 
a These in brief are our desires and the things for which we stand, beyond which we shall not go. See the Letter from Sir Thomas Fairfax and the chief Commanders in the Army to the Lord Major, Aldermen and Common-Council of the City of London Dated from Royston, June 10. 1647. P. 4 li. 14.  you signify what your desires are, and the things for which you stand, beyond which you promise you shall not go. And in your 
b See the Declaration from Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Army from St. Albans. June 1●. 1647. P 12. l. 29.  Declaration 4. days after this you have these words. There are besides these many particular things which we could wish to be done, and some to be undone; but these proposals aforegoing present, being the principal things we bottom and insist upon, we shall (as we have said before) acquiesce for other particulars in the justice and wisdom of the Parliament. In which words I cannot but give you to take notice both of Pride and falsehood. 1. Pride, in that in some particulars only you will acquiesce in the wisdom and justice of the parliament, in other things it seems you will not; Touching those proposals in your Declaration you will not acquiesce in the justice and wisdom of the House; in those you seem yourselves the most Competent judges on intolerable pride! 2. The falsehood of those words appear in this; although you bond up yourselves by promise, that beyond your desires expressed in your letter, Dated 10. of June, and your Proposals in your Declaration at St. Albans, June 14. you would not go, but acquiesce in the justice and wisdom of the Parliament for other particulars; yet have you since the time you made that promise imperiously demanded, and Peremptorily insisted upon about 20. Particular Proposals more, in your Humble Remonstrance, dated June 23. and in your manifesto dated June 27. and in other Papers. Thus have you made lies your Refuge, and under falsehood have you hid yourselves. Having thus dealt plainly with you, I shall now retire into a corner and weep for you, and that upon these 4. Considerations.  
1. Considering the Temptations you lie under at this day. Yourselves confess it in the opinion and humble advice of the Council of War at Bury, 29 of May 1647. pag. 7. line ult. Oh 'tis the hour of your Temptation; the Temptation that I conceive lies upon you, is this; that you have many of you been used so long to Command that you have forgotten to obey; that many of you from deep penury have aspired to gainful offices, and from being clothed in rags, are now arrayed in Scarlet; this I fear will be a prevailing Temptation upon you to make you unwilling to disband, knowing that than you must return to your obscure dwellings and callings, to be Tinkers, Tapsters, Tailors, Tanker-bearers, Porters, Cobblers, Bakers, and other such mean trades, of which you could not subsist before these wars.  
2. Considering the Designs you drive at; among many this is the sum of your desires, to newmould the House of Commons; which you call purging (but others think corrupting) the House. Oh then M. Peter would be busy abroad to get in some famous Commonwealths-men, such as Hughson the Shoemaker, Hobson the Tailor, Quarterman the Marshal. These in your account would be faithful Members in the House of Commons.  
3. Considering the indirect means you use to drive on your designs, and that by fraud falsehood, stattery, and Compliance with all sorts of men. Comply you do with the King to permit his malignant chaplains to come to him, and have common prayers read before him, contrary to the order of both Houses; Comply basely you do with malignants: a new smooth term for them you have in your Remonstrance found out; lest you should displease them too much in calling them Malignants: therefore you call them the King's late Partakers, 
See humble Remonstra. P. 12. l. 27.  and desire for them more than ever they durst desire for themselves. Doubtless these helpers shall be your shame and ruin, as the reeds of Egypt, shall they be unto you to fail and wound you.  
4. Considering the ill Consequences that either have or may fall out. as 1. Have not you strengthened the hands of the wicked, and grieved the hearts of the godly wise? 2. Have not you stirred up a spirit of disobedience in many people of the land against the Parliament? 3. Have not you rendered the Parliament base and low before the people? 4. Have not you countenanced and encouraged all the desperate Sectaries in the Kingdom? 5. Have not you blemished and contemned a godly and Orthodox Ministry, and encouraged illiterate mecanick unworthy fellows to preach, where, and when, and what they list? 6. Have not you permitted all scandalous Ministers, that will, to read the Common-prayer-book within your quarters? 7. Have not you hardened the King's heart in his former ways, in allowing him his seducing Chaplains who have caused him to err; and to have as free a use, within your quarters, of the Common-prayer-book, as ever he had when he was at Whitehall? 8. Have not you exceedingly retarded the relief of Ireland; had you not rather to pick quarrels with your friends here, then to fight with your enemies there? 9 Hath not your approach to London raised the price of Provisions, and interrupted the Trade of this City, above 200000. l. weekly? These inconveniences we have already felt, what yet we may further undergo the Lord knows. I have no more to say, but to Commend this following subject to your Patronage, wherein I shall endeavour to set forth to the world and your own Consciences, the Dangerousness of your designs, the unreasonableness of your demands, together with some new Queries to your Consciences. in the mean time rest,  
Your humble Servant, if you will not presume to be the Kingdom's Masters, Tom Telltruth.   

Works of darkness brought to LIGHT; OR A true Representation to the whole Kingdom of the dangerous Designs etc. driven on by the ARMY.  
Oye Inhabitants of ENGLAND;  
WIth what face can ye endure a small Council of war to control and disobey the great Council of state? Are ye weary of the Common Law, or rather willing the Marshal Law should rule you? will ye delight rather to see Soldiers in Buff, than Nobles in their Parliament Robes? Had ye rather the Land should run down with tears and blood, then flow with milk and honey? will ye be beguiled with the flattering words and plausible pretences of a Revolted Army? will ye suffer the Army under pretence of justice to bring you under oppression, and under the notion of Liberty to bring you into bondage, and under the name of Saints of light to act the part of the Angels of darkness? That you might not be deluded for time to come, I shall briefly dispatch these 3. particulars. 1. Show the Armies dangerous designs. 2. Unreasonable demands, together with some new Queries to their Consciences touching their refusal to disband at the Command of the two Houses of Parliament.  
I begin with the first. viz. the dangerous designs driven on by the sectaries in the Army; why they refuse to disband. I shall reduce to 7. heads, which I shall make appear by plain and Demonstrative Reasons.  
The first grand design the Army drives at, is to newmould the Honourable House of Commons; 
●. Design.  to increase the numbers of Independent Members, that so they might carry the Votes of the House as it shall please themselves, that if it were possible they might promote their wicked designs in a Parliamentary way. This design is so clear, that he that runs may read it; since the writs were Issued forth for new elections to fill up the House; how Industriously have the Independent Party endeavoured to fill the House with Independent Members; using M. Peter's by persuasion in the Pulpit, and the Army by terror, to deceive and affright the people, forcing many places in the Country to choose Soldiers, and others, men of no considerable interests in the Kingdom, to be Members of Parliament: yea their violence against the XI. Accused Members, manifests this to be the design, declaring to the Parliament in their Papers, 
a See the Armies humble Remonst. p. 14.  that they must take some extraordinary courses, till the XI. Members be suspended the House, and some other of their demands satisfied: And not being content with this they vent their spleen also against other Members of the House of Commons, branding them with the ignominious term of 
b See the Armies humble Remonst. P. 10. P. 14.  a Party, men that drive their own interests, Accomplices to the Members accused, accusing all them to be disaffected to the public good, who are not affected to their own Party. 'tis clear by this the new moulding the Parliament is the first and grand design.  

The grand design and main intent  
is to new mould the Parliament.  
The Army then and Country-clown  
will turn the Kingdom upside down.   
To destroy the House of Lords; 
2. Design.  The Petition of Lamb's Congregation to the House of Commons, 
c See that seditious Petition from Lamb's Congregation.  that none might have a negative voice; doth directly justle out the power of the House of Peers. The Sectaries are not ashamed to say that the Lords of this Realm ought not to sit in Parliament, unless they do come in by Election as Members of the House of Commons do? this will more evidently appear if ye read those seditious Pamphlets against the House of Lords, written by the Sectaries. It is said in one Sectarian Pamphlet, 
d See the just man in bonds. P. ●.  that the Lords are but painted puppies and Dagons, that our superstition and ignorance, their own craft and impudence have erected; no natural Issues of Laws, but the mushrooms of Prerogative, the wens of just government; putting the body of the people to pain, as well as occasioning Deformity, sons of conquest they are and usurpation, not of choice and Election; intruded upon us by power, not constituted by consent, not made by the people from whom all power, place, and office that is just in this Kingdom ought only to arise. And in another seditious Pamphlet 'tis said thus; 
e See Pearl in a dunghill. p. 3.  why presume ye thus O ye Lords; set forth your merit before the people. Remember yourselves, or shall we remember ye? which of you before this Parliament minded any thing so much as your pleasures, plays, masks; feast, buntings, gameings, dance & c? For what other have you been but a mere clog to the House of Commons in all their proceed? how many necessary things have ye obstructed? how many evil things have ye promoted? And in another Pestilent Pamphlet 'tis affirmed; 
f See Remonstrance of many thousands. p 7.  that the Lords must stand to be chosen for Knights and Burgesses by the people, as other, the freemen and gentry of this nation are. Yea there is another seditious Book entitled An Al-arm to the House of Lords, which contains in every page of it, railing against the Peers of the Realm; 
g See the book entitled an Al-arm to the House of Lords.  the several passages would be too tedious for you to read or me to write, let this suffice to let you see the endeavours of the Sectaries, to overthrow and alter the very foundamentals of the government of the Kingdom; now lest you should imagine that this spirit of disaffection to the House of Lords should be confined, only within the breasts of the unknown Authors of these seditious books; it is meet I should let you know that this malignant humour runs as blood throughout the veins of all the Sectaries; when the Sectaries, in and about London, Petition, 'tis only to their own House of Commons, they never take notice of the Lords House at all; witness that factious Petition from Lamb's Congregation, and another Petition from the Sectaries of London, delivered to the House of Commons, by that Turncoate Samuel Warner, Tichbourn and others, in opposition to the Renowned Remonstrance of the City, which was humbly presented to both Houses; but their seditious Petitions, but only to the House of Commons. By this it appears that destroying the Lords House, is the 2. Design driven on by the Sectaries.  

Ye nobles all be aware a fall  
The Brownists do against you brawl.  
They say you shall not sit an hour  
If th' upper House yield not to th' lower.   
To cut off the King if he sides not to the Independent party. 
3. Design.  'Tis true, of late they seem to appear for him to gain Malignants on their side, but 'tis notoriously known how their Principles are directly against Monarchy: What desperate speeches have some Independent Members uttered against the King! yea it will never be forgotten how enraged the Independent Members of the House and Sectaries of London were against the City Remonstrance, chief because there was this passage in it; for the preservation of the King's person according to the Covenant: Yea the Sectaries publish to the world in Print that the King for his misgovernment must lose his life: 
h See the just man's justification, P. 1.  'tis said in one Pamphlet 〈◊〉 that You (meaning the House of Commons or else the rude multitude) should think of that great Murderer of England (meaning the King) for by the impartial Law of God there is no exemption of Kings, Princes, Dukes, Earls, etc. more than of Fishermen, Cobblers, Tinkers or Chimney-sweepers: and elsewhere 'tis said 
i See Arguments proving that we ought not to part with the Militia Arg. 10.  that according to Protestations, Oaths, and Covenants He (meaning the King) ought to be brought to exemplary and condign punishment, he being the greatest and most notorious Delinquent in the whole Kingdom, etc. Yea they speak their minds more fully in another Pamphlet 
k See the Remonst. of many thousands. p. 6.  We do expect, according to reason, that ye should, in the first place, declare and set forth King CHARLES his wickedness openly before the world, and withal to show the intolerable incoveniences of having a Kingly Government from the constant evil practices of those of this Nation; and so to declare King CHARLES an enemy, and to publish your resolution never to have any more. By all this it appears that the Sectaries intent, as the 32 Syrian Captains did (1 King. 22.31.) to fight neither with small nor great but with the King of Israel. In laying down this Design I would have none of you conceive as if I were a Malignant Royalist (I hate Arbitrary power and Tyranny in Princes as much as any) I only mention this that Malignants might not be brought into fools paradise to join with the Army, conceiving them to be for the King's honour and safety who are the greatest enemies of both.  

Malignants all believe this thing  
Sectarians would destroy the King:  
Yea they do wish there might be none  
For to succeed him on the throne.   
To introduce an universal Liberty and Toleration for all sorts of false and heretical opinions. 
4. Design.  All the sectaries in the Kingdom labour with might and main to promote this; in one Pamphlet 'tis boldly asserted, 
l See Williams Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the cause of Conscience in the preface to the Parliament p. 2.  that it is the will and command of God, that since the coming of his son the Lord Jesus, a permission of the most Paganish, Jewish, Turkish or Antichrist an Consciences and Worships be granted to all men in all Nations and Countries: And elsewhere 'tis said, 
m See Compassionate Samaritan. p. 5.  that Liberty of Conscience is to be allowed to every man or sort of men to worship God in that way or manner as shall appear to them most agreeable to God's Word. Numerous Pamphlets there are abroad besides broached by the seducing Chaplains of the Army and their accomplices as Mr D●lls Sermon before the Parliament; many small and trivial Tracts of M. Saltmarshes, M. John Goodwin in his blasphemous book entitled Hagio mastix etc. and in his impudent Queries against an Ordinance of Parliament for the Suppression of Heresies, with abundance of other Pamphlets which cry up this their Diana of Toleration; yea these Army-Chaplains have so corrupted their hearers and disciples from the simplicity of the Gospel that the whole Army now contends for Toleration by the sword in the Field, which their Teachers could never make good by Argument either in Press or Pulpit: Yea the whole Army declare this to be the design. I'll give you the Armies words 
n See a Letter sent from Sir Tho Fairfax and the chief Commanders in the Army to the Lord Mayor, aldermans & Common Council of the City of London, Dated from Royston, Jun. 10.  We wish that every good Citizen and every man that walks peaceably in a blameless conversation, and is beneficial to the Commonwealth may have liberty and encouragement, it being according to the qust policy of all States even to justice itself. By this you may see the intendments of the Army if they prevail in this present undertaking.  

The great Diana cried up in the Nation  
Is a licentious lawless Toleration:  
All in the Land own not this cursed Action,  
Only a base or discontented Faction.   
To pull down the godly and orthodox Ministers of the Kingdom and to open a wide door (as in the days of Jeroboam) that the 〈◊〉 of the people may take upon them the Priest's office; 
5. Design.  He who in Jobs account, should not be worthy to set with the dogs of his flock, is judged meet by Sectaries, to be Pastor over the flock and sheep of Christ. The profanest sort of men in the land, did never so grossly abuse godly Ministers, as all the Sectaries do at this day. 
o See M Dells preface to his Sermon before the Parliament and in his reply after.  They abuse them in their names, calling them the Priests of Baal: in their office, making them to be but the Props and Toes of Antichrist. Yea they account Ministers Calling to be Antichristian, their maintenance to be Jewish, their preaching to be legal, and their persons contemptible. And will not they, think you, pull down them to set up fanatic and fantastic Teachers of their own? then poor Paul Hobson the Tailor, Quarterman the Marshal's man, & Hughson the Shoemaker, with multitudes of mean and illiterate fellows, will serve to be the Army's Evangelists.  

Ye Presbyterian stars, in Christ's right hand  
Though Armies pull you down, yet shall you stand.  
Out live you shall these troubles, do what can  
Hobson, or Hughson, Del, or Quarterman.   
To keep off Independent Members (many whereof are guilty of capital crimes) from a due & legal trial. 
6. Design.  'tis only the sound of the Trumpet, and noise of the Drum, that makes the cries of the people cannot be heard against the Tyranny, Bribery, and injustice of the Independent party. were it so that the Army were disbanded, that the freeborn Subjects of England should not be terrified by an Army; there are thousands in this Kingdom who would fully prove many of them to be brought into the House upon undue and illegal Elections; that they have treasured up vast sums of money, obstructed justice, retarded the Relief of Ireland, and acted many other intolerable injuries to the Commonwealth, which would make them an abhorring in the eyes of all the people; Fleet-wood, Harrison, and Ireton, with many others know, were the Army disbanded, their elections would be questioned; Seeing they cannot continue themselves Members by right, they will do it by power; yea Lieutenant General Cromwell knows, there is some body in the world that can accuse him of that, and prove it clearly to his face, which would make him blush, and be 
p Cromwel's lascivious carriage.  ashamed to enter within the House of Commons doors; very unbeseeming a man of his condition and profession. His own guiltiness in this and other things; as also the guiltiness of many others of his faction, makes them unwilling to disband.  

Great are the sums I know not what  
Which Independent Members got.  
The ground of not disbanding now is plain  
Lest questioned they should be for unjust gain.  
Lest of some Members there be an ejection  
For coming in by an undue Election.  
With Parliament and City they will fight  
Lest Cromwel's lusts and lies should come to light.   
If all these Designs take not; their last Design, is, 
7. Design.  to go over into Ireland under Cromwell, and the rest of the Independent Officers; if they cannot be Masters here, they would be Lords there; if cannot befool this Kingdom, they would enslave that: Ireland is but a Reserve, if cannot procure a Toleration in England, they make no doubt to establish it in Ireland; field Marshal Skippon, and Major General Massey will not serve their turn, therefore they refuse to go under their Command; if their Commanders be not Sectaries, they rather fear a suppression, then look for a Toleration.  

Ere they tread Irish ground for Cromwell they will cry  
Skippon content them cannot nor Massey.  
The reason is, they are not of their Sect,  
Which makes the Army wholly them reject.  
The state to their own terms if cannot tie  
England must suffer still and Ireland die.   
Thus I have endeavoured to lay open the dangerous designs driven on in the Army; which I dare affirm with so much confidence, that I would have you believe nothing to be true, if you find not all to be true. If you ask me what are the likeliest means to prevent these dangerous Designs? I answer briefly.  
1. All the Counties in the Kingdom should Petition Humbly the Parliament, for the speedy disbanding of the Army, they having as much from the state as they can expect; the Declaration against them revoked, the act of Indemnity enlarged, and most of their Arrears presently to be paid, and all to be unquestionably secured; what can they as Soldiers desire more?  
2. Those 5 Counties, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Buckingham, and Hertford, should declare humbly to the Parliament how they are abused, in that a seditious inconsiderable party of such County, should presume to present Petitions to Sir Thomas Fairfax, under the name of the whole, which they will not own; they likewise should represent how surreptitiously the Petitions were gotten, by whom fomented, contrived and subscribed, that they might come to condign punishment, for so high an affront against the Parliament. This would gain more Honour to those Counties than they have lost, in having such a factious party in the midst of them.  
3. Those Sheirs and Burroughs for which the XI. Honourable (though accused) Members serve, should Petition the Parliament, that the Knights and Gentlemen legally and fairly chosen by them, should be Commanded to attend the service of the House, till the Charge can be proved against them.  
4. All the Kingdom should Petition that none may be Members of Parliament, nor have any I ce in trust of this Kingdom, who either renounce or refuse to take the solemn league and Covenant.  
5. We should Petition the Honourable Houses, they would be pleased to hold on their Resolutions in sending overfeild- Marshal Skippon, and Major General Massey, these two valiant Commanders to be in supreme Command for the business of Ireland.  
6. Petition the Parliament, that they would suppress seducers and false teachers, who creep into comers perverting many from the truth and simplicity of the Gospel: as also that they would suppress seditious pamphlets printed by Sectaries and malignants against the Parliament. Having finished the first head, laying down the designs the Army Drives at, together with the Remedies to prevent them; I come now to the 2. head, To lay down wherein the unreasonableness (I had almost said Treasonableness) of the Armies demands doth consist.  
1. Their first unreasonable Demand is (which they call reasonable) 
q See the Armies humble Remonst. p. 10.  that the Army may be paid up equal with those that have deserted it though invited by the Parliament to do it. Is this a reasonable Demand, that they that have deserted the Army out of conscience and obedience should have no more of their Arrears then they that stand out still in disobedience against the Parliament?  
2. Their second Demand is more unreasonable 
r See the Armies humble Remonst. p. ●1. l. 1.2 We have ground to claim more than they or rather that they or some of them should forfeit their Arrears.  that they that deserted the Army (though out of obedience to the Parliament) should forfeit their Arrears; or at least that the Army should have more of their Arrears paid them then the deserters of it shall; were not this to justify the wicked and condemn the righteous; to punish the one for obedience and reward the other for disobedience, which would be a provocation in the eyes of God, neither consisting with equity and conscience in the Army to demand, nor with the justice and honour of the Parliament to grant, to punish one for obedience and reward another for disobedience.  
3. Their third unreasonable Demand is to require more security for their arrears then any in the Kingdom ever yet desired; 
s See the Armies humble Representation, p. 15. l. 3.  the credit of the Excise and the profits arising out of Delinquents Estates, and Ordinance of Parliament will not content them; though millions of money have been lent upon this security: Were these terms offered to all other Officers and Soldiers in the Kingdom they would thankfully accept it as a due and safe recompense for their service.  
4. Their fourth unreasonable Demand is to limit the Parliament to a very day to grant their desires, else to threaten them to their faces; which is such an affront to a Parliament that never was offered in this world. In one of their Papers they prescribe the very day when they must have a months pay; 
t See Humble Remonstrance p. 14. l. 15.  in another paper they declare that it they receive not security and assurance to themselves and the Kingdom of a safe and hopeful proceeding and that by Thursday night they must be forced to take extraordinary courses. 'Tis worthy your notice that this Demand of theirs was presented to the Commissioners at S. Alban june the 23. being Wednesday, and yet were so impudent to terrify the Parliament, that if they did not gratify their desires the very next day following they must be forced to extraordinary courses; they would allow but a day to the Parliament to consider of their Demands; which is such a high breach of the privilege of Parliament that I cannot but stand amazed and wonder with what conscience we can suffer, or with what face they can endeavour the subverting of the indubitable privileges of Parliament.  
5. Their fifth unreasonable Demand is 
u See the Armies humble, Remonst. ● 2. l. 6.  that there be no listing of new forces in or about London, when themselves do gather together the most notorious Sectaries in the Kingdom to their Army; yea draw their Train of Artillery from Oxford; take many loads of new arms out of Windsor Castle; seize upon powder coming from Northampton to London, fortifying some Garrisons, and do all things in preparation to a new war: yet the Parliament and City must sit still, look on, and all lie at their mercy; whether this be reasonable, I leave to all indifferent men to judge.  
6. Their sixth unreasonable Demand is that 
w See humble Remonst. p. 15. l. 12.  the Members accused be forthwith suspended or sequestered the House, and that before any particular Charge or Proofs were brought in against them. Is it reasonable that those honourable persons who are but Members accused should be suspended the House, and yet Nathaniel Fines a condemned Member should sit still in the House? Is he fit to sit as judge to condemn others, that is a condemned man himself? Behold, O ye people, the justice of the Army! Is it reason that Colonel Long, who is only charged (but not proved) by the Army to be a Coward, should be suspended the House, and yet poor Nat. Fines, who is a Coward upon Record, adjudged by a Council of WAR to die for Cowardice, must still sit in the House?  
7. Their seventh unreasonable Demand is in the behalf of the King and Malignants, for whom the ARMY is now become dissembling Mediators: they desire that 
x See humble Remonst. p. 12. l. 26.  provision be made for the rights, quiet, and immunity of his MAJESTY'S Royal Family and his late partakers, etc. How far they will extend this comprehensive term, Immunity for the KING'S Family and his late partakers, none but themselves know: in part we may know what they mean: so much Immunity hath the KING and his late partakers already from the ARMY: viz. His Chaplains about him, and Cringing and Common prayers in use before him: which how agreeable this is to the Directions of PARLIAMENT which have been given, or the Covenant which hath been taken, I leave to wise men to consider.