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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A60760) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 50915) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 513:33) Some arguments against filling up the Parliament with new members under any previous oath or engagement 1 sheet ([1] p.) [s.n.], London : 1660. Broadside. Caption title. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament. Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century A60760 R13503 (Wing S4475). civilwar no Some arguments against filling up the Parliament with nevv members under any previous oath or engagement. [no entry] 1660 2 389 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-10 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
SOME ARGUMENTS Against filling up the PARLIAMENT WITH NEW MEMBERS Under any Previous OATH or ENGAGEMENT .

I. IT will introduce the Cavalier and Sectarian Interests and exclude the conscientious Interest .

II. It doth enforce the Nation to subject themselves to a form of Government , set up by a hand which they cannot own as a Full and Free Parliament , and obligeth their Representors not to alter it whatsoever mischiefs and inconveniences they suffer by it , which is a high violation of the just Freedome and due liberty of all Supreme Authority in the Nations Representatives .

III. This Engagement is not made to the Nation , being against their sense and desires , expressed in their Declarations and Remonstrances to his Excellency ; and if to the Imposers , then it sets up their Personal Interest only , and excludes the National .

IV. It is against the Fidelity of a Trustee to submit to any Oath on Engagement that shall restrain him from speaking the Sense of the People whom he represents , and from indeavouring that which in his conscience he shall judg best and most conducible to their safety and welfare , and hereby he is disabled to act as a publick Person , so as to discharge his trust .

V. There will be a necessity of continuing a force upon the House , which hitherto hath kept out the Major part , first secluded in 1648. without any legal proceedings against them , or just Cause declared for their Seclusion , and must now be imployed to keep out those that shall be newly elected by the People , if their consciences cannot submit to the Engagement that shall be imposed ; and hereby the Nation are kept under an impossibility of being fully represented in Parliament , which must continue our distempers and grievances without remedy .

VI . Experience hath shewed us the insufficiency of such kind of Ingagements to answer the expected end ; for that Ingagement imposed in 1649. and other Oaths since , were so far from securing the Interests of the Imposers that they produced quite contrary effects , and have successively occasioned many new and dangerous distempers in the Nation ,

FINIS .

LONDON , Printed in the Year , 1660.