Numb.6.
A Modest Narrative
OF
INTELLIGENCE:
Fitted for the Republique of
ENGLAND & IRELAND.
From Saturday, May .5. to Saturday, May 12. 1649.
A New Representative must qe had, hut fit it cannot till the dissolution
of this; it all chuse, then the chosen will by royal ( Love being
always accomparyed with pity, and pity the necessary product
amongst the Vulgar of a susscring condition, though meritortiously so,)
Away therefore with that term the Common Encny; if all and
none else but those that have adhered to the Parliaments Intere (to deny which
is both Injustice and Ingratitude) then the secuded Members, and those runing
in the same line with them, being most for number, and most considerable for
Interest come in, and then Exit Respublica; So that we may conclude these
New nothing Gentlemen will not be Knights, unless of the Sea-green Order;
nor But gesses, unless robed in their utopia by vertue of an Agreement of the
People, which in English signifies the division of them till v.e come to that
punctum indivisihile, to wit that we can be no more divided unless one and the
same individual person should quarrel with himself, Now then the question is
who shall superintend this next, or any Representative, whether the Members
capable, be Elected? Not this or any other Representative, because one
ends before the beginning of the other; Nor any part or the whole of the People,
for then the confusion will be such, as that we must get a new name for its
denomination, And then the term Treason will be out of doors, where any may
plead for excuse (though a Traytor in the highest) that what he doth is in
Order to the Agreement of the people infringed by the then Supream power.
Well then, it must be decided by the standing Army (else no decision at all
but by themselves, the major part of whom is unduly chosen) then no wonder
that the present Conduct startles the Gentlemen, which if in the hands of themselves
would prove the highest in power, that is force; which last I doubt they
aym at, an Expedient (as to the two former) not yet made vulgar, if conceiveable
by any: