A plea for the peoples fundamentall liberties and parliaments, or, Eighteen questions questioned & answered which questions were lateley propounded by Mr. Jeremy Jves, pretending thereby to put the great question between the army and their dissenting brethren in the Parliament of the commonwealth of England out of question / by Capt. William Bray.

Answer V.

You need not publish a questioning or doubt of the ability of Parlia∣ments to answer the ends of the good people for it doth too much tend to weaken & dissolve the peoples love, & affection to their own Right of Parliaments, & indeed the long Parliament were most likely in our late times, (for many Reasons) to answer the expectations of the good people, because of the Power invested in them by Act of Parliament, not to be dissolved unlesse by Act of Parliament, or adjourned, unless by themselves or their own Order; And further, because of those high and

Eminent Obligations they had upon them of their Faith and Promises, and of their Declarations, and invitations to the people in the case of the original of the Warr which hath caused much blood shed & expense of Treasure. And therefore sithence you and others had Commissi∣ons from the remainder of them (who were a declared refined party by the excellent pretences, and by power of some influenceing Officers of the Army) your expectations were so much the more liklier and neerer to be answered you in a peacable way of submission & obedience, rather then a violent way of interruption. Unlawfull and determined Vio∣lence many times Causes sad and lamentable facts against the Vertues of Justice, Temperance, Prudence and Fortitude, tending only to produce cares and feares innumerable, and only to leave place for great trouble and repentance, or the severe hand of God.