Lambert.
But, having thus delivered his conscience on the subject of the
second dismission of the Rump, he declares farther complaint to be
useless, and proceeds to inquire what is now to be done.

"Being now in anarchy, without a counselling and governing power, and
the Army, I suppose, finding themselves insufficient to discharge at
once both military and civil affairs, the first thing to be found out
with all speed, without which no Commonwealth can subsist, must be a
SENATE or GENERAL COUNCIL OF STATE, in whom must be the power first
to preserve the public peace, next the commerce with foreign nations,
and lastly to raise moneys for the management of these affairs. This
must either be the [Rump] Parliament readmitted to sit, or a Council
of State allowed of by the Army, since they only now have the power.
The terms to be stood on are _Liberty of Conscience to all
professing Scripture to be the Rule of their Faith and Worship_
and the _Abjuration of a Single Person_. If the [Rump]
Parliament be again thought on, to salve honour on both sides, the
well-affected party of the City and the Congregated Churches may be
induced to mediate by public addresses and brotherly beseechings;
which, if there be that saintship among us which is talked of, ought
to be of highest and undeniable persuasion to reconcilement. If the
Parliament be thought well dissolved, _as not complying fully to
grant Liberty of Conscience, and the necessary consequence thereof,
the Removal of a forced Maintenance from Ministers_ [Milton's own
sole dissatisfaction with the Restored Rump], then must the Army
forthwith choose a Council of State, whereof as many to be of the
Parliament as are undoubtedly affected to these two conditions
proposed. That which I conceive only able to cement and unite the
Army either to the Parliament recalled or this chosen Council must be
a mutual League and Oath, private or public, not to desert one
another till death: that is to say that the Army be kept up and all
these Officers in their places during life, and so likewise the
Parliament or Councillors of State; which will be no way unjust,
considering their known merits on either side, in Council or in
Field, unless any be found false to any of these two principles, or
otherwise personally criminous in the judgment of both parties. If
such a union as this be not accepted on the Army's part, be confident
there is a Single Person underneath. That the Army be upheld the
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