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The voice of Michael the archangel, to his Highness the Lord Protector: for the salvation of himself and the three nations. / Presented by Arise Evans.
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Evans, Arise, b. 1607.
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Wing E3472; Thomason E1480_2; ESTC R208736
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THE VOICE OF MICHAEL THE Archangel To his Highness The Lord PROTECTOR For the Salvation of himself and the three Nations Presented by ARISE EVANS Thus saith the Lord Stand ye in the ways and see and ask after the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall finde rest for your souls but they said we will not walk therein Jer. 6.16 Also I set watchmen over you saying Hearken to the sound of the trumpet but they said We will not hearken Vers 17. Printed 1653. or as the vulgar think it 1654. May it please your Highness MY Lord your own words delivered Sep. 12. as your speech page 36. sheweth that sometimes there is a necessity for a man to speak and that pure necessity hath no law I would there were no cause for me after I had spoken so much for you to the discontentment of all my friends and also to you all for your advantage If you had followed mine advise according to the prophesying of God in your behalf as you have it in all my books specially in my book called your Vindication I say I would there were no cause for me to have expostulated these things with you now and in such a manner as this is seeing I have so often by writting and printing shewed what by right you should do And as this twelve moneths I have been so I am now kept off by them that attend you from having such conserence with you as heretofore I had and therefore I am forced to print what I would have but spoke or write hoping it may come to your hands and thence to your heart yet leaving out something which in private might be physical unto you because I dare not commit them to the Press and so make them subject to foolish censures My Lord It was no small grief unto me when I hard that which befell you last Saint Michaels day though some to comfort me said that it made much for me because said they therein God hath appeared to maintaine my affirmations and to consute your high assertions in your speech lately published All glay be to God who did speak to you in this time of need though by a thunder I would not declare it if I knew a better interpreter that would deal more faithfully with you concerning it then I shall do for I believe though I be but a mean instrument yet I am appointed of God to tell you that it was Gods love to rebuke you and it was his mercy to save you and good may come to you of it If you desire to understand what is Gods meaning by it I answer his minde is That you turn from your own designes NOW and do Gods designs GODS DESIGNE is made known unto you already by my books that is briefly to stablish King Charles and the true Religion I mean Bishops as we had before and for that end God saved you Your own designe is made known also by your going about to do the contrary for which cause God rebuked you And I pray you consider it God did not speak to you in an unknown tongue nor deny all your assertions wherein you call him to witness in a language that you cannot understand and there was much of his love to you in that Isa 28.11 but he answered you by your own words For whereas you say p. 37. of your speech That you could sooner be willing to be rolled into your grave and buried with infamy then part with that government which did establish you a supreme I pray consider whether you were not rolled very neer your grave so that a little more had done it Behold it is hereby clear God disowns your government and your being set up by him and they whom once ye counted the good people say as much and them who ye counted the bad people say no less who then is for ye but a sort of lukewarm people that will turn with every winde and what trust can you repose in them Oh lay these things to heart and know that God hath told you by this also as I have told you often by writing and will you not yet hear Oh take heed lest the trumpet of God wax louder and louder Exod. 19.19 untill you be forced to hear My Lord I have no pleasure in telling you these things but it is needful I should do it for I finde men yea Ministers and your own too do not deal faithfully with you it is true they tell you of sin in general termes and give hints also in publike of this very judgement before all men to your dishoner yet they do not examine the cause why and shew you for what great sin this threatning hand of God appeared against you The Magicians dealt not so with Pharaoh when they saw God appear for Israel but told him plainly This is the finger of God Exod. 8.19 And how doth Joshua take on when he saw the judgement of God upon them and what enquiry doth he make untill he found out the sin which was the cause of it Josh 7. Yea the very heathen were so troubled when they saw a sudden tempest come upon them that search is made with all speed to finde out the sin and cause of it Jon. 1.4 5 6 7 8. And how was Pharaoh troubled with his dream untill he found out an interpreter and what great benefit came unto him by knowing the truth of it Gen. 41. And what a stir Nebuchadnezzar kept about his dream though he had forget it so that he would have destroyed all his wisemen because they could not tell him both his dream and the interpretation thereof had not Daniel answered his expectation and who can blame him for it the matter is worthy of all that seeking after Dan. 2. was not also Belshazzar troubled when be had prophaned and dishonored Gods holy vessels and saw his sentence of death written before him on the wall was not he troubled for an interpreter to open it Dan. 5. and though the news to him was bad yet how gloriously doth he reward Daniel according to the manner of the two former Kings And David had his Prophets that told him of his particular sin and he gladly heard them and was obedient 2 Sam. 12. 2 Sam. 24. and when a judgement came David enquired himself for to know the cause of it 2 Sam. 21.1 but see the contrary spirit Amaziah though sometimes a good King yet when the Prophet told him of his particular sin he could not endure him 2 Chron. 25.2.7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. And Herod gladly heard John Baptist and did many things as he would have him do but when John comes to deal faithfully with him and told him of his own darling sin which by no means he could endure to hear of then John's head must be taken off rather then Herod would part with his sin Mark 6.17 18 20.27 Therefore my Lord blame me not though I