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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91796	Plain dealing: or the unvailing of the opposers of the present government and governors. In answer of several things affirmed by Mr. Vavasor Powell and others: shewing, 1. That there is no reason to oppose or finde fault with the present government. 2. That there is not any scripture that doth justifie their opposing the present government. 3. That the word of God is for the present government and governors, and requireth us to own them and to be subject to them. 4. That the holy scriptures are against the opposition that is made against the present government and governors. 5. Reasons to prove that his highnesse Oliver Cromwell and the right honourable his councel ought to execute the legislative power. / By Samuel Richardson.	Richardson, Samuel, fl. 1643-1658.	1653 (1653)	Wing R1412; Thomason E865_3; ESTC R207618	24,991	24

the lesse to love and esteem Iesus Christ because he and his parents were very poor that there was no room for such poor people in the inne but in a stable fitter for a horse then a family though poor Is there any reason to bring that for a charge against a chief Governour that is not true and if true is no fault at all poverty is none what reason is there to gratifie and please the enemis of God to cause them to rejoyce and to pour contempt upon the way of God for exalting them of low degree Love covers a multitude of sins 1 Pet. 4. 8. and want of love makes those sins that are none 21. There was a book printed called a Declaration of Members of severall Churches and a number of names as of one congregation and there was not one of that congregation signed it this I can prove is not this a way of lying and dissimulation Saith the Lord I am against them that cause my people to erre by their lies they shall not profit Ier 33. 32. Thus I have given you a proof of some of the evils ye are carryed away with and that which is here said is enough to prove that death and destruction is in your paths you are fallen you are fallen and almost if not altogether become one in opposing with those that God hath sufficiently witnessed against know that God is for us and that ye sight against God therefore ye cannot prosper his Highnesse may say to each of you Forbear thee from medling with God who is with me that he destroy thee not 2 Chron. 35. 21 22. I be seech you consider what I say and weigh it in the sight of God with a calm and Christian spirit and harden not your necks against the truth as you will answer it to the great Iudge Oh that you would lie down in the dust and acknowledge your iniquity and return unto God by unfaigned repentance hast to do it lest Gods fury break forth like fire upon you and there be no quenching your return would rejoyce us much as being welwishers to your souls and bodies though I must declare against your sins designs and way because ye have call an odium upon all the people of God that do own and submit to the present Government charged us with hypocrisie and dissimulation and by your so doing ye cast an odium upon the Name of Christ which we professe your lies are manifest your carriage is not in meeknesse nor are your souls possessed with patience ye are murmuters and complainers without cause you father your words and actions in opposing to be of God and from the holy Spirit of God which is a blaspheming of the Spirit of God you are very unjust and unreasonable to charge his Highnesse so deeply and falsly because you never did nor can prove what you say to be true Are ye so greatly deluded to think that such preaches and printings as ye make against the Government and Governors will do any good except only to discover your madnesse and folly to all men I know you are great transgressors and disclaim all your opposition of the Government c. ye grieve the faithfull in that ye cause divisions and dissensions contrary to the doctrine ye have heard and learnt therefore we desire and warn all that fear the Lord and all others that desire their outward safety to withdraw from you and avoid you as those that by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple and are causers of divisions as Rom. 16. 17 18. and that ye by your opposition strengthen the hands of the wicked and harden the late Kings party in their evill opposing and ye approve and justifie and own by your practise all the opposition that hath been made against the people of God and so are partakers of their sin and are liable to their punishments submit to God seek meeknesse consider Rom. 14. 19. Jam. 3. 18. if ye will not desist your wilfulnesse in opposing will prove your sorrow if not your ruine And for the late Kings party I desire they would consider that God hath witnessed against them in the destruction and ruine of the late King and many of them some say there hath been slain about eight hundred thousand in the late vvar in the three nations to whom must all this bloud be laid but upon them which begun the war and that was the late King and those that sided with him Say not he had cause to do that he did what ever the cause was he should not have begun a war and God hath judged him for it they have had many times the advantage of us in number and otherwise there hath been of their side many that have not wanted skill nor will resolution nor courage they have had severall times plain field battels and several times tryed for it from whence is it that they have so often lost the day and have not prevailed nor can prevail it is plain enough expressed I would they could see it in Jer. 1. 19. its time for them to consider that they have had multitudes of plots and devices and all fruitlesse know ye not that many of you have been destroyed and ruined and if ye will still fight against God it will be your ruine also if ye are willing to be destroyed yet pity your wives and little ones who are like to suffer and perish by your ruine for their and your own good cease opposing and plotting I beseech you submit to God Psal. 66. 3. and be preserved if ye oppose ye perish they that have thought otherwise have been often deceived Do ye not see the more ye oppose the worse ye are for now ye have lesse favour and more charged then afore yet do not think that ye are too hardly dealt with by his Highnesse late proclamation c. he dealt too kindely and friendly with you till be did see that you were the worse for kindnesse and that the requitall ye gave him was to seek his life and our ruine for which ye deserve to die therefore ye may be content and glad ye scape as ye do it is not fit to let you have a way and means to nourish you and inable you to seek our ruine If ye will be quiet and peaceable favour will be given you that you may live and your families I fear you would hardly extend that favour to us if you were in our condition and we in yours Seeing God hath so often witnessed against you be at last afraid of his tokens as Psal. 65. 8. before it be too late I advise you for your good it will be well for you if God will give you eyes to see it and hearts to receive it I say to all that oppose the present Government and Governors why are ye so offended at his Government what evill hath he done and why are ye so offended at his Highnesse what hath he done whom