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A96054	No nevvs, but a letter to every body. Prescribed, to your truly beloved self; any where: so that you be not resolved to be, who and where you should not be; with care and speed, these be presented. / And subscribed, your daily orator at the throne of grace, R.W.	R. W.	1648 (1648)	Wing W101; Thomason E526_12; ESTC R205656	20,082	16

GOD of Truth hath solemnly sworn will be seasonably proved when GOD shall vouchsafe us a free and lawfull Synod such a one as without the stain of Christianity his people may joyfully own In the mean time why do not our Pretenders afford a Reply to Dr. Edw Boughens Book Will they eat his bread and vouchsafe him neither an Alms nor an Answer The taking away also of Bishops Votes may be taken into consideration Abrogation of Bishops Votes which is looked upon as a taking away of the presence of GOD from the publick Consultations in the persons of them upon whom the glorious character of CHRISTS Mediatorship is enstamped The Tribe of the Lord being not thought worthy to have any to represent them except at a side Table those in a servile condition whom the generall voice cals Priests of Jeroboam Assemblers pluralities Sacriledge of their own Consecration by their filling of their hands even unto scandall unanswerable c. And Schismaticks after the order of Korah As also the sin of Sacriledge which was not by the Apostle thought of inferior rank to the sin of Idolatry It being forbidden in the same Commandment and the positive part thereof viz. Thou shalt not worship with thy body nor serve with thy goods graven images for I am a jealous God they belong and I will have them without any rivall payed unto me And the offences against these to wit the honour with bodily worship or consecration of goods to any false god or the robbing of me in either I will vindicate upon the third and fourth generation of those who shall voluntarily persist in these defiances of me For certainly GOD is not such a GOD as to be jealous over and threaten the want of that which he will not have If as Levit. 27.28 Every devoted thing be in the present tense most holy unto the Lord yea as the Text implyes an Anathema to the usurper of it as was Achans wedge which brought all Israel under the scourge of GOD. And if Ananias and his wife devoting all but keeping back part whereas without sin they might otherwise have kept all it being their own were set forth as deadly examples of GODS jealous wrath in this kinde Then what can be thought of them who fly upon that which was never theirs but consecrated out of the magnificence of well affected Princes And which the Doners themselves might not have recalled So that Sacriledge is a sin generally and highly concernent of a whole Nation The innocent and nocent especially if it bear the face of a publick Act. In which point serious men conceive that we now smart for the violations of the former Age. And truly it is considerable The Spirit of Antichrist that in the times of such generall impiety it is just with God as he had foretold of the last dayes to permit the Spirit of Antichrist which in plain English signifieth an opposer of GODS Anointed Kings and Priests to seat it self in the House of GOD and intermedling in sacred things without GODS Call or Commission to usurp Authority As GOD over all that is called GOD as Kings and chief Priests were sundrie times in the Book of GOD yea patiently for a time to endure their usurpations against himself who indeed is All that ought to be worshipped permitting in his jealousie the trampling down of his Ordinances Who had constituted the King to consult the Priest in all points of his Service and by his designation to Act and Enact And had exemplified this generall and eternall Rule in the story of pious Jehoshaphat 2 Chron. 19. appointing severally the chief Fathers of Israel the Priests and Levites for the judgements of the Lord and controversies in Religion And constituting over them Amariah the high Priest over all of them in all matters of the Lord As Zebadiah the Chancellor over all in all matters of the King or Kingdom BUT I PROCEED TO THE CAUSES c. And here leaving secret things to God Secret things to God I shall without peremptorinesse of censure onely mention what conscientious men have reckoned as in an high degree contrary to the revealed Word of GOD. As first the sin of Sacriledge acted in the dayes of our Fathers in the Reign of Hen 8. continued and increased ever since Secondly the easinesse of our Princes incited by the fancifull importunitie of this Nation in sending Assistance to the Subjects of forreign Princes up in Arms against their Soveraigns But there is enough visible for the stirring up of this great Tempest of GODS wrath Generall causes of out wo. The proud full Sea of our late peace and plenty One wave raging against another and all of them against goodnesse Wickednesse warring against wickednesses but chiefly against GOD his Church and Religion against Man Society and Honesty The prophanations of Religion and the religionsnesse of prophanation The Angel of light in black and the Angel of darknes in white The Teacher taught and the Feeder starved Sodom brought into the Body of the Land and leannesse into the soul Fulnesse and want at the same instant both in their extremities The generall desolation wrought by Prodigality on the one hand and Covetousnesse on the other both destroying all besides and pining of themselves The naturall unnaturalnesse of hatred and the hatefulnesse of self-love The delicacies and uncleannesse of Lust Fraud and falshood got into the places of Truth and Honesty and they turned out into the others seats The pride of those who knowing not themselves think they know all things and that they may meddle with any thing be it never so sacred The servile and idle bulie-headednesse of this Nation affecting out-landish fashions for their Religion also Without whose Apes and Peacocks we were once unlikely to have had acquaintance with these hard names of Presbyterian Independent or Warre But these things superadded to the naturall incivility of ungovernable Northern robustuousnesse and intractability may seem fuell sufficient to enrage the flame against us And the next conjoyned unto these will bring it home into our Houses The first may seem an universall loathing of the providentiall ordinances of GOD Particularities in the Church and a sensuall doting upon the wisdom of Man which the Apostle cals Divillish Hating of Dominions and speaking evill of Dignities In the Church itching ears and fiery tongues but numbnesse and frost otherwise in the whole Man Every man esteeming himself too good for the rank wherein GOD hath placed him aspiring to teach his Teachers to shear yea as far as the swords of their mouthes could reach to butcher their Shepherds Following and crying up those Hirelings who could with greatest volubility decry those whom GOD had set over them Here as in the weakest place the mischief began First no Bishop then no King But long it was before this Monster durst shew his teeth The deluded People served an hard Apprentiship in unbelief of this The King himself

Turkish mercy we might have been secure for the rest yea and which is more then all the rest the Freedom of our Religion to boot Father forgive them for they know not what they do For the others who are abundantly the greater part my Petition to them is Considerations for the major part that they would not despair while CHRIST is in Heaven his Word on Earth and they have hearts to follow the directions thereof Let no man say it is impossible GOD may be importuned and overcome by many hands by universall prayers and amendment if we can but bring our selves to hate all that stands in competition with him I desire not to represent unto them their miseries and losses which they are too sensible of and too little of the blood wantonly spilt and the deaths of souls more precious I onely tell them how for the present they may avoid the sin and for the future the punishment Which as concerning their earthly estates cannot be compassed while the Houses continue their resolutions So long they must have an Army the Army will be maintained cannot but be insolent while no man can account any thing his own which they can take Covet therefore what cannot he taken And follow the course that may be taken You know From the 2. Houses own Principle As your own duties of Christian Allegiance to be preferred before all that is dear unto you so the principle though in it self most false and blasphemous which being theirs and that by which they have prevailed against you and yours they may not with colour of honesty desert Which is this That the power of Dominion is originally in the People Which is a desperate Assertion refuted by the clear Word of GOD and sundry Books yet unanswered By you they pretend to be entrusted with the government of the Land And if they have not this Power from you they have it not otherwise by any Law of GOD or Man And if as they most falsly pretend you might re-assume the Power from the King then certainly you may from them to whom GOD neither hath nor you could give them and so their whole title against you must rest in force which at first they neither did or might pretend and which every Tyrant would blush openly to own 2ly you know that you are the major part of the Kingdom at least 20. to one whose eyes either Religion or irreligious oppression hath opened Petitions undid us And it is not unknown unto you how in the beginning of this Parliament while you slept in lazy security that Petitions by the restlesnes of a few were extorted or forged and presented in the generall names of the severall Counties and so received as if they had been Catholick and orthodox and from these Players hath proceeded our reall Tragedy But here I do not wish that you should go that way My self dares not so far acknowledge any authority which my soul esteems to stand in armed opposition against GOD and his Ordinances And it is well known how for this thing the Petitioners of Surrey and the compassionate Watermen lost their lives without any inquest upon that blood How the Kentish and men of Essex for the same cause were prosecuted with cruell warre and too bloody for Pen and Ink to expresse But if so your selves be minded and you do conceive the foregoing Proposals worthy of your considerations I could rather Petition you in a Declarative way to take unto you as A Declaration the resolutions of free-born men so chiefly the modesty sobriety and peaceablenes of Christians so farre forth that if it be possible the mouthes of your greatest Adversaries may be stopped and they enforced to blame rather themselves then the meeknesse of your sick liberty breathing out it self in the way of religious charity not of cumultuous and passionate Revenge or Hatred Expressing whether or no you intended or will endure the Arbitrary Power of the Houses their levying men and Arms with Free quarter Taxes Excise c. against or without the King Whether you conceive this fitting to be done or that lawfully you may do it Whether the submission you have hitherto yeelded was voluntary or forced And whether or no thankfully looking back unto the former blessings under Him enjoyed you ought not to Petition the King and GOD Almighty for him that He do not by Treaty or otherwise part with the Militia or any other part of his Prerogative Royall which appearing to be GODS he may not with a safe Conscience by any voluntary Act acquit So also further to consider whether it be not necessary to Petition his Majesty For a Synod that by his Authority A Synod with all convenient speed may be called Such as we may justifie before GOD and Man according to the examples of the ancient Primitive Church for the composing of Controversies and the establishing of Unity in Religion and the publick worship of GOD. And that all sorts of Disputants may be invited yea encouraged with freedom and indemnity to propose in writing their severall Desires and Reasons and those to be entred into the publick Acts to remain upon Record for ever that all men and Times may see not onely what was done but why upon what grounds But in case neither Treaty nor Declarations avail by their default then to consider whether or no it be necessary further to Declare that you do revoke your former Substitutions Revocation of the pretended power of the House of Commons whereby the House of Commons pretends in your Names to sit And to protest against their former Acts and Ordinances And that according to your warranty from the Word of GOD you have taken unto you the resolutions to deny your selves and comparatively to hate wife and children house and lands trade and traffique and your own lives also rather then you will do or have any thing towards the maintaining of any in opposition to the Ordinance of GOD before GOD shall pull down all stomacks against Unity by his plague of famine which he makes apparent that he can do it by this unseasonable weather sent now amongst us Since the floods of our blood cannot effect it As also for the future that if it shall please GOD to continue you alive to make new Election you will be as diligent as others late have been for the choosing of men well affected to the Laws Caveats for hereafter peace and order of this Kingdome and that you will pitch upon none from whom you have not sufficient evidence of their valuing of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance formerly and at the present of Election No guard but of reputation Innocency to have been and to be by them taken with sufficient Bonds and Penalties upon Indentures between you and them in these or the like particulars and that they will not admit of other Arms or Guards about them except by voluntary order from the King if he finds cause then the protection of their own reputation and innocency whereas nothing but the witchery of that abused Name of Parliament could have abused you into the shame and sin which their force hath brought upon your and whose Arms would soon fail if the fraud of that name was understood THIS he presumeth not to prescribe but with all Christian humility to present unto your considerations Beseeching you not to accept of private whisperings or peece meal Answers but to require publick and totall satisfaction to these and other your just complaints And minding of you that 〈◊〉 had a Clergy whose neglect he forbears to relate amongst the causes of your miseries who would have ●●●orred that such things should have been objected for any thing taught or done in their times and nor have been at all or so answered c. FINIS

NO NEVVS BUT A LETTER TO EVERY BODY PRESCRIBED To your truly Beloved Self Any where So that you be not resolved to be who and where you should not be With Care and Speed these be presented And Subscribed Your daily Orator at the Throne of Grace R. W. Piscator nisi eam imposuerit hamis escam quam appetituros esse noverit Pisciculos fine spe praedae moratur in Scopulo Petr Arb. Beloved Sir VVIthout some at least seeming insolency and little above the price of 2 d. nothing now will be read But pardon his presumption in writing to all since he faithfully and truly does as he is commanded in praying for all Let him have leave to send to thee who must send to GOD for thee of what spirit soever thou art who neither dares nor can exempt thee from his Prayers who dares not but daily make use of the most pretious and Christian English LITURGIE So that since Personall Treaties are so difficult let me treat with thee thus as I may The subject is of most High and Generall Concernment our Nationall Miseries Causes and Cures thereof Nor can this Treaty be more beneficiall to any then to those who without an hardened Heart are most Averse from it or engaged against it and the Conscientious moments thereof First concerning those who are now the first in the eye of all the two Houses The two Houses 2. Oaths c. And first it is worthy of Consideration whether or not they have blasphemed GOD and the King by the foule sins of Perjury and Treason As having given unto GOD and the King their Oaths for his Supremacy and their Allegiance But have made themselves Supreme imprisoning and denying to the King not onely his Native Rights but also the poore comfort of Addresses so much as by Letters of Wise Children friends or servants Whereas neither the meanest worm nor odiousest Serpent in the Kingdom by the Laws thereof either is or ought to be soused And if so who in Justice may make Addresses unto them who may give Credit unto them or what Hopes can any man have from persisters in wilfull Perjury or who may dare to be any wayes Assisting Aiding or of Councell in most barbarous Treason Such as should not be so much as named among Heathens CONCERNING PRIVILEDGES OF PARLIAMENT Priviledges of Parliament If they be so great as is pretended It is great pitie that some reasonable and peaceable course is not taken for the manifestation of them their just Grounds When whence and How they had their Beginnings That men might understand How farre they are engaged to them and how far they ought to engage for them If in this point matters be clear How comes it to passe that in all this time care is not taken for the Answering of the FREEHOLDERS GRAND INQVEST which with other Books of that Nature tels us of Sir Edw Coke no friend to the Prerogative that in his whole Section of Parliamentary Priviledges He sets down but one viz. Freedom from Arrests and brings no proof for That If Freedom of Speech wherein GOD forbid that Blasphemy and Treason should be included be one of them Freedom of Speech How come so many to be ejected daily by the prevailing Faction as the winde sits out of both Houses Or how shall their mouthes be stopped that Affirm That for these many yeers there hath been no Freedom for any thing but Blasphemy and Treason with their Appendants The direct Contrarieties to all the Ten Commandments of GOD either in the whole or a principall part of each Or that the Priviledges of Parliament have more need to be defended against themselves then against the King and the whole Kingdom besides Or that whereas the Army was formerly the Parliaments Army Now the Parliament is the Armies Parliament It is likewise considerable Invasion of Priviledge whether or no as the Grandees have done by the rest of the Members the pretended Priviledge of the House of Commons hath like Pharaohs lean kine eaten up the Priviledges of the House of Lords If no How comes it to passe that for the satisfaction of the world and for the clearing of the Accused punctuall Answers are not given or Ordered to the forecited Books If yea How shall any other man rest secure from their Invasions who invade one another and rob amongst themselves being empowred to do so by every one else So also Vsurpation over the Laws whether or no Both Houses have invaded and trampled down the Laws of the Land heretofore celebrated as the most glorious Birthright of the English people above all other Nations If no why is not satisfaction given or endeavoured to the honoured writings of that Death-Defyer Justice Jenkins who assuredly hath a very good Cause or else is a very unadvised Man And certainly if his Cause proves good He deserves to have his Statue erected in all Places of publick Judicature and Societies of the Laws yea his Memoriall in each Heart and his Picture in each private House which with the hazard of his head he endeavours to defend from violence Do your Lawyers indeed know that he is an impregnable Defender of those Laws which they pretend to but fight against If the Laws be not invaded How comes it to passe that it is generally even in all mens mouthes that nothing is now so punished as keeping of the Laws And that as the greatest of all guilts But if yea and the Laws be indeed trampled down who shall dare to be so undaring as to prefer before them by which he glories to hold all three either Liberty Propriety or Life Against any Opposers whatsoever under any lawfully retriving the same Which Laws if they be not in force How comes one man to exercise lawfull Authority over another If they be Is not the Murderer murthered who is puc to death by virtue of a Commission under the present Broad Seal And the whole Land involved in the guilt of nocent as well as of innocent Blood And are not they deepest in that gulf who sit judge against the Laws But it is far more considerable whether or no Vsu pation against the King they have invaded the Prerogative Royall Inasmuch as the Lawmaker must needs be of more sacred Authority then the Law it self In the violations of particular Statutes the Fruits of Justice are either spoiled or stolne or else a Branch is murdered In the Body of the Laws the Body of the Tree of Justice is hewen down But in the Regall Authority the Tree is plucked up by the Roots Neither do the Laws of the Land acknowledge any other Root then the King If it be otherwise why then are not all our Law-books burnt yea Mr. Pims and St. Johns Speeches If it be so Alas poore Rootlesse Headlesse People Amongst whom nothing is visible but devouring Crowes or devoured carkasses And doubtlesse it is not more unnatural to have no Head then