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A visitation and presentation of love unto the King, and those call'd Royallists
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Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
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1660
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Wing B6054; ESTC R14966
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A VISITATION AND PRESENTATION OF LOVE UNTO THE KING And Those call'd ROYALLISTS Consisting I. Of an ANSWER to several QUERIES proposed to the People called QUAKERS from a supposed ROYALLIST II. Of an OBjECTION Answered concerning the KINGS SUPREMACY III. Of an EPISTLE directed to the KING those that go under the name of ROYALLISTS IV. Of certain QUERIES returned to them called ROYALLISTS to Answer LONDON Printed and are to be fold by Robert Wilson 1660. AN ANSVVER To divers QUERIES Superscribed thus To the Quakers some Queries is sent to be Answered that all People may know your Spirit and the temper of it and your Judgment concerning the Times and Seasons and Subscribed let your Answer be directed Tradite banc Amico Regis AS concerning the Quakers that are scornfully so called We are at this day and have been ever since we were a People a poor despised and contemptible People in the eye of this world and deep Sufferers under the Injustice and Cruelties and Oppressions both of Rulers Teachers and People and we have been a prey to the wicked and troden down under the feet of Ambitious men that have been in Power in this Nation and have Ruled in force and cruelty over us and this hath been ever since the Lord raised us up to be a People though we have not been offensive to any just Law or Government or to any sort of People otherwise then that we have given our Witness against Sin and wickedness in all People but we have not been Oppressors of others neither have we envied the persons of any but in all good Conscience have we walked towards all men doing no otherwise to any than we would be done unto and this is the very Law we walk by towards all men desiring the good of all and that all may come to Repentance and be Saved and what we are as unto the Lord if I should declare it could not be believed by many But we are his People and he hath Chosen us and he is our God and we have Believed in him and walked with him in the uprightness of heare and we have this Testimony in our own hearts if we die it is for him and if we live it is to him and though we have been and may be clouded with the Reproaches and Persecutions of an Uncircumcised Generation yet in the Lords season it shall be manifest even to the world and to our very enemies that we are his People and Chosen of him and he in the midst of us whom we Serve and Worship in Spirit in Truth and in Righteousness and this shall be manifest in the day of the Lord and in the mean time we are willing to bear and to suffer all things that is put upon us for the Name of the Lords sake Query 1. Whether you or any of you that pretend to Inspiration and Revelation did foresee or was it revealed to you that ever Charles Stuart should be Proclaimed King to Reign in England ever any more Or whether or no any of you did believe it or could have believed it by your great Faith which you profess if it had been told you long ago Answ. As for the Proclaiming of Charles Stuart King to Reign in England it was not improbable unto our Faith neither is it contrary unto that which some of us hath seen for we know that God respecteth neither persons nor names but doth give the Kingdoms of this World to whomsoever he will And thus much was said as may be seen in a Book called GOOD COUNSEL AND ADVICE REIECTED and divers other Papers c. p. 17. In a Letter to Oliver Cromwell it is said concerning you that are commonly called Cavaliers But what and if for and because of thy wickedness in the sight of God he should raise them up and make them Instruments in his hand to accomplish his wrath upon thee even like as he made thee once his Instrument to overthrow them c. And here the thing was believed to be possible that the Lord might raise you up again for his pleasure to fulfil his will because of the wickedness of the Army and Nation and it is now come to pass even as was seen and believed And also it was expressed in a Letter written in the tenth Month 1659. concerning them that were your Enemies and that were at first raised against you The very same spirit of Pride and Oppression and Idolatry is entred into them meaning your Enemies and now lives in them in as high a measure as ever it lived amongst you and their Iniquities are well nigh finished and the Lord will one way or other correct and reproue them and they shall be dealt with in like manner as they have dealt with you for they were no more than a Rod in the hand of the Lord for a season and they must also be broken and cast into the fire and whether the Lord may ever make use of you to reprove them as he did of them to reprove you this I determine not but leaves it to him who can do whatsoever he will by what Instruments he pleaseth It is true you have made many Attempts to be revenged upon them but you have not hitherto prospered but could you be humbled and come into the meek Spirit of the Lord then might you prosper but hitherto the Lord hath alwayes defeated you and bowed you down under a People as unworthy at others but their time will come to an end And submit unto the will of the Lord in what is come to pass and seek not vengeance to your selves and then the Lord will avenge your cause for the Iniquities of your Adversaries are ripe c. And Charles Stuart must either be Converted to God and ruled by him or else he can never rightly Rule for God in this Nation though this I believe it is not impossible but that he may be a Rod upon them that once smote him and their Oppressions and Ambitions may receive a check through him c. These things were written in a Letter to all the people of your part long before there was any visible appearance of that which is now come to pass whereby it doth appear that these things in a great measure were foreseen and Prophesied of and it was believed as a thing very possible that thus it might be as is already come to pass And as for visions they are for an appointed time there is a time to see and a time to speak what is seen and revealed things belongs to us and when we declare them then you may take notice of it But it was verily believed as a thing possible that such a thing would be and also by the proceedings and transactions as they have fallen out for your very enemies have so acted and proceeded as to destroy themselves to bring you in over their Heads though they little intended the thing yet the effect of their proceedings could hardly