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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71223	The compleat History of independencie Upon the Parliament begun 1640. By Clem. Walker, Esq; Continued till this present year 1660. which fourth part was never before published.; History of independency.	Walker, Clement, 1595-1651.; Theodorus Verax. aut; T. M., lover of his king and country. aut	1661 (1661)	Wing W324B; ESTC R220805	504,530	690

they would not hear him so he went forth into the Church-yard the people following him where he related to them That he had a Vision and received a command from God to deliver his will unto them which he was to deliver and they to receive upon pain of damnation It consisted of 5 Lights 1. That the Sabbath was abolished as unnecessary Jewish and meerly ceremonial And here quoth he I should put out my first Light but the wind is so high I cannot light it 2. Tythes are abolished as Jewish and Ceremonial a great burden to the Saints of God and a discouragement of industry and tillage And here I should put out my second Light c. as aforesaid which was the burden of his song 3. Ministers are abolished as Antichristian and of no longer use now Christ himself descends into the hearts of his Saints and his Spirit enlightneth them with Revelations and inspirations And here I should have put out my third Light c. 4. Magistrates are abolished as useless now that Christ himself is in puritie of Spirit come amongst us and hath erected the Kingdom of the Saints upon earth besides they are Tyrants and Oppressors of the Liberty of the Saints and tie them to Laws and Ordinances meer humane inventions And here I should have put c. 5. Then putting his hand into his pocket and pulling out a little Bible he shewed it open to the People saying Here is a Book you have in great veneration consisting of two parts the Old and New Testament I must tell you it is abolished It containeth beggarly rudiments milk for Babes But now Christ is in Glory amongst us and imparts a fuller measure of his Spirit to his Saints then this can afford and therefore I am commanded to burn it before your faces so taking the Candle out of his Lanthorn he set fire of the leaves And then putting out the Candle cryed And here my fifth Light is extinguished Upon a Report from the Councell of State 143. The Earle of Warwick's Commission recalled and 3 Admirals appointed the Commons Voted void the Earle of Warwick's Commission for Admirall and appointed three Commissioners to have and execute the Admirals Place with 3 l. a day a piece a Commission for Martiall Law and Land Souldiers aboard to keep under the Seamen The three Admirals are Col. Edw Popham Col. Rob Blake and Col Deane Sunday after Easter-day 144. Cromwell turned Preacher six Preachers militant at White-hall tried the patience of their Hearers one calling up another successively at last the Spirit of the Lord called up Oliver Cromwell who standing a good while with lifted up eyes as it were in a trance and his neck a little inclining to one side as if he had expected Mahomet's Dove to descend and murmure in his eare and sending forth abundantly the groans of the Spirit spent an hour in prayer and an hour and an half in a Sermon In his prayer he desired God to take off from him the Government of this mighty People of England as being too heavy for his shoulders to bear An audatious ambitious and hypocriticall imitation of Moses It is now reported of him that he pretendeth to Inspirations and that when any great or weighty matter is propounded he usually retireth for a quarter or half an hour and then returneth and delivereth out the Oracles of the Spirit surely the Spirit of John of Leyden will be doubled upon this Man 145. The last Retreat of the Faction by H. Martins report About this time the Palsgrave took his leave of the Parliament being much courted and complemented by them and his 8000 l. per annum with all Arrears confirmed to him since his departure Harry Martin in a jolly humour was heard to say If the worst hapned and that they should not he able to stand their ground in England yet the Palsgrave would afford them a place of retreat in the Palatinate the seeds of these Anarchicall Anabaptisticall humours upon the reducing of Munster spread themselves in England and now have a mind to return into Germany to kindle a fire there 146 Io. Lilburn's third Book called The Picture of the Councell of State About this time John Lilburn and his Company set forth a Book called The Picture of the Councell of State c. wherein they set forth the illegall and violent proceedings of the said Councell against them in seizing upon them with armed Bands of Souldiers and interrogating them against themselves c. where they have these words The Faction of a Traiterous Party of Officers of the Army hath twice rebelled against the Parliament and broke them in pieces and by force of Armes culled out whom they pleased and imprisoned divers of them and laied nothing to their charge and have left onely in a manner a few men besides 11 of themselves viz the Generall Cromwell Ireton Harrison Fleetwood Rich Ingolsby Hazelrigge Constable Fennick Walton and Allen Treasurer of their own Faction behind them that will like Spaniel dogs serve their lusts and wills yea some of the chiefest of them viz Ireton Harrison c. yea Mr. Holland himself styled them a Mock Parliament a Mock power at Windsor yea it is yet their expressions at London And if this be true that they are a Mock-power and a Mock Parliam●nt then Quare Whether in Law or Justice especially considering they have fallen from all their many glorious promises and have not done any one action that tends to the universall good of the people can those Gentlemen sitting at Westminster in the House called the House of Commons be any other than a factious company of Men trayte●ously combined together with Cromwell Ireton and Harrison to subdue the Laws Liberties and Freedoms of England for no one of them protests against the rest and to set up an absolute and perfect tyranny of the Sword will and pleasure and absolutely intend the destroying the Trade of the Nation and the absolute impoverishing the people thereof to sit them to be their Vassals and Slaves And again the three forementioned Men viz Cromwell Ireton and Harrison the Generall being but their stalking horse and a cypher and their trayterous Faction having by their wills and Swords got all the Swords of England under their command and the disposing of all the great Places in England by Sea and Land and also the pretended Law making power and the pretended Law executing power by making among themselves contrary to the Laws and Liberties of England all Judges Justices of Peace Sheriffs Bayliffs Committee-men c. to execute their wils and tyranny walking by no limits or bounds but their own wills and pleasures and trayterously assume unto themselves a power to leavy upon the people what money they please and dispose of it as they please yea even to buy knives to cut the peoples throats that pay the money to them and to give no account for it till Dooms-day in the