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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95505	A petitionary epistle directed to the Lord Protector, and people of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, to continue in unity.	N. T.	1658 (1658)	Wing T37; Thomason E936_7; ESTC R207718	4,270	7

A Petitionary EPISTLE Directed to the LORD PROTECTOR AND People of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland to continue in unity GREAT SIR FOR so You are God having exalted You to be the absolutest Imperial Chiefe that hitherto hath Headed these Nations our preceding Blessings fils us with hopes of future Successes our Faith cannot miscarry if diffidence in You disobedience in the Peeple prove not the Rocks to split this glorious Vessel of Englands Commonwealth and its chiefe Commander upon their entrance and into the Harbour of Peace and Honor Therefore in the love of Christ I beseech you not to take amiss my honest plainness which will keep at distance from indecent rudeness Though in the cure of these distempers I lanch deep into the sore of corruption and apply Corrosives to cleanse it you shall have balm to heal it without a scar and Cordialls to cherish and strengthen the Vitals My Lord I address to you Recollect what you were consider what you are who hath chosen you and what you are to do for him read Deut. 17. from Ver. 14. to the end your Office is there bounded Peruse the 18. of Jeremiah and turn over the Records of Jeroboam and Jehu let their sleightings of the Promises annexed to their preferment and the superstructures of their owne devices added to the Lords foundation be ponder'd by you The Lord hath given you a heart and head sutable to the work he hath design'd you for The world will witness while it continues that you have an immense portion of prudence and courage yet you have not done the work that is expected from you the heady stiff-neckt disobedience of the people forcing you to run into your self which will never do the work You have been excellent in modelling framing and regulating of Armies but how fruitless hath been your purging forming and creating of Parliaments the Lord having blasted all your undertakings in that kinde the reason beeing not seen if discern'd not desired My Lord submit onely to the Lord Almighty in this particular and he will give your Subjects hearts to maintain you in that Throne he hath made their hands to lift you into My prayers and labours have been and are that your Glory may not onely continue but increase A great contest is between you and the People as to the Election of a Parliament God can and will onely umpire it trust him with both your interests and make your Elections by lot divide and rule is Machivil's Maxime but division is the mother of destruction is Christs Assertion Brethren of this united Common-wealth of what judgment soever you be in all Christian love I come to you and wish that as so many beautiful and sweet flowers growing in the Lords garden you may be chosen in your several varieties gifts and operations to be included in the silken bond of Peace to make a Poesie that may be pleasing both in the eyes and nostrills of the Prince of Peace What are you weary of your well-being David's complaint was Lord where are thy loving kindnesses hast thou forgot to be merciful But instead thereof the Lord complains How are my mercies and deliverances forgotten Have I not freed you from servitude both spiritual and temporal have I not cleansed you from your own blood you lately wallowed in by a civil war Have I not remov'd the Pestilence from you and not suffered the Famine to approach you Have not I given you faithful wise and couragions Governors that have made you quiet at home feared abroad and famous to all Nations But what hath been your return unto him for all these mercies except pride covetousness hypocrisie and disobedience for which you must expect fearful judgments unless a timely return by repentance and amendment be speedily made with all submission to the Lords Ordinance by himself constituted continued and approved the neglect and breach of which hath brought you into all these contentions greater calamities are you falling into unless you agree to prevent them in leaving it to beidecided by our merciful Lord God who onely can compose it Parliaments are like the brazen Serpent once your cure now your idol see what have they done since the first Scottish Kings reign till this time Say if any one begun ended to the Prince and peoples content what inconveniences have not some brought how have you esteemed of of them How have some of them acted that which they condemn'd unlawful in the Star-chamber-practice upon Burton Pryn and Bastwick How have their Acts been lately violated witness the last Act for Prisoners suspended at the arbitrary pleasures of some during the intervals of Parliaments Sessions And those Acts which provide for the dispose of treasure broken by factious persons and when complained on not onely connived at but also countenanced by some in Parliament which if you be not carefull to preserve those Laws you finde you teach the people to break those you make How can you hope for any good to be effected by Parliaments as now elected Have you not seen sometimes the Presbyterian otherwhile the Independent nay have you not complain'd of a Cavalier-prevailing party in them You know it is a remnant that is faithfull How oft have you suggested the major part to bee corrupt which hath caused you to purge Parliaments and gave you an entrance into Scotland And can you forget how in the last Parliament in the very beginning by those factious Elections they had chosen Members which if the Lord in mercy had not restrained them before this time we should have been plunged in blood and destruction I tremble when I think on the Hazlerig-troop of secluded Remonstrants in the beginning of that Parliament did term him whom the Lord chose and themselves fought with in the same cause for their Countrys redemption Tyrant and Usurper How have they by ther murmurings and provocations caused him like Moses to strike when he should but speake and by their frowardness and ragings forced him as Aaron to make a Calfe like the Aegyptian Ox an other House instead of a House of Peers But we hope the vanity of Messages and Messengers during the last fortnights sitting wil for the future free us from the like mischieves How at present do we plunge him to preserve us Alas the quarrell is between Christ and Antichrist Are not He and the King of Sweden the prime Champions or Christendome that stand for the reformed Religion Look round about you and see if you are not in the midst of flames you will finde Tinder-boxes and Fuell from all parts to increase them and factious bellows to blow them higher but few to bring a bucket of water to quench them Consider what condition you are in you have yet peace at home the Portugal French Dane Dutch and Spanish have for their affronts sought compliance or suffered for not doing of it What would you have him to do how support the Armies and Navies hath he had