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A76758	Mene tekel, or, The council of officers of the Army, against the declarations, &c. of the Army. Wherein is flatly proved by the express words of the Armies declarations, that the sixth article of the * late address of the said council of officers to the Parliament, point-blank changeth the cause of liberty of conscience, from the good old one, to a bad new one; from that which at first, and all along the Army engaged in, and for, and declared to that which they engaged against. Moreover, that the imposition therein is agreeable neither to the Armies solemn declarations and engagements, nor to liberty of conscience, nor to the Scriptures of truth, but is contrary to them all ... Geo. Bishop.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3000; Thomason E999_13; ESTC R207833	40,890	51

were written for our learning the Church of God to which the Holy Ghost in Paul spake which is in God than the Heavens can be said to be the word of God which were made and are upholden by the word of his Power for they declare the glory of God Or the Firmament for it sheweth his handy work Or the day for day by day uttereth speech or the night for night unto night sheweth knowledge or all of them for there is no speech nor Language where their voice is not heard their line is gone out through all the Earth and their words to the end of the world which cannot be said of the Scriptures this the Scriptures testifie yea even that the invisible things of him from the Creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and Godhead so that they are saith the Holy Ghost in Paul of those who held the Truth in unrighteousness because that which is to be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewn it to them without excuse yea that he left not himself without a witness in that he did good and gave us rain from Heaven and fruitful seasons filling our hearts with food and gladness And yet how do ye darken Counsel by words without knowledge words which neither the Scriptures know nor the Spirit of Truth nor do ye your selves understand what ye say and then set it up as the Faith of Gods Elect to be imposed upon all yea upon Gods Elect yea for a Snare for Gods Elect whose Faith never sought to inforce it self otherwise upon any than by commending it self to that of God in every mans Conscience which this of yours doth viz. by the Penalty of exclusion of Protection if it be not Professed and therefore we rejct it and should though it were in the very words of Truth which this of yours is not because coertion in matters of Faith or Conscience in things Spiritual or Evangelical we are sure is out of Truth and comes from him who is out of it to wit the Devil O how would vain man be wise in his wisdom to speak of God who by wisdome knows not God for so it hath pleased the wisdom of God But man is born as the wild Asses colt To conclude this particular How can he be written who is without beginning of Dayes or end of life of whom it is written who can declare his generation How can he be said to be written who is the Son of God the word of God and there is no other without circumscribing him without making him an Image a thing like unto your selves The third Exception against this 6th Article of your Address is that instead of the words however differing in judgment from the Doctrine Worship or Discipline publickly held forth as aforesaid viz. Article 1. where ye say it is intended that Christian Religion be held forth and recommended as the publick Profession in this Nation which we desire may by the grace of God be reformed to the greatest purity in Doctrine Worship and Discipline according to the word of God the instructing of the people whereunto in a publick way so it be not compulsive as also the maintaining of able Teachers for that end and for the confutation and discovery of heresie error whatsoever is contrary to sound Doctrine is allowed to be provided for by our Representatives the maintenance of which Teachers may be out of a publick Treasure and we desire not by Tythes And Article 2. That to the publick Profession so held forth none be compelled by Penalties or otherwise but onely may be endeavoured to be won by sound Doctrine and the example of a good Conversation Which are the immediate preceding Articles to this third of either of which Articles there is not a whisper in this your new Profession I say the third Exception is that instead of the words however differing in judgment from the Doctrine Worship and Discipline publickly held forth as aforesaid shall not be restrained from but shall be protected in the Profession of their Faith and exercise of Religion according to their Consciences These only are inserted viz. Shall not be restrained from their Profession but have due encouragement and equal Protection in the Profession of their Faith and exercise of their Religion which varies the case both as to the matter of the third Artitle of your said Settlement and Cause and plainly shews that the allowance of the Profession of their faith and the exercise of the Religion of such as Profess faith in God by Jesus Christ according to their Consciences however differing in judgment from the Doctrine Worship or Discipline publickly held forth is not intended in this Article nay its clear cut out but the forcing of the Consciences of all such as shall differ in judgment from that which it holds forth as the Publick Profession which quite overthrows Liberty of Conscience And it is worthy the observation that the Clauses viz. However differing in judgment from the Doctrine Worship or Discipline publickly held forth and according to their Consciences are wholly left out of this sixth Article of your Address it is the whole matter and words of the first and second Article of your Settlement aforesaid unto which these Clauses of the third have relation Which undenyably manifests that as there is not a word of Conscience in this your new Cause and profession of Religion so that it proceeds from the Spirit not that which fought for but that which fought against and hath murthered Liberty of Conscience And further that the good old Cause is changed and that the hand hath done it which engaged against it Fourthly The fourth Exception is that whereas in your Settlement Article 3. ye say shall not be restrained from viz. such as profess Faith in God by Jesus Christ but shall be protected in the profession of their faith and exercise of Religion according to their Consciences in any place except such as shall be set apart for the Publick Worship where we provide not for them except they have leave This Article of your Address runs it thus shall not be restrained from viz. All persons who profess faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ c. their profession but have due encouragement and equal protection that is to say such only shall so have as are of the same Profession as is therein publickly held forth which indeed is no encouragement at all nor Protection of Liberty of Conscience but a meer delusion as seeming to hold forth that which it contains not neither doth it intend for as I said before in the former exception the Provisions viz. However differing in judgment from the Doctrine c. Publickly held forth c. And according to their Consciences and the Provision mentioned in this Exception viz. In any place c. Except such as shall be set apart for the Publick

c. are wholly left out And so the words shall not be restrained from their Publike Profession but have due encouragement and equal Protection in the Profession of their Faith and exercise of Religion must necessarily refer onely be so understood unto those of your own profession thus publickly held forth that is to say all such persons as are of our own Profession shall not be restrained from their profession but all such Persons shall have encouragement and equal protection in the profession c. and no others so setting up one Profession of Religion onely and protecting onely such as are of that Profession and this whilest ye are speaking of the fundamentals of the Good Old Cause and the endeavouring the Settlement of this Common-wealth upon such a foundation as may assert establish and secure the liberties of the people in reference unto all as men and Christians and of your full and fixed resolution through the assistance of God effectually even to the hazzard of your lives to endeavour the recovery and security of the same and of the signal Providences wherein the Lord hath owned the Parliament and you their forces both by Sea and Land in asserting that righteous Cause wherein the civil and religious liberties of the People of these Nations are involved so as all open opposition was beaten down before them and of the Discouragements which that publick Spirit which appeared in that work hath received since that time in the late changes of Government And of another raised up drawing back to the same things the Parliament had contended against even to the hazxard of the Essentials of that cause And lastly of your thinking it your Duty upon serious thoughts of heart once more to appear against those back-sliding wayes I say whilest ye are speaking of such things as these in the Preamble to this your profession Are not your eyes yet open Do ye not yet see how ye are deceived and who hath deceived you And how the smoak of the bottomless Pit hath smothered you whilest the coersive or imposing Spirit hath slipt up between your Representation and Deliverance Fifthly The fifth exception is that whereas your Settlement saith so as they abuse not this Liberty to the actual disturbance of the Publick Peace on their parts words honest and good neither limiting the Lord nor stinting his witness nor compelling conscience nor medling with worships things of Religion and conscience but with what is proper to the Magistrate to take cognizance of and to exclude protection viz. Disturbance actual disturbance or disturbance made by overt act or force qualifying it to the Law and speaking plainly that men may certainly know what it makes a transgression of the Publick peace and this on their parts too not on nor by occasion of or under the pretence of them such as shall so abuse the Liberty afforded them shall not be protected I say whereas your Settlement thus saith this article leaves this clause wholly out and adds another altogether strange and forraign and destructive to the Cause of Liberty of Conscience contended for in the Warrs and contained in the Settlement viz. The disturbance of others saith the Article in their way of worships neither saying what disturbance or explaining what shall be understood to be such a disturbance as shall exclude protection nor of what worships for there are many worships used in England and there is but one true worship and the true worshippers who worship God in Spirit and truth whome the Father seeks to worship him and the hour is come wherein the true worshippers worship the Father in Spirit and in truth seek not to man for protection nor qualifying it to the Actual disturbance of the Publick Peace and this on their parts but only to the disturbance of others in their way of worships general words like the bottemless Pit out of which they come so that be the worships what they will or the worshippers or the way of their worships how false invented vile wicked hypocritical soever be the occasion cause or ground witnessing against them never so righteous just and substantial be the command of the Lord never so urgent to bear witness against them If any such witness-bearing be whether in the time or place or out of it whether in Writing Speaking or Printing whether in looking standing still or sitting for it sayes not where nor when nor what nor how but disturbance in the general Term or latitude This as it hath been and the witnesses of God have suffered for as to all these things from this adulterous generation and the humble Petition and Advice hath a Law for most of it even to imprisonment working and whipping if they speak but to a Priest as he is going to or coming from his worship yea at the discretion or rather malice of the Justices for most of them were their enemies on a Civil and Religious account laid it cruelly upon them being given up by your General you in the time of your Degeneration as sheep to the slaughter is now desired by you yea that they be continued under the same slavery and sufferings for it and because of conscience for ever and this in the day of your bewailing of and saying ye desire to take shame to your selves wherein soever ye have back-slidden For in that ye say that all Laws c. to the contrary may be declared null and void those which are according to it are such as must be understood to be by you desired to stand yea as the foundation of the Common-wealth for so ye lay it in this your Address I say this as it hath been so it must be deemed a Desturbance in the construction of the Law aforesaid which ye have thus provided to stand unto which there must be recourse ye having not assigned the particulars wherein yea such a one as cuts off Protection so that the Lord in whom is the breath of your nostrils may not speak may not testifie against Idolatry or Idolators false worships or false worshippers Priests or People for those who shall speak his word and be his witnesses against such worships or worshippers or wayes of worships must have no Protection this is your new Cause and Religion this the fruit of your late Representation and Contrition Sixthly the sixt Exception is that ye say in the conclusion of this Article viz. And that all Laws Statutes Ordinances and Clauses in any Laws Statutes and Ordinances to the contrary may be declared null and void That is to say All Laws Statutes and Ordinances and Clauses in any Laws Statutes and Ordinances for Liberty of Conscience For this profession excluding all Professions from Protection but it self as I have proved cuts off Liberty of Conscience to any other Profession but it self and all Laws c. to the contrary of this profession which so cut off Liberty of Conscience being voided and made null it makes null and void

prosper the Lord hath spoken it If ye start aside once more farewel ye have confest against your selves and your representation is witness against you Deliverance shall arise from another place but ye and your house shall perish I say is not this word of the Lord beginning to be fulfilled upon you who took not warning when from the Lord God as it was told you it was a warning to you all yea that ye should have blotted out the name of Amalek i.e. the Principle that is against Liberty of Conscience from under Heaven yea that ye should not forget it yea that ye should remember Amalck i. e. the soul murthering and Conscience binding Clergy-man and what he did unto you by the way when ye were come out of Egypt how he met you by the way and smote the hindermost of you even all the feeble behind you when ye were faint and weary and he feared not God and that therefore ye should blot out the name of Amalek from under Heaven For at the moving of the Lord that was wrote also Amalek the first of the Nations that warred against Israel when they were come out of Egypt whose latter end shall be that he perish for ever as Balaam said when his eyes were open Cain Adams first born in the transgression who slew his Brother about Religion because his offering was accepted and it was different but Cains was not Cain the fugitive and vagabond who is cursed from the Earth which opened her mouth to receive his Brothers blood from his hand the principle that is against Liberty of Conscience to be blotted out from under Heaven ye shall not forget it saith the Lord But ye have forgot it and instead thereof endeavoured to record its name which God will blot out and remember what Amalek did though ye have forgot it when the Lord required the contrary so ye have disobeyed the Commandement of the Lord therefore the Kingdome is rent from you and is given to a neighbour of yours that is better than you And have broken the Covenant of the wife of your youth therefore will I Judge you saith the Lord as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged and I will give your blood in fury and jealousie for a short work is the Lord making in the Earth yet a remnant of you shall return even a remnant unto the mighty God and the Consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness The day is at hand the Lord hath spoken it And though Agag the King of Amalek whom Saul and the People contrary to the commandment of the Lord have spared alive may come delicately to Samuel the Prophet of the Lord who said to Saul thus saith the Lord of Hosts I remember that which Amalek did to Israel how he laid wait for him in the way when he came up from Egypt now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not but slay both man and woman infant and suckling Oxe and Sheep Camel and Ass and though Agag may say surely the bitterness of Death is past yet Samuel shall say as thy sword hath made women Childless so shall thy Mother be Childless among women And Samuel shall hew Agag in peeces before the Lord even in Gilgal he that can receive it let him receive it Ah my Friends wherewithal shall I bewail you How shall I lament you How soon are ye revolted How soon are ye backslidden and started aside How soon hath darkness overspread you and night covered you How soon are your feet stuck fast again in the mire The honesty that stirred in you how soon is i● plunged again into the Pit Cryed ye not lately to the Lord in the day of your Distress Said ye not what ye would do if he would once more deliver you And hath he not been gratious to you at the voyce of your cry When he heard it did he not deliver you And when he had delivered you did he not warn you as aforesaid for I was moved of him and from his mouth I spake and a witness I am for him for ever yea that ye should bring forth fruit meet for Repentance Were ye not told that this was your day your day of Tryal from the Lord wherein he was trying ye and proving you to see whether there was an heart in you to do according to all that he had said even that ye would fear him and keep all his Commandements alwayes that it might be well with you your children after you forever And that for that cause he had once more overthrown your enemies and in the thing wherein they dealt proudly had shewn himself above them and put the power of these Nations into your hands to try you and prove you and to see whether ye would do as ye spake yea that it was your Hour of Tryal wherein the Lord was trying you to see whether being delivered and having power in your hands ye would stand by and secure the Cause and your selves And are the dawnings of your day so soon closed into Night Are ye so soon tryed and found too light Are these your fruits meet for Repentance which must be repeneed of if ever it be well with you Are ye rose so early and corrupted all your doings Are ye delivered to commit such an abhomination as this Ah foolish people and unwise of the Rock that begat you how soon are ye unmindful And how have ye forgotten God that formed you And lightly esteemed the Rock of your Salvation they sang his praise they soon forgat his works they waited not on his Counsel they forgat God their Saviour which had done great things in Egypt wondrous works in the Land of Ham and terrible things by the Red Sea Many times did he deliver them but they provoked him with their Counsel and were brought low for their iniquity nevertheless he regarded their affliction when he heard their cry and he remembred for them his Covenant and repented according to the multitude of his mercies He made them also to be pittyed of all those that carryed them Captives and had regard unto his name that it might not be polluted among the Heathen I say Oh my Friends How shall I lament you Wherewithal shall I bewail you Truly I bear a burthen of grief for you and the weight thereof is heavy Oh that my head were water and mine eyes a Fountain of Tears that I might weep day and night for you because of the day that I see is coming upon you except ye Repent My love was alwayes dear to you with you I travailed as a Fellow Member and otherwise through the Difficulties ye met with from your first march to Windsor to the late Interruption wherein I bare not the least part of the burthen as there be among you can witness In the late Interruption I was not but was against it for this Reason among others because I foresaw it being shewn me