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A74924	A Faithfull searching home vvord, intended for the view of the remaining members of the former old Parliament in the time of their late second sitting at Westminster. Shewing the reasonableness and justness of their first dissolution, as also the dangerous rock they formerly split upon, that so they might learn to beware for the future: But being a second time dissolved upon the like account, as so many fruitless trees twic dead plucked up by the roots. It is now presented to the officers of the army as another looking-glass wherein they may plainly see, how woefully they also have dissembled, dealt treacherously, deceitfully and wickedly both with God and man, in having so greatly apostatized from, rejected, trodden under foot, persecuted, Judas-like betrayed, and as it were crucified and kept down in the grave (as the soldiers formerly did Christ) that blessed cause and those good principles, they once so highly pretended to own ... Together with an other seasonable word by way of counsel and proposal to the aforesaid officers of the armies of England, Scotland, and Ireland. All which, is also to be seen, and read of all men loving righteousness, that thereby they may (with the army) better know how to chuse the good, refute the evil, and rightly steer their course, and bend their spirits in the future, for the exaltation of Christ, his cause, and interest, and against all the apostacy and treachery, though never so refined, that may further appear in this gloomy, dark, overturning day.		1659 (1659)	Wing F285; Thomason E774_1; ESTC R207286	59,601	45

A Faithfull Searching HOME WORD Intended for the view of the remaining Members of the former OLD PARLIAMENT In the time of their late second Sitting at Westminster SHEWING The Reasonableness and Justness of their first Dissolution as also the dangerous Rocks they formerly split upon that so they might learn to beware for the future But being a second time Dissolved upon the like Account as so many Fruitless Trees twice Dead plucked up by the Roots Is now presented to the Officers of the Army as another Looking-Glass wherein they may plainly see how wofully they also have Dissembled Dealt Treacherously Deceitfully and Wickedly both with God and Man in having so greatly Apostatized from Rejected Trodden under foot Persecuted Judas-like Betrayed and as it were Crucified and kept down in the Grave as the Soldiers formerly did Christ that Blessed Cause and those Good Principles they once so highly pretended to own and have done the same yea worse things themselves then for which the late King was Beheaded and they pretendedly Dissolved the late Old Parliament a first and second time and have been Pharaoh Edom and Moab-like the onely main Hinderers of the Lords Faithfull People from going to Zion which hath so pulled down the late and present Judgements which have been and yet are lying upon these Nations Together with another Seasonable Word by way of Counsel and Proposal to the aforesaid Officers of the Armies of England Scotland and Ireland All which is also to be seen and read of all men loving Righteousness that thereby they may with the Army the better know how to chuse the Good refuse the Evil and rightly steer their Course and bend their Spirits in the future for the Exaltation of Christ his Cause and Interest and against all the Apostacy and Treachery though never so refined that may further appear in this Gloomy Dark Overturning Day Isa 24.16 From the utmost parts of the Earth have we heard Songs even Glory to the Righteous But I said My leanness my leanness woe unto me the Treacherous Dealers to wit the late Old Parliament have dealt treacherously Yea the Treacherous Dealers viz. the Officers of the Army have dealt very treacherously Printed in the first Year of the Army 's endeavouring to deal treacherously with the Faithful Friends of the Cause a second time after their first and second Dissolution of the late long Parliament 1659. A Faithful Searching Home Word intended for the view of the remaining Members of the former Long Parliament in the time of their late Second Sitting at VVestminster shewing the Reasonableness and Justness of their first Dissolution as also the dangerous Rocks they formerly split upon that so they might learn to beware for the future c. YOu may remember when in the day of your former sitting as the Peoples Representors and a faithful Party among you were according to their then light going on in the Lords work taking away the Tyrannical Antichristian heavy Yokes which the King and his Prelates laid upon the Bodies and Consciences of the good people of this Nation and also the Army together with your selves gave them hopes that you would endeavour to take away all the remaining Oppressions that then were or in the future should be found lying upon them and would bring forth Righteousness to them as by many Declarations may appear which was then hath been all along yet is and in every Generation for time to come but above all when the Kingdom of Jesus Christ shall most visibly appear and be set up in the world will be the Cause of God and his People that by the good Providence of the Lord as also through the many Prayers Petitions and Strivings of the honest Party in the Nation Army and among your Selves to and with the Lord and You and against the common enemy very great and wonderful things were successively one time after another brought about and done amongst us towards the ease of the people viz. the late King brought to Justice and other great ones with him his Monarchy House of Lords together with his own and the aforesaid Tyranny of his Lords Spiritual and Temporal so called and of other corrupt persons with much of the Oppression then lying upon us taken away How the Lord blest you with success in your Councels and Forces both by Land and Sea and you also had the love and prayers of the good people and what a terrour of you was upon the Enemy both at home and abroad whilest some who were faithful among You and the honest part of the Army were in the zealous prosecution of these things and afterwards declared for the Destruction of Antichrist and the Advancement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and appeared to be growing up into the Light Spirit and were doing the things relating and leading thereunto you very well know The Enemy being every where totally subdued and the three Nations of England Scotland and Ireland with all the Territories thereunto belonging in our hands the Dutch Fleet also beaten at sea and they thereby almost brought as it were upon their knees in the doing whereof the appearances and salvation of the Lord with and about his poor unworthy people were so very wonderful and glorious that the faith and expectations of many or most of them who went along with him to that day especially towards the latter end whrlest these things were doing were very much raised and that from Scripture grounds to be eying the Promises and Prophesies relating to the Deliverance of Zion The Destruction of Babylon and Antichrist The Call of the Jews The Advancement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ all which shall certainly be fulfilled in the latter dayes Among other see the following Scriptures First The deliverance of Zion Psal 48. Psal 69.35 36. Psal 87.5 Psal 102.13 to 22. Psal 132.13 to the end Isa 2.2 3 4. Isa 4.5 6. Isa 33.20 Isa 35.9 10. Isa 46.13 Isa 51.3 5. to 11. Isa 52. Isa 60. Isa 62.4 8 9 11 12. Isa 65.19 21. to 25. Micha 4.2 3 4 10. to 13. Obadiah verse 17 18 21. Zeph. 3.13 15 17. to 20. Zech. 2.7 to 13. Zech. 8.3 to 8. Zech. 9.15 16. Zech. 12.2 3 4. to 9. Secondly The Destruction of Babylon and Antichrist Isa 47. Jer. 50. Jer. 51.2 Thess 2.8 9 10. compared with Rev. 18. Thirdly The Call of the Jews Jer. 23.3 7 8. Jer. 30.3 10 11. Jer. 31.8 9 11 12.23.28 Ezek. 36.24 to the end Ezek. 37.21 22. Amos 9.14 15. Zeph. 3.19 20. Isa 66.20 to the end Fourthly The Kingdom of Christ Psal 72.1 8. to 17. Isa 9.6 7. Isa 32.1 Jer. 23.5 6. Jer. 30.9 Jer. 33.15 16. Ezek. 37.24 25. Dan. 7.13 14 27. Obadiah verse 21. Zech. 9.9 10. Zech. 14.9 Luke 1.32 33. Luke 22.29 30. John 18.37 1 Tim. 6.14 15. Rev. 2.26 27. Rev. 11.15 Rev. 19.13 14 15 16. Ezek. 21.27 And that these Scriptures shall certainly be fulfilled see Jer. 33 20 21 25 26. compared with

thus the business stands between the Officers of the Army and that honest Party of that Little Parliament to this very day In doing which wicked action and therein discountenancing persecuting yea what in them lay as it were crucifying this honest Spirit in these persons who were bringing forth the forementioned good things which the Army so greatly promised declared and pretended to fight for and which you were dissolved for not doing of And the General thus setting up himself upon the Monarchical or Beast-like Foundation so contrary to former Declarations and as it were upon the ruines of the very spirit and principles which he and his Officers but a little before had so greatly pretended to own and be of themselves and also doing the very same yea worse things then for which the late King was beheaded and which they also condemned in you as also Persecuting Imprisoning and Banishing some of the forementioned faithful Friends of the Little Parliament and others of the Lords people and blaspheming the Spirit of the Lord in them saying They were acted by a giddy headed rash fanatick devillish Spirit and this for no other cause then their faithfulness to the Lord in pressing after the good things according to their forementioned declared Principles and opposing the General and his Officers backsliding from them and doing things so diametrically contrary thereunto therein falsifying their Trust and building again what they formerly had destroyed and declared against the Army and all the forementioned corrupt Interests with several Independent and * The good things they desired in those Addresses doth no more excuse their evil in addressing and thereby abetting that Tyrannical Beast-like Government then the Devils bringing Scripture in his mouth excused his wickedness in tempting of Christ some Baptized Churches by their Power Addresses and otherwayes in the mean while countenancing encouraging abetting and upholding them therein by all which the blessed Cause and work of Christ was very greatly stopt and hindered the Spirit of the Lord and his People grieved Now since these with many other wicked things that might be mentioned came to be done by that professing hypocritical generation the forementioned glorious presence that was formerly with you the Little Parliament and their Councils and Forces was withdrawn the courage of the enemy heightned the corrupt Interests before mentioned lifting up their heads and rejoycing according to Rev. 11.10 The Nations abroad contemn and scorn us the lively fresh spirit for the work and Cause of Christ which seem'd formerly to be in the Army very much choaked and lost the hearts and prayers of the remaining faithful Friends of the Cause which were formerly with and for them now grieved and engaged against them by all which the state and condition of this poor Nation was and is very greatly impaired our Land Forces wasted and consumed at Hispaniola Jamaica Mardike Flanders and elsewhere our Shipping lessened and diminished our Stores and Provisions for Sea and Land expended and very much consumed and but very very little or no profit our Magazines emptied Treasures wasted Trade in a very great measure lost and decayed as Tradesmen of all sorts and Shopkeepers many of whom are broken and are breaking every day finde by such sad and woful experience as they never did before nor in the memory of man was the lke ever known or heard of though Mr. Nye Tho Goodwin Dean Owen so called and the Officers and Messengers of above one hundred Congregations in England could tell their late Protector that they and the Nation had not eaten the Bread of Adversity nor drunk the Water of Affliction but had served God in the abundance of all things Very great new debts contracted little of old being satisfied all which sad effects with others that might be mentioned as was said before he that hath but half an eye or that runs may read is the bitter fruit of the Apostacy Treachery and Crucifying the Spirit of the Lord in the Members turned out of the Little Parliament who were bringing forth that Justice and Righteousness which the Army and good People of the three Nations were so greatly engaged in and was no other then what the faithfull Friends of the Cause are calling for in this day and will give the Lord nor them no rest till they do obtain All things going thus contrary to the sinful desires and vain expectations of the upholders and abbettors of this great Apostacy notwithstanding the many helps they had to carry it on yet as if they had been left by the Lord to studdy and procure their further destruction they not onely afresh imprison the Lords faithful people for witnessing against them but also suffer others of them to be haled before Magistrates cast into prisons forced to pay trebble dammages their goods to be seized upon and ten times more taken away then their pretended due came to for not paying of Tythes and this greatly approved of by the then General his Officers and all his worthy Addressors upholding him therein who was once the head of the Sectaries out of a carnal design to draw in the Presbyterian Cleargy to stand by his Interest who since the New Moddel and beheading the late King to this very day it is well known have been enemies to and opposers of the Lords Work and Cause that hath been and is yet further to be carryed on in these Nations Though he and his Officers not long before had as good as acknowledged in the forementioned Speech to the Little Parliament See Book page 40. 41. that the now Ministry of England as to their then and present standing derived it self and succession through the Papacy and therefore a false succession and none to be the true succession but what was through the Spirit given in that measure the Spirit is given which sayes he Christians are well able to discerne and do And yet for all this contrary to Scripture or Reason forced them to pay such Ministers as they judged were not onely destitute of a work of Grace in their hearts much less of the Spirit for that work but also derived their succession through the Papacy wherein with other things of this nature that might be mentioned it appeared their tenderness was forgotten to the Lords people under several forms as much as yours and that the cause of the people of God was despised by them Thus were things going on one the one hand and some of the Lords faithful people called Sectaries Anabaptists and Fifth Monarchy men by their Faith Prayers Appeals Prophesyings and Testimony against the Apostacy and Abettors of it counterworking and pulling down on the other which honest faithful spirit in them to the Lord his Cause and interest can will never leave working nor overturning till our Lord Jesus Christ comes whose right it is This remnant of witnessing Sectaries so called get ground all the designs and stratagems made use of to quell them and to uphold and strengthen the

presence of the Lord that was with the Councels and Forces of this Nation is by reason of the late and present Apostacy almost clean departed and we as it were upon our last legs and do well understand some of them at least who are more clear-sighted that it is not barely the name of a Commonwealth Government and a people of a low dull spirit and understanding exercised therein who like so many heavy listless horses put into their gears must either draw or be whipt to it as most of you were in the time of your first Sitting and to the day of your late dissolution But the Righteousness and Justice thereof executed and brought forth with an excellent lively fresh spirit by an humble gracious willing people who have the concernments and wellfare of the Nation upon their hearts more then their own and are tender unto and faithful with all the Saints anointed thereunto by the Lords Spirit which once the Army so greatly pretended to own that will save and exalt these sinking Nations and do see that thither we must come or we perish and therefore if you would not speedily put to your helping hand in this crisis of danger to bring this in but would from time to time as in the time of your first Sitting either continue your selves with your old spirit or not before your rising so provide as to keep out Cavaleers Neuters Presbyters and the late New Court Party from coming into Power for the future as there was very little likelihood you would so many among you having Apostatized from your former Acts Votes and Declarations and fell in with the Protectorall Government nay voted for Kingship again and therein dealt treacherously with the Cause of Jesus Christ and your own Principles as well as the Army you could not expect any other from them and the Army if their hearts were sincere and upright with God indeed as they lately pretended to be but that they would take care to do it themselves though as formerly a desperate disease had a desperate cure And it seems for this very cause among others it was that you were so lately dissolved a second time whereby it very plainly appears that your late call to the Power was not a dispensation from the Lord to manifest we went out of the way in your first dissolution but onely that the necessity and justness thereof might more plainly appear not onely to your selves but to the satisfaction of some friends of the Cause that could not otherwise be satisfied but by the late tryal of your spirits a second time As also that you might be instrumental as the righteous judgement of the Lord upon them to take away the Power Government Splendor and Greatness of that family which was so hypocritically unrighteously and wickedly raised up upon your and the honest part of the little Parliaments ruines though in the outward pretence and shew for better ends and this your work being done to be removed again as before that so a second trial might be upon the spirits of the Army to see whether according to their former and late pretences they would indeed be so honest having so greatly mist it hitherto * The Lord hath one time after another since the Army rejected their profest spirit and principles in casting out the honest part of the Little Parliament as upon Pharaoh of old who would not let Israel go to Canaan Exod. Chap. 7. to Chap. 12. so blasted their designs and thereby plagued and brought them down as they are necessitated for their own preservation to send unto and call upon the faithful Remnant as did Pharaoh to Moses to pray for advise with and come into their assistance as if he would force them to let them go and doubtless will never let them rest till they acknowledge their iniquity and return to walk with more refinedness according to their former honest Principles and thereby Pharaoh-like hindered the Lords faithfull people from going to Zion as to bring in better and more suitable persons then your selves whom they had so greatly complained of into the Government of the Nation to carry on with life and power the blessed Cause and Work of the Lord for the future which both you and they notwithstanding your many high professions have so greatly opposed and dealt treacherously withal I might have been more large in comparing your spirit and actions in your late second Sitting with the forementioned Particulars charged upon you by the Officers of the Army as the grounds and reasons of your first Dissolution and have shewn more fully wherein you were rather worse then in the time of your first Sitting but it being more properly the Armies work to do it for their further vindication who have in the Generall done something therein already in their Plea they set forth for your late Dissolution I shall leave it to them or to some other persons who were more upon the place and could better observe you then my self who had little heart to come where you were upon the forementioned account and shall conclude with I hope a Seasonable Word by way of Counsel and Proposal to the Officers of the Army themselves of whom the true Friends of the Cause have to this day too great reason to say having had such sad and woful experience of their Adulteries from their former honest principles neighings and going a whoring after the accursed thing to wit the Monarchical Tyrannical Power Pomp and Greatness and their great lewdness and abominations therein committed yea greater then for which the late King was beheaded and they also pretended to dissolve you a first and second time and yet like the Whore Prov. 30.20 wipe their mouths as if they had done no wckiedness But are now as ever equally endeared to the Good Old Cause and utter enemies to all Tyranny and Oppression when as the Lord and his people yea the carnal people of the Nation knows it is not so As the Lord concerning Jerusalem of old Jer. 13.27 O Army Army will you not be honest sincere upright deny your self-Interest and Greatness and he in reality what you have so greatly profest Will you not return from whence you are fallen and so truly be said to repent must you needs ruine the Nation by your continuing to go on in your Apostacy and Wickedness will you not be clean when shall it once be A Seasonable Word by way of Counsel and Proposal to the Officers of the Armies of England Scotland and Ireland YOu may by reading over the foregoing Word to the Remaining Members of the Long Parliament lately sitting at Westminster whom you have now dissolved a second time as it concerns you so to do take notice of almost all the most considerable circumstances relating to the Blessed Cause and Work of Christ that you and the good people of this Nation have been so long engaged in and upon what account it was that the Lord so

iniquities but rather say to the Lord according to Job 34.32 That which I see not teach thou me if I have done iniquity I will do no more Secondly Be also humbled for repent of suppress and put away for the time to come All the Pride of Apparel c. Luxury Gaming and whatever else is sinful and of an evil report that is committed in your Families by your selves Wives Children Servants and Relations according to Job 11.13 14. comp with Chap. 22.23 If thou prepare thine heart and stretch out thine hand towards him if iniquity be in thy hand put it far away and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles c. And endeavour all you can for the future to get such as fear the Lord to attend upon you for it is not onely your duty but declared Principle to the Little Parliament so to do See page 43. of the forementioned Book Let not their failings infirmities and too many times neglect of duty hinder you from doing yours if you can get them there is little good to be expected from you whoever you are though your knowledge and profession be never so high whilest you are careless and slight in this particular Thirdly Be also deeply humbled for and repent of your forementioned great Apostacy from rejecting of treacherous dealing with the Cause of Jesus Christ and your forementioned honest Principles and all your persecuting Imprisoning and Banishing of your Brethren for their faithfulness thereunto and for all other your great evils and miscarriages therein committed whereby the Name of the Lord and the Profession of the Gospel hath been and is so much reproached and dishonoured and his Blessed Cause and Work so greatly stopped and hindered The hearts of his faithful people grieved and hath brought so much poverty and misery upon this Nation and return in the sincerity and uprightness of your hearts to revive and promote the aforesaid Blessed Cause and those good Principles from whence you have so greatly departed and resolve in the strength of the Lord to return no more to folly And that this your repentance and thorow returning may so appear to all the faithful Friends of the Cause as to put them past all doubts and fears of your deceiving them any more for the time to come First Cast off the Counsel of St. Johns Lisle Whitlock Philip Nye Tho. Goodwin Dean Owen so called and all other the like Incendaries the Heads of the corrupt Lawyers and Clergy unless you finde they have really and thorowly repented of their great evil in being so instrumental to help turn and keep your then General and you aside into these crooked paths after the first Dissolution of the Old and choice and turning out of the Little Parliament as also see them singly and sincerely pressing you to come up to the practise of your former Declarations and to the owning of that spirit those principles and persons which you once so greatly seemed to own but afterwards through the enmity of your spirits and their wicked Counsel and Advice as greatly and wickedly rejected For if they remain as they were Owen c. according to Lam. 2.14 Are the Prophets that have seen vain and foolish things for you and have not discovered your iniquity to turn away the judgements that are fallen upon you but have and do see for you false burthens and causes of banishment Secondly Send by way of intreaty it being your duty so to do according to Matth. 5.24.25 having so greatly wronged them for those faithfull persons whom you have so rejected and turned out of the Little Parliament whose Garments have not since been defiled with the late and present Apostacy or if they have are known to have throughly repented of the same with others of that publick spirit to come unto you who if any in the Nation yea I may say in the world will the Lord assisting bring forth the good things promised and have been so long expected for the good of the Nation And when you have so done Thirdly Acknowledge your great sin and iniquity to them First for rejecting and casting them out of your hearts and afterwards out of that Little Parliament on purpose to hinder them from doing that good for the people which you pretendedly dissolved the Old Parliament for not doing of and called them to do which were no other then what you will finde the true friends of the Cause will neither give you nor any other that for the future may come into the Government of the Nation rest do what you can to uphold your own and other carnal Interests in opposition thereunto yea the Lord no rest till they do obtain And when you have in the singleness of your hearts thus acknowledged your iniquity to them and desired mercy for the same as Gen. 50.16 to 20. Josephs Brethren did to him I hope they will have so much both of the spirit of the Father of the Prodigal though brought to your Husks and of the spirit of Joseph to his Brethren as to be willing to go forth in their spirits to meet this in you and weepingly to joy and rejoyce over you as also to pardon and pass by all the wrongs and injuries that you have done unto them and therein to the Cause of God and his people But if this be not in your hearts to do they must remain where they are keeping the same distance from you as before lest they go before they are sent and so come off with loss and disappointments in their own spirits as to you as my self and others have done since you so deceivingly Declared that you were now as ever equally endeared to the good Old Cause c. when it was not so Fourthly With the Advice and Consent of the faithfull friends of the Cause both in City and Countrey it being usurpation in you and acting arbitrarily to do any thing without them Deliver up with limitations not to impose upon the consciences of any in matters of Faith and Worship and in all things else that are against the safety of the Whole the Power Authority and Government of the Nation into their hands for by what hath been said both by you my self and others in this and other Papers and keeping close to the spirit of them under Christ their right it is and take heed of mixing them as in the time of their first Sitting with persons of a contrary spirit and principle on purpose to hinder them from doing the good they are called to do and thereby designedly and wickedly give your selves a second feigned necessity of turning them out and setting up another Single Person or Protector upon their ruines as you did before but rather encourage and strengthen them all you can in the bringing forth this good and suppressing the evil for that it is onely the bringing forth of righteousness and breaking off all yokes of oppression that will save and exalt this sinking Nation Prov. 14.34 Isa

1.17 to 20. 5. These persons thus called together having more light faith and communion with God then formerly they had in the work of the latter dayes and that they are called unto as I conceive they have and laying Jesus Christ the Foundation on which they intend to Build as also consulting with and managing all their Affairs according to the Scriptures as is their judgement founded upon the same Deut. 17 18 19 20. Deut. 4.6 7 8. 2 Tim. 3.16 and not onely theirs but of most of the Friends of the Cause as also assented to by your selves and all the Great Lawyers and all others present at the * Sir Thomas Widdrington having presented your Protector with a Robe afterwards delivered him a Bible and among other expressions said It is a Book of Books and besides other things it conteins in it both Precepts and Examples for good Government Alexander so highly valued the Books of his Master Aristotle and other great Princes other Books that they have laid them every night under their Pillows these are all but Legends and Romances to this one Book a Book to be had alwayes in remembrance I finde it said in part of this Book which I shall desire to read and it is this Deut 17.18 19 20. And it shall be when he sitteth upon the Throne of his Kingdom that he shall write a Copy of this Law in a Book out of that which is before the Priestt and Levites and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the dayes of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and to keep all the words of this Law and those statutes to do them that his heart be not lifted up above his Brothren and that he turn not aside from the Commandment to the right hand or to the left to the end he may prolong his dayes in his Kingdom he and his Children in the midst of Israel In which words you acknowledge that the Scriptures ought to be the foundation of both the Government and Laws of this Nation which though after this you decline from and therein adde Apostacy to Apostacy yet do justifie all others that shall go on therein and proceed according to Scripture Quualifications for the choice of Rulers according to Exod. 18.21 Hosea 11.12 Speech made by Sir Thomas Widdrington then Speaker of your Petition and Advice Parliament at the second Inauguration of your late General in the Protectorall Government is the duty of all Gods Magistrates to do Having also the concernments and welfare of the Nation upon their hearts more then their own will I hope whilest they are Sitting carry it so self-denyingly graciously and uprightly and with such tenderness towards all fearing the Lord esteeming none because of this or that judgement further then their sincerity and faithfulness to the Cause and Interest of Christ appears and will endeavour to do all things both at home and in other Nations so for the honour of him who is their and our Judge King and Lawgiver as also your own and the Nations real good and likewise with the approbation and consent of the faithful Friends of the Cause to carefully provide for the future well Government of the Nation by the hands of other faithfull Persons against they rise as you will have no occasion if your hearts be sincere and upright with God indeed and have grace to deny your selves to maintain any enmity in your spirits towards them so as to despise reject and turn them out as you did before but will rather encourage rejoyce in and bless God for them And whatsoever your politique shifts and devices may be to avoid it hither you must come at last for without this be done let the foundation you lay as to future Governments and the Persons you call to build thereon in the outward appearance be never so pure or so much for Christ yet it is and you will finde it so but a false Conception a Bed too short a Covering too narrow a Plaister that though it may skin over will not thorowly heal the wound that your Apostacy and treacherous dealing with your Principles hath made upon you for the first foremenoned Cause of the Lords displeasure against you must be taken away or else no sound cure can be expected neither indeed would such as are faithful had they a true understanding of things and did seriously weigh and consider what hath been already and might further be said in this business dare to come in and assist you till this work were done for fear lest the House that in the simplicity of their hearts they would be building should fall upon their heads and the Lords thus dealing with you is no other then according to the usual method he goes in in matters of this nature Prov. 28.13 He that covereth his sin shall not prosper but he that confesseth and forsaketh his sin shall have mercy Remember what became of Cain who retain'd his wicked spirit after he slew his Brother Abel Gen. 4. to verse 14. Of the Ongregation of Israel who out of such a spirit as you are acted by would have stoned Caleb and Joshua for opposing their going back into Egypt and pressing them to go on the Canaan Numb 14.23.32.43 Of Corah Dathan and Abiram and the two hundred and fifty famous renowned Princes of the Congregation and the people joyning with them in opposing the spirit of the Lord in Moses and Aaron upon the account with the former and how all these remaining in the wickedness of their spirits in opposition to the spirit of the work of the Lord in his little Remnant in that day must not prosper but their Carkasses fall in the wilderness dye of the Plague fall before their enemy the ground open and swallow Korah and his company up alive Numbers 16.2.31 32. Josephs Brethren who out of the wickedness and enmity of their spirits towards him cunningly endeavoured all they could to make him away and sold him into Egypt must lay aside their enmity and own and acknowledge their iniquity therein to him and beg pardon for the same or else no peace or prosperity for them could be expected Gen. 50.17 to 21. Ephraim and Israel having committed whoredom Begot strange Children Revolted from and Dealt treacherously against the Lord as you have done and the Lord having rebuked them and threatned that they should fall in their iniquity that he would be as a moth and rottenness to them as he hath hitherto been to you yet they went on and the Text sayes would not frame their doings to turn unto their God because the spirit of whoredoms was in the midst of them as it is with you but instead of returning to the Lord in a right manner as to the very thing wherein they had displeased him It is said When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound then went Ephraim to the Assyrian and sent to King Jareb as you have

The Fifth Monarchy or Kingdom of Christ in Opposition to the Beasts Sold at the Crown in Popeshead Alley Letter wherein are five of the Particulars of your Charge See that Book page 22. First They complain of your evil mannagement of the Affairs that were under your hand 2. That the then dangerous remedy of dissolving you was not used till all other ways had been by the Army assayed and by you rejected 3. That after four years expectation from you since the change of the Government to wit from Kingship to a Commonwealth they found no * Was it not so again in this your second sitting Indeed you were very expert in laying Burthens and Taxes upon the people But what Righteousness and Justice did you bring forth Or what yokes lying either upon the Consciences or Bodies of the good people did you take away Or what hath the Officers of the Army who thus complain of you and dissolved you for not doing these good things done herein to this very day but strive to advance and settle themselves performance by you of those good things that tended to the settlement of the Commonwealth in Peace and Righteousness 4. They say They were abundantly satisfied from the long experience they had of you that as you were then constituted you were so far from being the Instruments of perfecting the Work of the Lord that the whole Cause was in great danger to perish under your hands for which there hath been so vast an expence of Blood and Treasure and therefore after seeking the face of God and taking counsel with one another it was generally apprehended that the onely way left to preserve the Cause was to prevent your sitting by a speedy dissolving you and laying the Government upon the shoulders of such men as might hopefully give the People the fruit of all their Labour and Blood and encourage good men to be still willing to hazard their lives against the Common Enemy which as things then stood many had little heart to do 5. That it was in their hearts to seek those good things in such a way as that you might have had the honour of it but you had not then a heart to incline to the Motion made in order thereunto but rather endeavoured a hasty inconsiderate passing of an Act for a New Representative though the General and Officers at a meeting with many of your Members did abundantly demonstrate the evident danger of it yet did you the next day so earnestly and precipitantly persist in it as necessitated them to put you to that suddain dissolution Thus far the Letter They also say in the Speech by way of charge against you see page 29 30 31. of the forementioned Book wherein are twelve Particulars 1. That when the General and the Officers of the Army came from Worcester they expected that you having such a History to look back unto a God that appeared for you so eminently so visibly the mercies that God had shewed the expectations that were in the hearts of all good men would have prompted you that were in Authority to have done those good things which might by honest men have been judged a Return fit for such a God and worthy of such Mercies and a discharge of duty to those for whom all these Mercies had been shewed to wit the true interest of the three Nations And likewise say They came fully bent in their hearts and thoughts to desire and use all fair and lawful means they could with you to have had the Nation reap the fruit of all that Blood and Treasure that had been expended in this Cause and had many thirstings in their spirits to finde out wayes and means wherein they might be any wayes instrumental to help it forward and that they did from time to time solicite you to that purpose and when they saw nothing could be done they reminded you by a Petition but had no return at all all the satisfaction they could get from you was but a few words And finding the People * It hath since appear'd that the Armies strivings and thirstings to have had the Nation better'd by all the expence of Blood and Treasure hath onely been to greaten and enrich themselves and studying how to get the peoples money to be upheld therein whereby they are looked upon as cheating self-seeking unfruitfull persons as well as your selves neither of you both having either honour or repute but are a stink unto all honest men do bring down judgements upon the Nation put all things into confusion yet neither they nor you the honesty or goodness to lay these things to heart to this very day but Lambert Disbrow Berry-like go on to advance your selves though the Nation perish dissatisfied in every corner and bringing home to their doors the Non-performance of those things that had been promised and were of due to be performed judging themselves concern'd they say they endevoured as became honest Men to keep up the Reputation of honest men in the world it seems you would not and therefore had divers times endeavoured to obtain a Meeting with divers of your Members and in those Meetings did in all faithfulness and sincerity beseech you that you would be mindeful of your duty and of the discharge of your Trust to God and man and that they had at the least ten or twelve Meetings begging and beseeching you that of your own accords you would do those good things that had been promised that so it might appear you did not do them by any suggestion from the Army but of your own ingenuities that so you might have the reputation and good opinion of the people to the utmost also declared plainly to you that the Issue of not doing those good things would be the judgement and displeasure of God against you the dissatisfaction of the people and the putting things into confusion yet they could not prevail with you and that you laid them not to heart 2. That you would not hear of a New Representative till such time as the Army came to their close considerations what to do and then you began to take it to heart and seem'd exceeding willing to put it on but not with that integrity and caution as would have saved the Cause and Interest that you and they had been so long engaged in and that your intendment and design in all you did at that time was onely to recruit the House the better to perpetuate your selves several of the Officers having divers times been spoken to by you to give way thereto which was so unreasonable a thing as they not onely had a perpetual aversation to but did abominate the thoughts of and alwayes declared their dissatisfaction with and judgements against it 3. That though you were unwilling to hear of a * It was just thus with you in your second sitting for though you seem'd exceeding willing to hear of Proposalls from the Friends of the Cause in order

other things declares plainly you would have dealt as deceitfully in the business of the Representative you were lately about had you not been dissolved a second time But I forbear to mention any further at present though very much more might be spoken in manifestation that your spirit in your second Sitting was worse in every particular then in the time of your first deceitfully with the General and the Officers of the Army in saying you would endeavour to suspend proceeedings with the Representative the next day till you had a further Conference with them and yet for all this did you that very day proceed with all the eagerness you could and had almost finished it and brought it to that issue with that haste that it had never been before unsafely and dishonestly leaving out the things that did necessarily relate to due Qualifications and resolved to make it a paper Bill not to ingross it that so in a cheating manner you might make the quicker dispatch of it thus to have thrown away all the Liberties of the Nation into the hands that never bled for it and therefore for the preservation of the Cause they say they thought it their duty not to suffer it and upon this the House was dissolved Thus far is charged upon you in the forementioned Speech to the Little Parliament This we tell you speaking to the Little Parliament that so you may know that what hath been done in dissolving this Parliament was as necessary as the preservation of this Cause and that necessity that led us to do that hath brought us to this issue of exercising an extraordinary way and course to draw your selves together upon this account that you are men who know the Lord and have made observations of his marvellous dispensations and may be trusted with the Cause c. In which words of the General and Officers of the Army to the Little Parliament thus laid before you is given a perfect Character and Description of the then and may it not too truly be said the late frame of your Spirits and what you would not do as to a more thorow carrying on his Work and Cause as also what with all haste you were doing against it with several other things too truly laid to your Charge contained in this Speech and that upon the accompt of these things you were dissolved Now what ever the design of the then General Major Gen. Lambert and some other of his Machevilian politick Officers and Assistants was in dissolving and thus casting durt upon you the Lord and themselves best knows who doubtless in his own time will and hath begun to do already discover and bring all the hidden works of darkness and secret wicked things to light yet there then was and as by after actions also did appear very evident grounds to believe and say it chiefly was to make way and as a stirrup to get into the Power themselves and therefore though it was unrighteously and wickedly done as to them yet doubtless as just and righteous in the sight of God considering the forementioned evils laid to your charge as was formerly the sifting and purging your House to hinder the personal Treaty and upon other accounts or beheading the late King and casting out his Monarchy for his Tyranny and dissolving the last Parliament as enemies to and opposers of the Cause of God and his people that so your selves or better then you might come into their places both of which according to mans Law and the old almost ruined Constitutions of this Nation are judged lawful Powers as well as your selves And although it be granted there was a deceitfull treacherous spirit which lay like a serpent under the grass in the bottom of this action in some of the Army who pretended to be either the stone it self mentioned * See page 43 of the forementioned Book Dan. 2.44 or at least to have had somewhat of the spirit of it So was there likewise at the same time an honest single sincere spirit among some of the Army the Navy the Churches and good people of the Nation who were indeed for the work and will erelong be found had then and yet have the true spirit of the stone in some measure both planted and abiding in them who did very much approve of and rejoyce in your being dissolved and that upon the forementioned too true account given by the General and Officers of the Army as is manifested in the latter end of the forementioned Speech to the Little Parliament page 45. of that Book in the following words Sayes he All that I have to say in my own and in the names of my Fellow Officers who have joyned with me in this work that we shall commend you to the Grace of God and to the guidance of his Spirit having thus far served you or rather our Lord Jesus Christ in it we as we hope and shall be ready in our stations according as the Providence of God shall lead us to be subservient to the work of God and the Authority which we reckon God hath set over us And although we have no formal thing to present you with to which the hands and outward visible expressions of the hearts of the Officers of the three Nations are set yet we may say for them and we may say also with confidence that our Brethren at Sea with whom neither in Scotland nor Ireland nor at Sea hath any Artifice been used to perswade their approbation to this work yet we can say that their consent and affections hath flowed into us beyond our expectations and we may say with all confidence that we have had their approbation and full consent ☞ unsought indeed to the other work to wit in dissolving of you so that you have their hearts and affections in this and not onely they but we have very many papers from the * Whatever Churches or other Persons they were that closed with former Declarations or thus freely sent in their papers or otherwise spake in approbation of your first Dissolution for not doing the good things promised as also approved of the Call of the Little Parliament in order to the doing of them and yet afterward closed with and abetted the Protectoral Government which was raised up upon the ruines of the honest part of the Little Parliament on purpose to hinder their doing those good things have turn'd their backs upon the Cause of Christ as well as the Army and ought to repent of their great evil in so doing as well as they Churches of God thorowout the Nation wonderfully both approving what hath beene done in removing obstacles that is in removing of you and approving what we have done in this very thing to wit in calling the Little Parliament In all which together with the forementioned particulars of your Charge contain'd in that Speech and Letter is set forth the matter of fact that was against you together with the righteous

judgement that for the saving of the Cause there was an absolute necessity to pass upon you and also how most of the good people in the Army Navy and Churches c. in the three Nations did both approve of and rejoyce therein And to say the truth there was but very few compared with the others who might then truly be said were Friends to the Cause that were dissatisfied whose dissatisfactions were not meerly because you were dissolved and the other chosen in your stead for they also complain'd of you and desired a New Representative as well as others but that it was done in such a manner as in their then apprehensions not onely made way for the General to take the Power himself but also tended to pluck up by the very roots the old way of chusing Rulers by the whole Bulk or Body of the people which they called and formerly was so the Legall Foundations which was then in their judgements and still is of some of them who understand no better how to follow the Lord in his overturning dispensations the onely legal and best way for the choice of Rulers So that all things considered setting aside the forementioned dissatisfactions of some which was onely as to the manner but not to the matter of your being dissolved which signifies little or nothing at all as to the clearing of you it plainly appears that for your unfaithfulness in and unfitness for your stewardship and not thoroughly improving the Talent which was then committed to you for God and his People you were both by his Providence and their Approbation and Consent justly laid aside Insomuch that if the now true friends of the Cause had either Light and suitable thereunto a sincere upright courageous single and lively Spirit for Christ and Righteousness as they ought to have and as the Saints shall have when the Law shall go forth of Zion to follow the Lord in his Overturning dispensations who as he hath formerly and in our Day so hath promised for the future safely to lead his People on in his work in wayes they have not gone with their feet Isa 41.2 And to bring the blinde by a way they know not and lead them in paths that they have not known c. Isa 42.16 Would lay aside the excrementitious outside shell or notion of things relating to a further carrying on of the Cause in its purity to wit the spirit of the Nation or whole body of the People which the Lord by a continued series of providential Dispensations because of the malignity of their spirits against his Cause and People hath one time after another cast out and witnessed against and on the other hand would look into the very spirit kernel and substance of things relating thereunto to wit the spirit of the good People who have gone on with the Lord in his work to this very day who desired consented and approved of your being then laid aside you were really clearly deservedly and justly cast out and to say the truth had not from that time to the very day of your second Call nor have not now the least ●●ght to sit again upon the former account which I am perswaded the Lord in due time will make manifest notwithstanding through the short-sightedness though I trust simplicity of some friends who desired and were instrumental therein you might be called to sit a second time and possibly by your selves it is apprehended that there we went out of the way at first and therefore must there begin again But if I know any thing of the minde of God as I trust through his Grace I do by the observations that I have made of his footsteps in the carrying on of his work hitherto amongst us you are all mistaken and I know you will finde it so which I doubt not but clearly to manifest in that which follows For although we had many Deliverances and Victories and the Lord eminently blest us with success and our dread was upon our Enemies both at home and abroad whilest you were sitting especially towards the latter end yet be it known unto you it was not purely for your sakes considered as you were a Parliament in the Bulk but as there was a sincere single honest spirit according to their then light acting for Christ his Cause and Interest in some among You in the Army and also in the Nation which I conceive will be granted by every discerning person who was upon the place and made observation of things and which the late General Cromwell and his then Officers do also acknowledge in the forementioned Speech to the Little Parliament Page 27. of that Book in the following words Sayes he After divers turnings of Affairs it pleased God much about the midst of the War to winnow the Forces of this Nation and to put them into the hands of men of other Principles then those that did engage at the first c. Those strange windings and turnings of Providence those very great appearances of God in crossing the designs of men to wit Hollis Stapleton and the men of that spirit among you and in the Army that he might raise up a contemptible company of men not verst in Military Affairs nor having much natural propencity to them through the owning a * If the General and Officers of the Army had kept close to the practice of this honest Principle those Officers he hath left behinde him and their pretended faithful brethren lately imprisoned in Scotland had not been served such a Monckish treacherous trick as now they are but they that deal treacherously with their Principles as also stand by and assist whilest their Brethren are imprisoned for their faithfulness thereunto it is just with the Lord to suffer or appoint others to deal treacherously with them Principle of Godlines which so soon as it came to be owned and the state of Affairs put upon that foot of Account how God blest them and all their undertakings by the raising up of that most improbable despicable contemptible means for that we must for ever own you very well known c. He goes on Page 27 28. The issues of those successes that God was pleased to give this Nation were very great things brought about besides the Dints that were upon those Nations and places where they were carried on even in the Civil Affairs to the bringing Offenders to Justice the state of this Government to the Name at least of a Commonwealth the searching and sifting of all Places and Persons the King removed and brought to Justice and many great ones with him The House of Commons the Representative of the People of England winnowed sifted and brought to a handful c. All which great things were instrumentally brought forth by the honest Party after the many strivings and contendings with a Malignant Rigid Presbyterian Neutral Corrupt Party among you as the then General and Officers also confess in Page 28. of that Book Sayes

he As the effect of that memorable Year 1648. was to lay the foundation of bringing Delinquents to punishment so it was of the Change of the Government although it be true if we had time to speak the carriages of some in Trust in most eminent Trust was such as would have frustrated to us the hopes of all our undertakings had not God miraculously prevented I mean by that closure that would have beèn endeavoured with the King whereby we should have put into his hand all that Cause and Interest we had opposed and had nothing to have secured us but a little piece of paper c. Which clearly confirms what I have said that the Lord blest us with success in our Councils and Forces as there was a sincere spirit acting for the Cause and Interest of Christ in that day and no otherwise his free grace onely excepted For when you were dissolved and the Little Parliament called there was a greater presence of God with them a terrour upon the enemy both at home and abroad especially upon the Lawyers National Clergy and all other corrupt Interests as also the hearts of most of the true friends to the Cause more rejoycing then in the time of your sitting But I let that pass and shall in the next place in some measure discover the mystery of iniquity that lay in the bottom and was working in Transactions after you were dissolved wherein lies the corrupt fountain or spring though unseen by most people from whence the late Apostacy had its rise which so caused the forementioned presence of the Lord to depart from our Councills and Forces and exposed us to the reproach and scorn of our enemies both at home and abroad and also occasioned the late distractions and divisions as between the true so the true and false professours amongst us and is as it were the pin and hinge on which all the confusion and dark apprehensions of things have had their dependance and moving from that time to this very day and is as follows For after you were dissolved and the Little Parliament were about to be chosen besides what was spoken to your selves and was desired of you by the General and Officers of the Army to wit That you would divolve your trust over to Persons of Honour and Integrity that were well known men well affected to Religion and the Interest of the Nation c. He also declared in the presence of Major Gen. Lambert Sir Gilbert Pickering Major Gen. Harrison Mr. Cradock Mr. Lockyer and others who were in a private consultation about that choice That if there were one man more faithful to the Saints and more suited to the work then another and that had not been left behinde in former dispensatious by the blessing of God he should be chosen and that Relations and all others not thus qualified should be rejected and that from this Scripture which was then mentioned by the party to whom these words were spoken to wit Hosea 11.12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies and the House of Israel with deceit but Judah yet ruleth with God and is faithful with the Saints The first part of which Scripture he and his Officers applied to you in the forementioned Speech to the Little Parliament page 38. of that Book viz. That like Ephraim and Israel you had compassed God about with lies and deceit to wit with your Fastings and Thanksgivings and other exercises yet did not do the good you were call'd for which they had all cause to lament of but the Little Parliament were called by God to be faithfull with the Saints who were somewhat instrumentall in their Call and to be just ruling in the fear of God c. Which principle was more publickly though hypocritically declared by them in that Speech page 41. of the forementioned Book sayes he to them I confess I did never look to see such a day as this it may be nor you when Jesus Christ shall be so * If Christ indeed be King of Nations as well as of Saints as surely he is and as the Officers of the Army have both here and elsewhere acknowledged him to be and the Little Parliament was called to act upon his foundation and to do all things in his Name upon an avowed account as their Judge King and Law-giver as these their words import And the Lord by his eminent presence with and refreshing the spirits of such as were faithful among them as also rejoycing the hearts of his faithful people and striking a terror upon the enemy whilest they were sitting and endeavoured to be acting according to that blessed spirit and principle gave testimony thereunto and the Spirit of the Lord and his faithful people grieved and his presence as also their prayers withdrawn and the Nation almost ruined since they were rejected and the Lord so wonderfully overturned and blasted the designs of whatever had enmity to and was set up after it and seems by those his overturning dispensations not to be pleased till those who have dealt thus treacherously return to the real practice of this their declared principle and to own that Spirit they have so rejected Then whosoever it is that shall be either laying or building upon any other foundation or be promoting any persons into power on this side of it though never so refined do set down short of what the Lord in that day had brought us unto and are in the apostacy still and must be overturned as well as your selves and all others that have gone before them own'd as he is this day and in this world Jesus Christ is owned this day by you all and you own him by your willingness in appearing here and you manifest this as far as poor creatures can to be a day of the power of Christ by your willingness I know you remember that Scripture Psal 110.3 The people shall be willing in the day of thy power God doth manifest it to be a day of the power of Jesus Christ Having through so much Blood and Trials as have been upon these Nations made this to be one of the great Issues thereof to have a People called to the Supreme Authority upon such an avowed account God hath owned his Son by this and you by your willingness do own Jesus Christ c. I confess I did never look to see such a sight as this We have not allowed our selves in the Choice of one person of whom we had not this good hope that there was faith in Jesus Christ and love to all the Saints and thus God hath owned you and by your comming together have you owned him c. And towards the latter end of that Speech Book page 43. he further saith unto them Truly seeing things are so that you are at the edge of the Promises and Prophesies at least if there were neither promise for this nor prophesie you are to be coveting after the best things endeavouring after the best things and

as I have said elsewhere If I were to chuse the meanest Officer in the Army or Commonwealth I would chuse a godly man that hath Principles especially where Trust is to be committed for I know where to have a man of Principles I believe if any of you should chuse a servant you would do so and I would all our Magistrates were so chosen that may be some effects of this it is our duty to chuse men that fear the Lord to praise the Lord yea such as the Lord forms for himself and he expects not praises from others c. In all which are good words spoken and principles laid down as if he and his Officers fully intended to persevere in the practice of them but may not the true Friends of the Cause to the great grief and sadness of their spirits say of them as the Lord concerning Israel of old Deut. 5.28 29. They have well said all that they have spoken but oh that their hearts and tougues had gone together that there had been indeed such a heart in them as in sincerity to have kept to the real practice of those blessed principles then had it been well with them and with the poor Nation upon that account But notwithstanding these golden words and pretences the Lord my self and others knows that there was at the same time yea some time before these words were spoken as in the seed of the serpent against the seed of the woman or in the spirit of Saul and his followers against the spirit of David and his followers so a spirit of enmity and hatred secretly lodging in the breasts of the then General Major Gen. Lambert Major Gen. Disbrow Sir Gilbert Pickering Coll. Whaly Coll. Goff Dean Owen so called and others against several of those honest men who were afterwards turned out of the Little Parliament who were faithful Friends to the Cause of God and indeed above others and that upon Scripture grounds for the Advancement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and most suited to those good things which the General and Officers in the foregoing Speech do seem so much to press after whose principles they seemingly most owned and whose assistance they greatly desired pretending to be of one heart with them in the dissolving of you and choice of the other yet for no other cause then their pressing to be acting up to these principles in reality and power was this enmity against them which will afterwards appear so plainly as he that runs may read it For notwithstanding the forementioned pretences and promises of chusing none but what were faithful with the Saints and most suited to the work yet was there such persons who were of a contrary spirit and principle purposely chosen and packt together viz. Coll. Montague Coll. Barton Coll. Mathews Sir William Roberts Alderman Tichborn and others and those the greater number as that when the forementioned good things came to be done and the remaining more refined oppressions which lay upon the good people and others to be taken away they did so oppose and hinder the honest party in the House that very little or nothing at all could be done for them the General Ma. Gen. Lambert and the forementioned persons secretly owning of and holding a Correspondency with this corrupt Party all the while which was such unheard of juggling deceit and wickedness that when I most seriously and thorowly set my self to consider of it I cannot but cry out with a holy detestation and abhorrency in my spirit both of it and them and say Oh! the Hypocrisie Treachery Villany Wickedness and abominable unrighteousness that lies hid in the bottom of the late and present Apostacy and that surely the Lord who loveth righteousness and hates iniquity and every false way will not let so great and not to be parallel'd wickedness pass unpunisht without some more eminent publick repentance for the same then hath yet been * If this wretched envious spirit did not yet remain would they since your second Dissolution have been so forward to take into their New Council Lawrence Strickland Tichborn Hewson Clark and others of that corrupt part of the Litttle Parliament who left the House and went to deliver up their pretended power to the General upon which he was made Protector and promoted and abetted the late Apostacy and do what they can as it were to stave and keep off the faithful Friends of the Cause who are well known to be men of integrity and well affected to the Interest of the Nation which your not endeavouring to divolve the Trust in your hands upon was one of the great grounds why they pretendedly dissolved you The Lord who wil not be mocked nor his faithful people whom both you and they have cheated and dealt unrighteously and hypocritically with all will not long bear such wicked actions at their hands manifested by them and it will be well for them if the aforesaid enmity to the true spirit of their forementioned profest and declared principles and to these very persons and others like them who through grace in some measure are endued therewith doth not yet remain untaken away for herein in a great measure will lye the contest for the future for either this hypocritical self-seeking treacherous envious spirit in the remaining Officers of the Army that have now power in their hands must be put away and they really united to what they have so greatly profest and declared and what they have so pretended to dissolve you for nor doing of which they have not been to this very day or else there will be no peace from the Lord and his faithful people with them and all their shrowding themselves under your wasting decaying wing had you been sitting or under a power that is more refined then you if short of the spirit they have so rejected and as it were crucified and endeavoured to keep down in the grave as the Souldiers did Christ in the dayes of his Humiliation can save them from the wrath of God and the Lamb and his faithful followers I shall now return to speak a little further how and for what cause it was that the forementioned presence of the Lord departed from and went not forth to own and prosper the Councells and Forces of this Nation as before As I said before when you were dissolved and the Little Parliament called upon the avowed account of the Son of God and to be acting upon his foundation as he is King of Nations and to do all things in his Name as their and our King Judge and Law-giver Isa 33.22 as you may see by the forementioned Speech they were called to do and the persons of the aforesaid honest spirit and principle who for some time till the fish was caught and the bird taken were seemingly owned were labouring as it were in the very fire to bring forth in reallity what the General and his Officers so pretended to in words and to own

and preserve the honest Interest and taking away all the remaining * Among other Acts and Votes that past whilst this honest Party fat they prevailed for the passing of these four hereafter mentioned First for abolishing and taking away the Court of Chancery wherein was depending 23000. Causes some of them having lain there five some ten some twenty some thirty years and more to the utter undoing of many Families The second Vote for a New Body or Moddel of the Law then and now so greatly desired by good people which your not doing of was one other reason of your Dissolution A third Vote the taking away the Power of Patrons to make Presentations to Church Livings The fourth was that Innocent Negative Vote of not agreeing with the report of the Committee for Tythes touching what they offered as the best way to eject ignorant prophane and scandalous Ministers upon which presently followed the Dissolution of the House See a Book written by L. D. otherwise Mr Barhone then a member of that House sold at the Crown in Popes head Alley and worthy your taking notice of oppressions lying upon the bodies and Consciences both of them and others not onely the same but a greater presence and glory was with and upon our Councils and Forces our terrour upon the Enemy both at home and abroad and the hearts of most of the true Friends to the Cause of Christ and the Commonwealth more rejoycing then in the time of your first sitting yea the very Nations were angry and began to be wondering and looking after the things that were coming upon them as they shall more eminently be and do when the Spirit of Life from God shall enter into the Lords faithful people to revive that spirit which in these persons was afterwards as it were trampled upon cast out and crucified according to Rev. 11.11 18. So also the Lawyers Clergy and all other corrupt Interests to wit the Adonijah false spirit of Magistracy and Ministry in these Nations were almost at their wits end for fear their Corruption Bribery Dilatory proceedings in Law suits Double Fees Taking Fees from both parties c. A Coercive power over their Brethren Consciences Tythes of all kinds Power of haling their Parishioners before Magistrates Casting them into Prisons Seizing upon their Goods and Forcing them to pay treble Dammages for non-payment of Tythes and great Riches they gain'd upon this account would cease and be utterly taken away and were ready to faint and cry out as the more wicked Children of their dear Lady Mother Mystery Babylon the great Whore and mother of Harlots and abominations of the earth both in the Magistracy and Ministry thereof shall certainly and more eminently do in the latter dayes according to Revel 18. And seeing no other way to help themselves By their Emissaries and Agents such as Whitlock * And it may too truly be suspected that the same dark lanthorn spirit and most of the same persons are now at work with some of the Grandees of the Army as in the time of your first Dissolution labouring as for life to keep such faithful men from coming into power as will suffer no custom or practice though never so specious in the outward pretence that is Oppressive and without warrant in Scripture to lie upon the Bodies or Consciences of the Lords people Which forementioned persons and others of that spirit have been and are the great Incendiaries as was formerly Strafford Cottington Canterbury Wren and others in their day and I am very much out of the way if they leave not off but persist in this wicked underhand opposing the work of the Lord that the wrath and judgement of God and his people will break forth against them as against the former St. Johns Lisle As also Philip Nye afterwards Metropolitane Tryer at White Hall Deane Owen Doctor Tho. Goodwin so called and others they repair to the then General and some of his Officers and to a Corrupt party in that Little Parliament pack'd beforehand for such a purpose crying out as it were for help which General c. were as willing to receive and hearken to them as they to come for that the aforesaid honest Party in the House did also strike at their self-seeking and corrupt Interests and were labouring to bring the great Officers to serve the State which was so impoverished a Year without pay as also would render them very cheap and have their persons no further in admiration then as they honoured the Lord and their sincerity to the Cause and Interest of Christ appeared Wherefore the forementioned corrupt persons being so well agreed their Case also being alike desperate and knowing right well they could expect no better at their hands being thus greatly afraid as they are to this day according to Isa 41.6 7. They helped every one his neighbor and each corrupt Interest said to his Brother Be of good courage So the corrupt Lawyer encouraged the Clergy-man the Clergy-man the eminent Vniversity man the eminent University man the corrupt self-seeking General and his Officers the General and his Officers with the former the corrupt Party in that Little Parliament who upon a first day Heathen-like called Sunday on which they usually pretend to worship God and compass him about with lies an evill they so complained of in you they held Cabals at Whitchall and the Cockpit to consult the Dissolution of the Little Parliament which being fully agreed and concluded upon the Plot was so laid between them that Sydenham Montague Pickering Strickland Lawrence Clark and others of the corrupt Party must get together betimes the next morning into the House two hours sooner then usually without the honest Parties knowledge and before they could get together and move a resigning or translating their pretended Power to the General that so his after Power and Government might appear with the greater face of Legality and be accepted of by the good people but as early as it was this their wicked Motion met with opposition from the friends of the Cause of Christ who came in unexpectedly upon them insomuch that the Corrupt Party durst not hazard to put the forementioned Motion to the Vote but without either Vote or Adjournment to any other place or time they with their Speaker in all haste go away to White-Hall to deliver up their pretended Power to the General leaving a considerable number of the honest Party behinde them in the House who in a little time after were by that Tyrant and Traytor both to God and Man Coll. Goff and Lieu. Collonel White since drowned coming from Mardike and Musqueteers they brought who are alwayes ready for any villany they are put upon turn'd out of the House thereby thinking and endeavouring so to fasten the Image of their corrupt Interests and therewith all the remaining oppressions lying both upon the Bodies and Consciences of the Lords People with nails that it should not be moved and