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The voice of King Charls the father to Charls the son, and the bride say come being an invitation of King Charls to come in peaceably and be reconciled to his father's minde and shewing the integrity of His Highness Oliver Cromwel ... / by Arise Evans.
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Evans, Arise, b. 1607.
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1 Esdr. 5. 37. surely this Prophesie is for us for they were hindred for a longer time And this sheweth you That since the Foundation was laid in 1653. you shall be perfectly delivered afore 1655. be expired and King Charles will be on the Throne by then provided That you unfaignedly turn to the Lord by fasting praying and reforming your wayes according to Gods Commandments and specially in not profaning but keeping holy and sanctifying the Sabbath day for therein lieth the promise of glory Isa. 58. 13 14. here and for ever Isa. 56. Now you will ask me How was the Foundation laid and wherein had the King's party any freedom in 1653. or in what manner doth it resemble Cyrus his decree for the Jews First I answer That in 1653. by all accounts the Foundation was laid for whereas before the power was in the State Parliament or People or where we knew not now it is in one single person again so that the Foundation of Monarchy which was destroyed is laid again in the Protector I hope for King Charles Secondly In 1653. the Ingagement was so taken off that the King's party that took it not now have the benefit of the Law from the which benefit by the Ingagement they were utterly excluded so that if one that had taken the Ingagement had robbed and killed one that had not taken it it had not been a Crime in those times for we have right to nothing but by she Law Thus you see what God hath done for you to fulfil my Propoesies in 1653. you must not despise the day of small things Zach. 4. 10. There came unto me a Gentleman a great Historian about two yeers agone who did affirm that Cromwel was Cyrus and that he would restore both our Liberty Church and King to us again This Gentleman was a West Country-man who had Commanded in the late King's Army and had suffered much I could wish all the King's Party were of his temper and minde Truely I believe That Cromwel is not onely Cyrus but will also prove Zerubbabel that did not onely lay the Foundation but will also finish the work of God and bring forth the head-stone thereof with shoutings I mean King Charles crying Grace grace unto him Zach. 4. 6 7 8 9 10. And not onely so but that Cromwel will be Darius that shall curse and bring a curse upon all whether they be Kings or whatsoever they be that hinder the work of God in establishing the King again and the true worship of God Ezra 6. 11 12. Therefore be not like the Jews that said Can there come any good thing out of Nazareth John 1. 46. for you see Jesus the most blessed came from thence John 19. 19. Wherefore let not the Independent think but that much good may come to them from the King Charles Steward and let not the Kings Party think but that great good may come to them from Oliver Cromwel now Protector who will restore the King and hath done as you see something already in order to it and more I could shew you Therefore I say to you again of Oliver Cromwel as the Prophet said Zach. 4. 9 10. to the Jews of Zerubbabel He hath laid the foundation of the work for the King's restoration he shall also finish it do not despise the day of small things that is do not despise what he did in 1653. when he turned the State into a Monarchy and freed you from the Ingagement that is somthing though it be but small in your eyes Oh that you had abated in your sins so much as that doth add to your deliverance You know the people of God fasted and prayed oft when they were in distress and that not onely privately but also publikely And you see the Independents and Sectaries do so though they be not yet the people of God and why do not you so seek the Lord that he may be merciful to you I am ashamed of you what can I say to God or Man for you when you neglect these things Once not long since as I was at Mr. Peters's Chamber on a Sabbath-day in the evening after Sermon he was disputing Cases of Conscience when all was done and the people gone except some few Gentlemen that staid to talk with him He asked me How I liked such meetings I said I liked it well if it had been done in and for the Church of God He said If you do not count us the Church why do not the Cavaliers use such holy meetings among themselves we should be glad to see them do so Said I The reason is because you will not suffer them to do it for fear they should plot against you as you formerly plotted in such meetings against them Said he we never hindred them to meet in this manner I answered That you did to my knowledge for not long since at a house in Coven-Garden there was a company of devout Cavaliers met to serve the Lord and you sent a company of Souldiers upon them for no other cause which took many of them prisoners to St. Jamses Then Mr. Peters remembring it had not a word more to say to that But he might have answered That was in the long Parliaments time the Lord Protector since he came in power did allow of no such thing for now you have the Church-door open you need not go into houses you may fast you may pray you may preach provided it be for peace and I am sure his Highness will rejoyce to see it yet if you fast for strife and debate as the Presbyterians did all for blood giving thanks when they kill'd many and fast to the end that they might kill oppress the more as the Prophet sets them out in their colours Isa. 58. 1 2 3 4 5. if you cause your voice to be heard on high and fast as they did then God and man will not allow your deeds but if you fast innocently being without malice and pray the Almighty God to send Truth and Peace to all Nations Zach. 8. 19. and specially to give a good understanding between the King and Protector and their Councels that they may make peace and confidently believe one the other and keep faith and a good conscience toward God and with one another for the time to come then will God grant your desire and no man can hurt you for so doing And the main cause why you are not delivered is because you have not a good opinion of Oliver Cromwel the man under God that is appointed to effect it by restoring your King and Church again If you look upon me as one sent of God you should hearken to me and obey my voice and and not tax me for things not coming to pass for your good when you would not believe and obey me for so the good people obeyed the Prophets of old and prevailed 2 Chro. 15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. 2 Chron. 20. 14 15 16 17 18.
you had come in to them that rose the work had soon been done and if you bring in a forraign Nation it is like all will rise yea many of your Friends will rise against you for the terror of CROMWEL and his Army is upon the people here and abroad also because they see him prevail and that every work devised against him comes to nought but if your Majesty slight this motion it is propable in a short time that his Highness may obtain these three Kingdoms and have them put upon him for his own inheritance and then the best Prince in Europe will think himself happy to have his Daughter to Wife For my own part there is none can do for you more then I have done for I have maintained your Cause in the highest manner before your reputed greatest enemies and have propounded this way of union between your Majesty his Highness to them and it was well resented by all insomuch that his Highness himself came to speak with me and used me very favourably and I set them a time that the union should be afore Midsummer I pray God it be not too long afore these writings come to your Royal Hands But some of them said They feared your Majesty would not consent to so good a motion for all sides and the Kingdoms happiness And once as I was propounding these things the Ladies and Daughters of his Highness being present I was demanded whether I had any commission from your Majesty to do such things I told them No but said I had Visions and a commission from God to propound such things and that I believed your Majesty would allow of what I did and consent to so reasonable an agreement which if you do that high dignity which God by me said should be yours shall undoubtedly rest upon you but however it is necessary for your Majesty to offer freely from your heart to all a general pardon and remission and if that be refused God that knoweth the integrity and secrets of your heart will raise you Friends unexpected so that you shall prevail and it must be so because justice is but the hand-maid of mercy and she may not go before her mistress but if her mistress be affronted she immediately followeth to avenge her and then the mistress rejoyceth at it James 2. 13. There is a party that are bloody men of no Religion who would have you come in by the Sword not for any good they wish you but thinking thereby to encrease their sins for now they look upon themselves as in bondage first because their means is taken from them so that they cannot commit such sins as they would do if they had plenty of money Secondly because they are restrained from their courses of sins by these men now in power more then they were formerly and kept out of power being looked upon as abominable creatures which have not the fear of God in them and they care not much who is on the Throne so that sin and open profaness may be in esteem and favour again and they to have their means and power again to be its favourites Against such a sort of men many took up arms against such the Army now stands and such bloody irreligious men will never consent to have you pardon all them now in power and come to such an agreement as abovesaid for if you do agree their hope is frustated so that then sin shall domineer no more in this Kingdome I pray God change their hearts and let them see that God will never suffer such mindes to prevail here again I know there is many eyes looking upon your Royal Fathers last Speech to your Majesty expecting dayly when will your general pardon come out to all according to it which specially is expected by these to whom it chiefly belongs who also have power to establish you in your Fathers Throne and judicious men may think hard of your deserring to obey the Christian command of so good a Father which might prove so much advantageous to his glory and your own glory and prosperity here and hereafter in Heaven Be not perswaded by any contrary to your Father's last Speech unto you for you have none so wise nor none so faithful to you as he was and therefore trust not to their wisdom nor their fidelity in this thing and if you have them about your Majesty that hindreth to send a general pardon put them away from your presence It is the wisdom of a Master to turn away all his Servants if they are grown evil ones lest they consume his estate and take other Servants and to be sure to keep them in better order The Court of England as most Courts are was grown very corrupt when Vice was more in esteem then Virtue and he that wilfully brake God's Commandments had in honour while he that strove to keep them was despised so that men took sin for a pleasure deceit for wisdom and folly for foelicity and as the richest meat or best fruit is most jubject to putrifaction and therefore ought to be well seasoned and preserved else it will turn to noysome worms so it is in the King's Court by reason of the fatness that attends it that except there be a straight rule of sobriety and the love and fear of God be fixed in the Courtiers hearts that they may endeavour to walke in all the Commandments of God without reproof they shall surely become unsavory in the nostrils of God and he will raise of the vulgar sort of men them that shall cast the Courtiers out and trample upon them as upon dirt for who will take water from a corrupt fountain The Court is the eye of the Kingdom and If the eye be evil the whole body will be full of darkness Mat 6. 22 23. and if the darkness be so great what can follow it but confusion and destruction We are not strangers to these things for that we have seen these consequences too much verified in our dayes and yet there is many among us stands to vindicate themselves and will not believe their own eyes nor acknowledge the just judgements of God upon them for their sins But I beseech your Royal Majesty to lay these things to heart and to acknowledge by confessing it before the Lord that a great many of sins were harbored in the Court under your Grand-Father and your Father also and there were four capital Causes which broke out into judgements The first was in the Case of Essex and Overbury when Essex's Lady was too much favoured for though there might be just cause for her to put away Essex yet she should have suffered as an adulteress when she married Carre Mark 10. 12. so that we see that for that injustice and disobedience to the word of Christ Essex having this grudge still in his minde at last is made the chief Instrument to destroy your Father's Court when no man else could do it The