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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77067	The labyrinth the kingdom's in: with a golden threed to bring it forth into light, liberty, and peace agen. Being a brief but impartial history of the good and evil of the former, later, and present power of the nation, as it relates to God and the people. The result is a plea for the restauration of all in Christ (the kingdoms rest,) who is expected to appear more in the present, then in any former power of the nation. / By R. Bacon, a lover of mankinde.	Bacon, Robert, M.A.	1649 (1649)	Wing B369; Thomason E541_26; ESTC R204342	33,585	52

his side who thought but perhaps to attaine onely to the forbidden tree by them i. e. to satisfie their own lusts which yet I will not altogether affirme but this I do openly professe and declare that this overture with the King was the most hopefull promising innocent candid and Christian that ever was made since these troubles began and the most like to bring forth the wished for peace truth and righteousnesse to and for the rest of all the inhabitants of the Nation without respect of persons into which unlesse the door stand equally open unto all it is like nay it will certainly be shut against all it being the nature of all good men and governments to give downe like the Sun in the firmament light warmth as well to the benefit and refreshing of the unjust and unrighteous though not for their encouragement as such but for their conviction as the just and righteous according to the patterne given us in the Mount which is Christ himselfe to whom the Publicans and Harlots which were outwardly unclean as that party of people are which we in our selfe justifying language have and do call Malignants had as easie and open accesse as the Scribes and Pharises which were only outwardly holy and cleane but within were full of rottennesse and filth as the most of those are on the other side amongst us that boast of their Saintship and reformation This sun of righteousnesse mercy and peace was dawning in that day I say an appearing of righteousnesse and peace of Justice and mercy for the one without the other is not in God or Christ or good men and therefore where they are divided as for the most part they are brought forth among men they are not in truth but in pretence § 2. And therefore I do utterly dislike the late unreasonable Jewish Heathenish unchristian outcry or clamour for justice to be done upon the person of the King and those of his party and no mention made of mercy love grace goodnesse reconciliation nor reaching forth the arms and turning of the bowels of compassion towards him and them it being certain the former is not of God without the later yea the former without the later doth but irritate provoke and stir up anger wrath war and tumults to the confusion of the Nation And therefore I affirm again That that overture with the King as it was more Christian so it was infinitely more probable to bring in truth and peace then is the present course taken though by the same party and persons SECT 3. But an eclipse came suddenly upon this Sun that it set even at noon-day upon the whole kingdom and all the Heads of it King Parliament Army English and Scots The common Mother of the good and peace of all being forcibly made to withhold her brests her Son the man-childe of all our hope being taken up to God and to his throne ruling yet among men though in a hidden and secret way the woman her self those weak and feeble people being fain to fly into the wildernesse to hide her self not appearing scarce with any comelinesse or beauty at all among men she hath a place prepared of God where shee is nourished for a time times and half a time from the face of the Serpent that is as Paraeus on the Revelation observeth well a time seeming lon but proving short SECT 4. And now Behold the Divel is come down again amongst men having great wrath reigning raging working confounding darkning the Councels of King Lords Commons Bishops Presbyters Independents Anabaptists Levellers and all In all whose counsels and projects appeared manifest weaknesse errour ignorance yea open wickednesse and Apostacy in some The retiring himself for rest and recovery out of his lost estate into his old principles and compliances with his Bishops and now again beginning to be revived party who are prepared every one in secret to engage again and to revive their old and almost crucified Cause which immediately after broke forth into a more fierce and cruel War almost in all parts That which nourished and gave life again to this dying Cause was apparantly and to the view of all the treble Apostacy of the Army it self England's glory that I say not England's pride And I pray God that spirit that is too potent in them which was both the life and ruine of both King and Parliament prove not in conclusion both their own and the kingdoms ruine 1. This Armie this so Saint-like Army fell first from making good those honest Proposals they had made in the behalf of the King which gave too much cause to the King and his party to desist from their expectation of salvation and hope from them which they had too before-hand given them just cause to look for from them 2. They fell from any further concurrence with the honest Agitators which now they begin violently to oppose that I say not exasperate yea pursue and persecute witnesse the strife at Putney the unrighteous and untrue suggestion that was made of them to the King as though they intended to lay hands on him in secret or indeed at all which opposition grew to that height and heat that either side appeared in a way of open war against the other folly in the one begetting phrensie and fury in the other so that the Heads of the Army imprisoned their own persons and errours in the persons and errours of others so that they themselves were not free till they had repented and set the other as free as themselves This awakened the Spirit of God in Sedgwick Saltmarsh Pinnell Ingrave like the Angel of God that met Balaam riding beyond his Commission openly and professedly to oppose and stand in their way so that even as the dumb Asse reproved the madnesse of the Prophet so at the light of God appearing in these men the very naturall strength and sinews of the Army stood sensless as a brute amazed animal not able to go either backward or forward either back to a complyance with the honest principles of the Agitators or forward in their acquiescing in the Parliaments Votes and Counsels Which leads 3 to a discovery of the third degree of their deparure from their faith hope and first good purpose to wit their hiding and burying that good principle of seeking without partiality the good and freedom of all like the earth our common parent especially the new Earth Jerusalem which is above the true parent of all the Children that are truly and eternally free in the freedom of God and Christ himself I say in stead of this they bury this good and usefull talent or rather bottle it up in one sort of Vessels whence arose that great strife at Windsor about Ordinances having this only for the most part like the Jewes to distinguish themselves from the Gentiles and for this cause manifestly opposing that I say not brow-beating and persecuting those that professed to live in no other Ordinance but that

and despised people the Gentiles which make no such profession shall be before-hand with them in the knowledge of God and Christ in spirit power and truth To which I say and pray Deus faxit This thing O God bring to passe CHAP. IX Of the glory of the Parliament at their first assembling together with the cause of their ruine viz. their dividing themselves into a threefold Schism Royalists Presbyters Independent with the hurtfull principles and practices of each Sect. 1 THe second is the state and condition of the old and now decayed and worn out Parliament together with the state of all them that shrouded themselves under the shadow of this great and tall but now fallen Cedar This people had their day .i. their morning noon and evening-tide Whiles 't was yet morning or young dayes with them they began according to the Country Proverb as a new broom to sweep all clean and therefore made themselves after the similitude of Christ the true pattern of all good and wholsome undertakements a new threshing inst●ument having teeth that with it they might thresh the mountains of Pride Superstition Oppression they made them a scourge of small cords and minded indeed to cleanse the Temple and to cast out the buyers and sellers of doves those more innocent and harmlesse ones in the Land of whom these money-changers made merchandize as 't is said They shall make Merchandize of you For they did as Christ * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cast out the gain gotten by doves In one word their going forth was like the morning Sun rejoycing as a Giant newly awoke out of sleep and silence in the Land to run his course of light and truth so that by them as by the Womans seed Christ born in spirit and power among them the Serpents head that is to say the wit power policy enmity that prevailed in the aforegoing Hierarchy Monarchy for the last was above the first was wonderfully discovered bruised spoiled and disappointed Sect. 2 And therefore this Serpent after a while betook himself to another course sought after another and more secure place to save and hide his head so that whiles these husbandmen sl●pt though before-hand the Lord of the harvest had sowed good seed among them the enemy came in by night the night of their ignorance and sowed tares that this garden of God that at first seemed an earthly Paradise was full fraught with weeds I mean pride ignorance of God self-seeking faction not going oc together in bearing the burthen of the Kingdom as at first with one shoulder but as untamed heifers according to the Scripture phrase unaccustomed to the yoak of Christ that is to say his presence and government in truth peace mercy justice his seat and throne they all hung back or drew contrary ways one to another so that while every party and faction minded their own particular safety honour greatnesse the whole Kingdom was neglected and that stool of rest intended and expected by them and from them being removed out of the way by their own party-making the whole wearied body of the Kingdom did begin again to fall quite to the ground This was the forbidden fruit that the whole Parliament in their severall parties were overtaken with for if the Paradise of God were not secure but that the Serpent got in there to deceive the woman no marvel he had admission here where there was so much of the woman weakness and inability to overcome temptation and discern the hour of it that they all sought their own things and few or none the things of Jesus Christ. which might make for the rest and profit of the whole Sect. 2 And to that end having severall forms and patterns in their mindes of ways and methods to make a bed of rest to the Nation they all proved too narrow or too short so that there was not room in 't for all for that which would first serve the turn of the Royall party was too noysome and offensive as a defiled and polluted bed a bed of whoredom and lust and therefore these were as a smoke to the nose of the pre-ingaged or fore-resolved men of the Presbyterian or Scotish way who proclaim with open mouth the jus Divinum of their own new invention and therefore preach and print and hold out to the world at at home and abroad as though Christ had said to them and that order of men what he did and alwayes doth to his true and onely Spouse which is alwayes hid with him in the wildernesse and not at all exposed to common view for as Christ so is the Church as in union with him or as his Spouse hid to the world Behold thou art fair my Love behold thou art fair yea our bed say they is green and the onely flourishing fruitfull hopefull woman or Church in the world Yet this also takes after her sister and justifies them that had gone before in all their abominations and all her children prove the sons of the Sorceresse and the whore neither had any of them a heart to plead in the behalf of God and Christ against their Mother making it appear she was not his Wife Sect. 4 This Woman or prevailing party in Parliament and Kingdom usurps all power and takes all authority into their own hand and boasts she is Lady and Queen of Great Britain at least therefore makes use of it to the establishing of her self and depressing of all others that would not or could not sing her song drink of her cup or dance after her pipe and therefore makes a decree that none should either buy or sell that receive not her mark in their hand or forehead But whiles she is thus drunk but not with wine and thinks she is and none besides her even in that very hour it is said to her as to her mother before out of whose womb she sprang Babylon the great How much she hath glorified her self and lived deliciously so much torment and sorrow give her Therefore her plagues come in one day while it was yet noon-tide with this new invented Idol death mourning and famine of all that power wisdom policy and great riches that did sustain her and she shall as her elder sister Sodom and Samariah the Popish and Episcopal Church be utterly burnt with fire for strong is the Lord God in the Church that hath undertaken to judge her Sect 5 And now behold all her Princes and those that reigned as Kings by means of her yea all the Merchants of this seeming new but indeed the first earth that was to passe away that had enriched themselves by her sorceries and whoredoms that were as so many bawds and Panders to this Adulterous woman are now standing afar off weeping and making great lamentation forasmuch as no man buyeth of their merchandise any more for behold her smoke goeth up for ever and ever Thus now the pit these dug for other they are faln into themselves so