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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88960	A letter to His Excellency the Lord General Monk containing the instrumental causes of the ruine of governments and Common-wealths, with as advertisement of our present danger by a forrein invasion.	Maudit, John.; Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing M1329; Thomason E1016_12; ESTC R208273	4,433	7

A LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE Lord General MONK CONTAINING The instrumental Causes of the ruine of Governments and Common-wealths with an Advertisement of our present danger by a forrein Invasion May it please your Exccellency THE true affection and high Honour I have for you amongst other your Countrey men that desire your chiefest good and rejoyce with you in the late happy success God hath magnified you with before his people gives me this confidence for a humble address in those papers which were printed last year January 1658. they being a few sudden Notes drawn up at that time upon conference with some London Divines to give timely warning of the great Displeasure of God that hang over our heads and had our friends then in place and power considered of them and advised with godly faithfull Ministers what to do in a case of this importance ruine had not come upon them so inevitably and suddenly For your Excellency knows well what great alternations of Government and turning of things upside down have been within the space of this last year in the land very terrible in our eyes These papers will acquaint your Excellency what great danger the Church of God this State is in at this time which every days experience more and more confirms the truth of and since the impression of these papers Dr. Reynolds hath lately put sorth a Sermon of his upon the same Subject of Church-Desertion whose Judgement in the case is much to be reverenced I do humbly beg your Christian perusal of them and if God shall make your Excellency instrumental to so high and noble a work as the advancement of the Gospel true Religion and the pure Worship of God is which is so basely opprest in our dayes you will be very happy for God will surely honout those that honour him and you and this people shall find that nothing doth promote the Peace Plenty Security and flourishing estate of the Land then Zeal and Forwardness to hasten the work of Gods house which he calls for So sayes God by his Prophet Haggai when he called the people to the building of the Temple In this place will I give Peace Hag. 2.9 saith the Lord of Hosts that is upon this work of building my house and setting up my pure worship you shall find I will give you peac and establishment and not otherwise I will add a little to what I have said upon the case with your Honours good leave to evince the great hazard we are in if it be not instantly prevented Common-wealths and Nations are brought to ruine by two sorts of causes some intrinsecal some extrinsecal As all the works of nature are ruined in like sort either by causes that are within them or that are without them So we see a house falls either by the rottenness of the plates and timber-work that decay within or by high windes or fire that assault it from without In like manner it is with States and Governments in this world they come to ruine by means of distempers in their own bowels or by the force of forrein Invaders We have wofull experience of the one God grant we find not at length the mischief of the other Internal active causes of the ruine of Governments are 1. Sedition amongst the great ones striving for mastery or conspiring against those that have the Rule A second is Tumults of the discontented multitude grieved with the burthen of heavy Taxes loss of Trade and cruell Oppressions A third is a phanatick spirit or ignorant impetuous zeal in factions of Religion which hath in many ages proved pernicious to Church and Common-wealth A fourth is Civil Wars as saith the Lord by the Prophet Haggai I will shake the heavens and the earth Hag. 2.22 and I will overthrow the Throne of Kingdomes and I will destroy the strength of the Kingdomes of the heathen and I will overthrow the Chariots and those that ride in them and the horses and their Riders shall come down every one by the sword of his brother And again the Prophet Isaiah Through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts is the land darkened and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire no man shall spare his brother Isa 9.19 20 21 And he shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry and he shall eat on the left hand and they shall not be satisfied they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm Manasseh Ephraim and Ephraim Mansseh and they together shall be againsh Judah for all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still By these cruel Tallons God in Judgement pulls down Governors and people when both are wicked corrupt and rebellious against God provoking him to do Justice upon them to their confusion My Lord you have seen with your eyes in these few late years of ours how busie these Instuments have been in this Nation to bring it to a general ruine God hath called you forth now at a time when the last scene is abroad the last blowes of divine vengeance are ready to batter all in peeces though the generality dream not of their danger for it is Gods usual course upon the impenitency of a Nation to go from one heavy Judgement to another till he hath utterly destroyed all by giving up his people into captivity and bringing upon them Forrein Nations to devour them and this is the other extrinsecal cause of the ruine of Nations When forrein Nations are through Gods just Judgement called in upon them then comes utter ruine Now whether our danger after all our former Calamities be such let your Excellency draw up the conjecture from these Prognosticks First When God greatens our adversaries and makes them more potent then afore For when our enemies have malice enough and power enough to do us mischief then have we cause to fear them for God hath strengthned them against us as he strengthned the Assyrian against Israel Isa 10.56 And now hath not Rome made her self stronge enough to the work by the association of those two Crowns of France and Spain and combination of all popish Princes What think we is the secret drift of that Conclave and bloody-slaughter-house as we have found it but to use the Armies of those Princes to overturn the reformed Churches especially this of England there was a time when they had will to hurt us but no power in the Armado and Powder-plot but now alas they have too much both Will and Power as the letters of Forrein Agents forewarn us A second ground of conjecture is from our implacable domestick Contests which have continued now these 20. years and it hath been the usual conclusion of the wisest States-men That when a people are wearied with home-bred long Contests then a Forreiner may break in with good success and carry all as Malvezzi observes well of Greece that when it was wearied with civil dissentions then Forreiners