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A65583	A second narrative of the late Parliament (so called) wherein, after a brief reciting some remarkable passages in the former narrative, is given an account of their second meeting, and things transacted by them : as also how the Protector (so called) came swearing, by the living God, and dissolved them, after two or three weeks sitting : with some quæries sadly proposed thereupon : together with an account of three and forty of their names, who were taken out of the house, and others that sate in the other house, intended for a House of Lords, but being so unexpectedly disappointed, could not take root, with a brief character and description of them : all humbly presented to publique view / by a friend to the good old cause of justice, righteousnesse, the freedom and liberties of the people, which hath cost so much bloud and treasury to be carried on in the late wars, and are not yet settled.	Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.	1658 (1658)	Wing W1556; ESTC R8011	50,589	52

for the future we are likely to have such prosperity success and good days as some so largely promise themselves and others it may be expected Or whether such smiling upon old wickedness and frowning and turning the back upon Righteousness suppressing its growth be any comfortable ground of such hope and expectation Or whether upon the whole Series of things as they now appear there be not rather to be expected some sadder matter if the LORD in mercy prevent not Let the wise in heart consider THE END Reader if thy patience be not quite worne out read the following Postscript which makes mention of the late flattering Adresses c. it may concern you As also a Vindication of that faithful Friend to the Cause of God and his people Mr. John Portmans late Secretary to the Fleet under General Blake now Prisoner for Truth in the Tower whom that lying Court-Pamphleter Nedham hath falsly aspersed and reproached in the late Diurnals A Post-Script to the Reader THe foregoing Narrative was composing and preparing to have come forth like apples of gold in pictures of silver in the fittest season during the life time of Oliver the late Protector so called and calculated for that end among other that as in a Glass he might clearly see his Mutability and Changeableness in his principles as also his Judas-like Treachery and Deceit and how wickedly he had dealt with the Lord his people and the Nation and the righteous cause on foot therein but the Lord having in answer to the earnest desires and prayers of some of his faithful remnant and in great mercy to the Nation and the good people therein and the righteous cause removed and taken him out of the way it was thought fit however to publish it for the sake of his associates and confederates he hath left behind him who may happily make some use of it as also that the standers by yea the whole Nation might likewise see and judge of what hath lately fallen out in this our day It is said of Jeroboam the son of Nebat That he not onely sinned himself but made Israel to sin and there were those of his confederates that then sinned with him and after he was dead and gone of whom it is recorded 1 Kin 15. 34 compared with 2 Kin. 17. 21 22. That they walked in the ways and departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin The parallel hereof we have in England in this our day Oliver the late Protector so called who Jeroboam like so greatly appeared with the people for Justice and Freedom against Oppression highly professing and declaring for the same hath sinned in the breach of those Protestations and Declarations in building again those things he had been so greatly instrumental to destroy therein surpassing not onely the deeds of the wicked who were cut off upon the like account but also of Jeroboam who never made such Professions and Declarations as he had done There also are of his confederates as the confederates of Jeroboam that sinned with him in his Apostacy and Revolt and do yet continue in those sins and walking in his steps now he is dead and gone as if they took no notice of the displeasure and wrath of God revealed from Heaven against him in cutting him off for his unrighteousness Israel smarted sorely for their evil and at last were carryed away Captive England hath likewise suffered and is brought very low as tradesmen of all sorts shop-keepers and others both in City and Country find by such sad and woful experience as they never did before nor in the memory of man was the like ever known or heard of and what may further suffer the Lord who will not be mocked onely knows For how unworthy are the people of this Generation not onely the more dark and sordid but too many who profess to be Saints and are Pastors and Members of Churches nay some who are Mercurial and more high flown that once spake the Language of Zion and highly appeared for the Good Old Cause who notwithstanding they have seen the mighty Arm and Power of God displayed in bringing down the unrighteous oppressive high and lofty ones with their foundation for their unrighteousness and oppression yet have so far forgotten the Good Old Cause so signally owned from Heaven and are so besotted and degenerated into a self-seeking slavish and enslaveing spirit as they not onely justifie but strengthen their hands who instead of pressing forward mith more refinedness in that work and cause leading to what it shall be when the promises and prophesies relating to the Kingdom of Christ and Zion shall be fulfilled have made a Captain or Protector and are gone back to Egypt to wit the old wicked foundation and things of Monarchy that have been destroyed and thereby under a new name upholding and keeping the people under the old Oppressions And do say of g g In their Addresses to his son Richard his worthy Successour Oliver their late Egyptian Captain who hatched this Cockatrice Egge and brought forth all this wickedness and thereby did more hurt to the Nation then ever he did it good and for which his Memory will deservedly for ever stink in the Nostrils of the Lords faithful people That he was a Moses the great Father and Protector of his people our late most worthy Prince that used all means to deliver us from Bondage by whom we enjoy Freedom in Spiritual and Civil Concernments c. most excellent Prince of happy Memory the famous Champion of our Liberties c. the Father Protector and Buckler of these Nations and the people of God who res●ned procured and maintained our just Liberties to us c. the great Assertor of the Liberties of Gods people and a Lover of their Civil Rights c. who well deserves to be a pattern to all succeeding Princes c. our gracious Benefactor a nursing Father to his people by whose hand the yoke of Bondage hath been broken both from the Necks and Consciences of good people c. an instrument of unspeakable Blessings all whose great Enterprises the Lord constantly prospered with high success c. the great Protector of our Peace and Joy who admirably got and h h Have you forgot Hispaniola and the war with Spain never lost but left three Nations in Peace c. We cannot but deeply resent that sad stroke of Providence that took away the breath of our Nostrils and smote our head from off our Shoulders your Highnesses most gloriously renowned Father Our Elijah c. your most illustrious accomplished most glorious heroical most renowned blessed most holy serene princely Father that sacred Person the delight of our Eyes our glorious Sun is set that unspeakable loss the light of our Eyes and the breath of our Nostrils c. But alass this our Moses the Servant of the Lord is dead and shall we not weep If we weep not for

was preparing by some faithfull Friends to the good Old Cause in and about the City of London which was afterward Printed and signed with many thousand Hands which Petition makes mention of the severall Particulars that were the Grounds of Contest between the late King and Parliament and the good People of the Nation And prayeth The settling those good things fought for as the Reward and Fruit of the Bloud and Treasure so greatly expended in the late Wars c. This Petition was ready to be presented to the Parliament in a peaceable way by the hands of about twenty in the name of the rest desiring to submit the issue thereof to God and the Wisdom of that Assembly The Court hearing of it were so affrighted as they began to consider how they might quell and put a stop to that honest Spirit which so appeared against them the Protector in the mean while calling them Traytors and Seditious persons c. Threatning to cut their Sculls and to tread them down as mire in the streets c. And turned out * Major Packer and most of the honestest Officers of his Regiment of Horse for refusing to serve his Lust therein And apprehending that nothing could do it but a speedy dissolving the Parliament they put on Resolutions accordingly onely waited for a convenient opportunity But something happening that morning that put the Protector into a Rage and Passion near unto madnesse as those at White-Hall can witnesse he gets into a Coach and to the Other House he comes and sends for his son Fleetwood Mr. Nathaniel Fines and some others acquainting them what his Purpose and Resolution was and what he came to do who as its said earnestly endeavoured to disswade him from it but he refused to hearken and in great passion sware By the living God he would dissolve them And so going into the House and sending the Black Rod with a Message to call the Parliament to come unto him He with laying great blame upon them and charging them with great Crimes and Magnifying of himself as his manner is dissolved them And this was the fourth Parliament broken by him in five years Thus the Two Houses fell and perished together their Father their good Father knocking his Children on the Head and killing of them because they were not towardly but did wrangle one with another but what hath he gained thereby Solomon the wise saith Prov. 14. 1. Every wise woman buildeth her house but the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands Vpon the whole it is Humbly Queried as followeth viz. First Whether there may not very plainly be read and perceived a Hand of Displeasure from the Almighty blinding the eyes and infatuing the understandings of those unworthy persons who * Hiel like would have built Jericho again to wit fallen Monarchy in a single Person and a House of Lords with their Negative Voices over the good people of these Lands so as to cause or suffer them to do their work by halves and to rise and leave so Lame Namelesse and Insignificant their New Modell of the Humble Petition and Advice alias Instrument of Bondage to the English Nation Let the Curse of Confusion that attended the Builders of * Babel be considered of Secondly Whether those so very wise Gentlemen who saw it so necessary and ventured so high and took so much pains to bring in again and anew restore fallen Monarchy and Kingship in these Lands could according to the rules of common reason and understanding of men imagine and conclude That the Gentlemen who had formerly been so wronged abused and exasperated by them in being kept out of the House would be so easie and tame as presently without any more ado addresse themselves to lick their new Golden Calf and nurse up that Babylonish Antichristian Brat they had no hand in but were against the begetting of And whether it doth not speak out a very great weaknesse in their Councels and a marvellous shallownesse in the Protector his Council and whole number concern'd in that Design in making no better provision before-hand and seeing no further into the ensuing Danger so likely to attend their whole Device and the namelesse Infant of the Other House which they would have to be Christned and Called by the Name of Lords Thirdly Whether the good people of this Nation have not cause for ever as to abhor the Memory of the afore-mentioned back-sliding persons so that Parliament so called in the first Session of it before their Adjourning that of their own Heads and contrary to their Engagement to the * Instrument of Government by vertue whereof they sate at first and without consulting the respective Counties for whom they served or so much as one Petition delivered to them for that purpose changed the Government and made one worse harder and more grievous to be born then that they put away so fastening their new Iron yoke upon the Necks of the good People of this Land settling great Taxes with the Customes and Excise for ever to keep this Yoke upon them Fourthly Whether those Gentlemen kept out in the first Sitting when those hard things were transacted and afterwards comming in and being present in the second Meeting notwithstanding the so great Reproach and Dirt cast on them by the Court are not highly to be honoured and esteemed for appearing and standing so far as they did for Right and Freedom and against the Bondages which contrary to Ingagements Covenants and Promises were put upon the good People of this Land As well as to be blamed not onely for not declaring at their first Seclusion to inform the People of the wrong and injury done unto them But also when afterward they whre so Arbitrarily and Tyrannically dissolved with the rest of their unworthy Brethren they took it so patiently and went so tamely home and did not in the very time of the Action Protest and Declare against the Tyrant and then retire into their places from whence they ought not to have stirred at first and call him to the Bar or otherwise proceeded against him for so doing Had it not been sutable to and well becoming that noble Commonwealth Spirit so much pretended to thus to have assay'd though they had fallen in it And whether the Army in Honesty Conscience and Duty their former Declarations and Ingagements considered ought not to have assisted them therein as well as they did the long Parliament against the King and his Courtiers upon the like account Doth not the loud Cryes of the Souls of the Saints * under the Altar slain for the Testimony which they held in their Day as also the Blood of the Saints and others slain in the late Wars and the Sufferings of our dear Brethren in Prisons and Banishment call for this their Testimony also If so Ought not this honest word of Reproof for what is past and of excitation for the future to take place Fifthly But since