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A85281	The fifth monarchy, or Kingdom of Christ, in opposition to the beasts, asserted, by the Solemn League and Covenant, several learned divines, the late General and Army, (viz.) in their declaration at Muslebrough, August 1650. wherein the old cause is stated, appeals made, the Scottish blood spilt, and the banners yet in Westminster-Hall witnessing the great decision then given on Christs side. Also, by a letter from the officers of the Army in England, to their brethren in Ireland, the 11 of May, 1653. justifying on Christs accompt, the dissolution of the Parliament; and consonant thereunto, the Generals speech to those that succeeded in the government, the fourth of July following ...		1659 (1659)	Wing F890; Thomason E993_31; ESTC R207791	44,997	55

the Kingdom and Interest of Jesus Christ and Supporters of the Throne of the Beast been with all their Adherents by Sea and Land engaged with vanquisht and subdued broken like Potters vessels and the righteous judgments of God executed upon many of the heads of them as Traytors and Rebels Was King and Kingship as standing in opposition to the Kingdom of Christ being as was said one of the ten horns of the Beast Rev. 17. taken away Was the Parliamentary Authority defaced garbled purged and at last utterly broke as Obstructers hereof and that by the Army at their desire and to the great joy of most of the godly in the Land as having lost the Spirit of the Cause and so far degenerated into a selfish and persecuting Spirit that there appeared an enmity thereto And lastly was there another people called eminently by the Lord to own assert and carry on this cause and interest of Christs Kingly Authority to whom all due subjection was promised for Christs sake as to an Authority God had set over them to such an end 1 Quest Whether it will not necessarily follow that either the Parliament Army Ministers and others that have thus stated asserted engaged in such a cause as Gods and Christs and founding it upon the Word of God to the shaking and breaking all visible Rule and Government which for so many hundred years hath in Church and State been over us in these Nations have either been grosly deluded and so become guilty of all the blood that hath been spilt in this quarrel and consequently a company of Munster-spirited Tyrants Traytors and Murderers as it hath been reflected upon them and so ought to repent in dust and ashes and to endeavour all due satisfaction possible to Cavaleers Scots Prelates and Presbyters or if stated upon sound principles of Truth and Righteousness which the Lord hath eminently owned and led to step by step and that all this shaking overturning that hath been made in Church and State in order to the pulling down of Babylon and exalting the Kingdom of his Son is warranted and justified by the holy Scripture then doubtless ought this Cause to be owned adhered unto and prest after with all zeal and fidelity and they are to be esteemed Apostates Revolters and Backsliders that shall decline or turn aside herefrom 2 Quest Whether the Army who in so much seeming light and love to God bringing this glorious cause into the hands of his people having broken down the National constitution with a declared subjection to them for Christs sake are not guilty of most dreadful Apostacy and Rebellion against him his Crown and Dignity First in breaking that Assembly so by the Lord in that eminent manner called together whilst in the faithful prosecution of the said cause Secondly in setting up their Apostate General and afterwards his Son even in contradiction to all the Lords wondersul works amongst us as heads of Church and State and to whom were made all those blasphemous dreadsul Addresses Oaths and Engagements to the licking up their vomit again owning and establishing all the Pride Tyranny and Idolatry under new names and pretences that had been so contemptuously cast down amongst us viz. Kingship Peerage and Prelacy under the terms of Protector an Other House and Tryers who being set up and an assay made to confirm all by Parliament their Counsel being confounded so that they could not bring about their Enterprises as a further fruit of backsliding the Army have sought out another invention to withstand the true heir the Lord Jesus and kept him from his right by calling together such as formerly were by them dissolved for want of spirit and being in opposition to the Lords work and that it was so in truth have not very many of them given sufficient evidence by being Principals in the late Apostacy and the generality such as stuck not to lift up their hands to the most High that they would be true and faithful to the now deposed Usurper And those few of renown amongst them whose integrity was tryed it 's to be feared in the conclusion may serve for little more then to give countenance to what further their deceived hearts are lusting after of which some proof is already given in their votes for continuing the oppression in paying Tythes keeping from sale Hampton Court and White hall but more especially their Act of Indempnity sufficiently justifying the wicked and consequently condemning the righteous 3 Quest Whether they who have owned the Lord in all his dispensations in the midst of all these oppositions and declension of others ought not to be esteemed the well-affected to the Cause of God his people and this Nation rather then slanderously reported Munster-spirited and fanatick Obj. What would these people have The Cavaleeres old and new with the Commonwealths-men have somewhat to offer but these neither know what they say or whereof they affirm Answ Were it granted they were so weak as not to be able to hold forth some well-composed Model of Government being still it may be better at pulling down as is said page 24. line 10. then building up and establishing works is this a good Argument to slight any rational dissatisfaction to what is now set up If Episcopacy had never been taken away until some well ordered Church Government had been offered to succeed it by the Puritans who were then esteemed as ignoraut giddy and fanatique because they did not would it not have remained to this day But for further satisfaction there are four things in the Assirmative wherein there seems to be a general agreement amongst this people tending much to settlement upon a righteous Foundation 1. In reference to their Soveraign That the Lord Jesus Christ in whose Name and by whose blessing and strength the mighty works have been effected amongst us against Tyranny in the Civil and Antichristianism in the Ecclesiastick State may be publickly owned Our only Lord and King from whom as the head all Power Rule and Authority in Church and State is to be derived in opposition to every other Title without which alteration since the Foundations are out of course it will be utterly impossible there should be any subsistence for that the Image-Government or fourth Beasts constitution must as certainly be overturned and broken to give way to this Fifth Kingdom as the other were broken to give way to the fourth Dan. 2. 1 Tim. 6.15 He is the blessed and onely Potentate King of kings and Lord of lords John 5.27 And hath given him Authority to execute judgment also because he is the Son of man Isaiah 9.6 The Government shall be upon his shoulders Obj. How can Christ be said to be our King is he not in heaven Answ God was Israels King of old though heaven was his habitation 1 Chron. 29.23 Solomon sate on the Throne of the Lord 1 Chron. 29.23 2 Chron. 9.8 When Israel would imitate other Nations in making them a King they

all the people of God that this great Change may have the extraordinary blessing of God upon it By this inclosed Declaration you will perceive what provision is made for the present management of Affairs till persons of approved Fidelity and Honesty may be called to take upon them the Supreme Authority of this Commonwealth which being done we may have cause to hope the Lord will make them a future blessing to us Dear Friends we are perswaded this is the Lords own work and ought to be mavellous in our eyes the Lord hath once and again pulled down the Mighty from their seats and we trust it is that himself may raign and therefore let the earth rejoyce and these our Islands be glad thereof for though clouds and darkness be round about him yet Righteousness and Judgment are the habitation of his Throne The Lord is terrible in his doings therefore the guilty world will tremble but Sionshall hear and be glad and the daughters of Judah shall rejoyce because of his judgments Let us therefore dear Brethren serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling for we are not without hope that our Lord Jesus Christ who is the King of Saints will henceforth shew himself to be the King of Nations also We do not doubt but the Lord will make your hearts as ours in this great business and that as the Lord hath wonderfully stirred up the heart of his Excellency the Lord General to put himself upon God in this great undertaking for the interest of Jesus Christ and his people so we shall adhere to him and one to another therein We know your sincere love to Christ and his people is such that we shall use no Arguments unto you but onely mind you That when the Lord called you to the service of Ireland at a solemn meeting of the Officers designed for Ireland with those that remained here after that we had with many prayers and tears recommended one another into the bosome of Christ we did also in the presence of each other and before the Lord solemnly submit our selves and all our affairs to be whollyat his dispose resolving through the influence of his Spirit in all our politick undertakings not to seek our selves but the advancement of the affairs and kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ In this Spirit and with these Resolutions we parted with one another and the Lord hath blessed us hitherto and lo we are yet alive though thousands of our dear Brethren who engaged with us are dead The Lord grant we may with our lives be instrumental to carry on and preserve that Cause and Interest which was by them valued above their lives and whose blood cryeth loud to us to persevere therein unto the end Let us therefore we beseech you provoke both you and our selves not to consult with carnal reason in these great Mutations but let us labour by faith to see the Lord carry on his own work and to manifest our selves whom God hath called and chosen to these stations wherein we stand to be also faithful in doing the work unto which he shall appoint us Dear Brethren the work hath hitherto been to break and pull down which every one almost seemeth to be good at but it 's now the expectation of good men that Building and Establishing work shall follow for which yet there are not in our view many fit and therefore it will be your duty and ours to pray without ceasing that those whom God shall call to the Government may be men full of the Holy Ghost and of Power and may have his continual presence in the carrying on of so great a work on the issue whereof depends as we are perswaded the interest of the Saints throughout the whole world Now the Lord keep our hearts close to himself that so however things go about we may be found walking as becometh the Gospel of Christ in faith towards God in love one towards another and in Peace and Righteousness towards all men Which that we may do let us earnestly beg your continual and servent Prayers even as we desire to make mention of you as often as we encompass the Throne of Grace in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ in whom we are Your most affectionate Friends and Brethren John Lambert John Disbrow Edward Whalley Thomas Harrison William Constable Adrian Scroop Nathaniel Rich Matthew Tomlinson Philip Twisleton Thomas Pride Thomas Cooper William Goffe Ralph Coblet Francis Hacker Charles Worsley Francis White Thomas Kelsey Thomas Biscoe Robert Swallow Roger Alsopp Arthur Husbands Griffith Lloyd John Mason Thomas Saunders John Hodgson Jeoffrey Elatson Edward Orpin Samuel Lark John Caitnes John Wigan Edward Walley Richard Merest John Robinson Edmund Chillenden George Smithson William Packer William Style Francis Allen William Farley William Malin Richard Hatter Phil. 1.18 What then notwithstanding every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached and I therein do rejoyce yea and will rejoyce The spiritually wise cannot but soon discern whether the breathings of the Lords holy Spirit are more visible in this then the Armies late as it 's called repentance and the chief Officers may do well to consider whether it were not better with them when they avouched the Lord to be their God even Christ to be the King of Nations then since changing their glory into shame they are found amongst the scoffers saying Where is the promise of his coming and they may observe the dissolution of the Parliament however many now would have it accompted onely a precipitate Act of their General yet it had a very serious and deliberate owning by them who can no otherwise be justified in that or formet undertakings thereby following the Lord in paths untroden contradictory to this old Antichristian worlds frame and constitution or as their own expression in their Letter is By resigning themselves and all their affairs to be wholly at the Lords dispose resolving through the influence of his Spirit in all their publick undertakings not to seek themselves but the advansement of the Affairs and Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ But how faithfully this hath been observed the light in their own consciences can best satisfie them if they dare ask the question The Lord General CROMWEL His SPEECH At the Council-Chamber to the Persons then Assembled by Summons July 4. 1653. GENTLEMEN I Suppose the Summons that hath been instrumental to bring you hither gives you well to understand the cause of your being here Howbeit having something to impart which is an Instrument drawn up by the consent and advice of the principal Officers of the Army which is a little as we conceive more significant then that other of Summons we have that here to tender you And we have somewhat likewise further to say to you for our own exoneration and we hope it may be somewhat further to your satisfaction And therefore seeing you sit here somewhat uneasie by reason of the scantness of the

how the whole business should be executed we have no accompt of and we desired them they would be pleased and we thought we had an interest in our lives estates and families as well as the worst people of the Nation and that we might be bold to ask satisfaction in that and if they did proceed in honest ways as might be safe to the Nation we might acquiesce therein When we prest them to give satisfaction in this the Answer was made that nothing could be good to the Nation but the continuance of this Parliament We wondred that we should have such a return we said little to that But seeing they would not give us that which might satisfie us that their way was honest and safe they would give us leave to make our Objections We did tell them that we thought that way they were going in would be impracticable we could not tell them how it would be brought to pass to send out an Act of Parliament into the Country to have qualifications in an Act to be the Rules of Electors and Elected and not to know who should execute this desired to know whether the next Parliament were not like to consist of all Presbyters No qualifications to seclude Presbyters Newters Whether those Qualifications would hinder them or Newters and though it be our desire to value and esteem of that Judgment onely they having been as we know having deserted this cause and interest upon the Kings account and upon that closure between them and the Neighbour-Nation we do think we must confess we had as good have delivered up our Cause into the hands of any as into the hands of interessed and byassed men for it is one thing to live friendly and brotherly to bear with and love a person of another judgment in Religion another thing to have any so far set into the saddle upon that account as that it should be in them to have all the rest of their Brethren at mercy Having had this discourse making these Objections of bringing in Neuters or such as should impose upon their Brethren or such as had given testimony to the Kings party and objecting to the danger of it in drawing the concourse of all people to arraign every individual person which indeed did fall obviously in and the issue would certainly have been the putting it into the hands of men that had little affection to this Cause The Answer again was made and it was confessed by some that these Objections did lye But answer was mde by a very eminent person at the same time as before that nothing would save the Nation but the continuance of this Parliament This being so we humbly proposed an expedient of ours which was indeed to desire that the Government being in that condition it was things being under so much ill sense abroad and so likely to come to consusion in every respect if it went on so we desired they would devolve the trust over to persons of honour and integrity that were well known men well-affected to Religion and the interest of the Nation which we told them and was confessed had been no new thing when these Nations had been under the like hurly-burly and distractions and it was confessed by them it had been no new thing we had been at labour to get presidents to convince them of it And we told them these things we offered out of that deep sense we had of the good of the Nations and the Cause of Christ And being Answered to that nothing would save the Nation but the continuance of that Parliament although they would not say they would perpetuate it at that time least of all But finding their endeavours did directly tend to it they gave us this Answer That the things we had offered were of a tender and very weighty consideration They did make Objections how we should raise money and some other Objections we told them that that we offered as an expedient because we thought better then that for which no reason was or thought would be given we desired them to lay the thing seriously to heart they told us they would take consideration of these things till the morning that they would sleep upon them And I think that there was scarce any day that there sat above 50 or 52 or 53. At the parting two or three of the chief ones the very chiefest of them did tell us that they would endeavour the suspending the proceedings of the Representative the next day till they had a further conference and we did acquiesce and had hope if our expedient would take up a loving debate the next day we should have some such issue of our debate as would have given a satisfaction to all They went away late at night and the next morning we considering how to order that which we had to offer to them when they were to meet in the Evening word was brought they were proceeding with a Representative with all the eagerness they could we did not believe persons of such quality could do it a second and a third Messenger told us they had almost finished it and had brought it to that issue with that hast that had never been before leaving out the things that did necessarily relate to due qualifications as we have heard since resolved to make it a paper Bill not to ingross it that they might make the quicker dispatch of it Thus to have thrown all the liberties of the Nation into the hands that never bled for it upon this account we thought it our duty not to suffer it and upon this the House was dissolved Old Parliament dissolved to preserve the Cause This we tell you that you may so know that what hath been done in the dissolution of this Parliamont was as necessary to be done as the preservation of this cause 1. The Assembly called 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 accompt that you are men who know the Lord and have made observations of his marvellous dispensations and may be trusted with this cause It remains for I shall not acquaint you further with that that relates to your taking upon you this great business that being contained in this Paper in my hand which I do offer presently to you to read having done that which we thought to have done upon this ground of necessity which we know was not feigned necessity but real and true 2. That the Government might not fall to the end the Government might not be at a loss 3. To manifest the self-denyal of the Army to the end we might manifest to the world the singleness of our hearts and integrity who did those things not to grasp after the power our selves to keep it in a Military hand no not for a day as far as God enables us with strength and ability to put