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cause_n	call_v	day_n	lord_n	3,361	5	4.2745	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85073	A faithful remembrance and advice to the General Council of Officers of the armies of England, Scotland, & Ireland, from divers in Cornwal and Devon, in behalf of themselves and sundry hundreds, cordial friends to the blessed cause of righteousness which God hath stated and pleaded with a stretched out arm, in these (and in the sight of all the) nations.		1659 (1659)	Wing F282; Thomason E980_16; ESTC R207766	2,710	7

A faithful REMEMBRANCE AND ADVICE TO The General Council of Officers OF The Armies of England Scotland Ireland FROM Divers in Cornwal and Devon IN Behalf of themselves and sundry hundreds cordial friends to the blessed CAVSE of RIGHTEOVSNESS WHICH GOD hath stated and pleaded with a stretched out Arm in these and in the sight of all the Nations May 4th LONDON Printed for L. Chapman at the Crown in Popes-Head-Ally 1659. May 4. A faithful Remembrance and Advice TO The General Council of Offices c. SIRS THough the most High hath set the Bounds of our Habitations in a corner of this Nation somewhat remote from you yet have not only the reports and influence of the late Affairs depending before you already reached us but withal we have hopes that the faithfulness of this brief word may as effectually extend it self even to you However we think our selves eminently concerned and called upon to give you some taste of our Spirits while we behold these works of the Lord and what Desolations he hath made in the Earth We having for a long time mourned in the sence of our own Iniquities and of the sore backsliding of this day from that glorious Cause of the Lord wherein in former dayes some of you have been used and owned by him as famous Instruments have yet been held up by grace in expectation that his Work should be revived again and our hearts should be made glad therein In tracing the Lords footsteps in order hereunto though we have been instructed with a strong hand to cease from man yet was it some refreshment to us to see some passages in your Representation of the sixth of April 59. viz. your professed indearment to the GOOD OLD CAUSE your awakenings and deep sence of the great reproaches eminent dangers and even death at hand upon it your bewailing your own great failings turnings aside and backslidings and your resolutions for better things for the future in which matters we should reckon our selves happy if we might minister any farther effectual Conviction and Assistance to you in order whereunto we think our selves bound to put you farther in Remembrance I. That while you were in a sincere virgin-Spirit pursuing the true and single Interest of this Cause you had constant experience of the marvellous Presence and Blessing of the Lord on your Affairs in Camp and Council by Sea and Land as also the cheerful concurrence of many thousand upright-hearted ones whose Prayers Persons Estates and all that was dear to them were gladly engaged to strengthen your hands to the uttermost in those amusing Dispensations wherein you were led and did not stumble and for a recompence you were also inlarged ingaged cheerfully in spirit not only to follow the Lords conduct through any difficulties but to give your selves up by Promises Declarations and Appeals in Judgment and Conscience by which to this day you stand religiously and indispensibly obliged to follow His glorious Work intrusted in your hands unto its just issues in the face of all opposition whatsoever II. That while you were in the just direct process of that Good Work and Cause of GOD the Lords leadings and your observing experiences farther and farther taught you that so righteous and prevailing were the true principles thereof commending themselves in their own evidence as that the reducing it to practise was found to have a real inconsistency with the antient constitutions and forms of this Nations government which for the most part were accommodated to Lust and Antichristian Tyranny over the Persons Estates and Consciences of the People and therefore in its progress wherein it had your then cheerful concurrence you saw it proved ruinous to them exploded they were how Ancient Honourable and Dear soever they seemed to be to men of low and selfish Principles III. That ever since the great Revolt from these Principles all the inventions and indeavors sought out and used to espouse the National Pomp and Greatness to the Notion of this Cause Whatever Interests have been courted or Instruments formed to that end they have all fallen before it with their own weight and instead of attaining the aimed-at-settlement in the Relicts of this Glory there hath not onely a continual blasting befallen all your enterprizes but by degrees hath been a very fair opportunity administred unto the Quintessence of all the Wisdom Policy and Malignity of every one of those formerly-conquered Interests to stand up again in full and equal Liberry and Authority in the Supremest Judicature of the Nation to contend for Mastery untill even now your selves found there was not safety and shelter left no not for your own selves although in the midst of your possessed strength IV. That now again in the mighty GOD hath put into your hands one opportunity more to do some notable things for him he hath again discovered the Foundations to the Neck hath layed spoiled at your feet another promising piece of goodly Glory You have moreover before you the advantage of a large taste of the spirits of Men and Parties in these Nations who have abode firm to their former Principles under all manner of disadvantages and on the other hand who under either a fawning or courted pretension of compliance have been contriving and preparing instruments of Cruelty that would have ruined it and you for the old Hatred Upon these and the like Considerations that we might tender we present our Advice I. If in truth your hearts are thorough for this work of GOD though your reviving it be in a troublesome time to you and to the poor Nation yet having your eye to the Lord whose the Cause is be ye of good courage and be assured that there are multitudes who have been mourning in secret a long time whom you will finde in a preparation of spirit to joyn heart and all with you in your righteous pursuance of that Blessed Cause yea rather you may be sure the Lord of Hosts will be with you while you are with him II. That you speedily claim and receive to your selves as your true propriety the light and assistance of such in Council with you as in the faithfulness of their Testimony have been laid aside or compelled to forsake their places during the time that this stain hath layn upon your Glory whom you may receive with the advantage of their having been refined by the sharp tryals they have since sustained for whom there will be room and opportunity at large by your performing a parallel Act of Faithfulness namely your speedy dismission from among you of such as have been an hinderance and snare to your faithful proceedings hitherto of whom also you cannot but have much experience III. That you will give great diligence to what you leave behinde or lay anew in the Foundation to be laid of future Settlement let not any carnal reasonings lead you to make hast to fall in with any painted interests short of It though they may seem made ready to your hand but rather having well reviewed and digested not the Name only but the true Nature and Principles of the Cause you mention and being instructed to trust the Lord invite own and assist such for the establishing the Religious and Civil Rights of this poor Nation as have approved themselves men disingaged from any interest that necessarily bindes them up and renders them incapable of carrying on the work spoken of to its just issues Men of such an anointing as may indeed conscientiously prosecute the just ends of all those Declarations Engagements and Appeals of yours and of all the blood treasure and hopes of ours And in so doing you may expect the Lord of hosts will help you covering you with that strength recovering for you that glory and recompencing you with that reward that shall make and bespeak you a Blessing in the Earth FINIS