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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33894	A word in season to all in authority with weighty considerations what persons, practices, and things doth chiefly cause division and contention, rending of kingdoms, and distresse of nations : as also a plain discovery of those things and that ministry that will bring blessings and unity, with deliverance from bondage into liberty, and instead of strife, wars, and fighting, righteousnesse, reconciliation and peace in the land of our nativity / published by J.C.	J. C. (John Collens), d. 1682.; Anderdon, John, 1624?-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing C5235; ESTC R27130	21,270	30

all and brought them into subjection how soon did they Court him with Flatteryes endeavouring to promote him to the highest honour and so blinded his judgment and he suffering them to breath a while and not executing judgment speedily their hearts had another mischief to devise and so then preaching up his Government as Jure divino and then both they that had joyned with the King and stirred up people to fight for the King and for the Service-Book and the rest of that stuffe and them also who had fought against the King and Service-Book they soon became one and they preach up Oliver to be Protector and they all make use of his Authority they tooke the Engagement against King or House of Lords and so then he was the only man and this was the only Government But still there was a few people who still saw their deceit and Treacherous dealing with all sorts and these could not cease to make mention of it their souls being grieved with their abominable deceit and then they make it their whole business in all places to stir up the Rulers and especially the Protector to cut off such from the earth and they labour to create Parliaments to their mind and all sorts of Rulers to their mind never ceasing by all meanes to cut off this people But Oliver the Protector being by the Righteous hand of God cut off because he had not executed the thing for which the Lord raised him up but suffered the people of the Lord to be sorely afflicted and the same oppression to remaine upon the free people of this Nation as before His Son Richard he came in his stead how then did the men called Ministers hasten with their addresses from their severall Townes and Corporations to congratulate the young Protector and to give unto him the greatest stile that could be thought upon so that to some he was the Orient Star that was risen to give them light and such like and so having lifted up the young mans heart they then thought themselves secure and then they with him call a Parliament according to their own hearts desire whom they thought were fitted to do the work which they long had desired but when they had as it were brought that work to maturity that was to have cut off all those from the earth which would not bow to their Image the Lord overturned their Counsels in one * day brought up another people in their stead into whose hands the Lord delivered them for that they many of them had long cryed against the Protectors Oppression and Usurpation and had promi●ed to execute the judgment which God expected should be done upon those who had kept his people in bondage but they likewise forgot the day of their adversity in which they cryed unto the Lord and he heard them and they likewise began to lay more heavy Yoaks upon Gods people * and the Lord overturned them likewise and set up another sort * but their hearts being not right in the sight of God and had no mind to execute his judgment upon these who still held the people of God in bondage the Lord gave them no rest but brought in their Enemyes upon them as a flood his long-suffering being at an end and the measure of their transgression finished he hath now delivered them into the hands of their Enemyes that as the Lord sent his Servants to cry unto them and to wa●ne them and they had no regard unto the sufferings of his people yet the Lord often warned all sorts of them of the evil day that is now come upon them and they would not hear nor regard the cry of the Oppressed but the men called Ministers they preacht peace unto them and said no evil should happen unto them and they cryed that the Lord had not sent these men but they were deluded untill sudden destruction came upon them as is seen even pain as upon a Woman in Travell And now what is become of these men called Ministers who as I said before the war and in the war Preach'd and Prayed against the King who made it as it were their work and the Cause of God to f●ght against the King the same men against the Protector and for the Protector who were so zealous for the Government of the Protector that they imprisoned and whipped and cryed out in the ears of Magistrates where ever they came against a poor despired people that they were Enemies to the Government and were suspected that they met together to plot against the Government of the Protector I mean and stirred up the Rulers and they got Souldiers and they called Ministers with the Souldiers and rude people brake their meetings and accused them as being dangerous to the Government having a design against the Government and so cast into prison and all this in Zeal to the Government of the Protector and these were Ministers so called of all sorts as well of them who had been formerly for the King and those who had likewise been against him were become one for the government and one against the people of God which discovered their deceit and the Protector as it s well known and his government was the onely Man and Government that stood in opposition both to the Person and Government of the King yet all this and much more that might be said was then done by that sort of men in behalf and by vertue of that Government and these are the men that now as it were with one heart and with one consent Preach up and cry up the King O you that are now Rulers Are these men to be trusted Are these men to be followed as leaders Are these men to be regarded as to teach the way to eternall life Are they not guilty of all the blood-shed in these Nations Can any Government be secure whilst they are the men set up and their wayes upheld after such a manner as now it is Did not the King and that party follow them and were guided by them in their Councell and had their blessing and were taught by them that they were in the Truth and that they should prosper And did they not prove false Prophets unto them and were deceived by them and led into destruction Whereas on the contrary if the King had removed the Yoak off from the Consciences of people and had set peoples Consciences free and have had his eare open to have heard the cry of them who were afflicted by the Cruelty of the then Bishops and their Courts and Clergy and had eased the burthen from off their shoulder why then might not the King have lived in peace and ruled over the people and gone to the grave in peace And again after if the Parliament had not fought to inslave this people and have brought a greater yoke upon the Consciences of those who sought after God in sincerity of heart might not they have remained and their

to the setling of a Government then the setting up of a forc'd Maintenance and that is the thing that the Lord expected should long since been done away The continuance of which Oppression and the many corrupt Lawes made and continued to infringe the LIBERTIES of the CONSCIENCES of the free people of this Nation in their Worship towards God hath been the Cause of so many and so great Overturnings neither can there be any true peace and settlement in these Nations until these things are removed out of the way For if a people were left free in their consciences to worship God according unto that which God makes manifest then all occasion of strife touching Religeon were ended and every one that fears God satisfied and the breach made up And likewise if all forced Maintenance of Ministers were taken off then both People and Ministry were free and so that occasion of strife would cease and that breach made up and here every one would watch for the good of him or them that govern And so such a one on whom the Lord laid a necessity to preach would preach but they that preach only for a maintenance who are not Servants of Christ but serve themselves which are the cause of Strife Debute Division and Contention as is before shewed their work would be ended and then people would be turned from the evil of their wayes because they that preach would be in Gods Counsel and in his power for now what ever people do imagine they that will not preach without a maintenance provided and setled by a Law these preach for a maintenance and so they preach themselves and not Christ Jesus the Lord neither are they his Servants nor Ministers nor sent of Him neither serve they Him but their Bellys and never can teach the way to life or bring people into the way but keep people out of the way though they may have many inticing words which mans wisdome teacheth for every one that enters into Gods Kingdome must be borne againe of the Spirit and he that is borne againe must be begotten by the immortal living Word now he that preacheth for a maintenance serves himself is not Christs Servant not intrusted with his Message but goes in his own Message and abuses his name for a maintenance and the living mortall word he hath not which begetteth the birth that enters into Gods Kingdome because he never sent him and so people are not profited but are kept out of the way to life by them which hath the letter to get a maintenance but hath not the spirit which giveth life And now I have not instanced the several Governments and overturnings either to justify or condemne persons or to meddle with that as in relation to the great transactions which hath been in these few years But this that they who now are in Power who have seen and felt what hath been brought to pass that they might understand what the Ground and Cause is why these things hath been thus brought to pass that so if the Lord give them understanding they may not split themselves upon the same Rock which others hath for I do not look unto men who have been the instruments but unto the Lord who hath all power in his hands who in his Righteousness and judgment for his own glory hath brought about these things for I do believe that the judgments of the Lord are Just and Righteous altogether and therefore because of the multitude of trangressions of this Nation and because the King and his party lightly regarded the cry of the oppressed whose Consciences which is the Lords ●rerogative alone was oppressed and greater Yoaks preparing by cruel Lawes I say because of these things was the hand of the Lord stretched out against them and the party who chiefly opposed him being in their hearts no better than the other therefore they both long were a scourge one unto another and to the Nation therefore did the Lord raise up another party whom both the other hated who were contemptible and inconsiderable who as Instruments in the hand of God did Wonders and overcame both as is well known But afterward they forgot the Lo●● likewise and turned against him and did not perform the Vowes and Premises which they had made into the Lord in the day of their Distress but corrupted themselves with the same abominations with which they were corrupted whom the Lord cast out before them and suffered many of those corrupt Lawes to continue in force which they had many times in their distress promised the Lord that they would take out of the way To wit That they would set the Consciences of all people free towards God and remove the great oppression of a forced Maintenance for Minister Which whilst they did in any measure persist in the Lord wonderfully delivered them and cut off those that rose up against them But when power was put into their hands and they did not do those things but became corrupt and oppression and Pride and vanity superstition and Idolatry grew and increased yet the Lord sent his Messengers calling them early and sending them often warning them in the peril of their lives but they regarded them not but ill rewarded the Lords Messengers by many cruel and hard Imprisonments and by making yet heavier Yoaks for their consciences Yet the long-suffering of the Lord remained towards them and not any of those Powers which the Lord overthrew but he hath sent this Messengers to warn them and to tell them in plain words what he was about to do which things are in great measure come to pass that all might know that the Lord hath a Prophet in the Land and likewise that they might hear and fear and learn Righteousness And now thus far hath the Lord wrought and wonderfully brought those things to pass that every eye might see that his own hand hath done it that he hath not suffered the sound of the weapons of war to be heard what is it that the Lord doth now requite of the men of this Generation Friends I beseech you in the fear of the Lord consider whether that the things which are now wrought amongst you principally and most of all be that which the Lord expects or whether he hath brought you up over your Enemyes because you are more Righteous then they or because of their unrighteousness the Lord hath delivered them into your hands that you might execute his judgments upon them for their Treachery towards him and his people and whether the same God hath not still reserved all power in his own hands and can at his pleasure cast you down as well as lift you up for this I say unto you in the fear of God think not that these whom the Lord hath del●vered into your hands were greater sinners then you but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Do you believe that the Lord takes delight in setting up of May-Poles and for