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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89259	Protection proclaimed (through the loving kindness of God in the present government) to the three nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland: wherein the government established, in the Lord Protector and his council, is proved to be of divine institution; and the great stumbling-block of thousands of Christians (in regard of his title) removed; proving it to be none other than what hath been given to those whom God hath made instrumental for his peoples deliverance of old. / Written to satisfie unsatisfied consciences, by John Moore, a well-wisher to the peace of our English Jerusalem.	Moore, John, of Wechicombe, near Dunster, Somerset.	1655 (1655)	Wing M2562; Thomason E860_5; ESTC R206643	17,676	24

heart that he did animate the Captains that were with him to tread upon the necks of five Kings saying Come neer put your feet upon the necks of them And Joshua said unto them Fear not nor be dismayed be strong and of good courage for thus shall the Lord do to all your enemies against whom ye fight After the death of Joshua the people fell away from following the Lord and the Lord afflicted them by the hands of the Midianites And they cried unto the Lord who for his Names sake appointed Gideon to be their Protector from the spoil of the Midianites who being but of a mean Family in Israel spake thus unto the Angel of the Lord O my Lord wherewith shall I save Israel behold my Family is poor in Manasseth and I the least in my Father's house And the Lord said unto him Surely I will be with thee and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man After the death of Gideon in their distress he gave them Jephtha one of a small reckoning amongst them in their prosperity After Jephtha Sampson was given them to be their Deliverer from the hands of the Philistines Thus did God of old appoint men of his own chusing to be Head in the Government of his people and furnished them with parts suitable thereto and raised them from a low estate to honour and renown Thirdly is it the Title of Protector that thou stumblest at then consider that the Title of Protector was a Title given to the Governours of Israel long before they had a King to reign over them for I will ask thee this single Question What difference there is between a Protector and a Saviour I finde then in Scripture that this Title of Saviour God hath formerly conferr'd upon those Worthies that have been faithful Instruments in his hand to go in and out before his people against his and their Enemies which Title Nehemiah acknowledgeth chap. 9. 27. Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hands of their enemies who vexed them and in the time of their trouble they cried unto thee thou heardst them from heaven and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them a Saviour who saved them out of the hand of their enemies And this Title I clearly apprehend shall continue to those that shall be for the time to come instrumental in the hand of God for the safety of his people God having promised by the Prophet Isaiah That he will restore to his people Judges as at first and their Counsellors as at the beginning that Zion shall be redeemed with judgement and her converts with righteousness and the Title that they shall have at that time when such deliverance shall be wrought shall be Saviours or Protectors there being no difference as I know between Salvation and Protection and that this shall be the Title of honour which God will give to such a better name than that of Sons read the last Verse of the Prophet Obadiah where it is thus written And Saviours shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau and the Kingdoms shall be the Lord's But because I have written somewhat more of my minde concerning these and other Scriptures of like nature in the ensuing Treatise I shall refer thee to it for thy further satisfaction desiring that thy judgment may not be blinded by thy own will which if it be not I hope thou wilt have as much satisfaction in reading it as I had in writing it which is the main desire of him who unfeignedly desireth the Peace and Welfare of his Country J. Moore A Word to the Servants of Christ in Covenant with him through Grace and in fellowship together under the Ordinances of the Gospel I Do wonder and admire that so few of you have given publick Testimony of your affection to the present Government established amongst us through the providence of the Almighty which makes me conceive it hath an ill savour amongst you or out of a tenderness of Conscience to the exaltation of Christ's Kingdom and longing for his reign you cannot fully close with it Now I beseech you Brethren from the tender love of my Soul to the Peace and Welfare of your Souls and Bodies that you will without prejudicate thoughts weigh these two or three Considerations in the balance of your Spirits First consider That the chiefest ground of all our Engagements Watchfulness Weariness Painfulness the shedding of our own and friends dearest Blood yea the Prayers and Tears that have been offered before the Lord in your several Congregations hath been for the full Enjoyment of Freedom and Liberty in the service of Christ from the coercive compulsions of bloody persecuting penal Statutes and now it is granted both from God and by Oath from his Highness the Lord Protector to the utmost of his power to be protected in it as if we were already weary of it we hate the Instrument by which it is confirmed Secondly consider the frame of your own Spirits at present with what they once were when such Freedom and Liberty was precious to you would you not once have owned almost any civil Government that would have granted that spiritual Freedom which we now enjoy I dare be bold that if the late King had proclaimed such Liberty to his Subjects he had been alive to this day except sickness had cut him off and that the people of God in England formerly called by the name of Puritans to whom such Freedom was precious would have laid their Bodies and Estates at his feet to manifest their affection And pray you what is the reason that we are so dull so dead and so void of our publick manifestation of affection to him that with the often hazarding his life hath been made instrumental in the hand of God to purchase it for us yea we are so far from declaring our affection that a great part of us swell with hatred towards him an evil requital for his labour of love towards us for if you well consider how many fell away to the Enemy and sought our destruction and others that had been admirable Instruments for a season threw up their Commissions refusing to act any further and how he I mean the Lord Protector that now is never refused to act for that Freedom we now enjoy but like another Joshua or Caleb followed the Lord fully in the work that he was called to and left us not till we had enjoyed that Liberty in the Gospel that we long looked for except we are blinde and can't see when good cometh I say If we consider these things we have not the least cause to manifest the least disaffection either to the Government or the Person to whom it is given but contrariwise hearty affection with all cheerfulness that we can Thirdly Measure the disposition of your Spirits with the Saints in the primitive times of the Gospel and you 'l finde that such peaceable Liberty which we enjoy under the present Government