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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86675	A word of wisdom and counsel to the officers and souldiers of the army in England, &c. To weigh and consider before the light and power of their day be shut up in darknesse when they cannot act for God.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3242; ESTC R229349	3,771	1

A WORD of WISDOM and COVNSEL to the Officers and Souldiers of the ARMY in ENGLAND c. To weigh and consider before the light and power of their day bee shut up in darknesse when they cannot Act for God THE people of this Common-wealth hath by deep and sad experiences not onely seen the falsenesse and deceivablenesse of many fair words and pretences whereby they have been betrayed of their liberties and freedom and nothing yet but bondage and slavery is left upon them but they also through their deep sufferings have learned to know the spirits of men And though every appearance of a Power that ariseth gets new words and fair pretences but still in the old spirit Yet we do perfectly know that it is the new Spirit of the Lord put in the inward parts from which men must act for the Lord and for the Liberties of his people before they be established in Righteousness or enjoy the Liberty of their Consciences And we see that God hath given time and dayes which should have been dayes of Liberty and of plentious redemption But through mens departing from the leadings of God and suffering their own wisdom to pervert them they became dayes of persecution and cruelty which for the Elects sake which suffered in them was shortned as for instance 1. Oliver Cromwell in his dayes made many Vows Promises Engagements and Professions for the Liberty of tender Consciences as the honest People of this Nation are not ignorant how that at Dunbar he confest unto God in his prayer That if the Lord would but deliver him that time he would ●ake away that great oppression of Tithes which when he was delivered both at that and many other times had a prize put into his hand yet had no heart to improve it but contrary to all his prayers promises and engagements suffered and tollerated the wicked spirit of persecution in the murthering Priests and Magistrates to Rule in the Land over tender Consciences even until violence and blood covered the earth and filled the whole Nation suffering Laws to be made for Tithes and for persecuting of tender Consciences and so building again that which he had destroyed and so made himself a Transgressor but for the Elects sake his dayes were shortened 2. In the dayes of R. Cromwel many of that succeeding Parliament began to declare their sensibleness how that O. Cromwell had betrayed the Nation and its Liberty and left them in great bondage debt persecution and slavery But how soon they were perverted and became more bloody and cruel against all that fear God the upright in heart are sensible setting up in themselves that which they declared against in him and in stead of giving liberty and freedom to the Army and to the people of God they voted down that liberty and freedom which they already had viz. of meeting together one with another in the fear and worship of God and so they became cruel as the Ostridge in the Wildernesse and as evening Wolves but for the Elects sake was their dayes shortened 3. The long and late Parl they came up with greater pretences of liberty freedom then all that was before them and the people generally applauding of them by telling them that they were the beginners of selting the Nation in the way of Common-wealth and did expect they should perfect the peoples Liberty and Freedom outwardly which by the other Powers they had ●…fered under expecting that they should remove those burthens which ●…as laid upon tender Consciences by impositions and cruel sufferings and in their beginning they seemed to be given up to do the work expected from them and did publish it in their weekly news to the Nation several times that it was their real intent to make the Nation a Free Common-wealth not in name but in nature and this was often expressed by them and indeed they did something more then those that went before them in setting at Liberty those that were imprisoned because they could not pay Tythes to the Priests and because they could not swear and because they could not put off their hats to honour pride and ambition and because they spoke the Truth against the deceits of the Priests which both the Souldiers and the honest hearted in the Nation knows how treacherous they have been and the hinderance of every appearance of God in the Nation for the chief cause of Gods breaking down and of bringing into ignominy shame and reproach those late powers before mentioned was the leting in of the Priests spirit and flatteries as O. Cromwell if alive would witnesse or those that are alive may witnesse for him that he had never been such a covenant-breaker and betrayer of the Nations Liberties but by letting in that wicked interest which made him a reproach a by-word a hissing among the people And the two late Parliaments it was their joyning to that betraying interest of the Priests and neglecting of the Nations businesse that brought darknesse and confusion and consequently a dessolution upon them And the last as I said did something more then the former But when they began to revive the committee for plundred Ministers and did not take notice nor call any Committe to subdue or punish the plundering Ministers of which they were informed from divers parts of the Nation which had feloniously taken away the goods of many an honest innocent man then did Gods Indignation grow hot against them and then was it time for them to be dissolved for they had finished their day and they had done all that ever they would have done for the Lord for bonds and violence was in their hearts but for the Elects sake which hath alwayes borne a true Testimony against the oppression and cruelty under which the Innocent suffers was their days shortened All those before mentioned had their day from the Lord given them to try und to prove them and they have been tried and proved And now you the Army have your day from the Lord wherein you will be tried and proved and you will be more in excusable if you do not the things pretended then any that hath been before you for you see what hath been the cause of the fall and you see how that through Pride and Ambition flatteries and fair pretences the Cause of God and the Peoples Liberties have been betrayed by those that have sought honour one of another and not the honour which belongs unto God onely Therefore if you would have the Lord to honour you and keep you in renown in the Nation seek not your selves but deny your own Lordships honours and Excellencies let none cleave unto you by flatteries in giving you titles in seeming respect and honors for that will betray you and lead you from that Innocency by which you should act for the Lord and as now you have Power exercise it in chusing men fearing God and hating covetousnesse ambition pride and honor that so the Nation may