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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01862	To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, the present authority of these nations assembled at Westminster. A presentation, by a faithful friend to the nations ... [i.e. Edward Burroughe].	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6038A; ESTC R229348	4,434	1

TO THE PARLIAMENT Of the COMMON-WEALTH of ENGLAND The Present Authority of these Nations Assembled at WESTMINSTER A Presentation by a faithful Friend to the Nations in the Name and by the Spirit of Jesus Christ King of Righteousnesse and Peace That you may take off oppression and free the people from all their cruel bonds that have been imposed upon their bodies Estates and Consciences in the dayes of the reign of Antichrist that Truth justice and Righteousness may come nigh unto us and the Kingdom of the Son of God set up among us that you and we may at last be free subjects of Christs Kingdom where Righteousnesse Truth and Peace may run down and be established in the earth for evermore FRIENDS IT is acknowledged that the Lord God who rules over all in the kingdoms of men hath done great and honourable things by you and with the face of your Authority in your dayes and since your first appearing on the Throne mighty things hath been brought to pass in our Nations by the hand of the Lord insomuch that many mountains have been abased and many sturdy oakes have been cut down and many cruel Lawes have been made void and even the way of the Lord and the way of the coming of his Kingdom hath seemed to be prepared For the kingdom of Antichrist and the beast and the whore the false Church hath in many things received a mortal wound in this Nation and there hath been divers times the fair blosoms of the glorious appearance of Truth Righteousnesse and Peace and there have been many fair promises and pretenses made by many of you like as if the Kingdom of Jesus had been at our door ready to have entered in our Nations whereby many good hopes we have had to have been made a perfect free people ere this day from the chaines of Antichrist and the Whore the false Church and from every branch thereof and that we might have gotten together in peace and unity and in freedom from all the oppressions of our enemies But alas 〈…〉 Glorious work of Reformation hath been interrupted before our eye and the pretious buds and good appearance of Glorious fruits hath been withered and blasted in our sight so that our good hopes have perished and our Freedom hath been intercepted through the evil dealing of many unfaithfull men so that Antichrists kingdom hath not been utterly rooted out nor the oppressive Lawes of the Whore the false Church wholly broken down but the rather have seemed to be revived again and the Kingdom of the Son of God hath been warred against and Truth Righteousnesse and just Judgement hath yet been kept out of the Throne and the Lamb and his Army and followers have been opposed by open and secret Rebellion so that though there hath been great appearances of good things now and then yet ever anon Cloudes and darknesse hath overshaddowed the Nations again and the good hopes of faithfull people have been driven backwards and Reformation stopped and your own vowes promises and pretenses have remained unfulfilled and we are yet an oppressed people and the cause of this hath been from some unfaithful men that have neglected the good work of the Lord once intrusted with them and have sought themselves and their own honours and interests and have setten down at ease and rest in the flesh glorying in the spoil of their enemies and thereby have they become unfaithful and unprofitable in carrying on the Lords work for some have been of a sincere mind for a season and made a good progresse towards the attaining a Kingdom of Righteousness and the removing of all oppressions yet when they have begun to seek themselves in this World and to take unto themselve the honours and Titles and possession of their enemies whom the Lord cast out before them and so have become guilty of their enemies sins then they have been choaked and the good work of the Lord by them could not prosper but it hath fallen in their hands even because of their Apostacy whom the Lord hath removed in his wrath which to you all may be examples that ye follow not their steps For for these causes I tell you hath the true Reformation been turned backward and the work of the Lord remained unfinished insomuch that Oppression and injustice and Tyranny yet remains upon the people and ten thousands lies groaning under the yoak and bondage of Antichrist and of the Whore the false Church in persons estates and Consciences and are ready to depart out of all good hope and considence that they shall never see through you the finishing of that long since begun good work of perfect Reformation and freedom from all oppressions and amongst the many great oppressions and cruel burthens yet remaining in our Nation there is at this day one particular Oppression abounding under which thousands of the free People of the Lord and of these Nations lies unjustly suffering in their bodies estates and consciences to wit this way of forced maintenance of the Ministry by Tithes and money and yearly stipend which many are violently forced to pay through oppression and contrary to equity and because hereof is God not well pleased with you but his wrath is kindled already for the cry of the unjustly afflicted under this one oppression hath entered into his ear and he will be avenged speedily even because of the oppression of his People in this very particular who cannot out of a good conscience pay Tithes or money or any other thing contrary to equity to the maintaining of this Ministry and these Ministers which they receive no benefit by neither are under their Ministry And forasmuch as this way of maintaining Ministers and Ministry by force is wholly Antichristian and of the Whore the false Church and never was in the True Churches of Christ in the Apostles dayes neither did ever Christ or his Apostles give institution or example for such way of maintenance to Christs Ministers but being that this way of forced maintenance by Tithes and money and yearly stipends is come up long since the Apostles dayes and is the very institution of the false church of Rome and was first practised by her authority in our Nation and by the same spirit at this day this oppression remaineth among us and likewise it is wholly unreasonable that one sort of people should be compelled to maintain an others Ministers whom they do not bear nor receives their Ministry and also this way of Maintenance is one of the greatest oppressions in our Nation and many hundreds of my Brethren have suffered great oppression thereby 〈◊〉 the loss of estates and many the loss of their liberties and some the loss of their lives also in so much that this ●poression is fully ripe to be cut down and removed out of our land Wherefore it lies upon me from the Lord to request it of you and to lay it upon you as being the present Authority that hath