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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06765	A warning to the court, Parliament, and army. From a true lover of his country, and of all that love the truth in righteousness. Heartily desiring the peace and welfare of these poore nations, with freedome and an impartial administration of justice, that righteousness might run down our streets like a flood, and truth be exalted. Then will our God crown the labourers in, and doers of His work, with glory and honour, and at last immortality.	Trewman, Gregory.	1659 (1659)	Wing W940B; ESTC R203937	6,402	8

lend their assistance that so their work might increase For the greatest part of the Lawyers did assist the King against the publick interest of the good people also they that pretended to the good old cause are since corrupted and will ere long draw up Indictments against all and every particular man that fought against the late King for and in the Cause of the late Parliaments quarrell against him there being law enough say they to hang every one of those that so fought or lent moneies and is not this the best that is like to come to us a setting men together by the ears one family against another till at length we come to miserie and confusion ruine and desolation Lead us not into temptations but deliver us from all evill O Lord. And from a Lord above Law though never so just c. he pretend to protect us least his little singer prove heavier than his fathers hand which was bad enough The old mans principles are not his sons and that wise men see and know 〈◊〉 am perswa●ed that the ●●…e Protector ●as the wisest ●●d best that ●●er England ●ill have Which makes men at this time strugle and strive who shall lead him by one is for this another for that good reason will tell us also lead us out of Temptation not put us further into it I pray confider agree put of the works of darkness put on the Armor of light who is for things not men My meaning is this God hath by a signall stroke of Justice taken away your King and by his divine hand of Providence your Protector and yet will you thrust your selves and one another into temptations Make your heges and diches bars gates and stiles never so strong and he shall leap over them if not wholy beat them downe and spoyle the best laws you can make and men will be tempted to lift him up which need not and he when lifted up and setled will pull them after which is no new thing such is will be our opression Your sons must go to Court for preferment your daughters must do the like and doth not this lead into temptations Galantry is a snare voluptiousnesse is a snare wantonesse is a delight and naturall to a Court though of the meanest rank or stamp what iniquities is there and you have not done it and led us into Pray consider before it be too late time tarries for no man do not die while you are alive I speak to all of all sorts and all Powers Your Fathers are dead and some of us had been happy if we had never seen this day and had been taken away from the evill that is and is like to come but a word to the wise is enough onely let me mind you of one thing more then I shall by the mercy of God his assistance be at rest wait Gods further appearances follow him The wise and praying man foreseeth an evill and preventeth it also God hath said the secrets of the Almighty are with them that fear him and they shall not fear what man can do unto them nor create fears and jealousies to themselves as some doe nor subtilly make Bug-bears to fright poore ignorant men as some do while some great ones act Machivel turn Atheists under a pretence of good piety preservation of the Libertie of Gods people which Gods people hope they can trust God with all and so must doe when all vain hopes faile and fair pretences deceive us Let now our just Rights and Liberties be Asserted and then no one single Person can hurt another then if he kill or hurt any the law will hang the Murderer though he be a mighty man and if he steale away our monies and estates the Law will defend us and the true genuine Law is and ought to be such and so settled and secured that no man should be above it or out of the reacht thereof but all men should be put into such a capacity as he would they should do to him so he to doe to others rest Your true friend Gregory Trewman POSTSCRIPT FOr Zions sake I will not hold my peace nor can I be silent when I see my Country-men like to be misled and hurried into a seeming settlement such a one as will destroy them that carrieth on so horrible a designe against God and their own Consciences And will not yeeld to be governed as well as to govern which is the most Tirannical and destructive principle that can be in man and that all good men fought against or else why was the King put to death I shall now put the Reader in mind of some notable and remarkable passages and practises that have not commonly been known nor heard of To prevent my Countrymen in Parliament and elsewhere from further temptations snares or thrusting others into slavery take the King from his evill Councel was our former Parliamentary Souldiers cry also the Country cry but it seems now to be forgotten or asleep also that Reformation which was once eminently pointed at and hoped for by all sober and good men If a King or chief Magistrate shall be mislead by a fine thing or a Thurling crafty and blustring sword or by the cunning and craft of such Instruments led into such a deportment as some great ones once were though it is more his dissition to be Hawking Hunting c. My advise therefore is First To you Army-men great and small build not again the things God by you hath destroyed Secondly To you Country men that are entrusted with your Countries Laws Liberties and Estates See how angry that angry party is which was against bringing the King to Justice and had conjunction with Charles the Second be not cheated nor frighted God is at work discovering men and things If this question should be asked what is the man or his name that goeth about to subvert the Liberties of the People of England and would have Iniquity or the thing God hath destroyed settled by a Law What service did he ever do for this Nation but wickedly help to break the late Protectors heart and ever more laid snares for men to destroy them may such men as had been as eminently faithfull to the Parliament and their Cause as any Be warned ye great ones that have the least dram or spark of honesty or fear of God before your eyes orlove to your Country For the cunning and craft of some men is to doe the Devils work and to establish his Government and Kingdome and to make his visegerent on earth God is making a further discovery of men and things and will break the hearts or necks of those that shall go on to settle Iniquity by a law against light nay against their own Prayers and solemn Appeals made to God in the daies of old when they were in distresse and knew not what to do Your Iniquities were almost done away and you were once a sweet savour in the Nostrels of all good men and the Lord owned you and the hearts and praiers of Gods people were the wals and bulworks and God gave you great deliverances But now your iniquities begin to be like scarlet double died in contracting all the blood that hath been spilt on your own and your posterities heads and putting your selves into a blood thirsting posture again for the witnes of God and good people hath been and is still going out against you and your acting and will not hold their peace nor keep silence any longer Your Idoll when set up must be worshipped and adored your voluptuousness and wantoness must be maintained and all out of the peoples labours you will first take their monies then their goods and lastly their flesh from their bones Who would not now be a Courtier when he is like to be above all Law or Justice and out of the reach of both The Gentleman must think to breed his sons at no other place nor to marrie his daughters to any other Trades men but Courtiers and then see what glorious reformation we are at last like to have I pray you my Lord Fleetwood and Major General Disborough and the rest leave off praying and dissemble no longer with God and your selves and good men and say to us in plain terms you will have all our Estates our Lives our Wives at your wils and pleasures or be honest And remember that after a little while God will Call you to an account and you must die as the late Protector did and go to judgement which I fear you little think of Also God may suddenly say bring those mine enemies before me that would not have Christ to raign over them and slay them before my face Remember Gods appearance to Solomon once and twice and he slighted the call or voice of God and see what followed And when he was going to leave all his glory and honour which was much more than yours is or ever will be he said all was vanity and vexation of spirit some said with men in our dayes and hard to leave off and forsake but I had rather be a doore keeper in the house of my God than to dwell with the workers of iniquity from whom good Lord deliver me and all thy dear and precious ones their snares baits and temptations are many and of the most glorious colours golden baits such as the Devils instruments do fish with all to catch and bewitch men And were it not for some such smooth stuff speciously guilded over with glorious words and fair pretences somtimes with frights and Bugbears A great place and a gallant Incomb out of the poor country mans labours whish makes them forget God and oppress this Nation Gods work would go swifter on and men would trust God more in the work of God while it s called to day For time tarrieth for no man nor can this day be to morrow or another time therefore up and be doing and arise from the dead and Christ shall give the life and strength if thou wilt but trust him in the use of means and in him I rest Thine for truth and Justice till death