Fore-fathers have lived under and we our selves been liable and subject to by reason of the Government standing in a single Person successively and we being forced to live under the Authority of such Men as had no right from God thereunto as I have said And now our Eyes are opened to see better things and we are in good Expectations that the Lord will Suddenly so appear as to free us from future Oppressions in this respect c. And these things we are waiting for to be brought to pass in their Season and the Hand of the Lord will accomplish it if not by you then even contrary to you Therefore take this my Council even as you hope to prosper for this I know from the Lord upon the rejecting or receiving hereof dependeth your Standing or your Fall your Renown or perpetual Reproach even your Blessing or your Curse and the time is at hand that many shall confess the Lord gave good Counsel to you by his Servant E. Burr Obs That in his Judgment it was through Ignorance that the People subjected themselves to Hereditary Governours or such as had no right to the Place of Rule or to the Government standing in a Single Person successively and he reckons it a piece of Slavery the Nation hath long been under that our Kings have attained to the Throne Hereditarily and yet G. F. c. of late tells the King and Parliament that their Hearts and Hands could seal to the Substance both of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy And G. F. saith If he could take any Oath at all upon any occasion he should take the Oath of Allegiance which Oath binds to the King and his Heirs and Successors Now if this be not Contradiction and Temporizing what is See moreover G. F's Paper taken out of the same Book that the Abstract against Kingly Government was taken p. 42. To all such as feed the Priests till they turn against them THE Black Presbyterians and Priests and Cavaliers which are stirring you being out of the Power which first had Dominion over them what now are Priests Cavaliers Presbyterians saying Curse you Meroz that will not come to fight against the Mighty meaning the Parliament and all the honest People in the Nation to destroy them And what are they now bawling against you as they have against the Quakers Will nothing satisfie the Priests and the rest but Blood Have they not been the stirrers up for War and Blood always What now are they so fat fed that they curse them that will not come to fight against the Parliament Have you fed them so fat that they kick against you like wild Horses that they snort that there is such a snorting among them against their Feeders Have you sed them like wild Bulls and Heifers that now they run against you with their Horns Surely the Fodderers of these have not well looked about them have not these been called Ministers of the Gospel But now how comes it that they preach up War These are bad Cattle Horses Heifers and Bulls that kick against their Fodderers And run with their Horns against their Fodderers I must tell you the Sun is set upon all the Priests in this Nation and such as be like minded and that is the Word of the Lord God to this present Age and many more G. F. Hear now Is Penington an Eminent Writer among them and one of good repute to the Parliament the Army and all the well-affected in the Nation who have been faithful to the Good Old Cause 1659. p. 1. THat there hath been a Backsliding and turning aside from the Good Old Cause even by the Army who formerly were Glorious Instruments in the Hand of God hath been lately confessed The Name of God hath been Blasphemed in the whole Earth and that Holy Spirit and Power which many Hearts can witness was the Beginner and Carryer on of this Work made a Scoff and Derision to the Enemies of Truth in these Nations and in the Nations round about who watched to see the Issue and Result of these things The Controversie was very great and eminent and drew many Eyes upon it the Lord was appealed to on both sides to decide it and many know that by his Presence and Power in the Army the Stale was turned even when they were very very low and cryed out for Prayers and made large Promises in the Days of their Distress yea the Lord did not desert the Army but heard their Prayers and the Prayers of his People for them carrying on the Deliverance until he had given a perfect Victory into their Hands c. Obs That by the Lord's Presence and Power in the Army the Controversie was decided and the Army made Glorious Instruments for the Good Old Cause was not then the Armies Cause once Just in the Quakers Opinion and their fighting lawful and approved of God Miles Halhead and T. S. two Eminent Men of their Ministry follow with their most plain Testimony Wounds of an Enemy c. 1656. p. 23. VVHen the Presbyterians saw the Army who were made the Sword of the Lord against Papists and Bishops would not submit to the Covenant they drew the Sword against them and not prevailing in a first War many of them joyned with the Papists and Bishops and the Common Enemy meaning the King And now an Oath of Abjuration is tendred to them to Swear who have been most faithful to the Common-wealth and its Army and have born the Brunt and Heat of the Day in the late Wars with the peril of their Lives in the Field and the loss of their Estates against the Popish Prelatical and Presbyterian Party Hath this Generation witnessed the Word of the Lord to be true above many Generations before whose Eyes and by whose Hands the Righteous God hath executed his Dreadful Judgments on the Enemies of his Elect hath he despised the Image of the King and Princes and Nobles and the great Ones and poured forth their Blood as Water on the Earth and made them a fearful desolation in the Cause of his People and of Justice and of Equity In the Iniquities that they have committed and in the Sins wherewithal they have Sinned hath He cut them off and made them the dreadful Examples of his Vengeance p. 75 76. Obs The Contents of this is plain to every capacity Take also George Roffs Testimony another of their Ministry TO thee Oliver Cromwel thus saith the Lord I had chosen thee among the thousands of the Nations to execute my Wrath upon my Enemies and gave them to thy Sword with which I fought for the Zeal of my own Name and gave thee the Enemies of my own Seed to be a Curse and a Reproach for ever and made thee an Instrument against them and many have I cut down by my Sword in thy Hand that my Wrath might be executed on them to the utmost See Righteousness c. p. 11. Obs Here the Lord is represented
Ionathan Clapham a most precise Stickler for a Reformation But when the Independents were possessed of the Authority 't was then the Beheaded King was by this Guide both Preached and Printed as a Toe of the Image the little Stone cut out of the Mountain without hands was to smite and therefore says The Fall of the ten Kingdoms was begun the Lord is risen out of his Habitation gainsay not for who seeth not the Alteration is of the Lord. In another place says he There can be no clearer Evidence that God is about this work of breaking own this great Image and smiting the very Feet and Toes thereof than this present Victory over the Scottish Forces at Dunbar which we are now to render Thanksgiving to God for the Cause of this War being whether this Image shall be upheld or the Feet and the Toes broken In short O ye honoured Worthies whom the Lord hath raised up to effect these great Changes carry on the Lord's Work that your People may not have cause to say we have changed our Tyrants not our Tyranny 'T was also then in a Dedicatory Epistle to O. Cromwel allowed by him of England Scotland Ireland c. Protector to whom amongst other extraordinary Complements I cannot let pass these Expressions where he invites him as God's Delegate in Honour to Jesus Christ and out of the love to the Churches of Christ for whose welfare you have this Power committed to you concluding thus The Lord of Heaven and Earth bless your Highness with the continuance of his Gracious presence with you that as you have done valiantly in the High Places of the Field that is fought against the King and Bishops so you Govern as righteously and happily in the Gates of the City Oh gross Dissimulation Now 't is he turns Eugagement Man and is imployed by the several Churches in Norfolk to Richard Cromwel on the Death of Oliver as their Representative about the Petition or Address made by the Priests in general which term the Father Moses and the Son the Joshua that should Conduct them to the Holy-Land After the King came in This Guide changes Oliver Richard or Parliment for Charles once a TOE of the Image that the little Stone was to smite of England Scotland Ireland c. The Beheaded King once the first broken Toe of the Image now he Commemorates with an Anniversary Sermon c. What temporizing is this Oh what unheard of Hypocrisie is here But Reader What is thy Opinion of the Matter Can Oliver be Moses Richard be Joshua and Charles Defender of the Faith all together p 53. Reader Will this Fig-leaf-Garment cover the Shame of this Guide's Nackedness from thy Discerning and Censure I hope not c. Obs If the Episcopal Party had done this would not the Quakers have call'd it a breach of the Act of Indemnity and disingenuous But for themselves to do it who had as much need of an Act of Pardon as others What was it Again in their Answer to John Faldo Quakerism a new Nick-name p. 109. And why poor Nonconformists after all their Preacht up Batels spoils Plunders Sacriledges Derimations c. Again p 119. These are true Gospel Ministers whose Gospel is Peace on Earth and good will towards Men and not Garments rolled in the Blood of Kings and Princes and Rulers and People no worldly Armies Battels Victories Trophies Spoils Sequestrations Decimations and the like Blood-thirsty and Tyrannical Projects in which John Faldo and his poor Nonconforming Ministers have had their Hands almost over Head and Ears till they had well nigh lost their Ears and their Heads too Obs Was not this to expose and render obnoxious to the Government and that in a time when the Nonconformist Ministers were under Persecution Should any have exposed the Quakers at such a season What would they not have said couching the treacherousness and baseness of it And it seems this Mr. Faldo whom they thus villifie was too young to be concerned 〈◊〉 those Projects But what might he now say of some Quakers in relation to the present Government See also their Book entituled A Just Rebuke to xxi Divines p. 25. HOw did the Presbyterians excite the Parliament in these very Terms Eliah opposed Idolatry and Oppression so do ye down with Baal's Priests which is as much as to say Away with your Arch-Bishops and Bishops the whole Ministry and Worship of the Church of England Again The Mouths of your Adversaries are opened against you that so many Delinquents that is to say Royalists are in Prison and yet but very few of them brought to their Tryal did he mean to release them And saith another of your Eminent Brethren before the Commons Aug 28. 1644. Ye cannot Preach nor Pray them down immediately well that which the Word cannot do the Sword shall Obs Again Is not here exposing and rendring of Persons as obnoxious to the then Government as they could This following is a Copy of a Letter I writ to G. W. 22. February 1678. being above a Year after the fore-going was sent them G. Whitehead I have lately seen your Book entitled The Way cast up c. and therein these following Passages viz. ANd how many Garments were rolled in Blood by Instigation of the Presbyterian Teachers the whole Nation was a Witness so that many thousands were made Widows and Fatherless by that War they stirred up the People unto c. p 23. Obs Was not this that War in which the Quakers said the Army were Glorious Instruments in the Hand of God and that God by his Spirit and Power was not only the Beginner but the Carryer on of that work and that it was his presence and power in the Army that gave them perfect Victory And abundance more to the same purpose Observe the other Column P. 52. Some of the Presbyterian Nonconformist Preachers are fled beyond Sea others lurk in Corners here and there and keep private Conventicles where many times they preach Sedition against their Lawful Prince by instigation of whom that Insurrection hapned in 1666. Obs Could any thing more be said by the Common Informers or by the most inveterate Enemies of separate Meetings than these Men here say and publish against the Presbyterians Is not this a high degree of Malice against them and Flattery of their Persecutors P. 53. And some of them have Printen Books in defence of the Lawfulness of making War against the Supreme Magistrate c. Obs And have not the Quakers Printed Books to the same purpose particularly F. H. and E. B. To the Committees of Safety See the other Column p. 12 13 P. 54. And in very Truth the Presbyterian Church will never be able to purge her self of the Iniquity of killing many thousands in the three Nations by the occasion of a most bloody War raised up through the Instigation of the Presbyterian Teachers Obs If the Presbyterians be thus guilty of sheding of the Blood that was shed
to leave off until they had set up their STANDARD at the Gates of Rome as may be seen in their own Writings here following And yet for them to upbraid others with that which themselves for many years were so deeply concerned and engaged in is such a piece of Wickedness as can hardly be parallel'd by any sort of People professing Christianity This this their Baseness I have in secret acquainted them withal but no Ear or Heed would they give to what I said but still went on in their accustomed manner to Defame such as had not been more engaged if so much as themselves in the late Wars yea and that in the most revengeful and highest aggravating Terms that 't was possible for their Penn to express witness those Words to the Nonconforming Ministers in Answer to Mr. Faldo viz. But why poor Nonconformists after all their Preach'd up Battels Spoils Plunders Sacrileges Decimations c. Again They are true Gospel-ministers whose Gospel is Peace on Earth and Good Will towards Men and not Garments rolled in the Blood of Kings and Princes Rulers and People No Worldly Armies Battles Victories Trophies Spoils Sequestrations Decimations and the like Blood-thirsty and Tyrannical Projects in which John Faldo and his poor Non-conforming Ministers have had their Hands almost over Head and Ears till they had well nigh lost their Ears and their Heads too Much more of this Nature may be seen towards to the latter end of the lesser Column of this Book What People setting these aside could have had the Face and Confidence to have writ such Language as this Certainly not any especially when they themselves had been engaged in the same Cause and Quarrel with those whom they now so much Reproach and Vilifie The Consideration of these things with their pretending themselves to be the Only People of the LORD and of their being the Only Embassadors and Ministers of Christ with the Discharge of my own Conscience put me upon gathering these their Writings together and having them so placed that those of the meanest Capacity may easily discern and see them to be as great Dissemblers Deceivers and Deluders of the People as have appear'd in this our Age. Reader THE first Column is what they writ before the King came in the other is what they writ since his Return and as for the Quotations I have endeavoured faithfulness therein and have cited both Book and Page where their Words may be found but they have left out many Passages and altered several Words that suited not with their Interests and Designs both of E. B's and F. H's in the Re-print of their Works which thou wilt have notice of as thou readest And where I have abbreviated any of their Writings or lest out any of their Words which were not so material to be put in or too large to insert thou wilt find a little stroke thus but have not in the least either wronged the Matter or Sense thereby as thou mayest see if thou peruse the Books I have quoted But before thou proceedest to read farther I am willing thou shouldst hear the Testimony they give of their own Writings viz. If ther you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles you will own oue Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and power See G. F's Answ to the Westmoreland Petition p. 30. You might as well condemn the Scriptures to the Fire as our Queries Our giving forth Papers or printed Books it is from the immediate Eternal Spirit of God You are now Answered from the Mouth of the Lord. See G. F. and R. H. Truth 's Defence c. p. 2 104 107. Now if this their Testimony be true then their Writings are to be had in as great and as venerable esteem as the Scriptures or any holy Man's Words are but if it be otherwise then are they Lyars and false Prophets and to be avoided and witnessed against Let these following Collections manifest the Truth thereof And now the time is come that as they have laid open the Deceit Wickedness and Hypocrisie of other Professors that went before them even so must their Deceit Wickedness and Hypocrisie be also laid open For the LORD whom I no Respecter of Persons But who shall live when GOD doth this J. P. Geo Fox's Judgment CONCERNING KINGLY GOVERNMENT Taken out of a Paper of his written to the Presbyterians and Others before the KING was Restored TO all you that desire an Earthly King in England Who profess your selves to be Christians whether Presbyterians or Others Do not the Priests Presbyterians and many of the Rulers cry for an Earthly King And is not this the same Nature the Jews were in And do not they in This Crucifie Jesus Are not all these Elders Christians that will doat so much of an Earthly King Traytors against Christ Now Elders if you say Peter said Honour the King This doth not hold forth that Peter bid them set up an Earthly King over them neither do you read that there were any Earthly Kings since the days of the Apostles but among the Apostate Christians c. And all these Antichrists and Presbyterians imitated Elders over them all Will Christ Reign and these Kings that have been made For Christ is King alone and makes his Disciples Kings to Reign upon the Earth These are true Christians and will these have any more Kings among them but Christ who are Redeemed from the Earth and earthly Kings I say That is the false Church that doth not live upon the Heads of these Kings Such as have the Prophets Christ and the Apostles Words the Sheeps Cloathing but out of the Life and Power that makes such work for an Earthly King Herod the King was Mad at the Child Jesus and sought to slay all the Children in Bethlehem of Judea There is ehe fruits of Earthly Kings and such a King would our false Christians and Elders have The Children of Israel when they grew would have Kings like other Nations that when People were gon from the Lord God then they set up Kings and when the Children of Israel served not the Lord God but went after other gods they desired a King which the Lord gave them in his Wrath Sam. 8. And in this manner Should a King Reign over them the King shall take your Sons and appoint them for his Chariots c. this is the fruit of your Kings The King will take your Fields your Vineyards your best Olive Trees and give them to his Servants this is the Fruit of your Kings c. Ignorant and foolish People that would have a King and Kings since the days of the Apostles The People will not hear when all these Fruits of these Kings are laid down to them But says Christians and false Elders there shall be a King over us and we also will be like other Nations So the Christians go out from Christ and set up Kings like Heathens Hos 13.11 You ignorant and foolish that is
put such out of the Army This following Letter shews that G. F. approved of Olivers Authority about which he gives him and his Souldiers Charge p. 36 37. Friend THou shouldst have invited all the Christians upon Earth in all Nations that are against Popery to thee to comein and joyn with thee against Popery for thou hast had Authority stand to it loose it not nor abuse it nor let any other take thy Crown and do not stand cumbring thy self about Dirty Priests and thou hast had Power over Nations for Nations begin to be on heaps and invite all them that profess against the Pope in all Nations to joyn with thee against him and do not loose thy Dominion nor Authority nor the Wisdom of God but with that thou may'st order all ☞ That will keep thee single in Heart and Mind to the Lord and let thy Souldiers go forth with a free willing Heart that thou may'st Rock Natious as a Cradle and keep thou in the Fear of the Lord and all the Soldiers and them that are under thee This is a Charge to thee in the Presence of the Lord God that thou nor them may loose the Dread of the Lord ☞ for that strikes a terror in the Hearts of all People c. I am a Lover of thy Soul and eternal Good an Establisher of Righteousness G. F. Obs Is not this a Just Authority which so great a Prophet exhorts him to stand to and not to loose nor suffer any to take his Crown And yet this Authority is to be defended and enlarged by Soldiers who are charged to go forth with a free willing heart and to keep in the fear of the Lord which argues they were in the fear of the Lord and so either Quakers or as good as Quakers In another Letter the same G. F. salutes Oliver thus p. 27. Dear Friend BE still and in the Councel of God stand and that will give thee Wisdom that thou may'st frustrate Men's Ends and calm Men's Spirits and Crumble Men under and arise and stand up in the Power of the Lord God ☞ The Lambs Authority and fear not the Face of Man but fear and dread the Lord God then his Presence and Wisdom and Councel thou shalt have to throw down the Rubbish and quell all the bad Spirits under thy Dominion therefore live in the Power of the Lord God and feel his Hand that is stretched out over the Nations for a Mighty Work hath the Lord to do in other Nations and their Quakings and Shakings are but entring So this is the Word of the Lord God to thee as a Charge to thee from the Lord God c. The same G. F. in the Name of the Church of Christ and Elect Assembly Known in the Nations by the Name of Quakers To Rich. Cromwel Protector p. 47 51. Friend LIve in God's Wisdom if thou wilt reign in his Power and Strength then none shall touch thee and all them that fear God will be on thy side and take thy Part and be one with thee in all thy Sufferings yea till death And G. For after six pages of Instructions to him concludes with these Words viz. The Lord God Almighty preserve thee in his Wisdom and Counsel and Strength over the Heads of his Enemies in thy self and in the World both And Friend take heed of putting of honest godly Men out of the Army ☞ or putting them out of their places being Iustices of the Peace In so doing thou wilt lame thy self and weaken thy Authority and remove thy self out of the Hearts of them that fear God G. F. Obs He approves of his Power and prays for his Victory over his Enemies in himself and in the World both And pray was not the King and his Party some of those Enemies and he warns him of putting honest godly Men out of the Army as he had done his Father before But when Richard was gone off the Stage and the Officers of the Army in Power then G. F. applies himself to them in these words OH Friends The Power of God ye have abused the Iust have been trodden under Foot who have been put out of the Army and Publick Services Now had you been Faithful in the Power of the Lord which once stirred this Nation needed not have been affraid of any Nation upon the Earth but your Dread would have sounded over the World But when you lost the Power of God with which you had brushed at the Out-side of Things then you turned against and put them in Prison meaning the Quakers that struck at the Root And had you been Faithful to the Power of the Lord God which first carried you on you had gone into the midst of Spain into their Land to require the Blood of the Innocent that there had been shed and have commanded them to have offered up their Inquisition to you and gone over them as the Wind and knock'd at Rome Gates before now and trampled Deceit and Tyrants under and demanded the Pope himself and have commanded him to have offered up all his Torture-Houses and his Wracks and Inquisition which you should have found as black as Hell and broke up the Bars and Gates where all the Just Blood hath been shed which should have been required and this you should have required and this you should have seen done in the Power when you had been the Dread of all Nations and you had been a Dread to them and should have set up a Standard at Rome and then you should have sent for the Turks Idol the Mahomet and plucked up Idolatry and cryed up Christ the only King and Lord and then People would have said you had gone on in the Cause of God and his Truth c. And so if you had gone to have made Inquisition for Blood and to demand all the Inquisitions abroad in the whole Christendom whereby the Innocent Blood hath been shed then all the People in the whole Christendont that feared the Lord God would have said with one consent These are the Men that are gone out for God's Cause Many valiant Captains Souldiers and Officers have been put out of the Army because of their Faithfulness to the Lord it may be for saying Thou to a single Person or for wearing their Hats c. Oh how are Men fallen from that which they were in at first when Thousands of us went in the Front of you and were with you in the greatest Heat c. Oh what a Sincerity was once in the Nation What a dirty nasty thing it would have been to have heard talk of a House of Lords among them Oh! how is the Sincerity choaked smothered and quenched by the Fatness of the Earth whereby they have forgot ten the Lord and his Arm and Power that once carried them on And if ever you Souldiers and true Officers come again into the Rower i. e. the Spirit of God which hath been lost never set up your Standard till you come to
Rome and it be a top of Rome then there let your Standard stand and look at the Power of the Lord God and never heed Gold nor Silver for the Power of the Lord will give you enough c. See To the Council of Officers pag. 2 3 5 6 7 8. G. F. Obs He saith it was the Power of the Lord God that first carried them on and had they been Faithful they should have required Innocent Blood of Spain and knock'd at Rome Gates and trampled Tyrants under and demanded the Pope himself and this they should have done as an Army in the Spirit and Power of God which they had lost setting up a Standard at Rome commanding the Turk and crying up Christ the only King then all that feared the Lord Quakers as well as others would have said These are the Men that are gone out for the Cause of God and his Truth Then he complains That many valiant Captains Souldiers and Officers have been put out of the Army because of their Faithfulness to the Lord that is for being Quakers as he intimates Then he crys out saying Thousands of us went in the Front of you This was a time of Sincerity when it would have been a dirty nasty thing to have talked of a House of Lords He counsels them not to stop till they have set up their Standard at Rome and never heed Gold nor Silver for the Power of the Lord will give you enough so E. Burrough says to the Army God will give their the Papists falslly consecrated Vessels and Treasures a Spoil and Prey to you if you be faithful Compare this with what they say in the other Column NOW I shall come to cite some Passages out of E. B's Books he was one of their Chief Preachers and in very great Esteem amongst them his Works they took care to reprint in Folio but withal to expunge some Passages and alter others which discovered too much of his Oliverian and their Fighting Spirit This Man is charged by Ieremiah Ives to have justified the late War against the King and is defended by Geo. Whitehead another of their chief Preachers saying Serious Search p. 35 36. Thou art pleased to tell the World twice or thrice over that we justifie the late Wars against the King And why so Because E. B. in severely warning the late Powers of their Downfal did by way of Reproof tell Oliver what God had done for him even in the same Letter to him wherein he plainly also telleth him of the Great Oppressions which the People of God suffered under him c. See saith he E. B's Works from pag. 551. to pag. 583. how plainly and faithfully he did warn Oliver and those Men then in Power of their Overthrow To be sure E. Burrough was no Temporizer Now we are to see whether E. Burrough doth not Justifie the late War against the King Counsel and Advice Printed 1659. In his Letters to Oliver Protector May 1657. he hath these Passages Pag. 4. THE Lord gave thee the Necks of Princes to tread upon and their Dominions to inherit and thou wast set a Ruler in much Dominion and hast savour in his Sight and in the sight of many People who wished well unto thee for a Blessing Many Victories honourable and remarkable was given unto thee over them who had exalted themselves against God and ruled in Tyranny over his People whom the Lord pittied and thou an Instrument in his Band wast ordained by him to lead forth a People whom he Blessed with thee against a cruel People and Generation of Oppressors who exercised Tyranny over the Lord's Heritage till they were taken away and cast out and are a Reproach unto the Lord and his People unto this day and even so shall all be that follow their Example and are Oppressors and Tyrants over the Seed of God as they were Note These Lines in Black Letter are all left out in his Works p. 552. In another Letter to him he writes thus dated September 1657. Pag. 16 17. Friend IT is upon me and also I am pressed in Spirit thereunto to give unto thee even unto the Oliver Protector the perfect measure of thy Dominions c. Many Enemies thou hast which watch over thee for Evil and not for Good who would rejoyce in thy overthrow And first there is a People scattered through all these Nations who are full of Wrath and ravening Envy towards thee Even of those known by the Name of Malignants Party in whose Hearts to this day there is continual hatred and evil surmising lodgeth against thee and all thy Off-spring and I believe that dayly advantage they seek against thee by subtle Conspiracies and secret Plottings of Maliciousness in their Evil Hearts seeking by all means if it be possible how to be avenged and not slipping any advantage how to revenge themselves and the Cause of their King I know the Lord hath Cursed them and their Endeavours to this day and thou hast had Dominion and Power given thee of God to bruise them and to break them to pieces and what thou hast done unto their King should not be reckoned against thée by the Lord if now thou wert Faithful to what he requires of thee c. Note And promote their Cause is put in instead of The Cause of their King p. 559. And the word blasted is put in instead of Cursed And all the Words in Black Letter are left out in his Works p. 560. Obs How he calls the Protector and his Party a People whom the Lord blessed against a cruel People and Generation of Oppressors that is those called the Malignant Party that were for the King he saith also The Lord hath cursed them and their Endeavours to this day and that if the Protector would own them the Quakers they would own him in the Face of all his Enemies p. 21. the chief of which were then the King 's Party How should they do that without fighting And in a Letter of his to the Protector and Council 12th Month 57. he saith p. 23. WHat Hath the abundance of this Worlds Glory and its Treasure quite overcome and stoln away your Hearts wholly from all sense and seeling of the unjust Sufferings of your Brethren meaning the Quakers who have in times past as faithfully as your selves served the Nation with their Lives and Estates to the purchasing of this Peace and Freedom out of the hands of Tyrants Tyrants is left out and the word Opposers put in its stead E. B's works p. 563. In another Letter to the Protector which was given to him the 6th Month 1658. about a Month before his Death he writes thus p. 33. ARise and stand up for the Lord and he will give thee strength and Victory and will make thy Horn as Iron and thy Hoof as Brass to push down and tread under the High Places of Idolatry in all the Apostatiz'd Churches both Papists and others And as concerning thy War and Armies