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A79845	A seasonable word to the Parliament-men, to take with them when they go into the House: wherein is shewed, the first part of their present work, and what is expected from them, to satisfie their true and real friends. Likewise a vvatchword, how they prefer not again such persons to places of trust who have lately betrayed the priviledges of Parliaments, and the just rights of the people, into the hands of a single person. By John Canne.	Canne, John, d. 1667?	1659 (1659)	Wing C442; Thomason E983_1; ESTC R207713	4,331	8

about this City and elsewhere have ingaged by their Application to the General Council of the Officers of the Army to stand with them in the prosecution thereof I humbly offer to your consideration Seeing it hath pleased God to put you again into a capacity for the carrying on of the Lords work Whether it may not be necessary that something also be declared by you in reference to the said Good Old Cause if you really intend to carry it on so that it may be known far and neer what a happy accord there is between the Parliament Army and the Good people of the Nation and how former divisions and breaches are healed But 5. Give me leave to tell you of the Spirit of God now raised higher in the hearts of his Saints for the Interest of Christ and his People then it was at your former sitting And it is such a Spirit that many waters cannot quench it neither can the floods drown it it is a Spirit that will not close with any corrupt Interest neither be silent if men take unrighteous courses O. P. knew this well enough for though he gain'd upon other men and turned the Nations upside down and brake Parliaments at his pleasure yet still this Spirit got ground of him and the more he wrestled and strove against it the more it grew and prospered True it is You need not question but to have Followers enough what way soever you lead there are Lawyers Priests Courtiers Tryers Office or place-Beggers c. that are for any change like Gnato in Terence Ais aio neges nego If you say it is thus so do I if you say nay so do I. Mutor pro ratione temporis as one said such who the other day defied a Commonwealth and gave it under their hands that they would fight against it will now crouch to you for a morsel of bread But there are people which fear God more then men and will not be partakers of other mens sins these were they who in the strength of the Lord held forth a publike Testimony against the Apostacie and kept alive the Good Old Cause yea let me tell you You had not sate where you now do if the Spirit of God in these men had not shaken the very foundation of the last Government 6. I should not be faithful either to God or to you or to my own Soul if I did not call upon you to give Jesus Christ his RIGHTS Indeed this should be more minded of you then the Civil Rights of the People God hath made him both Lord and Christ not only King of Saints but King of Nations and all the Kingdoms of the world shall be his and he the ONELY POTENTATE It is true this Stone hitherto the Master-builders have rejected and hence God hath destroyed the work of their hands one after another How far you are enlightned concerning the visible and glorious Kingdome of Jesus Christ I know not but this is certain if you honour him he will honour you and if you make it your work to prepare the way for him he will protect you against all men and make you a blessing to the Nation The Army before their declension eminently declared for Jesus Christ and THIS THEN was the chief part of the Good Old Cause viz. NO KING BUT JESVS his Kingdome Laws People c. was THEN the Good Old Cause and they thought themselves to be the Army of the Lamb his sanctified ones and the Lords mighty Host to pour out vengeance upon Babylon they have promised once more before God Angels and men to maintain the Good Old Cause and they have told us what they mean by it namely No King but Jesus Now let them take heed for God will not be mocked and it is a fearful thing to fall into his hands 7. I might likewise remind you of the breaking the Long Parliament I confess as things have appeared since we have cause to think he who did it sought only himself and not Gods glory nor the Publike interest of the People Nevertheless looking beyond men we shall see a righteous God who loveth righteousness and doubtless the only wise God would not have had it so but for some good end And why among other ends may not this be one namely by such a way and means to purge out your dross and tin and to make you the more meet for the masters use I have but one word more it is to tell you what God is now doing in the Assemblies and great Councils of men namely more visibly cursing the craft of subtle men and more sensibly blessing plain and honest dealing then formerly So that this I dare say and could wish it were written on the walls of Your House Polititians by their cunning tricks and brain-working some yeers past might have expected to speed better and their deep designs to stand longer then they will do now For as the Lord is now bringing in Truth and Righteousness to the Nations so the sincere and upright doings of plain Jacobs and Nathaniels shall stand whilst the deep workings of Achitophels and Machiavels shall fall as Dagon did before the Ark. Behold thou art made whole sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee Joh. 5.14 FINIS

A SEASONABLE WORD To the Parliament-Men To take with them when they go into the HOUSE Wherein is shewed The first part of their present Work and what is expected from them to satisfie their true and real Friends Likewise A VVatchword how they prefer not again such Persons to Places of Trust who have lately Betrayed the Priviledges of Parliaments and the Just Rights of the People into the hands of a Single Person By JOHN CANNE If thou doest well shalt not thou be accepted and if thou doest not well sin lieth at the door Gen. 4.7 To do justice and Judgment is more acceptable to the Lord then sacrifice Prov. 21.3 LONDON Printed by J.C. for L. Chapman 1659. A Seasonable word for the Parliament-men to take with them when they go into the House SIRS WHat hath God done As your Sitting again is by a Wonderful hand of Providence so doubtless the effect whatever it be will speak out to the Nation something more then ordinary Though I cannot say what it will be yet with some confidence I dare say the Lord by you either intends to heal the great Breaches of this miserable Nation and thereby make your Memories blessed or to bring us yet lower and make our Wounds greater and deeper and that by you However things fall out I worship God with my Soul that I have liv'd to see this late Revolution and that there is a door open to me to speak soberly and humbly once more to You I say once more for Truth and Righteousness and for the Interest of Christ and his People I need not tell you for my mind gives me You are very sensible of it never were more eyes upon men then are now upon you and Your Motions will be narrowly look'd into both by friends and foes you cannot halt nor turn to the right hand nor to the left but one or other will spie it presently It was a good saying of David Let integrity and uprightness preserve me Verily Sirs it is honesty and doing just things that must keep you for nothing else will do it and the neglect of this was the cause why others lately were laid aside and nothing remains of them among the faithful of the Land but the infamous memory of their falshood and hypocrisie And no marvel for they were like the Dogs set in Capitolio to fray away theeves by night who left the theeves and fell to bark at true men walking by day It is well known under the Last Government of a Single Person very few except Turncoats and Time-servers Virtutem qui verba putant ut lucum ligna as Horace speaketh Men of corrupt minds who suppose that gain is godliness I say except such as would make shipwrack of faith and a good Conscience few else had either countenance or safety But that snare is broken and we are escaped To You therefore that are now sitting at the Helm of this Commonwealth I do desire without giving flattering Titles to propound a few things 1. In the fear of God give me leave to remind You what were the Great and General Complaints of people against the Long Parliament I shall not ingage as to the truth of the Reports but only tell you what was commonly said 1. That there was a preferring of unworthy men unto places of greatest trust and profit Relations and other worldly respects swayed more then due qualifications and hence grew up a while after such a generation of men as filled the Land with violence and oppression so that there was nothing but a great crie every where yea it is said since a Stop was put to that Parliament none have been more active and forward to exercise an Arbitrary power over the good People of the Nation then the persons whom they preferr'd 2. The Report went that some of that Parliament more endeavoured to inrich themselves by Delinquents Estates then to be any ways useful or serviceable for the publick good of the Nation It was Isaac's question to Jacob How is it that thou hast found it so quickly my son If it be true that in a few yeers some got a thousand pound per annum others fifteen hundred some two thousand it was quickly gotten 3. Another General Complaint was their taking little heed to their Promises As the Domestique servants of the late King were wont to say They could not depend on his Promises nor beleeve what he said I shall conclude nothing here but certain it is the Complaint was general that they would give their friends fair words and large promises but never mind their Cause though they were quite undone by it I shall not inlarge upon those particulars for my scope and purpose is not to discover any mans nakedness but to prevent what I can future miscarriages Truly my desire and prayer to God is that this Parliament may do worthily in Ephrata and be famous in Bethlehem Only let me tell You if some men who for betraying the just Rights of their Country had they their deserts ought to he punished should they notwithstanding be trusted again with the places and power they had it will very much sadden the hearts of your true friends and they will have the less hope to see much good done by you Sirs As for good men and such as will faithfully serve you and their Country it is below their Principles to be running after you for places such a practise sutes not with their spirits but with a sort of servile mercenarie fellows that will hire out themselves to do any thing for their belly And therefore I do beseech You for Gods sake and for your Countries sake and for the Good Old Cause sake take heed how you do put such persons into places who betraying their trust sought to betray the Commonwealth Secondly As you are sensible of the grievances of the people and will endeavour I hope to remove them as you are able So it is desired and expected by the Godly that you will be mindful of the great reproach which hath lay'n these 5 or six yeers upon the Name of God and the holy profession of the Gospel It will be little comfort to many of your friends to see the Civil Rights and Liberties of the people restored and nothing done to the vindication of Gods glory which hath suffered so much through the Late Apostacie 3. It will be now your wisdome seriously to heed what the Lord hath signally own'd and wonderfully upheld in spite of all opposition I say what the Gates of Hell have been against but could not prevail Again on the other hand observe where his publike rebukes have been and what that Power and Policie is which the Lord from Heaven hath cursed and take heed you be not gathering where God is scattering not designing against THAT upon which he hath engraven GRACE GRACE A word is enough to the wise 4. Whereas the Army of late hath declared for the Good Old Cause many thousands in and