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A28267 A letter from a Christian friend in the country to another in the city Ro. Bl. 1655 (1655) Wing B3036; ESTC R12918 6,677 8

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their prayers How long Lord holy and true will it be ere thou aveng c. Amongst other causes of this complaint to speake in the words of Solomon 30. Prov. 22. it is because of a servant when he reigntch Your trading I heare in the City is become and likely to continue so dead that men who have not good stocks are ready to shut up shop But your Condition in the City I beleeve is made better then ours in the Country in respect both of Landlord and Tenent the one can scarcely get any rent because the other cannot raise it Farmers prosesse they must give up their Farmes because the profit will not ballast the charge of tillage and Taxes It was the vaine brag of Cajus Marius that hee sate in the ruines of Carthage and is it not the disgrace of our grandees that they are grown great by the ruines of their Country he was a Heathen and died mad they are either Christians or hypocrits and may be more miserable How doth that heathen Romane Cato shame and out-strip our pretended Christian Patriots he was as Anxious for the safety and freedome of Rome as they are solicitous for themselves he was as reall a refuge for afflicted virtue as they are oppressors of it They engaged their lives and souls to get gain but he laid down his life for liberty choosing rather to be his Countries Sacrifice then Caesars Slave Dear Friend were all our Courtiers either Christians or Cato's they would rather Conquer for their Country then for themselves but oh for what he dyed to preserve they live to spoil and prey upon the blood of a whole War the price of Widdows prayers and Orphants tears proclaims their game to be their godlinesse oh these are sad fruits of our fourteen years fighting poverty and oppression are very uncomfortable fruits of Reformation but dominion impiously got must be impiously kept one sin must maintain another yet let us with comfort consider that Jehovah is greater then the king of feirce countenance and understanding dark sentences although he may for a time which we hope is neer an end by policy cause craft to prosper in his hand and think to change Times and Laws yet his Dominion shall be taken away c. Did not our Lord in mercy cast the late Kings yoak from off our necks After that darknesse was dispell'd did not the light of liberty dawne untill tempestuous clouds arising from the filthy fogs of falshood and treachery impostumated in the Braines and Bosomes of some few instruments in the work of Liberty we were environed with a more Egyptian darknesse then ever hath not their treachery and our ingratitude urged God to repent of his favours he sent us light but we loving darknesse rather than light shut our eys against the Sun-beams that we might with more modesty sin in secret He began to restore liberty but we rather chose servitude why should we then complain that we are enslaved in unlimitted Monarchy whilest by a shamefull kind of villenage we bow our servile necks under the basest yoak and pay our Homage to the most matchlosse monsters of mankinde that ever any noble Nation truckled under Yet dear friend fear not freedome will yet fall upon its sect in the interim pious and publique spirits may be foiled but not defeated great and good designes are carried on by orderly additions but sudden elevations soon decline like aboutive Embrions believe it our Lord will blast their base enslaving designes and nipt their Mushrom honours in the bud Hypocrisie may a little longer act vices part in vertues apparrel but shall at last fall head long from its greatest height A tyrants Conscience knows no night of rest blood in despight of Poppy breaks his sleep the fears and fury of his fantacy fix deaths unerring symptoms in his face despair not a Tyrants death is the people Antidote in his own good time our God will cure the Courtiers itch and avarice let greatnesse held by force fear a fall height and preciptance stand tottering and know no Mediums in their Declinations Whosoever observes the Orthodoxall maximes of our dayes need not marvel that our Marshalists have ravish'd Astrea and pull'd justice down but Christ Jesus will come quickly and bring his reward with him the Saints shall sit and see his righteous judgments Nay Mr. Feak Mr. Rogers c. shall judge their Oppressors and Persecutors but I doubt our State professors who have set themselves over us do no more believe this truth then Pilate when he was judging Christ did believe he was Condemning his judge or the Jews when they were whipping persecuting and imprisoning the Apostles did thinke to see them sit on twelve Throns judging the twelve Tribes of Israel do you not know saith Paul That the Saints shall judge the world 1 Cor. 6. 2 3. Oh that our carelesse Courtiers and Army men who with wings impt with the plumes of Oppression and Perjury soar over us like Eagles of a true Ayrie whilest indeed they are Birds of prey not of Paradise would be now of the same mind as they will be when they shall see the heavens passe away with a noise and the Elements melt with fervent heat c. But when all is said The wicked will do wickedly but the wise shall understand and the prudent shall keep silence Dear Friend farewell and let us hold fast till our Lord come Amen Yours co-expectant in the deliverance of Syon Ro. Bl. Novemb. 24. 1655.