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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93704	A warning-piece discharged: or, Certain intelligence communicated to His Excellencie the Lord General Cromvvel, with all the real and cordial officers and souldiers under his command. Wherein the present tempers of each society of people in this Commonwealth, under each degree or notion whatsoever, are inserted and controverted, in relation to the election of a new representative. As also, a brief and full parallel betwixt the history of Israel and our late and present series of affairs. In which simile, our present general is compar'd with Moses, as he was their deliverer, judge, and general. By John Spittlehouse, a late member of the Army.	Spittlehouse, John.	1653 (1653)	Wing S5016; Thomason E697_11; ESTC R203634	20,397	27

to desire to be made Heathens And that to all ends and purposes which I desire may for the future be seriously considered both by the present persons in Authoritie least they should assume to be looked upon or adored as Kings of the Nations as also to prevent the like desire for the future in such our wanton and unadvised Israelites viz. those of the prelaticall and Presbyterian judgements who thinke that if they have not a King they cannot be Al a mode-de frans c. as formerly they have been to their cost and will be more if they persist in the like rebellious thoughts against God who is now tendering himselfe to be their King as he was to Israel in Moses dayes which should they refuse the Lord will undoubtedly bring seven worse evills upon them then hath yet befallen them but a word to the wise is sufficient for they cannot but know that whilst the present Conservators hath the least cause of jealousie that they hanker after such an heathenish Idoll as hath been cleerly proved which they can judge no lesse whilst each of the aforesaid parties continueth vassals to the two aforesaid daughter Harlots of Prelacie and Presbyterie as formerly mention'd they cannot expect eyther to be made free denizens of this Common-wealth but contrariwise to be esteemed onely as hewers of wood and drawers of water to the Israel or people of God who abominate such Heathen-like practises Againe neyther can they expect to be eased of their taxes and burdens which they seeme to groane under which by abandoning such their Babylonish and Heathenish principles they may easily prevent But let mee tell them this one thing more that they cannot desert the one unlesse both for the whore sitteth so fall upon the back of the beast that she cannot be dismounted but by the ruine of the beast they being inseperable Concomitants as the Patrons thereof very well know when they said No Bishop no King and now No King no Presbyterie Object This your discourse hath been some-what off from our present businesse howbeit very usefull to such as you have applyed it unto whom indeed it properly concerns But to begin where we left we say you doe mistake us for all our aime is out of the intire affection that we have to the persons in present Authority to admonish them to beware lest they run themselves into dangerous Temptations lest being lifted up with their honour they forget what they have been and so consequently what have undertaken and ingaged themselves to do Respond Truly friends if that be the ultimate of your desires I judge the present Conservators of this Common-wealth are very much engaged unto you for such your friendly and brother-like Admonition there being much affection expressed in what you say as can be uttered as will thus appeare For what greater expressions of Affection can be made then for you to hazard both your bodies and soules to preserve your friends from danger which unavoidably you must doe by taking the management of the Affaires of this present Common wealth upon you for the same danger which you are fearefull the present Conservators are subject unto the like will you or such your friends whom you would so intrust Have you more excellent Armour of proof upon you then those in present power Is there such imminent danger in the present Patriots to be poysoned with their present preferment and are you or your friends such Medridatuses as that it will have no such operation upon your bodies have they been so long accustomed thereunto Are you fearfull that our present Patriots should with the Fig-tree loose its sweetnesse or with the Olive-tree its fatnesse or with the Vine its Wine and are you not possessed with the like feare in reference to your own selves Certainly friends there must needs be a Snake lurking under these green herbs there must needs be something in such your Expressions more then you have a mind to discover at present And truly you give mee some cause to thinke you would prove the bramble or else you would certainly have greater care of your selves and therefore let us search out the truth of the matter Consider I beseech you what you would undertake viz. a whole yeares temptation rather then these in present power six weeks for so J. W. the donor of the Mite Alias the Master of Sentences would have it But good Mr J. W. deale really with me herein for such affection is like a black Swan upon Earth Is it not because you think the Table of this Common-wealth lyeth not levell enough for your desired Comrades to play their game upon which the removing of our present Conservators you thinke would wholly effect Or is it not out of an ambitious desire to mount your selves into the great Horse-saddle because you have been so long Keepers of the Stuffe Or is it not because you thinke your selves more able Pilots to guide the new rig'd Ship of this Common-wealth betwixt the Scilla and Caribdis of a tyrannicall Monarchy and a Baby lonish Hirarchie then they that sit now at the Stern And if so have they not great reason to look to themselves how they part with the staffe out of their hands Certanely they may be justly as jealous of you as you of them Object You force us to tell you in plain terms we thinke the Generall hath taken more upon him then he is able to beare Respond Hath he taken more upon him then Moses did before Iethro gave him counsell Besides if he have hath he not taken unto him ten men that are both able and honest to his assistance Object I question whether ten such persons be a competent number to manage the present Affairs of this Common-wealth viz. to receive and answer Adresses heare and relieve Complaints and do other things which may be just and requisite for them to doe untill about the first of Iune next by which time an equall Representative may be chosen Respond Pray once more Mr. I. W. Are not the present tenne as competent a number as the seaven you mention in your last Querie which you would have reserved during the intervails of succeeding Representatives Againe are the present Conservators so little in your favour as not to be allowed by you the priviledg of the aforesaid seaven viz. to take in so many fit persons as they shall have need of when and where occasion is offered As also for such a continuance as you have there prescribed but it seems you can afford your owne friends twelve moneths but not above six weeks to those in present power Againe you thinke you have played the Man albeit a Wilde one by saying it is acknowledged by most Rationall men that the power is primarily and originally in the people as in your Epistle without either there or elsewhere expressing whom you meane by the people save by some dubious Characters as where you propound to consideration whether any Members of the