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A96291	A declaration to Great Britain and Ireland, shewing the downfall of their princes, and wherefore it is come upon them: because Christ is riding on his white horse, conquering his enemies till he have destroyed Antichrist, who hath made the nations drunk with the cup of her fornications: and till he have destroyed Mahomet, that great deceiver of the people. / Written and directed to Great Britain, and all other nations; by me Robert Wharton, wel-wisher to my countrymen, and to all the faithfull in Christ Jesus throughout the world. With an humble advice to the Army. This treatise is approved and commended, and thought worthy to be printed, by Master Hugh Peters.	Wharton, Robert, fl. 1649.	1649 (1649)	Wing W1575; Thomason E555_35; ESTC R204066	18,927	28

not know that Christ is on his white horse riding on his journey conquering and overcoming his enemies Revel 6.2 And hath not he set you as watchmen upon the wals to give the people notice what he is a doing is he not going forth to conquer the Kingdoms of the world that they may become the Kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ Then I pray consider what ye have to do forget this darling of the world and set not the people a mourning after him that spared not our bloud but reach the people to mourne after him whom we have pierced with out sins even the Lord Jesus Christ But now let us consider who are our friends concerning the great worke that is now in hand begun in the World are they not they whom you have stirred up in your Sermons to fight the Lords battell against the mighty did you not take up that Text concerning Meroz saying Curse ye Meroz curse ye bitterly the Inhabitants thereof that come not out to helpe the Lord against the mighty have ye not said let him that hath no sword sell his cloke and buy one how have you been the cause partly of raising this Army and how have they prevailed against your enemies even by your prayers I pray remember the condition we were in many times and how the Lord preserved you and us by their hands and how were dayes of thanksgiving stirr'd up by you to the Parliament to cause the people to rejoyce with you and shall all this be forgotten I pray remember Leicester worke what a case were we in then when the Countrey said What will become of the Round-heads now how did you call us together to fasting and prayers and how were your Prayers heard by the Lord and a gracious return from the Lord was sent you by the hands of these men from Nasby then how did we and you blesse the Lord for this great mercie so that ever after out enemies could never prevail such was the great mercie of the Lord to you and us I pray remember what you said some of you when you saw these men give large and mercifull Propositions when they had conquered your enemies at Oxford did you not say that they would prove pricks and thorns in their sides and ours and did it not so come to passe as we have seen and now they have overcome them again by the mighty power of the Lord Christ dashing Babylons brats in pieces ye goe about to hinder them giving their enemies occasion even to curse them as I have heard sure this is a sad case when ye shall seeke to weaken their hands thus strive not against them for had not this been of the Lord they had never done so much as they have therefore count not them your enemies for ye shall have cause to say once more to call them your friends when ye shall see plainly what the Lord is a doing Who knoweth whether the Lord be going to make a new heaven and a new carth or now as is promised in Revel 21.1 Know ye not that when a Noble man goeth to take possession of a great place or house full of lumber that he will cause his servants to cast out all the lumber that he may place his royall furniture in the roome and will not a great Landlord throw out such tenants out of his inheritance that will pay no rent but abuse such tenants that will pay honestly to their power then I pray consider what the Lord Christ is a doing is he not coming to take possession of his in heritance that he bought so dearly of his Father and is not all the world his to do with all his pleasure wil he be tide to the spirits of men to do what they please surely no I pray remember how long the Church hath been in the Wildernesse of the world and how the red Dragon hath cast out flouds time after time to devoure her and how he hath sate like the great Prince of the World upon thrones usurping authority over the Nations and playing the tyrant over the Lords inheritance and now he finds his time grow short and his Kingdoms shall be taken from him he grows mad but now is the time come that he must be cast out one throne after another that the Kingdoms of the World may become the Kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ Revel 11.15 If this be so that the Lord is coming as chiefe Generall with his bow in his hand shooting at his enemies and with his Crown on his head conquering the Kings of the earth and the mighty men trampling them and their crowns under his feet that would not bow to his golden Scepter Psal 2.9 Revel 19.17 18. If this be so that the Lord hath begun already to take possession as may appeare by his doings here as consider what he hath done ever since the persecution in Queen Maries days how have they prospered that have had the mark of the beast in their forehead or that have lent a hand against this work that is going on in the world how hath Spain sped for coming here how hath Denmark sped for sending strength hither to help the King against the Lords work was he not almost beaten out of his Countrey by the Swedes and what became of that Army that the Queen brought over hither all the Irish French and other Nations came not they to their graves and look on Spain and France they must lash on another while we were busied here what King would not help his brother King rather then his Commons should over come him will be an example for other Nations to do the like yet all this will not do therefore let us consider what this power is it is not the power of man nor the sword of Gideon but the power and sword of the Lord as it hath appeared plainly by many examples in this land now if this be the Lords doings here What will be his doings in other lands among the great and lofty Nations where he hath to do Isa 27.23 Me thinks I see them begin to shake now is that red Dragon troubled now are his forces mustering together for the defence of his Babylonians among the Nations but all will not do for now hath the Lord been performing that promise that is spoken of in the 63 of Esay Now is he delivering his people and now he hath begun looke for no change but to goe forward in the World till he hath quite subdued that great enemy of the world that hath so long tyrannized over the Lords inheritance If it be so that the Lord be summoning in the Emperours and Kings with their mighty men to appear before the Bar of his Justice then is it time for us to looke about us and be like the Virgins that have their lamps trimm'd and their lights burning that they may waite on their Master the Lord Jesus Christ Matth. 25. who saith Watch for ye know not when

the Master cometh If the Lord be on his way destroying his enemies in his fury leading them into captivity that have led into captivities killing them with the sword that have killed with the sword Revel 13.10 Then is it time for the people of the Lord yea the Ministers of Jesus Christ to be united together and seek to the Lord to have the Root of bitternesse that is among them plucked up by the roots which hath been a great cause to Gods people to stagger and stumble in this time when the Lord is executing his enemies Truly it hath been a great cause of giving advantage to the enemy to laugh us to scorne yea it hath given them advantage to take up the sword againe which hath been the cause of much bloud-shed since Oxford giving up and may be the cause of more if not speedily prevented by an agreement among Ministers who are divided who knoweth whether the Lord hath done with his enemies will begin with his people or no and chastise them in the sight of their enemies will not this grieve you shall see the Lord lashing you in the sight of your enemies for them to laugh at you The Lord open your eyes that the errours which are between you may be plainly seen by you so that they may be plucked up by the roots and cast into hell from whence they came Now the Lord bring you together in love that your differences may be so ended that the Lord may smell a sweet savour in giving your selves up together in love to the Lord so shall the people of the Lord greatly rejoyce and your enemies be dismissed of their prey they long and look for thus will there be a great advantage unto a happy peace in the Nation then shall the glory of the Gospell breake forth in this Land like a burning shining light to the whole world which will be a great means to darken errours then shall the Ministers be seene once more like the Stars in Christs right hand whom their enemies did once seeke to pull down by proclaiming them Traitors Then will the Lord delight to do us good and bring down the power of the enemie still more and more till he have quite overthrowne Antichrist and plucked down his throne which shall be downe in his appointed time which time is set and known to the Lord even to the very day and houre appointed which being done Mahomet his time must suddenly follow then then down must come all other thrones where the red Dragon hath his power and when all these Kingdomes of the world are subdued to the obedience of Christ Then shall the Dragon be quite conquered and chained up for a thousand years Revel 20.3 Then shall that Prophesie be come to passe which was spoken by our Saviour Christ to his Disciples in Luke 21.24 concerning the destruction of Jerusalem where he saith And they shall fall by the edge of the Sword and shall be led away captive into all Nations thus hath that appeared long ago sixteene hundred years the next Jerusalem must be trodden down of the Gentiles untill the time of the Gentiles shall be fulfilled Now according to the Prophesie of our Saviour Christ When all the Kingdomes of the world are subdued to his obedience then shall the Jews become an United Nation again and Jerusalem shall be builded a glorious City the Lord Christ raigning spiritually among them But to consider of the great mercy of the Lord in bringing down the power of our home-bred enemies what enemies had we in the Parliament to keep back the work the Lord had going on for the defence of his people how did they seeke wayes to overthrow all by treachery by sending money and other provisions in the time of my Lord of Essex and so made our enemies proud over us had not the Lord curbed them and kept them under but when they could not prevaile then did they take my Lord of Warwicke and placed Committees in his roome yet that would do them no good they were so befooled by the mercy of the Lord then to try another project they chose Sir Thomas now Lord Fairfax to be Generall and gave him a large Commission thinking it should break his necke now judge ye how treacherous they were to the Seats they sate on and to the City yea and to the destruction of the Lords Inheritance O miserable men how did they lift themselves up in their wicked wayes as ye shall heare After my Lord Generall had received such a large Commission from them then did they give him nothing but prest men that swore they would run to the King and would not suffer a Drum to be beat up to gaine souldiers in love to him then did my Lord of Essex his men stand out by thousands being loth to forsake their old Generall and serve a new Generall then see further their ase practises when the King was got out of Oxford to range abroad spoil then was the Generall to beat against dead walls at Oxford where he lost his men then in the mean while they caused the Leiutenant Generall and Colonell Vermuten who followed the King in the Reare to withdraw to their Quarters so in the mean time the King fell on Leicester where was lost much bloud on both sides and the City taken by the enemy thus may you see what treacherous Parliament men did hatch for the upholding their Covenant they made to the Lord and sought to destroy all the work the Lord set them to do ô wicked covetous men what falls both to God and man seeking after nothing but covetousnesse and treachery now are ye abhorred both of the Lord and men a hissing to all Nations now are your servants become your masters yea and without a great returne unto the Lord and great satisfaction to the Nation whom ye have deceived ye are but miscrable Leicester's bloud cries out against you for revenge the Lord lay it to your hearts that are guilty of it that it may not be laid to your charge at the great Day when the Lord Christ shall come to judge the World But to consider the sad condition we were brought into by their evill ways I cannot forget how did the Royall Party cry out all was their own and what will become of the Round-heads now truely that time ought not to be forgotten then how did the people of the Lord slock together both night and day and how did they prevaile with the Lord even when we were at the lowest then was helpe and deliverance most precious then did the Lord arise like one out of a sleep rowzed up the spirits that were halfe dead then were out enemies smote on the hinder parts then was there no treacherous Hotham to be found then were out enemies utterly routed so did the Lord graciously for us till our enemies were vanquished thus did the Lord crosse the designes of wicked men and broke their bands asunder

A DECLARATION To Great Britain and Ireland shewing the downfall of their Princes and wherefore it is come upon them Because CHRIST is riding on his white horse conquering his Enemies till he have destroyed Antichrist who hath made the Nations drunk with the Cup of her fornications and till he have destroyed Mahomet that great deceiver of the people REVEL 6.2 And I saw and behold a white horse and he that sate on him had a bow and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering and to overcome Written and directed to Great Britain and all other Nations By me Robert Wharton wel-wisher to my Countrymen and to all the faithfull in Christ Jesus throughout the World With an humble advice to the Army This Treatise is approved and commended and thought worthy to be Printed by Master Hugh Peters LONDON Printed for R. L. 1649. TO THE READER Courteous Reader WHy should it seem strange to any that the Lord Christ is going forth like a mighty Conquerour to overcome his Enemies and to overturn those that stand in his way I pray consider how much the Church of Christ hath been in the Wilderness of the World like the Ark upon the Floud when the World was drowned and for sixteen hundred yeers hath that great Dragon cast out a floud of persecutions to devoure her by his wicked instruments whom he hath set at work yet hath the Lord mightily preserved it in all ages to this time and now the Lord is bringing her forth of her affliction and to make her a praise upon earth now are her enemies mad despising her and seeking to turn her back again but their surviving will be to their own destruction consider how have all those sped that have strove against her or but lent an hand against her since Queen Maries days both Kings Princes and the meaner sort of people and how have they been crost in all their designes and it hath been their confusion which hath fulfilled the words of our Saviour Christ Matth. 21.44 And whomsoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken to pieces but on whomsoever it shall fall it shall grind him to powder ye and he saith he will bruize them with an iron rod and break them in pieces like a potters vessell Psal 2.9 If this be his doing already in these latter years then is it high time for us to consider what we have to do and to be seeking for the right way not pleasing our own fancies but be like unto David he saith My soul is ravished with desire and never is at rest but seeks to know thy judgements high and what may please thee best so our Saviour Christ saith Ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall finde knock and it shall be opened unto saith our Saviour every one that asketh receiveth and he that secketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shall be opened I pray see what glorious promises we have to build upon it is not upon a sandy foundation but upon that firme rock Christ himself who spake the words with his own mouth who never cast off any that came to him by faith as Saint Paul Heb. 11. Without faith it is impossible to please God For he that commeth to him must believe that God is and that he is a rewarder of all those that seek him diligently If it be so let us be earnest with the Lord that he will be pleased to enlighten our souls with strength from Heaven as Paul was who said Through Christ I can do all things but without Christ he can do nothing Philip. 4. if it be so that Christ must be our supporter while we live in this life of our pilgrimage and that all true holiness must proceed from him in whō dwels all the fulnes of the Godhead bodily that without him we can neverattain to heaven then let us seeke every moment of our lives for holinesse in this life and that will bring us to that haven of happinesse which will make us happy to all Eternity that never shall have end which if otherwise our mindes be set to crosse the Lords designes he hath in hand and turn enemies to him and his friends that live the lives of holinesse be you sure that your account at the last will be miserable as saith the Lord in the Proverbs 1.24 Because I have called and you have refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded but you have set all my Counsels at naught therefore will I laugh at your destruction and mock when the thing you feare commeth on you Then shall you call but I will not hear they shall seeke me early but shall not finde me because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord Then shall the Kings of the earth with the mighty men Captains bond and free hide themselves in the dens rocks and holes of the earth but all will not serve for if they cannot hide themselves from death who is the Lords messenger when the Lord comes himselfe they shall not be able to hide themselves from his fury if this be so that the Lords comming will be so terrible when he comes to revenge the cause of his beloved who hath been so long and many years in bondage and captivity nothing but fury and revenge will serve his turn upon them that stand in his way then let all those who are of such violent spirits be affraid and stand out no longer against this great work the Lord hath going on in the world but let them become friends rather then enemies Least they be torne in pieces and there be none to deliver Psal 50.22 Now let us consider since the Lord hath begun to shew the power of his comming in England since the last persecution in Queen Maries dayes how have they sped that lent a hand to Antichrist have they not been brought to the Block or to the Halter so when the Bishops with their wicked Counsell began to persecute how strangely were they defeated in all their purposes then the King and his Nobles they would revenge the Bishops cause and their own designes and how strongly were they overthrown and lost their lives for as most know their power was so strong that at euery field fight the King had he got the better at the beginning but before the battel was ended he lost all which did appear he had power and strength enough to overcome all had his cause been good But he being weighed in the Ballance and found too light could not stand against the work the Lord Christ had in hand Now consider the Lora is not shaking and pulling down the great pillars of this Land onely but he is shaking other Kingdoms as well as doth appear in France and other Kingdoms and thus will he doe among all Nations till he hath taken possession of all the Kingdoms of the World that they may become the Kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ