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A91936	Mene, tekel, perez, or, A little appearance of the hand-writing (in a glance of light) against the powers and apostates of the times. By a letter written to, and lamenting over Oliver Lord Cromwell. / By John Rogers. In this woful howre of his temptation, and of Sions sore pangs, and solemne appeals; and of the precious saints imprisonments and persecution for this most glorious, betrayed denyed, and crucified cause of Christ Jesus King of Saints and nations.	Rogers, John, 1627-1665?	1654 (1654)	Wing R1811; Thomason E231_2; ESTC R7990	15,517	17

and for the kingdome of Christ So pag. 38.39 A second warre more dangerous then the former was contrived against us by them that hated us of this Army of England under the name of SECT ARIES and a second testimony was given from Heaven to justifie the Proceedings of his poor Servants against the bloody Antichristian BROOD though with the losse of many precious Saints we were then powerfully convinced that their purpose was to deale with the LATE KING as a man of blood and being perswaded in our consciences that he and his MON ARCHY was one of the TEN HORNS of the BEAST spoken of in Revel 17.12 13 14 15. we being witnesses to so much innocent blood of the SAINTS that he had shed in supporting the BEAST and considering the lowd cryes of the SOVLES of the SAINTS under the ALTAR we were extraordinarily caried forth to desire JVSTICE upon the KING But if there be any that have taken Councell against the Lord and his Anointed whom the Lord hath decreed to set up in the holy Hill of Sion we are perswaded the Lord has brought us as INSTRVMENTS through which he will speak to them in his wrath and vex them with his sore displeasure we desire it may be known we are not Souldiers of Fortune are not meerly the SERVANTS of men And for the Monarchy of King Jesus alone we have not only proclaimed JESVS CHRIST the King of Saints to be our King by profession but desire to submit to him upon his own termes to admit him to the exercise of his ROYALL AVTHORITY and with much more to that purpose yea to name but one more the Declaration of Aprill 22. 1653. pag. 6. After much debate it was judged necessary and agreed upon that the supream Authority should be by Parliament devolved upon known persons men searing God and of approved Integrity and the Government committed to them for a time as the most hopeful I way to incourage and countenance all Gods people reforme the Law and administer Justice impartially hoping thereby the people might forget MONARCHY Against this Monarchy againe and for Parliaments and understanding their true Interest in the Election of successesive PARLIAMENTS may have the Government setled upon a true Basis without hazard to this Glorious CAVSE or necessitating to keep up Arms for the defence of the same Though much more of the same import out of sundry other Letters and Declarations We might produce yet for feare of being too tedious our soules would rejoyce and be abundantly satisfied to see an Harmony between these Declarations and the present Actions of this present Government seeing as Solomon saith Ecclesiastes 4.5 When thou vowest or art devoted or ingaged to God deferre not to pay it Better it is that thou shouldest not vow then that thou shouldest vow and not pay suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sinne neither say thou before the Angell that it was an errour wherefore should God be angry at thy voice and destroy the worke of thine hands Oh! my Lord let the blood lives and tears be thought upon that have sealed to these Declarations and ingaged for Christ his cause and the Liberties of the people by Parliaments c. O be not offended with us whose soules mourn for these sins and transgressions and are weaned as then you would have us from Monarchy or any such like GOVERNMENT seeing in some of them as in the Declaration April 2. 1653 and Iuue 14. 1647. page ult you presse it upon us to stand for these things and you say you expect it of us and of all that are well affected to the Publick but now we are declared offenders for so doing Oh dear honoured Sir what shall we say but your owne words in page 52. of the Remonstrance of St. Albons Your bare retracting or changing your cause without better or any reasons giving cannot put out the light which your former Declarations with reasons have let in and which God hath so eminently owned and given his seale and increase unto O my Lord that these things might be cleared to the poor unsatisfied people of Go● whose hearts are bleeding under the sense of them day and night Zedekiahs case and calamity for his breach of Covenant and his imbondaging againe the people after Liberty proclaimed and declared Ier. 34 vers 15 16. And ye were now turned and had done right in my sight in proclaiming Liberty every man to his Neighbour and yee had made a Covenant before me in the House which is called by my name But yee turned and polluted my name and caused every man his servant and every man his hand-maid whom he had set at Liberty at their pleasure to return and brought them into subjection to be unto you for servants and for hand-maids being often in our remembrance 2 Be pleased my Lord a little to revise or reason with the rise of this change upon the breaking up the late Parliament taking its being there but for this end to keep up the carnal intrests the Parliament had voted down viz of Clergy carnal Church State Tithes Presentations c. which was according to the several Declarations of the Army as in the Case of the Army stated Octob 9. 1647. page 2.8.10 and Declaration of August 1. 1647. from Colebrook page 13. the 5 Proposition is the present ●nequall troublesome and contentious way of Ministers maintenance by Tythes be considered of and remedy applied so the 6th is that the Rules and Course of Law and the Officers of it be reduced and reformed and concerning the Clergy with then carnal Church State the Remonst of St. Albans page 10th Declares it the Parliaments part to take away these corrupted forms of outside religion and Church government 〈◊〉 he Rise of this G. upon the ruine of the last Parl. how and why whether imposed without law or rootea in the law in times of Popish ignerance or idolatry or of the Gospels dimmer light by we ans whereof snares and chains were laid upon conscientions and zealous men and the generality of the people held in darknesse superstition and blind reverence of persons and outward things fit for Popery and Slavery and also to take away and losen that dependance of the Clergy and their Ecclesiastical affairs upon the King or that interest of the Clergy in the civil laws and affairs which the craft of both in length of time had wrought for each other and that it was the Kings part to uphold and maintain this dependance of the CLERGY their MAINTENANCE and CHVRCH MATTERS and were it not too tedious I should name many more of your Declarations against these very things Now for the Parliament to do that which the Army and good people round the Nation have declared to be their duty viz. to take off the civill dependance of the nationall Clergy with their nationall Church St. and to vote a new model of the Law viz lesse intricate uncertain

may overthrow them with the word or your who reproach us as hereticall and will not suffer ours to be published this is our case now Therefore as Luther wrote to the Dukes of Saxony Epist Tom 7. fol. 209 so do we humbly to you my Lord I would not saith he but all have free Liberty yet if any transgresse Gospell bounds and would raise up seditions or wars against you then you may suppresse them So my Lord if we stir up people ●o ●…sings tumults or carnal warfare as men falsly charge us then punish us a● you please for it is contrary to our principles so to do but to the spiritual works and warfare wherein we are now ingaged viz faith and prayer Furthermore O 〈◊〉 that you would not beleeve every report of the Rontis●ous or Fire-blowers of these our new troubles against us For as it was once said the way to get preferment and places is to write or rail against Luther as Eccius Coccius c. found it Pauper Lutherus multes ficit divites so do many Mony Merchants and Mercenarians see it at this day the way to get prefermeus is to be forward against us and the poor despised Remnant Now my Lord let not your ear be open to all their lies and not once open to the Testimony of Truth on our side will you be pleased to peruse a little those writings taken out of my S●udy and satisfie your self concerning the truth of them oculo irretorto and not beleeve those bits and parts which some Sycophants probably will acquaint you with on purpose to irritate and inrage you against the truth and Asserters of it Too too many such Flatterers are about you my Lord which makes our hearts to bleed for you that justific the wicked for reward and take away the righteensnesse of the righteous from him Isayah 5th But if we have no hopes left to prevail with you yet our heares are filled with hopes and sure we are to prevail with God our Appeal is in heaven and the faith and prayer which are up as high as ever since the world stood either will bring forth your conversion for Luther saith the Church converts totunmundum sanguins oratione or your confusion For the death and destruction of the Persecutors was as it was said of the death of Arrius precationis opus non morbi But if it be asked what we would have you do our present or Answer is first advise with the Lord by faith and prayer about your former Declarations and the good peoples expectations in your Closet a little for it is said of Carelus Magnus oh that the like might be said of you Plus cum Deo quam cum hominibus lequitur he loves more to be taking with God then with men or any of his Court 2. And then Proclaime Fast or solemae day of humiliation for the errors and sins past as 1 Kings 21.27.29 it came to passe when Ahab heard those words he rent his clothes and fasted and lay in sack cloth c. and the Lord said seest thou how Ahab humbleth himselfe because he humbleth himselfe before me I will not bring the evill in his dayes And in 1 Sam. 12.19 The people said Samuel pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God that we dye not for wee have added unto all our sins this evill to aske a King and why was this so great a sinne see Sam. 8.5 they said make us a King like as all the Nations about us have And the Lord said vers 7. They have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not Reign over them this was their great sin seeing the Lord himselfe would have ruled them and redeceived the alone Absolute Government over them upon which account Gideon good man refused it Iudges 8.23 saying I will not rule ever you but the Lord shall rule ever you 3. Furthermore let a solemn day and duty be set apart to seek the Lord for advice and Councell what to doe which good Princes and people alwayes did upon straits and emurgencies of old as Iudg. 7.23.27 shall we goe forward or cease say they so 2 Chron. 20 3. Iehosaphat feared and set himselfe to seek● the Lord did proclaimed a Fast throughout Iudah so Ezra 8.23 the want of this makes so much complaint by the Lord as in Amos 6.13 Yee rejoyce in a thing of nought saying have we not taken to us horus by our own strength And Hosea 8 4 They have set up Kings but not by me and Princes and I know it not that it without so much as asking it at my hands or consulting with my word or my Seers as they should doe but of their owne heads they have done this Therefore let the Lord be sought to about these things What to be done in order to return seeing other things were justly expected from them that professed Christ but the Summer is ended yea the Harvest is past and we are not refreshed O my Lord trust not to such Flatterers as alwayes speak smooth Things to you and prophesie deceitfully O hear a little the Lords own Seers via the Ministers of the Vnction from an High●… And therefore let out the Lords Prisoners whom the Churches are robbed of viz. Mr. Feak and Mr. Simpson that they may open to you the present vision of God given them in these things according to the dispensation of the spirit O hear them once at last preach to you in the power of Iesus ●or whom alone they suffer infirmities excepted and by the word of the Lord try the spirit whither of God or no for we are perswaded as long as they be in Prison you will be in blindness to the Truth Tanquam ad doctrinam peregrinam Therefore let them have though but for a moneth or two and though but half so much Liberty to open the word of the Lord to you as your Chaplains have if they preach not the very Truth and prove it to be so before all men imprison them again Let out the Lords prisoners M. Feak M. Simson Han. Trapnal now in Bridewel for Christ us too with them in this cause though hitherto we may say as Luther said Fideliter praedicare nihil alind est quam furorem mundi in se derivare our Faithful preaching hath raised up fury against us O my Lord think of these things these are the swords that pierce thorow our very souls we sue not for our own lives but for yours herein did not Pharaoh send for Ioseph out of prison to interpret his dream Gen. 41. and Belshassar send for Dan. chap 5. to open his vision yea and preferd him too though Daniel declared his ruine according to vision Surely surely you wil find it then the wisdom of God is more excellent then the arts sciences of the wise men about you But if you wil yet go on adexitium potius quam ad exercitium after all our bleeding intreaties and be hardned up by the dangerous counsel of your own Reason or them about you then my Lord our souls shal mourn in secret for you as for one desperately lost indeed and we shal proceed to bear our testimony against the sins of the times for our appeals hangs in heaven and we cannot recall it yea as Luther once said Quo magis illi furunt eo amplius precede the more men rage the more resolute we hope to be in our Appeals saith prayer to our JEHOVAH continuing up the Altar ED for a witness between us and our Adversaries yea come if need be as the Christians did by whole Troops to Arrius Antonious proclaiming themselves Christians Our Resolution and offering themselves up to the death for the Truth Being assured in our very souls though we now mourn we shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and ●ull of glory Luctus in laetitiam convertetur lachrymae in risum sa●cus in sericum cineres in corellas unguentum jejunium in epulum et ●anuum retortio in applausum In the meantime I beseech you my Lord pardon infirmities for God hath pardon'd them own what God owns that 's truth For potius in ardentem regum in siluere quam ullum peccatum in deum commisero as one said I had rather the Lord knows I think leap into a bonfire then wilfully commit wickednesse or sin against God yea mallem obedire quam miracula facere as Luther said I had rather be obedient to my God then work miracles and surely my Lord will you be a little serious you will say that it is Conscience to our duty which doth altogether prompt us to this present contest for the truth Cause and interest of our dear Lord Iesus the King of Saints and Nations wherein I am heartily desirous to be ready to live or die which my Master whom I serve will have me herein without the least tit●le or compound of Fraud or Flattery So far as I may Your True Sincere Servant JOHN ROGERS