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A78448 A word to Londons provinciall assembly. Or, a view of some passages in the ministers late vindication of their government. To which is added a vindication of the Covenant against all intruders and opposers. / By Nehemia Cent:. Cent, Nehemiah. 1649 (1649) Wing C1670; Thomason E586_1; ESTC R206271 50,385 55

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power nay what is there said further He that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God nay he that so doth shall receive damnation What will you say and how will you answer it before the Lord at the last day and how can you answer Conscience at present when it gripes you with it what can I say why I should not receive damnation if I continue still in this condition especially when you think you made use of it to make others troublesome and may not that text be applied to you Ezek. 17.14 15.18 19. He that hath broken the Covenant shall he prosper he shall not prosper the Lord shew you in mercy how much and how often you have broken the Covenant and doe still especially you crying so as you doe against those that so doe and doe you not heare the voice within Shall I prosper I shall not I cannot it is the Lord that hath spoken it and I my selfe have applied it to others and say further surely the Kingdome hath no cause to say We blesse you in the name of the Lord or the blessing of the Lord be upon you nor to bid you good speed in this you have done wherein you have done so manie evill deeds but to follow your counsell that you give others against the Armie that so we may not be partakers with you in those evill deeds and that in Jude doth come fully upon you for you have spoken evill of dignities and have despised their dominion and therefore all that text belongeth to you and have you not run after the error of Balaam and I wish it be not for a reward and therefore persisting may you not feare you shall perish in the gaine-saying of Corah and also have not you followed and so may apply that text to your selves for have not you cried out the Parliament and Armie have taken too much upon them and is not this act of yours in gathering together so many of you is it not against the Lord while you gather together against them that are acting for the Lord and may not that text in the same sence you apply it to others be applied to your selves while you goe on in the same way and there were a considerable companie of them eminent men and famous in the Congregation and would not you be thought to be so and are not there manie of you in this and you have in some sence exceeded them for they did but speake against Moses and Aaron but you have not only spoken but written and caused it to be printed that so it might be sent all over the world and therefore consider how fitly that text Rom. 1.32 Are not you the men that have done such things that have condemned that in others that you doe your selves and therefore we cannot but thinke that you apprehend it to be a vertue and doe not you delight in them that doe as you have done and if so then aske your Consciences if you be not the men that have done things worthy of death and also that Rom. 2.13 And thinkest thou oh man that judgest and doest the same things that thou shalt escape the Judgement of God but you have done that you have judged others for as contemning powers and Magistrates and vers 2.6 11. we are sure the Judgement of God is according to truth to them that doe such things who will render to everie one according to his workes and there is no respect of persons with God except it be you that have more meanes by your parts gifts and places God will looke for more from your hands as is said of Corazin and Bethsaida in another kinde and may not that text in Ecclesiastes be applied to you because sentence against an evill worke is not executed therefore the hearts of the children of men are set in them to doe evil You have spoken largely before and no body opposed you and now you have not only spoken but written and so the world may take notice of it and is no● this a great evill And further I beseech you to consider if you have not mis-applyed those Texts 1 Samuel 14.4 and 1 Samuel 26.8 9. and Job 13.7 For wherein have they done wickedly for God or have not you done so and that flying Rowle you speak of may it not be more truly applyed to you then to them as hath been formerly said who have been breakers of that Solemne Oath and Covenant And although you have not done violence to the Parliament and Armie in their persons yet have you not offered violence to their names witnesse what is in Print in Mr. Prices book in answer to your Letter And have not you accused them falslie that have laid so many false things to their charge as is formerlie shewed And it were to bee desired you would be as wel content with your wages as they have bin consider if they have not gon beyond you in being so content as they have been for they have not only been content with their wages but they have been content to be without their wages which if it had been your case it is to be feared the Citie and Countrie should have heard of it by you as injustice and justlie you might have don so but where or when have you spoken for this on their behalf although it hath bin the cause of many evills as discontents discouragement in the Souldier and oppression of manie by free Quarter and so to raise up the spirits of the Countrie to hate them and despise them whom they have so much cause to esteem and honour for what they have so faithfully done in defending the Countrie and offending their enemies and if the labourer be worthie of his hire for a daies worke when he may worke without danger is not he much more that goes in danger of his life ev●rie daie and houre in defence of his Countrie and the Cause of God especiallie and yet it seemes that you have not taken so much notice of it as you should because you have spoken no more in their behalfe and may you not fear if you persist in your way still that which is said in Numb 32.23 You have sinned your sin will find you out And whereas you say you have beene threatned if you persist in stirring up sedition among the people the Lord helpe you to consider if it be not so But whereas you say your bewayling their sins before God is accounted so it may be feared you speak against your own consciences in saying so if you speake not against conscience you speake against charity I intreat you aske conscience if you think that hee that you say threatned you did thinke that bewayling of sinne before God bee sedition But it may be in that time when you say you bewayle your sinnes before the Lord and among your bewaylings you might have some or many seditious expressions or expressions tending to Sedition And I beseech you aske conscience