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A96517 To the present authority of Parliament now sitting, and to all other rulers and officers belonging to this nation of England, who now bears chiefest rule. Some words of reflection to you all, touching those who bear rule before you, whom the Lord hath justly put down from their seats ... but this chiefly to you who are the present rulers [to] put you in minde of the cry of the neglect of the righteous; also to yourselves a warning and true admonition. / [by] Bryan Wilkinson. Wilkinson, Bryan. 1659 (1659) Wing W2217; ESTC R186582 8,216 8

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TO THE Present Authority OF PARLIAMENT NOW SITTING And to all other Rulers and Officers belonging to this Nation of England who now bears chiefest Rule Some words of Reflection to you all touching those who bear Rule before you whom the Lord hath justly put dow● from their Seats which words may be useful for so many o● them as have escaped the hand of the Lord as yet not to be utterly cut off before he proceed any further against them But this chiefly to you who are the present Rulers t● put you in minde of their neglect of the cry of the Righteous Also to your selves a Warning and true admonition Exalt ye the Lord our God and worship at his foot-stool for he is holy Psal 99. 5. Give glory to the Lord your God before he cause darknesse and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains and while ye look f●● Light he turn it into the shadow of death and make it grosse darknes● Jer. 13. 16. Bryan Wilkinson LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mou●●s near Aldersgate 1659. Friends THE former Parliaments and Rulers which were before you now of late years who were worldly wise men and accounted by many even the wisdom of the Nation and these wise men the Lord God of heaven and earth the great wise God who is Lord over all yet not known nor comprehended by all the wisdom of the world he unto them in the time of their sitting and Rule did unto them send many faithful messengers servants and Prophets even righteous men rising up early early did the Lord send unto them in the beginning of their times of sitting and Rule and reign and by them these Rulers were often and faithfully warned time after time in their times while they bear Rule that they should Rule in righteousness and call to mind their former engagements and promises which they made unto the Lord and unto the honest hearted of the Nation in their way of worship toward God without restraint these things were often laid before them by divers of the Lords people called Quakers from a feeling condition of the want of these things being fulfilled But these Rulers which were before you they did nor regard the true messages but did sleight the Lords servants whom he did send unto them though Gods witness in themselves did often let them see that their message was true just and equal but their message being a crosse unto the wisdom of these Rulers who had lost the tenderness in which they promised take good notice of that their messages being a crosse unto their wisdom their worldly honours and worldly interest therefore instead of hearkening to the servants of the Lord these Rulers rather hearkened unto the Teachers of the Nation even the false Prophets who joyned with them for worldly interests and so went from the witness of God in themselves unto the counsel of their own hearts which were one with the false prophets without so the wisdom of God became foolishness unto them and so they broke Covenants with God and his people which formerly they had made Then began they to despise the Lords servants when they went from the reproof of the Lord in themselves so suffered them with the rest of the people of the Lord to be persecuted beat and whipped imprisoned and their goods to be spoiled by the Priests of the Nation and others through unjust Popish lawes which was set up and made by Popish governors for the maintenance and guarding of Popish Priests and these lawes persecuting Magistrates took hold of and persecuted them which bore a true Testimony for the Lord as they were moved by him though formerly they had hazarded their lives with many of these Rulers who gave them thus up into the hands of wicked men and so every one as they departed from iniquity and bore a testimony for God were unto this generation made a prey Nevertheless the threatnings scoffings and revilings the Barbarous and cruel oppressions hard yokes and heavy burdens beatings bruisings bloodshed prisons and persecutions which was inflicted upon us in this time of these Rulers neglect of true Justice all this did not take away our confidence which we have in the Lord but unto him was our cause and innocence committed and he of us hath never been sought to in vain I say in these times of our troubles the Lord was still our hope and these Rulers was still warned and our unjust sufferings laid often before them but they did not lend their ear so as to take off these oppressions but heardened their hearts and encouraged the Lords enemies and ours and so strengthened the hands of evil doers against us so that there was such cruel and horrible things committed in the Land upon us as never was heard of amongst a people who professed Christianitie and declared against Idolatrie But the Lord being displeased with their hypocrisie he broke these Counsellors one after another for they took not Counsel at him but against him and heardened their hearts and did not obey the voyce of the Lords messenges who time after time did warn them as they were moved of the Lord so the time of the Lords determination being finished and the cry of the oppressed waxing loud in his ears the Lord would no longer strive with them but in his wrath he rose up against them because they continued in Rebellion against him and some of them he cut off in his displeasure for turning from their righteousness and many of them he hath brought to shame which before they might have acted that when they did bear rule which God would have honoured them for and their names might have been in memorial from generation to generation among the Lords people and great things might have been done by them if their minds had been towards the Lord to have acted for him and not against him which would have crowned them with honour and not shame and the hearts of the righteous would have rejoyced and not have been made sad and the work of the Lord they would have put their hands to and not have been against it But the work of the Lord must go on in this day of his power and who can let it for wo be unto him that striveth with his Maker or against the Lord for he is jealous of his Name and none must be proud against him for in this day of his power he will bring down the loftie from their seats and the understanding of the prudent must come to nought But now to you who are the present Authoritie that you in your time do not forget the Lord for the time is come that every one must be tryed and now are you set up again that you may be tryed and now hath the Lord a great work in hand and if you will stand up for him he will be for you and with you to keep you together if you do not he will be against you