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Englands remembrances
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day when the Army was at Turnam Green and by Brainford into which you were scarced by the long winded speech of Cromwels messenger the said messenger telling the Common Councel that if by 6 of the Clock that night Cromwel and his Officers of the Army had not notice of your acceptanee of the Treaty the Army would be ingaged in blood with the City forces at the Forts and it was 9. or 10. of the clock at night before the message was sent from London and the same long winded messenger returning again the next morning to the Common Councel in London from Cromwel and his Complices who were then at Syon house tould the Common Councel that the night before as he went to Syon house that there was about half a troop of horse in an Inn in Knightbridge and one Centinel in the street and at Turnam Creen about one Regiment and half of Horse the Troopers all lying a sleep and their horses feeding tyed to the Troopers legs unless a Centinel or two in the high way and that was about 10. or 11. of the clock at night and what faith was to be given to that messenger who ye knew was the Cabals Creature of Cromwels and my Lord Says If ye had sent Cromwel word that if he shot his Guns against the City you would Ring your Bels as the Duke of Florence told Charles the 8. of France when his Army was before Florence and then the Kings Army durst not meddle with the City by which courage and Resolution the Duke preserved the City and its liberties so might ye have preserved London Repent London and Redeem the innocent blood that hath been spilt by your means I say you could fight wel enough to inslave your selves but not to Redeem your lost honor which formerly you have long enjoyed And until England return to its Loyalty and its Iust Principles for King and Parliament it wil be like a man in a feaver removing from one bed or Pallet to another but never be at ease or rest until the feaver hath left him Why should these new Fleeting wood Governors so much hated think to keep their intended Government built upon the Principles of Injustice Avarice and Ambition expect more security then the former Protectorians or other changes of Government have had hath not God overthrown the former pretended Reformers who sought their own Ambition and power under pretence of the kingdomes Good how many Changes and alterations have ye had since the last Kings death and can England without Repentance promise its self more security then former Empires and other Kingdomes have done hath it not been conquered by Romans Saxons Danes and Normans and are not Englands sins as great now nay greater then formerly Is there not a Generall Apostacy of Magistrates ministers and people do not almost all serve for lucre and Gain and dawb with untempered morter and ministers who would be accompted pious and Religious Intitle God to their Dawbing sins against knowledge only for wordly profit and Pedantick honor and may not England without Repentance suck the dregs of Gods wrath and make England in Conclusion the most miserable of the 3. nations let then that stand take heed least they fall it is a kingdom more envied then affected unless for its benefit and if the pride malice fury and revenge of Scotch Irish and Forrainers fall on it from which God keep it it may be harraced with iron hands and hearts and your Children friends Neighbors and Country men sold into forraign plantations and slavery with as little or less mercy or pitty then ye have sent and sold your Neighbours Countrey men and brethren Do not ye see in these alterations how God doth visit the sins of the Parents upon their Children Therefore as a good Physitian and Chyrurgian must know the disease and wound before he can cure it so Pardon the zeal of this pen not intentionally to Corrode but Heal for without sence of sin there can be no true repentance but let not us say like Caine and Iudas our sins are greater then God can forgive for if we Repent God will forgive and if England return to its loyaltie Iust Government or lawfull obedience it will be heartily forgiven and then it will be firmely setled upon a sure foundation in its just liberties that King and people may enjoy both their Rights and a full oblivion of all that is past firmely confirmed by the King in a free Parliament the great sâ—â—câ—rity of the kingdom all these late ways being absolutely Mutenous and Tumultuous and are a very few persons considerable to the good and happiness of a Nation who seduce the Souldiers and others that would be good Subjects who if they please may secure and save themselves most of the Grand Actors of that horrid death and murther God having Reserved their Iudgments to himself do not you now plainly preceive that Cromwells murthering the last King and his fair and Religious pretences for the Kingdomes Good were only steps to get the Crown himself and not finding in his life time all things concurring for his atcheivement thereof yet after his death would have his Effigies adorned with Trophies of the Regalia the Crown Globe and Scepter and these few persons now that contrive this new Government are only to make themselves Voces Plebi Magistri Plebi making the Councell of State to bring forth their Monster Their mock Parliament the God fathers the Army their actors and the people their porters and spectators to receive the Blessing from them of Issachar and themselves enjoy the free Common wealth of wealth Ambition luxury power and Revenge against whom they please Do not ye see they begin with Lentall their Speaker to make him as absolute Lord Chancellor as ever any was before and themselves will follow in other places being the Giving Parliament one to another And wheras in Monarchy you have one head to resort unto for Iustice and if his ministers fail they are Punishable by law and Parliament but where you have many to Resort unto it will be like the old saying of the Deans and Chapters come to them apart they are all honest but together they are very knaves and so will these be Have ye got any thing by your often Changes but losse of your Blood and estates O that England would vindicate its self from those blots and just aspertions now upon it for its own honour and happines and terror of its no friends abroad that it may have a firm and lasting peace within its self which it can never have without its lawfull King Never was England more happy in a King then it will be in this Kings Restoration whose nature cannot be a Tyrant who thirsteth to receive his subjects into his Gracious Favour and hartily wisheth the Good and Prosperity of England in generall and its Metropolis London which now serveth its Chargeable Task-masters for the Avarice and Ambition of a very
ENGLANDS REMEMBRANCES AMONGST some sayings of a Wise Man one of his best was that the Life of a Life was a good Conscience This may be good Counsel to our fellow subjects of England at this time in this Apostate Age whereas nothing but a present Finition is acceptable upon no certainty but great uncertainties both of death sudden changes and alterations This address and faithfull advice is out of affection and zeal for the honour and happiness of the English Nation which is as near and dear to a true wel-wisher to his Country as his nearest relations all sufferings to a clear English heart in redemption of it would be like a fair hot sun shining day in the end of Harvest For only excremental creatures proceed and dissolve in the like nature But man that is chiefly born to serve God his King and Country upon the principles of Vertue Justice and true Religion according to revealed knowledge hath a duty of injunction laid upon him The blot upon our Nation must needs trouble all English hearts The deception under the Mask of Reliligion which is now thoroughly unmasked ought and must command much Repentance The Design of some of our Northern neighbours with the conspiracy of some of our Country men to pull down one Ecclesiastical Government for their own interest before another was put into a method for the settlement of Church Government hath justly brought this confusion upon themselves in Scotland and on us in England and do not we see how God hath worn our in their own actions and blasted many of the Plotters of our alterations in England although in Justice from Heaven we must look upon our sins the Nations sins and the three Kingdoms sins to be the moving cause from God so to punish us For is there any evil in the City and God hath not done it Amos the 3. chap. and 6. ve that is the evil of punishment which we all justly deserve Hath not God punished the Irish nation now almost extirpated for that horrid Massacre Murther and Rebellion in that Kingdom of Ireland palliating their wickedness under a counterfeit Commission and connivance from the last King whose innocence was most traiterously abused in it as was confessed by Sir Philemon Oneal before his execution in presence of divers worthy and noble persons now living who can testifie it upon their voluntary or required Oaths The Kings Broad Seal being taken off from a Letters Patents for a grant of lands and put to a forged and counterfeit Commission And concerning those papers taken out of Mr. Secretary Windebants study and put by the Parliaments order into the custody of one Mr. Willingham a Citizen of London some years since dead a noble Lord and a Citizen of London sent his Majesty word that if any of those papers concerning Ireland or any other of them might do his Majesty prejudice some persons of the Parliament intending to lay a charge against his Majesty about them such a course was and should be taken for their conveyance away if his Majesty would have it that they should never see light more But the King sent that noble Lord word and that Citizen who acted the business with Mr Willingham that he thanked them for their love and care of him but for any knowledge that he had or had given order in or for that business or massacre of Ireland he defied the Divel and all his Imps or any body else about it but if any of his servants had done amiss they must answer for their own faults and this will be testified upon Oath before God and Man And to confirm his Majesties clearness in that business of Ireland you see his enemies could not lay the least imputation against his Majesty in it although they wanted neither Will nor Malice For Scotland how hath God punished that Nation for the innocent blood and cruelties they have acted amongst themselves for their perjury and falseness for the breach of their publick and national Faith and agreement with the King made solemnly in the Parliament of Scotland 1641. after full satisfaction given by the King in that Parliament for that Church and kingdom and by invading England again with an Army contrary to their former Faith and Agreement upon the surruptions making wresting and breaking their solemn League ad Covenant construing part of it to serve their own sence and ends and not taking the whole scope sence and Articles of it together in which Covenant the English Independents out-witted them they supposing upon the interest of that Covenant to have overswayed the Parliament made London their own in affection and interest and so to have obtained the power of all England but with what success hath God yet blessed that Covenant being illegally entred into at the first although much and not all the contents thereof is good The Covenant Makers being the Covenant Breakers who declared a publick promise to have the Kings approbation and confirmation of it which was deferred until they had a Sword to inforce and compel it not a Christian like way to settle Religion which otherwise should be by a Synod of Reformed Divines legally called And for delivering their King to the English Independents when the Plot was visibly seen for the destruction of King and Parliament upon the Compact and Agreement for receiving 200000 pounds sterling for their Army when the King came to their Army then at Newark for a Sanctuary a Blot in Marble whereas if they had kept the King and not delivered him untill they had treated with the King and Parliament of England and London so much longed for and desired the King Parliament and kingdomes had been settled upon the Bases of Justice Truth and Righteousnes with a firm and lasting Peace and a Religious and Civill Reformation of all former errors and although they had the publick faith of the Parliament of England for a Treaty with his Majesty and both Kingdomes upon their delivering the King yet they could not but wel understand by their Commissioners who had lived long in England at the cost and charge of England that the Independent Faction grew so strong in the English Parliament and Army which were no friends to the King that it could not be safe for his Majesty to be in that custody at Holmby which was rather in the power of the Army than Parliament as it proved too sadly afterwards the Army being molded contrary to the first Iudgment of Parliament where as if the King had beene delivered unto the protection of his subjects in London there was then a visible power and foundation to guard his Majesty from the designe of Oliver Cromwell whose design was well perceived by many at that time And when the Scots had divested themselves of the King by delivering his Majestey over and Oliver Cromwell was acting that unparralleld death which could not but be wel known to the grand Committee of Parliament sitting then in Scotland by the