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end_n	oath_n	strife_n	swear_v	3,032	5	9.0688	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32781	An epistle to Charles the Second, King of England and to every individual member of his council / presented to them in pure love and good will, that they might consider of the things therein contained before the King was crowned or had taken his oath, forasmuch as a necessity from the Lord was laid upon the pen-man ... who is known ... by the name of Christopher Cheesman ; from the town of Reading in Berkshire the 15 of the 2d. month, 1661.	Cheesman, Christopher.	1661 (1661)	Wing C3773; ESTC R35568	6,683	8

or hypocrisie of his wicked heart whereby he may become more juster by swearing Therefore O King if thou canst not do Justice and Right for the People over whom God hath made thee chief Ruler and Magistrate without swearing thou wilt never be able to do it by Swearing Nay O King but on the contrary for thee to swear that thou wilt maintain such Religion or do such and such Justice for the people puts thee into an absolute incapability to do Justice forasmuch as that thou refuseth that wisdom by which Kings decree Justice as aforesaid that is Christ Jesus the Wisdom of God who said Swear not at all and so said his Apostle James And under the Old Covenant An Oath was an end to all strife but Christ the Oath of God and New-Covenant said Swear not at all and Christ the New-Covenant is the Prophet that Moses prophesied of and said whosoever would not hear him should be cut off from among the people Therefore O King and Council swear not at all neither establish Religion by a Law to force an Vniformity thereunto nor maintain a Hireling Ministry for such a thing was the overthrow not only of thy Father but of all that have followed after till thy self by the mighty hand of God wert set in the place where now thou art The Parliaments Protectors and Armies were all Swearers and high pretenders to Religion in the form but nothing in the power but persecuted all the upright in heart who were in the power but out of their Form So I say those Governours who have miscarried in Government did busie themselves very much in matters of God touching the Consciences of other men whereof they had nothing to do but in the mean time neglected the witnesse of God in their own particulars and so were mindlesse and careless of their duties as civil Magistrates professing themselves wise and exalting themselves into the Temple of God wherein they had not to do save in their own particulars They became fools even in the management of their Civil affairs and so laid a sandy foundation and like foolish builders continued building their own till such time their building did fall and great was the fall thereof And all this did proceed from the Hireling Ministry which hath in all ages brought forth the same fruits being still fawning upon and tampering with the great men of the Earth and Kings and Councils and Parliaments and all men in Authority to establish Religion and to settle their maintenance and then as the Prophet saith of them He that will not put into their mouths they presently make war against him and this hath been the state and condition of this Nation and others And therefore O King and Council be wise and learn by other mens harms who not contenting themselves in their places to do the work God set them about but leaving their own work undone did intermeddle and busie themselves about Gods work and the Consciences of men of which Christ alone is Lord and for this hath the Lord dashed them to pieces one after another since Thy Fathers dayes First the Parliament then Protector so called and Protector again then Parliament then Army and Committee of Safety so called then Parliament again against all which the Lord hath appeared in much severity and hath removed all out of his way and hath brought Thee and Thy party into their place and Authority to try you Take heed I say therefore O King and Councel of running against this rock for if you do you will assuredly be dash'd to pieces as they already are for false worship and false Ministers must down and all that take part with them and till that time there will never be peace on Earth for t is the false Ministry that divides the people and causes them to run into factions and divisions and that sets people at variance one with another The false Ministry O King that 's the evil tree which brings forth bad fruit And indeed they can do no otherwayes for they are not of God but of the evil one It s clearly so O King for the tree was to be known by his fruit and he is now grown so big and his fruit so numerous that one may run and read of what sort the tree is and they that see it not to be the evil tree are very near the pit of everlasting destruction Thou wast a child O King in thy Fathers dayes and knew not to what perfection this evil tree was then grown but withdraw thy self a little into thy private chamber there inquire of the Ancient of dayes and ask counsel at the Oracle of God the Light in thine own conscience and therewith compare the Doctrine of Christ who is the Word of God and is very near thee even in thy heart in thy mouth and thou wilt then see hear and understand what Christ his Apostles saith and the Prophets before them concerning the false Prophets and the false Ministers C. C. THE END