they sink again into it This their way is their folly which too is made manifest sooner or later yet their posterity they that come after them in power and place approve their sayings see a delight in their mouth as it is in the margin they have as it were one mouth and are in effect the same in a new and another seeming better disguise the same Spirit appearing in another form one evil generation and power of men opposing another Sect. 9 The Lord therefore rebuke the evil Spirit that seeks to undoe deceive and misguide the Army into those courses that may any way tend to shut up the way of men to Christ their Savior who is pretended to be among them more then among other people and those that went before them that it may be said of this King I mean not either King Charls whose person yet I loved and prayed for or as the Country people speak King Fairfax or Cromwell but King Jesus a King that is a Saviour and in that he is a Saviour a King for every one worthy of the name honor and title of a King is a Saviour a Saviour not only of his friends but his very Enemies King Charls would indeed have saved his friends so but corruptly called but he being corrupt and ignorant of the true pattern Christ would fain have destroyed his indeed but supposed Enemies let not the present Kingly power of the Nation in the Army for there it is interpretatively and by way of Execution let not them dance after his pipe and do the thing he did and have since condemned him for that is to say Let not them be the Saviours of their friends only or men of one side this is not the true Spirit of Christ or of Government but let them even be Saviours to and of those yea even of those that would in their ignorance and unbelief have destroyed them This is truly noble Christian and worthy of men of high place and power let them be a Sanctuary of rest to all even the persons of all Roundheads and Cavaliers yet withall standing as a Cherubin of light right truth life peace and glory to keep the way of that tree of Life a true Christian Magistracy form'd according to the pattern in the Mount whereby may be opened unto men that long expected and looked for paradise of Truth and Peace meeting together and giving rest to the Nation and that no thing or person may be admitted that may bring any evil into it for the defilement and disturbance of it Sect. 9 This this is the business the present power have to doe being reserved and kept as in the secret of God to such a time and purpose as this that they might evidence to all both friends and foes that there is indeed such a presence of Christ and the true anointing among them they have all this while held the world in hand with that it may be said of this Presence even of this Anointing among you this King in the Army to the whole Nation on the one side and on the other none excluded from the grace and benediction of it behold a King God himself in Spirit shall reign in righteousnesse and Princes for such are the children of the true Church in all lands shall rule in Judgment that is to say not ignorantly and in the dark not knowing what they doe as the manner of the Rulers of the earth is being drunk with Error they stumble in Judgment then shall a man that is to say every one that lives in the heavenly MAN be for an hiding place what to one sort of men only that 's Jewish a course that hath undone us all this while but to every man though to the evil or lust of no man a hiding place I say from the wind and a covert from the Tempest as the rivers of water in a dry place such is for certain the state of the Royall party and in the next place the Presbyters and many others that are bitter and grieved in Spirit in one word as the shadow of a great rock in a weary Land which how welcom it is in a Land of drought as this Nation is in respect of peace and rest they know that have been by experience sensible of the one and other By this it would appear to all the world that you have skill not onely to kill and to destroy which hath been your work for the most part hitherto but that you have heard and learned of the Father of mercies how to save which is that one and onely thing the whole Kingdom is in expectation of from you that it may be said of you Saviours not destroyers are come up upon Moun Sion the true seat and place of Government to judge the Mount of Esau that is to say the evill of all men by the spirit of judgement and by the spirit of burning Let the Kingdom and all in it first taste of your good that is to say your mercy meeknesse forbearance seeking not your own but others profit even the profit of your very opposers whereby you wli lindeed appear to be of the onely true Royall bloud even of the seed Royall of God and Christ himself say yea you have much more cause to say of your selves then Saul had to say of himself in the first day of his power when the people came and clamoured in the ears of Samuel as the people of England so call'd have of late in the ears of the Army immoderately and to excesse to have justice not divine justice for they know not most of them what that means upon the person of the King saying Who is he of the King or Parliament's side that said or shall say Shall Saul reigne over us Shall the Army power prevail over all sorts of men in the Land as you know there is much murmuring Bring the men that we may put them to death Let Saul's Answer be yours I confesse you pretend to a conformity to a better pattern David who though he were annointed to succeed Saul against whom there is no question but David might have had as much to say as you have had against Charles Stuart late in title King of England yet David your pattern abhorred the thought of taking away his life as you also according to the grounds of true Christian Religion ought the forenamed and late King And Saul said There shall not a man be put to death this day for to day the Lord hath wrought salvation in Israel Let not your morning glory the glory you seek be stained with the blood of any especially the blood of war in the time of peace be not so hasty hot and violent in condemning the Powers went before you before your rightâ—ousnesse integrity innocency honesty ability impartâ—â—lâ—â—y and bowels of mercy pity and compassioâ— toward the pâ—â— and fâ—theâ—â—ss be justified on all hands to be of a nature exceeding the pretence of others Let the
that it may be said to them by those that were in the pit before them as it was by those that were in the like case to Babylon and the King thereof Isa 14.10 when he came into the like condition with them Art thou also become weak as we are art thou become like unto us thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy viols is ceased the worm Jacob is spread under thee and the worms such as thou hast despised cover thee that thou hast no glory left Thus this party and being but a party and for themselves seeking the possession of all lost all the bed of rest intended by them proving too short not onely for others but themselves so that they are now as well as others cast out to the loathing of their person and shaking of the head of all against them the very by-word of the people and so cast into the furnace out of which many of them may come forth pure and refined gold which I beseech God to grant and bring to passe Sect. 6 The third part this City the old Parliament was broken and fallen into would be Independent at least in respect of the two former and therefore though they would not come into the bed of rest made ready or at least preparing and endeavoured by the other two as protesting against the defilement of both yet many of them had in their hearts according to their pattern in New England though it was not policy for the present to professe it to make themselves the onely Sarah or Mistris and to cast out al others as Agar and not at all as the Wife and Spouse of God yea in effect they openly declare it though afterwards they saw a necessity of being of another minde for they look'd upon the Presbyterian Church as an adulterous woman and were loth to have any society with her or almost any of her Assemblies as accounting them not in a capacity to be communicated with Yet in many their opposition against them was but to break open a way whereby the Serpents head in them might have more certain hope of rest then in the former being now much more transformed into an Angel of light then before And therefore lest the tail of Anabaptists and Sectaries so in their own account should prejudice their acceptance with their elder sister they to please and sooth the one openly and before the Sun disavowed the other in their Apologeticall Narration These neither being but a party and mostly for themselves were rather the vexation of the former then the expectation of the meek and quiet in the Land to receive rest and freedom by them Sect. 7 Thus we see of all the children the Kingdom hath yet brought forth whether Royall and Episcopall Parliamentary Presbyters or Independents as such none have been able to take her by the hand as Joshuah to lead her into the land of expected rest and freedom they all though English men going into remote parts as sometimes King Ahaz did to take the pattern of the Altar they intended to worship God by The Royallists seek for as being enamoured with the old and new Hierarchy of Rome and England The Presbyterians were no lesse taken with that of Scotland And the Jndependents as much as either with that of Holland and New-England So that no side having seen the pattern in the Mount which is Christ in the spirit as Moses did they all not knowing what was become of him since ascended make together a murmuring in the camp or chief Assembly in our English Israel the Parliament crying out to their severall Aaronical Priests among them Come makâ— us gods to go before us for as for this Moses Christ since ascended upon high we know not what is become of him But he is now come upon them as a thief in the night of their blinde zeal and ignorance and there shall not a man of them escape the sword of his justice So that there is none of the old Parliament as such whether Episcopal Presbyterian or Independent but as they have all drank of and been drunk with Babylons golden cup so they have and do and will yet more taste of her plagues yea their torment shall be to be tormented day and night in the presence of the holy Angels that are sent in truth from God and in the presence of the Lamb the meek King of the holy meek and quiet in the Land The light that shines now in the evening of the late Parliamentary glory so that in this darknesse there shines forth this light unto them to lead them forth of the wildernesse they are in to the Land flowing with milk and honey that is to say the true Mount Sion where is the Lamb and all those with his Fathers name on their fore-heads harping with their harps and singing that new song which none but those that are redeemed from among men could learn even those and onely those in whose mouth there is found no guile for they are without fault before the throne of God To this rest shew them O Lord the way CHAP. X. Where of the Armie 's hopefull but difficult rise their successefull victorious progresse the cloud of reproach they lay and acted under their breaking forth in open light and glory their sinking again into the Earth their rising again with cautions reprehensions directions given them Sect. 1 IN the last place I shall set down the state of the top power of the Nation as it is for the time present I mean the Army for a power above them there is not visible in the Land Concerning which I shall observe first the day of their small mean and low beginning and how they came to this height of power and regiment over the whole Land The Parliament in all their former power policy Armies grew weak and withered as a dry tree and were indeed in respect of good like the dry parched ground yet because God had not forgotten to be gracious or left off his merciâ—â— which were of old he causeth the earth to bring forth truth whiles righteousnesse looks down from heaven both which meeting and kissing each other in a company of honest and plain-hearted Christian men many of them having much of the true annoynting upon them they are modelled by a divine hand into another new and distinct Army from all the rest and are indeed as it is said of the Branch of righteousnesse men wondred at by all yea feared and suspected as well of friends as foes not onely their enemies abroad but even their very friends and fautors at home insomuch that this Hercules was very like to have been strangled in the womb or cradle at their very first setting forth and contriving but that there was of the seed and strength of God among them that there could be no divination against them nor inchantment against this new supplanter for Jâ—cob is their name These come forth into an Army
whether the Remainder of the Parliament or those bearing office in the Army and the honest men of the City and Country that have an influence into this engagement making more haste then good speed out of a good minde notwithstanding remembring the word and promise of God concerning Jacob That the elder should serve the younger that Jacob a plain-dealing smooth and honest man or men should have the blessing the upper hand of Esau she makes use rather of her policy then the promise of God she puts Jacob into the clothing or goodly rayment of this elder brother Esau which will no more fit or become him then Sauls Armour did David who was fain to put it of again when he had done and betake himself alone to his sling and stone to throw down the great Goliah the contemptible means of the word and power of God against which there neither is nor can be any prevailing Whiles Jacob this new and hopefull Supplanter of evill stands thus ready to administer savoury meat to the dying kingdom as he did to his father Isaac which now in his old age could scarce discern one thing from another yet coming neer and feeling whether this be his very son Esau which is best beloved of his father and most desired of the Nation or no findes and concludes as he did The voice is Jacobs voice but the hands are the hands of Esau this deceit of this good woman and this good mans complying with her therein cost her much sorrow and grief being fain after a while to send this her beloved son out of the way from the fury of his brother Esau and Jacob for his own part to serve another Aprentiship enjoying not the blessing at least in his own Land till after much strugling with God and man to obtain it yea he had it not at all indeed till God himself touched him in the hollow of his thigh that is to say till he had lost all strength and confidence in carnall and worldly courses counsels and policies and had nothing left him to rest in but the naked will and presence of God For this cause he was made to halt that it might be a signe to him of his former halting and a caution to others to take heed of the like This thing I desire the present power of the Nation to take heed of and lay to heart they have indeed Jacob's voice talking much of God Christ the Spirit Revelation prayer prophecie the power and presence of the Almighty the highest form of knowledge and talk of things divine is amongst them which if it be not in power and truth that is to say if it proceed not from the presence of the true annoynting and holy one among them it is the most deceiving Antichrist that hath ever yet appeared in the world and yet this I dare be bold to aver that this knowledge and talk of many of them that I say not the knowledge and talk of most is but traditionall and by imitation of others having Christ in their mouth but Sathan in their very hearts and lives being as the rest of the world holy by fits holy now and then holy upon Sundays holy at a Sacrament or a Sermon holy in their severall churches of which many are members holy upon their dayes of fast and prayer but not holy as every true Christian is holy in all manner of conversation holy as God himself is holy holy through their union with him and enjoying of him These these in the Army God sayes They are a smoke in my nose a fire that burneth all the day who being as ignorant in respect of pure and divine knowledge of God and as full of enmity in their spirits against him as others they condemn and say yet to others in respect of themselves we are more holy then ye Sect. 8 But yet I dare not yea I should grievously sin against God and his presence in the Army should I deny that there is the shout of a King even of the King of Kings amongst them should I deny that he hath given to many of them yea some of the chief and top of them to sit together with him on his thronâ— as the Father hath given him to sit with him on his throne these are they to whom is given a pure language not the language of Egypt or Ashdod no not of Samaria a mixt language a language that is neer or very like but not the very language of heaven or true Canaan such as is the language of the Jew not such a one that is so onely in the letter and in respect of the outward man but he that is so in the inward man such a one that speaks such a language that shall confound all other languages for thus saith the Lord of Hosts the Lord of Armies In those days it shall come to passe that ten men shall take hold of all languages such as are the languages of the severall Sects and sorts of men among us of the skirt of one such a one that doth not onely say but that is a Jew and of the seed of Jacob indeed they shall take hold of the skirt of such a one saying We will go with you for we have heard that God is with you This is indeed the voyce of Jacob which I and all good men delight to hear among them the joyfull sound the roaring of the Almighty like a Lion among you whose presence is terrible to the world For because of truth meeknesse for the meek shall inherit the earth and righteousnesse not that which is narrow and humane but that which is divine and superlative he shall bring mighty things to passe But as the Kingdom hears among you Jacobâ— voyce either pretended or in truth so by feeling they finde your hands are too too much like Esau's hands your little finger in some regard heavier then your fathers loins to the sense of City and Country the afflictions that have been and yet are upon them by the Parliament and their Proceedings and Armyes are much more heavie and intolerable and that upon both their friends and foes then ever were the oppressions of the King and Prelates respecting the outward man upon that sort of men that have now by a divine power got the upper hand of him This is certain the burthens of the people are many and their fears are more that one oppressing power will still succeed another so that the Land shall never enjoy her Sabbath this I say not to upbraid you but to re-minde you that you fall not into the same condition and censure others did that went before you for as their inward thought was that their houses should continue for ever and their dwelling places to generation and generation that they call their lands and their wayes after their names Nevertheless we see one year after another man in true Christian honour and integrity abideth not but is like the beasts that perish being earthly
evill then of the King and Parliament is opposed either by the good or evill of the Army The evill of the Army though it doth and may oppose the evill of both though not as evill the lusts leading and reigning in the Army may be brought forth in a way of zeal for justice and under a pretence of righteousnesse peace truth liberty to oppose lusts of another name and cognisance in the King and Parliament this contest is but like Satan's going about to cast out Satan whereby his kingdom is no wayes weakened but confirmed evill in the Army nourisheth and promotes evill in the King wrath malice revenge in the one maintains and upholds it in the other SECT 3. This then is the iron gate and door of brasse and steel that shuts righteousness truth peace and love out from the view peace and rest of men in them by this the King and Bishops ruled and by this they were ruined too The same course took the Parliament and were brought into the same Labyrinth as was the King And so far as the Armie walks by this rule they run the same hazard will split themselves upon the same rock yea are for the present in respect of that principle in the same Mâ—ander in the same pit where is no water but that which moistens fastens fattens that evill root and bitter in them whence comes forth nothing but weeds briers and brambles the fruit of the first earth which is under the curse and is eternally to passe away whereby they are a vexation and torment yea divels to themselves and all sorts of men in the Land SECT 4. That then that is worthy of applause in the Army in their present undertakings is their good or rather the goodnesse of God in them opposing the evill or rather the evill One in King and Parliament This alone is to be reckoned among the Saintâ— as we hope they are as the common enemy of the Land this is onely worthy of all opposition let this be withstood to death and bonds It 's a great mistake and by all means to be removed out of the hearts and mindes of men that the sword of steel or the instruments of war have gotten them successe and victory over the other side nay it hath been the word of the Lord the counsell and presence of God helping the one and opposing the other Thou hast loved righteousnesse and hated iniquity saith the Psalmist of Christ or the Annointing in the Church therefore God even thy God hath annointed thee with the oyl of gladnesse above thy fellows that is thou getst the better upon this account and art too hard for all other Companies and Armies of men whatsoever because of this CHAP. VIII Of the door of hope was opened to the King and is to his party in the valley of Achor or forlorne state of trouble they are in Sect. 1 TO conclude The case then of the King Parliament Army and all estates of men in the Nation was is this 1. Of the King he had the Kingdom and in it all that was comprehended all the glory fulnesse beauty and riches in it the head and foot himself his Queen his Crown his Children his great Estate Attendance Honour Glory People c. But all this in the flesh in and after or according to the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitfull lusts which like an ignis fatuus led him and all of the same spirit with him huc illuc after severall objects of rest and delight all which yet perished in the use it being in respect of his way of enjoying of it but as the grasse of the field or corn upon the house top which withereth before it be grown up nothing is in it but that which is earthly sensuall and divelish all appearances are of a like nature but not of one and the same form all from beneath some black and some white Divels his fearing one and following the other hath not suffered him to enjoy any lasting rest Sect. 2 The Almighty then hath by the losse of all the Kings glory greatness his Queen his Servants yea and since his naturall and bodily life shut him up so that he hath had no liberty in the aforenamed enjoyments as to the outward fleshly or sensuall man this was therefore to the King in respect of the old man the valley of Achor that is to say the valley of trouble but in respect of his Person and Gods intendment yea and the longing prayer and endeavour of all good men in whom is the sure and lasting mercies of God and the bowels of Jesus Christ it was to him and 't is to all his friends and those that took part with him for a door of hope In this wildernesse of trouble in respect of the outward man God returns which thing I will not deny and gives in again into the heart of the King together with himself * For the fulness of all things is in God in Christ all things his Crown his Queen his Kingdom c. but washed and made white that he might enjoy them eternally and without interruption in him Sect. 3 And to this he was and those they call the Royallists are in a greater propinquity and more likelihood to attain unto then many either of the Parliament or Army who are like Capernaum lifted up in a glorious fig-leave profession as high as heaven their turn will be next to be hurled down to hell the hell in which the King was whiles many of that side the by-word especially of the professing people shall be lifted up to heaven and made to sit with God in Christ in heavenly places for there shall come from East and West and places and conditions most remote and shall sit with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of God and the supposed children of the kingdom cast out For God will not though it may be man would contend for ever neither will I saith he be alwayes wroth for the spirit should fail before me and the souls which I have made For the iniquity of his covetousnesse was I wroth and smote him I hid me and was wroth and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart I have seen his wayes and will heal him I will lead him also and restore comforts to him and his mourners For the language of Christ is to this day in the Church speaking as 't is written The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath annointed me to preach good tidings to the meek he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison doors to them that are bound This I professe my self to be daily in expectation of according as it is written The first shall be last and the last first the Jews and those that professe the knowledge of God after the letter shall be provoked and made ashamed by a foolish
THE LABYRINTH the KINGDOM 's in With a golden threed to bring it forth into Light Liberty and Peace agen BEING A brief but impartial History OF THE Good and Evil of the former later and present Power of the Nation as it relates to GOD and the PEOPLE The Result is a Plea for the Restauration of all in Christ the Kingdoms Rest who is expected to appear more in the present then in any former Power of the Nation By R. BACON a Lover of Mankinde Obsequium amicos veritas odium parit Terent. 1 Pet. 4.6 For this cause the Gospel is preached to them that are dead that they might be judged according to men in the flesh but saved according to God in the spirit Gal. 2. If I build again the things I have destroyed I make my self a transgressor LONDON Printed in the Year M.DC.XLIX TO THE High Court of Iustice so called Light and Truth Mercy and Peace Right honorable YOu are in your present proceedings a shadow and but a shadow of good things to come not the very things themselves not he that should come we are yet to look for another even Christ himself the true anointing that shall not as you judg according to the seeing of the Eye and hearing of the Ear but he shall do righteous Judgment upon you as well as others I mean not upon King Charles for All but King Lucifer in All King Parliament Army All. This is and hath been the King of the bottomless pit who hath let in all manner of devils into the Nation to be the torment and trouble of it his name is therefore in the Hebrew tongue ABADDON but in the Greek tongue hath his name APOLLYON and is indeed the great Destroyer of all Good in You and the whole Kingdom I give my vote to the slaughter of this King I have but two things more to say to You and say it I may I hope without offence for I intend none neither do I say it after or to serve or please men but God as they said to Christ By whose Authority do you do these things or who gave you this Authority or as Christ said to them of John Is it from heaven or of men If You say it is of men then you your selves are witnesses against your selves that you tread in the steps i. e. are living in the same principle of those that went before you and do as they did judg that evil in others which you have not yet overcome in the principle of it in your selves Let therefore he that is among you without this fault throw the first stone But if you say it is from Heaven let it appear by your doing the works of your father which is in heaven This we will beleeve when we shall see you do that which none others did before you that is to say when you shall do good for evil not only love those that love you but those too not their evil that hate you and despitefully use you Let your rain of goodness descend and your Sun of righteousness shine upon the Just for their Justification and the unjust for their Clarification and Restoration Then shall we set to our seal that you are that you expect to be * As Cyrus was said to be The Christ of God the anointed of the Lord for the saving healing and restoring of the Land to which God and all good men say Amen The aberrations from and the walking after the light of this star this anointing by King Parliament Army is the subject of this Discourse with all Christian submission put into your hands By R. BACON Who in his sphere seeks the good of all The Labyrinth the Kingdom is in With a golden Threed to bring it forth into LIGHT LIBERTY and PEACE agen Being an impartial History of the Good and Evil of the former later and present Power of the Nation as it relates to God and the People CHAP. I. Of the height and fall of the King and his Party together with the cause and manner how THe King of England Scotland France and Ireland so is his title at least so it was in times past being through Flattery Oppression Superstition Ignorance and the like lifted up in himself and over the Nation and all orders and estates of men and consciences therein yea above all that was or is truly called God among men so that he said in his heart and all that were heightned by and took up their rest in this great and tall Cedar as someâ—ime the King of Assyria did I will ascend above the heights of the cloude I will be like the most high that is as wise as strong as great as he Or as did that other great and mighty Poterâ—ate we read of in Daniel reflecting upon his own glory and the works of his own hands boasted himself before God and men saying interpretatively and in the account of both Is not this great Babel which I have built for the honor of my Majesty for the spreading of my glory and for a lasting rest and tabernacle to me and mine to all future ages § 2. No sooner was this thus in his ignorance of God gone forth of the mouth of him and his but there apeared written upon the wall of this his and their so great but carnal Confidence by the invisible and irresistible hand of God which only then and now the Daniels of the Kingdom were able to read and interpret MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN This is now not only Prophetically but that which is come to pass easily to be interpreted by every one that passeth by or goeth in and out this Kingdom so that every man may see and understand this to be the interpretation of the thing or hand writing Mene God hath numbred thy Kingdom taken a note of all the particular vanities follies cruelties therein and finished it in respect of the glory pride and vanity it now is and hath been in Tekel Thou art weighâ—d in the ballances of God and man and art found too light Peres divisit God hath divided it from thee and thee from it or divided it into several peeces and smaller parts and parcels so that one hath one part and another hath another First the Irish take one peece then the Scots take another and the English take the last or rather the first and best and they too divide it among themselves and strive who shall have the better part or the whole of it Sect. 3. Thus the King in this way and confidence of his and those that had stretched themselves with him upon this bed of rest which they have now found by woful experience is too short for them I say he and they have found that come upon them at the Call and Command of God which sometime the Land of Judah did yea that very voyce of God hath thundered in their ears houses and among their friends and estates as sometime did among that people and that in these
very words or to this very purpose He the Lord hath lifted up an Ensigne for God set up his Standard first against the King before the King in a way of open War set up his Standard against the Parliament or Pâ—ople the Ensigne is lifted up of God and given for a signe to the Nations first to the Irish then to the Scots and lastly though not first in a way of open War to the English all of them standing still in times past and so seeming as to the shaking of the Kings rest and glory afar off though some keen and quick-sighted men had a view in God of all this before it came they all obey his Call and come forth against him and his with exceeding speed God saying of them none of them shall be weary nor stumble among them none shall slumber or sleep neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed till they have brought to pass his Act his strange Act nay not so much as the latchet of their shoes be broken to shew that all lets and hinderances should be taken out of the way that the Councel of God might take place whose arrows are sharp every one piercing to the heart of King Queen Bishops c. and all their bows bent men still in readiness to second and supply one affrightment with another their horses hoofs shall be saith God counted like a flint that every march and preparation of calamity against him might succeed the wheels of their Carriages and Ammunition like whirle-winde all being always in a readiness to annoy him Their roarings shall be like a Lion as the King hath found they shall roar like young Lions yea they shall roar and lay hold of the prey and shall carry it away safe and none shall deliver it as it hath come to pass in all those great Engagements that have been against the King and therefore saith the Text Isaiah 5. Vers 30. In that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea against the prevailing mighty proud waves thereof there is no standing out And if one of that way or that engagement look unto the Land or any part of it behold darkness and sorrow or disappointment and the light of this Kingly glory or glorious Kingdom opposed now to the Coming and Kingdom of God which yet they themselves in blindness and in a way of tradition prayed for I say all that light and glory is darkened and eternally ecclipsed in the heavens thereof that is to say in the firmament of it which was the persons of the King Queen Nobles and all those either birds or beasts that had taken up their shelter under the shadow of this great tree which by the Commandment of the Watcher or strict Observer of all things and Kingdoms even the holy One of Israel that for Israels sake never slumbreth or sleepeth is now felled down Sect. 4. The King to prevent or rather to occur and make resistance against this inundation or flood of Fears and troubles flowing in upon him threatning the overshadowing yea the total ruine of this Babel that was so glorious in his and others eyes endeavours first the upholding it with the wit and policy of his Friends and Favorites and his own personal affronts and discountenancing yea openly as in the Parliament House menacing especially the heads of that party or sort of men from whence his expectation of fear did come but though this was effectual to the casting down many Stars that seemed to be more fixed in the Firmament of the Peoples expected Rights and Freedoms yet the opposition made against the other was so far from blunting the edg of their affections then to the Publique and proceedings against the corrupt interest of the King and Bishops c. that they by opposition multiplied and were so much the more fortified and united against him so that these bricks of policy and swordless or bloodless opposition made against the Power prevailing against and feared by the King being fallen down He speeds into the North and there is resolved to build with hewen stones and though the Sycamores had failed him and his hope in them yet now mindes to make further tryal and change them into Cedars sets up his Standard and makes Proclamation among the Gentiles men of looser and more apparent corrupt and evil lives and so appearing more remote then others from the knowleg and fear of God and thus calls upon these Mountains to cover him from the wrath of the Lamb who now appeared to sit on the throne of God against him to these in all Countries he says Prepare ye War wake up the mighty men in all parts Let all the men of War draw neer to the King and come up to his defence Beat your plow-shares into swords your pruning hooks into spears Let the weak say I am strong Let none deny his assistance of Mony Plate Horse Arm◠§ 5. Thus the King and all the fading worldly glory and creame of the Nation being embodied into a potent and resolute Army marches up and down like a swift Dromedary traversing her waies or as the same Prophet speakes like a wild Asse Colt used to the Wildernesse which no hand had yet medled with and therefore snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure or according to the desire of her heart as though none could turne her out of the way so that all they that go to seek her for the use of man do even make weary themselves as though it were bootlesse to pursue after her any more as was indeed the case of the King and those with him who had led at sundry times after so many fights and frights his and their pursuers as they say such a dance that they were weary and wasted and even ready and upon the matter willing to give over they said once and agen as David We shall one day perish by the hands of this Saul the fierce and first King of that but as some say the last of this our Israel but as the wild Asse is taken and made tame in her moneth so that a child may lead her so after a while this Army and mighty gathering together of men of Warre become bedrid and are taken as a wild bull in a net so that to every child is now given to play on the hole of this Aspe and the weaned child to put his hand on this Cockatrice den § 6. A digression by way of lamentation for the many slain Which though I so expresse in the language of the Scriptures they being such to some upon a true account yet I acknowledge them upon another to be men of might and great renown and therefore am so far from writing this as rejoycing at their fall that I hardly do it but with weeping eyes and a heavy heart and am ready to lament with David over them as he did over Saul and Jonathan his son The beauty of Israel is slaine upon the high places