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A85281	The fifth monarchy, or Kingdom of Christ, in opposition to the beasts, asserted, by the Solemn League and Covenant, several learned divines, the late General and Army, (viz.) in their declaration at Muslebrough, August 1650. wherein the old cause is stated, appeals made, the Scottish blood spilt, and the banners yet in Westminster-Hall witnessing the great decision then given on Christs side. Also, by a letter from the officers of the Army in England, to their brethren in Ireland, the 11 of May, 1653. justifying on Christs accompt, the dissolution of the Parliament; and consonant thereunto, the Generals speech to those that succeeded in the government, the fourth of July following ...		1659 (1659)	Wing F890; Thomason E993_31; ESTC R207791	44,997	55

withal that he is so neer the enjoyment of his Kingdom Page 44. Jesus Christ wins ground of us every day and works us up age after age to a further Reformation to more light and holiness and so he will do till he hath perfectly overcome every Popish Principle out of them Page 57. I am confident of it that Christ that King of Saints that is in heaven he will not rest till such time as he hath made us one if not injudgment yet in forbearance and that if we will not take warning and will not agree it that either Antichrist or Jesus Christ himself will come in upon us and we shall be made to do it one way or other Page 58. I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it And you that are the Governours of Judah shall be as a hearth of fire amongst the wood and a torch of fire in a sheaf all that oppose you and rise up against you shall be but as so many straws Take a sack of Straw great for Bulk and lay it upon a few coales of fire upon a hearth and what will become of them all though they cover the fire a while yet they will soon be consumed and burnt up Page 42 43. The Saints have vouchsafed them by God a priviledge in ruling and governing this world and the Providences of God therein they are Privy-Counsellours to the great King of kings who governs all the States Kingdoms of this world And God doth give the Saints a Commission to set up and pull down by their prayers and intercessions The old Testament speaks in a high language Esa 45.11 Concerning the work of my hands command you me Who speaks this the words before are Thus saith the holy One of Israel c. it would have been blasphemy for us to have said it Then he goes on bringing in the Lord speaking thus Behold I that am thus your Maker give you leave to dispose by your prayers the great works of my hands which concern my children my sons the affairs of Kingdoms even so far as they relate to their good and saith upon this occasion he raised up Cyrus and pulled down the Babylonian Monarchy because they by their prayers had sought this Further Dr. Owen in his Sermon Heb. 12.27 Page 14. All the present States of the world are cemented together by Antichristian lime and unless they be so shaken as to have every cranny searcht and brusht there will be no quiet habitations for Lord Christ and his people Page 25 The Heavens and the Earth of the Nations in their present constitution are directly formed to the interest of Antichrist which by notable advantages at their first moulding and continued insinuation ever since hath so riveted it self into the very Fundamentals of them that no digging or myning without an Earthquake will cast up the Foundation stones thereof Page 35. Is it not evident to him that hath but half an eye that the whole present constitution of the Governments of the Nations is so cemented with Antichristian Morter from the very top to the bottom that without a thorough shaking they cannot be cleansed And a little after This onely is certain it the said shaking shall not stop nor receive its period before the interest of Antichristianity be wholly separated from the power of these Nations And further saith that no Atonement shall be made for the blood of the Saints slain under the notion of Hereticks nor expiation be allowed whilst a toe of the Image or bone of the Beast is left unbroken And again that which doth and shall stick upon Potentates to their ruine is not so much their own or any other interest as the very dregs of this Papal Antichristian interest thrust into their Oaths and Obligations for no other end in the world but to keep the Lord Jesus out of his Throne In the Book that gives an account of New Englands settlement and some Laws for Government publisht for the use of that Colony printed London 56. Though they humbly acknowledge that the supreme power of making Laws and of repealing of them belongs to God onely and that by him this power is given to Jesus Christ as Mediator Mat. 28.19 John 5.22 and that the Laws for holiness and righteousness are already made given us in the Scriptures which in matters moral or of moral equity may not be altered by humane power or authority Moses onely shewed Israel the Laws and Statutes of God and the Sanhedrim the highest Court amongst the Jews must attend those Laws Yet Civil Courts and Rulers are the Ministers of God for the good of the people and have power to declare publish and establish the Laws he hath made In Fox's Martyrol 1 Volume p. 139. is recorded an Epistle of Eleutherius Bishop of Rome sent to K. Lucius the first Christian K in England 169. You require of us the Roman Laws and the Emperours to be sent over to you that you may practise the same and put them in ure within your Realm The Roman Laws and Emperours we may reprove but the Law of God we may not ye have received of late through Gods mercy in the Realm of Brittany the Law and faith of Christ you have with you within the Realm both the parts of the Scriptures out of them by Gods grace with the Counsel of your Realm take ye a Law and by that Law through Gods sufferance rule your kingdom according to the saying of the Psalmist O God give thy judgments to the King and thy justice to the Kings son he said not The judgment and 〈…〉 The Letter of the General Council of the Army to their Brethren in their several Quarters and Garisons upon their march into Scotland 1650. Dear Christian Friends AS it hath pleased our heavenly Father to call both you and us in these latter days to wait upon him in his great and terrible works so the glory of his appearances hath been exceeding great in those Services And we trust the record of his Love is kept with delight in your heart as we desire it may be upon our own for ever And surely the true use of those precious Experiments wherewith he hath enriched us in this work is to strengthen our Faith and quicken our hearts to a more cheerful attendance on Christ in what further Service he shall appoint us To what End cends that wonderful return of the Pr●…ers of his people in those continued and swift Successes God hath afforded our Brethren in IRELAND but to quicken us to a lively improvement of our interest in Christ by taking those pledges of his Love as means to raise our hearts to expect much more And what can be expected less from us after all such full meals of Mercies but to be strengthened to Conflect with

of which hath made us we confess not to idoliz the Covenant as we fear too many do though we trust it will appear before God Angels and Men that we shall ever pursue its true and lawful ends according to the plain candid meaning thereof though we do not upon every occasion urge the Covenant as we see every party though as far different as light and darkness apt to do the Lord having by his Word and by his Spirit convinced us of our duty therein though there had been no such Covenant at all entred into But when we saw that under pretence of the Covenant a corrupt party in Parliament by their worldly policy after the War was ended in England and the late Kings party subdued with the loss of thousands of the lives of Saints whose death is precious in the sight of the Lord did endeavour to set up the King upon his own terms and with him to establish a National Church Government not in all things agreeable to the WORD OF GOD but is destructive to the just Liberties of the true Spiritual Church of Christ which he hath by his own most precious blood purchased for them and is now come forth to bestow upon them which did sufficiently demonstrate it self by the dealings of the then Master-builders with the Churches of Jesus Christ in and about London that were then threatned to be dissolved and Laws made to prevent the Communion of Saints with one another except only in that one publick Form then about to be established to the astonishment of many of us that had lifted up our hands to God and sworn to endeavour a Reformation according to the Word of God and therefore after much waiting upon God by prayer and examining our own hearts about the ends and sincerity thereof we were abundantly satisfied that it was not onely lawful but our duty to keep our Arms in our hands till the ends beforementioned should be accomplished and to that purpose the Army whereof we are a part did refuse to disband did march up to London to propose to the Parliament a way of Establishment that might be more for the carrying on of the ends of Religion and Liberty though therein we were not at that time successful yet most wonderfully and graciously preserved by the Lord and extraordinarily convinced after much seeking the Face of God that our failing was in endeavouring to set up the King upon any terms he being a man of so much blood that the Lord would have no peace with him nor any that should go about to establish him Whereupon after his own hard heart had hindred him from yeilding to any overtures that were made to him by the Parliament through whom all the Armies Proposals were to be tendered and a second War more dangerous then the former contrived by him and his Son now with you together with those in Scotland that ●…ated us of the Army of England under the name of Sectaries being by the unspeakable goodness and mighty power of God waded through and a second testimony given from Heaven to justifie the proceedings of his poor servants against that bloody Antichristian brood though with the loss of many precious Saints we were then powerfully convinced that the Lords purpose was to deal with the late King as a man of blood And being perswaded in our consciences That he and his Monarchy was one of the ten horns of the Beast spoken of Rev. 17.12,13,14,15 and being witnesses to so much of the innocent blood of the Saints that he had shed in supporting the Beast and considering the loud cries of the souls of the Saints under the Altar we were extraordinarily carryed forth to desire Justice upon the King that man of blood And to that purpose petitioned our Superiour Officers and the Parliament to bring him to Justice which accordingly by an high hand of Providence was brought to pass which Act we are confident the Lord will own in preserving the Commonwealth of England against all Kingdoms and Nations that shall adventure to meddle with them upon that account When God executes his judgements upon Malefactors let none go about to resist When he brings forth those his Enemies that will not suffer Jesus Christ to be King in the midst of his Saints and breaks them in pieces like a Potters vessel let not Scotland nor any other Nation say What dost thou We fear they have been too busie already the Lord that sees the secrets of all hearts knows the compliance of Scotland with the late Kings Issue now with you was in order to disturb the Peace of England for being Gods Executioners upon a bloody Tyrant and a supporter of the Throne of the Beast But blessed be the Lord the crafty are taken in their own suare England sits in peace whilst Scotland receives into their chief City their new King at the very hour wherein an Army had marched 300 miles is sacing them at the very gates We wish our Brethren of Scotland especially those that truly fear the Lord would consider these things and not slight the Providences of God so much as they do When Scotland chose new gods and would have a King out of a Family that God had rejected then was War in the Gates And though we do not think Providences alone a sufficient rule for Gods people to walk by yet we do know that the Lord speaks to his people by his Providence as well as by his Word and he is angry with his people that do not take notice thereof and promiseth blessing to those that do Psa 107. and the latter end And here give us leave not in a boasting spirit but in meekness and fear to tell you That we are perswaded we are poor unworthy instruments in Gods hand to break his Enemies and preserve his people You have acknowledged us in your own papers to be a rod of iron to dash in pieces the Malignants but withal say We must now be broken in pieces because we now set our selvs against the Lor of Gods inheritance Let us here speak for our selves yea the Lord speak for us who knows our hearts and all our ways we value the Churches of Jesus Christ who are the Lot of Gods inheritance ten thousand times above our own lives yea we do bless the Lord we are not onely a Rod of Iron to dash the common enemies in pieces but also a hedge though very unworthy about Christs Vineyard and if we know our own hearts where ever the Lot of Gods inheritance shall appear to be found in Scotland we shall think it our duty to the utmost hazard of our lives to preserve the same But if there be any that have taken counsel together against the Lord and against his Anoynted whom the Lord hath decreed to set upon his holy Hill of Zion we are perswaded the Lord hath brought us hither as instruments through which he will speak to them in his wrath and vex them in his sore

all the people of God that this great Change may have the extraordinary blessing of God upon it By this inclosed Declaration you will perceive what provision is made for the present management of Affairs till persons of approved Fidelity and Honesty may be called to take upon them the Supreme Authority of this Commonwealth which being done we may have cause to hope the Lord will make them a future blessing to us Dear Friends we are perswaded this is the Lords own work and ought to be mavellous in our eyes the Lord hath once and again pulled down the Mighty from their seats and we trust it is that himself may raign and therefore let the earth rejoyce and these our Islands be glad thereof for though clouds and darkness be round about him yet Righteousness and Judgment are the habitation of his Throne The Lord is terrible in his doings therefore the guilty world will tremble but Sionshall hear and be glad and the daughters of Judah shall rejoyce because of his judgments Let us therefore dear Brethren serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling for we are not without hope that our Lord Jesus Christ who is the King of Saints will henceforth shew himself to be the King of Nations also We do not doubt but the Lord will make your hearts as ours in this great business and that as the Lord hath wonderfully stirred up the heart of his Excellency the Lord General to put himself upon God in this great undertaking for the interest of Jesus Christ and his people so we shall adhere to him and one to another therein We know your sincere love to Christ and his people is such that we shall use no Arguments unto you but onely mind you That when the Lord called you to the service of Ireland at a solemn meeting of the Officers designed for Ireland with those that remained here after that we had with many prayers and tears recommended one another into the bosome of Christ we did also in the presence of each other and before the Lord solemnly submit our selves and all our affairs to be whollyat his dispose resolving through the influence of his Spirit in all our politick undertakings not to seek our selves but the advancement of the affairs and kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ In this Spirit and with these Resolutions we parted with one another and the Lord hath blessed us hitherto and lo we are yet alive though thousands of our dear Brethren who engaged with us are dead The Lord grant we may with our lives be instrumental to carry on and preserve that Cause and Interest which was by them valued above their lives and whose blood cryeth loud to us to persevere therein unto the end Let us therefore we beseech you provoke both you and our selves not to consult with carnal reason in these great Mutations but let us labour by faith to see the Lord carry on his own work and to manifest our selves whom God hath called and chosen to these stations wherein we stand to be also faithful in doing the work unto which he shall appoint us Dear Brethren the work hath hitherto been to break and pull down which every one almost seemeth to be good at but it 's now the expectation of good men that Building and Establishing work shall follow for which yet there are not in our view many fit and therefore it will be your duty and ours to pray without ceasing that those whom God shall call to the Government may be men full of the Holy Ghost and of Power and may have his continual presence in the carrying on of so great a work on the issue whereof depends as we are perswaded the interest of the Saints throughout the whole world Now the Lord keep our hearts close to himself that so however things go about we may be found walking as becometh the Gospel of Christ in faith towards God in love one towards another and in Peace and Righteousness towards all men Which that we may do let us earnestly beg your continual and servent Prayers even as we desire to make mention of you as often as we encompass the Throne of Grace in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ in whom we are Your most affectionate Friends and Brethren John Lambert John Disbrow Edward Whalley Thomas Harrison William Constable Adrian Scroop Nathaniel Rich Matthew Tomlinson Philip Twisleton Thomas Pride Thomas Cooper William Goffe Ralph Coblet Francis Hacker Charles Worsley Francis White Thomas Kelsey Thomas Biscoe Robert Swallow Roger Alsopp Arthur Husbands Griffith Lloyd John Mason Thomas Saunders John Hodgson Jeoffrey Elatson Edward Orpin Samuel Lark John Caitnes John Wigan Edward Walley Richard Merest John Robinson Edmund Chillenden George Smithson William Packer William Style Francis Allen William Farley William Malin Richard Hatter Phil. 1.18 What then notwithstanding every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached and I therein do rejoyce yea and will rejoyce The spiritually wise cannot but soon discern whether the breathings of the Lords holy Spirit are more visible in this then the Armies late as it 's called repentance and the chief Officers may do well to consider whether it were not better with them when they avouched the Lord to be their God even Christ to be the King of Nations then since changing their glory into shame they are found amongst the scoffers saying Where is the promise of his coming and they may observe the dissolution of the Parliament however many now would have it accompted onely a precipitate Act of their General yet it had a very serious and deliberate owning by them who can no otherwise be justified in that or formet undertakings thereby following the Lord in paths untroden contradictory to this old Antichristian worlds frame and constitution or as their own expression in their Letter is By resigning themselves and all their affairs to be wholly at the Lords dispose resolving through the influence of his Spirit in all their publick undertakings not to seek themselves but the advansement of the Affairs and Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ But how faithfully this hath been observed the light in their own consciences can best satisfie them if they dare ask the question The Lord General CROMWEL His SPEECH At the Council-Chamber to the Persons then Assembled by Summons July 4. 1653. GENTLEMEN I Suppose the Summons that hath been instrumental to bring you hither gives you well to understand the cause of your being here Howbeit having something to impart which is an Instrument drawn up by the consent and advice of the principal Officers of the Army which is a little as we conceive more significant then that other of Summons we have that here to tender you And we have somewhat likewise further to say to you for our own exoneration and we hope it may be somewhat further to your satisfaction And therefore seeing you sit here somewhat uneasie by reason of the scantness of the

how the whole business should be executed we have no accompt of and we desired them they would be pleased and we thought we had an interest in our lives estates and families as well as the worst people of the Nation and that we might be bold to ask satisfaction in that and if they did proceed in honest ways as might be safe to the Nation we might acquiesce therein When we prest them to give satisfaction in this the Answer was made that nothing could be good to the Nation but the continuance of this Parliament We wondred that we should have such a return we said little to that But seeing they would not give us that which might satisfie us that their way was honest and safe they would give us leave to make our Objections We did tell them that we thought that way they were going in would be impracticable we could not tell them how it would be brought to pass to send out an Act of Parliament into the Country to have qualifications in an Act to be the Rules of Electors and Elected and not to know who should execute this desired to know whether the next Parliament were not like to consist of all Presbyters No qualifications to seclude Presbyters Newters Whether those Qualifications would hinder them or Newters and though it be our desire to value and esteem of that Judgment onely they having been as we know having deserted this cause and interest upon the Kings account and upon that closure between them and the Neighbour-Nation we do think we must confess we had as good have delivered up our Cause into the hands of any as into the hands of interessed and byassed men for it is one thing to live friendly and brotherly to bear with and love a person of another judgment in Religion another thing to have any so far set into the saddle upon that account as that it should be in them to have all the rest of their Brethren at mercy Having had this discourse making these Objections of bringing in Neuters or such as should impose upon their Brethren or such as had given testimony to the Kings party and objecting to the danger of it in drawing the concourse of all people to arraign every individual person which indeed did fall obviously in and the issue would certainly have been the putting it into the hands of men that had little affection to this Cause The Answer again was made and it was confessed by some that these Objections did lye But answer was mde by a very eminent person at the same time as before that nothing would save the Nation but the continuance of this Parliament This being so we humbly proposed an expedient of ours which was indeed to desire that the Government being in that condition it was things being under so much ill sense abroad and so likely to come to consusion in every respect if it went on so we desired they would devolve the trust over to persons of honour and integrity that were well known men well-affected to Religion and the interest of the Nation which we told them and was confessed had been no new thing when these Nations had been under the like hurly-burly and distractions and it was confessed by them it had been no new thing we had been at labour to get presidents to convince them of it And we told them these things we offered out of that deep sense we had of the good of the Nations and the Cause of Christ And being Answered to that nothing would save the Nation but the continuance of that Parliament although they would not say they would perpetuate it at that time least of all But finding their endeavours did directly tend to it they gave us this Answer That the things we had offered were of a tender and very weighty consideration They did make Objections how we should raise money and some other Objections we told them that that we offered as an expedient because we thought better then that for which no reason was or thought would be given we desired them to lay the thing seriously to heart they told us they would take consideration of these things till the morning that they would sleep upon them And I think that there was scarce any day that there sat above 50 or 52 or 53. At the parting two or three of the chief ones the very chiefest of them did tell us that they would endeavour the suspending the proceedings of the Representative the next day till they had a further conference and we did acquiesce and had hope if our expedient would take up a loving debate the next day we should have some such issue of our debate as would have given a satisfaction to all They went away late at night and the next morning we considering how to order that which we had to offer to them when they were to meet in the Evening word was brought they were proceeding with a Representative with all the eagerness they could we did not believe persons of such quality could do it a second and a third Messenger told us they had almost finished it and had brought it to that issue with that hast that had never been before leaving out the things that did necessarily relate to due qualifications as we have heard since resolved to make it a paper Bill not to ingross it that they might make the quicker dispatch of it Thus to have thrown all the liberties of the Nation into the hands that never bled for it upon this account we thought it our duty not to suffer it and upon this the House was dissolved Old Parliament dissolved to preserve the Cause This we tell you that you may so know that what hath been done in the dissolution of this Parliamont was as necessary to be done as the preservation of this cause 1. The Assembly called and that necessity that led us to do that hath brought us to this issue of exercising an extraordinary way and course to draw your selves together upon this accompt that you are men who know the Lord and have made observations of his marvellous dispensations and may be trusted with this cause It remains for I shall not acquaint you further with that that relates to your taking upon you this great business that being contained in this Paper in my hand which I do offer presently to you to read having done that which we thought to have done upon this ground of necessity which we know was not feigned necessity but real and true 2. That the Government might not fall to the end the Government might not be at a loss 3. To manifest the self-denyal of the Army to the end we might manifest to the world the singleness of our hearts and integrity who did those things not to grasp after the power our selves to keep it in a Military hand no not for a day as far as God enables us with strength and ability to put

it into the hands that might be called from several parts of the Nation this necessity I say and we hope may say for our selves this integrity of laboring to devest the Sword of the power and authority in the civil administration of it hath been that that hath moved us to conclude of this course and having done that we think we cannot with the discharge of our consciences but offer somewhat unto you as I said before for our own exoneration it having been the practise of others who have voluntarily and out of sense of duty devested themselves and devolved the Government into the hands of others it having been the practice where such things have been done and very consonant to reason together with the authority to lay a charge in such away as we hope we do and to press to the duty which we have a word or two to offer to you Truly GOD hath called you to this work by I think as wonderful providences as ever past upon the sons of men in so short a time And truly I think taking the Arguments of necessity for the Government must not fall take the appearances of the Will of God in this thing I am sure you would have been loath it should have been resigned into the hands of wicked men and enemies I am sure God would not have it so It comes therefore to you by way of necessity it comes to you by the way of the wise Providence of God though through weak hands and therefore I think it coming through our hands though such as we are it may not be taken ill if we offer to you something as to the discharge of that trust which is incumbent upon you And although I seem to speak that which may have the face of a charge it is a very humble one and he that means to be a servant to you who are called to the exercise of the supreme Authority to discharge that which he conceives is his duty in his own and his fellows names to you I hope who will take it in good part And truly I shall not hold you long in that because I hope it is written in your hearts to approve your selves to God onely This Scripture I shall remember to you which hath been much upon my spirit Hosea 11 and 12 verse Yet Judah ruleth with God and is faithful among the Saints Charges the old Parliament in their fasting and praying to compass God about with lyes it is said before Ephraim did compass God about with lies and Israel with deceit how God hath been compassed about with Fastings and Thanksgivings and other exercises and transactions I think we have all to lament why truly you are called by God to rule with him and for him and you are called to be faithful with the Saints who have been somewhat instrumental to your call he that ruleth over men the Scripture saith he must be just ruling in the fear of God And truly it is better to pray for you then to counsel you in that that you may exercise the judgment of mercy and truth I say it is better for you to do it then to advise you to ask wisdom from heaven for you which I am confident many thousands of Saints do this day and have done and will do through the permission of God and his assistance to advise you onely truly I thought of a Scripture likewise that seems to be but a Scripture of common application to every man as a Christian wherein he is counselled to ask wisdom and he is told what is that wisdom that is from above it is pure peaceable gentle casie to be intreated full of good fruits without partiality without hypocrisie and my thoughts ran thus upon this that the executing of the judgment of truth for that is the judgment that you must have Wisdom from above for and that is pure that will teach you to execute the judgment of truth and then if God give you hearts to be easie to be intreated to be peaceable spirits to be full of good fruits bearing good fruits to the Nation to men as men to the people of God to all in their several stations this wisdom will teach you to execute the judgment of Mercy and Truth And I have little more to say to this I shall rather bend my prayers for you in that behalf as I said before and I know many others do also Truly the judgment of truth will teach you to be as just towards an Unbeleever as towards a Beleever and it is our duty to do so I confess I have often said it foolishly If I would miscarry I would rather do it to a Beleever then to an Unbeleever perhaps it is a Paradox but let us take heed of doing it to either exercising injustice to either if God fill our hearts with such a spirit as Moses and Paul had which was not onely a spirit for the Beleevers among the people of God but for the whole people he would have dyed for them and so Paul to his Countrymen according to the flesh he could have dyed for them truly this will help us to execute the judgment of Truth and Mercy also A second thing is to desire you would be faithful with the Saints and I hope whatever others may think ought to be to us all matter of tejoycing that as one person our Saviour was touched with our infirmities that he might be pitiful I do think this Assembly thus called is very much touched with the common infirmity of the Saints and I hope that will teach you to pity others that so Saints of one sort may not be our interest but that we may have respect unto all though of different judgments And if I did seem to speak any thing that might seem to reflect upon those of the Presbyterian Judgment I think if you have not an interest of love for them will hardly answer this faithfulness to his Saints I confess in my pilgrimage and some exercises I have had abroad I did read that Scripture often in Isaiah 41 and 19. When God gave me and some of my fellows what he would there and elsewhere which he performed for us and what would he do to what end That he might plant in the wilderness the Cedar and the Shitta tree and the Mirtle tree and the Palm tree together To what end That they might know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this And that the Lord hath created it that he wrought all salvation and deliverance which he hath wrought for the good of the whole flock therefore I beseech you but I think I need not have a care of the whole flock love all the Sheep love the Lambs love all and tender all and cherish all and countenance all in all things that are good and if the poorest Christian the most mistaken Christian should desire to live peaceably and quietly under you soberly and humbly desire to

the Kingdom and Interest of Jesus Christ and Supporters of the Throne of the Beast been with all their Adherents by Sea and Land engaged with vanquisht and subdued broken like Potters vessels and the righteous judgments of God executed upon many of the heads of them as Traytors and Rebels Was King and Kingship as standing in opposition to the Kingdom of Christ being as was said one of the ten horns of the Beast Rev. 17. taken away Was the Parliamentary Authority defaced garbled purged and at last utterly broke as Obstructers hereof and that by the Army at their desire and to the great joy of most of the godly in the Land as having lost the Spirit of the Cause and so far degenerated into a selfish and persecuting Spirit that there appeared an enmity thereto And lastly was there another people called eminently by the Lord to own assert and carry on this cause and interest of Christs Kingly Authority to whom all due subjection was promised for Christs sake as to an Authority God had set over them to such an end 1 Quest Whether it will not necessarily follow that either the Parliament Army Ministers and others that have thus stated asserted engaged in such a cause as Gods and Christs and founding it upon the Word of God to the shaking and breaking all visible Rule and Government which for so many hundred years hath in Church and State been over us in these Nations have either been grosly deluded and so become guilty of all the blood that hath been spilt in this quarrel and consequently a company of Munster-spirited Tyrants Traytors and Murderers as it hath been reflected upon them and so ought to repent in dust and ashes and to endeavour all due satisfaction possible to Cavaleers Scots Prelates and Presbyters or if stated upon sound principles of Truth and Righteousness which the Lord hath eminently owned and led to step by step and that all this shaking overturning that hath been made in Church and State in order to the pulling down of Babylon and exalting the Kingdom of his Son is warranted and justified by the holy Scripture then doubtless ought this Cause to be owned adhered unto and prest after with all zeal and fidelity and they are to be esteemed Apostates Revolters and Backsliders that shall decline or turn aside herefrom 2 Quest Whether the Army who in so much seeming light and love to God bringing this glorious cause into the hands of his people having broken down the National constitution with a declared subjection to them for Christs sake are not guilty of most dreadful Apostacy and Rebellion against him his Crown and Dignity First in breaking that Assembly so by the Lord in that eminent manner called together whilst in the faithful prosecution of the said cause Secondly in setting up their Apostate General and afterwards his Son even in contradiction to all the Lords wondersul works amongst us as heads of Church and State and to whom were made all those blasphemous dreadsul Addresses Oaths and Engagements to the licking up their vomit again owning and establishing all the Pride Tyranny and Idolatry under new names and pretences that had been so contemptuously cast down amongst us viz. Kingship Peerage and Prelacy under the terms of Protector an Other House and Tryers who being set up and an assay made to confirm all by Parliament their Counsel being confounded so that they could not bring about their Enterprises as a further fruit of backsliding the Army have sought out another invention to withstand the true heir the Lord Jesus and kept him from his right by calling together such as formerly were by them dissolved for want of spirit and being in opposition to the Lords work and that it was so in truth have not very many of them given sufficient evidence by being Principals in the late Apostacy and the generality such as stuck not to lift up their hands to the most High that they would be true and faithful to the now deposed Usurper And those few of renown amongst them whose integrity was tryed it 's to be feared in the conclusion may serve for little more then to give countenance to what further their deceived hearts are lusting after of which some proof is already given in their votes for continuing the oppression in paying Tythes keeping from sale Hampton Court and White hall but more especially their Act of Indempnity sufficiently justifying the wicked and consequently condemning the righteous 3 Quest Whether they who have owned the Lord in all his dispensations in the midst of all these oppositions and declension of others ought not to be esteemed the well-affected to the Cause of God his people and this Nation rather then slanderously reported Munster-spirited and fanatick Obj. What would these people have The Cavaleeres old and new with the Commonwealths-men have somewhat to offer but these neither know what they say or whereof they affirm Answ Were it granted they were so weak as not to be able to hold forth some well-composed Model of Government being still it may be better at pulling down as is said page 24. line 10. then building up and establishing works is this a good Argument to slight any rational dissatisfaction to what is now set up If Episcopacy had never been taken away until some well ordered Church Government had been offered to succeed it by the Puritans who were then esteemed as ignoraut giddy and fanatique because they did not would it not have remained to this day But for further satisfaction there are four things in the Assirmative wherein there seems to be a general agreement amongst this people tending much to settlement upon a righteous Foundation 1. In reference to their Soveraign That the Lord Jesus Christ in whose Name and by whose blessing and strength the mighty works have been effected amongst us against Tyranny in the Civil and Antichristianism in the Ecclesiastick State may be publickly owned Our only Lord and King from whom as the head all Power Rule and Authority in Church and State is to be derived in opposition to every other Title without which alteration since the Foundations are out of course it will be utterly impossible there should be any subsistence for that the Image-Government or fourth Beasts constitution must as certainly be overturned and broken to give way to this Fifth Kingdom as the other were broken to give way to the fourth Dan. 2. 1 Tim. 6.15 He is the blessed and onely Potentate King of kings and Lord of lords John 5.27 And hath given him Authority to execute judgment also because he is the Son of man Isaiah 9.6 The Government shall be upon his shoulders Obj. How can Christ be said to be our King is he not in heaven Answ God was Israels King of old though heaven was his habitation 1 Chron. 29.23 Solomon sate on the Throne of the Lord 1 Chron. 29.23 2 Chron. 9.8 When Israel would imitate other Nations in making them a King they