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A65583	A second narrative of the late Parliament (so called) wherein, after a brief reciting some remarkable passages in the former narrative, is given an account of their second meeting, and things transacted by them : as also how the Protector (so called) came swearing, by the living God, and dissolved them, after two or three weeks sitting : with some quæries sadly proposed thereupon : together with an account of three and forty of their names, who were taken out of the house, and others that sate in the other house, intended for a House of Lords, but being so unexpectedly disappointed, could not take root, with a brief character and description of them : all humbly presented to publique view / by a friend to the good old cause of justice, righteousnesse, the freedom and liberties of the people, which hath cost so much bloud and treasury to be carried on in the late wars, and are not yet settled.	Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.	1658 (1658)	Wing W1556; ESTC R8011	50,589	52

your Major Corn Yes Josh. What are they Corn A pretty number of them Then the Major began to answer to one but nothing to the purpose but before the Major had done your most serene Protector or Joshua unjustly takes part with the Major to help him out saying to the Cornet You Article against your Major because he is for me you are a n n Meaning the officers who often met to seek the Lord and bewail their Apostacy from the Good Old Cause company of Mutineers you deserve a hundred of you to be hanged and I will hang you and strip you as a man would strip an Eele you talk of preaching and praying men they are the men that go about to undermine me And clapping his hand upon Colonel Ingoldsby's shoulder said Go thy way Dick Ingoldsby thou canst neither preach nor pray but I will believe thee before I will believe twenty of them And says he to the Cornet You never owned my Father you have lost your Commission and shall never ride more in this Army c. and a great deal more to this purpose which I leave to Pragmaticus formerly the old now the new Court-Pamphleter more perfectly to relate Is this speaking or action the righteousness and peace kissing each other that you so speak hath been since he took the Government upon him Or would Joshua Solomon or Elisha thus take part with wickedness and wicked men and do so unrighteous and wicked an Action and speak thus profanely and wickedly Surely no VVherefore acknowledge your iniquity and lye low before the Lord for these your blasphemous lying flattering Expressions in your wicked Addresses whereby you have so reproached and wronged good Joshua Solomon and Elisha in making such undue Comparisons wherefore repent you flattering Courtiers Peter Sterry and ye other Court-Chaplains Repent repent Thomas Goodwin and ye Pastors and Messengers of as it 's said above an hundred Congregational Churches in England Repent you Apostate Army Repent you Mayor Aldermen Common Council and Militia of London whose Principles are so base and mercenary and like a Beast looking downward as to side with whether right or wrong whatever is uppermost like your Sword-Bearer and Officers who cry Grace grace and bow to one Lord Maior to day and do the same to the next the morrow Repent also you Presbyterian Classical Ministers of the City c. who by the perswasion of three or four eminent self-interested Cycophants among you were drawn in against your Light and Consciences to carry your bodies to White-hall leaving your hearty good will at home to address your selves to this new Golden Calf as an owning of him and this from unbelief and slavish fear of being frowned upon or losing your Parish places VVill such a practice as this stand good before the Lord in the day of your account Repent also all of you for your spending 50 or 60000 l. about a Heathenish Popish Funeral pomp not onely wicked in it self but at a time when so many tradesmen and others break and are ready to starve and when you had done then following an image of wax to Westminster as if it had been a dead mans body wherein you lyed unto and mocked both God and man Repent also you Country professors and others of these flattering blasphemous lying Addresses and speak nor do no more so wickedly lest the Judgements of the Lord break in upon you as upon back sliding Israel of old and your carcasses fall in the wilderness c. as theirs did for making and then dancing about the Moulten Calf and their desiring to make a Captain to return into Egypt and opposing the Spirit of the Lord in Moses Caleb and Joshua and his work in that day And take heed Oh you Parliament that you do not say or do as these have done whom I so call if you keep close to and endeavour the promotion of the Good Old Cause and cast out the false sp rit of the Egyptian Bond-woman the Protector so called and his Lords and make way for and bring in the Spirit of Zion the Freewoman the true spirit of Magistracy by Judges and Counsellours as at the beginning men fearing God and hating Covetousness and faithful with all the saints If you thus proceed my self and the Lords faithful people will love own live and dye with you if not we shall abhor and dis-own you as we did the former and now Protector and his Lords and shall trust God with our Liberties and not fear your Frowns And now a word for your encouragement my Friends who remain faithful to the Lord in this evil day and are as it were in the Clefts of the Rocks Cant. 2. 14. and secret places of the stairs in pain crying and praying night and day giving the Lord no rest Isai. 6 ● 6 7. till he revive the Good Old Cause and cause the Righteousness of Zion to go forth as brightness and the Salvation thereof as a Lamp that burneth and until he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth whose voyce in his account going forth in the power of his spirit from the sweetness you have tasted in communion with himself in the discovery of this glory is sweet and countenance is comely and unto whom he will in the best time say Rise up my love my fair one and come away for lo the winter is past the rain is over and gone Isa. 26. 20. The flowers appear on the earth Isai. 35. 2. chap. 51. 3. The time of the singing of birds is come Isa. 35. 6. And the voyce of the turtle is heard in our land Zach. 12. 10. And will rejoyce over you as the Bridegroom over the Bride with joy and singing and will rest in his love Zeph. 3. 17. compared with Isa. 62. 5. VVherefore be not dampt or discouraged in your spirits at the hearing and sight of the late Addresses nor at the great Cloud of VVitnesses therein seeming to own the present and former Governour What though many of them are men of such raised gifts and parts and appearing grace which to such as have not their eyes in their heads and look not within the vail may have an appearance the Lord doth own them and approves of what hath been formerly and lately done for though they are so great a Cloud of VVitnesses yet they are but VVitnesses in the Clouds whose Testimony Carnal Wisdom Policy and Arm of Flesh will pass away like the morning Cloud or early dew for the spirit of the Lord in his people like the waters Isa. 28. 17. hath overflown and looked into their hiding place abhor'd and blown upon them therefore follow not a multitude to do evil What though there be so many Prophets great Scholars learned Astrologers and wise men among them yet know that amongst almost 400 Prophets in the days of Ahab and Jehosaphat but one Micaiah a true prophet that had the mind of God among all the congregation that were going from Egypt

to Canaan among whom were many renowned Princes Priests and famous men yet onely Moses Caleb Joshua c. that truly followed God Numb. 14. Among all the wise men in Babylon but one Daniel a true Prophet Dan. 2. 19 But one Noah a Preacher of Righteousness and faithful in his generation before the Flood Gen. 7. 1. One Lot in Sodom Among the seven Churches Rev. 2. 3. but two to wit Philadelphia and Smyrna whom the Lord approves of but the other so carried it except a few among them as he said it should be manifested they belonged rather to the Synagogue of Satan then to the Churches of Christ When the great destruction comes upon wicked men a little before or upon the call of the Jews but a handful or as the gleaning grapes when the Vintage is done shall lift up their heads and rejoyce and glorifie God in the fires Isai. 24. They onely who speak often one to another when wickedness is set up and they that tempt God are delivered alluding to Israel who would have made a Captain to return again to Egypt or rather the Apostacy of this our day that the Lord owns as those who fear him and have the promise of the Sun of Righteousness to arise upon them Mal. 3. The false spirit of Magistracy in Adonijah aspiring to the Government had the assistance of the Kings sons Abiathar the Priest Joab the General and all the Captains of the Host c. who with slaying of Oxen c. eating and drinking said God save Adonijah and carryed it for a time against Solomon but the spirit of Solomon Nathan the Prophet c. who had the true spirit of Government and Prophesie approved not of or consented to it but were for the true spirit to rule 1 King 1. and so it is at this day and blessed be the Lord that our eyes do see a people crying longing and will not be at rest till the earthy selfish spirit of Magistracy be brought down and the self-denying spirit of Magistracy or Horn of David now budding in Zion come in its room Psal. 132. Wonder not neither be turned aside because of that great multitude on the one hand or smallness of the number on the other that truly and indeed appear for and own the cause of God but stand close and be more refined in the light and spirit of Zion and keep your ground for the Lord hath so appointed That the foot shall tread it down to wit the meanest of the saints for it is very probable that many of the great and wise saints ascording to Rev. 18. 4. shall be found in the borders and supporting the things of Babylon and casting out their Brethren Isa. 66. 5. saying Let the Lord be glotified and having the mist of Babylon before their eyes shall say The Lord delays his coming and will be beating their fellow servants onely the feet to wit the upright conversation of these poor ones who desire to keep close to God and not to touch with Babylon and steps to wit the faith prayers and honest endeavours of these needy ones who long for and cannot be at rest till judgement so visibly return unto righteousness that all the upright in heart may follow it These shall trend down the lofty City Isai. 26. The least of the flock shall draw them out the people that shall bring down the enemies of God in the latter days are a very small and feeble remnant when the Lord comes to destroy Babylon and to build up Zion he will finde but a few upright ones and those very destitute helpless and some of them prisoners too for their witness to the true Magistracy and Ministry of Zion whose prayers he will hear and not despise and bring forth to declare his glory in Zion who shall in a holy triumph and rejoycing say O Lord thou art our God we will exalt thee we will praise thy Name for thou hast done wonderful things thy councels of old are faithfulness and truth c. Lo this is our God we have waited for him he will save us we will be glad and rejoyce in his salvation Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee Trust in the Lord for ever c. Isai. 25. 1 9. chap. 26. 2 3. Which good and comfortable words shall certainly be made good for heaven and earth shall pass away but not one tittle of the word shall pass till all be fulfilled I the Lord will hasten it in its time Isa. 60. 33. with Jer. 33. 25 26. Hab. 2. 3. Read these Scriptures Wherefore strengthen ye the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees c. Isa. 55. 3 4. And you my dear Friends Commonwealths-men so called who so greatly seem to press for righteousness and freedom labour to bring forth this righteousness not by a commonmoral spirit and principle but by the spirit of Zion a lively spiritual active frame of spirit to wit that frame mentioned 2 Sam. 23. not to be pulled and haled to do the good that lyes before you that is more suitable to the unjust Judge but be as ready to help and refresh and therein be as suitable to delight the oppressed that come unto you as the light of the morning when the Sun riseth without Clouds is to those who have lost their way in a dark night and as the tender grass springeth out of the earth by clear shining after rain this is the Spirit of the Horn of David that shall bud in Zion Psal. 132. The consideration whereof in the first man festation and declaration of it by the spirit unto and by David having thereby a tast of that glory upon his spirit made him to break forth into a holy triumph and rejoycing saying And this is all my salvation and all my desire although he make it not to grow to wit in his day Leave no stone unturn'd no means unus'd to let the people who come unto you speedily know one way or other what they shall trust to say not Go and come again to morrow if you can do it to day delayes are burdensome and chargeable Job from the secret of God being upon his Tabernacle and the precious dew of the spirit compassing his root and lying all night upon his branch had much of this blessed frame upon his spirit He put on and clothed himself with righteousness and had more love to judgement then to the robe and diadem and upon that account he was eyes to the blind feet to the lame a father to the poor and the cause which he knew not he searched one chap 29. it concerns you and is worth your reading This will be the frame of the handful of corn in the earth Psa. 72 or mountain establisht upon the top of the mountains Mich. 4. 1 2. the fruit whereof shall shake like Lebanon they shall not be shaken by others but themselves wilshake off their fruit then wil