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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

of them by all which thou mayest be able in some measure to resolve thy thoughts concerning the change of the Cause and Principles which these great Masters formerly carried on and professe to do so still It is notoriously known how even the chief of them sometime said It would never be well neither should we ever see good Dayes whilest there was one Lord left in England nor untill you speaking so to him my Lord of Manchester be called Mr. Montague yet now new Lords must be made by the dozens What Declaring what Fighting hath there been and how much Bloud and Treasure spent against a Negative Voice in the King and Lords Yet now not onely the Protector himself forsooth but all his new upstart Lords such as were our equals or it may be below us must Lord it over us with their No to our I. Is not the world growne mad were there ever such wonders before To fancy what after Ages will think of these men who pretend to be of the Saints of these times will never make a person melancholy that shall be serious in it Not to trouble thee further eye God more and Men lesse and that will stay and quiet thy Spirit and say to thy self as the Psalmist did Psal. 62. 5 9. My soul wait thou onely upon God for my expectation is from him Surely men of low degree are vanity and men of high degree are a lye A Second Narrative of the late Parliament so called giving an Account of their Second Meeting and the things transacted by them as also their Dissolution after two or three weeks Sitting With an Account of three and forty of their Names who in the interval of the Adjournment were taken out of the House and others that sate in the Other House so greatly designed for a House of Lords with a Brief Character and Description of them THe late Parliament so called having made their new Modell of Government called The Humble Petition and Advice before they had well licked their Golden Calf or given the Brat of their Brain a Name were called upon to Adjourn and break up And so making more haste then good speed they left things very raw and imperfect which afterwards occasioned great Contests and in fine their Dissolution According to the time they Adjourned unto they Assemble again being January 23. 1657. where after the usuall Solemnities of Devotion performed they repair to the House where they found some of their Number Commissioned and impowered by the Protector to swear them The Copy of which Oath here followeth The Oath I do in the presence and by the Name of God Almighty Promise and Swear That to the utmost of my power in my place I will uphold and maintain the true Reformed Protestant Christian Religion in the Power thereof as it is contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and encourage the Profession and Professors of the same And that I will be true and faithfull to the Lord * Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging as Chief Magistrate thereof And shall not contrive designe or attempt any thing against the Person or lawfull Authority of the Lord Protector and shall endeavour as much as in me lies as a Member of Parliament the Preservation of the Rights and Liberties of the People Which having taken and coming into the House they finde not onely some of their Fellow * Members but their old Servant and Clerk Mr. Scobell gone and a new one put in his room whose name is Smith which with biting a little the Lip and something in way of Complement as with a Salvo of their Rights and Priviledges they for quietness sake Vote him so put upon them to be their Clerk and then settled themselves in a posture for their future work And the first thing they undertake is to keep a Day of Prayer in their House which accordingly they did and with great prudence plowing with an Ox and an Asse together the Presbyters and Independents being both called to Officiate The Other House who would fain have the Honour to be called Lords or rather a House of Lords did likewise in their House pray at the same time with much Devotion and did afterwards agree to send to the Parliament or as they would have them again called the House of Commons by Baron Hill and Serjeant Windham after the manner of the House of Peers formerly to declare their Message viz. That the House of Lords or the Lords of the other House had sent unto them to desire their joyning with them in a Petition or Message to the Protector That a Day of Prayer * and Humiliation might be appointed through the whole Commonwealth Which Message begat very high Debaets and sharp Speeches from many that were not at the making this lame and imperfect Modell so as the aforesaid Messengers were fain to wait a long time but at length got this Answer viz. That they would return an Answer by Messengers of their own The House filling daily and many of those that had been secluded in the former Session coming in the Face of things in the House were in a great measure changed another Spirit appearing in them then before insomuch that many made question of the things that were formerly done some speaking at a high rate in behalf of the Rights of the English Free People and against the Wrongs and Injuries that had been done unto them This being done day by day and the House not agreeing what to call that Other House which was as it were a namelesse Infant and fain would be named the House of Lords was the greatest part of their work save that now and then some little Matters came under Debate as the Reviving and perfecting their Committees and Reading some former Bills The Lord Cravens Case also was taken in and the Councill on both parts heard at the Bar of the House with some other little Matters that passed but the greatest part of time that was spent in the House whilest sitting was in Considering and Debating what they should call the Other House Towards the end of their sitting there came another Message from the Other House after the same manner as before Desiring their joyning with them in moving the Protector to Order that the Papists and such as had been in Armes under the late King might be exiled the City and put out of the Lines of Communication c. This Message being also designed as shooing horn to draw on their owning of them received a like Answer as did the former As for the Other House who called themselves the House of Lords they spent their time in little Matters such as choosing of Committees and among other things to consider of the Priviledges and Jurisdiction of their House good wise souls before they knew what their House was or should be called About which time also a Petition

out of the House to be a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House the rather for that he never in all his life as he saith fought against any such thing as a single person or a Negative Voyce but onely to put down Charles and set up Oliver and hath his end 29. Colonel Berry his Original was from the Iron Works as a Clerk or Overseer betook himself to the Wars on the Parliaments side profited greatly in his undertaking and advanced his interest very far who though he wore not the Jesters Coat yet being so ready to act his part and please his General in time he became a Colonel of Horse in the Army afterward a Major General of divers Counties a command fit for a Prince wherein he might learn to lord it in an Arbitrary way beforehand at his pleasure that he is of complying principles with the Court his preferment sufficiently speaks out neither ought any other be believed of him or any of his brethren without a real demonstration to the contrary so that he may well pass for one to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce over the people being so far advanced and gotten out of the pit above them and if he did formerly fight against a Negative Voyce and lording it over the people it may be forgiven him 30. Colonel Cooper sometime a Shop-keeper or Salter in Southwark a Member of Thomas b Goodwins Church one formerly of very high principles for common Justice and Freedom like his brother Tichborn The Army then in Scotland sending into England for faithful praying men to make Officers of the honest people in the Burrough recommended him to the General in order to have a command who accordingly went down but left his Principles behind him and espoused other was made a Colonel at the first dash and though he began late yet hath so well improved his interest as he hath already gotten as many hundreds per annum as he had hundred pounds when he left his Trade he hath a Regiment of Foot in Scotland and another in Ireland where he is Major General of the North in Venables Room and Governour of Carrickfergus so as he is in a very hopeful way to be a great man indeed he was of the Latter Parliaments and there is full proof that he is every way thorough-paced and true to the new Court-interest so that upon the whole he also may be counted fit to be a Lord of the Other House and to have a Negative Voyce over the good people in Southwark if they please and all the people of these Lands beside it being the Pretectors pleasure the rather he being the Mirrour of the times for thorough change of principles Alderman Tichborn and O. P. excepted 31. Alderman Pack then Sir Christopher now Lor●Pack his rise formerly was by dealing in Cloth near the beginning of the Long Parliament was made an Alderman was then very discreet and medled little more like a Neuter or close Malignant then a Zealot for the cause was a Commissioner of the Customs also Sheriff and Lord Maior of London next after Alderman Viner the Protector taking on him the Government the Sunshine of the new Court pleased him and brought him in full complyance he was one of the Last Parliament and zealous to re-establish Kingship in the person of the c Protector and judged the onely meet man to bring the Petition into the House praying him to accept of and take it upon him which though he then refused yet as is reported hath since repented his then refusal However the now Lord Pack deserves well at his hands for that good service who being a true Kingling and of right Principles to the Court-interest hving also been a Lord to wir Maior once before may upon the whole be counted very worthy to be again so called and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other house over London and all the people of these Lands beside 32. Alderman Tichborn then Sir Robert Knight of the new Stamp now Lord Tichborn at the beginning of the Long Parliament when a great Spirit was stirring for Liberty and Justice many worthy Petitions and Complaints were made against Patentees the Bishops and the Earl of Strafford he being the Son of a Citizen and Young fell in and espoused the good cause and principles then on Foot and thereby became very popular and was greatly cryed up by the good people of the City c. His rise was first in the Military way where he soon became a Colonel and by the Parliament made Lieutenant of the Tower of London and though he was a Colonel yet never went out to fight but became an Alderman very timely and then soon began to cool and lose his former Zeal and Principles and left off preaching as his Pastor Mr. Lockyer did the Church to his brother George Cockain He was afterward Sheriff and Lord Mayor in his turn was also of the Committees for the sale of States Lands whereby he advanced his Interest and Revenue considerably out of Zeal to the publick he offered the Parliament to serve them freely as a Commissioner of the Customs whereby he supplanted another and planted himself in his room and then with the rest of his brethren petitioned the Committee of the Navy for a Salary and had it notwithstanding he was so well rewarded for his pains after he had pretended to serve them for nothing yet with his bro her Col. Harvy and Captain Langham came off blewly in the end He was of the little Parliament and helped to dissolve it one of the late Parliament also he hath by degrees sadly lost his Principles and forgotten the Good Old Cause and espoused and taken up another being so very officious for the new Court-interest and such a stickler for them he is become a great Favorite it 's not hard to read his change it being in so great Letters All things considered he is no question fit to be called Lord Tichborn being also so willing to receive and resolve to own that Title whoever maligns it as also of the Judgement that whatever passes from him in any other name will be void in law wherefore to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over London and all the good people of these Lands is very suitable to him and what though he was so great an Opponent to those things formerly it 's no matter then was then and now is now 33. Sir William Roberts a Gentleman who in the time of the Bishops ruffling went into Holland and lived there for a season the Parliament ruling and in war with the King came over again and after the then mode found favour having upon the forementioned account been out of the Land and was made a great Committee-man and in much employment whereby he well advanced his interest and is grown a great man He was of the little Parliament and

in the Other House over all in Oxfordshire the University men onely excepted and over all the people of these Lands besides 40. Sir John Hubbard Knight Baronet of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Norfolk of a considerable Estate part whereof came lately to him by the Death of a Kinsman he was of these latter Parliaments but not of the former had medled very little if at all in throwing down Kingship but hath stickled very much in helping to re-establish and build it up again and a great stickler among the late Kinglings who petitioned the Protector to be King his principles being so right for Kingship and Tyranny he is in great favour at Court as well as Dick Ingoldsby and no question deserves to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to exercise a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all the good men in Norfolk and all the people of these Lands besides being become so very tame and gentle 41. Sir Thomas Honywood Knight of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Essex of a considerable Revenue he was a Committee-man in the time of the Long Parliament and also a Military man and led as Colonel a Regiment of Essex-men to the fight at Worcester came in good time and fought well against Kingship and Tyranny in the House of the Stewarts was of the last Parliament he is not so wise as Solomon or so substantial and thorough in his principles for Righteousness and Freedom as Job chap. 29. but rather soft in his spirit and too easie like a Nose of Wax to be turn'd on that side where the greatest strength is being therefore of so hopeful principles for the New Court interest and so likely to comply with their will and pleasure no doubt need be made of his fitness to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all the good men in Essex the now Lord of Warwick the Protectors Brother-in-law excepted and all the people of these Lands besides 42. Lord Ewre a Gentleman of Yorkshire not very bulky or imperious for a Lord he was once well esteemed of for honesty and therefore chosen to be one of the Little Parliament hath also been of all the Parliaments since the Yorkshire men happily may like his being new Lorded and that he should have a Negative Voyce over them the rather because they never chose him to any such thing the Protector being so well satisfied with his principles and easiness like his fellow-fellow-Lord Honywood to be wrought up to do whatever their will and pleasure is and to say No when they would have him it is very meet he also pass for one to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House not onely over Yorkshire but all the good people of the Commonwealth beside being a Lord of the old Stamp already 43. Mr. Hampden now Lord Hampden a young Gentleman of Buckinghamshire son of the late Colonel Hampden that Noble Patriot and Defender of the Rights and Liberties of the English Nation of famous memory never to be forgotten for withstanding the King in the case of Ship-money being also one of the five impeached Members which the said King endeavoured to have pulled out of the Parliament whereupon followed such feud war and shedding of blood This young Gentleman Mr. Hampden was the last of sixty two which were added singly by the Protector after the choice of sixty together it is very likely that Colonel Ingoldsby or some other Friend at Court got a Cardinals Hat for him thereby to settle and secure him to the Interest of the new Court and wholly take him off from the thoughts of ever following his fathers steps or inheriting his noble vertues as likewise that the honest men in Buckinghamshire and all other that are lovers of Freedom and Justice that cleaved so cordially to and went so cheerfully along with his Father in the beginning of the late War might be out of all hopes of him and give him over for lost to the Good Old Cause and inheriting his Fathers noble spirit and principles though he doth his Lands He was of the latter Parliament and found right saving in the design upon which he was made a Lord after all the rest and the Protectors pleasure It is very hard to say how fit he is to be a Lord and how well a Negative Voyce over the good people of this Land and his Fathers Friends in particular will become the son of such a Father and how well the aforesaid good people now called Sectaries will like of it but being it is as it is let him pass for one as fit to be taken out of the House with the rest to have a Negative Voyce and let him exercise it in the Other House over the good people for a season Sir Arthur Haslerigg Lord No stop there not Lord Haslerigg a Knight of the old Stamp a Gentleman of a very large Estate and Revenue was one of the Long Parliament and one of the five impeached Members whom the King endeavoured to have pulled out of the House with the other but was hindered from doing of it was a Colonel in the Army and adventured far in the Wars continued of that Parliament till the dissolution thereof was also chosen of these latter Parliaments but not permitted to sit at the first he was by the Protector as may be seen in the printed List cut out for a Lord of the Other House and to have a wooden Dagger to wit a Negative Voyce with the rest but he missed his way and instead of going into the Other House among the simple Negative men the f Off-spring of the Bastard of William the sixth Duke of Normandy he went into the Parliament-House among his fellow Englishmen and there spake freely bearing a good witness in behalf of the Good Old Cause the Rights and Liberties of the people of England at which the Court were vexed and sore displeased However for all this losing of his way and the loss sustained by it his Fame and Name amongst all true English spirits will be higher and more honourable then the simple Title of a New Lord could make him and instead of a Negative Voyce in the Other House he will be honoured by after Ages as a rare Phoenix that of forty four was found standing alone to his principles and the Good Old Cause so bled for Oh sad and wonderful but one of forty four to be found standing firm to so noble a Cause as ever was on foot since the world began Let all true English Spirits love and honour him and that will be better then a Feather in his Cap or a wooden Dagger His Name for ever in the Chronicles will live as one that was a true Patriot of his Countries Liberties which noble action if he persevere and be more refined in that honest spirit may deservedly obliterate all humane frailties and

House to be a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all of the gentle Craft and Cordwayners Company in London if they please but though he be so considerable and of such Merit in the Protectors as also in his own esteem not onely to be a Knight but also a Lord yet it will hardly pass for currant with the good people of these Lands it being so far beyond the last neither will they think him fit saving the Protectors pleasure to have a Negative Voyce over them though he formerly fought so stiffly against it in the King and Lords in order to set them free 25. Colonel Barkstead then Sir John now Lord Barkstead sometime a Goldsmith in the Strand of no great rank went out a Captain to Windsor Castle was sometime Governour of Reading got at length to be a Colonel then made Lieutenant of the Tower by the old Parliament The Protector so called finding him fit for his turn continued him there and also made him Major General of Middlesex in the Decimating business and assistant to Major General Skippon in London he is one to the life to fulfil the Protectors desires whether right or wrong for he will dispute no commands or make the least demur but in an officious way will rather do more then his share his principles for all Arbitrary things whatsoever being so very thorough let friends or foes come to his Den they come not amiss so he gets by it yea rather then fail he will send out his armed men to break open honest mens Houses and seize their persons and bring them to his Goal and then at his pleasure turns them out he hath erected a principality in the Tower and made Laws of his own and executes them in a Martial way over all comers so that he hath great command and makes men know his power he was of the latter Parliaments is one of the Commissioners like the Bishops Panders in the Kings days for suppressing Truth in the Printing-Presses an oppression once the Army so greatly complained of is for Sanctuary gotten in to be a Member of Mr. Griffiths Church is also knighted after the new Order and the better to carry on the Protectors Interest among the ear-boar'd slavish Citizens is lately become an x Alderman so that he hath advanced his Interest and Revenue to purpose His Titles and Capacities emblazoned will sufficiently argue his worth and merits and speak him out fully to be a man of the times and every way deserving to be yet greater and Haman-like to be set higher All which considered it would seem a wrong not to have taken him out of the House and made him a Lord of the Other House with a Negative Voyce there as well as where he is the rather for that he knows so well how to exercise the same having used it so long a season as likewise that he may obstruct and hinder whoever shall question or desire Justice against him for his wicked doing 26. Colonel Ingoldsby a Gentleman of Buckinghamshire allyed to the Protector he betook himself to the Wars on the right side as it happened and in time became a Colonel a Gentlem●n of courage and valour but not very famous for any great exploits unless for beating the honest Inne-Keeper of Alisbury in White-hall for which the Protector committed him to the Tower but was soon released No great friend of the Sectaries so called or the cause of Freedom then fought for as several of his then and now Officers and Souldiers can witness and although it be well known and commonly reported That he can neither pray or preach yet complying so kindly with the new Court and being in his principles for Kingship as also a y Colonel of Horse and the Protectors Kinsman he may well be reckoned fit to be taken out of the House and made a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the good people of this Land the rather for that he as a Gentleman engaged and fought onely for money and honour and nothing else 27. Colonel Whaly formerly a Woollen-Draper or petty Merchant in London whose Shop being out of sorts and his Cash empty not having wherewithal to satisfie his Creditors he fled into Scotland for refuge till the Wars began then took on him to be a Souldier whereby he hath profited greatly was no great Zealot for the cause but happening on the right side he kept there and at length was made Commissary General of the Horse he was of these latter Parliaments and being so very useful and complying to promote the Protectors designes was made y Major General of two or three Counties he is for a King or Protector or what you will so it be liked at Court is with his little Brother Glyn grown a great man and very considerable and wiser as the Protector saith then Major-General Lambert who having with his fellow Lords Cleypole and Howard so excellent a spirit of Government over his Wife and Family being also a Member of z Thomas Goodwins Church no question need be made of his merit of being every way fit to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people for that he never as he saith fought against any such thing as a Negative Voyce 28. Colonel Goff now Lord Goff that would be sometime Colonel Vaughans Brothers Prentice a Salter in London whose time being near or newly out betook himself to be a Souldier instead of setting up his Trade went out a Quarter-master of Foot and continued in the Wars till he forgot what he fought for in time became a Colonel and in the outward appearance very zealous and frequent in praying preaching and pressing for Righteousness and Freedom and highly esteemed in the Army on that account when honesty was in fashion yet having at the same time like his General an evil Tincture of that spirit that loved and sought after the favour and praise of Man more then that of God as by woful experience in both of them hath since appeared he could not further believe or persevere upon that account but by degrees fell off and this was he who with Colonel White brought Musquetteers and turned the honest Members left behind in the Little Parliament out of the House Complying thus kindly with the Protectors Designes and Interest was made a Major General of Hantshire and Sussex was of the late Parliament hath advanced his interest greatly and is in so great esteem and favour at Court as he is judged the onely fit man to have Major General Lamberts Place and Command as Major General of the Army and having so far advanced is in a fair way to the Protectorship hereafter if he be not served as Lambert was He being so very considerable a person and of such great worth there is no question of his deserts and fitness to be taken

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