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A89259	Protection proclaimed (through the loving kindness of God in the present government) to the three nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland: wherein the government established, in the Lord Protector and his council, is proved to be of divine institution; and the great stumbling-block of thousands of Christians (in regard of his title) removed; proving it to be none other than what hath been given to those whom God hath made instrumental for his peoples deliverance of old. / Written to satisfie unsatisfied consciences, by John Moore, a well-wisher to the peace of our English Jerusalem.	Moore, John, of Wechicombe, near Dunster, Somerset.	1655 (1655)	Wing M2562; Thomason E860_5; ESTC R206643	17,676	24

heart that he did animate the Captains that were with him to tread upon the necks of five Kings saying Come neer put your feet upon the necks of them And Joshua said unto them Fear not nor be dismayed be strong and of good courage for thus shall the Lord do to all your enemies against whom ye fight After the death of Joshua the people fell away from following the Lord and the Lord afflicted them by the hands of the Midianites And they cried unto the Lord who for his Names sake appointed Gideon to be their Protector from the spoil of the Midianites who being but of a mean Family in Israel spake thus unto the Angel of the Lord O my Lord wherewith shall I save Israel behold my Family is poor in Manasseth and I the least in my Father's house And the Lord said unto him Surely I will be with thee and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man After the death of Gideon in their distress he gave them Jephtha one of a small reckoning amongst them in their prosperity After Jephtha Sampson was given them to be their Deliverer from the hands of the Philistines Thus did God of old appoint men of his own chusing to be Head in the Government of his people and furnished them with parts suitable thereto and raised them from a low estate to honour and renown Thirdly is it the Title of Protector that thou stumblest at then consider that the Title of Protector was a Title given to the Governours of Israel long before they had a King to reign over them for I will ask thee this single Question What difference there is between a Protector and a Saviour I finde then in Scripture that this Title of Saviour God hath formerly conferr'd upon those Worthies that have been faithful Instruments in his hand to go in and out before his people against his and their Enemies which Title Nehemiah acknowledgeth chap. 9. 27. Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hands of their enemies who vexed them and in the time of their trouble they cried unto thee thou heardst them from heaven and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them a Saviour who saved them out of the hand of their enemies And this Title I clearly apprehend shall continue to those that shall be for the time to come instrumental in the hand of God for the safety of his people God having promised by the Prophet Isaiah That he will restore to his people Judges as at first and their Counsellors as at the beginning that Zion shall be redeemed with judgement and her converts with righteousness and the Title that they shall have at that time when such deliverance shall be wrought shall be Saviours or Protectors there being no difference as I know between Salvation and Protection and that this shall be the Title of honour which God will give to such a better name than that of Sons read the last Verse of the Prophet Obadiah where it is thus written And Saviours shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau and the Kingdoms shall be the Lord's But because I have written somewhat more of my minde concerning these and other Scriptures of like nature in the ensuing Treatise I shall refer thee to it for thy further satisfaction desiring that thy judgment may not be blinded by thy own will which if it be not I hope thou wilt have as much satisfaction in reading it as I had in writing it which is the main desire of him who unfeignedly desireth the Peace and Welfare of his Country J. Moore A Word to the Servants of Christ in Covenant with him through Grace and in fellowship together under the Ordinances of the Gospel I Do wonder and admire that so few of you have given publick Testimony of your affection to the present Government established amongst us through the providence of the Almighty which makes me conceive it hath an ill savour amongst you or out of a tenderness of Conscience to the exaltation of Christ's Kingdom and longing for his reign you cannot fully close with it Now I beseech you Brethren from the tender love of my Soul to the Peace and Welfare of your Souls and Bodies that you will without prejudicate thoughts weigh these two or three Considerations in the balance of your Spirits First consider That the chiefest ground of all our Engagements Watchfulness Weariness Painfulness the shedding of our own and friends dearest Blood yea the Prayers and Tears that have been offered before the Lord in your several Congregations hath been for the full Enjoyment of Freedom and Liberty in the service of Christ from the coercive compulsions of bloody persecuting penal Statutes and now it is granted both from God and by Oath from his Highness the Lord Protector to the utmost of his power to be protected in it as if we were already weary of it we hate the Instrument by which it is confirmed Secondly consider the frame of your own Spirits at present with what they once were when such Freedom and Liberty was precious to you would you not once have owned almost any civil Government that would have granted that spiritual Freedom which we now enjoy I dare be bold that if the late King had proclaimed such Liberty to his Subjects he had been alive to this day except sickness had cut him off and that the people of God in England formerly called by the name of Puritans to whom such Freedom was precious would have laid their Bodies and Estates at his feet to manifest their affection And pray you what is the reason that we are so dull so dead and so void of our publick manifestation of affection to him that with the often hazarding his life hath been made instrumental in the hand of God to purchase it for us yea we are so far from declaring our affection that a great part of us swell with hatred towards him an evil requital for his labour of love towards us for if you well consider how many fell away to the Enemy and sought our destruction and others that had been admirable Instruments for a season threw up their Commissions refusing to act any further and how he I mean the Lord Protector that now is never refused to act for that Freedom we now enjoy but like another Joshua or Caleb followed the Lord fully in the work that he was called to and left us not till we had enjoyed that Liberty in the Gospel that we long looked for except we are blinde and can't see when good cometh I say If we consider these things we have not the least cause to manifest the least disaffection either to the Government or the Person to whom it is given but contrariwise hearty affection with all cheerfulness that we can Thirdly Measure the disposition of your Spirits with the Saints in the primitive times of the Gospel and you 'l finde that such peaceable Liberty which we enjoy under the present Government

they are restrained of Liberty but for their discontent dislike and dissatisfaction towards him and the Government which God hath put into his Hand and for my part I think it no indiscretion nor cruelty for any man to tie down for a time that hand that cannot hold still but must be scratching at his body till it bleed and so endanger the whole to destruction caetera mitto loqui lest any should think that I either wish or desire their restraint from their Liberty which the Lord knows I do not but from my very Soul desire their enjoyment of it so that it may stand with the peace and preservation of the whole body Secondly Consider that the wayes and workings of God especially in things of such great concernment as the Rule and Government of his people do not answer the expectation thoughts nor will of man I know that if this Nation had been divided into ten parts nine of them would have had the yoke of the Norman Race to have continued if there had been one part of ten left nine parts of that one would have subjected themselves to the yoke of a Parliamentary Government now that God might cross the expectation of man and let us know that our thoughts herein were vain he did upon a suddain bring forth and establish such a Government that we least thought of that less of Man and more of God might be seen in it When the time of Saul's Reign over Israel in God's Decree was accomplished he commanded the Prophet Samuel to leave off grieving for Saul telling him That he had rejected him for being King over his people and told him That he had provided for himself a King amongst the Sons of Jesse the Bethlemite one that was not so much as thought of in regard of ruling over them for the future not in all Israel The Prophet at first was afraid to go for fear of Saul that he would kill him but at last he did go and when he came and beheld his Sons he found the secret will of God clean contrary to his thoughts and purpose for when he beheld Eliab he thought him to be most likely and did purpose to anoint him for a future Governour of the people but the Lord said unto Samuel Look not on his countenance nor on the hight of his stature because I have refused him for the Lord seeth not as Man seeth for Man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart and the most unlikely to carnal apprehensions did God make choice of to be the Governour of his people and by his Decree anointed him in Spirit for the same end long before he came to the Government And truely for my part I do confidently believe from my very Soul that from the beginning of these late Wars the Lord did secretly Decree and in his own purpose set apart Oliver Cromwel our intituled Lord Protector to be the head Governour below himself of all the people in the three Nations Although at the beginning of these late Wars it was as unlikely for him to be Lord Protector of three Nations in the judgement of man as it was for David in the apprehension of his Father and Brethren to be Ruler over Israel But let all the Servants of God know yea let every individual Soul in the three Nations know That the counsel and determinate purpose of God will stand as an irresistable prick against all that spurn at it and a sharp thorn in the sides of all his enemies For as the Heavens are higher than the Earth so are the wayes and counsels of God higher than the wayes and counsels of Men and his thoughts transcending theirs What earthly powers what plottings and contrivings of an Enemy what ragings swellings tumults of vanquished Foes what murmurings repinings or discontents of any people shall reverse the thing that God hath purposed to bring to pass God is not a Man that he should lye neither the Son of Man that he should repent hath he said it and shall he not do it or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good for whatsoever the Lord pleaseth that doth he in Heaven and in Earth and in all places This therefore shall henceforth be the Petition of my Soul Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Let God make haste to compleat his purpose This also shall be my Souls melody which I will sing with a joyful noise in my heart Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore From the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same the Lords name is to be praised The Lord is high above all Nations and his glory above the Heavens Who is like unto the Lord our God who dwelleth on high Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are done in Heaven and Earth He raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth the needy out of the dunghil that he may set him with Princes even with the Princes of his people Amen Hallelujah That Government that gives Christ the chiefest honour due unto him is of God The greatest honour that belongs to Christ here below is That he may bear Rule without interruption in the hearts and consciences of his Servants If this Government then do leave the power over the consciences of the Servants of Christ solely to him then it is of God But this Government doth so Therefore of God I shall say no more to this first thing namely That the Government is of God until occasion of reply which I look for doth engage me to it Secondly As the Government is of God so there is none more deserving to sit at the helm of it in subordination to God then Oliver Cromwel the present intituled Lord Protector First if constant faithful unwearied undaunted Service accompanied with Magnanimity Valour and Courage for the Liberty and Freedom of the people of God in England from the bloody and persecuting Statutes and Laws do deserve it then doth he deserve it his Constancy hath appeared in that he was in continual service day and night His Faithfulness in that he never betrayed the least of his Trust but proved from first to last as true as steel to his Country His Unweariedness in holding up his hand by Commission when others let theirs fall for if he had threw up his Commission when others did theirs when the Scots twice invaded us with a numerous Army I believe we had been in a miserable condition before now His Undauntedness hath the whole Army seen he was never known to decline action although the advantage have been never so great against him for the most part if not alwayes charging in the Front of his Army against the most resolved Enemy and seldom or never did he retreat without Victory I have heard with my own Ears some gallant Sparks of the Cavalry say That he was the most gallant resolved General that ever drew

Protection proclaimed through the loving kindness of God in the present Government to the three Nations of England Scotland and Ireland WHEREIN The GOVERNMENT Established in the Lord Protector and his Council Is proved to be of DIVINE INSTITUTION AND The great Stumbling-block of thousands of Christians in regard of his Title removed proving it to be none other than what hath been given to those whom God hath made instrumental for his Peoples Deliverance of old Written to satisfie unsatisfied Consciences By JOHN MOORE a well-wisher to the peace of our English Jerusalem Pray for the peace of Jerusalem Peace be within thy walls For my brethren and companions sake I will now say Peace be within thee Thus saith the Lord I will restore unto thee Judges as at first and Counsellors as at the beginning London Printed by J. C. for Henry Fletcher at the three Cups in Paul's Church-yard neer the West-end 1656. The Author's Address to God before he put Pen to Paper to write the ensuing Lines GReat God of heav'n thou God of Truth do thou my thoughts direct That I may write but what is right of Him who doth protect Subordinately to thy self this Land wherein I live A spirit of Discerning Lord do thou unto me give That I may clearly apprehend thy minde in this great Change And from thy minde and will therein let not my spirit range Let no contempt of him that rules harbour within my brest Since under him through providence tranquillity and rest And peace for tender Conscience is ratifi'd by Law A priviledge of Liberty which England scarce ere saw Let every tender Conscience be satisfi'd likewise Yea such a Liberty Lord grant that all of us may prize And from our very hearts and mindes acknowledge 't from above And own it as a special Pledge and Emblem of thy love That thou hast giv'n us one to rule whose soul desires the good Of all thy servants in this Land who for the Truth have stood To his Highness OLIVER By the Providence of God Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland and Dominions thereunto belonging J. M. wisheth length of days with Peace and Safety here and eternal Life with Christ in glory hereafter My Lord WIth the poor widow I have put in my Mite into the Publike Treasury of acknowledging the Lawfulness of submitting to the present Government in which the Eternal God hath invested Your Highness at this day I have taken the boldness to present it to Your Highness for these Reasons First because of all men you are most concerned in it Secondly because of all men it belongs most to you to patronize and protect the weak acknowledgements of submissive affectionate Obedience Thirdly that you may know that God is still owning you and working for you not onely by his Providence in protecting your Person against the secret Combinations of a common Enemy but by the more immediate working of his Spirit to the satisfying of the Consciences of many unsatisfied servants of Christ whether the present Government with its endowments be of God or no in which my own soul was very lately unsatisfied Fourthly that under your Protection and Patronization it may bring forth some fruit of Satisfaction to the Consciences of some others though never so few that are yet at enmity in their spirits against the Title and Dignity of the Government I have presented it to publike view for this Reason That the world may know that I am neither afraid nor asham'd to own acknowledge and confess the good hand and providence of the God of heaven and earth in exalting your Person to that Honour and Dignity and placing you as his hitherto undaunted and unwearied Servant in subordination to himself to sit at the Helm of Government as at this day Where sitting to govern it is the unfeigned desire of my soul for You and those Honourable men in Counsel with You That the Spirit of Christ may be your Guide the Power of Christ your Life-guard the Laws and Ordinances of Christ the Basis and Foundation of yours the Glory of Christ your greatest Aim the Advancement of the Gospel your greatest Glory the Flourishing of it your chiefest Joy That you neglect no oportunity of doing good when Christ commands it to be done and in your power to do it That in all your Undertakings and Counsels you may lay your selves open to the all-seeing eye of God that so you may escape that Curse which the Prophet Isaiah pronounceth against those that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and their works are in the dark and they say Who seeth us and who knoweth us Isai 29.15 That your Body may possess as resolved a heart to keep touch with God in performing Vows and Promises made to him as there was in Jephthah who was once a General and a subordinate Protector in the hand of God of his people Israel from the hand of the children of Ammon who having opened his mouth unto the Lord was so careful of his promise that he parted with the dearest thing he had in the world his onely childe for beside her he had neither Son nor daughter Judg. 11.30 31 34 35. The further desire of my soul for your Highness is That God would give you not onely a spirit of discerning to see where injustice and iniquity doth yet remain and continue amongst the people but also a free and resolved spirit to improve such power as God hath put into your hand for the speedy reforming and purging of it out That your Council-chamber may be free from evil Counsels and false-hearted dissembling Counsellors That both your Highness and your Council may be of one heart and one minde free from all manner of dissention and discord because that Concordiâ parvae res crescunt Discordiâ magnae dilabuntur That your Courtly Attendants may be men of upright and faithful hearts fearing God and hating Vice That all other inferiour Officers in their several places subject to the Power by which they act may discharge their duties with care and conscience void of Dissimulation and Hypocrisie not from Fear but Affection to the Government which they seem to own That the Army and Navie may be at peace in themselves free from the least Mutiny That all unsatisfied Consciences touching the Legality of the Government may be satisfied That all heart-burnings of the People against it may be quenched through their causless complainings in the streets of Tyranny and Oppression And lastly That the God of heaven would more and more enrich your Valiant heart with all such endowments of Grace Wisdom and Vertue as becomes the minde and person of a Christian Potentate is and shall be the continual prayer of Your Highness most affectionate Servant upon all just Commands John Moore The Epistle to the Readers My Friends if I may call you so I Dare be bold many of you will admire and wonder especially those of you to whom I am known