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A56220	A true and perfect narrative of what was done, spoken by and between Mr. Prynne, the old and newly forcibly late secluded members, the army officers, and those now sitting, both in the Commons lobby, House, and elsewhere on Saturday and Monday last (the 7 and 9 of this instant May) with the true reasons, ends inducing Mr. Prynne ... thus earnestly to press for entry, to go and keep in the House as he did, and what proposals he intended there to make for publike peace, settlement, and preservation of the Parliaments privileges / put in writing and published by the said William Prynne ... to rectifie the various reports, censures of this action, and give publike satisfaction ... of his sincere endeavors to the uttermost of his power, to preserve our religion, laws, liberties, the essential rights, privileges, freedom of Parliament, and all we yet enjoy, according to his oaths, covenant, trust, as a Parliament member, against the utter subverters of them ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4113; ESTC R937	104,117	112

as his Ministers Officers Viceroyes Deputies and are appointed commissioned accountable to judged removed by him alone as subordinate Kings were by the Emperors Kings of Babylon Assyria Parthia and our Edgar who were stiled King of Kings because Kings were Subjects to them held their Crowns by from and under them and did homage to them as their Subjects as you may read at large in Mr. Seldens Titles of Honour part 1. ch 3. sect 2. and Dan 2.21.37 38.47 c. 4.17.25 many of these Kings losing this Title of King of Kings when their subordinate Kings and kingdoms revolted ceased or escheated into their own hands In relation to these Titles of Christ it is expresly prophecied Ps 72.10.11 The KINGS of Tarshish and OF THE ISLES shall bring presents principally intended ve●ified of this our Island of Great Britain which had the fi●st Christian King we read of in all the world Lucius the first Christian Queen Helena the first and most glorious Christian Emperor Constantine the Great the first Christian King who opposed abolished the Popes Supremacie Henrie the 8. the first Protestant King who by publike Acts of Parliament abolished both the Pope and Poperie and established the reformed Protestant Religion the first Protestant Queen who did the like to wit King Edward the 6. and Queen Elizabeth and more devout pious Kings Queens martyred for religion canonized for SAINTS and reputed such in the Churches of Christ and Kalendars of Saints than anie other Kingdom or Countrie in the world how great or populous soever as our own and forein Histories record to our immortal Honor. It then follows the Kings of Sheba Seba shall offer gifts yea ALL KINGS shall fall down before him in way of adoration by their president and leading example all Nations under them shall serve him How can how dare you then abolish Kings Kingship Lords especially in our Island without committing the highest Treason not only against our Kings and Lords but the Lord Jesus Christ the King of Kings and Lord of Lords Since REGNUM ANGLIAE EST REGNUM DEI IPSE SIBI REGES PROVIDEBIT as our Historians inform us And can you resist his power with all your armed forces are you stronger than he when he shall enter into judgment with you for depriving him of these Title 2ly Consider It is Gods special promise covenant made to Abraham the Fat●er of the Faithfull Gen 17.6 I will make thee exceeding fruitful I will make Nations of thee Kings shall come out of thee And his extraordinarie blessing on Sara v 16. I will bless her she shall be a Mother of Nations Kings of People shall be of her 3ly It was Judah his blessing Prerogative Gen. 49.8.10 Thy Fathers children shall bow down before th●e The Scepter shall not depart from Iudah nor a Law-giver from between his feet until Shiloh come 4ly When Balaam prophecied of the happiness prosperity of Israel he useth these as the highest expressions thereof N●m 23.21 c. 24.7 The sho●t of a KING is among them and his KING shall be higher than Agag and his Kingdoms shall be exalted 5ly It is recorded by the Spirit of God 2 Sam. 5.12 David perceived that the Lord had established him King over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israels sake And when God after he made him King over them had promised by the mouth of the Prophet Nathan 2 Sam 7.10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them as before time under their Judges How did God effect this promise but by establishing an hereditarie kingdom amongst them in David during his life whom he caused to rest from all his Enemies round about And when thy dayes be fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy Fathers I will set up thy seed after thee which shall proceed out of thy bowels and will establish his Kingdom And thine House and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee and thy Throne shall be established forever Ver 11 12 16. How much holy David was transported yea ravished with this News from heaven and with what enlargement of Spirit he bl●ss●d God for and prayed for the accomplishment of it as the greatest blessing and confirmation of his people Israel by God himself v 23 24 and the highest honor blessing to his own house you may read to the end of the Chapter Thus again amplified by him in his Speech to his Princes to his Captains of thousands of hundreds Officers and other mighty men 1 Chron 28.4 to 10. The Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my Father to be King over Israel for ever and he hath chosen Iudah to be Ruler of the house of J●dah the house of my Father and among the sons of my Father he liked me to make me King over all Israel and of all my sons he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the Throne of the Kingdom of the Lord over Israel And he said unto me I will be his Father Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever if he be constant to doe my commandements and my judgements as at this day Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the Lord and in the audience of our God keep and seek for all the commandements of the Lord your God that you may possess this good Land and leave it for an Inheritance for your children after you for ever An hereditarie Kingdom being the chiefest means and blessing under God to preserve the inheritances not only of the Princes Nobles and mightie men but even of Colonels Captaines and Souldiers themselves in Gods and Davids computation who lost all they had by ●orsaking their lawful Hereditarie Kings and were carried into captivitie 6ly The accomplishment of this Promise to David his seed was reputed an extraordinarie blessing to the Israelites not only by King David Solomon God himself the people o● Jerusalem and the whole Land as you may read in the 1 of Kings 1.36 37 38 39 40 45 46 47 48. c. 2.4.12 c. 3.6 to 15. c. 8.20 25 26 27. worthy perusal but even by foreign Kings and Queens Witness that memorable Letter of Hiram King of Tyre to Solomon 2 Chron. 2.11 12. Because the Lord hath loved his people he hath made thee King over them Bl●ss●d be the Lord God of Israel that hath made heaven and earth who hath given to David the King a wise son endued with prudence and understanding that might build an House for the Lord and an house for his kingdom And that speech of the Queen of Sheba to him 1 King● 10.9 2 Chron 9.8 Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighteth in thee to set thee on his Throne to be King for the Lord thy God Because

the Lord thy God loved Israel to establish them for ever therefore made he thee King over them to do Iustice and Iudgement And the Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel and bestowed su●h royal Majestie Honor and such riches on him and his people too as had not been bestowed on anie King or people before him 1 Chron 29.25 28 30. 2 Chron 1.9 to the end Chap. 9.9 to 30. Neh. 13.26 7ly God himself records by King Solomon Prov. 20.8.26 A King that sateth in the Throne of Judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes and bringeth the wheel over the wicked Prov 29.4.14 The King by Judgement stablisheh the Land Yea the King that faithfully judgeth the Land his throne shall be established for ever And he resolve definitively against all Opponents Eccles 10.17 Blessed art thou o Land when thy King is the son of Nobles 8ly God himself doth specially promise the Succession and Continuance of Hereditarie Kings and Princes as a blessing reward to his people for their obedience to his Commandements and chief means of their perpetual continuance in honour peace and prosperity Jer. 17.24 25 26. c. 22.4 And it shall come to passe if ye diligently hearken unto me saith the Lord to hallow the Sabbath day and do no work thereon then shall there enter into the Gates of this City mark it Kings and Princes sitting upon the Throne of David riding in Chariots on Horses they and their Princes the men of Iudah and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem and this City shall remain and flourish for ever 9ly It is very remarkable that though divers of the hereditarie Kings of Davids posterity were verie wicked and idolatrous yet God himself though King of Kings who setteth up Kings and pulleth them down and disposeth of the Kingdoms of the earth to whom soever he pleaseth by reason of his Oath and Covenant made to David would neither remove nor disinherit them though he did very sorely afflict and punish them for their iniquities Ps 89 3 4 20. to 38 2 Sam. 7.11 to 18. 1 King 11 12 13 39. Of this we have a memorable Scripture-Presidents 1 King 15. 3 4 5. Abijam King of Iudah walked in all the sins of his Father which he had done before him and his heart was not perfect before the Lord his God as the heart of David his Father Neverthelesse for Davids sake did the Lord give him a lamp in Jerusalem to set up his Son after him and to establish Ierusalem Because David did that which was right in the sight of the Lord So 2 Chron. 21.5 6 7. Jehoram reigned 8 years in Jerusalem and he walked in the way of the Kings of Israel like as did the House of Ahab for he had taken the Daughter of Ahab to wife and he wrought that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. Howbeit the Lord would not destroy the House of David because of the Covenant he had made with David and as he promised to give a light to him and to his Sons for ever Which Texts compared with Psal 132.1 12 13 14. infablibly ratifie these thtee conclusions 1. That as Gods Covenant and Oath made to David and his Royal Posteritie did not determine by Davids death but extended to all his Posterity after him so our Oaths of Fealty Supremacy Allegiance and Solemn League and Covenant made to the late King his Heirs Successors in precise terms determined not by his death but remain to his Royal Posterity and are perpetually to be performed to them under pain of highest perjury guilt punishment as is most apparent if compared with Gen. 50.25 Exod. 13.19 Josh 24.32 Josh 9.15 18 19 20 21. 1 Sam. 20.16 17 23 42. c. 24.21 22 2 Sam. 9.1 3 c. c. 21.1 to 10. 2ly That the Sinnes and wickednesses of Davids posteritie did not cause God himself to break his Oath and Covenant with them or judicially to deprive or disinherit them of their Crowns and Kingdom contrary to his Oath and Covenant which he held inviolable and immutable Ps 89.3 4.34 Psal 132 11 12. Heb. 6.17 18. Much lesse then may we or any other Subjects who are but men infringe our Oaths Covenants to our sacred hereditarie Kings and their posteritie for their sinnes or wickednesse nor disinherit thē of their Crowns Scepters Lives Realm Ps 15.4 Ec. 8 2. 3ly That a hereditarie succession of Kings in the Royal Line though many of them be wicked is yet a special means ordained by God for the establishment peace perpetuity of their kingdoms and people which else would be unsetled distracted consumed destroyed by civil wars distractions and Usurpers of the Crown destroying murdering one another as the kindom of Israel was after the revolt of the ten Tribes from the house of David whose hereditarie kingdom continued at least 134 years after the total destruction captivity of the Kingdom of Israel whose revolt from the House of David produced nought else but a Succession of very wicked idolatrous Kings and Usurpers endlesse wars miseries publick Idolatry Apostacie from God all sorts of Sins rapines and perpetual Captivity as the books of Kings and Chronicles resolve especially 2 Kings ch 17. In which revolt and rebellion it is observable that all the Priests and Levites and all the Godly men throughout the revolting Tribes of Israel who set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel left their possessions and went to Ierusalem and strengthened the kingdom of Rheboboam the Son of Solomon against the Vsurper Jeroboam as the Scripture records for their honour 2 Chron. 11.13 14 15 16. 10ly Upon this verie reason God himself records that when Athaliah had slain all the seed Royal but Ioash and usurped the Royal Throne for six years space Ioash being but an Infant Iehojadah the High Priest hid him from this Usurper till he was seven years old and then entring into a Covenant with the Captains of Hundreds Rulers and Levites they all assembled at Ierusalem entred into an Oath and Covenant That the Kings Son should reign as the Lord hath said of the House of David Upon which they presently brought out the Kings Son Crowned and anointed him their King and said God save the King Which Athaliah the Vsurper hearing run out to the people and cryed Treason treason upon which Iehojadah the Priest commanded the Captains of the Host presently to seize upon her and cary her out of the Temple and slay all that should follow her whereupon they laid hands on her and carried her forth and slew her After which Iehojadah made a Covenant between the King and the people that they should be the Lords people and all the Captains Governors Nobles and people of the Land brought down the Kings Son from the House of the Lord to the Kings House and set the King upon the Throne of the kingdom And all the people of the Land rejoyced and the City was quiet

after that they had slain Athaliah with the Sword 2 Kings 11.4 c. 2 Chron. 23. This Ioash being afterwards slain by the conspiracy of his Servants against him Amaziah his Son reigned in his stead by hereditarie Succession who when he was established in the kingdō slew his Servants that had slain the King his Father but not their Children according to the Law of Moses After this Ammon the Son of Manasses succeeding his father worshipping his Idols following his Sinnes and trespassing more and more without humbling himself his Servants conspired against him and slew him in his own House But the People of the Land slew all that had conspired against King Ammon and made Josiah his Son King in his stead not disinherited him for his Fathers and Grand-Fathers crying Sinner as the only means ordained by God for their safety peace and settlement Which sacred Presidents of Gods own registring and his peculiar peoples making in obedience to his Commands for our imitation in like cases are a more real sacred means to our present peace safety establishment than any the Army-Saints Sectaries Iesuites and Westminster Conclave can prescribe and the Parliament Statute of 27 Eliz. c. 1. have declared enact●diit to be legal as well as scriptural 11ly When God himself promised restitution from Captivity and resettlement re-establishment to his people he doth it by promising the restitution of their lawfull hereditary King and kingdom to them and the re-uniting of their kingdoms formerly divided by rebellion against and revolt from the House of David and hereditary Royal line into one Mich. 213. c. 4.8 Their King shall pass before them and the Lord on the head of them even the first Dominion the Kingdom shall come to the Daughter of Jerusalem Zech. 9.9 c. Rejoyce greatly Oh Daughter of Zion behold thy King cometh unto thee be is just and having Salvation c. and his Dominion shall be from Sea to Sea and to the end of the Earth Isaiah 32.1 2. Beho●d a King shall reign in Righteousnesse and Princes shall rule in Judgement And he shall be as a hiding place from the wind and a Covert from the Tempest as Rivers of Water in a dry place as the shadow of a great Rock in a weary Land Ezech. 37.22 24. And I will make them one Nation in the Land upon the Mountain of Israel and one King shall be King to them all and they shall be no more two Nations neither thall they be divided into two Kingdoms any more And David my Servant shall be KING over them they shall all have one Shepheard over them they shall also walk in my Judgements and keep my Statutes and do them And they shall dwell in the Land that I have given to Iacob my Servant even they and their Children and their Childrens Children FOR EVER and my Servant David shall be their Prince for ever Which is likewise repeated and amplyfied Ezech. 39.23 24 Zeph. 3.13 14. Jer. 23.4 5 c. 33.14 15 16. Which Texts though mistically meant of our King and Saviour Jesus Christ hereditary Son of David according to the flesh sitting upon his Fathers Throne and ruling for ever over his mystical Kingdom and Church as is evident by comparing them with Isay 9.6 7 18. Dan. 7.27 Lu. 1.32 33. yet since King David Solomon and other pious Kings of Israel and their hereditary kingdom were types of our Spiritual King Iesus and of his everlasting spiritual kingdom And Christ Jesus under the very Title Name Notion of an hereditary King alone not of an Optimacy Oligarchy Popularity Democracy or elective King is thus prophesied to be a Saviour Redeemer Restorer Establisher Preserver Defender of his captivated oppressed inthralled dissipated divided unreformed Subjects Kingdom Church People and his perpetual presence with and reign over them is made the only ground of the restauration unity felicity prosperity safety perpetuity of his kingdom and people as David Solomon and other good Kings of Israel were to their Subjects during their successiive Reigns and seeing Christs mistical Church and Saints are alwaies thus stiled his Kingdom a Kingdom but never a Free-State or Common wealth at least but once Eph. 2.12 the only Text throughout the whole Bible where this word is mentioned in any kind and that not in opposition or contradistinction to a Kingdom but as the very same thing with it as our Kingdom in some Statutes is stiled a Common wealth as being the excellentest honourablest durablest freest happiest of all other forms of Republick under which general name it is comprised It thence infallibly follows that an hereditary Kingship kingdome is the best happiest durablest securest honourablest desireablest of all other Governments whatsoever being the verie Government of Jesus Christ himself who according to the flesh was born King of the Iews and sits upon the Throne of David his Father Mat. 2.2 Lu. 1.32 33. and was not chosen King by his Saints like an Elective King but elected them to be his Subjects as he expreslie resolves Iohn 15.16 1 Pet. 1 2.9 Rev. 17.14 And that the restitution of this our antient Kingly Government not of a new Jesuitical Spanish Outlandish Republick is the true and only way to our restauration redemption peace settlement safetie and future prosperity as the Parliament and most excellent preamble of the Statute of 25 H. 8. c. 22 worthy perusal resolves Wherin after many long intestine civil wars for the Title succession of the Crown and Soveraigntie of our Realm The Nobles and Commons assembled in Parliament calling to mind That the unity peace and wealth of this Realm and the Succession and Inheritance of the Subjects in the same most specially and principally above all worldly things let our Republicans and Westminster Juncto observe it well consisteth and resteth in the certainty and surety of the procreation and posterity of the Kings Highness in whose most Royal person at this present time is no manner of doubt nor question as the Statutes of 1 Jac. c. 1 2. resolve there was none at all in King Iames or King Charles did thereupon by this special Act and a strict Oath declare aad establish the surety title or succession of the Crown of England in him and his Heirs for ever upon which dependeth all our joy and wealth as they more at large expresse 13ly God himself in direct terms declares that it is a matter and badge of honour and prosperity for any Nation to be advanced from a Commonwealth or Principality into a Kingdom Ezech. 15.13 14. Thou didst prosper into a Kingdom And thy renown went forth among the Heathen for thy beauty for it was perfect through my comelynesse which I put upon thee saith the Lord which compared with Rom. 13.1 Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers for there is no Power but of God the Powers that are ordained of God Col. 1.16 For by him are all things created that are in Heaven and

will you be Antipodes to all other Nations yea to Gods own people in all Ages and cry out still with united shouts O do not save but destroy crucifie behead extirpate King and Kingship too away with them away with them from the earth let them never live but die die and that for evermore What madnesse what frenzie is this When the wicked Jews cryed out to Pilate against our Saviour Jesus Christ who was born King of the Iews Mat. 2.2 away with him away with him crucifie him crucifie him Pilate himself used this Argument to represse their furie Behold your King shall I crucifie your King At which they were so non-plussed that their Chief Priests had no other Answer but this to evade it We have no King but Caesar If thou let this Man go thou art not Caesars Friend whosoever maketh himself a King speaketh against Caesar upon which he deli●●●ed him over to them to be crucified And when Pilate put this Title on his Crosse Jesus of Nazareth King of the IEWS the Chief Priests were angry at it and said to Pilate write not King of the IEWS but that he said I am King of the Jews being all convinced that it was a most barbarous shamefull inhuman worse than Jewish act for any Subjects or people to crucifie their lawfull King though in a way of Publick Justice whence the Apostle thus reasons 1 Cor. 2.8 That had the Princes of this world and Iews themselves known or believed Christ to be their King they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory And shall you not prove then far more transcendently impious treacherous than the worst of Jew of Mortals not only in your former crucifying beheading your undoubted known lawfull hereditary King which they abhorred to do but his Kingly Office and Posterity too if you cry still away with them away with them wittingly wilfully uncessantly their blood be on us and our Children after us And will not the wrath of God come upon you and yours to the uttermost for this your high provocation as it did upon these Jews if you do not speedily repent of it 1 Thes 2.15 16. It was the loyalty piety of David a Man after Gods own heart a gallanter Commander Souldier Conqueror than the best greatest of you when he was persecuted in the Field by his Soveraign King Saul and his Army hunted as a Partridge from place to place to take away his life and had several opportunities to destroy him without danger put into his hands and was twice importuned by his rude Souldiers to slay him or permit them to do it that he rebuked this evil spirit and counsell in them and gave them this Answer The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master that I should stretch forth my Hand against the Lords Anointed seeing he is the anointed of the Lord destroy him not FOR WHO CAN stretch forth his hand against the Lords anointed AND BE INNOGENT And when the Amalekite brought tydings to him of Sauls death telling him that he had slain him by Sauls own command and presented him with his Crown and bracelets expecting a great reward from him for those good tydings being formerly anointed by God to succeed him He gave him no other answer nor reward but this How wa st thou not afraid to stretch forth thy hand to destroy the Lords anointed Thy bloud be upon thy head for thy mouth hath testifyed against thee saying I HAVE SLAIN THE LORDS ANOINTED And he called one of the young men and said Go near and fall upon him And he smote him that he died And David and all the men that were with him ●ent their clothes and lamented with a most pathetical lamentation over Saul recorded for ever in sacred writ 2 Sam. 1.12 to the end The like reward he gave to the murderers of Ishbosheth his competitor 2 Sam. 4.10 11 12. And can you then conceit you were guided by the holy Spirit of God which dwelt in David Or that you deserve the Title of men after Gods own heart of Saints of honorable pious Commanders Soldiers for speaking declaring acting against your K. diametrically contrary to him in all these particulars and glorying in it as your highest praise valour Saintship His tender heart smote him to the quick for cutting off only the skirt of King Sauls garment privily when he refused to offer the least violence to his person as his Soldiers counselled him because he had cut off Saul skirt and will not your Adamantine hearts harder than the nether Milstone yet smite you with the least compunction for cutting off KING CHARLES HIS HEAD publickly and parting not only his Garments amongst you as the Souldiers did our Saviours when they crucified him but his Crown and Kingdoms too After David succeded Saul in his Throne his Captains Souldiers People were so carefull to preserve his life from the least appearance of danger That when he would have gone out to Battel against his rebellious Son Absolom who usurped the Crown They answered him Thou shalt not go forth for if we flye away or half of us dye they will not set their hearts on us but now thou art as ten thousand of us yea they swore to him at another time Thou shalt no more go out with us to Battel least thou quench the light of Israel 2 Sam. 21.17 And when Absolom was slain All the People were at strife through all the Tribes of Israel saying Absolom whom we anointed over us is dead in Battel Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the King back Whereupon they earnestly contended who should be the fi●st that should bring back the King 2 Sam. 19.9 10 14 15 41 42 43. And can you then not only professedly go out to Battel against the King himself and Parliament too against all Parliament-Votes O●dinances Declarations Commissions by which you we●e raised ●or their mutual defence but destroy and slay them both in cold blood after the Battel ended by a Friendly Treaty to prevent all accord between them and instead of bringing the King again to his Royal City Parliament Throne in peace and safety from the Isle of Wight not speak one word the●eof but bring him only back again to a most disloyal illegal bloody execution not repent of but persevere in this unparallel'd treachery against his son even after your anoynted Absolom who engaged you in these unsaintly unsoldierly Un-English Treasons by the stroke of God himself is dead and his Son set aside by your selves through divine retaliation In few words can it ever be your honor glory a Saint● to be the Instrument● Executioners of Gods wrath and vengeance upon your own Native Kings Kingdoms Churches Countrie to oppresse consume and eat out all their publick private Wealth Revenues and burthen them with endlesse Taxes Excises to maintain your needlesse uselesse forces only to over-awe overturn them all

possiibly expect from any New Free-State or other New Armie Government or Governours whatsoever The old Parliaments Statutes of 25 H. 8. c. 22. 26 H. 8. c. 3. 1 Eliz. c. 5. the most impartial Judges in this case long since resolving that it is and of very right and duty ought to be the natural inclination of all good people like most faithfull loving and obedient Subjects sincerely and willingly to desire and provide for the supportation maintenance and defence of the Person Crown Royal estate and succession of their dread Soveraign King upon and in whom all their worldly Ioy and wealth and the surely of them all next under God doth principally depend as we have experimentally found by all the miseries Oppressions sustained under our late New forms of Governments and Governors whose little fingers have been heavier than our Kings whole loyns and the counsels proceedings of our young raw Statesmen more pernicious exorbitant than the old ones under our Kings Which should engage all to return to their old Kingly Government 4ly If they will not upon anie terms be serued up to such a degree of Christian or old English Resolution as thus to expostulate with their servants hirelings and fellow Members after so manie high and bloudie contestations with their lawfull Soveraign in Parliaments and the field when their Laws lives liberties Church Religion Kingdom and all earthly comforts were less endangered than now in their own judgements Mr. Prynne shall then intreat them only to take so much courage as over-timerous King Jehoshaphat and his cowardly people did when three confederated forein Nations came up to invade and destroy their kingdom and to act as they did then First let them appoint a publike Fast throughout the Kingdom Citie Countrie and use the self-same praier as they used O our God wilt thou not judge them for we have no might against this great companie no nor that little Conventicle inconsiderable handful of Armie-men Sectaries now combined against us but our eies are unto thee Annexing t● it this praier of David Ps 140. Deliver us O Lord from the evil man preserve us from the violent men which imagin mischief in their heart continually are they gathered together for war Grant not O Lord the desire of the wicked Further not their wicked devices lest they exalt themselves Let the mischief of their own lips cover them let them be cast into deepe pits that they rise not up again Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth Let evil hunt the men of violence to their overthrow Then pursue the Prophets advice from God unto them Hearken ye all Judah and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem thus saith the Lord God Be not afraid nor dismaid by reason of this great multitude much less of this small Conventicle for the battle is not yours but Gods To morrow go out against them ye shall not need to fight in this battle only set your selves in array against them and stand still keep your ground fear not submir not to their power usurpations impositions in any kind and the Lord will be with you Whereupon they rose early in the morning and went out against them with their Priests before them singing praises and Psalms of thanksgiving to God And when they began to sing and praise the Lord set ambushes against the children of Ammon Moab and Mount-Seir which were come against Judah and they smote one another For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against them of Mount Seir utterly to slay and destroy them and when they had made an end of them every one helped to destroy another And when Judah looked upon the multiude behold they were dead bodies fallen to the earth and none escaped Whereupon Jehoshaphat and his people gathered up their spoiles for 3. daies space together they were so great and on the 4 th day they blessed the Lord and returned with joy to Jerusalem without the losse of anie one mans life or one stroke struck by them because the Lord fought against the enemies of Israel Imitate but their example herein go out only couragiously against these Invaders of your Countries Rights Liberties Privileges without fear or dispondencie Own not their incroached Parliamentarie power Acts Impositions Edicts Taxes Excises in anie kind Keep fast your purse-strings and part with no farther pay to your Armie-Saints till they obediently submit to your commands as their Masters and acknowledge themselves to be your mercinarie Servants not your soveraign new Lords Masters Then without any more fighting bloudshed danger to your persons or estates you shall soon behold hold the Mungrel multitude of Anabaptists Quakers Sectaries Republicans Vanists Cromwellists Jesuits Papists now combined against you divided against each other as you see they are pretty well and every of them will help to destroy one another as they begin to doe and their Westminster new-convened Vn-Parliamentarie Conventicle thrust out of doors by themselves again with greater scorn infamie derision damage to them than heretofore as Obad. 10.15 Ezech. 35.15 Deut. 32.35 36.41 42. Ps 7.15 16. Ps 9.15 Ps 140.11 Prov. 12.2 3 c. 24.21 22. Mich. 3 9· to 13. Hab. 2.12 13. Rev. 13.10 c. 17.6 c. 16.4 5 6. Mat. 7. 2. Judg. 1.6 7. may assure both you and them compared with Gods late wonderfull providences of this kind upon all sorts of Innovators So as you may sing They are brought down and fallen but we are risen and stand upright But if you neglect or refuse to follow this advice beware lest through your unworthie cowardize and negligence in this kinde you become not a speedy prey to these ravening wolves now likely to transform London into another Munster and England into a second G●rmanie as in the year 1534. Mr. Prynne having thus fully faithfully sincerely discharged his dutie and satisfied his own conscience is resolved to lie down quietly to take his rest and hope for the salvation of his God concluding with the words of St. Paul in a like case 2 Tim. 4.6 7 8.16 17 18. I am now ready to be offred and the time of my departure is at hand I have finished my course I have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which God the righteous Judge shall give me at that day At my first answer no man stood by me but all men forsook me I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge Notwithstanding the Lord stood by me and strengthned me that by me the preaching might be fully known and that all the Gentiles might hear and I was delivered out of the mouth of the Lyon And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me to his heavenly KINGDOM to whom bee glorie for ever and ever Amen Isay 8.9 to 16. Associate your selves O ye people and ye shall be broken in pieces gird yourselves and ye shall be broken in pieces take counsel