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B02900 A declaration of the Lord General and his councel of officers; shewing the grounds and reasons for the dissolution of the late Parliament. England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); England and Wales. Council of State. 1653 (1653) Wing D702A; ESTC R174632 4,509 16

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Endeavours should be used that nothing in the mean time should be done in Parliament that might exclude or frustrate the Proposals before mentioned Notwithstanding this the next morning the Parliament did make more haste than usual in carrying on their said Act being helped on there in by some of the Persons engaged to us the night before none of them which were then present endeavouring to oppose the same and being readie to put the main Question for consummating the said Act whereby out aforesaid Proposals would have been rendered void and the way of bringing them into a fair and full Debate in Parliament obstructed For preventing whereof and all the sad and evil consequences which must upon the grounds aforesaid have ensued and whereby at one blow the interest of all honest men and of this glorious Cause had been endangered to be laid in the dust and these Nations imbroyled in new Troubles at a time when our Enemies abroad are watching all advantages against us and some of them actually ingaged in War with us We have been necessitated though with much reluctancie to put an end to this Parliament which yet We have done we hope out of an honest heart prefering this Cause above our names lives families or interest how dear soever with clear intentions and real purposes of heart To call to the Government Persons of approved Fidelitie and Honestie believing That as none wise will expect to gather Grapes of Thorns so Good men will hope That it Persons so qualified be chosen the fruits of a Iust and Righteous Reformation so long prayed and wished for will by the blessing of God be in due time obtained to the refreshing of all those good hearts who have been panting after these things Much more might have been said if it had been our desire to justifie our selves by aspersing others and raking into the MisGovernment of Affairs but we shall conclude with this That as we have been led by Necessitie and Providence to act as We have done even beyond and above our own thoughts and desires so We shall and do in that of this great Work which is behind put our selves wholy upon the Lord for a blessing professing we look not to stand one day without his support much less to bring to pass any of the things mentioned and desired with out his assistance And therefore do solemnly desire and expect That all men as they would not provoke the Lord to their own destruction should wait for such issue as he shall bring forth and to follow their business with peaceable spirits wherein We promise them Protection by his assistance And for those who profess their fear and love 〈◊〉 the Name of God that seeing in a great measure for their sakes and for Righteousness sake We have taken our lives in our hands to do these things they would be instant with the Lord day and night in Our behalf that We may obtain grace from him And seeing We have made so often mention of his Name that we may not do the least dishonor thereunto which indeed would be our confusion and a stain to the whole Profession of Godliness We beseech them also to live in all humilitie meekness righteousness and love one towards another and towards all men that so they may put to silence the ignorance of the foolish who falsly accuse them and to know That the late great and glorious dispensations where in the Lord hath so wonderfully appeared in bringing forth these things by the travel and bloud of his Children ought to oblige them so to walk in the wisdom and love of Christ as may cause others to honor their holy Profession because they see Christ to be in them of a truth We do further purpose before it be long more particularly to shew the Grounds of our Proceedings and the Reasons of this late great Action and Change which in this we have but hinted at And we do lastly Declare That all Iudges Sheriffs Iustices of Peace Mayors Bayliffs Committees and Commissioners and all other Civil Officers and Public Ministers whatsoever within this Common-wealth or any parts thereof do proceed in their respective Places and Offices and all Persons whatsoever are to give Obedience to them as fully as when the Parliament was sitting WHITE-HALL the 22 of April 1653. Signed in the Name and by the Appointment of his Excellencie the Lord General and his Councel of Officers William Malyn Secret IRELAND By the Commissioners of the Common-wealth of England for the Affairs of Ireland THe Declaration before going coming to our knowledge We hold it our dutie to Publish the same unto all who are intrusted with the Mannagement of Publick Affairs in this Countrey and to mind them that it is now their dutie more than ordinarie notwithstanding the present Alteration to Act carefully and industriousie in their several Charges and diligently to discharge their respective Trust that the Common Enemie may not have Advantage from hence to work new Disturbance against the Publick Peace and Welfare And that such as are in the service of the Common-wealth in this Land must expect to be called to a strict account for their neglect herein And in regard the present posture of Affairs are such as extraordinarily concern the Interest and Welfare of all good People VVe hold it our dutie earnestly to exhort them unto a special servent wrestling with the Lord by humble Prayer and Supplication for VVisdom and Strength unto those his Servants on whom the Burthen and Care of preserving the Common-wealth in Peace and settling the same in Rightousness doth principally lie For which end VVe do appoint VVednesday the fourth of May next and that Day seven-night being the eleventh of May to be set apart for solemn seeking the face of the Lord by all his People in Ireland on that behalf Dated at Dublin 29 of April 1653. Charles Fleetwood Edm. Ludlow Miles Corbe● Io. Iones ORdered That Mr Bladen Printer do Print the Declaration from his Excellencie the Lord General and his Cou●cel of Officers together with this Order Charles Fleetwood Edm. Ludlow Miles Corbe● Io. Iones