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A96615	A paraenetick or Humble addresse to the Parliament and assembly for (not loose, but) Christian libertie. Perused and allowed according to order.	Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.	1644 (1644)	Wing W2768; Thomason E19_10; ESTC R10999	12,134	16

with you Did you send us out to be cut off and to make a hand of us Did you slay part of us in the field with the sword of the Enemy that you might the easier suppresse the residue at home Do you count us no better then to be swords-meat and to stop the mouthes of Canons O Earth cover thou not our bloud the Lord behold it and require it Should such a din fill your eares sleeping and waking what fruit would you have of your violent proceedings Should you effect your purpose suppresse our Way and cast forth our person out of this good Land could you put the price of our bloud into the treasury Would you have any list to roast what 〈…〉 b●●ning Would not your stomacks nauseate and turne againe at the raw and bloudy cruelty of the game Take up Oh take up betimes ●n●r you not that it will be bitternesse in the lat●● end Are we not your fellow-servants and Brethren Did not the same hand make us that made you And is there not one Father of us both One Lord on●●aith one Baptisme one Religion Are you the onely rightfull Inhabitants of this good Countrey And is there not a curse denounced against those that lay house 〈◊〉 ●nd land to land that they may dwell done Doe you stand 〈◊〉 no more need of us o● have wee been reprieved till now onely as the C●●●●tes to help you to master the Lyons the wild Beasts that they prevaile not against you Brethren I would to God there were no Divisions among us I wi●● it u●●er the Imperiall law of Heaven and my hearts desire and prayer for ●●gland is that they were of one heart and one way ●●n i● that upon any Scripture-ground to be expected here at least till those H●l y●● daye● come while we know but in part Must we never be of one heart till we be of one way Then belike those Exhortations ●●●●e and ●e●e and Christian forbearance of one another and not to j●●● but to keep the imitie of the Spirit are not visions which the Apostles saw for these dayes The time is not yet as the J●●● said Hag. 2. But the Lord may answer us as he answered them Is it time f●● you 〈◊〉 to dwell in your s●iled houses c So is it time for (a) Q●●●● 〈…〉 qu●● l●●●● i●●●lat Sa●a●z● Cataph●actas quod de ●edere concordae 〈…〉 〈◊〉 cumvaliant Elegantis simè Lutherus 〈…〉 qua●tie ●●nt 〈◊〉 quasi● ni ●am un ve●sae sabruae m●nitantes inhientque 〈…〉 deveraturi v●vilapi●●s in vero Templo col●ocati Praesertim cum 〈…〉 v●t● Templo tam ar●●fi●ose non tant um sin● deformi Cicatrice vulner is sed 〈…〉 ●●noguclat v●s●rentur ut impon●●ent ●●ulo spectatoris quod a non●●● 〈…〉 facta 〈…〉 quasi tota males in tantam nagnitudinem ex 〈…〉 ●●●gere● Says our Stoughto● in his Faelicitasultina sae en●●●● ag●a● you to agree and make your common engagement against any of the Lambes of Christ the ground of a renewed friendship Is it a time for Papists Atheists loose and carnall Protestants and Malignants to agree laying aside their particular interests opinions and differences Is it a time for French and Spaniards and Danes and Walloones and Irish Rebells to agree and make a confederacy with our homeborne Vipers against the truth And is it not a time for us to agree for the truth Is it a time for godly able men that have in a great part renounced the hidden things of Antichristian darknes to agree with ignorant superstitious Ceremony-mongers that are devoted still to a Common-Prayer-Booke and petition for a Captain to lead them back into Aegypt and with the meanest and unworthiest spirits that will but serve the time and acknowledge their soveraigntie as good Christians and able Ministers to make their party stronger And is it not a time to agree with those that denying themselves and the world professe to seek the truth in love Is all truth among one sort of men Hath not Christ rendred his members all in a mutuall need of one another * Which close Conjunction Cementing is made onely by love Men may be of the same judgement yet sit very loose frō one another Heads touch like 2 Globes but in p●ncto Hearts joyne in plano and make an in corporation of each into other Is your way the fulnesse of him that fills all in all Can your refuse-Brethren in Conference and Communication of spirituall gifts adde nothing to you Is there not most oft-times in things that are most despised Would Christ have such desperate Experiments practised upon his members to kill them if you cannot cure them of their lesser errours to fine them prison them banish them which to some persons and estates is little more mercy then to knock them on the head Doth not nature teach to beare with a blain or blemish rather then to destroy the body Is Christ so put to it quite out of hope May they not be gained hereafter Are their opinions damnable either in themselves or proper consequences Are they not further ingaged to persist in their wayes good or bad by suffering for such things so deeply and is not the bridge of retractation drawne up thereby Consider these things and take heed what you doe unto these men the Lord hath made Jerusalem a burdensome stone that shall crush all that attempt to remove her If our Way be of God you cannot overthrow it You may shew your selves fighters against God and get the reward of such and that 's all Take heed of walking contrary unto God of casting shame on those on whom he hath reflected such eminent honour both in the Army and otherwise For I aske you By whom hath God more deliver'd us hitherto Who have shewed themselves more valiant in fight● who have oftner put to flight the A●mies of the Aliens in the North and els-where but those men that in the end shall be put to flight themselves if some may have their will The sword of the Lord and despised Gideon hath saved this Nation Saul hath slaine his thousand● and David his ten thousands Let no man envy God will be acknowledged in his Instruments as well as in his Attributes Take heed of resisting the Holy Ghost for that mighty works have been done by th●se men you cannot deny their power in prayer their shining doctrine their exemplary burning conversation though wee will not paint the blemishes of any of them But manum de tabula I have offer'd my candle it is in the Lord to proportion the successe To some it may be a word in season to others perhaps it will be 〈◊〉 snare an● a stone of stumbling T●ndem vin●et veritas Truth shall overcome I verily beleeve and expect The little Stone ●ut out of the Mountaine without hands shall irresistibly grow and fill the whole earth and every plant that the Heavenly Father hath not planted shall he puld up Men may root

though of severall judgements whilest we agree in fundamentals but your word to bid us do so Is it not time for the Lords Harbingers and Trumpeters to sound the allarm to the great and dreadfull day of the Lord and to apply your selves now to turne the hearts of fathers to the children and of the children to the fathers lest the Lord come and smite the earth with a c●●se Nay hath hee not sorely smitten us for not only the neglect but the contempt of this prescription by a contrary practising even setting the Fathers the nursing-fathers of the Church those that should be so against their children And indeed excuse us if when wee consider how faire wee were for a good issue of these common troubles of late when God gave us those many Occasions and those solemne Opportunities of praise and thanksgiving when some can say if ever they found their hearts then drawn forth in earnest supplications and triumphant expectations of a smooth successe and instead thereof what an unusuall returne wee had from the hand of God contrary to the tenour of his former proceedings beating back our hopes upon 〈◊〉 and when wee compare this with former the like passages of providence in the like juncture of times as that ill successe that interrupted the Petition ready to be presented at the Common-Councel against us and also compare these with some Scriptures and Scripture examples How God hath made Jerusalem a burthensome s●●te c. Zech. 12. and how he hath formerly rebuked kings for his peoples sakes saying Touch not mine anointed c. and how he brought Artaxerxes and his Realm under wrath for that cause Ezra 7. and consider how righteous this is that if the children fall out the father should make the third excuse us I say if we can give no better account of these things but the Lords jealousie over his peoples liberties Wherefore if pity will not move you let equity at least constrain you * 1 Thes 4.6 Let no man go beyond or defraud his brother saith the Apostle Have you taken of us a price deny us not our commodity Christ bought our liberties for us with his blood wee have bought them over again at your hands with our own blood shed not for our selves only but for you also We have set you down as it were where you would be We have dislodged the Canaanites before you wee are necessitated to passe on further it were but your duty to march on before us and give us quiet possession with you Wee have fought and adventured purse and person upon this expectation of Liberty not of another Religion but of this way of walking in your Religion as of the Liberty of the Religion it self which we eyed in the first place If nothing lesse was in your hearts why did you not tell us so Nay why hath the Assembly born us in hand with such hopes and intimations Why have such Considerations been tendred to us intimating nay almost assuring us an after-liberty upon condition of a present modesty in that juncture of time only For what else is the tenour of the 5th Consideration published Dec. 23.1643 in these words That it is not to be doubted but the Counsels of the Assembly and the care of the Parliament will be not only to reforme and set up Religion throughout the Nation but will concurre to preserve what ever shall appeare to be the RIGHTS of particular CONGREGATIONS according to the Word and to heare with such whose Consciences cannot in all things conform to the publike Rule so far as the Word of God would have them born withall which is all that we desire What did you do with those terms The Rights of particular Congregations and these contradistinguished to the generall Reformation and setting up of Religion through the Kingdome if you did not speake to our sense But you will say 't is cautioned What ever shall appeare according to the Word To whom mean you it should appeare To your selves What promise were this To preserve what ever appeares to you is not grace but debt and if this was your meaning you might have said more properly When ever these Rights should appear to you and if by according to the Word you meant only in your own interpretation that 's not thank-worthy what bait is held out to us therein but a miserable collusion But the latter part of the Consideration is more expresse which promise a bearing with those whose Consciences cannot in all things 〈◊〉 to the publique Rule And what though it follow 〈…〉 as the Word of God would have them born withall for that implies a concession that the Word would have them born withall otherwise why do you bob our mouths with these Apples of liberty and toleration and condescend to terms of the measure there ●f if no such thing in any degree be due unto us or warrantable by the Word Why then do you give place to us so much 〈◊〉 for an 〈…〉 and if a toleration duly bounded be divine then how have you indeavoured it or why do you not indeavour that 〈◊〉 What 〈◊〉 or title of toleration have you yet brought ●●●th 〈◊〉 do you given us hopes of in your proceedings hitherto What things more terrible and more void and exclusive of all bearing and forbearing can you meditate yet then Fines Prisons 〈◊〉 prohibiting the exercise of our Way and our Ministery but upon hard conditions which things wee have too much cause to feare and expect as not exceeding the rate and proportion of some present conclusions and more menacing agitations Judge now whether the performance of this Consideration be not yet wholly in a●●ere to us And to minde you of some other passages What do you in that earnest intreating Ministers and People Consid 6. to forbeare for a convenient time the joyning themselves into Church-societies untill they see whether the right Rule will not be commended to them in 〈◊〉 orderly way I say what do you in this but set us as liberty afterwards And why do you there bespeak us as free-men if you made account and it be in your power to make us bond-men or use us so And further why doth the Assembly in the 7th Consideration glance with that congratulatory respect upon the liberty to serve God according to his Word which we injoy in this time more then hath been at any time in England since the beginning of the Reformation if it be not a just liberty and if it be just why doth it begin to be contracted at least some part of that liberty wee have injoyed viz. preaching without ordination till we can have it according to our consciences And lastly do you not cherish as great a hope in us as all that wee have ask●d or shall aske comes to in the last Consideration where you pawn your own hopes to cherish ours that wee shall never come to suffer for doing what shall appeare to be our duty though not