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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81011	His Highness speech to the Parliament in the Painted Chamber at their dissolution, upon Monday the 22d. of Ianuary 1654. Published to prevent mistakes, and false copies.	Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1654 (1654)	Wing C7174; ESTC R171612	18,050	23

will not give unto another nor suffer to be taken from him We know what God did to Herod when he was applauded and did not acknowledge GOD And GOD knoweth what he will do with men when they shall call His Revolutions humane Designs and so detract from his Glory when they have not been forecast but sudden Providences in things whereby Carnal and Worldly men are enraged and under and at which many I fear some good have murmured and repined because disappointed of their mistaken Fancies but still they have been the wise disposings of the Almighty though Instruments have had their passions and ●ra●lties and I think it is an Honor to God to acknowledge the necessities to have been of Gods imposing when truely they have been so as indeed they have when we take our sin in our actings to ourselves and much more safe than judge things so contingent as if there were not a God that ruled the Earth We know the Lord hath poured this Nation from Vessel to Vessel till he poured it into your Lap when you came first together I am confident that it came so into your hands was not judged by you to be from Counterfeited or feigned necessity but by Divine Providence and Dispensation And this I speak with more earnestness because I speak for God and not for men I would have any man to come and tell of the transactions that have been and of those periods of time wherein God hath made these Revolutions and find where they can fix a feigned necessity I could recite particulars if either My strength would serve Me to speak or yours to hear if that you would revolve the great hand of God in his great Dispensations you would find that there is scarce a man that fell off at any period of time when God had any work to do that can give God or his work at this day a good word It was say some the cunning of the Lord Protector I take it to my self it was the craft of such a man and his plot that hath brought it about And as they say in other Countreys There are five or six cunning men in England that have skill they do all these things Oh what Blasphemy is this because men that are without God in the World and Walk not with him and know not what it is to pray or believe and to receive return from God and to be spoken unto by the Spirit of God who Speaks without a written Word sometimes yet according to it God hath spoken heretofore in divers manners let him speak as he pleaseth Hath he not given us liberty nay is it not our dutie to go to the Law and to the Testimonies and there we shall find that there have been impressions in extraordinary cases as well without the written Word as with it and therefore there is no difference in the thing thus asserted from truths generally received except we will exclude the Spirit without whose concurrence all other Teachings are ineffectual He doth speak to the Hearts and Consciences of men and leadeth them to his Law and Testimonies and there he speaks to them and so gives them double teachings according to that of Job God speaketh once yea twice and that of David God hath spoken once yea twice have I heard this Those men that live upon their Mumpsimus and Sumpsimus their Masses and Service-Books their dead and carnal Worship no marvel if they be strangers to God and the works of God and to spiritual dispensations And because they say and believe thus must we do so too we in this Land have been otherwise instructed even by the Word and Works and Spirit of God To say that men bring forth these things when God doth them judg you if God will bear this I wish that every sober heart though he hath had temptations upon him of deserting this CAUSE of God yet may take heed how he provokes and falls into the hands of the living God by such Blasphemies as these according to the 10 th of the Hebrews If we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth there remains no more sacrifice for sin it was spoken to the Jews that having professed Christ apostatized from him what then nothing but a fearful falting into the hands of the Living God They that shall attribute to this or that person the contrivances and production of those mighty things God hath wrought in the midst of us and that they have not been the revolutions of Christ himself upon whose Shoulders the GOVERNMENT is laid they speak against God and they fall under his hand without a Mediator that is if we deny the Spirit of Jesus Christ the glory of all his works in the world by which he Rules Kingdoms and doth administer and is the Rod of his strength we provoke the Mediator And he may say I 'll leave you to God I 'll not intercede for yon let him tear you to pieces I 'll leave thee to fall into Gods hands thou deniest me my Soveraignty and Power committed to me I 'll not intercede nor mediate for thee thou fallest into the hands of the living God Therefore whatsoever you may judge men for and say This man is cunning and politick and subtil take heed again I say how you judge of his revolutions as the products of mens inventions I may be thought to press too much upon this Theme but pray God it may stick upon your hearts and mine the worldly minded man knows nothing of this but is a stranger to it and because of this his Atheism and murmurings at instruments yea repining at God himself and no wonder considering the Lord hath done such things amongst us as have not been known in the world these 1000 years and yet not withstanding is not owned by us There is another necessity which you have put upon us and we have not sought I appeal to God Angels and Men if I shall raise Money according to the Article in the GOVERNMENT which had power to call you hether and did and instead of seasonable providing for the Armie you have labored to overthrow the GOVERNMENT and the Army is now upon Free-Quarter and you would never so much as let me hear a tittle from you concerning it where is the fault has it not been as if you had had a purpose to put this extremity upon us and the Nation I hope this was not in your minds I am not willing to judge so but this is the state unto which we are reduced By the Designs of some in the Army who are now in Custody it was designed to get as many of them as could through discontent for want of money the Army being in a Barren Countrey near Thirty weeks behind in pay and upon other specious pretences to march for England out of Scotland and in discontent to seiz their General there a faithful and honest man that so another might head the Army and all this opportunity taken from your delays whether will this be a thing of feigned necessity What could it signifie but that the Army are in discontent already and wee 'l make them live upon stones wee 'l make them cast off their Governours and Discipline What can be said to this I list not to unsaddle my self and put the fault upon others backs Whether it hath been for the good of England whilest men have been talking of this thing or the other and pretending liberty and a many good words whether it hath been as it should have been I am confident you cannot think it has the Nation will not think so And if the worst should be made of things I know not what the Cornish men or the Lincolnshire men may think or other Counties but I believe they will all think they are not safe A temporary suspension of caring for the greatest Liberties and priviledges if it were so which is denied would not have been of that damage that the not providing against Free Quarter hath run the Nation upon And if it be my liberty to walk abroad in the Fields or to take a Iourney yet it is not my wisdom to do so when my House is on fire I have troubled you with a long Speech and I believe it may not have the same resentment with all that it hath with some But because that is unknown to me I shall leave it to God and conclude with that that I think my self bound in my Duty to God and the People of these Nations to their safety and good in every respect I think it my duty to tell you That it is not for the profit of these Nations nor for Common and Publick good for You to continue here any longer and therefore I do Declare unto you THAT I DO DISSOLVE THIS PARLIAMENT

had been instrumental for the Conduct and Deliverance of his People And considering that promise in Isaiah That God would give Rulers as at the first and Iudges as at the beginning I did not know but that God might begin and though at present with a most unworthy Person yet as to the future it might be after this manner and I thought this might usher it in I am speaking as to my Iudgement against making it Hereditary to have men chosen for their Love to God and to Truth and Iustice and not to have it Hereditary for as it is in Ecclesiastes Who knoweth whether he may beget a Fool or Wise honest or not what ever they be must come in upon that account because the Government is made a Patrimony And this I do perhaps declare with too much Earnestness as being my own Concernment and know not what Place it may have in your Hearts and of the good people in the Nation but however it be I have comfort in this my truth and plainness I have thus told you my thoughts which truly I have declared to you in the fear of God as knowing he will not be mocked and in the strength of God as knowing and rejoycing that I am kept in my speaking especially when I do not form or frame things without the compass of the Integrity and Honesty that my own Conscience gives me not the Ly to what I say and then in what I say I can rejoyce Now to speak a word or two to you Of that I must profess in the name of the same Lord an I wish that there had been no cause that I should have thus spoken to you and though I have told you that I came with Ioy the first time with some regret the second that now I speak with most regret of all I look upon you as having among you many persons that I could lay down my life individually for I could through the grace of God desire to lay down my life for you So far am I from having an unkind or un-Christian heart towards you in your particular capacities I have that indeed as a work most incumbent upon Me I consulted what might be My Duty in such a Day as this casting up all Considerations I must confess as I told you that I did think occasionally this Nation hath suffered extreamly in the respects mentioned as also in the Disappointments of their Expectations of that Justice that was due to them by your sitting thus long and what have you brought forth I did not nor cannot apprehend what it is I would be loth to call it a Fate that were too Paganish a Word but there is something in it that we have not our Expectations I did think also for my self that I am like to meet with Difficulties and that this Nation will not as it is fit it should not be deluded with pretexts of Necessity in that great business of raising of money and were it not that I can make some Dilemmaes upon which to resolve some things of my Conscience Judgement and Actions I should sink at the very prospect of my Encounters some of them are general some are more special supposing this Cause or this Business must be carried on either it is of God or of Man if it be of Man I would I had never touched it with a finger if I had not had a hope fixed in Me that this Cause and this business is of God I would many years ago have run from it If it be of God he will bear it up If it be of Man it will tumble as every thing that hath been of man since the World began hath done And what are all our Histories and other Traditions of actions in former times but God mani●esting himself that he hath shaken and tumbled down and trampled upon every thing that he hath not planted And as this is so the all-wise God deal with it If this be of humane Structure and invention and it be an old Plotting and Contrivance to bring things to this Issue and that they are not the births of Providence then they will tumble But if the Lord take pleasure in England and if he will do Us good he is able to bear us up Let the difficulties be whatsoever they will we shall in his Strength be able to encounter with them And I bless God I have been inured to Difficulties and I never found God failed when I trusted in him I can laugh and sing in my heart when I speak of these things to you or elswhere And though some may think it an hard thing without Parliamentary Authority to raise money upon this Nation yet I have another Argument to the good people of this Nation if they would be safe and have no better Principle whether they prefer the having of their Will though it be their Destruction rather than comply with things of necessity that will excuse me but I should wrong my native Countrey to suppose this For I look at the People of these Nations as the blessing of the Lord and they are a People blessed by God They have been so and they will be so by reason of that immortal seed which hath been is amongst them those regenerated ones in the Land of several Judgements who are all the Flock of Christ and Lambs of Christ though perhaps under many unruly passions and troubles of Spirit whereby they give disquiet to themselves and others yet they are not so to God as to Us he is a God of other patience and he will own the least of truth in the hearts of his People and the people being the blessing of God they will not be so angry but they will prefer their safety to their passions and their real security to forms when necessity calls for supplies had they not well been acquainted with this principle they had never seen this day of Gospel-Liberty But if any man shall object It is an easie thing to talk of neccssities when men create necessities would not the Lord Protector make Himself great and his Familie great doth not He make these necessities and then he will come upon the People with this Argument of necessitie This were something hard indeed but I have not yet known what it is to make necessities whatsoever the Judgements or thoughts of men are And I say this not onely to this Assembly but to the World that that man liveth not that can come to me and charge me that I have in these great Revolutions made necessities I challenge even all that fear God And as God hath said My glory I will not give unto another Let men take heed and be twice advised how they call his Revolutions the things of God and his working of things from one Period to another how I say they call them necessities of mens creation for by so doing they do vilifie and lessen the works of God and rob him of his Glory which he hath said he