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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46899	An examination of the essay, or, An answer to The fifth monarchy by Edward Iohnson ...	Johnson, Edward, Gent.; Johnson, Edward, 1599?-1672.	1659 (1659)	Wing J770A; ESTC R13321	3,994	9

AN EXAMINATION OF THE ESSAY OR AN ANSWER TO THE Fifth Monarchy Revel. Behold He cometh with Clouds and every Eye shall see Him and they also which peirced Him and all Kindreds of the Earth shall wayl because of Him Even so Amen Jam. 5. 8. Be ye also Patient Establish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh By Edward Iohnson Gent. London Printed for W. Thomas 1659. AN EXAMINATION OF THE ESSAY OR An Answer to the Fifth Monarchy The Proof of the Essay and the Essay-Masters pursuant to the Invitations Judg. 19. 30. Who having Considered of it and taken Advice Let me speak my mind I Account it a great unhappinesse this Nation groans under not onely that it is broken into many Factions but that whilst each of them Imposeth the other upon All or at least the most of them pretend to Righteousnesse and amongst those the late Essay How much men under this notion have shrouded their own Errors and Designes by this means exposing the name of the Lord to Blasphemy I leave every serious Christian to consider I shall not censure the Authors of this Paper they being in a great measure strangers to me but wish that whilst we are Contending about what least becomes one that ought to be a Pilgrime in this World viz. the Civil-Government of this Nation to which there are many pretended Titles on foot we may not as a House divided against it self fall into confusion Nay into the hands of the Common Enemy For preventing which by moderating and helping the Considerations of these Essay-Masters I propose these following Queries I. Whether the late Single Person were not incited to the putting a force upon this Parliament and the set●ing up a Power contrary to Law by you or some of you Or at least wise whether you did not or do not approve the Action by owning of and contending for the short Convention and turning out of this Parliament all but a few of which you Judge qualified for Trust and Rule c. and if so whether you are not accessary to his Evil in taking the Government as an apt medium is to a necessary consequence II. Whether your apprehensions of Christ's Kingdom had it's beginning in our late Revolutions without assigning in which of them and when and where it began be a sufficient Ground to debarr the Nation from their share in Government And why our Revolutions of late years are more an evidence of Christ's Kingdom then those in former years or the Revolutions in other Nations viz. Holland in the Change of their Government the troubles lately in Poland formerly in Germany and France c And whether men had not as good Grounds for such conclusions formerly as you have now for yours and whether the Jews by the same Ground are not justified in their conclusions against Christians And the Pope in his pretended Infallibillity They both having their apprehensions to justifie their Actions as well as you yours for your Conclusions III. In what speciall sense can it be said that the Government of this Nation more then other Nations is given to Christ since his Government whether considered Personall or Spirituall is to be Universall And his coming to his Government when he takes it into his hands being in respect of certainty and speed like lightning from the East to the West or by what Promise or Prophesie so inconsiderable a part of the World as England shall be the seat of Christ's Kingdom when all other Nations shall remain under the Government of men if not the worst of men IV. Whose work is it to take the Government from Men and give it to Christ whether the Work of Men or of God If of God what is Man that he should interpose in it If of Man or Men At what time and times and by what Commission doth he or they do it that we may know how to obey many having formerly pretended to this Work when designing onely a Crown for themselves V. What Person or Persons are they that in your sense are so qualified for Government and by what right do they so stand If by the Law of the Land by what Law If by God's Word where and how doth it appear since the reference to the Laws of new-Haven in new England is no more binding then the Laws of new-Boston there VI Whether the Plat-form of the Commonwealth of Israel suited for the Government of a select People under a special Profession and Covenant and for the most part Typical and Allegorical will in all things suit England and whether the Scriptures doth condemn all Civil Government in other Nations differing from that VII If the Government of the Commonwealth of Israel besides which we have no Example of a Popular Government in Scripture be to us onely a Plat form for our Government what need then is there of any qualified Persons for making Laws those Laws being already in the Word of God which yet not to derogate from the Scripture it is humbly conceived will hardly extend to the determination of Controversies in this Common-wealth about titles of Land raising of Assessements securing the Peace thereof from the Common Enemy c VIII Whether at the same time you say you witnesse against future Violence in the foundations of it you do not own the Violence putt on part of this Parliament and impose on most of this Nation the greatest violence imaginable the being excluded for ever as well as at the present from all right of Government And whether at what Instant it becomes practicable are the Governed any way beuer related to the Governours than the Gibeonitcs were to the Israelites IX Whether the Debarring and Bereaving the Nation of their just Rights in matters Civil as well for Future as at Present tends not to the provoking them to deprive you of both Civil and Spiritual all men desiring as lawfully they may to be delivered from those by whom they are Captivated And thus whilst you are pleading for the Freedome and Rule of Christians you adventure their utmost Vassallage giving the Nation a just Plea for it as also to Blaspheme your holy Profession and to say that the Spirit of Munster hath got footing in England X. Whether you or some of you in former times were not forward Disciples of John Lilburn and Active in asserting the Freedom of the People and promoting their then intended Agreement And if you run into so great Extreams about Civil Government what security can the Nation have of your Constancy to any Government though by your selves proposed XI Whether seeing as you say this Parliament have been honoured in God's Work the benefit of which we this Day reap We may not hope God will honour them further in their cleaving to Him and His seeing after six years preparation by affliction and when under the height of Contempt they were unexpectedly brought together again without any projection or contrivance of their own XII Whether you or