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A85281 The fifth monarchy, or Kingdom of Christ, in opposition to the beasts, asserted, by the Solemn League and Covenant, several learned divines, the late General and Army, (viz.) in their declaration at Muslebrough, August 1650. wherein the old cause is stated, appeals made, the Scottish blood spilt, and the banners yet in Westminster-Hall witnessing the great decision then given on Christs side. Also, by a letter from the officers of the Army in England, to their brethren in Ireland, the 11 of May, 1653. justifying on Christs accompt, the dissolution of the Parliament; and consonant thereunto, the Generals speech to those that succeeded in the government, the fourth of July following ... 1659 (1659) Wing F890; Thomason E993_31; ESTC R207791 44,997 55

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all the people of God that this great Change may have the extraordinary blessing of God upon it By this inclosed Declaration you will perceive what provision is made for the present management of Affairs till persons of approved Fidelity and Honesty may be called to take upon them the Supreme Authority of this Commonwealth which being done we may have cause to hope the Lord will make them a future blessing to us Dear Friends we are perswaded this is the Lords own work and ought to be mavellous in our eyes the Lord hath once and again pulled down the Mighty from their seats and we trust it is that himself may raign and therefore let the earth rejoyce and these our Islands be glad thereof for though clouds and darkness be round about him yet Righteousness and Judgment are the habitation of his Throne The Lord is terrible in his doings therefore the guilty world will tremble but Sionshall hear and be glad and the daughters of Judah shall rejoyce because of his judgments Let us therefore dear Brethren serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling for we are not without hope that our Lord Jesus Christ who is the King of Saints will henceforth shew himself to be the King of Nations also We do not doubt but the Lord will make your hearts as ours in this great business and that as the Lord hath wonderfully stirred up the heart of his Excellency the Lord General to put himself upon God in this great undertaking for the interest of Jesus Christ and his people so we shall adhere to him and one to another therein We know your sincere love to Christ and his people is such that we shall use no Arguments unto you but onely mind you That when the Lord called you to the service of Ireland at a solemn meeting of the Officers designed for Ireland with those that remained here after that we had with many prayers and tears recommended one another into the bosome of Christ we did also in the presence of each other and before the Lord solemnly submit our selves and all our affairs to be whollyat his dispose resolving through the influence of his Spirit in all our politick undertakings not to seek our selves but the advancement of the affairs and kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ In this Spirit and with these Resolutions we parted with one another and the Lord hath blessed us hitherto and lo we are yet alive though thousands of our dear Brethren who engaged with us are dead The Lord grant we may with our lives be instrumental to carry on and preserve that Cause and Interest which was by them valued above their lives and whose blood cryeth loud to us to persevere therein unto the end Let us therefore we beseech you provoke both you and our selves not to consult with carnal reason in these great Mutations but let us labour by faith to see the Lord carry on his own work and to manifest our selves whom God hath called and chosen to these stations wherein we stand to be also faithful in doing the work unto which he shall appoint us Dear Brethren the work hath hitherto been to break and pull down which every one almost seemeth to be good at but it 's now the expectation of good men that Building and Establishing work shall follow for which yet there are not in our view many fit and therefore it will be your duty and ours to pray without ceasing that those whom God shall call to the Government may be men full of the Holy Ghost and of Power and may have his continual presence in the carrying on of so great a work on the issue whereof depends as we are perswaded the interest of the Saints throughout the whole world Now the Lord keep our hearts close to himself that so however things go about we may be found walking as becometh the Gospel of Christ in faith towards God in love one towards another and in Peace and Righteousness towards all men Which that we may do let us earnestly beg your continual and servent Prayers even as we desire to make mention of you as often as we encompass the Throne of Grace in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ in whom we are Your most affectionate Friends and Brethren John Lambert John Disbrow Edward Whalley Thomas Harrison William Constable Adrian Scroop Nathaniel Rich Matthew Tomlinson Philip Twisleton Thomas Pride Thomas Cooper William Goffe Ralph Coblet Francis Hacker Charles Worsley Francis White Thomas Kelsey Thomas Biscoe Robert Swallow Roger Alsopp Arthur Husbands Griffith Lloyd John Mason Thomas Saunders John Hodgson Jeoffrey Elatson Edward Orpin Samuel Lark John Caitnes John Wigan Edward Walley Richard Merest John Robinson Edmund Chillenden George Smithson William Packer William Style Francis Allen William Farley William Malin Richard Hatter Phil. 1.18 What then notwithstanding every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached and I therein do rejoyce yea and will rejoyce The spiritually wise cannot but soon discern whether the breathings of the Lords holy Spirit are more visible in this then the Armies late as it 's called repentance and the chief Officers may do well to consider whether it were not better with them when they avouched the Lord to be their God even Christ to be the King of Nations then since changing their glory into shame they are found amongst the scoffers saying Where is the promise of his coming and they may observe the dissolution of the Parliament however many now would have it accompted onely a precipitate Act of their General yet it had a very serious and deliberate owning by them who can no otherwise be justified in that or formet undertakings thereby following the Lord in paths untroden contradictory to this old Antichristian worlds frame and constitution or as their own expression in their Letter is By resigning themselves and all their affairs to be wholly at the Lords dispose resolving through the influence of his Spirit in all their publick undertakings not to seek themselves but the advansement of the Affairs and Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ But how faithfully this hath been observed the light in their own consciences can best satisfie them if they dare ask the question The Lord General CROMWEL His SPEECH At the Council-Chamber to the Persons then Assembled by Summons July 4. 1653. GENTLEMEN I Suppose the Summons that hath been instrumental to bring you hither gives you well to understand the cause of your being here Howbeit having something to impart which is an Instrument drawn up by the consent and advice of the principal Officers of the Army which is a little as we conceive more significant then that other of Summons we have that here to tender you And we have somewhat likewise further to say to you for our own exoneration and we hope it may be somewhat further to your satisfaction And therefore seeing you sit here somewhat uneasie by reason of the scantness of the
upon Ephe. 1.21,22 called The world to come Page 28 29. This Kingdom of Christ shall break in pieces and consume all other Kingdoms this will eat out all the Monarchies and glory of the world And not onely destroy Heathenism and Judaism but will not cease till he hath thrown down every rag all that dross and defilement that Antichrist and Popery brought into the world which dispensation we are now under we are working up still to a purer world it is still this new world working up to its perfection and Jesus Christ will never rest till he hath not onely thrown out all the dross of this world both of Doctrine and Worship which conformity to the world ha●h brought in but for a further degree of this work Jesus Christ will not rest till he hath brought in the generality of men in the world to be subject to himself The world according to Scripture consists of Jews and Gentiles and how bitterly doth the Apostle complain in his time of Gods outting off the Jews the generality of the Nation being cast off and for the Gentiles saith he Who hath believed our report There was a very few of them in comparison that did come in to Christ but there will come a time when this new world shall have a further perfection when the generality of man-kind Jew and Gentile shall come in to Christ The world was made for him and he shall have it before he has done Rom. 11.26 All Israel shall be saved there he tells us of a new world of the Jews and for the Gentiles he tells you They shall be cast in The vail shall be taken from off all Nations Esay 25.1 There shall be one shepherd and one sheepfold of Jews and Gentiles and that as large as all the world John 10.16 This was never yet fulfilled Read the Prophets and you shall read strange things of glorious times that shall be here on earth of all Nations coming into the Church the mountain of the Lords house being set on the top of the mountains and all Nations flowing unto it and of the great Prosperity that shall be which was never yet fulfilled Further Mr. Thomas Goodwin in his Sermon before the House Feb. 25. 1645. call'd The great Interest of States and Kingdoms Page 8 9 Having been giving some instances how God had reproved Kings for the sakes of his people mentions that eminent instance of Abrahams subduing the four Kings Gen. 14. the Type of the four Monarchs and the Saints subduing of them Page 10. Thus saith he he began the world at first and this very Victory is made a leading case a standing incouragement to the sons of Abraham the Saints for ever after Esa 41.2 Who raised up the righteous man from the East namely this Abraham and called him to his foot gave the Nations before him and made him rule over Kings he means those very Kings in the 14 of Genesis he gave them as dust to his sword and as driven stubble to his bow he pursued them and past safely Did God do this for one or two of the Saints and will he not go on What saith the fourth verse Who hath wrought and done it calling the Generations from the beginning I the Lord am the first and with the last I am he I began to do thus with Abraham and I will go on to do so even to the last for the sons of Abraham and that this is his meaning read 8 10 14 verses Page 32. As he caught the Jewish Princes and Priests in their craftiness against Christ so will he for ever do those that offer violence to his Saints especially when out of state and worldly ends and interests Page 39. And he shall overcome for he is Lord of lords and King of kings and they that are with him are called Chosen and faithful you know the little Stone Christ and his Saints shall dash all to pieces Page 45. Christ being peculiarly the King of Saints his interest is to maintain defend and take part with them against all those that do malign them as he did the Nation of the Jews It is his title and his most royal title and the greatest title that he is King of Saints he preferreth it to his title of being King of Nations that vanisheth and is not mentioned in comparison of it This therefore answerably must be his greatest interest which of all other he now pursueth And therefore if all those Nations in which his Saints are do not bow to and comply with it he will shew himself that he is King of Saints and of Nations by ruining of them As the greatest interest of the Devils Kingdom is to persecute those that keep the Commandments of God and the faith of Jesus so is it the greatest interest of the kingdom of Jesus Christ to preserve his Saints and to confound those that injure them for he is King of Saints And further in the old Testament when this his Kingdom was further off and longer to come yet you see how strongly he drove on this design then but in the New Testament he is ascended and personally as man invested into it We see Jesus crowned with glory and honour Heb. 12. whose faith was as real in this as our sight can be and he sits there expecting as thinking the time long till all his enemies are subdued Heb. 10.13 which the same Apostle elsewhere interpreteth and therein speaks home to the point in hand the putting down all Rule and Dominion that are opposite to his Saints 1 Cor. 15.24,25 And accordingly in all those Psalms where ever his ascention and investiture into his Kingdom at Gods right hand is prophesied of there the ruine or conversion of Kings and Kingdoms are also spoken and prophesied of read Psalm 2. Psalm 68. Psalm 110. And let me add this to all That as the shorter time Satan hath the more is his rage so the shorter time Christ hath and the neerer he is to the possession of his Kingdom the more is his zeal for his Saints and indignation against his Enemies His heart is set upon it and the more eager doth his desire become every day to attain his long-expected Kingdom and to throw down all that oppose it and therefore we see that in this latter age he hath made such changes in the world we have seen him do that in a few years that he hath not done in a hundred years before for he being King of Nations he pursues his interest and being more neer his Kingdom he takes it with violence we are now within the whirl of it therefore his motions are rapt Hence therefore all States and Kingdoms had need now of all times else to be instructed and accordingly comply with this interest of Christ it is more especially now then ever their greatest interest it is well for us that Jesus Christ is our King who is the King of kings and King of Saints and
you have sought his face with us about the same that so we may further know through you his will concerning us And we shall not fail in this and all other opportunities to seek the Lord for you that you may be preserved from every evil to his glorious Kingdom that you may be kept blameless and harmless the sons of God without rebuke And we beseech you in the spirit of love and meekness to stir up all that fear God amongst whom you converse yea though of different judgments as to the form of Church-government to seek the Lord with us in these things for sure it cannot but be the desire of every one that is a living member of Christs body that the work of Christ should prosper and that all that fear the Lord may be of one heart and one mind in the things that concern his great affairs in a time when his work is to establish his own Kingdom in the ruine of BABYLON as in the apprehension of many of his people it is this day Thus presenting our most indeared affection to you we heartily recommend you into the Bosome of Jesus Christ and rest Your Christian Friends and fellow Souldiers White-hall May 20. 1650. To all our dear Friends and fellow-Souldiers that fear the Lord. Will. Constable William Roe Rich. Sa●key Griffith Lloyd T. Harrison He. Haynes Will. Style Stephen White Nath. Rich W. Stane Tobias Bridge Nic. Lockier Edw Whalley Will. Goffe Jo. Merreman Thomas Hancock Charles Fleetwood Azariah Husbands Will. Gough George Joyce Tho. Pride John Blackwel Edw. Orpin Tho. Else Math. Tomlinson Jo. Mason Robert Barrow Tho. Bayley John Okey Jenkin Lloyd Samson Larke Isaac Knight Paul Sismey We desire that what Return you make hereof be directed to Colonel Barkestead at White-Hall to be by him communicated to the Officers at the Head-quarters A DECLARATION OF The English ARMY now in SCOTLAND TO The people of SCOTLAND especially those a mong them that know and fear the LORD We the Officers and Souldiers of the English Army do send Greeting AT the beginning of the great and wonderful workings of GOD in these two Nations of England and Scotland we the Under-Officers and Souldiers of the English Army now in Scotland were most of us if not all men of private Callings and not at all interested in matters of Publick and State-affairs but yet very many of us in whom the Lord had begun to reveal himself in the Face of Jesus Christ were sensible of the ANTICHRISTIAN Tyranny that was exercised by the late King and his Prelates over the Coxsciences Bodies and Estates of the true Spiritual Church of Jesus Christ namely those that were born again and united to him hy his Spirit who were then by that Antichristian crew termed Puritans Sectaries Schismaticks c. and for not conforming to all the Canons and Ordinances of their Nation-Church were frequently imprisoned banished and otherwise grievously molested at the pleasure of those that then ruled amongst us Under these sad sufferings of the people of God our souls mourned and understanding by the manifold gracious promises in the Word of God that a time of deliverance was to be expected to the Church of CHRIST and destruction and ruine to BABYLON Our hearts together with all truly godly in England were exceedingly stirred up to pray to the Lord even day and night that he would Arise to dectroy ANTICHRIST and to save his people Whilst this Spirit of Prayer was poured forth upon Gods people in England attempts are made upon Scotland to bring them to a conformity in religious Worship by endeavouring to impose upon them a Popish Service-Book which was through the great goodness of God by his people in Scotland rejected which made the wrath of the late King and his Prelates wax so hot against them so as Scotland had no other way to preserve it self but by coming into England with an Army which the godly in England did not then count an Invasion to destroy England no more then they do this our present march for the ruine of Scotland but rejoyced to see some appearing against that ANTICHRISTIAN power that had persecuted the Saints and were assured That the LORD was come forth to answer the many Prayers and Tears that were then poured and pouring forth for that purpose and therefore so far as we had any opportunity farthered the designs of that Army some of us hazzarding our lives by spreading their Book intituled The SCOTS INTENTIONS and pleading for the justness of their Proceedings Let us remember how the Lord was pleased gratiously to answer the prayers of his people at that time in their deliverance from the Army raised by the late King and his Prelates for the destruction of all the people of God in England and Scotland insomuch That soon after Scotland sits in Peace enjoying their former Liberties without being imposed upon by the Antichristian Prelacy in England and England obtains a Parliament to whom they have opportunity to complain of their grievances and through the great goodness of God so constituted that grievances are heard and overtures made to the late King for their redress which was so irksome to his Oppressing Tyrannical and Bloody Spirit that he again betook himself to overthrew the Parliament by force and to that end entertains the Officers of the Army that had gone forth against our Brethren of Scotland and withdrawing himself from his Parliament an appearance of a Civil War begins which being made known to us the inseriout Officers and Souldiers of this Army then in our private Callings we found our hearts extraordinarily stirred up by the LORD to assist the Parliament against the King being abundantly satisfied in our judgments and consciences that we were called forth by the Lord to be instrumental to bring about that which was our continual prayer to God viz. The DESTRUCTION of ANTICHRIST and the deliverance of his CHURCH and PEOPLE And upon this simple accompt we engaged not knowing the deep policies of worldly Statesmen and have ever since hazarded our lives in the high places of the field where we have seen the wonders of the Lord against all the opposers of this work of Jesus Christ whom we have all along seen going with us and making our way plain before us And having these things singly in our eye namely the destrustion of Antichrist the advancement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ the Deliverance and Reiormation of his Church in the Establishment of his Ordinances amongst them in purity according to his Word and the just civil Liberties of Englishmen we did many of us rejoyce at the Covenant because we found in it a strain towards these ends although some being more enlightned did apprehend it to be so mixt with worldly interest that they justly feared the interest of JESUS CHRIST would be onely pretended to and the interests of this world yea of ANTICHRIST himself carried under a vizard as we have since had abundant experience