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A74924	A Faithfull searching home vvord, intended for the view of the remaining members of the former old Parliament in the time of their late second sitting at Westminster. Shewing the reasonableness and justness of their first dissolution, as also the dangerous rock they formerly split upon, that so they might learn to beware for the future: But being a second time dissolved upon the like account, as so many fruitless trees twic dead plucked up by the roots. It is now presented to the officers of the army as another looking-glass wherein they may plainly see, how woefully they also have dissembled, dealt treacherously, deceitfully and wickedly both with God and man, in having so greatly apostatized from, rejected, trodden under foot, persecuted, Judas-like betrayed, and as it were crucified and kept down in the grave (as the soldiers formerly did Christ) that blessed cause and those good principles, they once so highly pretended to own ... Together with an other seasonable word by way of counsel and proposal to the aforesaid officers of the armies of England, Scotland, and Ireland. All which, is also to be seen, and read of all men loving righteousness, that thereby they may (with the army) better know how to chuse the good, refute the evil, and rightly steer their course, and bend their spirits in the future, for the exaltation of Christ, his cause, and interest, and against all the apostacy and treachery, though never so refined, that may further appear in this gloomy, dark, overturning day.		1659 (1659)	Wing F285; Thomason E774_1; ESTC R207286	59,601	45

other things declares plainly you would have dealt as deceitfully in the business of the Representative you were lately about had you not been dissolved a second time But I forbear to mention any further at present though very much more might be spoken in manifestation that your spirit in your second Sitting was worse in every particular then in the time of your first deceitfully with the General and the Officers of the Army in saying you would endeavour to suspend proceeedings with the Representative the next day till you had a further Conference with them and yet for all this did you that very day proceed with all the eagerness you could and had almost finished it and brought it to that issue with that haste that it had never been before unsafely and dishonestly leaving out the things that did necessarily relate to due Qualifications and resolved to make it a paper Bill not to ingross it that so in a cheating manner you might make the quicker dispatch of it thus to have thrown away all the Liberties of the Nation into the hands that never bled for it and therefore for the preservation of the Cause they say they thought it their duty not to suffer it and upon this the House was dissolved Thus far is charged upon you in the forementioned Speech to the Little Parliament This we tell you speaking to the Little Parliament that so you may know that what hath been done in dissolving this Parliament was as necessary as the preservation of this Cause and that necessity that led us to do that hath brought us to this issue of exercising an extraordinary way and course to draw your selves together upon this account that you are men who know the Lord and have made observations of his marvellous dispensations and may be trusted with the Cause c. In which words of the General and Officers of the Army to the Little Parliament thus laid before you is given a perfect Character and Description of the then and may it not too truly be said the late frame of your Spirits and what you would not do as to a more thorow carrying on his Work and Cause as also what with all haste you were doing against it with several other things too truly laid to your Charge contained in this Speech and that upon the accompt of these things you were dissolved Now what ever the design of the then General Major Gen. Lambert and some other of his Machevilian politick Officers and Assistants was in dissolving and thus casting durt upon you the Lord and themselves best knows who doubtless in his own time will and hath begun to do already discover and bring all the hidden works of darkness and secret wicked things to light yet there then was and as by after actions also did appear very evident grounds to believe and say it chiefly was to make way and as a stirrup to get into the Power themselves and therefore though it was unrighteously and wickedly done as to them yet doubtless as just and righteous in the sight of God considering the forementioned evils laid to your charge as was formerly the sifting and purging your House to hinder the personal Treaty and upon other accounts or beheading the late King and casting out his Monarchy for his Tyranny and dissolving the last Parliament as enemies to and opposers of the Cause of God and his people that so your selves or better then you might come into their places both of which according to mans Law and the old almost ruined Constitutions of this Nation are judged lawful Powers as well as your selves And although it be granted there was a deceitfull treacherous spirit which lay like a serpent under the grass in the bottom of this action in some of the Army who pretended to be either the stone it self mentioned * See page 43 of the forementioned Book Dan. 2.44 or at least to have had somewhat of the spirit of it So was there likewise at the same time an honest single sincere spirit among some of the Army the Navy the Churches and good people of the Nation who were indeed for the work and will erelong be found had then and yet have the true spirit of the stone in some measure both planted and abiding in them who did very much approve of and rejoyce in your being dissolved and that upon the forementioned too true account given by the General and Officers of the Army as is manifested in the latter end of the forementioned Speech to the Little Parliament page 45. of that Book in the following words Sayes he All that I have to say in my own and in the names of my Fellow Officers who have joyned with me in this work that we shall commend you to the Grace of God and to the guidance of his Spirit having thus far served you or rather our Lord Jesus Christ in it we as we hope and shall be ready in our stations according as the Providence of God shall lead us to be subservient to the work of God and the Authority which we reckon God hath set over us And although we have no formal thing to present you with to which the hands and outward visible expressions of the hearts of the Officers of the three Nations are set yet we may say for them and we may say also with confidence that our Brethren at Sea with whom neither in Scotland nor Ireland nor at Sea hath any Artifice been used to perswade their approbation to this work yet we can say that their consent and affections hath flowed into us beyond our expectations and we may say with all confidence that we have had their approbation and full consent ☞ unsought indeed to the other work to wit in dissolving of you so that you have their hearts and affections in this and not onely they but we have very many papers from the * Whatever Churches or other Persons they were that closed with former Declarations or thus freely sent in their papers or otherwise spake in approbation of your first Dissolution for not doing the good things promised as also approved of the Call of the Little Parliament in order to the doing of them and yet afterward closed with and abetted the Protectoral Government which was raised up upon the ruines of the honest part of the Little Parliament on purpose to hinder their doing those good things have turn'd their backs upon the Cause of Christ as well as the Army and ought to repent of their great evil in so doing as well as they Churches of God thorowout the Nation wonderfully both approving what hath beene done in removing obstacles that is in removing of you and approving what we have done in this very thing to wit in calling the Little Parliament In all which together with the forementioned particulars of your Charge contain'd in that Speech and Letter is set forth the matter of fact that was against you together with the righteous

as I have said elsewhere If I were to chuse the meanest Officer in the Army or Commonwealth I would chuse a godly man that hath Principles especially where Trust is to be committed for I know where to have a man of Principles I believe if any of you should chuse a servant you would do so and I would all our Magistrates were so chosen that may be some effects of this it is our duty to chuse men that fear the Lord to praise the Lord yea such as the Lord forms for himself and he expects not praises from others c. In all which are good words spoken and principles laid down as if he and his Officers fully intended to persevere in the practice of them but may not the true Friends of the Cause to the great grief and sadness of their spirits say of them as the Lord concerning Israel of old Deut. 5.28 29. They have well said all that they have spoken but oh that their hearts and tougues had gone together that there had been indeed such a heart in them as in sincerity to have kept to the real practice of those blessed principles then had it been well with them and with the poor Nation upon that account But notwithstanding these golden words and pretences the Lord my self and others knows that there was at the same time yea some time before these words were spoken as in the seed of the serpent against the seed of the woman or in the spirit of Saul and his followers against the spirit of David and his followers so a spirit of enmity and hatred secretly lodging in the breasts of the then General Major Gen. Lambert Major Gen. Disbrow Sir Gilbert Pickering Coll. Whaly Coll. Goff Dean Owen so called and others against several of those honest men who were afterwards turned out of the Little Parliament who were faithful Friends to the Cause of God and indeed above others and that upon Scripture grounds for the Advancement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and most suited to those good things which the General and Officers in the foregoing Speech do seem so much to press after whose principles they seemingly most owned and whose assistance they greatly desired pretending to be of one heart with them in the dissolving of you and choice of the other yet for no other cause then their pressing to be acting up to these principles in reality and power was this enmity against them which will afterwards appear so plainly as he that runs may read it For notwithstanding the forementioned pretences and promises of chusing none but what were faithful with the Saints and most suited to the work yet was there such persons who were of a contrary spirit and principle purposely chosen and packt together viz. Coll. Montague Coll. Barton Coll. Mathews Sir William Roberts Alderman Tichborn and others and those the greater number as that when the forementioned good things came to be done and the remaining more refined oppressions which lay upon the good people and others to be taken away they did so oppose and hinder the honest party in the House that very little or nothing at all could be done for them the General Ma. Gen. Lambert and the forementioned persons secretly owning of and holding a Correspondency with this corrupt Party all the while which was such unheard of juggling deceit and wickedness that when I most seriously and thorowly set my self to consider of it I cannot but cry out with a holy detestation and abhorrency in my spirit both of it and them and say Oh! the Hypocrisie Treachery Villany Wickedness and abominable unrighteousness that lies hid in the bottom of the late and present Apostacy and that surely the Lord who loveth righteousness and hates iniquity and every false way will not let so great and not to be parallel'd wickedness pass unpunisht without some more eminent publick repentance for the same then hath yet been * If this wretched envious spirit did not yet remain would they since your second Dissolution have been so forward to take into their New Council Lawrence Strickland Tichborn Hewson Clark and others of that corrupt part of the Litttle Parliament who left the House and went to deliver up their pretended power to the General upon which he was made Protector and promoted and abetted the late Apostacy and do what they can as it were to stave and keep off the faithful Friends of the Cause who are well known to be men of integrity and well affected to the Interest of the Nation which your not endeavouring to divolve the Trust in your hands upon was one of the great grounds why they pretendedly dissolved you The Lord who wil not be mocked nor his faithful people whom both you and they have cheated and dealt unrighteously and hypocritically with all will not long bear such wicked actions at their hands manifested by them and it will be well for them if the aforesaid enmity to the true spirit of their forementioned profest and declared principles and to these very persons and others like them who through grace in some measure are endued therewith doth not yet remain untaken away for herein in a great measure will lye the contest for the future for either this hypocritical self-seeking treacherous envious spirit in the remaining Officers of the Army that have now power in their hands must be put away and they really united to what they have so greatly profest and declared and what they have so pretended to dissolve you for nor doing of which they have not been to this very day or else there will be no peace from the Lord and his faithful people with them and all their shrowding themselves under your wasting decaying wing had you been sitting or under a power that is more refined then you if short of the spirit they have so rejected and as it were crucified and endeavoured to keep down in the grave as the Souldiers did Christ in the dayes of his Humiliation can save them from the wrath of God and the Lamb and his faithful followers I shall now return to speak a little further how and for what cause it was that the forementioned presence of the Lord departed from and went not forth to own and prosper the Councells and Forces of this Nation as before As I said before when you were dissolved and the Little Parliament called upon the avowed account of the Son of God and to be acting upon his foundation as he is King of Nations and to do all things in his Name as their and our King Judge and Law-giver Isa 33.22 as you may see by the forementioned Speech they were called to do and the persons of the aforesaid honest spirit and principle who for some time till the fish was caught and the bird taken were seemingly owned were labouring as it were in the very fire to bring forth in reallity what the General and his Officers so pretended to in words and to own

he As the effect of that memorable Year 1648. was to lay the foundation of bringing Delinquents to punishment so it was of the Change of the Government although it be true if we had time to speak the carriages of some in Trust in most eminent Trust was such as would have frustrated to us the hopes of all our undertakings had not God miraculously prevented I mean by that closure that would have beèn endeavoured with the King whereby we should have put into his hand all that Cause and Interest we had opposed and had nothing to have secured us but a little piece of paper c. Which clearly confirms what I have said that the Lord blest us with success in our Councils and Forces as there was a sincere spirit acting for the Cause and Interest of Christ in that day and no otherwise his free grace onely excepted For when you were dissolved and the Little Parliament called there was a greater presence of God with them a terrour upon the enemy both at home and abroad especially upon the Lawyers National Clergy and all other corrupt Interests as also the hearts of most of the true friends to the Cause more rejoycing then in the time of your sitting But I let that pass and shall in the next place in some measure discover the mystery of iniquity that lay in the bottom and was working in Transactions after you were dissolved wherein lies the corrupt fountain or spring though unseen by most people from whence the late Apostacy had its rise which so caused the forementioned presence of the Lord to depart from our Councills and Forces and exposed us to the reproach and scorn of our enemies both at home and abroad and also occasioned the late distractions and divisions as between the true so the true and false professours amongst us and is as it were the pin and hinge on which all the confusion and dark apprehensions of things have had their dependance and moving from that time to this very day and is as follows For after you were dissolved and the Little Parliament were about to be chosen besides what was spoken to your selves and was desired of you by the General and Officers of the Army to wit That you would divolve your trust over to Persons of Honour and Integrity that were well known men well affected to Religion and the Interest of the Nation c. He also declared in the presence of Major Gen. Lambert Sir Gilbert Pickering Major Gen. Harrison Mr. Cradock Mr. Lockyer and others who were in a private consultation about that choice That if there were one man more faithful to the Saints and more suited to the work then another and that had not been left behinde in former dispensatious by the blessing of God he should be chosen and that Relations and all others not thus qualified should be rejected and that from this Scripture which was then mentioned by the party to whom these words were spoken to wit Hosea 11.12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies and the House of Israel with deceit but Judah yet ruleth with God and is faithful with the Saints The first part of which Scripture he and his Officers applied to you in the forementioned Speech to the Little Parliament page 38. of that Book viz. That like Ephraim and Israel you had compassed God about with lies and deceit to wit with your Fastings and Thanksgivings and other exercises yet did not do the good you were call'd for which they had all cause to lament of but the Little Parliament were called by God to be faithfull with the Saints who were somewhat instrumentall in their Call and to be just ruling in the fear of God c. Which principle was more publickly though hypocritically declared by them in that Speech page 41. of the forementioned Book sayes he to them I confess I did never look to see such a day as this it may be nor you when Jesus Christ shall be so * If Christ indeed be King of Nations as well as of Saints as surely he is and as the Officers of the Army have both here and elsewhere acknowledged him to be and the Little Parliament was called to act upon his foundation and to do all things in his Name upon an avowed account as their Judge King and Law-giver as these their words import And the Lord by his eminent presence with and refreshing the spirits of such as were faithful among them as also rejoycing the hearts of his faithful people and striking a terror upon the enemy whilest they were sitting and endeavoured to be acting according to that blessed spirit and principle gave testimony thereunto and the Spirit of the Lord and his faithful people grieved and his presence as also their prayers withdrawn and the Nation almost ruined since they were rejected and the Lord so wonderfully overturned and blasted the designs of whatever had enmity to and was set up after it and seems by those his overturning dispensations not to be pleased till those who have dealt thus treacherously return to the real practice of this their declared principle and to own that Spirit they have so rejected Then whosoever it is that shall be either laying or building upon any other foundation or be promoting any persons into power on this side of it though never so refined do set down short of what the Lord in that day had brought us unto and are in the apostacy still and must be overturned as well as your selves and all others that have gone before them own'd as he is this day and in this world Jesus Christ is owned this day by you all and you own him by your willingness in appearing here and you manifest this as far as poor creatures can to be a day of the power of Christ by your willingness I know you remember that Scripture Psal 110.3 The people shall be willing in the day of thy power God doth manifest it to be a day of the power of Jesus Christ Having through so much Blood and Trials as have been upon these Nations made this to be one of the great Issues thereof to have a People called to the Supreme Authority upon such an avowed account God hath owned his Son by this and you by your willingness do own Jesus Christ c. I confess I did never look to see such a sight as this We have not allowed our selves in the Choice of one person of whom we had not this good hope that there was faith in Jesus Christ and love to all the Saints and thus God hath owned you and by your comming together have you owned him c. And towards the latter end of that Speech Book page 43. he further saith unto them Truly seeing things are so that you are at the edge of the Promises and Prophesies at least if there were neither promise for this nor prophesie you are to be coveting after the best things endeavouring after the best things and

Protectoral Beast-like foundation in himself and family were frustrated and came to nothing the Lords faithful people rejoyce the old Protector so called is greatly troubled grows faint his heart as it were falls flat and he dyes I do the rather mention these things that you may the better remember the several steps of providence preceding your second coming into power The light the delight of their eyes the breath of their Nostrils their Moses David great Mordecay and Elijah or rather the most Famous Renowned Prince of their Apostate Congregation who was gotten so far on of his journey towards Zion yet by himself and them through unbelief and a self-seeking self-exalting spirit made their great Captain to return back again into Babylon being thus taken away and therein their head as it were struck from of their shoulders the remaining body of the Apostates to wit the late Council Army Independent Cleargy Tryers and Vniversity men c. either not seeing or rather being ashamed it should be known they saw this their sin of Apostacy from the Cause of Christ and how the presence of the Lord was departed from them upon that account instead of acknowledging the same and returning into the way from whence they had so treacherously and wickedly departed and was the cause of all this evil that was upon them and the Nation they go on like so many blinde Bayards or as a people besotted in their former evil wayes and to mend the matter or lick themselves whole again they set up Richard Cromwel the eldest son of that family upon his deceased Fathers Throne thereby endeavouring what in them lay to confirm and establish the aforesaid Tyrannycal oppressive Power which they had exercised in the life time of his Father who to establish himself more strongly therein he calls a Parliament chosen by the whole bulk or spirit of the Nation as did his father before him without any respect had to those good qualifications which you not being so honest to provide for in the Act of a New Representative you were about in the time of your former sitting was charged upon you as one of the great crimes that it seems would have been committed by you for which they pretended you were dissolved These persons so chosen come together some of whom were friends to a Commonwealth Government in opposition to that of a Single person yet most of these as was in his Fathers Parliaments very short of that * Your unwillingness to divolve your trust over to persons of Honour and Integrity who were well affected to Religion and the Interest of the Nation for the further carrying on of the Cause of Christ was another of the pretended Reasons why the Army first dissolved you and yet afterward as here may be seen they did worse themselves excellent lively spirit for Government and bringing forth of Righteousness which the dispensation that is upon us calls for from Rulers in this our day and these three Nations so that no great good could be expected from them had they not been overvoted by the greater pary that were of a contrary spirit to them The other part of the House which were very much the greater number consisted of persons tainted with both the Old and New Court Interest who like Simeon and Levi brethren in iniquity would alwayes be sure to joyn together against the Commonwealths men and others to hinder whatever tended to advance that interest or way of Government and did strike at the dethroning of their own and of these the Old * Your not endeavouring in the time of your first sitting to keep out Presbyters Neuters and Masignants from coming into Power was another of the pretended Reasons why the Army dissolved you yet therein also as may be seen they did the same themselves I mention these things not to excuse you or in the least to make divisions but that the poor people of God and the Nation may the better see and know how likely they are to be ruined and undone between the Army and you Oh that ever men who have profest to be the Army of the Lamb and such professing men as many of you would be looked upon to be should ever deal so treacherously with the Cause of God and his people as you have done Malignant Neutral and Presbyterian spirit were predominant who endeavoured covertly all they could to bring things to run in the old Malignant Channel and to be laying bonds upon the consciences as well as upon the bodies of the Lords people called Sectaries as also if they had been suffered to go on would have disbanded if not the whole Army yet at least have purged out all therein whom they had judged to have been such factious seditious persons as Sir Arthur Haselrig who then pretended to be a more faithful friend to the honest frinds of the Cause then in this time of your second sitting he hath proved to be and others very well know Things going on in this manner and the Brass Iron and Clay of this Toe of the Image or Horne of the Beast mixing and agreeing no better together and the pretended honest part of the Army so likely to be cast out and as it were undone if things went on so they consult together and conclude that there was nothing would preserve themselves and the honest Interest but the dissolution of that Parliament in order to which they rendezvouz together in their arms the night before in several places of the City and about White-hall Richard Cromwell the then Protector Coll. Goff Com. Gen. Whaly and others of the Army who closed with this corrupt party of that Parliament at the same time endeavouring all they could to draw away a party or all engaged with the other to stand by them fearing that their Kingdom would also be struck at or diminished by this business the pretended honest part of the Army prevail and send to the aforesaid Richard Cromwell a pretended legal Authority desiring him by his power to dissolve that Parliament who sore against his will answered their desire therein whereby they apprehended they were Legally Dissolved This great overturning dispensation being thus brought about the Lords faithful people and all others that may truly be said were friends of the Cause did greatly concurr with and approve of what was done by the Army in procuring the Dissolution of that wretched Parliament and did bless the Lord for the same and likewise desired and greatly pressed after the Dissolution of the Protectoral Government also as that which they formerly in the King and now again so lately in the Protector so called had the too sad experience was Tyrannical and Oppressive and altogether inconsistent with the well being of the people of these Nations and were not without some hopes The Army having but a little before Declared to the world They could not but bewail their great failings and turnings aside and wherein soever they had back-slidden

else remain in the hardness wickedness and opposition of their hearts and spirits thereunto had you not declined but as was said before kept growing up in your then light as also in the frame of your spirits and actions towards that perfection that shall be in the Lords faithful People when the Righteousness of Zion shall go forth as brightness and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth and he make Jerusalem a praise in the Earth Isa 62.1 6 7. which is our duty not onely to be praying for but pressing after as well as after that perfection of light and holiness in the inward man that shall be in that day or at the Resurrection of the dead Saints when our Lord Jesus Christ shall come and all the Saints with him Zech. 4.5 comp 1 Cor. 15.23 Rev. 20.4 and how we were growing up into this Righteousness and the People according to Hosea 14.7 began to return from their oppression revive as the corn and grow as the vine and this glorious Presence and Salvation was dawning and breaking in upon us when the honest spirit which you have so rejected was encouraged and acting in the Authority of this Nation as hath been already mentioned you very well know But our too sad experience tells us that the Lord hath now cause rather to complain and say according to Isa 1.4.21 22 23. Ah sinful Nation a people laden with iniquity a seed of evil doers children that are corrupters they have forsaken the Lord they have provoked the Holy One of Israel How is the faithfull City become an Harlot it was full of judgement righteousness lodged in it but now murtherers Thy silver is become dross thy wine mixt with water thy Princes are rebellious and companions of thieves every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards they judge not the fatherless neither doth the cause of the widdow come unto them and upon this account we have cause to lament and complain according to Lam. 2.15 16. All our enemies have opened their months against us they hiss and gnash their teeth they say we have swallowed them up certainly this is the day that we looked for we have found we have seen it comp with Job Chap. 29. Chap. 30. and this is the very state and condition that the Cause and people of God and the Nation which had once a beauty and glory upon them is brought into at this day by reason of your Apostacy Now in regard it is thus with you and the poor Nation for your sakes as it is and things are under so ill sense abroad to use your own words to the Old Parliament and the issue like to be the further displeasure and judgements of the Lord against you the dissatisfaction and sadning the hearts of his faithful people and putting all things into greater Confusion if you continue to steer your course as formerly which so far as I can yet see or hear you are resolved to do though the Cause Your selves and the Nation perish and although you therein so carry it as to give the Lord and his Faithfull People just cause to say of you as of Ephraim of old Hosea 4.17 The Army is joyned to Idols let them alone Yet considering on the other hand that he likewise calls to such a back-sliding people as you are to return unto him and upon their return hath graciously promised he will heal their back-sliding and love them freely Jer. 3.22 comp Hos 14.4 And not knowing though you have gone on so long in the hardness of your hearts but he may yet pour out a spirit of grace and supplication upon you and give you to look upon his Cause and Faithfull Remnant whom you have so rejected and as it were Pierced and Crucified and to mourn and be in bitterness for the same as one is in bitterness for his first-born as also to return to the real practice of your forementioned honest Principles it being better with you then then now and to cause Judgement so visibly to return unto Righteousness as that all the upright in heart may follow it and be encouraged to venture their Lives with you as formerly against the Common Enemy which as things now stand they cannot but be very unwilling to do And likewise having though I have so searched to the quick and spoken plainly a desire to be merciful as my heavenly Father is merciful and to be instrumental so far as he shall assist to pluck you out of this deep ditch you have plunged your selves into and that whether you will hear or whether you will forbear you may be left without excuse As also that I may discharge my love and duty towards the Blessed Cause of Christ the Saints and the Land of my Nativity I shall in all sincerity and faithfulness lay before you what according to my present Light and Vnderstanding will if any thing recover the forementioned Cause the Saints Your selves and this almost ruined Nation out of that sad and perishing condition that by reason of your Apostacy and treacherous dealing with your former honest principles they are brought into and will engage the forementioned Glorious Presence and Salvation of the Lord to be with and about us as in former dayes in order to which though in and of my self I am very unworthy and unable to advise in a business of so high and weighty a concernment as this is I counsel and propose as followeth First endeavour to be humbled for repent of and to turn from every particular personal sin and iniquity that you have been in the committing of for if you or I or any other regard iniquity in our hearts or wilfully live in the practise of any known sin the Lord will not hear our prayers nor accept of any thing we do for him wherein his Name and Glory is concerned Psal 66.18 Prov. 15.8 9. Isa 1.11 to 20. Therefore if there be any such thing as false musters or Dead pay or wherein soever wrong hath been done or sin committed do so no more As also restore back to those of whom you have bought Debenters at cheap rates somewhat proportionable to your great gains thereby if they be living and if dead then to the Widdows Children or Kindred related to them that are left behinde them As also to be sure to promise nothing to any for the future either of a publick or private nature but what is in the power of your hand to do and have a real intention thorowly and speedily to perform and herein be growing up into that holy frame mentioned Zeph. 3.13 The Remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity nor speak lies neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths c. And what I say to you in this particular I say to my self and to all others fearing the Lord for the People whom the Lord will delight to use in his Work must be a sincere upright self-denying holy people therefore let us not hide our