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A93704	A warning-piece discharged: or, Certain intelligence communicated to His Excellencie the Lord General Cromvvel, with all the real and cordial officers and souldiers under his command. Wherein the present tempers of each society of people in this Commonwealth, under each degree or notion whatsoever, are inserted and controverted, in relation to the election of a new representative. As also, a brief and full parallel betwixt the history of Israel and our late and present series of affairs. In which simile, our present general is compar'd with Moses, as he was their deliverer, judge, and general. By John Spittlehouse, a late member of the Army.	Spittlehouse, John.	1653 (1653)	Wing S5016; Thomason E697_11; ESTC R203634	20,397	27

God under the aforesaid Notions out of the adulterous estate and condition they are in and that they would now at length take notice of the many calls which they have had out of that Antichristian or Babylonish condition inasmuch as it now more neerly concerns them then ever But to the thing intended viz. The aforesaid Demy-Royallists as far as I can possibly discover have not the least reason to offer why any that is under the Notion of a Presbyterian ought to have any hand in electing a new Representative during the time that he adhereth in the least measure to uphold that Hierarchie either in its Constitution or Ordination as aforesaid so that all they can say for themselves is onely to rail at me as if I had wronged them by saying they had done their uttermost endeavour to advance Monarchie again in this Common-wealth after the death of the late King For say they had we done so we could have raised half the Nation against the Army and their adherents Resp And could you so Mr Pres-byte-er Truely I must tell you I think it was neither for want of affection or endeavours that you did it not witness the private Juncto whereof your Love-ly Darling was both Secretary and Treasurer as he found to his cost as also by several other like endeavours as is notoriously known by all that have in the least taken notice of your deportments both before and since the death of the late King Yea I have that confidence in you as you are the people of God though yet in Babylon Rev. 18. 4. that you have a conscience that justifieth me in whatever I said of you in my late Vindication c. It is therefore my earnest request that you would rest satisfied and not expect the least share or interest in a new election of persons to represent this Commonwealth for the reasons mentioned in that my aforesaid Vindication c. And so I leave you in the other sense to stand or fall to your Master onely this be assured that so long as you refuse to come out of your present Babylonish condition you will yet more and more be made participants of her plagues which I hope you either are or shortly will be made sensible of for albeit as the Prophet saith you will not see yet the time will come yea and now is that you shall see and be ashamed The third sort of persons are certain members of Gathered Churches but I hope there are not many of them and their adherents viz. certain persons under various Notions which I shall at present forbear to particularize inasmuch as the Spirit of God is pleased to conclude them all under one general denomination as in Revel 9. from vers 1. to 12. they being the very persons there mentioned for that they have no more foundation in point of a setled or Church-like decencie or order of Religious Worship amongst them albeit in their own esteem Christians in the highest degree that ever was then the afore-mentioned pit hath a bottom This small hint I thought fit to declare by the by to put them in minde of their present condition to the end they may not be henceforth any longer high-minded but may rather fear inasmuch as Satan can transform himself into an Angel of light as also in that God is yet the God of order and not of confusion as also in that it is a vain thing for them to think themselves more spiritual then Jesus Christ whilst he had his abode on earth who albeit it is said of him that he had the Spirit without measure yet was he pleased to give presidents and commands to such as should be his disciples to believe and practise as the doctrines of the Principles of Religion which he termeth a foundation mentioned in Heb. 6. and not to build themselves as castles in the air without the aforesaid foundation But inasmuch as there is to every thing an appointed time as also inasmuch as before the opening of the seventh Seal there is to be a silence even in heaven it self for the space of half an hour Revel 8. 1. as also in that all truth is not to be declared at all times as also in that it is not prudence as one faith to follow it too neer the heels lest it should prejudice the pursuer I shall forbear any further prosecution of their Opinions as to a Spiritual relation Onely this further let them be sure that the Scripture must be fulfilled which saith that the Beast which was and is not and yet is shall go into predition Rev. 17. 8. it being the eighth and is of the seventh and goeth into perdition vers 11. But to the present business It is evident that many of the aforesaid persons are very unwilling to intrust the present Governours with their Civil relations their reasons for which I shall insert first in general terms and afterward in particular To each of which I shall return an answer But lest I should fail to answer what they at present do and also might say at the utmost in point of Objection I shall under favour assume the boldness to plead the case in their behalf so far as it is possible for them to do as by these following Assertions viz. Object 1. That since the death of the late King all the Civil and Military powers of the Nation ought of right to have had their recourse to their first ubi viz. to the persons who first intrusted him to make use thereof for their safety and welfare which when he had violated the trust they so reposed in him they took him from it as a Malefactor 2. That the aforesaid persons are part of the men that have contributed all their assistance towards the prosecution thereof so that they think themselves injured in that they are not permitted to have an equal share of the priviledges that do now accrue thereby being disappointed thereof by some person or persons who have assumed the same unto themselves without their consent or approbation and for ought they can perceive do still resolve to retain and dispose thereof according to their own wills and pleasures Resp In Inswer to these your Assertions I shall oppose the story of Israel's deliverance from their Egyptian bondage in which Simile I shall compare our present General to Moses Object That parallel cannot agree inasmuch as the aforesaid design was managed by Moses only whereas all men know that we have had several other Generals before the present General yea such as he hath been commanded by Again victories are properly ascribed to him who commandeth in chief and therefore such victories are not to be applyed to him Resp I appeal to any knowing man friend or enemy whether the Lord hath not honored our present General with treble victories to any one Champion before him whatsoever Not that I go about to flatter the present General or in the least to derogate from the worth and