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A59254 A Serious and faithfull representation of the judgments of ministers of the Gospel within the the province of London contained in a letter from the to the general and his councell of war / delivered to His Excellence by some of the subscribers, Ian. 18, 1649. Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654. 1649 (1649) Wing S2605; ESTC R37368 11,205 18

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A serious and Faithfull REPRESENTATION Of the Judgements of MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL Within the PROVINCE of LONDON Contained In a Letter from them to the General and his Councell of War Delivered to his EXCELLENCE by some of the Subscribers Ian. 18 1649. Proverbs 24. 11 12. If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death and those that are ready to be slain If thou sayest Behold we know it not doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it and he that keepeth thy soul doth not he know it and shall not he render to every man according to his works Printed at London and Re-printed at Edinburgh by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie 1649. A LETTER From Ministers of the Gospel within the Province of LONDON whose Names are Subscribed Delivered to His Excellency by some of the Subscribers January 18. 1649. With desire to have it communicated to the Generall Councell of the ARMY May it please your Excellency with those of your Councell WHereas of late divers Applications have been made as well in writing as by verball Messages inviting the Ministers of London or some of them to meet with the Officers of the Army in their consultations about matters of Religion We Ministers of the Gospel within the Province of London hold it our Dutie as then to refuse any such meeting as was proposed so now to give your Lordship and your Councell the Reasons of that Refusall least by our silence we should seem to be wanting in that ingenuity and Candor which becomes all but especially the Ministers of Jesus Christ And understanding that some of our Brethren at one Conference before your Lordship and some of your Councell a and at another with some of your chief Officers b have already manifested their dislike both of your late Actions towards many of the Worthy Members of the Honourable House of Commons and what likewise you have published in your late Remonstrance and Declaration as your intention for setling the Affairs of the Kingdom as we were informed by some of them and willed thus to signifie We thought fit hereby to manifest our Concurrence with those our Reverend Brethern Humbly desiring That while we use that Plainnesse and Freedom which becometh the Abassadors of Christ this our performance may not be misinterpreted either as a transgressing the Law of Christian meeknesse or an exceeding the Bounds of Ministeriall liberty We being commanded to cry aloud and to lift up our voices as Trumpets to shew the People their Transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins Had a Conference been desired with us onely to have given you resolution whether the wayes wherein at the present you are walking are agreeable to the Word of God which Case indeed had been sutable for private persons to have propounded and for Ministers of the Gospel to have resolved We should most willingly and freely have delivered our Judgements as our forementioned Brethren have done concerning these your practises and have given you this our Advice grounded upon Scripture Namely That in stead of proceeding further in such unwarrantable courses you should have testified your timely and godly sorrow for what so clearly against the direct Rule of the Word you have already acted And if onely for the clearing of this Case a Conference had been desired It was from the first professed that we should be ready and willing to meet where and with whomsoever to assert and maintain our Judgemnet therein But as if the justnesse of your way were already granted by us We were onely invited to contribute our assistance in prosecution of what you had undertaken which we conceive to be out of your Sphere And for us to have joyned in any consultation of this nature would have made us accessary unto them guilty of the evill which is in them and even partakers of other mens sinnes contrary to the Apostles rule who bids us abstain even from all appearance of evill and have no fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darknesse but reprove them rather It is already sufficiently known besides all former miscarriages what Attempts of late have been put in practice against lawfull Authority Especially by your late Remonstrance and Declaration published in opposition to the proceedings of Parliament As also by seizing and imprisoning the Kings person without the knowledge and consent of Parliament and by that late unparalled violence offered to the Members of it forcibly hindering above one hundred of them if we mistake not the number from sitting in Parliament Imprisoning many of their Persons though many of them are known to us to be men of eminent Worth and Intergrity and who have given most ample Testimony of their reall Affections to the good of the Kingdom and besides all this there is an intent of Framing and contriving a new module aswell of the Laws and Government of the Kingdom as of the Constitution of a new kinde of Representative as you call it in stead of this and all future Parliaments and this to be Subscribed throughout the Kingdom under the notion of an Agreement of the People as is Declared in your late Remonstrance of November 16. 1648. page 67. All which practices we cannot but judge to be manifestly opposite to the lawfull Authority of those Magistrates which God hath set over us and to the Duty and Obedience which by the Lawes of God and Man and by our manifold Oathes and Covenants we stand obliged to render to them And therefore we judge it our Duty rather to testifie our utter dislike and detestation then to give any though but implicite and interpretative approbation of them We remember the advice of Solomon Fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change And that of Paul Withdraw from every Brother that walketh * disorderly and not according to the Traditions which you have received of us Of which this is one Put them in minde to be subject to Principalities and Powers and to obey Magistrates And Let every soul be subject to the higher Powers for there is no power but of God the Powers that be are Ordained of God whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation The fear of God therefore whose Ordinance is violated when Magistracy is opposed makes us afraid of medling with those who without any colour of Legall Authority meerly upon the presumption of Strength shall attempt such Changes as these are A●● We cannot but be deeply affected with grief and astonishment to see that an Army raised by Authority of Parliament for the preservation of the Priviledges thereof and of our Religion Laws and Liberties should contrary to their Trust and many Ingagements do that which tends to the manifest subversion of them all We have not forgotten those declared Grounds and Principles upon which the Parliament first took