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A65583	A second narrative of the late Parliament (so called) wherein, after a brief reciting some remarkable passages in the former narrative, is given an account of their second meeting, and things transacted by them : as also how the Protector (so called) came swearing, by the living God, and dissolved them, after two or three weeks sitting : with some quæries sadly proposed thereupon : together with an account of three and forty of their names, who were taken out of the house, and others that sate in the other house, intended for a House of Lords, but being so unexpectedly disappointed, could not take root, with a brief character and description of them : all humbly presented to publique view / by a friend to the good old cause of justice, righteousnesse, the freedom and liberties of the people, which hath cost so much bloud and treasury to be carried on in the late wars, and are not yet settled.	Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.	1658 (1658)	Wing W1556; ESTC R8011	50,589	52

principles of the Independents were c. And now says he we present to your Highness what we have done and commit to your trust the common Faith once delivered to the Saints the Gospel and the saving truths of it being a national endowment bequeathed by Christ himself at his Ascention and committed to some in the Nations behalf committed to my trust saith Paul in the Name of the Ministers and we look at the Magistrate as l l To wit Keeper of both Tables Custos utriusque tabulae and so m m Do not these several Churches by their silence hold forth that they consent to what their Pastors and Messengers have done herein so are fallen in with Abettors of the Apostacy of this day And if it be not so ought they not to declare against it commit it to your trust as our chief Magistrate c. and we bless you out of Zion c. Which practice and speaking especially considered as the Case now stands and as to the person to whom it is spoken having also according to the Doctors sence xo footing in Scripture is the practice and Language of Babylon and not of Zion and greatly discovers that the poor Doctor never had a true Tincture within him or taste of sweetness in Communion with God in the discovery of that Glory of Zion and Kingdom of Christ he so largely hath spoken and writ of but had it from Books and hear-say for it is impossible that one who hath truly tasted of that Glory except he be desperately infatuated or holds falling away should bring forth such cursed untimely fruit so contrary to the true light and spirit of Zion as this is Was not the Bishops and the simple Clergy who were acted by their fear or favour formerly condemned by him and others for stiling the late and former Kings Defenders of the Faith and supreme Head of the Church under Christ so generally acknowledged in its original to proceed from Harry the 8. who for self ends not the glory of God dethron'd the Papal power in England and took the Popes usurped Supremacy and Title of Defender of the Faith as well as the Tythes and First Fruits upon and to himself Is it not the general received principle of Independents and other Sectaries so called who are clear sighted and not without ground to pleade against such a Tenent But these things declare that Mr. Goodwin sucks such sweetness from the great Soveraignty Honour and Profit of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford and hath therewith drawn in such a Tincture of that spirit which naturally and usually breaths in persons inhabiting those places as he is loth to be weaned from it and therefore will right or wrong turn in and comply with any thing so he may keep his interest there It will be well for him if I am mistaken But I leave what may further be spoken to this Subject to a better Pen who may take it in hand when his Book comes forth in print And together with him that cringing Court Chaplain Peter Sterry that also bows to what ever is uppermost speaking higher then all this as is credibly reported by several godly men that heard him to their astonishment holding forth his Bible in the Chappel of White-hall he spake to this purpose That if that were the VVord of God then as certainly that blessed holy spirit meaning the late Potector was with Christ at the Right Hand of the Father and if he be there what may his Family and the people of God now expect from him for if he were so useful and helpful and so much good influenced from him to them when he was here in a mortal State how much more influence will they have from him now he is in Heaven the Father Son and Spirit thorough him bestowing gifts and graces c. upon them And a great deal more to this purpose and as he spake thus blasphemously of his Father so the same spirit running in the aforementioned flattering Addresses breath'd from him to his son the now Protector so called which also greatly discovers within what walls he breaths But I shall let the Father pass and speak a little of the Son his Successour and in short a little answer to those flattering blasphemous ungodly expressions couched in the late Addresses to him as if he were a second Solomon Joshua or Elisha Oh you blasphemous lying flattering Cycophant Addressours in City Country Army c. or off-spring of Thurlo and Nedham the Pamphleter who are so ready to cry up Adonijah the false and to cry and keep down Solomon the true spirit of Magistracy give me leave a little to reason with you What eminent appearing work of grace or of the image of God did you ever experience in and upon him or heard of from others not acted by a self-seeking fawning servile spirit but truly fearing the Lord What eminent Action for God his Cause or people did you ever see or hear he did either in his fathers life time or since his death that you so highly speak and allude as if he had a Joshua Solomon or an Elisha's spirit Is Hawking Hunting keeping Race-horses and riding Horse-matches to the endangering of the lives both of Horses and Men wherein for the most part the most carnal of Professors and the worst of men are oftenest exercised and must therefore of necessity be his Companions such a demonstration of those noble vertues and high endowments you so speak of to be in him Pray bear with me that I thus reason with you for my spirit is grieved when ever I read or think of these your late Addresses and it is fully settled in my heart and I can believe no other but that it is a carnal unbelieving selfish filthy spirit by which you are acted and which the Lord by his spirit in his people hath already and will further discover blow upon and consume Doth the following words and action declare him to be what you so speak of him I will tell you what is commonly reported among honest men which I had from a good hand and am fully satisfied is very true yea and more then I shall here relate One Cornet Sumpner in Colonel Ingoldsby's Regiment knowing the wickedness and naughtiness of Major Babington Major thereof to be such as to dis-own and brow-beat the honest men in the Regiment and to countenance drunkards lyars swearers and haters of goodness and good men being for a long time grieved thereat in his spirit at length by the advice of some eminent in the Army drew up several Articles to present to a Court-Martial or elsewhere against him which your most illustrious serene and renowned Protector the inheritour of his Fathers noble vertues hearing of sends for the Cornet to come unto him who when he was come the Major and Colonel Ingoldsby c. being also present your Joshua Solomon and Elisha spake after this manner to him Josh. What have you Articles against

helped to break it and then according to Rev. 11. 10 rejoyced and made merry with the rest of his brethren in Colonel Sydenhams Chamber c. as the Lawyers and other vild persons made Bonfires and drank Sack at the Temple and elsewhere but if ever a spirit of Life from God which is not far off comes in to raise up that honest Spirit by which some of them were acted will not he his brethren and the rest of that earthly rout the false Spirit of Magistracy and Ministry be tormented and afraid He was of the Parliaments since and no doubt of right principles to the Court interest wherein his own is bound up Is one that helps on the bondage in divers great d Committees where he sits and is therefore no question the more fit to be called Lord Roberts and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people being so greatly experienced in that way already having continued in the aforesaid Committee so long 34. Colonel John Jones a Gentleman of Wales one of the Long Parliament was a Commissioner in Ireland for governing that Nation under the Parliament One of good principles for common Justice and Freedom had he kept them and not fallen into temptation he helped to change the Government and make those Laws of Treason against a single persons Rule hath a considerable Revenue and it 's likely did not lose by his employment he is Governour of the Isle of Anglesey and lately marryed the Protectors Sister a Widdow by which means he might have become a great man indeed did not something stick which he cannot well get down he is not thorough paced for the Court-proceedings nor is his conscience fully hardned against the Good Old Cause but there is great hope no question that in time he may be towardly however for Relation sake he may be counted fit with his Name-sake and Countryman Philip to be called Lord Jones and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people and all his being against such things formerly may be forgiven and not once remembred against him 35. Mr. Edmond Thomas a Gentleman of Wales of considerable means a Friend of Philip Joneses and allyed to Walter Strickland both of the Council and brought in upon their account and of complying principles no question to say no more of him not having been long in play being none of the great Zealots or high Sectaries so called in Wales may doubtless be counted wise and good enough to make a simple Lord of the Other House and to be called Lord Thomas and to have a Negative Voyce over all the good people in Wales with his Countrymen John and Philip and over all the people of these Lands besides 36. Sir Francis Russel Knight Baronet of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Cambridgeshire of a considerable Revenue in the beginning of the Wars was first for the King then for the Parliament and a Colonel of Foot under the Earl of Manchester a man like William Sedgwick high flown but not serious or substantial in his principles he continued in his Command till the new Model then took offence and fell off or laid aside by them no great Zealot for the cause therefore not judged honest serious or wise enough to be of the little Parliament yet was of these latter Paliaments Is also Chamberlain of Chester at about 500 l. per annum he marryed his eldest Daughter to Harry Cromwel second son of the Protector then Colonel of Horse now Lord Deputy so called of Ireland another to Colonel Reynolds a new Knight and General of the English Army in France under Cardinal Mazarine since with e Colonel White and others cast away coming from Mardike there is no question but his principles are for Kingship and the new Court being so greatly concern'd therein wherefore it were great pity if he should not also be taken out of the House to be a Lord of the Other House his Son-in-law being so great a Lord and have a Negative Voyce over Cambridgeshire and all the people of these Lands besides 37. Sir William Strickland Knight of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Yorkshire and brother to Walter Strickland was of the Parliament a long time but hath now it seems forgotten the cause of fighting with and cutting off the late Kings head and suppressing the Lords their House and Negative Voyce He was of these Latter Parliaments and of good compliance no question with the new Court and settling the Protector anew in all those things for which the King was cut off wherefore he is fit no doubt to be taken out of the House and made a Lord the rather for that his younger brother Walter is so great a Lord and by whom in all likelyhood he will be steer'd to use his Negative Voyce in the Other House over Yorkshire and the people of these Lands to the interest of the Court 38. Sir Richard Onsloe Knight of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Surrey of good parts and a considerable Revenue he was of the Long Parliament and with much ado thorough his policy steer'd his course between the two Rocks of King and Parliament weather'd some fore Storms was not his man taken in his company by the Guard in Southwark with Commissions of Array in his Pocket from the King and scurrilous Songs against the Roundheads Yet by his interest rode it out till Colonel Pride came with his Purge then suffer'd loss and came no more in play till about Worcester fight when by the help of some Friends in Parliament he was impowred to raise and lead as Colonel a Regiment of Surry men against the Scots and their King but came too late to fight it being over being popular in Surry he was of the Latter Parliaments is fully for Kingship and was never otherwise and stickled much among the 70 Kinglings to that end and seeing he cannot have young Charles old Oliver will serve his turn so he have one so that he is very fit to be Lord Onsloe and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over Surry if they please and all the people of these Lands besides whether they please or not 39. Mr. John Fiennes Son of the Lord Say and Brother to Commissioner Fiennes brought in it 's likely for one upon his score is in a kind such a one as they call a Sectary but no great stickler therefore not being redeemed from the fear and favour of man will it is probable follow his brother who is as it is thought much steer'd by old Subtilty his Father that lies in his Den as Thurloe by his Mr. St. Johns and will say No with the rest when any thing opposes the interest of the new Court their power and greatness and may therefore pass for one to be a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce

for the future we are likely to have such prosperity success and good days as some so largely promise themselves and others it may be expected Or whether such smiling upon old wickedness and frowning and turning the back upon Righteousness suppressing its growth be any comfortable ground of such hope and expectation Or whether upon the whole Series of things as they now appear there be not rather to be expected some sadder matter if the LORD in mercy prevent not Let the wise in heart consider THE END Reader if thy patience be not quite worne out read the following Postscript which makes mention of the late flattering Adresses c. it may concern you As also a Vindication of that faithful Friend to the Cause of God and his people Mr. John Portmans late Secretary to the Fleet under General Blake now Prisoner for Truth in the Tower whom that lying Court-Pamphleter Nedham hath falsly aspersed and reproached in the late Diurnals A Post-Script to the Reader THe foregoing Narrative was composing and preparing to have come forth like apples of gold in pictures of silver in the fittest season during the life time of Oliver the late Protector so called and calculated for that end among other that as in a Glass he might clearly see his Mutability and Changeableness in his principles as also his Judas-like Treachery and Deceit and how wickedly he had dealt with the Lord his people and the Nation and the righteous cause on foot therein but the Lord having in answer to the earnest desires and prayers of some of his faithful remnant and in great mercy to the Nation and the good people therein and the righteous cause removed and taken him out of the way it was thought fit however to publish it for the sake of his associates and confederates he hath left behind him who may happily make some use of it as also that the standers by yea the whole Nation might likewise see and judge of what hath lately fallen out in this our day It is said of Jeroboam the son of Nebat That he not onely sinned himself but made Israel to sin and there were those of his confederates that then sinned with him and after he was dead and gone of whom it is recorded 1 Kin 15. 34 compared with 2 Kin. 17. 21 22. That they walked in the ways and departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin The parallel hereof we have in England in this our day Oliver the late Protector so called who Jeroboam like so greatly appeared with the people for Justice and Freedom against Oppression highly professing and declaring for the same hath sinned in the breach of those Protestations and Declarations in building again those things he had been so greatly instrumental to destroy therein surpassing not onely the deeds of the wicked who were cut off upon the like account but also of Jeroboam who never made such Professions and Declarations as he had done There also are of his confederates as the confederates of Jeroboam that sinned with him in his Apostacy and Revolt and do yet continue in those sins and walking in his steps now he is dead and gone as if they took no notice of the displeasure and wrath of God revealed from Heaven against him in cutting him off for his unrighteousness Israel smarted sorely for their evil and at last were carryed away Captive England hath likewise suffered and is brought very low as tradesmen of all sorts shop-keepers and others both in City and Country find by such sad and woful experience as they never did before nor in the memory of man was the like ever known or heard of and what may further suffer the Lord who will not be mocked onely knows For how unworthy are the people of this Generation not onely the more dark and sordid but too many who profess to be Saints and are Pastors and Members of Churches nay some who are Mercurial and more high flown that once spake the Language of Zion and highly appeared for the Good Old Cause who notwithstanding they have seen the mighty Arm and Power of God displayed in bringing down the unrighteous oppressive high and lofty ones with their foundation for their unrighteousness and oppression yet have so far forgotten the Good Old Cause so signally owned from Heaven and are so besotted and degenerated into a self-seeking slavish and enslaveing spirit as they not onely justifie but strengthen their hands who instead of pressing forward mith more refinedness in that work and cause leading to what it shall be when the promises and prophesies relating to the Kingdom of Christ and Zion shall be fulfilled have made a Captain or Protector and are gone back to Egypt to wit the old wicked foundation and things of Monarchy that have been destroyed and thereby under a new name upholding and keeping the people under the old Oppressions And do say of g g In their Addresses to his son Richard his worthy Successour Oliver their late Egyptian Captain who hatched this Cockatrice Egge and brought forth all this wickedness and thereby did more hurt to the Nation then ever he did it good and for which his Memory will deservedly for ever stink in the Nostrils of the Lords faithful people That he was a Moses the great Father and Protector of his people our late most worthy Prince that used all means to deliver us from Bondage by whom we enjoy Freedom in Spiritual and Civil Concernments c. most excellent Prince of happy Memory the famous Champion of our Liberties c. the Father Protector and Buckler of these Nations and the people of God who res●ned procured and maintained our just Liberties to us c. the great Assertor of the Liberties of Gods people and a Lover of their Civil Rights c. who well deserves to be a pattern to all succeeding Princes c. our gracious Benefactor a nursing Father to his people by whose hand the yoke of Bondage hath been broken both from the Necks and Consciences of good people c. an instrument of unspeakable Blessings all whose great Enterprises the Lord constantly prospered with high success c. the great Protector of our Peace and Joy who admirably got and h h Have you forgot Hispaniola and the war with Spain never lost but left three Nations in Peace c. We cannot but deeply resent that sad stroke of Providence that took away the breath of our Nostrils and smote our head from off our Shoulders your Highnesses most gloriously renowned Father Our Elijah c. your most illustrious accomplished most glorious heroical most renowned blessed most holy serene princely Father that sacred Person the delight of our Eyes our glorious Sun is set that unspeakable loss the light of our Eyes and the breath of our Nostrils c. But alass this our Moses the Servant of the Lord is dead and shall we not weep If we weep not for

him yet we cannot but weep for our selves we cannot but look after him crying Our Father our Father the Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof c. Falsly and wickedly alluding to Moses and Elijah those two for ever to be honoured faithful Servants of the Lord with many other the like fawning blasphemous lying Expressions have they in those wicked Addresses wherein they lye and flatter for the Lord and his faithful Remnant know he was not so especially in his latter days but was rather acted by the back sliding spirit of Corah Dathan and Abiram as also the famous and renowned Princes of the Congregation yea the Congregation it self who rebelled against the Spirit of the Lord in Moses Caleb and Joshua c. and would not press on to Canaan the work of that day but said Let us make a i i N● Captain and return into Egypt and would have stoned Caleb and Joshua because they would have had them gone forward As also by the Spirit of Ahab Jehu and the rest of the back sliding wicked Kings of Israel and Judah The spirit of the Beast and false Prophet in the former and present Monarchs of this and other Nations which the Lord hath and will disown and curse but not the Spirit of Elijah Moses Caleb and Joshua the Lords faithful persevering ones of old as by what is before and afterwards mentioned doth too plainly and sadly appear for he not onely endeavoured to establish himself in this Tyranny but before his departure when he scarce had his sences or could hardly speak appointed as some report though some think otherwise his forementioned eldest son Richard to succeed him in the Government to support and maintain that Apostacy and Wickedness which himself and Thurlo c. had been the first Contrivers and then Actors of thereby to hold us perpetually under the old Monarchical Egyptian Bondage which was no sooner effected and he proclaimed but the aforementioned Addressors as they blasphemously and flatteringly speak in way of honouring his Father so in the same Adresses do they speak of him falsly and wickedly alluding to good Joshua Solomon and Elisha who succeeded Moses David and Elijah after their death saying to this purpose We humbly beg That though your renowned Father who as a designed instrument helpt us out of Egypt having Canaan in his Eye was even then called to Mount Nebo to dye there yet you as another Joshua with his spirit re-doubled upon you may by the efficacious conduct of the Captain of the Lords Host lead us into a more full possession of Truth and Righteousness c. In times of old when God took away Moses from his people in tender Mercy he gave them a Joshua to succeed him Such are our hopes of your Highness Gods aim and end in taking away his Moses was to usher you in his Joshua c. But since it was the Will of God our glorious Sun should set and that even whilst he was ascending we ought to submit unto it it is no little Alleviation to our sorrow that though our Sun be set no Night hath followed but our Evening hath been light by raising your Highness into your Royal Fathers Seat c. You are our great Master the person designed by God and Man to reign over us c. It begets no little joy in our spirits when we behold the Son of that Father by a divine Providence succeed him in the Throne by his own appointment given us as a most choyce Legacy and his last Blessing c. A Pledge of Divine Love and Goodness to these Nations c. Some saying if his Father had not appointed him to succeed him the common interest and peace of the Nation without Gods Assistance had perished together with him c. Happy successour in whom we shall be able to say Mercy and Truth are met together under whose Government Righteousness and Peace hath kissed each other of whose exceeding Vertues and Endowments we have had experience c. God hath been pleased in the midst of Judgment to remember Mercy in appointing your Highness to succeed your Father your most excellent serene Highness a branch of that princely stock on you our hopes rest Richard by the Grace of God Lord Protector your most serene Highness our Soveraign and General the noblest branch of that renowned stock and desire that he might build up unto perfection upon that wicked foundation which his Fathers blessed hand had laid And pray that the spirit of their departed Elijah even the Chariots and Horsemen of Israel might rest upon him c. And a great deal more of this blasphemous flattering stuff which would be too tedious to relate which Addresses The Humble Petition and Advice being so often mentioned and their desiring him to keep the Sword Military in his hand the design in them and strain of expressions so like to other begets a shrewd suspition they were rather hatch'd at the Court by Secretary Thurlo and the old malignant Pamphleter lying railing Rabshakeh and defamer of the Lords people Nedham alias Mercurius Pragmaticus who formerly writ for the King against the Parliament and by their Mercenary Emissaries and Agents suggested to and forced upon the simple people as the Addresses to his Father were formerly upon the Army and elsewhere rather then in their first motion naturally flowing from the Addressors which the Lord in due time will discover And not onely these but also that great Independent Doctor so called Thomas Goodwin he Aaron-like comes in as a Leader or one of the first among them to encourage the rejoycing and dancing about this new Golden Calf and in the speech that he made pretendedly in the name and by the appointment of the Pastors and Messengers of above 100 Congregational Churches from several parts of the Nation as says the Pamphlet says he We come with hearty acknowledgement of the best Liberties enjoyed under your Highness now blessed Father c. all which have been continued to us through the Protection of the great Mordecai that sought the Weal of his people and spake k k Was imprisoning the Lords people for their faithfulness to the Good Old Cause and leaving them there when he dyed a Mordecai's spirit and a speaking peace Well said Doctor peace to all his seed blessed be God for his unspeakable gift c. which we are here come jonyntly to acknowledge to your Highness c. We also come full of rejoycing blessing God for so happy and quiet a settlement of the Nation and Government in your person and succession Solomon though he had his name from peace yet was not his first entrance so peaceable as this of yours c. And after mentioning about what they met at the Savoy and that his Father knew of the meeting beforehand and approved of it and of a Declaration they had drawn up to clear themselves from the aspersions laid upon them and laying down therein what the

your Major Corn Yes Josh. What are they Corn A pretty number of them Then the Major began to answer to one but nothing to the purpose but before the Major had done your most serene Protector or Joshua unjustly takes part with the Major to help him out saying to the Cornet You Article against your Major because he is for me you are a n n Meaning the officers who often met to seek the Lord and bewail their Apostacy from the Good Old Cause company of Mutineers you deserve a hundred of you to be hanged and I will hang you and strip you as a man would strip an Eele you talk of preaching and praying men they are the men that go about to undermine me And clapping his hand upon Colonel Ingoldsby's shoulder said Go thy way Dick Ingoldsby thou canst neither preach nor pray but I will believe thee before I will believe twenty of them And says he to the Cornet You never owned my Father you have lost your Commission and shall never ride more in this Army c. and a great deal more to this purpose which I leave to Pragmaticus formerly the old now the new Court-Pamphleter more perfectly to relate Is this speaking or action the righteousness and peace kissing each other that you so speak hath been since he took the Government upon him Or would Joshua Solomon or Elisha thus take part with wickedness and wicked men and do so unrighteous and wicked an Action and speak thus profanely and wickedly Surely no VVherefore acknowledge your iniquity and lye low before the Lord for these your blasphemous lying flattering Expressions in your wicked Addresses whereby you have so reproached and wronged good Joshua Solomon and Elisha in making such undue Comparisons wherefore repent you flattering Courtiers Peter Sterry and ye other Court-Chaplains Repent repent Thomas Goodwin and ye Pastors and Messengers of as it 's said above an hundred Congregational Churches in England Repent you Apostate Army Repent you Mayor Aldermen Common Council and Militia of London whose Principles are so base and mercenary and like a Beast looking downward as to side with whether right or wrong whatever is uppermost like your Sword-Bearer and Officers who cry Grace grace and bow to one Lord Maior to day and do the same to the next the morrow Repent also you Presbyterian Classical Ministers of the City c. who by the perswasion of three or four eminent self-interested Cycophants among you were drawn in against your Light and Consciences to carry your bodies to White-hall leaving your hearty good will at home to address your selves to this new Golden Calf as an owning of him and this from unbelief and slavish fear of being frowned upon or losing your Parish places VVill such a practice as this stand good before the Lord in the day of your account Repent also all of you for your spending 50 or 60000 l. about a Heathenish Popish Funeral pomp not onely wicked in it self but at a time when so many tradesmen and others break and are ready to starve and when you had done then following an image of wax to Westminster as if it had been a dead mans body wherein you lyed unto and mocked both God and man Repent also you Country professors and others of these flattering blasphemous lying Addresses and speak nor do no more so wickedly lest the Judgements of the Lord break in upon you as upon back sliding Israel of old and your carcasses fall in the wilderness c. as theirs did for making and then dancing about the Moulten Calf and their desiring to make a Captain to return into Egypt and opposing the Spirit of the Lord in Moses Caleb and Joshua and his work in that day And take heed Oh you Parliament that you do not say or do as these have done whom I so call if you keep close to and endeavour the promotion of the Good Old Cause and cast out the false sp rit of the Egyptian Bond-woman the Protector so called and his Lords and make way for and bring in the Spirit of Zion the Freewoman the true spirit of Magistracy by Judges and Counsellours as at the beginning men fearing God and hating Covetousness and faithful with all the saints If you thus proceed my self and the Lords faithful people will love own live and dye with you if not we shall abhor and dis-own you as we did the former and now Protector and his Lords and shall trust God with our Liberties and not fear your Frowns And now a word for your encouragement my Friends who remain faithful to the Lord in this evil day and are as it were in the Clefts of the Rocks Cant. 2. 14. and secret places of the stairs in pain crying and praying night and day giving the Lord no rest Isai. 6 ● 6 7. till he revive the Good Old Cause and cause the Righteousness of Zion to go forth as brightness and the Salvation thereof as a Lamp that burneth and until he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth whose voyce in his account going forth in the power of his spirit from the sweetness you have tasted in communion with himself in the discovery of this glory is sweet and countenance is comely and unto whom he will in the best time say Rise up my love my fair one and come away for lo the winter is past the rain is over and gone Isa. 26. 20. The flowers appear on the earth Isai. 35. 2. chap. 51. 3. The time of the singing of birds is come Isa. 35. 6. And the voyce of the turtle is heard in our land Zach. 12. 10. And will rejoyce over you as the Bridegroom over the Bride with joy and singing and will rest in his love Zeph. 3. 17. compared with Isa. 62. 5. VVherefore be not dampt or discouraged in your spirits at the hearing and sight of the late Addresses nor at the great Cloud of VVitnesses therein seeming to own the present and former Governour What though many of them are men of such raised gifts and parts and appearing grace which to such as have not their eyes in their heads and look not within the vail may have an appearance the Lord doth own them and approves of what hath been formerly and lately done for though they are so great a Cloud of VVitnesses yet they are but VVitnesses in the Clouds whose Testimony Carnal Wisdom Policy and Arm of Flesh will pass away like the morning Cloud or early dew for the spirit of the Lord in his people like the waters Isa. 28. 17. hath overflown and looked into their hiding place abhor'd and blown upon them therefore follow not a multitude to do evil What though there be so many Prophets great Scholars learned Astrologers and wise men among them yet know that amongst almost 400 Prophets in the days of Ahab and Jehosaphat but one Micaiah a true prophet that had the mind of God among all the congregation that were going from Egypt

to Canaan among whom were many renowned Princes Priests and famous men yet onely Moses Caleb Joshua c. that truly followed God Numb. 14. Among all the wise men in Babylon but one Daniel a true Prophet Dan. 2. 19 But one Noah a Preacher of Righteousness and faithful in his generation before the Flood Gen. 7. 1. One Lot in Sodom Among the seven Churches Rev. 2. 3. but two to wit Philadelphia and Smyrna whom the Lord approves of but the other so carried it except a few among them as he said it should be manifested they belonged rather to the Synagogue of Satan then to the Churches of Christ When the great destruction comes upon wicked men a little before or upon the call of the Jews but a handful or as the gleaning grapes when the Vintage is done shall lift up their heads and rejoyce and glorifie God in the fires Isai. 24. They onely who speak often one to another when wickedness is set up and they that tempt God are delivered alluding to Israel who would have made a Captain to return again to Egypt or rather the Apostacy of this our day that the Lord owns as those who fear him and have the promise of the Sun of Righteousness to arise upon them Mal. 3. The false spirit of Magistracy in Adonijah aspiring to the Government had the assistance of the Kings sons Abiathar the Priest Joab the General and all the Captains of the Host c. who with slaying of Oxen c. eating and drinking said God save Adonijah and carryed it for a time against Solomon but the spirit of Solomon Nathan the Prophet c. who had the true spirit of Government and Prophesie approved not of or consented to it but were for the true spirit to rule 1 King 1. and so it is at this day and blessed be the Lord that our eyes do see a people crying longing and will not be at rest till the earthy selfish spirit of Magistracy be brought down and the self-denying spirit of Magistracy or Horn of David now budding in Zion come in its room Psal. 132. Wonder not neither be turned aside because of that great multitude on the one hand or smallness of the number on the other that truly and indeed appear for and own the cause of God but stand close and be more refined in the light and spirit of Zion and keep your ground for the Lord hath so appointed That the foot shall tread it down to wit the meanest of the saints for it is very probable that many of the great and wise saints ascording to Rev. 18. 4. shall be found in the borders and supporting the things of Babylon and casting out their Brethren Isa. 66. 5. saying Let the Lord be glotified and having the mist of Babylon before their eyes shall say The Lord delays his coming and will be beating their fellow servants onely the feet to wit the upright conversation of these poor ones who desire to keep close to God and not to touch with Babylon and steps to wit the faith prayers and honest endeavours of these needy ones who long for and cannot be at rest till judgement so visibly return unto righteousness that all the upright in heart may follow it These shall trend down the lofty City Isai. 26. The least of the flock shall draw them out the people that shall bring down the enemies of God in the latter days are a very small and feeble remnant when the Lord comes to destroy Babylon and to build up Zion he will finde but a few upright ones and those very destitute helpless and some of them prisoners too for their witness to the true Magistracy and Ministry of Zion whose prayers he will hear and not despise and bring forth to declare his glory in Zion who shall in a holy triumph and rejoycing say O Lord thou art our God we will exalt thee we will praise thy Name for thou hast done wonderful things thy councels of old are faithfulness and truth c. Lo this is our God we have waited for him he will save us we will be glad and rejoyce in his salvation Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee Trust in the Lord for ever c. Isai. 25. 1 9. chap. 26. 2 3. Which good and comfortable words shall certainly be made good for heaven and earth shall pass away but not one tittle of the word shall pass till all be fulfilled I the Lord will hasten it in its time Isa. 60. 33. with Jer. 33. 25 26. Hab. 2. 3. Read these Scriptures Wherefore strengthen ye the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees c. Isa. 55. 3 4. And you my dear Friends Commonwealths-men so called who so greatly seem to press for righteousness and freedom labour to bring forth this righteousness not by a commonmoral spirit and principle but by the spirit of Zion a lively spiritual active frame of spirit to wit that frame mentioned 2 Sam. 23. not to be pulled and haled to do the good that lyes before you that is more suitable to the unjust Judge but be as ready to help and refresh and therein be as suitable to delight the oppressed that come unto you as the light of the morning when the Sun riseth without Clouds is to those who have lost their way in a dark night and as the tender grass springeth out of the earth by clear shining after rain this is the Spirit of the Horn of David that shall bud in Zion Psal. 132. The consideration whereof in the first man festation and declaration of it by the spirit unto and by David having thereby a tast of that glory upon his spirit made him to break forth into a holy triumph and rejoycing saying And this is all my salvation and all my desire although he make it not to grow to wit in his day Leave no stone unturn'd no means unus'd to let the people who come unto you speedily know one way or other what they shall trust to say not Go and come again to morrow if you can do it to day delayes are burdensome and chargeable Job from the secret of God being upon his Tabernacle and the precious dew of the spirit compassing his root and lying all night upon his branch had much of this blessed frame upon his spirit He put on and clothed himself with righteousness and had more love to judgement then to the robe and diadem and upon that account he was eyes to the blind feet to the lame a father to the poor and the cause which he knew not he searched one chap 29. it concerns you and is worth your reading This will be the frame of the handful of corn in the earth Psa. 72 or mountain establisht upon the top of the mountains Mich. 4. 1 2. the fruit whereof shall shake like Lebanon they shall not be shaken by others but themselves wilshake off their fruit then wil