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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

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

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

out of the House to be a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House the rather for that he never in all his life as he saith fought against any such thing as a single person or a Negative Voyce but onely to put down Charles and set up Oliver and hath his end 29. Colonel Berry his Original was from the Iron Works as a Clerk or Overseer betook himself to the Wars on the Parliaments side profited greatly in his undertaking and advanced his interest very far who though he wore not the Jesters Coat yet being so ready to act his part and please his General in time he became a Colonel of Horse in the Army afterward a Major General of divers Counties a command fit for a Prince wherein he might learn to lord it in an Arbitrary way beforehand at his pleasure that he is of complying principles with the Court his preferment sufficiently speaks out neither ought any other be believed of him or any of his brethren without a real demonstration to the contrary so that he may well pass for one to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce over the people being so far advanced and gotten out of the pit above them and if he did formerly fight against a Negative Voyce and lording it over the people it may be forgiven him 30. Colonel Cooper sometime a Shop-keeper or Salter in Southwark a Member of Thomas b Goodwins Church one formerly of very high principles for common Justice and Freedom like his brother Tichborn The Army then in Scotland sending into England for faithful praying men to make Officers of the honest people in the Burrough recommended him to the General in order to have a command who accordingly went down but left his Principles behind him and espoused other was made a Colonel at the first dash and though he began late yet hath so well improved his interest as he hath already gotten as many hundreds per annum as he had hundred pounds when he left his Trade he hath a Regiment of Foot in Scotland and another in Ireland where he is Major General of the North in Venables Room and Governour of Carrickfergus so as he is in a very hopeful way to be a great man indeed he was of the Latter Parliaments and there is full proof that he is every way thorough-paced and true to the new Court-interest so that upon the whole he also may be counted fit to be a Lord of the Other House and to have a Negative Voyce over the good people in Southwark if they please and all the people of these Lands beside it being the Pretectors pleasure the rather he being the Mirrour of the times for thorough change of principles Alderman Tichborn and O. P. excepted 31. Alderman Pack then Sir Christopher now Lor●Pack his rise formerly was by dealing in Cloth near the beginning of the Long Parliament was made an Alderman was then very discreet and medled little more like a Neuter or close Malignant then a Zealot for the cause was a Commissioner of the Customs also Sheriff and Lord Maior of London next after Alderman Viner the Protector taking on him the Government the Sunshine of the new Court pleased him and brought him in full complyance he was one of the Last Parliament and zealous to re-establish Kingship in the person of the c Protector and judged the onely meet man to bring the Petition into the House praying him to accept of and take it upon him which though he then refused yet as is reported hath since repented his then refusal However the now Lord Pack deserves well at his hands for that good service who being a true Kingling and of right Principles to the Court-interest hving also been a Lord to wir Maior once before may upon the whole be counted very worthy to be again so called and to have a Negative Voyce in the Other house over London and all the people of these Lands beside 32. Alderman Tichborn then Sir Robert Knight of the new Stamp now Lord Tichborn at the beginning of the Long Parliament when a great Spirit was stirring for Liberty and Justice many worthy Petitions and Complaints were made against Patentees the Bishops and the Earl of Strafford he being the Son of a Citizen and Young fell in and espoused the good cause and principles then on Foot and thereby became very popular and was greatly cryed up by the good people of the City c. His rise was first in the Military way where he soon became a Colonel and by the Parliament made Lieutenant of the Tower of London and though he was a Colonel yet never went out to fight but became an Alderman very timely and then soon began to cool and lose his former Zeal and Principles and left off preaching as his Pastor Mr. Lockyer did the Church to his brother George Cockain He was afterward Sheriff and Lord Mayor in his turn was also of the Committees for the sale of States Lands whereby he advanced his Interest and Revenue considerably out of Zeal to the publick he offered the Parliament to serve them freely as a Commissioner of the Customs whereby he supplanted another and planted himself in his room and then with the rest of his brethren petitioned the Committee of the Navy for a Salary and had it notwithstanding he was so well rewarded for his pains after he had pretended to serve them for nothing yet with his bro her Col. Harvy and Captain Langham came off blewly in the end He was of the little Parliament and helped to dissolve it one of the late Parliament also he hath by degrees sadly lost his Principles and forgotten the Good Old Cause and espoused and taken up another being so very officious for the new Court-interest and such a stickler for them he is become a great Favorite it 's not hard to read his change it being in so great Letters All things considered he is no question fit to be called Lord Tichborn being also so willing to receive and resolve to own that Title whoever maligns it as also of the Judgement that whatever passes from him in any other name will be void in law wherefore to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over London and all the good people of these Lands is very suitable to him and what though he was so great an Opponent to those things formerly it 's no matter then was then and now is now 33. Sir William Roberts a Gentleman who in the time of the Bishops ruffling went into Holland and lived there for a season the Parliament ruling and in war with the King came over again and after the then mode found favour having upon the forementioned account been out of the Land and was made a great Committee-man and in much employment whereby he well advanced his interest and is grown a great man He was of the little Parliament and

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