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spirit_n	body_n	dead_a	sin_n	7,124	5	5.2250	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53586	The humble and healing advice of Colonel Robert Overton, Governour of Hull, to Charles Lord Fleetwood, and General Monck, and all other inferiour officers of both armies in England and Scotland	Overton, Robert, ca. 1609-ca. 1668.	1659 (1659)	Wing O637; ESTC R4509	4,552	9

sakes the Lord hath reproved all before you expect that you should not keep them from their purchased possessions they are the true royal heirs and are now at age the fulnesse of time is coming wherein they must take the Kingdome and possesse it the poore peild people of these Nations who have fed you with the bread of their Tables they groan under those burthens which you were hyred to take off them and are waiting for the travel of their bodies and the return of their treasures Take heed therefore I beseech you that you make not this an opportunity of advantaging and greatning your selves have a care that no remainder of the spirit of Apostacy raise you up to your ruine as it hath done others before You are pluckt as brands out of the fire and are in some manner made whole sin then no more least a worse thing befall you for the tree that is twice dead must be pluckt up by the roots being fit for nothing but the fire This I will aver to you from the Lord that you have now an opportunity either in mercy of recovering the glory you had lost by your Apostacy or in judgment it is an occasion for your finall fall Consider that God is not mocked his arme hath been bared in Judgment against the hypocrites of these times and woe will befall you if you returne with the dog to the vomit you see there is few that can fasten any faith upon you Beware that your practices Justifie not the proceedures of those in Sco●land for the blood that may be spilt will then lye at your dores and the Lord will avenge it upon you take heed of proportioning your choyce rather to your turns then truths a little leaven leavens the whole lump you know what Spirit hath been the bane of your apostacy and the brand of all your practices and Professions if you intermix politique time serving trucklers with those who are Publique spirits your Councell will prove abortive look but a little back and see how the Lord is cutting his work short in righteousness as it was well observed by one you can now Deceive none but your selves I wish you may deceive them by well doing all the Promises Professions and protestations you can make will signifie nothing it is only your actions that will honour you A word to Generall Monck and the Officers under his Command in Scotland Your Letters and Declarations I have seen and seriously considered and am hartily sorry for any just occasion that either may be given you or which through misprisions you may have taken to make such a breach in the body of the Army I am very much afraid that in this matter you are under a bad influence though you have a plausible pretence and although I wish and shall press after a right understanding betwixt you and the Army in England yet in this your undertaking I cannot bid you good speed because by the observations I have already made whatever you may pretend to the Church of Christ you are unbargued with that Spirit and Interest which more Diametrically opposes the designe of God in the Exaltation of his Sonn and Sunts then the present posture of the Army in England protends And therefore though for my part I cannot altogether excuse them they have a prevail●ng advantage against you and though possibly not for their own yet for Sions sake they will be inebled to foile you I beseech you there fore to take heed of a pai●ted designe and drive not so furiously against the dispensation of God though it be clouded with the weaknesse and failings of the instruments we have great cause of jedousies that there was a faction prevaling in Parliament which would have proved pernicious to that which must prevaile And although I did not concur with the Armyes proceed in their proposals for Generall Officers yet I could neither well approve of their laying some honest members of the Army aside nor of the new conduct appointed though I was one my selfe The worst of men imbargued with the dispensation of God though they have also designes of their own will prevaile over those who may be more innocent then themselves but in conjunction with an opposite interest I will not make this the case in respect of persons though it may as relating to things this is a shaking overturning dispensation as I have premized and you may observe and it is of very dangerous consequence to endeavour upholding any thing that God is throwing down I shall therefore conclude with an interpository word to both Councells and begin between you As Abraham did to Lot You are brethren why should you disagree by a good meditation between you the designs on either side might receive a check which Conquest would Crown their mediums wherein you might better meet at blowes you can play no other then your Common Armies gaim by your contests however take heed of any union from the rock of Ages all confederacies short of or against that will be shattered to peices comply with the best expedient to that end and the hearts and hands of the faithfull will be with you otherwise you may be assured from the Lord that another overturne will suddenly overtake you and I question then whether ever you will have an opportunity to cause the Nations following to praise you the binding up of this breach is that I very much breath after I fear there is not so much sincerity on either side as can ballest the blood that may be spilt if you proceed against each other for my own part in persuance of that trust committed to me I shall endeavour to secure the peace of this place and be ready to comply with and countenance that which hath most of the image and superscription of Christ upon it and in the meane time mourn over your sinfull selfish spirit which provokes the Lord thus to rend and teare us in pieces The Heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing Psal 2.1 But kisse the Son least he be angry and ye perish from the way Psal 2. and last FINIS