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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82111	A Declaration of several members of the churches of Christ		1654 (1654)	Wing D618A; ESTC R176607	10,836	10

assumed it that it were strange if those Civil Tryers should not have used it to smite them withal whom they would render odious and destroy And is not this against their own Declaration to Scotland pag. 6. where they say That that Church-Government which is of God God's own means viz. his Word must establish without a busie medling with or engaging of the Authorities of the world And the Lord General CROMWEL in his Letter to the Kirk-Assembly from Dunbar page 11. saith It is worth consideridg how those Ministers take into their hands the instruments of a foolish shepherd that meddle with worldly Policies or Earthly Powers to set up that which they call the kingdom of Christ which indeed is neither it nor if it were would such means be found effectual for that end and neglect and trust not to the Word of God the Sword of the Spirit c. Is not this all true in the Tryers And is not this also against their own Remonstrance Albans page 20. where they declare it the Parliaments part to protect religious men and take away all the corrupted Forms of outside-Religion and National Church-state whether imposed without Law or rooted in Law in times of Popish Ignorance or Idolatry or of Gospels dimmer light and also to take away the dependence of the National clergie in Civil Laws and Ecclesiastical Affairs which they had upon the King or that interest of the Clergie in Civil Laws and Affairs which the craft of both in length of time had wrought for each other But that the King's part was to discountenance the Godly or any conscience obliging above or against humane or outward Constitutions and to uphold and maintain the Civil dependence of the Clergie and their Church-matters under him Our bowels are so moved at these things that we cannot refrain from bewailing our condition after so vast a stream and treasure of the blood tears prayers lives and spoils of our dearest relations O did we ever think to see so many hopeful Instruments in the Army Churches and elsewhere to be so fully gorged with the flesh of Kings Captains and Nobles c. i. e. with their Lands Mannors Estates Parks and Palaces so as to sit at ease and comply with Antichrist the World Worldly Church and Clergie Oh! how hath the Cup of the Whore foxt and inchanted men viz. with the wine of the wrath of her Fornication to commit sin with her daily which the sober blush to see and to paint her over afresh for New lovers to lie down with to their utter ruine O the Mystery of Iniquity works apace This subtil spirit and soul of Antichristianism in a New body hath bewitched many of the Common sort and is wonderful cunning to deceive although by this universal Falling away amongst us the man of sin is blessed by Jehovah more discovered then ever who must be destroyed with the breath of Christ's mouth and brightness of his coming Yet under a sad sense of so many fresh Assaults which the Saints meet with daily by outward violence and Ecclesiastical tyranny and in a clear apprehension of that heavie Doom and Precipice hard by we verily believe upon all those Powers and Interests of men which keep warm the Seat of the bloody Beast for the Mother of harlots And after many solemn meetings and seekings of God for a special presence rolling our selves onely on his Arm having no carnal confidence blessed be our wise God now left us to look upon we are fully perswaded in our souls that he who hath hitherto most eminently appeared and plainly owned this blessed Cause which the Apostates of the times have cast aside and we yet cleave unto in England Ireland Scotland elswhere according to the faith and prayers of his poor despised people that he will yet appear and that more eminently and terribly too to save then ever and witness to the righteousness of his own Cause and the innocencie of his servants that suffer therein in great mercy pity passing by the failings and infirmities of us his poor creatures Therefore though we are sure that God will vindicate His own Name to purpose ere long under so much reproach yet in the dread of that Name we appeal unto the Lord who will be a swift witness against as if we utter these things in hypocrisie or for base ends or for any carnal personal interest whatsoever if we are not in the sincerity and simplicity of our hearts so far as we have one true grain of grace in us for Christ alone and his poor rejected Cause and People that we may ease and exonerate our selves in the sense we have of our duty herein and be withdrawn to the eye of all from partaking in the crying sins and Apostacie of the Times with all faithfulness holy awe and humility we profess and declare 1. For this Cause and Kingly interest of our Lord Jesus in England Ireland and Scotland or elsewhere according to the several Declarations of the Army sealed to with the blood of thousands of the precious Saints the cry of whose blood is for Christ according to the Declaration of the Army to Scotland pag. 36 37 38 39. who declare They were stirred up by the Lord to assist the Parliament against the King for this end To bring about the destruction of Antichrist and the deliverance of his true Church and people and upon this simple account was it that they engaged in the Wars of the three Nations against all Opposers of this work of Jesus Christ having these things singly in their eye viz. the destruction of Antichrist and advancement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and deliverance and reformation of his Church and the establishment of Christs Ordinances according to his Word and the just Civil Liberties of English-men And this they declare with the loss of many precious Saints pag. 38. That they engaged against the late King and his Monarchy as one of the ten horns of the Beast guilty of the blood of the Saints which act say they they are confident God will own against all Kingdoms or Nations that will oppose them and that will not suffer Jesus Christ to be King So pag. 39. they declare they value the Churches (b) Then owning the Congregated Churches as appears by Letters written to Mr. Feak and Mr. Simpson and the Churches that walk in fellowship with them and others c. of Christ who are the lot of Gods inheritance a thousand times beyond their own lives and that it is their duty to persevere therein to the utmost hazard of their lives and that the Lord made them instruments to vex all in his sore displeasure that take counsel against Christ whom the Lord hath anointed and decreed King And that they were not meerly the servants of man and that they not onely proclaimed Jesus Christ King of Saints to be King but that they would submit to him alone upon his own terms and admit him onely to