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A85281	The fifth monarchy, or Kingdom of Christ, in opposition to the beasts, asserted, by the Solemn League and Covenant, several learned divines, the late General and Army, (viz.) in their declaration at Muslebrough, August 1650. wherein the old cause is stated, appeals made, the Scottish blood spilt, and the banners yet in Westminster-Hall witnessing the great decision then given on Christs side. Also, by a letter from the officers of the Army in England, to their brethren in Ireland, the 11 of May, 1653. justifying on Christs accompt, the dissolution of the Parliament; and consonant thereunto, the Generals speech to those that succeeded in the government, the fourth of July following ...		1659 (1659)	Wing F890; Thomason E993_31; ESTC R207791	44,997	55

greater difficulties and to follow the LAMB more fully then ever We nave had a breathing time while our Brethren have been bringing forth the deliverance of IRELAND through sore pangs And now the Symptomes of travelling pain begin to take hold upon us and as that glorion birth hath been thus far brought forth in IRELAND through the Prayers of the Saints so we are encouraged to believe while we finde the spirit of Prayer crying earnestly for the accomplishment of CHRISTS designes thorow all these dark dispensations that the Close will be the bringing forth of Zions deliverance And to that end deat Friends we are hold in the Name of our Lord whom ye love to provoke you to fervent Prayer at this time for the clear manifestation of the presence of Christ with us in whatever service he shall call us unto We are now again alarm'd by him to come forth into the field but both our Work and the Issue is onely and wholly known to himself Pray for us that we may not ●ant that Pillar of five before us and the Cloud behind us and that we may be found faithful Servants waiting onely upon our Lords good pleasure and ler both you and us be instant in Prayer for the uniting of the hearts of all that fear the Lord in this and our Neighbour Nation of SCOTLAND that there may not be found any of the generation of the Just joyning Issue with those that support the Beast and oppose the advancement of the KINGDOM of our LORD JESUS CHRIST the King of Saints But that some special and signal discovery of the good Will of God to his people may now appear in separating the pretious from the vile both in their counsels and actions And it is most earnestly desired that ●ervent Supplication and Prayer be made for all such of us as shall be called to the management of Publick Affairs that the Lord would make his way plain before us That so in all our undertakings we may be subservient to the affairs of Jesus Christ and walk in love as becometh Saints towards all dissatisfied Brethren both in ENGLAND and SCOTLAND that our indeared affection to them as to the lot of Gods inheritance may appear in all our demeanors towards them and in theirs towards us That so the enemies of CHRIST may be disappointed and these Clouds of Division scattered to the abundant Glory and Praise of God and comfort of all his people Who knows but yet after the late too great Unchristian Differences between the Children of the same Father this may be the day wherein shall be begun the fulfilling of those glorious promises which God hath made to his people in the last days And I will give them one heart and one way Jer. 32.39 and That Ephraim shall not envie Judah and Judah shall not vex Ephraim Isa 11.12,13,14 And that we may be active and constant in the work of the Lord we farther provoke you to be earnest with him on the behalf of all the Saints and particularly for us that our hearts may be taken off from the poor low things of this world That we may not seek our selves nor great things for our selves but the glory and honour of JESUS CHRIST who hath so gratiousl● owned us and manifested his glorious presence with us through all the many temptations and tryals that we have been exercised under and the sore trouble our eyes have seen All which he hath done that he might humble us and that he might prove us to do us good in the latter end And for all these ends the Lord hath stirred up our hearts to set apart the Fifth day of the next week being the Thirtieth of this present Moneth May 30. 1650 as a solemn time to seek his Face in and about this work Wherein hoping you will joyn with us we defire that both you and we may be humbled before the Lord for all our former and latter evils that we have commi●ted notwithstanding the multitude of his tender mercies towards us It may be since we have been at ease we have contracted rust the Lord make us every one sensible of the plague of his own heart and grant that this may be a cleansing day that he would both reprove and enable us to turn at his reproof that so what employment soever the Lord calleth us unto we may go to it leaving our sins behind us And let us with all fervency of spirit pray that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ would so pour out his Spirit upon us that thereby our hearts being purged from all filthiness of flesh and spirit our holy conversation may declare us to be the people of the Lord yea the Army of the LAMB who is King of kings and Lord of lords whose followers are called Chosen and saithful And since the Lord hath taught us that to hang down the head as a Bulrush for a day is not such a fast as he hath chosen we do further therefore lay it upon our own hearts and yours that if any either Officer or Souldier be guilty of any prosaneness to the scandal of the Gospel discovery thereof may be made and such course therein ●…ken as may be agreeable to the Gospel and Discipline of the Army Further that we use our utmost endeavours in our several places to reform those gross Enormities of Drunkenness Swearing open Prophanation of the Lords day and contempt of the Ordinances of Jesus Christ which are too much to be sound in the Army that so as much as in us lyeth we may purge out every accursed thing from amongst us Dear Brethren let us labour through the power of the Spirit of Christ to sanctifie our selves and the Camp for the LORD that is in the midst of us is a holy God let us not too much presume upon our former mercies but well consider what the Lord hath said to his own people that were as neerly related to him as we can be Josh 24.19 The Lord he is a holy and a jealous God he will not forgive your transgressions and your sins if you forsake the Lord and serve strange Gods then he will turn and consume you and do you hurt after that he hath done you good and again Josh 7.12 13. Read the words as also Isaiah 63.8,9,10 Read the words Oh let these Scriptures and others to the same purpose deeply ●ffect us that so whilst we are used as a Rod of iron in Christs hand to dash his enemies in pieces we our selves may serve him with fear and rej●yce with trembling All that now seem to be on Christ's side will not hold out unto the end Be we faithful unto death and Christ will give us a Crown of life Dear Friends we shall earnestly long to hear from you to the end we may know how the Lord is pleased to affect your hearts with these things and what impressions of his Spirit he shall through his Word set upon you after

we first fought with we came to this first conclusion amongst our selves that if we had been fought out of it necessity would have taught us patience 2. That the Army might not be found Traytors to God Man but to be taken from us so unworthily we should be rendered the worst people in the world and we should become TRAYTORS BOTH TO GOD AND MAN And when God had laid this to our hearts and that we found the interest of his people was grown cheap and not laid to heart and if we came to competition of things the cause even among themselves would even almost in every thing go to the ground this did add more consideration to us that there was a duty incumbent upon us And truly I speak it in the presence of some that are here that were at the close consultations I may say as before the Lord the thinking of an act of violence was to us worse than any Engagement that ever we were in yet and worse to us than the utmost hazard of our lives that could be so unwilling were we so tender were we so desirous were we if it were possible that these men might have quit their places with honour And truly this I am the longer upon because it hath been in our hearts and consciences our Justification and hath never yet been imparted thorow to the Nation and we had rather begin with you to do it then to have done it before and do think indeed that these transactions be more proper for a verbal communication then to have put it into writing I doubt whosoever had put it in writing would have been tempted to have dipt his pen in anger and wrath But affairs being at this posture that we saw plainly and evidently in some Critical things 3. The cause of the people despised by them that the Cause of the people of God was a despised thing truly then we did believe that the hands of other men must be the hands that must be trusted with it and then we thought high time for us to look about us and to be sensible of our duty If I should take up your time to tell you what instances we have to satisfie our Judgments and Consciences that these were not vain imaginations and things that were petitioned for but that fell within the compass of our certain knowledge and sence should I repeat these things to you I should do that which I would avoid to take into these things too much 4. A corrupt self-seeking Spirit in them onely this if any body were in competition for any place of real and signal Trust how hard and difficult a thing it were to get any thing to be carried without making parties without things indeed unworthy of a Parliament And when things must be carried so in a Supreme Authority indeed I think it is not as it ought to be But when it came to other Trials in that Case of Wales which I must confess for my own part I set my self upon if I should inform what discountenance that business of the poor people of God there had 5. Discountenance upon the people of God in Wales who had watching over them men like so many wolves ready to catch the Lamb assoon as it was brought out into the world how signally they threw that business under foot to the discountenancing of the honest people there and to the countenancing of the malignant party of this Commonwealth I need but say it was so many have felt by sad experience it was so who will better impart that business to you which for my self and fellow-Officers I think it was as perfect a trial of their spirits as any thing it being known to many of us that God kindles a seed there indeed hardly to be parallell'd since the Primitive times I would this had been all the instances Good to Gods people under the several forms never intended but finding which way their spirits went and finding that good was never intended to the people of God I mean when I say so that large comprehension of them under the several forms of godliness in this Nation when I saw that tenderness was forgotten to them all though it was very true that by their hands and means through the blessing of God they sate were they did and affairs not to speak it boastingly had been instrumentally brought to that issue they were brought to by the hands of those poor creatures we thought this an evil requital I will not say they were at the uttermost pitch of Reformation although I could say that one thing the REGULATION of the LAW so much groaned under in that posture it now is in there was many words spoken for it we know many moneths together was not time enough to pass over one word called Incumbrances I say finding that this was the spirit and complexion of them that though these were faults for which no man should have dared to lift his hand simply for their faults and failings Neglect of reforming the Laws when yet we saw their intendment was to perpetuate themselves and men of this spirit for some had it from their own mouths from their own designes who could not endure to hear of being dissolved this was an high breach of Trust if they had been a Parliament never violated fitting as free and as clear as ever any sat in ENGLAND yet if they would go about to perpetuate themselves we did think this to be so high a breach of trust as greater could not be And we did not go by guess in this and to be out of doubt in it we did having that conference among our selves whereof we gave accompt we did desire once more the night before the difsolution and it had been in our desires some two or three days before that we might speak with some of the principal persons of the house that we might with ingenuity open our hearts to them to the end we might be either convinced of the ground of their principles and intentions to the good of the Nation or if we could not be convinced they would hear our offer or expedient to prevent this mischief and indeed we could not prevail for two or three days till the night before the dissolution there is a touch of this in that our DECLARATION we had often desired it at that time we attained there were above Twenty of them who were members not of the least consideration for interest and ability with whom we desired to discourse those things and had discourse with them and it pleased the Gentlemen Officers of the Army to desire me to offer their sence to them and indeed it was shortly carryed thus we told them that the Reason of our desire to wait upon them was that we might know from them what security lay in the way of their proceedings so hastily with their Representative wherein they had made a few qualifications such as they were and

the Kingdom and Interest of Jesus Christ and Supporters of the Throne of the Beast been with all their Adherents by Sea and Land engaged with vanquisht and subdued broken like Potters vessels and the righteous judgments of God executed upon many of the heads of them as Traytors and Rebels Was King and Kingship as standing in opposition to the Kingdom of Christ being as was said one of the ten horns of the Beast Rev. 17. taken away Was the Parliamentary Authority defaced garbled purged and at last utterly broke as Obstructers hereof and that by the Army at their desire and to the great joy of most of the godly in the Land as having lost the Spirit of the Cause and so far degenerated into a selfish and persecuting Spirit that there appeared an enmity thereto And lastly was there another people called eminently by the Lord to own assert and carry on this cause and interest of Christs Kingly Authority to whom all due subjection was promised for Christs sake as to an Authority God had set over them to such an end 1 Quest Whether it will not necessarily follow that either the Parliament Army Ministers and others that have thus stated asserted engaged in such a cause as Gods and Christs and founding it upon the Word of God to the shaking and breaking all visible Rule and Government which for so many hundred years hath in Church and State been over us in these Nations have either been grosly deluded and so become guilty of all the blood that hath been spilt in this quarrel and consequently a company of Munster-spirited Tyrants Traytors and Murderers as it hath been reflected upon them and so ought to repent in dust and ashes and to endeavour all due satisfaction possible to Cavaleers Scots Prelates and Presbyters or if stated upon sound principles of Truth and Righteousness which the Lord hath eminently owned and led to step by step and that all this shaking overturning that hath been made in Church and State in order to the pulling down of Babylon and exalting the Kingdom of his Son is warranted and justified by the holy Scripture then doubtless ought this Cause to be owned adhered unto and prest after with all zeal and fidelity and they are to be esteemed Apostates Revolters and Backsliders that shall decline or turn aside herefrom 2 Quest Whether the Army who in so much seeming light and love to God bringing this glorious cause into the hands of his people having broken down the National constitution with a declared subjection to them for Christs sake are not guilty of most dreadful Apostacy and Rebellion against him his Crown and Dignity First in breaking that Assembly so by the Lord in that eminent manner called together whilst in the faithful prosecution of the said cause Secondly in setting up their Apostate General and afterwards his Son even in contradiction to all the Lords wondersul works amongst us as heads of Church and State and to whom were made all those blasphemous dreadsul Addresses Oaths and Engagements to the licking up their vomit again owning and establishing all the Pride Tyranny and Idolatry under new names and pretences that had been so contemptuously cast down amongst us viz. Kingship Peerage and Prelacy under the terms of Protector an Other House and Tryers who being set up and an assay made to confirm all by Parliament their Counsel being confounded so that they could not bring about their Enterprises as a further fruit of backsliding the Army have sought out another invention to withstand the true heir the Lord Jesus and kept him from his right by calling together such as formerly were by them dissolved for want of spirit and being in opposition to the Lords work and that it was so in truth have not very many of them given sufficient evidence by being Principals in the late Apostacy and the generality such as stuck not to lift up their hands to the most High that they would be true and faithful to the now deposed Usurper And those few of renown amongst them whose integrity was tryed it 's to be feared in the conclusion may serve for little more then to give countenance to what further their deceived hearts are lusting after of which some proof is already given in their votes for continuing the oppression in paying Tythes keeping from sale Hampton Court and White hall but more especially their Act of Indempnity sufficiently justifying the wicked and consequently condemning the righteous 3 Quest Whether they who have owned the Lord in all his dispensations in the midst of all these oppositions and declension of others ought not to be esteemed the well-affected to the Cause of God his people and this Nation rather then slanderously reported Munster-spirited and fanatick Obj. What would these people have The Cavaleeres old and new with the Commonwealths-men have somewhat to offer but these neither know what they say or whereof they affirm Answ Were it granted they were so weak as not to be able to hold forth some well-composed Model of Government being still it may be better at pulling down as is said page 24. line 10. then building up and establishing works is this a good Argument to slight any rational dissatisfaction to what is now set up If Episcopacy had never been taken away until some well ordered Church Government had been offered to succeed it by the Puritans who were then esteemed as ignoraut giddy and fanatique because they did not would it not have remained to this day But for further satisfaction there are four things in the Assirmative wherein there seems to be a general agreement amongst this people tending much to settlement upon a righteous Foundation 1. In reference to their Soveraign That the Lord Jesus Christ in whose Name and by whose blessing and strength the mighty works have been effected amongst us against Tyranny in the Civil and Antichristianism in the Ecclesiastick State may be publickly owned Our only Lord and King from whom as the head all Power Rule and Authority in Church and State is to be derived in opposition to every other Title without which alteration since the Foundations are out of course it will be utterly impossible there should be any subsistence for that the Image-Government or fourth Beasts constitution must as certainly be overturned and broken to give way to this Fifth Kingdom as the other were broken to give way to the fourth Dan. 2. 1 Tim. 6.15 He is the blessed and onely Potentate King of kings and Lord of lords John 5.27 And hath given him Authority to execute judgment also because he is the Son of man Isaiah 9.6 The Government shall be upon his shoulders Obj. How can Christ be said to be our King is he not in heaven Answ God was Israels King of old though heaven was his habitation 1 Chron. 29.23 Solomon sate on the Throne of the Lord 1 Chron. 29.23 2 Chron. 9.8 When Israel would imitate other Nations in making them a King they