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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

did not reject Samuel but the Lord from raigning over them 1 Sam. 8.7 And Gideen said unto them I will not rule over you neither shall my Son the Lord shall rule over them Why therefore should it be thought strange that Christ Jesus should be admitted to his regal Authority though in Heaven to whom the Father hath given all power in Heaven and Earth And why may not Christ be owned Head of the State as of the Church there being hundreds of Congregations through grace in these Nations that admit of no other Head or Law-giver in the Church And why may he not as well Rule over and amongst us as suffer with us all the time of Antichrists Reign all that is done to his being done unto himself And these things are asserted in the Covenant but more fully by the General and Officers of the Army in their fore-mentioned Letters and Declarations 2. In reference to Laws That the Laws of this great King as they are recorded in the Old and New Testament remaining in force since his death be the declared Laws of this Nation in opposition to the Heathenish Tyrannous and Popish Laws yet in force amongst us Isai 8.19 Should not a people seek unto their god to the Laws to the Testimonies Isa 23.22 The Lord is our Law-giver he is our King he will save us Jam. 4.12 There is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy Deut. 4.8 What Nation so great as hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this Law set before you Keep therefore and do them for this is your wisdome and understanding in the sight of the Nations which shall hear all these statutes and say Surely this generation is a wise and understanding people Deut. 17.18,19,20 And it shall be when he sitteth upon the Throne of his Kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this Law in a book and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren It 's a Maxime in the Law asserted by Finch the great Lawyer Cook and others that no Act of Parliament or Law repugnant to the Law of God is of any force but how well our Law-makers have lived up hereto read Mr. Boon's Examen legum Angliae who comparing our Laws with the Scriptures finds 68 Laws expresly contrary to the Scriptures Read that excellent Letter of Eleutherius to King Lucius page 8. what light herein was declared for in that day 3. In reference to the Administrators That the people most read and best practicers of this excellent and perfect Law be chosen out to the Administration thereof under Christ in opposition to the ignorant prophane and scandalous and all both old and new Malignants that have visibly opposed him in his Word and Works and not given some suitable testimony of repentance Exod. 18.21 Num. 11.16 Deut. 1.13 Thoushalt provide of all the people able men such as fear God men of truth hating covetousness and place such over them to be Rulers 2 Sam. 23.2,3,4 The Spirit of the Lord spake and the Rock of Israel said He that rules over men must be just ruling in the fear of God Isai 1.26 And I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning Which principle is further asserted 1. By the Armies Petition 13 August 1652. who pray that only men fearing God and hating covetousness should be put into places of Authority and Trust and that all prophane scandalous and disaffected persons should be outed and the neglect hereof given as one of the grounds of the Parliaments dissolution 2. By the present Assembly at Westminster in their Declaration May 9. 1659. That all such as shall be in any place of Trust and Power within this Commonwealth be able for the discharge of such Trust and that they be persons fearing God that have given testimony of their true love to all the people of God and of their faithfuiness to the cause of this Commonwealth according to their Declaration of the seventh of May 1659. in which Declaration they further say That they shall vigorously endeavour the carrying on of Reformation so much desired and so often declared for to the end there may be a godly and faithful Magistracy and Ministry upheld in these Nations to the glory and praise of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the reviving and making glad the hearts of the upright in the Land But how well these good words are put in practice look within their own walls and may you not finde divers of the late Tyrants Council that persecuted and imprisoned so many of Gods people for their faithful witness to the Cause Is not their Speaker one of the new upstart Lords and are there not many others of the same stamp that sate in the Other House How many are there that swore Allegiance and fidelity both to the deceased and late deposed Protector How many scandalous persons How many unworthy Mercenary Lawyers And will these men pass for men fearing God true Lovers of Gods people and faithful to the Cause Are such like to carry on a vigorous and thorow Reformation so much desired to the glory and praise of our Lord Jesus Christ and making glad the hearts of the upright 4. In reference to the Ecclesiastical State 1. That a thorow Reformation be prest after according as is exprest in the Covenant agreeable to the Word of God and best reformed Churches 2. That such a Ministry may without restraint go forth as are faithful and have received the Spirit and gifts from on high for such a work and that are made able Ministers of the New Testament accepting Christs work out of love to souls together with such wages as he hath left in his word 3. That all Ecclesiastical Officers and Offices so called depending upon the Hierarchy may be extirpated root and branch whether Parsons Vicars Curates Patrons c. with their Maintenance Tythes Offerings Oblations Obventions Tenths First-Fruits as deriving their Rise and Authority from Antichrist supported by the Beast and for which there is not the least footing in the Word of God 4. That the Magistrate intermeddle not in the matters of Christs Church or Spiritual concernment imposing either Ministry maintenance or forms of worship suited to his interest which hath been the ground of all body and soul-oppression These being faithfully observed will administer equal and impartial justice to every one and tend to the recovery of the primitive and prophesied to be restored Ordinance of Magistracy making it a terrour to evil doers and a praise to them that do well so that none in well-doing of what perswasion soever can have cause to doubt of being protected in their persons and proprieties from such as shall attempt upon any pretence whatsoever to invade the same or of being in an equal capacity with others qualified for electing or being elected to a participation of Rule as any ability for the same may be given to them Page 23. line 35. for politick read publick Page 25. line 16. for thereby read then by Page 33. line 8. for petitioned for read pretended to There are other lesser faults but these needfully require amendment with the Pen or mention of them in an Errata FINIS

The Fifth Monarchy OR KINGDOM OF CHRIST In opposition to the BEAST'S 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 Scotish 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 With a short Application and some brief Proposals grounded on Scripture in order to a lasting Settlement in this hour of distraction the Foundations being out of course Luk. 17.32 Remember Lots Wife Zach. 12.23 Behold I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all people and in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it LONDON Printed for Livewel Chapman 1659. PREFACE IT being manifest that very many formerly engaged in the work of God with their lives in their hands in much appearing zeal and self-denial have as their own expression is warped aside soon forgetting his works with their vows and promises in the day of distress and falling in love with this worlds glory the profitable pleasant things thereof have some of them in the last past years set themselves in opposition to such as plead for the prosecution of the Lords work and full following of him therein sometime loading them with reproaches of discontented giddy fanatick Munster-spirited people It may not be unseasonable when the least ground of hope is given that they are not wholly fallen under the Lords displeasure so as no more to be owned in his work in sincere and unfeigned love to present to their view if the Lord please to improve and bless it for their further recovery what was held forth formerly by the Parliament and Army and some who in those days were esteemed Seers consented unto also in solemn Engagements by the dispersed throughout the Land lovers of God his Ways and People in asserting The Cause then contended for unto blood and which still remains as an Obligation unto others to be pressing after Englands Engagement by all sorts in the Solemn League and Covenant WE Noble-men Barons Knights Gentlemen Citizens Burgesses Ministers of the Gospel and Commons of all sorts of the Kingdom of England Scotland and Ireland Having before our eyes the Glory of God and the Advancement of the Kingdom of JESUS CHRIST Each of us for himself with our hands lifted up-to the most high God do swear that we shall sincerely really and constantly through the grace of God in our several places and callings endeavour The Reformation of Religion in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the Example of the best Reformed Churches and that we shall in like manner without respect of persons endeavour the extirpation of Popery Prelacy that is Church-Government by Archbishops Bishops their Chancellours and Commissaries Deans Deans and Chapters Archdeacons and all other Ecclesiastical Officers depending on that Hierarchy Superstition Heresy Schism and Profaneness and whatsoever shall be found contrary to sound Doctrine and the Power of Godliness lest we partake in other mens sins and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues and that the Lord may be one and his Name one in the three Kingdoms c. And this Covenant we make in the presence of Almighty God the Searcher of all hearts with a true intention to perform the same as we shall answer at the great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his holy Spirit for this end and to bless our designs and proceedings with such success as may be deliverance and safety to his people and encouragement to other Christian Churches groaning under or in danger of the yoke of Antichristian Tyranny to joyn in the same or like Association or Covenant to the glory of God the enlargement of the KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST and the peace and tranquillity of Christian Kingdoms and Commonwealths And consonant hereunto the Army in their Declaration of Muslebrough tell the Scots We did many of us rejoyce at the Covenant because we found in it strains towards these ends viz. the destruction of Antichrist the advancement of the KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST the Deliverance and Reformation of his Church in the establishment of his ordinances amongst us according to his Word and the just civil Liberties of English men although some being more enlightned did apprehend it to be so mixt with worldly interest that they justly seared the INTEREST OF JESUS CHIST would be but onely pretended to and the interest of this world and of Antichrist himself carryed on in a vizard as we have since had abundance experience of And let us in the presence of the Lord further assure you that we have already examined our Conscience as before the Lord and have a clear assurance in our hearts that he will countenance us in this action and that we do not break any Covenant which we have sworn before God Angels and Men but would be content should we not thereby idolize the Covenant to march to any Engagement with you if called thereunto by the Lord with the Covenant on the tops of our Pikes and let the Lord judge who hath observed the ends of the Covenant best we or you In Mr. Burrough's Sermon before the House at the publick Thanksgiving Sept 7. 1641. for the peace concluded betwixt England and Scotland he hath this passage Page 44. God in this latter age is about to raise himself a glorious Name in the world to set up his King upon his holy Hill to make Jerusalem the praise of the whole earth This that hath been already done viz. by the Scots and Parliaments Conjunction against King and Bishops is a preparation for a fore-runner of and a furtherance to this great and glorious work of God and blessed are those men whom God shall please to make instrumental herein The greatest-blow that ever was given to the Antichristian Government is that which now it hath had Babylon is fallen is fallen so fallen as it shall never rise again in power We hear a noyse not onely from many waters but from the thunder saying Hallelujah the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth Rev. 19.6 The voyce from the many waters was from the people but that was despised contemned but the voyce from the thunder is from those in places of dignity and power and this voyce is terrible to the Adversary Mr. Thomas Goodwin in his Sermons many years since at Antholins

displeasure VVe desire it may be known to you our Brethren of Scotland that we are not Souldiers of Fortune we are not meerly the servants of men we have not onely proclaimed Jesus Christ the King of Saints to be our King by Profession but desire to submit to him upon his own terms and to admit him to the exercise of his Royal Authority in our hearts and to follow him whithersoever he goeth he having of his own good will entred into a Covenant of Grace with his poor Saints and be assured it is he that leadeth us into Scotland as he hath done in England and Ireland And therefore we do in the spirit of brotherly love and of the fear of the Lord beseech you to look about you for our Lord Jesus is coming amongst you as a refiners fire and as Fullers sope and blessed are those in whom the least dram of sincerity shall be found VVe have a Paper directed to us from the people of Scotland it having been publickly made known to us at the head of our Regiments wherein we are first desired to consider the lawfulness of our marching into Scotland We bless God we did that before we came and are abundantly satisfied that we are brought hither by the Lord nay many of us lying under temptations of flesh and blood and going about to frame excuses to take us from this march found that to have staid behind had been to have turned our backs upon Jesus Christ and to have deprived our selves of much sweet communion with God that now through his goodness we do enjoy VVe have also considered the Arguments by which you go about to weaken the grounds of the Parliaments and our Superiour Officers leading us into Scotland and must needs give you this Return That we are still abundantly established in this belief that what the Parliament of England hath done in sending us into Scotland hath been of absolute necessity to preserve themselves from being destroyed in their Religion and Liberties which they have been at so much cost both of Blood and Treasure to purchase and preserve and therefore by the way we must needs tell you that we cannot endure to hear them called A pretended Parliament which we desire you to take notice of that if you write to us again you would speak more reverently of the Authority of our Nation or else we shall easily think you will upon every occasion be ready to invade England that you may set up an Authority which you may call lawful And let us as in the prefence of the Lord further assure you That we have already examined our consciences as before the Lord have a clear assurance in our hearts That he will countenance us in this action and that we do not break any Covenant which we have sworn before God Angels and Men but could be contented should we not thereby idolize the Covenant to march to any Engagement with you if called thereunto by the Lord with the Covenant on the tops of our Pikes and let the Lord judge who hath observed the Ends of the Covenant best you or we Yet we do acknowledge we have not been the exact Performers though not the wilful breakers thereof our consciences also bear us record we do above any thing in the world desire the Union of the two Nations and it is our prayer dayly That those that fear the Lord in England and Scotland may become one in the hand of the Lord and joyn together in the advancement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and throwing down and trampling upon the Seat of the Beast VVhy should not Scotland as well as England rejoyce to see the horns of the Beast cut off that we may joyn together to hate the VVhore and to burn her flesh with fire The Lord is our witness whom we fear we come not to oppress you or shed your blood we have cryed to the Lord again and again to prevent it we have sent you our Declaration of Love to the People of God in Scotland which some amongst you though they pretended to answer yet do most injuriously and unchristianly keep from their sight nay most falsly mis-representing us as a people come with intentions to destroy the poor inhabitants and that we are left of our God to be destroyed but we have made our prayer to the Lord and made known before him their sayings who have told the people of Scotland that God hath forsaken us and therefore bid them persecute and take us for now the Sectaries day is come c. But the Lord is still with us he is our Refuge and a present help in trouble ready to be found we do believe the cry of the oppressed in Scotland will be heard and wo to those that are the Cause thereof Our Quarrel is still against Malignants the Root whereof is now through the evil policy of some Statesmen become the head of Scotland VVe dare not quarrel with those whose hearts are upright with Jesus Christ and faithful and loving to England but with those who are most treacherous and false to both and therefore we daie not any of us though tempted thereto by your papers be so carnally wise as to desert the Cause and VVork of Jesus Christ in which we have hitherto been so long and so miraculously carried on Do you think we are men so weakly principled as to be perswaded without the least strength of Argument to desert the interest of out own Nation and expose thousands of the precious Saints of Jesus Christ to be trampled upon as the dirt in the streets when the Lord is about to put on their beautiful garments and to make them a praise in the earth Or can we think you betray our superiour Officers in whom we see so much of the sweet Spirit of Jesus Christ into your hands whose mouths are opened wide to devour them VVe pray you not to wait for such a thing The Lord hath brought us hither by his Providence and upon him we shall with confidence depend till we see a glorious Issue which we humbly and heartily desire may be without the effusion of any more blood and if it be the Will of God both speedy and comfortable to you and us that we may return with joy into England and leave Scotland rejoycing that an English Army hath been amongst them which possibly may be the sooner effected were you and we suffered to confer and open our hearts one to another we do believe much of the bitterness of spirit would be allayed in our Brethren of Scotland did they know how exceedingly we are slandered by the pens and tongues of many of your Kirk-men concerning our Religion and faith towards God which though we may not vainly boast of yet according to the Apostles direction we are ready to give an answer to the meanest Christian in Scotland that shall ask a reason of the faith and hope that is in us with meekness and fear And

of which hath made us we confess not to idoliz the Covenant as we fear too many do though we trust it will appear before God Angels and Men that we shall ever pursue its true and lawful ends according to the plain candid meaning thereof though we do not upon every occasion urge the Covenant as we see every party though as far different as light and darkness apt to do the Lord having by his Word and by his Spirit convinced us of our duty therein though there had been no such Covenant at all entred into But when we saw that under pretence of the Covenant a corrupt party in Parliament by their worldly policy after the War was ended in England and the late Kings party subdued with the loss of thousands of the lives of Saints whose death is precious in the sight of the Lord did endeavour to set up the King upon his own terms and with him to establish a National Church Government not in all things agreeable to the WORD OF GOD but is destructive to the just Liberties of the true Spiritual Church of Christ which he hath by his own most precious blood purchased for them and is now come forth to bestow upon them which did sufficiently demonstrate it self by the dealings of the then Master-builders with the Churches of Jesus Christ in and about London that were then threatned to be dissolved and Laws made to prevent the Communion of Saints with one another except only in that one publick Form then about to be established to the astonishment of many of us that had lifted up our hands to God and sworn to endeavour a Reformation according to the Word of God and therefore after much waiting upon God by prayer and examining our own hearts about the ends and sincerity thereof we were abundantly satisfied that it was not onely lawful but our duty to keep our Arms in our hands till the ends beforementioned should be accomplished and to that purpose the Army whereof we are a part did refuse to disband did march up to London to propose to the Parliament a way of Establishment that might be more for the carrying on of the ends of Religion and Liberty though therein we were not at that time successful yet most wonderfully and graciously preserved by the Lord and extraordinarily convinced after much seeking the Face of God that our failing was in endeavouring to set up the King upon any terms he being a man of so much blood that the Lord would have no peace with him nor any that should go about to establish him Whereupon after his own hard heart had hindred him from yeilding to any overtures that were made to him by the Parliament through whom all the Armies Proposals were to be tendered and a second War more dangerous then the former contrived by him and his Son now with you together with those in Scotland that ●…ated us of the Army of England under the name of Sectaries being by the unspeakable goodness and mighty power of God waded through and a second testimony given from Heaven to justifie the proceedings of his poor servants against that bloody Antichristian brood though with the loss of many precious Saints we were then powerfully convinced that the Lords purpose was to deal with the late King as a man of blood And being perswaded in our consciences That he and his Monarchy was one of the ten horns of the Beast spoken of Rev. 17.12,13,14,15 and being witnesses to so much of the innocent blood of the Saints that he had shed in supporting the Beast and considering the loud cries of the souls of the Saints under the Altar we were extraordinarily carryed forth to desire Justice upon the King that man of blood And to that purpose petitioned our Superiour Officers and the Parliament to bring him to Justice which accordingly by an high hand of Providence was brought to pass which Act we are confident the Lord will own in preserving the Commonwealth of England against all Kingdoms and Nations that shall adventure to meddle with them upon that account When God executes his judgements upon Malefactors let none go about to resist When he brings forth those his Enemies that will not suffer Jesus Christ to be King in the midst of his Saints and breaks them in pieces like a Potters vessel let not Scotland nor any other Nation say What dost thou We fear they have been too busie already the Lord that sees the secrets of all hearts knows the compliance of Scotland with the late Kings Issue now with you was in order to disturb the Peace of England for being Gods Executioners upon a bloody Tyrant and a supporter of the Throne of the Beast But blessed be the Lord the crafty are taken in their own suare England sits in peace whilst Scotland receives into their chief City their new King at the very hour wherein an Army had marched 300 miles is sacing them at the very gates We wish our Brethren of Scotland especially those that truly fear the Lord would consider these things and not slight the Providences of God so much as they do When Scotland chose new gods and would have a King out of a Family that God had rejected then was War in the Gates And though we do not think Providences alone a sufficient rule for Gods people to walk by yet we do know that the Lord speaks to his people by his Providence as well as by his Word and he is angry with his people that do not take notice thereof and promiseth blessing to those that do Psa 107. and the latter end And here give us leave not in a boasting spirit but in meekness and fear to tell you That we are perswaded we are poor unworthy instruments in Gods hand to break his Enemies and preserve his people You have acknowledged us in your own papers to be a rod of iron to dash in pieces the Malignants but withal say We must now be broken in pieces because we now set our selvs against the Lor of Gods inheritance Let us here speak for our selves yea the Lord speak for us who knows our hearts and all our ways we value the Churches of Jesus Christ who are the Lot of Gods inheritance ten thousand times above our own lives yea we do bless the Lord we are not onely a Rod of Iron to dash the common enemies in pieces but also a hedge though very unworthy about Christs Vineyard and if we know our own hearts where ever the Lot of Gods inheritance shall appear to be found in Scotland we shall think it our duty to the utmost hazard of our lives to preserve the same But if there be any that have taken counsel together against the Lord and against his Anoynted whom the Lord hath decreed to set upon his holy Hill of Zion we are perswaded the Lord hath brought us hither as instruments through which he will speak to them in his wrath and vex them in his sore