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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

Undertakings Hazards and Services for the Cause cannot well be numbred or set forth unless the drinking of King Charles's or as is so commonly spoken his Fathers Landlords health whose Abilities in Praying and Preaching and Love to the Sectaries being much like his Cousin Dick Ingoldsby's and he so very likely to be his Fathers Successour and to inherit his noble Vertues in being the light of the Eyes and breath of the Nostrils of the old Heathenish Popish Laws and Customs of the Nation especially among the Learned the University of Oxford have therefore thought fit he being also no very good Scholar to chuse him their Chancellour And though he was not judged meet not having a Spirit of Government for it to have a Command in the Army when there was fighting or honest and wise enough to be one of the little Parliament yet is he become a Colonel of Horse now fighting is over as also taken in to be one of the Protectors Council and one of the Other House and to have the First Negative Voyce over the good People of this Commonwealth being in so hopeful a way to have the great Negative Voyce over the whole after his Fathers Death 2. Commissioner Fiennes Son of the Lord Say a Member sometime of the Long Parliament and then a Colonel under the Earl of Essex had the command and keeping of Bristol but gave it up cowardly as it 's said for which he had like to have lost his head he being a lover of Kingship and Monarchy as well as his Father was taken in by the Protector at his first setting up to be one of his Council and made Commissioner of the great Seal as also Keeper of the Privy-Seal whereby his Interest and Revenue is raised from two or three hundred per annum to two or a three thousand and more And for his Merits and Greatness being after the old mode he was taken out of the late Parliament to be the Mouth of the Protector in that Other House and so is fit no question to have the second Negative Voyce over the good People of these Lands 3. Henry Lawrence a Gentleman of a Courtly Breed and a good Trencher Man who when the Bishops ruffled in their Pride and Tyranny went over to Holland afterwards came back and became a Member of the Long Parliament fell off at the beheading the late King and change of the Government for which the Protector then Lieutenant-General with great Zeal declared That a Neutral Spirit was more to be abhor'd then a Cavaleere Spirit and that such men as he were not fit to be used in such a day as that when God was cutting down Kingship root and branch yet came in play again upon design in the Little Parliament and contributed much to the dissolving of them as also setting up the Protector and settling the Instrument of Government and a single Person affirming That other foundation could no man lay For which worthy Services and as a Snare or Bait to win over or at least quiet the baptised people himself being under that Ordinance he was made and continued President of the Protectors Council where he hath signed many an Arbitrary and Illegal Warrant for the carrying of honest faithful men to Prisons and Exile without cause unless their not apostatizing with them from just and honest principles His Merits are great and many being every way thorough-paced and a great Adorer of Kingship so as he deserveth no doubt and is every way fit to be taken out of the Parliament to have the third place of Honour and Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people of these Lands 4. Lieutenant-General Fleetwood a Gentleman formerly of the Long Parliament and a Colonel of their Army then Lieutenant-General afterward married honest Iretons Widdow the Protectors eldest Daughter Major General Lambert being put by by the Parliament from going over to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant it savouring too much of Monarchy and being not willing to accept of a lower Title he was sent over thither under the Title of Lord Deputy in his room where he continued about three years and to put a check upon those godly men there who are no Friends to Monarchy he was sent for over again and cajoled in to be one of the Protectors Council as also Major General of divers Counties in England his Salary supposed worth b 6600 l. per annum by all which he is become advanced to a princely Interest and Revenue he is one of good principles had he kept them and of good words like his Father-in-law whereby he hath deceived many an honest man and drawn them from the Good Old Cause and by that way hath greatly served the Protectors Designes His Merits therefore are such as he no question also deserves to be taken out of the House and made a Peer and to have a Negative Voyce in the other House when it shall be named Lords notwithstanding he so helpt in the Army and Long Parliament to throw down the House of Lords and to destroy their Negative Voyce and did fight against it in the King 5. Colonel Disbrow a Gentleman or Yeoman of about sixty or seventy pounds per annum at the beginning of the Wars who being allyed to the Protector by Marriage of his Sister he cast away his Spade and took a Sword and rise with him in the Wars and in like manner upon the Principles of Justice and Freedom advanced his Interest very much if he were not of the Long Parliament he was of the Little One which he helped to break Being grown considerable he cast away the Principles by which he rise and took on Principles of Violence and Tyranny and helped to set up the Protector for which he was made one of his Council and one of the c Generals at Sea and hath a princely command at Land being Major General of divers Counties in the West as also one of the Lords of the Cinque Ports His Interest and Greatness being so far advanced his Merits must needs be great and he every way fit to be taken out of the House and put into the Other House with a Negative Voyce over the good people for that with his Sword he can set up that again in the Protector and himself which before he cut down in the King and Lords 6. Lord Viscount Lisle Eldest Son of the Earl of Leicester he was of the Long Parliament to the Last and at the change of Government and making Laws of Treason against a single persons Rule and no question concur'd with the rest therein he was also of the Little Parliament and of all the Parliaments since was all along of the Protectors d Council and was never to seek who having learned so much by changing with every Change and keeping still like his Father-in-law the Earl of Salisbury and Peter Sterry on that side which hath proved Trump nothing need farther be said of his fitness being such a

helped to break it and then according to Rev. 11. 10 rejoyced and made merry with the rest of his brethren in Colonel Sydenhams Chamber c. as the Lawyers and other vild persons made Bonfires and drank Sack at the Temple and elsewhere but if ever a spirit of Life from God which is not far off comes in to raise up that honest Spirit by which some of them were acted will not he his brethren and the rest of that earthly rout the false Spirit of Magistracy and Ministry be tormented and afraid He was of the Parliaments since and no doubt of right principles to the Court interest wherein his own is bound up Is one that helps on the bondage in divers great d Committees where he sits and is therefore no question the more fit to be called Lord Roberts and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people being so greatly experienced in that way already having continued in the aforesaid Committee so long 34. Colonel John Jones a Gentleman of Wales one of the Long Parliament was a Commissioner in Ireland for governing that Nation under the Parliament One of good principles for common Justice and Freedom had he kept them and not fallen into temptation he helped to change the Government and make those Laws of Treason against a single persons Rule hath a considerable Revenue and it 's likely did not lose by his employment he is Governour of the Isle of Anglesey and lately marryed the Protectors Sister a Widdow by which means he might have become a great man indeed did not something stick which he cannot well get down he is not thorough paced for the Court-proceedings nor is his conscience fully hardned against the Good Old Cause but there is great hope no question that in time he may be towardly however for Relation sake he may be counted fit with his Name-sake and Countryman Philip to be called Lord Jones and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over the people and all his being against such things formerly may be forgiven and not once remembred against him 35. Mr. Edmond Thomas a Gentleman of Wales of considerable means a Friend of Philip Joneses and allyed to Walter Strickland both of the Council and brought in upon their account and of complying principles no question to say no more of him not having been long in play being none of the great Zealots or high Sectaries so called in Wales may doubtless be counted wise and good enough to make a simple Lord of the Other House and to be called Lord Thomas and to have a Negative Voyce over all the good people in Wales with his Countrymen John and Philip and over all the people of these Lands besides 36. Sir Francis Russel Knight Baronet of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Cambridgeshire of a considerable Revenue in the beginning of the Wars was first for the King then for the Parliament and a Colonel of Foot under the Earl of Manchester a man like William Sedgwick high flown but not serious or substantial in his principles he continued in his Command till the new Model then took offence and fell off or laid aside by them no great Zealot for the cause therefore not judged honest serious or wise enough to be of the little Parliament yet was of these latter Paliaments Is also Chamberlain of Chester at about 500 l. per annum he marryed his eldest Daughter to Harry Cromwel second son of the Protector then Colonel of Horse now Lord Deputy so called of Ireland another to Colonel Reynolds a new Knight and General of the English Army in France under Cardinal Mazarine since with e Colonel White and others cast away coming from Mardike there is no question but his principles are for Kingship and the new Court being so greatly concern'd therein wherefore it were great pity if he should not also be taken out of the House to be a Lord of the Other House his Son-in-law being so great a Lord and have a Negative Voyce over Cambridgeshire and all the people of these Lands besides 37. Sir William Strickland Knight of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Yorkshire and brother to Walter Strickland was of the Parliament a long time but hath now it seems forgotten the cause of fighting with and cutting off the late Kings head and suppressing the Lords their House and Negative Voyce He was of these Latter Parliaments and of good compliance no question with the new Court and settling the Protector anew in all those things for which the King was cut off wherefore he is fit no doubt to be taken out of the House and made a Lord the rather for that his younger brother Walter is so great a Lord and by whom in all likelyhood he will be steer'd to use his Negative Voyce in the Other House over Yorkshire and the people of these Lands to the interest of the Court 38. Sir Richard Onsloe Knight of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Surrey of good parts and a considerable Revenue he was of the Long Parliament and with much ado thorough his policy steer'd his course between the two Rocks of King and Parliament weather'd some fore Storms was not his man taken in his company by the Guard in Southwark with Commissions of Array in his Pocket from the King and scurrilous Songs against the Roundheads Yet by his interest rode it out till Colonel Pride came with his Purge then suffer'd loss and came no more in play till about Worcester fight when by the help of some Friends in Parliament he was impowred to raise and lead as Colonel a Regiment of Surry men against the Scots and their King but came too late to fight it being over being popular in Surry he was of the Latter Parliaments is fully for Kingship and was never otherwise and stickled much among the 70 Kinglings to that end and seeing he cannot have young Charles old Oliver will serve his turn so he have one so that he is very fit to be Lord Onsloe and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over Surry if they please and all the people of these Lands besides whether they please or not 39. Mr. John Fiennes Son of the Lord Say and Brother to Commissioner Fiennes brought in it 's likely for one upon his score is in a kind such a one as they call a Sectary but no great stickler therefore not being redeemed from the fear and favour of man will it is probable follow his brother who is as it is thought much steer'd by old Subtilty his Father that lies in his Den as Thurloe by his Mr. St. Johns and will say No with the rest when any thing opposes the interest of the new Court their power and greatness and may therefore pass for one to be a Lord and to have a Negative Voyce

in the Other House over all in Oxfordshire the University men onely excepted and over all the people of these Lands besides 40. Sir John Hubbard Knight Baronet of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Norfolk of a considerable Estate part whereof came lately to him by the Death of a Kinsman he was of these latter Parliaments but not of the former had medled very little if at all in throwing down Kingship but hath stickled very much in helping to re-establish and build it up again and a great stickler among the late Kinglings who petitioned the Protector to be King his principles being so right for Kingship and Tyranny he is in great favour at Court as well as Dick Ingoldsby and no question deserves to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to exercise a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all the good men in Norfolk and all the people of these Lands besides being become so very tame and gentle 41. Sir Thomas Honywood Knight of the old Stamp a Gentleman of Essex of a considerable Revenue he was a Committee-man in the time of the Long Parliament and also a Military man and led as Colonel a Regiment of Essex-men to the fight at Worcester came in good time and fought well against Kingship and Tyranny in the House of the Stewarts was of the last Parliament he is not so wise as Solomon or so substantial and thorough in his principles for Righteousness and Freedom as Job chap. 29. but rather soft in his spirit and too easie like a Nose of Wax to be turn'd on that side where the greatest strength is being therefore of so hopeful principles for the New Court interest and so likely to comply with their will and pleasure no doubt need be made of his fitness to be a Lord and to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House over all the good men in Essex the now Lord of Warwick the Protectors Brother-in-law excepted and all the people of these Lands besides 42. Lord Ewre a Gentleman of Yorkshire not very bulky or imperious for a Lord he was once well esteemed of for honesty and therefore chosen to be one of the Little Parliament hath also been of all the Parliaments since the Yorkshire men happily may like his being new Lorded and that he should have a Negative Voyce over them the rather because they never chose him to any such thing the Protector being so well satisfied with his principles and easiness like his fellow-Lord Honywood to be wrought up to do whatever their will and pleasure is and to say No when they would have him it is very meet he also pass for one to be taken out of the House to have a Negative Voyce in the Other House not onely over Yorkshire but all the good people of the Commonwealth beside being a Lord of the old Stamp already 43. Mr. Hampden now Lord Hampden a young Gentleman of Buckinghamshire son of the late Colonel Hampden that Noble Patriot and Defender of the Rights and Liberties of the English Nation of famous memory never to be forgotten for withstanding the King in the case of Ship-money being also one of the five impeached Members which the said King endeavoured to have pulled out of the Parliament whereupon followed such feud war and shedding of blood This young Gentleman Mr. Hampden was the last of sixty two which were added singly by the Protector after the choice of sixty together it is very likely that Colonel Ingoldsby or some other Friend at Court got a Cardinals Hat for him thereby to settle and secure him to the Interest of the new Court and wholly take him off from the thoughts of ever following his fathers steps or inheriting his noble vertues as likewise that the honest men in Buckinghamshire and all other that are lovers of Freedom and Justice that cleaved so cordially to and went so cheerfully along with his Father in the beginning of the late War might be out of all hopes of him and give him over for lost to the Good Old Cause and inheriting his Fathers noble spirit and principles though he doth his Lands He was of the latter Parliament and found right saving in the design upon which he was made a Lord after all the rest and the Protectors pleasure It is very hard to say how fit he is to be a Lord and how well a Negative Voyce over the good people of this Land and his Fathers Friends in particular will become the son of such a Father and how well the aforesaid good people now called Sectaries will like of it but being it is as it is let him pass for one as fit to be taken out of the House with the rest to have a Negative Voyce and let him exercise it in the Other House over the good people for a season Sir Arthur Haslerigg Lord No stop there not Lord Haslerigg a Knight of the old Stamp a Gentleman of a very large Estate and Revenue was one of the Long Parliament and one of the five impeached Members whom the King endeavoured to have pulled out of the House with the other but was hindered from doing of it was a Colonel in the Army and adventured far in the Wars continued of that Parliament till the dissolution thereof was also chosen of these latter Parliaments but not permitted to sit at the first he was by the Protector as may be seen in the printed List cut out for a Lord of the Other House and to have a wooden Dagger to wit a Negative Voyce with the rest but he missed his way and instead of going into the Other House among the simple Negative men the f Off-spring of the Bastard of William the sixth Duke of Normandy he went into the Parliament-House among his fellow Englishmen and there spake freely bearing a good witness in behalf of the Good Old Cause the Rights and Liberties of the people of England at which the Court were vexed and sore displeased However for all this losing of his way and the loss sustained by it his Fame and Name amongst all true English spirits will be higher and more honourable then the simple Title of a New Lord could make him and instead of a Negative Voyce in the Other House he will be honoured by after Ages as a rare Phoenix that of forty four was found standing alone to his principles and the Good Old Cause so bled for Oh sad and wonderful but one of forty four to be found standing firm to so noble a Cause as ever was on foot since the world began Let all true English Spirits love and honour him and that will be better then a Feather in his Cap or a wooden Dagger His Name for ever in the Chronicles will live as one that was a true Patriot of his Countries Liberties which noble action if he persevere and be more refined in that honest spirit may deservedly obliterate all humane frailties and

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

your Major Corn Yes Josh. What are they Corn A pretty number of them Then the Major began to answer to one but nothing to the purpose but before the Major had done your most serene Protector or Joshua unjustly takes part with the Major to help him out saying to the Cornet You Article against your Major because he is for me you are a n n Meaning the officers who often met to seek the Lord and bewail their Apostacy from the Good Old Cause company of Mutineers you deserve a hundred of you to be hanged and I will hang you and strip you as a man would strip an Eele you talk of preaching and praying men they are the men that go about to undermine me And clapping his hand upon Colonel Ingoldsby's shoulder said Go thy way Dick Ingoldsby thou canst neither preach nor pray but I will believe thee before I will believe twenty of them And says he to the Cornet You never owned my Father you have lost your Commission and shall never ride more in this Army c. and a great deal more to this purpose which I leave to Pragmaticus formerly the old now the new Court-Pamphleter more perfectly to relate Is this speaking or action the righteousness and peace kissing each other that you so speak hath been since he took the Government upon him Or would Joshua Solomon or Elisha thus take part with wickedness and wicked men and do so unrighteous and wicked an Action and speak thus profanely and wickedly Surely no VVherefore acknowledge your iniquity and lye low before the Lord for these your blasphemous lying flattering Expressions in your wicked Addresses whereby you have so reproached and wronged good Joshua Solomon and Elisha in making such undue Comparisons wherefore repent you flattering Courtiers Peter Sterry and ye other Court-Chaplains Repent repent Thomas Goodwin and ye Pastors and Messengers of as it 's said above an hundred Congregational Churches in England Repent you Apostate Army Repent you Mayor Aldermen Common Council and Militia of London whose Principles are so base and mercenary and like a Beast looking downward as to side with whether right or wrong whatever is uppermost like your Sword-Bearer and Officers who cry Grace grace and bow to one Lord Maior to day and do the same to the next the morrow Repent also you Presbyterian Classical Ministers of the City c. who by the perswasion of three or four eminent self-interested Cycophants among you were drawn in against your Light and Consciences to carry your bodies to White-hall leaving your hearty good will at home to address your selves to this new Golden Calf as an owning of him and this from unbelief and slavish fear of being frowned upon or losing your Parish places VVill such a practice as this stand good before the Lord in the day of your account Repent also all of you for your spending 50 or 60000 l. about a Heathenish Popish Funeral pomp not onely wicked in it self but at a time when so many tradesmen and others break and are ready to starve and when you had done then following an image of wax to Westminster as if it had been a dead mans body wherein you lyed unto and mocked both God and man Repent also you Country professors and others of these flattering blasphemous lying Addresses and speak nor do no more so wickedly lest the Judgements of the Lord break in upon you as upon back sliding Israel of old and your carcasses fall in the wilderness c. as theirs did for making and then dancing about the Moulten Calf and their desiring to make a Captain to return into Egypt and opposing the Spirit of the Lord in Moses Caleb and Joshua and his work in that day And take heed Oh you Parliament that you do not say or do as these have done whom I so call if you keep close to and endeavour the promotion of the Good Old Cause and cast out the false sp rit of the Egyptian Bond-woman the Protector so called and his Lords and make way for and bring in the Spirit of Zion the Freewoman the true spirit of Magistracy by Judges and Counsellours as at the beginning men fearing God and hating Covetousness and faithful with all the saints If you thus proceed my self and the Lords faithful people will love own live and dye with you if not we shall abhor and dis-own you as we did the former and now Protector and his Lords and shall trust God with our Liberties and not fear your Frowns And now a word for your encouragement my Friends who remain faithful to the Lord in this evil day and are as it were in the Clefts of the Rocks Cant. 2. 14. and secret places of the stairs in pain crying and praying night and day giving the Lord no rest Isai. 6 ● 6 7. till he revive the Good Old Cause and cause the Righteousness of Zion to go forth as brightness and the Salvation thereof as a Lamp that burneth and until he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth whose voyce in his account going forth in the power of his spirit from the sweetness you have tasted in communion with himself in the discovery of this glory is sweet and countenance is comely and unto whom he will in the best time say Rise up my love my fair one and come away for lo the winter is past the rain is over and gone Isa. 26. 20. The flowers appear on the earth Isai. 35. 2. chap. 51. 3. The time of the singing of birds is come Isa. 35. 6. And the voyce of the turtle is heard in our land Zach. 12. 10. And will rejoyce over you as the Bridegroom over the Bride with joy and singing and will rest in his love Zeph. 3. 17. compared with Isa. 62. 5. VVherefore be not dampt or discouraged in your spirits at the hearing and sight of the late Addresses nor at the great Cloud of VVitnesses therein seeming to own the present and former Governour What though many of them are men of such raised gifts and parts and appearing grace which to such as have not their eyes in their heads and look not within the vail may have an appearance the Lord doth own them and approves of what hath been formerly and lately done for though they are so great a Cloud of VVitnesses yet they are but VVitnesses in the Clouds whose Testimony Carnal Wisdom Policy and Arm of Flesh will pass away like the morning Cloud or early dew for the spirit of the Lord in his people like the waters Isa. 28. 17. hath overflown and looked into their hiding place abhor'd and blown upon them therefore follow not a multitude to do evil What though there be so many Prophets great Scholars learned Astrologers and wise men among them yet know that amongst almost 400 Prophets in the days of Ahab and Jehosaphat but one Micaiah a true prophet that had the mind of God among all the congregation that were going from Egypt

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

you be do according to the heart of God and having this excellent spirit so freely to make it your meat drink to execute judgement and therein to make your shadow as the night in the midst of the noon-day to the oppressed you will abhor to bewray to wit give up their right and freedom into the hands of Tyrants and Spoylers Tole to the oppressed as a hiding place from the wind a covert from the tempest as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land and as rivers of water in a dry place standing open ready to refresh those that are thirsty will be the frame of Christ and the Saints the Horn of David that shall reign in righteousness c Isa. 31. 1 2. Then those that dwell under your shadow shall return from their oppression revive as the corn and grow as the vine and your savour among both good and bad concern'd in you will be as the wine of Lebanon Hos. 13. and shall say The Lord bless thee thou habitation of Justice c. and wait for to wit desire after you as the dry ground for the rain and open their mouths wide as the mowed parch'd ground for the latter rain Job 29. 23. The foundation of the eternal welfare of your souls being first laid thorough faith in Christ and an holy unblamable conversation without which you cannot attain unto the other it will then be your crown and rejoycing to forget the things behind and to come up hither for herein doth the Lord delight as also will be the great glory of the latter days and as you are in the power glory and sweetness of his spirit herein exercised will he delight in and rejoyce over you and you will live as it were in heaven while you are upon the earth and he will be for your protection as a place of broad rivers streams wherein shall go no gally with oars or gallant ship pass thereby c. Isa. 33. Yea your bow as Jobs renewed in your hand to shoot at your enemies upon all occasions The presence of God being thus with you your terrour will be upon all both at home and abroad that have a mind to hurt you according to Psa. 48. God is known in●er palaces for a refuge for lo the kings were assembled they passed by together they saw it and so they marvelled they were troubled and hasted away fear took hold upon them there pain as of a woman in travel thou brakest the ships of Tarshish c. This salvation and forementioned righteousness is the righteousness and salvation of Zion spoken of Isa. 62. 1. which those who understand and taste the glory and sweetness of cannot will not hold their peace or to be at rest till it go forth as brightness or as a lamp that burneth This is the true spirit Be growing up in your light and in the frame of your spirit to these things in order to which pray for the dawnings of that measure of the spirit which the Lord hath promised to pour forth in the latter days The ordinary measures of the spirit relating onely to the work within will not do it therefore is it that so many saints at this day turn in with the spirit and things of Babylon Do not like Alderman Tichborn pretend to serve your Country freely and afterwards take great Salaries the people are poor and it is your duty that have Estates to take nothing from them except they freely give it so ought also the Ministers of Christ to do With other Scriptures read Micha 3. A word on the behalf of that faithful servant of the Lord Mr. John Portmans now close prisoner under lock night and day in the Tower of London so that none may come with freedom to visit him Prov. 31. 8. Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction THe Reader may take notice That Mr. Portmans formerly Secretary to the Navy could not in conscience continue his employment under this Apostacy though it were worth more then 300 l. per annum and for his faithfulness to the cause of God his people and the Nation hath amongst others been a sufferer unto Bonds in the Tower this 17 of the 11 month 1658 a year wanting 3 weeks never hearing what was laid to his charge or that there was any to accuse him of evil having demanded of Col. Barkstead his Jaylor when first brought in by his Souldiers what his Crime was could get no answer neither was there any exprest in the Warrant by which he was apprehended the substance whereof was That he should be brought into the Tower to be kept until the further pleasure of the late Tyrant whom the Warrant blasphemously stiled his Highness the Lord Protector who being lately dead Mr. Portmans took notice of it in a Letter to Col. Barkstead delivered to his hand by two faithful Brethren meekly demanding If he had any further Warrant to continue him a prisoner if he had that then he might have a Copy or at least the sight of it which if he had not in some short time he must conclude there was none and therefore his occasions to go forth for the well-being of his Family urging him to it he should assay to attend upon them but if upon Tryal he found the force continued he must consider what might be his further duty This for substance but with more plainness was intimated in the Letter and accordingly a week after not hearing from him about three in an afternoon not disguised but in his constant habit he went to the gate expecting to be stopped rather then otherwise but finding the passage free went forth to his Brother-in-laws house not with an intent to conceal himself from whence he was again taken within an hour This is briefly and truly the matter of Fact and may it 's hoped justifie him in his attempt not to be left to any thing unbecoming a sober Christian yet was he the rather induced thus to do upon words not long before spoken by Col. Barkstead viz. That he might go out if he would asking some friends If there were no way to perswade him to it c. There needs nothing be said to such as know that foul-mouth'd Malignant Nedham to wipe off the reproach he hath raised in his Pamphlet that Mr. Portmans should say He would not go out if the gates were open until he was satisfied for his imprisonment to go about to do it were to imply that the Pamphletter did sometimes speak truth which should he do he would be utterly disabled to serve his Masters who make lies their refuge and hire him at no small charge as a means to uphold their own reputation to asperse the faithful in the Land yet considering the report may come to those that know him not such may be assured That Mr Portmans never spake any such thing but hath ever declared That he should not continue