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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91056	The proceeds of the Protector (so called) and his Councill against Sir Henry Vane, Knight. A late eminent Member of the Councill of State of the Common-wealth of England: as touching his imprisonment in the Isle of Wight. Together with his testimony delivered in writing to the said Protector, by way of a peculiar addresse to himself, and faithfull advice of an old friend and acquaintance. Faithfully transcribed and attested out of the original copy's, and published by a reall well-wisher to Sions prosperity and Englands liberty.	Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3629; Thomason E889_11; Thomason E937_2*; ESTC R203365	7,900	11

these lines as the Testimony which upon this occasion I desire to speak before your own conscience in the sight of God The Scripture saith he that will save his life shall loose it and he that will loose his life for Christs sake and the Gospell in faithfull witnesse bearing shall save it This Word of the Lord is in especiall manner fulfilling amongst the Saints and people of God at this day whom the Lord is bringing very eminently upon the stage of tryall and sufferings and that not onely from open enemies that sin in a declared prophane spirit but from equalls and friends that have gone into the House of God in company and taken sweet counsell together in all their concern's but yet come at last to hate their Brethren and cast them out under a pretence of Z●al and glorifying God therein And to come a little nearer the Case in hand this great Truth is hastening a pace to be made good in those principles that spirit and course of action your Lordship is found in and in those which the Lord enables me to own and professe and is bringing me through his rich grace in some weak measure to the practice of which are to cleave to what is right and good though power be on the other side to oppose it The Messuage which in former times you fent me is in my Memory still it was immediately after the Lord had appeared with you against Duke Hamiltons Army when you bid a Friend of mine tell your Brother Vane for so you then thought fit to call me that you were as much unsatisfied with his passive and suffering principles as he was with your active and indeed I must crave leave to make you this Reply at this time that I am as little satisfied with your active and self-establishing Principles in the lively colours wherein daily they shew themselves as you are or can be with my passive Ones and am willing in thi● to joyn issue with you and to begg of the Lord to judge between us and to give the decision according to truth and righteousnesse And having named Truth and Righteousnesse surely it may but too truly be said that amongst us remains nothing but the Name the power and life thereof seems to be ceased from our land and is banished from the societies of most men Yet my Lord it is that whereby the actions and practice of all men are to be ruled as well of Governors as of the governed Governours themselves are neither to be nor make themselves more then what in truth and righteousnes they are and ought to be When they swerve from this rule they become sinners and must look by transgression to fall as well as the lowest of the People That which in truth of fact you were is vissible enough to every eye that is to say under the Legislative Authority of the People Represensented in Parliament duly chosen and rightly constituted you and the Force under your command are the Nations strength and formed military Power kept up by a derived Authority from them at a settled Pay to be imployed for the Nations use and service and theirs onely and over this Military body you are by them placed as the head This then is the Power which duly and properly you are and more than this I am not satisfied in my Conscience is in Truth and Righteousnesse appertaining unto you to use this power lawfully is your honour your duty your safety as well as their well-fare and preservation for whom it was raised and is still pay'd To use this unlawfully as evidently you doe when you go about to assume and establish to your selfe the Power of your head and at best will but allow them but to share with you in their known Right to the Legislative Authority unto your whom your self and the Army under your Command acknowledged the whole to be due when as a seale set to this their Authority they caused justice to be done upon the late King you then become like that one finner which Eccles 9.19 is said to destroy much good and do forget that wisdome which teaches and restrains from such unlawfull use of force and strength is better then weapons of war mannaged never so successefully in a way of destroying that which is right and good whatever worldly gain and advantage in other respects to be obtained thereby And although your own Conscience cannot but consent to the truth of what is here told you in the name and fear of the Lord yet being strong and trusting to the power of your sword which is Flesh and not Spirit is man and not God your heart is lifted up if you speedily repent not unto your destruction for you are not able to hear the reproofs of the Lord nor the faithfull witnesse and advice of his Saints and people that in love and true friendship disswade you from going on in this way as foreseeing and foretelling your ruine and destruction therein And the fears they have that you will not ruine alone forasmuch as their outward safety welfare is so very far included in yours Nor doth the Witnesse of the Saints which they bear against you rest here but it is too evident to those of them that have a spirit of discerning that in reference as well to Christ your heavenly head as to the good people of this Nation in Parliament Assembled and rightly Constituted who were and ought to be your earthly Head you lift up your heel and harden your self every day more than other in a fixed Resolution not to become subject as is your duty nor to hold and keep your self in your due station alloted to you in the Body but are ayming at the Throne in spirituals as well as Temporals and to set up your self in a capacity of not holding your head either in the one consideration or the other And if this evill be in you at the bottome be assured the Lord will speedily lay it open as before the Sun and none of the webbs you are weaving will prove garments to cover your nakednesse neither will your agreements or convenants with death stand even those pollitick contrivances and conjunctions with those that are the enemies whether open or secret against the Spirit of life and the workings and manifestations thereof in the suffering Saints and annointed ones of the Lord Jesus whom the Lord is about to own for his wisedome in the midst of the Earth unto which excellent Spirit that shall be found in those holy ones of the Lord not onely this Nations wisedome in their very supream Assembly but the Ruling powers of the whole world shall yield subjection and think it their glory to become subservient to the bringing forth of the new Heavens and that new Earth wherein dwells righteousnesse and truth this is the foundation Stone Elect and precious which through faith is seen to be laid already in our Sion at this day which those that believe and make not hast shall arrive to the experience of and shall discerne that this Stone is in cutting out amongst us without hands to its becoming a great Mountain and filling the whole Earth Take then in good part before it be too late this faithfull warning and following advice of an ancient friend but is now thought fit to be used and dealt with as an Enemy Break off timely your sinnes by repentance do judgement execute justice and walk humbly before the Lord yea rent your hearts and not your garments for those are the fasts the Lord hath chosen break every yoak and let the oppressed go free in one word proceed no further in lifting up your self against the Lord of Heaven but instead of causing the vessells of his house even his most precious Saints to be brought before you as you do daily for to exercise publique scorn and tryumph over them see that your true interest lies with them and in them as well now as hertofore and endeavour to recover their hearts to you and their prayers for you least your God in whose hands your breath is and whose are all your waies whom you have not cared to glorify as you ought should arise suddenly and teare you in pieces by the immediate stroak of his own vengeance and there be none to deliver even such of you who live in pleasure on the Earth and have been wanton and nourished your selves as in a day of slaughter who have condemned and in your hearts killed the just One and he doth not resist you But behold the Judge standeth at the door FINIS