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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

it into the hands that might be called from several parts of the Nation this necessity I say and we hope may say for our selves this integrity of laboring to devest the Sword of the power and authority in the civil administration of it hath been that that hath moved us to conclude of this course and having done that we think we cannot with the discharge of our consciences but offer somewhat unto you as I said before for our own exoneration it having been the practise of others who have voluntarily and out of sense of duty devested themselves and devolved the Government into the hands of others it having been the practice where such things have been done and very consonant to reason together with the authority to lay a charge in such away as we hope we do and to press to the duty which we have a word or two to offer to you Truly GOD hath called you to this work by I think as wonderful providences as ever past upon the sons of men in so short a time And truly I think taking the Arguments of necessity for the Government must not fall take the appearances of the Will of God in this thing I am sure you would have been loath it should have been resigned into the hands of wicked men and enemies I am sure God would not have it so It comes therefore to you by way of necessity it comes to you by the way of the wise Providence of God though through weak hands and therefore I think it coming through our hands though such as we are it may not be taken ill if we offer to you something as to the discharge of that trust which is incumbent upon you And although I seem to speak that which may have the face of a charge it is a very humble one and he that means to be a servant to you who are called to the exercise of the supreme Authority to discharge that which he conceives is his duty in his own and his fellows names to you I hope who will take it in good part And truly I shall not hold you long in that because I hope it is written in your hearts to approve your selves to God onely This Scripture I shall remember to you which hath been much upon my spirit Hosea 11 and 12 verse Yet Judah ruleth with God and is faithful among the Saints Charges the old Parliament in their fasting and praying to compass God about with lyes it is said before Ephraim did compass God about with lies and Israel with deceit how God hath been compassed about with Fastings and Thanksgivings and other exercises and transactions I think we have all to lament why truly you are called by God to rule with him and for him and you are called to be faithful with the Saints who have been somewhat instrumental to your call he that ruleth over men the Scripture saith he must be just ruling in the fear of God And truly it is better to pray for you then to counsel you in that that you may exercise the judgment of mercy and truth I say it is better for you to do it then to advise you to ask wisdom from heaven for you which I am confident many thousands of Saints do this day and have done and will do through the permission of God and his assistance to advise you onely truly I thought of a Scripture likewise that seems to be but a Scripture of common application to every man as a Christian wherein he is counselled to ask wisdom and he is told what is that wisdom that is from above it is pure peaceable gentle casie to be intreated full of good fruits without partiality without hypocrisie and my thoughts ran thus upon this that the executing of the judgment of truth for that is the judgment that you must have Wisdom from above for and that is pure that will teach you to execute the judgment of truth and then if God give you hearts to be easie to be intreated to be peaceable spirits to be full of good fruits bearing good fruits to the Nation to men as men to the people of God to all in their several stations this wisdom will teach you to execute the judgment of Mercy and Truth And I have little more to say to this I shall rather bend my prayers for you in that behalf as I said before and I know many others do also Truly the judgment of truth will teach you to be as just towards an Unbeleever as towards a Beleever and it is our duty to do so I confess I have often said it foolishly If I would miscarry I would rather do it to a Beleever then to an Unbeleever perhaps it is a Paradox but let us take heed of doing it to either exercising injustice to either if God fill our hearts with such a spirit as Moses and Paul had which was not onely a spirit for the Beleevers among the people of God but for the whole people he would have dyed for them and so Paul to his Countrymen according to the flesh he could have dyed for them truly this will help us to execute the judgment of Truth and Mercy also A second thing is to desire you would be faithful with the Saints and I hope whatever others may think ought to be to us all matter of tejoycing that as one person our Saviour was touched with our infirmities that he might be pitiful I do think this Assembly thus called is very much touched with the common infirmity of the Saints and I hope that will teach you to pity others that so Saints of one sort may not be our interest but that we may have respect unto all though of different judgments And if I did seem to speak any thing that might seem to reflect upon those of the Presbyterian Judgment I think if you have not an interest of love for them will hardly answer this faithfulness to his Saints I confess in my pilgrimage and some exercises I have had abroad I did read that Scripture often in Isaiah 41 and 19. When God gave me and some of my fellows what he would there and elsewhere which he performed for us and what would he do to what end That he might plant in the wilderness the Cedar and the Shitta tree and the Mirtle tree and the Palm tree together To what end That they might know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this And that the Lord hath created it that he wrought all salvation and deliverance which he hath wrought for the good of the whole flock therefore I beseech you but I think I need not have a care of the whole flock love all the Sheep love the Lambs love all and tender all and cherish all and countenance all in all things that are good and if the poorest Christian the most mistaken Christian should desire to live peaceably and quietly under you soberly and humbly desire to

lead a life in godliness and honesty let him be protected I think I need as little advise you concerning the propagation of the Gospel and incouraging such Ministers and such a Ministry as be faithful in the Land upon whom the true character is Men that have truly received the spirit for such a use which Christians will be well able to discern and do men that have received Gifts from him that ascended on high and led Captivity Captive for the work before mentioned and truly the Apostle Romans 12. when he had summoned up all the Mercies of God and the goodness of God and hath discoursed of the foundations of the Gospel and of the several things that are the subject of his discourse in the 11 first Chapters after he hath besonght them to offer up their Souls and Bodies a living sacrifice to God Rom. 12. he beseecheth not to esteem more highly of themselves then they ought but that they would be humble and sober minded and not stretch themselves beyond their line but they would have a care to those that had received Gifts to these uses there mentioned I speak not it is far from my heart for a Ministry deriving it self through the Papacy and pretending to that which is so much insisted upon to be succession the true succession is through the Spirit given in that measure that the Spirit is given and that is a right succession but I need not discourse of these things to you I am perswaded you are taught of God in a greater measure then my self in these things indeed I have but one word more to say and that is though in that perhaps I shall shew my weakness it is by way of encouragement to you to go on in this work And give me leave to begin thus I confess I never looked to see such a day as this it may be nor you Owning Christ in accepting the Call when Jesus Christ shall be owned as he is this day and in this world Jesus Christ is owned this day by you all and you own him by your willingness in appearing here and you manifest this as far as poor creatures can to be a day of the power of Christ by your willingness Psa 110.1 I know you remember that Scripture in Psalm 110.3 The people shall be willing in the day of thy Power God doth manifest it to be a day of the power of Jesus Christ Having through so much blood and so much trials as have been upon these Nations made this to be one of the great issues thereof The Saints called to Rule to have a people called to the Supreme Authority upon such an avowed account God hath owned his Son by this and you by your willingness do own Jesus Christ and therefore for my part I confess I did never look to see such a sight perhaps you are not known by face one to another but we must tell you this that indeed we have not allowed our selves in the choyce of one person in whom we had not this good hope that there was Faith in Jesus Christ and love unto all his Saints and People And thus God hath owned you in the face and eyes of the world and thus by your coming hither have you owned him as it is in Isaiah 43.21 It is an high expression and look to your own hearts whether now or hereafter God shall apply it to you Esa 43.21 This people saith he I have formed for my self that they might shew forth my praise It is a memorable place and I hope not unfitly applyed God apply it to each of your hearts Why these called of God 7. Reasons I shall not descant upon the words they are plain you are as like the forming of God as ever people were 1. Their not seeking to come into Power if any man should ask you one by one and should tender a Book to you you would date to swear that neither directly nor indirectly did you seek to come hither you have been passive in coming hither in being called hither and that is an active word This people I have formed Consider the Circumstances by which you are called together through what dissiculties through what strivings through what blood you are come hither Neither you nor I nor no man living three moneths ago had a thought to have seen such a company taking upon them or rather being called to the supreme Authority and therefore own your call Indeed I think as it may be truly said that never was a supreme Authority consisting of so numerous a Body as you are which I believe are above 140 were never in the supreme Authority under such a Notion in such a way of owning of God and being owned by him and therefore I say also never a people formed for such a purpose so called if it were time to compare your standing with those that have been called by the suffrages of the people who can tell how soon God may fit the People for such a thing and who would defire any thing more in the world but that it might be so I would all the Lords people were Prophets I would they were fit to be called and fit to call The Reason why the Nation is not fit to chuse because not owning Christs interest and it is the longing of our hearts to see them once own the INTEREST OF JESUS CHRIST and give me leave to say if I know any thing in the world what is there more like to win the people to the Interest and love of God Nay what a duty will lye upon you to have your conversation such as that they may love you that they may see you lay out your time and spirits for them Is not this the most likely way to bring them to their Liberties and do you not by this put it upon God to finde the time and the season for it by powring forth his Spirit at least by convincing them Regal power thraldom bondage that as men fearing God have fought them out of their thraldome and bondage under the Regal Power so men fearing God rule them in the fear of God and take care to administer good unto them but this is some digression I say own your call for indeed it is marvellous and it is of God 2. Reason unthought of unprojected by them and it hath been unprojected unthought of by you and us and that hath been the way God hath dealt with us all along to keep things from our eyes that what we have acted we have seen nothing before us which also is a witness in some measure to our integrity I say you are called with a high Call and why should we be afraid to say or think 3. Because agreeable to the Word of Promise that this way may be the door to usher in things that God hath promised and prophesied of and to set the hearts of his people to wait for and