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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34529	Eye-salve for English-men, and an alarvm to the Londoners wherein is contained the summary of Romes late designes against England, and the present plots and enterprizes in hand against London, so many as hath yet come to the knowledge of the author : together with the opening of an effectual door, to the happiness of this nation : whereunto is annexed a postscript containing reasons and motives to his Highness and the present power in being, to grant us s[u]ch a committee which hath been long promised, and much longer desired and sought for / composed for the view of His Highness, and all the people of England, by Jeffrey Corbet ...	Corbet, Jeffrey.	1654 (1654)	Wing C6244; ESTC R39395	24,070	29

us and ●hi Nation good my Lord I beseech you observe those that are most ●olici●ous against i● and you shall see them discovered to be no friends to 〈◊〉 nor to this Commonwealth and now my dear countryme● all as I ●ave earnestly intreated some of you never to stir 〈◊〉 by way of hostility for truly they do destroy themselves and families and indanger the whole N 〈…〉 ion for the sworn enemies thereof have made themselves as strong as possible they can waiting an opportunity to destroy us all therefore it b 〈…〉 veth every man to have his eye about them and to watch the movings or these vipers who do seek to eat out the belly of their mother and so I do as earnestly intreat you all to stir from every several County and City by impo●●unate pe●itions to move the Protector to grant us this committee and then we shal see more good done in one quarter of a year then ev●● all the Lawyers did since they were first created And I beseech you give him no rest for I know that his melting heart cannot deny nor with hold so great a good from this nation for he cannot but see that it is a thing most acceptable both to God and man And now a word to the poor scatteced Saints who goeth sighing and mourning after their God and thirsting after a more f 〈…〉 ll ●evelation and manifestation of the unchangeable love of the father unto or in them I do say to these life up your heads f●r your r●d●mption draweth near the Lord whom you seek w●l come suddai●ly into h●● Temple Christ is even at the doors to make himself glorious in his Saints and admired in them that believe and no wonder though they do admire their God to think that notwithstanding all their wretched sinful courses whereby they have provoked God to his fa●● and done as much as in them ●y to ungod him yet not ●ithstanding his love is continued stil unto us and all that he doth to us either for matter of prosperity or adversi●y all is out of his love to win●s back again unto himself though he be inforced somtimes to strip us of all our lovers that so we may at the last he arken to the voice of our first love and then when he hath allured us to hearken to him and that he hath spoken comfortable unto us he then procedeth to batter and break us all to pieces in our parts nay and in our graces also and maketh us to know that we do not only stand in need of the grace of God but even of the god of grace to binde us up and to cure us of all our incurable diseases as pride hardness of heart and unbelief for it requireth no less power to work faith in an unbelieving soul then it did to raise Christ from the dead and if once we have found god to be a faith working god what cannot that soul trust god with he can trust him with al his graces and his righteousness and be content to seek a righteosness in him who is the Lord our righteousness and then when he leveth in us we shall act righteously and Iustly And yet not wee but the grace of god in us or rather the god of grace in us these has fellowship both with the father and with the son And they do go to the father in the same unction with the son and can say father we know that thou hearest us alwaies to these I speak desiring to stir up their pure minds to be carefull that when the father draweth them they do run unto him and by his own power surprise him and let him not go til he doth bless this nation with the establishing of justice Judgment and Righteousness hold him fast I say and press him to it for god cannot refuse to grant his own desires which he hath stird up in us by his spirit for Father Son and Spirit are one and all of one mind and desireth in us of god nothin● but what is the mind of god both Father and Son then why should we doubt but that Christ is at the very dores for how strongly doth the spirit cry in his poor despised ones and Christ saith when the son of man commeth shall he finde faith on the earth truly there is almost none that can believe that Christ is so near his coming as he is but do we not s●e almost all the scripture fufilled which are to be fulfilled before his coming as the great abounding of in●quity and the like Oh! let us not doubt but believe for if we can believe all things are possible and truly I am confident that for this work I shall stir up all the corrupt Lawyers the Papists Priests and Iesuits and all the Traitors and Tyrants of this nation to combine together to destroy me and then will pursue me even as so many eagles purfueth a partridg upon the mountains but my god who is my father and husband can preserve me from them all and receive me as hee did the dove into the Ark with the olive branch in her mouth but whether he wil or not yet let them know that I fear them not in the least for the worst hurt they can do to me is to break in pieces this vail of fl 〈…〉 sh which keepeth me absent from my God but I am sure so long as my father hath any work for me to do they shall have no power over me and when I have finished his work I shall be ready to surrender that life which I have carried in my hands these five yeers ready to resign it into the hands of whom soever hee shall ●end for it for then I shall enjoy the full fruition of that which he hath given me but an earnest of then I shal remain with him for ever and see him as he is Christ was obedient to the wil of the father even unto death and therefore sin hel and death were to weak to hold him but was by the eternal spirit raised unto glory and he hath given the same glory unto his members and if thou wil● imm●●ate our head in doing the wil of the Father by establishing justice and mercy then all the bands of wickedness and snares of death wherewith thy f●●ttring enemies have incompassed thee withall whereby ●●ine ears are stopped f●om hea●ing the cries of the poor I say they shall all be broken and be too weak to hold thee and thou shalt be ●a●sed to a higher degree of glory then ever any meer man that went before thee for assuredly the neighbor nations d 〈…〉 b●gin to tremble at thee already and if God shall once appear ●n England in iustice iudgment and mercy the I cell thee they shall all fall before thee and the good that shall come to this nation by Iustice wil make all the commons of other nations rather invite thee then oppose thee Oh! therefore do the wil of thy God be faithful

Mountains And I beseech you all consider that God is about his overturning work and he will overturn and overturn until the Government be put into Christs hands and then we shall have justice for the Prophet saith that he is just We have had many overturns but there is a greater behind then any of the former and I hope it will be but the overthrow of all the corrupt powers of the Nation with the overthrow of the corrupt practice of the Law also Man was happy so long as he acted the will of God but when he sell to acting of his own will he made himself and ●ost●●●●ity miserable And I cannot but admire at men that think to make themselves happy by seeking of their own wills Oh! when I do consider the actings of many of the Magistrates of this Nation who are men of great Estates and yet do daily break down the hedg of the Law which God hath set about them to preserve them and their Estates from the Sons of violence I say when I do consider their frequent practice therein it doth make me tr●mble to think of the fearful event which might ensue if others should take example by them therefore I do earnestly beseech them all both for their own good and the good of the whole Nation that they do now begin to act in the will of God for in so doing they shall be blamless both in the eyes of God and man for I am sure that man can never be happy until he doth return into that co●●ition wherein be was first happy and when our wills are bou●d up wholly in the will of our God then all contro●●●sie ceaseth between the Creator and his creatures without which we cannot be happy And truly when the new overturn shall come I think the wisest man alive cannot say what party shall be undermost but this I am confident of that Christ will be uppermost for Antichrist hath had his day and the Sun thereof is a setting and the day of Christ is a dawning therefore let all the Agents of Antichrist know that they will suddenly know that all their labor is in vain although they have digged deep to hide their Councel from the Lord yea even to the bottom of Hell it self yet let them know that God is there and that nothing can he hid from his All-seeing eye and the woe that God hath denounced against them shall assuredly overtake them speedily and I cannot but wonder at their blindnes that they do not see the hand of the Lord stretched forth against them and how he hath made good his promise that no weapon formed against him shall prosper for if it could certainly we had been swallowed up long since Oh that this Nation from the highest to the lowest would hearken what this speaking providence of late years doth say and that they would have their ey● in their heads to see how by a mighty and an out stretched arm he hath wrought salvation to his people both in England Ireland and Scotland Could any hand but the hand of Jehovah have done it When they had 20. nay I am confident they had 40. for one and yet God hath carried it against them notwithstanding all the falsness of those ●at seemed to stand for us What treachery and perfideousness hath and may be discovered in some that sat at the Helm Is the Popes Emissaries would seriously consider the mighty wonders that God hath wrought since these troubles began it would make them cease to indanger themselves and to perplex us for though they have an excellent faculty in fomenting and continuing divisions amongst us yet I must tell them that they do begin their work at the wrong end for their divisions reacheth but to the creature and so long as the Creator is not devided the Trinity is still in unity for the Father is not against the Son nor the Son against the Spirit nor the Spirit against the Father but they are all one and do set themselves to carry on one design which is to advance the Son therefore until they can work a devision in the Deitie it is impossible that they should ever accomplish their design and Iam sure God can never be devided in himselfe and I do beleeve that a great part of them are convinced of it and consequently of the impossibility of their prevailing against the Members of Christ but they must shew of what house they doe come of for they are like to their Father the Devill who knoweth he cannot prevaile yet he will do as much mischief as he can for he knoweth his time is short and therefore he rageth and would not have this Nation have a being neither in England nor Ireland and therefore hath he stirred up nustruments of cruel●y to raise such mercilesse taxes in Ireland as I thinke the like was never known in the world but they that have eyes to ●ee may see that God is a consuming of Antichrist with the spirit of his outh and will shortly abolish him utterly with the brightnesse of his coming Therefore my c●unsell to all the Governors and Magistrates of this Nation is to close hands with Christ in doing the will of the Father for he saith If hee seeketh his own will his judgement is not just how then can they thinke that they doe justice whilst they doe seek their own wils but let them take heed for Christ will prevaile and he will have the will and the Law of his Father established therefore I beseech you close with him in it fo● all power in Heaven and Earth is committed into his hands and he will prove a burthensome stone to crush in pieces all those that shall be found to oppose him for he will make all his enemies his Foot-stoole I could wish that the Governors of the City of London had in time thought of these things and then some of them would not have acted as they have done in binding over to the Sessions and good behaviours and afterwards commit him to prison that did discover to him the designe of the Irish Priests and Iesuits to burne the Citty and to massacre the people thereof I thinke that God hath bereaved them the use of common reason for could they think to escape any better then other men but there was more in it then I will commit to publick view at this time yet I hope God will stir up the Inhabitants of this City to importune our Grandees not to suffer those to have Government in this City who have brought off and acquitted the Plotter of the most dedesperate bloody designe that ever was set on foot in the world and stiffled the treachery of a dangerous Enemy of this Common-wealth and have punished those that did discover them My Lord I doe once againe intreat you as you tender your own safety to take heed of ●●attere●s who cry peace and safety even when that destruction which they have plotted is ready to seize upon

oppressing King and his potent partie yet notwithstanding all this mighty work of God our everlasting Parliament would not learn righteousness but went on in the same oppressing courses if not greater until they by walking in the same paths with their Predicessors come to the same shameful downfal which befel them for did not God cause their Sun to set at noon day and did not they go out like the snuff of a candle and have left a foul stink behind them And how contemptible hath God made them in the eyes of the people and although the action was so unheard of and so contrary to the letter of the Law yet I did never hear one so much as mutter against it for the people were sensible of their pe●●idiousness in breaking of their trust by neglecting to seek the publick good of the Nation and seeking of their own particular advancement by unjust practises and bribery and acting of several Treasons against the Nation as endeavoring to cut your Highnes and our Army by assisting of the late King and endeavoring the destruction of this City with many other horrid villanies 〈…〉 e releasing of the Priests and Jesuites and many bloody Irish Rebels the countenancing of the sworn enemies of the Nation and discountenancing of the most cordial friends thereof even to the distruction of some of them their ●●ocking to Goldsmiths Hall by 5 8. or 10 at a time to help delinquents to come of 〈◊〉 an easie rate which to me did then speak thus much that they would have their Estates preserved that so they might be still able to carry on their wicked and hellish design against this Nation But my Lord this is that which doth stick upon the spirits of the people that these men were never questioned for all their villanies committed by them that so there might have been a difference between the precious and the vild that those few that were found faithful amongst them might have been had in singular honour for God had a small handful amongst them of faithful ones who did spend their spirits to keep the Common w●al●h from u●ter desolation and did precu●e some good things for their Country which I think did exceed all that went before them But my Lord I know not what to say to these things more than this that God doth suffer it to be so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled in saying Let God be tr●e and all men lyars and hath not the Spirit told us That because Justice is not speedily executed 〈◊〉 an evil work the hearts of the s●us of men are set in them to do evil and that continually for if Justice had been executed upon William O Couner and his accomplices all the villanies that were committed by our perfidions Parliament Committes and others ha been preve 〈…〉 ed and if Justice 〈◊〉 been done upon them then the enemies du●st not have contiived this destinction against you and this Nation And I beseech you give me leave by the way to tell you that it is impossible to reconcile Christ and Antichrist together and that you cannot with safety put S●●pents in your b●som and not be destroyed by them until their stings be pluck● out For can you remove that enmity which God hath put between the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent then you may with safety close with them but if you cannot as I am sure you cannot for it is not in the power of men and Angels to do it then take heed what you do for if you have any further to do with them it will be your destruction Oh I beseech you call to mind the great and unparralel'd mercies which God hath vouchiased to you in England Ireland and Scotland for I dare say you dare not think that you did atchieve them by your own strength or policie or by the power of your own arm and if not than it must need be by the power of the Lamb and if so than certainly he hath merited somthing at your hands by it Therefore why do you so evi●ly requite him and suffer all those mercies to be burie● in oblivion Do you think that he did exalt you to the throne for you to leave him still sitting upon the Dunghi● and suff 〈…〉 h●● Members and the friends of the Common-wealth to be still ●rampled upon and destroyed by unjust Judges and Antichristion Lawyers and such base varlets as dare without ground imprison ●en at their pleasure and constrain others to confine themselves to their own houses to the utter undoing of them and their families chusing that rather than to be destroyed by mercyless blood-sucking J●ylors in stinking prisons My Lord I beseech you remember that you are sworn to maintain the Law and I am sure that all the jugling Antichristan Lawyers in England are not able to produce any Law for these things neither can there be any Law made to destroy the people seeing that the safety of the people is above all Law And now I beseech you in the Bowels of Jesus Christ not to suffer this unspeakable deliverance which doth bring in the bowels of it all our former mercies for if the enemy had now prevailed all the former mercies had been destroyed as if they had never been● Oh let it not be passed over as all the former hath been but let it awaken you to works of justice and mercy and to break off your sins by repentance and your iniquities by showing merey to the p●or for God hath shewed thee what is good na●ely to do justice to love mercy and to walk humble with thy G●d And my Lord you have born the name of a religious man for many years and the Apostle James doth tell us that pure Religion and 〈◊〉 filed before God and the Father is to visite the fatherless and the window in their adversity and to keep our selves unspotted from the world Now if God be pleased to give this mercy such a setting on upon your heart by the power of his eternal Spirit that it doth awaken thee to hearken to the voice of the Lord then thou shalt stand in despite of men and devils but if thou dost refuse to hearken unto the word of the Lord and walk perversly towards thy God I do then tell thee from the mind of God in Scriptures that thou shalt fall and not stand though all the Nations of the Earth should combine together to prevent it For I am sure that all the N●●ions of the earth are not able to rescue one man out of the ●ands of Jesus Christ when he shall seize upon him to call him to an account for his perfidious dealing with him Therefore be wise O Princes and l●arned O Rulers of the earth Kiss the Son least he be angry with you and you perish in the mid way For the Stone which is cut out of the Mountain without hands shall break down all Powers and shall be exalted above the top of all