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A86675 A word of wisdom and counsel to the officers and souldiers of the army in England, &c. To weigh and consider before the light and power of their day be shut up in darknesse when they cannot act for God. Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662. 1659 (1659) Wing H3242; ESTC R229349 3,771 1

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enjoy that Liberty and Freedom which they have long waited for and suffer none to act that persecution in your names which hath already covered the Nation with blacknesse and darknesse and hath brought Gods curse upon their proceedings One thing is upon me to acquaint you with which many of you it may be doth not know which is this One of the little horns which pushed persecuted the Lambs of Christ is springing up again and begins to be as fierce as ever For yesterday in the Exchequer at Westminster Judge Parker and Judge Wilde would not receive a true answer from an honest man who is well known for his uprightnesse against a false Bill prohibited against him by a Priest unlesse he would give it in upon Oath and therefore because he could not swear for Conscience sake but did testifie the Truth from his heart he was committed Prisoner to the Fleet and several others True and Just men and Friends to the Common-wealth was denied the Law and their answers rejected because they could not swear but in whose names and by whose authority they act those things is not yet declared to the Nation If those Judges act those things in the name and by the authority of the Army or their late chosen Counsel let it be openly manifest and if not but they did it in their own names let the Nation know it For this is worse then the last Parliament who did set many free who were so imprisoned did give commissions and receive Testimony without swearing and Judge Parker seems to have forgotten that knowledge and fidelity which he had of that people when he went his last circuit in the North and his so favouring the Priests now shews that he hath forgotten since he confest that he was Sermon-sick at Carlisle this last Summer when he wished that a Quaker had been there and saw that they had reason to declare against them c. But to us it is no strange thing to see men so apt to change and to betray their own knowledge for filthy lucre sake while the corruption of the Laws through bribery and deceit is upheld which once the Souldiers had a clear fight of and a determination to pull down and now it is the onely day of their tryal to prove themselves and it is doing of that which you have accused the Parliaments for not doing that must make you manifest for people will no longer believe words for your selves know that the good people of the Nation have made daily complaints and Petitions and the Officers and Souldiers also against that general oppression of Tithes and the Parliament hath onely given them thanks for their good expressions and good affections but done nothing until their thanks did even become loathsom to the people Is it not a grievous thing and intollerable to be born that innocent and faithful men who see and deny the Priests deceit should be forced whether by Law or Violence to give them the tenth part of all their labours and increase and they with that mony to buy horse and arms to raise a Rebellion to murther and destroy those men who deny to give them that which your Law hath caused to be taken from them and so both the Law and Priesthood is joyned together in oppression of the people And the Nation is very sensible that all this while they have but been deceived by promises and fair pretences Therefore be diligent to improve the light of your day before the Sun set upon you and you be shut up in darknesse and the power to do good be taken from you A Member of his Army who makes war with the sword of his mouth RICHARD HUBBERTHORN London the 24 of the 8. mo 1659. LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659.