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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

the Kingdom and Interest of Jesus Christ and Supporters of the Throne of the Beast been with all their Adherents by Sea and Land engaged with vanquisht and subdued broken like Potters vessels and the righteous judgments of God executed upon many of the heads of them as Traytors and Rebels Was King and Kingship as standing in opposition to the Kingdom of Christ being as was said one of the ten horns of the Beast Rev. 17. taken away Was the Parliamentary Authority defaced garbled purged and at last utterly broke as Obstructers hereof and that by the Army at their desire and to the great joy of most of the godly in the Land as having lost the Spirit of the Cause and so far degenerated into a selfish and persecuting Spirit that there appeared an enmity thereto And lastly was there another people called eminently by the Lord to own assert and carry on this cause and interest of Christs Kingly Authority to whom all due subjection was promised for Christs sake as to an Authority God had set over them to such an end 1 Quest Whether it will not necessarily follow that either the Parliament Army Ministers and others that have thus stated asserted engaged in such a cause as Gods and Christs and founding it upon the Word of God to the shaking and breaking all visible Rule and Government which for so many hundred years hath in Church and State been over us in these Nations have either been grosly deluded and so become guilty of all the blood that hath been spilt in this quarrel and consequently a company of Munster-spirited Tyrants Traytors and Murderers as it hath been reflected upon them and so ought to repent in dust and ashes and to endeavour all due satisfaction possible to Cavaleers Scots Prelates and Presbyters or if stated upon sound principles of Truth and Righteousness which the Lord hath eminently owned and led to step by step and that all this shaking overturning that hath been made in Church and State in order to the pulling down of Babylon and exalting the Kingdom of his Son is warranted and justified by the holy Scripture then doubtless ought this Cause to be owned adhered unto and prest after with all zeal and fidelity and they are to be esteemed Apostates Revolters and Backsliders that shall decline or turn aside herefrom 2 Quest Whether the Army who in so much seeming light and love to God bringing this glorious cause into the hands of his people having broken down the National constitution with a declared subjection to them for Christs sake are not guilty of most dreadful Apostacy and Rebellion against him his Crown and Dignity First in breaking that Assembly so by the Lord in that eminent manner called together whilst in the faithful prosecution of the said cause Secondly in setting up their Apostate General and afterwards his Son even in contradiction to all the Lords wondersul works amongst us as heads of Church and State and to whom were made all those blasphemous dreadsul Addresses Oaths and Engagements to the licking up their vomit again owning and establishing all the Pride Tyranny and Idolatry under new names and pretences that had been so contemptuously cast down amongst us viz. Kingship Peerage and Prelacy under the terms of Protector an Other House and Tryers who being set up and an assay made to confirm all by Parliament their Counsel being confounded so that they could not bring about their Enterprises as a further fruit of backsliding the Army have sought out another invention to withstand the true heir the Lord Jesus and kept him from his right by calling together such as formerly were by them dissolved for want of spirit and being in opposition to the Lords work and that it was so in truth have not very many of them given sufficient evidence by being Principals in the late Apostacy and the generality such as stuck not to lift up their hands to the most High that they would be true and faithful to the now deposed Usurper And those few of renown amongst them whose integrity was tryed it 's to be feared in the conclusion may serve for little more then to give countenance to what further their deceived hearts are lusting after of which some proof is already given in their votes for continuing the oppression in paying Tythes keeping from sale Hampton Court and White hall but more especially their Act of Indempnity sufficiently justifying the wicked and consequently condemning the righteous 3 Quest Whether they who have owned the Lord in all his dispensations in the midst of all these oppositions and declension of others ought not to be esteemed the well-affected to the Cause of God his people and this Nation rather then slanderously reported Munster-spirited and fanatick Obj. What would these people have The Cavaleeres old and new with the Commonwealths-men have somewhat to offer but these neither know what they say or whereof they affirm Answ Were it granted they were so weak as not to be able to hold forth some well-composed Model of Government being still it may be better at pulling down as is said page 24. line 10. then building up and establishing works is this a good Argument to slight any rational dissatisfaction to what is now set up If Episcopacy had never been taken away until some well ordered Church Government had been offered to succeed it by the Puritans who were then esteemed as ignoraut giddy and fanatique because they did not would it not have remained to this day But for further satisfaction there are four things in the Assirmative wherein there seems to be a general agreement amongst this people tending much to settlement upon a righteous Foundation 1. In reference to their Soveraign That the Lord Jesus Christ in whose Name and by whose blessing and strength the mighty works have been effected amongst us against Tyranny in the Civil and Antichristianism in the Ecclesiastick State may be publickly owned Our only Lord and King from whom as the head all Power Rule and Authority in Church and State is to be derived in opposition to every other Title without which alteration since the Foundations are out of course it will be utterly impossible there should be any subsistence for that the Image-Government or fourth Beasts constitution must as certainly be overturned and broken to give way to this Fifth Kingdom as the other were broken to give way to the fourth Dan. 2. 1 Tim. 6.15 He is the blessed and onely Potentate King of kings and Lord of lords John 5.27 And hath given him Authority to execute judgment also because he is the Son of man Isaiah 9.6 The Government shall be upon his shoulders Obj. How can Christ be said to be our King is he not in heaven Answ God was Israels King of old though heaven was his habitation 1 Chron. 29.23 Solomon sate on the Throne of the Lord 1 Chron. 29.23 2 Chron. 9.8 When Israel would imitate other Nations in making them a King they

all the people of God that this great Change may have the extraordinary blessing of God upon it By this inclosed Declaration you will perceive what provision is made for the present management of Affairs till persons of approved Fidelity and Honesty may be called to take upon them the Supreme Authority of this Commonwealth which being done we may have cause to hope the Lord will make them a future blessing to us Dear Friends we are perswaded this is the Lords own work and ought to be mavellous in our eyes the Lord hath once and again pulled down the Mighty from their seats and we trust it is that himself may raign and therefore let the earth rejoyce and these our Islands be glad thereof for though clouds and darkness be round about him yet Righteousness and Judgment are the habitation of his Throne The Lord is terrible in his doings therefore the guilty world will tremble but Sionshall hear and be glad and the daughters of Judah shall rejoyce because of his judgments Let us therefore dear Brethren serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling for we are not without hope that our Lord Jesus Christ who is the King of Saints will henceforth shew himself to be the King of Nations also We do not doubt but the Lord will make your hearts as ours in this great business and that as the Lord hath wonderfully stirred up the heart of his Excellency the Lord General to put himself upon God in this great undertaking for the interest of Jesus Christ and his people so we shall adhere to him and one to another therein We know your sincere love to Christ and his people is such that we shall use no Arguments unto you but onely mind you That when the Lord called you to the service of Ireland at a solemn meeting of the Officers designed for Ireland with those that remained here after that we had with many prayers and tears recommended one another into the bosome of Christ we did also in the presence of each other and before the Lord solemnly submit our selves and all our affairs to be whollyat his dispose resolving through the influence of his Spirit in all our politick undertakings not to seek our selves but the advancement of the affairs and kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ In this Spirit and with these Resolutions we parted with one another and the Lord hath blessed us hitherto and lo we are yet alive though thousands of our dear Brethren who engaged with us are dead The Lord grant we may with our lives be instrumental to carry on and preserve that Cause and Interest which was by them valued above their lives and whose blood cryeth loud to us to persevere therein unto the end Let us therefore we beseech you provoke both you and our selves not to consult with carnal reason in these great Mutations but let us labour by faith to see the Lord carry on his own work and to manifest our selves whom God hath called and chosen to these stations wherein we stand to be also faithful in doing the work unto which he shall appoint us Dear Brethren the work hath hitherto been to break and pull down which every one almost seemeth to be good at but it 's now the expectation of good men that Building and Establishing work shall follow for which yet there are not in our view many fit and therefore it will be your duty and ours to pray without ceasing that those whom God shall call to the Government may be men full of the Holy Ghost and of Power and may have his continual presence in the carrying on of so great a work on the issue whereof depends as we are perswaded the interest of the Saints throughout the whole world Now the Lord keep our hearts close to himself that so however things go about we may be found walking as becometh the Gospel of Christ in faith towards God in love one towards another and in Peace and Righteousness towards all men Which that we may do let us earnestly beg your continual and servent Prayers even as we desire to make mention of you as often as we encompass the Throne of Grace in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ in whom we are Your most affectionate Friends and Brethren John Lambert John Disbrow Edward Whalley Thomas Harrison William Constable Adrian Scroop Nathaniel Rich Matthew Tomlinson Philip Twisleton Thomas Pride Thomas Cooper William Goffe Ralph Coblet Francis Hacker Charles Worsley Francis White Thomas Kelsey Thomas Biscoe Robert Swallow Roger Alsopp Arthur Husbands Griffith Lloyd John Mason Thomas Saunders John Hodgson Jeoffrey Elatson Edward Orpin Samuel Lark John Caitnes John Wigan Edward Walley Richard Merest John Robinson Edmund Chillenden George Smithson William Packer William Style Francis Allen William Farley William Malin Richard Hatter Phil. 1.18 What then notwithstanding every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached and I therein do rejoyce yea and will rejoyce The spiritually wise cannot but soon discern whether the breathings of the Lords holy Spirit are more visible in this then the Armies late as it 's called repentance and the chief Officers may do well to consider whether it were not better with them when they avouched the Lord to be their God even Christ to be the King of Nations then since changing their glory into shame they are found amongst the scoffers saying Where is the promise of his coming and they may observe the dissolution of the Parliament however many now would have it accompted onely a precipitate Act of their General yet it had a very serious and deliberate owning by them who can no otherwise be justified in that or formet undertakings thereby following the Lord in paths untroden contradictory to this old Antichristian worlds frame and constitution or as their own expression in their Letter is By resigning themselves and all their affairs to be wholly at the Lords dispose resolving through the influence of his Spirit in all their publick undertakings not to seek themselves but the advansement of the Affairs and Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ But how faithfully this hath been observed the light in their own consciences can best satisfie them if they dare ask the question The Lord General CROMWEL His SPEECH At the Council-Chamber to the Persons then Assembled by Summons July 4. 1653. GENTLEMEN I Suppose the Summons that hath been instrumental to bring you hither gives you well to understand the cause of your being here Howbeit having something to impart which is an Instrument drawn up by the consent and advice of the principal Officers of the Army which is a little as we conceive more significant then that other of Summons we have that here to tender you And we have somewhat likewise further to say to you for our own exoneration and we hope it may be somewhat further to your satisfaction And therefore seeing you sit here somewhat uneasie by reason of the scantness of the

did not reject Samuel but the Lord from raigning over them 1 Sam. 8.7 And Gideen said unto them I will not rule over you neither shall my Son the Lord shall rule over them Why therefore should it be thought strange that Christ Jesus should be admitted to his regal Authority though in Heaven to whom the Father hath given all power in Heaven and Earth And why may not Christ be owned Head of the State as of the Church there being hundreds of Congregations through grace in these Nations that admit of no other Head or Law-giver in the Church And why may he not as well Rule over and amongst us as suffer with us all the time of Antichrists Reign all that is done to his being done unto himself And these things are asserted in the Covenant but more fully by the General and Officers of the Army in their fore-mentioned Letters and Declarations 2. In reference to Laws That the Laws of this great King as they are recorded in the Old and New Testament remaining in force since his death be the declared Laws of this Nation in opposition to the Heathenish Tyrannous and Popish Laws yet in force amongst us Isai 8.19 Should not a people seek unto their god to the Laws to the Testimonies Isa 23.22 The Lord is our Law-giver he is our King he will save us Jam. 4.12 There is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy Deut. 4.8 What Nation so great as hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this Law set before you Keep therefore and do them for this is your wisdome and understanding in the sight of the Nations which shall hear all these statutes and say Surely this generation is a wise and understanding people Deut. 17.18,19,20 And it shall be when he sitteth upon the Throne of his Kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this Law in a book and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren It 's a Maxime in the Law asserted by Finch the great Lawyer Cook and others that no Act of Parliament or Law repugnant to the Law of God is of any force but how well our Law-makers have lived up hereto read Mr. Boon's Examen legum Angliae who comparing our Laws with the Scriptures finds 68 Laws expresly contrary to the Scriptures Read that excellent Letter of Eleutherius to King Lucius page 8. what light herein was declared for in that day 3. In reference to the Administrators That the people most read and best practicers of this excellent and perfect Law be chosen out to the Administration thereof under Christ in opposition to the ignorant prophane and scandalous and all both old and new Malignants that have visibly opposed him in his Word and Works and not given some suitable testimony of repentance Exod. 18.21 Num. 11.16 Deut. 1.13 Thoushalt provide of all the people able men such as fear God men of truth hating covetousness and place such over them to be Rulers 2 Sam. 23.2,3,4 The Spirit of the Lord spake and the Rock of Israel said He that rules over men must be just ruling in the fear of God Isai 1.26 And I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning Which principle is further asserted 1. By the Armies Petition 13 August 1652. who pray that only men fearing God and hating covetousness should be put into places of Authority and Trust and that all prophane scandalous and disaffected persons should be outed and the neglect hereof given as one of the grounds of the Parliaments dissolution 2. By the present Assembly at Westminster in their Declaration May 9. 1659. That all such as shall be in any place of Trust and Power within this Commonwealth be able for the discharge of such Trust and that they be persons fearing God that have given testimony of their true love to all the people of God and of their faithfuiness to the cause of this Commonwealth according to their Declaration of the seventh of May 1659. in which Declaration they further say That they shall vigorously endeavour the carrying on of Reformation so much desired and so often declared for to the end there may be a godly and faithful Magistracy and Ministry upheld in these Nations to the glory and praise of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the reviving and making glad the hearts of the upright in the Land But how well these good words are put in practice look within their own walls and may you not finde divers of the late Tyrants Council that persecuted and imprisoned so many of Gods people for their faithful witness to the Cause Is not their Speaker one of the new upstart Lords and are there not many others of the same stamp that sate in the Other House How many are there that swore Allegiance and fidelity both to the deceased and late deposed Protector How many scandalous persons How many unworthy Mercenary Lawyers And will these men pass for men fearing God true Lovers of Gods people and faithful to the Cause Are such like to carry on a vigorous and thorow Reformation so much desired to the glory and praise of our Lord Jesus Christ and making glad the hearts of the upright 4. In reference to the Ecclesiastical State 1. That a thorow Reformation be prest after according as is exprest in the Covenant agreeable to the Word of God and best reformed Churches 2. That such a Ministry may without restraint go forth as are faithful and have received the Spirit and gifts from on high for such a work and that are made able Ministers of the New Testament accepting Christs work out of love to souls together with such wages as he hath left in his word 3. That all Ecclesiastical Officers and Offices so called depending upon the Hierarchy may be extirpated root and branch whether Parsons Vicars Curates Patrons c. with their Maintenance Tythes Offerings Oblations Obventions Tenths First-Fruits as deriving their Rise and Authority from Antichrist supported by the Beast and for which there is not the least footing in the Word of God 4. That the Magistrate intermeddle not in the matters of Christs Church or Spiritual concernment imposing either Ministry maintenance or forms of worship suited to his interest which hath been the ground of all body and soul-oppression These being faithfully observed will administer equal and impartial justice to every one and tend to the recovery of the primitive and prophesied to be restored Ordinance of Magistracy making it a terrour to evil doers and a praise to them that do well so that none in well-doing of what perswasion soever can have cause to doubt of being protected in their persons and proprieties from such as shall attempt upon any pretence whatsoever to invade the same or of being in an equal capacity with others qualified for electing or being elected to a participation of Rule as any ability for the same may be given to them Page 23. line 35. for politick read publick Page 25. line 16. for thereby read then by Page 33. line 8. for petitioned for read pretended to There are other lesser faults but these needfully require amendment with the Pen or mention of them in an Errata FINIS

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