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A76758	Mene tekel, or, The council of officers of the Army, against the declarations, &c. of the Army. Wherein is flatly proved by the express words of the Armies declarations, that the sixth article of the * late address of the said council of officers to the Parliament, point-blank changeth the cause of liberty of conscience, from the good old one, to a bad new one; from that which at first, and all along the Army engaged in, and for, and declared to that which they engaged against. Moreover, that the imposition therein is agreeable neither to the Armies solemn declarations and engagements, nor to liberty of conscience, nor to the Scriptures of truth, but is contrary to them all ... Geo. Bishop.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3000; Thomason E999_13; ESTC R207833	40,890	51

and different That viz. the Settlement hath onely these viz. That such as professe Faith in God by Jesus Christ words few and simple The Addresse That all persons who professe Faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ his eternall Son the true God and in the holy Spirit God coequall with the Father and the Son One God blessed for ever Which because they are not all of them the words of Scripture for where saith it God coequall with the Father the Son And for that those of them which are Scripture words are no where spoken by the holy Ghost in the Scriptures so together as Ye have set them nor for that purpose viz. to hold forth a Distinction of Persons of three Persons in the Godhead or Trinity which the Imagination of Man hath formed of God which knowes not God And in regard these Your Tearms are laid as so many Shibboleths or Snares for the tender Consciences of those who cannot speak of God in the will and words that Mans wisdome teacheth which must be confounded but in the will of God and the words which the holy Ghost teacheth And forasmuch as ye are notwithstanding so Dogmaticall and peremptory therein as that ye make the Confession of this your Faith to be the Quallification sine qua non without which there is no Protection And have placed it as the bound or limit of Conscience-Liberty under which it must come or suffer which indeed destroyes Liberty of Conscience for where it is bound in any one Particular there it cannot be said to be Liberty of Conscience And inasmuch as Ye seem to set such a high value on the Scriptures that ye make the acknowledging of what ye have pleased to call it though not in its own words nor have ye made it to appear that it saith so of it self essentiall to Protection of which in the next particular And finally in that ye exact this Profession as the issue and fruit of all the bloud and Warrs and your late Deliverance I say upon these Considerations in the Name and dread of the Eternall God I do require you and all your Doctors and both their Mothers the two Universities and all their Children the Priests to prove in Plain and expresse Scripture words together where the Scriptures do attribute Faith or believing to the holy Spirit as a distinct Person as here ye have set it Or confesse that ye cannot and so raze out with your own Pens your new Confession of Faith contained in this Article which ye seek to enforce as the fruit and issue of all and with such a Penalty Or if ye are silent ye shall be taken pro confesso that is to say by your silence to confesse that ye cannot True it is the Scriptures bear Record of Christ that he said to his Disciples Ye believe in God believe also in me John 14. 1. And He that believeth in me as the Scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water this spake he of the holy Spirit which they that believe on him should receive for the holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified John 7. 39. And no man knoweth the Father but the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him The Comforter when he is come even the Spirit of Truth which proceedeth from the Father he shall testifie of me John 15. 25 26. And Paul said unto them at Ephesus Have ye received the holy Ghost since ye believed And they said unto him we have not so much as heard whether there be any holy Ghost And when Paul had laid his hands on them the holy Ghost came on them Act. 19. 1 2 6. And again In whom also after ye believed ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise Ephes 1. 13. And There are three that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the holy Ghost and these three are one And there are three that bear witnesse on earth the Spirit the Water and the Bloud and these three agree in one 1 John 5. 7 8. And this we believe and set our seals to But where say they as ye have exacted it Now the words of Mans wisdom concerning God which knowes not God which must be confounded which must be brought to nought which the holy Ghost teacheth not and the Doctrines which are not from the Spirit of Truth we reject Secondly that the words viz. And do acknowledge the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the revealed or written word or will of God Are wholly added as so many Shibboleths or snares also for those who in tenderness of Conscience to God cannot say of the Scriptures what they say not in their own words of themselves And that there be who in tenderness of Conscience to God cannot do thus is known by the sufferings of many in divers parts of the Nation because of it True it is the Scriptures say of Christ Jesus that in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God the same was in the beginning with God All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made And the word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us and we beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten son of the Father full of grace and truth John 1. 3 14. Vpholding all things by the word of his power Heb. 1. 3. His name is called the word of God King of Kings and Lord of Lords Revel 19. 13 16. And of this Word the Scriptures are a true declaration Luke 1. 1. And all Scriptures is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine for reproofe for correction for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good words 2 Tim. 3. 16. And the Prophesie came not in old time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1. 20 21. And this the Scripture saith of it self and this we own and testifie and our Testimony is true but as for the terms revealed or written word or will of God where sayes the Scripture such words I require you and your Doctors again to prove it for we cannot take a testimony of the Scripures which is not from the Spirit that gave it which spake its own words and its words we receive who have received the Spirit which cannot be imposed upon by the wisdome of man which must be confounded 'T is strange and a thing to be noted that ye your Priests and Doctors who keep such adoe about the Scriptures and who have put you upon this and so magnifie the Letter cannot make four lines of a Confession of your faith in the Letter of the Scriptures as appears by this your Article and that those whom ye seek to ensnare with terms about the Letter which it

upon which ye pretend to build now that ye are returned thither again The other your asserting after the then Wars and the Justice done on the King and the change of the Government thereupon what your selves and the People did expect and ought to reap of Liberty therefrom and Right as to All. First in the Sum of the Publick Intrest which had been the great Subject of the contest all along in the late Wars drawn up by you in your said Remonstrance and laid down as that which ye say the King had all along opposed to set up his and his posterities Will and Power and whereupon ye ground your charge against him ye assign nothing in the least of power in Parliaments that there was or ought to be any such or that it was any part of the Contest to impose in matters of Religion or Conscience but charge him with the opposing the Reformation intended and endeavoured by the Parliament as their proper work of what he had imposed in matters of Conscience and Religion For the proof of this see what ye have said Remonstrance pag. 14 15. The sum of the publick Interest say ye of the Nation in relation to Common Right and Freedome which hath been the chief subject of our Contest and in opposition to Tyranny and Injustice in Kings and Others we take to lie in these things following That for all matters of Supream Power or concernment to the safety and welfare of the whole the People have a Common or Supream Council and that the power of making Laws Constitutions and Offices for the Preservation and Government of the whole and of altering repealing and abolishing the same for the removing of any publick grievànce therein and the power of final Judgment concerning War or Peace the safety or welfare of the People and all Civil things whatsoevir here 's not a tittle of Religious without further appeal to any created standing Power and the Supream Trust in relation to all such things may rest in that Supream Council By this it is plain that to Settle or Create a Power in Parliaments to impose in matters of Religion or Conscience was no part of the publick Interest in contest in the Wars Now that the King had imposed in matters of Conscience or Religion and opposed the Reformation intended and endeavoured by the Parliament of what he had so imposed Here what ye also say in your own words The Matters aforementioned say ye * Remonstrance St. Albans page 18. to the Parliament being the main parts of Publick Interest originally contended for on our parts and them that engaged with you viz. the Parliament and thus opposed by the King for the Interest of his Will and Power many other particular or special Interests have fallen into Page 20. the contest on each Party As first on the Parliaments part to protect and countenance religious men and godliness in the power of it Who hath discountenanced and put such out of protection Now to the witness of God in you all I speak To give freedome and enlargement to the Gospel for the encreasing and spreading of Light amonst men Who endeavours to stop it now To take away those corrupted Forms of an out-side Religion and Church-Government whether imposed without a Law or rooted in the Law in times of Popish ignorance and Idolatry or of the Gospels dimmer light Who establishes such now whose light is dim now By means whereof chains and snares were laid upon conscientious and zealous men Who have laid chains and snares for such men now And the generality of the People held in darkness and superstition and a blind Reverence of persons and outward things fit for Popery and Slavery Who holds them so now and fits them for such And also to take away and loosen the dependance of the Clergy and Ecclesiastical affairs on the King Who hath put it on the Magistrate yea as the bottome of a Free State declared so now Which the craft of both in length of time had wrought for each other How crept it in and by whose craft hath it wrought it so and in so short a space now Which several things were the proper subject of the Reformation endeavoured by the Parliament Who hath pray'd the Parliament to do and at whose address and request have they done the contrary now Contrariwise on the Kings Party Whose Party is it now become and Interest Who is it now that hath laid a foundation for the following particulars The Interest was to discountenance and suppress the power of godliness or any thing of Conscience obliging above or against humane and outward Constitutions to restrain or lessen the preaching of the Gospel and growth of light among men To hold the Community of men in a darksome ignorance and superstition or formality in Religion with an awful Reverence of Persons Offices and outward dispensations rendring them sit subjects for Ecclesiastical and Civil Tyranny And for these ends to advance and set up further forms of Superstition or at least hold fast the old which had any foundation in the Laws whereby chains and fetters might be held upon and advantages taken against such in whom a zeal or Conscience to any thing above man should break forth and to uphold and maintain the dependance of the Clergy and Church matters on the King and greatness of the Clergy under him Who hath done and is doing all this now And in all these things to oppose the Reformation endeavoured by the Parliament Who hath set the Parliament now to oppose the very Reformation themselves endeavoured of which ye say it was the proper subject Read these things in the spirit of honesty in which ye wrote it and then read your selves and see how you are in a moment as it were beguiled and surprized after all and darkened into the Kings Interest as ye your selves have here stated it out of and from the Parliaments doing your selves the very things with which ye here charge him and for which among other things ye took him off The matters are so plain and obvious as they need no further demonstration Consider them seriously in the fear of God for it is no slight thing that ye are deceived into But that on which doth hang the guilt of all the blood that hath been shed in the late Wars ye have given Judgement against your selves in the Case in this your Judgment against the King I shall close this instance with your own words in the close of this particular pag. 21. In all or most of which respects say ye of what hath been repeated it hath been the great happiness and advantage to Parliamentary and publick Interest that it hath been made One very much with ●●e Interest of the godly or for the name whereof it hath been so much derided the Saints as on the other side the Kings one with their greatest opposites By occasion whereof God hath been doubly engaged in the Cause

viz. for that and the righteousness of it and to this indeed through the favour and presence of God therewith the Parliament hath cause to own and refer the blessing and success that hath accompanied their affairs which accordingly as they have held square and been kept close to this have prospered gloriously and wherein or so oft as this hath been thwarted swerved from or neglected in their mannage have suffered miserable blastings Read your Sentence thus pronounced by your selves and fear before the Lord and bear your shame and cast out the unclean black Spirit that bewitched you into this the Serpent that hath beguiled you least the anger of the Lord and his Jealousie Smoak against you and there be no remedy Thus much of my First instance my Second follows In your * See the Petition of the General and Army presented the Parliament Saturday Jan. 20. 1649. concerning the draught of an agreement of the people for a secure and present peace together with the said agreement Settlement of the People so called by your selves for a secure and present Peace upon grounds of Common Right Freedome and Safety as a fruit of their Labours Hazzards and Sufferings that have engaged in the common Cause as some Price of the Blood spilt and Ballance to the Publick expence and Dammage sustained in the War and as some due Improvement of that success and blessing God hath pleased to give them as are your words in the draught thereof Pag. 7 and in the Declaration thereunto annext Pag. 27. which ye presented this Parliament Jan. 20. 1649. and desired in the Petition wherewithal ye presented it Pag. 5 6. that whether it should be ●ully approved by them and received by the People as then it stood yet it might remain upon Record before them a Perpetual witness of your real intentions and utmost endeavours for a sound and equal Settlement and as a Testimony whereby all men might be assured what ye were willing and ready to acquiess in and their Jealousies satisfied or mouths stopt who were apt to think and say ye had no bottome I say in your said Settlement ye are so far from Assigning any Power at all to the Representatives of the People of Imposing in Matters of Religion or Conscience things Spiritual or Evangelical or granting it in the least to be any part of the Publick interest which had been the Subject of the contest that ye positively exclude and bar them from it for ever For this see what your selves have said and conclude your selves by your selves as it doth without controversie conclude you to have varyed altered changed the Cause Point-blank as I have charged upon ye in this the chiefest and most weighty part of the Publick Interest the main subject of the Contest in these words Settlement Pag. 29. Article 8. ye thus say That the Representatives have and shall be understood to have the supreme Trust in order to the preservation and government of the whole and that their power extend without the consent or concurrence of any other Person or Persons to the enacting and abolishing of Courts of Justice and Publick Offices and to the enacting altering repealing and declaring of Laws and the highest and final Judgment in all natural or civil things but not concerning things Spiritual or Evangelical Than which what can be more Emphatically or more Peremtorily exprest And yet how have ye in your late Humble Petition and Address pray'd the Parliament to take power which they have thereupon yea the Highest and Final Judgment concerning things Spiritual or Evangelical viz. What of the profession of things Evangelical or Spiritual shall be encouraged and protected and what not And this as and upon the Basis of a Government of a Free-State which destroys the nature of it even whilst ye spake thereof without a single Person King-ship or house of Peers who have taken upon them at your Prescription to be Kings and Lords of Conscience for where any take upon them to prescribe Laws and finally to determine what shall be and what not as is done in the case there such assume Superiority or Lord-ship this is irrefragable I say who have taken upon them to be Kings Lords of Conscience of which Christ Jesus is made of God Lord and King the one single and only Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy and hath saved you and others by you from those who had and would further have lorded it over your consciences or have destroyed you and hath destroyed them with a stroke reaching up to Heaven yea even by your hands whose Lording Spirit over Conscience after all these Wars and Desolations and presently upon your cry for your and your Countries Religious Rights or Liberty of Conscience that there was but a step as ye cry out in your * See the Representation April 6. 1659. Representation betwixt it and its Death and the most notable Revolution thereupon and Deliverance hath entred into you and from you into the Parliament into whom neither Swords nor Plots nor force nor Powers of Darkness could drive nor enter it before nor subjugate thereunto acting in and by and through you and them and seeking to bring to pass what it sought before but never could accomplish against Liberty of Conscience but was still even to astonishment and wonder dasht in pieces as often as in any sort of men it sought to attempt it by the Powerful presence and Arme of the Lord in you and them who will as certainly dash you in pieces in whom this Spirit so curst of God before your eyes and cut down by you is got and acts and lives as it hath done all of all sorts in whom it got liv'd and acted against you yea with a heavyer stroke and more furions rebukes because by you he hath executed his dreadful Judgments against such and delivered you from their cruelty and power as oft as ye called upon him in sincerity and truth in the dayes of your distress I say ye will be Dasht in Peeces except ye repent the Mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it for he is come and his day draweth nigh wherein for the Oppression of the Poor and the Sighing of the Needy I will arise saith the Lord and set him in safety from him that puffeth at him Now let the eye of honesty be open in you and with it see where ye are and whereto your high Priest and Doctor and his Brethren through whom arose this smoak of the bottomless pit hath led you viz. to betray your principle the good Old Cause as soon as ye are delivered thereby endeavouring to hasten the vengeance of God upon your heads For tell me whether ye having thus changed the Cause the Lord owned ye can expect otherwise than that the Lord should dis-own you and change his hard towards you viz. from that to you as his friends to that against you as his enemies Thus

been so I could freely have been offered up in the will of the Lord so dear were ye to me and least ye should back-slide and fall under Temptation again and that inrecoverably I hasted that warning to you as I was moved of the Lord unto which ye having not took heed but being fallen I am faithful in shewing you what ye have done and what will assuredly befall you except ye repent as I have received from the Lord and so having born my Testimony and fulfilled the will of the Lord and suffered the sore travail of this last hour that is to come as I did of the former before it came and wept over your graves I rest in peace being assured that as I have lived to see that day over so I shall to see this and that the word which I have spoken in the name of the Lord he will fulfill and that he that hath betrayed you into this shall bear his burthen and that judgment shall run down as waters and righteousness as a Mighty stream in England And that the end of the Lord in the Wars shall be accomplished in their time and season but not in the way or in the time nor after the manner that man expects it Not that we desire or need your Protection do I thus write nor that we are offended in the least at this your provision as to us nay be it known unto you and all the People of 〈◊〉 Nations our Trust alone is in the name of the Lord who as he hath opened his peoples graves and raised his seed out of it in despight of all the powers of Darkness and hath carried on his seed thus far under the shelter of his wings through multitudes of sufferings so he will not rest till he hath set it over the heads of all its enemies And verily this generation shall not pass till this be fulfilled Yea rather do I expect and so I did whilest your late affairs seemed most promising to the contrary the greatest Tryals that have been yet than a freedome from them Because I know that before the seed of God reign over all it must be tryed to the uttermost and the day hastens yea the hour approacheth wherein the son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of sinners who shall do unto the seed of God whatsoever his hand and his Counsel hath before determined to be done then shall God raise it over all and crown it in his enemies sight therefore Judas what thou hast to do do quickly These things I signifie that when they come to pass ye may remember that ye were told of them before I say I write not this for that we desire or need your protection though if integrity and faithfulness activity and diligence fighting and suffering for the Nations Rights in General do bespeak our right to enjoy them in particular as without controversie it doth we ought to have as much as any yea full freedome in soul and body is our due and the due of the People of these Nations But this I write in Bowels of love to you that ye may see and be convinced of the evil of your doing that so the fierce wrath of the Lord which is ready to break forth and will light on the head of the wicked may be turned away from you For from the Lord of 〈◊〉 I have 〈…〉 consumption even determined on the whole earth and wee will be to them by whom his seed is betrayed and suffers And so I am and the Lord is clear of your blood and the word of the Lord which came to me at Bristol the 23. day of the third moneth called May 1659 upon reading this Article of your Address word for word in the News Books as voted by the Parliament viz. Son of man wilt thou not judge them wilt thou not judge them yea declare to them their abhomination I have fulfilled It concerns you to mind what I have said and me to wait till the appointed end And so I have finished this my Testimony GEORGE BISHOP THE END