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The voice of King Charls the father to Charls the son, and the bride say come being an invitation of King Charls to come in peaceably and be reconciled to his father's minde and shewing the integrity of His Highness Oliver Cromwel ... / by Arise Evans.
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Evans, Arise, b. 1607.
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Ezra 5. 1 2. Consider Beloved God did let none of my words fall hitherto 1 Sam. 3. 19. but all that I declared is come to pass as I shewed above and if you had sought the Lord and forsaken your sins as I did exhort you to do in all my Books the King had been on his Throne afore now for men must look upon God's Commandments and keep them if they look to have his promises of mercy fulfilled to them for his mercy is to them that love him and keep his Commandments Exod. 2. 6. Israel in their captivity sate down and wept and threw away their Harps Psal. 137. 1 2. so should you leave your pleasure and mourn for your sins by fasting and praying in private and publikely associate your selves together to seek the Lord that he may be merciful to you And above all things keep the Sabbath-day he that keepeth the Sabbath-day of the Lord holy and wholly as the Prophet saith Isaiah 58. 13 14. he shall never do amiss for the Lord Jesus will bless him prosper him and make him honourable so that he shall ride upon the high places of the earth and the seed of God shall be in him to preserve and protect him all the weeks of his life from Sabbath to Sabbath until at last he come to glory in Heaven with Christ at the right hand of God for if you will remember to keep holy the sabbath-Sabbath-day God will not suffer you to forget any of his Commandments but your delight will be in them to keep them and do his will but if you forget to keep the Sabbath holy by praying reading hearing speaking God's words meditating in it doing deeds of charity for bearing all works or words touching worldly affairs then God will not bless you and you shall fall from one misery to another and never have rest to your souls The Lord will reign and execute judgement for the Sabbath therefore he is called the Lord of the Sabbath and judgement will come upon the world chiefly for their not sanctifying the Sabbath and if you take notice of Psal. 92. intituled A Psalm or Song for the Sabbath-day which Psalm continueth until you come to Psalm 98. so that Psalm 92 93 94 95 96 97. is but one Psalm by the Author's account for you have no title until you come to Psalm 98. I say if you take notice of Psalm 92 93 94 95 96 97. you shall finde how God will come to judgement and to reign and of his triumphing over his enemies which enemies are similated by a flood of waters Psal. 93. 2 3 4. Pfal 96. 10 13. Psal. 97. 1. and the contention must needs be about the Sabbath for this Psalm is for the Sabbath-day and hath begun with us already King James destroyed his Throne by making a Law to profane the Sabbath truely there was no need of such a Law to give liberty for outward sports on the Sabbath-day the people were too forward in profaning it so that if he had made a severe Law to restrain them yet would they have taken too much liberty to break the Sabbath and I wonder that the King and his Counsel were so blinde as to countenance the Sabbath-breakers since the Prophet sheweth it clear that the promise to Rule is founded upon the exact keeping holy of the Sabbath-day of Christ Isa. 58. 13 14. so that he that keepeth the Sabbath shall ride upon the high places of the earth and what is meant by riding upon the high places of the earth but to have the rule and power over it and govern it Deut. 32. 12 13. Judg. 5. 9 10. compared with Isa. 58. 13 14. will shew it And when the masking-bouse in 1638. was erected at White-Hall purposely to profane the Sabbath then sin went in the Court with an open face though in a mask yet so without a mask that he which had but half an eye might easily have seen it and say God will not suffer this Court to stand long Whosoever advised the late King to set up that house he was his greatest enemy He that envieth a King or Prince need no other way to overthrow him then to perswade him to profane the Sabbath neither can a man shew his love to his King by any means more then by advising him to keep holy the Sabbath-day of the Lord Jesus And believe it God will speedily have a quarrel with the Kings and Princes of the earth for breaking his Sabbath The long Parliament got much footing against the late King upon that score for reforming what he suffered to be deformed by restaining the profanation of the Sabbath they went up and he went down but when they likewise began to take the liberty to profane it so that when no Boat on the Thames durst stir on the Sabbath the Lord Bradshaw's Boat may and when other men must go afoot on the Sabbath a Parliament-man sends his ticket for a Coach and will have it then God brings them down also I do not speak this of the Parliament-men without ground for being in 1650. at a Parliament-man's house in White-hall who pretended to be one of the most religious of them there was some Friends of his there that were to come home to London Said his Wife When my Husband comes in we will have a Coach for you to go home How said the Man we cannot have a Coach to day Yes said she a Parliament-man may send his Ticket and have a Coach at any time none dare deny him Another Sabbath a while after I was at a Sermon in White-hall and in the middle of the Sermon I was forced to go to the stairs when I came there I beheld a Boat coming up from the bridge What said I to one that stood there do the Boats go abroad again on the Sabbath-day No said he Why said I what is yonder Said he That is my Lord Bradshaw's Boat coming from Greenwich What said I then he takes upon him to be Lord of the Sabbath Yes said the man he may do what he please now But consider how soon God rooted the Parliament out for such presumption and now the Boats and Coaches go abroad on the Sabbath again without any molestation judge you what will be the issue of it Therefore let none presume to break the Sabbath be he never so high I dare say God will bring him low enough that doth it pick what you can for that out of Heb. 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 10 11. And the Prophet tells the King and people of Judah that though their sin was written with a pen of Iron and with the point of a Diamond and doth say that they should go into captivity yet a little after that he tells them also That if now they would turn and keep holy the Sabbath they and their city should remain for ever Jer. 17. 1 2 3 4 14 15. Therefore you see that the keeping holy of the Sabbath will turn
men that have zealously devoted themselves to fight Christ's battels and to bring down his Rebellious enemies under his Iron Rod for to keep Gods Commandments and they shall prosper Yet let me not flatter our gallant English Souldiers lest I should deceive them for I read Joel 2. of a terrible Army called A Northern Army which I believe is designed for this place and shall do great things but if we turn to God and the King as you see Joel 2. 12 13 14 20. then God will remove this Sea Northern Army from us I had also Visions of such things And Grobnerus's Prophesie agreeth to it which speaketh thus Then shall appear one Charles descending of Charles with a mighty fleet on the coast of his Fathers Dominion and with the aid of the Danes Swedes Hollander and French shall subdue his adversaries and shall govern the people most happily and shall reign long and far and shall be greater then Charles the Great Besides there is in a Book of Sir Franc is Bacon a Prophesie to the same purpose thus as followeth There shall be seen upon a day Between the Borrough and the Bay The black Fleet of Norway And when that Fleet is come and gone England build houses of lime and stone For after wars you never shalt have none And Mr. Gostolawes Visions as you have it in his Book doth witness the same But I look upon there as a threatning from God to bring the Army to agree with the King in reason and honouring him and not to stand it out with him so as to look upon him altogether inconsiderable because he hath not men and money for God is able on a sudden to raise him both though it is hard to get such as our English Army consists of and I hope they will not lose the honour of bringing in the King they consisting of the purest sort of men But indeed in all other places where they raise Armies they raise them of the most vile and uncivil men that are among them as formerly they did take the Thieves from the Goals for Souldiers and press the most vile and wicked sort in all Countries such as had no fear of God in them Therefore as the Proverb saith Put a Sword in a mad-man's hand and see what will be the fruit of it and if you like it do it again I am sure the late King found a bitter fruit from it the last time but this Army are of a clean contrary sort of men for they that had most of the fear of God in them were the Foundation of this Army A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump be it good or bad Matth 13. 33. 1 Cor. 5. 6 7. And therefore ten thousand of them that pray to God when they fight and study God's word continually shall bear forty thousand of such as fear not God but contrarily curse swear be they never so desperate and strong men yet let none presume upon his holiness as the Pope did who thought to make the World flie before him and was choaked by a flye that flew in at his mouth The King can never have a better opportunity then he had the last time he came from Scotland for had not the blinde and the lame been with him who were hated of David's soul 2 Sam. 5. 6 8. the King had been on his Throne at London within eight dayes after he had entred England for if his Counsel of War had had eyes to have seen their way and legs to come valiantly forward when God gave them such an opportunity the work had been done and it had been wisdom and valour in them not to sleep upon it but to march night and day until they came to London and if they had taken all the horses in their way to bring them speedily up the King then might have suddenly recompensed the owners of such horses and the way was open no power being between them and London able to hinder them for the Parliament themselves were amazed at the sudden news of the Kings coming into England with such a great power and they being so unprovided were ready to receive him without a stroke had his Army been swift enough to come in time to London But had the Lord Protector with so many of his men been in their stead with the King upon such a design having so fair an opportunity the Lord Protector and his men had soon been Masters of London and had set the King on his Throne Therefore let not King Charles think that such men as brought his Father though unwittingly to the block and himself into such hazard at Worcester and themselves to a great destruction that ever they should do him good in the field It is true the men wish well to the King and who can be more truer to him then they are but alass they have deceived both him and themselves hitherto for they are not fit Souldiers specially to go against these men that are in the Army now in England because they are blinde and lame in all their proceedings We may not think that David's soul did hate a blinde and lame man that wanted the use of his natural eyes and feet No God forbid he should hate such poor creatures as could not help themselves but those blinde and lame that David hated were foolish negligent Souldiers that were not so wise as to see their time and swift enough to take their advantage when God gave them the opportunity And so I hope the King will be of David's minde for such Souldiers do but deceive destroy and waste themselves and those that imploy them Therefore the Jebusites said in scorn to David 2 Sam. 5. 6. Except thou take away the blinde and the lame thou shall not come in hither Thinking David cannot come in hither As our long Parliament justly scorned the King's men knowing they were both blinde and lame in all their enterprises But David returns the Jesubites mockery upon themselves saying they were the blinde and the lame 2 Sam. 5. 7 8. and Joab made them know when he sinote them that David had no such men as they thought they were 1 Chron. 11. 5 6. Therefore I say the King will do well if he agree and joine himself to this Army now on foot for I believe it will be a hard task for him to get an Army that shall beat them out for the late Kings blood the providence of God hath clearly shewed where it lieth if men had but eyes to see it I pray observe the Presbyterian Parliament for I believe the Independent consented not to it set forth a Declaration to invite the King saying That if the King would leave his evil Councel and come in to them they would make him a glorious King And the KING resting upon their promise hoping to finde them faithful went without his Councel to the chief strength of the Presbyters even the Scots Army Then the English Presbyters forsooth seemed to