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A80952	A most learned, conscientious, and devout-exercise; held forth the last Lords-day, at Sir Peter Temples, in Lincolnes-Inne-Fields; / by Lieut.-General Crumwell. As it was faithfully taken in characters by Aaron Guerdon.	Guerdon, Aaron.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing C7117A; Thomason E561_10; ESTC R206017	9,823	16

somthing foggy and Sun-burnt which is strange in that cold Countrey But what Nature had denyed her of Ornament without I found shee had within her a soule a devout sweete foule and God knowes I loved her for it Thus we finde then both by Scripture and experience that all of us have soules men and women But then again beloved some have good soules and some have bad Mrs. Lambert hath a good soule and no doubt nay I know many of you that bee here are and have good soules within you the Cavalieres and their Queanes are the bad soules they serve and are subject to bad and ungodly men men did I call them nay Devills that would devoute us and drink themselves drunk with the blood of the Saints By this then it is evident who have and who are the good Soules Whence I raise this Doctrine or rather point of Faith That wee are not to beleeve or account any to have or to bee Soules but those that are of the Family of Saints I would have said Love but that it is a particular Sect somthing differing from Ours Come on then Let every Soule bee Subject c. Whereby by wee see all Soules good and bad are bound to bee Subject All-Soules Colledg in Oxford must be Subject to the Visitors All-Soules day though a superstitious holy-day and strictly kept by the Papists must bee subject to labour and toyle Your Soules Brethren and Sisters must bee subject to perswasion to love familiarity and friendship to all things that may increase or elevate the Spirit to kindle and take fire like Tindar upon every sparke and glace of our affections O my deere Brethren and Sisters Love it is the fullfilling of the Lawe what neede wee more then It covers a multitude of sinnes Lo you there It hides all our Infirmities had one of us lov'd another these differences and blood shed had never happend But some will object and say There is a Lust as well as Love and somtimes Lust is falsly termed Love I tell you beloved these nice and criticall distinctions are things that once had like to have undone us Lust is nothing but a desire of any thing and if my Beloved wee desire to enjoy one another God forbid but wee should helpe and comfort each other and lay out our selves as farre and freely as may bee to Assist each other in the free imbraces of the Spirit The Lawes of Reason and Nature require it of us But let 's looke yet a little further Let every Soule bee subject to the higher-Powers c. What those Higher-Powers are I have told you before they are the Counsell of State the house of Commons and the Army and God forbid but all men should obay them that is that the People bee subject to the Counsell of State the Counsell of State to the house of Commons they to the Army the Army to the Generall and the Generall to mee to mee I say who have Plotted Advised Counselled and Fought for both you and them these seven yeares and now at last purchased your freedome and liberty Deare bretheren and sisters I speake it not in ostentation but with thankfullnesse and glory to him who made me so usefull an Instrument in this blessed worke of Reformation For beloved it was I that jugled the late King into the Isle of Wight It was I dissolved the Treaty It was I that seized upon and hurried him to Hurst Castle It was I that set Petitions a foote throughout the Kingdome against the Personall Treaty and for bringing the King and other Capitall offenders to Justice It was I that contriv'd with the help of my sonne Ireton the large Remonstrance of the Army It was I that prescribed the erecting of the high Court of Justice and which brought the King to his Tryall In a word it was I that cut oft his head and with it all the shackles and setters of the Norman slavery and bondage It was I that cut off the heads of Hamilton Capell Holland It was I that surpriz'd the Levellers at Burford in Northampton-Shire It was I that broke their Designe destroy'd Thomason c. dispers'd and appeased the rest and which have healed the late distempers of the Army whereby the Land is now restored to this blessed Peace Tranquility and Plenty and therefore I say I may justly and without ambition stile my selfe the Author of all the Kingdomes present and future Happinesse It is true Beloved the Generall is a stout and valiant man and hee hath great appearance of God in him but fitter farre to bee passive then active in the Affaires of State hee is fitter for a Charge then a Councell and the truth is as I may tell you under the Rose hee wants braines to doe any thing of moment But indeede this I may say for him hee is a man doth not seeke himselfe I never found him willfull but willing allwaies to submit to better judgements then his owne For when Sedgwick that fast and loose Priest of Covent Garden upon the Kings Tryall had writ to his Lady to advise him to remit the Execution of that just Sentence and to wash his hands of his death hee honest man presently acquainted me with the businesse and shewed mee the Arguments given to perswade him against it and freely referred all to my judgement and the 28. of January being the Lords day at night I went to him in Queene-street attended with two Troopes of my owne Regiment to remove the scruples hee made upon that Rascally Priests Letter or to secure him by force in case hee had contracted more and would not bee satisfied But hee good man gave me thanks for my paines and told me I had fully resolved him All this beloved I speake in honour of the man but truly hee is too great to bee so good as wee must have a Generall for you know hee is a Lord and unlesse hee bee a Lord and no Gentleman as I feare hee will not acknowledge himselfe hee is not for our turnes the rather for that hee is easily seduced I have experience of him and led away by every wind of doctrine by meere apparences and shadowes of Reason Truly beloved I think my selfe and my sonne Ireton may prove of greater use to the Re-publique then any other and if wee bee but once the acknowledged Governors thereof by the People wee believe wee shall answer their expectations to a haires bredth which if ever wee bee then beloved it is I and my sonne who are the Higher Powers meant in my Text to whom subjection is commanded For as I told you before it cannot bee to one single man it must bee to two or more and truly if the people shall think us as wee think our selves worthy of that trust wee shall discharge it faithfully and study to merrit it at their hands but mistake mee not I doe not meane by merrit as the Papists doe that is to deserve it at their hands for

the good workes wee have done no no wee will acknowledge it to bee meerely out of the free grace and mercy of the people for when wee have done all wee can for them wee confesse wee are but unprofitable servants I thank them they have made mee Generall for Ireland and you know I am upon the point of going thither in great hopes of reducing those Rebellious Traytors to our obedience But then beloved so many of you as goe along with me must bee mindfull of my text that is you must bee Subject to me and my Lieutenant Generall Whensoever wee bid you goe you must runne when wee bid you Storme you must doe it though it bee against nothing but stone-walls you owe us your lives and your limbs and all that you have whensoever wee demand them you ought to surrender and that freely not grumbling for you must submit to the Higher Powers c. The veritie is this expedition against Ireland is like to prove a very hard task unlesse I can in policy engage Owen Roe if not joyne with Jones Munk and Coote yet to keepe off at a distance with Ormond I am beloved about it and I shall doe my endeavour too to set Inchequeene and him at variance and yet at that very instant will I loose no oportunity to re-obliege him to the Parliament for you all know what Inchequeene is I have him I will not say how But it 's very probable an Act of Indempnity tyed in the strings of a 5000.l bag may worke a miracle For hee good man is but misguided hee stands not upon such punctilioes of honour as Ormond doth In truth beloved this Ormond is a shrewd fellow and were hee not one of the wicked a man highly deserving not so much for his knowledg and experience in Military Affaires which yet may challenge some proportion of honour as for his diligence and faithfullnesse in the trust committed to him valour I will not allow him any 't is only desperatenesse and that hee wants not but remember wee not how politiquely hee carried himselfe in the businesse of Dublin after wee subdued the Common-Enemie here the first time How dexterously hee avoided the Messages and Commands of the late King which wee extorted from him for the surrender of that City How shamefully hee baffled our Commissioners which were sent to Treat with him about it at what distance hee kept them still urging the Captivity of the King to excuse his disobedience and how oft and on what sleevelesse Errands hee sent them back to re inforce their Instructions whil'st all that while hee was underhand indeavouring to know the King Pleasure by the hands of his owne Messenger And when hee was satisfied with the Reality of the Kings Desires and Condition how notably hee truck'd with us for his owne security and satisfaction Nay more when hee stood upon the receipt of some thousands before hee would surrender you shall heare how hee there serv'd us For notwithstanding that I caused the parliament by their letters volutarily to assure him the full double of the sum he demanded upon condition hee would quit the Kings declare for our Interest and that hereunto hee had return'd a fine silver-tongu'd Response in answer to the parliament had therupon return'd him the authority of the parliament to Indempnifie him and his Followers for all things said or done in relation to the English or Irish Warres and 4000.l in recompense for his losses with this additionall assurance that hee should soone after the surrender bee re-invested with full power and government of Dublin by Commission from the Parliament yet no sooner was Dublin delivered to us upon the Kings letters and his Pasport sent him but in contempt of all our faire and civill proffers hee transports himselfe for France abruptly waving both our proffers and protection This Beloved I instance not to justifie him in his Rebellious courses against the Nation those I will use my utmost to destroy him for but to let you see how gloriously even a wicked and ungodly man as this Ormond is appeares in the Eies of the World who but approves himselfe true to his trust that scornes to bee corrupted with gold and continues so to the last wherunto Beloved you are all of you enjoyed by the words of my Text Bee subject to the Higher Powers c. Nor will I let to acknowledge him lesse formidable then faithfull for doubtlesse hee hath gone very neare to parcify all Interests and pick't out of them a numerous Army over whom hee hath placed good Officers good said I I doe not meane beloved Godly Officers for they are all of them Papists or Popishly aff●…cted but tryed soldiers such as will not easily turne their backs of an Enemie I must ingenuously confesse too they have a great strength by Sea and a number of wilfull Fellowes for Marriners who are in great heart by reason of the many and great Prizes they have taken from our Merchants and so forth but what of all this shall were therefore bee discouraged God forbid the more numerous the Enemy is the greater shall be the victory over them the more difficult the worke is the more our honour the fuller their pockets are the worse they will fight you know by experience the plunder of Leicester gave us the victory at Naseby there you saw the Cavaliers chuse rather to leave their King to His shifts then shift from behind themtheir Cloake-bags Believe it Bretheren wee shall meete with many advantages against them Rupert himselfe I know will doe us some good though it bee but in Crossing of Proverbs and heare I but once that Culpepper or Hyde is there doubt it not all is owne I cannot recount a Tithe of them But this I am sure the honest Citizens have feasted us to good purpose for upon that occasion wee had their Promise to advance moneys a fresh for Ireland Sans Nombre on Mensure that 's French b●loved the English whereof is without Weight or Measure Verily they are of a stiffe-necked generation become very tractable and obedient servants of a turbulent and mutinous an exceeding meeke and humble People And indeede my Beloved it was no small worke wee had to subdue those Malignant Spirits of the Citty considering how aud●ciously they once withstood our Authority and despised our Government how peremptorily they Petitioned for Personall-Treaty with the King and sent their Servants into Colchester Surrey and Kent to enforce us thereunto how bitterly they inveighed railed against the honourable Proceedings of the Parliament and Army How largely they contributed to bring in a forraigne Nation to Invade us whilest yet they denied us the payment of our Arreares or to continue the necessary Taxes or Excise for our future maintenance who had preserved them and their Families from the Rapine and Cruelty of a Barbarous Enemy but beloved Brethren I meane not to rip up old Matters Let is suffice that being thus warned by