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B09552	A most learned, conscientious, and devout exercise, or, Sermon of self-denyal, (preached or) held forth the last Lord's-day of April, in the year of freedom the 1st. 1649, At Sir P.T.'s house in Lincolns-Inn-Fields / by Lieutenant-General O. Cromwell ; as it was faithfully taken in characters by Aaron Guerdo. And now published for the benefit of the New Polonian Association, and late famed ignoramus juries of this city.	Guerdon, Aaron.	1692 (1692)	Wing M2907A; ESTC R175855	10,425	16

is a Lord and unless he be a Lord and no Genleman as I believe he will not acknowledge himself he is not for our turn Besides he is you see so easily seduced and led away by every wind of Doctrine by mean appearances and shadows of reason Truly Beloved I think my self and my Son Ireton may prove of greater use to the Republick than any other and if we be but once by the acknowledgment of the people chosen Governours thereof we question not but to answer their expectations to a Hairs breadth which if ever it come to pass for the Kingdom Observe cannot be ever settled upon any firm or lasting Basis or Foundation without it then I and my Son Ireton are the Higher Powers here meant in my Text to whom subjection is commanded for as I told you before it cannot be to one single man it must be to Two or more And truly if the People shall think of us as we think of our selves worthy of that Trust we shall discharge it faithfully and study to merit it at their hands But mistake me not I do not mean by merit as the Papists do That is to say to deserve it at their hands for the good works we have or shall do No no we will acknowledge it all out of the free Grace and Mercy of the People For when we have done all we can for them we must acknowledge our selves most unprofitable Servants I thank them they have already made me General for Ireland and you know I am now just upon the point of going there in great hopes of reducing those Rebellious Traytors to your obedience But Beloved so many of you as go along with me must be mindful of my Text That is you must be in all things Subject to Me and my Leiutenant-General when we bid you go you must run when we bid you Storm you must do it though it be against nothing but Stone Walls You owe to us your Lives and Fortunes your Limbs and all that you have And that without Grumbling for you must in all respects submit to the Higher Powers In verity this expedition against Ireland is like to prove a very difficult thing unless I can in policy engage Owen Roe If not to joyn with Jones Monk and Coot yet to keep off at a distance with Ormond I am Beloved about it and I shall do my utmost endeavors to set him and Inchiquin at variance And yet at that very instant will I lose no time nor opportunity to re-oblige him to the Parliament For you all know what Inchiquin is I have him but I will not say how an Act of Indempnity it is probable tied in a string of a five thousand Pound bag may work a Miracle for he good man is but misguided he stands not upon such punctilio's of Honour as Ormond doth In truth Beloved this Ormond is a very shrewd man and were he not one of the Wicked a man highly deserving not so much for his knowledge and experience in Military Affairs which yet may challenge some due proportion of Honour for the diligence and faithfulness in the trust committed to and reposed in him Valour I will not allow him I can only term it desperateness and that he wants not But remember how politickly he carried himself in the business of Dublin after we had totally subdued the common enemy here first how dextrously in the first place did he avoid the messages and Commands of the late King for delivering up Dublin into our hands the which order we extorted from him how shamefully did he baffle the Commissioners we sent to treat with him about the Surrender at what distance still he kept them urging the Captivity of the King to excuse his obedience and how often and upon what sleeveless errands he sent them back to re-inforce their instructions whilest all that while he was underhand endeavouring to know the Kings pleasure by the hand of his own Messenger And when he was satisfied of the realty he trucked with us for his own Security and satisfaction nay more when he had stood on the receipt of some thousands before he would be induced to surrender you shall hear how he then serves us For notwithstanding that I caused the Parliament by their Letters voluntarily to assure him the full double the Sum he demanded upon condition he would quit the King and declare for our Interests and that hereunto he had returned a fine Silver Tongu'd response in answer to the Parliament and to indempnifie him and his Followers for all things said or done in relation to the English and Irish Wars and four Thousand pound to recompence for his great Charges and Losses with this additional assurance that he should soon after surrender be re-invested with full Power in the said Government again by Commission from the Parliament Yet no sooner was Dublin delivered to us by virtue of the King's Letters and his Pas-port sent him but he in contempt of all our fair and civil offers Transports himself to France abruptly waving both our Proffers and Protection This Beloved I instance not to justifie him in his Rebellions courses against the Nation for I will use my utmost endeavours to destroy him for it But to let you see how gloriously though in the things that are wicked and unjust he appears in the eyes of the World in being so true and firm to his Trust on whose fidelity is not to be corrupted by Gold nor good Preserments and continues faithful to the very last when in one sense it was altogether useless nor will I let to acknowledge him to be no less formidable then faithful and sedulous For certainly he hath gone very near to practice all Interests and pick'd out of them a numerous Army over whom he hath placed good Officers Good said I I don't mean thereby Godly Officers for they are all of them Prelatical and Popishly affected but I mean Try'd Souldiers such as will not easily turn their backs on an Enemy These I must endeavour to oblige and I must confess they have also a good Strength by Sea and a number of wilful resolute stout Fellows for Mariners who are in great heart by reason of the many and great Prizes they have taken from us But what of all this Shall we therefore be discouraged God forbid The more numerous the Enemy is the greater shall the Victory over them be The more difficult the work is the more Glory to God and Honour to Us The fuller their Pockets are the worse they will fight you know by experience The Plunder of Leicester gave us the Victory at Naisby there you saw the Cavaliers chose rather to leave their King to His shifts than shift from behind their Cloak bags Believe it Gentlemen we shall by Faith meet with many advantages against them R. himself and I know who else will do us some good though it be but crossing of Proverbs and if I hear but once that Culpepper or