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A84124	The Essex vvatchmen's vvatchword to the inhabitants of the said county respectively, dwelling under their several charges, by way of apologetical account, of the true grounds of their first engagement with them in the cause of God, King and Parliament, for their vindication from unjust aspersions. Also by way of faithful premonition of the dangerous evil latent in a printed paper, entituled, The agreement of the people, intended to be tendred to them for subscription.	D. R. (Daniel Rogers), 1573-1652.	1649 (1649)	Wing E3342A; Thomason E546_11; ESTC R7907	10,676	16

c. they will really endeavor to make both his Majesty and his Posterity as much beloved at home and feared abroad as any Prince that ever swayed this Scepter which is their firm and constant Resolution Declar. printed Aug. 16. 1642. yield him all due Subjection and Obedience and faithfully endeavor to secure his Person and Estate from all danger and do the utmost of their Power to procure and establish to himself and his People all the Blessings of a glorious and happy Reign We did then verily believe and yet do That these were the Sincere and Cordial Intentions of the Lords and Commons then assembled in Parliament And although the King was so unhappy as to reject that Petition yet they persisted still in the same Loyalty of Intentions and Affections toward him as appears in their many Messages to himself and Declarations to the kingdom and especially by their Solemn League and Covenant The War having all along gone under the Name and Title of A War for the Defence of Religion King and Parliament Upon these grounds we engaged in this Ccause being called to it by a lawful Authority The Two Houses of Parliament being the Ordinance of God unto this Nation for the preventing of Tyranny and the regulating of the Exorbitancies of Regal Power and being convinced in our judgements both of the Equity and Necessity of the Parliaments Defensive Arms and perswaded of the Loyalty of their Intentions towards his Majesties Person Posterity and Crown and being fully assured of our own having this witness in Heaven and in our own hearts That that Calamity which hath now befaln the King and threatens his Posterity was exceeding far from our desires or designs And this our Tears and Prayers poured forth for him in the days of our Humiliation will we doubt not testifie for us We Appeal to God The Searcher of all Hearts to whom we must give account of all our ways That these were the grounds of our first Engagement these our Intentions in it But O how amazed are we to behold the sad issue the War is now driven unto To see a War begun for The Defence of Religion likely to end in The Ruine of Religion a War begun for The Defence of the King even ending in The Death of the King a War begun for The Defence of the Parliament ending in The Violation of the present and Mutulation of future Parliaments both in point of Election and Constitution This is a Lamentation and shall be for a Lamentation Ezek. 19.14 And that we may not seem to speak these things more out of Affection then Judgement We do for our fears about Religion and the Parliament as for the matter of the King our Fears are turned into Sorrows but for the other refer unto that Model or Draught published in print under the Title of The Agreement of the People See Petition c. concerning Agreement of the People Title Page which had it been onely offered to the Consideration of Parliament we would not have taken the boldness to pass our judgements upon it suddenly but have expected theirs with due patience But being Tendred to the Consideration of the People and that as we suppose in order to a further Tender hereafter to be made unto you for Subscription if the Authors may have their desires and we in our Souls and Consciences looking upon sundry passages therein as a Draught of Poyson tendred to you in a gilded Cup We cannot but hold our selves obliged in Conscience of that duty we owe to God and that tender Love and Care which 〈◊〉 to you the People of our re-spective Flocks to Testifie and Declare That as we our selves cannot so it doth not appear unto us how any else should without sin Sign this Agreement so manifestly directly necessarily tending to the Alteration of the Ancient and well founded Government of the Kingdom and which our hearts tremble to think of the Subversion of the true Reformed Protestant Religion which are two of the richest Blessings that the God of Heaven did ever bestow upon any People and which have made us even us the Glory of Nations and the Envy of our Enemies But the deprivation or depravation of these what will it render us The whole first Part branched out into eight Articles tends too far to a rearing up of our ancient Parliamentary Government for the Power of Parliament here in England is without question Supreme Absolute Vnlimited extending to things of Religion as well as to Civil things But this Agreement takes away more then the half of their Power wholly denying them Power in matters of Religion and lays several Restraints upon their Power in Civil things We will not now say how safely or wisely in matter of State-policy this may be either done or endeavored But our desire is That all to whom this Agreement shall be tendred would seriously and in the fear of God consider Whether a People that are under so many Oathes Vows Protestations Covenants for the upholding of the Established Form of Government as we in England are can agree to the Subversion of it without incurring such guilt and wrath as may with the very thoughts thereof overwhelm us with horror and astonishment And for Religion against which we conceive the main intendment of this Agreement lies and that all these Contrivances of Alteration in our Civil Government are but in tendency unto a greater and more destructive Alteration in Religion For although this Agreement saith in the first Branch of the Ninth Article It is intended That Christian Religion be held forth as the publike Profession in this Nation ● 〈◊〉 it doth not say by whom it is intended nor doth it tell us what is that Christian Religion which is thus intended to be held forth Whereas they know little that do not know That all the Errors and Sects that are or have been in the Church of Christ since the Apostles days do all lay claim to the Title of Christian Religion and may all by this Agreement plead at least stand as Probationers for the Priviledge of publike Profession except Popery and Prelacy which how far they are excepted shall in due place be considered We confess indeed That which is added of desire to have Religion Reformed to the greatest purity in Doctrine Worship and Discipline according to the Word of God and also care for Instructing of People in a publike way and for the Confutation of Heresie and Error c. is necessary and good and the Lord encrease that care in us and those desires in all But we conceive the particulars which are annexed and added in this Agreement are so inconsistent with this desire and care as it is in vain to pretend either the one or the other if those may obtain For first even in this Branch which is the only Passage in the whole Paper that bears the least shadow of any Care for Religion all the rest are plainly for Liberty Yet

THE ESSEX VVatchmen's VVatchword To the Inhabitants of the said County respectively dwelling under their several CHARGES By way of Apologetical Account OF The true Grounds of their first Engagement with them in The Cause of God King and Parliament for their Vindication from unjust Aspersions Also by way of faithful Premonition of the dangerous evil latent in a printed Paper entituled The Agreement of the People Intended to be Tendred to them for Subscription Ezek. 3.17 Son of man I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel therefore hear the word at my mouth and give them warning from me Ezek. 33.6 But if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the Trumpet and the people be not warned if the sword come and take any person from among them he is taken away in his iniquity but his blood will I require at the watchmans hand 2 Tim. 4.5 But watch thou in all things endure afflictions do the work of an Evangelist make full proof of thy ministery London Printed for RALPH SMITH at the sign of the Bible near the Royal Exchange 1649. To the Religious and Well-affected The Nobility Knights Gentry Yeomanry and others dwelling within our several and respective Congregations The Spirit of Wisdom and Discerning with love to Truth and Peace THe success of the Ministery of the Gospel of Christ depending much upon that esteem which the persons by whom it is dispenced have in the hearts of those to whom they are sent It hath ever been one Master-piece of the Devils Policy to cast out against them the sharpest Arrows of Slanders and Reproaches that so he might through their sides wound the Gospel it self and render it if not contemptible and odious yet fruitless and without success This design was never more furiously driven on by Satan and his Instruments then at this time and in this Nation wherein the Ministers of the Gospel are generally charged by rigid Malignants on the one hand as the men that have been the Authors of all the kingdoms Troubles Fomentors of these unnatural Divisions and Bloody Wars yea as men who have had a strong influence into the contriving and effecting of the Death of our late Soveraign and by severe Sectaries and Seducers on the other hand as men who for their own meer Interest of Power and Gain would embroil the kingdom in a new War oppose and disturb the present Setling of Peace and Government in this almost ruined Nation Therefore we whose Names are hereunto Subscribed Ministers of the Gospel of Christ in the County of Essex do hold our selves necessitated according to the Example of the Apostles and others the faithful Servants of Jesus Christ in their generations to clear our selves from these unjust Accusations by declaring to you of our respective Charges whom we have been Instruments to engage with and for the Parliament what were the grounds of our first appearing for and adhering to them and what are our apprehensions of the present State of things and of the intended and endeavored Settlement by some misled with Ignorance and false Zeal We call the God of Heaven and Earth to Witness upon our souls That it was not hatred to any Party or Person much less to the person of our KING that first drew us into this action But clearly this Some years before the assembling of this Parliament we evidently saw the Affairs of Church and State in imminent and apparent hazard Many and great Alterations made in Doctrine Innovations in Worship The Power of Godliness disgraced True Religion undermined The faithful and conscientious Professors of it persecuted even to Bonds Flight and Imprisonments Popery Connived at Countenanced Courted Besides many grievous Oppressions of the Subjects in their Liberties and Properties These things we saw and sighed for but had no thoughts of inciting any to make resistance though against the abused Name and Power of a misguided King whom we much pityed in his Miscarriages until it pleased God to bless us with a Parliament the ordinary means which he hath appointed in this Nation for the red ressing of such growing evils The Parliament meets a first and second time Declare their apprehensions of the danger of Church and State the same which before had been upon our hearts Apply themselves to all humble and submiss ways by Petitions Remonstrances c. See the Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom Dec. 15. 1641. Speak nothing but honorably of the King Lay the blame of all Miscarriages upon evil Counsellors Require them to Tryal But God for our sins and his shuts up his Majesties heart against these Addresses In stead of yielding up those whom the Parliament demands he demands some of their Members seconds his demands with a face of Violence And here began that most unhappy Breach The Parliament upon this desire a Guard their Guard is the Kings apprehended or pretended Terror He leaves his Parliament upon it and under shadow of a Guard for his Person raiseth an Army sets up his Standard c. The Story is too long and sad for us to relate But hence arose that Fire which since hath burnt almost to the very Foundations and who knows when it will be quenched The Parliament seeing which way the Counsels of the King steered apprehend a Necessity of raising Arms for the Defence of themselves and the kingdom for the effecting whereof they send out Propositions Certain Propositions of both Houses of Parliament concerning the raising of horse horsemen and arms for the Defence of the King both Houses of Parliament pag. 8. in particular maner call upon Ministers to encourage and incite their people to be forward and ready for their own and the Publique good Declaring in those Propositions their intendments in raising Arms to be no other then To maintain the Protestant Religion The Kings Authority and his Person in his Royal Dignity The free Course of Justice The Laws of the Land The Peace of the Kingdom and The Priviledge of Parliament against any force which shall oppose them and this by the direction of BOTH Houses of Parliament Yea when the War was first commenced between the King and them their Army carried a Petition in the one hand as well as a Sword in the other in which the Lords and Commons do in the presence of Almighty God profess that If His Majesty will forthwith return unto his Parliament c. they will receive him with all Honor The humble Petition of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament sent by his Excellency Rob E. of Essex to be by him presented to His Majesty printed September 27. 1642. See also a Declaration of the Lords and Commons in Answer to a Preclamation by the King for suppressing the Rebels under the Earl of Essex wherein the Lords and Commons to witness their unshaken Loyalty and Affection to his Majesty do solemnly Declare That if his Majesty shall immediately disband all his Forces and return