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A97064 To the faithfull and true-hearted covenanters, vvhich are the noble Philadelphians. A diurnall, of the desires and indeavours of one that earnestly desires the advancement of the cause of Christ. B.W. of Darbie. Reade all or none. B. W. 1644 (1644) Wing W6; Thomason E257_6; ESTC R210039 16,433 16

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Proclamation set forth by the King But when open warr is proclaimed against an Honourable Parliament and proclamations issued forth for taking of honest mens goods that the Kings best subjects cannot have free traffique one with another these things cannot but procure a judgement but woe be to the authors they say plaine dealing is the best then I will tell you that there is more Noble and Gentile Theves made in England the last yeere and this then ever there were before but who made them be angry with me if I do not tell you But there is some hopes that that may be made good which is spoken in a passage by Mr. Burton that God will make King Charles a chiefe instrument to give the Pope a deadly blow you know there hath many a petition been put up to his Majestie and I am sure there hath been many a faithfull praier put up to the Lord of Hostes for him If he forsake the Papists and returne to his great Counsell and all those that professe themselves to stand for the protestant Religion would joyne themselves in sincerity and truth of heart with our loving brethren of Scotland according to their loving invitation in their last Remonstrance Do not doubt of it but the Pope will have such a blowe as he dare never looke up again in England now what do you thinke is worthy to be done to all those that will not helpe forward so good a worke as Newters and the Prelaticall faction and those Muck-wormes that thinke to get all by following their callings in these distracted times and cannot be content but they must be pratling against the faithfull Citizens and honest men in the Countrey that are willing to spare neither time nor paines nor lives nor estates but to lay downe all for this Cause that will be saying its fitter for them to be following of their Callings at home and looke to thier wives and Children but they would be taught what Christ saith That he that loves father or mother or Wife or children or lands or livings or life it self better then him is not worthy of him and what David said when he was going to fiht and his brethren said as these men do that it was fitter for him to follow his calling in tending of his fathers sheepe he answered and said unto them is there not a cause Doth not now lives and liberties and all that true Christians have lie at the stake And is there not a cause So the true calling of a Christian is to vindicate this Cause to the utmost of his power and ability Christ saith that he that is not with him is aginst him and truely if Ordinances of Parliament had been better executed in setthing forward of the Covenant and some other things we might more cleerely have seen by this time who had been for Christ and who against him It hath been a trouble unto me in some places where I have been and a Committee of Parliament there present and yet these things neglected the life of the Lawes and ordinances lies in the Execution of them I would I could see the neglecters punished that do not execute the Parliaments commands according to the utmost of their power in many places where I have been I have heard some to desire peace almost on any tearmes some againe have desired peace with holinesse or no peace for the first if the Parliament would have had peace with Monopolizers Papists the Prelaticall Faction and the great Incendiaries of the Kingdome the first had had their desire but it is the second that must have their desire for let them not doubt but God will make this Parliament chief instruments that they may injoy Christ in the puritie of his Ordinances and then they will have a tenfold requitall for all their faithfull endeavours for whom God gives Christ unto with him he gives them all things for Christ is all things to all them than truely do injoy him And you Noble Faithfull and true hearted Citizens that have been willing to purchase the truth at any rate chere up your spirits for sure your rejoycing draweth neere I have heard many accusing the King for having the papists in his Army and I thinke not without cause and also the Parliament for having the Separates in their Army For the Papists I hope it will not be long before an order be taken with them and if there be any that will deny the Church of England to be a true Church as it stands joyned to the Church of Scotland in worship and discipline it being judged to be the best reformed Church in the World I hope the Parliament wil take an Order with them but give me leave to speak one word for those that have been called Separates under the Prelaticall governement you know there was so much rubbish brought into the church that tender Consciences could hardly get into it but blessed be God this Parliament having made an Ordinance for the taking of all things out of the Church that are offensiue and wee being joyned to the Church of Scotland in Discipline Worship and Government I cannot see that any can lawfully absent themselves from that assemblie where this is performed but I will tell you what I could desire and it may please God that some good effect may be produced by it It is that every faithfull Minister would refuse that call which he had by the Bishops and be willing to be called by the faithfull congregation or a selected company chosen for that purpose I could also desire that where the Minister is called a day of humiliation may be set apart That God would be pleased to inable him with guilts for the faithfull discharge of his place And whereas it is said that Churches were builded by Papists and God is said to curse the stones and timber of the house where Idolatry hath been committed that God would be pleased to sanctifie that place for his own worship for it is said That all things are sanctified by the Word and Prayer So that where these things are performed what is worthy to be done to them that will absent themselves from that Assembly Surely it will not be ill taken to desire that a speciall care may be taken for the setling of a faithfull Ministry and that rather a place may stand void then be imployed by an insufficient Minister Land had better be untild then to be plowed and then sown with that which is naught And that care may be taken for the maintainance of the Ministery that he that hath the least may have sufficient That in every particular County those which are called Church-livings as Prebendaries Parsonages Vicarages Tithes Impropriations and all of that nature faithfull men may be chosen to collect into one and out of that the Ministery to have sufficient maintainance established and the rest to be imployed for good and profitable uses As the maintaining a Navie on the Sea or the bringing up or
may if you professe your selves for the truth lest it fall out with you as it did with them in the old World For you shal see ere long that the Cavaliers wil leave the word Roundheads and call us Covenanters for in calling of us Roundheads they do but proclaim themselves fooles as those do that gave their Votes for the election of this honourable Parliament that stands for the truth and since have opened their mouthes wide against them And for those that are run away from the truth I pray you tell me if you think that those be not fools I need not tel you that there are great Armies prepared and preparing but I am perswaded that they are not only to knock the Pope out of England but Ireland and France and Rome and send him halting to Avanion whither some of the Papists may follow him like bloud-hounds by the footing to mourn over his buriall Of all things that I have desired I pray you let this be granted that the duty of humiliation and prayer be not neglected pray for King Charles that God would make him a faithful instrument for his glory and the good of this Kingdome and that he would be pleased to take him out of the hands of his and the Kingdomes Enemies and send him safe to his honourable Parliament and pray for our loving brethren in Scotland whom it pleased God to make such faithful instruments for the cal of this Parliament that God would be pleased ever to protect them and direct them and pray for the faithful Citizens whom God hath been pleased to make so faithful to the Parliament to the King and Kingdome Blessed are they that pray for the peace of Ierusalem and I am sure that they must be blessed that pray and bend the utmost of their endeavours for an holy peace in England Peace with Holinesse the Lord send us Souldiers be content with your wages and away with this base plundering what you get from the Enemy with your sword is your own but if you seize upon Papists or Malignants goods bring it into the publike stock for that which should be spent in a publike cause ought not to be converted to a private use But you will say you have no wages I will tell you what St. Paul saith Having food and raiment therewith be content never desert a good cause for want of pay Are we not all and all that we have ingaged in the cause Estates and and Liberties and Lives and Religion doth not al lye at the stake Stand for CHRIST and for his cause and he wil stand for you for be you sure he wil be a better paymaster unto you then al the world can afford for his promise is be faithful unto death and he wil give you a crown of Life For my part my poore endeavours have not been wanting ever since the Militia was set forward neither shall it ever be wanting God willing so long as life and estate shall last I never desired pay but the Parliaments faith and now I have more then I did desire for there is a promise made by both Kingdomes that all that endeavour to bee active and faithfull to this cause shall be no loosers so that this promise and the promise by Christ is sufficient to incourage all men that either have or will take up armes in this cause The poore endeavours and desires of one that earnestly desires the advancement of the cause of Christ the yeer 1644. wherin the troubles and the troublers of the Church and Common-Wealth will be in turning ore I could desire to be satisfied in this whether we under Prelaticall governement were not the luke-warme Laodiceans and also in this that we now being joyned to the Philadelpians in Discipline Worship Governement and Covenant and made one with them and they with us whether if we were Laodiceans we be not now made Philadelphians But I will hearken to the faithfull Ministerie and if it prove truth then see England is Metamorphized and I will say to those that are in Covenant stand to it you couragious Philadelphians for God will give you to possesse the very Gates of your onemies and we shall see that the Parliament hath made use of those words namely to buy the truth at any rate and that the field is purchased for us where the precious pearle lyeth I meane the pure Ordinances of of Jesus Christ but I will waite Vale.