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A85094 A friendly letter of advice to the souldiers from a quondam-member of the army. J. F. 1659 (1659) Wing F36; Thomason E993_13; ESTC R202067 4,650 8

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to forbear Hence it is you are generally Despised Contemned cursed by poor Widows Orphans and all honest people for abetting the Commands of a Juncto of Tyrants whose Design is nought else but to enrich themselves by the publique ruine a Company of impudent persons who assume the name of a Parliament contrary to all Law and Equity 'T is true they were constituted by you Can you call a Parliament you may enable them to Sit but you cannot make their Convention lawful nor justifie their Actions well then they Sit and Act not by Law but by your power truly you exercise your power very discreetly you take the pains and they reap the Profit and it were well t would rest there too are you so blind so stupid so besotted you can discern nothing has your Commanders no providence no foresight at all can they not judge of what is Acted are they not sensible of what they suffer By setting up these Impostors you have Beheaded as it were the Army and invested them with the power of a General not an Officer to be imployed without their appointment A glorious Army indeed without a Head But you are where you were let you have your pay you are well enough alas for you do you see nothing Is there not a Militia setling what is that for doth the ROYALISTS appear too Formidable for you you see there is not a man stirs they raise jealousies and fears in you without any real cause they invent Plots to cover their own designes and make you the instruments of your own destruction It is apparent enough you are the onely persons they fear You pull'd them down and set up a Protector you Degraded the Protector and Erected them and they are conscious of so much guilt as to fear you may depose them again From hence proceeds that insufferable burden laid upon the Nation to raise Men and Arms which once being perfected you must expect that power to be imployed against you then a shameful disbanding will be your undoubted pay reward How contemptibly will you then appear every injured person will then be ready to spit upon you No Fellow Souldiers assume the hearts of Men and as you are known to have Courage and Stoutness so let your understanding be menifest also 'T is in your power to make your selves Famous and the whole Nation Happy Consider with your selves how many changes and alterations of Government this poor Kingdom hath groaned under consider the publick pressures the impoverishment of the Commonwealth the barbarous banishment of particular persons consider the sad and lamentable effusion of bloud which hath been and must of necessity fall upon us without a timely reconciliation Lastly consider and lay to heart our brethrens deviation from the Word of God and deliberate with your selves how many Sects and Heresies they are run into and take notice that this pretended Parliament was the onely Contrivers of all these mischiefs and Misfortunes and will be your Destruction also unlesse timely prevented Now there is no other way left to prevent your own and the Nations ruine but to Dismantle the Garrison at Westminster Disarm them of their Usurped power and Disperse their persons This done 't is requisite to confider being this Nation cannot consist without a Supreme Magistrate of some single Person to sway the SCEPTER since Monarchy after all these things is Experimentally found most congruous and sutable to the Genius of this People This being granted necessary God and Nature hath prepared a Person so agreeable to this high Trust that the whole World cannot parrallel him CHARLES STEWART KING of Scotland and by Law and Right KING of England and Ireland a Person so Innocent that the very malice of those Usurpers durst never fix the least scandal upon him In a word He is a Moses for meekness and therefore you cannot distrust his mercy He is a Solomon for wifedom and therefore cannot be suspected to destroy his own Inheritance it being his Interest to preserve his People to enrich his Dominions and by Acts of Grace and Mercy to Court the Love and Affection of his Subjects Hezekiah was not a greater Example of piety then this young PRINCE who being forced in his tender years to make trial of the Charity of other Princes could not but expect the frequent assaults of Learning and Policy to shake the Foundation of his Religion yet such was the strength of his Judgement such his invincible Courage in point of Faith that no pretended Reasons no specious Promises no hopes of a temporal Setlement though never so fair was of any validity to stagger his spiritual Resolutions Lay your Heads therefore together consult with your selves and tell me whether you can Fancy to your selves a Person whose parts are any thing near so adequate to the Royal Trust or your own desires Interest This is the Person God hath appointed His person his Parts his Birth do Challenge your Fidelity your Loyalty and will you still kick against Heaven and wound your Consciences by opposing his timely Admittance into his own Inheritance will you Destroy three Nations to gratifie the Covetousness pride and ambition of a few inconsiderable persons will you draw down the Curse of so many Families without any Advantage Emolument or Profit Look upon the affairs beyond Sea you will find the Hands of all Christendom united by God's providence for the settlement of the KING extended against you should they poure in their Forces upon us and you persist in your Rebellion what a miserale Seat of War would you make this poor Nation the Children unborn as well as the present Inhabitants would have reason from the bitterness of their afflicted souls to curse your memory and poisonous of-spring but if God will give you the grace unfeignedly to repent for what is past and express the reality of your hearts by suppressing those Schismaticks at Westminster and setling his Majesty with the peace and quietness of the Nations you would by this Act Secure your own Persons and Families establish your Estates and render the three Kingdoms Fortunate all Curses then would be turned into Prayers and your name which now stinks in the nostrils of all sober and unbyassed Men would then prove Glorious and Famous throughout the World Which that it may come to pass You may as well assure your self of the dayly prayers as the present advice and request of Your passionately affected Friend and Countreyman J. F.