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The voice of King Charls the father to Charls the son, and the bride say come being an invitation of King Charls to come in peaceably and be reconciled to his father's minde and shewing the integrity of His Highness Oliver Cromwel ... / by Arise Evans.
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Evans, Arise, b. 1607.
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Ezra 5. 1 2. Consider Beloved God did let none of my words fall hitherto 1 Sam. 3. 19. but all that I declared is come to pass as I shewed above and if you had sought the Lord and forsaken your sins as I did exhort you to do in all my Books the King had been on his Throne afore now for men must look upon God's Commandments and keep them if they look to have his promises of mercy fulfilled to them for his mercy is to them that love him and keep his Commandments Exod. 2. 6. Israel in their captivity sate down and wept and threw away their Harps Psal. 137. 1 2. so should you leave your pleasure and mourn for your sins by fasting and praying in private and publikely associate your selves together to seek the Lord that he may be merciful to you And above all things keep the Sabbath-day he that keepeth the Sabbath-day of the Lord holy and wholly as the Prophet saith Isaiah 58. 13 14. he shall never do amiss for the Lord Jesus will bless him prosper him and make him honourable so that he shall ride upon the high places of the earth and the seed of God shall be in him to preserve and protect him all the weeks of his life from Sabbath to Sabbath until at last he come to glory in Heaven with Christ at the right hand of God for if you will remember to keep holy the Sabbath-day God will not suffer you to forget any of his Commandments but your delight will be in them to keep them and do his will but if you forget to keep the Sabbath holy by praying reading hearing speaking God's words meditating in it doing deeds of charity for bearing all works or words touching worldly affairs then God will not bless you and you shall fall from one misery to another and never have rest to your souls The Lord will reign and execute judgement for the Sabbath therefore he is called the Lord of the Sabbath and judgement will come upon the world chiefly for their not sanctifying the Sabbath and if you take notice of Psal. 92. intituled A Psalm or Song for the Sabbath-day which Psalm continueth until you come to Psalm 98. so that Psalm 92 93 94 95 96 97. is but one Psalm by the Author's account for you have no title until you come to Psalm 98. I say if you take notice of Psalm 92 93 94 95 96 97. you shall finde how God will come to judgement and to reign and of his triumphing over his enemies which enemies are similated by a flood of waters Psal. 93. 2 3 4. Pfal 96. 10 13. Psal. 97. 1. and the contention must needs be about the Sabbath for this Psalm is for the Sabbath-day and hath begun with us already King James destroyed his Throne by making a Law to profane the Sabbath truely there was no need of such a Law to give liberty for outward sports on the Sabbath-day the people were too forward in profaning it so that if he had made a severe Law to restrain them yet would they have taken too much liberty to break the Sabbath and I wonder that the King and his Counsel were so blinde as to countenance the Sabbath-breakers since the Prophet sheweth it clear that the promise to Rule is founded upon the exact keeping holy of the Sabbath-day of Christ Isa. 58. 13 14. so that he that keepeth the Sabbath shall ride upon the high places of the earth and what is meant by riding upon the high places of the earth but to have the rule and power over it and govern it Deut. 32. 12 13. Judg. 5. 9 10. compared with Isa. 58. 13 14. will shew it And when the masking-bouse in 1638. was erected at White-Hall purposely to profane the Sabbath then sin went in the Court with an open face though in a mask yet so without a mask that he which had but half an eye might easily have seen it and say God will not suffer this Court to stand long Whosoever advised the late King to set up that house he was his greatest enemy He that envieth a King or Prince need no other way to overthrow him then to perswade him to profane the Sabbath neither can a man shew his love to his King by any means more then by advising him to keep holy the Sabbath-day of the Lord Jesus And believe it God will speedily have a quarrel with the Kings and Princes of the earth for breaking his Sabbath The long Parliament got much footing against the late King upon that score for reforming what he suffered to be deformed by restaining the profanation of the Sabbath they went up and he went down but when they likewise began to take the liberty to profane it so that when no Boat on the Thames durst stir on the Sabbath the Lord Bradshaw's Boat may and when other men must go afoot on the Sabbath a Parliament-man sends his ticket for a Coach and will have it then God brings them down also I do not speak this of the Parliament-men without ground for being in 1650. at a Parliament-man's house in White-hall who pretended to be one of the most religious of them there was some Friends of his there that were to come home to London Said his Wife When my Husband comes in we will have a Coach for you to go home How said the Man we cannot have a Coach to day Yes said she a Parliament-man may send his Ticket and have a Coach at any time none dare deny him Another Sabbath a while after I was at a Sermon in White-hall and in the middle of the Sermon I was forced to go to the stairs when I came there I beheld a Boat coming up from the bridge What said I to one that stood there do the Boats go abroad again on the Sabbath-day No said he Why said I what is yonder Said he That is my Lord Bradshaw's Boat coming from Greenwich What said I then he takes upon him to be Lord of the Sabbath Yes said the man he may do what he please now But consider how soon God rooted the Parliament out for such presumption and now the Boats and Coaches go abroad on the Sabbath again without any molestation judge you what will be the issue of it Therefore let none presume to break the Sabbath be he never so high I dare say God will bring him low enough that doth it pick what you can for that out of Heb. 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 10 11. And the Prophet tells the King and people of Judah that though their sin was written with a pen of Iron and with the point of a Diamond and doth say that they should go into captivity yet a little after that he tells them also That if now they would turn and keep holy the Sabbath they and their city should remain for ever Jer. 17. 1 2 3 4 14 15. Therefore you see that the keeping holy of the Sabbath will turn
be angry that he came not to them and between them they then set out a pamphlet abusing that Scripture 2 Sam. 19. 41 42 43. and taking it for a cloak to dislemble with the good innocent King wherein forsooth the English Presbyters took upon them to be Israel and the Scotch Presbyters took upon them to be Judah making as though according to the Text they strove who should be most forward in their love to bring home the King Shall not such Hypocrites be punished But in their bringing of him home the one proved to be more like Jezebel 1 King 21 7 8 9 10. then Israel and the other more like Judas Matth. 26. 14 15 16 47 48 49. then Juda for so they brought him to his long home and delivered him to Pilate And as the Pilate of our time had not the honesty to wash his hands from his blood so the other had not the honesty to take his blood upon them as by right it is Matth. 28. 24 25. and hath been required to the purpose of the Scotch Presbyters Therefore sure their English Brethren shall not escape though they be the cunningest Hypocrites on the earth the Scribes and Pharisees were but Fools in comparison to them for hypocrisic Yet God forbid that I should say All that go under the name of Presbyterians are so guilty of the Kings blood though they all be sufficient Hypocrites in other Cases but certain it is that a party of them contrived the way to bring the King to his end how many they were in number God onely knoweth and it is too a hard a thing for man to finde them out because all are perjured persons that are to witness it all honest men were excluded from that secret so that they can witness nothing Therefore I would not have the King to punish any of them for his Fathers blood but refer it to God for the evil name and shame they got by it and the guilt that lieth upon their conscience with the voice of his blood that followeth them withersoever they go is a greater punishment to them then all the torture the King can devise to put them to for if he punish them then it mitigates and lesseneth the aforesaid punishment And truely he cannot punish the guilty but he must also destroy the innocent for they were so link'd together in the work that if the Case of the King's blood come to be tried I believe the most guilty will escape best for they will say and swear and hire others to swear any thing and use all means to cast it upon the innocent Therefore I say let the King forgive all or none truely I am sure by a Vision that I had he must forgive all or none and if he forgive none I know not how he will ever come to enjoy his Kingdom We have a continual noise of Plots among us I am perswaded most men are more inclinable to that bloody way then to the way of peace yet these Plotters are so foolish in the managing of their Plots that their designs are discovered before they are laid The Presbyterians were not so in their Plots against the Church and the late King as not long since I heard a Sectary say That he knew of that Plot thirty eight yeers agone but said we had no drunkards nor tell-tales among us they covered their Plots with religious pretences they were so circumspect that they would not be seen in Taverns and Ale-houses left they should be suspected and they held it unlawful to fight against the King or for Religion but when at last they got strength they fought against both until they brought their Plot to effect yet you know how soon they lost that pre-eminence which so long with many Prayers was in getting God gave them their request but sent leanness into their soul Psal. 106. 15. that they are not the better but now much in a worse condition then when they began to plot Therefore let all the Plotters take the Presbyterians for an example and see what fruit they had for their long plottings and contrivings to shed blood and what they are like to have hereafter is to be lamented by them I am sorry to see men given to bloody Plots I am perswaded many care not what mony they spend to bring in the King that way yet I believe they are none of them that be in favour with him but such as think to gain his favour thereby are most ambitious and forward in these Plots Let them take heed they run a great hazard to little purpose for I am sure one man with his Prayer and Pen he having but one hundred pound to set him forward Eccles. 10. 19. shall do more good to bring in the King in peace then a thousand Plotters should do to bring him in after their manner though they had a thousand pound a peece to set them forward For my own part I have neglected my outward calling and done what I could spending my time and what I could get in writing and printing for the King these three yeers and now being brought low every way my best Friends forsaking me my outward calling failing for I was hindered in it because I gave my self to write and am yet hindered and lose my time with people that come to me dayly to be satisfied with Words but my Wife and Children will not be satisfied without bread and I must provide for them or deny the Christian Faith 1 Tim. 5. 8. Therefore expect not much more from me except God send me means which yet I know not of It is true Divers Persons of Quality paid me royally for my former Books else I had not been able to subsift And many came to keep me in talk not considering my time but thought I had my Books for nothing for they would have them at so small a rate and not onely so but many poor people had them for nothing though when my number was gone and I wanted Books I had paid dear to the Book-seller for them Therefore what I got from the one I spent upon the other Loath I was to offend any by denying them my company which many times came a great way to see me being also willing that the poor honest-hearted should should have freely what I had as well as others which paid me well Yet had any done to me as that most honourable Earl of Pembrook did to Matthew coker they might have been offended who for a less service then I have done for the King's Party when he was in distress the said Earl did send him a hundred pound But alass all that I had from them for Books these three yeers did not amount to half a hundred pound yet God be praised I live though poorly and men do expect great matters from me though by no means will they be obedient to God's word upon which the promise of happiness is grounded which Word in all my books I have