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A74924	A Faithfull searching home vvord, intended for the view of the remaining members of the former old Parliament in the time of their late second sitting at Westminster. Shewing the reasonableness and justness of their first dissolution, as also the dangerous rock they formerly split upon, that so they might learn to beware for the future: But being a second time dissolved upon the like account, as so many fruitless trees twic dead plucked up by the roots. It is now presented to the officers of the army as another looking-glass wherein they may plainly see, how woefully they also have dissembled, dealt treacherously, deceitfully and wickedly both with God and man, in having so greatly apostatized from, rejected, trodden under foot, persecuted, Judas-like betrayed, and as it were crucified and kept down in the grave (as the soldiers formerly did Christ) that blessed cause and those good principles, they once so highly pretended to own ... Together with an other seasonable word by way of counsel and proposal to the aforesaid officers of the armies of England, Scotland, and Ireland. All which, is also to be seen, and read of all men loving righteousness, that thereby they may (with the army) better know how to chuse the good, refute the evil, and rightly steer their course, and bend their spirits in the future, for the exaltation of Christ, his cause, and interest, and against all the apostacy and treachery, though never so refined, that may further appear in this gloomy, dark, overturning day.		1659 (1659)	Wing F285; Thomason E774_1; ESTC R207286	59,601	45

else remain in the hardness wickedness and opposition of their hearts and spirits thereunto had you not declined but as was said before kept growing up in your then light as also in the frame of your spirits and actions towards that perfection that shall be in the Lords faithful People when the Righteousness of Zion shall go forth as brightness and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth and he make Jerusalem a praise in the Earth Isa 62.1 6 7. which is our duty not onely to be praying for but pressing after as well as after that perfection of light and holiness in the inward man that shall be in that day or at the Resurrection of the dead Saints when our Lord Jesus Christ shall come and all the Saints with him Zech. 4.5 comp 1 Cor. 15.23 Rev. 20.4 and how we were growing up into this Righteousness and the People according to Hosea 14.7 began to return from their oppression revive as the corn and grow as the vine and this glorious Presence and Salvation was dawning and breaking in upon us when the honest spirit which you have so rejected was encouraged and acting in the Authority of this Nation as hath been already mentioned you very well know But our too sad experience tells us that the Lord hath now cause rather to complain and say according to Isa 1.4.21 22 23. Ah sinful Nation a people laden with iniquity a seed of evil doers children that are corrupters they have forsaken the Lord they have provoked the Holy One of Israel How is the faithfull City become an Harlot it was full of judgement righteousness lodged in it but now murtherers Thy silver is become dross thy wine mixt with water thy Princes are rebellious and companions of thieves every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards they judge not the fatherless neither doth the cause of the widdow come unto them and upon this account we have cause to lament and complain according to Lam. 2.15 16. All our enemies have opened their months against us they hiss and gnash their teeth they say we have swallowed them up certainly this is the day that we looked for we have found we have seen it comp with Job Chap. 29. Chap. 30. and this is the very state and condition that the Cause and people of God and the Nation which had once a beauty and glory upon them is brought into at this day by reason of your Apostacy Now in regard it is thus with you and the poor Nation for your sakes as it is and things are under so ill sense abroad to use your own words to the Old Parliament and the issue like to be the further displeasure and judgements of the Lord against you the dissatisfaction and sadning the hearts of his faithful people and putting all things into greater Confusion if you continue to steer your course as formerly which so far as I can yet see or hear you are resolved to do though the Cause Your selves and the Nation perish and although you therein so carry it as to give the Lord and his Faithfull People just cause to say of you as of Ephraim of old Hosea 4.17 The Army is joyned to Idols let them alone Yet considering on the other hand that he likewise calls to such a back-sliding people as you are to return unto him and upon their return hath graciously promised he will heal their back-sliding and love them freely Jer. 3.22 comp Hos 14.4 And not knowing though you have gone on so long in the hardness of your hearts but he may yet pour out a spirit of grace and supplication upon you and give you to look upon his Cause and Faithfull Remnant whom you have so rejected and as it were Pierced and Crucified and to mourn and be in bitterness for the same as one is in bitterness for his first-born as also to return to the real practice of your forementioned honest Principles it being better with you then then now and to cause Judgement so visibly to return unto Righteousness as that all the upright in heart may follow it and be encouraged to venture their Lives with you as formerly against the Common Enemy which as things now stand they cannot but be very unwilling to do And likewise having though I have so searched to the quick and spoken plainly a desire to be merciful as my heavenly Father is merciful and to be instrumental so far as he shall assist to pluck you out of this deep ditch you have plunged your selves into and that whether you will hear or whether you will forbear you may be left without excuse As also that I may discharge my love and duty towards the Blessed Cause of Christ the Saints and the Land of my Nativity I shall in all sincerity and faithfulness lay before you what according to my present Light and Vnderstanding will if any thing recover the forementioned Cause the Saints Your selves and this almost ruined Nation out of that sad and perishing condition that by reason of your Apostacy and treacherous dealing with your former honest principles they are brought into and will engage the forementioned Glorious Presence and Salvation of the Lord to be with and about us as in former dayes in order to which though in and of my self I am very unworthy and unable to advise in a business of so high and weighty a concernment as this is I counsel and propose as followeth First endeavour to be humbled for repent of and to turn from every particular personal sin and iniquity that you have been in the committing of for if you or I or any other regard iniquity in our hearts or wilfully live in the practise of any known sin the Lord will not hear our prayers nor accept of any thing we do for him wherein his Name and Glory is concerned Psal 66.18 Prov. 15.8 9. Isa 1.11 to 20. Therefore if there be any such thing as false musters or Dead pay or wherein soever wrong hath been done or sin committed do so no more As also restore back to those of whom you have bought Debenters at cheap rates somewhat proportionable to your great gains thereby if they be living and if dead then to the Widdows Children or Kindred related to them that are left behinde them As also to be sure to promise nothing to any for the future either of a publick or private nature but what is in the power of your hand to do and have a real intention thorowly and speedily to perform and herein be growing up into that holy frame mentioned Zeph. 3.13 The Remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity nor speak lies neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths c. And what I say to you in this particular I say to my self and to all others fearing the Lord for the People whom the Lord will delight to use in his Work must be a sincere upright self-denying holy people therefore let us not hide our

other things declares plainly you would have dealt as deceitfully in the business of the Representative you were lately about had you not been dissolved a second time But I forbear to mention any further at present though very much more might be spoken in manifestation that your spirit in your second Sitting was worse in every particular then in the time of your first deceitfully with the General and the Officers of the Army in saying you would endeavour to suspend proceeedings with the Representative the next day till you had a further Conference with them and yet for all this did you that very day proceed with all the eagerness you could and had almost finished it and brought it to that issue with that haste that it had never been before unsafely and dishonestly leaving out the things that did necessarily relate to due Qualifications and resolved to make it a paper Bill not to ingross it that so in a cheating manner you might make the quicker dispatch of it thus to have thrown away all the Liberties of the Nation into the hands that never bled for it and therefore for the preservation of the Cause they say they thought it their duty not to suffer it and upon this the House was dissolved Thus far is charged upon you in the forementioned Speech to the Little Parliament This we tell you speaking to the Little Parliament that so you may know that what hath been done in dissolving this Parliament was as necessary as the preservation of this Cause and that necessity that led us to do that hath brought us to this issue of exercising an extraordinary way and course to draw your selves together upon this account that you are men who know the Lord and have made observations of his marvellous dispensations and may be trusted with the Cause c. In which words of the General and Officers of the Army to the Little Parliament thus laid before you is given a perfect Character and Description of the then and may it not too truly be said the late frame of your Spirits and what you would not do as to a more thorow carrying on his Work and Cause as also what with all haste you were doing against it with several other things too truly laid to your Charge contained in this Speech and that upon the accompt of these things you were dissolved Now what ever the design of the then General Major Gen. Lambert and some other of his Machevilian politick Officers and Assistants was in dissolving and thus casting durt upon you the Lord and themselves best knows who doubtless in his own time will and hath begun to do already discover and bring all the hidden works of darkness and secret wicked things to light yet there then was and as by after actions also did appear very evident grounds to believe and say it chiefly was to make way and as a stirrup to get into the Power themselves and therefore though it was unrighteously and wickedly done as to them yet doubtless as just and righteous in the sight of God considering the forementioned evils laid to your charge as was formerly the sifting and purging your House to hinder the personal Treaty and upon other accounts or beheading the late King and casting out his Monarchy for his Tyranny and dissolving the last Parliament as enemies to and opposers of the Cause of God and his people that so your selves or better then you might come into their places both of which according to mans Law and the old almost ruined Constitutions of this Nation are judged lawful Powers as well as your selves And although it be granted there was a deceitfull treacherous spirit which lay like a serpent under the grass in the bottom of this action in some of the Army who pretended to be either the stone it self mentioned * See page 43 of the forementioned Book Dan. 2.44 or at least to have had somewhat of the spirit of it So was there likewise at the same time an honest single sincere spirit among some of the Army the Navy the Churches and good people of the Nation who were indeed for the work and will erelong be found had then and yet have the true spirit of the stone in some measure both planted and abiding in them who did very much approve of and rejoyce in your being dissolved and that upon the forementioned too true account given by the General and Officers of the Army as is manifested in the latter end of the forementioned Speech to the Little Parliament page 45. of that Book in the following words Sayes he All that I have to say in my own and in the names of my Fellow Officers who have joyned with me in this work that we shall commend you to the Grace of God and to the guidance of his Spirit having thus far served you or rather our Lord Jesus Christ in it we as we hope and shall be ready in our stations according as the Providence of God shall lead us to be subservient to the work of God and the Authority which we reckon God hath set over us And although we have no formal thing to present you with to which the hands and outward visible expressions of the hearts of the Officers of the three Nations are set yet we may say for them and we may say also with confidence that our Brethren at Sea with whom neither in Scotland nor Ireland nor at Sea hath any Artifice been used to perswade their approbation to this work yet we can say that their consent and affections hath flowed into us beyond our expectations and we may say with all confidence that we have had their approbation and full consent ☞ unsought indeed to the other work to wit in dissolving of you so that you have their hearts and affections in this and not onely they but we have very many papers from the * Whatever Churches or other Persons they were that closed with former Declarations or thus freely sent in their papers or otherwise spake in approbation of your first Dissolution for not doing the good things promised as also approved of the Call of the Little Parliament in order to the doing of them and yet afterward closed with and abetted the Protectoral Government which was raised up upon the ruines of the honest part of the Little Parliament on purpose to hinder their doing those good things have turn'd their backs upon the Cause of Christ as well as the Army and ought to repent of their great evil in so doing as well as they Churches of God thorowout the Nation wonderfully both approving what hath beene done in removing obstacles that is in removing of you and approving what we have done in this very thing to wit in calling the Little Parliament In all which together with the forementioned particulars of your Charge contain'd in that Speech and Letter is set forth the matter of fact that was against you together with the righteous

thus the business stands between the Officers of the Army and that honest Party of that Little Parliament to this very day In doing which wicked action and therein discountenancing persecuting yea what in them lay as it were crucifying this honest Spirit in these persons who were bringing forth the forementioned good things which the Army so greatly promised declared and pretended to fight for and which you were dissolved for not doing of And the General thus setting up himself upon the Monarchical or Beast-like Foundation so contrary to former Declarations and as it were upon the ruines of the very spirit and principles which he and his Officers but a little before had so greatly pretended to own and be of themselves and also doing the very same yea worse things then for which the late King was beheaded and which they also condemned in you as also Persecuting Imprisoning and Banishing some of the forementioned faithful Friends of the Little Parliament and others of the Lords people and blaspheming the Spirit of the Lord in them saying They were acted by a giddy headed rash fanatick devillish Spirit and this for no other cause then their faithfulness to the Lord in pressing after the good things according to their forementioned declared Principles and opposing the General and his Officers backsliding from them and doing things so diametrically contrary thereunto therein falsifying their Trust and building again what they formerly had destroyed and declared against the Army and all the forementioned corrupt Interests with several Independent and * The good things they desired in those Addresses doth no more excuse their evil in addressing and thereby abetting that Tyrannical Beast-like Government then the Devils bringing Scripture in his mouth excused his wickedness in tempting of Christ some Baptized Churches by their Power Addresses and otherwayes in the mean while countenancing encouraging abetting and upholding them therein by all which the blessed Cause and work of Christ was very greatly stopt and hindered the Spirit of the Lord and his People grieved Now since these with many other wicked things that might be mentioned came to be done by that professing hypocritical generation the forementioned glorious presence that was formerly with you the Little Parliament and their Councils and Forces was withdrawn the courage of the enemy heightned the corrupt Interests before mentioned lifting up their heads and rejoycing according to Rev. 11.10 The Nations abroad contemn and scorn us the lively fresh spirit for the work and Cause of Christ which seem'd formerly to be in the Army very much choaked and lost the hearts and prayers of the remaining faithful Friends of the Cause which were formerly with and for them now grieved and engaged against them by all which the state and condition of this poor Nation was and is very greatly impaired our Land Forces wasted and consumed at Hispaniola Jamaica Mardike Flanders and elsewhere our Shipping lessened and diminished our Stores and Provisions for Sea and Land expended and very much consumed and but very very little or no profit our Magazines emptied Treasures wasted Trade in a very great measure lost and decayed as Tradesmen of all sorts and Shopkeepers many of whom are broken and are breaking every day finde by such sad and woful experience as they never did before nor in the memory of man was the lke ever known or heard of though Mr. Nye Tho Goodwin Dean Owen so called and the Officers and Messengers of above one hundred Congregations in England could tell their late Protector that they and the Nation had not eaten the Bread of Adversity nor drunk the Water of Affliction but had served God in the abundance of all things Very great new debts contracted little of old being satisfied all which sad effects with others that might be mentioned as was said before he that hath but half an eye or that runs may read is the bitter fruit of the Apostacy Treachery and Crucifying the Spirit of the Lord in the Members turned out of the Little Parliament who were bringing forth that Justice and Righteousness which the Army and good People of the three Nations were so greatly engaged in and was no other then what the faithfull Friends of the Cause are calling for in this day and will give the Lord nor them no rest till they do obtain All things going thus contrary to the sinful desires and vain expectations of the upholders and abbettors of this great Apostacy notwithstanding the many helps they had to carry it on yet as if they had been left by the Lord to studdy and procure their further destruction they not onely afresh imprison the Lords faithful people for witnessing against them but also suffer others of them to be haled before Magistrates cast into prisons forced to pay trebble dammages their goods to be seized upon and ten times more taken away then their pretended due came to for not paying of Tythes and this greatly approved of by the then General his Officers and all his worthy Addressors upholding him therein who was once the head of the Sectaries out of a carnal design to draw in the Presbyterian Cleargy to stand by his Interest who since the New Moddel and beheading the late King to this very day it is well known have been enemies to and opposers of the Lords Work and Cause that hath been and is yet further to be carryed on in these Nations Though he and his Officers not long before had as good as acknowledged in the forementioned Speech to the Little Parliament See Book page 40. 41. that the now Ministry of England as to their then and present standing derived it self and succession through the Papacy and therefore a false succession and none to be the true succession but what was through the Spirit given in that measure the Spirit is given which sayes he Christians are well able to discerne and do And yet for all this contrary to Scripture or Reason forced them to pay such Ministers as they judged were not onely destitute of a work of Grace in their hearts much less of the Spirit for that work but also derived their succession through the Papacy wherein with other things of this nature that might be mentioned it appeared their tenderness was forgotten to the Lords people under several forms as much as yours and that the cause of the people of God was despised by them Thus were things going on one the one hand and some of the Lords faithful people called Sectaries Anabaptists and Fifth Monarchy men by their Faith Prayers Appeals Prophesyings and Testimony against the Apostacy and Abettors of it counterworking and pulling down on the other which honest faithful spirit in them to the Lord his Cause and interest can will never leave working nor overturning till our Lord Jesus Christ comes whose right it is This remnant of witnessing Sectaries so called get ground all the designs and stratagems made use of to quell them and to uphold and strengthen the

they desired to take shame to themselves and that they were now as ever equally endeared to the good Old Cause and utter enemies to all Tyranny and Oppression c. but that they would have gone on to endeavour with all their might to have brought things to that perfection and state they were in when the forementioned presence and glory of the Lord was with and upon us to wit either to the choyce of the same or other persons of that honest spirit and principle who were formerly turned out of the Little Parliament who have not since defiled their Garments with the late Apostacy or if they have have repented publickly for the same the departing from and rejecting of which spirit and principle by the then and now builders was the onely chief Cause of the Lords so withdrawing his presence from their Councels and Forces since that time In order to which several faithful friends to the Cause in discharge of their consciences and duty as they then apprehended to serve the Lord in that present juncture of affairs did draw up and by the hands of Major Mallery Lieutenant Collonel Pinchin Captain Cust and others present to Lieutenant General Fleetwood and the General Council of Officers a paper called the Good Old Cause Stated which holds forth that the Army themselves did formerly declare for and approve of that very spirit and principle and such persons to be in Power as is before mentioned and therein was desired Now whether it was that the spirit of the Army which was so deeply drenched and as it were over head and ears in the late Apostacy like old Bottles could not bear the new wine to wit the self-denying spirit in the forementioned persons turned out of the Little Parliament and in others like them that was the reason they were not called again or what the matter was but to be sure if they and the people who called you had been right and clear in their understandings or had had a true hint or taste upon their spirits of that Blessed Excellent Lively Spirit that shall execute the Justice and Righteousness that shall be when the Law shall go forth of Zion and our Lord Jesus Christ and his Saints shall reign in Righteousness Isa 32.1 They would have walked in that matter less by sence and more by faith have trusted God and never called you But so it came to pass that through the darkness and short-sightedness of some of the Friends of the Cause and according to their desires you were called together again to take your former Power as being in the outward appearance the onely visible Legall Authority in the Nation The best expedient to root out the Monarchicall Protectorall Government To raise * Indeed you were very good at raising money and Soldiers to secure your selves and at going to Feasts prepared out of the Orphans money by the carnal vain Magistrates of the City to bribe and blinde you that you might not search into and purge out the foolish apish corrupt practices and oppressive Customs that are amongst them and from framing the Government of the City in the way of a Commonwealth as you had declared the Government of the Nation to be And at voting the continuance of Tythes and therewith your wicked Ordinance for trebble dammages at raising Enemies to the Cause under Collonel Thomson to ballance and put a check upon the faithfull Friends thereof at perpetuating your selves as before by filling up your House with new Members at owning corrupt Interests and preferring corrupt persons into places of Trust contrary to your own Votes and Declarations at discountenancing the business of the friends of the Cause to the countenance of the enemies thereof at dealing deceitfully with the Army and Friends of the Cause as backward to reform the Law as also to divolve the Trust lately in your hand over into the hands of faithful men as formerly you were and as ready to do the same yea worse things then in the severall foregoing Particulars is charged against you But as for the Cause of Christ according to the true intent and spirit of it the Just Civil and Religious Liberties of the good People and providing Persons of a more excellent spirit for Government to promote and bring this forth you understood it not nor laid it to heart no more then the Army and therefore very unmeet to be continued but dissolved as formerly Money And to prevent future War and Bloudshed Maintain the Good Old Cause the Liberties and Freedoms of the good people in the things of God relating to the Conscience until such time as a better Moddel of Government should be found out so that here was your then Second call and Standing by all which it is probable you might apprehend the Lord did own you notwithstanding you retained the same spirit as before and that during the time of your more then six years dismission from your former Power had onely been putting you as formerly Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon to eat grass with the Beasts of the Field Dan. 4.25 or made you as ordinary men that so you might the better understand and know that the most High ruled in the Kingdoms of men and gave them to whomsoever he would thereby to humble and make you better Now seeing you were once more brought together into the Power not called thither by Malignants Presbyterians or the late new Court Party who profess to remain in that spirit but by some of the faithfull Friends of the Cause and the Army who as they say though honest men think otherwise are returned from their Apostacy to do the forementioned good things till such time onely as a better Moddel was found out who in case you answer'd not what you were called for had also the same power to take from you again what they had so committed to you you should not have been high minded but feared and been looking about you and considering whether the same or a worse spirit had not been in you now then formerly and have taken heed of doing the same or worse things that so caused the Friends of the Cause and the Army to complain of you and so greatly desire your Dissolution and a New Representative to come in your places For if during the time of your almost seven years Dismission from your former Power you had only been like unto Nebuchadnezars stump Dan. 4.15 rooting in the earth and bound as it were about with iron and brass and had not repented and broken off your former sins and evils charged upon you by the Army and others and grown better by the shame and affliction of being so laid aside but still remained as at your first Dissolution you could not honestly expect that the Friends of the Cause who called you onely to do those good things which the Army pretendedly dissolved you for not doing of would take it well at your hands or bear you herein because the former glory and

iniquities but rather say to the Lord according to Job 34.32 That which I see not teach thou me if I have done iniquity I will do no more Secondly Be also humbled for repent of suppress and put away for the time to come All the Pride of Apparel c. Luxury Gaming and whatever else is sinful and of an evil report that is committed in your Families by your selves Wives Children Servants and Relations according to Job 11.13 14. comp with Chap. 22.23 If thou prepare thine heart and stretch out thine hand towards him if iniquity be in thy hand put it far away and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles c. And endeavour all you can for the future to get such as fear the Lord to attend upon you for it is not onely your duty but declared Principle to the Little Parliament so to do See page 43. of the forementioned Book Let not their failings infirmities and too many times neglect of duty hinder you from doing yours if you can get them there is little good to be expected from you whoever you are though your knowledge and profession be never so high whilest you are careless and slight in this particular Thirdly Be also deeply humbled for and repent of your forementioned great Apostacy from rejecting of treacherous dealing with the Cause of Jesus Christ and your forementioned honest Principles and all your persecuting Imprisoning and Banishing of your Brethren for their faithfulness thereunto and for all other your great evils and miscarriages therein committed whereby the Name of the Lord and the Profession of the Gospel hath been and is so much reproached and dishonoured and his Blessed Cause and Work so greatly stopped and hindered The hearts of his faithful people grieved and hath brought so much poverty and misery upon this Nation and return in the sincerity and uprightness of your hearts to revive and promote the aforesaid Blessed Cause and those good Principles from whence you have so greatly departed and resolve in the strength of the Lord to return no more to folly And that this your repentance and thorow returning may so appear to all the faithful Friends of the Cause as to put them past all doubts and fears of your deceiving them any more for the time to come First Cast off the Counsel of St. Johns Lisle Whitlock Philip Nye Tho. Goodwin Dean Owen so called and all other the like Incendaries the Heads of the corrupt Lawyers and Clergy unless you finde they have really and thorowly repented of their great evil in being so instrumental to help turn and keep your then General and you aside into these crooked paths after the first Dissolution of the Old and choice and turning out of the Little Parliament as also see them singly and sincerely pressing you to come up to the practise of your former Declarations and to the owning of that spirit those principles and persons which you once so greatly seemed to own but afterwards through the enmity of your spirits and their wicked Counsel and Advice as greatly and wickedly rejected For if they remain as they were Owen c. according to Lam. 2.14 Are the Prophets that have seen vain and foolish things for you and have not discovered your iniquity to turn away the judgements that are fallen upon you but have and do see for you false burthens and causes of banishment Secondly Send by way of intreaty it being your duty so to do according to Matth. 5.24.25 having so greatly wronged them for those faithfull persons whom you have so rejected and turned out of the Little Parliament whose Garments have not since been defiled with the late and present Apostacy or if they have are known to have throughly repented of the same with others of that publick spirit to come unto you who if any in the Nation yea I may say in the world will the Lord assisting bring forth the good things promised and have been so long expected for the good of the Nation And when you have so done Thirdly Acknowledge your great sin and iniquity to them First for rejecting and casting them out of your hearts and afterwards out of that Little Parliament on purpose to hinder them from doing that good for the people which you pretendedly dissolved the Old Parliament for not doing of and called them to do which were no other then what you will finde the true friends of the Cause will neither give you nor any other that for the future may come into the Government of the Nation rest do what you can to uphold your own and other carnal Interests in opposition thereunto yea the Lord no rest till they do obtain And when you have in the singleness of your hearts thus acknowledged your iniquity to them and desired mercy for the same as Gen. 50.16 to 20. Josephs Brethren did to him I hope they will have so much both of the spirit of the Father of the Prodigal though brought to your Husks and of the spirit of Joseph to his Brethren as to be willing to go forth in their spirits to meet this in you and weepingly to joy and rejoyce over you as also to pardon and pass by all the wrongs and injuries that you have done unto them and therein to the Cause of God and his people But if this be not in your hearts to do they must remain where they are keeping the same distance from you as before lest they go before they are sent and so come off with loss and disappointments in their own spirits as to you as my self and others have done since you so deceivingly Declared that you were now as ever equally endeared to the good Old Cause c. when it was not so Fourthly With the Advice and Consent of the faithfull friends of the Cause both in City and Countrey it being usurpation in you and acting arbitrarily to do any thing without them Deliver up with limitations not to impose upon the consciences of any in matters of Faith and Worship and in all things else that are against the safety of the Whole the Power Authority and Government of the Nation into their hands for by what hath been said both by you my self and others in this and other Papers and keeping close to the spirit of them under Christ their right it is and take heed of mixing them as in the time of their first Sitting with persons of a contrary spirit and principle on purpose to hinder them from doing the good they are called to do and thereby designedly and wickedly give your selves a second feigned necessity of turning them out and setting up another Single Person or Protector upon their ruines as you did before but rather encourage and strengthen them all you can in the bringing forth this good and suppressing the evil for that it is onely the bringing forth of righteousness and breaking off all yokes of oppression that will save and exalt this sinking Nation Prov. 14.34 Isa

of the same nature which you say you gave to them but are still resolved to deal treacherously and deceitfully as they did with the Cause and People of God and to go on acting by the very same carnall selfish spirit and policy as before calling to your assistance chiefly those very Persons that were the first Contrivers Promoters and Abetters of the la●e and present Apostacy whom the Lord hath had and doubtless yet hath a controversie with and would not no nor without eminent repentance will not own nor give favour in the eyes of his faithful People but rather more cause them to stink in their nostrils and are as unwilling and backward as a Bear to come to the stake to call the forementioned faithful Persons turned out of the Little Parliament and others of that publique spirit into Power for fear they will do their work too thorowly But go on as long as you will and be as Politique in your Shifts and Contrivances to uphold your carnal Interests and to keep them out as ever you can yet assure your selves the Lord who loveth righteousness and hateth iniquity and every deceitful practice and takes the wrong you have done to them and therein to his Cause as if done unto himself and hath already begun to call you to an account and to punish you for the same will never cease disappointing overturning and sending streights upon you till you acknowledge your iniquity in that very thing and well if you escape so too which so far as I yet understand you have not done to this very day And that you may the better weigh and consider what I say herein read the following Scriptures Isa 26.11 Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shal see and be ashamed for their envy at the people the fire of thine enemies shall destroy them Also Isa 33.1 Woe to thee that spoilest and thou wast not spoiled and dealest treacherously and they dealt not treacherously with thee when thou shalt cease to spoil thou shalt be spoiled c. comp Rom. 1.31 32. and Rom. 2.3 Think not because you are a professing people and the Lord hath so many times appeared for you covering your heads in the day of battel and likewise given you houses full of good things which you filled not Deut. 6.11 that you shall alwayes have his presence and salvation with and about you though you commit iniquity and go on therein without repentance but rather consider what he saith to Israel of old who had sinned and back-slidden from him as you have done Amos 3.2 You onely have I known of all the Families of the Earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities Oh how greatly hath the blessed Name Cause Wayes and People of God suffered been reproached set at nought and blasphemed by your as well as by the late Old Parliaments evil mannagement of the Affairs under your hand from the first beginning of your Apostacy or turning the honest Members left behinde in the Little Parliament out of the Power to this very day How is the Enemy encouraged to lift up themselves in the hopes and expectations that they shall once more have a day to advance their Carnal Popish Superstitious wicked Interest and to tread down the Cause and People of God under their feet What might not you have done by this time for the Advancement of the Cause of God and his People not onely in our own but in other Nations had you kept growing up in the light spirit and practice of those good Principles you once so greatly pretended to own and had not through unbelief and a self-seeking self-exalting spirit so treacherously and wickedly departed from them Yea how far might we have been gotten on of our journney towards Zion had you pressed forward according to what above nine years since you * See Declar. Heathen-like called August 1. 1650. by it self or in p. 18 19. of a Book called the Fifth-Monarchy declared to the Scots wherein you say It is our prayer daily that those that fear the Lord in England and Scotland may become one in the hand of the Lord and joyn together in the Advancement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and throwing down and trampling upon the Seat of the Beast why should not Scotland as well as England rejoyce to see the Horns of the Beast cut off that we may joyn together to hate the Whore and burn her flesh with fire as also that the Lord was about to put on the Saitns beautiful garments and to make them a praise in the Earth And likewise above six years since to the Little Parliament page 43 44 of the forementioned Book that you thought something was as the door that you were at the threshold and therefore it became you and them to life up your heads and to encourage your selves in the Lord looking upon your selves to be either the Stone it self or at least to have had somewhat of the spirit of it and that your Call of the Little Parliament was a fruit and an effect of the Stones smiting saying That some of you thought it your duty to endeavour that way not vainly looking on that Prophesie Dan. 2.44 and the Kingdom shall not be delivered to another people and that it was set upon your hearts and upon all the faithfull in the Land it may be it was not your duty to deliver it over to any other people and that that Scripture might then be fulfilling unto you Also that we were at the edge of the Promises and Prophesies and did think that God was bringing the Jews home to their station from the Isles of the Sea as once he led Israel thorow the Red Sea And although there were neither Promise for this or Prophesie we should be coveting after the best things and therefore if you were to chuse the meanest Officer in the Army or Commonwealth you would chuse a godly man that had Principles especially where trust is to be committed for you knew where to have a man of Principles and wisht that all our Magistrates were so chosen c. Wherein you speak as highly for the Work Kingdom and Interest of Christ as can almost be spoken by any in this or indeed in any other day on this side the eminent fulfilling of the Promises and Prophesies relating thereunto Now what great things might have been done towards the Calling home of the Jews Also what a glorious Presence and Salvation from the Lord might we have had upon and about us to the amazement terrour and silencing of the Enemy both at home and abroad according to Psal 48. so as they would not have dared to lift up their heads or have wagged their tongues against us as now they do Yea how many poor creatures might according to Esther 8.17 Zech. 8.22 23. have been won over to own and love the Cause and Interest of Christ that now are either turn'd Atheists or