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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91936	Mene, tekel, perez, or, A little appearance of the hand-writing (in a glance of light) against the powers and apostates of the times. By a letter written to, and lamenting over Oliver Lord Cromwell. / By John Rogers. In this woful howre of his temptation, and of Sions sore pangs, and solemne appeals; and of the precious saints imprisonments and persecution for this most glorious, betrayed denyed, and crucified cause of Christ Jesus King of Saints and nations.	Rogers, John, 1627-1665?	1654 (1654)	Wing R1811; Thomason E231_2; ESTC R7990	15,517	17

Tyrannical and unjust and more consonant with Gods word Statutes and judgements and right reason and more plain and easie and clear And to take away corrupt and simonious presentations whereby souls people are bought and sold to great mens lust c. For this formerly judged their duty to be dissolved and broken yea at that time too when this longed for mercy after many years was brought to the birth by some faithfull servants of the Lord precious round the Nation after many pangs much opposition yea and after the long sitting Parliament was broken too for their neglect of these very things with others seems strange to us Rev. 18.13 being Merchandize of Babylon and the more dissatisfies us for that we see this Power succeed for the support and upholding of those things which that Parliament had voted down and which the Army and good people had so often declared prop● of Antichrist this makes the Rise o● it more grievous to the souls of some of the Saints then in that the peoples choice was not in it though somes Declarations required that also 6. Micah 16. The Statutes of Ou ri are kept and all the works of the house of Alab and ye walk in their counsels that I should make thee a desolation and the inhabitants thereof an bissing therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people O my Lord that the opening and bleeding of our Bowels for these things might be a little regarded and pittied 3. May you be most humbly as upon our bended knees intreated to take a little account of the already fruits and effect● of this alteration which the Lord knows we bitterly bewail before the great God 3. The already effects fruits of this change most grievous to the faithfull Godly as more heavy to us then the precedent changes in shutting up the dores of our publick meeting place hindring us in Gods Worship imprisoning our dear Brethren friends plundering reproaching grieving them and them onely that have been all those wars and yet are and we hope ever will be faithfull to the Cause and Kingdome of Christ threatning to take away their lives and indeavouring to stone and stab them aspe●sing them with most palpable loathsome and notorious falsities to possesse good people in the Countries with prejudice agai●st them as if they were against all Magistracy Ministry and Property which with a wonderous and wicked confidence some write and spread about the Lord lay it seriously to their hearts and humble them for it but we cannot be suffered to Print the Truth or to answer their cruell and unjust Calumnies or Accusations whilest we desire no other weapons the Lord knoweth for our warfare but the Word of Truth which shall be our defence yet we are not suffered to print but plundered of our notes and writings whiles all manner of lies slanders and ●njurious reports are printed and divulged of us This was counted Tyranny in the Papists and after in the Prelates and declared against page 10. of the Case of the A●my stated October 9th 1647. viz to lock up the Printing Presses against whom they please was in the Bishops time complained of as one of the great oppressions c. and yet to hinder truth it is now made Treason to print or preach it so that we are forced to conceal truth from the world and the witnesses lie a● it were dead in the streets by such Political combinations as these are who do all they can to keep out the breaking forth of that light and truth which suits not with their present purpose wherefore our onely remedy left us is faith and prayer and solemn Appeals to him that judgeth righteously yet the Lord shew mercy to our unkind brethren in the day of his appearing And in the mean time declare whether they do well or no to cry out so cruelly and rais ly against us in this our new captivity and to stir up the people against ●s as evil doers by the advantage which they have in w●iting what they will against us whilest our hands are tied behind us and truth is bound Besides oh oh are not men of corrupt principles and carnal interest up again with the highest confidence malignants countenanced and such incouraged as were not long since declaimed against whilest onely the little remnant of the Lords faithfull ones are frowned upon brow beaten threatned grieved wounded to the very souls of them for these things but our great comfort and confidence is that in this Day which will burn as an Oven when all the proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble the son of righteousnesse shall arise with healings upon us 4 Lastly my Lord may you be pleased but to see a little in the midst of our Agony and trouble how l●ke this present Government looks to that which the Lord by the faith and prayers of his despised people 11. Heb. 33. hath so eminently ingaged against laid in the dust and stamped upon with disdain fullfilling his word therein and whilest you were with the Lord therein he was with you but oh is there no danger to fit in the same seat be under the Predicament walk in the same Ways keep up the same interests with them that were for example sutely so visibly destroied and cut off The former K. cut off had his Courts Councels State Pride Idlenesse and vanity in persons about him rich beds hangings Coackes and Attendants evill Councellors Politicians and wise men put him upon imprisoning oppressing and persecuting the poor despised Saints under the name of Deceivers Hypocrites and Fanatick spirits c. that were not of the same principles with him and his Court ruling for his own interest more then for the peoples Liberties c. and O my Lord but a little consider is it not so in all or most of the same points pleaded against him so long together by the sword by the word and faith of Gods people How alike this G. is to it which God hath thrown down before our eyes thousands of whom lost their lives and dearest bloud and friends to free us from all these things O my Lord make us not your enemies by telling you the truth with tears and bleeding Bowels the Lord knows for you and yours whom the Lord hath so highly owned and honoured in his design against this very kind of G be pleased to use your own words page 12.31 38 39. of the Declaration of the Army going into Scotland 1650. wherein you declare against any government by one man or K. unlesse it be Christ Jesus and you tell the Brethren of Scotland if they proceed in any such design to bring in such a Government as King upon us they will blot out not onely their former merits but undo the noble atchievements of the English Patriots and Parliaments in this former Generations For we know say you how easie a thing it is to raise a Monarchical spirit

Mene Tekel Perez OR A little Appearance of the HAND-WRITING In a Glance of Light Against the Powers and Apostates of the TIMES By a Letter written to and lamenting over Oliver Lord Cromwel BY JOHN ROGERS In this woful Howre of his Temptation and of Sions sore pangs and Solemne Appeals and of the precious Saints imprisonments and persecution for this most Glorious betrayed denyed and crucified Cause of Christ Jesus KING OF SAINTS AND NATIONS There sin is written with a Pen of Iron and the point of a Diamond ungue adamantino 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whiles there Children remember their Altars and Groves again Jer. 17.15 Why do ye persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh oh that my words were now written oh that they were printed in a Book that they were graven with an iron pen in the Rock for ever For I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand in the latter end upon the EARTH c. Job 19.22 23 24 25. c. Heu pietas ubi pri●●a pros●n● o tempora Mundi Fax Vesper prope Nox ô Mora Christe Veni Sinite Virgam Corripientem ne sentiatis Mailcum Conterent●● B●rn A word by the way to the Reader SInce the time that I was lately so illegally arbitrarily plundered without any Cause shown or known by this Vnrighteous self-created powers that is got uppermost I have with the words of Jeremy Ch. 20.8 9. cryed out violence and spoyl violence and spoyl because the word of the Lord is made a Reproach and Derision daily Then I said I will not make mention nor speak any more in his name But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones and I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay But constrained in spirit wrote this Letter yet seeing by several Messengers I have assaied and that several dayes together to get it delivered and finding it so difficult that it is doubtfull whither it be safely conveyed to him or no you find it printed as the most probable means of having it presented to his eye for that many Flatterers are ready to run with the news to their Master as v. 10. REPORT say they and wee will REPORT it all my Familiars watched for my balting saying peradventure he wil be inticed and we shall PREVAIL against him and take our REVENGE on him Well if they do so welcome CROSSE of Christ for my next Petition to thy Kingdom come is thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven yet who knows but this weak word may awaken him a little For Aegros quos potus fortis non curavit ad salutem pristinam Aqua tepens revocavit warm water hath sometimes recovered men to their former health but whither this doe or not my Conscience is now so well satisfied my heart be refreshed and my spirit so warmed in the strength of our dear despised Christ that I hope to go on with Jerem. 20.11 For the Lord is with me who is the terrible one therefore my PERSECVTORS stall stumble they shall not prevail but they shal be greatly ashamed for they SHAL not prosper long and their everlasting Confusion shall never be FORGOTTEN this is the victorious overturning already triumphing Faith of 100ds Blessed be JEHOVAH besides JOHN ROGERS MY LORD VVHile the souls of many of the Lords dear Servants who sit weeping over you are in Travel and struggle for you in this hour of Temptation I most humbly beg as upon my knees for your own Soule and Family and for the poor afflicted Saints sake that you will but weigh these few Lines of our present Lamentation in the ballance of your heart and Conscience one part of an hour which you may best spare and be most serious in 〈◊〉 which if the Lord whom I serve require it I thinke I could as freely write with my Blood as with Irke in tears and gall of grief O our bowels our bowels our hearts ake and are pained within us to hear the dolefull groans and cryes tears prayers and solemne Appeals of godly people in the Nation round about to the Righteous Iudge of the whole Earth which doubtlesse will be Answered with a dreadfull Dispensation and severe Decree upon those that be found the Enemies to the Lord Iesus and his Exaltation The Apprehension whereof hath so ceased upon my Spirit that I should sinne if some way or other I gave you no notice thereof for that your own person is yet so deare in our very soules that Bowels of Affection are frequently seen to you in mourning praying and wrastling for you if possible to recover you out of those bottomlesse Snar●s wherein you are so deeply insnared by the evill Counsell of Parasites subtle and selfe seeking Flatterers Dawbers and Deceivers who have not that lively Sence to the Lord Iesus his poor Saints and Interest nor yet to your Soule so despately ingaged we humbly conceive as we who are counted enemies for the Truths sake as the Lord will witnesse have Of whom as 3 Phil. 18 19 I have told you often and now tell you againe even weeping that they are enemies to the Crosse of Christ whose end is destruction whose God is their belly and whose glory is their shame who mind earthly things Jeremiah 9 vers 1.2 Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a Fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slaine of the Daughter of my people that I might leave my people and goe from them for they be all Adulterers an Assembly of treacherous men I cannot speak with you in person therefore I beseech you read these words which our tears and prayers are the Embassadors and Fore-runners of Mittamus pre●es lachrymas cordis l●gatos Cyprian for that we havenot the least grain of ill will hatred or malice as some suggest and say against any perso● but only against the sins and evil of this change of government which God wil and if Righteous we are sure must Judge and then as once you said in your Letter to the Ki●ke of Scotland God who knoweth us will in his due time 〈…〉 manifest whether we doe multiple these things as men or doe we them for the Lord Christ and his poor peoples sake Wherefore 1 Be pleased we beseech you with weeping tears to compare a little present transactions with former Ingagements and with the Armies Declarations c. as that of Iune 14. 1647. in page 6. declaring that you tooke up Armes in Iudgement and Conscience for the peoples Iust Right and Liberties Your own Declarations and Resolved to assert and vindicate them against all Arbitrary power violence and opposition and against all particular parties and interests whatsoever So page 7. that it is no resisting of Magistrary to side with those just Principles being these upon which you assi●●ed the Parliament And that the glory of God was not wanting in such cases to set

a price upon such proceedings it being one witnesse of God in the world to carry on a Testimony against the injustice and unrighteousnesse of men And against the miscarriage of Governments when corrupted and declining from the primitive and originall glory So page 9. We are so farre from designing and complying to have an absolute o● arbitrary power sig●ed or setled for continuance in any PERSONS WHATSOEVER at that if we might be sure to obtaine it we cannot wish to have it so in the PERSONS of any Against absolute Government in one Person whom we our selves could most confide in or who should appeare most of our PRINCIPLES and Opinions or whom we might have most personall assurance of or interest in but that the Authority of this Kingdome in PARLIAMENTS may ever stand and have its course as the supream power and trust with many other things in that Declaration So in the case of the Army stated and proposed by the Agents from Gilford Octob. 9. 1647. page 4. We tooke up Arms in Iudgement and conscience for the peoples Just Rights and Liberties not as mercenary souldiers hired to serve an arbitrary power So page 13.14 The people shall see we minded not our own interest For successive Parliaments but the Good Freedome and Welfare of the whole Nation which in the same page is declared particularly to be in new Successive Elections of Supream Assemblies of Parliaments at Periods of times and that it ought not to be denyed them this being so Essentiall to their Freedome that without it they are no better then SLAVES that therefore it be insisted on so positively and resolvedly as not to RECEDE from it So page 15. That PARLIAMENTS rightly constituted are the Foundation of our hopes of Right and Freedome to the people that therefore the constant SVCCESSION of PARLIAMENTS be so resolvedly insisted on that a law PARAMOVNT be made for it And wheras all power is originally and essentially in the people and whereas their free choice or consent by the Representors is the only originall and foundation of all Iust GOVERNMENT that it be insisted upon positively that the supream POWER of the peoples REPRESENTORS in PARLIAMENT be forth with declared for as their power to make LAWS or repeal Lawes and to call to account all Officers in this Nation whatsoever So page 16. This supream and sole Power in Parliament being the thing against which the King contended and which the people have defended with their lives and therefore ought now to be demanded as the PRICE of their BLOOD So page 17. The many oppressions of the people and the danger of absolute tyrannie were the occasion of the expence of so much blood so that the people have bought these their Rights and Freedomes by the price of blood c. Since that the Remonstrance of St. Albans Right and freedome where it lies 1648. pag. 14.15 The summe of the publick Interest of a Nation to COMMON RIGHT and FREEDOME which has been the chief subject of our contest and in opposition to TYRANNIE and INJVSTICE of KINGS or others we take to lye in these things following 1. That all Matters of supream trust or concernment to the safety and welfare of the whole be in a common and supream Councell or Parliament c 2. That the power of making Lawes Constitutions and Affairs for the preservation and government of the whole and of altering or repealing and abolishing and power of finall Iudgements concerning Warre or Peace the safety and welfare of the people and all civill things whatsoever and the supream Trust in relation to such things rest in that supream Councell of Parliaments So as 1. the ordinary ordering and government of the people may be by such Offices and Administrations and according to such Lawes and Rules as by that Councell or Representative have been prescribed or allowed and not otherwise 2. That no extraordinary or ordinary powers as above mentioned may be exercised towards the people by ANY as of right but by that supream Councell or Representative nor without their advice and consent may any thing be imposed on or taken from the people or if it be otherwise attempted by ANY that the people be not bound thereby but free So page 16 That it may not be left in the wil of the KING or any particular person whatsoever standing in their own Interest to oppose make void or render ineffectuall such determinations or proceedings So page 21.22 Where any person is trusted with a limited power according to Laws to preserve the Rights and Liberties of the people and abuses of power to their hurt or by the advantage of that power shall rise to assume hurtfull powers which they never committed to him and indeed to take away all those Foundations of Right and Liberty of Redresse and Remedy and to swallow up all in his owne absolute will and power to impose take away and destroy at pleasure They fought against personall Interest c. Such person doth ipso facto forfeit all that trust and power he had c. Further in p. 65.66 That satisfaction assurance be given that what they have contended for against the King which is our humble suit now for which we have been put to so much trouble cost and losse of blood hath been only for the Liberties and common Interest and not for your personall Interest and Power that there may be a sound settlement of the peace and future government of the Kingdome upon grounds of common Right and Freedom as followeth For Parliaments Annuall or bionnual 1 That there be a certaine succession of future Parliaments Annuall or Biennuall with secure provision that none who have ingaged or shall ingage in warre against the right of Parliaments or Interest of the people therein or have adhered to the enemies thereof may be capable of electing or being elected at least during a competent number of years nor any other who shall oppose or not joyn in agreement to this settlement and that it be declared that such Representatives have and shall have the supream Power and Trust Besides much more in these other Declarations that upon the Armies march into Scotland 1650. pag. 36. We found our hearts extraordinarily stirred up by the Lord to assist the Parliament against the KING being abundantly satisfied in our Iudgements and Consciences that we were called forth by the Lord to be instrumentall to bring about that which was our continuall prayer to God viz the destruction of ANTICRIST and the deliverance of his CHVRCH and people And upon this simple account we ingaged not knowing the deep Policies of worldly States-men and have ever since hazarded our lives in the high places of the field against all the opposers of this worke of Iesus Christ And having those things singly in our eye namely the DESTRVCTION of ANTICHRIST and the advancement of the KINGDOME of JESVS CHRIST Against King and against Antichrist