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A96054	No nevvs, but a letter to every body. Prescribed, to your truly beloved self; any where: so that you be not resolved to be, who and where you should not be; with care and speed, these be presented. / And subscribed, your daily orator at the throne of grace, R.W.	R. W.	1648 (1648)	Wing W101; Thomason E526_12; ESTC R205656	20,082	16

it is monstrous and dangerous to have many By what name shall we now be called Is any wretched enough for us What ever they shall Anabaptise themselves into they must forbear the ancient and most glorious of all their Titles unlesse to do quite contrary to both the Precepts and Example of CHRIST must denominate them Christians CHRIST hath layed his now no unjust Injunction upon us which he hallowed and made commendable yea glorious unto us as a most High and precious Pattern saith St. Peter for our necessary imitation In suffering under without resistance of a most unjust Tyrant In whom their wretched Plea against his noble Army of Martyrs of the pure Primitive Church blasting of their blessed Resolutions could take no place Certainly in him Non deerant vires He had strength to resist The Martyrs abhorred to try whether they had or no. Thus it behoved Him to enter and them to follow him into glory And other Defence then this or Flight Christian Religion since it came down from Heaven never taught yea never did not teach against though against the most barbarous yea of Heathen Tyrants If this he otherwise Is there not so much conscionable charity left Dr. Hammond unanswered by Mr. Marshall as to Answer the Book of Doctor Hammond concerning Resistance of the lawfull Magistrate under coloun of Religion How comes it to passe that their Grand Champion hath now crossed his cudgels Must the present Militia and Councell of War for ever want their engaged Advocate With what contentment can his Benefactors look upon Him Or with what forchead can he look upon them who for these divers yeers hath returned no Answer to that Tract in that Book of Dr. Hammonds which begins thus There is nothing more uningenuous or unjust then Mr. Marshals c. Must our undoing be the onely Argument to rectifie our erroneous understandings And must such men contrary to the Doctrine and Deaths of Christ and his Apostles barely say us out of our Religion and Allegiance which and by which we have solemnly sworn Surely we could be content to have kept our estates or now voluntarily to resigne could they bring us but one good Argument to demonstrate a new way to Heaven In the mean time till this pity be afforded us we shall be learning to forget our inconsiderable losses yea and if need be bloodie crosses while we have an eye towards him whom God hath made so like to both the Royall Davids the Father who was constrained to dwell with Meshech and the Son who not having of his own an house to put his head in was led away into the wildernes to be tempted out of his kingdom by the unreasonable Propositions of the Grand Tempter Since for the raising of pious emulations in other Breasts all of us not having capability of being tempted like him alone even visibility it self hath already given him Livery and Seisin of the eight Blessednesses in Matt. 5. As for his Dominion upon Earth GOD hath united in him all the Titles of the Brittains Saxons Danes and Normans And surely were the Angels of GOD to choose us a King fairer virtues and richer Christianity could not present themselves to their choise from out his whole Dominions then what are eminent in himself Wherefore weep not for him you Daughters of Jerusalem but weep for your selves and your Children And forget not to bewail in your prayers those who obdurately as yet persist in the heating of this furnace to the hight which can but purifie not burn him For our GOD is a consuming fire But yet there remains a more dreadfull considerable then all these Vsurpation against God whether or no in all or any of this there hath been any usurpation against or without GOD This is most evident That not Any thing which was once Nothing can have any just power but by the Creators gift who made it something And this is most certain That there is no new Covenant Grant or Demise from the Creator Scripture principles to be expected with mankind since the date of the New Testament That unto GOD and not the People in both the Testaments is asserted the Dominion and Kingship over his whole Creation That for the regulating thereof there can be no just Authority but what is instituted and set in order by GOD. That in neither of the Testaments GOD hath appointed or permitted or so much as mentioned any other Form of Government then Monarchicall That in both the Testaments GOD hath constituted and declared for Government by Kings and onely them As the onely visible Images of his One Majestie and the onely Supreme and irresistible Administrators of his Divine Power for the Generall Externall Government of the whole Earth since Mankinde cannot expect dare not endure that his dreadfull Self should descend to govern us by his immediate Presence That GOD hath constituted in the Family the Honour of the Father In the Kingdom the glory of the King As visible degrees and sensible steps for Remembrancers unto us of our Duty to him And as Touchstones of the Honour which we give unto the universall Parent and King of the whole world That the glory and riches of Kings hath ever been promised as Gods most glorious earthly blessing and looked upon as the greatest Admeasurement of his temporall favours to any Nation And that GOD hath recorded to his own glory the magnificence of Kings and never found fault in them alone with any sumptuousnesse which under him they have used to make themselves eminent in the eyes of man That under GODS visible Representer and by obedience unto him Man onely can have Title to the Blessings of the Earth That it is the Prerogative of God to be the sole Inquisitor and punisher of those his Vicegerents To restrain the Spirit of Princes And to turn their Hearts Gods earthly Prerogative as it pleaseth him That he who hath promised to obedient People good Kings hath reserved unto Himself Power to punish wicked people by wicked Princes That it is the Title of CHRIST which he hath dearly bought to be the onely Potentate King of Kings and Lord of Lords So that not all Mankinde without usurpation upon His Royall Prerogative may presume against or upon that Dignity which is onely his to bestow and censure Under whom Christian Kings are asserted into a more glorious Condition then any other Princes whatsoever That to be the Lord of hosts is the sole Prerogative of GOD. Which if it be so And that no Humane Authority may take away the life of any The Militia whom GOD hath created after his own Image the Issues of life and death being ever in the hands of the Creator And that he must be more then Mans Brother who may presume to do thus Then may no Man but empowered from GOD by the warranty of his Commission either in Peace or by warre shed the blood of man And if GOD hath given

be power saith the Apostle it must be Divine of and from GGD In a word if GOD hath indeed constituted and hath had a Church upon Earth for these 1500. years it under CHRIST and his Apostles hath been by through and under Bishops Other fashion of Church never yet appeared for so long then what this Covenant vows Root and Branch to destroy and hereby the temporall kingdom of GOD. The Mechanicall part of this our misery in the hands of their Engineers 2 Instruments of oud servitude and their not now servants hath been wrought by two main Instruments the wealth of the City and the defection of the Navy Upon the former other Nations looked with envious comfort As upon the Liver too bigge for the Land like to enflame and corrupt the strength thereof Upon the other with dread as upon the Arms and Legs of this Nation too long sinewy and active for them But which if Christianity could have subdued naturall malice at home and abroad might have proved the Arsenall of Europe and have carried our miseries home to the doores of Christianities foes Or yet have done better and have carried Christianity into the Pagan world which certainly better deserves it then we who thus use it Heu quantum potuit terrae caelique parari Hoc quem civiles hauserunt sanguine dextrae For the City I shall make bold to crave whether or no that be deniable which the generall Complaint puts upon you And whether or no your selves conceive The Cities wealth that for the greater part your wealth hath been so conscionably gotten that there can be sufficient ground for hopes that it might be comfortably spent Or this that the riches of the Country are transplanted into the City and the manners of the City sent out into the Country That your pride hath enflamed the whole Kingdom That your fraud hath impoverished it That your luxury hath infected it and your illiberality except to vain glory and your selves hath spoiled it 's ancient Hospitality But which is the greatest mischief that the contagion of equall wantonnesse and new fanglednesse in Religion hath spread it's pestilence into the veins and vitals of the whole Nation That you could find millions for others but for the King the Ordinance of God you could not find pounds That you have given so much that you have no power to keep any thing except by your prudent and speedy reconciliation unto your most gracious GOD and your god-like King by an honourable Treaty The mercies of both being like to prove your best Staple For the Navy they have better Sea-room The Navy Royall to bethink themselves as they have blessedly begun both of their duty and of the inexplicable good which by doing of it they may do to all and themselves They have a GOD whose wonders they see in the deep who hath sufficient power they have a King who hath sufficient goodnes to reward them and his glorious Issue with them to enoble their religious courage they have the prayers of all the tryed ones whose Anchor holds through all their Land shipwracks who mourn in their souls for a time to celebrate their praises when they shall have brought full ballast to settle an equall Treaty for the glory of GOD on high Peace upon our Earth and good will amongst men NOW CONCERNING THE REMEDY Remedies First to those who have not worshipped the Beast who have not bowed their knees to Baal nor kissed him with their mouthes who have not so much as petitioned for any fifth part but contentedly abandon the thoughts of their just proprieties From the world-despising Christian while the King wants his they here only want Him under whom by obedience to whom they onely can call any thing upon GODS Earth their own To them mine humble suit is that with heavenly ardour they would endeavour more and more to burn out the drosse of their own frailties That instead of trembling at a seeming calamity they would admire and celebrate the bounty of GOD who hath thought them worthy to suffer and given them something the despising of which might evidence their love to him That as truly spirituall men they may understand this to be All things For it is most equall with God and most advantagious to them that when he sees masterlesse sins grow to that height From Gods glory and Christs imitation that his publick worship will not be permitted in those who aspire in the greatest of humane perfections to represent on his Earth the service of his Angels in Heaven when his bounty is extended to the greatest measure of the receivers capability mans haughty unthankfulnesse will thank trust to and magnifie not his God but himself Then it is most just with God to provide for his greater glory select men who will neither be afraid nor ashamed to have in them acted over again for the raising up of an holy seed in a better generation the gratefull sufferings of his Son CHRIST JESUS and his blessed Martyrs in Heaven 2ly that you would set forth the glory of CHRIST in intensive prayers for those who curse In Christian charity hate and persecute you according to his example gloriously followed by his first yea whole Army of Martyrs Lord lay not this sin to their charge In which particular these our times have not altogether proved barren of right Christian deaths in divers specialties not ever to be forgotten though not to be expected in the cancels of a Letter Heroicall examples Most eminently the Nobility and Gentry for many have an heroick sampler in the most Noble Earl of Strafford the Clergie in the most sublime humility of the Archbishop of Canterbury Morall duty who enjoy Crowns elsewhere and shall have trophies here And yet not to forget our duty for another as not to sell our coat to buy a sword when ever the King shall by himself or lawfull deputation call for our lives and livelihoods but even then to carry with you those right Christian affections as did the primitive Christians when they withheld not themselves from the warres of their Pagan Emperours But never so to look backwards towards our losses or to our provision for those dear hostages of our affections wife or children whom God hath promised us Hating all for Christ to take for his while we persist to do our duties to him but to look forwards towards the glory which is set before us and to the good which we may do to others in fortifying them towards the despising of all that this world affords with relation to the next And yet we shall not do ill Christianly to admonish our prosecutors that had the great Turk himself conquered us whereas through the presumption and connivance of the respective Committees sew or none enjoy a fift part pretended to be allowed to wife and children for 7 s. -6 d. a man the fourth part of our encrease