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A97191	A warning, or, a word of advice to the City of London, and to the whole Kingdome of England, concerning the armies intentions and actions; / by him who is a lover of righteousnesse and peace; and at present a member of the army, very vsefull and considerable.	Him who is a lover of righteousnesse and peace.	1648 (1648)	Wing W925; Thomason E474_6; ESTC R205357	4,333	8

beare them out in for its God indeed who is the great leveller both within and without his people and who art thou O great mountaine that will stand up before him thou shalt be made plaine Object But there is not unity in the Army in their proceedings they are much divided amongst themselves Answ. That is likewise an untruth for God hath powred down a mighty spirit of unity and courage amongst them that as one man they are united for the common good and this I must tell you likewise that God hath not only given them that spirit of unity but a spirit of prayer and faith likewise beleeving a deliverance before they ingage they are in good earnest a praying a beleeving people therefore I shall now proceed to a word of advice unto you and that first be advised how you entertaine thoughts of opposition so of the beginning of another Warr in England and that for these reasons first before if you oppose you will have the great God against you second then be sure you shal fal before him for he is able and will dash you to peices like a potters vessell it is neither multitudes nor tumults can save before him 2 According to principles of reason you of all people in the Kingdome declare your folly and weaknesse if you should begin a tumult for be sure if ever you strike stroke you are undone if not by the Army yet have you not so much wisdome as to fore see that there are those amongst your selves who waite for a pray to be inriched in your fall O London London dost thou not yet know what belongs to thy peace shall it be hid from thine eyes or wilt thou not doe good nor suffer good to be done mine eye and my heart pittieth thee if thou wilt worke out thine own ruine 3 And be you therefore advised as you tender the safety of your Persons Estates Trading the Peace of the Kingdome the honour of the great Jehovah that you oppose not his worke in hand lest you perish in your way for who is he that shall stand before him I must tell you that God hath a dispensation of righteousnesse to bring forth in the worke and he will effect it though all the world say-him nay and he will make his people his batle and weapon of Warr by whom he will breake all that shall oppose him have you not seene God breaking to pieces great and mighty powers by them O when will you see that its God fights our batles for us and delivers enemies into our hands take heed how you are found fighters against God 4 Consider you have for the most part all the godly people in this Kingdome as one in this act and as one against you if you oppose and they are the great interest of the Kingdome for first they are a praying people secondly they are a beleeving people thirdly they are made a couragious fighting people and then with them you will have their God and Father to be against you in a word you will have all the powers of Heaven against you and nothing but the powers of darknesse and confusion to be for you 5. And finally be you sure to perish in any designe you undertake against them for there is neither pollisie nor power against them God undermines it all and brings it to nothing Faith is given in already in this particular and that which I have said to the City I say to the whole Kingdome of England be not perverse seek not to raise new troubles be at the least passive suffer good when it commeth for all that oppose must be led forth with the workers of iniquity into confusion and misery God will punish them with astonishment and madnesse and will recompence unto them the fruite of their own waies thus have I very briefly and that with much bowels and tendernesse given you this word of warning that if God so please thy ruine may be prevented but if you will not heare my soule shall weep in secre● for thy pride yet know that thou hast had a word of warning from him who foresees both thy sin and misery and if notwithstanding this thou will be rebellious and oppose the work of the great Jehovah and so perish in thy opposition thy Destruction is of thy selfe and thy Judgement will be the more just hearken not to flatterers neither flatter thy self it will be to late to repent when the judgement is past consider that thou thy selfe by thy clamourous petitions to the Parliament hast been the cause of this approaching storme add not therefore sin to sin but repent and amend looke not at dishonour in thy submitting beter be dishonourable in receiving good then honourable in opposing it better be dishonourable in being passive in receaving them to lose al in opposing and your greatest honor now at least will be to conquer lust and pride before you are conquered for your pride you know what sad doomes have been past upon you by many I cannot yet say that is past upon you by God I desire the Lord to deliver you from that fiery destruction threatened therefore have I written that you might be prevented from working out your one ruine that so you might have peace FINIS

A Warning or A word of Advice to the City OF LONDON And to the whole Kingdome OF ENGLAND concerning the Armies Intentions and Actions BY Him who is a Lover of Righteousnesse and Peace and at present a member of the Army very Vsefull and Considerable Printed at London for Giles Calvert near Ludgate 1648. A Word of Advice to the City of LONDON and to the whole Kingdome of England concerning the Armies intentions and actions by him who is a lover of Righteousnesse and Peace and at present a member of the Army very usefull and considerable OH the Citie of London and the Kingdome of England What mercies hast thou enjoyed or rather what mercy have you not both abused How may thy freinds and true lovers stand weeping over thee and saying Oh the great metropolitaine Citie the Kingdome of England hadst thou known the things which belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine eies I say hadst thou known thou hadst not necessitated an Armie which generally hath used to be furthest from Righteousnesse Justice and equitie to doe that for thee which thou thy self shouldest have looked after oh thou great Citie thy sinnes are many thy provocations great thy temptations increasing within thee to oppose thine own good thine own peace And now I shall tell thee that the Armies intentions art and their actions will be for thine and the Kingdomes good peace welfare be you but passive seeing that through your neglect if not contrary activenesse you have compelled them to be active they intend not your trouble impoverishing or ruine but first that Justice may be impartially administred without respect of persons without which they judge there can be no establishment either of righteousnesse or true and lasting peace that which your selves long after and be yee assured it s not the plunder of your City nor the decay or decrease of your trade that is intended but rather that you might be settled in a more free way of liberty in your tradings Secondly That this way be effected viz. the execution of Justice they intend onely to question those both in Parliament and City which have been the obstructours of it that so they may be expunged from any farther power in betraying their trust as of late in wheeling round so fast into an unitie with those whom formerly they opposed as the great occasioners of our trouble and miseries Thirdly That by this means the Justice of God may be taken off the Kingdome which is not like to be untill justice be executed for God is a just God and will make inquisition for blood and blood cryeth for blood and it s far better justice take hold of a few if God so please then of many thousands as must be expected if justice be not executed for believe it the way of the Treatie is the high way of ruine even to those who cry it up work it and manage it and you will finde the Army to be in the hands of God your saviours in delivering you from it This is that others see although you see it not and that which you cry up as the onely way of Peace and Libertie others see it to be the high way of bondage and ruine give them therefore Libertie to save you with feare pulling you out of the fire c. Fourthly That they might once see this poore bleeding and dying Kingdome delivered from its oppressions and burdens and established in its just Rights and Freedomes and this is that which God will effect whatever shall say him nay although at present to many the remedie seems worse then the disease yet the end shall be glorious Object But perhaps you will say this is that which belongs to the Parliament and we are to look to them and to acquies in what they doe they being chosen for that end Answ. It s true it properly belongs to them indeed but they betraying their trust in making peace with men of blood contrary to Law and Religion contrary to the Law of Nature or of God they are to be questioned by those for whom they are imployed For if we will allow of Arbitrary Will and Power in the Parliament as good in the King as good an unlimitted power were in the hands of one as of many for this is a truth confest by all that the Parliament are servants of State unto the People and I hope the servant may be questioned by his Master if he betray his Trust and that wilfully too as a great part of this Parliament hath done in Voting and carrying on a Treaty of Peace with the Enemies of Peace and that not onely ignorantly but wilfully contrary to the mindes of those who trusted them as appears in their rejecting of all Petitions from all Counties who Petitioned them the contrary and secondly in their not freeing the Kingdome from burdens but rather increasing of them Object But those Petitions came not from the major party in the City and Counties to the Parliament Answ. True for the major party are such as have betrayed their interest in the Parliament in fighting against them and are not to have any Vote in the choice of them and so are not to be looked upon as within the liberty of propounding grievances or judging the actions of those whose ruine they have so long d●sired they are capable to receive government from them but not govern or vote in governing therefore the Parliament is proper to the honest wel affected party that have stood by them and with them in all difficulties and they it is who are ca●led to have an eye to their Parliaments proceedings and they it is who have Petitioned their Parliament time after time but could not be heard and now their eyes are greatly upon the Army waiting what God will doe by the Army for them the Army being the Kingdomes servants as well as the Parliament the Army being in the hands of God the only visible power in and of the Kingdome by whom the enemy is subdued upon whom the eyes of all those who expect Righteousnesse and Justice are for the accomplishment of it and therefore I must tell you that if the Army should altogether be silent they should likewise be perfideous and traytors to that trust reposed in them betraying both the Lives and Liberties of themselves and friends into the hands of implacable and murtherous men Secondly I answer that the Army is very tender of a Parliamentary power and intend not to act things themselves but to see those who have betrayed their trust purged forth that so there may be a free course of Justice in a lawfull Parliamentary way Object But it s reported that the Army are Levellers and intend to make all things common Answ. It s very false and untrue raised by those who are enemies to truth and peace its true they desire to levell all powers which are contrary to and against God and this is that assure your selves the great God will