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A96291	A declaration to Great Britain and Ireland, shewing the downfall of their princes, and wherefore it is come upon them: because Christ is riding on his white horse, conquering his enemies till he have destroyed Antichrist, who hath made the nations drunk with the cup of her fornications: and till he have destroyed Mahomet, that great deceiver of the people. / Written and directed to Great Britain, and all other nations; by me Robert Wharton, wel-wisher to my countrymen, and to all the faithfull in Christ Jesus throughout the world. With an humble advice to the Army. This treatise is approved and commended, and thought worthy to be printed, by Master Hugh Peters.	Wharton, Robert, fl. 1649.	1649 (1649)	Wing W1575; Thomason E555_35; ESTC R204066	18,927	28

the Master cometh If the Lord be on his way destroying his enemies in his fury leading them into captivity that have led into captivities killing them with the sword that have killed with the sword Revel 13.10 Then is it time for the people of the Lord yea the Ministers of Jesus Christ to be united together and seek to the Lord to have the Root of bitternesse that is among them plucked up by the roots which hath been a great cause to Gods people to stagger and stumble in this time when the Lord is executing his enemies Truly it hath been a great cause of giving advantage to the enemy to laugh us to scorne yea it hath given them advantage to take up the sword againe which hath been the cause of much bloud-shed since Oxford giving up and may be the cause of more if not speedily prevented by an agreement among Ministers who are divided who knoweth whether the Lord hath done with his enemies will begin with his people or no and chastise them in the sight of their enemies will not this grieve you shall see the Lord lashing you in the sight of your enemies for them to laugh at you The Lord open your eyes that the errours which are between you may be plainly seen by you so that they may be plucked up by the roots and cast into hell from whence they came Now the Lord bring you together in love that your differences may be so ended that the Lord may smell a sweet savour in giving your selves up together in love to the Lord so shall the people of the Lord greatly rejoyce and your enemies be dismissed of their prey they long and look for thus will there be a great advantage unto a happy peace in the Nation then shall the glory of the Gospell breake forth in this Land like a burning shining light to the whole world which will be a great means to darken errours then shall the Ministers be seene once more like the Stars in Christs right hand whom their enemies did once seeke to pull down by proclaiming them Traitors Then will the Lord delight to do us good and bring down the power of the enemie still more and more till he have quite overthrowne Antichrist and plucked down his throne which shall be downe in his appointed time which time is set and known to the Lord even to the very day and houre appointed which being done Mahomet his time must suddenly follow then then down must come all other thrones where the red Dragon hath his power and when all these Kingdomes of the world are subdued to the obedience of Christ Then shall the Dragon be quite conquered and chained up for a thousand years Revel 20.3 Then shall that Prophesie be come to passe which was spoken by our Saviour Christ to his Disciples in Luke 21.24 concerning the destruction of Jerusalem where he saith And they shall fall by the edge of the Sword and shall be led away captive into all Nations thus hath that appeared long ago sixteene hundred years the next Jerusalem must be trodden down of the Gentiles untill the time of the Gentiles shall be fulfilled Now according to the Prophesie of our Saviour Christ When all the Kingdomes of the world are subdued to his obedience then shall the Jews become an United Nation again and Jerusalem shall be builded a glorious City the Lord Christ raigning spiritually among them But to consider of the great mercy of the Lord in bringing down the power of our home-bred enemies what enemies had we in the Parliament to keep back the work the Lord had going on for the defence of his people how did they seeke wayes to overthrow all by treachery by sending money and other provisions in the time of my Lord of Essex and so made our enemies proud over us had not the Lord curbed them and kept them under but when they could not prevaile then did they take my Lord of Warwicke and placed Committees in his roome yet that would do them no good they were so befooled by the mercy of the Lord then to try another project they chose Sir Thomas now Lord Fairfax to be Generall and gave him a large Commission thinking it should break his necke now judge ye how treacherous they were to the Seats they sate on and to the City yea and to the destruction of the Lords Inheritance O miserable men how did they lift themselves up in their wicked wayes as ye shall heare After my Lord Generall had received such a large Commission from them then did they give him nothing but prest men that swore they would run to the King and would not suffer a Drum to be beat up to gaine souldiers in love to him then did my Lord of Essex his men stand out by thousands being loth to forsake their old Generall and serve a new Generall then see further their ase practises when the King was got out of Oxford to range abroad spoil then was the Generall to beat against dead walls at Oxford where he lost his men then in the mean while they caused the Leiutenant Generall and Colonell Vermuten who followed the King in the Reare to withdraw to their Quarters so in the mean time the King fell on Leicester where was lost much bloud on both sides and the City taken by the enemy thus may you see what treacherous Parliament men did hatch for the upholding their Covenant they made to the Lord and sought to destroy all the work the Lord set them to do ô wicked covetous men what falls both to God and man seeking after nothing but covetousnesse and treachery now are ye abhorred both of the Lord and men a hissing to all Nations now are your servants become your masters yea and without a great returne unto the Lord and great satisfaction to the Nation whom ye have deceived ye are but miscrable Leicester's bloud cries out against you for revenge the Lord lay it to your hearts that are guilty of it that it may not be laid to your charge at the great Day when the Lord Christ shall come to judge the World But to consider the sad condition we were brought into by their evill ways I cannot forget how did the Royall Party cry out all was their own and what will become of the Round-heads now truely that time ought not to be forgotten then how did the people of the Lord slock together both night and day and how did they prevaile with the Lord even when we were at the lowest then was helpe and deliverance most precious then did the Lord arise like one out of a sleep rowzed up the spirits that were halfe dead then were out enemies smote on the hinder parts then was there no treacherous Hotham to be found then were out enemies utterly routed so did the Lord graciously for us till our enemies were vanquished thus did the Lord crosse the designes of wicked men and broke their bands asunder

Bush and sacrificed like as he would have sacrificed the people of the Lord. Thus hath the Lord appeared for his peoole yet for all this the enemies of the Lord will not see what the Lord is doing but they will goe on and though they see plainly that the Lord is destroying his enemies yet will they be more vile raising up War but it proves their own destruction as consider the evill that our King hath brought on him and his posterity and all because he could not set up Papistry and bring the Nation into a slavish condition ô that wicked will that is in man by nature though to the destruction of himselfe and his posterity which though he had wealth enough by the revenues of three Kingdoms yet would not all this serve him but a tyrannicall government over the Nations surely they that have hearts to consider and well understand this may very well know that he had no great love to the Nation but to rule like a Tyrant or a cursed stepfather that loves the wealth the children are heirs unto but strives to make the children away who would have gone from his people as he did when he was so royally and lovingly entertained by them a great gift given him another to his Queen and another to the Prince by the Citizens of London which was not the gift of one man but the gift of many yea how did the Citizens entertain the Queens Mother thus did the people rejoyce to doe them good and for all this kindnesse they sought to spill our bloud and who must he choose but Papists for his trusty friends as Arundel Lunsford an arch Papist to be Lieutenant of the Tower to beat the City about our ears this love and kindnesse have we found at his hands for the great love we shewed him when he tooke up a War against the Scots he spared their bloud and granted their desires but when he came to reason with us nothing but fire and sword served his turn to destroy us a poore and blinde people that should so much desire the life of him that was not only a destroyer of the body but likewise of the soul by seeking to put out the light of the Gospel and to have set up papistry as you may see by his actions under a colour desiring to have Religion as it was in Queen Elizabeths dayes and so to have set up Papistry but with his Lordly Bishops but all would not serve his turn for when he had run his course in the place where he had sinned in the same place he must end his dayes a sad condition for in the time of his prosperity he built a Masking-house for the Devils worship or sporting upon the same place where the Lords name was call'd on the Masking-house being built up to over-top Gods place of worship yet doe I not say that is the true place of Gods Worship for the place that God chooseth for his worship is in the heart yet that place was chosen by man to call on the name of the Lord therefore did the Lord as for his wicked designe and so brought bloud upon his head as he hath done on his Nobles and the rest of his friends that were the enemies of Jesus Christ But me thinks I heare him be wailing Straffords bloud truly he needeth not for never was man more sorry for his friends death then he was for his had he pittied this Nations bloud as he pittied his there had been no War raised by him to cut off English men as he hath done Some say that Duke Hambleton clears the King of Irelands bloud as concerning the Protestants there how many times hath he been moved in every Treaty by the Parliament to cause War to cease there but would not yield to it then judge you whether he be guilty of that bloud or no. Again some say it was not lawfull for the Parliament assisted by the Army to put him to death will ye say so are they not they whom the Lord hath put the Sword into their hands to execute vengeance on his Enemies is his bloud dearer to him then the bloud of his Saints though he was an utter enemy so far as his power did reach to cut off the people of the Lord. But you will say that David would not lay his hand on his King a great reason for David knew that he was anointed to be King by the Prophet of the Lord therefore had it been presumption against the Lord to snatch the Crown to his head and not wait the Lords leasure for David was told by the Spirit of the Lord that he should be King and that Sauls dayes should be shortned Again Saul was a freind to the Nation cutting off the Gibonites thinking to doe the people his Subjects a pleasure but ye saw no such affection in our King towards the people his subjects but take notice how the Lord dealt with Saul after he had destroyed him by his enemies his wrath was not appeased so but he revenged the bloud of strangers on his seed caused a dearth for foure years to come upon the Land and would not be appeased till he had rooted out his posterity If the Lord dealt so with him that was a freind to the Nation how much more will he be angry with those that will spill the bloud of the Nation and destroy the Lords Inheritance Yet one great worke I doe behold and I doubt a sad one that our Ministers should so much bewail his death that proclaimed them Traitors who would not have spared their lives but have put them to death and so have put out the light of the Gospel as you may take notice concerning his actions and those that were in counsell with him in their wicked practises had it not beene death for any that should have come to give him evill counsell against the Gospel or against the Lords inheritance Had he been a godly Prince would he have slighted the death of his Father as he did when he was told he was poysoned and when a Parliament was called in the beginning of his Reign how would he have searched out the offenders but he caused the Parliament to be put by and sit no more likewise concerning Rochel work what treachery was there laid against the poore Protestants there judge ye they sent hither for help against the Papists for fear of being overcome by them and he promised them help but when their greatest need and desires came on them he sent the ships against them whereby they were overthrown thus from the beginning of his Reign to his last days hath he been an enemy to the people of the Lord and will ye cause the people to mourn after him that so much hath sought after their destruction truely a sad case Christ saith ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you I am sure he doth not command you to mourn after his enemies when he is destroying them do you

not know that Christ is on his white horse riding on his journey conquering and overcoming his enemies Revel 6.2 And hath not he set you as watchmen upon the wals to give the people notice what he is a doing is he not going forth to conquer the Kingdoms of the world that they may become the Kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ Then I pray consider what ye have to do forget this darling of the world and set not the people a mourning after him that spared not our bloud but reach the people to mourne after him whom we have pierced with out sins even the Lord Jesus Christ But now let us consider who are our friends concerning the great worke that is now in hand begun in the World are they not they whom you have stirred up in your Sermons to fight the Lords battell against the mighty did you not take up that Text concerning Meroz saying Curse ye Meroz curse ye bitterly the Inhabitants thereof that come not out to helpe the Lord against the mighty have ye not said let him that hath no sword sell his cloke and buy one how have you been the cause partly of raising this Army and how have they prevailed against your enemies even by your prayers I pray remember the condition we were in many times and how the Lord preserved you and us by their hands and how were dayes of thanksgiving stirr'd up by you to the Parliament to cause the people to rejoyce with you and shall all this be forgotten I pray remember Leicester worke what a case were we in then when the Countrey said What will become of the Round-heads now how did you call us together to fasting and prayers and how were your Prayers heard by the Lord and a gracious return from the Lord was sent you by the hands of these men from Nasby then how did we and you blesse the Lord for this great mercie so that ever after out enemies could never prevail such was the great mercie of the Lord to you and us I pray remember what you said some of you when you saw these men give large and mercifull Propositions when they had conquered your enemies at Oxford did you not say that they would prove pricks and thorns in their sides and ours and did it not so come to passe as we have seen and now they have overcome them again by the mighty power of the Lord Christ dashing Babylons brats in pieces ye goe about to hinder them giving their enemies occasion even to curse them as I have heard sure this is a sad case when ye shall seeke to weaken their hands thus strive not against them for had not this been of the Lord they had never done so much as they have therefore count not them your enemies for ye shall have cause to say once more to call them your friends when ye shall see plainly what the Lord is a doing Who knoweth whether the Lord be going to make a new heaven and a new carth or now as is promised in Revel 21.1 Know ye not that when a Noble man goeth to take possession of a great place or house full of lumber that he will cause his servants to cast out all the lumber that he may place his royall furniture in the roome and will not a great Landlord throw out such tenants out of his inheritance that will pay no rent but abuse such tenants that will pay honestly to their power then I pray consider what the Lord Christ is a doing is he not coming to take possession of his in heritance that he bought so dearly of his Father and is not all the world his to do with all his pleasure wil he be tide to the spirits of men to do what they please surely no I pray remember how long the Church hath been in the Wildernesse of the world and how the red Dragon hath cast out flouds time after time to devoure her and how he hath sate like the great Prince of the World upon thrones usurping authority over the Nations and playing the tyrant over the Lords inheritance and now he finds his time grow short and his Kingdoms shall be taken from him he grows mad but now is the time come that he must be cast out one throne after another that the Kingdoms of the World may become the Kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ Revel 11.15 If this be so that the Lord is coming as chiefe Generall with his bow in his hand shooting at his enemies and with his Crown on his head conquering the Kings of the earth and the mighty men trampling them and their crowns under his feet that would not bow to his golden Scepter Psal 2.9 Revel 19.17 18. If this be so that the Lord hath begun already to take possession as may appeare by his doings here as consider what he hath done ever since the persecution in Queen Maries days how have they prospered that have had the mark of the beast in their forehead or that have lent a hand against this work that is going on in the world how hath Spain sped for coming here how hath Denmark sped for sending strength hither to help the King against the Lords work was he not almost beaten out of his Countrey by the Swedes and what became of that Army that the Queen brought over hither all the Irish French and other Nations came not they to their graves and look on Spain and France they must lash on another while we were busied here what King would not help his brother King rather then his Commons should over come him will be an example for other Nations to do the like yet all this will not do therefore let us consider what this power is it is not the power of man nor the sword of Gideon but the power and sword of the Lord as it hath appeared plainly by many examples in this land now if this be the Lords doings here What will be his doings in other lands among the great and lofty Nations where he hath to do Isa 27.23 Me thinks I see them begin to shake now is that red Dragon troubled now are his forces mustering together for the defence of his Babylonians among the Nations but all will not do for now hath the Lord been performing that promise that is spoken of in the 63 of Esay Now is he delivering his people and now he hath begun looke for no change but to goe forward in the World till he hath quite subdued that great enemy of the world that hath so long tyrannized over the Lords inheritance If it be so that the Lord be summoning in the Emperours and Kings with their mighty men to appear before the Bar of his Justice then is it time for us to looke about us and be like the Virgins that have their lamps trimm'd and their lights burning that they may waite on their Master the Lord Jesus Christ Matth. 25. who saith Watch for ye know not when

as he did Jehn who though he sought the Lords Battles and did all that was in the Lords heart for him to do yet because he did all for his owne ends deceitfully the Lord the camed to bring the bloud of the Lords enemies on the head of him and his posterity such is the wages of them that do the work of the Lord deceitfully but ye have not shewn your 〈…〉 the Lord gives 〈◊〉 all who are the chiese in the Army hearts like John 〈◊〉 who when he had done conquering the enemies of the Lord 〈…〉 which is a great work which 〈◊〉 to be done 〈…〉 by great men and Lawyers for they 〈…〉 the poo●● of their right it can●●●● 〈…〉 they have perverted true justice and judgement 〈…〉 the poore the Lord had 〈◊〉 them in the 〈…〉 their hands and they had a 〈…〉 how miserably have they brake all laying hold on covetousnesse and oppression unjustly robbing the poore Commonalty though they had all their owne estates in their hands the Kings Estate the Bishops Lands Deliquents estates and making Sessemerts on all mens estates yet all this could not pay your Army and can we looke for redreste justice and right from such Covenant-breakers as these surely no the Lord will turne them out of their Anthority call them to account as he did Achan paid both them and their posterity their wages except a mighty change be wrought from above if this be so that the Lord will turne such offenders out of his service that sate on Thrones as Gods and thus choose you to do right and justice with the Sword then the Lord give you hearts sitting for such a great worke that the poor Commonalty may be relieved and have their rights againe which they have been wronged of and those cries that have ascended up to the Lord and that it may be your chiefest care to countenance the Gospell and be friends to all those that have been partly the cause of your taking up the Sword truly the Lord hath made them instrumentall Shepherds to drive many of his Flocks to his Fold though the Lord had determined before whom they should be now hath the Lord made a separation among them a myst is cast before them which maketh them faile in their judgments towards you concerning the worke you have in hand but surely the Lord will drive away that great cloud and cleare up their judgements towards you that there may be unity and love between them and us and that your actions which are to ensue may beget such love in the hearts of the people that they may say surely the Lord hath raised you for good to the Nation which will be a greatmeans to draw the hearts of the Nation to joyne in the Worke of the Lord with you and unite the hearts of the people that are divided not onely to be in love one with another again but likewise towards you Now the Lord give you hearts that ye have taken up the sword to fight for the advancing of the Worship of Jesus Christ and the Libertie of the Subject delivering the poor out of bondage dealing to every man his due and setting those that are unjustly imprisoned at liberty which being done the Lord prosper your proceedings that ye may see the fruits of your labour with joy and comfort And so I end desiting the Lord to direct your hearts to joyne with them that are not self-ended which is the prayers of many godly people for you and so Amen Yours to command whiles ye go on in godlinesse and truth Robert Wharton FINIS THE sincere and genuine intent of the Author in this Treatise being wholly to set forth Gods glory in his great Works done for this Nation and to stir us up to be reconciled and to live in love and peace one with another and in righteousness in our severall places shewing only the downfal of all Authorities that do oppose Christ Jesus and his Kingdome who will prevail therefore I say Imprimatur Theodore Jennings April the 19th 1649