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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

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

and for the kingdome of Christ So pag. 38.39 A second warre more dangerous then the former was contrived against us by them that hated us of this Army of England under the name of SECT ARIES and a second testimony was given from Heaven to justifie the Proceedings of his poor Servants against the bloody Antichristian BROOD though with the losse of many precious Saints we were then powerfully convinced that their purpose was to deale with the LATE KING as a man of blood and being perswaded in our consciences that he and his MON ARCHY was one of the TEN HORNS of the BEAST spoken of in Revel 17.12 13 14 15. we being witnesses to so much innocent blood of the SAINTS that he had shed in supporting the BEAST and considering the lowd cryes of the SOVLES of the SAINTS under the ALTAR we were extraordinarily caried forth to desire JVSTICE upon the KING But if there be any that have taken Councell against the Lord and his Anointed whom the Lord hath decreed to set up in the holy Hill of Sion we are perswaded the Lord has brought us as INSTRVMENTS through which he will speak to them in his wrath and vex them with his sore displeasure we desire it may be known we are not Souldiers of Fortune are not meerly the SERVANTS of men And for the Monarchy of King Jesus alone we have not only proclaimed JESVS CHRIST the King of Saints to be our King by profession but desire to submit to him upon his own termes to admit him to the exercise of his ROYALL AVTHORITY and with much more to that purpose yea to name but one more the Declaration of Aprill 22. 1653. pag. 6. After much debate it was judged necessary and agreed upon that the supream Authority should be by Parliament devolved upon known persons men searing God and of approved Integrity and the Government committed to them for a time as the most hopeful I way to incourage and countenance all Gods people reforme the Law and administer Justice impartially hoping thereby the people might forget MONARCHY Against this Monarchy againe and for Parliaments and understanding their true Interest in the Election of successesive PARLIAMENTS may have the Government setled upon a true Basis without hazard to this Glorious CAVSE or necessitating to keep up Arms for the defence of the same Though much more of the same import out of sundry other Letters and Declarations We might produce yet for feare of being too tedious our soules would rejoyce and be abundantly satisfied to see an Harmony between these Declarations and the present Actions of this present Government seeing as Solomon saith Ecclesiastes 4.5 When thou vowest or art devoted or ingaged to God deferre not to pay it Better it is that thou shouldest not vow then that thou shouldest vow and not pay suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sinne neither say thou before the Angell that it was an errour wherefore should God be angry at thy voice and destroy the worke of thine hands Oh! my Lord let the blood lives and tears be thought upon that have sealed to these Declarations and ingaged for Christ his cause and the Liberties of the people by Parliaments c. O be not offended with us whose soules mourn for these sins and transgressions and are weaned as then you would have us from Monarchy or any such like GOVERNMENT seeing in some of them as in the Declaration April 2. 1653 and Iuue 14. 1647. page ult you presse it upon us to stand for these things and you say you expect it of us and of all that are well affected to the Publick but now we are declared offenders for so doing Oh dear honoured Sir what shall we say but your owne words in page 52. of the Remonstrance of St. Albons Your bare retracting or changing your cause without better or any reasons giving cannot put out the light which your former Declarations with reasons have let in and which God hath so eminently owned and given his seale and increase unto O my Lord that these things might be cleared to the poor unsatisfied people of Go● whose hearts are bleeding under the sense of them day and night Zedekiahs case and calamity for his breach of Covenant and his imbondaging againe the people after Liberty proclaimed and declared Ier. 34 vers 15 16. And ye were now turned and had done right in my sight in proclaiming Liberty every man to his Neighbour and yee had made a Covenant before me in the House which is called by my name But yee turned and polluted my name and caused every man his servant and every man his hand-maid whom he had set at Liberty at their pleasure to return and brought them into subjection to be unto you for servants and for hand-maids being often in our remembrance 2 Be pleased my Lord a little to revise or reason with the rise of this change upon the breaking up the late Parliament taking its being there but for this end to keep up the carnal intrests the Parliament had voted down viz of Clergy carnal Church State Tithes Presentations c. which was according to the several Declarations of the Army as in the Case of the Army stated Octob 9. 1647. page 2.8.10 and Declaration of August 1. 1647. from Colebrook page 13. the 5 Proposition is the present ●nequall troublesome and contentious way of Ministers maintenance by Tythes be considered of and remedy applied so the 6th is that the Rules and Course of Law and the Officers of it be reduced and reformed and concerning the Clergy with then carnal Church State the Remonst of St. Albans page 10th Declares it the Parliaments part to take away these corrupted forms of outside religion and Church government 〈◊〉 he Rise of this G. upon the ruine of the last Parl. how and why whether imposed without law or rootea in the law in times of Popish ignerance or idolatry or of the Gospels dimmer light by we ans whereof snares and chains were laid upon conscientions and zealous men and the generality of the people held in darknesse superstition and blind reverence of persons and outward things fit for Popery and Slavery and also to take away and losen that dependance of the Clergy and their Ecclesiastical affairs upon the King or that interest of the Clergy in the civil laws and affairs which the craft of both in length of time had wrought for each other and that it was the Kings part to uphold and maintain this dependance of the CLERGY their MAINTENANCE and CHVRCH MATTERS and were it not too tedious I should name many more of your Declarations against these very things Now for the Parliament to do that which the Army and good people round the Nation have declared to be their duty viz. to take off the civill dependance of the nationall Clergy with their nationall Church St. and to vote a new model of the Law viz lesse intricate uncertain