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mercy_n	good_a	lord_n	name_n	5,929	5	5.3421	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53589	Two letters from Major General Overton, (directed to a friend) The one from Aberdeen, dated the 26. Decemb. 1654. The other from the Tower of London (the place of his confinement) dated Janu. 17. 1654. Tending to his vindication from many unjust aspersions cast upon him by the pamphleteers, and others; and for more generall and requisite information.	Overton, Robert, ca. 1609-ca. 1668.	1655 (1655)	Wing O643A; ESTC R222625	5,610	10

Two Letters from Major General OVERTON directed to a Friend The one from Aberdeen dated the 26. Decemb. 1654. The other from the Tower of London ●●e place of his Confinement dated Janu. 17. 1654. Tending to his Vindication from many unjust aspersions cast upon him by the Pamphleteers and others And for more generall and requisite Information Dear Sir I Blesse the Lord I do remember you and yours by whom I am much remembred so far as I am able in every thing I know right well you and others do it much more for me and pray dear Sir do it still Heave me up upon the Wings of your Prayers to him who is a God hearing prayers and granting requests intreat him to inable me to stand to his truth which I shall not do if he deject or forsake me which I know would not a little trouble you and my many other Christian Freinds Yet when I remember the many past experiences I have had of the Almighties mercies and constant kindnesses towards me I have hopes he will not now leave and forsake me in my most needfull time of trouble The Devil like a Swallow may shew himself a Summer freind but God is for Winter storms of tryal and then he most assuredly makes our utmost extremities his happiest and most helpfull opportunities I have in the late Wars resisted the common-enemy of my Country through the Almighties mercy to blood and frequent hazards of life and since blessed be his name he hath carried me through reproaches good and bad reports losse of places preserments and rewards But now perhaps the Lord will a little more shew his strength in my weaknesse and try me with the temptaion of skin for skin If he do I shall declare before hand I shall fall if he support me not by the right hand of his power yet if he inable me truly to say Master save me I am sure I shall not perish He will I trust give patience and perseverance I do endeavour to eye his glory hoping that he will both quicken and quiet my spirit and when men have spoiled me of all my Martial places and profits God can a thousand times repair the losse or those losses with the peace which passeth all understanding Or if I be called to seale the cause of God and my Country with my blood by suffering death or by bearing my testimony to the interest of my Nation and the despised truths of these times he is able to support and save me as the Sun to shine upon me yet all is to apply and believe to have recourse to experiences but above all to a reconciled God in Christ will do it Oh that I could wrestle with him in Prayer as some Jacob's do at this day and yet a Father hears his Infants voice as tenderly as those of stronger attainments The Lord inable us that though we be led into Temptaion we may be delivered from all evill I suppose by this you hear Sir William Constables Regiment is marching for Hull as also that I am sent for to London Colonel Morgan coming down to Command the Northern Forces I wait for Orders to march hence and hear they are coming to me God willing they shall be readily obey●d if I can but keep faith and a good Conscience I shall assuredly finish my course with joy In the interim I trust I shall not need to fear what man can justly do unto me for any thing I have done since my coming into Scotland Therefore my freind in that respect let not your heart be troubled but by your prayers commend me to his care and custody who like a tender Father leads his by the hand as he did Israel through all dark places strengthening us in all our weaknesses In the interim expect no more from us than I receive from my Father to whose care and eternal conservation I commend you and remain Aberdeen Decemb. 26. 1654. Yours whilest I am Robert Overton Dear Sir BY the Lord Protector 's Order I was yesterday confined a Prisoner in the Tower of London where as also before I came thither having received information of those false reports and misprisions I am under I thought good for your own and my Christian friends satisfaction with you to give my answer to those objections divulged against me which you may take as followeth Object 1. That before my going into Scotland I engaged to the Lord Protector that I would be true unto my trust and told him that I would let him know when I could serve him no longer but now it is reported that I have forfeited my trust by going about to divide the Army and resolving to march in the head of a party for England and there as in Scotland to abet the Cavileers designe To which I Answer 1. Reply That I am still true unto my trust and have kept my resolutions to let his Lordship know when I could serve him no longer adding that when I perceived his Lordship did only designe the setting up of himself and not the good of those Nations I could not set one foot before another to serve him to which he replyed Thou wert a Knave if thou wouldest nor did I ever go about to divide the Army promise to head any party or intend to joyn with the Cavileers Scotch or English but on the contrary having heard that upon the addresse made by the Officers at Jamses some honest Officers at Aberdeen had debates of that nature I sent to them first to forbear their debates and after understanding that they were under some pressure of spirit in that particular and purpose to meet at Edenbrough about the discharge of their Duties and Consciences in that kinde I sent for them and told them That if they intended any thing in an unwarrantable way I could not conceal it Whereupon they promised me to do all things in Gods way and that they would acquaint the General therewith and do nothing therein without his consent Object 2. The News-mongers and others I perceive report me to be a Leveller and a discontented person for that other Officers were preferred before me who were my juniors and that I was absent from my charge in Scotland two years together To all which I thus Answer Reply 2. First That if a Leveller be one who bears affection to Anarchy destroying propriety or Government then I am none but if upon the account of New-market and other Engagements for the settling of a well-grounded Government redresse of grievances Civil Ecclesiastical or Military or inflicting condigne punishment upon capital offenders c. If this be Levelling I was and am a Leveller 2. I acknowledge it was some dissatisfaction to me to have foure of my Junior Colonels preferred over my head yet neither that nor any other neglect did ever discourage or hinder me from doing my duty diligently faithfully and for the most part I blesse God for it effectually for these thirteen years 3. As concerning my absence