<!DOCTYPE ETS PUBLIC "-//UMDLPS//DTD EEBOPROOF 2.0//EN">
<ETS>
<TEMPHEAD>
<REVDESCR>
<CHANGE>
<DATE>2008-08-03</DATE>
<RESPSTMT>
<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
<RESP>MURP</RESP>
</RESPSTMT>
<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080710.pdcc.</ITEM>
</CHANGE>
</REVDESCR>
</TEMPHEAD>
<EEBO>
<IDG S="marc" R="UM" ID="A74138">
<STC T="T">669.f.17[9]</STC>
<BIBNO T="umi">99870097</BIBNO>
<VID>163259</VID>
</IDG>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
<PB REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 12 -->
<HEAD>To his EXCELLENCIE the LORD GENERAL CROMWELL, and his Honourable Councel of the Army at WHITE-HALL.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Petition of ARISE EVANS, living in Black friers, de&s;ireth in Gods glories behalf, the Kingdoms behalf, your Honours behalf, and on the whole Worlds behalf: That you would with your Mo&s;t &s;erious thoughts con&s;ider the&s;e few lines following.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;hewing,</OPENER>
<P>_THat the <HI>Petitioner,</HI> having the knowledge of Gods &s;ecret Coun&s;el, being called thereto, hath declared it freely to all, the&s;e 19. years, as you may &s;ee in his book called <HI>[AVoice from Heaven,]</HI> Written in the year 1651. and directed to the Common-wealth of <HI>England:</HI> And al&s;o further the preparation of God in him to the &s;ame purpo&s;e from his Nativitie to this time: And the effects thereof you have al&s;o in his book called <HI>[An Eccho to the voice from Heaven,]</HI> Written in 1652 In which books is &s;ufficiently &s;hewed Gods determination by the actions God hath done, in fullfilling the words of your <HI>Petitioner,</HI> from the date of the &s;aid books to this time, &amp; you may conclude God will fulfill the remainder thereof, &s;o that, as &s;ure as the Parliament is di&s;&s;olved, &s;o &s;ure &s;hall the <HI>King</HI> come to his <HI>Throne.</HI> As it is &s;ufficiently proved in the afore&s;aid books: And indeed if your Honours look into your Petitioners works, and &s;eriou&s;ly read his books, you &s;hall finde that <HI>he would not turn water into bloud, or &s;mite the Earth with a Cur&s;e, Rev.</HI> 11.6. as it hath al|ready been done by the&s;e unnatural Civil Wars, but rather would turn bloud into water, and water into wine, to cheri&s;h the heart of the &s;or|rowfull: And that the waters and tears of Repentance might wa&s;h away the guilt of bloud, and become wine of con&s;olation to this Nation, in their Union with their KING. Without which conjunction to their Native and right KING, there is no hopes of peace, certainty, and &s;afety to this Nation.</P>
<P>Mo&s;t Noble Worthies, who&s;e actions are glorious, though yet imperfect, the great Mountain Parliament is become a plain before you: Next in order the KING is to be exalted, &s;ignified by the head-&s;tone, as you &s;ee <HI>Zachar.</HI> 4.7. Crown all your actions by &s;etting him up, and be glorious for ever: for I am &s;ure, if you &s;peedily proclaim him KING, you will glorifle God thereby, and &s;ave an Ocean of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> bloud from being &s;pilt, and have &s;uch conditions of perfect peace from GOD and the KING, that you and your &s;eed may be his glorious Nobles for ever: And therefore, becau&s;e time is &s;hort, u&s;e your Jewel for the be&s;t advantage, while you have it, lea&s;t you loo&s;e it, as the &s;aid Parliament did, for want of u&s;ing it aright, according to the Petitioners in&s;tructions.</P>
<P><HI>The</HI> Petitioner <HI>doth humbly de&s;ire your Honours, to &s;et up the</HI> KING <HI>upon his Throne,</HI> (Charles Stewart <HI>by Name.</HI>) <Q><HI>Do this and live for ever,</HI> <BIBL>1 Joh. 2.17. John 11.26.</BIBL></Q></P>
<P>He Humbly de&s;ires you al&s;o to reade the&s;e &s;aid books.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>May</HI> 16.1653.</DATE> <HI>pre&s;ented</HI></DATELINE>
<HI>And your</HI> Petitioner <HI>&s;hall ever pray,</HI> &amp;c.</CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
<P><HI>I</HI> Did not think to put this <HI>Petition</HI> into print &s;o &s;uddenly, but that I finde the general &s;pirit of the Nations, and men of all &s;orts of judgements exceed|ingly di&s;quieted, as not knowing what to do at this time, but crying to me, as if they expected that God will do &s;ome great things by me for the &s;ettlement and peace of this Nation: It is truth, I dare not deny it, and to Gods glorie be it &s;poken, that I have received Talents from him which I mu&s;t not hide, but &s;hew to all how far God is plea&s;ed to proceed in his work by me: be&s;eeching all men to look unto him, who is the Man of Peace, to them I mean <HI>King CHARLES:</HI> Every one &s;aith to me, why do not you, who have this wi&s;dom of God, go to the General and &s;hew him the way, and to the Councel to &s;hew them the&s;e things? Alas! I am at too far a di&s;tance from them, for to be heard by them: Men in &s;uch places, cannot hear &s;uch a low voice as mine is; it mu&s;t be a general <HI>Petition</HI> of the whole Nation joyned together as one Man, that they will hear: Therefore I could wi&s;h that the Soldiery did but hear a voice behinde them, &s;aying, Return to your fir&s;t principles: You went out to fight for <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Parlia|ment,</HI> but now there's none: I know, that God will bring in the <HI>King</HI> again, and my hearts de&s;ire is that I might per&s;wade men that the <HI>Kings</HI> coming to his Throne might be without bloud-&s;hed, and that no party &s;hould any longer retain a &s;pirit of revenge; And to &s;et you in a way of compo&s;ure, I could wi&s;h, that all (both Souldiers and others) would Petition our worthy Senatours, to make their peace with the <HI>King,</HI> and to receive him upon good and glorious terms, for the <HI>King;</HI> and &s;ubjects: For it the <HI>King</HI> come in by the &s;word, you will become Slaves, and force him to u&s;e Tyranny: For Tyranny is a fit puni&s;hment for Rebels; Neithor would I have any to Petition our Worthies with ki&s;&s;es, or fine words, as <HI>Judas</HI> came to our Saviour, that had his band of men to &s;econd him, or as at the beginning of the&s;e times the <HI>Scots Presbyters</HI> and Covenanters came with their Petition on their Pike&s;-points to our late <HI>King:</HI> Let not men pre&s;ume to do &s;o now, be their party never &s;o great: For though now they think that the Authority hath a dependency upon them, and that there is no Authority left &s;ave that: Yet there is a &s;park of fire remaining (as it were) under the a&s;hes, which is able at an in&s;tant to devour them all.</P>
<P>Therefore I be&s;eech you, Petition in &s;implicity and &s;inglene&s;s of heart, to de&s;ire the General and his Councel to make their addre&s;&s;es to the <HI>King</HI> for peace, and ye that do this, look for life eternal: And I be&s;eech you again (Mo&s;t noble Worthies) receive all alike, and doe not countenance, or di&s;countenance any, for this notion, or for that notion, or think, that Religion is onely words, but rather deeds of common cha|rity, and let not any be prided, or exalted above their Brethren with a conceit of conque&s;t, but know, that &s;uch a minde &s;hall be aba&s;ed; and that according to our Chri&s;tian rule, he that &s;uffered mo&s;t is the greate&s;t Conquerour: For a &s;ubject cannot Conquer his <HI>King</HI> but by &s;uffering meekly, and a <HI>King</HI> &s;uffering meekly by the hand of his people, according to the minde of his <HI>King,</HI> was appointed to be Heir of the World, <HI>Revel. 21.7</HI> I have a bloudy Vi&s;ion to &s;hew, but I look upon it as Gods threatning hand, being per&s;waded, that if we repent, and &s;hed tears for our Rebellion and evil deeds again&s;t God and the <HI>King,</HI> we &s;hall not bleed, nor &s;hed bloud: For why may not God bring the <HI>King</HI> to his Throne, and maintain our peace, as well in that time, as he did when the Parliament was di&s;&s;olved: And to men I &s;ay, he that is va|liant and hath an innocent intention may do much. And the Lord ble&s;s all &s;uch. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>May 20.1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>ARISE EVANS.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
<P>THe bloudy Vi&s;ion I &s;peak of, was &s;een <HI>January</HI> 21.1652, by one Mr. <HI>Farly,</HI> who lived in <HI>Drury-Lane,</HI> at the upper end thereof, at the &s;ign of the <HI>Hor&s;-&s;hooe,</HI> but being terrified thereby, he immediatly after went to <HI>Virginia,</HI> I have it as it was written by his own hand, who after he had &s;een the Vi&s;ion could not re&s;t, but went from place to place to &s;eek an Interpreter of it, until by the pro|vidence of God at la&s;t he came to me, and after he told me the Vi&s;ion, and that I gave him to under&s;tand what God did &s;ignifie to us by it, he wrote it, and left it to my di&s;po&s;al, as by Gods providence I &s;hould be per&s;waded, directed, and permitted to pu|bli&s;h it.</P>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
</ETS>
