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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>To his EXCELLENCIE the
LORD GENERAL CROMWELL,
and his Honourable Councel of the Army at
WHITE-HALL.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of ARISE EVANS, living in Blackfriers,
on the behalf of Gods glorie, the Kingdoms behalf, your ho|nours
behalf, and the behalf of the whole world be&s;ides.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>_THat your <HI>Petitioner,</HI> having the knowledge of Gods &s;ecret Coun&s;el manife&s;ted to him,
being called thereto, hath declared it freely to all people the&s;e 19. years', as you may &s;ee in his book
called <HI>[A Voice from Heaven,]</HI> Written in the year 1651. and directed to the Common-wealth of
<HI>England:</HI> as al&s;o the further preparation of God in him for the &s;ame purpo&s;e from his Nativitie to this time; And
the effects thereof you have fully &s;et forth in his book called <HI>[An Eccho to the voice from Heaven, &amp;c.]</HI> Written
in the year 1652. In both which books is &s;ufficiently &s;hewed Gods determination concerning this Common|Wealth.</P>
<P>That, from the date of the &s;aid books you may ob&s;erve, how God hath in part fulfilled the words of your Peti|tioner,
and thereby conclude, God will fulfill the remainder thereof, &s;o that, as &s;ure as the Parliament is di&s;&s;olved,
as &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 book. And indeed if your
Honours will looke into the &s;ame, and &s;eriou&s;ly reade and con&s;ider them, you &s;hall finde that your Petitioner
would not turn water into bloud, but would rather turn bloud into water, and water into wine, to cheri&s;h the
heart of the &s;orrowfull, 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 and conjunction with the KING.</P>
<P>That without their conjunction to their Native and right KING, there is no hope of peace, cer|tainty,
or &s;afety to this Nation, nor to your &s;elves (mo&s;t Noble Worthies) who&s;e actions are glorious,
though as yet much imperfect: The great Mountain Parliament is become a plain before you: Next in or|der
the KING is to be exalted by you, who is &s;ignified by the head-&s;tone, <HI>Zachar.</HI> 4. 7.</P>
<P>Crown all your actions by &s;etting him up, and be glorious for ever: I am &s;ure, if you &s;peedily pro|claim
him KING, you will glorifie 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: Therefore, becau&s;e time is &s;hort, u&s;e your Jewel for your be&s;t advantage, lea&s;t
you loo&s;e it, as the Parliament did, for want of u&s;ing it aright, according to the minde of God, and your
Petitioners in&s;tructions.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>May 16. 1653.</DATE></DATELINE>
Your <HI>Petitioner</HI> therefore humbly prayes, that your Honours would with
your mo&s;t &s;erious thoughts con&s;ider the&s;e few lines, and &s;et the <HI>KING
(Charles Stewart</HI> by Name) upon his Throne. Doe this and live for
ever, 1 <HI>John, 2 Chr. 17. John</HI> 11. 26.
And your <HI>Petitioner</HI> &s;hall ever pray, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></CLOSER>
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