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<P>AN OBSERVATION AND COMPARISON Between the Idolatrous I&s;raelites, And Judges of England.</P>
<P>A Word to the <HI>ARMY.</HI></P>
<P>A Memorandum, with twelve Propo&s;iti|ons, tendered to the Parliament; and an Encouragement to all faithfull hearts in Parliament, Army, and Common-wealth.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, a Call to all tho&s;e that will follow the Lambe: Publi&s;ht for the &s;atisfaction of all well|minded People.</P>
<P>By <HI>H. N.</HI> a well-wi&s;her to <HI>Englands</HI> freedome and pro&s;perity.</P>
<P><Q>Non nobis &s;olum nati&s;umus.</Q></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>L. Chapman,</HI> 
at the Crown in <HI>Popes-head|alley,</HI> 1659.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="observation">
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<HEAD>In the fir&s;t place, we pre&s;ent our friends with an ob&s;ervation of the power of the living God, from the year <HI>41.</HI> till <HI>59.</HI> with a Compari&s;on between the Idola|trous I&s;raelites, and the back-&s;liding Army and Judges of <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<P>DEar Friends, and Fellow-&s;ufferers, if you do but con|&s;ider the power of the living God, you cannot but ac|knowledge, That unle&s;&s;e the Lord had been on our &s;ides, when men ro&s;e up again&s;t us, they had &s;wallowed us up quick; and if you ob&s;erve the Kingly Prophet, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 105. 14. how he declares the mercies and wondrous works of God, who reproved Kings for their &s;akes, how he delivered them out of bondage, bringing forth his people with joy, and his cho&s;en with gladne&s;s, giving them the lands of the Heathen, and they inherited the labours of the people: you may &s;ee the rea&s;on wherefore he did it, at the 45. ver&s;e of the 104. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> viz. <HI>That they might ob&s;erve his Statutes, and keep his Laws.</HI> But take notice, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 106. 13, 39, 40. ver&s;es, they &s;oon for at his works: <HI>They waited not for his coun&s;el: They were defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. There|fore was the wrath of the Lord kindled again&s;t his people, and he delivered them into the hands of tho&s;e that hated them.</HI> O. C. Neverthele&s;&s;e he remembred for them his Covenant, and re|pented according to the multitude of his mercies.</P>
<P>Now compare and call to mind, had not the enemy, that in|humane enemy (which neither feared God nor re&s;pected man) &s;wallowed us up quick, if the Lord, the Lord of ho&s;ts, had not delivered us, reproving Kings for our &s;akes, bringing us
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forth with joy and gladne&s;&s;e? Ought we not to have executed judgement and ju&s;tice? Was it not our duty to have delivered the oppre&s;&s;ed, to have broken every yoke? But alas! you may read our condition fir&s;t and la&s;t, 106. P&s;al. 10, 11. <HI>He &s;aved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. The waters covered their enemies.</HI> And thus the Lord deliver'd us, in 46, 47, 48. Then ob&s;erve how exactly we imitated them at the 12. ver&s;e, <HI>Then believed they his words, they &s;ang his prai&s;e:</HI> &s;o did <HI>Oliver.</HI> But Mark! at the 13. ver&s;e, <HI>They &s;oon forgot his works, they waited not for his coun|&s;ell, but lusted,</HI> &amp;c. And as the I&s;raelites made a calf in <HI>Horeb,</HI> and wor&s;hipped the Molten Image: So the Judges of this Nation made a Protector, and waited upon his coun&s;el; and when he died, they made an image of him in whom they tru&s;t|ed; and brought it into the hou&s;e of their prie&s;ts at <HI>We&s;tmin|&s;ter,</HI> where it remains to this very day: 106. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 21. to the 29. <HI>They forg at God their Saviour: Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions, and the plague broke in upon them,</HI> ver&s;. 30, 31. <HI>Then &s;tood up</HI> Phinehas <HI>and executed judgement, and &s;o the plague was &s;tayed: And that was counted unto him for righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e, unto all generations for evermore.</HI></P>
<P>Let this example therefore of <HI>Phineas</HI> &s;tir up all faithfull hearts, both in Parliament, Army and Common-wealth, &s;peedi|ly to execute Judgement and Ju&s;tice upon evil doers without partiality. Con&s;idering that the Lord may ju&s;tly bring a plague upon us, for our notorious wickedne&s;&s;es and abomina|tions.</P>
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<HEAD>A Word to the Army.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>O all ye faithfull in the Army,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THis is the time wherein you mu&s;t either act like men, or as meer Mercenaries &amp; Va&s;&s;als, both en&s;lave your &s;elvs and us your oppre&s;&s;ed Countrey-men, &amp; <HI>quondam</HI>-fel|low-Souldiers, with whom we formerly engaged, for that <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e,</HI> for which the lives of thou&s;ands of our friends and relations have been couragiou&s;ly lo&s;t, and their blouds freely &s;pent, to redeem, and &s;et at liberty the good people of this Nation, from Tyranny and oppre&s;&s;ion: In the accom|pli&s;hment
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whereof, after we had &s;o undauntedly, and re&s;ol|vedly ventured our lives and e&s;tates; Neverthele&s;&s;e, like the children of I&s;rael, we were reduced and carried back from that good work; and when we lookt for Judgement and Ju|&s;tice, behold oppre&s;&s;ion, and Tyranny; for Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and behold a cry. At which time, a &s;elfi&s;h power, and deluding &s;pirit, &s;tealing the hearts of the Army, got the upper hand, thinking thereby to e&s;tabli&s;h and &s;et up it &s;elf, and its own In|tere&s;t, above the Intere&s;t and kingdome of Je&s;us Chri&s;t: and who more active in that work, then the Prie&s;ts of this Nati|on? and who more &s;atisfied with it? or countenanc'd from it, then they? They were the men would have maintained it with their lives and e&s;tates: and &s;oon after their Lord Prote|ctor <HI>Richard</HI> was proclaimed, and that they thought he would never be removed; O then what feigned demon&s;trations of joy they made, what flattering Addre&s;&s;es, what hypocriti|call prayers and wi&s;hes they had; and how they daubed with untempered Morter, mo&s;t men have taken notice of; and tho&s;e that plea&s;e to read the Diurnals, may find this truth. And when any of the hone&s;t godly people reproved them, and told them of their horrible wickedne&s;&s;e, Tyranny and hypo|cri&s;ie, then had they framed mi&s;chief by a Law, impri&s;oning, hanging, murthering, &s;tarving, and de&s;troying them. There is a people can produce the names of twenty odd in fellow|&s;hip with them, who have been murthered by them, be&s;ides &s;uch as are impri&s;on'd for con&s;cience &s;ake; who to this day, lie groning and lamenting in dungeons, without any con&s;iderati|on had of their &s;ufferings, who are &s;till travelling with us, to be delivered from bondage and &s;lavery. Now behold you faithfull in the Army, where is your bowells of compa&s;&s;ion? declare whether we, having lo&s;t our limbs, relations, and e|&s;tates, in the quarrell, have not an Intere&s;t in, and among you, whether you will own and follow the Lamb Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and whether we may exepct from you, that Freedome, Ju&s;tice, and Equity, we have (with you) &s;o long contended (and are &s;till contending) for, or no. If it will be your ends, and de&s;ign, in a new method and way of policy, &s;till to en&s;lave us; Behold, deliverance &s;hall come &s;ome other way, for our Redeemer is mighty.</P>
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<HEAD>A Memorandum to the Parliament, with twelve Propo&s;itions, tendered to their &s;peedy Con&s;ideration.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen and Fellow-Commoners:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IN the beginning of that unnatural War, <HI>Anno</HI> 1641. We were called forth and conjured by &s;everal Declarations of Parliament, to the defence of your, our own and the peo|ples ju&s;t Rights and Priviledges. And, as you may read in the beginning of a Remon&s;trance of many thou&s;and Citizens, and other Free born people of <HI>England,</HI> directed to their own Hou&s;e of Commons, occa&s;ioned through the illegal and barba|rous impri&s;onment of that famous and worthy Sufferer for his Countreys Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel <HI>John Lilburn;</HI> You may there finde the power we intru&s;ted you withal, which fol|lows in the&s;e words.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="inter">Vide a Remon&s;trance <HI>Anno 1646.</HI></NOTE> We are well a&s;&s;ured, yet cannot forget, that the cau&s;e of our chu&s;ing you to be Parliament-men, was to deliver us from all kinde of bondage, and to pre&s;erve the Commonwealth in peace and happine&s;s&punc; for the effect|ing whereof, we po&s;&s;e&s;t you with the &s;ame power that was in our &s;elves to have done the &s;ame: For we might justly have done it our &s;elves, without you, if we had thought it convenient; chu&s;ing you (as per&s;ons whom we thought fitly qualified, and faithful) for avoi|ding &s;ome inconveniences.</P>
<P>But ye are to remember, this was onely of us but a power of tru&s;t (which is ever revokable, and cannot be otherwi&s;e) and to be imployed to no other end, then our own well-being: nor did we chu&s;e you to continue our tru&s;t longer then the known e&s;tabli&s;h'd con&s;titution of this Commonwealth, will
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ju&s;tly permit; and that could be but for one year at the mo&s;t: for by our Law, a Parliament is to be called once a year, and oftner (if need be) as ye well know. We are your Principals, and you our Agents; it's truth which you cannot but acknow|ledge: For if you or any other &s;hall a&s;&s;ume or exerci&s;e any power that is not derived from our tru&s;t and choice thereunto, that power is no le&s;s then U&s;urpation, and an oppre&s;&s;ion from which we expect to be freed, in whom&s;oever we finde it; it be|ing altogether incon&s;i&s;tent with the nature of ju&s;t Freedom, which we al&s;o very well under&s;tand, &amp;c. But how ye have di&s;|charged this our tru&s;t, let the righteous God judg between you and us; for though we are willing to go backward, and cover your &s;hame, yet we know your works: be watchful aud &s;treng|then the things that remain, that are ready to die, for we have not found your works perfect before God: Remember there|fore how ye have read and heard; and hold fa&s;t, and repent, for behold, the Lord hath heard our cries, and is come down to deliver us. And you are brought back, either to perfect that Good Work which hath lyen &s;o long in your hands, or el&s;e that the Lord may make known to you (as he did to <HI>Pharaoh)</HI> his Almighty power and Omnipotency.</P>
<P>Therefore take heed that you harden not your hearts, le&s;t the Lord bring upon you as great plagues, as he did upon <HI>Pha|raoh:</HI> let ju&s;tice and truth be countenanced, and not Laws made, making men offenders for a word, laying &s;nares for them that reprove in the gate. Let not <HI>Oliver Cromwel</HI> (who pro|vided for the widow and fatherle&s;s) ri&s;e up in judgement again&s;t you, and condemn you.</P>
<P>Finally, we complain at this pre&s;ent, as the good people com|plained 1646. <HI>viz&punc;</HI> that ye are extreamly altered in your de|meanor towards us: In the beginning, you &s;eemed to know what Freedom was, made a di&s;tinction of hone&s;t men, whether rich or poor, all were welcom to you, and ye would mix your &s;elves with us, in a loving and familiar way, void of courtly ob|&s;ervance or behaviour.</P>
<P>Ye kept your Committees doors open, all might hear and judge of your dealings; hardly you would permit men to &s;tand bare-headed before you, &s;ome of you telling them, ye more re|garded their health, and that they &s;hould not deem of you as of their domineering Courts: ye and they were all one, all Com|mons
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of <HI>England,</HI> and the like ingenuous carriage; by which Ye wan our affections, to that height, that ye no &s;ooner demanded any thing, but it was effected: Ye did well then, who did hinder you? To pa&s;s by the multitude of pretious Lives have been lo&s;t, and the ma&s;s of monies which have been rai&s;ed, and for all that, the noble, patient, faithful Souldier's forced to &s;ell his Debenters (the price of his blood and travels) at 2 <HI>s.</HI> 6 <HI>d. per</HI> pound, or 3 <HI>s.</HI> 4 <HI>d.</HI> at mo&s;t, would make rational men almo&s;t mad to con&s;ider. The Cu&s;tomes were thought an oppre&s;&s;ion at the beginning, neverthele&s;s is now confirmed with many aug|mentations; truly it is a &s;ad thing, but too true. A plain quiet|minded man in any place in <HI>England,</HI> is ju&s;t like a harmle&s;s &s;heep in a thicket, can hardly move or &s;tir but he &s;hall be &s;cratched, and lo&s;e his wool: and none are &s;o ill u&s;ed, as hone&s;t Godly men. And now if ye believe there is a God, ye mu&s;t believe it; and if you do believe it, and con&s;ider the wayes ye have trod, and truly repent, &s;hew it by walking contrary to what ye have done, and let us quickly and &s;peedily partake thereof; For God is a God that taketh vengeance, and will not &s;uffer you to go on to our Ruine.</P>
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<HEAD>Twelve Propo&s;itions tender'd to the Par|liaments &s;peedy Con&s;ideration, from many Thou&s;ands in and about the City of <HI>LONDON.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THat all which profe&s;s Je&s;us Chri&s;t, may be a&s;&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ted, de|fended and incouraged, of what opinion &s;oever. But as for bla&s;phemers, or &s;uch who&s;e lives and conver&s;a|tions are not agreeable to their doctrines, we dete&s;t and abhor, as enemies to the Cro&s;s of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. That Ju&s;tice and Equity may be equally, impartially and &s;peedily di&s;tributed; that the hone&s;t people be no longer de|frauded and ruined: and let this be your work, and go tho|row with it; refer it not to this day and that day, for it is the greate&s;t oppre&s;&s;ion this day in <HI>England,</HI> and far more in&s;uppor|table
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then either King or Hou&s;e of Lords.</P>
<P N="3">3. That none may be impri&s;on'd for con&s;cience &s;ake, or &s;uf|fer as Malefactors, but by due proce&s;s in Law, and a Jury of their equals. And that all &s;uch as have been &s;poiled, illegally impri&s;oned, bani&s;hed or abu&s;ed, may be forthwith recal'd, the impri&s;on'd freed or condemn'd, their ca&s;es heard, their &s;uffer|ing and ruines repair'd.</P>
<P N="4">4. That &s;uch as have purcha&s;ed va&s;t E&s;tates by defrauding the &s;ouldiers of their Debenters (the price of their bloods) or have by any unju&s;t wayes or means, couzened and cheated the Nation, either as Committee-men, Exci&s;e-men, Trea&s;urers, Seque&s;trators or Collectors, may be examined how they have gotten &s;uch E&s;tates, and by the mouths of two Witne&s;&s;es and a Jury of their neighbours, they may &s;tand and abide &s;uch &s;en|tence as &s;hall be agreeable to Equity.</P>
<P N="5">5. That &s;uch as have betrayed the Liberties of the People &s;o long contended for, and &s;uch as have been impeached and &s;ecluded the Hou&s;es of Parliament for Trea&s;on, may be brought to Judgement.</P>
<P N="6">6. That the E&s;tates of all di&s;hone&s;t uncon&s;cionable per&s;ons may be &s;old, who have put them&s;elves pri&s;oners into the Up|per Bench, of purpo&s;e to defraud their hone&s;t Creditors, who out of love and good will, in their nece&s;&s;ities, tru&s;ted them with their monies, and goods; in thankfulne&s;s whereof, they thereby cheat and couzen them, in&s;tead of a recompence. There they lie drinking, &s;wearing, and con&s;uming other mens E&s;tates: and in our judgements, are far wor&s;e then thieves, or high-way men; What think you Engli&s;h men? ought not this to be re|dre&s;&s;ed, and &s;atisfaction made to hone&s;t Creditors?</P>
<P N="7">7. That none be impre&s;&s;ed or compelled to &s;erve as &s;oul|diers in the Wars, (except in ca&s;e of nece&s;&s;ity, by rea&s;on of forraign Inva&s;ion) nor yet be forced out of the Nation upon for|raign Services.</P>
<P N="8">8. That &s;peedy cour&s;e may be taken for paying and &s;atisfy|ing the Army, who are &s;o much in arrear, that &s;ome of them are forced to great wants and extreamities; that &s;o they may di&s;|charge their Quarters hone&s;tly, and not be beholden to Tap|&s;ters and O&s;tlers.</P>
<P N="9">9. That all differences in Law may be heard and determi|ned in every County, without fraud or delay; to the end that
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all hone&s;t laborious people in this Nation, may enjoy that little which is ju&s;tly their own, with peace and content: which will be the greate&s;t good any Parliament can do.</P>
<P N="10">10. That trading (the externall life of the Common|wealth) may be reviv'd and encourag'd; and &s;ome pre&s;ent cour&s;e taken for the advance thereof: which will add new life to this langui&s;hing Nation, and induce the people to fol|low their callings with delight and comfort.</P>
<P N="11">11. That all poor, old, blind, lame, &s;ick, and impri&s;oned, which lie begging and crying in the &s;treets, may be carefully provided for, both as members of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and your fel|low Chri&s;tians; That there may be no more groning, nor complaining in our &s;treets.</P>
<P N="12">12. That this pre&s;ent Parliament may have bounds, and be &s;ubject to the Laws of this Nation, as well as others; and that &s;ome period and term of time be &s;et down (as a year) when they &s;hall be di&s;&s;olved: That thereby they may ta&s;te of &s;ubjection as well as rule; and know how to con&s;ider other mens ca&s;es, as what may come to be their own. Otherwi&s;e, in &s;tead of one Tyrant, we &s;hall have a thou&s;and.</P>
<P>And you &s;hall perceive, we have not yet left our true En|gli&s;h confidence, but are willing, that both you and all our neighbour Nations, &s;houd know, that we both &s;ee and know all &s;tratagems and policies that are laid in wait to entrap, and &s;o to en&s;lave us; and that we bid defiance (now, as former|ly) to the wor&s;t our enemies can do. And we would not have you to be di&s;couraged in attempting what&s;oever is evi|dently ju&s;t: for we will therein a&s;&s;i&s;t you to the la&s;t drop of our blouds. Fear neither the <HI>Anakims,</HI> nor the &s;ons of the Gi|ants, for the Lord our God, he will &s;tand by you in all things that are ju&s;t, and will ble&s;&s;e and pro&s;per you therein. For&s;ake and utterly renounce all crafty and &s;ubtil intentions; hide not your thoughts from us, and give us encouragement to be open brea&s;ted unto you.</P>
<P>And now, if ye &s;hall con&s;cionably perform your tru&s;t the year en&s;uing, and order the Parliaments to &s;ucceed as afore|&s;aid, then we &s;hall not doubt to be made ab&s;olute freemen in time; and become a ju&s;t, plenteous, and powerfull Nation. All that is pa&s;t will be forgotten, and we &s;hall have cau&s;e to re|joice in your wi&s;dome and fidelity.</P>
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<HEAD>We conclude with a Call to all tho&s;e that will follow the Lambe.</HEAD>
<P>ANd we hereby cry and call to all tho&s;e that will follow the Lambe Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and own him to be King, Prie&s;t, and Prophet: O come, come quickly, and his Banner over you &s;hall be love: &s;tand no longer di&s;puting and catching at &s;ha|dows, but unite as one man for Ju&s;tice and Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e: O how good and joyfull a thing it is for brethren to live toge|ther in unity! Love and unity, like arrows in the Quiver, are not to be broken; one by one, is the conque&s;t of a finger. But if no arguments can move you to love, we pronounce that you have no Intere&s;t in Je&s;us Chri&s;t, you are none of his Di&s;ci|ples. You know many brave Engli&s;h &s;pirits which would yet never bow their knees to <HI>Baal,</HI> who have &s;uffered both im|pri&s;onment, bani&s;hment, and death it &s;elf: And &s;hall we now give over? &s;hall we now give over the work of the Lord? &s;hall any thing &s;eparate us from the love of Je&s;us Chri&s;t? &s;hall tribulation or per&s;ecution? we are per&s;waded, neither life nor death, principalities nor powers, Parliament nor Army, things pre&s;ent, or things to come, &s;hall be able to hinder us from fol|lowing that Lambe. And now to the end we may, like true Engli&s;h men, con&s;ider and compa&s;&s;ionate one anothers bur|thens and &s;ufferings, we de&s;ire that tho&s;e noble &s;pirits would meet every Thur&s;day or Sunday, about 7. of the clock in the morning, at the Tomb of Mr. <HI>Jo. Lilburn,</HI> in order to concord and unity; and that we may be better known one to ano|ther, and that we may comfort and encourage one another in the work of the Lord, as the Lord hath commanded by the Prophet <HI>I &s;ay,</HI> &s;aying, <HI>Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees, &s;ay to them that are of a fearfull heart, Be &s;trong, fear not: Behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence, he will come to &s;ave you,</HI> I&s;a. 35. 3, 4.</P>
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