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<P>A TRVE RELATION OF THE STATE of the CASE Between the ever Honourable PARLIAMENT AND THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMY, That fell out on the eleventh and twelfth of <HI>October,</HI> 1659.</P>
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<P>By a Lover of his Countrey and Freedom E. <HI>D.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, <HI>Printed by</HI> J. C. 1659.</P>
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<HEAD>A TRUE RELATION OF The State of the Ca&s;e BETWEEN Parliament and &s;ome A&s;piring Officers of the ARMY.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THere is no Nation under Heaven, I conceive, hath met with more turnings and &s;hakings, and hath had &s;orer and deeper de&s;igns again&s;t it then this Common-wealth.</P>
<P N="2">2. And truly all things duly con&s;idered, there is no com|pany of people under the whole Heaven, that have been &s;o great enemies to its peace, and &s;ettlement, as &s;ome Officers of the Army, witne&s;s <HI>the interruption of this Parliament the</HI> 20th <HI>April</HI> 1653. then routing the little Juncto Parliament (&s;o named) made and &s;et up by them&s;elves, and then &s;etting up <HI>Oliver that U&s;urper</HI> to be Protector, then proclaim|ing his Son <HI>Richard, di&s;&s;olving his Parliament</HI> plucking him down, then inviting this honourable <HI>Parliament</HI> to take on them that Tru&s;t, that they &s;tood cloathed with by the Peoples choice, and now only out of am|bition interrupt them again.</P>
<P N="3">3. So that it is plain&punc; they have not only been the great hinderers of the Peace and good &s;ettlement of the Common-wealth, <HI>but lust, ambi|tion, Covetiou&s;ne&s;s haveng po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed their hearts</HI>) are likely to prove <HI>ve|ry
<PB N="3" REF="2">Vipors</HI> to this Common-wealth, even to eat out the very Bowels thereof, &s;o that truly it is a &s;ign we are fallen into the la&s;t times &s;poken of by the Apo&s;tle, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3.2, 3, 4. <HI>and all tho&s;e tho&s;e things there &s;poken of, for ehe most part, the&s;e ambitions Officers of thr Army are guilty of,</HI> viz. <HI>Lovers of them&s;elves, covetous boasters-proud bla&s;phemers, di&s;obe|dient, unthankeful, unholy, Truce-breakers, fal&s;e accu&s;ars, traytors, high|minded, lovers of plea&s;ures more then lovers of God.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. That they inordinately love them&s;elves, is clear to all the world, becau&s;e that in all the&s;e turnings, they have only made them&s;elves great, as to be named Lords Sir Reverence, and to ger great E&s;tates, as in the Protectors time to have 1000 <HI>li.</HI> year a piece to be of his Councel to oppre&s;&s;e the Nation, and to defeat the inferiour Officers, Seamen and Souldiers of their pay, they being by them run in Arrear nigh a year, which they never by this Parliament were &s;ithence the War, but payed to a day, and now this <HI>Parliament,</HI> would have payed all their Arrears, and have &s;etled con&s;trut pay for them and the Navy, which may appear, <HI>by thier Votes of the</HI> 11. <HI>of Octob inant.</HI> 1659</P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>They are lovers of them&s;elves,</HI> becau&s;e in all <HI>their Propo&s;als</HI> to this <HI>Parliament, viz:</HI> that from <HI>Darby,</HI> drawn up and &s;igned by. <HI>Lam|bert Brigade,</HI> and their <HI>Repro&s;entation</HI> delivered to the <HI>Hou&s;e the</HI> 5th <HI>instant,</HI> &s;igned by 230 Officers, they do not propo&s;e one thing for the good of this Common-wealth, nor for the good of <HI>the honest people,</HI> or <HI>Good old cau&s;e;</HI> but wholly for them&s;elves, as that <HI>Fleetwood</HI> may be General, <HI>Lambert</HI> may be the next General Officer, that is, to be <HI>Ma|jor General of the Army of England,</HI> and <HI>Scotland, Disborrow</HI> the next, to be <HI>Leiut. Gen. of the hor&s;e,</HI> and <HI>General Monk</HI> to be <HI>Major Gen. of the Foot,</HI> to have their Arrears, con&s;tant pay, and power without the <HI>Parliament,</HI> to turn out, and put in to die Army, and do not they love them&s;elves very well? but the <HI>Parliament,</HI> the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e,</HI> the <HI>good people,</HI> and this <HI>Common-wealth</HI> but a little.</P>
<P N="3">3ly, <HI>They are Covetous boasters,</HI> for what a &s;tir and ado do they keep in trumpeting their own honour, and the great valour they &s;hewed, and jeopardy they were in at <HI>VVinnington</HI> Bridge, by Sir <HI>George Booths</HI> Ar|my, and this they do twice in their la&s;t Repre&s;entation of <HI>Octob.</HI> 5. when ala&s;sit is well known there was not &s;o great &s;ervice or vallour &s;hewed or done in that bu&s;ine&s;es, as hath been done by many <HI>a &s;ingle Troop</HI> of this <HI>Army,</HI> and what is all this cry for? Is it not that they may be made great, and have large pay, to tho oppre&s;&s;ion and ruinc of the good peo|ple of this <HI>Common-wealth,</HI> and herein they are covetous Boa&s;ters-</P>
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<P N="4">4ly, <HI>They are proud Bla&s;phemers,</HI> becau&s;e they commit <HI>Trea&s;on, Re|bellion, Rapine, rnd &s;poyl on the people of this Common-wealthy,</HI> and they &s;ay, <HI>God teacheth, directeth and commands them to do it;</HI> They breake <HI>Covenants, Promi&s;es, Faith Protestations, Engagements, Declarations, Sollemn Appeals to God, with hands lifted up to Heaven,</HI> in the mo&s;t &s;o|lemn way that could be, <HI>Repent of aebellion and Trea&s;on,</HI> and the next day <HI>repent, they did repent,</HI> and <HI>commit greater Trea&s;ons and Rebellions,</HI> and yet &s;ay <HI>God is amongst them,</HI> and u&s;e <HI>Gods Name and his Ordinances</HI> to colour all their <HI>villainous wickedne&s;&s;es,</HI> this is <HI>proud bla&s;phemy;</HI> yea &s;uch as never was in the world, wor&s;e than <HI>Rab&s;hakahs, E&s;ay</HI> 37. For the&s;e have not only di&s;pi&s;ed God, but made him to colour all their evils, by the which they have made not only this Common-wealth, the Good old Cau&s;e, the <HI>Churches of Christ,</HI> and all <HI>Profe&s;&s;ion of Rdligion rediculous contemptible, a &s;corn &amp; hi&s;&s;ing to all the world, and God his name and them that dwell in the Heaven is reproached &amp; bla&s;phemed by their wicked vile deeds.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>They are di&s;obedient,</HI> becau&s;e look in all their Declarations, there Engage-ments, Propo&s;als, and Repre&s;entations of the Officers of the Army to this Parliament, e&s;pecially their Declaration to invite the Members to return to their Tru&s;t, of <HI>April</HI> 6, 1659. <HI>viz.</HI>
<Q>That the <HI>Long Parliament</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of the Members, which continued their &s;itting until the 20th. of <HI>April</HI> 1653. were eminent a&s;&s;ertors of that Cau&s;e (the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e</HI>) and had a &s;pecial pre&s;ence of God with them, and were &s;ignally ble&s;&s;ed in that work; And there fore we do hereby mo&s;t earne&s;tly de&s;ire the Parliament con&s;i&s;ting of tho&s;e Members who continued to &s;it &s;ince the year 1648. until the 20th of <HI>April,</HI> 1653. to return to the exerci&s;e and di&s;charge of their Tru&s;t, and we &s;hall be ready in our places to yield them as becometh us, our utmo&s;t a&s;&s;i&s;tance to &s;it in &s;afety for the improving the pre&s;ent op|portunity for &s;etling and &s;ecuring the peace and freedom of this Com|monwealth.</Q></P>
<P>And in a Letter of <HI>May</HI> the 18. from General <HI>Monk,</HI> and the Officers in <HI>Scotland,</HI> pag. 5. <HI>You may re&s;t a&s;&s;ured with greatest con|fidence, that we &s;hall appear in your DEFENCE and VINDI|CATION of your AUTHORITY, against the Oppre&s;&s;ion of all ARBITRARY Powers what&s;oever.</HI> And in their Repre|&s;entation of <HI>October</HI> 5, 1659. <HI>pag.</HI> 2. they &s;ay; <Q>That neither we nor our faithful brethren of the Northern Bridgade who &s;igned the &s;aid Petition and Propo&s;als did de&s;igne and intend the inturruption of the Parliament, the prejudice of the peace of this Commonwealth, or any
<PB N="3" REF="3">other by and &s;ini&s;ter re&s;pect, not becoming the Tru&s;t repo&s;ed in us. And in <HI>pag.</HI> 9. Wherefore through the help of our God we &s;hall be found (notwith&s;tanding all indeavou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s to the contrary) faithfull to you and this Commonwealth;</Q> And &s;o in many other Papers from <HI>Ire and</HI> and <HI>Dunkirk,</HI> where they do &s;ay as much as can be &s;aid by any men; Nay many of them to make their wickedne&s;s the greater, <HI>when they took their Commi&s;&s;ions,</HI> not being required, did voluntarily <HI REND="margQuotes">proni&s;e in the Parliament to &s;erve the Parliament with all faithfulne&s;s &amp; &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion as to the Supream Authority of this Commonwealth:</HI> And in particu|lar <HI>Lambert;</HI> for when he came for his <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion, the Parliament</HI> were about two hours debating whether he &s;hould have Commi&s;&s;ion under them or no; but being called in to receive his Commi&s;&s;ion, when he had it, <HI>did de&s;ire leave of the Parliament to &s;peak a few words,</HI> which he was permitted to do. <HI REND="margQuotes">And there and then did he promi&s;e the PARLIAMENT he would &s;erve them with all faithfulne&s;s and obedience; and when he could &s;erve them no longer, he would give up his Commi&s;&s;ion to them, and lye down at the feet of the Parlia|ment, or words to this effect.</HI> And &s;o did Colonel <HI>Rich</HI> almo&s;t <HI>in totidem vibis.</HI> And <HI>Fleetwood</HI> did promi&s;e the Parliament the? 12th. of <HI>October</HI> 1659. (on the parting the Act for vacating his Commi&s;&s;ion as Lieutenant General of the Army, and putting it under the Govern|ment of Seamen) that he would <HI>faithfully acquie&s;s,</HI> and further to &s;hew their di&s;obedience &amp; jugling, that when they had one <HI>October</HI> 13, 1659. be&s;ieged all the Parliament-men in their Lodgings in <HI>White Hall,</HI> and &s;topt all the pa&s;&s;ages that none could go to <HI>Westminster,</HI> and had vio|lently turned back the Speaker. The Council of State made an Order for all the Forces to withdraw and march to their Quarters, as well tho&s;e for the Parliament as tho&s;e that were again&s;t them; tho&s;e for the Parliament in obedience to the Order marched away, and &s;o did mo&s;t of the other, but <HI>Lambert</HI> and <HI>Sidenham</HI> contrary to their tru&s;t, and like Traytors in di&s;obedience to the Councils Order, cau&s;ed two Com|panies of Foot to take po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Parliament-Hou&s;e took away by violence the Keyes from Mr. <HI>Hully,</HI> and have by that means kept the Parliament by violence ever &s;ince from doing their duties. Who ever can tru&s;t &s;o <HI>vile,</HI> and <HI>faithle&s;s, fal&s;e-hetrted, de&s;&s;embling, hypocritical a people.</HI> I can liken this people to none for the heighth of de&s;imulation, <HI REND="margQuotes">but to <HI>Henry</HI> 4th of <HI>France,</HI> about the mi&s;caror of the poor <HI>Prote&s;tant,</HI> there &s;ee that Hi&s;tory.</HI></P>
<P>Sixthly, <HI>They are, I mean the ambitions Officers of the Army, unholy</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="4">becau&s;e they &s;in and commit Rapin, Trea&s;on, and Rebellion, and then di&s;&s;emble repentance, and commit it again, as at <HI>VVind&s;or</HI> in 1648, at <HI>James</HI> 1652, at <HI>VVallingford-hou&s;e</HI> in 1659. and many other places at &s;everal other times, but now the light of their di&s;&s;embling, jugling, hypocritical wickedne&s;s they &s;hew in the &s;ight of the Sun. <HI REND="margQuotes">For Wed|ne&s;day the 11 of <HI>Gctober</HI> 1659. in the Chappel at <HI>VVhite-hall,</HI> Packer, and Spencer and divers others repented of their repentance,</HI> and like the <HI>Dog</HI> <HI REND="margQuotes">&s;wallow up again their own Vomit, that in them the Pro|verb &s;poken of by the Apo&s;tles is verified, 2 <HI>Pet&eacute;r</HI> 2.22.</HI> Mr. <HI>Packer</HI> remember what you &s;aid in <HI>Richards</HI> Parliament, we &s;ay remember how you confe&s;&s;ed your &s;ins, in having a hand in breaking up Parliamentss, and bringing that ruine that is none on this Land, <HI>and promi&s;ed before God, Angels, and Men,</HI> never to have a hand in it any more; <HI>Oh fal&s;e man!</HI> How do'&s;t thou dare to look God in the face? We wonder thou can&s;t lye on thy Pillow and &s;leep, for fear the judgement of God &s;hould overtake thee; be &s;ure it will, if thou doe&s;t not now in good earne&s;t repent of all thy horrible hypocri&s;ies.</P>
<P><HI>And thou valiant</HI> Copta Spencer, that never fought but with a good Dinner, and at that &s;port thou art an <HI REND="margQuotes">excellent good Trencher Chap|len, and as &s;tout as any man alive, and art none of the le&s;&s;er Lyers,</HI> and de&s;&s;embler among&s;t the <HI>Holy Ones,</HI> for thou can&s;t write Letters from thy Quarters <HI>August</HI> 2 1659. to Mr. <HI>Kiffen,</HI> that all tho&s;e poor people might be deluded, to pray for valiant <HI>Copta Spencer</HI> that he may do that he never did in his life, <HI>fight beat his Enemies,</HI> for now &s;aith <HI>Spencer</HI> he and we are &s;urrounded, and to morrow we are to be ingaged this was &s;o <HI>notoriou&s;ly,</HI> as could be told by man, for there was no envy vi&s;ible by above 60 miles therefore its believed thou meants <HI>poor Cap|ta,</HI> that they &s;hould pray thou mighte&s;t have a good &s;tomack to thy vi|ctuals, <HI>for Hunger is all the Enemits thou dare&s;t to encounter with;</HI> tu&s;h the&s;e ate but &s;mall things to their <HI>Solemn Meetings,</HI> and confe&s;&s;ing be|fore God and his People <HI REND="margQuotes">of their wandering and going in divers wayes from righteous and equal paths, going in the dark and &s;tumbling;</HI> and then ble&s;s God that there eyes are open, and now they &s;ee the truth, and there is great joy, and anon this light is become their darkne&s;s, and their former dark paths (they all having gotten <HI>Catts</HI> eyes) they are now the true light ways, and now they are as joccond as may be they are now in the ready road of de&s;truction, but I pray you <HI>brave a&s;piring Officers</HI> let us ask this one que&s;tion of you (though &s;ome &s;ay &s;ome of you are Athei&s;ts) Did you beleeve there was a God when you made your promi&s;es, when you profe&s;&s;ed your faiths; when you ingaged, I, and
<PB N="5" REF="4">that in outward &s;hew to a God, wee &s;ay; if then you did believe there was a God, you beleeve there is no God now, or you &s;in and commit horrible wickedne&s;s again&s;t God, and the light of your own hearts and Con&s;ciences, and are we are afraid incorruptable, <HI REND="margQuotes">that his vengeance may overtake you to the utmo&s;t, for you are contrary to all men and plea&s;e not God, but every day are filling up your &s;ins to that end, 1 <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 2.15, 16.</HI> Therefore con&s;ider betimes before it be too late, and repent and do your fir&s;t works, for do you think the Nation will ever tru&s;t you that have thus fa&s;ly <HI REND="margQuotes">betrayed their Lives, Liberties and E&s;tates, to your own lu&s;t?</HI> No, no, never think it, for God will make your very Regiments rebel again&s;t you, and that is not to be feared but in few Moneths will come to pa&s;s and you &s;hall not with&s;tand it.</P>
<P>Seventhly, <HI>They are, I mean the Officers of the Army, fal&s;e aceu|ers,</HI> for they &s;ay and lay to the Parliaments charge the&s;e &s;everal fal&s;e particulars.</P>
<P>That they were and did carry on a <HI>Presbyterian De&s;igne,</HI> and would have &s;etled the <HI>Presbyterian Government,</HI> this is fal&s;e and envy it &s;elf cannot prove it in the lea&s;t; and if 40 or 50 Members may be beleived, they &s;ay and do averre, there was not one man that ever did move fi|thence their la&s;t Sitting, any &s;uch matter or any thing tending to it.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> They &s;ay the <HI>Parliament would have made a Law to have per&s;ecuted the godly people of this Nation for Con&s;cience &s;ake in matter of Religion,</HI> that is, <HI>the hook,</HI> that the Officers of the Army have baited, by which they have chached the Churches of the Congregational way to ap|prove of their wickedne&s;s in interrupting this Parliament, but they are but meerly abu&s;ed as the people of <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> were by <HI>Ab&s;olom,</HI> 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15.11. <HI>Being in the &s;implicity of their hearts, for they know not the thinge.</HI> For it is fal&s;e as ever any thing was; as may be &s;een by the <HI>vote of the Committee,</HI> that is and hath been Printed into News Books, and I am a&s;&s;ured they would have &s;etled Liberty of Con&s;cience &s;o clear, as no man &s;hould ever have had any more fear of per&s;ecution from the Magi&s;trate. <HI>No it &s;hould not have been in the power of future Parliam. to have medled with it, it &s;hould have been a ctanding Fundamental,</HI> as the <HI>Vote</HI> it &s;elf will evidence, <HI>viz. at the Committees for the Govern|ment, &s;itting in the Speakers Chrmber,</HI> October 8, 1659.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;olved,</HI> That the Supream delegated power is not intru&s;ted to re|&s;train the profe&s;&s;ion of any per&s;on or per&s;ons, who profe&s;s Faith in God the Father, and in Je&s;us Chri&s;t God manife&s;t in the fle&s;h, and in God the Holy Spirit, God ble&s;&s;ed for evermore, and do acknowledge the holy Scriptures of the Old and new Te&s;tament, to be the revealed or witten
<PB N="6" REF="5">word or will of God, but ought to give due encouragement, and equall Protection to them in the profe&s;&s;ion of their Faith, and exerci&s;e of Reli|gion, whil&s;t they abu&s;e not this Liberty, to the Civil injury of others, or di&s;turbance of others in their way of Wor&s;hip.</P>
<P>This is clear and full, I wonder what we would have de&s;ired more, but put the ca&s;e that it had been true, as it is fal&s;e, mu&s;t we for fear of <HI>per&s;e|cution for Religion rebell and commit Trea&s;on?</HI> Surely, the <HI>Go&s;pel of Christ teacheth no &s;uch thing,</HI> but patiently to &s;uffer and not to re&s;i&s;t &amp; ri&s;e up again&s;t the <HI>Supream Authority,</HI> and throw that down to &s;et up Liberty of Con&s;cience.</P>
<P N="3">3ly, <HI>The&s;e Officers &s;ay they &s;at</HI> 6 <HI>Moneths and did nothing,</HI> This is &s;o great a &s;lander, as I wonder with what impudence they can affirm &s;uch a thing, as all that have but read the Diurnals, may &s;ee, the ba&s;ene&s;s of this &s;lander. Fir&s;t they &s;pent one month nigh hand, to put and &s;ettle things in away &s;o as they might run with &s;ome ea&s;e and that they might keep the head above water, from &s;inking in that <HI>di&s;order and confu&s;ion as Oliver the late U&s;urper,</HI> and his Son <HI>Richard</HI> by the means of the&s;e Officers of <HI>Army,</HI> had brought this <HI>Nation and Common-wealth into.</HI> 2ly, Then the Armies Act of Indempnity and free pardon. 3ly, The Acts for the &s;everal Militias of the Counties, and Cities of this Nation, which took up much time. 4ly, the pa&s;&s;ing of all the Commi&s;&s;ions for the Officers of the Armies of <HI>England Scotland, Ireland,</HI> and <HI>Dunkirk,</HI> which could not quickly be di&s;patched. 5ly, Then Sir <HI>George Booths rebellion,</HI> which did hinder them nigh 2 months. 6ly, <HI>The Acts for the union of Scotland and &s;ettlement of Ireland,</HI> which were very long Acts, and of great weight and concernment, and were not to be &s;lightly pa&s;&s;ed, they took up a very great deal of time in a Grand Committee. 7ly, The Act for Sequ&s;trations. 8ly. The Act for the Keepers of the Great Scal. 9. The &s;ending the Plenepotentiaries to the <HI>Sound,</HI> and many other matters which we cannot remember, that we can te&s;tefie they laboured like hor|&s;es night and day: therefore here they ly and &s;lander the Parliament, for they are free from this their abu&s;e.</P>
<P>Fourthly, <HI>They &s;ay they would not have pro&s;ecuted against Sir George Booth, and his party,</HI> Oh envy it it &s;elf! who can with any face of hone&s;ty fa&s;ten this on the Parliament? Can things be done in a day? was all Examinations taken and ready; was the depth of the plot found out? All know it was univer&s;ally laid, over all Nation, and therefore the more need of time, to take all Examinations, for the more clear and full di&s;co|very of and proof of all, that there might be the moree Ju&s;tice done, as &s;o great &amp; horrible a Plot did de&s;erve.</P>
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<P>But if there were any delay, it was in in <HI>Sr. Henry Vain,</HI> who had the whole to report, and delayed it, till he was called upon again and again.</P>
<P><HI>And then,</HI> did not the&s;e &s;landerers the Officers of the Army, <HI>hin|der the Parliament</HI> at lea&s;t three weeks by their <HI>fooli&s;h papers,</HI> it is more then probable that the&s;e Officers would not have Sr. <HI>George and his party pro&s;ecuted,</HI> becau&s;e they have ob&s;tructed and interrupted the <HI>Parliament,</HI> the way and means to it; and indeed it is &s;trange, that the <HI>Army &s;hould de&s;ire their pro&s;ecution,</HI> when they have done ten times wor&s;e, for Sr. <HI>George and his party</HI> never did ingage to be true and faithful to this Parliament, the Officers of the Army did ingage, and they were for a free <HI>Parliament,</HI> and the Officers of the Army are for no <HI>Parliaments nor Laws,</HI> but what mu&s;t come under the <HI>te&s;t of their &s;words,</HI> and in all the&s;e things they &s;peak fal&s;ly to deceive, and in them as the <HI>Prophet</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Eze.</HI> 22.9. <HI>Are men that carry tales to &s;hed blood.</HI></P>
<P><HI>But what is the State of this great ca&s;e, that the Nation mu&s;t be ruined, and all Authority kicked at, and pluckt up by the roots,</HI> the <HI>ca&s;e</HI> is the &s;ame it was at the fir&s;t with the <HI>King and Parliament,</HI> whether the <HI>King</HI> &s;hould have the command of the <HI>Militia,</HI> or the <HI>Parliament;</HI> and &s;o it is now, <HI>whether the Parliament &s;hould have the command of the Army, or Luit. Gen. Fleetwood, I had almo&s;t &s;aid Lambert,</HI> for &s;o it is and will be, how cunningly &s;oever it is carried.</P>
<P>And it aro&s;e thus, a&s;&s;oon as indeed <HI>God had beaten down Sr. George Booths Army,</HI> by taking away their hearts, <HI>Che&s;ter quited</HI> and <HI>Cherck Ca&s;tle delivered, Major Creed</HI> is &s;ent up with a Letter giving a full ac|count of all, and for that he and Lieut. Col. <HI>Dukenfield,</HI> had given them each 250 l. and that day L. Gen. <HI>Fleetwood,</HI> moved the <HI>Parlia|ment,</HI> that <HI>Lambert</HI> might be made <HI>Major General</HI> of the <HI>Armies</HI> of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> as formerly, to this the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> giveth their <HI>Negative,</HI> as by experience we find they had good cau&s;e &s;o to do, but yet they gave <HI>Lambert</HI> a 1000 l.<HI>to buy him a Jewel,</HI> as an ac|knowledgment from the <HI>Parliament</HI> for his good &s;ervice, and we think every man will Judge, it a good reward, but this did not plea&s;e <HI>his Maje&s;ty,</HI> for &s;o he mu&s;t be called &s;hortly.</P>
<P><HI>Then Major Creed</HI> returning and <HI>Capt. Brown,</HI> to the <HI>Northern Bri|gade,</HI> where meeting with <HI>Col. Zanchy and Col. Axtel</HI> and others, as they were returning to <HI>London,</HI> from <HI>Che&s;ter,</HI> they did con&s;ider in their hearts, what they &s;hould do by way of returning thanks to God <HI>(and as Major Creed declared to the Council of Officers of the Army at
<PB N="8" REF="6">Wallingford-hou&s;e)</HI> they went to <HI>prayer,</HI> and <HI>God &s;et this upon their hearts, that is, that paper that was &s;igned by the Northern Brigade, and &s;ent up to London by Capt. Brown, to the Cla&s;&s;is;</HI> this is <HI>horrible delu&s;ions,</HI> and no le&s;s then <HI>Bla&s;phemy</HI> again&s;t the great <HI>God of Heaven,</HI> to father &s;uch things of him; will any think <HI>God told Creed</HI> and the other Officers, that they &s;hould appoint the <HI>Parliament</HI> to make <HI>Fleetwood General,</HI> and <HI>Lambert Major General of the Army of England and Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Disborrow to be Lieut. Gen. of the Hor&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Monk to be Major General of the Foot,</HI> or el&s;e the <HI>Parliament &s;hall be interrupted;</HI> &s;urely, they mean the <HI>god of this world, that ruleth in the hearts of the children of di&s;|obedience, as they are;</HI> they indeed &s;ay they went to prayers, ju&s;t <HI>like the Conjurors,</HI> begin all things in <HI>Gods Name,</HI> how wicked &s;oever it is, according to the old Proverb, <HI>In Nomine Domini incipit omne ma|lum,</HI> O good Lord what a &s;ad condition is this Common-wealth in, that have &s;uch <HI>Commanders</HI> over their <HI>Armies,</HI> that are guided by <HI>Enthu&s;ia&s;ms,</HI> &s;o that now if their <HI>hearts</HI> be prompt by <HI>lu&s;t and covetou&s;|ne&s;s,</HI> to take away all <HI>Law, Property</HI> and <HI>Rigth,</HI> from every man, that he by <HI>Law</HI> hath, to that which is known, they mu&s;t do it, for God &s;et it on their hearts, he told them &s;o; this they &s;ay, and is very likely it will come to &s;uch a matter, for the <HI>wor&s;hipful Doctor Wor&s;ely,</HI> did preach &s;uch a doctrine at <HI>Wallingford-hou&s;e,</HI> before the <HI>Venerable A&s;&s;embly of Officers, that all our Lawes, Lives, Liberties, E&s;tates, were in the di&s;po&s;e of the Army,</HI> and this pa&s;&s;ed without the lea&s;t <HI>controul,</HI> and indeed, they mu&s;t &s;o practi&s;e, or el&s;e they cannot rai&s;e any money, as you will &s;ee hereafter; well this paper is &s;ent from <HI>Darby to London by Capt. Brown</HI> (and not onely thither, but to <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and that before it was known here to <HI>Lieutenant General,</HI> or any of the Officers, a mo&s;t pre&s;umptious thing if it were true, which we cannot believe, that any particular Officers did dare to &s;end a pa|ber, to ingage the <HI>Armies of three Nations,</HI> without making it known to the <HI>Chief Officers,</HI> as clo&s;e as it is carried, and it is very probable, that the Officers were the Plotters of it, becau&s;e when they did know it, they were &s;o far from di&s;countenance|ing and puni&s;hing the Authors, as they fall in with them, and ju&s;tifie them, as may be <HI>&s;een</HI> in their <HI>Repre&s;entation of Octo|cter the</HI> 5th. 1659. When this paper <HI>arrives at London,</HI> it taketh <HI>Lodging</HI> at <HI>White-Hall</HI> in <HI>Lamberts Quarters,</HI> and on Wedne&s;|day was there read, before twenty Officers; now <HI>Lambert</HI> did not know of it, till now, and when he and <HI>L. G. Fleetwood</HI> knew of it,
<PB N="9" REF="6">they did not <HI>approve of it</HI> (no, no more then a man that is very hungry approveth of good victuals &s;uch as he liketh with all his heart) if they did not, why did not they &s;tifle it in the birth and &s;uppre&s;&s;e it, which they might have done if they had plea&s;ed; but they were &s;o far from it, as they do give it countenance and all the furtherance they can, el&s;e why did not L. G. <HI>Fleetwood</HI> according to the commands of <HI>Parliament</HI> cau&s;e the Army to de&s;i&s;t; but that is &s;o far from him as they ju&s;tifie it, (as afore&s;aid) by their Repre&s;entations of <HI>Octob.</HI> 5. 1659.</P>
<P>And now their <HI>Repre&s;entation</HI> being come to the <HI>Hou&s;e,</HI> they had <HI>thanks for their good expre&s;&s;ions of their good affections to the Parliament,</HI> and that the <HI>Parliament</HI> would proceed to give them all <HI>&s;atisfaction</HI> that may be, and on Saturday the 8. of <HI>Octob.</HI> they would go on their paper, and &s;o did, and Monday and Tue&s;day following, as may be &s;een by <HI>the Votes that pa&s;sed the Hou&s;e</HI> (that have been printed in the News Books) how the <HI>Parliament</HI> did make all the &s;peed po&s;&s;ible to have given them full <HI>&s;atisfaction</HI> to all their <HI>demands</HI> as it might &s;tand with the <HI>honour of Parliament and the Freedom of Engli&s;hmen.</HI></P>
<P>But behold <HI>while the Parliament is</HI> ha&s;ting to give them all ju&s;t &s;atisfa|ction to their de&s;ire, the <HI>Councel of Officers of the Army,</HI> order <HI>the Coppies</HI> of the <HI>repre&s;entations</HI> to the &s;ent to all the <HI>Regiments of hor&s;e and foot, and to all gari&s;ons in the</HI> 3. <HI>Nations</HI> to be by them &s;igned and &s;peedily to be &s;ent to Mr. <HI>Samford,</HI> L. G. <HI>Fleetwoods Secretary,</HI> and ordered that tho&s;e nine Officers (that were by the <HI>Parliament</HI> uncommi&s;&s;ionated) &s;hould write a Letter under their hands and inclo&s;e tho&s;e coppies, the which they did.</P>
<P>Now this coming to the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and they having <HI>proof of it,</HI> that they were a labouring as one man to <HI>combine against the Parliament,</HI> and to force them; they clearly did fore&s;ee they could not &s;it to make a perpetual Coordinate Senate, of which they expected to be there freely without being impo&s;ed on, and rather then to do it they would die, therefore they were re&s;olved to try the <HI>obedience</HI> of the <HI>Army,</HI> whether they would <HI>acquie&s;ce</HI> in &s;uch <HI>re&s;olves as they &s;hall make or no,</HI> that they might have good ground to know they &s;at freely, and were by them ac|knowledged <HI>the Supream Authority</HI> and the <HI>Army their &s;ervants,</HI> from whom they took all their <HI>commi&s;&s;ions,</HI> which <HI>very act</HI> if there were no more &s;hould have taught them <HI>&s;ubjection,</HI> therefore now it came to this i&s;&s;ue, whether the <HI>Parliament</HI> &s;hall <HI>come to the Army,</HI> and di&s;po&s;e of them, or <HI>Lieutenant General Fleetwood, or Lambert,</HI> and whether the <HI>Parliameni</HI> &s;hall be <HI>Master,</HI> and the Army be the <HI>Servant,</HI> or the <HI>Parliament be the &s;lave,</HI> to &s;it
<PB N="10" REF="7">there, and by their <HI>authority make &s;uch Lawes,</HI> and rai&s;e &s;uch monies, on the people, as they the <HI>Officers of the Army</HI> would force, and compell them to, and thereby oppre&s;&s;e, and even totally give away all our <HI>Liber|ties</HI> at one blow, and make us &s;laves for ever, which they were not at all in the lea&s;t willing to do; and upon this ground the Parliament did proceed again&s;t tho&s;e nine Officers, and to the Alteration of the Conduct of the Army, as you may &s;ee by the Act of Parliament, and Votes of the 12. of <HI>October,</HI> 1659.</P>
<P>And we would fain know, what the Parliament could do le&s;&s;e then they did, having &s;o clear profit, under their own hands, and divers other <HI>Circum&s;tances;</HI> be &s;ides, is it any new thing the Parliament hath done, have they not former <HI>Pre&s;idents many,</HI> look but back to about <HI>Feb.</HI> 1645. and you will find, they took away the Commi&s;&s;ions of the <HI>Earls of</HI> E&s;&s;ex, Warwick, Manche&s;ters, <HI>Earls of</HI> Stamfords, &amp; Darbith, <HI>Sir</HI> William Wallers, Ma&s;&s;eyes, Gells, Lawhorns, <HI>and divers others;</HI> did the&s;e, <HI>jeopard</HI> their <HI>lives</HI> in the <HI>high places</HI> of the <HI>Field,</HI> as well as the&s;e <HI>Officers?</HI> Yes that they did, but then the doctrine of Rebellion was <HI>not</HI> learned by them.</P>
<P>Now <HI>here is the plain ca&s;e,</HI> and the <HI>mi&s;erable condition,</HI> we are <HI>brought to,</HI> whether we &s;hall &s;uffer, all <HI>Authority</HI> in our old and ancient, <HI>Con&s;erva|tors the Parliament,</HI> the great <HI>boundary</HI> of all our <HI>Liberties,</HI> again&s;t Tyranny and Slavery, to be thus trodden under foot, and be &s;ubject to &s;ome three or four mens wills, and Lu&s;t; <HI>viz. Fleetwood, Lambert, Desborow, and Berry;</HI> for &s;o it is, but we hope all true <HI>Engli&s;h-men</HI> will <HI>abominate it;</HI> for let them &s;ay what they will, and pretend never &s;o much, <HI>Tyrants, yea, Ar|rant Tyrants they mu&s;t be;</HI> for Lawes, for what they do, they have none, and make Lawes, they we are &s;ure cannot; and <HI>King James</HI> &s;aith, he is <HI>A Tyrant</HI> that ruleth without Law, and this is true in the&s;e men.</P>
<P>We would very fain know how they can <HI>rai&s;e any money,</HI> on the people, but by <HI>Tyranny,</HI> it being again&s;t the <HI>Fundamental Lawes of England,</HI> as <HI>Magna Charta,</HI> and <HI>Petition of Right,</HI> and it <HI>it is declared by this Parlia|ment to be High Trea&s;on,</HI> for any <HI>mony to be rai&s;ed,</HI> without our own <HI>con&s;ent in Parliament,</HI> &s;ee the words of the Act it &s;elf. <HI>Viz.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And be it further enacted, that no per&s;on</HI> or per&s;ons &s;hall after the ele|venth of <HI>October,</HI> 1659. <HI>A&s;se&s;s, Levy, Collect together, or receive any Cu|&s;tome, Impost, Exci&s;e, A&s;se&s;&s;ement, Contribution, Tax, Tallage, or any &s;umme, or &s;ummes of mony, or other Impo&s;itions what&s;oever, upon the people of this Common-wealth, without their con&s;ent in Parliament; or as by Law might
<PB N="11" REF="7">have been done before the third of</HI> November, 1640. <HI>And be it further enacted and declared, that every per&s;on offending, contrary to this Act, &s;hall be, and is hereby judged to be guilty of High Trea&s;on, and &s;hall for it &s;uffer as in ca&s;e of High Trea&s;on;</HI> How can they now rai&s;e money to have it, to pay the poor &s;ouldiers and Sea-men, no wayes but by <HI>rapine, Robbery, and Plunder,</HI> and what that will come to, no man knoweth.</P>
<P>But if this <HI>Parliament</HI> had <HI>been let alone, they would have made this Na|tion happy;</HI> and a flouri&s;hing Nation, in Trade: for by the fir&s;t of <HI>Jan.</HI> next, they would have quite taken off from <HI>Trade,</HI> all <HI>Custome,</HI> and <HI>Exci&s;e;</HI> they had an Act of Parliament for that end, under con&s;ideration; and have payed all the <HI>debts</HI> of this <HI>Common-wealth,</HI> yea the <HI>Publick Faith and all;</HI> and have <HI>&s;etled</HI> us under <HI>a &s;ure</HI> and good government <HI>of Annuall and &s;ucce&s;&s;ive Parliaments,</HI> that we &s;hould not have feared every 6 months, to have bin a ruine to <HI>a new Government,</HI> which doth render us the mo&s;t <HI>ridiculous people in the world,</HI> and indeed we have by the practi&s;es, and evill acting of the <HI>Officers of the Army, rendred Magistry, the most ridiculous, and contemptible things that can be,</HI> &s;o that we are the <HI>&s;corn</HI> and <HI>laughter</HI> of all Nations, that but hear of us.</P>
<P>Therefore <HI>Noble</HI> and <HI>Brave Engli&s;h-men,</HI> &s;tand for your <HI>Rights, Liberties, and Lawes,</HI> that you have <HI>bought</HI> with your <HI>money, purcha&s;ed</HI> with your <HI>blood,</HI> and be not <HI>in&s;laved</HI> by an <HI>Army,</HI> and to dye, rather then to pay one peny that is not levied by <HI>con&s;ent in Parliament;</HI> keep your <HI>goods,</HI> and <HI>de|fend</HI> your <HI>hou&s;es</HI> again&s;t <HI>all</HI> that &s;hall come either to <HI>quarter</HI> on you, or to <HI>levie, or gather mony</HI> of you, as you would again&s;t <HI>thieves, Rogues,</HI> &amp; <HI>Robbers.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Officers</HI> of the <HI>Army</HI> cry all, they are not for, but again&s;t <HI>A &s;in|gle per&s;on,</HI> we wonder men are &s;o voyd of <HI>&s;ence;</HI> is not he that is <HI>Generall of an Army, a Prince?</HI> and who ever it is that doth meddle with the <HI>Civil affaires,</HI> not by <HI>authority</HI> of <HI>Parliament,</HI> though it be (as the French-man &s;aith) one twee three feier veeve <HI>Kings,</HI> or <HI>a Coun&s;el,</HI> or <HI>Coordinate Senate for life,</HI> it is all, <HI>a &s;ingle per&s;on,</HI> and will devolve into it quickly; we hope all true <HI>Engli&s;h men</HI> wil never &s;ubject their necks to &s;uch a yoak, to have men in highe&s;t authority for their lives, this will be wor&s;e then then the <HI>Nor|man yoak,</HI> and it will not la&s;t long, but mu&s;t center in one, and then let the <HI>child</HI> be named; and if you plea&s;e, let it <HI>be King,</HI> becau&s;e it is a &s;hort word, and you &s;ee quickly learned.</P>
<P>But let them do what they can, they will not, nor &s;hall they long &s;tand; God &s;hall, and &s;urely God will confound them, as he did the <HI>King,</HI> and that great <HI>Tyrant, Oliver,</HI> that great <HI>a&s;piring trayterly Crom|well,</HI> who by his cheats and hypocri&s;ies, deep di&s;&s;imulations, pretending
<PB N="12" REF="8">religion, couzened and deceived all the poor <HI>honest Church-men,</HI> and &s;o do and will the&s;e men, how fair &s;oever they promi&s;e, they can do no good, that &s;hall be la&s;ting, becau&s;e it is built and layed on an unrighte|ous foundation, it is laid in <HI>Trea&s;on, Rebellion, Hypocri&s;ie,</HI> lying, &s;lan|dering, yea, in horrid <HI>Bla&s;phemy;</HI> and yet the&s;e are the men that pretend to &s;et up the <HI>Kingdom of Christ</HI> among us; Surely when Chri&s;t cometh he will not need the lu&s;t, Ambition, Covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, Hypocri&s;ie, Di&s;|&s;embling, Lying, Rebelling Trayterou&s;ne&s;&s;e of people, that are no more to be confided in, then the Devil that is their father, for his works they do, therefore they are his children and &s;ervants, for his &s;ervants they are whom they obey, <HI>Rom.</HI> 6.16. <HI>John</HI> 8.45. How is it po&s;&s;ible the&s;e men can think to pro&s;per when they are guilty, and mu&s;t be guilty of more horrid wickedne&s;&s;es, trea&s;ons and rebellions; <HI>For had Zimri peace that &s;lew his master?</HI> 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 9.31. And do the&s;e men think to have peace that have not onely &s;lain <HI>one Ma&s;ter,</HI> but divers; <HI>This Parliament twice, April,</HI> 20. 1653, then the little <HI>Junto:</HI> then this la&s;t and greate&s;t, <HI>this Parliament, now this</HI> 10. <HI>of October,</HI> 1659. Surely <HI>if</HI> Cain <HI>&s;hall be avenged &s;even fould, truly</HI> Lamech <HI>&s;eventy and &s;even foold,</HI> Gen. 4.24. And ble&s;&s;e not your &s;elves becau&s;e you have not yet been brought to judgement, <HI>therefore you do har|den your hearts according to</HI> Eccle&s;. 8.11 <HI>for God will come and that &s;uddenly,</HI> Jude 15. <HI>to execute judgement upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly</HI> (as you are) <HI>among them of all your ungodly deeds, which you have ungodlily committed, and of all the hard &s;peeches you have &s;poken of God and against him.</HI></P>
<P>Well now I warrant you they promi&s;e very fair things, a very <HI>ble&s;&s;ed</HI> and <HI>good Government;</HI> But how can this be when the foundation is nought? there is not any thing as to <HI>a Government,</HI> that can be &s;etled without the <HI>peoples con&s;ent in Parliament</HI> that will be in this <HI>Nation durable;</HI> have we not experience in the late <HI>great Tyrants dayes</HI> that nothing would down with this people, but what they &s;et up by their <HI>Repre&s;entatives a&s;&s;embled in Parliament;</HI> for it is again&s;t the liberty and freedom of people, and a|gain&s;t the <HI>Fundamental Laws of</HI> England, to have <HI>a Government</HI> and <HI>Laws</HI> impo&s;ed on them without and again&s;t their wills and con&s;ent in <HI>Parli|ament.</HI></P>
<P>I but the&s;e men &s;ay they will &s;ettle the <HI>Righteous Laws of Christ,</HI> and &s;o &s;aid M. G. <HI>Hari&s;on,</HI> but it was not in his power; for when tho&s;e Laws and Chri&s;ts government cometh to be &s;etled, he will need none of your Commanders, e&s;pecially &s;o ba&s;e and wicked ones as the&s;e Officers are; for he will not &s;ettle it <HI>by might or power, but by his &s;pirit,</HI> Zach, 4.6. <HI>he
<PB N="13" REF="8">will make all hearts then willing to &s;toop to him in that day of his power,</HI> P&s;al. 110.</P>
<P>It is true, he was full of his impul&s;es of &s;pirit and <HI>Enthu&s;ia&s;mes,</HI> and tell him of <HI>Magna Carta</HI> and <HI>Petition of Right,</HI> he would puffe at all the&s;e, and &s;ay we &s;hall have Laws from Heaven, but he was forced to fly to <HI>Magna Carta</HI> in the <HI>Protectors time,</HI> and therefore till Chri&s;t come, let us have but our <HI>ancient and Fundamental Laws, and Liberties,</HI> we &s;hall then do very well, and let us tell all the&s;e men where had we been in the late <HI>Tyrants time</HI> had it not been for our <HI>Laws;</HI> We remember a &s;peech of that <HI>Tyrants</HI> to Sergant <HI>Maynard</HI> and <HI>Twi&s;den</HI> when they came before him about Mr. <HI>Conyes ca&s;e,</HI> &s;aith he to them, <HI>You tell me it is again&s;t Magna Car|ta, and Petition of Right; Magna Carta,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>Magna Farta; Petition of Right, Petition of Shite: I have more ado to Conquer</HI> 2. <HI>or</HI> 3. <HI>mu&s;ty old Laws, then I have to Conquer</HI> 3. <HI>Nations.</HI> I and &s;o not onely he, but all &s;uch as he was &s;hall find I hope the harde&s;t task that ever they undertook.</P>
<P>And this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e now is no other then <HI>Olivers was,</HI> it is but <HI>Hari&s;ons &s;pirit tran&s;migrated</HI> into Sir <HI>Henry Vain, Salloway, Sidenham</HI> and others that <HI>Lambert</HI> doth now make u&s;e of, and it &s;hall effect as little as he did at that time.</P>
<P>Therefore <HI>mo&s;t Noble Engli&s;hmen</HI> be not abu&s;ed by their <HI>flatteries,</HI> nor drawn into <HI>&s;nares</HI> to Petition them, and make addre&s;&s;es to them; they de&s;erve no addre&s;&s;e but a Halter and an Ax, and that mu&s;t be accom|pli&s;hed by the hazzard of your lives and fortunes, and better dye, as Mr. <HI>Clement Cook</HI> &s;aid in the Parl. 3 Carol. <HI>It is better to dye by the hand of a Forrain enemy then to be de&s;troyed at home;</HI> and &s;o we and our children had better dye with our &s;words in our hands in defence of our Laws and li|berties, then to loo&s;e all, and be en&s;laved by an Army.</P>
<P>And all you <HI>Congregational men,</HI> take heed of being deceived, all the World &s;ees you have been for every turn, and run to wor&s;hip the ri&s;ing Sun, it &s;heweth your weakne&s;&s;e and in&s;tabilities; one while the Lord is with this <HI>Parliament,</HI> then with the little <HI>Parliament,</HI> and then with the late <HI>Tyrant, Oliver,</HI> then with his <HI>Son Richard,</HI> then with this <HI>Parliament,</HI> and now with the <HI>Army;</HI> do you think that God followeth your wan|drings, and is as uncertain as you are? no, he is a God of Truth and certainty, and loveth uprightne&s;s of heart, and doth hate all wicked doers and their wayes he wil <HI>cur&s;e</HI> and <HI>bla&s;t</HI> them, as you &s;ee, he did the <HI>late Ty|rant</HI> in all that he undertook; what and how hath this Nation been un|done? how is the Armies and N vies behinde in pay and the Common|wealth in debt 300 <HI>thou&s;and pounds,</HI> and yet the&s;e ble&s;&s;ed Officers would
<PB N="14" REF="9">have the late <HI>Tyrants Wife</HI> have 8000 <HI>l. per annum,</HI> &s;etled on her, and his elde&s;t Son <HI>Richard</HI> 10000 <HI>l.</HI> and all his debts payed, which was 30000 <HI>l.</HI> do you not think the&s;e are like to prove ea&s;y ma&s;ters to you? do you think to e&s;cape them? no, for as the <HI>Duke of Medina Sidonya &s;aid in</HI> 88. <HI>That his &s;word knew no difference between a Catholick, and a Heretick, but he came to make way for his Ma&s;ter;</HI> So it will be with the&s;e men, they will not know you from others; therefore beware of your applications to them, and take the wi&s;e mans Coun&s;el, <HI>Prov.</HI> 24.21.22. <HI>My &s;on fear thou the Lord and the &s;upream authority, and meddle not with them that are given to change, for their calamity &s;hall ri&s;e &s;uddenly, and who knoweth the ruine of them both? For</HI></P>
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<L>Nulla fides pieta&s;que viris qui ca&s;tra &s;equuntur.</L>
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<L>Faithle&s;&s;e and Godle&s;&s;e, all things they can &s;wollow,</L>
<L>Who wear cold Iron, and the wars do follow.</L>
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<BYLINE>Written by a Heathen, but made to true by tho&s;e that profe&s;&s;e them|&s;elves Chri&s;tians.</BYLINE>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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