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<HEAD><HI>The La&s;t WARNING</HI> To all the <HI>INHABITANTS</HI> Of LONDON.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_WEll meaning People,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>you are ever mo&s;t lyable to be deceived; the rea&s;on is, becau&s;e you tru&s;t to tho&s;e that give you good words, and propo&s;e things plea&s;ing to &s;ome unrea&s;onable humour in you: rather then to tho&s;e that doe you good in|deed, and ever propo&s;e things ju&s;t and profitable.</P>
<P>For example; &s;ome of you have an unrea&s;onable humour in you, for maintenance of a Kingly Government: <HI>a King you will have, or dye without a King,</HI> all you have is nothing, Common-Wealth and Parliament, and all Government peri&s;h and be confounded, if you may not have a King: and hee that will nouri&s;h this humour in you, though he cannot &s;hew you one good act that ever any King did vol|luntarily for Good of the People: though your &s;elves, if you will ex|amine Storyes, or your owne experience, may produce thou&s;ands of Oppre&s;&s;ions, Murthers and other tyrannyes: though no condition of Mankind ever did &s;o many, &s;o intollerable mi&s;chiefs, though it can|not
<PB N="2" REF="2"> be &s;aid to what u&s;e they &s;erve, or that there is any u&s;e of them, except to debauch and vex a People: yet if any will but feed your hu|mour, and &s;ooth you therein, though you know them to be meere worldly covetous Wretches, frawdulent over-reaching Varlets; or (but few yeers &s;ince,) Pattentees, and Prowling Projectors; the&s;e neverthele&s;&s;e are your onely Councellours, the&s;e you put into Offi|ces of tru&s;t, and then they may leade you whether they plea&s;e, and with Oylie tongues, and flattering long Speeches, charme you into a beliefe of any thing; and by Art and &s;ubtilty, cau&s;e you to hate and abhorre tho&s;e that would purge this corrupt humour out of you, and &s;how you a more ju&s;t and rationall way of Government then that of Kings.</P>
<P>Others who are not troubled &s;o much with this humour in <HI>Civill Government,</HI> are troubled with one as u<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rea&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nable concerning <HI>Eccle|&s;ia&s;ticall Government:</HI> that is, They are undone, ruined, torne in pie|ces with rents and Divi&s;ions, if all the people may not be compelled to <HI>Wor&s;hip God</HI> as they doe, or in one Uniforme way, by the State e&s;ta|bli&s;hed: and they are &s;o willingly blinde herein, that although the <HI>Word of God</HI> alloweth every one to be fully per&s;waded in his owne minde; and declareth that to be &s;infull, which is done otherwi&s;e: though you know tho&s;e <HI>Clergy-men</HI> that annimate you herein, to be principally &s;uch as complyed with the Tyranny and Super&s;tition of the <HI>Epi&s;copall Prelates,</HI> and now ayme to e&s;tabli&s;h the like Tyranny in the hands of <HI>Presbyterian Prelates;</HI> though you know tho&s;e <HI>Lay-men,</HI> that &s;ooth this humour in you, to be &s;uch as endeavour to errect a new kind of Tyranny over the Common-wealth, &s;uch as already ap|peareth in your City, and is maintained by <HI>Irenaeus Li&s;imachus;</HI> though you know, there is nothing tendeth more to the di&s;&s;olving of that Army, that under God hath been your pre&s;ervation; or can &s;o mi&s;erably teare you into Rents and Divi&s;ions, leaving you all a naked di&s;united prey to tho&s;e that of purpo&s;e have begotten, and nouri&s;h the&s;e de&s;tructive <HI>humours</HI> in you, (without which, they know it were in vaine to attempt your bondage;) Yet &s;o wedded are you to this humour, as tho&s;e who &s;mooth and flatter you therein, are in your e&s;teem, as Angels of Light.</P>
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<P>Either of the&s;e two mo&s;t unrea&s;onable <HI>Humours,</HI> are enough to un|doe you: and to perplex, if not fru&s;trate all the labours of Parlia|ment, to pre&s;erve you: and is likely to bring a new confu&s;ion upon the Common-wealth.</P>
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<HEAD>You &s;hall &s;ee how.</HEAD>
<P>By the fir&s;t of th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e, you are alwayes ready and prepared to receive the King in againe upon any Conditions, notwith&s;tanding all his blood-&s;hed and perfidiou&s;ne&s;&s;e; and thereby encourage and a&s;&s;i&s;t his Agents in their under-hand Workings and Projectings again&s;t the intentions and Proceedings of <HI>Parliament;</HI> by which al&s;o hath b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> occa&s;ioned mo&s;t horrible and Bloody <HI>Plotts</HI> again&s;t this City, and crafty devi&s;es to Devide the <HI>City from the Parliament,</HI> and to receive the King, whether the <HI>Parliament</HI> would or not; and both the&s;e will not be given over, &s;o long as this humour remaineth in you: but this <HI>Great Citie,</HI> the <HI>Parliament,</HI> your &s;elves, your &s;onnes and Families, (however you are or may be flattered,) will be continually liable to a &s;udden inevitable Ruine and &s;urpri&s;all.</P>
<P>And (all along) this in you hath cau&s;ed &s;uch an irre&s;olution and uncertainty in Proceedings, as hath lengthened the Warre, and will continue the &s;ame, to the wa&s;tings of your Trades, and con&s;uming of the Common-wealth: &s;o long as this humour remaineth in you, <HI>Ireland</HI> will be incouraged to furni&s;h Forces, <HI>Holland</HI> will &s;tand wor&s;e then Neuter, <HI>Denmarke, France</HI> and <HI>Spaine</HI> will not be meere lookers on; the ill-affected throughout <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Wales</HI> will doe the wor&s;t they can: And beleeve it, the&s;e are not to be &s;lighted; if therefore you &s;hall continue in this perver&s;ne&s;&s;e of judgement, and thereby draw in&s;upportable burthens upon your &s;elves, and in the end be ruined or en&s;laved, your &s;elves are cau&s;e thereof; and in the day of your affliction, with horrour and dread|full amazement, you &s;hall heare a voice within you, &s;aying, <HI>Thy de|&s;tructi n is of thy &s;elf.</HI></P>
<P>Therefore in time &s;uppre&s;&s;e this unrea&s;onable <HI>humour</HI> in you, and all fear of the open and revealed enemy, will be at an end, refer your &s;elves as you ought to doe in this Controver&s;y with the King, to the wi&s;e|dome
<PB N="4" REF="3"> of Parliament, and neither de&s;ire, nor endeavour to anticipate them in their dealings with him, and his adhearents, and then you and your City will be &s;afe and happy, be no longer re&s;pectors of per|&s;ons in judgement; and your &s;cales will &s;oon fall from off your eyes, and then you will &s;ee cleerly that the Parliament hath dealt but too too favourably with the King, <HI>and that mercy to the wicked, is cruelty to the good: abhorre tho&s;e Serpentine Coun&s;ellors, that in&s;inuate, and maintaine the fore-mentioned humour in you, and be a&s;&s;ured and confi|dent, that though they may be cloathed thick and three-fold in &s;heepes-cloathing, yet inwardly they are Ravening Wolves, that would &s;o per|&s;wade you.</HI></P>
<P>Your other mo&s;t unrea&s;onable and un-Chri&s;tian humour, pro|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">king you to be uncivilly importunate with the <HI>Parliament,</HI> to e&s;ta|bli&s;h a <HI>Presbyterian</HI> or compul&s;ive <HI>Church-Gov<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rnment,</HI> all things con|&s;idered, threatens a more iminent danger then the former at this time can doe; for if the <HI>Commons</HI> in <HI>Parliament,</HI> &s;hould doe as &s;ome have procured the <HI>Common-Coun&s;ell</HI> to Petition; &s;ee in what a <HI>&s;ad Conditi|on</HI> you would immediately be in: for all the <HI>Independents</HI> and <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">pa|rati&s;ts</HI> of all &s;orts, (than whom the <HI>Parliament</HI> and <HI>Y<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">u,</HI> have not found more Con&s;tant and &s;ted-fa&s;t freinds,) all the&s;e mu&s;t nece&s;&s;ari|ly withdraw their A&s;&s;i&s;tance; for if they cannot be <HI>free to Wor&s;hip God, (every one of them,) according to their particular Con&s;ciences; all</HI> Liberty <HI>to them is taken away; f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r what is all other</HI> Liberty, <HI>where that is not; al|&s;o the ARMY, (that hath recovered you out of a mo&s;t langui&s;hing e&s;tate) thereupon will in&s;tantly be &s;cattered, if not di&s;&s;olved, &s;o you would be ex|treamly divided, and di&s;tracted among&s;t your &s;elves at home, and de&s;titute of any a&s;&s;ured &s;trength abroad: and who&s;e worke &s;hould be eff<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">cted hereby? even theirs, who&s;e Maxime it is to devide, and ma&s;ter</HI> You: <HI>and they are tho&s;e that &s;oothe and flatter you in this pernitious humour, and that com|ply with your unadvi&s;ed de&s;ires, as farre as they at pre&s;ent are able: and therefore, if you have a minde to be va&s;&s;allized, be &s;till importunate for &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of all Private Meetings or</HI> Conventicles, <HI>and compell all &s;orts of Beleevers to Wor&s;hip God, as you and your Abbettors &s;hall approve, you cannot want the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of all tho&s;e that are or would be LORDS over their Brethren, and when by your meanes they have prevailed over tho&s;e (you and they are plea&s;ed to call</HI> Independents <HI>or</HI> Sectaries,) <HI>Your &s;elves mu&s;t be the next in order to be their &s;laves and va&s;&s;alls,) if you look
<PB N="5" REF="3"> for any other mea&s;ure from them: you will finde your &s;elves mo&s;t mi&s;erably mi&s;taken: but there is good hope the Commons of</HI> England, <HI>(now in Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lia|ment, who are cho&s;en for pre&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rvation of all ju&s;t</HI> Liberty,) <HI>will in no mea|&s;ure countenance &s;o unju&s;t and dangerous a De&s;igne; Certainly they can|not &s;o &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">on forget that vigorous A&s;&s;i&s;tance they have alwayes had in their greate&s;t nece&s;&s;ities from this People, they have not hitherto abridged them of their</HI> Liberty <HI>freely to Wor&s;hip God, and &s;ince they have had the &s;ame, the common enemy of this and all other ju&s;t</HI> Liberty <HI>hath been brought even to a mor&s;ell of bread, and hath no hope of recovery, but in this way of Deviding you: nor hath the</HI> betru&s;ted Commons <HI>permitted this</HI> Liber|ty <HI>in Pollicy, as you &s;uppo&s;e, but in Ju&s;tice, and upon mature Knowledge, that they neither are, nor can be betru&s;ted to make Lawes to rule men in the practi&s;e of Religi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n: hee that is mo&s;t va&s;&s;alliz'd in his judgment, with an opinion of &V;niformity, and of a nece&s;&s;ity of &s;uppre&s;&s;ing all private</HI> Con|venticles, <HI>or wayes of</HI> Wor&s;hip, <HI>but his owne, if hee have any u&s;e of his Con&s;cience in his Wor&s;hip of God; hee mu&s;t acknowledge, if the Lawes of the Land &s;hould bynde him in the lea&s;t to practice contrary to his owne un|der&s;tandings, that he cannot obey them without being guilty of willfull &s;inne again&s;t God; for what&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ever is not of faith, is &s;infull: but the cares of this world: the deceitfulne&s;s of riches, de&s;ire of Lord&s;hip, continuance in Office or Honour, Plea&s;ures and Deliciou&s;ne&s;&s;e of Living, have &s;o choak|ed <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">his place of Scripture in too too many, that if men are but of greater E&s;tates then their Neighbours, eat more co&s;tly meat, we are finer cloathes, or have but Learning to boa&s;t of, they think fowle &s;corne, if all meaner and playner men will not be ruled by them in the mediate Service of God: regarding more, that them&s;elves be plea&s;ed by uniformity, then God di&s;plea|&s;ed by Hypocri&s;y: you know full well, that the&s;e things are thus with ma|ny of you, and this makes you lyable to be wrought upon by meere State-Religious Per&s;ons, &s;o &s;uch as onely Per&s;onate Religion, to bring their ends about, who&s;e Religion indeed is prudentially, and zealou&s;ly to di&s;&s;emble; the&s;e are they that frame</HI> Oathes <HI>and</HI> Covenants <HI>for you in &s;uch ambigu|ous expre&s;&s;ions like</HI> Delphian Oracles, <HI>that you &s;hall &s;eeme to be bound to doe, or e&s;tabli&s;h any thing they &s;hall de&s;ire, though never &s;o ab&s;urd or wick|ed in it &s;elf: and interpret for you by degrees, as they finde their &s;trength to encrea&s;e, or opportunity to ripen (if you continue in this your corrupt humour,) you will ere long &s;ee this kinde of Witch-craft w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rke openly a|mong&s;t you: &s;ome &s;ecret &s;matterings thereof you might perceive, if you
<PB N="6" REF="4"> ob&s;erved any thing: in &s;ome</HI> Scotch Papers <HI>lately Printed, to forelay for an opportunity:</HI> al&s;o in a Book called, <HI>TRVTH its MANIFESTO,</HI> written by one <HI>Bucchanon;</HI> and another by one <HI>Baily,</HI> both of that Nation; both endeavouring to allienate your affections from the <HI>Commons,</HI> and to ingratiate the endeavours of that Nation: if they prevaile over you, you will not long be ignorant what a happine&s;&s;e it is to be befool'd into a <HI>Scotch Paradice,</HI> where the People live as merrily under their Lords <HI>Presbyteriall, Civill,</HI> and <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall,</HI> as the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> in <HI>Egypt:</HI> All their zeal, and Covenanting with the high God, you will finde, is for no other ende, then to bring this ea&s;ily de|luded Nation under the &s;ame bondage, to <HI>Presbyteriall</HI> Lords and Task-ma&s;ters: this is the thing intended, when you are provoked a|gain&s;t Sects, when you are put upon Petitions: Petitions after Peti|tions, all to keep you in a froward humour again&s;t a &s;ea&s;on, that you may be ready to de&s;troy the Sectaries, as they terme your mo&s;t faithfull friends, which being done, a great, even the greate&s;t Ob|&s;tacle is removed; for they under&s;tand them&s;elves too well, to &s;ub|mit them&s;elves &s;lavi&s;hly to either King, Lords, or Clergy; Then if <HI>Buccanons</HI> poy&s;on worke, you mu&s;t quarrell with your &s;ole Pre&s;er|vers under God, <HI>the Hou&s;e of Commons,</HI> under the Court-Notion of a <HI>factious Party</HI> there; hindring the <HI>Mo&s;t Ble&s;&s;ed WORKE of RE|FORMATION;</HI> and it will be then time, no longer to di&s;pute the Garri&s;ons, but to profe&s;&s;e the holding of them, for tho&s;e who will keep and maintaine their <HI>Covenant</HI> according to Scotch Inter|pretation, which will &s;erve our <HI>Engli&s;h Ma&s;ters</HI> purpo&s;es, as well as theirs: And then being compleatly divided, and in a Totall Con|fu&s;ion, judge and &s;tand amazed, how long your Troubles may con|tinue! and what is like to be in the end thereof?</P>
<P>You cannot be ignorant of a <HI>Prophe&s;y</HI> fore-layed cunningly, to fore&s;peake the bondage of this Nation; as fir&s;t, <HI>It mu&s;t be Conquered by the</HI> Romanes, <HI>then by the</HI> Danes <HI>and</HI> Saxons, <HI>after them by the</HI> Nor|manes, <HI>but the la&s;t mu&s;t be the</HI> Scots. And this <HI>Prophe&s;ie</HI> is now more frequent in their mouthes then ever; opportunity makes a Thiefe; therefore look well about you; and keep your Friends firme and clo&s;e to you; Reforme your Judgements, keep your Covenant in a ju&s;t Sen&s;e, it cannot bind you to enforce <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> or to mole&s;t your Brother under pretence of <HI>Here&s;y,</HI> or <HI>Schi&s;me;</HI> what you conceive is
<PB N="7" REF="4"> truth, may be an errour; <HI>doe as you would be done unto in all things;</HI> you would not be enforced, therefore force not; Ob&s;erve rather the ways of Chri&s;t and his Mini&s;ters, then the wayes of the <HI>Scotch</HI> or <HI>Pres|byterians;</HI> If you have taken the <HI>Covenant</HI> in a wor&s;e &s;en&s;e, it calls rather for Repentance, then pertinacy therein, (as the <HI>Direction</HI> for taking it publi&s;hed by the <HI>A&s;&s;embly</HI> and Parliament, will informe you.)</P>
<P>Let it appear you deem it too much that you have already done; minde your owne good, and cleave fa&s;t to the Hou&s;e of <HI>Commons,</HI> let no &s;orcery or Sophi&s;try devide you from them, inforce not, nor be im|portunate with them for <HI>Church-Government,</HI> leave it to their Wi&s;e|domes to mea&s;ure out unto the <HI>Clergy</HI> what may be for the quiet and profit of the People; The Lords are not to goe before the <HI>Commons</HI> in determining what concernes the Nations, their large An&s;wer to your la&s;t <HI>City Petition</HI> for <HI>Church-Government,</HI> and &s;uppre&s;|&s;ion of <HI>Conventicles,</HI> in&s;inuates they would allure you from the Com|mons: therefore ob&s;erve them watchfully, and tru&s;t them according|ly; Your Steeres-men in the City, are not &s;o many, but that one fi|gure may number them? nor &s;o ju&s;t, but that they are known to have betrayed their tru&s;t? nor &s;o con&s;cionable, but that they would take as much Mony as the <HI>Scots</HI> would give, or the Lords promi&s;e, to bring their ends about: The <HI>Clergy</HI> you know, mo&s;t of them that now &s;tickle again&s;t the <HI>Separati&s;ts</HI> or <HI>Independents,</HI> doe it for their owne ends, to retaine their Glory in a di&s;tinction of <HI>Clergy,</HI> their domi|nation in judgeing of Doctrine, Di&s;cipline, and Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Cen|&s;ures, and their profit in their pretence of <HI>Tythes, &amp;c.</HI> all which the <HI>Se|parati&s;ts</HI> di&s;daine and oppo&s;e, which is the true cau&s;e of the quarrell between them; The <HI>A&s;&s;embly</HI> are onely to advi&s;e the <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons</HI> when they require them, and have not dealt fairly, to &s;ide with the <HI>Scotts,</HI> or to &s;way with the <HI>City,</HI> or to urge the <HI>Parliament</HI> in the lea&s;t.</P>
<P>Therefore let not any of the&s;e e&s;trange you from that your faith|full Coun&s;ell; <HI>be wi&s;e as Serpents,</HI> arme your &s;elves again&s;t all kinds of delu&s;ion; and be provided again&s;t the houre of tentation; for be|leve it, this <HI>City</HI> is be&s;et round with &s;nares, and ambu&s;hments layed to en&s;nare You; but there were not &s;o much danger, were it not for the errours and mi&s;takings in Your owne under&s;tan|dings,
<PB N="8" REF="5"> which like a treacherous friend, lying in your bo&s;ome, is al|wayes ready to joyne i&s;&s;ue with any trayterous &s;educing enemy, purge out therefore by &s;ound and &s;erious con&s;ideration, your for|mer unrea&s;onable Humours, and you will &s;oone perceive <HI>Kings are but men: That there is no re&s;pect of Per&s;ons with God; Nor ought to be with men: That no opinion is &s;o dangerous, or hereticall, as that of com|pul&s;ion in things of Religion:</HI> judge rightly, doe ju&s;tly, abandon de|ceivers, adhere to the <HI>Commons,</HI> (who&s;e intere&s;t is <HI>Common-freedome,</HI> and not the preh<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">minence of a few) and &s;o you may be in &s;afety: &s;hewes of Religion, are cheap wayes of deceit: Ob&s;erve tho&s;e that alwayes attend the <HI>Common-good,</HI> and <HI>freedome</HI> of all Good men, and let tho&s;e be your Guides and Advi&s;ers: Lay this good Councell to heart, and that in&s;tantly, for you have not much time of debate of the&s;e things; If you neglect it, you are like to bring a cur&s;e upon your &s;elves, and the whole Nation: your latter end will be wor&s;e then your beginning, and you will be the &s;corne and deri&s;ion of all the World; which GOD grant you may by Wi&s;edome timely pre|vent.</P>
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