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<HEAD>THE LONDONERS LAST WARNING.</HEAD>
<P>I Am &s;orry you have given me &s;o &s;ad an oppor|tunity to employ my Hand, while your own have &s;o long been, and are &s;till &s;truck with a dead Pal&s;ie; that as heretofore you did not lift them up to &s;ave your Head, &s;o now you &s;uffer the whole Body to be mortally wounded, while you (like dying Per&s;ons in the extremity of a Feaver) be|lieve you are well, becau&s;e you want a &s;en&s;e of pain, that freedom from an apprehen&s;ion of your &s;ad E&s;tate, being but a &s;urer Symptom of your approaching death. It is therefore nece&s;&s;ary to convince you you are &s;ick, before you can be per&s;waded to admit any thing in or|der to your cure. Should I but remember the wounds of your Head, which you received by your own neglect, the horror of them would make you de&s;pair, and in a
<PB N="2" REF="2">black phren&s;y become you own Executioners: But &s;ince Time hath clo&s;ed them, and you are willing to forget them, I &s;hall pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;s you no farther with their &s;ad remembrance, only favourably tell you this, you have had a &s;trange giddine&s;s ever &s;ince; your Body, who&s;e blood, life and &s;pirits, are Laws, Liberties and Freedoms, is in every part &s;o weakned, that it hath &s;carce &s;trength for recovery, and as little inclination to it; and you are fallen into the hands of &s;uch Mounte|banks, who rather make experiments how much your nature can &s;uffer, than any way endeavour the re&s;to|ring of your health again.</P>
<P>You may remember, and with &s;adne&s;s of Heart I do, how after your mi&s;-led zeal had arm'd and &s;ent out thou&s;ands of your &s;ervants again&s;t him, who (you by &s;ad experience know) dy'd an A&s;&s;ertor of Religion and Liberty, when they brought home victory they brought you Slavery too, and that &s;o perpetual as hath continued ever &s;ince, and unle&s;&s;e you prevent it, will have no end but with the di&s;&s;olution of the whole World. The Army at that time having put out of em|ployment all that they &s;u&s;pected would fight for or fa|vour you, gra&s;p'd that power to which we have been all Slaves ever &s;ince. The Parliament which you &s;o much doated on they di&s;&s;olv'd, or which is wor&s;e, kept only &s;uch there, as would act what&s;oever they commanded. One of their bloody Generals, whom Ambition made covetous, and power made capable of Tyranny, they &s;et up; what you felt under him I need not repeat, his mi&s;carriages being too eminent and fatal ever to fall from your memory: &s;ome of your number endeavour|ing to put a &s;top to his villanies, he laid in the grave, &amp; I wi&s;h their blood be never required at your hands for permitting it. His Son &s;ucceeding him to that Govern|ment
<PB N="3" REF="2">which his Father dying intituled him to, and your &s;elves among the re&s;t congratulated &amp; own'd him in, no &s;ooner did he but endeavour to give you &s;omething that look'd like a free Parliament, but, as if that had been a crime never to be atton'd for, in four and twenty hours, he that was &s;itting on the Throne, and had three Kingdoms bowing to him, fell &s;o low, as he is now become the Object of pity and &s;corn too; and I dare not but believe God was ju&s;t in throwing him down headlong from that Crown to which he had no Title but the Sword that gave it: Yet all the&s;e Revolu|tions had &s;ome intervals of quiet and &s;ecurity too; But now we are fallen upon &s;uch &s;ad di&s;tractions, and up|on &s;uch infallible expectations of inevitable ruine, as if you let &s;lip a few days, nothing but a miracle can re|deem us. Among other crimes I &s;hall one day account for, I wil not &s;uffer this to be added to the number of them, that I fore-&s;aw your ruine and corcealed it; though I expect <HI>Ca&s;&s;andras</HI> fate in it, to tell you &s;ad truths, and not to be believ'd, or like Major <HI>Harlowes</HI> truth, to be voted fal&s;e, &s;candalous and &s;editious, be|cau&s;e un&s;ea&s;onable and true.</P>
<P>The di&s;pute is not now whether a Kings power &s;hall be moderated; whether a Parliament &s;hall be above a King, or equal to him; or whether it be lawful for a King to impeach tho&s;e Members of Trea&s;on he knows are Traitors; whether the Clergy &s;hall wear no other Ornaments than what the State puts on, nor preach other Doctrine than what that dictates; this hath al|ready been the &s;ubject of an unhappy ten years War; But it is now whether we &s;hall have Religion, Laws or Liberties; whether we &s;hall have Propriety or Life; for even the&s;e will be held too great a favour when Vi|ctory hath made them cruel and imperious, who are now gone out to &s;acrifice tho&s;e, who have no other
<PB N="4" REF="3">Crime about them, but that they would be free, and make you &s;o; The General him&s;elf &s;aying, he would leave no Gentleman in <HI>Che&s;hire,</HI> and no Mini&s;ter in the Nation, to the confirmation of which the Anabapti&s;ts and fifth-Monarchy-men have rai&s;ed a power again&s;t you, and are allow'd by this ble&s;&s;ed Parliament to be in Arms again&s;t you, while you &s;hall have none to pro|tect your &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">es; they bla&s;t that honourable de&s;ign with the name of a Papi&s;tical plot, when they them|&s;elves within the&s;e two dayes were ready to vote them a publique toleration of their Religion, while you &s;hall have none, and if they had not been per&s;waded they were too great Friends to the Hou&s;e of <HI>Au&s;tria,</HI> the Peti|tion had been granted. How far the Laws are viola|ted your Contribution and Militia can inform you; things never heard of in former Ages to that exce&s;&s;e and rigour as now they are; Religion which you &s;o much fought for, is now in &s;uch a de&s;perate and lan|gui&s;hing a condition, that it will ere long be accounted a Trea&s;on to profe&s;&s;e any, and as unlawful a thing to exerci&s;e it; for an eminent Anabapti&s;t, or rather Je&s;ui|tical Prie&s;t, &s;aid, that he hoped, nay he believed, that with in fourteen dayes there would not be left a Church door open in the Nation. Liberty which you were born to, and which no Engli&s;hman, unle&s;&s;e he will tamely give it way, can de&s;troy, is &s;o far from being now a part of your Charters, that it is allowed to none but &s;uch as are at this time contriving your eternal de&s;truction. Sectaries govern, Schi&s;ms tear you, H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">re&s;ies are ar|med again&s;t you; for within this week t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ee thou&s;and Quakers, (a people who &s;eem &s;o patient, as if they had been born only for &s;ufferings) have received Arms from the Tower your Magazine, and buy them up dayly,
<PB N="5" REF="3">and you will find, I fear too late, they can give as well as receive blows; let Father <HI>Talhot</HI> and the re&s;t of <HI>Romes</HI> Agents inform you what they are. As for pro|priety, hope for none, there being a faction of People in this Nation, who call them&s;elves fifth-Monarchy-Men, and have the a&s;&s;i&s;tance, protection and encou|ragement of a powerful Ma&s;ter of yours, who do alrea|dy believe, and conclude they have a right to, and will &s;odainly take po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of your Lives and Fortunes al|&s;o. To whom will you fly for refuge? to your Parlia|ment? even there &s;it your Enemies and their Friends, nor mu&s;t you expect common Ju&s;tice, when Parties are your Judges. But alas! why do I call them a Parlia|ment, or you believe them &s;o? I can only &s;ay, that in this la&s;t revolution, you were &s;o unhappy, as you &s;earched the Pri&s;ons to find you Law-givers; whom if you take in pieces, you will find &s;o rotten, and fal&s;e, as you cannot have &s;o much malice as to wi&s;h your Ene|mies &s;uch, unle&s;&s;e you had &s;o little charity as to de&s;ire their eternal damnation. Be&s;ides, how &s;mall a num|ber are they in re&s;pect of a free full Parliament? from which &s;ome of your Members being illegally and with|out cau&s;e &s;hown &s;hut out, and knowing how much the good and &s;afety of the whole Nation con&s;i&s;teth in a free Parliament, which is all they de&s;ire, and being indeed to pay their God and Country that Duty, that Service, both expect from them, have taken the field to pre&s;erve tho&s;e Liberties of which you de&s;erve to be no Sharers, unle&s;&s;e you a&s;&s;i&s;t them with your Lives and Fortunes. You &s;ee already what &s;everity is gone out again&s;t them, and even while you intended to plead with the Parliament in their behalf, you were betrayed by that fal&s;e villain your Maior, whom I
<PB N="6" REF="4">wonder Heaven and you &s;uffer to live, and made to a&s;|&s;i&s;t at the proclaiming tho&s;e men Traitors, who are truly yours and the Kingdoms Protectors; and if they fail for want of your aid, God will require their blood at your hands while they fall the whole Nations Mar|tyrs; and even that per&s;on who is gone out with a de|&s;ire as well as a Commi&s;&s;ion to de&s;troy all that is &s;acred among us, will doubtle&s;&s;e, if he return, &s;et up for him|&s;elf, and erect over you &s;uch a Tyranny, as never yet had a compari&s;on, and will know no hopes of redre&s;s. Can you con&s;ider all this &amp; &s;uffer your &s;elves tamely to be led, or cowardly to be frighted into a perpetual Sla|very to the wor&s;t of your fellow Subjects? How will Po&s;terity have cau&s;e to cur&s;e your memory, and the dayes you liv'd in, when you leave that under &s;uch a yoak of Tyranny, and your Children &s;uch Slaves, as will make their lives but a continued Martyrdome? It were le&s;&s;e cruelty that your hands &s;hould with one &s;o|dain fatal blow take away their lives and mi&s;eries to|gether, than that you &s;hould leave them in the hands of others, who are exqui&s;ite in cruelty, and will take delight in &s;pinning out their afflictions. Be you a&s;|&s;ur'd, if this party do prevail (which yet you may hin|der) you will &s;ee your &s;elves and the whole Nation in the mo&s;t fatal everla&s;ting Tyranny, that it is po&s;&s;ible for an enraged barbarous enemy to erect; And where|as you are &s;ooth'd and fool'd with the opinion and ex|pectation of a free State, you are &s;o far from ever being &s;o, that you will find under that &s;pecious name is hid &amp; couch'd a boundle&s;&s;e liberty to en&s;lave and ruine you, granted to them, who&s;e Sword and Power can make them&s;elves your Ma&s;ters. De&s;truction is at the door, if it once enter and take po&s;&s;e&s;sion, as it now makes
<PB N="7" REF="4">fair attempts &s;o to do, you and the whole Nation are the mo&s;t mi&s;erable de&s;picable people God allows the Sun to &s;hine on: Many of you are born of good families, and have their blood I hope running yet in your Veins, give us not cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect that when you gave Bonds to be &s;ervants you never intended to be free; you have a glorious an honourable opportunity offer'd to cru&s;h oppre&s;&s;ion that will grind your Souls; you have a power &s;o great as renders you formidable to tho&s;e who would en&s;lave you; let not want of re|&s;olution be your crime, and if you want it, look to tho&s;e fair patterns in the field already, let them encourage you to do &s;omething like Men and Chri|&s;tians; you cannot be ignorant how incon&s;iderable a handful of Men (if you were but faithful to your &s;elves and re&s;olute) oppre&s;&s;e you, and how ea&s;y at this time it is for you to redeem, what will &s;o|dainly and a&s;&s;uredly be engaged almo&s;t to de&s;pair, your Religion, your Laws, your Liberties, your Freedomes, your Country from &s;lavery, your E&s;tates from oppre&s;sion, inju&s;tice and rapine, and your Per&s;ons and Po&s;terity from eternal ruine; a few dayes will &s;natch from you this happy opportunity, and you will then grieve and condemn too late your want of courage, when Victory abroad hath made you incapable of action, and &s;trengthned it &s;elf to your utter undoing. For Gods cau&s;e, for Religion's &s;ake that lies a bleeding, with Laws, Liberties and Freedom, dare but to be hone&s;t, and the &s;ame God that puts good intentions into your hearts, give you hands and courage to put them in execution. How mu&s;t it grieve you if you &s;hould live to &s;ee &s;ome of tho&s;e whom you might have redeem'd, and who &s;tand or fall to re|deem
<PB N="8" REF="5">you, tamely brought to a Scaffold, a &s;pe|ctacle to Men and Angels, there to &s;uffer and up|braid your timorous fal&s;ene&s;s? your &s;elves (if you have not lo&s;t all &s;en&s;e of humanity and &s;hame) confe&s;&s;ing, that it was your tamene&s;s and want of courage that made them fall &s;o unhappy a &s;acrifice. What is worth your blood, if your Country be not? and how can you deny to drein every Vein for her, when her extremity and mi&s;ery requires it? Suppo&s;e you &s;hould fail in your honoutable attempts, and fall, you drop into the Bed of Ho|nour, and in&s;tead of an inglorious &s;lavi&s;h life here, which (if yours and the Kingdoms enemies pre|vail) you are &s;ure of, you &s;hall have as a reward of your Sufferings and Mi&s;eries, an everla&s;ting fame here, and an eternal Man&s;ion in Heaven here|after.</P>
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