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<P>A <HI>Grounded Voice,</HI> or &s;ome <HI>Di&s;coveries</HI> offered to the view, with certain <HI>Queries</HI> propounded to the Con&s;ideration of the whole <HI>Army</HI> in <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Officers and Common-Souldiers, Hor&s;e and Foot.</P>
<P>VVITH <HI>Certain Queries to the Anabapti&s;ts in particular that Bear any Office, either in</HI> Court <HI>or</HI> Army, <HI>under the pre&s;ent</HI> &s;elf-created Politick Power.</P>
<Q>And thou profane wicked Prince of I&s;rael, who&s;e day is come, when iniquity &s;hall have a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> end. Thus &s;aith the Lord God, remove the Diadem and take of the Crown: This &s;hall not be the &s;ame: exalt him that is low, and aba&s;e him that is high. I will over|turn, overturn, overturn it, and it &s;hall be no more.</Q>
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<HEAD>To the <HI>Decrea&s;ing</HI> Army of <HI>O. Cromwell.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SIR's! what are your ayms and intentions? VVhat are your per&s;wa&s;ions? Are they, we &s;hall live for ever in&s;ulting and domineering over our Brethren? Think ye, that the day of your vi&s;itation &s;hall never come? Shall ye for ever plunder and none re&s;i&s;t! Shall ye alwayes hurry to Pri&s;on and none cry out <HI>violence and &s;poile:</HI> VVill ye, who once was vali|ant again&s;t tyrants, now (coward-like) uphold and maintain tyrants: If you will &s;o, open your deaf-ears and hear what the Angel &s;aith, you &s;hall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, <HI>&amp;c. Rev.</HI> 14.10. The night is far &s;pent (ha&s;t, ha&s;t!) and the day's at hand! the &s;hadows begin's to fly away, the mornings ready to break forth; do not you &s;ee how Antichri&s;t hath and is, and more &s;hall be put to it to keep him&s;elf on the Stage, and tis becau&s;e his night of ignorant darkne&s;&s;e is al|mo&s;t gone, wherein he wrought becau&s;e his works are evill, and will not abide the light of the Sun? Pray con&s;ider what you doe! &s;ee ye not that the truth (which is &s;tronge&s;t of all) begins afre&s;h to ju&s;tle Antichri&s;t and to check him, and (ere long) will ju&s;tle him into the <HI>Pit of De&s;truction?</HI> Amen.</P>
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<P>Friends, (Oh that you were the friends of Zion then would you rejoyce!) what &s;ee you thats beautifull in your Ma&s;ters, that you are &s;o loath (or rather fearfull) to change them? Can you (without an hard and &s;eared con&s;cience) maintain a man, who by <HI>cheating, lying, perjury, plotting, di&s;&s;imulation and hipocri&s;ie,</HI> have gotten him&s;elf &s;eated into the Sadle of wickedne&s;&s;e? Surely if you do, you are as much guilty as him&s;elf, and &s;o will incur the &s;ame puni&s;hment with him and the re&s;t of his partakers.</P>
<P>Therefore remember that day which is at the doore, the day of the Lords vi&s;itation, wherein you (as inhabiters of the old heavens and earth with your Kings, mighty-men, chief-Captains, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>) will be forced to run to the rocks (or &s;trength) of the mountains (Mo|narch's and Monarchies) crying, <HI>fall on us, fall on us! and hide us from the face of him that &s;its on the throne:</HI> It was wont to be your Ma&s;ters that &s;ate on the Throne; but now the ca&s;e is altered, he (the Lamb) &s;its on the Throne, oh <HI>hide us from his face; for the great day of his wrath is come, and who &s;hall be able to &s;tand? Rev.</HI> 6.16, 17. What will become of your <HI>Protector</HI> in this day? where will be his &s;trength? he's become helple&s;&s;e, and all his and your cryings will be then in vain: For verily if you continue Chri&s;ts enemies till that day, it may be &s;aid of you as twas &s;aid of <HI>Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, and thereby Mo&s;es, if the&s;e men dye the common-death of all men; or if they be vi&s;ited after the vi&s;itation of all men; then the Lord hath not &s;ent me. Numb.</HI> 16.29.</P>
<P>The&s;e Queries was writ on purpo&s;e for the good and benefit of your &s;ouls and bodies, to &s;ee if you would yet <HI>hearken to the voice of God and live;</HI> and therefore we humbly be|&s;eech you for Chri&s;t Ie&s;us his &s;ake, for <HI>Zions</HI> &s;ake, and for your &s;ouls &s;ake, to hearken and give ear whil&s;t the <HI>voice of pitty cryes, come freely and buy without mony or pri&s;e, even wine and milk, the waters of life, I&s;a.</HI> 55.1. for this voice will not cry long in our &s;treets: there is another Di&s;pen&s;ation at the doore, and the Doctrine is, <HI>Fear God and give glory to him, for the houre of his judgment is come, Rev.</HI> 14.7. Chri&s;t will no more be&s;eech his enemies, but if they will repent &s;o; if not, the <HI>houre of his judgment is com<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and every one that is found (in oppo&s;ition to him) <HI>&s;hall be thru&s;t thorow, and every one that is joyned to them, &s;hall fall by the &s;word,</HI> I&s;a. 13.15. if you'l not repent, you &s;hall be cut in pieces: Alas, alas! what a dreadfull &s;laughter will Chri&s;t make among his enemies, <HI>All his garments &s;hall be dyed in blood; his vertue is dipt in blood:</HI> I&s;. 63.1, 2, 3. Rev. 19.13. <HI>He will tread his enemies in his an|ger, and trample them in his fury: A battell will the Lord fight against his enemies with burning and fuell of fire:</HI> I&s;a. 9.5. Therefore come in, before this day come, for the Stone is almo&s;t ready to ri&s;e, it begins to &s;truggle, and yet a little while, and it fals on the Feet of the Image, and breaks them to pieces; &s;urely all that is Antichri&s;tian &s;hall then be <HI>vi&s;ited of the Lord of ho&s;ts with thunder and with earth-quake, and great noi&s;e, with &s;torm and tem|pe&s;t, and the flame of devouring fire:</HI> Dreadfull judgments indeed! Oh that we could but expre&s;&s;e unto you the nearine&s;&s;e of the Time, and the dreadfulne&s;&s;e of the judgments, and the unheard of execution then to be done upon Chri&s;ts enemies.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Farewell.</SALUTE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>Grounds</HI> and <HI>Queries</HI> to the <HI>Army,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
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<P>IN the la&s;t (and overturning) dayes when the <HI>Kings and Rulers</HI> (tho&s;e <HI>Branches</HI> &s;prung from the <HI>old Draggon</HI> their root) of the old Earth &s;hall hear the <HI>Declaration</HI> and <HI>Procla|mation</HI> of the <HI>Decree of the Lord of ho&s;ts,</HI> to &s;et <HI>Je&s;us of Nazareth hill, King upon the hill of Zion, as Judge, Ruler and Law-giver,</HI> not onely of his <HI>Church,</HI> but in and over the whole Earth, therein to <HI>raign and rule by his laws,</HI> And to break and da&s;h in pieces (by and in his Saints, that Stone which is not in the hands of any Power of this earth what&s;oever. <HI>Dan.</HI> 2.34.45.) the whole <HI>Roman Monarchy or Fourth Bea&s;t</HI> as now divided, <HI>bearing rule over the whole Earth:</HI> Either by <HI>Heatheni&s;h Emperors and Kings,</HI> or by <HI>refined Rulers;</HI> taking in the whol <HI>Kingdome of Antichri&s;t,</HI> the laws of his kingdom, the makers of his laws, the pleaders of his laws, and the executors of them high and low, under what <HI>name</HI> or <HI>title</HI> &s;oever: &s;o as to leave no place for them, except the <HI>lake of fire and brim&s;tone;</HI> the portion of the <HI>Dragon, Bea&s;t,</HI> and <HI>Fal&s;e prophet,</HI> with their partakers and dependants: when (we &s;ay) the <HI>Bea&s;ts, Kings and Ru|lers</HI> &s;hall hear the <HI>Proclamation</HI> of this Decree; Then &s;hall they <HI>&s;et them&s;elves</HI> with all the <HI>might and power</HI> the <HI>Dragon</HI> hath given them, <HI>and take Councel,</HI> politick, cunning, and craf|ty-councel (it being the la&s;t <HI>game</HI> they have to play) <HI>again&s;t the Lord and his anointed;</HI> whom this <HI>decree proclaims King: David's</HI> now <HI>anointed,</HI> that's the rea&s;on <HI>Saul</HI> per&s;ues him &s;o hotly; crying, <HI>Let us! Let us!</HI> they'r all for <HI>acting</HI> their cur&s;ed de&s;ign of <HI>breaking</HI> the <HI>bands of Chri&s;ts Kingdome, and ca&s;ting away</HI> (as a thing de&s;tructive) the <HI>cords or laws thereof;</HI> all this rage and fury is but to <HI>imagine a vain thing.</HI> P&s;. 2.1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9. This al&s;o is the <HI>thoughts</HI> or vain imaginations of the <HI>little horn:</HI> fain would he change and put far off the <HI>times</HI> of this kingdom; the&s;e bands <HI>and change the laws or cords</HI> thereof, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.2 5. He thinks al&s;o to change the time and laws of tho&s;e three Nations under his Dominion. And therefore,</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Queries"> Whether or no, your <HI>Rulers and Heads</HI> (who keep dark and hidden <HI>councels of wickednes</HI>) be not tho&s;e very <HI>Rulers</HI> (di&s;tingui&s;hed from the Kings of the earth by that <HI>title</HI>) that in this day take <HI>cunning and crafty councell point black</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Lords anointed, his bands and cords</HI> again&s;t the very kingdom and laws of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, in and over the Nations; endeavouring thereby to &s;et up, and firmly e&s;tabli&s;h the <HI>kingdome and laws</HI> of <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> in all their <HI>u&s;urped dominions,</HI> in oppo&s;ition to the Lords?</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Queries"> 2. Whether <HI>the Lord that &s;itteth in the heaven doth not laugh at them</HI> for &s;uch folly and madnes, as for a few worms, to <HI>&s;et them&s;elves</HI> again&s;t the <HI>great and mighty God? Hath not the Lord them in deri&s;ion? doth not the Lord &s;peak to them in his wrath?</HI> By his judgments that meets the de&s;igns in their very face, doth not the late <HI>judgments of de&s;truction in Hi|&s;paniola, and thereabouts &s;peak to them in wrath?</HI> Is nor the <HI>multitude,</HI> for&s;aken that flees before a <HI>&s;mal company?</HI> doth not the Lord <HI>vex</HI> and torment them <HI>in his &s;ore di&s;plea&s;ure?</HI> if &s;o.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Queries"> Whether or no it be not dangerous, yea and very dangerous for you to continue any obedience to them; to execute any of their laws, or to receive any <HI>hire</HI> or <HI>wages</HI> from them, becau&s;e 'tis the prize of blood; lea&s;t thereby you be found under this notion of <HI>a people imagining a vain thing</HI> (as to think the kingdom of <HI>Oliver Cromwel</HI> can &s;tand again&s;t Chri&s;ts) and thereby become guilty of <HI>High trea&s;on</HI> again&s;t the <HI>great king of kings;</HI> and &s;o (at his ap|pearance) be da&s;hed to <HI>pieces</HI> (with your <HI>Rulers</HI>) like a <HI>potters ve&s;&s;el by him,</HI> or in the mean time be cut off and de&s;troyed as your fellows in the late <HI>expedition?</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Queries"> Whether or no your <HI>head Ruler,</HI> with his <HI>government<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">, that &s;tands up</HI> over the three <HI>Kingdomes pluckt up by him,</HI> be not that &s;ame <HI>little horn,</HI> that ari&s;es <HI>after and among the ten horns</HI> or <HI>kingdoms,</HI> &s;ubject to <HI>Antichri&s;t,</HI> who is to <HI>reign</HI> for <HI>three years and a half,</HI> and there|in to per&s;ecute the Saints; &s;eeing he (above all his fellows, with more eagerne&s;&s;e, greater &s;tratagems, and &s;ubtiller devices then any of his fellow horns) indeavours to <HI>change the times, and laws of Chri&s;ts kingdom, now ready to break forth in power and great glory,</HI> Dan. 7.8.11.20, 21.24, 25. and not only &s;o, but hath <HI>changed the times</HI> of the&s;e <HI>Nations</HI> deliverance, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> made them the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">imes</HI> of his exaltation; and hath made null and void tho&s;e laws, which p+vided for the &s;afety and welfare of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
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<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Ground."> When the time of <HI>Babylons de&s;truction</HI> is ready to come upon her from the Lord, the Lord will cau&s;e his people, tho&s;e that &s;hall not <HI>partake of her plagues</HI> (which are &s;o dreadfull to make a mo&s;t full, ab&s;olute, and totall <HI>&s;eparation</HI> from her, by <HI>coming out of her;</HI> by <HI>&s;eparating</HI> from all <HI>Powers, Per&s;ons</HI> and things, that are any ways <HI>Babylon &s;h, unclean,</HI> or <HI>Antichri&s;tian;</HI> Gods people mu&s;t <HI>come out of, and depart from Babylon Civill,</HI> and <HI>Babylon-Eccle&s;ia&s;tical,</HI> Rev. 14.14. Jer. 51.6.45. c. 50.8. I&s;a. 52.11. 2 Cor. 6.17.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Que."> <HI>Que.</HI> Whether or no you are not in <HI>Babylon,</HI> yea deeply in <HI>Babylon?</HI> in the very mid&s;t of her; li&s;ted under her <HI>banner,</HI> in oppo&s;ition to tho&s;e li&s;ted under the <HI>Banner of Je&s;us Chri&s;t the Lamb,</HI> while&s;t you daily obey the <HI>commands of her Powers,</HI> daily (almo&s;t) going about <HI>robbing and di&s;poiling your brethren of their goods and e&s;tates,</HI> becau&s;e they will not pay <HI>taxes,</HI> nor con|tribute to the upholding of the <HI>kingdom of Antichri&s;t;</HI> pu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ting the yoak of <HI>bondage</HI> upon the <HI>neck</HI> of <HI>a free people,</HI> incouraging <HI>Prie&s;ts and Lawyers</HI> to pre&s;&s;e the <HI>&s;ouls and bodies of the Lords people,</HI> whil&s;t you are ready at hand to uphold them in tho&s;e cruelties? If &s;o,</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Que."> Whether or no you do not hereby endanger your very <HI>&s;ouls;</HI> &s;eeing to depart out of <HI>Ba|bylon</HI> is to &s;ave the <HI>&s;oul;</HI> then whether or not to &s;tay in her, be not to <HI>de&s;troy the &s;oul, Jer.</HI> 51 6.45. <HI>And if &s;o?</HI> 3. Whether or no it &s;hould not now be your <HI>chiefe&s;t, greate&s;t, and only care,</HI> to make a <HI>&s;peedy</HI> and an <HI>effectuall &s;eparation</HI> from and out of her, in <HI>obedience</HI> to that <HI>voice</HI> of the Lord, which <HI>&s;ounds</HI> &s;o loud in your ears now, by rea&s;on of the <HI>de&s;truction com|ming forth;</HI> and &s;peedily come forth of, and leave your cur&s;ed imployments of acting for <HI>mony in the Army,</HI> and &s;o as fa&s;t as may be <HI>&s;eparate</HI> from her in all other points? Is it better (O &s;ouldiers! to keep the <HI>mark</HI> of this <HI>Bea&s;t in your foreheads</HI> openly, then to li&s;t your &s;elves under the <HI>Banner of Je&s;us Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Ground"> When the Lord hath drawn his people out of <HI>Babylon,</HI> its not for nought, but it is that they may act for him and his kingdom again&s;t his enemies, and the <HI>kingdome and power of the Bea&s;t:</HI> they mu&s;t then <HI>wait on the Lord in the way of his judgments, I&s;a.</HI> 26.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">. as &s;oon as the voice <HI>come out</HI> is accompli&s;hed, out comes the <HI>command, reward her even as &s;he rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which &s;he hath filled, fill to her double, &amp;c. Rev.</HI> 18.6. So that as &s;oon as the <HI>Sts.</HI> are <HI>come out of Babylon,</HI> they mu&s;t begin to <HI>de&s;troy</HI> her; then her <HI>plagues of death, murmuring and famine comes upon her:</HI> and &s;he &s;hall be <HI>utterly burnt with fire.</HI> The <HI>everla&s;ting go&s;pel is preached,</HI> and the &s;word follows, and down gos <HI>Babylon, Rev.</HI> 14 7, 8.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or no when once the&s;e <HI>judgments</HI> begins (if till then you continue your &s;tandings in <HI>Babylon</HI>) there will be any time of <HI>repentance</HI> either to you, or any in your dange|rous condition, &s;eeing you neglect to <HI>ki&s;s the &s;on before his anger is kindled? If &s;o.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or no you ought not with all readine&s;s of mind and humblenes of <HI>&s;pirit,</HI> ac|knowledge and confe&s;&s;e before the Lord the evill of your way, and in&s;tead of following man, and doing his works and commands, follow <HI>Chri&s;t the Lamb whether &s;o ever he goeth,</HI> doing his works and commands, though in oppo&s;ition to the <HI>powers of the Bea&s;t,</HI> for &s;o it mu&s;t be?</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or no you can &s;erve <HI>Chri&s;t the King of Zion,</HI> and men the <HI>Kings of Babylon</HI> both at a time? Can you have the <HI>mark of the Bea&s;t, and wor&s;hip him</HI> and his <HI>Image;</HI> and at the time have the <HI>Fathers name written in your foreheads,</HI> &s;tanding with <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> upon the <HI>Mount, &s;inging unto him a new &s;ing of Zions prai&s;es? If not,</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or no you ought not to become an <HI>inqui&s;itive people,</HI> enquiring earne&s;tly by Faith for the true <HI>wayes and paths</HI> of the <HI>Lamb,</HI> that you might become part of his <HI>company and followers?</HI> Ought you not to <HI>run too and fro for increa&s;e of your knowledge, Dan.</HI> 12.4. that &s;o you might have a <HI>lot</HI> in the <HI>Kingdom of Je&s;us;</HI> that &s;o ye may <HI>inherit all things and be the &s;ons of God, Rev.</HI> 21.7.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or no (if you take not this cour&s;e) you will not be found in that mi&s;erable condemned number of <HI>&s;laughter,</HI> who &s;hall <HI>hide them&s;elves in the Dens and rocks of the moun|tains, calling for the mountains to fall on them (when alas th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ir breaking to pieces) and hide them from the face of him that &s;its on the throne?</HI> if in that number, what will become on you
<PB N="5" REF="3"> when Chri&s;t &s;its on the <HI>throne alone,</HI> and all men <HI>thrown down</HI> and laid in the du&s;t? <HI>who'l hide you from the wrath of the Lamb? Rev.</HI> 6.15, 16.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Ground"> All tho&s;e that wilbe &s;ubjects of, and in the kingdom of the Bea&s;t, and <HI>trade within his domini<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ns, whether they are &s;mal or great, rich or poore, free or bond, mu&s;t receive a mark in their right hands (more clo&s;e and private) or in their fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">eheads (openly and publike|ly, in the &s;ight of all men, as not being a&s;hamed of their profe&s;&s;ed obedience to the B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;t;) none being &s;uffered to buy or &s;ell, &s;ave tho&s;e that receives this mark or the number of the Bea&s;ts name, which number is the number of a man, and is</HI> 666. <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.15, 16, 17, 18.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or no you be prohibited trade under this Government of the Bea&s;t? Is there any lets or mole&s;tations offered unto you in your way by the Bea&s;t, or the Image of the Bea&s;t? Is there any breach of any of the Bea&s;ts principall laws on your parts, by words or actions? If not. <MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or no in the very highe&s;t degree you have not the mark of the Bea&s;t in y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ur foreheads, in an open &s;how? Is not your obedience publike to the view of all men; &s;eeing you are freemen and no &s;ubjects in the dominion of Antichri&s;t? If &s;o.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or no the Cup of the wrath of God will not be your portion? VVill not this &s;cripture be fulfilled in you; <HI>If any man wor&s;hip the Bea&s;t and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the &s;ame &s;hall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is powred out without mixture in to the cup of his Indignation, and he &s;halbe tormented with fire and brim&s;tone, in the pre&s;ence of the holy Angels, and in the pre&s;ence of the Lamb, and the &s;moak of their torment a&s;cends for ever and ever, and they have no re&s;t day nor night, that received the mark of the Bea&s;ts name?</HI> Rev. 14 9, 10, 11. chap. 19.20, 21.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or no tho&s;e now impri&s;oned under the notion of Raylers, di&s;turbers, &s;educers, giddy headed, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> who are prohibited trade with the Bea&s;t, both in civils and &s;pirituals, becau&s;e con&s;cientious of their upholding and maintaining any power of his; be not the Saints and people of God contending for Chri&s;t and his kingdome, again&s;t the Bea&s;t and his king|dome? are they not in this particular part of the VVitne&s;&s;es of <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> which the bea&s;t hath warred again&s;t and killed (&s;o as to liberty and a publike te&s;timony) having di&s;abled them from proceeding in the open bearing thereof? If &s;o.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or no you will not be found at their Ri&s;e and A&s;cention (which will be in a &s;hort time) among that rabble crue, upon whom great fear fals (their valour having left them) in regard of tho&s;e judgments that then will unavoidably come upon them; will you not be &s;wallowed up in that great earthquake in and by which &s;uch a perfect and compleat num|ber of the Antichri&s;tian party is devoured, <HI>Rev.</HI> 11.11.13.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="Quer."> VVhether or no you do not, by retaining the mark of the Bea&s;t in your foreheads, put a &s;top to the work of the Lord in the world, as the De&s;truction of the Kings of the Earth, that wars with the Lamb, the overthrow of the Germain Empire, the fall and final overthrow of <HI>Rome,</HI> the con&s;ummation of the Turki&s;h power, and the preparation of the way of the Iews and I&s;raelites to their own land? Do not you ab&s;olutly &s;tand in the way of this work by &s;it|ting down and taking up your po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions here in <HI>Babilon,</HI> on this &s;ide <HI>Jordon:</HI> yea far before you come to <HI>Canaan,</HI> before you have a &s;ight of the good land? If &s;o.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or no you &s;hall not be trampled down, and run over, by the lyon of <HI>Judah</HI>'s Tribe, who is comming roaring for his prey, as mountains of oppo&s;ition, in the way to his ta|k<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ng po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the throns and kingdomes of the whole world, &s;eeing he &s;hall be as a <HI>Roe or young Hart</HI> (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">n &s;wift motions) <HI>upon the mountains of Bether or divi&s;ion, Cant.</HI> 2.17. that would divide between him and h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">s kingdome? If &s;o.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="Quer."> VVhether or no you ought not to con&s;ult together, with the word of God, and con&s;ider what might be the mo&s;t &s;peedy and effectualle&s;t way for you to be found worthy of <HI>e&s;caping &s;o great puni&s;hments? O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ght ye not to ki&s;&s;e the Son, lea&s;t he be angry and ye peri&s;h and to fear God, and that becau&s;e th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> houre of his judgment is come, giving glory to him and not to man, that &s;o you might rejoyce in his Highn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e.</HI> P&s;al. 2.12. I&s;a. 13.3. Rev. 14.7.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="Ground"> 30. <HI>January</HI> 1648. <HI>The Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament Ordered the Printing of an Act, which accordingly was printed, wherein was Enacted and Ordained
<PB N="6" REF="4" MS="y"> that no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever, do pre&s;ume to proclaim, declare, publi&s;h, or any wayes promote</HI> Charls Stuart (<HI>heretofore commonly called the Prince of</HI> VVales) <HI>or any other per&s;on to be King or cheif Magi&s;trate of</HI> England, <HI>or of</HI> Ireland, <HI>or of any the Dominions belonging to them, or either of them without the free con&s;ent of the People in Parliament, fir&s;t had and &s;ignified, by a particular Act, or Ordinance for that purpo&s;e. It al&s;o was Enacted and Ordain|ed that who&s;oever &s;hould contrary to that Act, Proclaime, Declare, Publi&s;h, or any wayes pro|mote</HI> Charls Stuart <HI>the &s;on, or any other per&s;on to the King, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> chief Magi&s;trate of</HI> England <HI>or of</HI> Ireland, <HI>&amp;c. &s;hould be deemed and adjudged a Traitor to be Common-wealth, and &s;uffer pains of death and &s;uch other puni&s;hments as belong to the crime of High-trea&s;on. Authority al&s;o was given by that Act to all Officers as well Civill as Military, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o all other well-af|fected per&s;ons to apprehend all &s;uch offenders, that they might be proceeded again&s;t accordingly.</HI> Now this act was never repealed, nor made null or void, but &s;till remains in full force power, or vertue.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Quer."> VVhether or no tho&s;e <HI>per&s;ons</HI> that did openly <HI>proclaim</HI> or gave advi&s;e or <HI>con&s;ent to proclaim</HI> O. C. <HI>chief Magi&s;trate of</HI> England, Scotland, <HI>and</HI> Ireland, <HI>and all the Dominions thereto belonging,</HI> be not guilty of <HI>high trea&s;on</HI> as con&s;pirers again&s;t the good of all the <HI>Peo|ple of this Nation,</HI> (except their partakers, upholders, abettors and adherents) and al&s;o as <HI>breakers of tho&s;e whol&s;ome and good laws,</HI> made by the con&s;ent of all the People of the three Nations met, and a&s;&s;embled together in their <HI>Repre&s;entatives,</HI> for their good and &s;afety again&s;t <HI>Tyrants, Oppre&s;&s;ors, proud &V;&s;urpers, Crown-wearers, Parliament-breakers? &amp;c.</HI> <MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Quer."> VVhether or no you (the whole Army) whom the <HI>People in Parliament</HI> rai&s;ed for their own defence again&s;t the <HI>Invaders of their Liberties</HI> be not all <HI>traitors</HI> to the <HI>Nations,</HI> in regard you uphold and maintain by <HI>force and violence, tho&s;e that exalt them&s;elves in a tyrannizing way over the people,</HI> and in regard you have and do &s;till <HI>protect and defend him</HI> by the power of your &s;word, tho&s;e that <HI>proclaimed,</HI> and tho&s;e that <HI>gave councel and advi&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">n the very act, and have ever &s;ince &s;tood by them keeping them from being apprehended by the well-affected people</HI> (&s;eeing none el&s;e hath hearts &s;o to do) <HI>according to law,</HI> to the end they might <HI>&s;uffer the pains of death,</HI> de&s;erved by them for &s;uch <HI>villanies?</HI> are not you (as it were) the legs of this Lyon, upon which he runs among the people, hunting for the <HI>prey,</HI> which he devours &s;o greedily, and &s;o furiou&s;ly? If &s;o. <MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Quer."> VVhether or no it doth not behove the well-affected people of all the three <HI>Nations,</HI> or of any part thereof, to joyn and unite them&s;elves together, and &s;o to <HI>&s;tand up for their Liberties;</HI> &s;eeing they are <HI>authorized, and required &s;o to do by that act;</HI> &s;o that they (in &s;uch an enterprize) &s;hall not only have the <HI>laws of God</HI> (which is &s;tronge&s;t of all) but al&s;o the <HI>laws of men</HI> on their &s;ide? Ought they not to <HI>appre|hend, and cau&s;e to be proceeded again&s;t, &s;uch per&s;ons as proclaimed O. Cromwel as afore&s;aid, as traytors to them and the re&s;t of their brethren in the highe&s;t degree? Nay further</HI> (in ca&s;e you the Army) &s;hall yet defend tho&s;e known <HI>Rebels,</HI> and in ca&s;e you yet continue as <HI>legs and &s;upporters of the pre&s;ent Bea&s;t?</HI> Ought they not to proceed again&s;t you <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o <HI>&s;uppre&s;&s;e you,</HI> &s;ee|ing you are turned to be their <HI>oppre&s;&s;ors?</HI> Ought they not to <HI>cut off the legs of the Bea&s;t,</HI> and then pray what will become of the Bea&s;t?</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="Ground"> VVhen the Army that was &s;ent by <HI>O Cromwell came to Hi&s;paniola, they landed eight thou&s;and men, and in marching twenty miles many of them fell down dead, and the re&s;t when they came to engage, fled when none pur&s;ued. The Army of eight thou&s;and men did ne|ver &s;ee one hundred Spanyards in a body, and yet &s;uch a &s;pirit of fear po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed your fellows that they fled, and the&s;e few Spanyards pur&s;ued and killed them till they were a weary; The Lord did exceedingly appear again&s;t them &s;uitable to that in</HI> Judges <HI>the</HI> 5. <HI>and</HI> 20. <HI>For on the</HI> 24th <HI>day of</HI> April <HI>at night the Moon being four dayes old did &s;hine (an impo&s;&s;ible thing accor|ding to rea&s;on) till two of the clock in the Morning, to their great admiration; For that night the Spaniard killed diver&s;e of your fellows</HI> (the Moon gave them light to do it.) The&s;e pa&s;&s;ages are verified by Letters from the Fleet.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or no that great and unheard of <HI>&s;pirit of fear</HI> among tho&s;e of your fel|lows, engaged in that <HI>de&s;igne</HI> (bla&s;ted and cur&s;ed from heaven) which hath brought home
<PB N="7" REF="4" MS="y"> <HI>(in&s;tead of golden-wedges, and pretious things of the Earth)</HI> &s;o many and great <HI>wedges of di&s;grace to every Engl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h &s;ouldier;</HI> Whether this was not on purpo&s;e to <HI>forwarn</HI> you of grea|ter <HI>mi&s;cheif and de&s;truction to come upon you,</HI> for your <HI>mercenary behaviours,</HI> among your <HI>Bretheren at home?</HI> Did not the Lord give this as a <HI>warning</HI> to you, and ought it not &s;o to be taken? Doth he not &s;peak to you with <HI>a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">d and mighty voyce by his Judgments from hea|ven?</HI> If &s;o. <MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or now you ought not with a willing and thankfull minde <HI>harken to his voyce,</HI> and according to the will of the Lord therein not be found <HI>acting or imployed in any &s;uch, the like, or the &s;ame de&s;igne afre&s;h?</HI> Ought you to be hurried as a company of <HI>Dumbe, and ignorant &s;heepe to the &s;laughter?</HI> Ought you not rather to be found acting in &s;ome more <HI>noble, and good de&s;igne,</HI> wherein you may finde the <HI>pre&s;ence of the Lord</HI> (as here|tofore you u&s;ed to doe) which may make your <HI>Enemies fly and tremble before you,</HI> as you, or &s;ome of yours have done; <HI>Two Thou&s;ands</HI> (or neareupon) of whome hath lo&s;t their <HI>lives by &s;word, and &s;icknes as a plague?</HI> <MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or now <HI>O. C. bee not guilty of all</HI> this <HI>Blood of your Bretheren</HI> &s;hed by his meanes beyond the &s;eas in the late <HI>undertaking</HI> &s;eeing hee drove them into the <HI>Net of the Fowler,</HI> and into the <HI>&s;nare of the hunter?</HI> The <HI>Scribes and Phari&s;es was gui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ty of all the Blood&s;heed from Abell to their dayes,</HI> though not actually <HI>&s;pilt by them;</HI> Is not <HI>O. C. guilty therefore of all this Blood&s;hed by his means and devi&s;es to the di&s;honor of Engli&s;hmen?</HI> If &s;o. <MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Quer."> Whether or no you or any the good and <HI>well-affected people of the Nation</HI> have not &s;ufficient <HI>call and warranty,</HI> by the <HI>Laws of God and men</HI> to proceed again&s;t him as a <HI>murderer</HI> and accompt him no otherwi&s;e; <HI>Lea&s;t you partaking with him in his &s;ins, partake with him in his plagues, and puni&s;hments al&s;o;</HI> For it is lawfull for you to defend a <HI>Murderer?</HI> If you think it is, defend him? till you and he be <HI>&s;wallowed up with Gods vengance,</HI> when you would give all the <HI>gold</HI> (if you had it) that <HI>Hi&s;paniola and the Indi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI>'s <HI>afford</HI> for a little of your vain pa&s;t-time to repent? Therefore Oh <HI>Army re|member from whence thou art faln, and repent, or I come quickly,</HI> &s;aith <HI>Chri&s;t, the onely law|full King and Protector,</HI> Rev. 2.5. which comming will be with <HI>fire to Apo&s;tates.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>CONCL&V;SION,</HEAD>
<L>The Dreadfull King, the mighty God of VVonder,</L>
<L>Again&s;t Apo&s;tates doth begin to Thunder.</L>
<L>He hath &s;et open his great Armoury,</L>
<L>The ho&s;t of <HI>Cromwell</HI> &s;hall before him fly.</L>
<L>Great multitudes of &s;lain there will be &s;ound.</L>
<L>They'l all fall down at heavens angry found.</L>
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<HEAD>Some Queries offered to the view and &s;erious con&s;ideration of the ANABAPTISTS.</HEAD>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Ground"> The <HI>principles of Religion,</HI> and the <HI>principles of an Antichri&s;tian Court,</HI> are incon|&s;i&s;tent the one with the other, for the per&s;ons that is commonly imployed (their offices being <HI>helli&s;h, vain, and wicked,</HI>) in &s;uch Courts are either <HI>loo&s;e, idle and prophane, or el&s;e cunning and hipocriticall and full of di&s;&s;imulation,</HI> in which regard they are mo&s;t fit for the de&s;ignes of their Ma&s;ters: for a man that is con&s;cientious, that makes any con&s;cience of his ways wilbe <HI>checked by his con&s;cience,</HI> and con&s;cience will at one time or other utter <HI>it &s;elf:</HI> Such per&s;ons therefore are unfit for <HI>Courtiers,</HI> and tis well they are &s;o: This makes the <HI>pre&s;ent Court to &s;warm</HI> &s;o thick with <HI>Cavaleers, wicked, ungodly, vain, profane men,</HI> and al&s;o with <HI>Hypocrites, Polliticians, &amp;c.</HI> and &s;o little with hone&s;t, godly, con&s;cientious men.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Quer."> VVhether or no it be not dishonourable, and a great deal below that great and <HI>&s;trict profe&s;&s;ion,</HI> which you make of the <HI>name, way,</HI> and <HI>cau&s;e of Chri&s;t;</HI> and a di&s;honour to to the name of God, for you to hold any <HI>Place, Office, or imployment in, or belonging to the pre&s;ent Court?</HI></P>
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<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Quer."> VVhether or no <HI>O. C.</HI> with the re&s;t of his <HI>vain &amp; politick courtiers</HI> (according to their prin|ciples before named) doe not ayme and de&s;igne (when they &s;hall think them&s;elves, more fa&s;t and &s;ecure, in their &s;eates) to reject and ca&s;t you out from your pre&s;ent <HI>offices and imploy|ments of Court-honor and profit,</HI> with and among them? If &s;o.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Quer."> VVhether their maine end and <HI>De&s;igne</HI> (in retaining you at pre&s;ent) be not <HI>&s;elfi&s;h, and ba&s;e,</HI> with you, to &s;erve their owne <HI>ends and pu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">po&s;es,</HI> and then to ca&s;t you of like fooles, thinking by their retaining you at pre&s;ent, to <HI>cloake and cover their de&s;ignes,</HI> and to breed thereby good opinions of them&s;elves in the <HI>Churches,</HI> and among your other <HI>Freinds,</HI> knowing that you are a people that (if your eyes be open) will not &s;u&s;ter the wrack and lo&s;&s;e of your lawful and r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ghtfull priviledges, had you not therefore better withdraw now with honor and &s;ome credit, then hereafter be turned out with di&s;honor and di&s;grace?</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Ground"> As <HI>Principles of Religion</HI> are in con&s;i&s;tent with <HI>Principles of Court;</HI> &s;o are they with tho <HI>Army,</HI> who&s;e &s;tanding is of, from, and by the Court: this appears 1. by that di&s;cour&s;e (if true) which <HI>O. Cromwell</HI> had with a Scotch Lord, one <HI>Twidle;</HI> where you are brought in as in-lets to the de&s;igns of our new Courtiers, as appeares by tho&s;e <HI>Queries</HI> writ by a well-wi&s;her to the <HI>Anabapti&s;ts</HI> pro&s;perity, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> 2. It appears by that &s;pirit of inveteratene&s;s, and maliciou&s;nes in the Army again&s;t the <HI>Anabapti&s;ts,</HI> for proof whereof, take the pa&s;&s;age of a Letter from Hi&s;paniola. <HI>Some of the&s;e wretches</HI> &s;aith the Author, meaning the remaining feeble men of the Army &s;ent thither, who &s;eeing the hand of God vi&s;ibly again&s;t them, was thereby enraged) <HI>are extreamly mad again&s;t the Lord and his poore people, that they have &s;worn, that if they knew there were an Anabapti&s;t, they would bo the death of him, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Quer."> VVhether or no you in your pre&s;ent e&s;tate be not in apparent hazard of your lives and e&s;tates, lyable to the malice of the wicked and prophane &s;ouldiers of this Court, if ever you light into their Power: where hatred lodgeth, malice re&s;teth, and will break forth when &s;he can po&s;&s;ible? If &s;o.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Quer."> VVhether or no (in the name and pre&s;ence of the Lord, we put this que&s;tion) you ought not to withdraw from, and have nothing to do with the pre&s;ent Court, and al&s;o the Army, and return and &s;eek the face of the Lord, and repent, and do your fir&s;t works, <HI>Rev.</HI> 2.5. That &s;o you (returning) might di&s;cern between the righteous and the wicked, be|tween him that &s;erveth God and him that &s;erveth him not, <HI>Mal.</HI> 2.18. that &s;o you might perceive their evill wayes and e&s;chew them?</P>
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<HEAD>Conclu&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P><HI>We de&s;ire you for Chri&s;ts &s;ake to turn to the&s;e Scriptures, and &s;eri|ou&s;ly and &s;olemnly con&s;ider, and meditate upon them, &s;eeking the face of the Lord in that work, for wi&s;dome and under&s;tanding there|in:</HI> Rev. 18.4. 2 Cor. 6.17. Jer. 51.6.45. chap. 50.8. I&s;a. 52.11. Numb. 16.21. Gen. 19.15.22. Exo. 33.16. I&s;a. 48.20. &amp;c. <HI>The Lord teach you his mind in the&s;e, and take you up into the Mount, and there reveal unto you the</HI> Salvation and Redemption of whole Zion, and the De&s;truction and Overthrow of Babylon now near approaching, even at the doore.</P>
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