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<HEAD>CONCERNING <HI>the gouverment of the pre&s;ent</HI> PARLAMENT OF ENGLAND, <HI>Tho&s;e are in the behalfe of the Supreame Iudge to be delivered to the</HI> Lord Major <HI>and the</HI> Aldermen <HI>of the city of</HI> London, <HI>and are by them to be made knowne and manife&s;ted unto all the other Magi&s;trats of the Cities and Provinces of the whole Kingdome.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_EVery &s;inne is as a &s;harpe &s;word, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Sirach. 21. 1. Iohan. 3. Iohan. 8. 18.</NOTE> and doth &s;o wound, that no bo|dy can heale it. For he that commit|teth &s;in is of the Devill, who is a lyer and murtherer from the be|ginning, with all tho&s;e which doe not continue in the truth, but haue re&s;i|&s;ted God; Therefore hath he thru&s;t and throune <NOTE PLACE="marg">Epi&s;t. Iu|dae. 2. Petri. 2. 1. Iohan. 5. 2. Timot. 3.</NOTE> the helli&s;h Angells out of heaven. Apocal. 12. Now therefore they which after his manner doe &s;tirre up the mo&s;t part of the world, E&s;ai. 59. they doe heape &s;inne upon &s;inne, upon their owne &s;elues. Sapient. 2. But they which inwardly in their <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 1. 2.</NOTE>
<PB REF="2"> hearts or con&s;ciences doe re&s;i&s;t the grace of God our Lord and Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t Tit. 2. accor|ding <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Petri. 1. 5. Roma. 8. 9. Iohan 12. Hebr. 10. 12. Apoc. 20. E&s;ai. 29. 2. Pet. 2. 3. Matt. 5. 7. Lucas, 6.</NOTE> to the humble Spirit of innocency, Galat. 4. 5. 6. they walke not att all in the light; and doe outwardly exalt and promote them&s;elues to be judges one of an other, 1. Corint. 4. and are already as much under the power of the Divell, as tho&s;e &s;coffers and tyrants in the fir&s;t world were; whom God by rea&s;on of their perver&s;e cour&s;es over|whelmed with the Deluge, Gene&s;. 6. 7. And e&s;pe|cially in the new Te&s;tament it is no where taught that any one &s;hall revenge or judge his enemies. Rom. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc; Therefore principally they of England <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. 4.</NOTE> may according to the words of Chri&s;t, his Di&s;ciples <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 11.</NOTE> and Apo&s;tles, judge and trye them&s;elves, Ephes. 5. whether or no they be in the faith of Chri&s;t, or <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 11. Collo&s;. 1. 3 Ierem. 23. 1. Pet. 2. 4.</NOTE> if Chri&s;t bee in them 2. Corint. 13. for they which have not the Spirit of Chri&s;t are not his, Rom. 8. And they which doe not beleeve the word of God or Chri&s;t, tho&s;e &s;hall according to that &s;ame word <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 21. 24. Marc. 12. 13. Ierem. 7. 8. 19. Nahum. 3.</NOTE> be judged, &s;cattered and con&s;umed. Iohn. 12. Which therefore to avert, noe fal&s;e Prophets, Matth. 7. 24. no &s;hewes of any outward Temple or fal&s;e &s;eruice of God &s;hall helpe. And moreover no roueing, murthering, &s;tealing, publique abomi|nations or blood&s;heading, Ho&s;ea 4. 9. 12. &s;hall be <NOTE PLACE="marg">Hezec. 6. 11. 13. 22. Matt. 23. 1. The&s;. 5. Luc. 3. 12. 17. Matt. 3. 13</NOTE> covered, hid, or forgotten. By rea&s;on of which the day of the Lord is att hand, in which the Lord will clean&s;e his barne, and the chaff (namely, the chil|dren of iniquity, which would hinder his harve&s;t; by who&s;e meanes the good wheate is choaked,) &s;hall be cutt downe and burnt in the everla&s;ting <NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;ai. 9, 27, 65. 66.</NOTE> fire.</P>
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<P>The onely, eternal, incorruptible, invi&s;ible, <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Tim. 1. 6. Deut. 10. 32. Ierem. 10. 32 50. 51. Mich. 6. 7.</NOTE> onely wi&s;e immortal King of all Kings and Lord of all Lords, Revel 19. viz. the &s;trong, true and living God, Ie&s;ai. 10. 40. 45. 66. who from the beginning hath judged righteou&s;ly here upon the face of the earth, which is his, P&s;al. 9 17. 18. 75. 89 96. 97. 98. and <NOTE PLACE="marg">Revel. 17. 19. Ierem. 23. Ezek. 13. Rom. 16. Phil. 3. P&s;al. 89. Zach. 12. 14. Daniel. 7. 11.</NOTE> appointed the ancient people, Ie&s;ai. 44. will before the end of the world, not onely have de&s;troyed the Babylonical Whore, but al&s;o revealed and over|throwne (P&s;alm 141.) the hypocri&s;y and lies of all the other fal&s;e teachers, 2. Pet. 2. mercenaries, Iohn. 10. or Servants of the belly. Wherefore al&s;o he &s;till cau&s;eth to be fought forth, according to truth and righteoo&s;ne&s;&s;e, 2. Tim. 2. 4. and his Iudgement to be denounced: In regard of which <NOTE PLACE="marg">4. E&s;d. 11. 12. 15. 16. Amos. 3. Heb. 4. 10 I&s;ai. 47. 48. Ierem. 50. 51.</NOTE> it is &s;ignified, according to the power of the living word of God, more and more, unto the Em|perour, King of Spaine and others, that are un|der the great Babel, Revel, 16. to leave the idola|try and witchcraft of their fal&s;e Prophets, and to goe out of Babel, if they de&s;ire to e&s;cape the fierce anger of God.</P>
<P>But among&s;t the pretended Evangelical hypo|crits <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 34. Matt. 24. Mar. 13.</NOTE> or fal&s;e Chri&s;tians, he hath not found to his Servant David, in no place, any help at all, concer|ning the full deliverance of the elect, Ierem. 30. as al&s;o neither faithfulne&s;&s;e nor love, O&s;e. 4. nor faith, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Galat. 5. Revel. 16. Titum. 1. 3 P&s;alm. 10. 52. 68. 94. I&s;ai. 42. 48. 49. 60.</NOTE> nor ju&s;tice, Luc. 18. Tho&s;e envious, nay wicked, proud, angry, haughty and tyrannicall men, who in their doings or purpo&s;es de&s;ire not at all to looke principally upon the glory of God, nor upon the univer&s;all, temporal and eternal welfare of mankind, they &s;hould kill Chri&s;t him&s;elfe, or &s;eeke <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 23. Luc. 11.</NOTE> after his live, if he &s;hould begin to overthrow, ac|cording
<PB REF="3"> to the Zeale of the Lord, their outward temple-doings and fal&s;e wor&s;hip of God, whereu|pon, <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Tim. 4. Ierem. 7. 8. 18. Rom. 1. 9. 11. P&s;al. 69. 109. Iohn. 2. Luc. 19. 1. Iohn. 3. I&s;ai. 57.</NOTE> for the Salvation of their &s;oules, they doe &s;tiffneckedly and ob&s;tinately relye, as in former ti|mes the Iewes did.</P>
<P>But for a&s;much as in this regard there is no pea|ce 1. The&s;&s;al. 5. For the furious, envious and bitter Cain in his generation, they in England e&s;pecially, may looke very well to them&s;elves, how to behave them, concerning the&s;e &s;o long la&s;ting troubles <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc. 21. Matth. 24. P&s;al. 2. 99.</NOTE> and in&s;urrections of warre, whereby Satan is wholly &s;et loo&s;e with rage and fury, Revel. 20. and to take heed, lea&s;t they further tre&s;pa&s;&s;e and &s;inne, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Obad. 1.</NOTE> in u&s;ing ill tho&s;e poore innocent &s;oules, Ierem. 2. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 1.</NOTE> the &s;ouldiers or the flocke of the &s;laughter, Zachar. 11. who, by the unju&s;t, nay crafty, murtherous and traiterous de&s;igne, Ezek. 22. of the Scots, are falne into their hands.</P>
<P>For no body ought to be him&s;elfe judge over ano|ther <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 12. 1. Pet. 2. P&s;al. 10. 94. Sap. 6.</NOTE> 1. Cor. 4. Seeing it is not onely again&s;t the new, but al&s;o again&s;t the old te&s;tame~t, and cannot availe nor &s;ub&s;i&s;t before God, the judge of all. Hebr. 10. 12. And becau&s;e no wordly magi&s;trats, no nor tho&s;e, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Amos. 2. 3. 4. 5.</NOTE> who in their office are by God him&s;elfe appoin|ted to judge and to governe, have any power or licence, to charge the poore people and &s;ubjects, <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 1. 32. 53.</NOTE> with &s;uch a burden, nor to flay them, according as they plea&s;e, for to maintaine their violent gouver|nement <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mich. 3.</NOTE> invented by them&s;elues, Amos. 6. there|fore this printed letter, &s;ent thither once allready, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Iam. 5.</NOTE> is before all other things very well to be con&s;ide|red: <NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 10. 35.</NOTE> It hath been directed many years agoe, becau|&s;e of the troubles of Germany principally, to the two Princes Electours, of Saxen and Branden|bourg,
<PB REF="3"> but it belongeth al&s;o unto all the other pre|tended Evangelical Magi&s;trats, Princes, Judges and <NOTE PLACE="marg">Sap. 6. Rom. 1. 11 Mich. 7. I&s;ai. 30. Matt. 29. P&s;al. 82. I&s;ai. 8. 30. 50. Amos. 5. Ezek. 22.</NOTE> States there; who in their apo&s;ta&s;y, hypocri&s;y, fal&s;hood, unbeleefe and prevailing iniquity, haue al&s;o undertaken to protect and defend them&s;elues again&s;t the Coun&s;el and Spirit of the Lord. I&s;a. 1. 8. 30. 31. Whereupon there hath been kindled &s;uch a fire, in that murthering den. Ierem. 7. 11. 15. 17. or bloody city of this fal&s;e Jeru&s;alem, Matth. 21. 24. Marc. 11. that in many places or countries there haue not been left neither men nor bea&s;ts, Zephan. <NOTE PLACE="marg">4. E&s;dr. 15. 16. 1. Cor. 12. Rom. 12. I&s;ai. 59. Revel. 12. 16. 17.</NOTE> 1. To pa&s;&s;e over in Silence, that the afflicted fellow|members, or tho&s;e that are of the hou&s;hold of faith. Gal. 5. 6. by rea&s;on of &s;uch cunning de&s;pi&s;ers, I&s;ai. 28, and incon&s;iderat violent men, are con&s;trai|ned to remaine under the Babylonien yoake or abo|mination, and to be in danger, to peri&s;h eternally with body and &s;oule, Dan. 12. which al&s;o will bring <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ierm. 23. Act. 20. Matt. 7. Zeph. 3. 2. Petr. 2. Revel. 16. Habac. 3. Zach. 13. Marc. 13. Colo&s;&s;. 2. I&s;ai. 5. 29. 33. P&s;al. 12. 80. Nahum. 2. 3. Mal. 3. Matth. 13.</NOTE> their dreamers. (Epi&s;t. Iud.) the terrible ravening wolues ri&s;en in the flock, fir&s;t off all into hell, as beeing &s;uch, upon whom men have relied concer|ning their &s;alvation, and by whom Satan hath inti|ced to all wickedne&s;&s;e. Wherefore it hath bee~ writ|ten very &s;harply and powerfully unto the Scots, e&s;|pecially, that for the maintaining, e&s;tabli&s;hing or propagating of their Couenant, they &s;hould not Subject them&s;elues unto the whi&s;perings of &s;uch uncleane Spirits, the fal&s;e prophets, in &s;uch a man|ner, as a time hitherto hath been done with the de|&s;truction of the poore and mi&s;erable by other war|riours and tyrants, theefs and murtherers, Ierem. 7. 19. and principally by tho&s;e in Germany, by whom all is &s;o farre become a Spoile, nay quite a cur&s;e. Ierem. 2. 17. All which &s;hall as yet be judged on
<PB REF="4"> the children of that wicked one I&s;ai. 3. who have <NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 32. Rom. 12. Tit. 3. Matth. 7. 13. 24. Rom. 2. 14 1. Cor. 4. 2. The&s;. 2. Revel. 12. 20. 14. 19. 22. I&s;ai. 9. 27. 65. 66. 1. Cor. 15.</NOTE> entrenched upon the vengeance of God the Mo&s;t high. P&s;al. 94. Hebr. 10. and &s;o undertaken, by their unju&s;t purpo&s;es or envious doings, according to the working of the furious Satan within the~, to hinder, nay quite to bring to nought the harve&s;t, wherein God according to his word and Go&s;pel, will jud|ge the hidden things of the hearts; Who therefore &s;hall thru&s;t in his Sickle and cutt off many into the very hell, and execute vengeance in anger &amp; fury, Mich. 5. and make all his ennemies his foot-&s;toole. P&s;alm. 110. Hebr. 1. 10.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A Servant of the Lord,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 42. 49. Ierem. 23. 30. 33. Mich. 4. 7.</NOTE> <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 89. 132.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>SErving God in his JUDGEMENT. Revel. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Daniel. 2. 7. 12. P&s;al. 50. 97. 145. Hebr. 10. 11. 12. I&s;ai. 1. 5. 51. 59. 61. Amos. 5. 2 Thren. 2. 4 Rom. 8. 11 P&s;alm. 75. 125. Rom. 1. 9. 11. Ioh. 1. 8. 12. 1. Corinth. 2. 1. The&s;al. 2. 5.</NOTE> 14. 16. 18. the kingdome of affliction and patien|ce, 2. The&s;&s;. 1. upon which men &s;hould have waited and hoped according to the righteoune&s;&s;e in the Spirit by faith, Gal. 5. and by no meanes in &s;uch a manner, as the &s;tubborne, ob&s;tinate Iewes blinded by the Divel, haue done, when Chri&s;t their poore de&s;pi&s;ed king came, I&s;ai. 53. Zach. 9. 11. 12.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>CONCERNING</HI> The troubles and the fal&s;e IUDGEMENT In ENGLAND.</HEAD>
<P>GOD is ju&s;t, and his word doth not lie. For <NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 10. 32. Tit. 1. Hebr. 6. Iohn. 8. 12 Ierem. 23. Matth. 5.</NOTE> it is impo&s;&s;ible, for God or for the &s;trength of I&s;rael to lie, 1. Samuel 15. Malac. 3. And he will have that &s;ame his word kept, or performed according to his councell and will, Matth. 7. 24. 25. According to which he hath dearly &s;ignified unto tho&s;e in the &s;econd or new Te&s;tament, that they &s;hould not revenge them &s;elves on their en|nemies <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 2. 12. 14. 1. The&s;&s;. 5. Wi&s;dom. 6. 12. P&s;a. 10. 94.</NOTE> and judge nothing 1. Cor. 4 nor render evill for evill, but to leave all revenge unto God 1. Pet. 2. Who judgeth righteou&s;ly and without re&s;pect of per&s;ons, Deuter. 10. and will not &s;uffer vengeance to be taken from him, as a while hitherto divers have attempted, intending to hinder the King|dome of God, nay to bring to nought (Matth. 24) <NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 2. 7. 12. Marc. 13. Revel. 16.</NOTE> his Judgement, concerning the univer&s;all redemp|tion of his elect, Luc. 18. When I beeing there pre|&s;ent had put to mind unto the King of England, that what He and his Parlament had take~ from the &s;ubject, for to kill and de&s;troy one another, they maight have imployed it for to help their poore neighbours in Germany, He did an&s;wer, that it was true: Which tho&s;e his adver&s;aries, by whom he is killed, have not done, nor de&s;ired to regard the common temporal and eternal welfare of mankind: but they undertake after the fa&s;hion of the Jewes <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Cor. 10. Rom. 1. 16.</NOTE> in former times, to &s;et up an earthly and worldly Dominion, wherein the inward obedience within,
<PB REF="5"> the con&s;cience towards God &s;hal cea&s;e, nay haue no place at all among&s;t them: And be&s;ides this, the <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Tim. 3. 4. 1. Iohn. 2. 4.</NOTE> &s;trive and di&s;cord of the Scribes or worldly lear|ned men, whence originally all the de&s;truction in whole EUROPE is ri&s;en, &s;hall remaine. It agreeth therefore very ill, that &s;uch men who in regard of the hope of faith are quite &s;eparated from <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. Hebr. 11.</NOTE> God, doe hope the confirmation of their Common|wealth from tho&s;e under the great Babel, namely <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 16. 17. P&s;al. 125. 146.</NOTE> from the King of Spain and his like, and approoue thereof, whereas they have killed ther King even for this cau&s;e, that, as they pretend, he had favoured the Roman Catholiks and complied with them. But there will be an ill end with tho&s;e men that doe <NOTE PLACE="marg">Epi&s;t. Iudae. Mica. 6. Iam. 5. Mica. 3. Malac. 3. 4. I&s;ai. 57. P&s;alm. 10. 68. Amos 5. Hebr. 10. 12. Luc. 12. 17. 18. 21. Matth. 24. Rom. 2. 12. 14. P&s;al. 94.</NOTE> not obey, nor take notice of this pre&s;ent and la&s;t time, Dan. 8. 11. 12. but dare begin with the revenue of the country and meanes of the &s;ubject, the which they force and &s;queeze out of them and wa&s;t, accor|ding to their plea&s;ure, &s;uch tumults and in&s;urre|ctions, whereby the outward oppo&s;ition groweth the longer the greater, and the inward fire, becau&s;e of envy and bitterne&s;&s;e, becometh burning more and more. The true beleevers ought, according to truth and Ju&s;tice, P&s;al. 89. 97. to looke upon God and upon the univer&s;all temporal and eternal welfare of man-kind, and therefore not to be judges them&s;elues, 1. Cor. 4. For God &s;uffers not venge|ance to be taken from him, Hebr. 10.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>GIVEN<LB> <HI>According to the vengance, Zeale and</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. The&s;&s;. 1. I&s;ai. 9. 42. 51. 59. 63. Wi&s;dom. 6. 12.</NOTE> <HI>Iu&s;tice of God, and beau&s;e of his King|dome and IVDGEMENT, Dan.</HI> 2. 7. 12. <HI>I&s;ai.</HI> 47. 48. <HI>Revel.</HI> 16. 18. 19. ANNO 1651.</DATELINE></CLOSER>
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