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<P>A DECLARATION OF Maj. Gen. Harri&s;on Pri&s;oner in the Tower of LONDON: WITH His Rules and Precepts, to all Publike Churches, and Private Congregations: And an ANSWER thereunto;</P>
<P>Al&s;o, the Re&s;olution of the Fifth-Monarchy-Men, Anabapti&s;ts, Quakers, and others.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Nathaniel Tomkins,</HI> 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>A DECLARATION OF Major General HARRISON, Now Pri&s;oner in the Tower of LONDON.</HEAD>
<P>SInce the committing of Major General <HI>Harri&s;on</HI> to the Tower of <HI>London,</HI> divers of his Friends and Relations have had a Conference with him, touching the Grounds and Motives of his Actings: To which he declared, That he was throughly convinced of the Ju&s;tne&s;s of the Cau&s;e he fir&s;t engaged in; That he e&s;teemed reading of the Word of God an Ordinance of God both in private and publick, but did not account reading to be preaching; That he e&s;teemed that preaching be&s;t, wherein was mo&s;t of God, lea&s;t of man, when vain flouri&s;hes of wit and words were declined, and the demon&s;tration of Gods Spirit and Power &s;tudied; yet could he di&s;tingui&s;h be|tween pure&s;t plainne&s;s, and negligent rudene&s;s: That he ac|counted per&s;picuity the be&s;t grace of a Preacher, and that me|thod be&s;t which was mo&s;t helpful to Under&s;tandin<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, Affection, and Memory: That he e&s;teemed the Lords Day a Divine Ordinance, and re&s;t on it nece&s;&s;ary &s;o far as conduced to Holine&s;s: That he was very con&s;cientious in ob&s;ervance of that Day as the Mart day
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of the Soul; That he was very careful to remember it, to get hou&s;e and heart in order for it, and when it came he was &s;tudious to improve it; That he redeemed the morning from &s;uperfluous &s;leep, and watched the whole day over his thoughts and words not onely to re&s;train them from wickedne&s;s, but wordlyne&s;s. And that all parts of the day were alike holy to him, and his care was coninued in it in variety of holy Duties: what he heard in pub|like, he repeated in private, to whet it upon him&s;elf and Family: Which Rules and Precepts, he de&s;ired to be made practicable throughout all publike and private Congregations, for the en|lightning the dark Corners of the Earth, &amp;c.</P>
<P>A Gentleman &s;tanding by, being tran&s;ported with &s;undry Re|flections, replyed as followeth:</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> I might with rea&s;on believe that fir&s;t election of the Party wherein you &s;tood engaged, proceeded from inexperience and the mi&s;take of your Zeal; not to &s;ay from your compliances to the pa&s;&s;ions of others; becau&s;e I know how ob&s;equious you have always &s;hewed your &s;elf in &s;everal Actions, e&s;pecially in your former Obedience to the Commands of a Mon&s;trous Tyrant and Rebellious U&s;urper.</P>
<P>But, upon di&s;covery of the Impo&s;tures which perverted them, and the &s;ignal Indignation of God, upon the &s;everal Periods which your eyes hath lately beheld, of the bloodie&s;t Tyrannies, and mo&s;t prodigious Oppre&s;&s;ors that ever any Age in the World pro|duc'd. To put the Ballance (therefore) into the hands of every Rational <HI>Engli&s;h-man,</HI> to poi&s;e the State of this Kingdom, which through the unexampled di&s;traction and confu&s;ion of a mo&s;t &s;or|did and horrid Rebellion, was an un&s;ufferable weight to be born by any Man, who could make Title to Under&s;tanding; To hear with &s;ilence, people pretending to Religion, and to nothing el&s;e; crying up again&s;t Rea&s;on, a Reformation, in which them&s;elves are (however in them&s;elves in&s;en&s;ibly) to the &s;tranger &s;tanders by vi&s;ibly ruined. Provoked therefore by compa&s;&s;ion to my Country, I &s;hall endeavour to convince the Opiniators of a Reformation, by putting ye&s;terday and to day, this and the end of a preceding Sep|tenarie in the Ballance. And therefore invite &s;uch who are in any capacity of being advi&s;ed, to a retro&s;pection, &s;o far as the year, 1639. Where they may, if they look not thorow State-Spectacles, &s;ee a King &s;elected, who&s;e Royal, or Chri&s;tian Reputation, Fame dared not; could not, with &s;o much as whi&s;per, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">lley;</HI> Rich in the
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accumulate Hearts of a Numerous and Loyal People; and a Court in which (him&s;elf being Pre&s;ident) the Men and Manners com|pleated an Academie. They may &s;ee a Church full of Light, Or|der and Di&s;cipline, having a form beautiful, and an in&s;ide gar|ni&s;ht, and enricht with as much (not to &s;well the compari&s;on) Learning and Piety, as Ob&s;ervation or Story can attribute to any &s;ince Chri&s;tianity was a Profe&s;&s;ion. Tho&s;e then incon&s;iderable few Oppo&s;ers, or interrupters of its Peace and Government, being per&s;ons of as ob&s;cure mark, as of clande&s;tine and mycheing motion, skulking like young Foxes, and no &s;ooner unkenel'd, but as Vermine pur&s;ued, the general <HI>Odium</HI> being contracted upon them: They may &s;ee a Nobility, Lu&s;trous, like Mirrours by the Suns, their Princes, reflex in the badges of their Honour and Of|fice, a flouri&s;hing Gentry, plentifully &s;haring Dignities, and Tru&s;ts in the Military and Civil Magi&s;tracy. But behold the Scean is again changed, ble&s;&s;ed be God; and the&s;e State-Mountebanks, that formerly &s;erv'd and rais'd up them&s;elves to that pitch and Inve&s;titure, are blown away; and the&s;e Puppets of policy are al&s;o taken in the &s;ame Nets and Gyns that they laid for others. When I &s;eriou&s;ly reflect upon all this, I cannot but detect them in their procedure, and deplore the &s;adne&s;s of their condition. For, &s;ince you are apt to recriminate, and boa&s;t the Ju&s;tne&s;s of your Cau&s;e, let us go back to the &s;ource, and &s;earch the very principles; and then &s;ee, if ever any Cau&s;e had like &s;ucce&s;s indeed. Fir&s;t then, be plea&s;ed to look North-wards upon the <HI>Scots,</HI> who made Reforma|tion their pretence, to gratifie their own Avarice, introduce <HI>them|&s;elves,</HI> and a more then <HI>Babyloni&s;h</HI> Tyranny, impo&s;ing upon the Church and State, beyond all example. I &s;ay, look upon what they have gotten by deceiving their Brethren, &s;elling their King, be|traying his Son, and by all their perfidie; but a &s;lavery more then <HI>Egyptian,</HI> and an Infamy as unparalled, as their Trea&s;on and Ingra|titude. Look nearer home, and tell me if there be a per&s;on of them left, that can &s;hew me his prize, unle&s;s it be that of Sacri|lege, which he or his Nephews mu&s;t certainly vomit up again. O the perpetrated Actions of the&s;e Sons of Thunder! What hath been &s;pawned under their Athei&s;tical Government, is beyond all compari&s;on: Under the Sun was never &s;uch things heard of: Yet tho&s;e that died by the &s;word, fell in the bed of honour; their Re|ligion and their Loyalty will be renowned in the Hi&s;tory of Ages, when the Names of Traytors will rot with their Carca&s;&s;es, a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> dung upon the face of the Earth.</P>
<P><PB N="6" REF="4">To proceed to the e&s;&s;ential Parts of our gracious Soveraign, this beyond compari&s;on is ob&s;ervable: 1. If we con&s;ider him in the Natural Endowments of his Mind, tho&s;e his mo&s;t Tran&s;cen|dently Symmetrical Organs are full &s;tretcht, with the internall gifts, and mo&s;t accompli&s;hing graces of a &s;erene Soul: Of a mo&s;t piercing Apprehen&s;ion, nimble Wit, but &s;ound Judgement: Of &s;o con&s;tant a Re&s;ervedne&s;s and Maje&s;tique gravity, 'tis que&s;tionable whether he can be angry or pleas'd, griev'd or rejoyc'd, &s;o far as to betray his Sen&s;ations to every Beholder; &s;o merciful and kind in his very Severities, and &s;o &s;evere in his Kindne&s;&s;es, that his greate&s;t Enemies become his greate&s;t Friends, and his Friends can never be otherwi&s;e, but by the envy of his Vertues, and win|ning Sweetne&s;s; So moderate, He pleads for his cruelle&s;t Adver|&s;aries, and &s;o tender a Father to his unnatural Subjects, He pities (not inveighs again&s;t) their mi&s;carriages: Of a con&s;tant Re&s;o|lution, and undanted Courage, none more valiant, none more mer|ciful; none more Amiable, none more Cha&s;te and Temperate, and withall &s;o Religiou&s;ly Devout, and &s;o Piou&s;ly Con&s;tant in all Di|vine Wor&s;hips and Services, that He may truly be called a good Church-man, as well as a good King.</P>
<P>But lea&s;t I lo&s;e my &s;elf in &s;o large a field, give me leave from this <HI>&s;weet Subject</HI> to come to his Education, where you may expect I &s;hould bewail the aver&s;ene&s;s of his Stars, and tho&s;e Di&s;a&s;trous Times, and Tempe&s;tuous Seas, and Avious De&s;arts, he was forc't to trace the Mu&s;es in. But we find no want in him, either of a &s;trict and con&s;tant Tutorage, the Nur&s;e of Art, the Conver&s;e of a Flouri&s;hing and Glorious Court; yea, we cannot but &s;ee that tho&s;e Providences which to others would become the greate&s;t di&s;advantages, have been to this mo&s;t Excellent Per&s;on the high|e&s;t Improvements.</P>
<P>In a word, Tho&s;e ingenuous and candid Principles connaturall to Him are &s;o approved by his Afflictions, the experience of the incon&s;tancy of this Tran&s;itory World, tho&s;e true &s;parks of Reli|gion and pure Con&s;cience which &s;eem to flame in him, and the &s;weet content his Maje&s;ty took in his innocent Retirement, that he could &s;eem to project nothing in his return to <HI>England,</HI> but the &s;aving his unnatural Children from that inevitable ruine and mi&s;ery they would have brought upon them&s;elves and the Thre&eacute; Kingdoms, had they gone on in their di&s;obedience: Nay, often hath his Maje&s;ty been heard to &s;ay, No Enormities could or
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&s;hould di&s;oblige him from that Fatherly tenderne&s;s to his Coun|trey-men and Subjects, would they but return to their duty, and that he &s;aw no rea&s;on any Sect what&s;oever &s;hould be di&s;owned by him (as &s;uch) more than a deformed Child by a Natural Father; &s;ince 'tis in the power of God alone to reform the Con&s;cience.</P>
<P>To conclude, &s;o affectionately doth many of the&s;e Sects with Loyalty &s;ubmit under the influence of &s;o good a Prince, That di|vers of the People called Quakers, Anabapti&s;ts, Fifth-Monarchy Men, and Levellers, Do wi&s;h from their hearts, that our gracious Soveraign may be, and the Kingdoms by Him, more happy than any; and that the true ends of Government may be had and com|municated fully; that every hone&s;t Heart may have cau&s;e to re|joyce in GOD, the KING, and their LAWS. Re&s;olving, (through Grace) to re&s;t quiet and content under God's Vice|gerent, and to let the King of Kings alone with ruling the <HI>World,</HI> to who&s;e Wi&s;dom and Power all Creatures ought to &s;ubmit.</P>
<P>And further they have declared, That they will be pa&s;&s;ive un|der Authority, rather than impatient; to procure the quiet and peace of the Nation to their utmo&s;t; to mind things invi&s;ible, and of a better con&s;i&s;tence then the&s;e below, and to pray for the hap|pine&s;s and welfare of his Maje&s;ty, and the re&s;t of the Royal I&s;&s;ue, <HI>Whom God long pre&s;erve.</HI></P>
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