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<HEAD>A WORD <HI>TO THE</HI> OFFICERS of the ARMY.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>&V;nto <HI>You</HI> who at <HI>fir&s;t</HI> were rai&s;ed up by a mighty <HI>Spirit,</HI> to go forth with the <HI>Sword</HI> in your hands, to recover &s;ome long lost <HI>Liberties</HI> of the good Peo|ple of <HI>England,</HI> from under the tyranical powers of <HI>Kings</HI> and <HI>Bi&s;hops;</HI> unto whom was truly given the Title of the <HI>Lords Ho&s;t,</HI> becau&s;e you went forth in <HI>his</HI> Name, and for <HI>his</HI> People, and therefore were crowned with wonderful <HI>Succe&s;&s;es,</HI> and <HI>Victories,</HI> over your enemies, unto a <HI>perfect</HI> Conque&s;t, even unto <HI>You</HI> is this <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">d</HI> of Truth.</SALUTE><LB>
<DATELINE><DATE><ADD>nouemb: 23 1657</ADD></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_YOU have been <HI>weighed</HI> in the ballance of <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> by the <HI>Spirit</HI> of the <HI>Lord</HI> in ma|ny of his Servants, and are found too <HI>light;</HI> having not been faithfull to the <HI>end,</HI> to effect tho&s;e great things, which were written in your hearts to doe, your righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e hath proved like the <HI>mor|ning dew,</HI> it is now vani&s;ht, your <HI>light</HI> is gone out like the &s;nuffe of a candle: you who <HI>once</HI> were as a &s;weet &s;avour unto the good people of the Nation, are now become like <HI>&s;alt</HI> that hath lo&s;t its fir&s;t &s;avour and is fit for nought, having neglected to carry on the work of the <HI>Lord,</HI> have ended in
<PB N="2" REF="2"><HI>your &s;elves,</HI> featherd your <HI>own ne&s;ts,</HI> and lie down at <HI>ea&s;e,</HI> and hereby have expo&s;ed <HI>your &s;elves,</HI> your <HI>names,</HI> your <HI>pro|fe&s;&s;ions, prayers, fa&s;tings, promi&s;es</HI> and <HI>ingagements,</HI> to the <HI>&s;corne</HI> and <HI>reproach</HI> of your very <HI>enemies,</HI> and the <HI>wor&s;t</HI> of men through the Nation, and to the great griefe of the <HI>be&s;t,</HI> who&s;e hearts have mourned for you, and this becau&s;e you &s;tand not and <HI>abide</HI> in that Coun&s;ell and <HI>Spirit</HI> of <HI>God,</HI> in which you <HI>fir&s;t</HI> went forth, to be <HI>&s;ervants</HI> unto <HI>him</HI> in car|rying on the great work of <HI>Reformation;</HI> but have <HI>united</HI> your &s;elves and <HI>complyed</HI> with the <HI>old corrupt powers</HI> and <HI>In|tere&s;ts</HI> of the <HI>Nation,</HI> and thereby cau&s;ed the great <HI>Work</HI> of <HI>God</HI> put into your hands to go <HI>backward;</HI> and now &s;tand wholly in your own <HI>powers</HI> and <HI>wills,</HI> and therefore hath there been a <HI>rent</HI> among you, that tho&s;e who were mo&s;t <HI>faithfull</HI> departed from you, and are as <HI>Witne&s;&s;es</HI> of <HI>God</HI> again&s;t you.</P>
<P>Pray con&s;ider with your &s;elves a little, whether the great <HI>Ends</HI> be effected, for which you took up the <HI>Sword?</HI> if you &s;ay they be, That our <HI>Enemies</HI> are conquered, and the grand <HI>Enemy</HI> received <HI>ju&s;tice,</HI> and that <HI>Antichri&s;tian</HI> pow|er of <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> laid flat, and the <HI>pride</HI> and glory of our <HI>Nobles</HI> &s;tain'd.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> It is true, and by a mighty <HI>power</HI> was this done, but was it <HI>per&s;ons</HI> you contended with onely, or the <HI>corrupt &s;tate</HI> of <HI>things?</HI> there was indeed a <HI>deep wound</HI> given by you, but it was not <HI>deadly,</HI> for you your &s;elves are <HI>curing</HI> that wound, which <HI>once</HI> you made: you conquered <HI>per&s;ons,</HI> and took po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of their <HI>&s;pirits,</HI> and entered into <HI>their power,</HI> and if any <HI>corruption</HI> were de&s;troyed with <HI>them,</HI> is it not revived in <HI>you?</HI> and hath not the <HI>Spirit</HI> of <HI>Kings</HI> and <HI>Nobles</HI> a great <HI>re&s;urrection</HI> in you? and your <HI>conque&s;t</HI> outwardly over <HI>them,</HI> could not be more compleat, then their <HI>conque&s;t</HI> over <HI>you,</HI> through the help and power of the <HI>God</HI> of this <HI>world,</HI> who hath made you even <HI>drunk</HI> with their <HI>&s;pirit,</HI> and hath allured you to follow <HI>their</HI> &s;teps.</P>
<P>If we con&s;ider a little the <HI>originall</HI> and <HI>ground</HI> of the <HI>late War,</HI> was it not, that the <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> did take <HI>too much</HI>
<PB N="3" REF="2" MS="y">upon them, the <HI>King</HI> he illegally impo&s;ing <HI>Ship-money</HI> upon his <HI>Subjects,</HI> and &s;ome other things. And the <HI>other</HI> impo|&s;ing <HI>Lawes</HI> upon the <HI>con&s;ciences</HI> of men, which were grounds of &s;uffering to <HI>many,</HI> and did breed a generall di&s;content in the good people of the <HI>Land,</HI> which grew &s;o high, that it broke forth into <HI>publick speeches,</HI> and at length unto <HI>open War.</HI> But the principall ground of the <HI>War</HI> was, not &s;o much from the <HI>King</HI> apart, or any <HI>Acts</HI> of his, which tended to the <HI>oppre&s;&s;ion</HI> of his <HI>Subjects;</HI> it would be a &s;trange thing &s;o to imagine, for it could never have quit co&s;t, but the <HI>remedy</HI> would be manife&s;t to be a thou&s;and times wor&s;e then the <HI>di&s;ea&s;e.</HI> Therefore we mu&s;t lay it upon the <HI>King</HI> as in <HI>Conjunction</HI> with that <HI>Antichri&s;tian Clergy</HI> the &s;tate of <HI>Bi|&s;hops,</HI> and all their body of <HI>Hirelings,</HI> his giving power to them, to <HI>Lord</HI> it over the mindes and <HI>con&s;ciences</HI> of men; And this power, growing to a height of <HI>corruption,</HI> and be|ing &s;wollen big with <HI>pride</HI> and de&s;ignes of evill unto any that &s;tood up again&s;t <HI>them,</HI> and could not conforme to <HI>them,</HI> even then did the &s;peciall providence of <HI>God</HI> put a period and &s;top to <HI>that Spirit.</HI></P>
<P>Now the <HI>But</HI> of <HI>Malice</HI> of <HI>King, Court, Bi&s;hops,</HI> and <HI>Nobles,</HI> with all their <HI>Officers</HI> under them in conjunction with the <HI>ignorant, profane,</HI> and <HI>&s;uper&s;titious</HI> people of the <HI>Land,</HI> was the poor <HI>People of God</HI> di&s;&s;enting from them, and therefore were per&s;ecuted in their <HI>Courts</HI> as <HI>Schi&s;maticks</HI> and <HI>Hereticks,</HI> who rent from the <HI>Church;</HI> and the&s;e then bore the names of <HI>Puritans, Separates, Browni&s;ts, Anabap|ti&s;ts,</HI> &amp;c. then a very <HI>contemptible</HI> generation of <HI>men,</HI> gene|rally poor and de&s;pi&s;ed, yet even the&s;e were witne&s;&s;es of <HI>God</HI> in that, and again&s;t that <HI>corrupt</HI> generation, and were then accounted the <HI>troublers</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> when they medled not with matters of <HI>&s;tate</HI> or <HI>power</HI> but were quiet in their &s;everall places, praying for a <HI>Change,</HI> till <HI>God</HI> opened a <HI>door</HI> for their <HI>liberty</HI> upon other occa&s;ions.</P>
<P>Now behold your <HI>originall,</HI> and where your true <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> lies, and where it is <HI>l<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t:</HI> It lies in the broken, poor de&s;pi&s;ed <HI>People of God</HI> di&s;&s;enting from the <HI>worlds wor&s;hip</HI> and <HI>wayes:</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="3">while you were <HI>true</HI> to <HI>th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">m,</HI> and <HI>their liberties,</HI> you did abide in your <HI>fir&s;t Principles</HI> faithfulne&s;&s;e; but in as much as you have <HI>quit</HI> that Intere&s;t, you have <HI>forgotten</HI> your &s;elves and your own <HI>originall;</HI> and are fallen from the <HI>truth,</HI> by making a <HI>league</HI> and friend&s;hip with this <HI>world,</HI> which al|ways &s;tood directly oppo&s;ite to <HI>Chri&s;tian liberty.</HI></P>
<P>Again, minde where the <HI>witne&s;&s;e</HI> of <HI>truth</HI> lies; it gene|rally is under the Cr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e and <HI>Sufferings.</HI> God hath his <HI>Wit|ne&s;&s;es</HI> for him&s;elfe in every <HI>generation,</HI> even in that <HI>generation</HI> which <HI>once</HI> appeared to have pa&s;&s;ed away, were many of you <HI>witne&s;&s;es</HI> for him again&s;t that <HI>corrupt</HI> &s;tate of things; and therefore did <HI>you</HI> with many more in the Nation, lie under <HI>&s;hame</HI> and <HI>reproach</HI> and &s;uffered from that <HI>power</HI> &s;everall wayes. Now while the <HI>witne&s;&s;e</HI> lives, there is no <HI>compliance</HI> or <HI>friend&s;hip</HI> with <HI>this world,</HI> becau<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e it is the great matter <HI>witne&s;&s;ed again&s;t,</HI> for the <HI>world</HI> is a <HI>&s;tate</HI> by it &s;elfe, and is that which &s;tands <HI>apart</HI> and <HI>di&s;tinct</HI> from the <HI>Spirit</HI> and <HI>King|dome</HI> of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and is in direct oppo&s;ition <HI>thereunto,</HI> and therefore can never be owned by the true <HI>Spirit,</HI> becau&s;e it would &s;wallow up all into <HI>it &s;elfe,</HI> and bring the <HI>Kingdome</HI> of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> under <HI>it,</HI> a&s;&s;uming all <HI>power</HI> and <HI>Authority</HI> over the <HI>minds</HI> and <HI>con&s;ciences</HI> of men, and commonly and out|wardly expre&s;&s;es it &s;elfe in <HI>pride</HI> and <HI>pomp, thrones</HI> and <HI>do|minions,</HI> which is evermore attended with <HI>oppre&s;&s;ion</HI> and <HI>cru|elty,</HI> and the <HI>God</HI> of <HI>this world</HI> rules in it as the very <HI>&s;oule</HI> of it.</P>
<P>Now in as much as you have entered into <HI>union</HI> and <HI>com|plyance</HI> with this <HI>spirit</HI> of the <HI>world,</HI> you have quit your <HI>old Intere&s;t,</HI> and <HI>lo&s;t</HI> the <HI>witne&s;&s;e</HI> of <HI>God,</HI> which is too too mani|fe&s;t among you, that you are <HI>back &s;liders</HI> from the <HI>truth,</HI> grown <HI>proud</HI> and <HI>lofty</HI> and &s;wollen big with <HI>honours</HI> and <HI>greatne&s;&s;e,</HI> having drunk deep of the <HI>Spirit</HI> of <HI>this world,</HI> which you <HI>once</HI> in your <HI>low e&s;tate</HI> witne&s;&s;ed again&s;t.</P>
<P>If I may compare you with the <HI>former power</HI> that you fought <HI>again&s;t,</HI> will there appear much <HI>difference,</HI> or will you in the lea&s;t be gainers by it? &s;urely not, but great <HI>lo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">|&s;ers,</HI> for to &s;peak of the <HI>Nation</HI> in generall what the <HI>advan|tages</HI>
<PB N="5" REF="3">are by your <HI>Conque&s;t,</HI> that is &s;o plaine it needs not be mention'd; that the <HI>burthens, Taxes, Exci&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Cu&s;tomes</HI> extraordinary, doe plainly render us in a <HI>far wor&s;e</HI> condition, then in any late <HI>Kings reigne.</HI></P>
<P>But that which might have made mo&s;t for your <HI>advan|tage,</HI> and would have been a &s;ufficient <HI>return</HI> for all outward <HI>lo&s;&s;es</HI> (had you remained faithfull) had been the <HI>procuring</HI> and <HI>&s;etling</HI> the Spirituall <HI>Liberties</HI> of the <HI>People of God</HI> (&s;o far as they be <HI>externall</HI>) under the &s;everall <HI>admini&s;trations</HI> of the <HI>Spirit</HI> in their &s;everall and different <HI>formes</HI> in <HI>Religion,</HI> wherein they walk <HI>peaceably,</HI> that no <HI>civill power</HI> might have mingled <HI>it &s;elfe</HI> with the <HI>Kingdome of Chri&s;t</HI> for the bringing in any <HI>forceable Reformation</HI> therein, and the <HI>&s;ubjecting</HI> of it to any outward and <HI>&s;ecular</HI> power; and herein was a <HI>great price</HI> put into <HI>your</HI> hands, to have been as a <HI>wall</HI> and <HI>Bul|wark</HI> to the <HI>People</HI> of <HI>God,</HI> and a <HI>protection</HI> from the violence of the <HI>w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ked</HI> and <HI>profane People,</HI> that &s;o <HI>light</HI> and <HI>truth</HI> might have had a more free, and ea&s;ie entrance among us. But &s;ince your <HI>declining</HI> and <HI>falling</HI> from your <HI>fir&s;t love</HI> and <HI>zeale,</HI> and that the <HI>Earth</HI> hath come over you and choaked your <HI>witne&s;&s;e,</HI> you have given up that <HI>power</HI> once in your hand, and &s;o lo&s;t the <HI>price</HI> having <HI>no heart</HI> thereto, are grown <HI>carele&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>corrupt</HI> in <HI>judgement,</HI> and &s;o have &s;uffered a <HI>great breach</HI> to be made upon <HI>Chri&s;tian Liberty</HI> by <HI>your &s;elves,</HI> and by <HI>mo&s;t</HI> in power in the <HI>Nation,</HI> in permitting and cau&s;ing &s;o much <HI>Per&s;ecution</HI> of that poor de&s;pi&s;ed and righteous people called <HI>Quakers;</HI> which mo&s;t <HI>Pri&s;ons</HI> in the <HI>Nation</HI> doe witne&s;&s;e, and it is not po&s;&s;ible for you to &s;et free <HI>your &s;elves</HI> and the <HI>Nation</HI> from the <HI>guilt</HI> of their many and cruell <HI>&s;ufferings;</HI> and yet many of the&s;e were of <HI>you,</HI> and from you, and are your &s;urviving <HI>witne&s;&s;es,</HI> that when and where <HI>you</HI> left, <HI>they</HI> came forth, not with your gallant <HI>words</HI> and <HI>lofty notions,</HI> to plea&s;e their hearers, but with <HI>brokenne&s;&s;e</HI> of <HI>spirit</HI> in humility and &s;elfe-denyall, neglecting and quitting all the <HI>honours</HI> and <HI>profits</HI> of this world, that would not con&s;i&s;t with a <HI>Di&s;ciple</HI> of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> a <HI>People</HI> ju&s;t in their dealings among men, deceiving none, opp<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;ing
<PB N="6" REF="4">none, de&s;iring no mans &s;ilver or bread for nought, and yet even the&s;e findes as hard mea&s;ure from you, as they might from <HI>Turks.</HI> And if <HI>inquiry</HI> be made of what <HI>Laws</HI> they have broken? what is their <HI>tra&s;gre&s;&s;ion?</HI> the an&s;wer com|monly is, becau&s;e they are <HI>Quakers,</HI> and &s;ometimes becau&s;e they will not put off their <HI>hats,</HI> &s;ometimes for coming into your <HI>Churches,</HI> and making &s;ome <HI>reply</HI> to the <HI>Mini&s;ter</HI> for preaching <HI>fal&s;e doctrine</HI> to the people, which is their <HI>grand crime:</HI> And for the&s;e and &s;uch like <HI>Offences</HI> as you judge them, are they drag'd to Pri&s;on, and there often are <HI>wor&s;e</HI> u&s;ed then the <HI>common rogues;</HI> &s;o that if &s;trangers &s;hould hear of their <HI>&s;ufferings</HI> onely, they might &s;uppo&s;e them to be great <HI>plotters</HI> of mi&s;chiefe again&s;t the <HI>State,</HI> and &s;ome <HI>no|torious</HI> and <HI>wicked</HI> per&s;ons: but for a <HI>&s;ober, &s;trict,</HI> quiet and <HI>con&s;cientious</HI> people <HI>thus</HI> to &s;uffer under <HI>you,</HI> and tho&s;e in <HI>power</HI> in the <HI>Nation,</HI> doth plainly di&s;cover you, that you have forgotten that <HI>liberty</HI> of <HI>con&s;cience,</HI> which <HI>once</HI> you pro|fe&s;&s;ed and practi&s;ed; for how <HI>oft</HI> did many of <HI>you,</HI> when you were in your <HI>zeal</HI> for <HI>truth,</HI> go into <HI>Congregations,</HI> and reprove the <HI>Mini&s;ters</HI> for <HI>hirelings,</HI> and for the <HI>fal&s;e doctrine</HI> they preached, and enter their <HI>Pulpits</HI> and <HI>Preach</HI> your &s;elves? is it a crime now, and was it not then? or did the <HI>Mini&s;ters then</HI> onely preach <HI>errours,</HI> and not <HI>now?</HI> or doe you believe in your <HI>con&s;ciences</HI> that you were of more under|&s;tanding to know truth and error then the&s;e people are? or is it not a plain compliance with them to &s;trengthen your In|tere&s;t by them? Pray con&s;ider, I am &s;ure of this that you would have accounted that Ju&s;tice of Peace an <HI>enemy</HI> to the <HI>State</HI> and to the <HI>truth,</HI> and a great <HI>Per&s;ecuter</HI> that &s;hould then have &s;ent &s;ome of <HI>you</HI> to <HI>Pri&s;on,</HI> or cau&s;ed you to be <HI>whipt,</HI> or put to <HI>hard labour,</HI> for your &s;o doing: but the <HI>power</HI> was in your own hands, that the pe&s;ecuting <HI>spirit</HI> in <HI>Ju&s;tices</HI> which <HI>now</HI> acts, did not then dare to appear; and as all that <HI>zeal</HI> for <HI>truth</HI> in you is &s;laine by the <HI>God</HI> of this <HI>world,</HI> &s;o doth the <HI>per&s;ecuring spirit</HI> ari&s;e in tho&s;e that have <HI>power</HI> in the <HI>Nation,</HI> as well as your &s;elves, and you doe now by your <HI>apo&s;tacy</HI> give <HI>life</HI> and <HI>&s;pirit</HI> to them, who did not
<PB N="7" REF="4"><HI>dare</HI> formerly to manife&s;t them&s;elves. And now things are &s;o <HI>turn'd</HI> about, that a man may with much more <HI>&s;afety</HI> and <HI>&s;e|curity</HI> go hear an Epi&s;copall Mini&s;ter and the old Common Prayer again, then go to a meeting of the&s;e innocent People, for unto <HI>one</HI> is <HI>&s;afety,</HI> but to the <HI>other</HI> perpetual <HI>danger,</HI> either by the <HI>rude multitude</HI> or by <HI>corrupt Ju&s;tices.</HI></P>
<P>Further, what <HI>&s;trange</HI> provi&s;ion is made to make <HI>the&s;e People</HI> tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors, by Acts of Parliament, the <HI>one</HI> for di|&s;turbing publick Preachers, as you e&s;teem it, the other to &s;uppre&s;&s;e them as <HI>rogues</HI> and <HI>vagabonds;</HI> what <HI>plottings</HI> and <HI>contrivings</HI> are there now to <HI>&s;pread</HI> their nets, to catch and undermine the&s;e <HI>righteous &s;ervants of God:</HI> And this may be truly &s;aid, that the number of <HI>the&s;e &s;ufferers</HI> have been more under this <HI>pre&s;ent power,</HI> then of <HI>all the Sectaries</HI> put together in the <HI>whole reigne of the late King;</HI> And if &s;ome &s;peciall <HI>power</HI> and <HI>providence</HI> of <HI>God</HI> doe not &s;tep in to <HI>&s;top</HI> and <HI>allay</HI> this <HI>Antichri&s;tian spirit</HI> that is full of <HI>enmity</HI> and big with <HI>per&s;ecutions;</HI> O' <HI>England, England,</HI> thou art like to be <HI>&s;tain'd</HI> with the <HI>bloud</HI> of the <HI>Innocent.</HI></P>
<P>But doe not <HI>deceive</HI> your &s;elves, for though you revive <HI>Kings</HI> and <HI>Nobles, Lawyers</HI> and <HI>Prie&s;ts,</HI> and &s;ummon the&s;e with the <HI>wor&s;t</HI> of the people to your a&s;&s;i&s;tance, that you may hold up a rotten &s;tate of things, yet notwith&s;tanding the work of the Lord mu&s;t go on, and is carried on by a <HI>contemp|tible</HI> people whom you de&s;pi&s;e, though not by <HI>might</HI> or <HI>pow|er,</HI> but by the <HI>Spirit</HI> of the Lord.</P>
<P>Therefore, Oh that you might be warned, not to touch <HI>any</HI> of the <HI>Lords annoynted ones,</HI> for what&s;oever you doe again&s;t <HI>them,</HI> will be found in <HI>his</HI> appearing to be again&s;t <HI>him;</HI> and truly there is great cau&s;e to believe, that if <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> him&s;elfe &s;hould appear now in <HI>per&s;on,</HI> you would deal as <HI>hardly</HI> with <HI>him,</HI> as with other the <HI>Servants</HI> of God, ca&s;t him out of your <HI>Synagogues, hale</HI> him to <HI>Pri&s;on,</HI> take him up as a <HI>rogue</HI> or <HI>vagabond,</HI> to be whipt or &s;et to hard labour; for know, that it is but the <HI>&s;ame spirit</HI> that would doe it to the <HI>lea&s;t</HI> of his <HI>Di&s;ciples,</HI> as to <HI>him&s;elfe.</HI></P>
<P>Therefore, you who have the lea&s;t <HI>tenderne&s;&s;e</HI> left, and the
<PB N="8" REF="5">lea&s;t <HI>&s;ence</HI> of your <HI>back &s;lidings,</HI> &s;tand &s;till, and &s;eriou&s;ly <HI>con&s;ider</HI> what you are doing, who&s;e <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> you &s;erve, and you will then &s;ee your <HI>work</HI> ended, or &s;tuck in the <HI>mire;</HI> that your <HI>locks</HI> are <HI>cut</HI> and <HI>&s;trength</HI> is gone; that the God of this world hath <HI>bribed</HI> you, and hired you to his &s;ervice; that you are po&s;ting back again to <HI>&s;erve</HI> him under <HI>Kings, Prin|ces, Nobles,</HI> and <HI>Bi&s;hops;</HI> that they (who hated <HI>you</HI>) may <HI>&s;hake hands</HI> with you, and &s;ay, <HI>Are you al&s;o become one with us.</HI> Even thus are you <HI>departing</HI> and <HI>departed</HI> from your <HI>old Intere&s;t</HI> and <HI>marring</HI> your &s;elves to a <HI>Harlot,</HI> that will prove <HI>fal&s;e</HI> to you, and deceive you at la&s;t.</P>
<P>But notwith&s;tanding the Confederacy, Combinations, Coun&s;ells and de&s;ignes of all the <HI>powers</HI> on Earth, to keep <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> out of his Throne, yet will the <HI>Lord</HI> exalt his <HI>Son</HI> in the mid&s;t of <HI>us,</HI> and the <HI>Scattered du&s;t</HI> of <HI>Sion</HI> shall <HI>live</HI> and <HI>reigne</HI> with <HI>him</HI> in the mid&s;t of her Enemies.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>T. Z.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>Giles Calvert,</HI> at the Black-&s;pread-Eagle, near the We&s;t end of <HI>Pauls.</HI> 1657.</P>
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