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Give me leave to fpeake a word more: it is but this; Yee will finde it a farre easier field, to wage warre against all the Armies that ever were or will be on Earth, and all the Angels of Heaven, than to take up Armes against any truth of God: It hath more Counsell and strength than all the world befides; and will certainly either gaine or ruine, convert or fubvert every man that oppofes it. I hope ingenuous men will rather take advice, then offence at what I have faid: I had rather please ten, than grieve one intelligent man.

If this fide be refolute, I turne me to the other.

Goe on brave Englishmen, in the name of God, go on profperously, because of Truth and Righteoufnes: Yee that have the cause of Religion, the life of your Kingdome and of all the good that is in it in your hands: Goe on undauntedly: As you are Called and Chofen, so be faithfull: Yee fight the battells of the Lord, bee neither defidious nor perfidious: You ferve the King of Kings, who ftiles you his heavenly Regiments, Confider well, what impregnable fighting it is in heaven, where the Lord of Hofts is your Generall, his Angels your Colonels, the Stars your fellow-fouldiers, his Saints your Oratours, his Promifes your victuallers, his Truth your Trenches; where Drums are Harps, Trumpets joyfull founds; your Enfignes Chrifts Banners; where your weapons and armour are spirituall, therefore irrefiftable, therefore impierceable; where Sun and wind cannot disadvantage you, you are above them; where hell it felfe can

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not hurt you, where your fwords are furbushed and sharpened by him that made their metall, where your wounds are bound up with the oyle of a good Cause, where your blood runs into the veynes of Chrift, where fudden death is prefent martyrdome and life; your funerals refurrections your honour glory; where your widows and babes are received into perpetuall penfions; your names lifted among Davids Worthies; where your greatest loffes are greatest gaines; and where you leave the troubles of war, to lye down in downy beds of eternall reft.

What good will it doe you, deare Countrymen, to live without lives, to enjoy England without the God of England, your Kingdome without a Parliament, your Parliament without power, your Liberties without stability, your Lawes without Juftice, your honours without vertue, your beings without wel-being, your wives without honefty, your children without morality, your fervants without civility, your lands without propriety, your goods. without immunity, the Gofpel without falvation, your Churches without Miniftery, your Minifters without piety, and all you have or can have, with more teares and bitternesse of heart, than all you have and fhall have will sweeten or wipe away?

Goe on therefore Renowned Gentlemen, fall on refolvedly, till your hands cleave to your fwords, your fwords to your enemies hearts, your hearts to victory, your victories to triumph, your triumphs to the everlafting praise of him that hath given you Spirits to offer your felves willingly, and to jeopard your lives in high perils, for his Name and fervice fake.

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And Wee your Brethren, though we neceffarily abide beyond Jordan, and remaine on the American Sea-coafts, will fend up Armies of prayers to the Throne of Grace, that the God of power and goodneffe, would incourage your hearts, cover your heads, strengthen your arms, pardon your finnes, fave your foules, and bleffe your families, in the day of Battell. Wee will also pray, that the fame Lord of Hofts, would discover the Counfels, defeat the Enterprizes, deride the hopes, disdaine the infolencies, and wound the hairy scalpes of your obftinate Enemies, and yet pardon all that are unwillingly mifled. Wee will likewise helpe you beleeve that God will be feen on the Mount, that it is all one with him to fave by many or few, and that he doth but humble and try you for the prefent, that he may doe you good at the latter end. All which hee bring to paffe who is able to doe exceeding abundantly, above all we can aske or thinke, for his Truth and mercy fake in Jefus Christ. Amen. Amen.

A Word of IRELAND:

Not of the Nation univerfally, nor of any man in it, that hath fo much as one haire of Chriftianity or Humanity growing on his head or beard, but onely of the truculent Cut-throats, and fuch as fhall take up Armes

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when the Devill fhewed our Saviour all the Kingdomes of the Earth and their glory, that he would not fhew him Ireland, but referved it for himselfe: it is probably true, for he hath kept it ever fince for his own peculiar; the old Fox forefaw it would ecclipfe the glory of all the reft: he thought it wisdome to keep the land for a Boggards for his unclean spirits imployed in this Hemisphere, and the people, to doe his Son and Heire, I mean the Pope, that service for which Lewis the eleventh kept his Barbor Oliver, which makes them fo blood-thirsty. They are the very Offall of men, Dregges of Mankind, Reproach of Christendom, the Bots that crawle on the Beasts taile I wonder Rome it felf is not ashamed of them.

I begge upon my, hands and knees, that the Expedition against them may be undertaken while the hearts and hands of our Souldiery are hot, to whom I will be bold to say briefly: Happy is he that shall reward them as they have ferved us, and Curfed be he that shall do that work of the Lord negligently, Curfed be he that holdeth back his Sword from blood: yea, Curfed be he that maketh not his Sword starke drunk with Irish blood, that doth not recompence them double for their hellifh treachery to the English, that maketh them not heaps upon heaps, and their Country a dwelling place for Dragons, an Astonishment to Nations: Let not that eye look for pity, nor that hand to be spared, that pities or spares them, and let him be accurfed, that curfeth not them bitterly.

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A word of Love to the Common people of England.

IT is, your, now or never, to muster up puissant Armies of prayer to the mercy Seate; your Body Representative, is now to take in hand, as intricate a peice of worke, as ever fell into the hands of any Parliament in the world, to tye an indiffoluble knot upon that webb which hath been woven with fo much coft and bloud, wherein if they happen to make one false maske, it may re-imbarque themselves and you all into a deadly relapse of scorne and calamity. It is the worke of God not of man, pray speedily therefore, and speedingly, give him no reft till your reft be throughly re-established, Your God is a God whose name is All-fufficient, abundant in Goodneffe and Truth, on whom the Sonnes of Iacob never did, nor shall call in vaine, you have a Throne of Grace wherto you may goe boldly; a Chrift to give you a leading by the hand and liberty of speech, an Interceffor in Heaven to offer up your prayers wrapp'd in his own; a large Charter aske and have, a Spirit to helpe all your infirmities in that duty, a fure Covenant that you shalbe heard, and fuch late incouragement as may strengthen your feeble hands for ever. If you who may command God concerning the work of his hand, shall faile to demand the workemanship of his hand in this worke, your children will proclaime you unthrifts

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