cept upon fuch Ground where Churches or Chappels do already ftand, in regard of the Inconvenience of fetting up Altar against Altar: And foraf much as the Cuftom of reading fome part of the Holy Bible before Sermon, commonly called Firft and Second Lef fons, hath been found Fruitless, That therefore the faid Grand Commissioners and Farmers, may have Power to appoint inftead thereof, the Annual reading of thofe Sermons preached by many of the faid Grand Commiffioners and Farmers, before the Parliament, upon Special Occafions of Thanksgiv ing and Humiliation, from the Year 1641, to the Year 1648. Which faid Sermons may be called, The Homilies of the Separating Churches.

That the faid Grand Commiffioners and Farmers may have Power to require Mr. Gilbert Millington, and Mr. Luke Robinfon, the lame Evangelift, to deliver up all fuch Articles, Orders, Books, Papers, and other Writings, as were tranfacted before the late Committee for plundered Minifters; and likewife, all fuch as were paffed and tranfacted before Mr. Philip Ney, and fome others of

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the now Grand Commiffioners and Farmers, and heretofore called, Commiffioners, or, Spiritual Tryers, to the end the faid Articles, Orders, Books, and other Papers, may be printed and published, and may be kept at the faid Office upon Record for ever, and appointed to be the Book of Canons of the Separated Churches.

All this being done, we may upon Scripture Grounds expect, that the Door of Hope may yet be open to Us, and our Children after us, to fee the Travail of our Souls, and to fet us into the Promised Land, and to reap fome of thofe Clusters of the Grapes of Ca naan, which, with fo much Labour and Toil of Body and Mind, were planted, especially in the Years of 1641, 42, 43, 44, 45, by many of Us, and other precious Saints and Minifters of the Golpel, who are fince fallen afleep, and have, we hope, reaped the Fruits of thofe Labours, the Lord having in that Day put a mighty Spirit into Us, and fet us as Watchmen upon the Towers of Ifrael, to cry mightily, Curfe ye Meroz, curfe ye bitterly. Grant that thofe Heart-breaking Labours of Ours, thofe King-deftroying Labours, E 4 thofe

thofe Kingdom-ruining Labours, thofe Gofpel fcandalizing Labours, thofe Church fubverting Labours, thofe Soulconfounding Labours of Ours may never be forgotten, but may be written, as with the Point of a Diamond, upon the Heart of the King, upon the Hearts of the Bishops, upon the Hearts of the Parliament, and upon the Hearts of all the People, from Dan to Beersheva, that fo in God's good time, we may receive our Reward feven-fold into our own Bofoms, and that the Generations to come, may hear and fear, and do no more fo wickedly. So prays

S. Butler.

The Round-Heads Refolution.

Whereas we are, thro' our greatIgnorance and Obftinacy grown to a moft Seditions and Malignant Head, and the Horns of that Head (tho' of a main length) not able to fup. port our Arrogant Faction, as appears by our last being foundly flash'd and

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baftinado'd, by a mad Crew called the Cavaliers; and whereas a great Part of Us have shut up our Shops, because we could no longer keep them open; which kind of fhutting up, proceedeth commonly from our vaft Expence in White-broths, Cuftards, and other Luxurious Difbes, provided for the Edification one of another. And whereas the Multitude called, True Proteftants, endeavour to hold up Bishops, to maintain good Order, Difcipline, and Orthodox Preaching in the Church; Learning and Arts in the Universities, and Peace in the Commonwealth; all which is nothing but Idolatry, Superftition, Profaneness, and plain Popery: And further, whereas we (who are nothing properly but Round Heads and Fanaticks) are in moft fcandalous manner termed Holy Brethren, the Zealots of the Land, and which in Sincerity we never were, or ever will be.

And forafmuch likewife as the prophane World of True Proteftants, are a ftiff-necked Generation, and will not yield unto Us the Pre-eminence of Doctrine and Religion, notwithstanding the many fenfelefs two Hours of E 5 thof

thofe Spiritual Trumpets of Our Faction, the Sanctified Clergy-Lecturers, or of Our more Divine Lectures of our Supreme She Lecturers, whofe Bowels do even earn for the getting in of the Saints unto Us, and have, as it were, even a zealous lufting after Us:

And forafmuch as the Religion profeffed by Us, is the pureft and moft decent, as appears by the great Love and Community betwixt the Brethren and the Sifters, the Conveniency of the Woods, Saw-pits, and Dark Places, the putting out Lights, and defying thofe Tapers of Iniquity, which caufe us to behold our own Wicked Deeds, the goodly Bignefs of the Ear, with the Shortness of the Hair, which hindereth not the Sound of the Shepherds Voice, but easily heareth them call to a great Feaft, amongst the Rich Saints; the Length and Sharpness of the Nose, which not only fmelleth the fweet Savours of the Holy Plumb-broth, but alfo promifeth an eager Appetite to fome good Works towards the Younger Sifters, the Roundness of the Band, the Length of the Doublet, and the Shortness of the Breeches, being a Habit correfpondent to the Pictures of

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