Cromwell Parliment Speech 1656 Pt 5 of 5

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Oliver Cromwell: Protector of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, 1656

We now arrive at our destination! Our beloved Sir Oliver Cromwell, the true founder of “These North American United Protestant and Baptist States of America” (1789-1868), concludes his masterpiece with a bold yet compassionate exhortation to continue the Reformation in England.  For if Protestant England should be lost to the Designs of Rome, then the entire White Protestant Western Civilization would be finished.  God help us all to read these his final words and weep with repentance, return to serve the God and Father of the Risen Lord Jesus Christ Who first gave us the Protestant and Baptist-wrought liberties of a once free people.  May we then wax “valiant for the truth in the earth,” being humble towards God and bold towards men for righteousness sake—as did His Royal Highness, Oliver Cromwell the Magnificent.

One final word from Edward McKendree Bounds (1835-1913) taken from his E. M. Bounds on Prayer, (New Kensington, Pennsylvania: Whitaker House, 1997), p. 19:

“When once asked what his plans for the following day were, Martin Luther answered, ‘Work, work, from early until late.  In fact, I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.’  Cromwell, too, believed in being much upon his knees.  On one occasion, while looking at some statues of famous men, he turned to a friend and said,

‘Make mine kneeling, for thus I came to glory.’

Oliver Cromwell, the Great White Father who broke the Temporal Power of the Pope of Rome over his beloved England, Scotland and Ireland, now, in answer to his prayers, delivers his extemporaneous Grand Finale, his Hallelujah Chorus.   As this body of weathered English statesmen—the Protector’s divided Second Protectorate Parliament in whose hands lay the future of continuing Reformation or returning to that Roman Babylon led by the Devil’s Papal Antichrist—sits upright and stunned, the Holy Spirit of God, convicting of sin, righteousness and judgment, has its full attention through His obedient servant, His Royal Highness and Defender of the Faith, Oliver Cromwell.  He concludes:

“I have little more to say to you, being very weary; and I know you are so ‘too.’  Truly I did begin with what I thought was ‘the means’ to carry on this War (if you will carry it on), That we might join together in that vigorously.  And I did promise an answer to an objection:  “But what will you prosecute it with?”  The State is hugely in debt; I believe it comes to—-[Reporter cannot hear; on his Paper is mere Blank;---nay I think his Highness stutters, does not clearly articulate any sum.---Carlyle]—The Treasure of the State is run out.  We shall not be an enemy to your inspection; but desire it,—that you should inspect the Treasury, and how moneys have been expended.  And we are not afraid to look the Nation in the face upon this score.  And therefore we will say negatively, first, No man can say we have misemployed the Treasures of this Nation, and embezzled it to particular and private uses.

“It may be we have not been,—as the world terms it,—so fortunate in all our successes, ‘in the issues of all our attempts’? [Hispaniola was a terrible affair, your Highness; and Jamaica is yet---a load to crush any but a Man of hope!---Carlyle] Truly if we are of mind that God may not decide for us in these things, I think we shall be quarrelling with what God ‘Himself’ will answer ‘for.’  And we hope we are able,—it may be weakly, I doubt not—to give an answer to God, and to give an answer to every man’s conscience in the sight of God, of the reason of things. But we shall tell you, it—["It," the principal "reason" we could give, was the Plotting of the Cavaliers; whereat his Highness bursts into sudden spontaneous combustion again!---Carlyle]—was part of that Arch-Fire, which hath been in this your time; wherein there were flames good store, fire enough;—and it will be your wisdom and skill, and God’s blessing upon you, to quench them both here and elsewhere!  I say it again, our endeavours—by those that have been appointed, by those that have been Major-Generals; I can repeat it with comfort,—they have been effectual for the Preservation of your Peace! [What worlds of old terror, rage and endeavour, all dead now; what continents of extinct fire, of life-volcanoes once blazing, now sunk in eternal darkness, do we discern, with emotion, through this chance crevice in his Highness!---Carlyle] It hath been more effectual towards the discountenancing of Vice and settling Religion, that anything done these fifty years [since the beginning of the reign of King James I---EJP]:  I will abide by it, nothwithsanding the envy and slander of foolish men! [Poor Oliver, noble Oliver!---Carlyle]  But I say there was a Design—I confess I speak that to you with a little vehemency—But you had not peace two months together, ‘nothing but plot after plot;’ I profess I believe it as much as ever I did anything in the world: and how instrumental they, ‘these Major Generals,’ have been to your peace and for your preservation, by such means,—which, we say, was Necessity! More ‘instrumental’ than all instituted things in the world!— —If you would make laws against whatever things God may please to send, ‘laws’ to meet everything that may happen,—you make a law in the face of God; you tell God you will meet all His dispensations, and will stay things whether He will or no! *

[*'Laws against events,' insisted on before, 181.  The 'event' there could be no law against beforehand, was the universal rising of the cutthroat Cavaliers: a thing not believed-in by the thickskinned, but too well known to his Highness as a terrible verity,---which the thickest skin would have got acquainted with, moreover, had it not been for him!  Evidently a most provoking topic.---Carlyle]

“But if you make good laws of Government, that men may know how to obey and to act for Government, they may be laws that have frailty and weakness; ay, and ‘yet’ good laws to be observed.  But if nothing should ‘ever’ be done but what is “according to Law,” the throat of the Nation may be cut while we send for some to make a Law! [The Tyrant's plea?---Yes, and the true Governor's my friend; for extremes meet.---Carlyle] Therefore certainly it is a pitiful beastly notion to think, though it be for ordinary Government to live by law and rule, yet—’if a Government in extraordinary circumstances go beyond the law even for self-preservation, it is’ to be clamoured-at, and blottered-at. [His Highness still extremely animated; wants as if more tongues than one to speak all e feels!---Carlyle] When matters of Necessity come, then without guilt extraordinary remedies may not be applied?  who can be so pitiful a person!—

“I confess, if Necessity be pretended, there is so much the more sin. [So it is in America today.  911 was a terrorist act carried out by the Unified American Intelligence Community overseen by Archbishop of New York City Edward Cardinal Egan's Jesuit-Georgetown University trained, CFR-member and Director of Central Intelligence, Roman Catholic Knight of Malta George J. Tenet.  The pretended "Necessity" springing from this treason was the Jesuit-authored Patriot Act and the Jesuit-created Department of "Romeland" Security--- "so much the more sin."---EJP]  A laying the irregularity of men’s actions upon God as if He had sent a Necessity;—who doth indeed send Necessities!  But to anticipate these—For as to an appeal to God, I own it, ‘own this Necessity,’ conscientiously to God; and the principles of Nature  dictate the thing: [Again, we are being instructed by "Nature" as cited in the American Declaration of Independence, 1776.---EJP] —But if there be a supposition, I say, of a Necessity which [in fact---EJP] is not, every act so done hath in it the more sin.  This ‘whether it a given  case, there is a Necessity or not,’ perhaps is rather to be disputed than otherwise:  But I must say I do not know one action ‘of this Government,’ no not one, but it hath been in order to the peace and safety of the Nation.  And the keeping of some in prison [Liburn, Wildman, Overton, Grey of Groby, Willoughby of Parham, occasionally Harrison and others: a fair stock of Prisoners up and down!---Carlyle] hath been upon such clear and just grounds that no man can except against it.  I know there are some imprisoned in the Isle of Wight, in Cornwall and elsewhere; and the cause of their imprisonment, was, They were all found acting things which tended to the disturbance of the Peace of the Nation.  Now these principles made us say to them:  “Pray live quietly in your own “countries:  you shall not be urged with bonds or engagements, or to “subscribe to the Government.”  But they would not so much as say, “We will promise to live peaceably.”  If others are imprisoned, it is because they have done such things.  And if other particulars strike, we know what to say,—as having endeavoured to walk as those that would not only give an account to God of their actions in Authority, but had ‘withal’ to give an account of them to men. [Anticlimax;---better than some climaxes; full of simplicity and discretion.---Carlyle]

“I confess I have digressed much.—I would not have you be discouraged if you think the State is exceeding poor.  Give me leave to tell you, we have managed the Treasury not unthriftily, nor to private uses; but for the use of the Nation and Government;—and shall give you this short account. When the Long Parliament sat, this Nation owed 700,000l.   We examined it; it was brought unto that,—in short Meeting ‘of the Little Parliament ["Rump Parliament" after Pride's Purge---EJP],’ within half a year after the Government came into our hands.  I believe there was more rather than less.  They ‘the Long-Parliament people,’ had 120,000l. a-month; they had the King’s, Queen’s, Prince’s, Bishops’ Lands; all Delinquents’ Estates, and the Dean-and-Chapter Lands;—which was a very rich Treasure.  As soon as ever we came to the Government, we abated 30,000l. the first half-year, and 60,000l. after.  We had no benefits of those Estates, at all considerable; I do not think the fiftieth part of what they had:—and give me leave to tell you, You are not so much in debt as we found you.  We know it hath been maliciously dispersed, as if we had set the Nation into 2,500,000l. of debt:  but I tell you, you are not so much in debt, by some thousands,—I think I may say, by some hundreds of thousands!  This is true that I tell you.  We have honestly,—it may be not so wisely as some others would have done,—but with honest and plain hearts, laboured and endeavoured the disposal of Treasure to Public Uses; and laboured to pull off the common charge 60,000l. a-month, as you see.  And if we had continued that charge that was left upon the Nation, perhaps we could have had as much money ‘in hand,’ as now we are in debt.—These things being thus, I did think it my duty to give you this account,—though it be wearisome even to yourselves and to me.

“Now if I had the tongue of an Angel; if I was so certainly Inspired as the holy Men of God have been, I could rejoice, for your sakes, and for these Nations’ sakes [England, Scotland and Ireland---EJP], and for the sake of God, and of His Cause which we have all been engaged in [breaking the Pope's Temporal Power over these nations---EJP], if I could move affections in you to that which, if you do it, will save this nation!  If not,—you plunge it, to all human appearance, ‘it’ and all Interests, yea and all Protestants in the world, into irrecoverable ruin!—

“Therefore I pray and beseech you, in the name of Christ, Show yourselves to be men; “quit yourselves like men!” [I Corinthians 16:13, AV1611] It doth not infer any reproach if yo do show yourselves men:  Christian men,—which alone will make you “quite yourselves.”  I do not think that, to this work you have in hand, a neutral spirit will do.  That is a Laodicean spirit; and we know what God said to that Church [Revelation 3:14-22]:  it was “lukewarm,” and therefore He would “spew it out of His mouth!”  It is not a neutral spirit that is incumbent upon you.  And it not a neutral spirit, it is much less a stupefied spirit, inclining you, in the least disposition, the wrong way!  Men are, in their private consciences, every day making shipwreck; and it’s no wonder if these can shake hands with persons of reprobate Interests:—such, give me leave to thing, are the Popish Interests.  For the Apostle brands them so, “having seared consciences.” [I Timothy 4:2]  Though I do not judge every man:—but the ringleaders are such.  The Scriptures foretold there should be such.* [Jude 4; II Timothy 3:1-5]

[*Of the Insurrectionary persons, and the general Miscellany who favor the Popish Interests; it is on these more than on Papists proper that his Highness is now again coming to glance.---Carlyle.  Such is the case here in the US today: there are many traitors and insurrectionists within the Pope's CFR and assorted secret societies who are not Roman Catholics, and thus Roman Catholics in general should not be blamed for the Black Pope's Design against Protestant-and-Baptist, "heretic-and-liberal" America imposed by a host of conspirators who are anything but Roman Catholics!---EJP]

“It is not such a spirit that will carry this work on!  It is men in a Christian state; who have works and faith [spoken as a true Calvinist!---EJP]; who know how to lay hold on Christ for remission ‘of sins,’ till a man be brought to “glory and hope.”  Such an hope kindled in men’s spirits will actuate them to such ends as you are tending to:  and so many as are partakers of that, and do own your standings, wherein the Providence of God hath set and called you to this work, ‘so many’ will carry it on.

“If men, through scruple, be opposite, you cannot take them by the hand to carry them ‘along with you,’—it were absurd:  if a man be scrupling the plain truth before him, it is in vain to meddle with him.  He hath placed another business in his mind; he is saying, “Oh, if we could but exercise wisdom to gain Civil Liberty,—Religion would follow!” [His Highness thinks Religion will PRECEDE,---as I hope thou also, in a sense, emphatically thinkest.  His Highness does not much affect Constitution-builders, Oceana Harringtons, and Members of the Rota Club.  Here, however he has his eye principally upon the late Parliament, with its Constitution-pedantries and parchments.---Carlyle.  Once again, such is the case here in the US: Constitution-loving, patriotic nationalists will never restore Protestant liberty unless there is a spiritual Great Awakening via the preaching of the true Gospel of Christ as was the case during Cromwell's era, as was the case during Washington's era!---EJP] Certainly there are such men, who are not maliciously blind, whom  God, for some cause, exercises.  It cannot be expected that they should do anything! These men,—they must demonstrate that they are in bonds.— —Could we have carried it thus far, if we had sat disputing in that manner?  I must profess I reckon that difficulty more than all the wrestling with flesh and blood. [What could so try one as that Pedant Parliament did; disputing, doling-out pennyweights of distilled constitution; and Penruddock, Charles Stuart and the Spaniards waiting momentarily to come in, with Ate (a group of persons with reckless ambition driving men to ruin) and the Scarlet Woman (with the Holy Office of the Inquisition) in their rear?---Carlyle]  Doubting, hesitating men, they are not fit for your work.  You must not expect that men of hesitating spirits, under the bondage of scruples, will be able to carry on this work much less such as are merely carnal, natural; such as having an “outward profession of Godliness,” whom the Apostle speaks of so often, “are enemies to the cross of Christ; whose god is their belly; whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things.” [Philippians 3:18-19]  Do you think these men will rise to such a spiritual heat for the Nation as shall carry you a Cause like this; as will meet ‘and defy’ all the oppositions that the Devil and wicked men can make? [Not to BE expected, your Highness; not at all.   And yet we, two-hundred years later, how do we go on expecting it,---by the aid of Ballot-boxes, Reform-Club Attorneys, etc. etc.!---Carlyle.  We in the US are under the same Papal delusion, siding with either the Democrats or Republicans, both parties mere tools of Rome!---EJP]

“Give me leave to tell you,—those that are called to this work, it will not depend ‘for them’ upon formalities, nor notions, nor speeches!  I do not look the work should be done by these.  ‘No;’ but by men of honest hearts, engaged to God; strengthened by Providence; enlightened in His words, to know His Word,—to which He hath set His Seal, sealed with the blood of His Son, with the blood of His Servants:  that is such a spirit as will carry on this work.

“Therefore I beseech you, do not dispute of unnecessary and unprofitable things which may divert you from carrying on so glorious a work as this is. [The "Glorious Work" is to keep Great Britain forever free from the tyranny of the Pope's Temporal Power reigning throughout the land, that Papal Power presently exercised through Queen Elizabeth II!---EJP]  I think every objection that ariseth is not to be answered; nor have I time for it.  I say, Look up to God; have peace among yourselves.  Know assuredly that if I have interest, I am by the voice of the People the Supreme Magistrate; and, it may be, do know somewhat that might satisfy my conscience, if I stood in doubt!  But it is a union, really it is a union, ‘this’ between you and me;  and both of us united in faith and love to Jesus Christ, and to His peculiar Interest in the world,—that must ground this work.  And in that, if I have any peculiar Interest which is personal to myself, which is not subservient to the Public end,—it were not an extravagant thing for me to curse myself:  because I know God will curse me, if I have! [Look in that countenance of his Highness!---Carlyle]  I have learned too much of God, to dally with Him, and to be bold with Him, in these things.  And I hope I never shall be bold with Him;—though I can be bold with men, if Christ be pleased to assist!—

“I say, if there be love between us, so that the Nations [England, Scotland and Ireland] may say, “These are knit together in one bond, to “promote the glory of God against the Common Enemy [the Jesuit Papacy and its agents, foreign and domestic---EJP]; to suppress everything “that is Evil, and encourage whatsoever is of Godliness,”—yea, the Nation will bless you!  And really that and nothing else will work-off these Disaffections from the minds of men; which are great,—perhaps greater than all the ‘other’ oppositions you can meet with.  I do know what I say.  When I speak of these things, I speak my heart before God;—and, as I said before, I dare not be bold with Him.  I have a little faith:  I have a little lived by faith, and therein I may be “bold.”  If I spoke other than the affections and secrets of my heart, I know He would not bear it at my hands! [Deep silence; His Highness's voice, in sonorous bass, alone audible in the Painted Chamber.---Carlyle]  Therefore in the fear and name of God:  Go on, with love and integrity, against whatever arises of contrary to those ends which you know and have been told of; and the blessing of God go with you,—and the blessing of God will go with you! [Amen!---Carlyle]

“I have but one more thing to say.  I know it is troublesome:—But I did read a Psalm yesterday; which truly may not unbecome both me to tell you of, and you to observe.  It is the Eighty-fifth Psalm; it is very instructive and significant: and though I do but a little touch upon it, I desire your perusal at pleasure. [We will many of us read it, this night; almost all of us, with one view or the other;---and some of us may sing a part of it at evening worship.---Carlyle]

“It begins: “Lord, Thou hast been very favourable to Thy Land; Thou “hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.  Thou has forgiven the “iniquity of Thy People; Thou hast covered all their sin.  Thou hast “taken away all the fierceness of Thy wrath:  Thou has turned “Thyself from the fierceness of Thine anger.  Turn us, O God of our “salvation, and cause Thine anger toward us to cease.  Wilt thou be “angry with us forever; wilt Thou draw out Thine anger to all “generations?  Wilt Thou not revive us again, that Thy People may “rejoice in Thee?” Then he calls upon God as “the God of his “salvation,” and then saith he: “I will hear what God the Lord will “speak:  for He will speak peace unto His People, and to His Saints; “but let them not turn again to folly.  Surely His Salvation is nigh “them that fear Him;”  Oh—“that glory may dwell in our Land!  “Mercy and Truth are met together; Righteousness and Peace have “kissed each other.  Truth shall spring out of the Earth, and “Righteousness shall look down from Heaven.  Yea the Lord shall “give that which is good, and our Land shall yield her increase,  “Righteousness shall go before Him, and shall set us in the way of His “steps.”

[What a vision of celestial hope is this!  vista into Lands of Light; God's Will done on Earth; this poor English Earth and Emblem of Heaven; where God's Blessing reigns supreme; where ghastly Falsity and brutal Greed and Baseness, and Cruelty and Cowardice, and Sin and Fear, and all the Helldogs of Gehenna shall lie chained under our feet; and Man, august in divine manhood, shall step victorious over them, heavenward, like a god!  O Oliver, I could weep,---and yet it steads not.  Do not I too look into "Psalms," into a kind of Eternal Psalm, unalterable as adamant,----which the whole world yet will look into?  Courage, my brave one!---Carlyle]

“Truly I wish that this Psalm, as it is written in the Book [AV1611 English Authorized Version---EJP], might be better written in our hearts.  That we might say as David, “Thou hast done this,” and “Thou has done that;” “Thou has pardoned our sins; Thou hast taken away our iniquities”!  Whether can we go to a better God?  For “He “hath done it.”  It is to Him any Nation may come in their extremity, for the taking away of His wrath.  How did He do it?  “By pardoning “their sins, by taking away their iniquities!”  If we can but cry unto Him, He will “turn and take away our sins.”—Then let us listen to Him.  Then let us consult, and meet in Parliament; and ask Him counsel, and hear what He saith, “for He will speak peace unto His “People.”  If you be the People of God, He will speak peace;—and we will not turn again to folly.

” “Folly:” a great deal of grudging in the Nation that we cannot have our horse-races, cock-fightings, and the like! [Abolished, suspended, for good reasons!---Carlyle.  Cromwell also closed down the wicked Globe Theater.---EJP] I do not think these are lawful, except to make them recreations.  That we will not endure ‘for necessary ends’ [For preventing Royalist Plots, and suchlike---Carlyle] to be abridged of them:—Till God hath brought us to another spirit than this, He will not bear with us. Ay, “but He bears with them in France;” “they in France are so are so!” [As previously stated, 19 years from the date of this sitting, the Jesuits will purge France of all her Protestant Huguenots via the Revocation of Nantes, 1685.---EJP]–-Have they the Gospel as we have?  They have seen the sun but a little; we have great lights.— —If God give you a spirit of Reformation, you will preserve this Nation from “turning again” to those fooleries:—and what will the end be?  Comfort and blessing.  Then “Mercy and Truth shall meet together.” Here is a great deal of “truth” among professors, but very little “mercy”!  They are ready to cut the throats of one another.  But when we are brought into the right way, we shall be merciful as well as orthodox:  and we know who it is that saith, “If a man could speak with the tongues of men and angels, and yet want that, he is but sounding brass and a tingling cymbal!” [I Corinthians 13:1]

Therefore I beseech you in the name of God, set your hearts to this ‘work.’  And if you set your hearts to nit, then you will sing Luther’s Psalm. [Psalm Forty-sixth; of which Luther's Paraphrase, Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott, is still very celebrated.---Carlyle] That it is a rare Psalm for a Christian!—and if he set his heart open, and can approve it to God, we shall hear him say, “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble.” [The classic A Very Present Help: A Tribute to the Faithfulness of God (1945) written by English Lt. General Sir William Dobbie is highly recommended.---EJP]  If Pope and Spaniard, and Devil and all, set themselves against us,—though they should “compass us like bees,” as it is in the Hundred-and-eighteenth Psalm,—yet in the name of the Lord we should destroy them!  And, as it is in this Psalm of Luther’s:  “We will not fear, though the Earth be removed, and “though the mountains be carried into the middle of the sea; though “the waters thereof roar and be troubled; though the mountains “shake with the swelling thereof.”  “There is a river, the streams “thereof shall make glad the City of God.  God is in the midst of her; “she shall not be moved.” Then he repeats two or three times, “The “Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.”

[What are the King of Spain, Charles Stuart, Joseph Wagstaff, Chancellor Hyde, and your triple-hatted Chimera of Rome?  What is the Devil in General, for that matter,---the still very extensive Entity called"Devil," with all the force he can raise?---Carlyle.  Indeed, what are King Juan Carlos, the King of Spain; Mulatto Barry Davis Obama and his White Jesuit master, Joe Biden; General David Petraeus; Chancellor Heinz Kissinger and that Antichrist Pope Benedict XVI in Rome? What is the Devil, with all the force he can raise if indeed the Risen Lord Jesus Christ has all power in heaven and in earth and He resides in us by His Holy Spirit, those of us in Christ Jesus?  Indeed, the Lord is the strength of our lives, OF WHOM SHALL WE BE AFRAID!---EJP]

“I have done.  All I have to say is, To pray God that He may bless you with His presence; that He who hath your hearts and mine would show His presence in the midst of us.

“I desire you will go together, and choose your Speaker.”

Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations, (London: Chapman and Hall, 1894), Vol, IV of V, pp. 210-222.

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