To his Excellencie the Lord Charls Fleetwood, and the rest of the officers of the Army This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94408 of text R211163 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.21[24]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A94408 Wing T1350 Thomason 669.f.21[24] ESTC R211163 99900179 99900179 132744 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94408) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 132744) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2557:20) To his Excellencie the Lord Charls Fleetwood, and the rest of the officers of the Army Fleetwood, Charles, d. 1692. England and Wales. Army. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by J.C. for Livewel Chapman, London : 1659. Signed: From several thousands of faithful friends to the good old cause, in and about the city of London. Complaining of the Army's neglect of its duty to the country and the cause. Annotation on Thomason copy: "April 26". Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library. eng England and Wales. -- Army -- Early works to 1800. Presbyterianism -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- London A94408 R211163 (Thomason 669.f.21[24]). civilwar no To his Excellencie the Lord Charls Fleetwood, and the rest of the officers of the Army. [no entry] 1659 613 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-09 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-09 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion To his Excellencie the Lord Charls Fleetwood , and the rest of the Officers of the ARMY . SIRS , HAving obtained favour from the Lord in this day of Apostacy to be faithfull to him in the promotion of righteousnesse , so long contended for , which for sometime past , to the grief of our hearts , hath been slighted and publickly denied , by those , who formerly had solemnely ( before the Lord and his people ) engaged for it ; and now after our so long waiting upon the Lord , he hath been pleased to give us some grounds of hope , that we shall live to see the reviving of the good Old Cause , by the taste you have given us of your willingness to appear for it , in some of your late expressions . The understanding of which ( together with what we have observed by tracing the foot steps of providence in your late transactions ) giveth us ground to believe that you are returning in good earnest ; the thoughts , of which , incourageth us to present unto you , vvhat the Lord hath powerfully put upon our spirits , as the result of our several meetings , wherein we doubt not but we have met with God . 1. That you consider when and where you turned aside from the way in which God was pleased eminently to own you ; and also whether you have not found a want of that presence of the Lord going along with your Counsels and Affairs , which in former times you were guided by , when that you appeared singly for God and your Country . 2. Secondly , that you would take a re-view of that Declaration of that memorable Parliament , published in the year 1648 , March 17. wherein they express the grounds of a Free State ; and that the same Parliament ( who changed the Government from Kingly to a Commonwealth ) may assemble themselves together , for the exercise of the Supreme Trust committed to them , in the prosecution of which on April 20. 1653. they were interrupted . 3. Thirdly , that you would consider who they were that from time to time have obstructed the faithful proceedings of those that are among you , whose hearts God hath touched with a sense of the great neglect of their Duty to God and their Country ; and be admonished forthwith to dismiss them , out of your Councils and Armies for time to come . 4. Lastly , that you would consider who they are that have been ejected the Army , or otherwise forced to forsake it , for their Faithfulness to the Cause of God and his People , in bearing their testimony against Tyranny and Oppression , and with all speed call them to their Places , and admit them to your Councils . In the doing of these things you vvill strengthen our hopes , that you are in reality and truth for God and his people , vvho vvill be thereby engaged to encourage and stand by you vvith their lives and Estates ; otherwise our Fears will be enlarged , that you are but daubing with untempered mortar ; and you may assuredly expect , that then the Lord will depart from you , and all the Faithful decline you . From several Thousands of faithful Friends to the Good old Cause , in and about the City of London . London , Printed by J. C. for Livewel Chapman . 1659.