To his excellencie the Lord Generall Cromwell, and his Honourable Councel of the army at White-Hall. The humble petition of Arise Evans, living in Blackfriers, on the behalf of Gods glorie, the kingdoms behalf, your Honors behalf, and the behalf of the whole world besides. Evans, Arise, b. 1607. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84157 of text R211358 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.17[7]). 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 A84157 Wing E3464 Thomason 669.f.17[7] ESTC R211358 99870088 99870088 163257 2240941588

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84157) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163257) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f17[7]) To his excellencie the Lord Generall Cromwell, and his Honourable Councel of the army at White-Hall. The humble petition of Arise Evans, living in Blackfriers, on the behalf of Gods glorie, the kingdoms behalf, your Honors behalf, and the behalf of the whole world besides. Evans, Arise, b. 1607. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1653] Imprint from Wing. Dated at end: May 16. 1653. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Prophecies -- Early works to 1800. A84157 R211358 (Thomason 669.f.17[7]). civilwar no To his excellencie the Lord Generall Cromwell, and his Honourable Councel of the army at White-Hall. The humble petition of Arise Evans, liv Evans, Arise 1653 1 587 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. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To his EXCELLENCIE the LORD GENERAL CROMWELL , and his Honourable Councel of the Army at WHITE-HALL . The humble Petition of ARISE EVANS , living in Blackfriers , on the behalf of Gods glorie , the Kingdoms behalf , your honours behalf , and the behalf of the whole world besides . Humbly sheweth ,

THat your Petitioner , having the knowledge of Gods secret Counsel manifested to him , being called thereto , hath declared it freely to all people these 19. years ' , as you may see in his book called [ A Voice from Heaven , ] Written in the year 1651. and directed to the Common-wealth of England : as also the further preparation of God in him for the same purpose from his Nativitie to this time ; And the effects thereof you have fully set forth in his book called [ An Eccho to the voice from Heaven , &c. ] Written in the year 1652. In both which books is sufficiently shewed Gods determination concerning this Common-Wealth .

That , from the date of the said books you may observe , how God hath in part fulfilled the words of your Petitioner , and thereby conclude , God will fulfill the remainder thereof , so that , as sure as the Parliament is dissolved , as sure shall the King come to his Throne , as it is sufficiently proved in the aforesaid book . And indeed if your Honours will looke into the same , and seriously reade and consider them , you shall finde that your Petitioner would not turn water into bloud , but would rather turn bloud into water , and water into wine , to cherish the heart of the sorrowfull , that the waters and tears of repentance might wash away the guilt of bloud , and become wine of consolation to this Nation , in their union and conjunction with the KING .

That without their conjunction to their Native and right KING , there is no hope of peace , certainty , or safety to this Nation , nor to your selves ( most Noble Worthies ) whose actions are glorious , though as yet much imperfect : The great Mountain Parliament is become a plain before you : Next in order the KING is to be exalted by you , who is signified by the head-stone , Zachar. 4. 7.

Crown all your actions by setting him up , and be glorious for ever : I am sure , if you speedily proclaim him KING , you will glorifie God thereby , and save an Ocean of English bloud from being spilt , and have such conditions of perfect peace from GOD and the KING , that you and your seed may be his glorious Nobles for ever : Therefore , because time is short , use your Jewel for your best advantage , least you loose it , as the Parliament did , for want of using it aright , according to the minde of God , and your Petitioners instructions .

May 16. 1653. Your Petitioner therefore humbly prayes , that your Honours would with your most serious thoughts consider these few lines , and set the KING ( Charles Stewart by Name ) upon his Throne . Doe this and live for ever , 1 John , 2 Chr. 17. John 11. 26. And your Petitioner shall ever pray , &c.