Evangelium armatum, A specimen, or short collection of several doctrines and positions destructive to our government, both civil and ecclesiastical preached and vented by the known leaders and abetters of the pretended reformation such as Mr. Calamy, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Case, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Caryll, Mr. Marshall, and others, &c.

The late Usurpers own'd as a Holy State set up by Almighty God.

MAster Sam. Slater in a Sermon Preached at S. Edmunds Bury in Suffolk upon the 13. of Octob. 1658. Being a day set apart for Solemn Fasting and Humiliation, and seeking a blessing upon His Highness the Lord Protector. This Sermon he intitles The Protectors Protection, or the Pious Prince guarded by a Praying People. In this Sermon, Pag. 57, & 58. He hath these words, Oh! pray for your Governours, and in a more special manner, for him whom God hath made chief over you, and by his Providence called to the Supreme place of Magistracy in the Nation. God hath been pleased of late to make a sad breach among Us, taking away from Us our former Pilot, the late Renowned Protector, who when he had fought the Nations Battels, carried us thorow the wilderness, preserved us from the rage and fury of our Enemies, and brought us within s•…•…ght of the promised Land, gave up the Ghost, laid down his leading Staff, and his life together, with whose fall the Nation was shaken: his death covered all the faces of sober and considerate Persons with paleness, and their hearts with sadness, as if Peace, Prosperity, Resormation, the Gospel, all lay drawing on, and would be buried in the same grave with him. But b•…•…essed be God, Divine Grace vouchsafed to cast an eye towards us, and to visit us

in our low estate: there is another Pilot placed in his room; VVhile he directs the Course, let us fill the Sails with our Praying breath. Moses, it is true, is dead, but we have a Joshua succeeding him; let us pray that what the other happily begun, this may more happily finish, and bring the accom∣plishment of all your right-bred hopes: and what they said to Joshua, let us say unto his Highness, According as we hearkned unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee, onely the Lord they God be with thee, as he was with Moses. Jos. 1. 17. And pag. 60. Our Prince riseth gloriously, pray that he might n•…•…t set in a cloud: Our hopes concerning him are great, pray that they may not be blasted. Thus He.