A Lookingglass FOR THE WELL-AFFECTED in the City of LONDON.  
WHEREIN They may behold those dangers and miseries which are ready to fall upon them if they do not speedily make a firm Combination against the Common Enemy.  
Printed in the year 1648.   

An Admonition.  

NOw dangers us assail,  
And troubles us surround;  
Its time for us t'be friends,  
For fear our foes get ground.   

Religion's now at stake,  
Our Lives our Liberties,  
Wherefore let's draw our swords,  
And join our Companies.   

Let all our quarrels sleep,  
Our Church dissensions flee:  
Let's join together in one,  
Live, love, and brethren be.   

Let's wrest these swords and spears  
Out of our Enemies, hands:  
Let's seize their Ordnance,  
And rout their swearing Bands.   

That Legacy which we  
From our fore fathers have,  
Before we'll lose it thus  
Our bed shall be a grave.   

Though Presbyterians,  
And Independents jar;  
These know their misery,  
we'll never fall to war.    

Dear fellow Citizens,  
DAngerously are we distracted by the Common Enemy abroad, but more dangerously by the Common enemy at home, I mean our dissensions, divisions, and Discontents. They are the battering Rams, wherewith the strongest walls of our safety, love, affection, and unity are shattered and broken in pieces. The Artillery, which in time will Level the Highest Turrets in our Commonwealth. The Powder-plot (which if not prevented by your close sarrying together) will blow up this, and all succeeding Parliaments; There is no way to undo us, but by our own procurement: we cannot fall into our Enemy's Traps and Pitfalls, unless we be artificially miserable: Our safety is impregnable, unless we give the hand to our enemies, tear our Colours, march, and receive pay under our adversaries standards. Our own Divisions in Parliament, City, Kingdom, and Army, may reduce us to a confused heap. Our heart-burnings may cause our unbred, unborn, our unthought of Posterities, to have heart-akings, when they shall wear yokes of iron, be whipped with lashes of slavery, inflicted by the hand of Monarchical, and Princely Tyranny: what danger by reason of your frivolous and needless Discontents, may, and are ready to charge you? read & peruse, it may be here you may find them: what may be the best and most probable ways for your safety, read here, and if you please, you may use them. The safety both of you and yours is now concerned: it is within the sphere of your power, either to vanquish your enemies, or by foreslowing relief and assistance to the Parl. and to your other friends and allies to enslave and beggar your whole posterity. Did not a certain foresight of your Imminent ruin upon your neglectings and slighting the Parliament, and your honourable Gen. compel me to persuade an accord, union, and sweet Compliance. I had never published such an Exhortation, but seeing the unbridled and Tempestuous fury of our old, once dead, but now revived enemy will not be assuaged, or be calmed, without either bringing us, or, being brought themselves into a perishing and forlorn Condition: I thought it not altogether inconvenient, if I induced you to recollect all the dangers, which may hazard the ruin of your Religion, your Lives, and your Liberties. Never were our lives more aimed at then now, by the Abners and Amaziahs of our days, who make the murdering of us, but playing at the worst, or looking one another in the face. Never could a more bloody, merciless, and barbarous Enemy have opposed us, who will either ruin us, or be ruined themselves, either their blood must be spilt or ours, their estates forfeited or ours, their or our posterities beggared and overthrown to all Eternity. If we in this time of imminent danger, and greatest extremity, should start aside and detract a joint compliance with our Grandees of State, and Military affairs; if we should withdraw our assistance from our old Companions, and fellows in Arms, reposing confidence in the glozing speeches of a Butchering party: This favour dear Countrymen and fellow Citizens, you may expect from the Polyphemuses of our times, to be the last that shall be devoured. Never were any so wooed, Courted, and when they prevailed not, threatened, because we would not sell our birthright for a mess of pottage, renounce our right bequeathed to a Legacy, full dearly bought with the blood of many of our noble Ancestors. How do vassalage and slavery threaten to banish Liberty, & Lord it over us, when the P. of Wales is landed with a power of mercenary Walloons, a hodgepodge of lewd foreigners, all Papists, and Venetian Adventurers: merely like the Turkish Allies, the Tartarians, whose only pay must be the plunder and pillage of whole Cities & Counties? Will not these be to you in time, what the guard of Swissers are, and have been to the tumultuous parisians? Will they in time be any more favourable to your City, than the Spanish garrison to the poor Neapolitans? Will not these prove Lord Danes to your houses, wives, & Daughters? the sweat of your brows shall be in vain poured forth, for the maintenance of idle and Drone Be foreigners, when these miseries have taken you prisoners and enchained you, it will be bitter to your remembrance, that ever you contested and daggered together, whether Presbytery, or Independency shall obtain the Superiority. Our fortunes too, must be the object of men of fortune, Scotish, Irish, English, French, Walloons, all Rebels, or disaffected persons to our state, though well-affected to our lands and goods, must (if possible by armed violence) be made joint-tenants of our Inheritances. These Exotic Myrmidons, must be enriched with our Possessions by Charter from the King, because they did overthrow our great Charter, which they are to hold in pure villainage; for where the authority of a King is, there is power, and who may say unto him, what dost thou? Our Religion and glorious profession of the truth, is endangered to suffer shipwreck, openly scandalised by the Giants of our days, who would make war with the Almighty, were not the Thunderbolts of God's vengeance ready to strike their souls out of their bodies, and death armed with a Capias ad respondendum before the great Judge's tribunal of Heaven and Earth. How will the Crystal clearness of our Protestant Profession be obfuscated and foully beslimed by the frogs of the great river Euphrates, the Prelates and the Prelatical Clergy, those Locusts of the bottomless pit, who have cropped our harvest of a glorious reformation, for many years, even in the Blade? these will recall your old stout behaviour, and deportment against them, and their Terrestrial, nay rather their Celestial god, the book of Common Prayer, that old devil, which hath so long bewitched and deluded the world, not under the specious garb of a Munkes Coat, but of a Saints Doublet.  
The Papists too will not only rise up in judgement against you, but aggravate your Condemnation: These have underpropped the Devil's Cause, with foreign Contributions, with foreign and Domestic arms, and with Domestic Contributions. My judgement apprehends what thoughts these kind hearted Papists idolised in their fancies, not the reenthronizing the K. in his temporal regailty, but the reinstalling of the Pope into his antiquated spiritual Hierarchy. Will Henretta Maria be content we should enjoy our Religion in its purity, and undefiled? Will she be deprived of the privilege to be accounted the second Saint in the Pope's Calendar, resting satisfied with the brand of a Traitor in the Parlia. Diurnal? Will her Crew of Babylonians supersede the attempting our ruin, and the ruin of the Protestant profession? if we disasterously contend brother against brother, and Christian against Christian, and so be quashed by a third party. Nay surely, they would have long since executed their bloody Contrivances, and conspiracies against us, had not our hands been armed with long Rapiers, but they themselves scarcely with short daggers. What hopes they may foster let the world judge, if we dissenting upon circumstantials in matters of Religion, should suffer the King to be Charles the Conqueror. Especially when they have such a notable Legatus a Latere as she, who can as powerfully mediate for her English Catholics to his Majesty, as the Virgin Mary to Christ for Christians, which is to pray, beseech, and entreat, if they will not do, compel him to perform what she requesteth. I am bold to give her a name of Dignity in the masculine Gender, because I hear that of late, it hath been a fashion amongst our Ladies in the English Court, to like, to love, to wear the Breeches. Small safety, but much more encumbrance may be divined from the Scottish Dissembling Brethren, those special Dragooners to our State, to whom Hedges and Thickets may give advantage unawares to suprize us, and by unthought of Ambuscadoes to suppress us. Who dare not oppose England but overthwartly, who dare not dare us to Battle, nor erect a fire-Crosse against us, without cheating and dissembling pretences. Those joabs' of our days, who will take you by the beards and kiss you, but strike you under the fift rib with their Scottish Daggers, and murder you. These can pretend liberty and restauration of broken Covenant, when they intent an introduction of slavery, and Antichristian Prelacy. There is no device to make Hamilton our friend, unless we will help Hamilton to be a King; No way to make the Scottish invasion fruitless, unless we can persuade Hamilton to be faithless; which will not be, if he depart Crownlesse, or his miscellaneous Regiments depart Plunderlesse. How be we concerned to oppose the Chieftains of the Northern rabble, whose aims are to be our Masters, and perpetual Dictator's; how are we concerned to oppose the Excrementitious Commonalty, who are resolved to be our perpetual Plunderers? From irreligious persons, what hope of Religion? From strangers to English Liberties, and Immunities, what hope to augment or enforce our decayed privileges? I wonder sober (and as I hope ) Judgements can expect from, or look upon foreigners, other then as men of Galilee, from which no good can proceed. King james promoted the Scottish Lords to gainful preferments, but the English Nobility (as they say) to name honourable, and no ways beneficial advantages. No marvel though the Scottish Nobles take it in great indignation to be delayed or frustrated of their private revenues from his Majesty, when their greatest subsistence was from him, as he bore the repute of an English Majesty. Their belly is both their god, king, and Equity, which if they can satisfy with our English Delicacies, they will forswear fight either for God, King, or Equity. All is equal, if proportioned to their appetites of English honours and promotions, if not, the advancement of King, Covenant, and Presbyterial Government, must be as Fox-skins to cover the Lion's nakedness. Suffer the Scottish Lords to be Contentious for our honours, they will surcease contending against us, daub up their mouths with our fattest promotions, the dogs will cease to bark against us; thrust but an English Crust into the mouth of a Scottish dog, well buttered, he will without clamour, or pulling by the Tarrier, retreat to his kennel. Their quarrel against us is, they cannot in the present tense be promoted amongst us; their quarrel against us is, that a Confusion of interests is violently withstood by us. There is not a better way to force our Brethren to sound a retreat, but by a golden storm: which will react the miracle of Theodosius against his adversaries, turn all the Muskets, Pikes, Swords, and Artillery against themselves, rather than they should damnify such loving and kind Brethren as the Armed Sectaries, the Schismatical Bands of the Independants. As the Gauls tasted the sweetness of the Italian wines, the Romans and Carthagenians of the Spanish Mines, the Saxons of England; so our Brethren have tasted of our Land, flowing with milk and Honey; who will never departed our Land until they cannot departed, who will be supping and licking, until an English well whetted Sword do mingle their Blood with our Daintyest and Princely dishes. Greatly are we endangered by the Cavaliers, those Achillean warriors, who Laboriously Project not with sword and Target only, but by commotions, lies, slanders, and infinite Treasons, to murder the Hectours of our City and Kingdom, this present Parliament, whom if we protect, and defend, according to our solemn Engagements, this Troynovant of ours shall never be Plundered, either of Religion, Lives, or Liberties. These who have been our only Saviour's, and Protectors, our honourable Lords and Governors, the grand Engineers of our State, who have Countermined the Underminers thereof, must now be forced (if their swords be not long enough) to act a Tragedy upon Tower-Hill, of whose executions, you are desired to be the occasioners, to labour the cutting off the head of your Liberties, and the destruction of the soul, spirit, and blood of your Sounding, and Paralytical Country; who, although they be infinitely traduced by the suggestions of Malcontents and Incendiaries, whose hands, although much weakened by inconsiderate friends, and Favourites, yet, how have they been before obtained, hoped for, how loved, honoured, and respected, when once obtained? These were like Nebucadnezzars great Tree, to which all the beasts of the field resorted for shelter: These were then your gourd to shelter your heads from the heat of Prelatical persecutions; the ships out of which ye first durst thunder against ship-money: Briefly, these were the men on whom some honour is to be bestowed, because they rescued England from the Pope, who would have made it his Ass: Because they have freed us from the clutches of him, who would have turned a Mower, so you might have been the Meadow: Cut not down this Tree, lest you be scattered; let not a worm smite this gourd, lest not only the Eastern, but all the four winds beat upon your heads; sink not these ships with your Bullets of discontents, and divisions, neither unequally Ballast them, lest you lose your best wooden walls, so that the Boors of the Forest, the false Scottish Covenanters may enter, and spoil the remainder of our vineyards; lest the crafty Foxes, the Jesuitical party do undermine our State, and Liberties. If Parliaments be but sauces, and Kings good meat, throw aside these superfluous dishes, and you will quickly loathe this Manna, unless Quails be conjoined. Though you be burdened with Impositions, it is that you may not be perpetually burdened. Though your tender stomaches rise against month Assessments, and Excise, yet our wise Physicians use them for the present as an Ingredient to that Potion, which must expel the noisome humours out of the body Politic. Can Armies be maintained without money? or this Kingdom for the present defended without Armies? neither Armies would oppress you with freequarter, nor the Parliament oppress you with variety of Impositions; but seeing the necessity and danger of the times enforce the Parliament to stroke their hand ungently over this Kingdom, patiently must we abide it, because our safety is preserved by it; wherefore, in being good and kind to them, we are but good and kind to ourselves. How uneasy, and impossible it is for the Parliament to be subservient to every man's fancy and disposition, is obvious to the meanest Capacities and Considerations; to settle a half mortally wounded Kingdom suddenly, is to play the foolish Chirurgeon, skin over the wound, never caring whether cured in the bottom, or no: Not to stay the best opportunity to settle us, is never opportunely to settle us; not to observe the time when we may be conveniently Cured of our Maladies doth betoken a careless resolution in drying up, and curing the running Plague sores of our Native country. If they would settle affairs of Religion, quacunque via dato they held a Wolf by the ears; if rigid Presbytery, the Canons would have roared from Putney and Windsor; if Independency, the Northern Bagpipes would have sounded an Alarm at Edinburgh. To call the King home upon our own conditions, impossible; if upon his, improbable; if upon those of the 11 of December, unreasonable. If the Militia be granted & the Parl. dissolved, it is but a dissolved Militia before it be granted. If we must Treat concerning the continuance of this present Parli. why should we Treat concerning the continuance of the Militia? seeing one dying, the other will die too : Et duo tunc morientur in uno. I durst never confidentially repose myself upon him, who hath once faithlesly behaved himself towards me: I durst ever confidentially repose myself upon him, who equally in a danger was concerned with me. If Princely Oaths, Vows, and Protestations have proved Spiders webs, no safety without a Parliament, who run joint hazards with us, upon the breaking of these Spider's webs. Historians have bewrayed to future Posterity, that Oaths and Protestations of Princes, have sometimes proved like the grins which the Spider weaveth, to encircle the Hornet. The manes of the guests at Stockholm Banquet, the manes of Guise and Bourbor, persuade non-trusting of injured Princes, unless your safeties be fenced with strong Barracadoes of Power and Authority. What gross madness were it to stand Neuters, or coldly to assist the Parliament, hoping the Cavaliers brains are as often dipped in Lethe, as washed in Bacchus' fountains; that they will commit an Amnestye of all past wrongs and injuries formerly by you offered; So you will either turn absolute Kinglings or humbly Petition the 2 Houses for a personal Treaty: To expect favour and Pardon for all bypast injuries and discourtesies offered to an old friend, is a matter of probability; to expect favour from a reconciled Enemy, is a matter of possibility: But to expect pardon from an exulcerate enemy, a so often by you beaten, banished, expulsed enemy, is a matter of impossibility: who will cast himself willingly into the Arms of his sworn Adversary, because his friend hath not been so kind as he either desired, or might be reasonably required? If the Parl. your old friends have not satisfied your expectations and long, with what wisdom do you labour a close with your Enemies, offer your throats to the Poniards point? As though we could be sufficiently revenged upon the Houses, if we and they were burned together upon one Funeral pile.  
The same Reasons which at first moved you to an Engagement with the Parliament, enforce a continuation of your resolutions in this Engagement. The same party against you, and therefore the same quarrel, though wrapped up in fine linen, painted over with the specious colours of Covenant, rescuing the kingdom from an Army of Sectaries, from freequarter, and intolerable impositions. It were strange a Leopard should change his spots, or a Black-Moor his hue; that Langdale, Glemham, Goring, Lucas, Louborough, should be Covenanters; that your notorious Enemies should now fight under your Ensigns, and yet Proclaim open Hostility against your old friends and allies, the Lord General and his Army. The same persons who were the Chieftains in the former Combustions, have anew kindled the flame, and raked up the sparks close covered in warm ashes. Those who persuaded the King (though inclinable enough) to forsake London, and raise an Army under the pretence of a guard, who plundered your houses, and burned them, ransacked country Villages and Towns, ravished their wives and daughters, and after exposed them to the frosty winter nights, to the mercy of the dropping clouds, and cold Northern storms; who murdered the husbands and sons of miserable wives and parents in the streets, and open fields; who dashed out the brains of the old men in their Chambers, of the infants and sucklings in their Cradles; all these I say, are now bandied against you, intending to exercise far greater cruelty than ever, by how much their rage, spite, and indignation, doth boil, and foam in a higher degree, by reason of the overthrows and disgraces received at your hands. The quarrel being the same, your friends must needs be the same; those that engage their dearest blood in opposition to your old Adversaries, cannot be your enemies, the Army labour through all manner of difficulties & extemities, through a sea of their own blood, through cold, hunger and nakedness to overthrow and quell your almost seven years deadly foes and murderers. He that awards the blow of a Sword which was intended for my head, shall be esteemed of me a special friend, because he performed a special courtesy. They fight not only for their own, but jointly for both our safeties, if they would be Treacherous and revolt to the King's party, not only Liberty of conscience would in a large Dimension be granted, but the Presbyterians estates would be shared amongst them, as a Kingly munificence conferred upon them, so Loyal, true hearted, and affectionate Subjects. If these had been disbanded, the Cavaliers would have been your Disseisours, whose force, if you now hardly sustain, how, if the Army had been wanting to repel their violent assaults? if you think they were an impediment to the Kings being called home; I wonder upon what terms? ours? never a Syllable granted, his? unreasonable, our safety being herein concerned: if upon neither? How could this be effected? If not effected? How did the Army impead the Kings coming home? If their coming to London in a warlike manner were a disturbance to the Kingdom's quiet, why was not that party in the City esteemed as great disturbers as the Army? who subscribed great and considerable sums, chose a General, listed soldiers, prepared a new Army to destroy the old; wherefore a necessary engagement lay upon them to march to London, to extinguish those already raised Garboils; those new kindled Coals of combustions: if any fled from the Houses, it was their fearfulness, not the Army's Dreadfulness which could cause them to foster such over suspicious jealousies. Though to speak plainly, the raising of an Army without sufficient authority, is an action which carrieth little less than Treason in the forehead, than a tincture of Rebillon in its very complexion. But I could wish rationally to be informed, what the estate & condition of our affairs would have been, if the Army had been shuffled off with a small Pittance of money, debentures thrust into their hands, & so sent packing homewards; whether would the King have instantly granted our Propositions or no? if this. The oppsition betwixt the Parliament and his Majesty would have continued, for whose release the Cavaliers would have acted all their now begun designs, and many more against us, by how much greater opportunity had been offered upon their dissolution, every one would be willing to engage in such Clandestine Contrivances, where a small, or almost no visible force appeared to thwart and strangle their new Plotted Conspiracies. Now that the King upon their disbanding would have yielded to our Propositions, is merely improbable, Considering the hopes he might cherish of a new resurrection of his party, this army suffering a dissolution; And fortune, who had for a long time drawn a curtain betwixt herself and his Majesty, might seem now to withdraw it, and refresh him with the smiles of her, for so many months Clouded Countenance. Again, if he refused to sign the Bills in his lowest, and half desperate condition at Carisbrook, would he have signed them in his best Condition at Holdenby? wherefore, the Army refusing to disband, shown both wit and fortune, joined with a notable discerning judgement; Teaching, that weak Commonwealths, for that they know not how to resolve, never take any good resolution, except perforce, and some others must procure their good for them, even against their wills.  
Now therefore should any man well affected to the Parliaments Proceed, behold this Army with Basilisks eyes, be stoned by any of the well-affected, unless it be for their good deeds, their Noble acts of Chivalry, it mounteth above the sphere of my Intelligence; wherefore, the Lieutenant General, who by his noble exploits and achievements hath mawled the King's Party, been a Scanderbag to their stoutest Cohorts, and Legions, wherefore (I say) should he be the subject of our obloquy, or his Honour darkened with our black aspersions, I do not know, unless the cause be, the fatal inconstancy of the unpolitick and giddiheaded Multitude, who exalt some, and labour to depress others, who love to day, hate to morrow, whose resolutions are orbicular, their actions like windmill sails, turning upon the blast of ever wind, never constant with themselves, and therefore cannot persevere in Constancy towards others.  
However, I will not labour to defend all, whatsoever hath been acted by the Parliament and Army, unless they were of the Heavenly race, not of the dust of the Earth; unless begot of Jupiter's Brain, and not of the flowers of the field: Thus much I know, that all their errors be venial sins, and therefore excusable, not sins against the holy Ghost, and therefore unpardonable. But however the case stands, seeing such infinite storms and troubles do on all hands assail us, and the Billows of raging wars are ready to overwhelm us, wisdom willeth, that we join hand in hand, live, love, and be brethren still. And seeing all our differences are but about Circumstantials, either concerning Church or State, ordinary Policy, and Common safety enjoineth us, that we do not so violently contend, lest we totally exceed the litmits of Circumstantial differences; we are like two Earthen pots floating in the sea, Si Collidimur, frangimur, like Meleager and his fatal firebrand, the one surviveth not the other. The Cavaliers cannot break our Array, unless we open rank and file, to double distance. They cannot disarm us of our rapiers, unless we set Crablocks upon them; nor uncase us of our Buff-coats, unless our Companions help to unlace them. If all these before mentioned dangers to Parliament, City, Kingdom, which threaten not only an invasion, but an extirpation of our Religion and liberties, will not be sufficient to incorporate our affections, and draw our swords one in defence of another, it is a sad presage our ruin is at the door, our destruction sleepeth not; but in the midst of our quarrels will throw us out of our Houses, Lands, Religion, Liberties, and whatsoever is dearly prized and esteemed of us. Let not the Cavaliers glozing speeches bore out your eyes, to whom, if you wag the tail, give sugared words, and sawning carriage, oleum & operum per didistis, you but carry water in a riddle, no safety from them to be expected, though you offered a thousand sacrifices on his Majesty's Altar at Carisbrooke, if before you offered up but a Wax Candle to the Parlia. shrine at Westminster.  
Can any thing charm their bloody hands, unless they were first washed with your blood; I should think it no miracle, if the Lamb lay by the Lion untouched, the Sheep by the Wolf undevoured, the Goose by the Fox unworried; can there be continued a near union amongst us, a neraer union will be effected betwixt a Cavaliers neck and Tyburn. This they know, and are afraid of what they deserve; and therefore all fly from London, and bandy themselves together in remote or near adjacent Counties, fearing if they be taken, such Hogs as they are like to be sold to those Butchers, whereof Gregory is one of the fraternity. And the Devil, with Machiavelli, his chief Secretary, have dictated this project unto them, divide & impera, either alienate them, and so successively Conquer them, or cause them to sheathe their Swords in one another's Bowels, and then Moab up to the spoil. If our contentions about Church Government be laid aside, and lulled asleep, we may be happy if this unfortunately begotten Child, be rocked so long in its cradle, until it have taken up its lodgings in deaths pavilions; if otherways it awaken, the hope is, we being all Christians, and of the household of Christ jesus, may friendly compose the occasions of honest men's grudge and disastrous quarrelings; when the common enemy hath whipped us, we shall be wise and join together, dearly rewarding them for their Tyrannous behaviours, and audations presumptions.  
Why should we run a whoring after a Personal Treaty? That new smoking— which the Commissioners of Scotland first voydded out of their ingenious breeches, and now the Cavaliers of England offer it up unto your Nostrils as a sacrifice of a sweet smelling savour; As though Poison were wholesome Physic for Natural bodies, Or that any thing so violently prosecuted by the Cavaliers of Engl. would prove a cordial for our differences, a remedy to advance, or a Pillar to underproppe the Tottering state of our. Religion and Liberties. Nay, rather let us all be unanimous as formerly, if we can be but joined into one bundle of rods, we need not to doubt but we shall sound whip these lying dissembling Scots, these more than falsehearted Cavaliers.  
The great Capt. Julius Caesar, quieted his mutinous Countrymen with eight Letters, all making one word, Quirites. It were a shame for us in these our dissensions, who are all Christians, not to stop one another's querulous tongues and clamorous mouths, with that of Moses to his dissenting Hebrews, why do we contend, seeing we are all Brethren? the Turks can take up a debate with a Fie! Musselman Fie! fall out and all the Controversy is dashed in pieces. And shall not we, who are indeed the true believers more easily be appeased and join hands, than a Crew of execrable Mahometans and ungodly Infidels?  
To conclude this my earnest exhortationto old friends, though somewhat estranged in affections: This know for a certain, God is highly displeased at your quarrelings, seeing you give the enemy's occasion to blaspheme the name of your God. If you will not yet be appeased one towards another but cause more rents and holes in the Lord's Coat, God himself one day will severely reckon with you, for that you have endangered his Church & Honour It may be remove your Candlestick, when you yourselves have been the Occasion, wherefore that glorious and bright shining Lamp hath been extinguished by the Haters of his Glory.  
FINIS.