The Last WARNING To all the INHABITANTS Of LONDON.  
WEll meaning People,  
you are ever most liable to be deceived; the reason is, because you trust to those that give you good words, and propose things pleasing to some unreasonable humour in you: rather then to those that do you good indeed, and ever propose things just and profitable.  
For example; some of you have an unreasonable humour in you, for maintenance of a Kingly Government: a King you will have, or die without a King, all you have is nothing, Common-Wealth and Parliament, and all Government perish and be confounded, if you may not have a King: and he that will nourish this humour in you, though he cannot show you one good act that ever any King did volluntarily for Good of the People: though yourselves, if you will examine stories, or your own experience, may produce thousands of Oppressions, murders and other tyrannyes: though no condition of Mankind ever did so many, so intolerable mischiefs, though it cannot be said to what use they serve, or that there is any use of them, except to debauch and vex a People: yet if any will but feed your humour, and soothe you therein, though you know them to be mere worldly covetous Wretches, frawdulent over-reaching Varlets; or( but few yeers since,) Pattentees, and Prowling Projectors; these nevertheless are your onely councillors, these you put into Offices of trust, and then they may lead you whether they please, and with oily tongues, and flattering long Speeches, charm you into a belief of any thing; and by Art and subtlety, cause you to hate and abhor those that would purge this corrupt humour out of you, and show you a more just and rational way of Government then that of Kings.  
Others who are not troubled so much with this humour in Civill Government, are troubled with one as u●reas●nable concerning ecclesiastical Government: that is, They are undone, ruined, torn in pieces with rents and Divisions, if all the people may not be compelled to Worship God as they do, or in one uniform way, by the State established: and they are so willingly blind herein, that although the Word of God alloweth every one to be fully persuaded in his own mind; and declareth that to be sinful, which is done otherwise: though you know those Clergy-men that animate you herein, to be principally such as complied with the Tyranny and Superstition of the episcopal Prelates, and now aim to establish the like Tyranny in the hands of Presbyterian Prelates; though you know those Lay-men, that soothe this humour in you, to be such as endeavour to erect a new kind of Tyranny over the Common-wealth, such as already appeareth in your City, and is maintained by Irenaeus lysimachus; though you know, there is nothing tendeth more to the dissolving of that Army, that under God hath been your preservation; or can so miserable tear you into Rents and Divisions, leaving you all a naked disunited prey to those that of purpose have begotten, and nourish these destructive humours in you,( without which, they know it were in vain to attempt your bondage;) Yet so wedded are you to this humour, as those who smooth and flatter you therein, are in your esteem, as Angels of Light.  
Either of these two most unreasonable Humours, are enough to undo you: and to perplex, if not frustrate all the labours of Parliament, to preserve you: and is likely to bring a new confusion upon the Common-wealth.  

You shall see how.  
By the first of th●se, you are always ready and prepared to receive the King in again upon any Conditions, notwithstanding all his blood-shed and perfidiousness; and thereby encourage and assist his Agents in their under-hand Workings and Projectings against the intentions and Proceedings of Parliament; by which also hath b●●● occasioned most horrible and Bloody plots against this City, and crafty devices to divide the City from the Parliament, and to receive the King, whether the Parliament would or not; and both these will not be given over, so long as this humour remaineth in you: but this Great city, the Parliament, yourselves, your sons and Families,( however you are or may be flattered,) will be continually liable to a sudden inevitable ruin and surprisal.  
And( all along) this in you hath caused such an irresolution and uncertainty in Proceedings, as hath lengthened the war, and will continue the same, to the wastings of your Trades, and consuming of the Common-wealth: so long as this humour remaineth in you, Ireland will be encouraged to furnish Forces, Holland will stand worse then Neuter, denmark, France and spain will not be mere lookers on; the ill-affected throughout England, Scotland and Wales will do the worst they can: And believe it, these are not to be slighted; if therefore you shall continue in this perverseness of judgement, and thereby draw insupportable burdens upon yourselves, and in the end be ruined or enslaved, yourselves are cause thereof; and in the day of your affliction, with horror and dreadful amazement, you shall hear a voice within you, saying, Thy destructi n is of thyself.  
Therefore in time suppress this unreasonable humour in you, and all fear of the open and revealed enemy, will be at an end, refer yourselves as you ought to do in this Controversy with the King, to the wisdom of Parliament, and neither desire, nor endeavour to anticipate them in their dealings with him, and his adhearents, and then you and your City will be safe and happy, be no longer respectors of persons in judgement; and your scales will soon fall from off your eyes, and then you will see clearly that the Parliament hath dealt but too too favourably with the King, and that mercy to the wicked, is cruelty to the good: abhor those Serpentine Counsellors, that insinuate, and maintain the fore-mentioned humour in you, and be assured and confident, that though they may be clothed thick and three-fold in sheepes-cloathing, yet inwardly they are Ravening Wolves, that would so persuade you.  
Your other most unreasonable and un-Christian humour, pro●●king you to be uncivilly importunate with the Parliament, to establish a Presbyterian or compulsive Church-Gov●rnment, all things considered, threatens a more imminent danger then the former at this time can do; for if the Commons in Parliament, should do as some have procured the common-counsel to Petition; see in what a sad Condition you would immediately be in: for all the Independents and S●paratists of all sorts,( than whom the Parliament and Y●u, have not found more Constant and sted-fast friends,) all these must necessary withdraw their Assistance; for if they cannot be free to Worship God,( every one of them,) according to their particular Consciences; all Liberty to them is taken away; f●r what is all other Liberty, where that is not; also the ARMY,( that hath recovered you out of a most languishing estate) thereupon will instantly be scattered, if not dissolved, so you would be extremely divided, and distracted amongst yourselves at home, and destitute of any assured strength abroad: and whose work should be eff●cted hereby? even theirs, whose maxim it is to divide, and master You: and they are those that sooth and flatter you in this pernicious humour, and that comply with your unadvised desires, as far as they at present are able: and therefore, if you have a mind to be vassallized, be still importunate for suppression of all Private Meetings or Conventicles, and compel all sorts of believers to Worship God, as you and your abettors shall approve, you cannot want the Assistance of all those that are or would be LORDS over their Brethren, and when by your means they have prevailed over those( you and they are pleased to call Independents or Sectaries,) yourselves must be the next in order to be their slaves and vassals,) if you look for any other measure from them: you will find yourselves most miserable mistaken: but there is good hope the Commons of England, ( now in Pa●liament, who are chosen for pres●rvation of all just Liberty,) will in no measure countenance so unjust and dangerous a design; Certainly they cannot so s●on forget that vigorous Assistance they have always had in their greatest necessities from this People, they have not hitherto abridged them of their Liberty freely to Worship God, and since they have had the same, the common enemy of this and all other just Liberty hath been brought even to a morsel of bread, and hath no hope of recovery, but in this way of dividing you: nor hath the betrusted Commons permitted this Liberty in policy, as you suppose, but in Justice, and upon mature Knowledge, that they neither are, nor can be betrusted to make laws to rule men in the practise of religion: he that is most vassalliz'd in his judgement, with an opinion of Uniformity, and of a necessity of suppressing all private Conventicles, or ways of Worship, but his own, if he have any use of his Conscience in his Worship of God; he must aclowledge, if the laws of the Land should bind him in the least to practise contrary to his own understandings, that he cannot obey them without being guilty of wilful sin against God; for whats●ever is not of faith, is sinful: but the cares of this world: the deceitfulness of riches, desire of Lordship, continuance in Office or Honour, Pleasures and Deliciousnesse of Living, have so choked ●his place of Scripture in too too many, that if men are but of greater Estates then their Neighbours, eat more costly meat, we are finer clothes, or have but Learning to boast of, they think fowle scorn, if all meaner and plainer men will not be ruled by them in the mediate Service of God: regarding more, that themselves be pleased by uniformity, then God displeased by Hypocrisy: you know full well, that these things are thus with many of you, and this makes you liable to be wrought upon by mere State-Religious Persons, so such as onely Personate Religion, to bring their ends about, whose Religion indeed is prudentially, and zealously to dissemble; these are they that frame oaths and Covenants for you in such ambiguous expressions like Delphian Oracles, that you shall seem to be bound to do, or establish any thing they shall desire, though never so absurd or wicked in itself: and interpret for you by degrees, as they find their strength to increase, or opportunity to ripen( if you continue in this your corrupt humour,) you will ere long see this kind of Witch-craft w●rke openly amongst you: some secret smatterings thereof you might perceive, if you observed any thing: in some Scotch Papers lately Printed, to forelay for an opportunity: also in a Book called, truth itis MANIFESTO, written by one Bucchanon; and another by one bailie, both of that Nation; both endeavouring to allienate your affections from the Commons, and to ingratiate the endeavours of that Nation: if they prevail over you, you will not long be ignorant what a happiness it is to be befooled into a Scotch paradise, where the People live as merrily under their Lords presbyterial, Civill, and ecclesiastical, as the Israelites in Egypt: All their zeal, and Covenanting with the high God, you will find, is for no other end, then to bring this easily deluded Nation under the same bondage, to presbyterial Lords and Task-masters: this is the thing intended, when you are provoked against Sects, when you are put upon Petitions: Petitions after Petitions, all to keep you in a froward humour against a season, that you may be ready to destroy the Sectaries, as they term your most faithful friends, which being done, a great, even the greatest Obstacle is removed; for they understand themselves too well, to submit themselves slavishly to either King, Lords, or Clergy; Then if Buccanons poison work, you must quarrel with your sole Preservers under God, the House of Commons, under the Court-Notion of a factious Party there; hindering the Most Blessed work of REFORMATION; and it will be then time, no longer to dispute the Garrisons, but to profess the holding of them, for those who will keep and maintain their Covenant according to Scotch Interpretation, which will serve our English Masters purposes, as well as theirs: And then being completely divided, and in a total Confusion, judge and stand amazed, how long your Troubles may continue! and what is like to be in the end thereof?  
You cannot be ignorant of a prophecy fore-layed cunningly, to forespeake the bondage of this Nation; as first, It must be Conquered by the romans, then by the Danes and Saxons, after them by the Normanes, but the last must be the Scots. And this prophesy is now more frequent in their mouths then ever; opportunity makes a thief; therefore look well about you; and keep your Friends firm and close to you; reform your Judgements, keep your Covenant in a just Sense, it cannot bind you to enforce Conscience, or to molest your Brother under pretence of Heresy, or schism; what you conceive is truth, may be an error; do as you would be done unto in all things; you would not be enforced, therefore force not; Observe rather the ways of Christ and his Ministers, then the ways of the Scotch or Presbyterians; If you have taken the Covenant in a worse sense, it calls rather for Repentance, then pertinacy therein,( as the Direction for taking it published by the Assembly and Parliament, will inform you.)  
Let it appear you deem it too much that you have already done; mind your own good, and cleave fast to the House of Commons, let no sorcery or Sophistry divide you from them, enforce not, nor be importunate with them for Church-Government, leave it to their wisedoms to measure out unto the Clergy what may be for the quiet and profit of the People; The Lords are not to go before the Commons in determining what concerns the Nations, their large Answer to your last City Petition for Church-Government, and suppression of Conventicles, insinuates they would 'allure you from the Commons: therefore observe them watchfully, and trust them accordingly; Your Steeres-men in the City, are not so many, but that one figure may number them? nor so just, but that they are known to have betrayed their trust? nor so conscionable, but that they would take as much money as the Scots would give, or the Lords promise, to bring their ends about: The Clergy you know, most of them that now stickle against the Separatists or Independents, do it for their own ends, to retain their Glory in a distinction of Clergy, their domination in judging of Doctrine, Discipline, and ecclesiastical Censures, and their profit in their pretence of tithes, &c. all which the Separatists disdain and oppose, which is the true cause of the quarrel between them; The Assembly are onely to advice the House of Commons when they require them, and have not dealt fairly, to side with the Scotts, or to sway with the City, or to urge the Parliament in the least.  
Therefore let not any of these estrange you from that your faithful counsel; be wise as Serpents, arm yourselves against all kinds of delusion; and be provided against the hour of tentation; for believe it, this City is beset round with snares, and ambushments laid to ensnare You; but there were not so much danger, were it not for the errors and mistakings in Your own understandings, which like a treacherous friend, lying in your bosom, is always ready to join issue with any traitorous seducing enemy, purge out therefore by sound and serious consideration, your former unreasonable Humours, and you will soon perceive Kings are but men: That there is no respect of Persons with God; Nor ought to be with men: That no opinion is so dangerous, or heretical, as that of compulsion in things of Religion: judge rightly, do justly, abandon deceivers, adhere to the Commons,( whose interest is Common-freedome, and not the preh●minence of a few) and so you may be in safety: shows of Religion, are cheap ways of deceit: Observe those that always attend the Common-good, and freedom of all Good men, and let those be your Guides and Advisers: Lay this good council to heart, and that instantly, for you have not much time of debate of these things; If you neglect it, you are like to bring a curse upon yourselves, and the whole Nation: your latter end will be worse then your beginning, and you will be the scorn and derision of all the World; which GOD grant you may by wisdom timely prevent.   
FINIS.