THE Voice of Conscience, TO All well meaning CITIZENS:  
IF you desire to see a longer and more bloody war, and London (as the chief seat thereof) weltering in its own blood, your Wives, Children, and Families, starved and pined to death, through poverty, famine, and want of Trade, if you would overthrow Parliaments for ever, and subject both them and all the people, to the will of the King and his Courtiers.  
If you desire to s●e foreigners invade you on all hands, and many Armies at once quartered throughout the Land, pulling hard for a new Conquest of this miserably divided Nation, and if you desire to see your Wives and Daughters ravished before your faces, and your children's brains dash● against the stones by lustful and bloodthirsty Cavaliers.  
Follow then the steps and advice of your wealthy, headstrong Aldermen & Common-Councelmen, in their hasty pu●suance of a personal Treaty with the King: or (which will come to one) in ●●●●…ving him out of the army's power, for if you do, flatter not yourselves, but be assured, as certain ●s God is in Heaven, you will see those miseries come to pass, and that swiftly too, you will be 〈◊〉 in an instant, without hope of remedy.  
But if you abhor and would prevent these mischiefs, then avoid and detest their engagement, from it is from a Serpent, it being a viper bred in your own bowels, to destroy you; and if you have unadvisedly subscribed it, repent speedily and recall your hands.  
They most gr●…tly delude you, and abuse the Parliament, in pretending they are able, nay willing to prevent or suppress Tumults, trust them once and they'll never need to desire more, they'll soon make it past a Treaty, and when you lie at their mercy, complaining of the breach of their engagement, they'll deride and spurn you, and you shall not dare to open your mouths against them, but if ye do, it shall be your death, night nor day you shall not with safety go out of doors, but st●bbings and pistollings will be common at noon day.  
O● therefore, all ye that honour God, see this exceeding danger, before it be too late, have patience, wait upon God in his way, run not to Egypt for help, lean not on so broken a Reed, consider how this City hath been threatened, and by whom, how often plots have been covered under Treaties, destroy not all your mercies through impatience: forsake not a just God (who hitherto hath preserved you) for any unjust man, that hath long sought by all means to destroy and enslave you: Leap not out of the pan into the fire.  
Wait but a little while, and ye will see both City and Nation flourish; distrust not, he that believeth maketh not haste, fear not, and ye will soon see the salvation, that God is preparing for you by just means: This way which now ye are put upon, being the most dangerous that can be, and such as cannot be blessed; And had you● Aldermen and Common councilmen any thing of God in them, they would rather seek satisfaction for all the innocent blood that hath been spilled, then for a personal Treaty; which in stead of ending your troubles (as they would make you believe) will be but the beginning of new sorrows. Which (indeed) is just with God, for as he justly punisheth sin without respect of persons, so he requireth that all whom he hath authorized with power, should impartially do the like; for of all the sins and abominations of the Land, murder and innocent blood (chiefly of so many Thousands and ten Thousands) is one of the most crying sins and great abominations, and until that be done away by just satisfaction according to the laws both of God & man, there is no appearance of any well-grounded Peace (whereof the Scots and their confederates so much boast) but rather of utter ruin to all the three Nations.  
For as the lives & estates of Saul & Ahab were taken, the one for sparing Agag King of Ameleck▪ and the other Benhadad King of Syria, so it is as likely and possible, as it is just and equitable, that God will in the first place so deal with those who have justly accused the grand enemy of our peace, if they instead of prosecution, make an unjust agreement, contrary to the revealed will of God.  1 Sam. 15. 8. &c. 1 King 20. 42. Isai. 14. 18. 19 20.