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A70419 For His Excellency Gen. Monck L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. 1660 (1660) Wing L1247D; ESTC R36457 1,123 1

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FOR HIS EXCELLENCY GEN MONCK My Lord YOu are too Wise and Noble to need either a Direction or a Spur where your Judgement or Honour lies at Stake And to tell you that to make your self the Happiest Person in Nature you must Deliver us from being the most Miserable People is but to speak your own Thoughts and Purposes Yet such is the Passion I have for your Personal and for the publique Good that a Burthen lies upon my Soul till I have given some Testimonie of my Respects and Tenderness both for the One and the Other how-superfluous-soever toward a Judgement and Inclination so well Qualified for the Knowledge and Practice of what is Honorable My Lord We are a wretched People and Providence hath put it in your power to finish all our Troubles The Eyes of Men and Angels are upon You and the whole Nation courts You as their Tutelarie Spirit Never was any Action so easie and so Glorious at once as our Deliverance 'T is wrought without the hazzard or expence either of Blood Time or Treasure The Hearts the Hands and Fortunes of the People are all at Your Devotion Nay lest You should submit to be misled by Popular Applause Ambition or anie other Frailty Heaven hath annexed Your Interest to Your Duty forgive the Language You must be Mad too to be Wicked Quit all other Principles of Beneficial Prudence with those of commune Honestie and Conscience Ballance my Lord the main Accompt Heaven and Hell are the Difference One way You are sure to be as Great and Safe as Love and Gratitude can make You whereas all other Acquisitions are deceitfull A word now of the means to effect our Quiet and that with all due respect to better Reason First In the Case of differing Perswasions be pleased to form such an Expedient that all may quietly enjoy and exercise their opinions so far as they Consist with the word of God and with the publick Peace Secondly Appoint an Act of Oblivion to be drawn if you please as Comprehensive of all Interests as care and skill can make it and after this let a Free Parliament be called with this previous Engagement imposed upon them That they shall first secure these two Particulars of Conscience and Property according to the true Intention of the Parties therein Concerned ere they proceed further and that they may then apply themselves to other Debates at Liberty and settle what Government that shall think fit This I presume not to deliver as the Arrogant Imposition of a single Person but I do offer it humblie as the sence of a Numerous and Sober party Some Mutinous and Peevish Spirits there are whom nothing can please but what displeases all the World beside It were pittie to alter the whole Frame of the Law to gratifie the humour of so Inconsiderable a part of the People Changes are Slow and Dangerous God and Truth are Invariable We were well till We shifted and never since having tried all other Postures in vain vvere it not better to attempt That once again than thus expose our selves to be Restless for ever My Lord the Author of this is verie much Your EXCELLENCIE's Servant Printed at Oxford for N. O. 1660.