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A85519	The grand concernments of England ensured: viz. liberty of conscience, extirpation of popery, defence of property, easing of taxes, advance of trade, soveraign powers of Parliaments, reformation of religion, laws and liberties, indempnity, settlement, by a constant succession of free Parliaments, the only possible expedient to preserve us from ruine or slavery. The objections, answered; but more largely, that of a senate. With a sad expostulation, and some smart rebukes to the Army.		1659 (1659)	Wing G1492; Thomason E1001_6; ESTC R204729	70,399	77

such necessity as he pretends since he useth such Artifices to reduce us to other extremities It is not for nothing that he turns Mutineer and would create jealosies between the Parliament and Army not doubting if he could effect that he might bring in his King upon what tearms he pleased t is therefore that they must believe that the security of the one is founded in the ruine of the other 'T is for no other reason that he tels the Army They have been ill requited for their good services by being stopt in Pay defeated of their Arrears in danger of Disbanding not suffered to communicate Councels or meet at a General Randezvous That their recompence for their greatest merits have been only exposing to new and greater dangers That their certainest pay hath been suspicion affronts and injuries Let any sober and impartial man judge at the drift of this Gentleman especially let not the Army misunderstand him who while he is perswading might and main for an agreement doth what in him lies to break us to pieces and render us uncapable of defending our lives Having then dispatched a great part of his work viz. Shewn our undone condition which he hath Prophesied not Proved and ushered in his expedient as you have seen his next work is to apply his Plaster to the Wounds he had made He begins with the common National interest and pretends to accommodate his expedient to all its distempers wherein he thinks a bare assertion to be sufficient Demonstration goes on like an Emperick or States Mountebanck telling this it is good for that it is good for wherein if I should follow him I should lose my self and my Reader too but I shall give him a turn by and by however this is very observable that he layes much stresse upon the merits of his King being it seems the best reason in his Budget to commend him to the Nation but Needham hath galled him so severely on this wing that I shall make no stay here but put on full speed to the main Battel taking only a slight view of some inconsiderable forces that way-lay me which I shall soon breake thorough First he tels It is the interest of the Roman Catholick to bring in the King for saith he by this means the heavy payments now on their Estates with other burdens will be taken off and as to the pressures of Penal Laws they cannot but remember how far from grievous they were in the late Kings time the Catholicks living here notwithstanding them in more flowrishing condition then they of Italy France or Spain under their respective Princes and would do infinitely more under their natural King then if any forainer should acquire the power by conquest Besides having generally adhered to the late King in his Wars have no reason to distrust finding favorable treatment from his Son and to share that indulgence he is ready to afford even his greatest enemies And yet these are the men that our Author tels us before would restore the Pope his ancient Revenue and Jurisdiction in England and to the Church all that was alienated in Hen. 8. time and would utterly eradicate all he cals Heresie so far you are right we doubt not they will get better terms then the poor Presbyters Secondly It is the Interest of the Royalists c. Yea it is so although he have no reparation for his losses I cannot passe this without a smile our Author tels us before That it is the design of the Royalist to bring in the King a Conqueror and to recover his losses in the late War and in the very next leaf he tels us That he is confident the Cavaliers expect no satisfaction at all It seems then t is their interest though they have no satisfaction I leave them this as a bone to pick in the mean time I want an Interpreter of this mystery The design of the Royalist is to recover his losses in the late War I am confident the Cavaliers expect no satisfaction at all Very well bowled in good earnest they will and they won't Anglice-good skill why all the craft is in catching Thirdly The Presbyterians are concerned also As how for example to leap out of the Fryingpan into the fire for fear of those lesser parties to prostrate themselves unto the revenge of a Pontifical zeal what courtesie is to be expected at their Graces hands Mr. Pryn is yet a memorable example of but the Presbyterians do not consult him as their Oracle for all your hast he having borne his witness with sufficient bitterness against them enough almost to unchristian any man but himself Fourthly It is the interest of the Baptized Churches as also to acquiesce in a Moderate Episcopacy enjoying the liberty of their consciences I wonder how this shall become practicable or sort with the honour of Episcopacy which he throws in the dish of Presbytery to suffer those lesser parties as he cals them to grow up with it who utterly oppose all government in the Church and being of the Ministery No doubt your knowledge of the practices of the Anabaptists in Germany their cruelty and all manner of disorder their taking away all property of Estates founding it in Grace and Saintship with the hard treatment the Papists in Ireland have found from them these are his own words will instruct you into some pretences why you ought to be more partial in your affections towards them and your better Sons of the Church then why a Father should be fond of one Son and discourage another upon pretence of their divers hairs or complexions which our Author would willingly skrew into their belief but it will not be Fiftly It is saith he the interest of the Army Under this head he grows out of measure copious but the wonder is not so much since here lies his work to bring the Army into disorder T is their concernment to be under a single person and consequently to be under his King he proves it thus Because there is scarce a Common Soldier who is not sensible of it Verily this is notable Demonstration the whole Army is sensible that they are concerned to be under a Single Person therefore not long since they restored our Common-wealth and declared unanimously against a Single person without so much as any muttering among the Common Soldiers to the contrary and since all their Commanders have given up their old Commissions and received new from the Parliament Our Author is in very deed a notable Sophister he goes on and tels By this means the Army putting themselves under the Standard of his King they shall be out of danger of being Disbanded and without fear of Wars Very good arguments to Soldiers to be afraid of enemies but better to Christians that when the danger is over they should refuse to disband shall we know our friends from our foes Gentlemen What are they who kill our honours and good names while they court our friendship But

And therefore it was not unlike the Disciples of Machiavell to drive us from a settlement hoping to crumble us to dust before we could arrive to a better constitution If it were their plot as I know no great ground to believe and Mr. Rogers hath well answered more then to distract us I suppose they meant us no good by it but they are fallen into the pit they digged for us the Lord is known by the Judgements he executeth the wicked are snared in the work of their of their own hands Higgaion Selah We are now in a hopefull way of setling a Common-wealth and we shall quickly understand what advantage such a settlement would yield to the Papist It is not at all to be disputed but another Queen Mary would do their businesse as well as a Common-wealth who would hardly be perswaded to joyn our Nation to Saint Peters Patrimony I appeal to all the World whether their designs be not more easily wrought out of a private interest then a publique Whether it should be harder to make one person for them or the whole Nation We are no strangers to the genius of our Native Countrey If the single person should deny to pleasure them it were no hard matter to take their revenge there by Poyson Ponyard or Pistoll They could quickly remove out of their way an Edward the Sixth or a Prince Henry if they were like to spoyl their designs Were they not more likely to advantage themselves by matches of our Kings with Popish Women Doth not Mr. Pryn acknowledge the Jesuites had a great number of Colledges in England in his forecited Book Do we not all know the Papists had as much countenance as they can imagine under our Free State Remember what my Author saith which I mentioned before Yea have not our Parliaments been their greatest Enemies I appeal to Mr. Pryn If the House of Commons have been any of their best friends since our Nation hath been Protestant He tells us himself How angry the Papists were at the Propositions of the Isle of Wight which the King consented to against the Papists We all know whose was the contrivance Yea all the Papists of England appeared for the King in his warres against the Parliament you will judge then whether they be for a Common-wealth against Monarchy or whether they mean us a settlement of our Common-wealth especially since Monarchy is now cryed up hotter then ever by that party and their Agents or any thing rather then we should settle in the way of an equal Common-wealth which certainly if ever they put us in pursuit of they never meant we should reach or overtake But let my Expedient be put in practice the Nation setled upon the Foundations of Parliaments and my life for it the Papists shall receive their deadly wound which shall not be healed nor shall they have power to vex our Nations any more for they have been the mortall enemies of Parliaments engaged in wars against them all along and alwayes practising sedition against them Instances are familiar here and in Ireland whereby they have engaged the Parliaments their everlasting foes so that those of the Parliament that would have restored the King shewed their good will unto the Papists by causing the King to agree to their persecution Yea Parliaments ever since Queen Mary especially have shewn their teeth at them and bitten too as often as they have been able to reach them till they have been rated off by their Masters And it cannot be but their sins must come in remembrance before our Parliaments And then falling into their hands whom they have obliged not to befriend them they may expect what will follow even the wages of their iniquities which I see by their bustling they are well aware of their Religion is an enemy to our Peace They have done nothing to merit the Parliaments favour nor can finde any advocates in that Assembly that dare speak out for them no Cottington no Digby There shall be Episcopal Presbyterian Independant and Baptized all vying their zeal against them who shall most fervently express his anger at them Yea and he shall think he hath sufficiently purged himself from all Damnable Errors that shall wou●d the Hairy Scalp of the Scarlet Whore The Papist will have good luck if they do not receive at their hand double for all their villanyes being more like to give them bloud to drink who have drunk bloud in abundance then to give them any encouragement or toleration among us Yea the very Fift Monarchy-men who of late years have been mentioned with as much detestation and indignation as if they maintained some damnable Opinions or Doctrines of Devils are as forward as any to shew their zeal in this particular Thirdly Defence of Property This Parliaments must necessarily make good for their own credits 'T is irrationall to fear that Property in generall should be endangered by a Parliament but those Estates which have been sold by former Parliaments must be made good by following Parliaments else they crack their reputation and undo their credit They who have been faithfull to the Parliament need not fear no nor the Cavaliers for having compounded there will remain no more sacrifice for their sin if they live peaceably in the Land Besides for Crown-lands and Church-lands they can have no temptation to alienate them from the Purchasors since it cannor be but they will have a Stock going in them themselves and Kings Bishops Deans and Chapters being outed the Nation there will be no occasion of those Lands to maintain their Grandeur And for Delinquents Estates that are sold there can be no thought of their restitution for care will be had that their Provender do not prick them to sedition against the State However if any of their Estates have been sold without due proof of their Delinquency as it is pretended of some God forbid but their estates be restored them the Purchasors receiving their Money from the State or satisfaction some other way So that without peradventure Every man shall enjoy the purchase of his Penny under the Supremacy of Parliaments And yet would there be no cause of Contest but it would be a matter of generall content and applause if the Parliament should be so highly just as to enquire in good earnest into the frauds of the Common-wealth and make them pay the full value of their Purchases who have plaid the Knaves and cheated both the Souldier and the State and then they too may enjoy their Purchases when they have paid the same rate for them with other men who were forced to pay to such a value or go without them Fourthly Easing of Taxes This is so absolute a benefit that we have had by the House of Commons formerly so called that our Kings looked upon them only as our Pursers And our last Lord Protector in his Speech to the other House and the Commons assembled in the late Lords House directed himself to

any orderly debate To which I return That such a number as cannot understand that cannot make out to one another the benefit of mankind are too many to make good the interest of mankind in away of reason and if in any particular they hit upon it t is more by hap then any good cunning Therefore I believe that so many and no more as may among themselves be well informed of their own and the peoples in crest being universally the same are the only men and number of men to preserve the interest of mankind When a fire breaks out t is the interest of the whole neighbourhood to quench it but they may be too many to be useful therefore the supernumeraries had better be at home that they be no hinderance That may be the interest of the whole Nation that doth not call for so great numbers to keep it on foot therefore those that may be well enough spared let them keep at home too many are troublesome and stand in one anothers light Why 1050 and no lesse to look to the interest of England besides 300 to be the light of England Or why the light of mankind must be separated from the interest of mankind is very dark to me If the one body be all eye where is its tasting and its feeling if the other be all lasting and feeling where is its seeing this is not altogether so good contrivance as where two half-blind Coachhorses are so placed that this may see on the one side and that on the other though they can scarce see each other their blinde sides being next together The people saith Mr. Harrington can feel but they cannot see well then the light of this Body is the eye that is the Senate if then the Eye be at Westminster and the Body be at St. Pauls Church for a little place cannot hold 1050 men I perswade my self this body must be full of darkness Why 1050 pray a lesse number was formerly thought enough to assert the interest of mankinde against the light of mankinde the Lords spiritual and temporal and the Judges to boot which was the interest of some men besides when yet the Commons were thought to have and were found to have the light of mankinde in them too yea and have so well asserted and made good the interest of mankinde against those lights and private interests that leaves no man great cause to except against their number Why 500 or thereabouts being equally distributed for elections according to the interest of every part of England should not as well preserve the interest of mankinde as 1050 especially when hereby the Body hath its eyes in its head hath in it self the light of mankind and the interest of makind can see and feel both I know not And unlesse we should put out our eyes because some say they that see best here worst sometimes and they that hear worst seebest oft times the losse of one sense being the increase of another and so because the Great Counsel is blinde it should feel the better or the Senate because it doth not feel so much must see the better unlesse this be good reason I am bound to think best of A single Assembly But stay The Senate is the light reason or learning of mankinde and how easie it is for reason and learning to delude sense let any one imagine It is true there are some things so sensibly certain that they are not to be over ruled by any shew of reason but reason seldome busieth its selfe about these nor are these the things that so frequently occur unto the consideration of our Representatives if these were the things there would be the lesse necessity for the light of mankinde the reason of a Senate being to debate hard matters things that are not so liable to sense This difficulty will yet remain Whether since Mr. Harrington saith a Senate alone will not be honest it be like to be ever the honester hereby while by their light of reason and learning it will be no hard matter in many things to dazle the weak sight of that vast Animal if both parties do at all agree whereby the benefit to result will be this only that iniquity be established by a Law by a more seeming or pretended reason and interest Sense doth not much foresee the benefit of a Law to be made though it feels the good of a Law that hath been sometime in force therefore it will be no hard matter for seeming reason to seduce common sense This great Counsel wherein it may be some may be found to have scarce common sense had need to be well instructed better then a Senate can inform them by an Oration or Preachment where every ones tale is good till anothers is told or else they are like enough to do they know not what for I doubt me every man hath not a light within him to a certain knowledge of good or evill the interest or prejudice of the State that without any more adoe we should be left to do as God shall direct us let me put a case 1050 are chosen for the Great Councel and 300 for the Senate according to Mr. Harringtons free way of Election for fear of fixing any in opposition The 300 propose That CHARLES STUART be made King of England I may suppose this for Mr. Harrington saith in effect The Senate will not be honest if they can chuse and a King might not do much amisse with these two Counsels well what will the sense and interest of the 1050 say to this supposing there must be no debating this businesse there but every one must put their mindes in a box without telling tales there be some in the world that would lay two to one their sense would soon inform them that it is their interest to make him King I leave the Reader to a free judgement once more the 300 would seem wiser and in their grave judgements propound to the 1050 to settle some Sectary as we call them Lord Archon and Sole Legislator of England and signifie to them that it is the National interest so to do without debating the matter but away presently to the Balloting box I conceive their sense would hardly convince them that either the one or the other were their interest the sense of people in many things is a kinde of prepossession they must be soundly convinced here if they believe any thing but what they thought before be it true or false but in other things they are more facile and ductile and not so hard to be imposed on If they are prepossessed with an error then the work is done to hand 't is but proposing and 't is presently resolved If they are prepossess●d with their true Interest if the contrary be not of necessity to the design of the Senate it may lie still till better leasure but if it be of absolute necessity I hope it will be held fit that this be introduced

of Penal Laws they cannot but remember how far from grievous they were in the late Kings time the Catholicks living here notwithstanding them in more flourishing condition then they of Italy France or Spain under their respective Princes and would do infinitely more under their natural King then if any forainer should acquire the power by conquest Besides having generally adhered to the late King in his Wars have no reason to distrust the finding favorable treatment from his Son and to share in that indulgence he is ready to afford even his greatest enemies i. e. such are Presbyterians and Independents this is Authentick Yea and besides all this who can tell he hath not sucked in some of his Mothers milk Thirdly The defence of Property is the common interest of the Nation I will not mispend a word to prove this least I should reproach my Countreymen of so much easiness as ignorance of such a foundamentall in reason as this Whether Properly be in danger of being invaded by the calling in the late Kings Son is more worthy of our enquiry How many purchasors are there of Bishops Lands Dean and Chapters Lands Delinquents Lands and Crown Lands whose Fee-simple would be no very wise title but much worse then Tenure in Villenage let any man of reason imagine this will not only concern Roundheads but many who in other matters are at no great distance with Episcopacy have their hands full of them they being bought and sold over and over many to whose hands this will come will no doubt be sufficiently sensible hereof that these are alienated upon as good if no better reason then were the Abby Lands c. in Hen. 8. time none that were the first buyers had I believe any jealousie to the contrary nor hath any man any thing material to object against it King and Delinquents Lands were justly forfeited for raising and levying War upon the Parliament the Bishops Lands because those men involved us into those Distractions and abetted and adhered unto that party and drove the Chariot of the Church so furiously that they were like to overthrow all wherefore the State found it good prudence to take down their mettle by making better use of their Lands to satisfie publick debts and so to leave them disabled for the future to disturbe our peace which if their Lands had been reserved they would have been alwayes attempting to recover and therewith the Government of Church and State too the other Church lands went in company to help pay debts being exposed to forfeiture by the general malignancy of the incumbents besides were of no other signification then to maintain a company of lazy Lubbers the Nation is hereby generally concerned to secure them their purchases as those were secured and untouched in Hen. 8. time that Qeen Mary could do the Pope no courtesie in the former my Author denies not that if any should go about to attempt the latter it would cost him hot water I do most willingly believe however as the one was attempted so most certainly would the other and with much more violence the temptation being now far greater since he must be a sorry King that hath lost his Estate Queen Mary was not altogether so nearly concerned Is it imaginable when he shall return King of these Nations he will endure to see the Crown Lands fallen into the fingers of John an Oakes and John a Stiles himself King of England and not a foot of Land could he say soul take thine ease while those Loyal hearts that followed him through thick and thin in peril at Land in peril at Sea remain fleeced of thousands and some it may be of ten thousands per annum all the Church Lands gone and nothing left to oblige those props of Prerogative would this give his Majesty a competent satisfaction to sit down and let it rest thus I trow not How can he look upon himself as other then a burden to his Countrey if he must live upon the Charity of well disposed people such too would be the case of his Sequestered adherents and could this comport with the honour of his Majesty could he see his Bishops Deans and Chapters thus brought to desolation so far from having their k●ngdom in this world that they should have scarce a hole to put their head in and would not this be a hard Chapter Could he look upon himself under the first consideration and believe he were The high and mighty Prince CHARLES King of England Scotland c. or under the second and not think he had lost the Crown of his Crown could he believe himself Defender of the Faith It is come to this issue Either Purchasers must be robbed of their Estates for which some of them have paid dear enough and ready money or he must live upon a general Contribution which latter I have so honorable thoughts of him as to believe he would not endure the former would be dishonest the latter ignoble the former would be an oppression the ruine of many the latter an intolerable burden upon all How well then they will befriend him that shall put him upon this Dilemma let our adversaries themselves be the judges Besides no body knowes how many new Delinquents must be made it would be no easie matter to perswade every man that hath adhered to the Parliament that their Estates should be so much their own as at the pleasure of Prerogative yea should the strongest obligations immaginable be fastned on him to bind up his hands from doing these Roundheads and Puritans harme yet would they hardly bind Him and his Heirs for ever Whence must come those rewards that our Author promiseth they shall be sure to finde that have served him in any kinde especially they that are instrumental in his restitution Certainly want of money which he must needs be reduced unto to gratifie them being abundance almost innumerable swarmes of crawling croaking creeping things that helped to undo his Father and him in the late Wars will make invincible necessity good reason of State for some arbitrary proceedings and then this decayed threedbare Courtier will beg that Roundheaded dog for a Ward and that beggarly Cavalier will beg this Puritan that Presbyterian the other Independent or Anabaptist for a fool and veryly I would have them beg us all for fools when we have no more wit And however he may be engaged to forgive us yet can hardly be obliged to forget us we shall be as bad as bound to our good behaviour it must needs be enough being added to our former transgression to entitle us to beggery if not to the Gallows to pisse against a Church wall The Cavaliers that cannot contain themselves from looking us through and through and cursing us to our faces while they are scarce yet in so good condition as to call it a State Militant will make no great trouble of it when they arrive at their State Triumphant to pick a hole in our

a great Assembly or two Houses of Parliament I answer in generall This age is very pregnant of projects every body ha●h a fling at the State and set their wits aworking to hammer out a Government for England They say Every body that comes into Westminster-hall hath his Modell in his Pocket what Government he thinks fittest for the Common-wealth Whether this be true or false is no great matter this I am sure is not unknown that every Book-sellers Basket and Shop hath some new thing to shew for a Popular Governm nt Among the rest a few days since I cast mine eye upon a Paper that had for its Bush this title A Modell of a Democraticall Government A trusty Trojan he is no doubt and an excellent Democracy he propounds no lesse then two Counsels will serve his turn that he may be sure to be one of the wiser sort A Senate and an c. the Senate to consist of the Parliament men lately sitting who should choose to themselves so many as shall compleat their number three hundred Every year one hundred to go off and themselves to choose an hundred to fill up the three hunddred And these to have the sole power of debating and propounding Lawes Rare invention upon my word and a gallant exchange for Monarchicall Slavery and very well worth the blood and treasure that hath been so prodigally expended I should not much grudge at a little expence of time so I did thereby a little ken this well-instructed Scribe that I might know him another time from a Black Sheep However I hold his Modell not worth the whistleing after but deserves to be hissed out of countenance and the Ingenuity of the Author to be rewarded after the Desert of a Libell And let me adde this as a piece of my minde Those endeavours that make the greatest noyse and most specious pretences for liberty and freedome and promise the greatest Refinings and Reformation of Government which yet in themselves tend directly to enslave and oppresse us those are to be had in the greatest detestation and abhorrence and ought more severely to be censured then those others that deal more plainly with us and oblige us by their Soveraign Unction to be their Vassals For while they promise us Liberty they themselves are the Bondslaves of Corruption and would entangle us again in the yoak of bondage But if nothing lesse then a Senate and a great Counsell can serve the turn which I will believe when any body gives me good reason for I shall immediately joyn my Forces with those publick spirited men in their Petition of July 6. transcribed from Mr. Harringtons Oceana a Work which I greatly esteem and a Person I very much honour for his Labours about Government And really I am sometimes almost angry with my self that I am forced to dissent from his opinion of a Senate I think I have hunted his works over and over to finde out the utmost of his reason for a Senate which is not so swaying with me as to over-rule me in this matter but I know 't is no new thing to Mr. Harrington to meet with Dissenters from his Judgement and I doubt not he will pardon me since I will assure him I shall be willing to learn of him and shall think my self honoured to be his Scholar for in very deed if I erre 't is through ignorance not willfullnesse that I differ from him is of constraint not of choice for I am so well informed of my self that I should not seek occasion of difference with him whom I very well know to be more then my match With Leviathan then if that be it at which Mr. Harrington so much wonders I must acknowledge my opinion to be firm for a Single Assembly as it hath ever been notwitstanding what I have seen in Mr. Harrington o● any other to the contrary The greatest matter I have observed in Mr. Harrington for a Senate is that of dividing and choosing and that of Faction in a Single Assembly Which for ought that I perceive though it be the most that can be said availeth little to the businesse Let me state the Common-wealth into 20 persons with Mr. Harrington why should the Cake be divided between 14. and 6. in two parcels and not among the 20 into twenty parcels Why should the six have so much share as the fourteen is this an equal Commonwealth Our work would be done by halves and there would be strange dividing in the end I fear But this must not run upon all four there is a mystery in the businesse I cry you mercy And as to faction and scrambling I do not foresee it unlesse this be faction A generall agreement about the Cake how it shall be divided and parcelled out among the people else 't is a Paradox to me how twenty persons should disagree together and yet have perfect harmony by an entercourse of spirits when the entercourse of their persons in counsell fails by dividing 6 from the 14. would they agree better apart then together about dividing this Cake I strange at the mystery of this scrambling here is neither King nor House of Peers to scramble with if there were a King there might be some reason for halving and the Popular Assembly might be given to scramble for the other half that was kept from them But what reason of scrambling when the whole is in the single Assembly unlesse for failing they must scramble among themselves the major of the 20 with the minor of the 20. so by the same rule may the major of the 14 with the minor of the 14. and the major of the 6 with the minor of the 6. and the 14 and 6 scramble with one another It is frivolous to think that the 14 in England like little Babies would be pleased with this Rattle of Choosing when it is evident it must be Hobsons choice this or none and as I have been cheated my self when a Boy and thought it priviledge enough to choose the Wags have cu● the greatest piece of an Apple and offered me the Remainder and bid me take that or choose which proved an Apple of Contention and presently down goes our Apple and we fall to Boxing to end the quarrell Which is most like to fall out here when the Prerogative Tribe doe not like what the Senate proposes how shall they help themselves The Senate must goe to dividing again which it may be shall please no more then before which if it end without Boxing will do very well But let us consider again the whole 20 are chosen by the people these together would scramble and be factious carry on a Party or share places of Profit and Honour Well what benefit accrues by the Division unlesse because of the division the 14 will be against the 6. right or wrong as is something probable if 4 of the 6. be for something to be proposed as to Faction or Scrambling 8 or 9 of the 14

Rogers though I understand not what Oligarchy he would have wherein he is as dark as if he were all Hebrew at which one might venture divers Interpretations Mr. Harrington ruleth me where he saith Give us good Lawes good Orders and they shall make us good men Good Orders are the very foundation of Government and then good us as good men as you can with respect bad to those Lawes and Orders As good men as you can but by no means break Orders to pick and choose They that would set up a Scripture Government or the Kingdome of Christ in England by overthrowing our natural Birth-rights are mightily to be pitied but little to be trusted 'T is dangerous trusting good men too farre they may seem good to day and prove bad to morrow We have seen sad instances of trusting good men Who would have thought old Oliver had not had the spirit of the cause and that he would not have carryed on the Refined Interest But alas alas how shall we know the men that will continue faithfull And if any think or say with Peter to Christ Though all forsake thee yet will not we they know not how soon their faith may fall them and may do well to remember that High-places are slippery places and doe endanger Back-sliding who unlesse they have given over to pray lead us not into temptation would be very fearfull of falling into this snare The best men prove bad Legislators if trusted with and continued in Arbitrary power And this is one evil I have seen under the Sun we call that good which is most like us of our own party or faction and humour but who ever are truly good will be best pleased to be prescribed by Rules which may keep them within compasse if they should fall into an hour of temptation that though their Grace should faile yet our Faith should not faile while we know that though they would yet they cannot hurt us I have done what I designed only have transgressed my intended bounds and limits I hold it no good manners to venture too far to offer my thoughts about government knowing very well those whom it concerns to Settle us understand their businesse better then I can teach them and verily if some had not been overbusie in Print I had kept all this in my breast and nor disturbed the publique with it let this provocation plead my excuse Only by the way I do a little wonder at some who are so purely popular that they are angry at a Councel of State for fear of Usurpation but t is like they fear where no fear is I had made it my request to the Parliament which I believe they would have well received to state us such qualifications for Members to be chosen into the next Representative as we might have ventured our all with them wherein I had delivered my opinion against admitting any of the late Kings party without fearing to fix them in opposition against us being already fixed in such bitter opposition against a Common-wealth that they would not believe the benefit of it though they did a little feel it much lesse would they believe it at the first but should all manner of men be promiscuously admitted into the next Parliament many would be brought in who when they were there would undoubtedly conclude we had wonderfully beguiled them and had put out their eyes that they should grinde in our mill and would be confident we called them in only to make sport wherefore they would not fail to lay their hands upon the pillars of the Common-wealth and bow themselves with all their might if possible to pull the House upon our heads though they themselves were ruined by the fall Some other things I had humbly proposed to them in reference to the next Representative tending to the security of the Government of the good Cause we have been contending for and Liberty of Conscience all which I doubt not but they would have put in practice or have taken better care for all and then when this Representative had found the want of a Senate I should have submitted my judgement to theirs who I doubt not would have had every jot as much foresight as the People of Venice and if they had found the want would have called for the remedy without the help of a LORD SOLE LEGISLATOR I have done and was indeed since this unluckie change resolved wholly to omit this Argument of a Senate which was sent to the Presse a week since the whole being intended for the Parliament who are since perfidiously forced judging it little boot to plead for this or that way of a Common-wealth when we are like to go without this or that either and be ruled by meer will and pleasure but observing some endevours for this Senate and Popular assembly by HOOK or by CROOKE who think that LAMBERT shall deserve 20000 l. per annum during his life to settle it I am over-ruled to publish my Exceptions against it and submit them to censure however expect not what I propound should be Setled by such Juglers who but yesterday cryed Hosana to the Supreme Authority the Parliament and now nothing will serve but away with them away with them let them be crucified I had prepared besides my Addresse to the Parliament to close my Discourse with Addresses to the Episcopal Presbyterian Independent Baptized Protectorians Army and the whole body of the Nation quieting them towards a submission to the Supremacy of Parliaments chiding them heartily and severally as I saw occasion But now the Army becoming the sole Masters of Reason I dare make no Addresses but to themselves wherein yet I shall hardly flatter them as most of themselves did the Late Protector and betrayed him with a kisse TO THE ARMY THE Supreme Authority OF ENGLAND High and Mighty Masters IT hath been in every bodies mouth The Parliament were your drudges that you were twice or thrice about to discard them since they sat last No doubt they spake it most of them as they would have it Well you have broken this Parliament yea you have broken your selves and us too yea have turned all topsie ●urvie T is true of you These are they that have turned the World upside downe you have made England Scotland Ireland a Chaos without form and void and I doubt your Omnipotency will never speak the word for such a creation as any honest man shall say when he hath looked upon it that it is very good You may pardon me since you have put all out of Order if you have disordered my thoughts so that I observe no method when all is without any method among us I tell you this action is the most faithless senseless bootless ruinous action that ever appeared upon the Stage of the world the most false hearted and traiterous the most ridiculous and insignificant the most rash and fruitlesse the most dangerous and destructive adventure that ever men took in