c. Mr. BAXIER seconds him with as agile a Notion in his head and Motion from his heart to the Army for their Re-admission The truth is it is all the way observable how PRINIAN Mr. Baxters words and Arguments are for Law and how BAXTERIAN Mr. Prynne's proofs are for Scripture yet as Plato once said of Diogenes Illum esse Socratem insanum furentem c. he is no other then Socrates raging and mad and Socrates is but a sober Cynick or Diogenes so indeed Mr. B. is but Mr. P. in more sobriety and Mr. P. is but Mr. B. in more bitterness and asperity But sure neither of them could think us so far out of our wits or beside our senses and Nescient of the History and State of the Commonwealth whatever they conceive of others whom they carry as Faulconers on their fists do hooded Hawks that we should be perswaded this can consist with the Sanity or Sanctity of it and of the Cause Muchless can they induce us or any alive who are but Masters of their own Reason to believe a right they have to sit as members of this present Parliament But had M. P. been an Artist in Anatomy he would have learn'd of Hippocrates first To look into those things that are alike to one another and SIMILARY Members of the whole and then into those things that are so unlike and DISSIMILARY I mean of that Parliament that was then in being for of THIS that sat since An. 1648. they never were neither in the one sence nor in the other Thus Aristotle teaches That which is right and strait must be first because it doth not onely measure and manifest it's self but it also measures that which is oblique crooked and contrary to it and to the Body This Mr. P. should have done and this was done when they were secluded They were first measured in their Affections and intentions and so found oblique to the Publick yea professed and avowed enemies to the Free-State and GOOD CAUSE by such as have infinitely more skill in that Art of true Anatomy then either Mr. P. or I can pretend to And that this is so it hangs upon Record so as that a little Revise of the PARLIAMENTS necessary Resolves and Votes about them with the GROUNDS and REASONS of the Votes for their Seclusion will satisfie any well-willers to the Cause and felicity of the WHOLE that Mr. P. doth labour but in vain to rescue that with Wit which they lost in Worth Besides 2. Their SECLUSION and expulsion was from the House of Commons indeed or that PART OF THE PARLIAMENT which were called and convened by the King's Writ of Caroli 17. An. 1640. which Parliament Mr. P. himself determines and hath resolved to have been actually Dissolved at the Death and Decollation of the late King according to Law and REASON and this he so learnedly proves from p. 24. to 34. that I am ready to say with Appelles upon the 7. years elaborate piece of Protogenes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Labour is great and the work too but alas the Grace and Beauty of it which is the formale is wanting and how needless that long discourse is to prove what we never denyed let the Reader judge but that which we deny and which Mr. P. must prove is that the MEMBERS for whom he and Mr. B. are such Advocates ever were or are Members of this PARLIAMENT of the Commonwealth or Secluded from it viz. the Parliament of the Commonwealth without King Single Person or House of Peers Which neither Mr. P. Mr. B. nor any man alive with all his Art of Anatomy Calumny Law or Logick can be able to do or to evidence the least RIGHT they had or have to sit in this present Parliament as he would suggest it or indeed any at all but what grounded and precipitate presumption in any other might as much pretend to And therefore with his leave those Honourable Persons that his Pen dashes upon in p. 10. of his Narr viz. Sir Arthur Hasilerige and Sir Henry Vane rendered him such Reasons for his not sitting in the House as might have satisfied the Writer as well as the Reader him or any that had not been quite bank-rupted and as void of Reason as of Right 3. The Bustling Blustring noise which Mr. B. and he makes of the Majority is a meer SOUND and mistake Had he been pleased to have made known to the Reader how many were Delinquents how many left the Parliament and sat in the Juncto at Oxford 200. or more that never return'd again and of those that remain'd in the HOUSE it must needs follow that the Secluded Members were the lesser Number and those that sat since 1648. are the greater Number being now about 200. besides those that are dead of them But whether it be more the folly of a wise man or wisdom of a fool to make this loud noise of a Majority I know not only this I know that the Decision of a difference by a fool in Paris was not without that equity and justice which is due to Mr. PRYNNE and them of his Humour for when a Cook fell out with a poor man that had been in his SHOP and eaten never a bit but satisfied himself with the smell of the meat that was rosted he would make him pay but it was referred to the NEXT that came which was the fool who determin'd it thus that as the Man had been fill'd with the Smoak of the Meat the Cook should be pay'd with the jingling of the Money And it is as just if a fool may say it to men so wise that M. P. and M. B. who do fill our heads with FUME be paid with the tinkling gingle of that FAME for which they are never the better nor will be richer at the last I pray God not much the worse with a Mat. 5. 2 5 16. Verily I say unto you They have their REWARD 4. Mr. P. confesses that had he been admitted to sit with the rest of the Secluded members their design was p. 22. propounded to resummon the long since defunct House of COMMONS which hath been buried and out of mind almost eleven years Notwithstanding by his own words there was no such thing in being since the Kings Death and how these could be the Antecedent without the Relative of King or House of Peers or made demonstrable and practicable by his own LAW or responsible to the Writ Summons of a Parliament as he accounts LEGAL I understand not but this is easie to be understood that if these Secluded Members had pretended as fair at first as Cleomines the Laconian did once to his friend Archonides they intended as foul and with like Policy at last 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. He swore to him that he would do all things joyntly with him and transact nothing without his HEAD were in it but he watch'd his time
man commendeth or that commendeth himself is approved but whom the Lord commendeth And the Lord justifies who shall condemn Isai 50. 8 9. Rom. 8. 33 34. Yet I think there be but few that are so malicious as to hate this Gentleman for his own sake but many indeed that are envious at him for our sakes and the Commonwealths In whose Memory and Posterity I nothing doubt but that his indefatigable endeavours and deserts from the Publick will out-live the most irrefragable anger of all his enemies or rather ours Justum Tenacem propositi Non civium ardor prava jubentium Non vultus instantis Tyranni Mente quatit solida neque Auster Dux inquieti turbidus Adriae Nec fulminantis magna Jovis manus si fractus illabatur orbis impavidum ferient ruinae was the song of the Heathen which I mention to our shame and not with much delight in reading Heathen Authors that we should be so ungrateful as not to commemorate in our minds at least the worth of such men as neither Turns nor Times Tyrants nor Tempests Troubles nor Thunderbolts that have rent the heavens crackt the clouds and split the very foundations could ever remove or slacken in their constancy to the cause and Commonwealth Now that Mr. B. who of any hath so little knowledge of this so honourable a person must be the man to abuse him or us rather with such black reports of him to the world and at such a TIME too wherein he was and is wholly taken up with that which he prefers above his daily food or I think his life viz. the service of the PUBLICK is an Argument sufficient that he went to the Philistimes to make and to whet his TOOLS because he could finde no SMITHS in Israel that could make such a KEY or a Key with such wretched Wards in it as I fear if the Lord prevent not will let more into Hell then into Heaven or happiness And whether some that were ingaged for the King or against the Cause Commonwealth and this Parliament did not prompt him to it or were the bellows of his forge to blow up the sparks of his discontent into such open flames and luculent firebrands of malignity is to me a Question almost out of Question if I look but into his Preface and see in the Margin of it how highly he extols the E. of Lauderdale as his helper in it Yea whether it were not designed and TIMED on purpose to perplex this person of honour as well as others in Parliament or to give them a Diversion from the PUBLICK into a private vindication of themselves and of their unblemished names had they thought it worthy and thereby to have left the House whiles the Adversaries should have carried all therein more without opposition for the interest of a single Person and against the Commonwealth or otherwise that these ulcerous defamations might pass uncontrouled spread further and further amongst the credulous vulgar upon their silence and want of leasure to rescue their reputations from such horrid impeachment But these Gentlemen perferring their Christian names above their Sir-names have left their innocence to the omniscience of God and the testimony of it to the Multiscience of us who know them without the least vacillation of their restored lustre whose wonderful constancy is a most worthy Antidote to the poison of the Pens and Parts of their enemies I am not for my own Part of any party sect nor faction nor am I of that number Mr. B. charges or covers with his blackest clouds of contumely Neither have I any mans person in admiration nor am I put on by any but the Lord and I hope his own Spirit for love of the truth and of the PUBLICK lest that should suffer by it to ward off such Cowards blows as come behind them so unworthily and bite them so unwarily whiles they are swallowed up in the insuperable necessities and inseparable affairs of the Publick Weale so as that without palpable injury thereunto they have neither leasure to minde nor make answer if they would without it be with the blessed Patience of Christ who opened not his mouth Isai 53. 7. in Sept. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he So opens not his mouth Who when he was reviled he reviled not again but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously 1 Pet. 2. 23. and with the commendable Patience of Pericles that could not be provoked by an Enemy but when one went railing upon him to his very door in the night he bid his man to light him home with his own TORCH and of another that said O! that these men could rule their tongues as well as we our ears their pens as we our spirits Now that it may appear to Mr. B. that he had need to be forgiven his traducing of them and his seducing of others as well as be redeemed from the great evils and temptations of BOTH I hope it will not be imputed presumption or unkindness if I present him for the present with a little tast from his own words of the notorious wrong that he hath done to that wise and worthy Knight with others And 1. from his own description of a Protestant though I think it a very Lame and defective one and not plena pari ratione saith he p. 130. It is a title that accrewed to our Religion from the PROTESTING AGAINST the Romish Innovations and corruptions If those that have protested against the Romish Innovations and corruptions be Protestants then these who in his vain eye and foolish fansie of Boys-play are called Vani are Protestants having protested as far as any Protestants that Mr. B. accounts Orthodox have done Yea further then ever Mr. Baxter himself did against Romish innovations which makes him so offended and therefore to use his own words in p. 393. Scarce a man that crosseth or displeaseth i. e. dissenteth from and disobeyeth the uncharitable Clergy but he is stigmatized for an Heretick and charged with almost as much wickedness as their mouths are wide enough to utter and the ears of other men to hear These out of his own Book whereby no man can absolve him of self-condemnation in the justification of this honourable person by his own pen. 2. From his Description of a Papist in p. 392. As soon as ever any man hath received this opinion of the necessity of an universal Visible Head of the whole Church he is either a Papist or of an opinion equivalent so a little after This Errour about the necessity of an universal visible head is the very thing that turneth most to Popery Now those that he calls SEEKERS and in a Satyrical Vane VANISTS Anabaptists Sectaries c. hold no universal visible head nor any other over the Church but Jesus Christ And therefore are not within the compass of his description of a Papist Nay are further off with his leave
of believers are his Principles yea so remote and declaredly distant from the keeping up of any one Sect sort of men party or faction whatever is his Practice and in both so far either from opposing or imposing in things civil or Religious that had Mr. B. been not above 89. degrees off of Logick-longitude or 98. of Christian-latitude I should have had some hopes of finding him out or of overtaking him at least before he came to the very Nadir and Antipodes of Truth it's self Ah Miser Quanta laboras in Charybdi but now I have lost him in the dark World and yet would send after him one Scripture to give him Light if the Lord please Eccles 7. 16. Be not righteous OVER-MUCH neither make thy self OVER-WISE for why shouldest thou destroy thy self lammah tishshomem why wilt thou make thy self desolate SEPT 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or bring a stroke upon thy self even to astonishment to go on so by an over-confidence in ways of sin and slandring But by this little Pen-tilt or justing may the Spectators see how tottering and unsure Mr. B. sits the saddle in other things if in this he be so easily cast out of it and more by his own unweildy Weapons then by others the very Splinters of his own LANCE splitting and flying in his own face wound him more deeply and the Crena of his own discourse and writings truly collated together do pierce him more to the quick then I could have found in my heart he should have been put to the pain or smart of which he is sure to feel at last and the longer they lie in the flesh rankling and he unsensible the WORSE the worse For my own part I had rather lick the Sores then enlarge them or make him new ones by any new Answers or engagements only I wish with my heart he may not neglect these of his own giving which he intended for others which may be cured but with a SKAR It is a saying That the blind eats many a flie and had not Mr. B. been as blind as a Beetle with such bleating prejudices and dusty passions he would have seen before he had swallowed so many unsound and notorious Soloecisms which whiles they were dropping from his pen might have stricken a conviction as they do a contradiction a confutation of himself by himself in more by much then I have mention'd besides the multiplied untruths and absurdities so often reiterated until almost believed which are so clearly refuted both now and formerly and Sir H. Vane's honour rescued from the devouring jawes of such insatiable detraction by a godly Minister a little while since I need to say no more to prove Mr. B. guilty not only of a Scandalum Magnum but a Scandalum MAGNATUM unless it be in this that he windes the Horne of falshood HIGHER yet and would insinuate p. 331. of 's Key Sir H. V. brought his Doctrine out of ITALY with him where he never was in all his days and as if he had the greatest hand in that JUSTICE 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 King-killing as he calls it who then was neither in the Parliament nor of that Court. And as if God had witness'd against him in New England which is as true as all the rest it being known to 1000. what a witness he hath had from God and men both here and there even until this hour Integer Vitae Scelerisque Purus Non eget Mauri jaculis neque Arcu Nec Venenatis gravida Sagittis fusce pharetra The ARCHERS have sorely grieved him and shot at him and hated him But yet his BOW abode in strength and the Arms of his Hands were made strong by the HANDS of the mighty God of Jacob. Wherefore the Lord convince and humble Mr. B. that the Gospel may not suffer such dishonour of whom I have had a high esteem so long as he was comprehensive in his spirit and yet shall have so far as he 's apprehensive in the TRUTH with a latitude of love and charity to his Brethren but I dare not follow him into the other world or a world of lies ugly and mishapen monsters such as I should think might make him tremble to lie down with as with Dragons Satyres and with Schreech-owls Nor can I think that he hath been without some secret Psithurisms in his minde for this TEMERITY the Concomitant of his HAST as he calls it in 's Lr. to Dr. Heylin for a far less matter or to use the Phy-sick-phrase his unnatural heat and wrathful spirit which worketh not the righteousness of God I had rather his KEY would have let us in to the God of truth or truth of God then to the father of lies lest such as fall in with it should be left to the PARABLE and Doom of POPE Sixtus Quintus that Adams on Pet. tells us of p. 1114. who when he died knocked long for Admission into heaven like them in Mat. 7. 21 and 25. Saying Lord Lord open to us but was remitted to fetch his own KEYS first which would do him no good when they came for the WARDS were altered and so I doubt Mr. B's KEY will no more unlock the gate of heaven for his Catholicks at the last day then the Popes KEY will for his Catholicks or for himself at this day But thus we conclude the second Consideration viz. his insinuation to the Army that his stirring them up to a repentance c. would be accounted a second Gangrene or a Scandalum MAGNATUM 3. His Lenitives to the Army and Mr. P's Corrosives are applyed all to one END viz. to repent of Secluding the Members of the House of Commons and to restore them and a single Person in all haste again saying We have sworn and sworn and sworn again for King Lords and Commons c. which Mr. P. urges as though this Parliament had not the Authority of a Parliament without them saying in p. 39. of 's Narr Nor can the Bedlam Turkish Brutish unreasonable Argument of the longest Sword or Army-logick nor Petitions Addresses of crack-brain'd Sectaries and Vulgar Rabble of illiterate People make them so Neither did they for they are SO without them But for all this seeing these Corroding biting ingredients and Diureticks will not do it It must be Physick of a more strange operation in their judgement and more violent means that must be used to revive the filthy CORPSE if their CLISTER-Pipe cannot effect it to try it by the SWORD-Pipe Seeing they are not upon the subject of health and sickness but of life and death Not to recover a dying Patient but a long-since dead Carcase which by this time stinketh and is corrupt or had they been Members of this Commonwealth-Parliament which they never were yet seeing ex concessis they are all for Kingly Government and against the Free-State they could never have been rejoyn'd by any rules that I can find 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to
fine Rursus in Statum Regium revolvuntur So that THEY carry on the Jesuites Plot that would Revert us again to a Single Person 2. So for PARSONS The Jesuite he pretended a Revelation from God But this Commonwealth was laid upon Reason Righteousness and not on Revelation so Parsons proposes his Commonwealth to be generated by infusing this Principle into Souldiers and People that every Pecope or Multitude get the title and stile of a Publique State or Helvetian Common-wealth But it is not so laid in these Nations that every Company or County either or any indeed but altogether united that are the Commonwealth in England so that this Commonwealth could not be Parsons his nor is it of that kind Nor could it be that which Watson would have had for he shews plainly that HIS must be effected by a Conjunction of Puritans Anabaptists and Jesuites together in the principles and Theorems wherein they agree to carry it on and then that the Jesuites having the optima Acutissima Ingenia most acute capacities and greatest interest in Princes and Noble persons will keep uppermost But it is not so in this Commonwealth nor ever was there such a Conjunction in this Nation unless invisible and unknown besides they set down Rules for every man to rise up and graspe a power into his own hands in a Mutinous manner as at Munster in Germany and to be under no Government or Rule rather stirring them up to a wicked Anarchy then to a godly Commonwealth and that was indeed the very thing they aimed at So that neither Parsons Watson nor the Jesuites can be the father of our Commonwealth for these reasons 1. For that that VERY design that was contrived timed and in travel to be brought forth which was not so much for a Commonweale as for any thing that might do mischief in An. 1604. 1605. or before in An. 1590. in Q. Elizabeth or King James's days through a Spanish Malignity to those persons sure could not have been imprisoned ever since the abortion of the Gun-powder-plot in the Womb and have been nourished by the Vmbilical Veins of Popery without the least appearance of life or quickning in it until now Or if it had been so and had lain there so long or by such a monstrous superfaetation as was never heard of yet sure it could never suit or Quadratre with these times as it did with those 1. Because in those daies were there many eminent Papists and English Confederates both in Court and Country to Gratifie by it and to humor such as closed in with those forain Projects yea many Arminians Noble men and Bishops of Popish-principles that suckt in seminal spumous spirits of mischief both to Church and State and through an eager attraction took a conception here of that design which was laid there but of late days such have been discountenanced displaced and in no capacity to bring forth such a design if they had conceived it in this Nation 2. Because in those days as there was an Attraction there was a Retention too of the Popish Seed Principles opinions and Jesuitical projects which they received more heartily and with more mutual embracements then of late days in this Nation And yet if in those days they no sooner conceived but miscarried witness 88. and the Gun-powder-plot surely in these days the Lord hath more apparently given them the miscarrying womb and dry brests as he said of Ephraim Hos 9. 16. Though they do bring forth yet will I SLAY even the beloved fruit of their womb and as this we have seen with our eyes all along so in the nature and course of REASON Hippocrates tells us de Natur. Pueri 1. Sect. 44. Aphor. That those Wombs which are too much weakened and extenuated do abort the sooner as at two monthes or before Now the Popish womb was in no age weaker then in this nor in any Nation then in this and therefore the Principle à Quo of this Commonwealth could not be from them 2. Nor can this Commonwealth be THE Commonwealth that Parsons Watson or the Jesuites laid so long ago or their spurious issue as Mr. P. is pleased to call it from the very principles of the Procreation and Rise of our Commonwealth and to name but some now 1. Our Rights and Liberties both as Christians and as men or in matters of Conscience and in civil things declared and contended for as is proved at large in Mr. P's Cause stated and stunted conquered and maintained of a Legitimate and full-grown conception founded in the Laws Word and Spirit of God of Nature and of the Reason and Wisdom in this Nation that are of longer standing then any Government by King Lords and Commons which by their own innate heat and not by Jesuites or any others gave the first formative faculty to this Common-wealth which is or ought to be diffused throughout all the matter of it This is asserted in the Act of Parliament March 17. 1648. Whereas by the Abolition of the Kingly Office a most happy way is made for this Nation if God see it good to return to it's just and Antient Right of being Governed reducere omnia ad prima Principia So in the Declaration of this Parliament May 7. 1659. Now Parson's or the Popish Commonwealths come not up to or from such a principle of Liberty as Adam CONTZEN that Jesuite tells us in his directions which Mr. B. quotes cap. 17. They would permit no other Religion but call for a speedy punishing of erronious and not to take up JVLIANS plot i. e. to destroy Religion by a liberty for all Sects c. the Jesuites Commonwealth will not admit of a Toleration calls it a Julian designe to destroy Religion neither would Mr. P's so Chap. 18. in 's 4. Direct it is as narrow and imposing upon the Civil Liberty But 2. the Jesuites Project and principle for a Commonwealth or a Kingdom Elective is not nor ever was against Kingship or the OFFICE of it but against Persons Families Protestants c. But the Generative principle of this Commonwealth was against the very OFFICE of a KING as burthensom unnecessary and dangerous and not so against his person or family Therefore it cannot be the Jesuites Commonwealth 3. From the Causes of it the efficient causes of the Commonwealth are of three kinds either Principal Assistant and Co-adjutant or else Causa sine quâ non that cause without which it could not be But the Jesuites could not be or give the principal cause of it as I have proved for then they should have had some principal effects and some principal benefits of it by a necessary consequence nor were they the Assistant cause for then there should have been a Permixtion and Conjunction of principles directly or indirectly but that I have proved to the contrary Nor are they the cause sine quâ non without which we could
them in Plato's School hopping about a naked Bird with an Ecce or Behold Plato's MAN so do I these Sarcasms with an Ecce or behold the Secluded Members MAN how naked he is and obvious not only to scorn but to pity As it was said of Naaman 2 King 5. 1. That he was a great man with his master but he was a LEPER Wherefore let the Reader for a relaxation to his memory and Mr. B. for a refrication to his skill in Physick make him his Patient and a pitiful one he is as by all the indications of him specific and generic do appear and therein with prudence consider Q. 1. Whether Mr. P. when he was thrown into Hell with the other Members did not take such a surfeit that he never recovered to this hour and whether this has not broken out most lamentably in his Lips Ears Mouth Eyes and in all parts ever since and a sign that Satan smote him so as makes him a sad Spectacle to men and Angels Besides the sick morbous estate of his mind from the Blackest Choler or beds of Melancholy and whether any Pump of Tongue or Pen can be set deep enough or plied fast enough to fetch out all the filth of his foul stomack a Kitchin of uncleanness Q. 2. And whether the most loathsome stinking Nauseous stuffe which Mr. P. hath lately brought off of his filthy Concavous stomack be not contragious and dangerous to the Commonwealth and whether the very air is not infected with his breath seeing so many are fallen into Prynian fits and lie sick at heart of his foul disease Or whether the orifice of his Pylorus which was open and able to digest good things in his Pillory-suffrings be not wholly shut up and the Oeso-phagus and upper orifice only open and wide enough to let out all manner of Emets without much straining or the most ugly suffusion of his excrements upwards Q. 3. Whether he and his fellows could lie so cold as he saith in Hell p. 18. of 's Narr and be almost starved in one Night without a Notorious tremendous judgement too much like that in Mat. 8. 12. and 13. 42. seeing he hath ever since been under the Wailing and in gnashing of Teeth seeing his Tongue was then in such a flame and is still on fire as the Apostle saith Jam. 3. 6. to the endangering the whole course of Nature yea seeing the Torrid Zone of his spirit is so inhabitable for heat and wrath that a Temperate man can no more come neer him then one can take a fire into his bosom and not be burnt Prov. 6. 27. 4. Q. Whether Mr. P's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Madness be not caused by too much Blood in his Brains since the King's death And whether his strange conceits staring eyes tickling ears roving fancies rambling head and ravening appetite after Kingship are not evident symptoms to sober men of his fearful Madness and Folly And whether the best and most ordinary way of Cure be to let him Bloud under the Tongue or to lay some of the Horse Leaches to suck him from the forehead to the fundament or shall he be left to the extraordinary way of laying him up warm in St. Martins straw to cure him of this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or brutish madness 5. Q. Whether besides his Surfeit cold and madness which he catch'd in Hell he were not grievously Bewitched like the Galatians Chap. 3. 1. in another case from the Truth of the Cause seeing ever since at his long and strong strains he hath raised up as a man in much torture amongst other stuff the veriest Trash rubbidge stones straws gravel iron nails that can be and what not And seeing nothing will serve him but that the Rotten Corpse of the old constitution might be raised to life which because we cannot believe practicable or possible he sub-poena's us for this with a legend of lies like that poor man the Popish legend tells of a Guest at a feast at Benonia where a Cock was dress'd at Dinner and carved out in the Dish but this man denyed that St. Peter was able to restore this COCK to life again and believe it who will the Cock or rather the Devil leaped up and crew and slew and with clapping of his wings scattered the broath all about but punished severely this unbeliever And so because we deny that their Carcass of the old constitution can come to life again till the great day we shall all be punish'd when the Devil hath done it and played his part fully in it if they prevail 6. Q. Whether Mr. P. were not poyson'd with conceits seeing he hath swollen so big ever since or were not possessed with Legions seeing matters in his Books are expressed with such variety change of Voices And whether M. P. doth ride better in a false-gallop of words or like a mad-man for matter or be in both HIGH Post for the King of Scots by Summoning the Cavaliers p. 92 93. of 's Narr and blowing his Horn beforehand to make way for his worship whiles the merit of his Argument creeps like a Creple and Lackquies after to little purpose sence or reason so that Mr. B. had need to set up St. Andrews Cross to carry it on better 7. Q. Whether any Emperour King or Potentate on earth can be more loaded with accumulation of titles to make him proud and keep him in the Heralds Books then this Aut'-Encomiast p. 40. of 's Nar. A member of the old Parliament a Covenanter a Protestor a Lawyer a Scholar a Man that 's well an Englishman and a Christian so in other places a Gentleman a Squire a Bencher a Barrister and why not a Barreter too to make up the number Whether these be not too many for any honest man alive unless a Lawyer and whether this does not fill Mr. P. with as much Pride as the great Cham of Tartaria had whose servants when he had dined used to sound the Trumpet of it at his gates and thereby give leave to the Kings of the earth that they with manners might go to their Dinners but not before 8. Q. Whether Generation be not from the brain seeing Mr. P's has had such an illegitimate and mighty issue of late and whether it be not as likely as what Albertus Magnus tells us of a Stage-player who when he was dead and opened but little of his brains were left he had spent so much upon his Harlots that if Mr. P's brains be opened after his decease and the battlements of his Skull razed down we shall not see how lavish he has been of the powder and shot of his spinal marrow upon others and yet the Skull be kept for the sake of his DRY-MOUTH to make a Delphian Oracle of against the Sectaries so called seeing Macarius of Alexandria did interrogate a Skull in the name of Jesus till it said or the Devil in it rather that the Hereticks were in the lowest hell meaning
having a Parliament being banished for many years and the ordinary discourse of the Courtiers then was against Parliaments as injurious to the Kings Prerogative This continued until Firebrands that had been kindling by it were laid together in Scotland and there began first to FLAME about the ears of the Clergy and their Liturgy An. 1637 8 and 9. The King raised an Army against them and notwithstanding the Pacification of 18 June 1639. he resolved to have War with the Scots told some Lords about him Decemb. following he would call a Parliament in England the noyse of which made the People amazed I so long had they been without it and so little expectation had they of it whiles the King sends his bosome and Cabinet-Counsellour Strafford into Ireland to call one there to raise him monies but on the 13th of April it was convened and on the 5th of May dissolved again and some of the Members vizt Sir John Hotham Mr. Crew Mr. Belliesis imprisoned the Lord Brooks Plundred and the King goes on with the War against the Scots until about 20. of the English Earls Lords and Barons Petitioned to him at York to call a Parliament that might continue until Grievances were redressed c. By which means and his unavoidable necessities together he could not help it but summon the Long Parliament who seeing the people so miserably robbed of their Rights drew up a Bill for triennial Parliaments which the King signed 15. Pebr. 1640. Also an Act of Parliament was passed by King Lords and Commons then in being That this Parliament shall not be dissolved without it be by Act of Parliament and the Ground is exprest in it viz. The fears jealoustes and apprehensions that His Majesties Subjects have that this present Parliament may be adjourned prorogued or dissolved before Iustice be executed Grievances redressed c. With what confidence then can Mr. B. put in such an ingredient and so dangerous a one to make up his first Pill or Prop. to purge the Army with and to scour their Consciences To his second Prop. It was not the old Cause for the People to have right to choose a House of Commons to exercise the whole soveraignty c. Answ And who saith it was I pray not the Healing Quest. I am sure neither do the Commonwealths-men say it that the people have any Right to choose any House of Commons at all seeing it is utterly inconsistent with the Free-State and principles of it to have any such House as a House of Commons and more to have them as such exercise the whole Soveraignty of the Nation But here he contends with himself alone As I have seen a Puppy play prettily with his own tail weary himself and lie down when he has done For to what purpose is this Pill of Fumitory unless to fetch away Melancholy Fumes and make us laugh a little at all their weakness and folly To his third Prop. It was none of the old cause to assert the peoples Soveraignty Answ But it was their old cause to assert their Rights I am sure both as men and as Christians and this is one the Healing Quest saith and a natural one which all the Adherents to this Cause against the King have recovered through mercy if they can but keep it viz. to keep the Primary power under God and Jesus Christ or the power of chusing their own Rulers into the Supreme trust And this was we find by a little Retrospection declared for both by Parliment and Army Act of Parl. March 17. 1648. St. Albans Remonstrance in the Scotish Declarations and a many others So that this his salt Pill of poly-podium will serve for nothing but to make a man cough complain or else to choak him quite To his fourth Prop. It was not the Cause to change the constitution of the Commonwealth into any other form of Government then what we found in it Answ What ever was the Cause that was the effect and an inevitable EFFECT of the Wars I am sure though I confess the CAUSE of it lay in my judgement more on the Kings part according to the Parliaments own words of 20. March 1642. That whensoever the King maketh War that it tendeth to the dissolution of his Government So that Sublatâ Causâ tollitur effectus had he not made the War he had not destroyed his Government it is like Nor doth this lay the Guilt of the bloud upon the Parliament as he pretends but upon the King and his evil Counsellours who destroyed him and his posterity as well as that Constitution of Government by it And albeit no one part had authority to destroy the other and set it self in the room of the whole as King to destroy the Commons or Commons the Lords and set it self up as HOUSE of COMMONS yet had they a Power to destroy one another and to kill themselves if they would as the King did and so consequently the Lords and then the House of Commons as the Commons-House which are all dissolved with that CONSTITUTION of GOVERNMENT by a Felo de se indeed 2. Nor is the Platform of King Lords and Commons the Fundamental Constitution but rather imposed upon the people as has been often proved by the learned in History And 3. Though this were not the ULTIMATE in our eye yet the Peoples Rights and properties which fell in naturally to them were in their eye ULTIMATELY and intentionally amongst other things of higher concernment viz. the Kingdom of Christ throughout the management of this cause Now where the people have the greatest propriety and interest to out-balance as it was in this cause they must naturally fall into that Balance which is in a Commonwealth and can fix for security and satisfaction in nothing less be it ever so beyond our first intentions or second But for my part I cannot find one word in the Healing Quest that saith it was our cause intentionally to alter that constitution though that effect was given in as a blessing supplement and success unto this cause but that we have a Right to a Civil incorporation and society distinct from that of the old constitution now dissolved by its self and it's inorable adherents So that as the CYNICK ran to the mark for fear the Archer should hit him when he shot at Rovers we may run to the Healing Quest and never fear that he will hit or hurt us or can come neer us for ought I see This is his fourth Pill as bitter as Aegrimony it may serve to make a body sick and to make him stare but not to cure or comfort him in the least His fifth Prop. is of the matter asserting the Parliaments Declaration for the Kings person Priviledges of Parliament c. which is fully answered in Mr. P's Cause stated and stunted p. 5 6 7 8 10 11. to the very same Declarations and
the equality as Galen saies and then let him judge Thirdly Whether This tendeth to vilifie the Magistrate or Mr. B's more to vilifie Christ and his Members the Church Truth and Gospel and consequently to set the MAGISTRATE upon the most conscientious Or Fourthly Whether it be against any Tittle of the Decalogue to keep up each Table Duty and distinct Function of Magistrate and Minister in their proper places and functions which Mr. B. would confound Fifthly Whether this tends to the decay and not to the greatest incouragement of true Grace Faith and Holiness not to whip force or impose upon us in meer Spirituals and matters of Worship Yea Sixthly Whether the Healing Questions sweet Argumentum à Christo Pace or M. B.'s bitter Argumentum à fustibus Face would gratifie the Devil and his Malice most He that would have the Magistrate not to impose his light upon other mens consciences or he that would have it imposed as a Rule or Standard for All Men in the Nation to come or to be cudgel'd up unto as Mr. B. and Mr. Har. likewise would have it so in pag. 27 28 c. of his OCEANA That all men might be subject to the National Conscience Seventhly Whether this or that would let out Tempters and Persecutors too the farthest and with the most loosened Reines of Lust and Cruelty over the Soul to the Danger or Perdition of their own 8. Whether Parents or Masters of Families ought to impose their own Religion or Opinion upon their Children and Servants and not rather to permit them the Free exercise and Liberty of their Consciences in the Worship of GOD consistent with our CAUSE both in Spirituals and Civils Ninthly Whether it tendeth to the destruction of an Army to let every one March not to Mutiny that is his own word and the Healing Q. asserts the Magistrates power in such Cases as are suitable Objects to keep the peace and promote the civil good but to let every one march on in his own Order without justling or molesting of another Joel 2. 7 8. They shall march every one in his wayes and not break their Ranks nor one Thrust another Or to the hurt of Families not to impose or to let their children have liberty to hear GOD's word and worship not to Theft Drunkenness Whoredome as Mr. B. most unworthily states it though in a different manner place time and such like circumstances But for an aliquid amplius I refer to a Treatise I wrote some 2 years since called A reviving Word from the quick and dead c. for Vniting of All the Godly with this Liberty Tenthly Or against the exercise of a Church-power over offenders Mat. 18. 17. Tit. 3. 10 11. 2 Thes 3. 14 15. because a Magistrate ought not impose upon their Consciences Eleventhly Or is it against the Interest of CHRIST who shall be the Desire of all Nations Hag. 2. 7. to indulge any or all of his Members with Equal Liberty Benefit and Safety in the service of GOD without an undue magnifying of any one Form or Faction above or to be a Rule to others consolidating all under one Head JESUS CHRIST Ephes 1. 13. Hos 1. 11. in such sweet Symmetry Order Consistency together as the four Elements have in the humane Body though different asunder yet in Harmony together so as one may not Master but Balance another to the service of the Whole and of every one in their particular places faculties and functions and would not this be for the Interest of our dearest Lord But sayes he It 's an unholy Saint that would have Liberty to reproach his Lord or deny the faith and essential Article of it to speak against his holy worship c. Whereas all the Healing Question propounds for is That the holy Saints that do serve their God sincerely though under different apprehensions that do hold the Faith and Truth in the Essentials of it and that are for his holy worship not against it that these might have equal Liberty and Countenance But so absurdly for many pages together doth this poor man spit the Venom of his Pen upon that Noble and Pious Author without Ground or Matter but of 's own devising to render him such as are the liveliest Assertors of our Cause in the Latitude and Liberties of it contemptible if he could as well as the Cause it self which is the thing they ayme at that I might say to him as once Zeno said to Antigonus whose breath was strong and stomack foul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Get you gone to your Vomit for as Aristides also said we are not of that Number that can spit and vomit stuff so loathsome And as one said when he was hit in the Teeth with his stinking Breath that it was because of the Great trust of SECRETS which his Friends had committed to him which he kept within him until they were ROTTEN he may as Wittily excuse it but not as Worthily if they be Designes for the King or Cavalierish Secrets against the Worthies of Parliament Cause and People of GOD which lie and ROT and export so ill a savour And lastly Let Any judge Whether this Liberty of Conscience for the faithful Adherents to the Cause in matters of Worship onely or that Persecution and Imposition which Mr. B. would put the Magistrate upon be the most apparent Way of introducing Popery and of destroying the Power of Godliness with a Form or whether any one can study more to mischieve the Magistrate then by this means For as Mr. Hooper Martyr said to his Friends Anno 1555. Tyranny Extremity and Enforcing have been the onely Arguments to maintain the POPE And if Mr. B. had not been too forgetful he would have considered That these were the very Arguments of 's own-quoted Jesuite Adam Contzen in 's Directions for Restoring Popery Chap. 17. Lib. 2. To preserve Popery that no other Religion should be permitted and the speedy punishing of the Erroneous cutting them off in their first appearance prohibiting their Books and taking heed of Julian ' s Device destroying of Religion by Liberty for all Sects Thus they do sayes Mr. B. in Spain Italy Austria Bavaria c. i. e. destroy Liberty of Conscience Is this then the Jesuites way by Mr. B.'s own words to let in Popery or to destroy it The Jesuite calls it A destroying of the Religion vizt Popery to give Liberty as he calls it to all Sects Indeed Mr. B. doth put me in minde of one Cacus a great Thief that was wont to pull all the Cattel he stole into his DEN backward or by the Tail to avoid the pursuit of the people that followed the Track and this pretty Knack Mr. B. uses to pull us into Popery as we shall see presently and yet pretends to keep us from it by the Track that whoever follows as he hath made it shall no
their Functions as Physicians say of the Humane body that it must be as to the sane Constitution of it of a due Temperament both ad pondus ad justitiam and so must the Political body 1. Ad Pondus i.e. so as the first qualities or best sort may be brought into such an exact Proportion that no one may domineer it ore the other viz. in Faction or Parties striving for the mastery but so as one may balance another and all be kept together in the orderly exercise of all the Functions of the Body in an equal and good Temperature But 2. Ad justitiam that is so as to keep out evil and corrupt humors from obstructing the use of Functions in the body and this is the Eukracy and Timocracy which all sound Commonwealths have maintained and ours must I might instance in the Lacedemonians Cretians Athenians Corinthians Arcadians Rhodians Chalcedonians and others later The Romans themselves observing this as the Rule to keep out Tarquin and his crew who had a considerable Party in the Commonwealth as Charles Stuart hath in this even amongst Brutus's sons and as like to have repossessed and restored Tarquin untill this distinction was maintained with justice not sparing between the absolute Tarquinians that were unexorable and would never be for the Commonwealth but ever plotting against it and the free-born Citizens or faithful Denisons that did all to maintain it not forfeiting their Liberties and Rights as Livy tells us So for other Commonwealths 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. I hear that the Mantinians in Arcadia and also the Locrians Cretians Lacedemonians and Athenians had such Laws And in this respect the Grecians were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not only Greeks but Vindices Libertatis Great Sticklers for their Liberties But I am afraid lest some consult with the same Oracle that Clement the fifth did to destroy the COMMON-WEALTH Si non licet per Viam justitiae licet saltem per Viam expedientiae by Policy and expediency I mean such as Caiaphas and the Council condemned our Lord Jesus by Joh. 11. 50. and 18. 14. and so may this Cause But justice is a pure intemperate Virgin till she be deflowred by one of the two unchast Suitors viz. NIMIUM or PARUM Both which must be avoided as extreams and the Healing Quest doth it excellently But of M. B. I may say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thou hast lost the sweetness of the Rose and the fragrants of the Cause by thy Adulterating Art and mistaking of it But I have proved says Mr. B. that it is a false and wicked cause Wicked in the Nullity of the Magistrates duty and power but the truth thereof let the Reader judge and the Magistrate himself if he please And a false Cause saith he in giving the people the Natural Soveraignty who have but a power of choosing that men miss-call a Soveraignty The truth is I am from my heart with thousands more as well as Mr. B. saith he is in matter for a Theocratick or a godly COMMONWEALTH of which I had prepared a draught in my imprisonment at Windsor Castle and O! that we could see it with our eyes so both in the Constitution and Administrations of it in these Nations subjective to Jesus Christ that absolute Sovereign Who is 1 Tim. 6. 15. The blessed and only Potentate King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev. 19. 16. For whom all things were created Rev. 4. 11. and 5. 12 13. Col. 1. 16. Whether Thrones DOMINIONS Principalities or POWERS c. 1. Seeing all Nations must be subservient to him under the seventh Trumpet Rev. 11. 15. Whom he will either BOW or BREAK 2. Seeing all these Shakings and Concussions are to that end Hag. 2. 6. Veani Maryish I making them to TREMBLE Ver. 7. Ve hiryashshetti and I will make them TREMBLE with commotions and troubles until Chemeddat Col Haggojim the Desire the Delight the Beauty of all Nations come 3. Seeing the Army have Declared themselves to be upon this very Bottom and Foot of account often but more particularly in Declaration at Muscle-borough Aug. 1. 1650. in these words We have have not only proclaimed Iesus Christ the King of Saints to be our King by Profession but desire to submit to him upon his own terms and admit him to the exercise of his Royal Authority c. Yea 4. seeing we are already so forward in it in this Nation both by the extraordinary Session of this Parliament And 5. by their Declaration on the 7. of May last for our Rights and Liberties both as Men and as Christians i.e. in Civils and in Spirituals◠Also 6. by that Golden Vote of Parliament somewhat like the Golden Réed which the Angel gave John Revel 11. 1. saying Arise and MEASVRE by it viz. That and their late Votes That none be put into Trust but men of Ability fearing God of a Latitude of Love to all the people of God and not to this or that Faction or Party and of Fidelity to the Common-wealth without King Single Person or House of Peers Yea 7. seeing there is such a readiness of consent in the Adherents to the Cause that are not partified nor putrified for a faction nor corruption and Mr. B. himself proposes it from p. 210. to 241. of 's Holy Commonwealth Yea 8. seeing we are as a Rouling Stone never fixed or at Rest till we fall into it do we what we can Psa 83. 12. make them as a Whéel or a ROVLING Globe and are likely to find no settlement without it Ezek. 21. 27 I will overturn overturn overturn till he comes whose Right it is or to whom the JVDGEMENT is given asher lo hammishpat and this can be meant of none but Christ Joh. 5. 22. to whom all Judgement is committed Dan. 7. 9. until his Government be setled in the NATIONS Gnavah Gnavah Gnavah assimenah I will place in them a PERVERSE Perverse PERVERSE spirit or as the Sept. has it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 until they be subverted and brought to this Settlement of God So that for the matter i.e. A Theocracy I agree with Mr. Baxter in yet notwithstanding I cannot be of M. B's mind for the manner of it as that it consists so well with the interest of God and Christ our absolute Soveraign or with the interest of the People Adherents to this Cause which stand together that a Single Person should exercise the power of a Humane Soveraign over us seeing 1 Sam. 8. 6 7. the thing displeased the Lord and was a great evil in Samuels eyes as the word is vajierang when the People said Give us a KING and on that the Lord said to Samuel They have not rejected thée they have rejected me that I should not reign over them or maasu they have loathed my Government over them wherein I alone was their King or the Single Person Much less can I think that the Natural being of it under
and then brand them with the like Infamy for the veriest that ever breath'd on English Earth or in English Air. And now let the Parliament Army and all good people that are sound in their sences judge it seriously Whether it is the Honourable Author of the Healing Question as much as he is maligned and menaced by all Parties or Mr. B. in 's Wounding Answer that hath asserted the Ill Cause and deserted the Good And which of them come neerest to the constitution of a Free-State and which of the TWO it is that hath given away that worthy Argument by which he should prove himself an honest man to use Mr. B's own words vizt his Charity But in the winding up of our Discourse I am surprized or way-laid with Mr. Harringtons correspondence with him against an Oligarchy I wish it had been as much against Anarchy and Atheisme if he means by it the present Parliament or such a Parliament or the Body of Adherents to the CAUSE as one of them I believe he must and some say All wherein Mr. B. and he agree but when he tells us his meaning without mumping or scoffing which we must understand before we reply He may hear further And at the present in the words of Hen. 8. but on better grounds From their Old Mumpsimus and his New Sumpsimus Good Lord deliver us But I shall give you my grounds seeing Mr. B. hath brought him to hand as his confederate and shall modestly discuss it with him and them of the late Petition July 6. to the Parliament many of whom I dearly respect and yet I cannot but wonder how busie some are in this work of refunding retunding and confounding us in our Cause not onely with old Popish Mumpsimus's but with new Sumpsimus's and Idea's exhibited to the Parliament like the CHAOS indeed but to enucleate first the Preamble of that Petition 1. I judge it is a little too positive and reflective though couchant under smooth and candid expressions as if we had been hurried after an appearance or shadow in lieu of our undubitable Rights and as if that since the dissolution of that form of Government by K. Lords and Commons a new constitution viz. of Free-State had not been provided for which was evidently done and setled in several Acts of Parliament as Jan. 20. 1648. March 17. 1648. May 14. 1649. July 17. 1649. The words of one are these Whereas the Parliament hath abolished the Kingly Office in England and Ireland c. And having Resolved and Declared that the People for the future shall be governed by its own Representatives and National Meetings in Council chosen and intrusted for that purpose hath setled the Government in a Commonwealth and Free-State without King or House of Lords Be it Enacted c. And yet say these Friends in their Petition p. 4. Your mindes are not Setled on any known Constitution of Government or Fundamental Orders according to which all Laws should be made wherein they are too positive and upon such mistakes and pre-occupations might gratifie our Enemies too too much had they upon this false conception come up to any maturity by the late Apostacy or in this NEW-CONSPIRACIE against the Commonwealth For Mr. Harrington and that Petition strike at the very Root Fundamental and Constituting Acts of Parliament as well as at the very BEING integral Parts of our Cause so long contended for and crowned at last through the Lords blessing I cannot proceed without precaution seeing as Cic. says Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur inveteratum fit plerunque Robustius it is easie to crush Evil in the Egg and as Solomon says Eccles 8. 5. A wise man discerneth both the time and the Judgment 1. At the Foundation of our Settlement in Anno 1648. for that they propound Two Houses of Parliament under new names indeed viz. of a Senate and of a Popular Assembly so Oceana p. 13 14. and Petition p. 8. which appears to me repugnant and Diametrick to our dear Cause to the Acts of Parliament and to our Engagements viz. To be faithful to the Government as it now stands without King or House of Peers Now Aristotle in 's Politic. 5. lib. c. 4. tells us of two waies to destroy a COMMONWEALTH Quandoque per vim Quandoque per dolum Per Vim aut statim aut posteà compellendo Per Dolum non nunquam enim decepti ab initio Suâ demum sponte Recipiunt alium Gubernandi Modum c. Sometimes it is done by Force and sometimes by Fraud in the last sence when mistaken at the first laying it they by perswasion or voluntarily fall into another manner of Government This is a dangerous CRISIS and the Athenians had the sad experience of such Commutations through proclivity to Noveltie and New Changes as Act. 17. 21. They spent their time in it So AELIAN Lib. 5. c. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Athenians were given to change in the State of the Commonwealth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But I can't commend it it is an OMEN which shall never have my AMEN so long as I see it conduceable to the dissolution of the Whole if they have not special care to preserve the Constitution which with two such Bodies I do not so well understand And I wonder which is more monstrous in Nature a Vast Body with two Heads or a Head with two Huge Bodies and how prodigious and dreadful will their motions be if one go one way and the other another like the Amphisbaena let right Reason judge But besides this that which hath the most impression is the easie Access of a Single Person called with us the Third State by it And this is evident not onely in Reason but in Practice as in the Lacedemonian and Athenian Commonwealths For in the First after Lycurgus's death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Lacedemonians instituted the Court of the Ephors who had the chief Power in the Commonwealth for none stood or were raised up but a King and the Ephor So that a single Person had an Executive Power there But if a nimble Wit will without ground object that this Commonwealth was imperfect or degenerate we might instance in Athens the Pattern of all that they set before us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In like manner the Athenians instituted eleven men to take the care of Prisoners and nine Archons of which were the Thesmothets who were throughly tryed and sworn to do righteously in the Magistracie not to take Bribes nor to set up again the Golden Image But the King who is said to be one of the Archons did administer the Laws which belong'd to Sacrificing and to Warring So that after this Platform are we exposed to the open Danger of a Single Person or a King and of giving the Power of Religion and Worship into the hands of the Magistrate not answerable to the Rules of Christ our Cause nor
of all Parts and Parties of it not exempting the sober-minded and most capable of ALL Judgements whether they follow Mr. P. in Dissection Mr. B. in his Physick-Administration Mr. H. in his Politicks or us in our Theo-cratick-Constitution according to the Reason of all Rules and Principles whether Historical Practical Political or Theorical that agree with their own Art Judgement and Pâ—ofession and wherein they must necessarily acquiesce at the last As 1. That a most Demonstrative Care may be ever had to the Balance of the Government by which judgement and Justice is Weighed out to All. This Rule of a Balancing equal and even Hand as well as Habit is with Demonstration to be observed in a true and sober Anatomy distinguished from a rash irrational and vulnerary Dissection such a one as Mr. P's of the Commonwealth Such a special care is to be kept up also in all Physical Doses to the Hum. Body which Mr. B. is far from accommodating as may most exactly Balance all the humours elements spirits and parts of the Body in an Equal and orderly Temperament for the whole that one have have not the mastery of another or over all the rest to the Ruine of the whole And in Politicks Mr. Har. hath demonstrated it to be most absolutely and accurately requisite so as the EQUI-LIBRIUM of it be not imposed upon obtruded or obstructed by fraud or force neither in the Equal Libration of encouragements due to Good Men and Adherents nor yet of punishments due to Bad Men and Delinquents which I have offered in a former Book that the Frame of it be so held as may keep the Scales even to All Men and not more leaning to one party then another which is most certain and perfect in a Theocratick Government where the frame is good the balance even the Strings sound and certain the Hand that holds it most just steady and exact and the Weights and Measures are all Sealed and Authentick with GOD and Men in all Nations under Christ so that no one can complain of violence and spoyl injustice oppression or injury done unto them by that Balance the Equity of it is with such Conviction and Demonstration to Men Dan. 5. 2. Ezek. 5. 1. Isa 26. 7. and Delight to the Lord Prov. 11 1. 20. 23. 16. 2 11. whiles a false or uneven Balance is abhorred Micah 6. 11. Hos 12. 7. Prov. 11. 1. A false Balance is abomination to the Lord But a just weight is his delight and therefore saies Job Chap. 31. 6. Let me be weighed in an Even Balance that my integrity may be known 2. Consideration Let as exquisite a care be had to keep out or kill all faction or party-interest in the Parliament which like a Canker-worm will be sure to eat into the very body and being of the Commonwealth if not prevented which will pain it for the present and kill it in time This Rule Mr. P. ought to have observed in the true Anatomy of the Common-wealth as Artists do so to consider a Part as co-hering and co-alizing with the whole and as that which doth integrate and accompish the whole and so to have cut up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This with respect to that and the other and so all parts of the Commonwealth This Rule was as requisite too for Mr. B. to have observed in his Physical Directory and Dispensatory to the Army for in all Methodical Cures of distemper'd bodies such means must be used as suit best with the State of the whole body and not with the state of that or those parts of the body only which are so morbous and ill-affected for the easing of them may be with the destruction of the WHOLE by it and this is his dangerous prescription to promote a faction gratifie a party among ill-affected Presbyterians or Cavaliers and utterly ruine the Commonwealth by an universal and most certain revulsion of all those vitious humors which he complains of Wherefore to avoid this dangerous DESIGN of curing a part who may cry him up for an able Doctor to give them present ease by killing the whole All Curatory and Conservatory means of health to this body of the Commonwealth must consist with the constitution indications and co-indications of the whole body and not of a part for the whole This Rule is also most exactly observed in Politicks wherein the indulging of a faction did ever presage the fatal destiny of that Commonwealth so did the Factions of Hanno and Hannibal in Carthage and of the Decemviri in Rome so Sylla and Pompey's and Caesar's parties but what need we go so far seeing this our Parliament may remember that Tarquin was never neerer his return to the Throne by the factions of Rome and Conspiracies of Brutus's sons then the King was by the contentious and factious parties in the Long Parliament both before the eleven Members were accused of Treason and since between Presbyters and Independants not wanting the widest Bellows of others to effect it by the blowing up of every spark to a burning flame or shame But ah alas whither go we is it not too notorious and talk'd of already as if such a faction were now in the House at the old Game to the extraordinary Regrete of your friends and rejoycing of your foes which WISE MEN profess will be past the skill of any mortal wight on earth to cure if the Lord prevent not so few there be that find the Art of killing this Canker or of curing the Commonwealth But yet a many offer it And 1. Mr. P. by cutting off the new Members so infected 2. Mr. B. by calling in the old Members worse corrupted But 3. Mr. H. by an innovation of all together and so of all the Maligne humors in one which are sure to maintain it Whereas the only way to cure it in my judgement is to find out the Cause of this Gangrening faction and 1. to state the true interest of the Common-wealth and Cause that we may know what to call a faction or Deviation from it to any party And then to prevent it by MEANS inward and outward 1. INWARD in a moderate purging out the most dangerous humors or spirits of Malignity and in keeping cool and clean the Liver i. e. the seat of Natural Life in the Commonwealth both as to the inward and outward or most Gibbous parts thereof which I have formerly described for the benefit of good bloud throughout the whole body not distinct as Mr. H. would have it upon the single account of natural right and freedom but conjunct with the Animal and vital spirits viz. of the head and heart which is Jesus Christ and his precious servants that are truly godly without respect to any judgement or opinion who are indeed the very seat of the vital faculties and sence of this Commonwealth as much slighted as
hearty as ever went forth with YOUR ARMIES even in this Cheshire-expedition and another link is added to the long Chain by the same hand that was wont to be with us when we declared for Iesus our only King and we cannot imagine that you should lop off any thing that is his due or ever undervalue either him his Government or his dear servants if they yet must go with the brand of Sectaries seeing Valentinian Theodosius Constantine and others did stile themselves so long since vassalos Christ the very servants of â—esus Christ and Theodosius professed he accounted it more his honour to Rule like a Christian then like a King yea Augustus himself said Ei gratius erat Nomen pietatis quam Potestatis he had rather be PIOUS then powerful and it was more grateful to him O! then let our Parliament be holy and Magistrates holy But to conclude Mr. B. himself saith whom I presume you will hear when you will not me p. 221. Thes 206. It is this Theocratical polity or Divine Commonwealth which is the unquestionable Reign of Christ on earth which all Christians are agreed may be sought and that temporal dignity of Saints which undoubtedly would bless the world So in p. 223. Thes 207. I think the promoting of this holy Theocratick Government is the point of reformation that we are called to desire by them that now plead for the Reign of Christ and the Saints And what do we desire more Wherefore we hope you will see no Reason to explode them called fifth Monarchy men that are gracious and meek or Sectaries as Pope Zach. did Virg. that say there is an Antipodes and a Nadir as well as a Zenith in this Cause seeing Mr. B. is so positive in it alius est mundus alii homines sunt sub terras that the Lord has his hidden ones Psa 83. 3 4. dear to him that ought to be and we hope are so to you Right Honourable which you would do well to look after and encourage seeing the very Romans have found out the bravest men of their Common-wealth by such noble inquiries and have taken them from their Dinners of Turnips and Water-cresses as the Curii Fabritii c. to the service of the Publick saepe sub attritâ latitat sapientia veste This fit Location of the best holiest and ablest in the body and Theocratick Government will with Gods blessing prove such a settlement as shall satisfie all parties and honest interests in the Commonwealth and the best most by obviating of fears dangers threnodies temptations and our enemies designs which are very dangerous and in the Deep to invade innovate or alter when all our supplies our supports our wisedom power courage and our protections shall be assured and secured unto us by the Holy One to whom all power is given by the Lord and ought to be by men in heaven and earth For which Cause and the Commonwealth without blandishing discourses or blending affections I do profess for one amongst the thousands of Israel I am ready hearty and resolved with the Lords grace and assistance to live or to dy if every drop of bloud in my Veins spin out and Gobbet of flesh on my bones against the common enemies of Christ this Cause the Commonwealth and the Parliament be sowen like seed upon the earth let who will plow or harrow upon it I care not so it may have but a fertile Harvest for Posterity And Resurrection with the Iust men made perfect qùod si Frigida curarum fomenta relinquere posses Quò te Caelestis sapientia duceret ires Hoc opus hoc Studium parvi properemus ampli Si Patriae volumus si nobis vivere Cari. TO THE READER SIR IT is Civility to your self and service to the Truth that lets you know these Papers were in their first draught ready intended for the Publick above six weeks since before the Rebellion and in the nick of Time but the Press fell sick and hath had a Disease it was at first Costive and bound which tenasm continued till our Emollientia and Medicamenta resolventia by the help of a Silver-clyster-pipe set it a work again but then with as much danger of a Lax or Flux for these times the Press has such a Looseness as le ts out the thinnest matter with the most applause but that the supine care of the Corrector applyed such Astringents as were ready and requisite and yet some Errataes have given him the slip which the Author had no leasure to Supervise Sed ubi non sunt Errata non sunt Narrata there is nothing without them I am sure It is a pretty tale and yet a Truth for as there be Erroneous Truths so true Errours which the Press let pass upon the Bible An. 1612. in Psal 119. in stead of Princes have persecuted me that Printers have persecuted me and it is not long since Princes hindered us but to say it now of these in power is the Errata of the Times Sithence our Priviledges and Liberty to serve the Publick do publish the contrary being so piously and peaceably revolved upon us after a sable night and scandalous hour of Temptation What is scattered with the Fork I would have gathered with the Glean but that I need not be so curious if thou beest Courteous or Ingenious and as Cato said I care not much for them Who have a better judgement in their Mouthes then in their Minds in their Palates then in their Pates Besides I am called aside of a sudden into another Part of the Harvest and must leave somewhat for the Rakers as well as for the Reapers here behind me Nor indeed did I cast eye upon all the Sheets or Proofs of the Press much less time had I to Reade or to Correct them At a Perfunctory View of some Papers I saw these Errataes Page 26. l. 28. read REPUNCTION p. 27. l. 18. Autopathy p. 63. l. 26. in it p. 67. l. 16. inoculated p. 82. l. 22. Papistae l. 22. Rapistae p. 93. l. 23 r. and no considerable man p. 95. l. â— and so to all parts c. What else I know not And all I desire is but as good constructions from you as I am ready to give with the Lords grace instructions to you and to receiv from you in the furtherance of the Gospel this Cause the Kingdom and Interest of Jesus Christ and of this Commonwealth FINIS * Vide my Irenic Evang Epist to Church p. 7. Mr. Prynne's cutting up of mea alive M. Prynnes skill in Anatomy His instruments of Anatomy cruel His Anatomy hath no order in it neither 1. Dignity nor 2. in Dissection Mr. P. begins with Intrals first And so did the Sooth-sayers of old M. Prynne his own Anatomst and his friends His mistake in the subject of his Anatomy The grounds he goes upon are very mistaken and meerly fictitious Mr. P's first Discovery in his Anatomy is
Jesuites Generation or Regeneration M. Prynn's merciless and unjust JURY excepted against nor is a Butcher or Mangler fit to judge in the Case 1. It 's the Jesuites Designe to render the Commonw odious by making us believe it THEIR'S This being the last shift they have left them Not but that a Godly Jealousie be had and search he made 2. It appears that Mr. P. his Brains have a most Spermatick faculty and Mr. B's Breasts have as Aphrogalaktick a faculty through his Mammarie Vein of maintaining K. Lords Commons and of condemning our Free-state which Vein of his we finde in the Claves as the Anatomists call them but Mr. B. his Clavis or KEY for Cath. 3. Mr. P's hard TRAVEL this 10. years in campanella's design 4. His writings dangerous these times to kindle or blow up Popular discontents All the good women are called to his Labour 5. It is a monstrous thing in Nature to make this a Plot of An. 1605. c. 6. All their Argument lies upon fallacies secundum quid or malae consequentiae or homonymiae Vincent lib. 25. c. 4. The Healing Author of the healing Quest hath taken the Leaves of the Tree of Life for the healing the Nations What is meant by HEALING M. B. quotes the Healing Quest in a Wounding unfaithful manner at first dash Natural Rights may be forfeited and lost The Healing Q. asserts the unforfeited Natural Right M. B's dark Lanthorne hath no lucid Answer to the Healing Quest Caution to the Army how they take Mr. B's tea Pills Mr. B's 1. Prop. Answ Right to Chuse Parl. part of the Cause This the K. kept the people from by his own Prerogative The History of it His 2. Prop. Answ It is granted that the Cause is not a Right to choose a House of Commons A fumitory Pill His 3. Prop. Ans It was the cause to preserve our Rights Exact Col. p. 464. Poly-pody-Pill His 4. Prop. Answ Another form of Government a necessary effect of the King 's waging War with the Parliament and People The King and Lords destroyed themselves and so the House of Commons 2. The old forme of K. L. and Com. an imposed forme 3. This form of Government fell in naturally and unavoidably upon dissolution of Kingly The Healing Quest a mark but he cannot hit it A pill of Aegrimony 5. Prop. Ans This is fully answered elsewhere all the Declar. and Engagements kept in their ends by this cause His 6. Prop. Answ The Author of the Healing Quest abused fallaciously quoted and as falsly accused He pleads especially for the adherents to the Cause but generally for all to whom Christ hath given and bought this Liberty M B leaves out a most material significant part of the same sentence What the Healing Quest proposes about the Magistrate that he would not impose upon tender Consciences Mr. B. corrupts and falsifies most shamefully Mr. B. argues not like a Christian with Sir H. Vane 2. Mr. B. argues not like a Logician It is as the Heal. Quest states it out of the Mag. power to impose Mass or any worship and this M. B. ought to prove like a fair opponent by Logick-Law This was in our Cause to keep up this liberty of Conscience in the worship of God His first Charge assoiled that this is not against Gods word but the contrary and his Scripture-examples examined His instance of Asa obviated and enervated That the Mag. hath no such Power in his Commis to impose is proved by abundance of Scriptures And by learned Authors with the Witness of Martyrs To his 2d Charge Of the evil of it That it tends to the Ruine of the Common-wealth but the contrary tendeth unto that * Mr. B's Holy Commonw Preface To his 3d Charge To his 4th Charge To his 5th Charge To his 6th Charge M. B. and Mr. Harrington for a National Rule over the Conscience To his 7th Charge To his 8th Charge To his 9th Charge To his 10th Charge To his 11th Charge Vide Reviving Word for Uniting all in one 12 To his last Charge of introducing Popery That Mr. B. is guilty of this Charge shall appear by the Jesuites of his own Quoting The grounds whereon M. B. is satisfied with the Papists 1. The Harmony or Proximity of Doctrines between them 2. The Condiscipulation and Charity bâ—tween them and thâ— like M. B's Proposals to the Papists 1. For personal Assemblies together 2. To have a Catholick Christian Communion together 3. To take one another for Christians and Churches of Christ 4. To agree together without hatred of one another 2 The power of the Magist in matters of Religion a Controversie of long standing Vid. Hor. li. 2. see Sat. 1. Med. so Drex on school of Patience pt 2 c. 1. s 4. Our hearty affections and readiness to serve the Magist in all his capacities and power and not to deprive him of any right due to him only desire that Christ may have but his right also The ingredients of this Pill are in part Jesuites powder and partly his own desire to persecute Mr. B's 7. Prop. or PILL for the Army Two Extreams wisely declined in the Healing Question 1. The meer Common-wealths-man as M. Har. principle 2. The rigid fifth Mon. man or that goes under that Name his Principle The scope and substance of both in the Healing Quest The equal Temperature of the Common-wealth wherein it doth consist this Rule did keep out Tarquin and must keep out C. Stuart 8. Grounds of hope that we shall have a holy Common-wealth under Christ the head who is the head of every man 1 Cor. 11. 3. as well as of the Church or of every Christian The most excellent VOTE of Parliament for it the Lord keep them to it Theocracy not so well with a Single Persons exercise of the Power of Soveraignty as with Judges as at first and Counsellours as at the beginning Isai 1. â—6 in Israel Christ is the absolute Soveraign but the people under him have a Supremacy That the People have a Supreme Power under Christ in this Government to give to their Deputies in trust so the Government is the Ordinance of Man 1 Pet. 13. 14. but as a Theocratick Governmentâ— or that wherein Magistrates are the Ministers of God for good so it is the Ordinance of God Rom. 13. 2 3. and wherein they are the Ministers of the whole Body for good so the Ordinance of man too Mr. B' s 7. Pill of Assa foetida Mr. B's 8. Prop. or Pill for the Army à scoriâ ferri Ans Conquest gives them the benefit and freedom of their Right 2. Conquest givâ—s them a power over enemies from ruining them 3. Conquest ratifies and fortifies us in our Rights 4. Conquest keeps up a Right of distinction so long as the troubles hold Mr. B. and Mr. Harrington for an unequally Equal Common-wealth Mr. B's 9th Prop. or Pill for the Army The Healing Q. for the Inward Rule of Righteousness
the Capitol and in his Orations against Catiline his Philippicks against M. Antony And de Lege Agrariâ against P. Servilius Rullus the Tribune and others to all which we might add Brutus's practice to prevent the Lapse by obliging the Romans in an Abjuration of KINGS and so they disposed of all the Crown-Lands to the Publick sale and tore down Tarquin's statues The like did the Hollanders by an Oath of Abjuration and the like did you before the late Apostacy but alas alas though this shews your care yet somewhat more must go to shew your skill before you perfectly cure us of this disease or of the danger of it which in the judgement of some of your mourning friends can never be by Mr. P's B's or H's Advice nor so long as the very same Humors and some of the most dangerous remains of the late Apostacy are so far from being evacuated and expulsed that they are returned again into their former Places and Capacities yea seated about in several and some in the eminentest parts of the whole body which are shrewd Symptomes of our returning again to folly if the Lord prevent not for in a course of Reason what will the aforesaid outward means signifie if these inward causes shall remain Corruptioni conservatio est contraria saith Arist. Not that the Parliament ought to use the utmost rigor or severity in all cases of mal-administration or the like This Austerity in the Gracchi's Livy tells us did keep up the deadly feud between the People and the Senators of Rome till the Rupture of a down-right War And indeed Cleon's Oration for the utmost severity upon the Apostates from the Commonwealth of Athens viz. the Mitylenaeans after they were brought under Vt omnes Mitylenaei Puberes capitis supplicio afficerentur Venderentur pro Mancipiis conjuges liberi that the very flower and Cavalry of them be wholly cut off their wives and children sold for slaves c. was as quickly revoked by others for the utmost lenity and clemency they could shew them that did consist with the safety and tranquillity of the Commonwealth when they saw the inconvenience of extremity on either part in another Oration At nos nunc contriarium faciemus si liberos homines qui indomiti repetiverunt libertatem rursus oppressos crudeliter puniamus Oportebat autèm non post Defectionem in homines liberos saevitiam exercere sed ante eos valdè custodire cavere ne consilia talia instituant post recuperationem quam minime eis hoc delictum exprobare But now let us do the contrary if they who were so unruly have repented and re-petitioned or desired their liberties as frée-men in the Commonwealth we may let them have them and if they offend again may punish them the more severely But it did not so much behove us after their defection or Apostacy to be cruel to them that are free-men but before rather to beware and watch lest such Counsels should establish them in their way then after their recovery to upbraid them with their Apostacy And the like Counsel was given about others whom the Athenians decreed should loose a finger or a thumb of their right hands for their defection 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they might be disabled from using a spear against them yet able to work or Row with their Oares 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. but the Mitylenians were worse used and their youth slain So that such severity we abhor but withall we wish that the Parliament would be wary if not weary of them that yet do and will do what they can retain the same spirit of malignancy and Malevolence to the Cause and suffering servants of God that they had before so as to eye them diligently lest they settle and involve a Lapse to the Commonwealth either by revuision or reversion For what Physician to this body Polit. that sees not these the very signs of a Lapse into the late or like disease or Apostacy which arose up in this very manner from the same seat of black choler and shall we ever forget by what steps their late General mounted to the top of temptation and slept upon the top of a Mast Prov. 23. 34. when he had procured that Act of Indempnity and gotten an interest in that Party and is not this this over-iudulgence of vitious corrupt and inimical spirits in the body that which hath shortned the lives of many excellent Commonwealths was not the Roman Republick in continual fluctuations motions and a thousand hazards daily of being destroyed by the Tarquinian Parties keeping up an interest in the Commonwealth opposite to the interest of the Commonwealths and of all Governments they are most alterable and unstable Arist lib. 5. c. 12. that nourish such spirits and humors as are all for a Single Person and Ran-counter the true state of the Commonwealth to effect it So in Corinth it is true Cypselus was the longer up through his interest and favour which he had with the People as a Popular man and Periandrus his son after him being he was a brave Souldier and kept the Sword girt about him but Pisistratus who succeeded him was twice driven out of his Government and the People restless till they had secured themselves from the like attempts of a Single Person So among the Syracusans some had a mind to keep up the interest of a Single Person which the Commonwealth could not endure and until secured from such attempts was never without commotions particularly by Hieron and Gelon the last of whom got in for seven years and the first for ten years and all that ever after that attempted it brevi tempore duraverunt saith the Historian were but shot-lived How many instances might I give besides to secure us from the Lapse by a rout of those malevolent humors Heterogenean spirits and inward causes which endanger the Commonwealth and are inconsistent with it at least from PLACES most considerable or neer the heart of the Commonwealth until which no outward means will or can be a Preservative sufficient And as in Politicks so in Theocracy it is a sure Rule and requires the highest diligence industry and insight that can be Josh 24. 22 23 24. 2. Chron. 15. 2. and the promise is Dan. 2. 44. His kingdom shall never be destroyed nor left to other people Because Prov. 17. 15. He that justifies the wicked and condemneth the just even they both are an abomination to the Lord. Besides the saddest Tragedies we might tell you amongst men have had their rise from an over-indulging I mean nourishing and impowering inimical spirits in the Commonwealth as of Brutus's sons for his fathers sake Maelius and Manlius and so Sylla and Marius and a many others in the Roman Republick besides Agathocles in Sicily Cosmos and Savaranola in Florence Castrucio in Luca and of late years it is observable how the Jesuites served the King of France Hen.
4. who to gratifie the Pope and the People recalled the Jesuites that were before exiled and a monument of it set up for posterity into that Nation again by the Parliament of Paris but to his own cost for they stabb'd him quickly so dangerous is a Lapse or a Revocation of them again into trust that are or ought to be evacuated the Body Wherefore a Commonwealth in aequali must first be considered ex quali as to the quality of them that rule and are intrusted in it and not first ex quanto as Mr. H. and others would if ever we mean to keep it stable sound and immovable in it's foundation and constitution 5. Consideration That all extremities be wisely avoided and particularly this of falling into an Ochlocraty by flying out of an Oligarchy pretended As this Rule of Mediocrity is requisite in the Anatomist to make a curious and compleat Section so in the Physician as to every Potion he gives the Patient so corrected and composed as may at once both kill the Disease and keep up the spirits So in Politicks it is the Golden Rule and that which saith Arist Polit. lib. 4. c. 12. hath ever been the Cause of the long continuance of a Commonwealth Mediocritate quadam durationis causa fuit and it is observable all the time that Corinth flourished it was said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to administer a most righteous and Moderate Government as Ovid saith Medio tutissimus ibis Now it is very often that a sickly or distempered bodie doth fall out of one extremity into another out of one passion humour or danger into another Incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charibdim so to shun the Sands OCEANA would cast us upon the Rocks in his Platforme or for fear a few should Rule us he would to run wide enough flinch us quite out of the way and put it into the hands of the meer Multitude or Confusion together without discrimination of friends and enemies Whereas an Oligarchy indeed is not meant the Rule of a few as p. 76. but the Tyranny of a few as in the Triumvirs and Decemvirs of Rome whom Livy describes lib. 2. to have been rather Butchers then Rulers Tormentors then Magistrates keeping up a Monarchick-interest and spirit repugnant and repudiant to a Free-state so that Mr. H. and those friends so afraid of Oligarchy would do well to tell us if such a thing rightly defined be in being or no amongst us Such were the thirty Tyrants or Oligarchy in Athens rising from the corruption of a Free-state who to use the Historians own words Non solum Improbos ac Seditiosos è medio repellerent sed etiam bones maximè ditiores aut necarent aut ex urbe repellerent were so cruel and unjust that not only wicked and seditions but good men and the best were cut off or banish'd which made Socrates complain so to Antisthenes of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. When he saw so many men of repute and worth rich and of great esteem in the Commonwealth to be made away insnared or cruelly slain by the ill Government of the thirty Tyrants he said to Antisthenes Now brother let it not trouble us that we have hunted after nothing great or considerable in our kind of life seeing such Tragedies are daily perpetrated and bleeding before our eyes Such a Government of a few or Tyranny rather was an Oligarchy indeed which MALICE it's self cannot say of this Parliament or of any now in Power This was that which Theramenes one of the thirty a wise and prudent man did oppose very elegantly and gallantly hortari collegas suos caepit ut moderate non insolenter concessâ sibi potestate uterentur sed eam ob causam à Critia apud collegas reliquos accusatus fuit quasi perfide ageret 30. Tyrannorum proderet causam partes populi tueretur ideoque puaiendus è medio tollendus esset c. and began to exhort his colleagues that they would use the power granted them moderately and not so imperiously but for this cause was the good man accused by Critia to the rest as if he had done perfidiously betrayed the cause of the thirty Tyrants or Oligarchy in defending the Peoples Rights and Liberties and therefore would have had him punished and put to death But his Oration and Theramenes his defence though worth our reading I think not fit to commend to writing but refer to lib. 2. Xenoph. Junii orat 3. pt p. 29 30 31 32 33. The main Argument being taken from the example of the Lacedem Ephors By all which we finde an Oligarchy far different from what good people are apt to take it and so through mistake to hazard us with a meer confusion or Ochlocraty i. e. the Tyrannical and unruly spirit of the Multitude which hath no more mercy nor bounds in it then the Sea when broken loose And this the sad experience of old Rome hath left upon Record the people in the days of the Decemviri to avoid that Oligarchy ran into it like mad committing the most flagitious outrages of any that they might be revenged upon them of the Oligarchy And in the State of Florence one Soderino and some others kept themselves up in a Monarchick spirit of Oligarchy over the people which to avoid they ran into Tumults and fell at last like the Flounder out of the dish into the fire into a remedy as bad or worse then the disease by calling in the Spaniards It is out of doubt that an Ochlocraty is little better then a daily Massacre of the most eminent Worthies that the Commonwealth has and it saddens my Spirits to see how eager upon Mr. H. his Principles some are to put it on under a pretended danger of an Oligarchy In Theocracy there is nothing more obvious obnoxious or liable to disturb the Peace and order of the Commonwealth and it occasion'd that notorious Rebellion of Corah Dathan and Abiram Numb 16. 2 3. who with two hundred and fifty others in anger like the Secluded Members of the chief rose up against Moses and Aaron c. as against an Oligarchy saying Ye take too much upon you seeing all the Congregation are holy every one of them So that they fell into such an Ochlocraty as cost not only the two hundred and fifty dear but the lives of 14700. in the tumult by the hand of the Lord against them so little pleasure hath he in such extremities and under the colour of flying from an Oligarchy to involve us in a worse 6. Consideration That you be exceeding wary how far you relie upon that broken reed of REASON of STATE or trust to that deceitful BOW either against your enemies or for the Cause and Adherents thereof seeing it has destroyed so many that have gone before you We mean not here the Publick Reason or right reason Reason it 's