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<P>A PEACE, BVT NO Pacification.</P>
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<P>A PEACE, BUT NO PACIFICATION. OR, An An&s;wer to that new De&s;igne of the Oath OF PACIFICATION AND ACCOMMODATION. Lately printed. A &s;ubject for all that love true peac&egrave; and liberty, to con&s;ider.</P>
<P>By <HI>Iohn Saltmar&s;h,</HI> M.M.A.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>Barnard Al&s;op,</HI> and are to be &s;old at the Ca&s;tle in Cornhill. 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>A PEACE, BVT NO PACIFICATION.</HEAD>
<P>_IT is a notion more <HI>Platoni|call</HI> than <HI>reall</HI> for a private man to thinke he can arbi|trate <HI>Imperiall differences,</HI> and it is rather an act of <HI>Fancie</HI> than <HI>Iudgement,</HI> a policy of <HI>Imagination,</HI> than <HI>State,</HI> for the &s;oule of <HI>one</HI> is of no ju&s;t latitude nor com|prehen&s;ion for a <HI>de&s;igne</HI> of that bredth, as the <HI>Pacifi|cation of a Kingdome,</HI> and when the judgement proves too narrow for the de&s;igne, the de&s;igne mu&s;t needs fall &s;hort of the requi&s;ite proportions; and further, they that would intervene in &s;uch controver&s;ies, and my&s;teries of high Accommodations, mu&s;t be &s;ituated geometrically for both &s;ides, and &s;tand upon &s;o much vantage ground, as he may have a full pro&s;pect over all particulars, whether &s;pringing or full blowne. As
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for in&s;tance, if you would compo&s;e the <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Par|liament,</HI> you mu&s;t either have a right and cleare cogni|zance of both, and &s;ee almo&s;t the verie&s;t atomes in the &s;tate of both, or el&s;e you &s;hall doe right to neither; for the lea&s;t things are of moment in <HI>States,</HI> and <HI>Poli|tickes,</HI> and I doe beleeve it is impo&s;&s;ible for any to be &s;o <HI>qualified an Arbitrator</HI> for our &s;upreme di&s;putes, being &s;o full of new <HI>Revolutions,</HI> and <HI>Interpo&s;itions,</HI> e&s;pecially now, when an <HI>Almighty power</HI> &s;eemes to mingle, and incorporate his owne <HI>Intere&s;ts</HI> with ours, and engage us upon new <HI>Fundamentals.</HI></P>
<P>And though <HI>Accommodation</HI> bee &s;uch a &s;ubject as will gaine both Readers and parties, yet it is of dange|rous con&s;equence, to write unto the &s;pirits of men, of things that may retard and &s;tay their publick pur&s;uits; e&s;pecially now in a time of an Iri&s;h Accommodation; for there are few in &s;uch ha&s;te after their enemies, but they will &s;tay a while and talke with any that can par|ley and di&s;cour&s;e of <HI>Peace</HI>; and the mu&s;ick of <HI>Pacifi|cation</HI> is &s;o &s;weet, as many could willingly let their en|gagements fall out of their hands to hearken and fol|low &s;uch tunes: we &s;hould be farre better <HI>State&s;men</HI> for the&s;e times, if wee fir&s;t laboured to finde the true <HI>elevation</HI> of things, for when we have &s;uch intrin&s;ecall variations in our State and Church, it cannot bee an act of commen&s;uration to weigh de&s;ignes at the beam of old <HI>Politicks</HI> and <HI>Conveniences,</HI> and they that would now place us upon old bottomes, are &s;uch in whom the old intere&s;ts prevaile more than the new, and if we take hold of them to guide us, they will at length bring us backe into as bad a condition as we have for&s;aken; although they may &s;eeme to lead us about a while
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through &s;ome new and plea&s;ing conceptions to enter|taine us from ob&s;ervation. It was a &s;mooth fallacy of the Prophet, who led his enemy &s;o farre, as he &s;uffer|ed him not to &s;ee the mi&s;take, till he had brought him into the mid&s;t of Samaria. The peace and pro&s;perity we have had, have wrought in us &s;uch principles of ea&s;e and indulgency, as makes us indu&s;trious in proje|ctings after Pacifications, never looking forward at incon&s;i&s;tencies, nor behind at con&s;equences, nor about us, at the &s;ea&s;on, and other circum&s;tances.</P>
<P>For Accommodations in the latitude of the notion, are of &s;uch a contexture, and intermingled con&s;titu|tion, as they u&s;ually take in various and equall prin|ciples from both. Now I appeale to any whether the others Principles either Religious or Civill be con|&s;i&s;tent with ours now, and whether they be &s;uch as can dwell together, or incorporate, whether their e&s;&s;en|ces and operations be not divers, and being &s;o contra|riant as we &s;ee, and having wrought out each others intere&s;ts into &s;everall independencies and &s;tations al|ready, how &s;hall the&s;e be reconciled! unle&s;&s;e wee at|taine hereafter to live under tho&s;e heavenly and pro|pheticall influences, where <HI>Antipathies</HI> and <HI>Contra|rieties</HI> are made friends, <HI>Where the Lion and the Lambe lye downe together, and the children play with the Coc|katrice.</HI></P>
<P>Againe, <HI>Accommodation</HI> is the putting an untime|ly period to our <HI>Reformation,</HI> which by that mu&s;t ne|ce&s;&s;arily be prevented in the period it aimed at, becau&s;e it &s;eemes to be met in the halfe way, and we be&s;peake it to &s;top, and bring with us a new de&s;igne rather of <HI>diver&s;ion,</HI> than <HI>advancement</HI> or <HI>propagation.</HI></P>
<P><PB REF="5">And again, the&s;e times are &s;uch as the <HI>infuo&s;ins</HI> are &s;tronger, and the <HI>principles</HI> too, being inabled not only by many <HI>divine influences</HI> and <HI>providences</HI> and <HI>concur|rencies</HI>; but carried on with <HI>Arguments,</HI> and <HI>rea&s;on,</HI> and <HI>treati&s;es,</HI> which the <HI>conte&s;tations</HI> of former ages in this Kingdome never knew; each party a&s;&s;uring their &s;ide with a more learned Artifice, &s;o as men are now acted a&s;well by <HI>con&s;cience</HI> as <HI>pa&s;sion,</HI> as well by <HI>Iudgement</HI> as <HI>re&s;olution,</HI> and this is one rea&s;on with me that not any &s;uch <HI>pacification</HI> can well be tran&s;acted, for both &s;ides have been &s;o <HI>Argumentatively</HI> and <HI>rationally</HI> in|formed, and have taken in their owne fundamentalls &s;o deeply, and in &s;o much divinity, and a&s;&s;urance, as it is not po&s;&s;ible nor probable to mediate a reconcilia|tion till you have loo&s;ened and unhinged the one; and therefore the&s;e <HI>Maxims of Moderation</HI> &amp; <HI>Accommoda|tion</HI> are rather the i&s;&s;ues, and ingenious experiments of Melancholy &s;pirits, who plea&s;e them&s;elvs and others in the&s;e &s;tormes, and gloomy &s;ea&s;ons, by painting twi|lights and calme enterludes; or el&s;e the &s;ubtill incan|tations of &s;ome that are no right wi&s;hers to the cau&s;e: and doe wee not further &s;ee how the wars and broyles of preceding ages, left alwayes a turbulent and infla|ming remainder in the di&s;po&s;itions of men? &s;o as the old differences and effu&s;ions did onely for&s;ake the broader and wider pa&s;&s;ages of Battailes, and &s;ought out &s;traiter, tho&s;e of Emulations, Duells, and Quarrells, and men have rather fought the great Contentions over againe in the Abridgements afterwards, &s;o as the warre was &s;till the &s;ame in &s;uch un&s;ound Pacificati|ons, onely the method was new, and the bloud of tho&s;e warme di&s;tempers flowed downe onely in nar|rower
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channels, and thus when civill contentions, and Nationall flames are forced backe againe by the hand of an immature Pacification, they brake out in as many particular combu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tions, as &s;umm'd up, would make a competent de&s;truction. And be&s;ides all the&s;e con&s;i|derations, the <HI>Parliamentary party</HI> have obliged them|&s;elves by <HI>Vowes</HI> and <HI>Covenants,</HI> and &s;o are not &s;uch ma|&s;ters of times and circum&s;tances, as their enemies are; (having given up their owne <HI>relations</HI> and <HI>&s;elfe policy,</HI> and involved them in more <HI>univer&s;all</HI> and <HI>&s;ublime ends</HI>) but their enemies (who&s;e <HI>intere&s;ts</HI> are of a lighter and ea&s;ier, and more &s;equacious con&s;titution) are ready to turne with all advantages of State, and every civill or gainfull emergency; and though they be men of ob|ligations, and Covenants too, yet their Covenants are rather like engines of Policy and Religion, to open and &s;hut at plea&s;ure, and to &s;et down and take up their &s;oules and affaires to the nece&s;&s;ities, conveniences, and occa&s;ions of State: and this overthrowes the very <HI>&s;ub&s;tratum</HI> and fundamentall of this new Oath; for when there hath beene &s;uch private <HI>landing places</HI> and &s;ecret <HI>Po&s;ternes</HI> in their owne <HI>Covenants,</HI> to goe out and come in at, it is mo&s;t likely that if they finde not the like liberty againe in another, they will force it; it being now made by wicked Coun&s;ellors one branch of the Prerogative to be tran&s;cenden<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> to <HI>Obligation,</HI> and <HI>Prote&s;tation,</HI> and <HI>Covenant,</HI> and to make the &s;upre|me&s;t violations and eva&s;ions lawfull, but the woe will not fall &s;o directly upon the <HI>Covenanter,</HI> as upon tho&s;e that have mi&s;taught him, and drawn out his good intentions into the labyrinths of their owne art, the&s;e are the mini&s;ters of &s;educement, &amp; by &s;uch are the be&s;t
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carried on, (having made &s;ome virtue their friend for a time, or &s;ome peculiar di&s;po&s;ition of their ma&s;ter at their fir&s;t in&s;inuation.)</P>
<P>And though the <HI>Author</HI> of the <HI>Pacificating Oath</HI> would per&s;wade us of the terrours, and judgements, &s;uch <HI>Oathes</HI> would ca&s;t upon the <HI>violators,</HI> as if the <HI>violation</HI> brought with it (like a boding Comet) the &s;parklings of an heavenly indignation; yet wee mu&s;t know that <HI>Princes</HI> as they are exalted into the divine notion of <HI>Gods,</HI> &s;o their Favourites make them beleeve that their politicall <HI>deitie</HI> can &s;ecure them; and then there are ever &s;ome State Ca&s;ui&s;t at hand too who can heale their di&s;tempers with many a blandi&s;hment and eva&s;ion, &s;o as I know not whether to admire more the glory, or infelicity of a Crowne, for there is a Divi|nity which is calculated meerly for the Meridian of Princes, and will fit no lower condition; and there is an order of <HI>Prerogative Divines,</HI> who onely &s;tudy the <HI>di&s;intere&s;&s;ings</HI> and <HI>di&s;obligings of their Prince:</HI> now I would gladly know what remedy he hath re&s;erved for us in ca&s;e of violation (it being too apparant how the &s;upreme&s;t may be misin&s;tructed and abu&s;ed,) all I can find out, is an heavenly indignation &amp; revenge; and he mu&s;t know, this is not an immediate judgment which treades alwayes on the heeles of a tran&s;gre&s;sion, but may be powred upon the next &s;ucceeding <HI>Throne,</HI> or at lea&s;t in the evening of the offendour; for there are certaine <HI>graduall effluxes of the Divine Wrath,</HI> and ma|ny <HI>&s;tayes</HI> and <HI>periods</HI> which his Infinite Wi&s;edome makes, and is not accountable to our Tribunals; and what &s;hall a State doe then in this &s;pace and intervall to judgement? for being then made pa&s;sive againe, it
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becomes a &s;ubject to as much, if not more <HI>Tyrannie,</HI> than before: and u&s;ually the <HI>revolt</HI> of <HI>Prerogatives,</HI> and the <HI>Relap&s;es</HI> are more dangerous than the fir&s;t ex|ce&s;&s;e: as the wrath of <HI>Pharaoh</HI> and <HI>Saul</HI> after &s;ome particular violations grew more implacable and vio|lent: and as we &s;ee in civill Stories of our owne: and the rea&s;on why a <HI>relap&s;ing power</HI> becomes more vindi|cative, becau&s;e there is a capacity of revenging reco|vered, and there &s;eemes to lye nothing in their way to breake the &s;troake.</P>
<P>Nor let the Author of the new Oath thinke he can be more ingenious in <HI>contriving,</HI> than &s;ome Mini&s;ters of State in <HI>eluding,</HI> nor &s;o exqui&s;ite in the <HI>forme,</HI> as they in their <HI>&s;ugge&s;tions</HI> and <HI>infu&s;ions</HI> for <HI>violation</HI>:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cap. <HI>29.</HI></NOTE> and what&s;oever he tels us of the <HI>ancient tran&s;action in &s;uch ca&s;es,</HI> I mu&s;t an&s;wer him, that if hee can revive the <NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">Tanti nimirum e&s;t Re|rump: fir|ma &amp; va|lida fun|damenta poni, quo|ram non po&s;tremum hoc fuit, ut fides ac iura|mentum civitatem regerent. <HI>Liv.</HI></NOTE> ancient <HI>reverence</HI> and <HI>&s;implicity</HI> and <HI>faith</HI> of tho&s;e ages with the ancient tran&s;action, then I &s;hall allow more to his pre&s;ident: but he knowes that the <NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">Prin|cipi nihil iniu&s;tum quod fructuo&s;um; Expediret autem fingere contrarium atque ita iuramentum conci|pere, non afficiam populum iniuriis. <HI>Lib. 5. pol. c. 9.</HI></NOTE> Ma|chiavilli&s;me of later times have made a Maxime in the &s;cience of Politickes, how to overwit their owne ob|ligations, and have made it one part of the perfection of a Stati&s;t, <NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">Sic Julius <HI>11</HI> Pontifex ia|ctare au&s;us e&s;t, turpi&s;&s;imo hercule exemplo &s;e foedera &amp; &s;ocietates cum Gallis Ger|mani&s;que non aliter contrahere quam fallendi gratia.</NOTE> to be too wi&s;e for engagements: and though the wi&s;edome of the fir&s;t <HI>coalition</HI> in this <HI>State</HI> made it their &s;ure&s;t de&s;igne to &s;eale the <HI>Inauguration</HI> by an <HI>Oath,</HI> yet we &s;ee there is no infallibility in &s;uch coun&s;els and acts; no protection from the violence of evill coun&s;ell: and &s;uch hath beene the declination of States of late, that <HI>Oathes</HI> were but in the reputation
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of <HI>Politicke formes</HI> with many, unle&s;&s;e it be with <HI>tho&s;e</HI> who drive on a holier de&s;igne, as that of <HI>Reformation,</HI> and with <HI>&s;uch,</HI> Covenants and Oathes have their ju&s;t reputation, as it appeares in the late tran&s;actions of Scotland, and other Reformed Kingdomes, and of England now; and this appeares to be the opinion of this Authour too, for in his &s;ixt page, he urges much the <HI>&s;tately</HI> and <HI>&s;anctimonious forme or &s;olemnity, as of nece&s;sity among&s;t Plebeians,</HI> &s;o as by that very notion, he pleads the Pompe and Ceremony of an oath &s;o as if he would have it by that acce&s;&s;e of &s;ome glorious lu&s;tre, to dart the people into an obligation, as well as the Prince; when as there are many &s;afer, and more naturall meanes to becalme the jealou&s;ies of Subjects, even a reall application to their affections, in the mo|tions of Iu&s;tice,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Quale</HI> e|rat Athe|nien&s;ium &amp; hodie multorum principum viro popu|lum nul|lis iniuri|is affe|ctum iri, Plebs e|nim iura|mento hoc contenta, &amp; veluti &s;ecura de reliquis non ad|modum erit &s;olli|cita, eti|am&s;i po&s;tea magnis iniuriis afficiatur.</NOTE> and Peace, and Religion; and that people &s;hall never take <HI>umbrages,</HI> where the <HI>goings</HI> of the <HI>Prince</HI> are cleare and di&s;cerneable, and not &s;haded by the crowde of <HI>Privadoes</HI> and bad Mini&s;ters; but in a word, when the fir&s;t and Primitive oath which is the highe&s;t and mo&s;t &s;upreame ri&s;e of an obligation, is not inviolable, nor includible, what &s;trength and a&s;|&s;urance, can be in derivatives and &s;upplementals of the &s;ame nature?</P>
<P>Nor do I think it a de&s;igne of that happy and whol|&s;ome con&s;titution as &s;ome take it, I mean an oath of Pacification, for &s;atisfaction of jealou&s;ies, for there is an art to take away all jealou&s;ies, and in the roome bring delu&s;ions of a&s;&s;urance, and &s;o thicken and in|cra&s;&s;ate the &s;atisfactions, that people &s;hall in time forfeite their liberties in a mi&s;t, and &s;carce believe they are oppre&s;&s;ed, till they be oppre&s;&s;ed almo&s;t be|yond a remedy; and this nation hath been ever ea&s;ily carried on into &s;uch an incredulity and misbeliefe, and
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have often &s;erved many yeeres apprenti&s;hip both of ignorance and bondage.</P>
<P>Nor will any wi&s;e man &s;uppo&s;e that to bee a good condition for any State, e&s;pecially for a government &s;o mixt as ours, which ought ever to be looking to the ju&s;t <HI>Intere&s;ts</HI> of one another, e&s;pecially after a &s;ea&s;on of encroachment and exorbitation: for to take in &s;uch a remedy as &s;hall leave no Iealou&s;ie behinde it, is to take in &s;uch a quantity of <HI>Opium</HI> as will rather bring a Lethargy than a kindly re&s;t, and rather make a King|dome <HI>&s;tupid</HI> than <HI>peaceable</HI>; &s;urely tho&s;e remedies are be&s;t, which keepe States waken and &s;en&s;ible, and the eyes of the Kingdome open. And as there is a jealou|&s;ie in &s;ome which is but a virtuous luxuriancy of love and affection, and tends onely to the pre&s;ervation of honor and propriety in the &s;u&s;pected party, &s;o there is in the be&s;t States: &amp; &s;ure there is no &s;uch way to keep things in their owne rights and priviledges, but &s;uch a &s;ollicitous and carefull vigilancy, and wi&s;e &s;u&s;pition.</P>
<P>That which I now conceive to be the only Intere&s;t of our Reformation, is not a Pacification but a Peace. For a Pacification is a more proper and &s;afe notion for forraigne States than our owne, for a Pacification is but the accommodating of a difference, and a meet|ing of &s;everall principles, and a re&s;olving to agree with one another, without any further incorporation, but this cannot be intrin&s;ecall nor naturall enough for us of the &s;ame kingdom, this is no &s;uch indi&s;tant com|plication as we &s;hould now aim at, and as our new &amp; holy fundamentals cal for: our pure&s;t &amp; &s;ounde&s;t peace would be from a &s;uccumbency &amp; invalidity, when on the wor&s;e part the oppo&s;ition is &s;pent &amp; exhaled, then
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there is no feare, that there will breake forth any fre&s;h and mutuall <HI>Contendings,</HI> and there mu&s;t needs be more &s;ecurity in that <HI>peace</HI> where all po&s;sibility of re&s;i&s;tance is taken away, than where there lives <HI>two natures</HI> of proportionall abilities and pa&s;sions, which would prove like the two men in the Fable, who being weary with beating one another, tooke truce for an houres refre&s;hment, and fell fre&s;h to their blowes againe.</P>
<P>A <HI>Peace</HI> then and not a <HI>Pacification</HI> is our a&s;&s;ertion, and I hope all who value a <HI>Reformation</HI> according to their Covenant, will pur&s;ue tho&s;e things which make for that, and &s;uffer them&s;elves not to be taken off their holy and famous re&s;olutions for <HI>Peace,</HI> by any faire or &s;pecious argument for <HI>Pacification, Pacification</HI> be|ing but the halfe way to <HI>Peace,</HI> and this I conceive is the <HI>Peace</HI> which will make both <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> happy, not &s;o much by inventing any new engines to binde <HI>our Kings in chaines, and our Princes in fetters of iron,</HI> but by endeavouring &s;uch an extirpation of <HI>Po|pery, Prelacie,</HI> and <HI>malignity,</HI> as our <HI>Peace</HI> may be rather &s;ecured by a <HI>di&s;ability of contending,</HI> than by any new <HI>Oath</HI> or <HI>po&s;sibility of re&s;i&s;ting.</HI></P>
<P>For any further <HI>Critici&s;me</HI> upon the <HI>Author</HI> I have none; I confe&s;&s;e he rea&s;ons well upon many particu|lars, and makes his inke ri&s;e high, and da&s;h hand&s;omly upon tho&s;e that &s;tand about the <HI>Throne,</HI> and had he rea|ched further with his pen even to a Peace, and writ but beyond a Pacification, he had writ well.</P>
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<P>I Shall gather his de&s;igne into this compend. <HI>An Oath and ceremonious forme for the King, another for the Queene, and the temeration being &s;o dangerous, hee thinkes we are &s;ecured &s;ufficiently</HI>: and he pre&s;umes, (having laid downe this forme) to lay upon it this weight, <HI>the honour of God, &s;afety of Religion,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P.</HI> 1.</NOTE> <HI>ju&s;tice of Parliament.</HI> I confe&s;&s;e the Oath <HI>ab&s;tractively</HI> con&s;i|dered is able to beare this, and a larger &s;uper&s;tructure; but when <HI>concretively</HI> and <HI>pactionately</HI> taken, let all judge who knowes there is a <HI>revolution</HI> in the <HI>highe&s;t Orbes,</HI> and a <HI>changeablene&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>mutability</HI> in every thing to the very <HI>borders of immortality.</HI></P>
<P>In the <HI>ceremonious forme</HI> he &s;eemes to ayme e&s;peci|ally at the <HI>&s;atisfaction of the people,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P.</HI> 6.</NOTE> and he pleads for the attiring and apparelling the <HI>Oath</HI> in &s;ome <HI>glorious ceremonies:</HI> but <HI>popular &s;atisfactions</HI> in true Chri&s;tian <HI>States</HI> are more &s;olidly obtained by ju&s;t and free and regular redre&s;&s;es: I know very well that gu&s;ts of di&s;|content will be blowing &s;ometimes from the people upon the be&s;t admini&s;trations, but they will &s;oone blow over, <HI>God</HI> having obliged him&s;elfe not to &s;uf|fer the rod of <HI>the wicked to re&s;t upon the lot of the righ|teous.</HI></P>
<P>And for the <HI>Oath</HI> to the <HI>Queene,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P.</HI> 1.</NOTE> I onely expo&s;e to the con&s;ideration of any, what &s;ecurity or a&s;&s;urance is there in &s;uch <HI>Fundamentals</HI> which an <HI>Ab&s;olution</HI> or <HI>Di&s;pen&s;ation,</HI> or other <HI>Ie&s;uiticall engine</HI> can overturne at plea&s;ure, though I could tell him more too, for at the priviledge of this Oath he mu&s;t needs let in a tole|ration
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of that which the condition of our Covenant cannot comply with.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> word, for any &s;uch <HI>obligationall</HI> happine&s;&s;e, let the <HI>States of Holland</HI> reply, who have had too &s;ad ex|perience of the many effu&s;ions which the mini&s;ters of that tyrannous <HI>Philip</HI> had contrived, and e&s;pecially now, in the &s;ea&s;on of the univer&s;all Apo&s;tacy, wherein <HI>Faith</HI> &s;hall not be able to grow up to &s;o ju&s;t a &s;tature as formerly, being a qualification (&s;aith that holy a&s;&s;er|tion) &s;carce to be <HI>found on earth.</HI></P>
<P>And though this way of obligation and &s;atisfaction hath beene made u&s;e on (<HI>as he &s;ayes)</HI> by <HI>God</HI> and <HI>man,</HI> yet we mu&s;t know God hath an e&s;&s;entiall immutabili|ty to in&s;ure his <HI>oath,</HI> and <HI>man</HI> had a <HI>fidelity</HI> then, which was not &s;o well acquainted with the artifice of <HI>re&s;er|vation, equivocation,</HI> and <HI>elu&s;ion.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Conclu&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>NOw con&s;ider the <HI>frailty</HI> and uncertainty in &s;uch <HI>foundations</HI> as <HI>oaths,</HI> the <HI>complexion</HI> and <HI>obligation</HI> of our late <HI>Covenants,</HI> the <HI>eva&s;ions</HI> and <HI>machinations</HI> of a reconciled <HI>enemy,</HI> the <HI>incon&s;i&s;tency</HI> of our prin|ciples and theirs, the fre&s;h <HI>feuds</HI> from the remainders of an old <HI>combu&s;ti|on,</HI> our <HI>deep ingagements,</HI> our &s;mall <HI>purcha&s;e</HI> for the expence of &s;o much blood and trea&s;ure, and tell me if there be any &s;ecurity but in <HI>&s;ome things</HI> beyond an <HI>Accommodation.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>I Have no other quarrell to the Booke than its incongruitie to our Reformation and Covenant, and civill libertie and &s;ecurity, though it may be this is a misfortune rather of the Authors affe|ction than intention; which making too much ha&s;t after Peace, fell into this error of Pacification: I could wi&s;h his excellent expre&s;|&s;ions had flowed in a better channell: nor would I be mi&s;taken by others in what I doe, for I undertake not to write in a Politicke, out a rationall capacity.</P>
<P><HI>Quod &s;i Pompeius &amp; Cae&s;ar conjungi po&s;&s;int, me &s;atis vici&s;&s;e pu|tabo.</HI> Bald. in Ep. ad Cico<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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