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<P>PHYSICIAN
<HI>Cure thy Self:</HI>
OR, AN
ANSWER
To a <HI>Seditious Pamphlet,</HI> Entitled
EYE-SALVE
for the Engli&s;h Army, &amp;c.</P>
<P>VVritten and Publi&s;h'd for the Infor|mation
and Benefit of the Souldjery;
and to them Directed.</P>
<P>April 23. 1660.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI>
Printed for <HI>H. B.</HI> at the <HI>Gun</HI> in <HI>Ivy</HI>-lane, 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>Phy&s;ician cure thy Self, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>THere's a lewd Pamphlet titled,&mdash;<HI>EYE-SALVE
for the Engli&s;h Army, &amp;c.</HI>&mdash;which
being but a <HI>Breviate of PLAIN
ENGLISH,</HI> and the <HI>ALAR&V;M,</HI>
&amp;c.&mdash;needs no Particular An&s;wer. He that
reads One, reads All.</P>
<P>It is divided into 4. Heads.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t.</HI> A Tedious and Scandalous Charge again&s;t the
<HI>Late</HI> King.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly.</HI> A Groundle&s;s Invective again&s;t our <HI>Pre&s;ent</HI>
Soveraign.</P>
<P><HI>Thirdly.</HI> Rea&s;ons to the <HI>Private Souldjers:</HI> per|&s;wading
them of the nece&s;&s;ity to <HI>Alter</HI> both the <HI>Laws</HI>
and <HI>Government</HI> in order to their <HI>Safety.</HI></P>
<P><HI>La&s;tly.</HI> A Letter from &s;ome Regiments of the Army,
to encourage the Re&s;t, into a <HI>Revolt</HI> from the <HI>General,</HI>
and an Attempt of Violence upon the Nation.</P>
<P>IT were time lo&s;t to &s;pend 20. Sheets of Paper upon the
fir&s;t Section, and no body 20. Pins the better for't&punc;
<HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> the Particulars have been already an&s;wered; and
Then, all before 1648. is be&s;ide the pre&s;ent Que&s;tion. The
<HI>Rea&s;on</HI> of the <HI>Warr,</HI> or the <HI>Tran&s;actions</HI> of it, is not the
Poynt; but why was Blood &s;hed in the time of Peace? why
did the&s;e Fellows, that during the Hazzard of the War,
Vowed, and Covenanted to Pre&s;erve the King: but having
got the Power of the Sword into their hands, u&s;urped
al&s;o that of the Government, and Murthered him: Act|ing
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Extravagancies Them&s;elves, far greater than Calum|ny
it &s;elf could ever have the Face to fa&s;ten upon the
King? and all this under no pretence of other <HI>Nece&s;&s;ity,</HI>
than what the <HI>Fowlene&s;&s;e</HI> of their <HI>Crimes,</HI> and the <HI>Guilt</HI> of
their own Souls engag'd them in.</P>
<P>In one word: The Que&s;tion dates from the <HI>Seclu&s;ion of
the Members in</HI> 1648. and That Act &s;hews us who were
<HI>Reformers,</HI> and who <HI>Jugglers.</HI></P>
<P>Now for his Clamours again&s;t the <HI>pre&s;ent</HI> King: As
they are neither <HI>Likely</HI> in <HI>them&s;elves,</HI> nor <HI>credited</HI> by the
<HI>People;</HI> &s;o I &s;hall not clogg my &s;elf with proofs unnece&s;&s;a|ry,
to Acquit him: Referring rather what I have to deli|ver,
upon This Subject, to the <HI>next</HI> head; and
That is, <HI>His Advice to the <HI>Private Souldiers;</HI></HI> to <HI>which,</HI>
I &s;hould &s;ubjoyn my <HI>Own,</HI> and to <HI>whom</HI> I &s;hall dedicate
the re&s;t I have to &s;ay.</P>
<P>This <HI>Eye-Salve,</HI> Gentlemen, which our <HI>pretending
Oculi&s;t</HI> pre&s;ents you with, is a medicine of the &s;ame Com|po&s;ition,
which (by general report) &s;trook <HI>Milton <HI>Blind:</HI></HI>
and 'tis his Intere&s;t that You &s;hould be &s;o too. You can|not
but ob&s;erve how full of <HI>Calumny</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> it is: and
<HI>One</HI> thing mo&s;t <HI>remarqualle</HI> take notice of.</P>
<P>Your <HI>Safety</HI> is the only Argument he employs, to en|gage
you in the mo&s;t <HI>Bloody, Vnchri&s;tian, Trayterous,
Hopele&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Ridiculous</HI> De&s;ign that ever was projected.
Con&s;ider, my Ma&s;ters: you are <HI>Men,</HI> not <HI>Bea&s;ts&punc; Chri|&s;tians,</HI>
not <HI>Turks; Subjects,</HI> not <HI>Governours; Rea&s;on|able
Creatures,</HI> not <HI>A&s;&s;es:</HI> And in fine, you have <HI>Souls</HI>
to <HI>&s;ave.</HI> I &s;hould e&s;teem my &s;elf exceeding happy to &s;ee a
good event of my Wi&s;hes, and Endeavours towards
you: and I do undertake by a plain evidence of &s;ober Rea|&s;ons,
to &s;hew you both a <HI>clear Light</HI> to walk by; and a far
<HI>&s;afer way</HI> to a much <HI>Nobler End</HI> than he propo&s;es.</P>
<P>His <HI>Coun&s;el is, That for your future <HI>Safety</HI> you would &s;eri|ou&s;l<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">
mind the&s;e en&s;uing Particulars.</HI> And mine is the &s;ame
Coun&s;el too; mind them well, and you'll find your <HI>Safe|ty</HI>
lyes in avoiding what he advi&s;es you to follow: and
that his hand was in the <HI>wrong</HI> Box; For, what he calls an
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<HI>Eye-Salve,</HI> is rather a <HI>Plague-Pla&s;ter</HI>&mdash;But now
to the Particulars them&s;elves.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, to abandon King, and Lords, Spiritual, and Temporal,
for the&s;e Rea&s;ons.</P>
<P>1. They'll &s;eek <HI>Revenge</HI> again&s;t you, for what you did a|gain&s;t
them.</P>
<P><HI>2ly.</HI> They'll have the <HI>Sword</HI> in their Hands; and Regu|late
their Actions by <HI>Will,</HI> not <HI>Law, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HI></P>
<P><HI>3ly.</HI> Expect the &s;ame, if not Greater Tyranny than former|ly,
over your Per&s;ons for Con&s;cience &s;ake; by <HI>Whips, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HI></P>
<P><HI>4ly.</HI> By the e&s;tabli&s;hment of a Single Per&s;on, <HI>Monopolies</HI>
will be upheld, and <HI>Trade</HI> de&s;troyed, &amp;c.&mdash;</P>
<P><HI>5ly.</HI> If the King &s;hould be e&s;tabli&s;hed; that Mony which
&s;hould pay your <HI>Arriers,</HI> mu&s;t go to pay his <HI>Debts.</HI></P>
<P><HI>6ly.</HI> You that have no Fortunes, will be puni&s;h'd in your
Carca&s;&s;es; and Branded with Scorn, and Ignominy as <HI>Tray|tors</HI>
to all Po&s;terity.</P>
<P>In Order:&mdash;and to the <HI>First,</HI> in the <HI>first</HI> place:</P>
<P>1. Can any thing be more unrea&s;onable, than to object
<HI>Revenge</HI> as <HI>Dangerous</HI> to the <HI>Private Souldjers?</HI> were
<HI>Ours</HI> the mo&s;t <HI>vindictive Prince</HI> that ever lived (as you
your &s;elves know the Quite contrary, &s;o much as you
know of him) <HI>They</HI> were &s;till <HI>&s;afe.</HI> That <HI>Revenge</HI> mu&s;t
be exerci&s;ed either upon your <HI>Lives,</HI> or <HI>Fortunes.</HI>&mdash;</P>
<P>As to your <HI>Lives:</HI> what would that Cruelty avayl him;
or what &s;hould move him to employ it? a Per&s;onal pique
there can be none, he Knows you not; and be&s;ide;-many
of his Father's Party are mingled with you; that took
up <HI>Arms</HI> for <HI>Bread,</HI> and not in <HI>Malice.</HI>&mdash;Neither are
you look'd upon as <HI>De&s;igners,</HI> but as <HI>Souldjours;</HI> under
<HI>command:</HI> and &s;uch, as during a &s;u&s;pen&s;ion of the <HI>Civil
Government,</HI> &s;ubjected your &s;elves to the <HI>Law of <HI>Arms:</HI></HI>
&mdash;You were neither <HI>Judges,</HI> nor <HI>Executioners;</HI>&mdash;your
Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e was in the <HI>Field;</HI> and the Kings greate&s;t Harms
were done in the Intervals of Peace.&mdash;Further, your
Obligations under your <HI>Pre&s;ent General</HI> give you both
<HI>Honour</HI> and <HI>Protection.</HI> From whom, when ever you
<HI>&s;tart,</HI> you are <HI>lo&s;t</HI> for ever.</P>
<P>The&s;e <HI>very Circum&s;tances, would</HI> &s;ecure <HI>you, even from
a</HI> Barbarous Enemy: <HI>much more then, from a</HI> Prince, that
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by a Principle of <HI>Courage</HI> loves a <HI>Souldjour:</HI>&mdash;<HI>by</HI> an im|pre&s;sion
of <HI>Genero&s;ity, <HI>that</HI></HI> loves a <HI>candid Enemy:</HI>&mdash;and
by a &s;trong Impul&s;e of natural Goodne&s;&s;e and Divine Charity,
that reckons <HI>Duty</HI> in a <HI>Subject,</HI> as a <HI>Friend&s;hip:</HI>&mdash;and
&s;oftens <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> it &s;elf, in his Familiar Di&s;cour&s;es, with the
Terms only of <HI>Humane Frailty.</HI>&mdash;How eagerly was he
Per&s;ued at <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> and how miraculou&s;ly Pre&s;erved! yet
after This; with how much <HI>Tenderne&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Bounty</HI> (out
of his Little Stock) did he <HI>Compa&s;&s;ionate,</HI> and <HI>Relieve</HI> Tho&s;e
very Per&s;ons, in <HI>Flanders,</HI> that &s;ought his <HI>Life</HI> at <HI>Worce&s;ter?</HI></P>
<P>Enough is &s;aid to This Point. Examine now your <HI>Dan|ger</HI>
in the Point of <HI>Fortune.</HI> (I do not find many <HI>Purcha|&s;ers</HI>
among the <HI>Private Souldjery.</HI>) What have you got,
for all your <HI>Hazzards,</HI> but <HI>Hunger, Infamy,</HI> and <HI>Rags?</HI>
When yet your <HI>Thankle&s;&s;e Masters have put up <HI>half the Reve|nue
of three Kingdems</HI> into their <HI>private Pockets:</HI> with|out
the venture of a broken Head for't.</HI></P>
<P>For &s;hame, <HI>Gentlemen,</HI> bethink your &s;elves. Leave the&s;e
ungratefull wretches to their, <HI>Lot:</HI> and <HI>Save</HI> your
<HI>Souls;</HI> your <HI>Lives;</HI> your <HI>Freedoms;</HI>&mdash;<HI>Briefly;</HI>
all the Benefits which your condition is capable
of, you may enjoy; and 'tis not <HI>po&s;&s;ible</HI> for you to prevail
again&s;t the pre&s;ent <HI>Po&s;ture</HI> and <HI>&V;nity</HI> of the Nation. Do you
con&s;ider what it is the&s;e your &s;weet <HI>Coun&s;ellers</HI> oppo&s;e?
The KING for&s;ooth.&mdash;To That;&mdash;No body <HI>names</HI>
him, but in return to them: and the main I&s;&s;ue of our Set|tlement
is committed to. This Immediate, and next <HI>Parli|ament;</HI>
So that effectually;&mdash;<HI>You are advi&s;ed to alter
the Foundation of our long-e&s;tabli&s;h'd Laws, and &s;ome two thou|&s;and
of you to make a War upon the whole re&s;t of the Nation.</HI>
To end this point; here's the Que&s;tion.</P>
<P>Whether you &s;hould rather &s;erve a Pack of <HI>Incon&s;iderable,
Covetous Traytors;</HI> that contrary to Law, have Rifled,
and Embroyl'd three Nations; and cheated you of your Pay,
that did their bu&s;ine&s;s for them; and then Ruine your &s;elves too
into the Bargain;&mdash;or on the contrary, Return to your <HI>Right
Ma&s;tor;</HI> Redeem your <HI>Honor,</HI> and your <HI>Country,</HI> by &s;erving
Him, who having Lo&s;t all that the&s;e People Got; yet &s;uccoured
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you? (<HI>Having been</HI> Long <HI>upon this Particular, I &s;hall be
the</HI> Shorter <HI>in the Re&s;t</HI>)</P>
<P><HI>2ly.</HI> You are advi&s;ed to provide against a <HI>Lawle&s;&s;e Ty|ranny</HI></P>
<P>Do &s;o, and <HI>Quit Them.</HI> But let me tell you; <HI>They fear
the <HI>Law,</HI> more than the <HI>Tyranny.</HI></HI></P>
<P><HI>3ly.</HI> You &s;hall be per&s;ecuted for <HI>Con&s;cience. (<HI>they tell you</HI></HI>)</P>
<P>No. <HI>They're</HI> affraid of being La&s;hed for want on't. Can
you have better <HI>Security</HI> in Nature, for all <HI>Religious Li|berties;</HI>
than the <HI>Promi&s;e</HI> of that <HI>Prince,</HI> who&s;e <HI>Habitual
Piety;</HI>&mdash;<HI>Tenderne&s;&s;e</HI> of <HI>Nature;</HI>&mdash;Exact <HI>Faith,
and Ju&s;tice</HI> to his <HI>Word:</HI> and who&s;e <HI>&V;nalterable Firmne&s;&s;e</HI>
to the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion,</HI> under &s;o great <HI>Temptations</HI> to
<HI>de&s;ert</HI> it;&mdash;are &s;o unque&s;tionably evident?</P>
<P><HI>4ly. <HI>Trade</HI></HI> will not flori&s;h under a <HI>Single Per&s;on.</HI></P>
<P>Committee-Trade indeed it's like will down: &s;o will the Trade
of Juggling in a Pulpit;&mdash;of &s;hewing Tricks with Rings,
and Bodkins. <HI>But where's the <HI>Trade</HI></HI> The&s;e Fellows drive?
<HI>They would be <HI>Major Generals</HI></HI> again perhaps;&mdash;<HI>or
is it, that</HI> Hew&s;on has a mind to <HI>Cobble</HI> again;&mdash;<HI>and my
<HI>Lord-Sir-John-Ma&s;ter-Jack-Berk&s;tead</HI> would fall again
to his old</HI> Trade <HI>of</HI> Thimble-making.</P>
<P><HI>5ly.</HI> Your <HI>Arrieres</HI> mu&s;t go to pay the Kings debts.</P>
<P>No: They that <HI>Oppo&s;e</HI> the <HI>Government,</HI> will probably
be De&s;ired to pay for <HI>Setling</HI> of it.</P>
<P><HI>6ly.</HI> Your <HI>Carca&s;es</HI> &s;hall be puni&s;hed, if you have no <HI>For|tunes;</HI>
and you recorded for <HI>Traytors.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e Gentlemen mea&s;ure <HI>others</HI> by them&s;elves. The
<HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> hath been their <HI>Practice,</HI> and the <HI>Latter</HI> will be their
<HI>Fortune.</HI> For <HI>Traytor</HI> is a <HI>Brand</HI> upon &s;uch as <HI>Re&s;ist Autho|rity,</HI>
not upon tho&s;e that <HI>Submit</HI> to it.</P>
<P>Hitherto; why <HI>no King.</HI>&mdash;<HI>Now;</HI>&mdash;<HI>why the
<HI>Law mu&s;t run in another Name;</HI></HI> (in truth a &s;ea&s;onable
Con&s;ideration) <HI>and a <HI>Commonwealth</HI> be <HI>E&s;tabli&s;hed.</HI></HI></P>
<P>The Rea&s;ons are &s;o <HI>Trivial,</HI> and &s;o <HI>Tedious,</HI> I &s;hall not
trouble my &s;elf with the <HI>Particulars. <HI>This,</HI></HI> in &s;hort, is <HI>the
gro&s;&s;e</HI> of them.</P>
<P>The <HI>Law</HI> in the <HI>Kings</HI> name &s;peakes you <HI>Traytors;</HI>&mdash;</P>
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