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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="memoranda">
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<HEAD>Memorandums for London In the choi&s;e of their COMMON-COUNCEL-MEN.</HEAD>
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<CELL ROWS="3"><HI>Viz.</HI> What they are to doe</CELL>
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<CELL>Before</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="3">the election of them.</CELL>
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<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations before Election.</HEAD>
<P>_PRay (as Chri&s;t all the night before he cho&s;e his Apo&s;tles, <HI>Luk.</HI> 6. 12, 13. And as the Apo&s;tles <HI>Acts</HI> 1. 24. le&s;t they &s;hould chu&s;e another <HI>Judas,)</HI> Or as we upon &amp; at every Ordination of Mini&s;ters, for <HI>Num.</HI> 10. 31. they are the Cities eyes; and <HI>Math.</HI> 6. 22. <HI>&amp;c. If the eye be &s;ingle, thy whole body &s;hall be full of light, but if thine eye be evill, thy whole body &s;hall be full of darkne&s;&s;e,</HI> and then, <HI>how great is that darkne&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Get as good intelligence as you can, who did be&s;t of the la&s;t years Common-Councelmen, and who wor&s;t; for <HI>Nahum</HI> 1. 11. <HI>There is one come out of thee that imagineth evill again&s;t the Lord, a wicked Coun&s;eller.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. To examine if there be any fitter and more to be confided in. For fir&s;t, Nothing pa&s;&s;es as the Cities motion, but by them. Secondly, This is like to be the year of <HI>Londons Jubilee,</HI> or <HI>Captivity.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. See that none that have not taken the Covenants may neither be cho&s;en, nor &s;uffered to have their Votes in the choi&s;e of others, as by an Order of Parliament <HI>December</HI> 20. 1643 it was appointed.</P>
<P N="5">5. That none well affected be ab&s;ent from election.</P>
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<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations in the time of choo&s;ing.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. That Malignants cunningly by naming good man do not make them to go out from the place of ele|ction, and &s;o their voices under pretence of mode&s;ty be lo&s;t in the choi&s;e of others. But let them &s;tay, and not leave Malignants (when they are &s;ent away) to chu&s;e Malignants in their ab&s;ence.</P>
<P N="2">2. That there be a meer chu&s;ing without accu&s;ing, or excepting again&s;t any nominated, for people come not to indite, but to elect.</P>
<P N="3">3. That there be no continuance of the former, but a free election of all, without &s;etting as many new ones again&s;t the old (as in a Cock-pit) but that of old and new there be a meer new choi&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>Chu&s;e not &s;uch as the&s;e.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Tho&s;e that love not <HI>London</HI> more then <HI>Constantinople,</HI> but as it is a place of gaine only.</P>
<P N="2">2. Not a <HI>Gallio, Acts</HI> 18. 17. carele&s;&s;e of Londons honour.</P>
<P N="3">3. Not a <HI>Foelix,</HI> Chap. 24. that hopeth for money. <HI>Prov.</HI> 28. 21. Such an one will tran&s;gre&s;&s;e for a mor&s;ell of bread, much more for hope of a good Office, or more.</P>
<P N="4">4. Nor &s;uch as be &s;o ba&s;hfull, that they will &s;uffer impudences to ravi&s;h their under&s;tandings; and rather then cry out again&s;t them, too ea&s;ily hold up their hands, becau&s;e they cannot el&s;e get the other to be quiet, and to hold their tongues.</P>
<P N="5">5. None that cannot or will not attend the Office. <HI>Rom.</HI> 12. 7, 8.</P>
<P N="6">6. None that gaine more by Warre then by Peace (in Armie or Office) for they will be of <HI>Demetrius</HI> his minde, <HI>Acts</HI> 19. 25. <HI>Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. No Cowards, for they will not coun&s;ell to conquer <HI>Canaan:</HI> but to make a Captain and to returne in|to <HI>Egypt.</HI></P>
<P N="8">8. No <HI>I&s;&s;achar,</HI> no &s;trong A&s;&s;e, that will couch down between two burthens, <HI>Gen.</HI> 49. 14.</P>
<P N="9">9. None proud nor pertinacious, wi&s;e only in his own conceipt; for there is more hope of a Foole then of him.</P>
<P N="10">10 None of <HI>Rehoboams</HI> Young men, nor Old men grown Children again, if ever they were other.</P>
<P N="11">11 None too great with Malignants; for <HI>Nehemiah</HI> cha&s;ed away one of the High Prie&s;ts Sonnes, becau&s;e he was &s;on in law to <HI>Sanballat, Nehem.</HI> 13. 28.</P>
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<HEAD>Chu&s;e &s;uch as the&s;e.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Nehemiahs,</HI> &s;uch as are godly, wi&s;e, and publick &s;pirited men.</P>
<P N="2">2. Such as <HI>Io&s;huah,</HI> that was brought up under <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> and knew the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e which was to be done.</P>
<P N="3">3. Like <HI>Matthias, Acts</HI> 1. that had been with the Apo&s;tles from the beginning, men of experience.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Mordecaies,</HI> tho&s;e that have been di&s;coverers of former dangers.</P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Davids,</HI> &s;uch as have been deliverers from former dangers.</P>
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<HEAD>Duties after Election.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Pray as <HI>Daniel</HI> 2. that the &s;ecret may be revealed unto them.</P>
<P N="2">2. Prai&s;e God when it is. <HI>Ibid.</HI></P>
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<P>Imprimatur <HI>Ja. Cranford.</HI></P>
<P>London printed by <HI>G. M.</HI></P>
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