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<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Nece&s;&s;ary and Sea|&s;onable Caution, con|cerning Elections.</HEAD>
<P>THe mi&s;erable di&s;&s;ettlement of this Nation, ari&s;ing principally from Abu&s;e of Tru&s;t, practi&s;ed by tho&s;e Per&s;ons, whom we cho&s;e to Re|pre&s;ent the People; it concerns us now at la&s;t, to provide warily a|gain&s;t future Inconveniences, by a more diligent Examination, and Knowledge of tho&s;e we elect for the time to come. We find the <HI>Nation Impoveri&s;hed;</HI> the <HI>Government</HI> both of <HI>Church</HI> and <HI>State di&s;&s;olved;</HI> and all the <HI>Supports</HI> of a <HI>Publique Magi&s;tracy devoured,</HI> by tho&s;e very people, who in&s;tead of Freeing us from &s;mall and few mi&s;cariages, have notoriou&s;ly exerci&s;ed over us (them&s;elves) the greate&s;t oppre&s;&s;ions Imaginable. For prevention of the like evils hereafter, we are to be very wary how we cho&s;e;&mdash;
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<ITEM>1. Such Per&s;ons as <HI>Preach</HI> without a <HI>Call,</HI> and deliver the <HI>Delu&s;ions</HI> of <HI>Satan,</HI> for the <HI>In&s;pirations</HI> of the <HI>Holy Spirit; (We may know the Tree by its Fruits.)</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Such as either out of <HI>Fear,</HI> or <HI>Intere&s;t,</HI> Sacrifice the <HI>Publique Good</HI> to <HI>Pa&s;sion,</HI> or <HI>Benefit,</HI> &s;hifting from Party, to Party; This Day, for the <HI>King and Parliament;</HI> the next, <HI>Pen&s;ioners to the Protectour;</HI> the <HI>Third</HI> for the <HI>Rump;</HI> the <HI>Fourth,</HI> for any thing that comes next. Under this notion, I comprize &s;uch as make u&s;e of a <HI>Parliament-Privilege to elude Creditours, to detain ill-gotten Po&s;&s;e&s;sions,</HI> and to put them&s;elves out of the <HI>Reach</HI> of the <HI>Law;</HI> thereby hindering the due cour&s;e of Proceed|ings again&s;t them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. And la&s;tly, take heed of choo&s;ing any Per&s;ons that have already fal&s;ified their Tru&s;t,&mdash;by engaging in <HI>Illegal Clo&s;e Committees:</HI>&mdash;In any Relation what&s;oever of <HI>Malice</HI> towards the <HI>Late King</HI>&mdash;in <HI>Purcha&s;ers,</HI> or <HI>Sellers</HI> of the <HI>Publique Revenues:</HI>&mdash;In <HI>&V;&s;urped Impo&s;itions</HI> upon the People. In &s;hort, &s;uch, as have at the Price of an Univer&s;al Ruine, enriched them|&s;elves; and <HI>layd</HI> the <HI>Foundations</HI> of <HI>their New Babel,</HI> in <HI>Sacrilege, Perjury, Murther,</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>This may &s;uffice for a Caution to all &s;uch, as are not re&s;olved upon <HI>Beggery,</HI> and <HI>Bondage.</HI></P>
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