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<HEAD>A Word in Sea&s;on, to General Monk, (with his Officers, &amp;c.) To the City, and To the Nation;</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord, and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOu are, at pre&s;ent, in the <HI>Heart</HI> of the <HI>Nation,</HI> and in the <HI>Arms</HI> of your <HI>Friends:</HI> where you are <HI>Safe,</HI> and <HI>Beloved.</HI> You have the <HI>Strength</HI> and <HI>Affections</HI> of the <HI>City,</HI> at your Devotion, and it is your commune Intere&s;t, to unite in a Con|curence both of <HI>Power</HI> and <HI>Kindne&s;s. You &s;tand and fall together.</HI> You are all of the &s;ame <HI>Stock; Born</HI> to the &s;ame <HI>Free|dom; Subjected</HI> to the &s;ame <HI>Laws; Nurs'd</HI> up in the &s;ame <HI>Religion:</HI> And in fine, <HI>Obliged</HI> by the &s;ame Rules of <HI>Duty</HI> and <HI>Wi&s;edom,</HI> to promote the &s;ame <HI>Ends.</HI> I might adde, that you are likewi&s;e <HI>expo&s;ed</HI> to the &s;ame <HI>Danger,</HI> and from the &s;ame <HI>Enemy:</HI> by who&s;e <HI>Hypocri&s;ie,</HI> and <HI>Skill,</HI> &s;hould you be <HI>Deluded</HI> into a <HI>Belief,</HI> of &s;uch who never kept <HI>Faith,</HI> (forgive me) your <HI>Reputa|tion</HI> is lo&s;t, with that <HI>Security;</HI> and you <HI>Fall,</HI> without either <HI>Redre&s;s</HI> or <HI>Pity.</HI> In this very In&s;tant, <HI>while you Treat, the Mine is working</HI> The <HI>In&s;truments</HI> and <HI>Means</HI> of your De&s;truction are already <HI>agreed upon.</HI> Some are employed to <HI>Infect</HI> your <HI>Councils,</HI> and <HI>Alienate</HI> your <HI>Souldiers: Others &s;it among you, to Betray you.</HI> What by <HI>open Force</HI> cannot be <HI>Perfected,</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>a&s;si&s;ted,</HI> by a <HI>Dagger</HI> or <HI>Poy&s;on. You have the Sub&s;tance of this, already, upon Evidence, and Experiment.</HI> Next to this <HI>Caution</HI> towards your <HI>Profe&s;&s;ed Adver&s;aries,</HI> allow me to propo&s;e a more <HI>Ingenuous,</HI> and <HI>open Clearne&s;&s;e</HI> towards your <HI>U&s;efull Friends;</HI> if it were but to <HI>prevent Mi&s;-under&s;tandings:</HI> Be|&s;ide, that the very <HI>Doubt</HI> is both <HI>Injurious</HI> and <HI>Painful. Offices of Re&s;pect, and Comfort, ought to be performed with Liberty, and Chearfull|ne&s;s,</HI> without any the lea&s;t mixture of <HI>Scruple,</HI> and <HI>Re&s;erve. The&s;e Frank and Mutual Enterchanges of Succour, and Advice, beget a Tru&s;t,</HI> and <HI>Kindne&s;&s;e;</HI> And <HI>That's the true Foundation of a Happy and La&s;ting Union.&mdash;That Friend&s;hip which admits a Jelou&s;ie, wavers.</HI></P>
<P>When <HI>You,</HI> (my Lord) your <HI>Officers,</HI> and <HI>Army,</HI> are become <HI>One</HI> with this <HI>City,</HI> you have then but Contracted a nearer Alliance with the Na|tion: who&s;e &s;everal <HI>Counties,</HI> and <HI>Divi&s;ions,</HI> (how remote &s;oever) are (with this Town) but Parts &s;till of the &s;ame Body. By a Con&s;ent of <HI>In|tere&s;t,</HI> and <HI>Sen&s;e,</HI> they <HI>Pro&s;per,</HI> or they <HI>Wither,</HI> they <HI>Grieve,</HI> or <HI>Ioy,</HI> they <HI>Live,</HI> or <HI>Dye.</HI> Nor are they more united in their <HI>Intere&s;ts,</HI> than in their <HI>Votes,</HI> and <HI>Re&s;olutions;</HI> for they have unanimou&s;ly <HI>engaged with the City, to maintain their Rights, and Liberties, the Reformed Religion, and the Freedom of Par|liaments, again&s;t all Hazzards, and Oppo&s;itions what&s;oever.</HI> I need not tell your Lord&s;hip by what <HI>Audacious</HI> and <HI>Illegal Violences,</HI> this <HI>Declaration</HI> and <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> was <HI>extorted</HI> from them. <HI>The Nation &s;tood condemn'd to Servitude, and Beggery,</HI> even by <HI>tho&s;e,</HI> whom they them&s;elves had <HI>Ray&s;ed</HI> from that Condition, to aggravate the <HI>Bondage,</HI> by the more Intollerable <HI>Authors</HI> of it. 'Twas now become a Crime, <HI>to name a Full, Free Parli|ament,</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> to appeal to any other <HI>Law,</HI> than the In&s;ipid <HI>Vote</HI> of a Legi&s;lative Conventicle. The Gaols are full of Pri&s;oners upon that ve|ry &s;core.</P>
<P>Was it not time, (my Lord) to bid the&s;e People hold their Hands, after the expen&s;e of &s;o much <HI>Bloud,</HI> and of &s;o many <HI>Millions;</HI> and all this only <HI>to perpetuate a dearer, and a more Infamous Thralldom?</HI> The <HI>Pulpits</HI> were enured to <HI>Bla&s;phemy,</HI> and <HI>Non &s;en&s;e,</HI> and the <HI>Government pro&s;tituted for mo|ny, to Per&s;ons able to di&s;grace a Bawdy Hou&s;e.</HI>&mdash;The&s;e, and the like Indignities, put the Nation upon their Ju&s;t, and nece&s;&s;ary Defence; And in that Po&s;ture they now &s;tand Ready, and Re&s;olved.</P>
<P>Your Excellency hath been tender hitherto of Bloud, but if a &s;peedy Order be not taken, to Regulate tho&s;e &s;tragling Troops, that Act &s;till in the Countries, <HI>in Oppo&s;ition to a Settlement,</HI> It will come yet to Blows: For que&s;tionle&s;&s;e, <HI>in ca&s;e of a Nece&s;sity, the People will never stand &s;till, and &s;uf|fer them&s;elves to be picked out, man by man, till they be all Destroyed.</HI></P>
<P>The Gentry and Nobility, are Slaves to every pedling Pur&s;uivant. 'Tis but a VVarrant from our Ma&s;ters, and all is Fi&s;h that comes to Net: No matter for a Crime, if there be a <HI>Booty.</HI> All that the People <HI>ask,</HI> all they de&s;ign, is but <HI>the Benefit of the Law.</HI> VVill any <HI>Engli&s;h man</HI> deny it us? Fir&s;t, They have <HI>&s;worn</HI> to <HI>defend</HI> it; next <HI>We</HI> have <HI>&s;worn,</HI> rather to <HI>dye,</HI> than lo&s;e it. This <HI>Faction</HI> hath co&s;t the <HI>Nation</HI> more than 60. <HI>Millions,</HI> be&s;ides the <HI>Blood</HI> they have <HI>Lapp'd:</HI> and yet 100000 l. <HI>a Month, and not a farthing le&s;&s;e,</HI> will do their Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, that is, 5000 l. a Man, or &s;ome &s;uch Trifle: <HI>For that, the Juncto &s;hares; perhaps the Souldier, once in a year, or 2. may get his Mornings draught, and then be turn'd to Graze upon Free Quarter; and hang'd for Mutiny, if he but talks of Mony.</HI> Its the trick they &s;erved all that have &s;erved them. VVho ever <HI>strikes,</HI> or <HI>Payes</HI> on their behalf, <HI>fights</HI> but for <HI>Bondage,</HI> and <HI>contributes</HI> to his own <HI>Chaynes.</HI> If they had any <HI>Faith,</HI> they might be <HI>tru&s;ted.</HI> But <HI>Oaths</HI> go down with them like <HI>Pills of Butter,</HI> they are <HI>di&s;&s;olved,</HI> as &s;oon as <HI>taken.</HI> That <HI>Perjury</HI> which would <HI>poy&s;on</HI> a <HI>good Christian</HI> is but their <HI>Nutriment.</HI> Nay wor&s;e than <HI>Wolves,</HI> they are <HI>fal&s;e</HI> to their own <HI>Kind,</HI> and <HI>enter worry one-another.</HI> I &s;hould be endle&s;s, to pur&s;ue this Subject till I want Matter. In brief, <HI>My Lord, look to your &s;elf, and to your Friends; Life and Death are before you, Chu&s;e. May Heaven direct and ble&s;&s;e your Councils and Endeavours, &s;o far, as you proceed with Piety and Honour.</HI> To prevent Mi&s;takes, I do declare, that there are divers <HI>moderate</HI> and <HI>&s;ober</HI> Per&s;ons, in the Mixture, for whom I have a fair <HI>Re&s;pect,</HI> and that the tartne&s;&s;e of my Language, only concerns the <HI>Furious</HI> and <HI>Phanatique</HI> of them.</P>
<P><HI>A Word now to the City;</HI> and that a <HI>&s;hort</HI> one.] <HI>Gentlemen,</HI> upon your fair complyance with the General, depends much of your &s;afety: that is, &s;o far as he comports him&s;elf with Terms of <HI>Prudence, Equity,</HI> and <HI>Honour;</HI> (and he is too <HI>Noble,</HI> to goe Le&s;&s;e) next, to <HI>him&s;elf,</HI> you finde his <HI>Officers,</HI> of an <HI>Ingenuous,</HI> and <HI>clear</HI> Conver&s;ation; and worth your Friend&s;hips, <HI>their Commands apart;</HI> you likewi&s;e find the <HI>body</HI> of the <HI>Army, Civil,</HI> and <HI>well d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ciplin'd,</HI> you doe exceeding well to pay them all due re&s;pects: and to joyn <HI>Intere&s;ts,</HI> and <HI>Coun&s;els,</HI> with them;&mdash;you have done <HI>Wi&s;ely, Hone&s;tly,</HI> and <HI>Bravely too, to oppo&s;e Taxes:</HI> that is, <HI>Taxes impo&s;ed without a Law,&mdash;to be employed again&s;t your &s;elves;</HI>&mdash;and &s;uch, as had you granted them, your <HI>Pre&s;ident</HI> would have extended to <HI>en&s;lave</HI> your <HI>Po&s;teritie.</HI>&mdash;Your care next, to <HI>di&s;arm</HI> the <HI>Sectaries,</HI> was very &s;ea&s;onable, your City had probably been in A&s;hes el&s;e by this time. Con&s;ider, they bear the &s;ame minde &s;till, and where they had tho&s;e weapons they can quickly have more. You cannot be <HI>&s;ecure</HI> without your <HI>Militia,</HI> nor can any thing fairly ob&s;truct your Procurement of it: <HI>In Titchburn's Ca&s;e,</HI> it was by the Commons ordered, <HI>that any &s;ix of the Common-council (upon emergent occa&s;ions) might &s;end for the Lord Mayor to call a Common-council, and in ca&s;e of default, call it them&s;elves, and any 40 of them, to have power to act as a Common-council, without the Lord Mayor, any thing in their Char|ter to the contrary Notwith&s;tanding:</HI> See the Hi&s;t. of Independency, part 2. page 83. Not to exceed my limits, <HI>Forget not your &s;uffring friends, and &s;tand firm to your A&s;&s;ociates, and Allies. He that tamely &s;uffers one Injury, provokes another.</HI></P>
<P>Now to the <HI>Nation,</HI> for a Farewell.] I need not pre&s;&s;e my Country-men with many Cautions, your <HI>Freedom of Elections, that's your Birth|right;</HI> 'Tis that you all <HI>declare,</HI> to <HI>Live</HI> and <HI>Dye</HI> for, you are too <HI>wi&s;e,</HI> to be <HI>cheated</HI> with Re&s;trictions and <HI>Qualifications:</HI> as if the Que&s;tion were the <HI>Number,</HI> rather than the <HI>Choice,</HI> at this rate, you may have a <HI>full Hou&s;e,</HI> indeed; but How? That is, <HI>full</HI> of the <HI>Brats,</HI> the <HI>Kinred,</HI> and the <HI>Par|tizans of tho&s;e that &s;it already;</HI> and then, they that have <HI>gull'd</HI> you all this while, &s;hall <HI>govern</HI> you for ever, your very <HI>Declarations</HI> again&s;t the Pre|&s;ent Tyranny, have brought you to that Point, that <HI>there's no &s;afety left you, but in violence;</HI> for, while you <HI>talk,</HI> you <HI>dye,</HI> your &s;cattered Friends are gathered up, one by one; whereas, your SEASONABLE UNION MAKES ALL SURE. As your <HI>Intentions</HI> are Honourable, &s;o let your Acti|ons be. How far the <HI>Law</HI> extends, in ca&s;e of <HI>Sruti&s;h,</HI> and <HI>Illegal cruelty,</HI> &s;ee <HI>St. Johns</HI> Argument again&s;t the Earl of <HI>Strafford;</HI> and with that I con|clude: <HI>He that would not have had others to have Law, why &s;hould he have any him&s;elf? Why &s;hould not that be done to him, that him&s;elf would have done to others? It is true, we give Law to Hares, and Deers, becau&s;e they be Bea&s;ts of Cha&s;e; it was never accounted either cruelty, or fowl-play, to Knock Fox|es, and VVolves on the head, as they can be found, becau&s;e the&s;e be Beasts of Prey: The VVarrener &s;ets traps for Powlcats and other Vermin, for Pre&s;ervati|on of the Warren.</HI></P>
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