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<P>ANIMADVERSION Upon Generall Monck's LETTER <HI>To the GENTRY of</HI> DEVON: Wherein his Arguments for <HI>Anarchy</HI> are con&s;idered, and the weakne&s;&s;e of his <HI>Harringtonian</HI> Principle detected.</P>
<P>By <HI>M. W.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Orbis, ut orbita, volvitur, incita, turbine miro.</HI></P>
<P>Printed in the year 1659.</P>
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<HEAD>ANIMADVERSIONS <HI>Upon Generall MONCK</HI>'s LETTER To the Gentry of DEVON.</HEAD>
<P>_AMBITION is of a greedy nature, not content with the bodies and e&s;tates of men, but &s;trives to attaque their &s;ouls al&s;o, and to take-in that by policy or the force of Argument, which will hold out again&s;t all the force of Armes.</P>
<P>The ri&s;e and progre&s;&s;e of <HI>Mahomet,</HI> and the <HI>Ottoman</HI> Family, are &s;olemn te&s;timonials of this &s;ad truth; but we have nearer in&s;tances of it: A few Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons of late, &s;tealing into the Seat of Government, by the help of <HI>Samp&s;on</HI> and his Locks, are not content to &s;eize our Bodies and E&s;tates at plea&s;ure; but, with the &s;trength of his <HI>Jaw-bone</HI> onely, would force our Under&s;tandings al&s;o, and per&s;wade us to be mad with rea&s;on.</P>
<P>We thought Generall <HI>Monck</HI> might have been our Pilot, and were &s;o fond as to believe, He would &s;teer us towards harbour, not by faction and private inte|re&s;t, but by Rea&s;on, and Chri&s;tian prudence; that, &s;ee|ing we could not avoid the horrour of a fearfull &s;torm, we might evade the error of a finall Shipwrack: but, in&s;tead thereof, being di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;t of our E&s;tates by Violence, he would argue us into a belief, that 'tis be&s;t to entail our welfare on them that wrong us; and
<PB N="4" REF="3">prove it more rationall, that we &s;uffer our Ve&s;&s;ell to remain in a continuall &s;torm, than to return again to that harbour, from whence we fir&s;t took &s;ail.</P>
<P>And thus he di&s;plaies his &s;trength, <HI>Before the&s;e un|happy Warres, the Government of the&s;e Nations, was Monarchicall in Church and State: The&s;e Wars have gi|ven birth and growth, to &s;everall intere&s;ts, both in Church and State, heretofore not known: though now upon many accounts very con&s;iderable, as the Presbyterian, Indepen|dent, Anabapti&s;t, and other Sectaries of all &s;orts, as to Eccle&s;ia&s;ticks; And the purcha&s;ers of the King's, Queen's, Prince's, Bi&s;hops, Deans, and Chapters, and all other forfei|ted E&s;tates; and all the&s;e engaged in the&s;e Wars again&s;t the King, as to Civils. The&s;e Intere&s;ts again are &s;o inter|woven by purcha&s;es, and inter-marriages, and thereby for|feited, as, I think, upon rationall grounds, it may be taken for granted, that no Government can be either Good, Peacefull, or La&s;ting to the&s;e Nations, that doth not rati|onally include, and comprehend the &s;ecurity, and pre&s;er|vation of all the afore&s;aid Intere&s;ts, both civill, and &s;piri|tuall. I mean &s;o far as by the Word of God, they are war|ranted to be protected and pre&s;erved.</HI> But,</P>
<P N="1">1. If the Sects he mentions, had their Birth in the Wars, 'tis without di&s;pute, that all of them are gro&s;&s;e Errors, (truth being of an elder off-&s;pring) and &s;o not fit to be &s;ecured, unle&s;&s;e he means, in the Souldiers Dialect, to be re&s;train'd; nor are they then to be pre&s;er|ved, unle&s;&s;e it were lawfull to do evill, that good may come thereof.</P>
<P N="2">2. If the parties he mentions, were engaged in Wars again&s;t the King, they were perjured, and faith|le&s;&s;e Per&s;ons, and &s;o no &s;ecurity to be had for their ill|gotten E&s;tates; they &s;wearing with hands lifted up to the mo&s;t High, to maintain his Per&s;on in Honour and Safety; and, during all the Wars, declaring their in|tents to remove his evill Coun&s;ellors only from him; and to &s;ay, There was a condition in their Oath to pre|&s;erve him, till they had him in their power, is a &s;train beyond the invention of <HI>Machiavill,</HI> and a mentall re&s;ervation, fir&s;t found out in Hell. But to de&s;troy his
<PB N="5" REF="3">Per&s;on, take his E&s;tate, and then to provide for the &s;ecurity of the purcha&s;er, will make us wor&s;e then Heathens, and their practices to upbraide our provi|&s;ions; for, <HI>Majores no&s;tri religio&s;i&s;&s;imi,</HI> (&s;aith <HI>Salu&s;t</HI>) <HI>nihil victis cripiebant, praeter injuriae licenciam.</HI> And <HI>Sene|ca</HI> commends the practice, <HI>nihil ex Rege victo praeter gloriam &s;umere.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. Suppo&s;e the intere&s;ts afore&s;aid are to be pre&s;er|ved and &s;ecured: Why cannot Monarchy pre&s;erve them as well as any other &s;pecies of Government? in regard, it partakes with all the advantages of the other forms, without &s;haring in their di&s;advantages. Sure if they ought to be pre&s;erved, Monarchy is no more exclu|&s;ive of them in <HI>England,</HI> than of <HI>Hugonets</HI> and Sects in <HI>France;</HI> or the like intere&s;ts upon the admi&s;&s;ion of <HI>Charls</HI> the fourth, into that Kingdome: Yet let the People have their free Elections in Parliament, and there chu&s;e their own Government, (&s;ure they know what is be&s;t for them) and what ever they &s;hall there e&s;tabli&s;h, no doubt the Nation will acquie&s;ce in, and yield conformity and obedience unto it; but 'tis un|rea&s;onable to put them upon that election of a Junior in the me&s;&s;e in <HI>Cambridge,</HI> either to take the Rump or Nothing.</P>
<P>But, becau&s;e the Generall &s;upports his Arguments in part upon Mr. <HI>Harrington's</HI> principle, that the &s;up|port of Monarchy being taken away, that Govern|ment cannot be admitted; I mu&s;t fir&s;t remember him, that the King's Lands are not all the &s;upport of Mo|narchy: and then tell him, Mr. <HI>Harringtons</HI> principle, that all Government is founded upon over-ballance in propriety, is a weak and an uncertain propo&s;ition. For,</P>
<P N="1">1. He might with as much truth have told us, that the Government of a &s;hip is founded upon over-bal|lance of propriety in that &s;hip; or the Government of a Town, in the over-ballance of E&s;tate in that Town. But his thinne fallacy is tran&s;parent to him <HI>that can di|&s;tingui&s;h</HI> that which is <HI>con&s;titutive</HI> of a thing, from that which is <HI>con&s;equutive</HI> of it.</P>
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<P N="2">2. I think he is no Peripatetique;
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ari&s;t.</HI> 2. <HI>Analyt. lib.</HI> 1. <HI>cap.</HI> 2.</NOTE> for, his principle hath nothing of <HI>Ari&s;totle's</HI> requi&s;ites in principles, that is, that they be <HI>vera nece&s;&s;aria, immed ata, priora, notiora, &amp; cau&s;ae conclu&s;ionis;</HI> I mean, <HI>principia com|plexa &s;en praemi&s;&s;a Demon&s;trationis</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> &mdash; His Over-ballance is not a new coyn'd word, but 'tis <HI>analogum proportionis,</HI> purely Tropicall, and &s;o unfit to be u&s;ed in a principle of Demon&s;tration.</P>
<P N="3">3. If by propriety he intends all the &s;pecies of it, whereof Principality is one, <HI>Parturiunt montes, &amp;c.</HI> And yet that is not alwayes true, for he that hath the Legi|&s;lative, Judiciary, and Military power, and not the Right al&s;o, hath the Government; that is, he hath <HI>jus po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ionis,</HI> but he hath not <HI>jus proprietatis,</HI> the propri|ety of it. But if by Propriety, he intends onely the large&s;t E&s;tate in Lands or Goods, his a&s;&s;ertion is every way fal&s;e: for one may have the large&s;t E&s;tate, and yet not the power afore&s;aid; and one may have the power afore&s;aid, and not the large&s;t E&s;tate; becau&s;e they are <HI>genera co-ordinata,</HI> &amp;, by con&s;equence, <HI>eorum differentiae &s;unt &s;pecie diver&s;ae,</HI> I mean <HI>ultimat&egrave; con&s;titutivae.</HI> The Law of the Land might have inform'd him this. Indeed, it calls them both Inheritances: yet he that incroacheth upon the power of the Soveraign, is &s;aid to di&s;-inherit him; but he that enters upon his E&s;tate, is onely term'd an Intruder, and works no change at all upon the E&s;tate: It is al&s;o manife&s;t in the di&s;tinction of te|nures <HI>in Capite,</HI> from th'other tenures which <HI>Littleton</HI> acquaints us with.</P>
<P N="4">4.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lib. 2. cap. 3. <HI>De jure Belli &amp; Pacis.</HI></NOTE> Moreover all Government is relative to the peo|ple, and an E&s;tate is &s;o far from being the foundation of it, that Prince and People both, may con&s;i&s;t with|out it. Let <HI>Grotius</HI> judge: <HI>Imperium</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>duas &s;olet habere materias, &s;ibi &s;ubjacentes: primariam, Per&s;onas (quae materia &s;ol&ugrave;m inter dum &s;ufficit, ut in exercitu virorum, mulierum, puerorum, quaerente novas &s;edes): Secundariam, Locum, (qui Territori<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">m dicitur, &amp;c.) Quanquam autem plorumque uno actu quaeri &s;olent, Imperium &amp; Dominium; &s;unt tamen di&s;tincta.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. Examples of the ri&s;e of Governours make again&s;t
<PB N="7" REF="4">him <HI>John de Medices,</HI> the rai&s;er of his Family in <HI>Florence,</HI> got the government of the City by his wi&s;dom and great di&s;|cretion, not by over-ballance in propriety, as <HI>Guicciardine</HI> may inform us. And to in&s;tance in <HI>Sparta;</HI> What over-ballance of propriety had <HI>Lycurgus</HI> in <HI>Lacedaemon,</HI> being onely Protector of <HI>Carilaus?</HI> yet He, by his own power, could mould the Government as he li&s;t, make a Senate, and be&s;tow the Supream Power as he plea&s;ed. I could produce moreapt in&s;tances, were it not to &s;erve the Common-wealths men, in their own Country.</P>
<P N="6">6. It is unrea&s;onable, that a rich man (in a reduplica|tive &s;en&s;e) &s;hall govern me, becau&s;e he hath contracted a larger e&s;tate than I; but it is naturall for the &s;trong to rule the weak, as, for a man to govern a child, or the wi&s;e to govern a fool.</P>
<P N="7">7. His Principle is de&s;tructive of his <HI>Equall Common|wealth:</HI> for, if all Government be founded upon Over-ballance in Propriety, his Equall Common-wealth is no Government: But all Government is founded upon Over|ballance in Propriety: Therefore, &amp;c. The Connexion is plain: for where there is an Equality, there is no Over-ballance; where no Over-ballance, (upon his ground) no foundation for Government; and where there is no Foun|dation, there can be no Super&s;tructure: the a&s;&s;umption is his own principle: therefore 'tis nece&s;&s;ary, that his Com|mon-wealth be no Government. Thus, while others in fighting for Propriety in Government, haue reduced us to no Government at all, Mr. <HI>H.</HI> by laying foundations for his imaginary Common-wealth, hath principl'd us for a no Common-wealth at all.</P>
<P>But the Generall hath another Argument, we may well call <HI>Argumentum Hercul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">um,</HI> That the Army will never endure Monarchy. I an&s;wer, 1. Who made <HI>Cromwell</HI> Protector? <HI>ab e&s;&s;e ad po&s;&s;e</HI> is a good Argument. 2. 'Tis in vain for him that will do good, to ask advice of him that never intends any. <HI>Nulla fides pieta&s;que viris qui ca&s;tra &s;equuntur,</HI> is the Motto of mo&s;t Souldiers; and hath &s;eldom been fal&s;ified, but in that noble Legion, which cho&s;e rather to die Martyrs, than live Traitors. 3. If the Souldier rule us, then 'tis their Government, not Repub|lique;
<PB N="8" REF="5">for 'tis not Republique to be under force. 4. It is <HI>Ari&s;totle's</HI> Argument,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ari&s;t. polit. lib.</HI> 4. <HI>cap.</HI> 2.</NOTE> That Monarchy is the be&s;t Govern|ment, becau&s;e Tyranny, its oppo&s;ite, is the wor&s;t: It &s;hall be my Argument, <HI>ad hominem,</HI> by way of retortion, To have Monarchs as the be&s;t Governours, becau&s;e Souldi|ers, the wor&s;t of Tyrants, are the mo&s;t again&s;t it. <HI>Oppo&s;i|ta juxta &s;e po&s;ita magis eluce&s;cunt.</HI></P>
<P>La&s;tly, The Generall hath one other Argument de&s;erves more con&s;ideration, to wit, <HI>That Introduction of Monar|chy will occa&s;ion a new war.</HI> But, 1. Will the &s;eclu&s;ion of it procure us Peace? or rather intail a War upon us and our po&s;terity? 2. Can we ever purcha&s;e peace with the price of iniquity? 3. Can there be any way imaginable to re|concile all intere&s;ts, but by a full and a free Parliament, where the grievances of all parties may be heard, and the injuries of the greate&s;t be redre&s;&s;ed? for without this, let a brib'd Orator prate what he will, or a &s;editious Burge&s;s plot what he can, 'tis as impo&s;&s;ible to obtain peace and &s;afety, or for a man to be at ea&s;e while he is upon the Rack; as to empty a River, untill the Springs thereof be &s;topt. And &s;et up by force what Tribunitiall Power you plea&s;e, you will find to be true the words of <HI>Livie; Tribu|ni militum,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">lib. 4.</NOTE> con&s;ulari pote&s;tate, quatuor creati &s;unt</HI> (&s;aith he), <HI>Quintius Paenus ex con&s;ulatu, C. Furius M. Po&s;thumius, A. Cornelius Co&s;&s;us. Ex its Co&s;&s;us, praefuit urbi. Tres, delectu habito profecti &s;unt Veios, documentoque fuerunt quam pluri|um imperium bello inutile e&s;&s;et. I endendo ad &s;ua qui&s;que con&s;ilia, cum aliud ali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> videretur, aperuerunt ad occa&s;ionem locum ho&s;t: incertam namque aciem, &s;ignum altis dare recep|tui, al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">is cani jubentibus, invat&ecirc;re opportune Veientes: Ca&s;tra propinqua turbantes, ac terga dantes accepere. Plus itaque ig|nominiae quam cladis e&s;t acceptum. Moe&s;ta civitas fuit, vinci in&s;ueta; odi&s;&s;e Tribunos, po&s;cere Dictatorem, in eo verti &s;pes ci|vitatis.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iliad 2:</NOTE> And you will be forced to &s;ay with <HI>Homer</HI> at la&s;t, (with which <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> concludes the twelfth of his <HI>Meta|phy&s;icks</HI>)</P>
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<Q><L>Non multos regnare bonum e&s;t: Rex unicus e&s;to</L>
<L>Unius imperium; cu: <HI>Jupiter</HI> aurea magnus</L>
<L>Sceptra dedit, ju&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">que &s;uis dare jura tuendis.</L></Q>
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