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<P>A LETTER FROM A WORTHY GENTLEMAN IN YORKE-SHIRE, To His Friend a Member of the Honorable Hou&s;e of Commons.</P>
<P>Declaring
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<ITEM>1 <HI>That the Parliament hath, and continually ought to u&s;e their zea|lous indeavours and heartie de&s;ires, for a thorow reformation in Church and commonwealth.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>That the &s;ame meanes the Prelates u&s;ed to advance them&s;elves to pettie deities, and to bury the honor of religion in the grave of oblivion, hath now re|moved the &s;tones that pre&s;&s;ed down truth and piety, and confounded their carnall wi&s;dome.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>That the Papi&s;ts in England and Ireland by their own barbarous, &s;avage and inhumane practi&s;es, as a ju&s;t requitall of their villanies, will be the actors and authours of their own Tragedies.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4 <HI>Shewing though the honourable hou&s;es of parliament be by many evill affected people &s;corned and derided; yet they ought to goe on chearfully in the e&s;tabli&s;hment of the true Religion, and &s;uffer patiently, after the example of Chri&s;t &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5 <HI>The enemies of the Parliament and Kingdome, are papi&s;ts to root out Re|ligion the Clergie for Bi&s;hopricks and pluralities, cloaked delinquents that &s;tudy day and night to make currant their counterfeit conditions.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>6 <HI>And la&s;tly Advi&s;e to the Parliament to go on with alacrity but not one foot but to God, to heavenly ends, divine rules, apparant truths, in the Churches walkes, and then they &s;hall not want the protection of the Almighty.</HI></ITEM>
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<P><HI>LONDON</HI> Printed for <HI>R. Be&s;t October</HI> 10. 1642.</P>
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<P>_WE can &s;peculate nothing in this our Horizon but di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> a&s;pects. <HI>Bella; horrida bell;</HI> hor&s;e and armes alwayes in our eyes and ears; and yet we are borne in hand with peace; it &s;eemes armes boads it, both by the profane Souldiers of the &s;word, and by the licentious and &s;tarnizing profe&s;&s;ors of the Word; both &s;aying that the hou&s;es of Parliament are in the wane already calculating that within one fortnights time, there will be an ab&s;olute change: the latter calls for all for the King as a &s;peedy meanes to &s;ettle a pre&s;ent peace; and for that purpo&s;e do force through their Churches and Pari&s;hes, a Petition intituled of the Gentrie &amp; Free holders, &amp;c. at Hewarth-moore to the Parliament: Where no &s;uch thing was there intended, by any con&s;iderable number, but ju&s;t the contrary &s;peaking in the clouds, as though the heavens were pre&s;ently to be foulded up, and that new heavens and new earth are forthwith to be moulded again, new Parliament, new Lords, mo|derate Laws, pliable Knights, and Burge&s;&s;es, their mindes and manners &s;o full of accommodation, as though in &s;tead of vexing Puritans and tormonting Roundheads. they might rowle and tumble without &s;top or rub to a paradice of union and &s;ympathy: and yet the&s;e blinde Egyptians will not &s;ee the truth of God which &s;hines &s;o clearly within the circumference of our Go&s;he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">; nor view the guards which the ble&s;t God of Abraham, I&s;aack, &amp; Iacob, nath placed about Sion; nor the firy walls which encompa&s;&s;e Jeru&s;alem; neither will they deign to behold the Church of God; though as dear to him as the apple of his eye; who&s;e fruitfull ble&s;&s;ings hath alwaies accompanied and waited upon tho&s;e that have been in&s;truments of her good: of which number I hope your &s;elf to be, as now witne&s;&s;e the con&s;tant guard of Angels dayly &s;topping the pa&s;&s;ages of Sathan and his adherents again&s;t you; and enlarging your hearts above humane courage in<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Lords worke at this time is reforma|tion of Church and State, and &s;ub|ver&s;ion of their ene|mies.</NOTE> all-affrighting oppo&s;itions again&s;t your civill and &s;acred imployments wherein you have fully expre&s;t your zealous endeavours, and hearty de&s;ires for a thorow Reformation both of Church and common wealth. And that this al&s;o is Gods purpo&s;e at this time it will evidently appear to any that hath ob&s;erved the Lords u&s;uall manner of working in former ages; for it is likely he hath &s;uffered his Church and common wealth to decline, his people to be wearied with &s;o many taxes and heavy oppre&s;&s;ions for many yeers together to move and &s;tir them up, like I&s;rael in Egypt, to &s;hake off their tirannicall yokes, and to lay hold on the fir&s;t opportunity and lawfull means of their long de&s;ired freedome whereas if the Church and common wealth had continued in their per&s;cribed formes and rules neither &s;piritualty nor lalty could ever have thought; much le&s;&s;e have un|dertaken to involve them&s;elves in &s;o difficult a Laborinth as this hath been. And whereas the a&s;piring Clergie would have by little and little imagined them&s;elves to have been &s;ome p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ety deities long ere now; if by chance look|ing down their black and earthy feet had not appeared below their white robes to male content (with the Swan) their overweaved conceits; and to fru&s;tate their owne vaine and emptie fanta&s;ies: therefore that they might &s;till
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retaine &s;ome Maje&s;tie and &s;uperintendency above man, the better to in&s;inuate their &s;pirituall impo&s;itions, or r ther to force their tyranicall oppre&s;&s;ions, have laboured to transform them&s;elves into the Statues of imwortall Gods,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Woe to him that &s;aith to the wood ari&s;e, it &s;hall teach: b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hold it is laid o|ve with Gold, &amp;c and their is noe b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h in it.</NOTE> that &s;o for fear of their powerfull &s;hapes, and by vertue of their &s;hrines, their livele&s;&s;e and mute profe&s;&s;ions, their <HI>non vox <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">omi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">n</HI> implying that admirati|on O <HI>deum cert&egrave;; certe imagines;</HI> m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ght &s;erve to acquire &s;ome &s;imple re&s;pects; and attract &s;ome plaine countrie reverence; But God hath drawn that vai|led curtaine to let men &s;ee they are but &s;onnes of the earth; too dro&s;&s;ie &s;ub&s;tance to a&s;cend divine clymates, too farre un&s;utable for heavenly copes, charactered, and pictured out by the heavenly Prophet in worthle&s;le crea|tures, dumb dogs, being abjects, and contemptible objects of &s;corn for all &s;orts of people: &s;o that by that &s;elf &s;ame means whereby they had thoug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t to have advanced them&s;elves and buried the power of Religion, in the grave of oblivion; it hath plea&s;ed him to effect his own ends to over|&s;hoot t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">m in their owne bowes, to confound their carnall wi&s;dome, to remoove the &s;tones that pre&s;&s;ed down truth and piety; and to &s;mooth the way, for the lu&s;tre and glory of his diuine wor&s;hip. How mi&s;erable then are<NOTE PLACE="marg">H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">kuk. 2 19.</NOTE> they who when they are highe&s;t? abu&s;e their power to keep the people of God lowe&s;t, for though they, who &s;hould be nur&s;ing fathers and mothers to the<NOTE PLACE="marg">Za<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hariah 10. 2. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> Church of God fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ake her and become her enemies; they &s;hall peri&s;h, yet comfort and deliverance &s;hall appear to Gods people, either by one or o|ther. When the appointed time of m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rcy was come that the people of I&s;rael &s;hould be delivered from <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aptivit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ered the &s;tate of earthly power afor the acompli&s;hment of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s will, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> no impediment might hinder Cyrus<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;aiah.</HI> 2 10.</NOTE> from performing of his promi&s;ed deliverance; &s;o the Lor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> that he may worke his reformation by manumitting us from Egyptian &s;lavery, and redeeming us<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">lachy. 2. 8.</NOTE> from Babylon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h captivity, hath reunited England and Scotland that they may be cohelpers; hath &s;o &s;ubjugated, and muzled the bloudhounds of Ireland that we are in no great danger of their rebellious and &s;avage teeth, other nati|ons al&s;o having their re&s;pective prizes to p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ay that &s;o your heavenly aimes mau|gre all helli&s;h inventions what&s;oevr may produee ble&s;&s;ed and peaceable con|clu&s;ions<NOTE PLACE="marg">Objection. An&s;wer.</NOTE> But <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> heare &s;ome &s;ay the ca&s;e is not &s;o cleare, as we take it be; yes i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> is judged already, but we mu&s;t temper our &s;pirits with patience, and not think to conquer at the fir&s;t &s;troke, nor expect to have the prize before we have runne the cour&s;e. The children of I&s;rael were &s;ure of victorie in their peregri|nation to Canaan; and yet they were forced to &s;trive till they got po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions let us herein exerci&s;e our faith, and knit the beginning, progre&s;&s;e and end to|gether, and we &s;hall &s;oon &s;ee, that he that begun this worke will in good time bring it to perfection: for where Chri&s;t begins to rule, he rules for ever; of his Kingdome there is no end. When the fuell-&s;trives with the fire the heel kicks a|gain&s;t the prick; and when the crea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ure advanceth him&s;elf again&s;t is Creator it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is ea&s;ie to inferre the conque&s;t. What if Antichri&s;t doth march furiou&s;ly, and his &s;upports u&s;e their utmo&s;t endevours and parts to trample upon truth and pi|ety?
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they can extingui&s;h their light no more then the morning clouds can doe the &s;unnes, which by little and little expells their gatherings, and wa&s;tes their packs, that in an in&s;tant none of them are to be &s;eene. Can we think that he which threw the angels out of heaven, will &s;uffer mortalls to run a contrary cour&s;e without either curbe or bridle, and to prevail again&s;t heavenly pow|ers? was there ever any fierce again&s;t God and pro&s;pered? &s;urely the rage of man contrary to his owne intendment &s;hall turn to the prai&s;e of Chri&s;t, and furtherance of that work which God in his appointed time hath propo&s;ed to<NOTE PLACE="marg">Subver&s;ion of the e|nemies.</NOTE> him&s;elf, as now (ble&s;&s;ed be God) before our eyes we may &s;ee in Ireland, for could ever fle&s;h and bloud have attempted the &s;ubver&s;ion of t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;e matchle&s;&s;e multitudes in their own countrie, if they had not made rods for their own corre|ction &amp; engins for their utter ruin? or could a Chri&s;tians hart, &s;o merciful, pitiful, tender, and &s;o full of compa&s;&s;ion, have ever thought of any bloudie enterpri|&s;es or de&s;tructive de&s;ignes again&s;t them had they not pulled them upon their own heads by their own barbarous, &s;avage and inhumane practi&s;es as a ju&s;t re|quitall of their own villanies? As for our own Papi&s;ts, they now &s;hew of what &s;pirit they are; They have got their heads &s;o much into the winde that they cannot be turned by a gentle hand, who&s;e in&s;olencies and provocations re|bound &s;o high, that any finger may point at the mark of their hearts by the levell of their tongues, &s;o that we need not doubt but their judgements al&s;o will fall upon them, &s;o &s;oon as their treacheries are grown to full maturity&punc; yet the&s;e men had they guided them&s;elves mode&s;tly, and tempered them&s;elves civilly, be|ing all either allied kin&s;men, or intimately friendly and familiar with either one or other, how ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">dly could they have been rooted out by any impartiall doom? and this is the Lords doing, that they &s;hould be ju&s;tly offen&s;ive, and it is marvellous in our eyes that they &s;hould be actours of their own tragedies: and yet we are &s;o void of all &s;en&s;e, that we will neither &s;ee, heare, nor give<NOTE PLACE="marg">Objector.</NOTE> thanks to God for tho&s;e things which make for our peace. Yet I heare &s;ome &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y, they are &s;o farre from rooting out, that they rather encrea&s;e and ri&s;e<NOTE PLACE="marg">An&s;wer.</NOTE> againe: it is true, but onely to harden them that they may receive the greater fall, for how&s;oever the church hath ju&s;tly provoked God, yet the cau&s;e &s;hall &s;tand impregnable &amp; as firm as a rock to da&s;h in pieces all waves, &amp; &s;troms of threatning oppo&s;itions. For Chri&s;t is King of Kings and Lord of Lords &amp; wil not &s;uffer du&s;t &amp; worms-meat alwayes to ruffle his beloved &s;pou&s;e, for Babylon &s;hall fall; for &s;trong is the Lord that hath condemned her. Nay the Parliament<NOTE PLACE="marg">Objection</NOTE> &s;hall fall &s;aies &s;ome; for almo&s;t all have left it. Ju&s;t as Gedeons 32000 too many<NOTE PLACE="marg">An&s;wer.</NOTE> to fight the Lords battell, were reduced to 300 upon triall approved for a &s;uffi|cient number to vindicate the honour of God. What if &s;ome be gone out from them who was not of them? What if God would not honour them to fight his battle again&s;t the mightie? Cannot God effect his own ends without a &s;et number? Does not Gods glorie appeare more without meanes then with meanes; more with le&s;&s;e meanes then with greater? Can God (&s;ayes<NOTE PLACE="marg">Objection.</NOTE> one) get none but a companie of roundheads, puritances &s;editious, factious, beg|garly
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fellowes to labour in his cau&s;e&punc; who are all for &s;ci&s;mes and their owne ends) O how far are the&s;e from di&s;charging their duties, in giving to the&s;e pub|lick<NOTE PLACE="marg">An&s;wer.</NOTE> mini&s;ters of the &s;tate the be&s;t interpretation that their actions will beare; that they invert all their hone&s;t actions, and traduce and reproach their inno|cent per&s;ons? but it is no matter, for it was Chri&s;ts and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ohns lot, au&s;tere Iohn hath a devill, &s;ociable Chri&s;t is a wine bibber, &amp;c. Whereas the holine&s;&s;e of the one &s;hould have procu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ed reverence, and the &s;ociablene&s;&s;e of the other beene rewarded with love; but it is the lot of them a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> all chri&s;tians, the di&s;|ciple is not above his Ma&s;ter. Men may doe well, but mu&s;t look to heare ill; wicked men, when they learn to think well, they will learn to &s;peak w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">; and no marvell if man want his prai&s;e, when God is without his de&s;erved glorie. Where&s;oever Chri&s;t cometh, there will be divi&s;ions, that the verie thoughts of mens hearts may be laid open: The fle&s;h alwayes rebells agai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t the &s;pirit and endeavours to maintain its own regencie, and crieth down what&s;oever cro&s;&s;eth it, be they lawes whether humane or divine, be they never &s;o well framed for repairing the breaches both of Church and Common-wealth, View the oppo|&s;ers of thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Parlament, and you &s;hall finde them like &s;o many wilde bea&s;ts head|ing together to breake downe the &s;epts and hedges of this vineyard; Fir&s;t you have the Papi&s;ts encompa&s;&s;ing both Sea and Land to roote out our religion, then have you the Clergie courting for Bi&s;hopricks and Canterbur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing for plu|ralities; Thirdly, The thir&s;tie &s;ouldier gapes with open mouth to &s;wallow down the golden juice of this kingdome; La&s;tly, the cloked delinqents that dare not come neare the touch-&s;tone, they &s;tudie day and night to make currant their counterfeit conditions: The&s;e are the aymes of the&s;e men, who&s;e inve|ctives mu&s;t carrie &s;uch credit with them as alone to condemne tho&s;e men who&s;e words may be lawes, and lives rules, for them to &s;quare their actions by, who&s;e outward man may &s;erve as looking gla&s;&s;es for them everie morning to di&s;cover the &s;pots and &s;tains of their colluding thoughts and corrupted conver|&s;ations, <HI>Contraria in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">r <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> oppo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">a magis eluce&s;cunt,</HI> it would be lo&s;t labour to co~pare the together, <HI>aliud noctua &s;onat aliud cornix:</HI> They are &s;o farre &s;undred, and di&s;tanced in qualities, that any purblind critick may ju&s;tly carp at tho&s;e tricks whereby they play their game, &s;o that there is no hazzard at all in the cau&s;e; for &s;incerity will demon&s;trate it &s;elf in plain and untraver&s;able evidences, and &s;eale up its deeds with &s;uch authenticall witne&s;&s;es, as that it &s;hall not need to bribe &s;i|ni&s;ter and indirect meanes to make it tran&s;parent in the great Que&s;t of this common wealth, <HI>Veritas non quaerit anzulos,</HI> Truth is bold and like a &s;tandard|bearer will manife&s;t it &s;elf before all the world: let therefore your ends be heavenly, the bent and &s;way of your re&s;olutions holy, winde up your &s;oules higher and higher, &s;oare and mount up <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">loft, and then no plots below, no &s;tormie de&s;ignes beneath, can beat you from your wi&s;hed haven: for in vaine is the net &s;pre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d in the &s;ight of that th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t hath winges. Thus may you rai&s;e your &s;elf above the reach of humane policie; and make your &s;elf &s;afe in &s;pight of Sathan and his complices. I have ble&s;&s;ed Jacob and he &s;hall bee
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ble&s;&s;ed, but can you not &s;pare, or have you not provided, one ble&s;&s;ing for us <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l&s;o? Yes promote your begun Reformation in truth and &s;incerity, and it will di|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ert all imminent plagues what&s;oever, for where there is repentance it will <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ind up Gods ha~ds by his promi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es that he ca~not powre out his vialls of wrath upon us, and where there is reformation without which there can be no re|pentance, there is a lively expre&s;&s;ion and vigorous manife&s;tation of repentance as we may now &s;ee begun &amp; declared in our eads. But &s;till I heare cu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ings upo~ Meroz &amp; the inhabitants thereof, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t were to be wa&s;hed that every county &amp; kin|dred would lay their hands upon their harts, &amp; &s;ee how forward or rather frow|ard they have beene in the grand concernm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nts of this Church and c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mmon|weale, that when they which have done mo&s;t may &s;ee th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ve but done their parts, they which have beene contrary minded may redeeme their by|gone neglects and perver&s;ene&s;&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> their more earne&s;t and pre&s;ent ind vours to prevent the bitter evils which the angells of God are ready to let fail upo~ us. Can meat &s;atisfy the hungry wight<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &amp; drink appea&s;e the thir&s;t &s;oul if they be not ta&s;ted &amp; dige&s;ted? &s;hall we hunger an thir&s;t for the ble&s;&s;ings of our king|dome, the fruits of this Paliament, and de&s;ire to be fea&s;ted with them, and w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll neither compl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> with them, nor appl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> them to our &s;elves, that the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> be fit nouri&s;hment for our livelihoods? 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to clo&s;e the gappes, and binde up the wounds of a little common+wealth, a few propps upholds a ruinous hou&s;e. What if Giants a&s;&s;ault you? <HI>Sae|va <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tra, numer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;um ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">um docu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">.</HI> David cut off that out-daring Goliah, and if more heady mon&s;ters of mankinde doe &s;till bud out take notice of that conquerer, and you may know his weapons al&s;o. There is no horrid or mon&s;te|rous villany hatched either by Sea or Land, but it is mortall, it cannot exceed its growth, nor pa&s;&s;e its limits, for &s;pace and lei&s;ure will either weare them out, or truth expell their poi&s;on, or time calcine them to their fir&s;t principles againe: what if <HI>nulla lux unquam &s;ecura fu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">erit,</HI> what if <HI>finis un<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">us mali &s;it gradus <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">?</HI> though every day hath threatned your fall, yet experience hath &s;een the furious fates to have had their owne de&s;tinies; and that the rageing and gloomie daies have often bin &s;ilenced upon faire and cleere termes, and though re&s;t|le&s;&s;e a&s;&s;aults as they &s;pring up linke them&s;elves together again&s;t you, yet if your comforts, as we hope, grow and multiply with them, you &s;hall out-&s;tride all their engines with invincible courage, for victory over by-gone practi&s;es promi&s;es victory over all &s;ucceding intended evills; the &s;harper the conflict, the more honourable &s;hall be your conque&s;t; when the Lord of Hoa&s;ts &s;hall crowne your actions with trophies of everla&s;ting fame and immortality, when after&punc; yeares &s;hall make report, how you have emulated the &s;toute&s;t of times, and &s;tood out to the hazard of your deare&s;t blood for the reparing and vindicating the honour and glory of your great God, for the advancing your King, and pre&s;erving his Dominions, for the enacting lawes for freeing your Country from &s;lavery and bondage. O how &s;overaigne then will be your pre&s;ent prai&s;e, <HI>digito mon&s;trari &amp; di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters"> hic e&s;t,</HI> when every tongue &s;hall be telling, how you and he, and the re&s;t have done things never to be forgotten when the labour is gone, the danger out of doubt, then the glory of the cau&s;e will be your owne, <HI>haec olim memini&s;&s;e iuvabit,</HI> good God <HI>a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> eripe flammis &amp; iam tandem gra|vibus aerumnis statue modum finemque cladi,</HI> deliver us from all the fiery contentions of the&s;e daies, and let not the double guilt of our high ingratitude die us in our pure&s;t blood, give boundes to the&s;e mercile&s;&s;e waves which threaten to &s;hip|racke our welfare for ever, and &s;ecure our hone&s;t commerces with calme roads to &s;afe harbours, ble&s;&s;e the &s;ea&s;on of the &s;ummer unto us, and grant that at la&s;t comfortable i&s;&s;ues may flow from the well-&s;prings of our hearty de&s;ires, that no alarum be heard by night&punc; no lamentations by day, nor let dolefull dit|ties at any time hereafter ever &s;ound out to our &s;uceeding po&s;terities the di&s;cor|ding jarrs of forefathers unhappy divi&s;ions.</P>
<P>Thus pre&s;enting my love and &s;ervice unto you in the weake expre&s;&s;ions of my apprehen&s;ions of the&s;e times, not as doubting of your con&s;tancie in your &s;tation, but that thus I thought fit to manife&s;t my &s;etled re&s;olutions in this com|mon cau&s;e wherein I hope the God of heaven will not onely ble&s;&s;e you but al&s;o</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Loving Co&s;en, R. R.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<L>The fates foretell the &s;tarres and times decree:</L>
<L>That you a &s;courge to Papi&s;ts now mu&s;t be:</L>
<L>That you your oppre&s;t Kingdome having borne,</L>
<L>It being free, your &s;elves, and it adorne</L>
<L>With peace, with plenty, and ble&s;&s;ings divine,</L>
<L>Such as no heart can wi&s;h, or tongue define.</L></Q>
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