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<P>Salus Populi, <HI>De&s;perately ill</HI> Of a langui&s;hing Con&s;umption: THE CAUSES <HI>DISCOVERED,</HI> THE CURE
<HI>DISCO&V;RSED;</HI></P>
<P>By THEOPHILUS P.</P>
<Q><P>If this Coun&s;ell or this Work be of men, it will come to nought:</P>
<P>But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; le&s;t happily ye be found even to fight again&s;t God,</P><BIBL>ACTS 5.38,39.</BIBL></Q>
<Q><BIBL>VIRG.</BIBL>
<L>Jam nova Progenies Coelo dimititur&mdash;</L></Q>
<P>Printed at LONDON, 1648.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A Jove Principium.</HI> England's Genius: TO THE Engli&s;h Army, and to all other true hearted Engli&s;h-men, That de&s;ire and endevor the Recovery of SALVS POPVLI.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Good Generall, and hone&s;t Gentlemen, my Darlings;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>_SALUS POPULI</HI> through the redun|dant humours of inju&s;tice, &s;uper|&s;tition, oppre&s;&s;ion and hypocri&s;ie, hath been long afflicted; and un|dertaken by skilfull Phi&s;itians (as they were voyced and profe&s;t them&s;elves) to recover her; but they to increa&s;e their own
<PB N="4" REF="3">benefit finding her to be opulent) have neglect|ed, and retarded her cure, by which her di&s;tem|per is increa&s;ed and a dangerous and extreame flux of blood added to her di&s;ea&s;e for which &s;he declines them. You about twelve months &s;ince gave her a gentle purge, which did only move the Malignant humours, not carry them away, which increa&s;ed her di&s;ea&s;e; you have lately &s;et forth &s;ome bills, that makes her hopefull; &s;he is willing to be your Patient, tru&s;ting, you will according to your ingagement, only minde her recovery; and not your own intere&s;ts. Have a care of her, for &s;he is precious in the eyes of the Almighty. I have &s;ent you by her poor &s;ervant <HI>Theophilus,</HI> &s;uch Simples as grew in her own garden; they be no Drugs from <HI>Eutopia,</HI> or the new <HI>Atlantis,</HI> they may be of u&s;e, as your judgement &s;hall prepare them, and proportion the Do&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER>God give a ble&s;&s;ing to your endevors.</CLOSER>
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<HEAD>SAL&V;S POP&V;LI De&s;perately ill of a langui&s;hing CONS&V;MPTION, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_ENgland,</HI> that was lately the Glory of Nations, the Refuge of her Friends, and Terrour of her Ene|mies, how is &s;he become the pi|ty of &s;uch as affect her, the &s;corn and prey of her Adver&s;aries! thy &s;elf, through thy Natives Di|vi&s;ions, giving Forraigners hope to attain that which they never dur&s;t have attempted, had&s;t thou been in &s;ome mea&s;ure united. But Time that pe|riods all Governments, is now determining of thine, by which this Political E&s;tate flouri&s;hed: It is now corrupted, rotten, and wa&s;ted, that little or nothing remains of it, &s;carce &s;o much as was left of <HI>Jezabel,</HI> the hands and feet. It is like a &s;ometime glorious Palace, that for want of &s;utable Inhabi|tants, and due repairing, through the injury of Time, and evil di&s;po&s;ed people continuing of &s;poil and wa&s;te upon it to enrich them&s;elves, have brought it to de&s;olation; &s;o that the heirs of it<PB N="6" REF="4">(Engli&s;hmen) cannot with &s;ecurity live in it; but a Rafter of Peerage, a Beam of Pre&s;bytery, or a Pillar of Independency may chance to cripple them, if not knock out their brains; 'tis &s;o di&s;|joynted and crazed by the windes of Faction and Divi&s;ion, that it were an indi&s;cretion to think of repairing it; it would require &s;o great pains and charge, and yet be neither u&s;efull nor &s;eemly: Therefore, le&s;t a Tempe&s;t blow it down, let judi|cious workmen orderly take it in pieces, to pre|vent danger and lo&s;&s;e, and &s;ave &s;uch materials as are &s;olid and u&s;eful; and what among them is rot|ten and rubbi&s;h, let them be for the fire or the Dunghil.</P>
<P>To begin at the top, as it now &s;tands: Look up|on the Lords Hou&s;e, or Hou&s;e of Peers. I di&s;pute not what they were in their fir&s;t In&s;titution, but &s;urvey them as they are at pre&s;ent. Nobility was fir&s;t di&s;pen&s;ed for a reward of Vertue: Do but con&s;ider how they are multiplied &s;ince King <HI>James</HI> his beginning; the Duke of <HI>Buckingham,</HI> but a yonger Brother of an indifferent Family, became Minion to the Father and the Son; and what a crowd he brought into the Hou&s;e of Peers! as the Earls of
<HI>Angle&s;ea, Denbigh, Middle&s;ex, Man|che&s;ter, Newport, Portland,</HI> &amp;c. But <HI>Ubi latet Virtus</HI> in the&s;e mens Ance&s;tors or them&s;elves; Or for what cau&s;e they were rai&s;ed, I at pre&s;ent examine not, but behold them as they act for <HI>Salus Po|puli.</HI> The Common-wealth had better have gi|ven many millions, then have had that &s;mall di|&s;tance of place between the Hou&s;e of Peers and<PB N="7" REF="4">Hou&s;e of Commons: For within the&s;e eight yeers, what with Conferences, Debates, Me&s;&s;a|ges and Me&s;&s;engers of their own, how little have they done, and how much and many Bu&s;ine&s;&s;es have they conge&s;ted and heaped together? that had each individuall the integrity of <HI>Job,</HI> and wi&s;|dom of <HI>Solomon,</HI> they can hardly do us right. What tugging, pulling, and drawing divers wayes, as each faction can make its intere&s;t &s;trong? whereas if <HI>Salus Populi</HI> is to be con&s;idered, why may not one room hold them without &s;uch punctilioes of Honour? where it may come to a pre&s;ent conclu|&s;ion, whether it be good for the Common-wealth or not; where Prince, Peers and Commons may all at one time agree. But if they &s;hall in&s;i&s;t upon their Priviledge <HI>Jure Haereditario,</HI> I cannot &s;ee but that Arch-Bi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops had as ample and anci|ent a pre&s;cription <HI>Jure Divino,</HI> to their almo&s;t era|dicated Hierarchie. And though old cu&s;toms keep fa&s;t roots; yet when they prove obnoxious to <HI>Sa|lus Populi,</HI> then <HI>malus u&s;us abolendus:</HI> Therefore let one room contain you for your Debates and Re|&s;ults, and let none be admitted, but &s;uch who&s;e ver|tue &s;hall give a&s;&s;ured proof, that they are worthy of &s;o high a calling and &s;o great a tru&s;t; and if they &s;hall merit from the Common-wealth, either for Councel or Action, let them according to their de|&s;ert have compen&s;ation out of the publick Trea|&s;ury; &s;o that their Po&s;terity &s;hall fare the better for their Ance&s;tors vertue: But their I&s;&s;ue which may prove di&s;&s;olute or worthle&s;&s;e, ought to have no claim to their Fathers &s;eat in Coun&s;el; for that<PB N="8" REF="5">in time will revive the old Corruption: Let their vertue only give them admi&s;&s;ion; if they be of a generous &s;pirit, it will &s;tirre up in them a glo|rious emulation, to outgoe, at lea&s;t to imitate their Progenitors worthy undertakings. Thus &s;hall <HI>Salus Populi</HI> be furni&s;hed with fitting Ser|vants able to di&s;charge the Tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them.</P>
<P>The next peece that fals in cour&s;e, that may be made to &s;erve for u&s;e or ornament, to rai&s;e this new Fabrick upon the old foundation, (and are worthy of re&s;erving) are &s;uch members of the Commons, as have endevoured to cheri&s;h <HI>Salus Populi;</HI> they have been neare&s;t related to her, and by her have had her grand Tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them; but how performed, and by whom ob&s;tructed, the world takes too much notice of it. But how can it be otherwi&s;e? the cour&s;e of Elections duly con&s;i|dered, which have the tracts of tyranny that &s;till re|main in them: for why &s;hould free-holders or cor|porations only have voyces in the choyce? and not al&s;o the meane&s;t he that lives, if indued with an under&s;tanding to di&s;tingui&s;h between good and evil. Is it ju&s;t that any &s;hould be obedient to that Law which he never a&s;&s;ented to? <HI>Job</HI> left a do|ctrine to the contrary, Chap. 31. Ver&s;. 13, 14, 15. The next inconvenience is, the di&s;proportionable di&s;tribution of Burge&s;&s;es, as they at pre&s;ent &s;tand. What though they plead Antiquity for their Charters? Circum&s;tance of time and place make great differences and alterations; for that which is nece&s;&s;ary at one time in a place, may be<PB N="9" REF="5">de&s;tructive at another time in the &s;ame place; tis likely at the fir&s;t, when tho&s;e grants to &s;everall Corporations were made, they were then flouri&s;h|ing and populous, which now lie ruin'd and wa&s;ted; for in&s;tance, <HI>Dunwich</HI> &s;ometime the Regall Seat of the Ea&s;t Angles, now a poore Sea-devoured-Towne, con&s;i&s;ting of a few fi&s;hing Cottages;
<HI>Ry&s;ing</HI> in <HI>Norfolk</HI> more incon&s;iderable then that; there are many &s;cores of Corporations of the like condition. <HI>Seges est ubi Troja fuit.</HI> There|fore <HI>Sublat&acirc; cau&s;&acirc; tollitur effectus,</HI> when they cea&s;e to be what they were in their fir&s;t in&s;titution, <HI>detur digniori.</HI> The la&s;t and greate&s;t inconvenience is the manner and way of Electing: Tumultuary Facti|on and Parties bandying again&s;t each other; what canva&s;ing, plodding, plotting, contriving, by friends, letters, bribings, drinkings, fea&s;tings, are com|monly u&s;ed and employed to obtain a Burge&s;hip! I have been grieved to &s;ee it, and am a&s;ham'd to &s;peak what &s;trong de&s;ires, labours, and paines have been taken (in my e&s;teeme) by the be&s;t of men to gaine &s;uch places. I hope it hath been to keep out a wor&s;e, that hath a&s;pired to it, and not to &s;a|tisfie their own ambition. Tis an ea&s;ie mat|ter to find a fault, but a mo&s;t difficult and intricate bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to redre&s;&s;e a mi&s;chiefe, e&s;pecially of this &s;uperlative nature. Here I were at a <HI>ne plus ultr&agrave;,</HI> had I not a Divine hand to uphold me, and to light and lead me through this dark Labyrinth; all what hath preceded, is mans, and may be &s;ub|ject to errour: but what followes, is a rule from God, and ought to be obeyed by you; for it is a<PB N="10" REF="6">Divine, po&s;itive, ab&s;olute In&s;titute, given, conti|nued, approved by God and his Chri&s;t. Take it briefly, <HI>Make your Elections by Lots;</HI> this is the way that God divided Lands by, by the&s;e he de|tected <HI>Achan</HI> the Malefactor, by the&s;e he enthroned <HI>Saul,</HI> by the&s;e he di&s;covered the delinquent
<HI>Ionah,</HI> by the&s;e he puts ends to controver&s;ies, by the&s;e hee di&s;po&s;ed of his Sonnes garments, by the&s;e af|ter his Sonnes
<HI>Con&s;ummatum est,</HI> when his elected Ve&s;&s;els the Apo&s;tles and Di&s;ciples (after his A&s;cention) had proceeded in their choyce for a &s;ucce&s;&s;or to &s;upply <HI>Iudas</HI> his Apo&s;tle&s;hip as farre as true zeal and humane prudence could direct, two Competitors &s;tood, the Lot fell to
<HI>Mathias;</HI> I know nothing left more plaine and ab&s;olute unto us, and le&s;&s;e taken up; yet S. <HI>Paul</HI> writes, <HI>the&s;e things were left for our Examples.</HI> The Admini|&s;tration of the Sacraments <HI>de modo,</HI> we are not agreed upon; &s;ome will have the one performed by dipping, others by &s;prinkling: The other, taken as our Saviour at Supper, others at dinner; &s;ome &s;itting, others kneeling, a third &s;tanding; but this Rule is only u&s;ed in all difficulties, both before and &s;ince our Saviours A&s;cention, and therefore affords no di&s;pute again&s;t it. The not u&s;ing of it, I feare, is the maine cau&s;e of our pu|ni&s;hment. S.
<HI>Iames</HI> tels we ask, and receive not becau&s;e we ask ami&s;&s;e; we have mi&s;&s;'d the true way all this time, therefore have we been thus betrayed in our Elections, by Apo&s;tates and Hypocrites; and untill you &s;ubmit to this pre&s;ident which Al|mighty God left you, u&s;e and employ the utmo&s;t<PB N="11" REF="6">circum&s;pection and rea&s;on that you can, yet you &s;hall entertaine into your Councels Juda&s;&s;es, Hy|pocrites, Athei&s;ts, Devils incarnate, that &s;hall en|ter among you in &s;heeps cloathings, but as Wolves they tear, rend and cru&s;h you into pieces. This I am confident is agreeable to Gods Spirit, and will be acceptable unto him, and he will poure forth his ble&s;&s;ing accordingly. I undertake not to direct; but what apprehen&s;ions it hath plea&s;ed the Lord to give me, that am the weake&s;t of men, I &s;hall out of my cordiall affections to my di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Coun|trey, lay down in per&s;uance of this Divine In&s;ti|tution.</P>
<P>You have all gone a&s;tray, and not performed the tru&s;t according to your own undertakings, and our expectation, but have &s;uffered us to be|come much more mi&s;erable, then you found us: Therefore before the Lords wrath break forth again&s;t you, and you be &s;cattered from tho&s;e &s;lip|pery places, where you &s;it, humble your &s;elves be|fore him, and
<HI>ki&s;&s;e the Sonne,</HI> by being obedient unto him, in embracing his appointed Rule. In order unto which, re&s;olve upon a determinate time to conclude your own Sitting, and limit a &s;et time for another Parliament to beginne, in which allow all the Natives and Denizens a free voyce in their choyce of their Repre&s;entatives; next di&s;tribute and alter according to your wi&s;|domes the number of Burge&s;&s;es, as &s;hall be mo&s;t con&s;i&s;tent with each Counties intere&s;t through|out the whole Kingdome: La&s;tly, i&s;&s;ue forth your Summons for Members to be cho&s;en in &s;ome
<PB N="12" REF="7">cour&s;e, as may be mo&s;t agreeing to Gods Rule; as for example, if you &s;hould proportion ten Di|vi&s;ions for the County of
<HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> two Members in each Divi&s;ion; after the Sheriffe hath your Writ, let him i&s;&s;ue out his Warrants to the high Con&s;tables of each Divi&s;ion, of the certain day and place, then the high Coun&s;tables theirs, to the under-Con&s;tables of every Pari&s;h, where let every man have his free voyce in chu&s;ing two Pari&s;h Electors, which are to be &s;ent from the Pa|ri&s;h to the Divi&s;ion: Now if the Inhabitants &s;hall be divided into &s;everall intere&s;ts, &s;o that four Competitors &s;tand, then let them come to the Lot, which may be performed in &s;ome &s;uch way as this; they having proceeded as farre as judge|ment and rea&s;on can carry them, they ought with prayer and all humility, to re&s;ign the Contro|ver&s;ie to bee decided by God, who is the only Searcher of hearts, who will vndoubtedly upon &s;uch an humble re&s;ignation, di&s;po&s;e of the Lot to his own glory and his peoples good. In Order to which, a child of &s;ix or &s;even years old, may draw the name of him out of a Box or Bag, that &s;hall fir&s;t come to the Lot; &s;o the &s;econd, third, and fourth; this to avoid exceptions of Priority of calling to the Lot; the manner of the Lot it &s;elfe, may bee performed after &s;ome &s;uch way as this; Let there be an In&s;trument made into which two &s;ilver Bullets, and two golden Bullets are put; they being &s;ome time tumbled and &s;haked together, after the boy hath drawn the fir&s;t name, a &s;pring lets forth one Bullet, which if a &s;ilver one, hee is<PB N="13" REF="7">rejected, if a golden one, he &s;tands; the&s;e being thus cho&s;en, repaire to the Divi&s;ion at the appoin|ted time, where they Elect Members, where if they be divided, as before, the &s;ame cour&s;e as be|fore is to be taken.</P>
<P>This Rule may be emproved to the &s;atisfying of all intere&s;ts, in the choyce of all Officers and Magi&s;trates throughout the whole Kingdome. What ju&s;t exception can be taken at this way, in which as much of rea&s;on is u&s;ed as can be, and when all men according to their di&s;tinct affections &s;hall have freedom of Nomination, and the Party &s;o nominated, &s;hall have equall admittance to the Lot? only after we poore blind mortals have ac|cording to our weak judgements and corrupt af|fections preferd who be&s;t plea&s;es us: we in our conte&s;t &s;ubm't to God to reconcile us, by di&s;po&s;ing of the Lot according to his only All &s;eeing Pro|vidence, to &s;uch a per&s;on as he judges meet for us.</P>
<P>Some perhaps will be ready to make empty and vaine Objections; But in an&s;wer to all that may be rai&s;ed, let &s;uch but eye who a&s;&s;umes the di&s;po&s;e of the Lot to him&s;elfe only, and let them be di&s;tru&s;t|full if they can, unle&s;&s;e they bee Pagans that make Chance or Fortune a God. To carnall and am|bitious men, this will be a great vexation; what though I make friends, and a &s;trong Party for my nomination, yet the Lot will not, cannot be bribed or circumvented, it fru&s;trates all my endeavours and de&s;igns. If thou have any part of a Chri&s;tian in thee, be contented, for it is the Lords doing,<PB N="14" REF="8">and when thou art fitted for it, the Lord will call thee by it. This is the onely way to &s;uppre&s;&s;e all Court craft, all faction, avarice and ambition; this is the way that God will owne us in for his people, when our eyes are towards him, and our dependence onely upon him, if the Lord &s;hall in his mercy to &s;ave you from de&s;truction put it into your hearts to walk in this way. During the time that &s;hall intervene betweene the ending of this Parliament and the beginning of another, make choice of the uprighte&s;t and wi&s;e&s;t Compatriots to direct and govern the people, that you may not for the honour of Parliaments &s;eem to doe things (as you have too often done) out of fear and forced to do it. The&s;e being performed by you, in future provide for particular Intere&s;ts, that have &s;uffered much by Committees of Parliament; for if a party cannot be made by friends, or facti|on, the number that makes a Committee may be birds of a feather, and report the matter to the Hou&s;e as they affect, or di&s;ta&s;t the parties; the parties mo&s;t injured many times undergoe cen|&s;ure, the Hou&s;e concluding them upon the Com|mittees report; to avoid which abu&s;e, let the parties have a certain day &s;et them, and an houre allowed them to &s;hew cau&s;e why they &s;hould not be concluded according to the Committees re|port, and there receive your finall &s;entence; thus &s;hall Iu&s;tice be uprightly executed, and no man have cau&s;e to complain.</P>
<P>The la&s;t acceptable work you can do for this exhau&s;ted wa&s;ted Common-wealth, is, by Com|mi&s;&s;ioners<PB N="15" REF="8">Itenerants, to call all Money-mongers to an exact account, and there will be a con&s;idera|ble Sum regained from tho&s;e mi&s;erable wretches (that have defrauded us) to ea&s;e the pre&s;ent bur|then of the people, as will bee ea&s;ily made to ap|peare, if you will give a reall encouragement thereunto. I had not thus pre&s;umed to have been &s;o free, but that in the beginning of this Parlia|ment, a Grandee told me it was lawfull for any man to propound, it was you onely could de|termine.</P>
<P>A word to the Army, <HI>Verbum Sapienti,</HI> I will be <HI>Canis ad Nilum.</HI> Victory brings a very &s;hort glory, where Government is imperfect. You know warres are be&s;t overcome, either by preventing of an Enemy, or by diverting of him. Principally con|&s;ider that dangers ha&s;ty and &s;udden, ought not to &s;uffer delay, &s;udden mi&s;chiefes require &s;peedy remedies; You have a nece&s;&s;ity upon you, which is &s;ufficient to make you re&s;olute.</P>
<Q><L>If the Army grow di&s;tru&s;tfull,</L>
<L>They will cea&s;e to be &s;ucce&s;&s;efull.</L></Q>
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<HEAD>Queries.</HEAD>
<ITEM>1. Whether did the State of <HI>England</HI> doe well in beheading the Queen of <HI>Scots,</HI> for privily endeavor|ing with Confederates in this Kingdome to di&s;turbe the peace thereof?</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Whether doth the State of <HI>England</HI> doe well in not beheading Duke <HI>Hambleton,</HI> who actually invaded<PB N="16" REF="9">this Kingdome with homebred Traytors, and a forraign Army, but instead thereof Vote a mulct of 100000 <ABBR>l.</ABBR> upon him when they can get it, to put in the bottomle&s;&s;e bag with <HI>Wallers</HI> 10000 <ABBR>l.</ABBR> when
<HI>Chaloner</HI> and <HI>Tomkins</HI> were hang'd? look to him Army, for the&s;e things God vi&s;its.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Whether did the State of <HI>England</HI> doe well in affording Aide to the late hone&s;t Minor Party in the Parliament of
<HI>Scotland,</HI> against the major corrupted <HI>Hambletonian</HI> Party?</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Whether ought not all hone&s;t upright con&s;cienti|ous men in Parliament and Kingdome, doe the like again&s;t the Major corrupted Party for Recovery of <HI>Salus Populi?</HI></ITEM>
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<TRAILER>Jovis omnia plena.</TRAILER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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