<!DOCTYPE ETS PUBLIC "-//UMDLPS//DTD EEBOPROOF 2.0//EN">
<ETS>
<TEMPHEAD>
<REVDESCR>
<CHANGE>
<DATE>2013-01-30</DATE>
<RESPSTMT>
<NAME>Simon Charles</NAME>
<RESP>MURP</RESP>
</RESPSTMT>
<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed.</ITEM>
</CHANGE>
</REVDESCR>
</TEMPHEAD>
<EEBO>
<IDG S="marc" R="UM" ID="A96775">
<STC T="W">w3195</STC>
<STC T="T">e1584_3</STC>
<BIBNO T="umi">99863790</BIBNO>
<VID>116005</VID>
</IDG>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<FRONT>
<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P>A Suddain Fla&s;h Timely Di&s;covering, Some Rea&s;ons wherefore, the &s;tile of <HI>PROTEC|TOR,</HI> &s;hould not be de&s;erted by the&s;e <HI>NATI|ONS,</HI> with &s;ome other things, by them very con&s;iderable. It was fir&s;t made vi&s;ible, The fourth day, after the <HI>Author</HI> heard it repor|ted, that the Lord <HI>Protector,</HI> had waved the Title of KING.</P>
<P>By BRITANS REMEMBRANCER.</P>
<Q><L>&mdash;<HI>Poetis</HI></L>
<L>Quidlibet audendum, &s;emper fuit, e&s;tque Pote&s;tas.</L></Q>
<P>A <HI>Preoccupation,</HI> relating to this <HI>Title.</HI></P>
<L>If &s;ome &s;hall think, this <HI>Book</HI> mi&s;-nam'd hath been,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, &s;o <HI>long a Fla&s;h</HI> was never &s;een;</L>
<L>Know; that, through <HI>Cranies</HI> it did thither fly,</L>
<L>Where <HI>Touchwood,</HI> and where &s;moking <HI>Flax</HI> did ly,</L>
<L>Which kindling, made it longer then intended;</L>
<L>And, was a <HI>chance,</HI> that cannot now be mended.</L>
<L>But, <HI>Fla&s;hie Names,</HI> and <HI>things,</HI> tho&s;e times be&s;eem</L>
<L>Which, do not <HI>&s;olid-&s;erious things</HI> e&s;teem.</L>
<L>And, they who are not pleas'd to run a Cour&s;e,</L>
<L>On <HI>Pega&s;us,</HI> may, like a <HI>Hobby-hor&s;e.</HI></L>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>J.S.</HI> in <HI>little Britain,</HI> and are to be &s;old <HI>there,</HI> and at the <HI>Pile of Bibles,</HI> the corner &s;hop of the Ea&s;t end of the <HI>Fi&s;h-market</HI> in the <HI>Stocks,</HI> looking into <HI>Lumbard</HI> &s;treet; 1657.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>To his Highne&s;&s;e, the Lord <HI>PROTECTOR.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>SIR, though this <HI>Poem</HI>'s Title, fitted be</L>
<L>To what I hear, the <HI>World</HI> expects from me</L>
<L>Upon this <HI>Subject;</HI> yet, a <HI>&s;eriou&s;ne&s;&s;e</HI></L>
<L>It hath, and &s;hall no <HI>Fla&s;hie-things</HI> expre&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>For, tis a <HI>Fla&s;h</HI> of <HI>light,</HI> as well as <HI>Fire,</HI></L>
<L>Which, may give &s;ight of &s;omthing you de&s;ire,</L>
<L>And &s;uch, as will no way di&s;parage you,</L>
<L>To give them, either <HI>hearing,</HI> or, a <HI>veiw.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Betwixt your <HI>Highne&s;s</HI> and the <HI>Parlament,</HI></L>
<L>I, purpo&s;e not to cheri&s;h that <HI>Di&s;&s;ent,</HI></L>
<L>Which lately was begun; nor do intend</L>
<L>That, which may ju&s;tly <HI>you,</HI> or <HI>them,</HI> offend;</L>
<L>But rather, to unite you &s;o together,</L>
<L>That, Di&s;advantage, may befall to neither</L>
<L>By what, your <HI>Adver&s;aries</HI> hope to finde</L>
<L>Effected; (if, you have a <HI>changing minde</HI>)</L>
<L>And, upon hope whereof, they did prepare</L>
<L>To act, according as re&s;olv'd you were.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I am not for my &s;elf, yet, grown &s;o wi&s;e</L>
<L>That, when at hazzard, <HI>Publick &s;afety</HI> lies,</L>
<L>I can be &s;ilent; though I both di&s;ea&s;e</L>
<L>My <HI>&s;elf;</HI> and others, oftentimes, di&s;plea&s;e,</L>
<L>By my <HI>expre&s;&s;ions,</HI> who, have <HI>pow'r</HI> and <HI>will,</HI></L>
<L>To mi&s;chieve me, who, purpo&s;e them no ill:</L>
<L>For, though a well approved <HI>Author</HI> &s;ayes,</L>
<L><HI>To plea&s;e great men, it merits not lea&s;t prai&s;e;</HI></L>
<L>I think, he merits more, who &s;peaks in <HI>&s;ea&s;on,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Truths,</HI> warranted by <HI>con&s;cionable Rea&s;on,</HI></L>
<L>(Although on him, a <HI>Prince's</HI> wrath it brings)</L>
<L>Then, if he flatter'd <HI>Parlaments</HI> and <HI>Kings.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In that re&s;pect, I judg'd it not ami&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Unto your <HI>ear,</HI> or <HI>eye,</HI> to offer this,</L>
<L>A few weeks pa&s;t: But, things did intervene</L>
<L>That &s;eem's of more concernment to have been;</L>
<PB REF="3">
<L>And kept it off, untill nigh out of date,</L>
<L>It was become; and came almo&s;t too late.</L>
<L>Yet, &s;ince good u&s;e may thereof &s;till be made,</L>
<L>And &s;ome advantage al&s;o, thereby had;</L>
<L>It, now comes forth, that, witne&s;&s;e it might bear</L>
<L>To that, which now, <HI>re&s;olv'd</HI> on, doth appeare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, though we know there is in every thing,</L>
<L>But one <HI>E&s;&s;ential Truth;</HI> yet, thence may &s;pring</L>
<L>Such various <HI>Illu&s;trations,</HI> as perchance,</L>
<L>The certainty thereof, may much advance,</L>
<L>When it appears, they, did the &s;ame <HI>Truths</HI> own,</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>judgments,</HI> to each other were unknown:</L>
<L>For, when there is thereof no <HI>mediation</HI></L>
<L>But, as their <HI>&s;pirits</HI> have communication,</L>
<L>It doth a&s;&s;ure, it flow'd from <HI>Providence,</HI></L>
<L>And, not from any <HI>carnal influence.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Your eye, &s;ees much: and yet it cannot &s;ee</L>
<L>It &s;elf, or, what the colours of it be,</L>
<L>Save by <HI>inferiour things;</HI> and, through in&s;pections</L>
<L>Acquired, by the <HI>medium,</HI> of reflexions</L>
<L>From <HI>&s;ight-le&s;s objects;</HI> through which; you may lear<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>truths,</HI> which they them&s;elves, do not di&s;cern:</L>
<L>And, &s;uch like <HI>Objects,</HI> peradventure, He</L>
<L>Who offers this and the&s;e his <HI>offers</HI> be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>SIR, therefore now&punc; be plea&s;'d, one houre, to hear</L>
<L>What, by my <HI>Mu&s;e,</HI> is fitted for your ear,</L>
<L>And was prepar'd long &s;ince, to be pre&s;ented</L>
<L>(Though accidentally, till now prevented)</L>
<L>And, if it be not &s;uch, as, then, will &s;eem</L>
<L>To merit, &s;ome part, of your <HI>good e&s;teem,</HI></L>
<L>And, u&s;efull to pre&s;erve, and to increa&s;e</L>
<L>Your <HI>Honour, &s;afety,</HI> and the <HI>Common-peace;</HI></L>
<L>Return it, with an <HI>Ignominious Da&s;h,</HI></L>
<L>And, let it then, (in &s;corn) be call'd, a <HI>Fla&s;h.</HI></L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Britans Remembrancer.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>A Suddain Fla&s;h</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Made vi&s;ible, the fourth day after his <HI>Highne&s;&s;e</HI> the <HI>Lord Protector</HI> had fir&s;t waved the Title of <HI>KING.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="prologue">
<HEAD>A <HI>Prologue,</HI> to him, who &s;hall <HI>behold,</HI> or <HI>hear,</HI> this <HI>Fla&s;h.</HI></HEAD>
<L>A <HI>Fla&s;h,</HI> I term this; and 'tis like enough</L>
<L>That, many men, will call it &s;o, in <HI>Scoff;</HI></L>
<L>But, I have got before them; and have, too,</L>
<L>Some <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> wherefore I have call'd it &s;o:</L>
<L>For, to, mine ears, when fir&s;t that <HI>news</HI> was brought,</L>
<L>A thou&s;and thoughts, <HI>Flu&s;ht</HI> in, and this <HI>Fla&s;ht</HI> out;</L>
<L>Which, I have, now, thus <HI>Paper'd</HI> up, for thee,</L>
<L>To bring to minde what <HI>is,</HI> and what <HI>may be.</HI></L>
<L>Although it &s;peaks in <HI>Rimes,</HI> it <HI>Rimes</HI> with <HI>Rea&s;on;</HI></L>
<L>And comes in <HI>Ha&s;t,</HI> that it may come in <HI>Sea&s;on.</HI></L>
<L>If thou regard it, <HI>&s;o.</HI> If not: my <HI>Co&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>Is <HI>Paper, Inck,</HI> and part of <HI>three dayes</HI> lo&s;t.</L>
<L>Thine may be more; For, much affraid I am,</L>
<L>That, thou, who &s;aw'&s;t this <HI>Fla&s;h,</HI> wilt &s;ee a <HI>Flame,</HI></L>
<L>(&V;nle&s;s an intervening <HI>Providence</HI></L>
<L>Prevents, what likely &s;eems, to give <HI>Offence</HI>)</L>
<L>Which, here will <HI>burn,</HI> as well as give a <HI>light,</HI></L>
<L>Till it hath <HI>purg'd us,</HI> or, con&s;um'd us, quite.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Fla&s;h.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>MY <HI>Mu&s;e,</HI> hath on a &s;uddain, once again,</L>
<L>Invited me, to this <HI>unu&s;ual &s;train;</HI></L>
<L>Which, as the &s;tate of my <HI>Affairs,</HI> now &s;tands,</L>
<L>Hath put upon me <HI>Dangerous Commands:</HI></L>
<PB N="2" REF="4">
<L>But, I, who mu&s;t obey <HI>Her</HI> when &s;he calls,</L>
<L>(What ever hazzard, on my <HI>&s;elf</HI> befalls)</L>
<L>Submitted to expre&s;&s;e, what I &s;hould finde</L>
<L>Infu&s;ed by her pow'r, in to my <HI>mind;</HI></L>
<L>And, hearing that his <HI>Highne&s;&s;e,</HI> had deny'd</L>
<L>The <HI>King&s;hip,</HI> thereupon, thus <HI>ver&s;ifi'd:</HI></L>
<L>For, <HI>Poets</HI> (priviledg'd, as <HI>Prophets</HI> were)</L>
<L>Their <HI>In&s;pirations</HI> freely may declare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, hath he wav'd that <HI>Title?</HI> and, I pray,</L>
<L>Are you aright inform'd of what you &s;ay?</L>
<L>Did not a <HI>fal&s;e-report,</HI> your ears abu&s;e?</L>
<L>A <HI>Crown!</HI> a <HI>Triple-Crown</HI> doth he refu&s;e?</L>
<L>And will not he, as <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> us'd to do,</L>
<L>Say, <HI>No,</HI> and <HI>take it,</HI> as compell'd thereto?</L>
<L>Oh <HI>Miracle of men?</HI> doth he deny</L>
<L>A <HI>King&s;hip! freely offered!</HI> which, to <HI>Buy</HI></L>
<L>So many thou&s;and <HI>Princes,</HI> have made &s;ale</L>
<L>Of <HI>Fame, Faith, Con&s;cience, Body, Soul,</HI> and all?</L>
<L>If this (as you affirm it is) be true;</L>
<L><HI>Friends;</HI> bid henceforth, your <HI>jealou&s;ies</HI> adue:</L>
<L>And, let him who mi&s;tru&s;ts him any more;</L>
<L>Su&s;pect his <HI>Hone&s;t wife,</HI> to be a Whore,</L>
<L>And in his bre&s;t, the torments thereof cheri&s;h</L>
<L>Till he repent that <HI>injury,</HI> or <HI>peri&s;h.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, &s;ince I know what many do &s;urmize,</L>
<L>(And, what <HI>objections</HI> malice doth devi&s;e)</L>
<L>Let me a little more <HI>expo&s;tulate;</HI></L>
<L>Is it not (think you,) done to palliate</L>
<L>The <HI>&s;ouldiers</HI> humor? or, a <HI>Trick of State</HI></L>
<L>To draw on &s;ome thing more, yet aimed at?</L>
<L>Is it not by <HI>De&s;ign,</HI> to bring about</L>
<L><HI>Advantages,</HI> by over&s;ight left out?</L>
<L>Or to delay, a while, what he intends,</L>
<L>To feel the <HI>Peoples pul&s;e?</HI> or for &s;uch ends?</L>
</LG>
<PB N="3" REF="4">
<LG>
<L>No doubtle&s;&s;e: Then, make an&s;wer but to <HI>Three</HI></L>
<L>Short <HI>Que&s;tions</HI> more, and they the la&s;t &s;hall be.</L>
<L>Expects he not, when <HI>twenty dayes,</HI> are pa&s;t,</L>
<L>It &s;hould be, <HI>Nolens volens,</HI> on him ca&s;t?</L>
<L>Nor is it &s;o; for, by that <HI>In&s;trument,</HI></L>
<L>Which doth yet regulate this <HI>Government,</HI></L>
<L>No <HI>Law</HI> thereto <HI>repugnant,</HI> can be made</L>
<L>Whereto, his free <HI>a&s;&s;ent,</HI> &s;hall not be had:</L>
<L>And, <HI>Really,</HI> refu&s;all he doth make,</L>
<L>In <HI>Chri&s;tian prudence,</HI> and for <HI>Con&s;cience &s;ake;</HI></L>
<L>That, he may give no cau&s;e of tho&s;e <HI>Offences,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Su&s;pitions, Scandals,</HI> and ill <HI>con&s;equences,</HI></L>
<L>Which may en&s;ue; And, whereof, <HI>Hone&s;t men</HI></L>
<L>Are much affrayd: Why, did he &s;uffer, then,</L>
<L>So long time in <HI>Debatings,</HI> to be &s;pent,</L>
<L>(Since he at fir&s;t di&s;covered what was meant)</L>
<L>And, did not interdict them to proceed?</L>
<L>That, had been a <HI>di&s;honourable deed:</HI></L>
<L>For, in &s;o doing, he &s;hould have prejudg'd,</L>
<L>The <HI>Parlament;</HI> them, <HI>di&s;impriviledg'd;</HI></L>
<L>And, thereby, &s;ome <HI>Experiments,</HI> have lo&s;t,</L>
<L>Which are more worth, than twice the time they co&s;t.</L>
<L>Be&s;ide, the <HI>matter</HI> is of too much weight,</L>
<L><HI>Each way,</HI> to pa&s;&s;e, till ballanced aright;</L>
<L>And, you have heard it &s;aid, what tho&s;e men are</L>
<L><HI>Who Judge a Cau&s;e, before the &s;ame they hear.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus far tis well: But, will he not at la&s;t</L>
<L>When &s;ome few more, fit <HI>Complements</HI> are pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Accept what's <HI>offer'd?</HI> what he did, is known:</L>
<L>But, what he will do, cannot be fore&s;hown:</L>
<L>And, we &s;hall wrong <HI>Him</HI> (as he &s;hould the <HI>State</HI></L>
<L>Have injur'd) if, we him prejudicate.</L>
<L>We may conjecture: And, if I may give</L>
<L>My <HI>Judgement,</HI> by the <HI>Symptoms</HI> I perceive,</L>
<PB N="4" REF="5">
<L>He never will accept it, till, he &s;hall</L>
<L>By <HI>Faith</HI> and <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> be convinc'd in all</L>
<L>And ev'ry <HI>Scruple,</HI> which, this day, offends</L>
<L>His <HI>Con&s;cience;</HI> or dis&s;atisfies his <HI>Friends:</HI></L>
<L>Beyond which, he, that ought would move him to,</L>
<L>Doth, what no wi&s;e, or <HI>hone&s;t man,</HI> &s;hould do;</L>
<L>And, would not care, though he were quite de&s;troy'd</L>
<L>So, his own <HI>Lu&s;t,</HI> and <HI>Will,</HI> might be enjoy'd.</L>
<L>If &s;o, then, me he hath not, yet, deceiv'd</L>
<L>In any thing, which I of him believ'd</L>
<L>Since fir&s;t I heeded, by what <HI>Point</HI> he &s;teers;</L>
<L>(What <HI>Rock</HI> on this <HI>hand,</HI> what on <HI>that,</HI> appears;)</L>
<L>What mo&s;t men are, with whom he hath to do;</L>
<L>And, why, few know, <HI>which way,</HI> he means to go.</L>
<L>His <HI>Foes,</HI> though with his <HI>Bullocks</HI> they have plow'd,</L>
<L>Have got nought thereby, whereof to be proud.</L>
<L>And, as I live, I, am <HI>thereof,</HI> as glad,</L>
<L>As, <HI>therefore,</HI> many others will be &s;ad;</L>
<L>And, if I were (as I have been) a <HI>Boy</HI></L>
<L>I &s;hould make <HI>Squibs,</HI> and <HI>Bonefires,</HI> now for joy,</L>
<L>As many would have done, had he compli'd</L>
<L>With their de&s;ires, who&s;e <HI>Offer</HI> is deni'd.</L>
<L>For, in his condi&s;cending to be <HI>King,</HI></L>
<L>He could have been, at be&s;t, no <HI>greater thing</HI></L>
<L>Than other <HI>Earthly Princes:</HI> But, hereby</L>
<L>He may a&s;cend unto a <HI>Soveraignty,</HI></L>
<L>Which rai&s;eth him, nine <HI>Orbes</HI> above their <HI>Sphear,</HI></L>
<L>To be inthroned, where <HI>Immortals</HI> are:</L>
<L>And, me, it hopefull makes, to &s;ee that <HI>Age,</HI></L>
<L>Which, <HI>Britains genius,</HI> did, long &s;ince, pre&s;age</L>
<L>In that <HI>Prediction,</HI> wherein, was among</L>
<L>Some other things, this following <HI>di&s;tick</HI> &s;ung:</L>
<L><HI>A King, &s;hall willingly him&s;elf unking,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And thereby grow farr greater than before.</HI></L>
<PB N="5" REF="5">
<L>For, now, fulfilled &s;eemeth, in effect,</L>
<L>What, that <HI>vaticination</HI> did predict;</L>
<L>Although there &s;hould a <HI>Power</HI> el&s;where re&s;ide</L>
<L>To bring to pa&s;&s;e, what is by him <HI>deni'd.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Victorious <HI>Cromwell!</HI> thou, ha&s;t, herein, gone</L>
<L>Beyond thy <HI>&s;elf;</HI> and &s;uch an <HI>Act</HI> ha&s;t done,</L>
<L>As few or none, in this, or forraign <HI>Climes,</HI></L>
<L>Have equalled, in any <HI>former times.</HI></L>
<L>A <HI>&s;elf-denial</HI> like this, none, but <HI>He</HI></L>
<L>Could teach, who, that he might our <HI>pattern</HI> be,</L>
<L>The <HI>Thrones</HI> &amp; <HI>kingdoms</HI> of this world did &s;light,</L>
<L>When he was born up thither, where, he might</L>
<L>(And did) behold them, &s;preading forth to view</L>
<L>All their <HI>Inchanting plea&s;ures,</HI> fal&s;e or true:</L>
<L>And from him onely, could that <HI>grace</HI> proceed,</L>
<L>Whereby, thou do&s;t perform &s;o brave a <HI>deed.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou often ha&s;t de&s;erved <HI>Mural-Crowns,</HI></L>
<L>For taking <HI>Ca&s;tles,</HI> with high <HI>walled Towns,</HI></L>
<L>And making in &s;ubjection, to thy powers,</L>
<L>Great <HI>Cities,</HI> fortifi'd with <HI>Walls</HI> and <HI>Towers:</HI></L>
<L>To thee, for brave Achivements on the <HI>Maine</HI></L>
<L>The chief of <HI>Navall Trophies,</HI> doth pertain:</L>
<L><HI>Triumphant Laurell,</HI> to adorn thy brows,</L>
<L>To thee is due, for giving ovethrows</L>
<L>To dreadfull <HI>Armies,</HI> that, had el&s;e in&s;lav'd</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Country;</HI> which, God, by thy <HI>&s;word</HI> hath &s;avd.</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t &s;ubdued <HI>Kingdomes,</HI> and great <HI>Kings;</HI></L>
<L>Whereby, their <HI>Crowns,</HI> their <HI>Scepters</HI> &amp; all things</L>
<L>Belonging to &s;uch <HI>Conquerors,</HI> are thine,</L>
<L>As truly, as the Clothes I wear, are mine.</L>
<L>Yet, the&s;e are &s;light, and petty <HI>Foes</HI> compar'd</L>
<L>To &s;ome, with whom, thou &s;ecretly ha&s;t <HI>warr'd:</HI></L>
<L>And, for tho&s;e <HI>Conque&s;ts,</HI> thou I hope, do&s;t carry</L>
<L>A <HI>Tablet,</HI> with a &s;ecret <HI>Honorary;</HI></L>
<PB N="6" REF="6">
<L>Whereby thy vertues fully be rewarded,</L>
<L>With <HI>Trophies,</HI> of mo&s;t worth, though le&s;t regarded.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>The&s;e wayes,</HI> thou wert <HI>Victorious</HI> heretofore;</L>
<L>And, I will mention one great <HI>Conque&s;t</HI> more.</L>
<L>By few ob&s;erved: Thou ha&s;t &s;tood the Shock</L>
<L>Of <HI>malice</HI> and <HI>detraction,</HI> like a <HI>Rock,</HI></L>
<L>On which the waves and billows of the <HI>Main,</HI></L>
<L>Have &s;pent their &s;trength, and foam'd out rage in vain.</L>
<L>I, very often, have ob&s;erv'd the fell,</L>
<L>Feirce, raging, and <HI>three headed dog of Hell,</HI></L>
<L>With his <HI>three double rows of teeth,</HI> a&s;&s;ay</L>
<L>To tear thine <HI>honour,</HI> and thy <HI>pow'r,</HI> away;</L>
<L>With his foule <HI>tongues,</HI> be&s;pattering thy <HI>fame,</HI></L>
<L>To turn thy <HI>blooming honour</HI> into <HI>&s;hame;</HI></L>
<L>I've &s;een this <HI>Cur</HI> oft, dog thee in the <HI>dark,</HI></L>
<L>In hope to <HI>bite</HI> thee, when he dur&s;t not <HI>bark;</HI></L>
<L>And, I have heeded, by what &s;acred <HI>Charms,</HI></L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t been hitherto, pre&s;erv'd from harms.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This <HI>Helhound,</HI> thou ha&s;t tam'd without &s;o much</L>
<L>As giving him a <HI>cru&s;t,</HI> a <HI>&s;purn,</HI> or <HI>touch;</HI></L>
<L>Meerly by <HI>meekne&s;s,</HI> and, as <HI>pa&s;&s;ing by</HI></L>
<L>With di&s;regard of <HI>cau&s;le&s;&s;e injury;</HI></L>
<L>And, now he &s;ometimes <HI>fawns</HI> on <HI>thee</HI> and <HI>tho&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Who are thy <HI>friends;</HI> and, &s;narleth at thy <HI>foes,</HI></L>
<L>As if he were appeas'd: which, I believe</L>
<L>Is but a cunning <HI>dog trick,</HI> to deceive.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And, yet, among tho&s;e <HI>victories,</HI> which lye</L>
<L>Mo&s;t vi&s;ible unto the <HI>vulger eye,</HI></L>
<L>This, thy la&s;t <HI>conque&s;t,</HI> merits admiration</L>
<L>Beyond the re&s;t; And, with <HI>per&s;everation</HI></L>
<L>If thou maintain the &s;ame, as thou mai&s;t do,</L>
<L>By his help, who hath aided hitherto,</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t thereby a <HI>pledge,</HI> that, <HI>God</HI> will never</L>
<L>For&s;ake thee; but, thy <HI>guardian</HI> be for ever.</L>
<PB N="7" REF="6">
<L>Thou ha&s;t already &s;cap'd, the <HI>be&s;t tride &s;nare;</HI></L>
<L>That <HI>Sathan,</HI> or his <HI>agents,</HI> can prepare:</L>
<L>For, 'twas the la&s;t, of tho&s;e <HI>temptations,</HI> which</L>
<L>He practi&s;'d by, our <HI>Saviour,</HI> to bewitch:</L>
<L>And, as when that <HI>grand-tryall,</HI> had an end</L>
<L>His <HI>Angels,</HI> did forthwith, on him attend</L>
<L>Rejoycing in his <HI>conquest;</HI> &s;o, will, too,</L>
<L>For thine, all, thy mo&s;t faithfull <HI>&s;ervants</HI> do.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou ha&s;t thereby, &s;o &s;trengthned all their <HI>hands,</HI></L>
<L>So cheered all their <HI>hearts,</HI> throughout the&s;e lands,</L>
<L>Who <HI>prayd,</HI> or <HI>feared</HI> for thee, in this tryall;</L>
<L>That, thou, of nothing now, can&s;t have deniall,</L>
<L>Wherein their love may &s;erve thee; and they &s;hall</L>
<L>More <HI>fortifie</HI> thee, than a <HI>Brazen wall;</HI></L>
<L>More <HI>comfort</HI> thee, than ought that can be had</L>
<L>From any <HI>Title,</HI> that the <HI>world</HI> &s;hall add:</L>
<L>And, thou at la&s;t, &s;halt finde, thou do&s;t not lo&s;e</L>
<L>One <HI>grain,</HI> of what thou lately did&s;t refu&s;e,</L>
<L>By that <HI>refu&s;all:</HI> for, thou &s;halt have more</L>
<L>(If not in <HI>kind</HI>) in value, than before.</L>
<L>Yea, peradventure, that, in <HI>&s;pecie,</HI> too,</L>
<L>When, qualified, no offence to do;</L>
<L>And, when it hath been prov'd, whereto thy <HI>mind</HI></L>
<L>VVithout <HI>di&s;&s;imulation</HI> is inclin'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, tis not meer <HI>negation</HI> of that <HI>title,</HI></L>
<L>VVhich is thy <HI>Te&s;t;</HI> &s;ince, that availeth little</L>
<L>One way or other, &s;ave as unto that</L>
<L>VVhich brought it hath unto di&s;like of late;</L>
<L>Or, as it may concern &s;ome <HI>pa&s;t tran&s;actions,</HI></L>
<L>VVhich, have occa&s;ioned di&s;&s;atisfactions</L>
<L>In many of this <HI>Nation;</HI> or, as thou</L>
<L>May&s;t &s;candalize them, by thine <HI>actings</HI> now.</L>
<L>But, that, wherein thy <HI>reall proof</HI> will be,</L>
<L>Lockt, from <HI>mens eys,</HI> lyes hid, with <HI>God,</HI> and <HI>thee:</HI></L>
<PB N="8" REF="7">
<L>And, what&s;oever thou re&s;olv'&s;t upon,</L>
<L>Will either <HI>Well,</HI> or el&s;e <HI>not well,</HI> be done,</L>
<L>As, unto tho&s;e things, they relating are,</L>
<L>Which unto <HI>God,</HI> and <HI>Thee alone,</HI> appear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The wa&s;hing of th' <HI>A&s;&s;yrian</HI> in the water</L>
<L>Of <HI>Jordan,</HI> was but an indifferent matter,</L>
<L>Till made the <HI>&s;ole condition</HI> of his <HI>Cure:</HI></L>
<L>And, doubtle&s;&s;e, had not <HI>that,</HI> been in his pow'r,</L>
<L>He had been <HI>Clean&s;'d</HI> without it. <HI>David's &s;in</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>Numb'ring of the People,</HI> lay not in</L>
<L>That <HI>&s;imple Act;</HI> but, in the &s;ecret <HI>Pride</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Di&s;obedience,</HI> which did then re&s;ide</L>
<L>Within his <HI>Heart;</HI> And, when it &s;hall appear</L>
<L>That <HI>Thou,</HI> from <HI>Guiltine&s;s,</HI> art that way clear;</L>
<L>And, ha&s;t repented all tho&s;e <HI>Humane failings,</HI></L>
<L>Which have, in ought, ob&s;tructed thy <HI>Prevailings:</HI></L>
<L>Then, &s;hall the <HI>gift-refu&s;ed,</HI> neither be</L>
<L>A <HI>Scandall</HI> unto <HI>Others,</HI> or to <HI>Thee,</HI></L>
<L>Although accepted; when thou ha&s;t re&s;i&s;ted</L>
<L>So far, as <HI>Grace</HI> and <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> have a&s;&s;i&s;ted.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, &s;hould the <HI>Pow'r-Coordinate</HI> with thine,</L>
<L>O're-pow'r thee &s;o, that, thou thereto incline</L>
<L>(Con&s;enting to their <HI>Motives</HI> at the la&s;t)</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> bearing witne&s;&s;e, that thou ha&s;t</L>
<L>Complied there withall, rather by <HI>force</HI></L>
<L>Than <HI>Choi&s;e;</HI> to keep <HI>bad</HI> things, from being <HI>wor&s;e:</HI></L>
<L>Or, if by &s;trength of <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> &s;wayd thou art</L>
<L>To that <HI>Acceptance;</HI> thou, ha&s;t done thy part:</L>
<L>And, &s;halt by <HI>yeelding,</HI> pa&s;s another Trial</L>
<L>As honourable, as, is this <HI>Denial.</HI></L>
<L>Thou &s;halt be &s;afe, from all that was <HI>portended,</HI></L>
<L>Should&s;t thou by <HI>Levity,</HI> have condi&s;cended,</L>
<L>Or, tempted been by <HI>Self-ne&s;s,</HI> to forgo</L>
<L>That <HI>Title,</HI> thou ha&s;t owned hitherto;</L>
<PB N="9" REF="7">
<L>And wilt be free from blame, what ever &s;hall</L>
<L>Hereafter, by the <HI>Change thereof</HI> befall.</L>
<L>For, nothing &s;hall ami&s;&s;e to thee &s;ucceed,</L>
<L>By what, is not <HI>Thine,</HI> but, <HI>anothers deed.</HI></L>
<L>No <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> bindeth any to with&s;tand,</L>
<L>What, <HI>Pow'r,</HI> and <HI>&s;tronger Rea&s;on,</HI> doth command;</L>
<L>And, when perhaps too, <HI>God,</HI> his ayde withdraws,</L>
<L>From thy a&s;&s;i&s;tance, in this <HI>dubious cau&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>To bring on them, whats due for their <HI>offence,</HI></L>
<L>Who tru&s;t their own <HI>Wits,</HI> more than <HI>Providence.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This, I expre&s;&s;e here, not to leave a <HI>Gap</HI></L>
<L>Whereby, thou may'&s;t from <HI>Ju&s;t Re&s;olves</HI> e&s;cape:</L>
<L>(For, God will find it out, if there be <HI>ought</HI></L>
<L>To &s;uch a <HI>purpo&s;e,</HI> lurking in thy thought:)</L>
<L>But, that, thou may'&s;t not fall into a <HI>Snare</HI></L>
<L>By things, which in them&s;elves, <HI>Indifferent are;</HI></L>
<L>(Nor <HI>good</HI> nor <HI>evill,</HI> but, as unto that</L>
<L>Which may be <HI>good,</HI> or <HI>Evill,</HI> they relate;)</L>
<L>And, to pre&s;erve thine <HI>Honour,</HI> among tho&s;e</L>
<L>Who &s;hall, perchance, their <HI>Expectations</HI> lo&s;e</L>
<L>By what may come to pa&s;&s;e; (yea, to prevent</L>
<L>That, which may thereof, be a <HI>Con&s;equent</HI></L>
<L>To thee di&s;&s;erviceable) I, am bold</L>
<L>To tell thee, what my <HI>Mu&s;e</HI> to me hath told;</L>
<L>Which, dictates, otherwhile in <HI>Slighted rimes,</HI></L>
<L>That, which doth much concern the&s;e <HI>pre&s;ent times;</HI></L>
<L>And, would, it may be, had it not been <HI>Mine,</HI></L>
<L>Suppos'd have been, an <HI>Off-&s;pring, more divine.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, I, my, <HI>Mu&s;ings</HI> now, to tho&s;e will bend</L>
<L>Who may, perhaps, mi&s;tru&s;t what I intend.</L>
<L>Although I have, by this <HI>Anticipation,</HI></L>
<L>Pre&s;ented that unto con&s;ideration,</L>
<L>Which may be profitable (if <HI>revers'd</HI></L>
<L>His <HI>purpo&s;e</HI> be, on Tearms before rehears'd)</L>
<PB N="10" REF="8">
<L>Yet, lea&s;t, I may with <HI>one hand,</HI> be &s;u&s;pected</L>
<L>To <HI>pull down,</HI> what the <HI>other</HI> had <HI>Erected;</HI></L>
<L>I will not &s;mother ought, which I &s;hall finde,</L>
<L>May ju&s;tly fortifie him in the <HI>minde,</HI></L>
<L>By him profe&s;t; untill, to drive him out</L>
<L>Of his <HI>Re&s;olve,</HI> Tho&s;e <HI>Rea&s;ons</HI> may be brought,</L>
<L>Which will be <HI>&s;tronger;</HI> le&s;t, &s;ome, &s;hould &s;urmize</L>
<L><HI>He;</HI> without <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> deni'd what he denies;</L>
<L>Or, le&s;t my late <HI>Rejoycings,</HI> may appear</L>
<L>As <HI>Rea&s;onle&s;&s;e,</HI> as many think they were.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My <HI>gladne&s;&s;e</HI> of it, flow'd from no re&s;pect</L>
<L>Unto my <HI>&s;elf,</HI> or, fears of an effect</L>
<L>By <HI>King&s;hip,</HI> which my <HI>profits</HI> might impair:</L>
<L>For, I have, that way, <HI>likelihoods</HI> more fair</L>
<L>Than I have now (if nothing it occa&s;ions,</L>
<L>To break our <HI>Peace,</HI> at <HI>Home,</HI> or, by <HI>Inva&s;ions</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Foes abroad</HI>) nor can I &s;candal'd be,</L>
<L>Thereby, through ought, which will reflect on <HI>me:</HI></L>
<L>But, I <HI>rejoyced</HI> in it, for the &s;ake</L>
<L>Of <HI>Him,</HI> who did this <HI>Title</HI> undertake;</L>
<L>And, for <HI>their &s;akes,</HI> who <HI>Acted</HI> and <HI>Enacted,</HI></L>
<L>Things, whereby po&s;&s;ibly may be contracted</L>
<L>Great <HI>Scandals;</HI> or, which may a new expo&s;e</L>
<L>My <HI>Country,</HI> to be &s;poiled by her <HI>Foes.</HI></L>
<L>For <HI>the&s;e,</HI> and <HI>&s;uch re&s;pects as the&s;e</HI> (together</L>
<L>With what may be again transferred hither,</L>
<L>My <HI>Heart,</HI> that was through <HI>fear</HI> of them, grown &s;ad,</L>
<L>Became through hope of their <HI>prevention,</HI> glad.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, what a <HI>black Scene,</HI> &s;hould we here have &s;een?</L>
<L>How many <HI>greeved hearts,</HI> would here have been,</L>
<L>Had our <HI>Protector,</HI> either been e&s;tranged</L>
<L>From what he <HI>was,</HI> or, (<HI>&s;eem'd to be</HI>) &s;o changed,</L>
<L>As, lightly to forgo his intere&s;t</L>
<L>In that, wherewith he had been &s;o much <HI>ble&s;t?</HI></L>
<PB N="11" REF="8">
<L>Or, &s;hould by others, have been &s;o deluded,</L>
<L>As, to let <HI>that</HI> upon him be obtruded,</L>
<L>Which <HI>He him&s;elf</HI> di&s;claim'd? and, may bring back</L>
<L>A <HI>King</HI> upon us, with his <HI>Pedlars Pack</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Vanities,</HI> which have been by this <HI>Nation</HI></L>
<L>Rejected by a <HI>&s;olemn protestation:</HI></L>
<L>And, which are <HI>Trinckets,</HI> as un&s;eparable</L>
<L>From mo&s;t <HI>Kings,</HI> as is from a Fool, his <HI>babble?</HI></L>
<L>For, there is nought more likely, in, to bring</L>
<L><HI>Him</HI> that's expelled, then, to make a <HI>King,</HI></L>
<L>At this time; and, to make on that accompt</L>
<L>(Which is <HI>de&s;ign'd</HI>) that <HI>Title</HI> paramount:</L>
<L>Nor can there be, for what our <HI>Foe</HI> intends,</L>
<L>A better <HI>ground-worke</HI> laid, by all his <HI>friends.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>The&s;e things I feared;</HI> and, my <HI>&s;oul</HI> fore&s;ees</L>
<L>That, all tho&s;e things may creep in by degrees,</L>
<L>Which, to the <HI>Kingdomes</HI> of this World pertain;</L>
<L>Which, may in&s;lave the <HI>Saints</HI> of <HI>God</HI> again;</L>
<L>And, which, may in a &s;hort time, reinve&s;t</L>
<L>With that <HI>pow'r,</HI> which impowred <HI>Antichri&s;t:</HI></L>
<L>Unle&s;&s;e, it by his <HI>Mercy,</HI> be with&s;tood</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>wi&s;dome,</HI> can from <HI>Evil,</HI> bring forth <HI>Good.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>The&s;e things I fear'd,</HI> and if a <HI>Parlament</HI></L>
<L>Can make a <HI>King,</HI> which may the&s;e <HI>fears</HI> prevent;</L>
<L><HI>Him,</HI> and his <HI>Nobles,</HI> if it can &s;o bind,</L>
<L>That, we may be &s;ecured in this kind;</L>
<L>And keep our <HI>Sov'raign,</HI> and the&s;e <HI>Nations</HI> free</L>
<L>From <HI>&s;candals,</HI> which occa&s;ioned may be;</L>
<L>I, &s;hould not only yeild, on that condition</L>
<L>To make a <HI>King,</HI> but beg one by <HI>Petition.</HI></L>
<L>Redouble, that <HI>rejoycing,</HI> which appear'd,</L>
<L>When, of what was <HI>re&s;olved,</HI> I fir&s;t heard:</L>
<L>And, make my <HI>heart,</HI> the <HI>fir&s;t &s;tep</HI> whereupon</L>
<L>He might &s;et foot, to mount up to his <HI>Throne:</HI></L>
<PB N="12" REF="9">
<L>Yea, &s;ing a <HI>Panegyrick</HI> in their prai&s;e</L>
<L>Who mov'd it, that &s;hould long out-la&s;t my daies.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>We look for &s;uch a <HI>Government,</HI> as &s;hall</L>
<L>Make way for <HI>Chri&s;t:</HI> not that fanta&s;tical</L>
<L><HI>Fifth Monarchie,</HI> whereof &s;ome people dream,</L>
<L>And Conquer would an <HI>Earthly Throne</HI> for him</L>
<L>With <HI>Carnal weapons:</HI> But, that, <HI>pre&s;ent</HI> here</L>
<L>He, may &s;o be, and &s;o to <HI>reign,</HI> appear</L>
<L>As he hath <HI>promis'd;</HI> and, that <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;s</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Truth,</HI> may ev'ry <HI>Throne</HI> on Earth po&s;&s;e&s;s,</L>
<L>According to that mea&s;ure of his <HI>grace,</HI></L>
<L>Which is apportion'd, to this <HI>earthly place.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His <HI>Highne&s;s,</HI> hath made progre&s;s in a <HI>path</HI></L>
<L>As far forth toward it, as any hath</L>
<L>Since <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> a&s;cended; if, the <HI>Depths</HI> and <HI>Heights,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Rugged pa&s;&s;ages,</HI> and <HI>Narrow Streights</HI></L>
<L>Con&s;ider'd be, through which his <HI>March</HI> he makes,</L>
<L>To bring to end the <HI>Work</HI> he undertakes.</L>
<L>He mu&s;t now pa&s;s a <HI>Rock,</HI> which will require</L>
<L>An <HI>Ingeneer</HI> with <HI>Vineger</HI> and <HI>fire;</HI></L>
<L>And, cut a <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> which (as by a <HI>thread</HI>)</L>
<L>Mu&s;t on each <HI>hand,</HI> ev'n to a <HI>hairs-breadth,</HI> lead</L>
<L>'Twixt <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> and &s;ound <HI>Rea&s;on:</HI> whence, to vary</L>
<L>Were irrecoverably to mi&s;carry.</L>
<L>Oh <HI>God!</HI> a&s;&s;i&s;t him; and, to what I pray</L>
<L><HI>Amen,</HI> let all, who wi&s;h our welfare, &s;ay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He, hitherto, in that which he hath done,</L>
<L>His <HI>Work,</HI> with prudency, hath carried on:</L>
<L>And, firm to his own <HI>Principles</HI> abides,</L>
<L>Though many &s;trive to bring him to their <HI>&s;ides:</HI></L>
<L>Yea, though there be &s;ome too, of whom he may</L>
<L>(As <HI>David</HI> of <HI>Zerviah</HI>'s Sons did &s;ay)</L>
<L>Complain, that, they, were oft for him, too hard;</L>
<L>Yet, <HI>Him</HI> from his <HI>Re&s;olves</HI> they have not &s;tirr'd.</L>
<PB N="13" REF="9">
<L>And (be it well con&s;idered of all you,</L>
<L>Who <HI>read this,</HI> and, perchance mi&s;cen&s;ure now</L>
<L>Of his <HI>Heroick Act</HI>) he doth not wave</L>
<L>Ought nece&s;&s;ary for a <HI>Prince</HI> to have;</L>
<L>Which had been a <HI>Denial,</HI> in effect,</L>
<L>Of that <HI>Pow'r,</HI> which his <HI>People</HI> &s;hould protect;</L>
<L>And, were no <HI>Self-denial,</HI> (as I gather)</L>
<L>But, a denial of his <HI>Duty</HI> rather.</L>
<L>The <HI>King&s;hip</HI> is not wav'd, but, as it tends</L>
<L>To what may much di&s;con&s;olate his <HI>friends,</HI></L>
<L>Or glad his <HI>foes;</HI> And, which, as things yet &s;tand,</L>
<L>Relating to <HI>Pre-actings</HI> in this Land,</L>
<L>Might draw on very evil <HI>Con&s;equences;</HI></L>
<L>Or give ju&s;t cau&s;e of many great <HI>Offences:</HI></L>
<L>Could the&s;e removed, or prevented be,</L>
<L>So that his <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> might from them be free,</L>
<L>Perchance, <HI>That,</HI> to take place it would permit</L>
<L>As <HI>rational,</HI> which &s;o appears not yet.</L>
<L>For to the <HI>Clean,</HI> he knows all things are <HI>Clean,</HI></L>
<L>And (if I gue&s;s aright what he doth mean)</L>
<L><HI>That,</HI> whereof, he doth chiefly <HI>&s;cruple</HI> make,</L>
<L>Is, <HI>Giving an offence unto the weak;</HI></L>
<L>And, <HI>that,</HI> therewith, all things now &s;tartled at</L>
<L>Might pa&s;s, when he upon them &s;hall debate,</L>
<L>If <HI>God,</HI> informs his <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> that they may;</L>
<L>And <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> &s;hall his <HI>Rea&s;ons</HI> over&s;way.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He nothing hath refus'd with di&s;re&s;pect</L>
<L>To <HI>them who offer'd it:</HI> Or, with neglect</L>
<L>Of ought propos'd for <HI>Publick benefit:</HI></L>
<L>But, only, what may po&s;&s;ibly beget</L>
<L>More <HI>Jealou&s;ie</HI> than <HI>Love:</HI> more <HI>Envy,</HI> then</L>
<L>Glory to <HI>God,</HI> or good to <HI>Hone&s;t men.</HI></L>
<L>And, he by his <HI>Refu&s;al,</HI> unto none</L>
<L>Denyeth ought, but, to him&s;elf alone;</L>
<PB N="14" REF="10">
<L>Or, that, which he doth probably believe</L>
<L>Will marre our <HI>peace,</HI> and <HI>Civil wars</HI> revive:</L>
<L>For which, if <HI>wor&s;e,</HI> he rather &s;peed than <HI>better,</HI></L>
<L>His <HI>merit</HI> is the more; his <HI>prai&s;e</HI> the greater;</L>
<L>And, they, who &s;hall the le&s;&s;e <HI>affection</HI> &s;how him,</L>
<L>For <HI>that,</HI> deny the <HI>duty</HI> which they owe him.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What, if he thinks the changing of his <HI>Title,</HI></L>
<L>Implies a <HI>levitie,</HI> which doth but little</L>
<L>Be&s;eeme a <HI>Prince?</HI> and may occa&s;ion too</L>
<L>A <HI>quarrell,</HI> which might all his work undo?</L>
<L>Or propagate a mi&s;chievous effect,</L>
<L>To their de&s;truction whom he &s;hould protect?</L>
<L>Is he not bound in <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> to beware</L>
<L>Of &s;uch a <HI>Title,</HI> who&s;oe're they are</L>
<L>That &s;hall propo&s;e it? &s;hould he not betray</L>
<L>His <HI>Tru&s;t,</HI> by giving ea&s;ily away</L>
<L>That <HI>earne&s;t</HI> of <HI>Protection,</HI> which doth &s;eem</L>
<L>To be, by <HI>God,</HI> conferred upon him</L>
<L>For &s;afeguard of his <HI>Saints?</HI> or, might there not</L>
<L>Some blemi&s;h be in <HI>Reputation</HI> got,</L>
<L>Relating to that <HI>Stile?</HI> if, he, the &s;ame</L>
<L>Should change for <HI>that,</HI> by which their <HI>bondage</HI> came?</L>
<L>And can he think it nothing <HI>&s;ignifies,</HI></L>
<L>That, <HI>they,</HI> who are his greate&s;t <HI>Enemies</HI></L>
<L>Do more rejoyce, in that which was intended,</L>
<L>Then <HI>they,</HI> by whom, he hath been be&s;t befriended?</L>
<L>If, likewi&s;e, with a &s;erious heed, he &s;hall</L>
<L>Be plea&s;ed to con&s;ider therewithall,</L>
<L>What kind of <HI>men,</HI> the <HI>greate&s;t number</HI> are</L>
<L>Who, for this <HI>change</HI> mo&s;t zealous do appear;</L>
<L>What <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> it is, which they would &s;ave:</L>
<L>What <HI>Principles,</HI> the mo&s;t among them have;</L>
<L>Can he &s;uppo&s;e, more &s;afe for him, it were</L>
<L>To <HI>the&s;e,</HI> then to his <HI>be&s;t friends,</HI> to adhere?</L>
<PB N="15" REF="10">
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Conver&s;ations,</HI> are to him well known?</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>cau&s;e</HI> is his? Who&s;e <HI>principles</HI> his owne?</L>
<L>Since, <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> doth incline him, to the <HI>la&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> too, the ballance that way ca&s;t?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That <HI>Title,</HI> which hath hitherto been own'd,</L>
<L>With <HI>victories</HI> and <HI>ble&s;&s;ings,</HI> hath been crown'd;</L>
<L>It, now, hath rendered it <HI>&s;elfe</HI> exempt</L>
<L>For ever, from that unde&s;erv'd <HI>contempt</HI></L>
<L>Which <HI>novelty</HI> occa&s;ion'd; and, throughout</L>
<L>The <HI>World,</HI> is with much <HI>honour</HI> &s;pread about.</L>
<L>He, thereby had a <HI>pow'r,</HI> which lately &s;hook</L>
<L>The wals of <HI>Babel;</HI> and with terror &s;trooke</L>
<L>His <HI>proude&s;t foes;</HI> and, is it vani&s;h'd, now,</L>
<L>We neither know <HI>when</HI> or by <HI>what,</HI> or <HI>how?</HI></L>
<L>Except it be, for thankle&s;ly de&s;pi&s;ing</L>
<L>So <HI>prosperous a Stile,</HI> and idolizing</L>
<L>Of <HI>that,</HI> which forced us, in our <HI>affliction</HI></L>
<L>To take up that we have, for our <HI>protection.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When, <HI>I&s;rael</HI> would be <HI>King-rid,</HI> God, to &s;hew</L>
<L>His anger, and, what thereon would en&s;ue,</L>
<L>De&s;troy'd in <HI>Harve&s;t time,</HI> their corne with &s;howers;</L>
<L>And at the <HI>Seed-time,</HI> he did hazzard ours</L>
<L>By extream <HI>Drought;</HI> untill that was deny'd</L>
<L>Which is propos'd; and, then, forthwith &s;uppli'de</L>
<L>Our pre&s;ent <HI>want:</HI> perhaps, to make us &s;eek</L>
<L>His <HI>will,</HI> and, know our <HI>&s;inne,</HI> and theirs alike:</L>
<L>Le&s;t, in his <HI>wrath,</HI> he give us what we crave,</L>
<L>And take away, what he in <HI>mercy</HI> gave.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What will en&s;ue, by &s;etling <HI>King&s;hip</HI> here,</L>
<L>For <HI>common good,</HI> it doth not yet appeare:</L>
<L>Some, doe pretend, it render will, to us,</L>
<L>Our <HI>laws</HI> more fixt, and much more vigorous,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, by <HI>Kings,</HI> they were to us deriv'd,</L>
<L>And confirmation in their name receiv'd.</L>
<PB N="16" REF="11">
<L>But, wherefore, may not all that, which relates</L>
<L>To <HI>King,</HI> or <HI>People, Freedoms,</HI> or <HI>E&s;tates</HI></L>
<L>In our <HI>preceding Laws,</HI> be &s;o Compacted</L>
<L>Into one <HI>Statute,</HI> now to be <HI>Enacted,</HI></L>
<L>That, they may by his <HI>Highne&s;&s;es</HI> a&s;&s;ent,</L>
<L>Be made as firm, as this new <HI>In&s;trument,</HI></L>
<L>By our <HI>Protector,</HI> who, mu&s;t be the <HI>Stone</HI></L>
<L>Fir&s;t laid, to build their <HI>new fram'd work upon?</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Why may not <HI>He,</HI> who now is our <HI>Supream,</HI></L>
<L>Make both unto <HI>Him&s;elf,</HI> and unto <HI>them</HI></L>
<L>Who ask it of him, all our <HI>Laws</HI> forepa&s;t</L>
<L>As <HI>U&s;eful,</HI> and as <HI>Binding,</HI> as this <HI>La&s;t?</HI></L>
<L>Why may not <HI>He,</HI> who is a <HI>Conquerer</HI></L>
<L>For Us, and did for us, receive his <HI>Pow'r</HI></L>
<L>Confirm our <HI>Laws,</HI> or any other thing,</L>
<L>(As &s;trongly, as if he were call'd a <HI>King</HI>)</L>
<L>To <HI>Us,</HI> and to <HI>Him&s;elf,</HI> with their con&s;ent,</L>
<L>Who by his <HI>Pow'r,</HI> are made a <HI>Parlament?</HI></L>
<L>Why, &s;hould it unto him, ought le&s;s afford,</L>
<L>Than to all <HI>Princes,</HI> rai&s;ed by the <HI>Sword?</HI></L>
<L>No man, can ju&s;tly, that to him denay.</L>
<L>For, <HI>Conque&s;t</HI> is the ordinary way,</L>
<L>Whereby, God changeth <HI>Governments,</HI> and flings</L>
<L>From off their <HI>Thrones,</HI> great <HI>Emperors</HI> and <HI>Kings.</HI></L>
<L>And 'tis <HI>Gods mercy,</HI> not our own de&s;ert,</L>
<L>Which, hitherto, hath &s;o inclin'd his heart,</L>
<L>That, though he hath been &s;traightned more than a|ny,</L>
<L>His <HI>Arbitrary actings</HI> were not many;</L>
<L>Nor, till they were con&s;train'd by &s;ome di&s;tre&s;s,</L>
<L>For pre&s;ervation of the <HI>Publick Peace.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some, think it will <HI>Secure</HI> his <HI>Per&s;on</HI> more,</L>
<L>And, <HI>Charge</HI> the <HI>People</HI> le&s;s, than heretofore,</L>
<L>To &s;tile him <HI>King.</HI> But, the&s;e men much mi&s;take,</L>
<L>And, will perceive they <HI>Dream,</HI> when they awake:</L>
<PB N="17" REF="11">
<L>For, can we think, when he away hath thrown</L>
<L>A <HI>Title,</HI> which <HI>God</HI> gave to be his own,</L>
<L>Without a <HI>Rival,</HI> that, a&s;&s;ume he may</L>
<L>A <HI>Name,</HI> whereto another claim doth lay,</L>
<L>With greater <HI>Safety?</HI> Is there &s;ome new <HI>charm,</HI></L>
<L>Infus'd into that <HI>word,</HI> to guard from harm?</L>
<L>Or, will it make the <HI>Royali&s;ts</HI> more true</L>
<L>To him, becau&s;e, he takes what they think due,</L>
<L>Unto another? Quite de&s;ert the <HI>Lord,</HI></L>
<L>They own'd, and, do their homage to a <HI>word?</HI></L>
<L>And, (where they hated) <HI>Loyaltie</HI> profe&s;s</L>
<L>Rather, for doing <HI>More wrong,</HI> than for le&s;s?</L>
<L>So fooli&s;h can we think them, as, to prize</L>
<L>A <HI>Complement,</HI> which nothing &s;ignifies,</L>
<L>Save, either &s;ome poor <HI>Hope,</HI> or vain <HI>De&s;ire</HI></L>
<L>To be in <HI>Us,</HI> which may advance them higher,</L>
<L>In tho&s;e <HI>Re&s;olves,</HI> which they had heretofore?</L>
<L>And, make our <HI>Dangers</HI> no whit <HI>Le&s;s,</HI> but <HI>more?</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, when they do perceive our <HI>Giddine&s;s,</HI></L>
<L>Our <HI>falling from,</HI> tho&s;e things we did profe&s;s,</L>
<L>Our doating on tho&s;e <HI>Bawbles,</HI> which we &s;eem'd</L>
<L>Not much (a while ago) to have e&s;teem'd,</L>
<L>Our <HI>Taking up,</HI> what we had <HI>Thrown away,</HI></L>
<L>Our &s;leighting that, to <HI>Morrow,</HI> which this day</L>
<L>We made a Law; and that our <HI>Prote&s;tations,</HI></L>
<L>Were for the mo&s;t part, but <HI>Di&s;&s;imulations;</HI></L>
<L>Thence, they will take occa&s;ion to conclude</L>
<L>That, we have, <HI>all along,</HI> &s;uch <HI>Ends</HI> pur&s;ude</L>
<L>As they have had: And, that, what ere to &s;eem</L>
<L>We have made <HI>Shew,</HI> we are ju&s;t like to <HI>Them.</HI></L>
<L>That, we did <HI>wade</HI> and <HI>&s;wim,</HI> through <HI>&s;treams</HI> of blood,</L>
<L>Not to accompli&s;h what is <HI>Just</HI> and <HI>Good;</HI></L>
<L>But, to obtain our <HI>Lu&s;ts:</HI> That, we have &s;ought</L>
<L>By <HI>Policy,</HI> and by our <HI>Battails</HI> fought,</L>
<PB N="18" REF="12">
<L>Again&s;t <HI>Oppo&s;ers;</HI> not &s;o much to &s;ave</L>
<L>Our <HI>Liberties,</HI> as, others to <HI>in&s;lave:</HI></L>
<L>That, our <HI>contests,</HI> were not for <HI>God,</HI> or, for</L>
<L>Our <HI>Country;</HI> but, (which <HI>Goodmen</HI> will abhor</L>
<L>To think upon) our <HI>owne &s;elves,</HI> to inve&s;t</L>
<L>With, that, which was by other men po&s;&s;e&s;t:</L>
<L>That, being <HI>Hypocrites,</HI> in all we did,</L>
<L>With <HI>Cloaks of &s;anctity,</HI> the &s;ame we hid,</L>
<L>Thereby, to draw in tho&s;e who were &s;incere,</L>
<L>To be deceiv'd, in what we made appear.</L>
<L>(Ev'n to the ruine, of their <HI>Children, Wives,</HI></L>
<L>Their <HI>Peace,</HI> their <HI>Freedoms,</HI> their <HI>Estates,</HI> their <HI>Lives</HI>)</L>
<L>That, we might get <HI>high Titles,</HI> large <HI>Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Power</HI> and <HI>Prerogatives,</HI> by their <HI>oppre&s;&s;ions,</HI></L>
<L>And, that in&s;tead of &s;etting <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> upon</L>
<L>His <HI>Throne,</HI> we, might in&s;tall our <HI>&s;elves</HI> thereon.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>This will be thought:</HI> And, <HI>they</HI> who are our <HI>Foes,</HI></L>
<L>Will peradventure, thereupon &s;uppo&s;e</L>
<L>That <HI>God</HI> is not <HI>among us,</HI> as they fear'd;</L>
<L>Nor <HI>for us,</HI> as it formerly appear'd;</L>
<L>And, thence take courage, to begin again</L>
<L><HI>That,</HI> which they hitherto pur&s;u'd in vain.</L>
<L>And, &s;uch will be the <HI>&s;afety,</HI> which your <HI>King</HI></L>
<L>Unto <HI>Him&s;elf,</HI> and <HI>us,</HI> is like to bring.</L>
<L>Good God! how are they chang'd? how &s;tupifi'd?</L>
<L>By whom the&s;e dangers are not yet e&s;pi'd?</L>
<L>How blind, doth <HI>&s;elfne&s;s,</HI> make us quickly grow,</L>
<L>In that, which might prevent <HI>&s;elfe-overthrow?</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Will <HI>King&s;hip,</HI> make him &s;afer than he was?</L>
<L>How may that be? how can it come to pa&s;s?</L>
<L>That <HI>Title,</HI> not much more then eight years pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Could not pre&s;erve his <HI>Head,</HI> who reigned la&s;t.</L>
<L>No, not pre&s;erve him, from the <HI>dreadfull fate,</HI></L>
<L>Of dying on a <HI>Scaffold,</HI> at his gate:</L>
<PB N="19" REF="12">
<L>And, if all things be weighed well together</L>
<L>That <HI>Stile,</HI> as po&s;&s;ibly may <HI>bring</HI> him thither,</L>
<L>Who ruleth now; yea, and a <HI>tragical</HI></L>
<L>Effect therewith, perhaps, upon us all,</L>
<L>Before the malice of our <HI>foes</HI> is ended,</L>
<L>How &s;afe &s;oe're, to be, it is pretended.</L>
<L>We may perceive, (unle&s;&s;e we will de&s;pi&s;e,</L>
<L>The <HI>Light within us,</HI> and feel up our eyes,)</L>
<L>There is no <HI>likelyheod,</HI> it will abate</L>
<L>Their <HI>fury,</HI> who pur&s;ue us with their <HI>hate;</HI></L>
<L>But, &s;o increa&s;e it, that it will <HI>increa&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>dangers,</HI> which we dream, it will make <HI>le&s;&s;e:</HI></L>
<L>Yea, make <HI>Him,</HI> who&s;e <HI>&s;afe being</HI> it pretends,</L>
<L>Vn&s;afe among tho&s;e, who have been his <HI>Friends,</HI></L>
<L>And, <HI>them</HI> among <HI>them&s;elves:</HI> It will go near,</L>
<L>To make men of <HI>them&s;elves,</HI> to &s;tand in fear.</L>
<L>It will increa&s;e <HI>&s;u&s;pitions,</HI> till th'effect</L>
<L>Grows wor&s;e, than many of us can &s;u&s;pect:</L>
<L><HI>Divide,</HI> and <HI>&s;ubdivide,</HI> till there be nought</L>
<L>Left po&s;&s;ible to be <HI>&s;aid, done,</HI> or <HI>thought;</HI></L>
<L>To cure the <HI>mi&s;chieves,</HI> which will be effected;</L>
<L>(And are by &s;ome, both <HI>hop'd for,</HI> and <HI>projected;</HI>)</L>
<L>Except in <HI>mercy, He,</HI> that heretofore</L>
<L>Hath oft &s;o done; &s;hall (plea&s;ed be) once more,</L>
<L>To draw forth an <HI>Expedient,</HI> from our <HI>failing,</HI></L>
<L>Which, will for our advantage, be <HI>prevailing.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>More might be &s;aid; but, ought more to expre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Would be in vain to tho&s;e, who cannot gue&s;&s;e</L>
<L>The re&s;t by this. And, yet, becau&s;e the <HI>rea&s;on,</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>&s;aving charges,</HI> comes in &s;uch a <HI>&s;ea&s;on,</HI></L>
<L>As gives it <HI>weight;</HI> Let us examine, whether</L>
<L>The <HI>Sea&s;on,</HI> and the <HI>thrift,</HI> agree together,</L>
<L>Le&s;t, in that <HI>frugal humour</HI> we may die,</L>
<L>And, gain an <HI>Epitaph,</HI> like this, thereby:</L>
</LG>
<PB N="20" REF="13">
<LG>
<L><HI>Here, lies interr'd the Mi&s;er, Father</HI> Sparges,</L>
<L><HI>Who might have liv'd: but died to &s;ave charges.</HI></L>
<L>I find your <HI>Thrift,</HI> you, think we might <HI>disband</HI></L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Armies,</HI> which are quarter'd through this Land,</L>
<L>If our <HI>Protector</HI> were proclaim'd a <HI>King.</HI></L>
<L>It may be &s;o; and I, the &s;elf &s;ame thing</L>
<L>Should al&s;o think; if I con&s;idered not,</L>
<L>We might thereby, as good as <HI>Cut our throat.</HI></L>
<L>Is any man &s;o voyd of <HI>Common &s;en&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>As, not to &s;ee what might re&s;ult from thence?</L>
<L>May we not &s;ave the charge of paying <HI>One,</HI></L>
<L>And, let <HI>Two Armies</HI> in, when that is gone,</L>
<L>To pay <HI>them&s;elves,</HI> until at la&s;t, they &s;hall</L>
<L>In <HI>Contributions,</HI> and in <HI>Pay</HI> have all?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You fear, perhaps, that by the <HI>Souldierie</HI></L>
<L>Our <HI>Laws,</HI> our <HI>Freedoms,</HI> and <HI>Proprietie</HI></L>
<L>May be de&s;troy'd, if long imbodied here;</L>
<L>And, cau&s;e enough there may be of that fear:</L>
<L>But, will a <HI>King,</HI> prevent it? may not we</L>
<L>Another way as much oppre&s;&s;ed be,</L>
<L>By &s;ome, who for our <HI>Liberties</HI> pretend</L>
<L>Yet, Cry up <HI>King&s;hip,</HI> for their <HI>private end?</HI></L>
<L>May we not &s;uffer at the <HI>Lawyers Bar,</HI></L>
<L>As much as we endured by the <HI>War,</HI></L>
<L>Through tho&s;e <HI>Formalities,</HI> which make the <HI>Laws,</HI></L>
<L>Of our mo&s;t <HI>&s;ad oppre&s;&s;ion,</HI> one chief cau&s;e?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Sword</HI> un&s;ufferably, (I confe&s;s)</L>
<L>If not well <HI>di&s;ciplin'd,</HI> will us oppre&s;s:</L>
<L>But, hitherto, it hath been in tho&s;e <HI>hands,</HI></L>
<L>Which kept it &s;erviceable in the&s;e <HI>Lands,</HI></L>
<L>With &s;o much <HI>Moderation,</HI> that no time,</L>
<L>Bears witne&s;s of the like in any <HI>Clime:</HI></L>
<L>And, though an In&s;olent <HI>proud Fool</HI> or twain,</L>
<L>Cau&s;e, to &s;ome few, hath given to complain,</L>
<PB N="21" REF="13">
<L>Their <HI>Arbitrary actings,</HI> were not many;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">or to the ruine, or great lo&s;s of any.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">onder, any man can &s;tand inawe</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Swords</HI> and <HI>Guns,</HI> who feels the plague of <HI>Lawe;</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">d, would not rather be devoured <HI>twice</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Lions,</HI> than once eaten up with <HI>Lice.</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ould I illu&s;trate (which, my private wrong</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">y, peradventure, force me to e're long)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">e <HI>&s;ad di&s;coveries</HI> which I have made</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ce fir&s;t that <HI>Gangreeve,</HI> I, upon me had;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> what impertinent <HI>vexatious wayes,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;tly devices, or undue <HI>delayes,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">e Suits of wronged <HI>Clients</HI> forth are &s;pun,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">re than twice <HI>twenty years,</HI> and yet not done;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> what exce&s;&s;ive <HI>Fees</HI> (twice or thrice tooke)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ithout one <HI>Line writ down,</HI> or one <HI>word spoke,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">d, at how dear a rate they &s;ometimes buy</L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ain hope,</HI> which augments their mi&s;ery;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">w, <HI>Motions, Orders,</HI> and <HI>Reports</HI> beget</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">h other, till their <HI>brood</HI> grows <HI>Infinit;</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">d, how &s;ome <HI>Regi&s;ters,</HI> put <HI>out,</HI> or <HI>in,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">o&s;e <HI>words,</HI> which may another <HI>Round</HI> begin,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">hough they who heard the <HI>Judges</HI> Order, thought</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">e <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> would thereby to an end be brought)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">u would &s;uppo&s;e (and might &s;uppo&s;e it well)</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">e <HI>Courts</HI> we toyl in, were &s;ome <HI>Rooms in Hell,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">d, that, we had impo&s;ed there on us</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">e never ending Plague of <HI>Sy&s;iphus,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">o, up a <HI>Steep hill,</HI> rowled with great pain</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Weighty Stone,</HI> which &s;till <HI>rowl'd down again.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Should I declare, how frequently our <HI>Lawes,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">e pleaded to maintain a <HI>wicked cau&s;e;</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">w rarely, <HI>good &s;ucce&s;s</HI> on him attends,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">o makes not way, by <HI>Kindred, Bribes,</HI> or <HI>Friends:</HI></L>
<PB N="22" REF="14">
<L>What <HI>hazzards</HI> he is in, to be betrai'd,</L>
<L>By them, for who&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;tance, he hath paid?</L>
<L>And, then, how <HI>far about,</HI> they make him run</L>
<L>E're they will &s;uffer him to be <HI>undone,</HI></L>
<L>You, would not greatly fear (no not at all)</L>
<L><HI>Courts-martial,</HI> or a <HI>Major Generall,</HI></L>
<L>But, rather, fear to fall into their <HI>claws,</HI></L>
<L>Who, to mens ruine, turne our <HI>whol&s;ome Laws,</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>practi&s;e,</HI> being <HI>regulated,</HI> might</L>
<L>Pre&s;erve our <HI>private</HI> and our <HI>publick Right:</HI></L>
<L>For, that, our <HI>Laws</HI> are good, confe&s;&s;e I do,</L>
<L>And, that, we have &s;ome <HI>hone&s;t Lawyers,</HI> too.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No men have more oppre&s;&s;ed been of late</L>
<L><HI>This way,</HI> then, they who be&s;t have &s;erv'd this <HI>State,</HI></L>
<L>And to &s;upport it, did them&s;elves expo&s;e</L>
<L>To <HI>hazzards,</HI> by accepting what our <HI>Foes</HI></L>
<L>Had <HI>forfeited,</HI> to be therewith repay'd,</L>
<L>When, others, of &s;uch <HI>bargains</HI> were afraid:</L>
<L>For, if it were ob&s;erv'd, how they have &s;leighted</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Acts of Parlament,</HI> which, us invited</L>
<L>Vpon the <HI>Publick credit,</HI> to lay forth</L>
<L>Our &s;elves, for <HI>Titles</HI> of &s;uch little worth</L>
<L>In mo&s;t mens value, that, but few or none</L>
<L>Will take thereof, <HI>ten pounds,</HI> in <HI>pledg</HI> for <HI>one;</HI></L>
<L>It would appear, that, wee, among the re&s;t</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e by them griev'd, have been mo&s;t oppre&s;t.</L>
<L>For my own part, I, now <HI>five years</HI> together,</L>
<L>Have &s;ought for <HI>Justice,</HI> and can yet get neither</L>
<L>My <HI>Land</HI> nor <HI>Money:</HI> though by further co&s;t,</L>
<L>A <HI>thou&s;and pounds</HI> are added to what's lo&s;t;</L>
<L>Nor whither, for <HI>redre&s;s</HI> I may retire,</L>
<L>Do I yet know; nor where, I can <HI>enquire:</HI></L>
<L>And, &s;hould I in each <HI>circumstance,</HI> declare</L>
<L>My wrongs thereby, and what <HI>effects</HI> they are</L>
<PB N="23" REF="14">
<L>Which thence have followed you would &s;ay, the <HI>&s;word</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">erewith compared, <HI>Mercies</HI> did afford;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">d, that, it more to our vexation tends,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> be de&s;troyed by our <HI>&s;eeming-friends,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ith lingring torments; then, with one great <HI>blow,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">be made <HI>&s;en&s;le&s;s,</HI> by an <HI>open Foe.</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">d, therefore, when I have con&s;idered well</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">hat I (and many moe) in this kind feel,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">re conclude, that if no cour&s;e be found,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">hereby, that <HI>Justice,</HI> may be here inthron'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">hich will redre&s;s the&s;e <HI>wrongs</HI> (and tho&s;e that lye</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">hou&s;ands of <HI>Petitions</HI> hurled by,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ithout regard) the <HI>&s;word,</HI> will act <HI>once more;</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">d, prove (I fear) more <HI>&s;harpe</HI> than heretofore,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">annag'd by a <HI>King;</HI> which, both to <HI>us,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">d to <HI>him&s;elf,</HI> will now be <HI>ominous.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When we have made a <HI>King,</HI> which, will inlarge</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">e <HI>common burthen,</HI> by a further charge,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">d added to the <HI>multitudes</HI> of tho&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ich now are <HI>known, new bands,</HI> of <HI>bo&s;ome foes,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">o, mad with <HI>vengeance,</HI> and with di&s;content,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ll any way, their bruti&s;h <HI>pa&s;&s;ions</HI> vent;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ll it be <HI>thriftine&s;s,</HI> the charge to &s;pare</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">t, &s;hould for &s;uch a time, a <HI>guard</HI> prepare?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">eed, they few <HI>good pennyworths</HI> afford,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">o mea&s;ure all things, by the <HI>Pike</HI> and <HI>Sword;</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">d none of us, I think, could well abide</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Suits</HI> &s;hould in a <HI>Martial Court</HI> be tri'd;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">r, where they mannag'd are, till we could get</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">re <HI>expedition,</HI> than we can have yet,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">h le&s;s <HI>expence</HI>) but, better &s;ure it were,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;pend a little quantity of <HI>tarre</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">en lo&s;e a <HI>Hog;</HI> and, to be &s;ome while willing</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;aving of a <HI>Pound,</HI> to pay a <HI>Shilling.</HI></L>
<PB N="24" REF="15">
<L><HI>Hard things,</HI> in great <HI>&s;traights,</HI> mu&s;t be undergone</L>
<L><HI>Offen&s;ive guards,</HI> are better much than <HI>none.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Are you a&s;leep?</HI> and, &s;ee you not already</L>
<L>That, being in our <HI>Purpo&s;es</HI> un&s;teady,</L>
<L>Makes <HI>Bees,</HI> as well as <HI>Wa&s;ps,</HI> to <HI>Buz</HI> and <HI>Humme,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;hew their <HI>Stings,</HI> portending what will come</L>
<L>Do not you hear what's <HI>murmur'd,</HI> as among</L>
<L>The <HI>People,</HI> to and fro, you pa&s;s along?</L>
<L>And, <HI>know you not,</HI> that, what is voyc'd abroad</L>
<L>By <HI>them,</HI> is otherwhile, the <HI>Voyce of God?</HI></L>
<L>Then, <HI>know it now;</HI> le&s;t, &s;hortly, that be &s;poke</L>
<L>Which, when once &s;aid, <HI>he never will revoke:</HI></L>
<L>And, though you &s;leight the <HI>Scriblings of my Pen,</HI></L>
<L>Learn wi&s;dome, from your prudent <HI>Hu&s;band-men.</HI></L>
<L>Doth any &s;ober <HI>Countrey Fellow,</HI> judge</L>
<L>He &s;aveth ought, by pulling up his <HI>hedge</HI></L>
<L>Before his <HI>Corn</HI> be hous'd, to leave (the while</L>
<L>He therewith warms him&s;elf) his <HI>Crop</HI> to &s;poile?</L>
<L>Or, put away his <HI>Dogs,</HI> that were imploy'd</L>
<L>To guard the <HI>Sheep,</HI> till <HI>Wolves</HI> are quite de&s;troy'd?</L>
<L><HI>Con&s;ider the&s;e things;</HI> And, by the&s;e conceive</L>
<L>What <HI>Prudence</HI> doth obliege us to believe</L>
<L>Of all tho&s;e other <HI>Arguments,</HI> you bring</L>
<L>To make us change <HI>Protector</HI> into <HI>King;</HI></L>
<L>Or, to di&s;arm the&s;e <HI>Nations,</HI> till we &s;ee</L>
<L>This <HI>Common-wealth</HI> &s;hall better &s;etled bee.</L>
<L>But, 'tis the <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> of a <HI>Parlament,</HI></L>
<L>Which to our <HI>Prince,</HI> a <HI>King&s;hip</HI> doth pre&s;ent.</L>
<L>True; And, it is the <HI>Rea&s;on of the Prince,</HI></L>
<L>(Yea, and his <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> too) which takes <HI>offence</HI></L>
<L>At what is <HI>offer'd;</HI> and 'tis not a <HI>ca&s;e</HI></L>
<L>As yet decided, whether &s;hould give place.</L>
<L>My <HI>Private Rea&s;ons,</HI> they might over&s;way,</L>
<L>And, though 'twere not <HI>convinc'd,</HI> I mu&s;t obey,</L>
<PB N="25" REF="15">
<L>Or <HI>Suffer:</HI> And thus for my <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> too</L>
<L>It mu&s;t be, in things, which I cannot <HI>doe.</HI></L>
<L>But &s;ure, his <HI>Highne&s;s</HI> (if it may be judg'd</L>
<L>By <HI>private men</HI>) is much more <HI>Privileg'd:</HI></L>
<L>For, he whom <HI>God</HI> hath <HI>Rai&s;ed up,</HI> or <HI>Sent</HI></L>
<L>To lay the <HI>Ground-work</HI> of a <HI>Government,</HI></L>
<L>Is with a <HI>Spirit,</HI> in all likelyhood</L>
<L>By him who rais'd him, for that <HI>work</HI> indow'd;</L>
<L>Yea peradventure, he is qualifide</L>
<L>To that <HI>End,</HI> more than <HI>all men el&s;e be&s;ide,</HI></L>
<L>As will appear (though this to &s;ome &s;eem &s;trange)</L>
<L>If we look back on every former <HI>change;</HI></L>
<L>And when to new <HI>Works, GOD</HI> doth <HI>Princes</HI> call,</L>
<L>What <HI>Spirits,</HI> them he furni&s;hes withall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Both <HI>Parlaments,</HI> and <HI>Councels general,</HI></L>
<L>Do many times into great errors fall;</L>
<L>And for their <HI>Owne,</HI> or for the <HI>Peoples Sin</HI></L>
<L>(Or for &s;ome <HI>other cau&s;es</HI>) oft have been</L>
<L>De&s;erted by their <HI>Guide;</HI> that, men may know</L>
<L>Their <HI>Weal,</HI> from their <HI>Joint wi&s;dome,</HI> doth not flow.</L>
<L>When <HI>God</HI> will prove a <HI>People,</HI> or a <HI>Prince,</HI></L>
<L>It mu&s;t, by &s;omewhat, likely to <HI>convince,</HI></L>
<L>Attempted be: The <HI>Spirit,</HI> to be tride,</L>
<L>In &s;omewhat, mu&s;t <HI>imbodied</HI> abide</L>
<L>That's <HI>venerable:</HI> el&s;e, no <HI>Approbation</HI></L>
<L>Can thereon follow, worth Con&s;ideration.</L>
<L>A <HI>Prophet,</HI> by a <HI>Prophet</HI> was deceiv'd;</L>
<L>And yet, was therefore of his <HI>life</HI> bereav'd.</L>
<L>It was ev'n by tho&s;e men who &s;eated were</L>
<L>In <HI>Mo&s;es chair,</HI> (and whom <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> bad them hear)</L>
<L>Who did &s;o mi&s;advi&s;e them, that, they cri'd</L>
<L>To have the <HI>King of glory</HI> crucifi'd.</L>
<L>Yet, they have been <HI>accur&s;ed</HI> till this day,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, they did not as well <HI>try,</HI> and <HI>weigh,</HI></L>
<PB N="26" REF="16">
<L><HI>As hear</HI> their <HI>coun&s;ell;</HI> having, &s;o to do,</L>
<L>A <HI>rule of Faith,</HI> and <HI>Light within</HI> them, too.</L>
<L>The <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> therefore, of a <HI>Parlament,</HI></L>
<L>May be demurr'd upon, though it pre&s;ent</L>
<L><HI>A Kingdome:</HI> and, if any man may be</L>
<L>Thus <HI>privileg'd,</HI> then, no man more than he</L>
<L>Whom, it now mo&s;t concerneth; and, who, mu&s;t</L>
<L>Give an accompt, for what he hath in <HI>tru&s;t.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, there is &s;omething, that per&s;wades my heart,</L>
<L>This <HI>Parlament,</HI> in acting of their part</L>
<L>Hath not alone, done that which <HI>providence</HI></L>
<L>Will make to be, at la&s;t, without offence;</L>
<L>But, &s;erviceable al&s;o to that end.</L>
<L>Which, <HI>God,</HI> and our <HI>Protector,</HI> did intend:</L>
<L>Or, that they will, at lea&s;t wi&s;e, have a care</L>
<L>That nothing &s;hall be urged to in&s;nare</L>
<L>His <HI>Con&s;cience;</HI> or, be further on him pre&s;t</L>
<L>Then &s;o far, as the <HI>publick intere&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>his,</HI> it may advance: For, the&s;e are <HI>gifts</HI></L>
<L>That often have put many to <HI>hard &s;hifts</HI></L>
<L>To get them; but, till now I ne'r did know</L>
<L><HI>A Prince,</HI> that might not &s;uch a <HI>gift</HI> forego</L>
<L>VVithout <HI>offence;</HI> or, that a <HI>Conquerour,</HI></L>
<L>To chu&s;e his <HI>Title</HI> had not alwayes power.</L>
<L>Nor can I think, that, he did &s;o di&s;po&s;e</L>
<L>Of his <HI>whole pow'r,</HI> when he impowred tho&s;e</L>
<L>For his <HI>a&s;&s;i&s;tance,</HI> that, <HI>him&s;elf</HI> he left</L>
<L>But as a <HI>Cypher,</HI> of all <HI>pow'r</HI> bereft:</L>
<L>Ev'n of <HI>enablement,</HI> by his <HI>negation,</HI></L>
<L>For that, which tendeth to the pre&s;ervation</L>
<L>Of his own <HI>con&s;cience:</HI> and, of meanes to do</L>
<L><HI>That,</HI> which the <HI>Law of Nature,</HI> binds him to:</L>
<L>For, their <HI>Petition,</HI> &s;eemeth to imply</L>
<L>That, &s;omewhat, which they aske he may deny.</L>
<PB N="27" REF="16">
<L>And <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> &s;ayes, that none &s;hould be confin'd</L>
<L>From <HI>Powr,</HI> to doe the work to him enjoyn'd;</L>
<L>Which, he would want, if of a <HI>Negative</HI></L>
<L>In &s;uch like things as this, they him deprive.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I mu&s;t confe&s;s, I &s;tagger'd am, well neer,</L>
<L>And almo&s;t overawed with a fear</L>
<L>Of medling any further in this <HI>Point,</HI></L>
<L>Le&s;t, I, may bring things farther out of <HI>joynt</HI></L>
<L>That &s;tand <HI>awry:</HI> for, I am not a &s;tranger</L>
<L>To tho&s;e <HI>Concernments</HI> which it may endanger,</L>
<L>If, I, to common view, &s;hould bring out that</L>
<L>Which is conceiv'd a <HI>My&s;terie of State;</HI></L>
<L>Or, &s;hould intrench upon the <HI>Priviledges</HI></L>
<L>Which, due to <HI>Parliaments,</HI> this <HI>Nation</HI> judges:</L>
<L>Nor am I ignorant, what might to me</L>
<L>Thereby befall, &s;hould I &s;u&s;pected be,</L>
<L>(As it is &s;omewhat probable I may)</L>
<L>For <HI>Arbitrary actings,</HI> to make way</L>
<L>Beyond due <HI>Limits</HI> (which, I doe abhor</L>
<L>With all my <HI>&s;oul,</HI> to be a pleader for.)</L>
<L>Yet, I were fal&s;e to <HI>truth,</HI> &s;hould I not &s;hew</L>
<L>What <HI>Tools</HI> are to his undertakings due,</L>
<L>Who mu&s;t &s;ecure our <HI>Peace</HI> (becau&s;e he may</L>
<L>Make u&s;e of them perhaps another way.)</L>
<L>The <HI>Drunkard</HI> &s;inneth by exce&s;s of <HI>Wine,</HI></L>
<L>Yet, we allow the planting of the <HI>Vine;</HI></L>
<L>And, I conceive it lawfull to expre&s;s</L>
<L>That, which may <HI>publique injuries</HI> redre&s;s,</L>
<L>Although it may occa&s;ion &s;ome <HI>offence,</HI></L>
<L>Which is of an <HI>inferiour con&s;equence.</HI></L>
<L>I know, what to a <HI>Parliament</HI> hath been</L>
<L>A&s;crib'd; and, I have <HI>felt,</HI> as well as <HI>&s;een</HI></L>
<L>What <HI>powr</HI> it hath, and what that <HI>powr</HI> may do,</L>
<L>If, that exorbitance belongs thereto,</L>
<PB N="28" REF="17">
<L>Which many claim; and, which, it had obtain'd</L>
<L>Untill it was by <HI>Providence</HI> re&s;train'd.</L>
<L>It hath, to give it an <HI>enablement,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Peoples</HI> never failing <HI>Argument,</HI></L>
<L>Thereby, to make good, and oblige us to</L>
<L>What they are pleas'd we &s;hould <HI>believe,</HI> or <HI>do:</HI></L>
<L>Ev'n this, (which oft doth puzzle and becumber</L>
<L>The <HI>wi&s;e&s;t men</HI>) an <HI>Over-voting Number.</HI></L>
<L>It acts by <HI>Pre&s;idents,</HI> which, may &s;ometimes</L>
<L>Make <HI>vertues</HI> to be puni&s;hed as <HI>crimes:</HI></L>
<L>It takes a pow'r to make and unmake <HI>Trea&s;on;</HI></L>
<L>To bind and loo&s;e, as well our <HI>Faith</HI> as <HI>Rea&s;on;</HI></L>
<L>To rai&s;e, or pull down <HI>Kings;</HI> from their <HI>po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions,</HI></L>
<L>To throw men out; to puni&s;h for <HI>Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions,</HI></L>
<L>Before there have been <HI>Law,</HI> to make them &s;uch;</L>
<L>And, hath unto it &s;elf a&s;&s;um'd &s;o much,</L>
<L>That, doubtle&s;s, if there be no power in <HI>Him</HI></L>
<L>Who &s;hould be <HI>&V;mpire,</HI> betwixt <HI>us</HI> and <HI>them,</HI></L>
<L>To moderate (nor any other way</L>
<L>To qualifie) that which impo&s;e they may;</L>
<L>No <HI>&s;ingle Tyrant,</HI> now or heretofore,</L>
<L><HI>Did,</HI> or can for the <HI>future,</HI> grieve us more,</L>
<L>Or more <HI>in&s;lave,</HI> then we our &s;elves may do,</L>
<L>By means of tho&s;e whom we &s;hall tru&s;t unto:</L>
<L>Nor to &s;o <HI>many</HI> can tho&s;e <HI>wrongs</HI> extend,</L>
<L>Nor be &s;o hardly brought unto an <HI>end;</HI></L>
<L>Con&s;id'ring, that, <HI>things pre&s;ent</HI> to enjoy,</L>
<L>Some, would their own <HI>po&s;terity</HI> de&s;troy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>We have had <HI>dear experience,</HI> both, long &s;ince,</L>
<L>And lately, what <HI>effects</HI> may flow from thence,</L>
<L>If, neither in our <HI>&s;elves,</HI> nor in <HI>another,</HI></L>
<L>Nor in <HI>them</HI> and a <HI>third pow'r,</HI> joyn'd together,</L>
<L>There may be means to &s;ave from what we fear;</L>
<L>Yea, we of our be&s;t <HI>hopes</HI> deprived are,</L>
<PB N="29" REF="17">
<L>And have but leap'd (by ought that &s;ee I can)</L>
<L>Into the <HI>Fire,</HI> out of the <HI>Frying-pan:</HI></L>
<L>For, as <HI>things &s;tand,</HI> when <HI>Deputies</HI> are cho&s;e,</L>
<L>Whether, they be our <HI>faithfull friends,</HI> or <HI>foes;</HI></L>
<L>Whether, they have been <HI>well,</HI> or <HI>mi&s;-begotten;</HI></L>
<L>Whether, their <HI>Principles</HI> be &s;ound, or rotten;</L>
<L>Whether, they &s;hall be <HI>Prudent,</HI> or <HI>unwi&s;e;</HI></L>
<L>Whether, their <HI>votes</HI> be gained by <HI>&s;urprize,</HI></L>
<L>Or not; and, whether, that which they conclude</L>
<L>Be <HI>right</HI> or <HI>wrong;</HI> or, for our <HI>harm,</HI> or <HI>good,</HI></L>
<L>We have no remedy, but, mu&s;t &s;ubmit</L>
<L>To what&s;oever is adjudged fit:</L>
<L>And, not pre&s;ume to let a word be &s;poke</L>
<L>Again&s;t it, le&s;t their <HI>priviledge</HI> be broke.</L>
<L>But, &s;ure, there &s;hould &s;ome <HI>bounds</HI> be &s;et to <HI>them;</HI></L>
<L>And, I believe there is, by that <HI>Supreme</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Common law of Nature,</HI> which, in part</L>
<L>Is writ (though much defac'd) in every <HI>heart.</HI></L>
<L>Therefore, that <HI>Law</HI> I very often read,</L>
<L>And, many times, for <HI>common freedoms</HI> plead,</L>
<L>As I finde <HI>cau&s;e;</HI> and, will not be afraid</L>
<L>To plead it, when a&s;ide I &s;ee it laid,</L>
<L>Though I have <HI>blame;</HI> And, though, &s;ome wil &s;uppo&s;e</L>
<L>And &s;ay, <HI>Beyond his La&s;t, this Cobler goes.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>On that <HI>account,</HI> my <HI>Mu&s;e</HI> compels me, here</L>
<L>To treat of things that &s;eem beyond my <HI>Sphere;</HI></L>
<L>But, having for <HI>Affaires</HI> wherewith I deale</L>
<L>A <HI>Warrant</HI> in my bo&s;ome, under <HI>Seale,</HI></L>
<L>I will proceed unto the <HI>point</HI> in hand,</L>
<L>So far forth as the &s;ame I under&s;tand:</L>
<L>For, that which is in que&s;tion, differs not</L>
<L>In what may follow, from the <HI>Gordian-knot;</HI></L>
<L>And, I &s;hould grieve to &s;ee it <HI>knit</HI> &s;o fa&s;t,</L>
<L>That, by the <HI>Sword,</HI> it mu&s;t be <HI>cut</HI> at la&s;t,</L>
<PB N="30" REF="18">
<L>Or, all, thereby into a danger &s;lide,</L>
<L>If &s;till, or overlong, it be <HI>unty'd.</HI></L>
<L>I know not what this <HI>Parliament</HI> can doe,</L>
<L>Nor whether it be <HI>limited</HI> or no,</L>
<L>By him who called it: but, I believe,</L>
<L>It power with <HI>limitations</HI> did receive.</L>
<L>And, this I know; that, if there doth re&s;ide</L>
<L>A <HI>pow'r</HI> therein, to force what is <HI>deny'd,</HI></L>
<L>Maugre his <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> who the &s;ame to &s;ave</L>
<L>From violence, doth one <HI>Propo&s;all</HI> wave;</L>
<L>I, thereupon conclude, it may as well</L>
<L>Again&s;t his <HI>&s;ingle-Rea&s;on,</HI> him compell;</L>
<L>And with more &s;hew of <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> if the &s;tate</L>
<L>Of that, which is in que&s;tion, doth relate</L>
<L>To <HI>Civill things;</HI> becau&s;e, the <HI>rea&s;on</HI> &s;hown</L>
<L>Is <HI>joyntly</HI> then, the <HI>peoples</HI> and his <HI>own,</HI></L>
<L>They, being both his <HI>cho&s;en Coun&s;ellors</HI></L>
<L>For &s;uch <HI>affaires,</HI> and <HI>Deputies</HI> of theirs;</L>
<L>Who may as ju&s;tly take his <HI>powr</HI> away</L>
<L>To <HI>morrow,</HI> as his <HI>Title,</HI> on <HI>this day,</HI></L>
<L>Again&s;t his will; and, <HI>Him</HI> and <HI>His,</HI> expo&s;e</L>
<L>To all the rage and malice, of his <HI>foes.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If, from con&s;traint, his <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> be not free,</L>
<L>Sad will the <HI>con&s;equences</HI> thereof be.</L>
<L>If <HI>He,</HI> that <HI>freedom</HI> &s;hall be barred from,</L>
<L>What of our <HI>Chri&s;tian freedoms</HI> will become?</L>
<L>Who as'tis thought, have given them a power</L>
<L>Without <HI>controule,</HI> to &s;pare or to devoure,</L>
<L>As they &s;hall plea&s;e. But, &s;ure impowred thus</L>
<L>They never were by <HI>God,</HI> our <HI>Prince,</HI> or <HI>us,</HI></L>
<L>By ought which <HI>tacitly</HI> did them inve&s;t</L>
<L>With &s;uch powr; nor by any thing expre&s;t;</L>
<L>At lea&s;t <HI>de jure,</HI> though we are in <HI>Fact</HI></L>
<L>Concluded by tho&s;e <HI>Laws</HI> they &s;hall enact.</L>
</LG>
<PB N="31" REF="18">
<LG>
<L>For what&s;oere the law of <HI>God</HI> or <HI>nature,</HI></L>
<L>Confers upon the <HI>Rea&s;onable creature,</HI></L>
<L>No <HI>Tru&s;t,</HI> as <HI>Deputies</HI> of ours, have they</L>
<L>To meddle with (much le&s;s to take away)</L>
<L>Untill by tho&s;e <HI>Laws</HI> forfeited; unle&s;s</L>
<L>For <HI>Publique weale,</HI> or &s;uccours in <HI>di&s;tre&s;s,</HI></L>
<L>For <HI>common &s;afety.</HI> Nor then, have they <HI>pow'r</HI></L>
<L>O're <HI>per&s;on, freedom, goods,</HI> or ought that's our</L>
<L>In <HI>equity:</HI> unle&s;s, they al&s;o lay</L>
<L>As equally as po&s;&s;ibly they may,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>burdens</HI> upon all; le&s;t, &s;ome beare <HI>nought,</HI></L>
<L>As <HI>lately;</HI> and, &s;ome bee to <HI>ruin brought;</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e prayres, cries, and vnredre&s;&s;ed wrongs,</L>
<L>Is that which our <HI>Vn&s;etlement</HI> prolongs.</L>
<L>It wil be, therefore, our &s;ecure&s;t way,</L>
<L>The <HI>Groundworke</HI> of our <HI>Government</HI> to lay</L>
<L>Vpon &s;ome <HI>Ju&s;t Act,</HI> which may expiate</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Sinnes</HI> that have committed been of late,</L>
<L>Through our defect of <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> and <HI>Compa&s;&s;ion,</HI></L>
<L>To them who have beene faithfull to this Nation,</L>
<L>Ev'n to their owne undoing: were this done,</L>
<L>The works which now goe <HI>Backward,</HI> would <HI>goe on;</HI></L>
<L>And, <HI>God,</HI> would make us lovingly <HI>comply;</HI></L>
<L>In&s;truct us what to <HI>Grant,</HI> or to deny.</L>
<L>Till this be done, we onely &s;hall contrive</L>
<L><HI>Snares</HI> for each other; or, at be&s;t, but &s;trive</L>
<L>Like <HI>Bees</HI> in hony-<HI>potts;</HI> and, be at la&s;t,</L>
<L>De&s;troy'd by that, in which our <HI>hopes</HI> are pla&s;t.</L>
<L>Yea, till the&s;e <HI>Nations,</HI> doe &s;o con&s;titute</L>
<L>Their <HI>Parlaments,</HI> and them whom they <HI>Depute</HI></L>
<L>Obliges to <HI>fundamentals,</HI> they, &s;hall never</L>
<L>Theire <HI>Liberties</HI> enjoy; but bee for ever</L>
<L>Expo&s;d to Hazzards (which might be prevented,</L>
<L>And none be therewith iu&s;tly di&s;contented).</L>
<PB N="32" REF="19">
<L>As now things are, at every <HI>Parlament,</HI></L>
<L>May our <HI>Religion,</HI> or the <HI>Government,</HI></L>
<L>Be innovated, to our grei&s;e or &s;hame,</L>
<L>According to tho&s;e <HI>Modell,</HI> they will frame,</L>
<L>Who may by frau'd, or other manes uniu&s;t,</L>
<L>For &s;uch end's, &s;crew into our <HI>Publike tru&s;t.</HI></L>
<L>Sometimes, wee &s;hall be govern'd by a <HI>king;</HI></L>
<L>A few yeares after, by <HI>an other thing;</HI></L>
<L>Then, by <HI>a king</HI> againe; and, to all the&s;e</L>
<L>Be forced to engage, as others plea&s;e;</L>
<L>With every <HI>wind,</HI> turn'd like a Weathercock,</L>
<L>Now fa&s;t, now <HI>Loo&s;e; out Nettle and in Dock;</HI></L>
<L>Yea, and to <HI>&s;weare,</HI> till we may &s;afely &s;ay</L>
<L>And <HI>&s;weare,</HI> that, mo&s;t have <HI>&s;worn</HI> their <HI>faith</HI> away:</L>
<L>Which, to prevent, either from <HI>God,</HI> or <HI>him,</HI></L>
<L>Who, hath in all Affaires, the <HI>Pow'r Supreame</HI></L>
<L>Our help mu&s;t come; and, from a <HI>Parlament</HI></L>
<L>Which, thereunto &s;hall give a full a&s;&s;ent:</L>
<L>But, this can never be, (as I have &s;aid</L>
<L>El&s;ewhere) until the <HI>Ground-worke</HI> be new laid;</L>
<L>And, till by good and perfect <HI>Chyme&s;try,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Natures</HI> three <HI>principles, Salt, Mercury,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Sulphur,</HI> be to that ju&s;t <HI>temprature,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;uch <HI>proportion</HI> brought, as will procure</L>
<L>To govern us, a <HI>Civil-Trinity,</HI></L>
<L>Made up into a <HI>ble&s;&s;ed &V;nity,</HI></L>
<L>It &s;elf (&s;o far forth as it may be done)</L>
<L>Conforming to th' <HI>Eternall three-in-one</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Mercy.</HI> This product,</L>
<L>Our <HI>&s;elfi&s;hne&s;s,</HI> doth hitherto ob&s;truct;</L>
<L>And wil, till <HI>God,</HI> in &s;ome things, hath a <HI>choice</HI></L>
<L>By <HI>Lot,</HI> when they are pa&s;t by <HI>humane voice:</HI></L>
<L>For, much corruption that wil cure; and, then,</L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> kingdom, will begin to be with men</L>
<PB N="33" REF="19">
<L>More manife&s;t; and, no <HI>fal&s;e Chri&s;ts</HI> appeare</L>
<L>As now, and heretofore, they have done here.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, know, that when a <HI>Government</HI> con&s;i&s;ts</L>
<L>Of three <HI>E&s;tates,</HI> 't will wrong tho&s;e <HI>Intere&s;ts</HI></L>
<L>Which to a <HI>Free Republicke</HI> do pertain,</L>
<L>Unle&s;s it be provided, that, tho&s;e <HI>twain,</HI></L>
<L>Which are <HI>Superior,</HI> &s;hall de&s;cend to none</L>
<L>By <HI>Birthright:</HI> But, that, thereto ev'ry one</L>
<L>Shall be elected; and, no per&s;on bear</L>
<L>Such <HI>Place,</HI> who was not born a <HI>Commoner;</HI></L>
<L>Or, who&s;e <HI>Po&s;terity,</HI> &s;hall not return</L>
<L>To that <HI>Condition,</HI> whereto he was <HI>born.</HI></L>
<L>For, <HI>he,</HI> or <HI>his,</HI> will <HI>Tyrants</HI> be at la&s;t</L>
<L>By whom, this <HI>Propo&s;ition</HI> is tran&s;gre&s;t.</L>
<L>The&s;e things, perhaps, will come to pa&s;s in time,</L>
<L>Whereof, I &s;eem at pre&s;ent, but to dream;</L>
<L>And, peradventure, we till then, to gain</L>
<L>A <HI>Setlement,</HI> &s;hall plodd, and &s;trive in vain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Mean while, his <HI>Highne&s;s,</HI> or he, who&s;oere</L>
<L><HI>God,</HI> to the <HI>&s;upream Office</HI> doth prefer,</L>
<L>A <HI>Suffrage-negative,</HI> &s;hould have in that,</L>
<L>Which, <HI>Publicke &s;afty,</HI> doth nece&s;&s;itate</L>
<L>To be by him, or them, &s;ometime <HI>Denide:</HI></L>
<L>By no means, can he otherwi&s;e provide</L>
<L>To keep his <HI>Honor,</HI> or, tho&s;e <HI>Dues,</HI> which mu&s;t</L>
<L>Pre&s;erve him able, to perform his <HI>tru&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>Or bound them in their <HI>Orbe,</HI> who el&s;e, (as we</L>
<L>By proof have found) <HI>exorbitant</HI> may be,</L>
<L>And, like a <HI>Heard</HI> (if not well kept together)</L>
<L>When &s;ome <HI>break out,</HI> run all, they know not whether.</L>
<L>Nay, till there be a <HI>Gouvernment</HI> here fixt,</L>
<L>Things ballancing, &s;o evenly, betwixt</L>
<L><HI>Prince, Peeres,</HI> and <HI>People,</HI> that, each may &s;ub&s;i&s;t,</L>
<L>And not infringe each others <HI>Intere&s;t,</HI></L>
<PB N="34" REF="20">
<L>He, that is our <HI>Supream,</HI> mu&s;t tru&s;ted be</L>
<L>With <HI>Arbitray Power</HI> in &s;ome degree,</L>
<L>To carry on his <HI>work,</HI> and to &s;ecure</L>
<L>The <HI>whole,</HI> whil&s;t our <HI>un&s;ettlements</HI> endure:</L>
<L>And, to effect that <HI>end,</HI> God did, perchance,</L>
<L>De&s;troy the <HI>Pow'r,</HI> that <HI>was;</HI> and this advance.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Without &s;uch <HI>Pow'r</HI> a <HI>Prince</HI> cho&s;e out of <HI>Logs,</HI></L>
<L>Like that which was be&s;towed on the <HI>Frogs,</HI></L>
<L>Would be as good: <HI>Him,</HI> we might deal with all</L>
<L>As we &s;hould plea&s;e; and any thing might call,</L>
<L>And leap about him; till a&s;ham'd we be</L>
<L>Of &s;uch a <HI>Block,</HI> and chu&s;e a wor&s;e then he.</L>
<L>This <HI>Parlament,</HI> hath done what <HI>them became</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>offrong;</HI> he, hath al&s;o done the &s;ame</L>
<L>In his <HI>refu&s;al:</HI> And, &s;till to adhere</L>
<L>To that whereof re&s;olv'd he doth appear,</L>
<L>Shall do <HI>as well,</HI> until <HI>that</HI> be removed</L>
<L>Which gives <HI>Offence,</HI> or, <HI>Inoffen&s;ive</HI> proved:</L>
<L>And &s;hould he be compelled to accept</L>
<L>Till that be done, <HI>Decorum</HI> were not kept.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>They therefore, as I hope, will qualify</L>
<L>That, which he is inforced to <HI>deny,</HI></L>
<L>(And thereby &s;ave the <HI>labour</HI> and the <HI>Co&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>VVhich, el&s;e, would in an <HI>evil time</HI> be lo&s;t)</L>
<L>Rather then force him to an <HI>acceptation</HI></L>
<L>Of that which would be an abomination</L>
<L>Both to <HI>him&s;elf</HI> and <HI>others:</HI> VVhich would prove</L>
<L>No Symptome of their <HI>Piety</HI> or <HI>Love:</HI></L>
<L>For, &s;hould he be compelled unto that</L>
<L>VVhich mo&s;t of his <HI>be&s;t Friends</HI> abominate,</L>
<L>And, his own <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> cheks at; It would give</L>
<L><HI>A Kingdom,</HI> which no wi&s;e man would receive;</L>
<L>And as it were inthrone him, (&s;hall I tell</L>
<L>In plain termes where?) ev'n, in the Depths of <HI>Hell,</HI></L>
<PB N="35" REF="20">
<L>Within who&s;e cur&s;ed bounds, is comprehended</L>
<L><HI>A wounded con&s;cience,</HI> wilfully offended.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It is confe&s;t, the Title of a <HI>King</HI></L>
<L>Is <HI>honorable,</HI> and may profit bring</L>
<L>To <HI>&s;ome who would con&s;erat;</HI> But, to <HI>Him</HI></L>
<L>No benefit (yea, and perhaps, to <HI>Them</HI></L>
<L>At la&s;t as little) For, if he grow le&s;s</L>
<L>In <HI>Pow'r,</HI> that <HI>Title,</HI> will in his di&s;tre&s;s</L>
<L>Not &s;o much <HI>help</HI> as <HI>hinder:</HI> And, then, <HI>they</HI></L>
<L>Who gave it, will, fir&s;t, take the &s;ame away:</L>
<L>Yea, if on <HI>that &s;ide</HI> an advantage grow,</L>
<L>They will be&s;tow it on his <HI>greate&s;t Foe.</HI></L>
<L>But, if his <HI>Pow'r</HI> continue, he may &s;till</L>
<L>Support his <HI>Title,</HI> call him what you will;</L>
<L>And, that, to which none can lay claim but <HI>he,</HI></L>
<L>Will <HI>&s;afe&s;t</HI> upon all Adventures be.</L>
<L>Indeed, all things con&s;ider'd well together,</L>
<L>There will be <HI>Hazards,</HI> both in <HI>th'one</HI> and <HI>th'other;</HI></L>
<L>But, <HI>lea&s;t</HI> in that, which will in proof be be&s;t</L>
<L>To keep that <HI>con&s;cience,</HI> which gives <HI>Inward re&s;t.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Though, in it &s;elf, we do confe&s;s the <HI>Title</HI></L>
<L>Is honorable, it can add but little</L>
<L>To his <HI>Repute:</HI> Nay, it will be a blot</L>
<L>As things are, to that <HI>honour</HI> he hath got;</L>
<L>Which, if it &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;idered be,</L>
<L>Is of a higher nature and degree,</L>
<L>Than that which <HI>men confer;</HI> and, they &s;hall do</L>
<L>No more who add a <HI>King-&s;hip</HI> thereunto,</L>
<L>Than he, who <HI>Diamonds</HI> in <HI>Lead</HI> doth &s;et,</L>
<L>Or, makes an <HI>Earl</HI> or <HI>Duke,</HI> a <HI>Baronet.</HI></L>
<L>And, <HI>Gideon,</HI> peradventure, did therefore</L>
<L>Refu&s;e a <HI>King&s;hip,</HI> being honour'd more</L>
<L>By what he was, then by what he thereby</L>
<L>Might have convey'd to his <HI>Po&s;terity.</HI></L>
<PB N="36" REF="21">
<L><HI>King&s;hip</HI> is <HI>lawful;</HI> yet, wi&s;e men do know</L>
<L>Things <HI>lawful,</HI> inexpedient &s;ometimes grow.</L>
<L>The Stile of <HI>King,</HI> was but an <HI>Ordination</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>men;</HI> and afterward by Toleration,</L>
<L>At their reque&s;t, by God him&s;elf allow'd</L>
<L>Unto his <HI>people</HI> (&s;o, that neither proud</L>
<L>They did become, nor pufft up with ambition</L>
<L>O're others; which, thereof was one <HI>Condition.</HI>)</L>
<L>Yea, 'tis an Attribute of <HI>God,</HI> whereon</L>
<L>Was rais'd, this <HI>incommunicable one,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The King of Kings.</HI> If therefore, at the <HI>Name</HI></L>
<L>We &s;imply take offence, We are too blame:</L>
<L>Or, if we think, the Pow'r they give is le&s;s</L>
<L>Who, by <HI>Synonoma's,</HI> the &s;ame expre&s;s,</L>
<L>As many <HI>Nations</HI> do, who never had</L>
<L>A <HI>King</HI> among them, &s;ince the world was made,</L>
<L>Yet give their <HI>Princes</HI> pow'r, whereby they may</L>
<L><HI>Rule well,</HI> and make their <HI>Subjects well obey.</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Supream Per&s;on,</HI> always is the &s;ame</L>
<L>In <HI>Sover aignty,</HI> whatever him you <HI>name:</HI></L>
<L>And, they who do pretend, our <HI>Lawes</HI> to bring</L>
<L>Advantages, to him that's call'd a <HI>King</HI></L>
<L>Which other <HI>Titles</HI> give not, do well know,</L>
<L>If, he be their <HI>Supream,</HI> it is not &s;o:</L>
<L>For, ev'ry thing within our <HI>Lawes</HI> expre&s;t,</L>
<L>Wherein our former <HI>Kings</HI> had Intere&s;t,</L>
<L>Is virtually, ev'n by tho&s;e <HI>Lawes,</HI> deriv'd</L>
<L>To him, who for our <HI>Soveraign</HI> is receiv'd.</L>
<L>And, what&s;oever they make &s;hew of, may,</L>
<L>Who make the <HI>Law,</HI> &s;peak what they plea&s;e to &s;ay,</L>
<L>Were that, which is now conquerd by our <HI>Swords,</HI></L>
<L>Brought to their <HI>Bars,</HI> to be new tri'd by <HI>Words,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Judgment</HI> would be given on that &s;ide</L>
<L>Where <HI>Pow'r,</HI> not where the <HI>King&s;hip</HI> did re&s;ide,</L>
<PB N="37" REF="21">
<L>Although the <HI>Law</HI> &s;poke for it, and forbad</L>
<L>All other <HI>Governments:</HI> For, <HI>Laws</HI> are made</L>
<L>To &s;peak, too often, not to that <HI>good end</HI></L>
<L>For which, <HI>Law-makers,</HI> did them fir&s;t intend:</L>
<L>But, what be&s;t makes out their <HI>Accommodation,</HI></L>
<L>Who take upon them their Interpretation.</L>
<L>El&s;e, they could tell you (without my direction)</L>
<L>That, he, whom <HI>God</HI> hath rais'd for our Protection,</L>
<L>Had for his <HI>Church,</HI> and for his <HI>Common-weal,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Pow'r</HI> he owns, confirm'd on that <HI>Appeal</HI></L>
<L>They made to <HI>God,</HI> when that, for which they fought,</L>
<L>To <HI>Trial,</HI> in an <HI>Open Field,</HI> was brought.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Conque&s;t,</HI> is by our <HI>Law,</HI> the utmo&s;t <HI>Trial</HI></L>
<L>That can be had: and <HI>He,</HI> (without denial)</L>
<L>And his <HI>Adheres,</HI> have right in that re&s;pect,</L>
<L>To any <HI>Title</HI> which they will elect:</L>
<L>Yea, and may <HI>Change, Confirm,</HI> or make the <HI>Lawes</HI></L>
<L>Such, as their <HI>Safety,</HI> and the <HI>Common Cau&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Shall now require: Provided, it accord</L>
<L>With their <HI>Tru&s;t,</HI> for who&s;e &s;ake they drew the <HI>Sword;</HI></L>
<L>And with tho&s;e ancient Rights, by <HI>God</HI> and <HI>Nature,</HI></L>
<L>Conferr'd upon the <HI>Rea&s;onable Creature:</HI></L>
<L>Which, if they &s;hall invade, their <HI>Swords</HI> now worn,</L>
<L>Upon <HI>Them&s;elves,</HI> ju&s;t vengeance will return:</L>
<L>For, that <HI>Pow'r,</HI> was conferred to provide</L>
<L>A form of <HI>Government</HI> &s;o rectifide,</L>
<L>That, neither <HI>Prince,</HI> nor <HI>Peers,</HI> nor <HI>People</HI> might</L>
<L>Intrench, hereafter, on each others <HI>Right:</HI></L>
<L>Yea, (that by what <HI>&s;hall be,</HI> and what is <HI>pa&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>God's</HI> purpo&s;e might be manife&s;t, at la&s;t)</L>
<L>It them impowers, to lay down tho&s;e <HI>Foundations,</HI></L>
<L>That &s;hall by <HI>This,</HI> and future <HI>Generations</HI></L>
<L>Be <HI>built</HI> upon: In which <HI>work,</HI> if they &s;hould</L>
<L>Leave any <HI>Arch,</HI> or <HI>Pillars,</HI> rais'd of old,</L>
<PB N="38" REF="22">
<L><HI>Mi&s;-laid,</HI> or <HI>Crooked, Rotten,</HI> or <HI>Mi&s;-wrought,</HI></L>
<L>It would, at la&s;t, bring all the Pile to nought.</L>
<L>And therefore, to this <HI>end,</HI> oblig'd they are</L>
<L>Tou&s;e their <HI>Pow'r</HI> with <HI>Prudency</HI> and care.</L>
<L>To this <HI>end, Providence,</HI> into their hands</L>
<L>Let that <HI>Pow'r</HI> &s;lip, which at this day commands;</L>
<L>And they, who meerly for their own ends u&s;e it,</L>
<L>Are <HI>Tyrants,</HI> or el&s;e <HI>Traitors,</HI> and abu&s;e it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That, which may of <HI>Protector&s;hip</HI> be &s;aid,</L>
<L>Was, long ago, made publique to be weigh'd;</L>
<L>(Not without cau&s;e, although to many men,</L>
<L>It &s;eemed an Impertinency, then)</L>
<L>And, as if that had been <HI>fore&s;een,</HI> which would</L>
<L>Be <HI>offer'd</HI> now, the <HI>Sequel</HI> was foretold,</L>
<L>Which would en&s;ue on changing of that <HI>Title,</HI></L>
<L>With other things regarded but a little;</L>
<L>Which, to repeat here, were but (in effect)</L>
<L>To offer them again to your neglect.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>New Titles,</HI> future <HI>Grandeur,</HI> do fore&s;hew;</L>
<L>The <HI>greate&s;t Titles,</HI> at the fir&s;t were <HI>New:</HI></L>
<L>And, though the <HI>Government</HI> which we yet have,</L>
<L>Was only modellized, but to &s;ave</L>
<L>From likely ruine, till we <HI>&s;trongth</HI> &s;hould get</L>
<L>To rai&s;e up <HI>that,</HI> which might be more compleat;</L>
<L>You, in this <HI>Title</HI> no defect can &s;ee,</L>
<L>If, but <HI>Imperial</HI> thereto added be,</L>
<L>Or, &s;omewhat el&s;e, to put a <HI>difference</HI></L>
<L>'Twixt <HI>This,</HI> and <HI>that</HI> in <HI>Nonage</HI> of a <HI>Prince:</HI></L>
<L>And, tho&s;e additions which do not e&s;trange,</L>
<L>But help <HI>explain a Title,</HI> are no change.</L>
<L>What, if his <HI>Highne&s;s,</HI> doth &s;uppo&s;e it given</L>
<L>(As I believe) by <HI>Providence</HI> from Heaven?</L>
<L>And thinks <HI>Him&s;elf</HI> engag'd, not to neglect</L>
<L>That <HI>Gift?</HI> And what, if for the like re&s;pect,</L>
<PB N="39" REF="22">
<L>His <HI>Friends</HI> conceiv'd it might be <HI>Ominous,</HI></L>
<L>Either to <HI>Him who owns</HI> it, or to <HI>&V;s,</HI></L>
<L>Without an urgent cau&s;e to change the &s;ame</L>
<L>For <HI>King,</HI> or any other <HI>Soveraign Name?</HI></L>
<L>Should this great <HI>Title</HI> be rejected for</L>
<L>That, which his <HI>be&s;t affected Friends</HI> abhor?</L>
<L>And, they, thereby grow jealous, that his <HI>heart</HI></L>
<L>(Which &s;eem'd inclined to the better part)</L>
<L>Had left it for the <HI>world,</HI> and for tho&s;e <HI>toyes</HI></L>
<L>Wherein her <HI>fooli&s;h Favourites</HI> rejoyce?</L>
<L>Might not thereon, &s;ome <HI>Con&s;equence</HI> en&s;ue,</L>
<L>Which, peradventure, <HI>He,</HI> or <HI>We,</HI> might rue?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What, if <HI>God</HI> gave that <HI>Title</HI> for a <HI>Te&s;t</HI></L>
<L>Of his adherence to that Intere&s;t,</L>
<L>Which doth concern Chri&s;ts <HI>Kingdom?</HI> and to &s;how</L>
<L>That if what God conferr'd he &s;hall forgoe</L>
<L>(For what the <HI>World</HI> will offer) he be&s;t prizes</L>
<L>The things of this <HI>World,</HI> and his <HI>Grace</HI> de&s;pi&s;es?</L>
<L>Or what, (if as that <HI>Blood,</HI> which heretofore</L>
<L>Sprinkled the <HI>Po&s;ts,</HI> and <HI>Lintels</HI> of the doore)</L>
<L><HI>God,</HI> gave this <HI>Title</HI> for a difference</L>
<L>Betwixt the <HI>Kings of Babel,</HI> and his <HI>Prince?</HI></L>
<L>That he may be &s;ecur'd, when to de&s;troy</L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> foes, he &s;hall that <HI>Army</HI> here imploy,</L>
<L>Which will ca&s;t out their <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> to <HI>Bea&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Fowls,</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>Devils,</HI> give their mi&s;erable <HI>&s;ouls?</HI></L>
<L>Make, that abominable <HI>Scarlet-Whore</HI></L>
<L>Their <HI>painted Mi&s;tre&s;s.</HI> de&s;olate and poor?</L>
<L>And, throw them irrecoverably thither,</L>
<L>Where, they &s;hall burn perpetually together?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>This</HI> may be; for, the time is drawing on</L>
<L>Wherein, &s;uch <HI>Executions</HI> will be done.</L>
<L>And therefore, in his <HI>Highne&s;s,</HI> it implies</L>
<L>Much <HI>Chri&s;tian Prudency,</HI> that he denies</L>
<PB N="40" REF="23">
<L>What's offred now; and, he &s;hall be innobl'd</L>
<L>Much more thereby, then by tho&s;e <HI>Offers</HI> doubl'd,</L>
<L>If he per&s;i&s;t; <HI>Clear Symptoms,</HI> he hath given</L>
<L>Of <HI>good events,</HI> by having &s;o long &s;triven</L>
<L>Again&s;t what, &s;eemingly, doth offer him</L>
<L>Things, of mo&s;t value in the <HI>worlds</HI> e&s;teem:</L>
<L>For, they infer, that he is rais'd above</L>
<L>Their <HI>Sphere,</HI> who on &s;uch objects &s;et their love;</L>
<L>That, his <HI>Promotions,</HI> he expects not from</L>
<L>The <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> or <HI>We&s;t;</HI> nor cares for tho&s;e that come</L>
<L>By <HI>Oblique Winds:</HI> But, mo&s;t account doth make</L>
<L>Of what the <HI>World,</HI> can neither <HI>give</HI> nor <HI>take.</HI></L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Outward Trappings,</HI> which make &s;o much &s;how</L>
<L>Of what the&s;e <HI>Nations</HI> do on him be&s;tow,</L>
<L>Are not on him be&s;town, but, on the <HI>State.</HI></L>
<L>The great <HI>Allowances,</HI> much murmur'd at,</L>
<L>Are upon him conferr'd, for their <HI>own &s;akes,</HI></L>
<L>Ev'n to &s;ecure <HI>Them&s;elves:</HI> And, them he takes</L>
<L>For that intent; becau&s;e, thereby, he mu&s;t,</L>
<L>And cannot otherwi&s;e, perform his <HI>Tru&s;t.</HI></L>
<L>Whereas, if he perceiv'd it would as little</L>
<L>Secure the <HI>Publike,</HI> as their <HI>Offer'd Title,</HI></L>
<L>And, on his <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> pre&s;s, as that will do,</L>
<L>I, do believe, he would refu&s;e <HI>that,</HI> too.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Pre&s;ume I may not, to declare to tho&s;e</L>
<L>Who are in <HI>Pow'r,</HI> which way, they might compo&s;e</L>
<L>Their <HI>Diffrences;</HI> nor have I ought to &s;ay,</L>
<L>To that <HI>End,</HI> which, I warrantably may</L>
<L>Propound: For, if I had, neither the <HI>fear</HI></L>
<L>Of tho&s;e <HI>Wits,</HI> who, take liberty to <HI>jeer,</HI></L>
<L>Nor <HI>wor&s;e things,</HI> could affright me; I, have told</L>
<L>As much, as I can <HI>&s;ea&s;onably</HI> unfold:</L>
<L>Except this <HI>Hint</HI> that follows, doth conduce</L>
<L>To &s;omewhat, which, may &s;afely be of u&s;e.</L>
<PB N="41" REF="23">
<L>Perhaps, it is <HI>Ca&s;t in,</HI> but to <HI>In&s;nare;</HI></L>
<L>Perhaps, to make proof, how <HI>inclined you are.</HI></L>
<L>Be wary, therefore, how far you <HI>proceed</HI></L>
<L>Therein; and mind, I warn'd you, to <HI>Take heed.</HI></L>
<L>Should it offend, I dare not change a <HI>Line;</HI></L>
<L>For, though <HI>I &s;peak,</HI> the&s;e <HI>Arrands</HI> are not mine.</L>
<L><HI>God,</HI> &s;ets before us, <HI>this,</HI> and <HI>that,</HI> to chu&s;e,</L>
<L>And leav's us free, to <HI>Take</HI> or to <HI>Refu&s;e;</HI></L>
<L>And, &s;uch <HI>markes</HI> gives, of what may prove ami&s;s,</L>
<L>That, if we chu&s;e not well, the fault's not <HI>His.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>They, who &s;incerely think, the Stile of <HI>King</HI></L>
<L>Will to this <HI>Commonwealth</HI> advantage bring;</L>
<L>And, they, who fear it would portend no good</L>
<L>The title of <HI>Protector</HI> to explode,</L>
<L>May, if they can agree, joyn them together,</L>
<L>And plea&s;e perhaps, both <HI>Parties;</HI> perhaps, <HI>neither,</HI></L>
<L>Till &s;omewhat reconcile them, which, <HI>fit Sea&s;on</HI></L>
<L>More likely &s;eems to bring to pa&s;s then <HI>Rea&s;on.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e <HI>Titles</HI> are <HI>con&s;i&s;tent;</HI> and, if that</L>
<L>Which is <HI>refus'd,</HI> be made <HI>Subordinate,</HI></L>
<L>And this <HI>Supream;</HI> that it may thereunto</L>
<L>Be <HI>Va&s;&s;al,</HI> and a kind of <HI>Homage</HI> do,</L>
<L>As <HI>conquered;</HI> it might be &s;erviceable</L>
<L>With le&s;s offence, (for ought that I am able</L>
<L>To counter&s;ay:) for, that wi&s;e <HI>Legi&s;lator</HI></L>
<L>Who was pre&s;erv'd, by <HI>Ru&s;hes,</HI> from the water,</L>
<L>Was call'd a <HI>King;</HI> and, therewith had the <HI>Pow'r</HI></L>
<L>Which, con&s;titutes with us, an <HI>Emperor,</HI></L>
<L>And in that <HI>Commonwealth</HI> (which was the be&s;t)</L>
<L>Both <HI>Kingly,</HI> and <HI>Imperial Pow'r</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;t;</L>
<L>Which, if confer'd on him, who governs us,</L>
<L>His <HI>Title,</HI> might be then contrived thus,</L>
<L>Or, &s;ome &s;uch way: On <HI>feet,</HI> in <HI>Ver&s;e,</HI> it goes</L>
<L>But lamely; Therefore, take it here, in <HI>Pro&s;e.</HI></L>
</LG>
<PB N="42" REF="24">
<Q><HI>Soveraign Protector,</HI> or, <HI>Protector Imperial</HI> of the Commonwealth of <HI>Great Brittain,</HI> King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the I&s;lands, Territo|ries and Dominions, to them belonging.</Q>
<LG>
<L>This, is not <HI>Magi&s;terially</HI> propos'd,</L>
<L>As if thereby all <HI>Ruptures</HI> would be clos'd;</L>
<L>Nor is it my de&s;ire, it &s;hould <HI>&s;o be,</HI></L>
<L>Or, <HI>not be &s;o;</HI> for, it concernes not me.</L>
<L>It, almo&s;t, into <HI>words</HI> was thus far brought,</L>
<L>E're it was fully formed in my thought;</L>
<L>And, <HI>&s;lipt out,</HI> (as do &s;uch things now and then)</L>
<L>Rather, to try the <HI>mindes of other men,</HI></L>
<L>Then to declare my <HI>Judgment;</HI> which, I give,</L>
<L>(VVhen I intend &s;o) in <HI>terms po&s;itive.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, thus much, I will &s;ay; <HI>This</HI> is by none</L>
<L>Yet <HI>claymed;</HI> neither gives to any one</L>
<L>Ju&s;t cau&s;e of <HI>Quarrel: Honourable Pow'r</HI></L>
<L>Holds forth: Is, by the <HI>Law of Conque&s;t</HI> our,</L>
<L>And, may within our own <HI>Realmes,</HI> be a&s;&s;um'd,</L>
<L>Yet, nothing be undecently pre&s;um'd,</L>
<L>If we, know by what means, to limite &s;o</L>
<L>The <HI>Pow'r,</HI> which therewith all, we &s;hall be&s;tow,</L>
<L>That no offence it gives; nor may produce</L>
<L><HI>Pride, Folly,</HI> or <HI>Oppre&s;&s;ion</HI> by abu&s;e.</L>
<L>But, what would follow, &s;hould this fanci'd be,</L>
<L>It is not in my dim &s;ight, to fore&s;ee;</L>
<L>And therefore, to be weigh'd by tho&s;e, I leave it,</L>
<L>VVhom it concernes to <HI>Offer,</HI> &amp; <HI>Receive it:</HI></L>
<L>To whom (if &s;ought where &s;uch things may be known)</L>
<L>It &s;hall be, to their &s;atisfaction &s;hown,</L>
<L>How far <HI>this,</HI> or the <HI>Title</HI> of a <HI>King</HI></L>
<L>May be a&s;&s;um'd, and no di&s;turbance bring.</L>
<PB N="43" REF="24">
<L><HI>Powr,</HI> though <HI>bred Tame,</HI> is an <HI>unruly bea&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>Which if it feed much on <HI>&s;elfe intere&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>Growes quickly <HI>wild;</HI> and every thing commands</L>
<L>Except it <HI>&s;elfe;</HI> yea breaks the <HI>&s;tronge&s;t Bands,</HI></L>
<L>Which once ca&s;t off, <HI>Re&s;traint</HI> it will avoyd,</L>
<L>And never more be bound, till 'tis de&s;troyd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our be&s;t <HI>cour&s;e</HI> therefore is not to be &s;trugling</L>
<L>With <HI>Powr</HI> (Although it &s;eems upheld by <HI>Jugling</HI></L>
<L>As well as by <HI>good meanes</HI>) or to contend</L>
<L>With things <HI>without us,</HI> which <HI>War</HI> hath no end:</L>
<L>But rather to compo&s;e and order &s;o</L>
<L>All things <HI>within us,</HI> as we ought to do:</L>
<L>For, there we may have <HI>Peace</HI> (when we have done</L>
<L>Our <HI>Duties</HI>) In <HI>externals,</HI> there is none:</L>
<L>And what we get by <HI>Politick Contrivings</HI></L>
<L>By <HI>Fal&s;hood, Force, Di&s;&s;embling,</HI> or <HI>Connivings,</HI></L>
<L>Doth for the mo&s;t part, but the more di&s;order</L>
<L>Our <HI>mindes;</HI> and from our <HI>hopes</HI> divide us further.</L>
<L>Yea, whether our <HI>cheife Magi&s;trate,</HI> we &s;hall</L>
<L>A <HI>King</HI> hereafter, or <HI>Protector</HI> call,</L>
<L>'Twill not be much materiall, what the <HI>Name</HI></L>
<L>Shall be, if all things el&s;e be &s;till the &s;ame.</L>
<L>Nor <HI>His,</HI> nor <HI>our condition</HI> will be betterd</L>
<L>Whil&s;t we are with tho&s;e <HI>Vanities</HI> befetterd,</L>
<L>Which to <HI>ca&s;t off,</HI> we lately made a <HI>&s;hew:</HI></L>
<L>Or, whil&s;t in <HI>&s;ecret,</HI> we do &s;till pur&s;ue</L>
<L>Our <HI>old wayes,</HI> and continue, in <HI>effect,</HI></L>
<L>What we in <HI>Circum&s;tances,</HI> do reject.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some are per&s;waded, that the &s;tile of <HI>King</HI></L>
<L>May be as well a&s;&s;umed, as that <HI>Thing</HI></L>
<L>Which gives like <HI>Power:</HI> And &s;o it may, if he</L>
<L>A <HI>Jehu,</HI> or a <HI>Jeroboam</HI> be,</L>
<L>Who, neither con&s;cience makes whom he offend;</L>
<L>Or &s;candalizeth, to obtaine his <HI>Ends;</HI></L>
<PB N="44" REF="25">
<L>Or if he u&s;e that <HI>Power,</HI> which is be&s;towne</L>
<L>For <HI>publick workes,</HI> to bring to pa&s;&s;e his <HI>owne.</HI></L>
<L>But, how&s;oever, let it be our care</L>
<L>Still to performe what our <HI>Obligements</HI> are:</L>
<L>Which are not to engage him unto <HI>On<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></L>
<L><HI>Offence,</HI> through fear another may be done:</L>
<L>Or, to re&s;i&s;t the <HI>Power</HI> we &s;hould obey</L>
<L>Becau&s;e it &s;eems by an <HI>unlawfull way</HI></L>
<L>Acquir'd or kept: For, every <HI>Wi&s;e man</HI> knows</L>
<L><HI>Powr, Thrones,</HI> and <HI>Glorie,</HI> are at GOD's di&s;po&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It is by other &s;ome not meanly fear'd,</L>
<L>Such <HI>Powr</HI> is by <HI>Protector&s;hip</HI> conferd,</L>
<L>That he may now infring our <HI>freedomes</HI> more</L>
<L>Then any of our <HI>Princes</HI> heretofore:</L>
<L>Which may be likewi&s;e true; yet, what GOD gave</L>
<L>Wherewith to do him <HI>&s;ervice,</HI> he mu&s;t have</L>
<L>To whom he gives it; If he then abu&s;e it,</L>
<L>To their <HI>wrong,</HI> for who&s;e <HI>well-fare</HI> he &s;hould u&s;e it,</L>
<L>GOD will aveng it: And though he defers</L>
<L>That <HI>Vengance,</HI> (and the <HI>Polititian</HI> Jeers</L>
<L>At &s;uch a <HI>Vindication</HI>) 'twill be paid</L>
<L>With <HI>Intere&s;t,</HI> for all the time delay'd,</L>
<L>As &s;oone as our <HI>Repentance,</HI> and tho&s;e <HI>wrongs,</HI></L>
<L>Are for <HI>that</HI> ripened, which to them belongs.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e <HI>Nations,</HI> and their <HI>Parlaments,</HI> talk much</L>
<L>Of <HI>Liberties,</HI> and <HI>Freedomes,</HI> as if &s;uch</L>
<L>To them pertained, now, as they have had.</L>
<L>Indeed, there is an <HI>Image</HI> of them made,</L>
<L>Whereby, we, them a little honor'd &s;ee</L>
<L>Before the <HI>People,</HI> (as <HI>Saul</HI> &s;ought to be.)</L>
<L>But, of tho&s;e <HI>Priviledges,</HI> we have none;</L>
<L>Their <HI>Glorie</HI> is departed; they are gone:</L>
<L>We, by no <HI>tenure,</HI> any claime can lay</L>
<L>But <HI>Courte&s;ie of England,</HI> at this day,</L>
<PB N="45" REF="25">
<L>To what, by <HI>Birth</HI> was ours; or unto ought</L>
<L>Which we have <HI>purcha&s;'d,</HI> or for which we <HI>&s;ought:</HI></L>
<L>And till our <HI>&s;upream Magi&s;trate</HI> repaires</L>
<L>Our <HI>Lo&s;&s;es;</HI> Or, till GOD &s;hall hear our Prayers</L>
<L>And <HI>cries</HI> (if he oppre&s;&s;e us) we &s;hall &s;till</L>
<L>No other be, but, <HI>Tenants at his Will.</HI></L>
<L>Yet is not he in fault; nor is our <HI>Ca&s;e</HI></L>
<L>So bad, or in &s;uch hazzard as it was.</L>
<L>For, if it were not &s;o, it might be wor&s;e;</L>
<L>And, that which we &s;uppo&s;e to be a <HI>Cur&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>May prove a <HI>Ble&s;&s;ing.</HI> Otherwhile, men lo&s;e</L>
<L>By having all things at their owne di&s;po&s;e;</L>
<L>And &s;ometimes <HI>gaine</HI> by <HI>loo&s;ing.</HI> what was our,</L>
<L>Did lately &s;lip into anothers <HI>pow'r;</HI></L>
<L>Who, thereof taketh (by that <HI>forfeiture</HI>)</L>
<L>But &s;o much, as our <HI>Freedomes</HI> may &s;ecure</L>
<L>To us hereafter. VVhen, he &s;eems to <HI>wound</HI></L>
<L>He doth but lance a <HI>&s;oare,</HI> to make that &s;ound</L>
<L>Which would de&s;troy us: when, unto &s;ome <HI>co&s;t</HI></L>
<L>He puts us, 'tis that <HI>all</HI> may not be lo&s;t.</L>
<L>Yea, for our <HI>well-fare,</HI> he is <HI>meanes</HI> contriving,</L>
<L>When we mo&s;t wrong him, by a <HI>mi&s;beleeving.</HI></L>
<L>And doth di&s;charge his <HI>Tru&s;t</HI> (as I beleeve)</L>
<L>By doing that, whereof we mi&s;conceive.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Though he permits us to capitulate</L>
<L>With <HI>him,</HI> as it we did participate</L>
<L>In his <HI>Powr;</HI> &s;uff'ring us to <HI>claime</HI> and <HI>take</HI></L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Priviledges,</HI> whereby he may make</L>
<L>An <HI>advantageous u&s;e,</HI> with lea&s;t offence,</L>
<L>To bring to pa&s;&s;e the <HI>work</HI> of <HI>Providence;</HI></L>
<L>And to &s;uch <HI>purpo&s;es,</HI> is well content</L>
<L>To all our <HI>ju&s;t reque&s;ts,</HI> to give a&s;&s;ent:</L>
<L><HI>Tho&s;e things,</HI> do not to us of <HI>right</HI> pertain;</L>
<L>They are meer <HI>Acts of Favor;</HI> no <HI>remain</HI></L>
<PB N="46" REF="26">
<L>Of our old <HI>freedomes:</HI> And, 'twill hazzardize</L>
<L>Their <HI>Re&s;tauration,</HI> to think otherwi&s;e:</L>
<L>For, tho&s;e <HI>Thoughts</HI> hindring that compleat <HI>&s;ubmi&s;&s;ion</HI></L>
<L>Which GOD requires, will hinder their fruition,</L>
<L>By making us, perhaps, that <HI>meanes</HI> endeavor</L>
<L>To <HI>gain them,</HI> which will <HI>lo&s;e them,</HI> quite, for ever.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In <HI>provocations,</HI> IS'RAEL did proceed</L>
<L>So far, that thereupon GOD had decreed</L>
<L>No <HI>Ran&s;ome from</HI> de&s;truction &s;hould redeem</L>
<L>Their glorious <HI>Temple</HI> and <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI></L>
<L>But, their <HI>&s;ubmi&s;&s;ion</HI> to a <HI>forraigne King.</HI></L>
<L>On <HI>&V;s,</HI> for our tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, GOD doth bring</L>
<L>A <HI>Judgment</HI> &s;omewhat like it: And, before</L>
<L>He, will to us our <HI>Liberties</HI> re&s;tore,</L>
<L>We mu&s;t quite lo&s;e them, and &s;ubmit to <HI>Him</HI></L>
<L>Whome, as (in that re&s;pect) we did contemn.</L>
<L>And, now, no <HI>humane Policy,</HI> or <HI>Force</HI></L>
<L>Can put us into any likely <HI>Cour&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Of repo&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing them, &s;ave that <HI>Compliance,</HI></L>
<L>VVith which we have been long time at <HI>defiance;</HI></L>
<L>And, whereto he that &s;hould advi&s;e, might &s;peed</L>
<L>As bad, perhaps, as <HI>Jeremiah</HI> did</L>
<L>VVhen he in vaine, his <HI>Countrymen</HI> per&s;waded</L>
<L>To fly to <HI>him,</HI> who had their Land invaded.</L>
<L>But, &s;o it <HI>mu&s;t be;</HI> and, if to <HI>beleeve</HI></L>
<L>VVhat <HI>mu&s;t be,</HI> may a&s;&s;urance thereof give.</L>
<L>Or, if things probable in <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> may</L>
<L>Confirme that, which I now <HI>beleeve</HI> and <HI>&s;ay,</HI></L>
<L>Our much <HI>aver&s;ene&s;&s;e,</HI> rather will bring on</L>
<L>Then hinder, that which mu&s;t at la&s;t be done.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, we are torne into &s;o many <HI>fractions,</HI></L>
<L>Growne of &s;o many <HI>mindes,</HI> by our <HI>di&s;tractions,</HI></L>
<L>(Or <HI>Coun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">eractings)</HI> ev'ry <HI>Party</HI> &s;triving</L>
<L>To bring to pa&s;&s;e things of their own <HI>contriving,</HI></L>
<PB N="47" REF="26">
<L>Al men &s;o apt, whom <HI>place of tru&s;t,</HI> enable</L>
<L>For their owne <HI>private ends,</HI> to &s;crape and &s;crable;</L>
<L>And every man &s;o jealous, and affraid,</L>
<L>Of being to his <HI>Oppo&s;ite</HI> betray'd;</L>
<L>That, (as <HI>the World</HI> was, when it fir&s;t begun)</L>
<L>Our <HI>Common-wealth,</HI> mu&s;t be the <HI>work</HI> of <HI>One;</HI></L>
<L><HI>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</HI> that hath <HI>Powr,</HI> and, in <HI>whome,</HI> to agree</L>
<L>They, who are mo&s;t concernd, mo&s;t likely be.</L>
<L>This One, GOD, hath provided to re&s;tore</L>
<L>All, that our <HI>Kings</HI> u&s;urped heretofore</L>
<L>(Or, our Sins forfeited) And to re&s;etle</L>
<L>On us, tho&s;e <HI>ble&s;&s;ings,</HI> by a <HI>&s;tronger Title;</HI></L>
<L>(If neither <HI>He,</HI> nor the&s;e divided <HI>Nations</HI></L>
<L>Shall, willfully, make fru&s;trate their <HI>Probations</HI>)</L>
<L>Though, many are, yet, fearfull that he may</L>
<L>In &s;ome things, act the quite <HI>centrary way.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Coun&s;els,</HI> he hath oft together brought</L>
<L>VVhich we in <HI>former times,</HI> mo&s;t proper thought</L>
<L>For &s;uch a <HI>Worke;</HI> and, much hath taken in,</L>
<L>VVhich offerd, by &s;ome <HI>private hands,</HI> hath been,</L>
<L>But, both their <HI>Ends,</HI> and <HI>Contributions</HI> are</L>
<L>So diffring, and from <HI>&V;nitie</HI> &s;o far;</L>
<L>That, what he hath de&s;ired &s;hould be done,</L>
<L><HI>Le&s;&s;e perfect</HI> &s;eems, then when it was begun.</L>
<L>And 'tis not po&s;&s;ible their <HI>work</HI> &s;hould be</L>
<L><HI>Long-la&s;ting,</HI> who, in &s;o few things agree.</L>
<L>He, therefore (as in all times pa&s;t, we finde</L>
<L>It hath been done) who, is by GOD de&s;ignd</L>
<L>To change a <HI>Government;</HI> and, unto <HI>whome</HI></L>
<L>He alwayes, an <HI>A&s;&s;i&s;tant</HI> will become,</L>
<L>For his <HI>owne works;</HI> that <HI>&s;pirit,</HI> mu&s;t improve</L>
<L>VVhich GOD on him conferreth to promove</L>
<L>His <HI>&V;ndertakeings.</HI> Then, <HI>re&s;olve</HI> he mu&s;t</L>
<L>On what his <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> judgeth to be ju&s;t,</L>
<PB N="48" REF="27">
<L>And by his <HI>Pow'r</HI> confirm it: el&s;e, the <HI>Waies</HI></L>
<L>Now follow'd, will de&s;troy him, by <HI>Delayes.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By this <HI>Cour&s;e,</HI> and by weighing well tho&s;e things</L>
<L>Which <HI>faithfull men,</HI> and his <HI>experience</HI> brings</L>
<L>To be <HI>con&s;ider'd,</HI> he <HI>him&s;elfe,</HI> alone,</L>
<L>Shall do that, which will never, el&s;e be done;</L>
<L>Even he alone, if, he, him&s;elf deny</L>
<L>(And on that <HI>wi&s;dome,</HI> and that <HI>pow'r</HI> rely,</L>
<L>Which hitherto, hath carried him along)</L>
<L>Shall, for his <HI>undertakings,</HI> be more &s;trong</L>
<L>Then, if he were with all the <HI>&s;trength,</HI> &s;upplyd</L>
<L>And all the <HI>wi&s;dome,</HI> of the <HI>world</HI> be&s;ide;</L>
<L>For, that &s;hall teach him, what <HI>advi&s;e</HI> to chu&s;e:</L>
<L>What he mu&s;t alter, what he mu&s;t refu&s;e,</L>
<L>And what to fix upon: which, will be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ore</L>
<L>His <HI>Honour,</HI> then his <HI>Conque&s;ts</HI> heretofore;</L>
<L>Or, then to leave through <HI>future Generations,</HI></L>
<L>A <HI>King&s;hip</HI> to his &s;eed, o're many <HI>Nations.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This done; a <HI>Parlament</HI> well con&s;tituted</L>
<L>Will crown the work: then, &s;uch as are reputed</L>
<L>Ju&s;t <HI>Priviledges,</HI> will be all re&s;tord;</L>
<L>Then, they, who now <HI>agree not,</HI> will <HI>accord:</HI></L>
<L>Then, will our <HI>Lawes,</HI> which yet are made a <HI>Snare,</HI></L>
<L>Have tho&s;e effects, for which ordaind they were,</L>
<L>And, other things, be fairly carried on</L>
<L>VVhich, now, in crooked muddy <HI>Chanels</HI> run.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>VVee, in this <HI>worke</HI> of <HI>Providence,</HI> mo&s;t heed</L>
<L>Tho&s;e gro&s;&s;e, and oblique <HI>Actings,</HI> which proceed</L>
<L>From mans corruption; and, the deeds of tho&s;e</L>
<L>Whom for <HI>fal&s;e friends,</HI> or el&s;e, for <HI>Open foes</HI></L>
<L>VVee do &s;u&s;pect; and, greatly vexed are</L>
<L>VVith tho&s;e <HI>mi&s;actings,</HI> which, in them appear;</L>
<L>As if, their <HI>failings only,</HI> were occa&s;ions</L>
<L>Of all our <HI>lo&s;&s;es,</HI> and our <HI>Preturbations;</HI></L>
<PB N="49" REF="27">
<L>But, were it well ob&s;erved, we &s;hould find</L>
<L>That, tho&s;e <HI>grand-works,</HI> which are by GOD de&s;ign'd,</L>
<L>Are no le&s;&s;e further'd, by our <HI>over&s;ights,</HI></L>
<L>Our <HI>weaknes, follies,</HI> and our foes <HI>de&s;pights,</HI></L>
<L>Then by our <HI>Virtues, Prudency,</HI> or <HI>Powr,</HI></L>
<L>Or, any <HI>&s;uffrings,</HI> or <HI>good deeds</HI> of our;</L>
<L>And, thereupon, prepare <HI>a way</HI> for <HI>Peace,</HI></L>
<L>By prizing <HI>others</HI> more, and, our <HI>&s;elves</HI> le&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>Or, if our <HI>Intellectuall eyes</HI> could &s;ee</L>
<L>VVhat GOD hath done, or, what tho&s;e actings be</L>
<L>VVhereby, his <HI>finger,</HI> doth make manife&s;t</L>
<L>VVhat <HI>changes,</HI> have infringd our <HI>intere&s;t;</HI></L>
<L>VVe, in true <HI>meekne&s;&s;e,</HI> would incline unto</L>
<L>VVhat he expects, we, &s;hould <HI>beleeve</HI> and <HI>do;</HI></L>
<L>Then, we &s;hould finde, tho&s;e <HI>changes</HI> were permitted</L>
<L>That, for GOD's, <HI>work</HI> we might be better fitted;</L>
<L>That, his great <HI>Love</HI> and <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> might be known;</L>
<L>That, our great <HI>failings,</HI> we, might <HI>know,</HI> and <HI>owne;</HI></L>
<L>That, it might give us many <HI>Evidences</HI></L>
<L>How little tru&s;t there is, in <HI>earthly Princes,</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>Parlaments,</HI> or, in the be&s;t of tho&s;e</L>
<L><HI>Externall things,</HI> wherein we <HI>tru&s;t</HI> repo&s;e:</L>
<L>And, that, we thence may learne, when we have tride</L>
<L>Their <HI>Tru&s;tle&s;ne&s;&s;e,</HI> in whome, we &s;hould confide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>As &s;ure</HI> as, GOD, ten tribes from <HI>David</HI> rent,</L>
<L>And, made <HI>Bel&s;hazers</HI> doome, a pre&s;ident</L>
<L>For <HI>future times</HI> to heed; and, tooke from <HI>Saul</HI></L>
<L>And other <HI>Kings</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Kingdomes</HI> wherewith al</L>
<L>They were indowd: <HI>&s;o &s;urely,</HI> was the <HI>Throne</HI></L>
<L>Of our preceding <HI>King,</HI> by GOD, broke down:</L>
<L><HI>So &s;urely,</HI> he, who now inthroned &s;its,</L>
<L>VVas rai&s;d by <HI>him;</HI> and, that if he forgets</L>
<L>On what <HI>Conditions,</HI> he, that grace received,</L>
<L><HI>So &s;urely,</HI> &s;hall he be againe deprived,</L>
<PB N="50" REF="28">
<L>Of what he yet injoyes; and be devour'd</L>
<L>By that, whereby, he was at fir&s;t impowr'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>As &s;ure,</HI> as <HI>Jacobs</HI> &s;ons delivered were</L>
<L>Into the hands of <HI>Nabuchadnezer,</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Eglon, Jabin, Si&s;era,</HI> and tho&s;e</L>
<L>VVho, did on them great <HI>Slaveries</HI> impo&s;e;</L>
<L><HI>So certainly,</HI> did GOD give up the&s;e <HI>Lands</HI></L>
<L>In former times, into <HI>Oppre&s;&s;ors</HI> hands,</L>
<L>Both <HI>Temporall,</HI> and <HI>Gho&s;tly;</HI> cau&s;ing them</L>
<L>In various wi&s;e, to be from time to time,</L>
<L>Either <HI>afflicted, ea&s;'d, inthrall'd</HI> or <HI>freed</HI></L>
<L>As to do <HI>well,</HI> or <HI>ill,</HI> they did proceed:</L>
<L>And, lately, hath powr'd forth his <HI>vials</HI> here</L>
<L>On <HI>Prei&s;t</HI> and <HI>People,</HI> upon <HI>Prince</HI> and <HI>Peer;</HI></L>
<L>Yet, if we grow not better than we be,</L>
<L>Far &s;adder <HI>Changes,</HI> we may live to &s;ee,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, &s;uch <HI>Provocations,</HI> ours have been,</L>
<L>As, in no <HI>former ages,</HI> have been &s;een.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Mark</HI> what I <HI>&s;ay;</HI> and <HI>heed</HI> what will <HI>en&s;ue;</HI></L>
<L>For, what I tell you, <HI>is,</HI> and &s;hal be true.</L>
<L>GOD, for their many <HI>&s;ins,</HI> did ju&s;tly bring</L>
<L>The&s;e <HI>Nations,</HI> into <HI>Bondege,</HI> to their <HI>King:</HI></L>
<L>Not to de&s;troy them, as a <HI>foe,</HI> but rather,</L>
<L>Them to correct, as it became a <HI>Father.</HI></L>
<L>That <HI>Pow'r,</HI> He, exerci&s;'d not to fulfill</L>
<L>GOD's minde, but, to accompli&s;h his <HI>owne will;</HI></L>
<L>And, did exceed the bounds of his <HI>commi&s;&s;ion,</HI></L>
<L>To make them foot&s;teps, up to his <HI>ambition.</HI></L>
<L>Then, unto GOD they cri'd, and did repent;</L>
<L>VVho, thereupon, unto their <HI>Parlament</HI></L>
<L>Gave all his <HI>Power;</HI> whereby, they did proceed</L>
<L>Again&s;t his <HI>life,</HI> and <HI>raigned in his &s;teed.</HI></L>
<L>VVhen they were thus <HI>in-thron'd,</HI> in leiw of <HI>giving,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Forgiving, di&s;inthralling,</HI> and releiving.</L>
<PB N="51" REF="28">
<L>Their <HI>Brethren,</HI> by who&s;e hazzards, blood, &amp; trea&s;ure,</L>
<L>They, of the <HI>&s;ov'raigne Power,</HI> had gotten &s;ei&s;ure;</L>
<L>Their <HI>Helpers, Friends,</HI> and <HI>Servants,</HI> they forgot,</L>
<L>Or (which is wor&s;e) them, they regarded not;</L>
<L>(Nor in their greate&s;t need, were &s;ome of tho&s;e,</L>
<L>So civilly re&s;pected as their <HI>Foes</HI>)</L>
<L>Nay more; them they <HI>oppre&s;t;</HI> &s;leighted their <HI>prayers,</HI></L>
<L>Expo&s;ed them to <HI>&s;hame, wants,</HI> and <HI>de&s;paires;</HI></L>
<L>Endeavour'd chiefly their owne <HI>exaltations,;</HI></L>
<L>Th'inriching of <HI>them&s;elves,</HI> and their <HI>relations;</HI></L>
<L>And, had not that &s;ucceeded, which befell,</L>
<L>What el&s;e they would have done, no man can tell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In &s;ight of GOD, of <HI>Angels,</HI> and of <HI>Men,</HI></L>
<L>The&s;e things were done; and, this, compels <HI>my pen</HI></L>
<L>To leave it on <HI>Record,</HI> here to be read</L>
<L>By <HI>future Ages,</HI> when that I am dead.</L>
<L><HI>The&s;e,</HI> and more &s;uch like things, which I have been</L>
<L>Inforced to have <HI>felt,</HI> and to have <HI>&s;een,</HI></L>
<L>I, from beholding them, long time de&s;n'd</L>
<L>My <HI>&s;elf,</HI> into &s;ome <HI>nook</HI> to have retir'd;</L>
<L>But, my <HI>Engagements</HI> alwayes kept me here:</L>
<L>Perhaps, that thereof, I might witne&s;&s;e bear</L>
<L>To glorifie GOD's <HI>Ju&s;tice;</HI> and to &s;how</L>
<L>From whence all our <HI>de&s;tructive changes flow.</HI></L>
<L>And (being that which I &s;eem born to do)</L>
<L>With willingne&s;&s;e, I, now &s;ubmit thereto,</L>
<L>That, to their <HI>Faces,</HI> I may te&s;tify,</L>
<L>What, <HI>thou&s;ands living,</HI> know to be no lye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For the&s;e <HI>Exorbitances,</HI> (as this day</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">e do perceive) GOD, took their <HI>powr</HI> away,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">d gave it to their <HI>Servant,</HI> whom they &s;leighted;</L>
<L>VVhome, they, perhaps, as ill would have requited,</L>
<L>As other men have beene; and, they, are now</L>
<L>His <HI>&s;ervants;</HI> and inforc'd them&s;elves to bo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<PB N="52" REF="29">
<L>Before his pre&s;ence, whom they did contemn,</L>
<L>Till, GOD, had with their <HI>power</HI> inve&s;ted him,</L>
<L>VVho, is (GOD <HI>&s;peed him well</HI>) on earths wide &s;tage,</L>
<L>The greate&s;t <HI>expectation,</HI> of, this age:</L>
<L>Yet, at his <HI>Exit,</HI> he, his doome &s;hall beare</L>
<L>According, as his part, is acted here.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To ev'ry one, of what&s;oe'r <HI>Degree,</HI></L>
<L>Such as his <HI>works</HI> are, &s;uch, his <HI>meed</HI> &s;hall be:</L>
<L>And, this, nor <HI>&s;trength,</HI> nor <HI>wi&s;dome</HI> &s;hall prevent;</L>
<L>No, not an <HI>Army,</HI> nor a <HI>Parlament,</HI></L>
<L>Nor long time, &s;hall <HI>Prince, Prie&s;t,</HI> or <HI>People</HI> thrive</L>
<L>In any thing, they <HI>hope for,</HI> or <HI>contrive,</HI></L>
<L>But pu&s;&s;ell, plague, and &s;till afflict each other</L>
<L>Till they in <HI>Righteous-things</HI> agree together;</L>
<L>And, <HI>&s;anctifie</HI> this <HI>Commonwealths</HI> foundation</L>
<L>With much more <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> and with more compa&s;&s;ion.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I hope, this <HI>downe-right-dealing</HI> (which proceeds</L>
<L>From <HI>Con&s;cience</HI>) no Apologizing needs:</L>
<L>But, of their <HI>wrath,</HI> I no whit am afraid</L>
<L>To whom, <HI>truth,</HI> may offen&s;ively be &s;aid;</L>
<L>For, if that any thing thereby befall</L>
<L>To me <HI>de&s;tructive,</HI> much more greive I &s;hall</L>
<L>For <HI>others</HI> then my <HI>&s;elfe;</HI> becau&s;e, their ends</L>
<L>I do fore&s;ee, who &s;hall de&s;troy their <HI>friends;</HI></L>
<L>And, that, if <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> be not more enjoy'd</L>
<L>I, &s;hall be <HI>&s;afe&s;t,</HI> when I am de&s;troy'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet, <HI>Reader,</HI> plea&s;ed be before thou goe</L>
<L>VVith Candor, to peru&s;e a few <HI>Lines</HI> moe</L>
<L>For my <HI>Indempnity</HI> and, then I've done;</L>
<L>Make no <HI>fal&s;e Comments</HI> (prithce) hereupon;</L>
<L>Inferre thou not from any word here &s;aid,</L>
<L>One thought, whereby, <HI>a&s;per&s;ions</HI> may be laid</L>
<L>On that <HI>great Councell,</HI> by who&s;e prudence, care,</L>
<L>Zeale, pains and love, tho&s;e things propo&s;ed are</L>
<PB N="53" REF="29">
<L>For his <HI>a&s;&s;ent,</HI> without who&s;e approbation,</L>
<L>They cannot have <HI>Authentick Confirmation.</HI></L>
<L>The cau&s;e is weighty; and, no <HI>Humame eye</HI></L>
<L>Can all the wayes of <HI>Providence</HI> e&s;pie.</L>
<L>Although their <HI>Offers</HI> are demur'd upon,</L>
<L>They, their devoire, as I believe, have done</L>
<L>To give advance unto that <HI>Intere&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>Which, in their Judgement, hath appear'd the be&s;t;</L>
<L>And done <HI>Gods worke,</HI> &s;o far forth as they could</L>
<L>His purpo&s;es, with <HI>humane eyes</HI> behold;</L>
<L>Or, execute his <HI>Will,</HI> by <HI>Rea&s;ons light:</HI></L>
<L>And, I do hope, they &s;hall (ere that be quite</L>
<L>Re&s;olv'd upon, which yet remains to doe)</L>
<L>Receive <HI>Divine Illumination, too.</HI></L>
<L>By that which I have heeded, I conceive</L>
<L>(And hold my &s;elfe obliged to believe)</L>
<L>That, both they, who did on that <HI>In&s;trument</HI></L>
<L><HI>Agree,</HI> and al&s;o they, who yet <HI>di&s;&s;ent,</HI></L>
<L>Their Con&s;ciences, have with an equal Zeale,</L>
<L>To <HI>God,</HI> their <HI>Prince,</HI> and to this <HI>Commonweale</HI></L>
<L>Therein di&s;charg'd; and, that tho&s;e things which bee</L>
<L>Well done, are <HI>Be&s;t done,</HI> when, &s;ome di&s;agree:</L>
<L>And, that, <HI>Truth</HI> doth appear in her perfection</L>
<L>When &s;he is poli&s;hed by <HI>Contradiction:</HI></L>
<L>We, therefore, to <HI>both Parties,</HI> owe both <HI>Love</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Civill thanks,</HI> what ere the <HI>Sequels</HI> prove.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Believe me herein; and ob&s;erve, I pray,</L>
<L>Which <HI>heedfulne&s;&s;e,</HI> that which I next &s;hall &s;ay;</L>
<L>For, it will much concern us: (and I pre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>This <HI>Caution,</HI> therefore, with &s;uch <HI>earne&s;tne&s;&s;e</HI>)</L>
<L>When, <HI>that</HI> which was propo&s;ed, once <HI>in vain,</HI></L>
<L>(And, which is to be offer'd now again</L>
<L>Unto his <HI>Highne&s;&s;e</HI>) all debates hath pa&s;t;</L>
<L>If then, your <HI>Expectations</HI> fail at la&s;t</L>
<PB N="54" REF="30">
<L>Which mu&s;t fall out, on th'one or <HI>th'other &s;ide;</HI></L>
<L>With that, which comes to pa&s;&s;e, <HI>content abide:</HI></L>
<L>And, though in <HI>Judgement,</HI> you devided be;</L>
<L>In your <HI>Affections,</HI> loveingly agree.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If they, who their <HI>Propo&s;als</HI> lately brought,</L>
<L>To be allow'd, obtain not what they &s;ought,</L>
<L>Mi&s;cen&s;ure not of them, as if they had</L>
<L>With ill <HI>intentions,</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Propo&s;als</HI> made;</L>
<L>Nor judge ami&s;&s;e <HI>of him,</HI> who gave <HI>Deniall;</HI></L>
<L>If, when <HI>repugnant Rea&s;ons</HI> have their <HI>Triall,</HI></L>
<L>He &s;hall be &s;wayed to con&s;ent, at length,</L>
<L>By <HI>Rea&s;ons</HI> of the mo&s;t prevailing &s;trength.</L>
<L>For, if his <HI>Highne&s;&s;e,</HI> on &s;uch tearms <HI>admit</HI></L>
<L>Of that to which he gives <HI>deniall,</HI> yet,</L>
<L>As in his <HI>Judgement,</HI> and in <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> too,</L>
<L>Well &s;atisfied, in that which he &s;hall doe,</L>
<L>And hath beforehand, <HI>Gods</HI> direction &s;ought,</L>
<L>(As I believe, he hath done as he ought)</L>
<L>Know, it proceeds from <HI>God;</HI> and, that what ere</L>
<L>We thereupon think <HI>Probable,</HI> or <HI>Feare,</HI></L>
<L>We mu&s;t leave <HI>God,</HI> and <HI>Him,</HI> to act their part;</L>
<L>Not medling with what's hidden in his <HI>heart,</HI></L>
<L>Or in an unrevealed <HI>Providence,</HI></L>
<L>Le&s;t, we to both of the&s;e, give ju&s;t offence;</L>
<L>And by prejudicating things unknown,</L>
<L>De&s;troy the <HI>Peace</HI> of others, and our own.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When things are done, (for ought that we can know)</L>
<L>As, <HI>God,</HI> doth unto him his duty &s;how;</L>
<L>If, then, we &s;till <HI>&s;u&s;pect him,</HI> and foment</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Jealou&s;ies</HI> which nouri&s;h di&s;content;</L>
<L>If we &s;hall then imagine his <HI>Delay</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Scruples,</HI> were but onely to make way</L>
<L>To new <HI>De&s;ignes;</HI> or, to accompli&s;h that</L>
<L>Which, we think he hath alwayes aimed at,</L>
<PB N="55" REF="30">
<L>(Pretending other things, thereby to gain</L>
<L>A <HI>Larger Powr</HI> then el&s;e he &s;hould obtain)</L>
<L>If we think thus, as I know many do,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they have been pleas'd to tell me &s;o;</L>
<L>Then, there will be no remedy or <HI>end</HI></L>
<L>Of what we may <HI>Injuriou&s;ly pretend;</HI></L>
<L>And, how oblique &s;o e're, his aimes may be,</L>
<L><HI>We,</HI> make our <HI>&s;elves</HI> as culpable as he;</L>
<L>And, there is &s;omewhat in us, which, no doubt</L>
<L>Doth from a <HI>Root of bitterne&s;&s;e</HI> &s;pring out,</L>
<L>That will produce our <HI>Shame;</HI> or, which is wor&s;e,</L>
<L>Engage us into &s;ome <HI>De&s;tructive Cour&s;e.</HI></L>
<L>And, if his <HI>heart be right,</HI> &s;o much the greater</L>
<L>Will our <HI>Shame</HI> be, as his de&s;ignes are better</L>
<L>Then we believe they are; and, que&s;tionle&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>It will to us contract a <HI>Guiltine&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>That will bring on a <HI>Plague:</HI> and manife&s;t</L>
<L>That, though again&s;t <HI>Self-&s;eeking</HI> we prote&s;t;</L>
<L>We, have not &s;o much prayed, that, <HI>Gods will</HI></L>
<L>Should take effect, as, our own to fulfill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>VVhat, of this great <HI>Debate</HI> will be th' <HI>effect,</HI></L>
<L>I know not; nor pre&s;ume I to collect</L>
<L>From what I know: for, <HI>Princes hearts are deep,</HI></L>
<L>And, I, into their <HI>&s;ecrets</HI> will not peep.</L>
<L>VVhen <HI>Abraham,</HI> to &s;acrifize his Son</L>
<L>Expre&s;t a <HI>Will,</HI> although it were not <HI>done,</HI></L>
<L>It pleas'd as well; And, GOD, for that proceed,</L>
<L>His <HI>willingne&s;&s;e,</HI> accepted for the deed.</L>
<L>It lies not in our <HI>Actions,</HI> to fulfill</L>
<L>VVhat is requir'd, &s;o much, as in our will:</L>
<L>For, <HI>two men</HI> in <HI>one cau&s;e</HI> may <HI>fight</HI> (or <HI>grinde</HI></L>
<L>At <HI>one Mill,</HI>) yet, but <HI>one,</HI> acceptance finde;</L>
<L>And, what to <HI>Act,</HI> the <HI>Law,</HI> on us doth call,</L>
<L>Sometimes, by <HI>grace,</HI> may be di&s;pens'd withall.</L>
<PB N="56" REF="31">
<L>I, therefore, know not how <HI>inlarge</HI> we may</L>
<L>Or <HI>circum&s;cribe</HI> his <HI>Highne&s;&s;e</HI> in his <HI>way;</HI></L>
<L>Nor how far, GOD, in this <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> will allow</L>
<L>A di&s;pen&s;ation after <HI>Tryall</HI> now;</L>
<L>Nor which way he will bend his heart at la&s;t;</L>
<L>But, by tho&s;e things which are already pa&s;t,</L>
<L>(And, by &s;ome other <HI>&s;ymptomes</HI> which I finde</L>
<L>Of many <HI>good performances,</HI> behinde)</L>
<L>I hope the be&s;t: and, &s;ince no better way</L>
<L>I, can be &s;erviceable; thus, I <HI>pray.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>On</HI> Earth, <HI>vouch&s;afe him better things, oh LORD!</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then,</HI> Ju&s;tice, <HI>can for</HI> Mans <HI>be&s;t works afford.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Within the</HI> VVorld <HI>to come, let him inherit,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Not that which</HI> He, <HI>but, that, which</HI> Chri&s;t <HI>doth merit.</HI></L>
<L><HI>And, give him power before he thither goe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To &s;ettle</HI> righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e <HI>and</HI> mercy <HI>&s;o,</HI></L>
<L><HI>&V;pon his</HI> Throne; <HI>that, they who now condole</HI></L>
<L><HI>May &s;ing a ble&s;&s;ed</HI> Requiem <HI>to his &s;oul;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And, that their</HI> hopes <HI>deferd, may be injoyd,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Before,</HI> they, <HI>or their</HI> patience, <HI>are de&s;troyd.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our <HI>God,</HI> hath many wayes to bring about</L>
<L>What he hath foreintended to work out.</L>
<L>That, which <HI>Conditionally</HI> to be done</L>
<L>He <HI>Wils,</HI> mu&s;t take effect in every one</L>
<L>As tho&s;e <HI>Conditions</HI> are performd by <HI>them,</HI></L>
<L>To whom, his <HI>Offers</HI> are propos'd by <HI>him;</HI></L>
<L>And, that which he hath <HI>ab&s;olutely Willd,</HI></L>
<L>Shall doubtle&s;&s;e, <HI>ab&s;olutely be fulfil'd,</HI></L>
<L>What ever <HI>Contrarieties,</HI> here, &s;hall</L>
<L>Thereto ob&s;tructive, &s;eemingly befall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For <HI>my part,</HI> therefore, when the <HI>Trial's</HI> ended,</L>
<L>Which, I unfeighnedly have recommended</L>
<L>To <HI>God,</HI> my <HI>Prince,</HI> and <HI>Country;</HI> I'le rejoyce</L>
<L>More in <HI>their chu&s;ing,</HI> then, in mine <HI>owne choyce.</HI></L>
<PB N="57" REF="31">
<L>Although I &s;uffer by it; with beleefe,</L>
<L>It will, at la&s;t, produce more <HI>joy,</HI> then <HI>greife.</HI></L>
<L>In that <HI>Ship,</HI> which the <HI>common Fraight</HI> doth beare,</L>
<L>I, am but onely a poore <HI>Pa&s;&s;enger,</HI></L>
<L>Who, moved thereto by an hone&s;t zeale,</L>
<L>Have &s;poken, what I thought concernd her weale;</L>
<L>And, though I have hereby in&s;i&s;ted much</L>
<L>On my <HI>owne &s;en&s;e;</HI> and think it to bee &s;uch</L>
<L>As may bee own'd; Though, &s;uch it be reputed</L>
<L>By <HI>others,</HI> and &s;hall never be refuted;</L>
<L>Yea, though, I may di&s;cover &s;ome things done,</L>
<L>By which, my <HI>ju&s;t rights</HI> are intrenchd upon;</L>
<L>Yet (having done my duty) I will beare</L>
<L>Tho&s;e things with patience, which concluded are;</L>
<L>And, not alone &s;ubmit, to what they doe,</L>
<L>My <HI>Goods</HI> and <HI>Per&s;on,</HI> but, my <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> too:</L>
<L>At lea&s;t &s;o farr forth, that, I will not pre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>One <HI>Argument,</HI> by which the <HI>common-peace</HI></L>
<L>May be indangerd; but, do what I may</L>
<L>To &s;erve my <HI>Country</HI> in a <HI>&s;ober way:</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>&s;ilence,</HI> things which are ami&s;&s;e deplore;</L>
<L>Think my own <HI>&s;innes</HI> de&s;erved that, and more;</L>
<L>Mark my <HI>own failings;</HI> and per&s;waded be</L>
<L>The&s;e things have happend, to make proofe of <HI>me,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;uch, as I, as well, as proofe to make</L>
<L>Of <HI>tho&s;e</HI> who were engaged for our &s;ake:</L>
<L>And, prai&s;e <HI>God,</HI> though all things be not &s;o well</L>
<L>As I <HI>de&s;ire,</HI> that, nothing wor&s;e befell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, from tho&s;e <HI>difficulties</HI> and <HI>confu&s;ions,</HI></L>
<L>Which we are in, to draw forth &s;uch <HI>conclu&s;ions</HI></L>
<L>As may not be gain&s;ayd, in &s;ome rep&s;ect,</L>
<L>Is more then <HI>Human wi&s;dome</HI> can effect.</L>
<L>The <HI>Cour&s;e</HI> by which we purpo&s;e to per&s;ue</L>
<L><HI>Beloved Peace,</HI> loathd <HI>Di&s;cords</HI> may renew;</L>
<PB N="58" REF="32">
<L>And, whil&s;t we fighting are, from <HI>Foes</HI> to clear</L>
<L>Our <HI>Vann,</HI> we may be routed in the <HI>Rear.</HI></L>
<L>By tho&s;e <HI>Contrivements,</HI> whereby, we &s;uppo&s;e</L>
<L>To &s;ave our <HI>Lives,</HI> our <HI>Honors</HI> we may lo&s;e.</L>
<L>By that, through which our <HI>Per&s;ons</HI> might be free,</L>
<L>Our <HI>Con&s;ciences,</HI> perhaps, in&s;lav'd may be;</L>
<L>And, what, for <HI>pre&s;ent &s;afety,</HI> we endeavour,</L>
<L>May for the <HI>future,</HI> ruine us for ever.</L>
<L>So <HI>finite</HI> is our <HI>Wi&s;dome,</HI> and our <HI>Powr,</HI></L>
<L>And, tho&s;e things which may <HI>weaken</HI> or <HI>devour,</HI></L>
<L>So <HI>infinite;</HI> that, we as well may &s;pan</L>
<L>The <HI>Firmament,</HI> as, by the wit of <HI>Man</HI></L>
<L>Contrive, or &s;ettle &s;uch a <HI>Government,</HI></L>
<L>As will our dangers every way prevent.</L>
<L>For, that which is <HI>be&s;t done,</HI> and <HI>be&s;t intended,</HI></L>
<L>Will &s;till have &s;omewhat in it to be mended:</L>
<L>Yea, even the <HI>be&s;t things,</HI> which <HI>be&s;t men</HI> can doe,</L>
<L><HI>In&s;narings</HI> have injected thereinto,</L>
<L>To catch <HI>them&s;elves,</HI> or <HI>others;</HI> which, none &s;capes</L>
<L>But, he, that alwayes <HI>lookes</HI> before he <HI>leapes;</HI></L>
<L>And &s;eekes for <HI>Councell</HI> and <HI>Protection,</HI> from</L>
<L>That <HI>&s;aving-powr,</HI> whence all our <HI>&s;afeties</HI> come.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He therefore is injurious, who &s;u&s;pects</L>
<L>All deeds <HI>ill purpo&s;'d,</HI> which have ill <HI>effects;</HI></L>
<L>Or, who, tho&s;e Mens <HI>Faiths</HI> into que&s;tion cals,</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Councell</HI> under &s;ome A&s;per&s;ion fals:</L>
<L>No le&s;&s;e unju&s;t are they, who froward be</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, he takes his <HI>freedome</HI> who is <HI>free,</HI></L>
<L>Yet, takes thereof no more then doth belong</L>
<L>Unto <HI>him&s;elfe,</HI> without his <HI>Neighbours wrong:</HI></L>
<L>And, they, are not in every poynt &s;o wi&s;e</L>
<L>As they might be, who, <HI>good advice</HI> de&s;pi&s;e</L>
<L>(And timely ay'd, when they are like to &s;uffer)</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, that man, whom <HI>con&s;cience</HI> mooves to offer</L>
<PB N="59" REF="32">
<L>His <HI>&s;ervices;</HI> within the <HI>Camp,</HI> hath hid</L>
<L>Him&s;elf, as <HI>Eldad,</HI> and as <HI>Medad</HI> did.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e things con&s;iderd, I, per&s;waded am</L>
<L>That neither I, nor any merits blame,</L>
<L>For ought <HI>well propos'd:</HI> and, that now the day</L>
<L>Is near at hand, which will prepare <HI>a way</HI></L>
<L>To what <HI>Good men</HI> de&s;ire: and, that a deed,</L>
<L>Which did from <HI>Con&s;cientiou&s;ne&s;s</HI> proceed.</L>
<L><HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> and <HI>Piety,</HI> no bar &s;hall prove,</L>
<L>To that which may our <HI>Grievances</HI> remove.</L>
<L>In this <HI>hope,</HI> I with <HI>patience</HI> do attend</L>
<L>What <HI>God will</HI> do; to whom, I recommend</L>
<L>The perfecting, of what men <HI>&s;trive</HI> about,</L>
<L>For, <HI>hee</HI> mu&s;t do it. Now, this <HI>Fla&s;h</HI> is out.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A SPARK.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>BUt &s;ee, here's of that <HI>Fla&s;h,</HI> a little <HI>Spark</HI></L>
<L>Yet unextingui&s;h'd; which, I pray you mark.</L>
<L>My <HI>lifes</HI> tenth <HI>Clymax</HI> is now &s;pent well near,</L>
<L>And yet, my <HI>warfare</HI> is unfini&s;h'd here.</L>
<L>I therefore, by this <HI>Fla&s;h</HI> a triall make,</L>
<L>How, if need be, <HI>Old Powder,</HI> fire will take;</L>
<L>That when occa&s;ion calls mee &s;o to do,</L>
<L>I, therewith might di&s;charge a <HI>&s;hot</HI> or <HI>two,</HI></L>
<L>Or light a <HI>Beacon,</HI> timely to <HI>Alarm</HI></L>
<L>Tho&s;e, who may by <HI>&s;urprizall,</HI> &s;uffer harm;</L>
<L>And &s;ave that, by th' <HI>Artillery</HI> of <HI>words,</HI></L>
<L>Which, cannot be &s;ecur'd by <HI>Guns</HI> and <HI>Swords.</HI></L>
<L>For, though by <HI>age,</HI> my <HI>Arms,</HI> are u&s;ele&s;s found,</L>
<L>My <HI>Heart</HI> &s;o &s;trong remains, my <HI>Brain</HI> &s;o &s;ound,</L>
<L>That both by <HI>Action,</HI> and by <HI>Contemplation,</HI></L>
<L>I may, yet, &s;ome way &s;erve this <HI>Generations;</HI></L>
<PB N="60" REF="33">
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Welfare</HI> to promote, I have be&s;town,</L>
<L>More time and co&s;t, then to advance mine <HI>own.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, when my <HI>heart's</HI> broke, &amp; hath crack't my <HI>brain,</HI></L>
<L>When all tho&s;e <HI>helps,</HI> which unto <HI>life</HI> pertain;</L>
<L>When all the <HI>pre&s;ent hopes</HI> of things <HI>without me,</HI></L>
<L>(Which to and fro, do <HI>flutter</HI> yet about me)</L>
<L>Are flown away; (as daily 'tis expected)</L>
<L>Then, will to mind be brought, <HI>things now neglected:</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>that</HI> be done, which, yet, <HI>&s;elf-love</HI> and <HI>pride</HI></L>
<L>Ob&s;truct; and will, till they be <HI>laid a&s;ide.</HI></L>
<L>Yea, then, with <HI>good re&s;pect,</HI> that will be heard,</L>
<L>Which, at this pre&s;ent, hath but &s;mall <HI>regard.</HI></L>
<L>Mean-while, I re&s;t contented with my <HI>Lot;</HI></L>
<L>For, I have that <HI>e&s;teem</HI> which others got</L>
<L>In <HI>former times,</HI> who did <HI>this way,</HI> declare</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Notions,</HI> wherewithall in&s;pir'd they were;</L>
<L>And, to di&s;charge my duties, am a debter,</L>
<L>Though my requitall, never &s;hould be better.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There lies a little <HI>Grain,</HI> rack'd up within,</L>
<L>From whence, my <HI>better-being</HI> will begin:</L>
<L>And, when mo&s;t <HI>Weakne&s;&s;es</HI> appear in me,</L>
<L>My <HI>Powr,</HI> &s;hall then, in <HI>full-perfection</HI> be:</L>
<L>Yea, when I have nor <HI>Life, Fle&s;h, Blood,</HI> nor <HI>Bone,</HI></L>
<L>Then, that, which could not by tho&s;e <HI>Tools</HI> be done,</L>
<L>Shall be performd; and, many things which are</L>
<L>Yet <HI>dark,</HI> will <HI>plain,</HI> and u&s;efull, then, appear.</L>
<L>Mean-while, O <HI>God</HI> vouch&s;afe thou, to <HI>forgive</HI></L>
<L>What, hinders their <HI>performance,</HI> whil'&s;t I <HI>live.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<CLOSER>So prays,
<SIGNED>Britans Remembrancer.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="addendum">
<PB N="61" REF="33">
<HEAD>A Cau&s;e Allegorically Stated,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">With an <HI>Appeal</HI> therein, to all that are <HI>wi&s;e</HI> and <HI>hone&s;t,</HI> from an injurious <HI>cen&s;ure,</HI> lately pa&s;&s;ed.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A <HI>Goodly Ship,</HI> with precious lading fraught,</L>
<L>Late, in a <HI>dark night,</HI> near to <HI>land</HI> was brought.</L>
<L>Through many <HI>dangers,</HI> and much <HI>Blu&s;tering weather,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Providence of God,</HI> had brought her thither;</L>
<L>And, by the <HI>Waters motions,</HI> and &s;ome <HI>Humming</HI></L>
<L>Among the <HI>Shrowds,</HI> another <HI>&s;torm</HI> &s;eem'd coming.</L>
<L>The <HI>place ariv'd at,</HI> was a dangerous <HI>Bay,</HI></L>
<L>From which, into the <HI>Port,</HI> two <HI>Channells</HI> lay,</L>
<L>Divided by a <HI>Quicksand,</HI> with great &s;tore</L>
<L>Of <HI>Shelvs,</HI> and <HI>Sharp-rocks,</HI> upon either <HI>Shore:</HI></L>
<L>She had a brave <HI>Commander, Marchants</HI> many;</L>
<L>Stout <HI>Seamen, Pilots</HI> too, as good as any,</L>
<L>With <HI>Pa&s;&s;engers</HI> of all &s;orts; among whom</L>
<L>Some could (had need been) have &s;uppli'd the room</L>
<L>Of <HI>well experiens'd Sea-men,</HI> and advis'd</L>
<L>Such things, as <HI>Prudence</HI> would not have di&s;pis'd.</L>
<L>But, the&s;e among them&s;elvs, divided were,</L>
<L>Through which of the&s;e two <HI>Channels,</HI> they &s;hould &s;teer,</L>
<L><HI>One party,</HI> thinking that the <HI>&s;afe&s;t way,</HI></L>
<L>In which the <HI>other,</HI> thought mo&s;t <HI>danger</HI> lay:</L>
<L>And in the <HI>dark,</HI> it could not well be &s;een,</L>
<L>In which, the greate&s;t <HI>Hazzard</HI> would have been.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There was a poor <HI>Old man,</HI> that time, a board,</L>
<L>To whom, <HI>God,</HI> had been plea&s;ed to afford</L>
<L>A <HI>faculty,</HI> to &s;ee things in the <HI>dark,</HI></L>
<L>Which others could not <HI>view,</HI> or, did not <HI>mark;</HI></L>
<L>He, &s;eeing what great <HI>&s;traights</HI> the <HI>Ship</HI> was in,</L>
<L>And what their lo&s;s was likely to have been,</L>
<PB N="62" REF="34">
<L>Call'd out to tho&s;e, who there had <HI>Chief Commmand;</HI></L>
<L>And &s;aid; <HI>there</HI> &s;tands a <HI>Rock;</HI> here lies a <HI>&s;and,</HI></L>
<L>Another <HI>yonder,</HI> and, a <HI>Whirlpool</HI> there;</L>
<L>Be carefull therefore, <HI>thither not to &s;teer;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Bear</HI> up a little while into the <HI>Wind,</HI></L>
<L>(Although a &s;hew of danger there you find)</L>
<L>And take heed, that a cau&s;le&s;s fear or doubt,</L>
<L>Prevails not now, to make you <HI>Tack-about:</HI></L>
<L>Le&s;t all be lo&s;t, and, you, upon a <HI>&s;teep</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ridge &s;trike;</HI> and, <HI>over-&s;et</HI> into the <HI>deep.</HI></L>
<L>Now, by the <HI>Starbord&s;ide</HI> a compa&s;s fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ch,</L>
<L>Halfe way to <HI>you point,</HI> to avoyd <HI>that Beach;</HI></L>
<L>And then, upon the <HI>Larbord&s;ide</HI> again</L>
<L><HI>Wheel off,</HI> and you the <HI>Harbor</HI> &s;hall attain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus &s;pake the <HI>Old man:</HI> for although 'twere night,</L>
<L>He &s;aw as well, as when the <HI>Sun</HI> gives light;</L>
<L>And then, all they who had a will to &s;ee,</L>
<L>Saw how to find the <HI>way,</HI> as well as hee.</L>
<L>The <HI>greater part,</HI> not heeding what they heard,</L>
<L>(Nor knowing their own danger) <HI>grinn'd</HI> and <HI>jeer'd;</HI></L>
<L>Suppos'd him mad, to talk, and make a &s;hew</L>
<L>Of <HI>Demon&s;trations,</HI> which they could not view;</L>
<L>Crept from the <HI>hatches,</HI> down into the <HI>hold,</HI></L>
<L>And let them look unto the <HI>Ship</HI> that would.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, they, who more &s;ought their own <HI>will</HI> to have,</L>
<L>Then to be <HI>coun&s;el'd,</HI> or, the <HI>Ship</HI> to &s;ave;</L>
<L>Di&s;daining that an aged <HI>doting fool,</HI></L>
<L>Should put their <HI>Wi&s;edom,</HI> as it were, to &s;chool;</L>
<L>(And, &s;eeing his <HI>Relations</HI> tend unto,</L>
<L>That, which their <HI>Captain</HI> had re&s;olv'd to do)</L>
<L>Grew <HI>angry,</HI> Therefore, though he neither fears</L>
<L>Their <HI>wrath,</HI> nor much for their <HI>disfavour</HI> cares;</L>
<L>Hereby, he hath appealed unto you,</L>
<L>Who, are known <HI>hone&s;t, wi&s;e, goodmen,</HI> and true;</L>
<PB N="63" REF="34">
<L>And, praies you, to be Judges, how he hath,</L>
<L>Or wherein, any way de&s;erv'd their <HI>Wrath:</HI></L>
<L>For, here in brief, his <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> is plainly &s;how'n,</L>
<L>And, 'tis to &s;ome among you, &s;o well known,</L>
<L>That, if you &s;hall condemne him, hee'l &s;ubmit</L>
<L>To make what <HI>Satisfaction,</HI> you think fit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>If this comes forth too late to take effect,</HI></L>
<L><HI>My <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> knows, it was not my neglect:</HI></L>
<L><HI>For I, my utmo&s;t <HI>labour,</HI> had be&s;town,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To make it, in <HI>a timely-&s;ea&s;on</HI> known.</HI></L>
<L><HI>If, therefore, ought ami&s;&s;e thereby en&s;ue,</HI></L>
<L><HI>There lay the <HI>Fault,</HI> to whom the <HI>Blame</HI> is due.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="addendum">
<PB REF="35">
<HEAD>Here being vacant <HI>Pages,</HI> the <HI>Au|thor</HI> hath filled them with a Copie of certain <HI>Ver&s;es,</HI> where|with he lately inclo&s;ed two <HI>Pe|titions</HI> to the PARLAMENT, and laid them within their <HI>Thre&s;hold;</HI> hoping by that <HI>Ex|pedient,</HI> they might have been pre&s;ented to the <HI>Hou&s;e;</HI> The Paper was thus Super&s;cribed; <Q>To that <HI>Member</HI> of <HI>PARLAMENT,</HI> who takes up this <HI>Paper,</HI> with the <HI>Petition</HI> inclo&s;ed.</Q></HEAD>
<P>The Ver&s;es are the&s;e:</P>
<LG>
<L>_SIR, if you are not of this PARLAMENT,</L>
<L>Herewith to greet you, 'tis not my intent;</L>
<L>But, if a <HI>Member</HI> of this <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> you are,</L>
<L>Your taking up this <HI>Paper</HI> (as it were)</L>
<L>By <HI>Lot,</HI> ingageth you to manage tho&s;e</L>
<L><HI>Petitions,</HI> which, therewith I did inclo&s;e,</L>
<L>As, you would have <HI>another,</HI> u&s;e his pow'r,</L>
<L>Therein, for <HI>your avail,</HI> were my <HI>ca&s;e</HI> your:</L>
<L>Whereof take this <HI>Account;</HI> and, why I play</L>
<L>My Cards refus'd, in this <HI>unu&s;ual way.</HI></L>
</LG>
<PB N="65" REF="35">
<LG>
<L><HI>Three Parlaments</HI> (the elde&s;t of which <HI>three,</HI></L>
<L>Might, had it plea&s;ed our LORD, have out-liv'd me)</L>
<L>Are dead and gone, &s;ince fir&s;t I did complain</L>
<L>Of <HI>Grievances,</HI> which hitherto remain</L>
<L>Without <HI>Redre&s;s.</HI> I, al&s;o have &s;urviv'd</L>
<L>To &s;ee a <HI>Fourth,</HI> which hath it &s;elf out-liv'd,</L>
<L>And may continue, till it hath &s;uppli'd</L>
<L>What, <HI>Providence,</HI> is thereby to provide</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For needful <HI>&s;upplements,</HI> to carry on</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Works,</HI> which in the&s;e <HI>Nations</HI> are begun.</L>
<L>God grant it <HI>Pow'r,</HI> and <HI>Will,</HI> and <HI>Time,</HI> to do</L>
<L>What, they by <HI>Duty,</HI> are oblig'd unto,</L>
<L>That, they from <HI>wrongs,</HI> the <HI>wronged</HI> may relea&s;e;</L>
<L>Proceed with <HI>Honour,</HI> and conclude in <HI>Peace.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To &s;uch <HI>Atchievments,</HI> there's a <HI>middle-way,</HI></L>
<L>'Twixt <HI>This,</HI> and <HI>That;</HI> 'twixt <HI>ha&s;t,</HI> and <HI>long-delay:</HI></L>
<L>Which, if <HI>mi&s;taken,</HI> or not <HI>timely found,</HI></L>
<L>May (as it hath done) lead into a <HI>Round,</HI></L>
<L>(Or <HI>Labyrinth</HI>) whereby, we may be brought</L>
<L>To <HI>pits</HI> and <HI>&s;nares,</HI> which have no <HI>pa&s;&s;age out;</HI></L>
<L>And multiply <HI>di&s;tractions,</HI> till our <HI>prai'rs</HI></L>
<L>Are turn'd to <HI>indignation,</HI> or <HI>di&s;pairs:</HI></L>
<L>Which, is their <HI>drift</HI> (and not their lea&s;t <HI>de&s;igne</HI>)</L>
<L>Who, &s;eek this <HI>Common-wealth,</HI> to undermine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>publick wants,</HI> require to be &s;uppl'd,</L>
<L>A <HI>private plaint</HI> may then be laid a&s;ide,</L>
<L>But, not too long deferr'd, le&s;t it become</L>
<L>A <HI>fe&s;tring-&s;oar,</HI> not meanly peril&s;ome:</L>
<L>For, &s;ince an <HI>Univer&s;al-weal</HI> con&s;i&s;ts</L>
<L>Of many <HI>Individual Intere&s;ts,</HI></L>
<L>A <HI>perfect Body</HI> cannot be injoi'd,</L>
<L>Where, <HI>One</HI> by <HI>One,</HI> the <HI>Members</HI> are de&s;troi'd;</L>
<L>And, when the <HI>Eie</HI> or <HI>Ear,</HI> unheedful grows</L>
<L>Of what, afflicts the <HI>fingers,</HI> and the <HI>Toes;</HI></L>
<PB N="66" REF="36">
<L>Much le&s;&s;e, when it neglects what appertains</L>
<L>To keep it, from an <HI>Ulcer</HI> in the <HI>Brains.</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>cures</HI> therefore, of <HI>private wants,</HI> betwixt</L>
<L><HI>Publick tran&s;actions,</HI> &s;hould be intermixt;</L>
<L>(At lea&s;t &s;omtimes) in tho&s;e <HI>immergent things,</HI></L>
<L>Wherein, delay of <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> lo&s;&s;es brings</L>
<L>Beyond repair; or where the <HI>State</HI> at la&s;t</L>
<L>Mu&s;t bear the <HI>dammage,</HI> when the <HI>cure</HI> is pa&s;t;</L>
<L>Or el&s;e, in <HI>point of honour,</HI> &s;uffer more</L>
<L>Then all the <HI>publick trea&s;ure</HI> will re&s;tore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I grudg not, when GOD's <HI>glory</HI> is at &s;take,</L>
<L>That they, who con&s;cience of their <HI>Votes</HI> do make,</L>
<L>Should take the <HI>freedom</HI> to debate at large,</L>
<L>What, may their <HI>duties</HI> in their place di&s;charge;</L>
<L>Or, when the <HI>Common-&s;afety</HI> doth appear</L>
<L>In hazard, though my life in danger were:</L>
<L>But, when tho&s;e <HI>brunts</HI> are over, if men plea&s;e,</L>
<L>For their meer <HI>plea&s;ure, profit,</HI> or their <HI>ea&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>To leave us in a peri&s;hing condition,</L>
<L>It, of their <HI>faithfulne&s;s,</HI> may give &s;u&s;pition;</L>
<L>And, I more grieve, for what I thereby &s;ee</L>
<L>May on the <HI>publick fall,</HI> then <HI>falls</HI> on <HI>mee.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There's <HI>time</HI> enough in all <HI>&s;treights</HI> what&s;oe're,</L>
<L>For all things, if it well divided were:</L>
<L>And, for our not apportioning aright</L>
<L>The <HI>time</HI> we have (as <HI>wi&s;emen</HI> &s;ee we might)</L>
<L>GOD, cuts off half the daies we &s;hould have had,</L>
<L>And our <HI>de&s;ignments</HI> are abortive made.</L>
<L>As wee from <HI>week</HI> to <HI>week,</HI> from <HI>day</HI> to <HI>day</HI></L>
<L>Do put off tho&s;e, who for our &s;uccours pray;</L>
<L>So likewi&s;e, are our <HI>&s;uits</HI> and <HI>hopes</HI> put by,</L>
<L>By <HI>him,</HI> on who&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;tance we rely.</L>
<L>An <HI>hour</HI> therefore, &s;hould otherwhile be &s;pent,</L>
<L>To give <HI>Reward,</HI> as well as <HI>Puni&s;hment;</HI></L>
<PB N="67" REF="36">
<L>To think on them who help us in our <HI>&s;orrow;</HI></L>
<L>As well to make <HI>repaiments,</HI> as to <HI>borrow;</HI></L>
<L>And, like the <HI>Tree</HI> that's planted by a <HI>&s;pring,</HI></L>
<L>Expected <HI>fruits,</HI> in <HI>&s;ea&s;on,</HI> we &s;hould bring;</L>
<L>Not nine or ten years after they are dead,</L>
<L>(Who, by our <HI>timely fruit</HI> &s;hould have been &s;ed)</L>
<L>Le&s;t we be felled by the <HI>Wood-mans</HI> hand,</L>
<L>Or, like the <HI>Fig-tree,</HI> wither where we &s;tand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>One day,</HI> is as well &s;par'd &s;ometime, to &s;ave</L>
<L>An <HI>hone&s;t-man,</HI> as <HI>nine</HI> to doom a <HI>knave;</HI></L>
<L>And, of an <HI>u&s;eful Plant</HI> to take due care,</L>
<L>As, from the <HI>good-corn,</HI> to weed out a <HI>Tare.</HI></L>
<L>Some private <HI>acts of Ju&s;tice,</HI> with our <HI>zeal</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>Piety,</HI> and to the <HI>Publick-weal,</HI></L>
<L>(Or <HI>works of mercy</HI>) &s;prinkled here and there</L>
<L>Among them, like <HI>embroid'ries</HI> would appear,</L>
<L>Or flowers of gold and &s;ilver <HI>interwove,</HI></L>
<L>And helpful be, <HI>devotion</HI> to improve:</L>
<L>For, where few <HI>private grievances</HI> are heard,</L>
<L>God, gives their <HI>publick praiers</HI> &s;mall regard:</L>
<L>And, few are in that <HI>Common-wealth</HI> much joi'd,</L>
<L>By which, their own <HI>well-being</HI> is de&s;troi'd;</L>
<L>Or, which is &s;en&s;le&s;s, of their &s;ad e&s;tate,</L>
<L>Who did help &s;ave it, from a <HI>&s;adder fate.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Among &s;uch <HI>&s;uff'rers,</HI> I my &s;elf am <HI>One,</HI></L>
<L>Who, gladly would be better thought upon,</L>
<L>For your own &s;akes; who, peradventure, may</L>
<L>Have by my <HI>lo&s;&s;e,</HI> twice mine, another way.</L>
<L>As many <HI>years</HI> as are equivalent</L>
<L>To <HI>two men's lives,</HI> I have already &s;pent</L>
<L>To &s;eek for <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> with &s;uch <HI>co&s;t,</HI> &s;uch <HI>trouble,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>lo&s;&s;e of time,</HI> as make my lo&s;&s;es double:</L>
<L>So that if many <HI>&s;uits,</HI> here, at this rate,</L>
<L>I had depending, <HI>three times my e&s;tate,</HI></L>
<PB N="68" REF="37">
<L>And <HI>three mens lives,</HI> would &s;carce afford me <HI>time,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>means</HI> enough, whereby to fini&s;h them:</L>
<L>For, my <HI>Petitions,</HI> either were deferr'd</L>
<L>From <HI>mouth</HI> to <HI>mouth,</HI> from <HI>year</HI> to <HI>year,</HI> unheard,</L>
<L>Or an&s;wer'd &s;o, that when my <HI>&s;uit</HI> &s;eemd, done,</L>
<L>My <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> prov'd wor&s;e, then when it fir&s;t begun;</L>
<L>And, to ob&s;truct the <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> I emplore,</L>
<L>They, voice me to be <HI>rich,</HI> who make me <HI>poor.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With <HI>mock-&s;hews</HI> of relief, I have been fed;</L>
<L>With <HI>&s;tones,</HI> In my <HI>di&s;tre&s;s,</HI> in&s;tead of <HI>bread;</HI></L>
<L>Which, had ere this day &s;tarv'd me, but that GOD,</L>
<L>Turns many of them, into <HI>whol&s;ome food;</HI></L>
<L>And rais'd me a <HI>&s;ub&s;i&s;tance,</HI> out of that</L>
<L>Which was de&s;ign'd to ruine my <HI>e&s;tate.</HI></L>
<L>His <HI>Highne&s;s,</HI> al&s;o &s;tor'd me with a <HI>Di&s;h,</HI></L>
<L>Which hath converted <HI>Scorpions,</HI> into <HI>Fi&s;h:</HI></L>
<L>El&s;e, that <HI>&s;mall portion,</HI> which I yet po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>(And &s;ome Envie) had long ago been le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>(It may be <HI>nothing</HI>); for, that <HI>Act of Grace,</HI></L>
<L>Is made le&s;&s;e valuable, then it was</L>
<L>By him intended, of who&s;e free donation</L>
<L>It was conferr'd, beyond my expectation.</L>
<L>Oh! if that I, who have &s;ome <HI>friends,</HI> thus far'd,</L>
<L>How &s;peed poor men, whom no man doth regard?</L>
<L>And, who, from none, can claime an obligation,</L>
<L>Either by <HI>Friend&s;hip, Faction,</HI> or <HI>Relation?</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, now, <HI>new-mi&s;adventures</HI> me be&s;et,</L>
<L>Which, by delay of <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> do beget</L>
<L><HI>Increa&s;ing mi&s;chiefs,</HI> that admit no <HI>cure,</HI></L>
<L>Save, what mu&s;t from a <HI>Legi&s;lative pow'r,</HI></L>
<L>Derived be: And, this befalls me &s;o,</L>
<L>Perhaps, that I, in every <HI>Change,</HI> may know,</L>
<L>The <HI>gen'ral temper,</HI> by the <HI>pul&s;e</HI> that beats</L>
<L>Both in Superiour, and Inferiour &s;eats;</L>
<PB N="69" REF="37">
<L>That, I, thereby may calculate the length</L>
<L>Of our <HI>oppre&s;&s;ions,</HI> and improve my &s;trenth</L>
<L>To bear them: mark, how well our <HI>publick Acts,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ingagements, Orders, Bargains,</HI> and <HI>Contracts</HI></L>
<L>Will be perform'd; and, that, as by <HI>pre&s;age,</HI></L>
<L>Of things that &s;ince befell, I told this <HI>Age</HI></L>
<L>Before they came; &s;o, I, might likewi&s;e tell</L>
<L>The <HI>next Age,</HI> what I &s;aw <HI>done ill,</HI> or <HI>well.</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> many have be&s;ought to entertain,</L>
<L>And offer my petitions, but, in vain.</L>
<L>Now therefore, having with &s;ome patience &s;tayd</L>
<L><HI>Six months</HI> at door, to get my <HI>&s;uites</HI> convayd</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nto this <HI>Hou&s;e,</HI> where, &s;eeing ev'ry day,</L>
<L><HI>New &s;uitors</HI> more and more &s;top up the way,</L>
<L>And &s;mall &s;igne, that, with any I &s;hould meet,</L>
<L>To <HI>hand them in,</HI> I laid them at their <HI>feet</HI></L>
<L>Who pa&s;s in thither; hopeful, that it may,</L>
<L>For my <HI>inclos</HI>'d <HI>Petitions</HI> make <HI>free way,</HI></L>
<L>Through tho&s;e <HI>Obstructions,</HI> which have &s;hut the <HI>gate</HI></L>
<L>Again&s;t them, till they come almo&s;t too late.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>He,</HI> who &s;hall <HI>take them up,</HI> and get them read,</L>
<L>Where, with effect, they may be an&s;wered;</L>
<L>A <HI>Favour</HI> &s;hall confer, by doing &s;o,</L>
<L>On <HI>me,</HI> and likewi&s;e upon <HI>many moe.</HI></L>
<L>For, if my <HI>&s;uits,</HI> obtain re&s;pective heed,</L>
<L>Some other men, wil hope, as well to &s;peed;</L>
<L>And of my <HI>wrongs,</HI> if no redre&s;s I have,</L>
<L>Both I, and they much future co&s;t may &s;ave.</L>
<L>GOD &s;peed it well: for, I, with what event</L>
<L>He gives it, am re&s;olv'd, to be content;</L>
<L>And, am a&s;&s;ur'd, that though I be neglected,</L>
<L>By <HI>men,</HI> I &s;hall of him, be <HI>&s;till re&s;pected.</HI></L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Britans Remembrancer.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="postscript">
<PB N="70" REF="38">
<HEAD>A <HI>Po&s;t&s;cript</HI> to the Preceding <HI>Ver&s;es.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THey, who to neither <HI>Side,</HI> nor <HI>Back,</HI> nor <HI>Further</HI></L>
<L>Can <HI>turn,</HI> or <HI>pa&s;s,</HI> need no <HI>Re&s;traints</HI> by <HI>Order.</HI></L>
<L>Nor greatly be afraid what next will come,</L>
<L>Their, ju&s;t <HI>re&s;olvings,</HI> to divert them from;</L>
<L>And, that, whereto <HI>nece&s;&s;ities</HI> compell,</L>
<L>Is <HI>done excu&s;ably,</HI> though not <HI>done well.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If much <HI>oppre&s;&s;ion,</HI> cracks a <HI>wi&s;eman's</HI> brain,</L>
<L>Who knows, whereto, it may a <HI>fool</HI> con&s;train?</L>
<L>They, whom <HI>delay of Ju&s;tice</HI> doth make <HI>poor,</HI></L>
<L>Do lo&s;e but their <HI>e&s;tates,</HI> and, may get more:</L>
<L>If, therewithall, they are of life depriv'd,</L>
<L>They <HI>feel</HI> not, what to <HI>feel,</HI> they might have <HI>liv'd:</HI></L>
<L>But, he who doth in <HI>life-time,</HI> thereby lo&s;e</L>
<L>Both <HI>wealth</HI> and <HI>credit,</HI> &s;hall to <HI>friends</HI> and <HI>foes</HI></L>
<L>Become a <HI>&s;corn;</HI> whereat, if <HI>mad</HI> he be,</L>
<L>And, makes <HI>ten thou&s;ands</HI> grow as mad as he,</L>
<L>The <HI>fault</HI> is theirs, who, without mercy, &s;tretch</L>
<L>A weak man's <HI>patience,</HI> farther then 'twil reach;</L>
<L>As if, he, of his <HI>&s;uff'ring</HI> &s;en&s;e had none,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, they no more feel it, then a <HI>&s;tone.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My <HI>principle</HI> (which makes me oft abus'd)</L>
<L>Injoins me, when I &s;curvily am us'd</L>
<L>Where I expect <HI>relief,</HI> to &s;hew my <HI>wrongs;</HI></L>
<L>And, <HI>vengeance</HI> leave, to whom the &s;ame belongs;</L>
<L>But, <HI>&s;ome men,</HI> cannot be content to &s;tay</L>
<L>GOD's lei&s;ure, or, for <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> in his <HI>way;</HI></L>
<L>And, what, their <HI>wants, neglects,</HI> and <HI>indignation</HI></L>
<L>May tempt them to, is worth con&s;ideration.</L>
<L>There is to all things, an appointed <HI>date;</HI></L>
<L>And, they are <HI>unwi&s;e,</HI> who are <HI>wi&s;e too late.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L><HI>Nece&s;&s;itas, &amp; indignatio quid non po&s;&s;unt</HI></L>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="38">
</DIV1>
</BACK>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
</ETS>
