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<HEAD><HI>VVord of &s;ea&s;onable and &s;ound Coun&s;ell,</HI> Laid down in &s;everall <HI>Propo&s;als,</HI> which takes in very much of the Sen&s;e and Agreement of the good People of the&s;e Nations, both touching the Work, and touching the &s;utable Work-men thereunto, which the wonderful Appearance and Providences of the Righteous Lord, &s;eemes to Point at in this our day.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Humbly Tendered and Pre&s;ented unto tho&s;e that are in eminent Place in this juncture of Affaires, both in a Civill and in a Military Capacity. By divers well Affected per&s;ons to the general Peace, Pro&s;perity and Liberty of the&s;e Nations; Inhabiting in and about the City of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">As an <HI>E&s;&s;ay</HI> in order to a well grounded Vnity, Peace, and Settlement, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. FIr&s;t, It is humbly propo&s;ed, That you would &s;o &s;et the Lord of Ho&s;ts before your eyes, who hath very eminently appeared in your &s;ight all along, on the behalf of his People, and that good and righteous Cau&s;e, that hath been &s;till on your hearts to travel with, that you may &s;tand in awe of his Maje&s;ty, and walk in his fear all the day long, yea all the dayes of your lives, and &s;o in his fear as not at any time, to &s;tep before him, &s;tart a&s;ide from him, or &s;tay behind him, but to adhear unto him, and to follow him both clo&s;ely and fully.</P>
<P N="2">2. Secondly, That you would in his fear diligently &s;earch and try your hearts and wayes, to the end you may find out, what hath been your great Evils, and Mi&s;|carriages &amp; un&s;utable behavour before his Maje&s;ty, in reference either to &s;elf-&s;eeking, treacherous dealing, covenant breaking, or &s;uch like Provocations whether hereto|fore or in this late hour of temptation. And having found out what is ami&s;&s;e in any of the&s;e re&s;pects, that you would humble your &s;ouls before the Lord of Ho&s;ts for the &s;ame, give glory to him, and take &s;hame to your &s;elves, if perhaps your Provocations may be forgiven you, &s;o as further to delight to make u&s;e of you in carring on tho&s;e great and glorious de&s;ignes of his, which undoubtedly he is about to effect (and that according to Prophecies) in the&s;e la&s;t dayes of the world, in which we live.</P>
<P N="3">3. Thirdly, That having done thus, you that have the fear of the Lord and his goodne&s;s upon your hearts, and favour that righteous Cau&s;e that he and his People have appeared in, that you, we &s;ay, laying a&s;ide all &s;elf-&s;eeking, animo&s;ity and Prejudice, would endeavour in a peaceable and friendly uniting each to other, and as one man in this juncture of time, to improve your wi&s;dome and intere&s;t the utmo&s;t, to Prevent the great de&s;ign of your grand Adver&s;ary, which is to divide and de&s;troy both you and us: And that you will &s;eek to effect this by a &s;peedy, unanimous, and vigorous re&s;olving upon &s;uch things, as tends to the uniting the hearts of, the hone&s;t party in the&s;e Nations and to the bringing forth tho&s;e good things, which takes in the common ju&s;t concernments of all men, &amp; have been &s;o much Pretended to, &amp; &s;o often decla|red for; which being effected, cannot fail to be accompanied with &s;uch a Pre&s;ence and ble&s;&s;ing from the Lord, and with &s;uch a common concurrance of all unbya&s;ed men, as will undoubtedly &s;ecure your&s;elves and the&s;e Nations from &s;uch hazards, as in &s;uch a Po&s;ture as this they are every moment expo&s;ed unto, and to exalt them above other Nations, in the injoyment of abundance of Peace, Pro&s;perity and Liberty.</P>
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<HEAD>The things humbly tendered, as meet to be by you in the fear of the Lord &s;peedily re&s;olued upon, and in his &s;trength (in this juncture of Affaires) unanimou&s;ly and vigorou&s;ly Pro&s;ecuted, in order to attain the end before &s;pecified, are as followeth.</HEAD>
<ITEM>1. Fir&s;t, Let it be in the fear of the Lord re&s;olved; That &s;ingular care &s;hall be taken from time to time, that the Arrears of the poor Souldiers, the Pentions of the poor Pentioners, and the Publick faith debts, of the poor Creditors of the&s;e Nations, (who&s;e &s;traights pre&s;&s;eth them &s;ore, and makes them to &s;igh, and who&s;e &s;ighs and cryes goes up unto Heaven, and will have their returns) may be &s;peedily and out of the fir&s;t receipts di&s;charged and cleared.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Secondly, That &s;ingular care &s;hall be taken from time to time, that the poor in general thorowout the&s;e Nations, which are very numerous now, (by rea&s;on of the decay of Trade, and other wayes) may be &s;o provided for, and in &s;uch &s;ort, that all the Impotent may be releived, and all the able may be imployed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Thirdly, That there &s;hall be a &s;peedy and effectual cour&s;e taken to rectifie the Laws, and the male-Admini&s;tration thereof, by bringing them into a Breif, Plain, and ea&s;ie Method and Form; and as neer the Laws of that famous Common-wealth of I&s;rael, as the nature and Con&s;titution of a Gentile State (under the pre&s;ent di&s;pen|&s;ation of light and grace) will admit; and &s;o, that as much &s;trife and contention between man and man as may be, might be prevented, and what by &s;uch a Provi&s;ion cannot be prevented, might be with as much ea&s;e and &s;peed, and with as little expence of Money and irritation of &s;pirit as may be, fully redre&s;&s;ed, &s;o that loving kind|ne&s;s, judgment and righteou&s;ne&s;s, which the righteous Lord him&s;elf delights to be exerci&s;ed in on the earth, may be found and felt in our Land, to the great content|ment and rejoycing of the inhabitants thereof.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Fourthly, That &s;ingular care &s;hall be forthwith taken about that perplexing bu&s;ine&s;s of Tythes, which being continued as now it is, &s;tands but as a relict of Mo|narchy, and as a witne&s;s again&s;t the&s;e Nations, as if they denyed the change of the Prie&s;t-hood that was under the Law, or that Chri&s;t Je&s;us was come in the fle&s;h, is al|&s;o a thing that looks, &s;o unlike the maintenance of a true Go&s;pel Mini&s;try, and which is as &s;ome conceive the very fomenter, and nouri&s;her of a Per&s;ecuting, and impo|&s;ing Spirit in the&s;e Nations; by rea&s;on whereof, even under the greate&s;t Profe&s;&s;ion of liberty, many tender Con&s;ciences have been daily perplexed, and very much of the Land of the Nation hath laine unimproved, which is rendred by many, as a great rea&s;on of the &s;carcene&s;s of Corn, which hazards a Famine of times in the Nation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. Fifthly, That the very much decayed Trade of this Nation, both in the&s;e famous Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and other Places (&s;o univer&s;ally complained of) and by the many &s;ad effects &s;o fully Demon&s;trated, may now thorow &s;pecial care be forthwith revived, by ea&s;ing the trouble&s;ome and vexatious burdens that lies upon it, and by putting it under a good regulation and Government; That the Seas may be &s;o guarded, that being propounded as the ground of the Cu&s;tomes; that the Trade, Trea&s;ure, and &s;trength of the&s;e Nations, may not &s;o often fall into the hands of the enemies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. Sixtly, That all the Relicts and Props of corrupt Monarchy, thorowout the&s;e Nations, which do but wait and &s;erve for its return, and have entrencht upon the free-born Peoples Rights, and Liberties upon a Civil account, &s;hall be forthwith diligently enquired into, and &s;peedily removed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. Seventhly, That all the Relicts and Props of Hierchy, thorowout the&s;e Nations, which do but wait and &s;erve for its return, and have entrenched upon the Peoples Rights, and Liberties, upon a Religious account, &s;hall be forthwith diligently enquired into, and &s;peedily removed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. Eightly, That all tho&s;e horrible corruptions, abu&s;es, and mi&s;chiefs, which have crept into hou&s;es that have been erected and maintained by free Donation, for Charitable u&s;es, and al&s;o all tho&s;e corruptions and abu&s;es, that are found in the Pri&s;ons thorowout the&s;e Nations, and e&s;pecially tho&s;e of the Kings Bench, the Fleet, New|gate, and Ludgate, &s;hall be forthwith diligently enquired into, and &s;peedily removed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. Ninthly, That none &s;hall be for&s;t upon any Publick imployment in this Common-wealth again&s;t his will and con&s;ent, and that who&s;oever is imployed from time to time in the management of the affairs thereof, from the highe&s;t unto the lowe&s;t, &s;hall receive out of the publick Revenue, a &s;utable recompence and incourage|ment for his &s;ervice therein: and then in ca&s;e any &s;hall be found taking bribes, either directly, or indirectly, or otherwi&s;e unfaithful in the tru&s;t committed to him, he &s;hall be &s;everely puni&s;hed, and forthwith ca&s;hiered.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10. Tenthly, that &s;ome &s;ub&s;tantial Laws, relating to Liberty and Freedome, both upon a Civil, and upon a Religious account, whereby every man may be pre&s;erved &s;afe in his per&s;on, name and e&s;tate, from the violence of another, under what pretence &s;oever; that &s;uch we &s;ay, may be laid as Fundamentals in the bottome of your Govern|ment, as that which hath been gotten with &s;o much difficulty, and is the price of &s;o much bloud and trea&s;ure; Let the&s;e be known to be as the Laws of the <HI>Meads</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> that cannot be altered, no not by future Repre&s;entatives; and among other, let this be one; That in ca&s;e any Repre&s;entive of the people, &s;hall pre&s;ume by the Major vote to alter or make void the&s;e or any of the&s;e fir&s;t Fundamentals, they &s;hall be lookt upon as violating the tru&s;t committed to them, and &s;uch act and acts of theirs, &s;hall be deemed void and null to all intents and purpu&s;es, as if the &s;ame had never been, and &s;hall be no wayes obleiging upon the con&s;ciences of the good people of the&s;e three Nations. And moreover, that the per&s;on, or per&s;ons, that fir&s;t moved therein, &s;hall be judged Traitors to the Liberties of the People, and of his Country in the highe&s;t degree, and proceeded again&s;t accordingly.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11. Eleventhly, That none of the free-born People of the&s;e Nations, &s;hall be arre&s;ted, impri&s;oned, bani&s;hed, condemned, or &s;entenced to the lo&s;s of Life, Limb, E&s;tate, or Liberty, or be any otherwayes mole&s;ted, or di&s;tre&s;&s;ed, after a very &s;hort time prefixt, but by the lawful Judgment of their Peers, or by vertue of, and according to &s;ome known, approved, publi&s;hed Law, or Laws of the&s;e Nations.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12. La&s;tly, That for the more certain, &s;peedy and thorow effecting hereof, whereby deeds may demon&s;trate, that the&s;e are not only words, but even re&s;olves by the finger of God &s;et on your hearts; Let men be found out and imployed of a &s;utable Spirit to the&s;e re&s;olves, with whom you may in the name and fear of the Lord engage and re&s;olve to &s;tand, or fall, live or die together, in a thorow pur&s;ute thereof, in order to the putting of all &s;orts of men into a better and more flouri&s;hing capaci|ty then that wherein now they are; &s;o that intere&s;t may engage them there to remain, and as one man to ri&s;e up and with&s;tand a return; and in order to enjoy, as in ancient times, their free Repre&s;entatives; Let the Per&s;ons be according to <HI>Jethro's</HI> Coun&s;el, able men, fearing God, men of truth, hating covetou&s;ne&s;s, and &s;uch as are in a good mea&s;ure freed by the Spirit of the Go&s;pel, from impo&s;ing upon the con&s;ciences of others, in things that relate to the wor&s;hip and &s;ervice of God, as having learned by experience, that it is not by might, nor by power, that things of that nature are carried on, and that the wrath of man doth not at all accompli&s;h the righteou&s;ne&s;s of God.</ITEM>
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<P>Thus doing, you will demon&s;trate that the Lord of Ho&s;ts, who hath from time to time &s;o wonderfully &s;aved us, is now indeed become our Judge, our Law-giver, and our King, and that he hath put it into your hearts, to proclaim that fa&s;t which he hath cho&s;en, and &s;o much delighted in, thorowout the&s;e Nations, which is to loo&s;e the bands of wickedne&s;s, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppre&s;&s;ed go free, and to break every yoak; to deal your bread to the hungry, to bring the poor that are ca&s;t out to your hou&s;e, when you &s;ee the naked to cover him, and not to hide your &s;elves from your own fle&s;h.</P>
<P>Thus doing, you may be &s;ure, that your light &s;hall break forth as the morning, and your health &s;hall &s;pring forth &s;peedily, and your righteou&s;ne&s;s &s;hall go before you, and the glory of the Lord &s;hall be your reerward; &s;o &s;hall you call and the Lord &s;hall an&s;wer; you &s;hall cry, and he &s;hall &s;ay, here I am. Thus your light &s;hall ri&s;e in ob|&s;curity, &amp; your darkne&s;s be as the noon day, &amp; the Lord &s;hall guide you continually and &s;atifie your &s;oul in drought, and make fat your bones, and you &s;hall be like a watered garden, and like a &s;pring of water who&s;e waters &s;hall not fail. Thus doing you &s;hall build the old wa&s;te places, and &s;hall rai&s;e up the foundations of many generati|ons, and be called the Repairers of the breach, and the Re&s;torers of paths to dwell in. And thus Judgment &s;hall return unto righteou&s;ne&s;s, and all the upright in heart in the&s;e Nations &s;hall follow it, which that the Lord of Ho&s;ts will graciou&s;ly grant, is and &s;hall be the humble, earne&s;t, and con&s;tant prayer, and reque&s;t, of his, and your unworthy Servants, &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Con&s;ider what we &s;ay, and the Lord give you under&s;tanding and Courage to do his Will.</HI></P>
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