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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>MY LORDS,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOU can't but be &s;en&s;ible of the <HI>great Zeal</HI> I have had for <HI>King and Kingdom,</HI> but more e&s;pecially for the <HI>Church of England,</HI> it being the <HI>Pure&s;t Religion</HI> in the World, and mo&s;t agreeable to the <HI>Divine Nature,</HI> and it was no le&s;s than <HI>GOD Him&s;elf</HI> that planted it by &s;uch a Miraculous Power, that it confounded the very <HI>Angels,</HI> changing <HI>Humanily</HI> into <HI>Divinity;</HI> and this could not be obtained without <HI>Chri&s;t's &s;acrifi&s;ing him&s;elf</HI> to appea&s;e <HI>the Wrath</HI> of an <HI>Angry God,</HI> that through him <HI>Mortals</HI> might be capable of <HI>a Divine Being:</HI> Therefore all that intend to be &s;aved by <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> are obliged to yield obedience to his <HI>Commands:</HI> And therefore I would intreat you &s;eriou&s;ly to con&s;i|der the <HI>Mighty Occa&s;ion</HI> that calls you hither (the like has not been known for the&s;e many <HI>Ages)</HI> and if <HI>God</HI> does not give you <HI>Wi&s;dom,</HI> you will <HI>wound</HI> in&s;tead of <HI>curing,</HI> and ha&s;ten our <HI>Ruin;</HI> for I mu&s;t needs tell you, that it is contrary to the Principles of your Religion, <HI>To do Evil that Good may come on it:</HI> But <HI>God</HI> may wink at this if you proceed no far|ther, becau&s;e he knows that you are but Men, and that you had rea&s;on for what you did; yet if I had known of it, it &s;hould never have been done: for God is glorified by the <HI>Faith</HI> and <HI>Patience</HI> of his <HI>Saints,</HI> and it has been the Practice of <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> in all Ages to tru&s;t God, and to be willing to &s;acrifi&s;e their <HI>Lives and Fortunes</HI> for his <HI>Truth;</HI> and I mu&s;t needs &s;ay, <HI>My Lords,</HI> that mo&s;t of you have done &s;o too: for if <HI>God</HI> had given the <HI>King</HI> Victory, in what a Condition would you have been, by running your &s;elves into imminent <HI>dang<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r,</HI> and di&s;graced your <HI>Religion,</HI> in not going the <HI>Right War;</HI> but <HI>God</HI> &s;uffered it to pro&s;per, becau&s;e the <HI>Roman Catholicks</HI> &s;hould not attribute their <HI>Victory</HI> to <HI>the Virgin Ma|ry.</HI> But this mu&s;t not incourage your Lord&s;hips to make <HI>Fal&s;e &s;teps,</HI> for if <HI>God</HI> overturn|ed the <HI>King</HI> for not walking uprightly before him, how much more will he do the <HI>King|dom,</HI> if that you &s;hould prove unkind or ungrateful to the <HI>King?</HI> Though I would not be like the A&s;s to a&s;&s;i&s;t the Lion, and then be made a <HI>Prey</HI> of, nor yet the Fox that de|lights to &s;ee the Lion in trouble; but I would be like the <HI>good Samaritan,</HI> that heal'd the Wounds by pouring Oil and Wine into them. For I would have all Occa&s;ions of <HI>Fears</HI> and <HI>Jealou&s;ies</HI> to be removed on every &s;ide, which <HI>His Maje&s;ty</HI> might have done, if he had plea&s;ed; for I told him the <HI>Find</HI> at the <HI>Beginning,</HI> but he would not believe; have a care that you are not <HI>&V;nbelievers</HI> too: for I never &s;ought any thing but the <HI>King</HI> and <HI>King|doms Happine&s;s;</HI> neither do I de&s;ire to have any greater glory in this World, than to have you <HI>&s;afe</HI> and <HI>happy,</HI> which you all conclude will be in this <HI>Way</HI> which you have taken: but you will be deceived if you be not wi&s;e. Not that I would have you be ungrateful to the <HI>Prinee,</HI> nor yet in <HI>Slavery;</HI> but as you are <HI>Free-born,</HI> you &s;hould keep your &s;elves &s;o: for it was his own Intere&s;t that brought him hither as well as yours, and it is but rea|&s;on that he &s;hould have Right done in that <HI>Matter;</HI> for no body can condemn him for looking after the <HI>Right</HI> of his <HI>Wife:</HI> but all the World will highly condemn you to give, or he to receive, the <HI>Right</HI> of the <HI>King;</HI> and you mu&s;t not think to go unpuni&s;hed: for why &s;hould not <HI>God</HI> be as zealous fot his <HI>Laws,</HI> as <HI>Man</HI> is for his; and &s;o exclude you out of his <HI>Kingdom,</HI> as you do the <HI>King</HI> out of his. Be&s;ides I don't think the <HI>Prince</HI> has &s;o much to &s;ay again&s;t the <HI>King,</HI> as the <HI>People</HI> &s;uppo&s;es; but if there were, <HI>God</HI> can pardon them upon <HI>repentance</HI> and <HI>amendment;</HI> for he has declared, <HI>That if your &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> be as &s;carlet, he'll wa&s;h you as white as &s;now.</HI> Therefore take not any thing away from the <HI>King,</HI> only free his <HI>Kingdoms</HI> from <HI>Popery,</HI> and let not that have any <HI>Dominion:</HI> And treat the <HI>Prince</HI> as a <HI>Friend</HI> and <HI>Great In&s;trument</HI> in a&s;&s;i&s;ting towards the Doing of this <HI>Great Work;</HI> and whatever <HI>Good</HI> you receive by <HI>him,</HI> re&s;tore it ten-fold in a&s;&s;i&s;ting <HI>him</HI> with your <HI>Lives</HI> and <HI>Fortunes</HI> again&s;t <HI>France,</HI> and I don't doubt but by <HI>Gods Ble&s;&s;ing,</HI> you will <HI>Conquer</HI> and <HI>Subdue it;</HI> [and from thence to <HI>Rome:]</HI> for I have a great de&s;ire to &s;ee the <HI>French King,</HI> having <HI>Fa&s;ted Fourteen Days that he &s;hould not Conquer us:</HI> Therefore fear not his <HI>Mighty Army,</HI> for <HI>God</HI> will give you <HI>Victory,</HI> but make ha&s;t and do it; for <HI>Gods Hand</HI> as well as this <HI>Kingdoms</HI> will be again&s;t it. And in &s;o doing, you will make the <HI>Prince</HI> Famous through the <HI>World;</HI> and <HI>You</HI> by your <HI>Wi&s;dom, Ju&s;tice</HI> and <HI>Goodne&s;s,</HI> may be In&s;trumental to <HI>Con|vince</HI> the <HI>Roman Catholicks</HI> of their <HI>Errors;</HI> and &s;o in the <HI>End</HI> obtain a <HI>&V;niver&s;al Peace,</HI> which will be <HI>Your Eternal Glory</HI> not only in this <HI>World,</HI> but in <HI>That to come:</HI> Which that the <HI>Lord</HI> may <HI>give</HI> you <HI>Wi&s;dom</HI> to obtain, is the <HI>Prayer</HI> of.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Humble Servant And Souls Well-Wi&s;her, <HI>ELINOR JAMES.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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