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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America, by 
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+Title: The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America
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+Author: Theodore de la Guard
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+Release Date: January 15, 2011 [EBook #34974]
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+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+                               THE
+                          SIMPLE COBLER
+                               OF
+                       AGGAWAM in AMERICA.
+
+                             willing
+
+   To help 'mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered, both
+           in the upper-Leather and sole, with all the
+                   honest stitches he can take.
+
+   And as willing never to be paid for his work, by Old English
+                           wonted pay.
+
+       IT IS HIS TRADE TO PATCH ALL THE YEAR LONG, gratis.
+
+           Therefore I pray Gentlemen keep your purses.
+
+                     By THEODORE DE LA GUARD.
+
+            _In rebus arduis ac tenui spe, fortissima
+             qu[oe]que consilia tutissima sunt._ Cic.
+
+                           In English,
+
+         When bootes and shoes are torne up to the lefts,
+         Coblers must thrust their awles up to the hefts.
+
+             This is no time to feare _Apelles gramm:
+                 Ne Sutor quidem ultra crepidam._
+
+                              LONDON,
+
+  Printed by J. D. & R. I. for STEPHEN BOWTELL, at the signe of
+                 the Bible in Popes Head-Alley, 1647.
+
+
+
+
+NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
+
+
+THE REVEREND NATHANIEL WARD, the writer of the following work, was born
+at Haverhill, England, in 1570. Of this town his father was a clergyman.
+He was educated at Cambridge, studied and practised law, travelled on
+the Continent, afterwards commenced the study of divinity, became a
+preacher of the Gospel, and was settled at Standon, in Hertfordshire. He
+was a strong friend of the early settlers of New England before the
+elder Winthrop's coming over. At a General Court of the Massachusetts
+Company, held in London, on Wednesday the 25th of November, 1629, "Mr.
+Whyte did reco[=m]end Mr. Nathaniel Ward of Standon" to be admitted to
+the freedom of the Company. He was ordered before the Bishop, Dec. 12,
+1631, to answer for his non-conformity. Being forbidden to preach, he
+embarked in April, 1634, for this country. He arrived here in June, and
+was settled as Pastor of the church at Ipswich, or Aggawam, the same
+year. By reason of indisposition, he was, at his own request, in 1636,
+released from his engagement with the church there. However thus
+disengaged, he preached often during the time he remained in the colony.
+The necessities of the infant Commonwealth called for his time, talents,
+and acquirements. Nor did he refuse. Willing to do the good, which he
+might, he lent a ready and efficient hand to the formation of our Legal
+Code. He was appointed by the General Court, March 12, 1638, on a
+committee to draw up a system of laws, for the consideration of the
+freemen. The same legislative authority, May 13, 1640, granted him six
+hundred acres of land for his service, at Pentucket, afterwards called
+Haverhill. He preached the election sermon, 1641, in which he advanced
+several things that savored more of liberty, than some of the
+magistrates were prepared to approve. The same year, Oct. 7, "The
+Govern'^r and m^r Hauthorne were Desired to speake to m^r Ward, for a
+coppey of the liberties, and of the Capitall lawes to bee transcribed,
+and sent to the severall townes." He wrote the "Simple Cobler" in 1645.
+In this year, May 25, he was on a committee to draw up a Body of
+Liberties, which were published in 1648, being the first printed volume
+of the kind in this Colony. Though greatly assisted by Joseph Hills and
+others in the composition and arrangement of so important a work, yet he
+appears to have been a principal agent in its accomplishment. He sold
+his interest at Haverhill, Nov. 25, 1646, to John Eaton, for £12,00.
+Between this date and the 6th of January following, he returned to
+England. On June 30th, 1647, he preached before the House of Commons,
+and the same year published the "Simple Cobler." He was afterwards
+settled in the ministry at Shenfield, near Brentwood, where he died in
+1653, in his eighty-third year.
+
+Fuller, in his "Worthies of England," speaking of him, says, that he,
+"following the counsel of the poet,
+
+    Ridentem dicere verum,
+    Quis vetat?
+
+    What doth forbid but one may smile,
+    And also tell the truth the while?
+
+hath in a jesting way, in some of his books, delivered much smart truth
+of the present times." Dr. Mather, in his "Magnalia," remarks of him,
+"he was the author of many composures full of wit and sense; among
+which, that entituled _The Simple Cobler_ (_which demonstrated him to be
+a subtil statesman_) was most considered." The same author adds, that
+"some famous persons of old thought it a greater _glory_ to have it
+enquired; _why such a one had not a statue erected for him?_ than to
+have it enquired _why he had?_ If it be enquired, _why this our =St.
+Hilary= hath among our Lives no statue erected for him?_ let that
+enquiry go for part of one." And in the "Remarkables" of Increase
+Mather, he observes, "An hundred witty Speeches of our Celebrated
+_Ward_, who called himself _The Simple Cobler_ of Agawam, [and over
+whose Mantel-piece in his House, by the way, I have seen those three
+Words Engraved, SOBRIE, JUSTE, PIE, and a Fourth added, which was LÆTE:]
+have been reported; but he had one Godly Speech, that was worth 'em all;
+which was, _I have only Two Comforts to Live upon; The one is in the
+Perfections of CHRIST; The other is in The Imperfections of all
+CHRISTIANS._"
+
+Mr. Ward had several children. Among them, were John, settled in the
+ministry at Haverhill, Mass., where he died, 1693; James, who practised
+medicine; and a daughter, married to Gyles Fyrmin. These three last
+accompanied their father to England.
+
+To illustrate how much Mr. Ward benevolently labored for the public good
+with but small recompense, we quote another remark of Cotton Mather, as
+to his son John. It follows: "He was a son most exemplarily _dutiful_
+unto his _parents_; and having paid some considerable _debts_ for his
+_father_, he would afterwards humbly observe and confess, that God had
+abundantly _recompenced_ this his dutifulness." Whether these debts were
+paid in Old or New England is uncertain.
+
+Thus we have given a sketch of one, who deserves well of New England and
+of friends to freedom every where,--so that it might be more evident how
+he and the subsequent work were estimated by his contemporaries and
+successors.
+
+                                                       D. P.
+
+BOSTON, March 8, 1843.
+
+
+NOTE.
+
+This work passed through several editions at London in 1647. It was
+reprinted in Boston in 1713. One of the earlier editions and that of
+1713 have been used in preparing the present edition for the press.
+After his first impression, the author made several additions to
+succeeding ones, which will be found in this now issued.--The principal
+of these additions are as follow: "A Word of Love to the Common People
+of England," "A most humble Heel piece," &c., and "A respective word to
+the Ministers of England."
+
+ED.
+
+
+
+
+                           THE
+                      SIMPLE COBLER
+                           OF
+                   AGGAWAM IN AMERICA.
+
+                         WILLING
+
+     To help 'mend his Native Country, lamentably
+        tattered, both in the upper-Leather and sole,
+        with all the honest stitches he can take.
+
+      And as willing never to be paid for his work,
+                by Old English wonted pay.
+
+    _It is his trade to patch all the year long_, gratis.
+       Therefore I pray Gentlemen keep your purses.
+
+                By _Theodore de la Guard_.
+
+        _In rebus arduis ac tenui spe, fortissima
+          quæque consilia tutissima sunt._ Cic.
+
+                       In English,
+
+     When bootes and shoes are torne up to the lefts,
+     Coblers must thrust their awles up to the hefts.
+
+         This is no time to feare _Apelles gramm:
+             Ne Sutor quidem ultra crepidam_.
+
+                         LONDON,
+
+  Printed by _J. D. & R. I. for Stephen Bowtell_, at the
+      signe of the Bible in Popes Head-Alley, 1647.
+
+
+
+
+                           THE
+                      SIMPLE COBLER
+                           OF
+                   AGGAWAM IN AMERICA.
+
+
+Either I am in an Appoplexie, or that man is in a Lethargie, who doth
+not now sensibly feele God shaking the Heavens over his head, and the
+Earth under his feet: The Heavens so, as the Sun begins to turne into
+darknesse, the Moon into blood, the Starres to fall down to the ground;
+So that little Light of Comfort or Counsell is left to the sonnes of
+men: The Earth so, as the foundations are failing, the righteous scarce
+know where to finde rest, the Inhabitants stagger like drunken men; it
+is in a manner dissolved both in Religions and Relations: And no
+marvell; for, they have defiled it by transgressing the Laws, changing
+the Ordinances, and breaking the Everlasting Covenant. The Truths of God
+are the Pillars of the world, whereon States and Churches may stand
+quiet if they will; if they will not, He can easily shake them off into
+delusions, and distractions enough.
+
+Sathan is now in his passions, hee feeles his passion approaching; hee
+loves to fish in royled waters. Though that Dragon cannot sting the
+vitals of the Elect mortally, yet that Beelzebub can fly-blow their
+Intellectuals miserably: The finer Religion grows, the finer hee spins
+his Cobwebs, hee will hold pace with Christ so long as his wits will
+serve him. Hee sees himselfe beaten out of grosse Idolatries, Heresies,
+Ceremonies, where the Light breakes forth with power; he will therefore
+bestirre him to prevaricate Evangelicall Truths, and Ordinances, that if
+they will needs be walking, yet they shall _laborare varicibus_, and not
+keep their path: he will put them out of time and place; Assascinating
+for his Engineers, men of Paracelsian parts; well complexioned for
+honesty; for, such are fittest to Mountebanke his Chimistry into sicke
+Churches and weake Judgements.
+
+Nor shall hee neede to stretch his strength overmuch in this worke: Too
+many men having not laid their foundation sure, nor ballasted their
+Spirits deepe with humility and feare, are prest enough of themselves to
+evaporate their owne apprehensions. Those that are acquainted with Story
+know, it hath ever been so in new Editions of Churches: Such as are
+least able, are most busie to pudder in the rubbish, and to raise dust
+in the eyes of more steady Repayrers. Civill Commotions make roome for
+uncivill practises: Religious mutations, for irreligious opinions:
+Change of Aire, discovers corrupt bodies; Reformation of Religion,
+unsound mindes. He that hath any well-faced phancy in his Crowne, and
+doth not vent it now, fears the pride of his owne heart will dub him
+dunce for ever. Such a one will trouble the whole _Israel_ of God with
+his most untimely births, though he makes the bones of his vanity
+sticke up, to the view and griefe of all that are godly wise. The devill
+desires no better sport then to see light heads handle their heels, and
+fetch their carreers in a time, when the Roofe of Liberty stands open.
+
+The next perplexed Question, with pious and ponderous men, will be: What
+should bee done for the healing of these comfortlesse exulcerations. I
+am the unablest adviser of a thousand, the unworthiest of ten thousand;
+yet I hope I may presume to assert what follows without just offence.
+
+First, such as have given or taken any unfriendly reports of us
+_New-English_, should do well to recollect themselves. We have beene
+reputed a Colluvies of wild Opinionists, swarmed into a remote wildernes
+to find elbow-roome for our phanatick Doctrines and practises: I trust
+our diligence past, and constant sedulity against such persons and
+courses, will plead better things for us. I dare take upon me, to bee
+the Herauld of _New-England_ so farre, as to proclaime to the world, in
+the name of our Colony, that all Familists, Antinomians, Anabaptists,
+and other Enthusiasts, shall have free Liberty to keep away from us, and
+such as will come to be gone as fast as they can, the sooner the better.
+
+Secondly, I dare averre, that God doth no where in his word tolerate
+Christian States, to give Tolerations to such adversaries of his Truth,
+if they have power in their hands to suppresse them.
+
+Here is lately brought us an extract of a _Magna Charta_, so called,
+compiled between the Sub-planters of a _West-Indian_ Island; whereof
+the first Article of constipulation, firmely provides free stable-room
+and litter for all kinde of consciences, be they never so dirty or
+jadish; making it actionable, yea, treasonable, to disturbe any man in
+his Religion, or to discommend it, whatever it be. Wee are very sorry to
+see such professed profanenesse in _English_ Professors, as
+industriously to lay their Religious Foundations on the ruine of true
+Religion; which strictly binds every conscience to contend earnestly for
+the Truth: to preserve unity of spirit, faith and Ordinances, to be all
+like-minded, of one accord; every man to take his brother into his
+Christian care: to stand fast with one spirit, with one mind, striving
+together for the faith of the Gospel: and by no meanes to permit
+Heresies or erroneous opinions: But God abhorring such loathsome
+beverages, hath in his righteous judgement blasted that enterprize,
+which might otherwise have prospered well, for ought I know; I presume
+their case is generally knowne ere this.
+
+If the devill might have his free option, I believe he would ask nothing
+else, but liberty to enfranchize all false Religions, and to embondage
+the true; nor should he need: It is much to bee feared, that laxe
+Tolerations upon State pretences and planting necessities, will be the
+next subtle Stratagem he will spread, to distate the Truth of God and
+supplant the peace of the Churches. Tolerations in things tolerable,
+exquisitely drawn out by the lines of the Scripture, and pensill of the
+Spirit, are the sacred favours of Truth, the due latitudes of Love, the
+faire Compartiments of Christian fraternity: but irregular
+dispensations, dealt forth by the facilities of men, are the frontiers
+of errour, the redoubts of Schisme, the perillous irritaments of carnall
+and spirituall enmity.
+
+My heart hath naturally detested foure things: The standing of the
+Apocrypha in the Bible; Forrainers dwelling in my Countrey, to crowd our
+native Subjects into the corners of the Earth; Alchymized coines;
+Tolerations of divers Religions, or of one Religion in segregant shapes:
+He that willingly assents to the last, if he examines his heart by
+day-light, his conscience will tell him, he is either an Atheist, or an
+Heretique, or an Hypocrite, or at best a captive to some lust:
+Poly-piety is the greatest impiety in the world. True Religion is _Ignis
+probationis_, which doth _congregare homogenea & segregare heterogenea_.
+
+Not to tolerate things meerly indifferent to weak consciences, argues a
+conscience too strong: pressed uniformity in these, causes much
+disunity: To tolerate more than indifferents, is not to deale
+indifferently with God; He that doth it, takes his Scepter out of his
+hand, and bids him stand by. Who hath to doe to institute Religion but
+God. The power of all Religion and Ordinances, lies in their purity:
+their purity in their simplicity: then are mixtures pernicious. I lived
+in a City, where a Papist preached in one Church, a Lutheran in another,
+a Calvinist in a third; a Lutheran one part of the day, a Calvinist the
+other, in the same Pulpit: the Religion of that place was but motly and
+meagre, their affections Leopardlike.
+
+If the whole Creature should conspire to doe the Creator a mischiefe,
+or offer him an insolency, it would be in nothing more, than in erecting
+untruths against his Truth, or by sophisticating his Truths with humane
+medleyes; the removing of some one iota in Scripture, may draw out all
+the life, and traverse all the Truth of the whole Bible: but to
+authorise an untruth, by a Toleration of State, is to build a Sconce
+against the walls of heaven, to batter God out of his Chaire: To tell a
+practicall lye, is a great sin, but yet transient; but to set up a
+Theoricall untruth, is to warrant every lye that lies from its root to
+the top of every branch it hath, which are not a few.
+
+I would willingly hope that no Member of the Parliament hath skilfully
+ingratiated himselfe into the hearts of the House, that he might watch a
+time to midwife out some ungracious Toleration for his own turne, and
+for the sake of that, some others. I would also hope that a word of
+generall caution should not be particularly misapplied. I am the freer
+to suggest it, because I know not one man of that mind, my aime is
+generall, and I desire may be so accepted. Yet good Gentlemen, looke
+well about you, and remember how _Tiberius_ plaid the Fox with the
+Senate of _Rome_, and how _Fabius Maximus_ cropt his ears for his
+cunning.
+
+That State is wise, that will improve all paines and patience rather to
+compose, then tolerate differences in Religion. There is no divine
+Truth, but hath much Celestial fire in it from the Spirit of Truth: nor
+no irreligious untruth, without its proportion of Antifire from the
+Spirit of Error to contradict it: the zeale of the one, the virulency
+of the other, must necessarily kindle Combustions. Fiery diseases seated
+in the spirit, embroile the whole frame of the body: others more
+externall and coole, are lesse dangerous. They which divide in Religion
+divide in God; they who divide in him, divide beyond _Genus
+Generalissimum_, where there is no reconciliation, without atonement;
+that is, without uniting in him, who is One, and in his Truth, which is
+also one.
+
+Wise are those men who will be perswaded rather to live within the pale
+of Truth where they may bee quiet, than in the purliev's, where they are
+sure to be hunted ever and anon, doe Authority what it can. Every
+singular Opinion, hath a singular opinion of it self; and he that holds
+it a singular opinion of himself, and a simple opinion of all
+contra-sentients: he that confutes them, must confute all three at once,
+or else he does nothing; which will not be done without more stir than
+the peace of the State or Church can indure.
+
+And prudent are those Christians, that will rather give what may be
+given, then hazzard all by yeelding nothing. To sell all peace of
+Country, to buy some peace of Conscience unseasonably, is more avarice
+than thrift, imprudence than patience: they deale not equally, that set
+any truth of God at such a rate; but they deale wisely that will stay
+till the Market is fallen.
+
+My prognosticks deceive me not a little, if once within three seven
+years, peace prove not such a penny-worth at most Marts in Christendome,
+that hee that would not lay down his money, his lust, his opinion, his
+will, I had almost said the best flower of his Crown for it, while he
+might have had it; will tell his own heart, he plaid the very ill
+husband.
+
+Concerning Tolerations I may further assert.
+
+That Persecution of True Religion, and Toleration of false, are the
+_Jannes_ and _Jambres_ to the Kingdome of Christ, whereof the last is
+farre the worst. _Augustines_ tongue had not owed his mouth one
+penny-rent though it had never spake one word more in it, but this,
+_Nullum malum pejus libertate errandi_.
+
+_Frederick_ Duke of _Saxon_, spake not one foote beyond the mark when he
+said, he had rather the Earth should swallow him up quick, then he
+should give a toleration to any opinion against any truth of God.
+
+He that is willing to tolerate any Religion, or discrepant way of
+Religion, besides his own, unlesse it be in matters meerly indifferent,
+either doubts of his own, or is not sincere in it.
+
+He that is willing to tolerate any unsound Opinion, that his own may
+also be tolerated, though never so sound, will for a need hang Gods
+Bible at the Devils girdle.
+
+Every Toleration of false Religions, or Opinions hath as many Errours
+and sins in it, as all the false Religions and Opinions it tolerates,
+and one sound one more.
+
+That State that will give Liberty of Conscience in matters of Religion,
+must give Liberty of Conscience and Conversation in their Morall Laws,
+or else the Fiddle will be out of tune, and some of the strings cracke.
+
+He that will rather make an irreligious quarrell with other Religions,
+then try the truth of his own by valuable Arguments, and peaceable
+Sufferings; either his Religion, or himselfe is irreligious.
+
+Experience will teach Churches and Christians, that it is farre better
+to live in a State united, though a little Corrupt, then in a State,
+whereof some Part is incorrupt, and all the rest divided.
+
+I am not altogether ignorant of the eight Rules given by Orthodox
+Divines about giving Tolerations, yet with their favour I dare affirme,
+
+That there is no Rule given by God for any State to give an Affirmative
+Toleration to any false Religion, or Opinion whatsoever; they must
+connive in some cases, but may not concede in any.
+
+That the State of _England_ (so farre as my Intelligence serves) might
+in time have prevented with ease, and may yet without any great
+difficulty deny both Toleration, and irregular Connivences, _salva
+Republica_.
+
+That if the State of _England_ shall either willingly Tolerate, or
+weakly connive at such Courses, the Church of that Kingdom will sooner
+become the Devills Dancing-Schoole, then Gods-Temple; The Civill State a
+Beare-garden, then an Exchange: The whole Realme a Pais base, then an
+_England_. And what pity it is, that that Country which hath been the
+Staple of Truth to all Christendome, should now become the Aviary of
+Errors to the whole World, let every fearing heart judge.
+
+I take Liberty of Conscience to bee nothing but a freedome from sinne,
+and error. _Conscientia in tantum libera, in quantum ab errore
+liberata._ And liberty of Error nothing but a Prison for Conscience.
+Then small will bee the kindnesse of a State to build such Prisons for
+their Subjects.
+
+The Scripture saith, there is nothing makes free but Truth, and Truth
+saith, there is no Truth but One: If the States of the World would make
+it their sumoperous Care to preserve this One Truth in its purity and
+Authority it would ease them of all other Political cares. I am sure
+Satan makes it his grand, if not onely taske, to adulterate Truth;
+Falshood is his sole Scepter, whereby he first ruffled, and ever since
+ruined the World.
+
+If Truth be but One, me thinks all the Opinionists in _England_ should
+not be all in that One Truth, some of them I doubt are out. He that can
+extract an unity out of such a disparity, or contract such a disparity
+into an unity; had need be a better Artist, then ever was _Drebell_.
+
+If two Centers (as we may suppose) be in one Circle, and lines drawn
+from both to all the points of the Compasse, they will certainly crosse
+one another, and probably cut through the Centers themselves.
+
+There is talke of an universall Toleration, I would talke as loud as I
+could against it, did I know what more apt and reasonable Sacrifice
+_England_ could offer to God for his late performing all his heavenly
+Truths, then an universall Toleration of all hellish Errors, or how they
+shall make an universall Reformation, but by making Christs Academy the
+Devils University, where any man may commence Heretique _per saltum_;
+where he that is _filius Diabolicus_, or _simpliciter pessimus_, may
+have his grace to goe to hell _cum Publico Privilegio_; and carry as
+many after him, as he can.
+
+_Religio docenda est, non coercenda_ is a pretty piece of _album
+Latinum_ for some kinde of throats that are willingly sore, but _Hæresis
+dedocenda est non permittenda_, will be found a farre better _Diamoron_
+for the Gargarismes this Age wants, if timely and throughly applyed.
+
+  If there be roome in _England_ for
+
+              _Familists_          }              {   _Manes_
+              _Libertines_         }              {   _Lemures_
+              _Erastians_          }              {   _Dryades_
+              _Antitrinitarians_   }              {   _Homadryades_
+              _Anabaptists_        }              {   _Potamides_
+              _Antiscripturists_   }              {   _Naiades_
+              _Arminians_          }              {   _Hinnides_
+              _Manifestarians_     }              {   _Pierides_
+              _Millinaries_        }  then room   {   _Nereides_
+              _Antinomians_        }     for      {   _Pales_
+              _Socinians_          }              {   _Anonides_
+              _Arrians_            }              {   _Parcades_
+              _Perfectists_        }              {   _Castalides_
+              _Brownists[1]_       }              {   _Monides_
+  Religious   _Mortalians_         }              {   _Charites_
+  Men but     _Seekers_            } Good Spirits,{   _Heliconides_
+  pernicious  _Enthusiasts_        } but very     {   _Pegasides_
+  Heretiques  _&c._                } Devils.      {   _&c._
+
+  In a word room for Hell above ground.
+
+  [1] By Brownists I mean not Independents, but dew-clawd Seperatists:
+  farre be it from me to wrong godly Independents. I truely acknowledge
+  that I judge my self neither able nor worthy to honour some of them as
+  they deserve.
+
+It is said, Though a man have light enough himselfe to see the Truth,
+yet if he hath not enough to enlighten others, he is bound to tolerate
+them, I will engage my self, that all the Devills in _Britanie_ shall
+sell themselves to their shirts, to purchase a Lease of this Position
+for three of their Lives, under the Seale of the Parliament.
+
+It is said, That Men ought to have Liberty of their Conscience, and that
+it is Persecution to debarre them of it: I can rather stand amazed then
+reply to this: it is an astonishment to think that the braines of men
+should be parboyl'd in such impious ignorance; Let all the wits under
+the Heavens lay their heads together and finde an Assertion worse than
+this (one excepted) I will Petition to be chosen the universal Ideot of
+the world.
+
+It is said, That Civill Magistrates ought not to meddle with
+Ecclesiasticall matters.
+
+I would answer to this so well as I could, did I not know that some
+Papers lately brought out of _New-England_, are going to the Presse,
+wherein the Opinions of the Elders there in a late Synod, concerning
+this point are manifested, which I suppose will give clearer
+satisfaction then I can.
+
+The true English of all this their false Latine, is nothing but a
+generall Toleration of all Opinions; which motion if it be like to take,
+it were very requisite, that the City would repaire _Pauls_ with all the
+speed they can, for an English _Pantheon_, and bestow it upon the
+Sectaries, freely to assemble in, then there may be some hope that
+_London_ will be quiet in time.
+
+But why dwell I so intolerable long about Tolerations, I hope my feares
+are but panick, against which I have a double cordiall. First, that the
+Parliament will not though they could: Secondly, that they cannot though
+they would grant such Tolerations. God who hath so honoured them with
+eminent wisdome in all other things, will not suffer them to cast both
+his, and their Honour in the dust of perpetuall Infamy, doe what they
+can; nor shall those who have spent so great a part of their substance
+in redeeming their Civill Liberties from Usurpation, lose all that
+remaines in enthralling their spirituall Liberty by Toleration.
+
+It is said Opinionists are many, and strong, that _de sunt Vires_, that
+it is _turbata respublica_, I am very sorry for it, but more sorry, if
+despondency of minde shall cause the least tergiversation in Gods
+Worthies, who have receiv'd such pledges of his presence in their late
+Counsels, and Conflicts. It is not thousands of Opinionists that can
+pinion his Everlasting armes, I can hardly beleeve there is a greater
+unbeleever then my Selfe, yet I can verily beleeve that the God of Truth
+will in a short time scatter them all like smoake before the wind. I
+confesse I am troubled to see Men so over-troubled about them; I am
+rather glad to heare the Devill is breaking up house in _England_, and
+removing somewhither else, give him leave to sell all his rags, and
+odde-ends by the out-cry; and let his petty Chapmen make their Market
+while they may, upon my poore credit it will not last long. Hee that
+hath done so much for _England_ will go on to perfect his owne praise,
+and his Peoples Peace: let good men stand still, and behold his further
+Salvation. He that sitteth in the Heavens laughs at them, the most High
+hath them in Derision, and their folly shall certainly be manifested to
+all men.
+
+Yet I dare not but adde, and in the Name of God will adde, that if any
+Publique members of Church or State, have been either open fautors, or
+private abetters of any blasphemous, contagious Opinions; It will be
+their wisdome to proportion their repentance to their Sin, before God
+makes them Publique monuments of Ignominie, and Apostasie.
+
+Thirdly, That all Christian States, ought to disavow and decry all such
+Errours, by some peremptory Statutary Act, and that in time, that
+Subjects knowing fully the minde of the State, might not delude
+themselves with vaine hopes of unsufferable Liberties. It is lesse to
+say _Statuatur veritas, ruat Regnum_, than _Fiat justitia, ruat
+C[oe]lum_; but there is no such danger in either of them. Feare nothing
+Gentlemen, _Rubiconem transiistis, jacta est alea_, ye have turned the
+Devill out of doores; fling all his old parrell after him out at the
+windows, lest he makes an errand for it againe. _Quæ relinquuntur in
+morbis post indicationem, recidivas facere consuevere._ Christ would
+have his Church without spot or wrinckle; They that help make it so,
+shall lose neither honour nor labour: If yee be wise, suffer no more
+thorns in his sides or your owne. When God kindles such fires as these,
+hee doth not usually quench them, till the very scum on the pot sides be
+boyled cleane away, _Ezek. 24. 10, 11_. Yee were better to doe it your
+selves, then leave it to him: the Arme of the Lord is mighty, his hand
+very heavy; who can dwell with his devouring fire, and long lasting
+burnings?
+
+Fourthly, to make speedy provision against Obstinates and disseminaries:
+where under favour, two things will be found requisite. First, variety
+of penaltyes, I meane certaine, not indefinite: I am a Crabbat against
+Arbitrary Government. Experience hath taught us here, that politicall,
+domesticall, and personall respects, will not admit one and the same
+remedy for all, without sad inconveniences. Secondly, just severity:
+persecution hath ever spread Truth, prosecution scattered Errour: Ten of
+the most Christian Emperors, found that way best; Schollars know whom I
+meane: Five of the ancient Fathers perswaded to it, of whom _Augustine_
+was one, who for a time argued hard for indulgency: but upon conference
+with other prudent Bishops, altered his judgement, as appears in three
+of his Epistles, to _Marcellinus_, _Donatus_, and _Boniface_. I would be
+understood, not onely an Allower, but an humble Petitioner, that
+ignorant and tender conscienced Anabaptists may have due time and means
+of conviction.
+
+Fifthly, That every Prophet, to whom God hath given the tongue of the
+learned, should teach, and every Angel who hath a pen and inkehorne by
+his side write against these grieving extravagancies: writing of many
+books, I grant is irkesome, reading endlesse. A reasonable man would
+thinke Divines had declaimed sufficiently upon these Themes. I have ever
+thought the Rule given, _Titus 3. 10._ which cuts the work short and
+sharpe to be more properly prevalent, then wearisome waiting upon
+unweariable Spirits. It is a most toylsome taske to run the wild-goose
+chase after a well-breath'd Opinionist: they delight in vitilitigation:
+it is an itch that loves a life to be scrub'd: they desire not
+satisfaction, but satisdiction, whereof themselves must be judges: yet
+in new eruptions of Error with new objections, silence is sinfull.
+
+As for my selfe, I am none of the disputers of this world: all I can
+doe, is to guesse when men speake true or false divinity: if I can but
+finde the parentall roote, or formall reason of a Truth, I am quiet; if
+I cannot, I shore up my slender judgement as long as I can, with two or
+three the handsomest props I can get: I shall therefore leave Arguments
+to acuter heads, and onely speak a word of Love, with all Christian
+respect to our deare Brethren in _England_, which are against baptizing
+of Infants: I intreate them to consider these few things seriously and
+meekly. First, what a high pitch of boldnesse it is for man to cut a
+principall Ordinance out of the Kingdome of God; if it be but to make a
+dislocation, which so far disgoods the Ordinance, I feare it altogether
+unhallows it, to transplace or transtime a stated Institution of Christ,
+without his direction, I thinke, is to destroy it. Secondly, what a
+Cruelty it is to devest children of that onely externall priviledge
+which their heavenly Father hath bequeathed them, to interest them
+visibly in Himselfe, His Son, His Spirit, His Covenant of Grace, and the
+tender bosome of their carefull Mother the Church. Thirdly, what an
+Inhumanity it is, to deprive Parents of that comfort they may take from
+the baptisme of their Infants dying in their Childehood. Fourthly, How
+unseasonable and unkindely it is, to interturbe the State and Church
+with these Amalekitish onsets, when they are in their extreame pangs of
+travell with their lives. Fifthly, to take a through view of those who
+have preambled this by path. Being sometimes in the Crowds of foraigne
+Wederdopers, that is, Anabaptists; and prying into their inward frames
+with the best eyes I had; I could not but observe these disguised guises
+in the generality of them.
+
+First, a flat formality of Spirit without salt or savour in the
+spiritualties of Christ, as if their Religion began and ended in their
+Opinion. Secondly, a shallow slighting of such as dissent from them,
+appearing too often in their faces, speeches and carriages. Thirdly, a
+feeble, yet peremptory obstinacy; seldome are any of them reclaimed.
+Fourthly, a shamefull sliding into other such tarpauling tenets, to keep
+themselves dry from the showers of Justice, as a rationall minde would
+never entertain, if it were not Errour-blasted from Heaven and Hell: I
+should as shrewdly suspect that Opinion, that will cordially corrive
+with two or three sottish errours, as that faith that can professedly
+live with two or three sordid sins. I dare not feare our godly Brethren
+in _England_ to be yet comming to this passe; how soon they may,
+themselves know not, the times are slippery: They will undoubtedly finde
+God as jealous of his Ordinances, as themselves are zealous of their
+Opinions.
+
+Sixthly, That Authority ought to see their Subjects children baptized,
+though their Parents judgements be against it, if there be no other
+Evangelicall barre in the way.
+
+Seventhly, That prudent men, especially young, should doe well not to
+ingage themselves in conference with Errorists, without a good calling
+and great caution; their breath is contagious, their leprey spreading:
+receive not him that is weak, saith the Apostle, to doubtfull
+disputations; much lesse may they run themselves into dangerous
+Sophistications. He usually hears best in their meetings, that stops his
+eares closest; he opens his mouth to best purpose, that keeps it shut,
+and he doeth best of all, that declines their company as wisely as he
+may.
+
+Brethren, have an extraordinary care also of the late Theosophers, that
+teach men to climbe to Heaven upon a ladder of lying figments. Rather
+than the Devill will lose his game, he will out-shoot Christ in his owne
+bow; he will out-law the Law, quite out of the word and world:
+over-Gospell the Gospell, and quidanye Christ, with Sugar and Rats-bane.
+Hee was Professour not long since at _Schelstat_ in _Alsatia_, where he
+learned that no poyson is so deadly as the poyson of Grace.
+
+The wisest way, when all is said, is with all humility and feare, to
+take Christ as himselfe hath revealed himselfe in his Gospel, and not as
+the Devill presents him to prestigiated phansies. I have ever hated the
+way of the Rosie-Crucians, who reject things as Gods wisedome hath
+tempered them, and will have nothing but their Spirits. If I were to
+give physick to Spryts, I would doe so too: but when I want physick for
+my body, I would not have my soule tartared: nor my Animall Spirits
+purged any way, but by my Naturall, and those by my bodily humours, and
+those by such Ordinaries, as have the nearest vicinage to them, and not
+by Metaphysicall Limbeckings. I cannot thinke that _materia prima_ or
+_secunda_, should be good for me, that am at least, _Materia millessima
+sexcentesima quadragesima quinta_.
+
+Here I hold my selfe bound to set up a Beacon, to give warning of a
+new-sprung Sect of Phrantasticks, which would perswade themselves and
+others, that they have discovered the Nor-west passage to Heaven. These
+wits of the game, cry up and downe in corners such bold ignotions of a
+new Gospell, new Christ, new Faith, and new gay-nothings, as trouble
+unsetled heads, querulous hearts, and not a little grieve the Spirit of
+God. I desire all good men may be saved from their Lunatick Creed, by
+Infidelity; and rather beleeve these torrid overtures will prove in
+time, nothing but horrid raptures downe to the lowest hell, from which
+he that would be delivered, let him avoid these blasphemers, a late fry
+of croaking Frogs, not to be indured in a Religious State, no, if it
+were possible, not an houre.
+
+As some are playing young Spaniels, questing at every bird that rises;
+so others, held very good men, are at a dead stand, not knowing what to
+doe or say; and are therefore called Seekers, looking for new Nuntio's
+from Christ, to assoile these benighted questions, and to give new
+Orders for new Churches. I crave leave with all respect to tell them,
+that if they looke into _Act. 20. 20. 25._ _Gal. 1. 8. 9._ _1. Tim. 6.
+13. 16._ and find them not there; they may happily seeke as the young
+Prophets did for Eliah's corps, where it never was, nor ever will be
+found.
+
+I cannot imagine why the Holy Ghost should give _Timothy_ the solemnest
+charge, was ever given mortall man, to observe the Rules he had given,
+till the comming of Christ, if new things must be expected.
+
+Woe be to them, who ever they be, that so trouble the wayes of God that
+they who have found the way to Heaven, cannot find the way to Church:
+And woe be to them, that so gaze at the glorious light, they say, will
+breake forth in the thousand yeares to come, that they make little of
+the gracious Truth that hath been revealed these sixteen hundred years
+past. And woe be to them that so under-value the first Master-Builders,
+I mean the Apostles of Christ, that unlesse he sends wiser than they, He
+must be accounted lesse faithfull in his house than _Moses_ was.
+
+I have cause enough to be as charitable to others as any man living; yet
+I cannot but feare, that those men never Moored their Anchors well in
+the firme soile of Heaven, that are weather-waft up and down with every
+eddy-wind of every new doctrine. The good Spirit of God doth not usually
+tie up the Helme, and suffer passengers to Heaven to ride a drift,
+hither and thither, as every wave and current carries them: that is a
+fitter course for such as the Apostle calls wandring Starres and
+Meteors, without any certaine motion, hurryed about with tempests, bred
+of the Exhalations of their own pride and self-wittednesse: whose
+damnation sleepeth not, and to whom the mist of darknesse is reserved
+for ever, that they may suffer irreparable shipwrack upon the Sands and
+Rocks of their owne Errours, being of old ordained to condemnation.
+
+Eightly, let all considerate men beware of ungrounded opinions in
+Religion: Since I knew what to feare, my timerous heart hath dreaded
+three things: a blazing starre appearing in the aire: a State Comet, I
+mean a favourite rising in a Kingdome, a new Opinion spreading in
+Religion: these are Exorbitancies: which is a formidable word: a
+_vacuum_ and an exorbitancy, are mundicidious evils. Concerning
+Novelties of opinions; I shall expresse my thoughts in these briefe
+passages. First, that Truth is the best boone God ever gave the world:
+there is nothing in the world, any further then Truth makes it so; it is
+better then any creat' _Ens_ or _Bonum_, which are but Truths twins.
+Secondly, the least Truth of Gods Kingdome, doth in its place, uphold
+the whole kingdome of his Truths; Take away the least _vericulum_ out of
+the world, and it unworlds all, potentially, and may unravell the whole
+texture actually, if it be not conserved by an Arme of superiordinary
+power. Thirdly, the least Evangelicall Truth is more worth than all the
+Civil Truths in the world, that are meerly so. Fourthly, that Truth is
+the Parent of all Liberty whether politicall or personall; so much
+untruth, so much thraldome, _John 8. 32_.
+
+Hence it is, that God is so jealous of his Truths, that he hath taken
+order in his due justice: First, that no practicall sin is so sinfull as
+some errour in judgement; no men so accursed with indelible infamie and
+dedolent impenitency, as Authours of Heresie. Secondly, that the least
+Error, if grown sturdy and pressed, shall set open the Spittle-doore of
+all the squint ey'd, wry-necked, and brazen-faced Errors that are or
+ever were of that litter; if they be not enough to serve its turne, it
+will beget more, though it hath not one crust of reason to maintain
+them. Thirdly, that that State which will permit Errors in Religion,
+shall admit Errors in policy unavoyably. Fourthly, that that Policy
+which will suffer irreligious Errors, shall suffer the losse of so much
+Liberty in one kind or other, I will not exempt _Venice_, _Rhaguse_, the
+_Cantons_, the _Nether-lands_, or any.
+
+An easie head may soon demonstrate, that the pre-mentioned Planters, by
+Tolerating all Religions, had immazed themselves in the most intolerable
+confusions and inextricable thraldomes the world ever heard of. I am
+perswaded the Devill himselfe was never willing with their proceedings,
+for feare it would breake his wind and wits to attend such a Province. I
+speak it seriously according to my meaning. How all Religions should
+enjoy their Liberty, Justice its due regularity, Civill cohabitation
+morall honesty, in one and the same Jurisdiction, is beyond the Artique
+of my comprehension. If the whole conclave of Hell can so compromise,
+exadverse, and diametricall contradictions, as to compolitize such a
+multimonstrous maufrey of heteroclytes and quicquidlibets quietly; I
+trust I may say with all humble reverence, they can doe more then the
+Senate of Heaven. My _modus loquendi_ pardoned: I intirely wish much
+welfare and more wisdom to that Plantation.
+
+It is greatly to be lamented, to observe the wanton fearlessnesse of
+this Age, especially of younger professors, to greet new opinions and
+Opinionists: as if former truths were grown superannuate, and saplesse,
+if not altogether antiquate. _Non senescet veritas._ No man ever saw a
+gray haire on the head or beard of any Truth, wrinckle, or morphew on
+its face: The bed of Truth is green all the yeare long. Hee that cannot
+solace himselfe with any saving truth, as affectionately as at the first
+acquaintance with it, hath not only a fastidious, but an adulterous
+heart.
+
+If all be true we heare, Never was any People under the Sun, so sick of
+new Opinions as _English-men_ nor of new fashions as _English-women_: If
+God helpe not the one, and the devill leave not helping the other, a
+blind man may easily foresee what will become of both. I have spoken
+what I intend for the present to men; I shall speak a word to the women
+anon: in the mean time I intreat them to prepare patience.
+
+Ninthly, that godly humble Christians ought not to wonder impatiently at
+the wonderfull workes of God in these times: it is full Season for him
+to work Soveraign worke, to vindicate his Soveraignty, that men may
+feare before him. States are unstated, Rulers growne Over-rulers,
+Subjects worse then men, Churches decayed. Tofts, Professors, empty
+casks filled with unholy humours; I speake not of all, but too many; I
+condemne not the generation of the just: God hath his remnant, whom he
+will carefully preserve. If it bee time for men to take up Defensive
+Armes against such as are called Gods, upon the point of _Salus populi_,
+it is high time for him that is God indeed, to draw his Sword against
+wormes and no men, upon the point of _Majestas imperii_: The piercing of
+his Sword shall discover the thoughts of many hearts.
+
+Lastly, I dare averre, that it ill becomes Christians any thing
+well-shod with the preparation of the Gospel, to meditate flight from
+their deare Countrey upon these disturbances. Stand your ground ye
+_Eleazars_ and _Shammahs_, stir not a foot so long as you have halfe a
+foot of ground to stand upon: after one or two such Worthies, a great
+Victory may be regained, and flying _Israel_ may returne to a rich
+spoile. _Englishmen_, be advised to love _England_, with your hearts and
+to preserve it by your Prayers. I am bold to say that since the pure
+Primitive time, the Gospel never thrived so well in any soile on earth,
+as in the _British_; nor is the like goodnesse of nature, or Cornucopian
+plenty else-where to be found: if ye lose that Country, and finde a
+better before ye come to Heaven, my Cosmography fades me. I am farre
+from discouraging any, whom necessity of Conscience or condition thrusts
+out by head and shoulders: if God calls any into a Wildernesse, Hee will
+be no wildernesse to them, _Jer. 2. 31._ witnesse his large beneficence
+to us here beyond expectation.
+
+Ye say, why come not we over to help the Lord against the Mighty, in
+these Sacred battailes?
+
+I answer, many here are diligently observing the counsell of the same
+Prophet, 22. 10. _Weepe not for him that is dead, neither bemoan him;
+but weep for him that is gone away and shall returne no more to see his
+Native Country._ Divers make it an Article of our _American_ Creed,
+which a celebrate Divine of _England_ hath observed upon _Heb. 11. 9._
+That no man ought to forsake his owne countrey, but upon extraordinary
+cause, and when that cause ceaseth, he is bound in conscience to returne
+if he can: We are looking to him who hath our hopes and seasons in his
+onely wise hand.
+
+In the mean time we desire to bow our knees before the Throne of Grace
+day and night, that the Lord would be pleased in his tender mercy to
+still the sad unquietnesse and per-peracute contentions, of that most
+comfortable and renowned island, that at length He may have praise in
+his Churches, and his Churches peace in him, through Jesus Christ.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Should I not keepe promise in speaking a little to Womens fashions, they
+would take it unkindly: I was loath to pester better matter with such
+stuffe; I rather thought it meet to let them stand by themselves, like
+the _Quæ Genus_ in the Grammar, being Deficients, or Redundants, not to
+be brought under any Rule: I shall therefore make bold for this once, to
+borrow a little of their loose tongued Liberty, and mispend a word or
+two upon their long-wasted, but short-skirted patience: a little use of
+my stirrup will doe no harme.
+
+    _Ridentem dicere verum, quid prohibet?_
+
+    _Gray Gravity it selfe can well beteam,
+    That Language be adapted to the Theme.
+    He that to Parrots speaks, must parrotize:
+    He that instructs a foole, may act th' unwise._
+
+It is known more then enough, that I am neither Nigard, nor Cinick, to
+the due bravery of the true Gentry: if any man mislikes a bully mong
+drossock more then I, let him take her for his labour: I honour the
+woman that can honour her selfe with her attire: a good Text alwayes
+deserves a fair Margent: I am not much offended if I see a trimme, far
+trimmer than she that wears it: in a word, whatever Christianity or
+Civility will allow, I can afford with _London_ measure: but when I
+heare a nugiperous Gentledame inquire what dresse the Queen is in this
+week: what the nudiustertian fashion of the Court; I meane the very
+newest: with egge to be in it in all haste, what ever it be; I look at
+her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a
+cypher, the epitome of nothing, fitter to be kickt, if shee were of a
+kickable substance, than either honour'd or humour'd.
+
+To speak moderately, I truly confesse, it is beyond the ken of my
+understanding to conceive, how those women should have any true grace,
+or valuable vertue, that have so little wit, as to disfigure themselves
+with such exotick garbes, as not only dismantles their native lovely
+lustre, but transclouts them into gant bar-geese,
+ill-shapen-shotten-shell-fish, Egyptian Hyeroglyphicks, or at the best
+into French flurts of the pastery, which a proper English woman should
+scorne with her heels: it is no marvell they weare drailes on the hinder
+part of their heads, having nothing as it seems in the fore-part, but a
+few Squirrils brains to help them frisk from ill-favor'd fashion to
+another.
+
+    _These whimm' Crown'd shees, these fashion-fansying wits,
+    Are empty thin brain'd shells, and fiddling Kits._
+
+The very troublers and impoverishers of mankind, I can hardly forbear to
+commend to the world a saying of a Lady living sometime with the Queen
+of _Bohemia_, I know not where shee found it, but it is pitty it should
+be lost.
+
+    _The World is full of care, much like unto a bubble;
+    Women and care, and care and women, and women and care and trouble._
+
+The Verses are even enough for such odde pegma's. I can make my selfe
+sicke at any time, with comparing the dazling splender wherewith our
+Gentlewomen were embellished in some former habits, with the
+gut-foundred goosdom, wherewith they are now surcingled and debauched.
+Wee have about five or six of them in our Colony: if I see any of them
+accidentally, I cannot cleanse my phansie of them for a moneth after. I
+have been a solitary widdower almost twelve yeares, purposed lately to
+make a step over to my Native Country for a yoke-fellow: but when I
+consider how women there have tripe-wifed themselves with their
+cladments, I have no heart to the voyage, least their nauseous shapes
+and the Sea, should work too sorely upon my stomach. I speak sadly; me
+thinkes it should breake the hearts of English-men to see so many goodly
+English-women imprisoned in French Cages, peering out of their
+hood-holes for some men of mercy to help them with a little wit, and no
+body relieves them.
+
+It is a more common then convenient saying, that nine Taylors make a
+man: it were well if nineteene could make a woman to her minde: if
+Taylors were men indeed, well furnished but with meer morall principles,
+they would disdain to be led about like Apes, by such mymick Marmosets.
+It is a most unworthy thing, for men that have bones in them, to spend
+their lives in making fidle-cases for futilous womens phansies; which
+are the very pettitoes of infirmity, the gyblets of perquisquilian
+toyes. I am so charitable to think, that most of that mystery would
+worke the cheerfuller while they live, if they might bee well discharged
+of the tyring slavery of mis-tyring women: it is no little labour to be
+continually putting up English-women into Out-landish caskes: who if
+they be not shifted anew, once in a few moneths, grow too sowre for
+their Husbands. What this Trade will answer for themselves when God
+shall take measure of Taylors consciences is beyond my skill to imagine.
+There was a time when
+
+    _The joyning of the Red-Rose with the White,
+    Did set our State into a Damask plight._
+
+But now our Roses are turned to _Flore de lices_, our Carnations to
+Tulips, our Gilliflowers to Dayzes, our City-Dames, to an indenominable
+Quæmalry of overturcas'd things. Hee that makes Coates for the Moone,
+had need take measure every noone; and he that makes for women, as
+often, to keepe them from Lunacy.
+
+I have often heard divers Ladies vent loud feminine complaints of the
+wearisome varieties and chargable changes of fashions: I marvell
+themselves preferre not a Bill of redresse. I would[2] _Essex_ Ladies
+would lead the _Chore_, for the honour of their County and persons; or
+rather the thrice honourable Ladies of the Court, whom it best beseemes:
+who may wel presume of a _Le Roy le veult_ from our sober King, a _Les
+Seigneurs ont Assentus_ from our prudent Peers, and the like _Assentus_
+from our considerate, I dare not say wife-worne Commons: who I beleeve
+had much rather passe one such Bill, than pay so many Taylors Bills as
+they are forced to doe.
+
+  [2] All the Counties and shires of England have had wars in them since
+  the Conquest, but Essex, which is onely free, and should be thankfull.
+
+Most deare and unparallel'd Ladies, be pleased to attempt it: as you
+have the precellency of the women of the world for beauty and feature;
+so assume the honour to give, and not take Law from any, in matter of
+attire: if ye can transact so faire a motion among yourselves
+unanimously, I dare say, they that most renite, will least repent. What
+greater honour can your Honors desire, then to build a Promontory
+president to all foraigne Ladies, to deserve so eminently at the hands
+of all the English Gentry present and to come: and to confute the
+opinion of all the wise men in the world; who never thought it possible
+for women to doe so good a work?
+
+If any man think I have spoken rather merrily than seriously he is much
+mistaken, I have written what I write with all the indignation I can,
+and no more then I ought. I confesse I veer'd my tongue to this kinde of
+Language _de industria_ though unwillingly, supposing those I speak to
+are uncapable of grave and rationall arguments.
+
+I desire all Ladies and Gentlewomen to understand that all this while I
+intend not such as through necessary modesty to avoyd morose
+singularity, follow fashions slowly, a flight shot or two off, shewing
+by their moderation, that they rather draw countermont with their
+hearts, then put on by their examples.
+
+I point my pen only against the light-heel'd beagles that lead the chase
+so fast, that they run all civility out of breath, against these
+Ape-headed pullets, which invent Antique foole-fangles, meerly for
+fashion and novelty sake.
+
+In a word, if I begin once to declaime against fashions, let men and
+women look well about them, there is somewhat in the businesse; I
+confesse to the world, I never had grace enough to be strict in that
+kinde; and of late years, I have found syrrope of pride very wholesome
+in a due _Dos_, which makes mee keep such store of that drugge by me,
+that if any body comes to me for a question-full or two about fashions,
+they never complain of me for giving them hard measure, or under-weight.
+
+But I addresse my self to those who can both hear and mend all if they
+please: I seriously feare, if the pious Parliament doe not finde a time
+to state fashions, as ancient Parliaments have done in some part, God
+will hardly finde a time to state Religion or Peace: They are the
+surquedryes of pride, the wantonnesse of idlenesse, provoking sins, the
+certain prodromies of assured judgement, _Zeph. 1. 7, 8_.
+
+It is beyond all account, how many Gentlemens and Citizens estates are
+deplumed by their feather-headed wives, what usefull supplies the
+pannage of _England_ would afford other Countries, what rich returnes to
+it selfe, if it were not slic'd out into male and female fripperies: and
+what a multitude of misimploy'd hands, might be better improv'd in some
+more manly Manufactures for the publique weale: it is not easily
+credible, what may be said of the preterpluralities of Taylors in
+_London_: I have heard an honest man say, that not long since there were
+numbered between _Temple-barre_ and _Charing-Crosse_, eight thousand of
+that Trade: let it be conjectured by that proportion how many there are
+in and about _London_, and in all _England_, they will appeare to be
+very numerous. If the Parliament would please to mend women, which their
+Husbands dare not doe, there need not so many men to make and mend as
+there are. I hope the present dolefull estate of the Realme, will
+perswade more strongly to some considerate course herein, than I now
+can.
+
+Knew I how to bring it in, I would speak a word to long haire, whereof I
+will say no more but this: if God proves not such a Barbor to it as he
+threatens, unlesse it be amended, _Esa. 7. 20._ before the Peace of the
+State and Church be well setled, then let my prophesie be scorned, as a
+sound minde scornes the ryot of that sin, and more it needs not. If
+those who are tearmed Rattle-heads and Impuritans, would take up a
+Resolution to begin in moderation of haire, to the just reproach of
+those that are called Puritans and Round-heads, I would honour their
+manlinesse, as much as the others godlinesse, so long as I knew what man
+or honour meant: if neither can find a Barbours shop, let them turne in,
+to _Psal. 68. 21._ _Jer. 7. 29._ _1 Cor. 11. 14._ if it be thought no
+wisdome in men to distinguish themselves in the field by the Scissers,
+let it bee thought no injustice in God, not to distinguish them by the
+Sword. I had rather God should know me by my sobriety, than mine enemy
+not know me by my vanity. He is ill kept, that is kept by his owne sin.
+A short promise is a farre safer guard than a long lock: it is an ill
+distinction which God is loth to looke at, and his Angels cannot know
+his Saints by. Though it be not the mark of the Beast, yet it may be the
+mark of a beast prepared to slaughter. I am sure men use not to weare
+such manes; I am also sure Souldiers use to weare other marklets or
+notadoes in time of battell.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Having done with the upper part of my work, I would now with all humble
+willingnesse set on the best peece of Soule-leather I have, did I not
+feare I should break my All, which though it may be a right old English
+blade, yet it is but little and weake. I should esteeme it the best
+piece of workmanship my Cobling hand every wrought, if it would please
+Him whose worke it is, to direct me to speake such a word over the sea,
+as the good old woman of _Abel_ did over the wall, in the like exigent:
+but alas, I am but simple. What if I be?
+
+    _When States dishelv'd are, and Lawes untwist,
+    Wise men keep their tongues, fools speak what they list._
+
+I would not be so unwise as to grieve the wise, if I were wise enough to
+foresee it: I would speake nothing to the Cause or Continuance of these
+wearisome Warres hitherto; the one is enough debated, the other more
+than enough peracted. Nor would I declaime of the uncomlinesse,
+unbrotherlinesse, unseasonablenesse and unreasonablenesse of these
+direfull digladiations: every stroak strucke sounds too loud upon this
+harsh string. I would much rather speake perswasives to a comely
+brotherly seasonable and reasonable cessation of Armes on both sides, by
+a drawn battaile: Wherein if I shall adventure a few over-bold words, I
+intreat my ignorance, impartiality, and Loyalty may plead pardon for me.
+
+Foure meanes there are, and no more, within the compasse of my
+consideration, conducing to what is desired. Either to get the Standard
+fixed in heaven by the Lord of Hosts taken downe, I meane by
+Reformation: Or to set up white colours instead of red, on one side or
+other, I meane by Composition: Or by furling up all the Ensignes on both
+sides, I meane by mutuall and generall Cessation: Or by still displaying
+all the Colours and Cornets of every batallion, I mean by prosecution:
+without Reformation there will hardly be any Composition; without
+Composition little hope of Cessation; without Cessation there must and
+will be Prosecution; which God forbid.
+
+
+_Reformation._
+
+When the Roman Standard was defixed with such difficulty at the battell
+between _Hanniball_ and _Flaminius_ at _Thrasimene_, it proved an ill
+Omen. _When God gives quietnesse, who can make trouble; when he hideth
+his face, who can behold him?_ _Whether it be against a nation or a man
+onely._ _That the Hypocrite reigne not, lest the people be insnared_,
+_Job 34. 29, 30_. How can the sword of the Lord put it selfe up into its
+scabbard and be quiet, when himself hath given it a charge to the
+contrary? _Jer. 47. 6, 7_. It was a Cardinall Truth which Cardinall
+_Poole_ spake to H. 8. _Penes Reges est inferre bellum, penes autem Deum
+terminare._ If Kings will make their beginnings, God will make his ends:
+much more when himselfe begins: _When I begin I will also make an end_,
+_1 Sam. 3. 12_. Farre better were it, for men to make an end with him in
+time, than put him to make such an end with them as he there intends.
+
+Politicall Reformation he seemes to call for now _indigitanter_. When he
+beholds Christian Kingdomes and States unsound in their foundations,
+illineall in their superstructures, unjust in their administrations; he
+kicks them in peeces with the foot of his Indignation: But when
+Religious Statesmen frame and build by the levell and plummet of his
+wisdome, then people may say as his servants of old, _Looke upon Zion
+the City of our Solemnities; Your eyes shall see it a quiet habitation,
+a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof
+shall be removed, neither shall any of the coards thereof bee broken_;
+_Isa. 33. 20._ neither by civill Commotions nor foraign Invasions. When
+the coards of a State are exquisitely tight, and the stakes firmely
+pitched; such a Tent though but a Tent shall not easily flutter or fall:
+But _if the Tacklings be so loose, that the maine Mast cannot stand
+steady, nor the Saile be well spread; then may the lame take and divide
+a great prey_, ver. 23. If Religion, Laws, Liberties, Affections,
+Conversations, and foraigne Federacies be slight; the strength of strong
+men shall be weaknesse, and the weaknesse of the weak victorious.
+
+_Pura politeja ne unum admittit solæcismulum, neque valet, præscriptio
+in politicis aut moralibus._ It may maintain a bright conjecture,
+against a rusty Truth: a legible possession, against an obliterate
+Claime: an inconvenience, against a convenience; where no cleare remedy
+may be had: but never any thing that is formally sinfull, or materially
+mischievous. When rotten States are soundly mended from head to foot,
+proportions duly admeasured, Justice justly dispenced; then shall Rulers
+and Subjects have peace with God and themselves: but till then, the
+gayest Kingdomes shall be but ruffling scuffling, removing and commoving
+hovells. For _England_, however the upper Stories are shroadly
+shattered; yet the foundations and frame being good or mendable by the
+Architectors now at worke, there is good hope, when peace is setled,
+people shall dwell more wind-tight and water-tight than formerly. I
+earnestly wish our Mr. Builders to remember, that punctuality in
+Divinity and Politie, is but regularity; that what is amisse in the
+mould, will misfashion the prosult: and that if this market be slipt,
+things may grow as deare as ever they were. Most expert Gentlemen, bee
+intreated at length to set our Head right on our shoulders, that we may
+once look upwards and goe forwards like proper Englishmen.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+God will also have Ecclesiasticall Reformation now, or nothing: And here
+he stands not upon Kings, Parliaments or Assemblies, but upon his own
+Termes. I feare hee will have all drosse and base metalls throughly
+melted away by these combustions, before Hee quenches them; all his
+Ordinances and vessells cast into his owne fashion, in his own mould, to
+his own _amussim_, before he restores peace. There was not a stone left
+upon a stone of the old Temple, before the new was erected. If this
+first worke bee throughly and throughoutly dispatched as I hope it is,
+the great _Remora_ is removed. If the Parliament and Assembly be pleased
+to be as curious and industrious as I have seen a great Popish Bishop in
+execcrating a Protestant Parish Church one day, and consecrating it the
+next; they may adjourn awhile with leave enough.
+
+Some ten or twelve years before these Wars there came to my view these
+two Predictions.
+
+    1. _When God shall purge this Land with soap and nitre,
+       Woe be to the Crowne, woe be to the Mitre._
+
+    The accent of the blow shall fall there.
+
+He that pities not the Crowne, pities not his owne soule. Hee that
+pities not those that wore the Mitre, more than they pitied themselves,
+or the Churches over which they insulted, or the State then corrupted
+and now Corruined by their pride and negligence, is to blame.
+
+    2. _There is a set of Bishops comming next behind,
+       Will ride the devill off his legs, and break his wind._
+
+Poore men! they might have kept his backe till this time for ought I
+know, had they not put him beyond his pace: but Schollers must gallop,
+though they tumble for it. Yet I commend them for this, they gave him
+such straynes as made him blow short ever since. I doubt the Assembly
+troubles him; and I doubt he troubles them. Well, the Bishops are gone:
+If they have carried away with them all that was in the pockets of their
+Holliday hose, fare them well; let them come againe when I give them a
+new _Conge d' slier_, or send a Pursuivant for them; which if I doe, I
+shall never trust myselfe more, though they have often done it for me,
+who never deserved that honour. Some of them I confesse were very honest
+men, and would have been honester if they dared for their fellows.
+
+The sad worke now, is to institute better things in their Roome, and to
+induct better men in their roome; rather where, and how to finde those
+things, they having cunningy laid them so farre out of the way; I doubt
+some good men cannot see them, when they look full upon them: it is
+like, the Bishops carryed away their eyes with them, but I feare they
+left their Spectacles behind them. I use no spectacles, yet my eyes are
+not fine enough, nor my hand steady enough to cut by such fine threads
+as are now spun. I am I know not what; I cannot tell what to make of my
+selfe, nor I think no body else: My Trade is to finde more faults than
+others will mend; and I am very diligent at it; yet it scarce findes me
+a living, though the Country findes me more worke than I can turne my
+hand to.
+
+For Church work, I am neither Presbyterian, nor plebsbyterian, but an
+Interpendent: My task is to sit and study how shapeable the Independent
+way will be to the body of _England_, then my head akes on one side; and
+how suitable the Presbyterian way, as we heare it propounded, will bee
+to the minde of Christ, then my head akes on the other side: but when I
+consider how the Parliament will commoderate a way out of both, then my
+head leaves aking: I am not, without some contrivalls in my patching
+braines; but I had rather suppose them to powder, than expose them to
+preregular, much lesse to preter-regular Judgements: I shall therefore
+rejoyce that the work is faln into so good hands, heads, and hearts, who
+will weigh Rules by Troyweight, and not by the old Haber-du-pois: and
+rather then meddle where I have so little skill, I will sit by and tell
+my feares to them that have the patience to heare them, and leave the
+red-hot question to them that dare handle it.
+
+I fear many holy men have not so deeply humbled themselves for their
+former mis-worshippings of God as he will have them before he reveales
+his secrets to them: as they accounted things indifferent, so they
+account indifferent repentance will serve turne. _Son of man, if my
+people be ashamed of all that they have done, then shew them the forme
+of the house, and the fashion thereof_, else not, _Ezek. 43. 11_. A sin
+in Gods worship, that seemes small in the common beame of the world, may
+be very great in the scales of his Sanctuary. Where God is very jealous,
+his servants should be very cautelous.
+
+I feare, the furnace wherein our new formes are casting, is over-heat,
+and casts smoake in the eyes of our founders, that they cannot well see
+what they doe, or ought to doe; _Omne perit judicium cum res transit in
+affectum._ Truth and peace are the _Castor_ and _Pollux_ of the Gospell:
+they that seek the one without the other, are like to finde neither:
+Anger will hinder domestick Prayers, much more Ecclesiastique Councels.
+What is produced by tumult, is either deficient or redundant. When the
+judgements of good men concurre with a harmonious Diapason, the result
+is melodious and commodious. Warring and jarring men are no builders of
+houses for God, though otherwise very good. Instruments may be well made
+and well strung, but if they be not well fretted, the Musique is marred.
+The great Turke hearing Musitians so long a tuning, he thought it stood
+not with his state to wait for what would follow. When Christ whips
+Market-makers out of his Temple, he raises dust: but when he enters in
+with Truth and Holinesse, he calls for deep silence, _Hab. 2. 20_. There
+must not a toole be heard when the Tabernacle is reared: Nor is that
+amiable or serviceable to men that passeth through so many ill
+animadversions of Auditors and Spectators. If the Assembly can hardly
+agree what to determine, people will not easily agree what to accept.
+
+I fear, these differences and delayes have occasioned men to make more
+new discoveries then otherwise they would. If publique Assemblies of
+Divines cannot agree upon a right way, private Conventicles of
+illiterate men, will soon find a wrong. Bivious demurres breed devious
+resolutions. Passengers to heaven are in haste, and will walk one way or
+other. He that doubts of his way, thinkes hee loses his day: and when
+men are gone awhile, they will be loth to turn back. If God hide his
+path, Satan is at hand to turn Convoy: If any have a minde to ride
+poste, he will helpe them with a fresh spavin'd Opinion at every Stage.
+
+    _Where clocks will stand, and Dials have no light,
+    There men must goe by guesse, be't wrong or right._
+
+I feare, if the Assembly of all Divines, doe not consent, and concenter
+the sooner, God will breath a spirit of wisedome and meeknesse, into the
+Parliament of no Divines, to whom the Imperative and Coactive power
+supremely belongs, to consult such a contemperate way, as shall best
+please him, and profit his Churches, so that it shall be written upon
+the doore of the Assembly; _The Lord was not there._
+
+I feare, the importunity of some impatient, and subtlety of some
+malevolent mindes, will put both Parliament and Assembly upon some
+preproperations, that will not be safe in Ecclesiasticall Constitutions.
+To procrastinate in matters clear, as I said even now, may be dangerous;
+so, not to deliberate in dubious cases, will be as perilous. We here,
+though I think under favour, wee have some as able Steersmen as
+_England_ affords, have been driven to tack about again to some other
+points of Christs Compasse, and to make better observations before we
+hoyse up sayles. It will be found great wisdome in disputable cases, not
+to walk on by twylight, but very cautelously; rather by probationers for
+a time, then peremptory positives: Reelings and wheelings in Church
+acts, are both difficult and disadvantageous. It is rather Christian
+modesty than shame, in the dawning of Reformation, to be very
+perpensive. Christs mind is, that Evangelicall policies, should be
+framed by Angelicall measures; not by a line of flaxe, but by a golden
+Reed, _Rev. 21. 15_.
+
+I feare, he that sayes, the Presbyterian and Independent way, if rightly
+carryed, doe not meet in one, he doth not handle his Compasses so
+considerately as he should.
+
+I feare, if Authority doth not establish a sutable and peaceable
+Government of Churches the sooner, the bells in all the steeples will
+ring awke so long, that they will hardly be brought into tune any more.
+
+My last, but not least feare, is, That God will hardly replant his
+Gospel in any part of Christendome, in so faire an Edition as is
+expected, till the whole field hath been so ploughed and harrowed, that
+the soile be throughly cleansed and fitted for new seed: Or whether he
+will not transplant it into some other Regions, I know not: This feare I
+have feared these 20 years, but upon what grounds I had rather bury than
+broach.
+
+I dare not but adde to what preceded about Church-Reformation, a most
+humble petition, that the Authority of the Ministry be kept in its due
+altitude: if it be dropp'd in the dust, it will soon bee stifled:
+Encroachments on both sides, have bred detriments enough to the whole.
+The Separatists are content their teaching Elders should sit highest on
+the Bench, so they may sit in the Chaire over-against them; and that
+their ruling Elders shall ride on the saddle, so they may hold the
+bridle. That they may likewise have seasonable and honorable
+maintenance, and that certainly stated: which generally we find and
+practise here as the best way. When Elders live upon peoples good wills,
+people care little for their ill wills, be they never so just: Voluntary
+contributions or non-tributions of Members, put Ministers upon many
+temptations in administrations of their Offices: two houres care does
+more dis-spirit an ingenuous man than two dayes study: nor can an Elder
+be given to hospitality, when he knowes not what will be given him to
+defray it: it is pity men of gifts should live upon men's gifts. I have
+seen most of the Reformed Churches in Europ, and seene more misery in
+these two respects, then it is meet others should hear: the complaints
+of painfull _Pareus_, _David Pareus_, to my selfe, with tears, concerning
+the Germane Churches, are not to be related.
+
+There is yet a personall Reformation, as requisite as the Politicall.
+When States are so reformed, that they conforme such as are profligate,
+into good civility: civill men, into religious morality: When Churches
+are so constituted, that Faith is ordained Pastor, Truth Teacher,
+Holinesse and Righteousnesse ruling Elders: Wisedome and Charity
+Deacons: Knowledge, love, hope, zeale, heavenly-mindednesse, meeknesse,
+patience, watchfulnesse, humility, diligence, sobriety, modesty,
+chastity, constancy, prudence, contentation, innocency, sincerity, &c.
+admitted members and all their opposites excluded: then there will bee
+peace of Country and Conscience.
+
+Did the servants of Christ know what it is to live in Reformed Churches
+with unreformed spirits, under strict order with loose hearts, how
+formes of Religion breed but formes of Godlinesse, how men by
+Church-discipline, learne their Church-postures, and there rest; they
+would pray as hard for purity of heart, as purity of Ordinances. If we
+mocke God in these, He will mocke us; either with defeat of our hopes;
+or which is worse: when we have what we so much desire, we shall be so
+much the worse for it. It was a well salted speech, uttered by an
+English Christian of a Reformed Church in the Netherlands, Wee have the
+good Orders here, but you have the good Christians in _England_. Hee
+that prizes not Old _England_ Graces, as much as New _England_
+Ordinances, had need goe to some other market before hee comes hither.
+In a word, hee that is not Pastor, Teacher, Ruler, Deacon and Brother to
+himselfe, and lookes not at Christ above all, it matters not a farthing
+whether he be Presbyterian or Independent: he may be a zealot in bearing
+witnesse to which he likes best, and yet an Iscariot to both, in the
+witnesse of his owne Conscience.
+
+I have upon strict observation, seen so much power of godlinesse, and
+spirituall mindednesse in English Christians, living meerly upon Sermons
+and private duties, hardly come by, when the Gospell was little more
+than symptomaticall to the State; such Epidemicall and lethall formality
+in other disciplinated Churches, that I professe in the hearing of God,
+my heart hath mourned, and mine eyes wept in secret, to consider what
+will become of multitudes of my deare Country-men, when they shall enjoy
+what they now covet: Not that good Ordinances breed ill Consciences, but
+ill Consciences grow stark nought under good Ordinances; insomuch that
+might I wish an hypocrite the most perilous place but Hell, I should
+wish him a Membership in a strict Reformed Church: and might I wish a
+sincere Servant of God, the greatest griefe earth can afford, I should
+wish him to live with a pure heart, in a Church impurely Reformed; yet
+through the improvement of Gods Spirit, that griefe may sanctifie him
+for Gods service and presence, as much as the meanes he would have, but
+cannot.
+
+I speak this the rather to prevent, what in me lyes, the imprudent
+romaging that is like to be in _England_, from Villages to Townes, from
+Townes to Cities, for Churches sake, to the undoing of Societies,
+Friendships, Kindreds, Families, Heritages, Callings, yea, the wise
+Providence of God in disposing mens habitations, now in the very Infancy
+of Reformation: by forgetting that a little leaven may season a large
+lump: and it is much better to doe good than receive. It were a most
+uncharitable and unserviceable part, for good men to desert their own
+Congregations, where many may glorifie God in the day of his Visitation,
+for their presence and assistance. If a Christian would picke out a way
+to thrive in grace, let him study to administer grace to them that want:
+or to make sure a blessing upon his Family; let him labour to multiply
+the family of Christ, and beleeve, that he which soweth liberally, shall
+reap abundantly; and hee that spareth more than is need, from them that
+have more need, shall surely come to poverty: yea, let me say, that he
+who forsakes the meanes of grace for Christ and his Churches sake, shall
+meet with a better bargaine, namely, grace it selfe. It is a time now,
+when full flocks should rather scatter to leane Churches, than gather
+from other places, to make themselves fat; when able Christians should
+rather turne Jesuites and Seminaries, than run into Covents and
+Frieries: had this beene the course in the Primitive time, the Gospel
+had been pinfolded up in a few Cities, and not spread as it is.
+
+What more ungodly sacriledge or manstealing can there be, then to
+purloin from godly Ministers the first born of their fervent prayers and
+faithfull preachings, the leven of their flocks, the incouragement of
+their soules, the Crowne of their labours, their Epistle to Heaven? I am
+glad to heare our _New-England_ Elders generally detest it _despuenter_,
+and looke at it as a killing _Cordolium_: If men will needs gather
+Churches out of the world (as they say) let them first plough the world,
+sow it, and reap it with their own hands, and the Lord give them a
+liberall Harvest. He is a very hard man that will reap where he hath not
+sowed, and gather where he hath not strowed, _Mat. 25. 24_.
+
+He that saith, it is or was our case, doth not rightly understand
+himself or us, and he that takes his warrant out of _Joh. 4. 37. 38._ is
+little acquainted with Expositors. Wise men are amazed to hear that
+conscientious Ministers dare spoile many Congregations to make one for
+themselves.
+
+In matter of Reformation, this would be remembred, that in premonitory
+judgements, God will take good words, and sincere intents; but in
+peremptory, nothing but reall performances.
+
+
+_Composition._
+
+If Reformation were come thus neer, I should hope Composition were not
+farre off: When hearts meet in God, they will soon meet in Gods wayes,
+and upon Gods termes. But to avoid prolixity, which steales upon me; For
+Composition, I shall compose halfe a dozen distichs concerning these
+kind of Wars; wishing I could sing asleep these odious stirres at least
+on some part, with a dull Ode. He is no Cobler that cannot sing, nor no
+good Cobler that can sing well:
+
+    _Si natura negat, facit indignatio versum_   } They are
+    _Qualemcunque potest_ ---- Juvenal           } these.
+
+
+1.
+
+    _They seldome lose the field, but often win,
+    That end their wars, before their wars begin._
+
+
+2.
+
+    _Their Cause is oft the worst, that first begin,
+    And they may lose the field, the field that win:_[3]
+
+
+3.
+
+    _In Civill warrs, 'twixt Subjects and their King,
+    There is no conquest got, by conquering._
+
+
+4.
+
+    _Warre ill begun, the onely way to mend,
+    Is t' end the warre before the warre doe end._
+
+
+5.
+
+    _They that will end ill warrs, must have the skill,
+    To make an end by Rule, and not by Will._
+
+
+6.
+
+    _In ending warrs 'tween Subjects and their Kings,
+    Great things are sav'd, by losing little things._
+
+    [3] _Victrix causa Diis placuit, sed victa_ Catoni. Lucan.
+
+Wee heare that _Majestas Imperii_ hath challenged _Salus Populi_ into
+the field; the one fighting for Prerogatives, the other defending
+Liberties: Were I a Constable bigge enough, I would set one of them by
+the heeles to keep both their hands quiet; I meane onely in a paire of
+stocks, made of sound reason, handsomely fitted for the legges of their
+Understanding.
+
+If _Salus Populi_ began, surely it was not that _Salus Populi_ which I
+left in _England_: That _Salus Populi_ was as mannerly a _Salus Populi_
+as need bee: if I bee not much deceived, that _Salus Populi_ suffer'd
+its nose to be held to the Grindstone, till it was almost ground to the
+grisles; and yet grew never the sharper for ought I could discerne; What
+was, before the world was made, I leave to better Antiquaries then
+myselfe; but I thinke, since the world began, it was never storied that
+_Salus Populi_ began with _Majestas Imperii_, unlesse _Majestas Imperii_
+first unharbour'd it, and hunted it to a stand, and then it must either
+turne head and live, or turn taile and die: but more have been storyed
+on the other hand than _Majestas Imperii_ is willing to heare: I doubt
+not but _Majestas Imperii_ knows, that Common-wealths cost as much the
+making as Crownes; and if they bee well made, would yet outsell an
+ill-fashioned Crown, in any Market overt, even in _Smithfield_, if they
+could be well vouched.
+
+But _Preces & Lachrymæ_, are the people's weapons: so are Swords and
+Pistols, when God and Parliaments bid them Arme. Prayers and Teares are
+good weapons for them that have nothing but knees and eyes; but most men
+are made with teeth and nailes; onely they must neither scratch for
+Liberties, nor bite Prerogatives, till they have wept and prayed as God
+would have them. If Subjects must fight for their Kings against other
+Kingdomes, when their Kings will; I know no reason, but they may fight
+against their Kings for their own Kingdomes, when Parliaments say they
+may and must: but Parliaments must not say they must, till God sayes
+they may.
+
+I can never beleeve that _Majestas Imperii_, was ever so simple as to
+think, that if it extends it self beyond its due Artique at one end, but
+_Salus Populi_ must Antartique it as farre at the other end, or else the
+world will be Excentrick, and then it will whirle; and if it once fall a
+whirling, ten to one, it will whirle them off first, that sit in highest
+chaires on cushions fill'd with Peacocks feathers; and they are like to
+stand their ground fastest, that owne not one foot of ground to stand
+upon. When Kings rise higher than they should, they exhale Subjects
+higher than they would: if the _Primum Mobile_ should ascend one foot
+higher than it is, it would hurry all the nether wheeles, and the whole
+world on fire in 24 houres. No Prince exceeds in Soveraignty, but his
+Subjects will exceed as farre in some vitious Liberty, to abate their
+griefe; or some pernicious mutiny, to abate their Prince.
+
+    _The crazy world will crack, in all the middle joynts.
+    If all the ends it hath, have not their parapoynts._
+
+Nor can I beleeve that Crownes trouble Kings Heads, so much as Kings
+heads trouble Crownes: nor that they are flowers of Crowns that trouble
+Crowns, but rather some Nettles or Thistles mistaken for flowers.
+
+To speake plainer English, I have wondred these thirty yeares what Kings
+aile: I have seen in my time, the best part of twenty Christian Kings
+and Princes; Yet as Christian as they were, some or other were still
+scuffling for Prerogatives. It must be granted at all hands, that
+_Prærogativæ Regis_ are necessary Supporters of State: and stately
+things to stately Kings: but if withall, they be _Derogativæ Regno_,
+they are but little things to wise Kings. Equity is as due to People, as
+Eminency to Princes: Liberty to Subjects, as Royalty to Kings: If they
+cannot walk together lovingly hand in hand, _pari passu_, they must cut
+girdles and part as good friends as they may: Nor must it be taken
+offensively, that when Kings are haling up their top-gallants, Subjects
+lay hold on their slablines; the head and body must move alike: it is
+nothing meet for me to say with _Horace_,
+
+    _Ut tu fortunam, sic nos te Car'le feremus._
+
+But I hope I may safely say,
+
+    _The body beares the head, the head the Crown;
+    If both beare not alike, then one will down._
+
+Distracting Nature, calls for distracting Remedies; perturbing policies
+for disturbing cures: If one Extreame should not constitute its
+Anti-Extreame, all things would soon be in _extremo_: if ambitious
+windes get into Rulers Crownes, rebellious vapours will into Subjects
+Caps, bee they stopt never so close: Yet the tongues of Times tell us of
+ten Preter-royall Usurpations, to one contra-civill Rebellion.
+
+Civill Liberties and Proprieties admeasured, to every man to his true
+_suum_, are the _prima pura principia, propria quarto modo_, the _sine
+quibus_ of humane States, without which, men are but women. Peoples
+prostrations of these things when they may lawfully helpe it, are
+prophane prostitutions; ignorant Ideottismes, under naturall noddaries;
+and just it is that such as undersell them, should not re-inherit them
+in haste, though they seeke it carefully with teares. And such
+usurpations by Rulers, are the unnaturalizings of nature,
+disfranchisements of Freedome, the Neronian nullifyings of Kingdomes:
+yea, I beleeve the Devill himselfe would turne Round-head, rather then
+suffer these Columnes of Common-wealths to be slighted: as he is a
+creature, he feares decreation; as an Angell, dehominations; as a
+Prince, dis-common-wealthings; as finite, these pen-infinite
+insolencies, which are the most finite Infinites of misery to men on
+this side the worlds dissolution: therefore it is, that with Gods leave,
+he hath sounded an alarm to all the _susque deques_, pell-mels, one and
+alls, now harrassing sundry parts of Christendome. It is enough for God
+to be Infinite, too much for man to bee Indefinite. He that will flye
+too high a quarry for Absolutenesse, shall stoope as much too low before
+he remounts his proper pitch: If _Jacob_ will over top his brother out
+of Gods time and way, he will so hamstring him, that hee shall make legs
+whether he will or no, at his brothers approach: and such as over-run
+all humane measure, shall seldome returne to humane mercy: There are
+sins besides the sin against the Holy Ghost, which shall not be expiated
+by sacrifice for temporall revenge: I mean when they are boyled up to a
+full consistence of contumacy and impenitency. Let absolute Demands or
+Commands be put into one scale, and indefinite refusalls into the other:
+all the Goldsmiths in _Cheapeside_, cannot tell which weighs heaviest.
+Intolerable griefes to Subjects, breed the _Iliaca passio_ in a body
+politick, which inforces that upwards which should not. I speak these
+things to excuse, what I may, my Countrymen in the hearts of all that
+look upon their proceedings.
+
+There is a quadrobulary saying which passes current in the Westerne
+World, That the Emperour is King of Kings, the _Spaniard_, King of Men,
+the _French_, King of Asses, the _King_ of _England_, _King_ of Devills.
+By his leave that first brayed the speech, they are pretty wise Devills
+and pretty honest; the worse they doe, is to keep their Kings from
+devillizing, and themselves from Assing: Were I a King (a simple
+supposall) I would not part with one good English Devill, for some two
+of the Emperours Kings, nor three of the _Spaniards_ Men, nor foure
+_French_ Asses; If I did I should thinke my selfe an Asse for my labour.
+I know nothing that _Englishmen_ want, but true Grace, and honest pride;
+let them be well furnisht with those two, I feare they would make more
+Asses, then _Spaine_ can make men, or the Emperour Kings. You will say I
+am now beyond my latchet; but you would not say so, if you knew how high
+my latchet will stretch; when I heare a lye with a latchet, that reaches
+up to his throat that first forged it.
+
+He is a good King that undoes not his Subjects by any one of his
+unlimited Prerogatives: and they are a good People, that undoe not their
+Prince, by any one of their unbounded Liberties, be they the very least.
+I am sure either may, and I am sure neither would be trusted, how good
+soever. Stories tell us in effect, though not in termes, that over-risen
+Kings, have been the next evills to the world, unto fallen Angels; and
+that over-franchised people, are devills with smooth snaffles in their
+mouthes. A King that lives by Law, lives by love; and he that lives
+above Law, shall live under hatred doe what he can. Slavery and knavery
+goe as seldome asunder, as Tyranny and Cruelty.
+
+I have a long while thought it very possible, in a time of Peace, and in
+some Kings Reigne, for disert Statesmen, to cut an exquisite thred
+between Kings Prerogatives, and Subjects Liberties of all sorts, so as
+_Cæsar_ might have his due, and People their share, without such sharpe
+disputes. Good Casuists would case it, and case it, part it, and part
+it; now it, and then it, punctually. _Aquinas_, _Suarez_, or _Valentia_,
+would have done it long ere this, had they not beene Popish, I might
+have said knavish; for, if they be so any where, it is in their
+Tractates of Priviledges. Our Common Law doth well, but it must doe
+better before things doe as they should. There are some _Maximes_ in
+Law, that would be taught to speake a little more mannerly, or else well
+_Anti-Maxim'd_: we say, the King can doe a Subject no wrong; why may wee
+not say, the Parliament can doe the King no wrong? We say, _Nullum
+tempus occurrit Regi_ in taking wrong; why may wee not say, _Nullum
+tempus succurrit Regi_ in doing wrong? which I doubt will prove as good
+a Canon if well examined.
+
+Authority must have power to make and keep people honest; People,
+honesty to obey Authority; both, a joynt-Councell to keep both safe.
+Morall Lawes, Royall Prerogatives, Popular Liberties, are not of Mans
+making or giving, but Gods: Man is but to measure them out by Gods Rule:
+which if mans wisdome cannot reach, Mans experience must mend: And these
+Essentialls, must not be Ephorized or Tribuned by one or a few Mens
+discretion, but lineally sanctioned by Supreame Councels. In
+_pro-re-nascent_ occurrences, which cannot be foreseen; Diets,
+Parliaments, Senates, or accountable Commissions, must have power to
+consult and execute against intersilient dangers and flagitious crimes
+prohibited by the light of Nature: Yet it were good if States would let
+People know so much beforehand, by some safe woven _manifesto_, that
+grosse Delinquents may tell no tales of Anchors and Buoyes, nor palliate
+their presumptions with pretence of ignorance. I know no difference in
+these Essentialls, between Monarchies, Aristocracies, or Democracies;
+the rule will be found par-rationall, say Schoolmen and Pretorians what
+they will. And in all, the best Standard to measure Prerogatives, is the
+Ploughstaffe; to measure Liberties, the Scepter: if the tearms were a
+little altered into Loyall Prerogatives and Royall Liberties, then we
+should be sure to have Royall Kings and Loyall Subjects.
+
+    _Subjects their King, the King his Subjects greets,
+    Whilome the Scepter and the Plough-staffe meets._
+
+But Progenitors have had them for four and twenty predecessions: that
+would be spoken in the Norman tongue or Cimbrian, not in the English or
+Scottish: When a Conquerour turnes Christian, Christianity turns
+Conquerour: if they had had them time out of minde of man, before _Adam_
+was made, it is not a pin to the point in _foro rectæ rationis_: Justice
+and Equity were before time, and will be after it: Time hath neither
+Politicks nor Ethicks, good nor evill in it; it is an empty thing, as
+empty as a _New-English_ purse, and emptier it cannot bee: a man may
+break his neck in time, and in a lesse time then he can heale it.
+
+But here is the deadly pang, it must now be taken by force and dint of
+sword: I confesse it is a deadly pang to a Spirit made all of flesh, but
+not to a mortified heart: it is good to let God have his will as hee
+please, when we have not reason to let him have it as we should;
+remembring, that hitherto he hath taken order, that ill Prerogatives
+gotten by the Sword, should in time be fetcht home by the Dagger, if
+nothing else will doe it: Yet I trust there is both day and means to
+intervent this bargaine. But if they should; if God will make both King
+and Kingdome the better by it, what should either lose? I am sure there
+is no great cause for either to make great brags.
+
+    _Pax quo carior, eo charior._
+
+    _A peace well made, is likeliest then to hold,
+    When 'tis both dearly bought and dearly sold._
+
+I confesse, he that parts with such pearles to be paid in old iron, had
+need to be pityed more by his faithfull friends, than he is like to be
+by his false flatterers. My heart is surcharged, I can no longer
+forbear.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_My Dearest Lord_, and my more than _dearest King_, I most humbly
+beseech you upon mine aged knees, that you would please to arme your
+minde with patience of proofe, and to intrench your selfe as deep as you
+can, in your wonted Royall meeknesse; for I am resolved to display my
+unfurled soule in your very face, and to storme you with volyes of Love
+and Loyalty. You owe the meanest true Subject you have, a close account
+of these open Warres: they are no _Arcana imperii_. Then give mee leave
+to inquire of your Majesty, what you make in fields of blood, when you
+should be amidst your Parliament of peace: What you doe sculking in the
+suburbs of Hell, when your Royall Pallaces stand desolate, through your
+absence? What moves you to take up Armes against your faithfull
+Subjects, when your Armes should bee embracing your mournfull Queen?
+What incenses your heart to make so many widdowes and Orphans, and among
+the rest your owne? Doth it become you, the King of the stateliest
+Island the world hath, to forsake your Throne, and take up the
+Manufacture of cutting your Subjects throats, for no other sin, but for
+Deifying you so over-much, that you cannot be quiet in your Spirit, till
+they have pluckt you downe as over-low? Doe your three Kingdomes so
+trouble you, that they must all three be set on fire at once, that when
+you have done, you may probably runne away by their light into utter
+darknesse? Doe your three Crownes sit so heavy on your head, that you
+will break the backs of the three bodies that set them on, and helpt you
+beare them so honourably? Have your three Lamb-like flocks so molested
+you, that you must deliver them up to the ravening teeth of evening
+Wolves? Are you so angry with those that never gave you just cause to be
+angry, but by their too much feare to anger you at all, when you gave
+them cause enough? Are you so weary of Peace, that you will never be
+weary of Warre? Are you so willing to warre at home, who were so
+unwilling to warre abroad, where and when you should? Are you so weary
+of being a good King, that you will leave your selfe never a good
+Subject? Have you peace of Conscience, in inforcing many of your
+Subjects to fight for you against their Conscience? Are you provided
+with Answers at the great Tribunall, for the destruction of so many
+thousands, whereof every man was as good a man as your Self, _qua_ man?
+
+Is it not a most unworthy part for you to bee running away from your
+Subjects in a day of battel, upon whose Pikes you may come safe with
+your naked breast and welcome? Is it honourable for you to be flying on
+horses, from those that would esteeme it their greatest honour, to beare
+you on their humble shoulders to your Chaire of Estate, and set you down
+upon a Cushion stuffed with their hearts? Is it your prudence to be
+inraged with your best friends, for adventuring their lives to rescue
+you from your worst enemies? Were I a King, pardon the supposall, I
+would hang that Subject by the head, that would not take me by the
+heels, and dragge me to my Court, when he sees me shifting for life in
+the ruined Countrey, if nothing else would doe it; And I would honour
+their very heels, that would take me by the very head, and teach me, by
+all just meanes, to King it better, when they saw me un-Kinging my selfe
+and Kingdome: Doe you not know Sir, that, as when your people are sicke
+of the Kings-evill, God hath given you a gift to heale them? so when
+your selfe are sicke of it, God hath given the Parliament a gift to
+heale you: Hath your Subjects love been so great to you, that you will
+spend it all, and leave your children little or none? Are you so
+exasperated against wise _Scotland_, that you will make _England_ your
+foole or foot-stoole? Is your fathers Sonne growne more Orthodox, then
+his most Orthodox father, when he told his Sonne, that a King was for a
+kingdome, and not a kingdome for a King? parallell to that of the
+Apostle; the husband is but by the wife, but the wife of the husband.
+
+Is _Majestas Imperii_ growne so kickish, that it cannot stand quiet with
+_Salus Populi_, unlesse it be fettered? Are you well advised, in
+trampling your Subjects so under your feet, that they can finde no place
+to be safe in, but over your head: Are you so inexorably offended with
+your Parliament, for suffering you to returne as you did, when you came
+into their house as you did, that you will be avenged on all whom they
+represent? Will you follow your very worst Councell so far, as to
+provoke your very best, to take better counsell than ever they did? If
+your Majesty be not Popish, as you professe, and I am very willing to
+beleeve, why doe you put the Parliament to resume the Sacrament of the
+Altar, or Consubstantions in saying, the King and Parliament, the King
+and Parliament? breaking your simple Subjects braines to understand such
+mysticall Parleenment? I question much, whether they were not better
+speake plainer English, then such Latine as the Angels can hardly
+construe, and God happily loves not to perse; I can as well admit an
+ubiquitary King as another, if a King be abroad in any good affaire; but
+if a King be at home and will circumscribe himselfe at _Oxford_, and
+proscribe or discribe his Parliament at _Westminster_, if that
+_Parliament_ will prescribe what they ought, without such paradoxing, I
+should think God would subscribe a _Le Dieu le veult_ readily enough.
+
+Is your _Advisera_ such a _Suavamen_ to you, that hath been such a
+_Gravamen_ to Religion and Peace? Shall the chiefe bearing wombe of your
+Kingdome, be ever so constituted, that it cannot be delivered of its
+owne deliverance, in what pangs soever it be, without the will of one
+man-midwife, and such a man as will come and not come, but as he list:
+nor bring a Parliament to bed of a well-begotten Liberty without an
+entire Subsidy? Doe not your Majesty being a Schollar, know, that it was
+a truth long before it was spoken, that _Mundus est unus aut nullus_,
+that there is _Principum purum unum_, which unites the world and all
+that is in it; where that is broken, things fall asunder, that
+whatsoever is duable or triable, is fryable.
+
+Is the _Militia_ of your Kingdome, such an orient flower of your Crowne,
+which all good Herbalists judge but a meere nettle, while it is in any
+one mans hand living? May not you as well challenge the absolute
+disposall of all the wealth of the Kingdome as of all the strength of
+your Kingdome? Can you put any difference? unlesse it bee this, that
+mens hearts and bones are within their skins, more proper and
+intrinsecall, their lands and cattell more externall: dare you not
+_concredit_ the _Militia_, with those to whom you may betrust your
+heart, better then your owne breast? Will they ever harme you with the
+_Militia_, that have no manner of _malitia_ against you, but for
+mis-imploying the _Militia_ against them by the _malitia_ of your ill
+Counsellours? What good will the _Militia_ doe you when you have wasted
+the Realme of all the best _Milites_ it hath? May not your Majesty see
+through a paire of Spectacles, glazed with inch-board; that while you
+have your _Advisera_ in one hand, and the _Militia_ in the other, you
+have the neckes of your Subjects under your feet, but not your heart in
+your owne hand? doe you not know that _malum est, posse malum_?
+
+Hath Episcopacy beene such a religious Jewell in your State, that you
+will sell all or most of your Coronets, Caps of honour, and blue
+Garters, for six and twenty cloth Caps? and your Barons Cloakes, for so
+many Rockets, whereof usually twenty have had scarce good manners enough
+to keepe the other six sweet? Is no Bishop no King, such an oraculous
+Truth, that you will pawne your Crowne and life upon it? if you will,
+God may make it true indeed on your part: Had you rather part with all,
+then lose a few superfluous tumours, to pare off your monstrousnesse?
+Will you be so covetous, as to get more then you ought, by losing more
+then you need? Have you not driven good Subjects enough abroad, but you
+will also slaughter them that stay at home? Will you take such an ill
+course, that no prayers can fasten that good upon you we desier? Is
+there not some worse root than all these growing in your Spirit,
+bringing forth all this bitter fruit? against which you should take up
+Arms, rather then against your harmlesse Subjects? Doe you not foresee,
+into what importable head-tearings and heart-searchings you will be
+ingulfed, when the Parliament shall give you a mate, though but a Stale?
+Methinkes it should breake your heart, to see such a one as I, presume
+so much upon your clemency and too much upon your Majesty, which your
+Selfe have so eclipsed by the interposall of your Selfe between your
+Selfe and your Selfe, that it hath not ray's enough left to dazle downe
+the height of my affections to the awe of my Judgement.
+
+Tres-Royall Sir, I once againe beseech you, with teares dropping from my
+hoary head, to cover your Selfe as close as you may, with the best
+shield of goodnesse you have: I have somewhat more to say, which may
+happily trouble not your Selfe, but your followers, more than what is
+already said. There lived in your Realme and Reigne two whom I may well
+tearme Prophets, both now in a better Kingdome; whereof one foretold two
+things concerning your Majesty, of these very proceedings, long before
+they began; which being done and past shall bee buried in silence: the
+other made this prediction about the same time.
+
+    _King =Charles= will joyne Himselfe to bitter Griefe,
+    Then joyne to God, and prove a Godly Chiefe._
+
+His words were in prose these, King _Charles_ will come into fetters,
+meaning strong afflictions, and then prove as good a King, as such a
+good King of _Israel_, whom he then named, but I need not: he was as
+inwardly acquainted with the minde of God, as fervent and frequent a
+Beadsman for your welfare, and had as religious Opticks of State, as any
+man I know: foure other Predictions he made, full as improbable as this,
+whereof three are punctually performed. A good Christian being sometime
+in conflicts of Conscience, hurried with long tentations, used this
+speech to my selfe, I am now resolved to be quiet, for I plainly see,
+God will save me whether I will or no: If your Majesty would be pleased
+to thinke so in your heart, and say so with your mouth, all the good
+Subjects you have, would say, _Amen_, till the heavens rang, and I hope
+you have few so bad, but would say, _So be it_.
+
+Much lamented Sir, If you will please to retire your Selfe to your
+Closet, whither you may most safely come, and make your peace with God,
+for the vast heritage of sinne your Intombed father left upon your
+score, the dreadful Imprecation he poured upon the heads of his tender
+posterity in _Summersets_ and _Overburyes_ Case, published in
+Starchamber by his Royall command; your owne sinful marriage, the
+sophistocation of Religion and Policie in your time, the luxury your
+Court and Country, your connivance with the Irish butcheries, your
+forgetfull breaches upon the Parliament, your compliance with Popish
+Doegs, with what else your Conscience shall suggest: and give us, your
+guilty Subjects example to doe the like, who have held pace and
+proportion with you in our evill wayes: we will helpe you by Gods
+assistance, to poure out rivers of tears, to wash away the streams of
+blood, which have beene shed for these heavy accounts; we will also
+helpe you, God helping us, to beleeve, that there is hope in _Israel_
+for these things; and Balme enough in his _Gilead_ to heale all the
+broken bones of your three kingdomes, and to redouble your honour and
+our peace: His Arme is infinite; to an infinite power all things are
+equally faisable, to an infinite mercy, all sinnes equally pardonable.
+The Lord worke these things in us and for us, for his compassions sake
+in Jesus Christ.
+
+Sir, you may now please to discover your Selfe where you think meet; I
+trust I have not indangered you: I presume your Ear-guard will keep
+farre enough from you, what ever I have said: be it so, I have
+discharged my duty, let them look to theirs. If my tongue should reach
+your eares, which I little hope for; Let it be once said; the great King
+of great _Britaine_, tooke advise of a simple Cobler, yet such a Cobler,
+as will not exchange either his blood or his pride, with any Shoo-maker
+or Tanner in your Realme, nor with any of your late Bishops which have
+flattered you thus in peeces: I would not speake thus in the eares of
+the world, through the month of the Presse for all the plunder your
+plunderers have pillaged; were it not somewhat to abate your Royall
+indignation toward a loyall Subject; a Subject whose heart hath been
+long carbonadoed, _des veniam verbo_, in flames of affection towards
+you. Your Majesty knowes or may know, time was, when I did, or would
+have done you a better peece of service, than all your Troopes and
+Regiments are now doing. Should I heare any Gentleman that follows you,
+of my yeares, say hee loves you better than I, if it were lawfull, I
+would sweare by my Sword, he said more than his sword would make good.
+
+Gracious Sir, Vouchsafe to pardon me my no other sins, but my long
+Idolatry towards you, and my loving you too hard in this speech, and I
+will pardon you your Treason against me, even me, by committing Treason
+against your Selfe my Lord and King;[4] and your murther, in murthering
+me, even me, by murthering my deare fellow Subjects, bone of my bone,
+and flesh of my flesh, and of yours also. If you will not pardon me, I
+will pardon my selfe, dwell in my own clothes as long as I can, and
+happily make as good a shift for my proportion, as he that hath a
+lighter paire of heeles: And when you have done what you please and what
+you can, I am resolved to be
+
+                            _As loyall a Subject to your Majesty when I
+                            have never a head on my shoulders, as
+                            you a Royall King to me, when you have
+                            your three Crownes on your head,_
+
+                                                  Theod: de la Guard.
+
+  [4] I speake in termes of Divinity not of Law and am deepely grieved
+  that I am forced to such necessary over boldnesse.
+
+    _Sir_,
+
+I Cannot give you over thus; I most earnestly implore you, that you
+would not deferre to consider yourselfe throughly, you are now returned
+to the brinke of your Honour and our Peace, stand not too long there,
+your State is full of distractions, your people of expectations, the
+importune Affaires of your Kingdome perplexedly suspended, your good
+Subjects are now rising into a resolution to pray you on to your throne,
+or into your Tombe, into Grace with your Parliament and People, or into
+Glory with the Saints in Heaven; but how you will get into the one,
+without passing first through th' other, is the riddle they cannot
+untye. If they shall ply the Throne of Grace hard, God will certainely
+heare, and in a short time mould you to his minde, and convince you,
+that it had and will bee farre easier to sit downe meekely upon the
+_Rectum_, than to wander resolutely in obliquities, which with Kings,
+seldome faile to dissembogue into bottomlesse Seas of sorrows.
+
+Dearest Sir, be intreated to doe what you doe sincerely; the King of
+Heaven and Earth can search and discover the hiddenest corner of your
+heart, your Parliament understands you farre better then you may
+conceive, they have many eares and eyes, and good ones, I beleeve they
+are Religiously determined to re-cement you to your Body so exquisitely,
+that the Errors of State and Church, routed by these late stirs, may not
+re-allee hereafter, nor Themselves be made a curse to the issue of their
+own bodies, nor a Scoffe, to all Politique Bodies in Europe. The Lord
+give your Majesty and all your Royall Branches _the spirit of wisedome
+and understanding_, _the Spirit of knowledge and his feare_, for His
+mercy and Christ his sake.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I Would my skill would serve me also, as well as my heart, to translate
+Prince _Rupert_, for his Queen-mothers sake, _Eliz._ a second. Mismeane
+me not. I have had him in my armes when he was younger, I wish I had him
+there now: if I mistake not, he promised then to be a good Prince, but I
+doubt he hath forgot it: if I thought he would not be angry with me, I
+would pray hard to his Maker, to make him a right Roundhead, a wise
+hearted Palatine, a thankfull man to the English; to forgive all his
+sinnes, and at length to save his soule, notwithstanding all his
+God-damne mee's: yet I may doe him wrong; I am not certaine hee useth
+that oath; I wish no man else would. I dare say the Devills dare not. I
+thank God I have lived in a Colony of many thousand English almost these
+twelve yeares, am held a very sociable man; yet I may considerately say,
+I never heard but one Oath sworne, nor never saw one man drunk, nor ever
+heard of three women Adulteresses, in all this time, that I can call to
+minde: If these sinnes bee amongst us privily, the Lord heale us. I
+would not bee understood to boast of our innocency; there is no cause I
+should, our hearts may be bad enough, and our lives much better. But to
+follow my businesse.
+
+Prosecutions of Warres betweene a King and his Parliament, are the
+direfull dilacerations of the world, the cruell Catastrophes of States,
+dreadfull to speake of; they are _nefanda & n' agenda_: I know no
+grounds can be given of them but two: Either upon Reason founded upon
+some surmisall of Treason, which my reason cannot reach: I could never
+conceive why a rationall King should commit Treason against a reasonable
+Parliament; or how a faithfull Parliament against their lawfull King:
+the most I can imagine, is a misprision of Treason, upon a misprision of
+Reason. Hee that knows not the Spirit of his King, is an Atheist. Our
+King is not _Charles le simple_ sometime of _France_: he understands not
+our King that understands him not to bee understanding. The Parliament
+is supposed Omniscient, because under God they are Omnipotent: if a
+Parliament have not as much knowledge and all other vertues, as all the
+Kingdome beside, they are no good Abridgement of the Common-wealth. I
+beleeve Remonstrances have demonstrated enough concerning this point of
+Reason, to give satisfaction to such as satisfaction will satisfie.
+
+
+Or upon Will.
+
+The Will of a King is very numinous; it hath a kinde of vast
+universality in it, it is many times greater than the will of his whole
+kingdome, stiffened with ill Counsell and ill Presidents: if it be not a
+foot and half lesser than the Will of his Councell, and three foot
+lesser than the Will of his Parliament, it is too big. I think it were
+well for a King if hee had no will at all, but were all Reason. What if
+he committed his morall will to Divines, that were no Bishops? his
+Politicall, to his Parliament, and a Councell chosen by Parliament? that
+if ever it miscarry, they may blame themselves most, and him least. I
+scarce know any King that hath such advantage as ours; his three
+kingdomes lye so distinct and entire, that if he please, he might keep
+them like three gardens without a weed, if he would let God keep his
+will, without wilfulnesse and rashnesse.
+
+I have observed men to have two kindes of Wills, a Free-hold will, such
+as men hold in _Capite_ of themselves; or a Copy-hold will, held at the
+will of other Lords or Ladies. I have read almost all the Common Law of
+_England_, and some Statutes; yet I never read, that the Parliament held
+their will in such a _Capite_: their Tenure is _Knight-service_, and
+good _Knight-service_ too, or else they are to blame. And I am sure, a
+King cannot hold by Copy, at the will of other Lords; the Law calls that
+_base tenure_, inconsistent with Royalty; much more base is it, to hold
+at the will of Ladies: Apron-string _tenure_ is very weak, tyed but of a
+slipping knot, which a childe may undoe, much more a King. It stands not
+with our Queens honour to weare an Apron, much lesse her Husband, in the
+strings; that were to insnare both him and her self in many unsafeties.
+I never heard our King was Effeminate: to be a little Uxorious
+personally, is a vertuous vice in Oeconomicks; but Royally, a vitious
+vertue in Politicks. To speak English, Books and tongues tell us, I wish
+they tell us true, that the Error of these Wars on our Kings part
+proceeds only from ill Counsellours.
+
+Ill Counsellours are very ill Gamesters; if they see their own stake a
+losing, they will play away King, Queen, Bishops, Knights, Rooks,
+Pawnes, and all, before they will turne up the board: they that play for
+lusts, will play away themselves, and not leave themselves so much as a
+heart to repent; and then there is no Market left but Hell; if the case
+be thus, it is to no end to look for any end, till one side make an end
+of the other.
+
+    _They that at stake their Crownes and Honours set,
+    Play lasting games, if Lust or Guilt doe bet._
+
+
+_Cessation._
+
+If God would vouchsafe to give his Majesties Religion and Reason, power
+to fling his Wills head over the Wall, in matter of Composition, and his
+Subjects strength to throw their lusts after it, Arms would be soon laid
+down, and Peace soon taken up. They that are not at peace with God, are
+not at peace with themselves, whatever they think; and they that are not
+at peace with themselves, cannot be at peace with others, if occasion
+provokes, be their natures never so good.
+
+So farre as I can conjecture, the chiefe impediment to a generall and
+mutuall Cessation of Armes, is, a despaire of mutuall and generall
+forgivenesse. If ever _England_ had need of a generall Jubile in Heaven
+and Earth, it is now. Our King and Parliament have been at great strife,
+who should obtaine most Justice: if they would now strive, who should
+shew most Mercy, it would heare well throughout the world. Here also my
+speech must be twofold and blind-fold. It is now nine Moneths and more
+since the last credible News was acted: it is possible by this, the
+Parliament may be at the Kings mercy: Did I say a Kings mercy? what can
+I say more? no man on earth, can shew more mercy then a King, nor shall
+need more, when he comes to give an Account of his Kingdome: Nor did
+ever any Parliament merit more mercy than this, for they never sinned,
+that I know, I meane against the Common and Statute Law of _England_: it
+is pity they who have given so many general pardons, should want one
+now. If our King hath lost his way, and thereby learned to looke to his
+path better hereafter, and taught many Successors to King it right for
+many Ages; Me thinks it should impetrate a Royall Redintegration, upon a
+Royall acknowledgement and ingagement. But how should an erring King
+trust a provoked Parliament? Surely he may trust God safe enough; who
+will never trust that State more with a good King, that will doe ill to
+a King that is turned so good. Me thinks those passages of Scripture,
+_Esa. 43. 24, 25._ _chap. 57. 17, 18_. The strange illation, _Hos. 2. 13,
+14._ should melt a heart of steele into floods of mercy.
+
+For others, were my head, one of the heads which first gave the King
+Counsell to take up these Armes, or to persist in them, when at any time
+he would have disbanded, I would give that head to the Kingdome, whether
+they would or no; if they would not cut it off, I would cut it off
+myselfe, and tender it at the Parliament doore, upon condition that all
+other heads might stand, which stand upon penitent hearts, and will doe
+better on than off; then I would carry it to _London-Bridge_, and charge
+my tongue to teach all tongues, to pronounce Parliament right hereafter.
+
+When a kingdom is broken just in the neck joynt, in my poore policy,
+ropes and hatchets are not the kindliest instruments to set it: Next to
+the spilling of the blood of Christ for sin, the sparing of the blood of
+sinners, where it may be as well spared as spilt, is the best way of
+expiation. It is no rare thing for Subjects to follow a leading King; if
+he will take his truncheon in his hand, it is to be expected many will
+put their swords in their Belts. Sins that rise out of mistake of
+judgement, are not so sinfull as those of malice ordinarily: and when
+multitudes sin, multitudes of mercy are the best Anodines.
+
+                                   --_gratia gratis data, gratissima._
+
+    _Grace will dissolve, but rigour hardens guilt:
+    Break not with Steely blowes, what oyle should melt._
+
+    _In Breaches integrant, 'tween Principalls of States,
+    Due Justice may suppresse, but Love redintegrates._
+
+Whosoever be pardoned, I pray not let _Britanicus_ scape, I mean a
+pardon. I take him to be a very serviceable Gentleman; Out of my entire
+respect to him, I shall presume to give him half a dozen stitches of
+advice:
+
+I intreat him to consider that our King is not onely a man, but a King
+in affliction; Kings afflictions are beyond Subjects apprehensions; a
+Crown may happily ake as much as a whole Common-wealth.
+
+I desire him also to conceale himself as deeply as he can, if he cannot
+get a speciall pardon, to weare a Latitat about his neck, or let him lie
+close under the Philosophers stone, and I'le warrant him for ever being
+found.
+
+If he be discovered, I counsell him to get his head set on faster than
+our _New-England_ Taylors use to set on Buttons; Kings, and Kings
+Childrens memories are as keen as their Subjects wits.
+
+If he fears any such thing, that he would come over to us, to helpe
+recruite our bewildred brains: we will promise to maintain him so long
+as he lives, if he will promise to live no longer then we maintain him.
+
+If he should bee discovered and his head chance to be cut off against
+his will, I earnestly beseech him to bequeath his wits to me and mine in
+Fee-simple, for we want them, and cannot live by our hands in this
+Country.
+
+Lastly, I intreat him to keep his purse, I give him my counsell
+_gratis_, confessing him to be more then my match, and that I am very
+loath to fall into his hands.
+
+
+_Prosecution._
+
+If Reformation, Composition, Cessation, can finde no admittance, there
+must and will be Prosecution: to which I would also speak briefly and
+indifferently still to both sides; and first to that, which I had rather
+call Royalists then Cavaliers; who if I mistake not, fight against the
+Truth.
+
+Foolish Cowardly man (I pray patience, for I speak nothing but the pulse
+of my owne heart) dreads and hates, nothing in Heaven or Earth, so much
+as Truth: it is not God, nor Law, nor sinne, nor death, nor hell, that
+he feares, but onely because he feares there is Truth in them: Could he
+de-truth them all, he would defie them all: Let Perdition it self come
+upon him with deadly threats, fiery swords, displayed vengeance, he
+cares not: Let Salvation come cap in hand, with naked Reason, harmelesse
+Religion, lawny embracements, he will rather flye or dye, than
+entertaine it: come Truth in what shape it will, hee will reject it:
+and when hee can beat it off with most steely prowesse, he thinkes
+himselfe the bravest man; when in truth it is nothing but exsanguine
+feeble exility of Spirit. Thy heart, saith the Prophet _Ezek. 16. 30._
+is weake, like the heart of an imperious whorish woman: a man would
+thinke, the heart of an imperious whore, were the very pummell of
+_Scanderbergs_ sword; alas, she is hen-hearted, shee dares not looke
+Truth in the face; if she dared, shee would neither be whorish, nor
+imperious, nor weake. He shews more true fortitude, that prayes quarter
+of the least Truth, at a miles distance, than hee that breakes through
+and hewes downe the most Theban Phalanx that ever field bore. _Paul_
+exprest more true valour, in saying, I can doe nothing against the
+Truth, than _Goliah_, in defying the whole hoste of _Israel_.
+
+Couragious Gentlemen, Yee that will stab him that gives you the lye;
+take heed yee spend not your bloods, limbes and soules, in fighting for
+some untruth: and yee that will fling out the gantlet to him that calls
+you Coward, dishonour not your selves with such Cowardise, as to fight
+against Truth, meerly for feare of it. A thousand pities it is, such
+gallant Spirits should spend their lives, honours, heritages, and sweet
+relations in any Warres, where, for ought many of them know, some false
+mistake commands in Chiefe.
+
+Honoured Country-men, bee intreated to love Truth: if it loves not you
+againe, and repaires not all your losses, then install some Untruth in
+its roome for your Generall. If you will needs warre, be perswaded to
+contend lawfully, wisely and stedfastly, against all errours in Divinity
+and Policy: they are the cursed Counter-mures, dropt Portcullises,
+scouring Angiports, sulphurious Granado's, laden murtherers, peevish
+Galthropes, and rascall desperadoes, which the Prince of lyes imployes
+with all his skill and malice, to maintaine the walls and gates of his
+kingdome, when Truth would enter in with grace and peace to save
+forlorne sinners, and distressed Commonwealthes: witnesse the present
+deplorable estate of sundry States in Europe.
+
+Give me leave to speake a word more: it is but this; Yee will finde it a
+farre easier field, to wage warre against all the Armies that ever were
+or will be on Earth, and all the Angels of Heaven, than to take up Armes
+against any truth of God: It hath more Counsell and strength than all
+the world besides; and will certainely either gaine or ruine, convert or
+subvert every man that opposes it. I hope ingenuous men will rather take
+advice, then offence at what I have said: I had rather please ten, than
+grieve one intelligent man.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+If this side be resolute, I turne me to the other.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Goe on brave Englishmen, in the name of God, go on prosperously, because
+of Truth and Righteousnes: Yee that have the Cause of Religion, the life
+of your Kingdome and of all the good that is in it in your hands: Goe on
+undauntedly: As you are Called and Chosen, so be faithfull: Yee fight
+the battells of the Lord, bee neither desidious nor perfidious: You
+serve the King of Kings, who stiles you his heavenly Regiments:
+Consider well, what impregnable fighting it is in heaven, where the Lord
+of Hosts is your Generall, his Angells your Colonels, the Stars your
+fellow-souldiers, his Saints your Oratours, his Promises your
+victuallers, his Truth your Trenches; where Drums are Harps, Trumpets
+joyfull sounds; your Ensignes Christs Banners; where your weapons and
+armour are spirituall, therefore irresistable, therefore impierceable;
+where Sun and wind cannot disadvantage you, you are above them; where
+hell it selfe cannot hurt you, where your swords are furbushed and
+sharpened by him that made their metall, where your wounds are bound up
+with the oyle of a good Cause, where your blood runs into the veynes of
+Christ, where sudden death is present martyrdome and life; your
+funeralls resurrections, your honour glory; where your widows and babes
+are received into perpetuall pensions; your names listed among _Davids_
+Worthies; where your greatest losses are greatest gaines; and where you
+leave the troubles of war, to lye down in downy beds of eternall rest.
+
+What good will it doe you, deare Countrymen, to live without lives, to
+enjoy _England_ without the God of _England_, your Kingdome without a
+Parliament, your Parliament without power, your Liberties without
+stability, your Lawes without Justice, your honours without vertue, your
+beings without wel-being, your wives without honesty, your children
+without morality, your servants without civility, your lands without
+propriety, your goods without immunity, the Gospel without salvation,
+your churches without Ministery, your Ministers without piety, and all
+you have or can have, with more teares and bitternesse of heart, than
+all you have and shall have will sweeten or wipe away?
+
+Goe on therefore Renowned Gentlemen, fall on resolvedly, till your hands
+cleave to your swords, your swords to your enemies hearts, your hearts
+to victory, your victories to triumph, your triumphs to the everlasting
+praise of him that hath given you Spirits to offer your selves
+willingly, and to jeopard your lives in high perils, for his Name and
+service sake.
+
+And Wee your Brethren, though we necessarily abide beyond _Jordan_, and
+remaine on the American Sea-coasts, will send up Armies of prayers to
+the Throne of Grace, that the God of power and goodnesse, would
+incourage your hearts, cover your heads, strengthen your arms, pardon
+your sinnes, save your soules, and blesse your families, in the day of
+Battell. Wee will also pray, that the same Lord of Hosts, would discover
+the Counsels, defeat the Enterprizes, deride the hopes, disdaine the
+insolencies, and wound the hairy scalpes of your obstinate Enemies, and
+yet pardon all that are unwillingly misled. Wee will likewise helpe you
+beleeve that God will be seen on the Mount, that it is all one with him,
+to save by many or few, and that he doth but humble and try you for the
+present, that he may doe you good at the latter end. All which hee bring
+to passe who is able to doe exceeding abundantly, above all we can aske
+or thinke, for his Truth and mercy sake in Jesus Christ.
+
+                            _Amen. Amen._
+
+
+
+
+                         A Word of _IRELAND_:
+
+          _Not of the Nation universally, nor of any man in
+          it, that hath so much as one haire of Christianity
+               or Humanity growing on his head or beard,
+                but onely of the truculent Cut-throats,
+                    and such as shall take up Armes
+                          in their Defence._
+
+
+These _Irish_ anciently called _Antropophagi_, man-eaters: Have a
+Tradition among them, That when the Devill shewed our Saviour all the
+kingdomes of the Earth and their glory, that he would not shew him
+_Ireland_, but reserved it for himselfe: it is probably true, for he
+hath kept it ever since for his own peculiar; the old Fox foresaw it
+would eclipse the glory of all the rest: he thought it wisdome to keep
+the land for a Boggards for his unclean spirits imployed in this
+Hemisphere, and the people, to doe his Son and Heire, I mean the Pope,
+that service for which _Lewis_ the eleventh kept his Barbor _Oliver_,
+which makes them so blood-thirsty. They are the very Offall of men,
+Dregges of Mankind, Reproach of Christendome, the Bots that crawle on
+the Beast taile, I wonder _Rome_ it self is not ashamed of them.
+
+I begge upon my hands and knees, that the Expedition against them may be
+undertaken while the hearts and hands of our Souldiery are hot, to
+whom I will be bold to say briefly: Happy is he that shall reward them
+as they have served us, and Cursed be he that shall do that work of the
+Lord negligently, Cursed be he that holdeth back his Sword from blood;
+yea, Cursed be he that maketh not his Sword starke drunk with _Irish_
+blood, that doth not recompense them double for their hellish treachery
+to the _English_, that maketh them not heaps upon heaps, and their
+Country a dwelling place for Dragons, an Astonishment to Nations: Let
+not that eye look for pity, nor that hand to be spared, that pities or
+spares them, and let him be accursed, that curseth not them bitterly.
+
+
+
+
+A Word of Love to the Common People of _England_.
+
+
+It is, your, now or never, to muster up puissant Armies of Prayers to
+the Mercy Seate; your Body Representative, is now to take in hand, as
+intricate a piece of worke, as ever fell into the hands of any
+Parliament in the world, to tye an indissoluble knot upon that webb
+which hath been woven with so much cost and bloud, wherein if they
+happen to make one false maske, it may re-imbarque themselves and you
+all into a deadly relapse of scorne and calamity. It is the worke of God
+not of man, pray speedily therefore, and speedingly, give him no rest
+till your rest be throughly re-established, Your God is a God whose Name
+is All-sufficient, abundant in Goodnesse and Truth, on whom the Sonnes
+of _Iacob_ never did, nor shall call in vaine, you have a Throne of
+Grace wherto you may goe boldly; a Christ to give you a leading by the
+hand and liberty of speech, an Intercessor in Heaven to offer up your
+Prayers wrapp'd in his own; a large Charter _aske and have_, a Spirit to
+helpe all your infirmities in that duty, a sure Covenant that you shall
+be heard, and such late incouragement as may strengthen your feeble
+hands for ever. If you who _may command God concerning the work of his
+hand_, shall faile to demand the workemanship of his hand in this
+worke, your children will proclaime you un-thrifts with bitter teares to
+the worlds end.
+
+If you see no cause to pray, read
+
+                          _Jer. 18. 1.-10._
+
+Be also intreated to have a continuall and conscientious care not to
+impeach the Parliament in the hearts one of another by whispering
+complaints, easilier told then tryed or trued. Great bodyes move but
+slowely, especially when they move on three leggs and are over-loden
+with weighty occasions. They have now sate full six years without
+intermission to continue your being, many of their heads are growne gray
+with your cares, they are the High Councell of the Kingdome, the great
+Gilead of your Balme, the Phisitians of all your sicknesse; if any of
+them doe amisse, blame yourselves, you chose them, be wiser hereafter;
+you cannot doe the State, your selves, your posterity a more ungratefull
+office then to impaire them with disparagements and discoragements who
+are so studious to repaire your almost irreparable ruines.
+
+Be likewise beseeched, not to slight good ministers, whom you were wont
+to reverence much, they are Gods Embassadours, your Ephods, your
+Starres, your Horse-men & Chariots, your Watchmen, & under Christ your
+Salvation, I know no deadlier Symptome of a dying People than to
+undervalue godly Ministers, whosoever despiseth them shall certainly be
+despised of God and men at one time or other.
+
+
+
+
+                      A most humble heel-piece.
+                                to the
+                      Most Honourable Head-piece
+                                 the
+                       Parliament of _England_.
+
+
+I Might excuse my selfe in Part, with a speech _Lycurgus_ used in the
+like exigent of State, _senectute fio audacior, publica necessitate
+loquacior_, but it much better becomes mee with all lowlinesse and
+uprightnesse, wherein I have failed to pray pardon on both my knees,
+which I most humbly and willingly doe; only, before I rise, I crave
+leave to present this six-fold Petition.
+
+That you would be pleased
+
+  To preserve the Sacred reputation of Parliaments, or, wee shall have
+    no Common-wealth.
+
+  To uphold the due estimation of good Ministers, else, we shall have no
+    Church.
+
+  To heale the sad dislocation of our Head, throughly, perfectly, or,
+    wee shall have no King.
+
+  To oppugne the bold violation of divine Truths, else wee shall have no
+    God.
+
+  To proceed with what zeale you began, or what you began can come to
+    little end.
+
+  To expedite worke with what speede you safely may, else ignorant
+    people will feare they shall have no end at all.
+
+  Hee that is great in Counsell, and Wonderfull in Working, guide and
+    helpe you in All things, that doing All things in Him, by Him, and
+    for Him, you may doe All things like Him.
+
+                                                            _So be it._
+
+
+
+
+A respective word to the Ministers of ENGLAND.
+
+
+Farre bee it from mee, while I dehort others to slight you my selfe, or
+to despise any man but myselfe, whom I can never despise enough: I
+rather humbly intreate you to forgive my boldnesse, who have most just
+cause to judge my selfe lesse and lesse faithfull than the least of you
+all, yet I dare not but bee so faithfull to you and my selfe, as to say
+
+They are the Ministers of _England_, that have lost the Land; for
+Christs sake, put on His bowels, His wisdome, His zeale, and recover
+it.
+
+  I pray let me drive in half a dozen plaine honest Country Hobnailes,
+    such as the Martyrs were wont to weare; to make my work hold the
+    surer; and I have done.
+
+    1. _There, lives cannot be good,
+         There, Faith cannot be sure,
+       Where Truth cannot be quiet,
+         Nor Ordinances pure._
+
+    2. _No King can King it right,
+         Nor rightly sway his Rod;
+       Who truely loves not Christ,
+         And truely fears not God._
+
+    3. _He cannot rule a Land,
+         As Lands should ruled been,
+       That lets himself be rul'd
+         By a ruling Romane Queen._
+
+    4. _No earthly man can be
+         True Subject to this State;
+       Who makes the Pope his Christ,
+         An Heretique his Mate._
+
+    5. _There Peace will goe to War,
+         And Silence make a noise:
+       Where upper things will not
+         With nether equipoyse._
+
+    6. _The upper world shall Rule,
+         While Stars will run their race:
+       The nether world obey,
+         While People keep their place._
+
+
+The Clench.
+
+    _If any of these come out
+      So long 's the world doe last:
+    Then credit not a word
+      Of what is said and past._
+
+
+
+
+ERRATA AT NON CORRIGENDA.
+
+
+Now I come to rubbe over my work, I finde five or six things like
+faults, which would be mended or commended, I know not well which, nor
+greatly care.
+
+
+1. For _Levity_, read, _Lepidity_, ---- and that a very little, and that
+very necessary, if not unavoydable.
+
+    _Misce stultitiam Consiliis brevem
+    --Dulce est desipere in loco._      Horat.
+
+To speak to light heads with heavy words, were to break their necks: to
+cloathe Summer matter, with Winter Rugge, would make the Reader sweat.
+It is musick to me, to heare every Dity speak its spirit in its apt
+tune: every breast, to sing its proper part, and every creature, to
+expresse it self in its naturall note: should I heare a Mouse roare like
+a Beare, a Cat lowgh like an Oxe, or a Horse whistle like a Red-breast,
+it would scare ---- mee.
+
+    _The world's a well strung fidle, mans tongue the quill,
+      That fills the world with fumble for want of skill,
+    When things and words in tune and tone doe meet,
+      The universall song goes smooth and sweet._
+
+2. For _audacity_, read, _veracity_, or _Verum Gallice non libenter
+audis_. Mart. Flattery never doth well, but when it is whispered through
+a paire of lisping teeth; Truth best, when it is spoken out, through a
+paire of open lips. Ye make such a noyse there, with Drums and Trumpets,
+that if I should not speak loud, ye could not hear me: Ye talke one to
+another, with whole Culvering and Canon; give us leave to talk Squibs
+and Pistoletto's charged with nothing but powder of Love and shot of
+Reason: if you will cut such deep gashes in one anothers flesh, we must
+sow them up with deep stitches, else ye may bleed to death: ye were
+better let us, your tender Countrymen doe it, than forraine Surgeons,
+who will handle you more cruelly, and take no other pay, but your Lives
+and Lands.
+
+    ---- ---- _Aspice vultus,
+    Ecce meos, utinamque oculos in pectore posses
+    Inserere: & patrias intus deprendere Curas._
+                                                (Ovid. Ph[oe]b.
+
+    _He that to tall men speakes, must lift up 's head,
+      And when h' hath done, must set it where he did:
+    He that to proud men talkes, must put on pride;
+      And when h' hath done, 'tis good to lay 't aside._
+
+3. For, _Yes, but you speak at three thousand miles distance, which
+every Coward dare doe_, read, _if my heart deceives me not, I would
+speak thus, in the Presence Chamber or House of Commons_; hoping _Homer_
+will speak a good word for me.
+
+    [Gr: Tharsaleos gar anêr en pasin ameinôn
+    Ergoisi.] ----
+
+    Omnibus in rebus potior vir fortis & audax
+    Sit licet hospes, & è longinquis venerit oris.
+
+    When Kings are lost, and Subjects cast away,
+      A faithfull heart should speak what tongue can say:
+    It skils not where this faithfull heart doth dwell,
+      His faithfull dealing should be taken well.
+
+4. For, _affected termes_, read, _I hope not_ ---- If I affect termes,
+it is my feeblenesse; friends that know me, thinke I doe not: I
+confesse, I see I have here and there taken a few finish stitches, which
+may haply please a few Velvet eares; but I cannot now well pull them
+out, unlesse I should seame-rend all. It seemes it is in fashion with
+you to sugar your papers with Carnation phrases, and spangle your
+speeches with new quodled words. Ermins in Minifer is every mans Coat:
+Yet we heare some are raking in old musty Charnel books, for old mouldy
+monosyllables; I wish they were all banisht to _Monmouthshire_, to
+returne when they had more wit.
+
+    _Multa renascentur quæ jam cecidere, cadentque
+    Quæ nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus._
+
+                                                    (Hor.
+
+I honour them with my heart, that can expresse more than ordinary matter
+in ordinary words: it is a pleasing eloquence; them more, that study
+wisely and soberly to inhance their native language; them most of all,
+that esteeme the late significant speech, the third great blessing of
+the Land; it being so enriched, that a man may speak in many tongues in
+his Mothers mouth; and an uplandish Rusticke, more in one word than
+himselfe and all the Parish understands. Affected termes are unaffecting
+things to solid hearers; yet I hold him prudent, that in these
+fastidious times, will helpe disedged appetites with convenient
+condiments, and bangled ears, with pretty quicke pluckes. I speake the
+rather because, not long since, I met with a book, the best to mee I
+ever saw, but the Bible; yet under favour, it was somewhat underclad,
+especially by him who can both excogitate and expresse what hee
+undertakes, as well as any man I know.
+
+    _The world is growne so fine in words and wit,
+      That pens must now Sir =Edward Nich'las= it.
+    He that much matter speaks, speaks ne'r a whit,
+      If 's tongue doth not career 't above his wit._
+
+5. For, _You verse it simply, what need have we of your thin Poetry_;
+read, _I confesse I wonder at it my self, that I should turne Poet_: I
+can impute it to nothing, but to the flatuousnesse of our diet: they are
+but sadden raptures soone up, soone downe.
+
+  --_Deductum dicere Carmen_, is highly commended by _Macrobius_.
+
+  _Virgil_ himselfe said, _Agrestem tenui meditabor arundine musam_.
+
+    _Poetry's a gift wherein but few excell;
+      He doth very ill, that doth not passing well.
+    But he doth passing well, that doth his best,
+      And he doth best, that passeth all the rest._
+
+6. For _tediousnesse_, read, _I am sorry for it_ ---- Wee have a strong
+weaknesse in N. E. that when wee are speaking, we know not how to
+conclude: wee make many ends, before we make an end: the fault is in the
+Climate; we cannot helpe it though we can, which is the Arch infirmity
+in all morality: We are so near the West pole, that our Longitudes are
+as long, as any wise man would wish, and somewhat longer. I scarce know
+any Adage more gratefull, than _Grata brevitas_.
+
+    _Verba confer maxime ad compendium._    Plaut.
+
+    _Coblers will mend, but some will never mend,
+      But end, and end, and end, and never end.
+    A well-girt houre gives every man content,
+      Sixe ribs of beefe, are worth sixe weeks of Lent._
+
+For, _all my other faults, which may bee more and greater than I see_,
+read, _I am heartily sorry for them, before I know them, lest I should
+forget it after_; and humbly crave pardon at adventure, having nothing
+that I can think of, to plead but this,
+
+    _Quisquis inops peccat, minor est reus._    Petron.
+
+    _Poore Coblers well may fault it now and then,
+      They'r ever mending faults for other men.
+    And if I worke for nought, why is it said,
+      This bungling Cobler would be soundly paid?_
+
+    _So farewell England old
+      If evill times ensue,
+    Let good men come to us,
+      Wee'l welcome them to New.
+
+    And farewell Honor'd Friends,
+      If happy dayes ensue,
+    You'l have some Guests from hence,
+      Pray welcome us to you.
+
+    And farewell simple world,
+      If thou'lt thy Cranium mend,
+    There is my Last and All,
+      And a Shoem-Akers_
+                         END.
+
+
+
+
+Postscript.
+
+
+    _This honest Cobler has done what he might:
+    That Statesmen in their Shoes might walk upright.
+    But rotten Shoes of Spannish running-leather:
+    No Coblers skill, can stitch them strong together.
+    It were best to cast such rotten stuff away:
+    And look for that, that never will decay.
+
+    If all were shod with Gospel's lasting Peace;
+    Hatred abroad, and Wars at home would cease._
+
+                Jerome Bellamie.
+
+_FINIS._
+
+
+
+
+APPENDIX.
+
+
+  The following Letters, (from Hutchinson's History and Collections,)
+    &c., and Deed from Essex Registry of Deeds, Salem, (Lib. I.,
+    Ipswich,) are supposed to possess sufficient interest to justify
+    their insertion here.
+
+  BOSTON, 1843.
+
+
+LETTER TO REV. JOHN COTTON.
+
+Salutem in Xto nostro.
+
+    Reverend and dear friend,
+
+I was yesterday convented before the bishop, I mean to his court, and am
+adjourned to the next term. I see such giants turn their backs, that I
+dare not trust my own weak heart. I expect measure hard enough and must
+furnish apace with proportionable armour. I lacke a friend to help
+buckle it on. I know none but Christ himself in all our coast fitt to
+help me, and my acquaintance with him is hardly enough to hope for that
+assistance my weak spirit will want, and the assaults of tentation call
+for. I pray therefore forget me not and believe for me also if there be
+such a piece of neighbourhood among Christians. And so blessing God with
+my whole heart for my knowledge of you and immerited interest in you,
+and thanking you entirely for that faithful love I have found from you
+in many expressions of the best nature, I commit you to the unchangeable
+love of God our Father in his son Jesus Christ, in whom I hope to rest
+for ever.
+
+                    Your's in all truth of heart
+                                  NATH'^L. WARDE.
+
+  Stondon Mercy,
+  Dec. 13. 1631.
+
+
+[Extracts from Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence, printed in London,
+1658.]
+
+"_Of the Ninth Church of Christ gathered at =Ipswitch=._
+
+"This year [1634] came over a farther supply of Eminent instruments for
+furthering this admirable Worke of his, amongst whom the Reverend and
+judicious servant of Christ Mr. _Nathaniel Ward_, who tooke up his
+station at the Towne of _Ipswich_," "scituated on a faire and
+delightfull River," "in the _Saggamooreship_, or Earldom of _Aggawam_."
+"The peopling of this Towne is by men of good ranke and quality, many of
+them having the yearly Revenue of large Lands in _England_ before they
+came to this Wildernesse, but their Estates being imployed for Christ,
+and left in banke as you have formerly heard, they are well content till
+Christ shall be pleased to restore it againe to them or theirs.
+
+"Their meeting-house is a very good prospect to a great part of the
+Towne, and beautifully built, the Church of Christ here consists of
+about one hundred and sixty soules, being exact in their conversation,
+and free from the Epidemicall Disease of all Reforming Churches, which
+under Christ is procured by their pious Learned and Orthodox Ministery,
+as in due place (God willing) shall be declared, in the meane time, look
+on the following Meeters concerning that Souldier of Christ Master
+_Nathaniel Ward_.
+
+    _Thou ancient Sage, come =Ward= among
+      Christs folfe,[5] take part in this great worke of his,
+    Why do'st thou stand and gaze about so long;
+      Do'st war in jest, why, Christ in earnest is,
+    And hath thee arm'd with weapons for that end,
+      To wound and heale his enemies submitting,
+    Not carnally, then to this worke attend;
+      Thou hast prevail'd the hearts of many hitting.
+    Although the Presbytery unpleasant jar,
+      And errors daily in their braines new coyne:
+    Despayer not, Christs truth they shall not mar;
+      But with his helpe such drosse from Gold refine.
+    What Man do'st meane to lay thy Trumpet downe?
+      Because thy son like Warrier is become,
+    Hold out or sure lesse bright will be thy crowne,
+      Till death Christs servants labour is not done._"
+
+    [5] _folke._
+
+
+LETTER FROM GYLES FYRMIN TO GOV. WINTHROP.
+
+    Much honoured and deare Sir,
+
+But that I thinke it needlesse (God havinge more than ordinarye fitted
+you for such trials) my letter might tell you with what griefe of spirit
+I received the news of that sad affliction which is lately happened to
+your worship, by means of that unfaithful wretch; I hope God will find a
+shoulder to helpe you beare so great a burthen. But the little time
+there is allotted me to write I must spend in requesting your worships
+counsel and favour. My father in law Ward, since his sonne came over, is
+varey desirous that wee might sett down together, and so that he might
+leave us together if God should remove him from hence. Because that it
+cannot be accomplished in this town, is verey desirous to get mee to
+remove with him to a new plantation. After much perswasion used,
+consideringe my want of accommodation here (the ground the town having
+given mee lying 5 miles from mee or more) and that the gaines of physick
+will not finde mee with bread, but, besides, apprehendinge that it might
+bee a way to free him from some temptations, and make him more cheereful
+and serviceable to the country or church, have yeelded to him. Herein,
+as I desire your counsel, so I humbly request your favour, that you
+would be pleased to give us the libertye of choosinge a plantation; wee
+thinke it will be at Pentuckett, or Quichichchek, by Shawshin: So soon
+as the season will give us leave to goe, wee shall informe your worship
+which we desire: And if that, by the court of election, we cannot gather
+a company to beegine it, wee will let it fall. Wee desire you would not
+graunt any of them to any before wee have seene them. If your worship
+have heard any relation of the places, wee should remaine thankful to
+you, if you would bee pleased to counsel us to any of them. Further, I
+would entreate for advise in this: The towne gave mee the ground (100
+acres) upon this condition, that I should stay in the towne 3 yeeres,
+or else I could not sell it: Now my father supposes it being my first
+heritage (my father having none in the land) that it is more than they
+canne doe to hinder mee thus, when as others have no business, but range
+from place to place, on purpose to live upon the countrey. I would
+entreate your counsel whither or noe I canne sell it. Further: I am
+strongly sett upon to studye divinitie, my studyes else must be lost:
+for physick is but a meene helpe. In these cases I humbly referre to
+your worship, as my father, for your counsel, and so in much haste, with
+my best services presented to your worship, wishinge you a strong
+support in your affliction, and a good and comfortable issue, I rest
+
+Your worships in what he canne to his power,
+
+  Ipswich, 26. 10^{th} 1639.                GYLES FYRMIN.
+
+Wee humbly entreate your secrecye in our desires.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+November 25^o 1646./
+
+This p^{r}sent writing wittnesseth that I, Nathaniel Ward of Ipswich in
+New England have bargained & sould to John Eaton of Salsbury Coo[per]
+all the land ground meadow & Co[=m]onage w^{th} their app^{r}tincs which
+I have or ought to have at this p^{r}sent Day in Haverhill or Pentuckett
+in New England to $have and to hold$ the said p^{r}misses to the said
+John Eaton his heires & assignes paying for the same vnto the said
+Nathaniel Ward his executo^{rs} administr^s or assignes the full su[=m]e
+of twelve pounds of wheate & pipe-staves six pounds worth of one & six
+pounds worth of the other to be deli[ver]ed to m^r Richard Russell or
+Maior Sedgwick at Charles Towne before the end of September Next
+ensuying the Dat hereof; such as shalbe good & merchantable at the
+currant price at that tyme & place
+
+  $In witness whereof$ I have set to my hand & seale.
+                                                     NATH WARD
+  Wittnes
+  THOMAS HOWLETT
+  EDMAN BRIDGES
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Notes
+
+Archaic, unusual and inconsistent spellings have been retained as they
+appear in the original.
+
+Handwritten or penned changes and additions to the text are noted here,
+where they appear to be errata, in several cases backed up by an earlier
+print of the same text:
+
+Page 5: changed comma to semi-colon (... James, who practised medicine;)
+
+Page 5: changed "cotemporaries" to "contemporaries" (... estimated by
+his contemporaries and successors.)
+
+Page 15: changed period and upper case "H" to comma and lower case "h"
+(... when he said, he had rather the Earth should swallow him up ...)
+
+Page 34: handwritten insertion "one" ( ... to help them frisk from [one]
+ill-favor'd fashion to another.)
+
+Page 70: handwritten insertion "of" ( ... the luxury [of] your Court and
+Country, ...)
+
+Page 79: handwritten change of word order from "not let" to "let not" (I
+pray not let _Britanicus_ scape, ...)
+
+Page 85: handwritten insertion "s" ( ... the Bots that crawle on the
+Beast[s] taile, ...)
+
+Page 97: strikethrough deletion "in" ( ... that a man may speak [in]
+many tongues in his Mothers mouth; ...)
+
+
+Other changes to the text are listed here, where the printer evidently
+used alternative type:
+
+Pages 1, 7 & 8: changed "VV" to "W" (THE SIMPLE COBLER OF AGGAWAM IN
+AMERICA.)
+
+Page 10 onwards: changed "J" to "I".
+
+Page 47: changed "VVhen" to "When" (When Christ whips Market-makers out
+of his Temple, ...)
+
+Page 103 (heading): changed "i646" to "1646" (November 25^o 1646.)
+
+
+
+
+
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