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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97111	A word in season: to all sorts of well minded people in this miserably distracted and distempered nation. Plainly manifesting, that the safety and well-being of the common-wealth under God, dependeth on the fidelity, and stedfast adherence of the people, to those whom they have chosen, and on their ready compliance with them. Also, that the destruction and bondage of the common-wealth in generall, and of every good minded man in particular cannot be avoided, if the people, through want of consideration, shall give eare to any other counsels or counsellers. Published by authority.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.; Sadler, John, 1615-1674,	1646 (1646)	Wing W695A; Thomason E337_25; ESTC R200831	5,227	11

A word in season TO ALL SORTS OF WELL MINDED PEOPLE IN THIS MISERABLY DISTRACTED and distempered Nation Plainly manifesting That the safety and well-being of the Common-wealth under God dependeth on the fidelity and stedfast adherence of the people to those whom they have chosen and on their ready compliance with them Also That the destruction and bondage of the Common-wealth in generall and of every good minded man in particular cannot be avoided if the people through want of consideration shall give eare to any other counsels or counsellers PROVERB 2. 11 12. Discretion shall preserve thee understanding shall keep thee to deliver thee from the way of the evill man from the man that speaketh froward things Published by Authority LONDON Printed by Thomas Paine and are to be sold by Edward Blackmoore at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the Signe of the Angell 1646. A word in season TO ALL SORTS OF WELL-MINDED PEOPLE IN THIS MISERABLY DISTRACTED AND distempered Nation SINCE as the Scripture speaketh no man hateth his own flesh but loveth and cherisheth it and that naturally every man seeketh his owne good it is very strange seeing we have the helpe of reason of experience of the Word of God that the right way which leadeth to that end should be so hard and difficult to be found certainly it cannot be so in it self God hath been more good to man then to make things necessary hard to come by The difficulty will rather be found to arise by our own default from our want of a patient setled serious and religious consideration of things wherby we are continually liable upon all occasions to be mis-led either by our owne evill and eager desires or by the evill examples of others or by evill though long setled customes or by the perswasions of politique deceivers into such wayes which though they seeme to be strewed with Roses and perfumes yet are the wayes of death and when we least suspect bring us to destruction Our blessed Saviour therefore bids us to be wise as Serpents because whilst we live in this world we have to do with Serpents and to beware of wolves that come to us in sheepes clothing To be innocent as doves is a most blessed temper of spirit but very unsafe and liable to every ginne and bird of prey if the wisdome of the Serpent be not joyned there with Now all the helps of reason of experience or the word of God produce not this wisdom without consideration advised deliberate consideration such as few in this Nation are accustomed unto without which that which is called knowledg or understanding is not true knowledge nor understanding serving to no publique use at all except to distract and distemper and vex and destroy a Nation It is the voyce of God himselfe my People will not consider they they will not understand without consideration it is impossible to understand any thing as we ought without understanding true considerate understanding man is like unto the beasts that perish nor had this Nation ever been thus miserable as it hath bin is and is like to be but for want of this kind of consideration in the People so that it may be as truly said of this as of the pervers rash inconsiderat Nation of the Iewes thy distruction is of thy self O England And if ever there were a cause to study put in practice the wisdom of the Serpent to beware of foxes that come to us in sheeps clothing if ever there were a time requiring the uttermost of wisdom and consideration in all sorts of people rich and poore high and low one with another now there is a cause now is the time For never to this day were those who are trusted with the care of the Common-wealth so beset and surrounded with difficulties with unexpected appearances of strange thinges such as no age can parralell of so high and great concernment as the least miscarriage therein may in a moment of time make void all their long their faithfull and painefull endevours and involve us all into the most misserable bondage that ever over-whelmed any People And theefore however any sort of men may delude themselves if we doe not all joyntly and unanimously laying aside all disaffection for differences in Judgment in Religion patiently setledly and seriously deliberate and consider what every one of us ought to doe in reference to their preservation abandoning all passion and willfull prosecution of perverse and preposterous things all jarring and repining at their proceedings this Nation cannot be safe or happy nay cannot but be miserable and wretched For the greatest and most superlative freedome of this Nation and wherin the safty and well-being thereof doth reside consisteth in this That Lawes cannot bee made Government Ecclesiasticall or Civill cannot be established or Altered Warre cannot bee levied nor Peace concluded nor Monyes raised nor any thing done but by the Authority of those whom the PEOPLE themselves doe chuse for PARLIAMENT and entrust as their Commissioners with full and compleat power for Their good Had it not been by this just Authority We had never been Freed from the Tyranies oppressions and cruelties of the High Commission Star-Chamber and Councel-board from the burthenous Execution of Forrest-law Court of Honor Commissions of Waste from the Extortions and Exorbitances in the Courts of justice Chancery Requests from Ship-money for remission wherof no lesse then Twelve Subsidies were required and from all those other innumerable Patents Projects Illegall warrants and Imprisonments Things which the whole Land long groned under though now removed the benefit be unworthily forgotten or mis-attributed to an Act of grace Had it not been for this Authority the Court of Wards had never been abolished that for many Ages hath oppressed the Land Had not this Authority opposed the KING had been furnished with monyes to have Warred upon our Brethren of SCOTLAND in his first attempt upon that Nation This Authority in the worst of all former Times when the strongest Force and Power was upon them ever stuck closest to the interest of the People nor did the People in the worst of Times ever forsake them but maintained Their power and Priveledges their Essence and authority whensoever they called upon them for helpe and assistance nor hath this just and powerfull Authority been more true to the Commons that chose them then to those worthy Lords and Patriots that at any time have assisted them for the common good of the Nation preserving their Honours with as true affection as the liberties of the People no man can name the time that intentionally this Authority ever did injury to any just intrest either at home or abroad but have borne and suffered much from those that have made an ill use of their lenity and credulity All which is necessary to be remembred and seriously considered in this instant of time because if these things be seriously laid to heart it may happily expel those 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