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A64695 The Unbiased statesman laying the government in an equal balance, being a seasonable word for the commonwealth in a seasonable time / from a well seasoned friend, viz. a real lover of his country published for the begetting a right understanding between the people, their representatives and the army. 1659 (1659) Wing U30; ESTC R29571 8,677 16

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The Vnbiassed STATESMAN Laying the Government in an equal BALANCE BEING A SEASONABLE WORD For the Commonvvealth In a seasonable time from a well seasoned Friend viz. A real Lover of his Country Published for the begetting a right understanding between the People their Representatives and the Army LONDON Printed for Livewel Chapman at the Crown in Popes-Head-Alley 1659. The Vnbiassed STATESMAN HOW miserable the State of these three Nations hath been for many years and still is most men are sensible and how far the remedies prescribed for its recovery have fallen short of working a good effect our present Calamities unsettledness and distractions are too clear a proof All remedies hitherto for the curing of our distempers have wrought no other effect but to distemper and make sick the body Politick only raise and cause the peccant humors to boil up and not e●●ate But that which is worse then the former is this the remedies used are so far from true and sound curing that they become in the peoples apprehensions Symptomatical and by them accounted of the nature of the disease it self they are so for from removing the Oppressions Tyrannies and sore Evils under which the good people groan that they are reckoned among the Number of our Calamities This Nation hath been sick and in a languishing condition for some ages We had a Parliament called in 1640. who we believed were able and willing Physitians to cure our Maladies with them did the good people of the Nation engage and fa●●ened their expectations and thought they had firmely anchored upon their endeavours but alas the foundation proved sandy our Ship tossed up and down could find no harbour and poor sick England grew sick of the cure and weary of her Physician How far the offence taken against the then Ser●●●●s was just or unjust I shall not now make Enquity or how far they followed their own wills and pursued their own ends more then the desires and wellfares of them who entrusted them with their power I shall not here determine knowing how many severe judges there were and are of their actions But true it is that after much blood and treasure spilt the King and the common Enemy conquered and a change made in the form of Government a new Image and superscription put upon it which was a matter of great concernment to the three Nations most men grew unsatisfied To wave the complaints and outcries of such as unjustly complained viz. of such as cannot be pleased unless others be crushed whose desires hopes endeavours and ends are various and contrary and so are their welfares for which way soever the scale turns a considerable part sinks groanes and complains of the oppression Tyranny and hardship which they undergo by the ease and exaltation of others As if there were no common good where all honest interests might meet No superiority dignity for some without slavery and contempt for Othes Must one mans reason become another mans rule or arme him to destroy him Had we more true wisedome amongst us contrariety would be better ordered that it might no longer harshly jarre but make up a sweet Harmony Many even too many complain of unrighteousness abroad yet consider not how they nourish cherish dung and water the root thereof in themselves and are unrighteous in judging others for unrighteousness Can such men expect that God should make their superiors just towards them in their actings whilest they are so unjust in the interpretation of their actings Or is it not consentaneous to Justice and Equity that every man in his turn and season should meet with that force oppression and injustice which he in his desire reason and judgment hath measured out to other Waving I say the complaints of such men let us not shut our Ears to the complaints to the fears and jealousies of the good people who willingly served the Parliament and freely offered up their Lives Blood and Estates for them and the Cause who after the expence of their Lives Blood and Treasure grow jealous of their new-erected Goverment and could but expect and desire that they should give the people security that this new mold of Goverment should not prove as burdensome tyrannical and oppressive as the former For wise men saw that multitude of affairs and prolixity of their motions were like to eat up the benefit of the Parliament and swallow up their credit with the people Whilest they tired both themselves and the people they complained of their work and the people complained of their burthens the work grew upon them and the burdens still lay upon the people The attendance the seeking waiting for relief eat up the sweetness of that which the people get from them Oh how could the people be pleased with these their actions Whilest their groanes and complaints under their afflictions pierced not their ears and hearts though their consciences could not but tell them that they ought to have eased them of their pressures Here good people may you behold the beginning of our backsliding and Apostasy for whilest the spirits of most men were elevated with contempt and disdain of their then too lofty Senators whom a little before they had in much a we and reverence The Grandees of the Army whether intending to advance the good Old Cause or their own fortunes I know not put a period to their sitting But mark what followed the contempt of the people towards that famous Parliament gave opportunity to aspiring and ambitious spirits to bring about their own designs and to make the good Old Cause and her Servants as a bawd and her panders to cover and obscure their whoring after honour and Kingly dignity so that by this means the late diverted stream was almost brought into its former chanel of Monarchy and the good Old Cause not only neglected but reproached and denyed and such as continued faithful to the same became the most contemptible of mankind Thus did the common Enemy gain advantage over the good people and the good Old Cause till they were even upon the brink of destruction ready to be rent torn by their hungry greedy jaws and swallowed into their endless gut of malice Till the Army were awakened from their drouzy and careless security and in tenderness to their awakened consciences or to their own welfare and security which had got wing and was flying from them took courage to cut down the Sucker which otherwi●e in a short time had grown as high as the former lofty Cedar from whose root it sprang and to evidence in part their repentance called that famous Parliament who before had changed the Goverment from Kingly to a Commonwealth Thus stands the Estate of this Commonwealth we hope freed from Monarchy and delivered from her Aristocratical Ape and that the foundation of Democracie may be firmly laid and our State free indeed give me leave to offer a word or two to the People to the Parliament to the Army I
Egypt for ever had not the Lord provided dangers and necessities as strong motives to you to fetch us out deliver your selves You are members of the body and are and must be sensible of its joy and sorrow You cannot say because you wear the Sword that you are unconcerned in the affairs of State Let not your interests stand in Antipathy to the interests of the good people but labour to be faithful to your own and the peoples just interests and the Parliaments Priviledges We earnestly desire you to joyn with the good people of these Nations in addressing your selves unto the Parliament and assisting both them and the people in establishing of peace righteousness and justice among us that as we have laboured so we may rejoyce together and reap the fruit of our labours in peace and tranquillity which that we may do I make bold also to offer three things to you 1. That as we have cause to bless God for the largeness of your power so for the preventing of any evil effects which may be likely to spring therefrom we desire to have see and know a standard bounds and limits of your power also that as you ought not to hold up your Sword in vain so that you may so hold it up as to hold up the honest interest and priviledges both of Parliaments and People 2. That you will advise with the good people and joyn with them and present to the Parliament what may be thought meet as principles of reason and Rules of Law to be bounds and Limits for future Parliaments and hedges and fences for them you and us 3. And that you will make use of your power only to see the fundamental principles and Rules of Reason and Law performed and be ready to joyn with the people when their Liberties just rights are likely to be infringed and that you will not without the consent of the good people and upon apparent breach of the Parliamentary trust intermeddle with their affairs or disturb their proceedings Nor on the other hand we desire you not to act any thing against the people or any particular person contrary to the civil Law or Limits set to you by Parliament nor suffer any to be persecuted who have not transgressed the Civil Law intrenched upon the Parliaments Priviledges or fundamental principles as aforesaid This may be useful both in respect of Parliament People and Army for want of which all three have been drawn to act things displeasing to each other which otherwise they would not have done This is the way to make the three parts Sympahetically labour to build up the body and to employ the power of each for the good of all This is a way to take away all occasions of differences which now continually do arise when every man is left to his own perhaps misbyassed reason and judgment and hath no clear rule to guide his eye and thoughts by This is a triple Cord which if well woven twisted will not easily be broken but be of great use as a fagot-band to hold the little and great short and long and sorts and sizes together Thus far have I vented my self partly for my own but principally for the publick good of which I have been a long time full I conceive it a needfull subject how well it may be relished or find acceptance I patiently wait and cheerfully submit let the Lot be good or bad part of my end I have already viz. the publication thereof if it find acceptance be a means to do good or set abler heads and deeper brains to perform somthing which shall be more excellent and worthy of publick view I have my whole end If it doth neither I desire in patience to possess my soul and rest content till the times be more capable of hearing and submitting to reason or I enabled from above to judge of things better and more effectually to declare them An End