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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48287	A brief character of Englands distraction being the copy of a letter sent into the country by a gentleman of the Middle-Temple / by Th. Le. Wh.	Le White, Thomas.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1833A; ESTC R29471	4,803	8

the M●mbers to sit longer than the Souldier will suffer them Hence you may behold the sad Condition wherein the Nation stands with●ut any due reformation in the Church without Laws Government Setlem●nt or Security in any thing we have formerly enjoy'd 'T is consest the Nation cannot be secured as the case stands without our Armies both by Sea and Land either from Invasions from abroad or Insurrections at h●me but if our Armies shall or will be the first that will invade us and assume to themselves the Sole and absolute power of Government doubtlesse then we are in a remedilesse Condition wh●n our Servants shall become our Masters On the other side in case our Parliaments shall act alone and do what th●y please without any controule then we are in the same Condition as if the Army ruled alone without any other Partnership 〈…〉 e Government Me thinks our G●an● M●ste●s of either side should both of them have bethought themselves of s●m● one M●dium or other rather than either of them should assume to themselves the sole and supreme power of Government for that wheresoever Soveraignty or any other power of Government shall act alone and without any Partnership it instantly turns into Tyrann● On this consideration let them both lay this to heart that when either Parliaments or our wrongs shall assume to ●ct alone the natures of necessitie will become Slaves or no better ●han so many Asses assigned to bear the burthen of that single and unruly power for 't is without di●pute that the most lasting and best Government is and must be of a mixt nature or constitution It s Bellarmins opinion de Roman● Pont●fic● who after he had so much mignified absolute Monarchy yet at last concludes Attamen Monarchiam mixtam et temporatam inter Arist●craciam et Democraciam semper meliorem esse puto You may remember that the Lacedemonian Kings had their Ephori that contrould them whensoever they took upon them Transire and to go beyond the bounds of Lawfull Soveraignty It was the grand Court of A●ragon supprest by Ferdinand● that kept their Kings for many hundred years from Tyranny and the Natives from Slavery To come nearer to the poynt I do not conceive that either the late Protectors Oliver and Richard as single persons were absolute for they had a Parliament and in the intermissions of Parliaments an able Councel of State that carried on the affairs of the Common-wealth as joynt Copartners with them If it be abjected that Oliver was the first that dissolved the long Parliament the answer to this is soon made for that they began to call into question the new Goverment under which the universall Natives lived in peace and security without any disturbance which to preserve the Protector perceiving the Ends and Aims dissolved them You may remember how the late King made it his common practice to call Parliaments and Dissolve them without their due Effects at will and pleasure Is it therefore of necessity that some few of the Army Officers should do the like as they have often done and destroy the most Essentiall part of the old English Government the old security of all the free born Subjects of this Nation and that Court which in all Ages hath stopt the currant of the Incroachment of the Royal Prerogative and prevented that Inundation which would have swallowed up all the Subjects Freedoms and Liberties But the report goes that they will resolve to call a Parliament speedily if that be their resolution In Gods name then let it be a Free and Legal one an the Election of the Members left to the Free-holders and not too much tyed up to the rack of their wills and pleasures otherwise where will they be found that will sit when they shall be chosen since 't is already in common discourse and the question put why should any either accept the● Election or sit when as the Souldier at his will and pleasure shall send them home as wise as they came to the House SIR To conclude without doubt there is somewhat if not much amisse in the mannagery of this work of darknesse for so I call it not pleasing to Almighty God 'T is most true that all along our many sad and often changes we have had frequent Fastings Prayers and Preachings but whither they have been rightly addrest rests the doubt the Apostle St. J●mes tels us we pray and ask but receive not because we petition amiss I fear me this is our case and therefore let us all more fervently pray unto Almighty God and heartily beseach him that our Prayers and addresses may be more pleasing to him who alone must help and free us from these our Devisions otherwise we are all lost It is Unity and Concord that must set us all aright and in our right Wits If a Kingdom City or House devided cannot stand needs must our devisions ruine us Concordia res parvae crescunt discordia dilabuntur Therefore let our great Masters lay aside their Ambition and Self-ends then by Gods good grace the cure of these our sad distractions will be soon perfected Therefore it behoves us all to pray unto God that Unity and Concord may be preserved amongst us for without it the Nation cannot be in safety since as now the case stands we are all in the highway of Confusion and never more subject and open to forraign Invasions then at present we wish that they which now sit at the Healm will bethink themselves and take it into their serious and timely consideration that the new Amity and Friendship contracted between the two greatest and neighbouring Princes of Christendome presageth no good Omen to England and that they will call to mimd the late passages and causes at Paris as also to bethink themselves that all things are not so safe at home as it should be and might be remota causa tollitur effectus then the cure will by Gods good grace be soon perfected but as now affairs are carried off we can expect no other rate to befall us than dissolation The Armies divided amongst themselves the Ci● and the Armies divided and in Combustion no due settlement either in the Church or State and the Courts of Indicature but all in confusion Sectaries and Sc●maticks suffered to discard the Peace of the Church ●nd State by the Pl 〈…〉 of Jesuits without any care of redresse Th●● Sir y●u may see in what a ●●d condition wee all stand G●d in his great mercy look upon us and give us all the grace of a true and hearty repentance and avert those heavy Iudgements which now threaten this sinfull Nation with utter Ruine and Defolation Your very Loving And Constant Friend Tho. Le. Wh. From the Middle Temple this 15. of December 1659. FINIS