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A58274 Reasons shewing the absolute necessity of large & speedy supplys, proportionable to the present occasion, humbly offered to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament 1691 (1691) Wing R584; ESTC R6459 11,652 15

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REASONS SHEWING The Absolute Necessity OF Large speedy Supplys Proportionable to the Present Occasion HUMBLY OFFERED To the Consideration OF Both Houses of PARLIAMENT LONDON Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Paul's Church-yard 1691. REASONS SHEWING The Absolute Necessity of Large and Speedy Supplys c. WE have chosen our Representatives in Parliament and they being at the Spring-head of Business must needs have a true Prospect of Affairs and need not to be told what is necessary to support the Government in the present Exigency Therefore we ought to be concluded by their determinations and altogether acquiess in what shall be Enacted by this August Assembly for the peace and security of the Nation And this we have reason to do with more cheerfulness since we have all the reason in the world to hope that there will be the same Harmony betwixt His Majesty and His Parliament this Sessions which we saw the last wherein all seemed to conspire in the same publick design of promoting the true interest safety and prosperity of the Kingdom We seem now to have a King and Parliament after the old honest hearty way of Q. Elizabeths days and may they their Successors and Posterity continue so as long as Government shall have a Being in the world And may all their former interrupting Contests turn to kindly Emulations who shall be most instrumental in promoting the General Good and compleating our Settlement When there are two considerable Parties in a Government 't is not to be expected but that they who chance to be uppermost will endeavour to keep the other down and these will as naturally be strugling to get aloft to the perplexing and embroyling the publick Affairs But though this be the usual Practice yet our late experience may convince us that it is not always so for we have lately had a Sessions of about three Months continuance wherein all things went on so smoothly and with such an universal Concurrence as if the Contention only had been who should most effectually carry on the publick Concerns of raising Money c. Both the one Party and the other shewed great Moderation Wisdom and Generosity in waving their particular interests as Parties and unanimously joyning to promote the General Good of the whole And let the Men of Politicks and deep Conjecture assign what Causes they please for all this calm and quiet I must needs think that we ought to make the most favourable Construction of such passages as produce the most kindly Effects 'T is true we never were more closely pressed and as it were driven together by Storms and Tempests from abroad that so we may be united at home and every one of us put to his helping hand to pump and ply the Oars to prevent a fatal Shipwrack But shall we unite and pack together only to Winter stormy Weather Is there no means to be used no expedient to be found to prolong this happy Union beyond the Time of publick danger and to six it so firmly that it may descend to our Posterity Certainly such a Legacy would be more lastingly beneficial to them than all the Patrimony which we can bequeath unto them Many Attempts have been made to compose our Differences but have all proved ineffectual Time and Rest alone have cured some diseases which would have been inexorable to the best Methodical Prescriptions that could have been administred And how happy should we be if our disease of Division would yeild to such an easie Remedy Let us hope the best May not this Truce be a propitious Forerunner of an happy Peace This Cessation has given Men time to think cooly and deliberately to represent to themselves the Benefits and Advantages of Peace and Unity and the fatal Consequences of the contrary especially at this Critical Conjuncture But whither am I going I doubt the Reader will begin to despair that I shall ever well perform my intended Voyage seeing me wander so far out of my way at the first setting out I could not let slip such a favourable Oportunity without dropping this Votum pro Pace this small Peace-offering by the way and I hope it will have no ill Influence upon that which follows but rather give it a more favourable reception with all the Lovers of Peace For if we were united amongst our selves we might upon much better Grounds hope that all our Councils would be guided and directed so as to aim and center in the general Good of the Community and then also Taxes would be both more seasonably given and more faithfully applyed as also Punishments more impartially inflicted upon Offenders But to return from this large digression if it shall be accounted so There are great Murmurings and variety of Descants and Censures upon the mismanagement of Affairs and who can reasonably expect that upon any great Revolutions of Government publick Matters should be managed so titely and with so much fidelity as in more fix'd and settled Times All men think it good Husbandry though its Policy may have a very ill effect to make Hay whilst the Sun shines lest Clouds should gather and some sudden storms should arise and disappoint their designs To search out such selfish Intreaguers and animadvert upon them is all that human Prudence can do But all the difficulty lies in the proof which yet People will not consider And supposing that this Method of searching out and punishing Delinquents be not taken ought we therefore to be sullen and backward in raising and paying Taxes Must we sit still and let the ENEMY take all because we suspect that some part of our Supplies will be misemployed and embezled If there be no other Remedy we ought in Levying Taxes to make Allowance and reckon upon so much to be lost and give so much the more upon that Account But now the Government having gained more strength and firmness we have 't is hoped no need to make this Provision but may be reasonably well assured that what we shall give will be managed with all prudence and fidelity But to obstruct and refuse the raising of Taxes proportionable to the Occasion at this Time upon supposition that some part may be misemploy'd and diverted from its right Use is just as if the Husbandman should deny to sow his Land because a Company of Rooks and Vermin it 's likely will come notwithstanding all his Care to prevent them and devour his Corn. At this rate he would have no Harvest but be ruin'd and starv'd for his folly But such Accidents do not discourage his Husbandry but he sows plentifully in hopes to reap the Fruits of his Labour and Charge And so may we if we will pursue the same Method in the publick Husbandry Our last Years Seed hath produced a plentiful Harvest in Ireland this Summer which may give us great Encouragement to go on The vigorous and quick Reduction of that Kingdom this Campaign to the everlasting Honour of the General and the