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A90738	The plaine English-man, his discreet advice, in these distracted times. Wherein the prerogative of the King, the priviledges of the Parliament, and the present proceedings of the Army, according to their just interests are justified. Worthy the perusall of all men. This is licenced and published according to order.		1647 (1647)	Wing P2361; Thomason E412_20; ESTC R203170	7,082	11

THE Plaine English-man HIS DISCREET ADVICE in these DISTRACTED TIMES WHEREIN The Prerogative of the KING the Priviledges of the PARLIAMENT and the present proceedings of the Army according to their just interests are justified Worthy the perusall of all men This is Licenced and Published according to Order LONDON Printed for William Ley and are to be sold at his Shop neere Pauls-Chaine 1647. The plaine English-man BEloved Countrymen you must expect no rare Oratory no fine Phrases no exordium or declaration as the Schoolemen use but onely a piece of his mind who wisheth well to you all being drest in your native language and my chiefest care is not to use glossing speeches but to draw out a threed of truth both to your own and my good for plainenesse is the best companion and if that were more exercised falshood would be turn'd out of doores like a vagabond and Sincerity entertain'd like a Prince from deceipt springs contention but where truth keeps Court within there will be no sad effects without Cicero gave this commendation of truth that it was praise-worthy though no man praise it and I most worthy Country-men shall endeavour to narrate it though I get a scratcht face Consider how mightily you are degenerated from your first Principles England was formerly a Scituation of strength and an Iland that hath defeated the great Armadoes of forraigne Nations but when we did this we were all united as one man loving to each other and Peace was the fruit of this and happy nay double happy is that Nation which injoyeth it Man is created a sociable creature and God hath so blest him that there is no man so barren but he hath something wherewith all to profit others and every man being imperfect wee ought to helpe one another but wee instead of friends are enemies instead of preservers are destroyers Seneca sayth the neerest friendship is the conjunction of the mind truely I am of that opinion where the judgements disagree the love cannot be reall then sadly may we lament our Land where scarce two men in all things agree together he that was the wisest of all laid down this that a house divided cannot stand that instance in particular reacht to the generall that where there is not a concomitancie among the Governours of a Weale it will suddainly fall like an old building molter away like an aged garment and as soone vanish as the rayes of Titan and now deare Country-men view in what a laborinth of confusion in what a Chaos of trouble wee now are in the Land is spoyled the Rulers rejected the Subjects rebellious and destruction the follower of these puts forward like an armed man and surely it is a great judgement that Englands savators shall bee its destroyers those that were chosen for it's good shall work it's ruine It is the fault of too many States-men that they respect their private interest before the publike good Anaobarsis the Phylosopher said there was no councell that was good but what proceeds from the man that disregards his own ends and Plato commends those that keepe the Common-wealth in Peace by their policie and in the time of warre defend it by their magnanimity Wee have had wise Senators but as the finest cloth is incident to moaths the hard Iron torust and the most curious glasse to bee broken so the best of men are subject to mishap Some blame the King others the Parliament a third the Army in truth great ones are corrupt But wee our selves are the cause of our own miserie from our hatred of one another springs our afflictions and to make the Originall of our distresse more apparent wee give severall termes of obliquy and disgrace to each other to exasperate us all to our own ruine Let us consider the danger we are in and stand upon our reputation let not other Nations say of England that wee could not conquer it but it will overcome it selfe Cast your eyes about and see what an unusuall Metamorphisis a strange Catastrophe our Land 's become every one endeavours to bring destruction a though most protest against Our civill warre which of all warre is the most unnaturall hath in part depopulated our Kingdome but that storme is over that trouble is vanquished that judgement is dissipated and yet Peace comes not Argue out the reason by love not by the Sword with meekenesse not with contention lay aside that spirit of bitternesse and with joynt consent indeavour to find out the Achans of our Common-wealth Let not the mercy that is bestowed be repell'd let not eminent favours be slighted the healing of a Nation despised but when any good comes any love is shewed let it be imbrac'd for it is my Petition that differences in Religion may not breed factions in the State for do but consider against whom our enemies were bent not against strangers not against an enemy not against Tyrants but against our Country-men our friends our kinsmen and what greater bonds what neerer relations then these Let not the head remaine as a captive by our jarres the body as imperfect by our differences the strength of the Kingdome be imbezell'd by our discentions but let us all in a bond of amity labour to settle that Royall Person so long wisht for in his Throne the Phylosopher in the first Book of his Politicks proves by foure naturall reasons that Princes ought to command and Subjects to obey it is likewise commanded by God and seeing it is instituted by one and confirm'd by the other then as our duty to the first and our obligation to the last we are to maintaine that Government when the course of justice is stopped it is the time for the foes of the Weale to reigne and men of bad principles will do no good voluntarily I feare wee have had too many such spirits which makes the rent wider yet not so wide but if the King will come and be a nursing Father and we shall be a happy people so the wishes of some will bee frustrated the expectations of others satisfyed and the generall content of most will bee injoyed Yet wee must allow of that saying of the wise man In the multitude of Councellours there is safety experience teacheth for our liberty would have been inthrall'd tyranny would have been advanced and oppression the share of it were not for a Parliament for as a great ship requires a cunning Pilot and a young traveller a skilfull guide so doth the unweldy body of a State stand in need of good Councellours Soloman peerelesse in wisedome had his Councellours about him good councell being much availeable to the Weale and as it is the saying of one Hee that useth many Councels is not easily deceived it is the great Organ of the Common-wealth nay the very life thereof but perhaps you will say of late the Councell hath been bad the Counsellours have been corrupt and the effect of these hath been naught true it is that standing Pooles gather

all these wee have and yet help comes not truely the reason is because wee despise disregard and reject them all for Prayer here is scolding for healing hurting for curing wounding so that when there will bee a period of our misery none knoweth Every one prayes for Peace wisheth for Peace and desire Peace and yet almost none useth the meanes but if any thing is done contrary to their humor they fly out into extreames as if ruine did not approach fast enough thinke not it is with us as with a Diamond which lyeth in the fire and is not consumed or like the Christiall which toucheth the Toad and is not poysoned or the bird Trochilus that liveth in the mouth of the Crocodile and is not spoyled for wee are subject to bee consumed venomed and destroyed and many other inconveniences beside these therefore let us not go about to destroy our selves you would reckon him a mad man that goeth to make a wound where none is and him to bee a foole that had rather have sicknesse then health and yet wee are so besotted to our ruine that wee move like men void of reason O let not England bee branded with such folly stigmatized with such a disgrace as to bee guilty of its own destruction And yet a Leopard may as soone change his spots and an Ethyopian his hiew before some man can alter their dispositions but I hope I shall not find all such crooked Cammocks such knotty pieces and of such sorded natures for though all men bee made of one mettall yet they are not cast in one mould and though some may refuse this to their ruine yet others may imbrace for their good and seeing I have brought you thus farre give mee leave a little to trespasse upon your patience doe but consider the many Widdowes wee have the many Orphans in whose very faces you may read a Petition for reliefe the maimed Souldiers whose misery eccho in our eares and O England O unhappy England is all thy help but a sigh And can you behold this and will you not seeke to amend it truely when I behold the unnaturalnesse that is amongst us I cannot but thinke Abetto Mejere and Cissiphons have taken up their quarters in our Dominions and that they have a peen jar habitation in each mans spirit for the very Heathens have a better agreement then wee and yet reckon them to bee in ignorance and a vaile of obscurity to bee upon them and wee in our light our new light in our shining light will not strive to hinder those things which in Hirogliphicks speake our ruine for as if every one was full of Achonite wee spill poyson in one anothers faces all of us are contriving which way to do the most mischiefe Oh! Let us not make our misery an abbysse our troubles endlesse let not our pleasures bee an Adonis to bewitch us so to them that wee can cast no affectionate eye upon the publicke Fabricius the Roman was famous because a contemner of riches but infamy will bee our lot because wee desire them to the danger of the State our Land is a plentifull soyle which makes it worse to indure extremity for the finest Christ all is sooner crazed then the hard Marble the finest silk soonest soyled and the sweetest Wine turneth to the sharpest Vinegar so that Kingdome that hath enjoyed Peace for a long time will bee soonest wasted with warre There is not the like Land in the world as ours it wee are at variance amongst our selves at enmity with our Brethren and ready to go warre against our kinsmen whereas they are united joyning together against the common adversary Oh! let us sadly lament our Land for every loue hath its salve every beast his cure the Dog surfeting eareth grasse and procures his vomit and finds remedy the Hart beeing wounded runs to the herb Dictanuns and is healed and hath all these help and is there no Balme for England no Colloquin ida to purge its Cho●er hath all its Physitians given it up as desperate doth its States men its Ministers look when it will give the last gaspe its impossible two contraries can consist in one subject light and darknesse are inconsistant fire and water are repugnart and do wee think contention and Peace will linke together truly if wee do wee mistake for the Sunne and Moone shall as soone stand still and the heavens alter their course the ebbing and flowing of the Sea cease before these two can agree feed not your selves with fancies dally not too long with edg'd tooles wade not too farre in the streame for feare you cannot returne but let us all Implore the assistance of the Almighty and then with love goe to repaire the breaches of our Land Perhaps you will say it is too late I must confesse I feare it yet I doe not despaire of it Physitians say so long as there is life there is hope though our Kingdome is dangerous yet there is breath and let us follow that maxime though wee are unskilfull in the faculty The Sicke man knowes best where his paine lyes our Misery is within our selves then let us make knowne our Grievauces by way of Petition to the KING and the PARLIAMENT and by way of recommendation to the ARMY intreating the first to Consider the second to Consult the third to Disband that so the publike Quarrell might bee stated the causes of our Afflictions found out for now every man cryes out blaming severall parties imputing the Cause to this others to that and yet truely is ignorant of the Cause Thus Gentlemen you see in what a condition wee are in by our differences whereas if they were layd aside wee might bee in a better estate then before Let us not therefore stand in our owne light but as free borne Englishmen pull downe usurpers and prevent that which otherwise wee must expect That Iustice may have his course and every one his right that so Peace may take its habitation in our Land which is or at least should bee the cordiall wish of every true English-man Vale. 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