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A86119	Knaves and fooles in folio. Discovered, and then advised, that once at the last they will grow both wise and honest. Or, a meanes to undeceive, and so to beget a right understanding and judgement throughout the three kingdomes, hitherto deluded by the aforesaids. Dedicated with all respectivenesse both for discovery and caution against the aforesaids, to all the wise and honest of the three nations, whom wee highly prize and honour, especially the Honourable Citie of London, whose goodnesse, piety, easie betrust, and credulity of such unworthies, hath been too much wrought upon and abused by depraved polititians of all sorts. In which tract is shewed the wickednesse of the one side in their severall pretences, and the weaknesse on the other side, in being through too much credulity surprized and circumvented by such pretenders, who intend not what they pretend; but bave [sic] their own self-ends to compasse under such pretexts. -Conceived very usefull to be taken knowledge of, by all sorts whatsoever. For that wee hope the reader will finde himselfe fully satisfied thereby, which may probably much check, if not totally break the neck of this uncivill Civill Warre. The contents of the booke are in the next page.	S. H.	1648 (1648)	Wing H121; Thomason E462_27; ESTC R202483	38,950	43

Sectarist is so nor an Independent nor will I now engage to In the Prelates time they were puritans men of tender consciences c. faithfull to death tell thee but be it as thou saist yet thou saist nothing to the purpose Oh madnesse what 's this to thee in this case one hath thrown down Baals altar Ergo Gideon the sonne of Joash must dye but the wiser Joash answered those fooles if * Shew Baals order or leave your bauling shew us the same of God c. Baal be a God and be offended hee will right himselfe Sure if the Mahumetan Turk were faithfull to our State and would fight to deliver it I would fight with him a Sectarists Independents so cal'd have saved the king dome City for none else would c. and for him and owe we not him also thankes honour and reward Different religions nor irreligion quit not humanitie and justice God by Rom. 14. enjoynes them to be Sectaries and Independents till convinced and joyes in it if in sincerity see and be satisfied Why condemnest and judgest thou him b Let each one be perswaded in his owne conscience note it in his owne not any others If the doubter be damn'd force not the doubter lest thou damne him thy selfe Is it nothing to condemne damn he is Gods servant not thine Thou shalt not answer for him therefore be answered and suffer him to Independent it as well as he thee to Presbyter it is it not just Thou unjust one who denies him this liberty yet wilt licentiate c. Promulgators against fundamentals I am against but yet reservedly to hold none can with-hold so I am against prophaners and blasphemers what wouldst thou more Know weaklings know that the beauty of sincerity and justice love peace and humanity though accompanied with errors in Religion not against so also with many occular deformities and seeming giddinesses and fooleries are preferrable before a forced and ignorant Classicke beauty and order c. without sincerity or any the rest aforesaid c. why art thou against what God is for 55. But are not such Royallists so all sorts under what notion soever Traitors Murtherers thieves c. that fight against themselves and their posterities and against the Kingdome their Soveraign c. under pretence as for its Steward the King c. Doth not shame and infamy attend them besides base slavery to them and theirs c. And though you be offended at the Parliament yet why against your selves and yours and the Kingdom and yet why also against the Parliament you say they have taken your estates c. Oh fooles have you neither witt nor honesty to reason wisely and rightly Foole know they act but secondarily also justly and inforcedly Is it not the King and your This is spoken only to Malignants who have forfeited all selves by the Scots owne sayings for all they seeme to stand so for the King who have plundered you of your estates by turns and now you would turne it upon the State Why charge you not the King as doe his owne Countreymen Doth not the scot charge him as the Originall cause of all the blood shed c. in the 3. Nations know its a Nation of Divines thus charge him discharge him if thou canst If hee be the first cause thou art the second for seconding him against hoth States the large and contract Kingdome and Parliament so the Parliament justly for thy treachery to the whole and in behalfe of it did force from * Shall a murtherer cōdemn the Judge or Executioner for taking life or estate whereas himselfe is the condemner executioner of himselfe by thē thee but part of thy estate to helpe to secure what thou wouldst have betraid whereas thou hast forfeited all yea life also Foole or Knave or both art thou not engag'd to them for thy life and the remainder of thy estate all being at their command considering how forfeited in behalfe of the Kingdome thy Soveraign Learne wisdome and honesty hence-forward to acknowledge what 's right and their goodnesse to one so unrighteous and make amends for future by dedicating thy life and estate to the State for the State c. Fight against the Stewards yea all Stewards for thy Soveraigne the Kingdome thy King c. 56. But many are desperate for the Parliament as they say hath abused them and opprest them more then ever the King did and they are as very slaves under them as the King can make them and yet they have been as faithfull and deserving of the Parliament as can be having ventured limbes life liberty estate also such and so much wages is due to them but not a penny can they get though they so their wives and children are ready to famish also they are contemned slighted villified c. If it be so as afore it s a hard and urging case c. For men are but men not Gods c. It becomes not the fountain of Justice to send out such foule streames nor to be the cause of such floods of teares nor of rending and tearing complaints c. Yet here answer thee as at Sect. 47. whether repaire for satisfaction and implore them to doe as they would be done by 58. If the rising of the people be not from some of the grounds following Quaere As first The licentiat reading of lying Ballets and books to defame the State and the Armie and so to incense the people against both also to divide the people amongst themselves which is most infamous in so famous a Citiie to suffer such insufferables and implies as if they fided with such base ones against both States which is not only great weaknesse but wickednesse also may they be accepted for Protecters of Parliament and Kingdom which prostrate both as afore Another thing that befooles the people and so cause them ●o rise against Parliament and Armie yea themselves and theirs is Ignorance of the Kings state degree and condition c. and an opinion of him beyond what is c. which we intend to resolve by Quaeries in due season only one or two instances here c. under the notion King and other titles of sacred Majestie c. They are besotted to an Idolatrizing as if rahter a God then a man Also as if all were his own selfely cause King relates not as doth Steward which sends to a Lord See sect 46. where the end of Kings is K. as justice safety peace c. of the people c. whereas all his Titles Glories Crowne Throne Scepter c. are the States at large and his only by way of steward-ship and Deputi-ship As are the Sword Cap of Maintenance so traine of Officers the Cities not the Majors This ignorance crafty knaves especially depraved Clergy-men and men of lost fortunes make use of to incite the people for their own ends as at Sect. 6. and 8. But

lying by me some time after it was written by reason of some hinderances it hath now furthered it selfe with the addition of some second thoughts I hope very conducing as to the generall so to particulars c. Is not treason the betraying of just trusts and ingagements Is not Quaere again Of Treasons that of a Kingdome the greatest trust Are not all sorts ingaged to the Kingdome before the Steward or any Nay are they ingaged to the Steward at all but for the Kingdomes sake And is not their failing it alone how then in siding with the Steward or any against it the greatest treason What is it then in the Steward most ingaged by oath betrust and allowance not onely to faile or neglect but to endeavour his uttermost against his Lord in the highest degree False Trusts Oathes c. to faile for true and just ones is not treason but faithfulnesse and justice as to faile the Steward in behalfe of his Lord. If it be not treason to preferre any selfe-end or any one as the Steward Quaere called King or his sonnes called Prince or Duke or any one or any thing whatsoever yea though it be Religion Gods worship or Service as cal'd or indeed c. before the generall good to its sufferance cause it 's King and Soveraigne and God himselfe preferres it before the aforesaids ●s I will have mercy before Sacrifice c. the Sabbath is for man in humanities c. Traytors however smiled on are smit with contempt as the basest of men and are not trusted of their Trusters but in cases of necessity and that with much feare and jealousie c. See to this all sorts from the the Throne to Threshold it imbaseth the best See to it I say Parliaments Kings Princes Peers Priests c. the corruption of the best is worst of all 66. Oathes Covenants c. in behalf of the Steward against his Lord Of Oathes Covenants c. the kingdome binds not all sorts are bound to breake them except they will bind themselves to be Traytors Murtherers and Theeves 67. Rebellion is to resist just Governours in their just Governments Rebellion disobedience is the same else it 's none Quaere If the most ingaged Governours or Stewards that affront their Lords Salus and his Lawes and their ends of Government Justice and Protection be not the greatest Rebels Oft-times they rebell first and most and yet tax the faithfull to their Lord for Rebels cause they side not with them in their rebellion against their Lord. Will the Steward urge his Lords servants to keep false Oathes and Trusts to him against his Lord and yet hee makes no reckoning of true ones Sure he by unjustly accusing of them he justly accuseth himselfe much more 68. Murther is without just cause to kil or nor to save if we can what Murther is it then in the most ingaged Stewards to save and protect yet contrarily to murther or endevour the murthering of their Lord Salus and his faithfull servants cause they will not side with them against their Lord c. What is' t also in the servants that side with them against their Lord to ruinate him so his faithfull servants is it not murther as well as treason The justly inforc'd to kill either in defence of their Lord Salus or of themselves though they kill I say yet they murther not c. 69. Hath the same definition or bounds that murther hath the unjust Theft Robbery Of Warre sides taking is theft the other is none The name and countenance of warre quits not nor qualifies it from murther and theft on the unjust side it aggravates rather by its continuance and violent perpetrations also as done with defiance and a high hand openly c. as if justifiable as also by the Steward against his Lord c. Application 70. See to the aforesaid definitions of Treason Murther Theft and Rebellion c. all sorts both States the King Princes Dukes so cal'd yea Peers Priests and Prelats So all Countries and Cities c. Names Titles c. of Kings Princes etc. with the rest alter not natures but ingagements make the aforesaids more unnaturall and greater Treasons Thefts Murthers c. yea each individuall and apply as cause i● and for future let it lessen thee to lessen the aforesaid offenders c. 71. Well but the King wrong'd them not as hath done and doth the Parliament nor can they be greater slaves to the King then Object the Parliament makes of them c. by imprisonment by plunderings and contempts c. I answer If it be the objection of Malignants and Royalists see then in part to Sect. 55. in speciall in generall to 47. Answer If it be the good deserving and faithfull party that complains see to Sect. 56. so 47. and for full satisfaction as followeth Yet all sorts by the Scots position may charge their sufferings originally on the King Each one forgets what the King did so what they are freed from being onely taken up with their present sufferings of which they are most sensible also they minde not or call not to minde what the King intended to doe the which I hope when I have minded them of they will be of another minde c. Hast thou forgot the infinite Monopolies as of Sope Tobacco Pins Leather Wines c. and indeed what not also the ten shillings Scarce any commodity exempted all in time would have come under the Monopolists But all this is forgot a peece for the needlesse freedome called the new Corporation c. and the rest of which were coming on ad infinitum And amongst the rest Pole and Ship-money as Capitals Was it nothing to quit thee of the charge attendance trouble and vexation c. one way or other to an undoing thee in thy estate and in the peace of thy minde c. By the Staring Star-chamber and the High-Commission c. What sayst thou to the vexations suits troubles and attendance at Doctors Commons twixt the Parson and thy person about trivials as Holy-dayes keeping or not besides infinites more which I need not stand to name Did not the Court of Wards keep watch and ward over thee Now thou mayst doe as much by it c. Hast thou forgot the German Horsemen projected for thy projection and perpetuall inslavement and not for a present defence as are ours The Spanish Navy had the same intention and had done the deed if Note All these purposel● intentionally not inforc't thereto Hurrying it in the popular streets in their popular Chariots statelinesse the Hollanders had not undone it c. Privy-Seales for money and the prison for non-payment thereof opprest the able and rich circularly c. And all these not for thy just and necessitated defence but for thy offence as on purpose to raise a stock a Magazine of money means from thy self to provide

Scorpions to whip thee So manicles and Fetters for a Turkish inslavement also to support him that should be thy protector in all Revellings Maskings Pleasures Playes and Delights c. by the ruine of thee and thine whilst thou and thine thus opprest are pining and languishing with griefe and pressures c. Now for the Parliament let 's see what they have done to thee admit much amisse yet beleeve the Scots in this that the King the Kingdomes Steward is cause of all for if he had not done the aforesaids these after necessitated doings by them had never been done So when thou accusest them thou dost implicitly accuse the accuser and misuser of them and th●e as the originall cause of all Is It not the aforesaid doings of his by the Scots own saying that hath been the cause of all these Warres Bloodshed Losse of Estates Plunderings ●olland payes ●xcise without exception losse of trade So excise c. that thou so exceptest against Lay it then where it should be and not upon the immediate occular instrumentall inforced Afflicters of thee to whom no question it s an affliction thus to afflict thee c. Is not thy Lawyer Councellor and Atturney inforc'd oft-times to undoe thee with charges and expences against thy offending adversary who will have the Cloak from thy back and next thy suit yea thy The spirited man chuseth to yeeld to this rather then to his insulting adversary shirt and so strip thee to nakednesse if thou defendest not another keeps back or layes claime to thy Land and estate and will unstate thee if thou defendest not Yea also it may be though thou defendest his might will out-right thee and the expences may exceed the principall that it had been better to have yeelded at first But who knowes the issue of things It may be thou mightest on easie tearmes have recovered all of others then others have done so Adventures must be adventured on or else we must give up our rights as our Cloakes and Clothes c. to each unrighteous challenger which no spirited man can yeeld to Adventure we not our lives and all wee have on darings challenges and abuses rather then be out-braved and insulted over A stomackfull resistance and defence is an honor and it oft prevents offences c. Thus by the Scots own saying the Kings offence hath inforced the Parliaments and thy defence and that defence these expences pressures and undoings c. But thou wilt yet say the Parliament hath opprest and abused thee beyond a just and necessitated defence Be it so this yet justifies not thy unfaithfulnesse to thy Lord the Kingdome if his Steward 's contrary to his will who provided them for thy protection and to doe thee justice abuse thee right thy selfe of the Steward as thou canst without wronging thy Lord see for further satisfaction at Sect. 47. But oh you fountaines of justice let your honours your fames and your names be more precious and blemish them not by such proceedings but for this see in full at Sect. 64. 56. c. But now last of all I have met with a list of their extravagancies enormities c. as great offices places incomes c. as Colonels in the Warre keepers of Townes Cities Castles Houses Parkes and Forrests Also great advancements by Bishops Lands and lastly by depraved injustice oppression corruption and bribery c. These last are justly exceptable against if high and heinous c. Trivials must not be too much prest or censured thou canst not Angelize men David that man of men bid Mephibosheth and Ziba divide the Land whereas the whole was Mephibosheths c. But let 's examine the other which before I doe I will place thee their accuser in their places cause by reflection thy accusation will be the better judged of c. Lets now see how thou canst come off c. Admit the Offices c. places before-named so the keeping of Castles Townes Towrs and Forts were in thy disposure by consent of the Kingdome as are many places in the hands of each Lord Major By custome and consent of the City c. but in speciall in the hands of the King when time was it s not then a power usurp'd so farre as confer'd by consent by way of betrust c. Doth not nature and reason first accommodate ones self and theirs as nearest before remotes provided they supply those places with persons faithfull and each way fitting If this they faile of they are faulty for they ought prefer the universall in justice safety and rights before selfe-ends that are not right Said not Solomon to his Queene thou shalt have sonnes to make Rulers over all Lands Did not Eli and Samuel make their sonnes Priests and Judges and they might had they beene right why should not honour pleasure and profit be theirs seeing confer'd on them provided universally improv'd as upon or to others Who is' t that having friends kindred or children would not doe the like as for the adventurous and faithfull in the Wars they are worthy of it so are the States if they would improve themselves worthy for the universall Is not his Excellency the Lord Fairfax so Lieutenant Generall Cromwell worthy of their confer'd honours and remembrances Nature reason justice and policy of State enjoyne honours and rewards to all deservers Men are men and need encouragement c. and the State as Judges ought to consider of it and performe accordingly to all and I would they did no State no Prince but does will may yea ought to doe it c. But what if we now parallell or discrimen the Parliaments and Kings actions c. Those of the King what he did and that not of necessity c. Note Went he not against Scotl. with force to have setled Episcopacy c. but of a high hand and with intention c. projecting the utter beslavement of the people or Kingdome and to have also ruined Religion and only allowed some Complements and Ceremonials which hee would have called Religion to have deceived weakelings therewith They are I say apparant at Sect. 71. to F Those of the Parliament at Sect. 71 from F to 72. The Parliaments actions are not originally-intentionally or volunrily c. but contrarily inforcedly for the universall so thy particular defence and so farre is just and approveable and of thee to be approved of what 's beyond I disapprove but it s not easily apparent what they are but this remember that both of thy inforced suffering so of thy unjust suffering by them the Scots make the King the originall cause of all sc by his still continued offensive contending Note for the command of thy life liberty estate and religion c. Rememher the Instance before in a Law suite and answer thy s●lfe Hee is at this instant the cause of defence and so of thy pressures in expences feares and inforcements c. which

by the Scots account thou oughtst put on his account and not on the enforced defensive State except thou and thine wouldst be unstated for ever But this I dare adventure on in behalfe of the Parliament that could they quit themselves of being offended and assailed on the King side that so all clouds were over and the Coast cleare and the Heavens serene they would make thee thine and the whole Kingdom absolute freemen both in lives eestates liberties It conduceth to their honor end betrust so to the happinesse of their posterity kindred frends c. and religion As for Religion if they allow liberty of conscience which in conscience they ought by Rom. 14. to allow us let each be perswaded in his owne conscience c. so by many other places is allowable with the cautions at Sect. 54. Thou hast no cause to except at what God accepts except thou wilt except against him Is' t not faire thou excepter that thou shalt enjoy thy liberty to Presbyter it c. Wilt not thou retaliate and allow as thou art allowed From the parallell of Parliament and King aforesaid thou maist gather thou art as was the Israelites ' twixt Solomon and Rehoboam Solomon had used them hardly but Rehoboham projected to prostrate them to bow and bend them so as to make them plyant to his tyranny he would whip with Scorpions and his little finger should be more oppressing then his Fathers whole body Is it not so 'twixt Parliament and King the Parliament have enforcedly opprest thee and so farre is just on their side and must as a fore be charged on the K. not them but their voluntaries are like those of Solomons the See the K. at Sect. 71. to F. Parliament Sect. 71. at F. Kings are like the Intentionalls of Rehoboam Admit both sides cannot be avoided is it not wisdome to lessen our enemies and wisely take part with the lesser to overthrow the greater which alone we cannot doe which done we have but one enemie as Solomons hard usages to contend with Consider what I have said and be wise 'twixt Solomon and Rehoboam you may be ruin'd if you side with both so if you side it strongliest with Rehoboam The K. fetcheth in Scots Forreigners against us you fide with your ruine also but break Rehoboam to pieces and my life for thine wee shall all piece together againe in peace and plenty c. This lastly remember the Parliament hath quit thee from all as at 71. E. to F c. is it nothing But what did the King ever doe for thee shew if thou canst It s yet objected no peace or settlement will be till the King come 72. Object home and be setled It s ' cause thy braine and witt is unsetled and ' cause knaves and Answer fooles suggest severalls to thee out of which thy weakenesse cannot winde but of what nature soever thy thoughts are or their suggestions be see to the contents of the particulars and so to their answer and call to minde all other particulars in this booke not referr'd to Help to settle it by sideing with Solomon against Rehoboam as thou hast read in the instances foregoing for thy selfe if not for theirs so for the Kingdom c. which is thy King c. How wouldst thou have him come home what like a Conquerour If so thou art a slave according to Sect. 71. E. to F. See more under treaty and take heed he conquer you not by yeelding that may be won by smiles and wiles which could not be by force and blowes Yet againe thou saist thou fightest for the Kingdome thy selfe and 73. Object thine in fighting with and for the King against the Parliament also that by Covenant c. thou oughtst to fight for the King his Rights and Dues c. What thy intentions are I know not but thy actions in fighting Answer for the King c. are absolutely against the Kingdom thy selfe and thine see 71. to F. c. See also the discrimen 'twixt Parliament and King see at Sect. 71. O. to 72. For the Covenant thou art mistaken it s for the King respectively see Sect. 42. to 44. and for the Kingdome the Parliament See Covenant the 3. it selfe so each particular as thy selfe and thine so each one its absolute see Sect. 44. Thou yet wilt fight against the Parliament as wrongers of the Kingdome Ob. 74. the King thy selfe and thine Truly I cannot see how they can wrong the King what ever they Answ If by the Scots sayings he be guilty of the blood shed in the 3. Natiōs it s well neare 3. or 400000. lives are they not so many murthers?-for one Nabal a Iezabel how then doe to him hath he not forfeited all?-hath he not only wronged but sought the ruine of all what saith lex talionis to this I am silent be thou judge can the end doe the means any wrong to use it any way for its conducement no juster and better way being By this argument if thou oughtst fight against them as wrongers of him which they are not why then not against the King which is so in the highest degree and that of his King as at Sect. 71. to F. Why also not for them against him by the argument at Sect. 71. O. to 72. I have been large cause I would meet with all objections and exceptions and so satisfie circularly which I hope I have done and 75. so I conclude with invocation and application as followeth I doe then implore all sorts even from the highest to the lowest as the most honourable Senate and City and the Worthies of the Synod so all Countries Cities Townes-and Villages yea each Individuall remember and consider what I have said and refresh memory by review of the Contents all your scruples except you will find or make knots in bul-rushes are satisfied and cleered you may tush pish slght and wrangle but answer you cannot so must of necessity contend against the light of nature reason and justice and what are such c newtralize not as it conduceth to the universall but helpe Parliament and Army and so your selves against the King the Kingdomes Steward servant so any other c. -much more Let not Judg Ienkin's book nor any such deceive you it savors of much weaknesse or wickednesse or both It 's easily answered had we leisure take heed you take not up Armes against Parliament or Army or any that is faithfull to his your King the Kingdome in behalfe of the Kingdomes Steward or any c. Land-men Sea-men so all sorts of either defame not your names and so your posterities-with the aspersions of treacheries rebellions murthers robberies and rapes a As any these things are acted c. c. For all are guilty in the aforesaids that-neutralize it in King Salus behalfe much more that rise against King Salus c. Take

heede of the depraved of the Clergie b Those that are good of thē I honour who define the aforesaids amisse in behalfe of the King also of their crying up great is Darius and Diana ' cause they as the Demetrians live by one or both it s their own ends they aime at neither King Darius nor the Goddesse Diana they care for but as conducing c. The same ends they have to deceive the devoutly religious but unprincipled So the devout yet iggnorant noble women were stirred up against Paul under pious pretences as Templum Domini the Church so Gods Ministers likewise Religion Gods honour worship service but define all these amisse so outing of all but themselves as Sects Independents c. but it may be cannot or will not describe a right what are Sects outable but for this see to Sect. 54. and be satisfied Their-suggestions-are not their ends their ends are to end all their opposers and non-complyers under those pretences-of Sects Independents Seperatists c. that come not under them ' cause they loose the Soveraignty over them and the sallarie of their meanes It is strongly conjectured were it not for these sufferings by their seperation they would suffer them with silence c. would the State confer on them 2. or 300. l. a year certain to officiate c. you should finde all these winds storms allaid and they 'd be calm'd when they see the confluence of their auditory conferred nothing nor the others declining them lost them not any thing c. Consider oh consider then and doe as did the Israelites in case of 76. the Levites delay not free your selves immediately and right your wronged King Salus against the treacherous perfidious hypocriticall irreligous-Scot * Where are the wits of our wits and wise ones are they seers that see nothing thinkes any one the wily pretending Scot will come in for any ones end but his own will he raise the King but to be raised by him will he not confluent with numbers having two garrison Townes for his inlets truly he designes to undermine and bring the English to canvesse breeches and wooden shoes c. so all others under what name and title soever settle the Kingdome so your selves in an assured-safety justice peace and rights I say delay not ob State oh Army and City consider Discover the Scotch treachery to all the Countries cause it to be read in Churches how to raise all Countries under apparent and just grounds as one man for present dispatch of these troubles against the Scot so all other enemies and lye not lingring under languishing and disquieting uncertainties be not be-fool'd with Letters and Declarations from any know you not who and what they are Know you not also that the Traytors Hopton so the rest may thus write and the other must put too his hand and seale be it one be it all it s all to no purpose-with the wise and knowing c. I may infinite it but this is enough if any thing will serve Only Reader I finde it a common errour that many Zealots eager of the common good spend themselves for it so many continued usefull bookes are writ and by the Athenian Readers eagerly read over that done he hath done with the booke and ther 's an end of all It s also cause little pamphleted under that notion slighted so it serves him not for any use no not when he hath most use of it as being lost also lost to his memory so that if he be tray●ered or rebelled c. he knowe not their bounds so is bound hand and foote Few also informe their children or friends so that in a moment ignorance betrayes all sorts whereas the wise that they may not be surprized would read to remember and dispose of so as may be alwayes in a readinesse to redresse the errours of ignorance c. Let this Memento admonish thee for future and I have my desire if thou hast the benefit which is the end of my writing c. Nay Reader over shooes over bootes if thou wilt excuse method 77. thou shalt have matter which is more materiall in its stead Wee could methodize also would time allow us but It will not so we must as we may A few Miscelanies more and I have done with things that have and if not look'd to will undoe us 78. Pitty compassion Pitty compassion are most human passions yet oft the most inhumane cause not manlily managed cannot we pitty but we must precipitate the * All for one ' Cause it's call'd pitty complemented with seeming circumvents judgement universe for urius this is more cruell then cruelty it selfe but its unnaturall names and occulers deceive our occults and understandings c. The present obvious object is most possessing to the dispossessing of all the absents I have heard of one that hath beene charged with the blood-shed of 3. Nations which may amount to some 2. or 300000. of the people his Creators c. This Officer being also further engaged by oath and betrust to protect them yet in cold blood projected To Command all that was theirs their prostration that he might out them of their lives at his pleasure Yet this offending Officer seeming sorrowfull yet not for his sins for he goes on but at some respective suffering for positively it s none except great attendance and a plentifull Table be a suffering c. But he seemes moved I say at his ill condition not at his ill conditions and its like in a cruell pitty to procure his enlargement and the peoples confinement But can the engaged by choise oath betrust love and relations to doe Justice and right do this to their loving choosers Doth not the Covenant also binde our State and the Scot so all to maintaine the Kingdomes rights and what are they but justice and satisfaction what can for what cannot be satisfied for Is not the innocency and honour of the Nation a-Right why should any thing be done to its dishonour so the States Will the State unstate us of all is it done like a State Did or could hee sorrow and repent it were well but it s no Murthered satisfaction Considering the infinites finited by him and his engagements as afore to the contrary as to protect c. If each not so engaged should murther one and then suffer some Those were not their brothers keepers as was he restraints or suppose repent must this procure their enlargement then let 's all murther-one-by-one till we have gone the round Manasses repentance if reall is not to our point I will not examine it reason and justice allowes it not so then nor God I can oppose with examples but the power is in reason which examines them all c. See at Sect. 42. 45. concerning retaliation of this kind comply to justice and reason Sensiblenesse and pitty-doe well but