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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85446	The great case of transplantation in Ireland discussed; or Certain considerations, wherein the many great inconveniences in the transplanting the natives of Ireland generally out of the three provinces of Leinster, Ulster, and Munster, into the province of Connaught, are shewn. / Humbly tendered to every individual member of Parliament by a well wisher to the good of the common-wealth of England.	Gookin, Vincent, 1616?-1659.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1273; Thomason E234_6; ESTC R6361	17,246	34

have been before and invention to project on all hands upon what surer grounds an action of such moment may be founded yet if the Parlament shall be pleased but so much to respect the good meaning of what is here written as by their clemency passing by all the infirmities thereof to let the residue fall under the cognizance of any persons deputed thereto There are likewise Expedients ready to be humbly tendred if they may be accepted which offer at least at the assoyling all these difficulties and disturbances and the putting that whole Land by Gods blessing into a quiet and flourishing estate but it was judged more convenient to exempt them from the publication of this Paper that the Parlament might neither seem to have their Wisdomes forestall'd if they shall advise on other Expedients nor their Counsels revealed if any thing offered there should happen to find favour in their eyes There are some things wherein the Reader is to be premonish'd to stop his wonder how such destructive Resolutions could pass or be let pass from the hand of Authority all this time For which consider 1. Those that were in England must see and hear with their eyes and ears that were in Ireland and according to Informations given from them were necessitated to square their directions to them Now it is no wonder if those that were but Strangers to that Land should not at first sight understand the compleat interest thereof and so though their wils were zealous to that which was good in the general yet their understandings not fully inform'd so soon might cause them to deviate in some particular 2. When these Resolutions were at first taken to transplant the Irish universally the face of things much differed in Ireland from what it appears now and that might be conveniently propounded nay done in one time which will not so well suit with the series of Affairs at another then Necessity might have made it fit to have transplanted now the unfitness makes it not necessary So that both the one and the other might have been just and unjust as they were accommodated to several times and conditions It is impossible for men to foresee all things Events failing from what was preconceiv'd may make Counsels vary from what was precontriv'd 3. Though those that sate at the Helm saw it necessary in their Wisdomes to give out such Orders in those times yet in their Goodness we see they did not think fit to execute them even till this time as if they did wait a time to be gratious to the Irish Nation and would expect all opportunities that might enable them therein and any new accidents intervening that would conspire thereto And now God having put the same into their hands at present it is the earnest suit of many and ought to be the desire and prayer of all moderate and sober Christians that he would put into their hearts to embrace and use it That Mercy may be remembred in the midst of Justice by those who themselves desire not Justice without Mercy and that thoughts may be had of what indulgence is due to the frailty of a man as well as what severity to the obstinacy of a Rebel it being an Heroickness not to insult upon an humbled Enemy and Wisdome not to make him desperate The conversion of that Nation will be a more pious work than their eradication it was that was pretended fasted prayed preach'd for so often sure it was intended God hath complicated our good with this mercy as if he would not let Men be too cruel to those poor blind Natives without being so to themselves and would reward their compassionate thoughts towards them with the many good effects that will thereby accrew The unsetling of a Nation is an easy work the setling is not it has cost much Blood and Treasure there and now Prudence and Mercy may accomplish the work the opportunity for it will not last alwaies 't is now the Physicians late assistance despairs where his early help might have been prosperous The Souldiers there exhausted with indefatigable labours hope now for their rest The old English having lain so long under Taxes wait for their Jubile The Adventurers expect some Crop at length from what they have long since so plentifully sown The State may challenge a Revenue from what she has so amply expended on It had been better Ireland had been thrown into the Sea before the first engagement on it if it will never turn to account but still to expence but the time is come when the Venture will defray the expence of the Voyage if all be not shipwrack'd in the Harbours mouth all there contrive quietness pray for peace This Transplantation is the main Remora that puts to a stand The Seed-time was the Harvest would come on The Spring will hasten after so sharp a Winter And how glorious a Victory will that be when both the Bodies and Minds of a Nation are overcome the first by power the second by love How will the Souls of the Irish blush hereafter that they should have been once cruel against those whom they find still so mercifull towards them when Love shall hold a stricter rein upon them than fear and make them wash away that Blood they have drawn from others by Tears drawn from themselves How shall they bless God for their Unprosperousness and rejoyce in those Infelicities whereby they are made happy And the English that are in that Land bid past cares and fears and present wants adieu and leave those Hives they have been almost starved in like industrious Bees to repair their old Stocks with new Honey How at ease will the State be from those cares that like Vultures have continually preyed upon their hearts in the behalf of that Land And what a pleasing sight will it be to England instead of meagre naked Anatomies which she received driven from Ireland in the beginning of a War to empty her self of her young Swarms thither in the beginning of a Peace If Antiquity deceive us not that Land was once called the Island of Saints and if Novelty deceive us not again it may find as strange a change to good as it had a fall to ill God has made in the nature of Instruments the good or ill of thousands beneath to hang upon the breath of a few that are above O what a guard had there need to be on their lips whose words dispence death what prayers to God! what uprightness towards Man If any Errours be committed those on the right are easyest cancell'd It is better to save one innocent than destroy many guilty persons but to make guilty persons become innocent by saving how excellent will that be How much more comfort will the heart receive hereafter to hear the once poor erring Irish live good Protestants honest Subjects than to have heard they dyed blinded Papists bloody Rebels And there can come no glory from that ruine which may be avoyded The most contemptible things carry Engins of death along with them a Gnat a Hair a Rasin-stone can destroy but great glorious universal agents like the Sun are the Parents of life A storm or accident may throw down a house but art and industry are required to build it and this way treads a destructive path as hath been shewn and therefore should be no longer trodden in God grant they whom this concerns most may be as sensible of it as some are whom it concerns less that they may mind this Affair according to the greatness of its consequent which slights all mediocrity and will be transcendently good or evil and as Comets may reflect obliquely upon vulgar men but more eminently signifie for great Personages so these effects may be showred among the Common People but will be poured upon the head of the Commonwealth But I had forgot that I had said before that Transplanting is an impossible work and therefore it is enough to pray and may hope to prevail among wise men that they would be pleased to leave undone that which they are not able to do which I take to be a reasonable and modest request FINIS