and millions of other Sins besides but Death will stay no longer for Blessed Angels bear away my Soul Farewell A Fathers Speech to his Son on his Death-Bed Son I Have Lived a Long time so Long that were not you a Good Son you would have Wished my Death before Nature had Ordained me to Die but as Heaven hath blest me with Long Life so with a Good Loving and Dutifull Son which hath been a Help and Comfort to my Old Age and as Heaven hath given you Grace and Nature a Good Disposition to Love and Obey your Father so Heaven and Nature hath given you Health and Ability to beget Posterity in which I shall Live in Name and Fame though I Die in Body But Son as you have been a Helpfull and Dutifull Son so I have been a Loving and Carefull Father for I have been more Prudent for my Sons Good than Vain for my Own Pleasure I have been more Industrions to Advance and Inrich my Son than to Please or Delight my Self and I have thought my Self Happier in my Sons Life than I have done in my Own Thus Son I have and do Love You better than my Self and all the Desire and Request I have to you is that as I have been a Father to You so you to be a Father to Yours and so I Pray the Gods to Bless you Fortune to Favour you Wisdome to Help you Nature to Strengthen you Time to Prolong you and when your Time comes to Die that we may meet in the other World with Joy and Happiness The Gods have Mercy of Me and Bless You. Farewell FUNERAL ORATIONS PART VIII An Oration to the People concerning the Death of their Soveraign Dear Country-men and Loyal Mourners WE may see our Loss by our Love and our Love by our Grief and our Grief by our Tears but we have reason for our General Mourning and Sorrow in every Heart that our Dread Soveraign is Taken from us He was our Earthly God as our Protector Defender Assister Subsister Ruler and Governour he Protected us with his Justice Defended us with his Arms Assisted us with his Prudence Subsisted us with his Love Ruled us with his Power and Govern'd us by his Laws and such a Prince he was as he was Dreadfull to his Enemies Helpfull to his Friends and Carefull of his Subjects he hath Inlarged his Dominions with the Sword and Inriched his People with the Spoils and hath Increas'd his Power both by Sea and Land and so Strengthned and Fortified his Kingdomes as his Subjects have no cause to Fear any Forein Invasion but may safely sit with Pleasure under their own Vines And so Wise and Good a Prince he was that though he be Gone yet he hath left Peace and Plenty amongst his People and Power Dominion and Strength to his Successors with which Heaven grant they may Inherit his Wisdome Moral Vertues Divine Graces Heroick Spirit Good Fortunes and Great Fame that though our Old Soveraign is gone to the Gods above yet our New Soveraign may be as a God to us here for which let us pray to our Soveraign Saint to intercede for us to the Gods on High to indue their Deputy on Earth with Divine Influences and Humane Wisdome to Govern and Rule us as he did A young Noble man's Funeral Oration Beloved Brethren VVE are met together as Funeral Guests to a Dead man who died in the Flower of his Age and whilst he Lived was Favoured of Nature Birth Breeding and Fortune for he was Handsome of Body Understanding in Mind Noble of Birth Knowing in Learning and Rich in Wealth He was Generous Valiant and Courtly he had a Pleasant Speech and a Gracefull Behaviour He was Beloved of the Muses Admired by the Sciences and Attended by the Arts he was Entertained with the Pleasures of the World and Feasted with the Varieties of Pleasures yet all could not Save him from Death Indeed Death appears more Cruel to Youth than to Age because it takes Youth from the most Flourishing time of their Life although Youth Fears Death less than Age not that Youth hath more Courage but Youth doth not Think of Death so often as Age doth for if Youth had Death in their Mind they would Fear Death more than Age doth by so much more as they are Younger and know the World less but Youth thinks Death a Long time off from them although to many he is so Near as ready to Seize on them Wherefore if those that are Young did think they should Die Soon they would not be so Eager and Fond of the World as they are nor be so Vain and Intemperate as many Young Persons be the brave Gallants would take little Pleasure in New Modes Gay Cloaths and Fair Mistresses a Young Gallant would be but a Dull Courtier a Melancholy Lover not Melancholy for his Mistress disfavour but at Death's approach not for Love but for Life neither would he take Pleasure in Musick or Dancing for the thoughts of Death would make him Dance false and put his Hearing out of Tune and the Musick would Sound to his Ears as his Passing Bell neither would he Eye Beauty but if he did the Freshest Beauty would appear Faded In truth all his Senses would be as Rough and troubled VVaters disturbed by the Storms of Fear raised in his Mind for the most Valiant minds are somewhat Disturbed with the thoughts of Death by reason the Terrors of Death are Natural to all mankind not so much to Feel as to Think of not only for the Parting of Soul and Body and the dark Oblivion in Death but for the Uncertain condition after Death for though Death is not Sensible of Life yet Life is Sensible of Death so that it is the Thoughts of Death that are Fearfull and not Death it self that is so Terrible as being neither Painfull to Feel nor Dreadfull to Behold because Invisible and Insensible having neither Shape Sound Sent Tast nor Touch But this Noble Person is past Thinking and therefore past Fearing also past Wishing for he doth not Desire to live in this VVorld again he Thinks not of the World or of any thing in the World he is free from all Trouble of Mind or Body in which Happiness let us lay him in the Tomb with his Forefathers there to rest in Peace and Ease A Generals Funeral Oration Beloved Friends THis Noble Person that lies here Dead was once our General a Valiant man he was a Skilfull Souldier a Wise Commander and a Generous Giver he Loved his Souldiers more than Spoil and Fame more than Life he was full of Clemency and Mercy he would give his Enemies their Lives Freely when he had Overcome them Valiantly and he was so Carefull of his Own Souldiers Lives as he would never Adventure or put them to the Hazard but when he saw great Probability of Victory Yet this Gallant man this Excellent Souldier whom his Enemies could never Overcome Death hath Taken Prisoner with whom
to Live on Also they do Rob the Subjects in General and your Majesty in Particular for though they take away Much from Us yet they pay your Majesty but Little in Comparison of what they take and they Use or rather Abuse your Majesties Name to the Ruine of your Subjects for they Extort by your Majesties Name and when we hear your Majesties Name we humbly Submit and Yield to all they Demand for not only your Person but your Name is Sacred to us But give us leave to tell your Majesty that they are so Unsatiably Covetous as all the VVealth of your other Subjects will not Satisfie them and their Covetousness makes them so Unbelieving and Hard-hearted as when they have taken All from us they put us in Prison because we have Nothing left to Give them and if we be not put in Prison we are put to Slavery and many times our VVives and our Children are Abused And this is the Lamentable Condition of your Poor Subjects for which we implore your Majesties Redress knowing it is not your Majesties Pleasure we should suffer so miserably A Kings Speech to his Rebellious rout Beloved Subjects VVHat is the Reason or Cause you gather together in such Rebellious Tumults Is it for fear of your Lives or Liberties which you have no cause to Fear for I am not your Enemy but your Gracious King or is it that you are my Enemies and throng to Dethrone me or is it that you would have the Absolute Power amongst you which Absolute Power cannot be Divided amongst Many for if every one hath Liberty to do what he list not any man will have Power to do what he would for Liberty will be lost if every man will take upon him to Rule and Confusion will take place of Government Thus striving for Liberty you will thrust your selves into Slavery and out of Ambition to Rule you will lose all Government and out of Covetousness to be Rich you 'l make your selves Miserably Poor for if there be no Government there can be no Order if there be no Order there can be no Justice and if no Justice there can be no Safety if no Safety no Peace if no Peace no Trade and if no Trade there will be no Riches VVherefore your best way is to Submit and Obey to be Content to be Ruled and not seek to Govern to injoy your Rights and to revenge your VVrongs by Law and Justice and not to make VVarr and Confusion to destroy your selves A Kings Speech to Rebellious Subjects I May call you Well-beloved Subjects but I cannot call you Loving Subjects for although I have been Carefull Watchfull Prudent and Just for your Safeties Peace Prosperities and Rights yet you regard not my Safety my Peace nor my Rights Neither can I call you Good for you are Factious Complaining and full of Malice nay it may be a question whether I may call you Subjects for you Disobey all Authority Resist the Laws and will Obey no Command unless you be Forced and though you have not Actually Rebell'd yet you are in the Way to it for you Dispute my Power and would if you could take away my Prerogatives but will not quit any of your Privileges which shews your Unconscionableness Ungratefulness and Unkindness to me your Soveraign Besides you are so Unreasonable and so Evil as you murmur at my Harmless and Lawfull Pleasures but will abate none of your own Vanities Vices and Wickednesses The truth of it is I have done like an Over-fond Father who through extreme Love and Tenderness to his Children hath given them their Wills and Liberties So much as they forget their Duties and become Disobedient through VVantonness but had I used Severity instead of Clemency and had Rigorously kept you in Fear and had Exacted More from you and had Yielded Less to you and had I Curbed your Liberties you had been more Obedient which would have been more Happy both for Me and for You for then you would have been Govern'd Easily and Obey'd Willingly by which we should have Lived Peaceably whereas now we are like to Ruine each other with Civil VVarrs unless Heaven open your Eyes of Understanding to see your Faults Errors and Dangers you are like to fall into but I hope Heaven will give you Grace to Reform your Lives and Conform your Manners to Live Peaceably A Kings Speech to Discontented Subjects Beloved Subjects I Perceive Frowning Countenances amongst my people which doth portend a Storm but let me advise you from raising a Storm lest you Ship-wrack the whole Kingdome and be Drown'd your selves in the VVaves of Rebellion The truth of it is Raging Men are worse than Raging Billows and worse more Devouring than the Sea Yet if you are resolve'd to make VVarr rather make VVarr in Forein Nations than in your Own Country and on Strangers rather than on your Friends for to make VVarr on Me your King and your Soveraign is against the Laws of God to make VVarr on the Protector of your Liberties and Father of your Country is Unnatural to spill your Friends Blood is Ungratefull and Inhuman to Ruine your Native Country is Barbarous by which Actions you will become worse than Beasts and as bad as Devils but if you be so possest with Fury as no Intreaties will dispossess you you must be Scourged with Misery the truth is you seem by your Rebellious Actions to be Mad and then there is no Cure for you but to be Let Blood in the Discontented Veins and I will be your Surgeon on whom I 'l try my Skil and Power to bring you into a Perfect Obedience besides I will Bind you with Bonds of Slavery and Whip you with Rods of Afflictions unless you presently Conform your selves to Peace Law and Government and humbly crave Pardon for your Faults A Kings Speech to his Rebellious Subjects PRoud Presumptuous Subjects for so you are that Dare bring your Soveraigns Prerogatives in question and to Dispute his Power but who Gave you that Authority not my Ancestors nor your Own for my Ancestors Conquered your Ancestors and made them Slaves in which Slavery you ought to have been Kept and not to have such Liberty as now you have in so much as to come so Near and so High in your Demands as to Justle me in my Throne only you cast a Veil of Pretence over your Wicked Designs the Pretence is your Rights and Privileges but what Rights had you when you were Conquered and what Privileges have you but what the Conquerour gave he gave you not the Privilege to Dispute my Power or to Bring my Prerogatives in Question neither have you Privilege to Disobey my Command to Resist my Authority or to Break my Laws and know rather than I will quit my Rights my Birth or my Power I will Die first but my Death will not serve your turn for I have Successors and though your Idle thoughts and Vain hopes perswade you you shall get more
Terrible and Dreadfull Pit wherein is no Hope of Getting out The truth is Death carries many Evil Souls down into Hell but Good Souls he leaves at the Bottom of the Hill that leads up to Heaven from which those Souls Climb and Clamber up with great Difficulty for whatsoever is Excellent is Hard to Get or Come to whereas that which is Bad is Easie to be Had. But howsoever this Poor man is Dead and we shall see him Buried leaving his Soul in its Journey and his Body in the Grave A young Virgins Funeral Oration Beloved Brethren and Sisters in God VVE here meet not only as Funeral Mourners but as Marriage Guests to Attend and Wait upon a Young Virgin to see her Laid into her Nuptial-bed which is the Grave 'T is true her Husband Death is a Cold Bed-fellow but yet he makes a Good Husband for he will never Cross Oppose nor Anger her nor give her Cause of Grief or Sorrow neither in his Rude Behaviour Inconstant Appetite nor Lewd Life which had she Married any other Husband might have made very Unhappy whereas now she will know no Sorrow for there is no Whoring Gaming Drinking Quarrelling nor Prodigal Spending in the Grave for Death Banishes all Riot and Disorder out of his Habitations there is no Noise nor Disturbance in his Palace Indeed Death's Palace is a place of Peace Rest Quiet and Silence and therefore all are Happy that Dwell there for there is no Envy Malice Slander nor Treachery there Men are not Tempted with Beauty nor Women Flattered into Wantonness they are Free from all Tentation or Defamation neither are they Troubled or Tormented with Pain or Sickness for Death hath a Remedy for all Diseases which is Insensibility the truth is Death is not only Charitable to Help all Creatures out of Misery but Generous as to be so Hopitable that he sets Open his Gates for all Comers insomuch as the Meanest Creatures that are have a Free Entrance and the Same Entertainment with the Noblest for there are no Ceremonies of State All is in Common there is no Pride nor Ambition no Scorn nor Disgrace and Death's Palace is so Spacious as it is beyond all Measure or Circumference being sufficient to Receive all the Creatures Nature makes and since there is such Store of Company in Death and Death so Generous and Hospitable why should we Fear or be Loath to Dye nay why should not we Desire to Dye and Rejoyce for those Friends that are Dead especially Considering the Unhappiness of Life wherein Man is most Miserable because he is most Sensible and Apprehensive of what he Suffers or what he may Suffer But this Young Virgin is Happier by Death than many Others are because she hath not Liv'd so Long to Suffer so Much as those that are Older Have done or as those that Live to be Old Will do Wherefore let us Rejoyce for her Happiness and put her into the Grave the Bed of Rest there to Sleep Quietly A Young New-Married Wif's Funeral Oration Beloved Brethren VVE are met together at this time to see a New-Married Wife which is here Dead to be Buried She hath made an unequal Change from a Lively Hot Husband to a Deadly Cold Lover yet will she be more Happy with her Dull Dumb Deaf Blind Numb Lover than with her Lively Talking Listning Eying Active Husband were he the Best Husband that could be for Death is far the Happier Condition than Marriage and although Marriage at first is Pleasing yet after a time it is Displeasing like Meat which is Sweet in the Mouth but proves Bitter in the Stomack Indeed the Stomack of Marriage is full of Evil Humours as Choler and Melancholy and of very Evil Disgestion for it cannot Disgest Neglects Disrespects Absence Dissembling Adultery Jealousie Vain Expences Waste Spoil Idle Time Laziness Examinations Cross Answers Peevishness Frowardness Frowns and many the like Meats that Marriage Feeds on As for Pains Sicknesses Cares Fears and other Troubles in Marriage they are Accounted as wholesome Physick which the Gods give them for the Gods are the Best Physicians and Death is a very Good Surgeon Curing his Patients without Pain for what Part soever he Touches is Insensible Death is only Cruel in Parting Friends from each other for though they are Happy whom he Takes away yet those that are Left behind are Unhappy Living in Sorrow for their Loss so that this Young New-Married Wife that is Dead is Happy but her Husband is a Sorrowfull Widdower But leaving Her to her Happiness and Him to be Comforted let us put her into the Grave there to Remain untill the day of Judgement which Day will Imbody her Soul with Everlasting Glory A Widdows Funeral Oration Beloved Brethren THis Widdow at whose Funeral we are met Lived a very Intemperate and Irregular Life all the time of her Widdow-hood for which not only Nature but the Gods might be Angry with her for though She did not Surfeit with Feasting yet She Starved her self with Fasting and though She did not Drink her self Drunken as many Women in this Age will do yet She did Weep her self Dry She grew not Fat and Lasie with overmuch Sleeping but became Lean and Sick with overmuch Watching She VVatch'd not to Dance and Play but to Mourn and Pray nor did She waste her Wealth in Vanities but She did waste her Life in Sorrow She Sate not on the Knees of Amorous Lovers but Kneeled on her Knees to God Her Cheeks were not Red with Paint but Pale with Grief She did not wear Black Patches on her Face but Black Mourning on her Body She was Adorned with no other Jewels than her Tears She had no Diamond Pendents in her Ears but Transparent Tears in her Eyes no Oriental Pearls about her Neck but Drops of Tears lay on her Breast Thus was She Drest in Tears She suffered not Painters to Draw the Picture of her Face but her Thoughts did Form her Husbands Figure in her Mind She hung not her Chamber with Black but her Mind with Melancholy She Banished all Stately Ceremonies and Ceremonies of State and set her self Humbly on the Ground She past not her time with Entertaining Visitors but Entertain'd her Self with the Remembrance of her Husband She did not Speak much but Think much In short She was so Intemperate in her Grief as her Grief Kill'd her it may be said she was Murdered with Grief and no kind or manner of Murder is Acceptable either to Nature or the Gods but some sorts of Murders are Hatefull to both Yet this Widdow howsoever she Offended in her Over-much Grieving She had Pardon for her Praying and to prove the Gods did Pardon her they Granted her Request which was to take her out of this World without Painfull Sickness and so they did for She was so free from Pains as She parted with Life with a Smiling Countenance and lay as Still as if She lay to Sleep She breathed out her last Breath
so softly as those that stood Close by her Bed could not hear her Sigh and when She was Dead her Beauty that all the time of her Mourning was Obscured in her Sorrows Appear'd in her Death only the Gloss of her Eyes were Covered with their Lids for Death had Shut her Eye-lids down and Seald up her Lips which Lips seem'd as if they had been Seal'd with Red Coloured Wax although Death had Kist them Cold for now Death is her Lover not an Amorous but a Deadly Lover to whose Imbraces we must leave her Body after we have laid it in the Bed of Earth An other Widdow's Funeral Oration Beloved Brethren VVE are met as Funeral or rather Marriage Guests of a Dead Widdow who is now Re-married to her Husband in Death and no question but their Souls will Joy in the Knowledge of each other for though Bodies Dye yet Souls do not but Live for ever Death having Power only over the Sensitive not over the Rational Life for Knowledge Lives though Senses Dye and if the Soul Lives no question but all that is Inherent in the Soul Lives as all the Passions Affections Thoughts Memory Understanding Judgement Conceptions Speculations Fancy Knowledge and the like which are the Parts and Ingrediences with which the Soul is Composed Form'd and Made Thus the Soul being made of such Thin Fine Pure and Rare Matter Death can take no hold of it for Death's Power is only on Gross Corporeal Substances or Matter not on Celestial Bodies but Terrestrial but this Widdows Soul was Purer than other Souls usually are for there are Degrees of Purity in Souls as well as Degrees of Grossness in Bodies The truth might easily be Perceived in her Life for there was as much Difference between her Soul and Other Souls as between Souls and Bodies at least as much Difference as between a Glorified Soul and a Soul Imbodied Nay her Soul was so Pure as it did Purifie her Body for it did Resine the Appetites which Cleared the Senses besides her Soul did Instruct the Senses which made them More Sensible so that they were kept Clean Clear and Healthfull by Temperance and made Apt Quick and Ready by Reason insomuch as Time had but a Little Power to Hurt them and was not Able to Destroy them without the Help of Death had she Lived Long but Death to shew his Power destroyed her Body without the Help of Time for she Lived not to be so Old as for Time to make a Trial yet her Body Lived Longer than she was willing it should have done desiring it might have Died when her Husband Died but the Gods Forbad it for though any Creature especially Man may Call Death when he Will and Force him to take his Bodily Life away yet the Gods are Angry if any man will not stay whilst Death comes of Himself without Inforcement Nevertheless Death did Favour this Widdow for though he did not take her so Soon as she would have Died yet he suffered her not Long to Live a weary Life for which Favour she received Death with Joy and a Smiling Countenance whereas Death for the most part is received with Fear and Sadness and since she Rejoyced at her Death we have no Reason to Mourn now she is Dead especially in that she Lived and Died Vertuously and Piously for which the Gods will Advance her to Everlasting Glory For this Glory let us Praise the Gods and Bury her Body in her Husbands Tomb or Grave that their Dust or Ashes may lye together A Young Child's Funeral Oration Beloved Brethren VVE are the Funeral Guests to a Young Male Child an Infant who Died soon after it was Born and though all Men are Born to Live and Live to Dye yet this Child was Born to Dye Before it had Lived I mean in Comparison of the Age of men Thus this Child was Born Cried and Died a happy Conclusion for the Child that he had Finished what he was made for in so Short a time for he could not have had less Pain less Trouble nor less Desires to have left the World had he Liv'd longer for Life is Restless with Desires Sickly and Painfull with Diseases Troublesome with Cares Laborious with Labour Grievous with Losses Fearfull with Dangers and Miserable in all which Misery this Child hath Escap'd but had he Lived he could not have Avoided it besides he is not Guilty of Self-acting Sins and so Deserves no Punishment for neither Commission nor Omission can be laid to his Charge having no time for Either so that he is Free from Both as also from Suffering either in this World or the Next unless there be such a severe Decree as the Child shall Suffer for his Parents faults which Faults he could neither Hinder nor Annul neither did he Approve nor Allow them nor Assist them in Evil But it is not probable he shall Suffer being Innocent and Death that is Accounted the Wages of Sin may rather be taken as a Gift of Mercy also Death might be said to be a Purifier from Sin as well as a Punisher of Sin Wherefore this Child is past the Purgatory of Death and is in the Heaven of Peace Rest Ease and Happiness in which let us leave him after we have Covered his Corps with Earth An Old Ladies Funeral Oration THis Old Lady was Favour'd by Nature Fortune and Time Nature in her Youth gave her Beauty Fortune gave her Wealth and Time and Nature gave her long Life She was Courted in her Youth for the Pleasures of her Beauty and Flattered in her Age for the Profit of her Wealth but being Chast and Wise She was neither Corrupted with the One nor Deluded with the Other not Tempted with Courtship nor Coosen'd with Flattery and as She was Chast and Wise so She was Pious for the Gods gave her Grace to bestow her Wealth to Charitable uses Thus what she Got by Fortune she Gave to Heaven indeed she Bought Heaven with Fortune's Gifts for none can get into Heaven but by Faith and Good Deeds and her Faith did Believe that her Good VVorks would be as an Advocate to Plead for her and no question but they have gotten her Sute and her Charity will Live here on Earth though she be Dead and those she Relieved will make her their Saint Thus she will be Sainted both on Earth and in Heaven which is as Great an Honour and a more Blessed Condition than the Emperours had with all their Conquefts Power Pride and Vanity for the height of their Ambition was to be Deified on Earth and to be Sainted in as much They were Worshipp'd for Fear She Pray'd to for Love They had Idolatrous Worshippers She Sanctified Petitioners Their Idols lasted but a time She shall be Blest for Evermore An Ancient Man's Funeral Oration Beloved Brethren AGe hath Ushered our Friend to Death and we are here met to attend him to the Grave it is an Human Charitable and Pious Service to see the
this Fault in Government was a great Grievance Also Monopolizers Ingross'd several and almost all Commodities in the Kingdome hightning their Price as they pleased which hindred the General Trade and Traffick and this was an other great Grievance Also there were great Taxes laid upon the People and Kingdome which was an other Grievance Moreover needy Poor Courtiers would Beg that which ought not to be Granted or Accuse some Rich men to Get some of their Estates at least to get a Bribe to be Freed all which begot such Dislike and Hatred that the whole Kingdome Rebell'd with such a Fury as they Pull'd down Monarchy and after much Blood was Spilt in the VVarr they Set up a Repulick in which Government the Commons Chose the Magistrate and Officers of State for which the Commons were grossly Flattered by the Nobler Sort which Vice of Flattery became a Studied and Practised Art by which the Chief men became most Elegant and Eloquent Orators every Man striving to Out-Speak each other but this Practice and Strife begat Ambition and Envy in the Better Sort and Pride in the Commons which Pride was hightned by their Power to make Peace or Warr to Choose Magistrates and Officers to Pull down or Advance to give Life or Death to Banish or Recall to Condemn or Reprieve and all this Power lay in their Voices O Powerfull Voice of a Headless Monster this Power caused the Brainless People to be so Proud and withall so Envious as also Malitious to those Men that had Merit and Worth having None Themselves as they would often Banish if not Put to Death their Generous Nobles Valiant Commanders and Wise Magistrates as also those that were more Rich than their Neighbours besides they would Advance Mean and Worthiless men such as were of their own Degree and Quality to Places and Offices of Dignity which Discontented the Nobles and that Discontent bred a Faction betwixt the Commons and Nobles which Faction being Increas'd by the Friends of the Banished or Executed Persons brought forth a Civil Warr long was the Strife but at last the Nobles got the Better and then the State or Government became Aristocraty in which Government for some time they Liv'd Agreeable and Govern'd Justly and Orderly but by Reason Aristocraty is a Government of Some of the Nobles and not of One they could not Long agree Every one Striving to be Chief and most Powerfull insomuch that through Envy and Ambition they would Cross and Oppose each other for some would keep Peace with their Neighbours others would make Warr and some would have such or such Laws made others would not some would have some Old Laws Abolished or Dissolved others would Oppose them neither was Justice Executed as it ought for some would Punish those that others would Save some would Reward those that others would Disgrace Thus every one was Striving for Supreme Power although they did hinder One an Other and by the means of Doing and Undoing Decreeing and Opposing the People could not Tell whom to Address their Sutes Causes and Grievances to for what one Spake For an other would Speak Against till at last by their Pulling several wayes the Aristocratical Government broke in Pieces and then those Nobles set up each One for Himself and so there became another Civil Warr Long was that Warr for some times one had the Better and then an Other and some times two or three Sides would Joyn against the Rest and then most against One but now at last they being weary with Warr yet know not how to Agree in a Peace insomuch as we have neither Warr nor yet Peace nor any Setled Government the truth is the Kingdome is like as the Chaos and Confused Substance and there is no way to bring it to an Orderly Form but to have a Native King to bring Light out of Darkness that we may See our own Errors and Reform our Faults and hereafter Live Happily under the Government of a Good and Wise King which I Prav the Gods to Send you An Oration to a Discontented People Noble Citizens and Dear Country-men AFter many Disorders Several Governments Cruel Warrs much Losses and almost Absolute Ruine we desire to Associate and Agree in a Peace with our First Government which was Monarchy a Government our Forefathers Chose for the Best But our Natures I may say Mankind are so Restless as never to be Contented with what we Have were it the Best for should the Gods Reign and Rule Visibly upon Earth we should find Fault and be apt to Murmur if not Rebell against them Wherefore I Fear we shall never Continue long in Peace if a Celestial Power cannot Perswade us a Terrestrial will never be able to Keep us in Order for if Mankind desire to be above the Gods a Fellow Creature will never be Satisfied with any Power nor the Rest of Men will never be Satissied with any Government so as we shall never Live in a Setled Peace in this World nor never Dwell Peaceably but in the Grave nor never be Happily Govern'd but by that Grim and Great Monarch Death An Oration in Complaint of the Former Noble Citizens and Dear Country-men THe Former Orators Oration although it was Short yet it was Sharp for though it was but a Dagger for Length yet it was a Sword for Death for he partly Perswaded men to Dye Voluntarily to Dwell in the Grave Peaceably a Cruel Perswasion and a Wicked One for Death is the Punishment of Sin and shall we Imbrace our Punishment without Hopes of Redemption shall we Dye before a Repentance and Amendment but Surely he Believes after this Life there is none Other but that is more than he Knows or can Prove for I am Confident he hath no Intelligence from Death for Death is so Obscure that there is not any that Goes To him which ever Returns From him into this World But setting aside the Former Orator and his Oration give me Leave to Tell you that you are in the way of being Happy in that you are Resolved to agree Peaceably under a Monarchical Government and to have a King who shall have Absolute Government which Government King and Power is a Type of Heaven God and his Omnipotency and I Hope we shall all Prove as Angels and Saints for which I Pray God to Grant that we may Live in Unity Peace and Love A Kings Oration or Speech to his Subjects Beloved Subjects ANd I Hope you will Prove Such you are Return'd to your Obedience and I to my Rights after along Absence the One from the Other But since your Loyalty and my Royalty have been Parted we were never Happy nay we were never out of Misery and whose Fault was it that Caused such Miseries you in the Time of Rebellion laid the Fault on Me and I on You which was a sign we were of either Side Guilty but of your Side Most for though a King may Err in his Government yet a People