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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96740	Boni ominis votum: a good omen to the next Parliament, expressed upon occasion of those extraordinary grand juries, lately summoned out of the most eminent baronets, knights, esquires, and gentlemen, in some counties, to serve at the summer assises, this year, 1656. / By a faithfull servant to this republick.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3142; Thomason E884_4*; ESTC R207309	2,303	6

Boni ominis Votum A GOOD OMEN To the next PARLIAMENT Expressed upon occasion of those extraordinary Grand Juries lately summoned out of the most eminent Baronets Knights Esquires and Gentlemen in some Counties to serve at the summer Assises this year 1656. By a faithfull Servant to this Republick London Printed for John Hardesty at the black Spread-Eagle in Duck Lane or at his shop in the Strand nigh Worcester House Boni ominis Votum A good Omen to the next Parliament c. GOod speed to this Republike and increase Of happinesse to those who seek her peace Sad things are threatned and a lowring sky Seems to portend great storms are drawing nigh But look above them and good courage take The Sunne still shines although the clouds be black And beamings through their darkest parts appeare Whereby discernable good Omens are With Symptoms of the Blessing we expect If we our selves obstruct not their effect And turne them to ill signes which to prevent That which here followes gives a needfull hint As both abroad and here within this Land Publike and private mens affaires now stand This year is likely to be criticall About the time in which the leaves will fall If preconjectures may be builded on Things put in action with things left undone Speld both together and from some of these We may deduce good cautions if we please Whether it were the policy of some In hope it an Obstruction might become To Concord or the prudence of the Shreeve Or speciall providence which did contrive Those Grand-grand Iuries that must represent Their Counties we shall best know by th' event For whether cheerfully they come to doe That service which their Call invites them to Or by a wilfull non-appearance wave That duty which the common cause doth crave It will be signall and to many a one A Test as virtuall as the Lydian stone And also give an intellectuall view Of some Results which thereon will ensue At their next meeting who to represent This Nation shall be summoned and sent For those Grand Iurors are now chosen forth Of them whose gifts estates degree or birth Hath ranck'd them with the best yea out of those Excepting such as have been open foes To this Republike who have been suspected Meer Newters or else persons disaffected As well as from among them whose true zeale Hath kept them constant to this Common-weale That they whose faiths yet questionable are May to this Government themselves indear Some way and from henceforth enrolled stand Among the noblest Patr'ots of the Land Endow'd with all their Liberties and freed From those distinguishments which either breed Or nourish secret hat red to th' increase Of Quarrels and deminishment of Peace If they shall not imprudently contemn That meanes thereof which now is offred them And who can tell what providence by these Though some dissent in judgement will now please In season to effect for preservation Or settlement of Peace throughout this Nation When things are acted by a moderate Expostulation in a joint debate Where ev'ry one may freely speak his thought And when it is considered as it ought That no man can of safety be assur'd Untill the Publike wel-fare be secur'd We know that diffring simples put together To qualifie and to correct each other Though some of them be poison purge away Malignant humours which would else destroy The life of man So they who formerly Did in their singular capacity And private judgement sometimes act or speake What might at least indanger if not breake The Common peace may when they gathered are Into one fellowship be helpfull there Both to themselves and Countries ten times more Then they have been or could be heretofore Yea as the fat Lime and the barren Sand When they are mixed make a stronger band To binde together rough or hewed stone Then either of them could have done alone So may by them who are dissenters now Our publike buildings much the stronger grow When they into one Structure shall be fixt Well qualifi'd and rationally mixt And prove a happy Omen and presage To those who now are summon'd to engage Within a higher Orbe and shortly must Become our Trustees in a higher trust For he who hath consider'd it beleeves That if those petty-Representatives By loving prudence shall prepare a way Thereto as in good likelihood they may That nobler Body which to its perfection Must for the most part rise by their election Will be so moduliz'd and temper'd so That discords into sympathy shall grow And all our feares and dangers in the close Quite vanish to the terrour of our foes We see unlike and disagreeing matter Such as the earth and aire the fire and water Makes perfect naturall bodies wherefore then May we not hope that diffring minded men Themselves may reason forth out of a sick Into a healthy body-politick By GOD's assistance when our discontent Is cur'd and our malignant humour spent Before we feelingly by Sense perceive What Reason cannot make us yet believe It may be thus and will be thus if yet Mens Wilfulnesse hath left them any wit For why should they who now may be at rest Run hazards to advance their interest Whom nothing else could satisfie but powre All others at their pleasure to devoure And spoilers of their own estates become To make a fortune for they know not whom Why should they venture their respects to lose Who have been antient friends to get new Foes Or seek to have that game afresh begun By which all may be lost and nothing won I hope we shall be wiser and that wee Whose weal and safeties much concerned be In this expedient shall so cautiously Proceed and act with so much prudency That whatsoever others do intend Or put in practice we shall seek that end We ought to prosecute and at the last Our Anchor in a peacefull harbour cast I wish it heartily and since I see Wishings in vaine without endeavours be That those whom it concernes provoke I may To seek this blessing and help make the way To what I wish for I compos'd this SPELL Let him who moov'd me to it speed it well And make it so considered by this Nation Before things grow beyond consideration That words which to their safety do pertain May not be alway spoke to them in vaine For they are fools who still pursue a course Which makes a sickly-being to be worse And they are also somewhat more then mad Who would exchange a good-one for a bad Or put in hazard a possessed LOT In hope to get what never can be got So thinks Geo. Wither