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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60342	A new haven at Sandwich for the honour, advantage, and safety of England faithfully discovered in a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Clarenden Lord High Chancellour of England. By J. S.	Slater, John, fl. 1663.	1663 (1663)	Wing S3959A; ESTC R220062	9,607	20

which may otherwise very beneficially serve us both for our advantage and safety And therefore my Lord 4. The place where the Ships and Stores shall be kept may be contrived and made into a strong Garrison by building so many Forts as seem requisite according to the several circumspect and Grave Adviso's of his Majesties Council and of each of which particulars Himself is sole Judge And 5. As this would be a very high heartning to the Common Guard there in all times of War So it will be as deep a discouragement to any Enemy for daring with so apparent hazard to arrive there lest over-eagerly transported into a ridiculous self-flattering fit of invasion they find it easier to out-sail their supposed wits then their assured overthrow My Lord Forts make a chief part of the Forces of a Kingdom and they which have been of opinion that they should not build any have been confuted by Reason and Use So as there have been few found unless they were some petty popular Estates that will follow their counsel The Graecians and Romans who had less need during their Empires then any other Estate for that all submitted themselves under their yoak entertained Cittadels at Corinth Tarentum and Rhegium And if the Capitol had not been strong the Empire of Rome had been smothered in the very Cradle of its own Infantine growth by the Gauls There be three words very frequent in the Worlds fancie Observation Consideration Moderation But Experience the Guide of Mans understanding Ruler of his Will Over-ruler of his Opinion and which renders him real of deeper insight then to be carried away with appearances though double guilt but able through the varnished Vizards of disguised Interests to discern betwixt truth and truths-likeness discovereth those three so frequent Motto's not hitherto so flowing in most mens tongues and Pens as ebbing in their practise I have not altogether omitted some use of the first in this case of Forts and still retaining it shall thereupon essay a little further by the second aiming as steadily as I can at Moderata juvant in the beneficial result of the third The Estates in which are no strong places are conquered by one Battaile England formerly hath testified it And an Antient Counsellour to Henry the 4th and Lewis the 13th of France said then that the Persian relying onely on the number of his men had lost in one Battle a great extent of his Country the which the Turk afterwards preserved by Forts For although Forts alone cannot much assist an Estate yet being seconded by Armies they make it invincible and there being no Armies on foot they give the Soveraign leasure to raise them and after a rout to rally his men together to renew the War Yet by this it is not inferred that that Estate which hath most Forts is strongest For it is impossible to guard many well and some being ill-guarded they prove more prejudicial to the Estate then prositable for the defence A Kingdom ought therefore to have few but well-furnished with Men Victuals and Amunition My Lord Whether this near Sandwich ought or ought not be one of those few may be if allowed the Question And if your Lordship's command should authorize me freely to speak what I think and I should be so lucky in my though improbably yet possibly cross-declared opinion submittingly to agree with your reserved judgement which possibly also may be for any thing I know it ought not as it would be then in me even because a private person but the opinion of one Dunce so it could be in your Honour but the judgement of one Doctor though the most excellent known I can assure to your honour those words contain no humorous criticismes of any Mistical presumptuous sense but discover onely that modest sobriety that ought to confine all private mens opinions in their rash publick censures which when by hap-hazard though that rarely true rove but at random as having not obedient humility enough to attend the more safe and judicious conduct of their better acquainted Guides But if which is more then probable because of my present writing I think this near Sandwich ought to be one of those few my opinion herein can amount no higher then to be still opinion of one who ought and doth humbly present it not by way of anticipation but submission But if your Lordship also or rather onely think it ought for then it matters not whether a private capacity thought so or not that very thought in you though it made not opinion in me to be judgement yet it makes the Design a justice due to the Nation espeyially since all impediments therein of charge to His Majesty be removed Grant me thereupon my Lord so much gracious allowance as to remember unto your Honour that even as those stars meeting in Conjunction with the Sun do much availe toward the causing of his influences to become good and favourable unto us as the Pleiades which cause the light to appear pleasing and gracious unto us at the Springs return whereas the Canicular Star makes it scorching in summer So the Earle of Clarenden moving in this and like noble Designs the Royal will and Authority of so Divine a Prince as our Soveraign Lord the King concurreth in the numerous influences of his grace with the Light of our eyes becomming thereby like the harmonious Pleiades a favourable Organ and Heroick Instrument of a most fortunate and established Age. My Lord Justice tending to the good of others is as it were an essential quality to publick persons obliging them both to love and procure the publick good which not only Laws and Reason teach us but even Nature it self dictates unto us For is it not apparent in all sublunary things yea in the very Heavens and in the Angels also that whatsoever is destinated for the Common good operateth not for it self but imployeth it self for all Do not those mighty Courtiers those confirmed Privado's of the Deity in the Cabinet of the Beatifick Vision kept white by the same bounty that created them so in an * Motus Angelorum fit in tempore imperceptibili non indivisibili Suarez Non in instanti quia sunt duo nunc est prius posterius Aquinas imperceptible though not indivisible motion of Time from their brighter Mansions make swift-winged Progresses to our dusty Cottages of clay promptingly to communicate their illuminative and reductive ministrations of ad-visements and assistances to diminutive us the busie Ants of this lower Orbe Yea do not the very Heavens send forth their influences the Sun his beams the Earth its faecundity the Trees their fruits Fountains their waters Bees their honey Silk-worms their delicate webs for all Doth not the Liver distribute bloud to all the veins the Head motion to all the nerves the Heart vigour to all the members Is there any thing in nature which converteth to its own use what it hath received for the common good See