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A91933	Diapoliteia. A Christian concertation with Mr. Prin, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Harrington, for the true cause of the Commonvvealth. Or, An answer to Mr. Prin's (perditory) anatomy of the Republick, and his true and perfect narrative, &c. To Mr. Baxter's (purgatory) pills for the Army: and his wounding answer to the healing question. With some soft reflections upon his Catholick (or rather Cathulactick) key; and an examen of the late petition of the sixth of July to this Parliament. In all which we have a most necessary vindication of the cause; of the honourable persons now in Parliament and Council, from the venome and vilification of their pens. By Joh. Rogers, thorugh grace kept (under many sufferings) a faithful servant to Jesus Christ, his cause and the Commonwealth.	Rogers, John, 1627-1665?	1659 (1659)	Wing R1806; Thomason E995_25; ESTC R207812	125,898	138

of all Parts and Parties of it not exempting the sober-minded and most capable of ALL Judgements whether they follow Mr. P. in Dissection Mr. B. in his Physick-Administration Mr. H. in his Politicks or us in our Theo-cratick-Constitution according to the Reason of all Rules and Principles whether Historical Practical Political or Theorical that agree with their own Art Judgement and P●ofession and wherein they must necessarily acquiesce at the last As 1. That a most Demonstrative Care may be ever had to the Balance of the Government by which judgement and Justice is Weighed out to All. This Rule of a Balancing equal and even Hand as well as Habit is with Demonstration to be observed in a true and sober Anatomy distinguished from a rash irrational and vulnerary Dissection such a one as Mr. P's of the Commonwealth Such a special care is to be kept up also in all Physical Doses to the Hum. Body which Mr. B. is far from accommodating as may most exactly Balance all the humours elements spirits and parts of the Body in an Equal and orderly Temperament for the whole that one have have not the mastery of another or over all the rest to the Ruine of the whole And in Politicks Mr. Har. hath demonstrated it to be most absolutely and accurately requisite so as the EQUI-LIBRIUM of it be not imposed upon obtruded or obstructed by fraud or force neither in the Equal Libration of encouragements due to Good Men and Adherents nor yet of punishments due to Bad Men and Delinquents which I have offered in a former Book that the Frame of it be so held as may keep the Scales even to All Men and not more leaning to one party then another which is most certain and perfect in a Theocratick Government where the frame is good the balance even the Strings sound and certain the Hand that holds it most just steady and exact and the Weights and Measures are all Sealed and Authentick with GOD and Men in all Nations under Christ so that no one can complain of violence and spoyl injustice oppression or injury done unto them by that Balance the Equity of it is with such Conviction and Demonstration to Men Dan. 5. 2. Ezek. 5. 1. Isa 26. 7. and Delight to the Lord Prov. 11 1. 20. 23. 16. 2 11. whiles a false or uneven Balance is abhorred Micah 6. 11. Hos 12. 7. Prov. 11. 1. A false Balance is abomination to the Lord But a just weight is his delight and therefore saies Job Chap. 31. 6. Let me be weighed in an Even Balance that my integrity may be known 2. Consideration Let as exquisite a care be had to keep out or kill all faction or party-interest in the Parliament which like a Canker-worm will be sure to eat into the very body and being of the Commonwealth if not prevented which will pain it for the present and kill it in time This Rule Mr. P. ought to have observed in the true Anatomy of the Common-wealth as Artists do so to consider a Part as co-hering and co-alizing with the whole and as that which doth integrate and accompish the whole and so to have cut up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This with respect to that and the other and so all parts of the Commonwealth This Rule was as requisite too for Mr. B. to have observed in his Physical Directory and Dispensatory to the Army for in all Methodical Cures of distemper'd bodies such means must be used as suit best with the State of the whole body and not with the state of that or those parts of the body only which are so morbous and ill-affected for the easing of them may be with the destruction of the WHOLE by it and this is his dangerous prescription to promote a faction gratifie a party among ill-affected Presbyterians or Cavaliers and utterly ruine the Commonwealth by an universal and most certain revulsion of all those vitious humors which he complains of Wherefore to avoid this dangerous DESIGN of curing a part who may cry him up for an able Doctor to give them present ease by killing the whole All Curatory and Conservatory means of health to this body of the Commonwealth must consist with the constitution indications and co-indications of the whole body and not of a part for the whole This Rule is also most exactly observed in Politicks wherein the indulging of a faction did ever presage the fatal destiny of that Commonwealth so did the Factions of Hanno and Hannibal in Carthage and of the Decemviri in Rome so Sylla and Pompey's and Caesar's parties but what need we go so far seeing this our Parliament may remember that Tarquin was never neerer his return to the Throne by the factions of Rome and Conspiracies of Brutus's sons then the King was by the contentious and factious parties in the Long Parliament both before the eleven Members were accused of Treason and since between Presbyters and Independants not wanting the widest Bellows of others to effect it by the blowing up of every spark to a burning flame or shame But ah alas whither go we is it not too notorious and talk'd of already as if such a faction were now in the House at the old Game to the extraordinary Regrete of your friends and rejoycing of your foes which WISE MEN profess will be past the skill of any mortal wight on earth to cure if the Lord prevent not so few there be that find the Art of killing this Canker or of curing the Commonwealth But yet a many offer it And 1. Mr. P. by cutting off the new Members so infected 2. Mr. B. by calling in the old Members worse corrupted But 3. Mr. H. by an innovation of all together and so of all the Maligne humors in one which are sure to maintain it Whereas the only way to cure it in my judgement is to find out the Cause of this Gangrening faction and 1. to state the true interest of the Common-wealth and Cause that we may know what to call a faction or Deviation from it to any party And then to prevent it by MEANS inward and outward 1. INWARD in a moderate purging out the most dangerous humors or spirits of Malignity and in keeping cool and clean the Liver i. e. the seat of Natural Life in the Commonwealth both as to the inward and outward or most Gibbous parts thereof which I have formerly described for the benefit of good bloud throughout the whole body not distinct as Mr. H. would have it upon the single account of natural right and freedom but conjunct with the Animal and vital spirits viz. of the head and heart which is Jesus Christ and his precious servants that are truly godly without respect to any judgement or opinion who are indeed the very seat of the vital faculties and sence of this Commonwealth as much slighted as

their Functions as Physicians say of the Humane body that it must be as to the sane Constitution of it of a due Temperament both ad pondus ad justitiam and so must the Political body 1. Ad Pondus i.e. so as the first qualities or best sort may be brought into such an exact Proportion that no one may domineer it ore the other viz. in Faction or Parties striving for the mastery but so as one may balance another and all be kept together in the orderly exercise of all the Functions of the Body in an equal and good Temperature But 2. Ad justitiam that is so as to keep out evil and corrupt humors from obstructing the use of Functions in the body and this is the Eukracy and Timocracy which all sound Commonwealths have maintained and ours must I might instance in the Lacedemonians Cretians Athenians Corinthians Arcadians Rhodians Chalcedonians and others later The Romans themselves observing this as the Rule to keep out Tarquin and his crew who had a considerable Party in the Commonwealth as Charles Stuart hath in this even amongst Brutus's sons and as like to have repossessed and restored Tarquin untill this distinction was maintained with justice not sparing between the absolute Tarquinians that were unexorable and would never be for the Commonwealth but ever plotting against it and the free-born Citizens or faithful Denisons that did all to maintain it not forfeiting their Liberties and Rights as Livy tells us So for other Commonwealths 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. I hear that the Mantinians in Arcadia and also the Locrians Cretians Lacedemonians and Athenians had such Laws And in this respect the Grecians were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not only Greeks but Vindices Libertatis Great Sticklers for their Liberties But I am afraid lest some consult with the same Oracle that Clement the fifth did to destroy the COMMON-WEALTH Si non licet per Viam justitiae licet saltem per Viam expedientiae by Policy and expediency I mean such as Caiaphas and the Council condemned our Lord Jesus by Joh. 11. 50. and 18. 14. and so may this Cause But justice is a pure intemperate Virgin till she be deflowred by one of the two unchast Suitors viz. NIMIUM or PARUM Both which must be avoided as extreams and the Healing Quest doth it excellently But of M. B. I may say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thou hast lost the sweetness of the Rose and the fragrants of the Cause by thy Adulterating Art and mistaking of it But I have proved says Mr. B. that it is a false and wicked cause Wicked in the Nullity of the Magistrates duty and power but the truth thereof let the Reader judge and the Magistrate himself if he please And a false Cause saith he in giving the people the Natural Soveraignty who have but a power of choosing that men miss-call a Soveraignty The truth is I am from my heart with thousands more as well as Mr. B. saith he is in matter for a Theocratick or a godly COMMONWEALTH of which I had prepared a draught in my imprisonment at Windsor Castle and O! that we could see it with our eyes so both in the Constitution and Administrations of it in these Nations subjective to Jesus Christ that absolute Sovereign Who is 1 Tim. 6. 15. The blessed and only Potentate King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev. 19. 16. For whom all things were created Rev. 4. 11. and 5. 12 13. Col. 1. 16. Whether Thrones DOMINIONS Principalities or POWERS c. 1. Seeing all Nations must be subservient to him under the seventh Trumpet Rev. 11. 15. Whom he will either BOW or BREAK 2. Seeing all these Shakings and Concussions are to that end Hag. 2. 6. Veani Maryish I making them to TREMBLE Ver. 7. Ve hiryashshetti and I will make them TREMBLE with commotions and troubles until Chemeddat Col Haggojim the Desire the Delight the Beauty of all Nations come 3. Seeing the Army have Declared themselves to be upon this very Bottom and Foot of account often but more particularly in Declaration at Muscle-borough Aug. 1. 1650. in these words We have have not only proclaimed Iesus Christ the King of Saints to be our King by Profession but desire to submit to him upon his own terms and admit him to the exercise of his Royal Authority c. Yea 4. seeing we are already so forward in it in this Nation both by the extraordinary Session of this Parliament And 5. by their Declaration on the 7. of May last for our Rights and Liberties both as Men and as Christians i.e. in Civils and in Spirituals● Also 6. by that Golden Vote of Parliament somewhat like the Golden Réed which the Angel gave John Revel 11. 1. saying Arise and MEASVRE by it viz. That and their late Votes That none be put into Trust but men of Ability fearing God of a Latitude of Love to all the people of God and not to this or that Faction or Party and of Fidelity to the Common-wealth without King Single Person or House of Peers Yea 7. seeing there is such a readiness of consent in the Adherents to the Cause that are not partified nor putrified for a faction nor corruption and Mr. B. himself proposes it from p. 210. to 241. of 's Holy Commonwealth Yea 8. seeing we are as a Rouling Stone never fixed or at Rest till we fall into it do we what we can Psa 83. 12. make them as a Whéel or a ROVLING Globe and are likely to find no settlement without it Ezek. 21. 27 I will overturn overturn overturn till he comes whose Right it is or to whom the JVDGEMENT is given asher lo hammishpat and this can be meant of none but Christ Joh. 5. 22. to whom all Judgement is committed Dan. 7. 9. until his Government be setled in the NATIONS Gnavah Gnavah Gnavah assimenah I will place in them a PERVERSE Perverse PERVERSE spirit or as the Sept. has it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 until they be subverted and brought to this Settlement of God So that for the matter i.e. A Theocracy I agree with Mr. Baxter in yet notwithstanding I cannot be of M. B's mind for the manner of it as that it consists so well with the interest of God and Christ our absolute Soveraign or with the interest of the People Adherents to this Cause which stand together that a Single Person should exercise the power of a Humane Soveraign over us seeing 1 Sam. 8. 6 7. the thing displeased the Lord and was a great evil in Samuels eyes as the word is vajierang when the People said Give us a KING and on that the Lord said to Samuel They have not rejected thée they have rejected me that I should not reign over them or maasu they have loathed my Government over them wherein I alone was their King or the Single Person Much less can I think that the Natural being of it under

now they are this will one day appear when we are a little wiser and better skilled in the state of the whole body And if Cor as Arist. will have it be à Currendo we can tell you that no men in England did more if so much move run write meet Counsel pray sit up night and day to effect your return into the Places of Trust where you now are then those whom you grieve slight frown upon and do least for in point of justice Conscience and encouragement Now this is grievous and must needs prove dangerous to the whole at the last to see no better an understanding or correspondence kept up between the natural faculties and the nervous or spirituous viz. the Liver Heart and Head of the Commonwealth i. e. in the common or natural rights and in the special and spiritual rights concerns of Christ and the people until which the Canker-worm of faction will be sure to eat into the most excellent parts and life of the Commonweal Now when this inward means of setling all viz Natural Animal or Political and vital motions of the Commonwealth as men as Magistrates as Saints in a good correspondency and consistency together in the state and constitution of the whole body comes to be effected then the outward means may be used to good purpose viz. such as these are Sage-water or wise Counsels and Reasonings and Herb-of-grace which through corruption is called Rue or godly and gracious reasonings and White Wine or Cheary hearty reasoning well-boilded untill the scum be off and it be cleared from all frothiness and dregs And if you will you may mix therewith the Burnt-Allom or experiences of them that have passed through the FIRE of sufferings being much refined and the more fitted to kill rather then to keep up this Canker of faction or of Party-interest But it is in vain to use the outward means till the inward have effected or prepared the way of it Both together being the most probable if not infallible means of cure not only of the present faction but a Preservative from the future And this is in a most peculiar manner to be observed in Theocracy under one head Jesus Christ Hos 1. 11 Isa 4. 1. to serve him with one consent Zeph. 3. 9. seeing the Magistrates Trumpet is but one Numb 10. 4. and is made all of one piece or of the whole piece Ver. 2. and not to be bandying of it by Parties and Factions lest they be broken all to pieces Isai 8. 9. 3. CONSIDERATION That the Liberty which loose pens or tongues take to traduce and revile our Worthies in Parliament to the prejudice of the State and hindrance of them in their Publick faculties actions and functions may be provided against According to this Rule the Anatomists make provision against unskilful mangling butchering Akrotomists of which number Mr. P. might Commence Master for his cutting calumniating wounding and slandring The like care is taken in the Colledge of Physicians against Empericks Mountebanks and such like Impostors whose practice is most in undervaluing or vilifying of their BETTERS to gain the more credit to themselves that every stinking stuff might go off for a rare secret or mystery of Art Mr. B. and P. are both guilty of this Arti-tomy or most cutting false accusations So in all concinnate orderly and well-setled Governments or Polit. Bodies was there ever a most vigilant eye over such as in the Lacedemonian Petatism and Roman Turpilian Not but that a just and lawful liberty be admitted to charge any man orderly and before a lawful Authority For Maxime interest Reipubli libertate ut libere possumus civem aliquem accusare c. it concerns the interest and liberty of the Publick very much to maintain that freedom and to keep all men accountable and responsable But yet an unjust unlawful License of Slandring and Butchering the Reputations of our honourable Patriots to the view of the World and shame of our Government must have a remedy suitable to the constitution of it And so in a Theocracy is most excellent Provision made against it as we find not only in the Canons of Israel Exod. 22. 28. Numb 12. 1 9 10 11. but in the New Testament 2 Pet. 2. 10. Jam. 4. 11. Speak not evil of one another brethren he that speaketh evil of his brother and judgeth his brother speaketh evil of the Law and judgeth the Law but if thou judge the Law thou art not a doer but a Judge So Jude 8. 10. we must not speak evil of Dignities or of persons in Government such an ill tendency it hath to the disturbance of the Peace as well as defamation of the State It was an excellent Oration of the P. Scipio to the Senate of Rome upon this Subject in Ans to Q. FABIUS Neutrum faciam P. C. si nullâ aliâ re Modestia certe temperamento linguae adolescens senem vicero c. So that wide meuths may be in fashion in Cumena but not so in the Commonwealth to complain of Freckles as sore as of Plague-spots which some do very indiscreetly 4. Consideration That the Lapse of the Commonwealth into a Kingdom so much threatned from Causes inward and outward requires the utmost skill wisedom care and vigilance that can be to keep it off and to secure it from the Causes of it How agreeable and obliging this Rule of preventing a Lapse is for the perfect Sanity and Recovery of the Body is obvious from the daily practice of all skilful Chirurgeons Anatomists and Physicians who ought to take as much care and use as much judgement to keep off the Lapse as to recover the Patient of a dangerous Disease and this is usually by an Universal Evacuation of those vitious humors out of the Body that caused the Distemper that so the same peccant malignant spirits may neither revive return nor yet retire into any place of the same body be it the remotest and so the Body will be the better secured both from the reversion and revulsion of those morbifick Causes And it is as necessary in the body Politick to be observed and preserved if we value the examples of the wisest men that ever laid a Common-wealth or serv'd in it Zaleucus for the Locrians Archytas for the Tarentines Solon for the Athenians Bias and Thales for the Ionians Gleobulus for the Rhodians so Charondas Socrates Xenophon a many others which Thucydides recounts in Hist l. 3. particularly when the Mityl●ans left the Athenians and in later Republ. what extraordinary care was alwaies taken to keep off a defection we find by the abundance of terse and quick Orations made by P. Scipio to 's Souldiers but especially M. T. Cicero in the Roman Senate and to the People after Caesar was slain when he moved for an Amnesty for Brutus Cassius and others that were fled into