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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30054	Some seasonable considerations for the good people of Connecticut	Bulkeley, Gershom, 1636-1713.	1694 (1694)	Wing B5401A; ESTC R224014	26,221	63

willingly submit to Leysler's Authority but stubbornly reject the Kings Commission and defie his Lieutenant 2dly If we renounce the King ànd his Government we destroy our own We cannot pretend to any thing but from and under the King and how can we demand or expect that others should obey us if we will not obey the King All Loyal Subjects may justly be afraid of having to do with us for such Obedience is indeed Unlawful 3dly We cannot think that our Government shall always shoulder out the Kings Government and 't is not to be doubted but their Majesties have long had the settlement of the Government of these Territories under consideration The Defence of the Dominion is their Majesties great Interest and care It is obvious to every Eye that we are divided from the Massachusets at Sea by the shoals and at Land by a great distance and that Connecticut and York by their natural scituation lie much fairer than Connecticut and the Massachusets for the defence of each other and in particular of Albany that key of the Country à Post necessary to be defended and by the defence whereof we defend our selves and this is laid as the ground of their Majesties dispose of the Militia in this Commission It is not for us to appoint or dictate to their Majesties but to acquiese in their Majesties Wisdom and Goodness in that behalf on whom we may relie being assured that they will do that which shàll be best for us 4thly We may remember also That whereas their Majesties did the last year give a Commission to Sir William Phips their Governour of thé Massachusets we had then the same jealoûsie of being annexed to the Massachusets and would not submit to that Commission nor take notice of Sir William in that capacity whereby to make the fairest construction of it that may be their Majesties might very well conclude that we were not desirous to be annexed to the Massachusets but had rather be annexed to York às being far more convenient Howbeit we may well look upon this Commission as the consequent of our Non-submission to Sir William Phips It is their Majesties Grace so far to over-look that Disobedience if now we shall finālly reject the second the Third may bring a greater inconvenience than any we can imagine to follow upon our being annexed to York 5thly The Regal and chief Government doth not belong to us The most that we can pretend to is but that of a Corporation The Regal Government is the King 's and their Majesties may commit it here or there as pleases them and 't is our Duty to submit And which I pray is the most likely way to preserve our Government Obedience or Disobedience 6 Object But if we be annexed to York we shall have great Rates to pay and be grievously oppressed The Long-Islanders complain that they are intollerably oppressed by this Governor Answ 1st We have a Friend in the Country that hath told the World That this is a Land full of Lyes and I wish it were not true Howbeit Male-contents will never want Complaints true or false 2dly The Governour neither doth nor can impose any Rates upon them there is none levyed but what their Assembly of the Free-holders see needful for defraying the necessary Charge 3dly That small Province of New-York hath had beside other arrears the burthen of the Defence of Albany so long lying mainly upon them alone by which their Rates no doubt have been much more heavy than otherwise they would have been But have not we great Rates to pay also now as we are standing alone And how doth it appear that their Rates are greater than ours If that màtter was well examined possibly it might be found thàt our Rates are as great if not greater than theirs and yet we have had no such burden incumbent upon us How many Thousand of Pounds have been raised upon this Collony since the Revolution and who is he that can give account of a farthing benefit accrewing to this Collony by it except that little Skirmish at New-London when two or three French Vessels put in there 4thly If we should be permitted to stand as we are yet we shall have great Rates to pay still especially as long as the War lasts We volûntarily take upon us the Defence of the upper Towns belonging to the Massachusets upon this River which appertains not to us The King by his Letter commands assistance of Men and Money to his Governor of York and we seem willing to comply with that but these things must of necessity augment our Rates as much if not more than our annexion to York if it should be so 5thly If we should be annexed to the Massachusets shall we not have as great Rates to pay as if we be annexed to York or greater Do not they complain as much as the other or rather more and we have seen something of it too So that this is but a common Objectïon for look which way we will whether we be annexed to York or to the Massachusets or stand as we are yet the War continuing will make Rates greater than otherwise yea without any War we can find wayes to make great Rates And if by any way they may be less than other it seems to be by our annexion to York Many hands make light Work and many Occasions whereby much Money is now expended to little purpose will by that means be taken away 6thly Let us do our Duty and let the Skey fall These are but empty Scar-crowes contrived on purpose to fright men from their Duty And let us have their Majesties Government Law and Justice and let it cost what it must 7 Object But the Governour of York is a Proud Morose Stearn and Austere Man we do not desire to come under such Governors Answ Who knows when the Devil and his Children will have done lying and slandering His Excellency may much better say of us He desires not to be set over such a Rude Proud Vngoverned and Disorderly People as we have declared our selves to be And truely it argues but a bad cause that cannot be maintained without the Devils Help in lying and slandering and but an ungoverned Spirit to call a Spirit of Government by the Names of Pride Morosity Austerity and such like None but a Son of Belial will put such Nick-Names upon it We ought to know that the Kings Captain General is a great Man Abner was Saul's and after him Ishbosheths Captain General and says David know you not that there is a Prince and a great Man this day fallen in Israel 2 Sam. 3. 38. Joab was David's Captain General and how doth Vriah none of the least men himself speak of him Why my Lord Joab and the Servants of my Lord are encamped in the open fields shall I then go to my house c. 2 Sam. 11. 11. Let us by the way observe and learn the Language of good Subjects A Spirit of

from his Excellency others who otherwise would are deterred that they dare not And for the more common sort of People One maliciously slanders and reviles his Excellency another basely Libils him others rudely affront him yea some rise in Arms to oppose him and others are in readiness upon Occasion to do the same Such of the Assembly as moved for a Submission are thought unfit to be Magistrates or Deputies any more and such of the people as show their Resolution to pày their Allegiance to their Majesties and yeild Obedience to their Commission are traduced as Rogues that would undo the Country and accounted scarce worthy to live His Excellency some-what surprized as well he might at this strange carriage of the King's Subjects his Country-men and professed Christians Protestants and having but six or seven Persons attending on him thinks it most conducive to their Majesties service to demur a while hoping that we will bethink our selves and withal leaves a Prōclamation pursuant to his Commission with Coll. Allen in the Governour 's àbsence requiring him to deliver it to our Governor in order to the immediate Publication of it in the several Counties And upon our Governour 's Return his Excellency did demand whether he had received the ●ame which he owned And thereupon his Excellency required him to give due Obedience thereto But it is now above a Month since and yet we hear no morê of it Soon after his Return to York his Excellency saw cause to issue forth a second Prōçlamation given at Fort William Henry November the 8th 1693. pursuant to the same Commission and former Proclamation and sent it as we are informed to our Governour requiring him forth-with to publish it in the chief Towns c. to the intent that the People might not be deluded and kept in ignorance But it is now above a Moneth since thé date of that also yet we hear nothing of such publication of it only there is a printed copy or two of it casually come to the sight of some And whereas by the Publicàtion of this their Majesties Commission all former Military Commissions are expresly determined Hereupon arose a Question and Doubt Whether we had best to muster and call men to Arms for Military Exercise as formerly Yet upon deliberation it is resolved upon and in divers places Souldiers are commanded to muster and are trained as confidęntly às ever and which is yet more it is said that after all this we have taken upon us to create a Major too Thus we make all the Defiance to their Majesties and their Commission Trample them into the very Dirt and Offend with as high an Hand as is well possible for us to do This is the entertainment that their Majesties Authority finds in Connecticut and thus we ethink we have neatly and effectually defeated their Majesties Commission But we have need to consider it There are two sorts of people as is ùsual in such cases that are guilty of this Error Some there are of Factious and Turbulent Spirits and such as are pre-engaged by their Male-feazances or other personal Interests and these two wittingly err themselves ānd out of Design mis-lead others Others again there are and I would hope the most that àre plain honest minded men who pinning their faith upon other mens Sleeves and being deluded by divers Artifices industriously used for that purpose do think the matter is right and if it were not so surely such and such whom they take to be godly wise and able men would never have had a hand in it and therefore think they must and ought to follow them and do as they do Thus it was in Absalom's Rebellion 2 Sam. 15. 11. With Absalom went two hundred Men out of Jerusalem that were call'd they went in their simplicity and they knew not any thing They were not at all privy to the Plot knew not Absaloms design if they had they would never have gone with him but thought it was meet and honourable to âttend upon the Kings Son No doubt he had his Father's Warrant or Lisence at leàst and indeed so he had to go to Hebron to pay his Vow but not to move Sedition This they had no thought or suspicion of and so they went in the simplicity and honesty of their Hearts And to this simplicity of the heàrt is too often adjoyned the simplicity of the Head or Ignorance of the nature of the things men undertake engage in Thus it was in King Charles the first 's time as we may see in the Regicides diver of them seem to have been of themselves honest and well meaning men who being out-witted seduced and over-driven by others engaged in things too high for them and which they did not understand and so became guilty of that most Hellish and Execrable Murther and Treason and when the poor men came upon their Tryal and hàd their Eyes open to see what they had done they had nothing to say for themselves but to confess the Fact and acknowledge That they understood not what they did if they had they would never have done it but were deluded drawn and driven by others beyond the compass of their Sphere and so to beg Mercy And a sorrowful thing it is and such an Example às may serve for the Admonition of present and future Ages that honest men should be so abused as to ruin and destroy themselves and Postèrity by being made other mens Tools and Instruments for the committing of such Wickedness It must needs go ill with a People when those who tàke upon them to be their Leaders shall cause them to err The former sort seem to be Desperate there is little hope of bringing them to better thoughts For the latter sort therefore this Essay is chiefly intended He that is wise is wise for himself and Wisdom is profitable to direct Some men cannot think but others can and usually second Thoughts are better than the first Peter wickedly denyed his Lord and Master and that thrice but when he thought thereon he wept bitterly Verily it is high time and now is the time if we can to bethink our selves Let us therefore seriously consider these things 1st Consider we how by these carriages we blemish our Religion and scandalize the Gospel We profess Religion that we are Christians yea Protestants have Christ for our Teacher and his Word for our Rule But what have we 〈◊〉 learned Christ or have we learned these things of him Doth the Christian Religion teach Disobedience and Contempt to Kings and their Ministers Will not our Religion command good Manners Or doth it make Loyalty to our Prince à Crime and a Scandal We insist very much upon our Religion and would be thought to be Eminent and that we do more than others in it Therefore give me leave to insist a little upon this Consideration I may not undertake to play the Divine but it concerns every Christian to keep a good Conscience