the world that have the Supremacy is forbidden subjects on pain of damnation But the best Governours in all the world that have the Supremacy have been resisted or deposed I mean saith he the Secluded Members secondly the Powers that were last put by c. So that his conclusion is DAMNATION Are these his Lenitives Though the minor of his Argument is an errant untruth yet his MAJOR ought to have been explain'd and not so applyed until he had told us what the Apostle means by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Damnation and whom he meant by SUBJECTS and where the Supremacy indeed is and then was But with such a preposterous zeal too poor Hugh Peters did offer them his Potion in his Letter to a great one of the Army thus The Protector and the two Houses were the hopefullest way in the whole world to settle these Nations and the crossing thereof the most dangerous So a little after he saith The Authority of the best Parliament and most freely chosen trampled upon yea such a sort of men gathered together as would have been a defence and establishment against all evils c. thus Hugh Which Potion because they would not indeed could not accept he drank off himself and poor Wretch is become starke MAD. Wherefore I would earnestly wish that Mr. B. in all such Acute corrosives and threats of Damnation which I think he uses too often to poor sick Patients and tender Consciences will for future lenifie them with the love of Christ and tenders of Gospel-grace with so much Cassia of charity and Manna of mercy amongst them as may make them worke more kindly upon the Patients Neither let him think to correct his Lenitives with Astringents or with binding of them up to his opinion way or apprehensions for we have seen it by sad experience that such narrow spirits in their binding contracting and Astringent Means which some Good Men whether Presbyterian Independent or others are propense unto and do propose for the only means of Curation viz. to set up their own forme and judgements but to cast out others that differ do rather detain then drive out the most knotty rigid HARSH Clammy and Viscous humors in their so recovering Patients or Proselytes under that forme of godliness or colour of being cured But fourthly Mr. B. must be Better advised in the clapping on of his Applications for the future he might as well have applyed Hepaticks or Liver-medicines to the Feet or Cephalicks accommodated to the Head unto the Bowels and yet such improper and impertinent Prescriptions are common in our days which tend more to the destruction of the Commonwealth in it's natural strength that so through it 's excessive weakness they may Refund confound us into Kings Lords and Commons then to kill or expell any putrid and Peccant humors that have appeared so high for a Single Person by the late Apostacy or before it which it seems to our sorrow and danger are like to be left in the BODY still if a better PURGE then Mr. B's be not gently given them and such a one at least as may reach to the remotest places of this BODY of the Commonwealth otherwise from causes inward and outward I profess unfainedly I fear the fatal issue and danger of the next CRISIS if the great PHYSITIAN of Heaven and Earth do not miraculously help us and prevent it Therefore watch and pray 2. Mr. Baxter deals very disingenuously to insinuate this viz. that an exercitation or excitation to such a confession and return as the Army have made would have been from another called a SECOND GANGRENA or a scandalum MAGNATUM seeing himself knows that the occasion of that expression was quite contrary upon his most imprudent I had almost said impudent but I would be modest calumniating of the Commonwealth and most worthy members of it Expresly declaring in his Key for Cath. p. 323. that he left it to Posterity that the putting the King to death was the work of Papists Libertines Vanists Anabaptists c. and that no Protestants had hand in it So p. 355 356. If you take Vanists Levellers c. who were the chief Agents for PROTESTANTS you might as well say PAPISTS are Protestants p. 321 322. Calling this Army since the new Moddel a Jesuited corrupted Army c. and in p. 341. and in 's Epist Dedic he stirs up the Single Person and them that were in Power against some of the most constant adherents to the Cause and living Members of the Commonwealth under the Bear-skinny Notion of MASKED PAPISTS or men far worse then the OPEN Papists for whom he professes he has less charity then for open Papists branding them to Posterity with new names of his own inventing viz. Vanists Hiders Seekers Juglers Sectaries c. besprinkling his whole Book with such flaming fire-balls of defamations abusive passages and through God's goodness abortive instigations to a Perscution as could merit no less if not much more then a second Gangrena At such a time too when some were like wild Boars a whetting their Tuskes and had as he could not but know their Teeth an Edge to be so doing and as ready to take at the least spark of fire as Gun-powder or Brimstone and to be then irritating to it was very evil and ungospel-like Besides as the matter is most scandalous scurrilous and untrue so is the forme thereof very unbecoming Man Minister or Christian like the ACCUSER of the BRETHREN to be levying of so high a charge against the Lord's dear servants and Commonwealth's friends without once so much as admonishing them for their Errours he judges them under or using means of conviction and recovery of them which is not only against Humanity but Divinity and the very Scriptures Rom. 14. 4. Eph. 4. 31. Jam. 4. 11. Psal 50. 20. So Gal. 6. 1. You which are spiritual restore such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the spirit of kindness and mildnesse it's self not of madness considering thy self lest thou also be tempted not as if thou wer 't exempted For beest thou ere so spiritual or strong a Christian thou hast in thee faeces as well as flores excrements as well as excellents and art as capable of being cast by others into the like if not the very same furnace of infamy and obloquy which thou hast heat for the honest innocent and upright in heart And one day thou wilt see thou needest every inch as much their pity prayers charity as they do thine Ah! and wilt thou insult over others for those things that thou art subject to thy self Periculosè maledicit Alteri saith Erasmus Cui vel idem vel simile vel diversum sed deterius vitium possit objice It is a mad and most dangerous thing of any man for him to speak evil of another against whom may be objected the same or the like or another but a worse fault And of all
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 Pâ—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
is in the BODY POLITICK And of this had Athens the sad experience in the Oligarchy of the thirty as I said before for when they laid aside Kingly forme as Tyrannical they let the same spirit rise up again in the thirty to their cost Also when Tarquin was turn'd out of Rome and the people had declared for a Free-State they wanted wisdom to evacuate the Monarchick spirit quite out of the whole body but they let it rise again in another forme of Government viz. the Consulary so that saith Livy Lib. 2. Regni quidem Nomen sed non regia potestas Româ fuit expulsa The name of a King and Kingdom was expelled with him but alas yet Kingly Power and spirit was retained in the CONSULS whom he calls Carnifices non Consules rather Hangmen and Tormentors of the people and so tells us Consules immoderatâ infinitâque Pratestate omnes Metus Legum in Populum c. the Consuls by an immoderate and boundless Power turn'd all the dread and fears of the Laws upon the People And after that they had laid aside this forme succeeded the Decemviri in the same spirit of Tyranny and imposing still keeping up a Monarchick spirit and power of presecuting And after that was laid aside arose the Consuls with Dictators and also Tribunes as bad as any before So that it is not the laying aside of any one forme of Government so much as of the spirit Tyranny injustice private interest and self-seeking in every forme seeing Potentes Potenter torquebuntur preferring the Publick good and freedom of the sound body of Adherents to the Cause above life ease honour or any thing And to make up a Theocratick Temper of Government it is of all things expected both from God and men that in every forme iustice righteousness and freedom be administred by the Plumb-line Amos 7. 7 8. and the measuring-line Zach. 2. 1. to all the people suitable to the nature of the establishment Isai 9. 7. and 1. 26 27. and 32. 1. and 58. 2. and 59. 4. Psal 85. 11. and 97. 2. Gen. 18. 19. Deut. 33. 21. Eccles 5. 8. Prov. 8. 5. and 21. 3. Jer. 31. 23. c. So Amos 5. â—4 and 15. Hate the Evil and love the Good and establish judgement in the Gate seeing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Caesar himself was then glad to frequent the gates of Aristones and Pompey of Cratippus prefessing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they desired not so much to Rule as to rule well worthily and with righteousness 10. Consid That the special means for preservation of what is recovered be kept up and maintained seeing we have as much need of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 helps to keep health as of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 helps to procure health to the Commonwealth when it is in danger This is one of the special Ends of Physick so that the Patient must be as careful after he is recovered of his Diet Air Motion Rest and of the Temper of his Body and Pathemata or passions of his mind as may be so it is in the Commonwealth it is not enough to have health but to hold it to be reâ—â—ored to it but to be secured in it and corroborated with suitable Aliments such as consubstantiate into the whole with temperate clear and nitid air and moderate motions such as may conserve health in an almost recovered Patient with such rest and refreshing of the spirits of the Commonwealth as will further the concoction of the whole body And not to fall in again or feed upon the very same corrupt hurtful and unwholesome trash as hath spoiled the bloud endanger'd the life of the Commonwealth or generated maligne humors in it The Locrians observing how many sickned and were in woful hazard with a wine they drank made a Law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that if any one of the Locrians sick should drink any of that Wine yea although he were in a way of recovery he should forthwith be put to death because he did it without command So there must be a most strict order to keep us off of that wine which did lately poyson so many in the Apostacy and as Aristotle saith to the very Case Respublicas autem videmus specie differre alias esse posteriores alias priores Quae enim aberraverunt ac prolapsae sunt necesse est ut posteriores sint integris incorruptis c. Commonwealths we see to differ in specie some are so at first and some at last for those Commonwealths that have Apostatized slipped erred and fallen it is necessary that at last or after that they consist of such as are sound untainted intire uncorrupt and faithful both as to persons and things or else they are never like to stand long Now this is the Way to preserve the health after it is recovered and restored Cicero tells us in orat 1. in Catil about the end that the danger of a Commonwealth is more within it then without it or from open invasions So orat 2. Intus insidiae sunt intus inclusum periculum est intus est host is c. So orat 1. Periculum autem residebit erit inclusum penitus in Venis atque in Visceribus Rei Publ. ut saepe homines aegri morbo gravi cum aestu febrique janctantur si aquam gelidam biberint primo relevari videntur deinde multo gravius vehementiusque afflictantur sic hic Morbus qui est in Republ. c. the danger of the Commonwealth lies close in the veins or bowels of it As oftentimes a man that is sick drinks that which may a little refresh for present but inrage for future the Disease so it is with the Commonwealth The evil and danger of this in a Theocratick Government is evident by the Lords own complaints of Israel after he had restored that State Psal 78. 8 9 10. 36 37 41. again and again so Hos 7. 1. When I would have healed Israel then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered and the wickedness of Samaria c. And therefore seeing you are made whole again Sin no more lest a worse thing befal you Narrares Medicis quòd quanto plura parasti Tanto plura Cupis Nulline Saterier audes Si vulnus tibi MONSTRATA radice vel Herbâ Non fieret levius 11. Considerat That it is very dangerous for a Common-wealth to be in a fluctuating and uncertain State of Establishment or proclive to any or many alterations either in the forme or FOVNDATION of it As in Anatomy there is a Nimium an over-doing as well as underdoing which puts the part as well as body into many or any shapes and not into it's proper neither according to the Structure conformity nor Constitution or Composition of it neither in a Mathematical sence in a Coherence of Quantities nor yet in a Physical in the adherence of qualities use and union of life with the
men for Mr. B. to call upon them in power to heat the furnace seven times hotter then it is already or then HE hath done it for so many of the dear servants of Christ makes me amazed And when I excogitate the matter I profess I cannot but presume the case to be much altered with him since he wrote the SAINTS REST when so neer as he thought his Dissolution wherewith I with others was so much affected To write now for the SAINTS RUINE when so neer as we thought a Persecution wherewith we are as much afflicted and may say with the Prophet They have made ready or kirbu applied their hearts like a FVRNACE in their treachery and insnaring bearbam They have been all made hot as an oven jecammu katannur viz. by such as are ever putting in of fuel And it is easie to discern how much his STUDY of CONTROVERSIES has invenom'd his spirit destroyed his charity and delivered him up into the very CONTROVERSIE of STUDIES which without a Retractation will stand as a Monument indelible to his dishonour As if his only work now had been to weave a web like the Spider to catch flies in and then to poyson them The good Lord pardon him and shew him more grace and mercy then he would others before the day wherein the Auditor-General shall cast up his accounts Yea shew him O God what spirit he was of when his PEN was so gangrened against thine innocent ones Thus far for the GANGRENA which filleth all the Avenues and Hollows of his KEY Now for the Scandalum MAGNATVM Whereof not only Mr. B. but a many others by imitation are egregiously guilty for good men may have their Apes as well as Bad who follow nothing more aptly then mocks and mowes and the most unseemly actions such as these of unjust aspersing the Persons of the most incomparable wisedom worth and abilities under God's in the whole Nation which he knows is a Scandalum MAGNATVM and a great crime both in Law and Gospel the punishment thereof hath been so severe both in the Roman Commonwealth and others as I dare not name it lest it should be thought that I did desire it They fix their defamatory Venome and maligne aspect upon the Lord Fleetwood Lieutenant General Ludlow Sir Arthur Hesilerig Sir Henry Vane Sir James Harrington Lord Bradshaw Col. John Jones Mr. Reynolds Maj. Gen. Lambert Major Salloway Mr. Scot and such others both in Parliament and in Council as they conceive have been or are the most Active and eminent Dignitaries in our Orb Whose sparkling virtues and Twinkling lustre like STARS above the upper Region out-shine all such clouding eclipsing Reproaches of the lower Region nihil speciosius est in Victoria quam Virtute Vincere saith Erasm and nothing is like this viz. to overcome EVIL WITH GOOD as the Apostle saith vice with virtue and influences from the Coelum Christallinum of most orient worth and dignity When Demochares who was Demosthenes's Nephew heard a company of people traducing the Worthies of those days 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he What do ye prate for ye malignants for ye exceed the worst that ye can say of them And the truth is should we ask these cruel Calumniators what they mean by this malediction of ALL or of the BEST every man of them must answer for his Malevolence with Zoilus that was called the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for his barking Rhetorick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I speak as evil as I can because I cannot do the mischief that I would and this is so apparent as is not with reason to be denyed but that like Cadmus whom Dr. Sutton tells us of they have sowed the teeth of the Serpent ut ex iis homines Armati prodierent that out of them might arise ARMED MEN of the same breed to execute their design which doubtless is much like to that upon poor CICERO if they could effect it put on by M. Antony and others after all his singular services for the Commonwealth to have him so cast out of esteem as none might plead for him who pleaded for them and the Publick unto his death Cum ejus salutem nemo defendisset qui per tot Annos Publicam Civitatis Privatam Civium defenderat and when they had so done it is a rueful Tragedy to tell how he was murther'd who for the COMMON GOOD was so free to give up his life that he put his Head out of the Litter for his Assassinates to cut it off which Popilius Lenas did with a most ungrateful cruelty seeing CICERO but a little before had saved him from the Gallows I wish the Parliament might in time perpend it lest such Acts of Mercy should prove Acts of Cruelty to themselves and the Publick But Virtus Virtutis eget fultura non satis est jecisse fundamenta Parietes extulisse mediana Cubicula Separasse Sine Tecto c. saith STRADA lib. 3. prelect 3. plantin 2. Virtue must be supported by Virtue in the Commonwealth and it is not enough to lay the fonndation build the walls divide the chambers but to set up a covering and shelter for their principal Rafters from the injury of the Weather too But Mr. B. who is culpable for all this and conscious of the interest as well as of the principal is pleased to pitch upon Sir Henry Vane with the greatest Virulency not without his harsh reflections upon all the rest and as many as sat at the trial of the late King whereof Sir H. V. was none a man of such eminency for piety and prudence honour abilities self-denials and sufferings in the service of Christ and of his DEAR Country as is not so meet to mention whiles he lives lest it come to his ears and prove a snare and lest I fall under the suspition of flattering any man which the Lord knows I dare not knowingly do but with Elihu say as Job 32. 21 22. Let me not NOW accept any mans person face or countenance Alâ—na essa pene ish neither let me SIRNAME ve al Adam lo akanah or give flattering titles unto ADAM i. e. man in his highest excellencies that as man he is capable of So ENOSH signifies often man in a more corrupt state but ADAM man in a more refined renewed and excellent consideration Psal 56. 1. with 11. and 58. 1 2. and 49. 2 12 c lest if I SIRNAME him akanah my Maker megnat issaeni should a LITTLE cut me off Besides I am sensible what Temptations a poor creature is proclive unto when he comes to be tickled with praises that are indeed due to the testimony wisdom grace or any other excellency of God in such Earthen Vessels which makes me very wary of what I might say and beseech God I may go no further then to what I must say or is of necessity for the truth Seeing as the Apostle saith Not he whom
they call us believe Strange things to deter us from our Duty not our Danger thereby Though I would not say one word to hinder our Godly Jealousie of them and as strict a search for them as may be or as Mr. P. can or doth desire in his p. 88. for a many doubtless are in England under Disguises and Folding-Doors But I say We may run as much into an Extream as I fear Mr. P. and B. do by believing these CHEATS and moving upon the PRATE of such Pragmaticks as the Jesuites are to condemn the Commonwealth as theirs because they it may hap for their interest would say it and swear it too with procacity enough to turn us from it And this I think may be rather the Plot of the Jesuites and Papists or at least the Porch of it who fear us more as a Common-wealth then as a Kingdom by far 2. I am apt to think it a BRAT of Mr. Prynne's own Brain to make the Jesuite the Father of this Commonwealth seeing he hath such a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or faculty of Pro-creating yea of Creating something out of NOTHING as we all know Being a man of Ability to do it not onely in a fleshly Solidity but some say in an inordinate concupiscence and ambition after FAME full of Spumy frothy and errant excrementitious Spirits through his own Natural heats and temper as well as praeter-Natural boyling up in him to bring out to others Monsters that are as ready to receive them Nor is he more able or strong in that kinde to bring forth by Hard Labours against the Commonwealth and Worthies of it then Mr. B. is to be his Nurse and to give it suck with all the Parts Zeal and Abilities he has that it may grow and get in favour with the world which truly I think is their sin and will be their sorrow for such a consent there seems to be between Mr. P. and B. herein as between the Womb and the Breasts which are the magazine of excrementitious moisture passing through the twinings of his Glandulous and spongious Affections to Mr. P. and to all his writings So that let Mr. P. but generate matter Mr. B. is as ready to generate meat to keep it alive 3. It appears plain to us that Mr. P. hath been in hard travel for above this 10. years to bring forth the very Child indeed of Campanella Parsons and the Jesuites i. e. ut in fine Rursus in Statum Regium revolventur which are the Friers very words That they may at last be revolved or thrown back again into a Kingly Government Now is not this the very design of Mr. P. Mr. B. and the rest of the Cassocks Cloaks and Gowns that the Commonwealth might be revolved into a Kingdom again in the Tri-partite Power and Tridentine Tyranny of King Lords and Commons so that he and others are labouring as for life to lay a Changeling of the Jesuites begetting indeed in the room of our present Commonwealth if they have but strength or opportunity to effect it 4. Whether the Hysteron Proteron of Mr. P's Magnified and Multiplied Labours Throes Pangs and distended Limbs now anew with struglings to bring forth his former ill-begotten Embryo i. e. for the KING doth not Accelerate with the help of Mr. B. his Nurse the most WINGED inclinations of Popular discontents to an open Insurrection In p. 42. of his Narr he most importunately summons the Antient Nobility the secluded members Gentry Commonalty of the Nation that had never he saith such effeminate Spirits as now And yet all these good women or effeminate ones as he calls them in England he sends for to his Labour to help him with such means and active COUNSEL as may most handily obstetricate and ease him of his burthen With a special care of the Deuteron Hysteron or of his After-birth as well as of his Former-birth lest for want of skill it be left behinde in his Brain and there lie and rot and Ruine him at the least which neither that we nor the State do desire is obvious in the full if not foul Liberty which he takes to write print or any thing for his own ease or good if it be so Nor had I disturbed him if this do it but that I found the Knocker at his own Door 5. It seems the Jesuites BASTARDS were most strangely begotten if it be as he saith and by a most incredible superfaetation against the course of Nature it self sence or reason that One of them should prove an Abortion in An. 1605. at the Gun-powder-plot and yet the other or a part of the same Jesuites-plotting continue in the Womb until now brought forth in this new-Republick as he calls it so long after is a Monstrum horrendum informe ingens Cui lumen ademptum 6. The highest Argument that either Mr. P. Mr. B. or any of them have for it is by either an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as meer a non-sequitur as to say the possessed with devils did confess Christ to be the Son of God therefore such as confess Christ to be the Son of God are possessed with Devils which secundum quid is true and false So to say the Jesuites plotted a Commonwealth for England An. 1605. therefore a Commonwealth in England was the Jesuites plot or else by an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a meer Equivocation in putting the like for the same if they could have made that Argument good with the help of that fallacie But they cannot neither exhibit they a word to prove this is the same Commonwealth which they designed if they did design any and so indeed say nothing to the purpose Nor doth Mr. P's sore Labours or Contumacy carry less then this that his ingenium is neither sine Dementiae mixturâ nor Mixturae dementiâ that he is almost Mad. Now a Delirium at the inchoation of a Disease is dangerous and so in a Feaver if too fierce but Most when Melancholy is the Concomitant or Predominant which to divert may do him good if it be but by changing the HUMOR and therefore I shall take Example from Eliah's Sarcasms 1 King 18. 27. Eliah mocked them jehattel saying Cry aloud for he is a God! taking a journey or a sleep may hap And so from Luther who did often use it and Erasmus of whom it was said Plus nocuisse jocando quam stomachando that he did the Pope more hurt by an ingenious jesting then by chiding so that if I may imitate such Worthy Presidents I shall presume for Mr. P's sake to subjoyn a few Serio-jocular Queries and if he take them in earnest yet I will offer them in jest or if in jest yet I am as earnest as the Philosopher was to convince Plato of his folly in defining a man to be a Two-legged creature without feathers when he pluckt off the feathers of a poor silly Cockrel and so sent him to teach
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 Mitylâ—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