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spirit_n	eye_n	heart_n	see_v	6,000	5	3.4328	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84298	Expedients for publique peace. Shewing the necessity of a national union and the way to it in this time of danger.		1660 (1660)	Wing E3887; Thomason E1021_8; ESTC R208386	8,973	21

EXPEDIENTS FOR Publique Peace Shewing the Necessity of a NATIONAL VNION And the way to it in this time of Danger En que discordia Cives Perduxit miseros Printed In the Year 1660. EXPEDIENTS FOR Publique Peace THough the Providence of God hath wonderfully begun our conduct towards Settlement not through a Red-sea of bloud which both our sins deserved and our late condition threatned but a Crystal stream of calme waters and though his goodness hath beyond our hopes appeared in confounding even confusion it self in dissipating the proudest Faction that ever was since the fall of Angels and building of Babel And to speak their own language in bearing witness against them not by the Event of Battel the Appeal of Turks and Pirates but by a mighty influence upon our spirits first opening our eyes in some measure to see the things that belong to our Peace and then moving our hearts to pursue as mediums thereunto wholesome and sound Principles yet our restless enemies are no whit discouraged but rather their malice increases in measure as their hopes diminish Had they Charity Modesty Prudence or common sense which one would think the universal triumphs exprest upon the accompt of very doubtful hopes and general suffrage of such as speak without interest or design might prompt unto them it would either daunt their Presumption or at least oblige them seriously to consider Whether any thing in this transitory world collateral to our eternall and by experience not necessary to our present happiness is worth the purchasing with so much hazard to themselves and ruine to others but it seems that having passed the Rubicon of honesty and discretion they resolve either to perish themselves or sack Rome And now perceiving they can do no good their own way they will do what mischief they are able being thereto incited by the two common enemies viz. the Devil and the Jesuite They see it is too vain for them to contend for the major Vote in Parliament since they can scarce prevail in any even the least Corporation For the sober and moderate Party excluding both extremes whether Fanatique Common-wealths-men or Royal Hectors doth now carry with it the sense of the people Wherefore like Good Pilots if free booters may deserve that stile they have learned to tack about to the wind to refine their gross pretences and appear no more in their own diabolicall shape but disguised habit of true Parliamenteers as if they had never prevaricated from their principles in the first Warre They find no question their own weaknesse in not having any colour of reason or shadow of Authority No not so much as the Rump of a Paliament to countenance their Usurpations The legall and solemn dissolution of that which could only give them a basis though a very false and as they made it rotten one having disappointed all their projects by turning the stream into the channel of free and triennial elections so as now they must begin the World anew And are forced like broken Citizens in Cheapside to set up an Alehouse or Chandlers shop in the suburbs to seek out some new probability of shifting and subsisting The escape of Lambert wil not now avail them He is in il condition to head a Faction that dares not see a Constable on English ground The case is fairly altered Law and possession the City Country and better part of the Army now stand right Scotland and Ireland are good seconds our Government being in the hands of a Vigilant Counsell our Forces both by Land and Sea under the Command of an invincible Captain The Nation concerned not only for its Liberty but its being We are therefore I trust reasonably safe from their batteries and assaults but let us not think our selves secure from their undermining A Rogue by profession ought alwaies to be suspected For if he cannot command your Purse he will do the best he can to pick it The moderate Presbyterian and sober Royall Principle do manifestly divide almost the whole Nation between them This hath the greater part of the Nobility and Gentry that the Principal Corporations The sincere uniting and incorporating of these two Parties I look upon as a matter of such importance that alone it seeures and dissipates all our fears and renders us invincible not only to the Phanaticks but probably with Gods blessing to any Invader On the other side their mutual discord nay though it were but Jealousie will be a brack and perhaps the only brack in our Foundation This indeed may once more dash us in pieces however it will certainly dispose us to all those Dangers and Vicissitudes which commonly attend those Governments where the Factions are mighty and equally poysed the billows swelling so high that scarce any Pilot can steer the Vessel to its Port or come safely to an Anchor In fine this is like to give courage and opportunity to the Phanaticks who though I am confident they can never settle themselves may nevertheless long disquiet and greatly torment us Of this our Enemies a subtle Generation cannot but be highly sensible it being so obvious to every capacity And therefore their whole businesse now is as we Proverbially speak to drive that nail that will goe Herein consists the sum of all our fears and their hopes hitherto all their Jesuited Councels tend And they presume they shall neither want excellent Tools to work with nor fitting matter to work upon the Fuel they suppose is not like Greenwood which will not kindle to any purpose without long and industrious blowing the Coals but rather like Charcoal which being already half burned is obnoxious almost to every spark The memory of things past revived and aggravated the censure of things present and evil presage of future is the work they have to do Their Instruments are the Extravagants on both sides and none more then Cavaliers whom they cunningly Cajole by telling them how much they preferre Episcopacy before Presbytery how much they esteem them a Nobler Enemy and had rather if one they must choose receive Lawes from them that stately Elms are better then stinking Elders that Charles Stuart as they call him is a goodly Cedar in respect of our late Shrubs With many other the like Insinuations tending only to heighten the pretences of that Party naturally apt to be too vain and so to fatten them for the slaughter To the Rigid Presbyterians they speak in a different strain for the Saints I must tell you have learned of their great Master to appear in divers shapes like a fair Lady to Gallants and a Capuchin to Bigotts I shall not here repeat their Malicious surmises and suggestions Their late Venemous Newes from Bruxelles The Alarm to the Army Plain English and other Pamphlets of the same tincture will soon teach you their Language if you be not too honest to learn it The great Concernments and indefatigable Endeavours of this now God be thanked Common Enemy to sow the seeds