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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89755	An additional discourse relating unto a treatise lately published by Capt. Robert Norwood, intituled. A pathway unto Englands perfect settlement. Many things therein are more fully opened, several doubts and objections answered; a brief account given of the ancient laws, customs, and constitutions of this nation, before and since the conquest, so called. With something concerning the Jewish civil constitutions. With a brief answer to Mr. John Spittlehouse, in his book bearing the title, the first addresses to his Excellencie, &c.	Norwood, Robert, Captain.; Norwood, Robert, Captain. Pathway unto England's perfect settlement; and its centre and foundation of rest and peace.	1653 (1653)	Wing N1379; Thomason E708_9; ESTC R207149	39,963	68

proper true just and right way unto their certain proper true just and right ends and that therefore it was absolutely necessary to him who would rule and govern aright that he do certainly know the very certain intrinse nature property and quality of the thing or things to be ruled and governed otherwise he disturbs and disorders them turns away and turns aside the thing or things from him which he would rule and govern to his use and service and not onely so but also makes procures and causes them to be or become his hurt loss and detriment yea his deadly as we use to speak foe and enemy To which Treatise for more and more full satisfaction in these things I refer you This Soveraignty Rule Power and Dominion was so far as we can understand first assumed usurped and exercised by Nimrod that mighty hunter as the Scripture calls him he layd the first foundation and from him hath it continued successively more or less thorowout the whole world as may be easily seen to this day but it is even almost finished come to its determinate end He would be the God and Lord in and over all he it was that would build form shape and fashion all men according to his minde and mould whenas in truth the physiognomies shapes and forms of men are not more various and differing then are their Mindes and Spirits Wherein appears the manifold wonderful wisdom of God yet this wonderful variety in by and through the love of the same God who is one entire perfect unity the which love is light and the which light is life for the love is the life of God in which he onely lives and after or in respect to which onely he IS and is and can be truly said to be the everliving God are all and every variety gathered together firmly knit and tyed up in one entire Unity herein indeed lying being and consisting the glory and beauty of the whole Creation Unity in Variety and Variety againe in Unity else were it a nothing but a meer heap or lump and the bond O the bond the bond the bond which is Love We see it thus in the natural body there are several various and divers members and divers several various works and operations severally belonging unto each and every one of them every member being perfectly and absolutely distinct in it self distinct in its Office operation imployment and business yet through the Love being bound up tyed and knit together make but one entire Body each member serving other in its particular place and office in the Body according to the Laws and Ordinances thereof the Whole or the One being served of the Whole insomuch that the Whole and every part is presently sensible of the loss of any the least part We see it also in those things we call Contraries as in Fire and Water Air and Earth which I call Severals or Divers We see all mixed bodyes made up thereof and that into one most sweet Harmony and perfect Unity even of those contraries so called O the Love the wonderful power vertue and operation thereof though I chuse rather to call them Severals or Divers for in themselves in their true nature essenc eand being they will not be found so but the excess or the going forth or out from the Unity in desire and endeavour to be or have the Supremacy hence onely grows and arises the difference and the enmity as we may plainly see in fire and water the one cold and moist the other hot and dry yet each of them eagerly thirsting after freely and fully joyning and mixing with the other in one entire and perfect Unity as we see in every perfect generation where the desire and intensness of supremacy ceases the onely cause of all the enmities in the whole Creation and whose generations never were are or possibly can be perfect but crooked perverse impotent and feeble so that it is plain that which makes the difference and so causes and occasions the enmity is the excess or exorbitancy That then which must give and so keep maintain continue and secure a true and right order and so consequently strength peace and rest life and salvation must be the keeping of the Laws of God in nature whole entire and inviolate it must be the taking away keeping out and securing our selves in the point of Supremacy and Soveraignty or rather excesses and exorbitancies in that we call Rule and Government which is and of necessity must be of a just due right and true commixion composure or temparament and in truth that is truely the onely and alone Supream and Soveraign where when or in which all the Severals or Individuals do meet unite and concenter together in one no one or more part or parts whatsoever can in any proper and true sence be called or said to be the Soveraign or Supream but the Soveraignty and Supremacy lyes in the union and conjunction of all and every part into one which one is the Center the which Center is the onely Soveraign and Supream from whence onely each and every member had hath and can have their being life and motion and unto or into which they do again return remit and rest themselves in peace and quietness the secure entire safe and inviolate keeping whereof keeps supplyes and secures each and every part with life health and strength in their orderly right due just and true motions Gentlemen my end and onely end is peace safety security happiness and rest life and salvation unto all in and of this Nation my way also unto this end is peaceable therefore I propose not any new thing nor would I that any should so as to bring us unto it or that any new thing should be brought unto us which may conconstantly hath and necessarily doth cause an occasion many long great and hot contentions emulations strifes hatreds and wars and those not without the effusion of much blood but that each and every man of us may return into or unto our true proper certain and fixed Center unto our most sure firm and stable basis and foundation that we all be fully and wholly perfectly and compleatly brought under and restored unto the subjection and protection of the ancient known fundamental laws customs and constitutions of this English Nation the laws of our fore-Fathers and those onely and that those be wholly and intirely restored unto us with their due just and true administration and execution and that done and performed also by such men and means in such way and manner and such onely as of old even in the beginning hath been and was used accustomed allowed ordained and appointed by our fore-Fathers wherein and unto which onely and alone and unto the very true observance and keeping whereof I hold my self wholly bound and obliged and profess my self wholly and altogether subject In the Treatise before mentioned I shewed that light is the only true and certain Ruler

and things much differing from me all the enmities hatreds strifes contentions which are or possibly can be arising onely as I have already shewed from those excesses or exorbitancies from that intensness of the minde or violent impetuous eager operatings restless workings of the spirit in men or things for or after mastery or predominancie and that upon a great mistake which I may not speak to now of having or bearing the rule or sway which when Wisdom enters that ceases This is so plain and clear as I know nothing more and yet we see it not it is our haste We see it as I said before in those things we call Contraries as in Fire and Water the one hot and dry the other cold and moist the one feminine the other masculine or I had rather say the one more hot and dry and so more masculine the other more cold and moist and so more feminine for they are in and with each other confist and subsist by each other and cannot possibly be without each other yet I say we see these Contraries so colled readily joyn and unite embrance and kiss each other when and where this intenseness ceases Yet a little further where this intenseness or violent working of the spirit in any man or thing is though it be in the self-same things there appears the same if not much greater enmity then in those we cal contraries we see it thus un things of one the very self-same nature temper and constitution as in men and beasts and all things else when the spirit of them is excited stirred up and moved as before So that hence onely comes the enmity let it be considered It is enough I hope not too much Hence it is written Thou shalt not covet and that which hath enough within it self in reference to it self cares but little for any more In weight and measure in time and season is all things which who knows but he that is in them It is enough and it is for England's sake that I have written what I have written to me either this or that any thing or nothing it matters not for your sakes whose peace and happiness without respect of persons is heartily desired by Gentlemen Your upright faithful friend and servant in love to be commanded Robert Norwood Since my writing hereof I met with a Book intituled The first Addresses to his Excellencie the Lond General c. by John Spittlehouse c. BY which I perceive the Gentleman hath taken ●otice of a Book I lately published and called Englands Centre and Foundation of Peace and Rest and that he is at some things therein offended In his 18 page towards the later end he hath these words And ●●●●●fore according to Captain Norwood ' s rule though 〈◊〉 contrary to his opinion in that he claimeth the aforesaid L●●●… of corrupt Reason as his Fathers patrimony and there setteth an invaluable esteem upon them in his late Book In his 19 page he tells them that they are 〈◊〉 duty and service to propagate the Laws he offers and to annihilate the other which Captain Norwood would so gladly have preserved bidding defiance even unto God himself to alter them in a most impious manner whereas there is not one text of Scripture that giveth liberty either to adde or diminish from the aforesaid Laws or any wise to alter them I will in this thing and onely in this thing and onely for this once shew the Gentleman the fruits of his rashness He tells you that What he proposes may not be altered none may adde ought to it or take ought from it and that because as he saith they were given by God We will not blot too much paper nor run after butterflyes that 's sport for boys and not work for men there is too much of it every day But in brief thus He saith God is his Father and I do believe him to be mine also And then he saith that every believer is of Abrahams seed Then must Abraham needs be every believers father wherefore until he do prove me an infidel and childe of the devil what I have written stands must stand to be confirmed by all who come after unalterable and unchangeable by any Kings or Parliaments yea or by God himself He may not then blame me for laying claim to and setting so high an esteem of their Laws but blame himself for thus confounding himself calling the Laws of God my Father the Laws of Corrupt Reason Consider by what you have seen and heard from whom or from whence I came or did proceed Understand you this same thing ponder on it a little it is written An evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit nor can a corrupt or pudled fountain send forth pure clean and uncorrupted streams This were enough for answer but I will give you a little more Is there the least similitude of such a thing therein as my laying claim to Corrupt Laws or the Laws of Corrupt Reason Can you possibly collect such a Premise from which you can tenter and strain such a Conclusion Say I not that very few of the Statute laws or By laws but are disagreeing and contrary to our fore-fathers Laws and are therefore null in themselves and not to be executed It was too hastie and inconsiderate a charge Or do I as you say Defie God You are apt to mistakes I call on him to justifie bear witness and give testimony to or of his own Commands as the Rechabites did he hath commanded us to honour and obey our fathers and he doth often prove his children whether they will be obedient and stand fast in their obedience as he did the Rechabites and others and such who have and shall stand fast and continue to the end shall certainly have the Crown bear and wear the Garland Can God change or deny himself No he cannot and if he should by Prophet by Dream Voice or Vision give a contrary Command I will still say I will not believe it nor do it for what in it self in its own nature essence and being is just right and true is ever and always so is as God himself is and remaineth so to all eternity It is too much but I have done it for your sake Yet a little further What if the Laws I call for prove to be the most just the most righteous the most equitable and the most merciful in the whole world who then think you will be found the Father of them I have and do assert and aver them so to be and that my assertion and averment must stand with you and all men until your self or some other prove them otherwise I give your friend also this counsel that he well consider what he doth and that he make not too much haste left he repent himself likewise for assuredly you know not either from what to what nor yet by what mean you go or move or at least would go and move which it becomes every wise man to know before he begin his motion Were not the Jews corrupt extreme corrupt above any people under heaven as the Scriptures restifie Were therefore the Laws of their fore-fathers so And if any had in those corrupt times called for their fore-fathers Laws would it have been said he called for corrupt laws or the laws of corrupt reason It is enough Do I call mine The centre and foundation of Englands peace and rest And is it not so Verily it is and must and will be found and made so if ever England come to be setled in peace and rest Therefore I say again unto all and every one Look well upon it and into it and what I have written I have written By the way know that the punishment of Theft by death with many other of the like nature are none of our forefathers Laws it was not so in the beginning as I could prove but introduced by another hand way as I could shew also no more to be esteemed ours then the Idolatry of the Israelites set up countenanced and maintained by a Law could be said to be the Law of Israel nor the oppressions and injustice done and committed amongst us be any more attributed to our forefathers Laws then the putting to death of Naboth other wickednesses and oppressions done and committed by their Kings and Rulers could be attributed to their Laws And so my good friend Farewel Capt. Robert Norwood FINIS