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ENvie is a make-bate, alwayes doing ill offices: if it can∣not compasse its own ends one way, it will another. You, not having any thing to accuse the Remonstrant to the King, do it to the Parliament. [Gladly you say, we beleeve you, as gladly as your faction wished for the assembling of this
Parliament.—Whether this reflect not with ••cont••••ely up∣on the Parliament.—] Let the theef or murderer dread the Judge; Let fear dwell where it ought, in guilty bosomes. Doubtlesse the Remonstrant; and those which you esteem hi•• faction, are as glad of, and wish as well to this Honourable Assembly, as you and yours do. It is not the Parliament they make head against, but you and your furious complices, who between soft flattery towards some of that House, and rough violence to others (witnesse your Libels against so many of them, as their consciences made Vote contrary to some proceedings) are like to over-turn all. They know, and so do I, That the Sunne looks not upon a braver, nobler Convocation, than is that of King, Peeres, and Commons; whose equall Justice, and wise moderation, shall eternally triumph, in that they have hitherto deferred to do, what the sowre exorbitancies on one hand, and eager solicitations on the other, not permitting them to consult with reason, would have prompted them to: who know how to ponder wise and gravea sentences, not from the number, but the worth of them that propound them. Among whom, even the youngest and un∣skilfullest may stand a pattern and example to future times, teaching State-Novices, ra∣ther to inform their judgments to the good of the next Assembly, than to use them to theb prejudice of this present. The gravest and most experienced, to be what they are thought, and to deserve all that praise, with which the peoplec load them. So to satisfie their desires as they are just, not as they are d vehement: considering that the multitude crave only out of the sense of evils; of which so long they will have a sense, as they are willing to obey. All conspiring unanimous∣ly, so to advance the pure Religion of our dearest Saviour, that it be not dispirited
on one hand by gaudy ceremonious Formalists; nor lost on the other amids a Crowd of sullen and ignorant Sectaries: and after that (to which it is an honour for him to submit) the divine soveraignty and royall Immunities of our most Gratious Master.
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Pag 13.
Numerantur sententiae, non pondera••tur: nihil est tam in∣aequale, quàm aequalitas ip••a: nam c••m sit impar prudentia, par omnium jus est. P••in. l. 3. epist. 12.
Rudes nos & imperitos redu∣cta libertas deprehendit, cujus duleedine accensi, cogimur quaedam sac••re antequam nosse. Idem l. 3. ep. 14.
Senatus, humano g••ne ire∣verendus, O••bis terrae consili∣um, Asylum mundi, Fid••m & al••um reipublicae pectus. Vide Fil••sac••m l. 3. s••lect. T. t. Sen••otus Ven. Sen. §. 4, 5, &c.
Non considerandem est quid vir opt••mus in praesent â 〈◊〉〈◊〉, sed quid semper sit probaturus. Plin. l. b. ••. ep. 7. Sunt quae non dare, sed nega••e, beneficium est. Poscit aeger frigidam, ira••us serrum, &c. exorari in pernitiem rega••tium, saeva est 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Sen. de B••nef.