VVarrs, unless Heaven open your Eyes of Un∣derstanding,
to see your Faults, Errors, and
Dangers, you are like to fall into; but I hope
Heaven will give you Grace to Reform your
Lives, and Conform your Manners to Live
Peaceably.A Kings Speech to Discontented Subjects.Beloved Subjects,I Perceive Frowning Countenances amongst
my people, which doth portend a Storm, but
let me advise you from raising a Storm, lest you
Ship-wrack the whole Kingdome, and be
Drown'd your selves in the VVaves of Rebel∣lion;
The truth of it is, Raging Men are worse
than Raging Billows, and worse, more Devour∣ing
than the Sea. Yet if you are resolve'd to
make VVarr, rather make VVarr in Forein Na∣tions,
than in your Own Country, and on
Strangers, rather than on your Friends; for to
make VVarr on Me, your King, and your So∣veraign,
is against the Laws of God; to make
VVarr on the Protector of your Liberties, and
Father of your Country, is Unnatural; to spill
your Friends Blood, is Ungratefull and Inhu∣man;
to Ruine your Native Country, is Barba∣rous;
by which Actions you will become worse
than Beasts, and as bad as Devils; but if you be
so possest with Fury, as no Intreaties will dis∣possess
you, you must be Scourged with Misery:
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