An Oration against Warr.
Dear Country-men.
I Perceive, all this Nation, or the most part, their minds are hot, and their spirits inflam'd through an over-earnest desire to be in Warr, which expresses you have surfeited with the de∣licious fruits of Peace, which hath made your reason, judgement and understanding sick and faint, so that it desires a change, as from rest to trouble, from plenty to scarcity, from palaces to tents, from safety to danger, from gay apparel to bloody wounds, from freedom to slavery, all which Warr will bring upon you. The truth is, Warr is more likely to kill you, than cure your surfeit: for Warr is a dangerous Physick, and the more dangerous, by reason your Ene∣mies must be your Physicians. But let me ad∣vise you, to cure your selves with Temperance and Prudence, by which you will flourish with Wealth, and grow strong with Wisdom: for wealth and wisdome is the health and strength of a Common-wealth, which will preserve it