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To the KING.
SIR,
AFter so many storms I know you would willingly attain the wished Haven, but then you must imbarque a new, and not in the old Shipwrack't de∣sign. And since it is no Flattery to wish you well, for your own sake, and many others, pray take this Pamphlet to steer your course by, and account him as good a friend to your self and the Kingdom, as any you have bin acquainted with these seven yeers, who first delivers it into your hands: For, I am confident, were you abroad among your old Councell, you should not reap so much of the truth of your Interest, as you may in these poor sheets, which are but the Gleanings of obser∣vation.
To the PRESBYTERS.
Sweet SIRS:
Let not your Jealousie accuse this Paper of a Plot against the State: Truly I have added your Interest out of pitty to your condition, that since you cannot attain your Jure divino, you may (at least) open your eyes, and preserve your selves (if you please) in a handsome equipage, Jure humano.
To the INDEPENDENTS.
FRIENDS:
You who are Listed more immediatly under the Prince of Peace, ought not so to prosecute your Interest, as to begin a War upon it; but only to remain on the defensive till your just Liberty be confirmed, and the Prince's due right restored, since Conscience must needs remain quieter, where the power is invested in one King, than in an Hydra of Presbyters. Above all things you must not be Anti-parliamentary, but exercise wisdome with patience, and the countenance of that Authority cannot long be wanting: A word to the wise.
To the CITY.
SIRS:
My desire is, that you may flourish, which cannot be, unlesse you minde only your peculiar Interest of Trade. If you resolve to live and die with Presbytery, consider that you can ill Bandy against the other two Parties, since it cannot be un∣known, that they are the major part of your selves. A City divided against it self cannot stand.
To the SCOTS.
Friends and Confederates:
Take this brief draught of your Interest, wherewith I here present you, with the same Ingenuity and Candor, that I wrote it. God shall bear me record, that I lay nothing open here, with intent to work division, it being contrary to my obligation by Covenant; but onely to satisfie the world in truth concerning you, and your selves in what concerns your own happinesse, safety, and advantage, by a wise de∣meanour, in order to the Conservaton of Peace in these Kingdoms. Honi soit qui mal y pense.
And now (Gentlemen) but one word more to all: I suppose none can take just offence, since I state the Interests of all indifferently, pointing out to each the way to advance and preserve their own Party, and I shall commend to them what the Duke of Rohan saith of the States of Europe, that according as they follow their proper Interests, they thrive or faile in Successes, so the Parties now on Foot in this Kingdom, must looke to stand or fall upon the same Ground.