Enchiridion miscellaneum spare houres improv'd in meditations divine, contemplative, practical, moral, ethical, oeconomical, political : from the pietie and learning of Fr. Quarles & Ar. Warwick, Gents. : by it they being dead, yet speak (Heb. XI. 4).

CHAP. LI.

IF thou endeavourest to make a Re∣publique in a Nation where the Gen∣try abounds, thou shalt hardly pro∣sper in that design: And if thou would∣est erect a Principality in a Land, where there is much equality of people, thou shalt not easily effect it. The way to bring the first to pass, is to weaken the Gen∣try: The means to effect the last, is to advance and strengthen ambitious, and turbulent spirits; so that being placed in the midst of them, their forces may maintain thy power; and thy favour may preserve their Ambition: Other∣wise there shall be neither proportion nor continuance.