The Review, or, A representation of the late sufferings & condition of the dissenters written some years since, but not then suffer'd to come abroad : now publish'd as well to encrease their gratitude to the King for delivering them from all those calamities, as to excite them to joyn vigorously in all lawful means that many conduce to the prevention of their falling under the like, or worse severeties hereafter.

SECT. 9.

1. We would also humbly beg, a present suspension of the Laws, till His Majesty shall in his peculiar Wisdome think fit to call a Parlia∣ment, and ease us of the fear and burthen of them. We cannot but feel their weight, nor can we think it otherwise, than heavy, and oppressive. We are men as others are, and tho we may patiently en∣dure the Penalties executed upon us, yet we cannot put off the sense of them, nor the desire of being freed from them. And to whom shall we Address our selves for deliverance, to whom shall we make our applications, for redemption from the curse of the Laws, and wrath of the enraged Statutes.

2. We know not well what to doe. We are weary of the burdens that lye upon us, and would fain be eased of them, but how to get them taken from our Backs, we do not understand. We will im∣plore the Intercession, of the more noble, generous, and Christian of our Adversaries. You have access to His Majesty's presence, and liberty of approach before him, and would you but put on so much bowels of mercy and c••mpassion, as to become our Mediators, we are very confident you might prevail. You might set us at liberty from all our great Calamities, and our greater fears. You might restore smiles to our countenan∣ces, and joy to our Souls. We are now neither alive nor dead. We neither partake in the pleasures, and satisfactions of the living, nor in the rest, and repose of those that are departed hence. How easie a thing were it for you, to recover us from this dismal, dark, and uneasie State? With a few words of your Mouths, you might give life to many thousands of languishing Persons, and by your Mediation with our Great Prince, become their Temporal Saviours and Redeemers.

3. And what is there more worthy of your Greatness, and your Birth? What more worthy of Gentlemen, Englishmen, and Christians? What is the advantage of your Riches, your Power, and your Ho∣nour, and why are they desirable? Is it not that you may do much good, and shew mercy to those that want, and stand in need of it? And have you not an excellent pattern, and a great example of it? Doth not God do good continually? Doth he not cause his Sun to Rise upon the just and unjust, and his Rain to descend upon the evil, and the good? And are you not bound to imitate him, and be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect? To doe good, is to doe like God, and 'tis onely the Great, that are capable of it, in any valuable degree or measure.

4. We are abundantly certaine, that you your selves are men, and liable to the same sins and imperfections with others of humane Race.

Your Greatness doth not exempt you from the common corruption of Mankind, nor set you above the reach and influence of Temptations; You are Sinners, and will need the Grace and Mercy of God, as well as those of inferiour quality and condition. We are sure you will not dare to plead your innocency, before that God, who chargeth the An∣gels with folly, and in whose sight the Heavens are not clean. We do not doubt, but that you will appeal from his Justice to his Mercy Seat, and Implore the Pardoning Mercy of God, and the Intercessions of our Saviour.

5. Will you need Mercy, and will you shew none? Will you have use of, and occasion for the connivence of God Almighty, and will you remit nothing to us, of the rigour of the Laws? Will you need the Intercessions of Christ Jesus with his Father, and will you refuse to intercede on our behalf with our Prince? Would you be wil∣ling, that the Holy Jesus should present your Petitions, and Supplications to the great God, and will you refuse to present ours to the King? Would you be loath that the Son of God should refuse to doe the Office of a Mediatour on your behalf, and will you with an unyeilding obstinacy, and peremptoriness of pur∣pose and resolution, refuse to do that office on ours? Must we ex∣pect no favour from you? Will you do nothing for us with our So∣veraign?

6. We are resolved to hope better things, and to be confident, that we shall not be deceived in our expectations. There is a Brave, Noble, and Christian Spirit, in some of those that are our Adversaries, and surely they will not see us perish, without opening their Mouths for our preservation. Tis to those that we make our Supplications. Tis those that we would make our Intercessors. Others we know, will beg no∣thing for us, unless it be an Ax, or a Gibbet, which are Favours, we doe not desire to receive, by their Mediation.