Quæries proposd for the agitators in the Army (or their assistants elsewhere, who are intrusted, or do intermeddle in those high matters of peace and warre) more than foure moneths ago,: and now published in pursuit of satisfaction, and with intent of profit towards all, and the state.

XIII.

Whether are they so farre convinced of their ignorance, weak∣nesse, and irresolution, as to renounce those priviledges, viz. to sway, appoint, or establish, except by the common consent of that society whereof they are citisens. And whether they conceive this World to be a meer School of Inquisition, preferring search upon a sense of ignorance and incertainty before false and mistaken Principles: Or in case the temper of Plebeians (who in number alwayes exceed the apprehensive) be found unfit for the stronger nutriment of refined reason, and framed onely to common ways, received by Authority of Law and reverence of antient custome: whether ought not your more capacious spirits (as sympathising members of society) if not to move according to their measure, by stooping to the lure of anothers bare lesson, yet so farre to condiscend as never to provoke them with scorne or insultation? No man (in my conceit) can ima∣gine any wilfull or intended mischiefe from this Army; for then of all others they should become most vitious, wicked, and odious, to cast themselves into examples whereof they both felt and punished the horrour and mischiefe: but seeing their late Opposites (lead on by the blinde fury of some popular Rabbies and impetuous Plebei∣ans) have bewayed their zealous ignorance and unheedinesse, in at∣tempting what they understood not. Such Quaeres may serve to awa∣ken the Armies circumspection, and if they will make plain and open profession, in answer to prarticulars, methinketh it might prove so satisfactory to all indifferent men, as may convince moderat opponents, and becalme the passionate clamours of all spitefull adversaries. A Copie of these Quaeres I left in the Army, at the desire of one or two amongst them, more than two moneths ago. The occasion of composing them was thus, having perused two An∣swers

to the first Eight Quaeres, the one very briefe, but not fully home to the businesse: the other large enough, but relying wholly upon our national Law, without once lanching into the natural, the proper meanes of satisfying such Proposals. I then scribbled out my conception in answer to the same, annexing these as more pertinent, charitable, and impartial, tending to prevent their steering at hazard, the fate of all such as have no certain or known Port to sail unto. But fearing in such a super fluity to surfet the world with so large a Pam∣phlet, I forbare to publish any thing besides a certain subitane appre∣hension, printed for the better pursute of more full and ample satis∣faction, both to my selfe and others in the main.