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QUAERIES 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.
I.
SEeing that they (like former Law-givers, who painted Religion and Justice according to the variety of their own passions) are also men and therefore vain and irresolute Authours, what hopes can they hold forth unto us of any such general policy, or publike pro∣vision, as shall subsist without other aid, (than springeth up of his own proper root, by the seed of universall reason, planted in every man that is not unna∣tural) and serve to reduce by degrees all our Lawes into such a forme of equitable Polytey, that all shall ealy understand, how it is more for their profit to obey then break them.
II.
Seeing Wisedom will never subordinate her selfe unto our sense and understanding, but that we reason rashly and discourse at ran∣dum, she engaging our Consultation in such trouble and incertainty, as staggereth our resolution: whether is there any one of them, that hath such a forme of the total frame in his head, as safely and surely to range into order so many several pieces without incurring the curse, which by confusion of Languages came upon Babels Brick-layers, in their frivolous and fantasticall Enterprise of raising that high-towering Pyramis.