I SWEAR
(with my Right Hand lift up towards Heaven, in All fear and Awful Reverence) By HIM that LIVETH for Ever and Ever. That Made Heaven, Earth and Sea, and All that Therein is.
- 1. THREE THOUSAND LIVES a year may be SAVED.
- 2. THE PLAGUE (monaced by Astrologers) PREVEN∣TED.
- 3. DISTEMPERS of the NATIONS HEALED.
- 4. THE Numerous POOR MAINTAINED.
- 5. AND some GLEANINGS of the HARVEST and VINTAGE (which might have filled the King's Coffers) IMPROVED.
If His Majesty and Parliament, Judge these things Publick, or Ne∣cessary; They have more Right and Power to Command My At∣tendance (who am in subjection and but ONE) then I have Abili∣ty, Wisdom, or Polity, to know their Leisure, and to Solicite them ALL (who are MANY, and in HIGH PLACES.) But if I be not Credited, and for WANT of them any Judgements happen, Their own Conscience will Clear me before the GRAND TRIBUNAL; where we must All Appear.
FEAR GOD. HONOUR THE KING.
From my Cottage over against the Low Conduit by the Church in Coleman∣street, 1662.