THE QUALIFICATIONS OF THE SUCCEEDING PARLIAMENT.  
THE holy Ark of the Church and State having been so long and so highly tossed under divers tempestuous storms, threatening a shipwreck; the insolent Mariners found out a strange Expedient to preserve the almost foundered Ship, by throwing the Pilot over board, that they themselves might sit at Stern; which they have managed so ill, that the Ship had been long since sunk under their base and unskilful Conduct, had not that Celestial Pilot by a strong hand most miraculously protected her from the most dangerous Rocks and Sands, by whose wise and powerful steerage (a Calm being made) I hope she will suddenly Anchor in the Old and safe Haven. The late desperate Pilots, the new State-mongers (the better to contrive their cursed Designs, and secure their guilty actions from a future just account, and keep their ill-gotten Estates by the deluge of Church and Crown) have sacrificed two of the most honourable Estates of Parliament to the fury of their horrid Avarice and Ambition, and by the assistance of their Masters the Jesuits, under the specious titles of godliness, Liberty, and common Safety, have so far made themselves Saints, as wholly to inherit the Land; which to effect, they have sacrilegiously profaned whatsoever is sacred, and barbarously murdered the King, and banished his Royal Relations, pulled down the Reverend Fathers of the Church, killed the Persons, and possessed themselves of the Estates of the most eminent men for Religion and Loyalty; and in a word, have almost quite destroyed our truly reformed Church, and heretofore flourishing Nation; so that there is no means left us (under God) to settle the Church and State, but a full and free Parliament, composed of the three Estates of the Kingdom, each complying with other in a handsome correspondence, and regular subordination; the House of Commons being commissioned ad inquirendum, the Lords ad deliberandum, and the King ad determinandum de negotiis Regni: the several Acts of Parliament being so many happy Results and Products of their mutual Counsels, which receive their first conception, and imperfect delineation of parts from the contrivance and deliberation of the two Houses, and afrerward Life, Liberty, and perfection, from the Kings most excellent Majesty in the Signature of his Royal Consent and Approbation. This most admired frame of Government (the Glory of our own, and the Envy of foreign Nations) in which the several particular Interests of the Kingdom are so handsomely involved in that public concern of Parliamentary Government, which speaketh a high satisfaction to all degrees of Persons, who have their Affairs transacted by their own Delegates, both in the presentment and redress of their Grievances, and the constitution of wholesome Laws for the security of their lives and Fortunes, to which they have reason most readily to submit in all due obedience, seeing they are enacted by their own Representatives in Parliament: which that it may be rightly elected, I make bold to present the honourable City and Kingdom with these Qualifications. 

1. That no Person be Elected a Member of the succeeding Parliament that is an Enemy to Kingly Government.  
2. That none of the Sectaries may be Elected, who are generally acted with Factious Jesuitical Principles inconsistent with the Ancient Established Government.  
3. That no Purchaser of Kings or Church, or commonly called Delinquents Lands; or any Person that hath an Office in the Excise, Custom, or the like, be Elected, they being interessed Persons, and obliged to maintain a Commonwealth, in opposition to the King and House of Lords: two estates of Parliament according to its former legal Constitutions.    
Now I have discharged my conscience to God and Man, in speaking my humble Desires of a free and full Parliament, as the great concern to build up the ruined Church, and repair the breaches of the decayed State, according to the Ancient known fundamental Laws, to the Glory of God, and the happiness of the Nation.  
March .17. 1659.