A Postscript. OUt of this brief Narration may be extracted somewhat for KING, and Commons. For the KING. First, for preventing Seditions and Rebellions; then for settling a Kingdom after the Rebellion suppressed. For the first; That he beware how he entrust the Government of His Kingdom to others. How He suffer His Favourites, and great Officers of State, to suck him into necessities, and enthral Him by indigency, and be thereby drawn, by extraordinary illegal Impositions and Taxes, to vex and alienate the hearts and affections of His Subjects, and then (as he must) be constrained to fly to them for relief and counsel in Parliament; where (he may then be sure) he must be Subject to his Subjects, and they will be kings over their King: where he must be content to be less than he should be, and the Subject will be more: where (he may be sure) they will make advantage of his necessity, and he must undergo many hard censures, and be vexed with undutiful demands, before they will relieve him. But whether they part with their money or not, let the King take heed of ever parting with his Power. Then after the heat and heart of a Rebellion be broken, not to be severe against any, lest the rest grow desperate. Severity may blow up, never blow out, the flames of Rebellion. Yet to show some acts of Justice and power as well as grace and mercy; not to use the extremity of Justice, lest he thereby renew the present Rebellion; yet to show ●ome Justice to prevent a future. By a sweet mixture of mercy and justice, the King shall at once b●th humble and oblige his delinquent Subjects. By mercy, in not taking the rigour of the Law; by Justice, in taking a part of the Law: by this, ●he shall humble them in taking so much; by that he shall oblige them in taking no more. Next, to take special care in rewarding, and cherishing, and countenancing, and remembering (before others) all those that stuck close unto him, that by their persons, or their purses, shown themselves really for him, and, without all fallacy, loyal. After this to prepare speedily for some Foreign Expedition, wherein to employ all the late Active Spirits, and working heads, who will quickly make work again at home, if they have not work abroad. Lastly, to place some one (as a Scavenger) in every County, to carry away the dregs that are left behind. Such as will not beyond Sea, cannot work, and are ashamed to beg. For the People this. First, that they suffer not themselves to be abused and misled into disloyalty, by any ambitious, unquiet, cunning Spirits, upon what pretences soever, and when Liberty, Religion, or any public good is pretended, than most of all to suspect their private ends. Next, that the People never get by this course, but often lose their former ancient Liberties and Privileges, according to that observable (though not observed) Maxim, EVERY REBELLION SUPPRESSED MAKES THE KING MORE KING, AND THE SUBJECT MORE SUBJECT. Lastly, that taking Arms without Sovereign authority, upon what pretences soever (be they never so fair, as for Religion, or Liberty; never so foolish, as that it is not against the King, but for the King) is most abominable in the eyes of God, and though it seem to prosper for a time, yet most surely and severely is it punished in the end, ending commonly in a general impoverishment (if not in the end) of the people, and some dreadful Judgement upon the Contrivers. My Son fear thou the LORD, and the King, Prov. 24. ver. 21.22. and meddle not with them that are given to change: For their Calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruin of them both? FINIS.