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Erhaps.Mankind might. notibe the worl'e' for ‘parting with fame

of .the Myﬁenes of Priefi:-écraft; but the Morality of the De-

calogue makes it as Convenient, as it is Divine. It will be a

diﬁi-cult Thing to maintain good~.Order in Families, if‘Chil-

drett may Difobey and Difhonour their Parents; Property,if all have
a Licenfe to heal; Truth, if it is no longer a fault to belie and bear
falle witnefs againlt our Neigltbours. I know "aPrin'ce that has con-
quered 'all Senfe of thefc Commandments, has coveted and wears his
Neighbour’s, his Father's Crown, and taken God’s Name in,h'rs Mouth,
and in Vain, to colour over the Murthers he with his Armies, Judges,
and Juries commits, and the Pei-juries to which he e-nﬂaves others, and
Clergy-men themlelves, who ought to have been Innocent and Un-
fpotted, that their Converfations, as well as their Pulpits, might have

of Princes and Prieﬁs, may not" be too prevalent; ‘or, that they would
puhlilh, what Schoql-tliﬁincftion makes thefe Things lawful for them,
that are prohibited to Subiedts and the Laity: Religion is ufeful here,
as well as promifes H.appinei's hereafter. I would have that Sacred
awe, that due regard. to it, kept up in the Minds of Men,'that is nea-
ceifary to our Well-being in this, and our hopes of a better Life. I
ﬁaould be forty to fee the World fully per-fuaded, that it is a Juggle be-
tween the Learned and the Great,,and am forry that a late Change
gives too much Llmbrage for fuch a Suggeition. I had rather have a
compreheniive Arch—biihop, and that he {hould never pals through
Water Baptifm, nor believe the Atbanaﬁan Creed, than that he lhould
pare"0~ﬂ' moral Virtue, or leave us lefs than I-Ieathens. Parricide ‘was
not ufed in all their Panegyricks to ﬁniih the Hero , Oath; were held
Sacred, and Alliances too : Nor do I remember one inftance, -where
there was fuch complicated Villany committed, as I could give a irelh
' nltancc of, to obtain 'Greatnefs§no, it was their lev-ere Philoftzphy, their
juliice, their Honour, as well as the Dileipiine of their Armies, made
way for the Roman Conqueﬂs: They leldom tstreht the Sub)e(‘.is of
Neighbouring Princes to Rebel, irritated them to Ditcontents and Fa-
(Stion, or invited th‘em.te their Banners : Pagamlm was not ittﬁrtiéted
in this Art of War, but it is the peculiar Di:coverY 0‘ l0m€ 1313 33'
farmers, who are not much the betttr :or their Chriltianitv. Butl

ﬁnd how agreeable thele Things are to Religion‘: 3"‘! hm" mm?“ it is
mended : Yet, ly the way, I have {tillone remaining Fear in Clint‘?!
Matters; It the Gentleman that could not it: (;h0lrl‘ Pmlocutor tost e
Convocation, can now,in his greater P0ﬁ,Ahﬂll(‘ﬂC€ the 06187 "‘‘‘~ We

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Artialcsand State Difcipliue, Comprehention is worfe, hothfor the
Church of England Men and Dilfenters, for neither of them then will
umnixedly, and confcieutiouﬂy enjoy their own Opinions ;~ and though

 the Communion will be enlarged, it willbe by making both Parties

Hypocrites; and though thofe that are left out‘ of the Project may

_-my have Liberty for a time, yet that will be in Danger, unlels the Spirit.

of the Presbyterians is fweetned farther of late, than was common—'
heretofore with that Seéta who, becaufe they think Menvpredeltinated
to eternal Punithment in the next World, begin that doom with them
here, as foon as they who are God’s Minitters, or rather Executioners

*  ‘ have Power. But let us fee how much our Conliitution is amended, by

all the liteps that our Patriotshave taken. A Difputcd Eltﬂiona and
fuch a one as the Whiggs never liked before, recommended Mr. Pavia

 to the Speaker's Chair. I do not know whether it will be allowed to

pubiilh my private Serfe concerning the Authority of Parliaments; I
, think them rather deputed by the People, under the Inltruétions of
*9, , our Common Laws, and bounded by our Common Rights, than fuch
Plenipotentiary Powers as may give away at their—Pleaft1re the Lives
and Liberties of the Subjiét. V Therefore I have feriouﬂy queitioned
whether that Parliament which was of K.I/I7. and Self creation, (and in
its own Nature a Convention, fummoned without Writs, I had lilteto
, have laid without Authority, ) I fay,I have queftioned whether the

 Members of that Parliament did not exceed their Commiﬂion, whilﬂi,
1;? ‘ contrary to the known Laws of England, they fulpeudetlthe Habea: Car-
 175‘, pm, (which was the Right of every EnglilhMan by Writ, before it was
 by Statute,) and enaéted Martial Law. Thefe Things were done by
 that Convention, and the prefent Parliament lets them all pals: I mutt
 confefs I am unwillingto allow even a~Parliament Omnipotent and In-
 falliblc: There was an antient Culiom for the Eleftors to give their
:12)’ Reprefentatives Inltruélions when they chofe them ; ‘I with it had been
 . revived at the beginning of this Revolution, perhaps there had not been
 then fuch Infraétions made upon our Conltitution; our Government
 had not been changed into Eleétive; our Liberties proltitutcd to the

Will of Six Privy-Counfcllours; nor a poor Fellow I-lang’d. Who, Y0!‘ his

 ‘ Family’; fake, deleted his Captain, who had lifted him when he was
  Drunk; nor fo many Shot and Hingfd for trivial Crimes. I think they
 may as well make a Law to kill every 0‘.d Man that is paft lerving the
 Common-wealth, and drown all Izl-f.lV()‘1li‘,(l Children, or Cl‘f.'.¢3ét"Zil’.-Y
git other extravagant Thing that feems Qod to them and their hing;
 and they may take away two thirds of every Man’s Estate, th..t has
9:57;.‘ not a very good and povverful Friend in the Hutife. Intleqd I mult al-
 low, if they may aét as they pleale and uncontrollab‘-.y, thefe Things
 they may do. But this Thought of raiﬁ-ig Money, as unreafonably as
 they pleife, pu’s me in mind of a new Proie¢t_ I hear is to be offered
 at the next Setlian of this Parliament. King Slam.-'.r indet-rt had none ;‘
 but how mu;h di:l we complain in KiwgC/sizr/cs the Second'sT me of
 Polls and Sublidies: But to this Gxtxtleman we haw; paid two INNS: and
 near halt‘ our In-comes, conlidering the fcarcity of T adeand of M .-trey;
 and now the new Pro’) (9: is for a General Exczfe. If Mr. P'I.~'m}{c1:n actvi‘ ed
g,3§£«‘ the laying aﬁde Chimny-money, becaufe it was popular to to d0: ht
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.for my COllliil‘l!;‘:5 ﬁalre, take a more particular Care to _
it and true IllY;)l‘ClllOﬂ of Slavery. The Members Ill-

ybr‘-tter Ofﬁyes; hut we may exp:

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{ion made againlt a Coiitiiiuancc: But I

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iuglit to fpeak?tearneltlyiagaiiilt th’is;That indeed view’d o:ﬁt'Ft1.;lhel§,'l§uf’
_this'-viﬁts our Cheiis, _'and our Wardrobes, our Cellars, and Lia'rders,eiiery-

- Thing we eat, . we drink, or we-wear. tvlult our Tables be fpoileéd that:
:~ the Btijtchniay keep better’? Muff the antien-t Hofpitality of Erzglandg

be tie-t’ri*oy’d, by a Hogan Mtigan Art of Taxing? Miiﬂf we not only.-
pay.Y7eai-ly‘ and Monthly C0ntribution's,/ but every Market Day, every»

time we buy a pair of Shoes,..a I-lat, Butter, or Eggs? Is this the De- \

liverance we were promifecl? We {hall be delivered indeed from our.‘
Plenty-,. and our Calh; at this rate we mutt not lull: after the FlClh-
‘pots of Old Erzgland, but like the Bears of Holland ‘feedupon G.-iiioiis~
and Boots :: This beneﬁt ind‘eed‘ we {hall have, Temperance will be a

Virtue much in pr-acﬁice, though perhaps it will beto mak_e a Virtue of T

T Neceﬂity; There is a certain Prince in the World found Methods to-i

ﬁibiugate a Neighbouring Common-wealth, and to put an endto the
ﬂouriiiiing Condition. that true Liberty, to which the ‘molt-r u.niverfal.1

Spirit, the Noble dc VI/i’t~ had brought his Countrey :' A-‘Man that could. '

make his own Countrey-men Slaves gzcould trample upon their Liber--
ties, where native Soil, old A‘Cqvll2llllal1CC, and the Conﬁittltioii under-'
which -he was bred, pleaded 3gZ’.lilﬁ‘l‘i'l[‘Il ;; may from beiiiga real King:
in Holland, though without the Name, be el-le whereunder that Name,.
a thorough Tyrant. His kindnefs to us has been teen in many Inltan-~

ces, by the Care taken tolet fo many Thou-(‘ands pe«riﬂ."t-giii Ireland, under‘

lions; and on. Board the Fleet by bad ,7;
Coin, by the putting Embargoes upon.
whillt another People fent their Mer-~
; and nowvat'laff,

Scbombcrg/a, for want of Provi
by the daily E-xportation of our
all our Ships this time two Years.-
chanvt-men well convoy’d to all Parts of the World

to mention no more, he will fhew it by fetting forward fucli a Taxation, .

as was never known-in thefe Nations: But Ruling is all his Aim, and that
with a high handitoo; hehas chofen fucli l\!iil'riil’ters.as are lit for the
Detign. But there is no Ruling this Nation in fuch an Arbitrary man-
ner, without Impovet‘ifhi1ig»it”’
day to {et up t‘or~i.t by his Foreign Troops ,
wheedle Nlalllilllfl into Poverty,
would with; I have only hintedat this new
I lhall,‘

ﬁdrnts of the Court : But if I find their Knaves profelite Fools;

to expofe " his la _
1)-arliamem indeed mayiiiake it eaﬁe enough for their own Interelt,
may perhaps nominate Colletftois, put in their Fl‘lt'l‘I(l-S, and their poor

Kindred, aml may

out in the Benelit, and will (hart:
too, imlefg the Oﬁieefd Par,/ﬁremen: will quit 'the Pentionszthefe limpe-
gm time ‘is yet beliiiid a more fatal Iiiconveiiience;
Land Taxes inc ufggl to cga{e,.l3ut this will be hard to getliack; and
you a e nevcrto impair, mile-£‘s you niake it one of the Terms of ano-
ther Revoliition. Perliaps-you will lay it {hall be only aTemporai:y
AH¢({fliClli. and ('l‘drll‘:2 this War, and that there ‘(hall be good Provi-
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’&'the rel’t of the WOl‘l(l will be left:
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ﬁrit; and ﬁnce itis not quite time of‘
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luaveredueed Ireﬁdv eaﬁly at ﬁrﬂt, but was advifed it was better :6
make that Countrey a good pretence to keep an Army o-nrfoot, and fo
exhauﬁeour Pockets. , We have all along had the fame Prefident as
our Councils, and a Neﬂ Egg may be left to hatch a Tumult withall,
if ‘[0 cgnvenient a Branch of the Revenue {hould "be in danger of go-
mg o . 1- I
The Protedtor began the Exeife of Ale,and Beer‘, and you fee Three
ﬁJcceeding_Kings have continued it; and it: a G -neral Excife is once
granted, it will as certainly be continued in all Reigns; All Kings will
ﬂruggle for it : It will not only prodigiouﬂy encreafe their Revenues,
but ﬂrengthen their Authority : t It will beat Prerogative Tax :' It will
regulate-tcorporations with a witneﬁ, and root up the ancient Faun.
dations of our Englilh Government. The Inﬂuence that the OE-
cers which will be -fent into every Man’s Houfe and Shop_will have , - ‘
upon Eleélgions of Members, will make even our_Parli;nnents more the 
‘ Reprefentatives of the Excife Oﬂice, than of theﬁingdom ; and con- ‘
ﬁdering how many itnwill employ, no Prince that has it need have
any other ftanding Army; by a moderate computation it will not
employ much lefsxthan Sixty ﬁve T/youfémd Men, who will be Slaves , \
to the Crown, and ioyn to make us lb. It is now we want a brave ‘
34c/{ Aylaﬂe, to put aWooden Shoe into the Speaker-’s Chair.
Thus, Sir , you fee I have, with the freedom you Commanded,
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