DAngerously are we distracted by the Common Enemy abroad, but more dangerously by the Common enemy at home, I meane our dissensi­ons, divisions, and Discontents. They are the battering Rams, wherewith the strongest walls of our safety, love, affection, and unity are shattered and broken in pieces. The Artillery, which in time will Levell the Highest Turrets in our Common-wealth. The Powder-plot (which if not prevented by your close sarrying together) will blow up this, and all succeeding Parliaments; There is no way to undoe us, but by our own procurement: we cannot fall into our Enemies Traps and Pitfalls, unlesse we be artificially miserable: Our safety is impreg­nable, unlesse we give the hand to our enemies, teare our Colours, march, and receive pay under our adversaries standards. Our owne Divisions in Parliament, City, Kingdome, and Army, may reduce us to a confused heape. Our heart-burnings may cause our unbred, unborne, our unthought of Posterities, to have heart-akings, when they shall weare yokes of iron, be whipped with lashes of slavery, in­flicted by the hand of Monarchicall, and Princely Tyranny: what danger by reason of your frivolous and needlesse Discontents, may, and are ready to charge you? reade & peruse, it may be here you may finde them: what may be the best and most probable wayes for your safety, reade here, and if you please, you may use them. The safety both of you and yours is now concerned: it is within the spheare of your power, either to vanquish your enemies, or by fore-slowing reliefe and assistance to the Parl. and to your other freinds and allyes to enslave and begger your whole posterity. Did not a certaine foresight of your Imminent ruine upon your neglectings and slighting the Parliament, and your honourable Gen. compell me to perswade an accord, union, and sweet Compliance. I had never published such an Exhortation, but seeing the unbridled and Tempestuous fury of our old, once dead, but now revived enemy will not be asswaged, or be calmed, without either bringing us, or, being brought themselves into a perishing and forelorne Conditi­on: I thought it not altogether inconvenient, if I induced you to [Page 2] recollect all the dangers, which may hazard the ruine of your Re­ligion, your Lives, and your Liberties. Never were our lives more aymed at then now, by the Abners and Amaziahs of our daies, who make the murdering of us, but playing at the worst, or looking one another in the face. Never could a more bloody, mercilesse, and bar­barous Enemy have opposed us, who will either ruine us, or be ruined themselves, either their blood must be spilt or ours, their e­states forfeited or ours, their or our posterities beggered and over­throwne to all Eternity. If we in this time of imminent danger, and greatest extremity, should start aside and detract a joynt com­plyance with our Grandees of State, and Militarie affaires; if we should withdraw our assistance from our old Companions, and fel­lowes in Armes, reposing confidence in the glozing speeches of a Butchering party: This favour deare Countrymen and fellow Citi­zens, you may expect from the Polyphemuses of our times, to be the last that shall be devoured. Never were any so woed, Courted, and when they prevailed not, threatned, because we would not sell our birthright for a mess of pottage, renounce our right bequeathed to a Legacy, full dearly bought with the blood of many of our noble An­cestors. How do vassalage and slavery threaten to banish Liberty, & Lord it over us, when the P. of Wales is landed with a power of mercenary Walloones, a hotchpot of lewd forraigners, all Papists, and Venetian Adventurers: meerely like the Turkish Allyes, the Tar­tarians, whose only pay must be the plunder and pillage of whole Cities & Counties? Will not these be to you in time, what the guard of Switzers are, and have been to the tumultuous Parisiens? Will they in time be any more favourable to your City, then the Spa­nish garrison to the poor Neapolitans? Will not these prove Lord Danes to your houses, wives, & Daughters? the sweat of your browes shall be in vaine poured forth, for the maintenance of idle and Drone Bee foraigners, when these miseries have taken you prison­ers and enchained you, it will be bitter to your remembrance, that ever you contested and daggered together, whether Presbytery, or Independency shall obtaine the Superiority. Our fortunes too, must be the object of men of fortune, Scotish, Irish, English, French, Walloones, all Rebells, or disaffected persons to our state, though well-affected to our lands and goods, must (if possible by armed violence) be made Joyntenants of our Inheritances. These Ex­oticke [Page 3] Mermidons, must be enriched with our Possessions by Char­ter from the King, because they did overthrow our great Charter, which they are to hold in pure villenage; for where the authority of a King is, there is power, and who may say unto him, what doest thou? Our Religion and glorious profession of the truth, is endangered to suffer shipwrack, openly scandalized by the Gyants of our daies, who would make war with the Almighty, were not the Thunderbolts of Gods vengeance ready to strike their soules out of their bodies, and death armed with a Capias ad respondendum before the great Judges tribunall of Heaven and Earth. How will the Christall clearenesse of our Protestant Profession be obfuscated and fowly beslimed by the frogges of the great river Euphrates, the Prelates and the Prelaticall Clergy, those Locusts of the bottomlesse pit, who have cropped our harvest of a glorious reformation, for many years, even in the Blade? these will recall your old stout behaviour, and deportment against them, and their Terrestriall, nay rather their Celestiall god, the book of Common Prayer, that old divell, which hath so long bewitched and deluded the world, not under the spe­cious garbe of a Munkes Coat, but of a Saints Doublet.

The Papists too will not only rise up in judgment against you, but aggravate your Condemnation: These have underpropped the Divels Cause, with foreigne Contributions, with foreigne and Domestick armes, and with Domestick Contributions. My judg­ment apprehends what thoughts these kinde hearted Papists ido­lized in their fancies, not the reenthronizing the K. in his temporall regailty, but the reinstalling of the Pope into his antiquated spiritu­all Hierarchie. Will Henretta Maria be content we should enjoy our Religion in its purity, and undefiled? Will she be deprived of the priviledge to be accounted the second Saint in the Popes Calen­dar, resting satisfied with the brand of a Traytour in the Parlia. Diurnall? Will her Crew of Babilonians supercede the attempt­ing our ruine, and the ruine of the Protestant profession? if we disasterously contend brother against brother, and Christian against Christian, and so be quashed by a third party. Nay surely, they would have long since executed their bloody Contrivances, and conspiracies against us, had not our hands been armed with long Rapiers, but they themselves scarcely with short daggers. What hopes they may foster let the world judge, if we dissenting upon [Page 4] Circumstantialls in matters of Religion, should suffer the King to be Charles the Conquerour. Especially when they have such a nota­ble Legatus a Latere as she, who can as powerfully mediate for her English Catholikes to his Majestie, as the Virgin Mary to Christ for Christians, which is to pray, beseech, and intreate, if they will not doe, compell him to performe what she requesteth. I am bold to give her a name of Dignity in the masculine Gender, because I heare that of late, it hath been a fashion amongst our Ladies in the Eng­lish Court, to like, to love, to weare the Breeches. Small safety, but much more incumbrance may be divined from the Scottish Dissem­bling Brethren, those speciall Dragooners to our State, to whom Hedges and Thickets may give advantage unawares to suprize us, and by unthought of Ambuscadoes to supresse us. Who dare not op­pose England but overthwartly, who dare not dare us to Battaile, nor erect a fire-Crosse against us, without cheating and dissembling pretences. Those Ioabs of our daies, who will take you by the beards and kisse you, but strike you under the fift rib with their Scottish Daggers, and murder you. These can pretend liberty and restaura­tion of broken Covenant, when they intend an introduction of slavery, and Antichristian Prelacy. There is no device to make Ha­milton our friend, unlesse we will help Hamilton to be a King; No way to make the Scottish invasion fruitlesse, unlesse we can perswade Hamilton to be faithlesse; which will not be, if he depart Crown­lesse, or his miscellaneous Regiments depart Plunderlesse. How be we concerned to oppose the Chieftaines of the Northerne rabble, whose aymes are to be our Masters, and perpetuall Dictators; how are we concerned to oppose the Excrementitious Commonalty, who are resolved to be our perpetuall Plunderers? From irreligi­ous persons, what hope of Religion? From strangers to English Liberties, and Immunities, what hope to augment or enforce our decayed priveledges? I wonder sober (and as I hope unbyassed) Judgments can expect from, or looke upon foreigners, other then as men of Galilee, from which no good can proceed. King Iames promoted the Scottish Lords to gainefull preferments, but the English Nobility (as they say) to name honourable, and no waies beneficiall advantages. No marvell though the Scottish Nobles take it in great indignation to be delayed or frustrated of their private revenues from his Maiesty, when their greatest subsistance was from [Page 5] him, as he bore the repute of an English Maiestie. Their belly is both their god, king, and Equity, which if they can satisfie with our English Delicacies, they will forsweare fighting either for God, King, or Equitie. All is equall, if proportioned to their ap­petites of English honours and promotions, if not, the advancement of King, Covenant, and Presbyteriall Government, must be as Fox-Skinnes to cover the Lions nakednesse. Suffer the Scottish Lords to be Contentious for our honours, they will surcease contending a­gainst us, dawbe up their mouthes with our fattest promotions, the dogges will cease to barke against us; thrust but an English Crust into the mouth of a Scottish dogge, well buttered, he will without clamour, or pulling by the Tarrier, retreat to his kennell. Their quarrell against us is, they cannot in the present tense be pro­moted amongst us; their quarrell against us is, that a Confusion of interests is violently withstood by us. There is not a better way to force our Brethren to sound a retreat, but by a golden storme: which will react the miracle of Theodosius against his adversaries, turne all the Muskets, Pikes, Swords, and Artillery against themselves, rather then they should damnifie such loving and kinde Brethren as the Armed Sectaries, the Schismaticall Bands of the Independants. As the Gauls tasted the sweetnesse of the Italian wines, the Romans and Carthagenians of the Spanish Mines, the Saxons of England; so our Brethren have tasted of our Land, flowing with milke and Hony; who will never depart our Land untill they cannot depart, who will be supping and licking, untill an English well whetted Sword do mingle their Blood with our Daintyest and Princely dishes. Greatly are we indan­gered by the Cavaliers, those Achillean warriours, who Laboriously Project not with sword and Target only, but by commotions, lies, slanders, and infinite Treasons, to murder the Hectours of our City and Kingdom, this present Parliament, whom if we protect, and defend, according to our solemn Engagements, this Troynovant of ours shall never be Plundered, either of Religion, Lives, or Liberties. These who have been our only Saviours, and Protectors, our honourable Lords and Governors, the grand Engi­neers of our State, who have Countermined the Underminers there­of, must now be forced (if their swords be not long enough) to act a Tragedie upon Tower-Hill, of whose executions, you are desi­red [Page 7] to be the occasioners, to labour the cutting off the head of your Liberties, and the destruction of the soul, spirit, and blood of your Sounding, and Paralyticall Countrey; who, although they be infi­nitely traduced by the suggestions of Malecontents and Incendia­ries, whose hands, although much weakened by inconsiderate friends, and Favourites, yet, how have they been before obtained, hoped for, how loved, honoured, and respected, when once obtained? These were like Nebucadnezzars great Tree, to which all the beasts of the field resorted for shelter: These were then your gourd to shelter your heads from the heat of Prelatical persecutions; the ships out of which ye first durst thunder against ship-mony: Briefly, these were the men on whom some honour is to be bestowed, because they res­cued England from the Pope, who would have made it his Asse: Because they have freed us from the clutches of him, who would have turned a Mower, so you might have been the Meadow: Cut not down this Tree, lest you be scattered; let not a worm smite this gourd, least not only the Eastern, but all the four winds beat upon your heads; sink not these ships with your Bullets of discontents, and divisions, neither unequally Ballace them, lest you lose your best wooden wals, so that the Boors of the Forrest, the false Scottish Covenanters may enter, and spoil the remainder of our vineyards; lest the crafty Foxes, the Jesuiticall party do undermine our State, and Liberties. If Parliaments be but sauces, and Kings good meat, throw aside these superfluous dishes, and you will quickly loath this Manna, unlesse Quails be conjoyned. Though you be burdened with Impositions, it is that you may not be perpetually burdened. Though your tender stomacks rise against moneth Assessements, and Excise, yet our wise Physicians use them for the present as an Ingre­dient to that Potion, w^ch must expell the noisom humours out of the body Politick. Could Armies be maintained without money? or this Kingdom for the present defended without Armies? neither Armies would oppresse you with free-quarter, nor the Parliament oppresse you with variety of Impositions; but seeing the necessity and danger of the times enforce the Parliament to stroak their hand ungently over this Kingdom, patiently must we abide it, be­cause our safetie is preserved by it; wherefore, in being good and kinde to them, we are but good and kinde to our selves. How un­easie, and impossible it is for the Parliament to be subservient to e­very mans fancy and disposition, is obvious to the meanest Capaci­ties [Page 6] and Considerations; to settle a half mortally wounded King­dom suddenly, is to play the foolish Chirurgion, skin over the wound, never caring whether cured in the bottom, or no: Not to stay the best opportunity to settle us, is never opportunely to set­tle us; not to observe the time when we may be conveniently Cu­red of our Maladies doth betoken a careless resolution in drying up, and curing the running Plague sores of our Native countrey. If they would settle affairs of Religion, quacun (que) via dato they held a Wolf by the ears; if rigid Presbyterie, the Canons would have roared from Putney and Windsor; if Independency, the Northern Bag-pipes would have sounded an Alarm at Edenborough. To call the King home upon our own conditions, impossible; if upon his, im­probable; if upon those of the 11 of December, unreasonable. If the Militia be granted & the Parl. dissolved, it is but a dissolved Militia before it be granted. If we must Treat concerning the continuance of this present Parli. why should we Treat concerning the continu­ance of the Militia? seeing one dying, the other will dye too: Et duo tunc morientur in uno. I durst never confidentially repose my self upon him, who hath once faithlesly behaved himself towards me: I durst ever confidentially repose my self upon him, who e­qually in a danger was concerned with me. If Princely Oaths, Vows, and Protestations have proved Spiders webs, no safety with­out a Parliament, who run joynt hazards with us, upon the breaking of these Spiders webs. Historians have bewrayed to future Posteri­ty, that Oaths and Protestations of Princes, have sometimes proved like the grins which the Spider weaveth, to incircle the Hornet. The manes of the guests at Stockholm Banquet, the manes of Guise and Bourbor, perswade non-trusting of injured Princes, unlesse your safeties be fenced with strong Barracadoes of Power and Authority. What grosse madnesse were it to stand Neuters, or coldly to assist the Parliament, hoping the Cavaliers brains are as often dipt in Lethe, as washed in Bacchus fountains; that they will commit an Amnestye of all past wrongs and injuries formerly by you offered; So you will either turn absolute Kinglings or humbly Petition the 2 Houses for a personall Treaty: To expect favour and Pardon for all by-past injuries and discourtesies offered to an old friend, is a mat­ter of probability; to expect favour from a reconciled Enemy, is a matter of possibility: But to expect pardon from an exulcerate ene­my, a so often by you beaten, banished, expulsed enemy, is a matter of [Page 8] impossibility: who will cast himself willingly into the Arms of his sworn Adversary, because his friend hath not been so kinde as he either desired, or might be reasonably required? If the Parl. your old friends have not satisfied your expectations and longings, with what wisdom do you labour a close with your Enemies, offer your throats to the Poniards point? As though we could be sufficiently revenged upon the Houses, if we and they were burned together up­on one Funerall pile.

The same Reasons which at first moved you to an Engagement with the Parliament, enforce a continuation of your resolutions in this Engagement. The same party against you, and therefore the same quarrell, though wrapped up in fine linnen, painted over with the specious colours of Covenant, rescuing the kingdom from an Army of Sectaries, from free-quarter, and intollerable impositions. It were strange a Leopard should change his spots, or a Black-Moor his hue; that Langdale, Glemham, Goring, Lucas, Louborough, should be Covenanters; that your notorious Enemies should now fight under your Ensignes, and yet Proclaim open Hostility against your old friends and allies, the Lord Generall and his Army. The same persons who were the Chieftains in the former Combustions, have anew kindled the flame, and raked up the sparks close covered in warm ashes. Those who perswaded the King (though inclinable enough) to forsake London, and raise an Army under the pretence of a guard, who plundered your houses, and burned them, ransacked countrey Villages and Towns, ravished their wives and daughters, and after exposed them to the frosty winter nights, to the mercy of the dropping clouds, and cold Northern storms; who murdered the husbands and sons of miserable wives and parents in the streets, and open fields; who dashed out the brains of the old men in their Chambers, of the infants and sucklings in their Cradles; all these I say, are now bandied against you, intending to exercise far greater cruelty then ever, by how much their rage, spite, and indigna­tion, doth boyl, and fome in a higher degree, by reason of the over­throws and disgraces received at your hands. The quarrell being the same, your friends must needs be the same; those that engage their dearest blood in opposition to your old Adversaries, cannot be your enemies, the Army labour through all manner of difficulties & extemities, through a sea of their own blood, through cold, hunger and nakednesse to overthrow and quell your almost seaven yeares [Page 9] deadly foes and murderers. He that awards the blow of a Sword which was intended for my head, shall be esteemed of me a speciall friend, because he performed a speciall courtesie. They fight not only for their owne, but joyntly for both our safeties, if they would be Treacherous and revolt to the Kings party, not only Liberty of conscience would in a large Dimension be granted, but the Presby­terians estates would be shared amongst them, as a Kingly munifi­cence conferred upon them, so Loyall, true hearted, and affectio­nate Subjects. If these had been disbanded, the Cavaliers would have been your Disseisours, whose force, if you now hardly sustaine, how, if the Army had been wanting to repell their violent assaults? if you think they were an impediment to the Kings being called home; I wonder upon what termes? ours? never a Syllable granted, his? un­reasonable, our safety being herein concerned: if upon neither? How could this be effected? If not effected? How did the Army impead the Kings coming home? If their coming to London in a warlike manner were a disturbance to the Kingdomes quiet, why was not that party in the City esteemed as great disturbers as the Army? who subscribed great and considerable summs, chose a Ge­nerall, listed souldiers, prepared a new Army to destroy the old; wherefore a necessary engagement lay upon them to march to Lon­don, to extinguish those already raised Garboiles; those new kind­led Coales of combustions: if any fled from the Houses, it was their fearfulness, not the Armies Dreadfulnesse which could cause them to foster such over suspicious jealousies. Though to speake plainly, the raising of an Army without sufficient authority, is an action which carryeth little lesse then Treason in the forehead, then a tincture of Rebillon in its very complexion. But I could wish rationally to be in­formed, what the estate & condition of our affaires would have been, if the Army had been shuffled off with a small Pittance of money, de­bentures thrust into their hands, & so sent packing homewards; whe­ther would the King have instantly granted our Propositions or no? if this. The oppsition betwixt the Parliament and his Majestie would have continued, for whose release the Cavaliers would have acted all their now begun designes, and many more against us, by how much greater opportunity had been offered upon their dissolution, every one would be willing to engage in such Clandestine Con­trivances, where a small, or almost no visible force appeared to thwart and strangle their new Plotted Conspiracies. Now that the King [Page 10] upon their disbanding would have yeilded to our Propositions, is meerly improbable, Considering the hopes he might cherish of a new resurrection of his party, this army suffering a dissolution; And fortune, who had for a long time drawne a curtaine betwixt her self and his Majestie, might seeme now to withdraw it, and refresh him with the smiles of her, for so many moneths Clouded Countenance. Againe, if he refused to signe the Bills in his lowest, and halfe des­perate condition at Carisbrook, would he have signed them in his best Condition at Holdenby? wherefore, the Army refusing to disband, shewed both wit and fortune, ioyned with a notable discerning judgement; Teaching, that weake Common-wealths, for that they know not how to resolve, never take any good resolution, except perforce, and some others must procure their good for them, even against their wills.

Now therefore should any man well affected to the Parliaments Proceedings, behold this Army with Basilisks eyes, be stoned by any of the well-affected, unlesse it be for their good deeds, their Noble acts of Chivalry, it mounteth above the spheare of my Intel­ligence; wherefore, the Lieutenant Generall, who by his noble ex­ploits and atchievements hath mawled the Kings Party, been a Scan­derbag to their stoutest Cohorts, and Legions, wherefore (I say) should he be the subject of our obliquie, or his Honour darkened with our black aspertions, I do not know, unlesse the cause be, the fatall inconstancy of the unpolitick and giddi-headed Multi­tude, who exalt some, and labour to depresse others, who love to day, hate to morrow, whose resolutions are orbicular, their actions like wind-mill sayles, turning upon the blast of ever winde, never constant with themselves, and therefore cannot persevere in Con­stancy towards others.

However, I will not labour to defend all, whatsoever hath been acted by the Parliament and Army, unlesse they were of the Hea­venly race, not of the dust of the Earth; unlesse begot of Jupiters Braine, and not of the flowers of the field: Thus much I know, that all their errours be veniall sinnes, and therefore excusable, not sins against the holy Ghost, and therefore unpardonable. But how­ever the case stands, seeing such infinite stormes and troubles doe on all hands assayle us, and the Billowes of raging warrs are ready to overwhelme us, wisdome willeth, that we joyne hand in hand, live, love, and be brethren still. And seeing all our differences are [Page 11] but about Circumstantials, either concerning Church or State, or­dinary Policy, and Common safety enjoyneth us, that we do not so violently contend, lest we totally exceed the litmits of Circumstanti­all differences; we are like two Earthen pots floating in the sea, Si Collidimur, frangimur, like Meleager and his fatall firebrand, the one surviveth not the other. The Cavaliers cannot breake our Ar­ray, unlesse we open ranke and file, to double distance. They cannot disarme us of our rapiers, unlesse we set Crablocks upon them; nor uncase us of our Buff-coats, unlesse our Companions helpe to unlase them. If all these before mentioned dangers to Parliament, City, Kingdome, which threaten not only an invasion, but an extirpation of our Religion and liberties, will not be sufficient to incorporate our affections, and draw our swords one in defence of another, it is a sad presage our ruine is at the door, our destruction sleepeth not; but in the midst of our quarrels will throw us out of our Houses, Lands, Religion, Liberties, and whatsoever is dearly prized and esteemed of us. Let not the Cavaliers glozing speeches bore out your eyes, to whom, if you wagg the tayle, give sugred words, and sawning carriage, oleum & operum per didistis, you but carry water in a riddle, no safety from them to be expected, though you offered a thousand sacrifices on his Majesties Altar at Carisbrooke, if before you offered up but a Wax Candle to the Parlia. shrine at Westminster.

Could any thing charme their bloody hands, unlesse they were first washed with your blood; I should think it no miracle, if the Lambe lay by the Lion untouched, the Sheep by the Woolfe undevour­ed, the Goose by the Fox unworried; can there be continued a near union amongst us, a neraer union will be effected betwixt a Cavaliers neck and Tyborne. This they know, and are afraid of what they deserve; and therefore all flie from London, and bandy themselves to­gether in remote or neare adjacent Counties, fearing if they be ta­ken, such Hoggs as they are like to be sold to those Butchers, whereof Gregory is one of the fraternity. And the Divell, with Machiavell, his chiefe Secretary, have dictated this project unto them, divide & impera, either alienate them, and so successively Conquer them, or cause them to sheath their Swords in one anothers Bowels, and then Moab up to the spoile. If our contentions about Church Go­vernment be laid aside, and lulled asleep, we may be happie if this unfortunately begotten Childe, be rocked so long in its cradle, untill it have taken up its lodgings in deaths pavilions; if other­waies [Page 12] it awaken, the hope is, we being all Christians, and of the houshold of Christ Iesus, may friendly compose the occasions of ho­nest mens grudgings and disastrous quarrellings; when the common enemy hath whipped us, we shall be wise and joyne together, dearly rewarding them for their Tyrannous behaviours, and audacions pre­sumptions.

Why should we runne a whoring after a Personall Treaty? That new smoking—which the Commissioners of Scotland first voyd­ded out of their ingenious breeches, and now the Cavaliers of Eng­land offer it up unto your Nostrils as a sacrifice of a sweet smelling savour; As though Poyson were wholsome Physicke for Naturall bo­dies, Or that any thing so violently prosecuted by the Cavaliers of Engl. would prove a cordiall for our differences, a remedy to ad­vance, or a Pillar to underproppe the Tottering state of our. Reli­gion and Liberties. Nay, rather let us all be unanimous as formerly, if we can be but joyned into one bundle of rods, we need not to doubt but we shall soundly whip these lying dissembling Scots, these more then falsehearted Cavaliers.

The great Capt. Julius Caesar, quieted his mutinous Countrymen with eight Letters, all making one word, Quirites. It were a shame for us in these our dissensions, who are all Christians, not to stop one anothers querulous tongues and clamorous mouthes, with that of Moses to his dissenting Hebrews, why do we contend, seeing we are all Brethren? the Turks can take up a debate with a Fie! Mussel­man Fie! fall out and all the Controversie is dashed in pieces. And shall not we, who are indeed the true beleevers more easily be ap­peased and joyne hands, then a Crew of execrable Mahometans and ungodly Infidels?

To conclude this my earnest exhortatiōto old friends, though some­what estranged in affections: This know for a certaine, God is highly displeased at your quarrellings, seeing you give the enemies occasion to blaspheme the name of your God. If you will not yet be appea­sed one towards another but cause more rents and holes in the Lords Coate, God himself one day will severely reckon with you, for that you have endangered his Church & Honour It may be remove your Candlestick, when you your selves have been the Occasion, where­fore that glorious and bright shining Lamp hath been extinguished by the Haters of his Glory.