C ( 2.72 ) faave King "and Kingdom from a foreign Jurifdiaion, and from Invafìon,and to fave theSouls of thePeople, from fubverfion by unreafonable liberty of Seducers. 3. I would not have punilhments exceffive, that (hall drive multitudes into defperation : Left undone defperate men be carried to Revenge, er to think Treafon lawful, when they can no otherwife be faved from death and ruine Man hath not a defpotical power over all paillon : And force pailìons do aimoil: nece[litate errour of Judgment, or elfe fudden Action againit Judgment. Take the moll meek confcientious man, that knoweth the evil of Revenge, and try his patience by buffetting him, and it's two to one, but pailion will make him ftrike you again. Much more if you buffet him twenty year every day, patience may be over- come at laft : There is fcarce any Creature, Bean, Bird, or Vermin, but will ufe all the refinance it can in cafe of hurt and fear of death. The Devil could fay, Skin ffr s%in and all that a Mm bath will he Rive for his Life. And can you think that Prince or Kingdom is in fafety, that [hall de- ltinate to defiruction fo great a number and of fuch quali- ty, as are all the Papifts, lrfidels,, yews, Anabaptifts, Separe- tifis, Inclependants, Presbyterians, and Epifcopal Non,conformift., as are in England? Though I think the Iatter fort would fuffer death rather than be difloyal ; I am fore Rulers and idverfaries think not fo, who accufe them of intolerable .difloyalty. And they that think fo ill of them will expect ill at their hands. It's true, that the worfe men are and their principles, the more need there isof fupprefling them. But deflroying them is the chief means that I know to increafe their principles of refiítance. It's ordinary with men that never fuffered, to cletefl refitting Governours ; and to change their opinions vvhen they think they are implacably hunted to deflruäion ithout defers or any remedy. Draw your Sword upon them, even on a QNaker, and it's t,;(3 to one you will .change his judgment, and make him think that felf-defence is lawful. Tea, ifyou could kill all that think refinance lawful, (if it be half the %Kingdom) it's the liklielt way to make all the reft that survive of the fame Mind, becaufe of the inhumanity of the .Execution. I have met with few that thought that re- finance
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