4.o8 Mr. N EA t s IId Vol. of the Life all worthy ways to reftore yourfelf to your Right, but prefer the Way of Peace. Shew the 4 Greatnefs of your Mind, if God biefs you, ('and let us comfort you with that which is our own Comfort, that though AfliiEtion may make us pats under the, Cenfures of Men, yet we- look upon it fo, as if it procure not by God's Mercy to us a Deliverance, it will to you a Bleffing) ra- ' ther to conquer your Enemies by pardoning than 4 punifhing. If you faw how unmanly and un- t chriftian the implacable Difpofition is in our Ill- ' withers, you would avoid that Spirit. Cenfure us not for having parted from fo much of our own Right ; -the Price was great, but the Corn-- 4 modity was Security to us, Peace to our People ; and we were confident another Parliament would remember how ufeful a King's Power is to a People's Liberty ; of howmuch thereof we di- ', vetted ourfelf, that we and they might meet once again in a due parliamentary way, to agree the Bounds of Prince and People. And in this give Belief to our Experience, never to afeì more Greatnefs or Prerogative, than that which is really ' and intrinfically for the good ofSubjects, not the ' fatisfa Lion of Favourites. If you thus ufe it, ' you will never want Means to be a Father to all, 4 and a bountiful Prince to any you would be ex- ' traordinary gracious to. You may perceive all ' Men entruft their Treafure where it returns them Intereft ; and if Princes like the Sea receive and repay all the frefh Streams the River intrufls with ' them, they will not grudge, but pride themfelves, to make up an Ocean. Thefe Confiderations may make you as great a Prince, as your Fa- ' ther is now a low one ; and your Eftate may be lb much the more eftabliíhed, as mine hath been thaken: for our Subjefts have learned, we dare fay,
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