H"or, of thePuritans, examin'd. 409 fay, That Victories over their Princes, are but ' Triumphs over themfelves ; fo will be more unwiring to hearken to Changes hereafter : the Engli/h Nation are a fober People, however at prefent infatuated. We know not but this may be the laft time we may fpeak to you, or the World publickly ; we are fenfible into what hands we are fallen, and yet we biefs God we have thofe inward Refrefh- ments, the Malice ofour Enemies cannot perturb. ' We have learned to bufy our felf by retiring into our felf, and therefore can the better digeft what befalls us ; not doubting, but that God's Provi- dence can reftrain our Enemies Power, and turn their Fiercenefs to his Praife. To conclude, if God gives you Succels, ufe it humbly, and far from Revenge. If He reftore you to your Right upon hard Conditions, what- ' ever you promife, keep. Thefe Men, who have forced Laws, that they were bound to preferve, will find their Triumph full of Troubles. Do not think any thing in this World worth the ob- taming by foul and unjuft Means. You are the Son of our Prove; and as we di- ' rea you to weigh what we here recommend to you, fo we affure you,we do not more afifeáUonateiv pray for you (to whom we are a natural Parent) than we do, that the ancient Glory and Renown of this Nation be not buried in Irreligion and Phanatic Humour, and that all our Subjects (to whom we are a natural Parent) may have fuch fober Thoughts, as to Peek their Peace in the Or- thodox Profeil'ion of the ChrfianReligion, as was eftablifhed lince theReformation in this Kingdom, and not in newRevelations ; and that the ancient Laws, with the Interpretation, according to the known Pra lice,may once again be a Hedge about them
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