the Priviledges and Liberties of the people, take occasion
to secure themselves, and settle us, with much more reason,
by the Power of the Sword? The Sword is the great Engin,
used by the hand of God, in erecting, altering, and
establishing all the Frames of Government of the world. It
is the main Spring that moves all the wheels of Providence
in these sublunary things: and if there be any thing under the
Sun, that holds fure Divino, it is the Sword; For, the Apostle
aith expresly, that all Power is from God: And therfore when
we see it put into the hands of any Nation, or People, that
have been oppressed, we may then conclude, that God hath
a design of Liberty and Freedome in hand for the Nation;
and all those that oppose it, shall be bruised, and broken in
pieces: Nor shall any weapon prosper, that is formed against
it.
What remains then, but that the People of England should
unanimously conspire to assert their Freedoms by the Sword,
against all enemies whatsoever, and endeavour to set an end
to that Tyrannical line of succession, which was never either
well begun, or directly continued. Charls the Father
is gone to his own place, and so is Chrls the son likewise,
he being in his own proper Nation, Scotland; Therefore (to
give you the language, and advice of another) let us keep
him there, if we be wise, or confine him and his Malignant
Crew to the Mountains, if we intend to be happy; and
let England disdain to come any more under the tyranny of
any Forain Power, for the future. And seeing we have conquered
the Conquerour, and got possession of the true English
Title by Valour and Justice, let us scorn to lose it again
by any pretence of a particular, and debauched person;
whose only inheritance is a natural and inveterate enmity,
to the freedom and happiness of the English Nation.
THURSDAY, June 5.
Take this of May the 31. from Edenburgh,
SIR, Yesterday, Doctor Wright and Doctor Bates came safe to
Edenburgh, and found my Lord in a good Temper.