to destroy their Liberty, thrown head long down
the Tarpeian rock, within view of the Capitol which he had
so nobly defended. And this impartial Zeal of theirs is
noted by the Historian, to be the main Cause, why the first
Founders of the Roman freedome had so little difficulty in
maintaining themselves, against those invasions and conspiracies
that hapned afterwards, by the Tarquins and their
Royal confederats.
Now, without question, the same practise and Principle,
is the only necessary in every Commonwealth that is but
newly founded, it being ever attended by the envy of Male
Contents, that lay the rise of their own private interest and
Party in the subversion of the publique; so that by this
means they place themselves and their happiness at so remote
a distance from that of the State, that it is impossible
to recover other affections, and absurd in Policie to imagin
they can ever be reconciled or reduced into a state of amity,
except you will suppose this grand absurdity and impossibility,
both in Physicks and Ethicks, that a man should affect
any thing which he conceives evil and destructive. And therefore
as to this matter, if such parties as these de found in this
or any Commonwealth, that own and act by such Principles
as are Diametrical to those of the Publick, it is a madness to
imagin, that favour shewn to any of them, will be a means to
reduce the rest, or that a course of Lenity can reconcile
them, till they are unhinged from off their Principles, and
Pretences, and be brought to disown them before the
world. It is with such men, as with those that have Cholerick
stomacks, to whom if you give Sugar or Honey, it turns
immediately to Cholor; so, to these, if you apply the Lenitive
of Mercy, it serves onely for an aggravation of their enmity,
and sets the sharper edg upon their malice; so that
there is no remedy left but to purge away the Malignant humor,
especially when it boyles so high, that it breaks out into
blood, Treason, and Conspiracie.
What remains then, but that this Noble Commonwealth
of England should become a Zelot in defence of her liberty,