BEsides my sorrowes ( which pressed me very sore , and remaineth still upon me ) the troubles and griefe that fell upon me for the lamentable breaches in Church and State , and for your Sacred Majesty & hopefull offspring , filled up my sorrowes , and in my thoughts J was grieved that those feares and Desolations fell out in your dayes , I confesse , charity suspects not , and the best minds thinkes the least hurt , and the freer a man is , from vice in himselfe , the more charitable he is of others , and this is that which hath proved ( formerly prejudiciall to your Majesty , but had your Majesty been the first , or the best , that had bin instead , misinformed , or ill rewarded it would be an hard thing to command patience , but griefe is asswaged either by presiden●s , or examples . Jt is true of late dayes your Majesty being misinformed against some of your best subjects , your Majesty thought to have dealt with them , as Ioseph thought to have dealt with Marie , and so put them away farre from you , but with Marie they travailing as it were with child , and that that which they travailed withall might not appeare an illegitimate the onely wise God , sent as it were an Angell unto you , to let you see , that like Marie they being contracted unto you in love , they have not as yet defiled their Marriage Bed , but remaine like Marie faithfull to their Head and Soveraigne , and your Majesty having beene formerly seduced by false opinions from others against them , J hope you will now be reduced unto them ( and by them ) by true perswasions , and that you may be so the onely wise God that gave your Majesty your being , and so knew you better then your selfe , hath dealt with your Majesty , as he did with Adam in Paradise , and so hath provided you a meet helper , when with Adam you thought no need of it , now desired it , and your Majesty yeelding as Adam did , ( in sparing a superfluous Rib for to make him a meet helper ) will become a great gainer , for your Majesty shall not onely loose those who may very well be spared , but you will gaine to your selfe and your posterity a meete helper , that will endeavour by all meanes that may be Lawfull to ease you of many burthens that otherwise might have layne heavie upon you , and this helper is many members of that body , whereof your Majesty is become the head ▪ and considering their paines and labour in Love , you should doe them iniustice if you should suffer any for to accuse them , J hope there is none ( or will be none ) neere you ( if neere you , yet dares not ) so ingrosse your favours any more to their owne advantage whereby your good Subject● may be bereaved of those Benefits that ought to be common to all , as for your Commons , they goe not about to steale your favours , but to purchase them them legally , and are become unto you as Abrahams Servant was to his Master , who would not either Eate , or Drinke , untill he had done his Masters busines , and I dare say if your Commons ( as your late Monopolists , and others ) had or did seeke themselves , or their owne advantages , ( more then the good of King and Kingdome ) they would have beene wearied after so much labour before now , but mee thinkes J heare your Commons say as Adam said , let us be but one , and that it may be so , they are willing , not onely for a time to be seperated from their Domesticke imployments , but to forsake all , and runne many hazards , to cleave only to your Maiesty in a solemne Contract , wherefore to make up the contract , you must with Isaacke part with something that was formerly neare unto you , and who would no● spare a part , to save the rest , being done it will prove to your Maiesty as comfortable and welcome , as Rebecca was into Isaacks Tent .

This happy match being made , it would not onely refresh your people , but make glad your heart in time of feares & dangers , it is true , there is many that have brought your Majesty into troubles , and feared dangers ( and the more too blame they , for leaving your Majesty , having brought you into them ) it is true , there are many with Orpha , seeing your troubles , have left you , but your Commons like Ruth are resolved to stick close unto you , and will endeavour to helpe you , if with David you will be advised by them ( who blessed God for the seasonable Councell of a woman , when he was upon a desperate designe ) judge then of their loves & affections to your Majesty , by yours to them ; and then tell me , whether they doe not love you ▪ doubtlesse , yes ; accounting their lives not deare unto them , so that they may but finish their worke with ●oy ▪ and accomplish their good ends concerning you , and I doubt not , but that J speake it in the name of many & in truth by your late yeelding and free expression ; you have stollen me from my selfe , yea , and am now wounded within me , and like Moses , who was wounded within himselfe , and could hardly endure to looke upon God 〈◊〉 he discended in mercy . Jt is true , there is nothing engageth a soule to God , or a Subject to a King , as the appearance of love , this made Moses to say : How dreadfull is thy place O God , and this is that which hath stollen me from my selfe , so that J am no more mine owne , but yours ; yea , by this returne of yours to your people , you will winne them to obedience with kindnesse , and by doing so ; you will make good that which you were sent for , whose eares ought to be imployed for the good of your Subjects ; knowing that their love is your greatest safety , and their prosperity your greatest honour and ●elicity ; & this is that which will make your bed easie ; when you shall possesse the just Title to the Crowne with the love of your people , and the continuance of it with the willing applause of the Subject , is the ●ighest way to a blessing , and the hopes of this is that which hath brought me to renue and confirme the Covenant that your Majesty made with me from your first entrance to the Crowne , and because you could not sweare by no greater , swore by the eternall God , that you would defend mee , and at the first of our contract we made but one , your power and all that you had was mine to defend me , & to do me good , but there have bin some of late , that have set your Majesty against mee . ( J speake it in the name of many ) and have perswaded you to beate me , and to force me to obedience , though of my selfe willing to obey , being of a nature sooner wonne , then compelled , and this is that which hath sore troubled me , yet this is not all , but when an Oath , ( with an et Coetera ) was put upon me , it wounded me ▪ for by the Oath that I had taken already ▪ I was bound fast enough , but the truth is when these things befell me , J was affraid that some evill minded men like to Potiphers wife , seing mine Innocencie , and more faithfull to you ▪ my Husband , then themselves , had complained against me without cause , and this I could hardly beare , for by this meanes our great adversaries , the Divill and Pope , laboured to sowe contentions , and jealousies betweene us and this is that which will be a meanes to undoe us both when your Majesty ( which is become my head , and husband ) speaks kindly unto me , and is ruled by those that love us both my heart is inflamed , with a love unto you , but when your Ministers abuse yo●●●ajesties kindnesse , and become tirants to their fellow Ser●●nts , yea when they shall goe about to Justifie themselves , and lay all their villany upon your Majestie , this J can hardly beare , for by this meanes J am deprived of my mariage bed , and of my wonted society , and am troubled within my selfe , when I see your Majesty ( which is become my head and husband ) strange unto me , but I hope every former breach will unite love the stronger wher●fore being now reconciled to your Commons , Feast , Live Love , and dye together , and be more firme in your neare vnion , then ever divided in your heartie unkindnesse , so shall you meete in the end and never Part , but be like Rachell and Leah , which two ▪ built up the house of Israell , you are now in the way , and it is sayd ▪ Genesis 24 , 27. That whilst the Servant of Abraham was in the way , God blessed him , the same God blesse you , and for your comfort , and incouragement ▪ know , by so much shall you grow to perfection , by how much you draw neare to vnitie , I confesse had the Balaacs and Baalams of our times beene so evill as they would have beene , the world had beene overrunne with evill , but such is the wisdome of God , that ofttimes he hides from evill men those times and seasons , that might prove prejudiciall to his people , so when Saul sought for David , it is true the good God might have destroyed the Baalams and wicked Sauls of our times , but many times he will not , for God hath something more for them to doe , and it is not so much glory to God to take away wicked men , as to vse their evill to his owne holy purposes , and gaineth many times more glory by working good by evill Instruments , then by destroying of them presently in their wicked purposes , for it is a true Maxime , that it sufficeth a good man ▪ that here resisteth the evill actions of the wicked , whilest they love their persons . J confesse , our Balaams and our Sauls , had gone very farre , but in some things God permits in indignation , not for that hee gives leave to the Act , but that he gives a man over to the sinne in the Act , and yet this sufferance imployes not favour but judgement , and God is contented the Devill should winne himselfe credit ( sometimes ) where he means to judge , I confesse our Sauls and our Baalams like Cisera , trusted in their strength , but like Cisera many of them runne away , yet in spight of them all , the Lord hath made a seasonable and hopefull provision for his people . Jt is too true by the meanes of our Sauls , your Majesty became to your people and Commons , as the Angell was unto Gydeon , and so made them affrayd , but like the Angell that made Gydeon affrayd , your Majesty hath returned to their comfort , and as God he useth , where he loues ▪ he imployes , and like Christ himselfe you are now willing to enjoy them b● a willing contract , and not by 〈◊〉 , and by this meanes you appeare now unto your people like Moses , who had more glory by his Vale , then by his face , and I doe no● doubt but when all things shall be made manifest , but that one faithfull DAVID will be in more 〈◊〉 with your Majesty ; then either the Sauls or Baalams 〈…〉 is true , by the meanes of our Sauls the Crowne 〈◊〉 become full of cares , and your Majesty 〈◊〉 almost beene wearied by them , would faine now take some rest , and that your Majesty may rest , J will with Iacob give God no rest untill he have blessed you , wherefore being now reconciled unto your Commons , you will become as sweet and pleasant to the Church , and the three Kingdomes , as the Tree that God shewed to Moses , which when he cast into the waters , the waters were made sweet ( which formerly were bitter ) J know that thankefulnesse and love , can doe more with good men , then merit or necessity , and me thinkes I see you like our Saviour who thirsted after the salvation of Mankind , and J beleeve it was not so much out of drynesse as out of love , goe you and doe so likewise , knowing that modest beginnings , and hopefull proceedings makes happy endings , and for your comfort know , that God whose Battels you fight , will provide a due reward , and so J commend the saying of Salomon unto you , Eccles. 9.10 . Whatsoever thy hand findeth to doe , doe it with thy might , for there is no worke nor device , nor knowledge , nor wisedome in the graue whither thou goest .