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Show ( 14 ) The Firft is Hear-fay,-0( wbo[e pernicio~4 Opiniom and Pratlices we bad re~ezvul lnteOtgence, &c. fay ye in your Declaratto117 as afore-frud. d f1 d Anfw. Now this is fo poor an en er. a Foundation (or rather none at all} on whtch ro Ground, or by which to Warranr what ye have done, and the Laws ye have made ; and fo Abominable, that I fhall need no fun her to Evince ir, rhan in the faying of Virgil (a Heathen Poet fo accounted) viz,. Fama Malum quo non aliud Velojim ullum Mobilitate Viget, Virefttue acquiret Eundo. ( i. e.) Fame (Report, Hear-fay) if an Evil, -.ha~ which there is none more Swift: It lives by Mo-tion, and by going gettctb Strength. . . . . The Second is Generals-Ptrnwo;H Optmom and. PraEfices-ProfeJfed Tenets--Turbulent and Co11temptuous Behaviour--Attempts--Defignwich fuch like, which I thall repeat as l proceed to the following pans of your Declaration. Anfiv. Now Generals are but rhe Cafis of a Caufe, they prove norhing (as I have faid) and fignifie litrle but a Defign to flander, and in them lurks (and is converfant) Deceit. And yet upon thefe two (and no other) Foundations (as co maner of Faa) are your Laws builded, unto which I proceed. Declar.--And accordingly a Lmv 'vas made and publijhed, Prohibiting all Ma{ters of Ships to bring any ~akers intD this JurifdiCfion, and tbemfelves from coming in, on penalty of the Houfe of Cor· rection, till they could be fent away.- . Anfw.-And accordingly--Acccordmg unto what ? Surely co your Grounds, for unto che~ ( ~~ ) it mull needs refer, to chat which went before, or ir fiJnds for Noughr; and whar rhey are I have fhewcd, and according to rhe Proverb, - .ttalu(f Cor·clf~ , Malum Ovtun,-a Bad Crow, a Bad EJu~- ·:1s is che Tree, {o is rhe Fruit; and a fweec Founr .:~ in cannot cafr out biner Screams, nor a bi rer. fweer :. As art your Grounds, fo are your Laws ; your fdves have Connected them, and given rhe ConfiruCtion, Accorrli?-;gly (fay you) a Law 7vas made.- Anj1v. And wby fuch a Law? May not any free Denizen of EnglmJd, rdide, or be, fojourn, or inhabir, in any of the Dominions thereof, noc being chargeable ro Lhe Plr.!Ce; or, if the Place will bear them, char is ro fay, if rbey can live in il? For all cannot live wgerher, as rhe Law of England provides. Is nor Eng,ltmd and irs Dominions as an EnglifiJ man·s Houfc, there to be where he thinks bdt ro accommodate his Affairs? I pray, how came you inco Neu;-England, and by whar Right and Tide do ye claim Priviledge ro fojourn rhere, and ro Rule as Lords? Is it noc by Right of ~arure, inro which rhe Law invefreth you, as Namral Enulijh-mm, inro irs Natural Habirations ? Did ye noc rhink fo when ye removed rhither? And rhonght ye it nor a Priviledge infeparable fi-om Narure ? How came ye then fo co forget your fclves, as being poffelfed of, or having placed your felves in rhar Jurifdiction or Pan ot E11gla11d, or of its Dominions, yc make a Law, or a Law is provided, to Prohibit, or Prohibitmg all A1t!(lers of Ships ta briug any Q!;1akers (as ye Reproach them) inta that Jurifdte!ion, and tbemjeh.;u .from coming in, upon Penalty of the. Houf'e of Ccm·eetion, tilt they can be fent t!l/'Jvay, as fauh your Declrtration ? Can rhea wbich is Narural> or General, or Common ro C :. all, |
