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Show anus) - (48) .- .r- p‘.,.__-a._.._-‘.._.__a-..__-\_~ ‘n. . (49) Thus hoflile invalions have roufed among us the GENrus of War :--that Genius, which under GOD, Will conduc't us with fafety and honour-with tri. umph and glory. Surely we may fay of our adverfaries ;---in the net, which they hid, is their ownfoot falwz, and they are {mired in the wickednefs of their own [tomb-- Our enemies the laft ten years, have been employed to weave a fpid'err we!) and Zia/(:1) the eggs of a Cacafrice z-oorflmzing l/Joir owl; bowel: by what "113}! have weaved 3 and ([tflroyotz' by what they have brougbtfortbs-Thus Goliah is killed with in": own fword, Haman hanged upon bis ow/z gallows." Mar"vellous were the doings of GOD in the eyes of our fathers ;-nor lefs ai‘tonifhing are his works in the days of their progeny} Charles the 2d. told his Parliament, their "jea- " loo/j, that the forces he had rais'd were defigned " to controul law and property, was woo/5 andfri" valous" I The cajolement took for a feathn, but ‘ Thus alfo the Bifliop of Verdun, wln was the modern contriver of a new {pecies at Statejpril'on ( for which, many have curfed him) was by the righteous difpent'arion of providence, firfl put into it himfelf and confined " in the cruel prifon" fourteen years. Phil: D: Com. Hift. p. 216. 1‘ It was an obfervation applied by the firft {ettlers of New_ England to their great confolation, that When wicked mm are I marefl their hopu, g'fi'fly mm arefurt/zgfl from their fwrx, be- caufe the "JO/"‘5" and cowardice of the wicked ufually engage GOD to defeat their defign. hut his fribiCéts having been abufed by re- peated violations of his rnoft lolemn vows, at lalt rouzed from their lethargy; and the King hegan to dread the feVerity Oi‘thCiI‘ VCHgCRHCC- He therefore kept up a flandz'ng army, not only againfi law, but the repeated refolutions or every Parlia- ment of his reign. He found that corruption without force could not confirm him a tyrant, and therefore cherifhcd and augmented his troops to the dcltruflion of his people and the terror of his lenators. " There go our mrylerr" * Was acommon {Ewing among the members of Parliament. " No law can rcitrain theft: pe0ple; heufes are taken from us, our lives are in danger" (laid one member in Parliament.) 'Without betraying our truft, (faid Ruflel) we mutt vote thefe {tanding forces a grie- ‘ vance. There are defigns, about the King, to ruin ‘ religion and property. Public bufinels is the A few upltart people, leait of their concern. ‘ making hay while the fun firincs, {ct up an ar- my to efiablifh their interefi: I would have care ‘ taken for the future, that no army he raifed for a cabal-interelt. A Gentleman faid the lait ieflion, ‘ that this war was made rather for the army, ‘ than the army for the war. ‘ wit/J aflanding arm, This government, can NEVER BE sAFE: We ‘ cannot be flow-e in this [Joy/e; and fame of u: may ‘ .baee our headr token 01f' Jr Patriots harrangued in vain-the Commons voted the Keeping up the army illegal and a grieveante-but while they tlms did, they openly betray- ed a dread of that arm}. "IWOUld not give an " alarm I Speech to both Houfes Dtb. in Parllat. p. :6, February 1672, 'and '7. Grev's . * Johnfon's Works, p. 312. T Grey's Debates, 2 vol. 9. 219- 393' |
