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That time is not yet come; I'le spend therefore
In hope of good success, a few words more;
And, look to be excus'd if I shall thrice,
VVrite that, which I have writ already twice;
For, neither can hard flints or knotty blocks
Be shap'd without reiterated strokes.
Why should you quarrel? what are now your wants,
But, Grace and Faith to use well what GOD grants?
The World is wide enough, the Seas have room
Sufficient for your Ships to go and come:
Expedients will be found which may procure
An honourable peace that will endure
VVithout a disadvantage unto either
If to make proof thereof you joyn together.
Impartial Justice, brotherly compassion
Love, meekness, piety, humiliation
Faith, prayer, penitence, with such like things
Are those, whence wealth, and peace, and honour springs
To them, who will perswaded be to do
To others, as they would be done unto;
As jealous to redress a neighbours wrongs
As in that which to their own ease belongs;
As forward, an oppressed man to hear
As cruel Tyrants to afflict him are;
And could forbear intruding on GODS right
A setled peace thereby enjoy they might,
Without fear; yea, without a just suspicion
Of Treasons, Insurrections or Sedition:
And, they whom you distrust, will be more true
Then they, in whom you trust, shall be to you,
If you endeaver to contract a peace
And keep it, by unfeigned righteousness:
Although such mediums are but scoffed at
Or sleighted, by most Ministers of State.
In hope of good success, a few words more;
And, look to be excus'd if I shall thrice,
VVrite that, which I have writ already twice;
For, neither can hard flints or knotty blocks
Be shap'd without reiterated strokes.
Why should you quarrel? what are now your wants,
But, Grace and Faith to use well what GOD grants?
The World is wide enough, the Seas have room
Sufficient for your Ships to go and come:
Expedients will be found which may procure
An honourable peace that will endure
VVithout a disadvantage unto either
If to make proof thereof you joyn together.
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Love, meekness, piety, humiliation
Faith, prayer, penitence, with such like things
Are those, whence wealth, and peace, and honour springs
To them, who will perswaded be to do
To others, as they would be done unto;
As jealous to redress a neighbours wrongs
As in that which to their own ease belongs;
As forward, an oppressed man to hear
As cruel Tyrants to afflict him are;
And could forbear intruding on GODS right
A setled peace thereby enjoy they might,
Without fear; yea, without a just suspicion
Of Treasons, Insurrections or Sedition:
And, they whom you distrust, will be more true
Then they, in whom you trust, shall be to you,
If you endeaver to contract a peace
And keep it, by unfeigned righteousness:
Although such mediums are but scoffed at
Or sleighted, by most Ministers of State.
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