Numb. 2.
A Modest Narrative
OF
INTELLIGENCE:
Fitted for the Republique of
ENGLAND & IRELAND.
From Saturday, April 7. to Saturday, April 14. 1649.
ALL men must be tryed by a written Law, that is good; but must the offenders
of this Law first have the Judges go to their places of abode, to
convince them by Law ? and then, if convinced, Warrants must issue
for apprchending, and not before. Truly the Law had need be put in English
else I doubt these Gentlemen will say shortly, That by the Law no man hath a
propriety in goods, wife, &c. and in must be in a peny book too, or else the
Grievance will still continue; nay, that book must not be covered with French
paper, for that is a badg of Slavery; And thus they will be gradually hurried
into a barrenneste of Novelty, and til then, you must not expect a submission
by them. Well then, we will give them a Motto, Sola vicissitndine recreamur;
but I doubt they will be angry, unlesse we speak English, but I care not, for I
have an advantage in this, that I can easily heighten my fancy to imagine, that
men cannot to beyond their chains, especially when I consider that they are
new, and formed by vertue of the second hear; But truly they have more then
a proportionable advantage against me, when I consider that they stick to no
thing but their incorrigible obstinacy; for when I go to meet them in this line,
they are in another, still renewing their Cry; This is Slavery. And they
can by a natural instinct tell you what troubles them; but you will never make
them capable of knowing what will please them; for that, they are resolved to
continue SEEKERS. And as Divine Ordinances are below them, so wonder
not if Acts of State be burthennsom to them. The Protheo Levellers (we may
speak bulls, in heathen language without diseredit) are resolved on nothing
but disobedience; they dare (for they are vallant when the Tower wall is between
them and their Enemies) go on without blushing (so habitually impudent
are they become) in the sight of the Sun; and still avouch their spots to be
beauty spots, though others can rationally demonsrtate them to be spots of
deformity, and unbecoming any but those Gentlemen whose princoples (if