A Modest Narrative
OF
INTELLIGENCE:
Fitted for the Republique of
ENGLAND & IRELAND.
From Saturday, June 23.to Saturday, June 30. 1649.
THey that have their Minds higher then their Fortune, must take care
that their Passions over-reach not their Reason, for passionate Motions
disturb the conduction of Affairs, and expose to Precipitation
those that conceive they have spirits enough to bear up their Eagle
loftiness ; and careful they must be too, that their practise be not
such as formerly they justly exclaimed against in others, lest their Fortune prove answerable, and so he forced to shake hands in Condolation; Some hold, that
Sobriety cures more diseases, then all Paracelstan Cbimicals; but its experimentally
true, that honest Policy is more successful in a long Run, then all the unprincipled
practises in the world, and he that pretends to be Master of his politick
art, and hath disgested Gestrucio so, as by assimulation he hath made it
his own, yet he is but half learnt that cannot exercise some one vertue or other
in the most cross Revolution of Affairs to supply the room, which unlawful practise
too usually takes up; For though Justice be sometime to be laid by, which
if not, would ruine Justice it self, and Truth it self cutterh his throat that carryeth
her publickly in every place, yet Visiosity should not in any case take place,
but some vertue or other, amongst which there is such a seustemctical order, as that
one who is not reputatively (by vertue of success, or that thats less praiseworthy)
a great Statesman, but in truth so, will find this to be a truth, and then he shall
deservedly have one emulating Trophy more added to the stage of his greatness.
I began with my fellow Creatures the Levellers, the reason of whose discontents,
which begot their designs, and those their practices, I fully laid open, but