Numb. 79
Mercurius Politicus.
Comprising the summe of all Intelligence,
with the Affairs and Designs
now on foot in the three Nations of
England, Ireland, and Scotland.
In defence of the Common-wealth, and
for Information of the People.
------It à vertere Seria. {Hor. de
Ar Poet
From Thursday Decemb. 4. to Thursday Decemb. 11. 1651.
TO justifie the Excellency of a Free-State
above a Kingly government,
and to prove that the People, in a
due and orderly succession of their
Supream Assemblies, are the best
Keepers of their own Liberties;
we have already given you some
Reasons, and shall here presume
to set down one more.
A Fourth Reason is, because a succession of Supream Powers,
doth not only keep them from corruption, but it prevents
and kils that grand Cankerworm of a Commonwealth,
to wit, Faction; for, as Faction is an adhering to, and a promoting
of an Interest that is distinct from the true and declared
Interest of State, so it is a matter of necessity, that those
which drive it on, must have time to improve their sleights
and projects, in disguising their designes, drawing in Instruments