C4i) C’ , 
Men commit the n-od fatal, and extravagant £rtof/, in Politicks and Civil 
Society. 
Itis worth the Confideration of warm and imprudent Princes, whofe 
indifcreec Zeal is fo apt to inrtigate them to moleft and harafs their Sub- 
ieds for the fake of what Honelf and Pieus Men cannot fomecimes help, 
I mean, difference in’^y/i^ioru Sentiments, what happened to the Obfer- 
vatioiiof the Fifth, after he had refigned the to his Brother 
Ftrdlnxnd, and the l{in^dotn cf Spain to his Son Philip the Second, This 
Warlike and Great Prince, after he was growa w^eary of the Pomp and 
Glories of the World, and had made his into a M-nsftcry, had a- 
bundance of Clocks brought him thither by the bed Artilis he could hear 
of ; and his defire was to make all his Ckcks (Irike together at the fame 
Hour. When he had long cried this Attempt in vain, he brake out into 
this pious Exclamation ; Ho w vain and footijh is it (or Princes to endeaimur t9 
make all their StihjsBs to be of one mind, 'zvhen no Art U able to make a fevt 
Clocks Jirike together at the fame time 1 
And therefore, fince now no former Alliances, no common Intcref!, 
no remembrance of Benefits lately received, no Obligations, how great 
foever, can pofTibly reftrain Romm Cttkolick Potentates from 'trampling 
their own Subjc6ls under their Feet, meerly for thinking otherwife than 
they do in mvxexs Su-erftiUon^ and from attempting to Convert them by 
the powerful miiTioii of irreiilhble and by more refined Methods 
than were heretofore pradifed in the Ten dull Pagan Perfecutions ,• moft 
certainly a Hearty Vnton, and Strict Alliance, and Priendfhip, between 
England and Holland, v/as never more abfolutely necefifary than at this 
time, for the Good and Profperity, flaall I fay, or for the Prefavatkn 
and mutual Defence of both Nations, and alfo for the maintenance and fup 
port of the Protefiant Interejl throughout Europe. Whilfi We Band firm, 
and firitfUy Z^nited with Holland, we flsill have no need to fear the Power 
or Attempts of any Common Enemy s our trade can never fuffer in any 
great degree, and our Riches 'mil fupply to us fuch of War, fuch 
an inexhaurtible Mrgaxdne of Military^ Force , as will defeat and over- 
come thofe Prtnees or Monarchs, wh^fe AmHtion will never fuffer them 
loh^quict, but whiliUhey are the of their Neighbours, or 
who Will needs be aiming at Impoffibilwes, the Pkihfopher's Stone, or Vnu 
verfil Monarchy, 
FINIS. 
