ABSTRACT
I Can assure Your Honours, I did not think any thing of the Bankers; but when I heard them in such a rage, I went to know what the matter was: And when they laid open their whole Cafe to me; the Consideration of it wounded my Heart, and caus’d me to be a Solicitor for them; and I hope the Almighty will incline Your Hearts to relieve them; for indeed its a very hard case: But King Charles did well to settle it so well; but it was a very false step ray Lord made to unsettle it again; and he created himself a great many Enemies, and it was the beginning of his Fall: But for You to relieve the oppressed that has been so many Years languishing, will be the beginning of Your Glory: for how beautiful a thing it is for Men to be Just: And I long that every one should praise You: But I took it very unkindly that Mr. Guy should reflect, and triumph over a dead King; methinks it was very unchristian. But whatever the King’s Faults were, yet his Debts was just; and if he had lived and overcome the Sins of the Flesh, he had Wisdom enough, and a Spirit to have made the World truckle, and Dissenters too: I don’t love that any one should reflect upon the dead; for one can’t believe all that is said of the living: For I have heard some say, That some are so Religious as to grind the Face of the Artist to build Alms-House; but such may assure themselves, that such Charity will never be acceptable to God, no more than Cain’s Sacrifice, for what is presented to God must be pure; not got by oppressing the Poor, nor being unjust to the Rich; but they must have Abel’s Spirit, Love and Sincerity to God, and to give him the best; and such Sacrifice God is well pleas’d with. But Cais was an outside Worshipper, and be thought the worst was good enough, and therefore God did not accept of it; and his Envy was so great to his Brother, that he became a Murderer, and I look upon him to be the first Papist; a false Worshipper.
