Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies, and of required duties

I know, Right Honourable, it was far from your thoughts, ever to have spoken like that Roman Tyrant, If I must die, let fire and earth mingle, let all go to confusion: if I must die, let all the world die too. I doubt not but you would have rejoiced (though your own lives had been the price) to have known, that England should live, it would have been your comfort, that the foundations of mercy to a future generation had been surely laid, though in your own ruins: Though (as Judah pleads with Joseph for the return of Benjamin, Gen. 44. 30.) I verily believe, that the life of the Kingdom of England, is bound up in the Parliament of England, and when this dies, that must, in the notion here intended. But I am sure ye are further off from the speech of that other Roman Tyrant, who said, Let fire and earth mingle, so I may live and prosper, so I may have what pleaseth me, no matter what becomes of the rest of the world. I know ye abhor to think, much more to resolve, Now we live and prosper, let fire and earth mingle, let justice and oppression mingle, let Christ and Belial mingle, let truth and error mingle, let light and darkness mingle, let good and evil mingle, let confusion and disorder appear in the face, and live in the body of the whole Nation, if they will. Therefore as the Lord hath given us in this mercy, that you are not dead but alive, so let it be, I humbly beseech you, your care in answer thereunto, that the work of God, that all who fear God, that the cause and people of God, that the flock of Jesus Christ, may not only not die, but live prosperously with, and under your Government.

I know, Right Honourable, it was farre from your thoughts, ever to have spoken like that Roman Tyrant, If I must die, let fire and earth mingle, let all go to confusion: if I must die, let all the world die too. I doubt not but you would have rejoyced (though your own lives had been the price) to have known, that England should live, it would have been your comfort, that the foundations of mercy to a future generation had been surely laid, though in your own ruines: Though (as Iudah pleads with Ioseph for the return of Benjamin, Gen. 44. 30.) I verily believe, that the life of the Kingdom of England, is bound up in the Parliament of England, and when this dies, that must, in the notion here intended. But I am sure ye are further off from the speech of that other Roman Tyrant, who said, Let fire and earth mingle, so I may live and prosper, so I may have what pleaseth me, no matter what becomes of the rest of the world. I know ye abhorre to think, much more to resolve, Now we live and prosper, let fire and earth mingle, let justice and oppression mingle, let Christ and Belial mingle, let truth and errour mingle, let light and darknesse mingle, let good and evil mingle, let confusion and disorder appear in the face, and live in the body of the whole Nation, if they will. Therefore as the Lord hath given us in this mercy, that you are not dead but alive, so let it be, I humbly beseech you, your care in answer thereunto, that the work of God, that all who fear God, that the cause and people of God, that the flook of Jesus Christ, may not only not die, but live prosperously with, and under your Government.