I.

The First fault they find is in the title, be­cause Britania is not with a double n. But I have shown, in the Book it self, that if Ania, (according to the best Authorities) came from Anac, which signifies Tin in the Language of the Phaenicians, who first found it out in Corn­wall (The Head-Land, or Cape of the Kingdom) though now it is called, The Lands End; Now the Taile which was once the Head. And if Brit came from Bright, G. H. being left out in the Name, as not Sounding in the Pronounciation, then it must be Britania, according to this New, and not Britannia, according to the Old way of Writing.

II.

A Second Fault (which is the First they find in the Book it self) is this, That it is [Page 4]Founded ^† on Religion, and The Word of God. And what (say they) hath Religion, and The Word of God to do with The Politicks, or the Common-wealth?

Yet I had shown (in sundry places of the Book, and particularly from The Politicks of Learned France, and from Cambden's^* own Wonds that Between Religion and the Common­wealth there can be no Separation.

The Very God of very God came into the World to Teach us, First, The Kingdom, of God and his Righteousness, that Pure Religion and Ʋndefiled Justice, whereunto all other things shall be ad­ded, according to the Word of God.

So that those Men are against God, The King, and The Country, who say, That Religion and the Word of God have nothing to do with the Poli­ticks and the Common-wealth.

Our Saviour himself laid Religion and Justice For the Foundation of The Christian Empire, The King's most Excellent Majesty (in the fullness of time) came into Great Britain, Hazarding every thing, to Rescue our Religion; And as God and the King preferred Religion, so the Honou­rable [Page 5]Representatives of This Great Land and Nation, are principally Founded, in The most High Court of Parliament, on The Grand Com­mittee of Religion.

Besides, the Four past Empires were Found­ed on the Religion of their first Authors, and to pretend To Erect a New Britania, and thereon to raise The Fifth Monarchy, or Christian Empire, without Religion and the word of God, would be to one part of the World A Stumbling Block, and to another Foolishnes.

III.

Third Fault, which they find, is with my Quotation of so much Scripture, and so many other Authorities already Printed.

To which I Answer, That I have made a sufficient Apology, for that in my Preface, to Britania Nova. And (not to mention our Ministers Quotations of the Holy Scriptures, and other Authorities, though they were al­ready Printed.) The New Testament of God's Will, doth tell us, That we have Moses and the Prophets, and my Adversaris may see (if they please) therein, who Quoted both, upon all Occasions, though they were Written, and Quoted before their Time.

IV.

A Fourth Fault which they find in the Book, is my making too much use of the Word of God &c. to speak too much thereby in Com­mendation of the King.

To which I likewise Answer, That the King's Majesty, is most Heroick, most Imperi­al, and most Excellent; Both his Words and Actions are above any Character which I can give of them; I chose therefore to do it, by the Word of God, and of some Great Men. And (not to mention others) I verily be­lieved when I Wrote Britania Nova, Pa. 14. that the words of the Wise Son of Syrach came nearest home to the Present King of This Great Land and Nation, The Emporium of the World, The words are these.

Wisd. 8. I shall set the People in order, and the Nations shall be subject unto me.

Horrible Tyrants shall be afraid when they do but hear of me.

I shall be found good amongst the Multitude and valiant in War.

I did also, and do still believe, That He shall never be moved, Vid. pa. 15. and that, His Righteousness shall be had in Everlasting Re­membrance.

And as The ungodly shall see it, and shall Gnash with his Teeth, so they that lash with their Tongue, as some now do, may live to see him, Judge the folk Righteously and Govern the Nations upon Earth.

Psal. 11. But, If the foundations be destroyed, what can the Righteous do?

I do likewise verily believe that as the Ruin of many places, hath been Respited for one reason and another, so the time for raising this Nation might be shortned, if All things (ac­cording to the Prayer of the Church) could now be ordered and settled on the best and surest foundation, for Peace, and Happiness, Truth and Justice, Religion, and Piety, and for Discourageing [...]rophaness and Immorallity.

But there is one thing Necessary (not here to be mention'd) which must be done before all things can be so Ordered and Settled, and be­fore it can come to pass, That, In his dayes, Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell in safety.

But then, They shall no more say, the Lord Li­veth that brought up the Children of Israel out of Aegypt.

But the Lord liveth, which brought up, and led the House of Israel out of the North Countrey, and from all Countrys where I had scatter'd them, and they shall dwell in their own Land.

For [...] spoyled of the Hea­ [...] safely, and none shall make them [...]: [...] is a Righteous Branch.

V,

The Fifth Fault, which my Enemies find in [...]s, That it hath not at all an­ [...] of the Title Page.

To which I answer again, and for all, That All Books have their fate, according to the Capa­city or Prejudice of the Readers; And if they please to Search Mine (I call it Search, because I could not Compose it more Regularly, consi­dering all things) they will find, that it will Answer the Title Page to all Intents and Purpo­ses, if the People will (as they now may) put it into Practice.

I have shown plainly, That the best ways and means, To preavent Blasphemy, To discourage Prophaness and Immorality, and to keep the Peo­ple from Cursing and Swearing, and from Damn­ing one another, is to Reform the Nation a Third time, by Regulating (in the first Place) The Commutitive and Distributative Justice thereof,^* that our Saducees may no longer de­ny [Page 9]the Resurrection, and that others may no longer be said, Neither to Reverence God, nor Regard Man.

Without these Ways and Means, That Great Land and Nation of the North, cannot be The Holy Place, which is to be The Destruction of Ba­bylon, because the Quirks and Delays in Commu­titive and Distributive Justice, are altogether as Anti-Christian, as any thing that can be practi­ced by the Pope of Rome, or any of his Condis­ciples, against that Perfect Religion and Law, which our Lord and Saviour Taught us, as the best and surest ways and means, to prevent to re­medy Prophaness and Immorality.

I have also plainly shown, how we may pre­vent a great deal of Robery, Injustice and Oppressi­on, not only in England, and our own Isles, but in the Isles of the Mediterranian, in all The Mari­tine Places, and in all the Isles of the Gentiles, &c. by ways and means mention'd at Large in Bri­tania Nova, and particularly by the Amphibe­ous Fleet that may serve this nation, and the Whole World, by Sayling to and fro, both as Men of War and Merchantmen in the British-Sea, the Medeterranian, and the Sea of Jamaica; And there cannot be better means of making this Nation Greater then its Name, then by preventing thereby the Exportation of Wool and Fullers Earth, by those Ways and Means [Page 10]mention'd at Large in that Book, whereof this is but an Abstract.

I have also shown at Large in that Book, how we may Relieve and Imploy the Disbanded Souldiers, by Maintaining the one part of them at Sea, and setting the other A work at Land, where they may Beat up their Swords into Plow­shares, and their Spears into Pruning-Hooks, upon Doubling the Wages of the Poor, and the Price of Corn, &c. And both these ways, of Re­lieving and Imploying those Souldiers, will, (in one particular) prevent a great deal of Pro­phaness, Immorality, Robery, Injustice, and Oppres­sion.

I have likewise shown at Large, how we may supply The Deficiency of the Fonds, by ma­king a Law to proportion the Allowance and Wages of the Poor, with the high Prices of Bread and Flesh, which will be a Prodigious ad­vantantage to the Landed Men^†, whose In­terest will Increase thereby, as Interest upon [Page 11]Interest doth; And therefore our Representa­tives may the rather Double the Land-Tax to Discard all the Fonds, that are Deficient, and thereby the better to enable the King's most Excellent Majesty and Themselves, To pre­vent a great deal of Prophaness, Immorality Robery, Injustice, and Oppression. To supply the Deficiency of the Fonds, and to Discharge the Na­tions Debts.

I have likewise show'n at large, how we may Ease and Advantage the Poor, by propor­tioning their allowance and the Wages of the Labourer, with the prices of things, as they may be raised higher and higher to the Benefit and Advantage of This Great Land and Na­tion, and to the Advancement of The Christian World.

Now as The Christian Empire may be very near coming in, as The Roman Empire may be very near quite going out (accoding to what I have written in Britania Nova, of the past State and present Condition of the Venetians, who value themselves for being the only Re­licts of The Roman Empire) so, in order to In­troduce so great a Revolution, We may, at once, and that very Speedily, raise the Right Regular Interest of the Poor, the Rich, and The most Renowned Emperor, only by Adhear­ing to Moses and the Irophets, and by following the Precepts of The Old and New Testament, what­ever [Page 12] Prophaness or Immorality may think of ei­ther.

When Moses was Conducting the Children of Israel into The Land of Canaan, which was (as it were) a Type of This Great Land and Nation, and of The Christian Empire, he said un­to every one of them.

The Lord shall greatly bless thee in the Land which the Lord thy God Giveth thee for an Inheritance to possess it.

Thou shalt Keign over many Nations, but they shall not Reign over thee.

Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all these Command­ments which I command thee this day.

* Ye shall not Swear by my Name falsely, neither shalt thou Prophane the Name of thy God, I am the Lord.

Ye shall not Steal, neither deal falsely, neither lye one to another.

Thou shalt not defraud thy Neighbour, nor rob him. The Wages of him that is hired shall not a­bide with thee, I am the Lord. ^†

^* Ye shall do no Ʋnrighteousness in Judge­ment, in Mete-yard, in Weight, or in Measure.

Just Ballanhces, Just Weights, a Just Ephah, and a Just Hin shall ye have, I am the Lord your God which brought you out of the Land of Aegypt, &c.

And God will most certainly make This Great Land to flow (as it were) with Milk and Honey, if we observe these things, so as to do them ^†.

Whatever the Atheist may say, and the Hypocrite think and do, Keligion and Justice (and without the latter the former cannot be pretended to) are the two principal Supporters of Church and State; and without a perfect Reformation of both, we cannot so much as think, of Regulating Prophaness and Immorallity, nor of Raising This Great Land and Nation to be, (according to its Natural Scituation) the Seat of The Ʋniversal Empire.

Now Charity and Justice in the Original are all one according to the Hebrew word Tsedaka; and as St. Paul tells us, that Charity worketh all things. So if we proportion the Allowance and the VVages of the Poor, with the rising [Page 14]Prices of every thing, we may raise this Na­tion, by that means, to that degree of Honour and Glory, for whigh God and Nature hath most Certainly designed it.

It is be asked here, How we shall all live if we raise things higher, when some of us can­not live because some things are raised so high already.

I Anser. That the reason why we have so many Poor amongst us, and why we are not all so Rich as to want Nothing, is because we do not Naturally proportion the Allow­ance and VVages of every Poor Person, with the Price and Natural Value of every thing, and the Value and Price of every thing, with the Wages and Allowance of every Poor Person.

We must all answer for things done in the Body Politick, as well as in the Body Natural, as I shewed in Britania NOva. And if we will really and truly Discourage Prophaness and Im­morallity, prevent a great deal of Robery, Injustice and Oppression; Relieve and Imploy the Disbanded Soldiers, Supply the Deficiency of the Fonds, Dis­charge the Nations Debts, Ease and Advantage the Poor, Double the Value and Rents of Land, Double the number of our Seamen and Naval Forces, Promote the Christian Monarchy by the English Empire of the Ocean, and bring on The Golden Age, we must follow the divine Example of St. [Page 15] Pual, who, (Writting to the Corinthians) Temper'd his Body Politick as God Temper'd the Body Natural, That there might be no Schism in it; and when another Body Politick shall be so Temper'd I cannot yet see how we can fail of Promoting The Christian Monarchy by the English Empire of the Ocean, and of Bringing on The Golden Age.

We must now by all the best and surest Ways and Means endeavour to serve our God, our King and our Country, not by pretending to discourage Prophaness and Immorallity, and by raising Fonds that are Deficient, but by serving them in reallity, as Cyrus was served upon the raising of The Persian Empire, with Silver and with Gold and with Substance, &c.

And as we must serve our Prince, with Sub­stance and in Reality, we must, in order there­unto, and in the first place, serve the Poor as aforesaid, by proportioning their Allowance and Wages with the high Prices of every thing, and by proportioning the Price of every one thing with the Price of the other, without which we cannot forme The Body Politick (as God hath framed The Body Natural,) to that perfection, which will make good the Title Page of Britania Nova.

I have shown at large throughout Britania Nova (and for this it is necessary to Search [...] [Page 14] [...] [Page 15] [Page 16]the whole Book) that we cannot discourage Navigation and Trade, by raising the Price of things, on The Emportium of the World; for all Markets are Naturaly Govern'd by the first Market Price; and as all other Nations will follow the Example of their Emporie, when it comes to stand in Effect to the World, as the Roman Goddess stood in the Figure, with the Ballance in one hand, and the Horn of Plenty in the other, so^* the dearer all Merchants Buy, the dearer they will Sell again; and what a vast advantage our Amphibeous Fleet aforesaid, will be to this Nation, may be seen to the full in that Book, whereunto I have referred the Reader.

All that can be said now is this, That we shall not be able to Proportion the VVages of the Poor Labourers with the Prices of every thing, because some Labourers deserve more, and some less

To which I Answer, That we must Pro­portion the VVages of the Labourers, as we Proportion the Allowance of the Poor, that is to say, they must share all alike; As he that [Page 17]Laboured but one hour, had altogether as much VVages, as he that bore the Burthen and Hear of the Day, or otherwise, Religion and Ju­stice, according to our Saviour, and Charity, according to St. Paul, cannot work all things for us.

Moses. Commanding the Children of Israel aforesaid in order to bring them to Empire, said unto them all, Lev. 19. Thou shalt not Curse the Deaf, nor put a Stumbling-block before the Blind, but shalt fear thy God, I am the Lord.

And whereas it is common for a Landlord (in some Cases that I know) to hire an Old Labourer, for half VVages, and, upon the whole, to receive his full share of Gain, be­cause the rest of the Labourers make good the VVork; so, if we will make good that work which we now may go upon, to Advance The Christian World withall, we must, by the way, take due Notice, and make due Application of what our Saviour saith, The Poor you have al­wayes with you, and when-soever you will you may do them good.

And they, who will not, when they can, do this Good for the poorest sort of Labourers, are Good neither to God, their King, their Coun­try, nor Themselves; And it would be Just with God to deal with them, as he did with A­nanias and Saphira, for their Hypocritical Iro­phaness and Immorality before God, in pretend­ing [Page 18]publickly to give that to the Poor, which they Secretly reserved for Themselves.

He that giveth unto the Poor, lendeth unto that Lord who hath Exalted our King, as a Palm-Tree in Engeddi, and as a Rose in Jenicho—Of whom the Earth Travelled: and brought forth a Man-To plant the Tabernacles of his Pallace be­tween the Seas, in the Glorious Holy Mountain—That he may be more Precious than Fine Gold, e­ven above the Wedge of Gold of Ophir.

And nothing can be more Precious to God and his Country, then A King of the North, that shall Execute Judgment and Justice on the Earth, and give Example and Laws to the Whole World.