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WHEN theſe our Letters ſhall be ſo happy as to come to Your Majeſties ſight, I wiſh the Spirit of the Righteous God may ſo dicommon Servants to our Creator, then of thoſe People whom we Govern: So that obſerving the Duties we owe to God, we deliver Bleſſings to the world. In providing for the Publick Good of our Eſtates, we magnifie the Honour of God, like the Celeſtial Bodies, which though they have much Veneration, yet ſerve only to the Benefit of the World. It is the excellency of our Office to be Inſtruments, whereby Happineſs is delivered to Na
Pardon me Sir! This is not to Inſtruct, (for I know I ſpeak to one of a more clear and quick ſight than my ſelf) But I ſpeak this, becauſe God hath pleaſed to grant me a happy Victory over ſome part of thoſe Rebellious Pyrates, that ſo long have moleſted the peaceable Trade of Europe; and hath preſented further occaſion to root out the GeneSallee,
Tunis, Algiers and other places (Dens and Receptacles of the inhumane Villanies of thoſe who abhor Rule and Government.) Herein whilſt we interrupt the Corruption of malignant Spirits of the world, we ſhall gloGreat God, and perform a Duty, that will ſhine as glotious as the Sun and Moon, which all the Earth may ſee and reverence: A work that ſhall aſcend as ſweet as the Perfume of the moſt precious Odours in the Noſtrils of the Lord; a work grateful and happy to men; a work whoſe Memory ſhall be reverenced ſo long as there ſhall be any remaining amongſt men, that love and honour the Piety and Vertue of Noble Minds. This Action I here willingly preſent to You, whoſe Piety and Vertues equal the GreatVicegerents to the Great and Mighty God, may hand in hand Triumph in the Glory which the Action preſents unto us.
Now becauſe the Iſlands which You Governs, have been ever Famous for the unconquered Strength of their ShipAmbaſſado
to know whether in Your Princely Wiſdom You ſhall think ſir to aſſiſt me with ſuch Forces by Sea as ſhall be anſwerable to thoſe I provide by Land; which if You pleaſe to grant, I doubt not but the Lord of Hoſts will protect and aſſiſt thoſe that Fight in ſo glorious a Cauſe. Nor ought you to think this ſtrange that I, who ſo much Reverence the Peace and Accord of Nations, ſhould Exhort to a War: Your Great prophet CHRIST JES ƲS was the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as well as the Lord and Giver of Peace; which may ſignifie unto You, That He which is a Lover and MaintainBlood, muſt arrive to Tranquillity. This made James your Father of Glorious memory, ſo happily Renown'd amongſt all Nations. It was the Noble Fame of Your Princely Vitues which reſounds to the utmoſt corners of the earth, that perſuaded me to invite You to partake of that Bleſſing wherein I boaſt my Self moſt happy. I wiſh God may heap the Riches of his ElſName in all Ages.
LONDON: Printed for Richard Janeway in Queens-head-Alley in Pater-noſter-Row. 1682.