COnsider, Sirs, I beseech you, that nothing can keep off Kingship, and prevent your and our destruction through the prevailing power of a single Person, assisted by a disaffected Party in the Camp, City, Court and Country, but

• 1. That you remember from whence you are fallen, and do your first works; return and stand to, or fall with the Good Old Cause of God and your Countrey.
• 2. That without delay, you speedily purge the Army of all self-designers, (how great soever) and introduce in their steads, such as have faithfully served and suffered for what you fought.
• 3. Commit the Conduct of the Army to five or seven persons who through­out your late Declensions have stood untainted in their integrity.
• 4. Recal (for the prosecution of what is proposed) that Parliament who changed the Government from Kingly to a Commonwealth, and whom the late Protector interrupted April 20, 1653.
• 5. Enter into a solemn Engagement with all your Civil and Christian Friends, for defence of your Country and its Cause, with the hazard of your Lives and Estates.
• 6. The Parliament once sate, you may in a humble and petitionary way pre­sent them with Proposals, as 1. speedy provision of pay for the Army: 2. Set­ling the Militia of City and Country in confiding hands: 3. Securing of Garisons and Cinque-Ports within the three Nations: and 4. that endeavours may be used to beget a right understanding betwixt all their Forces by sea & land.
• 7. Consider that heavy work is made light by active and orderly endeavours; for secrecy and celerity are the wheels of the greatest Actions.
• 8. Consider that Treachery, when withstood, turns Coward; and when feared, becomes the most cruel Tyrant.
• 9. Consider that Court-Dyals are gazed on by all in the day, (or whilst the Sun shines) but by none in the night.
• 10. Fear them not whose courage is cowed by their Consciences.
• 11. Be not dellatory, but active and industrious in doing your duties, and casting off those loose corns, which will rather interrupt, then reform; and travail in your Good Old Cause without tyring; and let your Courage assist your Swords to cut through all difficulties.
• 12. Consider that if providence should oppose you (as there is no ground to be­lieve it will) in this cause, yet by living or dying in its defence, you will have forti­fied your Memories against all events: for whilst you are your Countries Mar­tyrs, it will to eternitie remain your most memorable Monument.

Now thus resolved, fear no over-match in multitudes, where God (the great Master of Mi­racles, whom you have often tryed in the mount of extremities) is on your side, he will turn your enemies Arms into Legs, and their Heads into Heeles; however, it is better to dye of the Re­medy, then the Disease.