which I use, is not to offend, but to beseech you to return. I conjure you
therefore to re-enter into your self, and not to suffer these mean and
dishonourable respects, which are unworthy your nobler spirit, to prompt
you to a course so deform'd, and altogether unworthy your education and
Family. Behold your friends all deploaring your misfortunes, and your
Enemies even pitie you; whilst to gratifie a few mean and desperate
persons, you cancell your duty to your prince, and disband your Religion;
dishonour your name, bring ruine and infamy on your posterity.

But when all this shall fail (as God forbid a title of it should) _I_ have
yet this hope remaining; that when you have been sufficiently fated with
this wicked course, wandred from place to place, government to government,
sect to sect, in so universal a deluge, and find no repose for the sole of
your foot (as it is certain you never shal) you with at last with the
peaceful _Dove_, return to the Arke from whence you fled, to your first
principles, and to sober counsels; or with the repenting _Prodigall_ in
the Gospel, to _your Father_ which is in heaven, and to the _Father of
your Countrey_: For in so doing, you shall not only rejoyce your servant,
and all good men, but the very _Angels_ which are in heaven, and who are
never said to rejoyce indeed, but _at the Conversion of a sinner_.

_This 27. Octob. 1659_

_Et tu conversus, converte Fratres._


PSAL. 37.

_10. Yet a little while, and the ungodly shall be clean gone, thou shalt
look after his place, and he shall be away._