"This wholsome _Physick_ hath not wrought in us that blessed effect, as was either believed by some or hoped for by all men: but as if God had answered our importunity for a Parliament, as hee did the old Israelites for a King in his anger; we drive on with much more haste then good speed to the other extream, which portends no lesse Symptomes of ruine and destruction than the former. So that having maturely considered what hath proved destructive to this or other Parliaments, we may the more easily avoid those Rocks upon which others have split themselves, _viz_. 1. The venting of particular ends of Avarice and Ambition in the publike Cause. 2. Private Combinations or Chamber conventicles to resolve before-hand what shall be done in the House. 3. Hindring the freedom of speech by imprisonment of their persons. 4. Denying information by the humble way of Petitions from the County, as that most excellent Orthodox Petition of our Brethren of _Kent_, and of rejecting information of Letters to our Knights and Burgesses. 5. The ready swallowing of informations and jealous rumours against his Majesty, the styling them the malignant party and enemies to the State, which were onely, truely and conscionably his friends. 6. The private if not publike mutinous rabble, which ill Spirit was ready at all times to be raised by a whisper from any of those worthy Members, Emphatically so called, if not exclusively, as if all Justice, Reformation, and Government were onely to be expected from them. 7. The now unheard of State-law and Logick to style and believe that a Parliament that is divided in itselfe, is severed from the King the Head thereof: if they may be remedied (as we hope they are not past cure) we shall rather desire to change some of our Physicians then Physick, there being no better way, nor more necessary to preserve the health of a Common-wealth, than a well temper'd Parliament. Wherefore we as faithfull Subjects to his Majesty, as free-born Englishmen, doe joyne in an unanimous resolution to maintain. 1. _The Protestant Religion._ 2. _The King's just power._ 3. _The Laws of the Land._ 4. _The Liberty of the Subject._" After expatiating upon these four resolutions, the paper concludes thus:-- "As wee conceive ourselves obliged by the Law of God, the Law of the Land, by the Dictates of Nature and reason to maintaine all these; so by God's grace assisting us, we hope we shall not be terrified or compelled to yeeld any active obedience to any dis-joyned part of _Parliament_ without the consent of the whole (which we heartily desire may be united) or to any uncertaine Debates, Votes or Ordinances, that are not digested or setled into Lawes; nay which seemes to contradict former Lawes, and yet are tender'd to us with so much earnestnes, as some dare hardly deny them with safety or obey with Conscience.