WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

He who ceases to be better, ceases to be good.

Those who stop being better stop being good.

In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].

I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.