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To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, who are in place of authority to do justice, and in present power to ease the oppressed nation from its bonds. : Councel and advice unto you, from a friend that seeks after truth and righteousness from you, and alwayes faithfully desires the nations good, and that the government thereof may be established upon a just and equal and right foundation, that the Lord God may possess his right, and all men their right in our land, and that men of truth and sound judgement, may be set to judge the people in outward things, and the exercise of good conscience in faith and worship left unto God, that blessings and mercies, true freedom, peace and unity, may run down as a stream in the land of our nativity, and that all the contrary may be cast out, and removed far away from us; and for this cause, these things following do I propound unto you, that you may read and consider, to the end that righteousness alone may be established in the nation