passage of the whole pamphlet:--

"With all hazard I have ventured what I thought my duty, to speak
in season and to forewarn my country in time; wherein I doubt not
but there be many wise men in all places and degrees, but am sorry
the effects of wisdom are so little seen among us. Many
circumstances and particulars I could have added in those things
whereof I have spoken; but a few main matters now put speedily into
execution will suffice to recover us and set all right. And there
will want at no time who are good at circumstances; but men who set
their minds on main matters and sufficiently urge them in these
most difficult times I find not many. What I _have_ spoken is
the language of the Good Old Cause: if it seem strange to any, it
will not seem more strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders.
Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should
have spoken only to trees and stones, and had none to cry to but,
with the Prophet, _O Earth, Earth, Earth_, to tell the very
soil itself what God hath determined of Coniah and his seed for
ever. But I trust I shall have spoken persuasion to abundance of
sensible and ingenuous men,--to some perhaps whom God may raise of
these stones to become Children of Liberty, and may enable and
unite in their noble resolutions to give a stay to these our
ruinous proceedings and to this general defection of the misguided
and abused multitude."

To understand fully the tremendous daring of this peroration, one
must turn to the passage of Hebrew prophecy which it cites and
applies to Charles Stuart. It is _Jeremiah XXII._ 24-30, where
woe is denounced upon Coniah, Jeconiah, or Jehoiachin, the worthless
King of Judah, no better than his father Jehoiakim:--"As I live,
saith the Lord, though Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, King of Judah,
were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence.
And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and
into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another
country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. But to the
land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is
no pleasure? Wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed,