HENRY VANE

When once the whole body of the good people find that the military interest and capacity is their own, … and that in this posture they are most properly sovereign, … they will presently see a necessity of continuing ever one with their army, raised and maintained by them for the promoting this cause against the common enemy

Once the standing army and their governors shall also find that, by setting and keeping up themselves in a divided interest from the rest of the body of honest men, they withhold from themselves those contributions in all voluntary and cheerful assistances, by the affections and prayers, by the persons and purses of the good party, to the weakening themselves thereby, as to any vigorous support from them, in the times of most imminent danger

When once the whole body of the good people find that the military interest and capacity is their own, … and that in this posture they are most properly sovereign, … they will presently see a necessity of continuing ever one with their army, raised and maintained by them for the promoting this cause against the common enemy

Once the standing army and their governors shall also find that, by setting and keeping up themselves in a divided interest from the rest of the body of honest men, they withhold from themselves those contributions in all voluntary and cheerful assistances, by the affections and prayers, by the persons and purses of the good party, to the weakening themselves thereby, as to any vigorous support from them, in the times of most imminent danger