Me GILL UNIVERSITY ^LIBRARY* The Gift of Theodore Francis Moorehouse Newton muuuftww In Twelve BOOKS. By the Author of the True-Born-EnglishmAn. 0 Santfas Gentes, quibus h&c ndfcunter in hortis I Ruminal - Juv. Sat. 17. lin. 11. i LONDON, Pfti itecK in the Year, Ivl DCG YL. Moft Serene, Moft Invincible, and Moft IjLLUSTRlOtS LADY ' REASON- Firfi Monarch of the World: Erqperefs of the Baft, Weft, North, and South: Hereditary Dire&or of Mankind: Guide of the Panions: L:.dy of the vaft Continent of Human Underltanding: Mi- ftrefs of all the Iflaiids of Science: Gover- nefs of the fifteen Provinces of Speech: Image of, and Ambaflador Extraordinary from, the Maker of all Things: The Al¬ mighty’s Reprefentative, and Refident in the Souls of Men 5 and one of Queen N A- TURE’a molt Honourable Privy Council, May it pleafe your Majefty; T H E Author, of this Book thought hhnfclf oblig’d to Dedicate it to your Majefty ft ft, as av hum - ble Acknowledgment of ymrfuperior Authority . over all Laws and.Evinces of the World: Be achiowledges, that you Majefty s Right of Government is Jvr T Bivniroy and that therefore ymr Majefty is a juft A‘ 2 Excett'M • • DEDICATION. Exception to the General Rules here laid down, your Authority is truly Sacred, and to your Majejly all the Powers of Men, as well as their Actions, pay a Juft Homage 5 all Laws made contradicting yctir abfolute Pleafure, are ipfo fa&o, void in their own Nature •, and whatever the greatefi Princes in the World ati contrary to yon Majefifs Com- viands, is ridiculous and impertinent, and their Subjects ought to difobey them in it 5 your Majejly Reigns with an uncontrolled Sovereignty hi the very Hearts of your Subjects-, your Power is wholly Defpotick, you are truly accountable to none but your Maker, and your Majefifs immediate Ad¬ herence to his Sovereign Will, gives the true Sanction to all your mofi exact Commands. And yep your Majejly is far from being a Tyrant j Jince at the fame time that you Command the mofi Abfolute Obedi¬ ence, fitch is the Demonfiration of your Royal Juft ice, that you gain upon the very Souls of your Subjects, and they pay a voluntary Homage to all your Commands. Having thus in brief Recognis'd your Majefifs un¬ doubted Divine Right to a Superiority over all the Actions ', of Men •, I then, with the profoundeft Submijfton, and Obe¬ dience to your Royal Authority, proceed mofi humbly to lay the following Papers at your Royal Feet ; appealing from 1 all the unjuft Cenfures of partial and corrupted Men, to ; your Majefif s Impartial Judgment, for their Sincerity, and Correfpondence with your eftablijh'd Government, en- tirely fubmitting both them and their Author to your Maje- t fiy's Authority, as becomes. May it plcafe Your Imperial Majefty, Your Majetty's moft Humble, moft Obedient, ! 1 And moft Devoted Subject and Servant, -» I t 1 11 The True-Born-Englishaian; fl . It i - , f — ff --— M . > . * THE PREFACE. «; ^ M ^ HI S Satyr had never beenPublifh’d, tho’fomc iii ■- of it ha9 been a long time in being, ''had net lh ■ the World feem’d to be going mad a iecond Time with the Error of Pajfive-Obedience and ' ■ Plan-Refinance. The Title of Sacred, has been added to that of Maflfty by K 'the Complaifance of a Party, who have all along been rat rather ready to talk of Loyalty, than perform it, and «who have fhown themfelves wonderful forward to tax «i other People with Rebellion and Difloyaity, in order to l periwade their Princes to truft them in their moft emer- , S e nt Occafions ,• but when their King had the Misfortune I to believe them Honeft, he paid too dear for the Miltakc; 1 for as they were the firft that prompted him to want •1 ™eir Aliiftance, they were alfo the firft that let him ■f want it. . When our Bleffed Saviour only talk’d of his approach¬ ing Sufferings, and things were feen in Pcripecbve, they were all for dying with him, and dying for him; but when the Band of Soldiers came, when Judas had given the Signal, and their Lord was in the Hands of his Enemies, They all forjhk him and fled. f, Now, ‘tis a Myftery to me what thefc Gentlemen ftart this loft Doitrine in the World again for : Have they any more Kings or Queens to betray ? Do they think any ^ Prince i.n the World will ever be fo weak to take their A 3 Won!? ii The P R E F A C E. Words again ? A Man once perjur’d, no Juftice of the Peace will ever adminifter an Oath to him again : I be¬ lieve I am in no danger oc being thought a Jacobite • but this I mud affirm, had I told King James II. ’twasmy Principle, that*! ought not to redd him, whatever Violence he offer’d either to"Me or Mine ; That as he was a King, his Perfon was Sacred, and that if he opprefs’d me in the higheff Manner; nay, if he demanded my Life or Edate by Force, I ought and would fubmit to him, and it I could not obey his Commands, I durd not oppofc his Punithment. Had I told him, that he was King by inherent Birth-right, and his Power was Jure Divino ; and therefore to refid him in any thing, tho’ never fo con¬ trary to Rcafon or judice, was to fight againdGod, and • purliiant to this Expofition of my Loyalty, had I fworn the Oath of my Allegiance, and i'ublcriba the Declarati¬ on ; if ever I took up Arms againd him, refifted or op¬ pos’d him, I ihould have been guilty of a mod horrible Perjury, and Breach of Faith , and ought never to be believ’d on my Word or Oath again. As for me, I never unde* dvod my Loyalty, nor my Prince’s Authority, in inch an extended Senle 5 I never: took any fu,h Oath ; and therefore the joining with a Foreign Power in luch a Cafe, cannot bear the fame Confhuition: Frpm. inch as were of this Opinion, no King can expect any other than whenever they attempt to rain the Condi;ution, fufpend the Laws, and inyadc Property, they will never be obey’d ; the People will op- pofe luch Opprelllon, and if they do not, ’tis for want of Power, not for want of Will. But in this Call-, the weight of the Matter lies higher, f if there be an Error in the redding Tyrannick Princes, s tis in Principle, and that' 1 never yet Jaw pr$vd; but this t is a meet Fraud, a Cheat put upon Princes, to encourage j s them to be Tyrants, on Pretence of Paffivc Submiffion; i and that they will, like ljjachar s AJs, couch down un- I 1 hr the Load; bijt when the Prince, taking them at their 1 Word, ventures to lay the Burden on their Backs, they i rife up and k-ck him in the Face. ' } Of all the People in the W orlJ, thefc Gentlemen fhould tl have done with this old Sham; one ]eft at a time is e- E nough The PREFACE. J JWURh f° r a Nation ; one King in an Age is enough to *• be cheated, ® Belides, Who are they for? Qui vivei What Party F are they of? The Church of England cannot but think ® they defign to Banter her; that ’tis a Whig-Plot to rip up % old Matters; and that becaufe fire has once committed a :: Fault, they are always Reproaching her with it : What a tho’ (he was drawn in to own a Do&rinc, and almoft “ mix it with her Creed, That when fhe came to the Ex- tremity, (he found would not hold Water: What then => !? She ms mijlahen , and ’tis no Difgrace or RcHe&ion for ■ any Church, or any People or Perfon, when they find » themfelves in an Error, to own it, acknowledge and k reform it : But to bring the lame obfolete abdicated “ Pnnciple in Play again, and father it upon the Church t- too; this can be nothing but a Combination to expofe » her. What would any King of England think of the Men i that fhould talk this Language to them again, that fhotild come to a Prince and fay, Sir, you need never fear any »J Difturbance from your Loyal Subjects the Church of a England, for whatever you do to them, they’ll lubmit; SI ’tis their Principle, and they profefs to believe, that you bare God’s Vicegerent, accountable to no Body; That you ,ican do no Wrong; That your Crown is held immedi- eately of God, and Independent of the Laws; and'there¬ fore if your Occasions fhould require you to pinch them isa little in their Property, or difpenle with the Execution pof the Laws, or the like, you need not fear; the Church will always ftand by you with her Life and Fortunes, j What would a King of any Policy anfwcr? I know lanot indeed, but if I were to make an Anlwer for him. Kit Uiould be, Salisbury for that ; Til not venture you . Shall isiany Man pretend to be a Friend to the Church of Eng- ilandy and fet a foot again the Do&rine of the King’s Ab- silolutc Power? If the King can do no Wrong, fome seiBody did the late King a great deal of Wrong. Are bml Councilors only puniibable and accountable for the Malmanagements of the Government ? Where then wa : the Juftice of this fort of Churchmen, who fiew in the si race of their King, and never punillfd one of his-Evil % A 4 Coun- IV The PREFACE. Counfellors ? The Unaccountable K'ng was Dethroned, but his Accountable Minifters conti r ued in Play, and perhrps lome of them bought their Employments with his Money. Was King James treated like a Man that cow'd do no Wrong , and was not Accountable ? Let thofe who blame fome People for the Inconlftency of their Principles, reconcile, if they can, the Doflrine of Paffh/e- Obedience, Non- Refiftance, and the King’s being not Ac¬ countable, to the Practice of the High-Church of Eng¬ land in the Primitive Part of the late Revolution. I think my felf unconcern’d to enlarge here upon the incoherent Nonfenfe that this Dcfhine abounds with: The Church of England is bound to ib.ow it, to juftjfy her own A flings Jn Dethroning the late King, and it is a double Satyr upon the Church to pretend "to vindi¬ cate it i it being impoflible to reconcile the Principle of Pafive-Obcdienec with the whole Proceeding of the late Revolution ; if the Doitrine be true, if the King can do no l Vrong, if it be lawful on no Account whatever to re¬ fill his Power, or take up Arms in Defence of Liberty, Law, Religion, or Property, however opprefs’d or endan¬ ger’d ; thefe are fome of the moll inevitable Conse¬ quences. All the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Commons of England, who either invited over, or join’d with the Prince of Orange, anl afterwards confented to his being made King * all thofe who Swore to him when he was King, or that have imee concurr’d in the New Eftabliih- ments, are all Perjur’d Rebels; abominable, and to be abominated by all good Men are never to be tolled or believ’d again, neither when they Say, nor when they Swear; the Crime ought never to be forgotten by Men, nor T'tnfVir'.nf R ormnla non wrlll /V 11 i 11 . .L i legtance, The P R E F A C E. i legiance, and applying to a Foreign Prince, for the re- at: drelfing the Nation’s Grievances; if the EngH/h Nation pit : had both Reafon and Right to oblige the King to give tip the Laws their Courfe, and to let every Man enjoy his h; Property: If the King is guilty of doing Wrong, and k both he and his Counfellors may be puaifh’d for the p fame; he by making War again ft him, and they by k the Ax and the Halter: Tn a word, if the prefent Efta- £» bhlbment of the late King, or prefent Queen, jf the late or prefent Parliament are fix’d on any Jufticc, Law a:j or Reafon, then this Satyr is juft, the Argument good, r and the Englijh has done no Wrong. I That Kings are not Kings Jure Divirto, that when they K: break the Laws, trample on Property, affront Religion. > z invade the Liberties of Nations, and the like, they may be i: oppofed and refilled by Force. ;i The prefent Publication of this Satyr has oblig’d me to si confider of Circumftar.ces, and as there are fo me Truths Ht which do fuit all Times, I have laid by a Second Vo- *; lume ; hot that I think there is any thing in' it which is !t not as fit to fee the Light as this ; but I fay of it, as the 4 Apoftlc in another Cafe, I have many things to Jay , but you cannot bear them now. rz The focond Part I confels was die firft in A if bon, and contains fome Characters, and forne Enlargements on 1x5 particular Tranfuftious, which for ought I know might [j not give Offence, and I am perfwaded would not from j,; another Pen; neither had this been mention’d, but to let t) thofe Gentlemen, who may think this incomplc-at with- 5] out it, know, That no other reafon prevented its running a further length, than thofe Prudentials, which I have i not been over-apt to make ufe of in other Cafes. E I confels I am lorry I fhould entertain any Fears, that • this Nation thould relent a thing wrote againft a Principle, il which is the greateft Affront to the prefent Eftabliibmen; that can poffibly be thought of ; and nothing but the 4 Power of Prejudice could move luch a thing ; but fincc fome People, who are to© apt to make Mifconftrudlion, ,'j watch for my Mifcarriage, I facrifice the remaining part r of this Work to their Malice, not at all at the fame time . thinking they adt either with Jufticc or Honour. I have VI The PREFACE. I hare concluded this Volume with a juft Acknowledge¬ ment in behalf of my Native Country to the prefent and laft Reign, for that vifible Difference appearing in them, between the Reign of Tyrants, and the Reign of juft Princces, when Property is fecur’d under juft Laws pun¬ ctually obferv'd, and the Crown enjoying a due Extent, is neverthelefs limited by thole Laws; when the execu¬ tive Power acknowledging the juft Superiority of the Law, regulates it felf according to the true intent and meaning* of all Power ; The Publicl Good. If any are fo weak as to fuppofe this is a Satyr againft Kmgly Government, and wrote to expofe Monarchy • I think I ftioqld liifticicntly anfwer fo foolifh a Piece of Raillery, by faying only, they are miftalen. But becaule Ibme Men require more explicit Anfwers than others, I take the Liberty to declare, that I not only now, but on all Occafions, when there was Ids need of vindicating my Opinion, have declared my Belief to be that a Monarchy,_ according to the prefent Conftitution limited by a Parliament, and dependent upon Pave, is not only the beft Government in the World, but alio the bejt for this Nation in particular , moft fuitable to the Genius ot the People, and the Grcumftanccs of the whole Body. KGxnwmmcalth can never fuit a Nation where there is fo II- iu;trims a hobility, and fo Numerous a Gentry; the Emula¬ tions, Factions and Parties of fuch Men, arc apt to be too turbulent tor fuch a Government. If we were a Na¬ tion Oi nicer Piebeii , all Commoners, or the like, other Arguments might be us’d: But as it is, I am fully per¬ il aded of toe Benefit of a Monarchical Government to the whole Bod vj and I muft tell the Objedor, no Man r 5 ' f 1c - r t0 a faithful Subje& to a Monarchy, than ne w ho isconyincd in his Judgment of its being, not only a gooa Government, but the beft for the Publicl Bc- But tms I can defend without being of Opinion That a'nd e theTn P*® He f en ^ Pact 1„ P ? C W£rC r a ' 1 horn Kith Saddles on their ■hmk a a King wanted » , ra l k CTofs , {y”, his L The PREFACE. ^~vii this Majcfty might command 20 or 30 of the Heads of his a! Followers to be cot oft to make Steppings for him, that tube might not dirty his Sacred Skooes: 1 profefs my lelf a jit dutiful Subject to the .Crown of England, andin that (■•Word, I mean, to what Headfoever on which the Parlia- went of England Wall place the Cjrown; but I own no King to who Wall ever wear it without Confent of Parliament, jtno King, who (hall after fuch Confept employ the Pow¬ ders of it to the Deftmclkn of the Law, and Conftitu- tion of the Nation, who Wall invade the Property of icthe Subjecft, invert the publick Juftice, or overthrow the ( Religion and Liberty of England ; fuch a Prince is a Ty- ; rant, and nay be depofed by the fame Pwer that p!ac d him upon the Throne ; any Hereditary SucceOioir, pre- ;,■» tended Divine Right, Supreme Power, or other Mat- mttcr, Caufe or Thing to the contrary in any wife nctwithjland- ifng. 1 In The Parliament of England , confifting of the King, ia Lords and Commons, are to me the Supreme Channel , i; of Power, the Great Collective Body in Miniature; their ■;«Right has a much fairer Character of Divinity upon it ij^ than the Regal, being deriv’d from their Propriety in the i Freehold; the Land' is their own, this Ifland is their fj own, and every Man has a Right of Government, who j'h has a Right of Pofleffion. t Q » Kings, fay our Champions of AbfoJute Power , have their ^ Authority from God, and from Him only. Of fuch Gen* tlemcn it would be well to ask fome fuch Quduons as I thefe; When they receive this Power ? And What Kings j! are they that have it ? If all Kings have it, then the Uiur- ^ per,who murthers the Right Heir, has it; and Crookback Richard had it, and was King Jure Divino -, and what was *, Henry VII. then? To take up Arms againft a Rightful, t, Lawful Prince, who had his Power immediately from the Moft High, and was accountable to none but him ? jj If Ufurpers have not this Divine Right, Where then f r will you find it ? And what Nation has a Prince whole ,j r Line did not begin at fome Period of Ufurpation, or in I I the Injury of the Right of another; or, in llaort, by u'. fome unjuft SucceiTion ? 'I ’ If via The P R E F A C E. If a Ufurper then has no Right, he has not a Divine Right; if he has any Right, he is no more an U- liuper. They that will make no DiftinfHon between Pcrfon and Power in this afe, would do well to tell us where this Wonder of a King is born : let them fhow us this- Star, that we may go and Worth ip ; I think we may • fairly challenge them to (hew us a 1 .ine of Kings in the World, that is not full of Ufurpations. But if we grant this Divine Righ , and particularly grant it in our own Line, which I believe is as clear i from liach Interruptions as any in the World can pretend? to. Then a certain Univerfity which Burnt the Books of our late Phanatical Authors concerning the Diftin&ions . between the Perfon and the Power of the King, ihould now burn the new Diftindtions between a King de Jure t and a King de Fatto, and ihoutd now burn all their Pa- negyricks and Paftorals, their Speeches, flattering Decla- ’ mations printed by Church-Authority, and made in ° l King William, and on the Death of Queens They would do well to acquaint the World how he* came to.be King, and Her preient Majefty to be his Sue- ? ceflor; and if King James had a Divine Right, which * believe he had as much as ever any King of England had which is raft none at all • and if he was accoun- '■ table to no Body, how the Church will anfwer tram, ! phng on that Divine Right, and bringing in a Fo- ' reign Power to queflion him for Malverfation of Go¬ vernment. Will they tell us at the Boyn, Did they Fight againft ms Pcrfon 01 lus Power? Did they there diftinguilfi be- tvieen the Man and the King? Did they not in Month- \Pa Dai y Ira , yers ’ ? ive God Thanks for the I copies Vitfory over their late Monarch? Did they not {£* had itT * S him ’ and ' make Bonfires When Every .Panegyric* upon King William, was a Ballad vponKmgy^ f , and a Lampoon upon Divin? Right • n tins Dofipne have any Truth in ft, thsJeGeSmU have The PREFACE. \J have hat little in them ; and the Church of England has more to anfwer. for, than all the Churches in the Chri- ftian World. But She is wifer, the Doftrine of Government and O- bedience is fettled by the Church of England , and con¬ firm’d by Parliament; and ’tisan unaccountable Affront to both, but particularly to the Church, to pretend to fa¬ ther this Doctrine upon her, when with Arms in her Hands She has declar’d her Self to the contrary. The Church of England has not only depoled the King that pretended to this empty Title, and that encourag’d this Doctrine, but has depoled the very Doctrine it felf; and condemn’d it as abliird and ridiculous, and this both by Practice and Profeflion; and how fhould the Church of England do any otherwife, when her very Foundation Hands upon this Depofmg Pomr i Has She not practis’d it to fecure her own Foundation, and juffify’d it as a Nccellity very well to be defended ? What greater Argument was given for inviting the Prince of Orange to come over with an Army ? And what greater Argument can be given, than that King James, mov’d by Popiih Counfels, had undermin’d and invaded the Church of England f -This was the univerfal Complaint, the FaCt was true beyond Contradiction; the Attempt was not denied even by thofe that were concern’d in it: For this the Church of England had recourfe to a Foreign Power: For this She took Arms, and Fled for recourle to her Native Right , and to the People of England, who at all times were her Refuge, and who ever will be fo. _ _ / _ . Nor is this the firA time the People of England have done thus by a great many; the Barons Wars are Hand¬ ing Records of the juA Title the English Nation had to their Ancient Priviledges, and by Confequence, to defend them when invaded even by their Kings themfelves; the l'everal Contraventions of Treaties, Breaches of Oaths, and Invasions of Right in King John againA the Liber¬ ties of his SubjeCls, we find juAified the Treaty they .made with Prince Lewis, Son to the King of France, who the En^lifh Nobility and Gentry invited over, to free them from the Malc-adminiAration of the Tyrant, and whe ■■ X The PREFACE. whom they join'd with all their Forces at his Arrival, defeating their King by his Atfiftance in the Battel near Lincoln. And after the Death of King John , when the Earl Marfhal in a Speech perfwaded the Englijb Nobility to accept of the young Prince Henry, Sen of King John, to be their King; he recommends him not barely as his Son, or haying a Divine Right in his Succeflion, but as he had by bis tender Years, been Capable of no part in the Evil Government of his Father; he defires them to pity his Youth, and not deprive hint for theSin of his Father: Upon which they Unanirnoufly made him King. I know no Parallel Cafe lo exaitly Suits the calling over the Prince of Orange, as this calling over Prince Lewis: Nor was it from any fenfe of King, jofw’s Title, or their tvant of a Tuft Right to .Depole him, that they did not actually declare Lewis of France their King; But firftKing John did not Abdicate and leave the Kingdom, and con- lequenily the Throne vacant; and had not King Jams done fo in too much hafte for him, it had been very difficult to have deciar d King I William during his Life; but the French began to be infolent and haughty, and rendred themlclves intolerable to the Engli/h ; which ali¬ enated the Minds of the People, and efpecially of the Gen¬ try from them, and ferv’d to haften the acknowledgine the Son of their late King. Nor had it been anyQuefticn, but that had King Jams fett a Son in England behind him, a Protejtant, and claim- l ng L lh r L-r Vn, , he wou]d h . ave had ir-—But had the 9 ' his Son been unqueftion’d here, his carrying him certainly depriv’d him as cffeCtually as it did his Father. 1 1 he_ next General Inftance of the Peoples taking up A.'S? m a 5 ai , nft their Sovereign, is in the time ot King Charles I. I know there were Wars in Enriant on vanous Occaficn?, between the Houfcs of Lancafier /!/ Fork, ^ befides the Quarrel between Richard III. and J ;cnry Duke o t Richmond; but thelc were rather Dif- puies of Rival Tr- ts to the Crown, than univerlal D* lemons of the opprefs’d People from their Subjection to tt:e:r invading Princes; ' But The PREP ACE. x i But examining the Reign of King Charles t you find rone of the Nauons either of England, Scotland, i Iceland dAuung the Legality of his Title to Govern, but the Le¬ gality of his Governing.— -And therefore with SubSn to lome Gentlemen, who will not bear the Comparifon between the late Revolution, and the Parliament War I mull fay that diftinguilhing rightly, the Comparifon is very ;uli, and the Parts have an ex’d Conn S fo far as it was a Parliament War. n ’ lc> fcveral °/rightly of the lcveral larts of thofe Tranladhons, which Caufes the Be¬ ginners of one A£hon, to entitle Heaven to the Wonders of Rcbcnbn. Utl0n> an<1 the ° ther fal1 undcr the Uncial I know fome People will not bear the Comparifon and fometimes are apt to Jet their Patience forlabc them when tis attempted: But if they return to their Temper be pleas d to let their Judgments be guided by the Nature It will r WPS* 1 ** 0 ? ofthofe Times guide them' h y mil lee Ids difference here, than perhaps they ima- ginc* To clear up this Point, it wilt be neceflary to exa- ftnne the Originals of both thefe Wars. ,, T 5 V°i np!a ; nts of the People in thofe Days again!* s , rnva 5 °» their Rights, are not only acknow- ^ Lord tendon, who'futhcicntlv blame the Conduit of that King, but even by that King himfelf, when he pafs d the Famous Petition of Rirkt 1 Na < afe the fame with the %ck- ramn ef Right, at the Revolution: The Words of the intcfaY^ Pa(I ’ n2: C r at P T e:ition > which was converted £, a , wcre * Sm Broil coixne il eft Defirc. . Let Ri„ht be done you, as you Demand.— A plain Ac- Kno.Uedgment, not only that it was their Right they demanded, but alfo, that they had a Right to demand *•:Several Concifl c'ris at other Times made bv the _S, llroje Misfortune nas Jomtimes to ?rant tooftsuch SL* iTu'T/ 09 - Httle ’ were Plain Acknowedg- pJai ' ’ ^ them good Oocaiion to com- i-TTi * 3 * gl the PREPUCE ’Twas fot thefe Rights, afterwards invaded, that the Parliament and the King unhappily differ’d; 1 won’t trou¬ ble the Reader with the Debate, who began the War, who run things to needlefs Extremities, or whether both Sides, Led by England’* Fate, did not incur the Blame of being too blind to the Calamities that enfued.--—But I no way txcufe what the Confluence of thefe things was in excufing the firft Contrivers and Beginners of them from having the leaf! Hand in, or Defign of bringing things to the Extremities that followed. There were a great many honeft Gentlemen in that Parliament, who, tho’ they'thought themlelves oblig’d in Duty to their Pofterity, to contend with the utmolf Vehemence for the Liberty of their Country, yet had no manner'of Defign to Dethrone the Monarchy, over¬ turn and fiibvert the ConftitUtion, and bring this Nation under the Tyranny of a Standing Army. As to the Death of the King, their future Behaviour teftified for them, both in their Treatment of the King, while he was in their Power, and their Refentment of the Ufagc he met with when he was taken out of their I Power, by the Soldiers, That they were innocent fo much as of the Thought. I cannot deny What I have fo often affirm’d in ano¬ ther Cafe, which I fay is parallel to this, that from the time they took up Arms, every Battle fought, every Shot made, every Gun fired, was a tacit killing the King, and that £b every Member of that Parliament had a Hand ■ in killing the King. But when thefe Gentlemen had brought the War to a CoUclulion, and had the King in their Poavcr, What did 1 1 they dp ? Did they not according to their Treaty with j 1 the Scots, -treat him with Freedom, Honour and Safety? I! Dii they not ferioufly apply themfelves to a Treaty with I him for the fettling the Nation, upon fuch a Foundation as they thought agreeable to what they had Fought for?] And did they not confent to reftorehimtd his Crowd! and Dignity, and to return to their Obedience upon 1 iuch Conditions as were fuitable to their firft Demands ? I And had they not gone fo far, and the King fo far com- , j ply d as that they voted the King’s Conctffions a fuffi- ! ! Croat Ground ok a Treaty ? m PREFACE. Thus far I do ftill infill upon it, That the Parallel be¬ lt ttveen the Civil War, or Parliament War, or Rebellion , t call it which you will ; and the Inviting over, Joining i with, and Talcing up Arms under the Prince of Orange, j again/} King James , feems to me to be very' exadt, the il drawing luch a Parallel very juft, and the Foundation, ti Proceeding, and Iftue juft the fame. s I have nothing to do here with the Conicqucnccs of ii the Adi on ; the Parliament-Men, and others concern'd in that War, could no more have it in their Ddign to at deftroy the Perfon of King Charles I. of the Englifh Gen¬ ii try, that invited over the Prince of Orange, have it in oi their Defiento form the Revolution that follow’d, than il either of them could forefee the fubfequent li nes of their !t . Undertaking, before it was begun, on Neither of them can deny 1 , the Deftrddion of tlietr King, might, for ought they knew, be the Conlcquences t ™ the War, or by an alternate Fortune, thtir own De- ijr liruction might be the fame: Eut the necelhty of put- at * in g both to the hazard, was certainly equal, and the in Tatvfuincfs equal by the fame Confequence; and I can- id **c>t go from it, that both the laid Wars were rais d up¬ on the fame Foundation, viz,, the Crown, invading the » laws and Liberties of the Subjedt. How any People cart ts then Defend the inviting over the Prince of Change, to ic Check the Invafions of King James II. and at the lame I time condemn the taking Arms again# the Invafions 6f . King Cnarles I. remains to be refolv’d. If they will prove, that the Invafions of Right, Pro- 3 petty,_ and Englijh Laws, were not equal, or proportioft- l^ablvlo; nor the Adhons«of both equally Illegal, they ,:jnuft deny what the Parties thCmfelves have rcKriow- iledg’d by their attempting to undo them again when too ic lat T r .. . jj. ^ they will prove, that one FrinCe had mere Right tc .impofe upon his Subjedls, then the other, atid that ti e fi ub;ects then ought to bear what the Subjedls ought P t0 /Wilt, the Cafe will alter, and I (ball j aticntJy ex- jipedt lome fuch Arguments t6 jtillify th«f: Eut if I am dilappointed m that, Iftiall ceale to wonder, when I re- ifledt, thatlinpoflibilities are not Jo'be expelled .• Itt XIV The PREFACE. But all thefe Things are anfwer’d by one fort pf Men, and they are Inch as argue, That neither of -thefe A6H- ons arc juliifiabfe at alt; That the King receiving his Authority from no human Sanction, but from God alone, is accountable to none but Him ; That tit Right is Inhe¬ rent, his Pcrfon Sacred, and the Obedience of his Subjects a Debt of Religion , in Obedience to the Commands oi Qod, and conicquently muft be without Relerve. To fuch I am not fpeaking in the Preface, but in the Bok: and fhall icfer them to it; the Satyr is theirs: This Part is directed to another fort of Folk, and there¬ fore is wrote in another Dialect ; I only ask thefe, what is all this to the Parallel I draw between the Parliament War, and the taking up Arms againli King James, both which Were begun upon the lame Foundation, and a- gainlt the fame Pcrfon, on the lame Pretence? Both are exprels’d, and deferib'd by the fame Phrafe, or form of Words; both are the Englijh Nation, or Parliament taking Arms, upon the account of their Li¬ berties invaded, and Laws diipenlcd with, by the Arbi* . trary Will of their Princes. Both arc the Subjects taking Arms againft their Sove- ragn, which it it be not Lawful on any account, con¬ firms the Parallel, and both (hall join in meriting the Title of a Rebellion; if it may be Lawful on any ac¬ count, then it will only remain to examine, whether of the two can put in the faireit Claim to the Right of ta¬ king Arms for their Liberty ? . Alui .’ en * cr bere into the Melancholy Examina¬ tion of the Particulars, 1 leave it to any Body to examine, Whether the Invahon of Liberty, without confcnt in I ailument, etilpenfing with Laws, difeontinuing Parlia¬ ments, and oppreflmg the Subject in the Reign'of King Charla, were not equal to the lame, or fuch like Articles, under the Ad mi mil ration of King James II. and let but the Advocates of tins Matter deal impartially ; and when¬ ever they bring a htftcrical Parallel between the Reigns, l ieai not an eteCtual Conhrmatton of my Propofition ? i cannot but remind my' Reader to do me Tulfice for Ca f h , 3t tIi£ Sou " d of Tilings,’ and 111^: isce Words; but Jet them take me right, and fix the fame ,, The P R E FA C E. xv & fame Periods of the feveral Adions as I do; the firft to the King, being forcibly taken oiit of the Hands of the '5 Parliament, by a JunRo of the Army, when His Majejlys & Cuncefflons on one hand, and his Subjefts ConceJJlons on the jt other, had bought a happy Peace in view, which View Isi was one Reafon that exaipejrated the Army, and to pre¬ vent which they thus flew in the Faces of their Matters, *: and turn’d thatForce upon them, which they ought to e have employ’d in their Defence, and by their Order: # The other Period tliey mutt fix at the time of the Retreat ti of King James, and the Convention of Eftates being A fi¬ ne fembled to fettle the Engiifh Government, and to rettore i the Liberties of the People* which the Arbitrary Proceed- ii ings of that King had ruin’d and fubverted. Hitherto both Parties a6ted upon the fame Foundation, ui from the fame, and equally to be juftified Principles, and kept to their declar’d Defigns. 1 What happen’d in both Cafes fubfequent to thefe Pe¬ rt fiods, may be reckoned atnOng the unforefeen, and re¬ mote Conlequences, which tio Man could have been ;r charg’d with projeding in the firft Delian, and are not Es at all concern’d in the Difpute. I no more believe, that the firft Raifcrs of the Civil • War, fappefe the Parliament Agrejjors , ever defign’d to j have brought the King to a fofmal Trial, and to the Block as a Criminal, or forefaw any fuch Event in that War; than the firft Signers of the Invitation to the Prince of Orange could forefee or defign King James's Abdica- ^“tTOtr* sntt^e future Settlement of the Crown: Nor can any Man from a rational Conjecture from whence, to t fnake it probable, that either of thefe could be forefeen i on either hand. i As the Chances of War, and the various Succcffes of Adions of this Nature are unaccountable, and Men that i*. Ad on fiich Occafions, are anfwerable for the Confe- 5 quences of fuch Adions, whether forefeen or no: Soin- > deed, cither fide arc accountable for the Things that fol* f low’d; and how jitftifiablc both are, I refer to Hiftory, and this Book ; but the Eufmefs I am here Upon, is, whether the Cafes are alike, or no, and 1 profefs not to be able to fee the Difference. F> ^ The xvi The PREFACE. The War m both Articles began with the fame Pre¬ tences, on the lame Principles, in the lame Manner, the Complaincrs alledge the fame thing, the Kings afted al- moft the fame Things, and the Ifliic brought forth the lame Event, viz,. Depofing the King. What Difference there was in the lubfequent Proceed¬ ings, I lay again, is nothing to the pUrpofe I am upon: Nor can I Concern my Ielf to Enquire, whether Suffer¬ ing of Death, or Exile, were 1110ft Grievous, or moft Cri¬ minal ; thofe Things admit of Difpute, and are too fad to make Merry with ; but thus far I think the Parallel is very plain, and cannot be deny’d, that the Reafon of the Waf is the lame, and one cannot be juftified with¬ out the other. And yet, lliould I enter into the Enquiry, which of the two Kings had the word Treatment; I confcls my ielf at iome Lofs to determine; and therefore to thole Gentlemen that are angry at an Expreflion of mine in a- nother place, concerning the Difference between Dry and Wet Martyrdom, 1 take the Liberty to fay, That either refpedting the Suffering it fclf; Or the manner preceding it.-—If I might be at liberty to lay what I think, 3 tis really my Opinion, that King James went through the moft, and with more cutting Ag¬ gravations; and let the Cenlitrers of this do me Juftice, | fear incurring no Blame from Men of impartial, difcern- . fng, unbyafs’d Judgments. It is not material to enquire into the Caufes here, or what brought either of thefe Unfortunate Princes into Di- ftrels; but I am fpeaking as to the Weight of their Suf¬ ferings, refpeefing themfelves, and the Guilt of the Per- fons, relpeding the Inftruments. i. As to the Weight of the Sufferings, I am clear in it; tho’ in this I pretend but ter fpeak my own Opinion, that all the formidable Terrors of the Ax and the Scaffold, with their preceding Violences, I mean from the time the King felhnto the Hands of the Army, to his Death, could not amount to a Ballance of the Exile, the Infults, the un- fwfferabk Treachery of Friends, and this added to the length of Time, -which the late King had to ftruggle with in his Depofmg, Death Vv> The P R E F AC E. ^xvii » Death is an immediate Gate of Deliverance to fuch k Preflures as are beyond the Power of Flefln and Blood to ii fupport ; and tho‘ the Weight of all forts muft be very in heavy, under which King Charles the Firll fell, yet it had fome Alleviations which this had not. i i. He had the Satisfaction to fee, that his numerous i: Friends had ftuck to him faithfully; that tho’ he was over-powered by his Enemies, yet he had Thoufands of his j. faithful Subjects had fpent their Blood in his Service, and fii the Remnant continued true to him to the laft, only want- j ed Ability. 2. He law the very People, whofe Power had reduc’d | him, look’d on the Violences he then fiifter’d with the utinoft Regret: That it was a new undilcovered Mine, if let on Fire from below, under which the whole Conflitu- uj tion at that time feem’d to ly buried, as well as he; and £ that the very Men, who took up Arms againfl him for j. their Liberty, yet abhorr’d the extending their Victory to - B j his Deftruftion. 3. Had he thought fit, (as fere Princes hat he notild have flack at itj to have abandon’d the Bifhops, he might long before that, have been re-cllablilh’d. j; Other Circumftanccs I omit, which 1 might bring to r. prove the Alleviations of Sorrow on his Side much greater . than on King James'%. But to come to the other Side, u The late King faw himfelf betray’d by his neareft Friends, abandon’d of thole very Men that had led him by the Hand into the Snare; a univerfal Defection, the Ex- \ ceptions in which were very few; no Body to fland by j, him; thofe very Men that had fworn to a PaiFivc Abfblute Submiflion, and taught it to others, i» Arms againfl him. j. He faw himfelf fo intirely deferted, that he found him- felf, incapable of having, as rve fay , one Day for it, or an Opportunity of ftriking one Bloiv for his Crown. He law himfelf tols’d off from his Throne by thole very j. People, who in the Reign before, who w r ere moft zealous to place him there; he law thofe that flatter’d him with the Sanction of his Perlon, and his deriving his Authori¬ ty from God alone, arm’d with Guns and Swords, viola- txpg that Y?ry Perlon they pretended to hallow } thole 5 63 that xvui The PREFACE. that told him he was accountable to none, calling him to an Account fqp even the very things he had acted by their Advice, aaid.., whichr.they had been the Engines to draw him into. .#.&■ Add to this, that, he faw himfelf driven out of his Kingdom by a Force^fte had the leaft Reafon to apprehend; his own Children fei: upon his Throne by that National Authority, which he had too much contemn’d, and all poffible Indignities put upon his Perfon by the Common People. i; Efcaping fhe Tumult and Infults of the Rabble, he fled into France -, there he liv’d to fee his powerful Ally not able to reffcre him, the Royal Navy of France deftroy’d in his Defence, and at laft the molt Bloody War that ever Europe faw, began on his Account, but ended without any Relief, and his Patron of France forc’d to make Peace without him. Hfe law his Rival King William eftablifti’d at Home, ac» knowledged from Abroad, and go Home triumphing over his Defperate Fortunes; and all thefe iSeverities making deep Wounds in his Soul by the continuance of 11 Years, without Profpedt of Recovery. an y ^ an as ^ me ? if the Ax and the Scaffold had halt the intolerable Weight of this Burthen?— I cannot but think I have fufficiently demonftrated, that the laft, as the Paflive part of Valour, as the Grcateft, fufter'd moft i, Astothe A&ive part, and the Perfons afflicting, to me it is . th 1 e lame, and the Guilt of the laft rather exceeds that of the firft. And here let me enter a due Caution; I do not by hcightning the guilt of the Laft, attempt to leflen the °f ^he Firft, nor am I concern’d in it. Ihe firft was alt Tumult, Army, and Rabble; their Vi- K-fnf Tk! T a,on 1 }} C Nation, as on the Perfon of the King ; they Dethrond not the King only, but the Con- mer t'Ts , \Su y the very Government; Govern. _ as as the Governour.-It was an unarnun. r a ^ a I°r Cnt ’ n^ e a f !ood f ro m the Sea driven upon the ,"*1* khTforl-d its way oyer all Bounds, and broke down all the legal -n. s and Oppofition, Drowns the Country, and many inno- s Tb' PREFACE. ^xix j' inncent People are deftroy’d by the Violer.ce of it; but (• when it lias fpent its Force, returns with the like Fury and Impetuofity, and at laft ends in its Native Ocean • ^ and lo did this. k J*l at , thcl ’ e Vioknces were Illegal, Rebellious, * B’oody, tig ana Barbarous, and that the King and many others of the if: belt Families in England, and fome of thole that were of c th , c nrft that took Arms againft him, fell under it, was what indeed was to be expeited from fuch a Storm ; and |t | of thele it (hall be laid, That as a Man fell before wick- cd Men, fo fell Abner. !j But take even this Army, this Rabble of Soldery; nay,. . Bj add to them all theDefigmng Party, and thole, if any fuch ^there were, who had the Deftiudtion both of King and Pj Confutation in their View from the beginning, alf docs not amount to the Treachery, the Balenels and abomi¬ nable Hypocrify of thefe Men, who did all this Vio- ^ ncc t0 King James, after they, the very fame individual ^Perfons, had prompted him to all the unhappy Steps he ij-took , juftihed the very arbitrary Proceedings and illegal Practices they afterwards expos’d him for; nay, and fomc , of them the very Inftruments which aflifted him in acting them. f: This tinfufferable Treachery in the People he trufted, ag- ^gravated their. Crime and his buffering, beyond all that I • think can be laid of King Charles 1. . To fay they did not Wither him, is to fay nothing, his Share, as to them l mean, I think exceeded that of his Fathers, and. if their Crimes will admit of Compan¬ ions, certainly the laft exceeded all that ever went before ■them. t They did not try him, and cut off his Head; that had been Une coup de Grace, they were n Years a Muithcring him, and he languifh’d all that while under their Treachery : And this is what I mean by the Dry and 1 Vet ■Martyrdom; and if the Gentlemen that Objedl againft the ■Companion, pleale to enter into the Particulars, they lvilL •hnd the Dry, Starving, Betraying Martyrdom of King James exceed the other. " Not that I think the Revolution founded upon any Tung of this Treachery, however affiftant it was to bring f B 4 the xx The PREFACE. z hc Revolution to pafs-, nor do I argue, that the Dcpofing King 'James was an unjuft A&ion, becaufe it came as the Conlequence of the People of England taking Arms to de¬ fend their Liberties and Laws, which were manifeftly in¬ vaded—. ^hat refpecis thofe People who fufferd by, and com¬ plain d of thofe Invafions and Opprefoons. For King Junes was not depoled by thofe, otherwife than eventually; theft were the Caufes of all this; thefe Men led him into this Snare, fwore their Allegiance to him upon abfolute rchgnmgTerms; iigncl a Licenfe to him to b.e a tyrant, as far as concern'd their Part • They own’d him as a Monarch Jure Divino > of Right inherent, Power Ablojute, and Perfon Sacred, and w r hen they had thus led him to the Guiph, they puftulhim in ; and not only abandon d him, but purlued him with the fame Violence Uiey had condemn’d otliers for before; one and all, they drew the Sword agamft the Lord's Anointed, called him to an Account, whom they had Sworn to as Unaccountable, and ruin d him tor thole very Actions they hadthruft him upon before. After they had made his Cafe fo defperate, and puftfd him upon Things io unjuftiriable and unaccountable. fore d even his beft Friends, and his own Hcuftiold and Cm.area to fay from him ; how did thefe Men de- tend hum t How did they ftand by him with their Lives and Fortunes, Thmgs they had fo often Banter'd him ^ ub? 1 dh } thc y that addreis'd him with Thanks for his Standing miny to Day, to Morrow Addrefs the 1 unce ot Grange, With peihaps like Hypocritical Thanks for rcfcuing than from the Slavery and Tyranny of the lame Sunning Army ? HoW did they, that in their fie- AddrdTes \to Stand by Him with their Lives and For. by ’ , a 5 d look on at his Deftru&ion, with?* th f LlUS anJ FortUnds t6 c heat liis SuccelTor Tuns ticy put him to Dry Martyrdom* drove him liQin ms 1 hrone, lent him to feek Safety, and even Sub- Sr^ U ^' SnC ° UrtS > to Hvc an exil 4 Strang 0 " °fcS u "S- ,CS, tHTg nd penftl under aU the Mifenes Dwth. ‘ * ’ ° a Mmd, is vcorife than The PREFACE. 3cxi To fay he was entertain’d, and receiv’d well abroad, ■ is nothing to them, to the utmoft of their Power, they ftarv’d him; and thus they murther’d him, as I call it; '» and what he endur’d by their Treachery, both as to the Perfon fuffering, and Perfons procuring, was in this tt much greater than that of his Father. As to the reft of the Nation, fucli as never conlented i to Arbitrary Invafions of Liberty, Arbitrary Difpenfings k with the Laws, and Arbitrary Governing by an Army, it they had really no other hand in the late King’s Dila- tt fters, than what he ought to have expedted; they never m profefs’d SubmiiTion beyond the Bounds of the Law; ne¬ tt ver told the King he might do what he pleas’d with th them, and that their Wives, Lives, Children and Eftates >[ were his Cattle, and his Goods to dilpofe at his Pleafure; ttt they never told, him, that his Authority was equal with k that of God himlelf; and to refill him, tho’ he Ihould nl turn Tyrant, was a damning Sin. 11 They always knew a legal Obedience, and no other; it they underftood themfelves bound to refill Violence of all forts, and to be at Liberty to oppole all that fbould Wi attempt the Life of the Conftitution, as the universal Er H nemics of their Country; this they had practis’d in all si Ages, and fo had other Nations likewile; and King Jams 1 could expe6l no other from them, it The Sum of all, is this ; all Nations determine, That; It Kings, who invade their People’s Liberties, break in up- ;t on Conftitutiops, and the Sacred Poftulata of Government; t that opprefs their Subjedls, and impofe unjuft and into* ini lerable Things upon them, MAY BE RESISTED; li be it by calling in, and joining with Foreign Aid, or Is be it by taking Arms ip the Defence of the Law r and ; j Common Liberty ; this is what is declar’d in the Revo- r lution, and this is the Foundation upon which the Par¬ liament took Arms in the Time of King Charles. And upon this very Score, tho’ in the common Stile 1 they were call’d Rebels, yet at the Treaty of Uxbridge , 2 His Majefty condescended to Treat with them as an Eng-> lifh Parliament, apd Inch they certainly then were, how- ; ever afterward difpolTels’d, and crulh’d by the Soldiery: And in the Matter of War, the King, even from the firft, volun- PREFACE. voluntarily declin’d treating them as Rebels, but gave Quarter of War to their Men, Exchang’d and Ranfom’d their Pnfoners, and in all Things us’d them as fair Ene- mies; and the like, without doubt, would have been ad , . n 3 j Amc s the Second flood out w'ith liis Subjects, and it had gone on to a War. From all thefe Things it appears, That it has never been the Opinion of the People of England, that the Sacred Right of their Princes extended to Protedi them againlt the Laws; or, that if they acted contrary to their > ^ ai u d Con J ra ^» they were forbid even to Difplacc and Dethrone them. F From whence then, and for what ends the Modern Po- Imeks of thek Ages have ullier’d this Monfler into the r W0 M d ment foi J? e H,thr y> wcre lt not diredtly t0 £? a ^' er d . m a very few Words. 7 file Rile, Birth, and Introduction of this Piece of In- confif fence in Realomng, I take to be properly account- fo n J h r S: A , ir,c T er Dcvice > and Politick Invention, fumiflid from the Fountain of Milchief, viz,. Man’s corrupt, yet fruitful Imagination, prompted by the Au- , :i i Miichief,^ the Devil; calculated for the ercif- mg, and found out by luch as purpofed to introduce Ty¬ ranny, and a bio! ute Government in the World. 7 l In tliele and in their Plots againft human Liberty and Civil Society, this Creature had its Birth ; fince ’tis’ evident nothing can ferye fo naturally to the Hellifh Pur- poie of lubdumg the Civil Rights of a Nation as firft o captivate their Minds, and inftife Notions of fome thing oacied, cither m the Pcrfon or Authority of the Arctch ? they were to be opprcls’d by: Thus the wav is made Imooth for all the horrid Excurfions of the molt cncro ff h,n S Tyrants in the World; for who in his Stnfes would refift the Voice of the King if once jie were bigotted into an Opinion, that it waf ’in a rer- taw , Z l ifS , ,T t A h ' ^of "J % s God. Sacred Authority, f rora the Commands of AraSprsm ttcSfcCffc.*? 5 "T t [‘T ° f th ' P rofin! by The P R E FAC E\^) xxiii tj by this, they obtain’d fo much upon the fubje&ed Minds k of the Poor impofed-apon Multitude, that thefe entirely (tgave up their Liberties to the Abfolute Tyranny of every [((barbarous Inhuman Wretch: And who could queftion tb(but it would be fo, when once the Folly of Men was prevail’d upon to believe the Divinity of the Tyrant. * at; Who would not, if the Gods fhould rule, Obey. 34 Thus this Delufion gain’d upon the World, as a flu- jfedied Introduction to Univerfal Bondage.—And nothing elfe could have made us Hoop in thefe wifer Ages, as we n )J a y they are, of the World ; Nothing could fo w r ell have re- itujconcil’d us to the Abliirdities of Arbitrary Power, as to i K back the prepoftcrous Notion with Itrange Suppofitions of a Sacred Stamp upon the Royal Tl ing impofing, as a d : proper Handle to prepare our Subjection to w r hat on no K other Terms, or by no other Method we could be brought si::, to¬ te And .yet as all Evil Defigns generally ruin themfclves, , by pulhing too far a certain Token of the wrong Found- dation they ftand on, fo it was here ; for had they been [], content to have fix’d the Sacred upon the Office, and not altogether upon the Perfbn of the Monarch, they might ■r by their ufual Artifice have run us a great w r ay blind- Z fold ; but as they forefaw that would not fo entirely vin- - dicate the conllant Enonnities committed by fuch fla¬ grant WTetches as God, for the Execution of his Judg- ; ments, fometimes thinks fit to fuft'er on the Thrones of .. Power; fo, like Men refolv’d to anfwer every End, and if poffible to bring deluded Nations into an ablolutc f Subjection to the Devil, under the Notion of a God, r they infill upon the Divinity of the Perfon of a King, . Inherent in hirnfclf. . Whether this inherent Divinity is convey’d to him by „ his Office, or his Line,_ they have not yet thought fit to . determine, but have left it as one of the unlurmountable ’ Difficulties of the Phenomena of Tyranny by Divine r Right, which future Ages may Solve if they can; or ra- 1 ther, which will rife up againft the Forgery, with fuch ' unanfwcrable Violence, as mull feme time or other effe¬ ctually xxiv The P REF AC E. dually undeceive the World, and reftore Men to their Senfes. For if Kings have their Divinity by Line, then none can have it but the Line; ’tis an Inheritance of the Roy¬ al Blood, from the firft Great Prince that Heaven deput¬ ed it to, and every Branch of that Line muft enjoy it; whfkthat Prince was, when the Sanction was imprefs’d upon him, and entail’d on his Pofterity, is a Myftery yet unfolded ; but where he found how the moll ancient Family now Reigning will do to Cap Pedegrees, and de¬ rive from that fanClified Blood, is a new Difficulty pad any Mortal Reach, and the ready way to bring fome Scandal upon all the Families of Royal Blood in the World, as Upftarts and Ulurpers. If puzzled with this Wildernefs-Inquiry, they would on the other Hand remove the Sacred from the Line to the Office, that is the Poffeflion; they open the Door to all manner of Violence and Usurpation, fince then he that has the Crown, becomes equally Divine with him that ought to have it, and the Ufurpcr is as Sacred as the mod rightful Monarch in the World. Other Abfurditics alfo would follow here, viz,, a Per- fon might be Sacred to Day, and not to Morrow ; if Sa- cred at all, it could not be lawful to Dethrone him ; and yet if Dethron’d, the Perfon who did it, by whatloevei Violence, Injullice, Cruelty or Blood, by his ftepping into the Seat, became ipfo fatto as Divine, as Sacred, and as much to be obey’d upon pain of Damnation, as he; and fo vice verfa from Tyrant to Tyrant, as often as Provi¬ dence thought fit to let Power overcome Right in the World. 1 (Rail no more trouble my Reader with fearching this Maze of Folly, its ridiculous and inconfiftent Naturi merits lather to be expos d, than debated; and therefore was this Satyr wrote; in which, if this Foot-ball of Jure ZWis not Efficiently kick’d about, you muft blame the Ability, not the good Will of the Author. 1 kn P' v has been expeded I Lhould in this Book have examind into all the Parts of Tyranny, as well Eccefiafti- cal as Civil, and perhaps there been had room enough for Satyr upon our Church-Tyranny; efpeeially as it has been lately The PREFACE. ' lately practis'd, and fmee endeavour’d to be Re-eftablilk’d in England. ;; But I have wav’d this unpleafant Task for many Rea- .fons, and fome of them are as follow. f i. Becaul'e it feems to be at an end in England, I look %n it as a Lyon flain, buried in the Grave of the Popiflr plnvafions, and Arbitrary Encroachments of the late Reigns 'of King C -— — j and King J—s IT. a Criminal convicted c by the Revolution, and executed by the Legal Toleration, K which is part of the EftablilRment of thele Nations; and Va thing on which too much now depends, to give us any Tuft Concern for its Danger: Perfecution, and Prieftly “'Tyranny, has receiv’d its Mortal Wound; in vain have been all the Attempts to revive h.—And I doubt not, “To they will continue. to! 2. As the Sovereignty of Cenfcience has gain’d the Vido-' Hfy over Party-Invafion, and the Church her felfhas difown’d : 'the Doctrine of Periecution, as a thing contrary to htr t Dottrine, and contrary to the Principles of the Chrijlian Reli¬ gion, it cannot be that a Refurredion of that Spirit can happen in this Nation, till England (hall fo far forget her ?fdf, as to contradict hi r own Dc thine, and ad contrary to i ike Principles of the Qrijlian Religion. !* And mould that unhappy Time ever come to pals in ^England, when the Church, by the Errors and Import¬ ations of any Party, (Rail be brought to litch Excentrick itMeafures, they may depend upon it, that when fhe comes ;ito her felf again, the will return to the fame Moderation, 'rtvhich the owns by her Principle to be iuft. 3 • Perfecution therefore, which is a meer Church-Tyran¬ ny, is an Enemy Conquer’d, abfolutely fubdu’d, and I : think Probabilities juftify me lpcaking with Aflurance, -'will never have a Refurredion again in this Nation. i£ There can but one thing reftore the Dominion of this Evil Spirit in this Nation, and that muft be the Return it of Popery upon us; and if this fort of Perfecution comes among us, it will make no difference between Church of Jj England and Dijfenter, but Perfecution refpeding Prote- jftantifm in General will be our Fate ; and how odious will Proteftant-Perfecution look then! All equally differ, band diflent from Popery; I hope they will not puih me it upon xxvi The P RE F AC E. upon entring on the ungrateful Comparifon of rvl:o dif¬ fers moil, or whole Principle is remoteft from the Church ef Rome; if Popery prevails, the whole Proteftant Church will be one Body of Diffenters under the Burthen of Ec- cleliaftical Perfccution, and under a Church-Tyranny, which the Chriftian Religion abhors ; and fome that are very forward to perlecute for the private Opinions o : Men, would do well to confidcr* 1. How naturally their tearing one another to Pieces by unrealonable and unchriftian Feuds, tends to pulling down the Proteftant lntcreft in General in thefe Nations; laying open the Fences and Fortifications of the Church, which lo much confift in a General Unity, and expofing her to be devour’d by Popery and Superfution* 2. How readily it fills the Mouths of the Enemies of the Church, who Wait for her hahing with Arguments againft the very Foundation of her Principles, that whilt fhe blames the Rowan Church for Coerciv'es, and the Fu- ry of Church-Tyranny, the at the feme time falls upon her weak brethren that offer to leparatc from her Com* munion, and to tear them to pieces by like uniuttifiable Tyranny. . The mod neceffary Application I can make from hence, is, That Perfection is a Seed of the Devil , born of Civil Tyranny , and degenerated into a meaner Species or Kind, than its Original; for I readily confirm tins Maxim, That of all Plagues, with which Mankind is Curl}, Ealefiaftical Tyranny's the worfi.- Tis plain, Perfccution is a thing really Odious and hate- 19 , * 9 , Nations, and therefore molt Religions in th< Wor d molt lnduftrioufiy avoid the Challenge, and a thcr drive to throw it off from one another, or excufi themlelves by Charging it upon their Neighbours • aife thinking to extenuate the Crime, by having it allow’d to be umvcrfel. I he Church of Route began with this, and SamJin thejeftm reproaches the Church of England with perfe- cimng thetr Febow-Hereticks, even as loon as they were & Uft S ° C ° Ut ° f thc Reach of Fire and F 3 S 2 ot them- Tba The PREFACE. xxvii ^7n e ,/ Cl ; UrCh -°i on the other hand, reproaches the DtJentersmth the lame Spirit, boafting the Pretences to the Jure Dtvino ot Presbytery , inttar.cine farther inT !?5 P v° cl t K na p °f for knilhing Prelatick Minifters in fndThe Ii£ Perkcutl0n 0t the Qa^rs in Nm-England, The Truth is, no Church, but that of Rome, profefes Persecution; and that I may not Charge the g£!S 5 . tholtcks with the Article ot Perfection without Ground • I refer the Reader to the Oath of a Bilhop to the PoS’ ■ f R r e £* c bound'by Oath'toPukctclhoie'^uvae ■ deem’d Schilmaticks and Herctieks. E*. ^| !lt ' n ’■be Church of England its quite different and :: “ s ’be Nature ot her Conditution is inconfiftent with the u: patenting Principle the Reformation having begun in 0 an Abhorrence of Perfection; fo to me it is a Itehra- n e a fo ^ otten ’ whi . ch ^*e found in the Prc- l, taken Care 7 n* Occalional Bill; and tho’ lome have c * A MVM e r obliterate it, by leaving it out in the ie- v co ' ld B,II » 1 cannot but on all Occafions repeat it in r order to perpetuate it to Pofterity, as a thing which dc- j° rec otded to the Honour of the Church of England , Viz. Whereas Perlecution fer Conference Sake is > C T r %\ t0 the Pnnciplet of the O.rijtian Religion, and to adLii m ? nl L b y thc Purchafe and Mciits of a Redeemer, and the like eflential Points of the Chriftian Religion; Inch a Man is a D.icipleofh jcZAJCl, -who calls her felf a Prnnhi"tv.-k i 1 r or U f • not to 1*» tnftprVl • ft ropneitls, and who ought Chrift to teach and ledur* T p erat , ec * In the Church of S S 3 l“ duce hls to commit Fomica- f The P R E F AC ET^ xxxiii at! I think we have no need of a Pope here, tire infallible W4 Judge is before you, to the Word, and to the Tcft many • the [««• Proof is plain, and the Diftinction I hope is according to if of Charity. 1 fe To Pcrfecute any Man, or Body of Men, that own Nilt and profefs fuch Fundamental Doilrines as theft, is an evident Invafion of the Native Rights of Conlcicnce, lefts which in fuch Matters can be fub/eft to no Temporal Ju- rcty rifli&ion, no, nor any Human Power, Eccleliaftical or 0 pt Civil; and. therefore is meer Church-Tyranny, exploded and abhorr’d by all Nations of Chriftians, and of which I have already noted, that it has been declar’d by the id! Parliament of England , to be contrary to the Principles' til of the Chriftian Religion, and the Doclrine of the Church ffp of England . its But yet to lay, that therefore all manner of Excurfi- Oitj ons, Blalphemous Opinions, and Heretical Doctrines, tv: mult be allow’d as a General Homage paid to the Claim jffe of Confidence; I fee no Connexion in the thing, nor b any thing on either hand that makes fuch a Teleration a it'i Confequencc of the other. pli But come we now to the Enquiry, What have the Dif- jt* fenters to do in this Calc ? And why fhould they be call’d Hlj upon to make any Declaration on this Head ? lit If any Man means by this to make an invidious En¬ quiry, which of the ftvcral forts of Diflenters are wideft ft; in their Toleration-Charity, who would, or would not l( f perfecute, if it w r as in their Power, and look back upon m former Days, to fetch their Proofs of what may be, from wliat has been. jji At leaft, let fuch People pretend no more, that thisEn- J quiry is made to unite, fortify, defend, and clear the Scandals rais’d againft the Difleriters, fince liich Enqui- jg ties tend to divide, make Reflections and Comparilons, ji the Practice of which is equally odious with the Confe- 0 quences. ji And farther, let them obferve, that they will find no- D thing from fuch an Enquiry or Retrofpcdh, but what ' may be join’d to like or worft Actions of the Church of , England , and bury’d among thofe Things W'hich they arc equally willing lliould be forgotten. C 3 The rz? KXxiv The PREFACE. The influences of the feveral Courts, the Effbfts of the Difputes about th cjm Divinum, of feveral forts of Power, whether Regal, Epifcoprl, or Presbyterial, have had fatal Efteils in their feveral Turns.-But all may have a good Iffue, in making every Age amend the Errors of their Fathers; and I cannot think it is to be argu’d, That if the Presbyterian Power were reftor’d to its full Exercife, it would proceed to Perfecution of other Or? thodox Opinions, becaufe, as they fay, it was once fo, any more than it is to be argu’d. That the Church of England, if the Toleration-A<£t ivere repeal’d, and the Law dc Harctici Combunndo reftor’d," would condemn the Qh ders and Baptifts to Fire and Faggot, becaufe they for¬ merly did lb. Thefe Suggeftions therefore, as contentious and malici¬ ous, I muft explode; and being equally bury’d in an Eftablifti’d. Toleration, the Retrofpeft is needlels and im¬ pertinent. But to come nearer to Mr. Toland, Why fhould the DifTtnters take upon them to declare their Opinion of who has, or has not a Religious Right to Toleration? Tis plain they have a Civil Right to it; ’tis the Purchafe of their Blood and Trcafure ; ’tis one of the Articles of their Confederacy with the Church of England, and ftipu- lated at a Time When it was in their Power to have been a fore Obftfuttion to the prefent Safety, and flourishing Condition of the Church, if not to have pull’d her quite down: From whence I cannot but note, That to talk now of Gifts, Charity,' and rrieer Conceflion of Grace, is i little ungrateful, and looks as if fome Gentlemen had for¬ got what Condition their Affairs were in, when the Dif- lentas left all the Eale, and promifed Liberty, of the in¬ viting Copt, and embarked in the'lame Hazards with the Church, lr.cc'rly for the fupporting that Church, which fame are fo uiikind to fay, they would deftroy. ' 1 Here’s the Foundation of the prefent Liberty; and therefore tire Diffcnters are unconcem’d with the Difpute about the Religious Right to a Liberty of Opinion in Matters of Confcience. Not that the Diffenters have lefs Right, by thcNature of fhc thing, to a I ohration of Religion,buttheir native Li¬ berty The P REF AC XXXV i. berty is fortified by the Addition of this Civil Right; they t f claim it by both, and in both their Tenure is Good; a J tis a free Pofleflion, without Homage or Acknowlcdg- , ment. What is it to them, who ought to be Tolerated, or nfa j 1 ; not i ’tis Plain that both ways THEY OUGHT to be Tolerated, fmee not their Enemies theml'clvcs can charge Q, them with any Opinions that are not Orthodox, that are j Heretical, Blalphemous, or inconfiflent with the Chrifti- ,. an Religion, and that confirms their Religious Right; and , ’tis a Claim by Treaty, tand flipulated on Conditions compleatly perform’d on their Side, and boncftly executed j. by the lawful Authority and Government of the Nation on the other Side ; and that confirms their Civil Right. As to the Diffenters declaring what they would do, if ‘ they were veiled with the Power in Government, and , r how far they would go in tolerating all Opinions incerly Religious ; —- I cannot conceive the beft Anfwer in t i the World can be fo effectual, inoffenfive, and fignificant, , as no Anfwer at all to fuch a many-fac’d Quefiion. And tho’ I will noway attempt here to determine the + Defign of the Queftion, which I rather chole to luppole ss '■ fmcere, and as free from Defign, as the Enquirer lays it l is; yet the apparent ill Conftrublion, which both the „ Queftion, and the beft Anfwer, that could begive, might be liable to, makes the giving no Anfwer to it very proper, I need take little pains to explain. Should the Difienters declare for Univerfal Talcration of all Opinions mcerly Religious, to what raanifeft Ob- jeflions fuch a Declaration would be liable, in ;cipe£t to ,r, the eflential Parts of fome Peoples Profeflion, and Low ma- ‘ ny Inconveniencies the Difputes of all forts might lead them ’. to,. I will not here examine. But what Sport would fome People be glad of the Op- ' portunity of making; fhould any Man have been lb weak to anlwcr for what any Party would do,if the Power were in their Hands! and how would lome People, nho are fond ■ of pretending from every Trifle, that the Diffenters Dream of 3 Potter and Government , prclently fly upon them, and fay, they were determining their Conduct againft they met ' s witn the Opportunity ! C 4 Should xxxvi The PREFACE. Should they declare for a General Anarchy of Opinions, what Confulions would thj^Jfe People argue upon, as the Confluence of their Latituduiarian Power ? Should they declare againft it, how would they ruffle the Diflcntcrs upon the Article of a Perfecuting Spirit? And who can pretend a real Zeal for the Intercfl: of the Diftenter?, and attempt to draw them into any thing, from which fo much injurious Advantage againft them might be taken ? On the other Hand, what benefit can there be to any Pcrfon from this Declaration? what can any Manpropofe to them to move it ? To fay, loch a Declaration entitles them to the Tolera¬ tion they enjoy, as Mr. Stephens , is to fay nothing, bc- caufe they have a better Title to it already; and this will not fo much as add the leaft Strength to it. To fay it is'to dear them from Scandal, is to lay no¬ thing, fincc they really ly under no Scandal already upon that Account ; and if the Church fhould throw any Dirt of that Sort from Days of Infirmity on both lides, lb much of it would fly back in her own Face, as would drown the Memory of thofc Pretence?. Both the Church of England and the DilTenters have gone luch a Length in the Article of Toleration and Chriflian Liberty, as I am free to lay, has bury’d all the Fears of Pcrlecution here, let what Government will. Popery excepted, get uppermofl.— And in this Ec- clefiaffick Liberty lies bury ’d all Church-Tvranny; and then let it ly FOR bVER AND FOR AY. To have the DilTenters lay what they will, or will not do, when that (hall happen, which they themfelves do not dcfire fhould come to pals, leems to have fomething in it too weak for theP.opolcr ; methinks he could not becapa- blc, his Learning and judgment confider’d, of imagining the Gentlemen he wrote to could be fo weak, as to make any Public k Conclulion or Determination on that Head, which: to me would have been the firfi Action they had ever done, to make the World think them unworthy of that Liberty they enjoy’d. I had not ipoke to this here, but as I thought it very proper, 11 1 ^ 1 m ~ The PREFACE. xxxvii ••-which the Diffenters enjoy their Liberty, as to clear up )«i; that iuppofed Obligation which they are tancy’d to 'y un¬ der; That becaufe, they who ought to have Liberty, enjoy it, yn therefore they fhould be oblig’d to efpoufe a general Liber- Sn ty to others, whether they haye an equal Claim, or indeed, U any claim to it or no. if I conclude this Head with only one Obfervation more; ia| Suppofe the Enquirer here, fhould not Grant the Claim of Civil Right to Liberty and Toleration, which I lay the :it: DUTenters have, but that they enjoy it as the meer Gift if and Bounty of the Church. This moll certainly makes it yet more unreasonable for them to declare thcmfelv.s as :1st to the Tolerating others; for if what they enjoy be a Gift, isji then it is abfolutcly in the Church or in the Government, ist take it were you will , to beftow it, or not to beftow it, and who to beftow it upon ? or who to withhold it from; othci- ® wife the Gift is reftrain’d, and is no more a Gift, but an !yi Act of Debt orNeceffity. sy[ It would be then very ungrateful and difrcfpeclful to i, thele Benefactors, for the DiiTenters, as foon as they receiv’d TO this meer Grace and Bounty of the Church, to pretend to preferibe to the Doners, who ought or ought not to par- isi take of the Gift as well as they. When you have given an uii Alms to a Beggar, you would take it for a Piece of un- n j common Infolcnce, that he Should come and bring another is Beggar to you, pretending you ought to relieve him too, [|ii If this be a Grace, the DiiTenters Bufinefs is to go away, and be thankful, and not concern themfclvcs withtVbo is, or is not in titled to the Bounty. So that take it which w r ay we can, w r ith Subraiflion to the Enquirer, it was not a Rcqueft he could think the Dif- 3 :; fenters, if in their Senfes, could give any Anlwer to, the jj Propolal favour’d of fomething not extraordinary careful -• either of their Intereft or Reputation, to lay no worfo of j- it: If there was any other Defign, be that to the Con- Oi triver. But to return to the Subjc*ft, we are happen’d into th? World in an Age when all forts of Tyranny have met with their delerv’d, tho’ ntoft unexpected Fate. Grave of the High of the late King E r-cciei'aUicK l yranny lies bury u in the Ccimnlffion, and Civil Tyranny in that xxxviii The PREFACE. James; thefe arc both fucceeded by their Contraries, Tole¬ ration and Revolution, and we all truft are buried to* deep ever to rife more. We have Attempts to deftroy them both every Day fet on Foot among us; the Diffentcrs are branded as Rebels, and conflant Underminers of the Church ; to divide them, they are rendred odious to one another; the Pretty terians charg’d with Perfecuting-Principles, the Independent with Commonwealth Tenets, the Quakers unchrifrianiz’d, and charg’d with having no Principles at all; Snakes in the Grafs are daily Snarling, and private Animofitis promoted among thofe of every fort, who are weakc- nough to entertain them; and ’tis plain the Defign lies at the Body, the Ax lies at the Root of the Tree; the Overthrow of the Conflitution, is the Defign, and the Enemies of the Diflenters, as fuch, have by too ma¬ ny vifible Tokens explain’d themfidves to mean the Sub- verfion of the Universal Right of Chriftians, and of Sub¬ jects. _ _ ■ For this, the Doftrine of Jure Divino is Calculated, Civil and Ecclefiaftick Tyranny univcrfally pleaded for, and ajt forts of liberty run down and oppos’d: Let thofe that plead for Tyrannts of any fort, lubmit to their Power; for my part, I efteem the Liberty of Bit ate and Religion equally with our Lives, every Man’s Birth-right by Na¬ ture ; no Government ever received a Legal Authority to abridge or take it away: Nor has God ever veiled any tingle or confederated Power in any Hand to deflroy it; and ’tis in Defence of this Common Right that I have Wrote this Book. I fhall fay very little in the Defence of the Perfor¬ mance, but this; It has been wrote under the heavieft Weight of intolerable Prcffures, the greateft part of it was compos’d in Prifon; and as the Author has un¬ happily felt the moft violent and conflant Efforts of his Enemies to dcflroy him ever fince that, the little Compofuve he has had, mull be his fhort Excufe for any thing incorreft. Let any Man, under Millions of diftra&ing Cares, and the con'lant ill Treatment of the World, confider the Power of fitch Circumftances, over both Invention apd The PREFACE. xxxlx I and Expreflion, he will allow I had Ireen to be excus'd £ even in worfe Errors than are to be found in this Book. : I know fome will cavil at the Title, and that it either l has no literal Signification, or is not good. Latin ; let fijch •; obfervc, I could not part with my Title in Civility to the Obje&ion; and if it will not pafs as a Latin Sen- tence, it may pafs as a proper Name or Title to a Book, t or a Phrafe added to the Tongue, lignifying the vain * Pretentions of a Divine Right; as the World has us’i ; me very unkindly ip the Sublcribing-Part, fo they have ? in their Character of the Work. I have heard of Plays :: that have been hifs'd and laugh'd off the Stage; but I > never heard of a Play hifs’d off the Stage before it came ‘ upon the Stage. ® This poop Work has met with the hard Fate of being I reported to be ill done, and the mcaneri thing 1 ever did, and that it will not Sell, &c. yet the Authors of that , Report, tp my Diverfiqn, as well as Remark, I oblerve * itj I am very Pofitive, never faw, read, or heard one - Line of it in their Livee; their Judgment, rtl.ich tnuJL yen'll Jay , be very good, and Jutted to their Difcretion, is, I thank God, none of my Concern. - I have indeed been forc’d into an open War with the Rookllllers about this Book, having univerlally refus'd, them Snbfcribi rig, fome particular Friends excepted ; and. i in return I am allur’d they will Reprint it, and Sell it for *( half the Money : Now, to tell them, that this is mecr II Theft, picking of Pockets, robbing upon the High Way, and the like, is to tell them nothing, but what they arc Pt reconcil’d to in Pra&ice ; to call them hard Names, is s ivhat I am not us’d to; they are Booklellers; and that's :» the higheft Satyr I lhall make'upon them, s But however, I am content; let them turn Pyrates, $ and take away my Right; 1 have been us’d to be robb’d :f and plunder’d in every Thing I have ufher’d into the ji World, that I might not at lead want the Principal Qua¬ lification of a Poet.—-— But let them be lure of this, Cj whoever attempts, it will lofe by it.-And let them a take my Word, or not take ir, as they pleafe. xl The PREFACE. As to the Poetical Part of it, where the Argument o it lies ftrong, I have been very carclds of Cenfure that way, and have often facrific’d the Poet to the Realoning Stile. The Hi ft on cal Part, I think I may fay, cannot admit of being very Poetical; but as I think it was equal to any of the reft in its neceflity, l am very well pleas’d to argue ftrongly, rather than fbftly.. I know I am under the fame Cenfure the’ without his Merit to fupport me, that Conleys Davideis has fuffer'd before me, viz,, that if it had been explicit in it felf, it had needed no Annotations ; but I think the neceflarjf Quotations of Hiftory coming on very thick, I could not but explain my Meaning, whereby People of f ina 11 Real, ing may exactly underftand it; the Annotations therc-l fore are chiefly Hiftorical, and dire t and ferve to guide the Reader to the Authors, which juftify the Work; and this I choie rather, than to advance on my own Au¬ thority, what I know will meet with Oppofition enough. I am pcrfe&ly arm’d againft Events in the Succds this Book fhall meet with in the World; my Fate, and that of my Writings, have been very lingular, viz,, to be moil neglected of them, that at the fame time have own’d them ulefui; but as neither the Work, nor its Author depend upon any thing in this World ; fo neither am I looking either at Praile or Reward, and therefore am en¬ tirely unconcern’d at the Succds of it, I lhall quit therefore any farther Defence of it, and Rave it to its Fate, and the Univerlal Cenliire of Critich , Kekearfcrs, Jacobites, Non-Jurors, and the Crowd of Par¬ ty-Furies, that wait to worry it, as they would do its Au¬ thor, and am pleas’d with, inftead of being mortified at what my ' Experience knows has been a juft Motto for uie. Aide aliquoi brevibus Gyaris & Carcere Dignum Si vis cjfe aliquis : PROBITAS laudatur & Algct'. ]uven. Sat. i. lin.^, 74. I fhall clofe this Preface with a Word to thofe Gentle¬ men, who have ill treated me for the Delay of bringing it The PREFACE. E F ACE. xli have been very iI: Alt thofe few and wifer Heads that had any refpetft for the Author, earneftly prefs’d me nor to attempt it '’“while the lad Parliament was Sitting* Meaiiires having : been taken, and the Party then powerful enough to blaft ®it- in its Birth, leize it in the Prefs, and fupprefs both it and me together, by the heavy Weight of Parliamentary r ’Cenfure; and this kid it atleep a Year. "• The neceflary Obftraction of a four Montlis Travil, Klefeir'd it laft Summer, being unwilling to let it pals the "jPrefs unrevis’d ; and from OElober laft, it has, thro’ many ‘^Interruptions of piivate and publick Hurries, been Pal- ffng the Prefs. 4 T-liole People, who have open’d their Mouths at this S c Delay, to reproach the Author with taking Subfcription- i Money without any Dclign to Publifti it, will now fee 11 how unjuft lo ralh and fo fevere a Slander has been. «* But above all, thofe that have pretended to keep the ^Subfcription-Money, they bad receiv’d in their Hands for fa Security till they (ball have the Book, have firft been Irvery unjuft to the Author; and fccondly, done their beft otto prevent its being Publilh’d at all. k Snblcriptions are in their Nature defign’d for two ends; ."Firft, To enable the Authors by the Money advanc’d; to ago thro’ the Expence of Printing, which every Man, that undertakes to Publifti a Book on his own Pulque, cannot it, do, nor which thefe Gentlemen did not know I could fcdo without them. of. Secondly, To fecure the Author, that the Subfcfibe/s it; will take it when ’tis finifli’d, many People having lately ilearnt not to put too great a Sandiou, no not on their fiOwnHand, when they pleafe to alter their Minds. Both thelc Hardfhips are put upon me by thefe faiie Friends, and yet without their Help, behold ’tis finifti’d; and They, not the Author, hive been guilty of deligning s a Fraud, if any has been defign’d at all. ij, As for thofe, who having Snbfcrib’d, and Honourably ’ afififted the Author to go thro’ with it, he hopes the e Work it felf will, in Conjunction with this Acknow- I lodgment, be their Satisfaction ; and had they not ex- prcHy xlii The PREFACE. prefly forbid ir, he had both printed their Names, arid made the Dedication of it to them, as Benefactors to it. As to Sale, the Author entirely declines it; and tells teGentlemen-Bookfellers, that threatned to Pyrate it, as they call it, viz,. Reprint it, and Sell it for half a Crown; fo ycumuft, Gentlemen* if you intend to have it: For of the Original Copies, if the Subfcribers are Honeft, you will have very few; and if all. Men that Write* would take the fame Method, the Bookfellets would foon leave oft impofing upon them.-— Some Addenda, not yet finifh’d, relating to the prefent Victories* and great Prolpcct of reducing Tyranny, will be deliver’d gratis to the Subfcribers, either early enough to Bind with this* if they pleafe; Or prepar’d to be Read by themfelves. I don’t expect the Advocates of Tyranny ftrould life it i it was r.ot wrote to Gratify them, but Convince them * and therefore all their Reproaches, and all theif Fury at the Author will be perfectly loft; he is prepar'd i© Contemn them, as they dderve. THE tol ‘CONTENTS. tfl T HE Introduction to the Worl* L IB. I. A Satyrical Allufion to the Heathen Gods, who are fupposd to have been all of them Kings, or famous Men in their Time, and fabl'd into Deities by the Error and Ignorance of thofe Days ; concluding with a Lifi of Great y but Vicious Princes in our Modern Time:, fit to male Gods of in the next Promotion • II. Th^ Allufion brought down to the Kings below, who are call'd Gods too in the Scripture: Their Original Power ex* amind from its Patriarchal Inftitution; and joining in So¬ cieties for mutual Defence, pnvd to be the General Aft, even of thofe Patriarchs themfelves; fo that the Right of the Peo¬ ple Govern'd, is plain from that very Foundation laid to op- pofe it; the Story liluf rated from Saul, who, tho Anointed by Samuel, was not Crown'd till the Confent of the People was obtain'd. Ill - An Enquiry, why God in his Providence gives Power to wiched Men, and while he punifhes private Murtkers and In juft ice, leaves the World at the Mercy of Tyrants to ra¬ vage and deftroy it at their Plcafure ; a Proof that he left Mens Liberty a Truft to them to preserve and defend, and gave them the ufe of their Reafon to that pur pofe. IV. A Search into the Laws of Cuflom for the Divine Right of Princes; and among the reft, fome Satyr on the Cuftom of thofe Gentlemen here that Preach up this Doftrine, exem¬ plified in their Treatment of the late King James ; their frjl Swearing, and perfwading him to believe, that they would pay an undijpuied Obedience to him, expofed as a greater Treachery* than their deferring him* V. A The CONTENTS. V. A Retro fpett on the earliefi Time; Property proved the true and only Original of Power. The Story of Rehoboaui, and the Ten Tribes i Satyrically methodized $ a Hymn to Liberty. VI. A Draught of Tyranny, and an Enquiry from the Na¬ ture of it, if it ought not to be Refiftcd ; an Excursion here on the Laws of God, Nature, and Reafon, concurring to re - fift OppreJJioni VII. A Search into Hiflory ; affirming, That all Nations] and in all Ages, have made it a confiant Pratlice to De¬ throne Tyrants^ and Defend their Liberty ; and Examples brought from Antiquity to prove this Affertidn; an Excur - (ion to Home Affairs and Perfons. VIII. The Search into Hi/lory continued, with Remarhs on the Introduction of Tyranny and Idolatry hand in hand into the World ; an Encomium on Arbaces, the firfi Man that ever tool: up Arms for Liberty, and Dethron'd a Monarch ; the Median Monarchy examin’d, and prop 3 d Limited and Re* gulated by the People, and Univerfal Hiftory unravelTd, for Examples of Tyrants Depofeds a 1 JX. An Hifiorical Search into the Pretended Succeffion of Kings by Divine Right, and the fpurious irregular Defcent of all the Kings in the World, made out in order, Explode the * fooUfb Notion of DiPine Succeffion. X. The Jamc Continued, and brought Home to the Eriglifli Lines, from the Saxon Race, to the Prefent Reign . XI. A Panygerick on the Englilh Happy Conjiimtion , de¬ pending neither on Perfons, nor Race, but upon the Laws and Limitations of Government. XII. The like on the Perf on of the Queen, her Government,' and Nobility. The Cone luff on to the Queen TO ? * 3 b: k Jim \il [»! TO THE •AUTHOR. • A S when Idolatry in ancient Tittles, l\ Its Pow’r extended o’er the Eaflern Climes * ' When Moloch , Magog , AJhtcroth , and Baal^ Summon’d to Hell, and Men obey’d the Call * When Brutes were Gods, and held of more Account, j. And Rival -Bethel mobb’d the Sacred Mount; Heav’n always rais’d, as Patron to his Truth, i, Some rev’rend Sage, or forile infpired Youth, #' W'ith Wit and Power Divine, t’ affert his Laws, Expofe their Falfhoods, and exalt his Caufe. * Elijah here the dreadful Lightning throws. And Gideon there unequal Conqueft fhows j And both th’ enlightning Beams of Heav’n convey, To make the Tribes the Force of Truth Obey. So you, while State-Idolatry retains Its Pow’r in our deluded Statefmens Brains, ■ And empty, non-relifting Notions {hare Our Quaking Politician’s zealous Care 5 Like them with Sacred Indignation fir’d. And aimoft equally like them infpir’d 5 In Truth’s Defence, with like Succefs ingage, Attack this great Baal-Peor of the Age, D Defpotic^ To the AUTHOR. Defpotick Power that Idol of the State, Which Fools eftablifh, and which Knaves create * Before your powerful Mufe the Phantom flies, Naked we view the Devi wirhout Difguife, And what before We fear'd, we now defpife; The monft’rous Thing retains no otlier Mark Of God-head now, than Dagon in the Dark, (Ark. When proftrate and difarm’d he bow’d before the. Undrefs’d, Unpainted, unadorn’d, your Pen In native Uglinefs difplays the Fiend: Squallid, deform’d, fo (hocking to the Sight, It moves Aver lion, and inclines to Fright. Did Lewis felf this aukward Monfter view, Compleatly hideous, as defcrib’d by you. He’d (hun the Spectre, all its Claim difowri, Reftore his People, and himfeli dethrone j To Laws and Juftice willingly defcend, And loath the Tyranny he can’t defend. But mark, my Friend, and this Reproof endure, You pra&ife Vices you pretend to cure 5 For while you plead'the Freedom of the Age, You chain our Wills, and all our Thoughts engage: The ftrong invading Force of what you’ve penn’d,- In fpight of Spleen, compels us to commend: Opprefs’dby your Defpotick Tyrant Wit, Our fetter’d Fancies now to Praife fubmit. Thus by Tyrannick Pow’r you raife your Fame, And adt like Priefts, the very Crimes you blame. A a tSfi 1 I TIJE In INTRODUCTION. "JV T A T U R E has left this Tincture in the Blood, I_\l That all Men would be Tyrants if they cou’d: If they forbear their Neighbours to devour, ’Tis not for want of Will ., but want of Power ■> The gen’ral Plague infects the very Race, Pride in his Heart, and Tyrant in his Face; The Characters are legible and plain, And perfectly defcribe the Movjler , Mem. Nor can he otherwife be understood, i We’d all be Emperors, ’tis in our Blood : e. Ambition knows no Bounds, the meaneft Hand, If once let loofe , would Pow’r it felf command Would ftoriri the Skies, the Thmd'rer there dethrone , Be univerfal Lord, and call the World his own. I i , The only Safety of Society, Is, that my Neigbour’s juft as proud as I ^ Has the fame Will and With, the fame Deiign, And his abortive Envy ruins mine; The Epidemick Frenzy has pofleft By Nature one, by JS/ature all the rejl: U' e’re all alike, we’d all afeend the Skies, 4 -U would be Kings, all Kings would tyrannize: Sons would be Fathers , Fathers rule the States •, Sef^ajjts be Matters, Majters Magif rates: 0 2 Jinbid - ii The INTRODUCTION. Ambitions in the Species of the Man, He always will be Matter if he can ^ And his Delire of Rule fo blinds his Pride, He fcorns to think himfclf unqualify d. The ftrong unbounded Luft of Sov’reign Rule, Makes him conceit the Prince, forget the Fool The Cotters not fo vile defpis’d a Thing, But whifp’ring Devils this Delulion bring, He fancies he could make a better King. The gen’ral Taint infects the very Kind, To Lordlhip by eternal Guft inclin’d ^ The very Breed mutt thus be underftood, Nature has left the Tincture in their Blood. What ftrange, what inconfiftent Thing’s a Man Who ftiall his Nature fearch, his Life explain ? If in the Ocean of his Crimes we fail. Satyr , our Navigation, all will fail -, Shipwreck’d in dark Abfurdities of Crime, A Heart Mechanick, and a Head Sublime ■' Th’ enlighten’d Soul, Immortal and Divine, No more in glorious Faculties can Ihine ; Eclips’d by vicious Principles and Sin, Is Dirt without, and Darlnefs all within 5 His ftrong degenerate Pafhons are Jo grofs. So contradicting, retrograde, andcrofs* So odd, fo incoherent, and abftrufe, His Reafon dies beneath the grand Abufe ; Such ftrong Convullions Nature undergoes, Such Lunacies the ruling Wretch expofe •, 3 He can t th Abfurdities he leeks enjoy, But one Extream another will defroy. 5 Thus, while he aims at gen’ral Tyranny, Nothing s fo much a Wretch, fo much a Slave as he Damn d to the Bondage of Mechanick Vice, And meets new Matters wherefoe’er he flies His Reafon^oB^ before the Feet of Crime And lets th’ Infernal govern the Sublime: Cheats his loofe Judgment with the vile Pretence And worlhips Idol-Crime in fpight of Senfe. A General Slave to Univerfal Vice, So fond of Chains, does fo his Fate delpife h He feems to own his Slav’ry as his Choice, * And Damns his Freedom with fubjedted Voice. Ulurping Hell, the Scepter of his Mivd , Has from all Powers, but doing well , confin'd ; A conftant Bondage bows his Couchant Neck, His If ill corrupted , and his Judgement weak . Th’ Eternal Drudge , the vileft Crime obeys, And where his Senfe abhors, his Will complys * To all the Meannelfes of Vice fubmits. And tho’ it fhocks hisReafon, Rules his Wits $ A Slave to ftrong involuntary Crime, He Rules the World, his Pali ions Govern him: Indwelling Mifchiefs crowd his abject Soul, Debauch’d in Part, and tainted in the Whole. Where, Satyr y lhall our wand’ring Search begin, To read the Wild Anatomy of Sin ? The Seeds of PoignantVice attack the Brain, And Reafon feems to guide his Powers in vain. From hence the Grand Contagion fpreads its Force, Fatal the Confeqisence, and fwift the Courfe ; Searches the Windings of the Circling Flood, And taints the Teeming Fountain of the Blood. The Parts fuck in the viler Nourifliment, And Crime’s diffus’d thro’ all the Tenement^ Spermatick Vigour fpreads the poifon’d Race, Conveys Hereditary Crimes apace Secures the Genealogy of Sin , And where he ends, his viler Sons begin; Vice feels no Age , and ne’er decays with Time, But all the Sons of Men , are Sons of Crime . D 3 Ambition JV The INTRODUCTION. :Seed, Ambition flows in thedegen’rate Pride fwells the Heart, tnd Avarice the Head ; Envy fits Regent in the growing Spleen , And Hypocoitdrlack Malic boils within; Lull in his bafe'r Part ob'eurely lies, And Rage and Paflion Sparkle in bis Eyes $ His Dtcomotive Faculties obey. And Organ pays Allegiaus to the Tyranny •, The Hands obey tbe Tyrant in the Brain , Reafon, when Luft commends , refills in vain ; Unnatural Heats o’er allthe Blood prevail, This Hour they Rule theHead , the next the Tail ; With Arbitrary Force the Members guide. The Feet toMifchief, ai d the Hands to Blood. Subjected Man fubmits to the Controul Of Forty Thoufand Tyrants in hisSouT, Alternate Malice bends his fatal Brow, One Tyrant Reigns to Day, to Morrow Two *, Love kills to Day, to Morrow Hatred wounds , Toy ffrikes him dumb, aid then his Grief confounds; Anger to Rage, and Macnefs fwells theBreaft, By abjedt Patience then ;.s much fupprcft; Courage exalts his Soul above his Sphere, And the next Hour he brags himfelffor Fear: To Day infults with highblafpheming Breath, To Morrow f rives to die for fear of Death. Abandon’d Slaves! to what Extreams of Crime ould Nature bring them, lengthned out by Timel That after Hell has firft fubdu'd the Mind, The Mortals turn the Tables on their Kind; Set up for Government , theij Light defy, And act the very Devil they obey: Their fellow-Creature ftidy how to Rule, By Methods learn’d in tlat infernal School. Wonder no more the Son: of fucha Race grow ripe for flavifh Principles apace; The Vldtory of Vide is foCompleat, (he Conquer d Facuities it once fubmit: He’s The INTRODUCTIONS^ r He’s Born with Slavery ir. his very Face, And hands it down to his fubje&ea Race. Not grace it felf the Jlron* Difeafe will cure , Nature’s poflels’d withCiiine, and does Deliverance And if by Fore e the powerjul Agent moves, (abhor * She ftili reclines to thefirltStateIhe Loves: Hugs the firft Chains, hankers for Slavery, And with a ftrong Relu&ance is made free. What ftrange Extreams has Nature in her Womb? From what vail Caufes muft fuch Monfters come ? What ftrange, what wild vngovern’d things are Men? And who can all the Devil cf them explain ? Their Pride direfts them to ufurping Power, And would not only govern, but devour * But if they can’t Tyrannick Luft obtain, Becaufe they cant he Gods , thy won't be Men * Abandon Reafon, let it a£i by halves, And, where they can't beTyrents, will kg Slaves. Satyr, the Grand Enquiry now begin, Defcribe the Mortal, and ceferibe the Sin* The horrid contradi&ing Flight Explode, And paint the Man that dinks himfelf a God * To thy exacter Teft th’ Abtigma bring. The Kingly Slave, and the more Slavijh King: See how the Grand Coherence is maintain’d. What Arts the vile, clandeftine Homage gain’d * What Seas of Blood, what defolating Hands, What murder’d Nation, whatabfurd Commands* What Mifchiefsthe fuperiour Crimes procure, And teach Mankind the horrid Plague to cure* Defcribe the injur’d Crowes, defcribe the Sin, Enquiring Satyr, new the Search begin. iD 4 JUR JURE DIVINO-i 4 : A SATYR. BOOK I. Nftruding Satyr, Tune thy ufeful Song, (a) Silence grows Criminal, where Crimes grow Of meaner Vice, and Villains fing no more* But Monfters Crown’d 5 and Crime Ejtrob'd At Vice’s high Imperial Throne begin, And fearch the ancient Prodigies of Sin * With h r s a ! wa J rs been avow’d to be Inflruftive, and mC>re °^ r fart of Poetry, if rightly ap- 2 JURE D I V I N 0. Book I. Wjth Pregnant Phrafe and ftrong Imperial Verfe, The Crimes of Men, and Crimes of (b) Gods rehearfe. Rile, Mighty Seraph , from thy (c) fancy’d Grave, And fpeak, tho’ ’tis to thofe thou can’ll not fave; What tho’ thy Labour fhall to Men be Vain, And the World’s Bondage mull its Time remain j Let willing Slaves in Golden Fetters lie. There’s nona can fave the Men that choofe to Die; Yet fome to Voluntary Mifchiefs bow. That fain wou’d fhun their Chains,if they knew bow; And thefe from thy infpired Lines will fee, How they chofe Bondage, when they might go free. Thy long Lamented Silence, Satyr, break; Open thy Ancient Oracle, and fpeak. Tell us how (d) Man, by Heav’n it felf made free, Has an undoubted Claim to Liberty : The Bondage which his Nature feels within, ■ Is not his Nature’s Happinefs, hut Sin: And when he Hoops to an unequal force, It can’t excufe his Guilt, but makes it worfe. The Freedom Heaven bellow’d, was giv n in Vain,' Unlefs he does the Mighty Gift maintain. And when he parts with the fupreme Bequeft, He flights the Bounty, and betrays the Trull; Rife, .------- _ _ , _ ' v ' e [ e alludes t0 the Prticdar Enumeration in this hirit Book, where it appears, that moll of the Heathen Gods rvc Kl d? gs ’ and . mo £:. commonly Wicked Men, Deify’d by the Errors of the Time. vir J 35‘\ alIU ' JeS , t0 l he P artlCll,ar Circumftances of th: Poet, who haying been bound not to Write for Seven Years, Dead hiS ° Wn E eg7 ’ and flI PP 0S,J Satyr to he mJ h ref ^ ib ’ d no R ’ J « rf Government to ArtM, f p W the Bp** t0 his Maker ; but as to the »£=cLS!“’ “ Lord oF himrel h »f * 35 'Book I . JURE DinNO. 3 ® Rife, Satyr, tell us what’s a willing Slave , And. fpeak, tho’ ’tis to thofe thou can ft not fave, Gi? Speak to refilling Ages in a Strain, k Shall bring the World to Miracles again. When Reafon’s wond’rous Empire {hall begin, #• Tyrants without {hall fall like thofe within * Nations {hall liften to thy Mighty Word, Di When Satyr has their wand’ring Senfe reftor’d, And fet the (e) Scepter up, to Rule the Sword . rb. Then tell us, Satyr, let thy Lines explain, jot What Thing's a Tyrant •, Paint tlf Infernal Man. . His Birth, his Fortune, and his Fate rehearfe, ’ No Limner can defcribe him like thy Verfe A Monfter form’d of all the Shapes of Sin, Something of Man without, all Devil within , No Phrafe his fable Myft'ry can unfold, ’ His Story muft be (f) Felt , it can’t be Told. He that with Mighty (g) Alnus hunts for Men, .. Can Murder half the World at once, like (h) Cain-, 1 Like t. 4 -- T ” “ (e) By the Scfpter and the Sword, is underfiood fettling the Civil Power in its juft Superiority to the Military: This, as the ^ juft Defence of Right and Property; That, as the Conftant Hand-Maid of Tyranny and Oppreflicffi. M And this reftor’d, is what he means by Miracles 5 lince when ^ Juftice is entirely reftor’d, it may well pafs for a Miracle, k (fy Tyranny can never be described by Art ; the People that feel the Burthen, that groan under the \Vrongs, and that Bleed under J* the Sword of a Tyrant, know what it is, but cannot exprefs it. a: (g) Nhrns or Nimrod, call’d in Scripture a mighty Hunter, was fh the nrft Man that ufurp’d Superiority of Power, and form'd Men into Governments, under his abfolute Rule ; all Hiftories agree !»■ him to be a Tyrant, and to ereft this Government a gain ft, am! in Oppofition to the Divine Power; Vide Sir Walter Raleigh. Some will have him to be the firft of the Heathen Gods, and «all him Saturn ; but of this by it felfo } 4 JURE D IF I NO. Book I, Like (i) Nero , fuck the Blood that gave him Life And fearch Engend’ring Nature with his Knife* * ’ Like (k) Dioclejian , Drink a Nation’s Blood, * ‘ Shall firft Contemn, and then Ufurp the God • That Paints the Kalendar with facred Red, And lifts the Innocent among the Dead * 5 That^blafts whole Nations with infulting Breath Pleas d withDeftru£tion, and makes Sport with Death, Like hugland s (l) Crook-Back , Murthers and Entreats Like (m) Charles the Ninth, Embraces thofe he hates! He that can Levy War with all Mankind Can Cut his Father’s Throat, and fell his Friend- Ravjfti the Chaft, the Sanftify’d Prophane, Can pull down Right, and Wrong by force maintain; Mort- JH C ‘ be v ery well fait to murther half the Work' or mar half tile two Sons of AD A M, being the main Hai of Mankind at that time, and upon whom feem’d to depend ft Peopling of the whole World. depend at (i) Nero, the moft unnatural Tyrant of all the Roman Fm- pei p caus,<1 1113 Mother to be Murthered view’d her * nj “ r ™ u ■»« “ cam? to Vifit i A.'SrlTV r UCh0r of ! the Pdr $* n Maflacre, Father, wept call’d him from an Aifaflin the Day before oiv?? Whl ^? he recei T M Safety, and the verv next Worn inn f V )i v‘ m a Guard f° r kis der’d in his Chamber* * 8 C3Us d him t0 ** bafcl y Mur- ^ Book I. JV RE D IV I NO. 5 if: Mortgage his Faith, and Trample on his Word, l And Hew his Crown out by his Lawlefs Sword’. - i ; Like ( n) Cortez, can a Hundred Millions flay. Dream Death by Night, and finiih it by Day. Wjtii Pious (0) Leter, Cant of Heav n’s Commands, rea;Pray with his Lips, and Murther with his Hands! hi) Can fleep with Blood, and never ftart at Crime, it,. And make his Mifchiefs, like his Power, fupreme. ^Buy Juftice, fell Opprelhon, Bribe the Law, Exalt the Fool, and keep the Wife in awe; 1 Damn all Religion, Gods and Men defy• ) Tbefe openly Blafpheme, and thofe Deftroy. ‘‘Embrace the Guilty, Innocents Condemn, . And execute without Pretence of Crime. I Can facrifice whole Nations to his Luft, W'ith Pleafure Kill, and think that Pleafure Juft. _Can (p) bum and Jrng, dance to the waving Flame, And in his Country’s Allies raife his Fame; ^jlnfult the Wretched, Trample on the Poor, iSil ; And mock the Miferies Mankind endure; ip Can ravage Countries, Property devour. And trample Law beneath the Feet of Power. - Scorn the Reftraint of Oaths, and promis’d Right, ;; And ravel. Compacts in the People’s Sight; w Whh Indignation fcorn to reign by Rules •, i That Thing s a Tyrant ; « -dnd that People Fools. e» t . ® ^ ools, G t b ____ , i n) £° r T z ' tho ’ not a Monarch, yet tmfted with Power’ aeltroy d almafl all the Inhabitants of two yah Empires, Mexi- 1; co and Peru, am] unpeopled one of the Largeit and moflPopu- ® lous Part 1 ; of the World. 11,' , Peter tin Cruel, us’d to go to Prayers immediately from / the Murders he committed ; and fo Pray and Murder, and Mur- L der anil Pray in Courfe. i (V Nero was Paid to take his Lute and fine-to it a Som<- or the Siege and Deftruftion of Troy, while Rome was or t- Fire, g JURE D IF [ NO, Book l Fools, that abandon’d by the Light of Senfe, Defpife the Subftance, worfhip :he Pretence; Contemn their native Right to Liberty, And bow to Bondage, when they may go free; Examine then the ancient courfe of Things, And fearch the endlefs Roll of ancient Kings. When the firft (q) Man ufurp’d upon his land, Aflum’d exotick Right, affumihg reign’d: .Supreme in Widcednefs, more wicked. grew, Firft forc’d .a Homage, then decreed it due. Trace the firft Tyrants to their fancy’d Thrones,. Plac’d in (r) that Heaven, that all their Crimes dif (owns if in the Royal Lifts fome Monfters reign’d, Abhorr’d by Heaven, and hated by Mankind j b By Luft and Blood exalted to a Throne, For all the Exquifites of Tyrant known: The meaner Name of Monarch they delpife ; Alive , ufurp the Throne, and Dwd, the Skies. Abovfi (q) By the fir ft Man here, is to be nnderfiood the firft King, who ufurping Power intohis own Hand, began to tyratinizeover the People, and ellabliihing their Subjection by a Law of his own making, impos’d this Tyrannick Government upon them; and this afterward, by the continuance of time, came to look like a legal Authority, veiled in him from the Beginning. This is fuppos’J to be Nimrod, Ninns , Belus , of whom Authors (life as to their Names; nor is it material to examine here, which of them was firll. (r) The prepofterous Tranflation is remarkable. That they IhoulJ place thefe Men in that Heaven, where their Crimes bc- ing abhorr d, it mull be contrary to all manner of Region ti) expadi them. fc Book I. JIREDIVINO. i Above the CIouis th * 1 incarnate Devil Hands : i And Nations werlhip with polluted Hands. 1 fe Old (f) Satan, (t) Bacchus , and High-Thund’riug iaAnd all the Rdlble of the Gods above $ ' ^ < ^ ove ' > ^WTiofe Names for their Immortal Crimes are fear’d ixMonarchs and Tyrant-Princes firft appear’d 5 With Rapes and Hood the Path to Greatnefs flam’d r, By Rapes and Blod the Glittering Station gain’d. ’ e, arc The mighty "Wretches dwell among the Stars, ijijAnd Vice in Verue’s Glorious Robes appears. * No matter if ’twts Good or Evil Fame, or Gods of all Dimenfions are the fame. ij’The Poets Celebrite their Praifes there. As Indians Ccnfecrate the Dev’ls they fear. (n Paralitick Prafe their Crimes rehearfe, . And foil debaucl their Senfes, then their Verfe. - (f) Saturn is call’d the Father of the Gods; all agree he was 1 Man, and a blood; Tyrant; that he reign'd in Tome of the Srft Ages. A nthors dffer who he was. Bifhop Cumberland proves, inini to be Chanty the of Noah , whom his Father curs’d M Ancients reprfent him eating his own Children, "which U underiLnd to mean Tyrannizing over his Suhjefts in a bloody Favouring manner: for Subje< 5 Fs are called Children from Mo sixiarchy, being Patriarchal in its Original, il (t) Bacchus was tbSm of Jupiter, and Grandfon of Saturn ; •rA'uhoTs differ about his Original; Bochart fays, That he was • the lame Perfon with Nimrod, and confequently a bloody Tyrant. Ai agree he was a geat Drunkard, for which Reafon the Scy- thians would n >t pay him Divine Homage, holding it ridiculous i;to worm ip a God that made People Fools and mad. • (u) Jiipiter was tie Son of Saturn, and was call’d the Father W: the Gods, as welfas Saturn. , Pater (t$- ? Hommm Rex Virg» 8 JURE D I E I N 0 . BooH In mighty Strains the mighty Fury fing, And Canonize the Vices of their King, _ j So foon the Flattering Pens falfe Tribute bring. J Thus mighty Jove above the Gods in (x) Seat, Famous for Crimes, that none but Gods commit} Among the Sacred, has (y) th’ Imperial Chair, Becaufe he’d been a Royal (%) Moiifter here: The Mortal Fury liv’d in Fire below. And there his fancy’d Lightnings Learn’d to Throw* * Exalted, now his Head’s with Thunder Crown’d, Enflam’d with Heaven, with Hell encircl’d round. Thefe are the Hieroglyphicks of his Crimes, The Wonder and the Horror of his Times j Firft for his (a) real Infamy delign’d, And to inftru£t the Ages yet behind. By (b) thefe his unheard Rapes andMurthers, they In Metaplidrick Similies difplay. Cx) Jupiter was the Superior of the Heathen Deities. (y) Regum Timendormi in Proprios greges, Reges in ipfos Imperitim cjl JovisJ Horace. (z) He perfecuted his Father Saturn, and drove him outci the Country. (a) There’s no doubt the Thunderings andLightenings of# ter, were firft the Hieroglyphical Reprefenrations of his Wicks!, nels, to hand a juft abhorrence of his Cruelties to the Ages® *ome. How the Devil deluded the Hations, fo as to make at Idol of him, for thofe very things for which he ought fo iuftlyto have been contemn’d, isconfidered in tile next Paragraph. (bb) The Detection of Jupiter’s luftful, furious and tyrat- nick Reign, were fet forth by the Writers of thofe Times, if any: Or, if not, by Oral Tradition, in the Similitude of a Thunuerer, and throwing Fire about him, the beft Method thofe times had to deferibe a mad Man, a bloody, barbarous Fury, Murder”'’ ^ ° Ver ' run the World ^ith his Lull, and U o\3 7 IjBook I. 2VR.E DIVIN But length of Time, that taught Mankind to I ye. Convey’d falfe Schemes of Vice to weak Pofterity ; Leaving the grofs Particulars unknown, ‘ The Name of Jovt remain’d, the Beaft was gone.' The doubting Ages hardly underftood, *)SWhether he was a Devil, or a God : miAnd here the mighty formal Cheat began, feThey loft the Hiftory, but found the Man : ere; Fond of fome early Wonder to prefen i, Miftook the Devil, and deferib’d the Saint *, tolAbove the Skyes they fix’d his bleft abode, IroyAnd from the Darks of Hell fetch’d up the God. ’it Infernal Fury fill’d his Vicious Head, , And all unnatural (a) Vices crown’d his Bed ; *His unrefifting Lufts the World abhorr’d, 5 > They’re modern Madmen only that ador’d: His rampant Vices the Creation Vex, And make one General Whore of either (b) Sex. ^-To fuch immoderate Lechery inclin’d, H« had contriv’d to ravilh all the kind? From hence Blind Fame that Shining Fittion made, How he Enropa to his Lull: betray’d; In which the Poets might be underftood, ’“All Europe felt the Mixtures of his Blood. Glutted with Luft, and Gorg’d with fatiate Vice, Th’ Inceftuous Parricide leaves off and Dies : , Quitted the ranfack’d World to fearch for more, wlsWhere he might be as wicked as before. The monftrous Wretch left fuch a Name behind, | Was fo much made the Wonder of Mankind £? ' E Fame (a) He was guilty of Sodomy and Jnceft : For Gammede was r a Boy kept by Jupiter for his unnatural Luft > and Jmo, whom he Marry J d> was his own Sifter: fwifq i & Stror & Conjux . Virgil. (b) Danae , Cali ft Alcmena, Semite, Leda y Anti ope, Enropa , and in¬ numerable Others, where his Whores $ whom he Debauched, fome by one Method^ fome by another. 8 JVRED1V1N0. Book! Fame fnch Romantick Siories handed down, The Native Truth grew Fabled like his Crown. Poftericy the Villain idolize, And Poets fix his Name above the bkyes : Blindly the Naufeom Dei\y adore, A'nd he’s the God, who was the Rake before, Down to the mighty Bully , Nations Bow, And he that Murther’d then, mult Thunder now; The Plagues of Mankind thus wereDeify’d, And High Superiour Crimes to Heav’a Ally’d •, Succeeding Rogues, fiiccceding Gods became, And Sin afpir’d to an immortal Name. To Riotous Jove , new Deities they join’d. And Peopl’d Heav’n with Devils of every kind Mars (b) the Celeftial Bully they adore. And (c) Venus for an Evodafting Whore; Bacchus for mighty Drunk’nefs Hands an High, And (d) Janri’% made the B/Hingfgate o’th’ Sky : (e) Afoll(s% of a Mad-nun made a Wit, And (f) Mercury ’’s the Sicred Pimp of Fate. (a) He ii fr.d to be Witter of the Thunder, and is call’d bj the Heathen Jupiter Bilminans. (h) Is eali’d rheGod of War ; was Born in Thrace : HeBuJ* Ivtd Vulcan, and 1 y with hi; Wile, bur Vulcan fneke him,and Expos’d him. Venus, Kfaa, ad Ktbc were his Whores. y (c) Venus wai Vulcan % Wife but a common Whore : She lay with both God> and Men,anc is not unwarilv call'd the Goddefi of Whoredom. She kept Cutid for the Meffengcr of her Lewd* litfs, and was Defied for her extravagant Lu8: (d) The Wife of Jupiter Jealous of him, as well (he mijM Quarrelling with him or his Whores, and therefore reprefentd Clamorous. 7 antane ammi* Ccle/lilus ira ? Virgil* ( e ) Apollo, another of JupUer 's Sons : He was a Dreamer 0! Dreams, and had the Lawrei jiven him,becaufe thev laid it made People Dream right. He wis but a Kavifher, a Whore-mate and a Martherer , ar d for hii being a Lover of Mufick and Hai* monv, is. HonotirM by tIre Pons. (f) Mercury was a Thief, ii called, Huncitis Deorum , the Me&n* ger of the God>. Call dm quicquidVlacuit Jocofo , Condere furto. Horace. He was Jupiter's Pitnp whei he ravifh’d Alcmcna. Plautus rAmphitrhi BookI. JURE DiriNO. All thefe are Gods of Power and Government ‘ The Upper-Houfe of Satzn\ Parliament ^ Who ftill fubferv’d in Regions lefs Sublime, Have Crowds of Partners in the Power Supreme. (a) Cupid the Ballard of Ince/luous Love, Son of Intrigue, and (b) harbinger to Luflful Jove 5 'Emblem of Lechery, and Shape of Lit Ft, n To Grace Diviner Lewdnefs with Celeftial GufL There’s (c) * ALnlus, a Capital Buffoon, Was but, as Story tells, a French Dragoon; , His Stormy Godlhip Huffs about the Skies odWith Two and Thirty pointed Deities* E 2 (a) Neptune (a) Cupid ; Authors differ vthofe Offspring this young Mif- chief-mak:ng Deity was; the Tantbeon tells us. 'Plato calls him the Son of Venia, the Goddels of'Poverty, and Phocm the Son of Plenty : Refiod relates him Bom of Chaos and Terra ; Sappho de¬ prives him from Venus and Cxi am ; Simonides from Mars and Venus . "But all allow him to be Son of Fenus. . | H aU > Me * mea Magna Potentia filus. Virg. yEieid, 4. if ft) Harbinger — That is as Cupil is feign’d to create Love, or ra- iifner excite Lull, which Jupiter vas fo addiiied to," that he R:.- it” ^ 01 ■^ e b auc b , d ail the Wonen he could come at. (t) 2F. olus, fancied to be the Son of Jupiter by Mcefla Dangh- ,- er oi Hippota ; for mod of thefe Gods and Goddefics were but ■7«p»fcr j Baftards. The Truth is this Molus was a very skilful t Altronomer, and particularly (hrlious about the Nature < f the Winds; gpd becaufe from the Clouds and Vapours of the aEolian J-li lands, where this Philofopher lived, he foretold Storms and t'Tempelts a great while before they came ; the ignorant People n 'l’fh them un(ae r his Power, aid that he could raife them or aflnl them when he pleas’d} and from hence he was call’d Kina Df the Winds, and fo after his Death,'a God of the Winds. ;./»»»s Addrels to him, when flu Wanted to drown &»e*s . is finely exprefs’d by Virgil, -\imborum in Patriam Lica faeta fnrentibus au/lris , JFLoltam yenit : Hie Vajlo Rfx JUilus antra . _ _ Ladantes Ventos. - This is admirably Buxlelqu’d by Mr T Cotton in bis Virgil Traitfo IO JVRE D 1 VIN 0 . book! (a) Neptune, an eld Dutch-Skipper, Born at Sea, And Naturaliz’d to all that’s Wild and Watery j In Holland' s Bufs for Herrings Filh’d,and Cod, And knew the Seas as Carryer’s Horfe the Road : In Northern key Oceans fpread his Sails, And taught the Dutchmen how to fifli for Whales Born on a Billow lifted to the Sky, And Tempeft did the Midwife’s Place fupply : He Liv'd in Storms, and Waves were his Abode, And from a Drunken Pilot’s made a God, (b) Vulcan, the Blackfmith, liv’d in Fire below, Vile as his Smoke, and lewd as Sulphur too *, Who not for Perfonal Vice they Deify, But as the Sovereign Cuckold of the Sky. (a) Pki (a) Tgeptune is fegn’d to be Jupiter* Brother, the Son of Satan, whom they fuy his Mother Ops fav\i from Saturn's Fury, v/to eatnp his own Children. He i* faid to marrv MmMtrite^ who in the Greek was calfJ (n*& W 7 tub ylfi ( Vld. Vantheon , p. z60.) fyd Mure 7 err am Cir winter at , becaiiie the Sea beats upon I he Lad all about * as upturn ?$ derived from Tgubendo, Quod Mart Tent oinubat • becaufe the Sea embraces, and as it were, covers the Land. ( b ) Vulcan was the Son of Jupiter andy«»o,but being call oii of the Sky for his Deformity, he happen’d to light on the Earth in ti e illind Ltmms , and broke his Leg in the Fall, which perhapt being ill fit, for want of good Surgeons m thofe Days, left hi® Laflie, and he went halting^ever after j as by the old Song. Limping Vulcan beat an Iron Bar. They tell us, the Lemnians caught h ; m in the Fall, or elfe h had broke his Neck ; which is not unlikely , it being a great Heitfiti to fall from Heaven to the Earth: In Requital for which, he fet lip a Forge, and taught them the ufesof Fire and Iron 5 from whence he received the Name of Mulciber^ox Mulct fir > a Mulcendo Fcrru », fofming or policing Iron. Vantheon Cap 3. Sett. 1. p. 116 ; Athoufand fenfelefs Fidtionsare related of this Monger j «i that he was mnrry’d to Venus , but taking her in Adultery with Mars , he made Iron Chains, and bound them together l That he and his Cyclops made Thunderbolts for fnpiter, and abundance o( fuch ridiculous things. j| it BookI. JV RE D/r/WoV -/m Sc (a) Pluto , of all the Gods, I like the heft, r . And if the Matter would endure the Tell, /doubt not , has the Cuftody of all the reft. x (k) Priapm Deity I might rehearfe, afe But that his Life’s too Lujcious for my Verfe ; And Crowds of Minor Gods in Heavenly State, , I leave for Minor Poets to Create. oil, If Future Ages fliall more Monfters yield, We’ve Stars enough in the Celeftial Field y dm Immortal Legends they may now revife, Turn Saints to Gods, Tranfpofe them to the Skies, E 3 And Tne ObferVation of Vulcan fignifying Fire, has fomething more to the purpofeinit; as Vorro tells, who derives Vulcan, a Vi ac Violent ia Ignis , and Vulcanus qukfi Volicanus, quod Ignis p*r a nc j crem yolitet 5 and the Spaniards and Italians to this day, call Erup- tions of Fire from the Earth, fuch as /Etna and VefuviHS^ V'olcano's. From hence he i? faid to be call down from Heaven, becaufe Ifi Lightning comes from the Clouds; and to have fallen in Lemnos, ^ becaufe that Ifland is particularly fubjeft to Lightning. Vanth. n . Cap, 3 . Sett. 4 . p. 18 2 . h , c (a) Tluto is another of old Saturn's Sons, Brother to Jupiter and 2 typtuntj by the fame Mother Ops. In the Divifion of the World among his Sons, the Wefiern ^ Pmsfell to his Lot; which by their remote diftance m ;de them be thought in thofedavs Lands ofDirknef*; others tell us, he |V ,‘ was thr firft that gave Funeral Honours to the Dead, and forming j'j! Funeral Obfequies, and thence was thought to have a fort of Sovereignty over the dead, and from this thought, fprang the Fictions of Charon, Styx , Cerberus, and a choufand Fancies about f(t Futurity. Pantheon, Cap. 3 Sett~ i. /> 38 o, w ■ , (b) VriaPus was an obfeene Figure rather than a Deity, and ' call’d the God of Lull ; he is faid to he born of Bacchus and Ve¬ nus, and the Emblem is good. That Deformity and Filthinefs 1 mull be the Production of Drunkennefs and Whoredom ; his ob¬ feene linage was ufuallv letup in Gardens and Orchards to frigh- j ten the Crows. &ct Virgil. ft Cufios Tatum atq - 2 ayinm cum falee S aligns. IUUefp$n$iaci feryet tutela Priapi* 12 JVRE D 1VIN0. Boot? I, And make Red-Letter’d Rakes Divinities, Nor need we fearch to Wild American Lands, Peruvians, Ca-ibbeans , Mexicans } And dig for Idols in the Flaming Womb Of Burning Mountains, where they fix the Tomb, Of (a) Fiflhpuftli , (b) Agomog, and Voare , Gods of the Untam’d Chileans Golden Oar \ Whofe barbarous Accents as their Forms would Fright, And Names that few can Read, and none can Write.' Let thefe in high-fix’d Stations ftand and fhine, To Vifit Regions plac’d beyond their Line. 1 Europe has high Exalted Names in Store, A^ bright in Guilt, as any Crown’d before , Who turn’d to Gods, fhall all exceed in Crimes, And blaze in Hellilh Deeds, and fhine in Poets Rhimet The Bards of Fame may all their Names fupply, And form a new Infernal Gdaxy ; The vail impending Trophy of his Shrine, Exalted there, will fuit the Fraud Divine ; No ftrong (c) Magnetidt Charm, ’twill need to paint The Sacred Cheat, the God /(cures the Saint. And (*) Ftfuipufln was the great Idol of the Mexicans, to whom they offer'd human Sacrifices, and to fuch a height had the De¬ vil brought his Dominion over thofe poor People, that in two Years time, joooo People were Sacrific’d to this Idol , The Walls of his Tempie were fprinkled t wo or three Inches thick, onthelnfide, with the Blood of thefe poor Creatures who were pnt to death at his A t ir; and thefe Murrhers were perpetrated with all forts of barbarous Torments, and horrid execrable Me¬ thods of Torture : Bat the Credit of the Relators being not too much to be infilled upon, I forbear the Particulars, (!>). Agomoe, Jfoar, and a great Variety of Names, are given m b'l Mr. Ogilby and others; but, as I believe, a great part of theit Accounts, meerlsr Fabulous, and the Names of their Idols In- Vented, \ kis not infilled on here only quoted in general to prove, That they had a vafl Variety of Gods in the American Countries which is a Truth out of all Qpeflion ; becaufe we found it lb in thofe parts we planted, as well as the Spaniards ■ and it remain! to to this day. ; ’ Cey&ibontu 's Tomb.is fancied to impend by a Maepetick For between Heav®? atu4^:ajrtfa« • ' ' ’ " Book I. JVRE DIF IN O.U, And fir ft, that every Nation may compute, And each a Patron* Villain contribute ; There’s ( a ) Mahomet might ftand in proper Sphere, With Godhead Equaliz’d to 'Jupiter , • The High Impoflor there may Thunders throw, ’Twou’d do lefs harm than he has done below : . The numerous Nations which Ins Name adore, '■ The fame which Worfhip’d Jupiter before ■, i; May with as juft Pretences Sacrifice, 1 And view his Star in the Screner Skies. "Let them no more at Mecca Kifs bis Shrine, In brighteft Orb the fordid Wretch may Shine, >, Then (b) Judas, mighty Judas, let him ftand, to With Thirty Shining (c) Stars in his exalted Hand j No Man will his Divinity refufe. Call him the Patron-God of all the Jews : Let him the God of Ireafon too appear. And when he Reigns, let Honeft Men beware *, 8 ) E 4 Who (a) Mahomet rofe up a* a General Idol in thr.fe very f after* n Countries, where Jupite r began firft to be reverenc’d as a God; and Vis obfervable that the Safer* Parts cf the World have been ‘ moft Fruitful of Idolatry, from its very firft lurodntiioninto the World; alfo Mahomet ni this Items to be the Succeflor of Jupiter, fince the Idolatry of the European and Grecian Nations, ■ hardly ended before Mahimetanifm began : And as the Heatnens Worfhip of the Gods, died under the Encreafe of Chrifttantty ; r fo Mahometanifm grew up on the decreale of the Chritiiaii Religi¬ on, and fpread with the Saracens, Turks, and Moors, all thoie veil ’ Empires where Chrift was once acknowledg’d. There’s much more ground to place Mahomet among the Stars, tnan Jupiter, Vt- ? ! ms, Vulcan, and fuch like. (4) The Story of Judas needs no explaining, bis exorbitant ‘ Treachery may very well rank him among the Exalted Criminals j of the World. (c) Thirty fhining Stars are to reprefent the-Thirty Piecrs of Silver, the Luftre of which was the Medium of his Temptation to fell Innocent Blood. i H I4 JVRE D1VIN0. Book! Who e’er is in his (a) ConftelUtion born, ^ May Storms and Gibbets, Swords and Bullets fcom ; So let the Fates Decree the Wretched Elves, May always be allur’d to Hang themfelves. His Brother (V) Julian, of Apoftate Race, Shall in the New Celeftial Train take place , Let him be God of all that Love to Change, And in unfettl’d Orbs his Star fhall range 7 Let thofe, whofe Birth lhall his wild Influence own, Change their Religion firft, and Dye with none. (0 Peter the Cruel, muft ftand fair for Spain, ' And Great De ( [d ) Alva wait another Train ; (a) Com (a) The Planets and Stars, which obtain’d their Names from the Gods of the Heathen World, were allowed to have influendj on the Births and A&jons of Men j and that Influence was with¬ out doubt more certain than the Reality of their Hiftory, aid fuppos’d G, dfhip ; but as the Author is here running Parallels, and erecting a new Conftellation of Deities ^he is fuppofing their Influence alfo : So if any Man were Born under the Influence of the Planet Judas, he would molt certainly Betray his Matter, and hang himfejf when he had done. ” ti (b) Julian wa^the mold harden’d Apoftate that ever the World law, and his Speech at his deathj abridg’d in the 4th Volume of th c Roman H;flory, will teftifv it4 where it appears he dy’d with no manner of Relu&ance, but a compleat Heathen, retur¬ ned as much to his Heathenifm* as if he had never heard of the Chriflian Life. Continuation of the Roman Hiftory^, VoU 3 . p. 5$. (c) Peter the Cruel was depofed from his Throne by the Cafiilh ant, for his moft unfufferable Cruelties j but when reftor’d again by the Englifb under the Black Vrinte, return’d to the former Ex- cefles, but was depofed again by his Subjedfc,and (lain in Fight, and deierves to be reckon’d anuongft the greateft Delightcrs in Blood, that Hiftory record^. ^ ( d ) V'M-va is famous in Hiftory for loling, as Cortez is for gai- ning great Dominions to the Spaniards by his Cruelty j ’JDU/w boafled he had executed 18000 Men in cold Blood, by the hand of the Hang-man in Flanders, and by the Cruelty and Barbarity cf his Treatment, canfed the Revolt of the Netherlands y and after 40 Years War, the Eftablifhment of the S:ates of Holland, as a Free People* from the Spmifh Government. Struct* Lib. 3. f 17 V .vf '“BookI. JVRE D1VINO (a) Cortez, and He, may for the Place contend, ‘'"And both lhall have the Poet for their Friend. 1 Spain has too Fruitful been in Men of Blood, Who equally deferve the Title of a God j Thefe are the Heroes Hiftory extolls, i Who Mount in Flames of Crime the Heavenly Walls *, Millions have fallen by their Glorious Hands, And by their Breath at once Difpeopl’d Lands. Nor lhall the Fam’d (b) Pizz.aro be forgot, MWhofe Merit’s Equal-, tho’ his Fame is Not } dis Grave’s a Mountain of Peruvian Bones, \ Monument more halting than of Stones. n?forrents of Blood he fpilt, huge Nations fold, ; ^nd (c) BroiC a Peruvian Kings in their Peruvian Gold: () (The Four United Heroes , let them rile Vnd occupy the Center of the Skies. )ld Jupiter with all his High Extreame, "Tor Blood and Murther’s but a Fool to them. Thefe lhall the high Comparifon difdain, ;> a rhey feorn to a St by halves, and boall in vain •, jfiNot Crowds of Men, but Crowds of Nations flain. ok ■ *!* Who e’re lhall fed their infl'ence in their Blood, And Date their Birth when thefe in High Conjunction .^i-ec the prefaging Mother flop their Breath , (Hood vAnd flay the early Monfter in the Birth j mLeft Fate provide tlie Wretch with Arms and Power, he be born, whole Nations to devour. Satyr, :; Vnd m \ !*■-- - *-- --— t if, (a) Horn and* Cortex fubdued the Empire cl Mexico , deflroying lojiill the Inhabitants with the ntmoft Cruelty and Bibarity, tin- peopling whole Kingdoms, and laving wallevaft Tracts of Land, nl1 ieftroyed 5 Millions (Vf People in one part of it, and Peopled the jjXonntry with Spaniards . 1 (b) Tiz,%aro was a Spanifb General fenr by Cortex to invade Pe- , ™ and Chili ; while theother finished the Conqid) of Mexico , he ,,flew the People with ail poflible Torments and deftroying the ^Capital City, left a Monument of his Cruelty, and an incredible :Heap of the Dead Bodies of the Inhabitants, whoieBones remain Jthere, a* they fay, to this day. (c) He burnt the Kf:tg of the Veruyians, after he had contract¬ ed with him for the Delivery of anr lmmcnfe Treaftire, t 6 JVRE DJVINO. BookI, Satyr , among the Roman ( a ) Relicks try. To find an Objeft proper for the Sky •, To all the wondrous Shores of Tyber go. The Rhine , the Nile y the Danube , and the Po: Let Fruitful Rome the due Precedence have, - Two Gods of two Extremes in Crime lhe ’11 crave; Great ( b ) Heliogabalue , of all the Race, Deferves the High Imperial Starry Place. The God of Inceft and of all Excefs, And Patron of the High Luxuriant Feaft ; Let no new Birth in his Divifion ftand. Left they Ihould make a Famine in their Land. In the high Spheres let him give Light alone. But Heaven forbid his Vices fhou’d be known. (a) Roman Reiic! Th’ unhappy Wretch with jhis own Vice o’rethrowm as, Will fell the World for Gold, himlelf for none. —. Satyr, give briefer Summons to the Sky, And let each Nation name their Deitv t 001s,! » r • J 5 1 tP (a) Maximinm Emperor of fyme, was fuch a prodigious Glut- itok&ton, or had fuch a furious Appetite, that it was his Common linaHj 'Piet to drink 8 Bottles of Wine, and to eat 40 of Fiefti at a. 1MMeal, he was fuch a Monfter ofCruelty, that he was call'd the. lew mjclops, the Bufiris, the Sciron the TUlaris, Typbm and Gyges of his when it was firit heard at fyme that he was Eiedted, it I. tic fill'd all the City with Lamentations, the Women and the Chil- (fitetpren run to the Temples to implore the Gods that he might never hifl, enter that City, which they forefaw he would adt the Furr in. jnJfcand fill it with Blood and Slaughter, which he effectually made pjjyAfloat* he never fpar'd any that he had the leaft evil Eye upon * :rjf, P u ^o Death without Companion, High and Low, Rich and 0 iVoor, by all manner of Tortures; the Senate at iaft Chofe zo 0( i^Men to govern againft him, and declar'd him a Publick Enemy 5 hgtjat lalt he was Butcher'd by his own Soldiers at the Sieee of ,1 Italy. * aeef? Wencejlaus Emperor of Germany in the Year 1400. fovici- debauch'd, that he was depos'd by the Electors, and fo ^j^ceedingly debas'd, by Vice and Covetoufnefs, that for Money he acqurefced, in quitting the Government, and liv'd in Vrarttfi all mtoUeraWe Bcaftiinefc and, Vice; 18 JVKE DIV1N0. Book! The Rufs (hall (a) John Bafilowitz prefer. And Lombard's Charles, too juftly ftil’d fevere. The Grecians challenge (b) Phocas for a God, And (e) Chriftian comes from Denmark to the bright And to enlarge the Roll of Chrifiendome , (abode 5 Vile ( d) Hildebrand's detach’d from Jntichrifian Rm, No wonder the Infernal Roll’s fupply’d. From that High Chair that Heaven it felf defy’d j The God of Witch-craft, and of Sorcery, A Conjuring, Poifoning, B-ing Deity, Prolif. ( a) film Bafilowitz was one ol the greateft Mongers of Ty¬ ranny that ever the world heard of, frequently putting whole Families to Death for his meer Pleafure : his Barbarities in & vonia are impoflible to be related; and without other Particu¬ lars, all Hiftories record him the mod cruel and barbarous Wretch that ever was heard of: He reign‘d in Mnfcoyia ) and dj- ed An, 1*84. Vujfend . Inftit. p. 352. (b) ?bocas the Emperor of the E*fl, a barbarous and inhuman Tyrant, abandon’d to all kind of Abominations and Debauche¬ ries; He murder’d the Emperor Mauritius, and the Emprefs and her Daughters , he feiz’d upon his Citizens Wives at Pleafure and then put to Death their Husbands for disproving it, He fuffered all the Eaflern Empire to be over-run by r he Terfimtdl Sflayonians, while he, given up to his Lulls and Cruelties, nep lifting the due defence of his Country ; he follow’d altogether his own appetite, and took delight to cutoff the Heads of the moll llfuflrious Perfons in the Empire, meerly for his Pleafire: at la(t he was feiz’d upon by Surprize by one Vbotinus wiofe Wife he had ravifhed, who firfl degraded him, and clothed him with a filthy and ragged Robe, and fent him to Heraclm , who caus'd him to be put to Death by exquifice Tortures. (0 CbrlfiUn II. King of Denmark over run Sweden, excereis'd great Barbarities, under the facred Engagement of a General Am- nelly ; and at laft for his Tyrana.es was not only driven out of SwedeUnd , but alfo wai depos’d by his own fubje&s* and dyed in Prifon, an Example to Tyrants, (d) Hildebrand, a Notorious Tyrannick Pope, aSimoniaJtfi Sodomite , a Wizard, and every thing that was vile and abomina; nable, for which, after an unheard of Management of himfdf, Depofing the Emperor Hen. 4. and a thoufand horrid Pranks, hs was deoofed by the laid Emperor, the City of fywetakeibf Storm, and himfelt narrowly e(cap 4 d outof the Gallic ofSc.A &elo, and dyed after *vard very, miferable. I 9 Sooi m, A ithtlt (i mjl«i deffd pittiij rfentie orter I and hat fcm y i an! i and Ik \e Imps veil:! pprovin Cm:te of'Ji he** ilif iiidcte i flird cures, pall* 5 faGens )0 ,i*r ioi k Oto(» jidpllf pi Book I. JVRE DIV1NO. Proliffick France might People all the Skies, VUth Villains qualify’d for Deities. (i) Richlieu the new Apollo might have Hood, Bit that his Wit was mingl’d fo with Blood * Lit him the God of Politicks appear. Aid influence all the arts of Peace and War. Vfho in his Government their Birth-day had, Will both be Witty , bloody , Wife and Mad } Nor can great (b) Charles the Ninth be here forgot, The Skies will want a Star, if he’s left out *, H: fhall the God of Hypocrites be own’d. Aid Janus from his Temples be poft-pon’d *, Tie Birth this Pointing Star {hall e’re engage, Slall be the beft Diflemblers of the age •, Lke him they’ll Smile and Kill, Embrace and Hate, Aid under fawning Rifles prompt your Fate. Way (c) Nature Plant uponth’ unhappy Brow, S it Pr£ we, etai* rPjrt’it it thefl fit, a 50 $ *6 j.n> 1 j(i; feaoKt %VRE DtVimf. 2 j The Drunk’n Monarch all our Prayers defyes, And boldly revels in th’ Exalted Skyesc Satyr , thy Juftice canriot well deny, T’exalt him here, that’s there fet up fo high i Art hid thy Vetfe anticipated there, And God-like plac’d the Monarch in the air* Satyr, go back no further, leave a fpace, For future Heroes of fublimer Race j Content thy fclf with thefe, let all Men try* To find out fuch another Galaxy , Thefe lhall thy Clafs of Modern Gods Compleat, And thefe alone enjoy the Ihining Seat, Too vile for Heav’n, and for the World too Great. If any ask thee what High Place Remains, And what bright Orb thy WILLIAM’S Star contains { Tell ’em that he who pull’d down Tyrants here, Proclaims Eternal Wars againfl: them there: TeU ’em he fcorns the Fi&ionof Divine, And lives an Age’s Voyage beyond their Line, There he’s a God indeed^ for th’ Heavenly Face, Gives High Similitude to the Immortal Race ; There he pofTefles Infinite, Compleat, Whom here he cou’d no more Jhan Imitate, A Guard of Glorious Lights form’d his afcent, And wondr’ing Stars ador’d him as he went : The Planetary Gods Eclips’d and fled, Relign’d their Light, and vail’d the guilty Head •, Superiour Glory lightn’d all the way, With Beams Ihotout from everlafting Day ; Harmonious Mufifck form’d in Choirs of Love, From the Immortal Symphony above-, In charming Meafures all his Atlions fung, And with Seraphic Anthems mov’d along. Thus William went, I faw the Saint afcend, And Sympathetick Joy did optick Powers extend .- 1 faw th’ Exalted Heroe at the Gate, My Soul went up with him, ’cis hardly come back yet* W onder no more, new Raptures fire my Pen, When WILLIAMS Name 1 chance to write,and whert I leateh the Luftre of his Memory, The beli of Monarshs, and of men to me. . .. • P JURE JURE D I V I N O: Book II 4 T Y R, Defcend, thy juffc Refentments ihow, O From Gods above, defcribe the Gods below. Yet let thy juft Refpeft to Ctowns be Ihown-, The Mmarchs, not the Monarchy difown : For Governments from Heaven migr.t firft appear, But Governours came from the Lord knows where. Tell us how Patriarchal Power began. As Heaven s firft Didace how to model Man A Sketch of Monarchy , by which he knew, What methods of command he fhou’d purfue- It Patriarchal Power began the Line, That Patriarchal Power was then Divine j (h) Sacred the High Original may be, But how convey’d To long Pofterity *, There (4) Kings are called Gads in Scriptures, and the Word Gods, fiere, is ro be underwood to mean Kings or Sovereign Princes oi whom tne Subject now particularly comes to treat. (b) Nothing in this Book is deli^nM, or can be conftrued to Decry or expofe Monarchy,or cheSovcreignty of Government bjf Kings i but to prove they have no Powers immediately deputed from Heaven fuperior, and nnfnbjedtc <3 to the good of th fe they govern j and that when they affume fuen a right, they become Tyrants, Invaders of Right, and may be depofed by the 1 cople they govern. 0 t. hie; OW; wn j Mi; m nc; tipi ft u Sow* wl IcW' tty' fa Book II. jfVRE DiriNO. * There the yet unfurmounted Scruple lies, Choak’d with the Throng of vaft abfurdities j If to the mighty Parallel we go, What vaft difcording Parts appear below; Succeeding Monarchs Sons of Time and Fate, Derive no Line from Patriarchal State. The firft Majeftkk Father of Mankind, That e’re by Primogenial Title reign’d \ What matks of modern Tyrants could he fhoW ? And where’s the ftreams of blood that ran below f Had he his Infant'power fet up by Force, His very Sons would have rebell’d of Courfe. (aj Saturn himfelf, who his own Sons devour’d^ Was by his own true Progeny o’re-power’d j And had extended Power at firft began. And wild Oppreflion mix’d the jufter Reign : Not all the Ties of Nature, or of Blood, Could have the Laws of felf-defence withftood. Not all the Patriarchal high Pretence, Could have prevail’d to fuperfede their fenfe 5 In Crowns or Families the courfe of things. The fame Effe&s from the fame Caufes brings; All things in Nature’s proper Channel run, The Tyrant Father makes the Rebel Son. Then View the fmall Extent of Native Power $ And how unqualify’d their Subjefts to devour. Small was the bound of his Imperial ftate* Confin’d within his own paternal Gate } The Dignity of Government was high, But all his Kingdom was his Family: To regulate the Decencies of Life, The Monarch rul’d his Houlhold and his Wife 5 By juft Defcedt his narrow Rule went on, And Government defeended to his Son. But how did Families to Nations rife. Join for Defence, and form Societies \ 1 F 2 . (4) Saturn who is feign’d to devour his own Children, wa* bantihtd by his Children} the Story is fnppos’d Al!ep;crick, "w*. th.it he Tyranniz’d oyer his Subject?} and was depoled ahd fc>2- nilhed, oi driven otit ofhii Country for it. 2 JVREDIV1N0 . Book II, In the paternal right no man could reign. Farther than his own Houfholddid contain} And every Ton might from his rule divide, Be King himfelf, and by himfelf prelide. If Families united by confent. There vve come back to Laws of Government ■, Compadi and mutual Treaties of accord, Between a willing People and their Lord. But fince this Doftrine frights our men of power, And leaves bo room their neighbours to devour •, But lays foundations of abhor’d Difpute, Rebellions, Revolutions, Gcd knows wbat \ Subjects the Crown to barb’rous things, cal?A Rules, jinA Liberty, that Bait , for Free-born Fools. Let us the Patriarchal Scheme difplay. While Nature in her Infant-Cradle lay , Wife providence, that all Eve»ts foreknew. Directs the world their fafety to purfue : While in the Infant-ages of the kind. Nature to first- Paternal Rule confin’d ; The men untainted, and their number few. The Patriarchal Government might do ( a ). But as to wider Regions Nations fpread. And weaker numbers made the great their Head, Eternal feuds the Petty Lords invade (b). To Lust and Crime , by LuPt and Crime betray’d} N eceility (4) No Man of common Sence imagines, that at the firfi Pro¬ pagation of Mankind, there was fuch Governments as are among rs at this time. __ But in thofe times, each Father, without being fubjrCt to any fnperior Power, govern’d his Wife, Children ana Serv'anrs, as a Sovereign. (A) Nay it teems very probable to me, that even at the time of the Deluge, there was no Magtflracy, or any civil Confiitution; but that the Government was lodg’d only in each Father of his Family : F< r it is fcarcetobe imagin’d that fuch abominable dis¬ orders fhould have been introduc'd, where the Power of Magi- flrates and Laws were exercis’d: And it is obfervab.'e, that af¬ ter once the Rules of Government wete conflituted, we do not find Mankind in General did run into fuch Enormities, of w hich God Almightv was obliged to purge the World by an univerfal Punifhment. Tuffeniorfii IntroAntt- to the flifloiy of Europe, f, f. ) i m; fpowa, VOGT; 'm ils. e«, it: «) ead, rHd, n rtn/l. Ns 'itfii- Book II. JVRE D1VI \rro. Neceffity Confederate Heads Directs, And Power United, Power Expos’d Proteus; The nature of the thing dire&s the Mode, And Government was born in Publici Good ; Safety with Right and Property combines, Jind thus Nccejfity with Nature joins. Jhid here’s the Jus Divinum tiuly found. Confederate heads with facred Titles Crown’d j For fafety and the general welfare join (*), sit'd make the Laws of Government Divine ; They only could Succeffivc Right convey, When they that had the Power to Rule, obey • By Forms and Stipulations they Depute (b f Who (hall the Right where Kings fubmit Difpute ; With Right Divine they Confecrate his Throne, By choice convey what was by Birth their own (cf. The well fubje&ed Families unite, And Patriarchal Princes, by due choice fubmit, The publick fafety firft diredte the Choice, And patriarchal fuflfrage, joyns Diviner Voice . Paternal power at firft v. ! as incompleat, Too weak for Empire, and for Rule unfit, The numerous Monarchs quarrelfome and proud. Involv’d their little Governments in Blood ; Eternal Wars and undecided Strife, Unhing’d mankind, and crofs’d the ends of Life * Immortal ftruggles for pretended right. Proceed to blood, and men for Trifles fight s E 3 Prompted unit* ----- — - -~ 1 itkc (4) Tis plain, this learned Author implies, that Patriarchal Ctifc Power wasnoc adapted to rule great Nations, but that infinite Feuds and petty Wars would fueled, which mull end in Con- ittk® queft and Monarchy. 'jo 0 > (Q That Government preferib’d by Laws, Compacts and A^ree iite ments, was produc’d by the Neceility of things ior the puolic^ mitf- 6fcty. (0 That thefe Compadfcs and Governments being made origi- ^ifj ; naliy, by the uniting of thofe Paternal Heads, wiio had Ungi- wH\ nally that divine Right, have the Inheritance ol that Ui\u\c Right convey c d to them, and Divine Kight is lo conye, *d u me b nfl* people, no: iu the Princes, ilft 4 JVRE D I VINO. Book II. prompted by crime the vicious wretch rebells, And the juft force of injur’d right repells ; And thus the world would to this day have flow’d, In feas of troubles, and in ftreams of blood.- Satyr x the Specimen , let’s recommend, Where Patriarchal Monarchy remain’d ; How 'a We (Urn Highlands under every Clan t The old Mock-Magtfiracy ftill maintain ; View their Good Laws and wholefome Government Divine the form. Infernal the Intent, All their firft fancy’d power, and ancient right, firft form’d in blood, and then maintain’d by might; View here the ancient patriarchal Jeft, With Target arm’d, in Plod and Bonnet drefs’d. Arid from paternal Government poflefs’d. The Prince with Whoop and Whifiling T rumpet flirill, Summons his (laves from ev’ry neighb’ring hill, Teil’s them, his Enemy’s Bull has ilole his Covt> x And Dire Revenge th’ obedient Rabble Vow; With mighty 7 arg, and basket-hiked Knife x Battle and blood decide the antick ftrike ; The Narnelings fight, becaufe the Clan cortjmands, And wild ponfufion rules th’ ungovern’d Lands. Hence Conqueft fhar’d the patriarchal Crown, And Right by Pon>er x pull’d Right by Nature down; Men In the Higl, -lands of Scotland , the Patriarchal Power feems to retain ir* Original, and the Na tire of it is difplay’d, where the Men of a Name, pay all an tindifputed Obedience to him they call the Head ot the Clan, or Family ; it he calls, they come with obedient Chearfulnefs; and nothing has been more frequent than for the whole Body of a Clan, or all of Inch or filch a Name, upon the leaf! Trifle of a Quarrel between the Heads on either tide, to meet armed, ?nd fight defperacely till the Quarrel wai decided by Blood. (£) Many times upon thefe Oecafions hundreds of Men hive Ffeen kill’d,Jor rather Murdered on a fide for fome Impertinent Wrangle ; as for a Cow or a horfe, or any fuch Country Trefpafs. (c\ This would certainly have been the Confequence of Pa¬ triarchal Monarchies, where the Government muft have keen $Mlw?rom, ftjiail, and on y govern’d by Power and abfolute Will, the 8 !jDagj 5 fl would of Gourfe have fubdusd all the reft at lad 5 adkl In. own t lijj; Hji tfs'i, 5 ". : iii 61 VoK; 'JlJjj life JPOff! plijV JlW muff teW a*»£ if Ms W v r j toff * 1 UK' littt t JjtiH Book II. JURE D1VI. Men that began the fweets of blood to tafte, By Lull: of Rule pufh’d on, laid nature wade ; Scatter’d inrerionr Force, and fix’d a Throne. And all their Power eoMgr.fp they call’d their own. If then to con queft we would have recoutfe. We find the wound as bad, the Med’cine worfe j The ftridteft fearch no fteps of conqueft find. In all the early ages ot mankind ; In Natures Youth, the Bond of Heav’n was ftrong, Ambition quite unborn, the World but young : Rapin and (a) Root of Crime obtain’d no Place, And fin had made no wrinkles in her beauteous Facey The feeds of Crime, no caufe of Q'iryc entail’d. But univerfal Honefly prevail’d ; Then patriarchal Innocence might reign. But what did all the Dignity contain ? Juftice in Peace might native truth attend. Rather to pilot Nations than defend ; No fword was drawn to make his power be known. Age was his Scepter , and Grey Hairs his Crown y The high decilive Voice rever’d, bccaufe Heav’n fpoke by him the Voice of Nature’s Laws y And all he faid was eccho’d from m inkind, By God’s Eternal ( b) Witnefs in the mind: Had he impos’d his viler Will for Law, And drove the Subjects he was rais’d to draw y Strife and Oppofing Mature, wou’d have fhrwn. The fmall extent of his corrupted throne. But men and Crimes, as they in numbers grew, Old Rules laid down, and Vice diredted nevy: Pride and Ambition hand in hand invade, Nations, by equal feeds of crime betray’d y Method their ahfent Honcfty fupplies. And crime extenuates crime: The Guilty flies, ^ To lhifts and lham , and Refuges of Liesi. j Thus pride brings ltrifc,and wars to ft rite fucceedi Truth yields, and fallhood governs ia his ftead • Juftice and Honefty by Inches fail, And Violence and Injury prevail. __ ¥ 4 _ Hcucc (a) Covcicumels, waicti u caifdtileRoutotaiicvu. (b) Conference. 1 4 yVREEUFINO. Book U, Hence Tyrants, and from thefe Infeded Springs, Hows the belt Title of the belt of Kings : Conceiv’d by Pride, »nd born of Violence, So free from claim they wanted the pretence j Invaded right to growing force fiibmits, Qppreflion Charges Home, and honefty retreats .• Weak truth gives way to power, and power prevails And uoiverfal flavery entails \ The firfl opprcffion’s the produce of fin. And always follows where our Crimes begin, | T hen liften, Satyr , to the General Voice, And let the men of murmur take their Choice. 1 Let ’em in fociate compacts place a Crown, Or let ’em Conqueft and Invafion own: ’Tis all the fame, the Right’s alike Divine, The fame in Juftice, and the fame in Line j Heav’n has no hand in the Politick Fraud, Nature directed, Confequence obey’d. Th’immortal Laws of Moral Right were giv’n, As Guides of Condud by indulgent Heaven j Juftice and Truth kept all the World in awe, And Right and Wrong were fettl’d firfl by Law $ The Rules of Worfiiip and Subjedion fet, (a) What things we ought to do, and what omit \ Due Knowledge firfl infus’d by Providence, ^ And Bounds mark’d out to Man’s Obedience. But, as to Government he left him free, Nature directed Rules of Politie; Needlcfs to Didate, to his Realon known, ^ J Twas in himfelf, the Hint was all his own ^ Reafon the eafy Methods did contain, ^ And Heav’n, that never fpeaks or ads in vain, ^ Wifely fore knowing Nature wou’d dired, Plainly, omits, for Heaven can’t Negled. But | all the moral Law*, in all the Inflitutiom of Providence lead of in, the early Hifloty of the World, Heaven was obfervM ^eyer, to diredl them in mattets of Government, ay a thing leljt ^hoby to’iheis awa Choiceo 7 tofci Book II. 2VKE Dir IN iptilg Why did not Heaven prefcribe the Laws of Life, S: As when to Eat, or Slaep, or Kifs his Wife ; ice, But that directed Nature knew it’s Law, And faithful Inftind wou’d Performance draw, , (*) Society to Regulation tends, Nats As naturally as Means purliie their Ends , fferps The Wit of Man could never yet invent A Way of Lite without a Government j Subordination is the Soul of Law, kejii And Rules of Life to Rules of Living will draw j Met, What need had Power to prefrribe the Man, Out’Let him go on without it if he can. joipii, Had he in State of Innocence remain’d, i: His Happinefs had all that’s Good contain’d j ine, No Property, no Right or Wrong had known • itj Each Man had all the World, and all his own : ^ ’Twas Crime put Man in need of Government, ' To Guard juft Right, and Injury prevent ; That Government that does not this way tend, i(CJ; Deftroys it Self, as it Deftroys it’s End. i J Nor ftiall we here Difpute the Name of King, ^ The Method feems as Nat’ral as the Thing : ■ t That whofoe’er Society fhall choofe, All Men /hould him Obey, and none Refufe. Kl And ’tis as Juft that he (hou’d Reign by Rules , jjjj Elfe he muft he a Tyrant , they of courfe be Feels : No man agrees to be by Foroe oppreft, ’Tis Force alone muft reconcile us to the Jeft v Cuftora and want of Means may keep men low, ' And make Submiflion feem like Nature too j But of all Nations let them find me one, I Thatftrove to Sink, and chofe to be llndone, J' Compaq’s the Womb of real Majefty, ’ The reft is all Exccntrick Tyranny : By Force attempted, and by Fraud maintain’d. Fraud only can Vphold , what Force has Gain'd, ■— How -t t - w. . —*—-—-— -— -- rt#! W *nu 1$ according to the ftated arguing from the Lawt ot jit v^* ture and Humane Underfta&ding. Fid, Oceana, Mgtmoon Sidney, Mr- leek. &(. 8 JVRE DiriNO. Book II, How can that Foot of Government be belt, Where none Obey, but thofe who can’t refill ? Why Providence has left the World fo long To Violence, Jhall novo Employ our Song : Put the hairing Nations out of Doubt, Satyr will find the Eafy Riddle out : How it began, how native Freedom fell, ” Form’d in the dark Confederacy of Hell, a ” Speak, Satyr , for there’s none like Thee can Tell.j But firft Examine the Diviner Race, And fearch the Heavenly Image in their Face. For if the Sacred Power were all Divine, How comes the Devil hat thus debauch'd the Line ? How came thefe God-like men in Power fublrnt , To mingle their Divinity with Crime ? In Place Supreme, but God-like in their Reign, But Soil’d with Vice below the worft of Men. How came they Void of Senfe, as well at Grace , And Tainted Blood Debauch’d the Sacred Race f Incarnate Mifchiefs center in their Heads, And furfcited Debauches in their Beds } Gorg'd with infatiute Avarice, and Blood, And Troops of Hellifh Lulls about ’em Crowd : From whence does all their fordid Crimes proceed, Which makes Fate Groan , and ruin'd Nations bleed f If they from (a) Heav’n poffefs’d a Power Supreme, From God receiv’d, and held of none but him ; Above the Laws, accountable to none* But by immortal Right poflefs’d the Crown \ In Perfon Sacred, of Seraphick Line, By Birth and Place inherently Divine : The High Exalted Office all their own. And by their Perfons Sanftify’d theThronec Then Kings were(b') Gods , the Race Celeftiat, And Sacred Majefty becomes the Stile : Ht (a) If all thefe Headt of Argument were true, as Sir K f,lm and the Patrons of divine Kight aliedge the King miifl be fo®- thing more than a min ; for a Creature vetted with all the Santo- Ons, they thus place in the Perfon reigning, mult be fo exalted, at to meric fome other Title than that of a Man. (b) fa: Pa verafccib'd ,cj K nj* by thu Ooftrine, wou.dJ?t ™BookTI. JURE DIVINO. 9 in', He that Blafphemes the Name (hou’d be Deftroy’d, And they as well be Worlhip’d as Obey’d : Temples be Dedicated to their Fames, And Anthems Sung to their Immortal Names j ’ Poets in their juft Praife employ their Song, f , And Virgins Dance it in the Rural Throng : i?.| Rebels by Thunder (hou’d from Heav’n be (lain, ' ’,Thcir blafted Projects always Form’d in vain : ”■ Heav’n wou’d not fail his Handy Work to blefs. But as he gave the Crown, he’d give Succefs • te p,- 0 fperous Rebellion would in Embrio Dye, And Plots would be Supprefs’d by Majefly ; j: !" The pointed Lightnings wou’d their Throne proteS, 11 ^ And high Omnifcient Sight would Treafon loon diiledt. ..The mighty Sov’reign Power that Rules on High, ’’ -Would with unconquerable Power fupply; ot ® Heaven would his Image conftantly Defend, W* Seraphick Legions would their Power attend. k^The Titans of the World wou’d Arrive in vain, H Juftice would Compafs the Celeltial Main, i But Heav’n has witnefs’d by his High Command, mi, And Doom’d down Tyrants by the Peoples Hand ; ’cifeDeclar’d his equal Anger at their Crimes, tiiw And own’d the Revolutions of the Times. He has pull’d down the Tyrants of the Age, Poe: And bled the juft Effefts of Pop’lar Rage; felt Tumbl’d the Jm Divinum from the Throng, And fet the Foot of Freedom on the Crown $ irofl The Laws of Nature bind the Truth fo faft. That ’twill as long as Laws and Nature laft; Heaven can no Fi&ion, fo abfurd, Decree , ni, That men fhou’d date their Crimes from his Authority. ■ow Shall Tyrants plead their Miffion from on High, clM And Guard their Mifrhiefr by their Majefly • . Entitle Heaven to all they can commit. And Ruin Nations by the Sacred Cheat .• With aSil ’ Domi rute them to be Gods; and they may as well demand Ado- l kr m ‘on, a * fbch a kind of Obedience, as thefe men alled;e is due to them. rJ ,o JVREDIFINO. Book II, 1 With Rapes and Murthers firft Eebauch the Throne, I And make the Textthofe Rapesand Murthers own. | Preach the Religion of Obedienc due, I To fuch as no Religion ever knev ; Princes that give their Will its ea^er Guft, And Sacrifice the Nations to therLuft, Are thefe the Perfons San&ify’dby Line ? Then Lucifer himfelf may be Dvine, I j Forbid it, Heaven, that Govenours Ihould prove, The Right of Blood and murther from above .* The Royal Crimes of Princes blafc the Senfe, And Ihow the Weaknefs of the Siam pretence, We find no real Merit in a Throie, To San&ify the Perfon by the Cown : j Since fueh as wifer Heaven defgns to Curie, - Are not made better by it, but the worfe - r t It cannot be, that Men of Lull and Blood, Can in the Right Divine be und rftood .• 1 1 It quite Deftroys the Nature ofthe Thing, That Heaven fhould fo uphold i monfter King. But Kings are Gods That "ide own they mull, Like him be Sacred, and like himbe Juft \ , If o’er the laft the vicious Lull prvails, 1 | The Santtion dyes, and all the G Subjects excluded him both from the Gtyernment, and alto fro? humane Society. 1! ttj Book II. JV R E D I FI NO. u uta ^ er '^’ t ^ 0 !' e P° ets aid be (a) Damn'd the Song n Which with this Fonfence charm’d theWorld To long £ That he who doesno Right, can do no Wrong. j The claim of (t) Conqueftth ns deriv’d from fin,> Where will the Saved, where the Right begin ? s And when did this Encroaching Cheat come in ? j / indent as Sin, ind dole Ally’d in time, foJ Vuh m, f c ^ e f an d Midwif’d in by crime j ^• Tyrannick powerinvaded common right, J And Jxftice Sunk beneath the Arms of Mivht. J^! tf this be right, if this entails a Crown, i‘“'Itmuch more males it juft to pull it down ♦, For Crowns that by opprefllon are obtain’d, '• May by the like opprefiion be regain’d ; “;'W Th’ injuftice villbe in thefirft offence. And ’tis the caufedefends the confequence. •p 1 Heaven had no land at all in the defign, n • , "^' was opprefion taught Men firft to reign •, Btlut and Nimroi, who, as’tis fuppos’d, ■ Large families in Kingdoms firft enclos’d o»ui Who made the pa:riarchal power comply, Mi And fociate Rule fubmit to Monarchy: s, Were they inipir’l ? Did God the crime command, m And introduce defruftion in the Land ? Forbid it, Satyr , it’s no more blafpheme, littoiliWorfhip fham-pover, and banter the fupreme iiid h cannot be, Hetv’n can’t fupport a throne, Ereded purely to pull down his own ; oGffi_ ; _ Almighty f - ) The Reader is 4/ir‘d to underlland this Word in the Lan- Tt!!i;iR ua ge ot the Poets, wb life it when any of their Works are ge- erally dillik d, or contemn'd and cenfat’d; and not inthcvul- refo 5 and therefore 'tis afcrib’dto the ir j> r r thc . Poc Mnd 1 fliould have inferted none of this W Note, but for the cattious Diflemper of the Age, w hich is apt tocordemna Work fa a Word, and that Word, not becaufe it ^jlimerifs the Cenllure, bit becaufe they do not underflandif. ii a mu ^ ^ginin Covctcufrcfs ardAmbiticn; for ^^all ctlcniivc War except fuch as is fincereJy preventive, muft be __ At,# W 1 ‘ '* fce juft to ronquer, it fnufl be ju r - in another to con- qiier him , ar.d >o cn.tiji the World Has hl/d with Invaficns and “tcrnal E; croachrctr.4 cf Growing Power. is JVB.E blFlNO. Book It Almighty power, ’tis own’d, can all things do, But power does nature tonftantly pui fue; Th’ eternal attributes go hand in hand. And this mud firft: diiefr, what thole command This governs firft of all, and that protedts. And that mult execute, what this dite&s • Heaven mult its nature change, ana eeale to be, Corrupt in will, and weak in majelty When e’re it lhall againlt it felf command, And own the mifchiefs which it has condemn’d. Firft Government was nat’ral, all and Free, t A nd fixt in Patriarchal Majelty, ( From (a) thence convey’d by Right to Property, ) Where he bellows the foil, and gives the Land, The light of that’s the right of the Command, There can be no pretence of Government, Till they that have the property confent. Here all the kinds of Government began, And here will (b) end ; prevent it he that can: ’Twould be a contradidion tooabfur’d. Satyr, Mankind would blulh at every word,' Should we fuppofe Heav’n could its Laws difpenfej So concradidory to common fenfe *, («yThu is the pfiin Original of Governmenf;N4en found he Patri¬ archal Power deficient in many things, when the World htgan ] to multiply, and that it was wholly urq’>alifyed for Jarg Cl* . mtinities $ and fome encroaching upon otherq threatned andbt- gan to. grow formidab.e to the reft : To preterve therefore the * Rights and Properties thefe Families enjoy’d in the World,thej 1 firft confederate fevera] cf thefe Patriarchal Families or King- | doms together for mutual defence againft Invafnn; and finding ( this their only fafetv, they continue thus united, chefe one St- preme above the reft, ar.d he obtain’d the name ot Duke or Cap* ta ? n * r L Cr , 0 ^ . ^’ n £> or > y hich is ro be understood, G and Up* tain: Tnefe had the lame Right of Election as they had beforei j Rule, and this Right was always annex’d to the Property oi ik i Lands they enjoy d f and fo it remains to this Day* (b) Government mnft certainly terminate in the R’# of Property, bercauie Nature dtftatjng to Men ro defend their Pro perty, they will upon all O.cafions*ffert it, and obey that W they find within their own Sreafts. 3 It. JVRE DlFlNO. To fend a Nation to poflefs a Land, 5 j But from PolTeffion take away Command “j ’Twou’d turn hisprovidence into ridicule, le«n To give the property without the rule . ^ s i If the command’s withheld, pofleflions die, ®; No man poflefles what he can’t enjoy ; :afeioi Ard all enjoyment’s lame, but that which knows, fi A power to keep, as well as to difpofe. mi What other title does mankind enjoy, onitiiit And lets would all we call a claim deftroy idFrti, Of all the wide extended World he’s (a) Lon What are the confequences of the word ? uPrif How was the Title firft to him convey’d ? W How has inftruded nature fince obey’d ? Com Seizin and Livery he gave the Man, leaf Pofleflion did his Government explain, fa, For Property does Power it felf contain, bcgi:, Here, and here only Monarchies begin, tiki Sucb Governments as thefe are all Divine : ify The Perfon the Proprietors ered, fa All the Proprietors are to proted ; Lavrsi ^ er f on ^ Sacred , and his rightful Crown No Men, but they that gave it , may pull down Nor they, unlefs he prove! to be Unjuft, And then they all, not only may , hut musl. And what’s the Realon elfewhen Tyrants Reign, Mtof'i Heav’n blafts them not before we can complain : 5 it;d If they from Heav’n diredy had the Crown, lyt ta Heaven wouId when they Rehell’d, difmount the Throne. JJs When with exalted Crimes they Plague Mankind , intiit* And Rmne thole they rather (hon’d Defend ; Fa** When they with Murthers, Mallacre, and Blood, "fa? O’erflow the Land, and Revel in the flood + 5 Why does not Sovereign Thunder blaftthe Crown, A nd h e that fet them up, loon thrust them down ? riieit* Y t h e y €n title Heaven to their Miftakes, M And think he owns the Mijchiefsfor the Monarchs Sales ? Bf' No 0 ®°d S ave him, as man, Dominion overevery Crejture, and this muft certainly amply, that he gave him Property in cbofe creatures which his f ofeilion made his own. 14 JV RE DIF I NO. Book It A 7 o Man was ever yet fo void of Senfe , Or own’d fo great a Stock of Impudence: The Reifon’s plain, and may be cas’ly known* 3 7 is not Heav’n’% proper Bus’nefs^ but our own : The Gift he gives, he looks that we maintain, And till we ftrive, we cry to Heav’n in vain. Prayers andTears no Revolutions make, Pull down no Tyrants, will no Bondage break; Heav’n never will our faint Petitions hear. Till Juft Endeavours fuperfede our Prayer j Not always then , but Nations may be fure, The willing Bondage ever lhall endure ; Heaven thinks it juft if we ourfelvcs betray* That when we ftrive to be undone, we may: Chriftians muft no more Miracles exped, And they that will he Slaves he’ll not pt oted; They that would have his Power to be their friend, Muft with what Power they have , their Right Defend) In vain they for Divine Afliftance ftay, Unlcls they learn to Fight as well as pray; This will their Wilh, and his Defign fulfil. But Mankind’s never fav’d againft his Will; He works by Means, and Means he’ll always hleftj With Approbation, often with Succefs. ■ Nor is it juft mankind Ihould look for Aid, Where he himfelf, is by himfelf betray’d ; He that will not his willing Arms extend, Mufi Drown of courfe , and is for Death defign’d.} Thofe that the Agency of Man deny. Allow he always has a Power to Die : He that will Hang himfelf and then exped Th’Almighty Negative muft him proted, Expofes Providence to Ridicule, Banters his Government, and dies a Fool ; Heav’n has thought fit, by Silence to dire£fj Where Nature Didates, no man Ihould negled; What tho’ his Bounteous Hand does Plenty Carve, He that will never Eat , wtll always Starve. Wh« /W. 1 tan wm: Kail, a nit Pi it titj A ■ proteS; xtlii iRigM 1 * I® iW®; ittf W;. dirfi itetf r% Book II. JVRE DIFf/w. 15 Wbattho’ th’ opprefs’d his ready goodnefs faves, He ne’re prevents the men that will be Slaves , ’Tis left indifferent to the general Choice, Mankind inay choofe, Nature city's his Voice j If he’s a Coxcomb , and relolves to die, LET HIM, not God of Nature will deny ; If he will be a Fool, to Force iubmit, Heav’ns not concern’d to free him of the cheat, > But leaves him to be punilh’d for his want of Wit. J Thus Sovereign Gracedoes finking Worlds Redeem* And Pajfive Man refigns the Fraife to him , But when he will the mighty Gift throw down. He damns himfdf and makes the Crime his owti. This is the firfl Great Law of Government , Reafon fubmits and figns her free Content; All other Forms of Living are Humane, Empty like them that made ’em, and in vain * Cannot the ends of Government fupply 3 Nor finifh, what we call Felicity 3 They all began in Crime, by Crime maintain’d, Pervert the means of Rule, and mifsthe End. Divine Commifiion knew no Clafs of Kings , Defpotick Governments are felf-made things 5 ’Twas all ufurp’d , ’twas all Tyrannick Power, Which made great Families the fmaH Devour: The firft wild (a) Huntfman Beaftslefs wild purfu’d, But quickly fora Kingdom left the Wood , He form’d the Firfl Banditty of the Age, And learnt the men as well as Bealls t’ Engage .* Thus Captains they commenc’d, and then grew Kings, ^nd Tyrants by the Conference of things : For lawlels power, by lawleis power°they toil’d, And mankind foon with mankind they embroil’d, Till he grew King that firft fubdu’d the reft. As he that Rob'd the mo ft. could Rule tie befl. G Was r r .B who is in Scripture called a mighty Hunter, we f t, 1 .k Ilan, i , ® r . ec hl ' Banting was of Men more than Beaflst na that ne ercCteda Tyrannick Government in the World, flicR seueve j and therefore called a Mighty Hunter hfirc tin vtiL 16 JVRE DIV 1 N 0 . Book II, Was this Divine ? Was Heaven concern’d in this, Heaven that is all made up of Truth and Peace ? Opprejfion’s born of Hell , the mifchief cam® Dig with Ambition , Nature to enflame, And has no other Profpeft or Defign, But to Debauch and Ruin all Mankind; It’s Nature’s fuch, 'tit Tainted from below , And by the Crime you may its Birth-place know: Effefb in fpight of Arts their Caufe reveal. The Devil bimfeif cannot the Mark conceal; It fmells of that Dark Vault from whence it came, Such Kings and Tyrants always were the fame. And as the Mo,dell’s of Infernal Birth, ’T has fpread the Devil's Image thro’ the Earth; Eternal War with Heaven till now maintains, And wheedles Men to pleafe themfelves with Chains Perfwades them to believe the Cheat’s Divine, And calls in Heaven to fan&ify the Line: Religtott always makes a Crime c ample at. And [acred Masks the only dangerous Cheat ; The Regal Power was all their own Defign, Built on the Rubbilh of the Power Divine : The Patriarchal Rioht opprefs’d by Weight, Sunk in the General Cafualty of Fate ; The firft Paternal Government made void. And Right Divine by Right Vfurp'd deftroy’d. Thus Power by Compuefl was at firft begun, And by OpprelTion has been handed down ; The Crown a: firft upon the Sword depends, And what the Sword fit up, the Sword Defends j Nor does it fink the Value of the Grown, Only it pulls the Mask of Sacred Down : For Conqueft is a Title Heaven permits, And few Crown’d Heads can boaft of better Rights* But this does perlonal Sanction all confound, W here Conqueft Reigns Divinity's a-grmnd ; Title and Right's an empty formal Word ; A nd all the Jus Divinum's in the Sword • The Crown’s a Hieroglyphic to the Steel,’ Subjects may think oj This, but That they Feel : i7 Book II. J VRE D1F1N0. eact i ’Tis Force fupports the High Tyrannick Jeft, w And Men Obey, becaufe they can't Rtftft ■ So Heaven it felf, as Learned Ken havefaid, Wou’d have no Subjedts, if the Lev’l were Lead Religion may in feme few things appear, „ But all Submijfion is produc’d by Fear ; The High Pretences may perhaps be Great, t£1 i But ‘tis Subjedion makes a Law Compleat, jlnd fenfe of P untfoment prefer res a State • ■ ; ’Tis Power alone which keeps the World in awe, , I lk And ’tis the Penalty fupports the Law ■ Without it ’twou’d be but an empty Sound, i ’ - A Cloud in which no Thunderbolt is found ; ; Rule without Power’s an empty fenfelels Word, slnd Juft tee, Netfenfe is, without the Sword. “. Satyr , the Sons of argument Difmifs, 1 ■ And ftand the Teft of High Authorities; 16 Let us to Sacred Hift’ry now appeal, ft Heaven may perhaps in thefe the Doubt reveal; CW; What tho’ it feems embarras’d and perplext, 1 PpP Ton’ll find the L citrine if you find the Text; Diviii: That very Article our Champions boa ft, eft Shou’d molt confirm ’em, will confound ’em moft. f; When Ifrael with unheard of Murmurs firft, ft Pray’d to unwilling Heav’n they might be curft • ejlmfi Re jelled Cod , and fcorn’d th’ Almighty Rule, 4 egun, And made themfelves their Childrens Ridicule ; doii Th’ Eternal Banter, Future Ages Jeff, epetdsi And Damn’d to Slavery at their own RequeB ? Dtjd'i How did juft Heav’n the mad Demand receive, o, How with their wild deluded Reafon ftrive: i; With what juft Arguments (fid Samuel plead, ( Give ’em the Tyrant’s Char abler to read ; Explain’d the Lull of an "Lngovcrn’d man , Qjfft Show’d ’em the Danger, 1 reach'd to them m vain : m j ; Told ’em the Wretched thing- they’d quickly find, l Within the pleafing A *me vj Kmg Contain’d; |.’ With their bewLdud Crowdsexpoftulate, dnd open’d all the Dangers oj their Fate, fall ‘ G 3 The lS JVRE D1V1 NO. Book II, The Text is plain, Hcav’n the Dellgn abhorr’d, (d) And left bis high Diflike upon Record ; Not that he does the Name of King difclaiin. The Mifchief’s ill the Man, and not the Name* But his Juft Anger plainly heexpreft. Again ft the Madnefs of the wild Requeft; They-mere a Monarchy, hioifelf their King, Free from the Mifchiefs, yet enjoy’d the thing • Govern’d by him their Freedom tuey purfu’d, He f. 'Slight their Battles, and their Foes fubdu’d •, But glutted with the Freedom of their Fate, They Bought their Ruin to Exalt their State ; Sought cheir Deftru&iou wich unwearied Pains* And begg’d for Fetters, Slavery , and Chains. But Heaven, fay ire, thought fit this Prayer to hear, Himfclf cbofe out the King, and plac’d him there; Difown’d the Pop’lar Right, and fix’d the Choice In Providence, and not the Peoples Voice From whence the Claim of Right by Regal Line, Made fracF s Kings be Kings by Right Divine. ’Tis own’d, if e’er Almighty Forcer thinks fit To Cboofe a King, the People ihould fubmit; His Sovereign Power has an undoubted Right, As he has made the World to Govern it. And he that has the Right of Government, Can Vive a Right by his Divine affent •, By Proxy may the Kingdom execute. For if he may Command, he may (Jf) Depute. Thus Saul was King by Heaven’s immediate Hand, But ’ir as in Judgment to ajjlift the Land ; To have his Anger plainly underftood. And Samuel's black Predictions to make good j In Granting he corrected the Requeft, Gave them the Man, but he with-held the reft ; (a) I Sam, 8. 7. 8. They have net rejechd thee, but they !»n rfjtfled wff, that I fljould not reign oyrrthem ¥ (b) And conieqnentJy may Depute a Tyrant whofliall execute his Judgments tor the Pnnifhmect ot a Nation; and fo it wai here, tor tkc ocripture fays exprelly, Satti ivas tiv€fl them in Anger. JJjj Book II. JVRE Dirnvo. ip M ' He gave what they pretended to require, n But in the Gift he puntfh'd the Defire : w f He § ave a pl «g ue t tfic very felf-fame thing They ask'd, when they petition’d for a King. For ’tis remarkable when Samuel faw, ’ (h) i hey’d have a King in fpight of Senfe or L w •, let Hedrevv the p '&ure of a Monfter Crown’d, rfu'd 1 Ask d them, if fuch a Viliam could be fonnd, jjjjj Whether they’d like him, and their T ribute bring ? They anfwer, YES: Let fuch a one be King, c ! And is a Tyrant King your early Choice ? itdP ^ Be Kings your Blague, faid the Eternal Voice \ And with this mighty Curfe he gave the Crown, T' And Saul to IJrael’s Terror mounts the Throne. J, Satyr, the Parallel with Caution bring, L J ‘ 0n what Conditions was this Man their King. ' ’ Tho’ Heaven declar'd him, Heaven it felf fet dpvwn «i The Sacred Pofiulata of the Crown ; “T Samuel examin’d firft the High Record, \ 00 Then Dedicates the Snbfiance to the Lord ; G 3 (a) This tit jjittr letf S*l y ‘ r 9 # God bids Samuel hearken to the Voice Ci the People, and make them a King 5 hut process folenwivu# them, and thews them the manner of the King that Ihalireig.i over them. 5 0 (b) This I rake not to be improperly turn’d in Satyr, and ©ring in Samuel talking to them aims ; God is rsry much difp leafed with you, that you hare rejected his imme¬ diate Gorernment, and chofen a King ; and theref/me has bid me tell W. if y» will hare a King, yet* flail , but he will be fi and fo : as h orn >• 10. to 18. ’«/ i *, It* toUf* )tilf - V'l Pe °P,K tl eply 5 Nay, but we will have a King ov »J: As if they had laid ; m wkh a our Hurts j lot us but hart a Kin* we’ll venture d, , * tT ""d‘ O'** Heads j let us have him, let him be ne ver fa bud rj\-rt KiHg} that We may be a Mttch forour Enemies. ’ . II, Iy ls be meant bv that Text, i Sam. 10. if. Sum 0 <* the Peoplt tin manner of the Kingdom and wrote it in a Bnk a laid it up before the Lord. ■ a. His telling the People the mnaner of the Kingdom. 11s plaintheword Manner iigr>iHe* the Conflic'udon of ef ternmsnt; by which is ir.«an;, the conditions on which Saul w 2 0 JVRE Dir I NO Book II. (a) This is the Coronation-Oath, the Bond, The Steps on which the Throne and Kingdom Hand; Which whe.i the future Kings unjuftly broke, God and the People jufter Vengeance took , Then mark the Needful Steps, to make him king. How Sacred E ids, concurring Means rauft bring ; N >t Samuel's Ointment , not the mighty Lot , Could make him King , nor hew his Title out •, They fawno Worth in his Mechanic Race, No Lines of Government in his too Youthful Face : The bajhful Boy for Crown and Power unfit* As loth to Rule , as they were to fubmit ; Declin'd the Gawdy Trifle , call’d a Crown, And loth to Change the Stable for a Throne : Backward the weighty Load to undergo, The rvijefi ASHon ever Saul con'd do* ( a ) Is this the Monarch (hall our Foes deftroy y Does Heaven deftgn to Rule m by a Boy ? The flouting Rabbles Cry, We fcorn to own , % A Man that has no Merit for a Crown , Give us a better Kin^, or give m none . J Is this the Tyrant whom you bid us Tear ? Is that young Cowardly J3oy to Govern here? h to be K : ng, and rhey his Subje&s; for tho 5 Ged nad given him the Crown, it was to rule the People according to Juftice and Laws; and this is meant in frequent ExpreUtons, by going in and out be¬ fore them; referring to Juftice being executed in the Gates, and Peace and War ; the King was to lead them in one, and diredin the other : This Manner of the Kingdom was told to all the People, that implyed the Confent of the People requir’d to make him King, without which; tho 5 Samuel had anointed him, he was not own’d bythe//r^r« 3 but went about his private Affairs •11 after the Victory over the Mmmonites^ (a) i Sam. io. 27* How (ball this Man faye us ? Mnd they de* ffh*d him. (h) Then this manner of the Kingdom was wrote in a Book: a Token of its being a Compad; between Saul and the People j and his laying it up before the Lord, is a very good Equivalent to an Oath recorded on both fides. For it was there as a Witnefs between the King and the Peo¬ ple, and ferv’d both as their Oath of Allegiance, and his Oath of Government. AU this being done ; What follow’d > Ml the VeopU wrntt* f v &h and there THE r, mark the Word, made Saul Kin^ Mk ionil broke, imkii id ki r L»,’ OK; Km, >fdk lit i rhrocf ). i «% r#n^ i if. r ? if k! nadji® aSiceit injioi intK w, d told tii requi^s ndW privafii ? jd otc ifii drkefcj 10 i Ity Book II. JVRE DIV1NO. 2I Is he the Man Jlrall Judah’s Scepter Sway ? uim sf, are we mad enough, d’ye think , t’Obey ? Our King mufl lead the Glorious Tribes to Fight , jind Chafe the Thoufetnds of the Ammonite-; From Ifrael’/ Chains releafe her, and Defy The mighty Chariots of the Enemy , His perfonal Valour mufi our Triumphs bring , Tis fetch a Man we Want, and fetch a King, ° Away they go, (a) rejeft his Government, Not Heav Vs high Choice cou’d force their due Confem. Samuel fubmits, adjourns the llrong Debate, Sufpendsthe King he offer’d to Create ; Owns their Diflih's a high material Thing, And without their Confent , he never could be King ; Nor would even God himfdf the thing deny; Nay Heaven the Scruple feems to Juftify ,,- Nature was here oppos’d to Providence, And Duty feem’d to bow to Rules of Senfe : Almighty Power declar’d it (b) worth his while By Miracle the Cafe to reconcile. Why did he not his high Diftafte exprefs, Refeent the Slight , and punifh their Excels ; Extort Obedience by exprefs Command, And Crown his Choice by his immediate Hand ? © 4 Deftroy (a) They faw no Merit in the Man they expe&ed $ the Kiilj that God would have given them, Ihould have been a Man of fome Figure, whofe Conduft had been tryed,and his Valour and Bravery had made famous among the Trib:* ; but when they faw a Youth mean and defpicable in hi* Original, of the young- eft Tribe o! Ifrael 5 a Benjamite, and every Circumftance concurring to Difappoint them; they go away deje&ed, and tefufe him, notwithftanding all Samuel’s Anointing or God’s Angling him out by Lot. ( 4 ) It feem’d as if God had own’d there was fome Appearance ofReafon in the Peoples diflike of their new King; and there¬ fore he was not pleafed to exprefs any Anger at the Contempt : their reje&ing Saul, put upon the Divine Defignation, as it were owning that a Ki ng ought to have Perfonal Merit to re¬ commend him; and therefore directs his Providence to workup, on the Peoples Judgments, and even by a Miracle gives Sa d that Merit which he knew would obtain upon the People’s good liking. *2 JVRE DIVING] Bookli Deftroy the Rebels with his Waiting breath, And punifh Early Treafon with their Death : With mighty Thunders his new King Proclaim, And force the Trembling Tribes to do the fame ? Becaufe he knew it was the Courfe of things , And Nature’s Law, that Men jhould Choofe their Kings; He knew the Early Didate was his own t And Reafon aded from himfelf alone. *Tis jafiy fays the Almighty Power, and fenfe. For Adions are the Words of Providence; The mouth of Confluences fpeaks aloud, And nature’s Language is the Voice of God ; * Tis jufiy fays he, the People jhould be jhown. The man that wears it , can deferve the Crown. Merit will make my Choice appear fo jufi y Tkef II own him ft for the intended trufi • Confirm by Reafon my Exalted Choice , And make him King by all the peoples Voice. Let Ammon’.* Troops my Peoples Tents invade^ And IfraelV trembling Sons, to fear betray'd , fly from th’ advancing Legions in the Fright , Till Jabefh Walls Embrace the Ammonite. I'll fpirit Saul, and arm his foul, for War, The Boy they fcorn 7 jhatl in the field appear • I’ll teach the unexperienc’d Youth tofioht y And fief him with the Jlaughtcr’d Ammonite. The General Suffrage then he’ll jufily have , To Rule the People , he knows how to fave ; Their WiHing Voices all the Tribes will brings And make my Chofen Heroe be their King , Great God l How Glorious are the works of (a) fate! And how prepar’d for us to wonder at ! Th’ Immortal Harmony of Providence, What Mufick is it to th’ enlighten’d Senfe ! By which Almighty Light is pleas’d to Ihow, 7 The ftrange Connexion fecret Matters know £ between the things above, and things below ! J (*j| A word us’d as expreflive of Providence, but not to leflM Providence, or fuggeft an independint thing, call’d Fate o* Fore ppe, as the Heathen Determin’d it. - . l 2 ? amt! % ,d|t *; loti, o f Gas ks, Cim ;siim4 ite. Book II. SVREDIFimrr He fpeah , and all the high Events Obey, The mighty Voice of Nature leads the Way ; Convincing Reafon Conquers willing Senfe, And Heaven’s Decrees come out in Con Sequence. The Troop’s of (a) hmmon IJrael's Tents invade, His Mighty Fighting Sons, to Fear betray’d, Fly from th’ advancing Squadrons in the Fright, ’Tid Jabejh Walls Embrace the Ammonite. Saul ROUZCS ; ([) God had arm'd his foul for War, The Boy they [corn’d does in the Field appear ; His Perfonal Merit now befpeaks the Crown, He Wins his Enemy’s, and Wears his Own. The willing Tribes their purchas’d Suffrage bring, And Univerfal Voice Proclaims him King • As if Heaven's Call had been before in vain^ Saul from this proper Minute, Dates his Reign. The Text is plain, and proper to the Thing, Not God, But all the ( & ) People made him King „ Satyr , fubmit to Human Cenfure here, And for the Party’s Banter now prepare; For --- V • : (a) r Sam. ir. i. Then Nabalh the Ammonite came up y and V encamped aga\nU Jabefli Gilesd. 1 Here was a Siege and a Capitulation upon bafe and difhonour- able Terms, if they were not Reliev’d in Seven Days. M * W Now the Defigns of God in his Providence were ripened J for Execution j Saul Roufes, i Sam. II . 6. The Spirit of God "