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'43.” Anditherefore, when I hrlt fell uponthis
Paper, I was wifhing to my felf, that ['6-

  

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wealme of the Defender: Butwhenl few the wifer fort gating

one ulporl another, émdtlte rerc greedily fwal ing it, either
becaufe they underllood it not, or believed the others might; I

 

i thought it my duty to evince to the World, that every man was

not of the Authors opinitny and that :1 general filence had not
 begotten a general confent. And this wasthe true caufe of this
A prefent Writing ;, wherein 1f the World {hall be pleafed to believe

me,‘ I ask no more: If“ otherwife, I feel: notltingbut the emantia do

pationeof Trutli-, and therefore if it be an Error, it is one “on

 r good a Subjeél, as the anfivering To danger. »
‘ ‘ous an Error, had lighted upon fome better ”

the right hand; and may the better deferve pardon, not imi...}

tation.

it   To fay nothing or theffitle, ( which is no more than the hDeca~

logue tythed, or one Commandment thrufl: clearly out of doors)
Ifhall begin with the Author, whom we find bound up under‘ the
name of Wiliiam AI/lm; but I believe he is not the lirll whotha::h

A fathered a child "lZl‘1£1I§ is none of his own‘; and therefore I guellion

whether it be not as ltard to mfpeét him, as difficult to nd him

out? 13'oir(Abelides that by the thread it looks. not asiifit fhould be
home..l'pur1)e there are manyv czrcumllances might induce the to

t‘ it maybe Ali,en—born,e if ‘I could for the preli:-nt‘ithinil< upon

 

anyEnglifl1»rnan abroad, whofibating theSubj'ec5l:)lwere able to  

beget fuel: another ze Butwhoever A hebe, the Extmnplie is more tltejn
the ‘olden; and therefore I thought good to diftufi his,Argu-

memo, ;and beftow fome ink upon the T¢tter_.,*that itfpread no

farther.  A e , V V ‘ A
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  TIieVnext%thing c0nfiderablefare' V
  of the Gqntleman is verymerry, and
% pe11ation;n05'VgoodSI.gbj4e€c willdeny  
.:;2jfijimACb$1¢22tr_7,(f01‘::f(5 indeed h§;i5,)%.yet'Very(i11tiful1y’    .'

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% He would Wfairifhave him goge, that hemight come

  
cam  A   
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% %-+wHxééve»1;jam IRci1?M pmlaj/am I

Tériizé V 6031? %vW3'?6?it=Cdr0T% ~-~---~- %

  ;Lafi1y,,A Alzgimpiieé aS».ifA. Iié, hzid déférved ,_xxre1It AAo£V%_h’is Cotzntry; A
A and‘ yAetfmet1;inAkshe# might ha,VeA;reri1ex;1j1br%eg§,.th%e(fame 
C4pire1iMa0f Row 3% {Y€t‘119€>I1 %rfi0Vifl8 ai*<=d’iti0n,4. and f€ekingt0V   
gen the peopleto 11is« fiaftifina A he was,..With0utaI1¥%regazfdilad£0 V  
 g00C1i_d€;fer .V P‘1Itcl3°C}h€aC§10ngff3n;: tI1§.Cd(f'ap£:¢[,A Kvhidi to  
%f@Ar;nAcr»AA1QnQr%A1eA1g  o Va iantl 7 :25 ene%  Inaword ._h'e%en..;
A deavou1*s to’ place :1 Religion tge Aéf‘, and'W0111d%%Vbje¢::hought“V
h.i;;mi'e1f to be gm Angel,‘ ifit befor nmthingelfe bu; ‘trO1‘lAb§i.%ri"g zzhe‘, 

WaI€I.‘S. 

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his Egifilés A3 A in the firfi Where.  
A gxves his ~Highn¢FS%%;g;n .ap..‘4.A 
Ahxm : He calls him    

A   . . 4 L       Vbvhis inheri~%“4V
   Q'¥aYS".,‘v1—ththeiw0ifd 1’ather,Afi5 .»wmm WithrI2ecre~T  
 du1it¥%¢   net that 11¢ might! mm. my thing;   

 . hut%33-rengrheflA%t»h€A Confxm-acie,%% for%’f~  the ‘Iex:A    

A A A ;fec%Qnd:,%Ato %gViVAAe@  the?:»1i10re7 c1*edit4%to his mL1tinou%s:perfWa§;%%4%k %

V L > L4 ,1:" ,‘    fain_b€ thought 1:9 ha»v€:.%b.€:3n a» S0’1dier,a.nd%wbeliieveg» A     

  Aflxere Way tA0i¢beAde¢1nedthC% C£z%e%% of the Age, un1eghe%dA&r§M A
    p1ainEng1ifi‘sAis   

efcend J50 his B0Ok,”;Athan Which? I have not znet with     A
A Ath:ing%morefa11aCi0AuflyCwpofeda  0r"n10re era-ftily Aputtogethker  
 vw_herei.n, A cfédidiz L/af¢}m?}¢;fgri, popula 714tfp1;$2.-é£r£A'f,AAV’%j:Aj
A    tlxerweforew (like Manrla) 11.6% WOUIC1 fain rfilifli EWTYA ma 115 tafifig VA 
  2rndAbecon'Ie a11%t11i1iaS Vto a11%:nen,%t11atv he may gain.f*o1m:—;F<>r4   
_ whi1{lAAh¢ a1*guesA:coi1fident1y, ;am,~»:.m, ex :%cam-e MA, zmd"'asw   
% fa,Aithof%f1;ch%% anotherf, .#N;mzxgm vveremf, gm-o%m»'eAd#z=;m-sgzgqmi é   
 473 .5.-AgMA«z,+ka.,,a.»,;:m:.:, he iinfinuates %%iz1t0 every f3.&ion,A, and interéfh  
»;f»e,¢;<_et.1y ftieaisir1toV Athe éafie4APe®p1e§Whofegears am more_  
 RI1eJtQ3:iq1;€, tAheniL0gick,4%kA %and[%fQ(A)n€r driven, by fi3:AeAAW0fdsj4 
 Jeggg  perfwéifion xvhexmefi it c01nesto«pafi3, thatth%‘ey are czheated  
iathxhjé @Glo*i'si.n fl¢ad0ft11¢%%Te:Kt» Aamd guiled with the fpeci0u{rI¢f:_%“
A A   .   A  

of the bait, to fwaltlow the hook 3 which theyfeldom chfcover._,§,til-1, V l 

they};-ometo repentoflhotv diligorge, withoutfithe'iveryientrailes A

oftlfome; of them,vihereit~lomt'l1 tlalten,fafl<efl hold. But tl1el>e;fi:i A

A <offit;is,‘ we have not many €isIa'l11pl€S,..tl3atl peeees of this natu’re”f

have made‘ any underitanding ma11,ét.Profll”elyte, and mrely 1“I1{;t.‘
Withzi cordial reception in any, except aifewloofe, icllefellows,

it who like the Atbenite m  the é?.r,ofpertd theirtime in nothing elfe, A&.17,2~z~"ll
t , but either to tel4l,“ot“hear fomenew,“ thing-: For,a.s to the perfons for *

whole Take our Auothorofaithheihltzithidifpleafed fol tnalny V to pleafe

it fovfew,  z*1.ae/;:o-wf} and the jwi/E) it catnnott be thought hut that‘

A loolgupon it ( as he tells 135 he wrote it ) wit}: indignkztionl; at well e

thel "former will he fo far ftjorn being pleafedw-ithit, thatthey will 

- l§{r1OWiI1§_5,l tha.titjis notenough for await to be [wager vita, but
i he mutt be alfo Affcelerzg-llptz«:rm,l which I t,hmltI no man can be {aid to

be, who hath hajcl’his hancl in blood, efpecially in the blood ofhis i
Prince, Whom,  the Lewis of Natt1te,:md Nations, he is obliged Q
to defend. And as fbrthe_wi¢fe man, tl1oughll1emay‘l1ave fo little

g hono11rl,a,nd lefshonelly to approve offucilflan aétion whendone,

yet _he héttlttoto much wit to itnhztrqttie in the delign, as counting

A it as Clifficult to be zconcealecl, lastdangerous¥to‘l:>eiefieéitedlz And»

therefore (_ as vapours go no liilglter then the micldle Region, Aancl.
from thencefallilwdown agatxt upon the earth) the g1*eateltir.lil‘lu—- V.
ence it is like to have, nmlt be upon ( the '2mc=r:.;\tF ) the multitude,,_

A '*“'\and"t1]ef.e he ufethas the Mo»nke.y did the Cats paw, to fcrape the

nultseout of the tire; and ltavitug put them inethe head thatmthey are 
the Geefe that muft p1'leferve tll1e.Cap1_t(ll , he perfinadeg them to

i put their fhoulders to that, wliicltluimfelf ltrtowstto be too hot to

V aerm 17' e

touch with his linger. In aword, hewants neither fallacies to at--_ '

mufe, nor maltceto exafpemte them, fo that I may as trulv fay of

‘this Pamphlet what Hmmmma as mjultly {aid of .Littlt:’t:-2'7 .S‘ml- *i°‘”’”’.'’’7’’J.‘
, g , . . . . . _ , .,,- . u_ _V 3’ l _ H , jcm'lrz!zI2m‘,.

Mm: wdmtmr; zzz zcflo 7 Zzérat mm .m;:zla.tm, @"-ffllfimfitflfidt fimfw ,4,/‘_,l tic-‘tiwduml

 In theuneztt place he falls tzponthebu{inefi:»of'l.S‘Imierramév,. ztndll

iwoulcll fain know, xvl1etl1er(£f' rlamr /Md éeen mg» /mr/.4 Pint) it (iv

term the 1§€pitih.itesoMri¢ Speaker gave it, via. of El

_ A t _ AA _ A toody, Wick-
ecl._,c§»¢. CO1'ltCE*i”I1lIIg;‘\7Vh1Cl1, bectmfel I {hell have an oeealiot1t_ot‘_

‘ fpeakto it irleifs l,31‘0P€‘1‘Pl?C€, Iflmllone-hr fay thus muc:hCto itat

prefentg Thaztit will found little otltetwife' to any perlbn of ho-l-v

  .nel‘ty,Vo;‘ honour, it being 8. COL11‘f€.‘€1g£lll1llSall1’;.lO1’lOlllf':,‘Rt?llgl*

W§,T1l(’J'l1.,,"

*gion,. Society’ “ gamma ty, L Laws ‘of “Nations, and the very I
yOfP0l1Cy~, Laiilgr, An aét fo batbazrougjamtl ferine, thatweteit
not that it would he avery t1'eproach to the age, that thermlatteri

Earn. 3.15‘.

' ‘Higbnafr be 4 Tynan: or not ?(JVi1iCh'l1€ is pleafed to fay will 59"
V mm) 2, If /136:2, 'Wl:et‘/jeriit he lmsrrfvtfi.’ tavkil! 557% 3 T3. [fit

mould beonce difputed, or called 1in“lque£tion,l it couldfneverl be

defended : And fo I leave it * to tliatiliicenfutewhich St, gm“ 

giveth of the wifdom of this World, "Wbic/a (faith he

mt framiaézowt, /vxzt 2'4 earth/rid fim/ma/, ta:2aIai:;~22.i1z’//3. ‘ 2
But to draw into a Mleiifeii Circle7( or asihimfeltf faith

~fenfi:‘mm” fi,'ri0I«xflj; A *hisQt1ePtions“eare Three.’ f 1. iwlmlmt bid

) I defemdetb

 be lawfnlt’, Whether in}: 11%‘ to prove more profiuafilegi oeitmxzitam

V I-, Q_'_'efl:.
to hdttdled.‘

to the Ce=mmoma3eaZ:la 3’   In the handling of a1l\vhilch,ttl1ati;,I may

A not lfeem to balk axiy thing by ‘filencel, oral cloud any thing 
" words, I {hall take them in.ord'er as he hath laid them ; And begin

with the firii, which,if ithe no CQ€i:iCiOn (as he would have it)
' it needsino Anfwer: But becaufehe makes ufe of that feeming A

negation onely to affirm the Pcronger, I {hall coniider his divifiont

.a of a Tyrant, viz. fie: Titfl1e,ié' t€'.eg:4c-itz'a;, wherein, I hope I"

That. his
~;H ghnefs
is not
'.Z:'yr:n_mm',
fine Timzo.

Ihall evince A ‘to
ther. * ; i

the Worlcl; That His Highlneié. is within nei-«
As to the fitit -, he faith, That ;zfli'1’ower .02/er at ommamsaeav/t/a,

i; derived’ eitlserfrcm the azppoirztrnent of Goahtmfi t/as canfmt of the e

'Pe‘aple t/oemfilvzgiex : Whiich I grant him, with this reiiriC°ti0n,‘Tl1at
where thepower of God doth not intei*po’fel ( as it willbe hard‘

at him to prove that it hath done at any time, fince the Common-‘ A

A wealth of the Jews) the cuftom of the Country is the ruletto go,
  a by; and tlierefore the thing that we are to enqture into willbe,

whether. his Highneié hath a fuflicient power‘ coa’amitAtiedtftolhim

 accotdizigto the Laws andaConftitutionsof this Na_"ti0t1‘? xvhich, A
 he have.;,-it will not matter what cuftomslthee Hebrews had a-‘ A
;.mong{t them, lbutalfufliciently prove our purpofe, that he is no

Tyrant in Title. And theirjefotetfor Janfwet. to his Exainplesof
Sam}: and David! being chofen by God, and confirmed by the

people; we mull: know, thatthe Jews-had an immediate ~rex{elta~i A

tion ‘of the will of tGodtby his Pi'ophetls5li4ewhich in thol7e~tiemes,'i
1% We-:fhalli rarelyeifind, that they gaiVn—faici,i efpecially in thiings oi”?
 't~l‘liS‘1_'1a£l_1rfe -,  and cozi_feq'ue1-itlyjthe meeting, of the people at _
}2:t_»f:~._, and Ht‘£’f07i_llt05‘ Cb?-:fi.ryg3«A‘tiI€‘1‘ll as heecalls it) was hut an

of

at 

or lcdmpliance, teltlxatwill of .God,wel1ich he l1ad_ A pre~declzu:edAA  ”
4 hi; dpmphe: llsgmmza Aforifit flaould be otherWxfe5 the ,ele&ion
’f;*omsAGo.d would have fignified little, unlefs ivt: {hould have A pleafed
the Vpe0:p},e :91;-we confirmed them afterwards. 4 Befides, let: him  
makeo:fitwl1athelcan, I do not conceive that the Law givene
 Lethe Hebrews ( -aslt is properly Law ), ls obliging to other ANa-- A
%,;i=€>n.s; for no La\xr%~binds any to whomeit was notgiven, and fee A .
' faith Gram  Andthat it waseiven to them» the Law it 1‘ If f’§’;£‘¥- 
fpleaké; agsmucligl AHem:‘0 l[/Mal,  .A,I‘N1d.tOACh€fl:1% folely, Will ap-e fig}, ‘ g
pear not: onely by -the feeondverfe oflthe fame Chapter, L7'I'aeAID‘élm. ;;,_
Lg}raiAemr~'qadm4da 4 Cavénmzt wit/9 24:,_c§-c but by ])m;.4-7, A
land P/a1*x47.2¢o. where Mafia: and the P/elmifl, tellg them they
  ~ewe1-be the onely people ‘in the "world, to Whom Goa peculiarly
 gave his Laws. And that the jewsethernfelvese didltake it T), will  
  be manifefti11tl1is, that the Pfflfélitflil Pozftae, of whomwe read in 3% _4,”_
' me licmrrlll Commandment, was % nm: cincumcifed., neistherdidhe ,;;.;I...¢,;, 
.. mnform himfelf to the M0faica.1Rites;, onelyhe was tied toethe  ‘
ebfervance ofthofe Commandments, which were given (fay they )
l we Adam‘ and Noigllafi; vzgig, toe abfialn frgm Idols, and Blopdgévcl A
 md  yetgheywere fueh perfons als.lwed 1n the he9.rI:0f their‘.Com~
;   meinwealth amongfilthem QlfthiS-:;fO1rtl were, Cfamelim, 1457.10»
  mhe Worflvfppixg Gygclgg  l1;f.landA thofelof whom we mad
";deL‘3.’2A;5.TIaere were dwéllbig at fem/pzlem fewer, (£Z:*af:e; 3»uAc:!;I3;:-'¥:)
men tlmt feared (fad af every Nsztirm mmler Heaven.“ And this will A
appear farther  St.-‘Pam/, W110 faith, IT /2.1; /act/Mr is c£r»:{:sm~ 7
 ¢-,;@,£lAl,;,,-4 delztome-» the w1ao1e‘Lm; to xvhich, ifa.ngo,;1e\vl1owas .
 lal3tmt§nger,%Adid fubmit himfelf, he not onely there“ y gained the "
ei: ht =of;ea}Native ._,A A but was in oppolfition to the forxner, called
A Prr9fi’l_7TW_‘lFA£8d¢riA‘,» fizgcf ?flfl{tia:, in regard he was obligedto the 
“ whale .MQ‘faicAalLPzEdag0gy3 theotluer not. . Again, we are bound M Gmf V
Mzenoe part; oflthefleblrew Law, as it4i$%properlylLa.A\v5 becaufeall 2.x}: e. 7
I A lohligatieng exceptzby?theLa\xIofNamre, comes fimm the_\villlof l
 fletlm: Law-.giyler: Bu: tha1:eiA: was t‘l1lewill0f God that otheeslbefides  A
A ltlletllfmelizxel; fhouldbe holden by tl1alI:lI.a\v,, we have not the leaft   . e
 A .i_m:imAation. A Fr<mA1ajl1~which,%I4a1:guethus, t.ha.tif'I:I1e:-‘ Laws ofthe A
l3ex3rs%lAa1<leent,ol3ligin*g.etollany,Natian but rheixt own,%e-as Ilhave A
 before; hi§s.llexamp1es whi1;"h,a;reIgmunded11ponthofe con-  
A   Afiieueiezxfes  ‘ necellarily be the -favznem   ancll; therefore no mmte re
  k WM lofifervedgoe folloVwede:byA1)urState, tll1len;sa_ge.eeablel..to our :ewn
 .V _ A % V %    % %l.__CufiAom%%

' every 2fr;;+:;n vvom

A ferveas W611 to p1"oVe“Ath2*é.t%% Atherev are%A0mclés noW,o7bwecaufe thcreff

A (,6) ‘ A

C*hPcoms, or “convenience.  And zhegefo

ml

time oif’ P‘eace,AAA ti:e.z:%efo3?é no prime {ho

th

aim: is aa tifisia€{;§'ez':;iE:9maI1As 1‘—a.rg.um:21:$.t, T1121: becaufe fuck a f'ra&rn%e

rem to obiiggveo   Which, if it%2mvAbeooad1nAitted, Lit“ will

* hzwe Abeon filch .antier1tIy,A4 oofitizzat th1c‘fiDeVi1ofADcolpkoA; ha”tI1 not
108: his tongue, but gp:::ez1%a “e;:01A«i. o But whatoAWil1 the Gentleman

V fayif in AnfWe:* to his Ix':::terrogzu:ion,.

E_om.:c3.1

Prizzripem‘/w3.v:ar_ mo? Iznooko it evidexlr,     o
AA 1. That his }{ighnéi"s".hatE1Aa.s mixcoh an oieéfion from oGoc§",%asVis4,
 orca11A%bedemo11oi7h:ab1edto1mn.%7 A A A  A %  A
2.. That he hath aAffofi"iciem: Cohfix-mvatioiu “from
confequentl
j « o laxvful ,and a rightful Prinéle. V A

‘o A As tothe firfig, Divincstellus, tI1ereisa two

fsehe is in po1TeiT10nof t~I1e%Chief3-Magi_fh'acy, and the Ap0fi1<i

IEHS us‘, There 23' no % prewar 5224: mime: 2'; of Gad, and the power: tk.rzt“A:

mvr,:2r£ mlm'«mlo_f God 3, not that he hath inflcitutedo every Afeveral

formof Government, but GQW_.1.nme*nt i,n_gengm1;) wI1icl1,as it’ isA
inm1cd1ate1'y fromhim, Afoall other» proceed from him, asfromo
their firPc princ1ple,aond efficient caufe,AtI'1o11gI1 bAythejntermed1ate

A wills ofmen gas l1eat,cold,health, and fucfh Iikegood things; areal!
A fromGo d,‘ but effefied by med-iate natural caufes. So then there is

 Prcm 3, :3

V  §0b.1A9.u I

no power vvhith is not from God; the afi‘ir1native,weAI1ave‘ii1‘ the

Old AT efiam<3nt,( B 1 max i;ag:reig»,)tI1e negative(Which is moreoef?
A fefiual to?eriprefiaoagenerality, and exclude the contrary) A we,haveV
in this p1ac¢,%%WT1ich may feem to be taken from thofe w0rds%ofo1i1r N
Saviour to ‘Pi/ozt;7'/30$} hgzd/2‘ no “power at %al!,¢*§v‘“”c; except it were gift/Aeno f
~ rim from wave; For out oftzhat parti»cuIar3Tkb;zf load]? nit pawérg 
A A we mayfafely co'n*c1ude,thi?s%V génera1,o‘ Tigjmé '  no ponzer;  
this, all powersias well Cix"/ii,” as Ecclefiafi“iAjcalA,confefs% by tl1eir;{éve4 
oceed gilt i
V cajmnoz 

1‘ E11 fii1§S,0f Dei _grzitid,3-I1dV‘Pro<zxidantia diw'mz- B111: 120 par

  A. A re T-1PP0fin8”At11ath¢»had‘;‘
“argued thus, ’f11e'§3ii11g,dVomo0f  isHeredit%a4r'yA, thereforAe¢«thefloo“
9%/;~;¢,mn ihouxd .bc’the"‘fi11n.;e ; o::,:r1w1Azm;;m11aA:1: no * pdWeroinV T
%   M d hao"ve‘“moore”A*-;  beleoeveo 
d fL:7t"§7,E'3fi€i‘VAC;"iS;8.S gfeat 91 ;m24 fw]z4itu5*,as Ioco3nAceive”I

of (:{j£owe1*z1ra1ez“atFitttircfi the E-‘ave: ,A the1“efo:*eA it wfhould be ~.aA pat- %

35%;; few: (9 fmrztm,  ”

Athe people 3% 
y, the Laws of this Realm look upoohim as g

V -fold wililof-“God,
Aw.-.'»a?... Dom-ret£.%%C§“o éezae pzmz; A'ForM%’th€%flrfi,‘ we are not to%exami%n«uA;.
xvhetlmer God heurh in his fecret Decree Aordainedo,thatA héA”£hou1odo“<
A reign over us-, it is enoughfor us to know his revealed will; xve“

  xCa1.1n0tib'€ 'ima"gined that God fhould ‘regard sparrows, and takean
, account of the hairs of ourhead, and yet Pcand as vunconrcernedvinf
, the revolution of Scepters , and therefore we cannot lay thatitio h~i-sir

charge which Pbiditat; did to his?upz'm~,that he had loofed his Eagless
from his Charriot, and having forfaken his Throne, was gotten
down into the Air, a making Centaures ( as Boys, diagrams in pa--
Pgfl‘ ) and had left the world to be governed by Fortune .: l Non,
if ‘scripture wereiilent, the Poet xvrllteach -us otherwife, l t
r ~'-e-‘-A---f-+lN:;=q!r~'t= enim /mac flne%flfl2in6’.iDt''zJ-’;tm

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Earezsiunt  ---- l

A iA;nd therefore let itbe enough for every honefi: man, to keep that a if

fiation wherein God hath placed him, and as he was not born to \
acrown hinifelf, cfo to letit re-l’c_where he finds it-, the difpofal[,m_,, ,‘
ooffiingdolms belongeth to God, It is his own prerogative, to put, '
down one, and fet up another, and therefore itlittle becommeth A
aiSubje& toidipfpute the title of hisPrince, and witli his perempto~l
rv ballance pronounce a Mane T¢"1(f[ on i115 Soveraign. 

W 2.‘ Helialtliafufficientconfirmation from the people, and con-=7
fequently, the Laws and Coneftitutionslofthis Realm, look upon 3

G him asa lawfiil, anda rightful Prince. And here, give me leave to

take rnv rife to iny enfuing difcourfe”, fitorn the hate of nffairis,
Ln the year 163 3. at what time there was no vilible face ofGovern-«
menf, allthings being fubjeéted to arbxtrarinefs, and the whole
power over the three Nations, in the hands of his now Hi hnefi,

jthen General, boundlefly, and unlimited .-‘ and which mig it add ‘

to thedanger, a perfon, not a little beloved by hisArmy, by whofe. "
afliPtance,, it had been no hard matter, to have made any thing
lawful, which he had thought convenient: Whereupon, divers
Gentlemen, and thofe too not meanly confiderable, made their

 applications to his Highnefs, that in regard of the great diltemv

pers't'hat then lay uponthe Nations, and thegreater incertainties A
that were like to follow ‘( in as much as there being no declared ~
form of. Government, men were generally at a iiand, either how
to a;tt,jor what to obey) hewould be pleafed to accepts of the
Government, it being thought the ,onely means to beget a com-
pofure, and fiop that torrent of blood“ and confufion, which in all

.probability was breaking in upon us-, adding iwithal, that they r

came notto give him an-rencreafeof power, hutaintrieat l1l1Tl rather,

thathe would ablriodgehimfelf of fome of that, of which (they

\ ~ .humbly

hmhty.eonc;:ma:a Li  mu;hi,a;xreatdy= Tn a word, be

xequtdabse a:;mtea,m mamaxxmaex-ih¢?"hin1f¢1f;Withie filth ‘bou rxds. and
ltmezs,’ " asa5I:he.§7‘r1‘Iél§3:p'f8':PM?Cdrf0r him,» mthat ModeI,orInfirumen:

Off «*Gofeem¥me~nt,abewbitc:h]~tb»ey;adefired he would be bound by oath to

A obfer*ve,;eat‘i*1ia  timé «as~itaa\e«fl1;ou1~d$ ebetfurther ordered by Parlia-—t
a {penis aN?I1ere1Jt)m",1Veighing nodzoubtg/bfém£m:;vm 6i":.1’;aT'~¢t'~t‘ 125.:-';’«e., km‘ A

.:2£miz¢m lwgzt, ‘band c:nfiderinag,how much better itmigbt_be,~ to bee:

come the love, tbenfear OF thetpeople, he accepted of the "p-"lace;

and Title of Lord‘ Prote€tor,@-c, and was in the prefence of the

Ler"dst%ftC'oa'mmifli<:>ners=of the Great ‘Seal, the Judges,Lord1»4ayor,‘

and Aldermen of .1;.o:~:flan, Sotlldiefgr, and other perfons of qua-

lity, aptieblicldy a.fW.0rn;tat0e£thE hid Government in PVtflm§:vfla:'*He]l,_.“

bée.“1?<;»rerhe faeeeaf athae. people: Andafot having brought his,High-7

ne*fs:tineoa,I1ei»sChair, _I.’.‘fhaiHt3a‘V€_11im there, and ’coaniider,wbhether t

thee people have given their confent and approbation to thistGo—

vernment of his Higtbnefin, wherein I think it willabe an eafie-
matter tottprove the Aaffirmatywe, 1tI}.ei~S'. to thxs purpofe , _fir{-‘t, 

The mofi: confiderable Ofthhee people, the Ofiicersand Souldiers of

.EMglaznd,, Scotlggzd afldattffflflfld ( wbomel call moft confider»abie,,...

intaraegard, the experience of all 'times~.hathmade it evident‘, that
fuch perfons, have always c—a-retried no final] Ptrokeiinthedifpofal of
the Chief M_agifiracy,efpeciaily,_, where it hath been Eleétivee; and

mat Suceeflive) and I;heeref'0mree I fav, e\,tvitnefs«firPc, their *con’fent,;,

A «wthricbe  not onelyclear -enough at tliis day, by their {tibmietting to

him“,‘but aslvasaft1rthe1* evidentgat that time, by their Rbemonftrancea

and Subfex-itptio*ns. Secondlyyvitzuefsallthee judgesof the Land,“

ivhoeonceiving theretwes ¢aedtitflb,a1utionoaf Government’, fl:-rupleti
to ;a&__, E111-E1316}; bad re’cte2Nede new Comrmflions from .1113 Hxgbneié,

byvertuea ofwhiclytlieyhave (finte aéfed. Witnef§‘tbirdly,‘That.

pubI1ir:.k‘ and magnificent 4.EnEer~Eeiin~men:t, of tb’e‘~City 0f“~L0~2ea/air;

A »d1fe‘i;congra‘tu1atory Man:ife{‘co’se tof the City 3, and County ‘of

A &to§;a;;gI¢,_I/I/jig/e_4zz§z,,l?I/czoz:i':‘?t'9.tz1<;,, m¢n_@r,_ _

Tyre; and divers 0therCitiesa aandBurro11ghs-, the gbeneraiap-e A
pmbation of fotmaqy Grandejuries, at‘ their publickfxflizes, in
the ‘name f themfelM,es,aand -CO_1‘]I1CI‘i€S3 their returns of thanks to :
his;Hi‘ghnefs, that he was be“pIeafed to acceptthe 'GoLvernrnente;
and fotLem.naaPr,otePcat1ons, of then‘ defence of bun, m the c’lefence~~
aiiflit  ._Add to thisa, the'huIfnble ePetiti01;1beof divers Cities,'ar1d 
Towns Aincorpborate, as Szzlijétary, C‘,olcIJzfle;r," Lym R9155; Z1/Im}-Ie._
and Others, whereby they a-
A edefiredf“

-   4  09%)  T   
’ gdefigeda *I1is‘§_—Iighnef.; xxiotild Be%pieiifed ~t0VVrerIe“W théh; VCharf%ei'§;

 

whichhath Been’ according1yV"4d<me,’ andV.with no fm‘a.I14ac'kn 
jgdgmehtsd received’;  %'Wit%n;efiL Pourthly ,Al1 
iniffio ners«ofv%"th!e P¢'9_,C¢’ 3 and generally, all 'the~peop1coFE}:;gZwé’z§,

%.§‘4c*«i2:r1;md,% and Ié~e>1;md:, Eh;-ti: -fub;‘£1£Hi€31:§:t o€ %hi$&AHighn~_ef§V‘ 
% for callingtwoPar1iamems, fince hrs Haghnefs acceptmg <5f.thc

%>~Governrnem:5 the§;X€1€<‘f’tiQ1is by~v%ertue of thofe Writs, and“Re4 A

 tum; of therng, andlaflly, t11ea&ua1%fit:i:1gof tI1eiffefir"’eralmem~
» BefgCthtf‘R691’-.€{9flt3;E1V€Sbfthfi people)ar1d xnaVk1ng:;Law5%t%i@-

ggther with%%his% HiglznefsgbQt;h.wl1icI1,A*i:1oI£x1dhot (fof muc!i”asVin  

% A common .fpéech) b\e%ca11ed APa.r1ii1m¢Mez1t‘Ls , n_O  Qthe-rxvifc; %t“hén¢sis
% they ownedthfiat poxveg whxchgave them bemgg, and nothiing;-‘of

Wghgch gould have been done by hisHig11nefs, ifthe fupremacy ha?!

% A  bili in him“-, for, Q;¢4ic:;:;;;§§;z1cé}j§e:it.t2sl£",,£'[£ mg :15 Mix? : I11 all%Wh%icfi

«infiances, %Iha.ve* pL1rpofe3ly4 a void‘ed%eV"c«.ty t: aihg thati‘“1high§,V Yd  

much as loolglike a paffive, <)rAimép,licité &%fi1bmi1Ti0%n’;M% (it be7iAng~0Lh%e.

A of the Objttfcions wliich our Ayut”h0r% pretends to aniiwr,  Iiow

1a;;.qe1y,and falA1a,cioufl%yheI1at11 done it, I fubmit it to f()bf31f men 

’ aifl$fi)c){»have one1y%pitched upon fuch, a.s~are in themfelves exprc~{’s;,

% ar1da‘&z1z:.1,-, and filth, a$InotAamo11nt~to;but are,explicitAaé1s of A

fagc;14Aaimobe¢1ience= Sothé1t Imay not%improp‘erly%apply of
M;értiaZ,At0 ourfpreffint purpofe, Vex oii'axerfzzf&/”amr$ papmlomm 

J «zmmmm mm.» Fifthly, To fay nothing of the recog~nitiovhoF

thep1*efent Government1m.der his Hig%hneI%, made in the Parliaw

% men: léfl; before this; There is an 218: of this prefem: Parliamerfi:

(hmvever tlie Gentleman is pleafed 120 call a free E1ed.°cion, «:1! ;"m¢zFZo)

difanullingAtheTit1e, amnd Line ofV’the%*late King, as alfo ojne $0. %
ther*, whe1'ei:1 they declare tlmtthe profperity and Afafety of theft
; Nations, dependeth ( under God) upon the fecurity and prefer“

vationof his I-Iighnefi pex.-{on : I might add, the offer oi-”t:he Crown,

  andRega1Di§nir.ies., made him in this Parliament, but I ufeit

  »oné-Iy as an inerence, to fl1exv,Lthat’theyare fo farfro1n%‘difmvn~ 7

ing wha”t11e hath alre-ady,A that: they % w<5uItfhavcgiven1%1im movrm

V % 1 As alfo that other or % this Parliamefit, xx?Iiereby~tI1e~y defire, that his
_ I-1igI1nefs: will be pleafed, by; and under the11a1ne o.FL0rd P*rote&or

‘of the Commonwea.Fth#ofE:¢ Ieznd,.S'c0t!:z12a17%and%Iré‘Iszm’, andthe"

Dominions, em-.,tLo‘ho};d2rnd% exercifh the "of C.hieFMMagi«
  éPcrat¢oF thefé Nations,.@‘v¢.%_ and hisJ"I—IiWghnefs’s%publi(1uE4Ii19mIment

in purfuancc of it’;j_%bm"becaufe it happened. fincge 1:hisPamph1et
came out“, %1{ha11% onely 1;1feV1t as an argument, that requires‘% our

~  .2; ' :6bc“di%~

.power was tonne A1

A %he’ighA.t of: mien,

  pofed tottllethietn

time, to come :  So. then, tadeénitting ‘the hi;g‘h’eff:
 A AA  A 'n:tt11tePVeop1e,A_tI1ey have bythefe A¢‘ttsV%dix(ei‘red%
themfelvesi of that power, tV%it11out"ar_1y Apart fof éthat right retains

‘7mA;1h.hotrt‘ referved to t11em!t3éh1ves- 5;”)

=e«3é‘.édi¢11Cefor the

retat1ons.&V€11&V€ 4
tQ;1e;pa1*ty hAA_ath been; prevAa1er1tto day,§_anotther~to marrow, a third
.the;~neXt,t; Wh'i1£t the? P003: State lay Vveitrine in her bi'o0d;.and ex-+

omgntee guidance ofany fourhth, who were abie to

beat the,.othe;A: three  Nothing co fifidering how theyrem ethefir

comcyn, mot_her,, and’ that whoeverhhad the better ofit, the A

A tCommon,Wea1.th muff need5s.bee»ath1ofer :— I fay th(e1?ef'0re it was pm;

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.At9Vtheittpxvn ht1ftA:: AAn‘d~ Ath"aAtjfuC’11- thirggshavegebeen done AAin,1i1g¢A
tmannert” by others%h,~~Weh hizve the hexamplest of th€;A'“F.-zZi»’b£””;t the
and tI1et9Cémir?;$;tmiazza: to the People of Rama .: Th"e.l--.Afub..
A AA the I_g1tte1;,_Adf.w'1:iic‘ht>WehhaveAtin.ethiseforth. tQ°a‘p:¢Alzm"att
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of e[‘amp.»zmL; ethe?.Citey, atpiza,A0ur Laxids, the Temp1est0fffQtt1r‘e
G.oAds,e al1,c{i‘vi.ne andvhumahe.-[things,  we yield. into your hands,‘
()A*«‘yeCt)11Aftript Fathe«rs.,;eBe_fides, ,/Aitis heft agreeable to the hu...
mar 05 this »NatiOn,A;_)V1 atu_ra11y_,ha,teh,megtlier,tohe governed by
M A A ’ ority,,tt11*a,t,xvagmihsttheir ]7’e1AAl<;“i\v+

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ffere A , b"t1E"L1nCh‘§i‘1h the
mem: Aofét Single .]pe_rf011-, tholdingit not 0n1yfconvenier1,t,
Pt rat§.,_c>n:tI,l Lactcording §tQ. eTam'2m, mwm tt1Ampe-rivicarfmn”
h     5552'»; aridir1'anoLh¢11jplace;,flfftezér z‘n:emAfl}.“«:m$aem
A emferyi.   ;I.afHy,,, l_'_:e..~A~i,,s~ in hp0ffE3m011, which isfiasi
g,ogAc1.eahT~it1east:ax;y. oft t,h€*Romar1 Emperoirsgf “qr mofi: 0£~O11&’"0'~WI1_
K1i;A1A1gs*had tqtheir AEmpii*e_~-,h And Grarim te11s\‘1’1sV,Ae A private,man
0t1gl1tbyn‘o.,mea*ns to t.ta1teAt upon himfelf to judfge, hut -‘f01'tQW the
gofieflion 2 So did,,MChrifl'5(_jQ mmanding T ribute to, be gqid to A(.‘¢fazfr,*
be.:;a1;;fe,;_the;tenjxqney;bare};his.,.Image , 4.3. becaufe:*vtheA";\%.z;ae;ih
poifefljoh  the ,,E1np,ire= :-

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mote then one, A.ore to ,ft3:.’;‘e.‘;A2Al. pri A
fiubjecfts-3 and Athete2iA'()re,; lA.;.ke1tth,e CAapped.oc:'azn.r, _A
whAi.;ghAtwaso dV.t:}:V*en1, _:.»u7fitm.1ng thVeyfcd*un0t lwe

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gitjgeettétot Athe;tCitye_of,Jl4}r£1,en¢; ,Tl1att’,they fhfoilld feannothing,
btt1>:tef;1bmi§,.ethcrnfe1V€$h' t§0..h,.0b¢y. Cwfar ,.«rhe C0I1€1U@f013~:1.:t“JSO"
  A  ‘ A -  -A A V‘  ,tAhenaA

A   Neither‘AAAwast this«w'1thout the
_1f_' we c0rtfidet* the many changes and ctircum“ A
fuffered‘ Wxthin théfe ten 1:19: y-ears, Wh€1‘€.'iIg h

all tthjetwhile they h.€1.dit,_thh,€y feIdQmufed;e.but ,

And the fame advizcedidf  A

pcit‘)

then, Wltetlxet we Iofhlt upon the confent ‘of the"”P‘eopl‘e, fo5rf=’hi'3 ’*=l.w're i

being in pofleflioln yoiftheiysupreme Magifltjaycie, (whi‘chK,l faith Em *8’
famam, takes away all defetts whatever,',and~l;~Was if'O"l1’€‘l-dlhbiyv KK

allfthe Judges in the EXchequer—Cl1aimbeir,inthe can of ‘Hen;-;. )he I H. 7.  .

hathTitleenon’gh to require our obeclience,alnd'fi1bmi=fl7i“on to;«~him.IK VI
Beliclesg, the Laxvs of this Land i*equireK it, albeit he had no o’ther~-

"Title then tlIe.i.ibare Poffellion : For, whereever *the“Law fpeaks K

of ~_NZfl,}e .S'e."g;‘ai0zf y/e gt  is to be underliood of a King dcfaaa,

alndenoteak» '7',firc*:5t4.iri, o’fKa" King t‘€g}1&nC,, anKd?+noti*of$ia King in name K

only. :»-Andfo we findeity taken, IK.,&-22. of Pb£jiP‘andefl(1JérQ', where; amigo, I

an Aéhwasmade, That the <:o_mpa;fiing the death of King P/::'l£‘p; '

dtiiing his marriage with the Queen, K fhould be Trea-fond-, as well?

knowing, that he was but aiKing in name only, and not in offiee,..

h and to not Within 25 .3  So thefitatttte of (for“ind.empni; :zH.;.mi~

fying-KKfi1ch as lfhould take “part with ltlie’ King l1athiheenKi‘ex;ie:.

yntpolnndedfio beunderftoodlofa King i11p‘0f{'eiffion5 For ifzhere-; W

A be‘ a’ King regnant in poffefiion, although he be K: x do f,;;a;¢.5,~an¢1;«.I’%*'i'-7"
nag,/gj,g‘,yg, yet he is 5'52'r la Rg withinthe purview of this Statute. ‘
And that we may fee thiswas no new thing __,y taken up to feijve

the iprefentitoccafion; we‘ may eafily»»'Kfind thati it ha=d.beenK fo<KaalK-» E4

juElgedK befoiie- thefe Statntes : vKKi1€’or~itKi\vas*-faid‘ that”   Ilzrighm.   
be arraigned ‘in the txmejof 'Ed;‘.<t. for Treafon Clone" to H6. in ‘ .
eoimpafiing liisfdeathz And.fi1rther,,_,tl1at1-fE..4.,. had granted a» K”

’ PaKjrdo'n in the timeof ~it 1'1a7dbeen“voitl, for-etllat it cannot be
granted byany huta King fen fzzz'r.l Bt1tK*if a’ny1m'anlhal-liobje&,;’
i that whatIKl1a”ve offered-{peaks only of a King, which his Highnefsw

ijs n’ot,i_and;there‘fore being penal ffhall heilltakertftrifily to iintendv
nothing elofeijhe pleafed to tnrn to the ‘end of tl1eKl‘fe86nd5 Q_\L1ef’tion,:"
where I have determined to handle thisinatter,‘ as in its molt“
proper place: And therefore to proceed; "He tl1at7fl'1aKllbuttifeiri—~
onfly examine how often the line of fuccellion to thisCrown hath:

} beenclifiurbe'cl, ‘lince the Norman COI1(§[’l1€‘fl‘,,\7l/}ill%l‘~lnt2l thata greati
y‘ part of the Kings of this I.andiKl'izl<‘:l~no bet'terTit1e then»:Piofl7effio.n~,
or an Aél of Parliament, and yet have thotigheltheirftightsfacrett

aindinvi-olable. i-To fay nothing of W.~«Rnf‘m, ~Hm..~. K.y;gp1,g,¢,

V  01237,} E dry. 3. H_w:»K4..5,- 8: 6. ‘Ric/:z;.3..a.  {hall bEgin"With Hank"-.
K (7 whofe firfi Ancellor felon dc Bemtfart,i_W£1$legitimated by;A& ofi f;"1~i"f_~» J

4

Parlianient, with this Clau{'e,i (-Excrprfi dr'gm'tnt‘e lffetgalérg) who’ i 171.. 7.

hgnewing not {jwlierewellto find «hisi:Title,i= unlefs.1tfiiWerei in his 1”!‘-4K-%?‘~
 K in K A ~~~~ ~ ~ A K _h$‘cabbar-da

r Marie,

S3m2iC.(n‘

(biz )"

rS‘<:’a'blard,‘ had an ‘A8: penned tinder covert and indifferent wordst it

 the Inheritance of the Crownfhould "rell, remain and abide’

arr. Hay. in: the King , Sec,‘ i ’   "
i Mi" equally be apphied , That

Whichwords (faith the]; T d 3 “ T‘ 4 »
y the lcrown fhOuldO§0fifi:1;0: ioniiiiiii
but whether as haying former right to it, (which was d0Dbtfi1lli

T or having it then in faét and pofleflion, ( which no man denied)

wasrleft fair to interpretation either way; and yet this was

thought Title good enough, for the Nation to yield him .obedii-5

ence : For it is tobelnoted, that at this time, not in fome
moneths after the difliolutionyof that Parliament, he had not enter A

married with Eliymlieitii the eldeit daughter of Edw.4. and ‘com V

fequently, had no more right of his owrg then what a long [word
andia better Parliament had given him. In like manner ({/;4,,,.

thought herfelf legitimate enough when the 'i'?arliament had de.;

clared her [03 ( and hence pofliblyi itmight be,that that Pai*liamem+_
took its name of Parliamentnim propitisrm ) And Qgeen gzzigaégtfié‘
‘ T *3

_ and King fame: their Titles {trough enough by their feveral Rep

For, that they fufpeéied y it “before, will eaiily appear

cognitions :
had there not been fome apparent flaw in them they ~
A 9

in this," that

i knew too much, to have fi1bmitt€d.t.hEtn to befoderedi by a 113,;-1133

« ‘faith Virgil ; If the

Amenity. And therefore to takeall this together, if A the People of

England, Scorlmrfd and Ireland have given his Highnefs their aiétiial

V confent and 1-1lb,.m‘1ff1Qfl~, if the Parliament of the three Natigng

have difannulled the sold Title and Line-, if they have owned his
i1,1igh»nefsiby the nameiof the _A Lord ‘rroreéior, (:r;'~c. if theyihave
more their once received iLaws at his hands 3‘ whichis- a molt
infeparable mark ofsupreinacie‘-5-4<volcme:-- Pt-r popular a’ntj2:m~—§-
Law reg-ardisno otherKingi, but him in pot:
feliion-, And laiily, if many ofbour own Rings have thougln: it

and an *A& of Parliament, a fufficient Title to this CroWn- I ma 3
fafelytonclude this Part, That whoever hath fo much io {hag
for the Supremacie, hath a ood Title to it; And that his Hi 11...;
nefs hath as much, Ihopel aye by this time fatisfied any rm” ;.
affedttjudgment, and being foo, his Title is fuch, A T ’ T Y T

t  -;---« T qua pafl?ridz'rere,r flare mmm eff.

Butto proceed 5 The next thingl meet with is a ripping up of
manvthines. which, though P0fiiib1ytheyimay not he fo Well an
:he prefenl: as could be wimfhed, yet may be juPtified to be no other
ih€fli.Whi§1Iy‘ Eheiporféfent aeccfiity Of State requires, and what others

i (both

§eA;Bt?<?t15t:P‘riVn¢e€S Md t'C°m*’“°“W€a‘”‘9." Ame (dent irlliké 
 ‘fetettin tloxtrn whtcb, ‘maethtxntks the» Gentletmans f1:_I1'l~Z 15“ a [little
‘too thitck :=For5befides that he hath throhwn in a gf‘€at:“d€a_H§fd'r‘Of§»

t tothelp otitweight,“he thinks it Wiil beftfuit ‘With the“Genius of

the people, ifwhat he wants in Argument, %beema;{:-3 up in R3~;1i,-3%;
eB.ut’:b'etaufea1lthis tskof the fame batch with vhisCehara&er of a.
?1‘yrant,‘Iconce1ve‘1t may rCC€1V€' atmote "p‘ropet. Anfiver “ihthis  

fecond Divifion ofa Tyrant, *v.:'z;. E.vc-m-ma».

t   hereinlttfhallbecgimwithhis Ctharaétet; ai1dbecaufet‘m0fl 3‘ .

..   . . . ~ A t t   t A  I  That he
thmgs tn it are peck: together meerlyto arnufe thepeople, and pxsgxmcts
few jor%nQ*ne ofthem do_ ;‘0_:rfgpetE‘ré/of] A q d.vpropc1~on1y to a Tyrant :33‘: gigj
but may be sgpphcable tn hkefmanner toalmoft tallPr1nces,w e.fpec1..m-sm, 

  any {nth as are wife, otr"Wou1d'betfafe .1 {ball take fLI"C‘h-Of them are

are of moi’: weight, in pieces, and prove them to be no V0tT1er,t’then
what have beertdone formerly, and “rnayeebe made tifew ofjagain
upon the 1ikeeinefgencies.e And by hie favor, ‘hi'sAfir‘fi is not fa
properly a Céharaéter :  Fordbecaufe pa1‘t1cuIar men that have been
tGenera1s of Armies, have mifitfed that power into a Tyranme,
"iktwi11notfo1:1ow that every Geneta"1tt;t:t:‘nu‘Pc do the fame, '0r"‘th af
’*t.here maytnotbea Tyrant as Well Witltfout an Army, as with it.
V¥?‘o1‘% Tyrarmie, which istnothitng more then ‘a depravatictn of Mo...
fnarchy, maybe as well exercifed in timesof fpeacfeby difiortinf
the Lavvst, as cutting them in fuen\c{ter by the power of 3; fwor V :3‘
%~Bu3t to pafsthis, I bdieve it A will hardly be denied, but that mbflz“
tfitings who have 121‘_id flthf:“f0t1nd;1ti‘On of any new Governmentea
have been thet:fame,. q.d. Genera1s‘eofArmies. ‘What was Ramfllw,
fI'laa/:z:;.t?¢e¢f..arta;:ed others ?who fee memories are 12) ftefh‘i7n Hiefloty,
* andwhofe nameslook ft» big in the rolls of Fame, Toevoid many‘

  in£’can<:est,' I {hall pitch tzponthztt of Cctfizr, cqncerning whofe war

with P‘c'm;g)3ft and ta‘k¢ingu‘p0nhi_mtthe Emp‘ire,_ t1a0ugVI1e“./Macbimtl  
tfays   that they that wrote hisflxfcory, Werebrtbed bv his Foertunew Dig?”-?~ *7:

yet if {haw}?! ‘believe F/ormthatwrote neer *()ne’11und¢réd and “'°‘*
teeighty years afterhxs death 1,) (and fa long after Truth fistfreely <4

fpoken, e*fpe‘c’ial‘i3r«nnde1*t7‘r.ajaw,t m wkofe daytettt (~faith Tacitm ) iI‘ac.i~z3¥ it»

A _‘ a man might have thoilght what he wou1d,t ‘and fpoke what7he

A thougltte) ’hewi1‘e1 tellus, th‘atafterA he ‘had beaten ‘1Pomp}»at"PXm::r» -

falim, and hiskfons at Manda, t the ttpteople of Rome t*Were”"f0t far

 A ffomthinking him a Ty1*ant,,that mm ixgrfmét civilzw ammo’ Imam F19?‘-74 M’-~
ihuwum Rrimipem #cougcfli* cirta memp!A.‘imagim’:, "ACW-‘ H35  "
A I A A   Coentrtgs

I‘     l   l 14)
;Couiitr_yinot.*ingrateful, heaped allfortsvof honor upon thatone
Erlince: Hehael his Images about the Temples, fl'_@fO\Vn'd€Ck:d
with rayesin the Theatre, a Chair ofstate inthe Senate; a Pinacle
«upon; his Iioufe, a Moneth in the Zodiac-, and befides all «thefe,
:§om._.An=- himfelf proclaimed, Pater pmrice, Corfu! in éiccénniam, iD£i§7i.2tor'
s«-"“‘&’*‘i7" in prrpetrtfim, A Sacra/am‘lm,i~ @- ]fl¢5DE!"a€1’9}" :A All which Titties, to...
gether with the name of 9/ilugnflzia, were iatterward conferred
uponlflfhwim Caifizr, after he hadlbroken the Triumvirate. All
which I was the more willing to inltance in, hecaufe I have not
met with any thing come neerer our own Rory  Here is a General A
inV€fi3€d Withrtlle Civil power, and {'0 .far[from being thought a
A TyrarAAit__, or his taking the Government upon him an Uifiirpation,
that the People (as I have fhewri) not only laded him with honors,
l but! ‘loved his virtues, rather then feared his power: But I am
afraid I have been too long. A i A . g
h Hlfs next, Eflatk if a Tytrant ish, T}1J{1t.;J€5pf0§€f6!f7£1i%tb€7 5]‘ frima’,
i t__e:¢ term: a no z‘eACm r as eca sit pray w ois more full
. of  tfllen ’Ul7j]'g.r, in Hamr’.?Aoi- thinks it more juf}, thenagefllaurl,
,—A.gpe,,jure in Pligmrcla :4 or calls it more profitable, then Xmcp/am, ‘in his
s :’;f"f>f0- 1~ _1.!f@.!_0f Cjrm ? Cfrarimi calls it an honelt craft, if hi it be devifed
‘ A apgainfk an iEnemy:, and faith, It matters not , whether aifnan et
. 011?. Of the power of his Enemy, byforce or fraud: and to t at
pur_p0fe_ quotes St.Ckryfof}i«m , who faith, Thofe Generals are molt
it ‘praife-worthy, who have gotten the Vifiory by Stratagem : And
‘St Ag.-gu/i‘im=, who declares, that whenia jult War isundertaken ii;
_is nddifference‘ in point of right , whether one fight with open
force, or lye in wait. ‘But becaufe fome may objeét to me, that the
Father faith it mufi be a juft War: if you will take what is a jult G
W >‘ C Om; Of ALI.'b}i) int iS £111.13 3“ frzfintm efl5eflflh1,q:rihm_Me£emzri~
tum, @‘ pm armor, qaiéua m zzntarmza fpe1'.efl..A 'l"hat War is 'juf1j_&(=
. that a man cannot avoid, and thofe Arms pious, where 3 man ham
no other hope but in them. And therefore let no man think he is
‘ ‘.3 ‘V ' "" ‘ , " "1-- i~.A.’‘.o
“. gbllgfiid tfo fight with his Enemy in mood and figure, A or‘ that it ,5 3
.1‘;-(ea o On;))1‘_,ZtOflr1k€. him anywhgifibut upon his »Bm_~k1eA1-A
A  _0  471 ‘Wartime qrm m 0 e r€gI4irat? was anold 
‘faying ; and \V_1t'h'0.I1AE.a large command of ‘both, I thinl€..aiPrineieil l
V ultay [keep hisDominions fo long, till another who hath gmorewit
. t en iimfell’, take them from him: }or,it will be aneafie matter

.. "'Mt‘3‘_;F1£1‘€/!$.~£0 fatiiisfiethetpeople, with whom, asfaith A.S'Aemr.a -**""""""&he»i,'..

in mg

tar 5:115 excites noatuzufle, andthe depth of their enqnii‘y,iis noit‘P3et-fww»

4 howfbnt, who, had the better of it. Haw. ( the firft Anceltort

l name) among the Bead-roll of the Kings Enemies. The tale oi’

.35‘ the late Line, for whole caufe I beleeve this Pamphlet was prine
cipally intended) will tell us how lawful it is, if not, acrediblel
Author will inform us, he madea higher ufe of it, when to give
the more credit to his Efpials abroad, he made his Religion, a Pan-— L._B.mm_’s
dat to his interell, and tiled to have them curled at Paul! (by 
which was, \ That as many confpiracies were thereby revealed, for
the fame and fufpition of th-em, kept ( no doubt) many from being
attempted. M l o ‘

Then again, he fa¥lhl1,, A Tyrantenctvveri goat/9 Witbom lnl: G1¢.:zm’,v
nor 122;: Higlmefx wilt‘/90.14.-t an  guards: '- , Which, how L1fual'lt“=l5'”

for the meaneft General, needs no example. ‘ But if he had given aAr,/,, PW

us all that Arzflotle had, faid» concerning it, hcmight have tolclus ,,s_ ‘W H. A

his di~fference,.lbetwixt a Kingand a Tyrant, in that the Hrft is"
guarded by his own’ Snbje&s,;, theother by Straiigoits : And which
of thefe two hisHigltinelhrefembles, I leave it. to his very enemies,
(nay the Author-»him_f?:lf.) to~jndge.. i l l
Again,,,( faith he) 7¥1J€]”‘1.7‘.UFO??}B7I._/z?"'t19\£'”,P£0P[€‘g" that they may

,‘wms‘t- the power, if rilsegrd [Jews the will tn attempt any thing ngninfl ,

them .: Which, that it is infeparably incident to all new States, no 
nnvdetftandinigmaii candeny, when he {hall conlider, that the .
the Peeplie, who are always inclinable to change, in hopes of a
better, not meeting with what theyexpefted (in regard of the at
Neceflities that attend «as new ~~State .) arev.ltill«prone. to tryg
further. , i i A * .,
Again, (faith he) T/any mnkemmr to -divert, and btfieit/on people 3,. 1
But, that thisis no more then what hath been prafiifed by our
own Kings, will cafily appear in our Stories (as lame as-they are.) it
And,truly,_ were our ~Wars at this time the fame ,. “(Wl1i'E’h. the 
Gentleman. doth not prove fo much as by circttinllance, or any
thing elfe, belides his own word) yet tlieywinay be j1.1,l)fiHCd,lI,0 

t:l‘tandl.with a great deal of reafon: "F01‘,'__, foreign wars are thefinlt

of at C0mrnonwealth,l,l aihl arelthe ,fame to the bodypolitique, ,,
thatlleeches are; to the body i1‘1g’:LtL'l:t‘£~ll- -, who, belicles that they carry v
ofiia deal..~of-'.tnela.ncholy, black blood, are by ea:periienc,e,found' v
to ch:awofi7 thecaufes of thofe,‘vapo.rs, which, if they were let
alone, _W011ldinf£PC the head» at Eamt-3 .~ and iflflflu 5. made the famfe» 
“ C. i A no ‘

 one ofit: The latter of which

a table, War,
5 broad, they ha _ A
l . tombultion. Neither can any fobe
have had. as honorable an .£‘..ei;:; wherem, we have let the world, 7
, lLi1OW, wehave been able,‘ at thefarne time, to grapple Wlthioulf;
. need not fo much as naminlg. An

\  the Scene hath been his “owns Chamber) tneerly defenfive, and

(I6) ,

 at what time -the Nobility had fat;
the Commons againlt the Bifhops, by the perfwafion of Tlmm
Ammlel Archbifho p of €mzte:«‘£rmr_y (who had put him in head of
his Title to France) he diverte
which ended in. the Conquell: of that Kingdom:
whereas, ifthecy had been cherifhed at home, and not vented ta»

Enemies, and defend our Allies. The examplgsflttare obvious, and
d therefore,wl1ereas he mltanceth

the war with Spain, it xjvillteafily applearlto be a war (however

 thruilc upon usby that Na‘;tioin,t Whole houndlelisnambition thilnksl
  he hath too littleelbow-s-room, ttll he can wrttea Na pin; aim,

suponthe o

n L. Bqcgm. ""5
i 3 grown to ru

  C'm*l/9.l;t/IE,’ then under Rrmtj, after that under Sm-.1e.e=m, Garlm, and  

ne, as he hathdone the contrary upon the othier of
Hercules Pillars: And therefore, rnetltinks
ldain, That
i le, yetof antient time ferved many Ages, firflf under

. others fhould of late yearstake to tlternfelves that fpirit, as to
 dream of, a Monarchy in the Weft, yaccordxngyto that hold Devife,

Video ..S‘ale=m Orimtem in Occidenre , only becaufe they have ravifh-

 edfome Mines, and ‘Gold, from a wild, and unarmed people, who
*' had tlelfstllrton then themfelves: But I believe, they have met with

‘« hath been to find them out, the next to beat them.

another kind of people ‘in the Eaglijb, whofe firft work hitherto

t Laflly, for that partof his Highnefs Speech, which the Gentle...

 man is pleafed to call his Comment tyupontufriflotle, I have met

-Detjm-e
1  W P41‘.

cw‘.

with the like of /l4..A»ntm¢inm,,WhO would not touch theflpublliique  
« rnoniesnvilthout advtce of the Senate , t Dion.l. 6. quoted bytarmm
.,lt.I. c.rzp.67. ‘i l" i

t I might with eafe run through the-ref’: of his Charafter, but as

I faid before, they do not campetera faif, and therefore in this

“_"pli:lCC I {hall make good, That if there beany little thingsin this 1

tl‘Government of his Hilghnefs, that by itnplicationa may beldraxvn
 within anytpart of has Chara&er,, ( for direetlyl there are none

 that they are no .otl1er, then what either the ptefent condition of

t .. the

d thofe”1'llhutnors into anhono. t

engaged this Nation inlittlelefs then a general: a
r man fay, but that our Wars.

we {hould a little dill '
the Nation of Spain ( whiclt however of late it hath,

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the state will heft hear, or what molt wife, Princes, and C'o111mort‘-if
wealthsltave upon like necefiitles of State done, and may,w,_ell‘ 

T jttliifie the doing of. And here, we muft notloolt upon aCity," or

state that is corrupted, with the fame eyes, as we wouldupon thofe i
fionrifhing ones ofold, which we have read of, becaufe the Times

I men read of‘, are commonly better thenthe Times men live in, and

the duties better taught, then praétifed: And to this purpofe

tfaitlrihe Lord Bacon) They contend too far, who would impofe
the igaws of Antient feverity upon diflblute Times : And that our‘
Times have been fitch, I believe theeqtteltion may be favecl : And

therefore as So/022 faid concerning his Citizens, ‘That he had given Plot» 50:. i  

them the belt Laws they were capable of-, So we innit fatisfie our

felves with fuch Adminiltrations‘ asptwe have for the prefentt, as

Well knowing ,jthat the fudtden throwing off, even of the worlt

things, i*s‘i.dlan,get0us, and Advifes that way, are fafelier heard, them‘ A
followedwt Which error Ciczerq notes_in Caro the Second, whenlza. q»yz.:,.,
tvritittgitoillits friend Q/'§{Z"mf1'C'fi!.J',., he fzuth, C are optimui‘ fcmit, fed
ribjc‘éttt£3éterz2’trm Reipkb. t Laqraimr eigim tazrrqmmz in Repué». *7*?atotm'.rt,

mm Nzgrgfdxzm rs fmfieflameli. In ilii€fIlZ1tI1I1C1",.tW€t‘fI1l1:PC not farg1‘1e* “

4372?: ,,c.n,aflz'ra‘ra7’, ad lcanflitimn,d;zm,linl as much as the l‘orn1erF.,i~s

fikli,  reeled, and the latter, trying allways in ordterito:tl1at end;
Someitjhingsptnas be not only jtiltifiable, but laudable as the cafe

may happen, W ich at other times, are fo far fromparcloin, that

they do not deferve ex_eufe.’iWho wouldnot think that man be- t

yojnd the powersaof Helleborr, that {honld throw his goods over-“

bhard inua Calm P and=yet,i1a.a {term ‘there is nothing more ufual}. <
Thevcafe is the fatne here: ‘There are (faith he) rdxfefg ma_oiArmi. .1

 on foot :. Io an~fw“er which, there are Enemies abroad, and

Difiontents at ithoime: And asit cannot beexpeéted, aelorlg as
theticaufe remains, the €ifCi&ifl'1011id]b'€ taken ,‘away, or N that the
Accellory fhould lead, sbutiifollow its Principal-, to neither caniiizr
rationally be thought, that our Taxes fhoultlcea lie, or or Armies be 1
disbanded,,:t’as long as tlt‘”§re*,atei13nemies,ior Difcontents to be
feared», who, though theymayi feemto fleep for? the pref:-n-t, ’tis
but as AP-fizzy reports of the Lyon,‘ with his‘ eyes open: And there.«
foiea man Inuit notthink an Enemy deftroyed s as foon as, he is
beaten, or rooted ohtgbeeaufe heis not able‘ to iteepthe field .-,4 but
ply‘ him wi-thpwarm clothes, and if he be notlablettolcoimeltoylon,
£n.llow him..~.And.fo did Ccefczr, who thinking it not enonglito
"   A V D :2  ” have»

n K I8 )
”h2we beaten ‘I’ompj:a.t in'}J:i£'}"/.flZ[1g'£1,"f0l‘l0lVSi,film into Egypi, and his
jifons into ._9p.»zin, to make that Vi&or~y leenre, which otherwife had,
‘_been"but doubtfull; find the finne do all wife Princes (_ or lhch as
intend to be fafe‘) dealing with thofe before (as boys do with
Adders)neVer think them dellroyed,though Cut in pieces, or liiffici.
-. fently fe-cure of them, as long as they threaten fo much as with their
..,tailg;, left ( what Naturalifis report of the one, provetruein the
"  other) that thofe divided pieces crawl together again, and thole
Tbrands,but fuperficially quench’d,breal< forth into at greater Flame :3 l
Now how this fhould be done without men, ‘and'monies, I under»
_ {land not. So then, if we have Armies, and Taxes, ‘they are but
ifome   of tho-fe natural effefts wltich Wars bring along with them,
it which being once removed,the other will foon ceafe ofthemfelvess
till when, ‘?rel'ervation is to be preferred before benefit, inasmuch
 as tl1of'e;C.ounfels which tend to the former, feem to be attended ,,
with neceflity , whereas thofe deliberations that tend to the latter,
fr feem only accompanied with perfwafion : And it is even gain, and I
no lofs, where at the foot of the account, there remains the ptir-{_
;chafeofl'afety._ A l \ V‘ l   l V _   
"~ But becaufe men are bell taught by Examples, and a fober in,
-ql__1l_1‘yl1’1lZOtiI‘{1€S pal}, is the belt way to be fatished witlusytheitttimeifin
. prefent-, I {hall give fotnef few inllances, wherein this Neceflity 3'
‘hath been the guide not only of particular mens aétions, but elven ,

A ,,,M_ ,2 of wholestates. ”Twas this made {la/Jar break the facred Tteafilry A
i flafizre. (notwithllcanding the oppolition of Mcrtellm the Tribune) to‘ take 

the monies there Pcored up,’for the fervice of the War J: And D41/ii ~

« 1 Sam» 9 '3 to eat the Shew-bread, which was not lawfnll to any, but the High... t

' Brielts only. “Tish this hath madethe Kings of Frmm, and Spain,

b’  do often raife, and pull down their Coin, according to the fulnels,
orsemptinefs of their Coffers : ’Tisthis hath made, not only them, i

i but our foirmer Kings to embafe our monies: Frederick the Second,

when“ he‘ brefieged /74/i/lam, Pcampt Leather for currant, And they

sr¢‘e'?1I>.1}"”" Ho1{aznders( Anna 1 574;)make monies of Pafiebord. In a word, A

7:’ If a manflnolflld ask Why Dido laid‘ Irnpolitions upon her Subjects, \
4° and keptfo many Soldiers o;n.f_oo.t, VirgiZWlllar_1f\V€I‘fOr hetf, A

l i,Re7.r 4{fll‘T4," t’fi*lRegrnfnowims me tnlin mg-Imt
;Jf9l1iri, Ag“ latfifine: cgafiode Mari.

‘And I

therefore having admitted him to be i f.l.Ch ;, AI cometjo prove

    (19)?

o’ the fame purpofe  i   
  A A i Princep: C gm}: belle minafitr A
A I-1»;/M) milirihml urdex pnemzmir, (*5 arming 

 

and another; t

 

i Laiily, there is a Role in our own Laws, ,Qaad¢aii:i:

foniibe on

or this otvnrlife, a tnanmay killanother that affaullts him, or would
rob hirh. 1 might ad-drnore, but Ithink thefe fuflicietnt-, andjthere- H
fore conclude, That if, not onlypalrticuilar rAnen‘A,lAeivAeniwhole
States, havethought Neceflity of State ‘a pfufficient warrant for
the doing of things altogether; unlawful in thernfelves-,,if our
own Laws give a difpenfation inlike cafes, and that to private
perfons too», Itwere hard me-afure to detnythei fainqprpaivviledge to
Princes, to whom% according to .re>2m,e i iaz»i,AJ2‘aA.ci¥ Rtgi A1im‘,:,
and who have the ‘greater reafon to be hedge and gfeneeclabout
with rfuch prerogatives, by how much the more they lie themore
open, and expofed to Ptorms. In aword, to be for nice and rigid
in this point, were to invert the Fable ofefl/op, To catch Swallows‘
in Cobwebs, and fuffer the little Fly to break thronghwith the

liritflw‘3 an* 
ll  N £*6‘Efl?f43_fi2‘Citt/1‘Ci!flm, @' imiatcit prio£1rgizz‘m,quo§¥  firi

«MMA»-. Soto break prifon, is felony-, but not, if thepri
“L fire. So the wilful killing ofa man is murder-, but for prefervation

tr; 117,2.
Pfoiv. 607,30‘
4 E6. 13.
26AAiii 33.

H er. F arr.’

spider: which, if it be not to be imagined, we can nognlore deny,‘  f
but that fuch Afétions of-his}-iignefé i (which the Gentlefiiian isfl

L pleafed to call Tyranny) being no other then Aétions in order  

to fafety and prefervation, l are rfo much the more juiiifiable, by ,2

how much the more the general fafety is to be preferred before a

particular good, and the Common caufe before a private intere{At. A

And fo ‘I leave l’1i5-‘i”iI'fl'.A(El§i.iZiOIl to fiich fatisfa&ionA, 'as7youhavc

met .with before: And hope that according tom}; promife IAAA

have proved his Hi
Government, A o A
it The next Q_1_1e{’tion is, What/arr  /air Htgbn

ghnelic, to be no Tyrant , either in Title, or

eflr data Tjnmt, be

may lmsvfulgy be «drflrqyrd .? Wherein,ad‘rnitting all that the Gentle.» 

a drama.

man hath laid down to be true (asit is not) yet I fay, A Sttbjeét V

i cannot lay Violent hands upon his Prince "( although a Tyrant)

and be held guiltleii :. And here I think it will not ‘be expeéted 

that I fhould again prove his Highneih to be a lawful Prince,
accordin

to the Laws and Confiitutions of ‘thispiNationA,a ;

having one itbefore intheo, 7,; 8 ‘5 .9“ ,;1>ages.«  Andi

v the

) A

the unlawfulnefs’ of def’croying% .nr3Li.1V1ing him,"Vthfo11gh he e‘ithAe1i° 

A had, or fhould abufié that power” into a%Tfyrdann=y: And to .tf11gi;s
pfurpofe having % 

1.; »_ ‘Vb  ‘eh ‘fome:I1ing tgof his general *ma.t:te1*.-‘. 

%  ’@K‘afnir§e \Vheth€r. Vthzex AuthoriAties, and Exampies,
which he hathibrought 1:9 prove gzhis‘ %I<iI1iug Propofition
wi1‘1“*'fé?;-”v¢'*—to any purpofe 5, it whether they are not
gxjofshj !m‘ifiakE§~n,?f%rif mg Wiilfil-11§y"d€tOf"t€d‘ .98 zu;1d5 fo wdifprove
them‘. A A A ‘
 Ifli%111~?1fiéik¢.Aitfappeétr, Th'at.%i~t.is?Jdire&1y 'aga%¢i"nB: *
 ’ Tilzecxéiffttamiéi 0*-“F t’hr: very Heathens~,W and aVbho”rr" d by them.
2, Thagtf itjjs a-gainfic pofitive rules of. Scripture , and
MA  ‘A examplesof .I1oA1y§1nem=there.i;n. ¢ A  
,3 ; Aga;in{i‘c %L1:ah'e i:>r;.L %&i%c e of“th:§, Pr;ir?niti“ve ‘Chrifizians.
 }5;V4g~gtinI£.t1*ge4La\v§,flc:§f 3—Nat.1ons:.‘ Y
95' L s*A"5’"ga"'ri1’1f1t~tI*1e ‘paxmcuiar L‘aws0f' this“ Land.

v. v

4; I  ‘givehne account of the evil fate that hath attended

    
    

 pe1*f0ns,%~ as ‘hm/e;?h%ad1;heir hands in the b1o*od»of their

V %P1_:inces,‘aV’1thiough 'I ‘y1~ants.    J H . A " ; *4 A 

% A,,f:,'c;w "F0“r[th"e “ TLfee1ns‘he:h"at1a ‘not; Acaflz-*£i1I;jhisiVe%nom,$at14-:i1{t*iF*
hiéageaémwl he;flhave,4w*hei11i?cksitVup5;2xg;a,1n?::,%’1?or;AheLfpéndsfa? fide or two to th:”ej~

9

““~‘=5“’»’»' ~~ fame‘pi:rrpofe asVhe_ .hath~d i@ne»»snhe‘1fix .f0rme1‘, only with this <:1,if‘.:.%

feréncefihat hé»_ha“th% w1~eR'é%d all App1ic,atien=in the former, but in

thvis%h»e%wImg_tl?1gVivenus.n§>1r1e7at a11;:*o%nly rum on,“ as if all were A

granted,‘_»,%;trid‘%likMe4Mr. in his Efipime before his ¢Lwim—Z9m,‘
wouldhave the1Vpeg1pie!:He1%1eve, he »».1s1a perfon loves his own humorgj

ai1;d’t;h ink%sjaji1f11e%faitilfris A*1fr1_Ii:h. %) And ther£:fore,4VH_becaufe in Iny ~fo1~..
m€f‘di‘~f‘£"3_®f‘l1T§f€:.,TI:7h“£W€ ifufi5i‘C1Ver;«1:1y&a1‘«aAfiveer«ed has pomt of Tyranny}

1 mall Vin§h_i~sAfp1ajc;¢% medc‘:l1z=: only ‘xvith%AA11%isAnev.v matter.” ASfirfi‘.,,thz3.I: 
o£Gm'm  gm, wlnerc he-;wo111dMhave:h1%1n fay,_Tlaa,t wlaermli A

A % ';zr£’»_[l;z'tIe,f, H1_"r :15 n~o__raCz'z;y, am at _gmx Family .~ A7ra.d.*‘ianotfl1%erk0uz

  ”z‘"‘;g;_2T§%~.  (:;a‘S“'l71;<‘.?*~   M40 .=~1:1«j~'/lil'€'E C-ow [231/yard, t'zgWj

Maw ;,;;;7"[;.g.; ow}: %.'_M'.azg2'flr:.<zt~6 ,‘, ”ka’J¢c1 do Iufifct for Mmfglfi
Cohcerpi1ng[wh1‘c‘h, _  w11}l,a{I'ure anyvI..nah,A phat W111 not take’ the
Pains 4:0; %&‘a*r*c:h*~tthe_wibook,M. !;11a%t% th€r€ 19 ‘I10 filth filing ._.,  noroughzz

" ~u

mg: is   WBm;.ho%w¢Y€¢r&, to fay fo mewhat to both, be c4a11¥fe they

A arp” _This4ALPamph1ez_;4‘:  flaai1V%4no.1-sdeny but  f7I'r‘fi: A_maybeAgood“

A fferiam-Fe, ;1_nd t:1;11"e.“eno%11g1J1-,, ’Whe!;h'e»rw~-itbeAGrotim?§5%‘®r~the ‘Poetifi, as
;he.;‘wc»uadjhav:ei.awn anothar plaAce)V bm,.4thwat  fh011l£1.C0nVc%ern
0111‘



_our felves, he mult give me forne better ,plroofsi;hen his "bare’~”faying,f 

‘We are mtmérers of 'Wb:'te»iib.aL’, ihbefore-I-‘thi"nk’it’5Worth“ the anfivera a

ing: And as to his fecond,lI cannot: b"el‘iev'e that gmim fholild be
guilty of interfering; for I t'e1netnh‘e1*ya Pofitton of his in another pejz:r.betg
place,dire¢’tly contrary to what he would havehimlfpeak here, and M» ¢-'74.

. thatis,A.private ma nought by no ‘mean‘s” to take upon him to judge,”

but follow thePofl'Ieflion:But if‘thi*s’{in"g"le5 Aittl1‘ot'itylbelnotenough De Rwy‘

to difproxfelit, ’B«;dz'njm?ig0es‘yetif'urther,‘ \vl3roii7aitl1,;Thatayprivarg 1.s.o.,3..

manought not to be his owns Judge’, whether ay“Magiftra’te_”doth
him wrong, or not. And {'0 I “ leave tyhefel, and cotne to  other
of c e/frzflor/r-,~ P/moi. and Cicero‘, whorn we mutt allow eipecially
the two firfl:  to fpeak fomewhat ‘freely, becaufe they were gene;

In rally corwerfa net in PO:p_11l33.“1‘ilStafeN‘S;"fi to  it  inicyonfiftent, that
one cmanibe greater then lanothflert,ll for fear.lhe“fl1ould grapfppthe "

 Antients was taken for him that had P/mm in fabditcar gotejizztm,

seigniory : fitnd itlterefo-re I ’ltliinilt’ it] Very material to {peak fomei
what in this place totl1ewordT}ranz€i: Concerning whofe Ecty.
mologie, (to fay nothing of ])"\(Cf7‘it_to;a”.r_ quibble,who would have
it come from wait, canm, becaiifle asfiihhpeefe is prelt in the Wringri
fo the People are oppreltby aflfyrant  MI hai/e tnetiwlith none that s i
comes nearer the primitive -ufe ofitfizhen what C25 gives of it, g;,;,_¢,-,,m_ .
vies.  sues;-was Awaig, atdamimmln populzér, and fo amongft the W‘- " i
that is, a King : And in this fenfe it is ufed by y’Vi»-gill A s’E"‘-’5W-
Pm‘: mi/vi pmrzk erir dcxfcmm tetzgiffe '_'«7:yr.mnyx'- t W V ,
Which in Englifh, is no other, lthento tkifs tlieKings hand. And
therefore I fhould be eafily drawn tolbelieve,‘ that by 12a.a~:.aei& the‘ '
intended fuch a perfon, who by the conltittitions of fuch, or filth
a place might, and did rule finglyas King 3% and by TdeqerV‘@f'iiim
that in a free, and popular State, nfed fome indireét means  as of
neceflity he mutt) toufurp that~Gra;ndeur, which was inconfiftent i
to their Laws far And lo the Greeks took it; (;.»‘¢.;~; 01,fm q,,,m1;g,g,‘
in liéem civ-irate a’c-vnziniantem Tv'e_c2fvzfou nppeda//mu, faiths Riderll: And
trulyit doth not appear to me, that it was the man, but the thin .
which they generally hated and decried, thyaytyis, t;“ob‘e governeg
by a fingle perfon, and tlierefore they fppoketfo bitterly againfl: itmj
to deter othersfrotny attemptingit  So sthat aellthatyflirzlflazle,land -
i“}?l,izrol have written a cioncerning it, are not tobe ptpaken for fcritftlym

m

ii in reference to us:t17or*til1ifuchitimep ‘as there were rnanyiliree

states, and that particular perfons aimed at the {ole-' government
it i A -' A -of“

.  (22)   4
Of" them,  W0rCl«\VatShit11ifE?4d in theibelt fehfe, anti figinifiecl no more
Wolf" \ix1;ful’tic.e,§tl1en,.til1ehwo_rad Lapmadid antienjtly a Thief, or that of
_Knave,r.for What we now ufeiit. at 1, I fuppofe Grariw might have
“1;hdughto.f foimevifhat like this, when ( in his Preface to his Book
zaejm Bet/iic«’;'~ Pézczlr) Wifhing that Principalityfiad not for fame

Ages, goneheint0iTyranny5 he adds, Tl1at«”i‘r.uth towhich Ari-' _

flat.fe. wash, aifaithfuli fervant, isih%opprell; by hothing more, then the
jgname of ,<1nfl~azf1;»i-, but for hisiown part (faith) he» will imitate the
'11b€1‘tYiirr5f t11e;Ant.ient Chriftian-st, wliowere fwotne to no Philolo-

phers Sed‘t,&c. Butitaproceed-, I had altmoliiforgot that which:  

. ihqflcipes QL1llQl'.Tertu/Zian, fohtra pub/ice: /m.&'..>:>.r E6" it/Vlajz-flatia rec:
A  omnzis homo m,ile;.,A Conceening which I {hall ufe the Words of Greg
rim Iipon the fame place :, where. the queltion being, Inwhat cafes

zegjunwc atflnvader imay he_expell.ed§ by force; hefaith, That if an lnvaderh ~ "

‘l=‘°‘?'74! h;y‘an«unjufi war,‘ hath feiffid On;the; Goivernment; not hath there
fol.lowed_ any agreement, or faith given him, but his poffeffiontis
lgeptby force, in thisscafe ( faith he-) the right of War feems to.
r€main":,hButhhecaufe,there-isnothing or this in our cafe, for as§I
haveifheiwn before, this Highnffs hath receiyedi a fufiicient Tefti-.i

% mony from th€Peopiliea or their eorxfentm iallcl, his firft Commiffion‘
wiasaenough to jtlllifiei him fibin being an Invader, I think this
needs no further Anfwjer. I have but twotllings more, and I fhall
fall tohis iExamigles.h The firltt is the Valerian Law, that made”
it.lawf"ul,, for any man,’ to lgill him ,.th?at,atook upon him the

Magifiracie, _iwithout».theacoxnmandoftthe, People: To which, It  

fay the fame‘ Whichhldicl; formerly choncherning the Laws 0t"the,
Helwewr, thatit was apartieular I.a\v proper to the COIi’l’|l'l'lOlTl-;

. W33-lth of Rcxmfi, and qalhchutilated for that Meridian only, But he-.-,

1 caufe this..Anfivert will not fatisfie every man,:I {hall refer him that;
%P--7:5‘. tisferupled at,niit;t0«wha{t I rliaivefaidiabeforie concerning the Con-fence

Qf the Peeglé, then which, a this wt>rd~- Cpmmandi Hgnilies (in this)

place") little more, if hdt. the fame_:.i Butas if the people of
fnglméd had thought, fome fuel} thingi.1nig.htb%e0hje€ted to them.
hfcreafter, W they did by their freq}-lent, application-sA to him, make it,
:"1ppear,._tl1at what in them,laytAheyxV£.11t about to command him.~,;
andlfo corifeqlieritly llisiflighneilhis »t10t,withiinitli"is Law.‘ But now.
" i hetallgsof theLayvs.of.Ram, IcanttellahimitwiotlT£¥£l3;0U1dhaV€.

ngadlelfine Work with fuch‘.d0‘&rihe: lIhefirfl; was the Law Horataia,  
r5T1ial.,q1‘¥&ti.'1_‘?i£tg%!g1z35‘f?/(filial e/,£Zdiliém,fudz'tiéw :mmerit,. qjm capxaa "
" ~  J « ‘“’ % < V  V l M ~ ' i %'qui:)_A

<23)

iavuifaiciézam eflo ii where, by few‘ fizcfilriz aapxii; they iiitendeda

perfoii excommunicatefd from the fociet of Amen, and fu'ch,Jas
having his headvowed to the Gods, mg the flain by any man,

without being liable to Judgrrient for it, qimiiam an-,~i'ma dig; 415:. Egg “.4”:

were amplim lmrmmi icammercii mm  : And in this fenfe”, who- V 179
ever brake this Law, was called Home /zziw. Wherein it is oh.  
iervablewthat the Law doth not fay, whoever fhallkill the Magi.
liratefhall die therefore; but if he fhalloffe-r them never fo little
violence, 4.4!. [i naczaerir; if he {hall but hurtione ofthem,&c. A

The next is the Law made in the Confulihip of C. ?z:[i'm~C‘ie/‘i273, c§¢,pg§g,gf y

whereby it was ordained,that fuch as were condemned of'Treafon, p
or railing uprores inthe Commonwealth , fl‘lO1llCi‘b€.‘ banifhed. A

 But as I faid, theywere Romaniawsi, and fo Ileave thAem. The A
Afecond is his iual'ter—-Argiiment, drawn out of the 2; P]7i[:&'Py0t.6‘k_,A

wherein C‘z‘.r.~e.~m doth more then favour the parricide of Ciefizr : l A
But every man that remembers the {iory will be a ready to lay, So Plutjn can "
brave an Orator, might have been eloquent at a cheaper rate, then *

A the lofs of his head, ‘(for fo much indeed it colt him) no great lign

of approbation: And when liefllhall confider how fuddenly the

people revenged his death, damnfd up the Court wherein he was A

flaignu, Cflf1'4n'$;1'J¢v#qh3oi eceifiu eff ahruiw placzfit, (faith .$';m:am'm) A
Jdnfqiie Marita ‘I’d3':MCta'zi!m iiaminairi, ac neunquam ea die .S’emi- y

mi ageremr‘, and withall beliowed upon him the honor of an s_zieim.i»i 7
Apatbeofii-, or enrollment amongll: the Gods-, the queliion will be W Gefi i‘
foon out of doors,_ whether he were a '1‘yrant,A or whether the

people approved his murder : Belides, we muff allow mum

,to fpeak like an Orator, efpecially agaiiilt Cazfiir, Whofe name.

(faith Florm) Was afo cryed up for eloquence andfpirit, being

i thought to have been his equal therein, at leaft his fecond; and
upon this {core there was greatemulation between them, witnefii
uthat book of his entituled i/I;2tz‘..C‘.«.zro,l wherein he did afpire to the P 1”“ ”'

'-viétory of Wit, asvi&0ry of War, undertaking therein a confliet r

Ciejéire.

. with the greateft Champion of the Pen,§‘z'cera the Orator. I might
add thatother of his I): Am:/agia, which was was nothing but a

‘Grammatical Philofophy, wheirein hedid labour, to make at/ax ad‘
.,,1m',r,¢m5 to become "yon: aid Iicimm, andto reducepcullzom of
fpeech, lZ0,4COI1gl.‘11ll2y offpeechg, andasalfo divers others which Ad,,_,y,‘_c_y
you may réadira ._?zie_toniia_i and others. But _C'icero hiinfelf hath not
fpolsen.£o ill of him in this place,as he hath Wellof him in anmher,
  - D A A   when A

L,Ba:o2i’i' i

~54;3yra 105 l

A dffproet
.09-his Ex-

a4y3ple_Vs,

Tm: 
J.§. «.16.;
.Dt;j;m:AA '

kt-‘qijr  s

153;, cu;  H V

Ex.:Q,'2.“I 2,5;

A 5 A(‘2  A   

Atlwlfen Apleadih for M¢:?ce£’m, anczl%defit'ing Czfltr to call to minde
,hj:owA much he 'xad:clefervecl of t;.ARa<;me,A althoughhe was unfottttna-te
in lighting upon Athef wrong fade, he Af&ith_tl'l115,,l.=’W:'mem‘0 feje, ma..-
'mmto : Dali immarmlts E lcjlzéid ‘dixtfrimt; @t'_,. “R€met“ttb‘etf3, O Cwjm,
L retnethber  Oxye timmottalfloclsl why doll bid (Jae;’;w remember,
 who nevertfotgot any tl1it1gA but iAnjuriA_es A? And lb I pafs this, with

jthat cenlhrc-;.Ax%zhich ?’m)emz{*_gives ofhi1nfOr.,WritingthlS feconclj

t.AP,.hilipp»iclt : ‘0.fbrtzm}ztz2m, r:§~<“e:‘. e ‘ ‘ >4
7 Antoni glazdias pej}?t'co:4temmee5e‘t A
Omziie dixijfet -, Kidmdmpotmam made,‘ ‘ A ”
flwam ta c'omi5i£m8"61£*Ui22.:z ‘7’I9i;’ippz'm fétmd, @'c.W V

Ina word, both-this famous Ortttot, and our Gentleman, liftheyt

;AhaAd not forgot .y~'5[:,p%A migl1t.ltaAvelearn*tl toA.be wifer, as tementw

Ming; the Welf hadhtis skin pluclfd over l1is.eats,,tfo1:but putting; l

his lleadtxvithinwthte Lyons den. 
A;fubmi=flion.-A) I AleonceiveAAA to be T nothing to his pu1'pofe,l4¢tl10ugh he

brought tb fit his mO‘clelA.l.‘ The firlt is that of .Mz¢rAim Sm z»o£,t’J at-

A tempt againlt Porfim.¢z;

will Lappetu: by hasown wortls (Ho/Ha; /an/lam tom’
know the fiery tutti’: eA0nfefsit) he could not attenipt this life as
4 being a Tyrant, but a.11A0penEnemy;

of .5’:«e*l2fL".a, at the baEC€10f'C?"€fl¢?).W4. Andto this putpofe, G’;-mm

makes this excellent differtencet Abetween murtheterst whotviolate ~ fl

their faith, ;eithet elxpreI§,0rAtaciteA;, as Subjetéts toward :a Kluge,

Soldiers towaxfd their General, See. and between thofe

0f‘Nature,:m.d ‘Nations, l1n:2;y.tkill one a-rtotther €i‘~Vz:"1‘t“_l,";‘.?l."l“1s.‘.‘r¢;? 5' And
filth was Per/em, to Sczevalzt  tn Firm, 1 V c~ I  L V

44 The next is that of M’o/e.:’s killing the rfigyptéeh ; concerning, ; ~

._

Which, he l-aith letter} €r;glijb:mA»m r’94zz*/9 iSofl_r1;5.9,£§'/:7 «ml! at Mofes ;b,,m’1
l ” " '  4 A A ltd

IbI1Vth€.I1€X.t‘P13,C§e‘I come to confideraltis Examples, which (with

hath dealt with Athetnt "as ‘I>trocm/Est; did with his gu.ells, Afonte he »
ltretches, others he euts fhortetg, if by any means they n1e.y,btetAAt

. whicl1,g that it isfnethixtg to the purpofewi, _
A % % dare zrolztij Being %
an En€l”I—‘l‘y'.’,II1W01T§.l(il19.VC:‘fla1n an Enemy : And hemg lb (as all wlm A

and COI1fcZ‘qt1_€I1tly', xxrzts but.
e an a.t°t:0f tingle vaAl.0r,e alstthevwords themfelves Anecellarilty imply A3
mus.“ and novother, thenwhat [came infithe /Macfalhtex. didtxpon an .

   l Elephant larger then the tell,’ fuppoztmgl tl1eAK1ng -had beentupon A.
him», ‘ “Or the tw?oARA_oma11‘ Soldiers, that venturetl to,» cut tluelleotde s

that are 
not bountlwith any faith, who being opgenlfinemiesa by the I.Ei‘lV§ A 

lgofliwiinc.   and truly I am of

(a5)r___ ;

his 0_pln1OHi; fioi“ tlojitne it a'pp‘ear'a;
that neither had any: For ifwe eoniitler the Text, we ihallfind
that _Mof:=.s had fo little warrant to ittrhilie his aclt, (that we read 
13,3 hid [aim in the _/trawl; anti the people werefo farafrom. allowing,
01- approving it, that the firit time he hears ofit, ’tis by way of ex...
tprobrationi Wilt tiarnz. flay rm: 4: Ham didflaihe Egyptian .9 S0 tl1'a‘t:o %
the aft was altogether nnwarraritable ,   and no more to be
drawn into preiiclent, then the lpoiling the Egyp-tinny, to juftifie

Plunden _ g ‘ A ‘ .
The next is that of Sampfm ,, and the Phiilifiinext In which _

4 whole ljCOl“y.} thoughwe {hall an in two places, thatthe Pkizlffliiflftfi.

.- ‘had dominion over them, I conceive it cannot be tinderfiood other.

wife, then of their prevailing over them~, For, that.[/Ewe! had

given them anyfaith, or fo mttch as promife of fiibjettion, cloth

may appear, but rather the contrary, for then'ii'elves give v.5'emg/an Jadixéagg
the appellation of Enemy 5 Snwp/hm mar enema/riCfi*c. And this might

he the reafon, why, although they had overrun the Ifme/im, they

Iufferetl no Smiths to live amongit them, becanfehaving received

no faitli from them, they were afraid of thole excurlions, which i
tltroughont the fiery we {hall find forne or other of the Ifimzélitex

ever and anon making. And fi‘om~». hence I think I may fafely fay,

» the Ifiéviliffiiiem and Samp/ox2i.were open Enemies, and eonlequently

all aéis of killing, and fpoiling, were lawful between them. But
this example will receive a ftronger anlwer, which is a particular

epromife that God made to Mnnoah (the mother of Snmpfin) that Jud:e3.g§{

:3

A ..:£11'l‘ar command of God in the cafe;

He wt-.»;r[g1g£»y;e her pt /En, rm 7/E023/d &Ljqin.to' deliver Jfmel we of ripe
handiofrhe F;.Ji[ifli7Z€J. And to this pttrpofe we (hall find, that the
Spirit of Godmovedhim, v.23. of the flame Chap. 80 v. 19. of
the nextCI1ap;Tloefpirir oft/ea Lord came npm loim So Cl"1.Ij".V..I4.. A
-—--- Mme migktifi npcm b:'a“n, 5-fiver. and divers other places of the
like nature; Andfo I think this Anfwer Ihfficient, I. That they .¢
were open Enemies. :2... i If theyhacl not ‘ been Io, there was an ima
mediate infpiration from God to that pnarpofe, and confequently,
not the atteof aprivate man , as the Gentleman would have

t The nexriis that of Samznlr doing fgiflicé #17022 the 7:yr.,¢m_t Agag, I r
(for fo thesis pleafed to call it.) To which Izanfwer,Tl1at beiiidC:‘srtl1ati as
I an lair °bef'ore,, that they were open Enemies, here wasa partia A
And tlierefore I flmll talifi the
‘-{tony

'7
fl’

‘A D

l A A A k (I 26)
Peer inrpieces, and fee,wlaat'Analof
,,Pr¢gnt purpofe. ---- When the chil?

 no-27.8. \Vat§‘¥_fSai_cQhfifl4flfl"a1a_ and /1/Ieriém/9,, Almalecle; came out and‘ fought

l lagainllt them, 1 whereby to obllrudi their paflhge intothe promifecl '

y there is between it; and the i
ten of Ifmel murmured atthe i

landg And this we may read more fully in tlvéiflfileft/,r where God‘

,1..3am 15.2 fa;-ith-, I revzéeméer w/mt etflmnlec/Q did to I/mel. lsiawlae laid wait for
Jaimie the we vcévc. a And therefore God commanded Sam/3 to ale.
{troy him-utterly"-, that ashe had been the fir/2 of zv,a~;m, ( 4 ,1;

hlum-24.20 who had. wax-reel againft I/me!) fo to fulfill the prophetic of 35;. j
Mam, E125 la:-mar and f/2ot¢ld‘f lie, t/amt/ae perif/a7for_ ever, NOW ..§’.<ml ‘
having dellroyecl the A-‘ma/ekitcir, and contrary to the exprefs com-. ’

mandrnent of God, referved Ageg alive», Slifififlf/3. as well to ftilfill

thatlcommand, as to compleat the decree of God delivered ( as .

before) by Balmzm, hews him in pieces, 85¢. And other fenfe. 
eannottrationally be drawn out of this place; for flgaghad never i
anythingiin the Nation of the 1/melire: whereon to ground a  \
Tyranny, and c0rnfeque=nt1'y could not be {lain as a Tyrant, }as the hi“

Gentleman would. have it? And {'0 I think this Example qu‘oted-to« 

asilittle’pu1'p6fe, as the three former.  q i
The next is that of §‘elaai.edaf;*

&.\r3.c?74.'~‘ the noun Kind
3 2:

V flayiiig Atlmliala. To whieliii;
B_,5,‘,.w.£_.A ( brelicleswhat Grotim faith of it, that it was done as Proteftor to  %
" foafla ) I give th1siAnfwer3 That when Arbalieb  

, .-4

faéw her fon Abe.-tie/9 was~.flain byfalm, {he clefiroyecl all the feed ;

cR'oyal 017 thethoufet-of fudi-:17: (i?oa2_/75‘ only excepted: ) wlrich, that 

itlwas clone with an-intentto ingrofs the Scepter tollierfeltfiand. her I

I own line, will eafi 13? appeiarout ofthe fame Text,.7IBa/Bold, me I€z1nq.r A
3,{1h1;._33.3__r0Il4j27a’£/1 reign, M the Lord/mt/1 [aid of the fem: of David: And 

what thatwas, wemayi read 2 Sam. 177.1 6. \vhe1’e.N.etI9.m fpeak- -

ing by meffage from (;'od!2tO*“.DA¥37/id; he faith, TF7» laaufc mu/9; .

kingdom flmii éefefla/ali/Bari for £"Zft??".;€'9"“r6'. bothviwhich: i.4r‘}.z.2liabaat-i-i »

tempted t~dePcroy,,anel therefore juflcly flain. A But, Faith our .Agu..
thora, Hellmdina amt/aorit}.:far dfiingiitef cit/oer fram God, or the San-=
i9ea2.’rt'm., To». which I anfwer, ;..Tl’hat.if he iliatlno authority, the lefs:
isit robe drawn -inl2Q..ip.1f5€ll den: 3 for tholaugli a. man in rnany aéti...
ons may dojufbzm, yet if he have no warrant forit, "tis but ixjufli-.
But what wrong ‘willc itbie toflthe~i«7I’ettt5~«i,tQiifuppofer Gocl—.did iparti.
eularlyii -reveali hinifelfi in ;.thisi.thing« to .ther-High Pnieff, .iW*;h€fl, we
”._ findthat «t-he lidifcpveredilt%he birth ofc~f‘olm the Baptilt to an tinferitxr‘
3" P1§i.el~’c,, .9f.the eight conr_fe.~, wand ..that,et1r. fiayioinr fl1ould__die £31?
a .i . e ’     i r 

E4319: 3' 9»

 fez; hm érii:goHigib Priiefl"*t/aptt_ymz.rl., hepropbhafied.,(’§"6. B€f§ede§,11«pifm‘

i (re 7”)

fly’; pcople; 130*‘ C,i;£plm'; for faitli theText, I-fr  it not 4;‘ /,;:m;1oh.’r 14st .7’ A

. .. up u I  l ' 1 We N gad ‘IR 
atconfultation \V1th-'Urzm and Tlmmmzm, though theI{lng,;,h.1h«:l{:’:,3'.’~7 Q“

Fatller of the Conliliory might pro pofee the-l~ .ma::ez-r, ‘yet thePriel’c

only had the power to rel'olve~: And therefore why may it not
(without intre~nchrnent upon the_Text), be fuppofed, that God-had=i~
difcoveredihimfelf co~ncerning¢tlns thing, unto fir/9 iade‘? ‘Bent fup»

A l pofmg he_.r11%ad mt, felaéiadmvas High Pri'€i7t,....;a11d‘*‘h.€tCl.. ho fmialh-in...g
t finance upon the people 3. a~ndlthere_rore; -k1§1OWlflg.th6“1‘€§V'€al€d will
oEGod, which he hadfaid conceri1zng"D;2eéi';{,V( T 16;? l:mzz,:".é and :13}: --

1;-irzgdem jbizll [vef“e/i'a!=1zfi2rdfor ever, (§"6‘.) itwas authority enotlgh‘. i

for him, to dowhatihe did 3 and confequently, was not the aft of’

a~private man. . Then, for the atithority of the .5}-nhedrhlm , which‘.
our Amzhorlfanzlt was -wantin  alfo, i1t_do~t~h»no_tappear to n1‘eont=~
of Scripture, or ou—ght.=el17e andl believe It will be zmpofhble for-*

i him to prove  tlt2tt;th~ey had any power themfelves over» their“

Kings; and..éonfequent1y, if they had given any to febaiadrgthey ~

o.mu.fi 11gweh:.<g1Ven.'ivl1at they had not, which could not: he: Nayi

(thottghf they were not put down till Herbd.)~ yet: they h:.td~a power‘

-fuperior to~them, even attheir firli: «i;nPcit1:ltion:- For 214%.; was A»
 noneof them, butchief over lIl='l€I’l’t::)_ and therefore after his death,".

it ‘r they chofe one,whorn they called them-ince of the 9eve.nty : which «3.«¢,,,,_,§ ‘,,,,,,~,§_  » i

V A poflibly might be i,m:e'nded~b.y that Text, where fpeakinlgl~ofrMq/ax '1-5 2-4-

it.isi faid, that be 227415 Kirkg iris ?6’l%fit.7"'1?£M (o}.a’ among tl1eTrighte0us.)»=Dm'33'5'§‘

’ Bur tO.ma:keIthis more clear, it is {aid that Samml jud"gede:lIfr-49!,"

and W‘entltfro‘méyear towyear Circuit to Ber/oe/., Gilgzrl ‘€51’-.. VJ-11i¢h~*1vsam;7.:s;. -
could not have been done,1ftl1e had not had a fupminrendenciel;

  lovgerthemw Ft*om.ivI1enceI conclud‘e,that they had no power'over*

the Crown themfzlves, and confeq11_enclyl?c,boi.ea’a could not expect; ; 1:
to receive any from them. i   i , h       A . i
There remains onlyone;,;, avndlthahis of’ iE1md“"sl flayinfgrfikjlmi -._~,i 
which atilfirft figl1t,ra.nd as our Author hath delivered it, may‘fi:eml»:  V
La.i.littl.e‘t0‘ the purpofezz But he givesilus theText, without the: 3
Context. 3. for if we read eight or nine verfes backward, we lhallé»
find that theechildreni of Ifraelhad done evil in’ the fightof the 1'

' Lord, and tharrtherefoirel the I..ord“ lhrengthenedt E glam King o'fi¥‘I“d‘3"Wi*<5

imaraeeiflli d“'3I1‘1~~'--—--:- And afterwards,wl1en~‘they cryed’f11nto»th»é~ *
Lord,» He mzfldhtbew tip 5 dalwaflir, “E/md*,'@-c; Sec’[.~ The”tTexc:;3

l §‘ame§  i9l39§h P13}§;e5 5" E: 5&5 E119 A“th°1”°‘f ‘h¢i¥‘ 'P1?RifhfI1ent¢i3 :-

’t .Godl

lzlCadflfeegthéheJEgAZae, ;.‘_’5*'c:‘.' 2. Astl

  l (28)

‘IE Atrthor of tAAh”eir deliver-gvgl

,lGb;l iv“:-'z3$AAfl1;’-IIAA eaea 63%‘. l-W... And therefore till hefcan thew meas

goodan Authority toprove his, doéfirrine,

 A neither this alfo will make for his pmrpofe l:c For if it thould, it

 all Kihes

Wottld ferve as well to Warrant tAl1€»Afl:£1iAAln3.tl011'3.ndl“l'lll1"Clt35:“ifl

0 ,good,or bad, W

t whh them: And iftl1emfelvesAAmlay be ]tt<:lges, and they that are to V

 give the ferttence ,- nuke the cafe, Good God! »_l1owA=A would the A
'-VV}01Z'ld he peltered with T vrants? how many good P1‘iln3A5C<Es_WOtIl<i.‘ do A
ho e,by Whom they ought to he fizppottede 

, 1 be dailytfuppreffethby t
A There thould not be a Prince milde, and religious, but he fhould <

Abe deemeAdaFool, and confequently unfit to rule-, whereas if he

, the Prince e;tclaimedA againft as cruel
. dirt and blood : Hetfhalll
to but he {hall be decried for Toleratlon :V On the other fide, he {hall A

talte care thathis Laws ( efpeciallyl fitch as are penal) be duly

eatecuteczl, or put any than to death for traiterous attempts againlt 3

hils perfon, we fhould .have the Traitors proclaimed Ma1"tyrs,AAAat1d t

not be favorable to A tender l confciences,

Anotlurgeuniformity, and decency, but he {hall be railed at for

A fitperltition : In at word,becaAufe theretis no Virtue fo‘ equillbrious, ?

 but hath foAtne,lfle:%ture to one of the extremes-, we fhould have the A
A extreme puhltflfd, and the vertue filenc’d : whereby in {horn time A

t it would come to tl1is«paf55,, that he {hall not d

the good liking "OF the people, but it {ha
of which (as I {aid befo1*e) if tl1emfe

Ives‘ maybe Judges, , and A
Withall have fitclt examplesas theft: im

at is lawful to kill, and defcroyfuch perfons, We fhould have it [0 at

. in his lanthorn,and fooner find what he look’

-« ud.2x.2 -_
 3

hillittg, his elder brother rem
jtlfetllIh€f?.I'l'1€2p0hC1€, towards luslelcler brother ,;(4am',;/7, ;Bu: as l,

frequently acted, that the Cyniclt might once more put a candle

a mad 1‘nan)that could be drawn to rule.[—\And thereforeto clofe this
point, tW€A1A‘I1_I.1flf know, there are many things in holy Writ, which
are in no cafe to be drawn into prelident, being not altogether foAA
warrantable in tltemielves, but as Divines fay, fet down rathet for ‘
our caution, then example : For, if t it were otherwife, We cannot
but jllfiifiel Rotmmltes his taking away the daughters of the .AS’A.ebz‘2«:e.r, M
{Or the Beztfemitgx did the: fa , A
the fame occafion: Norcan we condemn the fame amaze, £017]
zed‘, when -we~{hall_be told that Solomon,

pardon me “if I fay,

e of‘ 
hen ever the people {hall be cllfconltented, A

5 A very New made up of ;

0 any tlting againlt
ll be accounted T-yrann,y, ,
poled upon, them, that it '

c_lfor,then any(befides 

me, to the daughters of.$‘Jai[ob:,“ upon  

«,9»

I faidbefore, they are things rather of caution, then example‘; 7 and i Artings 2;

elxeerefore ~ : _ _   tA A A A
    r~‘--A-W-—---vt~+'-~»-A--.5’zhzt«t.z3s :3? tetig»xfl”:A-,t ”.E6>"?é'\€'7N'lh7'o V M

L f The next thing I meet with, is an Anfwere of fome Ohjefiionst -
The flrft ofwlnch 15, A That ‘thcfl: Examples, am’ af A men'i:sf,:}z‘rea' £3
G-'02’; and t/aer£ffa?reAr[ary lflfléilfl rm/Z, mzrl newt/sofitézy ;‘E2r“’t:’m'r~h aflians,

V A wbAich‘1E¥é ammo: pretend to. ‘ To which he ffa’1"nest11is~ Anfivhet-;lh

I.  God commanded I/aefl’ Fh19i7¢gI,«A Wye .».z figettelagv rare lmxrfzlk

’ '2.:T/mt none of the perfon.r"r1jem]e[m.r 4tVed£ed arr} other caziifl? for .

W/94: they did:/am t/on jwflice of the 4535012: rkemfelvestt madrimzg/5»

 they were .é:¢t~t/or afisof private perfiam, jet I/9£:'_‘y‘ are 'jf’J?';fitgb/E éj
V rjgmaggmfizgntcaz/J which 4/! men have, "to do all azc:7‘io:=LAAr'cgfjzz/E£*ceete!/m.t

IW'6‘t§'fi:2 their power, frérz/am At/ac ordinazj camffis’ rgf jz¢fiice‘fiz£[j{. kT%O.WhiChh V
I Anfiverfi A thatbecaufe God commanded thefe thmgs xrnmedxately A

A to them._, Ltis no fufiicientwarrant for us tohdo the fame. t.Goc[ >

5‘ t t . . . . .
commanded flbra/mm to facrxhce hxs Son ]_/,m~~, and yet 11213 not
wartanttuentutagla, for any Ent/awfi; to do the fitme, ttlpon tpretence A
o~f7ah1ikerevelatxon.' So,God commfetndedtAthe”Prophet totake to

him»awif'eof Whoredoms, c:im.xvI1ic:11 ‘hed'id_(]"?)r a.AAAA;?gnto r/be Hefimju 

fwople, Cfiw. ) yetl conceivehit no excufe, to ;'ui.‘tiHe any matnsherrora

for falling into that ditch , only beczmfe the Prophet was com--t

manded into it. I might. add divers mo1~e,hut I think this'taPce fi.u’:fi-»
eientzt :2“ As to the fecond, beczmfe he brings no new matter to
Awprovveit, but the fame Examples wI1i=cI1 It hgtveluzmdledbefore, I
flxalltreferyouthacktto them, oneivaddihg't11is,«that ?:?/mthourgh zI£ings9.g!’

,, hewere a Captain of the 1—10i‘t,"yet'I1e made no infurreftion againfl;

Almé, untill the had at pofitive COIT11I12l*I1d.frOm God, andtatnointedetr %
Ixingtto that pt1rpofe.h   A A A V ~ A _
  ‘hehnext ()bt.€'(°E.’.l0l"1tIIZM._171€'1T13.h.E3S-»i§£,tThat the not bppqfingttbe"
gammmmt, but fl£ém;’i2’2‘z'.?1éf t~a¥A/315$ Higlynq/} £»:z\m,A “zlm manic“ can-‘ t
fehegszc. Towhith he gives this Anfiver; T/mt h it: cannot be pref»:-
mm’, 524:; the fizme /mt/o‘e9z'a:?.it Am in all zxfnrpatiomvv/aatwer WT0
which I anfiver,twA.e mu-{Emaket it tdifferextce, htetweénh an implicitq,
and.tacite c0x1hfem75 Qf 4‘v11icl1"-ki‘n‘d,° is this the Gemtleman fpteakst of A
win t'I1iLs'tpI21ce: and an aiftiial coni'ex1‘th, of which I have fpA‘c>ker1»f0r-{
1ner1y,page 8. Andttheicefore as to the firfi, t it cannot be Aexpectedm 
hut thatthe peqple will follow their .bufineAfs.hwl1oev‘ev1: fitta*tHe11nm-A
as

I" 0)

g; as beingnot able to live ‘Without it, and} if they can live witho'nt
‘Wbeing opprell,

.3

tis as much as they  let him take the Go-
vernment, that wil'l,or can: but as to the feconcl when the people,

;befides the doing thofe common things ( before ) {hall according

to the cufiom oftheir Country,( the office of the chief Magillra~
cy being vacant and empty }fet up any man, whom by a general

confent, they {hall declare their ‘Ru-.lei~,and invelt him with thofe r

enf1gn’s of Majeillcyl, peculiar onely to filth an Office, and Perfon;

~ (all which and more the People of E?3g[&£fid have given his l—11gh-- ”
nefs) Ifayinfuch acafel the confent is actual, and the people
have bound themfelves up, to yeeltl him fubjection, and defence.
«And therefore as to his:exane1ples of" E"~.*»[7:_{fiz$;‘.'...§‘ N:'rr-’ and the 1f-

melitm-*un.Cler Eglm-.=-, the IZWO fotiner were never fo much as tliought

.t»o’b_e Tyrants in Title : I-"or, be'f:Ecles‘tl1at hothof them were or the

_=zf;,:. _3m_ blood of faliw ge/‘gar, and adopted [1e;’mf,.«, they were after the
‘"5415-‘Z’? death of the Emperors their pr-edecelfors, declared the fame them-l

 Nerarze.

The un-
lawfuln
.nt,:fs, elm‘.

.felves,by the Senate and the Army 3 but for that of the 1;r's2~aze/zm

under E izlan, iewas no other, then a conltrained fubljerftion, _to one

that had over-run ‘them, and therefore could not but be expected
i_ from a conquered people, with whofe intereft it flood, to be quiet
~ at any rate : But that the Jfmdirer gave any faith, or actual
: confent to Eglon, thereiis not the leafi: light that way, throughout:
the whole ftory 3 and fo his own examples do not agree amonglt

themlelves. Laftly, to clofe this fecond point, I cannotbut ob’-~
Jferve, how often the Gentleman hath given /Mm.“/via-zwl, the nick:
names Of his Hig/anefi /Ipoffle, E *zmnge1ij?,, and Prjafiice 0f “Pier; ;l
where it will more probably appear, that he hath made him his
.own Vazdeymecumlfilld is better read in him then in the Bible :. for if

his quotations of the one,had bin no better to his purpofe then the

other, I might have fafely tranfcribed them to my margent, and
they would have "fierved as much to prove, my Part of the queftion,
as theyhave done his. And info I come to the third Point I propofed

to myfelf, wherein I fhalllprolvefthe unlawfulnefs of the Aét; as i.

being a thingabhorred, even of Heathens. V2. Againfi the pofiti-ve
Rules of Scripture, and ‘eztamplesitherein. 3 .p The example of pri...
mitive Chrillians. 4. The Laivvseof =Na‘tions.- 5. The Lawes of
thislantl.   l l t

For the ~firl’t, "If there were “nomore in it then the very diffho-

nourablenels and treachery of the action .( as to fpill the blood i

of

(Writ

of Wgr11,",‘1niPea’Ce, by poifon: or al<n1f'e.)- yetthe ,1-Ieathens anthem-s be

»f¢lve‘s have 'beeniif0 ;,far>rfr9rn.a<‘?c:inge it; that they h&Vérefi1fedit:-,
.7Wh¢1‘1 ofiered  And Phil?R1¢PQ1it¢1”5t,i°fA'fuCh afiimls . have feldom
named E1ieim’,iWfltihQu£?fomeistigmafiion brand of ,infamy- V Examples
in this l»;i{nd_ tyerl1ai{e,d‘iyers.,i. .M£d£cum mm;/e Rafi? P/ajrrlyicyapnit

 ‘ \ _ f,‘ N‘ _. .~ ,_ . , ,   nit‘
,;,;fi‘};-gnygmgg tC’gmz4a‘i,a?f€:77?”jz",t,,cz7?c._ui(:fa1th, [arm Whenthe fiamanr it ', ‘

I81

jzriadewaray a~IgainftK§ng i,Pjj,rir/am, his Phyfitian made an offer to

A infamy to Darim: Ye undertake ( faith he) iimpious Wars, and 1. 4.

ic;m'm,..to p,o,i;fon~:11im,ifor a »funf:1,of money, »but(fo deteftable were .
figchy aéts o,f'jtreachery,iand_cowardice, to a Roman fpirit,that) he
f’~:,‘I1tl1i1T1aW21_y~{:r§ Soyywhenea Princeof the Carriwould have under:
taken tihegdealh+_QE,/4.7'7??1:}1iIM, Tiéerim rejeéted him, equalling
himfelf in that.glory with the old Generals, faith T acirm: SQ
G’:/zlllm when the Army hadyproclaimed Oibo, andhe in a great cone? Ta, 
fufion went to appeafe the tumult, he was met by a Souldier, who z.x.2~.7.
brandifhing a bloody yfword, cried aloud, he had {lain 0t/J0-, yet A
all the reward or thanks he received forit ( though fpolten no ’
doubt out of a goodidefign to quiet the people) was, a compofed
l00lx',an(itl1ef€WOrdS,_(Emmi/ito, qua} jufliz .? My Friend, (quoth ’
he”)who bad thee .9 It was this»which A1e.r.am’e;- threw by way of “Q

T4c.Ar2, 3.

5 Cztrzima

though ye have Arms, ve big! money for the heads of yourene~,-

inies. And the fame is that cenfure, which Liv] gives Of ‘Pu-fimi

the 121?: King of the /V./acm’an._r, %:em mm juffmn be/mm gmw, T ,2. ,
Ragga ,,m;ma,g6«¢. A perfon (faith he whom we found to carry on L,l,.,i'm
the War, not honourably, andlikealiing, butlprivily, and like a
Robber, with all the abhorred Villanies of Butcherings, and

4 ipoyfonings; Neitheti hath the fame Flarm,‘ whom Iquoted be-

fore, lelbiting, when Writing theitranfaétions of Spaiiv, and how
iV£ri..zzi/am had well nigh over—runit, and affailed the Romans for

V fourteen years together, withfire, and fword, till at laft being di-.

~ not the V ietory but bought it. so in their Waxisin A/34., againl’c'iz.9.L,

Ptreffed by luabim Maximm, Sewilim Ccepia his Succeffor, to.
makethe quicker difpatch of the War , procured him tobe mur.-

dered, by which means ( faith 11e)V£a/am; vifioria cfl .e5~c. The f 1”‘ 2' "'
vietor was ftained: Neither“isthatbrand,which Vglmlm Maxij. 7 7’
mm arrows upon the fame Pcory, ought iinferior, He deferved, ,1 Mm’
7- l
:./Iri/ianiiczxns, Zltfarcmf i/fqnilim having poifoined the ‘Well-hyead$,,e0
certain Cities, whereby to compel ‘tllfjfil to yeeld, heifaitli thus , :1, AV,
rite, ~Qzm rm #t,2mttW,tnr.i am iflfawm fm? 7/~if7«?0,ri;4?».:.; q:gi1>;>;,c.’”§3.””‘

_ A‘ coritra

war   

I

casn»tLv4w*1"a‘j§a~~e~i3ti’»'i§:z._e6'r;c: The ‘faft, as“’1ter§penec17tI1e'vi&ory,To it made

  gfoe again{‘tehe;Lawseeeof the GoVds,a~nd»ecuftom~e of “Am-
L (7:_e%ftors,the'l.1+1{’cre* "%o;fthe»Roman Arms; preferved nil
At1v1em:ei¥1egiouefly~pure;  To = c<\)m»e nearer home, theeemaehomeetane

make in aflpartjof theirRe1ig-ion,’ to propagate their Se& by ;he.

  f_word;~but yet fiilleby honoraeb-lee Wars, never by ‘Villanies and‘ V
fecrete gnurthers  eNayeupon this ground the Saracen Priencea, of e
Rvhomeeethee"_n&me-0f§  derivedge heaving} made“u?fe of fuch~ A

Kzi»iE&i%nes,_for4the zgxurtheriengef dieveers;P1=inces in theEafle (by one

of whom Amum/2 t.he.firf‘t Was‘ flainwaeued Eduard the firfi Ofnfwgf--i
lkmd, w~ov.mfed. -,) was put down, by the eommon conferzt of me

Mahometan%‘P~ri=nces. But what fheaelel-we fay if the very Heaetheéns .

have~n»otW_oneelyabominated fi1Acha&_ions,.15ut advifed fubmifficm
 a11d&_We=bed~ieI1.C.€et01 Princese though n~ever~fo~ bad? Fmnakz Regrzm

  1§_m:a_l,,12_,; ingex£a,faith Tav'itxm*,VVe mufls bear with the difppfition of Pri'r1ces;_

14,35-’,M4_ And again,We  praythaet we have good, Emperors, but endure
I;:H.”z'4_  VA11.d,ag§L1{1,'V,6.Z;gQmedb ‘_/hffirilitatcm 6'5“ camra ntrtgne male,
V :t;aee%lmxeg4m, eéravvarmnm dammzmm

am, we. we mufi beear (ffaithhe) A '

Witheethe“1uxury andgu/eaeriee»eE’Pe1%inc§;s a:swe"Md0 with barren 3-'eears,;e

w_ and thofepcheg ejvi

ls of naturfe  we cannot he1=p~.- There WELIIV 

Vices as Tong as m~en~,,but.e§heyr w‘i11_,,noet~ la}f’c alWays,%%a»11d..é1re re*e~0m.- A
penfed_W1theh+e mteexyvenexrenee o»fbet_te1-~things 3, and to thzs "purge fee L

. n

e% M % W  ‘52~ia¢am'are:zére crudeliéw, ae~vqz4Z=_,.;e e
‘ ‘“Pa=rE;‘fl_r edzmiaMs-~—-- —--  "

e;'gcel1e-ant ¢i_Vs4 that pi? %[[.,md£;m, ‘

 

. ‘ r “ . ‘ ‘ V N \ ‘ ' » ‘ H . V
And4the1=efore~t0 c1:_ofe this   1~f7thy'e~ver~y Headiens have abomma ted7e.;
tlizofe barbarous a&%s,e ; 0f df-§'_&1‘03_7‘ing their enemies, by treachery, V
and murdei1',%;and;oen;t;11e other; tick.‘ havee.ady1fe,d fuebitneefflion, and e

Aobedisenee to—Priences, a’1t};10ugh« head; A how {hale} Lhey me‘  judg;
‘  axgainfi th‘0f¢ L11rif’c~i&nes,- ghat %noet.one1y, hold it lawful» maze-

firoythcire em-‘:mies,,_1_3y fi1C11‘b3fC.' ways,.,but egveen tI1eir~righf.fi1l .
V Prxnce whom they are bound t0.:dee_fend_.?" In gr \ word", .what<excufe,_

‘Cain they;j1nake;_. 1_2‘0:...Eh;€I§I}f€1_V‘C9, Wgwhea {flowing H1: judgment -0f G04
 gtlazit they ,fi~££¢-ék ~pommit [ac/ae t/aivrgx am warflzje 1af‘%Vd:4¢-#1  not
amfy do the fame. !mt»,.e.tal{e pleagfwtc in them-..tebJtt %dbthem3? % A ~

” 2.4.; It iseaeegainfi the pofitiye ?Ru1€‘jS*~0«f-SCIfipt11té,j_and'Exampleg,

A eh;erei1;;and4 argue~thfis.WVhatever we are~command~ed ‘E0:wpra’y
e ;5%°_,¥f0r:r;:any  1% W_%§i5l-erC (#3 .z1_nrlz*~oA,:‘e.fo__2_*n'gr,i)~ L fbfbiddemto

“of Baéyloxz, where they were then captives: And the fame did

A fure if 7th1ere

~<333y 
 ~ anded to pray

deliroyt .but,’ we are »C0m_ “for ‘Kings, f( niayblvwgfi

tl1e‘WOI‘l)tOf Kings)   andyto hperform diverssaélsof duty toward; V’ i
them ziandytherefore ( a mum fortiarip ) We are forbidden to de V

i fieroy them. Macb£awel.tells us that whenlife, liberty,.and fafety,

m be in quéltion, there oughtto be no -coniideration had of juit,
orui‘ jult-, p1tt1ful,or cruel», hoinorable,yor ydifhonorable -5 But the

Orr. Lb.‘
6:7.

sari ltureteacliethus another _Le-fl'o_n_5 ‘Captives, to pray for the’
pea~te of them that held them mca-pttv1ty5but<b1ds them inowhere,y ‘

i to? laylviolentf hands upon them, though they gotthereby, foam,
and precious a y thing as liberty: Anld this fprecept doth l eremiab.

give, tothem of the captivityi, that they {hou-ld pray for t e peace

Baruch ( which though it be Apocrypha, wasnever denied to be

-:o‘ffgood moral ’ufe)_ wrlite to thejews, that they‘fl1o.l:1ld7p1<ay for

1

Barluth,
l 1.11;. '

~the1ife oflhlcéuc/atzalnne:/?:r5 and? for they life of ~flalt.afar his S*on;,y

addsin the next verfe, that rlaey mighty live under 172:3 flradow, end
the f/Jadew of /922: Sm. ;AnIexamp1e 0f‘tl11SW€“ haveof the Jews in
hol Writ, who were wont to prayforthe hf? of the Kings that

' that A?/weir day: might be upon Earrla on the day; af Hmwn :4 

Ezra :4‘. mt:

heldthemincaptivity,iand for the life of their Sons: And an~ 

other pertinent to this purpole, out of ?.fifi?flI7WJ5 tltat when 79¢:-~

would die rather "then that fhould be‘done,, being asked whether
they wouldiwage War xyith the Emperor, anfivered no, but on the
other fide, offered facrifice twice a day for his yfafet : And that

iatroniza came to fet-up Ca/igu/3’: image in the Temple, theywhofi V A

‘we may fee they did no more under the Law, then w lat was Wares‘ l

rented by the Gofpel, let us pemjfe that lof St. Pm] .tO'7'ivn0tI9y.;

where he waves the Authority of an Apofile, and he that might.

 have commanded; CXll()I'lIS5 I m/aortzI:erefm:,c:5~c. Nay, andiasiif
this might not hethoaght perfwayfive enoughi he defcendsa yet a "’

little slower, and makes _l1im{€lfy_l€lh then the leaf’: of the Apoltlesyg
he entreatsl (for the word mgr }{_5l)\."£;’ will bear that fenfe alfo-,) and

l1aVl_I1g by a Rhetorical exaggeration heaped~ four words-oine on‘

theneckof anotlier, iign-ii"yi~1“ag the fame t‘hi.hg., onelyto add the
more vehemency t0‘th€li€iXl101'lt2§tl0n,t that their prayers ihould be
asgenetal has their cltarity, extiend to all p;er£ons, to all linen; he
begittsveith Kingsl he the next verfe, and {tops not here Tbutgoes

on i :94 mxiww $ ézr am )a nd all -that are in authority at and“

id hot

I
- «have

tad not been a nieceflity of the duty,_ he won
"ll 4 ‘ E “"2” i H

E§xc.2 2 .128

29.

Fs:<?m~I£l.-' ;

blridlevupon-liwps, but a curb upon our thoughts,

lllavel prefi itat, filth la-time; \I.*her?l£1Fe)that fate at the fierfi, lhethatf
was z3',AAWa‘sAno”other then that monfler of Mankind, Clm-— 
Adi»; are  and yetdfory him would the Alpoflle have prayers: be,
= rr1‘a.‘de,lMand not onely pmy,;;;,buc' T19anl(Ig2"ving!. l

A Secondly,‘ We are commanded not; to {peak evil

What th‘e’1”ext intends‘ by thanappelllation of ~ Gods, w.eAmaylread,¢

V ‘1y’fal982#.(~‘l.*,Whefefpeakingof Governors, God faith, .[A‘/m'?Je=f:éid_V
‘1‘e“ are’Gad:l*;bc§-c. ‘And in-Athel: fame f“e"nfe*-is it ufed by ‘Plato ,: A

 

In Polit. l .6; [3;co‘1A€:)g,' :5; ®s52'é.§ au73'palwwl’l,;_ Tl1e-Kilngmisasa God:amongll men. A _

” Aéalfo bythe Poet: ” - ,   c '

Qg;z':.’;;';iM£'t;l    V Clazflzrlin nrée /Em Dru: eff".-.A l l_ y «A» l l J V
A %'I’li‘:e prei&iee"olf”this~we hyaveeAin the A-Apofcle ASt.P2mZ; owl1o1Awhen tb e-

l High PriePc ha'cl—commlandedAhim to befinitten, though he could not 7,‘
contain avlittle paffion (thenatural effec°c- of honefiy a11d<inno~
cence )i;yetas foon laslhe tlynderfiands-him to he the}-Iigh Priefi, fee,

V ’ A39. ,_._3_y5‘_*l1'ow fuddenly heychecks lifmfelf, AI wzflnat Brethren t/mtbe am: the
‘W  ‘ ' Hig/9 Pri£~fl,‘lfi2r it}: writfen floats /bxzlt mt [peak zvz/iliof the E14157?
gum-__IQ, of rig pcoplé. Nay, y.S‘ol«.~mongoes-fuhrtber, and y fats not only ax A

M C 3- -v/é not {/73 ICin‘g,~;,
no not in thy zh~.mg1g,r,"&:c.- A

T-hirdly, lWe are commanded so be fubjeébto ‘them, not only for
wyrntlgéut can/clam _/;2I(g’:, and the reafon of this we have both im

tht~':efirflelverfe,l Fr2r9tk:reis Am power but of Cjoa’ 3- as alfo in the fourth  A

V-erfe, for he V23 the Minifler of Goa’ to I/oer, forgooa’. .  H by A
 yAnd]; here, before Igol-'farAther , it -wxll. be ~).”€q1.11‘l‘1te Ato1~emove~

fome Puimbling blocks, which «lie in my way ; and difpel £1 couple:

fly of ‘Scotchemii°cs_ which iiotwitlxllandingg Ibeleeve evleryArn21-n,y..1;hat;j

@529.-§E&,l.l
‘Sal. by l

A§§.233:1.1..

3’g5.t!~;a:‘  ‘S ’

ié riot tl1‘iclo-figbted, willybeable to look "through of Irimfelf. “I1 Tllflg.

firfiof which*isythis,, _That the Apofclelfpeaketevh here, D: ipfiz /Mm;
d'gi/iwzzztzzm pbteflme,non dc" mulzgmkzle pate:/hzttm garentiérm. 59* .1314-f
éhmmn. A ' ' l ’

A 1 To xvbichfiflanfwer, ,_Th‘at  is plainbe -~fpea,ks ofiybothg of clue;

Magiflrate then in being, as-well as-of7MaglPcratesA~,~in generalyg

Wlhofeyya11tho1-'i‘tyA he lackno-xvledlgetyh T, I and ”3.pp€€ll€th"‘*tO~;hiS‘ judg»  

trient—£eaté, and as I have fhewn but a little before .,   enjoyned:
pxjgyers, even. for Nero: but 1f there were anyjdozubt, st.lPe.terl
mglge,s_lly;; clear; ,_whoA~b1ds_us, fitémitafin fi’l-W; tamer} Ql!.diMdfl(M;f

1214211’-hi

V A 1 lofytbem: 
gm a’etrabe:,'@"‘ ‘Principipopuli tttino-n maledicer. Thou Ajfmlr not,
Hraefiilet/ael,Ga£1:l, wary peak will of rive Prince of t/53' people; And.

mam; far the Lord: fikg.  7 And: the ~ lrealimé of tllxsfherla3?etl1’idcmm,..é.jA  

  WfI:iS'§i.‘»iF0mfb; (faith 1‘i1E)lz2%*i:loe M/1::;:f t"vg#t~"}, nftki £v£g*.ddi”gf.i;ww?i'

may pmiiiilta [xi/mat}/9:.ii< vfiofllfifl‘.6{v_f¢&[i/biT?!¢éZ.3II1Whllih,P13C‘€‘,Ch0i:}gh~*;.
he callsr«it»arhumaine% rdr~ri‘ance, iitiils,    grain! lmmmsimx iwairtzz  ~

%f:;m't,lfea’ qzriwl. pxopria ljamimm efl_“i(’9"*«l ‘5rd’.77¥9T1t.¢3.__'z’;fi'UF73;d¥;“‘i‘fD

rr?,tio_.,_ S0 lfii«rz[*z/i71..~. ;; W »i ‘  l M A, A  ,. '1 Mi  
 Butgrouerruurlil co.nfider thelrtimiesrwherein t«heApo£i;le Wrete this   ab. {2_,
1: lvas.;th-e- irifancieof thel.Churchi5;w.l1en Chriiliansiivercefiarthee J’ "
’fflii_‘:0fi:;Pa:rl:. fioor ;mdlweak,~r&andi not ,abler~».t0e~rer’il’c. S0 fiflabanani  
a ain; lain: l ju i 18. '  "  ii " i  r ,7 r  1:  , i _
gBr1t§ontraryioti€igs w)e mufilknoewg that allllélx/lorals”ingScripture:f 33;; .
are catholiqueinrefpeét of perfonsaand times; anclwhar Wasun-7i
lawful tlaefrl, is unlawfillrlnoiwg. iE,.Wia5'ii.L;-r1la’Wfmi.IHO be Drunkard -
tI}en'*'tl1c[ameI‘lOW;’(é~;,&lzcisi'9iyca2t£ri5. Y i .     V  r ~  V    
A  Laifcl 1', The world lmfrlx not rirantede others,~ who have declared, “ ob}..§3,; 
’Il1arll%Cerifl, ancllhis Apofileswerefubjefi. to Princesand;;Magi~r- ’
Ml’c1:2lte$,l«=‘efM90, but n0t,d:jw£..l S0 Be/(ermine. A  A l i

. “_ei,Whilch, how probable irwhis, ;wi.llea.fi.lyappear in t;:his., -1. lratq Sol;  
 the Words are ‘gener21ll:a:£c“a-éawlrglé; ) «._£?U£‘j?:)’ ~~/ml ;, *  therefore ’in-"»P‘°“‘°‘3‘”"
A elude-_ not this, or tliagl  but every man‘, every eliate, and '~GOI‘}.d1lIiO1’l. 

2. Thevword (~l:rare7]ola:é¢e>z»v) fie /wjeez,  is a Verbiepafirilve, and in1plies,r« V

itihatetllis fubjeftion may be f0rcedl;,L Where men: do not give it“

willingly : For as Princes have power, fit» they have right to exer-~»
cife that power, nay they do for naturallyldeplend=?0~ne:upon t’oel1er;l .
that they are inc0nlilienrrafunder.i A Toeinliance but” in one thing; A
and that is the h0l101.ffflH»d_.1'€.{P€&S.,\VCi.giW/8 to Princes*and* lvlagi-xi
ftrates, which, though it be a "duty weowethem, yetiliesiin the:
giver, not in the receiver: Ancl’.therefore3 I fhould.» think that?
Prince did much deferve it, who had no more to fhewyfor it, then: r l
the lcourrefie of the people; W110, lil;el,e.Car1*iers' horfesl. rlrolxglrl .
they know tlleir roadiwell A enough, ;yee very Olfffifl exapc&~.. to Tiber

‘ remerribred ofit, with tllre fpLl1“._r';EXC€‘ii.f3nCfO thisi..p1I1‘p01'i?i%is"rthat: r

eff. no meawn Statifi, who obfervedl, “Illa: all tl1eProph*ets who were '
armed5-;p1*evlailed 3 butthofe that werelotlnlerwife,‘ xvere‘too=*weak,: 

‘Wanting afword to;-back their*d0€trine-, and tl1eref0re‘("fait11 l1e)~:A A
i u:.bel1ovesia Prince} towberfoli-«provided; thzitwhenrhfe people lxvillr. 

believe inio l'Qnger.,  l1<:‘il’oe able to scompell theme iWei ma-ylifziy therrr

fameofobedience,      1‘

 Render»

 iLaQtly,__jgvei are commanded;t§> play ‘them T1~ibute.andLifioml:v; RGm‘,g$;,ll_;rl. V

7.}.

efiamiler thértfam .€§*§é.

<36 )
cz£fl‘7tlm‘: 'i5“dm',* And th~iS7th‘eI*A:p0'filC’ Cflal-lls  aamta  deb-ts;

., ttolhew, That it isnotllalathiflngloftout own choice, whether we

willdo it, ornotg, but an aft that iislincurnbent upon us,and:£avouros .
;..noth1ng lofcourtefie, but of duty. To add but one example for ‘all, t

: behold agreater then S}-‘Tomi, our Saviouthimfelf, not only com-'-e

V ‘ MatV,2__z. :u__

‘.,   43¢?’-

. that cotneth up, and when thou"h:a{”c opened*‘l1islmot1th (’faithV out 
‘ Saviour) thou~fhaltl.find la ptecexof m0.mEy.~-,;Taak_et9'm$- glad lgirvet
« mate them for me, and for t/nee. From all *whtcl1‘I caotnclude thus

méatnds it to be done,l G ‘Eva unto? Cefarl; ~&7'~t:; a butt ‘ that he might hot

 feem totl7enj?oin‘moreo.toI others,_, at theinvwliat he hadfirltldone timfelf; ff
hegivesl us 1115 own example, :M;zt. 17,, where though he knew:

himfelf exempted from Tribute, yet left lheelmioght feem to olfend,
he bids P‘:-ter"C‘afi hip hooktinto the fee,’ and take up the firlt fifh

A That ‘if We are envitolned with "fuch a cloud of witneffes, that tell

 us there isa duty we owe to Pwrinces ~, if we have the examples of
feremiab, and S.*?t%mZ, who €I1]O1n€'Cl prayers for them ;~ of the

antient gfewx, that made them -, ofthe Aappme, that eluecltt hirrxfelf

.for7bnt fpveaking irreverently to the" Hligl1PtIel‘t 3 of S. Peter.,,‘thatt.?
1 conimandslns to bet'fi1h;e& to "them 3" of the fame Pam’, that en--

joined Tribute to lbepaid them 3 and l_aPtly,o F our Lord and Mafier,‘
who not only commanded it, but did 1t hirnfelfi, and that not to at

- good King, but to .TiérerIk3, ( one that came fhort of Nero in no.

thing, but that he lived before him, and drew that()tiginal, which

the other did but Copy after him:) Certainly by the Pcrongerlt
~teajfon we are forbiddentorebellagaittft them, to’ lay violent hands

upon them,or to deltroy thern.Bu.t becaufeExamples(as the Schools

ofay) teach as well as tunes, andl think no manfo impudentas
to deny, but ohedxencets due to good Kings; I (hall in t‘hitsplacel

give fon1e<examplees ofefuch bad Kings as we meet with in Scrilptttreg

 [yet the holy men therein have been fo far from not giving a
them obedience, that they have thought’ thetr perfons facred and” a

inviolable. ‘]°lammla was a cruel toppteffor of the children of Ifrael,

as who, notlo‘ne1“yA toiled them with maltingtof bricks, Abttt to adde‘ 
.,.to the1r:lflave;vy,dent‘ed them apart of the materials ‘(to wit) emw; at l

and yet expo eetledl his full tale .3 .hefidees whtich, he lcommandted their

gntiidxtfivest to defiroy allthte. 1fna1es,llas foon as htn; ahufed ti/‘mfi;
.~,311d‘.-Jeftaron that came to mediate for them," and blafphemed that
 that *,nfent{1':l1emt: __yet-,the __people nnzthes tneltltert open tattemptts

d againlt

S Tribute no mvhom tribute; C't:_/Boom to 122190713?

,againf’c _ him lblyi Rebelhon, as they iniglit wellli lliavze d'o:xie,; being 

more; iaiid m'igehtiieri’ithen”-tthe Egyp:i;:m’;f not ‘pr*iHv’ate a»ga;iini?t  E'x°gw- l

‘perfon;  %Affal'T1*riatioin, V though  I that hhdii 77the‘ freedhm of

*a‘ctefs,i {might htwel done it hysa ‘dagger  yo r thatlliv?ed?in‘j his Coast,

might have iciomfpaii it by poifon; or that 1Vf0l1g*li1E‘f0 m2enymi1ta~

icles, deltroyecllhimihyanother. No, tliey only «cry unto—itsl1e.sLord,

‘aqdlhe reetutns theml this aiifiver, .1X_\ii!l éve glmfied ups» F/aszraalr,
 betrays not,‘Ye ihéiljlllsbe glo1f~ifieiel;,; there’h’y~«ient€ntl~i%ng 7, V

'thatilbeithelPi-ince rie;v:e1~i‘foA gi*eat*ttn; opprelfbi, £116"-pf€opl'€"l011lg'ht

to fubmit to him,Vamdleave tiheh-%eau»feiLto   »in~.his.ti>me V"
will right them,“ and deliver them, as he did theifraeliiteslfromg
‘Pharaeo-la. Butto proceed, Sam! was? at wiell§"ed‘King,;avnd  his ‘-

Kingdom rent from his for his dil3o=bed%i' jri~ee,l and yet Samuel gave 1 Sam. :5»

him his alccultomedlv~en~er"ationat1d 'attend'2meee.fAeSoW ‘1)‘:ilewiH”, n~oi;;. .3 A4 3:-
Wi‘thl’t_anding the Kifnggwm waisv'tir‘ansferre:;l from VSJMZ to him; .1 3% ‘""""“gje
«yet he fpared his life twicef, wheh it was in‘ his power toilhave fliziin I 54m- 2654
him 3 and asltlhe Text faith, lf’1l’15’l'li{‘§‘;'§ll1“lICfi’I‘l(E)-lI‘€el‘1lI‘Il for butiertattiiiglofi”  '
the skirt ofhis garment: And after.,’_ca;uf§2d the A5nii=lz=lg£:¢~ to be "

flainmjlio upon requefigoa-ndiipittgr, had lent his hasndl ( as the“ faid ) 2 Sanmad 
“to help-‘forward’ that voluintary~"d‘ea*th; Vt iw-hich. he had defigned to i

‘himfelfi that hemigiht niotfalflmtol the%h2mds1o"of itl1ie*l‘*I”’l§”ili”/2“iw.e«. ~

“So Nebucimaammwixisng o¥ifv9Wj]}rz'n, who was fo» violentil a perfe‘-4 -~

“tutor of the ijexvsi, as having \vafiEed~'a~ll Pailgflsneg taken ilerufiulmg
fltiinthe King, bL11“‘.t1t thei~'l’lemple it ..-led the pevo-pllellca-ptive into 

' 1

‘‘ kaldmg, where

. with bitter terms; abhorretlmtlie di~floya1:ty of Z edeebiarb,“ b ecaufe .19» 1°» 

he fEV0lt€d”f1‘O‘1h this N e6z:c£?m!xczz.ar.wliofe l—Iom$ager' hind Tribiztl. «
tary he was. Fromzall which.rulesandeexamplesitis lmaniieihft; that -
there is a duty owing evensito the wotrlt of P1~inces;= and if we-are
forbi/ditden;th“elefs',s:we are forbidden the greziter; if we mu-l+’c‘ not ’
“oifendltheim witli: tliefltongue,; ,we~mn{t-A notlofiend4witli the ha~nd. "

. ‘Ir:-sword, betehe Prince.whathe‘Will,i; wietought'toobeIy~hifn, it"?

for .f10tl‘llI1g, l elfe‘, yet ~becaufes;itt is :sthecomniand*lof- God : 1 Only i.
"this difiijn.€tionmaysbe'added, T hat look whatwhoénotr we give to

i*ev~il Princes, we do it 1101:-£0 mam but to«God” hiimlielf," in reverence

1 ofswhiehixvas, 2_\I_tm tilvi; / e4t‘1te1zgiqp;, «

tohis oridina:mee..:.And this \v21slexclelle_ntly sex.pr_efi,'byl that Emblem‘ l
of} the E gyptigzm-, +m‘=a:.. :A,i1’Alsearryi*ng= the Image ofalithefiooddvefs‘
"Ijixt, and the peoples falliingvdown to worfhip it; i the‘ Iiifertipeiion

. iThiid1y,>

he ereeted his golden lmz1ge_,&c. yet ",'E§,ac‘/aid E‘z,,k_,%  i

 '-Thirtdlyi, Itis‘againl’c;theMExa%npleAof' the 1‘>rimitiJveChri{l:ians,‘
A e    .3  isiliikfilyfihderfiooidi"  Apoftlleé H mje.aning,i as well eshny
";T€1{¢.,4yEE=eini= a1lr::.El;10rf€ P¢YeféCut«l0flS,%;vhihch attended thleinliancyi of ilfie
M,CihLLf[Ch,rll3Cl recornirfe to no 0thier.wveapions,th€f1 t€a1%S,i&ndiiprai’e1‘9,

I J I ;J,«anditl1at toohforiiiitheir Emperors, ialthongli Perfec1itors;‘i »0m.,
‘g-3 .fl__ 170 Pg. ‘ I i ‘ ‘M ' V

 Wt,‘ 30_ ,MmI4J‘...li(jfaith .7J€1ft'I*l’;1]1:fl?3“-) -« pro oammiézm im’m'mWi‘oxi£~:é'4hh pl?-rs mini/iri:.r

ieomm cjv parefhztiém. W€,4iPra37:(faleEhol1€) for 2i’lr«lo.E1nperors,* for
.their:Servant;$,*ian§1 po\V€.rsii;:ir  Anjecl gwhat, it was i_t11eyiiiprayed” for,

   t¢.i.u5ll‘-*5 lI.17‘?=l1i105h_€13TfI?l~€lC7Ei:gt; itaézh i[l!§5i«oA_§pro.Iia“:x.ri 27;; i1W}“ipe»ri;Mm filed’:
i,rtz1'2z,é~.z~.“hh >hTli_at God would giveo them a. long life,i it fecure3Empiire;
2, fafe Houfe, Valiant. Armies, 2). faithful«Coou_ncel, “an honefi: People,

‘ ;zt_qt1iet World, and whatever elfe arethe defires of a. nian, oran

iEmperoor.o  Imprudent‘ 1‘10;<2lO*Lll)‘L: , '1 if notinjpudent were $116 faiflfi '

A Jferrgilimg M lfb€f()11€.;_'Cll€ Emper_ors,; who iolcould not be ifg;no’tfz1nt‘of

the tru_th,he«hadfo C“OI1i:1.d.€i‘l1l;loyi‘oCl€Ml.lE’;€oCl totell a lye“; If wefxvere iwil-E

~ ling; (faith. he) toufe open lioliiliity, fhould We Want'ni1mhe1”.é,

~,ando forces? :.We have filled youn*Cities,t» Iflands, C af-l;les,iiTow'ns,
Camps,-Pailace, Senate, A all your _ places, but your Temples.’ and

if - our; forces were iiunequalehioto yours, W36 might eztlily miake Weir

Igiponi iyoufii when We are fo willing to be flain, E if our Religi0n‘cl,i;gl

as well allow us to kill, as be killed; Famous no thisidhpurpofe is “e

A G2-of c{eju- example of the The/zpme Legion, which confilied of 6666‘iSou1d'i?-
f"f,:fI’ff,f"ff:" diers, all Chriflians; ( a reafonable Army) yetwhen M?i'.ximi£5
l mu Ciefar commanded then) to facrifice to falfe G ods, rather then

, do it, o,_they;o¢’ft1f_fered themfelves to be decimated, and every‘ tenth
man flaih without the leaft relifiztnce: In which, the fpeechfiof

Exuprkim the Enfign-bearer, is worthy of our remembrance,’ 0

Emperor faith he) defperation which .is niofc valerotiéiinidané-i

.igers,“l1atl1 not armed us againll; thee ;~. Behold, we the/wed weapons

in our oligmds, iyetido we not refill, becaufe we had rather die, then *
overcome-3 andhperilh Innoicengzsa thenlive Rebels. The fenfe«o’f"  A A

jwhich,,1naCl€Diazsgfim A./c.:mrm’rz‘¢m4.CQmp,lain.0f Gar/lm t11e_
.1‘Qif,_, fiaued /4.om‘?a.r"'£J:'r0.:, pro Regnfl piece fupplicex, i]16_‘7‘f£'.6‘flltA1'_t3l..‘
fir : In agivorda he thimdefires to be farther fatisfied, in-the o‘bedi+i
ence,eand,[ubrni:fl'ioen of_the (Primitive Cliriflians, toeNm, Dani};
rim  Trajan, Qddriggn, .S’cra:erz:h:,e/Miaxirzzionim, Deei:44,VizZm';zn,i idairég
13,7», and Dioo1etfi4n,;iunder t11ofeiTen P€f1'l‘€CL_1:£liOI1Sl, let him but read,
'Di1?4He1ewFl: S6at#miR‘r£Jm, he. 2» iwiandrthfirfi h€91‘11a§3’e 1‘¢€l;15»=i1i 151¢1i*
_tj_fulfatisfaé‘tion.‘    _ A i A A" 4 ' ” A 

K _‘M,‘  
A lottrthlym

 Fourthly,  is ~againlljthe=very La,ws,oflNations.-, the “ Civil

 lI—.l-aw faith, ‘Coitjti-ratianer amnirxtn ~ radIi’1itt'bn;Iil.1i'0di.0_f1'_fllf3Ii¢€-,»€‘57‘ .pernii-
ncim'j]im¢‘.*t Confpiracies, are of al Treafons, the ifmoft hateful, and

lmoft danger'ous:, ‘Andtherefore, the that have written concern-

: ing Ambalfadore, fay, That if an Amitialfador, or a man that coma
A eth in upon the higheltfafe conduét, doipraélifematter of feditie

on in a‘ ‘State, yethe l_‘S to be reinanded : 9 ‘But, if he confpite‘ againfi:
the lifejof the ‘Prince by violence, orpoifon, he is: to,'b.efjui’ciced,
,f=2m‘.z adinm «ff i am; priqgalrgio majw- = Becaufeithe deteliablenefi;
of the ‘aion, is beyond all priviledge- ( But the I.aW_s of England r ,
go further,"and fay, the veryraifing ofa rebellion, is enough to ,,,},,.‘,'f’:§,

rnakeihim lofe his priviledge-, and fo“ it was held in the Bifhop of 26.

Re 2! cafe, Hi]. :3. ‘£lz‘z..) By the fame. I;.awsuofc Nations, 3. Souls.-

dier, who hath rel*i.PtedlhislCaptain, xvillingfito chaliifeithiin, ~ if he; Gm,‘ 5“
hathlaid hold on hissrod, is cafhiered : ifhe purpofely brake it, or m. 2 x. 
laid violent hands upon his Captain, dies-, ‘And from hence, any """“ V '

  man may make the Argument,"I‘hat if it be unlawful for a Souldier, l

but‘to_reiil‘c his Captain-, how much more unlawful is it for him to l
lay"viole‘nt hands upon his Prince, to whom, not lonely himfelf,
but his Captain owe the duty offubje&ion,andl defence? ‘And to this
purpofe is the fame grotiua very pofitive inianother place, where, Ir!-I-3-c“-at-t
though he faith it is lawful,by the Laws of Nature, andNations, to l i
kill ‘ones enemy every where, yet {peaking concerning attempts
againft the perfons of Princes, ;by murder , or otherwife-,' he
calls-it perfidioufnefs-, and faith, That though Cuilom may overe-
power i..aws,..n,evertheleiI~: that Cullom,hath Pcaid beneath the right
of killing: And concludes, that it is a violation of the Iiaw, not
of Nature onely, but of Nations. But to proceed: Although,

I cannot properly call the confiitutions of the Church of

A of Rome  the Laws of Nations, in regard they are of force no

where, but where the Faith of Rama is retained ': yet confidering '
howlgreat an influence it bath in Chriflendom(and probably more

‘ then ordinary upon our Author) I fhall, to avoid multiplicity of

heads, inliance in oneiori two of them in this;pla'ce,:l Iyfaythen,
that the Church of amtthat hath been {'0 often branded by in us
Proteflantsi ( if “It may ufe fo new a name, forfo’ l.antirent"a faith) as

ifatitotsiiof the Doéifrine of Regicide, yet callagree that, thoughhei 5«,W(,,

be a '1" yrant in Regiment. he cannot be refiPted or killed withoiut 3,
:1 fentence “precedent. ,Nay,0g/pig thejefuite goes fur”ther,who

A i being A arraigned in the time ofli. fame: (in5cat‘/ana’)aud asked the

q11el‘ti0.tx

r(4a)

“q1iéfii¢fi,.t whether *a;:t1~;Iciere.tti Ck Kihng tbéinfgt teXc0mmtmig:a3tedt,_,might

' b@tflaingthough_ttot“fave histhlifet 55*.‘ Would» 11013 fay iEW?L5t’11”1!13-‘Vflih 
 chhfeha the i&0g5st0ftE11¢1f:7Qhl1rCh tW¢rCttd1V1d‘§¢3~b9ut It, and

 

u gmidt . notdt:tetminehdt,h it; A Wherfifitn, it itsttprobable hetfpakei apgréater

e"1ft1tth,th'en he@;ntt:ngl.et‘,5to; -,1;  tfoi‘ if “W6 {hall I00 k‘_ b\a'C7k',,1'1'p"0‘n‘ the anti;
éint. Bifhops,:aud   tf(b€f0ore.t11e.y had §0U3€fl "eh? Knack
*‘(§hf33’£%’i’§:”,0'f'd’E1z}?tt.ing:in.-vttiliie quatrels:ofh.hPr1nces, and b*§7:ha-h&r;_Id17om ;EWifiv

%iT;1;vor.*:gtt..thE“;:¢+”i’pteel~,:: Fan thettoi;1tere£thh~hoof;t the, G-Itair, Eo,get&;her,h found 3

A diéting theii:-_ Ki«r1gdoms)t t\vétfhtt11~fir1d,o‘t

f.E'bsih“Vthefi;C btdthtg hancifi to,ju{’tiFietI1at,, Brought up] the devife of’
aep;-tivitng fixchas Wouldnot Pcahd; to;_tthetr fentence, ;rhod¢ xnter.
" hag they weretfofar from

thi1:ki;hgt1tt17awfuI.ttoptpo/fc.,o.r murder their Emperorsrbethey

Vt; Hakgifi.‘
.&m.Kq.
lo_'3q C:

h 91;; it; 5’ which ifh'et(ha1ltconfef§,h.e {hall fuffer; as »aTra

magma.
fiygy

A 3'fi,s";?».'r an 1

A t fajdj .Ar;httc.1,aw that reflpjfefis 713; King dc fmflb, zthdh not de jurg gives .o

What they xvouId,that they: inioynedo phrzwers for them; particu-s V
hzufihthorh §’u%z'im7,i.andttAw:fl2zrim,.t;the one an Apofiate, theother '

an: Hétetiotkgindt t1‘ivem.hot11eots  t1‘a.y,h Qéégfim, _Bi{hop of Ro;mf,_ix1
an,Epift1eof hishtofh‘ the 1tatte*r,%1’t1leshI’11m_, [‘/emexn,4?;num,;g3'ari0t

5' fiflimfim, ¢;v1'22z‘g"I!tfi#171sii,  Déitin terr£5~V£mtrz'nm;h and befeecheth

 u3r'g<hg’Th7;'¢;<§7¢]tztt  *<:5+ fa/untemo; A perpamfi protefiiong cufladfar;'
 to; p“r'o_f'c,eed;  By to the“ _C n{’utt2t1o‘nst of the fame _:C'hu«rcl1 , .1f£
Cdhfeffor'di1guhge«é1nyhtl11ngthat 15 cort1m_1tted to htm uptomturt-,7
¢;:r1l~a1? ttconfeffion, heo;_{11atl1;,be burnt : yet 11'' ' 1t be matter of Tre:-.1fon«,«

ox confpiraicy againfi the life of the Prince,he is bound to reveal it,‘   ‘

and tfuchidoihfcovgry {hall becvidence enough toattraign any man up.

ig.?:evenmI;'e‘...Vcry tho-.ughtt»0f co.nfpiracyt: An heXatmp‘1e of thiswe
ha’v¢ijhn:tIg:*od;nm.hto Thexge was faith he a Gentlemanof Normand)
(2O"fl_f€A1jC11imf‘$1fl}}O aFrancifc:_an,_ ofihaving had ahpurpofe, tol1‘ave=
,_I3'rant'i‘I the Ei1*Pr,ot' 1-‘ ranctt’,,_Of which’ having repented, he

receii.re’d.ahfo1ution,:  After4~\vhich,.§he "Frier havitngt 1‘ evealed it to». V

{aha Kin:g5‘w:%;th=eh §3entt1”q;)1anh%wahstofe_nt for, who upon; cornffeifion oftho

 was turned« fotver. to the .~Barlioa.m‘en;t of 7't’A‘7"t1'£“,T ..jWh€re he hatch’ 

f:ntenc¢of;dea.t11 fo‘_1-it, and wastexecutedt accordingly. % And ,.t:he‘r:
lfikt: We fi.nd;:inho1y,Writ, tyjvhérc Bagatban, an-dh. '1‘ /7_4rc.z,, _ were
|  :_on‘e1y,‘for V feekinig to.  hands. on [¢K1ng:v—'»*/flkafnea

V‘ La7{’cIy,: Ttoisa*gai1htQtthe* very Laws of th1sNat1on;~: 1I~o1¢« aslthave

him tlmfzitne preh’etni“nencies,~ asif he we-area Kingde pure -,«na ,
prefvr

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ou1do.h¢o;tvery7wea1£i_n .h.t_his point, F0 think him 415!

itor; fo odious».

mesthimgttotbc fo, becaufeheis in poffeffionz For otherwiaew ‘V
8&2‘

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{onto proteét others, zthatwere not able defend lthfifeliig land
conlequently ;gi1V¢ him no Other advantage by that place, v“0£ emit-A

nence, then to make him the .fairer miarktcforiteyery Traytorito. lea

cvel gati We {hall therefore examine tvhat.t;he«Law in this ca"fechath- ,
always been: Before the Conqtteit it Waaifuch, ‘Q5 mpinf, amt Inferlegn
flezlztti Iiegzér, perfidz'o,’é jive film, jive flamed, am‘ ficarizfamerctfde AW‘ "4’
cogdrafiis , _ flipaxm izafidiabitflr, whit C5" forg,;mio' ejm omniém pri*!~_

~tg,4ztor.- -'WhofoeVe'r, either by himfelf, or by his ‘Servants, on
out-tlztoats hitedto that purpofe, {hall traiteroufliyattempt the;

  lifeor fafetyof the King, let him bedeprived of hislife,and allhisi

eitate. Nay the now Law faith,that if a man be killed_in open Re-

bellion, without judgment, yet he may be attainted by Parliament -,

and lb was *7 laqmm‘ H0/land Earl of K ant, and I-hall fufferefuch forfei-as ‘ H”-all 4"
tyres of eftiatejas isby fuch Afi fp ecified-,or if the Chief Juitice of the

upyper Bench (who is the cheif Coroner of Englanaflfllaltl upon his r.s;..-,-M,
own view,of a body (lain, in open rebellion, make a record thereof; "4' 57-"-

, and return it into the {aid Bench, he not is 1'0 flairgiihall forfeit his a 

Lands, ancl,:Goods. And fo it was refolved in the time of Hag. r-—~.i
by F}U'3€I4x' Cheif Jufiice. Wherein we may nolteatthat if rebels»
lions ( which have this "of commendation in them, that they. are
profecutecl by men, and refolution, and notby the barbarous, low a
wales of Aifaiiination , or poifoning) are a to feverly puniihed ;
how great a Rock of impudence muit that man have,that dare ode-i.
fend fnch adis of treachery, and bafenele, andfnot think them wort-it
thy of a more fevere inquiry, in astnuch as there is no fence a.
gainit thetn, being of the natureyof thundera-claps, the blow [truck
beforef’cis thought of, ‘ and the work done before we hear the re- a
port: But to avoid ravelling into too much Law, I {hall inltance
onely in one more, and that is the 2.5. E. 3. Wl1i.Cl1’iS'f'0rt.l1e,I110ii:
part declariatory of the ancient Law, and faith, that if a man doth?
'c.ompafs,»or imagine the death of the King,  and be thereofi
provably attainted, by open Aét, it is ’Ir,eafon.a Now the quefl;i->
on upon this Statute will be double- I. whether his Highnefé be
tvitbih the perview of that Statute, beeaufe fpeaketh onely of y a a
King. 2, admitting htetbe, whether the declaring and, publifhing
thatit is lawful to make himcaway, randthei inciting i the" people to t

t dothe fame, be a; fneixent ovet1+tcat‘,ttxfit‘hin tliaieistatute 2* To‘ bo—th =

w~hi_ch I anfwer affirrnaoively 5, and thét+efote- iiorx the Exit, however i ,
the Statute fp.eaksfof.nojire"  1: R0} Gbefides wihat I haveifaid can
a t F 2. A i «cerning I

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‘eerning this before,’  Ihalladd, ‘llilflt it list not to be takcn‘l’tri&lyl

andiliteraliy, as if it intendednothing elfe, but that individual

Word llK£§1g-, for then neithertQ!_.1een ;Mm_~y._, nor O\u_een .513}.-.'«l£?«E"l‘;§:'_

lcouldf ltave been \Vi£hi_L1it,*bl.1I.' rnufi: havelhad fome other AC}  as
King Pbiziprlhad ) A to have made the compafiing their deaths to‘
be Trieafon : hut, by equity, to extend to any other chief Magi.
<Pcrate-, that{hall‘beentrttfied with the management and execution
of? that office :_ttAnd fo, the compafling the death of hitn that is‘

Protefiorggciuringitheminority of a King, is Treafon within this x

.;§p:fi.4.7. Statute. And the fame of a CQ1_een.Reglent,. 2151 {aid befotje-t But
t if any man fhallobjeét, that the Statute is penal, and thereforett

ought not tobe taken by equity :7 I anfwer, That where it is more

i biencficial,‘ then prejudicial to the greater number of people, "and

may well ltétnd wiithttihc Rules or Laxv, it fhalllpbeevtaken by Equi1ty.=

And (0 the iIjR:'rk.tz. 5'. 12.“ which g'ives—;an Aiétion aegainlt the?

. Warden of the .*~?"lm,_fot* tEfcapt:s,_: hath bleen extended by Equity‘

 m;r.z,,,q,2, to alloth-er Goaleirs. Son1atterpclaiilfe=ofthefame Stz'tt11_te,25» E. 3..

W 19-293 0. 2. v(that«declar,g§ it to be;-PettyTreafon for aservant tokill his»
0117.3‘, O I‘ i i ‘

,,Dyer 22;. Mafler, fhathzbeen reconfirmed to be the I%nne.,inlthat Servant who

r 1"/£3-1°‘=?° {hall kill théwifetoft his Malitlern I might add diversvothersg which 2

5 91’ 77 e

mm-jz.g.«, being too ln*iany< to -fe”t-~ down, I trefet’ my Reader: to further« fati1T,;.‘

faélzion in the margent. N0wrwhatl_greater beneht can come to a
Nation, then that He he ttliife,i.;in whofe pre_fervfatio=t«1 thecommon *
fa~fety;of allis “cong:erned1? What greater 1ntcrel’c’then.that, that
Head fhouldtbe defended, l whole broken fleeps, give us fecurity~
ingour own? and whichfif it happen “to be difturbedathe whole.
~ b@€iY.i$.0ut of order. Excellent to this purp_ofe,is that of Vgygixi
a:o_t1cgerning «his, C0,1‘n~mo11.wealth of Bees: 4 A .
  t it  , liege pitcolnmi, mam azrzicidrmwznn r ‘
l p e/!2m'fl'a,e rup€‘:je_fi.2’em, ~@~c. e---—-—~  “Q l V
In a iword; A Prpilnge is the fame~-to ‘aestategv which the =7-"rim;'ym»
mjnbilelis:OlNatl11‘é,5”_If itlbenever fol little out Of.01‘d€1’,'.alI~~th5

 

lefler Orbs muff {land ltill, and confequently fall to. their firft nos.»

thing. 2. ,1 The next qu.e_lti‘on. wilhbe ., whether; 3:: Decltrration by
puflfliquef-vwrietzing», That it is lawful to make; h1sg.H1ghnef§ awav;

pand»an- inciting the people thereto, be ajfiificiellti overt A&.\Vit_hi.n‘_4

 this’-Statute“ To whichlanfwegas former-ly,th*atit”is; Porthon 11
~ it hath been faxed; that words may: make an I-leretick ,‘ vbut snoc

,a ';fr,a-nor, ,yet V I take the safe to be.otherwife.here ;, For?-here area
| A e l more.

,~  '43  t    
A more then general words (whichare often-neither forgotten, or‘

miftalten, and concerning which the Witneffes vfeldom agreein-

i their evidence there being a pofitive deterininationi of the ‘ f

point, thatit islawfull, and an aétual invitatiotn of anyyman
to venture upyonit, as an aft of honoruand merit: Andietfo hath y
it’ been heldformerly : when Cardinal }’yoa/, mhzs Book of the‘

Supremacie of the Pope, had incited C Im1..- the Emperor, than 1,.,fi_vs3. ,‘4,,g

preparing war ragainift the T ark, V4 toabend his.force againit his 1
natural Lord H4e1:..8..Iy. hat the writing of that Book was a fufl 37151.8.
ficient overt act within th1slStatute : Nay, the Lord yam goeth‘ In h;sl1.,..

aivlittle further,_who faith, a That whoeverlhall aflirrn in diam; or ‘°;;01fins
V i . ; i ~ - - r i — . -l as
fag “cgnd;t1one,f that the King may bedeftroyed, 13 a Traitor ale and in’ his:

prermn‘ .- And to this purpofe he urgeth the Duke of Bzwkimgbnmia CW9‘ 3"

~ -   . ' a 7 -«
cafe-,r Thatif the King caufed him to be arrefted of Treafon, he liiiiiin cg,

would {tab him: And that of13"l;‘z;.:;Zaezb Barton (whom the people '‘;‘‘”-i. i
called, The holy Maid of Kent) who faid, That if Hen 8.;;Qok,y
not a ain Kat/aerine Dowager, he Ihoulcl be no longer King, 1
For ( aith the) though the at’: be future, andwcontingent, yet the
Treafon oftcompafling, and imagining is prefent, and contrary to.
that Allegiance, which (as he faith elfwhere) mutt be independent’,  
and notprovifional and conditional. V And tlierefore much more
flronger ihould we give the feve‘*~7’ ft judgment upon this, ypbythow
much the more it furmounteth all others, as being h-ardeft to be
avoided: For other Treafons meet with many impediments, for
if it be fuch as may be attempted by one, it often happens, that he

i l fails inopportunity, and refolution, and fometimes that he ism i

touched with remorfe: .And if therebefmolre then one innit, iris '-
ten to one but itcomes to light: For the perfons that engagein. ii
fuch defigns, are “generally Difcontents -; and=eas foon v as a‘ Con-
fpiracie is reveale to fuch a one, he hath at:~the"fame time a means
given him to work his ovvn conatenthby revealing his Accomplices 5:
for, feeing certain gain onthe one fide, and~onlydoubt,and idanger‘ ” "
on the ot er, he had need be a rare Friend,or animplacable Enemy»
that can concealit  BL1t_f0}'~ a man to publifh and maintaiingwthat 
it may be lawful for a Subject to attempt. the life of -his Prince,‘ is
aivenemous fop which enters into the hearts of all thofe that are 4’

n it any Way prepared, or ptedifpofed to be Traitors : Forai-f one man‘;

. anothti

faint, nothermay dare; i one manhath not the op Ort11ni_tY,‘
 ay havfe 5 ‘if one man relent, another maybe efperat~e;,~-
V i ”   i e ‘ l i and l

   

and (four orfive cannot keep council nowt, it martyr light upongs
l Knot of more inveterate Male-contents, i thatmay do it hereafter.

In a word, allotjher Treafons have theireCritical minutes, ibeyond i~ is

l which they are nothing -,4 but this doétrine may outlifve the Author,
andlinfect fome one an hundred years hence, though it may fail
for the prefent: And therefore not unjufily punifhed fo feverely

, by our laws, asthinlting him a pserfon fit for nothing, but the {ca l

, vereit punifhmentthey can iril-‘li&, who by fo barbarous anyiact, as t
murdering the Prince, doth what in him lies, not only tofubvert
them, but the Commonwealth with them;

—,-p,‘,‘f._‘,,;1 l In‘thelaPc place, I come to give a few infiances of tlie,ev'il,\f‘ate e
. fzrttmaf that hath attended fuch perfons ashave had their hand in tlie W
Qjndcdt A blood of Princes. How many have there been,who having I‘a1f'..'"i‘,d.~
 fggglg 93:2 the people, and perfwaded them to lay violent hands upon them,
‘  Prince, upon the fcore of Tyranny, though theymayihave kept 
them within bounds for a time, yet ( like young Conjurers) have  l
been tor-ne in pieces by theiriown Spirits, for want ofother work :. M

An Example of thiswe have intheConfpiratorsagainliticaeflzr,,

who iveretgall generally flain.byth_at I§eople,whofe liberty they had “
-W?-in 0413 foil much pretended ‘: Others aigainto fave them a labor,  fmitten \“‘

%‘”,',,’_§',’,”'¢’§;y; at lail; with the fhame, and con clieygnce ofthepfaft) flew themfelves ..
Wm 5" with the fame Dag which theyiiad provided for (‘.3/m~ ,- And N

B . 1 . .. i . y i
,,;.~Z,’,’,~_',,4,,,,,5 though Brutw ( that Parricide) mills a death from both, yet the

insdignaytion of the People {hall denyhim Rome,and the evil Genius

ofyicéefar  fotfake him tiqll Tbilippi. And no better fueceafs had 
fl/fat?-‘imrui, who having iflain Valexrininn the younger, Emipermg,
in the Eaft, though he” had eaufe enough to Ramp a noble title,
uponthe Action, and have married his Revenge to Jufiice, in as 
ritiuch a5‘V4lefitimi4§n~ had debautlfd. his Wife, and that, too under .

Waco?-‘deb the difguileof ea rkindrielé to thehusband: yet he was tome initi;

at r J» .. , . .. ‘ a . .
,;i,,i, M pieces ( ymrméranym, faith mine Author) limb by limb, by the

1,}: ,,,,,,,, ,-,, people. In like manner Ca2i’ippm_i1aVing by corrupting the Soldiery E
_1_I>.im.~ fla1n‘Di'on, in hopes of the Government of Syracira/2:, iwasihi*mfelf+

{lain wtiththe fame dagger, by the fame soldiers. ‘ And sflmral, of,
whomi I vfpake before, though (A, for as much as several‘ could meet 
A with  he was hardly privy to the confpiracie agiainft iCai€/far, and _;
therefore at moi”: could be but aceeffry after the faétg yet had '7”

frieaiz at thatlhand thatwrote, and that head that fpoke in idefence Ofihisl ‘

“7‘~"’””“- 111,111-deig, ,s{’croo,l~: mi; and fet over the Itoffmwhere he had. erlays:

(4§}

.tijnfiified Foiii:iran;Cger_:'tiusfy* an'Errt>r.i. Neither- is hol'y_Wri’t bariren if A J _ _
ieitamplies in this kind. The fervants of /fmon confpired agamfi him 2 Kingm,  

:a«n‘*d>1flew ‘him, ~antdte‘a11.the“ peo.pi;e of the landiflew: alii them; that
ecenfpigréd iagainfi; him; In like]: manner imri tc.on{pirea‘ againfl; x King.r6,«
Elala  of Ifmel, and flew him, and having reigned feveindays "’
 his itead in Tir-Mb, the‘ p”eOaipIe*enCa*mp‘ed againfi: it andmiok it: A

But Zimri burnt the:Kingsaluoufqeyandi himfelf  it,to efcape a ’
{greatertnifchi'ef‘fortheTreafonhehiada Wroilgrht, for R) the Text ‘
ciallsit; And rather then I? {halhvant any thing that may prove the A
prefentipnrypofe, the Gentilemani himfeif wil!5”afford me fomewhat ;'

fcisrtas to hisfexample of Arhalinh, it vviilnbire no hardnaatteer7totm‘~ni

23- 4%

the pointof ~it upon himfelflin as muchrraas the Text t‘e1ls‘rus;, /1222 had zyliing-I13 

V I

 4'1?/If/96  Rem] ofrhz /1a_1”vfe ofagffltdzdatt; andtC0nfequ‘Entl.y*it can
e no injury to that piace, if ( hefides what I havegfaid‘ before ‘

e A conceyrining it) I~a‘d?dl:thiS5i that it was a judgmentof Gofd, andtah

aftbf yretaliation of theyepaeoaplei upenher, for thofe mainyramitrders 
axfitflaufghters which fhethadsexercifed uponethe pofierity of the‘
Kiengisitofjlmlabg For as Ovid faith, --——N:c;z¢e mam 1iexj.u/liar at/la; 

4’ ‘~ ‘ Qittfiiiz “nearly ¢grit£fi”c'e: Arte punfre [nah i V \

Neither have the People been the only EXetcutionerstefi]’uPtiée,; fin

thefe cafes; but even pa;rticularePyrinees have thought it a du::tyy ]

to them,, andiinttereft to thernfelves, to revethgea the eatthof their“ 1% .72
P_redTece[Yoris.i S0 Al:-xauder theGreat, put them to tcr171e1.hefcieath.», —.Ale::*'-—?
 had flair; Darim, his Enemy 3: Ccefi:zr,rr_~fuchi as -had at; hand gffjg if at
in the blood of Pam} ti I/znxzzm, the”yMurderers- of q:za'£m: su"n.Pi::’
Domitian Epnplaroditm the Libertine ofzvm, beea_nfes~«he-*ha”d 
but *hieIp‘ed: hi-my “( although inlove )- to difpactch himfelf And»? amz'::?'14,
Se-baifua, the Itil41:ers- -of "7’ertimz.a._* his Priedeceflhr; The fame'7d'lid 3‘*¢4?4n- V
David-~—i. to the g43vfhiit't/EkitB‘( as before :) A And‘ v_vhen*Ru-laaé and 
Bajmalz bro‘ug’I3it l1i1‘1.1"thC_'; head of Ijlyéa/aria, he coummandedrfhise a52rm:4,;’.
yoinng men, iandthrey »fl;ewa themyand‘ Imng up therirthands  ' “
fe‘et,~over the“P‘00‘1 in Hebron.» A Sobairbarouséandiabh>o’rrédfr'an yaét‘ "’*

hatih this.0f’ Kiiiing heen;i.;evaen‘in the-' eyes of the~PeopIe~:; ‘and  

 -thing of f0 ill. prefi dent to Princes themfelves,,to fufler‘ fueh peozpie “ L‘

relive, that thoughtthey may hawfecretly approved the A=&i:non,,  __ _
as«gai‘ning=a‘ Crown by it,yet they ha‘vewrarely'forgdt ta 'give~the’ 3;;  
Aétor the diemerit or his-Treafon;  But" if rafter ?all“thi3tnent%wil'1* 3%
n<'Iit“tarke i\varnin.g,;i_.but {ne'er ytheem1?e1ves' to hernn into da~ngeirs;,by’

every Bhtéfeu ande3I;ncend5iary;.-_ that _1gh‘i-nks Jhe cantnott warfin Icxlis

M ‘ M ‘ M e “an 553

1.11ands,tinleE it{he«at a publiquc flame,‘ Irlcannotrtell what I lhould i

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1 ;add more; i forewhomc neither Religion nor danger can keepibadt,
 what can deter ? Yet becaufe fome men are foonerled by   interefl:



  Concerning which, having 111 Anfwer to
a made it appear that his Highnefs is normal Tyrant either in Title, 
A or Regiment; A
nefs of the Afiion 3 methinlts I might well fpare the labor of

the en either-« ofsthe»_ other two, I’ halien to ihis’ ‘Third Qtielirionlll
iwhicltis, s ‘ l ‘  l i l ‘ it

A i Whether tin} 461 Of g
i am, or noxiam to the Commonwealth S’ i

I I

and in Anfwer to his Second, provedythe unlawful-

examining whether it be expedient to make him away? But be.

ycanfe all his Propofitions are grounded upon Suppofitions, nayy

even this alfo he begins, If it be larrfzalr zzwlaetiaar it be axpamxxg
having difproved the formexgthere remains nothing, but thatl
itonfider thelatter: And here, I need not ask the wearied Tera-
aveller , whether he would be at rel‘: .~, or the weather-beaten
Sea-man,iwhat is theybelleiiflt of a Harbor? Thine cafe is the Common;
wealths: ,1-Iow bath {he been toffed to and fro upon the waves of
;Civil ldiflentions 2 how have her fons (like Re11e(caz’riT_\Vin§)
lflrugled together within her, to the endangering theirmcommon
mother? What breaches hath {he received from the fitry, 0f'Ttl1C

one,and the rnadnels of t’ other 9 And now that this leaky*Bottoml
rhath rnacleiland, naymore, that that the waters are abated, and
t herfelf relied upon the mountains of Peace and Settlement ; That
' her. fons begin to acknowledge each other], and have beaten their

a fwords intoiplow-fhares, and their {pears into pruning-hoolxs;

‘what folly were it, nay what inexcufable madnefs, to engage her
in new broils~,« and fetthofe fears a. bleeding again, which while

  th€y,._\VB1‘€ wounds, were always thought (and to found) too ‘great

pl thors dofitinetends to little lcfis,

but tltehand of God to clofe; And now became our Au-

foranyy
I would have every Englifh-man

  examine our own Story, and tell me whetherthis Nation hadlnot

hetterhave endured thattoo mafculine fpiritof Kingfifohn. then
by that largeeffitfion of ,blood inthe Barons wars, ifubjeéted it

 lafl: to the interloping of the Pope .2’ Or whether they ihadnot

is then by a continued war

better plyajd ,<IJ.I1itler‘_thail:, more then feminine eafineleof [tic/spay.
A between the two H.0ufes.of 2” ark‘ and
Laucafirr, fheathed. thatfword in one anothers bowe‘ls, which,
 I ’ i A is it “ hajd

killing, 6'43 :5: like“ to prove more-advantagia

hli3.i...Fl1'PC (Qt-Prion 1

I had it; been in no other hands, it then of thofe tllat»W€1‘C.-flail}; had
at L been Army enough to have l‘tretc‘l1teoi1t§its bonghs unto tli'€»0Cean,
and its branches unto the Rivers, and in a word, ‘given Law/to all
:. Europe befitles. But before I: proceed farther in? this point, an era.
« quifite that Ilook back upon my Author. And here, the firifi; thing
confiderable that I meet with, is that of the lord Bacon, viz.
  iTke’£1.efling oflffachar, and tj/mtlof ]11dah,f¢fl.rt not upon ganepggpzgt
« tolltbelidflhr crouching under eiwrt/cam, and toihrzfz/e» the .f‘5ir’it»jof Ljomfia
.;’Wherein the Gentleman isiwife to conceal? t.l1e_BOOl{,- becaufe he
hath made a little too ib0ld"With7hl'is fenfe;Which;ywerie« eafie aenotggh
tolbe underfcoocl, if‘ he did not explain himfell’, that he intended
no other Taxes, ithen fu,chas7are‘laid upon the people againll their
.;_confents, and for which the-relis~ no Authority, but the will of the
Jrnpofor; and thyerefotre he calls them yproperlyiburclens : Btu:
~ {peaking of tfuch as are cionferrecl by confent, he inftanceth in the
p Excifes of t-hle.LoW-f0u:2trir1,y and Subfidies of England; which,“
 th0lI3gl1tl1€y“Elre thefame as to the purfe,1as thofe‘ that are levied by it  
cornmanld,  yet (faith he) theywork diverfly upon the courage: Bac..4a.

  Anclufo concliuldesi, thatuia people ioverlaicl, andiyoveircéharged «Sec. fgfgfgfmfi

 areltnfin an Empire; which ‘muff 1'1€C.‘Cfl-flI‘l'ly;!PlJn77ClOWfl§C{11¢§O11l3£lgC
«of theiimofiz wanliltiel people,iwhen they {hall tliatveianothing   be it
 never fo dealr.’”t<o them, lwhichthey can c]§tlletl1eiriown,i but maybe
:* taken away awheiieverttheirvPrince fhall have a mind to it.*Ancl that
".'011.l1‘»COIl€lClt’lOh”lSi'ln0t the fame, will: A eafily appear to any man that
-‘fitalll confi'der,l that there is noTax rixow on foot’ in» thefNation,
tather‘sth>*en*l1"n‘cihtas islronfirmed arbymnthjority of ‘Parliament, ; ~ 
*vd=1o1ag7hipoflihlyitheytzmayiBeigrealter thenehath been ‘*,ul7*1al=, »ayet
 th"ey»‘ar’e no lother; then what the People,‘ by their ‘Reprefentatives,
shaver laidnpon themfelves; and fuch, that thou h the mayabe-a
f‘~little trouhillefomafior the vprefent, will in the en proilhce Peace,  
Vanda Pllenty. “:'_1The * next thing , vlrhiehihe doth ibuttouch t1&pon,~y~isi
lifhat» ofiaths, “&c.- How mam_y<0at/2: am we» bra/W, cl“:-i " -To
_xiv-hieh ‘( rlrough I never tiookil any myfelf) yet I: may fafelygive t
' this Ainfiver :. That althoughl Oaths are always y ( at leafi oughtto
te ) taken in the fenfeof the Gi§v"er,l and not of the Receiver;, yet Gm de M
an Oath may ceafe of it fell’, two ways. i. tWhe-re he tOltWl1Qlma ‘>‘“’*‘- ’- 3-
 or for \Vh0‘fallgQd\’the.f0atth was given,‘ tireh1fet'hititit.ly- 5-,’«.;;«; Where the "“”‘
quality doth ceafe, under which a man hath.fivornepetoya;ny-, as if
a a Ma gillcrate ceafe to be a Magiflrate  Now ifanymanyhath taken
an Oath,wh.ichhc eonceivenhtto btE?;Z)1'”Ol\'.€Ila if he cannot brin it
  i    .   an en t

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uncler one~of'thyefe:l1eladls«,l my advice to hiiuisf thatehe aslk Godlfbf;

giv,enel§' for what is pail, ‘and be more wary of fuch? folemn efi. -
A gagementsforl theetime to eome..And fo,becaufe_our'Author makes:
V no more of it him{3elf,I have no reafon to follow 1t further.The next

thing he enquires is,_Wlmt have we of the N oéilitj, chat the name, the

Euxury, and the V ice: ? Which I believe our Author fet purpofely: —

down, becaufe he would be fure to have fomewhattinhis Pamphlet;
that could not be difproved: And therefore Ilhall fay no more to
it, the-n..what we have in an-old Ifoet of our own,, who calculates
x:heFcime.',fince-when-they firll fel-llln-tl3€lI‘€‘P£€€fl1,.   p o
Ex qua Nobz'lim5f¢2r.z2i1£.a' caepit .:zmMrt’,_ ‘ ‘

. abillimr cwpalt cam /Ewvzis degenerare: l he
v(f)ne51ywi{h that“ they may cli-l?prov.e that Antithefist of the Lord‘
A Bacafn, Nobility feldo-m fprmgsi from V ertue, “Vereue more fel-

edom from—Nobil«ity»5 Audio 1 leave Inlthe next place, he

faith A” flnyimitgd Pwwr  net to be t7‘M_[h*r,z’_ pin the hand; of one
.M4n,¢j«c. Which thoughl fhall not oppofe 1:2,. yet Iwould fain;

lkznowe wherein thisfunllimitedv power concerns. his.lHigl1nel§",,, or if

To, wiherein it CGIh1fillfs:V for, he hathuot. hitherto .prteI:ended.to
more-lthen—l t!he7Laws give hxm, and therefore we ‘fl‘lO11ld;beMas

A -~charitzi"ble«, as. thofe~ Lqws, who nevereprefiune a _wrong, un-

’°7'1f'l‘2:.-t~~. -£%.7m“z;’.”

3‘: VP :2 20.

_ "C.-T1):

?7lefl"s it be; fuflicien:ly~pro:/ed.: And lo I~ca4r1n0totell;"Wl3at it ihould

~ he he drives at ,3" except he thinks an unlimited power to confifl:
-in e negative.voice, ‘washout whxch, let: aPr1nces Dom1n10nsbe-
lnever fol great, he is but hke the Roman Priapw, : who «thoughl

eihe were God oftyhe Gardens,“ could _not keep a. Crow fromllmuting“
upon; his heauc: 01-1 that pie‘ture—wh1ch theDu*:ehfdevifed for one

olof our own Kings, ar. (word. by his fide, but locked’ in- With ya

p‘acl«-loefk.. Butif this ‘beanot t.hetl_1lng,.lJ11t he is angry that the-
Poiwer is plu't~aga-1n.1ntolutl1ehazndsxof one, Tacgpu wxll; tell us,‘ it

T ew.am-he ouelyl xvaythat: feutled lRome.Q Neque laliud di/2-gxrduntis  

3 Rcipaatir. remealium  y qmckm out 4.6% mm r.[egeretz;rp:f' There could‘

A be ,71]C)fi"‘f'Ot1h"er lCI1lf€.'f01.1nd,f0rl1l1€gCllVlllOflSJ_jOf the Commonwealth,»

mhenttluat the whole power fhould be put into ehelhands of one:
And’ nothing impertinent to ‘this, purpofels 9th at of Agamemnm -in.
2..“E¥0W7‘?.7" pp  Ill  fl o’.j_,__" l A on A l l
mt. -z:l.':g.cr.§‘»'t."I.X«'z ~e~:e2woxa:g;:r;zq1,_  x’ofg_gw@.‘ e.s'a2.,,.,
:E.;l1él5:'@Dw‘v£7\.‘£l'l;€-.   l  t l  g l -
l“'W«7aer»e-lmawj mic ," noygeod-7 =mn- /prihg-7;_ A
~a"£lt1?f?$i.E~0~‘it4t;"Q5’A0'Z’I<t'77*»l??1'f"‘fr3 Word," one  

 

oxen.

V‘ l_h.1i711l-tlietttextil

I

pcleiégeeglhe pretends to anfwer two Ob jeétions, ~inthe*

ifirlt whereof,3{hégpwould take off fromethe unlawfulnefs of: the get. A
on of killing lrihfiigrhneih privately (as he calls it) which is in plain

Englifh bafelypaindptreacheroufly. Coneerning which, becaufe I
hfavelargely fpoken to it in anfwer to his fecond Queltion, I fhall
only add what old Gmgfridm faith of Riclo. 1. {lain by an Artu-
balift   e    r r e ~ g \
” T-lajocit, te«&':gu,l4pert;4m ; -

?°iraw'dm~,z'm*aumm  mile: m3nz'tu:,in:rnze7r1 ;

5'1‘ proprinem Regent '--~* *---l

 

T-he fecond ( which he would feem to anfwer but doth not) is
the fear of what may fucceed, if his Hgighnels were re-moved,whichl

being little different from the queftion, I {hall briefly run it over,

and having given fome inllances how fatal the change “of States

hath generally been, I ihall wind up the whole. V . 
Firfl: then he faith, Wefu_fi’cr= or certain mifiry for fear of 4 can-

tliwgext am‘, and let tlaa'd£fea_fc- kill us‘ , beam/Z’ there £5 danger ..i”l‘t'he‘*~.,
cure. To whichl anfwer, that if himfelf were judge, would not‘

he think that Phyfitian mad, thatthould advife him to cut off his

a head, becaufe it akes ?, ‘Or. thofe Marriners out of their wits, that
becaufe they are onely afraid of a flormg {hall run? their Veffel up-p

' tialnithenhis difeafe. “

onaR.ock, o*ut..of the pretence of making the more hafte to flioree?
Thecafe of E ngland is the fame: We have beenlong fick, and our
difeafe was well nigh grown to a habit, and now that we are got-

tenagain upon our legs, and able to walk by the help of a ftafi‘, i

What . defperat e confidence were it, t to throw awaythat In p porter,
O”n‘ely becanfe ourold Nurfe tells us we are able to go by our felvesz?
How much better were it that we relied till we had recovered
fome more Pcrength, then upon the vain and idle furmifesiofan in-at
certain cure, expofe our felves to a certain relapfe Pr for little bet:
ter can be 1 looked for, from thofegldefperate conclufions, which like
theapplying hot bricks * to the folesof the feet, though it may by
accident divert the difeafe, A yet experience tells us, cloth but fettle
the humor, in fome other place, which in a fhort time becomes a
more incurable Gangrene. And therefore I~pitty him that fhall

think thefe prefcriptions fit to be followed, and lmayfafely con-_ i
elude heiis umhappilytfick, as being more endangered bycl1is;gPhyfi-    

it But who are they to whomphe applies this difco,urfe?or whatl are

the men thatmuff be the executionerseof this villany E’ heithinks

 G2“p the

 n A opt .o  (5o)   r   e  
tI1e.Sotu1dierye the fitteft perfonts, and therefore h he would en age’
mean, anclgif there be any dtftontents arnongfi: them, boilnp t mfe  

ii-1 humors[into atmutiny,’ if nota rebellion. WBu'tI hope they one
through his defign, and beleeve, that though he pretends himfelf?

tohave been one of them, ’tis but a defign tokill two Birds with

one Prone -: for if they fhouldrventure uponfiushtan aétion, and fail}  

in it, they ruine themfelves, end he hath hie end, that way: antfif‘
they go through wrthxt, hers fure they _w111fa1l* together by the
ears amongft themfelves -, or xf that fai1,co ntraét an odium from the

people, andblot, out the memory of their formertdefertsr by the.‘

murderof their Generalr to whom,bef_1d’es the duty they owe him
as their Prince, they have added;(Sacmmgntum mflimre the faith
ofra Souldiera and fo he hath 1115 end thxsway; aglfo :% But I hQp€-T

they both knoxv this, andehaveealfolearnt, that if it were Gods; *

Caufe, as the Gentleman wouldtrnakeyit little leié, yet it muft not be‘
fought with the Devils weapons. 4 

or ’ t   Nwr41iAW"1iwaov Jeftnfiriérernifltk
A A Claiiflm age:-----~ "  to   A   M  A ;
M Int 'a.\x7:ord,fthere1s a matx1me1n~]\/Ioralrty}, That; bmumoriturgx,

Iiiay “come of it“.

Inrthe nextplstce héefirikes upon a ft*r,ing?tI1at’ehettit-hi‘hks will rnake

. £he’b‘éPtm1Ii3¢k"s andivttg 5i1t“9T1s=¢,'te 1€?£*‘if.‘mishtbe th0“Sht$to be

donébfhdéfivfip-~ Qéieéwtré Parr? Cerolthmiwi mm. amino; biota
baibkzit rem,re:p;  Whithlfiivfi=hiS“ffi0rMW Wfmufthffiaf
  of n I?’ar1i;1n1enttin the caf ego? th‘€,;0ii¢;“iI'J‘ hdif6‘v{r'ning' 5 his Title V
ct‘  Qfh'er Mfe,tIhitih'gtw,th‘e Governtfieuet upon **hi§"“I"9Iighnei§  {fig
name of the ‘L ml Protcfigerth of tI1eh,,C’hr7¢».2o5n1¢?é'Alt7:;mbf“‘ Ehglindg Sm.
[had ,;,,4 flelnml  Anrftherefore it  ehtsm. ,no*5 mén',to" h’e.Wihfer
ffiéfi Filefiiws °‘fhi5tC°‘1nffYts hhiizy father; {ii fatndftibmit to them‘
Chi3Er,he“tfo‘llW,th33tgifé=it*W11ee1Ofthé seate,”rererrtng~;:othing‘”:o ha;
<g"wn~,brain;r Whi4<:h4 tnufjt needfs; be excentrihk étridh it=regp1ar:  
¢X§mn1¢ro:fthrtisWe hweiéltrf/v4 HbW“%d1‘FEar1q;"Of:‘ Swrr"o,’rand'e1defl
 ri;reto _tfiejQ]j)’”t1l~te ofjNorfa1k, Vvthd Being tz;iken5 prifoner.;at*1?b[woé~th¥
fi¢1dt,r.ani*ib¢‘in~gtdcmended 153% Hm « Why hWm.ulct bhearh  for
értffstzrailt. he apnfwerérda W33 myKing,‘a*ndt:if the Parxazmnmy
TAuthoriety.[hae11fet the 'roeotwn,upont“at1a:cck,,. jtwnlr   to defeat A

      A   A  
    .1>?‘f*1Y.f}?TC9.“¢1U'd¢%Witrh,th€ bufinefs Ofifindetvmbs andflwughe
 begmnmg ofh~1stPamph1et._’, he is~oi1e“of‘rthofeof Whérfi 1361-»

A4 A ‘  A h A mitim

 

znregres tahd" in Cliriftianknr _T1W‘é \VC*mnf¥;n9t.. do évilttha: good;  

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 ;;,;:;42 tomp1atins,ithatwiiI1 never tbeieevethctetis.ai.TreaAf0'r1unlefi“ A

th“e*1’.rince he killedi 3.nci3th€1‘t‘i:0re~—_ inqui1't~:s, whezlgerh “3a3treAa1.AP;1a2:A ‘
of Sindercomh, at  H1gl2«M€fjC¢, '02?’ of;   g’/921.4,] .ri agtzinfl S'i;I1~‘-V

' dercomh 2 yet here his Ptudy hathigot him a. Pcomaclg hefwallowsi

it bones and all —, hefings’ him an Epinicion (ifl mayigive that name
to profe : ) and would do more For; him then the Pope did for thc~
}‘4‘_cab£m,; or Rmzzac ( ;tI1e‘=AfTaffiinats of “Ham. 3.. and Hm. 4. of
Fm_nce)‘Acanonize ma, Trait_or»for a;,Saiint.i. But the Rat isA. difcoveredi A
 his fqueaking; iWe mat/1 faiith»h€~¥) tfaeiriccnflam-2:} wlyam. ne:'ther1A 3
érilm nor terratrJV¢ofi!dAWa£e‘ éetmj ~t1M£r.f:mimd£.-, yetitis more then;
probable that fomeof them ibteganitoi fi1fp€3:I«i‘t , Aor. ‘ei1feAii they Ahad A
never phrovideddAhim a pill, to fecufe him aga,inft telling of tales,»
ButJI_hop‘e every man wi~11i:takeiexa%mp.1e byhim, 'and;abe1eeve.th:ere+
is awnqtghet way térpreferve a'1'n_aVns memoryi» “then   Dgawf, M

A TAémpie,ai1d**that there isAAas fhorfltia cut-to; ”HB':»1M:€'n out qfia _ABed~,” Ads;

A for,’ either they ;'~'_€'C61V"€.I2hf.‘.ii-1‘ r W

A foAiAn;bu:hated the "Frag

fr‘Qma_ Gihbet .-,4 for, be th‘e'I‘-reafofin w~hat;.it Wi-1-'l1'\.VeVi1]‘a-J‘-1rar€ly,find;

that Traytors have gone toVtheir~ graq/csi.iin<p.eace-, gndittthenefore, Ii.  

may not imptopéerly ufeithat of‘ fnwenal, thOUgh..;W1'.0~t€~ byihim in.
an0thtet,ife~nfeV      A      it A ' A  it  

j, _* gmrm C'e2jEr¢21f)te‘c_¢eaie m4attfan‘guz’nei anti, A .A~  7 A -‘A>‘A,4t- mm
”  Tcf¢§‘§’IédI(n}‘;8C£.' "J » A‘ it  %' 1’(£A|..7Vk'IZ(. ‘ i *r‘L-1”.‘ A;

  V ‘ A ' A M ard«u\VI1€1T€ theyhavfie aAttempc3¢Ad;i; 

the aétion, ior%tnetAwithi*it;fromAthemgthatifet themAion.\vork, moi}: M .
m“en}bi;eAit'1Ag of xfntiganzzfls lT1in'd;_‘-W:hiQ‘W70l11:d«fay,h€~iOV€d«:Eh€iTI'C:fl-“" Ray; M

M V % A " :50: :1 AnAd.»hetAe, if it beirequgifitcito urge any, “L 5”’ ‘‘’’’‘''
tl}iiAin“ A£u;«c1;;e;1«,c«:;An thy‘ h"‘;tfi:u*fih~{bi‘g¢n’e1;aiA11y"Afl.eCEi.V6d; amongitr ins”
    .‘¢_1-“A
WAhete,i Tarpqiat, ha;VAing betraiedithe Capitol toithge» s;¢b,'m,A 11ppnA
conttaéhi to r«,ecei;ve foif~ira«wa~rdd», iwhat tlieycarrieci on t11eAirlefl:A"A.A.
hapdgii %( intendiing not doubt their 3 Bracelets H,‘ ){ they both toikcep, ~

their rprornifi;andtwi:ha1«=m: tow f{1ff€«I;-‘P futh: rain exemplary Treafon.

ta; Aefcajpe iunMpunifhed,threw«  i ifi";‘thefii'f‘ iBiuc klers. t bOO‘t5A “VVaAhiC1‘.'€'fu.‘

  

 

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wiAthAh'eing iove1;v<ihe1ArneAci;, flit; received the reward ofher treachery. A

lifndfo I .l,f3A3.4‘Vif1(j}fi;iiit:.,¥3.1f1_CiA_C()lI1E3 to ~—fpeak1 to the ddifAaAdvat1ta.gesthat thc; Q

A :1ltcratipng.idf“Govérnmentihave btught along; with them. *

_“f V41/A/4¢;Al.gizf4«z;§_;g~ ,\vhoA;ti‘itihieffGehtleman hath quoted [0 io ften(asAthitak-i 7. ,A
ingAth§;veryVname fcWat1d‘aA1jenouTgh tie) thepeople) catlis .that;;Qfd;a-.Af “ _
“taf‘gO1dei1»fentent‘e, ~Wh~ere %he«fatthi, than: men: %are;:toi‘te:tretr«enici2;~ fly ,3 F ;a

t 2 * -'-'A

i thih §Ap;1Af’r,¢ and tqfubmit tgj what isfiprefeiit: and fliouldgwiihfr -

gm APr~inces, ‘but Whatfoevwm they Aaé!recnc;h3tre« ithesA.,;AgAntlmcrfé”:f§7 
 A A ~ ~ V  ——-b~~~~é-j~~ .  —~  wt» . A —i-_«-  A

V tvlio doth othlerxvifeiruins both hirmfefiandj Country. The Prints of   a
this are every Where, but I {hall infift onely.upon the Roman State. A
Vvhen :Lepidm Went about to tefciirderthe Aéis ofrijylln, Flbrm faith j A
thus ofit,‘ That it was defervedly defigned, if it could have been :

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done without the greater damage of the Commonwealth: And a
little filrther , Expediebat ergo, qmfi azgrae, fimciceq; Reipmé, regain-
efcerei qzxomodoczmqmt-.: utxuatlnera curaztione iPfaiAa'efc'£nalerentmf.» It
wasteitpedieint (faith he} A A
to takeafome refit A at any hand, leaft thejfoars fhould be opened and
bleed in thecure. And this is that which Tazcirm drives at,when he
bids us bear with the difpofitions of Kings-, for faith he, Neqpufgz
cireérnr 91]}: mumrliomngit is not for the profit of the Commonwealth

that there fhould he often changes : For as Czsfnr faid, Kingdoms
ynever cfhangei without great combuiitons, and States futferyl worfe
miichiefs, by not enduring even infolent Princes. The Common?-A

wealth of Rome found. it trueenough after his death : Examine but
the Triumvirate, and you {hall find every one fetup for himfelf:
Lepidm cove-tous of wealth, the hope of Which flood upon ‘trou-

bling the State: ,4mam to be revenged on them that had proclaim. A
bed him T raytflyori: t Andoét: ;C'ce/in: forthe death of his adoptive Fa-

ther, up  , maths and; faflyfi: Then again cameup the Aprofcrip.
tions of .5’;/14., the Free fiver 

fecond, and iafi by the Army-, the firfl-, and third by themfelves,

to ipreventworfe ufage. He that {hall perufe the four Books of T4; 
cam his Hi{i:ory,<fha11 find it nothing inf'eriAor to thatinChara_&er, 
whichhe gives‘ of it in the beginning ; ppm, plemtm mg:ga¢z':~ca/am, jj,
atrax prccliir, drfiori-.r flditioniéur, ipfaeetinm page aezmm 4,  A;iWOirk ‘A

(faith he) containing fundry changes, bloody Battels, lviolent Mu-

tinies, ‘* Peace full ofcruelty, and peril: Four Emperorsflain with ;
e the fxivordt -, Civil iWaArs_, three -,‘“ A foreign , more, yandjofizp both, jcfi-c. 
  Hii’torie_saA_refi1ll;iof examples to this purpofe, and would rather r‘e-.-AA;
quire a voinme thena few fheets, but Ifhall onely apply this lafi, ” f

an.d“conc«lude.    f t

glory

for the .{ick,and woundetd Coxnmonwealthp

id what it pleafed, and was more
familiar with entrails, then the Arufpices: In a word, it mowed  
down no lefi then 1 I 40 Senators, nothing but rapine, and flaughter A
hefirid the Pcreets, till :0EE;G;' gs f gr by outswitting one, and beating AA
theother, once more fettled the Em ire: But then again, when‘ 
they had gotten the knack of murdering their Emperors, A fourof A
i A ‘wliichtfucceflively were flain, ruiz; Nero, Galen, Otho, Vitellinr ; the .

the Great had a putpofe to build a City to his A

  A _   (<3)   
l lory, Dimoierditest the Architeft cameto” him',and fhewed him how

 it might be built upon Mount" arm; which place, ibefides that it
 would be Ptrong, he could fo order; that the City lhould he made
i in form of a Mangwhich would be a wonder worthy his greatnefé ;

whereupon being asked how the Inhabitants fhouldlive, he an.»

2 l fwered, he had not advifed of that pQlfl.t.'YCt.l1‘ And truly tome. it‘
Vfeems that the Gentlemans brain, wasbig with fome fuch Cbimem,
l or elfe it could never havecorne into his head, to have *advifed.the~

defiroying one Governrnennbeforelhe. had thoughtupon fome: o--

” therframe, to let up in the room or it: For fuppofing the—Gentle-A

man had his wifh, and that his Highnefs werec arried away in fome

l popular cornbttlliong or by ‘a private hand,wl1ich wuld “work the
‘ fame effe¢°t,  which God fofibid :1‘) itcould not but rationallyibee

expefted, that we {boulder ~Ol1€l»y‘El1€'nb.€gln.;IO know ‘What it were i

l to fuffer 3‘ for of all Tyrannies, the fury and‘ mladnefétof the ‘people
 his the greatellzz Then, when too late-, we-fhould have “every man

complain, that if he were ChaPtif€d'bCfOr€‘"\Vith rods,_ he is «now

llafhed with Scorpions-', and‘ experimentally find, that the little fin-

gerofthe people, xvouldrbe~thicl<er'then~his I-Iighnefshhloynsy: Ex-

‘ cellent to this.i9p"urpofe, is the 'Philofopherss fiory of: the Ms,
l who being ladenwith Salit, and:’”'prafling- thr"o1’1gh:a‘River, cafi1~
ally fiumhledi in i_it”,i and pierceivinglt that by that 3.CCld"CIl'l:”th€'g

Bodinfl: dé
Rep.1,2.

{alt melted , -and hisburden became lig‘hter,. he could never’ after A

‘ come by any "water, but he would be lying down in it; "till his
 Mal"cer~pe‘rceiving it" ladedhimiwith Wooll", and then, whentoo
 lliaté,;lll thepoor A ‘sh
W o”ns::B‘efid’es, thereiiisia great‘ advantage we recileve, both by not ‘
y changing‘ our Governors , and: by not fuffering theeGovernment,.

egan to repent himlhlf of l1lS1try[ing~ Conclufi-

\ en vacant, to runintoetoo many Families; thecontraryof 

which, hath been the great impoverifhing ofleleftive Ki-ngdo ms :-. A

Andltthis ilvfh-alldeliverhltin: the*fame~ Fable that it/E/ap did to the

it   Szzmianxlupon the like* occafion. There~waslaiFoxl,r th he, fwirn-
ingover at River, but the-ltrearn being too«Pcrong~ for him,“ he,w_as: l

beaten into 3.‘ bufh,” where hey-xvas horribly infefted with Fli.ess.;. it
happened the Hedgehog came by,.and pittying his con_dition,pro-i

lferedlhimi his fervicc to beat-them : to whom the Fox; No‘‘Bro-- ;
 <ther,l"et them alonejor their Bellies being f‘ull,they"" are qui‘et,«a'x-idsldo
nottrouble me, but ifyonllhall heat off thefe, I {hall have: o4=the,;rs

come ign-their room, who will take all that blood which thefe. L

  ha:v.¢,left:.. TheMoral is ‘good, andprevaild fo wi_I_:_h the.hSumiam ;

i ithat;  

Her. Fmf.

that tliéy tcontinued their Governor; and xveigltetflfo much with-
iéerigiq, ‘ffthat ~‘11€?f€1dOm removed his Deputies of Provinces, «therce
A ibeiifnpg (~‘étSf ?o'fep"/am relates) only two (viz. ACr;ttAw «and ;Pil4tve); in
It‘?-u%£¢a'oeFor Ewe-nt‘y‘»yea1‘Se together; For as .os"mt£m faith, Nan tpgzrt-it
 fjéopzilzk ?Regmm¢ brérue -----4 Porno: know‘in“”gl.1oW~long, torlittflle they"

nutty cont‘inL1e5 it etcztnnot beeeexpeftéd, but that thgeyxwill make hay,
Whilfc the fun ihines. ‘And »as~tto the+feco~n~d,« of the =fin£QnV€ni€~fl{6€

i iéfilettinfgttI1eGovertnment% r~nn‘into too \“!m)fitnY-/'F;’ani.ili,eS’ I need; go

no ?further for“ inftance then. t11e*‘Ern;pir~ej of; ejermmggn which - by

  ems nteatnst hath had fnch Cantons lop: from it by the forts tof7~Em..
e  pe1:ors,asBawzri4,S.4xany,the Ptalaeiimzte, and~othe1's, that L (what-

e;evere it is now) it had ere thistime cmmbledintoedirt, hadnot

=3cTb;zr1; th‘eFifth thought upon thattpolicie of eRe:"c A»nam4»mrm,

whereby, I it hath been not “0\H1y"K&pt to 1 this day, in ‘the ~,4;;¢fB;»g,m

3I3amily, butdivers 'of'thofe-tTerritoriest are again vbroughte i*nEo«t~hc

Ancient channel, "4fi*totfr1ewhente,e to the;~gteat ’ endangeringdf {kc
Emire,‘ A they had been‘forrnie1'1yt4 purlotned. A  

'7*~L'3.{?tl3§,- to winds: up311,71;‘el1a«v:e;4bu1i:a wotrd; -and that is’ to the

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ttwifcoontenfi, upon whom theisekind ifof fdd élrine hath the A fame cf;
tt*fe*cE1g:as posifon ‘upon t:*‘ho1er1ck;co_1.1Pt1tfltt0hs 5; '*t1tt;1entei'sA ~eafi~Ae{t,e Aejand.
A W”®rkS‘f%1f’c’ePc*: A i‘A’nd therefor~ee~*’t'Z15 probable n‘they<;wete=« ethevperfons

principally ttifxtteneited bythis.Pamphlet; and ,the%rather'?,’ itnnttafs 

~:asAthey‘1o“ok‘uponthis“ H*ighnefs— as; a; perfon come  by:ConnfePc 5
and Ithei%efore:1Ttty,;That all power won*1>ty=the~fwond,mayvb°elofl: y »

At:lr:eef.:ofév¢v”or,do:t.‘t ’5Tb*whInh I%a‘nfWer.;.,t That tadt;1.ittivng~AAtIjHat;AA  his

1 Hghnméio enevetmo xivned, or pretended to, A yet even upon flint :,€eAoi*c

7;; {ands rrreoft With‘ :‘th*cf‘i1f interef’cs,t t;ot-be ;quiAet,A ~+ afidvfubmit  tQi"3EhcA
“G‘0Vetntme=nt::tt  Ateeditthetefoml ‘Wflltg1V\€’y0"llth€0i*fliQI§"Qf¢””(9€fl§6‘,d,

 

l1p;(jn the very fajmé gafe 

o diaper v sWltuee“<mar§4ie;= %¢zgzi”m:,;A A A
   em: 
 et‘meetr5,ttiiié»:‘?'2s‘fielix:»fpzzmzztA 77   I A A A   ,
Mid A having  ‘inthe efolkowinegeverfes Areetkoned§1;p~Ao the inifetvies and.
Ainoom/eneiences aria War, he adds; 4 A
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