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<P>THE VISIONS AND PROPHECIES Concerning ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, And IRELAND, Of <HI>Ezekiel Grebner,</HI> Son of <HI>Obadiah Grebner,</HI> Son of <HI>Paul Grebner,</HI> who pre&s;ented the fa|mous Book of Prophecies to <HI>Queen ELISABETH.</HI></P>
<BIBL>Ezekiel 2.</BIBL>
<Q><P N="4"><HI>4.</HI> For they are impudent Children, and &s;tiff-hearted; I do &s;end thee unto them, and thou &s;halt &s;ay unto them, Thus &s;aith the Lord God.</P>
<P N="5"><HI>5.</HI> And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear (for they are a Rebellious Hou&s;e) yet &s;hall know that there has been a Prophet among them.</P></Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Henry Herringman,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop, at the &s;ign of the <HI>Anchor,</HI> in the lower walk in the New <HI>Ex|change.</HI> 166<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">.</P>
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<HEAD>ADVERTISEMENT Concerning the BOOK and AUTHOR.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PAUL GREBNER</HI> came out of <HI>Germany</HI> in the Reign of Queen <HI>Eliza|beth,</HI> and pre&s;ented to her a Book of Prophecies, which &s;he gave to Dr. <HI>Nevill</HI> Dean of her Chapel, and he to Trinity College in <HI>Cambridge,</HI> whereof he was Ma&s;ter, where it remains &s;till in the Library, and has of late years been made very famous by the fulfilling
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of many of the Predictions in it con|cerning our Nation, and mens hopes of the &s;peedy accompli&s;hment of &s;ome others concerning the re-e&s;tabli&s;h|ment and exaltation of the afflicted Royal Family. This <HI>Paul Greb|ner</HI> maried a wife with a con&s;idera|ble fortune in the North, and had by her a Son called <HI>Obadiah Grebner,</HI> and two Daughters (who both dyed young) after which he made a jour|ney into his own Country (leaving his family in <HI>England)</HI> and there decea&s;ed. <HI>His</HI> &s;on abeut the middle of King <HI>James</HI> his time maried too in the North, and had by his wife (who lo&s;t her own life in the Child-birth) this <HI>Ezechiel Grebner,</HI> whom hee bred up very carefully in all manner
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of good Literature, being him&s;elf a per&s;on of great Piety and Learning, and e&s;teemed to have the gift of Pro|phecie as well as his Father, though nothing of that kind was publi&s;hed by him. From the&s;e two &s;prung our Son and Grandchild of Prophets, who was fir&s;t educated a while at the Univer&s;ity of <HI>Cambridge,</HI> and af|ter &s;ent to &s;everal Academies beyond Seas, where he got great reputation for his extraordinary parts and vir|tues; at the beginning of the late troubles he returned into <HI>England,</HI> and engaged with the Parliament, not for&s;aking them, till they (as he was wont to &s;ay) revolting? had left their Cau&s;e and Him to &s;hift for them&s;elves among the men whom he
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had fought again&s;t. Ater the death of the King, not onely his dete&s;ta|tion of the fact, but his indignation to be &s;o abu&s;ed and deluded, as to have his own innocency made in&s;tru|mental towards the producing of &s;uch wicked Ends, drew him to &s;uch an open and avowed hatred of them, as occa&s;ioned the ruine of his e&s;tate, the danger of his life, and the lo&s;&s;e twice of his liberty, fir&s;t under the Parliament, and then un|der the Protector, at the time of who&s;e Funeral (as appeareth by the Book it &s;elf) this Vi&s;ion hap|pened to him, which that he might write and publi&s;h with le&s;&s;e danger than he had formerly &s;poken, he made a journey into <HI>Germany,</HI> and had
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no &s;ooner done the thing he went for, but he died at <HI>Strasburg</HI> la&s;t <HI>Octo|ber.</HI> He left all his papers with a <HI>Dutch</HI> Gentleman called <HI>Conrart Sluys</HI> (who had lived long in <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and &s;poke our language per|fectly well.) There were of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">m (as I under&s;tand) &s;everal little Treaties in <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Latin,</HI> a book of Ver&s;es upon different occa&s;ions, &s;ome <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> &s;ome <HI>Latin,</HI> and &s;ome <HI>Dutch</HI> (for it &s;eems he was a great Lover and Writer of Ver&s;e, as you will find by his frequent Excur&s;ions into it in this Di&s;cour&s;e) and la&s;tly three books of Vi&s;ions and Prophe|cies concerning the Affairs of our three Nations; The fir&s;t (which is but as it were a Preface to the other)
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is that which is here publi&s;hed; The &s;econd contains a Di&s;cour&s;e with the Angel <HI>Guardian</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> concerning all the late confu&s;ions and misfortunes of it; The third denounces heavy judgements again&s;t the three Kingdoms, and &s;everal places and parties in them, unle&s;&s;e they prevent them &s;peedily by &s;eri|ous repentance, and that greate&s;t and harde&s;t work of it, Re&s;titution. There is there upon this &s;ubject, the burden of <HI>England,</HI> the burden of <HI>Scotland,</HI> the burden of <HI>Ireland,</HI> the burden of <HI>London,</HI> the burden of the Army, the burden of the Divines, the burden of the Lawyers, and many others, after the manner of Pro|phetical threatnings in the Old Te|stament.
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Thus I am told by the Gentleman who gave me this fir&s;t book, and who had read the o|ther two. This was left in his hands accidentally, the other were carried, as we believe, into <HI>Italy</HI> by Mr. <HI>Conrart Sluys,</HI> and we have u&s;ed means to recover them from him if it be po&s;&s;ible, hoping that they may be ble&s;&s;edly in&s;trumental towards that repentance and conver&s;ion of our Nations, which is &s;o evidently nece&s;&s;ary for the diverting of all tho&s;e calamities which are there fore|told, and which hang already &s;o apparently over our heads, that they may be &s;een even by Human Rea&s;on, as well as fore&s;een by Divine In&s;pi|ration.</P>
<P><PB REF="6">Both the Book and this Preface were written in the time of the late little <HI>Protector RICHARD.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>THE VISIONS AND PROPHECIES Concerning ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, And IRELAND.</HEAD>
<P>IT was the Funeral day of the late man who made him&s;elf to be called Pro|tectour, and though I bore but little affection, either to the memory of him, or to the trouble and folly of all pub|lick
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Pageantry, yet I was forced by the importunity of my company to go along with them, and be a Spectator of that &s;o|lemnity, the expectation of which had been &s;o great, that it was &s;aid to have brought &s;ome very curious per&s;ons (and no doubt &s;ingular Virtuo&s;os) as far as from the Mount in <HI>Cornwall,</HI> and from the <HI>Orcades.</HI> I found there had been much more co&s;t be&s;towed than either the dead man, or indeed Death it &s;elf could de&s;erve. There was a mighty train of black a&s;&s;i&s;tants, among which too di|vers Princes in the per&s;ons of their Am|ba&s;&s;adors (being infinitely afflicted for the lo&s;&s;e of their Brother) were plea&s;ed to attend; the Her&s;e was Magnificent, the Idol Crowned, and (not to mention all other Ceremonies which are practi&s;ed at Royal interrements, and therefore by no means could be omitted here) the va&s;t multitude of Spectators made up, as it u&s;es to do, no &s;mall part of the Spectacle it &s;elf. But yet I know not how, the whole was &s;o managed, that, methoughts, it
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&s;omewhat repre&s;ented the life of him for whom it was made; Much noi&s;e, much tumult, much expence, much magnifi|cence, much vain-glory; briefly, a great &s;how, and yet after all this, but an ill &s;ight. At la&s;t (for it &s;eemed long to me, and like his &s;hort Reign too, very tedious) the whole Scene pa&s;t by, and I retired back to my Chamber, weary, and I think more melancholy than any of the Mourners. Where I began to reflect upon the whole life of this Prodigious Man, and &s;ome|times I was filled with horror and dete&s;ta|tion of his actions, and &s;ometimes I in|clined a little to reverence and admira|tion of his courage, conduct, and &s;ucce&s;&s;e; till by the&s;e different motions and agita|tions of mind rocked, as it were, a &s;leep, I fell at la&s;t into this Vi&s;ion, or if you plea&s;e to call it but a Dream, I &s;hall not take it ill, becau&s;e the Father of Poets tells us, Even Dreams too are from God.</P>
<P>But &s;ure it was no Dream; for I was &s;uddenly tran&s;ported afar off (whether in the body, or out of the body, like St. <HI>Paul,</HI>
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I know not) and found my &s;elf upon the top of that famous Hill in the I&s;land <HI>Mo|na,</HI> which has the pro&s;pect of three Great, and Not-long-&s;ince mo&s;t happy King doms; As &s;oon as ever I lookt upon them, the Not-long-&s;ince &s;trook upon my Me|mory, and called forth the &s;ad repre&s;enta|tion of all the Sins, and all the Mi&s;eries that had overwhelmed them the&s;e twenty years. And I wept bitterly for two or three hours, and when my pre&s;ent &s;tock of moi&s;ture was all wa&s;ted, I fell a &s;igh|ing for an hour more, and as &s;oon as I recovered from my pa&s;&s;ion the u&s;e of &s;peech and rea&s;on, I broke forth, as I re|member (looking upon <HI>England)</HI> into this complaint.</P>
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<HEAD>I.</HEAD>
<L>Ah, happy I&s;le, how art thou chang'd and cur&s;t,</L>
<L>Since I was born, and knew thee fir&s;t!</L>
<L>When Peace, which had for&s;ook the World a|round,</L>
<L>(Frighted with noi&s;e, and the &s;hrill Trumpets found)</L>
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Thee for a private place of re&s;t,</L>
<L>And a &s;ecure retirement cho&s;e</L>
<L>Wherein to build her <HI>Halcyon</HI> Ne&s;t;</L>
<L>No wind dur&s;t &s;tir abroad the Air to di&s;com|po&s;e.</L>
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<HEAD>2.</HEAD>
<L>When all the Riches of the Globe be&s;ide</L>
<L>Flow'd in to Thee with every Tide;</L>
<L>When all that Nature did thy &s;oil deny,</L>
<L>The Grouth was of thy fruitfull&punc; Indu&s;try,</L>
<L>When all the proud and dreadfull Sea,</L>
<L>And all his Tributary &s;treams,</L>
<L>A con&s;tant Tribute paid to Thee.</L>
<L>When all the liquid World was one extended Thames.</L>
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<HEAD>3.</HEAD>
<L>When Plenty in each Village did appear,</L>
<L>And Bounty was it's Steward there;</L>
<L>When Gold walkt free about in open view,</L>
<L>Ere it one Conquering parties Pri&s;oner grew;</L>
<L>When the Religion of our State</L>
<L>Had Face and Sub&s;tance with her Voice,</L>
<L>Ere &s;he by 'er fooli&s;h Loves of late,</L>
<L>Like Eccho (once a Nymph) turn'd onely into Noi&s;e.</L>
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<HEAD>4.</HEAD>
<L>When Men to Men re&s;pect and friend&s;hip bore,</L>
<L>And God with Reverence did adore;</L>
<L>When upon Earth no Kingdom could have &s;hown</L>
<L>A happier Monarch to us than our own,</L>
<L>And yet his Subjects by him were</L>
<L>(Which is a Truth will hardly be</L>
<L>Receiv'd by any vulgar Ear,</L>
<L>A &s;ecret known to few) made happi'r ev'n than He.</L>
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<HEAD>5.</HEAD>
<L>Thou doe&s;t a <HI>Chaos,</HI> and Confu&s;ion now,</L>
<L>A <HI>Babel,</HI> and a <HI>Bedlam</HI> grow,</L>
<L>And like a Frantick per&s;on thou doe&s;t tear</L>
<L>The Ornaments and Cloaths which thou &s;hould'&s;t wear,</L>
<L>And cut thy Limbs; and if we &s;ee</L>
<L>(Ju&s;t as thy Barbarous <HI>Britons</HI> did)</L>
<L>Thy Body with Hypocri&s;ie</L>
<L>Painted all ore, thou think'&s;t, Thy naked &s;hame is hid.</L>
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<HEAD>6.</HEAD>
<L>The Nations, which envied thee erewhile,</L>
<L>Now l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ugh (too little 'tis to &s;mile)</L>
<L>They laugh, and would have pitty'd the: (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">las!)</L>
<L>But that thy Faults all Pity do &s;urpa&s;&s;e.</L>
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Art thou the Country which did&s;t hate,</L>
<L>And mock the <HI>French</HI> Incon&s;tancy?</L>
<L>And have we, have we &s;een of late</L>
<L>Le&s;&s;e change of Habits there, than Governments in Thee?</L>
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<HEAD>7.</HEAD>
<L>Unhappy I&s;le! No &s;hip of thine at Sea,</L>
<L>Was ever to&s;t and torn like Thee.</L>
<L>Thy naked Hulk loo&s;e on the Waves does beat,</L>
<L>The Rocks and Banks around her ruin threat;</L>
<L>What did thy fooli&s;h Pilots ail,</L>
<L>To lay the Compa&s;&s;e quite a&s;ide?</L>
<L>Without a Law or Rule to &s;ayl,</L>
<L>And rather take the Winds, then Heavens to be their Guide?</L>
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<HEAD>8.</HEAD>
<L>Yet, mighty God, yet, yet, we humbly crave,</L>
<L>This floating I&s;le from &s;hipwrack &s;ave;</L>
<L>And though to wa&s;h that Bloud which does it &s;tain,</L>
<L>It well de&s;erves to &s;ink into the Main;</L>
<L>Yet for the Royal Martyrs prayer</L>
<L>(The Royal Martyr p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ays we know)</L>
<L>This guilty, peri&s;hing Ve&s;&s;el &s;pare;</L>
<L>Hear but his Soul above, and not his bloud below.</L>
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I think I &s;hould have gone on, but that I was interrupted by a &s;trange and terrible Apparition, for there appeared to me (ari&s;ing out of the earth, as I con|ceived) the figure of a man taller than a Gyant, or indeed than the &s;hadow of any Gyant in the evening. His body was naked, but that nakedne&s;&s;e adorn'd, or rather deform'd all over, with &s;everal figures, after the manner of the antient <HI>Britons,</HI> painted upon it: and I perceived that mo&s;t of them were the repre&s;entati|on of the late battels in our civil Warrs, and (if I be not much mi&s;taken) it was the battel of <HI>Na&s;bey</HI> that was drawn up|on his Brea&s;t. His Eyes were like burn|ing Bra&s;&s;e, and there were three Crowns of the &s;ame mettal (as I gue&s;t) and that lookt as red-hot too, upon his Head. He held in his right hand a Sword that was yet bloody, and neverthele&s;&s;e the Motto of it was <HI>Pax quaeritur bello,</HI> and in his left hand a thick Book, upon the back of wich was written in Letters of Gold, Acts, Ordinances, Prote&s;tations, Cove|nants,
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Engagements, Declarations, Re|mon&s;trances, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Though this &s;uddain, unu&s;ual, and dreadful object might have quelled a greater courage than mine, yet &s;o it plea&s;ed God (for there is nothhing bolder than a Man in a Vi&s;ion) that I was not at all daunted, but askt him re&s;o|lutely and briefly, What art thou? And he &s;aid, I am called The North-we&s;t Prin|cipality, His Highne&s;&s;e, the Protector of the Common-wealth of <HI>England, Scot|land,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the Dominions belonging thereunto, for I am that An|gel to whom the Almighty has commit|ted the Government of tho&s;e three King|doms which thou &s;ee&s;t from this place. And I an&s;wered and &s;aid, If it be &s;o, Sir, it &s;eems to me that for almo&s;t the&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> twenty years pa&s;t your Highne&s;&s;e has been ab&s;ent from your charge: for not onely if any Angel, but if any wi&s;e and hone&s;t Men had &s;ince that time been our Go|vernour, we &s;hould not have wandred thus long in the&s;e laborious and endle&s;&s;e Labyrinths of confu&s;ion, but either not
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have entered at all into them, or at lea&s;t have returned back ere we had ab&s;olutely lo&s;t our way; but in&s;tead of your High|ne&s;&s;e, we have had &s;ince &s;uch a Protector as was his Predece&s;&s;or <HI>Richard</HI> the Third to the King his Nephew; for he pre&s;ently &s;lew the Common-wealth, which he pre|tended to protect, and &s;et up him&s;elf in the place of it; a little le&s;&s;e guilty in|deed in one re&s;pect, becau&s;e the other &s;lew an Innocent, and this Man did but murder a Muderer. Such a Protector we have had as we would have been glad to have changed for any Enemy, and ra|ther received a con&s;tant Turk, than this every moneths Apo&s;tate; &s;uch a Prote|ctor as Man is to his Flocks, which he &s;heers, and &s;ells, or devours him&s;elf; and I would fain know, what the Wolf, which he protects him from, could do more. Such a Protector&mdash;and as I was proceeding, me-thoughts, his Highne&s;&s;e began to put on a di&s;plea&s;ed and threat|ning countenance, as men u&s;e to do when their deare&s;t Friends happen to be tradu|ced
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in their company, which gave me the fir&s;t ri&s;e of jealou&s;y again&s;t him, for I did not believe that <HI>Cromwell</HI> among&s;t all his forein Corre&s;pondences had ever held any with Angels. However I was not hardned enough yet to venture a quarrel with him then; and therefore (as if I had &s;poken to the Protector him|&s;elf in White-hall) I de&s;ired him that his Highne&s;&s;e would plea&s;e to pardon me if I had unwittingly &s;poken any thing to the di&s;paragement of a per&s;on, who&s;e relations to his Highne&s;&s;e I had not the honour to know. At which he told me, that he had no other concernment for his late Highne&s;&s;e, than as he took him to be the greate&s;t Man that ever was of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation, if not (&s;aid he) of the whole World, which gives me a ju&s;t title to the defence of his reputation, &s;ince I now account my &s;elf, as it were, a na|turalized <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Angel, by having had &s;o long the management of the affairs of that Country. And pray Country-man (&s;aid he, very kindly and very flateringly)
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for I would not have you fall into the general errour of the World, that dete&s;ts and decryes &s;o extraordinary a Virtue, what can be more extraordinary than that a per&s;on of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of Body (which have &s;ometimes) or of Mind (which have of|ten rai&s;ed men to the highe&s;t dignities) &s;hould have the courage to attempt, and the happine&s;&s;e to &s;ucceed in &s;o impro|bable a de&s;ign, as the de&s;truction of one of the mo&s;t antient, and in all appearance mo&s;t &s;olidly founded Monarchies upon the Earth? that he &s;hould have the pow|er or boldne&s;&s;e to put his Prince and Ma|&s;ter to an open and infamous death? to bani&s;h that numerous, and &s;trongly-allied Family? to do all this under the name and wages of a Parliament; to trample upon them too as he plea&s;ed, and &s;purn them out of dores when he grew weary of them; to rai&s;e up a new and unheard-of Mon&s;ter out of their A&s;hes; to &s;tifle that in the very infancy, and &s;et up him&s;elf above all things that ever were called So|veraign
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in <HI>England;</HI> to oppre&s;s all his Enemies by Arms, and all his Friends af|terwards by Artifice; to &s;erve all parties patiently for a while, and to command them victoriou&s;ly at la&s;t; to over-run each corner of the three Nations, and over|come with equal facility both the riches of the South, and the poverty of the North; to be feared and courted by all forein Princes, and adopted a Brother to the gods of the earth; to call together Parlia|ments with a word of his Pen, and &s;catter them again with the Breath of his Mouth; to be humbly and daily petitioned that he would plea&s;e to be hired at the rate of two millions a year, to be the Ma&s;ter of tho&s;e who had hired him before to be their Ser|vant; to have the E&s;tates and Lives of three Kingdoms as much at his di&s;po&s;al, as was the little inheritance of his Fa|ther, and to be as noble and liberal in the &s;pending of them; and la&s;tly (for there is no end of all the particulars of his glo|ry) to bequeath all this with one word to his Po&s;terity; to die with peace at home,
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and triumph abroad; to be buried among Kings, and with more than Regal &s;olem|nity; and to leave a name behind him, not to be extingui&s;ht, but with the whole World, which as it is now too little for his prai&s;es, &s;o might have been too for his Conque&s;ts if the &s;hort line of his Humarie Life could have been &s;trecht out to the extent of his immortal de|&s;igns?</P>
<P>By this &s;peech I began to under&s;tand perfectly well what kind of Angel his pretended Highne&s;&s;e was, and having fortified my &s;elf privately with a &s;hort mental Prayer, and with the &s;ign of the Cro&s;&s;e (not out of any &s;uper&s;tition to the &s;ign, but as a recognition of my Bap|ti&s;m in Chri&s;t) I grew a little bolder, and replyed in this manner; I &s;hould not venture to oppo&s;e what you are plea&s;ed to &s;ay in commendation of the late great, and (I confe&s;&s;e) extraordinary per&s;on, but that I remember Chri&s;t forbids us to give a&s;&s;ent to any other doctrine but what him&s;elf has taught us, even though it
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&s;hould be delivered by an Angel; and if &s;uch you be, Sir, it may be you have &s;poken all this rather to try than to tempt my frailty: For &s;ure I am, that we mu&s;t renounce or forget all the Laws of the New and Old Te&s;tament, and tho&s;e which are the foundation of both, even the Laws of Moral and Natural Hone&s;ty, if we approve of the actions of that man whom I &s;uppo&s;e you commend by Irony. There would be no end to in&s;tance in the particulars of all his wickedne&s;&s;e; but to &s;um up a part of it briefly; What can be more extraordinarily wicked, than for a per&s;on, &s;uch as your &s;elf qualify him rightly, to endeavour not onely to exalt him&s;elf above, but to trample upon all his equals and betters? to pretend free|dom for all men, and under the help of that petence to make all men his &s;ervants? to take Arms again&s;t Taxes of &s;carce two hundred thou&s;and pounds a year, and to rai&s;e them him&s;elf to above two Milions? to quarrel for the lo&s;&s;e of three or four Eares, and &s;trike off three or four hundred
<PB N="16" REF="14">
Heads? to fight again&s;t an imaginary &s;u&s;pition of I know not what two thou|&s;and Guards to be fetcht for the King, I know not from whence, and to keep up for him&s;elf no le&s;&s;e than forty thou&s;and? to pretend the defence of Parliaments, and violently to di&s;&s;olve all even of his own calling, and almo&s;t choo&s;ing? to under|take the Reformation of Religion, to rob it even to the very skin, and then to ex|po&s;e it naked to the rage of all Sects and Here&s;ies? to &s;et up Coun&s;els of Rapine, and Courts of Murder? to fight again&s;t the King under a commi&s;&s;ion for him; to take him forceably out of the hands of tho&s;e for whom he had conquered him; to draw him into his Net, with prote|&s;tations and vows of fidelity, and when he had caught him in it, to butcher him, with as little &s;hame, as Con&s;cience, or Humanity, in the open face of the whole World? to receive a Commi&s;&s;ion for King and Parliament, to murder (as I &s;aid) the one, and de&s;troy no le&s;&s;e im|pudently the other? to fight again&s;t Mo|narchy
<PB N="17" REF="14">
when he declared for it, and de|clare again&s;t it when he contrived for it in his own per&s;on? to aba&s;e perfideou&s;ly and &s;upplant ingratefully his own General fir&s;t, and afterwards mo&s;t of tho&s;e Officers, who with the lo&s;&s;e of their Honour, and hazard of their Souls, had lifted him up to the top of his unrea&s;onable ambitions? to break his faith with all Enemies, and with all Friends equally? and to make no le&s;&s;e frequent u&s;e of the mo&s;t &s;olemn Perjuries than the loo&s;er &s;ort of People do of cu&s;tomary Oaths? to u&s;urp three Kingdoms without any &s;hadow of the lea&s;t preten&s;ions, and to govern them as unju&s;tly as he got them? to &s;et him&s;elf up as an Idol (which we know as St. <HI>Paul</HI> &s;ayes, in it &s;elf is nothing) and make the very &s;treets of <HI>London,</HI> like the Valley of <HI>Hinnon,</HI> by burning the bowels of men as a &s;acrifice to his <HI>Moloch-&s;hip?</HI> to &s;eek to entail this u&s;urpation upon his Po&s;te|rity, and with it an endle&s;&s;e War upon the Nation? and la&s;tly, by the &s;evere&s;t Judgement of Almighty God, to dye
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I ardned, and mad, and unrepentant, with the cur&s;es of the pre&s;ent Age, and the dete&s;tation of all to &s;ucceed.</P>
<P>Though I had much more to &s;ay (for the Life of man is &s;o &s;hort, that it allows not time enough to &s;peak again&s;t a Ty|rant) yet becau&s;e I had a mind to hear how my &s;trange Adver&s;ary would behave him&s;elf upon this &s;ubject, and to give even the Devil (as they &s;ay) his right, and fair play in a di&s;putation, I &s;topt here, and expected (not without the frailty of a little fear) that he &s;hould have broke into a violent pa&s;&s;ion in behalf of his Fa|vourite; but he on the contrary very calmly, and with the Dove-like inno|cency of a Serpent that was not yet warm'd enough to &s;ting, thus replyed to me.</P>
<P>It is not &s;o much out of my affection to that per&s;on whom we di&s;cour&s;e of (who&s;e greatne&s;&s;e is too &s;olid to be &s;ha|ken by the breath of any Oratory) as for your own &s;ake (hone&s;t Country-man) whom I conceive to err, rather by mi|&s;take
<PB N="19" REF="15">
than out of malice, that I &s;hall en|deavour to reform your uncharitable and unju&s;t opinion. And in the fir&s;t place I mu&s;t needs put you in mind of a Sentence of the mo&s;t antient of the Heathen Di|vines, that you men are acquainted with|all,</P>
<Q><GAP DESC="foreign">,</Q>
<Q><L>Tis wicked with in&s;ulting feet to tread</L>
<L>Upon the Monuments of the Dead.</L></Q>
<P>And the intention of the reproof there is no le&s;&s;e proper for this Subject; for it is &s;poken to a per&s;on who was proud and in&s;olent again&s;t tho&s;e dead men to whom he had been humble and obedient whil&s;t they lived. Your Highne&s;&s;e may plea&s;e (&s;aid I) to add the Ver&s;e that follows, as no le&s;&s;e proper for this Subject</P>
<Q><L>Whom God's ju&s;t doom and their own &s;ins have &s;ent</L>
<L>Already to their puni&s;hment.</L></Q>
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But I take this to be the rule in the ca&s;e, that when we fix any infamy up|on decea&s;ed per&s;ons, it &s;hould not be done out of hatred to the Dead, but out of love and charity to the Living, that the cur&s;es which onely remain in mens thoughts, and dare not come forth a|gain&s;t Tyrants (becau&s;e they are Tyrants) while&s;t they are &s;o, may at lea&s;t be for ever &s;etled and engraven upon their Me|mories, to deterre all others from the like wickedne&s;&s;e, which el&s;e in the time of their fooli&s;h pro&s;perity, the flattery of their own hearts, and of other mens Toungs, would not &s;uffer them to per|ceive. Ambition is &s;o &s;ubtil a Tempter, and the corruption of humane nature &s;o &s;u&s;ceptible of the temptation, that a man can hardly re&s;i&s;t it, be he never &s;o much forewarn'd of the evil con&s;equences, much le&s;&s;e if he find not onely the concurrence of the pre&s;ent, but the approbation too of following ages, which have the liber|ty to judge more freely. The mi&s;chief of Tyranny is too great, even in the &s;horte&s;t
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time that it can continue, it is endle&s;&s;e and in&s;upportable, if the Example be to reign too, and if a <HI>Lambert</HI> mu&s;t be invited to follow the &s;teps of a <HI>Cromwell</HI> as well by the voice of Honour, as by the &s;ight of power and riches. Though it may &s;eem to &s;ome fanta&s;tically, yet was it wi&s;ely done of the <HI>Syracu&s;ians,</HI> to implead with the forms of their ordinary ju&s;tice, to con|demn, and de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">roy even the Statues of all their Tyrants; If it were po&s;&s;ible to cut them out of all Hi&s;tory, and to extingui&s;h their very names, I am of opinion that it ought to be done; but &s;ince they have left behind them too deep wounds to be ever clo&s;ed up without a Scar, at lea&s;t let us &s;et &s;uch a mark upon their memory, that men of the &s;ame wicked inclinations may be no le&s;&s;e affrighted with their la&s;ting Ignominy, than enticed by their momen|tary glories. And that your Highne&s;&s;e may perceive that I &s;peak not all this out of any private animo&s;ity again&s;t the per|&s;on of the late <HI>Protector,</HI> I a&s;&s;ure you up|on my faith that I bear no more hatred to
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his name, than I do to that of <HI>Marius</HI> or <HI>Sylla,</HI> who never did me or any friend of mine the lea&s;t injury; and with that tran&s;|ported by a holy fury, I fell into this &s;ud|den rapture.</P>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>1.</HEAD>
<L>Cur&s;t be the Man (what do I wi&s;h? as though</L>
<L>The wretch already were not &s;o;</L>
<L>But cur&s;t on let him be) who thinks it brave</L>
<L>And great, his Countrey to en&s;lave.</L>
<L>Who &s;eeks to overpoi&s;e alone</L>
<L>The Balance of a Nation;</L>
<L>Again&s;t the whole but naked State,</L>
<L>Who in his own light Scale makes up with Arms the weight.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="2">
<HEAD>2.</HEAD>
<L>Who of his Nation loves to be the fir&s;t,</L>
<L>Though at the rate of being wor&s;t.</L>
<L>Who would be rather a great Mon&s;ter, than</L>
<L>A well-proportion'd Man.</L>
<L>The Son of Earth with hundred hands</L>
<L>Upon his three-pil'd Mountain &s;tands,</L>
<L>Till Thunder &s;trikes him from the sky;</L>
<L>The Son of Earth again in his Earths womb does lie.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="3">
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<HEAD>3.</HEAD>
<L>What Bloud, Confu&s;ion, Ruin, to obtain</L>
<L>A &s;hort and m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;erable Reign?</L>
<L>In what oblique, and humble creeping wi&s;e</L>
<L>Does the mi&s;chievous Serpent ri&s;e?</L>
<L>But even his forked Toung &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ikes dead,</L>
<L>When h'as reard up his wicked Head,</L>
<L>He murders with his mortal frown,</L>
<L>A <HI>Ba&s;ilisk</HI> he grows, if once he get a Crown.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="4">
<HEAD>4.</HEAD>
<L>But no Guards can oppo&s;e a&s;&s;aulting Eares,</L>
<L>Or undermining Tears.</L>
<L>No more than doors, or clo&s;e-drawn Curtains keep</L>
<L>The &s;warming Dreams out when we &s;leep.</L>
<L>That bloudy Con&s;cience too of his</L>
<L>(For, oh, a Rebell Red-Coat 'tis)</L>
<L>Does here his early Hell begin,</L>
<L>He &s;ees his Slaves without, his Tyrant feels with|in.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="5">
<HEAD>5.</HEAD>
<L>Let, Gracious God, let never more thine hand</L>
<L>Lift up this Rod again&s;t our Land.</L>
<L><PB N="24" REF="18">
A Tyrant is a Rod and Serpent too,</L>
<L>And brings wor&s;e Plagues than <HI>Egypt</HI> knew.</L>
<L>What Rivers &s;tain'd with Bloud have been?</L>
<L>What Storm and Hail-&s;hot have we &s;een?</L>
<L>What Sores deform'd the Ulcerous State?</L>
<L>What darkne&s;&s;e to be felt has buried us of late?</L>
</LG>
<LG N="6">
<HEAD>6.</HEAD>
<L>How has it &s;natcht our Flocks and Herds away?</L>
<L>And made even of our Sons a prey?</L>
<L>What croaking Sects and Vermine has it &s;ent</L>
<L>The re&s;tle&s;&s;e Nation to torment?</L>
<L>What greedy Troups, what armed power</L>
<L>Of Flies and Locu&s;ts to devour</L>
<L>The Land which every where they fill?</L>
<L>Nor fly they, Lord, away; no, they devour it &s;till.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="7">
<HEAD>7.</HEAD>
<L>Come the eleventh Plague, rather than this &s;hould be;</L>
<L>Come &s;ink us rather in the Sea.</L>
<L>Come rather Pe&s;tilence, and reap us down;</L>
<L>Come Gods Sword rather than our own.</L>
<L>Let rather <HI>Roman</HI> come again,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Saxon, Norman,</HI> or the <HI>Dane,</HI></L>
<L><PB N="25" REF="18">
In all the Bonds we ever bore,</L>
<L>We griev'd, we &s;igh'd, we wept; we never blu&s;ht before.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="8">
<HEAD>8.</HEAD>
<L>If by our &s;ins the Divine Ju&s;tice be</L>
<L>Call'd to this la&s;t extremity,</L>
<L>Let &s;ome denouncing <HI>Jonas</HI> fir&s;t be &s;ent,</L>
<L>To try if <HI>England</HI> can repent.</L>
<L>Methinks at lea&s;t &s;ome Prodigy,</L>
<L>Some dreadfull Comet from on high,</L>
<L>Should terribly forewarn the Earth,</L>
<L>As of good Princes Deaths, &s;o of a Tyrants birth.</L>
</LG>
<P>Here the &s;pirit of Ver&s;e beginning a little to fail, I &s;topt, and his Highne&s;&s;e &s;miling &s;aid, I was glad to &s;ee you en|gaged in the Enclo&s;ures of <HI>Meeter,</HI> for if you had &s;taid in the open plain of De|claiming again&s;t the word Tyrant, I mu&s;t have had patience for half a dosen hours, till you had tired your &s;elf as well as me. But pray, Countrey-man, to a|void this &s;ciomachy, or imaginary Com|bat with words, let me know fir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">t what you mean by the name of Tyrant,
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for I remember that among your antient Authors, not onely all Kings, but even <HI>Jupiter</HI> him&s;elf (your <HI>Juvans Pater)</HI> is &s;o termed, and perhaps as it was u&s;ed for|merly in a good &s;ence, &s;o we &s;hall find it upon better con&s;ideration to be &s;till a good thing for the benefit and peace of mankind, at lea&s;t it will appear whether your interpretation of it may be ju&s;tly applied to the per&s;on who is now the &s;ub|ject of our Di&s;cour&s;e. I call him (&s;aid I) a Tyrant, who either intrudes him&s;elf &s;or|cibly into the Government of his fellow Citizens without any legal Authority over them, or who having a ju&s;t Title to the Government of a people, abu&s;es it to the de&s;truction, or tormenting of them. So that all Tyrants are at the &s;ame time U&s;urpers, either of the whole or at lea&s;t of a part of that power which they a&s;&s;ume to them&s;elves, and no le&s;&s;e are they to be accounted Rebels, &s;ince no man can U&s;urp Authority over others, but by rebelling again&s;t them who had it before, or at lea&s;t again&s;t tho&s;e Laws
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which were his Superiors; and in all the&s;e &s;ences no Hi&s;tory can affoard us a more evident example of Tyranny, or more out all po&s;&s;ibility of excu&s;e, or palliation, than that of the per&s;on whom you are plea&s;ed to defend, whether we con&s;id<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">r his reiterated rebellions again&s;t all his &s;uperiors, or his u&s;urpation of the Su|pream power to him&s;elf, or his Tyran|ny in the exerci&s;e of it; and if lawfull Princes have been e&s;teemed Tyrants by not containing them&s;elves within the bounds of tho&s;e Laws which have been left them as the &s;phere of their Autho|rity by their fore-fathers, what &s;hall we &s;ay of that man, who having by right no power at all in this Nation, could not content him&s;elf with that which had &s;atisfied the mo&s;t ambitious of our Prin|ces? nay, not with tho&s;e va&s;tly extended limits of Soverainty, which he (di&s;dain|ing all that had been pre&s;cribed and ob|&s;erved before) was plea&s;ed (but of great mode&s;ty) to &s;et to him&s;elf? not ab&s;tain|ing from Rebellion and U&s;urpation even
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again&s;t his own Laws as well as tho&s;e of the Nation?</P>
<P>Hold friend (&s;aid his Highne&s;&s;e, (pul|ling me by my Arm) for I &s;ee your zeal is tran&s;porting you again) whether the Protector were a Tyrant in the exorbi|rant exerci&s;e of his power we &s;hall &s;ee anon, it is requi&s;ite to examine fir&s;t whe|ther he were &s;o in the U&s;urpation of it. And I &s;ay, that not onely He, but no man el&s;e ever was, or can be &s;o; and that for the&s;e rea&s;ons. Fir&s;t, becau&s;e all power belongs onely to God, who is the &s;ource and fountain of it, as Kings are of all Ho|nours in their Dominions. Princes are but his Viceroys in the little Provinces of this World, and to &s;ome he gives their places for a few years, to &s;ome for their lives, and to others (upon ends or de|&s;erts be&s;t known to him&s;elf, or meerly for his undi&s;putable good plea&s;ure) he be|&s;tows as it were Lea&s;es upon them, and their po&s;terity, for &s;uch a date of time as is prefixt in that Patent of their De&s;tiny, which is not legible to you men below.
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Neither is it more unlawfull for <HI>Oliver</HI> to &s;ucceed <HI>Charls</HI> in the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> when God &s;o di&s;po&s;es of it, than it had been for him to have &s;ucceed|ed the Lord <HI>Strafford</HI> in the Lieutenancy of <HI>Ireland,</HI> if he had been appointed to it by the King then reigning. Men are in both the ca&s;es obliged to obey him whom they &s;ee actually inve&s;ted with the Au|thority by that Sovereign from whom he ought to derive it, without di&s;puting or examining the cau&s;es, either of the re|moveal of the one, or the preferment of the other. Secondly, becau&s;e all power is attained either by the Election and con&s;ent of the people, and that takes away your objection of forcible intru&s;ion; or el&s;e by a Conque&s;t of them, and that gives &s;uch a legal Authority as you mention to be wanting in the U&s;urpation of a tyrant; &s;o that either this Title is right, and then there are no U&s;urpers, or el&s;e it is a wrong one, and then there are none el&s;e but U&s;urpers, if you examine the Original pretences of the Princes of the World.
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Thirdly, (which quitting the di&s;pute in general, is a particular ju&s;tification of his Highne&s;&s;e) the Government of <HI>England</HI> was totally broken and di&s;&s;olved, and ex|tingui&s;ht by the confu&s;ions of a Civil War, &s;o that his Highne&s;&s;e could not be accu&s;ed to have po&s;&s;e&s;t him&s;elf vio|lently of the antient building of the Com|monwealth, but to have prudently and peaceably built up a new one out of the ruins and a&s;hes of the former; and he who after a deplorable &s;hipwrack can with ex|traordinary Indu&s;try gather together the di&s;per&s;t and broken planks and pieces of it, and with no le&s;&s;e wonderfull art and f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">licity &s;o rejoyn them as to make a new Ve&s;&s;el more tight and beautifull than the old one, de&s;erves no doubt to have the command of her (even as his Highne&s;&s;e had) by the de&s;ire of the Sea-men and Pa&s;&s;engers them&s;elves. And do but con|&s;ider la&s;tly (for I omit multitude of weighty things that might be &s;poken up|on this noble argument) do but con&s;ider &s;eriou&s;ly and impartially with your &s;elf,
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what admirable parts of wit and pru|dence, what indefatigable diligence and invincible courage mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity have concurred in the per&s;on of that man, who from &s;o contemptible beginnings (as I ob&s;erved before) and through &s;o many thou&s;and difficulties, was able not onely to make him&s;elf the greate&s;t and mo&s;t ab&s;olute Monarch of this Nation, but to add to it the entire Conque&s;t of <HI>Ireland</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> (which the whole force of the World joyned with the Roman vir|tue could never attain to) and to Crown all this with Illu&s;trious and Heroical un|dertakings, and &s;ucce&s;&s;es upon' all our fo|rein Enemies; do but (I &s;ay again) con|&s;ider this, and you will confe&s;&s;e, that his prodigious Merits were a better Title to Imperial Dignity, than the bloud of an hundred Royal Progenitors; and will ra|ther lament that he lived not to over|come more Nations, than envy him the Conque&s;t and Dominion of the&s;e. Who ever you are (&s;aid I, my indigna|tion making me &s;omewhat bolder) your
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di&s;cour&s;e (methinks) becomes as little the per&s;on of a Tutelar Angel, as <HI>Crom|wels</HI> actions did that of a Protector. It is upon the&s;e Principles that all the great Crimes of the World have been com|mitted, and mo&s;t particularly tho&s;e which I have had the misfortune to &s;ee in my own time, and in my own Coun|trey. If the&s;e be to be allowed, we mu&s;t break up human &s;ociety, retire into the Woods, and equally there &s;tand upon our Guards again&s;t our Brethren Man|kind, and our Rebels the Wild Bea&s;ts. For if there can be no U&s;urpation upon the rights of a whole Nation, there can be none mo&s;t certainly upon tho&s;e of a private per&s;on; and if the Robbers of Countreys be Gods Vicegerents, there is no doubt but the Thieves, and Banditos, and Murderers are his under Officers. It is true which you &s;ay, that God is the &s;cource and fountain of all power, and it it is no le&s;&s;e true that he is the Crea|tor of Serpents as well as Angels, nor does his goodne&s;&s;e fail of its ends even
<PB N="33" REF="22">
in the malice of his own Creatures. What power he &s;uffers the Devil to ex|erci&s;e in this World, is too apparent by our daily experience, and by nothing more than the late mon&s;terous iniquities which you di&s;pute for, and patronize in <HI>England;</HI> but would you inferre from thence, that the power of the Devil is a ju&s;t and lawful one, and that all men ought, as well as mo&s;t men do, obey him? God is the fountain of all Powers; but &s;ome flow from the right hand (as it were) of his Goodne&s;&s;e, and others from the left hand of his Ju&s;tice; and the World, like an I&s;land between the&s;e two Rivers, is &s;ometimes refre&s;ht and nouri&s;hed by the one, and &s;ometimes overrun and ruined by the other; and (to continue a little farther the Allegory) we are never overwhelmed with the latter, till either by our malice or negligence we have &s;lopt and damm'd up the former. But to come a little clo&s;er to your Argu|ment, or rather the Image of an Argu|ment, your &s;imilitude; If <HI>Cromwell</HI> had
<PB N="34" REF="23">
come to command <HI>Ireland</HI> in the place of the late Lord <HI>Strafford,</HI> I &s;hould have yielded obedience, not for the equipage, and the &s;trength, and the guards which he brought with him, but for the Com|mi&s;&s;ion which he &s;hould fir&s;t have &s;how|ed me from our common Soveraign that &s;ent him; and if He could have done that from God Almighty, I would have o|beyed him too in <HI>England;</HI> but that he was &s;o far from being able to do, that on the contrary, I read nothing but com|mands, and even publick Proclamations from God Almighty, not to admit him. Your &s;econd Argument is, that he had the &s;ame right for his authority, that is the foundation of all others, even the right of Conque&s;t. Are we then &s;o un|happy as to be conquered by the per&s;on, whom we hired at a daily rate, like a La|bourer, to conquer others for us? did we furni&s;h him with Arms, onely to draw and try upon our Enemies (as we, it &s;eems, fal&s;ely thought them) and keep them for ever &s;heath'd in the bowels of
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his Friends? did we fight for Liberty again&s;t our Prince, that we might become Slaves to our Servant? this is &s;uch an im|pudent pretence, as neither He nor any of his Flatterers for him had ever the face to mention. Though it can hardly be &s;po|ken or thought of without pa&s;&s;ion, yet I &s;hall, if you plea&s;e, argue it more calm|ly than the ca&s;e de&s;erves. The right cer|tainly of Conque&s;t can onely be exerci&s;ed upon tho&s;e again&s;t whom the War is declared, and the Victory obtained. So that no whole Nation can be &s;aid to be conquered but by forein force. In all civil Wars men are &s;o far from &s;tating the quarrel again&s;t their Country, that they do it onely again&s;t a per&s;on or party which they really believe, or at lea&s;t pre|tend to be pernicious to it, neither can there be any ju&s;t cau&s;e for the de&s;truction of a part of the Body, but when it is done for the pre&s;ervation and &s;afety of the Whole. 'Tis our Country that rai&s;es men in the quarrel, our Country that arms, our Country that payes them, our
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Country that authori&s;es the undertaking, and by that di&s;tingui&s;hes it from rapine and murder; la&s;tly, 'tis our Country that directs and commands the Army, and is indeed their General. So that to &s;ay in Civil Warrs that the prevailing party conquers their Country, is to &s;ay, the Country conquers it &s;elf. And if the General onely of that party be the Con|querour, the Army by which he is made &s;o, is no le&s;&s;e conquered than the Army which is beaten, and have as little rea|&s;on to triumph in that Victory, by which they lo&s;e both their Honour and Liberty. So that if <HI>Cromwell</HI> conquered any party, it was onely that again&s;t which he was &s;ent, and what that was, mu&s;t appear by his Commi&s;&s;ion. It was (&s;ayes that) again&s;t a company of evil Coun&s;ellours, and di&s;affected per&s;ons, who kept the King from a good intelligence and conjunction with his People. It was not then again&s;t the People. It is &s;o far from being &s;o, that even of that party which was beaten, the Conque&s;t did not
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belong to <HI>Cromwell</HI> but to the Parliament which employed him in their Service, or rather indeed to the King and Parlia|ment, for who&s;e Service (if there had been any faith in mens vows and prote|&s;tations) the Warrs were undertaken. Merciful God! did the right of this mi|&s;erable Conque&s;t remain then in his Ma|je&s;ty, and did&s;t thou &s;uffer him to be de|&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">royed with more barbarity than if he had been conquered even by Savages and Cannibals? was it for King and Parlia|ment that we fought, and has it fared with them ju&s;t as with the Army which we fought again&s;t, the one part being &s;lain, and the other fled? It appears therefore plainly, that <HI>Cromwell</HI> was not a Conquerour, but a Thief and Robber of the Rights of the King and Parliament, and an U&s;urper upon tho&s;e of the People. I do not here de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">y Conque&s;t to be &s;ome|times (though it be very rarely) a true title, but I deny this to be a true Conque&s;t. Sure I am, that the race of our Princes came not in by &s;uch a one. One Nation
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may conquer another &s;ometimes ju&s;t|ly, and if it be unju&s;ty, yet &s;till it is a true Conque&s;t, and they are to an&s;wer for the inju&s;tice onely to God Almighty (ha|ving nothing el&s;e in authority above them) and not as particular Rebels to their Country, which is, and ought al|waies to be their Superior and their Lord. If perhaps we find U&s;urpation in&s;tead of Conque&s;t in the Original Titles of &s;ome Royal Families abroad (as no doubt there have been many U&s;urpers before ours, though none in &s;o impudent and execra|ble a manner) all I can &s;ay for them is, that their Title was very weak, till by length of time, and the death of all ju&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">r pretenders, it became to be the true, be|cau&s;e it was the onely one. Your third defence of his Highne&s;&s;e (as your High|ne&s;&s;e plea&s;es to call him) enters in mo&s;t &s;ea&s;onably after his pretence of Conque&s;t, for then a man may &s;ay any thing. The Government was broken; Who broke it? It was di&s;&s;olved; Who di&s;|&s;olved it? It was extingui&s;ht; Who was
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it but <HI>Cromwell,</HI> who not onely put out the Light, but ca&s;t away even the very &s;nuff of it? As if a man &s;hould mur|der a whole Family, and then po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e him&s;elf of the Hou&s;e, becau&s;e 'tis better that He than that onely Rats &s;hould live there. Je&s;us God! (&s;aid I, and at that word I perceived my pretended Angel to give a &s;tart, and trembled, but I took no notice of it, and went on) this were a wicked preten&s;ion even though the whole Family were de&s;troyed, but the Heirs (ble&s;&s;ed be God) are yet &s;urvive|ing, and likely to outlive all Heirs of their di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, be&s;ides their Infamy. <HI>Rode Caper vitem,</HI> &amp;c. There will be yet wine enough left for the Sacrifice of the&s;e wild Bea&s;ts that have made &s;o much &s;poil in the Vine yard. But did <HI>Cromwell</HI> think, like <HI>Nero,</HI> to &s;et the City on fire, onely that he might have the honour of being founder of a new and more beautiful one? He could not have &s;uch a &s;hadow of Virtue in his wickedne&s;&s;e; he meant one|ly to rob more &s;ecurely and more richly
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in mid&s;t of the combu&s;tion; he little thought then that he &s;hould ever have been able to make him&s;elf. Ma&s;ter of the Palace, as well as plunder the Goods of the Commonwealth. He was glad to &s;ee the publick Ve&s;&s;el (the Soveraign of the Seas) in as de&s;perate a condition as his own little Canou, and thought onely with &s;ome &s;cattered planks of that great &s;hipwrack to make a better Fi&s;herboat for him&s;elf. But when he &s;aw that by the drowning of the Ma&s;ter (whom he him&s;elf treacherou&s;ly knockt on the head as he was &s;wimming for his life) by the flight and di&s;per&s;ion of others, and cow|ardly patience of the remaining compa|ny, that all was abandoned to his plea&s;ure, with the old Hulk and new mis-&s;hapen and di&s;agreeing peeces of his own, he made up with much adoe that Piratical Ve&s;&s;el which we have &s;een him com|mand, and which how tight indeed it was, may be&s;t be judged by it's perpetual Leaking. Fir&s;t then (much more wic|ked than tho&s;e fooli&s;h daughters in the
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Fable, who cut their old Father into pie|ces, in hope by charms and witchcraft to make him young and lu&s;ty again) this man endeavoured to de&s;troy the Building, be|fore he could imagine in what manner, with what materials, by what workmen, or what Architect it was to be rebuilt. Secondly, if he had dream't him&s;elf to be able to revive that body which he had killed, yet it had been but the in&s;uppor|table in&s;olence of an ignorant Mounte|banck; and thirdly (which concerns us neare&s;t) that very new thing which he made out of the ruines of the old, is no more like the Original, either for beauty, u&s;e, or duration, than an artificial Plant rai&s;ed by the fire of a Chymi&s;t is compa|rable to the true and natural one which he fir&s;t burnt, that out of the a&s;hes of it he might produce an imperfect &s;imilitude of his own making. Your la&s;t argu|ment is &s;uch (when reduced to Syllo|gi&s;m) that the Major Propo&s;ition of it would make &s;trange work in the World, if it were received for truth; to wit, that
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he who has the be&s;t parts in a Nation, has the right of being King over it. We had enough to do here of old with the con|tention between two branches of the &s;ame Family, what would become of us when every man in <HI>England</HI> &s;hould lay his claim to the Government? and truly if <HI>Cromwell</HI> &s;hould have commenced his plea when he &s;eems to have begun his ambition, there were few per&s;ons be&s;ides that might not at the &s;ame time have put in theirs to. But his De&s;erts I &s;uppo&s;e you will date from the &s;ame term that I do his great Demerits, that is, from the beginning of our late calamities, (for as for his private faults before, I can one|ly wi&s;h (and that with as much Charity to him as to the publick) that he had continued in them till his death, rather than changed them for tho&s;e of his latter dayes) and therefore we mu&s;t begin the con&s;ideration of his greatne&s;&s;e from the unlucky <HI>Aera</HI> of our own misfortunes, which puts me in mind of what was &s;aid le&s;&s;e truly of <HI>Pompey</HI> the Great,
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<HI>No&s;tra Mi&s;eria Magnus es.</HI> But becau&s;e the general ground of your argumenta|tion con&s;i&s;ts in this, that all men who are the effecters of extraordinary mutations in the world, mu&s;t needs have extraor|dinary forces of Nature by which they are enabled to turn about, as they plea&s;e, &s;o great a Wheel; I &s;hall &s;peak fir&s;t a few words upon this univer&s;al propo&s;iti|on, which &s;eems &s;o rea&s;onable, and is &s;o popular, before I de&s;cend to the parti|cular examination of the eminences of that per&s;on which is in que&s;tion.</P>
<P>I have often ob&s;erved (with all &s;ub|mi&s;&s;ion and re&s;ignation of &s;pirit to the in|&s;crutable my&s;teries of Eternal Provi|dence) that when the fulne&s;&s;e and ma|turity of time is come that produces the great confu&s;ions and changes in the World, it u&s;ually plea&s;es God to make it appear by the manner of them, that they are not the effects of humane &s;orce or policy, but of the Divine Ju&s;tice and Prede&s;tination, and though we &s;ee a Man, like that which we call Jack of the Clo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">k|hon&s;e,
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&s;triking, as it were, the Hour of that fulne&s;&s;e of time, yet our rea&s;on mu&s;t needs be convinced, that his hand is mo|ved by &s;ome &s;ecret, and, to us who &s;tand without, invi&s;ible direction. And the &s;tream of the Current is then &s;o violent, that the &s;tronge&s;t men in the World can|not draw up again&s;t it, and none are &s;o weak, but they may &s;ail down with it. The&s;e are the Spring-tides of publick af|fairs which we &s;ee often happen, but &s;eek in vain to di&s;cover any certain cau&s;es,
<Q><L>&mdash;Omnia Fluminis <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hor. Carm.</HI> 3. 29.</NOTE></L>
<L>Ritu feruntur, nunc medio alveo</L>
<L>Cum pace delabentis Hetru&s;cum</L>
<L>In mare, nunc lapides ade&s;os</L>
<L>Stirpe&s;&abque; raptas, &amp; pecus &amp; domos</L>
<L>Volventis una, non &s;ine montium</L>
<L>Clamore, vicinaeque &s;ilvae;</L>
<L>Cumfera Diluvies quietos</L>
<L>Irritat amnes,&mdash;</L></Q>
and one man then, by malitiou&s;ly open|ing all the Sluces that he can come at, can
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never be the &s;ole Author of all this (though he may be as guilty as if really he were, by intending and imagining to be &s;o) but it is God that breaks up the Flood-Gates of &s;o general a Deluge, and all the art then and indu&s;try of mankind is not &s;ufficient to rai&s;e up Dikes and Ramparts again&s;t it. In &s;uch a time it was as this, that not all the wi&s;dom and power of the Roman Se|nate, nor the wit and eloquence of <HI>Ci|cero,</HI> nor the Courage and Virtue of <HI>Brutus</HI> was able to defend their Coun|trey or Them&s;elves again&s;t the unexpe|rienced ra&s;hne&s;&s;e of a beardle&s;&s;e Boy, and the loo&s;e rage of a voluptuous Mad|man. The valour and prudent Coun&s;els on the one &s;ide are made fruitle&s;&s;e, and the errors and cowardize on the other harmle&s;&s;e, by unexpected accidents. The one General &s;aves his life, and gains the whole World, by a very Dream; and the other lo&s;es both at once by a little mi&s;take of the &s;hortne&s;&s;e of his &s;ight. And though this be not alwayes
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&s;o, for we &s;ee that in the tran&s;lation of the great Monarchies from one to ano|ther, it plea&s;ed God to make choi&s;e of the mo&s;t Eminent men in Nature, as <HI>Cyrus, Alexander, Scipio</HI> and his contem|poraries, for his chief in&s;truments and actors in &s;o admirable a work (the end of this being not onely to de&s;troy or pu|ni&s;h one Nation, which may be done by the wor&s;t of mankind, but to exalt and ble&s;&s;e another, which is onely to be effected by great and virtuous per|&s;ons) yet when God onely intends the temporary cha&s;ti&s;ement of a people, he does not rai&s;e up his &s;ervant <HI>Cyrus</HI> (as he him&s;elf is plea&s;ed to call him) or an <HI>A|lexander</HI> (who had as many Virtues to do good, as Vices to do harm) but he makes the <HI>Ma&s;&s;anell<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s,</HI> and the <HI>Johns</HI> of <HI>Leyden</HI> the in&s;truments of his vengeance, that the power of the Almighty might bee more evident by the weakne&s;&s;e of the means which he choo&s;es to demon|&s;trate it. Hee did not a&s;&s;emble the Serpents and the Mon&s;ters of Afrique to
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correct the pride of the <HI>Egyptians,</HI> but called for his Armies of Locu&s;ts out of <HI>Aethiopia,</HI> and formed new ones of Ver|mine out of the very du&s;t; and becau&s;e you &s;ee a whole Countrey de&s;troyed by the&s;e, will you argue from thence that they mu&s;t needs have had both the craft of Foxes, and the courage of Lions? It is ea&s;ie to apply this general ob&s;ervation to the particular ca&s;e of our troubles in <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and that they &s;eem onely to be meant for a temporary cha&s;ti&s;ement of our &s;ins, and not for a total aboli&s;hment of the old, and introduction of a new Government, appears probable to me from the&s;e con|&s;iderations, as farre as we may be bold to make a judgement of the will of God in future events. Fir&s;t, becau&s;e he has &s;uffered nothing to &s;ettle or take root in the place of that which hath been &s;o unwi&s;ely and unju&s;tly removed, that none of the&s;e untempered Mortars can hold out again&s;t the next bla&s;t of Wind, nor any &s;tone &s;tick to a &s;tone, till that which the&s;e Fooli&s;h Builders have refu&s;ed be
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made again the Head of the Corner. For when the indi&s;po&s;ed and long tor|mented Commonwealth has wearied and &s;pent it &s;elf almo&s;t to nothing with the chargeable, various, and dangerous expe|riments of &s;everal Mountebanks, it is to be &s;uppo&s;ed it will have the wit at la&s;t to &s;end for a true Phy&s;ician, e&s;pecial|ly when it &s;ees (which is the &s;econd con|&s;ideration) mo&s;t evidently (as it now be|gins to do, and will do every day more and more, and might have done perfe|ctly long &s;ince) that no U&s;urpation (un|der what name or pretext &s;oever) can be kept up without open force, nor force without the continuance of tho&s;e oppre&s;|&s;ions upon the people, which will at la&s;t tire out their patience, though it be great even to &s;tupidity. They cannot be &s;o dull (when poverty and hunger begins to whet their under&s;tanding) as not to find out this no extraordinary my&s;tery, that 'tis madne&s;&s;e in a Nation to pay three Millions a year for the maintain|ing of their &s;ervitude under Tyrants,
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when they might live free for nothing un|der their Princes. This, I &s;ay, will not al|wayes ly hid even to the &s;lowe&s;t capacities, and the next truth they will di&s;cover af|terwards, is, that a whole people can ne|ver have the will without having at the &s;ame time the Power to redeem them|&s;elves. Thirdly, it does not look (me|thinks) as if God had for&s;aken the fa|mily of that man, from whom he has rai&s;ed up five Children, of as Eminent virtue, and all other commendable quali|ties, as ever lived perhaps (for &s;o many together, and &s;o young) in any other fa|mily in the whole World. E&s;pecially if we add hereto this con&s;ideration, that by protecting and pre&s;erving &s;ome of them already through as great dangers as ever were pa&s;t with &s;afety, either by Prince or private per&s;on, he has given them already (as we may rea&s;onably hope it to be meant) a promi&s;e and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ar|ne&s;t of his future favours. And la&s;tly (to return clo&s;ely to the di&s;cour&s;e from which I have a little digre&s;t) becau&s;e I &s;ee no|thing
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of tho&s;e excellent parts of nature, and mixture of Merit with their Vices in the late di&s;turbers of our peace and hap|pine&s;&s;e, that u&s;es to be found in the per|&s;ons of tho&s;e who are born for the ere|ction of new Empires. And I confe&s;&s;e I find nothing of that kind, no not any &s;hadow (taking away the fal&s;e light of &s;ome pro&s;perity) in the man whom you extol for the fir&s;t example of it. And certainly all Virtues being rightly devi|ded into Moral and Intellectual, I know not how we can better judge of the for|mer than by mens actions, or of the lat|ter than by their Writings or Speeches. As for the&s;e latter (which are lea&s;t in merit, or rather which are onely the in|&s;truments of mi&s;chief where the other are wanting) I think you can hardly pick out the name of a man who ever was cal|led Great, be&s;ides him we are now &s;peaking of, who never left the memo|ry behind him of one wife or witty A|pothegm even among&s;t his Dome&s;tique Servants or greate&s;t Flatterers. That lit|tle
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in print which remains upon a &s;ad record for him, is &s;uch, as a Satyre again&s;t him would not have made him &s;ay, for fear of tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing too much the rules of Probability. I know not what you can produce for the ju&s;tification of his parts in this kind, but his having been able to deceive &s;o many particular per|&s;ons, and &s;o many whole parties; which if you plea&s;e to take notice of for the advantage of his Intellectuals, I de&s;ire you to allow me the liberty to do &s;o too, when I am to &s;peak of his Morals. The truth of the thing is this, That if Craft be Wi&s;dom, and Di&s;&s;imulation Wit, (a&s;&s;i&s;ted both and improved with Hypo|cri&s;ies and Perjuries) I mu&s;t not deny him to have been &s;ingular in both; but &s;o gro&s;&s;e was the manner in which he made u&s;e of them, that as wi&s;e-men ought not to have believed him at fir&s;t, &s;o no man was Fool enough to believe him at la&s;t; neither did any man &s;eem to do it, but tho&s;e who thought they gained as much by that di&s;&s;embling, as he did by his.
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His very actings of Godline&s;&s;e grew at la&s;t as ridiculous, as if a Player, by put|ting on a Gown, &s;hould think he repre|&s;ented excellently a Woman, though his Beard at the &s;ame time were &s;een by all the Spectators. If you ask me why they did not hi&s;&s;e, and explode him off of the Stage, I can onely an&s;wer, that they dur&s;t not do &s;o, becau&s;e the Actors and the Door-keepers were too &s;trong for the Company. I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e that by the&s;e arts (how gro&s;ly &s;oever managed, as by Hypocritical praying, and &s;illy preach|ing, by unmanly tears and whinings, by fal&s;hoods and perjuries even Diabolical) he had at fir&s;t the good fortune (as men call it, that is the Ill Fortune) to attain his ends; but it was becau&s;e his ends were &s;o unrea&s;onable, that no human rea&s;on could fore&s;ee them; which made them who had to do with him believe that he was rather a well meaning and deluded Bigot, than a crafty and mali|cious Impo&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">r, that the&s;e arts were helpt by an Inde&s;atigable indu&s;try (as
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you term it) I am &s;o far from doubting, that I intended to Object that diligence as the wor&s;t of his Crimes. It makes me almo&s;t mad when I hear a man com|mended for his diligence in wickedne&s;&s;e. If I were his Son I &s;hould wi&s;h to God he had been a more lazie per&s;on, and that we might have found him &s;leeping at the hours when other men are ordi|narily waking, rather than waking for tho&s;e ends of his when other men were ordinarily a&s;leep; how diligent the wic|ked are the Scripture often tells us; Their feet run to evil, and they make ha&s;te to &s;hed innocent bloud, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 59. 7. He travels with iniquity, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 7. 14. He devi&s;eth mi&s;chief upon his bed, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 34. 4. They &s;earch out iniquity, they accom|pli&s;h a diligent &s;earch, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 64. 6. and in a multitude of other places. And would it not &s;eem ridiculous to prai&s;e a Wolf for his watchfulne&s;&s;e, and for his indefatigable indu&s;try in ranging all night about the Countrey, while&s;t the &s;heep, and perhaps the &s;hepherd,
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and perhaps thevery Dogs too are all a|&s;leep?</P>
<Q><L>The <HI>Charereux</HI> wants the warning of a Bell</L>
<L>To call him to the duties of his Cell;</L>
<L>There needs no noi&s;e at all t' awaken &s;in,</L>
<L>Th' Adulterer and the Thief his Larum has with|in.</L></Q>
<P>And if the diligence of wicked per&s;ons be &s;o much to be blamed, as that it is onely an Empha&s;is and Exaggetation of their wickedne&s;&s;e, I &s;ee not how their Courage can avoid the &s;ame cen&s;ure. If the undertaking bold, and va&s;t, and un|rea&s;onable de&s;igns can de&s;erve that ho|norable name, I am &s;ure <HI>Faux</HI> and his fellow Gun-powder <HI>Fiends</HI> will have cau&s;e to pretend, though not an equal, yet at lea&s;t the next place of Honour, nei|ther can I doubt but if they too had &s;uc|ceeded, they would have found their Ap|plauders and Admirers. It was bold un|que&s;tionably for a man in defiance of all human and divine Laws (and with &s;o little probability of a long impunity) &s;o
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publiquely and &s;o outragiou&s;ly to murder his Ma&s;ter; It was bold with &s;o much in&s;olence and affront to expell and di&s;|per&s;e all the chief Partners of his guilt, and Creators of his power; It was bold to violate &s;o openly and &s;o &s;cornfully all Acts and Con&s;titutions of a Na|tion, and afterwards even of his own making; it was bold to a&s;&s;ume the Au|thority of calling, and bolder yet of breaking &s;o many Parliaments; it was bold to trample upon the patience of his own, and provoke that of all neigh|bouring Countreys; It was bold, I &s;ay, above all boldne&s;&s;es, to U&s;urp this Ty|ranny to him&s;elf, and impudent above all impudences to endeavour to tran&s;|mit it to his po&s;terity. But all this bold|ne&s;&s;e is &s;o far from being a &s;ign of man|ly Courage, (which dares not tran&s;|gre&s;&s;e the rules of any other Virtue) that it is onely a Demon&s;tration of Bru|ti&s;h Madne&s;&s;e or Diabolical Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion. In both which la&s;t ca&s;es there u&s;es fre|quent examples to appear of &s;uch extra|ordinary
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force as may ju&s;tly &s;eem more wonderfull and a&s;toni&s;hing than the acti|ons of <HI>Cromwell,</HI> neither is it &s;tranger to believe that a whole Nation &s;hould not be able to govern Him and a Mad Army, than that five or &s;ix men &s;hould not be &s;trong enough to bind a Di&s;tracted Girl. There is no man ever &s;ucceeds in one wic|kedne&s;&s;e but it gives him the boldne&s;&s;e to attempt a greater; 'Twas boldly done of <HI>N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ro</HI> to kill his Mother, and all the chief Nobility of the Empire; 'twas boldly done to &s;et the Metropolis of the whole World on fire, and undauntedly play up|on his Harp wnile&s;t he &s;aw it burning; I could reckon up five hundred boldne&s;&s;es of that Great per&s;on (for why &s;hould not He too be called &s;o?) who wanted when he was to die that courage which could hardly have failed any Woman in the like nece&s;&s;ity. It would look (I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e) like Envy or too much partia|lity if I &s;hould &s;ay that per&s;onal kind of Courage had been deficient in the man we &s;peak of; I am confident it was not,
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and yet I may venture I think to a&s;firm, that no man ever bore the honour of &s;o many victories, at the rate of fewer wounds or dangers of his own body, and though his valour might perhaps have gi|ven him a ju<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">t preten&s;ion to one of the fir&s;t charges in an Army, it could not cer|tainly be a &s;ufficient ground for a Title to the command of three Nations. What then &s;hall we &s;ay? that he did all this by Witchcraft? He did &s;o indeed in a great mea&s;ure by a &s;in that is called like it in the Scriptures. But truely and unpa&s;|&s;ionately reflecting upon the advantages of his per&s;on which might be thought to have produced tho&s;e of his Fortune, I can e&s;py no other but extraordinary Dili|gence and infinite Di&s;&s;imulation; and be|lieve he was exalted above his Nation partly by his own Faults, but chiefly for Ours. We have brought him thus brief|ly (not through all his Labyrinths) to the Supreme Uu&s;urpt Authority, and becau&s;e you &s;ay it was great pitie he did not live to command more Kingdoms, be plea&s;ed
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to let me repre&s;ent to you in a few words, how well I conceive he governed the&s;e. And we will divide the con&s;ideration into that of his forein and dome&s;tique acti|ons. The fir&s;t of his forein was a Peace with our Brethren of <HI>Holland</HI> (who were the fir&s;t of our neighbours that God cha&s;ti&s;ed for having had &s;o great a hand in the encouraging and a|betting our troubles at home) who would not imagine at fir&s;t glymp&s;e that this had been the mo&s;t virtuous and lau|dable deed that his whole Life could make any parade of? but no man can look upon all the circum&s;tances with|out perceiving, that it was purely the &s;ale and &s;acrifizing of the greate&s;t ad|vantages that this Countrey could ever hope, and was ready to reap, from a forein War, to the private intere&s;ts of his covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e and ambition, and the &s;ecurity of his new and un&s;etled U&s;ur|pation. No &s;ooner is that danger pa&s;t, but this <HI>Beatus Pacificus</HI> is kindling a fire in the Northern World, and carrying
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a War two thou&s;and miles off We&s;t|wards. Two millions a year (be&s;ides all the Vales of his Protector&s;hip) is as little capable to &s;uffice now either his Avarice or Prodigality, as the two hun|dred Pounds were that he was born to. He mu&s;t have his prey of the whole <HI>Indies</HI> both by Sea and Land, this great Aliga|tor. To &s;atisfie our <HI>Anti-Solomon</HI> (who <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">as made Silver almo&s;t as rare as Gold, and Gold as Precious &s;tones in his new <HI>Jeru&s;a|lem)</HI> we mu&s;t go, ten thou&s;and of his &s;laves, to fetch him riches from his fanta&s;tical <HI>Ophir.</HI> And becau&s;e his flatterers brag of him as the mo&s;t Fortunate Prince (the <HI>Fau&s;tus</HI> as well as <HI>Sylla</HI> of our Nati|on, whom God never for&s;ook in any of his undertakings) I de&s;ire them to con&s;i|der, how &s;ince the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> name was ever heard of, it never received &s;o great and &s;o infamous a blow as under the imprudent conduct of this unlucky <HI>Fau&s;tus;</HI> and herein let me admire the Ju&s;tice of God in this circum&s;tance, that they who had en&s;laved their Country (though a great
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Army, which I wi&s;h may be ob&s;erved by ours with trembling) &s;hould bee &s;o &s;hamefully defeated by the hands of forty Slaves. It was very ridiculous to &s;ee how prettily they endeavoured to hide this ignominy under the great name of the Conque&s;t of <HI>Jamaica,</HI> as if a defeated Army &s;hould have the impudence to brag afterwards of the Victory, becau&s;e though they had fled out of the Field of Battel, yet they quartered that night in a Village of the Enemies. The War with <HI>Spain</HI> was a nece&s;&s;ary con&s;equence of this folly, and how much we have gotten by it, let the Cu&s;tom-hou&s;e and Exchange inform you; and if he plea&s;e to boa&s;t of the taking a part of the Silver-Fleet (which indeed no body el&s;e but he, who was the &s;ole gainer, has cau&s;e to do) at lea&s;t let him give leave to the re&s;t of the Nation (which is the onely lo&s;er) to complain of the lo&s;&s;e of twelve hundred of her &s;hips. But becau&s;e it may here perhaps be an&s;wered, that his &s;ucce&s;&s;es nearer home have extingui&s;ht
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the di&s;grace of &s;o remote mi&s;cariages, and that <HI>Dunkirk</HI> ought more to be re|membred for his glory, than St. <HI>Domingo</HI> for his di&s;advantage; I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e, as to the honour of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> courage, that they were not wanting upon that oc|ca&s;ion (excepting onely the fault of &s;er|ving at lea&s;t indirectly again&s;t their Ma|&s;ter) to the upholding of the renown of their warlike Ance&s;tors. But for his parti|cular &s;hare of it, who &s;at &s;till at home, and expo&s;ed them &s;o frankly abroad, I can onely &s;ay, that for le&s;&s;e money than he in the &s;hort time of his reign exacted from his fellow Subjects, &s;ome of our former Princes (with the daily hazard of their own per&s;ons) have added to the Dominion of <HI>England</HI> not onely one Town, but even a greater Kingdom than it &s;elf. And this beeing all con|&s;iderable as concerning his enterpri|&s;es abroad, let us examine in the next place, how much wee owe him for his Ju&s;tice and good Government at home. And fir&s;t he found the Common|wealth
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(as they then called it) in a rea|dy &s;tock of about 800^m pounds, he left the Commonwealth (as he had the im|pudent Raillery &s;till to call it) &s;ome two Millions and an half in debt. He found our Trade very much decayd indeed, in compari&s;on of the golden times of our late Princes; he left it as much again more decayd than he found it; and yet not onely no Prince in <HI>England,</HI> but no Tyrant in the World ever &s;ought out more ba&s;e or infamous means to rai&s;e moneys. I &s;hall onely in&s;tance in one that he put in practice, and another that he attempted, but was frighted from the execution (even He) by the infamy of it. That which he put in practice was Deci|mation; which was the mo&s;t impudent breach of all publick Faith that the whole Nation had given, and all private capi|tulations which him&s;elf had made, as the Nations General and Servant, that can be found out (I believe) in all Hi&s;tory from any of the mo&s;t barbarous Generals of the mo&s;t barbarous People. Which
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becau&s;e it has been mo&s;t excellently and mo&s;t largely layd open by a whole Book written upon that Subject, I &s;hall onely de&s;ire you here to remember the thing in general, and to be plea&s;ed to look upon that Author when you would recollect all the particulars and circum&s;tances of the iniquity. The other de&s;ign of rai&s;ing a pre&s;ent &s;um of Money, which he vio|lently per&s;ued, but dur&s;t not put in exe|cution, was by the calling in and e&s;ta|bli&s;hment of the <HI>Jews</HI> at <HI>London;</HI> from which he was rebuted by the univer&s;al outcry of the Divines, and even of the Citizens too, who took it ill that a con|&s;iderable number at lea&s;t among&s;t them|&s;elves were not thought <HI>Jews</HI> enough by their own <HI>Herod.</HI> And for this de&s;ign, they &s;ay, he invented (Oh Antichri&s;t! <GAP DESC="foreign"> and <GAP DESC="foreign">!) to &s;ell St. <HI>Pauls</HI> to them for a Synagogue, if their pur&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s and devotions could have reacht to the purcha&s;e. And this indeed if he had done onely to reward that Nation which had given the fir&s;t noble example of cru|cifying
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their King, it might have had &s;ome appearance of Gratitude, but he did it onely for love of their Mammon; and would have &s;old afterwards for as much more St. <HI>Peters</HI> (even at his own <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter)</HI> to the <HI>Turks</HI> for a <HI>Mo&s;quito.</HI> Such was his extraordinary Piety to God, that he de&s;ired he might be wor&s;hipped in all manners, excepting onely that hea|theni&s;h way of the Common-Prayer Book. But what do I &s;peak of his wic|ked inventions for getting money? when every penny that for almo&s;t five years he took every day from every man living in <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> was as much Robbery as if it had been taken by a Thief upon the High-ways. Was it not &s;o? or can any man think that <HI>Crom|well</HI> with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of his Forces and Mo&s;&s;e Troopers, had more right to the command of all mens pur&s;es, than he might have had to any ones whom he had met and been too &s;trong for upon a Road? and yet when this came in the ca&s;e of Mr. <HI>Concy,</HI> to be di&s;puted by a le|gal
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tryal, he (which was the highe&s;t act of Tyranny that ever was &s;een in <HI>Eng|land)</HI> not onely di&s;couraged and threat|ned, but violently impri&s;oned the Coun|cel of the Plaintiff; that is, he &s;hut up the Law it &s;elf clo&s;e Pri&s;oner, that no man might have relief from, or ac|ce&s;&s;e to it. And it ought to be remem|bred, that this was done by tho&s;e men, who a few years before had &s;o bitterly decried, and openly oppo&s;ed the Kings re|gular and formal way of proceeding in the trial of a little Ship-money. But though we lo&s;t the benefit of our old Courts of Ju&s;tice, it cannot be denyed that he &s;et up new ones; and &s;uch they were, that as no virtuous Prince before would, &s;o no ill one dur&s;t erect. What? have we lived &s;o many hundred years un|der &s;uch a form of Ju&s;tice as has been able regularly to puni&s;h all men that offen|ded again&s;t it, and is it &s;o deficient ju&s;t now, that we mu&s;t &s;eek out new wayes how to proceed again&s;t offenders? The
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rea&s;on which can onely be given in nature for a nece&s;&s;ity of this, is, becau&s;e tho&s;e things are now made Crimes, which were never e&s;teemed &s;o in former Ages; and there mu&s;t needs be a new Court &s;et up to puni&s;h that, which all the old ones were bound to protect and reward. But I am &s;o far from Declaming (as you call it) again&s;t the&s;e wickedne&s;&s;es (which if I &s;hould undertake to do, I &s;hould never get to the Peroration) that you &s;ee I on|ly give a hint of &s;ome few, and pa&s;&s;e over the re&s;t as things that are too ma|ny to be numbred, and mu&s;t onely be weighed in gro&s;&s;e. Let any man &s;how me (for though I pretend not to much reading, I will defy him in all Hi&s;tory) let any man &s;how me (I &s;ay) an Exam|ple of any Nation in the World (though much greater than ours) where there have in the &s;pace of four years been made &s;o many Pri&s;oners onely out of the end|le&s;&s;e Jealou&s;ies of one Tyrants guilty Imagination. I grant you that <HI>Marius</HI>
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and <HI>Sylla,</HI> and the accur&s;ed Triumvirate after them, put more People to death, but the rea&s;on I think partly was, becau&s;e in tho&s;e times that had a mixture of &s;ome honour with their madne&s;&s;e, they thought it a more civil revenge again&s;t a <HI>Roman</HI> to take away his Life, than to take away his Liberty. But truly in the point of mur|der too, we have little rea&s;on to think that our late Tyranny has been deficient to the examples that have ever been &s;et it in other Countries. Our Judges and our Courts of Ju&s;tice have not been idle; And to omit the whole reign of our late King (till the beginning of the War) in which no drop of blood was ever drawn but from two or three Ears, I think the longe&s;t time of our wor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">t Princes &s;carce &s;aw many more Executi|ons than the &s;hort one of our ble&s;t Re|former. And wee &s;aw, and &s;melt in our open &s;treets, (as I markt to you at fir&s;t) the broyling of humane bowels as a Burnt Offering of a &s;weet Savour to our
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Idol; but all murdering, and all tortur|ing (though after the &s;ubtile&s;t inventi|on of his Predece&s;&s;ors of <HI>Sicilie)</HI> is more Humane and more &s;upportable, than his &s;elling of Chri&s;tians, Engli&s;h|men, Gentlemen; his &s;elling of them (oh mon&s;trous! oh incredible!) to be Slaves in <HI>America.</HI> If his whole life could bee reproacht with no other acti|on, yet this alone would weigh down all the multiplicity of Crimes in any of our Tyrants; and I dare onely touch, without &s;topping or in&s;i&s;ting upon &s;o in&s;olent and &s;o execrable a cruelty, for fear of falling into &s;o violent (though a ju&s;t) Pa&s;&s;ion, as would make me ex|ceed that temper and moderation which I re&s;olve to ob&s;erve in this Di&s;cour&s;e with you. The&s;e are great calami|ties; but even the&s;e are not the mo&s;t in&s;upportable that wee have endured; for &s;o it is, that the &s;corn, and mocke|ry, and in&s;ultings of an Enemy, are more painfull than the deepe&s;t wounds
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of his &s;erious fury. This Man was wanton and merry (unwittily and un|gracefully merry) with our &s;ufferings; Hee loved to &s;ay and do &s;encele&s;&s;e and fanta&s;tical things, onely to &s;hew his power of doing or &s;aying any thing. It would ill befit mine, or any civil Mouth, to repeat tho&s;e words which hee &s;poke concerning the mo&s;t &s;acred of our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Laws, the Petition of Right, and <HI>Magna Charta.</HI> To day you &s;hould &s;ee him ranting &s;o wildly, that no body dur&s;t come near him, the morrow flinging of cu&s;hions, and play|ing at Snow-balls with his Servants. This moneth hee a&s;&s;embles a Parlia|ment, and profe&s;&s;es him&s;elf with hum|ble tears to be onely their Servant and their Mini&s;ter; the next moneth hee &s;wears By the Living God, that hee vvill turn them out of dores, and hee does &s;o, in his princely vvay of threatning bidding them, Turn the buckles of their girdles behind them. The Repre&s;enta|tive
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of a vvhole, nay of three whole Nations, was in his e&s;teem &s;o contemp|tible a meeting, that hee thought the affronting and expelling of them to be a thing of &s;o little con&s;equence, as not to de&s;erve that hee &s;hould advi&s;e with any mortal man about it. What &s;hall wee call this? Boldne&s;&s;e, or Bruti&s;h|ne&s;&s;e? Ra&s;hne&s;&s;e, or Phren&s;ie? there is no name can come up to it, and therefore wee mu&s;t leave it without one. Now a Parliament mu&s;t bee cho&s;en in the new manner, next time in the old form, but all ca&s;hiered &s;till after the newe&s;t mode. Now he will govern by Major Generals, now by One Hou&s;e, now by Another Hou&s;e, now by No Hou&s;e; now the freak takes him, and hee makes &s;eventy Peers of the Land at one clap <HI>(Extempore,</HI> and <HI>&s;tans pede in uno)</HI> and to manife&s;t the ab&s;olute power of the Potter, hee choo&s;es not onely the wor&s;t Clay he could find, but picks up even the Durt and Mire, to form
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out of it his Ve&s;&s;els of Honour. It was &s;aid antiently of Fortune, that when &s;he had a mind to be merry and to divert her &s;elf, &s;he was wont to rai&s;e up &s;uch kind of people to the highe&s;t Digni|ties. This Son of Fortune, <HI>Cromwell</HI> (who was him&s;elf one of the prime&s;t of her Je&s;ts) found out the true haut gou&s;t of this plea&s;ure, and rejoyced in the extravagance of his wayes as the fulle&s;t demon&s;tration of his uncontroul|able Soverainty. Good God! what have we &s;een? and what have we &s;uffer'd? what do all the&s;e actions &s;ignifie, what do they &s;ay aloud to the whole Nati|on, but this (even as plainly as if it were proclamed by Heralds through the &s;treets of <HI>London)</HI> You are Slaves and Fools, and &s;o Ile u&s;e you? The&s;e are briefly a part of tho&s;e merits which you lament to have wanted the reward of more Kingdomes, and &s;uppo&s;e that if he had lived longer he might have had them; VVhich I am &s;o
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far from concurring to, that I believe his &s;ea&s;onable dying to have been a greater good fortune to him than all the victo|ries and pro&s;perities of his Life. For he &s;eemed evidently (methinks) to be near the end of his deceitfull Glories; his own Army grew at la&s;t as weary of him as the re&s;t of the People; and I never pa&s;t of late before his Palace (His, do I call it? I ask God and the King pardon) but I never pa&s;t of late before Whitehall without reading upon the Gate of it, <HI>Mene, Mene, Tekel, Uphar|&s;in.</HI> But it plea&s;ed God to take him from the ordinary Courts of Men, and Juries of his Peers, to his own High Court of Ju&s;tice, which being more mercifull than Ours below, there is a little room yet left for the hope of his friends, if he have any; though the out|ward unrepentance of his death affoard but &s;mall materials for the work of Charity, e&s;pecially if he de&s;igned even then to Entail his own inju&s;tice upon
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his Children, and by it inextricable confu&s;ions and Civil Wars upon the Na|tion. But here's at la&s;t an end of him; And where's now the fruit of all that bloud and calamity which his Ambiti|on has co&s;t the World? Where is it? Why, his Son (you'l &s;ay) has the whole Crop; I doubt he will find it quickly Bla&s;ted; I have nothing to &s;ay again&s;t the Gentleman, or any living of his fa|mily, on the contrary I-wi&s;h him bet|ter fortune than to have a long and un|quiet po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of his Ma&s;ters Inheri|tance. What&s;oever I have &s;poken a|gain&s;t his Father, is that which I &s;hould have thought (though Decency perhaps might have hindred me from &s;aying it) even again&s;t mine Own, if I had been &s;o unhappy, as that Mine by the &s;ame wayes &s;hould have left me Three King|doms.</P>
<P>Here I &s;topt; and my pretended Pro|tector, who, I expected, &s;hould have been very angry, fell a laug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ing; it &s;eems at
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the &s;implicity of my di&s;cour&s;e, for thus he replied: You &s;eem to pretend ex|tremely to the old ob&s;olete rules of Virtue and Con&s;cience, which makes me doubt very much whether from this va&s;t pro&s;pect of three Kingdoms you can &s;how me any Acres of your own. But the&s;e are &s;o farre from making you a Prince, that I am afraid your friends will never have the contentment to &s;ee you &s;o much as a Ju&s;tice of Peace in your own Countrey. For this I perceive which you call Virtue, is nothing el&s;e but either the frowardne&s;&s;e of a Cynick, or the lazine&s;&s;e of an Epicurean. I am glad you allow me at lea&s;t Artfull Di&s;|&s;imulation, and unwearied Diligence in my <HI>Hero,</HI> and I a&s;&s;ure you that he who&s;e Life is con&s;tantly drawn by tho&s;e two, &s;hall never be mi&s;led out of the way of Greatne&s;&s;e. But I &s;ee you are a Pe|dant, and Platonical State&s;man, a The|oretical Commonwealths man, an Uto|pian Dreamer. Was ever Riches got|ten
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by your Golden Mediocrities? or the Supreme place attained to by Vir|tues that mu&s;t not &s;tir out the middle? Do you &s;tudy <HI>Ari&s;totles</HI> Politiques, and write, if you plea&s;e, Comments upon them, and let another but practi&s;e <HI>Mat|chavil,</HI> and let us &s;ee then which of you two will come to the greate&s;t prefer|ments. If the de&s;ire of rule and &s;upe|riority be a Virtue (as &s;ure I am it is more imprinted in human Nature than any of your Lethargical Morals; and what is the Virtue of any Creature but the exerci&s;e of tho&s;e powers and incli|nations which God has infu&s;ed into it?) if that (I &s;ay) be Virtue, we ought not to e&s;teem any thing Vice, which is the mo&s;t proper, if not the onely means of at|taining of it.</P>
<LG>
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<L>It is a Truth &s;o certain, and &s;o clear,</L>
<L>That to the fir&s;t-born Man it did appear;</L>
<L>Did not, the mighty Heir, the noble <HI>Cain,</HI></L>
<L>By the fre&s;h Laws of Nature taught, di&s;dain</L>
<L>That (though a Brother) any one &s;hould be</L>
<L>A greater Favourite to God than He?</L>
<L>He &s;trook him down; and, &s;o (&s;aid He) &s;o fell</L>
<L>The &s;heep which thou did&s;t Sacrifize &s;o well.</L>
<L>Since all the fulle&s;t Sheaves which I could bring,</L>
<L>Since all were Bla&s;ted in the Offering,</L>
<L>Le&s;t God &s;hould my next Victime too de&s;pi&s;e,</L>
<L>The acceptable Prie&s;t I'le Sacrifize.</L>
<L>Hence Coward Fears; for the fir&s;t Bloud &s;o &s;pilt</L>
<L>As a Reward, He the fir&s;t Citie built.</L>
<L>'Twas a beginning generous and high,</L>
<L>Fit for a Grand-Child of the Deity.</L>
<L>So well advanced, 'twas pity there he &s;taid;</L>
<L>One &s;tep of Glory more he &s;hould have made,</L>
<L>And to the utmo&s;t bounds of Greatne&s;&s;e gone;</L>
<L>Had <HI>Adam</HI> too been kill'd, He might have Reign'd Alone.</L>
<L><PB N="77" REF="44">
One Brother's death what do I mean to name,</L>
<L>A &s;mall Oblation to Revenge and Fame?</L>
<L>The mighty-&s;oul'd <HI>Abimelec</HI> to &s;hew</L>
<L>What for high place a higher Spirit can do,</L>
<L>A Hecatomb almo&s;t of Brethren &s;lew,</L>
<L>And &s;eventy times in neare&s;t bloud he dy'd</L>
<L>(To make it hold) his Royal Purple Pride.</L>
<L>Why do I name the Lordly Creature Man?</L>
<L>The weak, the mild, the Coward Woman can,</L>
<L>When to a Crown &s;he cuts her &s;acred way,</L>
<L>All that oppo&s;e with Manlike courage &s;lay.</L>
<L>So <HI>Athaliah,</HI> when &s;he &s;aw her Son,</L>
<L>And with his Life her dearer Greatne&s;&s;e gone,</L>
<L>With a Maje&s;tique fury &s;laughter'd all</L>
<L>Whom high birth might to high pretences call.</L>
<L>Since he was dead who all her power &s;u&s;tain'd,</L>
<L>Re&s;olv'd to reign alone; Re&s;olv'd, and Reign'd.</L>
<L>In vain her Sex, in vain the Laws with&s;tood,</L>
<L>In vain the &s;acred plea of <HI>Davids</HI> Bloud,</L>
<L><PB N="78" REF="45">
A noble, and a bold contention, Shee,</L>
<L>(One Woman) undertook with De&s;tiny.</L>
<L>She to pluck down, De&s;tiny to uphold</L>
<L>(Oblig'd by holy Oracles of old)</L>
<L>The great <HI>Je&s;&s;aean</HI> race on <HI>Juda</HI>'s Throne;</L>
<L>Till 'twas at la&s;t an equal Wager grown,</L>
<L>Scarce Fate, with much adoe, the Better got by One.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tell me not &s;he her &s;elf at la&s;t was &s;lain;</L>
<L>Did &s;he not fir&s;t &s;even years (a Life-time) reign?</L>
<L>Seven royal years t' a publick &s;pirit will &s;eem</L>
<L>More than the private Life of a <HI>Methu&s;alem.</HI></L>
<L>'Tis Godlike to be Great; and as they &s;ay</L>
<L>A thou&s;and years to God are but a Day:</L>
<L>So to a Man, when once a Crown he wears,</L>
<L>The Coronation Day's more than a Thou&s;and years.</L>
</LG>
<P><PB N="79" REF="45">
He would have gone on I perceiv'd in his bla&s;phemies, but that by Gods Grace I became &s;o bold as thus to in|terrupt him. I under&s;tand now perfe|ctly (which I gue&s;t at long before) what kind of Angel and Protector you are; and though your &s;tile in ver&s;e be very much mended &s;ince you were wont to deliver Oracles, yet your Do|ctrine is much wor&s;e than ever you had formerly (that I heard of) the face to publi&s;h; whether your long Practice with mankind has <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ncrea&s;t and improved your malice, or whether you think Us in this age to be grown &s;o impudent|ly wicked, that there needs no more art or di&s;gui&s;es to draw us to your party. My Dominion (&s;aid he ha&s;ti|ly, and with a dreadfull furious look) is &s;o great in this VVorld, and I am &s;o powerful a Monarch of it, that I need not be a&s;hamed that you &s;hould know me; and that you may &s;ee I know you too, I know you to bee an ob&s;tinate
<PB N="80" REF="46">
and inveterate Malignant; and for that rea&s;on I &s;hall take you along with mee to the next Garri&s;on of Ours; from whence you &s;hall go to the Tower, and from thence to the Court of Ju&s;tice, and from thence you know whither. I was almo&s;t in the very pounces of the great Bird of prey,</P>
<L>When, Lo, ere the la&s;t words were fully &s;poke,</L>
<L>From a fair clowd, which rather ope'd, than broke,</L>
<L>A fla&s;h of Light, rather than Lightning came,</L>
<L>So &s;wift, and yet &s;o gentle was the Flame.</L>
<L>Upon it rode, and in his full Career,</L>
<L>Seem'd to my Eyes no &s;ooner There than Here,</L>
<L>The comelye&s;t Youth of all th' Angelique race;</L>
<L>Lovely his &s;hape, ine&s;fable his Face.</L>
<L>The Frowns with which hee &s;trock the tremb|ling Fiend,</L>
<L>All Smiles of Humane beauty did tran&s;cend.</L>
<L>His Beams of Locks fell part di&s;hevel'd down,</L>
<L>Part upwards curld, and form'd a nat'ral Crown,</L>
<L><PB N="81" REF="46">
Such as the Briti&s;h Monarchs us'd to wear;</L>
<L>If Gold might be compar'd with Angels Hair.</L>
<L>His Coat and flowing Mantle were &s;o bright,</L>
<L>They &s;eem'd both made of woven Silver Light,</L>
<L>Acro&s;&s;e his brea&s;t an azure Ruban went,</L>
<L>At which a Medal hung that did pre&s;ent</L>
<L>In wondrous, living figures to the &s;ight,</L>
<L>The my&s;tick Champion's, and old Dragon's fight,</L>
<L>And from his Mantles &s;ide there &s;hone afar,</L>
<L>A fixt, and, I believe, a Real Star.</L>
<L>In his fair hand (what need was there of more?)</L>
<L>No Arms but th' <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> bloody Cro&s;&s;e he bore,</L>
<L>Which when hee towards th'affrighted Tyrant bent,</L>
<L>And &s;ome few words pronounc'd (but what they ment,</L>
<L>Or were, could not, alas, by me be known,</L>
<L>Onely I well perceiv'd Je&s;us was one)</L>
<L>He trembled, and he roard, and fled away;</L>
<L>Mad to quit thus his more than hop'd-for prey.</L>
<L><PB N="82" REF="47">
Such rage inflames the Wolves wild heart and eyes</L>
<L>(Rob'd as he thinks unju&s;ty of his prize)</L>
<L>Whom unawares the Shepherd &s;pies, and draws</L>
<L>The bleating Lamb from out his ravenous jaws.</L>
<L>The Shepherd fain him&s;elf would he a&s;&s;ail,</L>
<L>But Fear above his Hunger does prevail,</L>
<L>Hee knows his Foe too &s;trong, and mu&s;t bee gone;</L>
<L>Hee grins as hee looks back, and howls as hee goes on.</L>
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