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<HEAD><HI>Mercurius Militans,</HI> With his Hags haunting Cruelty, and his Bays crowning Clemency; Hi&s;torically &s;uited to our long wi&s;hed Peace.</HEAD>
<BYLINE>By <HI>Hieron: Philalethes.</HI></BYLINE>
<P>Printed in the Year 1648.</P>
<P>I Beleeve that as nothing &s;o degenerates man into a <HI>Wolf</HI> and a <HI>Tiger,</HI> yea into a <HI>Devil,</HI> as <HI>Cruelty,</HI> according to the phra&s;es, <HI>Homo homini lupus, homo homini Demon,</HI> now commented and writ in the bloods of millions of <HI>Innocents,</HI> devoured by that wor&s;t of wolves called Rebel in <HI>Ireland,</HI> as al&s;o in <HI>England,</HI> with as much voracity, truculency, and barbarous inhumanity, as the three <HI>Herods</HI> in <HI>Io&s;ephus</HI> and our <HI>Richard</HI> the third exerci&s;ed again&s;t their Nobles and Con&s;anguinity; <HI>Ahab</HI> and <HI>Iezabel</HI> again&s;t <HI>Naboath, Elias Michah</HI> and the be&s;t Prophets; the bramble <HI>Abimeleck</HI> again&s;t his Brethren, the 70 &s;ons of <HI>Gideon: Orchanes the Turk</HI> again&s;t all his <HI>Butchered Brethren,</HI> the &s;ons of the great <HI>Ottoman:</HI> or as ever <HI>Bu|&s;iris, Periander, Emanuel, Paleologus,</HI> exerci&s;ed with numerous moe in their &s;pecified cruelties by <HI>Melancton</HI> in his Gronocles <HI>pag.</HI> 178, 188. by <HI>Tholo&s;anus</HI> in his &s;ix book of his Commonwealth, cap. 19. p. 380 381. &amp; 1498. By <HI>Valerius,</HI> lib. 9. cap. 14. and by <HI>Anti-matchavil.</HI> lib. 3 p. 519, 562, 563. The rage of the&s;e our civil uncivil Wars being &s;o great, that again&s;t the dictate both of <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> and <HI>Religion,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Light</HI> both of <HI>Grace</HI> and <HI>Nature;</HI> blood hath not &s;pared blood; Brothers being divided in as great <HI>ho&s;tility</HI> as <HI>Cain</HI> again&s;t <HI>Abel, Ab|&s;alom</HI> again&s;t <HI>Ammon, Romulus</HI> once again&s;t <HI>Rhemus, Cambi&s;es</HI> a|gain&s;t <HI>Smerdis, Brennus</HI> again&s;t <HI>Brentius,</HI> and the Popi&s;h <HI>Alphon&s;us</HI> again&s;t his Prote&s;tant brother <HI>Diazius,</HI> who, as needs running, whom the <HI>Devil</HI> drives, came as far as <HI>Rome</HI> to <HI>Germany</HI> to murther him: &s;o be&s;ides the <HI>Furies</HI> and <HI>Hags,</HI> and horrors of their <HI>Con|&s;ciences,</HI>
<PB N="2" REF="2">which haunt them as the <HI>wor&s;t of &s;pirits and gho&s;ts,</HI> as is hi&s;torified in <HI>Nero</HI> after he had ma&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">cred <HI>Peter</HI> and <HI>Paul,</HI> and his Ma&s;ter <HI>Seneca,</HI> and his mother <HI>Octavia,</HI> and in <HI>Caligula</HI> after his <HI>Butcheries</HI> creeping into <HI>Corners</HI> in any <HI>Lightnings and Thunders;</HI> and in <HI>Herod</HI> after his &s;laughter of the <HI>Bethlem Infants,</HI> his two &s;ons <HI>Alexander</HI> and <HI>Ari<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tobulus,</HI> his wife <HI>Mariana,</HI> and the <HI>Synedrim</HI> of the Jews, and in <HI>Alexander</HI> after he had burnt <HI>Per&s;epolis,</HI> and &s;lain his dear friends <HI>Clitus</HI> and <HI>Cali&s;thenes;</HI> with many moe extracted from <HI>Io&s;ephus</HI> and <HI>&s;ecular Authors</HI> by <HI>Stri|gellius. lib.</HI> 1. <HI>Ethic. p.</HI> 7, 9.155, 159. and by <HI>Patritius, l.</HI> 5. <HI>de regno. tit.</HI> 8 <HI>p.</HI> 313. with the wonderful <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ggravations of the gnawing of this wor&s;t of worms, the &s;tinging of this wor&s;t of &s;erpents, the <HI>excruciations</HI> of this wor&s;t of <HI>bea&s;ts,</HI> an <HI>Evil Con&s;cience;</HI> to be read in that ze<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">l us <HI>Melander Luther</HI> in his <HI>Comment on Gene&s;is.</HI> cap. 31. <HI>p.</HI> 486 <HI>&amp;</HI> cap. 43. <HI>p.</HI> 652. <HI>&amp;</HI> cap. 45. <HI>p.</HI> 671. And in <HI>Pezelius</HI> comment in <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Gene&s;is,</HI> cap. 37, <HI>pag.</HI> 714. <HI>&amp;</HI> cap. 41. <HI>pag,</HI> 794. 789. <HI>&amp;</HI> cap. 45. pag. 835. <HI>&amp;</HI> cap. 50. <HI>page</HI> 971. So even in this life; <HI>Plagues</HI> follow cru<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">l <HI>Princes</HI> and <HI>Peers</HI> at the heels l<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ke <HI>Lacquies,</HI> and haunt them as <HI>Brutus</HI> his gho&s;t: Be&s;ides the <HI>exangeration</HI> of <HI>con|&s;cience</HI> which, as is feigned of <HI>Titius &amp; Promethius,</HI> eats their very <HI>Hearts</HI> and <HI>Livors</HI> as the Fl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h Wolf that fl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h in which it breeds.</P>
<P>Their <HI>fir&s;t plague</HI> is, That they are no better loved then the <HI>Siracu|&s;ans</HI> loved their three <HI>Dioni&s;ii,</HI> as an old woman told one of them, or then <HI>Lambs</HI> love <HI>Wolves,</HI> being dayly more cur&s;ed then the Fox by Country Beldams devouring Poultry. <HI>O derunt dum metuunt:</HI> Fear|ed they may be as <HI>Witches</HI> fear their <HI>Devils</HI> and <HI>Familiar,</HI> which &s;uck their bloods, but never loved better then <HI>Brutus</HI> loved the <HI>Tarquins,</HI> or <HI>Felton</HI> that <HI>Frenchified Duke,</HI> who felt the <HI>&s;harpne&s;&s;e</HI> of his <HI>&s;tabbing Knife.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, They are always plagued with a <HI>Dome&s;tick Devil,</HI> calld <HI>Iealou&s;ie;</HI> with a <HI>bo&s;omed Snake,</HI> c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lled <HI>Su&s;pition,</HI> even of <HI>their be&s;t Friends</HI> whom they &s;eem mo&s;t to love, and whom they have mo&s;t honored and advanced; which <HI>Iealou&s;ies</HI> are &s;eldom quenched but with their blood, chiefly when their <HI>Favorites</HI> grow popular, then <HI>Herod</HI> makes his <HI>Ari&s;tobulus,</HI> the Nephew of <HI>Hircanus</HI> the <HI>High Prie&s;t,</HI> &s;horter by the head; as <HI>Sejanus</HI> was &s;o lopt in the like ca&s;e by <HI>Tiberius (apud dionem in vita)</HI> yea the famous <HI>Mu&s;tapha</HI> in <HI>Knolls</HI> his <HI>Turki&s;h Hi&s;tory,</HI> by the <HI>Tyrant</HI> his <HI>Father.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly, They are u&s;ually po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, as with &s;o many <HI>tormenting &s;pirits,</HI> with <HI>&s;ervile and &s;lavi&s;h Fears,</HI> mo&s;t of them complaining,
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<Q LANG="lat">Multa mi&s;er timeo, quia feci multa proterve.</Q>
<Q><L>Much have I done, ba&s;e, bloody, vile, and Evil,</L>
<L>And much I fear to &s;uffer like the Devil.</L></Q></P>
<P>Which fears &s;o po&s;&s;e&s;t <HI>Dioni&s;ius,</HI> that he feared every <HI>Barbers Knife</HI> to &s;have too neer his throat, <HI>Tyrants</HI> u&s;ually doubling their Guards as the wor&s;t Popes their Guards of <HI>Switzers,</HI> and the wor&s;t <HI>Erench Kings</HI> tho&s;e of <HI>Feench and Scots:</HI> the <HI>&s;ervile fears</HI> of <HI>Tyrants</HI> &s;eldom or never cured but by a <HI>Julip</HI> or red caudle of the blood of tho&s;e they fear; as many in&s;tances are given in this kind in <HI>Claudius Cae&s;ar, Va|lentinian, Wence&s;taus</HI> the &s;on of <HI>Charles the fourth Emperor, Caius, Caligula, Nero,</HI> and many moe, by <HI>Dion Ca&s;&s;ius, Plutark, Me|lancton, in locis,</HI> pag. 118, <HI>in Chron. lib.</HI> 4. pag. 457. and by <HI>Anti|matchavil, lib.</HI> 3. pag. 476, 477, 478. The&s;e <HI>pannick Terrors,</HI> as <HI>helli&s;h Hags,</HI> u&s;ually po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing them, in the&s;e Battels, in which they imbark them&s;elves from a bad Cau&s;e, and with a wor&s;e <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> being the main Cau&s;e that oft a few Soldiers bed by a Lion (as the ju&s;t are hold as a Lion) are oft <HI>victorious</HI> over redoubled and trebled oumbers of tho&s;e who&s;e <HI>hearts</HI> are in their heels, led by a <HI>Hart</HI> or a <HI>Hare,</HI> as <HI>Leonides</HI> u&s;ed the <HI>Simile;</HI> of which abundant in&s;tances are given by <HI>Pezelius</HI> in <HI>Gen.</HI> cap. 35.669. by <HI>Strigellius,</HI> in P&s;al. 9. p. 71. by <HI>Pontanus</HI> in his fir&s;t book of Fortune, <HI>c.</HI> 25. and by <HI>Patritius lib.</HI> 5. <HI>de regno, tit.</HI> 4. <HI>p.</HI> 305. in tho&s;e Terrors which God ca&s;t into the hearts of the Midianites, <HI>Judg.</HI> 7. And of the <HI>Canaanites</HI> and tho&s;e of <HI>Jericho</HI> in <HI>Jo&s;huahs</HI> time: And of the <HI>Phili&s;tines</HI> in <HI>Iona|thans</HI> time, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 14. And of the <HI>Quadi</HI> in <HI>Antoninus</HI> his time, and into the ho&s;te of 100000 <HI>Ethiopians</HI> in <HI>A&s;a</HI>'s time, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 16. And into the ho&s;te of cruel <HI>Attila,</HI> neer the City <HI>Anrelia;</HI> And into the ho&s;te of <HI>Benbadad</HI> in <HI>Ababs</HI> time, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 20. And into the ho&s;te of <HI>Arboga&s;tus,</HI> and <HI>Eugenius</HI> encountring with good <HI>Theodo&s;ius;</HI> of which <HI>Claudian</HI> could &s;ing,
<Q LANG="lat">O nimium dilecte deo cui fundit ab antris Aeolus armat as acies, cui militat Aether.</Q>
<Q><L>O Darling to thy God, for whom the Air</L>
<L>And windrs do fight thine enemies troops to fear.</L></Q></P>
<P>And when &s;uch Terrors, as God &s;ends oft into the hearts of Multi|tudes, fighting with handfuls, according to his Commination, <HI>Deut.</HI> 28. do &s;o work, that &s;ometimes three hundred <HI>Lacedemonians,</HI> in the <HI>advantage</HI> of a &s;crait, killing twenty thou&s;and of <HI>Zorxes</HI> his Army; &s;ometimes a <HI>Forbius</HI> with <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hirty thou&s;and <HI>quelling</HI> of the <HI>Gauls</HI> two hundred thou&s;and; &s;ometimes a <HI>Greek Milti<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s,</HI> with eleven thou|&s;and, rouing and executing a hundred thou&s;and foot of the Per&s;ians,
<PB N="4" REF="3">and ten thou&s;and hor&s;e: An <HI>Abraham</HI> with three hundred and eighteen pur&s;uing and conquering four <HI>Kings</HI> of <HI>Cilicia, Per&s;ia, Babylon</HI> and <HI>A&s;&s;yria, Gen.</HI> 14. A <HI>David</HI> with four hundred quelling the <HI>Amelekites</HI> which lay like Gra&s;hoppers &s;cattered upon the earth, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> In the&s;e ca&s;es we mu&s;t &s;ay there is concurring with <HI>digitus Dei,</HI> the finger of God: Such pannick fears as are de&s;cribed with their effects by <HI>Era&s;|mus</HI> in his <HI>Adages, Chil.</HI> 3. <HI>Cent.</HI> 7. <HI>Adag.</HI> 88. by <HI>Politian</HI> in his <HI>Me&s;ellanean</HI> Hi&s;tory. by <HI>Pontanus</HI> lib. 1. <HI>fortunae,</HI> p. 57. and by <HI>Danaeus</HI> in his <HI>politick Aphori&s;ms,</HI> p. 163, <HI>&amp;</HI> 204. Much al&s;o is attri|buted to this pannick fear by <HI>Polibius lib.</HI> 5. <HI>in fine.</HI> in the <HI>Mace|donian Philipp,</HI> weighing up anchor on a &s;udden, and with hoy&s;ted &s;ails flying with his great Navy rigged for <HI>Illirium,</HI> when he conceit|ed the <HI>Roman Navy</HI> nigh, which was faroff: And <HI>Heroditus, lib.</HI> 4. p. 108. &s;hews what it wrought on the <HI>Sicilian</HI> &s;laves when their Mai&s;ters left their &s;words, and fought with them with &s;uch whips as they were wont to la&s;h them with: And much I &s;aw with my eyes in this kind, not only at <HI>Melon Grainge,</HI> among&s;t the Bogs neer the water, but chiefly at the battel at <HI>Kilru&s;h, (Kil-rouge, Kil-rebel,)</HI> when &s;carce two thou&s;and Foot and five hundred Hor&s;e, led valiantly by the great <HI>Ormond,</HI> and that thrice worthy <HI>Coute,</HI> the re&s;olute <HI>Scourge Kern,</HI> routed nine thou&s;and out of their Trenches of the <HI>Iri&s;h Rebels,</HI> flying as Hares before Hounds, (fa&s;ter then lately twenty thou&s;and <HI>Blew Bonnets</HI> before nine thou&s;and <HI>True Blades</HI>) into Ty|rones old Forts, their adjacent Bogs not &s;haked &s;o much with their Doe-like tripping, as their more boggy hearts &s;haked by trembling. <HI>Deut.</HI> 28. <HI>Lev.</HI> 26.</P>
<P>A fourth <HI>plague</HI> which hangs over the head of <HI>Tyranny,</HI> as the &s;word of <HI>Dioni&s;ius</HI> once over the head of <HI>Damocles,</HI> is this, Their <HI>Thrones,</HI> if <HI>Monarchs,</HI> their <HI>Seats,</HI> if <HI>Magi&s;trates,</HI> are &s;o &s;lippery with blood, that they as &s;oon <HI>&s;hip out</HI> of them (as &s;ome Popes by an <HI>Italian Fico</HI> out of St <HI>Peters</HI> poorly pretended and proudly u&s;urped chair,) as every one that hath read <HI>Livy</HI> and <HI>Plinny</HI> can t ll, how the <HI>Tarquins</HI> were hurried out of <HI>Roms; Hippias</HI> out of <HI>Athens;</HI> and the wor&s;t of the <HI>Dioni&s;ians</HI> out of <HI>Siracu&s;a,</HI> to change his <HI>Scepter</HI> into a <HI>Schoolmasters Ferula:</HI> The great <HI>Monarchy</HI> al&s;o of the <HI>Caldeans</HI> being tran&s;lated by <HI>Cyrus</HI> from the <HI>Babylonians</HI> to the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> after that <HI>Balthazar</HI> in hunting had &s;lain the &s;on of <HI>Gobrias:</HI> Others in this nature being related by <HI>Melancton</HI> in his <HI>Chronologies, p.</HI> 605, 606.</P>
<P>The <HI>Wrath of God and Man,</HI> the <HI>Iu&s;tice of Heaven and Earth,</HI> do oft &s;o concur, in the cutting them off, in a retaliating <HI>vengeance,</HI> that
<PB N="5" REF="3">pledging at la&s;t tho&s;e Innocents in that bloody cup they have cau&s;ed them to quaff, that as it is as rare a thing to &s;ee an aged Tyrant, as a black Swan; a &s;elf-denying ju&s;t-accounting Officer, and unplun|dering Soldier, and an hone&s;t free, loving, liberal-hearted &V;&s;urer; &s;o it is as rare to &s;ee or hear, that they quietly dye in their beds; but to be cut off, as <HI>David</HI> prophe&s;ied, in the <HI>Spring</HI> or <HI>Summer,</HI> the <HI>begining</HI> or <HI>mid&s;t</HI> of their days, by &s;ome tragical and violent Death as &s;eized on <HI>Pharoah, Ahab, Jezabel, Athalia, Adonizebeck, Senacharib,</HI> and <HI>Herod</HI> in the Scripture; on <HI>Antiochus, Epimenes, Nicanor,</HI> and <HI>Holo|fernes</HI> in the <HI>Apochrypha:</HI> and in Eccle&s;ia&s;tick Hictory on <HI>Nero, Decius, Domitian, Caligula, Julian</HI> the Apo&s;tate, and all the Roman Emperors: In the Pagan, on <HI>Attila, Totilas, Gen&s;ericus, Theodorick,</HI> recorded by <HI>Victor</HI> and <HI>Procopius,</HI> in the <HI>Arrian;</HI> and on <HI>Iohn de Ro|ma Minerius:</HI> On <HI>Gardiner, Bonner, Morgan, Fryer Alphon&s;us,</HI> with others, in our Papal per&s;ecutions: with all the Tragedies of <HI>Pho|cas</HI> and <HI>Zimri,</HI> the murtherers of their Ma&s;ters; of <HI>Pompilius</HI> the &s;econd, and <HI>Bole&s;laus</HI> the &s;econd, both Kings of <HI>Poland:</HI> of <HI>Hatto</HI> the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Ments,</HI> and the cruel King <HI>Popiel,</HI> both eaten with rats: of <HI>Alexander, Phereus,</HI> and <HI>Francis</HI> a V<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">count of <HI>Padua,</HI> baiting men to death in the skins of wilde bea&s;ts; are extracted and contra|cted out of Eccle&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tick and &s;ecular Authors by <HI>Strigellius, lib.</HI> 1. <HI>dialect. p.</HI> 495. by <HI>Philip Melancton in locis Manlii,</HI> p. 630, 631. By <HI>Peucer</HI> in his Lectures, <HI>anno</HI> 1575. <HI>die</HI> 9 <HI>Iulii;</HI> and by <HI>Antimatchavil lib.</HI> 3. p. 546. chiefly by the learned <HI>Arni&s;eus de Tirannide in exercitio,</HI> and by <HI>junior Brutus de vindice,</HI> which &s;ome &s;ay now &s;peaks Engli&s;h.</P>
<P>Sixthly They have lived &s;o little de&s;ired, and dyed &s;o little lament|ed, that as though they were <HI>terrae inutile pondus,</HI> &s;uch men Mon&s;ters, or <HI>lutum &s;anguine commixtum,</HI> &s;uch clays commixt with blood, that the world might well &s;pare them as a &s;ixth finger; that among&s;t o|ther honors, &s;ome (as <HI>Harmodius</HI> and <HI>Ari&s;togiton</HI>) had Statues and I|mages erected to them for ridding Kingdoms of &s;uch &s;anguinolent blood-&s;uckers, who have not fed the &s;heep, but fed and preyed upon the &s;heep (<HI>Ezek.</HI> 33.) <HI>apud Strigellium, part.</HI> 2. <HI>locorum, pag.</HI> 210. at lea&s;t they have been oppo&s;ed, if not depo&s;ed, and have had as trou|ble&s;om reignes as King <HI>Iohn, King Steven, Richard the third,</HI> and <HI>Ed|ward the &s;econd</HI> here in <HI>England,</HI> who either out of their own Native Di&s;po&s;it<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ons to Cruelty (born as it were with teeth like <HI>Cham</HI> and <HI>Zoroa&s;tres</HI>) to bite and devour men <HI>in pernitiem humani generis,</HI> as was &s;aid of <HI>Nero</HI> to the de&s;truction of men, or their tolerable good natures abu&s;ed by evil Coun&s;ellors (as <HI>May,</HI> the mo&s;t plea&s;ing mo|neth
<PB N="6" REF="4">in the year, is oft imbittered, like furious <HI>March,</HI> by the ri&s;ing of the Malignant Pliades) if once detected to be Wolves though in &s;heeps clothing, they have had much ado to live quiet, and peaceable, and &s;edentary lives, like <HI>Titerus Milibeus Alexis,</HI> with their <HI>Deus nobis haec otia fecit,</HI> but <HI>Dirus Daemon haec negotia;</HI> their oaten mu&s;i|cal pipes have turned into martial pikes, that have not been as <HI>Homer</HI> terms <HI>Agamemnon frugi pa&s;tores,</HI> good &s;hepherds, <HI>pecus tondentes non deglubentes,</HI> &s;hearing their &s;heep by &s;ub&s;i&s;ting &s;ub&s;idies, not tear|ing them by &s;punging &s;anguinolencies; Neither is it long fair wea|ther with their weak or wicked Coun&s;ellors, but the &s;torms, which they have rai&s;ed again&s;t others, fall oft upon them&s;elves in &s;howres of blood, &s;uch as we know fell on the head of <HI>Haman</HI> the wicked <HI>Sy|rian,</HI> coun&s;elling <HI>Darius</HI> to &s;econd his powder plot again&s;t <HI>Mardo|chens, E&s;ther,</HI> and all the Jew, and on <HI>Achitophel</HI> &s;trangling all his <HI>golden</HI> hopes from <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> in his own Halter; the like fate or a wor&s;e befalling <HI>Doeg</HI> whom <HI>David</HI> &s;o prophetically cur&s;ed; on whom <HI>Mathe&s;ius</HI> reflecteth, <HI>in Seracidem, c.</HI> 4, <HI>p.</HI> 20. and on one <HI>Contaeus,</HI> who lived (in <HI>di&s;grace</HI>) but one year, as was pre&s;aged of him, after he had coun&s;elled <HI>Charles,</HI> the furious Duke of <HI>Burgundy,</HI> to cut off three hundred Innocents, whom he kept as <HI>pledges,</HI> contrary to the merciful di&s;&s;wafions of <HI>Imbercortus Ambianus,</HI> as his bloody ba&s;enes, with the end of it, is related by that worthy <HI>Comineus</HI> in his commen|ted Ge&s;ts betwixt the <HI>French Lewis</HI> and that <HI>Duke, lib.</HI> 2. <HI>p.</HI> 57.58, 59.61, 66. And what end <HI>Steven Gardiner</HI> made the cruel Coun&s;ellor to Queen <HI>Mary,</HI> in her <HI>quinquennium</HI> again&s;t all the Prote&s;tants, but e&s;pecially again&s;t Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> I refer you to a <HI>forreign</HI> Author <HI>Michael Beutherus,</HI> in his Appendix to <HI>Sleidan, lib.</HI> 8. <HI>p.</HI> 87. But however the bad Croun&s;ellors of Princes, making and moulding bloody bolts for them to &s;hoot, may fly away (as the Per&s;ians and Iri&s;h after they have ca&s;t their darts) like Woodcocks in a mi&s;t, or a Goldfinch on windy banks, and &s;ave them&s;elves for a time: yea may return again into a Kingdom to do more mi&s;chief, as Rams going backward, come on with the greater pu&s;h; rai&s;ing new Ward and Commotions after their <HI>Exilings, Bani&s;hments and pre&s;criptions:</HI> (as <HI>Catiline</HI> and <HI>Marcus Coriolanus</HI> did in <HI>Rome; Sertorius</HI> in <HI>Spain,</HI> after his &s;iding with <HI>Marius, Dio</HI> again&s;t <HI>Dioni&s;ius</HI> in <HI>Siracu&s;a,</HI> with other Exiles, &s;tirring up the like broils in <HI>Tigure, Belgia,</HI> and el&s;e|where, in all which, with others, any may be further &s;atis&s;ied by the relation of <HI>Pencer</HI> in his Cronocle Lectures, <HI>anno</HI> 1572, <HI>die</HI> 4. <HI>Octob.</HI> and by <HI>Bodin</HI> in his 4 book <HI>de rep.</HI> p. 615. and by <HI>Antimatchavil,</HI> lib.
<PB N="7" REF="4">3. p. 400. and by <HI>Polibius</HI> lib. 4. p. 336, 337. And he may be inform|ed further, what Firebrands they u&s;ually are in <HI>kindling</HI> new Commo|tions, by the Verdicts given of them by <HI>Patritius de rep, tit.</HI> 5. p. 393 <HI>Dan<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ letters">us</HI> in his Political Aphori&s;ms, p. 141. And by <HI>Melancton</HI> in <HI>Cordiali Bucholcheri</HI> p. 145. Yet neverthele&s;s what ever become of &s;uch in their conver&s;ion or confu&s;ion; as fierce&s;t winds blow down the &s;turdie&s;t Oaks, the greate&s;t Cedars of <HI>Libanus,</HI> and the highe&s;t Pines of <HI>Ida,</HI> the ju&s;t God copes with cruel Tyrants, the Execution|ers of bloody Coun&s;ells, &s;o fiercely, that the axe of his wrath cuts of both them and their &s;eed, both root and branch, &s;o vi&s;ibly in mo&s;t Ages, that its proverbial, <HI>Tyrannus non habet tertium heredem,</HI> A Tyrant hath &s;carce a third Heir, nay any Heir at all, more then <HI>Dio|ni&s;ius</HI> the elder, who left never a &s;ucce&s;&s;or to the Kingdom of <HI>Sicily:</HI> or <HI>Pi&s;i&s;tratus,</HI> who&s;e &s;ons <HI>Hippias</HI> and <HI>Hipparchus</HI> were exiled and &s;lain, as <HI>Strigellius</HI> ob&s;erves <HI>lib.</HI> 2. <HI>Chron.</HI> p. 54. and <HI>Melancton</HI> in many before recited: yea &s;o generally in all, that with him, <HI>e&s;t prope|modum regulare,</HI> its a Rule and a Cannon, <HI>Tyrannus expul&s;os e&s;&s;e de terra,</HI> Tyrants to be &s;pued out of the earth, as <HI>Canaan</HI> did her Inha|bitants; yea <HI>purged</HI> out as the Sea her froth to the &s;hore: or as new wines work out injected poy&s;ons: <HI>in Po&s;tillis part.</HI> 4. <HI>p.</HI> 551, <HI>&amp;</HI> 577. As a Warning piece &s;hot off to our truculent, unju&s;t, and tyrannical Times, where in peace, and mildene&s;s, and Mercy, each of them like the Poets <HI>A&s;traea, terras reliquit,</HI> hath left the earth, and with love, ju&s;tice and con&s;cience, are fled to Heaven to complain their wor&s;e then Tom D<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ms entertainment here below, as a Monitor to every bloody <HI>Nimrodian hunter</HI> in our wor&s;t of Wars, like <HI>Cynthius, aurem vellens,</HI> pulling him by the &s;leeve, and whi&s;pering, <Q LANG="lat">in me inetuens pius e&s;to.</Q>
<Q><L>Look upon me, beleeve my Creeds,</L>
<L>Blood calls for blood, &s;uch crops, &s;uch &s;eeds.</L></Q></P>
<P>On the contrary, I beleeve with the &s;ame <HI>Melancton,</HI> That, <HI>Mo|derati, boni &amp; benifici princepes habent diucturniorem &amp; tranquillio|rem gubernationem,</HI> Milde, moderate, good and benigne Princes (as he in&s;tances n <HI>Augu&s;tus Cae&s;ar</HI> p. 551. and in <HI>Frederick</HI> the Duke of <HI>Saxony,</HI> p. 553. And we may in&s;tance in our late Engli&s;h <HI>Deborah, Spencers Eliza,</HI> and our far famed late Platonical <HI>rex Pacificus,</HI>) have their Governments both more calm and peaceable, and more firme and fixt; yea as a corrola<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y to this Article of my morral <HI>Creed,</HI> in an H<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;torical faith. I beleeve, that humility, mode&s;ty, moderation and clemency in a Conqueror, makes him a con&s;tant and a more perpe|tual Conqueror by love, then <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> was a dictator by power; yea
<PB N="8" REF="5">&s;ince <HI>fortius e&s;t qui &s;e, quam qui forti&s;&s;ima vincit,</HI> as it is the greate&s;t Conque&s;t for a Conqueror to conquer him&s;elf (as the be&s;t &s;tudy to &s;tu|dy men and him&s;elf) to conquer his ira&s;cible pa&s;&s;ions which <HI>Alexan|der</HI> could not: and his concupi&s;cible which <HI>Hercules</HI> could not do, &s;o va&s;&s;alized by his <HI>Iole,</HI> his <HI>Omphale,</HI> his <HI>Deianira,</HI> to him, <HI>Dei Ira;</HI> that the Poet &s;coffs him with his <Q LANG="lat">Laenam non potuit, potuit &s;uperare leaenam.</Q>
<Q><L>He Gacus Cerberus and Hydra &s;lew:</L>
<L>Lions, not Lu&s;ts and Drabs he could &s;ubdue.</L></Q></P>
<P>This moderate and clement temper in a Conqueror, thinks <HI>Danaeus,</HI> in his political Aphori&s;ms, p. 123, 135, 177. in many expre&s;&s;ions, hath &s;uch an Adamantine and attractive force upon the hearts of men, that it makes way and breaks the Ice &s;till to further Trophies and Ho|nors, both in Wars and in Peace: as there was nothing that more dignified <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> then the pardoning of <HI>Tully</HI> and others, who &s;ided with <HI>Pompey,</HI> in weeping over <HI>Pompeys</HI> head, in warring with <HI>Ptolo|my</HI> his viperous <HI>friend,</HI> who had betrayed him, and in jugulating <HI>A|chilles Photinus</HI> who had beheaded him: <HI>Cae&s;ar dando &s;ublovando gloriam adeptus e&s;t:</HI> his bounty in <HI>giving</HI> to his <HI>Commilitones,</HI> his fel|low Soldiers, leaving (like that <HI>Pelean</HI> youth) little to him&s;elf but hope, and his clemency in <HI>forgiving</HI> joyned to his prowe&s;s, as a pearl in gold, &s;o honored him, even among his <HI>enemies:</HI> So what <HI>dignified Alexander</HI> more then all <HI>his</HI> de&s;ired Per&s;ian Honors (<HI>in ayming</HI> folli&s;h|ly to be <HI>dei&s;ied,</HI>) but <HI>in u&s;ing King</HI> Porus <HI>his captive Regaliter</HI> &s;o re|gally: the Mother and Daughter of <HI>Darius</HI> &s;o cha&s;tely and honor|ably: <HI>in revenging</HI> &s;o ju&s;tly and nobly the ba&s;e a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inating of the great <HI>Darius</HI> his enemy on Ba&s;&s;a, and his confederate murtherers: in &s;paring the be&s;ieging and &s;acking of Jeru&s;alem, upon the reverend re|gard he had to <HI>Iaddus</HI> the high Prie&s;t: As full relation as made of all the&s;e by <HI>Plutark,</HI> and <HI>Curtius</HI> in his life; and al&s;o of &s;ome of them by <HI>Patritius,</HI> lib. 8. <HI>de regno, tit.</HI> 12. p. 528. and of the la&s;t by <HI>Io&s;ephus</HI> lib. 11. So what more ingratiated <HI>David</HI> in the hearts of his people, then in burying <HI>Abner</HI> his whilom enemy, not with the burial of an A&s;s, like <HI>Iehoakim,</HI> but honorably, 2 Sam. in making his encomia&s;tick and Funeral Sermon over his grave: In revenging his death, as well as Ama&s;aes, on the bloody head of <HI>Joab:</HI> In pardoning reviling <HI>Semei,</HI> though a blatrant bea&s;t, yet &s;paring him as a noble Lion, when he was pro&s;trate before him 2 Sam. 16. Oh that the&s;e pre&s;idents and thou|&s;and moe, &s;acred and &s;ecular, might preach now to us Acts of Oblivi|on of Injuries writ in du&s;t and Friend&s;hips in bra&s;s, for a firm and cor|dial peace; never to break out as wounds skin'd over, rankling at the bone.</P>
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