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A40452
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[The bleeding Iphigenia or An excellent preface of a work unfinished, published by the authors frind, [sic] with the reasons of publishing it.]
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French, Nicholas, 1604-1678.
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1675
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Wing F2177; ESTC R215791
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treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland marcht two of his Daughters one to great Geraldin Earl of Killdare first Earl of Ireland another to the Lord Barry Viscount of Barremore hee used for his Motto in this his great prosperity Gods providence is my in heritance a Christian and modest one which for all that signifyed hee had nothing left him by his parents These things I utter not by way of reproach for wee are all the Children of Adam but to minde Orery a little of the low and small nest in which his Father was hatched that hee should not soe farr forgett himselfe as to contemne and trample under foote a whole Nation wherin are soe many antient and noble Familyes and let him give mee leave to till him it is agreat and an unwary Impertinency for guilty and contaminated men to reproach the Innocent Hee that says much or displeaseth others must heare somthing will displease himselfe as alsoe hee that goes armed against many expects many armed against him In tyme of usurpation those that commaunded were very insolent it was then indeed men could say of England what was said of Athens that there only small theeves were hang'd but the great ones were free and condemn'd the rest wee hope it is not now soe in England however Orery for one man hath had the good Fortune to escape in all tymes and on all sides and to have a good post and place in Every goverment It is commonly said that against a mischief badd parents doe to theire Children there is noe other cure then patience but Orery being noe Parent but an Enemy to our Nation is not to be borne with and it is more reasonable his owne confusion should be his cure then our patience The Catholicks of Ireland look upon him as a great beast makeing a prey of all that 's weaker and realy hee hath soe dealt with us wherfore wee may deal with him in the same way according to our strength and if hee is soe strong and in court soe much favoured as wee may not have him cited to make answer the court will give us leave to expose his vertues or vices as wee finde them written by others In what I have writt I have but done my duty in strycking him that stryck's my Country for as Tertulean says In hostem Patriae omnis homo miles est I will here take my leave of Count Orery minding him of what P. W. in his little book stiled the Irish Cullours foulded printed at London Anno Domini 1662. in pag. 20. therof hee speaks of Orery to the Duke of Ormond as followeth For indeed my Lord hee appears to mee all a long his writings of the number of those who see heaven and all the hopes of the other life as Mathematitians make us behold in a darke Chamber what soever passeth a broad through a little Crany in such a manner that all things wee see appeare like shaddows and landsckips turned topsceturvy Verily I take this Gentleman to be abused soe by himselfe And that after hee hath stopped up all the windows and accesses to heavenly Ray's hee hath made a little hole for the Moone and all the blessings of the other life have seemed very slender to his distrustfull spiritt and that hee hath put on a Resolution to make a Fortune at what price soever and to build on earth like Caine after hee hath allmost renounced the hopes of heaven If Orery be such a man as P. W. discribes him if hee hath not a trembling in the head as old Cain the Murtherer had hee cannot Chuse but have a trembling and great heavenisse at the hart After ending with Orery I sinde a nother Kinde of snake in the grass latet anguis in herba full of poyson this man conceals his name wherfore I know not for hee needed not feare to write any thing against the Catholicks when all things runn against them Likely his fancy was to throw the stone and hide his hand Hee writt at London Anno 1664. a Book full of vennime with this title Horae Subcesiva In pag. 83. hee affirmeth that Charles the second is not obliged in the least by any Law of God or man of warr or Nations to keep any one particle of the Irish Articles made or granted by King Charles his Father in the yeare 1648. to this purpose hee setts downe formally these words in pag. 81. King Charles the second May Iure Belli gentium lege talionis without breatch of faith or Articles not excepting those of 1648. soe much insisted on and soe mightily pleaded for by P. W. by that just Law soe often used and prescribed by God himselfe take the lives and fortunes of all bloodd-thirsty Popish Rebells and theire confederats and assotiats M This Godly man doth not cite in what Code or Book this Law often used and prescribed by God himselfe is to be had nor can hee nor doth hee give any other reason or proofe for his assertion then his owne Authority which can be of noe vallue with any pious man I appeal to all the noble-men and the worthy Protestant People of England if this is not rather the proposition of a Murtherer then of a Christian Gentleman This mans Book Horâ— Subcesivae P. W. did learnedly confute in an Appendix hee added to his reply to Orerys answer and soe confounded him that hee neuer writt word after in his owne defence I remitt the Reader to what hee shall finde in said Appendix of this Matter and after reading all let him Iudge as hee shall finde fitting and reasonable Can wee forgit to list in the number of our Enemys the Earle of Clarendon Chancellor of England hee deserves to head the first ranck of them a man of Ruine and Distruction a Pest to Catholicks and Ireland Was not this Clarendon this blooddy and covetous Statesmaen heard oft to say with a fierce countenanc and passionat tone the Irish deserve to be exterpated and then hee would after his usuall manner com out with a great oath and swear they shall be extirpated Good God what a heathnish Expression is this in the Mouth of a Christian Statesman a Chancellor of Engelland Is not a Christian King well Counselled in having neare him for chiefe Minister of State such a blooddy man voyd of all Iustice and mercy But did this Athist soe great an Enemy to Godliness can not be a Christian think that God that hath appoynted an Angell for the Guard of Every indivtduall person would take noe care to preserve the body of an intyre Nation but let them all be destroy'd to satisfy the minde and anger of a blooddy man Clarendon was in this Bussiness like that Astronomer or Philosopher who look't upon the starrs and fell into a well before his feet hee had then designed in his owne minde the ruine of the Catholicks of Ireland and very soon after hee stole out of England with a Guilty Conscience and Baggs of Gold