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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20838	The practise of princes. Published by A. Ar	Ar., A.	1630 (1630)	STC 722; ESTC S100204	18,364	24

it is to see wicked counsellors get such a hand over theire King that he is wholy ruled by them and dares not doe or say any thing but what they like nor favour a good man and his cause further then they admit as it was with Zedekiah who durst not be knowne of the talke he had with Ieremie but was forced to faigne a busines and an answer to stop the mouths of his Princes and Councellors so verie a child they made of him though it be saide woe to thee o Land whose King is a child when with a couragious constant frowne he might have dispersed them all and have saved himselfe and the citie by beeing perswaded by Ieremie 2. Wisdom saith of a true king The pleasure of a King is in a wise servant this wise man is one truly religious not an Achitophel but his wrath shall be toward him that is lewd Such as are our seditious whisperes the seedesmen of division Righteous lips are the delight of Kings and the King loveth him that speaketh right things And againe A King that sitted in the throne of judgment chaseth away all evill with his eyes He lookes with indignation on wicked men as considering that he sits in the throne of the Lord to doe that which is right and best for Gods service and kingdom A wise King scattereth the wicked and causeth the wheele to turne over them And why should wee not pray and hope that God may give our King this grace seeing Wisdom saith The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water he turneth whithersoever it pleaseth him for he saith to Kings Cast out the scorner and strife shall goe out so contention reproch shall ceasse and on the other side He that loveth purenes of heart for the grace of his lips the King shall be his freind Wisdom also sheweth that it is for a Kings honour and safety to have wicked men sifted out and cut off or expelled saying The glory of God is to conceale a thinge but the Kings honour is to search out a thinge to let such come to triall Take the drosse from the silver and there shall proceede a vessel for the finer Take away the wicked frō the King and his throne shall be established in righteousnes as if he saide otherwise it must needes totter O but these cunning Achitophels have many goodly pretences shewing that it is wisdom in Kings to keepe downe and suppresse these Puritans as they were ever pleased to call the gentlemen of the lower howse and all that crie out for reformation or trouble themselvs with such matters as the treatie and match with Spaine the increase of poperie and Arminianisme the losse of the Palatinate and of Shipping and honour in the Seas transportation of mumunition and corne the Rochellers or the like and thereby say they taxe the wisdom and government of theire King and his councell whē indeede this suggestion the like is but a cloake to cover theire treacherie love to superstition and hate of our religiō yet want they not a disguise of pretended love to the booke of common praier the hierarchie and such traditions and ceremonies thereof as doe not offend poperie as if that were sufficient to make them protestants and good states men whose hearts and practises are for Rome for as wisdom saith Hatred may be couered by deceite but the malice thereof shall be discovered in the congregation that is in an publick and free assemb●ie which shewes the good use and necessity of Parl●aments which these mens practise could never endure and therefore they have stil got them dissolved by hooke or by crooke let what would follow either at home to the joy and furtherance of the Papists and Arminians the extreame weakning of the King and kingdom or abroade to the undoing of our freinds and religion in Germanie the Palatinate France and Denmarke whereby our Bisshops and theire abettors have shewed they had rather all these should fall then theire owne faction and glorie though poperie and pelagianisme have every where thriven by it what care they that beeing in many of them the maine ende of these theire practises witnes Cosens protected for al his cosening devotions published and palpable superstition erected and theire suffering the Appealers booke to passe two or three yeares and the Author to be rewarded that so schollers in the universities to get promotion might in like manner corrupt and be corrupted and so corruption might spread from these fountains to all parts of the Land watered by them and when they doubted that in Parliament it might be questioned and they for suffering and furthering it to prevent that they get the King to call it in sleigthly not a search to be made for it as for other bookes not left as this to be freely sold in shops by any that would and to forbid all disputes preaching and writing on both sides knowing they could thereby hinder all that should write against those errors and let bookes and disputes passe which defended the same as they after did Dr. Iacksons second part printed before the Parliament but somwhat kept in till it was dissolved whence it appeares that though these were points they durst not maintaine in Parliament and therefore errors yet theire drift was to save and further them and to engage the king further and further in the cause that so the Parliament might not medle with them or if they did it might be pretended the howse tooke the matter out of his hand taxed his government and undervalued his prerogative that so he incēsed thereby might shew the Arminians more favour And the like ends have they that get Kings in pretended policie to connive at poperie and stay the execution of lawes against Papists suffer ordināce victuals and other provision of war to be daily transported to the enemies of our religion that so if never so litle shew be made of reforming these things before a Parliament and yet Parliaments complaine of them or of theire agents in court church-papists trecherous favourits delinquents straight it might be pretēded the matter is taken out of the Kings hand and his government and prerogative is taxed and infringed thereby to put off reformation incense his majestie and get them more favour And still to saue these practises from comming to triall and therewithall to put men out of heart in theire trading make them sell theire ships and therein the wals of the land they euer finde the Parliaments other worke in case of customs priviledges and other matters and then informe the king that in those things his prerogative is by them grossly infringed and he obliged to dissolve the assemblie The reasons why the howse of Austria and the French have of late prevailed are cheifely two first because they had care to suffer none to be of theire councell of state Agents abroade nor Generals and