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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85713	The sage senator delineated: or, A discourse of the qualifications, endowments, parts, external and internal, office, duty and dignity of a perfect politician. With a discourse of kingdoms, republiques, & states-popular. As also, of kings and princes: to which is annexed, the new models of modern policy. / By J.G. Gent.; De optimo senatore. English	Goślicki, Wawrzyniec, 1530-1607.; Grimefield, John,; J. G., Gent.	1660 (1660)	Wing G2027; Thomason E1766_1; ESTC R10030	85,759	226

by the Cynosure of the Law contented to be led by the Line of reason directing himself in all his undertakings according to the prudent and grave advice of his Senators Authority thus used creates a general love liking and consent among the Subjects To conclude the King of Polonia seems such a Prince as Plato Aristotle Xenophon and other Legislators have desired to bear sway in all well-regulated Commonweals and Kingdoms and such as both God and Nature approve The Senate here bears the Image of Optimacy and hath much power and authority for they being chosen out of the wiser sort of Nobles they only I say consult with the King about State-affairs Their authority is not unlike the Homotimi of Persia or the Ephori of Lacedaemonia The Gentlemen of Polonia resemble the Popular State for on them is imposed a great part of the Government and may be said to be as a Seminary from whence issue both Counsellors and Kings The Empire of Germany consists of the Emperour Princes and People which being governed by divers Potentates and their policy being scattered into sundry Governments comes not easily within the reach of a concise description The quondam Kingdom of Britain now called England obeyeth one King who electeth Senators unto whom the residue of Nobles and some of the Popular Order being joyned make one Common Council which is called in our Idiom a Parliament But native modesty forbids us to proceed any farther upon this subject whose Encomia's we judge to be a Theme far more suitable to a forrain Pen One difficulty there remains still the resolution whereof we have reserved for the close of this Chapter and that is this What a Citizen is which we have so much all along discoursed of To which we answer That this word Citizen hath had several acceptations among Writers Some have called the whole number of Inhabitants by the name of Citizens Others only those that are descended of Noble and free-born Citizens Some call them Citizens whose Fathers were free-born within the City Others would have them to fetch their Pedigree more remote from their ancient Grandfathers And some are of opinion that forrainers received into the Society of Citizens and naturalized or Denizen'd deserve the name of Citizens Aristotle terms them Citizens that are capable of publick Offices in State and are descended of free and honest Parentage In popular States all they are usually called Citizens that dwell in the City as well Poor as Rich Bad as Good none being Bond-men for every one is capable of Government because there is an universal parity among them Of this nature was the Athenian Commonwealth before spoken of so long as it was subject to Popular Government and the Cantons of Switzerland steer the same course even to this very Day And divers Cities in Germany there are called free where the Inhabitants live popularly secluded from Gentlemen and noble Citizens In an Oligarchy because men are most respected for their revenues and substance they that are most rich are reputed Citizens though they are dishonourable because careless of all vertue and make it their whole study to be rich Quo jure quaque injuria by hook or by crook as we say right or wrong no matter which way they obtain it to the end that they may come to dignity and preferment not as wise and vertuous but as rich and wealthy persons Among the Romans there were several sorts of Citizens Some were called Municipes some Coloni and others Latini every one of them retaining those conditions that were allotted them by the people of Rome Some whereof were free some Confederate and some Stipendiary Some were created Citizens pleno jure which was by voice and they were thought worthy of all honours Others Jure honorario which were of the number of those that were admitted into the the City without the suffrage of the people and they were honoris gratia called Citizens as the Campani and Equites He likewise was counted a Citizen of Rome whose name was written in the Book of the Censors and was an House-keeper By all which it is perspicuous and evident that in all Republicks they were properly called Citizens that could plead a right to Office and could give suffrage in the State whereas he that wants these priviledges is rather to be called Inhabitant or Client than Citizen In Monarchies and Aristocracies those are Citizens that are vertuous In the latter good and vertuous men only govern in the former one alone that for Bounty Liberality and Magnificency excels all others Those people which are naturally Slaves or wickedly debauched do for the most part obey Tyrants and that Government is called Imperium despoticum Yet are not all they to be judged Slaves that are encumbred with the power and oppression of Tyrants if they be not withall base minded and vicious For we read of many Citizens that have freed themselves and their Country from servitude by slaying or expelling the Tyrants and if they found their expectations were herein frustrated they chose rather to lose their lives than their Liberty as Brutus and Cato did with many other Romans Thus we have given the description and division of the ancient States Popular Republicks and Kingdoms in the next Chapter we shall demonstrate the new models of Government set up by the rebellious since the late unhappy wars between King and Parliament CHAP. IV. The new-fangled Model of Modern Policy being of three sorts a Protectordom a Committeedom and a Rumpdom and first of the Protectordom AS for that hellish monster that damnable Machiavilian that first gave rise to this same strange and unheard of Government we shall say nothing tending either to his Parentage Birth or Education because we have reserved that as a subject for another entire peece only that he might be said to be a man of blouds in the plural number as Zipporah said to her Husband Moses Who butcher-like made cruelty his profession and was never better than when he had his Sword sheathed in his Country-mens bowels so that we may affirm what succeeding Ages will unquestionably maintain Dicat de Tygride natum Posteritas An audacious Rebel that durst aspire from the mean condition of a private person to the Throne though he first wash'd his hands in the bloud of his Soveraign He represented the real Tragedy of a King and no King whose mouth water'd after that Title but that he durst not assume it being he had fought so long against it and was sworn to the deposition of all Kingship for the future He to raise himself on the top of the Pyramid of honour trampled over the heads of the most Loyal Subjects of the Realm made a foot-ball of a Crown and endeavoured utterly to extirpate the Royal Progeny Root and Kind Stem and Stock Nay I will be bold to say if that an innocent Babe had been born with Vive le Roy in his mouth he must have been food for his