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A67438	The Irish colours folded, or, The Irish Roman-Catholick's reply to the (pretended) English Protestants answer to the letter desiring a just and mercifall regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland (which answer is entitled The Irish colours displayed), addressed (as that answer and letter have been) to His Grace the Lord Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governour of that kingdome.	Walsh, Peter, 1618?-1688.; Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1662 (1662)	Wing W635; ESTC R17831	23,083	36

make all that know you well be very confident this Enchanter hath laboured in vain to charm you And me no lesse That you had rather take your maximes and measures and rules and examples of Government from the Oracles of God from the equity of the Laws from the dictates of your own severe Conscience and from the model of so many great honourable and holy Statesmen who flourished in the succession of all Ages and govern'd succesfully their people then from the vain illusions and wicked policy of a Machiavel or Achitophel or from the diastrous undertakings and sad Catastrophe of either themselves or of those they tutord Never was there a more refined wit then Achitophel of whom the Scripture said Consilium Achitophel quasi si quis consuleret Deum That men consulted with him as with a God Yet never was there any more unhappy in his practice For having disposed of the affairs of the Kingdom and those of his own house there remaining none to be provided for but his own person he took a halter and hang'd himself because they approved not one of his Counsels Nor ever was any more unhappy then Machiavel in all his enterprizes notwithstanding his great list of refined precepts And for those two unfortunate Princes that were Schollars or patterns to them Absalom and Duke Valentinois besides hundreds more that would not be wise by their fate we know what end they had Besides my Lord you consider it hath been the judgemet neer two thousand years ago even of that very great Polititian Thucidides and ever since a general observation as it is to day of all well understanding men that those curious wits despoiled of the fear of God have alwayes been most turbulent and unhappy in the manage both of their own affairs and the publick also As on the contrary those who had not so much knowledge and invention but pursued the general instinct of God have held their Estates better govern'd in simplicity more prosperous in the ignorance of evil and much more in the lasting of their felicity And your own reading can furnish you with sufficient proofs that ordinarily the most unhappy among States have been those who have made the greatest shew of knowledge to deceive under humane Policy That is it which overthrew the Commonwealth of the Athenians That which ruined the house of Jeroboam who revolting against his Prince having raised a State by ambition and a Religion out of phantasie having seen the Altas crack with the horror of his crimes and his heart still remaining more obdurate then stone in the end he is so chastised by the hand of God that there was not left so much as one handful of dust of his house upon the face of the earth Domus Jeroboam eversa est deleta de supersicie terrae And even that which undid the very first King of Gods own election For this unfortunate Prince while he makes shew punctually to obey the Law of God under the direction of Samuel but afterwards learns to become cunning envious faithless plotting designes consulting Pythonesses and seeking in all points his own petty interests poor David whose life this King judged without any other cause but envy incompatible with his own estate dismounts him using no other policy but that of making himself an honest man Holy Scripture and other Monuments of latter and former times can further tell your Grace that considering so many other Politicians who made profession to refine all the world who attempted to practice according to their own vain Idea's either you have seen but the first station of their plaistered felicity or have ever found great labyrinths horrible confusions fortunes little lasting dejection in their posterity hatred and the execration of Ages And that you may without enquiry or trouble to your thoughts behold with a ready eye how there is no policy powerful against God and how he surpriseth the most subtle making snares of their greatest cunning to captive them see my Lord in the book of Hester that wicked Aman the great Favourite of Assuerus ●…ho practised as our Gentleman doth the ruine of the Hebrews who prevailed so far as to have the lots cast and warrants sign'd and proclamation made thereof in Sushan and a day prefixed for the general slaughter of that Nation young and old men women and children and Courriers dispatch'd to all Provinces of the Empire to command the execution while these forlorn people dispersed as they were then among strangers moved heaven and earth to pity with their yellings because they saw not how the Decree was avoidable see this wicked Aman resolved on so horrid an act as was the destruction of so many millions and resolved upon it only to be revenged on Mordecai that saved the King from murder and after this to raise himself with the wealth of the destroyed all which the King bestowed upon him at the same time See this Politician of Hell yea notwithstanding all his power and favour ruin'd in a moment yea within three dayes after the Decree published and ruin'd by this very Mordecai a contemptible worm of the earth till then in Amans apprehension See presently a countermand of the bloody Edicts Aman forced to lead Mordecai's horse and cry him in the streets of Susan the greatest Lord of the Empire next the King and himself next day after raised indeed but on a gibbet of fifty cubits high to humble him for ever by the most ignominious death could be while the Jews on that very day by him designed for utter destruction saw themselves masters and even by the Kings commandment to all his Lieutenants and other Subjects executioners in the Kings own Court Susan of the ten sons of their great enemy and of eight hundred more two dayes continually and in other Provinces throughout the Empire of threescore and fifteen thousand men who had before conspired against them with Aman. Besides this my Lord see one example more very pertinent in the book of Exodus Behold Pharaoh turn'd ungrateful and forgetful of all the obligations laid by Joseph on him See this Pharaoh becoming crafty and thinking by ruinating the Israelits his Scepter is throughly established But see withall how God surprizeth him in his subtilty and makes him know the oppression of this poor people is the instrument of his ruine A little child which lyeth floating on the waters of Nilus in a cradle of bulrushes as a worm hidden in straw and whose afflicted mother measureth his tomb with her eyes in every billow of this faithless element is delivered from peril by the very blood of Pharao to turn the Diadem of Pharao into dust and bury him with all his Nobles and an army of two hundred thousand men with him as Josephus writes all enflamed in a gulph of the red Sea But my Lord I have almost forgot my self being transported on this subject whereon the temerity of my Answerer hath engaged me to dilate not that I

said in Venerable Bede to have done 1200. years ago to Him that redeemed them immediately after from the slavery of Heathenisme and power of Devils But when shall we expect that deliverance if not now Now that our good King is restored by so many miracles and wonders now that he is established by all that may concur to fix his Throne now that he is so well disposed to justice and to mercy both as he hath ever been now that he hath neer his person a Councel so sage a Parliament so zealous for the publick good so many honourable men endowed with so sincere intentions and now that your Grace is the second or third time Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and ready to part hence to your charge when may we reasonably expect the comfort of that oppressed people if not at this hour when miseries are eminent clamours piercing and dispositions very good Alas my Lord if there be any thing in the world wherein you may be seen to oblige the present and replenish future times with admiration of your vertues it is in effecting this for which Heaven is in expectation and the hands of a million of poor disconsolate souls are daily lifted to God Remember my Lord that such and so many great Governours for not having had any other aim in charges but the accommodation of their own affaires have passed away like phantasmes leaving nought here behinde them but ordure nor bearing any thing with them into the other world but crimes And that they have found that the sould of the wounded have cryed to Heaven against them and that God hath not let it pass without revenge Anima vulneratorum clamavit ad Dominum Deus inultam abire non patitur as holy Job speaketh in the 24th chapter where he at large explicateth both the calamity of the poore and the chastisement of the rich that oppresse them Consider on the other side that all those who have constantly addicted themselves to the maintenance of Justice and the consolation of affl●cted persons besides the Crownes which they enjoy in Heaven live gloriously in the memory of men Their mouths which are opened for justice after they are shut up as Temples are truly worthy to have Lillies and Roses strewed on the Marble which encloseth them and that their posterity also may reap the good odour of their noble Ancestors which hath made it march with up-reared head before the face of the people In the last place my Lord notwithstanding the Answerer's quarrel against holy Scripture to direct State-affaires and fortifie or clear disputes in matters of publick Justice which is the most unreasonable saying could proceed from a Christian since if they be of any use at all they must be in State-affaires most of all others I most humbly and most earnestly recommend this Book of books to your Grace whereby to guide your self alwayes in your most important determinations of State for what may relate to right and the law of God Look upon it as the pillar of clouds and flames which conducted the army of the living God There it is where you shall learn true maximes of State scored out with most vigorous reflections of the Wisdome of God and where you shall trample under foot with a generous contempt so many illusions which wretched soules seek for in the mouth of Sorcerers Read the book of Wisdome the Prophets the book of holy Job and the Divine Psalms of the King chosen out according to God's own heart Consider the stream of so many Histories written in this Theatre of wonders which are characters of fire wherewith the divine Providence is pleased to be figured to mortal eyes that we may learn the punishment of crimes and the crowns of vertue Represent unto your self often in your idaeae's those great States-men who have flourished in the course of all ages and derive light and fire from their examples to illuminate and inflame you in the self same list Behold him who hath been refined above all others in the School of God I mean Moyses Who hath been more humble in refusing charges more obedient in accepting them more faithfull in exercising more industrious in executing the commandments of God more vigilant in government of the people more severe in correction of vices more patient in sufferance of the infirmities of Subjects and more zealous in the cordial love he bare to the whole world With these gifts he became the God of Monarchs he ruined the State of his enemies he unloosed the chaines of an infinite number of slaves he opened Seas he manured wildernesses he marched in the front of fix hundred thousand men at arms he lived laborious amongst Shepherds chast in the Court of Kings temperate in government a companion of Angels in his retirement and as it were a cabinet-friend of God having continually heaven for object and all greatnesse in contempt He had blotted out all that was man in him by the purity of a conversation wholy celestial The flesh was in him in such subjection and the spirit in such Empire that as Ambrose speaks in his book of Cain and Abel he merited the name of God in the resemblance of whom he was transformed by the superabundance of his vertues Behold that great Disciple of Moyses Josue What piety in the service of the Omnipotent what sweetnesse in government what greatnesse of spirit in noble enterprizes what patience in difficulties what prudence in direction what dispatch in expeditions It is no wonder if in the fight of these eminent qualities Walls and Cities fell Giants waxed pale Rivers retired back the Sun stood still and one and thirty Kings underwent the yoke Behold Samuel the Father Master and Judge of two Kings the Doctour of Prophets the Sanctuary of the poor the pillar of the Church Is it not a magnificent spectacle to see him go out of charge after so long a Government and so great a diversity of Affairs with a heart so untainted and hands undefiled as if he had perpetually conversed with Angels Is it not a most heroical action which he did in the first of Kings when after the election of Saul having voluntarily resigned his Dignity he shewed himself with upreard head in the midst of the people and gave liberty to all the world from the least to the greatest to complain and make information against him before the King newly chosen If it may be found that in his Magistracy he ever did the least wrong to any man he is there ready to afford all satisfaction that may be thought fit But as he had lived most innocently at this word was lifted up a loud cry proceeding from a general consent of the people which highly proclaimed the integrity of his justice Is not this a praise of more value then millions of Gold and Empires But above all reflect often on the Wisdome of God Incarnate Jesus Jesus Christ the Saviour of the world as the Prime model of all States-men

whom the Prophet Esay hath exactly represented in the eleventh Chapter of his Prophecy where he figureth the Redeemer unto us in the quality of a Judge to serve for instruction and example to all posterity First for as much as concerneth his perfections he gave him seven sorts of spirits very consonant to a true Politician the spirit of Wisdome and Vnderstanding the spirit of Counsel and Strength the spirit of Science and Piety and the spirit of the Fear of God wherewith he was wholly replenished Then describing the maner of his proceeding saith He shall not judge according to humane appearances by the inconsiderate view of carnal eyes and the relation of a rash tongue but he shall do justice to the poor and fortifie himself with all kind of vigour for the defence of so many gentle souls as are oppressed in the world To this purpose he shall strike the earth with the words of his mouth using his tongue as a rod of correction and shall overthrow the wicked with the breath of his lips Justice shall be so familiar to him that he shall make use of it as a girdle of honour or a rich baudrike which brave Captains wear The effects of his Government shall be so eminent that under his raign the Woolf shall be seen to cohabit with the Lamb the Leopard with the Goat the Calf with the Lyon and little Children to play with Basilisks and Aspicks Willing in these Allegories to signifie how this divine Governour should mollifie the most savage humours and reduce them to the temper of reason I conclude here my Lord wishing it may be so in Ireland under your Government That you may imitate this great Exemplar to Judges That you may be another Samuel a Joshua and a Moses to the people under your charge That in particular you may in the present conjuncture have the charity and compassion of Moses for them all since you know them very neer all one way or other guilty transgressors as having either made or followed or adored the Gods of Gold And therefore that without losing this last and best opportunity of your departure hence which now is drawing on so neer your Grace may be pleased to speak your strongest intercession for them all to his Majesty and speak it with that love zeal and fervour Moses did for his beloved Israelites to God in the two and thirtieth of Exodus when they had fallen into the most grievous rebellion imaginable And that you may be pleased to speak that intercession even in the very words of this great Prophetical Commander this Familiar of God Either forgive them now their sin or if not then I beseech thee blot me out of thy book which thou hast written Aut dimitte eis hanc noxam aut dele me de libro tuo quem scripsisti Wherein my Lord prevailing as I doubt not you will and obtaining this general Pardon from the most gracious indulgent merciful Prince on earth and affording effectually the benefit thereof to all the Roman Catholick people of Ireland and to so many other different parties and interests in that Kingdome without distinction without prejudice to the rights of any of all according to that which might be justly claimed by them from such an Act of Indempnity and Oblivion and in pursuance thereof from the equity of the Laws and from his Majesties other gracious Concessions in Articles of Peace you will certainly give the most hopeful beginning may be to your other glorious undertakings hereafter as at present evict this confession from all the world that you have deafned your ears to the Enchanter of injustice and that ever constant to your self you remember perpetually and follow this more Christian more humane precept of an Apostle Vince in bono malum Which is the vow for you of My Lord Your Grace's most humble most faithful and most obedient Servant P. W.