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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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