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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40526	The Fugitive statesman, in requital for The perplex'd prince		1683 (1683)	Wing F2259; ESTC R112	33,587	158

such detestable and abominable Tenets as were not only destructive to Monarchy but to all Government and order in the World But Peoples Eyes being too well opened and their Affections to the Government too strong to be ensnared by such course Stratagems and such thin nets they haunted about for new Contrivances endeavouring by all the means imaginable to get such Magistrates chosen in all great Towns and especially in Jerusalem as were affected to their Party and hinking by that course to fetter up the Course of Justice and thereby to prevent a just revenge upon all their Crimes But the Loyal Jews were now grown so sensible of the Destructive Machinations of the Faction and so fearful and apprehensive of falling again into the same Ruine and Calamities they had but so lately groaned under by the same Men who made use of the same Pretences and the same Colours to decoy them into Misery and Destruction I say being warn'd by their past Sufferings and Desolations they vigorously stood up in defence of the Government insomuch That notwithstanding all the Hellish cunning and Contrivances of their Cabals notwithstanding all the Zeal and Spirit of the Party who were reduc'd to that Extremity as to be in danger of being brought to condign punishments in case they fail'd of having such Officers and Magistrates elected as were of their own Leaven yet they were disappointed of their hopes and Expectations the Loyal Jews found out and expos'd their Forgeries and Illegal Proceedings rendred them odious to the sound part of the Nation and procured such Officers to be chosen as were zealous for the True Religion as then Established Asserters of Monarchy and the Government Impartial Lovers of Justice and wholly devoted to the good and interest of their Countrey This heightned the Factions Despair they were now at a terrible plunge and knew not well what Course to take but the rancour they had sowed had taken such deep root that a great part of the Mobile of Jerusalem had still so much of the Infection left in them that they were ready upon all occasions to fall upon such Officers of Justice who came to put the Laws in Execution upon such Criminals as were of their Party and had incurred Penalties by their Mis-behaviour and their Transgressions By these means several were rescued from Justice and the Laws hindred from being put in Execution But though they foresaw that this could not long secure them they still continued to use all manner of means to endeavour to alienate the Peoples Hearts and Affections from the King and his Heirs There had formerly appeared in the World a Book Entituled The Growth of the Superstitions of the Jebusites Written by an Ingenious though a disaffected Jew This same piece had met with a favourable Reception amongst the Jewish Male-Contents and a Continuation of it was at this time thought proper to revive the Umbrages of the People amongst other things it endeavoured to persuade that there had long been a Secret League and Treaty between Pharoah and the Monarch of Jerusalem whereby David was oblig'd amongst other Articles to introduce the Worship of the Jebusites and that for that purpose Pharoah should assist him with Men and Money and likewise to make himself absolute over the Lives and Estates of his Subjects A mad ridiculous sham and invention For it was a thing impossible ever to bring in and establish the Jebusites without wholly destroying the Jews and certainly never any Prince out of an Affection to some few particular Men and a Sect destructive to Monarchy and Dependant on a Forreign Head would destroy the main Body of the Nation and leave himself without Subjects and Support And as for the Jebusites being brought in by the Consent of the Jews is a thing never to be suppos'd since their very Habitations were the Ancient Possessions of the Jebusites and the Jews would certainly never allow of their Return whom they had deprived of their Inheritance well knowing they would never be content until they were reinstated in them again and that Baal not only claimed their Conscience but their Lands too And as for Pharoah's contributing his aid and succour to the King of Judah for the resetling them and Tyranny it is well known he has always been too great a Slave to his Interests and Grandeur to commit such a Solecism in Politicks as to put Arms into such a hand as of all Asia was alone capable of putting a stop to his Prodigious and dreadful Carreer He knew the temper of the Jewish People the Constitution of their Government with the Infatuation the Sanhedrim lay under to be such that they would give no Supplys to the Crown though in the greatest Exigencys and necessitys of State out of a frantick and groundless fear that they might be employed to their own Oppression He knew too that the setled Revenues on the Crown were too short and inconsiderable to suffice either supporting the Crown it self upon occasion or defending and relieving the Allies and Confederates of Israel against the spreading and overflowing Arms of Egypt though his Wealth and Revenues were vast he employed them such ways as more contributed to his Grandeur and the Enlargement of his Empire He brib'd and made Pensioners of a vast number of Jews who pretending Zeal and Friendship to the State and Government yet at the same time maliciously insinuated into the People that there were Designs on foot at Court to Usurp their Sacred Rites and Properties that the Royal Family were inclinable to Baal's Superstitions and Idolatry that with it Tyranny and Arbitrary Power was to be introduced By such like Wiles and Artifices as these were the Chosen People seduced to entertain an ill Opinion of their Governours and upright Patriots and to cry up and extol those Traytors to their Countrey who by such Courses created those Divisions amongst the Hebrews as weakned them and rendred them uncapable of opposing the Growth of Egypt's King They were the Persons who endeavoured to sell and bring upon their Countrey Slavery and Idolatry notwithstanding their exclaiming against the Government as usurping upon their Priviledges and Charters They were the occasion of Israel's Confederates being oppress'd and over-run They by brooding such Jealousies and Divisions laid open the only door that could let in the Jebusite All the Gracious Declarations of David all his Assurances to maintain their Priviledges and defend their Religion by Law Established were not satisfactory to this Insatiate Party for that Religion and Priviledge were only the Ingredients they made use of to work the People into a Ferment and then by a continual Application of Fears and Jealousies to scrue 'em up into a Rage and Fury the Consequences whereof they knew would be Confusion and Anarchy This they look'd upon as the readiest way to build their Fortunes which if they could attain to they cared not though it were upon their Father's Ruine and Destruction They long'd to be Lording and