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A85748	Politick maxims and observations written by the most learned Hugo Grotius translated for the ease and benefit of the English states-men. By H.C. S.T.B.	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Campanella, Tommaso, 1568-1639.; H.C., S.T.B.	1654 (1654)	Wing G2123; Thomason E1527_2; ESTC R202255	31,497	154

make exchanges of Inhabitants by mutuall transplantations So the Romans to secure their Empire carried Colonies over into Germany that by their example the Germanes unaccustomed to Romane Lawes might be the better acquainted with and subject to them Observator The Trans-Rhine which are the true and proper Germanes for the much greatest part were never Conquer'd by the Romans but retain'd sans mixture their own Language and Manners till under Lotharius they ●oluntarily submitted to the Romane Yoak You shall find more Germane Families in Italy then Roman Families in Germany 2. Colonies are best made up of Citizens bred up in the Metropolis of the Kingdome or in the Neighbouring Towns for example either of Romans or Latines and because so many be planted as will be able to defend the Province and any Enemy whatever 3. If Colonies be sent from a Free-State it is good to build their Cities on the tops of the Hills for defence of their Liberty if from a Monarch better in the Plain 4. That Cities may wax great 't is expedient they be Situate either upon the Banks of Rivers or neare the Sea-shore and in a Plain Where necessaries for life are easiest to be had commerce with strangers is most convenient But for the Defence of Liberty and Lawes and the Non-impayring of Valour they are more commodiously seated upon Mountaines and Rocks Withall great respect is to be had to the wholesomnesse of Water and Air and Winds and the Prospect to the severall Quarters of the Heavens 5. Planters of Colonies are to be divided into 1. Governors as Priests and Judges 2. Protectors as Soul-diers and Commanders 3. Artizans and such as * feed the Republique As Husbandmen Shepherds and the like Observator Nothing hinders but he that Vses Husbandry may also follow a Trade either by himselfe or his Wife Rules that prescribe exact proportions of allowances for every person in a Plantation do often faile in the Practique Plaines bear most Corn Mountaines most Wool Hence c. came Chaffering and Exchanging and Merchandizing and stamping of Goynes c. and for want of Souldery hereupon were Forts and Guns invented CHAP. VII Of the instruments to gain keep Kingdomes c. TO gain keep and govern Kingdomes there are three principal l instruments The 1. Tongue 2. Sword 3. Treasure 1. For the Tongue t is the instrument of Religion and Prudence That is of the Goods of the Minde 2. The sword is the proper Instrument of the Body and its Goods 3. Treasure is more the Instrument of Fortunes and Estates which serves the Body and Minde onely Secondarily but the true Instruments are the Tongue and the Sword 2. They that use the sword only founding their power upon that those quickly lose their dominion as Tamberlaine Attila and Brennus and most of the Northern nations The Jesuites in Japan gaine first soules then Kingdomes to Spaine and the Papacy by their tongues There be that gaine Dominion by crying up some new sect built upon some specious colour of truth by sowing discord betwixt the old Religion the new Sect which shall be attempted and fitted to the gust and palate of the multitude But such Dominion is of it selfe not very long liv'd Ring-leaders of Heresies although commonly they gain much they keep little as for example John of Leydon Dulcinus Theudas Observat. John of Leydon was an ignorant fellow a person of of no worth at all who through the hatred against the Priests of his time whose lives were abominable in the eyes of all men gathered together a rabble of the basest people They that use well the sword and tongue do lay the foundations of durable Dominion but then the sword must be just and the tongue veracious Thus did Moses build the Empire of the Jews namely in veracity and justice which impious Machiavell never took into consideration p. 147. The Law of Moises survived the Empire of the Jews but Mahomets Laws shall sink with his Empire Thus fell the laws of Alexander with his person and power Thus Numa's Belus and Minos Pythagoras and Zamolxis his lawes are extinct even for want of justice and veracity He that knows not how to give lawes to those he conquers doth quickly lose the Kingdome he has gain'd Thus Charles the fifth lost Tunis and Germany which he had wonne for want of skill to secure his conquest by the addition of Lawes and Colonies This misfortune often befell King Pirrhus but not so the Romans Observ. He had need be a very wise man that can give lawes to men of a different Religion that shal be lasting and fitted to the disposition of them that receive them as it appears by the Romans in Jewry who did the utmost of their endeavour with all their skill strived to establish the state and tranquility of that untractable people by lawes conforme to their tempers and humors as the excellent orations of King Agrippa and Josephus made to their Countrymen the Jews do witnesse 5. he that defends his Dominions by sword and tongue preserves them better and more safely then he that makes use but of onely one For 6. Men of Arts are usually oppressed by Men of Armes Thus Saturn being a Priest as antient Kings were left his Kingdome to Jupiter and Perseus the Warriour dethron'd Atlas the Scholler and Astrologer Thus was Pythagoras supported by souldiers * and the Pope till such time as he felt the use of his weapons was often made a prey to his enemies and many times good man to his friends Observator Here the thrice worthy Grotius notes well upon this late passage concerning the Bishop of Rome that the benigne aspects of opportunity made way for that power which the Pope now enjoyes as for instance the Christian World split into many petty Kingdomes Italy torn in pieces and sluggish withall an age too dull to apprehend the meaning of that Artifice in due time and diverse other causes which you may find in Guicciardin and Machiavell 7. He that uses only Armes for the defence of his Empire and neglects witt and eloquence makes but a paper building rules but weakly and this is the reason why the Emperor of Germany prevailes no more having a people of different perswasions in Religion to rule over and usually such Princes become a prey to those that make the best use of their witts Hence came it that the Popes did so frequently make and un-make Emperors at their pleasure Therefore as Salust observes did the Romans wisely ever exercise both mind and body together For He that exerciseth both makes his Empire last longest as the King of the Turkes and Abassines and the Dake of Muscovy Fabulous Philosophy affirms as much whiles it gives Pallas the Goddesse of wisdome a Book and a Spear to make her invincible but to Mars only Arnour who as the Poets sings was therefore often Conquered Hence was it that 9. The Northern Nations that fell like swarms

of Bees upon the Southern Regions who excell'd them in religion and Policy received Laws from them they had conquered So the Tartars and the Turks a Northern people had lawes from the conquered Arabians and Religion too and the Hunns Vandals Lombards and Goths from the Romans whose Territories they had invaded Here the observator justly gives a check to the Author and saies that Both the Goths that rul'd in Italy and Spain and the Vandals in Asrick to alienate and estrange the minds of their own people from the Romans Jeroboam-like end avoured with barbarous cruelties to promote the Arian Heresia by all possible means they could 10. God that he might plant Religion and Learning among the Northern people and Armes and Numbers amongst the Southern did often make an enterchange and engrafted them one into an other like Plants to make them the more generous but in both destroyed the degenerous Plants from the sonnes of Japhet Empires descended from Sem Priesthood and Laws from Cham Servants and as the Author but mistakingly affirms Tyrants for as the observator notes the greatest Tyrants that ever were came rather out of Asia then Africa which was Chams portion CHAP. VIII Of the causes of policies and first of the first cause God and Religion THere are three causes if we speak politically which found and govern Empires that is 1. God 2. Prudence 3. Occasion But in some one is more evident then the other As In the Kingdome of the Jews God was most evident in that of the Romans Prudence in that of the Spaniard occasion albeit to speak Physically God is the cause of all causes 2. All Dominations except impious Machiavels have confessed that prudence hath not power sufficient to foresee the good and evill which all waies and in all things do await them Therefore did all Nations fly to God some by a straight others by a crooked way Therefore The Assyrian AEgyptian and Persian Kings consulted the will and pleasure of God and implored his ayde by Astrology in the starres The Greeks by Oracles of the Sibylls The Romans by sooth-saying and Auguries whom the Brasilians do but a little recede from but the Christians in a direct path seek God and fly to the spirit of God in his Prophets * and councellors and his Ministry 3. Every Princedome is protected by its own proper Angell and every Law as it is good is from God neither can their be any Law established which is void of all good as Divines and Nature teach us 4. The Priesthood supplies the place of God in every Dominion and therefore no Common-wealth no assembly of men either was or can be without a Priesthood because not without God 5. Priests ought to be wise but rather in contemplatives then practicalls Valiant but most in suffering sober liberall ingenious true not lying so much as in jeast faithfull cheerfull but enclining more to austerity then scurrillity gentle prone rather to meeknesse then Rusticity whose Character should be Piety Wisdome Charitie and tender-heartednesse without hypocrisie Priests consult what is to be done Rulers command that to be done which is contemplated or cousidered and souldiers and artificers put commands and consultations in execution 6. Religion ever ought to be had in high esteem and veneration not in vulgar and mean account 7. The Priesthood ought not to be prostitute to the people lest it lose its honour and reverence Therefore Aristotle no less ignorantly then impiously would make old Souldiers Priests Here the Author puts the foole upon the Calvinists under which notion he comprehends the worst of Schismaticks who saith he both all and some count themselves Priests which the famous Observator here seems to prove to defend out of places with reverence be it spoken mis-urged both out of the Scripture and Fathers in defence of common or universall Unction and by an injurious Concession makes the Calvinist guilty of the Schismatiques Phrensies whereas 't is most evident both out of Calvin and Beza in their severall discourses and conflicts with the Antiministeriall Enthusiasts that they were quite of an other temper and opinion ever bearing high for an Ordinate Ministry though they brought not clean or Primitive hands to that great Work 8. That Religion which contradicts Naturall Policy ought not to be retained Therefore the Maccabees in time of necessity taught that Warre might be piously made on the Sabbath day when the Jewes under Pompey and Antiochus being that day assailed not defending themselves perished God gives no Law to his People whereby his People should be destroyed which is opposite to their own being Observator Rituall Lawes do easily give place to Occasions and Times whence comes the Hebrew Proverb The life endanger'd violates the Sabbath and that other The Sabbath was given into the hands of man and not man into the Hands of the Sabbath Yet the foolish gloss of some Jewes was such that some of them kept themselves in the self same Posture both night and day and therefore paid dear for their Superstition being not onely by Pompey but by Nebuchadnezzar Sossius and Titus taken Captives upon the Sabbath day 9. The Doctrine of fatall Necessity is pernicious in and to Commonwealths for it makes Subjects seditious and Princes Tyrannous both pleading Necessity for the Mischief they Act and thus much Cicero acknowledged But 10. This Doctrine of Necessity does no hurt among the Turks because they are rude and illiterate and are kept within compasse by force not by Law But in Italy where they are a sharp witted People it would make them stark mad and all turne Libertines and lay all their sinns upon Gods score as the Author of all Evill but above all it would make their Princes Tyrants in Imitation forsooth of God craftily imputing their own offences to their subjects that they might God-like Torment them to their owne glory Then which what can bee more destructive to a Commonwealth 11. Sophisticall Sciences that thwart Religion ought to be Banish'd the Common-wealth as Plato teacheth Aristotle his School did the Jewes much mischiefe under Antiochus and now to Christians as Averroes did too both to us and his own Saracens See S. Vincentius Lirinensis Observat. What is spoken here of Aristotle does very well agree with the opinion of the antient Christians In whose Iudgement Aristotle was accounted Impious In the judgement of all the Greeks and amongst the Latines Saint Austin Plato's Philosophy is more consonant to Christianity Aristotle coming but very lately into esteeme and reputation with the World Animadversions What the Fryer or Grotius affirme of Aristotle is onely true Accidentally Vitio Utentis and so all the Sect of Philosophers fall as well as Aristotle under Tertullians Character that they are PATRIARCHS of HERETIQUES but I am clearly of opinion that Plato's Idea's in the head of an ENTHUSIAST or NATIONAL THEOLOGUE have done much more hurt to Christianity then Aristotles subtleties ever did who being as himself justly boasts