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A01615	A discourse vpon the meanes of vvel governing and maintaining in good peace, a kingdome, or other principalitie Divided into three parts, namely, the counsell, the religion, and the policie, vvhich a prince ought to hold and follow. Against Nicholas Machiavell the Florentine. Translated into English by Simon Patericke.; Discours, sur les moyens de bien gouverner et maintenir en bonne paix un royaume ou autre principauté. English	Gentillet, Innocent, ca. 1535-ca. 1595.; Patrick, Simon, d. 1613.	1602 (1602)	STC 11743; ESTC S121098	481,653	391

alwayes see that darkenesse vanisheth and disperseth away by the light the shaddow also flieth the Sunne and hideth it selfe alwayes behind some opposit Therefore have the auncient doctors of the Church said and held for a principle of Theologie That much better it were a scandale and offence should come than that Truth should be forsaken Which sentence even the Popes themselves have caused to be placed amongst their rules of Cannon right and would to God they had observed it But I see well it is to no purpose to alleadge reasons against this Atheist and his Reg. 1. de Reg. Iuris in VI. disciples which beleeve neither God nor Religion wherefore before I passe any further I must fight against their impietie and make it appeare to their eyes at the least if they have any not by assailing them with armes of the holy Scripture for they merit not to bee so assailed and I feare to pollute the holy Scriptures amongst people so prophane and defiled with impietie but by their proper armes and weapons whereby their ignorance and beastlinesse defendeth their renewed Atheisme They then tooke for a foundation humane reason and prophane and Paynim authors but in truth both the one and the other foundation are so much against them as even by them I will prove our Christian Religion For first if wee consider the least creature in the world and sound the causes of his essence and nature it will Every creature leadeth mā to God leade us by degrees to one God Take an ante or a flie and consider the causes which makes these little creatures moove you shall finde it is heat and moisture which are two qualities consisting in all living creatures nourishers of nature for assoone as heat moisture faile in any living thing it can no more live nor moove straight is the body occupied with contrarie qualities coldnesse and drought the enemies of nature Mount and ascend vp higher and consider what is the cause that in the little bodie of an ante or flie there are found the two qualities of heate and moisture you shall find that it is because all living creatures are composed of the foure elements of fire of aire of water and of earth in which the said foure qualities of heat moisture colde and drinesse do consist and whilest heate and moisture raigne in the bodie it liveth but when colde and drought doe dominiere therein than dieth it Consider further what is the cause of the heate and the moisture and the other qualities which we see in the foure elements and in the bodies made of them you shall finde that the Sunne is cause of the heate and the Moone cause of the moisture as sence and experience shew it Let us yet passe further and seeke the cause wherefore the Sunne is hoate and the Moone moiste and from whence come unto them these qualities of heate and moisture wee must necessarilie now come to a first and sovereigne cause which is one God for the Sunne or Moone which are corporall and finite things as we see with our eyes cannot be God who is of infinite essence Behold then how the least creature of the world is sufficient to vanquish by naturall reason the opinion of the Atheists how much more if wee come to consider other creatures and especiallie the composition of mans body for there shall you contemplate without going any further so well ordered a rule that of necessitie must be concluded That there is a most ingenious and excellent workeman other than the Sunne and Moone which hath disposed that architecture and building for within mans bodie you shall see appeare an harmonie verie like a well governed common-wealth you see the minde and understanding of man which is as the king that is set in the highest place as in his throne and from thence commandeth all the parts you see also the heart the seat of amitie clemencie bountie kindnesse magnanimitie and other vertues all which obey the understanding as their king but the heart as the great master hath them all under his charge it hath also under his charge envie hatred vengeance ambition and other vices which lodge in the heart but they are holden mewed and bridled by the understanding after you have the liver which is the superintendent of victuals which it distributeth unto all the parts of the bodie by the meanes of his subalterne and inferiour officers as the bellie veines and other pores and passages of the bodie brieflie a man may see within man an admirable and well ordeined disposition of all the parts and it brings us necessarilie and whether we will or no to acknowledge that there must needs be a God a sovereigne architect who hath made this excellent building and by these considerations of naturall things whereof I do but lightlie touch the points the auncient philosophers as the Platonists the Aristotelians Stoickes and others have beene brought to the knowledge of a God and of his providence and of all the sects of philosophers there was never any which agreed not hereunto unlesse it were the sect of the Epicures which were gluttons drunkards whoremongers which constituted their sovereigne felicitie in carnall pleasures wherein they wallowed like brute beasts Out of this schoole Machiavell and the Machiavelists come which are well inough knowne to be all very Epicureans in their lives caring for nothing but their pleasures which also have no knowledge of good letters contenting them selves with the Maximes of that wicked Atheist Touching the doctrine of the Trinitie which we hold it must bee confessed that the philosophers understood nothing thereof and that by humane reason wee can not well be lead to the knowledge thereof but this knowledge is manifested unto us by the witnesses of God himselfe which are so cleare and evident in the holy scripture as nothing can be more but I have no purpose here to recite them yet will I say That the doctrine which I hold in this place is not repugnant nor contrary unto The d●ct●in of the T●initie is not repugnant to human reason humane reason but consonant enough although the ancient philosophers have not penitrated so far For by their owne Maximes a very true thing it is That God who is an eternall and infinit spirit is not passible of any qualities or accidens so that that which is a qualitie in men as bountie love wisedome an essence in God This presupposed as a thing confessed of the philosophers themselves it followeth That that infinit admirable wisdome wherby God knoweth himselfe is an essence and not a qualitie in God yea it is one the same essence yet is it a distinct subsistence or hypostasis from him For the Wise and Wisedome cannot be without distinction This Wisdome then is the second person of the Trinitie which the scripture calleth the Word or the Sonne Neither also is it repugnant to humane reason to say That these two persons in one

they certaine times administred Iustice to every man after these lawes with great uprightnesse and equitie And amongst other Potentates there was Appius Claudius who shewed himselfe very soft and affable to the meanest people and heard them patientlie and did them very good and speedie Iustice so that the people made no account of the Tribunes thinking they needed not to runne unto the Tribunes for help since Appius alone performed not onely the Office of a good Iudge but also of a Tribune to sustaine the good right of the meane people But this good Iustice endured but a yeere for the second yeere the said Potentates being made to continue but for a yeere in their estates resolved altogether so to remaine without ever despoiling themselves of that Office And to gaine people to their faction they beganne to doe Iustice cleane contrarie to that of the first yeere using favour and subornation alwaies giving sentence to the profit of them which were on their side to sustaine their tyrannie By this meanes they drew many persons to bee of their factions and wrought a great partialitie within the towne of Rome some houlding for the ten Potentates others against them But in the end their imperious and tyrannicall arrogancie towards one and others was the cause that the partialized people accorded and great and little set themselves all on one side against them wherupon fell their totall ruine insomuch as the first yeare of their estate by their good Iustice they brought and maintained a good peace in the citie but in the second yeare by their evill and wicked justice they reduced all into troubles and confusions within the citie Vnto this example of the tenne Potentates might we compare the wicked partiall and venale Iustice which hath raigned in France since fifteene yeares which is and hath bene the principall cause and as it were the nurse of all troubles and seditions and that little of good Iustice which wee see to shine as a lightening which soone passeth away after the first troubles in Provence when the President de Morsen and certain Counsellors were sent thither For the little good Iustice which they did in that quarter in so little time as they remained there was the cause that the people of Provence which naturally are very hot and furious carried and guided themselves in the other following troubles more modestly than any other of the French nation We have before said That Quintius patiently heard all them which demaunded justice of him which is a point that all Iustices and Magistrates ought well to observe For according to the right of nations and of naturall equitie none ought to be condemned without being heard In the time that the Tarquins were chased from Rome they underhand practised many citizens by promises and otherwise to commit a treason to the commonwealth and to establish Tarquin the Proud in his estate The corrupted citizens procured to them many slaves of the best sort of citizens by promises of libertie and other good recompences insomuch as all the hired people being in a very great number concluded upon a secret conspiration that the said citizens should one night seize upon the strongest places of the towne and that the said slaves should sley their masters in their beds as soon as they should hear a noice that should be made through the towne for a watchword and this being done some should goe and open the gates to the Tarquins There were two brethren Marcus and Publius Laurentius which were of this conjuration these many times were tormented in their beds in sleepe by hideous and fearefull dreames this made them go to their Divines to know from whence these dreames proceeded The Divines told them they proceeded from some wicked enterprise which they had in their heads which they could not well bring about it were good they left off that they might be no more tormented with such dreames This was the cause that the two brethren discovered all the conspiration to Servius Sulpitius one of the Consuls Sulpitius saw an evident and nigh perill to the commonwealth if suddainly it were not provided for yet did he not thinke it good to deale in the punishment of the culpable before they were well vanquished and plaine matters averred against them as our Machiavelists of this time doe which take law against men after they have slaine them but secretly communicated the fact to the Senat. The Senat referred to him to proceed in that matter as he thought fittest for the utilitie and conservation of the common-weale Sulpitius considering then that amongst the conspirators there were many great persons and well allied and that he might reape great envie and hatred if hee caused any to die without an open conviction of the fact hee resolved to bring the cause to a cleare and evident proofe He then tooke such order as the strong places of the citie were guarded by good men on a certaine night assigned and so sent to Tullius Longus his companion in the Consulship who then besieged the towne of Fidenes that he should come to Rome with a good part of his armie and he dealt so as he arrived nigh the gates at the houre of midnight at the night assigned and that there he should stay til Sulpitius sent him word This done he gave charge to the two brethren Laurentines which had discovered the enterprise unto him to advertise their complices as from the side of the Tarquins to execute their desseigne that night and that they all should meet in the market place the better to know what every man should doe This was so done insomuch as the conjurators being altogether assembled in the publicke market the Consull Longus was assigned to enter into the towne with all his forces and so in the market place were all the conjurators environned and wrapped in by the good order that Sulpitius had taken so that they were all by this meanes convicted of the fact insomuch as none of their parents or allies could denie the crime This was the cause that every man said after when it came to the punishment of the conspirators that it were a good deed to punish them and that Sulpitius had well performed his dutie Breefely by this cleare evident proofe which Sulpitius drew out of this conspiration he obtained great honour and praise whereas hee should have heaped upon himselfe great envie and evill will of the allies and parents of such as were culpable if he had caused them to be executed without great and evident verification of the crime Helpidius also lieutenant of Iustice at Rome in the time of the emperor Constantius Am. Marcel lib. 21. A Iudge ought to feare to offend his conscience shewed himselfe a good and sincere Iudge For being commaunded by the emperour to racke and torment a poore accused person he would never doe it because he found no matter nor sufficient proofes against him to do it but humbly besought the emperour