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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67831	Ỳperēphanìaz Myzè̄rhion. Or, Machiavil redivivus Being an exact discovery or narrative of the priciples & politicks of our bejesuited modern phanaticks. By J. Yalden Esq;	Yalden, John.	1681 (1681)	Wing Y6A; ESTC R218924	61,310	147

Treachery comes in a crime so odious and ugly to the view that it hath been held all one to name and implead it Of this there are such crouds of Examples in Story that it would be impertinent to single out any especially in an Age that is fitter to furnish presidents for the future than to borrow of the past times But yet further to discover him amidst all his Cheats and Impostures we may be assured that there is no greater Index of Ambition than an affectation of Popularity which appears in meek Addresses to the people wooing and familiar condescentions bemoaning and bewailing their Sufferings and commending a more vigorous sense of their present and a necessity of resisting their future Calamities And all this covered with the specious pretence of the Common Good 'T is Friendship that is the Cement Friendship which onely really and effectually combines Mankind all other natural or civil Tyes take their greatest force from this And therefore we may observe that God reckoning up other Relations illustrates them by several notes of Endearment but when he comes to that of Friendship Deut. 13.6 't is the friend who is as thine own soul Nothing below the highest instance was deemed expressive enough of that Union What a Legion of Fiends then says a modern Author possesseth men that can break these Chains nay that can forge them into Daggers and shape their Friendship into the unnatural Engines of Ruine and Destruction This is certainly the blackest colour wherein we can view a Parasite As the Ape hath a peculiar deformity above other Brutes by that aukward and ungraceful resemblance he has to a man so surely our State-prodigie is infinitly the more hateful for being the ugly counterfeit of a Friend and that aggravated too by being abused not onely against particulars but also in the destruction of Kingdoms and Commonwealths In fine that which should 〈◊〉 the Balm our damn'd Impostor turns to the bane of all Mankinde PRINCIPLE III. He that aims at Soveraignty must be sure to beat down the Bulwark of Government the Prince's Credit by the powerful force of irresistible Calumny THis part was most curiously plaid by our subtle Gamesters of Forty One and from the Chronicles of that time our Polititian may furnish himself with the most effective Instances and Examples and besides that which is requisite for his purpose he may leave enough for the greatest Tyrants both to imitate and admire even to the worlds end First they fell upon the Kings Reputation So they begin now-a-days Witness the false News Libels c. then they invaded his Authority after that they assaulted his Person then seized his Revenue and in conclusion most impiously usurped the Supream Power by taking away his sacred Life It cannot easily be imagined of what singular importance the aspersing and blotting of a Prince is to boyl up popular Discontent and Faction to that height which is requisite for a Rebellion And therefore in our late times of Apostacy our then Reforming Bigots having extreamly discomposed the people upon the apprehensions of Popery and Arbitrary power and shaken them in their Allegiance upon a belief of a strong Designe in the Government it self to introduce it well knew how to build upon this foundation And first they inveigle the people into strange and unreasonable Petitions Popular Petitions which are the most compendious method of attempting a Commotion being the gentlest of political inventions for feeling the pulse of the people Protestations Associations and Covenants for the common defence of themselves for the safety and preservation of their Lives Religion and Liberties and into a favourable entertainment of any plausible pretext even to the justification of Violence it self especially the Sedition coming once to be baptized God's Cause and supported by the Doctrine of Necessity and the unsearchable instinct and equity of the Law of Nature And all this recommended to them by the men of the whole world Private Pastors upon whose integrity and conduct they would venture their very Souls Bodies and Estates How to make a Traytor lie a Martyr Our Polititian must further remember by art and eloquence to extenuate the crimes of such that have suffered by the stroke of Justice for the Cause and so cry out upon their hard measures and bewail their loss with an abundance of sighs and tears that by such tricks old Traytors may be propounded for new Martyrs This hath been the ordinary methods of Ambition as you may finde it noted by a great Scholar in these words Barclay contra monarch 30. Fuit haec omnibus Saeculis adhuc est ad occupandum Tyrannidem expeditissima via Dum summo se amore ac pietate in patriam esse simulant Principum vitia Populi miscriam apud suos primùm deinde palam quaeribundâ voce lamentantur Non quò Plebem cujus solius commodis inservire videri volunt ab illo Servitutis jugo asserant in libertatem sed quò populari aurâ subnixi additum sibi januam ad eam ipsam dignitatem nequiora aliquando ausuri patefaciant And therefore if the Prince be severe he gives him Nero's brand a man kneaded up of Dirt and Bloud if he be of Parts and Contrivance he calls it pernicious Ingenuity if he urge Uniformity and Decency in Divine Service he then rails at his Superstition and Idolatry And because there is no such equilibrious Vertue but hath some flexure to one of the Extreams he is very careful to publish the Extream alone and to silence the Vertue and his words are full of imbitter'd Sarcasms Methods to be used against Loyalty And if after all this he cannot utterly crush the power of his Prince's Reputation being too firmly rooted in the hearts of his Loyal Subjects he has a Remedy for this too either by Bribery with ready Money or promises of great Rewards and Preferment or else by subtle Insinuations expressed in a most seemingly sensible Zeal for their infatuations and want of sence to apprehend the danger and so most affectedly he seems to lament and bewail their senceless stupidity And if these means prove ineffectual to trepan them into the Faction he has yet others left which more powerfully does the work which is to draw the whole Party on their backs by putting on a Saint-like Indignation and giving them sharp and open reproofs for their wilful blindness And if after all this they prove inflexible he must then be sure to cry out against them as Enemies to God's Cause and haters of the common Good to combine in the horrid Conspiracy and so render them to be meet partakers in the same destruction which he has before determined to bring upon the Government 'T is a figure in Politicks to make every infirmity a fault and every fault a crime And because there have been Plots in France henceforward no Embassadour shall go without making the people believe that his