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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43357	Heraclitus Christianus, or, The man of sorrow being a reflection on all states and conditions of human life : in three books.		1677 (1677)	Wing H1487; ESTC R12496	69,902	193

life is exposed for the common good they watch alone whilest others sleep being as it were the Sentinels of the people without relief or repose all the minutes of their lives being employed for the publick safety lest any of their Flock be seduced and led away by Satan For if it be so as St. Chrisostome observes treating on the First of the Hebrews that he that is regent of one Church only may hardly be saved so great a charge hath he In what danger then shall we say are the Popes who are Guardians and Protectors of so many Churches which Pope Adrian being a man of a good life was accustomed to say with tears to his private Friends That amongst all the States in the world there seemed none to him more miserable than that of the Papacy and Prelacy For although the Throne where he sits be richly adorned yet was it beset with Thorns and Prickles the costly Robes with which they were covered being so weighty that it wearied the shoulders of the most strong and vigorous and as for the Diaper'd Mitre which they wore on their heads it was a real flame which burned to the inmost recesses of their souls And certainly so great is their charge so great and strict is their account which they must render to the Great Shepherd of the Fold that it would make a man tremble with horror to think of it and yet notwithstanding all this and the particular and positive Prohibition of the Church to the contrary yet how many are there that heap up Parsonage upon Parsonage and ioyn Living to Living and are more solicitous for the encrease of their Benefices than they are for the Souls of their people committing them to their Curates and to them oftentimes that will be hired the cheapest who as they serve God by their Procurator will if the Lord prevent not be damn'd in their own proper Persons I know and am fully perswaded that there are some who as they are called to greater Offices and Dignities in the Church than others so likewise they have need of greater Revenues than others to support them I mean our Reverend and Sacred Hierarchy but with the others it is not so the case being quite otherwise CHAP. XIII Of the Miseries which attend them who Administer in Publick Affairs BUT leaving the Popes and Prelates Let us come to consider the Lives of those who Administer in Publick Affairs as the Judges and Statesmen and we shall find them too as little free from misery as the others and if there seem to arise any pleasantness from the honour of the Imploy yet is it transitory and inconstant their actions also passing before the eyes of the vulgar who although they cannot perfectly understand the reasons of things yet will they censure and defame them whose doings are ahove their capacities And therefore Plato well compared them to a Monster with many heads Fraudulent Mutable and Uncertain prone to Anger to Praise Dispraise Esteem Vilifie without Judgment or Discretion Inflexible Unlearned and the Lives forsooth of them who are the Rulers must be conformable to their Opinion for as they Judg in publick so will they judg them in private and not only concerning matters of Importance but of those which are of little consequence and as Plutarch hath well taken notice of they will always have something which will be the matter of their contradiction The Athenians murmured against Symonides because he spoke too loud The Thebans accused Paniculus for his often spitting The Lacedemonians noted their Lycurgus because he went with his head stooping The Romans found great fault in Scipio by reason of his snoring in sleeping The Vticenses defamed good Cato because that in eating he chewed on both sides of his mouth Pompey seemed to them uncivil because he scratched himself only with one finger The Carthaginians blamed Hannibal because he went unbuttoned Others reprehended Julius Caesar because forsooth he wore his girdle carelessly Yet is all this but little in respect of what they have done to other Famous Worthies Banishing and putting them to Death for the good Service which they have done them The great Grecian Orator Demosthenes who was so Loyal a protector of the Athenian Republick was Banished by them as a person guilty of some notable crime Socrates was likewise poysoned Hannibal was so ill treated by his own that he was forced to wander up and down miserably through the world The Romans handled Camillus after the same manner The Grecians served far worse Lycurgus and Solon one of whom was stoned the other having his eyes pull'd out was as a murderer drove into exile And as we have set before us the faults and miseries which arise from the peoples part so likewise must we put in counterpoize the errors and corruptions which abound in wicked Judges some of whom are over-aw'd by fear lest they should displease some great Personage and therefore violate Justice and are as Pilate who condemned Jesus Christ for the fear which he had of displeasing the Emperour Tyberius Other Magistrates are corrupted by affection as Herod the Tetrarch who that he might foolishly comply with the love which he bore to the dancing Girl adjudged to death St. John the Baptist notwithstanding his being sensible of his Vertue and Innocency Some are withheld from the doing of Justice through hatred and particular animosities some by gifts and presents as were the Sons of the Prophet and High-Priest Samuel They love gifts saith the Prophet and seek after retribution they do not justice to the Orphans and Fatherless and hear not the cause of the Widow and in another place Cursed be all ye who are led away by money and intreaties by love or hatred that judg evil good and good evil making light darkness and darkness light Cursed be ye who have respect not to the merit of the Cause but the Person who have not regard to the equity of the matter brought before ye but the Gifts and Presents who mind not what reason suggests but only affection You are diligent in the causes of the rich but put away them of the poor you are to them austere and rigorous but to the rich affable and tractable the poor cryeth out but no one regardeth the rich speaketh and all the world hearkeneth extolling his words to the heavens and yet this is not enough for when they are in the height of honour they have another worm that gnaws them like the Mother of Zebedee that their Children might be placed in their honours and dignities although they be never so ignorant and uncapable They are exalted and enriched saith the Prophet Jeremiah They are become fat they have had no regard to the Father less and have not executed judgment for the poor Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord shall I not take vengeance on such a people you have condemned and put to death the innocent saith St. James you have lived in delights on