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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64478	A discourse concerning the basis and original of government with the absolute and indispensable necessity of it : wherein the excellency of monarchy above any other kind is evidently demonstrated : as it was delivered by way of charge to the grand-jury, at a quarter-sessions of the peace held at Ipswich in the county of Suffolk / by F.T., Esq., one of His Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county.	Theobald, Francis, Sir, d. 1670.; Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.	1667 (1667)	Wing T849; ESTC R10094	25,159	44

causes them to walk more regularly Laws you know have generally in them a double power Directive and Coercive the first sets down the duty the second appoints the penalty for non-performance of the duty Now 't is the latter only which lewd and licentious men are affected with the fear of punishment is that which scares them into some handsome outward Conformity when-as they have no principle of Ingenuity from within inclining them to it The penalty I say of the Law is that which hales them like a Bear unto the Stake out of the broad way of destruction wherein they were posting apace into the narrow Street mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles called Strait I mean Goodness and Virtue Government 't is the Pruning hook to lop off all the luxuriant excrescencies of Vice and to pare away the superfluity of naughtiness The Sons of Anak Men of Giant-like Lusts the mighty Nimrods that are grown so audacious and incorrigible in their wicked practices that like a Titan-brood they even threaten Heaven it self with an over-daring impudence and would if it were in their power dethrone God Almighty were it not for these Manacles of Government and Law wherewith these unruly persons are tyed they would run up and down and make havock of all good men yea these prodigies of Impiety Devils incarnate I may call them would so rage and so fearfully terrifie and haunt good men that were they not bound down by the strong Cords of the Law there would be no place of safety for men in the world no rest for the soles of their Feet no more than there was for that winged Mercury Noah's Dove I mean the Emblem of Innocency which was sent out by him to make a discovery of the drowned World in the time of the Flood I say were it not for this Curb of Government Murders Adulteries Incests Rapes Robberies Perjuries Witchcrafts and Blasphemies would ride in Triumph up and down in every Town of the Country and thorough-out the Kingdome so as it might be said of them as of Gad Behold a Troop cometh yea all kind of Villanies Outrages and savage Cruelty would overflow the Nation and the face of the Earth would be covered with blood as it was once with water Were it not for Government I say we should all be a Company of Ismaels Wild-men our hands would be against every man and every mans hand against us all the several Counties of the Kingdome would be but as so many Dens of Wild Beasts Cruelty would insolently strut it up and down in every place with her Writ of Privilege in her hand No mans Life Goods or Wife could be secured What I pray you do you think would become of Propriety the Guardian and Tutelar-Angel of Commerce and Traffick were it not for this Enclosure Would not all things lye wast and common Would not every Mans Lands and Goods become the possession of the strongest So that our Patrimony and all that we enjoy in the World if we sold it but for a Mess of Pottage the price of Esau's Birth-right we should hardly think we made an ill bargain And as St. Augustine saith well Talle Jura Imperatorum quis audet dicere Mea est illa villa aut Meus est iste servus aut Domus haec mea est Take away Government and none dare say These Lands are mine this Servant is mine or I have right to this house And as for Women what think you of them If they be such as resolve to preserve inviolably the choise Jewel of their Chastity who would rather choose to dye than live an Example of dishonour to the rest of their Sex What rage and fury would beastly libidinous men exercise towards such who like Lightning would rend most where they find most resistance and would vent their angry passions upon them in as high a manner as Cruelty could invent and at last bereave them of their Lives whom they could not bereave of their Honour The men of Gibeah will abuse the Levite's Wife yea and professedly too abuse her to Death And what do you think of Life it self if there were no Government Would it not be a Burthen to us for to live and to be born a Misfortune Life certainly would be but an empty flat Parenthesis of time a very Wilderness we should be in continual fear of being assassmated Men would be afraid to abide in their own houses for fear that ravenous savage Beasts should come and become Cut-throats and Cannibals to them much less durst they venture abroad or if they did What pannick fears would seize upon them every step they took how would they tremble and quake as if they trod upon Ice or as if they were doomed to the old Tryal of Ordeel Our Lives would but as the Scripture phrase is hang before us just as Dumaris his pointed Sword which hung over his head while he was at his Banquet only by a single hair so that there would be no comfort at all in ones Life And indeed I know not how there should for as the Spanish Proverb is Que Quien teme la muerte no goza la vida He that fears Death doth not enjoy his Life And in fine to say no more Were there no Government there would necessarily ensue a general Confusion of all things we should be as the Fishes of the Sea the greater destroying the smaller And as it is said by that Rabbi in Pirke Avoth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vnless there were Magistracy one would devour another alive But I shall not need to dilate further upon this Subject The rise and ground of Government and likewise the necessity of it you do I suppose fully understand Blessed be God we here in this Nation have Government and that the best too which is the next thing Gentlemen that I would make appear to you as that which may be of use to you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by way of preparing you to the main and principal business I aim at Now that Monarchy which is the Establish'd Government among us is the most Excellent Government God Nature Art and Experience will sufficiently demonstrate First I say God He is the sole Monarch of all the World he is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords as the Scripture styles him He ruleth in the Kingdom of Men and giveth it to whomsoever he will Monarchy was the Government which God made choice of to set up among his people First in Moses then in the Judges then in the Kings In the several Changes of the Names of the Jewish Government God still avoided Polyarchy When Captains but one Moses in Temporals one Aaron in Spirituals when Judges but one Othniel when Priests but one Eli when Prophets but one Samuel and when for their own ease they joyned others in Commission with them they presently degenerated and became corrupt for the Elders of Israel complained that they turned aside after Lucre took Bribes and perverted Judgment