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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85713	The sage senator delineated: or, A discourse of the qualifications, endowments, parts, external and internal, office, duty and dignity of a perfect politician. With a discourse of kingdoms, republiques, & states-popular. As also, of kings and princes: to which is annexed, the new models of modern policy. / By J.G. Gent.; De optimo senatore. English	Goślicki, Wawrzyniec, 1530-1607.; Grimefield, John,; J. G., Gent.	1660 (1660)	Wing G2027; Thomason E1766_1; ESTC R10030	85,759	226

Sword as well as the first-born were for Herods It is credibly reported that Hugh Peters that spiritual Dragooner and Nol hatch'd this Government as they were walking together in a field a brace of pious Devils They would carry the outward shew of sanctity whenas all their actions proclaim'd them diabolical There was never so furious an Incendiary as this pious Pulpit-cuffer nor no Machiavel more apt to receive the impression of infernal Counsel who would sacrifice both soul and body to accomplish his own ends or promote his self-interest The whole Nation was enchained in a more than Aegyptian Bondage who were compelled to submit to this Tyrant Nol or be cut off by him nothing but a word and a blow his will was his Law tell him of Magna Charta he would lay his hand on his sword and cry Magna Farta No Liberty was granted to the Subject unless it were that of Conscience and that too was denied the more Orthodox and Loyal Party The People were rob'd of all Laws Rights and Priviledges and sometimes of their Lives whilst he like a Tyrant insulted with a Quis contradicet The Citizens were so fleeced and pilled that had this inhumane barbarous wretch continued much longer he had sent London into the Country a begging To say God save the King was a crime as black as any forbidden in the Decalogue but so long as that was prohibited publikely and privately it was in vain to cry out God speed the Plough or expect any blessing from the superiour power His infernal plots and machinations had wrought the utter ruine and desolation of the Country had not Providence divine cut him off to the general benefit and rejoycing of the Nation English ground groaned with the burthen of this inhumane Tyrant It was not enough that the English should be scourged but the whip must lye before them it was not sufficient that he should be the Author of all their woes while living but they must live subject to his Tyranny and oppression and like so many mutes condescend to all his actions by silence not daring to mention the least dislike though it thwarted their disposition never so much He was a rod of their own making and they were content to untruss whilest he whipt them In vain it was for the most accurate wit to plead Reason or Law against the Sword the Tongue is too weak a weapon for the Dagger During the usurpation of this same hellish Tyrant what a Chaos of confusion bespread the face of the whole Nation How was all the Land benegroed with more than the Egyptian darkness of persecution The whole Country was enveloped in clouds and ruine hung over the heads of the people by as slender a thread as the Sword over the head of Damocles at the Banquet The whole Land was entombed in despair and little or no hope of a resurrection till a divine hand wrought it by his long-expected death and it is the Cordial wish and hearty desire of the loyal Pen-man that all his Majesties and the Kingdoms enemies were as stately interred as he was Had he deserved an Epitaph we would have stretch'd hard but our brain should have furnished him with one but since he was so unworthy we hold it as great a disparagement to our quill to bestow a Copy of Verses on him as he was a grief and trouble to the Loyal Party of the Nation And indeed how can any Son of Phoebus employ his time so ill as to salute his dead corpse with an Epitaph that was so great an enemy to them when living Who had a real design to extirpate all literature and implunge us into as deep a gulph of ignorance and profaneness as the Turk is cast into he hated all Learning and the Learned because his crimes were so black and horrid that they went far beyond the mercy of the Book He granted a toleration for all Religions because his own was to choose and that he might not offend the tender Consciences of his pretended Zealots and Favourites who were true Vassals to the Lust and Villany of such an imperious Usurper Honesty was so much out of fashion that he that was vertuous was a Malefactor and deserved death for Knavery was à la mode and you know the old Saying It is as good to be out of the World as out of the Fashion An honest loyall Subject was as much hooted and pointed at and judged as ridiculous an Object as a Spanish Don in his Country Garb at Paris An honest man was as strange a sight in England as a Horse in Venice or a Beggar in Holland and he was as like to be preferred to his favour as a Spurrier was to Queen Elizabeth But since he is in his grave we will not rake up his ashes any farthe●… if he can find any rest there now dead who living I am sure had little or none in his conscience for he ever carried a civil War in his breast of fears suspicions and jealousies he shall lie secure for we intend to disturb him no farther After the death of this British Idoll Richard the fourth his Son peep'd out who had no fault so great as that he had him to his Father for it was generally believed he would be but Tenant to the Right Landlord or the Stuarts Steward to set all things in order till he was restored But alas he prov'd but a fortnights wonder no sooner up but down his deposition if we may credit report was the womanish plot of weeping Fleetwoods Lady who stomach'd it that his preferment should be greater than her Husbands though it proved to little purpose indeed it is seldom known that female counsel ever arrives to any better success nor is there any reason that the Distaff should be a companion for the Scepter A Kitchin was a great deal more fit for her than a Throne though she had ambition enough to perswade her self that she deserved the name of a Princess Yet had Richard been heir of his Fathers parts though it was well he was not he would soon have frustrated all their designs and come to as much height and greatness But he had not enough of the Rogue in his Composition to make up a damned Politician He was fitter to bear a Hawk on his Fist than to hold a Scepter in his hand A sedentary retired Country-life was far more suitable to his temper and disposition than a tumultuous City-life He was altogether ignorant in that so much practised profession of piecing the Lion with the Foxes tail which no doubt he might have done had he been as well read in Machiavil as his Sire was He was not much read in Politicks as appears by the small term of time that was allotted him to play the Protector But no matter it was well it fell out so he is like to fare the better for it in the judgement of the most censorious Besides it was what suited with his phancy according

be voyd of all passion hate or partiality one that scorns bribery will not be daunted with menaces or threatned out of the truth or moved by the subtilty of adulation for where a Judge Magistrate or Senator is subject to passion there is little or indeed no Justice in his Judicature nor is there any one thing that poysons a Commonwealth or Kingdom more then corrupt and unjust Magistrates Justice of old was by Philosophers painted like a beautiful Virgin having a severe grave countenance penetrating eyes a chaste look inclining to gravity which Image carries this representation that Judges ought to be incorrupt chaste severe sharp-witted good grave constant and inexorable Cambyses King of Persia caused the skin of an unjust Judge to be flea'd and hung up in the Court as a terror to all those that were unjust in their sentence Solon being demanded How a Kingdom might best be preserved answered By the Peoples obedience to Superiour authority and the Magistrates subscription to the Law And Bias used to say That place was most secure where men stood in awe of the Law no less than of a Tyrant It is a shame and reproach to a Nation to have Laws that like the Spiders web entangle the weak and simple and let the strong and mighty escape Which our Senator must very diligently observe and continually provide that the Laws be preserved inviolable Justice admits of another division among Moral Philosophers and that is Distributive and Commutative Justice Distributive is that that respects equality in the distribution of reward or punishment according to Geometrical proportion For as there are several degrees of crimes and offences perpetrated by the impious so there are likewise of the merits of deserving and vertuous persons In regard that the circumstances of persons places and time do oftentimes aggravate the crime As for instance He that offends a Magistrate deserves a higher punishment than he that offends a private person And he that commits an insolency in the Church during divine service or in Court before a Judge sitting upon the Bench must be more severely corrected than if these circumstances did not accompany the fault And in like manner the different conditions of men in the distribution of recompences or conferring of honours must be narrowly considered and pried into Wherefore it is apparent that in the distribution of honour as well as in the inflicting of punishment this Geometrical proportion must be observed because that by this means we observe the same proportion between persons as we do between things and though there be an inequality of measure yet will there be an equality of reason As thus He that hath a double share of merit twice as much as another man deserves a double recompence according to the Geometrical proportion which differs from the Arithmetical observed in Justice Commutative for the latter respects the equality of quantity and things distributable without regard to the merits or demerits of a person Justice Commutative is that that looks upon equality and faith in contracts bargains humane commerces and negotiations as buying selling borrowing and the like As for example the same sort of wine oyl corn cloath or other vendible commodities is sold to a Magistrate as well as to a Mechanick But now let us come to her Concomitants And first of Piety by which we please God and get repute among men Numa Pompilius to get credit by the Religion that he framed for the Romans counterfeiting Piety induced them to believe that he and his Wife Aegeria used to convene with the Gods in a certain place consecrated to Camena and there did receive the Laws and Religion the Romans were to follow so that they that neither by the softness of perswasion nor the violence of compulsion could be reduced to Religion by a counterfeit colour of Piety were brought to be very religious And if so among them how will the true Religion prevail among us that are Christians Yet in Religion two things are to be declined viz. heresie and superstition which vices pervert weak instable persons There is likewise a certain kind of Piety due to Parents by which we obey reverence and respect them Innocency is another of her Associates which Vertue affects simplicity abhorring dissimulation and hypocrisie wherefore fawning Sycophants that Dog-like will {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} fall down under your feet and seem to adore you Dissemblers that hold with the hare and run with the hound carry fire in one hand and water in the other and tale-bearers that are rimarum pleni full of chincks no sooner a secret can be committed to their keeping but it drops from them like water through a sieve such persons are to have no place in the Catalogue of our Senators And as no man might have admittance into the Temple of Ceres Elucina but he that was innocent there being this Superscription over the Portal Let no man enter but he that knoweth his own innocency So into holy Council which is the Temple of Justice and Truth let no man have admittance but he that is innocent and of integrity His mind must be open and sincere not obscure or deceitful saying one thing and meaning another his thoughts and his words must be Relatives his tongue must be the true interpreter of his mind and his face not shrowded with a fained disguise but full of natural sincerity Courteous he must be for an affable debonaire disposition will scrue it self into the good will of all men He must hear with patience and reply with discretion free from all sowerness and insolency in words or action Benignity is another thing necessary for as God is kind and gentle to us so must we manifest our selves to those that are a sphere below us He must therefore be gentle mild and of a sweet disposition not austere supercilious and as Timon was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} A man-hater For as to the Moderator of all things Religion and Piety is due so is love and benevolence unto men Next Clemency which properly appertains to Magistrates and men in authority for by vertue hereof the heat of their displeasure towards Malefactors is abated and they themselves qualified Her opposite is Cruelty and bitter extremity in punishment a quality proper to Tyrannical and inhumane persons Draco was so rigid and severe nay I may say cruel that he inflicted death upon idle persons as well as Murderers and being askt the reason replied because he thought that punishment due for the commission of a petty offence and for those of a higher nature he could not invent any great enough But Scipio much more clement and pitiful could say That he had rather be instrumental to the saving of the life of one single Citizen than to the slaughter of 1000 Enemies And indeed for a Magistrate to be perpetually punishing is as reproachful as to see Physicians alwaies killing their Patients with their Quacksalving and Emperical tricks