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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24989	An account of the ceremony of investing his Electoral Highness of Brandenburgh; with the Order of the Garter Perform'd at Berlin on the 6th of June, 1690. By James Johnston Esq; His Majesties envoy extraordinary to his Electoral Highness, and principal commissioner. And Gregory King, Esq; the other commissioner for this investiture. With the speeches made at this solemnity by the said Mr. Johnston, and Monsieur Fulks, minister of state to his Electoral Highness.	King, Gregory, 1648-1712.; Johnston, James, 1655-1737.; Fuchs, Paul von, 1640-1704.	1690 (1690)	Wing A262; ESTC R214305	13,604	20

fight even on their Sabbaths tho their Laws were given them by God and that it was their humour to swallow Camels and strain at Gnats to let go the Substance for the Law and perish in defence of the Letter of it The true standing Character in all Ages and Nations and ordinarly the Fate too of Weak and Warm and Obstinate tho often Well meaning Men. Those Jews are much more in the right who ascribe great Events more particularly to God because of that which is singular as well as of his Concern in them Thus they would no doubt judge of the late Revolution in Britain where we have an Illustrious Example of such sorts of Events In which the concurrence of great Dangers of an unexpected Opportunity to be delivered from them of the Capacity and Circumstances of the Deliverer as if they had been given for this End of the evident infatuation of those whose Interest and in whose Power it was to have prevented it of a multitude of meer Accidents previous and absolutly necessary to it which by Humane Wisdom could neither have been forseen nor procured In aword of a Chain and Coincidency of various and often in appearance Cross Events yet in effect so well agreeing with the Methods resolved on that Divine Goodness and Humane Prudence seem to have had a Correspendence All this with the sudden vanishing of Difficulties that had appear'd in a manner insuperable and a Success worthy of the Care of Providence such as History cannot parallel without Blood Danger or Disorder So 〈◊〉 Publick Peace and Quiet seemed rather not interrupted than restored as if no change had hapned except in our Hearts and Thoughts All this I say does compleat an Event so much above the ordinary course of things that whoever believes that God does at all concern himself in Humane Affairs much more such as believe that the Hairs of our Heads are numbred must needs conclude that this whole business was to speak so laid and concerted by him Sed praestat de Carthagine ut aiunt silere quam pauca dicere And therefore to return to my Subject The Heathens went yet further in doing Honour to the Authors of such great Undertakings They thought they could not do too much to encourage Men to venture upon them And therefore upon such accounts they Defied their Hero's Men seemed to them in the performance so like their Gods that they could not abstain from Honouring the Copies with the Names of the Originals The Heathens considered the Publick Good that was done for as their Hero's became their Gods for chastising Oppressors in their Opinions the Enemies of Mankind so others became their Hero's for destroying Monstrous Beasts of the same Temper if we may not rather believe as no doubt we may that the Poets the Historians of those Times meant Men and to them gave the other borrowed Name as more proper than their own whose Souls by Success in their Passions were become as Monstrous as they describ'd the Shapes and Voracity of those Beasts to have been Sir How great and noble Thoughts would those Jews and Heathens have of the present Undertaking in which the King my Master your Electoral Highness and so many other Princes are engaged An Undertaking such as Humane Nature requires where Honour and Duty and Interest go hand in hand together And the most necessary thing to be done is the greatest and best thing that can be done In particular it is an Undertaking that will transmit your Highness Name glorious to Posterity for you first gave life and motion to it by saving the Town of Cullen and that whole Electorat by taking Keiserswert Rhinberg and Bonn by routing the Forces sent to assist them and so delivering the Lower Rhine from the Chains that in time must have prov'd those of the Empire Sir You have thus out-done the Enemy in Diligence their most commendable Quality if it were well imploy'd You have overcome them where they themselves and others too think them most invincible behind Walls You have defeated their Troops neither by number nor surprize Advantages are to be taken but it is greater not to stand in need of them Thus your Highness hath begun the War where it must end with Victory and taken to your self a share in it suitable to the Dignity of your Family and the importance of the Conjuncture which gave your Highness the opportunity to Signalize the beginnings of your Regence by doing the publick such eminent Services as if Providence in compliance with the Integrity of your Intentions took care that no sooner you should be in a capacity to do good but that the Publick should require and receive the benefit of it to signifie to your Highness that the good of the Publick ought to be the end of your Greatness and to others That it is the end and will be so Sir The great Power that God has put in your Hands can at no Time be better imployed Without Controversie the Peace and Happiness of Europe during this Age depends upon the Success of this War All Laws Divine and Humane of Peace and War the Fences of the publick Sufety are broke thorough Those eternal Dictates of Reason the obligations of Honour Humanity Oaths Promises Religion as well as the Customs of Nations which the Necessities of Humane Affairs have rendred inviolable and without which the great Society of Mankind can no more subsist than privat Societies can without Rules and Laws All these have been openly and avowedly trampled on Now if the Ambition and other Passions of Men that have done such things have carried them so far notwithstanding the just apprehensions which no doubt they had of a general resentment whither will the same passions not carry them if the present Confederacy should happen to be frustrated and there should remain nothing more for them to be afraid of But better things no doubt are reserved for this Age. The Chariot Wheels of those that have asked Brick and forbid Straw begin already to move heavily And provided the easterly Wind continue to blow steady and neither little privat Interests sure little in comparison nor certain points of Honour only tolerable when Innocent disorder the present Harmony the event is infallible Sir Nothing can contribute more to this than the happy Union that is between the King my master and your Electoral Highness which states His Majesty and your Highness in the best Circumstances imaginable for preventing or removing differences This among other Reasons gives ground to hope that the Confederacy is not to be broke since the Union I speak of cannot be dissolved It is strong by all that is Sacred amongst men the Ties of Honour Religion Blood Friendship Obligations Engagements and I may add of the same Interests and Designs with relation to the Publick To so many Ties it may seem there needed no addition of a new one But His Majesty was resolved not to lose any opportunity of giving