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A50647	The merit and honour of the old English clergy asserted by laws and customs patriarchal, mosaical, evangelical, English, ecclesiastick, ethnick, and the demerit of the new clergy discovered / by an author anonymous.	Author anonymous.	1662 (1662)	Wing M1786; ESTC R35039	57,972	183

modern Fanaticks with the Pagan Mystae or Doctors 1. IN the Roman Republick there was a grand Controversie touching the Tribune-Magistrates others the Ediles Judices Decemviri The case clearly this the Tribunes were sacrosancti and immoveable because they had legem sacratam Gro● de jure B. l. 3. c. ●9 sect 9. both Law and Oath for their establishment and settlement the Decemviri and others had onely lege●● simplicem a Law only but not any interposition of a solemn and national Oath The Tribunes were inviolable L●v. l. 3. because Tribunes relig●● publica populi Romani tu●●atur the intervention of an Oath in which their Religion was concerned made them immutable and permanent The other were revocable and variable by some new Edict and Statute of the Roman Senate And Tib. Gracchus was condemned for his wilful abrogation of Octavius from his Tribuneship In our English State there hath lately been the very self-same case or publick controversie The Lords possibly Spiritual and Temporal were as the Decemviri and Aediles among the Romans They had legem simplicem no interposition of a sacred and publick O●●h and were upon that accourt not so wholly immovable and 〈…〉 Fanaticks and 〈…〉 ●●ew that our Su 〈…〉 and Governour had legem sacratam for a sufficient defensative against injurious hands a double Oath of Allegeance and Supremacy beside a third the natural Obedience which all sorts of Spiritualty and Temporalty did bear to him next to God according to the words of the Statute 12 H. 8. The Roman Pagans were far better Christians then any of our Fanaticks of what denomination or perswasion soever They kept their Oath though to their own hindrance as they might imagine Psal 15.4 and our English Fanaticks thrust out legem sacratam cum juramento Cùm tota religio populi Anglicani tucbatur When the whole Religion of our English Nation was concerned the triple cord of Supremacy of Allegeance and of Nature was snapped asunder by these violent Samsons 2. Even among Pagans the effusion of Blood-Royal was so horrid and execrable that caedes Principis quantumvis hostis non impunita the Blood of a King though a professed personal enemy never found Impunity or an Act of Indemnity among them As David in Sacred Writ punished the murder of his Royal enemy even Saul the son of Cush Ps 7. Tit. an Aethiopian from the blackness foulness of his disposition with the death of the Executioner 2 Sam. 1. So the Pagan Augustus was highly vindicative against the murderers of Caesar and Severus likewise against those of Pertinax which Act alone as Herodian writeth procured him incredibilem gloriam regnandi securitatem both incredible honour and much security The Pagan Vitellius likewise severely revenged the death of Galba his professed enemy Yea Pontius Pilate for crucifying the King of the Jews our Lord Master met with just revenge and lost his head by the piety even of Nero as Suidas telleth us Yet in the blood-shot eyes of all our modern Fanaticks I fear that neither the Cannon at Edge-Hill nor the Ax in another place ever yet appeared so horrid and execrable as those other instruments of villany did in the eyes of David or Augustus or Severus or Vitellius or Nero. 3. The devotion of the Pagans was very eminent and exemplary They brought many Donatives and Honoraries to the Temples of their Gods out of the spoils and plunder of their enemies Which by the Greeks were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Latines manubiae Such were those that were sent to Apollo at Delphos Herod l. 8. and those which the Athenians gave to Minerva Florus saith Tarquinius Superbus de manubiis captarum urbium templum erexit Our Fanatick Teachers cannot vie one such act of zele as these It shall be more tolerable therefore for such Pagans at the day of Judgment then for such Christians Among Gods people there was a double Exchequer one Ecclesiastick the other Civil Fiscus regius as appeareth Josh 6.19 1 Kings 7.51 The Temple of Saturn had a Treasury 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A●gustus had his sacred Exchequer Appian de Bello civ l. 5. In Greece they had a sacred Council for such a Treasury 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Strab. l. 9. But in our worse then Pagan dayes what Widow what Souldier hath cast in two Mites almost for twenty yeares past 4. Herodot Diodor. Sic. apud Gregor Tholos de Repub. l. 26 c. 1. sect 16. An Aegyptian King was so unmoveable in his integrity and devotion that like Pharaoh before him Gen. 47.22 26. he preferred the interest and welfare of the Priests before his own For a Thebane God having often molested his sleep with horrid dreams and told him that his Empire could not long be prosperous felix di●turnum unlesse he would lay violent hands upon his Priests at last he sent for them and having acquainted them with his dreams told them plainly Malle se purum omnique scelere solutum ab Aegypti regno abstinere c. That he had rather part with the Egyptian Crown and Sceptre then be an actor in so execrable a Tragedy Our Fanatick Mystae without being moved and frighted by dreams and visions have plundred and sequestred many Priests and taken from them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all their Livings as the Physicians did from the poor wretch in the Gospel And whereas the Pagan King would rather quit his Crown then injure the Priests these have sucked their very life-bloud and yet though they have swallowed the best Livings they are as lean as Pharaohs rascall Kine were after they had eaten up the fat ones Hist of English Scottish Presb. 234 In our grand Metropolis of 97. Ministers within the walls no fewer then 85. as hath before been said were despoiled of their Free-holds by the violence of Fanatick Presbyterians and 115. in the Suburbs and Parishes adjoyning besides those of Pauls and Westminster 5. The Pagans were ever very firm to and tenacious of their Promises Oaths and Engagements Pacta scripto sancita violare nè abjectissimo quidem homini decorum esse arbitror Clapm. l. 5. c. 8 It is unhandsome for the most abject person living to violate his engagements Plutarch Qu. Grac. saith Bellisarius The Megarenses and Corinthians when some would forfeit their Parole and not return money according to promise for their liberty and redemption Fidem fallentes tanquam ingratos injustos notabant Their very friends became their enemies and set a Mulct upon them as ungrateful and perfidious When the Romans were requested by the Campanians to afford them Auxiliaries against the Samnites their Confederates they returned them this resolute answer Clapm. D●sp 2. sect 67. Arma Deos prius quàm homines violatura adversus Samnites vobis negamus Such Arms as must first fight against the Gods by fighting against our Faith and our Associates we wholly deny you as Livie