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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55606	A vindication of monarchy and the government long established in the Church and Kingdome of England against the pernicious assertions and tumultuous practices of the innovators during the last Parliament in the reign of Charles the I / written by Sir Robert Poyntz, Knight of the Bath.	Poyntz, Robert, Sir, 1589?-1665.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3134; ESTC R3249	140,182	162

Regis qui regnaturus est super eos 1 Sam. 8. vers 9. 11. And Samuel told the people the manner of the Kingdome eloculus est Samuel jus Regni 1 Sam c. 10. vers 25. CHAP. XIX Of a Civil war and of the effects thereof I shall now draw towards a Conclusion and in my passage shew the fruits of our adversaries wit and labour which have been rebellion civil war and servitude with some examples of their forerunners in other countries which they have imitated being they were more apt to imitate and magnify any example of rebellion then to take warning by their calamities or to consider the ruine of their own Countrey and the great scandal they have given unto the Christian name To begin with that which was nearest to us the late memorable example in France where they of the Reformed religion for their desence and liberty of conscience as they set it forth in their Declarations and Protestations made an Association and took up arms And soon after those of the Roman religion made the like Association about the year 1576. which they called the holy League Thuanus Both these produced the most dangerous rebellion and civil war in all respects that ever fell upon that Kingdome or any other Christian Kingdome for the people generally fell into such a phrensy that they deserced their Allegeance charity religion and reason Into these Associations many were at the first drawn unadvisedly through diverse and different perturbations in their minds designs and interests some upon false apprehensions and reports of the King and others cunningly raised Others through discontent want of livelyhood hope of raising their fortune hatred one of another or of the present government or of those of the greatest power therein and many out of preposterous and wild zeal And when repentance found entrance they could not find any way out of this Egyptian darkness The Cathoilck league was carried on with much subtilty and power by the cheif of the faction men of great power in Court and with the seduced and violent people Unto this league by ill counsel the King Henry the Third gave connivance and out of a desire to suppress some popular fears and jealousies of him and to shew himselfe really a devout son of the Church he soon declared himselfe a party And finding this Catholick league overmaster him he fell to no better shift then the confirming and ratifying of it by his authority But soon after that he perceived the design of the cheifest amongst them tended to the weakning and subordination of his authority by many of their actions and cheifly by their endeavour to get the power of the Militia into their own hands and all under the colour of defending the Catholick religion and the extirpation of Heresy For prevention thereof and preservation of himself from contempt into which he did run by joyning himselfe to the league he sought to throw out the devil by Belzebub and all that he could do could not untwist those inextricable difficulties in which it pleased God to leave him although he was a Prince indued with prudence and fortitude and as was said of him he might have proved an excellent King if he had not fallen into such times But he laboured and strugled under the contempt and hatred of his people either of them being sufficient to draw destruction upon Princes and the affection of his subjects was fastned upon the Duke of Guise a great Lord in respect of his alliance and followers exceeding popular ambitious active and of excellent parts Under this new league and association new officers were chosen soldiers and mony raised and war with the Protestants waged The League was acknowledged to be the head the King became an accessary and not the principal A preposterous and deformed government erected into the body a new head ingraffed and the old laid aside not cut off but made of no vigour and so was a hor●id monster raised Then did it soon appear that those armes taken up for religion by the actions and the accidents ensuing were turned against the King who too late caused the Duke of Guise and the Cardinal his brother to be slain the which act drew on the Tragedy to the height for the year after he himselfe was murdered Peradventure it will not seem impertinent considering the likeness of our condition now in England Thuan. l. 100. to relate the words of our wise Author who saith Foederatorum factio primò libellum emisisse constat quo sumptorum armorum rationem reddebant ad levandā scilicèt Tributis plebem quò his inescamentis fascinatam ad suas partes pertraherent novarum rerum cupidos boni publici praetextu ad rebellionem impellerent Cum haec non successisset alia via Plebem aggressos religionis causam in horum animis praevalidam affinxisse quamvis nemo religionis observantior fuit quam Rex Henricus Tertius calumniose multa in illum commentata crant quasi communicatis cum sectaria peste consiliis evertendae religioni incumberet His successor Henry the Fourth a prudent magnanimous and victorious Prince passed through a multitude of difficulties and obtained many victories before he could get the quiet possession of his Crown occasioned by the errours and dissentions amongst those of his own party as much as by the power and practises of his adversaries the leaguers and their adherents And although he did see the death and destruction of many of them yet was he driven to agree upon hard conditions and to grant a pardon to them to the great discontent of many who had served with much courage and fidelity for his friends did see many malitious rebels in as good or better condition then themselves The Kings excuse was that he could not help it for he was inforced to expel one plague by another And as it is related in the History when the King had effected peace then did appear the incomprehensible effects of a Civil war driven to the height Religion pretended on all sides at first cast out at last or used but as a stalking-horse the honest Families the Cities and the people generally corrupted in manners and brought to poverty the Nobility most of them accustomed to rapine and licentiousness apt still to retain that course of life Unto those who were oppressed with debts or guilty of great crimes peace the inestimable blessing of God was a torment Others were ready upon all opportunities to take arms again to maintain their prodigality and wholly indisposed to use any honest trade or civil course of life and some to be revenged of their enemies or to repair the losses they received in the former Civil wars And as by the occasion of the Roman civil war impositions and taxes intolerable were laid although then excusable yet many of them alterwards remained in time of peace and so it hapned in France after their war ended with the English and their Civil