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The fanatick in his colours, or, The rise, heighth, and fall of faction and rebellion, from 1648 unto 1661 with an appendix concerning allegiance, government and order / by T.F.
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justice without hands blind lest he should have respect of persons with ears that he might hear both parties indifferently the Judges without hands that they should not be corrupted with bribes The Law without just execution is like a Bel without a clapper and made use of sometimes as cobwebs to catch little Flies and sometimes as Fox-nets to take great ones in a trap Oh how few are there that sit in the seat of Justice whose consciences can prompt them a comfortable answer to that question of Davids Psal 58. Are your minds set upon righteousness Oh ye congregation they are of Gallioh's temper Acts 18. and such as the Psalmist deciphers Psal 82. 5. It is written to the commendation of Marcus Aurelius that dividing the hours of the day for the business of his Empire he allotted one hour to hear the complaints of the grieved and do justice 2. In punishing offenders and to this end he is appointed for the punishment of evil doers as they carry 1 Pet. 2. 14. a ballance so a sword for bad Rom. 13. 4. members as dangerous to the body must be cut off as Chirurgeons do limbs infectious ne pars sincera trahatur You may see more of this in the Speech In a word Justice is the supreme perfection of royall greatness the strongest arms to subdue men the most sacred Majesty to imprint reverence the happiest conquest a King can atchieve it is a princes beauty perfume and lustre yea he who is the States eye Justice is the apple of their eye it is the rampart of his Pallace the bulwark of his Kingdom and prop of his Crown Shields But to conclude this if Shields this instructs them they are a refuge for the Innocent a shelter for the Oppressed a Sanctuary of safety liberty defence and protection Shepherds All they doe should tend to their subjects good having the love and affection of a father the Fathers care and vigilancy of a Shepherd respecting more them then themselves not to tyrannize as if only command were the thing hatefull in their eyes and punishable by a Tyrants Antiochus just God evident by sad examples The name of Antiochus stinks on the earth and he cries to persecutors take heed Herod consum'd Herod sum'd with Worms Memprisius Momprisius King of Britain devoured with Wolves Anastasius the Emperor Anastasius kill'd with Thunder a Saxon King of England was kill'd by the Devil Seldred as he was banquetting with his Nobility Pharaoh drown'd in the red Pharaoh Sea Nebuchadnezzar cast down Nabuchadnezzar from his throne and companion with beasts Ozias stricken by God with a leprosie Ozias Joram with an incurable Joram Flux God saith David is terrible to the Kings of the earth and appears Psal 75. so by strange punishments inflicted upon them for their cruelty and impiety It was a notable saying of Pelopidas King of the Phocians who sent Alexander word he marvelled he put his Citizens to death and not himself Alexander askt him why he made such haste to dye replyed Pelopidas to the end that thou being yet more hated of God and man then thou art mayst the sooner be destroyed He that turns Tyrant turns hatefull to God and man Nero wanting one to kill him was glad to kill Idonibezek Judg. 1. Eglon. ch 3. Abimelech ch 9. Ahab 1 Kings 22. 38. himself saying Turpiter vixi Turpiter morior Caius Caligula who had conspir'd the death of many and exercised inhumane cruelties was killed Nabis the Tyrant who usurped the government of the Lacedaemonians putting eighty of Innumerable examples in this kind their princes to death was kill'd by Alexamenes and indeed not only Tyrants but their wicked counsell and bloody instruments who corrupt seduce ought to smart and have often felt a divine hand the reward of such murtherers hath been to be murthered themselves wickedness is often recompensed suo genere in its own kind evil men drink of their own brewing are scourged with their own rod and drown'd in the pit which they digg'd for others Haman hang'd on his own gallows Perillus tormented in his own Engine Nec enim lex justior ulla est Quam necis artifices arte perire sua Abels blood spilt on earth cries for the blood of Cain Justice must cause them that sow blood to reap blood CHAP. IV. Severall objections of Fanatique persons answered lovers of confusion not order THe wickedness of man discovers it self in a perverse rebellious will loth to subject it self either to the Laws of God or man like an untam'd Horse he lifts up his heel against government no King is a judgment Isa 3. 6. there Isa 3. 6. follows confusion and disorder Judg. 17. 6. Popular equality burthensome Judg. 17. 6. and destructive yet however he will be nibling at the heels and if he can cut off the head of lawfull Authority 1. Ob. The Apostle calls powers humane ordinances 1 Pet. 2. 13. Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether to the King as Supreme c. Answ The Apostle calls them humane ordinances not in regard of the substance of government but in regard of the severall forms Kings are beams of the Deity cast into the severall corners of the Regna à Deo reges dari Just Lips earth appointed by God himself I have provided me a King amongst the sons of Jesse 1 Sam. 16. 1. And concerning the revolt of the ten tribes in the rent of the Kingdom of Israel 1 Kings 12. 24. This thing saith God is done of me Magistrates are the fingers of that great hand that rules the world and with his all-powerfull hand hath engraven a touch of extraordinary Majesty upon their foreheads whom he intendeth to authorize and make usefull for humane Society and the conduct and advancement of publique good all higher powers are from Rom. 13. 1. the highest powers to whom all creatures must be subject and adds the powers that be are ordained of God insinuating that the Magistrate is not from God after any common manner but ordained after a more speciall sort By me Kings rule they hold their Prov. 8. 15. Scepters from him therefore was their usuall stile formerly and blessed be God now is Charles by the grace of God King c. 2. Ob. Libertines and others wrest that Text of St Paul 1 Tim. 1. 9. The Law is not given to the just and righteous man therefore good men are exempted from obedience to Laws Answ The just man doth well not for fear of punishment as compelled by Law but of grace and meer love towards God and goodnesse justo lex non est posita Melanch in loc neque ad condemnationem neque ad coactionem albeit there were no King or Law to command him he would be a King and Law to himself obeying higher powers of his own accord But why frame you
next to God yet nulli secundus not inferiour to Tert. any for his admirable parts and abilities and undaunted resolution and constancy in the faith truly meriting the name and title Defender of the Faith Lastly you may be encouraged that he will be a glorious instrument of Reformation both in Church state he is a good pious King and may avow boldly with Nerva se nihil fecisse quo minus possit Christi Phili in vit Nervae imperio deposito privatum tuto vivere And glory with Samuel whose Oxe 1 Sam. 12. 3. whose Ass have I taken or to whom have I done wrong or whom have I hurt His enemyes being Judges cannot justly accuse him his life is so strict and austere that wicked Endued with piety men can draw no patterne from him much less can they hope that he will let loose the reines to sin Vertue necessary saith Lips pol. l. 2. c. 8. and give countenance to the impudent fury of prophanenesse Greatnesse is a copy which every Their actions are instructions 1 K. 15. 30. and 16. 19. action every affection strives to write after Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis The son of Nebat is never without this brand he made Israel to sin For the most part every man emulates the manners of his Sovereigne mobile mutatur Claudia Confessor Papa Confessor populus semper cum principe vulgus When Leo lived because he stood well affected to the stage all Rome swarmed with Juglers Singers Players The Common People are like tempered Wax wheron the vitious Seal of greatness makes easy impression no such thing may be feared to proceed from him being a pious King himselfe and therefore Kings beget a likenes of manners Bonas omnium mensura will be a happy father to his Country and take no part with the enemys of his Heavenly Father Can you think that he who hath swept his owne heart will suffer the weeds of impiety so to be nourished in the hearts of his subjects he is not ignorant that God hath said If ye walke contrary unto me I will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation Lev. 26. 31. God hath doubtless ordained him for the punishment of evill 1 Pet. 2. 14 doers and prayse of them that do well And that we may live quiet and peaceable lives in all godlines and honesty 1 Tim. 2. 2. Those that lately Usurped the Throne might bee as indeed they were instruments of Gods Justice but not of Reformation Wasters not builders of Gods Temple It was in my mind saith David to build an House to the name of the Lord my God not to pul it downe but to build 1 Chron. 22. 7. but saith he the word of the Lord came to me saying thou hast shed blood abundantly and hast made great warrs thou shalt David must not and why not build an House to my name because thou hast shed much blood but Solomon thy son shall doe it who Solomon shall shall be a man of rest he shall build an house for my name I dare affirm that there is no King in the Christian World except our Gratious King Charles the second that hath not caus'd war nor occasion'd the spilling of their subjects blood and therefore he amongst all the fittest and most suitable for the work of a glorious Reformation and truly I speak it without flattery Loyalty a duty for I expect nothing where no more is done out duty that if Plutarch were now living to write Lives by parallels he would be troubled exceedingly to finde a There was no King like unto him 2 K. 23. 25. A right comparison betwixt them parallel for our Josias both in respect of his Majesties morall endowments and Princely virtues Doubtlesse God would never have preserved him from so many Plots such eminent dangers witnesse his wonderfull escape from the Fight at Worcester which Victory seem'd to have no life because it wanted his death and was In everie mercy a wonder not completed with the Sacrifice of his Sacred blood his wonderfull protection in the Land of Captivity being tost from Post to Piller hurld from one Kingdome to another exposed to penury and misery yet sustain'd by a wonderfull providence living at Gods immediate finding and expecting his morrows breakfast from his bountifull hand wonderfully restor'd beyond the thoughts and expectations of man and after such a manner as may be admired and all conclude it is the hand of God All these are strong arguments to perswade us that God hath designed him for his glory and will make him instrumentall for a glorious reformation What now remains but 1. That we pray for him every important action requires prayer much more that which concerns three Kingdoms Moses prayed for the choyce of his successor Let the Lord the God of the spirits of all Numb 27. 16. flesh set a man over the Congregation It is not fit that he who is chosen for God should be chosen without God those which in a due proportion must represent God to the world ought to be consecrated to that Majesty which they represent pray for Gods presence to go along with him to be a cloud in the day for direction and a pillar of fire in the night for consolation to defend him from all implacable enemies and fit him with all sutable graces for the discharge of his weighty employment and besides let us bless God for him and hold our selves blessed in him 2. If there be occasion fight for him spend your dearest blood to preserve the breath of your nostrils 3. Rejoyce heartily that you see this day that Israel hath crossed the Sea with dry feet and the returning waters drown'd their pursuing enemies 4. Beware lest your sins and provocations rob you of blessings and once more turn your flourishing kingdom into an Akeldema or field of blood Impietas ad arma vocat if we fight against God we provoke God to fight against us If we lift up the hand of wickedness we shall meet with the hand of Justice if transgression beat the Drum destruction will begin the Fiat justitia halebis pacem Aust march Live righteously and live peaceably the Lord fix all our hearts upon himself that neither our selves our children nor their generations may ever see warr in Psal 147. England strengthen the bars of our gates and establish peace in our borders we beseech thee O Lord. 5. Study to be loyall Treason is a fearfull and prodigious evil they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Remember Corah Dathan and Abiram If murther be a crying sin Treason may be term'd a roaring sin To conclude the time commands a period be once more perswaded to be instant in prayer for his sacred Majesty that God would be pleased to give him Vitam longam regnum prosperum prolem faelicem vitam eternam a long life a prosperous raign a