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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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the eyes of others Our Soveraign will be a Constantine an Arcadius and a Theodosius to his Church a shield for their defence and protection scutum Christianorum the buckler of his people as Plutarch called Fabius In vita Marcelli Max. scutum Romanorum the target of the Romans Rulers are called shields Hos 4. 18. Her shields love to say Give ye a Tyrant is a Butcher to his people but a good King a Buckler 5. You may receive assurance from his tenderness of spirit towards the oppressed and afflicted The wisest King that ever was complains of a mighty oppression that he beheld the tears of the innocent and they had no Comforter Eccles 4. 1. The first words of the first King Kings must be nursing fathers not cursing Tyrants Deliverers not devourers whom God chose for his people were these What aileth the people that they weep 1 Sam. 2. 5. Kings are Gods Lievtenants and as they assume the name of gods so they ought to have the property not to pill and poll their subjects but to be nursing fathers Alphonsus King Is 49. 23. of Naples used this Embleme A Pelican feeding her young with her own blood and the Motto Pro rege pro grege Achilles in Homer Iliad l. 9. is said to love his countreymen as the carefull bird her unfeathered brood The gratious Apothegme of our noble Soveraign King James to his son Henry is worthy to be written in letters of gold Basil Dor. l. 2. p. 99. and will not be forgotten by his grandchild who treasures every lesson that be speaks his subjects good Enrich not your self with exactions upon your subjects but think the riches of your people your best treasure We have seen and heard of some lately that were so cruel and incompassionate as if the Rocks had fathered them and the Wolves of the Wilderness had given them suck there being no other comfort to the oppressed then that advice Albertus Craucius gave to Luther when he thought a reformation impossible Frater frater abi in cellam ibi dic miserere mei Deus Brother brother go into thy cell and do no more but sigh and say Lord have mercy on me Was it not too common to stop innocency in the mouth with disaffection and a true lover of the kingdom with the odious name of a Cavalier for so they intended it and so I find it used above thirty six years ago Bark on the 6. Com. pag. 246. by which means it came to pass that Justice was suspended and the innocent became a prey to cunning subtile Foxes who Proteus-like could transform themselves into any shape as the Devil into Sauls mantle or into an Angel of light grieved hearts had never more cause to say and sadly to complain Mundum dolens circuivi fidem undique quaesivi c. Men were used as Vetronius Thurnius used Alexander Severus his poor suppliants The Author had sadly experimented it for seven years to kill them with lingering excuses and delayes and by their cunning subtilty to decline the force of any just and reasonable request rendering the lives of many uncomfortable to themselves and a burthen to others Worse then the unjust Judge or Gallio Act. 18. Now can it be imagined by any sober discreet persons that our gratious Soveraign who hath been so sorely afflicted almost from his infancy undergone the contradictions of men scorns contempts revilings hath drunk deep of the cup of His sufferings unexpressible by any Pen. persecution beheld with a sad heart the horrible oppressions committed in this Land and cruelties exercised against persons of all ranks to the violation of divine and humane Laws I say it cannot be imagined that he can want the bowels of compassion towards the oppressed and afflicted besides there is not any thing more repeated in Scripture Psal 12. 5. Psal 72. 2. Exod. 3. 7 8. in which the King is very conversant then the particular care which God whom he owns for his and whose Lievtenant he is hath of the oppressed and when God is a patern it is safe following by this he will be immortalized and his throne surely established Prov. 29. 14. the King that faithfully judgeth the poor his throne shall Over you in dignity For you for profit be established for ever and such a King you may be assured of who knows he is not onely over you but for you 6. You may be assured from his Majesties constancy in Religion wounded with the sword of manifold temptations being sorely thrust at that he might fall she that made the Kings of the earth Rev. 17. 2. drunk with the Wine of fornication could not make him drink the least drop but continued in the faith grounded and settled not moved from the hope of the Gospel such a constancy appeared Col. 1. 23. in his royall Majesty that neither temptations on one hand threatenings on the other the graceless behaviour of his subjects and undutifull dealing from Pretended Professors but reall Atheists those of the same Profession could in the least shake his faith the God of constancy working this grace in his royall heart and giving him this comfort in his saddest and darkest night of troubles that he who trusteth in the Lord shall be as mount Sion which cannot be removed Psal 125. 1. but standeth fast for ever he knew irresolution unsteadiness hatefull to his Master Christ who is Heb. 13. 8. semper idem ever the same he is of a noble and uncommon nature it being the property of the double-minded man to be unstable in all his wayes Christian James 1. 8. Religion is a Ring and the Diamond of this Ring is Constancy Vincenti dabitur that wears the Crown Some are ever turning till nothing be left but to turn Turk Some have derived sanctum quasi sancitum an established nature and such is his royall Majesties who hath remained unmov'd unshaken and would not lose his conscience to gain three kingdoms nor forsake that Religion in which his father dyed a Martyr I will upon this occasion adde one thing onely to the perpetuall honour of Englands Kings Constantine the great our Countrey-man was the first Christian Emperor Lucius our Countrey-man the first christened King Henry the 8th the first that shak'd off the Popes unlimited power King James the first of his rank who opposed Antichrist with his One terms him hujus seculi miraculum own Pen Charles the first through the inhumanity of a bloody sort of people because he would not betray the liberty of his Subjects to the lust and ambition of Tyrants the first martyr'd King a glorious Where true faith is there is true martyrdom This red must be grounded on white King candidatus innocentia purpuratus martyrio white and red white by his sanctity in his life red by his martyrdom in death and our gratious King Charles the second though Deo secundus
for our good the good of peace protection justice Religion and the like we must obey for conscience unto the disobedient is a perpetuall hell v. 5 unto such as obey a continuall feast the powers then are ordained of God and there is no power but of God sive jubente sive sinente Aust either by Gods commission or permission the persons sometimes are intruders as in case of usurpation sometime abusers of their authority as when they tyrannize so that the potens the ruler is not Hos 8. 4. always of God they have set up Kings but not by me they have made Princes and I knew it not and the manner of getting kingdoms is not alwayes of God Alexander the sixth obtain'd the Balaus in vita Alex. 6. Popedom by giving himself to the Devil Phocas by blood and Tileman in Rom. 13. sedition got his Empire Richard the third came to the Crown of England by butchering his Nephew Pol. Virg. hist Ang. l. 25. and others of the royall blood yet the power is ever of God By me Kings reign Prov. 8. 15. Thou couldst have no power saith Christ to Pilate except it had been given thee from above Joh. 19. 11. 2. Besides this honourable title of Gods they are call'd shields Hos 4. 18. her shields love to say Shields with shame give ye i. e. her Rulers love brihes Almighty God hath ordained higher Powers to defend his Church on earth as it were with a shield being scuta Christianorum the bucklers of Gods people as Fabius Maximus is call'd by Plutarch scutum Romanorum the target of the Romans Constantine Arcadius Theodosius John Frederick Duke of Soxony and many others have been shields to the Church of God A Tyrant is a butcher to his people but a good King is a buckler a defender he that rebelleth against his Soveraign hacketh and heweth as it were his own buckler of defence 3. The name Kings Rex à regendo from governing shews their duty and it is usuall among the Kings or Shepherds Prophets and poets for regere and pascere to signifie the same thing Homer Virgil and David put no difference betwixt reges and pastores Kings and Shepherds see more of this in Chap. 2. This was the end why they were made choyce of for common good and administration of Justice to be as watchfull over their people and as solicitous for their A publike and common Sheepherd good as a father of his children or a Shepherd of his sheep Princeps est pastor publicus communis 4. They are often term'd patres reipublicae fathers of their country the Sichemites call'd their King Abimelech which is as much as to Fathers say my father and Antiquity when it was willing to throw its greatest honour upon an Emperor it call'd him The father of the Commonwealth which was more then Caesar or Augustus Titus Vespasianus had the gentle and affectionate Epethite of Deliciae humani generis Justinian the Magnifique title of Pius Faelix inclytus victor ac triumphator Theodosius of Vestra aeternitas vestrum numen vestra clementia vestrum aeternitatis numen Valerian the elder 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of King of kings divers other Emperors of Optimus Maximus Divus and the like but that which they esteem'd their greatest honour was The publike and common father of the Commonwealth Plato stiles a King Pater familias a father of a family and Zenophon Bonus Princeps nihil differt à bono patre the onely difference is this that the one hath fewer the other more under his command In a word reigning or bearing rule is nothing else but a paternall government many a care attends on greatness Christ's Crown was all thorns no crown without some thorns If private persons should not What is expected from Kings mis-imploy their talents what shall we say of publike persons who are advanced to the Throne they are obliged to cause their vertues to appear and be more eminent in all good acts the rank they are in sufficiently shews what they ought to be and what manner of persons they ought to appear Peter Martyr Allegorizing on the seat of Solomon saith that the height the gold the Ivory of the seat must put the Magistrate in mind of his eminency purity and innocency The celestiall bodies raised on high above the rest as upon the fane or pinacle of this beautifull temple of the world have more splendor then all other bodies among the elementary bodies that which holdeth the highest place is most pure in the body of man the head is most eminent more adorn'd more animated all which are secret instructions from nature What is learned from their title of Gods that those who hold the highest dignities should shine forth in the greatest vertues and grace more particularly 1. To acknowlodge him more 1. Duty especially being oblig'd by a more particular tye then the generality of men all waters come from the Sea and returne thither so all all Power comes from God and should returne from them to God by homage 2. To be more humble gratefull and religious then others the higher a tree shoots up his branches towards Heaven the lower it sinks its root into the Earth its depth supports its hight and the hight would become its ruine were not the depth its firmest solidity if humility be not the foundation and support of greatness their hight of Pride will be their destruction and God will debase them as he did Nebuchadnezzar and others They who lay the foundation of their greatness in Atheisme and irreligion shall in the end see they build Towers of Babel and will leave markes of follyes in their confusions and of his wrath in his revenge and just punishment 3. They stand more in neede and therefore should be more earnest to God in Prayer for his illumination in their counsels of his conduct in their enterprises of his strength in their executions of his Providence in their various occurrents dangers and difficulties 4. As they stand in his place so they should walk in his path to be followers of him as dear children to be mercifull as he is mercifull to be holy as he is holy bountifull as he is bountifull just as he is just 1. In distributing justice impartially for Magistrates should have two hands one for mercy the other for justice habet praemium poenam ut apis habet mel aculeum he hath reward and punishment as the Bee hath honey and a sting Ye shall hear the small as well as the great Wrest not Dan. 1. 17. the Law nor respect any person Deut. Deut. 16. 9. 16. 9. The Scripture that should Lev. 19. 15. be the rule of all mens actions is Prov. 24. 23. full to this purpose The Thebans Job 29. 14. usually pourtrayed their Prince blind with ears and the Judges 1 Sam. 12. 8. assisting him in