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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90972	Tyrants and protectors set forth in their colours. Or, The difference between good and bad magistrates; in several characters, instances and examples of both. / By J.P.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1654 (1654)	Wing P3349; Thomason E738_18; ESTC R203206	41,217	58

dead Sea where presently they dye and know Jordan no more What 's become of those gallant Grandees roaring Roisters with their glittering Gi●ls and mad Mates the wanton Wag●ails of our English Courts who fleared when they should have feared and laughed when they should have lamented how soon are they put out as the fire of thorns Psal. 118. 12. Did not our English Courts swarm with these lustful Locusts almost in all Ages and the chiefest therein commonly chief in these sins Edward the Fourth had his holy Whore as he was used to call her that came out of a Nunnery at his b●ck to satisfie his lust May not large volumes be fil'd with the historical Narrations and that according to truth of the pride gluttony drunkenness wantonness luxury lasciviousness of the Kings and Courts of this Nation in their constant succession one after another until the hand of Vengeance did put a full stop hereunto by that fatal Blow at White-hall Gate 1648. They are extinct dead and buried and I wish such an immoveable stone may be layd upon the mouth of their Sepulchres by our present and successive Governors that they may never rise again that as their names so their sin may rot and consume away and the eyes of this English Nation may never behold such vanity at Court any more where lasciviousness and luxury were accounted meer peccadilloes not worthy repentance or remorse 12. He commonly wades through blood to his bloody Throne and having once scared his conscience by spilling the blood of a Father or Brother to attain the Crown he can eat the flesh and drink the blood of millions of his people to satisfie his lusts without reluctance and judgeth it his right to wrong whom he will Tyrants are men of blood fierce fiery furious spirits cross curst and cruel dispositions the world is fill'd with volumes of their vi●lanies in this kind all Ages and Countries without exception have wofully felt the truth hereof in so much as if men had the use of their mental ears as they have of their corporal the cries of the thousands and ten thousands millions and tens of millions of the slain and murthered by the hands of Tyrants would be so great that they would hardly hear the living for the d●●d The Turkish Spanish Roman French Scottish English Histories are they not stufft and cram'd with innumerable Instances of the cruelty of Tyrants and their pleasure therein No sight pleased Hannibal better then a ditch running over with mans blood Ch●rls the nineth of France Author of that bloody M●ss●cre in France looking upon the dead carkass of the Admiral that stank by long keeping unburied uttered this wretched saying Quam suaviter olet cadaver inimici How sweet is the smell of an enemies carkass And the Queen Mother of Scotland beholding the dead bodies of her Protestant Subjects whom she had slain in Battel said that she never saw a finer piece of Tapistry in all her life To spend time on this were to waste a candle before the Sun Englands Chronicles the Books of Martyrs the late bloody Massacres and Wars in Ireland England Scotland are fresh and bleeding evidences of the bloodiness of Tyrants I shall not here speak of the death of Prince Henry King James the bloody Massacres of the Protestants in Ireland by whose Commissions and Commands how cruelly and deceitfully they have been carried on God hath made inquisition for blood he hath remembered and not forgotten the complaint of the poor he hath cut off Saul and his bloody house according to his word Psal. 55. 23. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days They are cut off before their time their branches shall not be green but shaken off as the unripe Grape from the Vine and cast off as the flower of the Olive Job 15. 32 33. 13. Prerogative Pleaders are his Orthodox Preachers that make his mouth their Oracle his Dictates their Doctrines all Scriptural Precepts of the Subjects duties the only Canonical but the duty of Princes Apocryphal writings Tyrants have their Chaplains according to their Religions who rather preach from their Masters mouths then to their ears and principle the people according to their humors to maintain their Prerogative Hence we shall find in Scripture that wicked Kings had their Priests and Prophets of their own tempers who did always charm the people into base slavery by their base preachings Zeph. 3. 3. When the Princes in Jerusalem were rearing Lions and her Judges evening Wolves her Prophets were treacherous betraying the poor people by their cheating charmings into a stupid ●ordid and silly subjection Wicked Kings Princes Priests and Prophets are chain'd together Jer. 2. 26. they commonly keep one Court and one Councel and as they live together in sin so perish together commonly in punishment Jer. 4 9. You may see how these wicked Priests and Prophets did cling together against Jeremiah who protested against their flatteries and ●alsities Jer. 26. 7 8 10 11. See again their cursed Con●ederacy in doing evil in the sight of the Lord Jer. 32. 32. Ahab had a mind to make War against Ramath Gilead for the enlargement of his Territories he had no sooner signified his royal pleasure herein but his whole Kingdom of Priests and Prophets allarms the people to War and promise them success in the Name of the Lord yea one of them viz. Z●dekiah the son of Chenaanah like an Ape did imitate the custom of the Prophets of the Lord and makes himself Iron horns carries them unto the King as if sent by a very special Commission and tells him Thus saith the Lord With these horns shalt thou push the Syrians until thou hast consum●d them but you know they all told lyes in the Name of the Lord and one Michaiah that spake the truth they buffeted and imprisoned And was it not thus in Englands Courts during the Rule of Tyrants amongst us No sooner had the late King a resolution to war with the Scots his native Countrymen but all the Pulpits from White-hall round the Nation did allarm the people to rise up with him promising them success in the Name of the Lord Were not those wicked Kings Priests and Prophets of the English Nation link'd together as with chains of Adamant in so much that if the one be destroyed the other must fall hence grew that ominous Proverb No Bishop no King which fell out accordingly How hath God destroyed those dens of Lions those Magpyes nests those black Ravens that deceived the people with their rough garments I am no adversary to the lawful Ministry and let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth and my pen drop from my withered right hand rather then I should willingly speak or write against the Lords true Messengers but meer pretenders of the Lords message when they utter only visions of their own hearts are the abomination of my Soul 14. The greatness of his height causeth giddiness in his