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england_n	henry_n	king_n	proclaim_v	2,631	5	10.9964	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89171	A mirror; wherein the rumpers and fanaticks (especially those, who even yet desire to continue religious rebells, and to make piety the sire to treason, and new disturbances;) may see their deformity, and abhor both themselves and their actions. Sent in a letter by a friend, to a votary and follower of that faction. Occasioned by a seditious sermon lately preached.		1660 (1660)	Wing M2225; Thomason E1034_14; ESTC R209041	7,883	15

Passion and a Vapourous conceit of forming some Imaginary model of Government which they did especially defign to have Perpetuated in themselves are indeed delivered of nothing but ayrie hopes and certain most deformed and monstrous Apparitions But Sir to passe from these unto your self Is it not most strange that as Glaveus praised Injustice and Isocrates extolled Busiris that notable Tyrant so these mens Commendations should be your Subject or their Restauration your Desire And is it not equally wonderful that such Lectures should be heard with any Approbation and Allowance But I perceive it is upon the same Reason that Tacitus gives of the Applause afforded to Aliniue Gallus for his defence of Luxury and Prodigality The acknowledging of Vices under honest terms and the likenesse of Affections in your hearers minds causeth their assent to be easie and favourable Nor can the strength of your Arguments be any other than such as Anthony the Orator was once forc'd to use who being to defend a Person that was accused of Sedition and Treason bent all the force of his Eloquence to prove that Sedition and Treason were no Crimes Surely it will do well if you take pains to consider That such an Enterprize as you endeavour Is as Vain as it is Impious There never wanted any thing to the overthrow of those States-men which you so magnifie but only to have the people undeceiv'd and restor'd to their Right wits For that which was long since objected to and answered by that Excellent Phocion with whom expired the Liberty of his Country which procur'd his Ruine may both waies here be most properly applied One told him that if ever the People grew Enraged they would kill him Phocion answered Peradventure they may kill me when they are Mad but if ever they grow Sober again they will not suffer thee to live They who have advantag'd themselves by the Frenzie of the Vulgar they will assuredly Abominate if now they are return'd unto their sober temper So that your old Patrons have two potent Enemies to encounter withall that is to say Heaven and Earth Heaven for their Blasphemie and Earth for their Deceit You therefore who are still their followers do but labour to kindle a Fire by blowing of dead Ashes which if you continue to endeavour you will but too clearly manifest a strange Composition of Folly and Fury to be in you and you must give others leave to take it not as an evidence of your Saintship but as an Argument of your Stultitude And certainly as the Enterprize is Ridiculous so the Impiety is Incomparable For what can be more unbecomming him whose Office is to be an Ambassador of Christ than to demean himself as an Herald to Belzebub Or to bring down the Holy Spirit not in the likenesse of a Dove but in the form of a Vultur or a Raven It was an Excellent saying of King Henry the 7th of England That when Christ came into the world Peace was Proclaimed and when he left the world Peace was bequeath'd How then can they pretend to be his Ministers who in their Conscionatory Invectives breath nothing but Blood Ruine and Confusion And rather say as Jehu did What hast thou to do with Peace Get thee behind me As if Peace were not their businesse but following and Parties and Factions I cannot but believe that a Minister intermedling in Court and State affaires deserves as severe Scourges as a Marchant who buyes and sells in the Temple However they ought to be such studious Lovers of Concord and Amity that they should even avoid a Seditious Truth I know what you pretend to fear and what you are bold to affirm That Popery will be introduc'd and that the King is already a Papist for the first let me tell you although this old Jesuitick Juggle doth not deserve an Answer that it is an Objection only of your Suspition not your Reason And yet it is such a Suspition that as it imports the greatest scandal to the State so it implies a most Sottish contradiction in it self For all men know That they who first rays'd a Credit to themselves by fastening that Imputation upon others did in the exercise of that power which partly by that aspersion they obtained give a perfection to those designes which the Pope and his Partisans although they often desired to effect was never able to accomplish And it is now fully evinced That the Beast with seven heads and the Beast with many heads have both the same designe to make Princes as the Banditi and at their own pleasure to proscribe their Lives their Revenews and their Kingdoms So that it cannot but be the strongest symptom of a Fanatique Fancy to imagine that the same Persons should bee instrumental to return us to that madnesse and confusion from which they have even now freed us and are still labouring to protect both themselves and the Nation As to the other part the truth is you follow the rule of depraved Nature though it be most unsutable to Christianity You hate him whom you have wronged And as it is said of the Dragon that when he cannot reach his prey he poysons the Air with his breath and so destroyes it So because you cannot touch his Majesties Body you labour to blast his Peputation And now that your Company of Lying Wonders for the Publick good fail and are become uselesse you have recourse to lying Slanders and perhaps intend to make your Libels and defamatory Speeches to be Successors to the Popes Legend Surely these Politick contumelies are a recent Invention of this corrupt age or old they us'd them not For it might as well have been objected against David that he was a Worshipper of Dagon when Saul's furie and injustice forced him to fly to King Achish and the Philistines But of this thus much only need be said Tenne est mendacium pellui et si diligenter inspexeris By this time Sir I hope you see that four-fold mischiefe in which you are implicated Your Desires are Impossible your Attempts are wicked your Fears are vain and your Reports are false and scandalous And is it possible that after all this any Person should be such a superlative Fanatick as to need extrinsick argumen's to reclaim him Surely it cannot bee except he bee rooted in his Errour as they say Marsus Diaboli rootes in self in the Earth which can never be pulled up without breaking However I doe not doubt but as Suetonius reports that Augustus Caesar walking by a Pond where the Froggs were croaking commanded them to keep silence and they were never after heard to make any Noyse in that Place So all that harsh roaring and discordant clamour both in pulpits and other places which hath not only portended but caus'd so much mischief in the Kingdom like the Prognostications of some Conjurers that foretell the tempests they intend to raise will ere long by the presence and command of our Augustus be silenc'd and restreyn'd I have now done Only suffer me to adde this What I have writ although it be bitter yet it is wholesome There can not be a perfect Conversion unless a full Conviction do proceed Especially in a case of this nature it is indispensably necessary For those persons who have hitherto triumphed over our lawes and would now triumph over our senses as well as our reason and judgement by perswading us that Tyranny is liberty Usurpation justice and Pressures and burdens Ease and Rest will not be reclaimed until they perceive that their depraved and corrupt Principles and their crooked and perverse Rules are as deeply sounded and as plainly discovered to others as they are known unto themselves I know that the wound given to the State wants Oyle rather then Vinegar to be pour'd into it But he is no good Physitian that doth not in some cases as well accomodate his Receipts to the temper of the Patient as to the nature of the Disease Some wounds are not fit for an healing plaister except a Corrosive be first applyed And in this distemper you your self have prov'd it necessary And that is the reason I am forced to observe that Method of Physick which cures one heat by another I shall conclude with this cordial desire That as the King is called Gods Vicegerent So that he may make him the pattern and examplar of his Proceeding by extending a plentifull pardon to penitent offenders so far as his mercy may not violate his justice but they who will still continue perverse and Contumacious let them perish in their Obstinacy Rarò antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo Seldom the Villain though great haste he make Slow-footed Vengeance fails to overtake Prov 24.24 25 He that saith unto the wicked thou art Righteous him shall the people curse Nations shall abhor him But to them that rebuke him shall be delight and a good blessing shall come upon them THE END