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Never faile, or, That sure way of thriving under all revolutions in an eminent instance from 1639 to 1661.
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Lloyd, David, 1635-1692.
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after him for ever for naming his Son Richard Successor according to a power cunningly gained by him from the Paâ—liament in a Petition and Advice 1656. he contrived him an impregnable interest first in Ireland by his Brother Henry made there Lord Deputy secondly in Scotland by a Councell and an Army made up for the most part either of Relations or oâ— Fanatiques or of New-purchasers of the Kings Queens and Bishops Lands all equally engaged to the Usurper thirdly in England 1. by a Councell made up of his Fathers own Creatures 2. An Army under his Brother in Law Fleetwood Commander in chief his Unâ—le Desborough as Major Generall and severall other Relations of his in great command so that his Army was like that of Abrams of his own house 3. The City awed by a pack of Sectaries under one Io. Ireton a Creature of his since the marriage of his Brother Henry with Oliver's Daughter 4. The Countrey people generally so much pleased with the obliging carriage to which Oliver politickly brought him up that they generally said If we must needs have an Usurper we will be content to have him Sect. His Excellency saw Richard so well settled that to attempt any thing against so well layed a Government in the behalf of his most Sacred Majesty had been but to hazard the best Cause with his own and his Friends persons and fortunes against a tide which swelling higher by the opposition would quickly have overwhelmed them And therefore he submitted himself to a compliance with the Power then in being acting by its authority knowing as Grotius saith jure belli pacis p. 1. c. 73. That the acts of empire which an Usurper exerciseth may have power to oblige not out of his right which is none but because its better his Commands should prevail and be of force then utter confusion be brought in the Laws and Iudgements being taken away See Suarez leg l. 3. c. 10. n. 7. vid. de potest civ n. 23. And so his Excellency went on with the Usurper strengthening the hands of the evill doer for publique good while he was weakening him in private interest We may observe in Nature that the severall parts of it though they are ordinarily true and faithfull to their standing rule law and duty the light going upwards and the heavy downwards c. yet they are allowed to comply with a violence that brings them out of their place order against their inclination and law to fill up such chasmes and supply such vacuities as may endanger the dissolution of the whole Besides I think really his Excellency together with our Gracious Soveraign had rather the Invader should be left in possession then occasion given to such dangerous and bloudy commotions as they both trembled at the thoughts of which yet must necessarily follow upon any violence against those men who have strong Factions on their side at home and as strong Confederacies abroad It was their opinion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch Or as Favonius hath it Civill War is worse then unlawfull Government Mihi pax omni cum civibus bello civilii utilior videtur Cic. Titus Quintus thought it better the Tyrant Nubis had been let alone at Lacedemoâ— when he could not otherwise be thrown down but with the ruine of the Common-wealth likely to perish in vindication of her Liberty For as Aristophanes hath it A Lion is not to be bred in a City but if he be brought up he must be kept For indeed we nec morbum ferre possumus nec remedium Liv. Yea we were so unfoâ—tunately â—…ck that we feared plus periculâ— a medico quam a morbo For though Usurpâ—tion falls heavy upon many particulars yet the bloâ—dy consequences of an intestine War are worse spâ—…ading and permanent Sect. His Excellency was as carefull to keep others within an usefull moderation and prâ—dence as he was to act according to it himâ—elf and therefore upon Oliver's death He and the Councel make an Order That there be none brought from beyond the Seas to Scotland and that none be carried from Scotland beyond the Seas without speciall leave and a Passe That there be no unusuall meetings of Persons dangerously affected to the Peace of that Nation c. And seized upon severall persons dangerously busie about his Majesties Affairs in that Kingdome whereby he at once seemed to be very cordiall against his Majesties interestâ— and for that of the Usurpers and really did his Majesty the best service imaginable and his Friends the greatest curtesie 1. Restraining them from those attempts which had been their ruine AEquum non est saith Stallius ut sapiens disipientâ—urâ— causu in pericula turbas se conjiceat See Nehem. 9. 27. 2. And withdrawing from the Usurpeâ— that advantage whiâ—h he made of such vain and empty oppositions towards his own establishment and settlementâ— who knows noâ— that Oliver wâ—s advanâ—ed to that height we ere while admired and feared by those plots which he subtlely contrived and others were foolishly trapanned to by whose discovery and defeat he rendered himself formidable and by sly inâ—…nuations of what danger the Government and the three Nations were in by reason of them prevailed with his Conventions to secure the Common-wealth by promoting his power daily upon the occasion of one pretended Plot after another untill he sâ—rued himself up to the power of the most absolute Monarch in Europe His Excellency thought that monstrous Power would fall away of it self which might be held up and strengthened by opposâ—tion A Lacedemonian in Plutarch when he read Hos dum Marte parant dominatum extinguere saevus ante saliuntis Maenia mors rapâ—it added Merito viri illi periere expectare enim debuerunt ut ipse per se dominatuâ— conflugraret Sect. His acquiâ—scing in Richards free Parliament In the mean time he resolved to acquiesce discreetly in the determination of the free and full Parliament which Richard and his Councell were happily necessitated to call towards the right constitution of which he contributed much in the choice of such Parliament men for Scotland as the Malignant party in England would not have willingly admitted to the House who when they entered assisted the Honest party in such counsels as would have brought down the power which Oliver set up with so much bloud and treasure in the twinkling of an eye without any noise or stir wherefore they were suddenly after dissolved by the Army with a consent that Richard gave to it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Although his Excellency was sorry to see such unwarrantable violence offered to a free Parliament made up of the honourable Representatives of three Nations yet he was pleased to see that vast Power taken from Cromwel's Family by the same Authority that gave it them even before a third Heir enâ—oyed it He so well foresaw the future establishment of these Nations through these severall revolutionâ— as the establishment of a fair
in his hand and may expect as the Theban Souldiers a pattern for all others argued with Julian to die daily and ought not to submit his precious life to the lusts and will of others which hath too much to do to serve its own divers lusts and pleasures he heads a Regiment by the Lord-Deputies's Commission that great man who understood well whom he employed who as curiously observed other mens worth as he carelessly neglected his own and was choice in his instruments because he was so in his designes and imployments well knowing his great actions must be left to the management of great soules and this is the first of those publick undertakings wich are the subject of this discourse § 14 Discipline Wherein the first thing he was eminent for was Discipline without which Commanders lead thronged multitudes and not armies and listed routs rather than Regiments he was not less carefull of morall than of the military Discipline well knowing that that Souldiery will hardly vanquish an enemy that is vanquished by its own debauchery Ireland they say endures no poyson his Excellency would endure no dangerous exorbitancy to envenom his Regiment nor any perverse Achan that would trouble his Camp and next the care of keeping his Souldiers Men and restraining them when going out of themselves within the compasse of humanity he added that of making them Souldiers that they might not be to Learn when they were to perform their duty Turpe est in arte militarj dicert non putaram § 15 Besides that by his preparation the enemy might suspect that thier plot was discovered and by his readinesse that it was prevented when men did but seeme to suspect an unknowne plot they have often discovered it and withall few Souldiers brought together in a military 〈◊〉 as they can vanquish many out of â—rder so they can affright more the often mustering of Souldiers among a dangerous people is not the least part of their policy who know what pannick feare armed multitudes strike into the dispersed vulgar § 16 Familiarity His Excellencies solemn familiarity no Mother of contempt was observable whereby he insinuated himselfe so far into his Souldiers affection that they could have wished their lives doubled that they might have one life to spend for his person as they had one for his cause His Language with Caesar was not Milites but Commilitones not Souldiers but Fellow-Souldiers nor was this out of any designe so much as out of nature and that note of Livy tooke no place here Credant haud gratuitam in tanta majestate Comitatem fore that so much Majesty never condescended without designe nor was that of the Comick a good rule here Non temerarium est ubi dives blande appellat pauperem altera manufert Lapidem panem oftentat alter a Nemini credo qui longe blandus est dives pauperis § 17 And when the sad tim 〈…〉 that called for his actuall service 〈…〉 condition of Ireland now without a Deputy the last being beheaded the sad Prologue that ushered in this Tragedy the red morning of whose bloody death presaged this tempest as he prophecyed rather than spoke upon the Scaffold and by reasoâ— of the jealousies at the same time stirred up between his late Majesty and his Parliament by Rome and Hell one not daring to trust the other to be charitable without supply and assistance grapling with the power of Rome from within and from without from all the Kings that had given their power to the Beast kept his Excellency and other Worthies to the defensive and confined their care more how to save themselves handsomely then how to subdue the enemy which though their cause and valour prompted them to for qui molâ—stos arcet ex honâ— Conscientia sumit siduciam bonaque â—i spes adest inde quod injuriam non infer it sed auferat Alex. orat ad mil. Herod 5. yet their prudence checked them from with the prudent caution in the Gospell of considering whether they were able with ten thousand to hurt them that came against them with twenty thousand for doubtlesse such and much greater was the ods between these two adversaries § 18 Though his Excellency spent not that time he stayed there without some offensive sallies upon the enemy we must offend sometimes in our own defence and give our enemies occasion to complaine that we will not patiently lye open to their full stroke as that Roman brought an action against a Man because he received not his whole dart § 19 Yet he was most eminent then upon necessity as he was since upon designe in a prudent reservation of himselfe It being as great skill to ward off blowes as to give them he was as wise as that Lewis of France in preventing danger who had foresights to prevent mischiefs when they were coming but not a present prudence to engage them when come though yet he was as ready in encountring dangers as that Henry of England who could as Bacon observes who drew his life with a pencill â—s majestick as his Scepter with ready advice command present thoughts to encounter that danger with success which he could not with foresight prevent he gave then great signes of an admirable dexterity in mannaging disadvantages vvhich he hath since given full proofe of vvhen he opposed himselfe against a declining age engaging thousands with his single selfe § 20 His stratagems were as considerable as any Man 's in so narrow a command for though force and terror be most proper to wars yet we may lawfully use guile Sive dolo sive vj clamve Palamve Hom Quicquid agendo Hostica delenda vis est Pind dolus an virtus quis in boste requiral virg Your enemy you lawfully may spoyle Whether by open force or secret guile Bellandum est astu levioâ— laus in duce dextra Lesse praise I gaine By my strong hand I war with my strong braine Silius l. 5. ex Polib l. nono xenoph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Thacid l. 5. Marâ—is comites irae insidiaeque virg Elbarba hudiatum saith Mahomet Wars must have some deceit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eust ad Il. x. versu 120. â—o honourable is it to be wise as Serpents that Saint Chrysostome in his first Book de Sacerdotio pronounceth that Generall most praise-worthy that hath obtained his victory by stratagems § 21 The other private particulars that that History may enquire into which is due from after age to his blessed memory will not beare those grave observations which are designed in this discourse for those more publick his performances in this lower spheare being swallowed up with those of his superiors as the glories of lesser lights are undone at the appearance of a greater Wherefore § 22 I passe to the cessation made by his Majesties order and the alteration in his Excellencies affaires thereupon For the jealousies forementioned being heightned to a War between his late Majesty and his two Houses