not better for you You are a man of parts that may be very serviceable to your Countrey come come with me I 'le help you to as good a Wife as your heart can wish for some Women will be cruel Queen Mary was a grievous Persecutor not fit to govern a very Jezabel saith Calvin and one that burnt Protestants with their Books and Writings The Youth sate leaning on a Bank answering nothing at last a Messenger came to him with a Letter which we suppose brought more comfort in it than any of us could give him for he had not the power to read it altogether but when he had done he was so ravisht and transported with joy as never was poor Malefactor when unexpectedly reprieved from a most cruel death just ready to be inflicted upon him for he trembled with excess of joy his colour came and went now he stood fixt like an Image without life and then kneeling down My dearest sweetest Sovereign Queen and Goddess cry'd he again weeping I 'le love thee I 'le obey thee all the daies of my life A thousand Beams of gladness dart through me I am all over Sunshine I 'le do homage to the very Wormholes of thy Footstool With this he kist the ground and then arising up and looking sternly on the Non. Con. and the Jesuit he laid his hand upon his Sword and said Traytors Rebels and Villains speak one syllable more in dishonour of that glorious Sex and I 'le cut you both into Atoms But you Sir that spoke against Queen Mary assure your self for what you have said against her already because a Woman I am resolv'd if ever I come to be Justice of the Peace I 'le put the 35th of Queen Elizabeth in execution against all those of your Faction before any other Statute of any Kings whatsoever Oh! Sir said the Non. Con. indeed Queen Elizabeth was a very gracious Queen she was most worthy to Reign Truly said the Jesuit I am not so much against all Women I love them well enough for I am sure we would monopolize them all I say the Queen of Sweeden was a most renowned and glorious Queen The Queen of the South shall not only be celebrated but the North too have had a Queen of as famous memory most worthy to Reign because she refus'd it But mine mine said he is worth them all and she shall Reign and I will live as long as I can that she may long live and Reign over me At these words the Youth very nimbly marcht off and as soon as he was gone Well! said the Jesuit I do and must say that the Salique Law which debars Women from the Crown is a very wise and good Law So 't is indeed sad the Non. Con and very fit to be put in execution upon Occasion for Women are foolishly silly and weak and not at all fit to govern More fit than you are to preach cry'd an odd kind of a person as I thought of the Epicoene Gender Who affronted you cry'd the Non. Con. staring upon h You did said the Hermaphrodite You have injur'd the better part of me which is Woman you say they are foolish weak and not fit to govern which I tell you is contrary to the Law of Nature to the Laws of this Realm and most of all contrary to my Own Experience For when my Manhood has a mind to be reserv'd I find that almost every Drab can pump it out of him but my Womanhood can keep her Counsel better than she can hold her water when my Manhood discovers his love or hatred openly violently and foolishly my Womanhood can more easily hide and cover them than the freckles and wrinkles on her face 'T is my Womanhood makes my Manhood witty wise and valiant and in my self I find by experience that the Women influence direct guide and govern all Men living and since I cannot indure two Principles of Sovereignty in the same Soul and that the Nature of my Body inclines most to the Female Sex I have therefore rightly plac't it in the Woman They were so confounded with this Positive Conviction from one of the Doubtful Gender that they both of them sneakt away and as soon as they were gone that Sovereign said I that pleases them shall be Sovereign it seems as long as they think fit and none else For they measure the Rights of Princes by the rule of their own Interests and whether the Sovereign be Man or Woman it is all one to them if either Her or His Majesty do not favour them so as to let them have their wills they are presently upon the Deposing Vein and rather than want Arguments to incite the People to it they will make use of old ones or borrow of one another Come for once and away I 'le tell you what a strange fancy I have now in my head I do fancy That the time will come when the Spawn of these very Presbyterians Independents c. who now at this time do so magnifie and cry up the Reign of Queen Elizabeth will join with the Jesuits in defence of the Salique Law and wherein they will as much extol and commend the Reign of King Charles the Second However the great Game is that the Sovereignty of England should not remain in one single Person Man or Woman for they are for transferring it to a great many Well! for my part said Seignior Christiano I should not like well to see three or four hundred Suns shining in England at once it is a good Temperate Climate now but then it would be too hot for me For I must tell you that it is much better for England that the Sovereignty should be in One woman than in five hundred Men. And I wonder that the Jesuits who call the Virgin Mary the Queen of Heaven and adore her more than our Saviour himself who is the King of Glory should not pay the Homage of Sovereign Honour to that Sex on Earth to which they pay Divine Worship in Heaven But our Politicians who say in their hearts there is no God there would have no King here They think a great many heads is better than One and one Man 's much better than a great many Womens However the simple and honest Christian is very apt to think that God who is the fountain of all Wisdom and by whom Kings and Queens are made Nursing Fathers and Nursing Mothers of his Church does not limit his Spirit to either Sex That he can inrich one single heart with his Heavenly Grace that it shall prove more instrumental to his Glory and our Good than the Worldly Wisdom and Policy of all Mankind and on the other hand let those Politicians look into the 29th Chapter of Isaiah at the 13th and 14th Verses a Prophet is as good as a Politician because he foresees what will come to pass they only design what they would have come to pass and they will find that God saies Because
old Fellow sayes He is worn out in the Vineyard of the Lord when as he has been sowing the Tares of Sedition and Heresie for above forty Years in the Field of the Church He will certainly carry the Garland for both Hobbs and Nevil do despair and stand staring like two Scotch Runts that have all to bedighted the Fair but let us hear what the President is going to say At this Bradshaw stood up and with a Countenance very compos'd and grave said Gentlemen we do adjudge pronounce and declare this man whose very looks bespeak him what his words and actions aloud proclaim him to be the greatest of all Politicians for these following Reasons First Without the Help of his Politicks all ours had been insignificant and in Vain that good old Cause You value your self so much upon had never been brought to perfection had not he mightily assisted us You might as well have attempted to whistle the Moon under your Hats as to have laid the Head of the King upon the Block under the Axe of the Executioner had not he the Preacher first sentenc't him from the Pulpit 't was the Magick of his voice that raised whole Legions of Reforming Zealots and preacht them into Rank and File against their Sovereign 't was He snivel'd the Rabble to the Devil in such mighty Shoals as they crowded the High-wayes to Hell for several years together This you Jesuits do so well know that you venture drawing hanging and quartering for the sake of preaching in Seditious and Schismatical Conventicles in his shape and after his way and therefore what signifies any other mans Writings either Hobbs or Nevils when in competition with him who has out-preacht outwrit outdone out-reform'd you all Secondly He is most worthily to be accounted the chief Politician upon the account of that singular and unparallelled Spirit of Contradiction which is in him in a double portion and in a double sense And therefore when His Serene Darkness Lucifer askt me with what Confidence I could bring King Charles before his own Bar of Kings Bench when the very form of the Writ runs Coram nobis ubicunque in his own name and Authority My Answer was That I brought the King before himself by the same Rule that Richard is against Baxter Thirdly We must and do acknowledge him to be the most extraordinary Politician in the world for he has not only deceiv'd many thousands of people but he has cheated himself more than any body else For first He thinks himself very Humble when he is so very proud that he is Proud of his Humility a sort of pride which Lucifer never dreamt of Secondly He thinks himself very meek and merciful when as he is really more bloody and cruel than any Tyrant he can either fear or describe witness his many sanguinary and virulent Sermons he has preach't witness his behaviour to one Major Jenning in the late Wars in a Battle fought in the County of Salop between Lynsel and Longford where the Kings Party being unfortunately routed the poor Major was stript almost naked and left for dead but He with one Lieutenant Hurdman taking a walk among the wounded and dead Bodies and observing some life in the Major Hurdman run him through the Body in cold blood Baxter all the while looking on and taking off with his own hand the Kings Picture from about his neck telling him that He was a Popish Rogue and that was his Crucisix and kept it some years after Thirdly He thinks him very wise fit to direct rule and govern all mankind whenas he mistakes that to be the Spirit of wisdom in his heart which is nothing else but the whisperings of that Eating and Cancrous Wolf that has possest the nape of his neck Lastly If He whose Faith is Faction whose Religion is Rebellion whose Prayers are Spells whose Piety is Magick whose Purity is the gall of Bitterness who can cant and recant and cant again who can transform himself into as many shapes as Lucifer who is never more a Devil than when an Angel of Light and like him who proud of his perfections first rebell'd in Heaven Proud of his Imaginary graces pretend to rule and govern and consequently rebel on Earth be the greatest Politician Then make room for Mr. Baxter let him come in and be Crown'd with wreaths of Serpents and Chaplets of Adders let his Triumphant Chariot be a Pulpit drawn on the wheels of Cannon by a Brace of Wolves in Sheeps Cloathing Let the Ancient Fathers of the Church whom out of Ignorance he has vilified the Reverend and Learned Prelates whom out of Pride and Malice he has abused belyed and persecuted the most Righteous King whose Murder I speak my own and his sense contrary to the light of all Religion Laws Reason and Conscience He has justified then denied then again and again justified Let them all be bound in Chains to attend his Infernal Triumph to his Saints everlasting Rest Then make room Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites Atheists and Politicians for the greatest Rebel on Earth and next to him that fell from Heaven After this the Court arose every one even the two Antagonists going away very well satisfied Seignior Chr. and I were left alone and had a fair opportunity to reflect upon what we had heard The first thing that came into my head was the last part of Bradshaw's determination wherein he compar'd the Motives and Grounds of Baxter ' s Rebellious Politicks with Lucifers For my part said I in his Preface to his Holy Commonwealth He seems to deny that Position That Dominion is founded in Grace and proves that Godliness is not Authority And that the Saints are not the rightful Rulers of the World And many people that read that Book would think that he wrote it with a great deal of Zeal and Piety for the promotion of Gods glory and the improvement of all virtues He condemns both Trranny and Democracy shews a bloody Tyrant in his proper Colours peppers the Rabble with whole Vollies of stinging Epithetes is very earnest for the Reign of Christ the dignity of Saints and the Reformation of the World He seems not so much concern'd for any particular sort of Government as that we may be secured in the Main and yet judges a Mixt Monarchy the best He layes open the Contrivances of the Jesuits exposes the Papal Vsurpations over the Civil Magistrate has garnisht his Book all over with Quotations from good Authors and confirm'd his Propositions with numberless authorities from Scripture From Scripture reply'd Seignior Christiano smiling Did you never read that Satan is transform'd into an Angel 2 Cor. 11. 14 15. of Light and therefore 't is no marvel if his Ministers also be transform'd as the Ministers of Righteousness And Vincentius Lirinensis tells us Nullam esse ad fallendum faciliorem viam quam ut ubi nefarii erroris subinducitur fraudulentia ibi divinorum verborum praetendatur Autoritas And Bishop
whole Nations too I will not either name or number the great follies and impieties that you upon this score have committed the greatest of all is that you will not acknowledge them to be what they really are very evil but have a care of the wo that is threatned to them that call evil good and good evil Let me advise you no longer to believe that to be Faith which is Faction let me advise you not to think that to be Religion which is Rebellion let not your Gain be any longer your Godliness and do not imagine Covetousness to be a saving Grace or that labouring for War is the way to Peace change either your Country or your Conditions if you stay at home study to be quiet learn to live in peace in peace A blessing so so much the greater to you by how much the less of it all other Nations under the Heavens do now injoy This little world alone like another Goshen sees and feels the brightest influences of the Sun when as all the habitable World besides is a Land of Darkness of Darkness that may be felt loud Thunders killing Lightnings and deadly Hail are one continued storm from the East to the West from the North to the South the Sword of God and man is drawn to scourge the sinful Age Rivers are stain'd with Blood and devouring Locusts cover and infect the Earth but none of these Plagues come nigh your dwelling You have no hardned or Tyrant Pharoah to deserve them and therefore do not ye your selves bring them Let no croaking Froggs come with noisome Petitions in your Kings Chambers but above all do not Kill the first-born of all the Land lest at last you bring a deluge of Miseries upon you a Sea a red Sea a Sea of Blood to overwhelm you By this time on large Plains upon our right hand methoughts I saw mighty and vast numbers of the Loyal and true hearted Nobility Gentry Clergy and Commonalty of this and other his Majesties Kingdoms and Dominions making their several Addresses to his Sacred Majesty congratulating his Majesty's his Royal Brother's Kingdoms safe deliverance from the late Barbarous Conspiracy I was so extremely pleased with so noble a sight that I almost wept for joy and could not forbear breaking into these expressions I envy not those who either saw Solomon in his Glory Caesar in his Victories or Augustus on his Throne since I this day see our Gracious Sovereign King Charles the Second triumphing in the hearts of his People a Prince who to their vertues has his great Fathers and his Own too shining in the most Illustrious instances of his Valour Conduct and Wisdom But why do I attempt to speak his praises the rising and setting Sun must do it which sees those far distant Countries that are happy under his Government and therefore strives to inrich them with plenty which he influences with peace however we see here before our eyes those in whom both himself and we all are happy his Royal and illustrious Brother James D. of York a Prince of rare and singular virtues who has fill'd the Earth and Seas with his Victories and the whole World with his fame we see the rest of the Royal Family which we hope will be as numerous as 't is truly great being inricht with the vertues and Blood Royal of all the Princes in Christendom and springing from the most ancient Royal Lineage in the World we see the great wisdom of our Royal Sovereign in his choice of all his chief Ministers both in Church and State who every one deserve a Panegyrick but that their good deeds proclaim them better than our best words we see our Monarchs glory and the Kingdoms honour in the loyal liberal and valiant Nobility in the true hearted numerous and charitable Gentry in the loving honest and obedient Commonalty We see the publick glory honour justice and piety of the King and all his loyal Subjects in the many magnificent and pious works of Charity and we hope that all the people of the Land seeing these many these great and good examples will for the future become loyal and obedient under so gracious a Sovereign peaceable and quiet under so 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