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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85072	A brief historical relation of the empire of Russia, and of its original growth out of 24 great dukedomes, into one entire empire, since the yeer 1514. Humbly presented to the view and serious perusal of all true-hearted English-men, that love and honour the peace and happiness of this their native country. / By J.F.	J. F.	1654 (1654)	Wing F28; Thomason E1485_2; ESTC R22889	20,403	58

triumphant Godfrey of Bullein and the victorious Gustavus Adolphus King of Swethland who was the terrour of Germany And as the Lord in raising him up hath thus by him brought home peace to every man's door in these three Nations so I desire and wish from my soul that with all due thankfulness he and we may return praises to his great and glorious Name for those his rich and abundant mercies by this his select instrument Oliverus conferred on us it being the onely true way for the continuation of his showers of mercies on us and in stead of kicking against the pricks to rest satisfied and wait patiently upon the Lord and then doubtless the salvation of God will appear for he that believeth maketh not haste For that sacred Power that hath hitherto by him accomplished mighty things for us will assuredly perfect his work even his own great work so that the enemies of God and all that hate us beholding it shall stand amazed shall be enforced to confess and say that it is the Lords doings and it is marvelous in their eyes And when once according to his sundry expressions at several times to that effect he appears mighty in pulling down the strong holds of Satan and advancing the thrones of Justice Judgment and Mercy to the glory of God the good of this Nation and his own eternal praise then shall his enemies be abashed and England's enemies confounded but on him shall the mercies of God flourish For it is Justice and Mercy exalts a Nation and the administration thereof without respect of persons is the honour of a Nation and of him that is the Head of the Nation Witness those unalterable decrees of the Medes and Persians and Solomon tells us that the throne is established by justice and upholden by mercy Prov. 20.28 For he that ruleth over men must be just honourable and unalterable in his word and promise ruling in the fear of God 2 Sam. 23.3 And he set judges in the land city by city and said to the judges Take heed what ye do for ye judge not for man but for the Lord who is present with you in the judgment for there is no iniquity nor respect of persons with the Lord nor taking of gifts 2 Chron. 19.5 6 7. This undoubtedly was the lesson which our just Alfred King of England gave to all the County-Judges and Chancellors in his days and this was the charge of that renowned Emperour Borice and this I hope will be the Rule and unalterable Charge of our victorious Caesar And in so doing he shall assuredly retain the favour of God the love of the whole Nation and make his enemies vanish like the smoke And so doing go on and prosper the Lord shall give thee thine hearts desire O that the Lord in mercy to this Nation would turn the present tyrannous destructive Norman law of England into a law of mercy preservation to the people thereof that so they might not be thereby in their estates rights liberties and lives daily sold as sheep are in Smithfield-market and by Bayliffs and Serjeants most spitefully daily haled like dogs to several dungeons of misery from their families and callings and cruelly destroyed in prisons their estates by piecemeal torn and rent from them for a trifle and their wives and children enforced to beg their bread yea many poor hang'd for ten or twenty shillings whilst those that rob this Nation of their estates liberties and lives and that by a Law escape the halter Wherefore my most humble and earnest suit unto his Highness the Lords threshing-instrument 15 That he would be pleased to take seriously to heart the misery of this Nation as good Nehemiah did who accounted their misery his misery their bondage his bondage their flesh as his flesh and their children as his children And lo saith he you suffer to be brought into bondage your sons and your daughters causing thereby the enemies of God to blaspheme Neh. 5.5 9. and the oppressed to groan under the burthen The works and words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood but the mouth of the upright shall deliver the oppressed Prov. 12.6 And also seriously to consider the admonition of Solomon saying If thou forbear to deliver those that are haled to death or dungeons of death and if thou sayst Behold I knew it not doth not he that pondereth thy heart and keeps thy soul know it And so of the Lords judgement denounced by Jeremiah against the Rulers of Judah saying Ye have not hearkned unto me in proclaiming liberty every one to his brother and every one to his neighbour nor loosed the bands of wickedness nor undone the heavie burdens nor let the oppressed nor enslaved go free Therefore will I proclaim liberty unto you even to the sword to the plague and to the famine Jer. 34.17 And do we not see the anger of the Lord kindled against us by troubles abroad jealousies at home and fears on every side Therefore take away the Cause which is Injustice Cruelty and Oppression and the Effect will cease assuredly For when in these things a mans ways please the Lord his very enemies shall be at peace with him If therefore the Lord in mercy to his Highness and this Nation be pleased to incline his heart to loose the bands of wickedness by abolishing the Capias and to let the oppressed go free to pull down the thrones of iniquity and to break every yoke Then shall his light break forth to the Nation as the morning and his health shall then spring forth speedily his righteous acts shall then be his van-guard and the glory of the Lord in the power of his might shall be his rere-guard For blessed shall he be that considereth the cause of the poor especially those that are of upright heart the Lord shall deliver him out of his enemies hands and he shall be blessed upon the earth yea his enemies shall be destroyed but he shall be established in righteousness and his seed after him if he despise not the counsel of the poor whose trust is in the Lord if he cleave not to the generation of cruel men but ease this Nation of this cruel Norman bondage and deliver the inslaved for debt out of the several dens of cruelty in this Land causing speedy justice to have its free current without respect of persons that so all that are oppressed and defrauded of their estates lands or goods may gain speedy restitution with damage for false imprisonment or detention of their estates unjustly All which once effected will assuredly appease the wrath of God against these Nations unite the hearts of all this great people to his Highness as the heart of one man and will enable him to go in and out before this great people in the strength of the Lord and the power of his might in peace and much safety maugre all his enemies and all that strive to disturb his and this Nations peace

This will assuredly bring glory to God honour to his Highness and tranquillity to the Nation it will enforce as in other Countries honesty and plain-dealing from all men and all Petifogging deceitful subtil oppressive persons now shrowded under the Norman Law will vanish and the words Peace Quietness and Industry will be written over every mans door Such noble acts will revive the memory of Alfred that just king of England who punished and hanged Four and fourty County-Judges in one yeer for oppressing the people by false Judgement and of Edward the fourth who caused Fifteen Gaolers to be hanged in one yeer for exacting money from prisoners and defrauding them of the King's allowance of 4 d. per diem And of Henry the fourth who caused Two and twenty Projectors and six Aldermen of London to be hanged at the then-place of Execution within London-walls and buried under the Gallows where since the Church is built and the place called Alderman-bury to this day It was the usual saying of that famous and just Emperour Borice That Prince or Ruler is most happie and safe that liveth least to himself and most to the honour of God and the peoples good over whom God hath placed him and whose legal and just power is the bounds of his will whose olive-branch of wisdom springeth from his heart bloometh on his tongue and beareth fruit in his actions which will always direct him not to refuse counsel good cheap lest remiss security cause him to buy repentance too dear Thus having through my real hearty affection and well-wishes to his Highness well-being and love to my Countries freedom peace and tranquillity digressed from my intended Historical Subject and being desirous not to weary the Reader but to draw to an end I do again in the close become a most humble and earnest suitor to his Higness in the name and by the mercies of Jesus Christ to let judgement run down as water and justice as a mighty stream that so Mercy may embrace him on every side and cause him to continue in assured love and favour both with God and man enjoying the good things of this Land in peace internal and external with abundance of glory to God and honour to himself and posterity Not giving ear to the feigned words of some self-seeking persons who having a shew of godliness yet deny the power thereof do Babel-like endeavour to rear up to themselves everlasting tabernacles and cry out The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord The Law the Law Whereas the true Temple of the Lord is this To amend their covetous ways and their unjust oppressive doings To execute judgement between a man and his neighbour and not to oppress the poor the widow the fatherless nor the stranger but to let all the oppressed enslaved go free Nor to think by tything Mint and Cummin to fulfil the law of God as those several hypocrites the Doctors Lawyers Scribes and Pharisees did against whom in stead of a blessing there stands upon record for ever sundry terrible Woes denounced by him who is King of kings and Lord of life and glory and who assuredly will by the sacred Rule of impartial justice judge them according to their works There is a Word which is clothed with death the Lord grant it be not found in the heritage of Jacob. Sometimes to abide in the shade produceth more quiet to a poor man then to have the bright beams of the Princes favour to break forth upon him for then Malice is forthwith enraged Wrath like a Fury assaulteth and Revenge like a Crocodile when seeming to weep over him destroys him most in his credit life and good name never ceasing both by himself and all those by him seasoned for his ends to traduce and backbite him daily thereby rendering him odious to the best of men Like those subtil Serpentine generation of men who by lyes and slanders and by the power of some by them then seasoned for the work defrauded me of my right which by his Highness favour was most freely conferred on me and who also since have notceased to traduce backbite and slander me to those in high place and Authority hoping thereby to make their deeds of darkness to resemble the light and truth in the fight of his Highness and others But to all such shadows of Christians I shall say but this That their Consciences if they have any cannot but testifie to their faces that they have done me much wrong The Lord rebuke them for it And this I was told long since that if his Highness had not appeared so vigorously for me in that and another business since that I had neither undergone those calumnies and reproaches nor had my endeavours proved so fruitless as hitherto they have done to me This duely weighed it cannot but be positively concluded That although those slanderous and reproachful arrows were shot at the lowe shrub yet the venome of them was intended to hit the tall Cedar which by his branches of favour was pleased to shelter the lowe shrub For at that very instant time the better to set a face of credit upon their slanders and to carry on their designe of defeating me of my right they by their instruments divulged it abroad in the City and to divers Parliament-men that I had forswore my self three times in one day before his Highness and the Councel and that they had adjudged me to stand in the Pillory at the Exchange This was related with such a face of truth as that divers of my friends were happily deceived in going to the Exchange to be spectators of it Whereas the real truth is that I was never called before his Highness nor Councel to swear at any time for any matter cause or thing whatsoever for the truth whereof I humbly appeal to his Highness and to the honorable Councel most humbly praying for justice on these traducers and satisfaction for these injuries most wrongfully sustained But not resting in the centre of these their calumnies they or their instruments do still persist by under-hand plottings to accomplish my destruction and by raising of a lye against me rob me of my livelyhood and at the same time in a most secret manner spread a rumour in the City that I should conspire against my Lord Protector 's life A thing so horrid so detestable to my soul and so far from the thoughts of my heart as the Crystalline Sphere can possibly be in distance from the earth And this clearly appeareth by my constancie from the beginning to the cause of God faithfulness to his Highness and services performed for the State The first was my discovery of the late King's intention to surprise Hull and Plymouth by private Letters sent out of Holland to Sir Harbottle Grimston and Mr. Samuel Vassel then members of Parliament by means whereof the Parliament and Nation were preserved from the universal ruine determined in 1641. The second was my discovery