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A61419	An appeal to heaven and earth, against the Christian Epicureans, who have betrayed their king and countrey, and exposed them to the judgments of God drawn up in questions theological, and theologico-political/ by Socrates Christianus.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1691 (1691)	Wing S5419; ESTC R8220	13,491	20

William 2. had Ralph Flambard Bishop of Durham Daniel in W. 2. H. 1. and others whom he corrupted to counterpoise the Clergy awe the Layety and countenance his Illegal Proceedings Of him the King used to say that Ranulph was the only Man for his turn who car'd not whom he displeas'd Mat. Par. p. 56. so he might please his Master Sed mortuo Rege iniquo Henrico coronato de Communi Concilio Gentis Anglorum posuit eum Rex in Vinculis a quibus cum custodibus suis pecunia corruptis evasisser tranfsactavit clam in Normanniam sua Exhortatione Ducem Robertum commovit in Regem fratrem suum King Henry 3. had Hubert de Burgo Rot. Parl. and 17 H. 3. Speed 18 H. 3. 520. 2 Inst Proem p. 2. Chief Iustice and Earl of Kent and many others But this was his Safety that upon just occasion without any great Grief he would forego a Favourite Sée in the Preface to the Second Part of the Institutes his Counsel to H. 3. to burn Magna Charta E. 2. had Pierce de Gaveston the Spencers c. Rot. Parl. 7 E. 2. 2 part 44.50 ● and the Spencers procéeding against le Grand Charter by Name amongst other things tending to the Subversion of the Law c. R. 2. had Sir Robert Tresilian Chief Iustice c. Rot. Parl. 11. E. 2. nu 8. c. and Robert Earl of Oxford and Duke of Ireland c. H. 6. had William de la Pole Duke of Suffolk c. Rot. Parl. 28 H. 6. nu 1● to 47. who endeavoured to have brought in the Civil Laws which was the occasion that the Chief Iustice Fortescue wrote in the Commendation of the Laws of England preferring them for the Government of this Land before the Civil Laws This Duke with others plotted the Death and Destruction of Humfrey the Good Duke of Glocester who ever stood in his way Hollinsh 713.2.30 E. 4. had William Lord Hastings the Kings Chamberlain and Captain of Calice All these came to fearful and untimely Ends. Hollinsh 722.748.767 R. 3 had Sir John Catesby one of the Iustices of the Common Pleas and Henry Duke of Buckingham c. Privy Plotters and Counsellors with R. 3. for the most execrable Murther of his Nephews E. 5. and Richard Duke of York What a miserable End the Duke had you know and Iustice Catesby in his Iourney to London in the Kings High way had Subitaneam improvisam mortem Coram Rege An. ●H H. 8. In Information vers D. Petor alios The like Indictment against Edmond Dudley 4 Inst 198. Anders 1.156 Godb. 107. Herb. H. 8. p. 6. Bac. H. 7. p. 209 7. Had Sir Richard Empson Edmond Dudley c. Sir Richard Empson was Indicted Quod ipse Consiliarius Excellentissimi Principis Henrici nuper Regis Angliae Septimi Deum praeoculis non habens sed ut filius diabolicus subtiliter imaginans honorem dignitatem prosperitatem dicti nuper Regis ac prosperitatem Regni sui Angliae minime valere sed ut ipse magis singulares favores dicti nuper Regis adhibere unde magnatem sieri potuisset ac totum Regnum Angliae secundum ejus voluntatem gubernare falso deceptive proditorie Legem Angliae subvertens diversos ligeos ipsius nuper Regis ex sua falsa Covina subtili ingenio contra communem legem regni Angliae de diversis feloniis c. Indictari fecit c. Per quod plures diversi populi dicti nuper Regis his gravaminibus indebitis exactionib ' multipliciter torquebantur in tantum quod populi dicti nuper Regis versus ipsum nuper Regem multipliciter murmurabant malignabant in magnum periculum ipsius nuper Regis Regni sui Angliae Tr. 23 H. 8. coram Rege Rot 14. See the Articles against Cardinal Woolsey 4 Inst ch 8. p. 89. ac subversionem legum consuetudinum ejusdem Regni c. And the like Indictment was against Dudley Hen. 8. had Tho. Woolsey Cardinal Ipse intendens finaliter antiquissimas Angliae Leges penitus subvertere enervare universumque hoc Regnum Angliae ejusdem Regni populum Legibus Imperialibus vulgo dict' Legibus Civilibus earundem Legum Canonibus subjugare subducere c. We will for some Causes descend no lower Qui eorum Vestigiis insistunt eorum exitus perhorrescant FINIS

and inconsistent with good Government and with the Duty of Gover●ours to God whose Stewards and Deputies they are And such greedy Favourites and dishonest Officers and Servants to be looked upon by all honest Men as Vermine Horse-Leeches and common Enemies and to b● p●osecuted by all just and lawful means that they may b● 〈…〉 to refund and be discharged from all Publick Trust and Implo●ment XII Whether to allow greater Salaries and Profits than necessary to Great Officers and less Wages and Pay to common Seamen and Souldiers than will maintain them to live honestly and comfortably and be a reasonable Reward for their Labour and Hazard or to suffer Officers to abuse their Souldiers in their Pay or Wages be not a great Iniquity contrary to good Government to Christianity and even to Humanity it self XIII Whether the maintaining and protecting of Favourites from Justice who by their Insolence Ambition or Covetousness or by Evil Counsels are grown odious or suspicious to the People and occasion Differences between the Prince and People be not a great Fault in Divinity and a great Error in Policy and inconstant with the Ends of Government XIV Whether the common Sentiments and Practices of the greatest part of Man-kind be not as Corrupt False and Erroneous in respect of true Policy and Prudent management of Publick Affairs as in respect of Morality in Private Matters The true Resolution of these Questions Is very easie by Reason and Humane Authority as well as Divine If a Prince will act like a Man he must consider VVhat is the End of Man's being upon Earth And then apply himself with all his Vigor and Advantages to promote that And from this one Principle of Reason may all these and many more Questions be resolved And for Humane Authority Aristotle whom even those learned and ingenious Gentlemen who do not much admire his Physicks repute a Great Man in Politicks as that which he was most versed in hath well distinguished the difference between a King viz. He who intends the Common Good and a Tyrant viz. He who acts all for himself and converts all to that and to that end usually endeavours to unman the People by corrupting their Manners to Divide them into Parties and Factions and to Disable them in their Estates and Power But a King one worthy of that Name who intends the Common Good takes Care of Religion and to keep his Reputation in that respect takes care of the Education of the People that from their very Youth they may be preserved from Vice even from the sight of Obscene Objects and the hearing of obscene Speeches and from Plays c. and is more ready to strengthen his Empire in the Hearts of his People even by Abridging his own Power than to enlarge his Power by encroaching or usurping upon their Rights And therefore he commends the Answer of Theopompus to his VVife who reproached him for admitting some Limitations of his Power That he had rather have his Empire Firm and Strong than Large and Loose And indeed if we look into History and especially our own we shall find that the bravest Princes the most VVise and Generous and most Happy have been of his Mind That those who have done otherwise have been Persons of weak or mean Parts or Spirits or imposed upon by Favourites That the great and most active Assertors of pretended Prerogative and irresistable Regal Power have been for the most part either Men of Design or imposed upon by the Prejudice of Education or by the Authority of some Leaders who have only served themselves thereby to the great Disservice of their King and Country and that the Income thereby raised for the King hath all in a manner been devoured by those Vermin and the Power so usurped employed for the most part only to secure them in their Evil Practices or to serve them to Tyrannize and Oppress their Fellow-Subjects while the King in the mean time reaped no real Benefit or Advantage at all but lost much in the Affection of the People in the Stability and Strength of his Government in his Honour both with the present Generation and to all Posterity and in the Satisfaction of a good Conscience and for the most part incurred other Mischiefs besides by the Special Judgments of God upon him for his Abuse or Evil Administration of so great a Charge So that upon a true account it is most certain that there is not a worse sort of Men in any State and more pernicious to Princes themselves than these and that the Crimes of Thieves Robbers and Pyrates are small and pardonable Faults in respect of them They have two Properties which can never be concealed from others that is Covetousness and Ambition but they have a third which Princes ought to be as jealous of as of the most subtile Policies of their professed Enemies and that is Flattery and pretence of Service As it is punishable only in Parliament so that Parliament must be very unfaithful both to King and Country which shall neglect to do it with all Care and Resolution and so much the more by how much the more dissicult it is Nor can any Prince be more unjust to himself and to his Government than to hinder them in it Nor was ever such Justice more necessary than at this time when so extraordinary a Mercy of God as our late Deliverance is like to be frustrated and turned into Confusion by the Wickedness of such Ravenous Beasts as in such a Case as we are now in will not forbear to prey upon the Country poor miserable Ireland especially to prey upon their Fellow-Soldiers and to prey upon the publick Revenue and the King himself to gratifie their Insatiable Ambition and Bruitish Lusts It is a Wickedness that reaches Heaven and will bring down speedy Judgments thence nay will prove such it self and bring Confusion upon King and Parliament both if they do not speedily and severely punish it and redress it I know not a more abominable Wickedness against Man than to add Affliction to the Afflicted to make Advantage of Publick Calamicies and Dangers and to rob Men of the Price of their Blood nor a more Just Glorious and Prudent Action for a Prince than to hang up and make Examples of some of the Greatest Offenders of this kind and squeez the rest as an acceptable Expiation to God and most grateful Satisfaction to Men. I shall conclude with a brief Abstract concerning such Creatures in former times taken out of The Lord Chief Justice Coke 's Chapter Of Flattery in his Pleas of the Crown ch 99. THE Flattering mouth worketh ruine Prov. 26.28 and more Kings and Kingdoms have béen overthrown by the means of Flattery than by Publick Hostility Rex caecus cernit cum Sycophanta perit What Fearful Ends Flattering Favourites Corrupters of their Sovereign Liege Lord abusing their Favours in Subversion of their Laws have had appeareth in our Parliament Rolls Records and Histories