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Prince-protecting providences, or, A collection of some historical passages relating how several princes and personages (born for great actions) have had miraculous preservations : made publick upon occasion of the late memorable (and miraculous) deliverance of His Royal Highness, James Duke of York.
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Gibbon, John, 1629-1718.
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Prince-Protecting PROVIDENCES OR A COLLECTION OF SOME Historical Passages Relating how Several Princes and Personages Born for Great Actions have had Miraculous Preservations Made Publick upon Occasion of the late Memorable and Miraculous Deliverance of His Royal Highness JAMES Duke of York Numb 23. 23. Non est Incantatio non est Divinatio contra Jacobum Prov. 21. 30. Non est Concilium contra Dominum And first Some out of Sacred Writ JOseph's Brethren conspire his Death Reuben of all the rest is against the Bloody Cruelty but advises to put him into a Pit as a means either to be starved or devoured by some Evil Beast Judah afterward advises to sell him to the Midianitish Merchants and They carry him into Aegypt and sell him to Potiphar the King's Steward Being in his Service he has an unjust Accusation framed against him by his Mistriss He is imprison'd and in Prison Expounding the Chief Butler and Baker's Dream he is after made known to the King and Expounding his Dream also is made sole Govenour over all Aegypt So to save not only the Aegyptians from starving but also his Father and unnatural Brethren Moses when Born is hid Three Months then exposed in a little Ark upon the River Nile Pharoah's Daughter spies him causes him to be taken up and Nursed as her Son Heb. 11. â— As a Presage of his future being a Prince and good Justicier he kills the injuring Aegyptian for which Pharaoh seeks to slay him He flies to Midian Marries the Priest or Princes Daughter God appears to him induing him with a Spirit working Wonders makes him the General Conductor of the Children of Israel through the Red-Sea a miraculous Passage and afterwards institutes him their Governour David is deliver'd from the Paws of the Lyon and Bear from the Sword of Goliah and after of other Philistines from Saul's Javelin and his Lyings in wait and continued Persecutions from the Envy of the Philistine Lords from all these to fight the Lord's Battels and be King of Israel at the appointed Time Athaliah puts to Death all the King's Sons except Joash for his Aunt takes him and hides him Six Years in great Privacy the Seventh Year the People rise unanimously slay Athaliah Crown Joash King This was that good Prince that Repaired the Temple and did that which was Good in the Sight of the Lord 2 King Chap. 11. Chap. 12. Paul Ordained to be the great Doctor of the Gentiles and to die a Martyr for the Truth at Rome the Mistress of the World is miraculously Converted and as miraculously often-times Preserved Act. 9. a Conspiracy being to Kill him his Friends let him down over the Wall in a Basket Act. 14. is stoned and supposed to be dead Chap. 16. whipped and imprisoned with a succeeding Miracle Chap. 18. accused by the Jews excused by Gallio Chap. 19. escapeth the Sedition raised against him by Demetrius Chap. 23. delivered by the Chief Captain from a Conspiracy of Forty Chap. 27. escapes Shipwrack and lastly arrives at Rome which was his Terminus ad Quem to Receive the Crown of Martyrdom Josephus tells us The Divine Protection appear'd in Titus the Son of Vespasian destin'd to ruin Jerusalem and subdue the Jews before he besieged the City he went about to discover and fell into an Ambuscado of his Enemies At which time if ever it was known God disposeth of the Moments of War and Lives of Princes He had neither Helmet on his Head nor Armour on his Body because he went not to Fight but to discover of an infinite Number of Arrows that were shot at him not one lighted on him but fell beside him or at his Horses Feet though the Jews encouraging one another Sallyed out charging and re-charging him which way soever he turned Suetonius tells us That Augustus Caesar escaped a Great Danger for one of the Chief Men among the Gauls confessed to some of his Friends That he had fully resolved to make as if he would have parlied with Augustus in his Passage over the Alpes and that at his coming within him he would have thrown him down but the Amiableness and Majesty of the Emperour deter'd him in the very moment Valerius Maximus lib. 9. chap. 11. maketh mention of such another Treason intended against this great Prince which was likewise frustrated Gabriel Fondulo Lord of Cremona confessed before his Death That he had once resolved with himself to throw down head-long from the High Tower of Cremona the Emperor Sigismond who was gone up thither to see the City and Country thereabouts But at the very Juncture and Moment his Conscience was affrighted Historia Italica All Historians say He was a most excellent Prince He it was that to cure the great Schism in the Papacy procured the General Council of Constance The Famous Emperour Charles the Fifth born for Great Actions escaped just such a Designe of being thrown from the Top of the Temple of Pantheon in Rome by a certain malevolent Italian but his Heart failed him in the Nick of Time Camerarius Henry the Third Emperour a Famous Prince and a Manager of great Wars was Entertained and Lodged very sumptuously by the Countess Richilda and as she was making a Request to the Emperour and he reaching his Hand to her in token of Appeal the Chamber-Floor suddenly brake under them the Emperour fell into a Bathing-Vessel that was in the Room underneath and had no Harm But Bruno Bishop of Virtsbourgh Alemannus Bishop of Eversbourgh and the Countess were so bruised they died in few days Aventinus Frederick the First Emperour being in St. Peter's Cloyster in Erford had Occasion to go the Privy some of Quality accompanying suddenly the Floor sunk and the Emperour had miscarry'd if he had not suddenly taken hold of the Grates of a Window where he hung till some came and relieved him Some Gentlemen fell to the Bottom and perished among others Henry Earl of Swartzenbourgh who carryed the Presage of his Death in a common Imprecation which was this If I do it not let me die in a Privy This was that Famous Emperour stiled Barbarossa recommended to the States by his Predecessor Conrade famous for his Wars in Italy Sicily and Armenia and who also ' scaped a great Danger accompanied only with one Servant for a desperate Fellow of a sudden rushing upon him out of an Ambuscado close by a River endeavoured to cast him in but not prevailing leapt himself into the River and swam away Albertus Crantzius Henry the Fourth Emperour This famous Prince was fain to put his Hand to the Sword at Fourteen years of Age and fought Sixty-two Battels ere he laid down Aventine writes of him he escaped a great Danger near to Spire for having been by the Plotting of Hanno Arch-Bishop of Collen brought into a sumptuous Boat trimmed and provided to carry him away Prisoner misdoubting that some ill Turn was meant him he cast himself into the Rhine where he had been drowned but
for his Devise a Swan treading under his Feet and biting an Eagle with these words Inculpata tutela And agrees with what Aristotle asserts by me before mention'd concerning the Bravery of this Bird. The Genealogick History of France recites Two Epitaphs for their Magnanimous King and mentions another made by the Famous Italian Poet Sannazara greatly to his Commendation And such as these were the Princes of the SWAN There was an Order of Knight-hood of the Swan in Cleveland as sayes Favine who also affirms the Princes of that House have ever borne that beautiful and generous Bird for their Devise Crest and Supporters Richard de Vassebourgh in his Antiquities of Belgia makes mention of the Antient Knights of the Swan instituted by one Silvius Brabon of whom as some hold Brabant took the Name giving them this Bird for an Hieroglyphick of the Love and Concord he would have among 'em Amoris unionis Symbolum c. I need make but little Comment upon what hath been said I have hinted before the generous Nature of the Swan being like that of the Heroick Lyon and he cannot but be the Duke's Bird. My Advice is Desistant Ranae torvum irritare Leonem The Lyon is by Nature kind though bold If that the Beasts themselves in duty hold Cygnus de Corde Benignus Ovid lib. 2. tells us That Cycnus King of Liguria grieving for his Kinsman Phaeton was turned into a Swan a Royal Bird then And he describes his Nature thus Stagna petit patulosque lacus ignemq perosus Quae colat elegit contraria flumina flammis Rivers and spreading Lakes are his Delight Which are to Flames and Fires quite opposite This Great Duke hath been Lord High Admiral of Arragon and also of England Maximus Marinus Maria petens hath had great Command upon the vast Lake of the World viz. the Sea He hath been Immensi * Ashm p. 119. Tremor Oceani as Sir Tho. Higgens in his Excellent Ode which henceforth I shall call Swan-Song imitating Leland And as to that damned Reflexion impos'd upon the World by a late Knave Septemb 5. 1679. Romes Packet this Poet by a Divine Praevious Inspiration long since hath foretold the contrary And the Divine Providence will in due time as in the Case of Joseph and Susanna confound the Faces of impudent and seditious Detractors A later Motto of King Charles of Blessed Memory as upon His Royal Pourtraicture in his Book and in several Churches may appear was Clarior e Tenebris Even so his most Illustrious Son e tenebrosis Calumniarum Cimmeriis clarissimus purissimus ac Columba innocentissimus ad instar Cycni candidissimus olim orietur Out of the black and dark Sullies of ignominious Calumniations he shall arise clear as the Sun innocent as the Dove white as the candid Swan In my Flagellum Mercurii Antiducalis I mention'd the evil Spirit that we read of Judges 9. And I now add His Royal Highness's condition at present is like the Kingly David's so much celebrated by the excellent Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi 1 Sam. chap. 30. vers 6 The People c. But he comforts himself in the Lord his God Acquiescat videbit salutem Domini Isa 52. 10. According to the Reverse and Anagram of His Title Yorc being Croy in French id est Credo I believe c. Flebile principium melior fortuna sequetur Ovib. lib. 7. sab 10. Since I had finisht this I heard of the Artillery's Solemn and Cordial invitation to His Royal Highness to congratulate his happy Return The Duke was usherd into the World with Medals intimating the very Circumstance Mille Cohortes see Mr. Sandford p. 562. Neither am I now such an impertinent Wizzard as Rome's Packet September 5. 1679. would make me for I averr'd the Duke's Return would be accompanied with Joy and Feasting And it seems the Artillery Cohort begins it â—reat Duke Thee safely home return'd we see Feastings and gladsome Healths intended be The Military Band make first their fair Address The Senators and Citizens must do no less Their Swans have shewn them what they ought to do They are Apollo's Birds their * Lore an Old English Word and Signifies Instruction Advice or Document Lore is true In my Fatality I would have mention'd the good Omen of the Medal and Motto for I have it in my Notes but I was afraid the capricious malicious Anti-Monarchical Crew would have made malevolent Reflexions upon it as tending to a standing Army and Gladiatory Government But Providentially this Auspicious Invitation intervening I become bold and daring to Publish it And so much for the Welcome SWANS P. 72. of the Weekly Packet or Advice from Rome Printed 1679. There 's a scurrilous Reflection made upon the Day-Fatality and Blaspheming His Royal Highness viz. In the mean time let that impertinent Wizzard read and apply 1 Kings 22. 22 23 Verses The Author of the said Fatality replyed I shall then and not before prove an impertinent Coxcombe when such as you come to have the Rule of That Providence that attends His Royal Highness and will then apply to my self your 1 Kings c. See The Touch of the Times Now what Providence that is that attends His Royal Highness can by no means be better understood but by his late Miraculous Deliverance and since that His and His Dutchess safe Arrival and by Sea too His Highness no what dismay'd by the former peril At contra audentior 〈◊〉 Confisusque Deo Scit quod sibi militat Aequor Et Conjurati Veniunt ad Classica Venti But on He Bravely goes He trusts in God who makes the Sea His Friend And Winds Conduct Him to His Journey 's End Page the Seventh fore-going I have spoken something of the Dove but was very short as to that Blessed Bird But forasmuch as very many took notice That at His now MAJESTY's Proclamation at the very instant when it was performed at the Royal Exchange a great number of 'um were there flocked together I cannot omit what Jacobus Capellanus quoted by Ferne pag. 236. says of it viz. 'T is the Emblem of Gratitude Nor be silent in what Monsieur Segoigne in his Traitte des Armoiries pag. 39. averrs Says he C ' est l' Image de l' Humanite Douceur The Image of Courtesie and Sweetness As for the Gratitude and Courtesie of His Majesty He was always highly commended for it whil'st yet only DUKE What may we expect of Him now a KING less than what Caelius Lib. 7. says of Alexander the Great and Panormitane of Alphonsus King of Arragon and Sicily A nemine unquam Gratitudine Officioâ—se vinci passus est He never suffer'd himself to be out-done in Gratitude and Good Turns Panorm l. 1. de dictis factis Alphonsi Luckily Presag'd by this Columbal Concourse or Flocking together of Doves But He must be used like the Herb Basill of which Heylyn tells you a notable Story in his Description of Genoa and I have Moraliz'd in the First English Distich of the Page preceding FINIS