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lord_n	king_n	people_n	power_n	15,452	5	5.2145	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87134	A parallel of the spirit of the people, with the spirit of Mr. Rogers. And an appeal thereupon unto the reader, whether the spirit of the people, or the spirit of men like Mr. Rogers, be the sitter to be trusted with the government. By James Harrington.	Harrington, James, 1611-1677.	1659 (1659)	Wing H817; Thomason E770_3; ESTC R207274	5,335	8

A PARALLEL OF The SPIRIT of the PEOPLE WITH The SPIRIT of Mr. Rogers AND An Appeal thereupon Unto the READER Whether the Spirit of the People or the Spirit of Men like Mr. Rogers be the fitter to be trusted with the Government By James Harrington LONDON Printed by J. C. for Henry Fletcher at the signe of the three Gilt Cups in St. Pauls Church-yard A Parallel c. MR. Rogers first Character of himself is that he is one through grace kept under many sufferings a faithful servant to Jesus Christ his Cause and the Common-wealth The Character that by men of his judgement is but too often given of the People is that they are profane wretches haters of the godly or of a persecuting spirit Whereas if the Jayls be looked into under any Commonwealth that is Popular the most of the prisoners will be found to be in for matter of Crime few for Debt and none at all for Conscience the contrary whereof is known in other Governments And this is matter of fact whereof every man that doth not like Mr. Rogers give his spirit wholly unto Passion and never think himself bound either to give or take any one Reason or Example is a competent Judge But men skill'd in common conversation know that if the People be offended by a man upon whom they live they are very patient but if they be offended by a man upon whom they do not live they are very apt to fly out and their common expression upon this occasion is What care I for him I can live without him From the common and vulgar expression of this Reason or Truth the whole Spirit of the People even as to matter of Government may be defined which in the definition because there are but too many who in like comparisons boast their Spirit for righteousness godliness and justice above that of the People I shall make bold to parallel with that of Mr. Rogers The Spirit of the People where they live by a King will obey a King very faithfully Mr. Rogers is not for a King upon any terms whatsoever The People where they subsist by Lords are always faithful unto their Lords and where they are under the power of a few by whom they subsist not never desist from shaking that yoke The spirit of Mr. Rogers is not for the Government of Lords or such as might pretend any such reason of their Government but for the Government of a Few that cannot pretend any such reason of their Government which therefore can have no justice nor bottom A people that can live of themselves neither care for King nor Lords except through the meer want of inventing a more proper way of Government which till they have found they can never be quiet wherefore to help a people at this streight is both the greatest charity to our neighbour and the greatest service that a man can do unto his Country The spirit of Mr. Rogers is not onely to have a people that can live of themselves to be governed by none other but such as himself but throwing away all modesty is a professed enemy to any man that at such a streight shall fairly offer a charity to the people or a service unto his Country Whether he be wronged thus far I leave unto the Reader in what follows where what the sense is we must guess but the words are certainly Mr. Rogers He takes me up after having handled Mr Baxter like himself in this manner But in the winding up of our discourse I am surprised or way-laid with Mr. Harrington's correspondence with Mr. Baxter against an Oligarchy I wish he had been as much against Anarchy or Atheism if he means by it the Parliament or such a Parliament or the body of adherents to the Cause as one of them I believe he must and some say all wherein Mr. Baxter and he agree But when he tells us his meaning without mumping and scoffing which we must understand before we reply he may hear further I ever understood and explained Oligarchy without mumping or scoffing to be the reign of the few or of a party excluding the main body of the people yet saith he From their old Mumpsibus and his new Sumpsibus good Lord deliver me He should be fined 5 l. By the new Sumpsimus he intimates that he means the Government by a Senate and by the People and the reason why he deprecates this by his Letany is that most undoubtedly it must bring in a Single Person This consequence he pursueth with much Greek in which you shall see how well he understandeth that Language or indeed any ancient Commonwealth or Author His first Greek Quotation as you may finde at length in his 72. page importeth that in Lacedemon no man stood up by the way of Honour but to a King or to an Ephore This without mumping or scoffing he Englisheth thus None stood or were raised up meaning in the Commonwealth of Lacedemon but a King and the Ephore whence he infers That a single Person had an Executive Power there Then out of Heraclides he sets down a Text which shews that the Thesmothetae in Athens were sworn not to take Bribes or if they did were to pay a Statue of Gold to Apollo and this he Englisheth thus The The smothets were not to take Bribes nor to set up the golden Image which he understands of a King and finding a King-Priest in that Commonwealth as in ours there is a King-Herald he concludes that they did set up a King and so that the Senate and the People is a Government inclining to set up a single Person Nor is there much of his Quotations out of antient Authors that is less mistaken and it may be out of Scripture You shall have but one piece more of him which is concerning Rotation of this saith he Whether this way be not of any the most liable to an Ostracisme let any judge by discouraging laying aside or driving out of the Land the most publickly spirited Worthies that are in it Men of the greatest Ability Gallantry and Fidelity by which means a many brave Governments have been utterly destroyed As the Athenians Argives Thebans Rhodians and others It is said in Athens {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} That Hippias plaid the Tyrant and he brought forth the Law of Ostracisme but others were cast into exile by it such as Xantippus Aristides c. Nor can we but fore-see how fast the Wheel of their Rotation would Boult or fling out the best and ablest in the Commonwealth for Bran leaving the worst behind In of all others And yet of this must his Cake be made which after it is baked he would have divided by silly Girls A pretty sport for the Mummers indeed or those nimble-witted House-Wives that with Vice can out-vie the Vertues of the best to learn so lightly the whole mystery of a Commonwealth and most abstruse Intrigues or Cabals of State pag.