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A90972	Tyrants and protectors set forth in their colours. Or, The difference between good and bad magistrates; in several characters, instances and examples of both. / By J.P.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1654 (1654)	Wing P3349; Thomason E738_18; ESTC R203206	41,217	58

dead Sea where presently they dye and know Jordan no more What 's become of those gallant Grandees roaring Roisters with their glittering Gi●ls and mad Mates the wanton Wag●ails of our English Courts who fleared when they should have feared and laughed when they should have lamented how soon are they put out as the fire of thorns Psal. 118. 12. Did not our English Courts swarm with these lustful Locusts almost in all Ages and the chiefest therein commonly chief in these sins Edward the Fourth had his holy Whore as he was used to call her that came out of a Nunnery at his b●ck to satisfie his lust May not large volumes be fil'd with the historical Narrations and that according to truth of the pride gluttony drunkenness wantonness luxury lasciviousness of the Kings and Courts of this Nation in their constant succession one after another until the hand of Vengeance did put a full stop hereunto by that fatal Blow at White-hall Gate 1648. They are extinct dead and buried and I wish such an immoveable stone may be layd upon the mouth of their Sepulchres by our present and successive Governors that they may never rise again that as their names so their sin may rot and consume away and the eyes of this English Nation may never behold such vanity at Court any more where lasciviousness and luxury were accounted meer peccadilloes not worthy repentance or remorse 12. He commonly wades through blood to his bloody Throne and having once scared his conscience by spilling the blood of a Father or Brother to attain the Crown he can eat the flesh and drink the blood of millions of his people to satisfie his lusts without reluctance and judgeth it his right to wrong whom he will Tyrants are men of blood fierce fiery furious spirits cross curst and cruel dispositions the world is fill'd with volumes of their vi●lanies in this kind all Ages and Countries without exception have wofully felt the truth hereof in so much as if men had the use of their mental ears as they have of their corporal the cries of the thousands and ten thousands millions and tens of millions of the slain and murthered by the hands of Tyrants would be so great that they would hardly hear the living for the d●●d The Turkish Spanish Roman French Scottish English Histories are they not stufft and cram'd with innumerable Instances of the cruelty of Tyrants and their pleasure therein No sight pleased Hannibal better then a ditch running over with mans blood Ch●rls the nineth of France Author of that bloody M●ss●cre in France looking upon the dead carkass of the Admiral that stank by long keeping unburied uttered this wretched saying Quam suaviter olet cadaver inimici How sweet is the smell of an enemies carkass And the Queen Mother of Scotland beholding the dead bodies of her Protestant Subjects whom she had slain in Battel said that she never saw a finer piece of Tapistry in all her life To spend time on this were to waste a candle before the Sun Englands Chronicles the Books of Martyrs the late bloody Massacres and Wars in Ireland England Scotland are fresh and bleeding evidences of the bloodiness of Tyrants I shall not here speak of the death of Prince Henry King James the bloody Massacres of the Protestants in Ireland by whose Commissions and Commands how cruelly and deceitfully they have been carried on God hath made inquisition for blood he hath remembered and not forgotten the complaint of the poor he hath cut off Saul and his bloody house according to his word Psal. 55. 23. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days They are cut off before their time their branches shall not be green but shaken off as the unripe Grape from the Vine and cast off as the flower of the Olive Job 15. 32 33. 13. Prerogative Pleaders are his Orthodox Preachers that make his mouth their Oracle his Dictates their Doctrines all Scriptural Precepts of the Subjects duties the only Canonical but the duty of Princes Apocryphal writings Tyrants have their Chaplains according to their Religions who rather preach from their Masters mouths then to their ears and principle the people according to their humors to maintain their Prerogative Hence we shall find in Scripture that wicked Kings had their Priests and Prophets of their own tempers who did always charm the people into base slavery by their base preachings Zeph. 3. 3. When the Princes in Jerusalem were rearing Lions and her Judges evening Wolves her Prophets were treacherous betraying the poor people by their cheating charmings into a stupid ●ordid and silly subjection Wicked Kings Princes Priests and Prophets are chain'd together Jer. 2. 26. they commonly keep one Court and one Councel and as they live together in sin so perish together commonly in punishment Jer. 4 9. You may see how these wicked Priests and Prophets did cling together against Jeremiah who protested against their flatteries and ●alsities Jer. 26. 7 8 10 11. See again their cursed Con●ederacy in doing evil in the sight of the Lord Jer. 32. 32. Ahab had a mind to make War against Ramath Gilead for the enlargement of his Territories he had no sooner signified his royal pleasure herein but his whole Kingdom of Priests and Prophets allarms the people to War and promise them success in the Name of the Lord yea one of them viz. Z●dekiah the son of Chenaanah like an Ape did imitate the custom of the Prophets of the Lord and makes himself Iron horns carries them unto the King as if sent by a very special Commission and tells him Thus saith the Lord With these horns shalt thou push the Syrians until thou hast consum●d them but you know they all told lyes in the Name of the Lord and one Michaiah that spake the truth they buffeted and imprisoned And was it not thus in Englands Courts during the Rule of Tyrants amongst us No sooner had the late King a resolution to war with the Scots his native Countrymen but all the Pulpits from White-hall round the Nation did allarm the people to rise up with him promising them success in the Name of the Lord Were not those wicked Kings Priests and Prophets of the English Nation link'd together as with chains of Adamant in so much that if the one be destroyed the other must fall hence grew that ominous Proverb No Bishop no King which fell out accordingly How hath God destroyed those dens of Lions those Magpyes nests those black Ravens that deceived the people with their rough garments I am no adversary to the lawful Ministry and let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth and my pen drop from my withered right hand rather then I should willingly speak or write against the Lords true Messengers but meer pretenders of the Lords message when they utter only visions of their own hearts are the abomination of my Soul 14. The greatness of his height causeth giddiness in his

justice in a publick manner and himself and accomplices were rendred acceptable spectacles of justice unto the people When Rehoboam shall tread in the steps of his fathers unjust exactions and upon the complaint and petition of his people for their just rights and priviledges he shall refuse to hear them to ease them but tells them I will add to my Fathers yoke he chas●ised you with whips but I will chastise you with Scorpions Ten parts of 12. of his people cast him off made war against him What said they if this be the case that we must be whipt and slasht by this proud Tyrant and at his will and the will of his cursed Courtiers and his green-headed Grandees Away with him what portion have we in this Tyrant To your tents O Israel Arm arm let him now look to himself 1 King 12. from the first to the twenty one ver. his grave Councellors told him plainly Vers 7. If thou wilt be a Servant unto this people and serve them and speak good words to them treat them kindly they will be thy servants for ever Where you may see i. that the King was made so to be their Servant and not to Lord it over them And secondly That when Kings are Servants to the people the people are th●i● ready and free and willing servants yea vassels unto them Love will compel them But when they perceive that they have no portion in him he shall have as little in them By how much the greater the person is that off●nds by so much the greater is his fault by so much the greater his punishment ought to be And I believe that that late exemplary piece of justice at Whitehall Gate upon the late Tyrant was one of the ●attest richest and most acceptable Sacrifice that hath been offered up unto the most righteous God that loveth righteousness in this Nation before that day And that the zeal of our Judges in executing petty thieves robbers and murtherers at Tyburn was but as the tything of Mint and Cummin in comparison of that great thing of the Law then done 16. His light shall be put out his sparks shall not shine Terrors shall make him afraid on every side his own Counsel shall cast him down his roots shall be dried up beneatlh and above shall his branches be cut off His remembrance shall perish from the Earth and he shall have no name in the Street His triumph is but short and his joy but for a moment though his Excellency mount up unto the Heavens and his Head reaches unto the Clouds yet shall he perish for ever like his own dung he shall flye away as a dream and be chased as a vision of the night the eye which saw him shall see him no more neither shall his place any more behold him Solomon saith That a violent bloody Tyrant shall flee to the pit let no man slay him Prov. 28. 17. Let no man mediate for him lest he pay down as Ahab did life for life people for people 1 King 20. 42. When Tyrants perish the righteous increase Prov. 28. 28. They swarm like B●es in a Sun-shine day When the wicked rise good men skulk and hide their heads as Moses fled from Pharaoh David from Saul Eliah from Ahab Obadiah's Clients from Jezabel Jeremiah from Jehoiakim Joseph and the Child Jesus from Herod c. But wherein they dealproudly God is above them He seeth their day is coming He sits in Heaven and scorneth these scorners The Most High cuts off the Spirit of Princes he is terrible unto these tyrannical Kings of the Earth those scourges of the World God so subdued Senacherib as the Egyptians in memory of it did set up his Statue in the Temple of Vulcan with this inscription Let all that behold me learn to fear God Tyrants shall be sure sooner or later to meet with their match The blood-thirsty man shall not live out half his dayes God will at last appear to their fearful destruction to be glorious in holiness fearful in praises doing wonders of wrath and ruine upon bloody Pharaohs he will tear out those bowels that are fill'd and stuft with the blood of the poor and make inquisition for their blood then will he remember and not forget the complaint of the poor h●e hath fulfill'd his threatnings against Tyrants in our eyes and ●●●ed our Nation from those men of blood that they may fall and fall in all the parts of the world and never rise up again especially in our English Nation That God would melt all Crowns and S●epters of the Potentates of the Earth into a Crown S●epter for the Head and hand of Jesus Christ putting all Pow●rs and Authorities under his feet making our Government peace and Exactors Righteousness that violence be no more heard of in our Land nor desolation nor destruction within ou● Borders Let all the people CRI IN HOPE AMEN A Protector OR Homo Homini Deus JUst Government is Gods Ordinance for mans good the form thereof mans appointment with Gods approbation the end thereof mans felicity and Gods glory and a just Governor is a Protector of both The Institution of Government is of God the Constitution of man the Governors themselves of both viz. Gods permission and mans election JVST GOVERNMENT IS GODS ORDINANCE The Powers that be are ordained of God Rom. 13. 1. Mans sin was the cause of his subjection to all mortals but Gods mercy did institute the same to preserve him from ruine by his own wickedness had not man sinned there had been a prior●ty but not a soveraignty there had been a reverence in the child to the father as the instrument of his production but no subjection because no justiciating power had been stablished there being no need of it the eternal Law written in every mans heart would have been every mans guide had it not been for sin sin ushered in subjection as a curse at the heels of it Gen. 3. 16. Thy desire shall be to thy husband he shall rule over thee her disobedience expos'd her to subjection by Gods Ordinance Soveraignty and subjection are Gods appointment FOR MANS GOOD He is the minister of God to thee for good Rom. 134 Sociableness or appetitus convivendi is the impress of Nature and the reason thereof mutual preservation and accommodation which cannot be without Government Sin hath brought sorrow upon the world Sin entered into the world in the van of a black and bloody Regiment sorrows pains aches hunger thir●t shame c. with death through sin in the rear Conscience of guilt brings fear of death hence one end of society is preservation and because men need security from misery and ruine by one another therefore hath God appointed Government and Governors among themselves for the good of all the form of which Government is le●t by God to their own discretion who hath only confin'd them within the limits of this general rule His GLORY and THEIR FELICITY Forms