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[The bleeding Iphigenia or An excellent preface of a work unfinished, published by the authors frind, [sic] with the reasons of publishing it.]
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French, Nicholas, 1604-1678.
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all submission and sincerity is this That your Majesty hath great cause to feare the heavy Iudgments God for soe many thousands of Wedow's and Orphans perrishing for want in the view of the world by that fatall sentence called the Bill of Settlement Iob tells us God hath and doth somtyme punnish Kings Balteum Regum dissoluit cinget fune renes eorum Hee Looseth the Belt of Kings and girdeth theire reynes with a cord Hee Loosed the Belt from your Fathers side and girded his Reynes with a cord of sore affliction and yet hee was esteemed a sober just chast King God is a God of Iustice holding an Iron Rod in his hand stretched over the heads of all Kings Emperours and Popes and tells them Potentes Potenter tormenta patientur Ezechias the holy King when the Prophet told him hee should dy turning his face to the Temple said Quis est qui sic humiliat sublimes reges terrae Examen my Soveraigne and ponderwell the words of that good King and how hee was frighted hearing from the Prophet that hee should dy Dy you must great King when that shall be God alone knowes Et post mortem sequiter Iuditium Those men that abused your Authority on Earth will make noe answer for you your selfe must before that Tribunall receive as the meanest of your subjects according to what you have done in this life Many men use to speak to Kings Omnia placentia But those will be found in the end flatterers and false Prophets I speake to your Majesty as a Priest of God should speak naked truth sic liberavi animam meam Your Majesty will doe well to sitt downe and deeply Meditate upon this weighty poynt and theme of eternall Damnation or salvation Having exposed to my Soveraigne our calamity's ruine and miserys and offered humble prayers for ease and mercy I now turne my speech to you my most deare and honourable Countrimen for your sake I have spoken noe way minding redress for what I my selve have lost which was somthing If Iustice shall be don you and cause of joy come from the Kings good pleasure and determination prays God and the King for that Happiness and pray to God for his long and prosperous Raigne But if this shall not be done God permitting things to goe on as they doe either for punnishing ours and our Fathers sinns or for trying our patience in this world Let his holy Name be ever blessed beare patiently your poverty and you shall finde poverty a great blessing S. Iohn Chrisostome compares it with Martyrdome Egestas saith the Saint bene tollerata facit Martirium I doe not think there can hardly be any found in the world that have come to a greater distress and poverty then that you endure suffer all willingly for God's sake and you are sure of a Crowne minde often that excellent sentence of S. Augustin Saeculi homines infaeliciter faelices sunt Martyres autem faeliciter infaelices erat The men of this world are unhappily happy but the Martyrs have been happily unhappy This is your case or very like it soe as in your nakedness your are happier then those that have all that was yours living in pleasurs and plenty Let this alsoe be some comfort to you that you have but lost those things you could not long hould nor shall the present possessors long enjoy them Though they think theire fortuns in that Land surely settled they are but Pilgrims in the way as you are and must part as you shall and with more greef and feare for having more then you have and then they shall know and feel Gods Iudgment for what they have done to you In all your afflictions I shall pray and conjure you to demean your selves like good Christians paying faithfully to God his due and to the King his to the King Fidelity and Obedience in Civilibus and that for Conscience sake to God Veneration and highest Worship which can not be performed without professing a true Rcligion the same you are of wherfore let noe wordly preferments or comodity's that men can conferr on you nor punishments they can inflict shake your Religion but hould the same constantly in all tempests and stormes for of it depends eternall salvation And to speak at the present tyme of your great afflictions imitate I pray you the three Isralites cast into the furnase of Babilon and you shall finde as they did an Angell to comfort you They in the fyre blessed the name of God when Azarias standing in the flame said Blessed art thou O Lord the God of our Fathers and laudable and glorious is thy Name for ever because thou art just in all things which thou hast don to us and all thy works are true and thy ways righteous and thy Iudgments true for wee have sinned and done unjustly revolting from thee and and now wee follow in all our harts and feare thee and seek thy face confound us not but doe with us according thy meekness and according to the multitude of thy mercy deliver us in thy mervells and give glory to thy name O Lord. None of you have suffered soe much as innocent Iob set him before your Eyes invironed with the messingers of all his disasters One of them said to him The Sabeanâ— tooke away the Oxes and Asses and kill'd thy servants A nother said a fyre from heaven struck thy sheep and thy servants and consum'd them all The third The Chaldeans made three troups and invaded the Cammels The last told him A vehement winde came from the Country of the desert and shook the foure Corners of the House wherin thy Children were feasting and falling oppressed them and they are all dead Iob hearing all this sad newes blamed not the Sabeans Chaldeans fire from heaven or winde coming from the Country of the Desert nor did soe much as mention them But hee rose up and faling on the ground adored and said Naked I came out of my Mothers Wombe and naked shall I returne thither our Lord gave our Lord hath taken away as it pleased our Lord soe it is done the name of our Lord he blessed Bless you likewise the the name of our Lord for all that hath befalen you offering all up purely to his holy will One thing my honoured deare Country-men I seriously commend to your pious Considerations the ensuing weighty golden sentence of S. Cyprian Deus unus est saith hee Christus unus est una Ecclesia Cathedra una supra Petrum Domini voce fundata aliud Altare constitui aut sacerdotium novum fieri prater unum Altare unum Sacerdotium non potest Qnisquis alibi collegerit spargit Adulterum est impium est sacrilegum est quodcunque humano furâ—ro Institutitur ut dispositio Divina violetur Let the words of this most holy Bishop and Martyre goe to the hart of every one of you This one God hath created you This one Christ hath redeemed you This one Church hath baptized you and imbued you with the Elements of faith and Christian Rules of living well This one and holy Chaire of Peter hath governed you and all the Christian world in verity and sanctity all a long from the Apostles tyme. There is but one Altar and one Priesthood and this only in the Roman Catholick Church hee that gathereth out of this congregation disperseth This Church only hath the keyes of heaven and true Commission to save soules any power on Earth that seeks to pull downe this Altar to Abolish this Priesthood to distroy this Church is Impious Adulterous Prophane and Sacrilegious The holy Doctour gives another Devine Counsell to his people Nemo vos fratres errare a Domini viis faciat Nemo filios Ecciesiae de Ecclesia tollat pereant sibi soli qui perire voluerint That is to say let noe man bring you into error from the pathes of our Lord let none take out of the Church Children of the Church those that have a minde to perrish and be lost let them be lost alone Let Egan a lost dissolaite Fryer that latly fell and this Sall and all such prophane men that will not remaine In Gods House let them perrish alone seeing they will haue it soe doe not you follow theire evill example Impiety and maddness but wisely stay within the Ribbs of the Ark the holy Roman Catholick Church Ad quam teste Cypriano perfidia non habet accessum And out of which great Augustin assures us there is noe hopes of salvation And be constantly and Religiously obedient to the Apostolick Sea and to the man that stands upon the Rock Clement the X. conspicuous for his Zeal and Piety on earth the prime Lord of the House of God with full power to guide and governe all soules in the way of salvation Praying God of his infinit goodness to graunt you in your great afflictions fortitude patience and comfort to his holy Protection I commend hartely you and my selfe this 23th December 1674. Isa Cap. 38 1. Cor. Cap. 10. Apoc. Cap. 12. Dictum S. Ambrosy Isa Cap. 8. Psal 140. Act. Apl. cap. 5. Levit. cap. 19. Isa Cap. â— Ierem. Cap. 6. Ad Rom Cap. 13. Ad Hebr. cap. 11. In Merc. Britanicus * Bos in Lingua Iudae Epist Plato legum 2. lib. Prov. cap. 10. Eccles cap. 21. Exod. cap. 22. S. To. 2a 2ae q. 6. A. 7. De grafys ex cap. significasti desce 36. M. 35 In 2a 2ae q. 40. q. 64. and the interpriters of holy writt in Rom. 13. 3a part lib. 2. cap 1. In 2a 2ae q. 64. a 7. In 2a 2ae q. 40. a 1. dub 2. con 1. Mac. l. 2. cap. 15. 2a 2ae q. 40. a. 1. d. 10 con 1. §§ ad L Aquill L scientiam §§ qui cum aliter Instit Moral P. 3. l. 3. q. 6. q. 6. n. 7. de Iustitia Iure Out of the Narrative of the Earl of Clarindons Settlement and Sale of Ireland Out of Clarendons Settleement and Sale of Ireland pag. 8. Psal 71. Psal nonâ—â—… Iob. cap. 29. Ierem. Threnâ— cap. 5. Malac. cap. 2. Iob. cap. 12. Dan. cap. 3. Iob. cap. 1. S. Cyprianus Epist 40.