Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	charles_n	king_n	lewis_n	2,714	5	10.2681	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40765	A Faithful account of the renewed persecution of the churches of Lower Aquitaine in France in the year 1692 to which is prefixed a parallel between the ancient and new persecutors, or the portraicture of Lewis XIV in some of his cruelties and barbarities : with some reflections upon the unreasonable fondness of a certain party amongst us, for the French king.		1692 (1692)	Wing F263; ESTC R31494	23,131	32

a charge such an Army must needs be to the French People for their King having not as yet as ever I heard of found the Philosopher's Stone 't is their Blood and the sweat of their Brows I mean their Money that must maintain this prodigious Number of Soldiers the Tools used for their Slavery and the unconfined Ambition of their Prince The bare List of the Taxes imposed upon them by this present King is enough to make a Volume therefore I must forbear a particular Relation of them but to give you a true Idea of the number and heaviness of those Impositions Let me only observe to you what was the Annual Revenue of Lewis the XIth who sufficiently invaded the Liberties of his People and that of Lewis the XIIIth and afterwards we shall see what that of the present French King amounts to The Annual Revenue of Lewis the XIth was Four millions and Seven hundred thousand Livers but that Sum being found too heavy upon the Nation in his Son King Charles the VIIIth his Reign his Revenue at the desire of the States of Parliament Assembled at Tours was reduced to Two millions five hundred thousand Livers But since that time the Revenues of the Kings of France have prodigiously increased as those Prince's insatiable thirst after the Slavery of their People insomuch that the late King Lewis the XIIIth his Revenue amounted to Five and fifty millions of Livers But that Sum being then thought with a great deal of Reason to be highly exorbitant the French Nation complained very much of the hard usage they received from their King But what would they give now to have such a one since even his Exorbitance was tolerable nay easy and gentle in comparison with that of their present Oppressor For as the world is said to refine every day upon us and much to exceed the Ancient so this French King finding such a Sum too little for his vast Projects and Designs hath through a most transcendent refinedness in Politicks contrived a thousand ways to drain his Peoples Purses and hath attained to such a singular and masterly perfection in this Art that now his Annual Revenue according to the state of the Royal Treasures Amounts to near a Hundred and fifty millions And if we take into consideration this prodigious Sum together with what comes to the Clergy we shall not be surprized at the miserable condition of the French Nation especially in this time of War for want of Trade 3. I hope the French King is very like to the Persecutors of Lactantius as to the two preceding Characters Let us see now if he comes short of them in the Third viz. In want of Courage or at least in shewing more care than is decent to preserve himself from all danger I must confess the Parallel is not very exact in this particular for this French King goes beyond them all in Baseness and downright Cowardice I read in the Roman History that Dioclesian though Vicious and a Persecutor shewed nevertheless some Courage in a Battel against Carinus his Competitor and in reducing Aquileus one of his Generals who had caused himself to be Proclaimed Emperor in in Egypt That Maximian sirnamed the Herculian has been present in several Battels and Rencounters and that Galerius Maximian routed Narseus King of the Persians in a Bloody Battel in Armenia And yet notwithstanding those Actions if they have been taxed with Baseness and Pusillanimity by Lactantius and other Writers What must we say of the French King He that never had the Courage to Command his Army in a day of Battel and who has never Besieged any Town till after he had made the Bargain sure for it 4. I have said That the Primitive Persecutors were so weak as to be fondly pleased with the most excessive flatteries could be made them and assumed undeservedly the most Glorious Titles even some to Blasphemy it self And I am to prove in this place that the French King will by no means be inferior to them in this point no more than in the former He has assumed the Title of Great which never man before him did in his own life time he has taken the Sun for his Emblem with this proud Motto nec pluribus impar to signify that he is the Phaeniz of the world and truly he is in the right on 't not however in his opinion but only in mine For I steadfastly believe there is not a man in the world that can equal him in so many bad qualities He has suffered his Statue to be set up in publick Places and to be harangued by Academies and Corps de ville which is their Common Council and to be represented as Lording it over the Earth and the Sea But the most Blasphemous of all is that of the place called des Victoirs where one may see him crowned by Victory trampling Heresy under his feet and the Four Parts of the Earth represented by Four Slaves chained to the Pedastal with this impious Motto VIRO IMMORTALI the Immortal Man This has been thought so Blasphemous even to Father Menestrier tho a most egregious Flatterer himself that in his History of this French King by the Medals he has been ashamed to relate this Motto in the description he gives of that place I could quote a Thousand other instances of this nature but I must forbear for fear of being too tedious However I hope the Reader will not take it amis if I shew him how Monsieur Pelisson one of the Academy of Paris speaks of his Master in a Panegyrick pronounced by him and which is Printed in the last Edition of the Transactions of that Academy Antiquity says he had a great and noble reward in store for Heroes viz. their Apotheosis or Translation of them into the number of the Gods At the Funeral of one of the greatest of their Emperors there was one of the Patrician Family who Swore That he saw the Emperors Soul fly up to Heaven in a most splendid Triumph The same Ancients imagined That the Souls or Genii of these Heroes did oversee and influence the great Actions here below and were of the swiftest agility in going about this their charge But sure I am if ever any Prince deserved such an Apotheosis or Translation into the Number of the Gods our Invincible and August Monarch merits it in a transcendent degree all his actions are Godlike and his influence on the whole Affairs of Europe are so universal that he seems to participate of the Nature and Power of that Universal Intelligence that rules all sublunary things Such expressions are certainly impious but yet they are very modest in comparison of these which follow a little after in the same Panegyrick If these Pagans who fondly would have sacrificed to the Two Apostles and said of them the Gods are come down among us had been the eye witnesses of the mighty Actions of Lewis le Grand which contain so many Lineaments of