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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43095	Killing is murder, and no murder, or, An exercitation concerning a scurrilous pamphlet of one William Allen, a Jesuitical impostor, intituled, Killing no murder wherein His Highness honor is vindicated and Allens impostors discovered : and wherein the true grounds of government are stated, and his fallacious principles detected and rejected : as also his calumnious scoffs are perstringed and cramb'd down his own throat / by Mich. Hawke, of the Middle-Temple, Gentl.	Hawke, Michael.	1657 (1657)	Wing H1171; ESTC R12455	71,020	66

is nihil ad rhombum for his Highness since his power hath maintained the Estate of the Church and advanced Learning though it may be not in that Superstitious kind this Impostor would have him The thirtenth Character is They pretend inspirations from God and responses from Oracles to Authorize what they do but how doth he apply this His Highness saith he hath ever been an Enthusiast as if it were Enthusiasme for him to believe and avouch his power to be of God and of Christ himself upon whose Shoulders the Government is layed and not to attribute the contrivance and Production of this mighty Work to himself or any other person and not to judge of Gods Revolutions as the products of mens Inventions and if this be Enthusiasm then all our precedent Kings and Princes have been Enthusiast's who by their Title Dei gratia professe to have received and held their Scepter of none but God and that their power dimaned immediately from him as the first cause and mediately by second causes from him also as before hath been asserted or that if were Enthusiasm to pray and beleeve and to receive returns from God or to be spoken unto by the Spirit of God who though he speaks with the written word sometimes yet according to that of Job God speaketh once yea twice for though God doth not speak to men in these dayes by Revelations or by the voice of a Prophet yet speaketh he by the secret operation of the Spirit though it doth not visibly appear to us as it is said in the same place of Job Job 33.14 God speaketh once yea twice yet man perceiveth it not and that by prayer we may obtain the returns and comfort of the Spirit is clear by the simile of our Saviour If ye then saith he being evil know how to give good gifts to your Children how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him whosoever therefore doth exclude the Spirit Luke 11.13 without whose concurrence or teaching all ordinances are ineffectual is like to the Disciples of John who had not so much as heard whether there was an Holy Spirit by which as the Apostle saith Acts 19.2 1 Corinth 12.13 we are all baptized into one Spirit and made to drink into the same Spirit and have one and the same Spirit with the Apostles though in a different measure But Lingua quo vadit his tongue runs at randome and idely blurteth a nonsensical simile And as saith he Hugh Capet in taking the Crown pretended to be admonished to it in a dream by the Instigation of St. Vallery and St. Richard so I believe his Highness will do the same at the Instigation of St. Henry and St. Richard his two sonnes A meer bull a nominal conceit without sense or reason for what correspondence hath my Lord Richard with St. Richard or my Lord Henry with St. Vallery they being no such superstitions Saints and dreaming Spirits But what if his Highness at the Instigation of my Lord Henry and my Lord Richard should have taken the Crown which this Impostor did but dream of he had taken no more then he hath merited and he were worse then an Infidel if he should not provide for his own and especially for these of his own houshold And my Lord Henry and my Lord Richard may be St. Pauls Saints that is Holy men if they follow his Doctrine by Faith in Christ and works of Salvation The fourteenth Character is Arist Pol. 5. c. 11. they love God and Religion and in this doth he also rack Aristotles words from the sense for his meaning is that if a Tyrant will prolong his power he most imitate a good pious Prince which he preposterously calleth Artem Tyrannorum potissimam the best Art of Tyrants for piety and justice are the two pillars of a principality otherwise by this Character David a man after Gods own heart might be a Tyrant and Numa Pompilius also who was the Founder of Religion among the Romans and for his piety advanced to that Royalty as his Highness likewise partly was to this supream Magistracy for protecting and cleansing true Religion of its superstitions And indeed as he saith His Arms were Pious Arms and conquered most by those of the Church Prayers and Tears for his Prayers and Tears prevailed more with God then his Arms and Force with Men and that as he also saith Godliness hath bin great gain to him for which the Lord hath honoured him with a Temporal principality as in all probability he will with his Heavenly Kingdom Thus are this Impostors prophane Scoffs against his Highness piously inverted to his honor who not onely as he likewise saith Romanlike but Brittainlike being a Prince and Priest for by our Law also Rex est persona mixta cum Sacerdote hath and doth as a Prince protect our Temporal Estates And as a Priest preserve the Tythes-offrings duties of the Church and not cost us all as he maliciously slandereth him No other marks of a Tyrant can be found in Aristotle Plato and his familiar Machiavel saith He which are suitable to his Highness but those two as he conceiveth The first to use Aristotles own words which he commonly changeth and wresteth to his own conce it is that he would not have him impulst with anger to fight and strike for as Heraclitus it is a difficult matter to resist anger which may cost ones life Arist Pol. l. 5. c. 16. which is also a precept for a Prince by the practice of which a Tyrant may the longer subsist For as St. Ambrose saith Dum justo amplius irascimur volumus aliena corrigere peccata graviora committimus when we are angry above measure and would restraine and represse offences Ambros de Sancto Josepho wee commit greater And therefore Theodosius after the furious slaughter of the Thessalonians ordained that Sentences of Princes should be deferred for thirty dayes from execution yet Aristotle saith in another place Arist 9. c. 8. Anger is a virtue in a Valiant man and spurs him on to dangerous attempts Vires injicit ira and by consequence in a General and Prince And therefore as Solomon saith We ought not to provoke a King to anger because the anger of a King is like the roaring of a Lyon Prov. 20.2 And therefore as this Impostor saith seeing his Highness is naturally cholerick and will call men Rogues and go to Cuffs let him beware he falls not into his Highness clutches least he handle him like a Rogue and serve gim as Agamemnon did Thersites a bawling Captain of the Grecians who for his impudent railing slew him with a cuff of his fist And the last is that a Tyrant should not be really good nor absolutely bad but half one and half toother but herein also he falfieth Aristotle Arist 15. c 11. whose words are that he so fashion himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉