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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20838	The practise of princes. Published by A. Ar	Ar., A.	1630 (1630)	STC 722; ESTC S100204	18,364	24

though God religion Prince people state all loose by it which hath filled the Land with many secret murmures and groanes in so much that some who are reckoned wise men have not sticked to infer that there is no likelihood that God shoult ever give a blessing to such mens counsailes as have either assisted the Duke and his faction in theire projects of betraing the Palatinate the French Protestants and the religious indeauours of Parliament men and other good Subjects or connived at these vile practises and so justified him and his confederates for say they such counsellours as could not see these practises which every mechanical fellow and very ploughmen perceived beeing so many so frequent and so apparant they are blind guides unfit to be about Kings and such say they as percived them and did not lay themselves and theire fortunes downe at the Kings feete to shew him the trechery and danger but connived to get or keepe preferment they were cowardly and mercinarily base and unfaithfull to God religion theire King countrie and the verie State wherin they were chosen watchmen Where in policie poperie is connived at neutralitie and Arminianisme favoured delinquents borne out and Parliaments for theire sakes dissolved the King must needes have such Servants and them ever false Cum privilegio for if he hearken to them that say that these are good policies to hearkens to lies God saith Of a Prince that hearkens to lies all his servants are vvicked Men that take his word say that therefore as theire roote must needes prove rotten so things can never goe wel with the Christian world much lesse with the religion and state of England till the councell which hath beene so Dukified be in a manner wholy changed they therefore count them fooles who thinke if God should take the King away issules that the injured King and Queene of Bohemia should come to the crowne things must needes mend saying that could not be unles the councell were also changed and made examples to keepe others from the like treacherie and temporising for say they if a King be constant to religion they also can make greate shew of defending religion as the Duke and others d●d thereby to get trust that they may under hand betray it And people say they had the like hopes when King Iames died seeing our King that now is make greate preparations and for ought wee know with sincerity but by the practise of the Duke and his faction retaining all his fathers counsell which for the most part were Hispanolished Frenchified Roman●sed or Newtralised and suffering som worse both spirituall and temporal to be added unto them al those forces weere soone brought to nothing things are growne a greate deale worse and to the greater greife of all goodnes and good men without Gods speciall mercie remediles seeing that a king who only heares and sees things in such mens reports can not know the truth and that no man dares speak for a free Parliament that may sift it out much lesse for an effectuall reformation for as Wisdom saith of such potent counsellours When the vvicked rise up men hide themselves but when they perish the righteous increase A man that hardeneth his neck when he is rebuked shall sodainly be destroied and can not be cured as God manifested in the Duke when the righteous are in authority the people rejoice but when the wicked beareth rule the people sigh Rehoboam was not strengthened by such counsellors but weakened A King and his people are a body politik and the Parliament his representative body Now as in a body if the faculty of the braine in one side be stopped that it can not descend through the sinewes to the senses of moveing in the limbes and members then those parts have the dead palsie and the man becomes as it were halfe dead and as unable to doe any service effectually as our men were at the Palatinate Cales Ree Rochel and in the Parliament howse so is it with the body politick of greate Britain through the practise of som Iesuited Spirits who beeing disguised in the sheepes clothing of a protestant outside gotten into the place of favourits counsellors have cuningly infected many both Bishops and others In whom and by whom the braine for the most part is ill affected and the reciprocall passages betweene the head and the members are stopped so that the right facultie can not descend through the sinewes the peeres Iudges and Bishops to the senses of moveing in the Kings body the Parliament and so his Ma tie giveing no life and strength to that body and the best members thereof nor they meanes to him the whole body is halfe dead so unable to offend adversaries that it can not defend it selfe but must needes perish if those ill humours in the braine of counsell be not by his maiestie purged and removed whereas if he did agree with the Parliament and had a counsell favouring the moveing indeauours of the same he must needes grow dreadfull to them who now hope to see his kingdom by these continued divisions easely conquered witnes the Popes Bull to the present French King given at Rome Septemb. 4. 1626. Now then seeing that it is cleare that in these things the Kings Ma tie himselfe who is ruled and abused by them is not the least sufferer but hath cause to say of them as old Iacob did of Simeon and Levi bretheren in evill Jnto their secret let not my Soule come and that thus divided from his people which under God are his strength he must nedes be in more danger of foraigne enemies forced to treate with them on harder conditions which is one of the secret ends that som of these whisperers had to helpe the Catholike cause at least under a pretext of zeale to the Kings prerogative which zeale they used both as an instrument to worke division and a cloake to cover theire treacherie to our religion and theire secret favour to Rome and her champions what true Subject but wil pray and indeauour that the King may see expell these dangerous counsellors which is the ende of these few collections and reflecting the light of that wisdom on theire practises which saith Blessed is he that shall not be offended in me but wisdom is justified of her children practises so desperatly persisted in that there seenes to be eniuitie jelousie and emulation betweene France and Spaine whether shall by theire meanes hold the continued honour of cousening in the end of conquering us wherein yet I should abhor to be so plaine indeede to medle at all if the many greate and manifest wrōgs done to God religion my King countrie with the extreme danger the three later stand in did not seeme to crie out of silence banking to call to me for plaine dealing what ever it cost me as Isa 1.23 Ezech. 22.27 for 1. What a miserable thing