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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 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

the Instruments of slavery and establishers of Tyranny as he saith but the Restorers of our Liberty and Instruments of Justice No-other Parliament I know of but that it did continue out the fixt period of time according to the first Institution And as concerning their engagements the Parliament being justly dissolved the engagements concerning the Priviledges of the same are also justly dissolved for all promissory Oaths as engagements are but Political ties grounded upon Political considerations for Politique ends and binde no longer then the particular Politei and State standeth for as the Civilians distinguish in such Oaths Tholosa Syntag 49. c. 4. apposita clausula censeatur promissionem valere rebus sic ut tunc erant extantibus in eodem statu permanentibus an annexed clause or condition is to be supposed that promise to be of force things standing as they then were and remaining in the same State so as if that State be changed and ended such engagements as reflect on it are determined which distinction this Impostor might have learned of his Master Suares Suares resp ad apologiam projure fidelit 409. Quod sublata materia Juramenti consequenter obligationem auferri necesse est that the matter of the Oath being taken away by consequence the Obligation of necessity must be taken away as if a King saith he be deposed he ceaseth to be a King and in that respect no obedience is due unto him and forthwith the Oath doth not binde à fortiori if the Government be determined and the matter of the Oath dissolved the Obligation of the Oath is ipso facto exstinct for as Master Askham possession is the great condition for our obedience and allegiance how unjustly therefore doth this Impostor call these distinctions prevarications to piece up contrary Oaths which are grounded on approved Authority and his own Masters opinion The other reason on which he groundeth his seditious desgne is that the Officers and Souldiers of the Army are employed to force Elections that is as may be conceived to seculde such as are turbulent and factious from being Elected and admitted members of Parliament wherein we are to distinguish between a quiet and setled State and a Commonwealth which is distracted with factions In the first a free Election of Knights Burgesses and Citizens in Parliament is requisite and ought to be as Plato saith Libere incorrupte in the second a free Election is altogether inconvenient and dangerous for otherwise that great Council may be distracted and overruled by turbulent Spirits and nothing by it resolved for the publique good A pregnant Example of which we lately had in the proceedings of the late Precedent Parliament See his High 22. Jan. 1654. which as his Highness saith wholy spent their time and did nothing And in such cases of extremity where there is no course of prevention otherwise provided by Parliament Expedit principi omnium dissentionum causas in repub dirimere it appertaineth to the Prince to prevent all causes of dissention in the Commonwealth for he is the supreame Conservator pacis and by the advice of his Council may bar and frustrate the Election of those of whose malignancy and disaffection to the State he hath received certain and infallible intelligence and that by way of preventing future discord and distraction and accordingly in the turbulent times of Henry the third when the Kingdom was divided into two mighty Parties That wise King called the best affected onely to Parliament as Master Cambden in his Britannia relateth Ad summum honorem pertinet saith he F. 122. Ex quo Henricus tertius ex tanta multitudine quae seditiosa turbulenta fuit optimos quosque ad Parlementaria comitia evocaverit It was an highly honoured Act in Henry the third that out of so great a multitude which was seditious and turbalent he had called every one of the best affected to the Parliament by whose prudence and moderation the torn Estate of that Kingdom was cemented and setled in an uniformity of peace and tranquillity In like manner did his Highness this Parliament out of a multitude of malignant and discontented persons by the advice of his Council according to the Instrument of Government call and admit those onely who were best affected and well disposed into the Parliament House by whose wisdom and advice with little disturbance and contradiction the three main Pillars of the State which were then tottering were firmly fixed and established by Act of Parliament to wit the supreame Magistracy was confirmed in his Highness the succession setled and the Liberties of the people were Ratified and secured by his Highness according to the advice and Request of the Members of Parliament and were not as he impudently saith Pimps of Tyranny onely imployed to draw the people to prostitute their Liberty How unworthily and injuriously therefore doth this Impostor brand that pacifique and prudent Parliament in divers passages of his Pasquil with the strange name of a Junto with whose sound he is as much pleased as children are with the strange noise of a Rattle because it was purged and cleansed of such malignant and factious spirits and not virtuous as this Impostor saith who would have fomented discord and dissentions among them By which means the distracted State of these Nations is happily united to the content of his Highness and satisfaction of the People And that with the approbation and applause of the Religious Zealous Faithfull and Couragious Officers and Souldiers of the Army as he stileth them notwithstanding his conjuring imprecations who for their fidelity upon occasions are deservedly advanced exalted by their magnificent victorious Prince General not ruined by him whom they raised F. 15. according to this Impostors Machiavilian rule which he saith Princes observe when they are in power never to make use of those that help'd them to it unless they be such as this Impostor is Seducing Mutineers who are justly purged and cast out of the Army like dung and like cudgeled hounds lye lurking in their kennel bawling barking and catching at flies and are not like to rise or be exalted unless it be as Haman was and as he divineth be hanged up like bottles Qui male dixerit pejus audiet His Preface now ensueth wherein like the Fox though he seems to change his hair and outside yet still retains his nature and manners according to the Proverb Vulpem pilum mutare non mores and pretendeth that it was not instigations of private revenge and malice though it may be conceived manet alta mente repostum that his publique disgrace doth still stick in his stomack but indignation did make him break that silence prudence would perswade him to use But indignation and anger saith the Royal Preacher Eccles 7.9 resteth in the bosom of fools And Ira furor brevis est Anger is a mad Pen-man which makes him use such frantick and wild expressions But