Priests his Laws to men doth teach So o're the world by Kings his raign doth reach Kings are his lively Image his Vicegerents Who best his Power and Glory represents Since Christ's the King of Kings of Lords the Lord Then Anti-Kings are Anti-Christs by th' word God promised to Abraham Kings of 's â—eed Of his svvorn truths vvorld you make lyes take heed And Kings and Queens unto his Church he 'd raise Fathers and Mothers to its good his praise And Kings to Judah vvere the greatest bliss Jacob foretold That them ye hate vvhence this Balac said Balam blest vvhen Kings to Jews Like Agags Unicorns Lions he shevvs And that the shout of Kings vvas in their Camp No Foes Inchantments could them ever damp God vovv'd that Israel should live secure Meaning vvhilst native Monarchs did endure With greatest blessings he Jesuron foster'd The chiefest vvas they to a Kingdom prosper'd VVhen Kings had Kings their Heirs the Jews confess That God did them above all people bless By this the Kings and Sheba's Queen did prove That he did them above all Nations love Kings strongest motives in Gods Writ Divine To goodness vvear he'd Crown Kings of their line No Princes vvickedness did void Gods Oath Nor can absolve from our sworn Faith and Troth As his so ours was sworn to th' Royal Line We 're perjur'd against Heirs if we combine For Kings by Gods Povver Rule live dye and vvhen He 's pleas'd he hath done vvonders by levvd men Our valiant Henrys Edwards Richards face Who darst vve leave their Vertues to Gods Grace If Crovvns from vvicked Kings Subjects might take Mad vvork i' th vvorld as oft it did 'tvvould make VVhy then vvas David unto Saul so tender VVho for revenge true Loyalty did render He darst not touch the Lords Anointed Many Rechabs vvere for this disjoynted Unkinging Kings to Jews brought dayes of doom Such Papal Facts like fruits to Christendom Of bad Kings this sharp Rock Rotation Though for a good oft splits a Nation Balam Saul Judas told truth as the rest So have levvd Kings conqner'd and reigned best VVhen God allovvs not vvords bad thoughts of heart Against his Kings lest Angels them impart To Subjects vvo that they may plagued be VVho dares resist Royal Authority The Jews and Gentiles Restauration Began vvith Christ his Coronation The Sacred VVrit him sets on Kingly Throne As oft as to the World his glories shovvn By Kingdom he presents his Dearest Bride VVhen she in Chariot pav'd vvith love doth ride But vvhen his Bow against her he doth bend He threats t' uncrown her and her Scepter rend And vvas not this of all his plagues the vvorst To his Beloved vvhen of him thus curst This this to Jews stands for a lamentation Sign of Gods vvrath their utter desolation Praised be his name Zanzummims han't their vvill VVith vvorst of vvoes three Kingdoms vvho vvould fill That our King vvears his Scepter Sword and Crown Th' Emblems of Power of Empire and Renown And may his Heirs till Sun and Moon go dovvn You see how highly God and Scriptures Rate Kings Titles Honors Orders Royal State Sets Monarchy all Governments above Whereby he rul'd from Moses time his Dove Then let none dare who God or truth do love Against their King or Kingship Traytors prove But them obey for Gods and Conscience sake That he them blessed may not cursed make But if to murmur Rebels be so bold Let 's in Gods word their Rise and Fall behold Rebellion first began in Heaven thence fell The Dragon and his Angels down to Hell All sins abridg'd in disobedience By which man fell from state of Innocence Fot which he was expelled from Paradise And from the tree of Life of unknown price The Serpent for Rebellion licks the dust Women in pangs brings forth men Earth's accurst Cain was vagabond i' th Land of Nod Rebels to Prince and Parents hate of God The old world crowned chiefly was for this Five Cities burnt with Fire which did amiss Aaron and Miriam smote with Leprosie Because their Soveraign Moses they defie Of Corahs company the word of truth Shews fifteen thousands sad and direful ruth Five Kings did fall by Chederlaomer And King Hosea fell by Shalmaner Abimelech and Sechem with Gaal By mutual Treasons got their utter fall A Fire came from the bramble which did burn That Rebel Town and made of it one urne When Sheba's head was Joabs then they went From Abels Town each man unto his tent Did Absalom or Adonijah thrive They thousands spoil'd more pardon left alive Reâ—bah and Banah who their Soveraign slew David their hands and feet expos'd to view Sad Fate o'retook that line sons of Nebat Whose Calves for ruine soon grew Bulls full fat Ahab his sons and Queen came to disaster And had false Zimri peace who slew his Master No for he kill'd King Ela felt Gods Ire Him Omri forc't with the Kings house to Fire Though Jehu to his work was call'd by God Justice and Mercy kist and burnt the Rod. Manahem slew Shallum Zachariah As Hoshea slew Peka who kill'd Pekaiah So Ammons Servants who their Master kill'd Were slain when good Josiah his place fill'd Queen Athaliah slew the Royal Seed And rul'd until their Wounds made her to bleed Joash his slaves slew him he Zachariah But they were all slain by Amaziah The Books of Kings more foes to Kingly Race And many Traytors to sad ends do trace Besides their Armies which in battel fell Without remorse it knoles your pass to Hell Amend repent so live and so dye well Though Sacred Writ we value most of all Each History is full of Traytors fall Each Age and Country shevv sad Presidents Of Rebels Fates to force them to repent Two hundred thirty cursed Plots and Treasons ' Gainst Kings and Kingship without all reasons We since the Normans times and Reigns have seen But th' authors of them still have hanged been And so must they who dare to shew such tricks For they against Gods Laws and men do Kick. What is become of those conspir'd the death Of Englands Mother call'd Queen Elizabeth And for their Countries ruine close did wait Let Spain and Papists think of Eighty Eight Of those King Queen Prince States and Parliament To blow up with three Kingdoms did consent How hath this Island Reel'd in her own blood Of troubles twenty years o're ran't a flood Rebellion hath the Scots of glory stript And Ireland strangely for it hath been whipt By wondrous means and by a Rebel Rout Of Martin Markings and Marprelates stout See their Heads Quarters o're the Cities Gates All Rebels are destin'd unto such Fates The Sacred Trinity with one consent And Scriptures prove this the best Government The Champions nine fought all for Monarchy None lov'd Kings more then sisters three times three The Jews had but confusion nothing In Israel when time was there was no King Moses as King did in Jesuron raign Judges and Kings had the
Monarchia Triumphans OR The Super-eminency of MONARCHY OVER POLIARCHY Or of the Government of ONE above any free-FREE-STATE or other kinde of Soveraignty in many Wherein Regall Government is compared with a Republick and proved by many Arguments to be the best the most natural and necessary for these KINGDOMS as it is novv established in the Sacred Person of CHARLES the Second King of Great Britain France and Ireland c. Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the Son of Nobles Eccles 10. 17. Deut. 11. 27. Titus 3. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer Let 's have One Head One King who will have more Heads to his Body may have many Score If to One Head thou wilt not faithful be To lose Thy Head it is most meet for Thee London Printed in the Year 1666. To the Reader IF such Essayes as vindicate Protestantisme from the Calumny of its enemies that it doth not provide so well as other Professions for the Security of Princes the Obedience of subjects the prosperity of Nations which have their mutual dependance upon the excellency of the Government established be of highest use and deepest concernment Then may this Poem pass with the Universal Applause and Acceptance of all good Subjects and knowing persons especially in such an Age wherein there have been and yet are Extant so many thousand Pamphlets against the present Government which would possess the ignorant and heedless Readers with belief that a free-Free-State or Common-wealth which the wise man tells us are the curse of God for sin were the only Diana of the Brittans which these Nebocadnezars would have them worship as their Idol or else be for ever miserable And in a time wherein there are so many refusers of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and so many who take them with such Reservations and Misprizions as have a wide gap open for their Covetousness Ambition Envy Ignorance Discontent and the like Hypocondriacal Passions and Frenzies to enter on the Stage and to steel them with Brainsick Resolutions to act their Parts in new Combustions and Innovations Even in such a season horresco referens when Gods Visitation was amongst them and he made so strict an Inquisition after such incorrigible enemies to the peace of his Church some of whose late Hollandizing Conspiracies have forc't from me this Antidote against the like Distemper with which there are many thousands infected in City and Countrey such as have heretefore not only impeded the Grandeur and glory of the Brittish Empire but have changed the reputation of the most famous Nation into the infamy of devils and which if we may belive our English Nestors is now more Epidemical then Wise men imagine and which by sad experience we find curable only by amputation as a Gangreen and as infectious as the Plague And surely the general Ignorance of the most of the sense of the fifth Commandment and of the Fundamentals of Religion and the fruits thereof their disobedience to their Spiritual and Temporal Parents have been the Fathers and Mothers of the last Years Plague here and of all Gods Judgements which are or have been in Christendom I hope as this Poem hath been and will be a good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or eye-save to me who else had been blinde with writing it out so oft as I was importuned So the Cogent Arguments therein illustrated will prove like so many perspectives to all impartial Readers to behold and admire with me the order of the Hexameron the glory the necessity the excellency the Divine Majesty of Monarchy above all other sorts of Governments but if there be some of whom it maybe said Etiamsi satisfacies non satisfeceris Here they are brayed in all Gods Mortars which Solomon alludes to Prov. 27. 22. 1. Of Precepts and Canons Divine and Humane 2. It Points them to above 300 Presidents of Conspiracies Jewish and English 3. Of Gods Judgements which not one of Millions from Adam to this present Year ever evaded 4. Of Gods Mercies to obedient Subjects and injur'd Kings and Prelates who have liv'd to see their Enemies perish like Oreb and Zeeb at Endor but their own Crowns and Mytres to flourish on their Heads as I heartily wish they may in Great Brittain and Ireland whilst the Sun and Moon their lively Emblems shine upon them And if all these Mortars will not bray them in their right Wits there are two or three more in your power as well as mine which are serious and assiduous prayrs for them that they may be throughly taught their dutiess to God and Men and may obtain sound and saving knowledge and obedience and that publick and private Iustruction and Fasting may not be omitted for Ignorance is an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Obstinacy an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which will not be exorcised without them It remains that you and I retire to the exercise of them as becomes you and theirs and Your unfeigned Votary P. Dormer The Triumphs of MONARCHY OVER ANARCHY Or the Rout of all Rebel-Republicans WIth Alpha and Omega to Begin Of Monarchs Monarch of all kings the King Doth he not govern all the World alone That Realm's lik'st his that ruled is by one The Soveraign Power is Forces union Monstrous weak in many strong right in one Pythagoras ascribes to one what 's due to God Said it was Male and Female even odd The King of Numbers and that unity Was the worlds Soul and the souls Harmony The Fabrick of the Grand Hexameron Assign'd was to the Government of one And in that one the Understanding seen As King next it the Will doth reign as Queen One Head rules Soul and Body without Schismes All Figures rise from one one makes all Dismes Thus in the body Politique we see One multiply'd to make a Family And Families makes Towns Towns Cities make Both Provinces whence Kingdoms being take All Powers Force Counsel in Immortal Man Call'd King are joyn'd what they cannot he can David must stay not go to th' Camp to fight His life 's worth Armies Israel loves her light That is the best you 'l grant of Governments Which Gospel brought and keeps where most dissents But such no Major Vote or States call'd free To fix in Brittish Isles could e're agree For still the Major part hath prov'd the worse And would be rul'd by Juda's sword and Purse Betray the Truth Religion Innocence To fools and slaves of Wilwispt conscience How was it then you 'l say in Holland seen 'T was thither brought by Nasau and our Queen First Kings rejected Popes through Christendom Else they had rul'd all till the day of Doom Those Raging Waves the giddy multitude Like to themselves have principles most rude They hate sound truths Dote upon Novelties Hunt for new lights although they be old lyes They 'r fierce for Liberty of Conscience Satans chief ordinance ' gainst God Truth Sense Who e're saw Storms Lightnings Thunders Legion Of Devils but in
Mark how our Statists natures Course pervert When they the rule of many would assert Suppose more Gods than one to rule the world It soon to Antique Chaos would be hurl'd Were Satan Gog and Magog heads o th' Kirk If Christ help not with Saints they 'd make mad work Parelii shone whilst Edward Fourth did fight Paraselenes did the Romans fright But rul'd so many Suns and Moons i' th sky You wonld believe Doomsday vvere very nigh Make Pompey's Rivals in grand Cesars Thrones Millions they 'd turn to Skulls and dead mens bones Priests in each Tovvn set many Sects to preach The vvayes to Hell sooner then Heaven they 'l teach Of many Doctors Patient be at cost Take all their Physick sure thy life is lost To many Lawyers put a doubtful case ' T vvill look like Barred Pictures Protean face Who loves a rule by many let him try He shall have plagues enough in 's family Set Generals o're each army tvvo or moe They 'l thrive like ours vvho did to Hayty go Three Colonels each Regiment lets loop Four Captains to each Company and Troop Five Admirals in chief one Fleet command Ne're shall Victoria light upon their hand Siz Pilots set o're every Snip you have Then Port in Seas they 'l sooner finde a Grave Seven Lords t' each Mannor t' each Family Eight Husbands to one Wife as vvell agree Nine Heads t' each body such a comely sight The Devil out of 's wits perchance would fright Ten Rams Bulls Bucks to lead your Herds and Flocks Would Horn each others pate with bloody knocks Fancy there were in each Hive eleven Kings A cruel Fight you 'd see with deadly stings Twelve Cocks o' th Game set free out of your pens They 'l fight till death for Lordship o're your Hens Thus topsie turvey they the World do turn And all the Creatures which at Monarchs spurn These wilde Conceits like their mad rules th' have left Them Skip Bear Steal I 'le answer for your theft In all the world shew me one Commonwealth Without a Sovereign Power had peace or Health Acted by Artificial Kings and men Or to a Babel all return'd again What did our Slaves States do in twelve years space But Sword mens wills o're those in highest Place Without Chymerian Kings was no conclusion Unless in jarring Factions and Confusion If such with Native Kings you shall compare You men they Kings in cloth of Aras are Then are Republicans the worst of Traytors May Cities Gates yield unto such Heads Quarters Kings but in Nonage have Superiors Assemblies ever are inferiors To Consuls Projectors and Dictators To Generals Presidents Prolocutors Thus had the old Lacaedemonians Their Ephori Censors th' Athenians And Cosmosses the Carthaginians Tribunes the Romans Doegs the Venetians These rul'd the roast under some feigned name And us'd more rigor power with Kings the same And wheh these slav'd Estates were put to shift They set up Kings to help at a dead lift Thus Romans boast their Scipio's Fabius Hated as were Camillus Manlius Athenians Thrasibulus Pericles Theb's Epaminondas Thucydides With many others who have their Country As Kings who rul'd when States had them enslav'd States Mongrils like do run when Wolves draw near But Mastiffs fight so Kings when Foes appear Then needs must States yield unto Monarchy Which in great'st troubles is their Sanctuary The creatures of Assemblies were for aye Vast in their numbers greedy for their prey To borrow all they could they licenese had Protected ne're to pay to promote trade But Kings have Mordecays Josephs who bring As Kings to them like profit to their King But our Grand Hydra swallow'd Steeples down Churches Delinquents Lands and those o' th Crown To keep their Crowd of Saints Lives and Estates Of a full Million felt disastrous fates Cart loads of Coyn twice more they did divide Then David for the Temple did provide 'T is easier cheaper for 's to maintain one Then thousands which brings mischief good to none Slave States are but the fragments of some Nation Drove into Holds and Forts for their Rebellion How can they Grandeur either get or keep Like sneaking Eunuchs which in holes do creep By marriage they can ne're as Monarchs thrive A wonder 't is by shifts they hated live But Kings more Kingdoms do by Venus get Then all Free States by Mars i' th world have yet More Realms Isles then the Royal house of Spain Or Austria by their Queens our Kings did gain Some twenty Kings long canton'd Brittish Isles Mars gave them not King James but Hymens smiles O're Spain John of Gauuts Daughters heirs now Reign Our Kings by wedlock are heirs of Brittain Normandy Poictou Anjou Aquitain All France in Paris shall be crown'd again When they their Lions Harp and Flowers in France With Arms ne're Conquer'd shall through it advance Our Kings have on their side God and all right Which makes our mens like Lions in their sight The French like Lillies pale it doth affright That five to one of ours they ne're durst fight Did they e're Battle win these thousand years Unless with Scotch Swisse Mountaineers Normans Higlanders and when five to one Small numbers oft subdu'd their Nation This truth to clear we need no Tomes recite But Agincourt and Cressy Poictou Fight Alas poor sneaks when e're we them assail We needs must conquer now their old friends fail The Pope set York and Lancaster by th' ears Which lost us France brought Wars and seas of tears Else all were ours w 'had nigh five hundred years So long the world the Englishmen did fear And thought that they the bravest Nation were Had our King all of Kings and Queens as heir Most Potent Prince in all the world he were King Charles had with his Queen strong Towns so rare The next to them the names of Kingdoms bear Besides her Dowre then many Queens was more Her Grace Parts Vertues tentimes worth that o're Thus all our Noblesi Families do rise By Nuptial Bonds which States to States fast tyes True Lovers Knots tyed by Gods Hand and Word Faster joyns Crowns and Lands then Caesars Sword If we so fast as Spain and Dutch Lands take Our Mars and Venus soon great Realms may make Of Mighty Princes 't is best Husbandry Their swarms of Poor well planted out to see To th' body Politique more sad events Then natural to void no excrements Marriage five Crowns in one for us doth blend And may five more if God them please to send Fly Capon Commonwealths love Monarchy Court not gelt States hate Bastard Polarchy Brittain by Kings and Queens by Kings grew great With Kings and Kingdoms States a Hell hatcht cheat But since our zealous States plead Text and Faith Mark what for Kings ' gainst them the Scripture saith Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews And Gentiles too as Sacred Writ you shews In whom vvere all the Prophesies made good Which e're vvere made to Judah's line and blood As he by