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A86277
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The idea of the lavv charactered from Moses to King Charles. Whereunto is added the idea of government and tyranny. / By John Herdon Gent. Philonomos.
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Heydon, John, b. 1629.
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1660
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Wing H1671; Thomason E1916_2; ESTC R210015
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the spots in the Moon with some men are Earth but I am inform'd they are Water there is no Day so clear but there are Lees towards the Horizon so Inferior wits when they reflect on higher intellects leave a mist in their beams When envious fools read my writings they do not understand being not able to confute me by Reason then they go about to do it by Scandals saying as the Jews did to our Saviour Thou art a Samaritan and hast a Devil now if Hounds be Devils why do they eat Hares there is a great difference betwixt those Hell-hounds that pursue and Arrest men and those that catch Foxes one tels me if the season permit the scrambling pens of Ideots will prove false Prophets some happy success being neer this time designed for his Majesty of Sweden Alas silly Soul some men will tell me a lye and shew me a reason for it but this can not confute me with flattering non-sence lyes and ignorance The King of Sweden is dead and my friend Eugenius Theodidactus told you the time when he would die in his Almanack and advice to a Daughter 1658. But how this King of Sweden being now dead before March 1660 shall be succesful in April either by Sea or Land I know not his success in October November is a flattering noyse and non-sense indeed and until this Astrologer take's Coach in a Cloud and discover the true knowledg of the Planets I am resolved to say there is as much certainty in Geomancy as there is in Astrology for near this time the King will be Crown'd in London and J shall see Monarchy established 1662 in dispite of all Merlines Bulls Bears Moles Dunes Oxen and such Cobwebs of folly Now God defend what will become of me I do not flatter lye and decieve any man with false Predictions I have not consulted these Independant Prophets nor Anabaptists nor Quakers the Astrologers of this Religion shall pardon me for this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There is a Mystery in their profession Coelum stellatum Christianam A new Geomantick heaven fancied on the old Earth here I look on this life as the progress of an Essence Royal The Soul quit her Court to see this Country Heaven hath in it a Scene of Earth and had she been contented with Ideas she had not travelled beyond this Map But excellent patterns commend their Miâ—es Nature that was so faire in the Type could not be a slut in the Anaglyph This makes her ramble hither to examine the Medal by the Flask but while she scans their Symmetry she formes it thus her descent speaks her Original God in love with his own beauty frames a glass to view it by reflection and gives it a Law but the frailty of the matter excluding Eternity the composure was subject to desolution Ignorance gave this release the name of death but properly it is the Souls birth and a Charter that makes for her liberty she hath several wayes to break up house but her best is without a disease this is her mistical walk an exit only to return when she takes aire at this doore it is without prejudice to her tenement thus I write my fancies and if the Round-heads like not my humour let them not tell me of it least I laugh at them c. And now I will send a Genius whose name is Phebus a Spirit that rises like a man in the middle of Gemini Phebus go to White-hall and heare what News there is that may make the poor honest Communalty happy and if nothing but the King will Crown their desires go find the King out and bring me word again His wingy shoes of gold he buckles on With which fair plumes for expedition Bare him aloft quite over Sea and Land With a swift gale then quick he takes his wand With which he calls the hideous Souls from Hell And others sends to Scotland's dungeon fell He gives bereaves sweet slâ—ep from death preserves Therwith he drives the winds with wing'd nervs Swims through the clustring clouds and now in 's flight Of craggy Atlas tops and sides hath sight Of Altas whose huge hight the Heavens do prop On whose pine-bearing head black clouds do stop And daily's girt oft dash't with wind and rain Thick drifts of Snow do on his shoulders drain Then down his Aged chin thick floods do flow With frosty Ice his beard doth grisly grow Cyllenius fluttering wings first staid him here And headlong hence to th'waves his corps doth bear Much like a Bird which 'bout the shores and sides Of fish full Rocks with hovering smoothly glides Above the waves about the banks even so Mercurius Phaebus did go too and fro Flutter ore Sea and Land and winds did sâ—ine And Dunkirks sandy shore touch in a trine His windy feet no sooner did alight On Brussels Towers but straight he saw in sight Charles â—orts to raise rooms to repair And he himself girt with a hanger rare With yellow Jasper stones like Stars bedeckt And a rich sword In cloths of rich respect A Gold lac'd Scarlet cloak on 's corps casâ— carelesly which rarely shew'd c. Having thus found him I humbly present my self upon my knees before his Divine Majesty Now I come to the matter in hand and that which indeed I intend to say is this let Charles the Son of King Charles be King of England for without the head the body is dead and these three Nations will never cease to be miserable until such times as this King of Scots reign in the stead of King Charles that was murthered at White hall you may consider though many of the Kings of Judah and Israel were extraordinary sinful Idolatrous bloody Tyranical and great oppressours of their people yea shedders of Priests and Prophets and other good mens Innocent blood not only in the wars but in peace yet there is no president in the old Testament of one King ever Judiciously impeached arraigned deposed or put to death by the Congregation Sanhedrin or Parliament of Judah or Israel but those who slew any of them in a tumultuous manner or by Treason were for the most part slain themselves either in a tumult or else put to death by their Children who succeeded to the Crown or by the people of the Land and that the Israelites after their revolt from Rohoboam had never any one good King or good day almost among them but were over-run with Idolatry prophaneness Tyranny invaded by enimies involved in perpetual wars civil or forraign and at last all destroyed and carried away captive into Babilon as the Book of Kings and Chronicles will informe you that the Rule in the old Testament is not to take any wicked King from their Thrones and behead them but take away the wicked from before the King and his throne shall be established in righteouness And the Rule in the New Testament is to be subject to Kings and the Higher power 's and to submit