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Mercurius militans, with his hags haunting cruelty, and his bays crowning clemency historically suited to our long wished peace / by Hieron Philalethes.
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Philalethes, Hieron.
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1648
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Wing M1768; Thomason E472_2
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Mercurius Militans With his Hags haunting Cruelty and his Bays crowning Clemency Historically suited to our long wished Peace By Hieron Philalethes Printed in the Year 1648. I Beleeve that as nothing so degenerates man into a Wolf and a Tiger yea into a Devil as Cruelty according to the phrases Homo homini lupus homo homini Demon now commented and writ in the bloods of millions of Innocents devoured by that worst of wolves called Rebel in Ireland as also in England with as much voracity truculency and barbarous inhumanity as the three Herods in Iosephus and our Richard the third exercised against their Nobles and Consanguinity Ahab and Iezabel against Naboath Elias Michah and the best Prophets the bramble Abimeleck against his Brethren the 70 sons of Gideon Orchanes the Turk against all his Butchered Brethren the sons of the great Ottoman or as ever Busiris Periander Emanuel Paleologus exercised with numerous moe in their specified cruelties by Melancton in his Gronocles pag. 178 188. by Tholosanus in his six book of his Commonwealth cap. 19. p. 380 381. 1498. By Valerius lib. 9. cap. 14. and by Anti-matchavil lib. 3 p. 519 562 563. The rage of these our civil uncivil Wars being so great that against the dictate both of Reason and Religion against the Light both of Grace and Nature blood hath not spared blood Brothers being divided in as great hostility as Cain against Abel Absalom against Ammon Romulus once against Rhemus Cambises against Smerdis Brennus against Brentius and the Popish Alphonsus against his Protestant brother Diazius who as needs running whom the Devil drives came as far as Rome to Germany to murther him so besides the Furies and Hags and horrors of their Consciences which haunt them as the worst of spirits and ghosts as is historified in Nero after he had massâ—cred Peter and Paul and his Master Seneca and his mother Octavia and in Caligula after his Butcheries creeping into Corners in any Lightnings and Thunders and in Herod after his slaughter of the Bethlem Infants his two sons Alexander and Ariâ—tobulus his wife Mariana and the Synedrim of the Jews and in Alexander after he had burnt Persepolis and slain his dear friends Clitus and Calisthenes with many moe extracted from Iosephus and secular Authors by Strigellius lib. 1. Ethic. p. 7 9.155 159. and by Patritius l. 5. de regno tit 8 p. 313. with the wonderful â—ggravations of the gnawing of this worst of worms the stinging of this worst of serpents the excruciations of this worst of beasts an Evil Conscience to be read in that zeâ—l us Melander Luther in his Comment on Genesis cap. 31. p. 486 cap. 43. p. 652. cap. 45. p. 671. And in Pezelius comment in 〈…〉 Genesis cap. 37 pag. 714. cap. 41. pag 794. 789. cap. 45. pag. 835. cap. 50. page 971. So even in this life Plagues follow cruâ—l Princes and Peers at the heels lâ—ke Lacquies and haunt them as Brutus his ghost Besides the exangeration of conscience which as is feigned of Titius Promethius eats their very Hearts and Livors as the Flâ—sh Wolf that flâ—sh in which it breeds Their first plague is That they are no better loved then the Siracusans loved their three Dionisii as an old woman told one of them or then Lambs love Wolves being dayly more cursed then the Fox by Country Beldams devouring Poultry O derunt dum metuunt Feared they may be as Witches fear their Devils and Familiar which suck their bloods but never loved better then Brutus loved the Tarquins or Felton that Frenchified Duke who felt the sharpnesse of his stabbing Knife Secondly They are always plagued with a Domestick Devil calld Iealousie with a bosomed Snake câ—lled Suspition even of their best Friends whom they seem most to love and whom they have most honored and advanced which Iealousies are seldom quenched but with their blood chiefly when their Favorites grow popular then Herod makes his Aristobulus the Nephew of Hircanus the High Priest shorter by the head as Sejanus was so lopt in the like case by Tiberius apud dionem in vita yea the famous Mustapha in Knolls his Turkish History by the Tyrant his Father Thirdly They are usually possessed as with so many tormenting spirits with servile and slavish Fears most of them complaining Multa miser timeo quia feci multa proterve Much have I done base bloody vile and Evil And much I fear to suffer like the Devil Which fears so possest Dionisius that he feared every Barbers Knife to shave too neer his throat Tyrants usually doubling their Guards as the worst Popes their Guards of Switzers and the worst Erench Kings those of Feench and Scots the servile fears of Tyrants seldom or never cured but by a Julip or red caudle of the blood of those they fear as many instances are given in this kind in Claudius Caesar Valentinian Wencestaus the son of Charles the fourth Emperor Caius Caligula Nero and many moe by Dion Cassius Plutark Melancton in locis pag. 118 in Chron. lib. 4. pag. 457. and by Antimatchavil lib. 3. pag. 476 477 478. These pannick Terrors as hellish Hags usually possessing them in these Battels in which they imbark themselves from a bad Cause and with a worse Conscience being the main Cause that oft a few Soldiers bed by a Lion as the just are hold as a Lion are oft victorious over redoubled and trebled oumbers of those whose hearts are in their heels led by a Hart or a Hare as Leonides used the Simile of which abundant instances are given by Pezelius in Gen. cap. 35.669 by Strigellius in Psal 9. p. 71. by Pontanus in his first book of Fortune c. 25. and by Patritius lib. 5. de regno tit 4. p. 305. in those Terrors which God cast into the hearts of the Midianites Judg. 7. And of the Canaanites and those of Jericho in Joshuahs time And of the Philistines in Ionathans time 1 Sam. 14. And of the Quadi in Antoninus his time and into the hoste of 100000 Ethiopians in Asa's time 2 Chron. 16. And into the hoste of cruel Attila neer the City Anrelia And into the hoste of Benbadad in Ababs time 1 King 20. And into the hoste of Arbogastus and Eugenius encountring with good Theodosius of which Claudian could sing O nimium dilecte deo cui fundit ab antris Aeolus armat as acies cui militat Aether O Darling to thy God for whom the Air And windrs do fight thine enemies troops to fear And when such Terrors as God sends oft into the hearts of Multitudes fighting with handfuls according to his Commination Deut. 28. do so work that sometimes three hundred Lacedemonians in the advantage of a scrait killing twenty thousand of Zorxes his Army sometimes a Forbius with â—hirty thousand quelling of the Gauls two hundred thousand sometimes a Greek Miltiâ—dâ—s with eleven thousand rouing and executing a hundred thousand foot of the Persians and ten