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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54586	The visions of government wherein the antimonarchical principles and practices of all fanatical commonwealths-men and Jesuitical politicians are discovered, confuted, and exposed / by Edward Pettit ...	Pettit, Edward.	1684 (1684)	Wing P1892; ESTC R272	100,706	264

Lucifer made men Libertines and Atheists by my Principles Positions and Conclusions and consequently by that means promoted the fundamental Vices of your Empire Faction Sedition and Rebellion c. Have not I obtain'd to that excellent Art of Reasoning which like an Ignis Fatuus leads men into Bogs and Ditches whilest it pretends to give them light My reasonings I say and Positions from which the unwary Sparks draw those Conclusions which are most suitable to their Lusts and Extravagancies whilest to others as bad Buzzards as the former they make a shew of Tendency to the highest perfection of Nature and most sublime Morality Have not I the most admirable way of slurring an Argument of any mortal man Could any body so dexterously tack about with Times and Persons as I have done both in my Words Writings and Actions applying those things in my Defence against Bishop Bramhall as if respecting the King in Banishment when as your Lucifership full well knows that I designed them by way of complement to Your Vicegerent Oliver then upon his Throne Lastly Most Mighty Lucifer you know that after your Forces were routed in Heaven that the greatest Stratagem of yours that ever took effect upon Earth was the corrupting Humane Nature when it was in its Innocency and therefore do but consider in imitation of your Great Self to what a condition I have endeavoured to reduce mankind even now they are under the Covenant of Grace by that sublime speculation of mine In the state of Nature there is no difference betwéen Good and Evil Right and Wrong the state of Nature is a state of War in which every man hath a right to all things For from this fundamental Point in despight of all the Rules of the Gospel I have drawn most powerful Topicks of Violence Treason and Rebellion Lucifer seem'd extraordinary well pleas'd with him insomuch that he was ready to pronounce him Prince of all the Politicians and the Garland was order'd to be brought for him but Father Parsons stepping out called to him the Author of Plato Redivivus telling him that old Hobbs for all his Boots had been too nimble for him and that if he did not make haste he would lose what of Right did belong to him and what through their Interest they might procure for him He made what haste he could but when he came there was no need of speaking himself for after they had prevail'd with Lucifer to suspend his determination they told him that they had brought before him a Politician that was as much more deserving than Hobbs or any Philosopher of them all as the practical part of Politicks is above the speculative 'T is true said they Hobbs ' s Principles may gain some few proselytes but they signifie no more to the Rabble than if he had complemented them with Euclid ' s Elements but this Gentleman has been pleas'd to condescend to furnish their weakest capacities with Arguments for Rebellion to encrease their Fears and Jealousies to inflame their most brutish Zeal and to fit them in whole shoals for Hell and Damnation Your Mighty Darkness ought likewise to consider that an Anarchy is far more destructive to mankind than any Tyranny in one single Person whatever as witness the late Civil Wars in England wherein you gain'd almost as much as you lost in the Ten Persecutions And Lastly We do assure you that we your most faithful Friends and Privy Counsellors have furnish'd him with all those Rules and Instructions which are the most direct and ready way to revive the good Old Cause Lucifer was in so great suspence that he spoke not a word of a long time for indeed he knew not how to determine the Controversie between them Which both parties observing began to be so clamorous that he called to Bradshaw who had heard the whole matter and desiring him to sit Vice-President in his place he privately sneak'd away They were all so extreamly well pleas'd with their New President that there was a profound silence at the very first sight of him knowing him to be one that had far out-done the Devil and indeed the very first glance of his eye gave them general satisfaction For rising up with a Politick smile It is not the first time said he Men Brethren and Fathers that I have oblig'd and pleasur'd-you all It is not the first time that you have all stood to my final Judgment and therefore I do not question but you will as readily agree to my present determination The difficulties that are arisen here amongst us are about the pretensions that are made by several persons to the Hell-grave of Policy and you are not yet satisfied who most of all deserve to be the Head and Principal of our famous Society I must confess that both Mr. Hobbs and his Antagonist have made very fair but not full claims to this high Dignity I confess that there are many considerable Friends on both sides but as I will not extremely disoblige so neither can I satisfie either of them in this point For according to the merit of the Cause and the usual rule of ending Controversies of this nature I must dispose of it to a third Person And I do not question but that even the Principals in this difference will be the most ready to confer this honour upon him when they shall have seen him and heard the reasons I shall move in his behalf Every one was wondring and impatient to know who this remarkable Politician should be when to their amazement Mr. Baxter came creeping in leaning upon a Staff out of breath and with so ghastly a Visage that the most mortified Hermit in the World lookt like a Glutton to him with a faint and low voice Peace Brethren peace said he I have often laboured for peace Why are you at Variance amongst your selves Why are these Differences among you Oh that ye would lay aside this pride this contention Oh this selfishness this selfishness Oh this pride this selfconceit Oh my Brethren if you would but watch your thoughts you would not be so fierce in your words and actions I say watch your thoughts 1. Watch them that come in 2. Watch them that go out First Watch them that come in Therefore when you find thoughts arising one after another in your hearts call them all to an account keeping a Sentinel at the door of your heart saying Who art thou for If thou art for Christ give me the Word thou shall freely pass If thou art not for Christ and hast not his Word stand If thou come up one step further I 'le fire at thee Thus if you keep down and suppress these Rebellious thoughts this selfishness this pride this contention will not be found among you but oh I am faint faint worn out in the Vineyard of the Lord and so my Brethren farewel I could not sorbear smiling at this his slie Jargoon and Seignior Chr. turning to me said did you hear This

disconsolate but as soon as they saw him they cry'd Welcome thou Man of God! Yea very welcome art thou unto us How hast thou been preserved in these dayes of tribulation Indeed said he the persecution waxeth hot against the people of the Lord the great Dragon is broken loose with his long tail and vomits out whole floods of Popish Holy-water after the Woman in travail the hunting Nimrods pursue us the Folds are broken down and the Sheep are scattered I am come therefore to refresh ye O ye scattered Flocks and since ye cannot hear the Gospel pray read it in these godly Bukes Here likewise take these holy things here is S. Russel ' s Picture and a Sliver of the Deal Board spotted with his Blood shed for the Good Old Cause Here is likewise the Picture of S. Sydney with an Inch of his Cane and here are the works of Mr. Baxter and Mr. Doolittle with their Effigies These are excellent Antidotes against the Powers of Popery and the Charms of Antichrist Oh ye pretty little Lambs that cry Meigh Meigh with earnest longings and groanings Here is Milk for Babes and Meats for Strong Men in four and twenty Sermons when ye have digested these the Man of Sin will never be able to prevail over the Babe of Grace In exchange for this Trash they privately crowded three or four Guinea's into his hand which he meekly took with his leave at the same time But one of them was so overwhelmed with grief and trouble for his going away that her sighs interrupted her speech for a long time at last a few broken sentences burst out and she cryed Oh how the Vision ceaseth and the Prophets prophesie not In the midst of this great Agony a Bramble-Bush chanc'd to catch hold on a deep Lace on her Petticoat and made a great Rent in it Good God! what an alteration was there in a moment She fell a scolding and railing at her Maid that followed waiting upon her as if she had been bewitch'd calling her all the ugly Names her fury could suggest as if by her carelesness she had been the cause of it when again spying us and fearing that we over-heard her she as artificially chang'd her Note Thou simple Wench thou dundernoles quoth she somewhat more softly and with a smile Canst thou not find the Chapter Fie Mary fie here take the Bible again look the Eleventh Chapter to the Hebrews and at the Thirty Seventh Verse there thou shalt find an account of our sufferings At this a little Old Man that stood behind her burst out a laughing and looking on me Don't this place of Scripture said he daintily suit their present Garb and Conditions Don't these look as if they wandered about in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins You may soon imagine how much they are destitute afflicted or tormented These are the genteelest mourners in Zion that ever I met with all of them in the newest fashion I believe truly these Martyrs are more troubled about their Taylors than about their Executioners Well I little thought to find the women of England dissatisfied of all others in the world I am sure their freedoms and priviledges are so extraordinarily great that were there a Bridge from Calais to Dover we should have them scamper hither in throngs from all parts of Europe and had the last great Frost but lasted so long and sharp as to have laid all the Waters betwixt those two places they would have scrambled over in shoals though they had sopt their Constitutions to some purpose Sir said I to him if you fully understood the Humours of some of the people of this Nation and the happiness they enjoy you would say that the men have as little reason to be turbulent and mutinous as the women to be Peevish and Discontented They have less reason to be so said he than any people under the Heavens I think I have seen most of the Nations of Europe and when I consider the singular advantages of peace and plenty which you here enjoy it infinitely aggravates the base Ingratitude of a stubborn and factious Generation of men among you that endeavour to subvert so excellent a Government and to disturb the peace of so noble ond flourishing a Kingdom To deal freely with you I am a Jew by Birth I was born at Lublin in Poland but by the grace of God I am now a Christian and I confess to you that the happy condition of the Christians of the Reformed Church of England is a sufficient Argument fully to confirm me in my Conversion For besides the removal of those prejudices which the Church of Rome gives us by their Pictures and Images I find the People of England far to exceed the Ancient Israelites in all Temporal Blessings even in the most prosperous Times wherein they possest the Land of Canaan First In the Situation For besides the old Inhabitants of the Land that were left to be * Judg. 2. v. 3. thorns in their sides they were encompassed with Enemies round about besides the Philistines they had the Assyrians the Aegyptians the Aromites the Edomites the Moabites and Amorites nay the Tribe of Asher that bordered along the Sea Coasts were never Masters of Sidon But they were governed by their own Magistrates as was Tyre till taken by Alexander or rifled by Nebuchadnezzar to no purpose sometimes before But you have the Seas not only open unto you for traffick but around about you for a Guard and Defence and I look that the Union of the Kingdom of Scotland to England might prove as great a Blessing to Great Britain as the separation and revolt of the Ten Tribes was a Curse and Calamity to the whole Body of the Israelites in General 'T is true Boccalin tells us That in his Time when England was in the Scales that it weighed some hundreds of thousands of grains less after Scotland was added to it than it did before But you know what Devil it was that plaied that paradoxical Gambol it was the frothy Spirit of Light headed Fanaticism which is in such a fair way to be Conjur'd down or Blow'n off that it will prove heavy enough to some body over the Water one of these daies If I be not mistaken In the mean time well might one speaking of the Bloody designs of the Jesuits Nov. 5th say of Great Britain * Barclai de Conj Ang. Non videbatur posse Tentari fundamentum tam bene vallati Imperii That it did not seem possible that the foundation of an Empire so well intrencht could ever be shaken But England exceeds the Land of Canaan Secondly In all manner of plenty though it does not feed such vast numbers of people for the small Circuit of Ground yet her Valleys are like Eden her Hills like Lebanon her Springs like Pisgah a Land which not only injoys those Blessings in the fullest extent which God promised to the most exact Obedience of the Israelites But by its successful