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A90972	Tyrants and protectors set forth in their colours. Or, The difference between good and bad magistrates; in several characters, instances and examples of both. / By J.P.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1654 (1654)	Wing P3349; Thomason E738_18; ESTC R203206	41,217	58

dead Sea where presently they dye and know Jordan no more What 's become of those gallant Grandees roaring Roisters with their glittering Gi●ls and mad Mates the wanton Wag●ails of our English Courts who fleared when they should have feared and laughed when they should have lamented how soon are they put out as the fire of thorns Psal. 118. 12. Did not our English Courts swarm with these lustful Locusts almost in all Ages and the chiefest therein commonly chief in these sins Edward the Fourth had his holy Whore as he was used to call her that came out of a Nunnery at his b●ck to satisfie his lust May not large volumes be fil'd with the historical Narrations and that according to truth of the pride gluttony drunkenness wantonness luxury lasciviousness of the Kings and Courts of this Nation in their constant succession one after another until the hand of Vengeance did put a full stop hereunto by that fatal Blow at White-hall Gate 1648. They are extinct dead and buried and I wish such an immoveable stone may be layd upon the mouth of their Sepulchres by our present and successive Governors that they may never rise again that as their names so their sin may rot and consume away and the eyes of this English Nation may never behold such vanity at Court any more where lasciviousness and luxury were accounted meer peccadilloes not worthy repentance or remorse 12. He commonly wades through blood to his bloody Throne and having once scared his conscience by spilling the blood of a Father or Brother to attain the Crown he can eat the flesh and drink the blood of millions of his people to satisfie his lusts without reluctance and judgeth it his right to wrong whom he will Tyrants are men of blood fierce fiery furious spirits cross curst and cruel dispositions the world is fill'd with volumes of their vi●lanies in this kind all Ages and Countries without exception have wofully felt the truth hereof in so much as if men had the use of their mental ears as they have of their corporal the cries of the thousands and ten thousands millions and tens of millions of the slain and murthered by the hands of Tyrants would be so great that they would hardly hear the living for the d●●d The Turkish Spanish Roman French Scottish English Histories are they not stufft and cram'd with innumerable Instances of the cruelty of Tyrants and their pleasure therein No sight pleased Hannibal better then a ditch running over with mans blood Ch●rls the nineth of France Author of that bloody M●ss●cre in France looking upon the dead carkass of the Admiral that stank by long keeping unburied uttered this wretched saying Quam suaviter olet cadaver inimici How sweet is the smell of an enemies carkass And the Queen Mother of Scotland beholding the dead bodies of her Protestant Subjects whom she had slain in Battel said that she never saw a finer piece of Tapistry in all her life To spend time on this were to waste a candle before the Sun Englands Chronicles the Books of Martyrs the late bloody Massacres and Wars in Ireland England Scotland are fresh and bleeding evidences of the bloodiness of Tyrants I shall not here speak of the death of Prince Henry King James the bloody Massacres of the Protestants in Ireland by whose Commissions and Commands how cruelly and deceitfully they have been carried on God hath made inquisition for blood he hath remembered and not forgotten the complaint of the poor he hath cut off Saul and his bloody house according to his word Psal. 55. 23. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days They are cut off before their time their branches shall not be green but shaken off as the unripe Grape from the Vine and cast off as the flower of the Olive Job 15. 32 33. 13. Prerogative Pleaders are his Orthodox Preachers that make his mouth their Oracle his Dictates their Doctrines all Scriptural Precepts of the Subjects duties the only Canonical but the duty of Princes Apocryphal writings Tyrants have their Chaplains according to their Religions who rather preach from their Masters mouths then to their ears and principle the people according to their humors to maintain their Prerogative Hence we shall find in Scripture that wicked Kings had their Priests and Prophets of their own tempers who did always charm the people into base slavery by their base preachings Zeph. 3. 3. When the Princes in Jerusalem were rearing Lions and her Judges evening Wolves her Prophets were treacherous betraying the poor people by their cheating charmings into a stupid ●ordid and silly subjection Wicked Kings Princes Priests and Prophets are chain'd together Jer. 2. 26. they commonly keep one Court and one Councel and as they live together in sin so perish together commonly in punishment Jer. 4 9. You may see how these wicked Priests and Prophets did cling together against Jeremiah who protested against their flatteries and ●alsities Jer. 26. 7 8 10 11. See again their cursed Con●ederacy in doing evil in the sight of the Lord Jer. 32. 32. Ahab had a mind to make War against Ramath Gilead for the enlargement of his Territories he had no sooner signified his royal pleasure herein but his whole Kingdom of Priests and Prophets allarms the people to War and promise them success in the Name of the Lord yea one of them viz. Z●dekiah the son of Chenaanah like an Ape did imitate the custom of the Prophets of the Lord and makes himself Iron horns carries them unto the King as if sent by a very special Commission and tells him Thus saith the Lord With these horns shalt thou push the Syrians until thou hast consum●d them but you know they all told lyes in the Name of the Lord and one Michaiah that spake the truth they buffeted and imprisoned And was it not thus in Englands Courts during the Rule of Tyrants amongst us No sooner had the late King a resolution to war with the Scots his native Countrymen but all the Pulpits from White-hall round the Nation did allarm the people to rise up with him promising them success in the Name of the Lord Were not those wicked Kings Priests and Prophets of the English Nation link'd together as with chains of Adamant in so much that if the one be destroyed the other must fall hence grew that ominous Proverb No Bishop no King which fell out accordingly How hath God destroyed those dens of Lions those Magpyes nests those black Ravens that deceived the people with their rough garments I am no adversary to the lawful Ministry and let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth and my pen drop from my withered right hand rather then I should willingly speak or write against the Lords true Messengers but meer pretenders of the Lords message when they utter only visions of their own hearts are the abomination of my Soul 14. The greatness of his height causeth giddiness in his

and plenarily betrayed the people are ipso facto discha●g●d from their all●geance The affi●mation that the whol● peop●e in one body is inferior to on● single man who ever he be is high Trea●on against the Dignity of Mankind It was the saying of a Heath●n King I rule not my people by Tyranny as if they were Barbarians but am my self liable if I do unjustly to suffer justly And Trajan the Emperor giving a naked sword to one whom he made General of his Praetorian Forces said Take this drawn sword to use for me if I raign well if not to use it against me But a Tyrant what is he but carnivorum animal a ravenous creature a devourer of the people 9. He makes no more conscience of killing men then Moles of burning their Houses then Wasps nests of destroying whole Families then Litters of Rots As Methridates did slay fourscore thousand Citizens of Rome what need we instance the large volumes of cruel Tyrants of their heading hanging burning frying roasting scalding wracking cuting chopp●ng flaying their poor innocent subjects at their pleasure making pastime with their pains sports with their spoils witness also the rapes robberies murthers burning and destroying of so many thousand persons Cities Towns and Families by the late Tyrant in England Scotland and Ireland in his late bloody Wars and Massacres raised for the utter ruine of all those that in the least withstood his tyrannical principles and usurpations 10. He holds himself accountable to none but God alone though he believes no more God in the Heavens then man in the moon pretending most to that which his Soul most abhors Religion and Righteousness the Glory of God and the good of the people are most in his mouth when his heart loaths them and his conscience serves him to say and unsay to swear and forswear advance and abase principles and persons to satisfie his lusts Tyrants know no God but themselves Who is the Lord said Pharaoh W●o can deliver out of my hands said Nebuchadnezzar Alexander the Great commanded himself to be held a God and Apelles pictured him with a thunder-bolt Lypsius with this posie Jupiter asserui terram mihi tu assere coelum Let Jove take Heaven so the Earth be min● With which pictures Alexander was so delighted that he commanded that none should take his pictures but Lypsius and Apelles Caligula braved his god Jupiter and threatned him though at every clap of thunder or flash of lightning he would run hastily and hide himself under his bed like a wrigling worm Tullius Hostilius said That Religion did but ●ffeminate mens minds and unfit them for noble imployments but one witneseth that even this Roman King fained to himself two new gods viz. Pavorem Pallorem whom he carried about with him in h●s own bosom such wretches not fearing him that made all things are sometimes affrighted with nothing As Ahaz that trembled at the shaking of a leaf and Manasseh who hid his head among thorns and thence was taken and bound in setters 2 Chron. 33. 11. A Tyrant wants not Parasites that say to him as one said to the Pope Tu meritò in terris diceris esse Deus Thou well deservest here to be stiled a god How did the peopl●s●-blow Herod with their flatteries crying him up for a god and God makes those worms to devour him the voice of a Tyrants heart is like that of Ninive I am and there is none besides me or as Babylon I will ascend unto Heaven and set my Nest above the Stars My r●of receives me not 't is ayr I tread At every step I feel my advanc'd head Knock out a Star in Heaven said Sejanus Attilas King of Hunnes arrogantly vaunted that the Stars fell before him that the Earth trembled at his presence Caligula by certain Engines thundred and lightned as another Jupiter I will asc●n● above the height of the clouds I will be like the Most High said the King of Babel Cyrus caused this to be writ over his Sepulchre I could do all things But why then did he not preserve himself from death Zerxes was angry with the Mountains Winds Rivers the Elements if any of them crost him as if they were men under his pay At Hellespont he caused two millions of men to be w 〈…〉 d over into Greece where a suddain Tempest battering and b●ating his Boat● he caused the Sea to be st●nck with three hundred stripes and c●st a pair of setters into it to make it know to whom it was subject I have heard of a story of an English King or rather a King of England of very late dayes a great Hunter that was his worthy Character who being at Newmarket for his pleasure sake hindered in his sport by a long rain for many days together with very little or no fair weather began at last to be so really fretted thereat that he was heard to say That no King in the world was so little beholding to God Almighty as he in that he should wait a whole month together for a day of fair weather for his recreation and could not procure it or words to the like wicked purpose that one day falling fair great joy was at Court all his Troop of Courtiers mounting upon their hunting Horses and he with them and being about their game the clouds frowned upon them and at last a very great soaking shower of rain fell at which the said K●●g being in a mad fretting and frenzy fit cryed out with cursing and sweating that the world should be drowned and therefore in a scorn rode up upon the brow of a Knap upon New-market Heath if my memory fail me not in my information where he said Give me a Bible I 'le prove the world must be drowned crying out again and again Why do you not give me a Bible at last a Bible was brought him when he had it in his hands he opened it and turned and tossed it at last making a scornful mouth he threw it over his left shoulder in derision and so rod● away As for Promises Vows and Covenants these are nothing with a Tyrant he oftentimes promiseth in the word of a King and thinks his heart unsworn his solemn Oaths Vows and Covenants Protestations Imprecations and Execrations he slips as easily as Monkies do their Collers making election of those only that serve his turn and reprobates the rest So a Tyrants Maxim is out of Lucian Sceptrorum vis tota perit si poedere just● incipit Scepters are vain that do on justice stand That Principi nihil est injustum quod fructuosum a Prince ought to account nothing unjust which is profitable that it is lawful Regni causâ sceleratum esse to do any wicked thing to procure absolute Soveraignty Again that Regni causa jus violendum esse That all Laws may be violated to make way for Domination That Vbi honesta tantum dominanti lic●●● praecario r●gnatur where it is warrantable