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A86113	The right of dominion, and property of liberty, whether natural, civil, or religious. Wherein are comprised the begining and continuance of dominion by armes; the excellency of monarchy, and the necessity of taxes, with their moderation. As also the necessity of his Highness acceptation of the empire, averred and approved by presidents of præterit ages, with the firm settlement of the same against all forces whatsoever. / By M.H. Master in Arts, and of the Middle Temple.	Hawke, Michael.	1655 (1655)	Wing H1172; Thomason E1636_1; ESTC R202383	79,995	208

delayes Ovid. Nam mora damnosa est nec res dubitare remittit For dangerous is delay wherein the matter cannot permit debate If Themistocles and Aristides Scipio and Fabius Maximus had spent their opportunity in Ratiocinations when the peril was eminent the enemy had surprized them ere they had concluded what to act Celeritas in conficiendo was one of the Elogies of Pompey the Great which Curtius principally ascribeth to Alexander and Suetonius to Caesar who were so suddaine in their exploites that Justin relates of Alexander Vt quem venire non senserunnt videre vix crederent That whom they perceived not to come they scarcely believed to see him when he was come And Florus of Caesar Ante victum esse hostem quàm visum That the enemy was overcome before he was seen 3. It is more facile to finde one good man then many and lesse subject to corruption or avarice Rari quippe boni Whereas many are more impious and ravenous ever sucking and never satisfied Though among the Romans there were severe Lawes against corruption and bribery yet prevailed they little with the Senate and people for which Jugurth opbraided them with this Sarcarsme O urbem venalem mature perituramsi emptorem invenerit O mercenary and corrupt City which soon would perish if it should finde a Chapman And Marius well experienced in their conditions brought into the Common Court bushels of Silver to purchase the peoples Suffrages for which reason Plato calleth the popular Government of the Athenians Nundinas venales merchandizing Marts Synt. Vae Jur. l. 47. c. 15. wherein poverty and ignorance so prevailed that what they did vote one day they altered the other as within one day they condemned and absolved the Mytelenians Wherefore as Tholosanus it is more tolerable to live under the Dominion of one then of many and to bear what Taxes and Subsidies shall by him be imposed because the necessity of one is soone satisfied whereas the necessity of many is insatible who if they should be satisfied one after another the substance of the State might be exhausted The witty fable of Aesop is not impertinent to this purpose Arist Rhet. ad Alex. c. 20 who faineth a Fox swimming over a River to fall into a pitfal out of which for a long space being unable to extricate herselfe many Dog-flyes seised on her and sucked out her blood whose misery the Hedge-hogge pittying offered to pull off those Flyes but the Fox refused it saying that those Flyes being full did draw little blood whom being pulled off many hungerstarved ones would succeed and suck out all the blood remaining The which they know to be true by practice who are experienced in the mutations of many Governors It is therefore more eligible and profitable to have one blood-sucker rather then many one Tyrant rather then more for as Gessendus De Philo. Epi. c. f. 1648. In polyarchia sunt tyranni plures in Oligarohia pauci in Monarchia unus ergo ex pessimis melior In the government of many there are many Tyrants in the goverment of a few are few in the government of one but one And therefore of the worse the better and consequently of the better the best for Contrariorum eadem est ratio which Patricius though he lived under the Senate and people of Siena De Mon. Arist l. 1. Tel. 1. ingenously acknowledgeth with whose sweet sentence I will shut up this Section Quid enim suavius aut magis optandum mortalibus quam sub optimo rege principe privatam agere vitam sine injuria populi ambitione What is more sweet or more to be desired of mortals then to to lead a private life under a very good King and Prince without injury or ambition of the people CHAP. XV. 1. The end of Government 2. What Civil Liberty is 3. Good Princes are the peoples Servants and to live under such is the onely Liberty THe foundation and conservation of Empires and Government being premised the end is to be inferred which as the Philosopher is causa causarum 3. Met. c. 2. because all things are for it The end then of Government is the peoples felicity Arist 7. Pol. c. 2. and that government is best according to whose ordinances 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every one may live happily which happinesse as Cicero consists in these two things in their Protection and in their Procuration of convenient necessaries Tull. off 1. Vt enimtutela sic procuratio reipub ad utilitatem eorum qui commissi sunt non ad eorum quibus commissa est gerendae est For as the Protection so the Procuration of the Commonweale is to be managed to the utility of those who are committed to its charge and not to the utility of those to whom it is committed And herein saith the Philosopher the excellency of a Prince shineth that he hath a care of his Subjects 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist 8. Eth. c. 11. that they may do well as a Pastor hath of his Flock hence saith he Homer called Agamemnon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the the Pastor of the people for which reason also Kings were antiently called Abimelech that is pater meus and lately by the Romans patres patriae Fathers of their Countries for their paternal Procuration L. 1. de repub c. 1. and provident tuition as by Seneca tutores status publici The Greecians stiled them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Barcl l. 1. contra Monarc f. 206. quod sint basis firmamentum populi because they be the foundation and stability of the people columen populi and their supporters Jun. Brut. Sir Edward Cook calleth the Kinge of England Sponsus regni the Spouse of the Kingdome who by the Ceremony of a Ring was wont to be married to the Kingdome intimating thereby the love and care Princes ought to have and bear to their Spouse and State and further addeth that Kings are ex officio to govern and preserve their people which is the essential difference the Philosopher putteth between a King and a Tyrant Arist 8. Eth. c. 10. for a Tyrant saith he proposeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what is profitable to him selfe but a King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what is commodious to his subjects whom Buchunan seconds De Jur. reg apud Scotoi saying Qui sibi gerunt imperium non reipub utilitati qui regnum non dei donum sed praedam oblatam credunt tyranni sunt Dei omnium hostes who govern for their own good not for the good of the Common-weale who believe a Kingdome not to be the gift of God but an adventitial booty are Tyrants and enemies of God and all men And as the end of Government is the peoples felicity so the felicity of a Prince consisteth in the felicity of the people as Grotius Grot. d. I. b. and p.

the Lord hath poured on him cannot believe he will leave him but compleat and accomplish this wondrous work in him For the great works of the Lord are contrary to the conceits of men and though extraordinary miracles be ceased yet the divine power is alwayes assistant to the ordinary power of nature by which many times are produced extraordinary acts above the reach of humane apprehension which is apparent in the various and marvellous victories obtained by him in the name of the Lord of Hosts whose providences among us are not to be out matched by any story And if we impartially and judiciously examine the present postures of the State we shall clearly see the Lords workmanship shining in it according to the power of nature or rules of policy For though the malignant and incessant enemy is sedulous in forging stratagems to its disturbance and distraction yet is it by the divine finger so firmly founded on the faithfull and pious affections of the more potent party that they are presaged before conceived and prevented before perpetrated For though there remain in it many factions of which the Royal and Papistical party are most seditious and both numerous the one containing in number forty thousand fighting persons Europ Spec. and the other perhaps more yet are the first by their just censures of sequestrations discouraged and by their late compositions so obliged that they tremble to enterprise any publike act against the State unlesse such as are fugitives whose estates are exposed to sale and no way considerable As also the second is much diminished by their recantations and acceptance of the oath of abjuration Many and some of the chiefest preferring the blessings of their estates before the curses of Rome and both the lesse perillous because irreconciliably divided as Opposites in Religion which hath a potent sway over the minds of men and besides are unarmed and upon any pregnant suspition safely secured either by transporting them into forraign Islands or by removing them to remote places according to the antient custome of the Romans who were wont so to dispose of their seditious Delinquents The considerable party only remaineth which generally profess themselves Protestants and concord for the most part in the principal Doctrine of Salvation by Faith in Christ though they otherwise vary concerning some disputable questions and less material and are the less turbulent b●cause permitted severally without restraint to exercise their consciences Besides most of them are by strong and Politique tyes linked unto the State either by publique imployments or private interests many of them having at a considerable rare purchased the Revenues and Lands of the late King Praelates or Delinquents that though some of them through envy or other sinister conceit distast the present proceedings and others vary among themselves concerning some niceties of Religion yet will they upon any turbulent or seditious occasion as one man unite their forces to repell the common enemy Compellit in unum commune periculum etiam inimicissimos Ar. Pol. l. 5. c 5. as common dangers use to d●aw and force together the greatest adversaries and not to expose themselves and estates to the cruelty and tyranny of merciless Invaders and the rapine and spoil of a necessitous and ravenous rabole of desperate male-contents who suborn furious Emissaries to scatter the seeds of discord and sedition in every place which may make all things opportune for their rebellious incursions of which we have received an ocular testimony in the last tumultuous hurley-burley which was but momentary by reason that the Royal Party for fear of future censures were dismaid and the confiding party by rewards and interests incited whereby that tempestuous sedition was suddenly suppressed and like a thundering storm after a clap or two vanished into vanity So stable is the settlement of this State founded on the rock of a confident and trusty party with the true-hearted Militia that the impetuous winds of commotions and outragious tempests of rebellions cannot shatter or shake it but the more violently they beat upon it the more miserably are they dissipated which is opposite to the conceit of the Royallists who are led with a fond hope that the inheritance of the Crown is indissolubly entailed to the issue and cannot be cut off whereas succession was lately invented to avoid competition and interregnum and hath often been interrupted by arms and that Gordian knot cut in pieces by the Sword As Canutus with his Sword did cut off the right of Edmond and was by it crowned King of England and so by it did Stephen disinherit Maud the right heir and in the bloody wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster wherein fourscore of the Royal blood perished he who had the sharpest sword carried the Crowne and as Baron Thorp of all those five and twenty Kings and Queens which have since William the Conquerours time ruled among us there were scarcely seven of them who could pretend legally to succeed their former Predecessors either by lineal or collateral title and it is malum omen Turselius to the Royal Issue that such Princes as have been for tyranny expelled by their Subjects have never been remitted though they had stronger forces to attempt it Though Tarquinius Superbus had valiant sons to second him Florus and the redoubted King of Porsenna with a proud Army to assist him and force Rome to his subjection yet were they ignominiously repelled and for fear forced to retreat And after that he through the powerful Alliance of Manlius had drawn into a confederacy with him thirty several Potentates to restore him to his Royalty yet were they by the Dictator Aurelius Posthumus vanquished and forced to flight and the Tarquinian hopes thereby utterly frustrated The like was attempted by Hippias the brother of the Tyrant Pisistratus for his tyranny slain by Harmodius and Aristogiton who endeavouring to vindicate his brothers slaughter was expelled Athens and thereupon procured Darius with formidable forces to invade Athens in his behalf and for his restitution yet were they by the invincible virtue of Milti●des profl●gated and two hundred thousand of the enemies destroyed Atque horret animus meus memoria repetere and it makes my heart tremble and bleed to remember how many horrible and deadly battels which the large and copious pen of Livy is scarce able to repeat the late King and Prince have undertaken to regain their forfeited and lost Royalty wherein they have been continually discomfited to the destruction of the one and exclusion of the other and to the lamentable ruine of a great part of the Nobility and Gentry Quicquid delirant Reges plectuntur Achivi Quae igitur intemporiae illos tenent What kind of phrensie therefore possesseth these men who being not void of reason will not be instructed by experience the Mistress of unreasonable creatures for the Fish escaping the hook will carefully beware of the fatal bait And as the Satyrist