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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67438	The Irish colours folded, or, The Irish Roman-Catholick's reply to the (pretended) English Protestants answer to the letter desiring a just and mercifall regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland (which answer is entitled The Irish colours displayed), addressed (as that answer and letter have been) to His Grace the Lord Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governour of that kingdome.	Walsh, Peter, 1618?-1688.; Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1662 (1662)	Wing W635; ESTC R17831	23,083	36

the Irish stock and Interest his imposing on and abusing of Spencer's View his next Paragraph after of Spanish Papists his displeasure at our stickling one for another desiring justice according to the fundamental laws of both Kingdomes and his Majesties gracious Promises and Concessions and yet his inconsequence in the 15. page of his Answer in stickling himself for all his own gang without exception of any and in a cause of manifest in justice even against all laws both divine and humane his something more his scribling his cogging and clawing and unfortunate proofs thereof your constant believers your passionate sticklers c. his imposture with charging me to have threatned your failing would lessen your dependencies his malicious application of my example of Joseph even against his own knowledg and the whole designe and expresse tenour of my Letter in the beginning prosecution and ending of it his grosse wilfull and affected ignorance or dissimulation rather of not knowing how the Irish came to be your brethren upon any other kindred his minding you of your Ancestors and your own unshaken loyalty to the Crown of England and of your constancy to the old Protestant Religion so impertinent to the end he drove at his own servile flatteries his unbelieved affections to or confidence in you his love to his mistresse the forced or feigned smiles he would attribute to you and the sullen aking jealousies of himself and his party those passages without being too much envied and some thing feared c. a testimony and a pawn of your Families Loyalty c. how much the English Nation might be estranged from you by your favour to the Irish c. suddenly either forgiven in heaven or forgotten upon earth his bold slander his Ravilliack and perhaps half a doozen Jesuites and perhaps half a dozen more with Cromwel and Ireton and his outward compliance c. his Birds Flyes and bare intentions his unreasonable difference twixt standing on Articles and Claiming his Majestie 's Grace held forth in the Act of Indemnity his not questioning but the same reasons which then induced His Majesty to grant it them and deny it us continue still and will doe so to both our Posterities his Long Parliament's and the following tyrannous Powers quarrel pursued against the Irish his not allowing these had fought so long that is since the peace made with your Grace for the King his having never heard and his saying that none can believe the overpowering them with multitudes and he must mean then if he speak to purpose when the last towns and places of Ireland were given up his quitting the field and running away and giving up the quarrel in the next paragraph 14. page of his book where in effect he not only acknowledges no answer given by him to my letter but in plain terms tels your Grace so much that for matter of our Articles in Forty eight which saith he the writer of that Letter presses to be observed that of Transplansplantation Corporations the disposall of the Irish lands c they are particulars he will not meddle with and yet these are all the particulars of that Letter he would seem otherwise or at least was concernd to Answer his reflection after this on that passage of mine which relates to the English Army in England as then composed and his confidence in them his other-shred or will couched threatnings his other truth which yet hath nothing more than untruth his evill Counsel immediately following his declining the parrallel and his flat refusing to answer at the weapon of holy Scripture although he brags it might be easily done or try the justice of our quarrel thereby which manifestly convinces him to have little of an English Protestant or indeed a Christian in him being he withall undertakes the patronage of such a cause or the defence of it in point of Piety and Justice which a little before that is in his 15. page he obliges himself unto Lastly the impertinency of his whole discourse if considered as an answer having not answered any one argument of all my Letter not even with satisfaction to the Reader any one of those very immaterial passages he singled out but above all the close and farr yet more dangerous design this Gentleman drives under that which is more overt in his paper to create new troubles to our Gracious King to involve his subjects in bloody confusions again and even to destroy his Sacred Majesty at last by ruining first and for ever those that have for so many years and doe yet suffer for him My Lord of all these and what ever else is regardable in his Answer I take a more particular and more exact notice in some papers I have by me then I can here because my other occasions will not yet serve me to finish them as I would nor yours I suppose your Grace to read them at this time However my Lord that reall and dutifull affection which penn'd my former Letter gives in the mean time this And withall craves your pardon if I minde you here those truly sage divine precepts which this little politick spirit of earth seem'd not to be versed in or at least either contemns or neglects For indeed my Lord he appears to me all along his writing of the number of those who see heaven and all the hopes of the other life as Mathematicians make us behold in a dark Chamber whatsoever passeth abroad through a little crany in such a manner that all things we see appear like shadows and landskips turned topsie-turvy Verily I take this Gentleman to be abused so by himself And that after he hath stopped up all the Windows and accesses to heavenly rayes he hath made a little hole for the Moon and all the blessings of the other life have seemed very slender to his distrustfull spirit and that he hath put on a resolution to make a fortune at what price soever and to build on earth like Cain after he hath almost renounced the hopes of heaven Behold the reason why with so little regret or shame he adventures to lay maximes before you that suppose to hold on a course in all affaires and Governments of the world which may be crafty captious worldly unjust yea cruel too and inhumane when it is for their interest and a course however which may be alwayes independent of divine laws if not for some popular apparence But my Lord the proofs you have constantly given of your chast apprehensions of a God and a Providence ruling the Universe of a strong vertue and a resolution firm unchangable therein both in your prosperous fortune as well now as heretofore and in that condition which hath been so long most adverse and hath tryed you like gold in the Furnace together with your two great successive Masters on earth whom you have served most faithfully in all changes and in obedience to that heavenly One whom all Servants and Masters too must revere

make all that know you well be very confident this Enchanter hath laboured in vain to charm you And me no lesse That you had rather take your maximes and measures and rules and examples of Government from the Oracles of God from the equity of the Laws from the dictates of your own severe Conscience and from the model of so many great honourable and holy Statesmen who flourished in the succession of all Ages and govern'd succesfully their people then from the vain illusions and wicked policy of a Machiavel or Achitophel or from the diastrous undertakings and sad Catastrophe of either themselves or of those they tutord Never was there a more refined wit then Achitophel of whom the Scripture said Consilium Achitophel quasi si quis consuleret Deum That men consulted with him as with a God Yet never was there any more unhappy in his practice For having disposed of the affairs of the Kingdom and those of his own house there remaining none to be provided for but his own person he took a halter and hang'd himself because they approved not one of his Counsels Nor ever was any more unhappy then Machiavel in all his enterprizes notwithstanding his great list of refined precepts And for those two unfortunate Princes that were Schollars or patterns to them Absalom and Duke Valentinois besides hundreds more that would not be wise by their fate we know what end they had Besides my Lord you consider it hath been the judgemet neer two thousand years ago even of that very great Polititian Thucidides and ever since a general observation as it is to day of all well understanding men that those curious wits despoiled of the fear of God have alwayes been most turbulent and unhappy in the manage both of their own affairs and the publick also As on the contrary those who had not so much knowledge and invention but pursued the general instinct of God have held their Estates better govern'd in simplicity more prosperous in the ignorance of evil and much more in the lasting of their felicity And your own reading can furnish you with sufficient proofs that ordinarily the most unhappy among States have been those who have made the greatest shew of knowledge to deceive under humane Policy That is it which overthrew the Commonwealth of the Athenians That which ruined the house of Jeroboam who revolting against his Prince having raised a State by ambition and a Religion out of phantasie having seen the Altas crack with the horror of his crimes and his heart still remaining more obdurate then stone in the end he is so chastised by the hand of God that there was not left so much as one handful of dust of his house upon the face of the earth Domus Jeroboam eversa est deleta de supersicie terrae And even that which undid the very first King of Gods own election For this unfortunate Prince while he makes shew punctually to obey the Law of God under the direction of Samuel but afterwards learns to become cunning envious faithless plotting designes consulting Pythonesses and seeking in all points his own petty interests poor David whose life this King judged without any other cause but envy incompatible with his own estate dismounts him using no other policy but that of making himself an honest man Holy Scripture and other Monuments of latter and former times can further tell your Grace that considering so many other Politicians who made profession to refine all the world who attempted to practice according to their own vain Idea's either you have seen but the first station of their plaistered felicity or have ever found great labyrinths horrible confusions fortunes little lasting dejection in their posterity hatred and the execration of Ages And that you may without enquiry or trouble to your thoughts behold with a ready eye how there is no policy powerful against God and how he surpriseth the most subtle making snares of their greatest cunning to captive them see my Lord in the book of Hester that wicked Aman the great Favourite of Assuerus ●…ho practised as our Gentleman doth the ruine of the Hebrews who prevailed so far as to have the lots cast and warrants sign'd and proclamation made thereof in Sushan and a day prefixed for the general slaughter of that Nation young and old men women and children and Courriers dispatch'd to all Provinces of the Empire to command the execution while these forlorn people dispersed as they were then among strangers moved heaven and earth to pity with their yellings because they saw not how the Decree was avoidable see this wicked Aman resolved on so horrid an act as was the destruction of so many millions and resolved upon it only to be revenged on Mordecai that saved the King from murder and after this to raise himself with the wealth of the destroyed all which the King bestowed upon him at the same time See this Politician of Hell yea notwithstanding all his power and favour ruin'd in a moment yea within three dayes after the Decree published and ruin'd by this very Mordecai a contemptible worm of the earth till then in Amans apprehension See presently a countermand of the bloody Edicts Aman forced to lead Mordecai's horse and cry him in the streets of Susan the greatest Lord of the Empire next the King and himself next day after raised indeed but on a gibbet of fifty cubits high to humble him for ever by the most ignominious death could be while the Jews on that very day by him designed for utter destruction saw themselves masters and even by the Kings commandment to all his Lieutenants and other Subjects executioners in the Kings own Court Susan of the ten sons of their great enemy and of eight hundred more two dayes continually and in other Provinces throughout the Empire of threescore and fifteen thousand men who had before conspired against them with Aman. Besides this my Lord see one example more very pertinent in the book of Exodus Behold Pharaoh turn'd ungrateful and forgetful of all the obligations laid by Joseph on him See this Pharaoh becoming crafty and thinking by ruinating the Israelits his Scepter is throughly established But see withall how God surprizeth him in his subtilty and makes him know the oppression of this poor people is the instrument of his ruine A little child which lyeth floating on the waters of Nilus in a cradle of bulrushes as a worm hidden in straw and whose afflicted mother measureth his tomb with her eyes in every billow of this faithless element is delivered from peril by the very blood of Pharao to turn the Diadem of Pharao into dust and bury him with all his Nobles and an army of two hundred thousand men with him as Josephus writes all enflamed in a gulph of the red Sea But my Lord I have almost forgot my self being transported on this subject whereon the temerity of my Answerer hath engaged me to dilate not that I