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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48411	The Life of Boetius recommended to the author of the life of Julian		1683 (1683)	Wing L2024; ESTC R20135	33,660	110

Servants I would ask the SQUIRE himself whether we have not reason to believe infallibly and hand over head every PLOT and every Story of their recommendation and especially since we find they can at pleasure cry down and in effect perjure any Witness even those that have assured us upon their Words and Oaths and what else has yet proved it of a Damnable and Hellish PLOT of the PAPISTS against the KING But since I am comparing the Faith Principles and Actions of the True Protestants and the Papists whom the said SQUIRE makes worse than Pagans I would fain know of him whether the proceedure of the Papists in the kind we are now speaking of was not something fairer even in the Reign of QUEEN MARY For in all her Time tho' she highly dislik'd her Sister ELIZABETH's Religion and had also a pique against her Person upon the account of their Mothers Quarrel yet never was there one VOTE of Parliament and much less a BILL for her EXCLUSION And what is yet more when WYAT was taken who was a Protestant and General or chief Commander in his Insurrection He accused the said Princess ELIZABETH as a Complotter yet for all that neither the Queen nor the Councel would believe him notwithstanding the probability of the Accusation so that when he was brought to the place of Execution and finding no benefit or encouragement by his Lye like another Fits-Harys He ask'd God and his Prince forgiveness for that horrid Crime and so dyed X. But Tenthly to proceed with the Parall●l they are the better ●hrictians who assist their Prince and are ●riends to his Friends than they who still speak ill of Dignities who watch for every occasion to oppose ensl●ve their Sovereign and who think it a sufficient cause to hate any man and persue him unto Death if he offers to stand for the King's Honour and Prerogative I shall not now speak what the Papists did during the late troubles of Charles I. and II. Vidistis enim sua narret Vlisses I mean let Mr. Iulian repeat his and the True Protestant Loyalty for we have been all eye Witnesses of the Popish actions I say I intend not to speak what either Party did from 41 to the King's Restauration but what they have done since On the one hand then if any Royalist or Faithful Subject stood Candidate at an Election he had to be sure the Voices of all the Papists there If there happened to be any of your Strictlands or your Swalls in the lower-Lower-House to wit new Converts as the busie Priests call them their Votes fell ever we see on the Crown side If again any thing for the King's Advantage and Honour came to be proposed to the Lords let it be even the readmission of the Bishops the Catholick Noble-men fai●'d not with a Nemine Contradicente to be for it Again if the King thinks a War for his Honour and In●erest to be best the Papists at home will not only approve and abet it but the Do●glasses and the other considerable Officers abroad leave at the first Comm●nd their respective great Imployments and returne If Tangier be in distress if Argiers troublesome or any other publick Misfortunes appear these Gentlemen become all on a sudden chang'd into Presbyterians and Phanaticks that is to say they se●m Surley Dogged and wholy ou● of humou● but if any happy News arrive whom do we find more gay than the● and wh●se Bonefire makes a greater Flame Now on the other side not to speak of the actual insurrections of the True Protestants since the King's return what C●v●lier or known Servant to the Monarchy has been designed ●or any Elective Office but had his whole life ript up with a thou●and addi●ional l●es and Nick-names of Papist Pensioner c. on purpose to put him by the S●ddle What Stout Pe●r or Man of Honour crost a Seditious Int●igue but was presently pointed at as a Sta●●ordian and as unfit for any Tr●st and Imployment In our late War what Artifices have been us'd to put His Majesty upon streights or if that miscarried how have they rai●'d at the King's Councellors and Advisers so that Doleman and others of the Cabal might without censure M●n the Enemies Ships up to Chatham and the Fitz-Patrics and the rest Command Boilduke and the Adjacent Coast tho' it were to hinder and oppose our Landing As for T●ngier and Argiers the Mahometans are not ignorant of the ●rinkling and good wi●hes of th●ir Brethren he●e and that Coll. Sackvil and Admiral Herbert have had many a Prayer at least many a hearty ●jaculation offered up for their Ruine and Con●usion seeing the King by their Galantry has fewer Irons in the fi●e than before No wonder then ●hey abhor all publick Ioy and that instead of contributing to the Festivity they 'l put out their very candles and even cover their Hearths as if William the Conqueror's Coverfeu-Bell were still Ringing One Bonefire I must needs confess they now Religiously observe viz. That on the Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation tho' they never intended by it to shew any hearty hatred to the Pope or any sincere Reverence and affection to the memory of that great Princess but only to vent their inveterate Malice against the whole Line of the STUARTS for as the Old True Protestants were goads in the Sides and prickles in the Eyes of Her Majesty during her whole Reign so their Faithful and Legitimate Children continue the same rancour by railing at and breaking those Laws of Hers which preserving the uniformity of the Ppotestant Religion are the certain cause of our present Peace and Quiet And if the meer disgracing of his good Holiness were the Design of ●he Solemnity the 5 th of November would be much the fitter day she having been a Papist and He thereupon an open and declar'd Enemy so that every thing he did against Her might in some manner be expected whereas King Iames and He were not at any particular odds which renders every Plot of His against His Majesty more reflecting and odious But Saints care not for congruities their aim being only to blacken the present Royal Family add by crying up the Protestant the Protestant Queen to insinuate as if all the STUARTS were ever Papists But this I must acknowledge is no new thought or invention of the Gang but a small improvement of their Fathers practice after the Murder of Charles I. for they then made Her our last Monarch and therefore never but by accident destroy'd and pull'd down any Statue Arms or Ensigns of Regality during our Bondage under them unless those that related to this Princely and Glorious House Seeing then by their former and present Artifices the English World has undoubted assurance of their Loyalty and Affection to th● Government 't is no marvel if they should destroy the very ●redit and belief of the late PLOT For who can we upon second thoughts hear●ily blame for want o●

then really represented The Murders men saw the Saies and Sequestrations they felt and the Slavery they were reduc'd to want still perchance a Pen fu●ly to express them for tho they had not Six new Ma●ters in one Year as was the ●ate of a still Fortunate and Glorious Isle if it truly knew its own Happiness yet they enjoy'd even in their own Memory as appears by Prosper Aquita●us Palmerius and other Chronologists the pleasure of as many ●●roads each Conquerour differing in his Interests tho never in his Pretences and Fury Alaric and his Goths Attila the Hun Genseric the Vandal ●igorus King of the Alani and Odoacer with the Heruli treading as it were upon the heels of each ot●er acted here their Monstrous Parts Nor did some of them fail as Iornandes well notes in the midst of their Depredations and Cruelties to vaunt That Heaven had put them on the Employment that is to say In the phrase of their younger Brethren They came to do the Work of the Lord and if so They were doubtless very far from the Curse of Performing it negligently In fine Theodoric the Brave and thus He is esteem'd by Cassiodorus Ennodius and many of the Writers of those times came not only with his Ostrogoths and a drawn Sword to Crop this kind of Rump or Fag End of these Wild Peripatetics and Wanderers but with a Title also for that Kingdom was formally given him as Paulus Diaconus and Sigonius mention by Zeno the Eastern Emperour who being ●et a Living Member of that mighty Eagle which once stretcht her Victorious Wings over the best Part of the habitable Earth thought He had still at least the Advouzon and ●resentation to the West The Fortune of this Mar●ial Man answer'd expectation nor can any body in few Words ●xpress fuller the Happiness of his Arrival than Heylin does when he tells us That He reduc'd Italy which before was the Thorough-Fare of the Barbarous Nations and so disorder'd by the frequent Inundations of Lust and Rapine to su●h a peaceable and settled Government that they quite lost the Memory of their former Miseries The Entry also of this Monarch into Rome was correspondent to the high Esteem the World had of him for tho that City ever surpast all others in the glorious Reception of her great and Famous Commanders ye● now as the same Sigonius words it Her Citizens did even out-do themselves so that in short He was received with all the Acclamations and Applause that could possibly be exprest by Art as well as by the Passions of the Inhabitants 'T is true Theodoric was a Goth and therefore the Pope and He were not of a Communion but happening to be a Generous Prince and declaring himself a Friend and Patron to every Honest Christian all Peace and Concord ensued Nor did his Actions and Words dif●er since in the very choice of his Officers and great Ministers of State he considered not Parties but the Merits of his Subjects and so among others sixt upon Boetius notwithstanding his Education and known Zeal for the Roman Religion Boetius was a Man if we consider the Antiquity of his House equal to Rome her self and descended also from Ancestors not inferior to any of her greatest Heroe's for being a Manlius he was of a prime Consular Family and which is more Heir to the Illustrious Marcus who by preserving the Capitol rescu'd not onl● the Standard or Imperial ●nsign but sav'd the very Life it self of the Government He had also the same Blood warming his Charitable Breast as ran in 〈◊〉 Veins of the Renowned Torquatus who tearing from the neck of his Conquer'd Enemy ●he ●hain or Emblem tho of Gold of the Servitude which his Countrey might have fallen under made himself by that Bravery Author as it were of a Magna Charta shewing also all along the Passion he had for their Liberties for Worthy Men are ever truly Solicitous of their Fellow Subjects Freedom and still promoting without By-Ends all their Iust Rights and Priviledges Imaginable 'T were endless to repeat the Benef●t which the whole World being at last in a manner subject to this Triumphant City must needs receive by the Example and Conduct of this thrice Noble Clan that did Justice even upon it self by cha●tising a Child who preferr'd as Livy shows the Capricios of his own Humour before Authority A Great and a Roman Action it was notwithstanding our modern Romanists in their Brags pretend to it as boasting they are all not only Obedient as far as God Commands to their Spiritual Governours but that their said Governours are as Circumspect and as Severe too against the Fanatical Illuminati or Pretenders to Shams and Miracles among themselves as against those they term Aliens and out of the Houshold of Faith This Manlian Impartiality which is cry'd up by several Antient Authors pleases Florus so well that he says Quis Hostem mirabitur c. Who could wonder that Rome's Enemies should yield when she had such Generals Nay Livy in the 9 th of his 1 st Decad● represents the said strict ●●ther as a Captain That would have given check to Alexand●r himself had his ●ourse been W●stward● a Man able it seems to stop that Progress which Novelty and sudden Accidents still bring upon an amaz'd and unthinking People Boetius being thus supereminent by the Antiquity Fortitude and Conduct of his Family no body can deem it strange his Personal Virtues were transcendent for he was as all Writers con●ess Wise like an Oracle Skill'd as another Moses in all the Learning of the Egyptians and of a Piety ●●●●m●●ng a sincere Professor of the Holy Gospel His Rhetoric was also of a piece with his other Sciences so that the Senate chose him of all her Eloquent Members to Complement the King in a set Oration at his Arrival which tho it be lost is excellent we are sure by being of his Composition and especially since it brought him into his Sovereigns good Graces who soon afterwards found out his many and Matchless Qualities Theodoric as I said was a Christian Prince of a healing Temper and knowing besides that at the Long Run the Government still loses by Iarrs in Religion steer'd on a contrary Rhumb to the malicious JULIAN for instead of putting Altar against Altar as was the Custom of that Hater of the Christian Name he compos'd even the Papal Schism of Symmachus and Laurentius a● may be seen in Anastasius Bib●iothecarius and others which plainly shows That a gallant and well meaning ●rince may not only in Italy and Scotland but in England also deserve the Thanks of the Reverend Bishops and Clergy for his Patronage tho he and they should chance to differ in some Points of Faith Neither did he acquiesce in this one Act but heartily carest all the good Prelates who made application to him So that Epiphanius