The most Dangerous Poverty Corruption the Cause of Scarcity * A word us'd in Westminster Schoole when a Boy Counterfeits Sick Private Hoards breed Publique Penury The Composition of Wicked Ministers of State The Misery of them If either they look Back Forward Round about Above them Bâ—low or within them The Sollicâ—tous estate of the Guilty Taxes may cause or occasion a Scarcity divers wayes Subjâ—cts are to Obey without Disputing ☜ Note Leave no Marque standing to remember a Discourtesie by Josh. 4. 6. Shiftings passes for Wisdome Excessive Building Knavery of â—radesmen Pride The Coâ—ntry is sure to be undone by a Waâ—r The Fruits of it A Discontented Nobleman Ambition Pride Râ—venge The Rich Chuâ—le The Contentious Free bornâ—Subject ☜ The Dangerous mixture of a Representative The Designing Party Their Industry and Combination The Matter they work upon Their Maner of Proceedâ—ng ☜ The Permâ—tters of Seditious Contrivements The Deserters of their Trust are taken off by Profit Pleasure Vanity by Sloth and Neglect ☜ by Partiality Passion Fear or Personal Animosity Fools are fit Instâ—umâ—nts for Knâ—ves Love and Reverence are the Pillars of Majesty The Power of a Prince depends upon the Love of his People The Grâ—unds of Sedition Let a Prince Stick to his Laws and his People will stick to him The Oath of Protecting implyes a Power of Protecting Where a King has it not in his Power to Oppresse his People They have it in Theirs to Destroy their King ☜ A Mixture of Indulgence and Severity Obliges the Loyall and Aws the Refractary The Influeâ—ce of Prudence and Courage Aâ— Prince that bears Affronts and Familiarities from his Subjects Lessens himself How to hindâ—r the Sprâ—ading of a Seditious Humour ☜ Let a Prince keep an Eye over Great Assemblies Let him be Quâ—ck and Watchfull The mostdangeâ—â—us of all Sects A sure way to prerent Schisme Have a Care ☜ The Presbyterians Set-form And Methode Their Modesty ☞ The means of Preventing Schisme Object Petition fâ—â— Peace pag. 4 5. Answ. The Hazzards of Toleration ☜ The Foundaâ—ion of Presbytery ☞ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pag. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pag. 239. Let Pagans blush at These Christians ☜ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pag. 263. The Growth of Schisme ☜ A Noble Resolve Let the Prince Reform betime And Impartially Note Ambition is the Cause no matter what 's the Cry Corrupt Divines and Lawyers are in the forlorne of all Rebellions ☞ But the Contrary are the Pillars and Blessings of Society The Common Crime of Vitious Lawyers is Avarice The Basest of Corruptions An Ignorant Judg is a Dangerous Minister And so is a Timorous A hard matter to make a good choice A Rule to Chuse by He nugâ— sâ—riâ— duc 〈◊〉 in mala ☞ A way to prevent Treasonous Mistakes The Contrivers of Seditions are of Three Sorts The Puritan ☞ Religion is but Talk Every man for himself A Traytour is of no Religion No ill Story The Presbyterian has gotten a Streyn A Ceremony may be as well impos'd as a 〈◊〉 ☜ ☞ Ambition dangerous in a Favourite A Caution Ambition does better in a Souldiour then in a Counsellour It is the Interest of a Prince to dispose of Offices by Particular Direction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pag. 240. How to 〈◊〉 an Insolent Favourite The Danger of a Favourite that upholds a Faction And menage of his Design St. 〈◊〉 Bacon ☜ How to disappoint an Ambitious Design Favouritâ—s necessary to the Prince and desirable to the People Concerning the Choice of Servants Let them be Honest and Fit Of approved Loyalty to thâ— Father Not upon Recommendation Publique Natures for Publique Places Not One to all Purposes Let a Prince set his Confident his Bounds afore-hand In Points of Conscience Honour and Convenience let not a Favourite presse the Sovereign The Danger of Over greatnesse as to the People A Proud man in Power Easily crush'd A Covetous Great man The Mischief of False Intelligence Good Advice 〈…〉 Counsel 〈◊〉 ☞ Prudence provides for the worst Reward and â—unishment keep People in Order Honest Truths are Dangerous A Case put The Lower Region of the Court. Four or Five Beggers in Chief ☞ Corrupt Officers a General Pest. Ill-Pay the reason of Ill-Payment Want of Mony makes People Religious The Ill-principled Courtier Dangers from the Camp How Mutinies may be caused ☜ Good Pay will bear good Discipline Modelling and Disâ—banding are dangerous How to New-Modell an Army How to Dis-band The Causes of Revolts A good Choice is the best Security against a Revolt The Danger of an Illâ—order'd City ☜ Pretext of Religion is a dangerâ—us and wicked Quarrell Is there a God Or â—s there None All Seditions proceed from Misgovernment Begin with the Clergy to prevent Schisme Let the Magistracy be well-affected Oppression procur'd by Ill Instruments ☞ Though the Levy be Extraordinary let the way be Ordinary Privileges are Sacred ☞ Poverty is a terrible Enemy The Prince not to forsake his Metropoliâ— Let the Choice be Legall and Prudent ☜ Better the Sovereign Reforme then the Counsell The effects of a Good Choyce and of a Bad. The Mischieves of Partiality ☜ 〈◊〉 a â—yranny then 〈◊〉 Anarchy The Antient Prudence of England for the Prevenâ—ing of Seditâ—ons The Custome of 〈◊〉 or Frank-Pledges The Condition of it Oathes of Allegeance The Judges Charge concerning Tâ—easons c. Knights Service Commission of Array Libido Dominandi Causa Bâ—lli Sal. The King is above Ambition And the Commons Below it ☞ The Interests of the King and Commons are Inseperable The Peerage are either as Petty Kings 〈◊〉 Subjâ—cts The Excellent Government of England was subverâ—ed by a mean â—action Security lost us ☞ A word to my Back fâ—iends Object Answ. Ask Doctor Owen and 〈…〉 That was Anglicâ—e D. â— A Private Person may discover a Publique Enemy The King the Law the Parliment and the Counsell are Sacred Beware of Imputing the faults of a Faction to the Government The Faction has a great Advantage The Presbyterians are True to their Principles but not to their Profession Their Industry ☞ Two Libels The Libellers Character Kings had need to be well enform'd ☜ ☞ 8 H. 6. 11. 11 H. 6. 6. Edict Iuly 7. 1606. Ill Appearances The Custome of Frank-Pledges revived ☜ Discoveries Rewarded Judges in their circuits are good Intelligencerg ☞ How This Discourse may become usefull Treasons Encouraged ☜ Why was Late King Murther'd Not for Religion Nor Tyranny Nor Cruelty Nor for want of Abilities and Valour Nor for Impiety or Intemperance The Kings Indulgence was his Ruine Presbytery is a Specifique Poyson to Monarchy king Iames his Answer to a Presbyterian Queen Elizabeth â—uieted the Schismatiques by Severity Sâ—r did King Iames. Three Disadvantages of King Charles the martyr The Originall of his Troubles The Progresse of them The House of Commons Affronts him The King put to a sad Choice ☜ The Kings Speech The Bounties of the Faction are Baites The Petition of Right His Majesties first Answer to the Petition of Right The Commons Cavill The King Passes the Bill The Commons Requitall His Majesty Explains himself The Commons Inquisition and Insolence ☜ The Protestation of the Commons Their Contest and Dissolution The Kings Mercy Abusâ—d ☜ Abus'd again ☜ The King Betray'd by his Counsell Scotch Declar. Pag. 124. The Kings Mercy again abus'd The Ingratitude of the Scotch Presbyterians Now see the English The Bounty and Grace of the King The Requital of the Presbyterians ☞ His Majesties Patience and Goodnesse Ruin'd him The Kings grand Fatalityes
Schismes may be kept out of the CHURCH Their Encrease hinder'd and the Seditious Consequences of Them Prevented with the Remedies of other Mischiefs arising from Disorders in the CHURCH SInce so it is that Divisions in the Church have no further Interest in This place then as they Lead to Seditions in the State the shortest Cuâ—t I know will be to reduce all of That Tendency to Sr Francis Bacon ' s Notable Comprizall of Them under Two Properties If a New â—ct have not Two Propertyes fear it not for says he it will not spread The One is the Supplanting or the Opposing of Authority established For Nothing is more Popular than That The Other is the Giving Licence to Pleasures and a Voluptuous Life For as for speculative Heresyes such as were in Antient Times the Arrians and now the Arminians though they work mightily upon Mens Wits yet they do not produce any great Alterations in States except it be by the Help of Civill Occasions Now when a Prince meets with a Faction Thus Marq'd let him Look to himself for there are against him the best Counterfeit of a Friend and the most Deadly Composition of an Enemy the Strongest of all Allurements the most Popular of all Designs and the most Rationall Meanes to Accomplish it But the Question will be How to Prevent what is not as yet Discover'd To which we answer that the Sect here spoken of is New either Absolutely or Comparatively If Absolutely Observe what Carnall Interest they drive If Comparatively marque what Copy they follow and Measure the Disciple by his Master One Safe and Certain Remedy be the Novelty what it will is not to suffer any Innovation whatsoever without a warrantable Authority no not so much as a Publick Dispute against an Establish'd Order from a Private Person Nay more let the Dissent be Right or Wrong 't is the same thing as to the Reason of Government though not so to the Conscience of the Dissenter Suppose the Subject of an Idolatrous Prince within his Masters Dominions and Contrary to his Expresse Order Preaches against the Religion there Establish'd he does well to Discharge his Conscience but let him have a Care of the Consequence for if in Order to the making of Good Christians he makes Bad Subjects his Zeal will hardly acquit him of Sedition God does not allow of Proposing Good Ends by Ill Means and of Reforming Religion by Rebellion Let him have a Care likewise if he comes to suffer for well-doing how he behaves himself for if he but open his Mouth against the Civill Magistrate as a Persecutour he betrayes himself to be an Hypocrite There are Two Sects whom I dare say This Doctrine will not please i.e. the Pontifical Presbyterians and the Rigid Iesuites The Latter of which have for Convenience sake been True to One King The Former give the Devill his Due since Presbyterians had a Being were never True to Any or if they ever were let him that Loves Them best or knows them better shew me but when where how and with a Noverint universi I do here declare I 'll make a Publique Recantation Till Then wee 'll take the Presbyterian for the Cock-Schismatique and if Sir Bacon's Note holds Good the Dangerous New Sect against Whom no Caution can be too early no Importunity too Earnest no Restriction too Severe These are They that according to the Lord St. Albans Propagate Religion by Warrs Force Consciences Nourish Seditions Authorise Conspiracies and Rebellions That put the Sword into the Peoples hand and Dash the first Table against the Second In short all Those Popular and Supplanting Politiques which we find only here and there Scatter'd and Thin in Other Sects are by These People drawn into a Practicable Methode a Set-form of Sedition They Govern Their Looks their Words their Actions Nay their very Dresse Garbe and Accent by a Rule They are Instructed when to Beseech and when to Expostulate when to Flatter and when to Threaten when to Offer and when to deny when to Presse Swearing and when to Declaim against it when to Save and when to Kill In the first Scene ye have the Schismatique upon his Knees begging his Prince into a Dispensation for Scrupulous Consciences that perhaps stick at such and such Ceremonies the Crosse the Surplice or the like Let but the Sovereign Comply Thus far and what 's the Fruit of This Indulgence Within a Day or Two they come for more and by Degrees more still till at the Last they find the Government of the Church as Troublesome as they did the Rites of it and Bishops as great a Grievance as Ceremonies Where the King Stops They Cavill and now from Petitioners for Freedome to Themselves they are Grown to be most Insolent denyers of it to Others Their Art is next to Tune the People which is best done by the Pulpit where One half of their Businesse is Invective against Prelacy and the Other is spent in Well-Acted Supplications that God would turn the Kings Heart Accompting His yielding to all They Aske as a Divine Assurance that their Prayers are heard But if the Monarch still holds out what Pitty 't is they Cry so sweet a Prince should be Misled and Then they fall upon his Evill Counsellours still Taking all he Gives and Strugling for the Rest till having first Disrob'd him of his Rights Depriv'd him of his Friends Step after Step they attempt his Sacred Person and at last take away his Life Here 's their Glorious King the End of all their Vwues and Covenants Their Prayers and Fastings or in a word the summe of their Religion It was great Blasphemy says Sir F. B. when the Devill said I will Ascend and be like the Highest But it is greater Blasphemy to Personate God and bring him in saying I will Descend and be like the Prince of Darknesse and what is it better to make the Cause of Religion to descend to the Cruell and Execrable Actions of Murthering Princes Butchery of People and Subversion of States and Governments He that stands firm against not the Wit or Bravery but the Fawning and Treacherous Insinuations of This Faction may make himself sport with all Other Practices and Combinations whatever and That Prescription which helps This Evill serves for all other Publique and Intestine Maladies I think we may be Positive that there neither is nor ever was in Nature any Society of Men without a Vitious Mixture under what Government or Governour-soever I think we may be as Positive likewise that Those Ambitious and Unsatisfy'd Particulars with which all Constitutions are infested are only Deterr'd from troubling all Governments by the want of Opportunities to Plot and Contrive and by the Hazzards they meet with in putting Those Plots in Execution Wherefore it ought to be a Prince his first Care to Choak These Seeds of Discord which may be Effected by a Provision of Orthodox Ministers to the
to the People for whose Behoofe the Law was made This is a Specious but a Poysonous Inference and rather adapted to a Mutinous Interest then to a Peaceable and candid Reason Let a Transgression be supposed are there any Laws Paenal upon the Monarch But there are none that warrant Tyranny Right but there are some yet that forbid Rebellion and without questioning the Cause that declare all Violences whatsoever upon the Person or Authority of the King to be Crimina Laesae Majestatis or Treason Are there any Laws now on the Other side that depose Kings for Male-administration If none the Law being Peremptorily against the One and only not for the Other what does it but constitute the Subject in all cases accomptable for his Resistance to the Sovereign and Leave the Supreme Magistrate in all cases to answer for his Mis-government to Almighty God But let the Controversie passe for we are not here so much to enter into the True State Matters as to deliver their Appearances And now is the time to bring the Faylings and Mis-fortunes of the Prince upon the Stage and by exposing him Naked before the Multitude to make his Person Cheap and his Government Odious to his People Which they Effect by certain Oblique Discourses from the Presse and Pulpit by Lamentable Petitions craving Deliverance from such and such Distresses of Estate or Conscience and These they Print and Publish converting their pretended supplications for Relief into bitter Remonstrances of the Cruelty and Injustice of their Rulers By These wiles are the Vulgar drawn to a dislike of Monarchy and That 's the Quëue to a discourse of the Advantages of a Popular Government the next step to the Design of introducing it There 's none of This or That they cry at Amsterdam and in short from these Grudgings of Mutiny These Grumblings against Authority they slide Insensibly into direct and open Practices against it Alas what are These Motions but the sparkling of a Popular Disposition now in the Act of Kindling which only wants a little Blowing of the Cole to Puff up all into a Flame From the Leading and Preparatory Motives to Sedition now to the more Immediate and Enflaming Causes of it which are reducible either to Religion Oppression Privileges or Poverty Subsection I. Seditions which concern Religion THose Seditions which concern Religion referr either to Doctrine or Discipline Haeresie or Schism The Former is a Strife as they say for a better or a worse a Contest betwixt the Persuasion of the People and the Religion of the Government in matter of Faith and tending either to Overthrow the One or to Establish the Other In This Case the People may be in the Right as to the Opinion but never so as to justifie the Practice for Christianity does not dissolve the Order of Society To Obey God rather then Man is Well Let us obey him then in not Resisting Those Powers to which his Ordinance hath Subjected us Touching This with the Brethren's Leave I take it to be the more Venial-Mortal Sin of the Two That is the Rebellion of Haeresie is lesse unpardonable than That of Schism in regard first that the Subject of the Difference is a matter of greater Import Secondly 't is not Impossible but the Mispersuasion may be founded upon Invincible Ignorance I do not say that I had rather be an Arrian then a Calvinist but I averr that he is the foulest Rebell that for the Slightest Cause upon the Least Provocation and against the Clearest-Light Murthers his Sovereign Those Seditions which are mov'd upon accompt of Schisme are commonly a combination of Many against One of Errour against Truth and a Design that strikes as well at the Civill Power as the Ecclesiastick This being a Subject which both in the first Section of This Chapter and Else-where is sufficiently discours'd upon we shall rather addresse our selves to the Means Peculiar to a City of Comforting and ayding these unquiet agitations as more properly the Businesse of our present Argument Great Towns have first the Advantage of great Numbers of People within a Small Compasse of Place where with much Ease and Privacy Those of the Faction may hold their full and frequent Meetings Debate Contrive nay and Execute with all Convenience For when the Plot is Laid the Maner and the Time Appointed ther 's no more trouble for the Rendezvons the Party 's Lodg'd already the Town it self being the most Commodious Quarter 'T is in respect of These favourable concurrences that men of Turbulent and Factious Spirits rather make choyce of Populous Cities to Practise in Another Hazzard may arise from the Temper of the Inhabitants as well as from the Condition of the Place and from the very Humour and application of the Women in a notion distinct from That of the Men. From the Temper of the Inhabitants first as partaking usually of the Leaven of their Correspondents whom we find very often both Famous for Trade and Notorious for Schisme But Men are Generally so good-Natur'd as to think well of any Religion they Thrive under Further their Employment being Traffique or Negotiating for Benefit and their Profession being to Buy as Cheap as they can and to Sell as Dear without any measure between the Risque or Disbursment and the Profit they are commonly better Accomptants then Casuists and will rather stretch their Religion to their Interest then shrink their Interest to their Religion They have again so superstitious a Veneration for the Iustice of Paying Mony upon the Precise Hour that they can very hardly believe any man to be of the right Religion that Breaks his Day And observe it let a Prince run himself deep in Debt to his Imperial City they shall not so much Glamour at him for an ill Pay-Master as upon a Fit of Holinesse suspect him for an Haretique or Idolater Proposing a Tumult as the ready way to Pay themselves and That I reckon as the first step into a Rebellion Now how The Women come to be concern'd That first and Then why the City-Dames more then Other It is the Policy of all Cunning Innovatours when they would put a Trick upon the world in matter of Religion which they desire may be Receiv'd with Passion recommended with Zeal and Dispersed with Diligence to begin with the stronger Sex though the Weaker Vessell that excellent Creature Woman And This Course they take out of These Considerations First as That Sex is Naturally scrupulous and Addicted to Devotion and so more susceptible of delusive Impressions that bear a face of Piety Secondly as it is too Innocent to suspect a Deceipt and too Oredulous to Examine it so is it probably not crafty enough to Discover it Thirdly Women are supposed not only to Entertein what they Like with more Earnestnesse of Affection but also to impart what they know with a Greater Freedom of Communication which proceeds from a
drawn betwixt Majesty and Kindnesse which the One cannot passe without Diminution nor the Other transgresse without Presumption In fine the Right of Placing or Displacing Officers lies on the Kings side of the Chalke and falls under the Head of Reward or Punishment King Iames in the Second Book of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 delivers Excellent Advises to Prince Henry concerning the Choyce of Servants First See that they be of a Good Fame and without Blemish Next See that they be Indued with such honest Qualities as are meet for such Offices as ye ordeyn them to serve in that your Iudgment may be known in Employing every man according to his Guifts Thirdly I Charge you according to my Fatherly Authority to preferr Specially to your Service so many as have truly served Me and are able for it For if the Haters of your Parents cannot Love you it followes of Necessity that Their Lovers must Love you Chuse your Servants for your own Uses and not for the Use of Others and hearken not to Recommendations more for serving in effect their Friends that put them in then their Masters that admit them Especially take good heed to the choyce of your Servants that you preferr to the Offices of the Crown and Estate for in Other Offices ye have only to take heed to your Own Weale but These concern likewise the Weale of your People for the Which ye must be Answerable to God Be carefull to Prefer none as ye will be answerable to God but for their Worthynesse Employ every man as ye think him Qualify'd but Use not One in all Things lest he wax Proud and be Envy'd by his Fellowes These were the Directions of a Prince then whom no Man spake more upon Experience and very hardly shall a Sovereign that takes This Course even upon any Accompt Miscarry Another Profitable Course might be for a Prince to set his Favourite his Bounds afore-hand As for the Purpose that in such and such Particulars concerning Law and Religion or wherein his Peculiar Interest is concern'd he never presume to move him above Once and that in certain Other Cases he presume not to move him at all By these means the Favourite is minded of his Duty the Prince of his Dignity and Both Secur'd the One from the Hazzard of Granting too much the Other from the Temptation of Asking it So far from being Impracticable is This Proposition that on the contrary 't is Obvious and Easie. As for Instance There are some things which a King cannot Grant as a Christian Others which he cannot Grant as a King and some again which he cannot Grant as a Wise man So that Reserving to himself a Freedome even from Sollicitation in These Niceties of Conscience Honour and Convenience the Favourite may make his Best of the Rest. The Relation betwixt a Governour and his People is like That of Man and Wife A man may take his Friend into his Armes but not into his Bed To make an end of This That Favourite that presses his Master to any thing which evidently exposes him to Contempt or Hatred does probably Design his Ruine To run through the whole Body of Humane Frailties would be too Tedious Let it suffice that Those Vices whether Devillish or Brutish which in a Private man are Mischievous or Shamefull are much more so in a Person arm'd with Power to Execute the Malice and qualifi'd with an Eminence to Recommend a lewd Example Where a Great Trust is committed to a Weak Person It matters not much to the Publique whether he be True or False for Futility in him has the Effect of Treachery in another The One Blabs his Masters Secrets and the Other Betrayes them The Third Hazzard from the Over-greatnesse of One Counsellour arises from the Influence of his Power and Inclination upon the People And That either as to their Love or Hatred The Popular Part we have already done with that is so far as it concerns the making of a Party to Himself and the Remedies of That Danger That which remains shall be divided into Pride Covetousnesse and Mis-advise It is seldome seen that a Proud man in Power is not withall Insolent Vain and Cruell The first to his Superiours where they will suffer it The Next to his Equalls till they are Sick of it and the Third to his Inferiours till he is Hated for it A Favourite of This Temper makes it his Glory to be thought the Dictatour to his Master Disputing Excusing Cavilling upon Mandates and Directions as Sir Francis Bacon His style is Ego Rex Meus and the Consequence of This Boldnesse is to lessen the Sovereign in the Eyes of his Subjects It is harder for a Prince to Discover This Audacious Humour then to Crush it let but the King withdraw his Favour for one Moment◠and of himself he falls below the Scorn of Those he lately Trampled on If he be Covetous The Person of the Prince and the Honour of the Nation are expos'd to Sale and the People Squeez'd to fill his Coffers till they have not Bread left for their own Bellies This brings the Multitude to Sterve or Tumult and There 's a Kingdome Swallow'd by a Favourite We here suppose the Worst and yet even These Extremities are not quite Deplorate and Helplesse Spunges will Spue as well as Suck and 't is but the Monarch's sending of the Popular Assembly in quest of the Publique Treasure to fetch it up again Now whence proceeds this Mischief but from Misadvise not want of Prudence but of Enformation or which is worse from Tales fram'd to the Passion and Advantage of the Teller Hee 's made an Enemy to the State that 's not a Friend to This or That Design Dangers are Pretended where there are none and Security where there are And which is the Curse of These Ill Offices the Wisest and the Bravest of Princes are subjected to Delusion and Surprize in Common with their Contraries Could Solomon ' s Wisdome tell him which of the Two Harlots was the Mother of the Child without a further means of Decision Or Could Caesar ' s Courage oppose the Fate of the Senate In Matters of Fact Princes as well as Others are to be Instructed by Report and if from a Person whom they have Reason to believe they receive Notice of a Matter whereupon they have not Time to Deliberate their Proceedings are to be Directed by the Fairest Appearance of that Relation In fine if a Servant will betray his Master there 's no avoyding it for he must Trust somebody Remember well sayes Sir Francis Bacon in a Letter of Advice to the late Duke of Buckingham the great Trust you have undertaken you are as a Continual Centinell alwayes to stand upon your Watch to give him the King True Intelligence If you Flatter him you Betray him If you Conceal the Truth of Those things from
And 't is no ill Policy in some Cases to let Them Squeeze for a while that they may be worth the Squeezing Themselves for no Supply is more acceptable to the Generality then That which is Lâ—vy'd upon their Oppressours The miserable Consequences of Ill-Payment we have briefly touch'd upon Pag. 114. The Reason of Ill-Payment is commonly Ill-Pay and Many must needs get Nothing when a Few get All from which vast Inequality arise Factions and Want The best Remedy for This Evill is first to Enable Them to Pay and then to leave them to the Law if they Refuse For Protections are only so far Necessary to the Dignity of a Court as they consist with the Peace and Iustice of a Nation that the Privilege appear not an Affront to the Law When a Court Payes Ill it had need Live Well for when People are Poor they grow Conscientious and for want of Mony apply themselves to hearken after Religion The Severest of all Reformers being a Necessitous Multitude Especially let them absteyn from Costly Sinnes for to Expend much and Pay nothing is a most distastfull Incongruity To conclude the General Rule of a Court is the Example of the Prince whom they will be sure to follow in his Errours and at least Imitate in his Virtues Yet where some Particulars Extravagate there will be also Need of his Severity We come now to that Canker of the Government under the Shadow of the Governour the Ill-Principled Courtier who not only causes Sedition but is Himself the very Tincture of it You must Expect to see all look Pale and Wither'd where This Worme lies sucking at the Root Can a Prince be safe that 's serv'd by his Enemies Or a People Happy when the Soul of the Publique is in Danger Yet in some Cases there may be Reason of State and That known only to the Sovereign for which some Persons in Exception to This Generall Rule may be admitted Saving Those very Individuals it may behove the Prince not to let any one of the Rest escape without a Strict Enquiry both by what Means and to what likely End they are There Plac'd and Entertain'd Which if he does and Early too before the whole Lump has taken the Leaven 't is more then an Even Lay that hee 'll find Reason to Remove Them Proceed we now to the Camp Sect. IV. How to Prevent Disorders arising from the CAMP THe Dangers from the Camp are Principally These Three Mutiny Revolt or Popular Risings provoked by the Oppression or Insolence of the Souldiery Of These in their Order Mutinies may be Caus'd by Want of Pay some defect of Discipline by New-Modelling Disbanding Disgrace c. And all These Disorders may be procur'd by the Artifice of some Particular Persons that aime at an Advantage by them That Prince that Rayses an Army which he can not Pay Himself raises it in effect for somebody else that can In short a very great Hazzard it is to have the Souldiery Dependent upon any Other Interest then That of the Monarch Where it so falls out that a Prince lies subjected to the Double Inconvenience both of Having an Army and of Wanting Mony Let him be sure of a most Exquisite Choyce of Officers both for Honesty and Ability That the Body likewise may be well Chosen and well Govern'd For he has enough to do that undertakes to keep his Troupes in Order without Pay but if they want Affection too the Point is Desperate This is the Nick of Danger and Temptation for a Necessitous Army of This Mixture is any mans Mony that will offer for it Wherefore in such a Juncture a Monarch cannot be too wary of all Popular and suspected Practices Let him be sparing also even in his Personall and Private Expenses at such a time as This For Military Spirits are apter to take fire then Other People and to distrust the Kindnesse of their Master if they observe that he has Mony for his Pleasures and none for his Servants An Observation possibly neither Fit nor True However when men are discontented they look upon small kindnesses as Nothing and they see Injuries Double The next hazzard is upon the Point of Discipline which in an unpaid Army can very hardly be Preserv'd but by the Exceeding Worthinesse and Prudence of the Officers Nor by That neither beyond their Interest and Credit of Persuading for Punishment were Tyranny without Wages The New-Modelling of an Army is also a tickle Undertaking and so is the Dis-banding The Former is the sharper Disobligation but 't is but Personall The Latter is the more Dangerous for it Destroyes the Trade And the Perill is either from the Influence of some Chief Officers in the One or from a Disposition common to all Military as well as Naturall bodies in the Other that is an Aversenesse to Dissolution Both the One and the Other are a work to be dispatch'd with as much Care and with as little Noise as possible very Tenderly and by Degrees If any Trouble be Apprehended from the Displacing of some Particulars as he may possibly ressent the Losse of Power or the Disgrace of being singled out to lose it after such a Maner 't is but Casting out to him the Lure of a Better Office or of a Higher Preferment wherein he may be more Serviceable to Himself and lesse Dangerous to the Publique Or if he be too Crafâ—y to stoop to That the way is to begin with his Dependencies This leaves him Naked and the Other Satisfy'd At least in shew since to the World he appears rather Exalted then Ejected Dis-banding is a nicer piece of Businesse The very Word is scarce to be Mention'd till the Thing is Done For ' though the State may be Iudg when 't is Convenient to Raise an Army the Souldiery are commonly the Iudges when 't is time to lay it down again A Good Preparatory to This is Modelling and Dispersing before they have the wind of the Design to prevent their uniting against it And by Degrees One Regiment at a time to keep the Rest Quiet in hope of Continuing Let That be done by Lot too for the Losing Party will sooner forgive a Mischance then an Unkindnesse Touching Mutinies that proceed either from opinion of Disgrace dispute concerning Precedency Command Provision Quarter c. they may be referr'd to want of Discipline The Causes of Revolts may be as many as of Discontents But the Principal are either Fear Despaire Revenge or Inconstancy in the Common-Souldiery And they may likewise be Procur'd either by the Ambition or Corruption of the Chief Officers The best Security against These General Defections is in the Original Election and Constitution of the Army Wherefore let Heed be taken as near as may be even to the fitnesse of the meanest Private Souldiour which in a fair degree may be atteyn'd be good choyce of Valiant Prudent Vigilant and Faithful Officers
Why should a Kingdome be hazzarded for a Trifle How small a matter added to either side carryes an Equall Ballance A Word a Thought an Imagination a Mistake turns the Fortune of the Day and Decides the Battle Is any thing more ordinary then a Panique Terrour in a Croud of People which as Mr. Hobbs hints in his Leviathan is only an Apprehension of Danger in the first man that Runs the Rest Fearing and Running by example every man supposing his Fellow to know why At This Rate Ten Cowards may destroy Twenty Thousand Valiant men Against Despair Arguments are best upon the Place Revenge may be Prevented by a Generous and Military Severity So that they shall neither have any Provocation to the Attempt nor Security in the Execution But against Their Inconstancy there is no Remedy The mischieves which may arrive upon the accompt of Ambition or Corruption are scarce to be Prevented but by chusing Persons of an Impregnable Fidelity or Otherwise the Fairest Bidder carryes it And against Popular Risings nothing better then a Strict Discipline and an Impartiall Iustice betwixt the Souldiery and the Country It does well also to Interesse Both Parties Civill and Military as fairly as possible in the Common Care of the Publique For a Pure Military Force has the Face rather of an Enemy then of a Guard But where Persons of Eminent Repute and Integrity in the Country are joyned in Commission with others as eminent for Martial Affaires Both sides are satisfy'd and the Common Good better Provided for Sect. V. How to Prevent or Remedy Seditions arising from the CITY WHere the Metropolis is not well Season'd and in good Order Many and Great are the Advantages it has to Disturbe a Government It has Men Mony and Armes alwayes at hand But yet let a Prince in his Greatest Distresse have a Care how he Abandons it for 't is by much a more dangerous Enemy at a Distance then at Home The Ordinary Pretenses of a Troubled City are either concerning Religion Oppression Privileges or Poverty but still 't is Ambition that sets the Wheel going and it is the Monarch's yielding at first that destroyes him in the End For while the Party is Tender and Wavering the Humour Corrigible and the Authority of the Prince not as yet either exposed by Patience or Prophan'd by Popular Contempt and the Insolencies of the Rabble Then is the time to cut off all Possibility of Sedition Murmurings are but the Smâ—ak of Rebellion the Fire 's already in the Straw but easily smother'd That is if seasonably look'd after for if it break forth into a Blaze All the Buckets in the Town will hardly Quench it The very first Mutterings against the Government are but a pretty way of putting the Question as who should say Sir May we Rebell And the Forbearance of the Prince seems to Answer them Yes Ye may And Then to work they go First upon Religion the most Dangerous and the most wicked Quarrell in Nature Is there a God Or Is there None Let any Reasonable Rebell whether Atheistique or Religious answer me If a God there be Upon what Nation will he powre out the fiercenesse of his Wrath Upon what Heads will he employ his Thunder If not upon That Nation where his Divinity is made a Stale His Majesty Affronted in all his Attributes And upon Those Heads that entitle the Basest of Corruptions to his Immaculate Purity and the Dictates of the Devill to the Inspirations of the Blessed Spirit Now to Those that say in their Heart There is No God They 'll yet allow the Political Convenience of persuading the People otherwise So that where This Freedome in Matters of Religion is permitâ—ed to the Multitude Either the Abuse drawes down a Vengeance from Heaven or the Superstitious League among the People unites a Party against the Sovereign To deal frankly All Seditions are to be imputed to Misgovernment To the want of Early Care in the Magistrate One Man begins He Imparts himself to Others They Conferr with Their Interests and so the Mischief Branches it self till it comes to Overspread a Nation How easie a matter is it to Smother a Spark in the Tinder-Box A little Harder to blow out a Candle Harder yet to put out the Fire In short when the Town is in a Flame thank Him that neglected the first Spark The Prince that would prevent Schismaticall Seditions in a City must begin with the Clergy and assure himself of the Pulpit To say 't is Dangerous may in some Cases be a Truth But Dangerous as it is If it be more so to let them Alone What signifies That Objection Suppose the Hazzard almost desperate on the One side But there 's a never-failing Certainty on the Other Here 't is Hard There 't is Impossible It is Necessary also to Suppresse Conventicles Pamphlets and all other Irregularities which either Draw People together or Unite them in Order to a Separation In a Particular maner let heed be taken that the Magistracy of the City consist of Persons Well-affected to the Government of the Church And if they Struggle let them be timely Taught That the Liberty of their Charter does not discharge the Bond of their Allegeance This Strictnesse ought to be indispensable for it is not to be Expected that One Schismatique should Punish Another The Second Grievous Compleint is Oppression and whether it be True or False let it be strongly Urg'd and Credited 't is the same thing Some Oppressions are Procur'd at the Instance of certain Ill Instruments about the Sovereign on purpose to stir up the People against him And This is done by shewing how Other Princes hamper Their Capitall Cities Never considering that the same manner of Governing will no more sit all Varieties of Custome Temper and Scituation then the same Doublet and Hose will sit all Bodies And then they Cry This Damn'd City must be Humbled and Taken down 'T is very Right but This must be spoken sofâ—ly and done warily For to Levell the Menace at the City in stead of the Delinquent is a great Mistake In such a Heat as This a Prince needs no more then Three or Four Churlish and Rash Officers Two or Three spitefull and Illegall Actions to bring his Royalty in danger Briefly a Mean there is betwixt Fury and Slumber and equally ruinous to Princes are Those Counsels that lead to either of These Extremes May not That very thing which These people pretend they aime at be done by Gentle Legall and Familiar means Let them Chuse their own Officers That pleases the City But 't is the Publique Care to see the Choice be Honest and that secures the Prince On the One side no Clemency can be too great that stands with the Rule of Government On the Other side no Severity too strict in Case of a Contumacy that Crosses it Burthensome Taxes are many times a Great Compleint and sometimes a