Eugenia's tears for Great Britons distractions, or, Some slender observations reflecting on those sad…Evgenia's teares for Great Brittaynes distractions, or, Some slender observations reflecting on those sad…

and thus are many weak consciences in this age seduced by Ravening Wolves in a Sheepish habit, by whom their fancies are bound, their purses exhausted, nay their very souls▪ damned unless they willingly embrace their Tenants which often carry with them Treason and rebellion, which is no small way to raise dissension in a common-wealth; and though with an Ancient Father I may say of ⟨p. 43⟩those men, student plus alta, quam apta proferre, yet would […] not incur the censure of a Libertine, my thoughts being so far from disliking the purity of the primitive pattern, •s that they cheerfully acknowledge too much zeal cannot be expressed in matters which concern the glory of God, but in some causes discretion must be the Moderator when a circumstance may be used or omitted, in which respect it often falls out that obedience is better then Sacrifice, especially when it reflects upon matters of government, where Kings are like Planets in their Orbs under the primum mobile, moving by the sweet influence of love, and unreprovable motion of justice to their subjects, an unmatchable president whereof quo nulla aetas, tulit meliorem (no age having been blest with the like) I dare boldly say we are now happy in, & may •e bequeathed as a pattern to the greatest Potentate, showing so much piety to God both in public & private, so much hatred of Popery & superstition, in matters of Religion, so much endeavour not to grieve his subjects; & for that more then common blessing which attends the peacemaker, malice it self dares not (after so late and large an expression) to withhold the Laurel; I deny not but some bad weeds may seek shelter from the fairest flowers, but let not therefore any blea•ed eyes, bemisted with their own fond opinions, or benighted with groundless aims, think to out-view his brighter rays, though some there are who have habitum falsorum principiorum, et falsarum opinionum, et excaecavit eos malitia eorum, who fix their envious sights upon wrong objects, and whose malice hath made them blind;

and thus are many weake consciences in this age seduced by Ravening Wolves in a Sheepish habit, by whom their fancies are bound, their purses exhausted, nay their very souls▪ damn'd unlesse they willingly imbrace their Tenants which often carry with them Treason and rebellion, which is no small way to raise discention in a common-wealth; and though with an Ancient Father I may say of