A treatise of civil policy

6 None were of old anointed, but Kings, Priests and Prophets, who then more obliged, to maintain the Lords Anointed, then Priests and Prophets? The Church hath never more beauty and plenty under any government, then Monarchy, which is most countenanced by God, and magnified by Scripture.

6 None were of old anoynted, but Kings, Priests and Prophets, who then more obliged, to maintain the Lords Anoynted, then Priests and Prophets? The Church hath never more beauty and plenty under any government, then Monarchy, which is most countenanced by God, and magnified by Scripture.

Ans. Pastors are to maintain the rights of people, and a true Church, no less then the right of Kings; but Prelates the Court Parasites, and creatures of the King, that are born for the Glory of their King, can do no less then profess this in words, yet it is true, that Tacitus writeth of such, Hist. l. 1. Libentius cum fortuna principis, quam cum principe loquuntur: and it is true, that the Church hath had plenty under Kings, not so much, because they were Kings, as because they were godly and zealous: except the P. P. say, That the oppressing Kings of Israel and Judah, and the bloody horns that made war with the Lamb, are not Kings. In the rest of the Epistle, he extols the Marquess of Ormond with base flattery, from his Loyalty to the King, and his more then Admirable prudence in the Treaty of Cessation with the Rebels; a woe is due to this false prophet, ⟨image 5⟩who calleth Darkness Light, for the former was abominable, and perfidious Apostasy from the Lords cause, and people of God, whom he once defended, and the Cessation was a selling of the blood of many hundred thousand protestants, Men, Women, and sucking Children.

Ans. Pastors are to maintain the rights of people, and a true Church, no lesse then the right of Kings; but Prelates the Court Parasites, and creatures of the King, that are born for the Glory of their King, can do no lesse then professe this in words, yet it is true, that Tacitus writeth of such, Hist. l. 1. Libentius cum fortuna principis, quam cum principe loquuntur: and it is true, that the Church hath had plenty under Kings, not so much, because they were Kings, as because they were godly and zealous: except the P. P. say, That the oppressing Kings of Israell and Judah, and the bloody horns that made war with the Lamb, are not Kings. In the rest of the Epistle, he extols the Marques of Ormond with base flattery, from his Loyalty to the King, and his more then Admirable prudence in the Treaty of Cessation with the Rebells; a woe is due to this false prophet,