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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Or as Tacitus (de Tiberio) describeth him (cited by Alsted. p. 253.)
The signs of one that will be a Tyrant and cruel Prince are; If when he hath got the Empire, he accuse mens countenances as criminal; and require unmeasurable flatteries; and catch at the words of his public Councillors; and open his ears to accusing delators; and take mens judgement of him whatever, and their free speeches of the Common-wealth for a crime; and lastly, if good men are suspected by him.
The signs of one that will be a Tyrant and cruel Prince are; If when he hath got the Empire, he accuse mens countenances as criminal; and require unmeasurable flatteries; and catch at the words of his publick Councellors; and open his ears to accusing delators; and take mens judgement of him whatever, and their free speeches of the Common-wealth for a crime; and lastly, if good men are suspected by him.
Et de Germanico formidoloso Tiberio: To Tyrants, good men, and such as are acceptable to the people, and love the peoples liberty, are always formidable.
And Tyrannidis obscurae & pedetentim serpentis haec sunt initia, cum qui Princeps electus est majorum negotiorum cognitionem sibi unireservans, & ex suo unius arbitratuea statuens, leviorum & quae Reipublicae incolumitatem non attingunt, disceptationem ad Ordines remittit: (But it must be remembered that this was spoken in the Roman Empire).