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Preferment.

WHEN you would have a Child go to fuch a

place, and you find him unwilling, you tell him he fhall ride a Cock-horfe, and then he will go prefently: So do those that govern the State, deal by Men, to work them to their Ends; they tell them they hall be advanc'd to fuch or fuch a place, and they will do any thing they would have them.

2. A great Place ftrangely qualifies. John Read, Groom of the Chamber to my Lord of Kent, was in the right. Attorney Noy being dead, fome were faying, how would the King do for a fit Man? Why, any Man (fays John Read) may execute the Place. I warrant (fays my Lord) thou thinkest thou underfand't enough to perform it. Yes, quoth John, Let the King make me Attorney, and I would fain fee that Man, that durft tell me, there's any thing I understand not.

3. When the Pageants are a coming, there's a great thrufting and a riding upon one another's Back, to look out at the Window; flay a little and they will come juft to you, you may fee them quietly. So 'tis when a new States-man or Officer is chofen; there's great expectation and liftning who it fhould be; flay a while, and you may know quietly.

4. Miffing Preferment makes he Prefbyters fall foul upon the Bishops: Men that are in hopes and in the way of rifing, keep in the Channel, but they that have none, feek new ways: 'Tis fo amongst the Lawyers; he that hath the Judges Ear, will be very obfervant of the way of the Court; but he that hath no regard will be flying out.

5. My Lord Digby having spoken something in the Houfe of Commons, for which they would have queftion'd him, was presently called to the upper House. He did by the Parliament as an Ape when he hath done fome waggery; his Mafter spies him, and he looks for his Whip, that before he can come at him, whip, fays he, to the top of the House.

6. Some of the Parliament were discontented, that they wanted places at Court, which others had got; but when they had them once, then they were quiet. Just as at a Chriftning fome, that get no Sugar-Plums, when the reft have, mutter and grumble, presently the Wench comes again with her Basket of Sugar-Plums, and then they catch and scramble, and when they have got them you hear no more of them.

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Premunire.

HERE can be no Præmunire. A Præmunire (fo call'd from the word Pramunire facias) was when a Man had an Action in an Ecclefiaftical Court, for which he could have no remedy in any of the King's Courts; that is in the Courts of Common Law, by reason the Ecclefiaftical Courts before Henry the Eighth, were fubordinate to the Pope, and fo it was contra coronam & dignitatem Regis; but now the Ecclefiaftical Courts are equally fubordinate to the King. Therefore it cannot be contra coronam & dignitatem Regis, and fo no Pramunire.

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Prerogative.

Rerogative is fomething that can be told what it is, not fomething that has no Name. Juft as you fee the Archbishop has his Prerogative Court, but we know what is done in that Court. So the King's Prerogative is not his will, or what Divines make it a power to do what he lifts.

2. The King's Prerogative, that is, the King's Law. For example, if you afk whether a Patron may present to a Living after fix Months by Law? I anfwer no. If you ask whether the King may? I anfwer he may by his Prerogative, that is, by the law that concerns him in that cafe.

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Presbytery.

1. HEY that would bring in a new Government, would very fain perfuade us, they meet it in Antiquity. Thus they interpret Prefbyters, when they meet the word in the Fathers: Other Profeffions likewife pretend to Antiquity. The Alchymift will find his Art in Virgil's Aureus ramus, and he that delights in Opticks will find them in Tacitus. When Cæfar came into England, they would perfuade us, they had Perfpe&tive-Glaffes, by which he could discover what they were doing upon the Land, because it is faid, Pofitis Speculis; the meaning is, his Watch, or his Sentinel, difcovered this, and this, unto him.

2. Prefbyters have the greatest power of any Clergy in the World, and gull the Laiety moft: For Example; admit there be twelve Laymen to fix Prefbyters, the

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fix fhall govern the reft as they please. First, because they are conftant, and the others come in like ChurchWardens in their turns, which is an huge Advantage. Men will give way to them who have been in place before them. Next the Laymen have other profeffions to follow; the Prefbyters make it their fole Business; and befides too, they learn and fludy the Art of perfuading; fome of Geneva have confeffed as much.

3. The Prefbyter, with his Elders about him, is like a young Tree fenced about with two, or three, or four Stakes, the Stakes defend it, and hold it up; but the Tree only profpers and flourishes; it may be some Willow Stake may bear a Leaf or two, but it comes to nothing. Lay Elders are Stakes, the Prefbyters the Tree that flourishes.

4. When the Queries were fent to the Affembly concerning the Jus Divinum of Prefbytery, their asking time to answer them, was a Satyr upon themfelves: For if it were to be seen in the Text, they might quickly turn to the place, and fhew us it. Their delaying to anfwer makes us think there's no fuch thing there. They do juft as you may have seen a fellow do at a Tavern Reckoning, when he should come to pay his reckoning, he puts his Hands into his Pockets and keeps a grabling and fumbling, and shaking, at last tells you he has left his Money at home; when all the Company knew at first, he had no Money there; for every Man can quickly find his own Money.

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Pricfts of Rome.

HE Reason of the Statute againft Priefts, was

"TH this: In the beginning of Queen Elizabeth there

was a Statute made, that he that drew Men from their civil Obedience was a Traitor. It happened this was done in privacies and confeffions; when there could be no proof; therefore they made another Act, that for a Prieft to be in England was Treafon, because they prefumed that was his bufinefs to fetch Men off from their Obedience.

2. When Queen Elizabeth died, and King James came in, an Irish Priest does thus exprefs it: Elizabetha in orcum detrufa, fucceffit Facobus alter Hæreticus. You will afk why they did ufe fuch Language in their Church? Anfw. Why does the Nurse tell the Child of raw Head and bloody-bones, to keep it in awe ?

3. The Queen Mother and Count Roffet, are to the Priefts and Jefuits like the Honey Pot to the Flies.

4. The Priefts of Rome aim but at two things; to get Power from the King, and Money from the Subject.

5. When the Priefts come into a Family, they do as a Man that would fet fire to a Houfe; he does not put fire to the brick wall, but thrufts it into the thatch. They work upon the Women, and let the Men alone.

6. For a Prieft to turn a Man when he lies a dying, is just like one that hath a long time folicited a Woman, and cannot obtain his end; at length makes her drunk, and fo lies with her.