. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . Virtue or Natural Endowment^which hides his Vices^and makes him obey d by the Peo-ple. But Malice afcribes this to tyrannical Artifices, andfrom Examples of that Nature, picks out fome impious2nd erroneous Maxims of State 3 to the ruin both ofPrinces and Empires. Befides, all dont Reign, whohave the Scepter in their Hands, or the Crown upontheir Heads j for Divine Juftice, though it leaves themthe Kingdom,takes away the Command, by permittingthem to be Slaves to their Paflions, and their Minifters,and to be oppreffed by Misfortunes an
. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . Virtue or Natural Endowment^which hides his Vices^and makes him obey d by the Peo-ple. But Malice afcribes this to tyrannical Artifices, andfrom Examples of that Nature, picks out fome impious2nd erroneous Maxims of State 3 to the ruin both ofPrinces and Empires. Befides, all dont Reign, whohave the Scepter in their Hands, or the Crown upontheir Heads j for Divine Juftice, though it leaves themthe Kingdom,takes away the Command, by permittingthem to be Slaves to their Paflions, and their Minifters,and to be oppreffed by Misfortunes and Seditions. Salwas Samuels Predi&ion to Saul fulfilled, that as a PuJniihment for having difobeyed God, he ihould be nomore King (54) *• For though he lived and died King,yet was his Reign but perfect Slavery. m (33) He difappointeth the devices of the crafty, fo that theirhands cannot perform their enttrprife, Job $, 12. (34) Becaufethou hail rejefted the Lord, he has alio rcjefted thee from beio;££ing, 1 Sam. 1 EM- Vol.!. 137 BMBLEM XIX,. T N the Games of. Vulcan and Vrometheus, feveral Per-•* ions being placed in a Row impioyed themfelvesthus: The firft came out with a lighted Torch in hisHand 3 which he gave to the fecond, and he to thethird, and fo from one to tother ; whence came theProverb, Curfu lampada trado; applyd to thofe thingswhich paft as twere by Succemon from one to which Senfe Lucretius, Et quafí curferes vital Lampada trado. \yhich he feems to have borrowed from Tlato, whenperfwading Men to Propagation, he fays tis neceffary,that Life which Men received from their Predeceifors,they ihould like a flaming Torch deliver down to Po- fterity. i} 8 A Prince ¡hould rememler that he rntft Vol. Í. fterity (i). What elfe is a Scepter, but fuch a Torch ias this, which paifes by Succeflion from one to ano4ither? What is it therefore that Majefty aiTumes tofliits íélf in this fo íhort and tranfitory Greatnefs ? Manythings are common to a Prin
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