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For king-killing, because I know it a techy 

 subject, I shall wholly omit all discourse of it; 

 only I find it damned by an able English di- 

 vine,* as Jesuitical ; and Tacitus commends to 

 subjects rather scutum than gladium, the shield 

 of patience and toleration, rather than the 

 sword. 



PRINCIPLE IV. 



The Politician must nourish some mercenary Jesuits, or 

 other Divines, to cry up his aims in their Churches, that 

 so the poison may insinuate more generally into all the 

 parts. 



He that peruses history will find, that there 

 hath been no innovation so gross, no rebellion 

 so hideous, but hath had some ecclesiastical 

 fomenters ; for such as want worth enouoh of 

 their own to reach preferment in a regular way, 

 are most apt to envy the just honours of better 

 men; and despairing to obtain their end by 

 learning and piety, they aspire to it by the 

 crooked means of faction and schism. Nor are 

 those despicable instruments to the politician, 



* Jo. Goodwin in his Anticavalris. 



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