910) Interpreters. do refer it to thedif -regard ofall Religion, which yet notwithfkanding the Romans, we know, have too fuperf}itioufly ob- ferved, as is evident to be feen bymany examples, and in Valerias Maximus, lib. I. r. Neither (hall wee finde their pofferity, . any whit to relinquifh the inftitutions of their Anceftors in this matter. Their Children after the Grecian Monarchie, went on in the fame Courfe offuperfl:ition , wherein their ancient fathers had gonebefore them :.Thefe things therefore doe rather belong to Ci- vdl policy, which this newKing fhould innovate and bring in, alto- gether differing from that which his Anceffours had obferved. For the civili Magiftrate is called God, as we (hewed before; and there- fore his not regarding the gods of his fathers, ísr nothing elfe, but his light efteem of the Magifl.rares, which his fathers ufed in times paff : and not long after, the Romanes had fubdued Judea, the government ofthis peoplebecame a Mona rchie,which was before an Ariffocracy, or at leaf}, mixt ofthe people, and the Nobles. Their firff government ofold,.in former ages, was by Kings,but they were at length expelled, and the namegrew fo odious, as that Tiryuinius the Confull, could no longer be tolerated, becaufe hee affeEted the name of a King. And from thence forward,the famehatred wasde rived to all their pofferity, as many examples doe make manifeff,,and that Decree of the Senate, wherein there was order taken that no Kings fhould enter into theCitie. But it was fatal!, and ominous, at that time, tobe fo bufie about excluding of Kings, when by and by after, a King was to rife up amongft rhemfelves. In the time ofCicero, the foothfayer, or inter- preter ofthe Sibylls, earneffly contended in the Senate, that he whom they accounted as a King, fhould be alto called aKing,if they would live in fafety, But this was taken in very ill part,in fo much,.that the Oratour ad- vifeth them, todeal firft with their great ones,thatthey would bring forth any thing out of the Sibyls Prophecies, rather then a King, . whom neither gods, not men, would fuffer any longer at Rome. But thy prognoffication fay led thee, O thou wittie Oratour. Thou faweft with thineeyes a littleafter, a King at R.ôme, which thon didit prophecie should never come to paffe. This contempt there- foreof their fathers Gods, is a new ordinationof Em}erours, vio- lating the law oftheir fathers, and bringing thofe Magiftrates i.nto fubjeE}ion, who were wont in their old' Fathers time to have the thiefcommand, This changeof Government was a remarkable note
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