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THat every thing is kept and maintained by the same wayes and means it was got and obtained,* 1.1 is a rule true both in Philosophy and Policy. And therefore Dominion gotten by fraud and force, must by fraud and force be preserved. Things impi∣ously got, must be impiously kept. When usurped Tyranny layes its foundation in blood, the whole Su∣perstruction must be built with Mortar, tempered with blood. One sin must defend and make good another. And hence ariseth a Necessity upon Ambitious men to flanke and fortifie one Crime with another. But to plead this Necessity, which they have so wilfully drawn upon themselves, in justification of their wicked Courses. To expect submission, obedience, and an equal engagement from men uninterressed therein; and to entitle the Divine Providence and unrevealed Will of God thereto (in opposition to His Will revealed and declared in the Scriptures, as is now a dayes used) is to accuse the Holy Ghost of our Sins, and an Hypocrisie so impudently sin∣ful and damnable, that I doubt no Age but this (the Dregs and Lees of time) ever gave an example of the like.
TO illustrate my first Maxime by some forreign Examples (before I lay the Bastard at our own Doors) Sylla at Rome, by the power of the Sword, pro∣claimed (or voted) himself Dictator, to make good which usurpation with a Mask of Authority, he compelled the Senate, or Parliament) to approve of all his forepassed