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It was great blasphemy, when the devil said, I will ascend, and be like the highest; but it is greater blasphemy, to personate God, and bring him in saying, I will descend, and be like the prince of darkness; and what is it better, to make the cause of religion to descend, to the cruel and execrable actions of murthering princes, butchery of people, and subversion of states and governments?

Day of April, 1637 at Tyburne, for the unnaturall murthering of their

Wherin is showne how hee most unnaturally raised warres against his own father Baiazet, and preuailing therein, in the end caused him to be poysoned: Also with the murthering of his two brethren, Corcut, and Acomat.

doe, and (as those former instances prove) lawfully permit some evill persons and practices: As for instance, in the civil state, Usury, for the preventing of a greater evill in the civill Body, as stealing, robbing, murthering, perishing of the poore.

The most sustained instance of this heuristic process comes when H.E talks about supposedly homicidal civil servants: 'a great many frightful Stories told us of Nurses and Watchmen, who looked after the dying People, using them barbarously, starving them, smothering them, or by other wicked Means, hastening their End, that is to say, murthering of them' (pp.

guilty of the said felonious murthering & robbing....

into the hands of the common people" could "make the cause of religion to descend to the cruel and execrable actions of murthering princes, butchery of people, and subversion of states and government."(25) It was precisely this possibility that James sought to avoid by coming out with a new "uniforme translation," completed by a select group of elite royal servants, "ratified by his Royall authority," and subsequently disseminated through the institutional powers of the Church.

'tis the art and cunning of that Church to keep their bloody Principles of assassinating Kings, and murthering their heretical Subjects, secret and close, till some fair opportunity calls them out for publick use, and condemns the design and attempt, if not prosperous; and disavows it to the ignorant Vulgar, and the unsanctified ears of Hereticks, tho she applauds it in Conclaves and Cloysters.

his Jaw fallen, his Eyes open in a most frightful Posture' (62), 'Mothers murthering their own Children' (69), 'Infants .