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Their Empire owes the Cor.tinuance of its bemg, to theSeverity of theGovernment, which oftentime^ takes place without Regard either to Justiceor Equity; and to their frequent Wars, which prcvent all oscafioos ofMu-tiny and Faction among the Souldiers, which happen frequently when Unim-ploy’d. So that tho’ Ambition may put aWarlike Sultan upon EnlarginghisTerritorbc by New Conquests, yet Reason of State forces a Weak andEffeminate Prince, such as was Ibrahim to roake War förhis owri Security.Their I’olitkks are notowing to Book? and Study, and the Examples of Palt' Times: but to Experience and the pLiin Suggeflions of Nature and CommonSenfe. Their Counctls formerly were Open, and their Designs Known andProclaimed before-hand, as ifthis had beena Bravery becoming their Great-nek;and that they scorned to steal aConquest. But they have lcarn lince the Artof D'stimalation, and am Lye and Swear for their Interell, and seeM ExcelTivein their Careffes to the Ministers of rhose Countries which they intend to Inrvade. But their Preparations for Arming are Made with so much Noife, thatan Ordinary Jealousie is soon awaken’d by it to Oppose them, in case of anAttaque. They scldom or never care to have War at both the Extremes ofthe Empire st thefäme Time: and therefore they are mighty solicitous to se-cure a Peace with Christendome , when they Intend a War upon the V erst an.And as much as is pofiible, they Avoid Qoavreiling with Two( hnfian PrüfreratOnce: being usoalty at League either with Toland or Mufcovy, whenthey War upon Hangars , and soon the contrary ■ Dreading nothing more,thän an Union of the Christian Princes, Bordering upon them, which wouldprove so Fatal to their Empire, and quickly put a Period to their Greatness.For hereby they would be put upon a Neceflity of making a Deftnßve Warto their great Löß and Difadvantage: and at last cirher be Forced to Bega Peace of the Christians, or Run rhehazard of iosingall by a further Pro-fecution ot the War, This tbey are very sensible ot: and therefore as theytake all Occasion to promote Quarrels and Diffentions in Hungary and Tran-(ylvania, so they greatly rejoyce when the Princes of Chrifiendom are at Warone with another. This is their great time of advantage, and they know thatit is their true Interest to Purfüe it tho’ they do not always, by reason cf the111 Condition ot their own Affairs, makeuse of it. During the Civil Wars ofGermany, ehe Bastas and othcrCommandersof the Army,were very Importu-natc with the Grand Signier tomake u War on that side, and to enlarge hisConquests as far as Vtenna : no Conjuncture having been ever so Favourableto Consommatc such a Design, in which Solyman so Unhappily Miscarry’dTheypromised him an eafy Victory, Afluring him that the Animosities of thePrinces of the Empire were so Hcightened, that there was no room lest fora Reconciliation; that he was but to go at the Head of an Army to take Poso

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