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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02796	A watch-word to all religious, and true hearted English-men. By Sir Francis Hastings, knight	Hastings, Francis, Sir, d. 1610.	1598 (1598)	STC 12927; ESTC S118429	32,499	130

A WATCH-WORD TO ALL religious and true hearted English-men By Sir Francis Hastings Knight Deuter. 31. vers 6. Plucke vp your hearts therefore and be strong Dread not nor bee afraide of them for the Lord thy God himselfe doth goe with thee he will not faile nor forsake thee AT LONDON Printed by Felix Kingston for Ralph Iackson 1598. To the Christian Reader THE raging hearts of Rome and Spaine being set on fire with all force and furie to set vpon England I hold it the part and dutie of euery true English-man to be prepared inwardly with loyaltie and courage and outwardly with all necessarie prouision and furniture as his bounden dutie is in the one and his abilitie purse will reach in the other And to this end J haue been caried in the true loyaltie of my heart to set my thoughts on worke not onely how to prepare my particular selfe in all readines to doe all seruices enioyned and commanded to me and to adde anything of my selfe that the strength of one poore man can affoord but also how I might incite and prouoke others to carrie the same minde To my selfe I haue set downe this law that shall neuer be repealed that for the libertie of my conscience the safetie of my deare Soueraigne and the peaceable prosperitie of my countrie if my wealth were millions if I could bring thousands of fighting hands to the field and if my life were ten thousand liues wealth strength life and all shall goe to be spent hazarded and ended for my God my Queene and my Countrie against that Antichrist of Rome the ambitious tyrant of Spayne and all forren forces and home-borne traytors whatsoeuer else should I thinke my selfe vnworthie to liue To stirre vp others I haue presumed to giue an attempt in these few leaues following wherein if I haue erred in any part of the matter let my want of experience excuse me if I haue erred in the forme let my ignorance excuse me and if I haue erred both in matter and forme yet let my faults in all be excused because my zeale to religion my loyaltie to my deare Soueraigne and my loue to my natiue Countrie hath enforced me to make this aduenture rather choosing to bewray my simplicitie wants than that I would defraude my countrymen from being put in minde of matter so needfull for them in my conceit not onely to thinke of but to be throughly resolued in that with confidence boldnes assurance of the goodnes of our cause we might with heart and hand be prest and readie to take our places and to march on to the field when our Soueraignes authoritie commaundeth and there to set forward with a swift foote against these enemies of God our Queene Elizabeth and our Countrie whensoeuer they shall dare to shew their faces against vs. F. H. A VVatch-word to all religious and true hearted English-men IF I should take vpon me to enter into the enumeratiō of all the benefits and blessings that from the almightie haue been powred vpon this little Island of England by and vnder the gouernment of our most gratious soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth I might both forgetfully lessen the number too farre and ignorantly passe ouer many things notable and worthie to be obserued and remembred And if I should aduenture to aime at the particular iniuries her Highnesse hath receiued from forraine malice and home disloyaltie and the particular daungers that haue followed her thereby to the hazard of her safetie in person and the good estate of her whole kingdome I might gesse at very many and come short of the number I might point at very great wrongs and dangers and yet misse those that bee farre greater And therefore for the benefits we haue receiued by her most happie entrance to sit in this regall seate as the annoynted of God to bee the soueraigne cōmander vnder him ouer vs his people of England I wil onely tye my selfe to one as the fountaine and well-spring whence all the rest being an infinite number doe issue and flow And for the iniuries and daungers depending thereupon to her person and kingdome I will tye my selfe to no number but aime at them as I can and they shall be such all as from which also doe spring whatsoeuer hath been offered or intended against her sacred person and this peaceable and flourishing Common-wealth It is not vnknowne to many yet liuing neither can it be altogether hidden from the yonger sort that liue with them what a darke mistie clowde of ignorance which brought in Popish idolatrie and al maner of superstition did ouer-shadow the whole land whereunto was added and wherewith was mixed all bloodie and sauage crueltie against those that desired knowledge and were any way inlightened by Gods grace with a glimmering or small insight into true religion For though it were but only a desire to reade vpon the holy booke of God either the old or new Testament then Heretike was his title heresie was his fault and for this was he called before the Romish Cleargie to receiue their censure and such neuer departed from their clutches till they had branded them to the slaughter But because the Romish synagogue persecuting Christ in his members may maske vnder the Iewish vaile persecuting Christ himselfe who thirsting after Christs blood yet would seeme to spill no blood crying It is not lawfull for vs to put any man to death therefore the ciuill Magistrate must be their butcher to execute their bloodie decree and to the stake they must goe to be consumed with fire Of this their blood-thirstie humour how many hundreds haue tasted stories doe record and many yet liuing can in parte remember In these dark and clowdy daies least the Sunne-shine of knowledge should disperse the mists of ignorance and giue light to the dimme of sight whereby they might be able to discouer the iugling and falshood which in that time of darknes they vsed this position was set down for their Maxime or rule infallible that Ignorance is the mother of deuotion And that sacred worde of God which was giuen from God to be a lanterne to all our feete and a light vnto all our steps was forbidden to the lay sort for so they called them as matter vnfit for them to looke into By which meanes they kept them blind-fold admitting them none other guides but themselues being as starke blinde as beetles in all Christian and true religion and when the blind doe leade the blind both are in hazard to fall into the ditch When they thus had setled this blinde course to keepe the people from knowledge and had deuised to fill their eyes with dumme showes to gaze vpon and their cares with bare sounds of wordes farre from their capacitie to reach vnto or profitably vnderstande much like to Caligula who bidding many guests caused to be set before them golden dishes and golden cups and bad them eate Then they offer another position that it was

England by right of birth by right of inheritance and by right of succession and therefore by the law of Nature and Nations there was obedience and loyaltie due vnto her from him But he was so bewitched with the Popes primacie and supreme authoritie ouer kings and kingdoms as he thought the Pope might depose when hee would and dispose Crownes and kingdomes vpon whom he would as if he had quite forgotten himselfe to be an English man Whence this priuiledge ouer kings and kingdoms should come vnto this proude Priest of Rome I cannot finde vnlesse he fetcheth it from that spirit that brought our Sauiour Christ vnto the top of an high mountaine shewing him all the kingdomes of the world and the glorie of them and sayd All these will I giue thee if thou wilt fall downe and worship mee hauing as much authoritie to dispose of them as Popes haue to depose Princes But you see what was committed and commaunded to this doting Doctor Morton by the Pope and how faithfully Morton performed his faithles errand to the preiudice of his Prince and danger of his Countrie I wish with all my heart the two Earles had been more wise than to be misled by so wicked a messenger and more loyall than to bee miscarried into rebellion by so treasonable a message Notwithstanding they so embraced the messenger and so farre followed the direction of the message that they fell into flat rebellion and marched vnder the ensigne of trayterous subiects for which the one receiued his condigne punishment and the other escaped by flying remaining a fugitiue from his Queene and countrie and not daring to shew his face in his owne natiue soyle for that hee had disloyally rebelled against the one and vnnaturally sought the destruction of the other I finde some blushing in some of this popish crew For a Romish discourser in a booke published and printed against the execution of Justice in England for maintenance of publike peace seemeth to wish that Saunders and Bristow which both do defend and maintain y e Popes Bull against Queene Elizabeth to bee lawfull and iust had spared to speake so much in defence thereof And yet he doubteth not to affirme that these two learned men of great zeale and excellencie had their speciall reasons to doe so which he will neither defend nor reproue He further laboureth to smooth ouer this fault of theirs by a kinde of retractation in both the one leauing this out of his booke in his second edition and the other by suppressing to his liues end A very learned booke made in defence of Pius Quintus his sentence against her Maiestie Marke the Epitheton he giueth to it For he calleth it a very learned booke so as neither his reproofe nor their retracting doth condemne the matter which is the maine poynt but some other reasons did mooue a moderation in them and all the rest of our nation to vse his owne wordes which was neither their condemning the seditious Bull nor their approuing of her Maiesties right to the royall seate she sate in which the Bull sought to impeach both amongst forrainers and home subiects The ground and cause of the moderation spoken of by this Popish politike discourser appeareth by the suite made by Campion and Parsons vnto Gregory the 13. then Pope wherein they desired that this Bull of excommunication might not reach to touch the Catholikes for performing obediēce to her Maiestie which was graunted to them and the very wordes of the dispensatiō are these Where in the Bull of Pius Quintus all her subiects are commaunded not to obey her and she being excommunicated and deposed all that doe obey her are likewise innodate and accursed which point is perilous to the Catholikes For if they obey her they are thē in the Popes curse and if they disobey they are in the Queenes daunger therefore the present Pope to relieue them hath altered that part of the Bull and dispensed with them to obey and serue her without perill of excommunication which dispensation is to endure but till that it please the Pope otherwise to determine And these good fathers so called by this popish discourser are iustified commended and thought worthie of great thankes both of the Queene and countrie and yet you see that euen in this dispensation as well as in the Bull our Soueraigne is cōtinued by this Pope excommunicated and cursed as farre as the hand of such a cursed creature can reach and so are all her true hearted subiects But by this they doe discouer their grosse cunning This discourser would faine perswade that this was done for the Queenes good both for the safetie of her person and quiet of her countrie Notwithstanding reuerend father Saunders could after this bee the Popes Legate to incite and comfort Irish subiects to rebell against her Maiestie where if the mightie God had not giuen a couragious heart and a strong hand to that most vertuous and valiant gentleman the noble Lord Arthur Gray then her Highnes Deputie in that place Saunders perswasion had made a strong partie and Spaniards had setled too strong a footing for vs to recouer in haste Further to discouer the treacherous hearts of all these confederates the conspiracie of Babington Barnewell Titchborne and the rest iumping together in one minde and combining together to performe one bloodie action which was to lay violent hands vpon Gods annoynted whence came it but from Rome and Rhemes following the impious rules of Pius Quintus in his cursed Bull Besides this who set Parry on worke to come hither with an impudent and shameles face and here to court it to bee one of the high Court of parliament and to intrude himselfe into the houses and to the tables of her Maiesties chiefest Counsellors yea very often to her Maiesties owne presence and too often too neere with allowance and liking hauing with her Highnes large discourses and long conferences but that fisher of Rome who fisheth not for mens soules as Peter did to winne them to God but after kingdomes and segniories that they may be tributarie to him and that hee may haue authoritie to dispose of them at his pleasure For from this Parry came reconciled and forsaking his obedience to his rightfull Soueraigne became subiect to him and frō those parts he came ouer with this bloodie purpose to kill our dread Queene To assure this he gaue his word to sundrie to vndertake it he receiued the Sacrament to doe it and he confirmed his bloodie promise with his hand in a letter sent to Rome desiring therein his holines allowance for the doing of this vnholy act and crauing full remission for all his sinnes which was performed to him by this holie Vicars commandement in a letter sent to him from a Cardinall in Rome wherein his purpose was sayd to be honorable the fact meritorious before God and kinde requitals are promised to him for vndertaking the matter and for his care had