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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19411	A treatise against traitors Meete for all faithfull subiects in these dangerous dayes. Taken out of the 40. chapter of Ieremye, the 13, 14, 15, 16. verses, and 41. 1, 2, 3, 4. Made and published for the benefite of the Church and common wealth of England: by Samuell Cottesford Minister and publique preacher of the woord of God.	Cottesford, Samuel.	1591 (1591)	STC 5840; ESTC S116422	48,076	146

to followe when and assoone as they may attayne to the notice of anie such matter That I may speake of Huzhai his faithfulnesse to Dauid in ouerthrowing Achitophels counsell and in disclosing the purpose of Absalon to Zadok and Abiather the Priests to the end they might speedily discouer Absalons pretence to the King as it is in the second booke of Samuel the 17. chap. verse 15. Then sayde Huzhai vnto Zadok and to Abiathar the Priestes Of this and that manner did Achitophell and the Elders of Jsraell counsell Absalon and thus and thus haue I counselled Nowe therefore send quickely and shewe Dauid saying Tarrie not this night in the fieldes of the wildernesse but rather gette thee ouer least the King bee deuoured and all the people that are with him To omitte many that I may with one other notable example drawe to an ende of this first part In the booke of Hester is recorded a woorthy example in the second Chapter the 21. and 22. verses Jn those dayes when Mordecai sate in the Kinges gate two of the Kinges Eunuches Bighthan and Teresh which kept the doore were wroth and sought to laye handes on the King Ahashuerosh And the thing was knowne to Mordecai and he toldeit to Queene Hester and Hester certified the Kinge of it in Mordecai his name and Mordecai his acte was Chronicled for a remembraunce of his faythfulnesse as is to see the 6. Ester 1. 2. And by the way to remember the mercy of God in discouering the plats layde for the ouerthrow of Prince people and countrey and how he approoueth this duty of subiectes by the execution which hee hath brought the traytour by conspiratours of our time vnto although to the prayse of God and the glorie of our wise Counsellers finding them out and of good subiectes bringing their villanies to light yet to the euerlasting shame and inglorious reproch to the worldes ende to bee remembred to Calender them out for memories sake some fewe of the famous in this action The Earles of Northumberland Westmerland L. Paget Charles Paget Throgmorton Shelley a little to refresh the readers memorie with calling to minde the practises of the late Babington Iones Tichborne and al the confederats of that time with others yet remayning behind attending her Maiesties mercifull hand ouer thē the discouery of whom haue beene arguments of Gods infinite mercies to our land may be argumēts to draw vs on being readye therein to be more readye it being a duetye that God requireth at our hands But let vs return to the speeches of Iohanan where he saith let me goe I pray thee and I will slaye Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah and no man shall know it wherein is further to be obserued concerning Iohanan that although he was carefull for the Prince and zealous not without cause of the Princes carelesnes of himselfe yet would he not do that alas to few such Captaines these daies affordes which in a matter iustice requisite to be done would neither without the law attempt it neither yet would run before the Magistrate in doing of it A very necessarye thing to be obserued in our age and time wherein though some Johanans are found that regarde to walke in the waies of iustice though some Corneliusses that feare the Lord with their house yet these some are too too feawe in comparison of those whome so long time of the Gospell might haue bred But not onely they but men of great knowledge forsooth so recconing thēselues of great zeale also of greater it may be then iudgement who in seeking after good thinges faile in the manner fowly dooing that which beseemes them not to doo in regarde they are but meere priuate neither meete for controuersies nor the deciding of causes in question neither armed with either power or warrant from God himselfe immediatlye and extraordinarily which to look after is meere dotage neither yet hauing any calling from men nor authoritie from the Magistrates for let them know that to doo euerye good thing is not lawfull for euerye man To preach to minister the sacraments offices in the Church to rule by the Swoord as a Magistrate these all are good things lawfull and commaunded but not all persons To reforme corruptions in the Church being once known and discouered concerning either Gods seruice or manners of men in their conuersation a thing necessarye expedient and hye time it were done and yet this no priuate action nor by priuate persons to be done Yet alas what our miserable dayes haue bred euery man and woman will see into a whole state and censure Prince Ministers Magistrates and all persons of eche degree and haue exquisite knowledge in reforming others and in the meane time starke blinde to see their owne faultes and as ignorant as beasts in the knowledge of reforming themselues this is Sathans malice this is the corruption of our owne nature This thing that Johanan vrged was good necessarye and a thing moste conuenient namelye that Jshmael might be executed for high treason whereof he certainlye knew he was guilty but he would not in any wise proceede further then behoued him he discouered the villanye and the villaine the trecherye and the traitor he discouers it where remedy might and ought to haue bene had Further he proceedes not God had called him to it if any shall replye that concerning the danger the Prince and people stood in and that the state was growen into such extremety he therfore proceeded not so boldely neither yet so far as he might haue done and so thereby take occasion to censure his manhoode as the vnbrideled hotte-spurres of our time with whom there is but a word and a blow who it maye be will not sticke to say if the case had beene theirs they would haue cut off the traitor afterward required iustice these are they who in euery priuate cause perswaded themselues that the quarrell cannot be euded without bloodshed they haue not learned this point firste that courage manhoode strength and valure are to be bounded and limited within the compasse of the law of God and as a mans life is not his owne to spill it at his pleasure so neither is the blood of any other to be spilt except God requiring it the blood or life of a malefactor be lawfully taken away by the magistrat and for that cause he holdes his handes referring the execution of iustice and earnestlye requiring at the supreame magistrates handes who might or ought to haue authorised him or some other to the taking away of so vile a malefactor And where he saith and no man shal know it his mening was that he would so speedily dispatch the matter as that before he had doone it no intelligence should be had no interim for begging of pardons for it should seeme that Iohanan feared that if the matter shouldbe too publiquely knowne some stop would be made of iustice and great sute for an arrant Traitor The daies