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A10614	A treatise conteining two parts 1 An exhortation to true loue, loyaltie, and fidelitie to her Maiestie. 2 A treatise against treasons, rebellions, and such disloyalties. Written by Michael Renniger.	Renniger, Michael, 1530-1609.	1587 (1587)	STC 20888; ESTC S106425	154,771	309

auncient father reporting it Tertul. in Apolog cap. 2. Se nihil aliud de sacris eorū cōperisse quàm caetus antelucanos ad canendum Christo Deo ad confirmandā disciplinā homicidiū adulteriū fraudē perfidiā ac caetera scelera prohibentes That saith he of their religion and seruice he could boult out no other thing but their assēblies before day were to sing to Christ and God that for cōfederating their discipline they forbade murder adulterie fraude trechery other hainous offences Thus much Plinie of the conuersation and maners of the ancient Christians A worthie glasse to be set before Christians of our time to whet their dull deuotion to God and for reformation of such hainous offences amongst them And if thus the ancient Christians shewed themselues in subiection and fidelity to their Princes though they were Panims so forbade loathed treacherie homicide and shedding of blood that as the same Tertul. saith of them Tertul. in Apolog cap 37 In our profession saith he more lawfull it is to be slain then to flea how would they haue abhorred treachery the shedding of blood of Christian Princes whose principates and powers serue as handmaids to the Gospel of Christ whose blood will crie to God against treacheries only intēded against thē not only before the executiō of thē but after as the blood of Abel cried to God from the ground after it was shed They write that Renelphus the yong king of Mercia was by treason of Quendred his Sister slaine and after the murther cast into a thicke wood Fabian in his Cronicle of Englande 〈◊〉 6. part ●●p 158. that by a piller of diuine light shining frō the corps as Fabian in the English Chronicle telleth it the corps was first discouered after entred Quendred by gods vengeance apparentlie striken For the truth of the circūstance of the storie I leaue to the author But surely by diuine light frō heauen treasons against princes plats of murders Treasons and murders wōderfully are discouered by lights from heauen and marueilous meane on earth euen before the attēpt practise of them wonderfully are discouered as of late marueilously wee haue seen By what means soeuer they are descried gods prouidence appointeth the meanes on earth And by diuine light frō heauen the inferior meanes are directed on earth as wonderfully we haue seen O let vs magnifie alwaies the mercies of the glorious God for it Thākfully we recognise his wonderful work Only the fear is the worldly securitie do not swallow it vp by forgetfulnes it fade away For securitie cōmeth stealing on Against securitie and forgetfulnes vnthākfulnes is redie continually to assaile vs forgetfulnes to ouerflow vs vnlesse wee hold fast lock vp in thākfull memory the blessed and wonderfull worke of God Therefore that it perish not in the gulf of vnthākfulnes let vs renue keepe it fresh in remēbrance what our portion had been if Gods prouidence had not preuented prouided for vs. All England should haue rued faithful seruāts to god true harted subiects to her M. might with Hieremy haue written new lamētations Hier. lament the roule of the booke deliuered to Ezech. the prophet Ezech. 2. writtē with lamentatiōs within wtout had been fit for our doleful state Hiere 9. We might haue said with Hier. Who will giue vs eyes as fountaines of waters to bewaile the wrackes of Gods Church and of our Countrie Herem 9. if that dolefull day had commen on vs. But God hath wiped the teares feom our eyes Reue. 7. as he doth wipe the trares from the eyes of the Saints as S. Iohn saith and he hath put of our sackcloth Psal 30. and girded as with ioye as the Prophet Dauid sayth and hath turned the dolefull day to ioy and the booke of lamentations into the booke of praysing of God and hath opened the good affections of faithfull subiectes to her Maiestie to the great comfort and reioysing both of her Maiestie and of all that beare true harts to her Thus how the auncient Christians framed their affections and obedience to their Princes though they were panims and how they abhorred trecheries homicides and shedding of blood and such other haynous offences And howe Gods prouidence maruelously worketh in the discouerie of such offences The 4. principall point and cheefe matter The fourth is what an acceptable thing to God it is when the people ioyne their harts to Godly Princes in true faith to God and hartie fidelitie to their Princes Let vs lay downe examples herof out of the holy Scriptures How acceptable a thinge was it to God when vnder Iehosaphat the godly king his people assembled together Iehosaphat his people ioyned their hearts heartie praiers with their Prince to God at what time the rūbling rumor was vp of great multitudes of enemies of the childrē of Moab Ammon 2. Chro. 20. of mount Seir comming on them And presentlye they receaued comfort of God Iehaziel The spirite of God came vpon Iehaziel a Leuite who deliuered sweet comfort to them from God their enimies swordes were turned on themselues Likewise when vnder the godly king Asa Asa and his people the people commons with such heartie affection fidelity were ioyned to God their prince that they made a couenant as the scripture saith to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart 2. Chro. 15. with al their soule and whosoeuer will not seeke the Lord God of Israel shal be slaine whether he be small or great man or woman And they swore vnto the Lord with a loud voice with showting with trumpets and with corners And all Iuda reioysed at the oth for they had sworn to the Lord with al their hart sought him with a whole desire he was foūd of thē And the Lorde gaue them rest round about Hitherto the words of the scripture So likewise vnder Hezechiah the gracious prince Hezechiah his people when Rabshakeh sent frō Sancherib king of Assur began to roare out blasphemies against God Esai 37. and minaces against the prince people and Eliakim and other the seruants of king Hesechiah sent with him rent their cloathes And Hesechiah put on sackcloth and went to the house of the Lord to make his mone to God in prayer and his people were ioyned in true fidelity to their Prince God sēt them comfort by the Prophet Esai and sent his Angel to distroy the huge host of Sancherib an hundred fourscore and fiue thousand And when they arose vppe earely in the morning behold saith the Prophet they were slayne and all was ful of dead bodies Iosiah and his people So vnder Iosiah the religious Prince when the booke of the lawe of God was found of Helkiah the Priest Shaphan the

Chaunceller red it before the king he rent his clothes his hart melted and he humbled himselfe before God and he clensed the temple of God from idolatrie and he● gathered all his people from the greatest to the smalest as the Scripture saith 2. Chro. 34. and hee red in their eares all the wordes of the booke of the couenaunt that was found in the house of the Lord. And the king stood by the Piller made a couenaunt before the Lord to walk after the Lord to keepe his cōmaundemēts his testimonies his statutes with all his hart with al his soule and that he would accōplish the wordes of the couenant written in the same booke And he caused all that were found in Ierusalem Beniamin to stand to it And the inhabitātes of Ierusalem did according to the couenant of God euen the God of their fathers Hitherto the words of the Scripture What a blessed state was in Iuda and Beniamin then when the harts of the Prince people melted at the word of God were knit in one to serue God according to his law their Soueraigne in true fidelitie according to it How good comely a thing is it as the Prophet Dauid saith for brethren to dwell together in vnitie Psal 133 It is like the precious oyntment vpon the head that ran down vpon the beard euen vnto Aarons beard vnto the skirtes of his clothing c. So far Dauid And if this we ioyne our hartes together to serue God in true faith and our Prince in true loyaltie and fidelity we shal find cōfort helpe frō God God wil blesse the prince for the people the people for the Prince forraine enemies wil feare traitors wil trēble rebels wil be ready to run into caues dens seditious persons wil shrink in their owne secret imaginatious Psal 58. the wicked ones like snayles shall be readie to melt away in their owne wicked wayes as the prophet praieth they may Thus how acceptable a thing it is to God when the people ioyne their hartes together in the true faith to God harty fidelity to their Prince The 5. is of Dauid his loyaltie and fidelitie to the royal person of king Saul The 5. cheefe matter notwithstanding he sought his life While Dauid was yet a subiect to king Saul The Example of Dauid his loyaltie to the person of king Saul 2. Sam. 24. by the euil spirite sent of God on him he was so incensed against Dauid that he chased him as abird from couert to couert to deuoure him His spies hunted him and they told him behold Dauid is in the wildernesse of Engaddi and the men of Ziph brought him tidings that Dauid lurked in the hill of Hachilah by them Psal 11. And how say yee saith he as some lay downe the words in the Psalme to my soule that shee should flye as a bird to the hill Yet notwithstanding he was thus chased for life and driuen out to the vttermost and put on his garde for safety of life yet he bare such loue loyaltie and fidelitie to the royall person of his Prince that when God eftsoones had put him into his handes he would suffer none of his retinue or garrison to offer violence vnto him 2. Sam. 24. For he said the Lorde keepe me from doing that thing vnto the Lordes annoynted to lay my handes vpon him for he is the annoynted of the Lorde And with these words he quailed his owne seruantes which said vnto him See the day is come which the Lord said vnto thee Behold I will deliuer thy enemies into thy hande and thou shalt doe to them as seemeth good to thee But Dauid would suffer none of his men to lay hands on him euen when hee came as it were into his mouth into the caue to ease himself Dauid saued kinge Saules life in the caue wher Dauid his men were hid in the inward partes thereof And his men said now is the day c. And they were sharpe set euen to haue torne him with their teeth And if Dauid in the plung had not pacified his men and garded the person of his Prince which notwithstanding persecuted him to death king Saul had bene dispatched of them And an other time God put king Saul into his handes Dauid saued king Saules life being asleepe in the campe 1. Sam. 26. when Dauid came vpon him as he was a sleepe and the people lay round about him And Abishai said to Dauid God hath closed thy enimie in thy hand this daye I pray thee let me smite him once with a speare to the earth and I wil not smite him againe And Dauid saide to Abishai distroy him not for who can lay his hand on the Lords annointed be giltlesse And he tooke the kings speare and the pot of water from Sauls head and from the toppe of a hill he cryed to Abner the captaine of Sauls hoast and to the people This is not well done of thee as the Lorde liueth ye are worthy to die because you haue not kept your maister the Lordes annoynted and now see where the kinges speare is and the pot of water that was at his head And Saules hart rued he said I haue sinned come againe my son Dauid for I will do thee no more harme because my soule was precious to thy eyes this day Behould I haue done foolishly and haue erred exceedingly So farre the Scripture Thus king Sauls life was precious to Dauid though hee did persecute him to death because he was his Soueraigne Lord placed of God in the royall seate His priuate causes and oppressions he commited to God abyding his pleasure and leasure and as his prouidence shoulde dispose of him and them But he cold not frame his hart either himselfe or to suffer any other vnder his regiment to offer any violence to the person of his Prince notwithstanding they were in armes and had him at their deuotions And his conscience was so tender touching his loyaltie to the person of his Prince that when in the caue mentioned before he had cut off but a lappet of Sauls garment in signe that God had put his life into his handes he was touched in his heart after as the Scripture saieth because he thought he had bene to bold with his Prince 1. Sam. 24. Dauid resolute loyaltie Though he were cast out of his protection yet so he abhorred treasons violence against the person of his Prince that he was resolute whatsoeuer should become of him not for the winning of his kingdome to the person of his Prince 2. Sam. 26. or sauing his own life to do or suffer violence to be done to his person For this was his resolutiō touching the person of his Prince As the Lorde liueth saith he either the Lorde shall smite him or his day shall come to die or he shal goe downe to battail and perish