whatsoeuer means vnlawful against the Mother and Parent of the countrey vnder whose protection by the prouidence of God After the winter of Q. Mary ae summer of Q. Elizabeth they haue enioyed after the winter and tempest of Queene Maries persecution the warmth and heat of the fier and many blessinges of God both spirituall and temporal For a remedy of these euils for redresse of this be astlie ingratitude disobedience and rebellious behauiour against the royal person of the Prince I haue as you haue heard discoursed of the history of Dauid the last day replieng against Abishai which history Chrysostome so liked Hom. de Dauid Saul Chrysostoms Amplification of this historie Exod. 21. that he made Homilies of it and amplifieth the excellent integritie and faithfulnes of Dauid towarde Saul the annointed in that Dauid did this in the oulde Testament where some reuenge was in a sort permitted in that Dauid bestowed benefites vpon Saul sparing him when hee might haue killed him 1. Sam. 24. aduenturing his life against Golias 1. Sam. 16. defending both Saul the King and the whole host of Israel that day and with his harp charming and chasing away the furious spirite that possessed Saul and yet this notwithstanding Sauls speare was euer ready to pearce Dauid And whereas hee should haue had for the victory ouer Golias a dowry with his Daughter 1. Sam. 18. the King set downe this cruell condition against him that he must winne in battel and huÌ„dred foreskins of the vncircumcised Philistines which he valiantly performed with an aduantage bringing two hundred foreskins with him And lastly when he had cut off the lap of Sauls cloke he was striken in hart lamented for it yet for the defense of this fact Gods name was auouched Gods his authority was alledged by Dauids seruantes souldiors Deus tradidit illum in manus c. God hath deliuered thine enemy into thine hands Allegant illi diuinam authoritatem as the said Chrysostom testifieth in that Homily They alleage the authority of God Wherefore once againe I am to request you patiently to heare the rest I beganne to prooue the opinion of Dauid against Abishai although many did hold with Abishai that it was not lawfull to kil Saul nor any the annointed of the Lord being contrary to the law of nature and al lawes Before I enter into the particular probation hereof A generall Rule of Reuenge I doe set downe this ground generally receiued by common Law Lex talionis The Law of retaliation That like will haue like Woe be to thee that doest spoile Esa 33. when thou shalt cease to spoile thou shalt be spoiled when thou shalt make an end of doing wickedlie they shall doe wickedlie against thee Hee that diggeth à pitte Psal 7. Prou. 26. shall fall into it himselfe and he that casteth vp à stone on high it may returne vpon his own pate It is the plaine case of Shimei pronounced by the mouth of this Salomon vpon this general rule Thou knowest all the wickednes whereunto thine hart is priuy 1. Reg. 1. that thou didst to Dauid my father The Lord therefore shal bring thy wickednesse vpon thine owne head Let al Shimeians beware of this strait and sharpe verdict for Sape sagittantem didicet referire sagitta Inque virum plaga conuersa recurrere plaga The arrow oftentimes hitteth the shooter himselfe and the stroke reboundeth back to the striker Plin. l. 34. cap. 8. Perillus that deuised the brasen Bul to encrease the cruell humour of the Tyraunt Phalaris in the which men shoulde bee burned quicke with intolerable paine and roaring was by Phalaris appointed first to feele the smart of his owne inuention Neque eâ—â—ns lex iustior olla Quà m necis artifices arte perire sua It is not amisse but a most iust law that the truel workman should perish in his owne workmanship It is a true prouerb among the Hebrues Middáh Keneged middáh A measure for a measure And our sauior vseth the same What measure ye mete Matth. 7. it shal be measured to you again It is the law Quod fecit semper expectet Col. l. 3. Nemo our lawe in Moses Huic fiet queÌ„admodum ipse fecit Wherfore as it was said once in Exod. Exo. c. 21. Leuit. 24. Deut. 19. A breach for à breach or à fracture for a fracture an ey for an ey à tooth for à tooth so is it also the iudgement of God a limine for a limme bloud for bloud and this is a lawe vniuersal To return now to our particulars I haue declared the law of nature how this common law is verified by creatures voide of reason and by men void of religion which law of nature is established by the wisedome of God himselfe who hath created and directed all things in wisedome Themgument of Nature forcible Ambrose hath a sentence pertaining to this an example prouing this The sentence is Omnia penetrat diuina sapientia implet omnia idque locupletius ex irrationabilium sensibus quà m ex rationabilium disputatione colligitur validius enim est naturae testimonium quà m doctrinae argumentum noting the force and validity of nature and of vnreasonable creatures for the plaine demonsiration of this argument The example is of a dogge A Dogge faithfull so man whereof I spake the last day out of Plinie and out of Ambrose who in general woords confirme the fidelity of dogs They knowe to flie vpon theeues for their master Hexaemer 6. cap. 4. and in the night to forbid strangers to come neer and they are ready to die for their masters and oftentimes they giue euidence to conuince men guilty of muther so that their dum testimony hath bin credited for the most part I reported before out of the same Ambrose that in the suburbs of Antiochia in the dark a man was slain that had a dog accompaniing him And the worker minister of the slaughter was a souldiour discouered by the dog who pursued as hee might the reuenge of the enemy because he could not woork the defense of his master as he wold I omit the kinde nature of Bucephalus Plin. l. 8. cap. 42. Alexander his horse who when he was decked with the trappings and furniture of the King would suffer no man to ride him but the King otherwise he was content with any man O that men would bee as wise as Bucephalus to know a King from a common man and yet In horse and mule there is no vnderstanding Psal 32. But to come from beasts to men from the horse to the master Alexander himselfe a natural man was taught by his Master Aristotle this supernatural lesson in a certaine book written to him Quantum potes As much as you can take heede that you shedde not the blood of any man Euripides also condemneth it as a wicked thing to kil a King Holcot recyting certaine lawes of
old Oak a tree not of life to them but of death called by them the tree of Reformation The tree of Reformation but it was the tree of Absalom vppon the which Miles their Gunner and two of their false Prophets were executed for they trusted in vaine Prophecies which were partly vttered in these verses The country gnuffes Hob Dick Hick With clubs and clouted shoone Shal fil vp Dussin dale with bloode Of slaughtered bodies soone This prophecy was a dreame their captaine Ket crept into a corner but was openly put to death his other brethren were hanged in chaines the rest of meaner sort hearing the pardon proclaimed by an herauld of Armes cast downe their weapons and lifted vp their voices praying to God to preserue King Edward There brake out a new stur in Yorkshier In Yorkeshiere False Prophecies cause of rebellion by false prophecies by a fond misliking of the Kings proceeding But here also the captains that thought to raise a great flame and to set al on fier made but a smoke wherewith they were choked themselues namely a poore man William Ombler and a simple parish clerke Thomas Dale and such like All these ment vnhappily by extraordinary means to turn al the Lawes of God and ordinaunces of Princes topsie-turuie About that time of these rebellions wee had set foorth by the authority of the King to these rebels an Eloquent oration by a great learned man Sir Iohn Cheeke Schoolemaster to the King Sir I. Cheek grauely and pithily dehorting them from such vprores as contrary to Gods word the honour of a King and the safety of the comon-weale which in mine opinion would make any hard heart to melt These former and foolish attemptes in the beginning pernitious and tragicall in the end might haue persuaded our countrymen to haue learned by their fore-fathers to keepe themselues within their tedder compasse of obedience The Raign of Q. Elizabeth But alas our Soueraign Queen Elizabeth hath felt too much of their wilfull disobedience and they tasted somewhat of hir prouoked seuerity Wherefore did Thomas Pearcie Earle of NorthuÌ„berland Charles Earle of Westmerlande against the Lawes of God and man by forcible meanes set vp Masses burne Bibles and bookes of Communion Why did they rise themselues when they might haue been quiet And raise the people which should haue been taught obedience Let the death of the one and the miserable flight of the other the execution of Parson Plumtree at Duresme and of others hanged and beheaded at Knaues Mire not farre from Yorke be instructions and examples for subiects These and many mo cannot warne vs neither the history of Iohn Story prouidently caught beyond the Seas and trimly shipped into this lande and afterward iustly executed vpon a newe paire of Gallowes euen at this day commonly bearing his name Saunders li. 7. de visibili Monarchia Ann. 1566. neither the terrible end of Iohn Felton who vpon Corpus Christi day at London at the Bishoppes gate published the Declaratory sentence of Pius Quintus Pope making this Realme of England and the Queenes Maiesty a pray and a spoil to our neighbours and to al nations neither the beggerly and lamentable state of Iames Desmond neither of Iohn Desmond bearing himselfe too bould vpon an Agnus Dei and a ring sent from the Pope neither of Nicolas Saunders himself the rebellous preacher to the Irish-men Saunders and the rest in the end taken with a frensie these al while they bend the vttermost of their wittes and of their forces against the Maiesty of our Prince whom the Maiesty of God hath enthronized they al I say haue but knocked their heels against the prick spurned to their owne destruction and to the confusion of that Popish sect By these and manie others neither Campion nor the rest of the Iesuites new Incommers Campion other Iesuites and Inmates in this Realme coulde beware neither yet by them other new cutters and practisers could be warned neither yet to this day the people coulde bee taught or perswaded but that their holy fathers Buls and Decrees Declarations must be obeyed and that his waxe and his lead and his Pontifical presentes consecrated by his execrable authority may preserue exempt them from al daungers touch of our law hereafter from al perill punishment either in hel or in purgatory I am to passe ouer at this time other examples and ordinaunces of other countries adioyning to vs as of Flaunders and Fraunce which wee must differre till another time if God will In the meane time let vs aliena frui insania by the madnes of these men learne to bee wise as many of our predecessors both Princes and learned men of this Vniuersity haue doone and know that the Queenes Maiestie hath waded no farther in these causes than other Kinges of this Land who haue broken the yee before King Stephen perceiuing that Theobald Arch-Bishoppe of Caunterburie brought Popish laws from Rome into Englande by decree of Parliament condemneth them burned them as hurtful to a common weale Iohn Bale cent 2. in apeâ—â—lice as Iohn Sarisbury beareth witnes in his eight book and two twentith chapter of Polycrat King Richard the second also molested with Romish affaires and tyranny of the Pope in Parliament holden at Westminster decreed and enacted that it shoulde bee lawfull for no man for any cause to pleade before the Byshoppe of Rome Polyd. Vir. lib. 20. for excommunication of any English-man by his authoritie and if anie such commaundement came from him it shoulde not bee executed vpon paine of losse of all their gooddes and perpetuall imprisonment and therefore great marueile that any such sentence of excommunication from such a forreiner and vsurper against our gracious Prince shuld in these daies of more knowledge by our countrimen be either receiued or harkned to or feared You dearly beloued I hope wil not and that you may not take an example by old Oxford Studentes who could ne would like of a Bull of Gregory directed against Iohn Wicliffe and therefore are chidden of the Pope that would suffer cockle and darnel of his heresie to grow among pure wheat in the beutifull fieldes of their Vniuersity You may also cal to minde that are ancients the daies of Henry the eight and Edward the sixt and iustifie the thinges to be true which I haue alleadged and much more which might bee said to this purpose to the proofe of this argument of Dauid that whosoeuer laieth hand of the lords annointed shal not be accounted innocent but shal be plagued for it The Lord giue vs grace to haue this doctrine fixed and setled in our heartes and expressed in our liues To whom bee all honour c. 1. SAM 26. 9 And Dauid said to Abishai Destroy him not for who can laie his hande on the Lords annointed and bee guitlesse 10 Moreouer Dauid said As the
perish The Argument is this God wil in his wisedome appoint his time for the dispatch death of Saul therefore I may not ne will intermeddle in this action against Saul as though he should in the name and person of God thus say If Saul haue offended the iudgement is mine against mine annointed I am and so am called the God of reuengement Psal 94. Rom. 12. Reuengement is mine I will repay Ergo I wil be no reuenger neither wil I vsurp that office which pertaineth to God What neede I or you Abishai or any other hasteÌ„ the death of a Prince which is set downe in the booke of foreknowledge by God himselfe and cannot be preuented by any mortal man or anie wates altered No fate or destiny no constellation no fortune or chaunce no cunning of star-tooters or figure-flingers no conspiracy of number no strength of confederates no counsailes or polices of wise men can change the Prognostication or Almanacke of God which is that Saul and we al Prince people Magistrate and priuate men young and old man and woman good and bad all must die but not when we will nor when friend or foe wil but as God in his fatal book hath written it downe The consequence and congruity of Dauids Protestation thus explaned I pray you marke these notes First our mortality generally incident to vs al high lowe which is woorth the noting at al times 1. Note death common to al. Gen. 3.2 Reg. c. 14 especially in the time of these new and straunge diseases assaulting vs. The general sentence is that Adam is Adam stil hee came from dust and shal return to dust again that we dy al and as water slide away Who liueth Psal 88. Hebr. 9.2 Cor. 5. and shal not see death It is a statute and decree that men must dy once We know that our earthly house of this tabernacle shall be destroied In this declaration our Dauid is very copious particularly for himselfe and generally for vs all Psal 39. Behold thou hast made my daies as a-hand breadth mine age is as nothing before thee Psal 102. surely euery man is altogether vanity And again My daies are like a shadowe and I am whithered like grasse What is a shadow but the defect and priuation of light and then what is the life of man but death The same vanity of man is painted out liuely in the hundred and third Psalme by comparing vs to grasse and to a flower of the field Esaie 40. 1. Pet. 1. as we haue also in Esay and Peter Dauid is not alone mortal as you haue heard but al Ortus cuncta suos repetunt matremque requiruÌ„t Et redit adnihilum quod fuit antenihil The effect is that all must returne to the Mother from whence they came In Boeoticiâ— A figure of this is declared by Pausanias AmoÌ„g the gifts and oblations of Apollo there was couÌ„terfatted after the imitation and resemblance of the old works in brasse one Image the flesh was clean gone from the skin so that there remained nothing but bones They say that Hippocrates the Physition did dedicate this at Delphos Phaylus captaine of the Phocensians in his sleepe dreamed Hippocrates naked Image that hee himselfe was made like vnto this gift a naked dead man and so beeing deadly sicke ended his life and prooued his vision true So fareth it not only with captaines and Emperours but with vs al who al shal be the image of Hippocrates A bare Anatomy a schelitoÌ„ or picture of death Who then shal escape Shal children No 2. Note Children and youth mortall not the babe of one yeare Huc puer atque senex pariter venisse feruntur Hic par diuitibus pauper egenus erit When the Prophet proclameth al flesh to be grasse Ies 40. and al people to be verily and truelie hay but yet this must be taken not properly but by a figure when common experience teacheth that an apple fresh and red doth perish or fall downe with the woorm with winde or with a staffe and when the prouerb saith that assoone goeth the Lambes skin to the market as the sheepe shal we thinke that the younger sort and lusty folkes shal bee priuileged from death 3. Note Great die Shal the mighty men or nobles or valiant or Princes bee freed from this sentence of death 3. Kindes of death Dauid saieth No and sheweth three kindes of death either extraordinary before time either ordinary natural either by an externe cause or accident as in battle I speak of the death which is the separatioÌ„ of the body the soul for the death of sin the death mystical which is mortificatioÌ„ De bono mortis pertain not to this point wherof you may read in Ambrose This triple kinde or triple way to death heere set down by Dauid is manifold there are many pathes steps to death Prosper L. Epigram as one doth expresse it Ferro peste fame vinclis algore calore Mille modis miseros mors rapit vna homines That is we dy by sword pestilence famin imprisonment colde heate yea by a thousand meanes which God can and will deuise as Dauid hath set down for al men especially as it is ment in our Text against Princes and Potentates of this world And to begin with Saul did hee not desperatly kill himselfe as Dauid here talketh in battle but yet by the hand of the Lord and indeede extraordinarily by his owne hand It is reason that mightie men should mightily suffer tormentes according as it is written and also Saint Austine hath a notable place Let the king know Sapiâ—us 6. De 12. abusionum grad that as he is ordained chiefe in his throne aboue all men so in punishment if hee doe not iustice he shal haue the chiefe-dom and first place And in another book Idem in L. Q. Noui Vet. Test cap. 16. Lib. 9. Dâ— cad 4. Viri sublimis culpa grane est peccatum Shall perhaps great captaines and warriours auoide this stroke Liuie rehearseth of most valiant captaines Scipio Annibal PhilopaemeÌ„ that al three in one year died but nether died nor were buried in their own country Suidas telleth of Thulis King of al AEgypt vnto the Ocean sea that builded an Ilande of his owne name that asked the Oracle of Serapis Tel me who before me could doe such actes An Oracle of the death of Thulis of the eternal dominion of God and who shal doe after me The Oracle was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is in effect that first God the father next the woord and his sonne and with them the holy ghost the blessed Trinity in vnity did raigne before should after euerlastingly but for himself hee was willed speedily to depart and immediatly after the Oracle was slaine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of his owne people What are all these mighty men but the Gourd
A VIEW OF THE ROMISH HYDRA AND MONSTER TRAISON AGAINST THE LORDS ANNOINTED CONDEMNED BY DAVID 1. SAM 26. AND NOWE CONFVTED IN SEVEN SERMONS To perswade Obedience to Princes Concord among our selues and a generall Reformation and Repentaunce in all states By L. H. Psal 11 Behold the wicked bend their bowe they haue made readie their arrowes vpon the string to shoot in the darcke at those that are righteous in heart Psal 5 Destroy them O God let them fal from their Counsels cast them out for the multitude of their iniquities because they haue Rebelled against thee AT OXFORD Printed by IOSEPH BARNES and are to be solde in Paules Church-yearde at the signe of the Tygers head 1588. The Dialogue and talk of Dauid and Abishai touching King Saul whether he being cast into a dead sleepe shoulâ— be killed or no taken out of the first booke of Samuel and 26. Chapter 8 Then said Abishai to Dauid God hath closed thine enemy into thine hande this daie nowe therefore I pray thee let mee smite him once with à speare to the earth and I will not smite him againe 9 And Dauid said to Abishai Destroy him not for who can lay his hand on the Lords annointed and be guiltlesse 10 Moreouer Dauid said As the Lord liueth either the Lord shal smite him or his day shal come to dy or hee shall descend into battle and perish 11 The Lord keepe me from laying mine hand vppon the Lordes annointed but I pray thee take now the speare that is at his head and the pot of water and let vs goe hence 12 So Dauid tooke the speare and the pot of water from Sauls head and they gate them awaie and no man saw it nor marked it neither did any awake but they were al asleepeâ— for the Lord had sent a dead sleepe vpon them TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORD ROBERT DVDLEY EARLE OF LEICESTER BARON OF DENBIGH KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER OF HER MAIESTIIS most Honorable priuy Counsaile Chauncelour of the Vniuersitie of Oxford LAVRENCE HVMPHREY WISHETH GRACE PEACE AND MERCY FROM GOD THE FATHER OVR LORD IESVS CHRIST THERE are Right honorable as farre as I can iudge Two perilous poinâ—â— of popery in the Romish Religion two principall parts and peremptorie pointes corrupt Opinions and outragious ActioÌ„s both drawen and borrowed from our common Aduersary who one way soweth in darkens and in the night among the wheat of gods word the cockle darnel of pernicious doctrine the other way he murdreth them from the beginning Iohn 8. 1. Pet. 5. and roareth like a Lyon and in his continuall and cruell circuite seeketh whom he may deuour euerie way hunteth after blood and our destruction spiritual and corporal As Christ is humble and meek as the cognisaunce of Christians is loue so the badge of Antichrist is bloody ful of cruelty voide of charity To passe ouer the corruptions of doctrin This second Monster of Rome Hydra of Rome hath many heads this Hydra is of many heades These Actions of Popes are diuerse both here seen and felt and vnderstood abroad and euery where practised As Ashur was Gods rod and Vespasian his seruaÌ„t against the Iews so this reputed Vicar of Christ hath been the whippe of Princes the scourge of all Christendome By his opinion in Masse he hath learned to offer an vnbloody sacrifice In his Actions he is Pilat mingling sacrifices with mans blood Luâ— 13. By his opinion hee is guilty of that which is written Psal 144. His mouth speaketh lies In his actions of that which followeth His right hande is the right hand of iniquity But ô that al Princes were of King Dauids mind not to meddle nor to communicate with such bloody sacrifices Psal â— nor to haue these false cruel gods names in their lips Although your Lordshippe knoweth his dooings in this realme better then I can deliuer yet I purpose by your good leaue and licence to set down the proceedings of this Hydra and his actions by degrees and steps for some Instruction and a Caueat to my countrymen The first Act and head The first head of this Romish Monster is a Temporal sword open defiaunce against kings and kingdomes misliked by him He wil be not onely a Bishop of Bishops but a king nay a Conquerour of kings Hee hath in his hande the wheele of fortune to make kings goe vp and goe downe according to his pleasure in driuing guiding the chariot and maketh them thus to say Regno regnabo regnaui sum sine regno One saith I doe raigne another I wil raigne another I haue raigned another I am put from my raigne He maketh Apollo to giue ouer the chariot of the Sunne and to resigne it to any rechles rash Phaeton though he set on fier heauen and earth Hee wil win the horse or loose both horse and saddle He can be content that Dauid or any other godly Prince bee vnhorsed and vnseated and that wanton and rebellious Absalom bee placed and setled This bloodie action of warring is performed sometime in their owne person as Iulius the second that fought against the French with Paules sword and others both Popes and Cardinals may bee witnesses sometime by inciting and setting on other Princes against a Realme or Seignory As Pippin Charles were imploied against the Lombardians by the commaundement of Adrian Cau. 23. q. 8 And Gregory the great willeth the Tuscans to doe the like Thom. walsing in Edâ—ar 1. Boniface by letters sollicited the King of England against the French King and promiseth aide And another time Kings of Fraunce are set vp against England Al these experimentes fal out in our time by a Catholick coÌ„sent in the councel of Trent that all Catholicke Princes should prepare against England and others of the reformed religion This cannot be good for euen the Pope himselfe saith that it is not good Cau. 23 q. 8 â— Tim. 2. Pope Nicolas saith to Charles the Emperour No man that is a souldior to God entangleth himselfe with secular businesse And if the souldiours of the woorlde apply themselues to warfare what hath the Bishoppes and souldiours of Christ to doe but to goe to their praiers Quid ad Episcopos milites Christi nisi vt vacent orationibus If this head of Hydra by Gods mightie mercifull hand bee cut off so that forreiners wil not nor caÌ„not satisfie the turn his lust The 2. head a trumpet of ciuil warre beholde another head riseth A Proclamation of Rebellion to al Catholickes against their dread Soueraigne for he will set all at six and seuen and mooue euery stone he wil goe thorough thicke and thinne Examples wee haue in England and Ireland with banners of ciuill dissension displaied to the offence of Almighty of God to the disturbance of our publicke and godlie peace to the vtter ouerthrowe of noble families Yet there is another
Princes and presenting abroad their Roses their baÌ„ners their swords consecrated or rather execrated to such as shuld betray persecute the good This cruel deuise of betraieng godly gouernors was here of Abishai but not of him alone but an inuentioÌ„ of the diuel himself who seing Gods work to go forward euer laboreth to disturb and to throw it down Semper Diabolus bono operi imminet vbique gradientibus ponit laqueos Hieran Jereman the prâ—ssuâ— of his 4. books He is stil peering into the good works of the godly he is ready to hinder the course of the gospel and laieth snares against them that walke in the way of the Lord. You remember the Sermon of Abishai I neede not repeate it nowe the second person must be produced namelie Dauid replying to Abishai This aunswere conteineth these three sub-diuisions A diuision general of Dauids Replie his Prohibition Protestation and Policie The Prohibition forbidding Abishai The Protestation of him-selfe detesting the fact His Policie in taking away the speare and the cuppe as a signe of his faithfulnes who might as easily haue takeÌ„ away his heade as his helmet or those things whatsoeuer that were by him then sleeping At this tyme onely of the first and so farre as I may for the time A speciall Diuision in the ninth verse standing vpon these two points A proposition forbidding and a reason proouing the same The first in these words 1 Proposition against murder Destroy him not and this was alwaies the opinion of Dauid to be good to the bad to bee a friende to his enemies as in the case of Shimei who railed and cursed him and called him a man of blood and a man of Belial a murtherer and wicked man And here againe the same Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah folowing his hoat spirit 2. Sam. cap. 16. termed this Shimei a dead dog and would haue faine cut off his head but King Dauid then reprooued and restrained Abishai and saide that no man should die that day in Israel Cap. 19. and sware to Shimei he should liue Cap. 24. And in the twenty fourth Chapter of this booke Dauid found Saul in a caue and though his seruants and frinds told him that the Lorde had deliuered his enemie into his hand he spared his body and only for a token cut off the lap of his garment priuilie and euen for that hee was touched and striken in heart 1. Sam. 24. So in this place hee would not haue that forward or rather froward man Abishai to take that aduantage vsed this argument For who can lay his hand vpon the Lordes annointed and be guiltlesse Saul is the annointed of the Lord 2. The explication of the Reason therefore no man can lay hands on him without punishment which reason I minde to open to you and prosecute In the person of the Prince are to be considered two things his maÌ„hood Princehood Aliter Rex seruit quia homo est August Epist 50. aliter quia etiaÌ„ Rex est one way a King serueth because he is a man another way also because he is a King so that he beareth representeth a double person 1 As man he must â—oâ— bee killed oâ— man As man if there were nothing els he may not be spoiled by any priuat man Who so sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed Gen. 9. for in the Image of God hath he made him Moses hath made a Law general Thou maist not kil And yet not so general Exod. 20. but that it hath an interpretatioÌ„ limitation It is not ment saith Austine of cutting or as it were of killing of shrubs trees or such like which haue no sense in them neyther is it meant of vnreasonable creatures flying Whether is be lawful to kil a man and howe swymming walking creeping it remaineth therefore that we vnderstand it onely of men that we should not kill any man therefore not our selues This generall also hath another exception Austin l. 1. de ciuitate Dei cap. 20. for it is lawful to kil a man as in lawfull wars Deo auctore by the warrant of God nay a souldior lawfully constituted if he do not kil he is guilty of contempt imperij deserti atque contempti as the saide Augustine teacheth in another place of the same City of GOD. Li. 1. c. 26. Againe it is lawful for a Magistrate to put to death a malefactour or for such as bear the person of publicke power by the Lawes of God or of any which is mooued certainely and called therevnto by a special inspiration of the holy Ghost or for that authority which did choose and ordaine that gouernour or in any such like case and cause Otherwise no spirite no reason no friend no carnall respect may authorize any man of his owne heade or his priuate affection to draw weapon against any man much les against a double and compound person as the Prince established by lawful and publique authority What if Abraham should haue killed his owne sonne Isaac Gen. 21. Is it therefore lawful for al parents to doe the like The commaundement of God for the killing was onely to trie his faith but the sauing of Isaac by God was a secret commaundement to all fathers to commit no such thing against their children Of this example Augustin also writeth in his first book De C. Dei cap. 16. Though Moses killed the Aegyptian Exod. 2 Num 25. 1 Sam. 15. Acts. 5. and Phinehas the fornicatours and Samuel Agag and Peter Ananias and Saphira without sword with a worde yet the specialties are not generall rules for priuate men against men according to the sayeng Priuilegium non est lex A priuilege is no law It is said of the Magistrates rightly by Hierom vpon Ieremy Lib. 4 c. 22. To punish murderers Church-robbers poisoners is not shedding of bloud but the ministerie of Lawes It is saide to Magistrates and to priuate men by Ieremy in the same Chapter speaking to the King of Iuda Cap. 22. Doe no violence nor shedde innocent bloode in this place These wordes as Hierom expoundeth them forbid not only the Kings court but Episcopos socios eorum presbyteros al Bishops and their fellowes the Ministers Deacons and all the order Ecclesiasticall or else they leese their dignity What shal we saie then of the Byshoppe of Byshoppes that draweth his sword as the foole dooth his wodden dagger against euery body and for euery trifle No man publique or priuate secular or Ecclesiastical inferiour or superiour ought without crime or cause to put to death any man It is said to Peter and to Peters successour the Pope Ioan. 18. as they wil haue him Put vppe thy sworde into his sheath for all that take the sword shal perish with the sword If Peter did il in cutting off an eare of a seruant how much more doe they offend
well but God turned all to the best and mery it was for the Lande and the King when theeues fel out for Ansley detecting Carton and Carton Ansley it was determined by the priuy counsel that it should be tried in a Combate in the which at the length Carton was wounded and throwen downe euen now at point of death coÌ„fessing his fault was drawen to the place of Execution as Polydor testifieth I haue entred into a long and large fielde and mind to goe out of it â—â—pish â—â—actises aâ—â—inst Reliâ—â—on in England and onely now to declare howe our Countrymen in former time haue been bewitched by Popery and haue attempted to erect and prop it vp by treachery and yet al ended in vanity The Pope hath stil practised by many but not preuailed though they came in his name and sometime with his consecrated ware and armed with his consecrated Crosses his Agnus Dei and other holy blessed stuffe Trebellius Pollio no wiser indeede then those heathen men who beleeued that those that caried about theÌ„ the image of great Alexander expressed in siluer or gold shuld haue al things fortunately fal out vnto them as they would wherein Erasmus toucheth the Bishoppes of Rome In Chiliad 1. Cen. 10. Nechodie desunt qui gladios in bello fortunatos huinsmodi nugas pollicentur Principibus Ther be some now a daies which promise to Princes swords other trifles happy fortunate in war which haue notwithstaÌ„ding an vnhappy end and there he much more marueileth that any maÌ„ can beleeue such subtile merchauntes There was such a flattering Papistical Preacher William Fitzosbert otherwise called Long-beard W. Long-bearde who in his Sermons entised the people to rebel against their King Richard the first whose Theme was takeÌ„ out of Esay Cap. 12. You shal draw with ioy waters out of the wels of saluation A faire allurement whereby hee got after him many thousand followers as fond people wil hearken to the whistle and daunce after the pipe of such Popish Libertines But this liberty was seruitude for though hee fledde into Bowe-Church with his concubine and others yet it was not long a Sanctuary for him he was plucked out and by Hubert Lorde chiefe Iustice of England was adiudged to be drawen thorough the streetes R. Holinsh Et in vitâ— Huberti and tied to the horse tailes to bee hanged to bee let downe halfe quicke his heade cut off and his body cut in foure quarters See heere I beseech you the superstition of the people they tooke this Concubinary Priest and Traytour to be a Saint forsooth A Traytor in Popery a Martyr because his chaines wherewith he was bound wrought miracles and the woman visited the place where he was laide In sana plebs vt Martyrem diu colebat The mad people did long honor him as a Martyr worshipping his members and bones as Reliques In Wales what Superstition hath there not been Welch prophecies They were so deceiued with false prophecies that they perswaded out of Merline Leoline the Prince that hee should wear the crown of Brutus therfore took armour against King Edward In vita Iohannis Peccam They were willed by Iohn Peccam Arch-Bishop of Caunterbury to cary in their handes bookes of the Gospel as reliques All these fantasies could not saue the heads of Leoline Dauid Leoline Dauid which were set vpon long poles and erected on high vpon London bridge What a Saint was the Traitour Thomas Becket Th. Becket Traitour a Sainct of the Pope In what fauour with the Pope Alexander And yet was he in a councel at Northhampton accused conuicted of extortion robbery forgery falshood treason periury in the presence of the King of the Peeres and Prelats for some matters in his Chancelarship whereupon although he lifted on high his crosse staffe and ran out of the court councell in hast and in an heat ouer the sea to Rome yet neither the Pope nor the crosse could saue him froÌ„ the crosse of death And here obserue the vniust dealing of the Pope Alexander who canonized among the Saints Thomas the Traitour the Kings deadly enimy and persecuted King Henry the second who was not accessary nor priuy at that time to it as it fel out in proofe for when the doers thereof slipping aside to Duresme looked for great thankes of the King for that they gaue out that they had most faithfully defended him rid his enemy out of the way it is written by Polydore that Henry did take this hainous act as no benefite Angl. Hist lib. 13. but vtterly misliked it insomuch as they hearing this and hoping for no pardon ran one one way another another way by reasoÌ„ of the kings displeasure died al within three yeares yet the Pope an heauy master of the King not beleeuing his Embassadours purposely sent to Rome sent into England his Cardinals for the trial of it and though the cause did not appeare yet was he compelled by oath to purge himselfe and by inforcemeÌ„t of their order to send to Ierusalem two hundred souldiours himselfe to lead an army into Syria within three years after which was perfourmed by his sonne Richard and to promise to be good afterward to the cleargy and that by an oath as some write that none after his and his Sons death should cary the name of a King but such a one as the Bishop of Rome did nominate and appoint albeit by our Chronicles Ibidem and by the practise in the tract of time no such bondage doth appear Thomas Walsingham in Richardo 2. The seditious sermon of J. Ball Priest Another seditious Preacher named Iohn Bal Priest prooueth the equality of States without any difference of callinges which made the simple people to be giddy headed His text was not taken out of scripture but borrowed out of a common prouerb When Adam delued and Eue span Who was then a Gentleman But the Epilog and conclusion of this Sermon was sorowful for himselfe being drawn hanged and beheaded at Saint Albans and his quarters sent to foure cities of the Realm There was another zealous Monk in coÌ„spiracy with the Barons of EnglaÌ„d against king Iohn against his son Henry the third Jbidem who beeing no great friend to the Pope was therefore the woorse liked of the Monk Eustachius in that point more destable theÌ„ a dog Eustachius a Trayteâ—ous Monk for the prouerb is true Canis caninaÌ„ non est nec lupus lupinam A dog is no deuourer of a dog nor the wolfe of a wolfe And yet in the war betwixt our King Lewes the French King he plaid the Apostata a rebel renegate reuoulting froÌ„ his King to another vncoÌ„stantly and perfidiously worthily called of Matthew Paris In Hypod. Neustriae per Thom. Walsing Proditor Regis Angliae Piratanequissimus being turned out of his coule into