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A19899	[O Vtinam 1 For Queene Elizabeths securitie, 2 for hir subiects prosperitie, ...]	Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.	1591 (1591)	STC 6328; ESTC S115194	32,263	99

to minde gentle Reader the tyrannicall persecutions and cruell martyrdomes perpetrated in the bloudie and pitilesse raigne of Queene Marie imagine withall thou seest as then to the griefe of many thousandes was seene the tormenting furnace of Nabuchadnezer glowing hote scorching and consuming the fleshe and bones of Christes deere saintes and blessed martirs For professing y e trueth ofhis Gospell Imagine thou hearest and seest though to thy small edification or profite the administration of his blessed word and sacramentes in a toong to thee vnknown Imagine thou seest deuine honour and spirituall adoration performed to stocks and stones and other sencelesse shadowes and thou on paine of death compelled to performe the like Imagine yet further thou seest thy Christ robbed and dispoiled ofhis honour to be geuen vnto saintes and other his creatures thou not onely to be in danger of life but to be excommunicated and held accursed if thou doo not participate of this blasphemous impietie and when thou hast called to thy remembrance these and thousandes such like extremities then compare that time of tyrannie with this sweete time of mercy and thou wilt bee constrained to say Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people hath raised vs vp a Queene by and vnder whose godly and gratious gouernment we may serue him without feare in true holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the daies of our life And therefore let all true Israelites praie for hir from whome as from the instrumentall cause these manifolde benefites and irrecompensible blessinges are deuolued to vs. Let vs not not with Isops frogs growe wearye of hir gentlenesse least Ioue in requitall of our great ingratitude send the stork to deuoure vs. No man hath managed the charge of any one priuate household more duly orderly then since the beginning of hir reigne she hath doone this populous kingdome Therefore O England let thy yoong men and maides old men and babes thy beasts and cattell thy fish foule thy mountaines and hils thy riuers welles thy plants and trees thy corne and grasse thy fieldes and meades thy citties and townes thy woodes and groues thy downes and dales each in their kinds laude and praise the Lord for giuing vs such a Queene in and by whom we are so happy for thrugh whome we are blessed and in whom as in a streame of Maiestie and princely magnanimity all the gifts and graces which God bestoweth vpon the children of men doo swim and to his praise and hir perpetuall renown with out fault or imperfection doo superabound O but some will saie if so they durst Sir you are too too extreame in hir commendation you infringe the bounds of trueth whereby it seemeth you aime at hir fauour by the leuell of flatterie Shee is not so endowed with giftes and graces as you vainlie and most vntruely affirme Neither is she so faultlesse and praiseworthie as you make hir Indeed did not hir deserts merite my praises my flatterie were too too palpable but beeing no more then hir proper right the repetition thereof I know is vtterly repugnant to hir pleasure and therefore they are deceiued whiche imagine that I poore snake and contemptible worm aime at so high a marke with so grosse a shaft But for that which first I did attribute vnto hir besides hir zealous forwardnesse in the execution of Gods will and the matter of hir and our soules welfare hir exact knowledge of the toongs hir deepe sight in the sciences hir quicke capacitie hir swift vnderstanding hir mercie to offenders hir care of hir subiectes and hir peaceable regiment doo plainely manifest All whiche and manie other such like as inuincible arguments doo proue mine assertion To the second be it graunted that she is not vtterly faultlesse and therefore not vtterly blamelesse I replie she is though a most gratious Queene as I said a mortall creature framed of the same substance that we be and therefore subiect to those passions and infirmities that we are But so was Dauid of whome GOD saide I haue chosen a man according to mine own heart euen Dauid my seruaunt yet whether he were faultlesse or no his owne wordes doo manifest when hee saide The woundes in my soule doo fester and stincke euen thorough my owne faultes and offences and againe Turne thy face O Lord awaie from my sinnes and blot out all my misdeedes and againe My sinnes are more in number than the haires of mine head And again I acknowledge my faultes and my sinnes are euer before me and they thrust me down euen as an intollerable burden but if thou wouldest know wherein he offended the holy Ghost will resolue thee in the second booke of Samuel and the 11. chapter And letting passe all the holy kings and prophets mentioned in the old Testament y t acknowledged their infirmities and yet God tendered as the apple of his eye come we to sainct Paul who although he were no king yet was he a blessed Apostle and had the spirit of God in great measure yet said he ofhimselfe as his owne Epistle to the Romains testifieth The good that I would doo that doo I not But the euil that I hate that doo I. If then it appeareth by these and such like vndoubted testimo nies that mankind vnder heauen are sold vnder sin who can then be so malitious to entwite hir maiestywith that which is proper to all in generall Neither can she be touched with any blot of infamie other then that which is incident to the most vprightest liuers If this be true as what man liueth findeth not the same so tobe O then ye priuie whisperers and secret backebiters whose toongs are as the stinges of Scorpions full of deadly poyson cease to sting hir whom youshal neuer hurt or haue power to defame though like vnnaturall paracides you seeke it with all greedinesse and as by hir gratious gouernment you breath haue your being so acknowledge it and be not such vngratefull monsters as to render hir euill for good but requite hir louing kindnes with thankfulnes hir princely beneficence withall dutifull obedience Think reuerently ofhir for Gods sake and in respect of the great perils she still sustaineth for our sakes for the paines she taketh for our onelie profite and for the waightie charge imposed vppon hir and if as one wise man saith the cares that attendeth a crown were duely considered it is not worth the taking vp if wee found it in the streetes then what a worthlesse iewell hath she ofhir crown in respect ofhir cares no one can expresse them saue shee that hath them and for our sakes doo indure them Therefore maligne hir not by worde nor thought But wish hir well and saie Good lucke haue you O gratious Queene with your honor according to the great renowme wherewith the king ofkings hath ennobled you Peace and prosperitie be vnto them that loue you but confusion of face

houre of the daie crucifie him againe and againe hee sitteth at the right hand of his father making intercession for vs in heauen wee like vnnaturall paracydes teare and pull in peeces his blessed members on earth yea and martir him in more despitefull maner then the vnbeleeuing Iewes Hee blesseth while we banne hee prayeth for vs earnestly while wee sweare and dishonour him contemptiously and finally wee requite al his sufferings with scoffings his merites with mockes his torments with tauntes his loue with hate and his humilitie with pride and all impietie and in a word his holie and vertuous liuing with wilfull and horrible swearing ô cruell tormentors ô vnkind and pitilesse tyrants how can we hope to haue the benefit of his death that as muche as in vs lieth daily put him to death but farre is it from vs to hurt one heare ofhis head sauing that he is greeued to beholde our vngratiousnes and much displeased with our vnthankfulnesse We are forbidden in his gospell to sweare by ought that god made yea by the least heare of our hed bicause for so it yeeldeth y e reasō we can make neither of them white or blacke but what is forbidden vs that most willinglie we doo The instruments yea the curssed instruments wherewith satan prouoketh vs to offer suche violence againste our Christ Is cards and dice which thogh for recreation they may in decent sort be vsed yet a wiseman was of opinion that no wise man oughte to vse them were it for ought or naught bicause they are the verie elements and firste beginners of this blasphemie For when the games will not frame in sort as we desire and if the plaie that is offered vs be not as square as the die but through the one and the other we are without further triall of lawe dispossessed of our proper right then doo we cursse and ban sweare and stare yea with varietie of othes which are thundered forth with all asperitie we blaspheme the blessed bodie and pretious bloud of our deare Sauiour reputinge it but a sport or at least a pettie offense so to doo and he that can moste terribly teare him we haue in highest estimation and without he can so doo he is too too simple to be a gamester naie if such a one loose as commonly those that pertaines to Goddes election seldome winne bicause by their losses he would weane them from it it will be said he looseth for want of swearing with such words of contempt be openlie derided As once I heard y t a gentleman in name though otherwise in condition the dice bereauing him of more money then stood with his patience to lose should burst forth into a maruellous great outrage of swearing and impatiencie amongst the reste of whose blasphemous othes hee sware some fearful vnacustomed oth which greatlie offended the eares of a kinsmā of this that reprooued him in this man ner O cosin saith he what madnesse moueth thee so to blaspheme thy god beyonde the measure of all that euer yet blasphemed him be sorie for thy fault God forgiue thee vnto which he replied let him neuer forgiue mee for I sware it willinglie I wondered greatlie at his replie but I woondered more y t God in his iust seuere iudge ment against sinne especiallie of so odious a nature did not open the bowels of the earth to swallowe him vp quicke as he did Chore Dathan and Abiron But wonderfull yea and vnspeakeable is the greatnes of thy mercie and long suffering O Lord which dooest permit vile duste and ashes to abuse thy sacred Godhead and almigh tie Maiestie how vnsearchable is the depth of thy patience that canst endure so to be prouoked and howe vnspeakeable is the brutish boldnesse of mans hart that dare presume so to pro uoke thee But O miserable man thinkest thou that for bicause God prolon geth his punishments as earst I saide thou shalt escape vnpunished or thin kest thou that for bicause his lightning and feareful thunderbolts lighteth vpon trees hearbs stones other sence lesse creatures which might more deseruedlie lighte vpon thee that thou shalt auoid his finall iudgement O no it stands not with Gods iustice if thou preuent it not by repentance so to acquit thee Excuse these faultes how thou canst they are vtterly inexcuseable wilt thou answer it as thou art woont and saye it is good to haue the name of the Lord alwaies in mind and the bloud of Christ still in remem brance or when thy brother charitably rebuketh thee for swearing by him wilt thou replie as often thou dooest what hast thou to doo with the man or the matter I sweare by no friende of thine if so thou wilt thy will be doon but heereof I can assure thee that that wilfull will of thine which is so repugnant to Gods holie will will in conclusion procure thy damnation It is good indeed to haue the name of the Lord alwaies in mind as thou saiest and the blessed bloud of Christ euer in remembrance as thou alleagest but it is not good to haue it in so euill a manner naie farre better it were that thou neuer name him or thinke vpon him than so to name him or remember him But remember thou the feareful example of Senacherib kinge of Ashur mentioned in the xviii and xix chapters of the second booke of Kings who for that he blasphemed the God of Israel and with an hie hand outstretched arme opposed himselfe againste him and against his seruant Hezekiah king of Iuda was first bereft of an hun dred foure sc ore and fiue thousand sol diars of his campe by the visitation of an angell at what time hee besieged Hezekiah and his cittie Ierusalem and after murdered by Adramelech and Sharezer his owne sonnes as hee was in the temple worshipping Nisroch his god The great Antiochus in like sort breathing out blasphemie in the pride of his heart against the Lord of hosts was smitten with an incureable and inuincible plague for euen with the fault a remedilesse and peerelesse paine of the bowels and sore tormēts of the inward parts came vpon him was throwne from his chariot in the swift course thereof in such sort that al the members of his bodie were sore brused with the fall whereof it followed that wormes came out of the bodie of this wicked blasphemer in great aboundance and whilest hee was yet liuing his fleshe fell from the bones with paine and tormente and all his armie was greeuouslie annoied with his smell so that no man nay he him selfe could not abide his owne stinke that a little before thought he mighte reach to the starres of heauen command the flouds of the sea and weigh the high Mountaines in a ballance so proud was hee beyonde the common condition of man Thus the blasphemer died a most miserable deathe in a strange countrie amongest the mountaines Nicanor for his presumptuous blas phemie against the God of Israell was