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A12821	Staffords Niobe: or His age of teares A treatise no lesse profitable, and comfortable, then the times damnable. Wherein deaths visard is pulled off, and her face discouered not to be so fearefull as the vulgar makes it: and withall it is shewed that death is only bad to the bad, good to the good.	Stafford, Anthony.	1611 (1611)	STC 23129; ESTC S106303	42,293	224

to perswade others 〈◊〉 that which hee cannot perswade himselfe to or who is such an idiot as to thinke to haue an army well gouerned or guided without a good conductor Why this is meere and absurde equiuocation as for example I say to another Follow me he straight obeyes when forthwith I tell him that he must no● trace my steps but my words These men are worse then the Scribes and Pharisies whom Christreprehended for saying and not doing for these men doe not onely saie and not doe but also doe and not say as being indeede ashamed to saie what they doe All other things they know onelie what is most worthie to be knowen they knowe not which is to knowe themselues Yet how is it possible they should not know themselues since they know that God knoweth searcheth both the heart and reines though some of them I feare would be content that God should search their hearts so hee would lett their reines alone Oh prophanenesse that the same hand which lifteth vp the Cupp in the Communion should lift vp pot after pot in an Alehouse and offer more sacrifice to Bacchus then to Iehoua a vice which whosoeuer giues him selfe ouer to God giues him ouer to execute the inuentions of a dist●●bed Intellect Which I think the Lowecountry men allude to in calling their strongest beere double Pharaoh their strong beere in a lower degree 〈◊〉 Phar●o● and their small beere Israel intimating thereby that the stronger the beere is the more it makes a man to rebell against God and the smaller it is the more it leaues the soule to her selfe and renders her freer from the sen●ualitie of the bodie and makes a true child of Israell Looke how a passenger in a thicke darke mist is sad as doubtfull which waie to turn euen so Reason being blinded by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wines hot vapo●●● 〈◊〉 pensiue and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 knowing whether she should ●ncline to vice o● 〈◊〉 till at length shee● 〈◊〉 from vertue to vice I haue heard a reuerend english Diuine often compare a drunk arde to Mare mortu●m for as no fish by report can liue in the one so no vertue in the other Amongst the very Turkes this vice is so odious that they reward it in whomesoeuer they finde it with 8o stripes making it the most detestable sinne of all next to adultery to which they a lot a hundred stripes If heathen people do this whom errour leades hood-winked in ignorance or rather ignorance in errour what should a Christian doe why should not hee leade a good and sober life whose name is written in the booke of life But alas for want of consideration this is not looked into Vpon this vice depend three other as vgly seruants vpon a deformed master to wit Quarelling Whooring and Swearing The first of which hath more by tongue then sworde purchased to it selfe the name of valour which indeeds is no neerer to valour then phrensie to wisedome True valour biddeth a man fight pro patria et patre patriae this bastarde courage incites a man to fight cum fratre cum patre the former perswadeth a man to be carefull not onelie that he take no iniury but euen religious that he doe none the latter saith that hee is worthy of iniury that offers none The one saith Fight being prouoked the other sayes Prouoke to fight And therefore I think that Seneca spake rather out of the greatnesse of his mind then the depth of his wisedome when he defined fortitude to bee Scientia periculorum repellendorum excipiendorum prouocandorum that is a Science of repelling of receiuing and prouoking dangers The latter of which is false seeing there is no man wisely valiant who will not rather inuoke helpe against danger then prouoke it Is it not a lamentable case to see two men christned with one Baptisme bought with one redemption for whom the blood of Christ was indifferentlie shedde vppon euerye slight and light occasion to shedde the bloud one of another Or is it not a harde case for one that pro●esseth the name of Christ Iesus to digge for honour in the heart of a Christian And this forsooth they do for reputation What blemish is it to my reputation to denye that in sobrietie which I affirmed in drunkennes that is to recall that as a man which I spake as a beast Yet these roaring gentlemen whatsoeuer they speake be it neuer so bad will make it good Surelie I am of opiniō that the word duel is deriued from the French word dueil by reason that it makes so manie parents mourne for the vntimely death of their children and one friend lament the decease of another But by the way I will giue this caution that no man misconstrue mee and thinke that I perswade men to cowardise for I am so farre from that that I thinke a cowarde to be the basest of all creatures A Coward I call him who slauishlie feareth any thing but God For if my Prince allow me combate vpon dishonourable imputation of treason and I be drawen into the lifts with a chaine of foul disgracefull words linked together which will so sticke to my Familie Race that no time can raze them out the iniurie here becommeth more then priuate wherof only I take it Christ speaks when he saieth He that giueth thee a boxe on the one care turne to him the other c. For in this case the iniurie is publike and not mineowne and therefore I say standing vppon these tearmes God refuse mee if I refuse any man Wherefore I could not without much applause reade that Motto in the Scottish armes In defence For if a man be driuen to maintaine his honour and cleare his wronged name from perpetuall infamy let him then with an vndaunted spirit and alacrity of heart sing the Psalm of Dauid If ten thousand hemme me ●o●nde about yet will I not feare c. resting confident in this that hee hath God and so good ● cause on his side For this infamie neuer leaues a man insomuch that when his flesh forsaketh his bones this cleaues fast to them and the Sexton digging vp his scull saith This was the head of a Traitour a Cowarde But for a frowne the trippe of the tongue or the slip of a word to quarrell dominere and sweare oathes Que pulmo anima pralarg●s anhelet this is far from valour for valour is an enemie to no vertue this to euery vertue and a friend to all vice Neither can I be indueed otherwise to belieue but that there are many gentlemen whose modest ingenuous faces are free from scouls and furrowes of wrath in whose hearts notwithstanding maiestical magnanimitie sitteth richlier clad then in those of your roaring angry boyes of London and peraduenture would giue them iust cause both to roare and houl too The second daughter to drunkennes is whooring the deflourer of many a virgin and defiler of many a wife a sinne

calles all his Courtiers Iannes and Iambres Vnlimited Luther thou verities chiefe champion I am altogether as vnable to censure thee as to equall thee yet my neuer dying zeale to my euer liuing Princes● forceth mee to tell thee that these thy misse-beseeming words did not proceede from diuine inspiration but from humane passion This is a thing rare with Luther and vnexpected from him but nothing is more vsuall with the defenders of the Papacie They not onlie allow to reuile and mocke a a King but also to murther him Which damnable doctrine François de Verone Constantine mainetaineth when he saies L'Action de Clement est loysible et le coup qu'il a donnè à Henrie 3. estoit du mesme endroict que celuy de lulian l'apostat c'est a dire du ciel The Actiō saies he of Clement is lawful the blowe which he gaue to Henry the 3. was sent from whence that of Iulian the Apostate that is frō heauen Is there then no difference to be put betweene a persecutour and a professour of Christ Of the former of which it is said Iaculabatur sanguinem in Galilaeum of the latter it may besaid effusit sanguinem pro Galilaeo The same Writer after he hath railed his fill at Henry the 4. in saying that he was not l'oingt de Dieu who was loing de Dieu nor more rightly king of France then he who in the Gospell is called Prince of this World at last he bursteth out into these wordes which point at murther C'est vne chose louable de sauuer tant de milliers d'hommes tant presents qu'auenir de la damnation eternelle It is saith he a thing praise worthy to saue so many millions of men as well present as to come from eternall damnation Hee saith also that Gerard who killed the Prince of Orange did that act Pour le bien de la vertu for vertues good and againe he saies Gerard le coeur luy estant arrachè rendit ainsi son ame à Dieu Gerard saith he his heart being torne frō out of his body rēdred his soule vp vnto god But what will not this author vndertake whose book is written in defence of Chastelet who essayed to slaye the late murthered King of France What odious enterprise will not a bad impudent spirite seeke to make good I thinke there would not bee wanting a seditious turbulent soule to write against GOD for his vniust throwing downe of Lucifer Surely some penne or other wil paint forth that accursed Rauilliake for a Saint on earth and of a monster make a Martyr That rauenous Rauilliake glutted himselfe with the bloud of that king in whom were eminently contained all the vertues of all the French kinges since Pharamond The minutes of that houre the houre of that day the day of that weeke the weeke of that moneth the moneth of that yeere wherin that nothing-fearing Phaetō had his downfal France shall euer holde both ominous and odious Griefe gripes my heart when I think that the Mars of men receiued his deaths blowe from a pen-maker a Pedagogue A late French Writer hath composed a short Treatise to prooue that the sword is more proper to the French Nation than to any other Which though I deny yet I would easily yeelde vnto him that the sworde was more proper to the late French king then to any of his ancestors or to his liuing equalls He was a king of the sword and of his word whose word was his sword whose sword was his word for where his word could not warrant his sword bore sway Out of the ashes of this Phoenix another bird is risen whose feathers I feare me will not bee able to beare him the flight and pitch his Sire sored Well France hath lost her Soueraigne we were neere losing ours How often hath God pulled our King out of Treason's murthering mouth and out of the iawes of death When that Powder-plot a treason at the which Fiction her selfe stoode affrighted was readie to lay holde on him then God deliuered him But I do not think if Faux or rather Fax had giuen fire to the powder that it could haue deuoured that sacred assembly What he that deliuered the children of Israell out of Egypt hee that led them through the red sea without wetting of their feete he that fed them without any ordinary bread for the space of fortie yeares in the wildernesse he that caused the Sunne to stand still hee that caused the Sun to goe backewardes at the prayers of king Hezechiah he that raised the dead hee that did so many wonders and miracles could not hee also haue changed the propertie of Powder No doubt but hee could and would haue sent the force of it down-wards making a passage through the earths hollow wombe into hell there haue blasted the black Diuell with his vnhallowed Senate of Popes the inuentours and fautours of this vnheard-of attempt It can be none other but the diuel that biddeth a traitour pick out GODS chosen to butcher If the Diuell vpon my soules altar I sweare it would take me vp to the pinacle as hee did my heauenly Maister and saie to me all this will I giue thee to kill thy earthly Maister had hee power to performe his promise I would not doe it but rather then tentation should win this fraile flesh to spill the numbred drops of that royall bloud I would first let out all mine owne Me thinks my Sauiour whispereth in mine eare and telleth mee that his bloud shall not cleanse the polluted soule of that man that dies with that bloudy thought But the Iesuites are the ring-leaders to this troop of king-slayers which whosoeuer readeth their bookes shall soon perceiue For mine owne part I had with no small paines gathered together their doctrines concerning this point meaning indeed to printit but I was preuented by Anticoton who made a discouerie of the slaughtering ambush they lay for Princes Which book is turned into English the Translatour being in nothing inferiour to the Authour But it is nothing strange if these Iesuites bee bloudy seeing the first of their Order was a souldier He was a Spaniard by birth which makes them loue that soile so well his name Ignatius so called ab igne as one that should incense subiects against their Soueraignes and set the whole world on fire with sedition and dissension Incredible things are reported of this man by those of his owne coat Ribadeneira who hath written his life sayes that this Ignatius kneeling on a certaine daie before the Image of the spotlesse Virgin Mary there arose an earthquake Surely the earth trembled to feele the weight of such a Monster One thing the Authour reports of this Ignatius whereunto I giue credit since his succeeders do the same this it is Ignatius disputauit cum Mauro de Maria Virgine cùm ex verbo Dei hominem refutare non potuit pugione confodere voluit