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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08271	A christian familiar comfort and incouragement vnto all English subiects, not to dismaie at the Spanish threats Whereunto is added an admonition to all English Papists, who openly or couertly couet a change. With requisite praiers to almightie God for the preseruation of our queene and countrie. By the most vnworthie I.N.; Christian familiar comfort and incouragement unto all English subjects, not to dismaie at the Spanish threats.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1596 (1596)	STC 18604; ESTC S106050	48,283	77

in generall euery one of vs hath a court in his owne conscience wherinto all our thoughts words and actions must be presently summoned and inquisition must bee strictly made what error is found in himselfe and finding himselfe guiltie of any negligence in performing his dutie to God commaunded or pronenes to offende God in things forbidden he must as a Iudge farre from partialitie giue sentence against himselfe and commit the euils done to true and vnfained repentance bind himselfe by the law of obedience not to sinne agayne Which were it performed of al men in particular there were no neede of the Magistrates sword to compell the same in generall But sith our corrupt inclinations doe fight daily against this godly course the Magistrate who beareth not the sword for nought must now if euer he did shew himselfe zealous in the Lords cause for the good of al the land in general Which as it seemeth much missed with negligence of euery mans particular dutie to God and his Soueraigne whereby God is not honoured of vs as he ought nor the lawes of the land obeyed as they should be there must be a generall care in the Ministrie to teach euery man his duetie for hee is bound to teach to reproue to approue and improue in season and out of season and in the Magistrate an endeuour to see euery man performe it as farre as to his power and authoritie belongeth who must compell thē by force that will not doe their dueties in loue And if then the vulgar and inferiour sort striue not to amende and to cōforme themselues to the word of truth taught and to the example of the godly Magistrate propounded before them they shall all dye in their sinnes but the Minister and Magistrate shall be excused But if there appeare negligence in the Ministers the watchmen of the whole flocke the people will also bee negligent if they be ignorant the people will be ignorant if they be wicked the people will be wicked as Hosea saith Such priests such people Therefore now call your dueties to minde ye Ministers and speedily with diligence performe the same And thinke it not enough to bee called the messengers of God vnlesse you speake pronounce the will of God truely and disdaine none that shew their good willes to speake as the occasion of this time requireth For they that feare the Lord vnderstand his will The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome And therefore euery one from the highest to the lowest Prince and Ministers Magistrates and subiects must here begin As a Prince coueting to gouerne prudently as Ministers endeuouring to speake truly and boldly as Magistrates desiring to rule in their places righteously and couragiously and as people willing to liue obediently and religiously So shall there bee a most happie concord and pleasant harmonie in al estates There shal be no want of blessings no cause to feare the enemie no cause to complaine one of anothers wrongs in our land Sinne shall beare no sway but godlines shall flourish in all parts of this land and then as we haue alreadie seene how God hath fought for vs so he will giue vs new encouragements And as Christ sayd to Nathaniel we shall see greater things then these not onely in his fighting for vs but in powring out his heart vnto vs causing vs to vnderstand his word Prou. 1. 23. when yet ●ee will hold our aduersaries still blind that seeing they shall not see in hearing they shall not heare and nothing that they imagine against vs shall prospet but all shall turne to their owne confusion Therefore let the eyes of vs all be towards the Lord and with Dauid let vs all the day stretch out our hands to him that is one and the same for euer louing and powerfull And forasmuch as Princes and Magistrates must in this necessary reformation giue such examples as may tend to the amendment of the inferiour sort it behoueth that they be learned and wise vertuous and valorous so shall the people follow their steppes as it were a light in the darke And therefore the Magistrate must pray for wisedome not to seeme singular in policie but religious in zeale applying the same to the glorie of God to discerne betwixt good and euill that by them sinne the cause of our daunger may bee remoued and faith and religion the strength of our land may bee increased that the vngodly bee not more set by then the righteous that vice be not more aduanced then vertue so shall euery Magistrate be able to say freely Be thou my Iudge O Lord for I haue walked innocently Surely as the Israelites thought themselues happie when they had gotten Debora to gouerne them so most happie are wee that haue Queene Elizabeth to gouerne vs. For as Debora seemed so much the more to be a carefull mother of Israel by how much she liked those gouernours which were likest her selfe which appeareth by that she sayed My heart is set vpon the gouernours of Israell so doubtles the godly care of our gracious Debora to haue all the causes of Gods displeasure to bee taken away appeareth in coueting as much as in her lieth to place godly Magistrates vnder her God make them apt to answer it She matcheth Moses the Magistrate with Aaron the Minister the Word and the Sword which both truely executed must needes make due obedience in the people to the Magistrate and like in the Magistrate to the law and consequently in all to God And then as the Magistrates are placed aboue other men in authoritie so they will goe before the rest in pietie and then no doubt but our Common-wealth shall be secure and bee in the protection of the King inuincible who iudgeth them that iudge vnder him and he will subdue the disobedient hearts to loue and reuerence rulers and to fight couragiously against the enemies of our state as he subdued the people vnto Dauid and made them all incline to his will That whatsoeuer the King did pleased his people Wee see then that wee neede not feare this vaine hoobub of the Spanyard if euery one would forsake sinne and conforme himselfe truly to seek after God And to the end that God may blesse the hearts of all it behoueth all to pray which shall bee considered in the end of this sillie labour CAP. 3. That all men ought to yeeld their vttermost power to resist the pursuers of this blasphemous Hoobub by experience of the power of God shewed vnto our fathers of old HAuing as it is before sayd taken away the causes why God hath intended to moue this fierce nation against vs by a general reformatiō of our liues which if it appeare by the fruites of our regenerate mindes let vs rest resolued that God the God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob the God of Israel the God of the faithfull will bee assuredly on our side The Lord our God as saith

wealth of your owne countrie to the vttermost of your powers Much more are you tyed to this duty sith the truth it selfe the bond of al obedience calleth you back from your disloyall thoughts wherein you seem to steale couertly away from the substance of naturall loue to run after the shadow of impious zeale zeale not onely without knowledge but zeale builded vpon meere treason Antichrist himselfe being the head corner stone And therefore doubtlesse your vnderstanding is much obscured how wise soeuer you seeme in your selues and howsoeuer you bee flattered by them that would make vse of your wickednes And you can no more perceiue their cunning as appeareth then Dauid could conceiue of the cause why God prospered the wicked in his daies and punished the godly But as hee found it out by entring into the sāctuary of God so seek you how to apprehend your true duetie by becomming conformable to the true word of God casting away the idle inuentions of the man of sinne And as Aaron might not enter into the sanctuary where God did answer vntill he had sanctified himselfe So sanctifie your obedience and enter into league with Christ by becomming loyall subiects to his annoynted And beleeue them not that giue you counsell to lie as you do lurking to looke for a good houre as you are made to beleeue it beware it will bee a dismall day vnto you that you so greedily gape for by what badge soeuer you seeme to be distinguished you will be vnknowen to the Spaniards your speech will bewray you you will not bee able to pronounce Shibboleth as the Spanish Gilliadices doe but Sibboleth like English Ephramites you will as easilie be discerned as the Guelfes from the Gybelines they are a subtill generation that shall deale with you And therefore gather your selues together and before that daye come ioyne with God against Beliall take parte with Christ against Antichrist receiue light and abandon darknes flie treason and become euery man true vnto Queene Elizabeth your countrie Take counsell not o● me but of Zephaniah the Prophet Seek righteousnes seeke lowlines Submit your selues to her Maiestie before the fierce wrath of the Lord come vpon you Imitate the counsell of the wise man who willeth you to Put away a froward mouth and let all your waies bee ordered aright And thinke not your owne blind conceits to be the way of life for the way of the foole is right in his owne conceit but he that is guided by counsel is wise And therefore refuse not to knowe this that if the people of Israel were commanded to pray for the peace of Babylon wherein they were held captiues and to pray for him that had dispoyled them of all their goods and possessions how much more ought you not onely not to rebel or wish euil vnto your so gracious a soueraigne but to pray for her and for the peace of your countrie wherein also you may haue peace Learne of Dauid who said God forbid that I should lay hands vpon Gods annoynted for who saith he can lay his handes vpon the Lords annoynted and be guiltlesse It is needlesse to tel you how the pope that lyar doth yet encounter Dauid and saith goe and lay thy handes on the Lordes annointed and thou shalt merit heauen oh impious wretch that commaunds forbidden things and forbids thinges commanded And yet alas wretches how are you blinded that will not see Learne therefore that it is your dutie aboue all things to beware of contemning or violating the authoritie of your prince who is replenished with vertue religion and Maiestie amongst you and all confirmed by God whose ordinance you breake in contemning her much more in your treasons against her Therefore most happie were you if after these your dangerous consultations and rebellious practises you againe would returne and imbrace obedience consecrating your soules to God onelie with vnfained dedication of your bodies liues and goods to the seruice of her that in so doing will louingly imbrace you and God most assuredly will pardon you Come out from among them then and be saued A dutifull admonition not only to all inferiour Magistrates but to all loyall subiects to shew themselues watchfull in these dangers and with carefull diligence to seeke to preuent all occasions which may moue the vnaduised multitude to any sudden and vndiscreet hurly burlies with an exhortation to all men to be valorous HE that seemeth worthie to bee a Magistrate or to bee termed a fit man to gouerne the least charge in a Common wealth not onely a kingdome a prouince a hundred yea a familie must endeuour himselfe to know what dutie is required at his hands and the same to performe with premeditate discretion And for that I wish wisedome to all being able to teach none I will omit the superiour and giue my best aduise to the lower sort He is indeede a sillie man and not worthie to beare the burthen of a Tithingman much lesse of a high Constable least of all of a superiour Magistrate that cannot examine how he standeth in his place whether he bee as a hande an eye a finger or a foote of a Common-wealth knowing that euery Common-wealth is a bodie politique compared to a bodie naturall And as the head is the chiefest part the guide and superiour gouernour of the bodie and all the members are as officers vnder the same some of a higher qualitie and authoritie then other as the heart the eyes the hands and legges which are principall members seruants in office to the superiour so are the fingers toes c. petie officers vnto the former euery of them being bound to his next superiour and so all by a naturall dutie are seruants to the head and that for the preseruation and supportation of the entrailes and maine bodie which is so much the more safe from daunger by how much euery member hath ablenes and skill to performe his place in true duetie not one part whereof is void of some necessarie function as reason it selfe accompanied with our dailie experience doth plainly witnes vnto vs. So is our superior Magistrate the head and gouernour of vs who being many in number make vp a compleat bodie politique some in Magistracie and superiour authoritie and some in inferiour functions and all in true dutie to one head who being by our negligence or vnaduised proceedings in our seuerall places any way endangered the daunger cannot but descend from it to our owne confusion And therefore doth policie dismember a bodie of a legge an arme a hand or foote desperatly infected to preserue the rest of the bodie So a Common-wealth cutteth off euery euill member thereof as wee see by the lawes of our land lest it should infect the rest and so endaunger the whole state politique And as it fareth with a Common-wealth in generall so it doth with the parts thereof as with a prouince shire and