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A18700	An exhortation to all menne to take hede and beware of rebellion wherein are set forth the causes, that commonlye moue men to rebellion, and that no cause is there, that ought to moue any man there vnto. With a discourse of the miserable effectes, that ensue thereof, and of the wretched ende, that all rebelles comme to, moste necessary to be redde in this seditiouse [and] troublesome tyme, made by Iohn Christoferson. At the ende whereof are ioyned two godlye prayers, one for the Quenes highnes, verye conuenient to be sayd dayly of all her louing and faythfull subiectes, and an other for the good [and] quiete estate of the whole realme. Read the whole, and then iudge.	Christopherson, John, d. 1558.	1554 (1554)	STC 5207; ESTC S117507	113,228	472

suffre and the lamentation that the poore make to me I wyll now aryse And so as Iob sayeth he wyll deliuer vs from our oppression In suche aduersitie we maye not loke to be deliuered when we wil our selfes but we must tary Gods pleasure hauynge sure trust that he will deliuer vs at length for Salomon wryteth thus Tary for thy Lorde God and he wyll delyuer thee Lyke as the husbandman by by after he hath sowen his ground loketh not to reape the frute therof in all haste but tarieth for a season So we when we haue made our petitiō to god we muste patiently abide his pleasure and he wyll surely send vs succour when he shal thinke it moste conuenient for vs. Thus by prayer and patient suffringe shall we obtein oure purpose And not onely that but shalbe highlye rewarded to at goddes hande for our godly patience Therfore all such as are for a season wyth sore paymentes or with enhansed rentes or by any other meanes sore oppressed let them neuer by vnlawfull wayes seke their deliuerye so be the cause of their owne destruction seynge that they maye be well assured that by prayer and patience they shal not only haue their requeste but also greate thākes of god to whose wil they holy betoke thē For yf a man were set fast in a close prison and there sore pāged with painful tormētes the same man yf so be that he had a sure promisse of hym y t had authoritie to deliuer him that he should not only come forthe therof at a certein day but shulde besides haue some liberal reward to recompence his greuouse punishment y t he hadde so patientlye borne were he not then worse then madde if he would go aboute eyther to fight with y e gailour auenturing with y e ieoperdie of his lyfe to get out by strong hande or els to digge vp the foundation of the prison or to breake out so perhappes fall in hazarde of hanginge wherfore whosoeuer is thus troubled and longeth for the day of his deliuery let hym passe on y ● tyme wyth patience for a whyle and take good comforte in his care because he is assured that god wyll at lengthe mercifully delyuer hym But some men wyll say percase we shalbe deade or y e day come It may be so in veri dede and therfore muche lesse nede they to passe for their tribulation For yf death come then shall they be not only of good comforte because they haue borne their trouble patientli but also glad of their paynes passed because y t then shal they be rewarded for them Yet som there be into whose heades these thinges wil not syncke but they saye styl why shulde we be obedien●e to a noughty prince or why shuld he haue al and we littel or nothing These haue not lerned S. Peters lesson that men ought to obeye not only good godlye princes but also such as be threwed rigorous For y t is verye cōmendable yf a man suffre trouble and that wrongfully to because he knoweth the same to be acceptable before GOD. Nor they haue not redde the fable of y e belye and the other members of y e body which Menenius Agrippa recyted vnto the people of Rome when as they beganne to rebel against the consules and chiefe rulers of y e citie were al ready gathered together in the hyll called Auentine whych fable is written in Liuie after this sort At such tyme as the mēbres partes of the bodye did not as they do now agree altogether w t one consent but euery membre vsed his owne counseyle and coulde speake for hymselfe the reste of the members muche grudgynge that by their care trauayle al thynges shuld be soughte gotten for the belies vse and that y e bely shuld do nothinge but lye at his ease in the myddest of them and enioye suche pleasures as they had prepared conspired and agreed together that from thenceforth neyther the hand shulde lyfte the meate to the mouthe nor the mouth shoulde receaue it nor the tethe shulde chowe it Wherefore whyle as for thys displeasure they went aboute to tame the bely with hunger all the members and partes them selfes yea and the whole body to was in a maner clean consumed Whervpon it well appeared that the ministerye and seruice of the belye is not ydle or vayn but that it nourisheth y e other partes aswel as it is nourished it selfe because it spreadeth abroade into all partes of the body the bloud whych is cause of our life and strength and the same when the meate is digested is diuided into the vaynes to Thus telleth Liuie Christes disciple and I praye God I set at nought all thynges visible vnuisible to thintent I may wynne my Lorde Iesus Christ. As for burning in a hoate fyre as for to be hāged vpon a crosse to be assaulted of wylde beastes to haue my bones all to wrinched and frushed to haue my membres cut all in peaces to haue my whole body gronden with milstones yea and to haue all the tormentes that the deuyl can deuy●e to fal vpon me I passe not so that I may wynne my swete sauiour Iesus Christe Here you maye perceaue the stoute courage of Christes mightye champion the sore bruntes that he was mooste gladde to abide for the obteynyng of that heauenlye victorye For he knewe that after this sort only shulde Christes souldiars fyghte Lykewyse dyd the holy and blessed martyr Polycarpus when men were sent to take hym and to bring him to the offices of that countrye that he might be tormented for Christes fayth came downe to them with a pleasaunt and mild countenaunce talked wyth them and commaunded a table and greate plentye of meate to be prepared for thē and prayed them to eate make good cheare desyred them that in y e meane season he mighte haue licence to praye Whych done he dyd not resiste them nor wente aboute to prepare a companye of men whych he being so wel loued in that countrie might belike easelye haue done to fight wyth them so to saue him selfe from theyr tormentrye but most mekely gentlye wente he forth with them and after longe talke that he had with the officers as touchyng hys fayth most frely frankely in a greate audience of people defended it Wherevpon all the people cried this is the greate doctor of Asia the father of the christen men and y e destroyer of our Gods Let hym be burned quicke So when the fyre was made ready he most wyllyngly lowsed hys gyrdell him selfe and put of his clothes And when thei would haue nayled hym faste to the stake no sayd he let me alone as I am For he that giueth me strength to endure the hoate flames of fyre wyl I doubte not gyue me grace stedfastly to stande by it without anye naylinge So y t they dyd not nayle him at all but onlye

another in an Apostles style after this sorte Grace and peace be with you from god our father and the Lord Iesus Christe nor lette them not exhort one another to sticke fast in theyr fonde opinion and say good brother in the lordes name shewe youre selfe nowe to be the true minister of god in maynteyning his holy word nor let them not craftly couer theyr contagiouse heresye with suche a gaye coloured cloke lest they both deceaue them selfes and a great many mo to for whose soules they shall make aunswere but let them call to remembraunce the wordes of saynte Paule that he wryteth to the Corinthians whiche be these Such false apostles are crafty workemen and fashion them selfes to be like Christes apostels and no marueyle is it For satā chaunseth hym selfe into the forme of an Aungell of lyghte Therefore it is no greate wonder then yf hys ministers fashion them selfes lyke to the ministers of Iustice. And when they haue throughlye weyed these wordes let them marke well whether they be not such like them selfes as saynt Paule speaketh of and so spying at length theyr wrong fayth let them neuer stand longer in it nor thinke that they are wiser then all the worlde beside but like good children with weping teares returne to their mother the church humblie aske hir spouse mercy desire hym to pardon their folie For excepte they do thus let them neuer looke to be Gods chyldren Because that as saynt Cyprian sayeth no manne can haue god his father excep● he take the Churche for his mother Now then seing that for such a fond fayth no man ought to put him selfe in anye trouble muche lesse ought he to make rebellion for the maynteynaunce of it For yf it be true as we haue proued before y ● for the syncere and true fayth of Christ no man maye withoute daunger of damnation aduēture to rebell ▪ then much lesse ought he for a false fayth to rebell and ryse agaynst his prince Wherfore when as for anye cause that can be ymagined our aduersary the deuil the aucthor of discord moueth vs to rebellion let vs then remēbre that no cause is there ▪ as we haue declared before for which a man may make rebellion so shall we alwayes vanquishe the deuyll be obedient to our prince and therin obey god to and finally eschewe the deuelishe and detestable crime of rebelliō which bringeth all those that auenture vpon it to vtter destruction and ruine Now moste dearly beloued contrye men seyng that hetherto we haue both opened the causes that commonly moue men to rebellion and also proued that for none of them nor no other beside them men must rebell it shall be well done hereafter to cōsider likewise the causes which haue now of late made men to rebell agaynste oure mooste gratiouse soueraygne Ladye the Queene and to gyue all men warnynge to take hede from hence forth of suche a wicked and cruell enterprise Wise men that haue well weyed this matter reken two causes specially that made men this last time make rebellion One to delyuer our countrie from the oppression of straungers as it was reported and another to restore agayne Luthers lewde religion which god and the Queenes highnes had lately banished out of the realme Which two causes may be wel referred to the causes declared heretofore seing y ● in effect they be included in them Yet forasmuche as it is necessary at this present particularly to speake of them I shall hereafter set them forthe at large to thintēt that al mens hartes may be the better quieted in that behalfe The fyrst cause was only a cause pretensed and was thought to many men somewhat reasonable and therby was not a few deceaued with the goodly colowre therof For when the simple people heard that the head capitayne of this rebellion intended nothing els but to stoppe the Spanyardes from entringe into this realme and to bring to passe that no foreyne prince shuld mary with the queenes highnes lest we shuld by that meanes as he sayde be made bondemen and slaues contrary to the nature of all English menne and that he loued the Queenes grace all her subiectes as his owne lyfe and sought nothing but y t shoulde be to her honour and the commoditie welth of the whole realme they thought it was a good godlye purpose were by by persuaded therewith and sayde that there was no man that was faythful and louynge to his countrie but he would be gladde to spend his bloude in such a good quarel Thus were the sely folke that knew not the very cause why this rebellion was made by this subtyll pretense foulye deceaued And like poore birdes ▪ that in a great snowe can get no meate with this bayte were or euer they wiste catched to their great confusion But putte the case that this had bene their intent in dede ▪ shuld they therfore haue gone aboute to make rebellion and where as they be commaunded by GOD to obeye the Queene their mooste lawfull heade and gouernesse shulde they rule her and in a matter wherin euery bodye bothe by Goddes lawe and mans hath free libertie to do as hym lyketh shulde they by force lyke rigorouse tyrauntes cōstrayn her to satisfie their fantasies in that behalfe and to marry whome they would appoynte her Who hath so muche aucthoritie I praye you in making other folkes marriages as the parētes haue in marryinge of their owne children And yet for al that they may not compell them to marrye whome they lyste but they must haue their consent therin For so dyd Laban and Bath●ell when their doughter Rebecca shuld be sent with Abraams seruaūt to be married to Isaac saying thus Let vs cal the gyrle and aske her minde And when she came they asked her Wilt thou go with this man who aunswered I am well contented to go Therefore seing the children which ought to be at the parentes cōmaundement muste agree and consent to their owne marriage shall not princes then to whome al subiectes are bound to be obedient be at libertie to appoynt their owne marriages And agayne because y e marriage is a ioyninge together of a man and a womanne freely and lawfullye made for the bryngyng forth of childrē howe can it freelye be made when eyther the man or the woman is by force constrayned therevnto And lawfull matrimonye can it not be except it freelye be made by the full consent of bothe parties For S. Chrysostome sayeth ▪ that carnall copulatiō maketh not matrimony but the wyl consent of the parties Then forasmuche as bothe by Gods lawe and mans it playnly appeareth that matrimony can not be good except it be made by the free consent of the parties let no true subiect thinke muche that the Quenes highnes hathe bestowed her selfe where she lyketh and loueth No no euery one that loueth her grace hartely wil be glad that she marieth suche one as

reygne ouer vs ▪ whēsoeuer any enemies go about to assault her mooste willingly to spende oure goodes liues to in her defence As for her mariage let vs as I sayd before referre the matter to God the author therof to her owne wisdome which hath chosen it For yf we shuld rebel therfore we shoulde not only seme to be w●●er thē god that as we verely trust hath made y e marriage but also to knowe better then her grace whome she shulde most loue like Now where as some percase both hath said as yet do saye that this noble prince of Spayne is a straunger and therfore both thei themselfes grudge at the Quene because she hath married him and also make other by their noughtie persuasion to grudge likewyse herein surelye they not onelye declare their lacke of knowledge as touching their duetie obediēce to her grace but also displease almyghtye god her defendour Therfore it shuld be verye well done for all suche to call to memorye a storye that is wrytten in holy scripture ▪ as concernynge the lyke matter We reade howe that Marye and Aaron dyd sore murmer and grudge agaynste Moyses because he married a wyfe whyche was a straunger borne in Aethiope Wyth which their grudge God beinge sore agreued smote Marye wyth a leprosye insomuche that by reason that she was so greatly infected with it she semed as white as snowe and was in daunger therby to be destroyed Do we not thynke that God nowe is iuste as he was then and is as sore offended wyth our murmurynge heartes agaynst the Quene as he was then wyth theirs agaynste Moyses and wyll punyshe our wickednes as well as he dyd theirs and the more that we grudge the more greuouslye wyll he plage vs ▪ Why then seynge we haue no iuste cause of grudge do we not leaue our grudging for feare that we so d●●please god that he wyl not only smyte vs with the horrible disease of leprosie in our bodyes but also punish our soules with euerlastinge fyre And albeit y e priuate grudge that one beareth towarde another doth muche prouoke goddes wrath agaynst vs yet the grudge that we beare towarde our prince is muche more greuouse For when the children of Iraell murmured agaynst Moyses and Aaron their rulers because they ●eared to be destroyed of the inhabitantes of Iurye at suche tyme as they shuld enter into it ▪ and wished y t they had died in Aegypte God was so sore displeased with their grudge ▪ that he sayde to Moyses I will distroye them all wyth plage and pestilence make thee a ruler ouer a greater numbre of people and much more valiant Agayne when they went from the hill called Hor and were with their long trauayle sore wer●ed and by reason therof much muttered agaynst god and Moyses and sayde why hast thou brought vs of oute Aegypte ▪ that we shulde dye in wildernesse god sente amonge them fyrye serpentes which sore tormented them and killed many of them insomuche that they came to Moyses and sayde We haue ●ore offended in that we haue spoken agaynst GOD and the● Therefore all they that for any cause grudge agaynst the quenes grace let thē looke for suche lyke plages yf they do not amend let thē learne by these examples to laye away their grudgyng heartes and mekely to acknowledge their folye to aske God mercy and to saye with the chyldren of Israell we haue greuously offended for that we haue murmered agaynst thee O Lord and agaynst our moste gratious Queene And lette them neyther secretly in their hartes grudge agaynste theyr Prince nor openlye in theyr woordes speake euyll by her but folowe the counseyle of Salomon where he sayeth Kepe your selfes from grudge whyche au●yleth nothynge and temper poure tongue that it sclaunder nobodye For all they y t eyther in theyr hartes conceaue anye malice toward y e Queene or grudge at her or vtter euil wordes agaynst her are as wel to be cōmitted rebelles as those that beare harnesse agaynste her For these be the thre speciall poyntes as you heard at the beginning wherein rebellion standeth As for their muttering y t they make for her marriage yf they knewe how the Prince of Spayne is vnto vs no straunger but one of the bloude royall of Englande by reason that his father the emperours Maiestie that nowe is bothe by hys father syde mothers cometh of the Kinges of Englande they wolde perhappes as they haue iust cau●e lay it aparte and both thanke god hartelye that hath vouchesaued by hys diuine prouidence to bringe to passe that such two noble personages comming both of one stocke and linage that is to say of the moste valiant and famouse Prince Kinge Edward the third shuld for thauauncement of y e noble bloud of Englande be ioyned together in marriage also be verye gladde in their heartes to know y t such a noble progeny as themperours is hathe spronge oute of the race of the kinges of Englād but to thintent that it may playnely appeare y t this is of an vndoubted trueth I shall sette forth as it were in a table for al men to loke vpon the lineall dyscent bothe of the Queenes Highnes and also of the sayd prince from Kinge Edwarde the thirde which lineall discent haue I gathered partely out of the stories of England and partly out of the stories of Spayne to thintent that the trueth thereof shoulde throughly be knowen to all meane Hereby maye we wel perceaue that the Quenes grace taketh no straunger to marry wyth but suche one as bothe by father and mother cometh of the royall bloude of Englande and nowe at lengthe is called home as it were to hys natyue countrye insomuch y t no true Englishe man hath any cause to grudge at the matter but great cause hath he to merueyle at the wonderfull prouidence of god therin and hartely to thanke him to that he of hys goodnes both hath so auaunced the noble bloude of Englande abroade in the worlde by raysing vp thereof so manye noble princes to gouerne his people also nowe in the ende hath sent vnto vs a noble prince of y e same bloud to be ioyned in marriage with the Queenes hyghnes to the great honour of our countrye and all oure comfortes For what can be more honorable for vs then to ioyne with such a prince whose progenitours haue ben for their noble actes renomed throughout y e whole worlde and for their singuler vertue moste hyghlye promoted For manye noble victories haue they gotten manye countries haue they subdued and alwayes by their force policie defended the state of Christendome agaynste oure mortal enemies the Turkes And because they were so muche estemed for theyr excellente vertue vj. of their familie ▪ that is to saye of the house of Austria hathe bene of late dayes chosen to be emperors Of whom two were called Alberte other two Frederike

to see euerye man to haue his righte and doubteth not by Goddes helpe yf God sende her life to redresse thinges that are out of order and so to prouide that all her louynge subiectes shall haue a prosperous and happie life vnder her me thynke euery one of vs shuld most hartelye loue her wyshe her longe lyfe and good helthe ▪ praye God to assiste her and to sende her strength to vanquishe her enemies and not to hate her not to wishe her death not to rebell agaynste her not to seke her bloud as men of late haue done For then might a man ▪ that hartely loueth bothe her grace and vs say thus very well in her behalfe vnto vs. Most dearly beloued country men what cause haue we to hate our most lawfull ladye maystresse placed by god in the gouernement of this realme and by all our consentes established in the same What goeth she aboute that shulde so agreue vs Doth she not as much as lyeth in her labour to auaunce the glory of god whiche is the especyall office of euery good Christen prince Doth she not trauayle to defend Christes true fayth whereby euerye one of vs trusteth to be saued Doth she not maynteyne the Catholike churche of god and the laudable ordinaunces therof Doth she not seke alwayes possible to bringe al those that be infected wyth heresye to their deare mother agayne y ● spouse of Christ whome they had of late vtterly forsaken Doth she not study all that she can to saue vs both body and soule Yea and she hartelye wisheth euerye one of vs as well to fare ▪ as she would her selfe And suche is her goodnesse that she prouideth rather for our profyte ▪ then for her owne Besyde this she by all meanes seeth the good lawes of this Realme to be duely obserued She gyueth also most straight charge to al her officers to execute iustice She monisheth all them that be in aucthoritie to beware of briberye taking of reward And she exhorteth all the clargie of this Realme to be diligent in doynge their dueties She moueth the nobilitie y ● they be gentle vnto vs that they by no meanes go aboute to hurte vs or with fines in cōmes empouerish vs What wold we haue her highnes to do She laboreth for vs she lyueth for vs and she ruleth for vs. For elles why shoulde her grace take the vntolerable paynes that she dothe but for vs She breaketh many a slepe that we may slepe quiet lye She taketh muche care anguishe to auoyde vs from care She tosseth and turmoyleth her selfe to set vs at ease She taketh no pleasure in thys lyfe but only for oure cōmoditie For what cause shuld she desire to lyue ▪ seynge she hath suche a paynfull lyfe but onelye to saue our lyues Or why should she not wishe to be gone out of thys miserye and to be at rest wyth our Lord sauiour Iesu Christe ▪ but that she woulde fayne or she wente hence deliuer vs from misery Her highnes is appoynted by almightye God to gouerne vs. For what purpose I praye you To seke her owne pleasure to satisfie her owne lustes to studye for her owne priuate welthe No no she knoweth that God requireth of her and of all Princes likewise that they fede the people that they norish them that they promote the good and punishe the badde That they loue their subiectes and loke diligently to them If we dyd considre what greuouse cares what broken slepes what fearfull dreames what doubtefull counseylles what stormes and troubles she hath for our sakes we shoulde haue iust cause hartelye to thanke her grace that she wold leaue the quiete state of lyfe that she was in before and take thys vnquiete state vpon her that she nowe lyueth in There was a king in olde tyme that cast downe his crowne vpon the grounde and sayde these wordes to those that were present with hym If a man perfectly knew and with al wel consydered what sorowful cares are vnder that royall crowne he wold neuer take the paynes ones to take it vp Therfore thinke this that the paynes be hers and the pleasure is ours Then how vnkinde or rather how hard harted are we if we go aboute to rewarde her kyndnesse wyth displeasure and to be vngentle to her that is so gētle to vs to fight agaynste her that laboreth to defende vs to seke her death when she seketh our life to cōtriue like cruel wretches to destroy her seing y ● her highnes so earnestly trauaileth to saue vs. Of late we were in bōdage and god hath delyuered vs by her We were oppressed with all kinde of misery and god hath most gratiously loked vpon vs. We shulde haue bene made lyke pesauntes of Fraunce y t is to say velaynes and slaues if god had not had compassion vpon vs through her And yet doth her highnes chalenge no part of the prayse but referreth it all to god who specyally deserueth it We were before euery day afearde to loose all y t we had and stode in daunger therof but nowe maye we quietlye rest and thinke that we shallbe assured to enioy our owne For oppression is banished by iustice and ryght taketh place by the lawe What cause haue we then to grudge at her grace to cōspire agaynst her to lyfte vppe our swordes as cruell wretches to murder her Alas what a deadly malice haue we in our hartes to desyre her bloude seinge that she sore sygheth and lamenteth if any of vs miscarye But some wil say perhappes that her marriage doth displease them Why so I beseche you Doth not she entende to enriche vs therby Doth not she trauayle as you haue heard before to get muche honor to this oure countrye agayne Whych hath as Dauid sayeth bene a mockinge stocke to all other countries aboute it If her grace knewe that any displeasure shuld come to this realme by her marriage for so he● grace sayd openly in y e guylde hall in London she wolde rather neuer marry whyle she liued For God did marrye her sayd she to this region whē she was anoynted and crowned our Quene And as he is an euyll hus●ande that seketh the wiues displeasure so is he an euill ruler that worketh the wo of hys subiectes Therfore be we well assured that she neyther doth nor entendeth to do that that is like lye to hurt this realme or to hinder the commoditie of any inhabitant thereof but muche to auaunce it and by Goddes helpe to reduce it to the olde estate ▪ and honorable estimation agayne As for straungers we nede not to feare For yf they do any iniury to any subiecte of hers they shalbe punyshed by the lawes of thys realme as we be And yf they behaue them selfe gentlye as it is very lyke that they will we shall haue cause to loue thē to ioyne frendship with them and to make muche of them For so shall we deserue thankes both of them