your royall vertuous selfe to bee their righteous king millions of thousands in your England liues whose spirites by the instinct of nature giues themselues to loue the lawfull exercise of Armes they with ioyfull willingnes will waite vpon the summons of their kinges commaund and spend their liues their lands their goods in the performance of faithfull and obedient seruice your England hath for these many yeares obserued the maner of your neighbor bordering kingdoms gouernment with what prudēt wisedom your maiesty did protect the safety of your land the continued true report of your renowned vertues fed your Englands people with delightfull ioy and to their hearts it did a comfort giue when as they thought vpon that blessed hope which built it selfe vpon the well known right of your succession though in christian policie A publike note was taken from the vulgar view yet all the world may witnes that our late Queenerenownde Elizabeth did with her Lordes and honoured Councellers long ago decree to yeeld vnto your Maiestie the proper right of your inheritance and that the people of your kingdom did expect no lesse was certainely approued by that ioyful general applause whichal your Englands subiects gaue when as they heard king Iames proclaimde to be their Soueraigne And now most mightie Prince sith that in despite of Rome the God of heauen hath established your name on earth and made you greater then euer yet was any Christian king and hath in peace confirmed the regall seate of your imperiall throne I make no doubt but your Maiestie with a Christian constancie and religious care will confirme the strength thereof by the inuisible force of a prudent wise godly gouernment which doth vnto two speciall poynts direct it selfe which is vnto the well ordering of diuine and humane things wherein the obedience vnto God belonging doth challenge to it selfe a title Capital the celestiall dignitie whereof is first before all other things in the chiefest place to be preferred Diuine regiment doeth therefore take vnto it selfe the matter of Religion onely and the ordināces to be vsed in the church which in the time of the Law were commanded by God himselfe vnto his seruant Moses and hee by the appointment of God committed the principall charge thereof vnto Aaron and his sonnes and the tribe of Leui but now in the time of the Gospell they were taught and commaunded by Iesus Christ himselfe and by him left vnto his Apostles and from them the principall charge thereof is committed vnto the Bishops and Pastors of the Church And as in the time of the Law Aaron though he were the high priest vnto God and had chiefe authoritie in diuine things yet was not he the king Prince or supreme Magistrate ouer the people of God but that supremacie of kingly honour was giuen vnto Moses who was vnto Aaron in the stead of God and therefore next vnder God Aaron and his sonnes were accounted subiects vnto Moses So in the time of the Gospell though Bishops and Pastors haue the chiefe authoritie to deale with the administration of diuine and holy things yet they nor any of them are the kings princes or supreme Magistrates ouer the people of God and Church of Iesus Christ. But that supremacie of kingly honour is giuen vnto Kings and Princes in their seuarall kingdomes who are vnto Bishops and Pastors in the stead of God And therefore all Bishops and Pastors are to be accounted subiects vnto their seuerall Kings and Princes And as Moses in the diuine ordinances concerning the law of God did commaund nothing vnto Aaron and the tribe of Leui but that he had expresly receyued from the mouth of God So Kings and Princes in the diuine ordinance of the Gospel of Iesus Christ are not to commaund vnto their Bishops and Pastors any other thing then can bee expressely warranted by the doctrine of Christ himselfe or his Apostles Lastly as in the time of the Law the Kings and Princes of Israel and their Priests and Leuits did bring on them and their posterity the eternall curse of God when they fled from the obedience of the Law written by Moses in the old testament of God Euen so in the time of Gospel shall Kings Princes with their Bishops Pastors bring vpō themselues their posteritie the eternall curse of God when they shall flie from the obedience of the Gospel written by the Apostles and Euangelifts and left vnto vs in the new Testament of Iesus Christ in which is contained the freedome libertie and iustification of our best esteemed and most blessed peace And from the obedience therevnto hath proceeded the long continuance of Englands peacefull quietnes and by the meanes thereof most mightie soueraigne your royall person and your Scotlands kingdome from euery threatned danger haue vntill this time most safely beene preserued And for from hence must spring the firme continuance of your royall state and kingdomes blessednesse your righteous soule no doubt will most desire that things diuine be chiefly lookde vnto and because there neuer was a church so rightly ordered but that some errors were therein remaining the reformation whereof did belong vnto the kings vnto whose charge the gouernment thereof in their seuerall kingdoms was principally committed it now therefore remaineth euident that your religious vnderstanding wise diuine and sanctifyed heart will in the beginning of your most happie raigne looke first amiddest your Englandes kingdome with godly care to beautifie the Spouses of Iesus Christ. My Soueraigne Lorde I doubt not but your highnesse will be pleased to obserue the order giuen vnto your princely son the happie comfort of your Englands hope and account it for your greatest honour to see the Church of God well gouerned I am a souldier my most mighty king and my dutie is when iust cause requires to fight for God and for his Church and for you my soueraigne next vnder God within the compasse of your kingdomes confines the onely supreme heade and gouernour Be then most mightie Prince vnder your captaine Christ a glorious instrument as to that ende you were ordained and aboue all things chiefly see his Church to be well ordered O then let your Maiestie vouchsafe with Salomon To walke downe into the Garden of Nuts The Sinagogues congregations in England and see the fruit of the valley see if the Vine buddeth and looke if the Pomegranets flourish Beholde what profite hath proceeded from the doctrine of the Law the Prophets and in many Congregations see nothing that your highnesse can take knowledge of but onely ignorance disobedience and rebellion The fearefull daunger of whose desperate estate is principally occasioned by the want of Pastors able to teach them to vnderstand that peace in whome the lawe and the Prophets is fulfilled and then from the loue of those vngodly guides which taketh vp the place bequeathed to better men let your diuine and heauenly soule as
did vnto them procure The name of iudifferenttolleration could not be endured in the dayes of Qu. Elizabeth The papists in the time of our late Qu. were alwayes ouerthrowne in the least occation of their hope The hope of the papists the effects therof The God of heauen our godly king on earth doe despise the secret imaginations of the Papists 1. Sam. chap. 15. ver 32. 33. The sword of iustice cannot take to strike a course againgst the enemie of God Parsons and Sanders on the behalfe of the Papists haue in their printed books affirmed that ourlate Queen was a cruell tyrant they affirm that Q Mary was more merciful to the protestants then E. vnto their named Catholikes The Papistes haue intituled the infant of Spaine vnto the crown of England The secret intention of the Papistes is meerely trecherous both vnto the king and publike state All well affected people do reioyce in the establishing of our now renowned king The well ordering of diuine things is chiefely to be respected in a kingdomes gouernment Aaronthough he were the high Priest vn to God yet was he subiect vnto Moses vnto whom was reserued the supremacy of kingly honou for he was vnto Aaron in the stead of God Exod. 4. ver 6. Kings princes in cause diuine should not command vnto their subiects thinges contrary vnto the word of God Disobedience vnto the word of God bringeth confusion vpon prince and people The peace of Englands happinnesse hath beene continued by the ministrie of the Gospel Kings princes in their seuerall kingdomes haue authoritie to reforme those things that are amisse in the Church of God Salomons song ca. 6. ver 10. 11. Improptiatiōs are the hinderance of a learned ministery Faith doth onely iustifie before God but good works doth iustifie our faith before men Iude. v. 12. 13. Isa. 56. v. 10. 11 Eze. cap. 13. 4. Ier. c. 23. v. 1. 2 A description of vngodly ministers The author doth professe himselfe to be no Brownest 1. Pet. ca. 5. v. 3 Oecumenius in t. a. Tim. cap. 1. 2. idem in 4. * 5. Pri matii praefatio in 1. ad Tit. 1. Tim. 6. 14 S. Ambrose in 1. ad Tim. c. 3. That the members of the church should not contend about the titles of bishops The maner how and cause why the Pope refused to bee ruled by the word of God Eusebeus lib. 7 cap 3 he deriueth the successiōs of Bishops in the 4. principall churches of the world Ierusalem Antioch Rome Alexandria from the Apostles age vnto the counsell of Nice A. 320 The reason why the author hopeth that the defects in the Church wil be amended 1. Con Carth. 3. cap. 22. S. Ambrose in 1. ad Tim. ca. 6 A description of godly ministers Esay cap. 62 v 6. 7. A godly reuerent wise and learned ministry is the beauty of the church A well minded Souldier neuer wisheth warre vnto his countries preiudice nor peace vnto his kinges dishonor A discription of our Englands peace An admonision vnto England generaly The happy estate of Eng. if her people shall obey the lawes of God English men haue beene admired and feared for their deeds in warre Warre is the shield of iustice ought not to be vsed but when iustice puts it on Peace ought to be the mother and the nurse vnto the child of warre and so bring vp wars children vnderh as that they might be able to defend their mothers right when iust occasion cals for them Tac liber 6. The state of Holland from Rome and Spaine deliuered God hath iustified their proceedinees with coutinuall blessings The Romanes taught their children how to fight and did euery 101. yeares with great solemnity record the actions by their people done in haughty deedes of armes Horace Certus vndenos decies per Annos Orbis vt cantus referat quaeludos
Soueraigne your Englands nation hath in times past been accounted famous in the exercise of Armes and your people for their magnanimious valour in warlike cheualry haue not onely beene admired but feared of all the kingdoms in Christendome and beyonde those bounds fayre Englands force hath marched with a conquering arrne so as the glorious renowne of honourable deedes being brought vnto this present age by the golden trumpet of fames true report dooth make such deepe impression in your Subiectes hearts as that I cannot but suppose the flower of your EnglaÌ„ds youth desireth to be accounted souldiers especially now that they are the subiects vnto a mighty king lineally descended froÌ„ the royal bloud of Englands mightiest kings yet vnto them whose hearts desires the exercise of armes my resolution thus much speaketh and sayth it is a thing conuenient for them to consider that warre being the shield of iustice is not to bee vsed but when iustice dooth commaunde the vse thereof and that peace with safety to the publike state is in this christian common wealth before warre to bee preferred And therefore those that would arightly be true valiant minded men ought thus to vse the exercise of martiall discipline not thereby within your Maiesties vnited kingdoms to infringe the happines of a long continued peace but that by their experience in the vse of warre they may become the most commended 〈…〉 is to maintaine the dignitie thereof against all occasions and powers that shall seeke to disturbe or ouer throw the same And in regard the Church of God your maiesties royal person your princely progeny your kingdomes and your Highnes 〈◊〉 are all to be defended by the sword of warre when forraine foes or priuate enemies shall with force in opposition riser no doubte but your Maieste will command such course to be taken as that your Subiects shall be taught the rudiments of warre so as they shall be familiarly aqvainted with the thinges belonging thereunto And that a souldiers hand shal by your Highnes gratious fauour be employedstd in assisting those your Maiesties faâ—thful friends and true beleuing Protestants whose country and whose people God in his aboundant mercy hath wondrously delivered from the tyranny of Rome bloudy Spannish Inquisition and for they fight against the Beast and those that on their foreheads beares his marke God hath with honour crownd the actions done by the 〈◊〉 and dignified their attempts in warre with glorious victories the iustice of their cause notwithstanding the coynde obiections made by Spaine is and hath beene by tho hand of God approued as may vnto the world be witnessed and your Highnes by assisting them doth as it was thought by our late Queene and stil renownd Elizabeth giue a strong security vnto the safety of your Englands peace for the maintenance wherof when your Maiesty shall see your people trayned vp with actiue skil to vse their weapons fit for fight and well to vnderstand the ordering of their Files and rankes and seuerall standinges in a pitcht Battalia that all to bee commaunded may sodainely with speedy execution know how to make a true performance according to directions giuen and that not any may commaunders bee but such whose wise valiant courage with tride experience ioynd shall make them worthy of their place and then al these throughout your kingdoms gouernment being by a godly ministery taught to vnderstand the iustice of their cause More deeds of honour shall then in time to come by the conquering hand of Englands king be done then euer yet disciphered was by the Chronicle description of precedent time for now the foes to God and to his truth shall feare the name of English men and your kingly Maiestie with the glory of your succeding princelie race shall be a terror to the enemies of Christ. For this a Souldier prayeth and all this to defend being by his king commaunded he hath his sword in readines And thus most mightie Prince and my renowned Soueraine A poore Souldiers resolution humbly offereth vp his liues employment at your princely foote FINIS Reuel cap. 12. VVere the gouernment of Rome now as then it was when England was conuerted there should be no Pope as now theâ—e is nor Masse nor Purgatcrie nor approbation to any of their erronious constitutions Ethelderius brought with him none of their new blasphemous doctrine Ioseph of Aramatheus before him was a stranger therevnto Our late Quâ— did in the time of her sicknesse bequeath her crown vnto our now king affirming it as in in deed it is his proper right Reuel cap 12. ver 8. 9. Reue 11. ver 9 A booke intituled A Souldiers wish vnto his Soueraigne Lord King Iames. The Papists desire to make a doubt of the certaine continuance of our religion in the forme which now it doth The doctrine of Rome and Spaine poysoneth both body and souls but helpeth neyther Boniface 3. by the leaue of Phocas the foolish Emperour did first write himselfe papa and then presently begaÌ„ the ruine of the Church the ful effect whereof was concluded by Adrian since whose time as saith planlina in the life of popes there was neuer any Emperour of might nor pope of any vertue Some seeme as if they were papistes but indeede are not VVhat maner of Subiectes papists were vnto the Queen now what hope there is of them The Schooles of Rome and Spaine are the nurseries of treason Dist 40 etsi papa 9. q. 6. ea cuncta 30 q. 1 Cap. In 6. lib. 2. de sen. 26. q. cap. Quouenc In. 6. lib. de sent Apostelatus in verb continetur In 6. lib. 2. de sen. King Herold exiled Robert Archbishop of Canter Ro. gat him to WilliaÌ„ D of Norm Pope Alexander to he reuenged of King Herold sent vnto duke W. a banner to go and conquere England and eleane remissioÌ„ of sins both a pena a culpa to all that would follow the banncr by this means was England the last time conquered Perpetual malses apointed to be suÌ„g in Swin fted Abbey for the Monk which poysoned king Iohn So is it now in Rome for him which slew the Prince of Orringe for the Frier which kild the French King Declectio et Significatio Panormitanus saith that councels may erre as they haue done inter raptorem et raptaÌ„ Hierom 39. q. 2. tria doth affirme as much and August de bap lib. 2. ch 3. contra Donatistas * Dist. 19. 51. Ro. er enim vero et nulli facit cap. 5. omnes Pope Celestinus 4 crowned the Emperour Henricus 6. with his secte A true descrip of Rome as is declared in the Reuela ch 17. The Authors Resolution doth in this place resolue vpon sufficient reason that the King hath no affection vnto papists The Church of Rome is in it selfe diuided secular priests and sesuits being at a desperate variance The reasoÌ„ why the priests did accuse the Iesuites and what their labor
purgatory And although this monstrous euil be against al laws of God and godly men yet doth the braseÌ„ impudeÌ„t shameles pope with al the multitude of his masse-monging shauelings striue to maintain the lawfulnes therof against the writeÌ„ word of the eternal law of God affirming that on earth al power is giuen vnto him that his seat is established by general counsels which as he sayth cannot erre And therefore what the Pope decreâ—th must stand of force against all authorities for saith his law What the Sea of Rome doth decrce must needes be allowed And what she reproueth must be of no strength For so must the decrees of the Sea of Rome be accepted as if they were spoken by the godly mouth of Peter himselfe And the more to approue his presumptuious blasphemy the Pope hath prouided that himselfe may be avillaine both to God and men and yet himselfe not to be found falt with For sayth his law Distinction the 40. Who doubteth but the Pope is holy the which is exalted vnto so great a dignity in whome though good workes of his owne merits bee wanting yet were those good works sufficient which were done by his predecessors And therefore hath his lawe in the place before recited thus decreed that though the Pope sinne neuer so grieuously and draw with him to hell by his example thousandes innumerable yet let no man be so hardy to rebuke him For he is head ouer al and none ouer him And by this vsurped authoritie is that 7. headed beast approued the very open and reuealed Antichrist of our time who by the trecherous and diuellish authoritie of his Antichristian lawe hath giuen vnto hsmselfe a power to set vp and at his pleasure to cast downe kings and with his fowle vngodly hel-path treading feete to set the Crowne vpon an Emperors head and vpon an Emperours necke to tread when he displeaseth him And vnto such a base subiection hath he brought the mighty Princes of the earth as that they thinke it no small honour to kisse the stinking feete of that inhumane monster This is the rich and wealthie whore bedeckt with Iewels and ornaments of gola Whose Scarlet robes are dyed in Christians bloud Whose variable garments betokens diuers liueries of religious orders Holding in her hand a cup full of abhominations the Popes decrees Bulles dispensations suspensations and cursings And the beast she sitteth vpon is the papall sea of Rome And with this whore the nations of the earth hane committed filthinesse But now sith that the the light from darkenes is distinguished by the glorious ministrie of saluations Gospell and that Romes Idolatrous whore dome is made knowne vnto the world Oh that any Prince should desire to contaminate his soule with her vncleannesse or endure to rest himselfe in the serpentike bosome of such daungerous wickednes But Rome thy pacht vp Iron legs are broken and like a haulting cripple thou standest reeling in thy weakned strength Thy nakednesse is made a publicke scorne and but a verie few to what had wont to be are left to stand on thy pernicious part Thou maist perceiue how God doth by degrees râ—â—e downe the kingdome of thy Sathans Sinagogue I wil not labor to aduertise thee Fury wrath and indignatioÌ„ is thy portion thou art throwne out vnto a fierce strong destruction And in thy day till which it is not long thou shalt not finde any meanes for to preuent the fearefull stroke of thy all confounding iudgement vnto which I leaue thee bee thou an heire vnto thy prepared inheritance This truth discribed I know my Lord and king is rightly knowne vnto your Maiestie your selfe haue drawne the portrature of Romes Antichristian beast and layd him open in his full discription And in your Scotlands kingdome all the time of your most blessed gouernment hauing once growne past the yeares of your minoritie your highnesse did religiously maintaine a reuerent learned wise and godly ministrie whose labour was to cast Romes Kingdome downe and in true forme for to erect and gouerne the house of God and Church of Iesus Christ. And should I bee so vilde to thinke that now your Maiestie would let a Tyrant loose or lend an eare to helles inchaunting charmes or please to loue or in weighty cause to trust the daungerous Imps by oath ingrafte into the Romaine stocke whose heartes hath vowed alleageance to the Sea of Rome by whose vilde lawes a seeming iust authoritie is giuen to execute the deedes of villainie and vnder pretext whereof so many haue beene made approued villaynes thrusting themselues into the speedy execution of bloudy trecherous strange inhumane stratagems accounting as if in them they had performed honest ChristiaÌ„ like meritorious deeds Or that your Maiestie would suffer a popish tolleration to bring forth thornes whose poyntes will turne themselues against your life and strine to worke your kingdomes ouerthrow No no my soueraigne my Resolution shall in life and death resolue that your Kingly Maiestie hath not a thought that bendes it selfe to such little purposes Your highnesse hath already ioynd vnto your Maiestie a company of honourable valiant graue prudent wise godly and religious Councellers whose foreseeing prouidence in the time of our late Queene and euer renowned Elizabeth did at all times worthily preuent the euill effecting policies of Rome And when of late the house of Dagon was in it selfe diuided Secular Priestes and Iesuites beeing each to other in apparent opposition the Priestes by printed Pamphlets proued that the Iesuites were the Arch Traytours of the worlde and that by them were complotted all the treasons against the Maiestie of our late Queene The Priestes thinking by this their accusation to gayne vnto themselues a fauourable opinion and by that meanes in time to win the minds of men vnto their loue then presentlie the wisedom of our Queene with those your now honoured Councellors perceiuing both sortes to bee no lesse then dangerous Traytours to the publike state did forthwith requite their cunning with proclaymed banishment annexing thereunto the penalty of death to bee inflicted vpon all those that by their wilfull staying should exceede the time limitted in the Proclamation And should I thinke your Maiestie would not now commaund the performance of the selfe-same course against those who by their continuall practises haue alwayes sought the vtter ruing of the house of God the murdering of Gods annointed and the subuersion of all your kingdomes In this for to resolue the doubts of men too timerous thus much assuredly my Resolution knowes that the obseruatioÌ„ your kingly self haue made of Romes performed trecherous tyranous and tragicke massikers will giue warning to your Maiestie with prudent wisedome to preuent their mischiefes and were they not altogether in their vaine expectatioÌ„s meerly reasonlesse I wonder what shewe of hope could giue occasion to suspect that nowe the reine of iustice which did gouerne them should bee let slip and