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A04224	The vvorkes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Published by Iames, Bishop of Winton, and deane of his Maiesties Chappel Royall; Works	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Montagu, James, 1568?-1618.; Elstracke, Renold, fl. 1590-1630, engraver.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1616 (1616)	STC 14344; ESTC S122229	618,837	614

the faithfull who though they be otherwise in enmitie among themselues yet agree in this respect in odium tertij as did Herod and Pilate Sixtly the compassing of the Saints and besieging of the beloued City The false Church euer persecuteth declareth vnto vs a certaine note of a false Church to be persecution for they come to seeke the faithfull the faithfull are those that are sought The wicked are the besiegers the faithfull the besieged Seuenthly Scripture by Scripture should be expounded 2. King 1.10 11. in the forme of language and phrase or maner of speaking of fire comming downe from heauen here vsed and taken out of the Booke of the Kings where at Elias his prayers with fire from heauen were destroyed Achazias his souldiers as the greatest part of all the words verses and sentences of this booke are taken and borrowed of other parts of the Scripture we are taught to vse onely Scripture for interpretation of Scripture if we would be sure and neuer swarue from the analogie of faith in expounding seeing it repeateth so oft the owne phrases and thereby expoundeth them Eightly of the last part of the confusion of the wicked euen at the top of their height and wheele we haue two things to note One that God although he suffereth the wicked to run on while their cup be full yet in the end he striketh them first in this world and next in the world to come to the deliuerance of his Church in this world and the perpetuall glory of the same in the world to come The other note is that after the great persecution and the destruction of the pursuers shall the day of Iudgement follow For so declareth the 11. verse of this same Chapter but in how short space it shall follow that is onely knowne vnto God Onely this farre are we certaine that in the last estate without any moe generall mutations the world shall remaine till the consummation and end of the same To conclude then with exhortation It is al our duties in this Isle at this time to do two things One to consider our estate And other to conforme our actions according thereunto Our estate is we are threefold besieged First spiritually by the heresies of the antichrist Secondly corporally generally as members of that Church the which in the whole they persecute Thirdly All men should be lawfully armed spiritually and bodily to fight against the Antichrist and his vpholders corporally and particularly by this present armie Our actions then conformed to our estate are these First to call for helpe at God his hands Next to assure vs of the same seeing we haue a sufficient warrant his constant promise expressed in his word Thirdly since with good conscience we may being in the tents of the Saints beloued City stand in our defence encourage one another to vse lawfull resistance and concurre or ioyne one with another as warriors in one Campe and citizens of one beloued City for maintenance of the good cause God hath clad vs with and in defence of our liberties natiue countrey and liues For since we see God hath promised not only in the world to come but also in this world to giue vs victory ouer them let vs in assurance hereof strongly trust in our God cease to mistrust his promise and fall through incredulitie or vnbeliefe For then are we worthy of double punishment For the stronger they waxe and the neerer they come to their light the faster approcheth their wracke and the day of our deliuery For kind and louing true and constant carefull and watchfull mighty and reuenging is he that promiseth it To whom be praise and glory for euer AMEN A MEDITATION VPON THE xxv xxvj xxvij xxviij and xxix verses of the xv Chap. of the first Booke of the Chronicles of the Kings Written by the most Christian King and sincere Professour of the trewth IAMES by the grace of God King of England France Scotland and Ireland Defender of the Faith THE TEXT 25 So Dauid and the Elders of Israel and the Captaines of thousands went to bring vp the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-Edom with ioy 26 And because that God helped the Leuites that bare the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord they offered seuen Bullockes and seuen Rammes 27 And Dauid had on him a linnen garment as all the Leuites that bare the Arke and the singers and Chenaniah that had the chiefe charge of the singers and vpon Dauid was a linnen Ephod 28 Thus all Israel brought vp the Arke of the Lords Couenant with shouting and sound of Cornet and with Trumpets and with Cymbales making asound with Violes and with harpes 29 And when the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord came into the Citie of Dauid Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at a window and saw King Dauid dauncing and playing and shee despised him in her heart THE MEDITATION AS of late when greatest appearance of perill was by that forreine and godlesse fleete I tooke occasion by a Text selected for the purpose to exhort you to remaine constant resting assured of a happy deliuerance So now by the great mercies of God my speeches hauing taken an euident effect I could doe no lesse of my carefull duety then out of this place cited teach you what resteth on your part to be done not of any opinion I haue of my abilitie to instruct you but that these meditations of mine may after my death remaine to the posteritie as a certaine testimony of my vpright and honest meaning in this so great and weightie a cause Now I come to the matter Dauid that godly King you see hath no sooner obtained victory ouer Gods and his enemies the Philistines but his first action which followes is with concurrence of his whole estates to translate the Arke of the Lords couenant to his house in great triumph and gladnesse accompanied with the sound of musicall instruments And being so brought to the Kings house he himselfe dances and reioyces before it which thing Michal the daughter of Saul and his wife perceiuing she contemned and laughed at her husband in her minde This is the summe THE METHOD FOr better vnderstanding whereof these heades are to be opened vp in order and applied And first what causes mooued Dauid to doe this worke Secondly what persons concurred with Dauid in doing of this worke Thirdly what was the action it selfe and forme of doing vsed in the same Fourthly the person of Michal And fiftly her action THE FIRST PART AS to the first part Zeale in Dauid and experiēce of Gods kindnesse towards him moued Dauid to honour God The causes moouing Dauid passing all others I note two One internall the other external the internall was a feruent and zealous mind in Dauid fully disposed to extoll the glorie of God that had called him to be King as he saith himselfe The zeale of thy house it eats

me vp Psal 69.9 But more largely expressed in the 132. Psalme composed at the same time while this worke was a doing The externall was a notable victorie newly obtained by the power of God ouer and against the Philistines olde and pernitious enemies to the people of God expressed in the last part of the 14. chapter preceding By this victorie or cause externall the internal causes and zeale in Dauid is so doubly inflamed that all things set aside in this worke onely he will be occupied These are the two weightie causes mouing him Wherof we may learne first that the chiefe vertue which should be in a christian Prince and which the Spirit of God alwayes chiefly praises in him is a feruencie and constant zeale to promote the glorie of God that hath honoured him Next that where this zeale is vnfained God leaues neuer that person without continuall powring of his blessings on him thereby to stirre vp into him a double measure of zeale and thankfulnesse towards God The Church euer troubled by men hath a ioyfull end Thirdly that the Church of God neuer wanted enemies and notable victories ouer them to assure them at all times of the constant kindnes of God towards them euen when as by the crosse as a bitter medicine he cureth their infirmities saueth them from grosse sinnes and trieth their faith For we find plainely in the Scriptures that no sooner God himselfe choosed Israel to be his people but assoone euer therafter as long as they remained his the diuell so enuied their prosperity as hee hounded out his instruments the nations at all times to trouble and warre against them yet to the comfort of his Church afflicted and wrack of the afflicters in the end This first was practised by Pharao in Egypt and after their deliuerance first by the Ammonites and then by the Philistines continually thereafter vntill the rising of the Monarchies who euery one did exercise themselues in the same labour But to note here the rage of all prophane Princes and nations which exercised their crueltie vpon the Church of God were superfluous and tedious in respect of that which I haue set downe in my former meditation Wherefore I onely goe forward then in this As this was the continuall behauiour of the Nations towards Israel So it was most especially in the time of Dauid and among the rest at this time here cited at what time hauing newly inuaded Israel and beeing driuen backe they would yet assemble againe in great multitudes to warre against the people of God and not content to defend their owne countries as the Israelites did would needes come out of the same to pursue them and so spread themselues in the valley But Dauid by Gods direction brings foorth the people against them who fights and according to Gods promises ouercomes them onely by the hand of God and not by their power as the place it selfe most plainely doeth shew So the Church of God may be troubled but in trouble it cannot perish and the end of their trouble is the very wracke and destruction of Gods enemies THE SECOND PART NOw followes secondly the persons who did concurre with Dauid in this action Three rankes of persons concurre with Dauid in this worke The Spirit noteth three rankes of them In the first are the Elders of Israel In the next are the captaines ouer thousands In the third are the Priests and Leuites of whom summarily I will speake These Elders were substituted vnder Dauid in the kingdome and as his hands in all parts of the countrey ministring iustice and iudgement to the Kings subiects And they were of two sorts maiestrates in walled townes who in the gates of the cities executed iudgement and chiefe in Tribes and fathers of families who in the countrey did iudge and minister iudgement as the Scripture reports They were not vnlike to two of the estates of our kingdome the Baron and the Burgesse The Captaines ouer thousands were godly and valiant men who vnder the King did rule in time of warre had the custodie of the Kings person and fought his battailes These were necessarie officers for Dauid who was appointed by God in his time as wee are taught out of Gods owne words speaking by Nathan to Dauid to fight Gods battailes to subdue the enemies of his Church and to procure by so doing a peaceable kingdome for Solomon his sonne who should in peace as a figure of Christ the Prince of peace build the Lords Temple These are spoken of here to teach vs first that their calling is lawfull next that in their calling they should be earnest to honour God and thirdly that these Captaines chiefly were lawfully called and lawfully walked therein as we haue plaine declaration out of Dauids owne mouth expressed well in the whole 101. Psalme seeing none were admitted in his seruice or houshold but such as vnfainedly feared God And without all question godly and zealous Dauid would neuer haue committed the guard of his person nor the fighting of Gods battailes to the enemies of God or men of warre of whose godlinesse and vertue he neuer had proofe See then their names and praise 1. Chron. 11.26 The third ranke of Priests and Leuites are set downe in the same chapter vers 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. So men of all estates were present in this godly worke This is to be marked well of Princes and of all those of any high calling or degree that hath to doe in Gods cause Dauid doth nothing in matters appertaining to God without the presence and speciall concurrence of Gods Ministers appointed to be spirituall rulers in his Church and at the first meant to conuey the same Arke to Ierusalem finding their absence and want of their counsell hurtfull now in this chapter vers 12 13. he saith to them Ye are the chiefe Fathers of the Leuites sanctifie your selues and your brethren and bring vp the Arke of the Lord God of Israel vnto the place that I haue prepared for it For because ye were not there at the first the Lord our God made a breach among vs for we sought him not in due order And thus farre for the second part concerning persons Wherein we may learne first that a godly king findes as his heart wisheth godly estates concurring with him Next a godly king of his godly foresight in choosing good vnder-rulers reapeth this profit and pleasure that as hee goeth before so they with zealous hearts doe follow THE THIRD PART THe summe of this ioyfull conuoy may be digested in three actions The Arke is transported with ioy to Ierusalem which are these The transporting of the Arke the harmony of musicall instruments and Dauids dancing and reioycing before it He built a Tabernacle for the Arke in mount Sion transported it therunto to signify his thankfulnes for the many victories God had put in his hands and this transporting was the occasion of all this solemnitie and reioycing

great Citie Queene of the World and as themselues confesse 1 Eusebius Oecumenius and Leo hold that by Babylon in 1. Pet. 5.13 Rome is meant as the Rhemists themselues confesse mystically Babylon cannot but be so full of all sorts of Intelligencies Besides all complainers as the Catholikes here are be naturally giuen to exaggerate their owne griefes and multiply thereupon So that it is no wonder that euen a iust Iudge sitting there should vpon wrong information giue an vnrighteous sentence as some of their owne partie doe not sticke to confesse That Pius Quintus was too rashly caried vpon wrong information to pronounce his thunder of Excommunication vpon the late Queene And it may be the like excuse shall hereafter be made for the two Breues which 2 See the Relation of the whole proceedings against the Traitours Garnet and his confederates Clemens Octauus sent to ENGLAND immediatly before her death for debarring me of the Crowne or any other that either would professe or any wayes tolerate the professours of our Religion contrary to his manifold vowes and protestations simul eodem tempore and as it were deliuered vno eodem spiritu to diuers of my ministers abroad professing such kindnesse and shewing such forwardnesse to aduance me to this Crowne The Catholikes opinion of the Brene Nay the most part of Catholikes here finding this Breue when it came to their handes to bee so farre against Diuinitie Policie or naturall sense were firmely perswaded that it was but a counterfeit Libell deuised in hatred of the Pope or at the farthest a thing hastily done vpon wrong information as was before said Of which opinion were not onely the simpler sort of Papists but euen some amongst them of best account both for learning and experience whereof the Archpriest himselfe was one But for soluing of this obiection the Pope himselfe hath taken new paines by sending foorth a second Breue onely for giuing faith and confirmation to the former That whereas before his sinne might haue beene thought to haue proceeded from rashnesse and mis-information he will now wilfully and willingly double the same whereof the Copy followeth The second Breue TO OVR BELOVED SONNES the English Catholikes Paulus P. P.V tus BEloued sonnes Salutation and Apostolicall Benediction It is reported vnto vs that there are found certaine amongst you who when as we haue sufficiently declared by our Letters dated the last yeere on the tenth of the Calends of October in the forme of a Breue that yee cannot with safe Conscience take the Oath which was then required of you and when as wee haue further straitly commanded you that by no meanes yee should take it yet there are some I say among you which dare now affirme that such Letters concerning the forbidding of the Oath were not written of our owne accord or of our owne proper will but rather for the respect and at the instigation of other men And for that cause the same men doe goe about to perswade you that our commands in the said Letters are not to be regarded Surely this newes did trouble vs and that so much the more because hauing had experience of your obedience most dearely beloued sonnes who to the end ye might obey this holy Sea haue godlily and valiantly contemned your riches wealth honour libertie yea and life it selfe wee should neuer haue suspected that the trewth of our Apostolike Letters could once be called into question among you that by this pretence ye might exempt your selues from our Commandements But we doe herein perceiue the subtiltie and craft of the enemie of mans saluation and we doe attribute this your backwardnesse rather to him then to your owne will And for this cause wee haue thought good to write the second time vnto you and to signifie vnto you againe That our Apostolike Letters dated the last yeere on the tenth of the Calends of October concerning the prohibition of the Oath were written not only vpon our proper motion and of our certaine knowledge but also after long and weightie deliberation vsed concerning all those things which are contained in them and that for that cause ye are bound fully to obserue them reiecting all interpretation perswading to the contrary And this is our meere pure and perfect will being alwayes carefull of your saluation and alwayes minding those things which are most profitable vnto you And we doe pray without ceasing that hee that hath appointed our lowlinesse to the keeping of the flocke of Christ would inlighten our thoughts and our counsels whom we doe also continually desire that he would increase in you our beloued Sonnes faith constancie and mutuall charitie and peace one to another All whom we doe most louingly blesse with all charitable affection Dated at Rome at Saint Markes vnder the Signet of the Fisherman the x. of the Calends of September 1607. the third yeere of our Popedome THE ANSWERE TO THE second BREVE NOw for this Breue I may iustly reflect his owne phrase vpon him in tearming it to be The craft of the Deuill For if the Deuill had studied a thousand yeeres for to finde out a mischiefe for our Catholikes heere hee hath found it in this that now when many Catholikes haue taken their Oath and some Priests also yea the Arch-priest himselfe without compunction or sticking they shall not now onely be bound to refuse the profession of their naturall Allegiance to their Soueraigne which might yet haue beene some way coloured vpon diuers scruples conceiued vpon the words of the Oath but they must now renounce and forsweare their profession of obedience alreadie sworne and so must as it were at the third instance forsweare their former two Oathes first closely sworne by their birth in their naturall Allegiance and next clearely confirmed by this Oath which doeth nothing but expresse the same so as no man can now holde the faith or procure the saluation of his soule in ENGLAND that must not abiure and renounce his borne and sworne Allegiance to his naturall Soueraigne And yet it is not sufficient to ratifie the last yeeres Breue by a new one come forth this yeere but that not onely euery yeere but euery moneth may produce a new monster the great and famous Writer of the Controuersies the late vn-Iesuited Cardinall Bellarmine must adde his talent to this good worke by blowing the bellowes of sedition and sharpening the spurre to rebellion by sending such a Letter of his to the Archpriest here as it is a wonder how passion and an ambitious desire of maintaining that Monarchie should charme the wits of so famously learned a man The Copy whereof here followeth TO THE VERY REVEREND Mr. GEORGE BLACKWELL ARCH-PRIEST of the ENGLISH ROBERT BELLARMINE Cardinall of the holy Church of Rome Greeting REuerend Sir and brother in CHRIST It is almost fourtie yeeres since we did see one the other but yet I haue neuer bene vnmindfull of our ancient acquaintance neither haue I

all aswell strangers as naturall subiects to whose eyes this Discourse shall come may wisely and vnpartially iudge of the Veritie as it is nakedly here set downe for clearing these mists and cloudes of calumnies which were iniustly heaped vpon me for which end onely I heartily pray the courteous Reader to be perswaded that I tooke occasion to publish this Discourse A PREMONITION TO ALL MOST MIGHTIE MONARCHES KINGS FREE PRINCES AND STATES OF CHRISTENDOME TO THE MOST SACRED AND INVINCIBLE PRINCE RODOLPHE THE II. by GODS Clemencie Elect Emperour of the ROMANES KING OF GERMANIE HVNGARIE BOHEME DALMATIE CROATIE SCLAVONIE c. ARCH-DVKE OF AVSTRIA DVKE OF BVRGVNDIE STIRIA CARINTHIA CARNIOLA and WIRTEMBERG c. Earle of TYROLIS c. AND TO ALL OTHER RIGHT HIGH AND MIGHTIE KINGS And Right Excellent free Princes and States of CHRISTENDOME Our louing BRETHREN COSINS ALLIES CONFEDERATES and FRIENDS IAMES by the Grace of GOD King of GREAT BRITAINE FRANCE and IRELAND Professour Maintainer and Defender of the Trew Christian Catholique and Apostolique FAITH Professed by the ancient and Primitiue CHVRCH and sealed with the blood of so many Holy Bishops and other faithfull crowned with the glory of MARTYRDOME WISHETH cuerlasting felicitie in CHRIST our SAVIOVR TO YOV MOST SACRED AND INVINCIBLE EMPEROVR RIGHT HIGH AND MIGHTIE KINGS RIGHT EXCELLENT FREE PRINCES AND STATES MY LOVING BRETHREN AND COSINS To you I say as of right belongeth doe I consecrate and direct this Warning of mine or rather Preamble to my reprinted Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance For the cause is generall and concerneth the Authoritie and priuiledge of Kings in generall and all supereminent Temporall powers And if in whatsoeuer Societie or Corporation of men either in Corporations of Cities or in the Corporation of any mechanicke craft or handie-worke euery man is carefull to maintaine the priuiledges of that Societie whereunto he is sworne nay they will rather cluster all in one making it a common cause exposing themselues to all sorts of perill then suffer the least breach in their Liberties If those of the baser sort of people I say be so curious and zealous for the preseruation of their common priuiledges and liberties as if the meanest amongst them be touched in any such point they thinke it concerneth them all Then what should wee doe in such a case whom GOD hath placed in the highest thrones vpon earth made his Lieutenants and Vice-gerents and euen seated vs vpon his owne Throne to execute his Iudgements The consideration hereof hath now mooued mee to expone a Case vnto you which doeth not so neerely touch mee in my particular as it doeth open a breach against our Authoritie I speake in the plurall of all Kings and priuiledge in generall And since not onely all rankes and sorts of people in all Nations doe inuiolably obserue this Maxime but euen the Ciuil Law by which the greatest part of Christendome is gouerned doeth giue them an interest qui fouent consimilem causam How much more then haue yee interest in this cause not beeing similis or par causa to yours but eadem with yours and indeed yee all fouetis or at least fouere debetis eandem causam mecum And since this cause is common to vs all both the Ciuill Lawes and the municipall Lawes of all Nations permit and warne them that haue a common interest to concurre in one for the defence of their common cause yea common sense teacheth vs with the Poet Ecquid Ad te pòst paulò ventura pericula sentis Nam tua res agitur paries cùm proximus ardet A wake then while it is time and suffer not by your longer sleepe the strings of your Authoritie to be cut in singulis and one and one to your generall ruine which by your vnited forces would rather make a strong rope for the enemie to hang himselfe in with Achitophel then that hee should euer bee able to breake it As for this Apologie of mine it is trew that I thought good to set it first out without putting my name vnto it but neuer so as I thought to denie it remembring well mine owne words but taken out of the Scripture in the beginning of the Preface to the Reader in my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that nothing is so bid which shall not bee opened c. promising there which with GOD his grace I shall euer performe neuer to doe that in secret which I shall need to be ashamed of when it shall come to be proclaimed in publique In deed I thought it fit for two respects that this my Apologie should first visite the world without hauing my name written in the forehead thereof First because of the matter and next of the persons that I medled with The matter it being a Treatise which I was to write conteining reasons and discourses in Diuinitie for the defence of the Oath of Alleagiance and refutation of the condemners thereof I thought it not comely for one of my place to put my name to bookes concerning Scholasticke Disputations whose calling is to set forth Decrees in the Imperatiue mood for I thinke my selfe as good a man as the Pope by his reuerence for whom these my Answerers make the like excuse for that his Breues are so summary without yeelding any reason vnto them My next reason was the respect of the persons whom with I medled Wherein although I shortly answered the Popes Breues yet the point I most laboured being the refutation of Bellarmines Letter I was neuer the man I confesse that could thinke a Cardinall a meet match for a King especially hauing many hundreth thousands of my subiects of as good birth as hee As for his Church dignitie his Cardinalship I meane I know not how to ranke or value it either by the warrant of God his word or by the ordinance of Emperours or Kings it being indeed onely a new Papall erection tolerated by the sleeping conniuence of our Predecessours I meane still by the plurall of Kings But notwithstanding of this my forbearing to put my name vnto it some Embassadours of some of you my louing Brethren and Cousins whome this cause did neereliest concerne can witnesse that I made Presents of some of those bookes at their first printing vnto them and that auowedly in my owne name As also the English Paragraphist or rather peruerse Pamphleter Parsons since all his description must runne vpon a P. hath trewly obserued that my Armes are affixed in the frontispice thereof which vseth not to bee in bookes of other mens doing whereby his malice in pretending his ignorane that hee might pay mee the soundlier is the more inexcusable But now that I finde my sparing to put my name vnto it hath not procured my sparing by these answerers who haue neither spared my Person directly in naming me nor indirectly by railing vpon the Author of the Booke it is now high time for me no longer to conceale nor disauow my selfe as if I were ashamed of