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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

troubled in spirit and hauing fasted long before as the text testifieth and being come to a woman that was bruted to haue such knowledge and that to enquire so important newes he hauing so guilty a conscience for his hainous offences and specially for that same vnlawfull curiositie and horrible defection and then the woman crying out vpon the suddaine in great admiration for the vncouth sight that she alledged to haue seene discouering him to be the King though disguised and denied by him before it was no wonder I say that his senses being thus distracted hee could not perceaue her faining of her voice he being himselfe in another chalmer and seeing nothing Next what could be or was raised The spirit of Samuel prophane and against all Theologie the deuill in his likenesse as vnappeirant that either God would permit him to come in the shape of his Saints for then could neuer the Prophets in those dayes haue beene sure what spirit spake to them in their visions or then that he could fore-tell what was to come thereafter for Prophecie proceedeth onely of GOD and the diuell hath no knowledge of things to come EPI Yet if ye will marke the words of the text yee will finde clearely that Saul saw that apparition for giuing you that Saul was in another chalmer at the making of the circles and coniurations needfull for that purpose as none of that craft wil permit any others to behold at that time yet it is euident by the text that how soone that once that vncleane spirit was fully risen she called in vpon Saul For it is said in the text that Saul knew him to be Samuel which could not haue beene by the hearing tell onely of an olde man with a mantill since there was many moe old men dead in Israel nor Samuel And the common weid of that whole countrey was mantils As to the next that it was not the spirit of Samuel I grant In the prouing whereof ye need not to insist since all Christians of whatsoeuer religion agrees vpon that and none but either mere ignorants or Necromanciers or Witches doubts thereof And that the deuill is permitted at sometimes to put himselfe in the likenesse of the Saints it is plaine in the Scriptures 1. Cor. 11.14 where it is said that Satan can transforme himselfe into an Angel of light Neither could that bring any inconuenience with the visions of the Prophets since it is most certaine that God will not permit him so to deceiue his owne but onely such as first wilfully deceiue them-selues by running vnto him whom God then suffers to fall in their owne snares and iustly permits them to be illuded with great efficacie of deceit because they would not beleeue the trueth as Paul sayth And as to the diuels foretelling of things to come it is true that he knowes not all things future but yet that hee knowes part the tragicall euent of this historie declares it which the wit of woman could neuer haue fore-spoken not that hee hath any prescience which is onely proper to God or yet knowes any thing by looking vpon God as in a mirrour as the good Angels doe hee being for euer debarred from the fauourable presence and countenance of his Creatour but onely by one of these two meanes either as being worldly wise and taught by a continuall experience euer since the Creation iudges by likelyhood of things to come according to the like that hath passed before and the naturall causes in respect of the vicissitude of all things worldly or else by Gods imploying of him in a turne and so foreseene thereof as appeares to haue beene in this 1. King 22. whereof we finde the very like in Micheas propheticke discourse to king Achab. But to prooue this my first proposition that there can be such a thing as Witch-craft and Witches there are many moe places in the Scriptures then this as I said before As first in the Lawe of GOD Exod. 22. it is plainely prohibited But certaine it is that the Law of God speakes nothing in vaine neither doeth it lay curses or enioyne punishments vpon shadowes condemning that to be ill which is not in essence or being Exod. 7. 2. as we call it Secondly it is plaine where wicked Pharaobs Wise-men imitated a number of Moses miracles to harden the tyrants heart thereby Thirdly said not Samuel to Saul that disobedience is as the sinne of Witch-craft 1 Sam. 15. To compare it to a thing that were not it were too too absurd Acts 8. Acts 16. Fourthly was not Simon Magus a man of that craft And fiftly what was she that had the spirit of Python beside innumerable other places that were irkesome to recite CHAP. II. ARGV What kind of sinne the practisers of these vnlawfull arts commit The diuision of these arts And what are the meanes that allure any to practise them PHILOMATHES BVt I thinke it very strange that God should permit any man-kind since they beare his owne Image to fall in so grosse and filthie a defection EPI Although man in his Creation was made to the image of the Creator Gene. 1. yet through his fall hauing once lost it it is but restored againe in a part by grace onely to the elect So all the rest falling away from God are giuen ouer into the hands of the diuell that enemy to beare his image and being once so giuen ouer the greatest and the grossest impretie is the pleasantest and most delightfull vnto them PHI. But may it not suffice him to haue indirectly the rule and procure the perdition of so many soules by alluring them to vices and to the following of their owne appetites suppose hee abuse not so many simple soules in making them directly acknowledge him for their master EPI No surely for he vses euery man whom of he hath the rule according to their complexion and knowledge and so whom hee findes most simple he plaineliest discouers himselfe vnto them For he being the enemie of mans saluation vses all the meanes hee can to intrappe them so farre in his snares as it may bee vnable to them thereafter suppose they would to rid themselues out of the same PHI. Then this sinne is a sinne against the holy Ghost EPI It is in some but not in all PHI. How that Are not all these that runne directly to the diuell in one Categorie EPI God forbid for the sinne against the holy Ghost hath two branches The one a falling backe from the whole seruice of God and a refusall of all his precepts The other is the doing of the first with knowledge knowing that they doe wrong against their owne conscience Hebr. 6.10 and the testimonie of the holy Spirit hauing once had a taste of the sweetnes of Gods mercies Now in the first of these two all sorts of Necromancers Enchanters or Witches are compre hended but in the last none but such as erre with this knowledge

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

you had For I hope there are no good Subiects either within or out of the Parliament House that would not be content for setting streight once and setling the Honourable State of their King to spare so much euery one of them out of their purses which peraduenture they would in one night throw away at Dice or Cards or bestow vpon a horse for their fancies that might breake his necke or his legge the next morning Nay I am sure euery good Subiect would rather chuse to liue more sparingly vpon his owne then that his Kings State should be in want For conclusion then of this purpose I wish you now to put a speedie end to your businesse Freenesse in giuing graceth the gift Bis dat qui citò dat The longer I want helpe the greater will my debt still rise and so must I looke for the greater helpes And now I would pray you to turne your eyes with mee from home and looke vpon forreine States Consider that the eyes of all forreine States are vpon this affaire and in expectation what the successe thereof will be And what can they thinke if ye depart without relieuing mee in that proportion that may make me able to maintaine my State but that either ye are vnwilling to helpe mee thinking me vnworthy thereof or at least that my State is so desperate as it cannot be repaired and so that the Parliament parts in disgrace with the King and the King in distaste with the Parliament which cannot but weaken my reputation both at home and abroad For of this you may be assured that forreine Princes care the more one for an other if they may haue reason to expect that they may bee able to doe them good or harme in Retribution And ye know that if a King fall to be contemned with his neighbours that cannot but bring an oppression and warre by them vpon him and then will it be too late to support the King when the cure is almost desperate Things foreseene and preuented are euer easliest remedied And therefore I would aduise you now so to settle your businesse as ye may not take in hand so many things at once as may both crosse my errand and euery one of them crosse another Yee remember the French Prouerbe Qui trop embrasse rien estreint We are not in this Parliament to make our Testament as if wee should neuer meete againe and that all things that were to be done in any Parliament were to be done at this time and yet for filling vp of your vacant houres I will recommend to your consideration such nature of things as are to bee specially thought vpon in these times First I will beginne at GOD for the beginning with him makes all other actions to bee blessed And this I meane by the cause of Religion Next I will speake of some things that concerne the Common-wealth And thirdly matters of Pleasure and ornament to the Kingdome As for Religion we haue all great cause to take heed vnto it Papists are waxed as proud at this time as euer they were which makes many to think they haue some new plotin hand And although the poorest sort of them bee God be thanked much decreased yet doeth the greater sort of them dayly increase especially among the foeminine Sexe nay they are waxed so proud that some say no man dare present them nor Iudges meddle with them they are so backed and vpholden by diuers great Courtiers It is a surer and better way to remooue the materials of fire before they bee kindled then to quench the fire when once it is kindled Nam leuius laedit quicquid praeuidimus antè I doe not meane by this to mooue you to make stronger Lawes then are already made but see those Lawes may bee well executed that are in force otherwise they cannot but fall into contempt and become rustie I neuer found that blood and too much seueritie did good in matters of Religion for besides that it is a sure rule in Diuinitie that God neuer loues to plant his Church by violence and bloodshed naturall reason may euen perswade vs and dayly experience prooues it trew That when men are seuerely persecuted for Religion the gallantnesse of many mens spirits and the wilfulnes of their humors rather then the iustnesse of the cause makes them to take a pride boldy to endure any torments or death it selfe to gaine thereby the reputatiom of Martyrdome though but in a false shadow Some doubts haue beene conceiued anent the vsing of the Oath of Allegiance and that part of the Acte which ordaines the taking thereof is thought so obscure that no man can tell who ought to bee pressed therewith For I my selfe when vpon a time I called the Iudges before mee at their going to their Circuits I mooued this question vnto them wherein as I thought they could not resolutely answere me And therefore if there bee any scruple touching the ministring of it I would wish it now to bee cleared And since I haue with my owne pen brought the Popes quarell vpon mee and proclaimed publique defiance to Babylon in maintaining it should it now sleepe and should I seeme as it were to steale from it againe As for Recusants let them bee all duely presented without exception for in times past there hath beene too great a conniuence and forbearing of them especially of great mens wiues and their kinne and followers None ought to be spared from being brought vnder the danger of Law and then it is my part to vse mercie as I thinke conuenient To winke at faults and not to suffer them to bee discouered is no Honour nor Mercy in a King neither is he euer thanked for it It onely argues his dulnesse But to forgiue faults after they are confessed or tried is Mercie And now I must turne me in this case to you my Lords the Bishops and euen exhort you earnestly to be more carefull then you haue bene that your Officers may more duely present Recusants then heretofore they haue done without exception of persons That althought it must be the worke of GOD that must make their mindes to bee altered yet at least by this course they may be stayed from increasing or insulting vpon vs. And that yee all may know the trewth of my heart in this case I diuide all my Subiects that are Papists into two rankes either olde Papists that were so brought vp in times of Poperie like old Queene Mary Priests and those that though they bee younger in yeeres yet haue neuer drunke in other milke but beene still nusled in that blindnesse Or else such as doe become Apostats hauing once beene of our Profession and haue forsaken the trewth either vpon discontent or practise or else vpon a light vaine humour of Noueltie making no more scruple to seeke out new formes of Religion then if it were but a new forme of Garment or a new cut or courtsey after the French fashion For the former sort I