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A04554	A lanterne-light for loyall subiects. Or, A terrour for traytours Wherein may be seene the odiousnesse of treason, the deserued ende of traytours, and the wonderfull preseruation of anoynted princes. A matter rightly agreeing with this time of danger, where wicked persons haue desired our publike sorrow, and the ruine of this realme of England.	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1603 (1603)	STC 14675; ESTC S109172	6,910	17

visibly seene standeth between the godly and their enemies And then though the wicked come armed with an host of men they shall bee ouercome with their subtill deuices and their swords shall goe thorow their owne hearts Call we now to mind our late soueraigne Lady Queen Elizabeth whom the Angell of the Lord euen from her cradle did miraculously preserue from the tyranny of all her enemies When for our sinnes Queene Mary committed both the Word and Sword to the hypocrisy and tyranny of the popish Cleargy good Lady Elizabeths life was then assayled with a thousand publike and priuate practises but the Angell of the Lord still stood betweene her and her harmes and from the fetters of aduersity loosed and crowned her Maiesty with the supreme dignity of this Realme Afterwards in the dayes of her Maiesties most happy raigne many there were that with the superstition of Papistry were so blinded that they sought dayly to take away this good Queenes life as Arden and Someruile the one whereof was quartered and made a prey for Powles the other hanged himselfe the night before the appoynted day of his execution The dangerous Traitor Throgmarton as cunningly as he disguised his odious treasons was intrapped in the snares which he set for his Countries destruction and worthily dyed with the sword which hee had whetted for the innocent The odious Atheist Parry likewise had the reward of his fellow Traytors who though he had the place and opportunity yet as gracelesse as he was the very Maiesty of her princely countenance made him lose his resolution Many are the falles of Traytors which I could bring in since the beginning of Queene Elizabeths raigne which for this time I omit But surely neither her Maiesties goodnes nor their own duties could mouethem to obedience that had but once drunke of the dregs of Popery Therefore all true subiects may sigh and say Alas those whose hearts are hardened therein haue their iudgements blind and their affections swift to runne vpon destruction Pharao was warned with diuers plagues that he should not hinder the departure of the children of Israel forth of Egypt yet he would needs follow them to his vtter destruction Gods iustice strooke Mahomet with the falling sicknesse to make him knovv and repent his blasphemie but to strengthen the peoples misbeleefe the Deuill taught him to say that his traunce proceeded of the conference of an Angell vvhose diuine presence could not endure his earthly shape Vpon the principall day of the bloudy murther at Paris in Fraunce as a token that Gods word should flourish in despight of their cruelty a dead and withered tree bare greene leaues in that Churchyard that receiued many a murthered carkase And yet the Papists on the contrary part applied this prophesying example to the second florishing of the Romish church Thus blind they are in their wicked imaginations traytrous attempts and thus with such vaine hopes are all Traytors led vnto the follies and falles of vnloyall subiects Wherefore howsoeuer they perswade themselues and threaten our Countrey with a change of prosperity so long as we feare God and be true to his Maiesty our peace will vndoubtedly last and the disturbers thereof are like shortly to taste their own miserable fortunes being already iustly condemned for their trayterous attempts against our most gracious King and their owne natiue Countrey Therefore let all sorts of people beare this in mind that whosoeuer loseth his life by any kind of treason or violence God will not onely reuenge the bloud of the same man so murthered but will also seuerely punish the murtherers in a strange maner God punished the murther of Abel committed by his brother Cain with a most bitter curse and yet that there might bee no protection in murder God sayd himselfe That whosoeuer slue the reprobate Cain it should be auenged seuen fold And now to touch the guilt of murther more neerely God requireth the bloud of Innocents at the hands of Kings and anoynted Princes as thus To punish the fault of King Dauid in seeking the death of Vrius God tooke away the life of the child which Dauid had by Vrias vvife Furthermore in the time of King Dauid there were three yeres famine and Dauid demaunded the cause why And the Lord sayd It was for Saul and the house of bloud because he slew the Gibeonites According to the opinion of Erasmus the consenter to murther is as gilty as the doer Iudas that betrayed Christ and Pilate that adiudged him to death only to please the Iewes carried the feareful burthen of murther in their consciences and by the horrour thereof wrought their owne destructions Moreouer nature hath taught the very Infidels and heathen people to beleeue that vengeance followeth murther Reason then may perswade all Christians to assure themselues that the bloudthirsty are worse then Infidels and cannot escape the sword of vengeance Now seeing that Kings if they shead any bloud otherwise then by the sword of Iustice and Iudges if they adiudge death for hatred feare or gayne by Gods righteousnes are punished as murtherers what may they then expect that in corners lay violent hands on annoynted Kings or without colour of authority murther the innocent If the eyes of their vnderstanding were not blind they might see a bad successe in their purpose and the open confusion of themselues I haue read of a number of good and bad Princes and also of other which haue bene bereaued of their liues by the violent hands of secret Traitors but among a hundred you shall hardly find of one murtherer that hath escaped the torture of Gods vengeance Brutus and his partakers murdered Iulius Casar but not one of them escaped a violent death Wee may yet remember the vnhappy murther of the King of Scotland father to our Soueraigne Lord King Iames whose life God long continue how villanously he was made away yet the greatest fauourers the greatest procurers of the sayd murther were by common iustice drawn to commit almost all the murderers into the hands of the hangman and such as escaped and were not bound to the censure of the law could by no meanes shift themselues from the vengeance of God Iohn I●r●g● that first assailed the godly Prince of Orange had the common reward of Traytors And the most odious Atheist Balthazar Serack that slue the sayd Prince for all the blessings of the Pope the commendations and threatnings of the King of Spaine exchanged the Pistoll wherewith hee slue him for most horrible tortures to bee executed vpon himselfe being the iust reward for his haynous treason I could alledge infinite examples to disswade men from violent murther which Gods prouidence many wayes preuenteth when as his iustice neuer leaueth the murtherer vnpunished Yet if Traytors had reason to obserue the iudgements of such practisers or experience to looke into the wisdome of this age they should see their attempt as vayne a matter as to throw stones against

the starres or with a knock of their head to leuell a mountaine that seeke to displace a beloued Prince But now to wade into the depth of our subiect ambition and desire of dignity is the welspring of rebellion and treason they that will flye without wings are like to fall before they are wise Hee that is borne to bee a seruant in no wise ought to looke for double attendance Dignity is like a vane on a high Tower which is subiect to the chaunce of fortune as the other is to the chaunce of the wind And who so will sit surely vpon the seat of prosperity must like the Snayle get experience with slow climing lest in taking a swifter course like vnto a Bird he be remoued with the least stone that is throwne I meane with the least disgrace of fortune If mens minds grow bigger then their naturall conditions there are many examples of vertue to imitate which haue raised sundry men from the cart to the highest degree of honour when otherwise in clyming by treason many honorable Estates dye dishonorably and to their posterity leaue no better Inheritance then Infamy Therefore let all ambitious minded men know that destruction followeth presumption and the clyming of pride will haue a fall And now I thinke it not amisse to discourse vnto you the speaches of an English Traytour which hee spoke at his execution within these few yeres and his words were these Oh woe is me vnhappy man I may now rightly compare my estate to the state of Adam who at first was placed in Paradise and there enioyed all the pleasures of the earth and was onely forbidden to eate of the fruite of one tree but for his transgression he not onely procured misery vpon his owne head but vpon the heads of all his posterity So quoth he I that wanted nothing but had health wealth and friends and so might long haue liued if I could haue forborne to haue bin vntrue to my Prince but alas for my offence I haue brought my selfe vnto this misery by which my good mother my louing wife my foure brethren and sixe sisters yea and our whole house neuer before attaynted is infamed and our posterity for euer like to be vndone By his ouerthrow all men are warned to make choyce of good company for the old Prouerbe is verified Euill company corrupts good maners And truly the injury he hath done to his vvhole posterity may be a fearefull example to feare men from treason especially the Nobility and better sort of Gentlemen for they thereby not onely lose their liues and liuings but the honour of their houses are corrupted Contrarivvise for the vertue and dutifull seruice of one man a number of his posterity receiue both honour and many other worldly blessings Hereby we may compare a Traytors offence to Adams fault and wee may liken the sacred Maiesty of our renowmed King to the pleasant and glorious fruit of the tree of life so precious in Gods eyes as he forbade Adam and all the seed of Adam to lay violent hands vpon But now to returne againe to the bad successe of Traytors in their attempts consider yet these fewe examples that hapned in Queene Elizabeths dayes First consider we how Pius quintus set Doctor M●rt●● on worke being an English Fugitiue to rayse a commotion in the North parts where the Earle of Westmerland and other great personages entred into open rebellion yet the very sound of her Maiesties power dismayed them and happy was he that could run fastest away The principals fled but escaped not the iustice due vnto Traytors and the Earle of Westmerland himselfe euer after liued in pouerty and for a bare allowance was subiect to the proud controlement of euery rascall Spanyard Felton to draw her Maiesties subiects from dutifull obedience set vp the Popes Bull vpon the Bishop of Londons gate but God be praysed the hornes that should haue gored the innocent turned into a halter to hang the Traytor Felton The Pope expecting no good successe by open force then armed his practises with Machiauils policies Mader Barlow were made Instruments to murther some principal Magistrates but their confusion was speedy and their purpose frustrate The peace of England was troubled with the conspiracy of Throg●●rton Appleyard Brooke and others but they had no better successe then in helping thēselues to the gallow● Doctor Story may be an example of Gods iustice herein the Earle of Desmond Doctour Saunders Campion the foureteene Traytors and many others may be sufficient witnesses of the miserable ends of Traytors Moreouer we may read in King Edward the sixt his time of a generall rebelliō that was almost throughout England yet al had bad successe The Papists tempted the commons to rebellion with perswasions to throw downe inclosure and for themselues foysted in to haue their olde Religion againe The banishment of strangers hath bin made the cause of many commotions Also the Northerne men had but a bad proofe of two rebellions when they had the Crosse and Banner of fiue wounds borne before them And to conclude thus you may see the iust end and due desert of all Traytors Therefore my counsell is which I speake from the true zeale of my heart that my louing brethren the subiects of England open not their eares to the subtill perswasions of Papists lest rebellion enter into their hea●ts so vengeance light vpon their whole bodies If this counsell were surely grafted in all mens hearts then no doubt but the rotten braunches of rebellion would soone be cut off and vnity surely placed in England to the great comfort of our Soueraign Liege King Iames whom the Lord of Hostes preserue ●nd keepe and all that wish him well ●lutarch Persia● Hist. Ecclesiastes 10. 20. * Sir Walter Rawley Sir Griff●● Markham M. George Brooke M. Antony C●pley M. Brooksby Watson Clarke