to all things so the Soueraigne of euerie estate is a pattern of the great God from whome our whole estates lawes to liue by and comfort in our seuerall courses doe proceed pray therefore for Caesar since Caesar needes thy prayer Pray for Caesar for as Darius highly respected the Sacrifices and prayers of the priests of Israel for his life and for his sonnes so her most gracious Maiestie greatly regardeth that prayer bee made for her by her truly-christian subiects And let subiects pray for Caesar since prayer is honourable prayer is easie praier is profitable prayer is honourable If wee account it a grace vnto vs to follow the fashions of the greatest persons on earth For prayer is honourable Reue. 8.8 9 10 11. For prayer is easie O howe great honour will it be for vs to imitate the blessed spirits in heauen Prayer is easie if thy purse bee so poore that it cā pay no tribute to Caesar if thy body be so feeble that it can do nothing for the defence of Caesar yet if thy hart be not too lewd too wicked if thy heart be not voyde of all pietie For prayer is profitable against all calamities Ionah 2.1 7 10. Act. 12.5 7 8 9 10. Tobit 3.7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. Against sicknesse Ecclus. 38.9 2 King 20.3 5.6 Against death Against the enemies voide of all Christian dutie thy heart wil daily and often euery day pray for Caesar Prayer is profitable profitable against all calamities it deliuered Ionas out of the Whales bellie Peter out of prison Sara the daughter of Raguel from reproach profitable against sicknesse for sayth the sonne of Sirac my sonne faile not in thy sicknesse but pray vnto the Lord and he will make thee whole profitable against death It prolonged Ezechias life fifteene yeares profitable against the enemies against the enemies this but without this against vs the enemies preuaile when Moyses lift vp his hand Israel preuailed Exod. 17.11 If Paule commaunded to pray for Nero 1 Tim. 22. Baruch 1.11 Ierem. 29.7 If Baruch and Ieremie commaunded to pray for Nabuchodonosor but when he let his hand downe Amaleck preuailed if Paule exhorted and commanded to pray for Nero a man so wicked that he murdered his Tutor his mother and was natures Monster If the prophets commaunded the Israelites to pray for the life of the king of Babylon who had wasted Iudea with sword and fire besieged and taken Ierusalem burned the Temple caried away the holy vessels set fire on the whole citie brake downe the walles of Ierusalem round about 2. King 24 and 25. chap. murdered many people caried others to miserable seruitude slue the sonnes of the king before his eies pulled out his eies bound him in chaines carried him to Babel and as if to murder the innocent to rauish the chaste to carrie princes into captiuitie to sacke the holy Citie to burne the Temple of the God of heauen were not impietie inough that hee might come to the full height of all impietie he set vp a golden Image and by a Herauld proclaimed that whosoeuer did not worship it Dan. 3.1 4 5 6. should bee cast into the midst of a hot fierie fornace If the holie Prophet commaunded the Israelites to pray for wicked Nabuchodonosor 2 Peter 1.21 What woulde the holye ghost that we should do for Elizabeth The royall acts of Augustus Dauid Salomon Asa and Iosiah performed by her Maiestie 1. Chro. 16.4 5 6 7 37 38 39. 1 King 15 13 2 King 23.1 2.3 1. King 6 That which one said of Salomon manie haue saide of Elizabeth 1. Kin. 10 8 9 That which the straunger Iewes said of the Apostles hauing receyued the holy Ghost we can not but say of our ministers in the dayes of Elizabeth what would that holy spirit by whom both the Prophets and Apostles did write that all English all Irish all others vnder the subiection or protection of her most gracious Maiestie should doe for Queene Elizabeth who whereas Augustus said he found Rome of Bricke but left it of Marble may say shee found England of Brasse and Lead but brought it to Siluer Golde with Dauid appoynted the Leuites to sing in their courses with Asa destroyed Idols with Iosiah restored the Booke of the Law with Salomon builded a Temple to the God of Heauen So that as the Queene of Saba sayd of Salomon manie haue sayd of Elizabeth Happie are thy men happie are these thy seruants that stand before thee and heare thy wisedome Blessed bee the Lorde thy God which loued thee to set thee on the throne of Israel because the Lord loued Israel for euer and made the Queene to do equitie and righteousnes Our English and Irish returning from forraine coastes may say of the Ministers of their Countries in the daies of her Maiestie as those stranger-Iewes did of the Apostles hauing receiued the holy Ghost Acts. 2.11 we heard them speake in our owne tongues the wonderful works of God Shall we not pray for such a Queene 1. Tim. 2.2 3. Pray for her saith S. Paul in respect of your selues in respect of God In respect of your selues Pray for her in respect of your selues 1. Tim. 2.2 That you may liue a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse Gen. 28 16 17 that you may liue a quiet a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honestie A quiet life that we haue no insurrections at home a peaceable life that we haue no inuasion from abroad In all godlines that it may be said of England as Iacob said of Bethel Surely the Lord is in this place this is none other but the house of God this is the gate of heauen And in honestie And in honestie Rom. 2.24 that the name of the Lord be not blasphemed amōg the Gentiles amōg the Mahumitans amōg the Anabaptists amōg the Romish Recusants through you but the as Christ saith your light may so shine before men that they may see your good workes Matt. 5.16 and glorifie your father which is in heauen as saint Peter saith that they which speake euil of you as of euill doers may by your good workes which they shall see 1. Pet. 2.12 glorifie God in the day of the visitation In respect of God our Sauiour Pray for Caesar in respect of God our Sauiour for this is good 1. Tim. 2.3 O acceptable in his sight Psal 19.1 Baru 3.33 34. If all the creatures in heauen and earth seeke to please God Psal 104 19. 7 21 32. Ierem. 8.7 Esay 1.3 Shall not man being more bound then they all Gen. 1.26 1. Pet. 1.19 1. Cor. 3.16 Aphe 2 10. 2. Tim. 4.8 1. Pet. 5.4 pray for Caesar for sayth Saint Paule this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour If the Heauens declare the glorie of God and the Firmament shew his handy-worke If the Light obey him with feare If the Starres shine in their Watch and reioice If the Moone kéepe her appointed seasons If the Sun knoweth his going downe If the waters flie at his rebuke If the Lions seeke their meat at God If hee looke on the Earth and it trembleth If hee touch the Mountaines and they smoke If the Storke in the aire knoweth her appointed times and the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow obserue the time of their comming If the Oxe know his owner and the Asse his maisters crib shall not man being not liue-lesse like some not sencelesse like others not vnreasonable like others But created by a consultation of the deitie redeemed with the precious bloud of Christ as of a Lamb vndefiled without spot sanctified by the holy Ghost expecting a Crowne a Crowne of life a Crowne of righteousnes a Crowne of glory performe to Caesar all duetifull alleagiance Seeke in all things to please his Maiestie 1. Tim. 2.3 since the blessed Apostle hath taught vs that this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour THE eternall Father for his sweet Sons sake by the holy spirit so rule our hearts The Authors prayer for Caesar and Caesars true subiects Iames. 5.16 2. King 1.10 12. that we being righteous as Elias and our prayers feruent as Elias they may open heauen bring from thence Gods Iudgements as fier vpon Caesars enemies but the dewe of the diuine grace vpon Caesar 1. King 18 45 Rom. 13.5 and Caesars true Subiects that her most sacred Maiestie may long religiously happily rule vs that we for conscience sake least we resist the ordinance of God least we receue Iudgement least we be depriued of all benefits incident to the Loyall Feare Honor Obey Pay tribute to Defend and Pray for her most sacred Maiesty on earth and in the end and without all end raigne together with her in the kingdome of Heauen Amen
that the opening of the Booke will shewe Rom. 2.15 Rom. 8 16. Reuel 20.12 Luke 10.20 that our names are written in Heauen when others wringe their handes for greefe this will make thée clappe thy handes for ioye when others tremble thou shalt triumph This maketh thée to sléepe quietly to wake cheerefully to bee alone without feare and with others without distrust in thy affaires confident in thy recreation comfortable If Rebels be behinde thée and before thée 2. Sam. 10.9 12. as the Ammonits the Aramites were before Ioab and behinde him yet thou wouldest resolue with Ioab bee strong and let vs bee valiant for our people and for the Citties of our God and let the Lord doe that which is good in his eyes Sonne And how eternally Father Eternally when after all thy loyaltie to thy Soueraigne Prince Eternall the Soueraigne of all Princes shall aduance thee into the holy Citie newe Ierusalem was it not sayd of thée by the Psalmist Reuel 21.10 verie excellent things are spoken of thee thou Cittie of God hath not the diuine Aegle Psal 87.3 Reuel 21.10 Matter 18. Streete 21. Splendor 11. the Aegle of diuines saide of thée that thou art pure gould like vnto cleare glasse of thy stréete that it is pure gould as shining glasse of thy shining that it is like vnto a stone most pretious Foundations of the Wall 19. as a Iasper stone cleare as Christall of the foundations of thy wall that they are garnished with all manner of pretious stones of thy twelue gates Gates 12 and 21. that they are twelue pearles of euery gate that it is of one pearle of the keepers of the twelue gates Porters 12. that they are twelue Angels of thy light that it is the glory of God the lambe Light 23. of thy Temple that the Lord God Almightie the Lambe are thy Temple Temple 22. of the puritie of the Inhabitants Puritie of Inhabitants 21.27 that there shall enter into thee no vncleane thinge neither whatsoeuer worketh abhomination or lyes of thy recordes Recordes 20.12 that they bee the Booke of life of thy water that it is not that aqua vitae Water 22.1 or aqua Caelestis that is vsed on earth for bodies but for soules it is a pure Riuer of water of life cleare as Christall proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lambe the soules of them that drinke of this shall liue for euer Tree 2. Of thy trée being in the middest of thy streete and of eyther side of thy Riuer that it is the tree of life that it beareth 12 maner of fruits Fruite ibidem Immunities 3 5. Estate 5. that it giueth fruit euery moneth that the leaues thereof serue to heale the Nations with of thy immunities that there shal be no more curse no night no need of candle nor light of the Sun of the estate of thy inhabitants that they shall liue and raigne for euermore Remember my son who is the founder of Caesar whose ordinance they resist that resist Caesar the iudgemēts they receyue that resist Caesar the rewards of them that obey Caesar God in Caesar For as Moses saith to Israel so I say to thée The Author and in thée to England I call heauen and earth to recorde this day against you His contestation to England Deut. 30 19. that I haue set before you death and life blessing and cursing therefore chuse life that thou and thy seede may liue and with Ieremie But if you will not heare this my soule shall weepe in secrete for your pride and mine eye shall weepe and drop downe teares Sonne Deare Father neither shall heauen nor earth by the grace of the Almightie His protestation Ierem. 13.17 Acts. 2.2 beare record agaynst me neither shall your soule weepe in secret nor your eyes drop downe teares for my Disobedience either in Thought Worde or Deede for more doe not the foure winds purifie the aire then these foure propositions haue purified my heart and I hope that that holy spirit which came downe from heauen with a mightie and rushing wind will enable me to holde my course against the wind and tide of all traitors and therfore as you diuided the breach of allegiance into Thought Word and Deede so I pray you shew me some branches of allegiance that I may the more certainly see what I owe to Caesar Father My sonne for thy memories sake vnderstand Sixe braunches of allegiance 2 Chro. 9.18 that as there were sixe steppes to the throne of Salomon so there be sixe partes of thy dutie to Caesar Sonne Howe I pray you shall I knowe them Father Séest thou the sworde in her hande or caried before her Rom. 13.4 Psal 21.3 Psal 45.6 2. Chron. 9.17 Rom 13.4 1 King 2.15 the Crowne of pure golde vpon her head the Scepter of righteousnesse which she doth sway the magnificent throne whereon she doth sit her person which is the minister of God for thy wealth and the Lord by whom the kingdome came vnto her Sonne Blessed be God I doe see them and God long so blesse me that long I may see them Father The sworde exacteth feare Feare Honour the Crowne importeth honour the Scepter requireth obediēce Obedience Tribute Defence Prayer the throne deserueth tribute the person meriteth defence the Lord commandeth praier Sonne First I beseech you instruct me in the first Father Feare Feare is to be giuen to Caesar so teacheth humanitie so teacheth diuinitie Feare of Princes taught both in Humanitie and Diuinitie For humanitie Periander hee saith Feare Princes For Diuinitie Salomon he saith Feare the Lord and the King If I be a master doth God say where is my feare If I be a maister may the King say Prou. 24.21 Where is my feare Be ye afrayed of the sword saith Iob for the sword will be auenged of wickednesse Malach. 1.6 Feare due to Caesar as to a Father Iob. 19.29 as to an auenger of wickednesse God distinguisheth betweene priuate persons Would any priuate man strike mens hearts with feare Let him know that God hath not giuen the sword of Princes to priuate men Concerning these he said in the law Thou shalt not kill hee decréed before the law Who so sheddeth mans bloud by man shall his bloud be shed affirmed in the Gospell All that take the sword shall perish with the sword confirmed in the Reuelation Exod. 20.13 Gen. 9.6 Math. 26.52 Reuel 13.10 If any man kill with a sword hee must be killed by a sword but of euerie one of those he saith by the Apostle He is the minister of god to take vengeāce on him that doth euil Is he only for a shew Rom. 31 4. and the Prince Prou. 16.14 Prou. 19.12 No saith Salomō the wrath of the King is as the messengers of death And again the kings wrath is like the roring of
instructed Father For this heare Salomon Keeping of the heart Prou. 4.23 kéepe thy heart with all diligence And first of all since as except the Lord kéepeth the Citie ps 127.1 the Kéeper watcheth it in vaine so vnlesse the Lorde kéepeth the Cittie of thy heart thou kéepest it in vaine As the Priests with hands lift vp to Heauen besought him that was euer the defendour of their Nation for the Temple 2. Mac. 14.34 36. with lift vp hands and bowed knées For keeping thy heart pray to God beséech the preseruer of thy soule O moste holy Lord keepe this house of my heart euer vndefiled which lately was clensed praying to God to kéepe it Libertine-like be not thou then secure If Lucifer in Heauen if Adam in Paradice presume not if Iudas in the Schoole of Christ fell what place can there bee for carnall securitie Blessed is the man sayth the wisedome of Salomon prou 28.14 But vse diligence that feareth alway But sayth Salomon kéepe thy heart kéepe thy heart with diligence kéepe thy heart with all diligence with diligence within least there arise corruption from within thy heart with diligence without least from without there come corruption into thy heart within Within least corruption arise within for euen as in a wéeded Garden there will spring vp newe wéedes so euen in the puryfied heart since there is still sinne dwelling Rom. 7.20 Rom. 6.12 Because of sin dwelling 2. Sam. 3.1 Gal. 5.17 though not sin raigning as there was a long time warre betwéene the house of Saule and the house of Dauid so there will be a longe time striuing betwéen the flesh and the spirite Ouid. The poets aduice as the Poet aduiseth stop the beginning for as it was said of Babell so of the flesh whose lusts cherished will be our Babell our Confusion may it most fitly be sayd psal 137.9 Blessed shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy young ones against the stones Exod. 12.29 31. When the first born of Pharaoh was slaine Israell was deliuered when the first temptation is cut off we are freed kéepe thy heart with diligence from without And without because of the Diuell tempting Eph. 2.2 for as Abner strenthened the house of Saule so the Prince of darknesse that ruleth in the ayre euen the spirite that nowe worketh in the Children of disobedience strengthneth the flesh against the spirit the affections against reason he being the first Rebell dayly inciteth to Rebellion But resist him saith Saint Iames and he shall fly from thee Whome if we resist hee will flie Iames. 4.7 From whom seducers to sedition bee sent If any Rabshakeh such be your seditious Libellers lewd Inuentors of fained sightes and prodigious apparitions and others of like braine be sent out by this spirituall Senacherib to drawe either you from Alleagiance to Hezechiah or Hezechiah from confidence in the Lord since they that are such serue not the Lord Iesus Christ Rom. 16.18 Whom they serue and what they do Rom. 16.17 Howe but their owne bellies and with faire spéech and flattering deceaue the harts of the simple I beséech all Subiects that they would marke such and auoid them nay since such serue not the Lord Iesus Christ who commaunded vs to giue to Caesar those thinges that are Caesars Math. 22.21 who submitted himselfe to Caesars Lieuetenant Iohn 19.11 but neglect his example and transgresse his Commandement and not his alone but resist the ordinance of his father Rom. 13.2 I charge thee my sonne though thy hand bee not presently vpon them as it was commaunded against them that sought to seduce to Idolatrie Deut. 13.6 yet though it bee a Prophet that giueth a signe or a wonder the Sonne of thy mother They are to be or thine owne Sonne or thy Daughter or thy Wife that lyeth in thy bosome or thy friende who is as thine owne soule entice thee secretly thou shalt not consent vnto him nor heare him neither shal thine eye pitty him shew mercy nor kéep him secret Nulla est excusatio peccati Cicero in his â—aelius si amici causa peccaueris It is no excuse of thy offence that for thy friendes sake thou diddest offend But not to speake so hard in this crime as in that discouer him or her Entertained and wherfore Against them we are to watch how neere how deere so euer to shew thy true loyaltie to Caesar thy religious dutie to thy countrey And as Ionathan in regard of the enemies commanded his men to watch Eph. 6.13 Arme. to be in armes ready to fight so kéepe thy soule diligently and bee armed for resistance And as Ioachim vpon the comming of Holofernes Iudith 4.6.7 wrote to the Bethulians to keepe the passages of the Mountaines for by them there was an entrie into Iudea so keepe the passages of thy sences Keepe our sences for by them there is an entrie into thy heart Wee resist an enemie rather without the gates than within the walles so Dauid that his heart might not fall into vanitie Psa 119.37 prayed to God to turne away his eyes that he might not behold vanitie Iob. 31.1 and to this ende did Iob make a couenant with his eyes 1. Cor. 15.33 If euill words written or spoken corrupt good manners with Dauid pray that God would turne away thy eyes and thy eares with Iob make a couenant with thy eyes and with thy eares that they looke not on that they heare not any kind of seditious Libelles trecherous pamphlets Prou. 24.21 Where we be to arme most or the smoothest wordes tending to Rebellion My sonne sayth Salomon meddle not with them that are seditious Arme most where thou art weakest for where thou art weakest there will they assault most Is Indian gold offered to make battery in an English heart How against couetousnes 1. Tim. 6.10 with both thy eares receiue that Oracle The loue of mony is the roote of all euill with both thy eyes beholde Iudas who for loue of money betrayed his Master Math. 27.5 Howe against ambition Iudg. 9.14 Art thou high minded doe the seditious say to thee as the trees did vnto the bramble Come thou and raigne ouer vs. Remember that God resisteth the proude 1. Pet. 5.5 Esa 14.12 How art thou fallen from heauen O Lucifer sonne of the morning Art thou wrathfull doe they enflame thée with reuenge remember the wrath of man doth not accomplish the righteousnesse of God Iames 1.20 How against wrath Rom. 12.19 Mihi vindicta auenge not your selues Vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord. Remember a fathers curse vpon his two sonnes that were brethren in euill Cursed bee their wrath Gen. 49.7 for it was fierce and their rage for it was cruell I will diuide them in Iacob and scatter them in Israel Remember that of Christ So likewise shall myne