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A02479	An oration conteyning an expostulation as well with the Queenes Highnesse faithfull subiects for their want of due consideration of Gods blessings enioyed by meanes of her Maiestie: as also with the vnnaturall english for their disloyaltie and vnkindnesse towards the same their soueraygne. At the first pronounced vpon the Queenes Maiesties birthday in the Guyldhall of the burrowe of Newe Windsore, by Edward Hake of Grayes Inne Gent. then Mayer of the same burrowe: and now newly imprinted this xvij. day of Nouember, in the xxx. yeere of the Queenes Highnesse most happie raigne.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.	1587 (1587)	STC 12608; ESTC S103614	19,433	32

of this then a moste wofull Realme whose princely persone before had tasted of so greate daunger that the verie walles doe yet recorde her dolefull posie sicut ouis c. The God of heauen whose only hand was then and yet is her helper and ours bee for euer and euer extolled and the name of his mercy be neuer forgotten amongste vs. But now when I should rest my selfe in the performance of this portion namely in the delyueraunce from thraldome and the proclaiming of peace to the whole lande outwarde in the repose of the Lande inwarde in the freedome of Conscience whereas from the woe I should passe on to the welfare and from the mournfull face of calamity I should descend or rather ascende to the ioyfull apparaunce of our blessed felicitye miserably Naye deuilishly nay dampnably am I interrupted with the oppositions of Traytors the ouerthwartinges of Rebells the enchaunting of Witches the charmings of Sorcerers the presagings and foretellings of Sooth sayers the seducings of Iesuites and Seminaries the conspyrings of domesticall Hypocrites and Traitors the bandings of popish foreyne Princes and the cursings of the Pope himselfe that Antychrist most accursed What should I say Swéet peace had no sooner discouered the bountye of her glorious face and the blossomes of godly tranquility were no sooner séen sprouting forth to the gladding of the harts of trew Christians but presently anon these Caterpillers were ingendred presently and anone these Cockaatrices were hatched presently and anone these Tyrantes were prouoked yea presently and anone this Antichriste of Rome the father of all mischiefe and sonne of Perdition was furiously enraged so that now I saye when as by the order of my deuision I shoulde speake vnto you of Ioye and of nothing else but ioye these enemies of our ioye and these enuiers of our happines as much as in them lyeth haue so ministred matter to the clogging vp of my passage that thereby they haue interrupted my proceeding and not a lyttle hindred my discourse But thancks be to God for he againe of his aboundant mercies and endlesse fauour hath so leuelled my way by the ruin of their inuentions and so smoothed my passage by the total confusion of their Stratagemmicall platts as on I may goe and on I will goe by the goodnes of God and your attention to deliuer vnto you some taste of the blessed exchaunge that by and through our Elizabeth hath bin wrought and brought to passe within this lande since her Maiesties gouernment And to begin withall what greater obiect of our ioye can I take vnto me then that which the common enemie hath intended to bee the matter and onelye obiect of our confusion namely and especially the deuine but yet expresse and visible deliuerances of our soueraigne frō time to time since her comming to the Crowne as before from all the deuices all the Treasons and all and euery the plats practizes and attempts whatsoeuer murtherously nay traiterously intended against her royall person so as yet in sauety shee liueth and as yet to the eternall prayses of our omnypotent God she sitteth a Queene a prepotent Quéene mighty and preuayling I saye preuayling againste all and singuler the attempts and attemptates that eyther haue bine or are at this present within the Realme or without at home or abroade And that longe maie shee so sitte the Lorde of his glorious mercie graunte we beseeche him To recken vp vnto you the particulers of the manifolde discouered attempts against her maiestie with the perticuler ouerthrowes of the same since her firste comming to the Crowne time as now will not suffer me What open Rebellions there haue bine begonne who were the ringleaders thereof what were their pretences what their power how farre they proceded and in what sorte they were stopped and that for the moste parte without effusion of bloode and finally howe and in what maner the chiefe attemptaes therof haue bine surprised namely and notably in the Rebellion of the North where the one of the two Leaders was putte as I maie saie into her Maiesties handes to receaue the due rewarde of his Treason and the other when as hee thought by his escape out of the Realme to haue escaped also the punishment of his most vile and trayterous offence was by the iust hande of God taken holde of and euen in the place of his hoped security as I haue heard brought to penury and want Againe to deliuer vnto you how oft and oft and euen nowe of late the murthering of her Maiesties person my hart trembleth and abhorreth to expresse the terme and the deuesting of her from her royall possession hath not onely bene contriued but euen in the instant also dessigned to haue bene performed By whom and in what sorte when and in what place and thereuppon also the moste miraculous discoueries therof somtimes by the parties themselues sometimes by the discouerie of others but alwaies and from time to time by the extraordinary and very expresse hand of God These thinges I say to stand vpon them in discourse to reckon vp vnto you the particulers therof so far foorth as to vs may be knowne considering the time is well spent the generall knowledge therof is rife common to all I should but lengthen the time therin beyond compasse and ouer largely presume of your borrowed patience I will nowe therefore briefely procéede to other benefites By the blessing of this so blessed and miraculous preseruation of her Maiesties royall person howe great and inestimable the blessinges are which we haue receiued and doe enioye by the same would now in a worde be considered First therfore and aboue all we haue and enioy by her Maiesty the most glorious of all glorious Iewels the true and sincere worde of God with the free open and vniuersall preaching and professing thereof By the which the errors of mans life are disclosed the affections of mankinde relieued the knowledge of sin procured the forgiuenes of sinne proclaimed and againste all sin and errour whatsoeuer the assurance of faith ingendered confirmed as by the which and through the which come death come life come what wil or can come in the world the pledge and earnest of our saluation in Christe Ihesus is surely setled and sealed vp in our soules euen vntill the day of Iesus Christ and of our redemption And let all the Justiciaries of workes in the earth magnifie to the vttermost of their power and skil the vertue of whatsoeuer they can or doe blasphemously imagine to be propitiatory for sin I appeale vnto the Consciences of al that haue tasted in any measure of the good word of God and how swéete the lord is whether one dram of true faith in Christ his death and bloodsheading rightly grounded vppon the promise of his word this worde which I speake of be or haue not bin found vnto them more auaileable to the pacifying of their afflicted soules and consciences then any thing in

behauiour of Licinnius likewise a crowned Emperour with him I say of Licinnius his copartner in the Empire and his brother in lawe as hauing maried his Sister Constantia Firste vppon the taking of him at Chrisopolis a Cittie of Bithynia he deposed him from the Crowne enioyning him to leade a priuate life in Thessalonica And afterwardes when as hee saw the same Licinnius to endeuour by fighting to reuenge his former foyle he commaunded that he should be put to death and so he was with the good conformitie of all his true harted Subiectes and people But touching our Elizabeth the whole Realme of England séeth Nay god himselfe witnesseth that for the very treasons that haue bin most traiterously intended against her roial person Crowne and life her highnesse hath bin more seene to sorrow the ruine of the offenders yea euen of those Capitall offenders for whose cause and with whose consent the greatest treasons that haue bin haue bin complotted then to feare or be dismaide at the daylye and howrely hazardes of her owne life The case then standing thus betweene our Prince and you you cruell and vnkinde Englishe that as on the one parte your Treasons haue ouermatched the Treasons of all Treasonfull Subiects that euer were so on the other parte her highnes compassion hath equalled if not excelled the compassion of all Princes Chrstian or Heathen What can there be possibly alledged on your behalfe that so much as in colour may serue to shrowde the deapth of your disloyalty If you will nowe saye the freedome of your consciences whereby I know you meane the free vse of your popish Religion is the matter you seeke after and being therof restrained you are thereuppon thus drawne to the extremity of these so outragious and violent attemptes Good Lord and can it bee possible that any profession in the worlde taking vnto it the name and tytle of religion should enable the professors therof to arme themselues against their soueraigne and that for not permitting vnto them the free vse of a contrary Religion Tell me you religious or rather Irreligious professors was there euer anye profession of Christianity vnder the Heathen and persecuting Emperours which by anie other meanes sought to preuaile in their Religion then by prayers teares Was there euer any resistance in the primitiue Church other then by preaching or open professing of the Truth thervppon by yéelding vp the body to persecution True it is that Heretiques and none but Heretiques haue sought to preuaile by Stratagems and deuises But you will say perhappes for what is it you will not saie to the sclaunder of this blessed gouernment that her Maiesties lawes made for the ponishing of Recusants are so sharpe and ouer sharpe for the tender case of a Religious and resolued Conscience that hereupon for your contentment you are Religiously and resoluedly drawen to the participation of highe and moste desperate Treasons Well leauing to call you herein to the consideration of these her Maiesties lawes which you so terme to be sharpe and ouer sharpe by comparing them with your owne burning bloody lawes by which your lawes not the purse but the persone not ponishing but destroying not of olde but of olde and yong not of men or women but of men women and Children yea of Infants newly borne nay I might saye scarsely borne not for preaching or open professing but for belieuing only haue bine so heauily knowen and felte within this lande leauing I saye to deale with you in the behalf of her Maiesties moste godly and iuste lawes after any suche sort I only aske of you a question or two and so I will leaue you Taking view of her Maiesties dispensation of Iustice from the begnining of her raigne hitherto what find you therein allowing vnto her highnes her soueraigne power to establish Religion within the lande what find you I say therein that any Subiect of any Secte or profession in the world may not tollerate and indure without eyther losse or hazard of life or of liuing Is the difference of opinion in matters of Religion or the priuate mistakinges in controuersies of Religion in any of what sorte or qualitie so euer not participating matter of treason or of flat recusancie any cause to him or them to feare either losse of life or impeachement of Honour or credite be it eyther in office or in dignitie or in whatsoeuer else within this Realme that may be sayde to be of profite or countenance vnto the same I suppose no Naye you your selues muste needes aunswere me no. Go to then you religious Catholiques or rather you Catholique Conspiratours what is it in this our gouernment that makes you so wayward so treasonfull so discontented Would you haue her Maiestie and the state permitte and allowe vnto you Churches within this Realme for the free excercise of your Popish Religion and so maintaine two religions in opposition within the Lande It is a Prouerbe of greate antiquitie Multitudo Imperatorum Cariam perdidit And I would aske you this question admitting you had so farre preuailed in the gracelesse prosecution of some daungerous and abortiue Title that you had alreadie brought to passe to aduaunce within this Realme a banefull companion with her Maiestie in her Kingdome whiche the Lorde for euer forbidde saie the truth herein would you thincke it safe that these two thus consorted should continewe and remaine together in this kinde of partnershippe Cleerely you would not naie you coulde not And feeling the mislike thereof is it not apparant to the world which of these too you would soonest and spéediliest remoue Quisquis amat Ranam Ranam put at esse Dianam And as for loue and Lordshippe you knowe they will haue no felowshippe Bassianus the bloodie Tyrant maie not long endure good Geta the gentle Caesar no though Bassianus might enioie more then half the Empire for his share And stand these thinges thus you Catholiques in the consideration of earthly Kingdomes and are you able to conceiue that in this kinde of gouernment your state would become vnsafe by the rule of two Princes atonce the one altogither different from the other in conditions And alas are you so grosely blinde that you cannot consider the like respects to bee in the Empire and Kingdome of Chrsst Who is it that sayeth that Lighte and darcknes canot dwell together And whose saying is it that there is but one God one father c To conclude then As the abhomination detestation hereof would bee high and heinous in the eyes of the Lorde so no doubte the euents that would ensewe therevpon namely by displeasing of so highe a Maiestie could be no lesse in effecte then the totall confusion both of Prince and of people And for a meane sequel of permitting the vse of too contrary religions take the Massacres of Fraunce looke into them waye them and so conclude with your selues that from the like causes the like effectes would speedily fall out Nulla