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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

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 Feare God Be true to thy Prince and obey the Lawes Printed at London by Simon Stafford dwelling in Hosier lane neere Smithfield 1603. ❧ To the right Honorable the Lord Thomas Howard Earle of Suffolke Baron of Walden Lord Chamberlaine of the Kings houshold Knight of the Noble order of the Garter and one of his Maiesties most Honorable priuy Councell health happinesse and prosperity I Haue aduentured Right Honourable Lord vnder your Noble protection to publish to the world a poore testimony of my loyalty to my Prince and Countrey A little Pamphlet it is but a sweete comfort and a sound counsell for good Subiects describing many fayre examples of Traytours foule ends shewing that the reward of Treason is destruction and after death lasting infamy The matter agreeing with the condition of this troublesome time hath made mee the bolder to present it to your Honourable censure Acceptance I doe not doubt for no good subiect can mislike it For here in the name of Experience I aduise all men whose heads clyme aboue the heyght of their present conditions to make loyall and honest actions the Ladder of their aduauncement which will commend them with a beloued life or an honorable death when Treason is the Hatchet that seuereth life and ioyneth Infamy vnto death The Lord be with your Honour in all your affayres for whose health and Honorable prosperity the good subiects of England continually pray At your Honours commaundement in all humble duty Richard Johnson A Lanterne-light for loyall Subiects OR A terrour for Traytours GOD placeth Kings in their Kingdoms and he alone will haue the dissoluing of them If Princes be good let vs be thankfull to God for them if they be tyrannous let vs looke into our sinnes for God sendeth Tyrants to punish the sinnes of the wicked Therefore whether Princes be good or bad let subiects be obedient lest for their disobedience God take away the good and double the tyrannie of the bad Then I wonder why men are so bewitched with the inticements of the Deuill to lay violent hands vpon the Lords Anoynted knowing that the reward of such enterprises is shame and confusion Wherefore let all men consider this that God by sundrie examples preserueth the innocent from the violent hands of the wicked euen in the pride and greatest hope of their purposes Haman erected a gallows for Mardocheus the Iew and he and his ten sonnes suffred therevpon The false Iudges had got sentence of death against chaste Susanna but by diuine prouidence the stones dashed out their owne braines But where the practise tendeth to the murther of Anoynted Princes the odiousnes thereof so highly offendeth the Maiesty of God as he hath defended euen notable Tyrants from the murthering swords of Traytours As for example Commodus was a wicked Emperour and to kill him the Traitor Quintianus wayted at his chamber dore his dagger was ready drawne his heart was resolute and his hand was striking the stroke at what time the Traytor cryed This the Senate sendeth thee By which fore-warning Quintianus was stayd and the Emperour escaped vnhurt If God plucked wit and prudence from Traytors that purposed to kill such notable Tyrants as this was it is constantly to bee beleeued that with the Shield of his strength he wil defend righteous Princes amongst whom our most gracious King is crowned with the soueraigne renowne of vertue in which dignity the King of Kings long continue his Maiestie The murther of a Prince is so odious as euen nature it selfe crieth out against it King Croesus had a young sonne that from his birth was dumbe● and yet when one of King Cyrus soldiers taking him for a common person was ready to kil him the Infant cryed out O kill him not for he is the King my father Also I haue read of a stranger matter namely of a Kings sonne that brake forth of his mothers wombe to giue his father warning of his enemies presently after his birth cryed out I am borne in a wofull houre to be the messenger of no better tidings then that my father is in present danger so lose both his life and kingdome Which being spoken the Infant presently dyed We hereby perceiue how the person of an anoynted Prince is so sacred as nature maketh a passage for sucking babes and dumbe persons to deliuer the same from danger and withall the Traytor is so open to destruction as the Preacher saith to the Traytour A Bird of the ayre shall bewray thy voyce and with her feathers shall discouer thy words Korah Dathan and Abiram they and all that they had went downe quicke into hell because of their rebellion And certainly whosoeuer marketh the sequel of treason shall find a hundred examples to one to proue the end of Traytors to be most miserable By Statute law it is petty treason for a seruant to murther his master being but a subiect How detestable treason is it then for a sworne seruant to lay violent hands on his anoynted Prince The offence being in the extremest degree of sinnes the punishment ought to be according to the seuerest censure of iustice Euery mans house well gouerned resembleth a Common wealth wherein seruants ought to liue in the awe and subiection of subiects But the wicked policy of men hath alwayes bene such as where open power was too weake ambition enuy and money allured the seruants of Emperours Kings and men of all estates to lay violent hands on their masters and to betray them to death Iudas one of the Apostles betrayed our Sauiour Iesus into the hands of the Iewes King Alexander was poysoned by his Physicion The death of the Emperour Commodus was compassed by the practise of his owne sister Many haue had their bane by their wiues some by their sonnes but innumerable haue beene destroyed by the treason of their seruants But let all good subiects to their comfort and Traytors to their confusion know that the wicked dig a pit and fall therein themselues The Iewes had Saint Paul in prison where forty of them vowed that they would neither eate nor drinke vntil they had slayne him but God in a due time defended him The Angell of the Lord led Peter forth of prison The Angell of the Lord defended Sidrac Misac and Abednago in the burning fire The Angell of the Lord stopped the Lions mouthes that should haue deuoured Daniel And there is no doubt but the good Angell of the Lord with a drawne sword will defend our Soueraigne Lord King Iames from all his enemies A comfortable saying it is that this holy Angell of the Lord with a drawne sword though not