with such feeling as accompanies such feares This his Maiesties perswasiue language some what amazed and calmed this terrible and truculent Traytor so that hee swore the Kings life should bee safe if hee would behaue himselfe quietly without noyse or crying and that hee would goe downe and bring in his brother the Earle to speake with his Maiesty And so goes downe and lockes the doore after him leauing his Maiesty with that man was there before whom this Alexander appointed the Kings Keeper till his returne Then his Maiestie demanded of that man who was a seruant to the late Earle of Gowrie his name Andrew Henderson whether he was appointed to be the murderer of him and how far he was vpon the counsell of that conspiracy who with a trembling and astonished voice and behauiour answered with solemne and deepe protestations that he was neuer acquainted with that purpose being put in there perforce and the doore locked vpon him and indeede all the time of Alexanders menacing the King this Henderson trembled and requested him for Gods sake not to doe the King any harme The King commands him to open the window on his right hand which hee did for Alexander had made the King sweare not to cry out nor open any window Wherein behold the miraculous prouidence of almighty God that he who was put in there to vse violence on the King should be an Instrument for the Kings safety vppon the sight of the King as Belshazzar did when he saw the hand writing on the wall trembling and quaking rather like one condemned then an executioner of such an enterprize VVhile the King was all this while like Daniel in a Lyons den and by the Lord so assisted strengthened that afterward hee was deliuered like Paul out of the mouth of the Lyon his Maiesties Trayne rising from dinner the Earle of Gowry with them one of the Earle of Gowries seruants comes hastily saying His Maiesty is horsed and away through the Inshe which the Earle reporting to the Noblemen and the rest all rush forth in great haste and enquiring of the Porter which way his Maiesty went the Porter affirmed the King was not yet gone whereupon this Gowry reuiles the Porter and turning to the Duke and Earle of Marre said He would presently get certaine word whether the King was gone or no and so ranne through a close and vp the staires hauing a purpose to speake with his Brother Presently the Earle returnes and runnes to the Noblemen telling them the King was gone out at the backe gate to which place all of them repaired This inhumane wretch Alexander hauing had a little pawse and parly with his bloudy brother comes backe againe to the King Ingrediturque domum luctus comitatur euntem Et pauor terror trepidoque insania vultu Casting his hands abroad in a desperate manner said he could not mend it his Maiesty behoued to die Traytors haue bloudy hearts and hands they will not abstaine a sanguine suffocate from bloud and strangled not one word falls from his foule mouth but dismall hee had promised before to preserue the King safe but they who haue made a league with hell will neuer keepe league or promise with any on earth neyther great gifts or good turnes can turne their mindes to mercy oportet mori is the foote of the fatall song the death of Patroclus saith Achilles the death of my Father saith Alexander will not suffer me to thinke of mercy Therefore this treacherous Philistine comes with a garter to binde our Soueraigne as the Philistines bound Sampson swearing hee behoued to be bound Accursed caitife to threaten the King descended from as royal predecessors as any Prince liuing with an inglorious death he must not dye by the hand of a woman which Abimelech held dishonourable and therefore willed his Page to runne him through with his sword he must not die fighting cominus eminus hand to hand but hee would haue him die as a condemned Malefactor or as a foole goeth to the stockes bound hand and foote though hee ruled with glory yet goe to his graue with ignominy It behoueth you to be bound saith this abhorred wretch but died Abner as a foole dieth Thy hands were not bound nor thy feet tied in fetters of brasse but as a man falleth before wicked men so didst thou fall His Maiesty hearing this villaine talke of binding said he was borne a free King and should die a free King Beholde the worke of the Lord animating our King Iames as the Lord did Ioshua Be strong and of good courage feare not nor be discouraged for I the Lord thy God will be with thee c. He can make fiue to chase an hundred and an hundred to put ten thousand to flight little Dauid to kill Goliah our Salomon void of weapon to ouercome anned Gowrie and indeed how can he fall in fight whom heauen earth assists God and his Angels beheld this fray and heard the secret petition of our Soueraignes soule Saue mee from him that persecutes me and deliuer mee lest hee deuoure my soule like a Lion and teare it in peeces while there is none to helpe The Lord did heare him in the day of his trouble the name of the God of Iacob did defend him deliuering his soule from the sword his desolate soule from the power of the dogge This Alexander degenerating in nature from the signification of his name which signifies as Ierome auxiliator virilis an helper of men he rather to be tearmed with his Masters Title Abaddon or Apollyon destroying and comes to his Maiesty griping him by the wrist of the hand to haue bound him his Maiesty relieued himselfe suddenly of his gripes whereupon as he put his right hand to his sword his Maiesty with his right hand seazed vpon both hand and sword and with his left hand clasped him by the throat like as he with his left hand claspt the King by the throat with two or three of his fingers in his Maiesties mouth to haue stayed him from crying out In this strugling the King perforce drew him to the window which Henderson before opened and vnder the which passed O rare most singular prouidence of God the Kings traine and the Earle of Gowrie with them The King holding out the right side of his head and right elbowe cryed They were murdering him Virg Aeucid lib. 2. Quaevâ—n vt voâ—it adâ—â—reâ— Obstupuere animi gelidusâ— perima 〈◊〉 Ossa Tremâ—â— The Kings voyce instantly heard and knoweâ— to the Duke of Leâ—noâ— Earle of Marre and the other Court-traine no winged Pegasus could poast more speedily to doe their best seruice for their Soueraignes safety all of them then like Asahel as light on foote as wilde Roes but Gowrie the vnworthy and wretched Earle euer asking what it meant taking no notice of any voyce heard The Duke of Lennox and Earle of
preaching but since they were dead they were high coloured blushing at the wickednesse of their supposed and but supposed successors ashamed of the Doctrine and practises of your Church of Rome and that this shame had altered their colour And sure all Gods seruants who haue the feare of God before their eyes are ashamed and abhorre such abominable practises The cause as Bodin saith which mooued Tacitus to exclaime against Christians was quia Christiani affectarunt crimina quae Ethniti abhorruerunt Because Christians affect those sinne with the Ethnickes doe abhorre if Tacitus were now aliue how would he exclaime against the Church of Rome for animating people to commit such villanies which all Ethnickes except sauages or Cannibals abhorre and condemne Behold how Rome is degenerated from her primitiue State time was she loathed such deedes either to commend or canonize Trators Facta haec Roma olim nec sancta nec Ethnica nouit Such workes in ancient times this Rome did hate In her first Christian yea in Ethnicke State But now Quod natura nefas odit doctrina capescit Which nature most detest Doctrine defend Yea haue not some of them laboured to extenuate the deuillish deuise of these superlatiue Powder-traytors with these words Alas it was the attempt of some few and vnfortunate Gentlemen vnfortunate as they count because they failed in performance or as others of them These Catholickes held the King no King or not their King and expectanda erat diuturna persecutio a perpetuall persecution was to be expected and Eudemen a Iesuite hath write to defend Garnets Treason and rightly played the Daemon and haue not some others excused the fact of Rauilliacke one of Marianas Schollers who stabbed Henry the fourth the late famous French King whose death neuer sufficiently to be lamented and neuer of Kings sufficiently reuenged with these pretences Fuit stolidit as regis ob susceptum haereticorum patrocinium It was the folly of the King for patronising these heretickes meaning Protestants So that I may define these Iesuits to be as one did define a Frier to be cadauer mortuum è sepulchro veniens missum à daemone inter homines a dead Carrion comming out of his graue sent of the deuill among men and truly such are rather monsters then men who will commend or command murther applaud murtherers and Traytors who are portenta virorum viri portentorum monsters of men or men monsters viri sanguinum men of blood viri occisionis slaughter men and though in all professions some are bad A Cham will be in the Arke Saul among the Prophets and Iudas among the Apostoles some may fall into murther or Treason c. Yet when such come to their end and punishment they vsually confesse their faulte to be in their nature not in their religion excepting onely Roman Catholickes who seeke to fetch poyson from heauen and to prooue murther by the Scripture Dogmatis atque Scholae sunt haec non crimina morum So that these cannot say with Cassiodorus follow my doctrine but not my maners for both precepts and practise treasonble And that I may giue a little tast or touch of their practises in this kind least I should seeme to condemne them without cause I will in the next Chapter demonstrate how that many Popes of Rome who are the heads of Popery which is the mystery of iniquity haue caused and procured many Emperors Kings Princes and worthy men to be greatly persecuted and grieuously killed So that we may say to them as our Sauiour to the Pharisees I will send them Prophets and Apostles and of them they shall slay and persecute that the bloud of all the Prophets with many Kings Princes and learned men may be required of this generation CHAP. VI. A short Catalogue or rehearsall of certaine Emperors Kings and famous men who haue beene persecuted by the Antichrist of Rome I Cannot nor will not enterprise to declare all the particular persecutions of the Church of Rome against seuerall Kings and Potentates who distasted and in some sort opposed themselues against their corruptions for that would require a long Tractate to discouer the miserable mischiefes of the whore of Babilon drunken with the bloud of Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Iesus Christ for that were an endlesse worke and the Spirit of truth might say to me as to Ezechiel Turne thee againe and thou shalt see greater abhominations then these I will confine my selfe to a few examples The Emperour Philippicus Bardanius because hee commanded all Images to be remoued out of the Churches by the counsell and consent of Iohn Patriarke of Constantinople was denounced an Hereticke publiquely excommunicated by Pope Constantine and commanded no gold nor siluer to be stamped with his Image nor any mention made of him in their common prayers Lodouicus Pius the Emperor eight hundred yeares after Christ was thrust out of his Kingdome by the French Cleargie and the Pope Philip the Emperor by the procurement of the Pope Innocent the third who said Eyther he would haue Philips Crowne or Philip his Miter continually opposed himselfe against him and stirred vp Count Otho against him who miserably did slay him at Bamberge in his priuy chamber Henry the seuenth oppressed by the Pope and his Cardinals stirring vp enemies against him was at last poysoned by a Monke in the Sacrament I omit to speake of the other Henries tragically vexed by tyrannicall Popes the extreamities and indignities whereunto they brought them haue replenished the world with plentifull histories The Emperor Fredericke the seauenth truely complaining That the happines of Emperors was alwaies opposed by the Popes enuy Neyther haue the Kings of the earth found better vse some of them by Popes deposed from their Kingdomes as Childericke the French King by the Pope deposed vnder pretence of stupidity and thrust into a Monastery Philip the first for matrimoniall causes Philip called the faire for collating of benefices Rachis King of the Lombards by Pope Zachary put into a Monastery with many others which might be named Nay not onely by Popes deposed but of their liues depriued Manfred the King of Naples and Sicily had the Duke of Anien armed against him by Pope Vrbane the fourth by whom hee was slaine So Conradinus King of Naples and Sicilye being taken prisoner by Charles brother to the French King was miserably put to death by the Popes Counsell King Iohn of England was vilely vexed and depriued of his Kingdome by the Pope and his Bishops and the French King set vp against him and at last was poysoned by a Monke Ioane the Queene of Naples was depriued of her Kingdome by Pope Vrbane who consented to her murther Gemin Otto the brother of the great Turke being prisoner was poysoned by the Pope hired thereunto by a
non approbat Many things are by God which he doth not confirme falling in as it were by the way vpon the world by Gods permission yet God disposing so but not ordaining that is not approuing them For example Alexander the sixt obtained the Popedome by giuing himselfe to the Diuell Phocas by sedition got his Empire Richard the third came to the Crown of England as some write by killing his Nephewes and other of the royall bloud and so of many others that haue aspired to thrones viribus fraudibus by force and fraud such are Rulers rather Vsurpers yet not of God for God effects nothing but he effects it by good meanes so that there is a difference twixt Potens and Potentia twixt Rulers and Powers bad Rulers are by the permission of God not by the ordination of God as the Apostle saith Rom. 13. 1. And there is no power but of God if they be godly powers then I may say with Austin Quod iubent Imperatores iubet Christus quia cum bonum iubent per illos quis iubet nisi Christus What Emperors command Christ commaÌ„ds for wheÌ„ they command good Christ commands by them and the contempt offered to such good Rulers is a contempt of God as the Lord said â—o Samuel They haue not cast thee away but me ne regnem super illos 1 Sam. 8. 7. lest I should reigne ouer them Contemptus magistratuum redundat in contemptum Dei The contempt of Magistrates is a contempt of God saith Aretius and so the Apostle Whosoeuer resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God qui vnum laedit alterum laesit To conclude this second duty of Obedience and Allegiance to Kings is by all true subiects faithfully and loyally euer to be performed being a duty necessary for two respects 1. Necessitate praecepti 2. Necessitate finis First God by manifold precepts commanded obedience to be giuen to Rulers and Kings Secondly by the benefits gouernment affords without which all Common-wealths were mothers of common woes and would become the very shambles and slaughter-houses of Christian bloud if that obedience were not giuen to Rulers that beare the sword The kingdome of hell which is the kingdome of confusion could not stand being diuided wanting Belzebub their Prince but should presently as one day it shal most certainely come to desolation Seeing therefore obedience to Kings is a duety so necessary for all subiects acceptable vnto God profitable to our selues without which Kings nor Kingdomes cannot stand Church nor Common-weale cannot long continue Pura conscientia praestemus quae propter conscientiam praestanda sunt Let vs performe and practise this duty of obedience with a pure conscience which for conscience sake must be performed euermore honouring and obeying our dread Soueraigne the golden head of great Britaine beseeching God to prosper him in his glory and to pierce with sharpe arrowes the hearts of his enemies as the Psalmist of Salomon Psal 45. 5. euermore obeying and praying God saue the King CHAP. VI. THE third duty of Subiects to be performed to the King is Honor S. Peter commands all Subiects Feare God honour the King S. Paul exhorting all to submitte themselues to the higher powers concludeth Giue honour to whom ye owe honour so the Lord himselfe in the fifth Commandement chargeth all to honor Father and Mother in which precept as most old and new writers well obserue Kings and Magistrates are vnderstood beeing politicall Fathers Patres patriae Fathers of the Common-wealth Nutricij patres Nursing Fathers of Gods Church and people And this duety to honor the King obligeth all by a three-fold bond Ex Praecepto By Commandement Ex Maledicto By Punishment Ex Praxi By Practise First by Precept God in his Law hath commanded it Secondly by Punishment for God hath put a sword in their hands to cut off such as dishonour them Thirdly by Practise our Lord and Sauiour with his Disciples did preach and practise obedience honor and reuerence euermore to be giuen to Kings and Potentates And this word honor signifieth al that duty whereby the renowne dignity reuerence and high estimation of the King may be preserued and vnblemished and it reacheth vnto our thoughts wordes and workes 1 to honour him in our hearts and thoughts Curse not the King no not in thy thought for the foules of the heauen shall carry thy voyce and that which hath wings shall carry the matter saith Salomon 2 Honor him in thy wordes seeke not by bad and wicked speeches to disesteeme the dignitie of their sacred persons for they are Gods deputies and he that despiseth the deputy despiseth him that appointed the deputie wherefore God made an expresse precept Thou shalt not speake euill of the Ruler of thy people And St. Iude hath marked those for filthy dreamers Qui dominationem spernunt Maiestatem blasphemant Who despise gouernment and speake ill of them that be in authority Beware of vnseemely vnreuerent or contemptible speech which might diminish or distaine the excellency of Gods Lieutenants much lesse reuile mocke scoffe or curse them abuses most disloyall dishonourable and worthie of death It was a wise and worthy answere of Count Charles to one at dinner disparaging our late Queene of famous memory saying his Table neuer gaue priuiledge to any to speake vnreuerently of Princes Male de me loquuntur homines quia bene loqui nesciunt faciunt non quod mereor sed quod solent saith Seneca Epist 77. 3. Honor the King in all thy actions to be ready to defend the honour and renowne of our gracious Soueraigne both by word and sword In his presence vse all lowly reuerence bowing thy selfe as Abraham to the three Angels downe to the ground It was a rare act and royall speech of Don Iohn King of Arragon Father vnto Don Ferdinando King of Castile both meeting at an assembly in Victoria the Father King would not suffer his sonne to giue him the vpper hand saying Sonne you are the chiefe and Lord of Castile whereof we are descended so that our duetie towards you as our King and superiour is farre aboue that duety of the Sonne vnto the Father Regem semper honorandum sic dij voluistis habere And indeed all good people did euer honor their anointed Soueraignes Dauid Salomon with the rest of the Kings of Israel how honourable and glorious euer accounted in the eyes of their Subiects Vbi honor non est ibi contemptus est saith Ierome where honor is absent there contempt is present and to contemne these regall children of the most High is to contemne the most High himselfe And truely the most dishonourable contemners of Regall Diadems are the flattering Pseudoli the parasiticall magnificoes of the Papall Miter for to extoll the one they extenuate the other they honor yea rather dishonor their Pope with blasphemous titles Dominus
AND if euer Praiers needfull in this kinde now is the time Nolite tangere abhorred of Heathens is now applauded and defended of false Christians Religion and superstition now comes forth with her knife ready to cut Kings throats it beeing the generall rule of them Occide haereticum Kill an hereticke make away with him giue him an Italian posset poyson him though it be in the Sacrament as Henry the seuenth Emperour poysoned in Sacramentall bread Victor the third Pope in the Sacramentall cup and yet they say that Christs bloud is really in the wine how then comes that poyson of death mixed with that sacred substance of life The Patrons and Proctors to plead for King-killers I meane the Iesuites with their adherents make this for a conclusion That any priuate man may be an executioner of a King excommunicated and deposed by the Pope and Caesar Baronius alledges commends out of Iuo a breue of Pope Vrban the second wherein it is pronounced that they are no homicides who kill such as are excommunicate for wee doe not iudge them to bee murtherers who burning with the zeale of their Catholike mother against such as are excommunicate happen to haue killed any of them And so Suarez the Iesuite in his last booke against our King writes After sentence condemnatory is giuen of the King c. then hee that hath pronounced the sentence or he to whom it is committed may depriue the King of his kingdome euen by killing him if hee cannot doe it otherwise and the very Cannibals are not more thirsty of bloud then these false Catholickes commending commanding murther the murther of Gods Anointed Kings which any heart not stupified with Atheisme or reprobate sence would tremble at it and appropriate the doing of that deed onely to Papists for so Suarez saith If his lawfull successor be a Catholike and so that hee be a Catholike that succeedes in the right challenging the right of committing so execrable villany to appertaine to none but onely to Romish Catholikes disdaining that any should haue an hand in so horrible and hellish mischiefes against the King but onely a friend and follower of the Popes religion true-borne children of their bloudy Mother the whore of Babilon the mother of murder drunken with the bloud of Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Christ Iesus If the Pope cries against any King with the Citizens in that parable Nolumus hunc regnare Wee will not haue this man to reigne presently pollicie villany mischiefe and murder fraud and deceit all shall conspire to accomplish the Popes desire If poyson and policie faile power shall â—reuaile like to him when intreaty could not moue laid his hand on his sword saying At hic faciet but this shall doe it if Mercurie be too weake Mars shall second him then leaue Apolloes harpe and take Hercules club both pens and pikes heads hearts and hands are too nimble to hurt Kings Sanguiuolenta est mens Sanguinolenta manus A bloudy heart must haue a bloudy hand How many Princes of Christendome hath that Sea of Rome swallowed and deuoured A Sea indeede nay a red Sea of bloud or Mare mortuum wherein that Leuiathan makes his Sea as the Lord tells Iob like a potte of oyntment Sed mors in illa ella Death is in the pot Out of this Sea creepe those Crocodiles I meane Iesuites Seminaries and men vsually troubled with the Kings euill Treason These Romish rats creepe into regall Pallaces at last take and taske their owne bane like the spirits of Deuils of whom S. Iohn worke myracles to goe vnto the Kings of the earth and those whom they cannot draw by their collusion they would deuoure by effusion I may say of them as Polymnestor speakes in the Tragedie of Hecuba Hastifera armata equestris Marti obnoxiagens They are well weaponed people dagges and daggers charmes poysons powder all tragicall and traiterous engines and instruments they haue to touch Gods Anointed the Kings of the earth corporally In olde time scarce any treason without a Priest in our time scarce any without a Iesuite As Iudas was the antesignanus of traytors chiefe Captain of the cursed crue so since him the false stiled Iesuits but the true Iudaites are the cheefe Shibas to blow aloud the trumpet of rebellion And there was a wicked man named Sheba the sonne of Bicri a man of Iemini and hee blew the Trumpet and said We haue no part in Dauid nor inheritance in the sonne of Ishai Euery man to his tents O Israel 2 Sam. 20. 1. And there are many of Israel that follow these Shebas but the men of Iudah claue fast vnto their King from Iordan euen to Ierusalem All good subiects will cleaue with the men of Iudah faithfully to their King and will goe with Ioab to pursue these Shebas vntill their heads be cut off and throwne to them ouer the wall These Shebas make Kings the markes of their murther saying with treacherous Achitophel I will smite the King onely or with the King of Aram Fight neyther against small or great saue onely against the King of Israel Feriunt summos fulmina montes The highest mountaines most exposed to Thunders And to perpetrate such crying and capitall murders they will hazard the perill of their liues and losse of their soules and but that the Lord hath giuen his Angels a charge ouer his Anointed to keepe them in all his waies the attempts of such desperate miscreants were deadly dangerous for as Seneca Vitae tuae dominus est quisquis suam contempsit He is Master of thy life who contemnes his owne Cato when hee had got a sword though therewith to kill himselfe cried out Now am I my owne man So these desperate villaines who runne with desire to their owne deaths are their owne men to act murder but God doth bring to nought their desires and deuices and raiseth vp for his seruants in extraordinary dangers extraordinary deliuerances The imminent danger of King Croesus yet a Heathen King opened the mouth of his dumbe sonne to tell it Bessus his parricide discouered by the chattering of Swallowes verifying Salomons wordes The fowles of the ayre carrie that voice God can cause euery fowle of heauen and euery creature on earth to finde a tongue to tell treason to deliuer his Anointed Our gracious King is a speaking mappe of many wonderfull deliuerances in extraordinary dangers still we cry and craue with Dauid Domine saluum fae Regem Lord saue the King cloath all his enemies with shame and breake them in peeces like a Potters vessell Let thy hands O Lord finde out all that hate him make them like a fiery ouen in the time of thine anger and destroy them in thy wrath Deliuer his soule from the sword and saue him from the Lions mouthes confound all Shebas that would stirre
heauen and seruing loyally the King on earth not to prefer earth before heauen to say with some Mart. lib. 9. Seeke others for to feast with Iupiter aboue I heere on earth my Iupiter will loue But first seeke the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse and this wil teach you to serue your King with faithfulnesse and to pray for his preseruation in all humble and harty diligence and obedience saying God saue the King Also to your Honors right noble Peeres this taske belongeth alwaies to pray God saue the King being noble by birth or place this will ennoble your persons more if you say faithfully as Iudith did to Bagoas concerning Holofernes feignedly Who am I that I should gaine say my Lord surely whatsoeuer pleaseth him I will doe speedily and it shall be my ioy vnto the day of my death then your names and fames shall euer stand registred in the Chronicle of honor free from the blacke Characters of disloyall infamie And though Fortunes image be made of glasse brittle and mutable yet your honourable memoriall shall neuer perish Death which is the true Herald of Armes blazoning mans pedegree to be but genus lutulentum a picture of dust be he a Prince in his pallace or a begger vnder a bush yet corruption is their Father and the wormes their mother and sister Their good workes following them but their pompe left behinde them onely their sanctitie to God and seruice to their King and Countrie shal make them glorious in heauen and famous on earth Posteritie will hold them worthy of honor and desire to reserue a Catalogue of their names and will say These were the Noble men that loued their God their King and Countrie Many haue done vertuously but these surmounted them all Archidamus told King Philip after his victory at Cheron that if he should measure his shadow he should not find it an haires breadth bigger or longer then before so let no vaine-glory fill you with empty wind it cannot make your shadowes bigger or longer glory more in your owne vertuous actions then in your renowned Ancestors for though some doe boast to be A loue tertius Aiax yet Quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voca Ouid. It is the honour of a noble man when he doth excell in vertue his forepassed Ancestors when he is religious to feare God and to honour the King saying of his Soueraigne as Isaac said to Iacob Cursed be he that curseth thee and blessed be hee that blesseth thee and wishing with the Apostle would to God they were cut off which doe disquiet him alwayes loyall to his Soueraigne and louing to his Countrey willing to aduenture in their seruice his limbes or life euer wishing and praying God saue the King and Countrey Likewise to your Fatherhoods most right and reuerend Fathers the Heads and louing Brethren of the Tribe of Leui whose place and office bind you in all duty to be loyall to the royall Tribe of Iudah to you I may without offence proffer this poore present who spend your spirits at Gods Altar to offer a morning and an euening incense of seruent prayers for the preseruation of Gods Annointed exhorting with Paul that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giuing of thankes be made for Kings and for all that be in authority And indeed before all and aboue all we of the Church the vitall spirits of the politicke body haue manifold motiues to pray for our Soueraigne who vnto vs against the tempest of these times is a refuge an hiding place from the wind and as the shadow of a great rocke as it was said of King Ezechiah His Maiesty is a Defender of the Church as he is a Defender of the Faith and against the Atheists and Alexanders of these dayes that would doe vs much wrong he stands to pleade our cause to grace our calling that we may say with the Poet â—unen Sat. 6. Et spes ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum Solus enim tristes hac teÌ„pestate camaen as respexit Though the Church be made blacke blacke by customary contempt and continuall oppression and persecution yet the King kisseth her with the kisses of his mouth and his loue is better then wine we will reioyce and be glad in thee we will remember thy loue more then wine the righteous doe loue thee And herein if we may boast in any thing we may boast in this That our Church was neuer the Author of Treason The Mother of Soules should not be the murderer of Kings members inclined to rebellion were neuer well possessed of Religion As we haue hitherto beene faithfull obedient and loyall so still euer be from the Church Sit procul omne nefas Let the mother of blood and treason still dwell vnder the roofe of Romish Babylon the mother of whoredomes and of these abhominations drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus Christ which cloake these murders and massacres vnder the mantle of Religion like the Rulers of Ephesus distressed with a terrible battery in that Seige her Gouernours tied with ropes the wals and gates to Dianas Temple that so being consecrated to the Goddesse that enemy should assault them at his perill Euen so the Popish pollicy is to tie euery thing to the Temple Conspiracies Murders Treasons all tied to the Church cloaked vnder a colour of Religion that I may say with their owne Leo Ecclesiae nomine armantur contra ecclesiam dimieant They arme themselues with the name of the Church to fight against the Church and to destroy the pillars of the Church Hi Christum simulant sed Sathanalia vivunt Well let our preaching and praying tend to this end to giue Caesar obedience to feare God and to honour the King knowing that all must submit to the Higher Powers for conscience sake and for the Lords sake and they that will not doe it they are none of Gods Clergy none of the Heritage of the Lord They haue neither conscience nor calling like to certaine Bishops in Ambrose dayes of whom he writes Quod dedit cum episcopus ordinaretur aurum fuit quod perdidit anima fuit cum alium ordinaret pecunia fuit quod dedit lepra fuit That which he gaue when he was made a Bishop was gold what he lost was his soule when he made another it was for money what he gaue was a leprosie But these Bishops liue beyond the Alpes I hope there is none in Albion It is our comfort and our Crowne that our calling and conscience is such which burnes in zeale and duty to God and loyall obedience to our graciour Soueraigne Morning and euening at noone and at night at bed and boord praying God saue the Church God saue the King To you the wise and worthy Iudges
with your Graces and Honors defence as with precious stones built vpon the chiefe corner-stone Rocke Christ Iesus though flouds from the Sea of Rome should come or the windes of wicked Iesuites blow vpon this booke with their infecting breath and would beate it downe with a storme of words yet Non cadet quia fundatur super petram I feare to be tedious and therefore in all dutifull and submissiue reuerence I cease my hand yet my heart till death shall neuer cease to pray for all your prosperous happinesse and heauenly successe in your holy and high affaires for the Church King and Country for which Diuine blessing shall be duely and daily powred forth the poore deuotions of your Graces and Honours most humble seruant Samuel Garey Ad Gloriam Dei Sionis gaudium malorum luctum MAgnae Britanniae immortales Gratiae Pro salute Britanniae quinto Nouembris Ab horrenda proditione Anglo-Papistarum Qui pul vere bombardico Parliamenti domum Euertere sunt machinati Hoc Aniuersario commemorantur In libre diligenter exara illud erit in die nouissime in testimonium vsque in aeternum Esa 30. 8. Amphitheatrum Scelerum OR The Transcendent OF TREASON For the 5. day of Nouember Sonne of Man write thee the name of the day euen of this same day for the King of Babel set himselfe against Ierusalem this same day Ezech. 24. 2. CHAP. I. AS Moses did speake in another kinde to the people of Israel Enquire now of the dayes that are past which were before thee since the day that God created man vpon the earth and aske from the one end of Heauen vnto the other if there came to passe such a great thing as this or whether any such like thing hath beene heard So I may say Enquire of the Times past and search the Records of all Antiquities and you cannot finde such a damnable and diuellish proiect the very modell of all mischiefes and Miscellan of all massacres the intended Powder-plot the Quintessence of all impiety and confection of all villany the like neuer de ficto much lesse de facto in which these prodigious and barbarous monsters not men but loathsome lumpes of mire and bloud in whose proditorious brests the spirits of all expired traytors by a kinde of Pythagoricall transmigration were inclosed intended to haue destroyed the obiects of Englands earthly glory the glory of succession yea succession it selfe to extinguish the whole light and life of the land vno actu tactu ictu by one blow and blast of powder Tollere Rem Regem Regimen Regionem Religionem Furious Phaetons in one day yea howre with a dismall fire-worke to burne all to ashes of a glorious Monarchy to make an Anarchy to offer our most gracious King royall Queene vertuous Prince and hopefull Progeny with right Noble personages of honourable place and birth the reuerend Cleargy with all the rest of that wise and flourishing assembly to offer them all as a quicke and liuing sacrifice not powdered with salt or salted with fire as our Sauiour but salted with powder to make such an Holocaust or burnt offering as should be the general martyrdome of the Kingdome to bereaue vs of our Eliat and Horsemen of Israel and take them away in a whirle-winde and chariot of fire Quot mortes in vna morte How many deaths in such a death to cut off caput caudam head and tayle branch and rush Prince Priest and people from our Israel in one day Quomodo inaudito potuit manus impianisu Tam dirum fabric are nef as Respublica in vno Funere tollenda est vno tumulanda sepulchro With such an hellish deed for to desire To bury King and Kingdome in a fire How ought the heauenly and happy deliuery from such an horrible and hidcous Tragedy excite all continually to thanke and magnifie our most mercifull God for such a miraculous preseruation And though the crying sinnes of the Land had deserued such a Doomesday of fire yet the Lord in mercy hath deliuered it from that desolation and secured by his outstretched arme of power and pitty the Royall Head and loyall members of great Britanny from his and our enemies who tooke crafty counsell against thy people and consulted against thy secret ones They said Come let vs cut them off from being a Nation and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance but they perished at Endor and were dung for the Earth Shall such wondrous workes as these be knowne in the darke and thy righteousnesse in the Land where all things are forgotten Can such a deliuerance from such a dismall danger so villainous in the Agents so dolorous for the patients so craftily contriued so eagerly pursued so neerely effected the watch of a night and turning of an hand betweene vs and so deadly desolations can such a gracious worke be euer buried in obliuion Indeed it was Israels error whose prayers and praises ended so soone as they had passed the Red Sea and shall we that haue escaped not that Red Sea of water but a Red Sea of fire shall wee end our prayers and praises to God because that danger is past Oh how vnworthy shall we be of future fauours if so vnthankefull for past blessings And truly herein the Land is faulty in forgetting these benefits in a cold and not continuall acknowledgement of their humble thankefulnesse to God for these and other vnspeakable benefits And at the first all peoples hearts did burne within them like those two Disciples when they did but talke of the Powder Treason admiring and acknowledging the infinite mercies of God in the preuenting this most abhorred massacre and with heart and voice magnified the Lord with Dauids Psalme If the Lord had not beene on our side may Israel now say If the Lord had not beene on our side when men rose vp against vs they had then swallowed vs vp quicke when their wrath was kindled against vs. Praised be the Lord which hath not giuen vs as a prey vnto their teeths but a few yeeres being past they beginne to slacken this duty and are cold in praysing God for so blessed a deliuerance Perchance pondering Parsans words Will you neuer giue ouer saith he your clamors and exaggerations The Powder Treason the Powder Treason No we should neuer giue it ouer to poure foorth our perpetuall praises to God for protecting vs from so prodigious a plot and practise Our Eucharisticall deuotion to God for the preuention of the downefall of the Land should not be so momentary and like a morning dew as if the renued remembrance of so great deliuerance should become wearisomenesse vnto our spirits or the wonderment of the Lords mighty worke being past our gratulation to God should be out of dare vnseasonable and more then halfe forgotten No the deliuery from this flagitious and most bloody designement as it
promise of two hundred thousand Crownes and the seamelesse coate of Christ This Pope was Pope Alexander the sixth of which thing reade Cuspinian in Baiazet the 2. Henry the second of England was by the Popes appointment whipt of the Monkes Iulian and Lawrence the Dukes of Florence by the Popes practise were assaulted in the Church at the time of the eleuation of the host and the one greeuously wounded the other murdered Henry the third of France after many treasons of the Sorbonists against him was at last murdered by a Dominican Frier which murder the Pope in a solemne oration extolled to the skies Henry the fourth his successor first wounded by Chastell a Disciple of the Iesuites for which they were then banished the Realme and afterward treacherously murdered by a popish miscreant Rauilliacke This Henry assaulted by sixe Popes Gregory the thirteenth Sixtus the fift Vrbane the seuenth Gregory the fourteenth Innocentius the ninth Clement the eight the last hauing brought the King to be reconciled to the Church of Rome triumphed ouer him and yet this King thus their owne because hee seemed to fauor the Protestants must die a bloudy death The Prince of Orenge lamentably murdered by a Papist who for the said Parricide is highly commended by the Friar Surius his name was Balthazar Gerardus Our late famous Queene Elizabeth of happy memory since the tenth yeare of her raigne about which time Pius Quintus excommunicated her till her dying day was not free from the treasons of Papists Parries Campians c. the Popes with their adherents raising vp inuasions and so farre as they were able laboured to haue wrought her destruction Our high Soueraigne that now is hath had experience in Scotland of Popish treason and in England this Powder-plot makes it perspicuous I need not produce other examples which in all nations abound of high personages and Peeres destroyed by popish hands The Viceroy of Rauenna vnder Leo the third Emperor with his sonne slaine by the Popes faction The Prince of Condie poysoned William Prince of Aurance slaine by a Popish villaine Charles the King of Spaines sonne because he was thought to fauor Protestants made an end of by their inquisitors In a word let the Massacre in Paris in which were destroyed in a night and few daies many noble and religious Protestants among the which Noble Caspar Colignius slaine Let the fires and faggots in England in Queene Maries reigne in which were cruelly burned many zealous and deuout Christians who for the Gospels sake sacrificed their bloud in fiery flames and wonne the glory and Crowne of Martyrdome Let this Power-Treason inuented by Popish people ratified by popish Priests in which they intended to haue made a generall martyrdome Let the Spanish Inquisition which hath put to death with exquisite torments many thousand people Let these foure speake for all and surely they will speak that or more then that which Eberhardus the Archbishop of Saltsburge a good old man once spake who when he had knowen ten Romane Bishops and had diligently marked their practises vnder Fredericke the first Henry the sixt his sonne and Fredericke the second his nephew for fifty yeares together deciphered or described the Pope for a rauenous wolfe vnder a Shepheards weed compounded wholly of Auarice Luxury Contention Warres Discord and desire of Rule with such like attributes whose oration at large is extant in Auentine a Roman Catholike writer Or will speake that which the Poet Massaeus writes of Pope Iulius the second as great a bloud sucker as euer reigned in Rome by whose meanes in seauen yeares 200000 Christians were destroyed of this Pope the Poet hath this Epitaph Genua euipatrem genâ—tricem Graecia partum Pontus vnda dedit num bunus esse potest Fallaces Ligures mendax Graecia pontâ— Nulla fides in te singulasolm habes Thy Father Genoan Mother Grecian borne In Ocean Sea can goodnesse thèe adorne Genoans are full of fraud Greece lyes maintaine In Sea no trust all these in thee one raigne So that I will end this point with this obseruation that Mahomet Phocas and Boniface the third who first had the stile of vniuersall Bishop liued all about the same time So that Mahometisme Popery and murthering of Christian Kings began all at once and now conioyned in one And all the people of Great Britanny haue cause to thanke God that they are free from this Head the Head of these mischiefes and I would the land were free from all his members yet they are among vs as Labans Idols in Iacobs tent vpon Record not by allowance and many wish that such a voice might eccho in our Soueraignes eares who is a mercifull King as once came from the Smiths forge to the hearing of the Landgrave of Hesse a mild Prince the Smith striking his iron saide Duresce inquam duresce vtinam Langrauius durescat waxe hard waxe hard would to God the Landgraue would waxe hard So it might bee wished that the sword of Iustice were sharper against seducing Iesuites that their haunts and harbors were stopt places of entertainment scoured and the femall Hierarchy which breedes many were put downe for these serpents will first tempt Eue the weaker vessell and women soone induced hardly reclaimed So should God be serued with more holy deuotion in true religion and our King and Country be freed from treason and rebellion CHAP. VII I Haue a little touched the persons as well Authors as Actors shewing that originally and ordinarily this sinne of Treason flowes from the sinke or sea of Rome because Cardinall Bellarmine would outface the world with It was neuer heard of from the Churches infancie that any Prince though an heretike or persecutor was murdered by the Popes command or allowance when it is shewed that not only allowance or recognizance but consent content yea head heart and all haue ioyned together in the destruction of Princes so that I may say to him Tute-lepus es c. He hath deliuered many treasonable positions of deposing degrading exciting Armes c. and can a traytor be vnwelcome to him it may be so for Proditores etiam ijs qui mercede condâ—cunt inuisi sunt Traytors are hated of them who hire them but they like the treason if effected and many times the traitors too and euen canonize them for good members whose pedigree in the hangmans heraldry is knowne to be base murderers and abhorred traytors it Is very strange Si fur displiceat Verri homicida Miloni I had rather say with the Prophet Osee As theeues wait for a man so the company of Priests murther in the way by consent for they worke mischiefe and may say of their Priests as an olde Poet speakes of their Pope Qui fore debuit gratia datinus Factus est ecclesia ablatâ—â—us Of Grace who should be the Datiue case Is now become