all the dayes of Salomon haue not England doone the like from Barwick to saint Michaels Mount all the dayes of Elizabeth But if any man through diligence stādeth before Kings not before the meaner sort of men hee shal find that in the light of the Kings countenance is life and his fauour is as a cloud of the latter raine If I regard a house House Ester 2.21 8.2 Externall pompe Gen. 41.43 I see it brought Mordecay from sitting at the Kings gate to be placed ouer the house of treacherous Haman If I respect outward shew I see Ioseph in the second Charret of Egypt and Mardocheus vpon the Kings horse in royall apparrell a crowne of gold on his head Ester 6.8.11 Haman proclaiming before him in the streetes of Shusan thus shall it be done to the man whom the King will honour and Daniel in Babilon clothed in purple and a chaine of golde about his necke If estimation of the people for it Dauid was honoured with his Ten Thousand if fauour and frendship of the worthyest this knit the soule of Ionathan eldest Sonne to the King to the soule of Dauid If alliance with the greatest this espoused Ioseph the prisoner to Asenath daughter of Potipherah priest or Prince of On this brought Dauid the Shepheard to Michall Daughter of Saule King of Israell If power and authoritie this made Ioseph 2. in Egypt Mordecai 2. in Persia Daniel 2. in Babilon If good to our nation this lift vp Mordecay to the deliuerāce of his people from destruction If the good of the Church of God this with the blessing of God vpon him who aymed at so good an end made Zorobabel gratious in the eyes of Darius if a good name and eternall renowne what more pretious then a good name especially eternized This caused Mordecaies vertues and Mordecaies magnificence to be celebrated in the Chronicles of Media and Persia this Ester 10.2.3 eternized them in the neuer-fayling word of the eternall God If the good of our posteritie a dead man stil seemeth to liue in his posteritie Barzillaie when Dauid fled from Absolon prouided him of sustenance lying at Mahaynaim Barzillai dutyfull loyall and after Dauids victory conducted him ouer Iordane Dauid for this not onely offered to feed Barzillai with him in Ierusalem and to doe for him whatsoeuer he would require of him Dauid when he would needs depart blessed him kissed him but also for his sake accepted of Chimham and dealt royally with him in his life but also in his death-bed commanded Salomon to shew kindnes to the sonnes of Barzillai the Giliadite and to let them be among them that eate at his table O blessed loialtie blessing the loial not onely generally with the common and publique but also particularly with the priuate good good in possession good in estimation good in authoritie in honor in fauour in alliance in name in religion in fame in posteritie O blessed loyalty Is it not enough that thou blessest vs with so many fauours but others for vs not vs and others at this present but others for vs herereafter Gratefully Barzillai was loyall to Dauid in his distresse Dauid was gratefull to Barzillai when he was deliuered from distresse gratefull in life gratefull in death death makes men forget their owne children their own selues death and the panges of death could not make Dauid to forget Barzillaies loyalty death had power to ende and cut off Dauids life death had not power to end or cut off Dauids gratuity for Barzillaies loyalty Royall the both might remaine after death euen at death he charged his sonne to shew kindnes to Barzillaies sonne Both to Barzillaies sonne to Barzillaies sonns and such kindnes that they should eate with him at his table Immortall Barzillai dead Barzillaies loyalty Dauid dead Dauids gratuitie brightly shineth in their posteritie Sonne Good father you shewing Caesar to be set ouer me of God my duety to God moued me to performe my duety to Caesar you shewing me of the haynousnes of the crime of disloyalty my heart abhorred it and I beseech God no disloyalty come into my heart much lesse breake out of my tongue in speaking or my hand in action you shewing the iudgementes incident to the disloyall if I had so little grace and so little reason that nought else could feare of them may keepe me from this crime but now you shew the great benefits that arise out of loyalty you haue inflamed my heart with a more feruent loue of the same Father Let me then my sonne further inflame it If Caesar being ouer such a people as Salomon was and as Paul was for all the Churches 1 Kin. 3.8 2 Cor. 11.28 cumbred with the care of them daily or bee thy merits be not of the moment or there is not that opportunitie to haue them knowen vnto Caesar therfore Caesar cānot say with Assuerus though Caesar be as boūtiful royally grateful as Assurus what honour Ester 6.3 dignitie hath beene giuen to Mordecai for this Yet for the Publique good for which Curtius in Rome Sampson in Israel many in many nations sacrificed their liues and in the publique thy priuate good though Caesar should neuer heare if thou wert disloyall and therefore could not punish thee yet giue Caesars to Caesar Luke 17.10 Math. 3.15 Rom. 13.5 1. Pet. 2.13 as the Lord Iesus saith for dueties sake and for righteousnes sake as saint Paul saith for conscience sake as saint Peter saith for the Lords sake and the Lord whose reward is with him who will come quickly whose word shal not passe away though heauen and earth passe away will reward thee though man doe not whose life is a vapoure whose flesh is grasse whose rewards be temporarie the Lord I say will reward thee reward them as else hee will punish thee Externally Internally Eternally Gods rewards of loyaltie Externally for our good Subiect is to bee a good man our true Caesarian to be a true Christian otherwise if he goe not out with Absolon I suspect his going out with Adoniah neither good man nor good Subiect is he who giueth not to God those thinges which be Gods and for Gods ordinance to Caesar those thinges which are Caesars Blessed shalt thou be in the Cittie Externall Deut. 28.3 4 5 6. and blessed also in the field blessed shall be the fruite of thy bodie and the fruite of thy ground and the fruite of thy Cattell the encrease of thy Kine and the flocks of thy Sheepe blessed shall thy baskette be and thy dowe blessed shalt thou bée when thou commest in and blessed also when thou goest out Sonne How internally Father What greater blessing then the soules banquet Internall Prou. 15.15 then the soules continuall banquet a good conscience saith Salomon is a continuall Feast what mellodie to that swéete harmonie of excusing thoughtes what comfort to that most comfortable assurance
an infidell Is not God highly displeased with you for not instructing your households who was so highly pleased with Abraham if ye bee Abrahams children ye will doe the works of Abraham for instructing of his household Iohn 8.39 Gen. 18.17 18 19. Assure your selues he who vpon the Israelites according to the flesh imposed such a respect of their enemies beasts Exod 23.4 5. imposeth vppon the Israelites according to faith a far greater regard of their owne seruants those breath an vnreasonable mortall life these haue a reasonable and an immortall soule heires they be with you of the same saluation Fathers shall I tender it to you You remember who enioined you To teach your sonnes Deut. 4.9 Deut. 6.6.7 8 9. and your sonnes-sonnes you remember who sayde These wordes which I commaund thee this day shal be in thine heart And thou shalt rehearse them continuallie vnto thy children and shalt talke of them when thou tariest in thine house and as thou walkest by the way and when thou liest downe and when thou risest vp And thou shalt not onelie for thy remembrance binde them vpon thine hand and betweene thine eyes but for thy children and seruants write them vpon the postes of thine house and vpon thy Gates Those wordes of God teach vs our dutie to God our dutie to our neighbours amongst our neighbours first to our superiours Exod. 20.12 amongest our superiours chiefly to our Caesar because Caesar is the father of the Countrey the noursing mother of the Church Hence Salomon hence Peter hence Paule hence Christ drew that which they haue taught vs for our duties to our Princes As you loue your selues as you loue your children omit not this Omit not this if you loue your children for the same Adoniah whō Dauid because hee was his darling would not reprooue and correct with the rod 1. King 1.6 I holde reproofe and correction to be either partes or appurtenances of instruction the same Adoniah because he proued a Traitor 1. King 2.25 did Salomon though hee were his brother execute with the sword Omit it not if you loue your selues for O howe heauie was the Iudgement that fell vpon the head of Eli. for omitting this dutie for omitting this dutie vpon Eli old Eli Eli the high Priest Eli who had iudged Israel fortie yeares 1. Sam. 2.23 24 25. Eli who herein had done somewhat O how heauie I say was the Iudgement that for omitting this dutie fell vpon his bead when in one day Israel fled before the Philistines 1. Sam 2.17 18. there was a great slaughter among the people his two sonnes were both slaine the Arke of God was taken himselfe fell backward and brake his necke that he died Better then that this should befall were it that the Romane law were receiued into England whereby it was enacted that for the first offence the child should be admonished for the second he should be chastized for the third he should be hanged and the father banished Mothers whom nature or rather the God of nature hath made most kinde to your children let not your too great kindnesse to them be too great hurt to them and too great hurt too you The wisest sonne that by course of natur◠euer any mother had hath left this lesson for all mothers for euer Prou. 29.15 A childe set at libertie shameth his mother Thogh I tell you not either of that too wantonly brought-vp sonne who beeing led to execution by the clamor of his tongue and sharpenesse of his teeth tooke irefull reuenge of his owne mother or of that mother who to maintaine her two sonnes in drinking and gaming defrauded her husband in his life soone after his death with her owne eies behelde them both robbing following vpon rioting openly executed the one with the sword the other with the rope Yet giue me leaue to tell you that if Aretia taught her sonne Philosophie if Cornelia taught her sonnes the Latin eloquence If Zenobia taught her sonnes the Greeke Latin and Egyptian tongues Prou. 31.1 if Bethsaba taught her sonne a prophesie you are to see that your children learne both those principles of religion alreadie published that they may giue to God those things that are Gods and this institution of a Subiect that they may according to the wil of God expressed in the word of God Giue vnto Caesar the things which are Caesars So shall you so shall they please both God and Caesar Children Preach 12.1 and all sortes of youth Remember your Creator in the dayes of your youth and in the dayes of your youth as carefully learne to honour those that are set ouer you by God Exod. 20.12 as you desire earnestly that a long life should bee giuen you of God Last of all I say to all If there bee any consolation in Christ Phil. 2.1 2. if any comfort of loue if any felowshippe of the Spirit if any compassion and mercie fulfill my ioy As we are become a happie Nation by the gouernment of our Caesar Barue 1.11 so let vs and ours perform all dutifull allegiance to our Caesar and pray and pray feruently and pray continually that her daeys vpon earth may be as the dayes of heauen Yours in the L. if you be Caesars in the L. E.N. CAESARS DIALOGVE or a familiar communication containing the first institution of a Subiect in allegiance to his Soueraigne Father Sonne MY sonne A father at thy birth I receiued thée as a gift of the Lord since thy birth I made thée a chiefe obiect of my care it is thy part hereafter to become while I liue Eccle. 30.4 the staffe of mine age and when I am dead 2. Sam. 18 18. to be so like me whereof I more estéeme then of the pillar of Absolon that I shall not séeme to be dead Prou. 31 2. But O my sonne but O the Sonne of my loynes but O the Sonne of my desires if by disloyaltie thou euer turnest the gift of God into a iudgement vpon my head The Fathers Care If thou changest the cares of my head into thornes to my heart If thou bringest my gray head with sorrow vnto the graue if thou dishonourest my name attaintest my blood ouerthrowest my house Sonne Deare father vnworthie were I of life if I should so highly offend him who next to God gaue me life The sonnes acknowledgment and whom God himselfe hath commaunded me to honour Father Then swéete Sonne imprint now in thy heart and expresse euer in thy life that short charge of our swéetest Sauoiur Mat. 22.21 Giue vnto Caesar the thinges which are Cesars and giue vnto God those things which are Gods Of giuing vnto God the things that are Gods the performance of which dutie is euer to be preferred before the safetie of thy life thou vsually hearest both of thy maister from whome as Xenocrates Disciples of riotous and dissolute became
Aduice to the yong yet fit for all Not Sauls wickednesse not Dauids deserts nor any other motiue could seduce Dauid to indaunger Saul Vpon my blessing let not thy heart euer hereafter entertaine such a thought nor thy eare heare much lesse thy tongue speake such a worde Yet for this time let thy selfe all with thy selfe learne of Dauid a man according to Gods owne heart To whom better might it be done then to Saule for who wickedder then Saule Saule wicked to God whose expresse commandement by turning to the pray he transgressed 1. Sam. 15.3.19.9 vers Not secret and hidden was his wickednes but open and apparant 1. Sam. 15.26.27.28 Samuel sharply reprooued him God reiected him and by a manifest signe shewed hee had reiected him 1. Sam. 16.14 an euill spirit sent of the Lord vexed him who might do it better then Dauid Dauid deserued well of the people and Countrey by slaying Goliah 1. Sam. 17.24.50.51 the Philistine the terrour of the whole Countrey deserued well of Saul 1. Sam. 19.5 not onely for this publike seruice to him and his Countrey but also for that other priuate 1. Sam. 16.23 in easing him of the euill spirite Who better then Dauid 1 Sam. 18.5 hee was accepted in the sight of Saules seruants all Iudah and Israel loued him 1. Sam. 18.7 the verie women honoured him with Tenne Thousand for Saules one Thousand Dauid no ordinarie subiect Dauid was set ouer the men of warre went in and out before the men of Israel and Iudah fought the Lords Battailes 1. Sam. 18.27 was the Kings sonne in law was annoynted King by Samuel 1. Sam. 16.12 at the commandement of God himselfe And how was Dauid prouoked not his wife alone taken awaye but his life sought not in woorde but in déede not by some flight blow to giue him a scarre but by a mortall wound to take away his life and this by no enemie but by his owne Soueraigne by his owne Father in law By his owne Soueraigne by his owne Father in lawe whome his owne hand saued from the open enemie eased from the euill spirite not by the bribed or enforced seruice of so base Cut-throat but by the violence of the Kings owne hand Not in a Fray in the field but by the throwing of a speare when he was playing on the Harpe to ease Saule of the euill spirit In perill he put him not once 1. Sam. 18.10.11 in perill he put him often his former seruice was forgot the mediation of a Sonne for a Sonne in lawe to a Father would not serue the slaughter of the innocent Priests would not satisfie his bloudie minde 1 Sam. 20.32 33. the time of absence though time deuoreth al things coulde not aswage his furie his furie being so great that Dauids sauing of his life 1. Sam. 24.5 7. when he had him in the Caue coulde not quench the flame of it but his bloud spared by Dauid he still persisteth to seeke the bloud of Dauid so that he liuing Dauid was still in daunger to die hee dead in all apparence Dauid was sure to raigne hee was againe closed into Dauids hand Dauid néede not touch him 1. Sam. 26.8 Abishai desires but leaue that hee might smite him snite him hee would but once to make him sure not any mans bloud but his alone néed be shed that this was done either in his preseÌ„ce or by his consent 1 Sam. 26.7 who could make report since this was in the night and that it might séeme that God himselfe fauored him in this Action 1 Sam. 26.12 God sent a dead sleepe vppon them If then thou wilt know Dauids minde in this matter from his owne mouth heare his prohibition his resolution 1 Sam. 26.9 10 11. His prohibition his question and his prayer his prohibition Dauid will not onely not act it but hee will not permit it and therefore to Abishais offered seruice there is this charge returned Verse 9. Destroy him not Question if Abishai should take this for an ouer-sight His Question here is reason to satisfie him Who can lay his hand on the Lords annoynted Ibidem and bee guiltlesse No man so good no Prince so bad no cause so great that can dispence with violence offred to the Lords annoynted His resolution testified by an oath not by the mercie of God which the desperate feele not nor the Iustice of God which the Libertine feareth not nor the prouidence of God whervpon most wicked men relie not nor the Omni-presence of God which the offenders remember not but by the life of God which the heauens aboue vs setting forth his glorie Psa 19.1 the ayre about vs dayly infected and dayly purified the sea aside vs at his commaundement staying her proude waues the earth beneath vs Iob. 38.11 so huge a masse firmely fixed in the midst of the ayre our soules and our selues for wee are his generation doe proclaime Acts 17.28 by this life of God doth he testifie his resolution 1. Sam. 26.10 that where many thirst for reuenge Dauid will take no reuenge whereas many wicked children bee â—â—â—ks of the father for a little wealth Dauid woulde not the death of his father in lawe for the Crowne Many a man hath taken armes against his soueraigne for his owne safetie for his owne safetie Dauid will not assaile his Soueraigne but taking Gods prouidence for his shéeld vsing praier for armour saying in heart with Christ Shall I not drinke of the cup that my father hath giuen me faith the Lord shal smite him or his day shal come to dy or he shall discend into battaile perish His prayer the Lord knoweth â—â—ine infirmities least iniurie mooue mee ambition puffeâ— mee his inflexibilitie driue mee my owne safetie drawes mee oportunitie intice tâ— mee fonde fréends incense me the Lord keepe me from laying mine hand vpon the Lordes annoynted Iohn 18.11 Sam. 26.10 His resolution 1. Sam. 26.11 His Inuocation 2 Sam. 1.10 Will yet any man doe its here ye heare what he said to Abishai hereafter sée what he did to the Amalekite though the Amalekite brought him the Crowne from Saule his head and the Braflet from his arme After he had not clapt his handes for ioy 2 Sam. 1.11.12 but rent his cloathes for greefe after hee had not reioiced and laughed but mourned and lamented after he had not feasted but fasted mindfull of that in the Psalme Psal 105.15 2. Sam. 1.14 Touch not mine annointed he saith How wast thou not afraid to put foorth thine hand to destroy the anoynted of the Lord To kill a priuate man it is death to kill a Prince it is more then death to kill a man is death because he is the Image of God Gen. 9.6 to kill a Prince though it be euen Saul it is more then death Psal 105.15.25 for hee is the
Lordes anoynted he is Gods minister If Dauid so reuenged the iniurie that was done to his Ambassador Sam. 1.14 Rom. 13.4 Dauids Iustice 2. Sam. 10.4 cap. 12.30.31 vpon the king of Ammon and all the Ammonites will God suffer will God suffer his Vice-gerent in his owne presence not to bee disfigured but destroyed of a priuate person And the diuine Vengeance especially of a Subiect Is God blind that he cannot sée it Is he improuident that he doth not obserue it Is he vniust that he will not or not omnipotent that hee can of reuenge it The Traitors terrour O when any Traitor thinketh such a thought considering with what a worlde of myracles God hath discouered them his hand should quiuer his head tremble his bodie quake his heart faile and his soule faint and yet need not God worke any myracle for euerie one that hath Dauids authoritie if there heart bee as like Dauids heart as Dauids heart was to Gods heart will presently with Dauid though it bee his Saule that is dead both commaunde his execution 2. Sam. 15.16 His reward to the Amalekite and giue this sentence Thy blood bee vpon thine owne head for thine owne mouth hath testified against thee saying I haue slaine the Lords anointed The third Cable The punishments of the disloyall to Caesar Sonne Since the haynousnesse of the Crime of treason is apparant may it please you to make the punishments of treason apparant Father That there is punishment it appeareth by that of the Apostle they that resist Rom. 23.2 shal receiue to themselues Iudgement of the gréeuousnesse of the Iudgement we may be assured by the hainousnes of the crime And further since the Lawe requireth that Offendours pay life for life eye for eye tooth for tooth Eçclus 21 23 24.25 hand for hand foote for foot burning for burning wound for wound stripe for stripe what wounds what burnings is he to endure that is guiltie of this Crime howe many féete howe many hands howe many eyes how many liues is he worthy to loose who so offendeth those feete of whom so many Thousand féete those hands of whome so many Thousand handes those eyes of whom so many Thousand eyes that life whereon so many Thousand liues depend Because hee hath not so many féete so many handes so many eyes so many liues therefore is he punished of God and punished of man Punished of man in his howse punished in Lands punished in Offices punished in death punished in buriall punished in Name and punished in Posteritie Punished in house In house for so was the house of Haman giuen to Quéene Ester Punished in Landes Esther 8.1 In Landes 2. Sam. 16.3.4 so Siba hauing falsely accused Mephiboseth to Dauid vntill the troth was known had all that was Mephiboseths giuen him by Dauid In Offices Punished in Offices so Abiathar the high Priest though for his fidelitie to Dauid in all his afflictions he had his life spared by Salomon 1. Kings 2.26.27 yet Salomon cast him cut from béeing Priest vnto the Lord. In bodie punished by imprisonment by drawing Punished in body by imprisonment and tortures in life after being drawn on a hurdle from prison to execution to shewe how hee had béene drawne by brutish passions and beastly affections by death By death extraordinarie and that not ordinarie as an ordinarie Malefactor but extradinarie as an extraordinarie Malefactor a Théefe taking goods from any man is hanged but because the Traitor offendeth no common member but the head of the whole Estate and in the head the whole estate being drawen is first hanged for I will omit the more exquisite punishments inflicted vpon Traitours in other Countreys his secrets to shewe hee was most vnworthy to bee begotten or to beget others cut off and throwne into the fire before his face his bellie ripped vp his heart the impure Vessell of pernitious Trecherie rent out thrown into the fire before his face his bodie hauing harboured so wicked a heart hauing béene the Cage of a rebellious spirite as it was in the bodie politique deuided by Treason from the head and other members so now by the Axe it is cut off from the head and deuided into many quarters Sonne How be they punished in buriall Father In buriall or rather by the defect of buriall are they punished Was it not a punishment that was foretolde by Ieremie of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah Ieremie 22.18.19 he shall be buried as an Asse is buried Euen drawne and cast foorth without the walles of Ierusalem But greater is the punishment of traitors in their buriall then was that of Iehoiakim Iehoiakims buriall was the buriall of an Asse the Traitors buriall is worse then the buriall of an Asse an Asse drawne without the gates of Ierusalem and deuoured of dogs or the beasts of the field is soone forgotten but the Traitors bodie though our mercifull Soueraigne dooth herein manie times shew great mercie not drawne without the Gates Iudgement in buriall but fixed vpon the Gates of Ierusalem is not deuoured of the beasts of the fields and forgotten but exposed to the eyes and reserued in the memorie of men that as his perninitious attempts were an euill example to others so his mangled and vnburied lims might be a heedfull and dreadfull caucat to others Sonne In name Wherein are they further punished Father In name a good name saith the royall Preacher is better then good oyntment A good name saith he is to be chosen aboue great riches and louing fauour is aboue siluer and golde but the name of the wicked who so wicked as Rebels and Traitors shall rot rot Well were it for them if there name could so rot that it might vtterly bee extinguished but being putrified it giues a noysome sauor so that as that which Iacob said to Simeon and Leui ye haue So euery Traitors ofspring may say of their Sire Gen. 34.30 Thou hast made me stinke among the inhabitants of the Land What more odious smell to all true English hearts Then the vnhappie memorie of Cade Straw Ket Parrie and others of like deserts though greater estates Sonne Remaines there to the Rebell any further punishment after death but in their buriall and in their name Father To the Rebell there remaineth further punishmēt for though in England they put not to death euery one of the familie as they did in Persia In posteritie Esther 16.18 nor fiue of the Traitors nearest kinsfolke as they did in Macedonia yet euen among vs is the Traitour punished in his posteritie Sonne Since Kinges are Gods Ministers Rom. 13. Deut. 17.19 Obiec against punishment in posteritie and are to read in the word of God all the dayes of their life I greatly maruaile that they punish a Traytor in his posteritie since God himselfe hath sayd the same soule that sinneth it shall die Ezeki 18.20 the sonne shall
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
a LioÌ„ The sword not for a bare shew No saith Paul he beareth not the sword for nought Hence may it be that Salomon affirmeth of the seditions that their destruction shal rise sodainely Sodaine in the destruction of the seditious Prou. 24.22 To what we must take heede I therefore with Salomon aduertise thee to take heede to the mouth of the King If thou wilt haue another reason added to the former he saith where the worde of the king is there is power If thou wilt know how great power Ecces 8.2 4. the second of those Squires of the bodie making Orations before Darius and his Nobles telleth thee The greatnes of the Kinges power .. though men rule by land and sea and ouer all things in them yet is the king greater 1 Esdr 4.2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. for he ruleth all things and is Lord of them If hee bid them make Warre one against another they doe it If he send them against the enemies they goe and breake downe mountaines and wals and Towers they kill and are killed and doe not passe the commaundement of the king If he bid kill they kill if he say spare they spare if he bid smite they smite if he bid them make desolate they make desolate If he bid build they build If he bid cut of they cut of Feare the sword of Caesar the draweÌ„ sword of Caesar the powerful drawen sword of Caesar But especially for a wise man saith Salomon feareth and departeth from euil Prou. 14.16 A difference of the wise man and the foole Caesar punisheth the transgressor of the lawes of the land Caesar punisheth the traÌ„sgressor of the lawes of God Rom. 13. Wherevpon and to what end this feare beareth the eyes of subiects What the vertuous subiect feareth Iob. 29.8 but a foole rageth and is carelesse feare to commit euill feare the breach of the lawes of the land feare the breach of the lawe of God feare the breach of the lawes of the land for the king of the land will take vengeance of the transgressions of the lawes of the land Feare the breach of the lawes of God for the King of the land being the Minister of God wil take vengeance on them that transgresse the lawe of God This feare carieth one eie of the Subiect vpon the Princes sword that he neuer prouoke it the other eye vpon the offence that he neuer commit it he feareth blame as much as paine reproach as much as torment dishonor as much as death So the young men fearing to be seene where and when they should not when they sawe Iob hid themselues This feare as the Porters keepe Traytours out of the Princes Courte This feare is a porter of the heart The ballast of the soule The bridle of the affections The naile that fasteneth vs in our duties Reuel 12.14 The two eyes of this feare be two wings wherewith we flie from Rebellion Hest 15.5.6.7.11 The two waiting women wherewith a subiects mind endued is prepared to the seruice and fauour of his Soueraigne Rom 13.7 keepeth treacherie out of the Subiectes heartes This feare as ballast preserueth the shippe from being ouerblowen of the winde keepeth the soule of the Subiect that shee be not ouerthrowen by others flatterie or her owne presumption This feare as a bridle curbes vs from all disobedience This feare as a naile fixeth vs firme in our dueties This feare as the woman in the Reuelation with the two winges fledde from the Dragon with her two eies flyeth from all Rebellion the seede of the Dragon This feare as Esther with her two maides comming into the presence of Assuerus was gratiously entertayned with these two eyes comes into the seruice and fauour of her Soueraigne This feare giue to Caesar to Cesar thou owest this feare Sonne The God of heauen imprint this feare in my heart But to this feare am I to adioyne honour Father Honour If as among the Elements the fire is most excellent If as among the creatures on earth man is most excellent 1. Cor. 15.41 If as among the starres of heauen one starre differeth from another starre in glorie So Caesar amongest men by the finger of God is made most excellent Honor are we to giue to Caesar least we beare false witnesse Who will not since honour is as the Philosopher sayth a testimonie of excellencie giue honour to Caesar least they beare false witnes not against their neighbor not against Caesar Least wee breake the Canon of the Apostle Rom. 13.7 but against God who hath exalted Caesar least they breake the Canon of the Apostle Giue honour to whom ye owe honour least they be vniust not giuing to euerie man his dutie Least wee bee vniust Least wee transgresse Gods Commandements Exod. 20.12 Lamen 4.16 Least we giue iuste occasion of complaint against our Nation least they transgresse Gods owne coÌ„mandement least as Ieremie complained of the Iewes They reuerenced not the face of the Priestes some other complaine of the English they reuerenced not the face of the Prince The Priest is a figure of Christ the King is the figure of God If Nabuchodonozor setting vp a deade Image preuailed with his vngodly subiects at the sound of musicall Instruments Dan. 3.1.7 to worship it with honour forbidden of God Shall not God rather preuaile with his Seruants then Nabuchodonozor with his Subiects What the harmonie of the Scripture soundeth 1 Pet. 2.17 The Philosopher and the Scripture teacheth vs to honour Caesar The Philosopher compareth a king to a Father to a Phisition to a Pilot to a Shepheard Malach. 1.6 Caesar is to be honoured as a Father Eccus 38.1 to be honoured as a Phisition Our Caesar is a Phisition Politicall and Metaphysical shall 〈◊〉 Iehouah setting vp not a dead but as Menander calleth the King his liuing Image preuaile with all his godly Subiects at the swéete harmonie of the sacred Scripture sounding out with Saint Peter Honour the King to giue him that honour which hee hath commaunded Will you sée wherevnto the Philosopher compareth a King will you sée what titles God giueth a King The Philosopher compareth a King to a Father to a Phisition to a Pylot to a Sheepheard If I be a Father saith God where is mine honour If I be a Father may the king say where is mine honour Honour Caesar as a Phisition The Phisitian deliuering the bodie of man from euill humours and noysome diseases restoreth it to health Caesar deliuereth the body of the estate from euill humours from daungerous diseases preserueth the sacred Cleargie the honorable Nobilitie the well meaning Communaltie in perfect health Caesar is not onely a politicall but also a corporall and that not a Physicall but that you in Caesar may see an extraordinarie stampe of the finger of God a Metaphysicall phâ—sitian curing that euill which to the skilfullest Chirurgions is incurable which one rarely skilfull in that