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A19411	A treatise against traitors Meete for all faithfull subiects in these dangerous dayes. Taken out of the 40. chapter of Ieremye, the 13, 14, 15, 16. verses, and 41. 1, 2, 3, 4. Made and published for the benefite of the Church and common wealth of England: by Samuell Cottesford Minister and publique preacher of the woord of God.	Cottesford, Samuel.	1591 (1591)	STC 5840; ESTC S116422	48,076	146

his Captaines ouer thousandes and Captaines ouer fifties and to eare his ground and to reap his haruest to make instruements of warre and the thinges that serue for his chariots He will also take your daughters and make them Apothecaries and Cookes Bakers c. And hath God then thus prouided that all persons whatsoeuer within a princes territorie shall performe all seruices and doo all homage and fealtie to them without any duetye of the princes parts to be perfourmed on their sides no verily you haue hard alreadye how they likewise are as Shepheardes ouer their flocke to maintaine them their liues and libertyes Besides which they are the principall instruementes of Gods mercies towardes his Church for the planting of the Gospell for the saluation of the soules of the people to which end God hath aduaunced them on hie according to Isaiahs prophesie 49. 23. And Kings shalbe thy noursing fathers and Queenes thy noursing mothers they shall worship thee with their faces towards the earth and this authoritye haue they ouer the Church that they are to prouide that the ministers of God do their dueties in feeding with the woord of God themselues and their people the neglect wherof as also the incorrigible misdemeanours of all ecclesiasticall persons not to be brought into order by the Church censure and gouernours therof are to be punished by the seuerity of the magistrates sworde Now to come to the second parte which is the incredulity of Gedaliah in not beleeuing Iohanan But Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam beleeued them not And againe in the 16. ver But Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam said vnto Iohanan the sonne of Kareah Thou shalt not do this thing for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael In these words followeth the answer of this gouernour to the faithfull captaine and the rest with him But he beleeued them not The matter being so weightie as the danger of the princes life and the accusation so seuere and importunate against Ishmael it was a wonder to see that this Gonernour so rashlye and presently shaped so thwart and contrary an answere vnto Johanan for it standes as a reason of some consequence betweene the Prince and the people that if it be so needfull for subiects vpon the least suspition that they may iustlye gather of anye ill measure pretended against the state presentlye at their perrils otherwise to discouer it that on th'other side the Prince magistrate and Gouernour whosoeuer are in all louing affection to giue their eares with diligent attention to heare it and to imploye their whole wisedome and labours to search out the trueth speedily for the dooing of the duty of the one implieth in it a necessitie of some duety from th'other But to remember againe that which in th'entrance of this treatise I did but touch by the waye That where God will iudge in displeasure what way or meanes to auoide it so heere it appeares true in the sequell of the rashe answere of Gedaliah and his vniustrepelling of so iust an accusation by so trustye a Subiect whence is to be obserued how notwithstanding God did deliuer Gedaliah for the good of his people out of death it selfe making him to be gracious in the eyes of Nebuchadnezzer yet he knowing the stiffeneckednes of his people and purposing to prosecute this abuse of his mercye in them with a further iudgement did cause this vnto Gedaliah to be but rather an euasion or escape out of one danger to be reserued to a further that by taking him by the means of an ill person out of this life he might thereby speedilye execute his iudgementes vpon this vnrepehtant people according to the speech of the wise man in the 28. of the Prouerbs z. For the transgression of the land there are many Princes therof and as the Prophet Jsaiah in the 3. in laying down the heauy iudgemēts like to ensue vpon Ierusalem and Iudah noteth this to be one and a speciall to take away wise graue and good rulers c. If anye shall demaund a reason of Gods dooings in this it is that God reserueth vnto him selfe his times and seasons of doing his will either in the full execution of his iudgements or the performance of his mercies wherof to be more curious in the inquirye of that which he will not haue knowne to man is meere vanitie this alwaies being carried in remembrance that although we can rēder no reason of Gods iudgements either in the manner of executing them or concerning the time yet are they alwaies iustand vpright and further the purpose of God may easily be foūd out cōcerning this matter who while he iudged these that remained vnder Gedaliah his gouernment in a fatherlye manner in comparison of the rest of their Countrimen of whome some were slaine some hardlye entreated vnder Nebuchadnezzer being as liuing yet halfe dead it was to this ende by his patience long suffering to draw them to repentance not minding so to fauour thē aboue the rest as that they continuing still stiffenecked should scape scotfree nay rather the deferring of his wrath was an infallable token of the more heauy punishments to be inflicted vpon them therby to make thē a monument of his fierce wrath to the example of all ages for euer from the which people we are to make our profite and to learne that the longer time of Gods mercies we doo inioye as hitherto we haue to the admiration of the whole world of our great prosperitie in comparison of our neighbours about vs the more heauilye shall his hand fall so as he will leaue the print of his stripes behinde him vpon vs and if lenitye will not amend vs then as Salomon saith The blewnes of the wound serueth to purge the euill and the stripes within the bowels of the belly The Lord hath in the riches of his mercye concerning our soules in calling vs by the voice of his ministers long time visited vs And as concerning both soules bodies vnder our most happie and renowmed Queen blessed vs that thereby we might become more tractable techable and vnto Gods wil more pliable Now so many yeeres being passed of Gods mercifull and louing visitation vpon vs and his expectation being by vs and in vs deceaued to speake of God who properlye cannot be deceaued after the manner of men and to our capacity let vs take heed that we do not enforce the Lord who hath sung vpon vs all this while a song of mercy as Dauid saith which hath bene so pleasant in our eares in this our long peace libertye and plenty in this long time of pleasure riches and prosperitie to sing a song of iudgement in iustice in stead of our peace past so pleasant and amiable take heede that we heare not a song of warre most dolefull and terrible in stead of the libertie and freedome of our soules by the Gospell of Christ preached and of our bodies by the mercy of god vnder our

further then it shall concerne the matter in hande I holde it here needelesse A little to examine the reason of the wise man who affirmeth that the foules of the heauen will disclayme thee and thy thoughts shall be discouered by them A reason of great weight to mooue men to take heed of treasons and concealements of them making especially against the life of the Lordes annoynted wherein if men doe but considerately marke the way that God hath taken of disclosing bloud and bloudie purposes in causing against order of nature dum senselesse creatures to rise vp as proclaymers of these villanies how closely soeuer don how priuily so euer attempted one or all the earth it selfe shall disclose Cains murther vpon his brother rather then righteous Abels bloud shall goe vnpunished as is to see Gen. 4. 10. And the rather if we doe consider the excellencie and the high prerogatiue that God hath giuen to Princes aboue other mē who herein doe goe farre beyonde all others in that together with others they do not onely beare the image of God but that more is they do beare vpon them the very glorious image of his Maiesty here on earth yea this may be sayde of very Tyrants that are and possesse the throne of Iustice as is Psal 82. 6. Dixi Dii quidem est is filii excelsi vos omnes I haue say de ye are Gods and the sons of the most high that is I haue put vpon you my sacred person which you are to resemble vpon earth whilest ye rule amongest the sonnes of men If this be so that a man hath not freedom of thought against a ruler of the people how much then are they giltie of capitall crime before God and men who do proceed not to disclosing but to counsell giuing not to opening cōspiracies but to open practising of them not to stopping a monstrous course of the shedding of the bloud that of a Prince but to consenting agreeing plats laying and ioyning hand in hand with the ringleaders in such an euill saying as Salomon chap. 1. describing sinners Come with vs we will laye waight for bloud c. This is not with Iohanan to discouer betimes the treason of false hearted Jshmaell But yet to make this matter more playne by examples out of holy Scriptures First then let vs consider howe God himselfe who could myraculously and vppon the instant haue deliuered Joseph yet hee that hath ordeyned meanes for the preseruation of his seruauntes would not without the meanes of discouerie the daunger of Joseph by the handes of his Angell as it is in the second Chapter of S. Mathewes gospell Behold the Angell of the Lorde appeareth to Ioseph in a dreame saying arise and take the Babe and his mother and flee into Egypt and be there till I bring thee worde for Herod will seeke the Babe to destroy him Wherein wee see the Lorde preuenteth by foretelling Ioseph the daunger hee stoode in the crueltie of Herod the King that notwithstanding his rage exceeded to the distruction of so many innocents being babes and children yet God in dispight of him against whome neyther counsell nor wisedome nor strength preuaileth prouided that the Messias promised could not possibly by him be found out but was mightily preserued to the glorie of God and the redemption of all Gods chosen by his bloud And as God vsed the ministery of a heauenly minister euen his Angell whome to this ende God had ordeyned to the seruice of his sonne in the discouerie of Herods pretended euill to stoppe it so likewise he sayth by the meanes of his Prophetes in former times discouered euill pretended and platformes layde for the ouerthrowe of his people that his glorie and power might be seene in their deliuerance That I may remember vnto you first the entire loue of Ionathan to Dauid when Saule oftentimes pretended his death Sed Ionathan filius Saulis delectabatur Dauide valde 1. But Ionathan the sonne of Saule had a great fauour to Dauid 2. And Ionathan tolde Dauid saying Saule my father goeth about to slay thee Nowe therefore J pray thee take heede vnto thy selfe vnto the morning and abide in a secret place and hide thy selfe 3. And I will goe out and stande by my father in the field where thou art and wil commune with my father of thee J wil see what he saith and J will tell thee And again in the 20. Chap. the discouerie of Saules minde being too ill towardes Dauid was made by Jonathan by the shooting of three arrowes beyonde Dauid where hee warned him to stande to receiue the intelligence which afterward fel out as in the 38. ver of that chapter is mentioned Now by the way if it should be obiected against Ionathan that he did ill in bewraying his father and his Princes secrets neyther did hee therein shewe anye loyaltie it may be answered that there was no want of dutie on Jonathans part to Saule in the Lorde because the obedience of children to parentes hath his limitation as Paule Fphes 6. 1. Children obey your Parentes in the Lorde for this is right And this act of Saule Ionathan knewe was agaynst the lawe of GOD and could not bee warranted by the lawe of man Besides hee did not commit any disloyaltie to Saule as hee was King for the discouerie of the acte to Dauid because it neyther was preiudiciall to the state of the King nor Countrey anye way And againe Ionathan knewe that Dauid sought the good of Saule his father and not the euill and agayne Jonathan knewe that Saule was ledde with a spirite of malice and enuie and not with any regarde of iustice in pursuing Dauid as a malefactour finally the Lorde was betweene Ionathan and Dauid in the league of friendshippe couenaunted betweene them and GOD it was who raysed vppe Ionathan a speciall instrument for Dauids deliueraunce from Saules frenticke furie Nay had hee not stayed Saules rage and discouered it to Dauid hee had doubtlesse exceedingly sinned against the Lorde and his Church But to proceede wee reade in the holy Historie in the seconde of the Kinges the 6. Chapter howe it pleased GOD to deale mercifully with his people Israell when the King of Aram warred against it There could not be taken any counsell against Israell by the King of Syria but the Lorde made it knowne to his Prophet Elisha to the ouerthrowe of the King of Arams purposes as the text maketh it playne 8. verse Then the King of Aram warred against Jsraell and tooke counsell with his seruauntes and sayde in such and such a place shall be my Campe. 9. Therefore the man of God sent vnto the King of Jsraell saying Beware thou goe not ouer to such a place for there the Aramytes are come downe These meanes of the discouerie of practises against Prince or Countrey God hath ratified and ordeyned as presidentes for all people to laye vp in their heartes and