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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06108	The theatre of Gods iudgements: or, a collection of histories out of sacred, ecclesiasticall, and prophane authours concerning the admirable iudgements of God vpon the transgressours of his commandements. Translated out of French and augmented by more than three hundred examples, by Th. Beard.; Histoires memorables des grans et merveilleux jugemens et punitions de Dieu. English	Chassanion, Jean de, 1531-1598.; Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.	1597 (1597)	STC 1659; ESTC S101119	344,939	488

necessarie points concerning this matter CHAP. IIII. How the iustice of God is more euidently declared vpon the mighty ones of this world then vpon any other and the cause why SEeing then that these men are more guiltie and culpable of sinne then any other they deserue so much a more grieuous punishment by how much their misdeedes are more grieuous Psal 58 11. for doubtlesse There is a God that iudgeth the earth as the Psalmist saith who as he is benigne and mercifull towards those that fear and obey him so he will not suffer iniquitie to goe vnpunished This is he saith the Prophet that executeth iustice mercie and iudgement vpon the earth for if it be the dutie of an earthly prince to exercise not onely clemencie and gentlenesse but also sharpenesse and seueritie thereby by punishing and chastising malefactors to suppresse all disorders in the Commonwealth then it is verie necessarie that the iustice of our great God to whom all soueraine rule and authority belongeth and who is the Iudge of the whole world should either manifest it selfe in this world or in the world to come and chiefly towardes them which are in the highest places of account who being more hardned and bold to sinne doe as boldly exempt themselues from all corrections and punishments due vnto them being altogether vnwilling to bee subiect to any order of iustice or law whatsoeuer and therefore by how much the more they cannot bee punished by man and that humane lawes can lay no hold vpon them so much the rather God himselfe becommeth executioner of his owne iustice vpon their pates and in such sort that euery man may perceiue his hand to be vpon them Let anie aduersitie or affliction light vpon a man of low degree or vvhich is poore and desolate no man considereth of it rightly but talking thereof men cease not to impute the cause of this poore soules miserie either to pouertie or want of succour or some other such like cause Therefore if anie such be in griefe or by chance fallen into some pit and drowned or robbed killed in the way by theeues straight way this is the saying of the vvorld That it commeth thus to passe either because hee vvas alone without companie or destitute of helpe or not well looked to and regarded and thus they passe ouer the matter But as concerning great men vvhen they are anie vvay afflicted no such pretences or excuses can be alleaged seeing they want neither seruants to attend vpon them nor any other means of help to succour them therefore when these men are ouertaken and surprised vvith anie great euill which by no meanes they can eschew wheÌ„ their bold and wicked enterprises are pursued concluded with strange and lamentable euents in this wee must acknowledge an especiall hand of God who can entangle and pull downe the prowdest and arrogantest he that liues those whom the world feareth to meddle vvith all these prowd gallants are they against whom God displaieth his banner of power more openly then against meaner and baser persons because these poore soules find oftentimes to their paines that they are punished vvithout cause and tormented and vexed by those Tyrants not hauing committed any offence at all to deserue it whereas as Philip Comine saith vvho dare be so bold as to controll or reprehend a King and his fauorites or to make inquirie of his misdeedes or hauing made inquisition of them who dare presume to enforme the Iudge thereof Who dare stand vp to accuse them Who dare sit downe to iudge them Nay vvho dare take knowledge of them And lastly vvho dare assay to punish them Seeing then in this case that our vvorldly iustice hath her handes bound behind her from executing that which is right it must needs bee that the soueraine Monarch of heauen and earth should mount vp into his throne of iudgement and from thence giue his definitiue vnchaungeable sentence to deliuer vp the most guilty and hainous sinners to those paines and torments which they haue deserued and that after a strange and extraordinarie manner which may serue for an example to all others CHAP. V. How all men both by the law of God and Nature are inexcusable in their sinners NOw to the end that no man should pretend ignorance for an excuse God hath bestowed vpon euery one a certaine knowledge and iudgement of good and euill which being naturally engraued in the tables of mans heart is commonly called The law of nature whereby euery man 's owne conscience giueth sufficient testimony vnto it selfe when in his most secret thoughts it either accuseth or excuseth him for there is not a man liuing which doth not know in his owne heart that he doth an euill deed when he wrongeth another although he had neuer bene instructed elsewhere in that point So although that in Tarquinius Superbus time Cicero saith there was no written law established in Rome forbidding the rauishing and deflouring of wiues and virgines yet the wicked sonne of this Tarquine was not therefore lesse guilty of an hainous crime when contrary to the law of nature hee violently robbed Lucrece of her chastity for no man can be ignorant that it is a most grieuous crime to lay siege to the chastitie of a maried woman with such outrage and so the whole people of Rome did esteeme of it as a crime most wicked strange and intollerable and worthy of grieuous punishment Euery man knoweth thus much that he ought not to do that to another which he would not another should do to him which sentence the Emperour Seuerus made alwaies to be spoken aloud and declared by the sound of the trumpet in the way of aduertisement as often as punishment was taken vpon any offender as if it were a generall law pertaining to all men This is that equity iustice which ought to be ingrafted in our hearts wherof nature herself is the schoolmistresse from this fountaine all humane and ciuill lawes are deriued if we had not rather say that they are deriued from that true spring of equity which is in the law of God which law he hath giuen for a plaine and familiar manifestation of his will concerning iust holy and reasonable things touching the seruice honour and glorie which is due vnto himselfe and the mutuall dutie friendship and good will which men owe one to another whereunto he exhorteth and entiseth euery one by faire and gratious promises and forbiddeth the contrarie by great and terrible threatnings so gentle mercifull is he towards vs and desirous of our good This is that law which was published before the face of more then six hundred thousand persons with the mighty resouÌ„ding noise of trumpet with earthquake fire and smoke with thunders lightnings to make men more attentiue to heare more prepared to receiue it with all humility feare reuerence also to put them in mind that if they were disobedient rebellious he

town of Champaigne to remoue the siege wherewith it was girt by the Duke of Burgoine and other of the English captaines Sir Iohn Leupembrough a Burgonian knight took her aliue and conueied her to the city of Roane where she faining her self with child when the contrarie was knowne was condemned and burnt And thus these two holy women that in a diuerse kind mocked the people of England and France by their hypocrisie by the iustice of God came to deserued destructions CHAP. XXIII Of Coniurers and Enchanters IF God by his first commandement hath enioined euery one of vs to loue serue and cleaue unto him alone in the coniunction and vnity of a true faith and hope vnremoueable there is no doubt but he forbiddeth on the other side that which is contrarie to this foresaid dutie and herein especially that cursed familiarity which diuerse miserable wretches haue with that lying spirit the father of error by whose delusions and subtiltie they busie themselues in the studie of sorceries and enchantments wherevpon it is forbidden the Israelites in the nineteenth of Leuiticus Leuit. 19.31 to turne after familiar spirites or to seeke to soothsayers to bee defiled by them and the more to withdraw men from this damnable crime in the chapter following there is a threat set downe against it in manner of a commandement 20.27 That if either man or woman haue a spirit of diuination or soothsaying in them they should die the death they should stone them to death their blood should be vpon them Exod. 22.18 so in the twentie two of Exodus the law of God saith Thou shalt not suffer a witch to liue and Moses following the same steps giueth an expresse charge in in the eighteenth of Deutronotny against this sinne saying Let none bee found among thee that vseth witchcraft Deu. 18.10.11 nor that regardeth the clouds or times nor a sorcerer or a charmer or that counselleth with a spirit or a teller of fortunes or that asketh counsell at the dead for all that doe such things are abhomination vnto the Lord 1. Sam. 15. Isay 8.19.20 and therefore this sinne in the 1. Sam. 15. Is reputed amongst the most hainous and enormous sinnes that can bee When they shall say vnto you saith the Prophet enquire at them that haue a spirit of diuination and at the soothsaier which whisper and murmure answer Should not a people inquire at their God From the liuing to the dead To the law and to the testimony Wherfore it was a commendable thing and worthy the imitation when they that had receiued the faith by Paules preaching Acts. 19.19 hauing before vsed curious arts as Magicke and such like being touched with the feare of God brought their bookes and burned them before all men although the price thereof amounted to fifty thousand peeces of siluer which by Budeus his supputatioÌ„ ariseth to fiue thousand French crownes The counsels as that of Carthage and that other of Constantinople kept the second time in the suburbes vtterly condemned the practise of all coniurers and enchanters The twelue tables in Rome adiudged to punishmeÌ„ts those that bewitched the standing corn And for the ciuill law this kind is condemned both by the law Iulia and Cornelia In like manner the wisest Emperours those I meane that attained to the honor of Christianity ordained diuerse edicts and prohibitions vnder very shape greeuous punishments against all such villanie as Constantine in the ninth booke of the Cod. tit 18. enacted that whosoeuer should attempt any action by art Magicke against the safety of any person or should bring in or stirre vp any man to make him fall into any mischiefe or riotous demeanour should suffer a greeuous punishment in the fifth law hee forbiddeth euery man to aske counsaile at witches or to vse the helpe of charmers and sorcerers vnder the paine of death Let them saith hee in the sixt law bee throwne to wild beasts to bee deuoured that by coniuring or the helpe of familiar spirits go about to kill either their enemies or any other Moreouer in the seuenth law hee willeth that not so much as his owne courtiers and seruants if they were found faulty in this crime should be spared but seuerely punished yet neuerthelesse many of this age giue themselues ouer to this filthy sinne without either feare of God or respect of law Some thorough a foolish and dangerous curiositie others through the ouerruling of their owne vile and wicked affections and a third sort troubled with the terrours of an euill conscience desire to know what shall befall and happen vnto them in the end Thus Saul the first king of Israel being troubled in himselfe terrified with the army of the Philistims that came against him would needs foreknow his owne fortune and the issue of this doubtfull warre Now whereas before whilst he perfourmed the duty of a good king and obeied the commaundement of God hee had cleansed his realme of witches and enchaunters yet is he now so mad as to make them serue his owne turne and to vse their counsels in his extremitie adding this wickednesse to the number of his other great sinnes that the measure thereof might be full hee went therefore to a witch to seeke counsell who caused a deuill to appeare and speake unto him in the shape of Samuel and foretell him of Gods iust iudgement vpon his wickednesse his vtter and finall ruine and destruction Plutarch in the life of Romulus reporteth of one Cleomedes a man in proportion of body and cruell practises Plutarch Romulus huge and giantlike who for that hee was the cause of the death of many little children and was pursued by the parents of those dead infants who sought to be reuenged on him for that cruell part hee hid himselfe in a coffer closing the lid fast to him but when the coffer was broken vp the coniurer was not therein neither aliue nor dead but was transported by the malicious spirit the deuill vnto a place of greater torment Ancient histories make mention of one Piso a man of credit and authoritie among the Romanes Tacit. whome the Emperour Tiberius gaue vnto his sonne Germanicus for an helper counsellour in the managing of his affaires in Asia so well was he perswaded both of his sufficiencie courage and loialtie towards him It chanced a while after that hee was suspected to haue bewitched to death the said Germanicus the signes markes of which suspition were certaine dead mens bones digged out of the earth with diuers charmes and curses and Germanicus name engrauen in tables of lead and such like trash which witches exercise to murder men withall were found with him whereupon Tiberius himselfe accused him of that crime but would not haue the ordinary iudges to sit vpon it but by speciall priuiledge committed the enquiry thereof vnto the Senate Pise when euery man thought hee was preparing himselfe for his defence against the morrow like

in Israel the chiefe captaines and soueraignes amongst them were renowmed with no other title nor quality than of Iudges In the time of Deborah the Prophetesse though shee was a woman the weaker vessell yet because shee had the conducting and gouerning of the people they came vnto her to seeke iudgement It is said of Samuel that hee iudged Israel so long till being tired with age and not able to beare that burden any longer he appointed his sonnes for iudges in his stead who when through couetousnesse they peruerted iustice Iudg. 4. 1. Sam. 7.8 and did not execute iudgement like their father Samuel they gaue occasion to the people to demaund a king that they might be iudged gouerned after the manner of other nations which things sufficiently declared that in old time the principall charge of kings was personally to administer iustice and iudgement and not as now to transfer the eare thereof to others The same we read of king Dauid of whome it is said That during his raigne 1. Chron. 18. he executed iustice and iudgement among his people and in another place that men came vnto him for iudgement 2. Sam. 15. and therefore hee disdained not to heare the complaint of the woman of Tekoah shewing himselfe herein a good prince and as the angell of God to heare good and euill 2. Sam. 14. for this cause Salomon desired not riches nor long life of the Lord but a wise and discreete heart to iudge his people 1. King 3. and to discerne betwixt good and euill which request was so agreeable and acceptable to God that he graunted it vnto him so that he obtained such an excellent measure of incomparable wisdome that hee was commended and reputed more for it than for all his great riches and pretious treasures beside there is mention madâ— in the booke of the kings of his iudiciall throne wherein hee vsed to sit and heare the causes of the people and execute iustice among them and albeit he was the most puissant and glorious king of the earth yet notwithstanding hee scorned not to heare two harlots plead before him about the controuersie of a dead infant Ioram king of Israel son of Achab 2. King 6. though a man that walked not vprightly before God but gaue himselfe to worke abomination in his sight yet he despised not the complaint of the poore affamished woman of Samaria when shee demanded iustice at his hands although it was in the time of warre when lawes vse to be silent and in the besieging and famishment of the citie neither did hee reiect the Sunamites request for the recouery of her house lands 2. King 8. but caused them to be restored vnto her So that then it is manifest that those kings which in old time raigned ouer the people of God albeit they had in euery city Iudges yea and in Ierusalem also as it appeareth in the 19 chapter of the second book of Chronicles yet they ceased not for all that to giue eare to suites and complaints that were made vnto them and to decide controuersies that came to their knowledge and for this cause it is that Wisdome saith That by her kings raigne Prou 8.15 and princes decree iustice whereunto also belongeth that which is said in another place That a king sitting in the throne of iudgement chaseth away all euill with his eyes Prou. 20.8 Moreouer that this was the greatest part of the office and duty of kings in ancient times to see the administration of iustice Homer the Poet may bee a sufficient witnesse when hee saith of Agamemnon That the scepter and law was committed to him by God to do right to euery man answerable to the which Virgil describing the Queene of Carthage saith Shee sate in iudgement in the midst of her people as if there was nothing more beseeming such a person than such an action And therefore the Poets not without cause faigne Iupiter alwaies to haue Themis that is to say Iustice at his elbow signifying thereby not that whatsoeuer kings or princes did was iust and lawfull bee it neuer so vile in it owne nature as that wanton flatterer Anaxarthus said to Alexander but that equity iustice should alwaies accoÌ„pany theÌ„ neuer depart from their sides And hereupon it was that Acacus Minos and Radamanthus the first king of Grecia were so renowmed of old antiquity because of their true and vpright execution of iustice and therefore were not honoured with any greater title than the name of Iudges Plutarch It is said of king Alexander that although he was continually busied in the affaires of warre and of giuing battailes yet he would sit personally in iudgement to heare criminall causes and matters of importance pleaded and that whilst the accuser laid open his accusation he would stop one eare with his hand to the end that the other might bee kept pure and without preiudice for the defence and answer of the accused The Romane Emperours also were very carefull and diligent in this behalfe Sueton. as first Iulius Caesar who is recorded to haue taken great paines in giuing audience to parties and in dealing iustice betwixt them In like manner Augustus Caesar is commended for his care and trauaile in this behalfe for he would ordinarily sit in iudgement vpon causes and controuersies of his subiects and that with such great delight and pleasure that often times night was faine to interrupt his course before his will was to relinquish it yea though hee found himselfe euill at ease yet would hee not omit to apply himselfe to the diuision of iudgement or else calling the parties before him to his bed The Emperour Claudius though a man otherwise of a dull and grosse spirit yet in this respect hee discharged the dutie of a good prince for that hee would intermeddle with hearing his subiects causes and doe right vnto them He chaunced once to make a very prety and witty end of a sute betwixt a sonne and his mother who denying and disclaiming him to be her sonne was by the Emperour commanded to marry him so least shee should agree to that mischiefe was constrained to acknowledge and auow him for her sonne and to be short it was very ordinary and vsuall among the Emperours to take knowledge of matters controuerted but especially of criminall and capitall causes by meanes whereof the Apostle Paul desirous to shew the iudgement and lyings in waight of his enemies the Iewes appealed from them to Caesar which he would neuer haue done if Caesar had not in some sort vsed to meddle with such affaires and for further proofe hereof hither may be added the saying which is reported of Nero in the beginning of his raigne That when he should signe with his hand a sentence of death against a condemned person hee wished that he could neither wright nor read to the end to auoid that necessary action The bold answer of an old

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