money for the kings tribute When the blessed virgin was verie great by the holie Ghost with the Sauiour of our soules in the depth of winter shee tranailed from Nazareth in Galile Luc. 2.4 5 6. to Bethlem in Iudah to performe this dutie to the vnder Officers of a Lieutenant to an heathen prince When the sonne of God conuersing with the sonnes of men Math. 17.24 25 26 27. Peter was asked if he paid not tribute he taking tribute of an vnreasonable creature that tribute for him and peter might be paid bound all the reasonable men Of the Sonne of God paying it though to paye it wrought a miracle may mooue euery one to the perfourmance of this dutie though they doe it with their great difficultie to performe this dutie to Caesar Wherefore I conclude this poynt with Saint Ambrose Si censum filius Dei soluit quis tu tantus es qui non putas esse soluendum If the sonne of God paid tribute or subsidie who so great a man art thou which thinkest it not to be paid Sonne Before you enter into your speech of defence Defence I desire to heare some incouragement to this dutie Father To encourage vs in this dutie wherein whoso through dastardie or any other vile respect fayleth Punishments of Dastardie amongest the Romanes I wish him banished either into Italie whose glorie the auncient Romanes condemned such wretches neuer to eat their meat but standing Transiluanians and herevnto bound them by oath or to the Transiluanians Those of that countrey of Dacia whose predecessours the Daci inioyned them seruile subiection to their owne wiues and to sleepe with their heades euer towardes the beddes féete Or to that part of Greece where sometime dwelt the Spartanes Spartans who ordayned that their cloathes should be rent their Beardes euer halfe cut permitted euerie man to strike them without penaltie but accompted it a great disgrace to match in their stocke To encourage vs to this dutie let vs consider her Maiesties confidence in God Incouragements to this dutie Gods encouragement to her Maiestie the confusion of her enemies the thankesgiuing befitting England Her Maiesties confidence in God The Lord is my rock and my fortresse and he that deliuereth me God is my strength and in him will I trust my Shield and the horne of my saluation 2 Sam 22.2.3 my high tower my refuge my Sauiour thou hast saued me from violence 1. Caesars confidence in God Gods encouragement to her Maiestie Be strong and of a good courage Gods incouragement to Caesar Iosua 1.6 The confusion of her foes whither forraine inuading her Dominions or conspiring at home but confounded from heauen That as The confusion of Caesars foes Heliodorus told the King Seleucus of the Temple they may tell their Spanish and Italian founders of her Maiestie 2. Mac. 3.38.39 If thou hast any enemie or Traitour sende him thither and thou shalt receiue him wel scourged if he escape with his life For in that place no doubt is a speciall power of God for he that dwelleth in heauen hath his eye on that place and defendeth it and he beateth and destroyeth them that come to hurt it The thankesgiuing of Israel now well befitteth England The thankesgiuing now befitting England If the Lord himselfe 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 Psal 124. they then had swallowed vs vp quicke when their wrath was kindled against vs the waters had drowned vs and the streame had gone ouer our soule then had the swelling waters gone ouer our soule praised be the Lord which hath not giuen vs a praie vnto their teeth our soule is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the Fowler the snare is broken weare deliuered our helpe is in the name of the Lord which hath made heauen earth Therefore I speak not to the alone Cant. 2.7 but as the true louer of soules saith I charge you O daughters of Ierusalem by the Roes by the Hindes of the field that you stirre not vp nor waken my loue vntill she please so I charge you my duety to my God my duety to his Church The Adiiuration my duty to my Soueraigne together with my desire of the safety of your selues and the saluation of your soules enforceth me this to charge you I charge you O sonnes daughters of the supernal Ierusalem by the ioyes of Heauen as euer you would enioy them by the paines of Hell as euer you would auoide them Gal. 4.26 by the pretious bloud of the Sonne of God as euer therein you would be washed from your sinnes by the blessed fauour of the eternal Father to reueale forraine complots 2 Kings 68.9.12 as euer you would see his face If you know of any King of Aram taking counsell with his seruants agninst Israel if God by any meanes reueale it vnto you that you would with Eliseus make knowen to our Caesar euen the words that the King of Aram speaketh in his priuie Chamber If any Bigthan and Teresh To detect domesticall conspiracies Ester 2.21 22. seeke to lay hands on our Soueraigne that you would presently with Mordocheus and Ester certifie our Soueraigne If your seruice be fitting To performe all dutifull seruice 1. Sam. 10.26 Carefull to guard her Maiestie 1. Sam. 26.15 16. that whersoeuer she goe yee attend her as that band of men did Saul whose heart God had touched that when she resteth ye keepe her that none that be willing to hurt her come neere the Lords annointed least as Dauid said to Abner it be said to you yee be worthy to die because ye haue not kept the Lords annointed That if ye see any apparance of perill you with Dauids men To preuent all perill 2 Sam. 21.17 2 Sam. 18.3 and with the true hearted people be carefull that she being worth ten thousand of vs come not into any perill If in the least distresse the Lord keepe her from all distresse her soule desireth any thing that may preserue her To prouide whatsoeuer may preserue her that you would with all alacritie prouide it as the three mightie euen with the hazard of their liues brake into the hoste of the Philistines 2 Sam. 23.15 16. and drew water out of the Well of Bethelem and brought it to Dauid If any with Isâ—ibenob thinke my touge faultreth in pronouncing the word 2 Sam. 21.16 17. To destroy all that would assault her An assertion of assistance Iudges 5.20 21. Iudges 5.15 18. Prediction of honour to all true Seruitours Iudges 4.14 15 16. and 5.12 15. Especially the cheefe commaunders 5.16 17. But of dishonourable reproach to the negligent And verse 23. of a curse froÌ„ God himselfe vppon obstiâ—â—â—e Offendours in this point and the Lord confound them that entertaine any such entent
sonne that so many as beleeue in him should not perish but haue euerlasting life In this worlde externally hath for our sakes sent out the Aungels to minister Preseruation Heb. 1 14. internally hath giuen vs the spirit of adoption whereby wee crie Abba father Sanctification Rom. 8 15 16. the same spirite beareth witnesse with our spirit that wee are the children of God Glorification 1. Cor. 2.9 against the world to come hath prepared for vs the things which eye hath not seene neither eare hath heard neither came in-the heart of man Sonne Being bound by so many bonds to the seruice of God Assurance that God inthroneth Caesar a great motiue to allegiance I should euer most willingly serue Caesar if it would please you to shewe some proofe that Caesar is enthroned by God Father Proofe of that doth the scripture shewe both by plaine testimonies Double profe that God in throned Caesar Plaine testimonies And those bee affirmatiue Wisd 6 23 and euident arguments By plaine testimonies and that both affirmatiuely and negatiuely affirmatiuely So saith the Wiseman Giue eare ye that rule the multitudes glorie in the multitude of the people for the rule is giuen you of the Lord and power by the most high vncreated wisdome by me kings raigne Prou. 8.15 and princes decree iustice The prophet He taketh away kinges Dan. 2 21. Rom. 13 1 Or negatiue hee setteth vp kings the Apostle The powers that be are ordained of God Negatiuely So Christ to his disciples Math. 10 29 Not a Sparrow falleth to the ground without your father So Christ to Pilate Iohn 19 11 Rom. 13 1.2 euident arguments Thou couldest haue no power at all against me except it were giuen thee from aboue So Saint Paul There is no power but of God Sonne These euident testimonies be sufficient proofes but yet what I beseech you be the other arguments Father His spirit altering their hearts 1. Sam. 10.9 1. Sam. 16.19 His spirite altering their hearts Soone after Saul was anointed king God gaue him another heart From the day that Samuel anointed Dauid the spirit of the Lord came vpon Dauid His eyes securing their thrones Iob. 36.7 Their end Rom. 13.6 The title he taketh of them to himselfe Psal 10.16 The title he giueth them with his own mouth Psal 82 6. His direction of their hearts tongues and hands His eies securing their thrones His eies are with kings in the throne where he placeth thē for euer thus they are exalted Their ende beeing to do him seruice They are Gods ministers applying themselues for the same thing The title that he taketh from them to himselfe The Lord is king for euer and euer The title he with his own mouth giueth to them Ego dixi not any creature in heauen or earth but the Creator of heauen earth he saith I haue said ye are Gods The kings heart is in the hand of the Lord he turneth it whensoeuer it pleaseth him In the kings heart is the will of God Prou. 21.1 Prou. 16.10 2. Chro. 19.9 in the kings mouth is the decree of God in the signing of the kings hand the iudgements of God Sonne More cleare is it then the light Obiection Answere Euill Of Crime Of Paine Euill of crime is not of God Hee needeth it not Gen. 17.1 He forbiddeth it 1. Iohn 3.4 He licenceth no man to do it Ecclus. 15.20 He hateth all that cōmit it Psal 55. Heaccurseth it Deut. 28.15 He seuerely punisheth it The Impenitent hee eternally cōdemneth for it Math. 25.41 that all good princes are of God but since euery euill prince is so great an euill so great a plague how can he be of God who is the onely spring from whence all goodnesse flow Father There is an euill of Crime and an euill of paine the euill of crime is sinne the euill of paine is the punishment of Sinne. The euill of crime is not of God God béeing all sufficient doth not need it It is the transgression of the Lawe therefore he doeth forbid it hee commaunded no man to doe it neither gaue hee any man a licence for it hee hateth all them that commit it he accurseth it he I call to witnesse Adam thrust out of Paradise the olde world drowned with the floud Sodom and Gomor flaming with fire the Sonne of God for the sinnes of men giuing vp his Ghost vpon the Crosse seuerely punisheth it and in the impenitent he eternally condemneth it The euill of Pain is of God Esay 45.7 Amos. 3.6 A good King cometh from the right hand of Gods mercie An euil king from the left hand of Gods Iustice Hosea 13.11 For the sins of the people hee suffereth the hipocrite to raigne Iob. 34.30 2. A good King to fal 2 Sam. 24.1 1 Cron. 21 1. 3. Chaungeth Kings Prou. 28.2 4. Punishe Prince people 1 Sam. 12.25 ◠Bringeth euill from the good Prince vpon the euill The euill of Paine is the punishment of sin and this is throwne from the Throne of God vppon the heads of wicked men I sayth the Lord forme the light and create darknesse I make peace and create euill the Prophet of the Lord shall there bee euill in a Cittie and the Lord hath not done it As a good Kinge commeth from the right hand of Gods mercie so an euill King from the left hande of Gods Iustice Sometimes for our sinnes hee giueth an euill Kinge I gaue thee a Kinge in mine anger he maketh the Hipocrite to raigne for the sinnes of the people for the sinnes of the people he suffereth a good King to fall Israell hauing sinned against God God suffered Sathan to put into Dauids heart the numbering of the people for the sinnes of the people hée changeth Kinges for the transgression of the Lande there are many Princes thereof For the sins of Prince and people God punisheth the Prince and people If ye doe wickedly ye shall perish both yee and your Kinge If thou béest euill euill shall come to thée from him though hee bee good for he is the Minister of God to take vengeance on him that doth euill Rom. 13.4 Titles of euill princes shewe thē to be Instruments of gods Iustice Since therefore euerie Prince both good and bad is of God therefore calleth hee Ashur the Rod of his wrath the staffe in their handes his indignation therefore calleth he Nabuchodonozor king of Babell his seruant Esay 10.5 Rodde of his wrath Ieremie 27.6 seruant Esay 45.1 annointed Flagellum Dei Ira Dei 1 Peter 2.18 therfore calleth hée Cyrus his Annointed therefore I take it did Attila call him selfe Gods scourge and Themir-cuthclu vulgarly Tamberlaine himselfe the wrath of God as Peter commaundeth seruants to bee subiect to their Maisters with all feare not onely to the good and courteous but also to the froward so I aduise all Subiects to bée subiect to their Princes with al feare not
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
science first not beléeuing but afterwards with his owne eyes often séeing he is with the Wise-man readie to say Wisd 16.12 Neither hearbe nor plaister healed them Wherefore as Pharaoh said of Ioseph expounding his dreame Can wee finde such a man So we séeing her most excellent Maiestie by the myraculous gift of God healing this disease Can wee finde such a woman as this Gen. 41.38 To be honored as a skilfull Pilot. An. Dom. 1588. By the conduct of the right honorable Charles Lord Howard now Earle of Nottingham Lord high Admirall of England in whom is the spirite of God Honour her as a skilfull Pylot who notwithstanding tempests by winds from beyond the Alpes and Pyrenaean Mountaines notwithstanding the waues of the Sea haue beene lift vp to heauen an inuincible Armada out of Castile Portugall Biscaie Andolusia Arragon Scicilia Naples Sardinia the Baleares the Canaries the Treceras the Indias with assistance of Rome Florence Genua Malta and others deuoted to the Spanish when peace was pretended came against vs Notwithstanding the dreadfull rocks dangerous gulfes deuowring sands horrible swallowing whirle-pooles vpon our owne coastes This the present age admireth posteritie will celebrate As a good Shepheard The great Shepheard who redeemed vs by his crosse will crowne her with an incorruptible Crowne hath brought her from being a Sheepe to the slaughter to be a Shepheard for our saluation Psal 23.2 Iudith 7.8 12 31 14. Howe the Scripture teacheth vs to honor Caesar doth so still guide vs in a calme that admiring and amazed wee may say what man what woman what woman more excellent than any man so to the worlds admiration protected directed and blessed of the Almightie that windes and seas doe so obey her that rockes that shelfes that syrts that gulfes that whirle-pooles cannot annoy her Haue not the sheepe a respectiue regard of the shepheard That flocke for keeping whereof euer since the great shepheard for whom she was sometime tanquam ouis of whom she shall receiue an incorruptible Crowne of glory hath giuen her a hooke she hath by most vigilant shepheards made vs rest in greene pastures and leadeth vs by though many a vassall of Babylon haue endeauoured to cut them off from our Bethulia the waters of comfort Will you see what titles God giueth to a King the title of Father of Lord of Gods Minister of comforter of annointed of God yea all the titles of honour in Heauen and Earth The people ioyfully 1 Kinges 1. 39 48. Men of warre in the actions most respectfully 2 Sam. 12.27 28. God and man hauing so honoured Caesar let all our people honour Caesar as all the people with ioy and musicall instruments honoured Salomon Let all Generals of armies so honour her that all be done to her honour as Ioab fighting against Rabbah of the children of Ammon and being readie to take the Citie of waters The greatest in acces most carefully Ester 5.1 2. sent to Dauid to come in person that Dauid not Ioab might haue the honour Let her be honoured with great regard in accesse to her presence euen of the nearest and dearest vnto her In presence euen the Ministers of God most humbly as Esther being in her royall apparell stood in the Court of the Pallace vntill the King held out the golden Scepter Let her be honoured in her presence with most humble gesture euen of the Ministers of the eternal God 1 Kings 1.23 as Nathan the Prophet being come vnto the King made obeisance before the King vpon his face to the ground Let her be honoured with gratefull acknowledging of the Lord his vnspeakable blessinge and therefore as Ioachim the high Priest and the auncients of the children of Israel said to Iudeth In acknowledging gods blessings vppon vs all generallye are to honour Caesar for the benefits that God by her had shewed to the children of Israel let the Reuerend Fathers of the Church and the truely honourable Nobilitie of England say of Elizabeth for the benefits which God by her most excellent Maiestie hath shewed to England Thou art the exaltation of Ierusalem thou art the great glory of Israel thou art the great reioycing of our Nation Iudith 15.8 9 10. thou hast done all these things by thine hand thou hast done much good to Israel and God is pleased there with blessed be thou of the Almightie Lord for euermore and let all the people say So be it Sonne Finding that your instruction for these two Feare and honour prepare vs to other duties haue prepared my mind to receiue the rest I desire to know the rest of my dueties to Caesar Father Of them the next is Obedience which since it is vniust Obedience Not to obey Caesar our owne practise teach vs to be vniust Aristot in his Oeconom to require of inferiours as the husband of the Wife the Father of the sonne the Maister of the seruant and not to giue it to the Superiour euery Subiect to his Soueraigne since that is true in the estate Diligent obedience the path to preferment Obedience of Subiects the felicitie of the estate Sophocles in Antig. Then disobedience no greater euill Matt. 12.25 Disobedience ruinateth an estate Titus 3.1 Paule giueth a memorandū to teach obedience 1. Pet. 2.14 Peter commādeth not only to obey the king but for the kings sake the officers of the king Examples of obedience in the beasts Insecta be the flies worms such as bee diuided in their bodies as the Bee the wasp the Emot or Pis-mier and such like In the fowles In all Estates In man In the celestiall spheres In the Angels Psal 103.20 In the sonne of God Matth. 26 53. In his cōming into the worlde In his being in the world In his going out of the world Iohn 6.38 Iohn 4.34 Matth. 26.38 In his agonie manifested by his sweate and his praier Luk. 22.44 Matth. 26.39.42 44 Obedience actiue and passiue which Aristole auoucheth in a family by how much the more diligently any obey so much the greater fauour they finde since that as he saith the obedience of the Citizens is the felicitie of the Citie since that then their disobedience as saith that Philosopher and with him the tragicke Poet there is no greater euill Since that with it a house saith Christ cannot stand a Kingdome come to naught Since that Paule for this duety would haue a Memorandum since Peter would haue vs performe this not only to the King but also to such as are sent of the King let vs all giue all obedience to Cesar But doe examples preuaile more then reason The whole worlde swarmeth with examples of obedience If among the insecta the Bees obey their King If among the beasts of the field the Flockes follow their chiefe and the heards their head If amōg the foules of the ayre the Cranes when he that watcheth ouer them calleth they come when he flieth they
CAESARS DIALOGVE or A Familiar Communication containing the first Institution of a Subiect in allegiance to his Soueraigne Matth. 22.21 Giue therefore to Caesar the things which are Caesars AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Purfoot 1601. ⧠Cursed be he that curseth thee And Blessed be he that blesseth thee Gen 27.20 But to take vengeance on him that doth euill Rom. 13.4 ⧠Wherefore ye must be subiect not because of wrath onely but also for conscience sake Rom. 13.5 ¶ The Minister of God for thy wealth Rom. 13.4 TO All sound Members of that bodie whereof her sacred Maiestie is Supreame head Happinesse Externall Internall Eternall IF we consider howe much this admirablie-beautifull frame of the world the earth beeing adorned with sweete smelling hearbes fruit-bearing trees infinit variety of beasts after their kind the sea replenished with whales and fishes after their kind the ayre garnished with feathered fouls after their kind the heauen beautified with the sunne for the day the Moone for the night the bright-shining starres and all the hosts thereof excelleth that formelesse vastnesse of the Poets Chaos whereof saith the Scripture The earth was without forme and voide and darknes vpon the face of the deepe then may we partly conceiue how much a Monarchie which is amongst gouernments as the Sunne amōg the stars 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer Iliad B. Not good is the rule of many Let there be one Lord one King where vnder one Caesar the Nobilitie the Cleargie the Communaltie is prudently iustly happily gouerned excelleth a brutish Anarchie so hatefull to Moses soule that his death beeing by the Lord foretold him not mentioning one word of his death he presently brake out into a most patheticall praier for a Gouernour Num. 27.16.17 That the Congregation of the Lord might not be as sheepe which haue not a shepheard The God of all glory glorified therefore be his glorious name of his great grace mercy keeping vs from the one hath so blessed vs with the other as both neighbour and remote Nations crie out The happines of England Psal 144.15 O fortunatos nimium bona si sua norint anglos Happy are the people that be in such a case That which abroad so many do admire shall not euery one at home desire to preserue Could he 2. Cor. 8.12 who was taken vp into Paradise heard words which cannot be spoken which are not possible for man to vtter be himself deceiued would he who was readie to giue his life Rom. 9.3 his life yea his soule for the good of others deceiue others when he said If one member suffer 1. Cor. 12.26 all suffer with it If one member be had in honour all the members reioyce with it Are not wee members of the same bodie of the same bodie politique and temporall there being to vs all one Queene members of the same bodie ecclesiastique and spirituall their being one bodie Ephe. 4.4 5 6 one spirit one hope one Lord one faith one Baptisme one God and Father of all which is aboue all and through all and in you all Who is there of you of whom I am not to hope the best Yet can I speake onely for mine owne heart for mine owne soule Such liuely feeling hath my soule had of those bonds wherewith as Country-men wherewith as Christians wee bee combined that I could not but desire desiring endeauour endeauouring effect somewhat for the common good In Arcop If sweet Isocrates accounted that not reuenewes and riches not lawes and ordinances but good nurture of youth make a Citie quiet and happy If profound Aristotle affirmed that in vaine doe men make lawes Pol. 5.6 if youth be not brought vp in good manners If diuine Plato auerred that small need had his Common-wealth of lawes De repub li. 4 by reason of the good discipline wherein his Citizens had bin nourished Prou. 22.6 If Salomon who in respect of the others is as a Carbuncle amongest the meanest gemmes hath deliuered Teach a child in the trade of his way and when he is olde he shall not depart from it What especially if ye looke eyther vpon the pronesse of some to be seduced or vpon the malice of some mal-contents seeking to seduce or vpon some who from beyond the seas as Sathan from beyond the wildernes raise vp windes to beat our houses vpon our heads what I say more conuenient what more expedient what more necessary thā some instruction for our youth in their dutie to our Caesar An Instruction least England take vp that complaint of the Prophet Hosea 4.6 My people are destroyed for lacke of knowledge a plaine instruction least our youth doe not conceiue it a briefe instruction intending hereafter for riper heads in another tongue more amplie to handle the like argument least few should read it But to whom then shall I tender and present it May I to you most honorable Councellors who am I that knowing your Lordships as Gedeliah did not alone himselfe serue 2. King 25.24 but also incite others to serue his King not onely obey but most principally draw others to obedience to our Caesar should interrupt your graue consultations with so sleight a Schedule yet haue most of your Honours respecting the good end most honourably approued it Most and Right Reuerend Fathers of the Church to whom God hath giuen his vrim and his thummim may I present it to you I am peccatorum maximus Apostolorum minimus I know yee put them in remembrance that they be subiect to the principalities and powers and that they be obedient Most graue Iudges and Maiestrates may I present it to you The Right Honourable who is among you as a Diamond set in Gould hath in regard of the intent giuen it his double approbation You all knowing that law of the Israelites Common-wealth Deut. 17.12 13. That man that will doe presumptuously and will not hearken vnto the Priest that standeth before the Lord thy God to minister there or vnto the Iudge that man shall die and thou shalt take away euill from Israel So all the people shal heare and feare and do no more presumptuously Doe know what regard is to be had of Caesar being the Priests and Iudges Soueraigne Tutors and instructors of our youth dressors of the plants of England shall I tēder it you you being accounted most necessary members of euery weale-publike In nothing more then this can you shew your loue to your coūtry nor discharge your dueties to your Soueraigne Maisters of families and keepers of seruants shall I tender it to you Col. 4.1 May I say in this respect yee Maisters doe that vnto your seruants which is iust and equall Is it said for food rayment only or for ciuil and Christian education also 1. Tim. 5 8. That hee that prouideth not for his owne and namely for them of his household hee denieth the faith and is worse than
onely to the good and gracious but also 1 Tim. 2.2 Iohn 14.15 though they be as cruell as Nero for whome Saint Paule commanded to pray for as God the Sonne sayth If ye loue me keepe my commandements So mee thinke God the Father from whome all power is giuen God the Sonne by whom all kings doe raigne God the holy Ghost framing the heartes tongues and handes of Princes say to all worshippers of the Deitie The Iniunction of the Trinity to all worshippers of the Deitie Rom. 13.2 The 2 Cable The haynousnes of Disloyaltie What a peaceable Kingdome VVhat a Rebellious multitude resembleth Thucid. In Rebellion all kinde of euill Rebellion the chanell where the 7. Capitall Sinnes doe flowe If ye loue me keepe my ordinance Sonne Though this first Cable be sufficient to hould any heart in Allegiance which hath any anchor-hold in God I desire to heare somewhat of the greatnesse of the Crime of Disobedience and Rebellion that the greatnes of it may make me to abhorre it Father Abhorre it abhorre it indéede my Sonne for where as a well gouerned Kingdome resembleth the frame of the world yea the Kingdome of Heauen where the holy Angels blessed soules glorifying God day and night liue in eternall blisse so Rebellion resembleth not only the Chaos but Hell it selfe where is no order but euerlasting horror that well saide the greeke Historiographer in that discourse in Rebellion is all kinde of euill It is not one sinne but the sincke of all sinne the Sea of all mischéefe will you sée the seauen Capitall sinnes Is not proude ambition or ambitious pride the first sparke of that fire Doth not enuie blow the coale Doth not wrath dayly increase the flame Doe they not séeke to bring al into the noysome ashes of slouth gluttony wantonnnes Will you looke into all the Commandements of God Rebellion transgresseth all the commandemēts ought wee not to honour the onely God but of Rebels and Seditious persons to their Soueraigne whom the God of heauen hath made a God on earth Psa 82.6 Doth God himself say 1. Sam. 8.7 as of the Israelites he did to Samuel They haue not cast thee away but they haue cast me away that I should not raigne ouer them Ought we not to vse the worship of God that God hath prescribed to the end hee hath prescribed it 1. kin 12.28 but the Rebell either reiecteth it or bringeth in as Ieroboam the Calues his owne deuises or pretendeth sacrifices and sermons O what affinitie hath Religion with Rebellion when Ahithophell is sent for the treason is great 2. Sam. 15.12 Ought we to take the name of the Lord in vaine but if it be so odious in the sight of God Eze. 17.15.16.17 for a king to violate his oath to a King that hath vanquished him how odious and execrable is it for a subiect to violate his oath to his naturall Soueraigne For the Sabaoth how do they hallow it who either beginning or continuing Rebellion vpon that day doe themselues prophane it and hinder others from the vsuall sanctifying of it Can neither Gods owne example who rested the seuenth day nor his precept who commaunded vs to hallow it preuaile with those vngodly men In stéede of honouring their Parents they dishonour their Prince and in their Prince their parents and their Countrey In murdering which is abhorred of all men they offend most of all men For Adulterie they came to the height of Absolons impietie they committe it in the sight of Israel For stealing and theft théeues robbe priuate men priuily but the Rebels and seditious spoyle and burne many men yea the publike good of their Countrey of the Church of their Prince openly If they who beare false witnesse only against priuate men breake the lawe what doe the seditious who by false rumours flaunderous pretences and manifest deceites seeke to defame the faithfull Counsellours Est 16.13.14 and most assured seruants of their Soueraigne that they being taken out of the way they might lay wait for their Soueraigne nay who spare not their Soueraigne but say vnto euery bold and vniust petitioner See 2. Sam. 1 5.3 thy matters are good and righteous but there is no man deputed of the king to heare thee But to fill vp the measure of iniquitie doth not this false witnesse bearing against the Prince procéede from vniust desires desires not lodging onely in their hearts but breaking out at their mouthes 2. Sam. 15.4 Oh that I were made iudge in the land that euery man which hath any matter or controuersie might come to me But is it O Absolon O Absolon 2. Sam. 15.1.2 5.6 is it as thou pretendest that thou mightest doe him iustice wilt thou not when thy Charets and horses and many attendants and industrie and popularitie and embracing and dissimulations and kissing hath stolen the hearts of the men of Israel vnmaske thy selfe Thou pretendest the place of a Iudge to doe iustice to other but thine owne spies proclaime 2. Sam. 15.10 and thy trumpets sound that thou 200. in Ierusalem being receiued by thee aymest at the Crowne and Kingdome of thine owne father 2. Sam. 15.11 he sette thee vp wilt thou pull him down hee gaue thee life wilt thou take away his life he pardoned thy offence wilt thou persist in offending him Math. 5.9 Peacemaker and peace-breaker their difference portion and parentage Horace and in offending God peace-makers are blessed because they shall bee called the children of God O peace-breaker thou art accursed thou must be accounted the sonne of the Diuell It is sweete and comely to die for thy Countrey wilt thou by Rebellion séek to bring thy Countrey to nought Math. 12.25 Ecclus. 16.7 It was the impietie of the rebellious Giants to fight against God but the seditious are guiltie of the Giants impietie Rom. 13.2 for saith the Apostle hee that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God If Gamaliel when the Iewes brast for anger yet with this reason least they should be found euen fighters against God Act. 5.33.34.38.39 could cut of their consultation to slay the Apostles cānot the same reason bridle all the venemous rancour of thy heart who art in name a Christian and therefore oughtest to haue crucified the flesh Gal. 5.24 with the affections and the lusts But time not permitting me to speake the least part of that which might and should be said of this daughter of Lucifer know that this mother-vice breaketh out in Thought in Word and in Deed. Sonne Shall not thought be free Father God who is a spirit will himselfe be worshipped in spirite and truth Iohn 4.24 and will haue seruants obedient to their maisters with feare and trembling in singlenesse of heart as vnto Christ not with eye seruice as men pleasers but as the seruants of Christ Ephes 6.56 How we must seeue our soueraigne Gene. 6.5
doing the will of God from the heart will much more that subiects shall so serue their Soueraignes Hee knoweth the imagination of the thoughts of our heartes and vnderstandeth al imaginations of thoughts 1. Chro. 28.9 will haue an inquisition made for the thoughts of the vngodly Wisd 1.9 and if thou wilt not heare him curse not the king no not in thy thought God both Wisd 20.1.3 hee from whome wicked thoughtes doe seperate will haue it reuealed for the fowles of the heauen shall carrie the voice And threatneth the reuealing of treacherous thoughts and that which hath wings shal declare the matter Sonne How can the fowles of heauen carrie a voyce how can that which hath winges declare it or any man discouer the thoughts of our hearts Father Examples of secret sinnes reuealed Acts. 5.2.3 Dan. 13.45 46 54.58 2. Pet. 2.26 Hee who shewed to Saint Peter the secrete compact of Ananias and Saphira he who raised vp the holy spirit of a yong childe to cleare Susanna and conuict the wicked Iudges he who caused the dumbe Asse speaking with mans voyce to forbid the foolishnesse of the Prohhet he who discouered Bessus his Paracide by the chattertng of Swallowes Plutarch he can cause euerie foule of heauen and euerie creature vpon the earth to reueale and reuenge our mutinous Wisd 5.17 20 flaunderous sedicious and impious thoughts against Caesar Sonne To him that hath not denied the power of godlinesse it is inough that God hath forbid vs to curse the king in our thought to euerie beleeuer it is inough that God hath foretold the declaring of such thoughts to euery one that is not an open Infidell it is inough that he neede not go farre for an informer If they with Michal despise Dauid in their heerts Michals thought vttered by her owne tongue their owne tongues sometimes with Michals vtter it O how glorious was the king of Israel this day which was vncouered to day in the eyes of the Maydens of his seruants as a foole vncouereth himselfe and with her And punished by Gods hand 2. Sam. 6.20.23 for this crime receiue punishment at the handes of God Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child vnto the day of her death Yet pardon mee though I desire to know whether mans law forbid euill thoughts of Caesar Father The lawes of men for common crimes punish onely wordes Both the ciuil and common law punish treacherous thoughts with death 13. Eliz. 1. and deedes but for this point of high treason if any man hath thought it though hee neuer attempted it the lawe both Ciuill and Common doth punish him with death Sonne But was there euer such a president seene The law in this point when where executed Father Neither farre hence nor long since neede we looke for such a president That Norman Gentleman who confessed to a Franciscan Frier that he had a thought to kil Frances the first of France though he had changed his minde repented and asked pardon of that crime yet the Frier reporting it to the King and the King referring it to the Parliament of Paris the graue court of that great Parliamēt though that king shewed himselfe very gracious condemned him to death Yea so great detestation is there to bee had of the least shew of violence to the prince that whereas the law excuseth madde men from punishment Madnesse excuseth not the shew of violence to the Prince madnesse it selfe being so great a punishment yet when Capito a man raging mad drew his sworde vpon Henrie the sonne of king Frances hee was therefore executed Sonne Since to offend Caesar euen in the thoughts of my heart it is prohibited and punished both by God and man how may my heart be preserued from wicked thoughts against Caesar Father The custodie of the heart is the preseruatiue of the tongue and whole bodie As hee that woulde haue a streame sweet wholsome wil haue care that the spring bee kept from poyson and all corruption so if thou wilt haue the words of thy tongue and the works of thy hande to sauour nothing but pure alleagiance then must thou of necessitie first see that the thoughts of thy heart bee pure from this venemous infection That thy thoughts may be pure from al corruption thy heartmust bee puryfied and kept Purifying of the heart necessarie in respect of originall corruption Gen. 8.21 daungerous polution 1 Cor. 5.6 and a fearefull Wisdom 1.4 assertion Ieremie 4.14 What purifyeth our harts Iames. 2.19 Acts. 15.9 and how Reuel 1.5 Sonne How is that done Father By purifying thy heart By kéeping thy heart Sonne Needeth my heart purifying Father In regard of the originall corruption in regard of the dangerous polution in regard of a fearefull assertion I say with Ieremie O Ierusalem wash thine heart from wickednesse that thou mayest be saued how longe shall thy wicked thoughtes remaine within thée Sonne What is that gift of God which purifyeth our hearts Father Faith not euerie Faith for the Diuels also beléeue and tremble Faith puryfieth the heartes for being the hand of the soule it apprehendeth applyeth vnto vs Iesus Christ who hath washed vs from our sinnes in his bloud Sonne What helpes bee there for the confirmation of our Faith Helpes hereof bee and purifying our hearts Father Prayer the word the Sacraments Prayer Psa 51.20 Prayer and therefore pray with Dauid Create in me a cleane hart O God and renew a right spirit within me Iohn 15.3 The word The word Now sayth Christ are ye cleane through the word which I haue spoken vnto you Iam. 1.23.25 The word as a glasse The word helpeth to purifie as water it helpeth to purifie as a glasse as a glasse it sheweth our corruptions as water it serueth to wash away our corruptions Prou. 13.14 As water helpeth to purify the heart The Sacraments 1. Mac. 6.34 The heart 1. Cor. 6.19 of a christian the holy of holyes Hence Integritie 16. in vs. Sacraments shewing the Lordes death till he come as the bloud of Grapes and Mulberies prouoked the Elephants to fight purifie our hearts and prouoke vs to fight against all corruptions that can come Sonne Must wee bee verie carefull of this Father If thy body be the Temple of the holy Ghost then must thy heart bee Sanctum sanctorum the holy of holyes Hence good in thée if the roote be holy so are the braunches if thy heart be cleane so will thy tongue so will thy handes Hence fauours on earth hee that loueth purenesse of heart Fauours on earth Prou. 22.11 for the grace of his lippes the Kinge shal be his friend Hence glorie in Heauen Math. 5.8 Felicitie in Heauen Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Sonne So hath this of the puryfying of the heart rauished my heart that I desire for the keeping of my heart to be also
cruell speare of the souldiour which pierced the side of my Sauiour O cruell tongue of the Seditious The seditious tongue Prou. 25.3 which though Salomon affirmeth that the heauens in height the earth in déepnes the kings hart can no man search out pierceth the head and heart of my soueraigne The speare of the Souldier pierced not the side of my Sauiour Compared to the souldiers speare Iohn 19.33 34. vntill hee was dead the tongue of the seditious I tremble to thinke of it pierceth the head and heart of my Soueraigne in her life There is not sayde the sonne of Sirac a more wicked head Ecclus 25.17 then the head of a serpent yet is the tong of the seditious head as wicked as the head of a Serpent The seditious tongue compared to a serpent The seditious tongue as euil as the head of a serpent the tongue of the seditious head is more wicked then the head of a Serpent Is as wicked as the head of a serpent the Serpent is trecherous it stingeth in secret the tongue of the seditious is trecherous it stingeth in secret at the voyce of a man the Serpent flyeth at the voyce of a good Subiect the seditious is silent the Serpent feedeth but vpon the dust of the earth the seditious tongue talketh but of the infirmities that bee nay lewdly faineth infirmities to be in the Prince the Serpent goeth not straight along but wreatheth and inuolueth himselfe the seditious speaketh not sincerely and plainly but wil protest that he is sorie to sée this sorie to heare that he forsooth wisheth onely the sauing of soules and the good of the estate and yet he is more wicked then the head of a Serpent The seditious tongue worse then the head of a serpent The Serpent poysoneth one at once but the euill tongue Saint Bernard sayth poysoneth thrée at once himselfe that speaketh him that he speaketh of and him that he speaketh too but there resteth not his poyson for at the same instant he offendeth God Acts. 10.33 in whose presence we all do speake And therefore if you will know how wicked he is God by S. Iames telleth vs that the tongue is not wicked but wickednesse not a little but a great wickednesse And if you woulde knowe howe great The euil tong Iames 3.6 A worlde of wickednesse Gen. 9.22.25 Examples which may moue vs to take heede to our tongue Numb 12.10 2. Sam. 6.7 hee sayth it is a world of wickednesse If Cham who told his brethren of his fathers nakednes had that sentence frō his father Cursed be Canaan a seruant of seruants shall he be to his brethren If Miriam though a Prophetesse murmuring agaynst Moyses the leader of Israel was leprous like snow If Vzzah for putting his hande to the Arke of God incurred Gods so great indignation that he stroke him in the place that hee died in the place what may he looke for at the handes of God who shal set his mouth against heauen and bend his tongue against the God vpon earth Pray for the gouernment of the tong Psal 141.3 Murmur not saith Paul Phil 2.14 when thou shouldest not speake make a doore and a barre and a sure bridle for thy mouth pray with Dauid Set a watch O Lord before my mouth and keepe the doore of lippes Remember that of Paul Do all things without murmuring and reasonings That of God himselfe Thou shalt not walke about with tales among thy people Sow not sedition Leuit. 16.16 Saith God himselfe Nay since such are fitte to kindle the fire of sedition and their wordes sinke déepe thou must driue them away with thine angrie countenance yea I cannot but say with the Apostle Prou. 25.23 Frowne vpon such sayth Salomon Wish them cut off with the Apostle wold to God they were euen cut off which doe disquiet you when of thy Soueraigne to whom as Isaac sayd to his Sonne God séemeth to haue sayd Cursed be he that curseth thee and blessed be he that blesseth thee thou shalt speake Pray also with Dauid Whome god seemeth to blesse and Gen. 27.29 whome to curse Psal 51.15 Pray forthy speech of thy Soueraigne Open thou my lippes O Lord and my mouth shall shewe forth thy praise Sonne Since neither in Thought nor in Word much lesse in Action may I breake my Alleagiance to Caesar Father Much lesse my Sonne Sonne But must I then obey an hard and oppressing Prince Father Were he as cruell as Holofernes thou wert to obey him If thou haddest alreadie played the Fugitiue Iudith 3.7 8. Allegiance must be perfourmed to the hardest Prince Punishments of Fugitiues Counsaile for Fugitiues a Fugitiue the Aeginians punished with the losse of the Thumbe of the right hande the Samians with the picture of an Owle branded in their face the Mitylenians with the losse of their liues and wert now in the middest of the enemies Troupes Remember the Mandate not of a man of Beliall but of an Angell of the Lord to Hagar lately fled from Sara Gen. 16.6 9. who had dealt roughly with her return vnto thy Dame and humble thy selfe vnder her handes Sonne But what if he be a wicked and vngodly Prince Father Nabuchodonozor was so and yet was Zedechiah gréeuously punished Allegiance must be performed to the vngodly Prince Ierusalem sacked Israell miserably afflicted for rebelling against him Sonne But what if the vngodly Prince commaund mee to doe that which is wicked and vngodly Father 1. Tim. 17. 2. Tim. 3.6 Iude. 19. Math. 23.15 2. Peter 1.20 Ps 119.105 The vngodly Prince is not to be obayed in vngodlines Acts. 5.29 But beware thou speakest not euill of God and callest not sweet Sowe First be sure that thou béest not mis-led either by these whom Paul and Iude describe nor by such to whom Christ himselfe doth denounce a woe and then being assured of this by the constant Harmonie not priuate interpretation of that which thou oughtest to account a Lanterne vnto thy feet and a light vnto thy pathes Resolue with Saint Peter wee ought rather to obey God then men Sonne But if a man adorned with singuler vertues honoured of the people gracious in the Court great in authoritie deseruing well of Prince and Countrey beeing oppressed by a wicked king the king though there bee manifest testimonie of most assured loyaltie still persecuting him may he not by his Princes perill free himself from perill Father Either neuer purified or euill kept hath thy heart beene who once durst think much more propound such a question The Essei the wisest and most vertuous Sect among the Iewes Iosephus affirme that the person of the Prince is of the Subiects to be accoūted sacred the Ciuilians teach that it is sacriledge to dispute of that which is done by the Prince and dare anie dispute whether any man for any cause may offer so vnspeakeable outrage to that sacred person
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
not beare the iniquitie of the Father neither shall the Father beare the iniquitie of the Sonne but the righteousnes of the righteous shal be vppon him and the wickednesse of the wicked shal be vpon himselfe Father My Sonne as Pithagoras enioyned his Schollers to fiue yeares silence that by hearing him and his more ancient Disciples they might know what and how to speake before they did speake A caueat to youth so the Scripture chargeth youth to be silent the Apostle willeth vs to thinke others better then our selues not rashe like many ignorants both in State and Church striuing to reprooue that which they vnderstand not but be thou most aduised in matters that be too high for thée yet since I am perswaded thou speakest rather to haue instruction then to vse reprehension that thou mightest not as in yeares bee also in vnderstanding a Child 1 Cor. 14.20 know that a man consisting of a bodie which we haue from our Parents Gen. 5.3 Eccles. 12.7 and a Soule which is giuen vs immediately from God is Subiecte both to Corporall or Temporall and to Spirituall Ob. answeared and eternall punishments of which spirituall and eternall punishments thou art to vnderstand that of the Prophet the same soule that sinneth it shall die God punisheth in posteritie the Sonne shall not beare the iniquitie of the Father but for Corporall and Temporall punishments the God of Heauen and earth visiteth the iniquitie of the Father vpon the Children vnto the Third and Fourth generation Exod. 20.5 and iudgeth the house of Ely for euer 1 Sam. 3.13 because his Sonnes ranne into a slaunder and he stayd them not Thus Cham in Chanaan Ioab and Gehezi Gen. 9.25 2. Sam. 3.29 2 Kings 5.27 Math. 27.25 in their posteritie were punished thus the bloud of our Sauiour is vppon the Children of the Iewes vnto this day Thus pray we in the church of England Howe the Church of England praieth that God would not remember the sinnes of our Fore-fathers that the Lord would not remember the sins of our Fore-fathers And thus the Gods on earth haue punished Traitors in their Children and Childrens children Thus Assuerus because Haman desired to destroy Mordocheus the preseruer of the King Ester 16.13 14. and innocent Ester the Partaker of the Kingdome whom when hee had taken away his minde was for to haue layd wait for the king by this meanes to translate the kingdome of the Persians The seueritie of Persia and Macedonia in this point vnto them of Macedonia was not onely hauing béene the second to the King hanged on a Tree of Fiftie Cubittes highe but also his Tenne Sonnes and all his Familie were hanged And the clemencie of the English gouernment Though in detestation of Treason this punishing of the Traitour euen with the death of his posteritie haue béene vsed yet such is the clemencie of our English gouernment that it sparing their liues punisheth them onely in Lands howses goods Offices bloud and honor Yee Oh my Sonne since as the fish swimmeth with the streame as the streame floweth from the spring as stones runne downe the hill as the say ascendeth frō the root to the branches so the loue of parents descēdeth to their childrē Fathers what father though he could not be moued yet where is there one so sencelesse that is not mooued with the losse of his houses with the losse of lands with the losse of his Offices with the losse of his goodes with the losse of his good name with the losse of his libertie with the losse of his life by the imbowling dismembring of his body with the losse of Christian burial by his vnchristian behauiour towards so Christian a Prince yet what father bred of Tigers brood be not and fed with milke of Wolues can bee so stonie hearted as not euer to keepe himselfe loyall to his Prince and contrie least hee vnnaturally most vniustly bring those iust punishments vpon his children and childrens children Traytours so inforcing them if not to accurse yet euen when they are silent to proclaime to all future ages their auncestors disloyal trecheries and treacherous disloialties to their Prince and Countrey Sonne Sir I remember you diuided the punishments of Traitors into punishments inflicted vpon them by man and punishments inflicted vpon them by God remaineth there any more then these you haue alreadie named Father There remaine more then these These are from God Iudgements from god and man vppon Traytors but by the ministerie of men and therefore I called them punishmēts inflicted by men I call the other Gods punishments because they come immediately from God The punishments that are to be inflicted by the ministerie of men men by fauor by policy by power sometime escape but those that God himselfe immediately inflicteth with his owne hand no man can escape Prou. 21.30 for saith Salomon there is no Wisdome Si sera tamen certa From god neither vnderstanding nor counsell against the Lord and these be External Internall or Eternall Sonne So many before and so many more I pray you what be the externall Externall Father Then may we say that God immediately punisheth Traitors externally where either ordinarie means be extraordinarily stirred vp Men. as the people of the land to punish those that conspired against king Amon or by meanes which man cannot vse 2. Kinges 21.24 so for breuitie sake to omit others God himselfe by Ieremie denounceth the nation and kingdome which will not serue the same Nabuchodonozor king of Babel and will not put their neckes vnder the yoke of the King of Babel The same Nation will I visite with the sword Ierem 27.8 Sword Famine Pestilence Leprosie Fierie Serpents Earth Swallowing Confederacy of vnreasonable and senceles creatures 2 Sam. 18.9 and with the famine and with the pestilence vntill I haue wholy giuen them into his handes so punished hee Miriam with leprosie as white as snow the murmuring Israelites with the fierie Serpents Corah Dathan and Abiram with the earthes swallowing of them vp quicke Absolon with his own Mule to draw him and his owne haire and a great thicke Oke to hang him Sonne How doth God punish them internally Father Not to speake of other internall punishments Internall hee punisheth them in conscience A good conscience is saith Salomon a continuall feast Prou. 15.15 Rom. 13.5 but such as wil not obey for cōscience sake such as will not submit themselues for the Lordes sake 1 Pet. 2.13 are by the Lord depriued of this good and tormēted with an euill conscience and that this is a fearefull punishment wee may learne of the Wiseman A fearefull thing is it saith hee when malice is cōdemned Wisd 17.10 by which another saith is more then a Thousand witnesses her owne testimonie and a conscience that is touched doth euer forecast cruell things These be those
furies whereof the Poets Rom. 2.15 those accusing thoughts wherof the Apostle that neuer dying worme whereof the Euangelicall Prophet Esay 66.24 Mark 9.44 46 48. and he whom the Euangelicall Prophet did foretell that booke whereof S. Iohn saith Reuel 20.11 12. That it shall be opened when the earth and heauen flie away from his face that shall sit on the great white throne This when they are abroade Leuit. 26.36 though there be but the sound of a leaf shaken chaseth them this whē they be within Prou. 28.1 maketh them flie though none pursueth them this writing in their heart like the hand-writing which Balthasar saw vpon the walles Dan. 5.5 6. when they are in the height of their pride will cause their countenance to bee changed their thoughts to bee troubled the ioints of their loynes to bee loosed and their knees to smite one against the other 1. Sam. 24.6 This if they cut but the lap of the Princes garment will touch them at the heart This if they offer violence to their Lord Acts. 2.37 will pricke them at the heart Gen. 4.13 This as it did Cain for his brothers blood will much more for their Lieges blood make their owne hearts to thinke and their owne mouthes to say that their punishment is greater thē they can beare that their sinne is greater then can be forgiuen them This as it did Iudas will make their soules to loath and abhorre their bribes receiued for their trecherie Math. 27.3 4.5 and their handes to cast them downe and their tongues to proclaime that they haue betraied innocent blood This will make their owne handes to hang them Math. 27.5 Luk. 10.17 2 Sam. 17.23 though like Iudas they haue faith to worke Miracles or like Achitophel they can giue counsail eas if one asked at the oracle of God Were there no other I would say with Iuuenall 2. Sam. 16.23 Cur tamen hos tu Euasisse putes quos diri conscia facti Iuuenal Mens habet attonitos sur do verbere caedit Occultum quatienti animo tortore flagellum How deem'st thou them ac-quite Whom guiltie minde of fact so foule doth frighte And scourge vn-seene doth beate with vn-heard bloe Their hang-man restlesse Conscience biting soe Sonne O hatefull treason how art thou enuironed with fearefull iudgements iudgement in house and lands iudgement in Offices iudgement in body iudgement in buriall iudgement in honour and reputation iudgement in children Thus pray we all iudgements powred vppon thy head euen by the hand of God eternally and this of conscience internally O most mightie and most mercifull God of thy infinite mercie by thy infinite grace blesse mee euermore from this sinne that I may be euermore blessed from the punishments of this sinne Father As Chrisostome wished that men would dayly thinke of hell Chrisostomes wish and speake of hell that so by feare thereof they might bee drawne from sinne so I wish they would dayly thinke of The Authors wish and dayly speake of the iudgements which resisters and Rebelles do receiue that so they might be driuē from treason but the better to driue them from it know there is another iudgement vpon traitours more greeuous then any of these more greeuous then all of these Sonne Is it possible Father If Lucifer for Rebellion fell from heauen Eternall if Adam for disobedience was cast out of paradise his whole posteritie infected with originall sinne made subiect to death became the children of wrath then no maruell though sedition bee such a fruite of the flesh as whosoeuer is guiltie of it it hindreth him from the inheriting the kingdome of God If it seemed greeuous to Absolon lying in Ierusalem Gal 5.20 21. 2 Sam. 14.32 not once in two yeeres to see the face of Dauid O how greeuous shall it be for all Rebels dying without repentance neyther to come into the new Ierusalem Paine of losse nor to see the face of God for euer if it be a grieuous thing to lie fettered in a prison O how greeuous is it with the vngodly of whom Rebels be in the first ranke to be turned into hell and there to lie bound hand and foote Paine of sence Acerbitie Math. 25.41 wouldest thou knowe the sharpnesse of those paines Christ telleth thée they goe into fire wouldest thou know the time they do last he calleth it euerlasting Eternitie wouldest thou knowe the companie they shall haue Societie he telleth thee the diuell his angels wouldest thou haue it further expressed assure thy selfe that as the ioyes of the godly purchased by the obedience of the sonne of God Vnspeakable are such as the eye of man hath not seene nor the eare of man hath not heard nor can enter into mans heart so also be the paines and torments prepared for the the disobedient sonnes of men Sonne The father of mercyes of his great mercie keepe mee and all my countrey-men from this crime His wish to the English and from these paines The fourth Cable The reward of the loyall to Caesar Father He is the minister of God for thy wealth Rom. 13.3.4 Doe well so shalt thou haue prayse of the same Generall rewards of the Loyall The rewards of loyaltie bee either generall to all or particular to some generall to all this Daniell declareth somewhat darkely in the tree Dan. 4.7.8.9 Beholde I saw a tree in the middest of the earth Darkely sha the heigth thereof was great a great tree and strong and the heigth thereof reached to heauen and the sight thereof vnto the ends of all the earth The boughs thereof were faire and the fruit thereof much and in it was meate for all it made a shadow vnder it for the beasts of the field and the fowles of heauen dwelt in the boughes thereof and all flesh fed of it Esay more plainely dowed Esay 32. Plainely expresseth That man shall be as a hiding place from the winde and as a refuge for the tempest and as riuers of waters in a drie place and as the shadow of a great rocke in a wearie land If Israell for her peace must seeke Ierem. 29 ◠the peace of Babel Wil not England for her good seeke the good of Elizabeth Wherefore as Ieremy willed the Israelites to seeke the prosperitie of the cittie whether they were carried so I beseech all true Englishmen to seeke the prosperitie of Caesar vnder whom they are gouerned Ieremias reason may induce them for in the peace thereof they shall haue peace in the prosperitie thereof they shall haue prosperitie in the glory thereof they shal haue glory Iudah and Israel dwelt without feare euery man vnder his vine and vnder his fig-tree from Dan That Salomon was to Israell that Elizabeth is to England Perticuler rewards for the loyall Prou. 22.24 Prou. 16.15 euen to Bersheba
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
to slay Dauid That with Abishai ye prsently though with exposinge your bodies to perill to keepe her sacred body from all perill sucour Dauid and smite them that so presume and kill them And know that as the Starrs of Heauen fought against Sisera in theire order and the Riuer of Kishon swepte them awaie so Heauen and Earth and all the creatures in them both shall fight against and sweepe away her enemies If any loially serue vnder Debora their memorie with Issachars Zebulus and Nepthalis shal be honourable If any be a valient generall against her enimies his honour with Barakes shal be eternized If any be backwarde they with Ruben Gilliad Dan and Asher shall be branded with dishonour If any with Meroz cannot be drawen to take opportunitie to assist Debora and the Lord in Debora let them looke for the cursse giuen to Meroz not a cursse onely from Debora but a cursse from the Lord the Lord who willeth you to blesse them that cursse you not by man Math. 5.44 Luke 6.28 may drawe vs Iudges 5.23 to this duty but by his Angels willeth to cursse Meroz for not assisting the Lord for not assisting the Lord against the mightie Sonne Deare Father with many thanks for your paines in the former I beseech you to speake of Prayer which you reserued to the last Father To the last I reserued Prayer for Caesar Prayer not as the least but as the greatest of our dueties to Caesar Prayer the most excellent of our duties to Caesar The other be intended wholly to the King this is directed immediatly vnto God Feare is in regard of the sword Honour in respect of the Crowne Obedeence in regard of the Scepter Tribute to the Throne defence to the person But Prayer to the founder protector To feare of the sworde 2 Sam. 1.22.21 and director of Caesar Sauls sword neuer returned emptie from the bloud of of the slaine and the fall of the mightie as yet was the shield of the mightie cast downe The shield of Saul as though he had not beene annointed with oyle Acts. 12 21 22.23 To honor of the crowne Herod whom Iosephus still calleth Agrippa was honoured when arayed in royall apparell sitting in the Iudgement seate making an Oration the people showted the voyce of God and not of man yet imediately the Angell of the Lord smote him bycause he gaue not glory to God so that he was eaten of wormes and gaue vp the Ghost Assuerus had a golden Scepter Obedience to the scripture Hester 11.5 2 and was obeyed from India euen to Ethiopia in 127. prouinces yet godly Queene Hester had no pleasure in his feast and dranke no wine of his drinke offerings How was the throne of Nabuchodonozor supported with Tribute Tribute to the throne who besides the aboundant charges of his house and the excessiue expences of his Armies made an Image of gould whose breadth was 6. whose height was 60. Cubits Dan. 3.1 yet was he driuen from men and did eate grasse as the Oxen 4.30 and his bodie was wet with the dew of Heauen till his haires were growen as the Eagles feathers his nayles like birds clawes Defence to the person Mat. 9.7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 28. Antiochus defended with his Armies swelled with pride breathed out fier in his rage against the Iewes thought hee might commaunde the floudes of the sea weigh the mountaines in the ballance reach the Starres of heauen yet was hee smot with an incureable and inuisible plague the wormes came out of the bodie of this wicked man in aboundance whiles he was yet aliue his flesh fell off for paine and torment and all his armie was grieued at his smell and notwithstanding his protestation concerning Ierusalem concerning the Iewes concerning the Temple the holie Vessels the Sacrifices and his owne conuersion wherein O howe shineth the triumph of the Deitie He died a miserable death in a strange Countrey among the Mountaines So little doe feare of the sword honour of the crown Obedience to the Scepter Tribute to the Throne Defence to the person Without praier to the Inthroner make not Caesar happy preuaile to Caesars happinesse without Prayer to the inthroner and preseruer of Caesar Prayer therefore my Son Praier which springeth from the holy Ghost the Spirit it selfe sayth Paule Whence praier springeth Rom. 8.26 maketh requests for vs with sighes which cannot bee expressed Praier which is the Messenger of the faithfull soule to God the prayer of him that humbleth himselfe sayth the sonne of Sirac goeth through the cloudes Ecclus. 35.17 What prayer affecteth That prayer excelleth Apoc. 8.3 1. Tim. 2.1 Prayer whervnto Paul before all things Exhorteth for all men generally 1. Tim. 2.2 He exhorteth for kings specially and ceaseth not till it come neere and will not depart vntill the most high haue respect thereunto Prayer which is the odours in the golden violl offered vpon the golden Aultar which is before the Throne Prayer wherevnto Saint Paul exhorteth Christians before all duties Prayer were vnto hee exhorteth generally for all men he exhorteth specially for Kings Specially for Kings in respect of the greatnesse of the cares which they take in respect of the perils whereto they bee subiect in respect of the difficultie in destribution of rewards and punishments in respect of the aboundant good which discendeth from them to the whole estate Prayer for Kings In respect of the cares which they take Hester 6.1 In respect of the perils whereto they be subiect in respect of the cares they take In the greatest Dominion saith Salust there is the greatest care through this the Kings sleepe departeth from him In respect of the perils to the which they are subiect because in the Prince the enimie hath Nero his wish all the heads of the people vpō one bodie like the king of Aram 1. King 22.31 the Enemie commaundeth his captaines to fight onelie against the King of Israel In respect of the difficultie in the deserts right bestowing in rewards and inflicting of punishments 1. King 3.9 In respect of the aboundant good that descendeth from the Soueraigne to the whole Estate The Sunne in the world our Soueraigne in her Dominions resembleth the diuine Maiestie Pray for Caesar For Caesar nedeth thy prayer Ezra 6.6 7 8 9 10 11 12. For Caesar esteemeth of thy prayer In respect of the difficultie of the right bestowing rewardes and inflicting of punishments there beeing heauen alone being free from all corruption smooth Absolons dogged Doegs blacke mothed Shimeis bloudie handed Ioabs false hearted Sibas shamelesse harlots So that Salomon and all for Salomon had neede to pray For who is able to iudge this mighty people In respect of the aboundant good which descendeth from the royal Maiestie to the whole estate for as the Sunne is a resemblance of the Deity in the frame of this world giuing light heat life
to all things so the Soueraigne of euerie estate is a pattern of the great God from whome our whole estates lawes to liue by and comfort in our seuerall courses doe proceed pray therefore for Caesar since Caesar needes thy prayer Pray for Caesar for as Darius highly respected the Sacrifices and prayers of the priests of Israel for his life and for his sonnes so her most gracious Maiestie greatly regardeth that prayer bee made for her by her truly-christian subiects And let subiects pray for Caesar since prayer is honourable prayer is easie praier is profitable prayer is honourable If wee account it a grace vnto vs to follow the fashions of the greatest persons on earth For prayer is honourable Reue. 8.8 9 10 11. For prayer is easie O howe great honour will it be for vs to imitate the blessed spirits in heauen Prayer is easie if thy purse bee so poore that it cā pay no tribute to Caesar if thy body be so feeble that it can do nothing for the defence of Caesar yet if thy hart be not too lewd too wicked if thy heart be not voyde of all pietie For prayer is profitable against all calamities Ionah 2.1 7 10. Act. 12.5 7 8 9 10. Tobit 3.7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. Against sicknesse Ecclus. 38.9 2 King 20.3 5.6 Against death Against the enemies voide of all Christian dutie thy heart wil daily and often euery day pray for Caesar Prayer is profitable profitable against all calamities it deliuered Ionas out of the Whales bellie Peter out of prison Sara the daughter of Raguel from reproach profitable against sicknesse for sayth the sonne of Sirac my sonne faile not in thy sicknesse but pray vnto the Lord and he will make thee whole profitable against death It prolonged Ezechias life fifteene yeares profitable against the enemies against the enemies this but without this against vs the enemies preuaile when Moyses lift vp his hand Israel preuailed Exod. 17.11 If Paule commaunded to pray for Nero 1 Tim. 22. Baruch 1.11 Ierem. 29.7 If Baruch and Ieremie commaunded to pray for Nabuchodonosor but when he let his hand downe Amaleck preuailed if Paule exhorted and commanded to pray for Nero a man so wicked that he murdered his Tutor his mother and was natures Monster If the prophets commaunded the Israelites to pray for the life of the king of Babylon who had wasted Iudea with sword and fire besieged and taken Ierusalem burned the Temple caried away the holy vessels set fire on the whole citie brake downe the walles of Ierusalem round about 2. King 24 and 25. chap. murdered many people caried others to miserable seruitude slue the sonnes of the king before his eies pulled out his eies bound him in chaines carried him to Babel and as if to murder the innocent to rauish the chaste to carrie princes into captiuitie to sacke the holy Citie to burne the Temple of the God of heauen were not impietie inough that hee might come to the full height of all impietie he set vp a golden Image and by a Herauld proclaimed that whosoeuer did not worship it Dan. 3.1 4 5 6. should bee cast into the midst of a hot fierie fornace If the holie Prophet commaunded the Israelites to pray for wicked Nabuchodonosor 2 Peter 1.21 What woulde the holye ghost that we should do for Elizabeth The royall acts of Augustus Dauid Salomon Asa and Iosiah performed by her Maiestie 1. Chro. 16.4 5 6 7 37 38 39. 1 King 15 13 2 King 23.1 2.3 1. King 6 That which one said of Salomon manie haue saide of Elizabeth 1. Kin. 10 8 9 That which the straunger Iewes said of the Apostles hauing receyued the holy Ghost we can not but say of our ministers in the dayes of Elizabeth what would that holy spirit by whom both the Prophets and Apostles did write that all English all Irish all others vnder the subiection or protection of her most gracious Maiestie should doe for Queene Elizabeth who whereas Augustus said he found Rome of Bricke but left it of Marble may say shee found England of Brasse and Lead but brought it to Siluer Golde with Dauid appoynted the Leuites to sing in their courses with Asa destroyed Idols with Iosiah restored the Booke of the Law with Salomon builded a Temple to the God of Heauen So that as the Queene of Saba sayd of Salomon manie haue sayd of Elizabeth Happie are thy men happie are these thy seruants that stand before thee and heare thy wisedome Blessed bee the Lorde thy God which loued thee to set thee on the throne of Israel because the Lord loued Israel for euer and made the Queene to do equitie and righteousnes Our English and Irish returning from forraine coastes may say of the Ministers of their Countries in the daies of her Maiestie as those stranger-Iewes did of the Apostles hauing receiued the holy Ghost Acts. 2.11 we heard them speake in our owne tongues the wonderful works of God Shall we not pray for such a Queene 1. Tim. 2.2 3. Pray for her saith S. Paul in respect of your selues in respect of God In respect of your selues Pray for her in respect of your selues 1. Tim. 2.2 That you may liue a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse Gen. 28 16 17 that you may liue a quiet a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honestie A quiet life that we haue no insurrections at home a peaceable life that we haue no inuasion from abroad In all godlines that it may be said of England as Iacob said of Bethel Surely the Lord is in this place this is none other but the house of God this is the gate of heauen And in honestie And in honestie Rom. 2.24 that the name of the Lord be not blasphemed amōg the Gentiles amōg the Mahumitans amōg the Anabaptists amōg the Romish Recusants through you but the as Christ saith your light may so shine before men that they may see your good workes Matt. 5.16 and glorifie your father which is in heauen as saint Peter saith that they which speake euil of you as of euill doers may by your good workes which they shall see 1. Pet. 2.12 glorifie God in the day of the visitation In respect of God our Sauiour Pray for Caesar in respect of God our Sauiour for this is good 1. Tim. 2.3 O acceptable in his sight Psal 19.1 Baru 3.33 34. If all the creatures in heauen and earth seeke to please God Psal 104 19. 7 21 32. Ierem. 8.7 Esay 1.3 Shall not man being more bound then they all Gen. 1.26 1. Pet. 1.19 1. Cor. 3.16 Aphe 2 10. 2. Tim. 4.8 1. Pet. 5.4 pray for Caesar for sayth Saint Paule this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour If the Heauens declare the glorie of God and the Firmament shew his handy-worke If the Light obey him with feare If the Starres shine in their Watch and reioice If the Moone kéepe her appointed seasons If the Sun knoweth his going downe If the waters flie at his rebuke If the Lions seeke their meat at God If hee looke on the Earth and it trembleth If hee touch the Mountaines and they smoke If the Storke in the aire knoweth her appointed times and the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow obserue the time of their comming If the Oxe know his owner and the Asse his maisters crib shall not man being not liue-lesse like some not sencelesse like others not vnreasonable like others But created by a consultation of the deitie redeemed with the precious bloud of Christ as of a Lamb vndefiled without spot sanctified by the holy Ghost expecting a Crowne a Crowne of life a Crowne of righteousnes a Crowne of glory performe to Caesar all duetifull alleagiance Seeke in all things to please his Maiestie 1. Tim. 2.3 since the blessed Apostle hath taught vs that this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour THE eternall Father for his sweet Sons sake by the holy spirit so rule our hearts The Authors prayer for Caesar and Caesars true subiects Iames. 5.16 2. King 1.10 12. that we being righteous as Elias and our prayers feruent as Elias they may open heauen bring from thence Gods Iudgements as fier vpon Caesars enemies but the dewe of the diuine grace vpon Caesar 1. King 18 45 Rom. 13.5 and Caesars true Subiects that her most sacred Maiestie may long religiously happily rule vs that we for conscience sake least we resist the ordinance of God least we receue Iudgement least we be depriued of all benefits incident to the Loyall Feare Honor Obey Pay tribute to Defend and Pray for her most sacred Maiesty on earth and in the end and without all end raigne together with her in the kingdome of Heauen Amen