magnifie her as he did his seruant Moses Fourthly how God requireth and looketh for thankfulnes of vs. Fiftly how it is a sweet comfort of conscience and good fruite of the grace of God of christian faith to shew true thankfulnesse and praising of God for his benefites bestowed vpon vs. The first Touching the first howe by Dauid his example we should be stirred vp to thanksgiuing praising of God After the Prophet had meÌ„tioned the iudgements of god on his enemies the wretched end of their wickednes wherin the great mercy of God in his deliuerie is imployed by and by hee maketh profession of praising giuing thanks to God for his righteousnes in his iudgements to theÌ„ and in them of his mercy to him One word signifieth to giue thanks praise Because one worde doth signifie to giue thanks praise therfore some expound the word Iada to giue thanks some to praise and both are interlaced the one with the other one followeth of the other No soner thankfulnes is in the hart but praise is in the mouth Both flowe out of one fountaine A godly heart is the fountain thanksgiuing praise spring first in it and issue out of it with outward giuing of thanks and praising God As Dauid giueth vs here example that he wil giue thanks or praise to god for his righteousnesse Psal 145. sing to the name of the Lord the most high The Lord saith hee is louing to euerie man and his mercy is ouer all his works His worke saith hee is worthie to be praised and had in honor Psal 111. his righteousnes endureth for euer The mercifull and gracious Lord saith he hath so done his marueilous workes that they ought to be had in remeÌ„brance Psal 145. The memoriall saith he of thy aboundant kindnesse shal be shewed meÌ„ shal sing of thy righteousnes Psal 62 O congregatioÌ„ or people saith he powre out your harts before him for god is our hope He calleth vpoÌ„ al estates high low to praise God for his benefits Psal 148. Kings of the earth saith he all people Princes and all iudges of the world yong men maids men childreÌ„ praise the name of the Lorde for his name only is excellent praised aboue heauen earth Hee shall exalt the horne of his people al his saints shall praise him euen the children of Israel euen the people that serueth him Psal 150. And in the last Psalme knitting vp of the Psalmes he willeth euery thing that hath breath to praise the Lord Thus the prophet out of his thaÌ„kful hart powreth out outward thaÌ„ksgiuing praising of God calleth to the congregation people of God and to all of all estates and to all that hath breath to praise God for his benefites And he associateth to him those that haue thankfull hearts to prayse God for his benefits and as a foreman encourageth them Psal 34 O praise the Lord saith he with mee and let vs magnifie his name togither And in another Psalme O come hither behold the works of God Psal 66. how wonderfull he is in his doing towards the children of men And after in the same Psalme O praise our God yee people make the voice of his praise to be heard Which holdeth our soul in life suffereth not our feete to flip And after at the view of Gods blessings priuately be stowed on him he saith O come hither hearken ye that feare God and I wil tel you what he hath done for my soule Thus publikely priuately he calleth vpon the congregations of God all estates and all that hath breath to praise Godâ— and he calleth on his own soule al his inward partes to yeeld thankful praise to God not to forget his benefits God giue vs grace by the example of this Prophet both publikly for the publike and great benefits of God and especially for his wonderful workes in the late deliueries of our gracious Soueraigne his Church our country with â—â—â—nkfull harts to praise glorifie his blessed name Thus how by the example of the Prophet we should be stirred vp to thanksgiuing and praising of God for his great benefites The second note is what aboundant matter of thanksgiuing and prayse the bountifull goodnesse of God hath giuen to vs. The matter abouÌ„dantly ministred to vs of God is yet but fresh in our remembrance But nothing sooner slippeth out of our minds then the great benefites of God Of an vnsauery forgetfull and churlish clay wee come Are we not of the same mettle by corrupte kinde that they were of of whom the Prophet said But they forget what he had done Psal 78. and his wonderfull worke that he had shewed for them And in an other Psalme Psal 106. But within a while they forgotte his workes and would not abide his counsell Of such frayle mould we are Nothing is more to be feared then least that frayle forgetfulnesse and carnall securitie swallow vppe these wonderfull workes of God Carnal securitie like the Charib of Scicilie As the Charib of Scicilie swalloweth all that come on it so carnall securitie is as a Charib in vs and swalloweth vp all the wonderfull workes and blessed benefites of God for without true thankefulnesse they are all lost they perish if we hartely prayse not God for them they are cast away if carnall securitie ouercome them As the Charib hurleth about first that it swalloweth and after it hath swallowed it it casteth it out againe so wee tosse and hurle about in our minds the wonderfull works and great blessings of God while they are nue fresh but after carnal securitie and frayle forgetfulnesse swalloweth theÌ„ vp and casteth theÌ„ cleane out of our minds againe Thus fareth it with our frayle nature churlish clay of old Adam if we be not waked vp to harty thankfulnesse by the spirit of God Therfore the spirit of God cryeth out by the Prophet to vs Come hither behold the workes of God how wonderful he is in his doing toward the Children of men Psal 66. If we looke into the late workes of God in the woÌ„derful deliueries of our gracious Soueraigne and his Church and people how wonderfull hath he shewed himselfe in his doings to vs What abouÌ„dant matter of thanksgiuing and prayse hath his mercie ministred to vs One wonderful worke commeth in the necke of an other and one deliuery is doubled on the other that wee haue daily matter of new songes of thanksgiuing and praysing of God Psal 98. as the Prophet Dauid exhorteth vs O sing vnto the Lord a new song for he hath done marueilous things With his own right hand with his holy arme hath he gotten himselfe the victorie And in another Psalme O sing vnto the Lord a new song sing vnto the Lord all the whole earth Psal 96. Sing vnto the Lord
The Lorde keepe me from laying my hand vpon the Lords annoynted So far the Scripture Dauid honored king Saul in the field though he pursued him to death 1. Sam. 24. And humbly hee honoured the person of his Prince euen in the feild and amides the forces furniture of warres For after he came out of the caue where he had so much adoe to qualifie the rage of his souldiers and restrain them from running vpon king Saul he cryed after Saul saying O my Lord the king And when Saul loked behind him Dauid inclined himselfe to the earth and bowed him as the Scripture sayth and after spake to him Notwithstanding that kinge Saule continually sought his blood and in armour lay in the feild against him yet hee honoured the person of his Prince in the middest of the warres And his person was so precious in his sight that he coulde suffer no bodilie harme or violence to be done to him insomuch hee had remorse for cutting off the lappet of his garment What hartes then or rather what addamantes in steed of hartes Zacha. 7. haue they as the prophet Zacharie saith of the Iewes which liuing vnder the peace and protection of so mercifull a Prince can finde in their hartes so much as to thinke any trecherie or violence to her royall person who hath bene so good a mother of her countrie and so pitifull a nurse of the Church of God Epist ad Philemone by whom the bowels of Gods saintes haue beene refreshed as of Philemon Paul sayth and who hath fostered her faithfull subiectes in the blessings and benifites of God which so aboundantly vnder her gouernment so many yeeres God hath bestowed vpon vs. If therefore there be any remorse of conscience to God and his ordinance if there be any bowels of good nature in vs to our naturall and leige Soueraigne if there be any valew of true worthinesse in vs let vs shewe our loue loyaltie and hartie fidelitie to her and honour her royall person as Dauid did the person of his Prince and gard her from al violence in respect of Gods ordinance and the manifold blessinges which vnder her so manie yeeres we haue receaued and that God may blesse vs for our loyaltie and honoring the person of our Prince as he did blesse his faithful seruant Dauid Though his loyalty seemed to be lost touching king Saul yet it was not lost with God for Gods blessngs more abundantly followed fell on him Beside Dauids loyaltie to king Saul was a comfort to him in his troubles 1. Sam. 26. he found such comfort of conscience by it in his troubles that he said to king Saul Behould like as thy life was much set by this day in my eies when he came on him as he lay fast a sleepe so let my life be set by in the eyes of the Lorde that he may deliuer me out of al tribulations So the loyaltie that he shewed to his Prince in respect of God he found aboundantly againe with comforte of conscience in his greatest troubles and his owne life was precious is the sight of God Abigael As Abigael the vertuous woman said to him The soule saith she of my Lord shal be bound in a bundel of life with the Lorde thy God 1. Sam. 25. and the soule of thy enemies shall God cast out as out of the middle of a slinge What comforte and encouragement may this bee to the hartes of true subiectes to their Prince since God blesseth loyaltie and it is a comforte to the conscience in troubles and as their Prince is precious in their sight so for their loyaltie their owne life is more precious in the sight of God Besides this Dauids comfort in the righteousnes of his cause 2. Sam. 25. Dauid tooke comforte of the vprightnesse and innocencie of his cause and thereof hee saide The Lorde rewarde euery man according to his righteousnesse for the Lorde hath deliuered thee into my handes and I would not lay my handes vpon the Lordes annoynted So farre the Scripture And before he said to Saul when he saued his life in the caue 1. Sam. 24. vnderstand and see that there is neither euill nor wickednesse in me yet thou huntest after my soule to take it The Lord bee iudge betweene thee and me and auenge thee of me and let not my hand be vpon thee So farre the Scripture God tooke the iudgment into his handes and deliuered Dauid and auenged his cause of Saul So God hath taken of late the iudgment of the cause into his handes and hath deliuered our gracious Prince reuenged her cause of her enemies the vprightnesse and innocency of her cause is great comfort to her in the sight of God God vouchsafe long as Abigael said to Dauid to binde her soule in a bundle of life and long to locke vppe her life from all her enemies as a iewell of comfort to his Church and our Countrie Thus of the example of Dauid his loyaltie and fidelitie to the person of king Saul notwithstanding he persecuted him to death and howe God blessed him for it The Sixt is the example of the famous fidelitie of one Lylla a Briton and heathen man The 6. cheefe matter in the defence of the royall person of his Prince As I haue layed out at large the example of the loyaltie and fidelitie of Dauid to the person of king Saul so I will set downe breefely the example and fidelitie of one Lylla a Briton in the defence of the royall person of his Prince Fabian in his Cronicle of Englande the 5. part cap. 130. When Edwin king of Northumberland at a Citie beside the water of Darwent in Darbishire being smallie accompanied was sodenly assailed of a murderer and swordman as Fabian calleth him by Quincelinus kinge of the West Saxons hired to it Lylla a Briton his famous fidelity in the defence of the person of his Prince who ranne on him with a sworde that was enuenimed one Lylla the kinges trusty seruant vnarmed and disgarnished of weapon thrust his bodye betweene the traytors sword and the king and saued the king his life with losse of his owne And yet through the bodie of Lylla with the thruste of the sword the king was wounded also because the wound was poysoned it was more hardlie cured A worthy example of famous fidelitie in defence of the royall person of the Prince worthy to liue in the memorie of al faithfull subiectes as a glasse to be set before their eyes to encourage and emboulâ—eÌ„ them as a walle to set their bodies bowels in defence of the royal person of their Prince against the swords of al traytors enemies Though Lylla be dead in person many huÌ„derd yeeres since yet his loyaltie liueth still in the bowels of faithfull subiectes ready to thrust their bodies against the swordes of all traytors and enemies to the royall person of their
foorth lay open the great Patron practiser of treasons The first principall matter rebellions such like disloialties against Christian Princes and Countries which is the Bishop of Rome his adherents followers and practisers for him and by colour of authoritie from him And intreating hereof I will folow this order 1 First I will shewe what engine the Bishop of Rome hath vsed continuallie vseth in the practise of such things by excommunicating cursing and banning of Princes and cursing and interditing of Countries What time chieflie hee began to vse this engine of cursing and banning Princes countries and practising of treasons rebellions and such like disloyalties against them By what meanes the Bishop of Rome and his fellowes doe manage and carrie on their practises of treasons rebellions and such like disloyalties against Princes and Realmes Of the iudgments of God vpon the cursing banning Popes Thus the order of my proceeding in this part The first is what engine commonly hee vsed and still vseth in such practises The vsuall engin of Bishops of Rome in managing plats of treasons THE vsuall engine which the Bishop of Rome commonly vsed and vseth still in the managing and carrying on of plats and practises of treasons and rebellions against Christian Princes is the excommunicating cursing and banning of them wherein they take on them as if their sentences came from Peter and Paul out of heauen but they open as it were Hell mouth on earth by cursing banning Christian Princes and Realmes and by procuring and practising treasons against the royall persons of Princes and conspiracies and rebellions against their estates and gouernmentes and periuries of people against the othes of their allegiance and shedding of innocent bloode and such other outrages as we haue seene in their plattes but that God hath preuented their practises Though we haue a glasse of present memorie and especially in our owne Countrie set before our eyes of such practises yet by looking into stories of auncient record we shal see how with this vsual engine of excommunicating cursing banning he hath afflicted Christian Princes and Countries heretofore Henry the fourth Emperour of that name Henry the 4. Emperour Io. Cuspin in vita Henr. 4. of Iohn Cuspinian is praysed for a godlie Prince and of such renowne in warres that he fought more battailes in his owne person then either Iulius Caesar or Marcus Marcellus did who carried the prize of that prayse in the world Yet he was excōmunicated cursed of three Popes Gregory the 7. Gregorius 7. Vrbanus 2. Paschalis 2. Vrbanus the 2. and Paschalis the 2. And notwithstanding hee raigned about fiftye yeeres lacking one and sawe the Corses of two of the foresaid Popes notwithstanding their curses Henry the fifth of that name Henry the 5. Emper. rebelled against his owne father and deposed him And Pope Paschal the second as it were blewe vp the trumpet to that vnnatural and parricidial warre as their owne wryters Abbas Vrspergensis in an 1105. and the Abbat of Vrsperg himselfe termeth it Yet after because he would not yeeld to the Popes demaunds and commaundements against his prerogatiue and right he was excominged cursed of 3. Popes as his father before him was Paschal 2. Gelatius 2. Calixtus 2. of Paschal the second Gelatius the second Calixtus the second Notwithstanding he raigned as king 20. yeeres as Emperour 14. yeeres and saw 2. of the foresaid Popes raked on earth before him while he reigned Fridericus 1. Imp. Frederick the 1. Emperour of that name was so valiant and victorious a Prince that his death in the Countrie of Armenia in his exploit against the Soulden and the infidels as the the Abbat of Vrsperg Abbas Vrspergensis in an 1187. Io. Cusp in vita Frid. 2. sayth was an in estimable losse to Christians and besides his valiantnesse in warres Iohn Cuspinian greatly praised him for a peacemaker at home and that hee beganne his reigne with making peace reconciling al rancors and reuenges aunswering to his name therein which signifieth as Vrspergensis Cuspinian noteth asmuch as riche of peace Abbas Vrsperg in an 1152. And yet notwithstanding he was such a peacemaker at home and so valiant a Prince abroad and ventured and ended his life in the countrie of infidels and is so highly commended of the Popes owne wryters he was excominged and cursed of three Popes also Hadrian 4. Alexand. 3. Vrbanus 3. Hadrian the fourth Alexander the third and Vrbanus the 3. and the 4. Pope named Lucius the 3. Lucius 3. predecessour to Vrbanus the third last named of the foresaid three cursing Popes beganne brawles also against Frederick the aforesaid Abbas Vrsperg in an 1176. for pacifying whereof a diet was apointed at Verona and there in the consultation the Pope died So this noble Emperour thus commended of the Popes owne wryters as the Abbot of Vrspergensis Otto Bishop of Frising Iohn Cuspinian notwithstanding of 3. Popes was cursed downe right The fourth was entred into circumstance of cursing but he died and notwithstanding the cursing conspiracies and bloody broyles of the Popes against him foure of them turned vp their heeles before him Io. Cusp in vit Fride 1. Abbas Vrsperg in Chro. And he maugre of their curses reigned 37. yeeres The Abbot of Vrsperge wryting of the end of this noble Emperour cannot conteine himselfe though he were a piller of the Popes side from giuing condigne commendations to him He calleth him a most Christian Prince triumphant in warres couragious curteous and he commendeth his clemencie in vicorie to all sortes Thus the Abbot himselfe powreth out prayses on him though the Popes powred out the poyson of their curses on him Otto Bishoppe of Frising so admired and honored this noble Emp. that he wrat 2. Otto Fris Epis de rebus gestis Fride 1 bookes of the actes of his chiualrie Radeuini praepositi vel canonici supplementum Merula the mouthi and being preuented by death that he could not ende his storie Radeuinus a Canon of his Church put too a supplie of two other bookes to them As for mouthie Merula who in his storye of the vicountes calleth this noble Emperour a barberous Prince regard is not to be had for he saith the like of other kings of Germanie Io. Cusp in vit Fride 1. which exelled in pietie and clemencie as Cuspinian noteth and he followeth his common vaine which hee sheweth in carping and biting the learned men of his time as Philelf Petrarch Dante 's Valla Politiam Beroald and others His iudgment is partiall in reporting the stories betweene the Emperours and the Popes Merula partial to Pops And as Cuspinian noteth being ignorant of the actes of Frederick he followeth Plattina and Blondus the Italian wryters of stories and fowly faleth eftsones Such not onely are partiall to Popes in writing their stories but sometimes parties with them Platina As Platina
Gregorie the seuēth famous sorcerers and inchaunters were Bishops of Rome and that there was striefe betweene Syluester the seconde disciples in the diuelish art who shoulde succeed in the place This Gregorie the 7. was reputed also in the Brixian Councell Brixian coūcell to bee a Negromancer to worke by a Familiar And before him as Otto the aforesaide Bishop saide hee neuer could reade that any Romane Bishop did excōminge and curse the Romane Emperor and King Otto Frisin Episc So that this practise of Popes against christian Emperours and Princes according to his vouching beganne much about that time when Sathan was loosed from his chaine out of the bottomlesse pit to goe about to deceiue the people in the foure quarters of the earth he took possession about that time in Bishops of Rome in the Sea of Rome which were Negromancers and Sorcerers as Syluester the seconde and other his successors amongest them and about those times was Gregorie the seuenth Grego 7. who was the first as Otto pronounceth of his experience in the Romane stories that excōminged and cursed a Roman Emperor and king and priued him of his kingdome Yet notwithstanding Henrie the 4. thus excominged and cursed af Gregorie the 7. raigned about 50. yeeres sawe Greg. the aforesaid cut off with his curses Vrban the second likewise that followed him Thus about that time the Diuell let loose raged in the Romane Sea and Bishops against Christian Emperors Princes with cursing and banning of them and priuing thē of their Empires forgetting that they call themselues his Vicars whose kingdome as Gagwin the deuout father and writer of their owne side said was not of worldly things but heauenly things Then followed such diuision and discord in Christendom and such outrage of rebellion warres and bloodshed as Bishop Otto greeuing at the very rehearsall thereof saith Otto Frisin Episc ana li. 6. cap. 36. that a certain Ecclesiasticall writer compareth those times to the most vglie darknes of Egipt And the Abbat of Vrsperg saith that vnder Hildebrand the Monke called Gregorie the 7. Ab. Vrsperg in Chron. in an 1072. who excomminged and cursed first Henrie the 4. Romana respulbica omnis ecclesia nouis inauditis scismatum erroribus periclitari caepit The cōmon wealth of Rome and the whole Church began to be plūged in perils and errors of new scismes such as were neuer heard of before And the bishoppes that were present in the Councell of Wormes The councell of Wormes charge him with abuse of noueltie What maruaile when he was the first in Bishop Otto his iudgement which took on him to excomminge curse a Roman Emperor to priue him of his kingdome And whereas it belonged to the right of the Emperours to confirme the Roman Bishop after he was elected before the Emperors confirmation ratifiyng the election he was not coūted right Bishop of Rome as Cusp saith speaking of Grego Io. Cuspin in vita Henr. 4. the 7. his time Mos enim tū erat Pōtifices ab Imperatoribus confirmari vt superius saepe annotauimus For the custome then was that Bishops of Rome shuld c yet this Gregorie the 7. The Imperiall right to confirme the Bishop of Rome elected contrary to custome right of the Emperors rushed into the Roman sea wtout confirmatiō of the Emperor but assoone as he was warm in the sea hee began to curse ban the Emperor whose confirmation he should haue had to haue been the right bishop of the sea Therof began to spring spread great scismes diuisions in Christendome when not only the right of the Emperors was violently encroched of the Bishop of Rome but also he fell a cursing and banning the Emperor whose confirmation he should haue had What did the Diuell about the time loosed out of the bottomlesse pit more desire The Diuell raged by disobedience in the Bishops of Rome then to tread vnder feet the ordinance of God by wilfull disobedience outrage against Christiā Princes by cursing thē for whom they shoulde pray by stirring rebellions ciuill warres against them setting their owne subiects to be contrary to them to take a contrarie course to the ordinance of God Thus after 1000. yeeres the Diuell did rage in the Roman Bishops against the supreame soueraignties states in christēdom shewed himself directly contrary in them to the great ordinance of God If it were the ordinarie right of the Empire to confirm the bishops of Rome as the continual course continuance therof in such a number of his predicessors bishops of Rome the witnes of their own writers is plain euidēce therof wherfore should Hildebrand called Gregorie the 7. Gregorie the 7. an intruder without confirmation of the Emperor of a Monk Archdeacō before intrude himselfe into the sea of Rome wtout confirmatiō of Hen. the 4. Emperor not only rent away the vsuall right of the Empire but also rent the Empire and Christendome with rebellions ciuill warres bloodshed treasons and such like outrages and rent the Emperor himselfe from his Empire life also by cursing and banning him and stirring vp his own subiects to rebel against him and of his life and Empire to bereaue him Thus the Romane Bishop or rather the Diuell raging in the Romane Bishop turneth the regiment and state of Christendome vpside downe and began a contrary course to the right of the Emperiall regiment and custome of confirmations heretofore For to Henry the 4. by his imperial right the confirmation of Gregorie the 7. to be Bishop of Rome did appertaine Gregorie the 7. so far is from recognising that right to which so many his predecessors stouped Gregorie the 7. summoneth Henrie the 4. to apparance and answere that as Lucifer mounting about all estates not onely he shaketh his necke out of the collor but imperiouslie citeth and by presumptuous processe calleth for the Emperor to make his apparance before him to put in answere to causes to be obiected to him els vnlesse he stoupe to his commaunds to whose confirmation hèe should haue stouped himself he shuld be cursed and priued of the Empire This was so vnquoth and strange attempt that Otto freelie confesseth hee neuer read the like by any Romane Byshop doone to the Romane Emperor and king before Ab. Vrsperg in an 1072. The Abbat of Vrsperg saith that because without consent of the king hee pressed to bee Pope by fauour of the Romanes some held that hee was not lawfullie placed but that like a tyrant he vsurped Thus the Abbat himselfe mentioneth the great gall of Gregorie the 7. his proude Popedome which began with presumption proceeded to cursing ended with great bloodshed in christendome Cuspinian also reporteth the same Plerique saith hee illum sine regis consensu non agnouerunt legittime electum Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 4. after he had
Prophe R. Saadias reporteth the Eagle once in tenne yeres to mount so neere the globe of the Sun that hee syngeth his old feathers that after they come vp newe But daungerous mounting it is where not only they synge their feathers and consume their worldly goods but consume their liues and bodies also It is safe going on foot as God hath giuen to man But if hee wyll needes flie or mount aboue the possibilitie of his estate The Diuell prepareth wings for those that wil mount soone commeth he to fall The Diuell as Dedalus will make him winges but they will melt before the Sunne of the eternall prouidence of God Diuelishe Dedalus of Rome hath prouided winges for many but in mounting sodainlie they are fallen They faile alwayes in the vp-shoote and their fruite is but a vayne thing Cicero saieth to Catelin the Captaine of the conspiracie against the state of Rome Fuisti apud Leccam Thou wast saieth hee at Lecca his house Catelin his Cōsorts night haunts noting his and other his consorts night haunt and desciphering their plats and discouering all their practises with their mounting and aspiring minds but their weake winges fastened on as it were with waxe sodainly melted the fruite of all their practises was but a lie or vaine thing The secretes of traitors are written in their foreheads Dan. 15. Balthasar And al the secretes of their plats and pacts was by Gods prouidence so laide open as if they had been written in their foreheads For hee that caused the hand from heauen to write on the wall when king Balthasar was at his banquet by marueilous meanes also doeth lay open the secret plats of treasons as if they wer set on their foreheads It is a wonder to see how when they come before Magistrates and the seat of Gods iudgement on earth by their wordes gestures looks and other signes they are desciphered A guiltie cōscience will shew it self ◠Reg. 9. As Iezabell when shee had painted her selfe shewed her selfe out at a window when Iehu the Magistrate set vp of God to execute his iudgements came vnto Iezrael so giltie conscience though outwardlye it bee painted with pretence of excuses yet in countenance wordes and other circumstances as at a window wil shew it selfe and before Magistrates bewray it selfe Cicero of traitors accusing themselues by lookes gestures c. Therefore Cicero said of the conspiratours against the estate when they came to examination that they needed none others to accuse them for by their hanging lookes wordes and gestures they did accuse one another and betrayed themselues It is like to greeuous sicknesses rooted in the verie bones and marrowes which yet by venemous vapours whose nature is to ascende shewe themselues in the faces foreheads and highest parts of the infected persons so the sicknesse Eliphantiasis Elephantiasis because it sheweth it selfe in the forehead like the Lions rough wrinkled hide or pelt is called Leontiasis Leontiasis Satyriasis it is called Satyriasis because it sheweth it selfe in the face like the ouglie face of Satyres So the ougly sicknesse of treasons though it be rooted in the marrowes and bones yet it sheweth it selfe in their very face and foreheads Psal 13◠There is no hiding of them though they could hide them as deep as hell for euen there is the power of God As Dauid saith whither shall I goe saith hee from thy spirit and whither shall I go from thy presence By marueilous meanes God bringeth suche thinges to light Eccle. 10 The birds of the ayre will bewray them as Salomon saieth carrie the voice that shall accuse thē Curse not the Prince saith hee no not in thy thought nether curse the rich in thy bed chamber for the foule of the aire shal carrie thy voice that with halfe wings shall declare it So farre Salomon By extraordinarie and merueylous meanes euen as though the foules of the ayre shoulde carrie the voice Gods prouidence discouereth such things before the facts and turneth the fruite of them to lies and vaine matters Thus howe common experience sheweth howe the fruite that traitors and such bring foorth is but a lie or a vaine thing The 5. principall matter What is the end of treasons rebellions and such like wickednesse DAuid expresseth the ende of such wicked persons in these words He hath made a pit and digged it and is fallen into the pitte that he made his mischiefe shall returne vpon his owne head and his wickednesse shall fall vppon his owne pate Hitherto the Prophet Dauid Hee resembleth the end of such wicked persons to one that graueth a pit and falleth into it whose mischiefe returneth on his owne pate If they would way their wicked plats in the wisedome of God by his worde they woulde not digge such pittes for their ownd plats are like pits to swallow them vp as the practise of stories in all ages doth confirme ◠Sam. 31. Did it not so fall out with the malicious trauaile of king Saul which drawed his sworde on guiltlesse king Dauid and by the iust iudgement of God hee died on his owne sworde and with his owne hande 2. Sam. 18. The Philistines saieth hee according to his first plats shall deuoure him in the warres and my hand shall not bee on him and after in the Philistines warres hee was so distressed himselfe that fearing to be deuored of them hee deuoured himselfe so hee fell into the pit that oee made for other So Absalon the traitor and rebell against his owne father 2. Sam. 18. without the hand of man was hanged at a tree the iudgement was from heauen the executiō on earth Ioab as hee hanged thrust dartes into his heart and his bodie was cast into a great pit in the wood and they laide a mightie great heape of stones vpon him So hee digged a pit for Dauid and was cast into it himselfe Achitophell the traitor to Dauid likewise had no other hangman but his owne hand to hang himselfe 2. Sam. 18. his heart was false to his soueraigne his hand was not true to himself Shebah the traiterous rebell had his head flung ouer the wall 2. Sam. 20. as he deuided the head from the members in the ciuill bodie so his head was deuided from his owne members in his owne bodie and his wickednesse was turned on his head Act. 1. Iudas betrayed Iesus Christe our master his bodie brake and his bowels ranne out Dathan Coraah and Abiram rebelled against Moses the earth opened swallowed thē vp aliue Moses cried before Depart from the tents of these wicked men Num. 16 and touch nothing of theirs least you perish in all their sinnes God graunt that Moses cry may be in the heartes and eares of all subiects to her Maiestie that they depart frō all Traitours Rebels and such like that they touch nothing of their plats and practises Traitours reward Ro.