Chaunceller red it before the king he rent his clothes his hart melted and he humbled himselfe before God and he clensed the temple of God from idolatrie and he◠gathered all his people from the greatest to the smalest as the Scripture saith 2. Chro. 34. and hee red in their eares all the wordes of the booke of the couenaunt that was found in the house of the Lord. And the king stood by the Piller made a couenaunt before the Lord to walk after the Lord to keepe his cōmaundemēts his testimonies his statutes with all his hart with al his soule and that he would accōplish the wordes of the couenant written in the same booke And he caused all that were found in Ierusalem Beniamin to stand to it And the inhabitātes of Ierusalem did according to the couenant of God euen the God of their fathers Hitherto the words of the Scripture What a blessed state was in Iuda and Beniamin then when the harts of the Prince people melted at the word of God were knit in one to serue God according to his law their Soueraigne in true fidelitie according to it How good comely a thing is it as the Prophet Dauid saith for brethren to dwell together in vnitie Psal 133 It is like the precious oyntment vpon the head that ran down vpon the beard euen vnto Aarons beard vnto the skirtes of his clothing c. So far Dauid And if this we ioyne our hartes together to serue God in true faith and our Prince in true loyaltie and fidelity we shal find cōfort helpe frō God God wil blesse the prince for the people the people for the Prince forraine enemies wil feare traitors wil trēble rebels wil be ready to run into caues dens seditious persons wil shrink in their owne secret imaginatious Psal 58. the wicked ones like snayles shall be readie to melt away in their owne wicked wayes as the prophet praieth they may Thus how acceptable a thing it is to God when the people ioyne their hartes together in the true faith to God harty fidelity to their Prince The 5. is of Dauid his loyaltie and fidelitie to the royal person of king Saul The 5. cheefe matter notwithstanding he sought his life While Dauid was yet a subiect to king Saul The Example of Dauid his loyaltie to the person of king Saul 2. Sam. 24. by the euil spirite sent of God on him he was so incensed against Dauid that he chased him as abird from couert to couert to deuoure him His spies hunted him and they told him behold Dauid is in the wildernesse of Engaddi and the men of Ziph brought him tidings that Dauid lurked in the hill of Hachilah by them Psal 11. And how say yee saith he as some lay downe the words in the Psalme to my soule that shee should flye as a bird to the hill Yet notwithstanding he was thus chased for life and driuen out to the vttermost and put on his garde for safety of life yet he bare such loue loyaltie and fidelitie to the royall person of his Prince that when God eftsoones had put him into his handes he would suffer none of his retinue or garrison to offer violence vnto him 2. Sam. 24. For he said the Lorde keepe me from doing that thing vnto the Lordes annoynted to lay my handes vpon him for he is the annoynted of the Lorde And with these words he quailed his owne seruantes which said vnto him See the day is come which the Lord said vnto thee Behold I will deliuer thy enemies into thy hande and thou shalt doe to them as seemeth good to thee But Dauid would suffer none of his men to lay hands on him euen when hee came as it were into his mouth into the caue to ease himself Dauid saued kinge Saules life in the caue wher Dauid his men were hid in the inward partes thereof And his men said now is the day c. And they were sharpe set euen to haue torne him with their teeth And if Dauid in the plung had not pacified his men and garded the person of his Prince which notwithstanding persecuted him to death king Saul had bene dispatched of them And an other time God put king Saul into his handes Dauid saued king Saules life being asleepe in the campe 1. Sam. 26. when Dauid came vpon him as he was a sleepe and the people lay round about him And Abishai said to Dauid God hath closed thy enimie in thy hand this daye I pray thee let me smite him once with a speare to the earth and I wil not smite him againe And Dauid saide to Abishai distroy him not for who can lay his hand on the Lords annointed be giltlesse And he tooke the kings speare and the pot of water from Sauls head and from the toppe of a hill he cryed to Abner the captaine of Sauls hoast and to the people This is not well done of thee as the Lorde liueth ye are worthy to die because you haue not kept your maister the Lordes annoynted and now see where the kinges speare is and the pot of water that was at his head And Saules hart rued he said I haue sinned come againe my son Dauid for I will do thee no more harme because my soule was precious to thy eyes this day Behould I haue done foolishly and haue erred exceedingly So farre the Scripture Thus king Sauls life was precious to Dauid though hee did persecute him to death because he was his Soueraigne Lord placed of God in the royall seate His priuate causes and oppressions he commited to God abyding his pleasure and leasure and as his prouidence shoulde dispose of him and them But he cold not frame his hart either himselfe or to suffer any other vnder his regiment to offer any violence to the person of his Prince notwithstanding they were in armes and had him at their deuotions And his conscience was so tender touching his loyaltie to the person of his Prince that when in the caue mentioned before he had cut off but a lappet of Sauls garment in signe that God had put his life into his handes he was touched in his heart after as the Scripture saieth because he thought he had bene to bold with his Prince 1. Sam. 24. Dauid resolute loyaltie Though he were cast out of his protection yet so he abhorred treasons violence against the person of his Prince that he was resolute whatsoeuer should become of him not for the winning of his kingdome to the person of his Prince 2. Sam. 26. or sauing his own life to do or suffer violence to be done to his person For this was his resolutiō touching the person of his Prince As the Lorde liueth saith he either the Lorde shall smite him or his day shall come to die or he shal goe downe to battail and perish
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
at his sodain death vnlooked for the Diuell deceiued him then at that instant he bewailed cōfessed his wickednesse as Platina aforesaide telleth Besides many Sorcerers and Nigromācers followed in that Sea Beno the Cardinall confessing it as disciples of Syluester and right successors of Simon Magus What maruaile though euill spirites haue so preuailed in that Sea and wrought by them and those that haue been bewitched by them such monstrous mischiefes vnnaturall treasons and blooddie butcheries and outrages against the Church of God against Christian Princes People and Countries Therfore seeing the Church of God and our Prince and our country hath such enemies confedered with euill spirits by whom they worke and bee continually set on by them what should be the refuge of godly faithfull subiects to her Maiestie but with Constantine the Emperor in the like case in his warres against such sorcerers workers by wicked meanes with heartie and feruent prayers to commend and commit the Royall person of our Prince her estate and raigne the estate of Gods Church and our country to the Almighty prouidēce protection of God that so with Constantine shee also may haue victorie ouer all her enemies maugre all euil spirites whatsoeuer Then feare thē not The blessed banner of the fatherly prouidence of God is displaied ouer vs. God is the protector of our life as Dauid saith whō then shall we fear Psal 27. Thogh an hoast of men wer laid against vs yet shall not our heart bee afraid though there rose vp war against vs yet will we trust in him Thus let our hearts take hold of Dauids comfort Rom. 15. for the holy Scripture is written for our comfort and instruction These are examples for vs. What is a cordial comforte and soueraigne salue if it bee not vsed Enlarge therefore our owne harts in Dauids cōforts Psal 46. saying with him God is our strength and hope a very present helpe in trouble And in his prayer growing into comfort and courage he saith The Lord of hoasts is with vs the god of Iacob is our refuge And in another place Psal 44. it is not saith he their owne arme that helped them but thy right hand and thy arm and the light of thy countenance because thou hadst a fauour to them Thou art my king O God send help to Iacob Thus Dauid Let vs arme our selues in his spirite with his praiers against all forces of euill spirites and enemies and they will flie Iaco. 4. Resist the Diuell saieth Iames and he will flie from you What though Balaam doth inuocate and call on diuels against the people of God as Origen saieth Orige ho. 13. in ca. 22. lib. Nu. Inuocet licet Daemones Balaam non potest Deus à daemonibus defendere Cannot God saith he defend vs frō Diuels He raigneth ouer the Diuels and euill spirites also as the same Origen in annother place saith Non solum bonis sanctis mentibus ac spiritibus dominatur Origen in Epist ad Rom. ca. 4. lib. 9. verum nequam refugis his quos Scriptura malignos Angelos appellat Hee ruleth not only ouer good and holy mindes and spirits but ouer the euill and reuolted spirits whom the scripture calleth the euil angels And therfore feare them not Feare cōmeth of wāt of faith Neither must we fear thē nor fawn vpō thē To. Gerson ser 1. de 5. Antonio veritate 3. Gersō a writer of great name in their own schooles somtime Chanceller of Parris giueth godly counsell herein that we should not feare the euill spirites nor fawn on them to seeke to them by sorcerie and vnlawfull meanes to haue helpe or any good of them or by them What frendship saith he can a man haue of a deadlie enemie What truth of the father of lies If hee telleth any true thing it is to deceiue by colour of truth to betray thee He is a Traitour to thy Lord and wilt thou look for help of him And God threatneth to destroy thee if thou deale with him and seeke to him and those that work by him Against God and against the faith is to seek health of the enemie of God Thus Gerson imboldneth vs against the feare of euill spirites and feareth vs against fawning and seeking for helpe or any good thing by them Let vs not therefore that are inuested in the name and faith of Christe fawne on them or feare them or those that worke and practise by them But let vs fear the liuing God and powre our heartie praiers and supplications to him for the continuall protection and long preseruation of the Royall person of our Prince and her prosperous estate and for the ministration and garrison of holie Angels about her aganist all euill spirits and workers by them Then the euill spirites themselues will feare and the instruments in whom and by whom they worke will quake at their very heart rootes and we shall see the great saluation of our God and shall magnifie his marueilous mercies and wonderous workes for the continuall preseruation of his Church the Royall person and estate of our Queene and Countrie Thus of the ende of the seconde braunch of this matter that we shoulde pray for her that the euill spirits and those that are set on by euill spirites and worke by them may haue no power against her The last branch With what mindes we shoulde pray to God for her The last braunch of this matter is with what minds we should pray to God for her that he may accept our prayers We must not only lift vp our hands in prayer which as Athanasius saith God hath giuen vs Vt in oratione supplices tendamus addominum That humblie in prayer wee should lift them vp to the Lord but we must lift vp our heartes with our hands to heauen as the Prophet Ieremie saith and with our hearts we must crie to God for her For heartie prayer is the crie of the heart and bending of the thoughtes as Augustine saieth August in Psal 18. Aug. de ver Apost ser 13. and not the clamor of the mouth and iawes as in another place Augustine saith but the clamor of the heart which soundeth in the eares of God And thus with heart and handes wee must take with vs also the warning of S. Paul 1. Tim. 2. that wee lift vp pure hands in prayer to God not polluted and defiled with grosse and greeuous sinnes and with vnrepentant hearts For sinners continuing in their sins God doth not heare as the blind man whom our Sauiour healed witnesseth in S. Iohn Iohn 9. And if I incline to wickednesse in my heart Psal 66. the Lord wil not hear me saith Dauid He that sinneth with vnrepentant heart dwelling and abiding in sinne is of the Diuel saith Iohn God abhorreth the wicked 1. Iohn 3. will destroy them as Dauid saith Psal 5. Psal 109. Pro.
A Treatise conteining two parts 1 An Exhortation to true loue loyaltie and fidelitie to her Maiestie 2 A Treatise against Treasons Rebellions and such disloyalties Written by Michael Renniger Psal 36. How precious is thy mercy O God and the Children of men shall put their trust vnder the shadowe of thy winges Jmprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vintree by Thomas Dawson and are there to be sold 1587. ⧠To the most Excellent mightie and gracious Queene ELIZABETH by the grace of God Queene of England Fraunce and Ireland defender of the true Christian faith grace and mercie from God our Faher and from our Lorde Iesus Christ MOST Humblie I beseech your gracious Maiestie to vouchsafe the accepting of this small treatise of one of your Maiesties old sworne seruantes of houshoulde and althouge of the least and most vnworthyest of the association The great occasion of the late occurentes hath induced me to sounde the trumpet of exhortation out of the worde of God in a good and acceptable season I trust to doe good to all subiectes of your Maiestie which shall read or heare the same Most hartelie I pray God the father of our Lorde Iesus Christ to vouchsafe by it as the ordinarie meanes of his blessed will with his spirite to worke good in th heares of all subiectes to your Maiestie t◠whose handes or eares it shal come And that his tender mercie in Christ will continuallie set the watch and gard of his prouidence about the royall person and estate of your Maiestie and keepe you as the apple of an eye as Dauid prayeth and vnder the couert of his owne winges from all conspiracies treasons and plattes of practises at home or abroade of al enemies whatsoeuer And blesse your Maiestie with longe life prosperous reigne and victorie ouer all your enemyes Your Maiesties Most humble and faithfull subiect and seruant Mihael Renniger The Contentes principall points and cheefe matters of the exhortation 1 A Commendation of the godly and louing affections of faithfull subiectes to her Maiestie and how such godlie affections are of God and are accepted of him 2 How we should frame our affections and obedience to Princes and higher powers according to the rules of Gods worde 3 How according to the rules of Gods worde Christians in the primitiue and auncient Church framed their affections and obedience to princes and higher powers being then heathen and many of them persecuters of the faith of Christ 4 What an acceptable thing it is to God when the people ioyne their heartes to Godly Princes in true faith to God hartie fidelitie to their Princes 5 The Example of Dauid his loyaltie and fidelitie to the royall person of King Saul notwithstanding continually he sought his life 6 The example of the famous fidelitie of one Lilla a Britton and an heathen man in the defence of the royal person of his Prince 7 How the late occasions and daungers should encrease enflame true loue loyaltie and vnfayned fidelitie in the heartes of al good subiectes to her Maiestie 8 How directed in wisedome from God w◠may take the right way long to obteine her of the mercie of God by making hartie prayers and supplications to God for her That he will set the watch of his prouidence about her and send the garrison of his Angels to garde her that the euill spirits and those by whom they worke and that worke and practise by them may haue no power against her With what mindes we should pray to God for her that he may accept our prayers 9 Of the inner walle of England which is true faith to God vnfained fidelitie to our Prince and mutual loue and concord amongest our selues And of the outward walle by Sea which is the shipping nauigation furniture thereof wherewith her Maiestie hath fortified our countrie and what a comfort and blessing it is to our whole countrie 10 Of those that make breaches in these walles by lingring looking after inuasions forraine forces 11 What hath beene the case of this realme in inuasions of forraine forces and straungers heretofore and of other countries in like cases And what shoulde be our refuge and staye against all inuasions 12 A generall warning to all subiectes to shunne such vices as hinder true faith to God and true loyaltie to their Prince which are hipocrisie and a hollowe harte to God and hipocrisie and a hollow hart to the Prince and estate with peruersnes frowardnesse and vncontentment of malcontentes misslikers and murmurers against the Prince and estate The fitnesse of the season for this kind of exhortation IF we looke into the state of this present time and the woonderfull worke of God in the late discouerie of trayterous attemptes against the royall person of her Maiestie and our Countrie it ministreth verie fit occasion matter of this manner of exhortatiō vnto vs. For if the people of God be his heauenly husbandrie as Saint Paul calleth them and we his workemen 1. Cor. 3. we must also take fit times and seasons for it And when the good season is and the ground in temper it is then good sowing the seede Now by the wonderful worke of God of late the season serueth and the verie ground of the hartes of faithfull subiectes is so tempered and prepared of God that this kind of exhortation is verie welcome to them The shewers are then most in season when the drie ground thirsteth after them The Prophet Dauid saieth Psal 14◠that his soule gaspeth after God like as a thirstie land And God in the Prophet Esai resembleth himselfe to a cloud Esai 18. comming with dewe in the heate of haruest And in the same Prophet he sayeth that he knoweth how to speake in time and sea with the wearie soule Esai 50. And as God doth sen good seasons to those that are fayne of heauenly thinges so by his word and exhortation thereof he worketh secretly in conciences of Christians as pleaseth him It is good to take the seasons which God offereth Paul exhorteth vs to serue the season and opportunitie Rom. 12. which he calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All things haue their appointed time as Salomon saieth Eccle. 3. God hath made the way to this exhortation by his maruelous worke of late by kindling the fier of fidelitie in the heartes of al good subiectes Now is the time to blow it vp by exhortation out of the word of God This season so wel seruing by Gods grace it wil be more effectuous Thus of the fitnes of the season for this kind of exhortation The order of the exhortation FOr the better ordering of my exhortation I haue laid downe the contents principall pointes and the cheefe matters thereof in the beginning as a breefe vewe of the whole discourse as in order I mean to treate of them To which order I referre my selfe THE FIRST OF THE chief matters THE first is a commendation
Prince And if Lylla did so for king Edwin a Prince as then heathen and but ouer a corner of this land much more will faithfull subiectes with their bodies and bowels defend the sacred person of so Christian and gracious a Prince and good mother of all England against the swordes of all traytors and enemies vnto her England is the mother of manie Lyllas in these daies and hath fostered and bred many such faithfull subiectes for life to their Prince God send many such and long continue them and blesse vs with the long life prosperous continuance of our Prince Thus of the example of Lylla his famous fidelitie in defence of the royall person of his Prince The 7. cheefe matter The seuenth is howe the late occasions and daungers should encrease true loue loyaltie and vnfayned fidelitie in the hartes of all good subiectes to her Maiestie The late daungers should enflame loue loyaltie in true subiectes Iohn 16. The feare daunger to depart frō a persō most deere to vs doth encrease and enflame more loue in vs. When our Sauiour had resolutely tould his disciples that he must depart from them their hartes were filled with sorrowe And they fell on the necke of Paul and wept on him Act. 20. after he had tolde them of Ephesus that they should see his face no more When Sixtus the auncient byshop of Rome Sixtus Laurentius Platina in vita Sixti 2. was going to martyrdome for the faith of Christ Laurence his Archdeacon cryed out after him Whither goest thou father without thy sonne He so loued him in life that in death he was loth to be parted frō him three dayes after he followed him in martirdome also Ex passione Cypriani à Pontio eius diacono edita When Cyprian the Archbishop of Carthage was brought to the place of his martyrdome and stoode vppe in lynnen ready for the executioner the peoples hartes so rued on him that they cryed let vs dye with our holy Bishop The people of Constantinople Chrisostoms first banishment so entyrely loued Chrisostom their Archbishop that the first time by Eudoxia the Empresse her meanes hee departed into banishment they made a mutenie in the Cittie After at the Emperour his cōmaundemēt being recalled home againe the people ran on heaps to meet him and shouted about him and as rauished with ioy of his returne they would needs perforce haue him to the great Church there out of his old place to heare his voice againe And after his second banishment Chrisostoms second banishment many the could not temper their zeale affection to him sequestred banded thēselues in a factiō were called Iohannitae after his name great sturre eftsoones was made for him And if so greeuous their departing was from their Bishop deere to them how doleful would the departing haue been from such a gracious Prince and naturall mother of our whole Countrie And therefore the late feare and daunger thereof should encrease and enflame the fier of true loue loyaltie and vnfeyned fidelitie in the hartes of all true and naturall subiectes to her Maiestie The 8 cheefe matter The eight is how directed in wisedome from God we may take the right way long to obtaine her of the mercie of God by making harty prayers and supplications to God for her That he wil set the watch of his prouidence about her and send the garrison of his Angels to garde her That the euil spirits and those by whom they worke and that work and practise by them may haue no power against her With what minds we shuld pray to God for her that he may accept our praiers That wee may longe obteine and enioy the blessing of her royall person and soueraignetie amongest vs the right way in the direction of godlie wisedome is to haue continuall recourse to God by making hartye prayers supplications to him for her These be the safest munitions of Princes on earth as it were Castles in heauen to keep her on earth frō al treacheries practises of enemies and euil spirites whatsoeuer The safest munitions of Princes are hartie prayers of the faithfull vnto God for them Let vs build for her bulwarkes on earth in the bowels of harty affections of faithfull subiectes and Castles in heauen with hartie prayers and supplications vnto God for her That God will vouchsafe to be a continuall Castle to her on earth as he was to his seruant Dauid Psal 18. whose glorie was that the Lorde was his rocke strength and defence Psal 61. And that he will be a Tower of strength to her against all her enemies and that he wil prepare his mercie and faithfulnesse to preserue her This is the impregnable Castle Tower of defēce as Salomon saith The Tower of strength Prou. 18. is the name of the Lord. That the mercie of God wil vouchsafe cotinually to keep her for his poore Church and our Countrie let vs ioyne our selues as Tertullian speaketh as in an army to God and as if by violent force of feruent prayers we would win it of God Ad deum saith he quasi manu facta praecationibus ābiamus Tertul. in Apolog cap. 39 And let vs with heauenlie affections beat at heauen gates and touch God in our prayers as Tertullian sayth in an other place Coelum tudimus saith he deum tangemus Tertul. in Apolog cap. 40 Such violēce and force of faith is acceptable to God as the same Tertullian saith Tertul. in Apolog cap 39 Haec vis deo grata est This violence is acceptable to God As he that knocked at his neighbours dore at midnight and would not giue vp till he opened and gaue him that he came for Luke 11. And as the widowe that hanged about the iudge till he graunted her suite Luke 18. And as the woman of Canaan that followed our Sauiour with open mouth Mat. 15. til she obtayned that she came for of him Marke 10. Bartimaeus And as blind Bartimaeus the begger the sonne of Timaeus begging by the high way when Christ passed by he left not begging crying after him till he cōmaūded him to be brought vnto him then off went the beggers cloake that lighter and without let he might run to him and his running and casting of his cloake was not in vaine for of a darke man he was made to see he glorified the mercy of our Sauiour to him If we awake but a little out of the dreames of worldly vanities for mortall creatures in respect of their worldly states Psal 90. as Dauid saith are like a sleep or dreame what are worldly states portes countenances but as Bartimaeus his beggers cloake in the sight of God If we behold them in the glasse of true valewe of the wisdome of God by his blessed worde Eccle. 1. Psal 62. all is but most vaine vanitie as Salomon
his workes For know they the God wil be exalted on earth in the kingdomes and great nations on earth He dispenseth and disposeth the Principates kingdomes of the earth at his pleasure as Salomon Pro. 8. Dan. 7. Iob. 12. Psal 76. Daniel Iob and Dauid witnesse Therfore al are warned not to intermedle theÌ„ selues in the great works of God in Princes kingdomes to encounter his worke in them for they shall bring foorth but a vaine thing Leaue off therfore saith the prophet your enterprises against God the great actions on earth directed gouerned and disposed of him They expound the worde Harphu dimittite conatus let goe your attempts plats The Septuagint expresseth it by the worde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the vulgar by the worde vacate whereof ensueth this sense that they shall keepe theÌ„selues quiet rid free theÌ„selues froÌ„ such busines stirres For the fruit wil but defraud them as a vile lie or vaine thing Therfore according to the great warning of God let all containe theÌ„selues wtin the limits of their callings and be quiet follow their owne busines 2. Thes â— as Paul exhorteth the Thessa not make themselues controullers of cases actions not incident pertinent to theÌ„ 2. Thes 3. that they fal not into the note of those busie bodies by Peter reproued 1. Pet. 4. Thus of the great proclamatioÌ„ of generall warning to all that they oppose not themselues against Gods prouidence the great actions thereof considering if they do there is a God that wil ouerreach ouertake them Now as we haue hard gods proclamatioÌ„ so let vs heare the protestatioÌ„ of the godly faithful Prince against all enemies to his estate to which Gods prouideÌ„ce hath preferred him Know ye saith he the God hath chosen to himself the good or godlie man The Lord will hear me when I call vpoÌ„ him Vatablus noteth the word Hasid Vatablus eâ— anno Sâ—â— to be vnderstanded passiuelie for the maÌ„ on whoÌ„ the goodnes mercie is shewed as most thaÌ„kfullie he doth alwayes recognize the goodnes mercie of God touching himselfe taking his coÌ„fort out of Gods prouidence hee layeth out his persuasioÌ„ assurance that God hath chosen froÌ„ others disseuered him to this state by marueilous meanes maintained him in it Both which things are imployed in one word Hiphla of the Prophet ther vsed which signifieth to segregate disseuer and also to make marueilous before others as Pagnin noteth Pagnin 〈◊〉 Thesan This sense the Septua following expound the worde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mirabilem reddidit and tâ—â— vulgar mirificauit hath made marueiloâ— and by maruelous workes hath maintaineâ— him Thus of the comfortable protestation of his estate proceeding of the prouidence of God and made marueilous in the iudgement of men Therfore in the same Psalme he warneth his enemies to fal to remorse in their coÌ„sciences and closets and to offer the Sacrifice of righteousnesse and to looke for good thinges of God Psal 3 And in the Psalme before the Prophet moning himself to God Dauid his comfort and stay in his state out of the prouidence of God when he looketh into the world wondreth at the number of his enemies Lorde saith hee howe are they increased that trouble mee manie there are that rise vp against mee And by and by he riseth in comfort of Gods prouidence to him But thou O Lorde saith he art my defender a buckler about mee my glory and the lifter vp of my head I called vnto the Lorde with my voyce and he heard me out of his holy hill Selah which is an exclamation or shoute noting what an acceptable thing it is to God in distresse to call to him for defence Then as enarmed in heauenlie coÌ„forts of Gods prouidence and mounted in courage and resolution against his enemies Dauid his resolution against his enemies I wil not be afraid saith hee though ten thousande of people beset me rounde about Vp Lorde saith hee and helpe â—e O my god Thou smitest al mine enemies 〈◊〉 the cheeke bone thou hast broken the teeth of the vngodly Then the foote and end of the Psalme is Saluation belongeth vnto the Lorde and thy blessing is on thy people Noting hereby what a blessed thing it is to recognize this and to haue their comfort and securitie in God God heare the dolefull moue of faithfull subiects for Elizabeth our Queene against all the enemies of her royall person and estate and strike them on the cheeke bone and make frustrate all their forces and disappoint all their plats that they may bring forth but a vaine thing Thus howe in respect of Gods prouidence the wicked trauailing with treasons in steede of fruite bring foorth a lie and a vaine thing And how the comfort courage and resolution of the securitie of Princes is out of the prouidence and mercie of God Now how daily experience confirmeth the marueilous works of Gods prouidence in the preseruation of the royall persons and estates of Princes placed in their estate by his prouidence and howe the fruite that Traitours Dailie experience of the marueilous workes of Gods prouidence Rebels and such like bring forth is but a lie and a vaine thing Common experience is sufficieÌ„t euidence hereof how after the trauaile of traytors rebels and suche like when they looke for fruite Caro Ste. in dictio hist poe it is but a lie and vaine thin in the end They are cut downe before they ripe before they can flie they fall For as Poets contriuing graue lessons vnder faigned deuises fayne of Icarus to whome Dedalus hys Father made winges seared and sette on with waxe Icarus Dedalus warning him that neyther hee shoulde flie too lowe nor mounte too neare the Sunne least the waxe melt and so hee fall But he notwithstanding could not content himselfe to flie but would mount and so fell into the Sea Not to mouÌ„t aboue possibility alotted by Gods prouidence called of his name the Icarian Sea Vnder a fained deuise they carrie vs to a fruitful and wise warning to content our selues with our states and callinges and with that moderate course that Gods prouidence hath appointed vs neyther making our selues more abiect neither mouÌ„ting aboue the possibilities by Gods prouidence allotted to vs. They that get theÌ„ wings and fall a mounting leauing their set course and forgetting their weaknesse as they followe Icarus in follie so they shall follow him in his fall Dedalus of Rome maketh wings for Icarus his sonne Dedalus of Rome maketh wings for Icarus his sonne and hee beginneth with them to mounte out of the compasse of his course and his plats and practises are lyke winges set on with waxe whiche will melt before the Sunne of Gods prouidence and sodainlie hee is plunged and ouerwhelmed in the troublesome Seas of this worlde R. Saadiaâ— Oecolam in ca. 40. Esa
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
and prayse his name be telling of his saluation from day to day And after For the Lord is great and cannot worthelie be praysed Thus by deliuery vpon deliuery and blessing vpon blessing the bountifull goodnesse of God daily doth minister to vs matter of new songs of thansgiuing praysing of his name It is not Moses that stood vp for vs in the gapp as the Prophet Dauid saith that Moses stood vp in the gappe els he would haue destroyed them nor Phinees that stood in the breach to turne away his wrath from vs Psal 106. and Abraham as the Prophet Esay saith knewe it not Esay 63. but it was the blessed aduocate of the Church of God whom S. Steuen at his death saw standing at the right hand of his father and our only mediator Christ Iesus Act. 7. which stood vp in the gappe and breach before the mercie of God for vs. Except that mediator had shewed himselfe at the dead lift and at the very dore of death the deepe waters of the proud had euen gone ouer our foule as the Prophet Dauid saith And as in the beginning of the same Psalme hee sayeth Psal 124. If the Lorde himselfe had not been on our side now may Israel say if the Lord himself had not been on our side wheÌ„ men rose vp against vs they had swallowed vs quicke when they were so wrathfully disposed at vs yea the water had drowned vs the streame had gone ouer our soule And after But praysed be the Lord which hath not giuen vs ouer for a pray vnto their teeth Our soule is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the hunter the snare is broken and we are deliuered Our helpe standeth in the name of the Lord which hath made heauen and earth Thus the whole Psalme portrayeth out our case the rage of our enemies and our deliuery by the tender mercie of God Psal 44. We were as sheepe appointed to the slaughter as Dauid saith and the butcherie and massacre was appointed and the sworde that should haue been bathed in our blood And our gracious Soueraigne as the Prophet Hieremie speaking of the murtherers of Anathot which conspired his death saith in his owne case as a lambe shoulde haue beene brought to the slaughter Hier. and I knewe not saith Heremie that they had deuised thus against me And before he saith that God did shew and reueale to him their practises And in an other place The Lord saith he is with me like a mightie Giant Hier. 2â— therefore my persecutors shal be ouerthrowne and shall not preuaile And after he breaketh out in praysing glorifying of God Sing saith he vnto the Lorde for hee hath deliuered the soule of the poore from the hand of the wicked Thus in the Propthets case the conspirators of Anathot against him the case of our gracious Soueraigne is sette foorth before our eyes Let vs with the Prophet breake out in praysing of God for the wonderfull works of his manifold deliueries For we haue heard of deliueries vpon deliueries the latter are linked to the first Psal 121. Behold he that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleepe as the Prophet Dauid saith The Deuil as a ramping Lion gaddeth about and trauaileth in his members with treasons vpon treasons 1. Pet. 5. But the fatherly prouidence of God hath been the watch and gard of the royall person and estate of our Prince and hath wrought wonderful workes of deliueries vpon deliueries for her and vs. Treason the verie imph of the Deuill with which the Deuil thus trauaileth in this latter age is like to Hydra the serpent of many heads Caro See 〈◊〉 dictio Hist Pâ—e which being cut off spring againe Let vs praye that the sword of Gods prouidence may not onely cut them off but so feare them vp that they neuer spring againe Plin. nat Hist lib. 8. cap. 55. Plini wryteth that the Hare as sonne as she bringeth forth breadeth againe and before she bring forth she conceiueth againe with one vnder another and beareth in her bellie at once one with lawne and heire an other all naked and hee termeth it Superfaetat So treason in these latter dayes before it bringeth foorth is ready to breede againe and to conceiue one vpon the other and would fill Countries with treasons but that Gods prouidence encountreth them wheÌ„ they are conceiued and frustrateth them and turneth them to a lie and vaine thinge as Dauid termeth it Though they redoble thicke on vs yet we haue seen the wonderful works of God in the discoueries and our deliueries redoubled also vpon vs. Psal 68. Let vs say with Dauid praysed be the Lord dayly euen the Lord God which helpeth vs and powreth out his benefites vpon vs. Hee is our God euen the God of whom commeth saluation God is the Lord by whom wee escape death God shall wound the head of his enemies and the hearie scaspe of such a one as goeth on still in his wickednesse So farre the Prophet Dauid What aboundance of matter of prayse and thanksgiuing hath the infinite mercie of God ministred vnto vs in these wonderfull works of discoueries of treasons and deliueries of our gracious Soueraigne from them and his Church and our Countrie He hath sent her helpe as Dauid prayeth from his Sanctuarie Psal 20. strenghned her out of Sion Where are now that thankful harts in Sion Psal 88. wherof Dauid saith al my fresh springs shal be in thee We are the true Sion sanctified to god by his word sprinckled with the blood of Christ in our harts by fayth and sanctificatioÌ„ of the spirit of God through obedience sprinckling of the blood of Christ according to Peter his words We are the Israel of God as Paul calleth vs the true Iewes by circumcision of our hearts 1. Pet. 1. that is in the spirite not in the letter whose praise is of god not of meÌ„ as Paul saith Hierusalem that is aboue Rom 2. Gal. 4. is free as Paul saith is the mother of vs al. We are those true Iehudei and Iewes which haue their name of confessing and praysing of God For from the roote of the word Iada which signifieth to coÌ„fesse prayse and giue thanks to God Pagnin in Thesau Heb. 13. Iehuda which is the tribe of their kingdome hath name therof Iehudaei the Iewes haue theirs By him that is Christ we offer vp as Paul saith the sacrifice of prayse that is the fruit of our lips the prayse his name Wher therfore is Moses with his song the Children of Israel which so thankfully praysed God for their deliuerie from Pharao and the ouerthrow of his hoast in the redde Sea Exod. 15. Where is Miriam the prophetisse and sister of Aaron with troupes of women following her with timbrells daunses and praysing of God Psal 134 And Aaron with the Leuites lifting vp their
establish her as king Dauid â—â—ayed that God will establish him with a principall Psa 51. The heroical spirit or princely spirit as the vulgar translateth the worde Nediba because the word Nadib signifieth a Prince or as some expound it with a free spirit because the word signifieth both God strengthen her Maiestie with such an heroicall and free spirit When king Dauid looked into the transitorie troubles of the worlde which came swelling like a Sea on him and gaping like a gulph to deuoure him he cryed to God Psal 3. Lorde howe are they encreased that trouble me many are they that rise against me Thus as if he were floating in the raging Seas and wallowing among the wild waues he crieth to God And by and by as though he had got him vnder the lie shore by casting his eyes on Gods prouidence he found such cordiall comfort that he said But thou O Lord art a shield about me my glorie and the lifter vp of my head Then with an heroicall spirit he saith I wil not be affraid for tenne thousand of people that haue set themselues against me round about And in the same heroical spirit he prayeth Vppe Lorde and helpe mee O my God for thou smitest myne enemies vppon the cheeke bone thou shalt breake the teeth of the vngodly In which heroicall confidence in God thus he endeth his prayer Saluation belongeth to 〈◊〉 Lorde and thy blessing is vppon thy people Thus how Dauid out of blustering windes and stormie Seas hoiseth his seales into the hauen of Gods prouidence and putteth on an heroical spirit with courage and magnanimitie against all his enemies Was not Dauid a Prince and Prophet most deere to God Dauid Godly Princes deer vnto God haue beeÌ„ assaulted with traytors and rebels chosen according to his owne heart as the Scripture speaketh Yet had he not Sheba the rebell Architophel the traytor and Absalon his sonne out of his owne bowels that betray him and openly rebelled against him Moses may be a mirror to al magestrates and Princes Moses who was so high in the loue and fauour of God Yet had he Dathan Corach and Abyram that rebelled against him And because we haue mentioned Moses if we looke into the wonderful works of God hath not God sent our good mother and Prince Elizabeth as a Moses to vs to bring vs first out of the spiritual Egypt slauery of our soules to conduct vs through the wildernesse of this wayward world full of fiery serpents continually stinging vs in their kind as the fiery serpents did sting the Children of Israel in the wildernesse And as God conducted them by Moses through the great and terrible wildernesse Deut. 8. where as hee sayeth were fierie serpents and scorpions so what were our case if God had not blessed vs with our Moses to conduct vs through the weary wildernesse of these troublesome and perilous times in which so many fiery serpents stinging scorpions venemous vermin and malicious enemies are whose outrage and furie is like to the ranke and hot poyson of serpents as the worde Chema which Dauid vseth doth signifie Thus howe God hath made her our Moses to bring vs out of the house of bondage and conduct vs through the wildernesse of this daungerous worlde swarming with so many fiery serpents and stinging scorpions against vs. Now howe God hath prepared and preserued her to this Princely conduct as he did his seruant Moses Moses had his name because hee was drawne out of the waters for of the worde Mosha signifying Extraxit or eduxit he hath plucked or drawn out hee was called Moshe of Pharao his daughter because saith she I haue drawen him out of the waters His mother hid him 3. monethes and then because of Pharao his coÌ„mandmeÌ„t for the making away of the Hebrewes male children as soone as they were borne she she fearing danger put him in an Ark of reede daubed with slime and pitch and laid it amoÌ„g the Bulrushes by the riuers brinke Exod. 2. Now his sister stood a far off to wait what wold come of him Then the daughter of Pharao came downe to wash her in the riuer and her maids walked by the riuer side and when they saw the Arke among the Bulrushes she sent her maid to fetch it and brieflie to conclude that the scriptuâ—â— rehearseth more at large the child wept and Pharao his daughter pitied him Gods prouidence so prouiding for him his sister ran for his mother to be his nurse and when he grew his mother brought him to Pharao his daughter and she brought him vp as her owne and she called his name Moses bicause saith she I drew him out of the water Gods wonderfull prouidence in preseruing Q. Elizabeth vnto and in the royall estate And hath not our Moses before God set the crowne on her head been at the very brinke to perish God hath pluked her out of the gulfes of many waters and out of the month of cruell enemies and hath made though not in name yet in the woÌ„deafull works of his prouidence a right Moses of her by bringing her froÌ„ the very brinke wonderfully preseruing her to this Princelie estate And since howe oft hath hee made a Moses of her by plucking her out of so many greedie gulfes of treasons and conspiracies at home and abroade against her and of late bringing her from the brinke of suche imminent dangers perillous plats and plunges by such wonderfull works of discoueries and deliueries which wee haue seene So that in Moses plucked out of the waters and from the brinke to conduct the people of God out of Egypt we may see a right mirror of our Moses by the wonderfull workes of God so oft saued from the brinke plucked out of the gulfes to coÌ„duct his people through the wildernes of this perillous worlde amidst the fierie serpentes sharpe set to sting the people of God at al aduantages and occasions God long vouchsafe her to bee his Moses and continuallie plucke her out of the gulfs and plunges of all plats of treasons conspiracies and confederacies at home or abroade whatsoeuer and whersoeuer against her And as he did magnifie his seruaÌ„t Moses in the worlde and with wonderfull workes backed him from heauen in the conduct of his people on earth So let vs heartily pray that with wonderfull workes of his prouidence and diuine power hee will magnifie our Moses in the sight of al Princes and people and shewe foorth the magnificence of his glorious Gospel in her and back from heauen her princely conduct of Gods people on earth against al enemies traitors conspirators against her Princely person and royall estate whatsoeuer and whensoeuer that the world may see hee hath set her vp for a marke and raised her vp for a Moses for the conduct and comfort of the people of God The fourth How God requireth and looketh for thankfulnesse of vs. As God