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A04416	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, on the first Sunday in Lent: Martij 1. 1600 With a short discourse of the late Earle of Essex his confession, and penitence, before and at the time of his death. By William Barllow Doctor of Diuinitie. Whereunto is annexed a true copie, in substance, of the behauiour, speache, and prayer of the said Earle at the time of his execution.	Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1601 (1601)	STC 1454; ESTC S100950	23,845	78

Luk. 23. We haue found this man denying tribute to be paid to Caesar. If his answer had bin affirmatiue they had accused him of blasphemie against God and their state they being commanded to be subiect to none but God himselfe who had promised to be the●r God and King Deut. 7. But these daungers our Sauiour preuenteth with this answer Giue vnto Caesar the things of Caesar and vnto God the things of Gods That is giue vnto Caesar tribute whose mony it is giue vnto God your selues whose people you are But first Caesar and then God for they two haue interchangeably borrowed names it pleaseth God to bee called a King in heauen Psa. 20. and the King is called a God on earth Psa. 82. therefore hee which denieth his dutie to the visible God his prince and Soueraign cannot performe his dutie to the God inuisible Certainely a mind inclined to rebellion was neuer well possessed of religion Now to the words Giue It is no maruell though Christ do call his yoake Suaue iugum a sweete yoake Math. 11. because as Saint Iohn expoundes him his commaundements are not grieuous 1. Iohn 3. for the whole summe of Christianitie is contained in one word diligite Rom. 13. and that is suaue verbum a sweete word and the whole dutie of a Christian is comprised in one word Date and that is facile verbum an easie word for what is more easie then to giue Giue almes vnto the poore largely Luc. 6. and obedience vnto your superiour reuerently Rom. 13. both of them cheerefully For God loueth a cheerfull giuer 2. Cor. 9.3 Grudging marres charitie Rom. 12. like the Coloquintida in the potage 2. Reg. 4. Vertit amorem in amororem saith Saint Bernard it turneth loue into bitternes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Saint paul 2. Cor. 9.6 It makes a blessing of deuotion to be a wrest of extortion So muttering marres royaltie and as thorns vnder a pot psal 58. turne a still fire into a crackling flame so it turnes obedience into rebelling Wherefore that speech of Lactantius is very proper and effectuall nothing so much commendeth the dutie of a man as voluntarium that it be willingly performed for voluntas est mensura astionū according to the Schoolemen the will doth regulate and makes the action good and God rewardeth the will not the gift the facilitie of the giuing not the wealth of the doner 2. Cor. 8. And that is it which made Saint Peter to counsel vs to do our duty not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of necessitie and force but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 willingly and readily And it is the commendation of Seruantes much more of Subiects that they obey 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from their soule not to the eye onely Colos. 3. Eph. 6.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of good will not by compulsion and so much of this word Giue the summe whereof is that of Saint Paul Rom. 13.4 that wee discharge our dutie to Caesar to our Soueraigne of conscience not of constraint that it be giuen by vs not forced from vs vnto Caesar. The Quéene of Saba pronounced Israel blessed because Salomon was their king a man borne in their owne countrie 1. Reg. 10. Salomon himselfe accompted that kingdome whatsoeuer happy whose king was as Nazianz. reads the place Eccl. 10.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sonne of a man frée borne yea it is the law of God himselfe that his people should choose a king from among them one of their brethren Deut. 17. Notwithstanding if it please God in his indignation to place ouer a land a tyrant qui ditescat ex afflictionibus populi Nehem. 9.37 Which should make himselfe mightie by his peoples oppressions as in this place Caesar a forrenner and a stranger whether the Oliue trée or the Bramble bush Iud. 9.7 The Oliue a king vnder whose swéet nature and clemencie they liue merily and richly or the Bramble a sharp prince to be as a thorne in their sides to vexe them cruelly or as it is in the Apolog a stocke that lies still and lets them doe whatsoeuer séeme good in their owne eyes or a Storcke that by exactions will picke out their eyes yet is he Gods ordinaunce and minister Rom. 13. And therefore by Saint Peter his rule to be obeyed for the Lordes sake 1. Peter 2. for though he be the Lords enemie yet is he the Lords annointed 1. Sam. 24. So Dauid called King Saule after God had reiected him They therefore who with Shebah 2. Sam. 20.1 will make a secession from their prince proclaiming as he did We haue no part in Dauid nor inheritance in the son of Isay or as Ieroboam who with tenne tribes fell frō Rhehoboam because he had turned his fathers scourges into Scorpions 1. Reg. 12. they who thinke that they may eyther Occidere or Excidere kill their liege or fall from him Aut deponere a throno aut exponere periculo depose and thrust them out of their seate or expose them to danger or feare are guiltie not onely of rebellion but of irreligion And here I might encounter that trayterous libeller Parsons who as it is thought vnder the name of one Dolman makes the crowne of England a tennis ba●l and tosseth it from Papist to Puritan and from Puritan to Protestant but the fault or vantage viz. the whole sway of disposing it when it is voide as I hope to God none here shall sée it voide hee ascribeth to the late Earles power of placing it where it should please him and to him therefore he dedicates his booke in my conscience I am perswaded a principal if not the originall poyson of the late Earles hart wherein also he spendeth much labour and filleth many leaues in proouing by stories of scripture tha● it is lawfull for the subiect to rise agaynst his soueraigne yea to depose him yea to murther him if he bee misled by other or misgouerne himselfe but time cuts me off My exhortation to you is beloued that you wil beléeue Iesus rather then a Iesuite who willeth his disciples and all christians to possesse their souls in patience Lu. 10 albeit they bee persecuted euen to death by their Princes and S. Paul who adiudgeth him to damnation which resisteth the ordinance of God Ro. 13. If you desire some stories of scripture sée Saul an Apostala reiected by God not deiected by Samuel Ieroboā plagued not dispossessed Ahab reproued by Elias not depriued Nabuchodonosor punished frō heauen not deposed by his subiects The law of God is straight in this case it bridels the mouth that it speake not euill of the King Exo. 21. it bindes the hart not to imagine euill against him Eccle. 10. and the ciuill law punisheth with death euen the verie thought of bringing the prince into any danger or

their barbaris●e the prouerbe is rife that Mo●tuo Leoni 〈◊〉 insu●tant Lepores if the Lion be dead euery dastardly Hare wil be treading vpon him whose locke they feared while he liued Yea Salomon notes it as a point of Atheisme to preferre a liuing Dogge before a dead Lion wherfore Dauid tooke another course and though Abner had béene his enemie liuing yet béeing slaine he both lamented his death celebrated his praise Know ye not saith he that a Prince and a great man is fallen this day in Israell 2. Sam 3.38 but beloued there is a difference in faultes of men as in diseases some hurtful onely to the parties themselues some loathsome and infectious to others the first are to be buried with their bodies and forgotten but the other will annoy therefore must be remembred after death In scripture some kings who were vicious had their faultes touched euen after their buriall but no more yet some are neuer named in scripture but their sinne is branded vpon their name as often you may sée of Ieroboam neuer mentioned but presently is added the sonne of Nebat which made Israel to sinne and would to God the same earth which couereth the late Earle his body could also couer the sinne and offence he died for which himselfe confessed to be a leprousie which had infected farre and neare Now you know that though a Lepor auoide the house or die yet he leaueth behind him both the house and ayre daungerously contagious and I pray God though he be deade that the remainder and contagion of his offence cause vs not too often to call his fault to memorie But in my conscience I am perswaded that there is none so inhumane or barbarous that recordes it as triumphing and insulting at it but with a double commiseration both of his fall and of his soule as then it was First giue him his due who grieues not that a man so noble by birth so honourable in office so gratious with his prince so witty by nature so learned by conference and study so religious in profession so valiant in warre so beloued of the commons so followed and honoured by men of all sortes should not vse those great fauours of God and his soueraigne to gods glory and his countries good for could he in any moderation haue carried himselfe and haue béene contented with his great state what good might he haue done to this church and realme to men of state of religion of learning of war but as fire if it be well and rightly vsed burneth in the house to the good and profit of the familie but if mislayed or abused burneth the house to the vndoing of the inhabitantes so had he béene contented to haue béene 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a certaine great man great among the rest and not affected with Magus Act. 8. to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the onely great man and none to be great but he in honour he might still haue liued and preferred others whereas he is not now fallen alone but which is a woefull case hath ouerthrowne many of all sortes with himselfe so true is that of diuine Plato 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that great natures scil men of great mindes parts proue either excellently good or dangerously wicked it is spoken by Plato but applyed by Plutarch vnto Coriolanus a gallant young but a discontented Romane who might make a fit paralell for the late Earle if you read his life and this was caused as he oft confessed to vs by the seducement of vanity I tolde him it was pride but his word was vanitie and lewd counsell Secondly who doth not commiserate his soule as then it was though now I am perswaded his repentance was so harty that it is in heauen that being guilty to himselfe in his conscience which now appeares by his voluntary confession to vs and written of so great an off●nce and a bloudy sinne they are his owne wordes for if there be any harde word in all my discourse concerning his act and plot it is his owne should stand so confidently vpon his insti●●cation and clearing himselfe at the Barre● Whose crime loathsome to himselfe in the memory thereof and Most d●ngerous to the Realme I will not A●grauate with any precedent circumstances which all the worlde knoweth and himselfe with sighs acknowledged to vs eyther her Maiesties infinite fauours his high aduancements by her her large bountie to him both in giuing him huge summes of mony and forgiuing him all his fathers debts and his owne too whatsoeuer Nor will I mention his oft standing out with her if he were thwarted his disobedience and manifolde contempts besides the exhausting of her Maiesties treasury in Ireland Nor her clemencie in his punishment for them which she said most graciously should be ad corr●ctionem not ad ruina●● for his chastisment not for his ouerthrow not called to any open barre for answer not fined by purse not diuested of any office onely sequestred from some of them one place of honor reserued vnto him not committed to any common p●●son but first to the custody of the Lo●● Kéeper after that to his owne house with a kéeper and after that at his libertie they were the wordes of her Maiestie I will now leaue him saith shee vnder no other guarde but of his owne discretion But one thing I cannot omit which much mooued me against him though I honoured him as much as any follower of his who carieth with him a good subiects hart which perhaps you knowe not namely his strange Apologie of himselfe vnto Maister Deane of Norwiche sent vnto him by the Lordes for his soules good the nex● day after his arraignment who vr●ing him to acknowledge his offences the late Earle vtterly denied That in any thing he had done he was guiltie of offending Almighty God But because I promised to giue you nothing of report I call to minde the very spéeche he vttered vnto my Lordes Grace of Canterburie in Lambeth house the night of his apprehension Oh my Lord saith the Archbishop I am sorie to sée this day that you haue so farre forgot your selfe the Earle replyed smilingly that the sinceritie of my conscience and the goodnesse of my cause dooth comfort me this spéech argues he thought himselfe not guiltie of offending God As if a good intention we will suppose it so dooth make the action good The Canon Lawyers say that God loues Aduerbes better then Adiectiues he cares not how good quâm bonum but quam benè how well and by what good meanes it is done which we intend The iustifying of an ill execution vpon a good purpose and meaning is the vtter subuersion of all religion and policie an opinion forged at the fire of hell and hammered at the Anuile of the Popes faculties The same Deane asking him why he refused to come to the Lords being sent for by the appointment of her Maiestie he answered that by Scripture and thus