with the Monarchie of greate Britaine and all good Christians professors of the Gospell be deuoted Suppliants to the King of Kings with ioyfull tongues and zealous hearts to pray and say God saue our King God saue King IAMES Viuat valeat vincat God saue the King Corporally Amen Spiritually Amen Politically Amen ΤÎλος Gloria Tri-vni Deo in secula Caesaris Hostes OR THE TRAGEDY OF TRAITORS For the fift day of August The day of the bloudy GOWRIES Treason and of our Kings blessed preseruation I will sing a new song vnto thee O God and sing vnto thee vpon a Viole and an Instrument of ten strings for it is hee that giueth deliuerance vnto Kings and rescueth Dauid his seruant from the hurtfull sword PSALM 144. 9. 10. Dum iniusti saeuiunt iusti saluantur vtilitati bonorum militat potest as prauorum Gregor in Moral By SAMVEL GAREY Preacher of Gods Word LONDON Printed by IOHN BEALE for HENRY FETHERSTONE and IOHN PARKER 1618. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE S ir FRANCIS BACON Knight Lord Chancellor of England Right Honourable Lord IT was the saying of St Hierome to Celantia Summa apud Deum nobilitas est clarum esse virtutibus Yea the wise Moralist vnchristened Seneca could say Nobilitas animi generositas est sensus nobilitas hominis est generosus animus The which true Nobility of the minde is your inherent and hereditary honor famoused for Piety Iustice Learning and Liberality so that the world sees you write not your desires in the dust We blesse God and wonder to behold in you so admirable a patterne of true Nobility moues vs to say with K. Lemuel Many haue done vertuously but you surmount them all in your great perfection of Arts and happy progresse in Grace the world can number but few such Vereor ne violem frontem tuaÌ„ sedem honoris testem verecundiae I know the sound of the trumpet of your praises is no musick to your eares neyther doe I loue such straines the land in generall ecchoes your renowned applause and God who hath so blessed you and by the Kings Maiesty promoted you to so honourable a Place continue you an happy instrument of much good to Church and Common-wealth and prosper your noble proceedings according to the promise of your admired entrance And now most honorable Lord I humblie craue your pardon in presuming to present so simple a Present vnto the view of so approued a iudgement who haue Mercurium in lingua MineruaÌ„ pectore yet although not the manner being meane and homely yet the matter handled may iustly merit your noble acceptance being a description of the hainous sin of Treason the fall and Tragedy of Traitors plagues which the Arch-traitor to mankinde hath added to the world and also a seasonable subiect for the Time August the fift against which day it was and is prepared as an annuall obiect And I know there is none within the compasse of Great Brittaine poures forth more hearty prayers to God with a more feruent and faithfull soule then your Honor doth for the preseruation of our most deare and dread Soueraigne and for the detection and destruction of all pestilent and truculent Traitors Wherefore in a hopefull affiance of your honorable acceptance I humbly offer this little labor a Testimony of my great obseruance with my selfe perpetually to your seruice not after a ceremoniall submission but from a serious agnizing and feeling of mine owne imbecillity euery way so obscure and weake that ingenuouslie I confesse Et scripfisse pudet quia plurima cerno me quoque qui feci iudice digna lini And of all others I know your Honors censure and iudgement is most substantiall yet my weakenesse thus farre encourages me that your Honor will like my willing mind commend the matter though not the manner and I hope will fauourablie accept this Mite and put it into your richer Treasurie and countenance it with your worthy protection which will be like Aiax buckler to shield it safe against detraction Ringanter rumpantur liueant improbent maledici si Honori tuo arriserit instar mille Platonis calculus I would not bee a monster to please all but some and say with the Poet Lucilius Me paucis malle à sapientibus esse probatuÌ„ So giuing my farewell to this feeble Infant saying as Iakob did when he parted with his beloued Beniamin * Goe and the Lord shew thee fauour in his sight and sovpon the bended knees of my prostrated heart to God I shall euer incessantly pray to the Lord Keeper of Heauen and Earth to make your paths euery way prosperous blessing your Honour with happy preseruation and a longioyfull life on earth and grant you an eternall Patent sealed by the euerlasting Decree of the sacred Trinitie of immortall possession of a glorified life in Heauen Your good Honors euer to be commanded in all duety and seruice SAMVEL GAREY Caesaris Hostes OR The Tragedie of TRAYTORS Now these are examples to vs. 1 Cor. 10. 6. If thou hast any enemy or Traytor send him hither and thou shalt receiue him well scourged 2 Macch. 3. 38. CHAP. I. THE memory of Gods great and glorious workes either of iudgement vpon his enemies or mercy towards the Church ought to be preserued with a thankefull remembrance So the Iewes being preserued by the meanes of Queene Ester and godly Mordecai from the intended plot by Haman kept the foureteenth day of the moneth Adar yeerely with feasting and ioy So when God had deliuered his people of Israel from the tyranny of Tryphon by the meanes of Simon their Captaine he ordayned that the same day of their deliuerance should be kept euery yeere with gladnesse So when the people of Israel were deliuered from the captiuity of Babylon and restored to Gods true Religion they kept a Feast seauen dayes together to the Lord with reioycing and thanksgiuing The Feasts of the Passeouer Pentecost Tabernacles were commanded by Moses to be kept holy in remembrance of great benefits receiued at Gods hands Hence it was that in times past the Patriarks Prophets and people of God would not forget any memorable act of Gods prouidence without setting some remarkeable Memonto vpon it that so it might remaine fresh to succeeding generations that the children vnborne might tell it to their children That valley wherein Iehoshaphats aduersaries were ouerthrowne was called Beracah a valley of blessing that so the Name might present to their minds to praise God for their maruellous victory Iacob did call the place where God appeared to him Bethel The House of God which before was called Luz and Dauid the place where Vzza was smitten Perez vzza i. the diuision of Vzzah and Abraham the place where Isaac was deliuered from the bloody knife Iehouah-ijreh i. The Lord seeth or prouideth and the Iewes called those holy-dayes which they solemnized for their deliuerance from Hamans deuice
King acceptable vnto the King of Kings in making harty and humble praiers for the protection and preseruation of his Maiestie let all the people in his Realme from high to low from great to small doe this comfortable and Christian seruice feâ—uently feelingly and faithfully vnto the Lord night and day crying and crauing God saue the King The Lord hath commaunded this duety to pray not onely for good Kings but euen for badde Kings When Paul gaue that Apostolicall counsell 1 Timothie z. 1. 2. to pray for Kings Caligula Claudius or Nero most bloudy Pagan Emperours then raigned Pray for the life of Nebuchadnezar King of Babilon and for the life of Balthasar his sonne that their daies might be on earth as the daies of heauen So the Lord commanded the Iewes to pray for the peace of the City of Babilon where Nebuchadnezar raigned If then the Lord charge and command to pray for such Gouernors as were Pagans Persecutors Idolaters Infidels how deuoutly deepely are all loyall subiects bound to pray and to praise God for the blessed gouernment of Zealous Christian Kings and to beseech God with prostrate soules to defend their Soueraignes from all the trecherous traynes and rebellious plots of forraine foes or homeborne parricides corner-creeping Iesuites and Iudasses and to implore the hand of Heauen to sentinell ouer them and to endue them from aboue with the gifts of knowledge prudence iustice temperance fortitude clemency with feruent zeale of Gods glory loue to the Gospell and neuer-ceasing care for the generall well-fare of their publike charge Let vs spend our spirits day and night in these prayers that a gracious blessing may be euermore vpon our Soueraigne and his Seed to prolong his daies with health and honour on earth and with immortall happinesse in Heauen Amen CHAP. V. THE second generall duety of all subiects is Obedience and that before God is better then sacrifice The enemy opposite to Obedience is rebellion compared by Samuel to the sin of Witchcraft the very Chaos of confusion containing nothing else but mischiefe and murder discord and desolation congestaque eodem Non bene iunctarum discordia semina rerum Ouid. As rebellion is most odious and detestable so is obedience commendable and acceptable and this is of three sorts 1. Obedire Deo per hominem 2. Obedire Deo homini 3. Obedire Deo potius quam homini First obey God by man 2. Obey God and man 3 Obey God rather then man Wee need not write how God is to be obeyed before all and aboue all nullius prohibitio diuinis valet obuiare praeceptis nullius iussio praeiudicare prohabitis Gods Precepts may not be couÌ„termanded by mans prohibitions nor Gods prohibitions preiudiced by mans precepts God is to be obeyed in euery thing simpliciter man is to be obeied secundum quid respectiuely so far as his commands be consonant to Gods Lawes St Austin giues al a good rule for obedience bonis in malo scienter noÌ„ obedias nec malis in bono coÌ„tradicas willingly wittingly obey not good men in the performance of ill nor disobey ill men commanding things good but God himselfe commands obedience to his breathing Images whom hee himselfe stileth Gods the mortall pictures of immortall God Dexteri digiti diuinae manus quae regit orbem the right fingers of that heauenly hand which ruleth all Reges sunt homines ante deum dei ante homines saith Lactantius Kings are men before God and Gods before men Astra Deo nihil maius habent nil Caesare terra Great is the glory of that God who makes these Gods Quantus Deus est qui Deos facit Austen Imperator omnibus maior est dum Deo solo minor est saith Tertullian The Emperor is greater in dignity then all mortall men onely inferiour to the immortall God and as Cyrillus writes to Theodosius the younger vestrae Serenitati nullus status est aequalis No mortall state equall to your Excellence or as Agapetus to the Emperour Iustinian Se non habere quenquam in terris altiorem None on the earth higher then himselfe for as Opiatus Super imperatorem non est nisi solus Deus qui fecit imperatorem Aboue the Emperor is none but onely God that made the Emperour or as St Chrysostome speaking of the Emperour Theodosius Non habet parem vllum super terram summitas caput omnium super terram hominum He hath no equall vpon earth the supreame head ouer all men on earth Lo now you Popes of Rome where were your triple Crownes your Miters if you had any then stooped to the Scepters then Pauls precept was in date with you Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers which since you haue reiected or neglected as Apocryphall then Gregories allegorie had beene a fond hyperbole Ad firmamentam coeli c. in the firmament of heauen that is in the vniuersall Church God made two great lights that is two great dignities Pontificall and Regall that which rules the day that is spirituall things is greater then that which rules the night that is carnall or temporall things as great a difference as is twixt the Sun and the Moone so great is there twixt Pope and Kings saith Gregory Indeed of latter times the Popes haue claimed a triple Crowne Celestiall Terrestriall Infernall intruding into the regall Chayre forgetting Bernards counsell to Pope Eugenius Your authority stretcheth vnto crimes not vnto possessions wherefore doe you thrust your sickle into anothers haruest or incroach vpon others limits now they vsurpe and arrogate a place of preheminence aboue Kings and Emperors Diuisum imperium cum Ioue Papa tenet Forgetting S. Peters rule though boasting of Peters right Submit your selues vnto all manner of ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be vnto the King as vnto the superiour c. subijci domino temporali propter dominum aeternum as excellently Austen To submit themselues vnto Temporall Lords for the eternall Lords sake But leauing the fauourites and followers of that great whore which sits vpon many waters with whom haue committed fornication the Kings of the earth and which hath shaken off the yoke of obedience from the Kings of the earth Let vs looke vpon that place of S. Peter exhorting all to obedience Submit your selues c. propounding certaine arguments or reasons to enforce it 1. propter dominum for the Lords sake Vt honoremus Deum qui hanc obedientiam nobis praecipit that so we may honour God who hath commanded this obedience 2. vt euitemus poenas violatae iustitiae ciuilis that we may auoid the punishments of disobedience to the Magistrate sent ad vltionem maleficorum for the punishment of ill doers v. 14. 3. vt adipiscamur laudem ac protectionem contra iniustos that we may get praise
done wrong to or whom haue I hurt c. And all the People of Britanny must answere with the people of Israel there Thou hast done vs no wrong nor hurt vs nor taken ought of any mans hand the Lord is witnesse His Highnesse speciall care and gracious desire is to haue Gods Religion sincerely imbraced Iustice executed Vertue promoted Vice punished Gods Lawes and the good Lawes of the Land generally maintained and obserued so that the Church finds him a true Defender of the Faith the Common-wealth a Father the proud a powerfull Prince the meeke and humble a mercifull Gouernour All find him a most religious and vertuous King carefull of the good of Church and Common-wealth that all the politicke members of this Princely Head may leade a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty These Princely properties and sacred graces will procure his Maiesty an eternall Crowne of glory in Heauen as God hath promoted him to a soueraignety and supremacy here on Earth and may truely moue all sound members of this politicke body whereof his sacred Highnesse is supreame Head to pray with the Psalmist Giue thy Iudgements to the King O Lord and thy righteousnesse vnto the Kings sonne then shall he iudge the people with righteousnesse and thy poore with equity In his dayes shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace shall be so long as the Moone endureth yea to pray like the Isralites for the life of our King and the life of his royall Queene his Princely Sonne the County Palatine of Rhene with the Princesse Elizabeth and their Progeny that all their dayes may be vpon the Earth as the dayes of Heauen and that God would giue vs strength and lighten our eyes that we may liue vnder their shadow and may long doe them seruice and find fauor in their sight That God would confound all their enemies and put them to a perpetuall shame That the Lord of Hosts may be euer with them and the God of Iacob may be their Refuge to protect and direct them to hide them from the conspiracy of the wicked and from the rage of the workers of iniquity that God may euer blesse them and preserue their going out and comming in from henceforth and for euermore So we thy people and sheep of thy Pasture the louing and loyall subiects and seruants of the Lords Annointed will praise thee for euer and pray vnto thee from generation to generation God saue our King Corporally Spiritually Politically Peroratio I will draw these lines to the maine Center of all making our conclusion short and gratulatory First to your Grace sacred Soueraigne the mighty Monarch of these flourishing Kingdomes shall I that am but dust and ashes prefume to speake vnto my Lord and King Let not my Lord be angry though I speake once and how happy shall this poore Embrio be if euer it be graced with the milde aspect of your Princely eyes and once but touched with your Regall hands which holds the Iacob staffe to measure the height of all learning Giue patient leaue and licence to your vnworthy and vnable vassall prostrated in all submissiue obedience at your Highnesse feete to celebrate and congratulate the happy day of your Maiesties entrance into this kingdome A day of good tidings and who can hold his peace A day which was the beginning to multiply and aduance our chiefest ioyes on earth making vs sing with the Psalmist This is the day which the Lord hath made let vs be glad and reioyce in it O Lord I pray thee saue now Lord preserue him whom thou hast giuen giue him O King of Kings good successe peace prosperity multiply these good daies grant him many of these happy yeares Annos vt annis addat è nostris Deus Eusebius the Bishop of Caesarea thought himselfe much honoured that he was appointed to preach at the inauguration of Constantinus the Emperour so I take it as my great ioy that I the most weake of all our tribe am one of the first in this kinde to write the aniuersary of Englands happinesse by your Maiesties entrance to put them in a perpetuall remembrance to reioyce with thankefulnesse And if I should remember in your presence the innumerable benefits and blessings your subiects of great Brittaine enioy by your Princely comming to this Crowne I might be iudged a flatterer a creature most odious in your Graces eyes modesty compels me to be silent I will onely say that which I haue read the Painter Zeuxes did who being to make the portraiture of Iuno chose out certaine amiable Virgins put the seuerall beauty of them all into that picture so indeed the wise Creator of all hath made you such a King the liuing picture of all earthly perfections and as it was an old saying That in one Austen there was many Doctors in one Iulius Caesar many Captaines so in one and our King Iames many Kings the very perfection of most Kings But I will turne our praises into prayers remembring Antaloides saying to a certaine Orator making a long oration of Hercules praises cut him off thus Quis eum vnquam sanus vituperauerit VVho euer in his right wits discommended him So who dare nay who can except the seed of the serpent dispraise your Highnesse whose vertues finde fauour with God and men euery tongue pronounces your name with ioy and euery heart affects your Maiesty with content and comfort As God hath giuen you power in hand so haue you pittie in heart Clementia Regis est quasi imber serotinus saith Salomon The pitty or fauour of a King is like the latter raine and your princely delight is not in sono catenarum in the noyse of chaines but like the good Emperor rather desirous to call the dead to lise then put the liuing to death So that I may say to your Grace as Mecaenas saide of Octauius Caesar Omnes te tanquam parentem seruatorem suum intuentur te moderatum vita inculpata pacificum amant c. All people fixe their dutifull eyes vpon you as vpon the publike Father of the Common-wealth loyally louing you being milde and mercifull holy in life and peaceable in gouernment So that though at last there must be a translation to an incorruptible Crowne in Heauen yet all your Subiects pray the time of that transmigration may bee long dedeferred Horac Serus in coelum redeas diuque Laetus intersis populo Britanno I need not heere play the part of King Philips Page to cry at your Princely chamber dore Memento te esse mortalem Remember you are mortall or with the Artificers of the Emperors tombes at the day of the Emperors Coronation offer a lap full of stones with these verses Elige ab his Saxis ex quo Augustissime Caesar ipse tibi tumulum me fabricare velis Of these same stones most
â—lla Like the noise of thornes burning vnder the Pot as Salomon Eccle. 7. 8. And therefore these fulminations were againe confirmed by Pius Quintus his successour Gregory the 13. Yet all these plots instar vaporis euanuerunt vanished away like smoake proceeding out of that smoaky Kingdome of Antichrist and her Crowne and person by the fauour of the Almighty vnder whose shadow shee was protected safely defended and reigned forty and foure yeeres foure moneths and eight dayes a Virgin Queene and died in peace in a full and glorious age so beloued so honoured and so esteemed of her subiects at home and Princes abroad as neuer any Queene more so that it was verified of her truly which the Psalmist of Christ typically Why did the Heathen rage together and the People imagine a vaine thing The Kings of the Earth stand vp and the Princes assembled together against the Lord and against his Annointed but he that dwelled in the Heauens did laugh them to scorne the Lord had them in derision for there is no wisdome neither vnderstanding nor counsell against the Lord. And this our deare and dread Soueraigne whom the Lord of mercy still preserue hath beene subiect to sundry dangers by wicked Traitors as his Maiesty doth witnesse it himselfe not onely since his birth but before his birth euen in his Mothers belly but especially to two most horrible Treasons this in Scotland attempted by the bloudy Gowries the fift of August and the other in England the fift of Nouember the Gun-powder Treason from both which barbarous and monstrous proiects the latter no age can parallel the like the great King of all Kings in his great mercy graciously protected him that both King subiects may say with Zachary Being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies we may serue him without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the daies of our liues So that our King may vse the Psalmists words When the wicked euen mine enemies and my foes came vpon me to eat my flesh they stumbled and fell The Lord did reward them according to their deeds and according to the wickednesse of their inuentions Therefore giue vnto the Lord O ye sonnes of the mighty giue vnto the Lord all the glory for your deliuerance CHAP. III. TREASON hath beene alwaies accounted an heynous sinne and by Iustinian ranked next to Sacriledge Crimen laesae Maiestatis proximuÌ„ Sacrilegio c. Treason is next to Sacriledge the one a robbery of God this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fighting with God so odious that the sole intention without action or execution is death for Voluntas reputatur pro facto in causa proditionis The will is accounted for the deede in Treason Principis in rehus voluisse sat est And therefore there was a statute made in the reigne of Edward the third That whosoeuer shal imagine the Kings death are guilty of rebellion and high treason This statute toucheth all Iesuites who are perduellionum signiferi the ring-leaders of Rebels to animate them to rebellion vnder a colour of religion If the meere intention of Treason be so capitall what then is the Action Clamitat im coelum vox sanguinis The voyce of blood cryes to heauen for reuenge VVhat doth the voyce of royall bloud spilt by the hands of execrable Parricides destroying Gods owne image the Lords Annointed May I not call such as Polycarpe called Marcion Daemonis filiolos the Deuils children and say as our Sauiour did to the Iewes Ye are of your Father the Deuill he hath beene a murtherer from the beginning Nay the very Heathens void of Gods word did greatly abhorre Traitors and seuerely punish them Traitors among the Greekes were brought to Delphos and they did offer them a quicke sacrifice to Apollo The Persians did bury such quicke and the Romanes brought such to the publicke Theaters where they were hewed in peeces per gladiatores by the sword-players Cn Pompeius the Great made a Law as Pomponius relates it to punish Parricides destroyers of Fathers or Mothers in this kinde To put them into a great vessell or tun or such like instrument inclosing with them in it a Dogge a Viper a Cocke and an Ape and to cast them into the Sea VVhat then shall be done to the publicke Parricides destroyers of Kings and Countries Our Lawes of England hath prouided for them a fit punishment which is this A Traytor conuicted hath his punishment to be drawne from his prison to the place of execution as being vnworthy any more to tread vpon the Mother earth and that backward his head downe-ward as hauing beene retrograde to the naturall course of obedience after hanged vp by the necke twixt heauen and earth as deemed vnworthy of both his priuy parts cut off as vnfit to leaue any generation behinde him his bowels and entrailes burned which in wardly conceiued and concealed Treason his head cut off which imagined such mischiefe and last of all his body quartered as a prey for the birds of the aire and as it was said of a traiterous Iesuite Sic bene pascit aues qui malè pauit oues In life he had no care the sheepe to feede And now his carkasse serues the fowles in neede The Apostle Paul saith That they that resist shall receiue to themselues iudgement The greeuousnesse of iudgement should be proportionable to the heynousnesse of the crime for if the law requireth an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth life for life what death sufficient for a Traytor that kills a King a murderer of many who is worth ten thousand of vs so that hee cannot be sufficiently punished of man but God also will punish him who is a reuenger of such sins Neuer did I reade of any Traytor that did euer escape both the hand of man hand of God Looke vpon Absalom a double Traytor to his Father and his King his end sutable First his chiefe Counseller and plotter Achitophel hanged himselfe twenty thousand of his adherents were slaine in battell Last of all Absalom by the hand of Heauen was hanged vp by the hayre of his head in stead of an halter vpon an Oake tree in stead of a gallowes or gybbet Sheba that traiterous Rebell lost his head for his treason against Dauid King Ammon the sonne of King Manasses an euill King was slaine by his seruants who conspired against him slew him in his owne house but this bloudy fact of King-killing was so odious to the people of the land that they slew them al that had conspired against King Ammon Treacherous Zimri slue his King but the people hearing of it made Omri King to take Zimri who fired the Kings house and died in the fire Bigthan and Teresh who sought to lay hand on King Assuerus were both hanged on a tree The Scripture is plentifull
of these bloud-thirsty Traytors euen emancipated to cruelty by a noble and notable deliuery and shall we not render vnto him a cordiall and continuall thankesgiuing of our lips ioyned with a reall thankesgiuing of our liues or shall we praise him with our mouthes and prouoke him with our sinnes Lip-labor is lost labour except with an internall thankefulnesse there goes an entire obedience Consider Christs caueat Sinne no more lest a worse thing come vnto thee Let our newnes of life expresse the greatnesse of our thankefulnesse God will not accept the sacrifice of mouth-praisers proceeding from vnsanctified liuers Let this our commemoration and recognition of Gods mercies past prouoke vs to all obedience in the reformation of our liues to come So shall wee make an holy vse of so happy a deliuery Singula illius mala erunt nobis singula bona Their banefire of powder our bonefire of praises And withall to make vs more vigilant to vn-earth these foxes who will creepe into holes vnder the ground to worke our ouerthrow foresight is the wise mans Beacon Melius est praecauere quam pauere Take vs the foxes the little foxes which destroyes the vines for they are a part of that generation of whom speakes Salomon Whose teeth are as swords their iawes as kniues they will not spare in the day of vengeance and like the whorish woman will hunt for the pretious life of man Remember therefore the counsell of the sonne of Syrach Who will trust a thiefe that is alwaies ready And let this our true thankefulnesse to God be a durable seruice not like a morning dew and cloud that goeth away or a Widdowes ioy oritur moritur gotten and forgotten in an houre a suddainefit or momentaâ—y passion or entertained like an annuall guest as if the force and fruite of our thankefull ioy should be confined to one day or like a common retainer should haue but a yeerely acceptance no I haue appointed thee a day for a yeere euen a day for a yeere saith God to his Prophet but this of ours est Dies pro omnibus annis a day to thanke God all the yeeres of our life alwayes to say and sing with Deborah praise yee the Lord for the auenging of Israel yea euen the starres in their course fought against Sisera So let thine enemies perish O Lord. And thou O Lord which didst keepe vs from the conspiracy of the wicked and from the rage of the workers of iniquity by discouering their villanie to thee most mighty and mercifull God we offer vp our bodies and soules as a liuing sacrifice desirous to doe thee all prostrate seruice in body and soule which thou hast preserued in peace appointed by the wicked to haue perished in powder we will neuer forget this mercy or forbeare our humble thankes to thee for our deliuery but so long as the Sunne and Moone endureth wee with our posterities till time shal be no more will cherish the remembrance of it with an immortall thankfulnesse saying to thee with holy Melchi-sedecke after Abrahams victory Blessed be the most high God which hath deliuered our enemies into our hands to which King euerlasting immortall inuisible vnto God onely wise be all the honor and glory for euer and euer Amen CHAP. IIII. A description of the Persons THe Romish professors who teach the people to eate their God and kill their King were the chiefe instruments in the Powder-treason all the Actors and adherents were great Recusants Lay Recusants Catesby Percy Winter Tresham Wright c. deuised the plot and then the lesuits fell in with them allowed and ratified by Garnet Gerard Oâ—â—corne Greenewell c. Iesuits and Popish Priests Garnet imparted the Popes Breues to Catesby a right Catiline whereby he was stirred vp to deuise some way to worke a generall ouerthrowe This Catesby was the inuentor of this Villanie Accipe nunc Danaúm insidias crimine ab vno disce omnes Learne by this Traytors odious fault and fall Yee Papists to abhorre Treason in generall This Canniball or Roman-catholicke Catesby hauing bethought him of the powder-plot for the blowing vp of the Parliament house in generall rearmes breakes the case to Garnet What if in some case the innocent should be destroyed with the guilty He answers they might so that it were for a good able to recompence the loâ—se of the innocent And afterward the plot plainly propounded to him not by way of confession as his Procters pleade for him but in conference about it as he voluntarily confessed before his death that Greenewell with this Catesby was heard of him not confessing but consulting yet if it had beene by way of confession for his owne confession prooues the contrary he should haue reuealed the plot if not the parties yea the parties also if hee would follow the example of his fellow-confessors Bodin doth relate an example heerein how a Norman had a purpose to kill King Francis yet afterward changed his minde these farre from such thoughts and opens this sinne in his confession to a Minorite Frier of his former yet forsaken purpose the Frier doth enioine him penance and grants absplution yet declares all to the King and the Iudges of the Court of Paris cause him to be executed But these who before had turned them from the true religion and tutored them in the Schoole of rebellion were so far from reuealing as that their heads and hearts were with them to 〈◊〉 well of the accomplishing Gerard gaue the Traytors the Sacrament to kind them to secrecy Hammond in 〈◊〉 house absolued the Traytors the Treason reuealed Oldcorne alias Hall defends the plot being discouered and willes the Catholickes not to be discouraged Tesmond plotted with Garnet and goes vp and downe to raise vp Armes The publicke writings of our state and records heerein with some of their owne confessions examinations and subscriptions are inuincible witnesses against all the cauels of deprauing Papists who labour to cleere these their polyprogmaticke Priests from hauing an hand in so hellish a plot by desperate and notorious vntruths But it is manifest by the mouth of Time Truth that these Priests were priuie to the Powder plot against all Popish calumniations suggested to the contrary and these Lay Recusants hauing first suckt the pestilent poyson of this vnheard Treachery out of the ill humors of Popish doctrine infused into them by the treasonable Tribe of Iesuits who teach Treason and cause Traytors to be canonized in Romes Calender Proh Superi quantum mortalia pectoracaecae Noctis habent ipso sceleris molimine Tereus Creditur essepius laudemque á crimine sumit O Lord what hearts possessed with the night Of deepest ignorance depriu'd of sauing light Can grace with praise such deedes of darknesse right These politicke Priests knowing these their Lay-disciples to be of turbulent and