promise of two hundred thousand Crownes and the seamelesse coate of Christ This Pope was Pope Alexander the sixth of which thing reade Cuspinian in Baiazet the 2. Henry the second of England was by the Popes appointment whipt of the Monkes Iulian and Lawrence the Dukes of Florence by the Popes practise were assaulted in the Church at the time of the eleuation of the host and the one greeuously wounded the other murdered Henry the third of France after many treasons of the Sorbonists against him was at last murdered by a Dominican Frier which murder the Pope in a solemne oration extolled to the skies Henry the fourth his successor first wounded by Chastell a Disciple of the Iesuites for which they were then banished the Realme and afterward treacherously murdered by a popish miscreant Rauilliacke This Henry assaulted by sixe Popes Gregory the thirteenth Sixtus the fift Vrbane the seuenth Gregory the fourteenth Innocentius the ninth Clement the eight the last hauing brought the King to be reconciled to the Church of Rome triumphed ouer him and yet this King thus their owne because hee seemed to fauor the Protestants must die a bloudy death The Prince of Orenge lamentably murdered by a Papist who for the said Parricide is highly commended by the Friar Surius his name was Balthazar Gerardus Our late famous Queene Elizabeth of happy memory since the tenth yeare of her raigne about which time Pius Quintus excommunicated her till her dying day was not free from the treasons of Papists Parries Campians c. the Popes with their adherents raising vp inuasions and so farre as they were able laboured to haue wrought her destruction Our high Soueraigne that now is hath had experience in Scotland of Popish treason and in England this Powder-plot makes it perspicuous I need not produce other examples which in all nations abound of high personages and Peeres destroyed by popish hands The Viceroy of Rauenna vnder Leo the third Emperor with his sonne slaine by the Popes faction The Prince of Condie poysoned William Prince of Aurance slaine by a Popish villaine Charles the King of Spaines sonne because he was thought to fauor Protestants made an end of by their inquisitors In a word let the Massacre in Paris in which were destroyed in a night and few daies many noble and religious Protestants among the which Noble Caspar Colignius slaine Let the fires and faggots in England in Queene Maries reigne in which were cruelly burned many zealous and deuout Christians who for the Gospels sake sacrificed their bloud in fiery flames and wonne the glory and Crowne of Martyrdome Let this Power-Treason inuented by Popish people ratified by popish Priests in which they intended to haue made a generall martyrdome Let the Spanish Inquisition which hath put to death with exquisite torments many thousand people Let these foure speake for all and surely they will speak that or more then that which Eberhardus the Archbishop of Saltsburge a good old man once spake who when he had knowen ten Romane Bishops and had diligently marked their practises vnder Fredericke the first Henry the sixt his sonne and Fredericke the second his nephew for fifty yeares together deciphered or described the Pope for a rauenous wolfe vnder a Shepheards weed compounded wholly of Auarice Luxury Contention Warres Discord and desire of Rule with such like attributes whose oration at large is extant in Auentine a Roman Catholike writer Or will speake that which the Poet Massaeus writes of Pope Iulius the second as great a bloud sucker as euer reigned in Rome by whose meanes in seauen yeares 200000 Christians were destroyed of this Pope the Poet hath this Epitaph Genua euipatrem genâ—tricem Graecia partum Pontus vnda dedit num bunus esse potest Fallaces Ligures mendax Graecia pontâ— Nulla fides in te singulasolm habes Thy Father Genoan Mother Grecian borne In Ocean Sea can goodnesse thèe adorne Genoans are full of fraud Greece lyes maintaine In Sea no trust all these in thee one raigne So that I will end this point with this obseruation that Mahomet Phocas and Boniface the third who first had the stile of vniuersall Bishop liued all about the same time So that Mahometisme Popery and murthering of Christian Kings began all at once and now conioyned in one And all the people of Great Britanny haue cause to thanke God that they are free from this Head the Head of these mischiefes and I would the land were free from all his members yet they are among vs as Labans Idols in Iacobs tent vpon Record not by allowance and many wish that such a voice might eccho in our Soueraignes eares who is a mercifull King as once came from the Smiths forge to the hearing of the Landgrave of Hesse a mild Prince the Smith striking his iron saide Duresce inquam duresce vtinam Langrauius durescat waxe hard waxe hard would to God the Landgraue would waxe hard So it might bee wished that the sword of Iustice were sharper against seducing Iesuites that their haunts and harbors were stopt places of entertainment scoured and the femall Hierarchy which breedes many were put downe for these serpents will first tempt Eue the weaker vessell and women soone induced hardly reclaimed So should God be serued with more holy deuotion in true religion and our King and Country be freed from treason and rebellion CHAP. VII I Haue a little touched the persons as well Authors as Actors shewing that originally and ordinarily this sinne of Treason flowes from the sinke or sea of Rome because Cardinall Bellarmine would outface the world with It was neuer heard of from the Churches infancie that any Prince though an heretike or persecutor was murdered by the Popes command or allowance when it is shewed that not only allowance or recognizance but consent content yea head heart and all haue ioyned together in the destruction of Princes so that I may say to him Tute-lepus es c. He hath deliuered many treasonable positions of deposing degrading exciting Armes c. and can a traytor be vnwelcome to him it may be so for Proditores etiam ijs qui mercede condâ—cunt inuisi sunt Traytors are hated of them who hire them but they like the treason if effected and many times the traitors too and euen canonize them for good members whose pedigree in the hangmans heraldry is knowne to be base murderers and abhorred traytors it Is very strange Si fur displiceat Verri homicida Miloni I had rather say with the Prophet Osee As theeues wait for a man so the company of Priests murther in the way by consent for they worke mischiefe and may say of their Priests as an olde Poet speakes of their Pope Qui fore debuit gratia datinus Factus est ecclesia ablatâ—â—us Of Grace who should be the Datiue case Is now become
non approbat Many things are by God which he doth not confirme falling in as it were by the way vpon the world by Gods permission yet God disposing so but not ordaining that is not approuing them For example Alexander the sixt obtained the Popedome by giuing himselfe to the Diuell Phocas by sedition got his Empire Richard the third came to the Crown of England as some write by killing his Nephewes and other of the royall bloud and so of many others that haue aspired to thrones viribus fraudibus by force and fraud such are Rulers rather Vsurpers yet not of God for God effects nothing but he effects it by good meanes so that there is a difference twixt Potens and Potentia twixt Rulers and Powers bad Rulers are by the permission of God not by the ordination of God as the Apostle saith Rom. 13. 1. And there is no power but of God if they be godly powers then I may say with Austin Quod iubent Imperatores iubet Christus quia cum bonum iubent per illos quis iubet nisi Christus What Emperors command Christ commaÌ„ds for wheÌ„ they command good Christ commands by them and the contempt offered to such good Rulers is a contempt of God as the Lord said â—o Samuel They haue not cast thee away but me ne regnem super illos 1 Sam. 8. 7. lest I should reigne ouer them Contemptus magistratuum redundat in contemptum Dei The contempt of Magistrates is a contempt of God saith Aretius and so the Apostle Whosoeuer resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God qui vnum laedit alterum laesit To conclude this second duty of Obedience and Allegiance to Kings is by all true subiects faithfully and loyally euer to be performed being a duty necessary for two respects 1. Necessitate praecepti 2. Necessitate finis First God by manifold precepts commanded obedience to be giuen to Rulers and Kings Secondly by the benefits gouernment affords without which all Common-wealths were mothers of common woes and would become the very shambles and slaughter-houses of Christian bloud if that obedience were not giuen to Rulers that beare the sword The kingdome of hell which is the kingdome of confusion could not stand being diuided wanting Belzebub their Prince but should presently as one day it shal most certainely come to desolation Seeing therefore obedience to Kings is a duety so necessary for all subiects acceptable vnto God profitable to our selues without which Kings nor Kingdomes cannot stand Church nor Common-weale cannot long continue Pura conscientia praestemus quae propter conscientiam praestanda sunt Let vs performe and practise this duty of obedience with a pure conscience which for conscience sake must be performed euermore honouring and obeying our dread Soueraigne the golden head of great Britaine beseeching God to prosper him in his glory and to pierce with sharpe arrowes the hearts of his enemies as the Psalmist of Salomon Psal 45. 5. euermore obeying and praying God saue the King CHAP. VI. THE third duty of Subiects to be performed to the King is Honor S. Peter commands all Subiects Feare God honour the King S. Paul exhorting all to submitte themselues to the higher powers concludeth Giue honour to whom ye owe honour so the Lord himselfe in the fifth Commandement chargeth all to honor Father and Mother in which precept as most old and new writers well obserue Kings and Magistrates are vnderstood beeing politicall Fathers Patres patriae Fathers of the Common-wealth Nutricij patres Nursing Fathers of Gods Church and people And this duety to honor the King obligeth all by a three-fold bond Ex Praecepto By Commandement Ex Maledicto By Punishment Ex Praxi By Practise First by Precept God in his Law hath commanded it Secondly by Punishment for God hath put a sword in their hands to cut off such as dishonour them Thirdly by Practise our Lord and Sauiour with his Disciples did preach and practise obedience honor and reuerence euermore to be giuen to Kings and Potentates And this word honor signifieth al that duty whereby the renowne dignity reuerence and high estimation of the King may be preserued and vnblemished and it reacheth vnto our thoughts wordes and workes 1 to honour him in our hearts and thoughts Curse not the King no not in thy thought for the foules of the heauen shall carry thy voyce and that which hath wings shall carry the matter saith Salomon 2 Honor him in thy wordes seeke not by bad and wicked speeches to disesteeme the dignitie of their sacred persons for they are Gods deputies and he that despiseth the deputy despiseth him that appointed the deputie wherefore God made an expresse precept Thou shalt not speake euill of the Ruler of thy people And St. Iude hath marked those for filthy dreamers Qui dominationem spernunt Maiestatem blasphemant Who despise gouernment and speake ill of them that be in authority Beware of vnseemely vnreuerent or contemptible speech which might diminish or distaine the excellency of Gods Lieutenants much lesse reuile mocke scoffe or curse them abuses most disloyall dishonourable and worthie of death It was a wise and worthy answere of Count Charles to one at dinner disparaging our late Queene of famous memory saying his Table neuer gaue priuiledge to any to speake vnreuerently of Princes Male de me loquuntur homines quia bene loqui nesciunt faciunt non quod mereor sed quod solent saith Seneca Epist 77. 3. Honor the King in all thy actions to be ready to defend the honour and renowne of our gracious Soueraigne both by word and sword In his presence vse all lowly reuerence bowing thy selfe as Abraham to the three Angels downe to the ground It was a rare act and royall speech of Don Iohn King of Arragon Father vnto Don Ferdinando King of Castile both meeting at an assembly in Victoria the Father King would not suffer his sonne to giue him the vpper hand saying Sonne you are the chiefe and Lord of Castile whereof we are descended so that our duetie towards you as our King and superiour is farre aboue that duety of the Sonne vnto the Father Regem semper honorandum sic dij voluistis habere And indeed all good people did euer honor their anointed Soueraignes Dauid Salomon with the rest of the Kings of Israel how honourable and glorious euer accounted in the eyes of their Subiects Vbi honor non est ibi contemptus est saith Ierome where honor is absent there contempt is present and to contemne these regall children of the most High is to contemne the most High himselfe And truely the most dishonourable contemners of Regall Diadems are the flattering Pseudoli the parasiticall magnificoes of the Papall Miter for to extoll the one they extenuate the other they honor yea rather dishonor their Pope with blasphemous titles Dominus
mighty Caesar take Of which I may thy tombe begin to make Your Highnes needs not these aduertisements the memorie whereof presage our lamentations though it shall bring you in present possession of perpetual glorification who liue and labour to passe off this worlds Kingly Theater with that approbation bene fidelis serue Well done faithfull seruant enter into thy Masters ioy Our hearty and humble prayers shall euer be powred foorth to the King of Kings from the bottome of our soules that your Highnesse may still reigne many happie yeares on earth in prosperous health Kingly honour and all happinesse and may oft renew and reuiue our hearts with these annuall ioyes and when the last period comes that God may make you as glorious a Saint in Heauen as you are a great gracious high and happy King on earth and leaue behinde you the succession of your loynes to sit vpon the Throne to the worlds end and all your faithfull seruants and subiects will ioyne with mee in this prayer and say Amen Amen Next to your Honors most graue and wise Senators the politicke Statists of the land who represent Romanos rerum dominos gentemque Togatam The most honourable Counsell to the royall head whom for fidelity I may compare to the heart of England to you by right of office place and charge this faithfull seruice principally appertaines to procure and pray for the Kings safety who is as it was said of Iudith the exaltation of Ierusalem the great glory of Israel the great reioycing of our Nation That hee may enioy many Alcion daies and reigne many golden yeares in safety and securitie Virg Aurea securi quis nescit saecula regis It is your noble taske carefully to consult in the preuention of publicke mischiefes and though wee may now say with Agamemnon Victor timere quid potest What need the Conqueror feare yet Cassandra will tell vs Quod non timet feare that you doe not feare feare procures precaution precaution preuention feare the plots and proiects of the sonnes of Anak the Popes Giants traiterous Iesuites of whom I may say as Ammianus Marcellinus writes of the Saracens Nec amici nobis vnquam nec hostes optandi si amici perfidi si hostes foedifragi VVee need not to wish them to be our friends or foes if friends they will proue treacherous if foes perfidious Circumspect precaution is the life of pollicy for stultum est cum sit is fauces tenet puteū fodere for that is like the Phrygians sero sapere to be wise too late But why doe I like an vnexpert Phormio dispute of warres in Hannibals presence you are the Nestors of this kingdome wise as Serpents but innocent as Doues be careful to take the Foxes which would destroy our Vine Faber cadit cum ferias fullonem neyther state nor statute free till the Realme be freed of them being like Nouatus whom S. Cyprian describes in these colours Saepe blandus vt fallat aliquādo saevus vt terreat semper curiosus vt prodat nunquam fidelis vt diligat Alwaies flattering to deceiue sometimes cruell to terrifie alwaies curious and cunning to betray neuer faithfull to loue But your Honours know best how to preuent the mischiefes of such miscreants who desire the ruine of King and Country for you can best tell how to doe it Propert lib. 2. Nauita de ventis de tauris narret arator enumeret miles vulnera pastor oues I will not meddle with your high affaires rather follow mine owne duety fall to prayers for you that God may euer be present and president at your Counsels giuing you the spirit of counsell and of courage wisely to foresee and happily to preuent all misfortunes and miseries intended against our King and Country and that our Iudah and Israel may dwell without feare euery man vnder his vine and figtree from Dan euen to Beersheba al the daies of our Salomon That God would still multiply these happy yeares and grant that our high and princely Cedar with all the faire goodly branches may long flourish in this land and that all his subiects high and low may safelie shelter vnder the shadow of his gracious gouernment blessing your Honors the very supporters of the state the pillars of the land with grace and wisedome from aboue to prosper your Counsels and euer direct you to consult for the glory of God the good of the King the comfort and welfare of Church and Common-weale To you also the bright stars of Court blest with the dailie beames and influences of the Regall Sunne who like orient Pearles serue to adorue the golden Diadem to you I may fitly tender these present meditations who no doubt dailie doe meditate vpon this Theame to say and pray God saue the King You faire flowers of honor who flourish in the courtly Canaan a place which flowes with plenty and pleasure the very garden of delight where the Bee gathers hony and the spider poyson where you may reape all earthly pleasures which are like Ionas Gourd content a while but not continue your eies behold the subiect of our prayers the ornament of our land Nay I may say with the Poet Hor. lib. 4. od 14. od 2. O quâ Sol habitabiles Illustrat oras maxime Principum Quo nil maius meliusue terris Fata denavere bonique diui Nec dabunt quamuis redeant in aurum Tempora priscum Vpon no shoares the Sunne doth shine Blest with a King more diuine The fire of your feruent prayers for the welfare of the King should perpetually flame at the high Altar of deepe deuotion being graced with all kingly fauours and aduanced with honour and rewards if you should proue disloyall or vndutifull to the King hee might rightly vse the Prouerbe Mercedes locat in pertusum sacculum Put his rewards in a broken bagge and might iustly frowne on you and his wrath like the roaring of a Lion and euen strike you dead with a Quos ego If you desire the Kings fauour which is the way to honor be faithfull and loyall This raised Mordecai to ride on the Kings horse in royall apparell a Crowne of gold on his head c. and to be eternized with the eternall Crowne of truth It raised Ioseph to ride in the second Chariot of Egypt Daniel to be clothed in purple and a chaine of gold about his necke Look vpon King Dauids gratuitie for Barzillays loyalty who commanded Salomon on his death bed to let the sons of Barzillai to eate at his table This is the onely way to winne the Kings fauour which if you lose you are but falling starres your Fame obscured your Names contemned Macro salutes Seianus no longer then he is in Tiberius fauour Actum est ilicet peristi But your faithfull seruice to your Soueraigne will be commendable to God and men seruing in soule the King of
of the Land who are the eyes and eares of this politicke Body who well know Scita patrum leges iura fidemque deosque To you I may dedicate and appropriate these our labours whose places and paines serue to this purpose to serue the King and Countrey and to helpe to preserue the welfare of the King and Kingdome Your publike paines and priuate prayers speake to the World these words God saue the King You are sworne to this seruice and sweat in it neuer more Malefactors in this kind and as Paul tels Timothy In the last dayes shall come perillous times for men shall be Traytors heady high-minded c. You know the Nilus where these Crocodils are bred and fed vse all good diligence to catch them spread your nets not Vulpina retia Foxes nets but Regni retia The Lawes of the Land if you can take them you shall doe God and the King good seruices Spare none of this kind who dare lift vp their hand against the Lords Annointed for they are worthy to die Bonis nocet qui malis parcit He hurts the good which spares the bad yea in all your loyall and legall seruice let neither feare or fauour flattery or bribery blind your eyes or deafe your eares remembring that you exercise not the iudgement of man but of God and thinke vpon this verse in your Iudgement seate Hic locus odit amat punit conseruat honorat Nequitiam pacem crimina iura bonos Farre bee that leprosie from the Iudges of our Land which so corrupted them in Ciceros dayes that he could say His iudicijs quae nunc sunt pecuniosum hominem non posse damnari In these iudgements which are now a monied man cannot be condemned But bribery foules not your hands who to corrupting Simons say with Symon Peter Thy money perish with thee Neither let any of Agesilaus letters moue you who writ to a Iudge for his fauourite in this stile Si causa bona pro iustitia sin mala pro amicitia absolue If his cause be good dismisse him for Iustice sake if bad for friendship sake Let Iustice be vnpartially executed yet tempered with lawfull pitty thinke vpon that Christian caueat Duo sunt nomina peccator homo quod peccator corripe quod homo miserere These are two names an offender a man as an offender punish him as a man pitty him be not too seuere with Draco Ne superet medicina modum Least the medicine exceed the malady nor too remisse with lenity for that is a kind of cruelty Tam omnibus ignoscere crudelitas quam nulli saith Seneca To pardon all is cruelty as well as to pardon none But Sus mineruam You know best to keepe the meane and Medium tenuere beati So shall you performe laudable seruice to God King and Countrey if you execute Iustice punish disobedience which is the falling sicknesse of a corrupt Common-wealth Command all to giue * Caesar his due represse all his enemies by force of lawes and cut them off with the sword of Iustice that their exemplary punishments may terrifie all others from such attempts and bee like monitors and remembrancers to all people crying Discite iustitiam moniti non temnere diuos Virg. Let others harmes admonish thee and learn not to despise these supreame powers for which offence so many Traytors dies Seauenthly to the Common-wealth Last of all to you the inferior yet sound members of the supreame Head the natiue and nationall children of our common Mother whom I may fitly compare to the hands and legges of this politicke body to fight and stand strongly for the defence and welfare of our King and Kingdome To you I hope this little Booke will be welcome and therefore say to you as the Angell said to Iohn Take this little Booke and eate it and if you be good Subiects it will be sweet in your mouthes and not bitter in your bellies for you cannot be true Christians vnlesse you be true Caesarians there is no true Religion in that heart which entertaines a motion to rebellion it is a rotten member that will not be obedient to the regall Maiestie And consider with your selues the happy blessings you enioy by the mercifull prouidence of God in giuing to this Realme so godly and gracious a Soueraigne to reigne ouer you and it will make you cry forth with the Psalmist Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord and his blessing is vpon the people O Lord how fauourable hast thou beene vnto our Land in placing ouer vs so religious and renowned a King so absolute and compleate a Prince in wisdome learning and religion and it will stirre vp all thankefull hearts to say with the Psalmist Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee Sing prayses to God sing prayses sing prayses vnto our King for hee hath chosen our inheritance for vs euen the glory of Iacob whom he loued If we be not truly thankefull for so great benefits it may be truly verified of vs which was said of Canaan Bona terra sed gens mala A good Land but in it there be bad people O vnthankefull and vngratefull Britaines if euer you forget so great blessings Vae vobis propter ingratitudinem Woe be vnto you for your ingratitude Ingrata patria Vngratefull Countrey it is an infamous name odious to nature and Nations Gratiarum actio est ad plus dandum inuitatio Giuing of God thankes for fauours receiued is a kind of supplication and inuitation to obtaine more The Anatomists tell vs that euery creature hath foure muscles about the eyes but a man fiue foure serue to turne about the eyes the fifth serues to lift vp the eye and looke vpward to Heauen Man should not with other brutish creatures looke altogether vpon the earth but lift vp his eyes hands and heart to Heauen to giue God due and true thankes for his daily and fatherly fauours and mercies bestowed vpon him The Oxe knowes his Owner and the Asse his Masters Crib yea the Riuers are tributary to the Sea from whence some say they first come and againe returne All Creatures seeme in their kind to be gratefull debtors to their curteous Benefactors except the Swine whose mast makes him forget the tree from whence the Acornes fall or the Moon which being at the full by interposition of the earth darkens the Sunne from whence yet shee borrowes all her light It was Israels sinne vnthankefulnesse I pray God it be not Englands sicknesse vngratefulnesse to God Woe vnto vs if we scant God of our fruits who hath not scanted vs of his fauours Bring presents to the King of glory giue vnto the Lord glory due vnto his Name worship the Lord in his glorious sanctuary Not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy Name giue the glory for thy louing mercy and for
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
preaching but since they were dead they were high coloured blushing at the wickednesse of their supposed and but supposed successors ashamed of the Doctrine and practises of your Church of Rome and that this shame had altered their colour And sure all Gods seruants who haue the feare of God before their eyes are ashamed and abhorre such abominable practises The cause as Bodin saith which mooued Tacitus to exclaime against Christians was quia Christiani affectarunt crimina quae Ethniti abhorruerunt Because Christians affect those sinne with the Ethnickes doe abhorre if Tacitus were now aliue how would he exclaime against the Church of Rome for animating people to commit such villanies which all Ethnickes except sauages or Cannibals abhorre and condemne Behold how Rome is degenerated from her primitiue State time was she loathed such deedes either to commend or canonize Trators Facta haec Roma olim nec sancta nec Ethnica nouit Such workes in ancient times this Rome did hate In her first Christian yea in Ethnicke State But now Quod natura nefas odit doctrina capescit Which nature most detest Doctrine defend Yea haue not some of them laboured to extenuate the deuillish deuise of these superlatiue Powder-traytors with these words Alas it was the attempt of some few and vnfortunate Gentlemen vnfortunate as they count because they failed in performance or as others of them These Catholickes held the King no King or not their King and expectanda erat diuturna persecutio a perpetuall persecution was to be expected and Eudemen a Iesuite hath write to defend Garnets Treason and rightly played the Daemon and haue not some others excused the fact of Rauilliacke one of Marianas Schollers who stabbed Henry the fourth the late famous French King whose death neuer sufficiently to be lamented and neuer of Kings sufficiently reuenged with these pretences Fuit stolidit as regis ob susceptum haereticorum patrocinium It was the folly of the King for patronising these heretickes meaning Protestants So that I may define these Iesuits to be as one did define a Frier to be cadauer mortuum è sepulchro veniens missum à daemone inter homines a dead Carrion comming out of his graue sent of the deuill among men and truly such are rather monsters then men who will commend or command murther applaud murtherers and Traytors who are portenta virorum viri portentorum monsters of men or men monsters viri sanguinum men of blood viri occisionis slaughter men and though in all professions some are bad A Cham will be in the Arke Saul among the Prophets and Iudas among the Apostoles some may fall into murther or Treason c. Yet when such come to their end and punishment they vsually confesse their faulte to be in their nature not in their religion excepting onely Roman Catholickes who seeke to fetch poyson from heauen and to prooue murther by the Scripture Dogmatis atque Scholae sunt haec non crimina morum So that these cannot say with Cassiodorus follow my doctrine but not my maners for both precepts and practise treasonble And that I may giue a little tast or touch of their practises in this kind least I should seeme to condemne them without cause I will in the next Chapter demonstrate how that many Popes of Rome who are the heads of Popery which is the mystery of iniquity haue caused and procured many Emperors Kings Princes and worthy men to be greatly persecuted and grieuously killed So that we may say to them as our Sauiour to the Pharisees I will send them Prophets and Apostles and of them they shall slay and persecute that the bloud of all the Prophets with many Kings Princes and learned men may be required of this generation CHAP. VI. A short Catalogue or rehearsall of certaine Emperors Kings and famous men who haue beene persecuted by the Antichrist of Rome I Cannot nor will not enterprise to declare all the particular persecutions of the Church of Rome against seuerall Kings and Potentates who distasted and in some sort opposed themselues against their corruptions for that would require a long Tractate to discouer the miserable mischiefes of the whore of Babilon drunken with the bloud of Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Iesus Christ for that were an endlesse worke and the Spirit of truth might say to me as to Ezechiel Turne thee againe and thou shalt see greater abhominations then these I will confine my selfe to a few examples The Emperour Philippicus Bardanius because hee commanded all Images to be remoued out of the Churches by the counsell and consent of Iohn Patriarke of Constantinople was denounced an Hereticke publiquely excommunicated by Pope Constantine and commanded no gold nor siluer to be stamped with his Image nor any mention made of him in their common prayers Lodouicus Pius the Emperor eight hundred yeares after Christ was thrust out of his Kingdome by the French Cleargie and the Pope Philip the Emperor by the procurement of the Pope Innocent the third who said Eyther he would haue Philips Crowne or Philip his Miter continually opposed himselfe against him and stirred vp Count Otho against him who miserably did slay him at Bamberge in his priuy chamber Henry the seuenth oppressed by the Pope and his Cardinals stirring vp enemies against him was at last poysoned by a Monke in the Sacrament I omit to speake of the other Henries tragically vexed by tyrannicall Popes the extreamities and indignities whereunto they brought them haue replenished the world with plentifull histories The Emperor Fredericke the seauenth truely complaining That the happines of Emperors was alwaies opposed by the Popes enuy Neyther haue the Kings of the earth found better vse some of them by Popes deposed from their Kingdomes as Childericke the French King by the Pope deposed vnder pretence of stupidity and thrust into a Monastery Philip the first for matrimoniall causes Philip called the faire for collating of benefices Rachis King of the Lombards by Pope Zachary put into a Monastery with many others which might be named Nay not onely by Popes deposed but of their liues depriued Manfred the King of Naples and Sicily had the Duke of Anien armed against him by Pope Vrbane the fourth by whom hee was slaine So Conradinus King of Naples and Sicilye being taken prisoner by Charles brother to the French King was miserably put to death by the Popes Counsell King Iohn of England was vilely vexed and depriued of his Kingdome by the Pope and his Bishops and the French King set vp against him and at last was poysoned by a Monke Ioane the Queene of Naples was depriued of her Kingdome by Pope Vrbane who consented to her murther Gemin Otto the brother of the great Turke being prisoner was poysoned by the Pope hired thereunto by a
as the very naming of them is a confutation Simancha and Creswell haue concluded that no hereticke that is a Protestant is capable of a Crowne and though a lawfull heire yet no iust possessor hauing obtainedit And to this effect Pope Clements Bull was After the death of the late Queene whether by course of nature or otherwise whosoeuer should lay claime or Title to the Crowne of England though neuer so directly or neerely interessed therein by descent and Blood royall yet vnlesse he were such an one as would not onely tollerate the Catholicke Romane religion but by all endeuours and force promote it they should admit or receiue none to the Crowne of England And Samancha Tit. 64. Sect. 75. faith The father may be deposed for an hereticke and his sonne and heire also excluded from claime of succession vnlesse he be a Romane Catholicke Thus they seeke to dispossesse Kings who are enthroned by God and haue their Scepters from the King of Kings yea they â—ind Kings to their good behauiour if they doe displease the Pope then depose them and so no Kings Molina saith The King can vse his Temporall sword but at the Popes becke Tract 2. de Institut Di. 29. Thus debasing Kings the highest powers on earth to be subiects to the Pope who yet in a counterfeit style cals himselfe Seruus seruorum a seruant of seruants Sonat humilit as in voce sed superbia in actione Saith Gregory Iacobs voice and Esawes hands Hypocriticall humility is worse then manifest pride And truly if the Pope had a sparke of the spirit of humility he would condemne his Parasites voices Papa est per queâ—reges regnant The Pope is he by whom Kings reigne Saith Bozius or Papa data est omnis potest as in caelo in terra Dominatur amarivsque admare à flumine vsque adtermin os orbis To the Pope is giuen all power in heauen and earth and reignes from one Sea to an other from the stood to the end of the world or Papa potest omnia facere quae Deus potest The Pope can doe all that God can doe horrible impiety and intollerable flattery And these tell the world he can make and vnmake Kings and the Popes like it well enough excommunicating Kings deposing them and disposing of their Kingdomes to others So that it mooued Art 〈◊〉 King of Peru to say as Benzo and Lopez tell it Insigniter fatuum esse opertere papam qui quae non haberet alijs liberaliter largitur vel carte impedentem nebulonem qui eiectis veris possessoribus alienas terras peregrinis addiceret in mutuas cades mortale genus armaret That either the Pope was an egregious Sot who would liberally giue things which he had not or a very impudent companion who expulsing the true possessors giues it to strangers arming the world to mutuall yea mortall slaughters I will not trouble my selfe to behold the nakednesse rather wickednesse of these drunken Noes vncouered in the midst of their Tents vomiting out vile positions full of sedition and disobedience against the Kings of the earth it require rather teares to bewaile it then a pen to report it and the learned heerein know more then I write and for the ignorant it is good for them in this case to be ignorant still yet I confesse I aimed most in this labour to informe the ignorant hauing no minde to meddle with seducing Priests I cannot charme such deafe Adders if this litle handfull of my loue and labour presented vnto you may be profitable to win any of you I will say and end with the Apostle Iames Brethren if any of you haue erred from the Truth and some man hath conuerted him let him know that hee which hath conuerted the sinner from going astray out of his way shall saue a soule from death and shall hide a multitude of sinnes The Lord who is a God of Truth for his mercy sake and for Christs merits sake open all your eies to behold the Truth and your hearts to embrace it that we may all hold one Head in vnity and haue one heart in verity that all with one minde and mouth may praise and pray vnto the Lord in the militant Church on earth and be thrice happy members of the Triumphant Church in heauen Amen Candido lectori Humanum est errare errata hic corrige lector quae penna aut praelo lapsa fuisse vides FINIS * Epist 34. * Baron annal tom 1 ad an 1. fol. 53. * Math. 2. 11. * Walafriâ— Strabo lib. de rebus Eccles * Epist 77 * Eccluâ— 24. 39. * 1 Cor. 4. 3. * Le moribus a 2 Kings 11 3. b 2 Chr. 22. 9. 10. 11. c 2 King 11. 4 d 2 Chr. 23. 2. e 2 Kin. 11. 4. f 2 Ch. 23. 3. g 2 King 11. 6. 11. h 2 Chr. 23. 11. i 2 Kin. 11. 12. * A queene ouer men a queene ouer her selfe for a maiden queen k Mundi totius vna decus Beza Epigram in class hisp Anno 1588. l Gen. 27. 41. Ad certum tempus sunt Christiani postea peribunt redibunt Idola verum tum cum expectas miserinfidelis vt transeant Christiani transis ipse sine Christianis Aug. in P s 70 m Quo nil praestaÌ„tius orbe nobiliusque nihil nostro sol aspicit aeuo Mortua regina quasi non est mortua quia reliquit similem plus quam fimilis hic n Quem beneficia accepta memorem non redduÌ„t is grauius suppliciuÌ„ meretur Chrysost de Sacerd. lib. 4. o Tertul. in Apâ—log c. 30. p Psal 132. 18. q Plut. in vita Flaminij r 1 Kin. 1. s 1 King 1. 40. t 39. Proditor est martyr coeli certissimê° hares u Mariana de reg lib. 1. c 7. * Maria. p 60. Vid orat sixt Qt habit in consistoria Saunders Fra de Verone Azorius Philopater Allen aly x Tertul in Apol. Spolia opima Joui Sen. Prosperum scelus vocatur virtus y 1 Chr. 16. 22. z Reu. 17. 46. a Machau Princ. c. 11. b Psal 21. 8. 9. c Psal 129. 6. a 1 Tim. 2. b Tribus argumeÌ„tis ostendit oranduÌ„ esse proregibê° quorum duo sumpta sunt ab effectu vtili Pisc in locuÌ„ c Plin 2 Panegy ad Traianum Rex sapiens est stabilimentum populi Wisd 6. 24. Rex si bonus est nutritor est tuus si malus tentator tuus est Aug. ser 6. de verb. dom secund Math. Bellua multorum capitum homine nullum morosius animal nec maiori arte tractandum Sene. d Quot capita tot sententiae quot homines tothumores quot humores tot mores Lipsius e Exod. 18. 19. f Psalm 2. 10. g 2 Chr. 1. 10. h Wisd 6. 21. i Magna seruituâ— est magna fortuna nam ipsi Caesari cui omnia licent propter hoc ipsu multa non licent Seneca consolat ad