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A68512	A warning agaynst the dangerous practises of papistes and specially the parteners of the late rebellion. Gathered out of the common feare and speche of good subiectes. Sene and allowed.	Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584.	1569 (1569)	STC 18685.7; ESTC S113364	44,769	112

take vpon him to extend hys curse to the prince of our countrey and all the people thereof and that he hath power to discharge the subiectes of the realme from their fayth and allegeance and hath authoritie to binde theyr obedience to whome he will and is able to geue heauen to rebelles that shall venture theyr liues in wasting and destroying our countrey he I say that can yelde hys consent to these doinges thinkinges must néedes be a traitor to hys countrey And such a one is euery such English Papist as I haue described and can be none other if he hold the Pope for a true teacher and haue good opinion of of the Popes doctrine and examples And to defend that we ought to yelde our saythes or submission to the Pope is in generalitie to affirme all these mischiefes and treasons And such as be of that minde as all such Papistes bée can not in true iudgement be seuered from traitorous watchers to put the same in execution when so euer they may haue times and meanes to beare them harmelesse Let be called to minde the treasons of the clergie agaynst Henrie the second and specially the vile practises of the two traitorous byshops of Lincolne and Heresord agaynst Edward the second But principally how as I haue aforesayd the Dolphin of Fraunce by color of title geuen him from the Pope for King Iohns disobedience to that apostaticall seate inuaded and long possessed a great part of England how the deceaued barons of England both at that time specially at some other times seuerally at the Popes will and vpon pronouncing of his curse against the king forsooke their allegeance looke part with the frenchmen spoyled their owne countrey and like most vnnaturall children at an adulterous stop fathers bidding did thrust theyr swordes into their mothers bellie Remember Cardinall Poles message to the Emperor the rebellions raysed in that time and since the late practises in Queene Maries dayes to bring the realme in thraldome to the most insolent and intolerable nation and to transfer the inheritance of the crowne with not onely disheriting but also destroying the true and naturall heire their great sorrow that it was not performed the great trust that our Papistes in all their countenances and speches shewed them selues to haue of the good successe of Henrie the french king whome God tooke away before his accomplishment of thretened enterprises against this realme Let not be forgotten their glorienges in their champion of Guise It is yet fresh and raw in remembrance how openly they vttered their as it were applaudinges gratulations and cherefull significations of fauor to that side euen then when as it is well knowen the same familie of Guise sought vnder color of his kinswomans title and by that foren title which was made the title and fundation of this last rebellion to inuade this land to ouerthrow the Quéenes maiesties estate and to transport the crowne of our countrey to strangers Let it be considered what good practises these late Rebels haue had with strangers to the hazard of their countrie euen so far forth as they feared not in their proclamations with a litle colorable forme of pennyng to brag and put their confederates in hope of strangers coming to inuade and destroy the realme which by a prety gentle false terme they call reforming the realme Let it be well weyed what they meane to the realme that vnder colour of succeding do so far vndermine the head of our country that by raysing some to a hope of the next succeding they conuey the countenance fauour and supportation of a great corrupt nomber of suche as may frame them selues any hope of gaine that way to other persones that by such kindled ambition may be the more hastely enboldned Such mad hopes made lewd bokes to be published in print to entitle strangers to our crowne and to geue aduise to cherishe the amitie of Fraunce to this ende that the rebellious nation of England as they terme vs may by that meanes be tamed if we wyll not contentedly yeld to such subiection It is not nothing that the same bookes were ambiciously published in Paris and set vp vpon euery post and piller and by men of great place and charge most earnestly defended when on our Quéenes Maiesties behalfe they were required to be suppressed I speake not yet of the worst bookes well knowen to the best persons This to doo is to shew vs a Sunne rysing to whose worship they would faine draw vs from our Sunne declinyng as they suppose No no our Quéene is our true Sunne and what soeuer shinyng thyng they wold set vp in her tyme it is no right Sunne but an vnlucky Comete And it is not yet noone I trust with our Sunne or if it be I hope yet God will lengthen the day to our Sunne for his honors sake as he dyd to Iosua and the rather shall all good subiectes haue cause so to hope it if the residue of the day may be so spent as Iosua spent it and for which purpose God dyd prolong it to rid the world of Gods enemies Let it be suspected what hopes of preuention anticipation most dreadfull mischief which I feare and abhorre to name the encouragement of such succedyng which is the worke of Papistes may minister where the onely person of our most deare and precious soueraigne Ladie standeth without any moe meane stayes of her most honorable and ioyfull issue betwene them and their desired effect the vtter vndoing of vs all and specially where the power of reuenge may by possibilitie fall into their handes for whose sake it should be attempted It is no small mischiefe danger and apallyng of fayth and courage when our prince must be defended agaynst those that by possibilitie may aspire to hope to haue colour to be our Princes them selues and to wreke it vpon good subiectes that serue our Quéene truely What kindnesse or naturalnesse will doo hath béen abundantly shewed already diuerse wayes And in the late murderous mischief a most foule president but a most perfect lesson this one thyng is much to be noted that it was here by rumor reported as done before it were done there which argueth that the conspiracie extended hither and how farre further or rather nerer is good to be quickly and earnestly searched and by the same example to be remembred what harme the losse of vsyng occasion hath bredde when it might haue so béen preuented that neither he had bene murdered nor the Quéene encombred I dispute no titles I haue no reache beyond our Quéene I can sée nothyng beyond our Quéene but a Chaos of miserie therfore I am lothe to looke so farr My onely care is as my prayer is all good subiectes ought to be for our Q. Maiesties preseruation What other title so euer be pretended be it good or bad if it shall once threaten danger to the Q. Maiestie whose title and

¶ A warning agaynst the dangerous practises of Papistes and specially the parteners of the late Rebellion ¶ Gathered out of the common feare and speche of good subiectes Vox populi Dei vox Dei est Sene and allowed THe state of this Realme considered and specially such accidentes touching the same as late troubles haue ministred do make it dayly more and more euident how precious and how deare a iewell is the safetie of the Quéenes most excellent Maiestie our most louing and beloued soueraigne Lady Compare the time of her most noble and gracious gouernement with ages long agoe passed and specially with the miserable and dangerous dayes immediatly preceding her most happie comfortable reigne call to memorie the weaknesse perils wherin the common weale stoode before her highnesses comming to the crowne wey the infinite benefites both bodily and ghostly that the whole realme and all her subiectes haue and do daily receaue by her meanes thinke vpon the greuous and vnspeakable miseries that we all shalbe like to susteine by losse of her vnualuable presence it shall be plaine that he is wilfully blinde that can not sée he is wickedly malicious that will not acknowledge he is obstinately stone harted that shall not with sorrow and trembling déepely imprint in carefull hart those motions and thoughtes that such consideration shall lay before him Remember the quiet of conscience the comfort of true seruing of God the fréedome of the Realme the deliuerance from foreine thraldome of soules the escape of the heauie yoke of strange dominion the recouerie of welth the benefite of peace the common and egall distribution of iustice the familiar cherishing of Nobilitie the good preseruing and loue of the Commonaltie the mutual and tender kindnesse at home the amitie and awe abroad the swéete enioying of all these commodities match herewith the danger and feare of losing them how can it then be but that the minde shall be marueilously distracted Great and full of diuersities are the sittes of a passioned louer but yet greatest where reason ruleth least Farre greater to a good minde must be the panges of consideration in thys case but yet greatest where reason ruleth most The silly louer is transported as they complaine poore soules in their dities somtyme with ioyes of hys enioying sometyme with feare of his forgoing there is no meane or order of his excessiue affection and all is because the abused creature hath set his felicitie in a wrong conceite But if such vaine short repentable and feble delite of fansie haue such force vpon the minde of man how much more ought the déepe wise naturall and true impression of the eternall comfort of soule the good and safe estate both of the common weale and of the priuate hauiour of him selfe and of those thinges and persons that he holdeth dearest yea and of hys posteritie for euer worke more mighty violent and continuing effectes in the minde of an honest good man that setteth hys thought vpon iuste and assured groundes All these contemplacions can not but fill a good Christians and a good subiectes eye with sight and knowledge how vnestimable a treasure our Quéene our I say Quéene Elizabeth is to the Realme of England and the same can not but pearce hys hart with strong feare and care for her preseruation so farre as surely it were able as in the dumme borne sonne of Cresus to breake the stringes of a tyed toung to drawe speach out of the most barbarous and rudest subiect to crie out at her highnesses perill and with such noyse as he is able to make though it were but as a goose of the Capitole to geue warnyng to the watchmen of the toure of all our safeties This hath moued me to forget how vnskilfull and how vnapt I am to treate of matters so farre aboue me and onely to remember how méete it is for all men to thinke of those thinges that touch them so nerely Neyther do I altogether allow of the manerlinesse of that good fellowes curtesie that would not vnlocke a gate to the kyng but made the kyng to staye there while he ranne two miles to fetch a more worshipfull man to open it And farre more discommendable had such good maner ben if the kyng had then ben nerely and egrely pursued by an enemye When traiterous affection so boileth in subiectes hartes as it can not be conteined in stomake but must breake out into open rebellion when the very humor that féedeth such treason is so strong and so angry that neyther lenitiues of clemencie and bountie can allay it nor purgatiues of honestie and loyaltie can expell it it is hye tyme to looke to the health of the body When the furie of treason outrageth so farre that it ouerfloweth all the banke● of discretion and all the boundes of remembring theyr owne perill when they drawe euery ambitious popular witte into their fellowship lyke an eatyng canker or infecting sore when they can not tary the auantage of theyr owne tymes the ripenesse of their deuises the redinesse of their aydes the fitnesse of seasons nor other circumspections of policie when the stay or seuering of their heades can not holde them but that like an Adder when her head is cut of they will still be wrigling with theyr tailes and threaten a stinging when being vanquished they yet finde some newe resorters vpon olde hopes surely it must néedes appeare to be a wonderfully malicious poyson of treason that possesseth them and so a great necessitie to know who be enuenimed with it the causes of the disease and the signes of the infection that conuenient cure may be applied or for the vncurable some good order may be prouided that the head and hart may be preserued It is now hie time therefore when traitors them selues haue geuen warning of their owne treasons to search the confederacie yea and as miners follow the signes euery way as they spred in the ground till they be guided to the trunke or body of the metall so to followe the apparances of suspicions and likelihodes till it appeare plainely what light made the shadowe or what fire raised the smoke It is not good tarying till the flame mountyng in the ayre aboue the house teppe the principalls and pillers consumed and eche part so embraced with fire that no ayde dare approch do plainly declare the whole building past hope of recouery Fyres oftentimes negligently raked vp stickes endes not throughly quenched embers not regarded a candeles end not looked vnto haue brought many an honest man to pitifull calamitie I like therefore better the honest wisedome of those that study how the Queene may stand and not fall then the reaching policie of those that deuise how them selues may stand when the Quéene is fallen God preserue her highnesse long for her fallyng would make a Samsons poste with vs all yea and rightly a Samsons poste for no dout it woulde broose them too