treachery of her owne children as by their default Euen so our king Egilred or as others terme him Ethelred complaineth in an Oration in this sort Wee are ouercome of the Danes not with weapon or force of armes but with treason wrought by our owne people The cause is opened by Matthaeus Westmonasteriensis Pag. 396. that when the King and his Sonne Edmond were like to haue the vpper haÌ„d against Cneuto or Canutus the King of the Danes Edrike Traitour Eadricus plaied the traytour went about by sleight and subtilty and allured of the Kinges Nauy forty shippes and he slipped to Canutus and subiected himselfe to his dominion whereby west-Saxonie and the Mercians with their horses and artillery offered themselues to him Intimatum est Regi quod nisi cautius sibi prouideret ipse à Gente propria hostibus traderetur It was priuily told the King that if hee did not prouide for himselfe more warily hee should bee berraied into the handes of his enemies by his owne nation I signified before how King Edmond surnamed Ferreum Latus Iron-side at Oxford being at the Priuy on Saint Andrewes night was slaine by the Sonne of Eadrik through the fathers instigation the father after the fact coÌ„meth to Canutus with this salutatioÌ„ Aue Rex solus Matth. Westmona pag. 402. Polyd. Vir. Ang. Hist lib. 7. Hail O King alone but he heard this his rewarde by Canutus Ego te hodie ob tanti obsequij meritum cunctis regni proceribus reddam celsiorem For this your great seruice I wil exalt you set you higher than al the Peers of the realm Periury and perdition or treason had in this realme euermore according to their desert When King Edward the Confessour kept his solemnity of Easter at Winchester at dinner Earle Goodwine being burthened at the table with the treacherous murder of his brother Aelfredus Earle Goodwin added to the murther periury and desired of God as hee was true and iust that the morsell of bread which hee held in his hand might neuer passe his throate if his brother by himselfe or by his counsail at any time were neerer to death A terrible example against forswearing and any way further from life so putting the bread into his mouth with an il conscience was choked by it When the King sawe him pale and without breath Carry out saith he this dog Jn vita Edwardi Confessor this traytour bury him in the quadrangle for he is vnwoorthy to enioy Christian burial Another traytor in the time of Egilred or Ethelred was Elfrik who being made Lieutenant of the Kings army left his Master Elfrick and took part with the Danes vpon the suddain when he should haue discharged vpon the enemies of the King and the country Polyd. Vir. lib. 7. but afterward being Admiral of the Kinges Nauy and destitute of all hope of preferment with the enemy because he returned to the King craued pardon his punishment was mitigated for he saued his life with the losse only of his eies In the time of King Edwarde the first the Scots breaking peace which they had made to their liege Lorde King of England and conspiring nowe with the king of Fraunce partly because Iohn Beliol by the king of England was made their King one Thomas Turbeuile more acquainted with chiualry than honesty Th. Turbeuile plaid on both sides promising to the French-men that by treason they should possesse the Kingdome of England vppon condition to receiue a large summe of mony land leauing for assurance his two children as Hostages And so that deceiuer returning from beyond the Sea tolde the King of England another Parasiticall tale howe hee escaped hardly out of prison how he had learned the weaknesse of Fraunce But here a crooked Snake lurked hee caried poyson mingled with hony wherewith they that touched it might be infected creeping into fauour into the secret counsels of the Realm set down al in writing directed theÌ„ to the Prouost of Paris This fraude fact being opened by the prouidence of God who is wel called of the autor Exterminator impioruÌ„ The destroier of the wicked declared to the king he was immediatly by sergeants apprehended bound with cordes carried to iudgement accused and by his owne confession condemned First laid vpon an Ox hide drawen at horse tailes thorough London guarded with disguised tormentours baited at railed on by the way mocked was hanged his body vnburied the people passing by scornfully asking Mat. West in Edou 1. Is this Thomas Turbeuile Whose Epitaph a versifier wrote in this sort That Turbeuile was a troubler of the tranquillity quietnes of the Realme therefore hee that would bee an hoate burning sparkle was become a dead spark himselfe as in those rythmes may appeere at large whereof this is the beginning Turbat tranquilla clam Thomas turbida villa Qui quasi scintilla fuit accidit esse fauilla In the time of Edward the second Andrew Earle of Carlile Andreas Hartlee created Earle of Carlile at York sent by the King into Scotland to King Robert to intreat of Peace made another matter turned it into a message for war priuily fraudulently to compasse the destruction of his owne King This though contriued secretly yet it was certified to the King hee immediatly at his returne vpon the commandement of the King Polyd. Vir. Hist Ang. lib. 18. was attached taken by the guard so by by coÌ„uicted put to death Ita Andreas crucem sibi construxit ex qua penderet So Andrewe prepared for himselfe a Gallose to hang vpon made a rodde for his owne tasle In the time of Edwarde the third like conspiracies against the Prince had the like measure Polyd. l. 19. when Edmond Earle of Kent Roger Mortimer others were beheadded Thus you see exemplified by these traitors that which was by Lawes enacted as also by another example of an Italian indeuouring to betray Calice to the French An Itaâ—â—â— trick against Calice For when an English man had committed it vnto the Italian the French-man knowing the nature of that Nation to be most couetous of golde secretly dealt with him that he would sel the castle to him for twenty thousand crownes The Englishman being made priuy of this dissembleth all thinges driueth out the French and taketh them with them the principall cause of that treachery In the time of Richard the second there was a conspiracy of some Jn Epit. Frosardi lib. 1. Eccle. 10. Ansley and Carton that had in their mouth the Prouerbe of the Hebrues Woe be to the Land whose King is a Childe And of others euen in the court as of Iohn Ansley knight and of Hugh Carton minding with their complices to set vpon the King and to murder him although they two were enemies before yet in this made one agreeing too
A VIEW OF THE ROMISH HYDRA AND MONSTER TRAISON AGAINST THE LORDS ANNOINTED CONDEMNED BY DAVID 1. SAM 26. AND NOWE CONFVTED IN SEVEN SERMONS To perswade Obedience to Princes Concord among our selues and a generall Reformation and Repentaunce in all states By L. H. Psal 11 Behold the wicked bend their bowe they haue made readie their arrowes vpon the string to shoot in the darcke at those that are righteous in heart Psal 5 Destroy them O God let them fal from their Counsels cast them out for the multitude of their iniquities because they haue Rebelled against thee AT OXFORD Printed by IOSEPH BARNES and are to be solde in Paules Church-yearde at the signe of the Tygers head 1588. The Dialogue and talk of Dauid and Abishai touching King Saul whether he being cast into a dead sleepe shoulâ— be killed or no taken out of the first booke of Samuel and 26. Chapter 8 Then said Abishai to Dauid God hath closed thine enemy into thine hande this daie nowe therefore I pray thee let mee smite him once with à speare to the earth and I will not smite him againe 9 And Dauid said to Abishai Destroy him not for who can lay his hand on the Lords annointed and be guiltlesse 10 Moreouer Dauid said As the Lord liueth either the Lord shal smite him or his day shal come to dy or hee shall descend into battle and perish 11 The Lord keepe me from laying mine hand vppon the Lordes annointed but I pray thee take now the speare that is at his head and the pot of water and let vs goe hence 12 So Dauid tooke the speare and the pot of water from Sauls head and they gate them awaie and no man saw it nor marked it neither did any awake but they were al asleepeâ— for the Lord had sent a dead sleepe vpon them TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORD ROBERT DVDLEY EARLE OF LEICESTER BARON OF DENBIGH KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER OF HER MAIESTIIS most Honorable priuy Counsaile Chauncelour of the Vniuersitie of Oxford LAVRENCE HVMPHREY WISHETH GRACE PEACE AND MERCY FROM GOD THE FATHER OVR LORD IESVS CHRIST THERE are Right honorable as farre as I can iudge Two perilous poinâ—â— of popery in the Romish Religion two principall parts and peremptorie pointes corrupt Opinions and outragious ActioÌ„s both drawen and borrowed from our common Aduersary who one way soweth in darkens and in the night among the wheat of gods word the cockle darnel of pernicious doctrine the other way he murdreth them from the beginning Iohn 8. 1. Pet. 5. and roareth like a Lyon and in his continuall and cruell circuite seeketh whom he may deuour euerie way hunteth after blood and our destruction spiritual and corporal As Christ is humble and meek as the cognisaunce of Christians is loue so the badge of Antichrist is bloody ful of cruelty voide of charity To passe ouer the corruptions of doctrin This second Monster of Rome Hydra of Rome hath many heads this Hydra is of many heades These Actions of Popes are diuerse both here seen and felt and vnderstood abroad and euery where practised As Ashur was Gods rod and Vespasian his seruaÌ„t against the Iews so this reputed Vicar of Christ hath been the whippe of Princes the scourge of all Christendome By his opinion in Masse he hath learned to offer an vnbloody sacrifice In his Actions he is Pilat mingling sacrifices with mans blood Luâ— 13. By his opinion hee is guilty of that which is written Psal 144. His mouth speaketh lies In his actions of that which followeth His right hande is the right hand of iniquity But ô that al Princes were of King Dauids mind not to meddle nor to communicate with such bloody sacrifices Psal â— nor to haue these false cruel gods names in their lips Although your Lordshippe knoweth his dooings in this realme better then I can deliuer yet I purpose by your good leaue and licence to set down the proceedings of this Hydra and his actions by degrees and steps for some Instruction and a Caueat to my countrymen The first Act and head The first head of this Romish Monster is a Temporal sword open defiaunce against kings and kingdomes misliked by him He wil be not onely a Bishop of Bishops but a king nay a Conquerour of kings Hee hath in his hande the wheele of fortune to make kings goe vp and goe downe according to his pleasure in driuing guiding the chariot and maketh them thus to say Regno regnabo regnaui sum sine regno One saith I doe raigne another I wil raigne another I haue raigned another I am put from my raigne He maketh Apollo to giue ouer the chariot of the Sunne and to resigne it to any rechles rash Phaeton though he set on fier heauen and earth Hee wil win the horse or loose both horse and saddle He can be content that Dauid or any other godly Prince bee vnhorsed and vnseated and that wanton and rebellious Absalom bee placed and setled This bloodie action of warring is performed sometime in their owne person as Iulius the second that fought against the French with Paules sword and others both Popes and Cardinals may bee witnesses sometime by inciting and setting on other Princes against a Realme or Seignory As Pippin Charles were imploied against the Lombardians by the commaundement of Adrian Cau. 23. q. 8 And Gregory the great willeth the Tuscans to doe the like Thom. walsing in Edâ—ar 1. Boniface by letters sollicited the King of England against the French King and promiseth aide And another time Kings of Fraunce are set vp against England Al these experimentes fal out in our time by a Catholick coÌ„sent in the councel of Trent that all Catholicke Princes should prepare against England and others of the reformed religion This cannot be good for euen the Pope himselfe saith that it is not good Cau. 23 q. 8 â— Tim. 2. Pope Nicolas saith to Charles the Emperour No man that is a souldior to God entangleth himselfe with secular businesse And if the souldiours of the woorlde apply themselues to warfare what hath the Bishoppes and souldiours of Christ to doe but to goe to their praiers Quid ad Episcopos milites Christi nisi vt vacent orationibus If this head of Hydra by Gods mightie mercifull hand bee cut off so that forreiners wil not nor caÌ„not satisfie the turn his lust The 2. head a trumpet of ciuil warre beholde another head riseth A Proclamation of Rebellion to al Catholickes against their dread Soueraigne for he will set all at six and seuen and mooue euery stone he wil goe thorough thicke and thinne Examples wee haue in England and Ireland with banners of ciuill dissension displaied to the offence of Almighty of God to the disturbance of our publicke and godlie peace to the vtter ouerthrowe of noble families Yet there is another
for sundry graces and gifts to bee woondred at for all these good blessings of God by hir to vs to be honored Are there yet foolish frogs begging of the Romish Capitoline Iupiter either a blocke to crush them or a Storcke to deuoure them Though by Gods appointment the Oliue is content to be ouer vs with her fatnes the fig with her sweetenesse and the vine with her fruitfulnesse yet wee are not content to haue them but only Rhamnus or a bramble good for nothing but to burn and consume vs. English Iewes Are there yet remaining the Offpring of Iewes desiring a Saul for a Samuel Professing protesting Nolumus hunc regnare We wil not haue him raign ouer vs that cannot abide the title of Christs crosse Iesus of Nazareth King of Iewes Or can there be found yet an Esau that will say in his heart Gen. 27. The daies of mourning for my father will come shortlie then wil I slaie my brother Iacob I will make awaie with the mother of the Lande and the godly brethren too And must wee after the inuention yea the fruition of wheate and sweet corne returne with the old world ad glandes to Akornes as in the late time of Queene Marie The Religion published by her Maiesty offendeth them And can this Romish Religion being so stained with bloode as I haue declared please them Is there no remedy but to turn the blessing of the Prophet Esay by a contrary Text into a curse Esaâ—â—â— For our gould to receiue brasse For our siluer iron and for this gouernement of peace the tyranny of Exactours and Task-masters For remedy and some redresse against these bloud-suckers of Rome The â—sseâ— of the Sermons following and our rebellious mutiners at home I haue eft soones called to the memorie of our countrimen their duety towards God and their Prince and Country and then doubtlesse God wil be a Buckler and shielde to them and to vs all In this copulatiue An exhortation to a true vnity in this double dutifulnes towards God the Prince we must be ioined with a full consent altogether as one man or as the twinnes of Hippocrates who were sicke together and hadde their fits together and recouered together as Austine reciteth out of Cicero So we head and foote De ciuit Dei lib. 5. cap. 2. and al the body must consent in the true worship and seruice of God we al high and low with hart hand must agree in this duety towarde the Prince against all forreine or domesticall aduersaries These two dueties are recommeÌ„ded to vs by Ambrose This becommeth Christians to wish for the tranquillity of peace Ambrose Epist 33. and for the constancy in the faith and in the truth And in the same place Rogamus Ibidem Auguste non pugnamus We beseech O Emperour we fight not If wee deale thus duetifully towardes God and obediently towardes our Prince then will God mercifully and mightily defend both Prince and vs. No diuelish witchcraft no Ruffians dag or dagger no inuasion of forreiners no craft or art of any enemies no nor this seuen-headed beast shall annoy Prince Peare or People He can he will send twelue legions of Angels Matth. 26. Pohdâ—h 8. Hist Ang. Then shal be truly verified that which long a go was prophecied The Kingdome of Englande shal be the Kingdome of God and that God is alone must be the Protector King of it If our Prince and Nobles and Subiects wil sincerely serue him we shall haue the protection of our lord 1.5 in oraâ— cont 〈◊〉 Seruum Christi non custodia Corporalis sed Domini prouidentia sepire consueuit saith Ambrose No guard of men or bodies but the prouidence of the Lord is the hedge and defence of the seruants of Christ It may be for our sinnes that the great ships of Tharshis may come Ies 2. but vppon our repeÌ„tance De â—â—heneide soâ— Remora Pl. l. 9. c. 2â— God wil send Remoram euen a litle fishe that shall stay the shippes though vnder saile It may bee that some Load stone may drawe some Iron vpon vs but the Lord will prepare a Diamond that shal with stand the Load-stone Lib. 13. c. 4. that it shall not haue power to drawe any at all It may be that Catiline wil make a coniuration but god wil send one Cicero or other to espy it ouerthrow it Al the Traitors against Iulius Caesar within three years perished Sueâ—on in Julio Caesare som one way some an other way some by IudgmeÌ„t some with shippe wracke some in battell others with the same poinadoe wherewith Caesar was stricken none of them had a naturall death Calippus because he would stab in and sticke Dion his friend was stabbed and killed with the same dagger himselfe by his owne frinds This shal be the reward of al those that conspire against the Lordes annointed I haue troubled your honour with many words vttering my wishes to my countrimen and declaring to you the argument intreated of in these Sermons I haue displaied the new Monster lately receiued daily rising and raging against vs. And as in this generall diuision of Christendom euery nation and faction prouide their Armour And as your L. and the whole body of the right honorable Counsel make euery way a politick preparation and euery man seeketh his piece his furniture So I hauing no weapon but only my tongue and pen haue thought good in my calling after my weak simple sort to fight with the helpe of them both against this huge Monster and against all enimies When I beganne first to expound this Text of Scripture in Ianuarie last at Oxford and proceeded in it there and in some places of Hamptonshire ended it at London at the Crosse in May I little thought of printing it and so the matter out of my heade and almost out of my papers I fear my short and vnperfect notes haue brought foorth an vnperfect vntimely fruit Howesoeuer it is I must commit it now to the world and appeale to your Lordships patronage for it I had rather offend by this temerity and negligence than to incurre the suspicion of silence and neutrality knowing the danger and penalty of Solons lawe if in this common trouble Plutarcâ—â—â— Solone and turmoile I should shewe my selfe to be idle and of no part I am bold to offer to your Lordship as a poore scholasticall New-yeares-gift as a gratulation of your prosperous returne and as a smal signification of my bounden duty to you my very good Lord and a speciall Patrone of our Vniuersity and a friend of this cause which Dauid began and I haue rudely prosecuted and ended The Lord Iesus protect our noble Dauid your honor the honorable Counsaile the whole Realm graunt vnto vs all many good new-years to his glory and to the commodity comfort of his Church Amen Oxon.
Decemb. 28. A Table of the special points and common places OVT OF THE FIRST SERMON THE practise of traitours was prophecied of before and is auncient Treason against the Countrie and Prince detested The manner of traitours double Examples of hypocrisie and flattering in traitours A warning to Princes and Noble men to expel such deceitful persons out of their courts and houses 4 Motiues and causes inducing men to weasons Vnbridled and licentious libertie Couetousnesse and ambition Enuie and Jngratitude and Religion pretensed and speciallie Popish And the Pope by specialties is declared to bee the Abishai in our daies Two waies the Pope vseth by himselfe or by his instruments Nouices Monks â—riars Cardinals c. Papistes in their Religion make bloodie vowes which ought to be broken The Popes Religion dispenseth with good oathes of allegeaunce made to Princes and he can depose them by his Religion OVT OF THE SECOND SERMON SEdition and discord disproued The aunswere of Dauid to Abishai threefold 1 Dauids prohibition in which he forbiddeth the murdering of Saul The reason of Dauid by the effect and discommodities expounded at large Jn the person of a Prince are two circumstances by condition as man by calling as King the Lords annointed Whether any man maie be killed of anie priuate man and how The Exposition of the law Thou shalt not murder out of Augustine Princes ordained not of themselues nor of fortune nor of Iupiter but of Almightie God and therefore not to bee touched but by God whether he be good or euil Why euil Magistrates are aduanced The office of a Prince in that he is called a God The true oile wherewith Princes are annointed is onelie the holie Ghost The office of Subiects to a Prince as being God also a double Jmage of God A proofe of Dauids opinion for obedience to superiours by nature a good schoolemistresse as in beasts birdes fishes serpents and other naturall creatures Also in the time of Nature before the Law and to natural and Ethnish Princes with the commodities of such obedience to the heathen gouernours The punishments inflicted vpon traitors by the iudgement of these naturall Ethnish men among the oulde Romanes Turks and other infidels OVT OF THE THIRD SERMON THE Pope a Zoganes or a Lord of misrule A viperous and Serpentine broode from Rome spread among vs. Chrysostome excellentlie discourseth of this obedience of Dauid A general rule of reuenge Like wil haue like The Law of Nature a good argument Other particulars in Nature of dogs horses panthers and men Lawes in Jndia The Law of God in the old testament giuen to the Iewes and examples there to perswade this obedience Against Accessaries and Iustifiers of Traitours A notable pattern of Obedience is Dauid and his example a sufficient glasse to looke in Particular Lawes against murderers and Mutiners Lawes and examples in the new testament The opinion of the fathers after Christ the dutifulnes of our first Christians towardes their wicked gouernours The Ciuil Lawes against al abuses touching a Prince in fact in purpose and intent in his coine c. Executions and experiments of Ciuil and Christian Magistrates against such disorders and outrages OVT OF THE FOVRTH SERMON A Rule of Chrysostome necessary for Preachers Decrees and authorities out of the Canon and Popish lawes against murder Three kinds of murder The Popes sayings doings contrary to his decrees borowed out of fathers The verdict of Iohn Caposius against Pope Innocentius verified in the rest of the Popes The savings of Pope Nicolas and others presumptuous against Princes The sayinges of Aug. Steuchus out of the Popes Register for the claime of an vniuersal dominion ouer al the west church The special claime made of Spaine England c. A Seminary or School of Englishmen at Rome erected long since The doings and practise of Popes agreeable to his owne proud sayings and brags The plagues and iudgements of God against these proud priests of Rome and their factours and. Adherents The periury of Papists notably punished by Turkes The Turk better in this matter of faithfulnes then the Pope The hand of God vppon Popes by themselues one vppon another Athenians Romans are mouÌ„ting Eagles but plucked The monster in Pope Iulius time a figure of this monstrous Popedome Popes enemies to Fraunce and yet Fraunce a friende to Popes OVT OF THE FIFT SERMON THE vnthankefulnes of people against Magistrats Lawes of Canutus Edgar and Alured Richard the first and others in England Disobedience against the Lawes in England England subdued by Iul. Caesar Danes Saxons and that cheifely by discord and treachery of our owne countrimen A terrible example of periury Traisons in the time of diuers Kings in England punished Treachery and prodition by an Italian in betraying Calice to the French Auncient practises of English Rebells for the defense of their Popish religion and yet frustrated vain A concubinary Priest and traitour made a Martyr of the Popish people in England Welch prophecies defeated Traisons of Bishoppes Abbats Priors Minorite Friars Monkes and Priestes in England and some executed in their best habit of Religion New traitors for the Religion of the Pope in the time of K. Henry the 8. K. Edward the 6. and of Queene Elizabeth rebelling rising but had alway a â—al an euil end The Queens maiesty foloweth the example of her Ancestors in this Realme resisting the pride authority of the Pope OVT OF THE 6. SERMON FOrreine examples in Fraunce and Flaunders The law of Conscience the last and worst witnes and tormentour of murderers and Traitors Of the trembling and terrour of an euill conscience in this Act. Dogges Fishes Swallowes rauens al creatures terrifie astonish a murdering and guilty conscience The conclusion of the first part of Dauids reply against Abishai 2 The second part is Dauids Protestation in himself detesting that fact with the reason annexed that god hath waies to kill Saul at his pleasure and therfore he wil not take vpon him gods office in that behalfe Death common to all and of the late mortalitie among vs. The vanity of this world and end of all flesh wee are all the naked image of Hippocrates Infants and yongest must die The great personages Saul and such Princes must dy by one of three kinds of death set downe by Dauid and vnder that his diuision manie are comprehended The death of persecutours and traitours Their brauerie and bragges against the godly but all in vaine Examples thereof ould and fresh in memorie No Eloquence can saue from death The Pope that deliuereth others out of purgatorie and by battle Bul killeth Princes cannot deliuer himself froÌ„ death whereof he is warned by his owne ceremonies and it maie appeare by the end of many Popes speciallie euen in the very Act of their rage against Princes Albeit these wicked men must die as Saul did yet the godlie delight not in their death no more then Dauid did in the death of Saul
of the people continued stil at his deuotion making his confession vnto God by the thrust of a sworde and by shedding his innocent blood was made pium morris sacrificium a sacrifice and a Martyr to God But Blacco the Captaine that first rushed into the Church made the people in that holy place to shed blood euen in the first entraunce of the Church was first of al murdered as a sacrilegious man towards God and a Parricide towards his King the people afterward repented them of their rashnes tooke this Canutus to be a Saint What should I speak of others rather wolues and vipers dogs then men who thus brutishly deuise say and do against the Lords annointed Is not this woluish foxy generation yet aliue Haue they not doe they not stil practise against our Soueraign notwithstanding the examples of Gods seuerity in al times and countries neither looking backward toward the punishmeÌ„t passed in Iury in Italy in Greece in Flanders in France in Hungary in Denmarke and here in England neither looking for-ward on the iudgements to come And what is the cause Onely this in Tertullian Bonus vir Caius Seius Ju Apoâ—â— sed malus â—antùm quia Christianus Item alius Ego Luciune sapientem virum repentè Christiaâ—um factum defero Caius Seius is a good man but he is an il man only because hee is a Christian man And another saith and confesseth Lucius to bee a wise man but sodenly made a Christian man the one they cannot but praise the other they tel as newes of dispraise I say with Tertullian They praise chose things that they know they dispraise those thinges that they knowe not and that thing which they doe knowe because they know not they doe corrupt and man Our Religion is forsooth a cause of their rebellion therefore our Countrymen at home are our enemies Is this newes to you You knowe my Brethren that it is an ould grudge an auncient offense and scandal You know many shal be Offended with Christ Matth. 10.1 Pet. 2. Matth. 21. Luc. 2. You knowe the Scriptures Christ shal bee the stone of offense and the rocke of scandal The stone cast away of the builders and Priests set to be the ruine resurrection of many Christ and Christes annointed haue this portion the inheritaunce of the Crosse euen for Christes Crosse sake The Kinges of the earth bande themselues Psal 2. and the Princes are assembled together against the Lorde and against his Christ Psal 3. And againe How many rise against mee The Prince and the Prophet haue this lot King Cyrus had displeasure of the Babylonians for defending Daniel his religion They say the King is become a Iewe he hath abolished Bel killed the dragon slain Priests and they flocke together to the King saying Giue vs Daniel or woe will kil thee with all thy house In Histor Bel. Daniel likewise is laide waite for by the Princes and nobles he is complained of to Darius because they found him making praiers and supplâ—cation to his God As Daniel so the rest of the Apostles and Prophets and why Serpens hostis est contrarius veritati Daniel 6. In Ezeâ—â— Homâ— Actorâ—â— as Origen replieth The Serpent is an enemy contrary to the truth Which of the Prophetes haue not your fathers persecuted smdâ— blessed Stephen and therefore was stoned The Propher Icremy was mocked continually stricken of the Priest Pashur Cap. â—0 Dorotheâ—â—â— in synopsi Origen in Matth cap. 13. and in the end murdered and in AEgypt stoned by the people Esay for the truth was cut in peeces by his countrymen Zachary for the truth was slaine betweene the Temple and the Altar The Thessalonians for the truth suffered euen of their owne countrymen 1. Thessal cap. 2. And Origen maketh this coniecture that Paul preaching euery where yet hee prenched not at Tharsis in his coutry Sciens Propheram experteÌ„ esse honoris inpropria patria because Paul did knowe that a Prophet was not honoured in his owne countryâ—â—◠〈◊〉 for this cause the Apostle forsooke Israel and said Act. câ—â—â—â— Because you cast vs out iudge your selues vn worthy of euenlasting life behold we turn to the Gentils The Gospell could haue no place miracles could take no effect in Christs countrie whereof he complaineth in his Euangelisles Mat. 13 Math. 6. Luc. 4. Matthe we Marke and Luke I speake not this of you dearelie beloued whose zeale in Religion is knowne and I hope will continue and increase more and more but I speak it with griefe of minde by this common practise and experience oftimes fearing our countrimen that euen now begin to reuolt in hart and a great number in bodie who withdraw themselues from our Church from our Sermons and Seruice and Sacramentes and from their obedience tâ— God their Prince and from all pierie towarâ—s their Pâ—â—iaâ—â— and Country Christ banished daily conspiring and all for Christ and his Gospel whom they would banish and like Herodians extinguish among vs 〈◊〉 but if he be banished it is no shâ—â—le for vs to be banished with him It is he to whoÌ„ we must cleanâ— by life or by death It is his cause her is able and willing to defend it He is our friend and Protector against at traitours and enemsies whereof now by order I must speake as followeth in the Text. As Dauld hither to hath made a prohibitioÌ„ to Abishai The third part of D. politick Resolution and also hath protested for himself saying The Lord keepe me for laying mine hands vpon the Lordes annointed So now he goeth forward with his politick and prouident resolution beginning here I pray thee take now the speare that is at his head and the pot of water and let vs go hence and so foorth as you may see in the eleuenth twelfth verses this is the third part of Dauids aunswere and of my diuision In which part as many good notes may be made and many pointes of doctrine may bee gathered as Dauids humble request to Abishai and his poliey in taking away the spear and the pot for considerations and the drowsines of the enemies so I rest only vpon this common place the Prouidence of God that threefold taken out of the circumstaÌ„ces First out of the person of Saul Secondly out of the person of Dauid and Abishai A triple prouidence of God Thirdly out of the circumstaunce of the place where they were and of the state they were in at this time Sauls person ministreth occasion to intreat of the protection of Princes of the singular prouidence of God which is a reason forcible to penswade all euill and obâ—â—inate men Gods singular prouidence and care of Princes that they intermeddle not against them of whome the Lord hath fueh an extraordinary special care sâ—nd it is a woonder to see and to heare bowe man not regarding this carefull and watchfuley of the