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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19411	A treatise against traitors Meete for all faithfull subiects in these dangerous dayes. Taken out of the 40. chapter of Ieremye, the 13, 14, 15, 16. verses, and 41. 1, 2, 3, 4. Made and published for the benefite of the Church and common wealth of England: by Samuell Cottesford Minister and publique preacher of the woord of God.	Cottesford, Samuel.	1591 (1591)	STC 5840; ESTC S116422	48,076	146

his foote no flying ground no giuing way the one companye of Traytors with their swordes prouided for the turne the other their meate in their mouthes and the cuppes in their handes without any suspition of euill eating drinking and making merrie bidding welcome to these farre trauellers out of the coast of the king of the Ammonites where and with whome they had layd their plot for the executing of this treason But such a like manner of proceeding doe all Traytors take with whom if a man should but enter parle a while concerning magnanimitie and cowardise oh you should finde them in their owne conceites the odde men in the world like to the worthies of Dauid of whom as the holy Ghost reporteth 1. Chron. 12. 14. speaking of the sonnes of Gad of whom one of the least could resist an hundreth and the greatest a thousande But bring their manhood to the touch and you shall find all their bragging to be nothing but meere wordes and cowardlinesse white-liuered gentlemen such as in the reuenge of a quarrell holde it the best way by treachery and behinde the backe of their aduersarie to make the onset and not the worst point of their manhoode to end the matter with a sure stab without fighting a blow and after for them the best defence is foure legs are better then twayne a most horrible thing that the bloud of man is so little regarded in these dayes of the Gospell and that there should be any escape or pardon of life graunted to any one of so bloudie mindes for whom the law of God hath prouided no refuge who in their owne heartes carry the guiltines of the bloud of them to their graue Salomon Prou. 28. 17. describeth them A man that doth violence against the bloud of a person shall flee vnto the graue and no man shall stay him that is let no man pittie him nor once take compassion on him Exod. 21. 14. But if a man come presumptuously vpon his neighbour to slay him with guile sayth Moses thou shalt take him from mine alter that he may die Examples of such villanies committed we haue in the holy hystorie some in the 16. chap. 1. Kings 9. we read of Elah the sonne of Baasha who beeing King ouer Israell was by Zimri his seruant Captaine of halfe his Chariotes conspired against him as hee was in Tirzah drinking till he was drunken in the house of Arza steward of his house And Zimri came and smote him and killed him and what the end of Zimri was as followeth 18. verse And when Zimri sawe that the Citie was taken he went into the pallace of the kings house and burnt himselfe and the kinges house with him These kinds of cruell murthering men at vnwares the holy scripture condemneth of most impious crueltie in the 2. Sam. 20. 9. It is recorded that Ioab the Captaine of the hoste the cause being as it seemed in that Dauid had giuen the promise of his place to Amasa as appereth 2. Sam. 19. 13. therfore Ioab pretending peace came to him and sayd Art thou in helth my brother And Joab tooke Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kisse him But Amasa tooke no heede to the sworde that was in Joabs hand for therewith hee smote him in the fift ribbe and shed out his bowels to the ground and smote him not the second time so he died In the like bloudie manner dealt Joab with Abner pretending to speake peaceably with him in the gate 2. Sam. 3. 27. Concerning which treacherous manner Dauid left order with Salomon his sonne as is to see 1. Kings 2. 5. to the which order Salomon agreed and caused Benaiah to smite Joab hauing caught hold on the hornes of the Alter and there hee died In the like treacherous sorte dealt Absolon with Amnon 2. Sam. 13. making a great feast at a sheep-shearing whither as they his brethren the sons of Dauid were inuited by him and Absolon had giuen charge concerning Amnon to his seruants that when they saw Amnons heart merry with wine they should smite him and so they did In which acte although Amnon had done wickedly in defiling Thamar his sister who gaue Absolon any such commission in steede of publique iustice to be passed on him that he should so bloudily reuenge it as his owne priuate quarrel Some like feastes such hipocrites make and in the middest of their cups their hearts are most bloudy To omit the butchery of Abimilech vpō his brethren for the placing of himselfe in the kingdome Iudg. 9. 5. verse To omitte only glauncing wise to speake of thē the poysoning of King Iohn King of England by a Munke of Swinsthead Abbey the murther fresh in memory done by a Fryer most bloudely vpon Henry the late King of France the villanous attempt vpon the Prince of Orange To passe ouer the abhominable crueltie of the Guizians bathing thēselues in bloud in the time of the Massacer that practise against the Lord Chastillon the high Admirall of France And finally to omit to speake of Bothwell his villany not a whit behinde any of the rest in sauage crueltie for his treson against the late King of Scots And to draw to an end of this treatise wherin you haue seene layd forth the duties of faithful subiects towards their Princes especially cōcerning their outward estate and towardes all other Magistrates as also the partes and duties of Princes on the other side towardes their subiects and people And finally the manner and forme of Traytors in the execution of their villanyes whēce I am first to craue humbly of so many as this treatise shal come into their hands to be seene and read that they will especially consider the excellency of the history how it agrees with the present estate of this age vniuersally thorough out al the parts of Christendom requiring all of euery condition in the feare of God that according as they finde the truth set downe before their eyes they wil lay it to their hearts and make profite therof and with greater care of practise to proceed vnto a more full purpose of obedience vnto our Prince Counsellers and Magistrates in not only bridling their owne tongs from speaking or hearts from conceiuing ill against the Prince being expressely against the lawe of God prooued but also they will care not to giue their eares to heare ought frō others especially those runagates about the lande the Seminary men that eyther tendeth or may tend to the impeachment of the glory credite and estimation of her Maiestie and of her royall Crowne dignitie But with all their care and diligent endeuour they wold hence learne to discry these Seminaries and seedes men of high treasons that by discouering them and that in all conuenient time thereby they may stoppe the cause of any ill concerning reports or other mischiefes pretended against the present state of her Maiesty and people not giuing themselues