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A03851	A view of the Romish hydra and monster, traison, against the Lords annointed: condemned by Dauid, I. Sam. 26. and nowe confuted in seuen sermons to perswade obedience to princes, concord among our selues, and a generall reformation and repentaunce in all states: by L.H.; View of the Romish hydra and monster, traison, against the Lords annointed: condemned by David, I. Sam. 26. and nowe confuted in seven sermons.	Humphrey, Laurence, 1525 or 6-1589.	1588 (1588)	STC 13966; ESTC S118809	105,796	218

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 shoul● 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 asleepe● 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 poin●● of popery in the Romish Religion two principall parts and peremptorie pointes corrupt Opinions and outragious Actiōs 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 seruāt 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 Lu● 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 ● 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 Ed●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 cōsent 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 ● 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 cānot 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

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 ●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 moūting 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 ●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 frō 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

by succession as Priestes had the charge ministery of that heathenish Religion It offended also the Iewes so that Christians for their Religion were tormented and good Father Symeon Archbishop of Seleucia was accused to Sapor the King Quasi Regni Religionis Persarum proditor as a spy and a betrayer of the Realme and of the Religion of the Persians reueiling the secretes of Persia to the Emperour of Rome Soz. libae cap. 8. and so was imprisoned and put to death with an hundred Christians The ground of these violences or rather vilanies is Religion But there is a difference betweene the true and false Religion The Religion of Ieroboam was a false and caluish Religion contrary to the Religion of the house of Dauid and therefore he made two calues of goold the one in Bethel the other in Dan made Priestes of the dregges and rascalles of the people 1 King 12. commaunding them that they shoulde no more sacrifice at Ierusalem in the house of the LORD and persecuteth the Prophetes and the professours of the true seruice of GOD. And this was a pretense of Religion But the Religion of Ezechias and of Iosias Kinges of Iuda was good Religion 2. Chron. 29. 35. to pull downe Images and all Idolatrie to restore the Lawe and the Bible of GOD and the true vse of the Sacramentes What other Religion is the Reformation of Queene Elizabeth then this of these Kinges And if their reformed Religion was commended by GOD and of al the godly why should the Religion now receaued from GOD and restored by Queene Elizabeth be condemned May not I iustlie say to the posterity of cruell Saul as Ionathan saide to his Father Saul What harme hath our Dauid doone 1. Sam. 19. more then oulde Dauid then Ezechias then Iosias did Why then will you sinne against innocent bloode and slaie Dauid with-out a cause Why dooth the Popish Saul of Rome the Supreme Vicar of CHRIST persecute the annointed of God and the handemaide of Christ Surely it is hee and none but hee that is Abishai in name The Pops is Abishal in name nature and in deede I saie the Romish Abishai that is the Father of bribes and giftes by corruption a taker and giuer inueigling and perswading the Potentates and people of the world to rebell and to murther the Lordes true annointed to rise and to take weapon against their owne naturall and lawefull Prince It is hee that blesseth and consecrateth with holy water and incense a sworde In defensionem S. Romanae Ecclesiae for the defense of the holy Church of Rome and for the reuenge of the Popes enemies and that in the solemne feast of the Birth of Christ which hee fendeth abroade as a present to some most Christian or most Noble Prince for the protection of his Catholicke Church against the true Catholicke faith of Christ which is not without a mystery C●r● Rom. Eccele lib. 1. Sect. 7. Fog●●rat hic pontificalis gladius potestatem summan● temporalem à Christ● Pontifici eius in terris vicario collatam i●xtae illud● Data est mihi omnis potest as in caelo interra E●alibi Dominabitur à marivsque ad mare This Pontifical sworde doth signifie the supreme temporal power giuen of Christ to the Bishop his vicar on earth Mat. 28. according to that saying Al power is giuen vnto me in heauen and in earth And in another place You shall haue dominion from sea to sea Behold what a fisher of men Peters successour is that fisheth for the dominion of all the woorld all is fish that commeth to his nette where with he draweth to himselfe that which is properly and truely spoken of Christ by Dauid vnles hee will also haue that which followeth That al kings shal adore Psal 72. and worshippe him and that his kingdome is eternall and before the Sonne But he wil prooue in the ende to bee that foolish fisher in Theocritus that dreamed he had caught a golden fish and waking he got not so much as a frog It is that Abishai that likewise scattereth abroade in Lent his consecrated golden roses to some Princes and also sendeth to the captains or stāderd-bearers of the Church of Rome Ibidem in C●rem his banners and armour likewise hallowed at a masse It is he that sendeth souldiors signed with the Crosse against Christian Emperours as against Frederike the Emperour who dooth signify to the King of England treasons conspiracies against him Jn Hem. 3. The practisers whereof being beseiged Matth. Paris were accompanied with Fryers and by them receiued the signe of the Crosse against him pretending the authority of the high Bishop by his Apostolicke letters ac praedictae mortis exhaeredationis nostrae summum Pontificem Greg. 9. sic asserunt incentorem affirming that the Supreme Byshoppe of Rome was the author of his disinheritaunce and destruction This Byshoppe of Rome taking occasion of the absence of Frederike being nowe in the seruice of Christ against the Turke as well to perfourme his vow in visiting the holie land as also to please the Pope notwithstanding this his daungerous viage and humble obedience he tooke from him his land in Apulia and Lombardie And when Frederike sent letters vnto the Pope of the honorable peace betwixt him and the Soldan wherein hee was forced to surrender vnto the saide Christian Emperour Ierusalem whereof he was crowned King and many other cities and wished him to publish that great ioy vnto all Christendome and to thanke GOD for that glorious victorie hee refused it and cast awaie the letters excommunicateth Frederike graunteth the Crosse and the crossed warre-fare against him as against an Infidel and Turke who at his commaundement fought valiauntly against the Turke Hee gaue out also at one time this false Alaram that he was dead and the souldiours of Germany and France that returned from the holy land hee put to cruell death that they should not tell the truth all which things wee may read in Carion Cuspinian and in Abbat Vrspergensis Lib. 3. And here the Author exclaimeth not without cause Who rightly considering such factes Ann. 1228. dooth not lament and detest them which seeme to bee signes and certaine prognostications of the ruine of the Church Greg. 9. The same Gregory by letters priuilie desireth the Soldan not to yeelde vp the holie land vnto the Emperour but as an enimie to kill him Cuspinian Against Friderick whosoeuer would fight had a pardon a promise of life euerlasting He about that time cōmanded to bee sung Salue Regina But beholde more faith charitie in the Turke then in the Pope for whē the Soldā had receiued letters from the Hospitalars Tēplaries how Friderick might be taken he detesting this treasō sent the letters vnto Friderick said vnto his own Counsailers Ecce fidelitas Christianorum Behold the fidelity of Christians A vile and