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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

well but God turned all to the best and mery it was for the Lande and the King when theeues fel out for Ansley detecting Carton and Carton Ansley it was determined by the priuy counsel that it should be tried in a Combate in the which at the length Carton was wounded and throwen downe euen now at point of death cōfessing his fault was drawen to the place of Execution as Polydor testifieth I haue entred into a long and large fielde and mind to goe out of it ●●pish ●●actises a●●inst Reli●●on in England and onely now to declare howe our Countrymen in former time haue been bewitched by Popery and haue attempted to erect and prop it vp by treachery and yet al ended in vanity The Pope hath stil practised by many but not preuailed though they came in his name and sometime with his consecrated ware and armed with his consecrated Crosses his Agnus Dei and other holy blessed stuffe Trebellius Pollio no wiser indeede then those heathen men who beleeued that those that caried about thē the image of great Alexander expressed in siluer or gold shuld haue al things fortunately fal out vnto them as they would wherein Erasmus toucheth the Bishoppes of Rome In Chiliad 1. Cen. 10. Nechodie desunt qui gladios in bello fortunatos huinsmodi nugas pollicentur Principibus Ther be some now a daies which promise to Princes swords other trifles happy fortunate in war which haue notwithstāding an vnhappy end and there he much more marueileth that any mā can beleeue such subtile merchauntes There was such a flattering Papistical Preacher William Fitzosbert otherwise called Long-beard W. Long-bearde who in his Sermons entised the people to rebel against their King Richard the first whose Theme was takē out of Esay Cap. 12. You shal draw with ioy waters out of the wels of saluation A faire allurement whereby hee got after him many thousand followers as fond people wil hearken to the whistle and daunce after the pipe of such Popish Libertines But this liberty was seruitude for though hee fledde into Bowe-Church with his concubine and others yet it was not long a Sanctuary for him he was plucked out and by Hubert Lorde chiefe Iustice of England was adiudged to be drawen thorough the streetes R. Holinsh Et in vit● Huberti and tied to the horse tailes to bee hanged to bee let downe halfe quicke his heade cut off and his body cut in foure quarters See heere I beseech you the superstition of the people they tooke this Concubinary Priest and Traytour to be a Saint forsooth A Traytor in Popery a Martyr because his chaines wherewith he was bound wrought miracles and the woman visited the place where he was laide In sana plebs vt Martyrem diu colebat The mad people did long honor him as a Martyr worshipping his members and bones as Reliques In Wales what Superstition hath there not been Welch prophecies They were so deceiued with false prophecies that they perswaded out of Merline Leoline the Prince that hee should wear the crown of Brutus therfore took armour against King Edward In vita Iohannis Peccam They were willed by Iohn Peccam Arch-Bishop of Caunterbury to cary in their handes bookes of the Gospel as reliques All these fantasies could not saue the heads of Leoline Dauid Leoline Dauid which were set vpon long poles and erected on high vpon London bridge What a Saint was the Traitour Thomas Becket Th. Becket Traitour a Sainct of the Pope In what fauour with the Pope Alexander And yet was he in a councel at Northhampton accused conuicted of extortion robbery forgery falshood treason periury in the presence of the King of the Peeres and Prelats for some matters in his Chancelarship whereupon although he lifted on high his crosse staffe and ran out of the court councell in hast and in an heat ouer the sea to Rome yet neither the Pope nor the crosse could saue him frō the crosse of death And here obserue the vniust dealing of the Pope Alexander who canonized among the Saints Thomas the Traitour the Kings deadly enimy and persecuted King Henry the second who was not accessary nor priuy at that time to it as it fel out in proofe for when the doers thereof slipping aside to Duresme looked for great thankes of the King for that they gaue out that they had most faithfully defended him rid his enemy out of the way it is written by Polydore that Henry did take this hainous act as no benefite Angl. Hist lib. 13. but vtterly misliked it insomuch as they hearing this and hoping for no pardon ran one one way another another way by reasō of the kings displeasure died al within three yeares yet the Pope an heauy master of the King not beleeuing his Embassadours purposely sent to Rome sent into England his Cardinals for the trial of it and though the cause did not appeare yet was he compelled by oath to purge himselfe and by inforcemēt of their order to send to Ierusalem two hundred souldiours himselfe to lead an army into Syria within three years after which was perfourmed by his sonne Richard and to promise to be good afterward to the cleargy and that by an oath as some write that none after his and his Sons death should cary the name of a King but such a one as the Bishop of Rome did nominate and appoint albeit by our Chronicles Ibidem and by the practise in the tract of time no such bondage doth appear Thomas Walsingham in Richardo 2. The seditious sermon of J. Ball Priest Another seditious Preacher named Iohn Bal Priest prooueth the equality of States without any difference of callinges which made the simple people to be giddy headed His text was not taken out of scripture but borrowed out of a common prouerb When Adam delued and Eue span Who was then a Gentleman But the Epilog and conclusion of this Sermon was sorowful for himselfe being drawn hanged and beheaded at Saint Albans and his quarters sent to foure cities of the Realm There was another zealous Monk in cōspiracy with the Barons of Englād against king Iohn against his son Henry the third Jbidem who beeing no great friend to the Pope was therefore the woorse liked of the Monk Eustachius in that point more destable thē a dog Eustachius a Trayte●ous Monk for the prouerb is true Canis caninā non est nec lupus lupinam A dog is no deuourer of a dog nor the wolfe of a wolfe And yet in the war betwixt our King Lewes the French King he plaid the Apostata a rebel renegate reuoulting frō his King to another vncōstantly and perfidiously worthily called of Matthew Paris In Hypod. Neustriae per Thom. Walsing Proditor Regis Angliae Piratanequissimus being turned out of his coule into

Lord ouerlooking all their actions nor fearing the haude of the Lorde striking al such actours dare in this manner aduenture any thing against thē so guarded armes with his protection And yet alwaies there haue bin such murmurers There were that mūbled against Moses Exod. 〈◊〉 Who made thee Prince and iudge ouer vs There was a wicked Belial Sheba that blewe a Trumpet to sturre the people We haue no part in Dauid neither haue inheriance in the son of Ishai ● Sam. 20. There were that murmured against the seruaunts of God sent vnto them and beat some and killed others and stoned some others yea they saide Mat. 21. Let vs kill the heire All this winde shaketh no corne Triticum non rapit ventus Cyprian de simplicitate Praelatorum the winde carieth not away the wheat The annointed of the Lord remai● neth stedfast be he good or be he had either he tarieth in his good pleasure or hee is taken away in his displeasure Saul is a sleepe and yet he is saued and God s● ruled Dauid and so bridles Abishai that the one would not and the other could not set vpon him beeing at his head O maru●●● oa●● ful●iesse of our God ouer the gods of the earth yea ●●godly gods With what pro●●●ēce was Moses pres●rued kept close for three mouthes Exo. 2. throwen into the water and yet drawen out ●●t●d by Pharaoh and yet fostered by his daughter● oftentimes ass●●lted by Is●●●lit●● euer ready to stone him oftentimes murmured at and entried by AEgyptians Exo. 15.16 Num. 11.12.16 by Israelites and somewhat by his owne sister as wee may read in the booke of Exodus and in the booke of Numbers Our Dauid standing nowe in reuersion but afterward put in possession was euermore both a priuate and publick person kept safe because the Lord would haue it so The Lord saith he Psal 18. Psal 38. is my rock my fortresse They haue spred a net and they haue sought my life and yet this dead dog this little flea hath gods passeport and warrant for himselfe Psal 89. I haue found Dauid my seruaunt with my holy oile haue I annointed him therefore mine hand shall helpe him and mine arme shall strengthen him the enemy shal not oppresse him nor the wicked hurt him This comfortable warrant reacheth vnto all Princes that fear God It is recorded in an oration made at the request of Queen Elizabeth in Bonsinius his story of Hūgary Dec. 3. lib. 4. We must vndoubtedly beleeue that al power is giuen to men of God who can withstand the wil of God Cyrus an infant was cast out of dores Romulus with Rhemus was cast into Tyber Seruius Tullius was borne of a seruant and captiue mother and yet they coulde not bee staied or stopped by any violence but that they must obtaine those Kingdomes to the which they were borne and predestinated The prouidence and predestination of God are vnchaungeable and vnmoueable both for comming to Principalities and for keeping their holds which is so certaine that neither force nor frand neither ●●iue action of Diuels nor conspiration of men can breake or interrupt this appointed course of God Constantine the Great writeth vnto Sapor the King of the Persianes to be fauourable to Christians So● lib. 2. cap. 15. assuring hin that God would be therfore merciful vnto him and that hee himselfe ha● for his faith by the help of God subdued and subiected vnto himselfe the whole Empire of the Romanes Vulcatius Gallicanus God spake sometimes in the mouth of the heathen as of Antonine the Emperour saying Wee doe not so worship God nor so liue that Cassius a Traytour should ouercome vs. The assuraunce that was made vnto Vespasian in this doctrine of Prouidence was woonderfull when two noble men were conuiceed for conspiracy against him aspiring to the Empire he did nothing else but warne them that they should surcease affirming Principatum Fato dari Principality to bee giuen by the decree of God These men he did not onely famliarly admicte to his Supper but also the next day in the shewe and play of Fensers or sword-plaiers he set them for the ●once about him Sueton in Tit. Vesp and the or namentes weapons offered vnto him by the fighters he gaue to these aduersaries to bee looked vppon and handled of them no doube but assuring himselfe that they could not ne durst strike Saxo Grammaticus declareth how Canutus and Charles and diuers others went about to kil the King of Danes Waldemarus who both with others their complices beeing familiar in the court and neere vnto the King a person and one of them alone sometime with him attending vpon his chariot A nesa●●● confession of Gods pro●●dence its prese●●●in● Princes and many times hauing a coate of maile might haue sodenly dispatched him but hee by Gods prouidence alwaies by one meanes or other was preserued and as one of the conspiratours called Magnus in his examination confesseth that it was Non sorte humana sed diuina opera by no lucke or cunning of man but by the work of God and wōdreth how he did escape being so many times and by so many waies intrapped And when the King asked him Sarc 〈◊〉 Danie l. 1● whether hee did meane indeede to set vppon him and oppresse him he aunswered stoutely Nec animum sibi nec arma ●ihilque quod tanto f●einori attinuit excepth Deinutu defursse That there wanted nothing to him neither intent nor courage nor weapons nor any thing that pertained to such a wicked not but only gods beck assent In Flanders Count Lodowick Maleanus distressed by a rebell Arteualda of whose ende I spake of before and by some souldiors of Gaunt being of that conspiracy sought for he was hid by a woman in a poore bedde where her little children did ly This woman was woont to sitte at the Counte his gate for au almes one of the souldiours tooke a candle and looked narrowely in euery corner and after his search returneth to his fellowes and saith Let vs goe wee leese time here is none besides her little ones so as the author writeth this woman as another Rahab saued the Earle Ita sola voluntate Numinis seruatus Comes qui haec omnia nudiuit verba so by the onely will of God the Earle was saued Jac. Meyer lib. 13. Annal Fland. Chr. li. 20. and heard al these words God did also prouide marueilously for Charles the fift as Massae us witnesseth It is well knowen his owne courtiours sometimes by poyson sometimes by other treason went about to destroy him but the Lorde presented him King Henry the fourth him many conspiratours and this one ●aspitu●y was most notable Hen. 4 King of England In the night when hee should goe to bed the enemies had laide there in the strawe a galthrop which had Th. Wal. three long sharpe pikes that when hee shoulde

he ministreth vnto him a refection or confection or rather an infection Saxo Gran●● lib. 16. His● Danicae and willeth him to sleepe but it was woorse then Tardemáh the deadly sleep of Saul for they returning in again found him to be sine voce speachlesse and dead Semblably Iesuites murdering Phisicians these Iesuites haue promised vnto the people of England in secret corners shutting vs out of dozes sospitatē al health of body and soul but it was sospitate that Popish illusio that not only pickt our purses but is able to kil our souls shal these be nourished amūg vs by whō the people haue bin bewitched the realme of many a subiect robbed the church troubled the state indaungered our gracious Queene hazarded I am no perswader of crueley but of seuerity reasonable and requisit in such a case that England may be rid of them You may remember the general Lawes of Emperours against those that do not communicate Aug. cont epist Parmenian c. 7. lib. 1. with the catholick church but are gathered together in secret seueral cōuenticles We haue by these meetings conferences many Nouices made in seminaries beyond the sea many mo in od Seminaries at home where they haue learned a new Catechisme a new religion new lessons of rebelling of poisoning other new kindes of murdering These younglings of the Pope will prooue to be whelpes of the Woolfe Let them not grow for such wolues cannot agree with the sheep of Christ You are the Pastors of our flock mark the complaint of a seely sheep in the greek Epigram I giue milke with my vdders to a woolfe against my will the folly of the sheepherd compelleth me but after he hath been fed vp and growen big by me he wil first turne against me his nature cannot be chaunged by any curtesies Therefore before this Citation come be zealous for your God for his law otherwise the day of the lord wil come vpō al the Cedars of Libanō be they neuer so high Esai 2. vpon al the Okes of Bashan be they neuer so strōg vpō the moūtains towers I meane with the Prophet the greatest the strongest the highest shal be shaken in that day This Citation shall be set vpon the dores of all Clergy men that enter in by Simon Magus ●o Ckeargie ●en either be idle bellies that will not either be ignorant and cānot preach the word of God either so couetous that with Balaam had as leiue curse as blesse our Israel But these sinners as vntouched in my Text I passe ouer and yet it wil hasten Gods Citation This Citation wil reach to all the people of this Land where shall be laid to their charge many thinges many articles To the people and to all but I will touch that onely which may be gathered out of this Text. A general sleep A general slumber● and securitie a drowsines and dronkēnes of the land For as here not only Saul but Abner his whole host are in a sleepe Euen so wee al from the greatest vnto the lowest liue in security which I fear wil be our vaine A foul fault in rulers or captains in this our life which is a continual warfare It is not for Agamēnō or the ruler to sleep the whole night Homer J●liadae Plutarch ad Principem indoctum Epaminondas alone was in watch ward vpō the wals when the Thebans were feasting If the King of Persia had euery morning his chamberlaine saying O King rise and haue care of thy businesse which Mesoro-Masdes willeth thee much more ought our gouernors be carefull in publick affaires of the church and the common weal in such things as our God hath cōmanded The law of Canutus was that if the souldior appointed to watch to keep his standing did so sleepe Saxo. Hist Dan. li. 10 that a man might take his weapon or apparel from him sleeping he had discipline and punishmēt for it was thought vnworthy to be in the Kings seruice Many Princes and Kings yea and Kingdoms were taken and destroied by security Isbosheth sleeping in his bed at Noon 2. Sam. 4. Iudic. 5. by the sons of Rimnon was smitten in the fift rib and Sisera by Iael and Scipio Affricanus and others What realme hath not bin by security conquered Grauely Cato as Austine alleadgeth out of Salust against Catiline De Ciuit. Dei lib. 5. cap. 12. amongst other vices of the Romans as riot couetousnes ambitiō hath these words We folow idsenes and pleasures at home and hunt after mony and fauor of men and therefore inferreth Eo sit vt impetus fiat in vacuam Remp. hence cōmeth it that euery man may enter into the country as voide and open for euery man Balthazar at a feast rioting with his Nobles concubines Dan. 5. lost his Kingdome which passed from the Chaldeians to the Medes and Persianes Troia being drowned and buried in wine sleepe was taken spoiled Saxo Grāmaticus writeth that ther is nothing more pernicious and hurtful in war then carelesse quietnes dissolute negligence bould and presumptuous confidence So Frotho a captain besieging the City Peltisca by munition inuincible by this policy took it For he fained himself to be dead and in token thereof his funerals were solemnised Saxo. Hist Dan. lib. 1. whereupon Vespasius the King persuaded that this was true in his security sports and plaies was slain So we read of Hannibal and his souldiours as by manhood and paines they ouercame the Romanes at Cannae so they lost the victory by their effeminat and loose behauiour afterward So Britany or England was this way conquered by Iulius Caesar Saxo. li. 1● as before I touched and in England Herald son of Godwine caused the army of the Danes to be slain in the night whē they were fast asleep In summe that which Bernard said of a Monk Dormientem Monachum Deo mortuum esse Marullus lib. 1. ca. 1●● nec sibinec vlli vtilem so generally we may say A man sleepy and drowsy is a dead man nether profitable to himselfe nor to others I omit other transgressions of the Land as periury discord dissentions hypocrisie in all estates and other sinnes bicause they are not touched in my Text. These and such like sins abound raign in this Land The whole body is thus diseased and sick from the sole of the foot to the head as Esay complaineth ful of wounds and sores and botches Esai 1. God forbid that we should not recouer out of this malady If wee be vncureable then must the Prophets Text conclude vpon vs as vpon Iewes Your Land is wast your cities are burnt straungers deuoure your Lande you shal creepe out of corners like wormes out of their holes Mich. 7. you shal be troden down like myre in the streetes Now dearly beloued what remedy haue we to cure our selues from these imminent daungers Iuda can haue no help from AEgypt if God bee displeased there are but two waies proposed by God Deut. 30. either the right hand or the left either life or death good or euill If you heape sin vpon sin if you turne to the left hand you dy if you repent and keepe the right hand you liue There must be the best way deuised Serpents and Eagles know many remedies to take away poison and to driue away their euils saith Origē And again in the same place Serpents vse fenel to sharpen quicken their sight Origen contra Celsum lib. 4. the Eagles take the stone Aetites foūd out for the preseruation of their yoūg ones cary it to their nest And is there no help nor remedy for vs Yes dearly beloued to return to him by repentance from whō we haue by sin departed Quisquis Deum offenderit whosoeuer shal offēd god Thoeph in Ose c. 5. he hath this only hope help left to be recōciled to him again Walk therfore sincerely in a single heart before God let rebels be subiects let Papistes with the Ephesian exorcists burn their magical masse-books let superiors oppresse no more let the cold be inflamed with zeal of Justice religion let the drowsy sluggards be watchfull against the euill day Take heed al that Saul wake not againe He hath hitherto bin cast into a deadly sleepe by God It is he that must continue him in that slūber If we wil repent he will haue mercy vpon the house of Iuda wil saue England yea the Lord will saue not by bow nor by sworde nor by battle nor by horses Ose 1. nor by horsemen but by himselfe which God grant To whom c.