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A08271	A christian familiar comfort and incouragement vnto all English subiects, not to dismaie at the Spanish threats Whereunto is added an admonition to all English Papists, who openly or couertly couet a change. With requisite praiers to almightie God for the preseruation of our queene and countrie. By the most vnworthie I.N.; Christian familiar comfort and incouragement unto all English subjects, not to dismaie at the Spanish threats.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1596 (1596)	STC 18604; ESTC S106050	48,283	77

by this fearefull hoobub or whether wee may securely followe that which wee haue hetherto practised without reformation of our liues It is found by experience that the bodie may be most sicke when it feeleth no griefe at all and a man that is most secure may bee sodainely striken as appeared by Herod in his greatest pride a citie most carelesse and wicked may be confounded as Sodome Gomorrha Seboim and the rest when they least suspected perill were destroyed with fire from heauen so may secure kingdomes as was the secure world by the floud and therfore much more may daungers bee feared when there are apparaunt causes which yet cannot vpon a suddaine viewe so plainelye appeare as when they are duelye considered Our superficyall thoughtes of the causes of this rumour of warres may bee compared to the iudgement of a Phisition who looketh neither vpon the partie grieued nor vpon his state and what counsell then can he giue to the patient And therefore saith the wise man A disease knowen is in manner cured and as it fareth with the diseases of the bodie which not beeing preuented may suddaynly kill the person so a common wealth diseased by vnpunished vices and ouermuch libertie standeth in danger of sudaine subuersion These causes therefore ought to be both knowen and cured Fore-seene mischiefes hurt not so much as such as come vnlooked for and therefore wisedome premeditateth by discretion before what maie happen afterwarde But securitie which deeming all partes of the bodie well may bee suddainely touched with a feuer which groweth by reason of the superfluous and grosse humours that haue growen by fulnesse of the best daynties So it falleth out with common wealthes which foster securitie beeing full of Gods blessings whereby they become sick of superfluous abundance loose the true taste of the best things and so fall sodainly Euery thing vnder the Sunne hath a change a time to grow and a time to wither a time to bud and a time to be ripe when a common wealth is risen to the top of all glorie then it is good that all men but the magistrates especiallie looke into the superfluityes and diseases thereof and hauing duelie considered all thinges to seeke how to roote out the superfluous and to foster and cherish the best humors not onelie in a generalitie but euerie priuate man in himselfe least euerie thing hauing his course freely in the commonwealth the violence of type mischiefes breede a loathing therof as it were in God who cannot abide such negligence in anie commonwealth especially of Christians no more than hee coulde abide Adam and Eue in paradise after they had sinned and surely the fire of the auncient disobedience of them lyeth yet couertly couered with the ashes of drousie securitie not onelye in euerie priuate man but in euerie calling so that it seemeth our commonwealth howsoeuer it seeme to go in gouernment and true religion before other nations requireth a kinde of necessitie that this fire bee quenched before it flame foorth to the consumption of our whole nation If therefore wee looke to continue safe howsoeuer slender account wee seeme to make of these Spanish vauntes wee must looke both euerie man into himselfe and the magistrates into the whole state so no doubt if they be not partyall in theyr searches they shall finde in euerie man in his particular examination of his owne deserts as also the magistrates in their generall viewe of the whole cause inough whereby it cannot bee denyed but God may without iniurie vnto anie one not onely fraie vs with this hoobub but suffer vs to tast of the swoord of this ambitious and blasphemous nation To begin the examination although I bee the vnworthiest to call men thereunto yet in regard I am the worst I cannot but acknowledge and in deed I finde that in my selfe whereof woulde God all others were free namely sufficient cause why I wretch should bee rouzed vp and pursued by this pernitious generation if I should flatter my self to deserue to be freed from their tyranies if I looke vnto my disobedience to God I should deceiue my selfe and yet mine imperfections perchance no farther seene in the world than of such as seem to stand in this dangerous time as men worthy for their honest zealous religious behauior in their owne conceits to be iustified by the mouths of all their neighbors And therefore surely it will hardly appeare that we haue deserued to be punished if wee looke no further thā into other men so let our selues passe like the scape goats for if euery one couet to find the cause in others and prie not into himselfe there wil be neuer a free man yet all free for euerie man will condemne all but himselfe and yet though none will condemne himselfe hee shall bee condemned of all And therefore let euerie man acknowledge himselfe worthie to bee punished so all men shall be condemned by theyr owne mouthes and seeke no further witnesse And this no doubt is the waie to finde the cause why God hath called this nation agaynst vs as Ionah was founde guiltie by casting of lots For doubtlesse if wee seeme to seeke the cause of this daunger without our selues we doo wrong to the iustice of God who is not as enuious man that will strike one for an other but the soule that sinneth shall die Lo then it is sinne that draweth on this hoobub to pursue vs euen to our subuersion if wee repent not of our sundrie euills Wee are called Christians and our aduersaries Antichristians but if wee looke into the fruites of both a man may bee in doubt who is lykest Christ by the outwarde fruites And surely for that wee haue the fire with vs and yet shewe no heate for that wee are true Gospellers in knowledge if wee shewe our selues hypocrites in practise it must needes bee graunted that our profession wyll not excuse vs then must our fruites approue vs or reproue vs. It is as true as the Gospell is true that wee haue the Gospell and as true it is that there is no true faith without it and no saluation without faith in Christ which faith if it bee not liuely and bring forth not onely leaues but fruit it is not onely lyke the figge tree that Christ cursed but a tree that shall bee hewen downe and cast into the fire so shall wee stande in greater daunger in our account hauing receiued much than the aduersarie that hath receiued lesse And therefore it had beene better that England had neuer receiued the Gospell nor the title of Christians rather than not bee seene practisers of Christian religion whose effectes are not as the religion which is in the aduerse that are doubtlesse Antichristians for that the one is in spirite and truth whose obiect is Christ onely the other outward carnall and altogether false making more Mediatours than hee the one is cherished in the heart

masters holynesse despise mee his grand chiefetaine or the least Captaine of his vnder mee who are to pursue heretiques that haue robbed him of his honour and glorie of his power and authoritie holynes and credit whereby hee is become of lesse estimation among the kingdomes of the world The supposed slanders which England hath wrongfully laide vpon him the dishonour and demerites which his locusts haue condignly receiued in England of latter times for their treasons conspiracies and murderous practises are pretended to bee so high a blemish vnto that painted beast that by no meanes the quarell is to bee qualified but by open force and forcible inuasion that can take no better successe by deuillish deuises It is not vnknowen to all how many secret practisers euen of our owne vnnaturall countrymen and others hee hath sent to subuert the quiet of our state pretending openly the winning of men to the church of Rome wherein and not else where as they saie is saluation but couertly haue stirred vp rebellious thoughts and deeds in many which otherwise myght haue shewed themselues loyall subiectes And this generall practise hath appeared to be a deuice to steale awaie the harts of the subiects from their due obedience to our most gracious Queen wherby we might grow into ciuill rebellions within our selues and so giue him the more ease to make spoile of all And sith these secrete workers haue not nor can take no effect in their treasons but condigne reward deserued iustice wherby many haue bene rid most happilie out of our common weale and their dispatch no doubt to vs most beneficiall and howsoeuer they be enchanted by the vaine conceite of canonization and reward at Gods hands the whores deceiuing baytes their confusion is no more regarded of his holines than the fall of a drop from his nose he loueth not the name of an English man but flattereth them onely to vse them to worke secret mischiefes and that they may come to the more speedy confusion And sith I say by their secret meanes he cannot get againe and redeeme the decaies that the trueth of the Gospell heere receiued hath brought vpon his kingdome of darkenesse he hath sent out this hellish hoobub with his blasphemous coniurations commanding heerein aboue all the rest of his adherents this capitall King Catholique to take knowledge first of his iniururies sustayned by the English Nation who haue dispoyled him of all his Abbies Priories Monasteries other reliques of his forged deuotions and with all of our detayning of the annuall reuenues and pensions which he vsurped from vs greate summes of monie to maintayne his high abhominations and which is more that we haue bewrayed his darkenesse which he would haue the whole world to imbrace as the true light which things haue so deepelie discouered him that he will be seene to pursue vs as robbers with this peeuish hoobub the destruction of England This no doubt is the first cause that inkindleth a blinde deuotion in the king of Spaine dignified with the high title of King Catholike to pursue the matter vi armis to discharge himselfe of the truste reposed in him The other cause inuested meerelie in him selfe without hauing anie eye at all on anie other end is the desire and thirstinesse wherewith he hath been long tossed to subiect this land to his dominions for since his atchyuing the gold of India his thoughts haue neuer beene quieted but still seeke howe to increase his power and to become sole Monarch of Europe And to this his ambitious desire the holie father bringeth more stubble to maintayne the fire to serue his owne turne the better to support his blacke kingdome well shaken by the thunder of the Gospell which hee by the Spanish Inquisition the court of hellish furies endeuoreth but in vaine to extinguish And forasmuch as England hath been the best benefactor in ignorance to the Sea of Rome and of whose sweetnes this Catholike king hath some thing tasted and finding it plausible for his stomack to digest he lōgeth for it as the purple whoore wyth child of ambition longeth for her owne glorie which ambitious thirste can hardly be quenched as appeareth till the throats of more of his inuincible troopes be stopped with the waues of our narrow Seas The remembraunce of whose former successe in the same may argue in vs if we retire to our helping God an assurance of the like issue of his blinde ambition now Which maketh him swell in regard hee seemeth to be master of land and sea in both which hee is deceiued and yet pricketh him forward to equalize his territories with the great and large scope of the pristine Romaine Empire which extended it selfe ouer three parts of the world and yet could not satisfie the ambition of Casar and Pompey whilst the one could abide no equal the other no superior The Pope for his part wil be king of kings and will accepte neither superiour not equall in causes either diuine or humane the Spaniard priuiledged by his title of king Catholique coueteth superioritie ouer all the rest not only of the Popes vassall kings but ouer others therefore he wrestleth hard for Flanders and other prouinces of Germanie he practiseth subtilly for France suborneth impiously Ireland and audaciouslye threatneth England But no doubte as the fountaine of ambition yeeldeth no better licour than thus to vsurp other mens territories kingdoms so it will affoord no better end than it did to the Lacedemonians and Athenians the one being master of the sea the other of the land whose glory as it tooke beginning by ambition so by the same they were brought both to confusion in the end and therefore need wee the lesse to feare this ambitious hoobub wherein wee seeme to be pursued first for that which belongeth to God himselfe namely all glorie power vertue veritie sanctitie and holinesse which this beast of Rome vsurpeth to himselfe and woulde inforce vs to yeeld it vnto him from our louing God whose cause wee shall defend and not our owne in resisting his chieftaine this Catholike king secondly seeing it pursues vs for our owne kingdome countrie lands libertie wiues children and liues thinges peculiar vnder God to our Queene and vnder her vnto our selues he hath no colour to chalenge anie propertie title interest or hope in them and therefore in defending them we shall preserue our selues and that which is meerely our owne And yet therunto will not that beast intitle him Thus we see the causes that moue this loud hoobub against vs in the meere desire of the Spaniardes But forasmuch as we are in dutie and christian policie to looke backe into our selues and to take surueigh of the occasions which may bee argued to bee in our selues why God in iustice should moue this Antichristian host against vs hauing the title of Christians and to examine whether wee deserue to tast of the plague which is threatened