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A01472	Great Brittans little calendar: or, Triple diarie, in remembrance of three daies Diuided into three treatises. 1. Britanniæ vota: or God saue the King: for the 24. day of March, the day of his Maiesties happy proclamation. 2. Cæsaris hostes: or, the tragedy of traytors: for the fift of August: the day of the bloudy Gowries treason, and of his Highnes blessed preseruation. 3. Amphitheatrum scelerum: or, the transcendent of treason: the day of a most admirable deliuerance of our King ... from that most horrible and hellish proiect of the Gun-Powder Treason Nouemb. 5. Whereunto is annexed a short disswasiue from poperie. By Samuel Garey, preacher of Gods Word at Wynfarthing in Norff.	Garey, Samuel, 1582 or 3-1646.	1618 (1618)	STC 11597; ESTC S102859	234,099	298

anathematized but neuer others Can Gods Church be wonne or woed with swords and armes Indeed Phillip of Macedon led an Army against Bizantium and said that hearing of the beauty of the City he was come to make loue to her but the Otator tels him It was not the manner of Louers to wooe with instruments of warre but musicke The City of Gods Church will be wonne with no warlike Engines the weapons of our warfare are not carnall saith Paul The Church of Christ was neuer planted by blood except passiuely and so Semen Ecclesiae fuit sanguis Martyrum The blood of Martyrs the seed of the Church But these parties would build vp their Church with blood actiuely as if lately they had passed from Mount Gerizim to Mount Eball to curse and consume all It is a weighty and worthy worke to plant the Gospell the glad tidings of peace and no better way to doe it then by prayers and peace but in this worke the Papists euer vsed the wrong toole labouring to make men Haeredes vineae exhaeredes vitae Dispossesse them of life here howsoeuer hereafter If their arts faile their armes follow fit souldiers for Bacchus who is described with Buls hornes Semper paratus ad feriendum Alwayes prepared to strike and fight but it is a pretty saying of one Nemo ita tenetur inter duo vitia quin ei exitus patet absque tertio No man is so included betwixt two vices but he may get out without making a third If these men were so confident of the truth of their Religion and none more confident then the ignorant why did they not follow the Counsell of truth it selfe if they persecute you in this City flie into another yet they had no cause to say so truly why did they not forsake all and flie to Rome there were their hearts what did their bodies here or if with him they would first kisse their Father and Mother before they would follow Christ had a naturall affection to the things on earth yet why were they not willing with the Apostles to submit themselues to the higher Powers in bodily obedience but in spirituall seruice to say with Peter and Iohn Whether it be right in the sight of God to obey you rather then God iudge ye But how comes it to passe that such Lay-Papists of small knowledge and lesse grace should take vpon them to be reformers of Religion Were they extraordinarily called to this worke as Ehud was to be a Sauiour to Israel in destroying King Eglon or as Iehu in killing Ioram and the stocke of Achab had the Lord said vnto them as to Ioshua Arise goe ouer this Iordan feare not nor be discouraged for I the Lord thy God wil be with thee c. They write indeed that God and man had concurred rather the diuell and his Angels had consented Iudas heart Esawes hand and Achitophels head had all conspired Concurrêre homines sed quales quippe profani Impuri infames scelerati sanguinolenti Horribiles medici funesti seditioss Tales demissi coelo censores A crue combind but who prophane impure Infamous wicked such as all would cure With blood and fire Phisitians that with powder Would blow vp all diseases cry yet lowder Heralds from heauen these sent the Church to plant If God sent such then God good men doth want If such be good in hell ill men are scant But the Lord gaue such no Commission for such wicked and him that loues iniquity doth his soule hate the Lord will iustifie no wicked men nor imploy them in any wicked action But these had their Commission from the deuill and were at his command set to this worke and might say with Chrysalus in Plautus Insanum magnum molior neg otium Ver●… possim rocte vt emolier A mad peece of worke I goe about And feare I shall not doe it as Iought And because they failed in the performance of it therefore manus manum fricat one Traytor bem●nes an other alas vnfortunate Gentlemen grieuing that it was their ill fortune to haue their hopes frustrated for it is very true which 〈◊〉 obscrues conspiracies discouered will not be credited or will be impayred by report 〈◊〉 occisi● principibus vnlesse the Princes the obiects of their mischiefe be slaine which if at any time it come to passe and the conspirator escape how highly he is magnified imitating a people of whom I haue read who worship Iudas for a God because he did betray Christ to the Iewes to be crucified by whose death comes saluation Thus this Catholicke cause should haue produced a Catholicke curse vpon our Common wealth but when they cursed vs God blessed vs defeated the deuises of the wicked dispersed these fogges and mistes of Sathans spirits and made it manifest to all the world that both their cause and course was bad Causa mala est fructus edidit illa malos For a corrupt tree bringeth forth euill fruit and therefore were they cut downe with the axe of Iustice and were not Gods mercy aboue all his workes cast into fire CHAP. IX Fourthly the Ends. WE are come to the last act of this intended Tragedy the ends of it which is almost without end In their expectation though frustrated in the execution they had set vp Hercules Pillars Nil vltra no humane malice or mischiefe could reach any further Hoc Scelus Abyssus ex Abyssu natum A boundlesse prodigy sprung from the bottomlesse pit I will not nay cannot fully finish this taske onely touch it Magnum opus hoc moueo maior reliquis datur ordo Perficere in captum This point I onely touch and leaue the rest To them who are with greater gifts possest And so many learned men by Preaching and Printing haue laboured in this worke and still out of the store of matter this Subiect affords will annually spend their breath in the declaration of this deuillish mischiefe and deliuery by Diuine mercy that I may forbeare any large discourse And truly if all of vs were as some say the seauenty Interpreters appointed by Ptoloms were put in diuersas cellulas ●aman sio diuisi eadem scriptitarunt into seuerall Roomes yet all separated they writ the same things which S. Ierome thinkes a fabulous figment So if all of vs were put apart heerein we should agree and sing with Ananias Azarias and Misael Blesse yee the Lord praise him and exalt him aboue all things for euer for he hath deliuered vs from the hell and saued vs from the hand of death and deliuered vs from the furnace and burning flame of powder euen from that fire hath he deliuered vs. Therfore cōfesse vnto the Lord that he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer wherein for better order sake to touch the Tragicall ends and dismall effects of this confused Babell a monstrous and multiplying Hydra of

●lla Like the noise of thornes burning vnder the Pot as Salomon Eccle. 7. 8. And therefore these fulminations were againe confirmed by Pius Quintus his successour Gregory the 13. Yet all these plots instar vaporis euanuerunt vanished away like smoake proceeding out of that smoaky Kingdome of Antichrist and her Crowne and person by the fauour of the Almighty vnder whose shadow shee was protected safely defended and reigned forty and foure yeeres foure moneths and eight dayes a Virgin Queene and died in peace in a full and glorious age so beloued so honoured and so esteemed of her subiects at home and Princes abroad as neuer any Queene more so that it was verified of her truly which the Psalmist of Christ typically Why did the Heathen rage together and the People imagine a vaine thing The Kings of the Earth stand vp and the Princes assembled together against the Lord and against his Annointed but he that dwelled in the Heauens did laugh them to scorne the Lord had them in derision for there is no wisdome neither vnderstanding nor counsell against the Lord. And this our deare and dread Soueraigne whom the Lord of mercy still preserue hath beene subiect to sundry dangers by wicked Traitors as his Maiesty doth witnesse it himselfe not onely since his birth but before his birth euen in his Mothers belly but especially to two most horrible Treasons this in Scotland attempted by the bloudy Gowries the fift of August and the other in England the fift of Nouember the Gun-powder Treason from both which barbarous and monstrous proiects the latter no age can parallel the like the great King of all Kings in his great mercy graciously protected him that both King subiects may say with Zachary Being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies we may serue him without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the daies of our liues So that our King may vse the Psalmists words When the wicked euen mine enemies and my foes came vpon me to eat my flesh they stumbled and fell The Lord did reward them according to their deeds and according to the wickednesse of their inuentions Therefore giue vnto the Lord O ye sonnes of the mighty giue vnto the Lord all the glory for your deliuerance CHAP. III. TREASON hath beene alwaies accounted an heynous sinne and by Iustinian ranked next to Sacriledge Crimen laesae Maiestatis proximū Sacrilegio c. Treason is next to Sacriledge the one a robbery of God this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fighting with God so odious that the sole intention without action or execution is death for Voluntas reputatur pro facto in causa proditionis The will is accounted for the deede in Treason Principis in rehus voluisse sat est And therefore there was a statute made in the reigne of Edward the third That whosoeuer shal imagine the Kings death are guilty of rebellion and high treason This statute toucheth all Iesuites who are perduellionum signiferi the ring-leaders of Rebels to animate them to rebellion vnder a colour of religion If the meere intention of Treason be so capitall what then is the Action Clamitat im coelum vox sanguinis The voyce of blood cryes to heauen for reuenge VVhat doth the voyce of royall bloud spilt by the hands of execrable Parricides destroying Gods owne image the Lords Annointed May I not call such as Polycarpe called Marcion Daemonis filiolos the Deuils children and say as our Sauiour did to the Iewes Ye are of your Father the Deuill he hath beene a murtherer from the beginning Nay the very Heathens void of Gods word did greatly abhorre Traitors and seuerely punish them Traitors among the Greekes were brought to Delphos and they did offer them a quicke sacrifice to Apollo The Persians did bury such quicke and the Romanes brought such to the publicke Theaters where they were hewed in peeces per gladiatores by the sword-players Cn Pompeius the Great made a Law as Pomponius relates it to punish Parricides destroyers of Fathers or Mothers in this kinde To put them into a great vessell or tun or such like instrument inclosing with them in it a Dogge a Viper a Cocke and an Ape and to cast them into the Sea VVhat then shall be done to the publicke Parricides destroyers of Kings and Countries Our Lawes of England hath prouided for them a fit punishment which is this A Traytor conuicted hath his punishment to be drawne from his prison to the place of execution as being vnworthy any more to tread vpon the Mother earth and that backward his head downe-ward as hauing beene retrograde to the naturall course of obedience after hanged vp by the necke twixt heauen and earth as deemed vnworthy of both his priuy parts cut off as vnfit to leaue any generation behinde him his bowels and entrailes burned which in wardly conceiued and concealed Treason his head cut off which imagined such mischiefe and last of all his body quartered as a prey for the birds of the aire and as it was said of a traiterous Iesuite Sic bene pascit aues qui malè pauit oues In life he had no care the sheepe to feede And now his carkasse serues the fowles in neede The Apostle Paul saith That they that resist shall receiue to themselues iudgement The greeuousnesse of iudgement should be proportionable to the heynousnesse of the crime for if the law requireth an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth life for life what death sufficient for a Traytor that kills a King a murderer of many who is worth ten thousand of vs so that hee cannot be sufficiently punished of man but God also will punish him who is a reuenger of such sins Neuer did I reade of any Traytor that did euer escape both the hand of man hand of God Looke vpon Absalom a double Traytor to his Father and his King his end sutable First his chiefe Counseller and plotter Achitophel hanged himselfe twenty thousand of his adherents were slaine in battell Last of all Absalom by the hand of Heauen was hanged vp by the hayre of his head in stead of an halter vpon an Oake tree in stead of a gallowes or gybbet Sheba that traiterous Rebell lost his head for his treason against Dauid King Ammon the sonne of King Manasses an euill King was slaine by his seruants who conspired against him slew him in his owne house but this bloudy fact of King-killing was so odious to the people of the land that they slew them al that had conspired against King Ammon Treacherous Zimri slue his King but the people hearing of it made Omri King to take Zimri who fired the Kings house and died in the fire Bigthan and Teresh who sought to lay hand on King Assuerus were both hanged on a tree The Scripture is plentifull