for Mordocaies sake he will bee revenged of the whole nation but pretend's publique good Ester 4. â—5 it is not saith he for the Kings proffit to suffer them Herod is pleased in seeing the daughter of Herodias daunce and therefore Iohn Baptist's head must pay for the musicke Neither could the innocency of the man saue his life but Herods byrth-day most become the day of his death The Church mournes when Tyrants are borne and the Godly fast and pray and weepe when the wicked feast and play revell Herod hath sworne and therefore religiously will keepe his vowe Iohn Baptist must dye O superstitious hypocrite noe necessity caused the to vowe nor is their any to make thee keepe it To doe good at all times necessitie comaunds vs to doe mischeife at any time noe necessitie compell's vs. In this thou art religious but to keepe Herodias they brother Phillips wife that never troubles thy conscience Hypocrite strayne out guats and swallow camells Soe Lewis the eleueneh of France would not sweare by the Crosse of Saim Loro of Angiers but any other oath he would take and hauing broken them kisse the leaden God which he wore in his cap and all was well his conscience was quiet Assuredly what pretence soever men make he that liue's in any open sinne without remorse and repentance hath noe religion in him Superstition may posesse him and guild him without true wisedome and devotion cannot secure him within Demetrius the Silver-smith pretends religion to stop the doctrine of Saint Paul Yet couetousnes his priuate proffit was the end of his vproare and for that cause he gather's together a factious troope of persons interressed in the same crafte and comodity Act. 19. 24. 28. with a greedy acclamation saying Great is Diana of the Ephesians Now all these might and did pretend causes to extenuate the haynousnes of their facts nay perhaps to justify them altogether for there is noe act but hath his cause and be it neuer soe fowle put 's on a fayre vyzour but none of these can cleare themselues to haue any other impulsiue cause then the corruption and praevarication of their ownevile natures They cannot say that either necessitie to prevent some imniment danger or to procure some certaine or probable good excited them to worke neither can they justifie themselues with such an expostulation as our Duellist here doeth saying what haue wee now done Is their not a cause They must therefore confesse their actions to be grounded vpon ambition pride vayne-glory malice envye or some other oblique and crooked cause and soe to be sinfull censurable together with all such as shall hereafter resemble them CONCLVSION 2. A Second Conclusion from hence deduced is that necessitie supplie's the place of an ordinary calling and warrants the vndertaking of any action for the avoyding of a certaine mischeife either to the state where wee liue or the true religion which wee professe WEe see in nature that when the eye waxeth blynd the hand grope's the foote beat 's for way and the eare by listening seeke's to guide the body right and to supplie the place of an eye Soe the eye where men are deafe and dumbe borne apprehend's by signes and sends back her owne conceptions by a visible kind of language One member supplie's the place of an other in service of the whole body neither doth the head where reason reside's find fault with the comunitie of partes and exchange of their portions The mouth in case of necessitie think 's noe scorne to become a draught and purging place to the stomack by vomit neither doth the stomack in case of necessitie refuse meate that is sent vp by glisters Nature makes vse of any parte in any office for preservation of the whole man from ruine In the reasonable faculties of the soule the jmagmation stand's in stead of memorie by begetting newe Ideas in braines that be inclyned to be ouer-hott and drye and the memorie supplie's the defect of judgment by following former presidents where the brayne inclyne's to ouermuch moysture and all parts bringing intelligenc to the reasonable soule the Governesse of all shee reject's none before examination nor censure 's any for doing the office which belong's to an other whilst the other is defectiue and this doth not neglect it 's proper function Soe that the soule hauing neede of all maks vse of all for the comon benefit In-soemuch as if the foote by tripping giue 's her warning of that which the eye should haue seene she doth not therefore neglect to looke out because the intelligence come's from a blynd guide but therefore she looke's out to see if the foote say true or noe soe let 's the eye see it 's owne fault in the dilligence of the foote The Apostle vseth this argument to perswade the Corinthians to vnity 1 Cor. 12. 21. 22. 23 24. shewe's that there is a fellow-vse or neede that one member hath of anotther and that likewise their ought to be a fellow care one for an other 1. Cor. 12. 25. and also a fellow feeling or compassion of common afflictions one with an other And since euery member partak's with the head and whole body 1 Cor. 12. 26. in paine or pleasure in houor or dishonor therefore it concern's euery member to looke to the preservation both of themselues in perticuler and of others in generall Because noe member can say they are absolute in themselues and haue noe needs of another The eye doth not see for it self alone but for the foote and whole body It concerne's the Eye therefore to watch that if the eare by accident should be negligent or lett slip a remarkeable observation which concernes necessarily the whole body that the eye might be in stead of an eare and giue notice to the soule by some visible motion And thus wee see the eye steadfastly fastned vpon the speaker or any other object keepes the imagination from wandring and makes the eare more attentiue to the voyce and apprehensiue of the meaning And soe whilst the eye takes a napp or in the darke when it cannot see it concernes the eare towatch for it selfe for the eye for the whole body for though it be true that the eye cannot heare nor the eare see yet there is some such affinity betwixt all these members in their seuerall operations as inables the one to supply the defects of an other Nature hath ordinarily made the tongue to speake to the eare but God extra ordinarily did speake by the tongue to the eye Act. 2. 3. and knits all in a perfect and happy society As wee see in the elements though nothing be more opposed then the fyre and water yet they are mixt in the ayre which is hott and moist the fyre is hott and dry and the ayre is hott and moist Now though the ayre and fyre be diuerse yea meere contraries as the one is dry and the other moist
of their authority agayne which serue as publique and notable instruments commanding all men to take notice of them and to obey them as publique executors of the lawes Soe the King saieth most excellently in the beginning of his speach made to the Parliament the 26. of March 1621. that the end why Kings are appointed of God is to put the lawes of the state in execution These are the executors of the law which is the will of the state wherof they are heads and when they doe their owne wills against and not with the will of the state that is the law then they become private persons in those perticulars because they cease to be executors of the law as Kinges ought to bee Kinges as his matie saith most excellently are married to the people by lawes the capital breach of law only is adultery in this case admitting a divorce as wee see those members are cutt off from the Kinges spouse the Comonwealth which by rebellioÌ„ treasoÌ„ proue themselues to be members childreÌ„ of an adulterous generatioÌ„ bastards no sonnes legitimate Now every man whither priuate or publique is a member of the Common-wealth wherein hee liue's and soe hath noe power of his owne body to dispose of it this or that way especially to hazard it in a single Duell or the like without licence And the more high excellent emnient the person is the lesse absolute liberty hath he in disposing himselfe and the more interest hath the Comon-wealth in him Because wee see every member claymes more interest in the head hart liver lungs those principall parts then in the rest for if any of these bee missing dissolution followe's to the whole body if any be defectiue a generall decay and consumption ensue's but if the body loose a toe or a finger or a foote or a hand or an eye or a tongue the losse is not soe great the danger not soe desperate Now then for any man to hazard his person in a single Duell without manifest necessity is to comit violence to the Comon-wealth and to rend a limbe from the fame I call it necessity when he is assaulted or when he beholds the Church ot State assaulted all which he is bound to defend by the law of nature Nam ex sole defensione oportet bellum justificare naturaliter And defensio priuata est juris naturalis multo magis publica Soe wee may defend the law and religion wherein all men haue equall interest against all invasion of power or policie and all actions done in the behalfe of these are actions of defence and justifiable by the law of nature otherwise not Cain is the first Duellist wee find in ye world Genes 4. he kill 's his brother when he should haue ben his brothers keeper Noe cause of necessity prouok's him on but malice and envie Soe that when God come's to examine arraigne and condemne him for the murther though he can churlishly say to God Am I my brothers keeper yet cannot he say with our innocent combatant what haue I now done Is their not a cause Simeon and Levy bretheren in evill make a kind of party against Hamor and Shechem and second each other both in the plott practise but being questioned by their father for this villany though they alleadge a kind of seeming reason and say should he abuse our sister as a whore Genes 34. yet that very reason argue's their action to proceede from pride malice and revenge and not from reason or religion or any other cause of necessity for reason and religion and necessitie would rather haue required their liue's that they might by marriage haue made amend's for their sin violence offered to the virgin all possibility whereof was now taken away by this rash act of the young men Who therefore could not justlie say to their angry father in their owne defence what haue wee now done was there not a cause â—â—ab kills Abner and Amasa both after a base and bloody manner David behold's both with greife but dares not punish either of them the Text adds the cause hee was but new setled 2 Sam. 3. 39. and the sonnes of Zeruiah were to strong for him Envie and malice were the impulsiue causes of Ioabs treachery soe that when he fli'es to the hornes of the Altar as challenging the priuiledge of Sanctuarie and is by Salomon commaÌ„d according to Davids former charge drawn from thence by violence and slayne that blood might haue blood he cannot say in his owne defence as David here doeth what haue I now done Is their not a cause To come to other actions done by priuate persons to priuate and indirect ends howsoever the publique good were pretended KOrah Dathan and Abiram conspire against Moses and Aron and whatsoever shew they make to reduce things to good order in the State Church yet it is manifest that pride ambition and disobedience were the bellowes which kindled that fire in their harts For the Church and Comon-wealth were gouerned by Gods law and direction and noomutation like to ensue except it were wrought by themselues and therefore because it was not the true fire of zeale but of faction which stirred that combustion God consumed them with the fire of his wrath and the earth opened her mouth Num. 16. and swallowed them vp Saul makes a rash vowe as Ieptah did before pretending zeale in doeing it and such zeale in executing the transgressors thereof that his owne sonn must dye a sonn that deserued soe well of the father soe well of the Comon-wealth hauing that daie with his armour-bearer chased the Philistims and obteyned the victorie only because he tasted a litle hony It was no zeale but superstition that made the vowe there was noe necessitie to keepe it but a necessitie compelled Ionathan by eating to refresh himselfe hauing ouer spent his spirits before in the battell The maker of the vow was blame worthy the breaker blameles superstition made it necessitie brake it The maker soe his owne lawes bee obserued care's not for Gods conscience must bynd other men to him but noe conscience can bynd him to God For wee see he that is soe carefull here to kill all as he bind's the people by a vowe to doe it a while after can spare Agag and the best things notwithstanding the comandement of God and think 's he sinneth not in transgressing Gods will willfully and presumptiouslie though he condemn's his sonne to death for violating his vnjust will ignorantlie Haman the favorite of Ahazhuerus because Mordocay will not bow the knee 2 Sam. 14 wheÌ„ that bubble passeth by waxeth angrie and think 's himself wronged and dishonored All the reverence which his flatterers followers and the whole state and courte giues him doth not soe much please him as this single neglect of one man vexeth him For Pride like Couetousnes lust and all other vices hath nothing except it hath all Therefore
with in the dint And now hoping the greatest storme is over wee behold the deliverance with more admiration then many seeme to haue done which stood neerer the danger And to this end wee write that you may read and see and applaud your owne felicity with ours giving glory to God and due honor to the instruments he hath beene pleased to vse in this great and miraculous worke of his mercy For to this end the Lord doth all his workes of wonder accepting well of their service who set forth his praise with the best instruments that they haue denyeing only to be gratious to such as neglect his workes or passe them by without observation and threatning to punish such severely who rob him of his glory either arrogating it to themselves or imputing it vnworthily to others Herein therefore I do but with Moses salute God with a songe having past the red sea looking back vpon it with admiration and beholding Pharoh Exod. 15 and his Hoast in it with pitty and astonishment I doe but with Deborah call vp Barak Iud. 5. to the triumph And with the Virgins meete David 1 Sam. 18. after his victory with timbells dances This is the true end of writing this treatise wherein if I erre in any point of Divinity History or Pollicy either in relation or application I referre my self most humbly to the favorable censure of the Church and State not being willing to commit a fault against either or having done it to defend it with obstinacy Yet before wee part giue me leaue to say that whilst I hope wee are past the danger I would be so vnderstood as a man that partly feared wee were not Warre must be proclaimed with Spaine before wee can be fully resolued othevwise our offensiue warres against the Emperour Bavaris or any other our defensiue and divertiue warres by assisting the States Generall will proue vndertakings against our selues and we running our selves out of breath will soone learne to repent our forwardnes call for peace faster then wee haue done for warre Our comings in must be answerable to our expences if wee meane to holde out for though the horse be fat strong yet if wee ride him continually without provender he will waxe weake and leane and trye vnder vs. To warre with the Emperour hold peace with Spaine is to fight with one of our hands against the Vnited body of the Catholique league assisted with both their armes of the East and West-Indyes whose force is sufficient to buy Briareus to side with them against God and his truth and from whence all the arrowes they shoote against Christenâ—ome at this present are both headed and feathered pluck off these and they hurt not And the way to pluck off these and so to make peace is to send out our Navie as wee had wont to fish for gould in their seas For our Navie is the right hand of our State of whole advantageous vse wee depriue our selves when wee warre in a cold and lame manner only with the left hand by defence by divertion and that by land where the enemyes strength lyes This is to fight and let him choose the weapon and to spend our blowes where wee see him best armed It is the Navie that weakens the Enemy by taking from him and spoiling what he gets to spoile others It is the Navie that causeth his West-Indian Fleetes to be wasted home with such a guard as eat 's out the gaine of that voyage though they returne safe but vndoes him if they miscarry It is the Navie that payes the troopes by land fills the Ercheaquer faster then all the customes projects vnprofitable peace can invent though it would study to exact still from the industrious Marchant even to his vndoeing Witnesse our former warres in Yreland where there was no boote for the souldiar as in other parts may be found if at least wee serue them and theirs as they did vs and ours in the Paltz but all the Army was to liue as wee say vpon the penny And yet for all that expence in Yreland Scotland Sweden Denmarke France in the Netherlands and all other partes where Antichrist advanced his counterfeit crosse against the crosse of Christ how rich was the subject how plentifull all provisions how quick all trades trading how well stored was the Ercheaquer with Coyne the mint with Bullion the Tower and all other places with ordinance ammunition plate hangings jewells The expence and waste of treasure since meerely vpon the old stock without any equall annuall and certaine supply the raysing and allaying of golde and silver without curing our generall waÌ„t which Spaine withall the Enemyes warres our Elizabeth had could not make her do as her Epitaph tells you is a witnesse of this truth beyond contradiction If therefore wee haue warres with the Emperour Bavaria heare my folly and pardon it wisemen may proffit by the prating of fooles let vs haue it with Spaine If wee defend the States and our selves with the lef hand let vs fight with the right hand also and put Spaine to his fence let vs vse both hands or neither let vs to conclude fight in good earnest or lay downe the bucklers and submit our selves to their mercy who will without question cut our throates in kindnes with the vtmost expedition as they haue done our freindes vpon the same tearmes Consider I beseech thee advised Reader how the Navy which I spake of lyes now idle a great continuall charge to the state the Marriners the Officers the Seamen of all sorts waste away are vnprofitable forget their professions when if these were imployed as I haue spoken they would recover our reputation be a security to our selves a terror to our enemyes make vs againe Masters not only of the narrow seas but of the Ocean beare their owne charges helpe to defray others In which regard giue me leaue to proceede in playing the foole I suppose if the East-Indian Fleete and stock were thus imployed we would soone finde the odds of the adventure neither the state nor the Marchant would repent them of the change although wee bought spice at the second hand or spent lesse then wee doe as other Countryes vse or permitted voluntaryes to trade in those seas Perhaps the Hollander who findes how hard or booteles it is to sayle against the sunne sees his owne fault and begins to steere a contrary course and though he still hold his ground and trade in the East yet finding it a drayne for the treasure of Christendome it is probable he will lessen his dealing there and seeke out Westward for gould and silver to feede that couetous Easterne climate as wee may doe also if wee be not too wise to learne and too proud to follow when they goe before But some object that what wee had wont to get alone in the West South-sea the Hollander now meete's withall and takes vp by fore-stalling
vnited in one A Prince the gainefullest object of fraude against private persons the subjects of falsehood and such as professe the art to deceiue Princes A most affectionate louer of the body of Her whose bewty was layd but as a baite in his way whereby the Fisher-man of Hell and Purgatory angled for the destruction of his soule against his owne flesh and blood and the passions of loue with all other advantages which cunning and practised seducers could take and vse for their owne ends and purposes for him I say so encountred and surrounded to breake loose and to conquer is a worke of such wonder and so aboue humane conceite that God alone shall reape the glory of it being farre beyond the powre of man to doe or almost to beleeue now it is done The principall instrument that God was pleased to vse in this great worke was his Highnesse owne wife heart guided by Grace and summoning vp all those helpes which that Grace had formerly instilled into him by hearing and reading the word of God his fathers writings and observing the variable passages of the times besides the speciall provision of all kinde of arguments and armour of proofe for the minde but layd in before by his royall father I intend not to detract from other helpes that he found by the dayly mementoes of the Duke and other faithfull Attendants who stood Sentinell continually for his safeguard but this I say the cheefe was his owne and lockt vp in his owne bosome and this God gaue him immediately because God would haue the immediate prayse come vnto him For if wee consider the whole course of the Story and see the issue how contrary to all expectation it hath beene convayed and carryed and at what a contrary quarter it is now arriued from the point of the Compasse by which it set out all men must needes see the naked blessed arme of God and ascribe the whole glory to him for bringing our Prince home and that so soone and that vpon such tearmes hereby also wee may playnely discerne that many of those actions of his in Spayne and of his Majestyes in England at which our feares were frighted and tooke the Alarum were only false-fires raysed to bring him off with safety whome they had too suddenly ingaged vpon presumption of the Spanish faith which is too vniversall to bee trusted And now he is come home see how he carryes himselfe as one truly taught of God jmitating our saviour For since his returne hee hath done the greatest worke of wisdome and goodnes within mans power to accomplish reconciling vs to his fathers favour who before seemed to be halfe abandoned to his fury in that wee might not be acquainted with his will nor trusted with his Counsells He hath also broken downe the partition wall betwixt the English and Scottish Nations and hath made vs one people in affection to the King for civill as to God for religions respects Yea now religion is secured and those jealousyes taken away what Englishman doth not imbrace a Scottishman as his brother when they haue all one God their father and all one Church their Mother There is no bande like that of religion which tyes vs one to an other vnder one King to Christ and in Christ tyes vs all to God He hath also renued the fellowship and communion betwixt the King his father and vs his poore subjects in the high Court of Parliament where he sits dayly to heare suits and petitions to mediate betwixt the King and people to direct animate and incourage the true faithfull and honorable Patriots to suppresse the petulancy and rectify the exorbitancy of any Prevaricator that durst appeare in that presence Iob. 1. like an other Sathan amongst the children of God to suggest evill to seduce from good to cast in demurres occasions of delay or scruples and questions occasions of division as I thanke God there are none that will or dare What benefit can be like this what thanks and prayse can be sufficient to extoll it Is not this a temporall salvation Is not he a temporall saviour a true Iosuah that doth thus Yes yes the Lord is pleased to call Kinges Gods and himselfe a King to borrowe of Masters Fathers and temporall deliverers the propriety of words and phrases to fit our capacity and to shadow out his workes of wonder It is no robbery therefore to assume some of those flowers to adorne and inrich the actions of such persons as he hath before adorned inriched with inward grace to imitate him in the discharge of their dutyes and the high places he hath called them to and therby to set them off and shadow them more illustriously to the life by comparison Not as if there were any degree of comparison betwixt God and man the infinite and finite his worke being for soule and body mans for the body only his for ever mans for a time his absolutely and of himselfe mans in and by him but that there is comparison betwixt the laudable and Heroick actions and vndertakings of men amongst themselues some approaching neerer then other to the greatest though all yea the neerest stand aloofe off at a distance vnmeasurable by any rule but the infinite mercy of God in the alsufficient merrits of Christ. Psal 45. This Psalme is composed of Salomon a type of Christ and may be applyed to algodly princes who are the deputyes of Christ and jmages of God Gird thy sword therefore vpon thy thigh ô thou most mighty Prince with thy glory and thy Majesty and in thy Majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekenes and righteousnes the armour the ornament of Kings and Princes and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things Thine arrowes are sharpe in the heart of the Kings enemyes whereby the people fall vnder thee Thy throne ô Prince is for ever and ever the scepter of thy Kingdome is a right scepter Thou lovest righteousnes and hâ—test wickednes therefore God thy God hath annoynted thee with the oyle of gladnes aboue thy fellowes And if any frontles Enemy dare be so impudent as to take exception at thy by past actions at that present change which they finde and feele in thy prosperous proceedings thou hast ô most excellent Prince a sheild in the Armory of David to defend thy selfe thy honor and reputation whilst thou maist justly say with him What haue I now done Is their not a cause I should now conclude this gratious and glorious act with presenting his Majestyes person and performances to the eye of observation But Kings like the sunne must not be gazed vpon with open eyes It shal be sufficient to touch vpon some perticulars where I may walke safely as I hope without exception His Majestyes entrance into England was as showers of raine into a fleece of wool so falling gently received as gently The inauguration promised a happy progresse It could not be discerned whither he entered by