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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68974	Humble motiues for association to maintaine religion established Published as an antidote against the pestilent treatises of secular priests.	Diggs, Thomas, Gentleman.; Balmford, James, b. 1556, attributed name.; Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618, attributed name.	1601 (1601)	STC 3518; ESTC S116947	18,476	46

of your dayes syth it will not be auailable for the attayning of his desire The mightiest in succession as your Maiestie knoweth are they whose alliance kind red and confederacies are for the most part with papistes whose faction beinge great strong and mighty abroad it standeth your excellency vpon somuch the more to wraken it at home and thereby to prouide an inwarde strength against an outwarde force whereas otherwise your state shall seeme to depend vpon the will of your successor amost vnsure foundation perilous syth so easily it may be altered with ambition and the desire of a kingdome which knoweth no kindred with the which whensoeuer it shall be enflamed theire forraine forces shall not be so dangerous vnto your maiestie as the partie they haue within the realme if it be of strength whom the feruent desire of a third thinge will ioyne to the forraine in such a knot of indissoluble society as in all probabilitie will proue perilous and dangerous to your highnes But this lawe established your successors shall perceaue themselues so cut off from all stronge partye within your land that they shall thereby be greatly discouraged from any such ambitious attempts For taking view of your whole subiects they shall finde either protestants of religion their most mortall enimies if they attempt any thinge against your maiestie or els protestants of estate men that will not alter theire present contentment for an vncertaine innouation or els papists of religion who being but few in number discontented and disarmed without either followers or furniture will rather daunt their spirits with theire nakednes then encourage them with their power The estat of your subiects being brought to this passe it is in your maiestie by a better learned and more painfull ministery and by seuere discipline as it were by motiues more effectual mightily to increase the first dayly to diminish the second third and to propulse the relapsses of either to the great increasinge of the church of God the great strengthing and safegard of your estate and to the saluation of infinite soules Syth then this law can breede no perill to your highnes at home but wil be the ground cause of much strength and securities vnto your Maiestie it remaineth to be considered how that mightie faction of papists will disgest it abroad Theire power assuredly it can no way increase and their will I perswade my selte it cannot exasperate being already at the very worst and extremest poynt of discontentment But if it did I knowe right well that the fortitude and magnanimitie of your kingly minde would little esteeme it and vtterly despise it And if it should come to pase in your Maiesties dayes that the princes of Meshech and Tuball the forces of Gomer the house of Toggarmah out of the north should confederate togeather as it is rehersed in Ezekiell chapter 38. and recapitulated by S. Iohn and should say one to the other we will goe vp to the land of vnwalled villages to them that be at rest which dwell safely dwellinge without wals and hauinge neither barres nor gates even to the land which bath bene tost with the sword and is now gathered togeather of many nationes which haue gotten cattell and goods dwell safe we will goe togeather to spoyle a praye to gett a booty to take away siluer and gold to carry away cattell and goods and to haue a great pray yet whensoeuer they shall put the same in execution it is prophesied and promised that the sword of the Lord shal be vpon them in all the mountaines of Israell By this lawe lett vs make our selues an vn mouable mountaine of Israell for the sword of the Lord wil be vpon his enimies not in the sandes nor in the seaes but in the mountaynes of Israell If we be neither hott nor cold but luke warme and so rather frozen then feruent when the Lord shall tast vs in to his iudgment he will voyd vs out of the mouth of his maiestie But if we be a mountayne of Israell the sword of the Lord wil be with vs against our enimies with pestilence blood will he plead against them stormes rayne and haylestones and vpon all that great people that is with them Thus will he be magnified sanctified and knowne in the eyes of many nations they shall knowe that he is the Lord. This cōstancy this zeale in the Lords cause this perpetuation of hi truth to our posteritie is a part of duty acceptable to God it is a meane as it were that draweth vpon vs his great singular and manifold blessinges which notablye appeareth in that excellent testimony that God giueth of the integritie of Abraham gen 18. 19 knowe this also saith the Lord that Abraham will commaund his children and his houshould after him that they keepe the way of the Lord that they may doe Iustice and Iudgment that the Lord may brings vpon Abraham the blessings that he hath promised I doubt not but what the divine maiestie knewe herein of Abraham the father of the faithfull he knoweth the same likewise of your highnes a mother in Issraell a motherly estate that excludeth not perpetuall virginity and an heauenly estate that includeth eternall felicity I doubt not I say but the Lord knoweth this also that Queene Elizabeth will commaund her subiects and her seruants after her to keepe the way of the lord to do Iustice and Iudgment that the Lord may bring vpon Queene Elizabeth the blessings that he hath purposed This law and commaundement of God to keepe the way of the lord to maintayne and perpetuate his truth and doctrine to our posteritie is that which we most humly and feruently desire at the hands of God and of your Maiestie It stan deth with his glorie we craue it of his goodnes It standeth with your safety we craue it of your wisdome FINIS By Thomas Diggs Gentleman To the most Reuerend Archbishops and right reuerend Lord Bishops of both prouinces I am occasioned right reuerend Fathers or rather prouoked to publish this petition longe since penned but whether deliuered accordings to the pretence I know not by the Papists their packing to make Burgisses for this Parliament by their earnestnes against the former Bill for xi●d to be had of such as without convenient cause should not be present at least on Sundayes at divine service or preaching of Gods word in some Church or Chappell by their publishing beokes mo than a good many pretending a controuersy betwene secular Priests and Iesuits but intending to make way at least for a toler-ation of popery which they hoped and so gaue out throughout the realme to obtaine by this parliament I call them papists who were so earnest against that bill For who but papists would pronounce that penaltie to be extreame plead that people are not to be compelled but perswaded to come to Church doubt whether lay men may meddle in any Church matter But their