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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

Lorde liueth either the Lord shal smite him or his day shal come to dy or he shal descend into battle and perish c. THE SIXT SERMON THE questiō between Abishai and Dauid hath been disputed discussed and lastly out of the laws acts and monumentes of England and determined by the allegations and premisses before that it is a true conclusion that no such thing can be iustified that al such rebellions and trayterous enterprises are forbidden and punished I must now goe forward and first make an end of this first part so proceed to the second part the Protestation of Dauid for himself I should make a discourse of other countries but because it hath been by the way touched already and may be hereafter incidently glaunced vpon I wil cut it off in these few woords In Fraunce I read this same matter fitly declaring our Tert Christian Massaeus lib. 20. Ann. 1510. and much tending to this our purpose wel debated by king Lewes who vnderstanding that Pope Iulius the second now ioyned with the Venetians did attempt somewhat against himselfe and his subiectes in a Councell at Towers proposed these two questions the first whether it were lawful for the Pope to raise warre against any Prince without cause Questions proposed in Fraunce The second whether any such Prince in defense of himselfe and his Realme may inuade the first-onsetter and withdrawe himselfe frō his obedience The answere was that it was vnlawful for the Bishop but lawful for the Prince to do that which was in question that the cōstitution called pragmatical should be obserued throughout all France not regarding the lightening or thundring of any such vniust censures if any should be This determinatiō of France might be a resolutiō for thē for vs Examples to make no more of the Pope than he dooth of vs especially if hee vnlawfully vse his autority Sleidan lib. 1. Histor In Flaunders I might shew like exāples as namely of Iames Arteuillanus for the like practise against his cuntry put to death by the Citisens of Gaunt as it is in Frossard also out of Iacob Meier his Chronicle Lib. ●6 Au●talium Flandri● who telleth of many seditious men vpō the scaffold beheadded and of Lewes Wallan cōdemned and of Gertrude his wife whose iudgement was to loose her head with her husband and to bee buried in the middest of the market place with this inscription A monument of Gertrude wife to Lewes Wallan a pestilent woman who by her fraude and deceite hath brought a noble Prince to great danger the Citty of Burges into extreme calamity Although the rigour of this sentence was afterward mitigated by earnest intercession of some honourable Ladies and principal personages The same author maketh mention of one Arteualda a poore mans sonne who prospering and preuailing by his rebellion Iac. Ma●ter Annal Fla. Lib. 13. tooke vpon him lustily and loftily the person of an Earle in his golde and siluer his wines and his garments ascribing his victory not to God but to himselfe and was so blinded and puffed vp with pride that he doubted not confidently to brag that he would be Lord of Fraunce because saith hee the French-men durst not encounter with the English-men running ouer al Fraunce yet for al these brags he was slaine among his owne souldiours in the conflict at Rosebeck It is a good Morall that is there added Quem Deus punire decreuit intellectum illi aufert Whom God mindeth to punish him he bereaueth of his wits I haue one Lawe behind The lawe or testimony of our conscience Rom. 2. Quintil. Orat. institution l. 5. that is the griping and gnawing Law of the Conscience The Law written in our harts inwardly accusing vs and bearing witnesse against vs which is in steed of a thousād witnesses which alone will persecute vs seeke reuengement though al the Lawes rehearsed before should sleepe and pronounce nothing against vs. Such is the Conscience and custom of such offenders saith Chrysostome Chrysost Hom. 8. ad pop Antioc they suspect all thinges they quake at shadowes they feare euery blast and noise they thinke al things come against them And againe Such a sinner hath within him an accuser pleading alwaies against him and this hee carieth euery where with this hee is scourged whither soeuer he goeth as the Scripture testifieth that the wicked man flieth when no man pursueth Prouer. 28 As we may see in the Prouerbes and in Iob Iob. 15. Leuit. 26. Pro Roscio Amerino and in the booke of Leuiticus Which vexation Tully painteth out of the Poets and termeth it a continual domesticall fury hauing whot burning torches calling night and day for reuengement against such Parricides and murderers Cap. 66. It is the worme in Esai that shall neuer dy The woorme that sodenly smote the gourd of Ionas wherewith straitwaies it withered as Theophylact in these words expoūdeth it not absurdly This Conscience Ion. cap. 4. saith he vpon that place is the worme that maketh vs alwaies haue a feeling and sense of our sins This is that sensible moth of our bones and our hearts setting before vs our wickednes Theoph. in 4. cap. Ion● And whereas Scripture setteth downe certaine sinnes that are called Peccata clamantia which wee may reade in Genesis and in Exodus Cap. 18. Cap. 2. Cap. 5. Gen. 4. and in Saint Iames and otherwhere The chiefe and most Crying sinne is murder The voice of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto mee out of the earth For as a good conscience is the best companion and comforter vnto vs as it is written Prouer. 15. A mery mind is a continual banquet and as our Dauid did marueilously reioice in himselfe that hee did not slay Saul Euen so contrariwise 2. Sam. 15. they must needes haue an heauy hart a corrosiue and an eating canker of an euill conscience still vpbraiding them with this heynous and detestable act Nocte dieque suum gestant in pectore testem They cary a witnes against them and shal haue no rest night nor day Tertullian saith Omne malum aut timore aut pudore natura perfundit Denique malefici gestiunt latere Ter. in ●polog deuitant apparere trepidant deprehensi Sinne hath two companions followers either fear or shame feare teacheth them to hide themselues they shunne to bee seene and beeing taken they quake and tremble Shame maketh them blush Heu quàm difficile est crimen non prodere vultu Feare and shame make them not onely to seeke corners but to hang themselues beeing affraid and ashamed to shew their heads in the world This testimony of the conscience bringeth thē to these two incōueniences The inconueniences of an euill conscience to betray their fault and for sorowe or desperatenes to make thēselues away that vpon euery light occasion at the sight of any man or beast at the shaking

ad S●apulam as notorious in this leud sect of Traitours and now shall be more at large by Historiographers displaied to you The one was Clodius Albinus Sectaries in Treason 1. Albin●as Jn Sen●ro Jmperator of whō Aelius Spartianus writeth that hee rebelled against the Emperour Seuerus in Fraunce how sped he When hee was ouercome and his body was brought he commanded his head being halfe dead to be cut off and to bee carried to Rome the rest of the carcase to be quartered set vp before his owne house some ad that he willed the same carcase to be throwen into the riuer Rhodanus with his children 2. Nigrian Another rebell was Pescennius Niger saluted as Emperor by the band of the Syrians what was his end He was staine by Seuerus his head was caried vpon a speare his children who had beene entreated of the said Emperour as his owne children were banished with the Mother and after the rebellion of Albinus hee put them al to death 3. Sectaries Cassians The last was Cassius descending of the line of the Cassians the great cōspirators against Iulius Caesar as Vulcatius Gallicanus witnesseth He wrought treasō against Verus he rebelled vnder Marcus Antoninus Philosophus his delight was to be called Catiline bragging that he should be also Sergius if hee might kil Dialogistam and Philosopham aniculam naming and meaning Antonine because he was a learned disputer and giuen to the study of Auncient Philosophy What was his rewarde Antoninus himselfe was mercifull but Faustina the Empresse writeth to Antonine that if he loued his children wife hee should sharply pursue these rebels for that these mutinous seditious captaines souldiours had an euil custom Quinisi opprimantur Faustina a worthy and wise counsailor against traitours oppriment except they bee oppressed they wil oppresse And in another Epistle shee alledgeth a sentence of her Mother Faustina vnto his father Pius That hee shoulde first shew pitty to himselfe and to his owne and then afterward to straungers In fine the Senate tooke order that he should be iudged a traytour and his goods confiscated Et consensu omnium praeter Antiochenses interemptus est and by the consent of euery man excepting the Antiochians he was executed Now for that I must end this time apply this in our latter and leud daies as you think good Our learned Antonina for her owne part of her admirable clemency hath shewed pitty and mercy to many traitours our Honourable Counsail and our Lawes haue prouided against them and some of them haue had their desert by Iustice as you haue heard it should be and might be by the law of Nature by the Law of God among the Iews and also among the Christians by the iudgement of Christian Fathers by the constitutions ciuil by Emperours and Princes Christian and others You also my brethren and countrimen haue taken anoth of fidelity as the Athenians did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The oath of the Athenians and English subiects I will defend Religion holy and prophane thinges and fight for them either alone or with many I will not leaue my Countrie in woorse state but in better I will alwaies obey the Magistrate and chiefe Ruler I will bee subiect to Lawes ordained Ex Apoph Aristoxeni Pythagori and to al other Decrees set downe by the Commons and Parlament If anie will frustrate or make voide the Lawes or not bee obedient to them I will not agree but will reuenge it either alone or with manie I will obserue and reuerence the Holie Ceremonies of My Countrie whereof God be my witnesse and iudge Wee of this land doe swear and protest in the name of Christ a fidelity to God to the Prince to our country This oath must be kept you know the rule of law Nimis indignum esse iudicamus quod quisque sua voce dilucide protestatus est infirmare Wee thinke it an vnworthy and shameful thing that a man should breake that which he hath protested plainly with his owne mouth God graunt vs al to bee mindful of it To whom c. THE FOVRTH SERMON against Abishai and al trayteterous persons CHRYSOSTOM a worthy eloquent father hath vttered a good methode and order of teaching to bee obserued of all that shall occupy the roome of Ministers in the Church of Christ A methode in teaching and preaching For he intreating of the same argumēt which wee nowe handle saith thus man Homily De David Saul Hic mihi videtur optimus esse docendi modus c. This seemeth to me the best way of teaching if we doe not cease to counsel and exhort in any matter before we shal see our counsel and admonition to come to effect for if one reasoneth to day of almes to morow of praier the next day of humanity and againe afterward of modesty and humility of minde hee cannot well make perfect any of these in the heartes of his auditours I am therefore returned to this place to prosecute the same matter which the last time was deliuered to you You haue heard obedience towards Princes and Superiours hath bin commended by diuerse lawes of Nature of God in the ould and new Testament commended by auncient Christian fathers by Ciuil Cōstitutions and Examples of Princes how contrariwise disobedience treacheries rebellions were euermore condemned condignlie punished Now I am to proceede to other lawes The Popes Lawe condemneth treacherous murdering and decrees and examples to proue the same The next law is the Law Canonical aduouched recited by the Pope himselfe whereby al kind of murther against any person neuer so meane is vtterly forbidden in priuate men De Poenit. dist 1. as out of the Epistle of Clement That blessed Saint Peter said there were three kinds of Homicides or murderers killers of brethren slanderers and haters out of Hierom Al iniquity and oppression and vnrighteousnes is iudgement of bloud Jn Jesaiā and although thou dost not kil with the sworde yet doost thou slay with thy wil. Austin ibi And out of Augustine Murder forbidden by Law was thought to bee nothing els but the killing of the body Therefore the Lord hath opened to vs that euery vniust motion to hurt a brother is to be reputed among the kindes of murther This doctrine gathered out of these fathers and borrowed out of the interpretation of our sauiour Christ Matth. 5. defining murder to be threefold operis oris cordis in work woord and hart inserted and allowed by the Popes owne lawe Triple ●●ther doth touch the quick and the very point of this controuersy It is not lawful to murther by detracting by thinking against any person and shal it not be accounted of these Catholiks murther indeed to lay violent hands vpon the same person And shal this be esteemed murther against priuate persons and shall it not much more bee so esteemed against publicke Magistrates Shal not