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heart_n	harden_v	pharaoh_n	plague_n	2,988	5	10.1557	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04554	A lanterne-light for loyall subiects. Or, A terrour for traytours Wherein may be seene the odiousnesse of treason, the deserued ende of traytours, and the wonderfull preseruation of anoynted princes. A matter rightly agreeing with this time of danger, where wicked persons haue desired our publike sorrow, and the ruine of this realme of England.	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1603 (1603)	STC 14675; ESTC S109172	6,910	17

visibly seene standeth between the godly and their enemies And then though the wicked come armed with an host of men they shall bee ouercome with their subtill deuices and their swords shall goe thorow their owne hearts Call we now to mind our late soueraigne Lady Queen Elizabeth whom the Angell of the Lord euen from her cradle did miraculously preserue from the tyranny of all her enemies When for our sinnes Queene Mary committed both the Word and Sword to the hypocrisy and tyranny of the popish Cleargy good Lady Elizabeths life was then assayled with a thousand publike and priuate practises but the Angell of the Lord still stood betweene her and her harmes and from the fetters of aduersity loosed and crowned her Maiesty with the supreme dignity of this Realme Afterwards in the dayes of her Maiesties most happy raigne many there were that with the superstition of Papistry were so blinded that they sought dayly to take away this good Queenes life as Arden and Someruile the one whereof was quartered and made a prey for Powles the other hanged himselfe the night before the appoynted day of his execution The dangerous Traitor Throgmarton as cunningly as he disguised his odious treasons was intrapped in the snares which he set for his Countries destruction and worthily dyed with the sword which hee had whetted for the innocent The odious Atheist Parry likewise had the reward of his fellow Traytors who though he had the place and opportunity yet as gracelesse as he was the very Maiesty of her princely countenance made him lose his resolution Many are the falles of Traytors which I could bring in since the beginning of Queene Elizabeths raigne which for this time I omit But surely neither her Maiesties goodnes nor their own duties could mouethem to obedience that had but once drunke of the dregs of Popery Therefore all true subiects may sigh and say Alas those whose hearts are hardened therein haue their iudgements blind and their affections swift to runne vpon destruction Pharao was warned with diuers plagues that he should not hinder the departure of the children of Israel forth of Egypt yet he would needs follow them to his vtter destruction Gods iustice strooke Mahomet with the falling sicknesse to make him knovv and repent his blasphemie but to strengthen the peoples misbeleefe the Deuill taught him to say that his traunce proceeded of the conference of an Angell vvhose diuine presence could not endure his earthly shape Vpon the principall day of the bloudy murther at Paris in Fraunce as a token that Gods word should flourish in despight of their cruelty a dead and withered tree bare greene leaues in that Churchyard that receiued many a murthered carkase And yet the Papists on the contrary part applied this prophesying example to the second florishing of the Romish church Thus blind they are in their wicked imaginations traytrous attempts and thus with such vaine hopes are all Traytors led vnto the follies and falles of vnloyall subiects Wherefore howsoeuer they perswade themselues and threaten our Countrey with a change of prosperity so long as we feare God and be true to his Maiesty our peace will vndoubtedly last and the disturbers thereof are like shortly to taste their own miserable fortunes being already iustly condemned for their trayterous attempts against our most gracious King and their owne natiue Countrey Therefore let all sorts of people beare this in mind that whosoeuer loseth his life by any kind of treason or violence God will not onely reuenge the bloud of the same man so murthered but will also seuerely punish the murtherers in a strange maner God punished the murther of Abel committed by his brother Cain with a most bitter curse and yet that there might bee no protection in murder God sayd himselfe That whosoeuer slue the reprobate Cain it should be auenged seuen fold And now to touch the guilt of murther more neerely God requireth the bloud of Innocents at the hands of Kings and anoynted Princes as thus To punish the fault of King Dauid in seeking the death of Vrius God tooke away the life of the child which Dauid had by Vrias vvife Furthermore in the time of King Dauid there were three yeres famine and Dauid demaunded the cause why And the Lord sayd It was for Saul and the house of bloud because he slew the Gibeonites According to the opinion of Erasmus the consenter to murther is as gilty as the doer Iudas that betrayed Christ and Pilate that adiudged him to death only to please the Iewes carried the feareful burthen of murther in their consciences and by the horrour thereof wrought their owne destructions Moreouer nature hath taught the very Infidels and heathen people to beleeue that vengeance followeth murther Reason then may perswade all Christians to assure themselues that the bloudthirsty are worse then Infidels and cannot escape the sword of vengeance Now seeing that Kings if they shead any bloud otherwise then by the sword of Iustice and Iudges if they adiudge death for hatred feare or gayne by Gods righteousnes are punished as murtherers what may they then expect that in corners lay violent hands on annoynted Kings or without colour of authority murther the innocent If the eyes of their vnderstanding were not blind they might see a bad successe in their purpose and the open confusion of themselues I haue read of a number of good and bad Princes and also of other which haue bene bereaued of their liues by the violent hands of secret Traitors but among a hundred you shall hardly find of one murtherer that hath escaped the torture of Gods vengeance Brutus and his partakers murdered Iulius Casar but not one of them escaped a violent death Wee may yet remember the vnhappy murther of the King of Scotland father to our Soueraigne Lord King Iames whose life God long continue how villanously he was made away yet the greatest fauourers the greatest procurers of the sayd murther were by common iustice drawn to commit almost all the murderers into the hands of the hangman and such as escaped and were not bound to the censure of the law could by no meanes shift themselues from the vengeance of God Iohn I●r●g● that first assailed the godly Prince of Orange had the common reward of Traytors And the most odious Atheist Balthazar Serack that slue the sayd Prince for all the blessings of the Pope the commendations and threatnings of the King of Spaine exchanged the Pistoll wherewith hee slue him for most horrible tortures to bee executed vpon himselfe being the iust reward for his haynous treason I could alledge infinite examples to disswade men from violent murther which Gods prouidence many wayes preuenteth when as his iustice neuer leaueth the murtherer vnpunished Yet if Traytors had reason to obserue the iudgements of such practisers or experience to looke into the wisdome of this age they should see their attempt as vayne a matter as to throw stones against