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A10614	A treatise conteining two parts 1 An exhortation to true loue, loyaltie, and fidelitie to her Maiestie. 2 A treatise against treasons, rebellions, and such disloyalties. Written by Michael Renniger.	Renniger, Michael, 1530-1609.	1587 (1587)	STC 20888; ESTC S106425	154,771	309

be yeelded to of the Emperour because it is written Giue to Caesar the things that are Caesars to God those that are gods And the next daie whē the Pope sate in his pompe in the Church his souldiers rushed in againe and tooke the Pope in his Pontificalibus and the Cardinals in their pompous aray and many of the Nobilitie of Rome prisoners and the rest of the inferior Clergie they so rifled that they stripped them out of their clothes And for the ground of subiection the Emperour vsed the saying of our Sauiour against the presumption of the Pope and Cardinals which plead preheminence and exemptions and are puffed vp in pride and pompe aboue the principalities and powers of the earth Origen the auncient father saith that all they that haue monie Orige in Epist ad Rom. lib. 9. cap. 13. possessions or any thing of this worlde must heare Let euerie soule be subiect to the higher powers Thus of the generaltie of the charge The second note to whom subiection obedience is due Ambro. in commenta in Epist ad Rom. cap 13. The second note is to whom this subiection and obedience commaunded here is due To the higher powers principates and maiestrates He calleth thē Gods ministers to the praise of the good to the punishmēt of the euil for they carry not the sword for naught As he calleth them Gods ministers so Ambros calleth them Gods deputies his vicegerentes as Daniel saith he saith the kingdome is gods and he giueth it to whom it pleaseth him In the book of wisedome Sap. 6. they are called the officers of gods kingdome Psal 82. The Prophet Dauid calleth thē Elohim that is Gods in respect they are Gods leiuetenauntes and haue his power committed to them in earth the ministration of iustice in Gods behalfe 1. Pet. 2. Therefore S. Peter willeth vs to submit our selues to them for the Lords sake because of gods ordināce and that they are his ministers and deputies Nicho. de Lyra postilae in 1. Pet 2. And Nich. de Lyra saith in as much as gods image shineth in them in respect of thier souerainty as Ambros noteth the cause Ambro. in commen in Epist ad Rom. cap. 13. Orige in commen in Eist ad Rom. cap. 13. they haue sayth he the image of God that vnder one others be And if godly they carry themselues in their gouernments as Origen saith they shal haue in the day of iudgment praise of God euen for the good administration of these lawes here when it shall be saide to them O good and faithfull seruant thou hast beene faithfull ouer fewe things I will make thee ruler ouer much And if they misuse their estates then as the said Origen saith there the iust iudgement of God shall be on them because the soueraintie which they receiued they haue according to their owne vngodlinesse tempered and not according to the lawes of God Thus Origen And though they be euil yet are they Gods ministers to doe thee good and to trie what mettle of true godlinesse is in thee For as Augustine saieth the verie terror of temporall powers August ad Valentinum Epist 48. euen when they sight against truth is a glorious triall to the iust and strong And as the Glose ordinarie saith God many times suffereth an euill man to tyrannyse that the euill may be confounded and for the better trial of the good Thus the Glose Were they not euill in the time of our Sauiour when they were heathen and when S. Paul made generall proclamamation of subiection to be yeelded to them When Nero plaid the tyrant and persecuted the Christians to death Paul sealed with his blood the Gospell of our sauiour vnder him And yet his tyranny then was turned into the triumph of the Church of God Paul with other faithful Christians by sheeding of their blood for Christ were inuested in the robes of martirdome had crownes of glorie set on their heads To such Princes though persecuters heathen subiection obedience is to be yeelded according to Gods ordinance But in things against God when the persecution is against the faith as Origen sayth we must say with the Apostles that god is rather to be obeyed then men Thus to whom this subiectiō obedience here cōmaunded is due My third note is The 3. note how and in what sorte subiection obedience is due howe and in what sorte we should be subiect and obedient to them Wherefore saith Paul you must be subiect not because of wrath onely but for conscience sake because it is the ordinance of God and in wilful despising thereof conscience is woūded non onely wrath punishment prouoked When as Origen sayth one hath that within him Origen in commen in Epist ad Rom. cap. 1● that of his owne conscience may be accused Augustine thus expoundeth these words of the Apostle not because of wrath onely but for conscience sake vt non simulatè quasi ad oculos hominum faciamus August sup●● Epist ad Gal. cap. 3. sed pura delectionis conscientia propter deum That we doe it not saith he with glosing as to the eyes of men but of a pure cōscience of loue for Gods sake And in an other place August in Expositionae qua● und prepositionū Ex Epist ad Rom. propo 74. the same auncient father doth thus opē these same words of Paul Not onely saith he for auoiding wrath which thing may be done faynedly but that in thy conscience thou mayest be assured that thou doest it of loue to him to whom thou art subiect at the commaundement of the Lorde who would haue all to bee saued Thus howe Augustine expoundeth these wordes of Paul The Glose called interlinearis following Augustine saieth Glosa inter linearis in cap. 13. Epist ad Rom. Ambro. in commen in Epist ad Rom. cap. 13. that in louing the maiestrate thy mind may be cleane Ambrose referreth the wordes to the iudgement to come where conscience accuseth also besides the punishment in this world And thus howe and in what sorte wee should be subiect to them The 4. note is the outward signe of subiection obedience My fourth and last note is towching the outward signe of this subiection and in what affayres it is shewed For this cause sayeth Paul ye pay also tribute for they are Gods ministers seruing for the same purpose Giue to all men therefore their dutie Tribute to whom tribute belongeth custome to whom custome Ambro. in Epist ad Rom. cap. 13. feare to whom feare honour to whō honour Thus farre S. Paule Ambrose saith they paye tribute to shewe their subiection that they are not free but vnder a Soueraigntie and power that is ordeyned of God And Origen voucheth the person of our Sauiour for example Orige in Epist ad Rom. cap. 13. Euen our Lorde Iesus Christ saith he payed tribute when he

could neuer be gotten out againe But as Fabian saith they wer cōtinually abiding in one place or other till the time of Hardikinitus the last king of the Danes blood as the English Chronicle calleth him Fabian the 6 part cap. 198 who is called also Canutus of other And they did so ouerspread and ouerflow the land The Danes called Lord Danes in Englishmens howses that as Fabian telleth the Danes were as Lords in priuate mens houses and they called them Lord Danes They imployed the husbandmen to care sow the ground to works of al druggery as Fabiā saith the Dane held his wife at his pleasure his daughter seruant And when the husbandman came home he should scarsly haue of his owne as seruants had as Fabian reporteth it Yet for feare and dread in euery suche house where they had rule they called them Lord Dane But after the Danes were voyded the land in despite derision of them it was turned into a word of reproch whē one wold rebuke an other he would as Fabian saith for the most part call him Lurdane Lurdaine a word of reproch Is not this a notable glasse of experience in our own Countrie also to warne all true Englishmen to be warned and armed against all inuasions and forraine forces if they wil be maisters owners of their owne houses of their wiues childrē goods as by experience in their own Coūtrie heretofore they may see in such cases As we haue looked into the leaders Captains of the Saxons so let vs hear of the Captaines leaders of the Danes into this land The leaders of the Danes Fabian the 6 parte Hubba Hunguoar or Hungar Guttran or Garmund Fabian the 6 part cap. 172 Vnder king Etheldredus the 3. son of king Adaulphus Hubba Hunguoar or Hungar were Captaines and leaders of the Danes into the land Vnder king Aluredus one Guttran or Gothian or Garmund as the English Chro. calleth him was the great leader ruler of the Danes with whō king Alured made cōpositiō that he should be christned 20. of the cheefe and principall persons of them were Christned with him And he allotted to him East Anglia contayning Norfolke and Suffolke and parte of Cambridgeshire to abyde in But greedie Guttrū could not be satisfied with these coūtries for while he liued he continued a tyrant by the space of eleuen yeres An other Captain called Ciyto landed in East Englande vnder Edward surnamed the Elder Clyto And at last vnder Egelredus king of this land driuen to flie first into the Wight Swanus Fabian the 6 part cap. 198 Canutus Fabian the 6 part cap. 24. Edmund Ironside after into Normādy they aduanced their kingdom vnder Swanus king of Denmark after him vnder Canutus his son with whō king Edmund surnamed Ironside first diuided the land and after his death by treason of Edricus Canutus alone reigned ouer the whole land Thus of the leaders of the Danes and their diuiding of the lande and how at the last the whole land fell to their share Nowe though Hubba and Hungar their Captaines were slaine as Fabian reporteth out of Polichronicon Fabian the 6 part cap. 170 yet Captaine Hungar still remaineth Captain Hūgar the Dane who hungreth after the fat of this land and fain wold be bringing in of forraine forces to haue dealings in the land and in diuision to make thēselues a partie as the Saxons and Danes did and that they may fall a sharing the lande as Saxons and Danes did before and at length get the land and all as they did And by whatsoeuer name they bee called if wee looke into the right qualitie and disposition of suche though they are not captaine Hūgar in name yet in true meaning and intent they are of his right rase for they hūger after the land wold fain haue diuision amongst vs that they may make themselues a partie and so haue their confederates in the land to winde themselues in and at last to winne the land Though captaine Guttrum or Gurmond be dead Captaine Guitrum or Gurmond who coulde not bee satisfied with a share of great Countries in England but played the Tyrant and cutthroate still yet such greedie guttrans or gurmands remaine who gape ouer the Realme ready for occasions and woulde faine satisfie their greedy guts with the rauen and ransacking of it And is there any that hath true Englishe blood in him that can betray his owne Countrie and cast it as a pray into the rauening iawes greedy guts of such Guttrons or Hungars God keep our Prince and Realme from such Hungars Guttrons that continually gape ouer her and vs to deuoure vs and giue true wisedome to all naturall subiects of England by such experience and examples of our Countrie heretofore to be warned against all such as practise by confederating themselues with forraine forces to bring suche Captaine Hungars or Guttrons vpon vs whose hunger cannot bee quenched but out of the body and bowels of this land Thus of the inuasion of the Danes and their leaders The inuasion of the Normans Fabian the 6 part ca. 217. After the Normans inuaded this land vnder William the Conquerour and king Harold being slaine in the field they subdued it The Normans had the preheminences of honours and offices in both estates The Englishmen were vnder them Fabian the 6 part ca. 222. and great tributes were laid on them and after sundrie attempts by sundrie persons made in vain the Englishmen learned to serue straungers into whose hands God had put thē The Romans The Romans ruled in this land had so good liking thereof that Seuerus the Emperour after his great victories of the Parthians and Arabians Seuerus the Emperor imploied himselfe here Fabian the 4 part cap. 61. and for the defence of the Coūtrie against the inuasion of the Pictes he caused a wall of Turues to be made of the length of 122. myles as Polichronicon witnesseth and at length in a battaile himselfe against Fulgenius Leader of the Pictes who inuaded the lande hee was slaine and buried at Yorke Fulgenius leader of the Picts The Troians The Troians vnder Brute first entered the lande and well liking the fruitfulnesse thereof determined heere to pitch their dwelling and by the Riuer of Thames they built a Citie which in remembrance of their owne Countrie they called Troy-nouant London and which after was enlarged by King Lud and was called Luds Towne and which nowe is called London as Fabian reporteth Thus of the experience examples and case of our Countrie touching forraine forces and inuasion of strangers If any warning will serue seeing God hath set vp so many warninges spectacles in the experience of our owne cases in our owne Countrie we should now receiue warning and be wise in such cases vnlesse wee will be still strangers in our owne stories and affaires