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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06108	The theatre of Gods iudgements: or, a collection of histories out of sacred, ecclesiasticall, and prophane authours concerning the admirable iudgements of God vpon the transgressours of his commandements. Translated out of French and augmented by more than three hundred examples, by Th. Beard.; Histoires memorables des grans et merveilleux jugemens et punitions de Dieu. English	Chassanion, Jean de, 1531-1598.; Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.	1597 (1597)	STC 1659; ESTC S101119	344,939	488

in murders but to come to the fact It was on this sort When Richard the vsurper had enioined Robert Brackenbury to this peece of seruice of murdering the yo â—g king Edward the fift his nephew in the tower with his brother the duke of York and saw it refused by him hee committed the charge of the murder to Sir Iames Tirrel who hasting to the tower by the kings commission receiued the keies into his own hands and by the help of those two butchers Dighton Forest smothered the two princes in their bed buried them at the staires feet which being done Sir Iames node back to king Richard who gaue him great thanks as some say made him knight for his labor All which things on euery part wel pondered it appeareth that God neuer gaue the world a notabler exaÌ„ple both of the vnconstancie of worldly weale and also of the wretched end which ensueth such despitefull crueltie for first to begin with the ministers Miles Forest rotted away peecemeale at S. Martins Sir Iames Tirrell died at the tower hill beheaded for treason king Richard himselfe as it is declared elsewhere was slaine in the field hacked and hewed of his enemies carried on horsebacke dead his haire in despight torne and tugged like a dog besides the inward torments of his guilty conscience were more then all the rest for it is most certenly reported that after this abominable deed done he neuer had quiet in his mind when hee went abroad his eie whirled about his body was priuily fenced his hand euer vpon his dagger his countenance and manner like one alwaies ready to strike his sleepe short and vnquiet full of fearefull dreames insomuch that he would often suddenly start vp and leape out of his bed and runne about the chamber his restlesse conscience was so continually tossed and tumbled with the tedious impression of that abominable murder CHAP. V. Of such as rebelled against their superiours because of subsidies and taxes imposed vpon them AS it is not lawfull for children ro rebel against their parents though they be cruell and vnnaturall so also it is as vnlawfull for subiects to withstand their princes and gouernours though they be somewhat grieuous and burdensome vnto them which wee affirme not to the end that it should be licensed to them to exercise all manner of rigour and vnmeasurable oppression vpon their subiects as shall be declared in the 35 chapter of this booke more at large but wee intreat only here of their duties which are in subiection to the power of other men whose authoritie they ought in no wise to resist vnlesse they oppose themselues against the ordinance of God Therfore this position is true by the word of God that no subiect ought by force to shake off the yoke of subiection and obedience due vnto his prince or exempt himselfe from any taxe or contribution which by publike authoritie is imposed Giue saith the Apostle tribute to whome tribute belongeth custome to whome custome pertaineth feare to whome feare is due and honour to whom honour is owing And generally in all actions wherein the commodities of this life though with some oppression and grieuance and not the religion and seruice of God nor the conscience about the same is called into question wee ought with all patience to endure whatsoeuer burden or charge is laid vpon vs without moouing any troubles or shewing any discontentments for the same for they that haue otherwise behaued themselues these examples following will shew how well they haue bene appaied for their misdemeanours In the yeere of our Lord 1304 Nich. Gil. vol. 1. after that Guy Earle of Flaunders hauing rebelled against Philip the Faire his soueraigne was by strength of armes reduced into subiection and constrained to deliuer himselfe and his two sonnes prisoners into his hands the Flemmings made an insurrection against the kings part because of a certaine taxe which he had set vpon their ships that arriued at certaine hauens and vpon this occasion great warre diuers battels and sundry ouerthrowes on each side grew but so that at last the king remained conquerour and the Flemmings for a reward of their rebellion lost in the last battell sixe and thirty thousand men that were slaine beside a great number that were taken prisoners Two yeeres after this Flemish stirre The same authour there arose a great commotion and hurlyburly of the rascall and basest sort of people at Paris because of the alteration of their coines who being not satisfied with the pillage and spoilage of their houses whome they supposed to be either causes of the said alteration or by counsell or other meanes any furtherers thereunto came in great troupes before the kings pallace at his lodging in the temple with such an hideous noise and outrage that all that day after neither the king nor any of his officers durst once stirre ouer the threshold nay they grew to that ouerflow of pride and insolencie that the victuals which were prouided for the kings diet and carried to him were by them shamefully throwed vnder feet in the durt trampled vpon in despight and disdaine But three or foure daies after this tumult was appeased many of them for their paines were hanged before their owne dores and in the citie gates to the number of eight and twenty persons In the raigne of Charles the sixt the Parisians by reason of a certaine taxe which hee minded to lay vpon them banded themselues and conspired togither against him they determined once saith Froissard to haue beaten downe Loure and Saint Vincents castle Vol. 2. cap. 120. all the houses of defence about Paris that they might not be offensiue to them But the king though young in yeeres handled them so ripely and handsomly Cap. 129. that hauing taken away from them their armour the city gates and chaines of the streets locked vp their weapons in S. Vincents castle hee dealt with them as pleased him Cap. 130. And thus their pride being quashed many of them were executed and put to death As also for the like rebellion were at Troyes Nic. Gil. vol. 2. Orlean Chalon Sens and Rhemes About the same time the Flandrians and especially the inhabitants of Gaunt wrought much trouble against Lewys the Earle of Flanders Froiss vol. 2. cap. 97. for diuers taxes and tributes which hee had laid vpoÌ„ them which they in no respect would yeeld vnto The matter came to be decided by blows much blood was shed many losses endured on both sides as a means appointed of God to chastise as well the one as the other The Gaunts being no more in number then fiue or sixe thousand men Cap. 98. ouerthrew the Earls army consisting of forty thousand and in pursuite of their victory tooke Bruges whither the Earle was gone for safety lying in a poore womans house was constrained in the habit of a begger to flie the citie And thus hee

wanted no power and ability to punish them for he hath lightning thunder fire prepared instruments to execute his iust vengeance which no creature vnder heauen is able to auoid when by the obstinat transgression of wicked men he is prouoked to anger and indignation against them This is that holy law which hath ben set forth by the Prophets by the rule whereof all their warnings exhortings and reprouings haue ben squared to this law the onely begotten sonne of God our sauiour and redeemer Iesus Christ conformed his most holy doctrine bringing men to the true vse and obseruation thereof from which they had declined and whereof he is the end the scope and perfect accomplishment so that so far it is that a Christian man may be ignorant of it and haue it in contempt that none can be counted and reputed a true Christian if he frame not his life by the rule thereof if not fully yet at least as farforth as he is able otherwise vvhat a shame and reproch is this for men to call themselues by the name of Gods children Christians and Catholicks and yet to do euery thing clean contrarie to the will of God to make no reckoning of his law to lead a dissolute and disordered life and to bee as euill if not worse then the vilest miscreants and infidels in the world God willeth and requireth that he alone should bee worshipped and praied vnto and yet the greater part of the world are idolaters and full of superstition worship Images stickes and stones and pray to creatures instead of the creator God forbiddeth vs to sweare by his name in vaine and yet what is more rife then that so that a man can heare nothing else but othes and blasphemies Manie for the least trifle in the world stick not to sweare forsweare themselues God forbiddeth theft murther adulterie and false witnesse bearing and yet nothing so common as backbitings slanders forgeries false reports whoredomes cousenings robberies extortions and all manner of enuies and enmities God hath commanded that we loue our neighbours as our selues but we in stead of loue hate despise and seeke to procure the hurt and damage of one another not regarding anie thing but our owne peculiar profit and aduantage Is not this a manifest and profest disobedience and intollerable rebellion against our maker What child is there that is not bound to honour and reuerence his father What seruant that is not bound to obey his maister and to doe all that hee shall will him What subiect that is not tied in subiection to his Prince and Soueraigne Yet there is not one which will not confesse yea and sweare too with his mouth that God is his Lord and father Which if it bee true what is then the cause that instead of seruing and pleasing him they doe nothing else but displease and offend his Maiestie Is not this the way to prouoke his wrath and stirre vp his indignation against them Is it any maruaile if he be incensed with anger if he be armed with reuenge and send abroad his cruell scourges vpon the earth to strike and whip it with all Is it any wonder if he pile vp the wicked ones on heapes and shoot out his reuengefull arrows against them and make them drunken with their owne blood and make his sword of iustice as sharpe as a rasor Deut. 32.35 to punish those rebels that haue rebelled against him For vengeance is mine saith he and belongeth onely vnto me whosoeuer therefore he be that followeth the desires and concupiscence of his owne flesh and this wicked world shall lead a life contrarie to the instruction and ordinance of the law of God yea although he neuer heard thereof yet is he guiltie thereof worthie to be accursed for so much as his owne conscience ought to serue for a law vnto himselfe by the which hee is condemned in those euill actions which he committeth euen as Paul saith all that haue sinned without the law shall likewise perish without the law Rom. 2.12 CHAP. VI. How the greatest Monarchs in the world ought to be subiect to the law of God and consequently the lawes of man and of nature EVerie man confesseth this to be true That by how much the more benefits and dignitie hee hath receiued from another by so much is he the more bounden and beholden to him now it is so that Kings and Princes are those vpon whom God hath bestowed more plentifully his gifts and graces then vpon any other whom hee hath made as it were his Lieutenants in this world for he hath extolled and placed them aboue others and bedecked them with honour giuing them power authoritie to rule and raigne by putting people in subiection to them and therefore so much the more are they bound to reacknowledge him againe to the end to doe him all honour and homage which is required at their hands Psal 2.11 Therefore Dauid exhorteth them to serue the Lord euen with reuerence This then their high and superintendent estate is no priuiledge to exempt them from the subiection and obedience which they owe vnto God whom they ought to reuerence aboue all things Psal 29.1 Ye Princes and high Lords saith the Prophet giue you vnto the Lord eternall glorie and strength giue vnto him glorie due vnto his name and cast your selues before him to doe him reuerence If they owe so much honour vnto God as to their soueraine then surely it must follow that they ought to obey his voice and feare to offend him and so much the rather because hee is a great deale more strong and terrible then they able to cause his horrible thunderbolts to tumble vpon their heads they being not able once to withstand his puissance but constrained very often to tremble thereat In al that prescription and ordinance ordained set downe by God concerning the office of Kings Deut. 17.15 there is no mention made of any libertie that he giueth them to liue after their owne lusts and to do euery thing that seemeth good in their owne eies but he enioineth them expressely to haue alwaies with them the booke of his law delighteth to read and meditate therein and thereby to learne to feare and reuerence his name by obseruing all the precepts that are contained in that booke As for ciuill and naturall lawes in so much as they are founded vpon equitie and right for otherwise they were no lawes therein they are agreeable to and as it were dependents on the law of God as is well declared by Cicero in the first and second booke of his lawes for euen they also condemne theeues adulterers murderers parricides and such like If then princes be subiect to the law of God as I am about to shew there is no doubt but that they are likewise subiect to those ciuill lawes by reason of the equitie and iustice which therein is commended vnto vs. And if as Plato saith the lawes

he knoweth hee shall rather run into further charge than recouer any of his old losse Beside this it happeneth that poore small theeues are often drawne to the whip or driuen to banishment or sent to the gallows when rich grand theeues lie at their ease and escape vncontrouled albeit the qualitie of their crime bee far vnequal according to the Poet The simple doue by law is censured Dat veniam coruis vexat censura columbas When rauenous crowes escape vnpunished The world was euer yet full of such rauenous rauens so nimble in pilling others goods and so greedy of their owne gaine that the poore people in steed of being maintained and preserued in the peaceable enioying of their portions are gnawne to the very bones amongst them for which cause Homer in the person of Agamemnon calleth them deuourers of men likewise also the Prophet Dauid in the sixteenth Psalme calleth them eaters of his people and yet want they not flatterers and trencher-friends Canckerwoms of a CoÌ„monwealth that vrge theÌ„ forwards deuise daily new kind of exactions like horseleaches to sucke out the very blood of mens purses shewing so much the more wit deceit therein by how much the more they hope to gaine a great part therof vnto their selues being like hungerstarued Harpeis that will neuer bee satisfied but still snatch and catch al that commeth neare their clouches and these are they that doe good to no man but hurt to all of whom the Marchant findeth himselfe agreeued the Artificer troden vnder foot the poore laborer oppressed and generally all men endamaged CHAP. XXXVI Of the excessiue burdenings of the Comminaltie AS it is a iust approued thing before God to doe honor and reuerence to kings and Princes and to bee subiect vnder them in all obedience so it is a reasonable and allowable duty to pay such tributes and subsidies whereby their great charges honourable estate may bee maintained as by right of equitie are due vnto theÌ„ and this is also commanded by our Sauior Christ in expresse words when hee saith Mat. 22.21 Giue vnto Caesar that which is Caesars And by the Apostle Paule more expressely Rom. 31.7 pay tributes render vnto all men their due tribute to whome tribute belongeth and custome to whom custome Marke how hee saith Giue vnto all men their due and therein obserue that kings and princes ought of their good and iust disposition bee content with their due and not seeke to load and ouercharge their subiects with vnnecessary exactions but to desire to see them rather rich and wealthie than poore and needy for thereby commeth no profite vnto themselues further it is most vnlawfull for them to exact that aboue measure vpon their commons which being in mediocrity is not condemned I say it is vnlawfull both by the law of God and man the law of God and man is termed all that which both God and man allow and agree vpon and which a man with a safe conscience may put in practise for the former we can haue no other schoolmaster nor instruction saue the holy scripture wherein God hath manifested his will vnto vs concerning this very matter as in Deuteronom 18 speaking of the office and duty of a king he forbiddeth them to be horders vp of gold and siluer and espousers of many wiues and louers of pride signifying thereby that they ought to containe themselues within the bounds of modestie and temperance and not giue the raines to their owne affections nor heape vp great treasures to their peoples detriment nor to delight in warre nor to be too much subiect to their owne pleasures all which things are meanes of vnmeasurable expense so that if it be not allowable to muster togither multitudes of goods for the danger and mischiefe that ensueth thereof as it appeareth out of this place then surely is it much lesse lawfull to leuy excessiue taxes of the people for the one of these can not be without the other and thus for the law of God it is cleare that by it authority is not committed vnto them to surcharge and as it were trample downe their poore subiects by vnmeasurable and vnsupportable imposition As for that which the Prophet Samuel in the name of God giueth notice to the Israelites of touching the right of a king wherein he seemeth to allow him the disposition of the goods and persons of his subiects I answer first that God being an immooueable truth cannot contradict himselfe by commanding and forbidding the same thing and secondly that the word of the text in the originall signifieth nothing else but a custome or fashion as it appeareth in the 1. Sam. 11.13 besides the speech that the Prophet vseth importeth not a commandement but an aduertisement of the subiection whereunto the people were about to thrust themselues by desiring a king after the manner of other nations whose customes amongst them was to exercise authority and dominion as well ouer their goods as their persons for which cause God would haue them forewarned that they might know how vile a yoke they put their owne neches vnder and what grieuous and troublesome seruitude they vndertooke from the which they could no waies be deliuered no though they desired it with teares Furthermore that a king in Israel had no power in right and equity to take away the possessions of any of his subiects and appropriate it to himselfe it appeareth by Nabaoths refusal to king Achab 1. King 12. to giue him his vineyard though he requested it as in may seeme vpon very reasonable conditions 1 King 12. either for his money or for exchange so that a man would thinke hee ought not to haue denied him howbeit his desire being thus crossed he could not mend himselfe by his authority but fell to vexe and grieue himselfe and to champe vpon his owne bit vntill by the wicked and detestable complot of Iezabel poore Nabaoth was falsly accused vniustly condemned and cruelly murdered and then hee put in possession of his vineyard which murder doubtlesse shee would neuer haue attempted nor yet Nabaoth euer haue refused to yeeld his vineyard if by any pretence of law they would haue laid claime vnto it but Nabaoth knowing that it was contrary to Gods ordinance Num 36.9 for him to part with his patrimonie which he ought most carefully to preserue would not consent to sell ouer his vineyard neither for loue nor money nor other recompence and herein hee did but his duty approoued by the holy scripture Now how odious a thing before God the oppression of poore people is it is manifest by his owne words in the prophesie of Ezechiel where hee saith Chap. 15.9 Let it suffice O princes of Israel leaue off crueltie and oppression and execute iudgement and iustice take away your exactions from my people and cease to thrust them from their goods and heritages Now concerning the law of man which all men agree vnto because

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