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A27163	The theatre of Gods judgements wherein is represented the admirable justice of God against all notorious sinners ... / collected out of sacred, ecclesiasticall, and pagan histories by two most reverend doctors in divinity, Thomas Beard ... and Tho. Taylor ...	Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1642 (1642)	Wing B1565; ESTC R7603	428,820	368

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 than all the rest for it is most certainly reported That after this abhominable deed hee never had quiet in his minde when he went abroad his eye whirled about his body was privily fenced his hand ever upon his dagger his countenance and manner like one alwaies ready to strike his sleep short and unquiet full of fearefull dreames insomuch that he would often suddenly start up and leap out of his bed and runne about his chamber his restlesse conscience was so continually tossed and tumbled with the tedious impression of that abhominable murther CHAP. V. Of such as rebelled against their Superiors because of Subsidies and Taxes imposed upon them AS it is not lawfull for children to rebell against their parents though they be cruell and unnaturall so also it is as unlawfull for subjects to withstand their Princes and Governors though they be somewhat grievous and burthensome unto them which we affirme not to the end that it should be licensed to them to exercise all manner of rigour and unmeasurable oppression upon their subjects as shall be declared hereafter more at large but we entreat onely here of their duties which are in subjection to the power of other men whose authority they ought in no wise to resist unlesse they oppose themselves against the ordinance of God Therefore this position is true by the word of God That no subject ought by force to shake off the yoke of subjection and obedience due unto his Prince or exempt himselfe from any taxe or contribution which by publicke authority is imposed Give saith the Apostle tribute to whom tribute belongeth custome to whom custome pertaineth feare to whom 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 grievance and not the Religion and service of God nor the conscience about the same is called into question we ought with all patience to endure whatsoever burthen or charge is laid upon us without moving any troubles or shewing any discontentments for the same for they that have otherwise behaved themselves these examples following will shew how well they have been appaied for their misdemeanors In the yeare of our Lord 1304 after that Guy Earle of Flanders having rebelled against Philip the Faire his Soveraigne was by strength of armes reduced into subjection and constrained to deliver himselfe and his two sons prisoners into his hands the Flemings made an insurrection against the Kings part because of a certain taxe which he had set upon their ships that arrived at certaine havens and upon this occasion great warre divers battels and sundry overthrowes on each side grew but so that at last the King remained conqueror and the Flemings for a reward of their rebellion lost in the battell six and thirty thousand men that were slaine beside a great number that were taken prisoners Two yeares after this Flemmish stirre there arose a great commotion and hurly burly 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 whom 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 Palace at his lodging in the Temple with such an hideous noise and outrage that all the day after neither the King nor any of his officers durst once stir over the threshold nay they grew to that overflow of pride and insolency that the victuals which were provided for the Kings diet and carried to him were by them shamefully throwne under feet in the dirt and trampled upon in despight and disdaine But three or foure daies after this tumult was appeased many of them for their pains were hanged before their own doores and in the city gates to the number of eight and twenty persons In the raigne of Charles the sixth the Parisians by reason of a certaine taxe which he minded to lay upon them banded themselves and conspired together against him they determined once saith Froissard to have beaten downe Loure and S. Vincents castle and all the houses of defence about Paris that they might not be offensive to them But the King though young in yeares handled them so ripe and handsomely that having taken away from them their armor the city gates and chaines of the streets and locked up their weapons in S. Vincents castle hee dealt with them as pleased him And thus their pride being quashed many of them were executed and put to death As also for the like rebellion were at Troyes Orlean Chalon Sens and Rhemes About the same time the Flandrians and especially the inhabitants of Gaunt wrought much trouble against Lewis the Earle of Flanders for divers taxes and tributes which he had layd upon them which they in no respect would yeeld unto The matter came to be decided by blowes and much bloud was shed and many losses endured on both sides as a meanes appointed of God to chastise as well the one as the other The Gaunts being no more in number than five or six thousand men overthrew the Earles army consisting of forty thousand and in pursuit of their victory tooke Bruges whither the Earle was gone for safety and lying in a poore womans house was constrained in the habit of a beggar to fly the City And thus he fared till King Charles the sixth sent an army of men to his succor for he was his subject by whose support he overcame those Rebels in a battell fought at Rose Bec to the number of forty thousand and the body of their chiefetaine Philip Artevil slaine in the throng he caused to be hanged on a tree And this was the end of that cruell Tragedy the countrey being brought againe into the obedience of their old Lord. A while before this whilest King Iohn was held prisoner in England there arose a great commotion of the common people in France against the nobility and gentry of the realme that oppressed them this tumult began but with an hundred men that were gathered together in the countrey of Beauvoisin but that small handfull grew right quickly to an armfull ●●on to nine thousand that ranged and robbed throughout all Brie along by the river Marne to Laonoise and all about Soissons armed with great bats shod with yron an headlesse crue without Governour fully purposing to bring to ruine the whole nobility In this disorder they wrought much mischiefe broke up many houses and castles murthered many Lords so that divers Ladies and Knights as the Duchesses of Normandy Orleance were fain to fly for safegard to Meaux whither when these Rebels would needs pursue them they

the world are Idolaters and full of superstition worship Images stockes and stones and pray to creatures in stead of the Creator God forbiddeth us to sweare by his name in vaine and yet what is more rise than that so that a man can heare nothing else but oaths and blasphemies Many for the least trifle in the world sticke not to sweare and forsweare themselves God forbiddeth theft murther adultery and false witnesse bearing and yet nothing so common as backbitings slanders forgeries false reports whoredomes cousenings robberies extortions and all manner of envies enmities God hath commanded that we love our neighbours as our selves but we in stead of love hate despise and seeke to procure the hurt and damage of one another not regarding any thing but our owne peculiar profit and advantage Is not this a manifest and profest disobedience and intolerable rebellion against our Maker What childe is there that is not bound to honour and reverence his father What servant that is not bound to obey his master and to doe all that he shall will him What subject that is not tied in subjection to his Prince and Soveraigne 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 be true what is then the cause that in stead of serving and pleasing him they doe nothing else but displease and offend his Majesty Is not this the way to provoke his wrath and stirre up his indignation against them Is it any marvell if he be incensed with anger if hee be armed with revenge and send abroad his cruell scourges upon the earth to strike and whip it withall Is it any wonder if hee pile up the wicked ones on heaps and shoot out his revengefull arrowes against them and make them drunken with their owne bloud and make his sword of justice as sharp as a rasor to punish those Rebels that have rebelled against him For vengeance is mine saith he and belongeth only unto me Whosoever therefore he be that followeth the desires and concupiscence of his owne flesh and this wicked world and shall lead a life contrary to the instruction and ordinance of the law of God yea although he never heard thereof yet is hee guilty thereof and worthy to be accursed for so much as his owne conscience ought to serve for a law unto himselfe by the which he is condemned in those evill actions which hee committeth even as Paul saith All that have sinned without the Law shall likewise perish without the Law CHAP. VI. How the greatest Monarchs in the World ought to be subject to the Law of God and consequently the Lawes of Man and Nature EVery man confesseth this to be true That by how much the more benefits and dignity he hath received from another by so much he is the more bounden and beholden to him now it is so that Kings and Princes are those upon whom God hath bestowed more plentifully his gifts and graces than upon any other whom hee hath made as it were his Lievtenants in the world for hee hath extolled and placed them above others and bedecked them with honour giving them power and authority to rule and raigne by putting people in subjection to them and therefore so much the more are they bound to re-acknowledge him againe to the end to doe him all honour and homage which is required at their hands Therefore David exhorteth them to serve the Lord even with reverence This then their high and superintendent estate is no priviledge to exempt them from the subjection and obedience which they owe unto God whom they ought to reverence above all things Yee Princes and high Lords saith the Prophet give you unto the Lord eternall glory and strength give unto him glory due unto his name and cast your selves before him to do him reverence If they owe so much honour unto God as to their Soveraigne 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 than they able to cause his horrible thunderbolts to tumble upon their heads they being not able once to withstand his puissance but constrained very often to tremble thereat In all that prescription and ordinance ordained and set down by God concerning the office of Kings there is no mention made of any liberty he giveth them to live after their owne lusts and to doe every thing that seemeth good in their own eyes but hee enjoyneth them expresly to have alwaies with them the booke of his Law delighteth to reade and meditate therein and thereby to learne to feare and reverence his name by observing all the precepts that are contained in that booke As for civill and naturall Lawes insomuch as they are founded upon equity 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 even they also condemne theeves adulterers murtherers parricides and such like If then Princes be subject to the Law of God as I am about to shew there is no doubt but that they are likewise subject to those civill Lawes by reason of the equity and justice which therein is commended unto us And if as Plato saith the Lawes ought to be above the Prince not the Prince above the Lawes it is then most manifest that the Prince is tyed unto the Lawes even in such sort that without the same the government which hee swayeth can never be lawfull and commendable And if it be true that the Magistrate is or ought to be a speaking Law as it is said and ought to maintaine the authority and credit thereof by the due and upright administration of Iustice for if hee did not this he were a dumbe Law and without life how is it possible that he should make it of authority and force with others if hee despiseth and transgresseth it himselfe David did never assume so much to himselfe as to desire to have liberty to doe what hee listed in his Kingdome but willingly submitted himselfe to that which his office and duty required making even then when he was installed and established King over the whole Land a Covenant of peace with the Princes and Deputies of the people and we know that in every covenant and bargaine both parties are bound to each other by a mutuall bond to performe the conditions which they are agreed upon The like is used at the coronation of Christian Kings whereas the people is bound and sworne to doe their alleagance to their Kings so the Kings are also solemnely sworne to maintaine and defend true Religion the estate of Iustice the peace and tranquillity of their subjects and the right and priviledges which are nothing but the Lawes of the Realme

●● these murdering 〈…〉 together in the market Place the same cranes appearing unto 〈…〉 they whispered one another in the care and said ●onder 〈…〉 which though secretly spoken yet was overhe●rd 〈…〉 they being examined and found guilty were put to death for their 〈◊〉 The like story Martin Luther reporteth touching a traveller only 〈…〉 in this that as Cranes detected the former so Crowes laid open the latter In the yeare 138● when as all Saxony was so infested with Theeyes that no man could travell safely in the countrey the Princes calling a Councell for downe this order That not only the Theeves themselves should be severely punished but all that did protect or harbour any of them which 〈…〉 as Theodoricke Country of We●ingr●de impugned the body of 〈◊〉 Councell sent for him and adjudged him to a most cruell and shamefull 〈◊〉 In the yeare 1410 Henry Duke of Luneburg a most just and severe Prince went about to purge his Countrey from all thefts and robberies insomuch that the least offence committed in that kinde he suffered not to go unpunished now it hapned as the Duke went towards Lun●burge he sene before him one of his chiefest officers to provide necessaries against his comming who riding without a cloak the weather being cold 〈◊〉 a ploughman to lend him his cloak till his returne which when the clowne refused to do he took it without leave but it cost him his life for ●● for the ploughman awaited the Dukes comming and directed his complaint unto him on this manner What availeth i● O● most noble Prince● to seek to suppres the courage of thieves and spoilers when as thy chiefest officers dare commit such things uncontrolled a● the Lieutenant of 〈◊〉 but now taken from me my cloak The Duke hearing this complaint and considering the cause dissembled his counsell 〈◊〉 his returne 〈◊〉 from Luneburge unto the same place where calling for his Lieutenant and rating him for his injury he commanded him to be hunged upon a tree A wonderfull severity in justice and worthy to be commended for what hope is it to root out small and pity thieves if we suffer grand thieves to go uncorrected There is another kinde of these practised of them that be in authority who under the title of confiscation assume unto themselves stollen goods and so much the re●dilier by now much the value of the things amounteth to more worth an action altogether unjust and contrary to both divine and humane lawes which ordain to restore unto every man his owne and truly he that in stead of restitution withholdeth the goods of his neighbour in this manner differeth no more from a 〈◊〉 than that the one stealeth boldly without fear the other ●n●orously and with great danger and what greater corruption of justice can there be than this For who would follow the Law upon a thiefe when he knoweth he shall rather run into further charge than recover any of his old losse Beside this it hapneth that poor small theeves are often drawne to the whip or driven to banishment of sent to the gallowes when rich grand theeves lie at their case and escape uncontrolled albeit the quality of their 〈◊〉 be far unequall according to the Poet The simple dove by law is censured When ravenou● 〈◊〉 escape unpunished The world was ever yet full of such ravenou● Ra●ens so nimble in pilling others goods and so greedy of their owne gain that the poor people in stead of being maintained and preserved in the peaceable enjoying of their portions are gnawne to the very bone● amongst them for which cause Homer in the person of Agamemnon calleth them devourers of men Likewise also the Prophet David in the 〈◊〉 Psalme calleth them Eaters of his people and yet want they not flatterers and 〈◊〉 friends canker wormes of a Common-wealth that urge them forwards and devise daily new kinde of exactions like horse-lead●es to suckt out the very bloud of mens purses shewing so much the more wit and deceit therein by how much the more they hope to gain a great part 〈◊〉 of unto their selves being like hunger-starved Harpeis that will never be fortified but still match and catch all that commeth near their 〈◊〉 and these are they that do good to no man but hurt to all of whom the Merchant findeth himselfe agrieved the Artificer trodden under foot the poor labourer oppressed and generally all men endammaged CHAP. XXXVIII Of the excessive burdenings of the Comminalty AS it is a just and approved thing before God to do honour and reverence to Kings and Princes and to be subject under them in all obedience so it is a reasonable and allowable duty to pay such tributes and subsidies whereby their great charges and honourable estate may be maintained as by right or equity are due unto them and this is also commanded by our Saviour Christ in expresse words when he saith Give unto Caesar that which is Caesars And by the Apostle Paul more expresly Pay tributes render unto all men their due tribute to whom tribute belongeth and custom to whom custom Marke how he saith Give unto all men their due and therein observe that Kings and Princes ought of their good and just disposition to be content with their due and not seek to load and overcharge their subjects with unnecessary exactions but to desire to see them rather rich and wealthy than poor and needy for thereby commeth no profit unto themselves Further it is most unlawfull for them to exact that above measure upon their Commons which being in mediocrity is not condemned I say it is unlawfull both by the law of God and man the Law of God and man is tearmed all that which both God and man allow and agree upon and which a man with a safe conscience may put in practise for the former we can have no other schoolmaster nor instruction save the holy Scripture wherein God hath manifested his will unto us concerning this very matter as in Deuteronomy the eighteenth speaking of the office and duty of a King he forbiddeth them to be hoorders up of gold and siluer and espousers of many wives and lovers of pride signifying thereby that they ought to contain themselves within the bounds of modesty and temperance and not give the raines to their owne affections nor heape up great treasures to their peoples detriment nor to delight in war nor to be too much subject to their owne pleasures all which things are meanes of unmeasurable expence so that if it be not allowable to muster together multitudes of goods for the danger and mischief that ensueth thereof as it appeareth out of this place then surely it is much lesse lawfull to levy excessive taxes of the people for the one of these cannot be without the other and thus for the Law of God it is clear that by it authority is not committed unto them to surcharge and as it were trample downe their poor subjects by