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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

by succession as Priestes had the charge ministery of that heathenish Religion It offended also the Iewes so that Christians for their Religion were tormented and good Father Symeon Archbishop of Seleucia was accused to Sapor the King Quasi Regni Religionis Persarum proditor as a spy and a betrayer of the Realme and of the Religion of the Persians reueiling the secretes of Persia to the Emperour of Rome Soz. libae cap. 8. and so was imprisoned and put to death with an hundred Christians The ground of these violences or rather vilanies is Religion But there is a difference betweene the true and false Religion The Religion of Ieroboam was a false and caluish Religion contrary to the Religion of the house of Dauid and therefore he made two calues of goold the one in Bethel the other in Dan made Priestes of the dregges and rascalles of the people 1 King 12. commaunding them that they shoulde no more sacrifice at Ierusalem in the house of the LORD and persecuteth the Prophetes and the professours of the true seruice of GOD. And this was a pretense of Religion But the Religion of Ezechias and of Iosias Kinges of Iuda was good Religion 2. Chron. 29. 35. to pull downe Images and all Idolatrie to restore the Lawe and the Bible of GOD and the true vse of the Sacramentes What other Religion is the Reformation of Queene Elizabeth then this of these Kinges And if their reformed Religion was commended by GOD and of al the godly why should the Religion now receaued from GOD and restored by Queene Elizabeth be condemned May not I iustlie say to the posterity of cruell Saul as Ionathan saide to his Father Saul What harme hath our Dauid doone 1. Sam. 19. more then oulde Dauid then Ezechias then Iosias did Why then will you sinne against innocent bloode and slaie Dauid with-out a cause Why dooth the Popish Saul of Rome the Supreme Vicar of CHRIST persecute the annointed of God and the handemaide of Christ Surely it is hee and none but hee that is Abishai in name The Pops is Abishal in name nature and in deede I saie the Romish Abishai that is the Father of bribes and giftes by corruption a taker and giuer inueigling and perswading the Potentates and people of the world to rebell and to murther the Lordes true annointed to rise and to take weapon against their owne naturall and lawefull Prince It is hee that blesseth and consecrateth with holy water and incense a sworde In defensionem S. Romanae Ecclesiae for the defense of the holy Church of Rome and for the reuenge of the Popes enemies and that in the solemne feast of the Birth of Christ which hee fendeth abroade as a present to some most Christian or most Noble Prince for the protection of his Catholicke Church against the true Catholicke faith of Christ which is not without a mystery C●r● Rom. Eccele lib. 1. Sect. 7. Fog●●rat hic pontificalis gladius potestatem summan● temporalem à Christ● Pontifici eius in terris vicario collatam i●xtae illud● Data est mihi omnis potest as in caelo interra E●alibi Dominabitur à marivsque ad mare This Pontifical sworde doth signifie the supreme temporal power giuen of Christ to the Bishop his vicar on earth Mat. 28. according to that saying Al power is giuen vnto me in heauen and in earth And in another place You shall haue dominion from sea to sea Behold what a fisher of men Peters successour is that fisheth for the dominion of all the woorld all is fish that commeth to his nette where with he draweth to himselfe that which is properly and truely spoken of Christ by Dauid vnles hee will also haue that which followeth That al kings shal adore Psal 72. and worshippe him and that his kingdome is eternall and before the Sonne But he wil prooue in the ende to bee that foolish fisher in Theocritus that dreamed he had caught a golden fish and waking he got not so much as a frog It is that Abishai that likewise scattereth abroade in Lent his consecrated golden roses to some Princes and also sendeth to the captains or stāderd-bearers of the Church of Rome Ibidem in C●rem his banners and armour likewise hallowed at a masse It is he that sendeth souldiors signed with the Crosse against Christian Emperours as against Frederike the Emperour who dooth signify to the King of England treasons conspiracies against him Jn Hem. 3. The practisers whereof being beseiged Matth. Paris were accompanied with Fryers and by them receiued the signe of the Crosse against him pretending the authority of the high Bishop by his Apostolicke letters ac praedictae mortis exhaeredationis nostrae summum Pontificem Greg. 9. sic asserunt incentorem affirming that the Supreme Byshoppe of Rome was the author of his disinheritaunce and destruction This Byshoppe of Rome taking occasion of the absence of Frederike being nowe in the seruice of Christ against the Turke as well to perfourme his vow in visiting the holie land as also to please the Pope notwithstanding this his daungerous viage and humble obedience he tooke from him his land in Apulia and Lombardie And when Frederike sent letters vnto the Pope of the honorable peace betwixt him and the Soldan wherein hee was forced to surrender vnto the saide Christian Emperour Ierusalem whereof he was crowned King and many other cities and wished him to publish that great ioy vnto all Christendome and to thanke GOD for that glorious victorie hee refused it and cast awaie the letters excommunicateth Frederike graunteth the Crosse and the crossed warre-fare against him as against an Infidel and Turke who at his commaundement fought valiauntly against the Turke Hee gaue out also at one time this false Alaram that he was dead and the souldiours of Germany and France that returned from the holy land hee put to cruell death that they should not tell the truth all which things wee may read in Carion Cuspinian and in Abbat Vrspergensis Lib. 3. And here the Author exclaimeth not without cause Who rightly considering such factes Ann. 1228. dooth not lament and detest them which seeme to bee signes and certaine prognostications of the ruine of the Church Greg. 9. The same Gregory by letters priuilie desireth the Soldan not to yeelde vp the holie land vnto the Emperour but as an enimie to kill him Cuspinian Against Friderick whosoeuer would fight had a pardon a promise of life euerlasting He about that time cōmanded to bee sung Salue Regina But beholde more faith charitie in the Turke then in the Pope for whē the Soldā had receiued letters from the Hospitalars Tēplaries how Friderick might be taken he detesting this treasō sent the letters vnto Friderick said vnto his own Counsailers Ecce fidelitas Christianorum Behold the fidelity of Christians A vile and

Emperour out of this life or bring him into the low order and base and bare condition of a priuate man In vi●a Hen● 4. not remembring that they did owe a peace vnto their country-men iustice to the Realme and fidelity to the Ring So far were these from the rule of obedience that desirous of their licentiousnes woulde hazard the seruitude of the country The desier of lucre is another motiue to treason 2. Cou●●●●nesse It was the couetous question of Iudas Quid vultis mihidare What will ye giue me Which maketh a number of malecontentes seditious troublers of a common-weale for apriuate commodity So that now the case is as in the time of Dauid When the Prince studieth peace Psal 110. and speaketh peaceablie they are ready to fight Their feete are swifte to shed bloode nay they knowe not the waie of peace Rom. 3. They will neither knowe nor haue peace They seem to be kinned to that mad souldiour that passing by the Church hearing them pray for peace Donanobis pacem was angry with them Phy quoth he Peace Manliue how shuld we liue Such a Prince Cor. Agrippa telleth of in Italy who being moued by the said Agrippa to take awaie that famous or rather infamous faction of Gibellines and Guelphians in his Territory Naie not so quoth hee confessing plainly it was not for his profit for that ther was brought into his coffers yearely about twelue thousand ducats by occasion of this faction De van●scienti This greedines is the cause that many being now become bankerupts vnthrifty born to consume to spend the fruits of the earth think by mutations and chaunges to recouer and to licke themselues whole This is the cause that mooueth some to fly from their countrie and captaines to serue straungers contrarie to the Law of GOD and man Nemo miles ab imperatore extraneo stipendium accipit saith Chrysoftome No man taketh wages of a forraine king or Emperor How much more wicked is it for Christians professing the gospel to be in seruice vnder the cōduct banner of a stranger both in nation and in religion that for mony bloud-gilt the reward of Iudas Quidagis Christiane sidomini hostē amicum habueris what dost thou o christian what auaileth thee if thou hast the enemy of the Lord to be thy friend The same Chrysostome hath these words in an homily De proditione Iuda There is a third kind of couetousnes not of these meane things but an insatiable desire of honor principality soueraignty Iulius Caesar imagining or rather dreaming of such a thing ●●●ic offi 1. for a kingdom a Monarchy brake the laws of God man This is pride and presūption when men wil not be content with Dauid to tary their time but wil aduēture by hook or crook by right by wrong to surmount 〈◊〉 lib. Dor●●i securè ●●rm 6 I reade of the Romans that they painted pride with a triple crowne Pope-like because as R. Holcot testifieth Holcot fol. 23● the proud man wil ouerrule al his equals his inferiours his superiours The first crowne hath this title Transcendo I surmount the second Non obedio I disobey the third Perturbo I trouble all which in verse is expressed somewhat otherwise in Holcot Effluo transcendo quo quis priuatur babendo Trāsmigrat genus exceditque homo qui nec obedit Turbor affligor perturbor vndiquelaedor Meaning therby that those that wil be climing transcendent and disobedient and troublesome must finde trouble and affliction themselues Another motiue of these rebellious interprises is Enuie Ingratitude 3. Enuie Enuie is a smoke that cā not abide the brightnes of good proceedings of her Maiesty that goeth about to smother obscure the blessings of God shining among vs in al prosperity felicity in the time of her gouernment Liuor tabific●m malis venenum Virgil. It is a poisō that gnaweth cōsumeth the vugodly that cānot abide the happy estate by which we enioy the gospel al spiriual consolation by which we haue the fruitiō of peace plenly if our sinfulnes vnthankfulnes do not abbridge vs. Promeritis male tractarunt Agamemnona Graeci The vnkind dogges monstrously rent Acteon their master Plut●●● Inuidia The ougly toad cannot abide the good sent of florishing vines Cantharides green worms though they haue their being succor in the tops of ashes in oliues sweet roses yet they wil shew their nature their iuice is poison and they wil make blisters tumbling and trouble in the common weat It is to be feared least by their vnthankefulnes and grudging this our prosperous and good estate which we haue many years by Gods goodnes seene felt wil be turned by his heauy displeasure into dearth and scarsity as since these newe traiterous enterprises we may if we be not blind see some experience Our too much plenty heretofore hath made vs wanton new fangled busie bodies not contented with our blessings of Manna as murmuring Israelites preferring before this heauenly felicity the garlick and flesh-pots of AEgypt or rather the burdens of intolerable taske-masters vnder Romish Pharao These benefites and this repining cannot long continue togither by the iustice of God and by the course of naturall thinges Too much rancknes beateth downe the corne and bowes are broken with the burden ouermuch aboundaunce of fruite commeth not to anie ripenesse as wise Seneca writeth euen so our prosperity I feare hath corrupted some of vs. and made vs forgetful of our duty towards God and our Prince Gregory the great when Popes were not so great but did acknowledge the soueraignty of Princes ouer them did wel confesse writing to one Theodore ●pish 103. a Physition in this maner Howe great benefites I haue receiued frō Almighty God from my most soueraign lord the Emperour my toung is not able to expresse Would to god our Gregoriās folowers fautors of the Pope wold haue such meditatiōs Another motiue and cause of these stirs 4 Religi●●● and tumultes is forsooth Religion A straunge Religion doubtlesse that teacheth men to murther Princes and Monarches of the world It was a pretence of Religion in Herod who told the wise men of the East Mat. 2. that hee was desirous to knowe where Christ was that he might worshippe him but his Religion was a ful entent to kill Christ True Religion is euer assaulted and unpugned by a false Religion Haman could not abide good Mardocheus nor the Iewes for their Religion calling their lawes new straunge Hest ca. 3. and differing from all people and so procured from Assuerus the King a bloody decree to destroy al the nation When the Christians in Persia Soz. l● c. 7. by reason of acquaintance and conuersation with the Osroens and Armenians had gathered a church and congregation to serue Christ that thing offended the Magicians or wise Diuines of Persia who

treachery of her owne children as by their default Euen so our king Egilred or as others terme him Ethelred complaineth in an Oration in this sort Wee are ouercome of the Danes not with weapon or force of armes but with treason wrought by our owne people The cause is opened by Matthaeus Westmonasteriensis Pag. 396. that when the King and his Sonne Edmond were like to haue the vpper hād against Cneuto or Canutus the King of the Danes Edrike Traitour Eadricus plaied the traytour went about by sleight and subtilty and allured of the Kinges Nauy forty shippes and he slipped to Canutus and subiected himselfe to his dominion whereby west-Saxonie and the Mercians with their horses and artillery offered themselues to him Intimatum est Regi quod nisi cautius sibi prouideret ipse à Gente propria hostibus traderetur It was priuily told the King that if hee did not prouide for himselfe more warily hee should bee berraied into the handes of his enemies by his owne nation I signified before how King Edmond surnamed Ferreum Latus Iron-side at Oxford being at the Priuy on Saint Andrewes night was slaine by the Sonne of Eadrik through the fathers instigation the father after the fact cōmeth to Canutus with this salutatiō Aue Rex solus Matth. Westmona pag. 402. Polyd. Vir. Ang. Hist lib. 7. Hail O King alone but he heard this his rewarde by Canutus Ego te hodie ob tanti obsequij meritum cunctis regni proceribus reddam celsiorem For this your great seruice I wil exalt you set you higher than al the Peers of the realm Periury and perdition or treason had in this realme euermore according to their desert When King Edward the Confessour kept his solemnity of Easter at Winchester at dinner Earle Goodwine being burthened at the table with the treacherous murder of his brother Aelfredus Earle Goodwin added to the murther periury and desired of God as hee was true and iust that the morsell of bread which hee held in his hand might neuer passe his throate if his brother by himselfe or by his counsail at any time were neerer to death A terrible example against forswearing and any way further from life so putting the bread into his mouth with an il conscience was choked by it When the King sawe him pale and without breath Carry out saith he this dog Jn vita Edwardi Confessor this traytour bury him in the quadrangle for he is vnwoorthy to enioy Christian burial Another traytor in the time of Egilred or Ethelred was Elfrik who being made Lieutenant of the Kings army left his Master Elfrick and took part with the Danes vpon the suddain when he should haue discharged vpon the enemies of the King and the country Polyd. Vir. lib. 7. but afterward being Admiral of the Kinges Nauy and destitute of all hope of preferment with the enemy because he returned to the King craued pardon his punishment was mitigated for he saued his life with the losse only of his eies In the time of King Edwarde the first the Scots breaking peace which they had made to their liege Lorde King of England and conspiring nowe with the king of Fraunce partly because Iohn Beliol by the king of England was made their King one Thomas Turbeuile more acquainted with chiualry than honesty Th. Turbeuile plaid on both sides promising to the French-men that by treason they should possesse the Kingdome of England vppon condition to receiue a large summe of mony land leauing for assurance his two children as Hostages And so that deceiuer returning from beyond the Sea tolde the King of England another Parasiticall tale howe hee escaped hardly out of prison how he had learned the weaknesse of Fraunce But here a crooked Snake lurked hee caried poyson mingled with hony wherewith they that touched it might be infected creeping into fauour into the secret counsels of the Realm set down al in writing directed thē to the Prouost of Paris This fraude fact being opened by the prouidence of God who is wel called of the autor Exterminator impiorū The destroier of the wicked declared to the king he was immediatly by sergeants apprehended bound with cordes carried to iudgement accused and by his owne confession condemned First laid vpon an Ox hide drawen at horse tailes thorough London guarded with disguised tormentours baited at railed on by the way mocked was hanged his body vnburied the people passing by scornfully asking Mat. West in Edou 1. Is this Thomas Turbeuile Whose Epitaph a versifier wrote in this sort That Turbeuile was a troubler of the tranquillity quietnes of the Realme therefore hee that would bee an hoate burning sparkle was become a dead spark himselfe as in those rythmes may appeere at large whereof this is the beginning Turbat tranquilla clam Thomas turbida villa Qui quasi scintilla fuit accidit esse fauilla In the time of Edward the second Andrew Earle of Carlile Andreas Hartlee created Earle of Carlile at York sent by the King into Scotland to King Robert to intreat of Peace made another matter turned it into a message for war priuily fraudulently to compasse the destruction of his owne King This though contriued secretly yet it was certified to the King hee immediatly at his returne vpon the commandement of the King Polyd. Vir. Hist Ang. lib. 18. was attached taken by the guard so by by cōuicted put to death Ita Andreas crucem sibi construxit ex qua penderet So Andrewe prepared for himselfe a Gallose to hang vpon made a rodde for his owne tasle In the time of Edwarde the third like conspiracies against the Prince had the like measure Polyd. l. 19. when Edmond Earle of Kent Roger Mortimer others were beheadded Thus you see exemplified by these traitors that which was by Lawes enacted as also by another example of an Italian indeuouring to betray Calice to the French An Ita●●● trick against Calice For when an English man had committed it vnto the Italian the French-man knowing the nature of that Nation to be most couetous of golde secretly dealt with him that he would sel the castle to him for twenty thousand crownes The Englishman being made priuy of this dissembleth all thinges driueth out the French and taketh them with them the principall cause of that treachery In the time of Richard the second there was a conspiracy of some Jn Epit. Frosardi lib. 1. Eccle. 10. Ansley and Carton that had in their mouth the Prouerbe of the Hebrues Woe be to the Land whose King is a Childe And of others euen in the court as of Iohn Ansley knight and of Hugh Carton minding with their complices to set vpon the King and to murder him although they two were enemies before yet in this made one agreeing too

old Oak a tree not of life to them but of death called by them the tree of Reformation The tree of Reformation but it was the tree of Absalom vppon the which Miles their Gunner and two of their false Prophets were executed for they trusted in vaine Prophecies which were partly vttered in these verses The country gnuffes Hob Dick Hick With clubs and clouted shoone Shal fil vp Dussin dale with bloode Of slaughtered bodies soone This prophecy was a dreame their captaine Ket crept into a corner but was openly put to death his other brethren were hanged in chaines the rest of meaner sort hearing the pardon proclaimed by an herauld of Armes cast downe their weapons and lifted vp their voices praying to God to preserue King Edward There brake out a new stur in Yorkshier In Yorkeshiere False Prophecies cause of rebellion by false prophecies by a fond misliking of the Kings proceeding But here also the captains that thought to raise a great flame and to set al on fier made but a smoke wherewith they were choked themselues namely a poore man William Ombler and a simple parish clerke Thomas Dale and such like All these ment vnhappily by extraordinary means to turn al the Lawes of God and ordinaunces of Princes topsie-turuie About that time of these rebellions wee had set foorth by the authority of the King to these rebels an Eloquent oration by a great learned man Sir Iohn Cheeke Schoolemaster to the King Sir I. Cheek grauely and pithily dehorting them from such vprores as contrary to Gods word the honour of a King and the safety of the comon-weale which in mine opinion would make any hard heart to melt These former and foolish attemptes in the beginning pernitious and tragicall in the end might haue persuaded our countrymen to haue learned by their fore-fathers to keepe themselues within their tedder compasse of obedience The Raign of Q. Elizabeth But alas our Soueraign Queen Elizabeth hath felt too much of their wilfull disobedience and they tasted somewhat of hir prouoked seuerity Wherefore did Thomas Pearcie Earle of Northūberland Charles Earle of Westmerlande against the Lawes of God and man by forcible meanes set vp Masses burne Bibles and bookes of Communion Why did they rise themselues when they might haue been quiet And raise the people which should haue been taught obedience Let the death of the one and the miserable flight of the other the execution of Parson Plumtree at Duresme and of others hanged and beheaded at Knaues Mire not farre from Yorke be instructions and examples for subiects These and many mo cannot warne vs neither the history of Iohn Story prouidently caught beyond the Seas and trimly shipped into this lande and afterward iustly executed vpon a newe paire of Gallowes euen at this day commonly bearing his name Saunders li. 7. de visibili Monarchia Ann. 1566. neither the terrible end of Iohn Felton who vpon Corpus Christi day at London at the Bishoppes gate published the Declaratory sentence of Pius Quintus Pope making this Realme of England and the Queenes Maiesty a pray and a spoil to our neighbours and to al nations neither the beggerly and lamentable state of Iames Desmond neither of Iohn Desmond bearing himselfe too bould vpon an Agnus Dei and a ring sent from the Pope neither of Nicolas Saunders himself the rebellous preacher to the Irish-men Saunders and the rest in the end taken with a frensie these al while they bend the vttermost of their wittes and of their forces against the Maiesty of our Prince whom the Maiesty of God hath enthronized they al I say haue but knocked their heels against the prick spurned to their owne destruction and to the confusion of that Popish sect By these and manie others neither Campion nor the rest of the Iesuites new Incommers Campion other Iesuites and Inmates in this Realme coulde beware neither yet by them other new cutters and practisers could be warned neither yet to this day the people coulde bee taught or perswaded but that their holy fathers Buls and Decrees Declarations must be obeyed and that his waxe and his lead and his Pontifical presentes consecrated by his execrable authority may preserue exempt them from al daungers touch of our law hereafter from al perill punishment either in hel or in purgatory I am to passe ouer at this time other examples and ordinaunces of other countries adioyning to vs as of Flaunders and Fraunce which wee must differre till another time if God will In the meane time let vs aliena frui insania by the madnes of these men learne to bee wise as many of our predecessors both Princes and learned men of this Vniuersity haue doone and know that the Queenes Maiestie hath waded no farther in these causes than other Kinges of this Land who haue broken the yee before King Stephen perceiuing that Theobald Arch-Bishoppe of Caunterburie brought Popish laws from Rome into Englande by decree of Parliament condemneth them burned them as hurtful to a common weale Iohn Bale cent 2. in ape●●lice as Iohn Sarisbury beareth witnes in his eight book and two twentith chapter of Polycrat King Richard the second also molested with Romish affaires and tyranny of the Pope in Parliament holden at Westminster decreed and enacted that it shoulde bee lawfull for no man for any cause to pleade before the Byshoppe of Rome Polyd. Vir. lib. 20. for excommunication of any English-man by his authoritie and if anie such commaundement came from him it shoulde not bee executed vpon paine of losse of all their gooddes and perpetuall imprisonment and therefore great marueile that any such sentence of excommunication from such a forreiner and vsurper against our gracious Prince shuld in these daies of more knowledge by our countrimen be either receiued or harkned to or feared You dearly beloued I hope wil not and that you may not take an example by old Oxford Studentes who could ne would like of a Bull of Gregory directed against Iohn Wicliffe and therefore are chidden of the Pope that would suffer cockle and darnel of his heresie to grow among pure wheat in the beutifull fieldes of their Vniuersity You may also cal to minde that are ancients the daies of Henry the eight and Edward the sixt and iustifie the thinges to be true which I haue alleadged and much more which might bee said to this purpose to the proofe of this argument of Dauid that whosoeuer laieth hand of the lords annointed shal not be accounted innocent but shal be plagued for it The Lord giue vs grace to haue this doctrine fixed and setled in our heartes and expressed in our liues To whom bee all honour c. 1. SAM 26. 9 And Dauid said to Abishai Destroy him not for who can laie his hande on the Lords annointed and bee guitlesse 10 Moreouer Dauid said As the