the olde law who as they say by vertue of their Priesthood haue deposed and depriued Kings from their seates which power they labour to deriue and appropriate to the Popes office I will name but two of them in two examples 1 Cardinall Allen alleadgeth Azarias the high Priest who with â—o other Priests put downe Ozias smitten with leprosie by force out of the Temple and depriued him of his regall authority Ergo say they it is lawfull for the high Priest that is the Pope to driue hereticall Kings that is spirituall Leapers out of the Temple of Gods Church and Territories of their kingdome by excommunication which is a separation and then by deposition which is a finall depriuation of them and deputation of some other Regent as Azarias committed the kingdome to be then gouerned by Iotham his sonne Wee answere as some of our Church haue answered That Azarias did not depriue Ozias of his regall power for he held it to his dying day onely his sonne Iotham as a kinde of Viceroye was surrogated because the immediate hand of God had smitten him with leprosie for his leprosie he was punished to liue apart a priuate life not to be depriued of his inheritance Ambition couetousnesse yea all sinne is a leprosie hath not the Pope such a contagion why then he may as well be depriued of his Miter being a grand sinner and so a great leaper as any other Indeed Ozias or Vzziah greatly sinned in presuming to vsurpe the Priests office transgressing against the Lord in going into the Temple to burne incense vpon the Altar of incense and Azariah with the other Priests withstood Vzziah the King telling him it pertained not to him to burne incense but to the Priests the sonnes of Aaron consecrated to offer it and was smitten of the Lord for it with leprosie and so liued apart according to the Law yet still was King in esse though not in execution 2 Cardinall Bellarmine alleadgeth Iehoiada the High Priest who commanded Athalia the Queene to bee slaine and Ioash to succeed implying an inference that so it is lawfull for Popes to doe the like We answer that Athalia an vsurper and murderer killing all the royall seed excepting only the secretly preserued Ioash the vndoubted heyre of the Crowne beeing proclaimed and annointed King with a generall consent of all Iehoiada by the authority of the King and not as High Priest but rather tanquam regis patruus Protector as his Kinsman and Protector the King being in his minority seauen yeares olde and Iehoiada being his Allye hauing married the Kings Anâ— and so bound by the Law of Nature and Nations to defend the Kings right and to reuenge the tyranny of a bloudy Queen against the Kings killed progeny and Iehoiadaes commandement was confirmed by the Kings authority and with the common consent and Counsell of the land not as being High Priest but as chiefe of his Tribe to reuenge the crying bloud of the royall offspring murthered by vsurping Athalia to depriue her of her vsurped regiment and life what is this to depose a lawfull King by the authority of the Pope Kings shall anguste sedere as Tully said to Caesar haue quaking Scepters vnquiet seates and narrow limits if the Pope haue power to depriue them of their power state But to passe ouer other the like examples alleadged by Romanists in this kinde I will touch those foure things which they obiect and say doe dissolue regall right and make Kings who are culpable of such faults to forfeit their Crownes 1. Tyranny 2. Infidelity 3. Heresie 4. Apostacy The Popish assertions heerein runne in the affirmatiue that all or any one is sufficient to depriue a King of his Crown The opinions of Protestants run in the negatiue that none of these are sufficient to make a King forfeit his dignity and Diademe To begin with the first Tyranny doth not cut off a King from his soueraignty Who a greater Tyrant then King Saul who hunted after Dauids soule to take it yet who was so faithfull among all his seruants as Dauid confessed by Sauls owne mouth To be more righteous then he for thou hast rendred mee good and I haue rendred thee euill yea this Saul such a tyrant that he commanded Doeg to fall vpon the Lords Priests and Doeg at his commandement flew sounescore and fiue persons that did weare a linnen Ephod and did smite Nob the Priests City with the edge of the sword both man and woman childe and suckling oxe and asse and sheepe with the sword Yet Dauid no priuate or plebeâ—an subiect but a man by Gods commandement designed for the Kingdome cheefe Captaine and Coronel of Sauls Army and heire apparent to the Crowne and hauing opportunity to depriue Saul of his life and importunity of his followers to doe the deed yet heare his voice The Lord keepe me from doing that thing vnto my Master the Lords Annointed to lay my hand vpon him for he is the Lords Annointed and the same Dauid to Abishai Destroy him not for who can lay his hand vpon the Lords Annointed and be guiltlesse O heauenly voice of holy Dauid how different are Popelings from Dauids resolution Occasionem victoria Dauid habebat in manibus incantum securum aduersarium sine labore poterat iugulare advictoriam opportunitas hortabatur sed obstabat Diuinorum memoria mandatorum non mittam manum in vnctum Domini repressit cum gladio manum dum timuit oleum seruauit inimicum As most elegantly and excellently writes Optatus Dauid had a present occasion of security of victory and might without any difficulty or danger haue killed his vnkind and vnconsiderate enemy opportunity might haue pressed him to it but the remembrance of Gods commandements stay his hand Touch not my Annointed This keepes backe the hand and sword and fearing the regall oyle fauours a dismall enemy Now Tyranny may be of two kinds either of vsurped regiment and dominion without any ciuill title and interest hauing no titular foundation but violent vsurpation and herein subiection is not necessary Quoad obedientiam if Quoad Sustâ—…ntiam Herein patience more requisite then obedience 2 Kind is when ordinary and lawfull power degenerates into tyranny and cruelty by abuse and herein Papists giue liberty Tyrannum occidere licet It is lawfull to kill a Tyrant contrary to Dauid God forbid that I should lay mine hand vpon the Lords Annointed 1 Sam. 26. 11. Meaning Saul a Tyrant by abuse but not by vsurpation but we haue handled this before and therefore leaue it 2. Infidelity doth not depriue a King of his regiment Oh but replies the Papist All title to Dominion hath foundation in the grace of Iustice Charity and Piety so that by impiety or infldelity they make forfeiture of their authority Answer It is prouidence not grace that disposeth ciuill titles grace not prouidence that makes them
comfortable In a spirituall sense impious and vnfaithfull men are vsurpers I meane by a spirituall right for godlinesse hath the promises of this life yet haue they a ciuill and sure title among men by birthright succession election or other acquisition by which titles such rights are deuolued to them that we say with Saint Austen Qui dedit Mario ipse Caesari He that gaue dominion to Marius the same gaue it to Caesar he that to Augustus the same to Nero he that to gentle Vespasian the same to bloody Domitian he that to Constantine the Christian the same to the Apostate Iulian for the Kingdome is the Lords and hee ruleth among Nations the most High hath power ouer the Kingdome of Men and giueth it to whomsoeuer hee will and appointeth ouer it the most abiect among men saith Daniel and suffereth for the sinnes of the people a Kingdome to be translated from one people to another yea an hypocrite or infidell to reigne ouer them neither must man seeke to displace or dispossesse an Infidell King but say with Dauid Either the Lord shall smite him or his day shall come to die or hee shall descend into battell and perish knowing the saying of the sonne of Syrack to be true Tyranny is of small indurance and he that is to day a King to morrow is dead 3. Heresie is not sufficient to depriue a King of his temporall Inheritance Popish Diuinity is herein knowne let Bellarmine be the mouth of all the rest Christians are not bound nor may with the euident danger of Religion tollerate an vnbeleeuing King when Kings and Princes become heretickes they may be iudged of the Church and bee deposed from the gouernement neither is there any wrong done them if they be deposed If any Prince of a sheepe become a wolfe that is to say of a Christian become an Hereticke the Pastor of the Church by excommunication may driue him away and withall command the people that they follow him not and so depriue him of his dominion ouer his Subiects so farre goes the Cardinall Now who are Heretickes All those Kings which decline from the Papacy and denie his Supremacy The Cardinall thinkes as much Regnante Constantino florebat fides Christiana c. While Constantine reigned the Christian Faith flourished when Constantius ruled Arrianisme when Iulian Ethnicisme when Henry the eighth and Edward the sixth Luthenarisme when Elizabeth Caluinisme prospered All Protestant Princes by the verdict of the Pope and his Parasites be Hereticks and so consequently to be deposed if this their heresie which yet is the Catholicke verity and sincere and sound profession of the Gospell be accompanied with the Popes excommunication and yet it is a great question and neuer yet proued by the Scripture that Kings are subiect to this censure of excommunication it is disputed much both wayes and let it be yeelded for argument sake Ex abundante That Saint Ambrose did iustly with Theodosius in that abstention for I doubt whether it was a complete excommunication for a King is subiect to the presbyteriall Cure not Court to be informed in his conscience in the Pulpet not to be corrected in the Consistory by punishment to be directed not iudged or remoued from the company of his faithfull Subiects much lesse to be deposed or depriued of his regiment ouer them yet let it bee granted for argument sake that Princes may be subiect to the censure of excommunication which yet is sparingly to be vsed against Princes as Austen counselleth yet though the sentence of excommunication be direfull making them for a time as Ethnicks Sit tibisicut Ethnicus saith our Sauiour Let him be vnto thee as an Heathen Man or Publicane It is tanquam nonplusquam as an Heathen man not worse then an Heathen Man Loyalty and obedience to Ethnicke Kings is to be performed as the precepts and presidents of Christ and his Apostles plainly teach all The spirituall sword onely depriues of spirituall rights to depriue him of the Sacrament not of the Scepter shuts out of the Kingdome of Heauen not meddles with the Kingdome of Earth Excommunication is not an extirpation it serues not to take away any mans temporall goods of body or life or Kingdome on Earth it hath power ouer sinnes not ouer possessions as Bernard to Pope Eugenius It serues to tame the soule not to terrifie or destroy the body it cannot bind Kings that they should not reigne or absolue Subiects that they should not obey or depose Kings from their regall authority by which pretence of diuellish pollicy in challenging a spirituall power of Kings excommunication the Pope hath plagued the World with many temporall rebellions 4. Apostacy takes not away Soueraignty Iulian an apparent Apostate and wicked Idolater as Saint Austen cals him yet as the same Father speakes of it Milites Christiani seruierunt huic Imperatori infideli quando dicebat producite aciem iâ—…ra illam gentem statim obtemperabant The Christian Souldiers serued this Infidel Emperor and when he called to produce the Army or to goe against any Nation they presently obeyed not because they wanted power to resist for his whole Army for the most part were Christians as their voices to Iouinian Iulians Successor testifie Omnes vna voce confessi sunt se esse Christianos They all confessed with one accord that they were Christians but their obedience grounded vpon Saint Austens reference Subiectes fuisse propter Dominum aternum Domino temporali Subiect to their temporall Lord for the eternall Lords sake And though some of the great Diuines of Rome say that the Apostles were subiect to Infidell or apostate Princes and many Martyrs obedient because they wanted power to resist and that they might haue lawfully resisted if they had had strength when rather I may say with Tertullian that they had power but might not lawfully resist The Apostles were no Temporizers to command to pray for Nero if the time and not the truth had not moued them to doe it for conscience sake Shall Subiects for Heathen or wicked Kings be enioyned to poure forth prayers supplications and withall be willing if they haue power to poure out their Soueraignes blood The Prophet Ieremy exhorted the exiled Iewes to offer vp their prayers for the life of the King of Babylon hee would not haue willed them to haue prayed for their persecutor if it had beene a duty contrary to Christian profession or for lacke of power to fall to supplication VVhen King Assuerus had made a decree to kill and destory all the Iewes both yong and old children and women in one day what doe they rebell or rise vp in armes to resist with violence No no sorrow and fasting weeping and mourning sackecloth and ashes are their weapons When Iulian the Apostate threatned the Christian World Lachrimae vnicum medicamentum aduersus eum saith
thy truths sake Be euer thankefull to God and then he will euer be mindfull of you to blesse you the Lord will increase his graces towards you euen toward you and your children therefore praise the Lord from henceforth and for euermore for he hath not dealt so with euery Nation and if our deseruing were put into the lottery of other people wee should bee rewarded with a blanke Gods loue and gracious fauour to vs is ignis accendens fire to set vs on fire Let our thankefulnesse to God be ignis accensus a fire flaming to God in all zeale loue duety thankes seruice and deuotion God hath set England as it were vpon an hill a spectacle to all Nations strengthened by sea and land ad miraculum vsque to the admiration of all people blessed it with an extraordinarie peace prosperity of long continuance we are the worlds enuie let vs not become their declamation Nothing but our vnthankefulnesse to God our licentiousnesse in life our disobedience to his Word our securitie in sin our contempt of good meanes and mercies offered can worke our ouerthrow and these if we doe not drowne them quickly in the riuers of repentance so one may breed and bring our wofull downefall The Lord hath blessed this land with great and gracious blessings in it the golden bels of Aaron are powerfully rung the word by faithfull teachers mouingly deliuered Oh let our perpetuall prayers praises and thanks ascend to heauen because Gods graces and mercies plentifully descend to earth Et si desint gratiae quia nos ingrati If any grace be wanting it is because we want grace to be thankefull for this our happy gouernment hauing a prosperous peace and that which is the procurer of peace with God and men that blessed passage of the Gospell Si totum me debeo pro me facto quid debeo pro me refecto saith a Father If wee owe God our selues for our creation what doe we owe vnto him for our regeneration preseruation and saluation We therefore that haue tasted of the great cup of Gods mercy let vs with Dauid take the cup of saluation giue thanks and praise the name of the Lord let vs praise God for these aboundant mercies and euer pray vnto him to preserue the happy instrument of manifold benefits and blessings to vs our most dread and deare Soueraigne duty bindeth vs to this taske our owne welfare mooues vs to this duety for his prosperity is our tranquillity his safety is our felicity the blessing redounds to vs and if he should miscarry which God forbid we should be partakers of his misfortunes Therefore be alwaies obedient and diligent to serue our royall Head golden in all vertues and princely perfections in all loyall and Christian dueties louing his Highnesse in our hearts which is the best earthly defence for a King Inexpugnabile munimentum est amor ciuium saith Seneca The loue of the people is an inuincible munition and as that great Rabbi of pollicie Machiauel hath set it downe for a sure rule Contra regem quem omnes magnifaciunt difficilis coniuratio oppugnatio irruptio Against that King whom all highly esteem and reuerence conspiracy or treachery is very difficult or if attempted seldome succeedes Let vs bee in pace Lepores but in praelio Leones in peace like Hares timerous to offend his Grace in any way of disobedience but like Lions fight for him against all his enemies with an vnwearied courage vndanted magnanimity ioyning with our fighting hands our feruent prayers to God like faithfull Israelites against all rebelling Amalekites Oratio coelos penetrat hostes in terravincit saith Origen Prayers pierce heauen and ouercome enemies on earth plus precando quam praeliando more by praying then by fighting Dauids encountring with Goliah in the name of the Lord was more powerfull then his fling and fiue stones Let vs make it one part of our daily praiers to God to keepe our King as the apple of his eye and hide him vnder the shadow of his wings to saue him from all enemies bodily or ghostly to consume them in his wrath consume them that they bee no more let them know that God ruleth in Iacob euen vnto the ends of the world beseeching God of his great mercie euer to prosper this most peaceable and puissant Monarchie of great Brittaine Arise vnto it as vnto thy resting place Turne not away thy face from thine Anointed who hath now happily to our immeasurable ioy worne the imperiall Diadem of great Brittaine these 15. * yeares Many more happie and prosperous yeares wee pray to be continued prolong his daies O Lord as the daies of heauen and grant that his Highnesse and his Princely posterity may in these kingdomes reigne so long as the world endureth Enlarge and enrich his royall heart with all Regall gifts and Diuine graces sutable for his high calling Saue and defend him from the tyranny or treachery of all forraine and Antichristian power and from the plots and proiects of domestical aduersaries Let them couer themselues with their confusion as with a cloake Blesse his most gracious spouse and bedfellow Queene Anne let thy Angels O Lord encampe about her to guide guard her in a safe protection and euer continue thy most heauenly hand of benediction vpon the high mighty Prince Charles the famous Prince of Wales the second ioy of great Britaine Lord looke vpon him from heauen Giue thy iudgements vnto the King and thy righteousnesse vnto the Kings Sonne Teach him O Lord in his tender yeares like a good Iosias to learne and loue thy true religion the way to winne the eternall Crowne of life Be gracious O Lord to the County Palatine of Rhene Fredericke Prince Elector and to his most vertuous and gracious wife Princesse Elizabeth with their Princely progenie O Lord preserue them with thy mightie and out-stretched arme giue them a most happy peace and prosperity in a Princely honor felicity all the daies of their liues O Lord scatter the deuices of the crafty that their hands may not accomplish any wicked thing they do enterprise Confound all them that haue ill will at Sion that repine at the peace of the Church the welfare of great Britaine the prosperity of his Maiesty his royall progenie that howsoeuer they haue shift of faces and maske vnknowne yet let vs pray that that stone which is cut without hands may breake the Images of such Traitors in peeces giuing him victory ouer all his enemies Cloath them all with shame but vpon him let his Crowne flourish and grant him an happy multiplication of many prosperous yeares to renew with many returnes these our cordiall and annuall Ioyes long to sit vpon his Throne and make his foes his footstoole And let high and low rich and poore young and old yea let Heauen and earth
their royall Master and Soueraigne should say to them as Pharaoh to Ioseph Thou shalt be ouer my house and at thy word shall all my people be armed onely in the Kings throne will I be aboue thee yet that will not content them yea though they should be raised so high that as Seneca Nihil foelicitati eorum deest nisi moderatio eius Nothing is wanting to their happinesse but moderation and discretion to vse it yet still ambition eggs them with Dulce regnare O what a sweet thing it is to rule to be second to none to command all and therefore to obtaine this affected Soueraignety vse all desperate and diabolicall policies yea many giuing ouer themselues to Necromancy and to contract with the Deuill to haue his helpe to come to regall authority and at last like Lucifer are brought low Thy pompe is brought downe to the graue the worme is spred vnder thee and the wormes couer thee Quem vidit veniens dies superbum Hunc vidit fugiens Dies iacentem To day all knees bow and reuerence Haman and loe shortly Haman was hanged on the gallowes that he prepared for Mordecai neque enim lex iustior vlla est Quà m necis artifices arte perire sua A iuster Law there cannot be Then punish blood in like degree These ambitious climers seldome escape without a fall and then as well a Father Non est tanti gaudij excelsa tenere quanti moeroris est de excelsis corruere It is not so great a ioye to be exalted as to be againe deiected and especially by their owne action and ambition And therefore O ye noble and promoted Peeres beware of this bewitching Circe a false and vnfortunate Syren Ambition which would euer tempt and temper with you to aspire higher which infirmity is incident to greatnes as Tully Est in hoc genere hoc molestum quod in magnanimis munificis saepius incidit potentiae cupiditas In this kinde this is most troublesome that in great men valiant and liberall this desire of power rule is incident which aspiring fancy hath ouerthrowne many a noble family when as others content with their lot be it prope or procul a Ioue haue beene procul a fulmine accepting with thanks their roome and ranke allotted to them haue finished their race on earth in a comfortable peace with God and men And surely if men had eyes in the hinder part of their head as they haue before to obserue how many inferiours they haue who would be glad to be blessed with the tithe of their fortunes they would not be ambitious or haue enuious eyes to repine to haue a few superiours but would thankefully say with the Psalmist My lot is fallen vnto me in a good land I haue a goodly heritage and would neuer beat their braines or flatter their soules with ambitious dreames and charmes of pride like him who said I will exalt my throne aboue beside the starres of God I will ascend aboue the height of the clouds I will be like the most High or crooke in their nayles to keepe them sharpe for a day hoping by some commotion to come to promotion or enterprize to vndermine King and State by treachery hoping by some strange stratagem to intrude into Caesars chaire and though they should possesse it but an howre yet would aduenture all to sit one howre in a regall throne O caecas hominum mentes ô pectoracaeca But the shame of such treacherous and vaine glorious spirits haue euer exceeded their glory and their punishment greater then their aduancement In a word if you affect true honour enter the gate of humility and passe the gate of vertue and that is the right way to honor aspire by honourable and commendable meanes and let your merits make you exalted be not ambitious with proud Icarus to mount too neere the Sunne lest your wings bee scorched for pride goes before destruction and an high minde before the fall therefore let him that standeth take heed lest hee fall CHAP. VI. I Might in the next place propound Pride as chiefe mouer of Treason which as Hugo writes rides in a Coach drawen with foure horses Ambition Vaine-glory Contempt and Disobedience all ready to run the race of Treachery if the reynes be loose Or I might mention Enuy Discontentment of minde vpon some inward corruption or outward vexation or desire of reuenge misliking the punishment or disgrace of their most affected friends or some other sinister causes which some traitors may harbour in their hearts and if I had Momus wished window to looke into their breasts I might the better discouer and discourse of them But to pretermit these and many others which might be alleadged I will onely insist vpon one because I will be the larger in it the very radicall and efficient cause of cursed treachery in these latter dayes namely the seditious doctrine or rather heresie of Iesuiticall and moderne popery teaching that the Pope may depose Kings absolue subiects from Allegiance or to vse the words of their owne Carerius Papa habet potestatem remouendi reuocandi corrigendi puniendireges c Et hoc tenendum vera fide tanquam naturalis moralis diuina lex Dei The Pope hath power to remoue reuoake correct and punish Kings and this is to be holden with a true beleefe as the very Naturall Morall and Diuine Law of God and therefore the Iesuites haue made it an Article Doe you beleeue that the Pope can put the Queene from her authority Ans I doe beleeue it From the seed of this serpentine doctrine the Doctrine of Deuils it is That the Pope can excommunicate Kings depose them from their Thrones free Subiects from obedience and if they doe excidere fall from them the next is occidere to kill them for deponere a throno is exponere periculo to depose them from their throne is to expose them to deadly perill capitis diminutio to depriue them of their kingdome is as much as capitis obtruncatio to cut their throats Si Paparegem deponat ab illis tantum poterit expelli vel interfici quibus ipse id commiserit saith the Iesuite Suarez If the Pope depose a King of them onely hee is to be expelled or killed to whom the Pope shall commit that businesse and addes after That if the Pope shall declare a King to be an heretike and fallen from his kingdome without further declaration touching the execution then the lawfull successor beeing a Catholicke hath power to doe the feate or if he refuse it it appertaineth to the body of the kingdome The cruell Cannibals may become prentises to these Iesuites the Masters to teach rules to murther Kings the ring leaders of rebellion and trumpeters of treason telling and teaching the people That Subiects are released from the oath of Allegiance giuen to Princes
if the Pope denounce them excommunicate and may driue cut hereticall Kings from their kingdomes as Wolfes saith Bellarmine or if they be not apparent but secret hereticks saith Symancha yea not them onely but their sonne and followers are to be rooted out as Creswell agrees with Symancha by any meanes whatsoeuer saith Saunders eyther by open force as Iezabel by Iehu or by craft as Holophernes by Iudith say Raynoldus and Bourchier or by knife and dagger whereby Henry the third Henry the fourth were murthered for fauouring them whom they terme hereticks Yea before any sētence denounced against them or by dagges and poyson as Queene Elizabeth assaulted as Walpoole and Comensus perswaded or by Gunpowder as lately appeared ratified by Iesuites and popish Priests Garnet Gerard Oldcorne Greenewell c. So that I may rightly say Iesuiticall Papisme is the Catechisme of Treason teaching Subiects that their Emperor or King may be depriued by the Pope and the right of their kingdome conueyed ouer to others and if they will not acknowledge it they must be constrained by Armes eyther of their owne Subiects or other Catholike Princes if the Pope will haue it so yea euen to part with their kingdome and life also saith Francis Bozius lib. 2. c. 14. Yea that the Pope is directly Lord of things temporal the Ruler and Monarke of the world saith the same Bozius and so consequently to haue power to depose Kings and dispose of kingdomes so that I may truely affirme that which once one of the kings of America said to a Spaniard telling him of the diuision and disposition of Pope Alexander the sixt concerning the new-found part of the world the King answered That the Pope was not the Vicar of a good God but of a Deuill who would giue that to others which did not belong vnto him and surely in nothing doth the Pope more liuely shew himselfe to be Sathans Vicar then in medling with the kingdomes of the world and the glory of them and arrogating the Deuils title All these will I giue thee if thou wilt fall downe and worship me yet Christ would not be a King or a diuider for his Kingdome was not of this world nor Peter would not cast Nero out of his throne by the Thunderbolt of excommunication or deposition nor any of the Apostles take from Caesar his Scepter or Subiects or Kingdome or life yet he that brags he succeedes Simon Peter Simon I grant but not Peter will by his excommunication binde Kings that they may not reigne and Subiects that they may not obey which is to vse Vrspergensis wordes a diuellish Art which hath brought in treachery vnder the cloake of religion dangerous to Kings and damnable to Subiects But it hath beene the Popes policie a long time to make discord among Kings and rebellion among Subiects for it is well obserued that foure things specially haue raised the Pope 1 The diuision of the Empire 2 The departure of the Emperor out of Italy 3 The dissention of Kings 4 The rebellions and treasons of people And the speciall motiue of this fourth Monster Rebellion hath beene the diab olicall doctrine of seditious and bloudy Romanists not Masse but Mars-Priests teaching and tempering with the people that all the dominion of the world both diuine and humane was in Christ as man and so now it is in the Pope the vicar of Christ as Carerius writes That Christ committed to Peter the key-keeper of eternall life the right of earthly and heauenly gouernment and that in his place the Pope is vniuersall Iudge the King of Kings and Lord of Lords as an other writes by vertue of this pretended claime of Peters successor and Peters primacy that they may doe any thing and as Platina writes in the life of Gregory that he accustomed to vse these words Nos nos imperia regna principatus quicquid mortales habere possunt auferre posse c. We are able to take away Empires Kingdomes Principalities or whasoeuer mortall men can haue for the Pope cries like Plintes frogge Mihi terra lacusque Both earth and Sea belong to his See nay Purgatory is part of his patrimonie And all this Pope like Maiesty is deriued from Peter yet he loaths his mantle and puts on Aarons miter Peter saith he was a Primate of all I succeede Peter therfore may excommunicate Kings and then depose them free Subiects from obedience vnto them and by vertue of the words in S. Peters vision Arise Peter kill and eat that is as Baronius doth fondly glosse it Goe Pope kill and confound the Venetians or as the same Cardinall to prouoke Paul the fifth against the Venetians saith Mee thinkes I see sitting in Peters chaire Gregory the seauenth and Alexander the third both issuing out of the City of Senes whence your Holines takes your beginning whereof the one did bring vnder Henry that obstinate Emperor the other Fredericke c You must take in hand the same quarrell Thus make they their Lord of the seauen hilled City a bloudy Bishop a striker and a fighter contrary to Pauls Canon a man of bloud and a warrier and all this must be cloaked vnder the colour of Peters chaire this holy-water sweetens the Harlots cuppe as if religion and rebellion sprung out of one blade as if faith had a knife to kill and to teach grace to destroy nature Thus these impostors not Pastors raise rebels and preach the murther of Gods Annointed inuenting opinions ' of excommunication of Kings deposition absolution of subiects from obedience which questions are all like spirits sooner raised then put downe beeing patronized by the deuoted Champions of the Popes chaire Bellarmine Allen Carerius Perron Symancha Suarez Philopater Saunders Creswell Reynolds Parsons Becanus c. laborious vassals to ambitious Popes whose publishing of these pernicious errors hath ouerthrowne many popish Families brought a torture to their Consciences punishment to their karcasses infamy to their progeny scandall to their religion for attempting treason vnder pretence of their Romish profession But let vs consider though by way of digression how and by what meanes this ambitious Antichrist hath aspired to this arrogant altitude to set his chaire aboue Kings thrones and to challenge a power to depriue Kings and to make or vnmake temporall Monarkes a matter which requires a large volume if we should fully describe their policy in rising and ruling but I will but epitomize it contracting it into a short Compendium it being by many learned Diuines in their seuerall workes more amply discouered CHAP. 7. THE exaltation of Popes aboue Emperors and Kings did first especially begin in Pope Boniface the third who obtained of Phocas that murdered his Master and Emperour Mauritius to be created the vniuersall Bishop So that the Pope is indebted to a King-killer for the glory of his kingdome and euer since he hath made much
voide of Diuinity and Logick which the learned hisse at which yet goes for currant arguments among ignorant Papists who in the Infancy of their knowledge haue no skill and iudgement to discerne these things yet are so ouercarried yea infatuated with a doting fancy to beleeue any thing which is cloaked with a pretence of Catholike Truth or Doctrine of the Church of Rome that with great applause they will accept of these or the like vnlearned follies being like vnto that Frenchman in Geneua of whom Zanchius speakes that he protested If Saint Paul and Caluin should preach at the same houre that he would leaue Paul and goe to Caluin So these will euen deny Scripture to beleeue and cleaue to their Doctors and they know how to seduce them well enough making them firmely beleeue that Peter was the Primate and Prince of all the Apostles and that the Pope succeeds him in all his prerogatiues and sits in Peters Chaire So that we may say with Simeones Who when he saw Arsacius an vnlearned and vnworthy man placed in Chrysostomes roome cried out in these words Prohpudor quis cui Oh shame who and whom So wee may censure the Popes sitting in Peters Chaire Oh shame who and whom Peter was carefull to teach preach but for the Popes many of them cannot and all will not preach the Gospell Their Bennet that was Pope when he was not ten yeeres old and Iohn not aboue sixteene as their deare Baronius sayes oh then how worthily was Peters place supplied how able they were to feed the vniuersall flocke and to be the Supreame Heads of the Christian World And many of their Popes haue beene condemned and conuicted hereticks by themselues as * Marcellinus for idolatry worshipping Pagan Gods Liberius for Arrianisme Honorius the first was a Monothelite hereticke condemned for it in three generall Councels Gregory the 12 and Bennet the 13 deposed for notorious heretickes and schismatickes and many others oh then how was Peters Chayre adorned his place supplied the vniuersall flocke gouerned the Supremacy managed the Church edified Proâ—pudor quis cui How is Peters Chayre disparaged by a pretence of such vile Successors yea how opposite is the Pope to Peter or if you wil this Sir Peter or Pope-Peter to Saint Peter light and darkenesse are not more dislike Preaching Peter commanded all Feare God Honor the King Submit your selues c. Not onely to the good and curteous but to the froward for this is thanke worthy if a man for conscience sake toward God endure greefe suffering wrongfully But princely Pope-peter vnlooses men at his pleasure from their alleagiance and obedience to good and gracious Princes if they will not bow their Scepters to his Miter and will depriue them of their Crownes and if he can of their liues too being blasted by excommunication then proceed to deposition and to make it take better effect hee will authorize murder and rebellion yet all this vnder a faire vizard of spirituall good and for the saluation of soules but Quic quid id est timeo Danaos dona ferentes Beware of these same Pope-pilles sugred ouer yet full of deadly poyson Peter his precepts and patterne compared with the Popes practise argue a plaine separation or secession no succession Peter commanded and performed obedience to Princes excommunicated none deposed none depriued none freed no Subiects from alleagiance or excited them to any resistance but suffred if we may credit their Register to proue his being at Rome as a Martyr yet these Princes were no Catholickes yea Heathens Was it because hee wanted power as some haue dreamed why he had the power of Miracles hee could doe that which neuer any Pope did or shall doe Surge ambula Acts 3. 6 Arise and walke which had power to heale a creeple from his Mothers wombe He raised the dead to life yea sont the liuing to death could with his shadow heale the â—icke Wanted he power no rather he wanted this pride and impiety wherewith the Pope swels and abounds he knew that his Kingdome promised by Christ was not of this World here the Kings of the Gentiles should reigne ouer him and his fellow Disciples but hereafter in the heauenly Kingdome they should sit vpon seates and iudge the twelue Tribes of Israel But this Pope-Peter or prince-like Pope fearing his Kingdome is not of that world would faine erect vp his Monarchy in this world and would sit vpon his seate or chayre to iudge all the Tribes of the world and would faine be a Iudge ouer the Tribe of Iudah to make Kings be subiect to his Ferula and Rod of correction and so then surfet them with his cup of corruption and if they will not submit themselues to his domination hee will by censure and sentence of excommunication seeke to dethrone them and depose them free their subiects from the yoake of obedience and oath of alleagiance to them and arme and animate them to take vp armes against them and all this pestilent power he would deriue from Peters Chaire making it a Chaire of pestilence to arrogate such a pernicious supremacy by which meanes hee hath beene the primus motor the cheefe agent of all the mischeefes murders and massacres treasons and rebellions in these latter times So that I may conclude that papall excommunication of Kings and Doctrine of deposition of them haue beene the cheefe nurseries of most treasons and rebellions And this hath moued me to take a little suruey of it diuerting out of the intended Roade of my discourse for which former prolixity I will requite my Reader with following breuity CHAP. XII I Haue thus farre discoursed in generall now I will make our conclusion a connexion with some particular relation of the vnnaturall and bloody conspiracy of these Trayterous Gouries attempted against the Kings Maiesty August the fift Anno Dom. 1600 with the manner of his deliuery and happy preseruation as also the end and Tragedy of these Traytors receiuing in part a due doome for their Treason His Maiesty lying at Falkland and going out in the morning to recreate himselfe with his pleasure of Buck-hunting before he was on Horsebacke Alexander Ruthwen second brother to the late Earle of Gowry hasted to meet his Highnesse who after a low curtesie bowing his head vnder his Maiesties knee Beware of such Creepers drawing his Maiesty apart as Ioab tooke Abner aside in the gate to speake with him peaceably doth begin a strange discourse to the King Virg. lib. 2. Aen. Dixerat ille dolis instructus arte Pelasga How he chanced in the euening before walking alone without the Towne of Saint Iohnstoun where his brother dwelt recountred a suspicious fellow who vpon some conference became amazed and his tongue faultred and vncasing him wrapt vp in a cloake and finds a great wide pot vnder his arme full of coyned gold in
horrible desolation had not Gods power and pitty preuented this their intention and inuention we will part it into three Heads all directly tending to ouerthrow 1. The Temporall estate 2. The Politicall estate 3. The Spirituall estate of our flourishing Church famous King and fortunate Kingdome O 〈◊〉 in terris anima caelestium inanes Oh crooked mindes voyd of celestiall grace Who with such ruine would our land deface I will beginne with the two first It would haue subuerted the Temporall and Politicall estate of the Kingdome The effects of this Powder treason would haue exceeded those mischiefes which Caesar reckons to be the fruits of Catilins conspiracie Rapiuntur virgines c. Virgins deflowred Matrons made the obiects of the victors lust children killed in their parents bosome houses burned men murthered all places full of weapons carcases blood and lamentation So who can tell what mischiefe what murther what rebellion what inuasion what rapine destruction and desolation would haue beene the fruits and effects of this barbarous Treason it would haue prooued carnificinaregni the very death and downfall of the Kingdome and therefore may be called officina scelerum the shop of all mischiefe the vault of all villanie Quid Rex quid Regina comes quid regia proles Quid proceres Sanctique patres populusque fidelis Quid tantum meruere mali committere tantum In vos quod potuere Scelus potuistis in vnam Funera tot cumulare struem tot corporalaetho Congerere tantum moliri caedis aceruum What hath our King his Queene and Princely sonne Our Peeres and Prelats and the people done To merite such a mischiefe what offence Against them iustly can you now commence Which might prouoke your malice to deuise To murther them as you did enterprize No age can produce a proiect proportionable to this immanity Tyrannorum carbones eculei rotae funes fustes cruces gladij c. nihil si ad haec comparentur The exquisite torments of Tyrants not comparable with the fury of this truculent Tragedy The destruction of Troy was lamentable by fire and sword in the night Virg. Inâ—adunt vrbem somno vinoque sepultam They inuade the Citty buried in sleepe and wine and at vnawares set vpon them by a perfidious Treachery yet there they might fight for their liues and make resistance to reuenge themselues Idem Aut versare dolos aut certae occumbere morti But heerein these Trayterous Architects had so contriued their worke and world of woes that with one blast or blow all to be consumed and yet not to see who hurts them with a floude of fire to deuoure the choisest flowres of the world the Rose of the field and Lillies of the vallies the royall Rose with the rest of the regall stemme the noble Lillies of the land Flos delibatus populi Suadaeque medulla The flourishing Nobilitie most reuerend Cleargie prudent and politicke Gentry all to passe the fiery region of corporall combustion when as this fire should come out of the bramble to consume the Cedars of Lebanon So terrible a blow or blast it would haue beene to the Temporall welfare of the state of this Kingdome in generall to be depriued of the father chariots and horsemen of Israel rapt vp in a whirlewind of fire that it could leaue nothing but lamentations to posterity wish with weeping Ieremie for an head full of water and eyes fountaine of teares to weepe day and night for the slaine of them and none but monsters of men habituated in villany and radicated in cruelty would haue an hand in so heauy a calamity Then we all might alwayes meditate of mournefull Elegies and make large Commentaries vpon Ieremies Lamentations and cry with him How doth the Citty remaine solitary that was full of people she is a widowe she that was great among the nations Princesse among the Prouinces is made tributary she weepeth continually she dwelleth among the heathen and finds no rest her persecutors tooke her in the Straits The waies of Sion lament because no man commeth to the solemne feasts all her gates are desolate the Priests sigh her Virgines are discomfited and she is in heauinesse and might ingeminate a dolefull ecce Behold and see if there be any sorrow like vnto my sorrow which is done vnto me I cannot apprehend the hundred part of the miseries of this intended mischiefe for it would haue made our land in face though not in fashion like the land Iob speakes of Terram tenâ—brosam opertam mortis caligine terram miseria tenebranum vbi vâ—bra mortis nullus ordo A land of darkenesse and shadow of death a land of miscry where is no order but horror That day intended had beene to our land a day of darkenesse and of blacknesse a day of clouds and obscurity none like it from our beginning neither shall be any more as we hope vnto the yeares of any generations Our land had then beene like a ship forlorne her Pilot Maister and Mariners gone Her Top-gallant taken away and they who sate at the Sterne to guide drowned in the Ocean and then a tempest beating vpon the ship the wind and weather driuen her to the Rockes in what perill and perplexity are all her mournefull passengers and might particularly cry In medijs lacera puppe relinquor aquis We are left in a torne and tottering ship couered with waues of woe no earthly comfort comes only we pray to Christ Maister saue vs we perish This day intended would haue prooued a blacke and bloody day to the Common-wealth of England when as her principall pillars had beene perished The strong man and the man of warre the Iudge and the Prophet the Prudent and the aged they had layed their Axe to the roote of the Trees to hew downe and cast into their fire the chiefe Cedars to stretch ouer vs the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab wiping England as the Lord doth threaten Ierusalem there as a man wipeth a dish which he wipeth and turneth vpside downe and so they would haue wiped or washed with blood our Ierusalem turning it vpside downe that there should haue beene a generall ruine of our flourishing Kingdome Neque rex nequelex neque religio resp Salua King Nobility Church Gouernement Commonwealth all perishing in this prodigious powder confusion First our King the breath of our nostrils the annointed of the Lord should haue beene taken in their nets of whom we sayd vnder his shadow we shall be preserued aliue among the heathen and then his most Princely Queene posterity-male the hopefull blessing of perpetuall peace the famous Peeres and Counsellors of state with all other most noble Lords Spirituall and Temporall the wife and worthy Iudges Knights Burgesses and whole body of the Parliament house the head heart eyes braines and vitall spirits of
Great Brittans little Calendar OR TRIPLE DIARIE In remembrance of three daies Diuided into three Treatises 1. Britanniae vota or God saue the King for the 24. day of March the day of his Maiesties happy proclamation 2. Caesaris Hostes or The Tragedy of Traytors for the fift of August the day of the bloudy Gowries Treason and of his Highnes blessed preseruation 3. Amphitheatram Scelerum or The Transcendent of Treason the day of a most admirable deliuerance of our King Queene Prince Royall Progeny the Spirituall and Temporall Peeres and Pillars of the Church and State together with the Honorable Assembly of the representatiue Body of the Kingdom in generall from that most horrible and hellish proiect of the Gun Powder Treason Nouemb. 5. Whereunto is annexed a short disswasiue from Poperie By SAMVEL GAREY Preacher of Gods Word at Wynfarthing in Norff. LONDON Printed by Iohn Beale for Henry Fetherstone and Iohn Parker 1618. NOBILISSIMO ET Honoratissimo Domino GEORGIO Marchioni Buckingamiensi Baroni de Whaddon Regio Hipparcho praenobilis Equestris Orcinis periscelidis Sodali à Secretioribus Regijs Consiliario c. Pietate virtute clarissimo Bonarum Artium admiratori Patrono Domino mihi vnicê colendo INter praeclaros Dominos quos Anglia plaudit praecipuum retines ordine honore locum Nobilis es animo virtute notabilis omni dotibus excellens ingenij genij Omnibus heroûm Splendescis laudibus omnes admirantur amant magnificant que colunt Inter praecones quorum sacra buccina cantat laudes condignas infimus ipse sono Primus at in votis sipossim posse sed imus in votis primus voce sed imus ego Primus an imus ero placidâ cape mente laborum primitias humili dat mea musa manu Honori Tuo addictissimus obseruantissimusque Samuel Garey TO THE RIGHT Honorable George Lord Marquesse of Buckingham Maister of his Maiesties Horse Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter c. LYeurgus enioyned the people to offer little Sacrifices vnto their Gods for saith hee they respect more the inward affection then the outward Action So in a Dedicatory imitation I presume to present this little sacrifice of my future seruice oh were it worthy of your Honors acceptance vnto your Honorable selfe hoping your Honor will more regard the inward deuotion then the outward Oblation and happy is this little labour if it may merit the portion of your Noble protection much more of your Approbation that so being graced with the mild aspect of so propitious and Noble a starre of Honor it may be the more welcome to the world and others inuited to read it for your Honors sake though not for the worke sake And vnder whose Honorable shadow may this Treatise Britanniae vota or God saue the King more surely and safely shelter then vnder yours who night and day deuoutly say and pray God saue the King whose approoued fidelity in Kings-seruice hath mooued God and the King to promote you to great dignity which you grace with such Christian yet Courtly humility that both in Church Court and Country you are highly and worthily honored Heerein your Honor followes those Noble patternos Celarinus and Aurelius of whom S. Cyprian writes In quantum gloria sublimes in tantum vereoundia humiles dum nihil in honore sublimius nibil in humilitate submissius Proceede most Honorable with such pious Graces and Christian vertues to adorne your eternall minde Emeliore luto finxit praecordia Titan. Your excellent eminency in the endowments of Nature and Grace in whom vertue valour beauty and bounty Armes and Arts are conioyned hath made all men ioyfully congratulate the amplification of your deserued Honor whose merits march with your pursuits So that not onely genus but genius makes you Nobilem Notabilem Vndemagis magtsque viri nunc gloria claret The world bestowes vpon you that worthy not vndeserued Character of vertue free from the aspersion of Court staines that I may borrow the Poets verse to put you on in your vertuous progresse Quô tuate virtus ducit ipedefausto Grandia laturus meritorum praemia Accept into your Honorable Patronage according to your accustomed gentlenesse this weake Worke of your deuoted seruant who craues pardon for this ambition in desiring to obtaine your Noble fauour and protection imitating Aeschines to Socrates hauing no meete thing to gratifie your Honor withall I am willing to giue that I haue euen my selfe who will alwayes desire to be at your Honors seruice Donec haurietomnes Xanthi Phoebus aquas And euer will pray to God to giue you happy increase of fauour with God and men and that your Noble name and same may long flourish on earth and be eternally blessed in heauen Stet Domus hac donec fluctus formica marinos Ebibat totum Testudo perambulet orbem For which multiplication of grace in this life and consummation of glory in the other my humble prayers are and euer shall be powred forth to God for your good Honors great happinesse in either World At your Honors seruice and commandement I rest euer in all duty Samuel Garey TRI VNI DEO Votiua Britannica Tria QVod varijs Triplicem Regem Deus alme perîclis incolumem liberes in columen patriae Caelesti vt Regitriplices tria munera Reges Aurum Thus Myrrham Symbola sacra ferunt Sic ter-Magne Deus tua magna Britannia sacrat officio summo Trina sacrificia Aurum firma fides Thus est tibi victima laudis optima Myrrha tibi flere dolere mala Aurum Thus Myrrham Credendo precando dolendo Turba Britanna sonat credo precor doleo Credo precorque Deum gentis peccata dolenda condonare fides laus dolor ista Deo Samuel Garey 24 Martius 5 Augustus notusque 5 Nouember in annos omnibus Angligenis candida festa bonis Martius Augustus quintusque Nouembris ab Anglis sint semper precibus festa sacrata pijs S. G. To the Christian Reader sauing Grace READER accept this imperfect worke with as thankefull an hand as it is offered with afaithfull hart if any thing in it please thee giue God the praise let none of his glory cleaue to vs earthen Instruments Si quid in hoc Lector placet assignare memento Id Domino quicquid displicet hocce mihi I cannot expect or hope for in this criticall Age but that this Booke will fall into the hands of Carpus as Paul left his Cloake Bookes and Parchments with him at Troas 2 Tim. 4. 13. Yet against the scourge of maleuolent tongues I am armed with patience and doe put on the resolution of Epictetus Si recte facis quid eos vereris qui non recte reprehendunt If thou doest well what needest thou feare them who say ill and as Martiall said to Laelius Carpere vel noli nostra vel ede tua And there are many enuious drones who neither like to labour
Christians prayed in old time for their Kings yet heathens wishing them vitam prolixam imperium securum domum tutam exercitus fortes senatum fidelem as Tertullian writes A long life a quiet Empire a safe Court strong Armies a faithfull Counsell yea with Dauid that God would clothe all his enemies with shame but vpon him his Crowne to flourish Let the vnited voices of his Maiesties populous Kingdomes send vp to Heauen their cordiall and continuall acclamations God saue the King let the eccho resound in Heauen as seruently as the noyse of the Romanes did in applause of Flaminius generally calling him Sauiour Sauiour the noyse whereof was so violent and vehement that as Plutarch writes it made the fowles of the ayre fall downe dead or as the people of Israel did to Salomon when he was created King in Gihon and anointed there by Zadock with an horne of oyle taken out of the Sanctuary the people piped with pipes and reioyced with great ioy so that the earth rang with the sound of it blowing their trumpets and saying God saue King Salomon So let all the people within his Highnes Dominions lift vp their hearts and hands blow their trumpets ring their bels frequent their Churches saying and praying God saue the King Corporally Spiritually Politically CHAP. II. AND surely we are fallen vpon the times wherein by some rebellion is counted a spice of deuotion Traytors encalendred for Saints or Martyrs vis proditoria nomine vocatur nouâ— Romana virtus In the Iesuites Schoole nothing is so rife as the theoricke and practicke of Princes Murther Mariana prescribes to Traytors rules and cautions for poysoning Kings and highly commends King-killers praeclare cum rebus humanis ageretur si multi It were a merry world if there were many of that kinde so Sixâ—us Quintus makes a long oration to praise that Frier who killed Henry the third the French King stiling it rarum inanditum memorabile facinus Dolman Cymanea Rosseus Fewardentius Bellar. Becanus Suares and others hold the like traiterous assertions Subditos posse depriuare reges à Papa excommunicatos vita regno Subiects may depriue Kings of their liues and kingdomes thinking of Kings royall bloud as Maximinus said of Christians bloud Christianorum sanguinem dijs victimam esse omnium gratissimam the Christians bloud is the most acceptable sacrifice to God as Seneca falsly thought that there is no sacrifice more acceptable to God then a Tyrant offered in sacrifice and most wickedly Guignard called the murder of Henry the French King by poysoned kniues committed by two Iacobin Friers heroicumfactum donum spiritus sancti A most heroycall Act and the gift of the holy Ghost So that the vpstart Champions of the Church of Rome hauing contemned Gods precept Nolite tangere c. Touch not my annointed and both by pen and practise labouring to be the Deuils empericks to let out the bloud of Kings it is the duty of all good Subiects duely and daily to pray vnto God to reueale and reuenge all the mischiefes and machinations of the sonnes and seruants of the purple whore which is drunken with the bloud of Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Christ Iesus Purpurati pontificij omnium matuum authores sunt c. The purple Romanists haue bin the prime instruments of most pernicious actions And therefore let all the people of great Britanie ioyne as their loyall obedience bindes them to their necessary seruice both in hearts and voyces to almighty God the protector of Kings to find out all his enemies and make them like a fiery ouen in the time of his anger to confound all their conspiracies making them like the grasse on the house tops which withereth before it come forth saying and praying God saue the King CHAP. III. THE causes and motiues to induce all good subiects to this Christian seruice and loyall duty to pray continually for the preseruation of the King be many and manifold I will but touch some of them and leaue the rest to Christian rememberance for Breuitas sermone tenexda The first is the Apostle Pauls precept ante omnia before all that Supplications Prayers and Intercessions and giuing of thankes bee made for Kings c and renders a powerfull motiue to perswade all consisting of three benefits arising from it 1. a quiet and peaceable life 2. in all godlinesse and honesty 3. this is good and acceptable in the sight of God The Kings preseruation is our preseruation his welfare is the weale of our Common-wealth reip foelicit as non potest esse absque Principis foelicitate saith Plinie A Country is vnhappy vnder an vnhappie King so that if people desire to liue a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty let them like dutifull members pray for the prosperity of the supreame head for if he fall vpon the rockes they are like to come to ruine Vt ratis in scopulos errat peritura latentes Nullus vbi celsa puppe magister adest As a shippe whose Pilot perisheth is driuen vpon the rocks and so is cast away euen so how can the shippe of State sayle with a prosperous winde whose regall Pilot suffers ship wracke Regall aduersity is the harbenger of popular calamity wherefore if Subiects desire to be happy themselues let them continually pray for the happinesse of their Soueraign whose prosperity is the Axis or Cardo the very foundation of their temporall felicity 2 Motiue is the great difficultie in the right managing of the regall office and therefore had need to be assisted with the frequent and feruent prayers of the people imploring diuine wisedome to direct the heart of their Soueraigne for it is Ars artium the Art of Arts rightly to rule and gouerne common-wealths this many-headed multitude so diuided in Faction and action scarce two quibus vna vox aut votum of one minde or mould Peace pleaseth Cato Warre Pompey the Souldier cries Arma virumque cano The Merchant da pacem Domine Brutus desires a Common-wealth Caesar a Monarchy Ciceroes counsell is seruiendum tempori but Lentulus thinkes that the voice of a flatterer in the popular sort as many heads as hearts Scinditur incertum Studia in contrariavulgus So that to reconcile and to reclaime to vnitie and vnanimity this Babell of men had need of Iethroes head Be wise O yee Kings and learned yee that are Iudges of the earth saith Dauid they had need of great wisedome who are rulers of such popular flocks and therefore Salomon shewed himselfe wise who in the entrance into his regall throne craued of God wisedome and knowledge to iudge the great people that I may say with the son of wisedome If your delight be then in Thrones and Scepters O Kings of the people honor wisedome that you may reigne for euer Dauids
prayer should be the supplication of all Kings difficilis est gubernatio mea ne me deseras domine senem The office of a King as it is glorious so it is laborious Caesar sleepes not all the night but makes a Tripartite diuision of it one part to rest the second part to studie the third part to military matters Agesilaus had no leisure to be sicke as hee said such was his regall imployments The regall Diademe is subiect to sundry cares which moued Tigranes King of Armenia to say that if the perils and perplexities which accompany it were duelie weighed Nemo coronaem humi iacentem tolleret None would lift vp the Crowne to the crowne of his head Indeed the Crowne brings content commaund pleasure profit Iuvenal Quicquid conspicuū est pulerumque ex aequore toto resfisciest vbicunque natat What delicates soeuer the world affords the Crowne commands but withall many perils and cares wait vpon the Crowne night and day troubled with publique affaires to preuent foes abroad and foes at home wee of the inferiour ranke take our rest when as they that sit at the sterne of State haue broken sleepes And therefore as the Apostle desires the Ephesians to pray alwaies with all manner of prayer and supplication in the spirit and watch thereunto with all perseuerance and supplication for all Saints and for himselfe that vtterance may bee giuen vnto him to open his mouth boldly to publish the secret of the Gospell so ought all good subiects to pray alwaies with all manner of prayer and supplication in the spirit that God would enlarge with heauenly wisedome the heart of our Soueraigne and the Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord and furnish him with all blessed gifts sutable to performe his royall Taske making him as wise as Salomon as religious as Dauid and as zealous as the good King Iosias defending him from all forraine or domesticall conspiracies saying and praying God saue the King CHAP. IIII. AND truely there be fiue things to name no more which all good Subiects owe vnto their Soueraigne 1. is Prayer 2. Obedience 3. Honor. 4. Seruice 5. Tribute And if any subiect denie any one of these the King may take him by the throat and say Solue quod debes Pay that thou owest 1. First is Prayer to pray for the Kings preseruation on earth and saluation in Heauen The heathen Chaldeans may learne Christians this lesson who cryed to their King Nebuchadnezar O King liue for euer As King Salomon prayed for his people so ought his people pray for him saying of their Lord the King as King Dauid speaks of the Lord of Israel Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for euer and euer and let all the people say Amen saying to the King as Amasa and his company said to Dauid Thine are we O Dauid and with thee O son of Ishai peace peace be vnto thee and peace be vnto thy helpers for thy God helpeth thee That tongue that will not pray for the peace prosperity and preseruation of their annointed Soueraigne is such a tongue as the Apostle Iames speakes of fire a world of wickednesse and is set on fire of hell for Iustus nunquam desinit orare nisi desinit iustus esse saith Austin the iust man neuer ceases to pray vnles he cease to be iust much lesse should hee cease to poure forth feruent and faithfull supplications for the King that vnder him wee may leade a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty Such vngodly and vndutifull subiects as will not vnloose the strings of their tongues to pray for the safety and felicity of the King wee wish that they were like the men at the riuer Ganges who if wee credit the report of Strabo haue no tongues better it is to enter into the kingdome of Heauen losing a member then hauing such an vngodly member to be cast into hel fire But herein many times the tongue is more officious then the heart with tongue they cry Hosanna but in heart like Iewes wish crucifige with a verball seruice many abound crying and cringing Aue Rex but withall Aue Maria and that will neuer make a good prayer A King had need call to his subiects as God to his seruants da mihi cor giue me thy heart the world is full of faire tongues but false hearts none but the great searcher of the heart hath a window in the heart to see who honour with lippes and their hearts farre from him So that Kings had need examine their Subiects as Christ did Peter thrice diligis me dost thou loue me The world hath bredde so many professors of the Popish doctrine of diuellish equiuocation and so many Parasites profound in the Art of dissimulation that many men are like Goodwin Sands in dubiopelagi terraue doubtfull whether belong to sea or land temporizers or neuters like the Church of Laodicea neyther hot nor cold eyther Prince or Pope please them they will heare a Masse next their heart for their morning sacrifice and our Churches Sermon or Seruice for their euening Incense like the Camelion tetigit quoscunque colores Assume any shape fashionable to the time to whom God will one day say Because thou art luke-warme neyther cold nor hot I shall spue thee out of my mouth I haue read how a certaine King of Tartaria writ to the Polonians then wanting a King that if they would choose him their King he would accept it vpon these termes Vester pontifex meus pontifex esto vester Lutherus meus Lutherus esto but the Polonians reiected the request of this Luke-warme King and yet in Poland arc sundry religions so that if a man haue lost his religion he may finde it there with this wise and worthy answere Ecce hominum paratum omnia sacra Deos deserere regnandi causa behold a man ready to forsake both God and Grace to get a Kingdome Such as these study Machiauell more then the Gospell temporis liberalitate fruendum esse fashion themselues to the fauourable fortune of the time and thinke themselues happy as he counts those Princes happie illum felicem principem existimo cuius in administrando consilia temporum conditioni respondent whose counsels are successiuely correspondent to the condition of the times The prayers of such temporizers whose tongues may flame but their hearts are as cold a a stone are abhominable in the sight of God Esto religiosus in Deum qui vis illum Imperatori esse propitium saith Tertullian The Lord is farre off from the wicked but he heareth the prayers of the righteous sayth Salomon God will not heare the prayers of these Church-neuters no more then the Idolatrous Iewes Though they cry in my eares with a loud voice yet will I not heare them And therefore that we may performe our first bounden duety vnto the
saith Dauid and commands his seruant to giue him legem talionis to kill this King-killer though by consent and intreaty Sic pereant qui moliri talia pergunt So let them perish who such deeds doe cherish What doe all these particulars summed vp together but inferre this Ecce Behold a true Israelite in whom is no guile Behold a good Subiect in whom is no treason Dauid was not sicke of the Kings euill Treason he was not like the Popish Iesuites who dispute against Kings altogether in Ferio labouring to verifie Iuuenals verse Ad generum Cereris sine caede sanguine pauci descendunt reges All their arguments and actions like Dracos lawes bloody but Dauid was not matriculated in the Schoole of Traytors euer obedient and loyall to his Soueraigne faithfull in his obedience aduenturing his body blood for the seruice of Saul in defence against his enemies and might truly say with Scaliger in his warfare for King Sauls welfare Pugnaui pedes eques adolescens iuuenis miles praefectus certamine singulari in obsidionibus in campo ciuili in excursionibus in exercitibus saepius vici aliquando victus sum corpore non animo non virtute sed facto c. As vertuous and valorous Scaliger writes of himselfe so Dauid oftentimes fought against Sauls professed enemies Goliah the Philistine the Amalekites c as from the seauenteenth Chapter of the first of Samuel almost to the end of that Booke is the very muster Booke of Dauids warres for Sauls welfare so that I may say with Toxaris who seeing his Countryman Anacbarses in Athens told him that he would shew him all the wonders of Greece at once viso Solone vidisti omnia so I may say viso Dauide vidisti satis The obedience of Dauid to King Saul is sufficient to instruct a Subiect Lucanus Quid satis est si Romaparum If this be not sufficient nothing will suffice but the enemies of Caesars will peraduenture reply and say God saue good Kings but for bad Kings say they we pray God or good men send them to their graues and this doctrine de depositione regis dispositione regni aut depriuatione vitae to depose a King or dispose of his Kingdome or depriue him of his life if he be not as they count Catholicke the resolute generation of martiall Ignatius Loyola their first Founder moderne Iesuites doe with all might and maine labour to maintaine quod nequeant calamis aut calumniis veneficijs parricidijs tentant Where their Pens faile their Pikes and Poysons follow we will but touch it now for we shall handle it more at large hereafter It is an easie taske to shew that loyall obedience is to be performed to wicked Kings as our former instances of the best note Christs obedience and Dauids obedience to Saul make it manifest it is due to them omni iure naturali ciuili morali municipali diuino by the law of nature ciuill morall municipall diuine we will onely proue it due by the last by diuine law if that proue it who dare denie it The Apostle Rom. 13. 1 makes the matter plaine Let euery soule be subiect to the higher Powers for there is no power but of God c from which place I argue thus All Powers that are ordained of God must be obeyed The higher Powers be they good or bad are ordained of God Ergo to be obeyed VVe may corroborate these two propositions by manifold places as Prouerbs 8. 15 By me Kings raigne c. Reges in solio collocat in perpeâ—… Iob 36. 7 he placeth them as Kings in their thrones for euer Sometimes God suffers the hypocrite to raigne Iob 34. 30. I gaue thee a King in my anger and tooke him away in my wrath saith the Lord to Israel Hosea 13. 1â— Thou couldest haue no power except it were giuen thee from aboue said Christ to Pilate Iohn 19. 11 Giue eare all you that rule the People all your power is giuen of the most High Wisd 6. 3. Touch not mine annointed 1 Chron. 16. 22 be they good be they bad touch them not vengeance is the Lords not mans Man must not meddle in Gods matters Who can lay his hands on the Lords Annointed and be guiltlesse Though they grow defectiue in their high office yet still remaine Kings because enthroned by God Cuius iussu nascuntur homines eius iussu constituuntur principes saith Iraeneus Inde illis potestas vnde spiritus saith Tertullian the Kings Commission is sealed by the hand of God and though it run Durante diuino beneplacito yet man cannot nay must not cancell it for that were Bellare cum dijs VVarre with God Princeps seu bonus seu malus a Ioue ornes si bonus sin malus est feras Saith the wise Heathen The power of good Kings is by the speciall ordinance of God of euill by his permission the first are insignia miserecordiae badges and pledges of his mercy the second are flagella vindicta the scourges of his fury So God called Ashur the rod of his wrath and Attyla called himselfe flagellum Dei the scourge of God and Tamberlayne in his time termed Ira dei terror orbis the reuenge of God and terror of the VVorld Saul was a tyrant King yet Dauid trembled to touch the skirts of his garments what greater tyrant then King Pharao yet Moses neither had nor gaue any commission to the Isralites to rebell he makes no law or Booke De iusta abdicatione either to dispose or depose him from his Kingdome Nabuchadnezar a wicked and idolatrous King yet God cals him his seruant and though he commands the three children to be put into the fiery Ouen they offer no violence or resistance Dant Deo animam corpus regi Commend their soules to God and committing their bodies to the King Horat Tollere tentat illustres animas impune vindice nullo Saint Peter who wrot his first Epistle in the time of the raigne of that wicked Emperour Claudius as Baronius coniectured exhorts all people to feare God and to honour the King 1 Pet. 2. 17 and that for the Lords sake v. 13. Yet this Claudius was a most wicked Emperour maintaining many Ethnicke superstitions and worship of Idols he was as Suetonius writes of him Natura saeuus sanguinarius libidinosus by nature cruell bloody and libidinous yet to this Emperour a Tyrant and an Infidell Saint Peter exhorts the faithfull Iewes to obedience Saint Paul who liued vnder the same Emperour as some doe thinke writes to the Romans the Emperors Subiects exhorts all to submit themselues not in any colourable or dissembled obedience but propter Conscientiam v. 4 for conscience sake Let vs heare a voyce or two of the ancient Fathers that liued in old time Tertullian who as Ierome saith flourished vnder the raigne of Seuerus the
Emperor who was a great Tyrant an Infidell and an enemy to Christianity who in the fift persecution after Nero troubled the Christian VVorld Saeuissima persecutione with most cruell persecution as some write yet teacheth that all Subiects should both Bene velle bene dicere bene facere wish well speake well and doe well for the Emperor the which three-fold Bene comprehends all loyall duties The first Ad Cor. 2. Ad Linguam 3. Ad opus as the Iesuite rightly teacheth in thought word and deed to be obedient So Iustin Martyr in the name of all Christians speakes to the Emperor Antoninus an infidell and a persecutor in these words Nos solum deum adoramus vobis in rebus alijs laeti inseruimus VVe worship onely God and in other matters are ioyfull to serue you So Saint Ambrose would not wish the people of Millan to disobey the Emperour Valentinian yet a fauourer and follower of the Arrian Heresie If the Emperor saith he abuse his imperial authority to tyrannize thereby here am I ready to suffer death we as humble suppliants flie to supplication if my Patrimony be your marke enter vpon it if my body I will meet my torments shall I bee dragged to prison or death I will take delight in both Oh Theologicall voice Oh Episcopall obedience These were the voices of the holy Fathers in the ancient times I but will some Popish Aduersary to the regall supremacy reply the times must be considered the people wanted power to resist No no that was not the matter when Iulian did dominere who was an Apostate and an Idolater as Austin yet his Souldiers who were for the most part Christians did obey him without resistance in all military matters and publike seruices yet they then had power to haue resisted him for most of Iulians Army did consist of Christians as their voices to Iouinian his Successor declare Omnes vna voce confessi sunt se esse Christianos as Ruffinus records it with a generall voice they all confessed themselues Christians So Constantius and Valens wicked Emperors and fauourers of the Arrian Heresie yet we doe not reade of any of the Orthodoxe Christianity that disobeyed them by rebellion or resistance Then Bellarmines doctrine was not in date Non est legitimum c It is not lawfull for Christians to tollerate an hereticall King his reasons I take to be as he writes because Reges coronas sceptra ab hominibus recipiunt adeorū placita tenent Kings doe receiue their Crownes and Scepters from men and hold them at their pleasures Strange stuffe for Kings receiue their Crownes from God as Ps 20. 3 and are enthroned by God By me Kings raigne Pro. 8. 15 They receiue their throne from God as Queene Sheba tels Salomon Diadema regis in manu dei Esay 62. 3 Sedebat Salomon in thron◠dei 1 Chro. 29. 23 Reges in solio collocat in perpetuum Iob 36. 7 the anointing is Gods With my holy oyle haue I annointed him Psa 89. 20. The Crowne the Scepter the Throne their annointing all from God stiled by God Vncti dei Gods Annointed Where is the Popes or Peoples claime what interest haue any except God in Kings Crownes who can remoue whom God appoints who can depriue whom God approues yet these absurd errors formenta romanae Cathedrae the corrupt leauen of Romes Pharises and Popes Parasites are moulded out by the mouthes of Cardinals that I may say with the Poet Iuuenal Adscelus atque nefas quodcunque est purpura ducit Sat. 13. The purple seruants or scarlet sinners of that purple woman are become as Trumpeters to the World to sound forth false alarums of disobedience to encourage peoples rebellion Tantum relligio potuit suadere malorum Quaepeperit scelerosa atque impia facta But to leaue these proud Cardinals enemies to Caesars who thinke their red Hat equall to a Regall Crowne who yet of late from a small beginning Origine parochi tantum sunt manipulus Curatorum or raysed specially by two Popes Innocentius the fourth and Paulus the second to such an height that now Capita inter sidera condunt They will write with Cardinal Wolsie Ego Rex I and the King and are too busie about Kings eyther to animate Traytors or alienate Subiects from obedience vnto Kings Let vs I say leaue them a while and listen to Salomon who was wiser then all of them My sonne saith he feare the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are seditious for their destruction shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both Let vs learne this lesson from our Sauiour to giue vnto Caesar that which is Caesars to giue loyall obedience for it is Caesars royall due So our Sauiour againe commands the multitude that they should obey the Scribes and Pharises who did sit in Moses chaire to obserue and doe what they did command In all things not repugnant to Gods Lawes we must and ought to obey Kings yet if they command contrary to Gods commands then wee must follow the Apostles rule and practise rather to obey God then man and to remember S. Austins counsell Si Deus aliud iubeat aliud Imperator quid iudicas maior potestas Deo da veniam ô Imperator tu carcerem ille gebennam minatur If God command one thing and the Emperor another thing what iudgest thou to be done Gods power is greater giue leaue ô Emperor thou dost threaten prison but God hell God that made these gods ought to be obeyed before them and duty bindes that God who is the King of Kings the maker and master of al Kings omnes Reges eius pedibus subiecti all Kings subiect subiects of that great King should be obeyed by them all and before them all Yet for all this we must not rebell against a King if he command contrary to Gods Lawes but imitate the three children obey in body and resist in spirit Regi qui potestatem habet super corpora nostra corporaliter subiaceamus siue sit Rex siue Tyrannus nihil enim hoc nobis nocet vt spiritualiter bene placeamus Deo spiritu saith Theophylact wee must prostrate our selues to the King who hath power ouer our bodies be he a King or a Tyrant for this nothing hinders vs spiritually to please the God of our soules Indeed it may happen that Potens the Ruler is not of God as the Lord complaines They haue set vp a King but not by me they haue made Princes and I knew them not As also the manner of getting Kingdomes is not alwaies of God as Aquinas vpon the 13. of the Romanes rightly determines it or as Aretius multa a Deo sunt quae tamen non confirmat sed quodammodo obiter ingrediuntur Deo tamen sic disponente at tamen non ordinat hoc est
non approbat Many things are by God which he doth not confirme falling in as it were by the way vpon the world by Gods permission yet God disposing so but not ordaining that is not approuing them For example Alexander the sixt obtained the Popedome by giuing himselfe to the Diuell Phocas by sedition got his Empire Richard the third came to the Crown of England as some write by killing his Nephewes and other of the royall bloud and so of many others that haue aspired to thrones viribus fraudibus by force and fraud such are Rulers rather Vsurpers yet not of God for God effects nothing but he effects it by good meanes so that there is a difference twixt Potens and Potentia twixt Rulers and Powers bad Rulers are by the permission of God not by the ordination of God as the Apostle saith Rom. 13. 1. And there is no power but of God if they be godly powers then I may say with Austin Quod iubent Imperatores iubet Christus quia cum bonum iubent per illos quis iubet nisi Christus What Emperors command Christ commaÌ„ds for wheÌ„ they command good Christ commands by them and the contempt offered to such good Rulers is a contempt of God as the Lord said â—o Samuel They haue not cast thee away but me ne regnem super illos 1 Sam. 8. 7. lest I should reigne ouer them Contemptus magistratuum redundat in contemptum Dei The contempt of Magistrates is a contempt of God saith Aretius and so the Apostle Whosoeuer resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God qui vnum laedit alterum laesit To conclude this second duty of Obedience and Allegiance to Kings is by all true subiects faithfully and loyally euer to be performed being a duty necessary for two respects 1. Necessitate praecepti 2. Necessitate finis First God by manifold precepts commanded obedience to be giuen to Rulers and Kings Secondly by the benefits gouernment affords without which all Common-wealths were mothers of common woes and would become the very shambles and slaughter-houses of Christian bloud if that obedience were not giuen to Rulers that beare the sword The kingdome of hell which is the kingdome of confusion could not stand being diuided wanting Belzebub their Prince but should presently as one day it shal most certainely come to desolation Seeing therefore obedience to Kings is a duety so necessary for all subiects acceptable vnto God profitable to our selues without which Kings nor Kingdomes cannot stand Church nor Common-weale cannot long continue Pura conscientia praestemus quae propter conscientiam praestanda sunt Let vs performe and practise this duty of obedience with a pure conscience which for conscience sake must be performed euermore honouring and obeying our dread Soueraigne the golden head of great Britaine beseeching God to prosper him in his glory and to pierce with sharpe arrowes the hearts of his enemies as the Psalmist of Salomon Psal 45. 5. euermore obeying and praying God saue the King CHAP. VI. THE third duty of Subiects to be performed to the King is Honor S. Peter commands all Subiects Feare God honour the King S. Paul exhorting all to submitte themselues to the higher powers concludeth Giue honour to whom ye owe honour so the Lord himselfe in the fifth Commandement chargeth all to honor Father and Mother in which precept as most old and new writers well obserue Kings and Magistrates are vnderstood beeing politicall Fathers Patres patriae Fathers of the Common-wealth Nutricij patres Nursing Fathers of Gods Church and people And this duety to honor the King obligeth all by a three-fold bond Ex Praecepto By Commandement Ex Maledicto By Punishment Ex Praxi By Practise First by Precept God in his Law hath commanded it Secondly by Punishment for God hath put a sword in their hands to cut off such as dishonour them Thirdly by Practise our Lord and Sauiour with his Disciples did preach and practise obedience honor and reuerence euermore to be giuen to Kings and Potentates And this word honor signifieth al that duty whereby the renowne dignity reuerence and high estimation of the King may be preserued and vnblemished and it reacheth vnto our thoughts wordes and workes 1 to honour him in our hearts and thoughts Curse not the King no not in thy thought for the foules of the heauen shall carry thy voyce and that which hath wings shall carry the matter saith Salomon 2 Honor him in thy wordes seeke not by bad and wicked speeches to disesteeme the dignitie of their sacred persons for they are Gods deputies and he that despiseth the deputy despiseth him that appointed the deputie wherefore God made an expresse precept Thou shalt not speake euill of the Ruler of thy people And St. Iude hath marked those for filthy dreamers Qui dominationem spernunt Maiestatem blasphemant Who despise gouernment and speake ill of them that be in authority Beware of vnseemely vnreuerent or contemptible speech which might diminish or distaine the excellency of Gods Lieutenants much lesse reuile mocke scoffe or curse them abuses most disloyall dishonourable and worthie of death It was a wise and worthy answere of Count Charles to one at dinner disparaging our late Queene of famous memory saying his Table neuer gaue priuiledge to any to speake vnreuerently of Princes Male de me loquuntur homines quia bene loqui nesciunt faciunt non quod mereor sed quod solent saith Seneca Epist 77. 3. Honor the King in all thy actions to be ready to defend the honour and renowne of our gracious Soueraigne both by word and sword In his presence vse all lowly reuerence bowing thy selfe as Abraham to the three Angels downe to the ground It was a rare act and royall speech of Don Iohn King of Arragon Father vnto Don Ferdinando King of Castile both meeting at an assembly in Victoria the Father King would not suffer his sonne to giue him the vpper hand saying Sonne you are the chiefe and Lord of Castile whereof we are descended so that our duetie towards you as our King and superiour is farre aboue that duety of the Sonne vnto the Father Regem semper honorandum sic dij voluistis habere And indeed all good people did euer honor their anointed Soueraignes Dauid Salomon with the rest of the Kings of Israel how honourable and glorious euer accounted in the eyes of their Subiects Vbi honor non est ibi contemptus est saith Ierome where honor is absent there contempt is present and to contemne these regall children of the most High is to contemne the most High himselfe And truely the most dishonourable contemners of Regall Diadems are the flattering Pseudoli the parasiticall magnificoes of the Papall Miter for to extoll the one they extenuate the other they honor yea rather dishonor their Pope with blasphemous titles Dominus
relogo saith he Romanorum regum imperatorum gesta nusquam inuenio quenquam eorum ante hunc à Romane Pontifice excommunicatum vel regno priuatum I reade ouer and ouer the Acts of Kings and Emperors and I find no where any of them before this excommunicated of the Pope or depriued of their Kingdome but this Popes enterprise had a sutable successe for by the Councell of Brixia hee was deiected out of the Popedome for it and being in extreamity calles one of his best beloued Cardinals to him and confessed to God Saint Peter and the whole Church that he had greatly offended in his Pastorall charge Et suadente Diabolo contra humanum genus iram odium concitasse By the Diuels perswasion he had raised vp wrath and hatred vpon Mankind Well this Heldebrand whose Orator was the Diuell was the first that attempted to depose Emperors and since that Prince of the Ayre who beares rule in the childrē of disobedience hath moued Peters false friends and Kings foes to follow the hellish steppes of proud Heldebrand seeking to depose Kings to dispose of their Crownes and depriue them of their liues to excommunicate them to free subiects from their allegiances to excite Armes against them to make Martyres of King-killers euery way labouring to disparage their sacred Persons diminish their Regall rights encroch vpon their Prerogatiues altogether contemning Peters Precepts yet arrogating Peters Place Honour the King How dishonourably and contemptibly that Milo who bare the Pope on his shoulders Cardinall Bellarmine writes of Kings That they are rather slaues then Lords De Laicis c. 7. Not onely subiects to Popes to Bishops to Priests but to Deacons Depontifice lib. 1. c. 7. That Kings haue not their authority immediatly from God nor his law but onely from the law of Nations De cleric c. 28. That Churchmen are as farre aboue Kings as the soule aboue the body De Laicis c. 18. That Kings may be deposed by their people for diuers respects De pontific lib. 5. c. 8 That obedience due to Kings is onely for certaine respects of order and pollicy De clericis cap. 28 His workes are full of such foule and false assertions base bald and blockish Paradoxes repugnant to al Scripture right and reason that he may say with the Poet Hoc equidem studeo bullatis vt mihi nugis Pagina turgescat Many of his propositions so dishonourable and iniurious to Kings that to confute them Non opus est verbis sed fustibus Armes not Arts should beat and breake in peeces such pernicious Paradoxes But to leaue these Machiauelismes of the Conclaue dethroning Kings to enthrone Popes let vs learne of God with what honourable titles and high prerogatiues in the Booke of God they stand possessed There they are called Gods and Children of the most High The Lords Annointed The Angels of God The Light of Israel Sitting in Gods Throne The Higher Powers the Ministers of God The Kings of Nations that beare rule euery where with variety of such high and stately Titles great Prerogatiues commanding euery soule to be subiect to them that he who should goe about to empaire their honour must first infringe the Booke of God Vnworthy is that Creature to breathe the Ayre which denies honour to the breathing Image of God his annointed Soueraign or with vnreuerent action or elocution enterprise to debase their sacred Soueraignety such tongues are worthy with Diues to be tormented or with Progne to be cut out or with Nicanors to be diuided in crummes for Birds that will not honour with tongues and honour with hearts their annointed and appointed Kings the earthly pictures of the King of Kings And not to trauel so farre as forraine Climates to teach them to honour Kings let our speech bee bounded within the circumference of his Highnesse Countries People aboue all other Nations bound to honour and obey our gracious Soueraigne We blessed with a King of incomparable wisdome Rex natus ad Regna natus descended of blood royall A blessednes to a Kingdome when a King is the Son of Nobles and much more of noble vertues prudent in a peaceable gouernement compleate in the perfection of Learning eares may ouercome eyes to hear the wisdome of our Salomon and which is most of all and best of all to be extolled sincerely and soundly religious labouring to make his Kingdomes by aduancing Euangelium Christi Regnum Euangelij A trusty defender of the true Faith Tam Marti quā Mercurio both by Pen and Pike ready to defend Religion against superstition often hath he entred into Theologicall disputes and foyled Romes most illustrious Cardinals Yea his Maiesties dinners like Salomons Table making Auditors say with Salomon A diuine sentence shall be in the lips of the King or with wisdome her selfe Heare for I wil speak of excellent things and the opening of my lippes shall teach things that are right A Patron of the Church and a Promoter of the Gospell as Hortensius raised vp eloquence to Heauen that he might goe vp with her so our dread Soueraigne aduances the Gospel the Iacobs ladder to climbe to Heauen by it Macte virtute sicitur ad astra I am vnable and vnfit to make the Map of our Kings perfections De ipso ipsiloquuntur Antipodes not any Zone habitable wherein his glory hath not habitation and they say We must praise a King as we honour God Sentiendo copiosius quam loquendo and herein such plenty of praise is offered that Inopem me copia fecit Xenophon might see that in our vertuous King Iames which he wished in his King Cyrus O fortunatos Anglos bona si sua norint Oh happy wee if wee be thankefull for our happinesse Nihil his bonis accedere potest nisi vt perpetua sint Nothing can augment our earthly ioyes but to make these lasting and thanks be to God our Soueraigne hath I thinke already out-lasted the Regency of a dozen Popes Hominum breuis regum breuior pontificum vita brenissima saith Petrarcha Of all men the Popes haue shortest liues but God grant our Soueraigne Nestors dayes wishing for him as Martial did for Traian Lib. 10. Epig. 34. Dij tibi dent quicquid Princeps Auguste mereris Et rata perpetuò quae tribuêre velint Long may this glorious Candle of Israel last who as vpon this day was proclaimed with infinite ioy receiued with peaceable entry enthroned with glorious inuestiture and hath hitherto gouerned with admired wisdome comfort and content of all good Subiects so still to continue in all Princely prosperity and to hold the Scepter of great Britanny with a tripled addition of yeeres to come for the yeeres past wishing in desire though it cannot be indeed His egonecmetas rerum nec temporapono Imperium sine fine dedi Adde to his dayes of the dayes of Heauen that he and his posterity may here sit
and fidelity will animate vs like that Romaine Marius who being accused by the Senate of Treason in a passion teares his garments and in sight of them all shewes them his wounds receiued in the seruice and defence of his Countrey saying Quid opus est verbis vbi vulnera clamant What need of words our wounds declare our blood was shed for your welfare Faithfull seruice is laudable before men and acceptable before God it may be by the wicked sometimes blamed but it cannot be shamed though it be not alwayes rewarded on earth it shall be sure to find rewards in Heauen as they once complained Penes caeteros imperij praemia penes ipsos seruitij necessitas that others found the sweet preferment and they had horse and heauy burthen for their seruice yet vertue is a reward to it selfe bonorum laborum gloriosus fructus the seruice of the righteous is accepted and the remembrance thereof shall neuer be forgotten Ipsa quidem virtus sibimet pulc herrima merces And this seruice due to our King and Country if neede require must reach vsque ad aras prodigall of labor limbe or life to defend both the safetie of both eyther King or Country is so inseparable that the seruice done to eyther is alwaies commendable and honourable VVee haue famous presidents in this kinde to presse vs to performe the vtmost of our seruice in loue to our Country in duety to our King the 3 Decij Zophirus Cn Scipio â—uluius Nassus c. all offered to sacrifice their liues in loue for their Countrie Dulce decorum est pro patria mori The story is most famous of Quintus Curtius a noble Romane who hearing by the Oracle that the safety of the city of Rome consisted onely in the sacrifice of one of her best affected children valiantly and voluntarily leaped into that deuouring gulfe and so preserued the Citie Hor. ad Flor. Hoc opus hoc studium parui properemus ampli Si patriae volumus si nobis viuere chari A spectacle of loue and loyalty a sacrifice of high obedience that is presented vpon the wings of death I will not â—…y worthy of imitation because like vnto selfe sacrifiing of Cleombrotus they were Martyrs stultae Philosophiae Martyrs of their fond Philosophy yet notwithstanding worthy to stirre vp great affection for Subiects to loue as truely their King and country and the King and Country to loue such Subiects that for them aduenture their liues Naturally euery one loues his Country Nemo patriam diligit quia magna est sed quia sua est saith Seneca No man loues his Country because it is great but because it is his owne Ouid Nescio quâ natale solum dulcedine cunctos ducit immemores non sinit esse sui The Persians did beare such loue to their Country that they must sweare by the Sunne rising neuer to become Iewes Grecians Romans Egyptians but euer to remain Persians They counted no fault more foule then to be a foe to his owne Country It was an excellent saying of Aulus Fuluius who finding his sonne in the conspiracy of Catiline tells him Ego non te Catilinae genui sed Patriae I did beget thee not for Catiline but for thy Country They that are Traytors to their King and Country may fitly be compared to Vipers The Vipers are conceiued as Pliny writes by biting off the Males head and borne by eating through their Mothers belly So they would Decapitare Caput destroy the King their head and lacerare matrem teare the bowels of their mother their natiue Countrey Our English Fugitiues are the spawnes of these Vipers Parsons Saunders c. who because they could not eate through her bowels and belly with their teeth in reuenge raile at her with their tongues to whom I cannot giue a fitter answer then that which the Spanish Verdugo gaue to Sir William Stanley railing against this his natiue Country saying Though you haue offended your Countrey yet your Countrie neuer offended you These Iesuited fugitiues who at Rhemes or Rome doe now Caluo seruire Neroni vnnaturally forsake their King Country Kindred and deuote their liues labours to giue all homage to the chayre of Rome and though they colour their treasonable plots and proiects of confusion vnder pretence of conuersion yet bloudy is that faith that Cain-like will kill their natiue brothers and Nero-like rip vp their dearest Mother Conuersio animae praetenditur subuersio regis reip Ecclesiae intenditur They pretend religion but they intend rebellion and desolation But to leaue these Vipers of whom I may say as the Souldiers at the death of the sonne of Maximus Non debet seruari vnus Catulus Not any of their young ones worthy to be kept vp for store let vs in an example or two behold the deepe affection of Kings loues vnto their Subiects The story is common of King Codrus the Athenians King who being assaulted and assailed by enemies receiued this Oracle That his army should preuaile if he would suffer himselfe to be slaine of his enemies which newes when it came to the eares of his aduersaries they made an edict Nemo tangat Codrum None might touch Codrus Codrus then changed his habit see the fire of loue he went to his enemies thus disguised marke the flame there was he slaine looke vpon the ashes the vrne of Codrus what doe they say but Hor. Quo nos cunque feret melior fortuna parentes ibimus ô socij comitesque So King Leonides sacrificeth his dearest bloud at Thermopilas fighting valiantly in defence of his Country and kingdome Cic. 1 Tusc Dic hospes Spartae nos te hic vidisse iacentes dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur In a worde I neuer read of any King vnlesse such as Nero and Caligula that did not wish well to his owne Country and kingdome For Principis est consulere omnibus prospicere saluti patriae saith Cicero It is the office of a King to take care and counsell for the welfare of his people Princeps suorum subditoruÌ„ velut sui ipsius corporis membrorum curam gerit saith Agapetus A Prince takes care of all his Subiects euen as the members of his owne bodie And so Alfonsus a King had his symboll a Type of his true loue a Pellican with her bill pricking her brest feeding her young with her bloud with this inscription pro lege pro grege declaring Emblematically That Kings with continuall cares wast their liues to prouide for their peoples welfares For good Kings will say with Hadrianus Caesar Sic se gesturum principatum vt sciant rem populi esse non suam They will so gouerne that all men may see they aime more at the publicke good then any priuate gaine It is their office to protect their people prouide for the welfare of the common-wealth maintaine good Lawes execute
Iustice defend the Faith and promote the Church So we read that when the Emperor is crowned the Archbishop of Colen propounds seuerall demands An Ecclesiam defensurus Iustitiam administraturus Imperium conseruaturus viduas orphanosque protecturus c. Whether hee will defend the Church Administer Iustice Preserue the Empire and protect the widdowes fatherlesse and friendlesse The Kings of Sparta at their Coronation did sweare to raigne according to Lycurgus Lawes and I thinke it is the order of most Christian Kings at their Coronation to sweare to rule according to Iustice and to maintaine the lawes and liberties of their kingdomes for farre be it from Kings thoughts to say with Thrasymachus Principum vtilitate libidine omne ius definiri All Law to be defined by their pleasures and profit for that is to say with the Mother of Antoninus Caracalla to him quodlibet licere any thing to be lawfull for him or with Caracalla himselfe Imperatores leges dare non accipere Emperors giue Lawes but doe not liue by them The foundation of well-gouerned Kingdomes hath two supporters saith Machiauell bonas Leges bona Arma good Lawes and good Armes And that famous Emperor Iustinian saith Imperatoriam Maiestatem non solum armis decoratam verùm legibus oportet esse armatam Imperiall Maiesty not onely to be adorned by Armes but also armed by Lawes and then the Lawes will be best obeyed when the Law-makers obey themselues It was a woe our Sauiour denounced against the Interpreters of the Law because they did lode men with burdens greeuous to be borne and they themselues touched not the burdens with one of their fingers Promulgers and publishers of Lawes ought to be practisers of the same It was a royal speech of the Emperor Traian when he deliuered the sword praefecto praetorij saying to him Si bene imperauero prome sin contrà aduersus me stringito If I rule well draw out that sword for me if otherwise against me and happy is that Kingdome whose supreame head giues good Lawes to others and liues by them himselfe it animateth all to obey Ad te oculos auresque trahis tua facta notamus nec vox missa potest Principis ore tegi Principis vita est censura ciuium saith Plinie The life of King the life of imitation his good life as powerfull to draw people to goodnesse as good Lawes Claud non sic inflectere sensus Humanos edicta valent quam vita regentis The Rulers godly life like a good Glosse vpon a Text makes a perfect commentary vpon the Law to moue vulgar obedience O then let vertue and piety flame in the breasts of Princes cherish these O sacred Potentates at your high Altars and then your excellent actions will produce exemplar imitations Persius Regibus hic mos est centum sibi poscere voces Centum ora centum linguas Many millions of men are your spectators nay the world is your stage wherein your actions are euen axioms to draw that many-headed beast the multitude eyther to vertue or vice What a glorious and most applauded of all the Saints of Heauen is your well-acted taske and office if you render vp your Crownes to him that is the King of Crownes and Scepters with a commended plandite then indeed you shall worthily Pers Sat 1. Os populi meruisse Cedro digna locutum linquere Leaue happie monuments on earth of your immortall same and at your farewell from your earthly thrones leaue a lamenting and bewailing world but attended vnto heauen with the praiers of your people with an army of Angels to welcome your arriuall And heerein how are the people of great Britaine bound to render perpetuall praises to Almighty God who hath blessed them with such a godlie and gracious King who with his life lawes and labours by his publicke example in the true seruice of God by the integritie of his life industry in sacred studies clemencie in gouernment delight and diligence in hearing Church-exercises making his Court as it was said of Constantines Ecclesiae instar like a Church their publicke Seruice and Sermons deuoutly performed and religiously accepted and embraced labouring Regis ad exemplum totum componere regnum by a Kingly patterne of deuotion to excite all to an holie imitation So that wee ought to giue God more thanks then Plato did who yet thanked God for three things 1. pro ratione 2. pro natione 3. pro eruditione for his reason nation and learning 1. for his reason being made a man not a beast 2. for his nation a Grecian not a Barbarian 3. for his liuing in the daies of learned Socrates of whom hee reaped great knowledge Wee ought also to thanke God for these and other blessings beeing not meerely men but Christian men liuing vnder the reigne of a most Christian King a Defender of the Faith and cherisher of the Gospell a louer of Peace that wee may truely say as the people did at the death of Pertinax the Emperour Dum illeregnabat tranquille viuebamus neminem metuebamus While hee reigned wee liued quiet and feared no enemies So now euery man may sit in peace vnder his Vine and Figtree beare a part in the song of those heauenly Souldiers praising God and saying Glory be to God in the high heauens for our peace on earth VVe enioy that blessing promised to Salomon I will send peace and quietnesse vpon Israel in his daies A blessing worthie of thankesgiuing So that wee may in a Christian peace serue the God of peace and praise him for our peace and pray to him for the preseruation of the happy instrument of this our peace for peace is a nurse of Religion but bloudie warre the mother of misery mischiefe and abhomination for Nulla fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur In time of Warre the God of peace neglected True faith and Pitty is then reiected Let all from head to foote from our Salomon in the Throne to the poorest member in the kingdom prostrate their humble soules to the throne of God the giuer of all blessings and in all faithfull obedience tender him their dutifull seruice seruing the Lord in feare and reioycing in trembling ascribing all praise and thanks to God saying Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord and his blessing is vpon the people Gratias agere Deo possumus referre non possumus giuing God all possible thankes for his blessings the least whereof is more worth then all our thanks yet Ascensus gratiarum descensus gratiae the ascending of our thankes doe bring descending graces And with our best and faithfull seruice to our good God the King of Kings let our loyall and dutifull seruice be neuer wanting to his vertuous vicegerent his annointed deputy on earth our high and dread Soueraigne Qui tangit eum tangit pupillam oculi ipsius as the Lord speakes of Sion Hee
that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye beseeching God to be Protector Saluationum Vncti the defender and deliuerer of his Anointed to giue him prosperity peace and plenty of all things yea plenty of it which Lewes the eleuenth the French King complained hee onely wanted in his Court and being demanded what it was hee said â—ruth a Diamond faire and fit to adorne a Diadem commendable to God acceptable to Kings profitable to Common wealths Hee is the Kings and Countries best seruant that brings in his mouth a message of Trueth I haue read how a certaine poore man comming to see Constantine an Emperor renowned through the world by Fame and Fortune and that poore man fixing his eies vpon him said thus Putabam Constantinum aliquid praeclarius mirabilius fuisse sed iam video eum nihil aliudesse praeter hominem I had thought Constantine had beene some rarer and more admirable Creature but I see he is but a man to whom Constantine gaue many thanks being both plaine and true saying Tu solus es qui in me oculos apertos habuisti Thou art onely the man that hast looked vpon mee with open eies others did flatter him making him beleeue that hee was not but this man honestly and truelie told him what hee was Like Macedonius the Eremite who said to the officers of Theodosius Dicite Imperatori non es Imperator solummodo sedetiam homo Tell the Emperor he is not onely an Emperour but also a man For though in Scripture they be called Gods it is in sensu modificato a qualified sence Gods by deputation earthly Gods not by nature but by regiment they shall dwell in the Lords Tabernacle and are worthy to be in Kings Courts who walke vprightly worke righteously and speake the trueth from their hearts Qui verit atem occultat qui prodit mendacium vterque reus est ille quia prodesse non vult iste quia nocere desiderat saith Austen He that hides the truth he that tels a lye both be guilty He because he would not profit this because hee would haue hurt The Lord and louer of Trueth euermore blesse his Maiesty with trusty Nathaniels in whom is no guile Such are the best seruants and secretaries to King and Country who like one of those three seruants to King Darius the keepers of his body come with this sentence laying it vnder the Kings pillow Trueth ouer commeth all things But keepe from him O King of Kings all flattering Doegs crafty conspiring Achitophels rebellious Shebas treacherous Zimries vnfaithfull Zibas false Ioabs and Romish Iudasses who honour him with their lips but their hearts be far from him And let all true subiects to his gracious Highnesse faithfully performe all loyall seruice to this our Iosias who restores the booke of the Law and holy Scripture who like Dauid fetcheth home the Arke of God and his sacred Gospell who like Asa puts downe Idolls and commands all to seeke the Lord God who like Iehu not kills but banishes Baals Priests the Romish rout of Seminaries and Iesuites waiters and worshippers of the Papall Moloch an Idol hauing hands alwaies to receiue gifts Our Soueraigne loathes these locusts and labours has terris templis auertere pestes To free the Church and Country of these plagues so that it makes our hearts leape for ioy and cry aloud O Lord how fauourable hast thou beene vnto our land in placing religion learning vertue and honour in one seate Quam bene conueniunt cùm vna sede locantur Maiestas virtus An admirable spectacle to behold vertue and honour in the royall Throne What fires of zeale loue and seruice should it kindle in the hearts of subiects in thankefulnes to God to serue the Lord in feare and come before his presence with a song of thankesgiuing falling downe before the Lord our Maker in soule in body all within and all without He giues all must be praysed of all prayed to of all for he is all in all He hath not dealt so with euery Nation and therefore let vs with the Psalmist say and sing O my God and King I will extoll thee and praise thy name for euer and euer Let Israel reioyce in their King and to conclude with the words of Musculus Acceptus foelix gratiosus sit iste quem Dominus nobis regem dedit Welcome wished and most worthy is he whom God hath set vp to raigne ouer vs who happily succeeded a Virgin Queene proclaimed a day before the Festiual of the Queene of Virgins a faire Prologue of much ioy who now with great felicity and tranquility hath raigned 15 yeeres in this great and flourishing Kingdome many more yeeres we continually pray to be multiplied Addat é nostris annos in annos Deus Make him full of dayes and full of Trophees of honour and grant him loyall Subiects faithfull in obedience and dutifull in all seruice saying in tongue ioyfully in heart truly God saue the King CHAP. VIII THE fifth duty of Subiects to be duly and truly payed and performed to their sacred and dread Soueraignes is Tribute which is as Vipian saith Neruus reip The strong sâ—ew of the Common-wealth without which King nor Kingdome cannot stand And therefore our Sauiour first by president paid Tribute and also by precept resoluing the Disciples of the Pharises demanding whether it was lawfull to giue Tribute vnto Caesar or no told them peremptorily That they must giue vnto Caesar that which was Caesars Reddendum est tributum honor obedientia in omnibus quae non pugnant cum verbo Dei saith Piscator vpon that place Tribute Honour and Obedience is to be giuen vnto the Magistrate in all things not repugnant to the word of God for this cause saith Saint Paul ye pay Tribute because the King is the Minister of God for thy wealth applying themselues for the same thing Custodit te Princeps saith Theophylact ab Hostibus debes itaquè ei tributum The Prince keeps thee safe from enemies thou doest owe him therefore Tribute and as he speakes still in that place Nummum ipsum quem habes ab ipso habes The money which thou hast thou hast from him and therfore Non date sed reddite Not giue but pay not a gift but a debt which all Subiects owe to him Non damus sed reddimus quiequid ex officio cuiquam damus saith Beucer We doe not giue but pay that which of duty we owe Tributes Subsidies and Taskes c are not gifts but debts which of necessity they must and ought to pay Hoc Scripturae approbant hoc leges ciuiles communi gentium omnium consensu recipiunt saith Hiperius This doe the Scriptures allow of writing there of the payment of Tributes this doe the Ciuill Lawes with the common consent of all
AND if euer Praiers needfull in this kinde now is the time Nolite tangere abhorred of Heathens is now applauded and defended of false Christians Religion and superstition now comes forth with her knife ready to cut Kings throats it beeing the generall rule of them Occide haereticum Kill an hereticke make away with him giue him an Italian posset poyson him though it be in the Sacrament as Henry the seuenth Emperour poysoned in Sacramentall bread Victor the third Pope in the Sacramentall cup and yet they say that Christs bloud is really in the wine how then comes that poyson of death mixed with that sacred substance of life The Patrons and Proctors to plead for King-killers I meane the Iesuites with their adherents make this for a conclusion That any priuate man may be an executioner of a King excommunicated and deposed by the Pope and Caesar Baronius alledges commends out of Iuo a breue of Pope Vrban the second wherein it is pronounced that they are no homicides who kill such as are excommunicate for wee doe not iudge them to bee murtherers who burning with the zeale of their Catholike mother against such as are excommunicate happen to haue killed any of them And so Suarez the Iesuite in his last booke against our King writes After sentence condemnatory is giuen of the King c. then hee that hath pronounced the sentence or he to whom it is committed may depriue the King of his kingdome euen by killing him if hee cannot doe it otherwise and the very Cannibals are not more thirsty of bloud then these false Catholickes commending commanding murther the murther of Gods Anointed Kings which any heart not stupified with Atheisme or reprobate sence would tremble at it and appropriate the doing of that deed onely to Papists for so Suarez saith If his lawfull successor be a Catholike and so that hee be a Catholike that succeedes in the right challenging the right of committing so execrable villany to appertaine to none but onely to Romish Catholikes disdaining that any should haue an hand in so horrible and hellish mischiefes against the King but onely a friend and follower of the Popes religion true-borne children of their bloudy Mother the whore of Babilon the mother of murder drunken with the bloud of Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Christ Iesus If the Pope cries against any King with the Citizens in that parable Nolumus hunc regnare Wee will not haue this man to reigne presently pollicie villany mischiefe and murder fraud and deceit all shall conspire to accomplish the Popes desire If poyson and policie faile power shall â—reuaile like to him when intreaty could not moue laid his hand on his sword saying At hic faciet but this shall doe it if Mercurie be too weake Mars shall second him then leaue Apolloes harpe and take Hercules club both pens and pikes heads hearts and hands are too nimble to hurt Kings Sanguiuolenta est mens Sanguinolenta manus A bloudy heart must haue a bloudy hand How many Princes of Christendome hath that Sea of Rome swallowed and deuoured A Sea indeede nay a red Sea of bloud or Mare mortuum wherein that Leuiathan makes his Sea as the Lord tells Iob like a potte of oyntment Sed mors in illa ella Death is in the pot Out of this Sea creepe those Crocodiles I meane Iesuites Seminaries and men vsually troubled with the Kings euill Treason These Romish rats creepe into regall Pallaces at last take and taske their owne bane like the spirits of Deuils of whom S. Iohn worke myracles to goe vnto the Kings of the earth and those whom they cannot draw by their collusion they would deuoure by effusion I may say of them as Polymnestor speakes in the Tragedie of Hecuba Hastifera armata equestris Marti obnoxiagens They are well weaponed people dagges and daggers charmes poysons powder all tragicall and traiterous engines and instruments they haue to touch Gods Anointed the Kings of the earth corporally In olde time scarce any treason without a Priest in our time scarce any without a Iesuite As Iudas was the antesignanus of traytors chiefe Captain of the cursed crue so since him the false stiled Iesuits but the true Iudaites are the cheefe Shibas to blow aloud the trumpet of rebellion And there was a wicked man named Sheba the sonne of Bicri a man of Iemini and hee blew the Trumpet and said We haue no part in Dauid nor inheritance in the sonne of Ishai Euery man to his tents O Israel 2 Sam. 20. 1. And there are many of Israel that follow these Shebas but the men of Iudah claue fast vnto their King from Iordan euen to Ierusalem All good subiects will cleaue with the men of Iudah faithfully to their King and will goe with Ioab to pursue these Shebas vntill their heads be cut off and throwne to them ouer the wall These Shebas make Kings the markes of their murther saying with treacherous Achitophel I will smite the King onely or with the King of Aram Fight neyther against small or great saue onely against the King of Israel Feriunt summos fulmina montes The highest mountaines most exposed to Thunders And to perpetrate such crying and capitall murders they will hazard the perill of their liues and losse of their soules and but that the Lord hath giuen his Angels a charge ouer his Anointed to keepe them in all his waies the attempts of such desperate miscreants were deadly dangerous for as Seneca Vitae tuae dominus est quisquis suam contempsit He is Master of thy life who contemnes his owne Cato when hee had got a sword though therewith to kill himselfe cried out Now am I my owne man So these desperate villaines who runne with desire to their owne deaths are their owne men to act murder but God doth bring to nought their desires and deuices and raiseth vp for his seruants in extraordinary dangers extraordinary deliuerances The imminent danger of King Croesus yet a Heathen King opened the mouth of his dumbe sonne to tell it Bessus his parricide discouered by the chattering of Swallowes verifying Salomons wordes The fowles of the ayre carrie that voice God can cause euery fowle of heauen and euery creature on earth to finde a tongue to tell treason to deliuer his Anointed Our gracious King is a speaking mappe of many wonderfull deliuerances in extraordinary dangers still we cry and craue with Dauid Domine saluum fae Regem Lord saue the King cloath all his enemies with shame and breake them in peeces like a Potters vessell Let thy hands O Lord finde out all that hate him make them like a fiery ouen in the time of thine anger and destroy them in thy wrath Deliuer his soule from the sword and saue him from the Lions mouthes confound all Shebas that would stirre
vp Israel against Dauid and all Adoniahs that gape to take the kingdome from our Salomon all like them let them perish like them Then will all loyall subiects reioyce when they see the vengeance they shall wash their feet in the bloud of the wicked Let our feruent prayers be daily powred forth vnto God to defend him from all Traytors to reueale their plots and reuenge their purposes that they qui volunt occidere regem posse nolunt That they who would kill a King may neuer haue power to performe it that no danger may assault him no treachery may endanger him giue thine Angels charge O Lord to sentinell ouer him make his chamber like the tower of Dauid built for defence a thousand shields hang therein and all the targets of the strong men and his bed like Salomons threescore strong men round about it of the valiant men of Israel they all handle the sword and are expert in warre euery one hath his sword vpon his thigh for the feare by night that so no enemy may oppresse him nor the wicked approach to hurt him to destroy his foes before his face and plague them that hate him his seed long to endure and his daies as the daies of heauen So shall the Lord be gracious to his Seruant and mercifull to vs his people who continually pray God saue the King Corporally CHAP. X. 2. Spiritually GOD Saue the King Spiritually God euer keep him constant and couragious to maintaine the true profession of the Gospell and to labour to purge Gods Church of all superstition and to plant in it Gods true religion This is the first duety of Kingly seruice vnto God to cleanse his Church of all idolatry and superstition The good Kings Ezechias and Iosias were carefull in this behalfe Ezechiah when hee came to the Crowne of Iudah he tooke away the high places brake the Images and cut downe the groues and brake in peeces the brazen serpent c. that is rooted and raced out all Idolatry So Iosiah puts downe all Idols and Idolatrous Priests who defiled the Temple So Asa tooke the wicked Sodomites out of the land and deposed Maacha his Mother because shee had made an Idoll in a groue So Salomon installed in his kingdome built a Temple for seruice and worship of the Lord. It is the office of a King specially to take care to prouide that God may be religiouslie worshipped that his people may feare the Lord serue him in the trueth for the happinesse of King and Kingdome consists in the trueth of their religion For that nation and kingdome which will not serue the Lord shall perish and be vtterly destroyed saith the Prophet Esay Est boni Principis religionem ante omnia constituere saith Liuie It is the part of a good King first to establish true religion for that is the very fountaine and foundation of all felicity Beneficentia quae fit in cultum Dei maxima gratia That loue and care which is declared towards the true worship of God is most commendable for true religion is Cardo or Axis the very Pillar of all prosperity the soule of Tranquility the totall summe of true felicity Propter Ecclesiam in mundo durat mundus saith Luther Christs Church on earth is the cause of the continuance of this earthly world without the light of the Gospel Kings people liue in thraldome in the Egypt of wofull blindnesse it is but painted happinesse a vaine flourish nay a dangerous ship of state where God sits not at the sterne As all kingdomes stand luteis pedibus vpon clay feet so that Kingdome cannot stand at all which wants the foundation true religion It is the speech of an Heathen but may be the lesson of a Christian Religio vera est firmamentum reip c. True religion the foundation of a Common wealth and the chiefe care ought to be to plant the same So Dauid reioyces in nothing so much as in the Arke of God desirous rather to be a dore-keeper in Gods house then to rule in the tents of the vngodly Like to that good Emperor who gloried more to be membrum Ecclesiae then caput Imperij a member of Gods Church then an head of a great Empire Salomon begins well first in building an house for God knowing nothing can prosper without God Except the Lord keep the City the watchman watcheth but in vaine In vaine doe the Kings of the earth stand vp if they assemble against the Lord for then hee laughes them to scorne and shall haue them in derision Be wise now therefore O ye Kings serue the Lord in feare be wise in Diuine matters serue the Lord in feare for his feare is the beginning of wisedome to direct you to rule your selues and people in the seruice and worship of his holy name We read it recorded of Constantinus the Emperor that when he died he did much lament for three things which had happened in his reigne First the murther of Gallus his kinsman Secondly the liberty of Iulian the Apostate Thirdly the change and alteration of religion And surely there cannot be a greater cause of lamentation then an innouation or alteration of religion yea then a tolleration of a contrary religion It had beene a hard matter to haue had obtained a tolleration of such a thing as a Masse at Moses hands with a masse of money A godly Prince may not suffer any religion but the true religion in his Dominions and this we may proue by diuers reasons First the exercise of a false religion is directly against the honour and glory of God Ergo. Secondly consent in true religion is vinculum Ecclesiae the chayne and bond of Gods Church for there is but one faith therefore a difference and dissention in religion is a dissolution in Gods Church but no Prince ought to haue his hand in dissoluing Gods Church for Kings are nursing Fathers of the Church Thirdly it is the Princes duty to prouide for the safety of the bodies much more for the safety of the soules of his Subiects Now true religion is the foode but false the bane of soules and you know Qui non seruat periturum cum potest occidit He that doth not helpe one ready to perish being able to helpe kills him Fourthly the Angell of the Church of Pergamus is reprooued for hauing such in Pergamus as maintained the doctrine of Balaam and the doctrine of the Nicholaitans and the Church of Thiatyra reproued for suffering Iezabel to teach and deceiue Fiftly the Lords Altar and Baals Altar must not stand together Quae concordia Dei Belial No agreement twixt God and Belial Indeed the Papists haue beene very earnest to supplicate for a Tolleration for their corrupt religion and yet themselues neuer allow it The Pope neuer afforded such fauour to Protestants witnesse their
done wrong to or whom haue I hurt c. And all the People of Britanny must answere with the people of Israel there Thou hast done vs no wrong nor hurt vs nor taken ought of any mans hand the Lord is witnesse His Highnesse speciall care and gracious desire is to haue Gods Religion sincerely imbraced Iustice executed Vertue promoted Vice punished Gods Lawes and the good Lawes of the Land generally maintained and obserued so that the Church finds him a true Defender of the Faith the Common-wealth a Father the proud a powerfull Prince the meeke and humble a mercifull Gouernour All find him a most religious and vertuous King carefull of the good of Church and Common-wealth that all the politicke members of this Princely Head may leade a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty These Princely properties and sacred graces will procure his Maiesty an eternall Crowne of glory in Heauen as God hath promoted him to a soueraignety and supremacy here on Earth and may truely moue all sound members of this politicke body whereof his sacred Highnesse is supreame Head to pray with the Psalmist Giue thy Iudgements to the King O Lord and thy righteousnesse vnto the Kings sonne then shall he iudge the people with righteousnesse and thy poore with equity In his dayes shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace shall be so long as the Moone endureth yea to pray like the Isralites for the life of our King and the life of his royall Queene his Princely Sonne the County Palatine of Rhene with the Princesse Elizabeth and their Progeny that all their dayes may be vpon the Earth as the dayes of Heauen and that God would giue vs strength and lighten our eyes that we may liue vnder their shadow and may long doe them seruice and find fauor in their sight That God would confound all their enemies and put them to a perpetuall shame That the Lord of Hosts may be euer with them and the God of Iacob may be their Refuge to protect and direct them to hide them from the conspiracy of the wicked and from the rage of the workers of iniquity that God may euer blesse them and preserue their going out and comming in from henceforth and for euermore So we thy people and sheep of thy Pasture the louing and loyall subiects and seruants of the Lords Annointed will praise thee for euer and pray vnto thee from generation to generation God saue our King Corporally Spiritually Politically Peroratio I will draw these lines to the maine Center of all making our conclusion short and gratulatory First to your Grace sacred Soueraigne the mighty Monarch of these flourishing Kingdomes shall I that am but dust and ashes prefume to speake vnto my Lord and King Let not my Lord be angry though I speake once and how happy shall this poore Embrio be if euer it be graced with the milde aspect of your Princely eyes and once but touched with your Regall hands which holds the Iacob staffe to measure the height of all learning Giue patient leaue and licence to your vnworthy and vnable vassall prostrated in all submissiue obedience at your Highnesse feete to celebrate and congratulate the happy day of your Maiesties entrance into this kingdome A day of good tidings and who can hold his peace A day which was the beginning to multiply and aduance our chiefest ioyes on earth making vs sing with the Psalmist This is the day which the Lord hath made let vs be glad and reioyce in it O Lord I pray thee saue now Lord preserue him whom thou hast giuen giue him O King of Kings good successe peace prosperity multiply these good daies grant him many of these happy yeares Annos vt annis addat è nostris Deus Eusebius the Bishop of Caesarea thought himselfe much honoured that he was appointed to preach at the inauguration of Constantinus the Emperour so I take it as my great ioy that I the most weake of all our tribe am one of the first in this kinde to write the aniuersary of Englands happinesse by your Maiesties entrance to put them in a perpetuall remembrance to reioyce with thankefulnesse And if I should remember in your presence the innumerable benefits and blessings your subiects of great Brittaine enioy by your Princely comming to this Crowne I might be iudged a flatterer a creature most odious in your Graces eyes modesty compels me to be silent I will onely say that which I haue read the Painter Zeuxes did who being to make the portraiture of Iuno chose out certaine amiable Virgins put the seuerall beauty of them all into that picture so indeed the wise Creator of all hath made you such a King the liuing picture of all earthly perfections and as it was an old saying That in one Austen there was many Doctors in one Iulius Caesar many Captaines so in one and our King Iames many Kings the very perfection of most Kings But I will turne our praises into prayers remembring Antaloides saying to a certaine Orator making a long oration of Hercules praises cut him off thus Quis eum vnquam sanus vituperauerit VVho euer in his right wits discommended him So who dare nay who can except the seed of the serpent dispraise your Highnesse whose vertues finde fauour with God and men euery tongue pronounces your name with ioy and euery heart affects your Maiesty with content and comfort As God hath giuen you power in hand so haue you pittie in heart Clementia Regis est quasi imber serotinus saith Salomon The pitty or fauour of a King is like the latter raine and your princely delight is not in sono catenarum in the noyse of chaines but like the good Emperor rather desirous to call the dead to lise then put the liuing to death So that I may say to your Grace as Mecaenas saide of Octauius Caesar Omnes te tanquam parentem seruatorem suum intuentur te moderatum vita inculpata pacificum amant c. All people fixe their dutifull eyes vpon you as vpon the publike Father of the Common-wealth loyally louing you being milde and mercifull holy in life and peaceable in gouernment So that though at last there must be a translation to an incorruptible Crowne in Heauen yet all your Subiects pray the time of that transmigration may bee long dedeferred Horac Serus in coelum redeas diuque Laetus intersis populo Britanno I need not heere play the part of King Philips Page to cry at your Princely chamber dore Memento te esse mortalem Remember you are mortall or with the Artificers of the Emperors tombes at the day of the Emperors Coronation offer a lap full of stones with these verses Elige ab his Saxis ex quo Augustissime Caesar ipse tibi tumulum me fabricare velis Of these same stones most
heauen and seruing loyally the King on earth not to prefer earth before heauen to say with some Mart. lib. 9. Seeke others for to feast with Iupiter aboue I heere on earth my Iupiter will loue But first seeke the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse and this wil teach you to serue your King with faithfulnesse and to pray for his preseruation in all humble and harty diligence and obedience saying God saue the King Also to your Honors right noble Peeres this taske belongeth alwaies to pray God saue the King being noble by birth or place this will ennoble your persons more if you say faithfully as Iudith did to Bagoas concerning Holofernes feignedly Who am I that I should gaine say my Lord surely whatsoeuer pleaseth him I will doe speedily and it shall be my ioy vnto the day of my death then your names and fames shall euer stand registred in the Chronicle of honor free from the blacke Characters of disloyall infamie And though Fortunes image be made of glasse brittle and mutable yet your honourable memoriall shall neuer perish Death which is the true Herald of Armes blazoning mans pedegree to be but genus lutulentum a picture of dust be he a Prince in his pallace or a begger vnder a bush yet corruption is their Father and the wormes their mother and sister Their good workes following them but their pompe left behinde them onely their sanctitie to God and seruice to their King and Countrie shal make them glorious in heauen and famous on earth Posteritie will hold them worthy of honor and desire to reserue a Catalogue of their names and will say These were the Noble men that loued their God their King and Countrie Many haue done vertuously but these surmounted them all Archidamus told King Philip after his victory at Cheron that if he should measure his shadow he should not find it an haires breadth bigger or longer then before so let no vaine-glory fill you with empty wind it cannot make your shadowes bigger or longer glory more in your owne vertuous actions then in your renowned Ancestors for though some doe boast to be A loue tertius Aiax yet Quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voca Ouid. It is the honour of a noble man when he doth excell in vertue his forepassed Ancestors when he is religious to feare God and to honour the King saying of his Soueraigne as Isaac said to Iacob Cursed be he that curseth thee and blessed be hee that blesseth thee and wishing with the Apostle would to God they were cut off which doe disquiet him alwayes loyall to his Soueraigne and louing to his Countrey willing to aduenture in their seruice his limbes or life euer wishing and praying God saue the King and Countrey Likewise to your Fatherhoods most right and reuerend Fathers the Heads and louing Brethren of the Tribe of Leui whose place and office bind you in all duty to be loyall to the royall Tribe of Iudah to you I may without offence proffer this poore present who spend your spirits at Gods Altar to offer a morning and an euening incense of seruent prayers for the preseruation of Gods Annointed exhorting with Paul that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giuing of thankes be made for Kings and for all that be in authority And indeed before all and aboue all we of the Church the vitall spirits of the politicke body haue manifold motiues to pray for our Soueraigne who vnto vs against the tempest of these times is a refuge an hiding place from the wind and as the shadow of a great rocke as it was said of King Ezechiah His Maiesty is a Defender of the Church as he is a Defender of the Faith and against the Atheists and Alexanders of these dayes that would doe vs much wrong he stands to pleade our cause to grace our calling that we may say with the Poet â—unen Sat. 6. Et spes ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum Solus enim tristes hac teÌ„pestate camaen as respexit Though the Church be made blacke blacke by customary contempt and continuall oppression and persecution yet the King kisseth her with the kisses of his mouth and his loue is better then wine we will reioyce and be glad in thee we will remember thy loue more then wine the righteous doe loue thee And herein if we may boast in any thing we may boast in this That our Church was neuer the Author of Treason The Mother of Soules should not be the murderer of Kings members inclined to rebellion were neuer well possessed of Religion As we haue hitherto beene faithfull obedient and loyall so still euer be from the Church Sit procul omne nefas Let the mother of blood and treason still dwell vnder the roofe of Romish Babylon the mother of whoredomes and of these abhominations drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus Christ which cloake these murders and massacres vnder the mantle of Religion like the Rulers of Ephesus distressed with a terrible battery in that Seige her Gouernours tied with ropes the wals and gates to Dianas Temple that so being consecrated to the Goddesse that enemy should assault them at his perill Euen so the Popish pollicy is to tie euery thing to the Temple Conspiracies Murders Treasons all tied to the Church cloaked vnder a colour of Religion that I may say with their owne Leo Ecclesiae nomine armantur contra ecclesiam dimieant They arme themselues with the name of the Church to fight against the Church and to destroy the pillars of the Church Hi Christum simulant sed Sathanalia vivunt Well let our preaching and praying tend to this end to giue Caesar obedience to feare God and to honour the King knowing that all must submit to the Higher Powers for conscience sake and for the Lords sake and they that will not doe it they are none of Gods Clergy none of the Heritage of the Lord They haue neither conscience nor calling like to certaine Bishops in Ambrose dayes of whom he writes Quod dedit cum episcopus ordinaretur aurum fuit quod perdidit anima fuit cum alium ordinaret pecunia fuit quod dedit lepra fuit That which he gaue when he was made a Bishop was gold what he lost was his soule when he made another it was for money what he gaue was a leprosie But these Bishops liue beyond the Alpes I hope there is none in Albion It is our comfort and our Crowne that our calling and conscience is such which burnes in zeale and duty to God and loyall obedience to our graciour Soueraigne Morning and euening at noone and at night at bed and boord praying God saue the Church God saue the King To you the wise and worthy Iudges
of the Land who are the eyes and eares of this politicke Body who well know Scita patrum leges iura fidemque deosque To you I may dedicate and appropriate these our labours whose places and paines serue to this purpose to serue the King and Countrey and to helpe to preserue the welfare of the King and Kingdome Your publike paines and priuate prayers speake to the World these words God saue the King You are sworne to this seruice and sweat in it neuer more Malefactors in this kind and as Paul tels Timothy In the last dayes shall come perillous times for men shall be Traytors heady high-minded c. You know the Nilus where these Crocodils are bred and fed vse all good diligence to catch them spread your nets not Vulpina retia Foxes nets but Regni retia The Lawes of the Land if you can take them you shall doe God and the King good seruices Spare none of this kind who dare lift vp their hand against the Lords Annointed for they are worthy to die Bonis nocet qui malis parcit He hurts the good which spares the bad yea in all your loyall and legall seruice let neither feare or fauour flattery or bribery blind your eyes or deafe your eares remembring that you exercise not the iudgement of man but of God and thinke vpon this verse in your Iudgement seate Hic locus odit amat punit conseruat honorat Nequitiam pacem crimina iura bonos Farre bee that leprosie from the Iudges of our Land which so corrupted them in Ciceros dayes that he could say His iudicijs quae nunc sunt pecuniosum hominem non posse damnari In these iudgements which are now a monied man cannot be condemned But bribery foules not your hands who to corrupting Simons say with Symon Peter Thy money perish with thee Neither let any of Agesilaus letters moue you who writ to a Iudge for his fauourite in this stile Si causa bona pro iustitia sin mala pro amicitia absolue If his cause be good dismisse him for Iustice sake if bad for friendship sake Let Iustice be vnpartially executed yet tempered with lawfull pitty thinke vpon that Christian caueat Duo sunt nomina peccator homo quod peccator corripe quod homo miserere These are two names an offender a man as an offender punish him as a man pitty him be not too seuere with Draco Ne superet medicina modum Least the medicine exceed the malady nor too remisse with lenity for that is a kind of cruelty Tam omnibus ignoscere crudelitas quam nulli saith Seneca To pardon all is cruelty as well as to pardon none But Sus mineruam You know best to keepe the meane and Medium tenuere beati So shall you performe laudable seruice to God King and Countrey if you execute Iustice punish disobedience which is the falling sicknesse of a corrupt Common-wealth Command all to giue * Caesar his due represse all his enemies by force of lawes and cut them off with the sword of Iustice that their exemplary punishments may terrifie all others from such attempts and bee like monitors and remembrancers to all people crying Discite iustitiam moniti non temnere diuos Virg. Let others harmes admonish thee and learn not to despise these supreame powers for which offence so many Traytors dies Seauenthly to the Common-wealth Last of all to you the inferior yet sound members of the supreame Head the natiue and nationall children of our common Mother whom I may fitly compare to the hands and legges of this politicke body to fight and stand strongly for the defence and welfare of our King and Kingdome To you I hope this little Booke will be welcome and therefore say to you as the Angell said to Iohn Take this little Booke and eate it and if you be good Subiects it will be sweet in your mouthes and not bitter in your bellies for you cannot be true Christians vnlesse you be true Caesarians there is no true Religion in that heart which entertaines a motion to rebellion it is a rotten member that will not be obedient to the regall Maiestie And consider with your selues the happy blessings you enioy by the mercifull prouidence of God in giuing to this Realme so godly and gracious a Soueraigne to reigne ouer you and it will make you cry forth with the Psalmist Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord and his blessing is vpon the people O Lord how fauourable hast thou beene vnto our Land in placing ouer vs so religious and renowned a King so absolute and compleate a Prince in wisdome learning and religion and it will stirre vp all thankefull hearts to say with the Psalmist Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee Sing prayses to God sing prayses sing prayses vnto our King for hee hath chosen our inheritance for vs euen the glory of Iacob whom he loued If we be not truly thankefull for so great benefits it may be truly verified of vs which was said of Canaan Bona terra sed gens mala A good Land but in it there be bad people O vnthankefull and vngratefull Britaines if euer you forget so great blessings Vae vobis propter ingratitudinem Woe be vnto you for your ingratitude Ingrata patria Vngratefull Countrey it is an infamous name odious to nature and Nations Gratiarum actio est ad plus dandum inuitatio Giuing of God thankes for fauours receiued is a kind of supplication and inuitation to obtaine more The Anatomists tell vs that euery creature hath foure muscles about the eyes but a man fiue foure serue to turne about the eyes the fifth serues to lift vp the eye and looke vpward to Heauen Man should not with other brutish creatures looke altogether vpon the earth but lift vp his eyes hands and heart to Heauen to giue God due and true thankes for his daily and fatherly fauours and mercies bestowed vpon him The Oxe knowes his Owner and the Asse his Masters Crib yea the Riuers are tributary to the Sea from whence some say they first come and againe returne All Creatures seeme in their kind to be gratefull debtors to their curteous Benefactors except the Swine whose mast makes him forget the tree from whence the Acornes fall or the Moon which being at the full by interposition of the earth darkens the Sunne from whence yet shee borrowes all her light It was Israels sinne vnthankefulnesse I pray God it be not Englands sicknesse vngratefulnesse to God Woe vnto vs if we scant God of our fruits who hath not scanted vs of his fauours Bring presents to the King of glory giue vnto the Lord glory due vnto his Name worship the Lord in his glorious sanctuary Not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy Name giue the glory for thy louing mercy and for
of King-killers Thus he obtained to be Head-Bishop and together with the Lombards began to rule the City of Rome after that the Lombards challenging the City of Rome againe Pope Zachary stirres vp Pipinus deposing Childericus King of France and his sonne Carolus magnus to put down Aistulphus King of the Lombards translated the Empire to France and diuided the spoyle between them France to haue that which belonged to the Empire and the Pope possession of Rome with such donations as they now call S. Peters patrimony and ascribe the grant to Constantine the great After in tract of time their liberall benefactors being dead Pipinus Carolus and Lodouicus and the Kings of France affections being somewhat cold to assist the Pope against the Princes of Italy Pope Gregory the fift practised with the Germans to reduce the Empire thither referring the election to seauen Princes Electors of Germany reseruing to himselfe the negatiue voyce the first of which Emperors was Otho But in processe of time the Germane Emperors began to resist the Popes of Rome and therefore some they accursed some they deposed some they destroyed The chiefe author actor and patrone of all pride presumption and tyranny was Pope Gregory the seuenth alias Hildebrand who laboured to make all temporall regiment subiect to his spirituall iurisdiction It were a long story to rehearse the diuellish practises of this proud Pope against Henry the fourth Emperor excommunicating him deposing him making him with his wife and childe barefoot and barelegged in a frosty winter to wait three daies and three nights at the gates of Canusium to crane his absolution the said Emperor could neuer be quiet from the tragicall vexations of that Pope till the Councell of Brixia deposed that Pope for a Sorcerer Necromancer and abhominable life And afterward Pope Alexander the third doth the like against Fredericke the first called Barbarossa so that it is obserued that Henry the fourth and this Fredericke did fight aboue threescore battels in defence of their right against Popes and enemies of the Empire stirred vp by Popes yet this Pope at last makes this Emperor submit and treads vpon his necke in the Church of Venice And after him Henry the fifth his sonne with his Empresse Constantia are content to be crowned by Pope Celestine the third receiuing the Crown from the Popes feete and being set vpon the Emperors head presently with his foot strooke it off againe declaring he had power to depose him if hee deserued So againe Philippus brother to this Henry by Popes accursed and Otho Duke of Saxony placed in his seate and the same Otho not long after by Popes againe dispossessed Fredericke the second the sonne of Fredericus Barbarossa the Emperor was much persecuted by three Popes Honorius the third Gregory the ninth and Innocent the fourth and by them accursed and deposed and by this Innocents the fourth diuellish circumuention was poysoned returning into Apulia whereof when hee seemed to be recouered he was choaked in his bed with a pillow by Maufred his bastard sonne Conradus sonne to this Fredericke by the Bishops of Rome raysing vp the Lantgraue of Thuring against him driue him to Naples and there died Conradinus sonne to Conradus Prince of Swevia and King of Naples by the Bishops of Rome raising vp Charles the French Kings brother against him was taken with Fredericke Duke of Austria and by the Popes procurement both beheaded I neede not recite the proud practises of Popes against this Realme The tyranny and iniury of Pope Alexander the third against King Henry the second and of Pope Innocent the third against King Iohn his sonne giuing away his kingdome to Lodovicus the French King is commonly knowen Nay what King till Henry the eight but were subiect to the vsurped domination of these Luciferian Popes insomuch as some as Math. Pariens writeth by King Henry the third were faine to stoope and kisse their Legates knee Thus we haue a little touched the practises of these Romish Prelates in exalting themselues aboue Emperours and Kings and seeking by all meanes to aduance their Papall Hierarchy aboue imperiall and regall dignity that we may now stile the Pope by another name Papa-Caesar or Pompifex non Pontifex as Berengarius for he is honoris hâ—lluo a greedy gaper for vaine-glory and to exalt himselfe in the Temple of God aboue all that is called God 2 Thessal 2. 4. Wee haue touched his practises next obserue his pollicy in arrogating a pontificall Primacie CHAP. VIII DIuers waies haue the Popes of Rome laboured to exalt themselues aboue all mortall men and to deifie themselues teaching their flattering birds the Popes parasites like Psapho to cry Psapho est magnus Deus Psapho is a great God Their Decrees Decretals Extrauagants Pontificials Clementinee Buls c. with their clawbacke Canonists Monkes Friers and late Iesuites extolling to the skies the Papall Monarchy haue been the Cages whereout these notes are sung Papa est Deus The Pope is a God herein following the pollicy of Mahomet who to establish his Alca on feignes this fable That three Angels tooke him into a mountaine the first ript his brest and washt his bowels in snow the second opened his heart and tooke out a blacke graine which was the Deuils portion the third closed him vp again and made him perfect then they weighed him in a ballance and ten men being not able to counter-poise him the Angell bad Let goe for no number of men should bee able to weigh against him So they tell the world that no man must reproue the Pope though hee should carry innumerable soules by heapes to hell yet no man must be so bold or presumptuous to reproue him or to say to him Domine cur ita facis Sir why doe you so Strange folly and flattery yea stupidity teaching the world That it standeth vpon necessity of saluation for euery humane creature to be subiect to the Pope of Rome And to make men beleeue it the better they fetch their dignity and domination a farre off from Aaron and his sonnes which say they prefigured the Pope and his sonnes all other Bishops to be vnder him and that the Church of Rome hath not obtained the primacy as preferred by any generall Councell but only by the voyce of the Gospell and the mouth of the Sauiour This Church is the holy and Apostolicke Mother Church of all other Churches of Christ from whose rules it is not meete that any persons should decline but like as the Sonne of God came to doe the will of his Father so must you doe the will of your Mother the Church of Rome the head whereof is the Pope Whosoeuer vnderstandeth not the prerogatiue of Our Priesthood let him look vp to the firmament where hee may see two great lights the Sunne and the Moone one ruling ouer the day the other
but one Consistory and can almost doe all that God can doe Clane non errante Hauing an heauenly arbiterment able to change the nature of things Substantialia vnius rei applicando alteri de nihilo potest aliquid facere Applying the substantiall parts of one thing to another and of nothing make something His Doctors according with his decrees and boasting with Pope Nicolaus that Constantine the Emperour sitting in the generall Councell of Nice called the Prelates of the Church all Gods If Prelates by Constantines voice bee Gods what is the Pope the Prince and primate of all prelates aboue all Gods So that his vsurped exaltation hath verified Saint Pauls prediction Boasting himselfe aboue all that is called God dispensing with Gods precepts making it no murder to kill them that bee excommunicate dispensing with Matrimony in prohibited degrees and such like Antichristian power in papall dispensation which cases and causes may be found in his darling Hostiensis de effi◠Legit. So that by the immodest and immoderate extolling of himselfe seconded by his Canonicall Parasites of old time glosing vpon the Popes decrees and corrupt constitutione enacted in the ignorance of times and arrogance of Popes to magnifie the man of sinne the pragmaticall and dogmaticall Antichrist the succession of Popes making Emperors to hold their bridles and stirrups and Kings going before them and to surrender their Crownes vnto them crowning them with their feet and to kisse their toes and to kisse their Legates knees and to waite vpon them at their Pallace gates bare footed to excommunicate Kings to depriue them of their Soueraignty and to absolue their Subiects from Allegiance with such like Pope-like pollicy haue beene the stratagems to exalt the papall Chayre aboue the Imperiall Throne and at first vnder the femblance of humility haue ascended to this sublimity temporizing with the world being darkened with the mist of ignorance yet affected to a blind deuotion and charmed to this Chayre of superstition haue made this Serum Seruorum A Seruant of Seruants to bee Dominus Dominorum a Lord of Lords making Kings his vassayles and doe him homage debasing the Lords Annointed deposing them at his pleasure and disposing of their Kingdomes freeing their Subiects from all obedience and exciting them to violence and villany in rebelling which hath been the cheefe procurer of the shedding of much royall blood the massacres of men and mischiefs and miseries of most Times which wee shall elsewhere more plainely demonstrate I will in the next place touch a little which yet hath beene handled by elaborate and accurate pensels this point of Popes deposition of Kings the very fountaine of Treason founder of Rebellion and confounder of Religion where it is practised or beleeued I will very briefly wright of it least I should seeme to make Iliads after Homer CHAP. IX THE Romane Church or rather Court of Rome wholly degenerated and arrogating a temporall Monarchy swelling with a forged puffe of pride and primacy appropriated to the Papall Chaire challenge an exorbitant and vsurped power of deposition of Kings and of absolution of Subiects from alleagiance to them which two-fold power is termed the principall warders of Saint Peters Keyes without which the Church could not haue beene well shut or opened This power of excommunicating deposing and depriuing Kings and of absoluing Subiects from obedience to them they principally assume from a pretended primacy belonging to the Pope ouer all spirituall and temporall men or matters deriued to them as they pleade from a supremacy in Peter whose Successorship hath intitled them to such a power and priority two points oft alleadged yet neuer proued yet this primacy of Popes as their Bellarmine saith is the chiefe point of Catholike Faith and the foundation of all Religion For which power the Champions of Rome stoutly stand and among the rest the statizing Cardinall Romes-Rabbi Bellarmine the most expert Gamester at the Popes Primero in seuerall workes yet specially in his fift Booke De Romano Pontifice The whole summe of it containing arguments and examples to proue that the Pope may by his Imperiall power though indirectly and in order to the Spirituals depose Princes from their States and Thrones And as the same Bellarmine personating Tortus saith Conuenit inter omnes posse Pontificem maximum iure deponere It is agreed vpon among all that the Pope of Rome may by right and law depose Princes which speech was too generall for many popish Doctors doubt of it and denie the papall intrusion into Caesars Chaire and some that did hold it haue recanted it as Tanquerellus commanded so by the Court of Paris Florentinus Iacobus and Thomas Blanztus the two last holding this for a proposition Pontificem in omnes habere temporalem potestatem That the Pope hath a temporall power ouer all but they came to recantation nay Hart an hearty louer of the Pope yet his opinion different from Bellarmines Whosoeuer make the Pope aboue Kings as a temporall Lord Nihil habere rationis aut probabilitatis to haue neither shew of reason or probability saith he Yet I confesse the generall voice of moderne Papists and among the rest the Iesuites who dispositiuè naturally are inclined to disobedience and pragmatically and dogmatically declare the same These are the chiefe Instruments but Treason consummatiue comes from the Pope first deposing then commanding and warranting disloyalty and conspiracy against them Augustinus Triumphus saith The Emperor of Heauen may depose the Emperor of the Earth in as much as there is no power but of him but the Pope is inuested with the authority of the Emperor of Heauen hee may therefore depose the Emperor of the Earth and as the same saith The Emperor is subiect to the Pope two wayes 1. By a filiall subiection in all spirituall things 2. By a ministeriall subiection in his administration of temporall things for the Emperor is the Popes Minister by whom he administers temporall things so he In like sort saith Aluarus Pelagius that the Pope hath vniuersall Iurisdiction ouer the whole world not onely in spirituall things but in temporall things albeit he exercise the execution of the temporall sword and iurisdiction by his sonne the Emperor as by his aduocate and by other Kings and Princes of the world The Pope may depriue Kings of their kingdomes and the Emperor of his Empire So he Capistranus agrees with him The Emperor if hee be incorrigible for any mortall sinne may bee deposed and depriued the sentence of the Pope alone without a Councell is sufficient against the Emperour or any other It is manifest therefore how much the Popes authority is aboue the Imperial celsitude which it translates examines confirmes or infringes approoues or reiects if hee offends he punishes deposes and depriues him So he Thomas of Aquine in this is also very popish Any man sinning by infidelity may be adiudged to
Nazianzene Teares the onely medicine against his mischeefe teares were their Speares Orizons their weapons They knew that they that resisted power resisted the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receiue to themselues damnation These had not beene catechized in the Popes Schoole teaching Subiects that the Pope hath power to depriue Kings if they be defectiue in their regiment or not pliable to his commandement but were obedient as the Apostle exhorts Propter conscientiam for conscience sake Oh but will Master Parsons reply We hold this point that a Prince is to be obeyed Propter conscientiam for conscience sake but not Contrae conscientiam Against his conscience And he is so stiffe in this assertion that he saith If one authority example or testimony out of Scripture Fathers or Councels contradict it we then speake to purpose VVe answer Against Conscience rightly instructed and warranted by the word It is true but there is Asinina lupina or leprosa conscientia A foolish woluish or leprous conscience which vicious or erroneous conscience is not rightly called conscience but error and peruersenesse and therein it failes If a King command things expressely contrary to Gods word the Apostles rule then is plaine VVe must obey God rather then men yet not fall to violence or outward resistance in body but in spirit submitting our bodies to suffer with patience what shall bee inflicted like the three Children to Nabuchadnezar but in our soules to shew our selues more then Conquerors for our Conscience sake Thus doe we see that the foure forenamed crimes Tyranny Infidelity Heresie Apostacy yet great and greeuous sinnes are not sufficient to depriue a King of his regall Inheritance or to free his Subiects from their obedience CHAP. XI I VVil in the next place briefly consider the goodly Harmony of the holy Doctors of Rome in the managing and maintaining of this new Doctrine of deposition of Kings by making their Pope an absolute Lord of all Temporalties and of the Spiritualties by vertue of which vaste omnipotency of power as being the Supreme spirituall and temporall Prince of all and ouer all they ascribe vnto his Holinesse this plenitude of power to haue the iurisdiction of both swords and so may passe against Kings if they bee faulty by tyranny infidelity heresie or apostacy or not Roman Catholickes Sentences of Excommunication Breues of Interdiction Depriuation Buls of Absolution of Subiects from Alleagiance yea giue Licence and Indulgences of pardon to misereants to murder them and yet this is not to be counted King-killing for a King excommunicated or deposed is no King in Popery Let vs see the consent of these Doctors or rather heare the confusion of their tongues in building of this Babell Some of the cheefe pillars of Popery defend the direct ordinary and inherent authority of the Pope whereby as Lord of the whole VVorld in all temporall matters hee may at his pleasure depose Emperors and Princes The cheefe of these is Cardinall Baronius and to alleadge his reasons I omit his Bookes are common and extant in the world And this opinion that the Pope is Lord of all the Temporalties and that the supreame Iurisdiction both in temporall and spirituall matters belong to Peters Successors which was the brainelesse assertion of old blockish Canonists and exploded of all sober Papists is now renewed and passeth for Catholick Doctrine Your Francis Bozius defends it that the Pope is directly Lord of things temporall and is the Ruler and Monarke of the whole world So Rodericus Sancius a Bishop of theirs goes further It is to be holden according to the naturall morall and diuine Law wth the right Faith that the Lordship of the Roman Bishop is the true and onely immediate Lordship of all the world not as concerning spirituall things onely but also as concerning temporall things and that the imperiall Lordship of Kings dependeth vpon it and oweth seruice and attendance thereunto as a meanes minister and instrument and that by him it receiueth institution and ordination and at the commandement of the papall Lordship it may be remoued reuoked corrected and punished In the gouernement of the world the secular Lordship is not necessary either of pure or meere or expedient necessity but when the Church cannot Resoluing this Article therefore we say That in all the world there is but one Lordship and therefore there must be but one Vniuersall and Supreame Prince and Monarke who is Christs Vicar according to that of Daniel He gaue him dominion and honour and kingdome and all people and languages shall serue him In him therefore is the Fountaine and originall of all Lordship and from him the other Powers flow so farre goes this Popish Bishop And diuers others agree with him It is iudged that no Christian Monarke hath his Crowne wholly giuen him from Heauen vnlesse it receiue firmenesse and strength also from Christs Vicar the Pope so Possevine Christ committed to Peter the Key-keeper of eternall life the right of earthly and heauenly gouernement and that in his place the Pope is the vniuersall Iudge the King of Kings the Lord of Lords saith another yea the holy Writer in the old law made the Priesthood an adiectiue to the Kingdome but Saint Peter made the Kingdome an adiectiue to the Priesthood faith the same writer Carerius a Doctor of Padua in his Booke De potestate Romani Pontificis which he made specially to confute Bellarmine who denied the ordinary and direct power of the Pope in the Temporalties doth in many places and pages maintaine that all dominion as well in spirituall things as in temporall is fetcht by Christ and the same is committed to Saint Peter and his Successors that Christ was Lord of all these inferior things not onely as he was God but also as he was Man hauing at that time dominion in the Earth and therefore as the dominion of the world both diuine and humane was then in Christ as man so now it is in the Pope the vicar of Christ That Christ is directly the Lord of the world in temporall things and therefore the Pope Christs vicar is the like and this power giuen to Peter is set out by the sole comming of Peter to Christ vpon the water for vniuersall gouernement is signified by the Sea As God is the Supreme Monarke of the world productiuely and gubernatiuely although of himselfe he be neither of the world nor temporall so the Pope although originally and from himselfe he haue dominion ouer all things temporall yet he hath it not by any immediate execution and committeth that to the Emperor by an vniuersall iurisdiction It would weary a man to reade ouer this worke of Carerius wherein he sweates and toyles himselfe striuing with arguments and laying a curse vpon his aduersaries that shal gainsay him or denie the ordinary direct power of the Pope in the
temporalties which he writes as his Preface speakes against the Politicians and heretickes of the Time and indeed specially against a greater Clerke then himselfe Bellarmine both temporizers to flatter Popes with power in temporalties To omit all the rest of this ranke who inclineto this opinion That the Pope hath a direct ordinary and inherent power in Temporalties let vs on the other side behold these Madianites or Cadmeyes Brethren warring and wrangling with an opinionate opposition and contradiction The principall and Coriphaeus of all the rest is the Cardinall Bellarmine who ouerthrowes that ordinary direct and inherent gouernement of the Pope in temporalties as left by Christ with scripturall arguments very soundly and sufficiently yet to gratifie the Pope like a good seruant he restraines it to limitations and distinctions Although saith he the Pope be not Lord of all Temporalties directly neither hath inherent and ordinary authority as he is Pope to disthronize temporall Princes yet he is Lord of the Temporalties indirectly in order to the Spirituals Bellarmines vsuall phrase and hath an extraordinary and a borrowed authority as he is cheefe spirituall Prince to alter Kingdomes to take them from one and to giue them to another if it bee necessary to the saluation of soules i. in order to the Spiritualties Wherein obserue how politicke these papall Parasites be disputing about a power of Popes in disposing Temporals or Regals one fort deriuing this power directly and ordinarily from Christ and Saint Peter the other side indirectly and onely in order to the Spirituals when as their Pope neuer had any direct or indirect power in that kind from God and from Saint Peter But marke how the sonnes ' of this Kingdome be diuided The Pope hath either ordinary and direct power to depose Kings as he is Pope or he hath no authority at all faith Carerius But he hath no direct and ordinary as he is Pope by Bellarmines opinion Ergo He hath none at all Thus their diuision hath made a true conclusion that their Pope hath neither ordinary or indirect power in disposition of Temporals but least Bellarmine should proue an Hereticke in this point and be vngratefull to his great Master the Pope of whom he is graced with the purple hat hee comes with his qualification and modification That the Pope is Lord of the Temporalties indirectly in order to the Spirituals which strange distinction hath no foundation for Peter could transferre no power but ordinary and the Pope is no otherwise cheefe spiritual Prince but as he is Pope so that if he cannot depose Princes ordinarily from their Temporalties as Pope he cannot depose them extraordinarily and indirectly as cheefe spirituall Prince which Carerius enforces Either saith he hee is not the vicar of Christ or else he deposeth inferior powers as Pope but he deposeth them not as Pope saith Bellarmine he is not therefore the vicar of Christ by Carerius conclusion Thus Bellarmine hath depriued his Pope of the Temporalties and his opposite Carerius hath not left him Lord of the Spiritualties The one denies him a deposing Pope the other inferres vpon it no Deputy or vicar of Christ both assertions very true though they deliuer them by way of altercation Thus these wrangling spirits haue brought their Popes imaginary power in great hazard to be lost The one making their Pope Sathans Asse loading him with a boundlesse burthen of power too heauy for any to beare to haue the direct dominion of all the Temporalties in the world absolutely and ordinarily Onus Aetna granius A burthen heauier then the weight of the Mountain Aetna Iethro said that Moses his task was too heauy for him and Iob Curuantur qui portant orbem They that support the world are crooked yet these Ingrossers of greatnesse would lay vpon their Popes shoulders the vnsupportable weight of the dominion of the world to be Lord of all the Temporalties directly and ordinarily The other giues him not so much weight of authority yet giues him too much To depose Kings if need require taking a middle course denying the infinite power of Inherent and ordinary gouernement yet reseruing an indirect and borrowed authority belonging to the Pope yet not as Pope but as the cheefe spirituall Prince conditionally if Kings become tyrannicall hereticall or apostaticall then the Pope is to coniure them into the circle of religion by counsell and admonition and after if they proue refractary to confine them out of their dominionby depriuation and deposition and all this is pretended to be done by power of a spirituall right indirectly to the temporalties yet to a spirituall end and in order to the spiritualties The first to all mens eyes appeare most grosse and egregious parasites besotted with palpable folly and flattery but Bellarmine more smooth and cunning long acquainted with dissimulation the very Genius of Romes Court-Cardinals bedawbes his workes with oyly morter with holy hony if it bee for the saluation of soules in order to the spirituals tending to spirituall good then Si meruere Pater tunc dira tonitruamitte Percutient summos reges nec fulmina cessent If they deserue let Papall thunder cleaue These Regall Cedars and of Crownes bereaue These are Boanerges sonnes of thunder yet would seeme Barnabasses sonnes of comfort tempering and qualifying their fiery thunderbolts of depriuation with a pretence of spirituall good tending to soules saluation But there is a third sort of Papists on the other side men of more humble mindes disliking this statizing Iesuitisme and papall intrusion into Caesars chaire confessing that the Pope hath no temporall power ouer Kings directly as Gul. Barclayus de authoritate Papae against whose opinion herein Bellarmine writes a Treatise De potestate summi pontificis contra Gul. Barclayum Watson in his Quodlibeticall Booke Sheldon in his generall reasons Roger Widdringtons humble supplication to Paul the fift Pope which worke a late Decree of Romes Cardinalls prohibited repining to see Popes temporall incroachments by Romanists contradicted good reason therefore to clap their hand vpon his mouth and to commit him to the dungeon of suppression Stephen Gardiners booke Bishop of VVinchester De vera obedientia with a preface of Bishop Bonners adioyned to it De summo absoluto Regis imperio published by M. Bekinsaw Devera differentia regiae potestatis Ecclesiae Bishop Tonstals Sermon Bishop Longlands Sermon Tonstals letter to Cardinall Poole and many others in Latine and English in this kinde of Romane Catholickes all ouerthrowing this point of moderne Popery Thus as many Papists openly deny and I presume many of the other doe inwardly beleeue being acquainted with their equiuocations and mentall reseruations so it may make all men maruell who are not prepossessed with preiudicate opinions or preposterous affections vpon what sufficient yea probable inducements and motiues they might build this Pontifician power eyther of spirituall much lesse of temporall authority ouer Kings
eyther directly or indirectly by way of deposition of Kings or disposition of their kingdomes The Basis or pillar of this power yea pride they fetch from a primacy as they say of Peter which is diuolued to the See of Rome by right of succession in both of which points they haue beene lamentably soyled and it were folly in me to rub ouer the incureable wounds they haue receiued in this conflict I will stand but as a spectator or relator of this skirmish first in Peters primacy First wee request them to choose out a place for the foundation of it And the Cardinall Contarenus answereth That in his iudgement it was chiefly giuen in the 16. of Mathew when the keyes were giuen him But his Brother Bellarmine the Rhemists deny this and say The koyes were not then giuen but onely promised and with the keyes the supremacy the Gift was in the 21. of Iohn where Christ said Feede my sheepe But 〈◊〉 Contraâ—… replies againe Let not the subtilty of some more ye that say thus for they speake more subtilly then truely thus in the very â—ore from they begin to stagger and vary among themselues But because the place of Math. 16. commonly alleadged to prooue Peters supremacy is their most euident place there we insist and obiect that heerein Peter had no more giuen him then the other Apostles and all made equall with him for Peter had no more but to be the rocke and to receiue the keyes but this is common to the other ergo c. For all the power of the rocke and keyes is included in binding and loosing retaining and remitting sinnes as themselues teach but this power was giuen to all the Apostles Math. 18. 18. Iohn 20. 21. Therefore all the power of the Rocke and Keyes common to the other To reconcile this point and dissolue this knot they skirmish among themselues Some denying that the keyes containe more then binding and loosing Others that Christ in the 18. of Matthew gaue not the Apostles the whole power of the keyes making a threefold sort of keyes of Primacie of Order of Iurisdiction But Bellarmine condemnes that saying It was neuer heard that there were more keyes in the Church then two of Order and of Iurisdiction by which assertion in giuing the other Apostles the same keyes of Order and Iurisdiction hee confirmes our conclusion The highest authority that can be assigned is contained in the keyes say they and the keyes were giuen the other Apostles Math. 18. Iohn 20. 23. as well as Peter therefore Peter hath no supremacy by the Text or by their expositions The common answer of them is That albeit the Apostles had the same keyes and power that Peter had yet with a difference that Peter had it before them and as their Ordinary but they after him as his Legates and subiects which is vntrue for in the 20. of Iohn 21. they all had their power and commission from Christs own mouth not from Peter And Christ said to all Goe ye and preach the Gospell to euery creature so that seeing they had all their Commission immediatly from Christs mouth it doth imply a contradiction to say they had it vnder and from Peter herein they implicate themselues in diuers turnings some say they receiued all their authority from Christ immediately but this was because it pleased Christ by speciall priuiledge to exempt them wherein marke how they contradict themselues first saying they had their authority from and vnder Peter and presently they should haue had it but that by speciall grace they were exempted 2 Sort say the Apostles had two offices first of Apostleship secondly of Bishoply dignity the former they had from Christ but the latter by through Peter Victoria saying They receiued all the power they had immediately from Christ in that he made them all Apostles for to the Apostleship belong three things first authority to gouerne the beleeuers secondly faculty of teaching thirdly power of miracles inferring that all the Apostles had the authority of Order Iurisdiction immediately from Christ And Henriquez saith There is no likelihood in their opinion that say the Apostles receiued their Iurisdiction of Peter other determine the doubt thus That the difference of Peters power from the rest was that hee alone might vse the keyes but the rest might not without him and Saunders saith The other Disciples had the same keyes but after Peter to teach them that Peter had them by ordinary right as Prince of all but they by Christs speciall delegation extraordinarily Gregory of Valence otherwise that Peter had the keyes from Christ and ouer all the Church for euer to continue in his successors which the other Apostles had not Victoria decides this power into foure parts 1. That Peters power was ordinary the rest extraordinary 2. That it was to continue in the Church the others not 3. His power was cuer them their 's neyther ouer him nor ouer one another 4. Their power was subordinate to his so that hee might ouer rule it Caiâ—tan cuts it into fiue points 1. In the manner Peter receiued the power ordinarily they of speciall grace 2. In the office Peter Christs Vicar they but delegates 3. In the obiect hauing power ouer all they not ouer one another 4. In continuance Peters perpetuall theirs determined with their life 5. In the essence Peters preceptiue to command their 's executiue to doe what hee commanded Senensis deuides it into three parts 1. of Order 2. of Apostleship 3. of Monarchy What a weake and doubtfull foundation is heere to build vp Peters Primacy which they make an Article of their Faith so inuolued with nice distinctions and perplexed with difficulties and mutuall contradictions But perchance some Papist may reply and say the chiefe place to proue Peters primacy is Iohn 20. 16. where Christ said thrice to Peter Feede my Sheepe why doth hee examine Peter of his loue more then the rest but that hee intended him more authority No such matter Peter had thrice denied Christ which none of the other had done and therefore he had a threefold confirmation and made a threefold confession for his former abnegation Oh but some of them haue againe argued Feeding is ruling with fulnesse of power but the other Apostles were part of Christs sheepe therefore he must feede them Ansâ— Feeding is to edifie by the word and example so Peter fedde the Apostles and the Apostles fedde Peter as Paul fedde him at Antioch by reproofe So all Christs Ministers are commanded to feed the slock of Christ which is as large as feed my sheepe but the Pope doth not thus feede the sheepe but rather feede vpon the sheepe Non pascit oues sed pastus ouibus in this point Peter and the Pope are no more alike then an Englishman is to a blackeamoore they agree better in fishing then
confessed his intimate conference with Iesuites men dangerous to Kings and States his plausibility with the people an harbinger of ambitious thoughts These with other practises hee vsed as being addicted to Magiche are like the bleating of sheepe in Samuels eares and may all say What meane these things wee may coniecture something yet determine nothing for this Traytor was a Politician who held this Maxime That he was not a wiseman who hauing intended the execution of an high and dangerous purpose did communicate the same to any but himselfe Thus we see how the Lord verifies Dauids words Hee forsaketh not his Saints they shall be preserued for euermore but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off Great deliuer ances giueth he vnto his King and sheweth mercy vnto his Annointed And if all antiquity should awake it could not relate a more Diuine deliuery in so dangerous and deadly extremity And it doth minister immortall and immatchable motiues of perpetuall praises and thankes giuing to God to sing with Dauid Great is the Lord and most worthy to be praised and his greatnesse is incomprehensible Generation shall praise thy workes vnto generation and declare thy power The Lord preserueth all them that loue him but he will destroy the wicked This day the fift of August the commemoration day of this Conspiracy and Deliuery commanded by regall authority to be religiously obserued wherein wee should doe that which the Lord spake to Moses after Israels victory ouer Amalek Write this for a remembrance in the booke and rehearse it to Ioshua for I will vtterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from vnder Heauen And Moses built an Altar and called the name of it Iehoua-Nissi that is the Lord my Bauner So the great King of Kings hauing giuen the King of our English Israel an happy victory ouer Amalâ—k put out the remembrance of them from vnder heauen All from the King in his Throne to the poorest member and Subiect of great Britanny should write in the tables of thankefull hearts the best booke of remembrance this most happy and heauenly deliuerance and goe to the publike Altar the house of prayer and offer vp a seruice and sacrifice of humble and hearty prayers and praises as sweet Incense vnto the Lord singing and saying Iehoua-Nissi the Lord is my Banner The Lord is our strength and praise and is become our saluation Thy right hand O Lord hath bruised the enemie Therefore will I praise thee O Lord among the Nations and will sing vnto thy name Hee is the Tower of saluation for his King and sheweth mercy to his Appointed euen to Dauid and to his seed for euer All glory honour thankes and praise bee giuen to God alone The Father Sonne and Holy ghost three seuerally in one Laus Deo Amphitheatrum Scelerum OR THE TRANSCENDENT OF TREASON For the fift of Nouember THE DAY OF A MOST Admirable Deliuerance of our King Queene Prince Royall Progeny the Spirituall and Temporall Peeres and Pillars of the Church and State together with the Honourable Assembly of the representatiue Body of the Kingdom in generall from that most horrible and hellish proiect of the Gun-powder Treason PSAL. 11. 22. Forloe the wicked bend their bowe and make ready their arrowes vpon the string that they may secretly shoote at them which are vpright in heart For the foundations shall be cast downe and what hath the righteous done By SAMVEL GAREY Preacher of Gods Word LONDON Printed by IOHN BEALE for HENRY FETHERSTONE and IOHN PARKER 1618. TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS and Right Honourable Lords Spirituall and Temporall the renowned Peeres Prelates and Counsellors to the High and famous Court of Parliament SAMVEL GAREY an vnworthy Minister of IESVS CHRIST with his most deuoted obseruance humbly offereth this short Treatise in a perpetuall remembrance of all dutifull thankfulnesse to Almighty God for your Graces and Honours happy deliuerance from the intended Gun-powder Treason Nouember the fifth Anno Domini 1605. Most Reuerend Honorable and right Noble Lords MAy it please your Graces and Honors to behold the wofull picture and lamentable protect of your earthly Downefall intended the contemplation and cogitation whereof can neuer cause you to bury it in obliuion wherein the professed enemies to God King and Country endeauoured and attempted with one blow and blast to make your Mittimus and send you all to another world But Gods most admirable mercy disappointed their most abhominable mischiefe and doth moue your Graces and Honors to say thankfully with the Psalmist Thou hast saued vs from our aduersaries and hast put them to confusion that hate vs Therefore will we praise God continually and will confesse thy name for euer In which prodigious practise and mercilesse Massacre your Graces and Honors may behold your selues how you should haue Purgatory-Vulcans could bring one sparke to enkindle it still the Regall Sunne and Moone shines with a bright and beautifull lustre in the Royall firmament who by these foule monsters and fiery Meteors should haue beene finally eclipsed Charles-wayne is still in our Horizon and God grant it may be said of our King Iames as Iacob said of his Iuda Sceptrum non auferetur à Iuda Gen. 49. 10. Your Graces and Honors the fixed starres of Church and State still keepe your station and retaine your powerfull influences who by these Miscreants should haue bene sent from the stately Parliament to the starry firmament and though not then your mortall limbes yet your immortall soules should haue flowen higher But loe * The Lord was with you while you were with him and preserued you in safely as reserued instruments for his further seruice and glory to the vnspeakeable comfort of his Church and happy welfare of great Britanny Which incomparable worke of Gods infinite mercy in this most gracious and generall deliuerance as it can neuer beforgotten so it cannot be too ofr reuined which poore oblation a commemoration of your Graces and Honours preseruation as it is very seasonable for the time Nouember the 5. against which day it was and is prepared as a yearely present and poore Tribute of true thankefulnesse so I heartily wish it weresatable to merit your most honourable acceptance Yet Cum desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas Your renowned worthinesse will I hope accept my willingnesse and protect this Treatise the Transcendent of Treason vnder the fauourable countenance of your most honourable patronages so shall it be safe from all backbiting vermine and vipers of our Church and Country And as some say The Sea-Vrchin armes himselfe with some stones against a tempest so I against all the windy tempests of ill tongued Iesuites and railing Popelings who take things with the left hand which are offered with the right as Ariston once said will I suppose contemne and condemne this worke wherein their treasonable practises and precepts are in part discouered yet being armed
with your Graces and Honors defence as with precious stones built vpon the chiefe corner-stone Rocke Christ Iesus though flouds from the Sea of Rome should come or the windes of wicked Iesuites blow vpon this booke with their infecting breath and would beate it downe with a storme of words yet Non cadet quia fundatur super petram I feare to be tedious and therefore in all dutifull and submissiue reuerence I cease my hand yet my heart till death shall neuer cease to pray for all your prosperous happinesse and heauenly successe in your holy and high affaires for the Church King and Country for which Diuine blessing shall be duely and daily powred forth the poore deuotions of your Graces and Honours most humble seruant Samuel Garey Ad Gloriam Dei Sionis gaudium malorum luctum MAgnae Britanniae immortales Gratiae Pro salute Britanniae quinto Nouembris Ab horrenda proditione Anglo-Papistarum Qui pul vere bombardico Parliamenti domum Euertere sunt machinati Hoc Aniuersario commemorantur In libre diligenter exara illud erit in die nouissime in testimonium vsque in aeternum Esa 30. 8. Amphitheatrum Scelerum OR The Transcendent OF TREASON For the 5. day of Nouember Sonne of Man write thee the name of the day euen of this same day for the King of Babel set himselfe against Ierusalem this same day Ezech. 24. 2. CHAP. I. AS Moses did speake in another kinde to the people of Israel Enquire now of the dayes that are past which were before thee since the day that God created man vpon the earth and aske from the one end of Heauen vnto the other if there came to passe such a great thing as this or whether any such like thing hath beene heard So I may say Enquire of the Times past and search the Records of all Antiquities and you cannot finde such a damnable and diuellish proiect the very modell of all mischiefes and Miscellan of all massacres the intended Powder-plot the Quintessence of all impiety and confection of all villany the like neuer de ficto much lesse de facto in which these prodigious and barbarous monsters not men but loathsome lumpes of mire and bloud in whose proditorious brests the spirits of all expired traytors by a kinde of Pythagoricall transmigration were inclosed intended to haue destroyed the obiects of Englands earthly glory the glory of succession yea succession it selfe to extinguish the whole light and life of the land vno actu tactu ictu by one blow and blast of powder Tollere Rem Regem Regimen Regionem Religionem Furious Phaetons in one day yea howre with a dismall fire-worke to burne all to ashes of a glorious Monarchy to make an Anarchy to offer our most gracious King royall Queene vertuous Prince and hopefull Progeny with right Noble personages of honourable place and birth the reuerend Cleargy with all the rest of that wise and flourishing assembly to offer them all as a quicke and liuing sacrifice not powdered with salt or salted with fire as our Sauiour but salted with powder to make such an Holocaust or burnt offering as should be the general martyrdome of the Kingdome to bereaue vs of our Eliat and Horsemen of Israel and take them away in a whirle-winde and chariot of fire Quot mortes in vna morte How many deaths in such a death to cut off caput caudam head and tayle branch and rush Prince Priest and people from our Israel in one day Quomodo inaudito potuit manus impianisu Tam dirum fabric are nef as Respublica in vno Funere tollenda est vno tumulanda sepulchro With such an hellish deed for to desire To bury King and Kingdome in a fire How ought the heauenly and happy deliuery from such an horrible and hidcous Tragedy excite all continually to thanke and magnifie our most mercifull God for such a miraculous preseruation And though the crying sinnes of the Land had deserued such a Doomesday of fire yet the Lord in mercy hath deliuered it from that desolation and secured by his outstretched arme of power and pitty the Royall Head and loyall members of great Britanny from his and our enemies who tooke crafty counsell against thy people and consulted against thy secret ones They said Come let vs cut them off from being a Nation and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance but they perished at Endor and were dung for the Earth Shall such wondrous workes as these be knowne in the darke and thy righteousnesse in the Land where all things are forgotten Can such a deliuerance from such a dismall danger so villainous in the Agents so dolorous for the patients so craftily contriued so eagerly pursued so neerely effected the watch of a night and turning of an hand betweene vs and so deadly desolations can such a gracious worke be euer buried in obliuion Indeed it was Israels error whose prayers and praises ended so soone as they had passed the Red Sea and shall we that haue escaped not that Red Sea of water but a Red Sea of fire shall wee end our prayers and praises to God because that danger is past Oh how vnworthy shall we be of future fauours if so vnthankefull for past blessings And truly herein the Land is faulty in forgetting these benefits in a cold and not continuall acknowledgement of their humble thankefulnesse to God for these and other vnspeakable benefits And at the first all peoples hearts did burne within them like those two Disciples when they did but talke of the Powder Treason admiring and acknowledging the infinite mercies of God in the preuenting this most abhorred massacre and with heart and voice magnified the Lord with Dauids Psalme If the Lord had not beene on our side may Israel now say If the Lord had not beene on our side when men rose vp against vs they had then swallowed vs vp quicke when their wrath was kindled against vs. Praised be the Lord which hath not giuen vs as a prey vnto their teeths but a few yeeres being past they beginne to slacken this duty and are cold in praysing God for so blessed a deliuerance Perchance pondering Parsans words Will you neuer giue ouer saith he your clamors and exaggerations The Powder Treason the Powder Treason No we should neuer giue it ouer to poure foorth our perpetuall praises to God for protecting vs from so prodigious a plot and practise Our Eucharisticall deuotion to God for the preuention of the downefall of the Land should not be so momentary and like a morning dew as if the renued remembrance of so great deliuerance should become wearisomenesse vnto our spirits or the wonderment of the Lords mighty worke being past our gratulation to God should be out of dare vnseasonable and more then halfe forgotten No the deliuery from this flagitious and most bloody designement as it
were a resurrection of this Kingdome from the dead claimes not a vanishing but a continuall and constant ioy which ioyfull thankefulnesse to God if we forbeare or forget because the time of that danger is past we shall be like them who seeing Iohn to be a shining and a burning light reioiced for a season in him or like the Pharise Thanke God in tongue and countenance onely And I feare there are many in this publike ioy and thankesgiuing assume the face and fashion of reioicers like Rufâ—… who came to Vitellius after his victory carrying as Tacitus writes Latitiam gratulat ionem vultu ferens sed animo anxius c. Ioyfulnes in tongue and heauinesse in heart These if any such may witnesse against themselues That the Lord hath done great things for vs wherefore we reioice The better to awaken our flumbering affections to this perpetuall seruice of thankefull reioicing and to prouoke vs to imprint an eternall Momento in the Kalender of our hearts foreuer of the maruellous mercy of God in keeping vs from that intended destruction I haue enterprized to â—ouze vp and reuiue the languishing spirits of the Land with the renued remembrance of so ioyfull a worke and with a fresh supply to refresh this fainting and expiring Lampe which though it hath beene cherished with the oyle of many helping hands yet begins to faile in light and had need that both Pulpet and Presse should preach and publish a continuall Hallelu-Iah for so great and gracious a mercy of deliuery For earthly men are hardly moued to this duty of praysing and thanking God of ten Lepers but one returnes to giue thanks Pharao being plagued can send for Moses and Aaron and say Pray ye vnto the Lord for me but being eased neuer say Praise the Lord with me wherin if the latenesse of our gratulation to God shall find a cold entertainement with the vnthankefull Children of Men as if this worke were out of date I say with the Psalmist This shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. In handling of which Subiect I will discourse principally of foure generall things 1. Of the plot and proiect it selfe 2. Of the Persons 3. Of the Causes or motiues 4. Of the ends By these foure markes I will guide my selfe in the description of this Chaos of confusion CHAP. II. 1. Of the Plot. IN the declaration of this direfull and detestable Powder-plot I may beginne with the words of Aeneas relating to Queene Dido of the fall of Troy yet with a little Inuersion Anglorum vt opes lamentabile regnum Eruerent Danai Quanquam animus 〈…〉 horret luctuque refugit Incipiam My heart doth shake with trembling feare amazt How famous England a rich flourishing Land By Papists Powder-plot had beene defac't And Troynouant like Troy in fiery ruines stand Had not the Lord put forth his sauing hand As Treason is a worke of darkenesse so these working Traytors wrought in darkenesse their plot of hellish pollicy and impiety concealed in a place of darkenesse Subterraneum foramen A place vnder the Earth they wrought vnder the ground beginning their Mine the eleauenth of December 1604 neare to the wall of the Parliament house Itum est in viscera terrae Atque oculis captifodere cubilia talpae Ouid. These blinded Pyoners to the Prince of hell Labor in darkenesse and in darkenesse dwell Deepe politicians to vndermine a State what depth in deuising cunning in contriuing cost in preparing sweat in labouring closenesse in conueying Ingeniosa crudelitas ad poenas Men of cruel wits to crucifie their Countrey but the Lords potent wisdome eluded the profound policies of these monstrous and mischieuous Earthwormes In which damnable plot two points considerable 1. Their secrecy 2. Their cruelty in it Secrecy both in the Act and Agents 1. Vnder the Earth the bosome of all secrets 2. In the Agents who sweare and take the Sacrament for secrecy Strange impiety to take the Sacrament the Seale of Grace to commit not a crying sinne of blood but a roaring and thundering sinne of fire and brimstone This is Popish practise vsually to tie themselues for performance of their desperate deeds by taking the Sacrament in which they hold Christs body and blood really present and thereupon make a bargaine to shed reall yea royall blood Nullus sâ—mel are receptus Sangâ—… fâ—nces I may say of them as Iacob of Simeon and Leui Brethren in euill the Instruments of cruelty are their habitations into their secret let not my soule come These Gun-powder-Traytors first in their mine consulting with the Prince of Darknesse the president of their plot and counsell and the combining and conspiring with themselues in the deepest secrecy for the perpetrating this inhumane villany and hauing from the eleauenth of December 1604 vnto Candlemasse next laboured vnder the ground and brought their wicked worke through halfe the wall of the Parliament House vpon a new opportunity leaue their vndermining worke Daemonum opus The Diuels worke and hire the Vault or Cellar vnder the Parliament house And as before these Diuels Iourney-men laboured vnder the Earth so now framing and machinating sub Senatu vnder the Parliament House to make a finall dissolution there which is the famous place of publike reformation and therefore secretly doe conuey great store of powder thither about 36 barrels of powder couered ouer with store of wood and billet and to vse Dauids words Lo the wicked bend their Bowe and make ready their Arrowes vpon the string that they may secretly shoote at them which are vpright in heart for the foundations shall be cast downe and what hath the righteous done And as the same Prophet They incourage themselues in a wicked purpose they commune together to lay snares priuily and say Who shall see them but the Lord did breake the counsell of the Heathen and brought to nought the deuises of such people Blessed be his holy name for euer 2 Is the cruelty of the plot which appears specially in two respects 1. In the generall extent 2. In the greeuous deuice The extent large plotted for the generall destruction of the King and Kingdome Cum subit illius dirissima mortis image Vltima quae Regi regnoque bonisque fuisset Horribilis quatit essa tremor A dismall day in which they did intend Of King and Kingdome for to make an end These Powder-papists then dreamed to haue had a Romane Regiment that Tuesday at night here like Hamilcars dreame the Generall of the Carthaginiani laying siege to Syracusa an Image appeared to him in his dreame and told Hamilear hee should sup the next night in Syracusa and so he did yet not as a Captaine but Captiue or like Iulius Caesaers dreame who the night before he was slaine in the Senate house dreamed that he sate hard by Iupiters seate So
preaching but since they were dead they were high coloured blushing at the wickednesse of their supposed and but supposed successors ashamed of the Doctrine and practises of your Church of Rome and that this shame had altered their colour And sure all Gods seruants who haue the feare of God before their eyes are ashamed and abhorre such abominable practises The cause as Bodin saith which mooued Tacitus to exclaime against Christians was quia Christiani affectarunt crimina quae Ethniti abhorruerunt Because Christians affect those sinne with the Ethnickes doe abhorre if Tacitus were now aliue how would he exclaime against the Church of Rome for animating people to commit such villanies which all Ethnickes except sauages or Cannibals abhorre and condemne Behold how Rome is degenerated from her primitiue State time was she loathed such deedes either to commend or canonize Trators Facta haec Roma olim nec sancta nec Ethnica nouit Such workes in ancient times this Rome did hate In her first Christian yea in Ethnicke State But now Quod natura nefas odit doctrina capescit Which nature most detest Doctrine defend Yea haue not some of them laboured to extenuate the deuillish deuise of these superlatiue Powder-traytors with these words Alas it was the attempt of some few and vnfortunate Gentlemen vnfortunate as they count because they failed in performance or as others of them These Catholickes held the King no King or not their King and expectanda erat diuturna persecutio a perpetuall persecution was to be expected and Eudemen a Iesuite hath write to defend Garnets Treason and rightly played the Daemon and haue not some others excused the fact of Rauilliacke one of Marianas Schollers who stabbed Henry the fourth the late famous French King whose death neuer sufficiently to be lamented and neuer of Kings sufficiently reuenged with these pretences Fuit stolidit as regis ob susceptum haereticorum patrocinium It was the folly of the King for patronising these heretickes meaning Protestants So that I may define these Iesuits to be as one did define a Frier to be cadauer mortuum è sepulchro veniens missum à daemone inter homines a dead Carrion comming out of his graue sent of the deuill among men and truly such are rather monsters then men who will commend or command murther applaud murtherers and Traytors who are portenta virorum viri portentorum monsters of men or men monsters viri sanguinum men of blood viri occisionis slaughter men and though in all professions some are bad A Cham will be in the Arke Saul among the Prophets and Iudas among the Apostoles some may fall into murther or Treason c. Yet when such come to their end and punishment they vsually confesse their faulte to be in their nature not in their religion excepting onely Roman Catholickes who seeke to fetch poyson from heauen and to prooue murther by the Scripture Dogmatis atque Scholae sunt haec non crimina morum So that these cannot say with Cassiodorus follow my doctrine but not my maners for both precepts and practise treasonble And that I may giue a little tast or touch of their practises in this kind least I should seeme to condemne them without cause I will in the next Chapter demonstrate how that many Popes of Rome who are the heads of Popery which is the mystery of iniquity haue caused and procured many Emperors Kings Princes and worthy men to be greatly persecuted and grieuously killed So that we may say to them as our Sauiour to the Pharisees I will send them Prophets and Apostles and of them they shall slay and persecute that the bloud of all the Prophets with many Kings Princes and learned men may be required of this generation CHAP. VI. A short Catalogue or rehearsall of certaine Emperors Kings and famous men who haue beene persecuted by the Antichrist of Rome I Cannot nor will not enterprise to declare all the particular persecutions of the Church of Rome against seuerall Kings and Potentates who distasted and in some sort opposed themselues against their corruptions for that would require a long Tractate to discouer the miserable mischiefes of the whore of Babilon drunken with the bloud of Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Iesus Christ for that were an endlesse worke and the Spirit of truth might say to me as to Ezechiel Turne thee againe and thou shalt see greater abhominations then these I will confine my selfe to a few examples The Emperour Philippicus Bardanius because hee commanded all Images to be remoued out of the Churches by the counsell and consent of Iohn Patriarke of Constantinople was denounced an Hereticke publiquely excommunicated by Pope Constantine and commanded no gold nor siluer to be stamped with his Image nor any mention made of him in their common prayers Lodouicus Pius the Emperor eight hundred yeares after Christ was thrust out of his Kingdome by the French Cleargie and the Pope Philip the Emperor by the procurement of the Pope Innocent the third who said Eyther he would haue Philips Crowne or Philip his Miter continually opposed himselfe against him and stirred vp Count Otho against him who miserably did slay him at Bamberge in his priuy chamber Henry the seuenth oppressed by the Pope and his Cardinals stirring vp enemies against him was at last poysoned by a Monke in the Sacrament I omit to speake of the other Henries tragically vexed by tyrannicall Popes the extreamities and indignities whereunto they brought them haue replenished the world with plentifull histories The Emperor Fredericke the seauenth truely complaining That the happines of Emperors was alwaies opposed by the Popes enuy Neyther haue the Kings of the earth found better vse some of them by Popes deposed from their Kingdomes as Childericke the French King by the Pope deposed vnder pretence of stupidity and thrust into a Monastery Philip the first for matrimoniall causes Philip called the faire for collating of benefices Rachis King of the Lombards by Pope Zachary put into a Monastery with many others which might be named Nay not onely by Popes deposed but of their liues depriued Manfred the King of Naples and Sicily had the Duke of Anien armed against him by Pope Vrbane the fourth by whom hee was slaine So Conradinus King of Naples and Sicilye being taken prisoner by Charles brother to the French King was miserably put to death by the Popes Counsell King Iohn of England was vilely vexed and depriued of his Kingdome by the Pope and his Bishops and the French King set vp against him and at last was poysoned by a Monke Ioane the Queene of Naples was depriued of her Kingdome by Pope Vrbane who consented to her murther Gemin Otto the brother of the great Turke being prisoner was poysoned by the Pope hired thereunto by a
the politicke body of the Kingdome all cut off at one blow the kingdome left headlesse heartlesse hopelesse depriued of her directing Iethroes Dij quibus imperium hoc steterat Virg. The pillars and supporters of this Christian Monarchy and changed it to a confused Anarchy then preuailing as Garnet the Arch-Priest and Archtraytor praied Auferte gentem istam perfidam de finibus credentium Take away this perfidious nation meaning vs Protestants from the borders of true belieuers vnderstanding Romanists vt laudes Deo debitas alacriter persoluamus that we may praise God for the same ioyfully But such prayers of the wicked is an abhomination vnto the Lord and though they make many prayers the Lord will not heare them because their hands are full of blood the enemies to our King and Kingdome opened their mouthes against vs saying Let vs deuoure them Certainely this is the day that we looked for yea which they longed for wherein they hoped to haue swallowed vs vp quicke when their wrath was kindled against vs to haue ouerthrowne the temporall and politicke estate of our Kingdome by the ruine of the royall Head and the most noble members of the same but the Lords eyes were vpon the faithfull of the Land to shield them vnder the shadow of his wings when as the proud had laid a snare for them and spread a net with cords in their way and set grins for them then did the Lord deliuer them from those euill men and preserued them from those cruell men and recompenced them their wickednes and destroied them in their owne malice to moue all Gods people in great Britanny to say with Zachary That being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies we should serue him without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the dayes of our liues Yea this pernicious proiect had not onely procured a fatall disturbance and destruction of the temporall and politicall welfare of the Kingdome but also aimed to alter the State of our Religion and to set vp the abhomination of desolation in the holy place to establish the corrupt profession of popish superstition this was the Helena for which these Greekes contended Then all of vs might with the children of Israel led captiue to Babilon cry like them By the riuers of Babilon we sate downe and wept when wee remembred thee O Sion for then wee should haue liued in captiuity to the Romish Babilon and haue sung the songs of Sion in a strange land and strange tongue Then England should haue beene againe as once one called it the Popes Asse to beare his burthens in a miserable bondage Those debosht and banished Popelings Iesuites Seminaries and Masse-Priests who can cry to their Images like Baals Priests O Baal heare vs lo then Hagar and Ismael not long since cast out with bagge and baggage reen tring againe insolently insulting ouer honourable Dame Sara and would driue her and Isaak out of the familie VVhat heart zealous of the glory of God and religious to the pure Gospell of Christ that would not with Dauid euery night water his couch with his teares to behold the Candlestickes of our Church who hold the light of the word broken in peeces I meane the spirituall labourers in the worde to be thrust out of the vineyard of the Church and the loyterers of Rome haruest-men for Antichrist to take the howses of God in possession So that with Dauid we might cry * O God thine enemies are come into thine inheritance thy holy Temple they haue defiled c. Romes wolues in sheepes cloathing worrying the Lambes of Christ Sathans Foxes running vpon the mountaines of Sion and stealing away the soules of the simple making them drunke with the dregs of the Romish grape enchanted with their Circes cup in which is the wine of infection spirituall fornication and abhomination The people then should haue beene depriued of the pure riuer of the water of life and for lacke of the bread of life compelled to complaine in the famine of their soules like the distressed Iewes in the famine of their bodies Where is bread and drinke where is the Manna which once was tasted the worde of grace wherewith wee once were feasted where are the painefull Pastors of our soules who once refreshed vs fedde our hearts with bread from heauen and filled our cares with comfortable tidings of peace who prayed for our soules with zealous spirits and spent themselues like vnwearied messengers in the worke of the Gospell Oh the Priests lippes which preserued knowledge they are silenced and sent to their graues expelled the Church or put in prison or turned to ashes in Popish flames their persecutors are swifter then the Eagles of heauen who pursue them vpon the mountaines and lay wait for them in the wildernesse they hunt their steppes that they cannot goe in the streetes their end is neere for their daies are fulfilled their end is come Oh this is come vpon vs for our cold loue and churlish entertainement of the Gospell when we had free liberty to call one another Come let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the God of Iacob and hee will teach vs his waies and we will walke in his paths but then wee stopped our eares like deafe Adders against the voice of those charmes most expert in charming they piped vnto vs but we would not dance we then regarded not those songs of Sion and now both harpes and harpers are hung vpon the willow trees our soules are starued with Latine Masses wee haue no English Bibles wodden blockes are called the Lay-mens bookes we cannot see the way we should walke in but must like blinde men be guided by the spectacles of purblinde guides we must beleeue as they beleeue and yet doe not know what they beleeue all ready to repeat that wishing voice of Iob Oh that wee were as in times past when God preserued vs when his light shined vpon our heads and when by his light we walked through darkenesse all saying with Valerius though not in the same case who when Caligula that monster was killed and it could not be found out who had done it Noble Valerius rose vp and said vtinam ego would to God I had killed that monster So will they cry vtinam ego would to God wee had killed that monster which whisome wee indulgently cherished in our bosomes Ingratitude and Contempt of the Gospell then while we had the same in plenty and purity without commixtion of drosse and darnell trash and tares we began with the Israelites to loath this Manna We can see nothing but this Manna our soule loatheth this light bread and now Verbum amissum quaerimus inuidi Wee wander from Sea to Sea and from the North to the East to seeke the worde of the Lord and cannot finde it Now the Lords
complaint is verified vpon vs My people are destroyed for lacke of knowledge the seeds-men of the worde sent from the blessed sower who broke vp our stony hearts and made them flexible and did labour to turne many to righteousnesse they are taken from vs and now Impius haec tam culta novalia miles habebit Barbarus has segetes Not Masse but Mars-Priests in the Churches field Possesse the fruits which others labours tilld These and more pittifull mones would haue beene fresh and frequent in this land crying with Ieremy The ioy of our heart is gone our dance is turned to mourning the Crowne of our head is fallen woe vnto vs that wee haue sinned our necks are vnder persecution wee are weary and haue no rest Our King a Nursing Father to the Church and Common-wealth Our Noble men of Sion comparable to fine Gold Our reuerend Prelates and Pastors the salt of the earth and light of the land the chiefe Iudges and choice Gentry of the Kingdom who were as eyes to the blinde and feete to the lame All the pillars of Church and Common-wealth maintainers of the Law and Gospell had perished in this intended Massacre So that the shepheard being smitten the sheepe will be scattered yea sheepe not hauing a shepheard will fall into the hands of wolfes who will deuoure their flesh and their fleeces And looke still further and behold these powder-traitors men nourished with Tygers milke who enterprised not onely to procure a temporall politicall and spirituall ouerthrow of Church and Common-wealth but also so farre as in their power they could seeked to procure the eternall death of body and soule vnawares by force of fire to part vnprepared soules and blow vp with a fiery Dimittis bodies and soules before they could haue time to say feelingly Inmanus tuas Domine O Lord into thy hands we commend our soules heerein shewing themselues desirous to be bloudy murtherers to murder the body with death temporall and also to make away the soule with death eternall which second death worse then millions of corporall deaths Continet Myriades mortis Prima mors animam dolentempellit de corpore secunda mors animā nolentem tenet in corpore as Austen The first death driues the pained soule out of the body the second death keepes the vnwilling soule in the body for then men shall seeke death and shall not finde it for in life there is some ease in death an end but in the second death neyther ease nor end Mors sine morte finis sine fine So that to draw all to a conclusion which should haue beene the conclusion yea confusion of vs all I may supply my defects in the description of this immatchable treason with the Poets excuse Non mihi si centum linguae sint oraque centum Ferreavox omnes scelerum cōprendere formas Omnia poenarum peccurrere nomina possem No tongue can tell no pen descry This Map of mischiefe the Powder-Tragedy The Lord of Hosts who neither slumbers nor sleepes who in pitty and prouidence prouides for the safety of his Church and Children beheld our English Israel and Popish Amaleck the members of the Church militant and malignant the one secretly plotting to blow vp the other but the Lord against whom no wisdome nor vnderstanding nor counsell can preuaile became an impenetrable shield suffered not one of his seruants haires to be burnt with fire but besotted these Traytors to communicate their counsels though darkly to others by which meanes they were discouered And we are perswaded and confirmed of the all-sauing protection of our good God towards his deare Seruant and our dread Soueraigne with the rest of the religious assembly congregated for the glory of his name and good of his Church in that Honourable House of Parliament that if the Lord had suffred them to haue made a further progresse to the instant of that disastrous and dismall action that hee would haue disabled the party who with his vnhappy hand should haue kindled that fatall fire as he did the hand of infamous Ieroboam in the very act of stretching it against the Prophet it withered or like the hand of Valens the Emperor when hee tooke his pen to confirme the sentence of Basils banishment strucken of God shooke and shrunke not able to hold the pen So surely the Lord would haue benummed that accursed hand which sought to ouerthrow Christs Church among vs for it is as easie to pull Christ from Heauen as to put his Church out of the Earth Christ cannot be a bodilesse Head nor the Church an headlesse body and though outward meanes of deliuerance to vs may seeme defectiue yet stand comforted and couragious for the gates of hell shall not preuaile against the Church It is a lame and halting confidence which cannot goe to God without the stilts and crutches of externall meanes for the Lord knoweth to deliuer the godly and in the very point and article of time will be a present helpe in trouble God came to Adam with a promise in the time of despaire to Abraham with supply in the time of sacrifice to Isaacke with reliefe in the time of famine and danger to Ioseph with honour in the time of exile to Elias with comfort in the time of persecution to Gideon with helpe in the time of battle to Daniel with safety in the Lyons denne to Ionas with release in the Whales belly to Susanna with life condemned to death to the three Children with a protecting Angell in the fiery Furnace yea to this Kingdome of England with a most mercifull preseruation neere the time of the appointed Powder-destruction to make all our English Israel alwayes in all distresses and dangers say with Moses Feare not stand still behold the deliuerance of the Lord which he shewed vnto you this day Dies Ista Salutis erat candore notabilis ipso The Lord would not haue this Powder-proiect to haue power to burne one haire of his seruants head or any smell of fire come vpon them yet caused some of these vault-pyoners to be wounded and disfigured with powder In quo peccarunt in eodem plectuntur Wherewith they sinned by the same they were also punished So that all these extraordinary mercies of Almighty God summed vp together should haue more then a Magneticall attraction to draw all Christian hearts euer to praise his infinite goodnesse and continually inuite and induce all to a serious consideration and conseruation of this admirable deliuery from this intended miserable calamity agnizing God the sole and supreme cause in preuenting of it and therefore ascribing all the glory to him who hath preserued still his Church in tranquility our King in glory the State in safety the Realme in prosperity Iutuere rupem erige ratem The snares of death and destruction prepared
world hath blinded that the light of the glorious Gospell of Christ which is the image of God should not shine vnto them let them all know that these voices sound from heauen vnto them to their conuersion and consolation if they accept them or condemnation and confusion if they reiect them Come out from among them separate your selues saith the Lord and touch no vncleane thing and I will receiue you and I will be a Father vnto you and you shall be my sonnes and daughters saith the Lord. This voice is not the voice of man but of God Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers in her sinnes and that ye receiue not of her plagues for her sinnes are come vp into heauen and God hath remembred her iniquities as it is there prophecied of the fall of mysticall Babylon which is Rome Therefore let my exhortation bee that vnto you which a reuerend and learned Doctor gaue as a farewell to his friends Commendo vos dilectioni Dei odio papatus I exhort you to loue God and leaue the corrupt doctrine of Popery which is a forme of Religion yet Non secundum Iesum Christum nec verbum nec tenet capâ—t Not according to Iesus Christ or his Gospell nor doth it rightly hold the head making the Church a monster with two heads the Pope a visible Head on earth and Christ in heauen the inuisible Head We beseech you in the tender bowels of Christ to haue pitty vpon your owne soules open your eyes without partiality or preiudice to behold the truth and embrace it and to moue your hearts with Peters wordes as newborne babes desire the sincere milke of the word that ye may grow thereby so shall you and we haue infinite cause to reioyce and our Church say with Peter yee were as sheepe going astray but are now returned vnto the chiefe shepheard and Bishop of your soules With which sauing Grace the God of all grace and goodnesse Iesus Christ enrich your soules withall to grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ to him bee glory both now and for euer Thus hauing declared in part the corruptions of popish Doctrine which must be reiected of all who desire to be faithfull seruants to our Sauiour or performe seruice acceptable vnto him for what concord hath Christ with Belial what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols Take heede of the Leauen of Rome as our Sauiour warnes his Disciples of the leauen of the Pharisees and Sadduces their pernicious doctrine full of errors repugnant and decrogatory to Christ and his Gospell It remaines and followes in the next place to touch That if you beleeue and embrace al the points of moderne Popery now broached and maintained in the Church of Rome you cannot bee dutifull and obedient Subiects to our and your Soueraigne and since I haue in my former Tractates obiter by the way promiscuously touched lesuiticall precepts and practise in this kinde papall depositions of Kings from their Regiment and absolutions of subiects from loyall obedience applauding traytors by canonization commendation for treasonable attempts I will not be large and liberall heerein onely propound a few positions and propositions to your consideration to iudge of them whether they be not opposite to all loyall obedience which are maintained and divulged to the world by your great Doctors and Pillars of the Romane Church And first you are not ignorant that very lately Anno 1606. Pope Paul the fifth prohibited all the Romane Catholickes so tearmed by his Breue that they should not take the oath of Allegiance vnto which they were enioyned by the Kings Maiesty which argues hee would haue them refractary in matters which onely concerne ciuill obedience for the scope of that oath tended to professe and practise a dutifull allegiance to the King in all loyall submission The like also did Pius quintus Pope to the late Queene Elizabeth commanding her Subiects to rebell and discharging them from allegiance But omitting these things as vulgarly knowne I will goe to the Iesuites schoole and heare how they teach you If a Christian King become an Hereticke immediatly his people are freed from his command and their subiection saith Symancha But all Christian Kings are esteemed Heretickes who are not Catholikes of the Romane size Ergo. The Iesuite Creswel vnder the name of Andreas Philopator against the Decree of the Queene of England sect 2. â—u 157. deliuers this proposition Principem qui a Catholica religione deflexit excidere statim omnipotestate a Prince who declines from their Catholike religion rather superstition falls presently from his Regall power But all Protestant Princes decline from that religion Ergo no King or no power The same Iesuite num 160. saith Omnium Catholicorum esse sententiam obligatos esse subditos ad principes haereticos depellendos qui sidei Catholicae inuriosi sunt si modo vires ad hoc habeant idoneas It is the sentence of all Catholikes that the subiects are bound to driue away hereticall Princes who are iniurious to the Catholike Faith if they haue forces fit for this purpose And againe num 162. Subâ—â—ti â—…di Principes suos non tantum legitime possunt 〈◊〉 sedetiam ad hoc praecepts divine conscientiae arctissimo vinculâ— ac extremo animarum suarum periculo tenentur Subiects may not onely lawfully trouble such Princes but are bound to doe it by Diuine precept and most strict band of conscience and extreame perill of their owne soules And the same Iesuite againe Si Imperator vel Rex haereticuÌ„ fauore prosequatur ipso facto regnum amittet If an Emperor or King fauour an heretike he shall lose his kingdome ipso facto Now Protestants in their Calendar are branded for heretickes Ergo. And to these accord and publish the like doctrine many others of their writers Ribadeneira de principe lib. 1. cap. 18. pa. 177. c. 26. pag. 172. c. Paulus Chirlandus de haeret q. 3. nu 2. Conradus Brunus de haeret lib 3. cap. vltimo Io. Paulus Windeck de extirp haer Antidoto 10. pag. 404. Antidot 11. pag. 408. Stapleton in oratione contra politicos Duaci habita Baronius Card. in Epistola contra Venetos Bellarmine the Cardinall full of such stuffe Hee affirmes that Kings are subiect to Popes Bishops Priests Deacons and would prooue this inferiority by Scriptures and Fathers De laicis lib. 3. He holds many other propositions disgracefull to Kings vndutifull for subiects and contradictory to all Scripture Secular principality is ordained by men and hath his being by the law of Nations de Rom. Pontif. lib. 1. c. 7. § praeterea a grosse Assertion for so great a Doctor In causes onely Temporall Cleargimen are bound to obey Princes and no longer obey then the Pope will de clericis lib. 1. cap. Per totum caput So ridiculous positions
as the very naming of them is a confutation Simancha and Creswell haue concluded that no hereticke that is a Protestant is capable of a Crowne and though a lawfull heire yet no iust possessor hauing obtainedit And to this effect Pope Clements Bull was After the death of the late Queene whether by course of nature or otherwise whosoeuer should lay claime or Title to the Crowne of England though neuer so directly or neerely interessed therein by descent and Blood royall yet vnlesse he were such an one as would not onely tollerate the Catholicke Romane religion but by all endeuours and force promote it they should admit or receiue none to the Crowne of England And Samancha Tit. 64. Sect. 75. faith The father may be deposed for an hereticke and his sonne and heire also excluded from claime of succession vnlesse he be a Romane Catholicke Thus they seeke to dispossesse Kings who are enthroned by God and haue their Scepters from the King of Kings yea they â—ind Kings to their good behauiour if they doe displease the Pope then depose them and so no Kings Molina saith The King can vse his Temporall sword but at the Popes becke Tract 2. de Institut Di. 29. Thus debasing Kings the highest powers on earth to be subiects to the Pope who yet in a counterfeit style cals himselfe Seruus seruorum a seruant of seruants Sonat humilit as in voce sed superbia in actione Saith Gregory Iacobs voice and Esawes hands Hypocriticall humility is worse then manifest pride And truly if the Pope had a sparke of the spirit of humility he would condemne his Parasites voices Papa est per queâ—reges regnant The Pope is he by whom Kings reigne Saith Bozius or Papa data est omnis potest as in caelo in terra Dominatur amarivsque admare à flumine vsque adtermin os orbis To the Pope is giuen all power in heauen and earth and reignes from one Sea to an other from the stood to the end of the world or Papa potest omnia facere quae Deus potest The Pope can doe all that God can doe horrible impiety and intollerable flattery And these tell the world he can make and vnmake Kings and the Popes like it well enough excommunicating Kings deposing them and disposing of their Kingdomes to others So that it mooued Art 〈◊〉 King of Peru to say as Benzo and Lopez tell it Insigniter fatuum esse opertere papam qui quae non haberet alijs liberaliter largitur vel carte impedentem nebulonem qui eiectis veris possessoribus alienas terras peregrinis addiceret in mutuas cades mortale genus armaret That either the Pope was an egregious Sot who would liberally giue things which he had not or a very impudent companion who expulsing the true possessors giues it to strangers arming the world to mutuall yea mortall slaughters I will not trouble my selfe to behold the nakednesse rather wickednesse of these drunken Noes vncouered in the midst of their Tents vomiting out vile positions full of sedition and disobedience against the Kings of the earth it require rather teares to bewaile it then a pen to report it and the learned heerein know more then I write and for the ignorant it is good for them in this case to be ignorant still yet I confesse I aimed most in this labour to informe the ignorant hauing no minde to meddle with seducing Priests I cannot charme such deafe Adders if this litle handfull of my loue and labour presented vnto you may be profitable to win any of you I will say and end with the Apostle Iames Brethren if any of you haue erred from the Truth and some man hath conuerted him let him know that hee which hath conuerted the sinner from going astray out of his way shall saue a soule from death and shall hide a multitude of sinnes The Lord who is a God of Truth for his mercy sake and for Christs merits sake open all your eies to behold the Truth and your hearts to embrace it that we may all hold one Head in vnity and haue one heart in verity that all with one minde and mouth may praise and pray vnto the Lord in the militant Church on earth and be thrice happy members of the Triumphant Church in heauen Amen Candido lectori Humanum est errare errata hic corrige lector quae penna aut praelo lapsa fuisse vides FINIS * Epist 34. * Baron annal tom 1 ad an 1. fol. 53. * Math. 2. 11. * Walafriâ— Strabo lib. de rebus Eccles * Epist 77 * Eccluâ— 24. 39. * 1 Cor. 4. 3. * Le moribus a 2 Kings 11 3. b 2 Chr. 22. 9. 10. 11. c 2 King 11. 4 d 2 Chr. 23. 2. e 2 Kin. 11. 4. f 2 Ch. 23. 3. g 2 King 11. 6. 11. h 2 Chr. 23. 11. i 2 Kin. 11. 12. * A queene ouer men a queene ouer her selfe for a maiden queen k Mundi totius vna decus Beza Epigram in class hisp Anno 1588. l Gen. 27. 41. Ad certum tempus sunt Christiani postea peribunt redibunt Idola verum tum cum expectas miserinfidelis vt transeant Christiani transis ipse sine Christianis Aug. in P s 70 m Quo nil praestaÌ„tius orbe nobiliusque nihil nostro sol aspicit aeuo Mortua regina quasi non est mortua quia reliquit similem plus quam fimilis hic n Quem beneficia accepta memorem non redduÌ„t is grauius suppliciuÌ„ meretur Chrysost de Sacerd. lib. 4. o Tertul. in Apâ—log c. 30. p Psal 132. 18. q Plut. in vita Flaminij r 1 Kin. 1. s 1 King 1. 40. t 39. Proditor est martyr coeli certissimê° hares u Mariana de reg lib. 1. c 7. * Maria. p 60. Vid orat sixt Qt habit in consistoria Saunders Fra de Verone Azorius Philopater Allen aly x Tertul in Apol. Spolia opima Joui Sen. Prosperum scelus vocatur virtus y 1 Chr. 16. 22. z Reu. 17. 46. a Machau Princ. c. 11. b Psal 21. 8. 9. c Psal 129. 6. a 1 Tim. 2. b Tribus argumeÌ„tis ostendit oranduÌ„ esse proregibê° quorum duo sumpta sunt ab effectu vtili Pisc in locuÌ„ c Plin 2 Panegy ad Traianum Rex sapiens est stabilimentum populi Wisd 6. 24. Rex si bonus est nutritor est tuus si malus tentator tuus est Aug. ser 6. de verb. dom secund Math. Bellua multorum capitum homine nullum morosius animal nec maiori arte tractandum Sene. d Quot capita tot sententiae quot homines tothumores quot humores tot mores Lipsius e Exod. 18. 19. f Psalm 2. 10. g 2 Chr. 1. 10. h Wisd 6. 21. i Magna seruituâ— est magna fortuna nam ipsi Caesari cui omnia licent propter hoc ipsu multa non licent Seneca consolat ad
mighty Caesar take Of which I may thy tombe begin to make Your Highnes needs not these aduertisements the memorie whereof presage our lamentations though it shall bring you in present possession of perpetual glorification who liue and labour to passe off this worlds Kingly Theater with that approbation bene fidelis serue Well done faithfull seruant enter into thy Masters ioy Our hearty and humble prayers shall euer be powred foorth to the King of Kings from the bottome of our soules that your Highnesse may still reigne many happie yeares on earth in prosperous health Kingly honour and all happinesse and may oft renew and reuiue our hearts with these annuall ioyes and when the last period comes that God may make you as glorious a Saint in Heauen as you are a great gracious high and happy King on earth and leaue behinde you the succession of your loynes to sit vpon the Throne to the worlds end and all your faithfull seruants and subiects will ioyne with mee in this prayer and say Amen Amen Next to your Honors most graue and wise Senators the politicke Statists of the land who represent Romanos rerum dominos gentemque Togatam The most honourable Counsell to the royall head whom for fidelity I may compare to the heart of England to you by right of office place and charge this faithfull seruice principally appertaines to procure and pray for the Kings safety who is as it was said of Iudith the exaltation of Ierusalem the great glory of Israel the great reioycing of our Nation That hee may enioy many Alcion daies and reigne many golden yeares in safety and securitie Virg Aurea securi quis nescit saecula regis It is your noble taske carefully to consult in the preuention of publicke mischiefes and though wee may now say with Agamemnon Victor timere quid potest What need the Conqueror feare yet Cassandra will tell vs Quod non timet feare that you doe not feare feare procures precaution precaution preuention feare the plots and proiects of the sonnes of Anak the Popes Giants traiterous Iesuites of whom I may say as Ammianus Marcellinus writes of the Saracens Nec amici nobis vnquam nec hostes optandi si amici perfidi si hostes foedifragi VVee need not to wish them to be our friends or foes if friends they will proue treacherous if foes perfidious Circumspect precaution is the life of pollicy for stultum est cum sit is fauces tenet puteū fodere for that is like the Phrygians sero sapere to be wise too late But why doe I like an vnexpert Phormio dispute of warres in Hannibals presence you are the Nestors of this kingdome wise as Serpents but innocent as Doues be careful to take the Foxes which would destroy our Vine Faber cadit cum ferias fullonem neyther state nor statute free till the Realme be freed of them being like Nouatus whom S. Cyprian describes in these colours Saepe blandus vt fallat aliquādo saevus vt terreat semper curiosus vt prodat nunquam fidelis vt diligat Alwaies flattering to deceiue sometimes cruell to terrifie alwaies curious and cunning to betray neuer faithfull to loue But your Honours know best how to preuent the mischiefes of such miscreants who desire the ruine of King and Country for you can best tell how to doe it Propert lib. 2. Nauita de ventis de tauris narret arator enumeret miles vulnera pastor oues I will not meddle with your high affaires rather follow mine owne duety fall to prayers for you that God may euer be present and president at your Counsels giuing you the spirit of counsell and of courage wisely to foresee and happily to preuent all misfortunes and miseries intended against our King and Country and that our Iudah and Israel may dwell without feare euery man vnder his vine and figtree from Dan euen to Beersheba al the daies of our Salomon That God would still multiply these happy yeares and grant that our high and princely Cedar with all the faire goodly branches may long flourish in this land and that all his subiects high and low may safelie shelter vnder the shadow of his gracious gouernment blessing your Honors the very supporters of the state the pillars of the land with grace and wisedome from aboue to prosper your Counsels and euer direct you to consult for the glory of God the good of the King the comfort and welfare of Church and Common-weale To you also the bright stars of Court blest with the dailie beames and influences of the Regall Sunne who like orient Pearles serue to adorue the golden Diadem to you I may fitly tender these present meditations who no doubt dailie doe meditate vpon this Theame to say and pray God saue the King You faire flowers of honor who flourish in the courtly Canaan a place which flowes with plenty and pleasure the very garden of delight where the Bee gathers hony and the spider poyson where you may reape all earthly pleasures which are like Ionas Gourd content a while but not continue your eies behold the subiect of our prayers the ornament of our land Nay I may say with the Poet Hor. lib. 4. od 14. od 2. O quâ Sol habitabiles Illustrat oras maxime Principum Quo nil maius meliusue terris Fata denavere bonique diui Nec dabunt quamuis redeant in aurum Tempora priscum Vpon no shoares the Sunne doth shine Blest with a King more diuine The fire of your feruent prayers for the welfare of the King should perpetually flame at the high Altar of deepe deuotion being graced with all kingly fauours and aduanced with honour and rewards if you should proue disloyall or vndutifull to the King hee might rightly vse the Prouerbe Mercedes locat in pertusum sacculum Put his rewards in a broken bagge and might iustly frowne on you and his wrath like the roaring of a Lion and euen strike you dead with a Quos ego If you desire the Kings fauour which is the way to honor be faithfull and loyall This raised Mordecai to ride on the Kings horse in royall apparell a Crowne of gold on his head c. and to be eternized with the eternall Crowne of truth It raised Ioseph to ride in the second Chariot of Egypt Daniel to be clothed in purple and a chaine of gold about his necke Look vpon King Dauids gratuitie for Barzillays loyalty who commanded Salomon on his death bed to let the sons of Barzillai to eate at his table This is the onely way to winne the Kings fauour which if you lose you are but falling starres your Fame obscured your Names contemned Macro salutes Seianus no longer then he is in Tiberius fauour Actum est ilicet peristi But your faithfull seruice to your Soueraigne will be commendable to God and men seruing in soule the King of