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

Monsters that the fame of them should not be hard to wound the tender sent of nature that neere them there might be no speach of thē Would God such monsters in nature that are ready to betray their own Countries were so far from vs that we might not heare the fame of them much lesse that we should need to feare them But the greatest daunger is when they are in the bossome and bowels of our Countrie which secretlie gnawe in them and are readie to eate through them They may be compared to Sobna of whom the Prophet Esai maketh mentiō who was greatly aduaūced of the godlie king Hesechiah Sobna Esai 22. outwardlie bare his countenance that he would liue and die with him made for himself a sepulcher in Herusalem as if he would lay his bones there But he had a false hart a lingering in his hart after the Assyrians the enemies to his Prince and Countrie which made inuasion on them And his false hart deceiued him for he was carried away captiue into a far Coūtrie according to Gods threatning by the Prophet there he ended his life in confusion God deliuer vs from such Sobnaes that haue lingering harts after the enemies of our Prince Countrie whatsoeuer countenāce outwardly they make and lay open their trayterous harts and practises against the sacred person of our prince her royal estate our Countrie Thus of those that haue lingering in their harts after inuasions of forraine forces The 11. cheefe matter The 11. is what hath been the case of this Realme in inuasions of forraine forces and strangers heretofore and of other Countries in like case and what should be our refuge and stay against such inuasions Our own Country doth minister to vs sufficient experience in the case Of inuasion of strangers and forraine force The foūtaines are small that feede great riuers Of small occasions at first as out of fountaines issue grow and flow out great floods gulfes that ouerflow whole Countries We may see the experience in king Vortigerne his time King Vortigerne Aurelius Vter Who being distressed by troubles at home and fearing ciuil wars inuasiō by Aurelius Vter the sons of king Constantine whose death by treason he had procured and practised before sent for forraine forces Panims Saxons for his aid The inuasion of the Sax●● Horsus Hengist Fabian in his Cron. the 5. part cap. ●3 Then came in Horsus Hengist the Saxons first into this land for Vortigerne distrusting his own subiectes affied himselfe in strangers forrain forces in the end he was himselfe vnhorsed discōfited by Aurelius Vter whō he feared and the whole land was made a bootie pray for the Saxons They cāe in first stealing in by troupes after troupes companies after cōpanies The Caspian Sea Plinius nat ra Histo 〈◊〉 6. cap. 3. Like the Caspian Sea stealeth in and breaketh in at streightes at first as Plinie writeth but after moūteth into a great Sea ouerfloweth in the maine land First Horsus and Hengist came in with their cōpanies after the fame sprāg of the fat of the land Fabiā the 5. part cap. 83. Ella Porch Fabian the 5 part cap. 94. Vffa Fabian the 5. part cap. 96. as Fabian saith one Ella a Saxon came in with his 3. sons landed in the south part of Britō And after came in a Soxon named Porch with his two sons of whō the hauen Porchmouth is called as Fabiā noteth And one Vffa a Saxon with his troupes intruded himselfe into Norfolke and Suffolke and other Saxons in other places Finally as Catterpillers they deuoured the fat and fruite of the land they raigned the Britons serued This may be a president and mirror for Englishmen to looke into to see what hath beene the case of their Country when strangers and forraine forces haue come vpon them Let vs perticulerlie looke into the storie of Hengist Hengists storie it is notable and worthy to be renued in remembrance of Englishmen When Hengist so liked the land Ronouen Hengists daughter Fabian the 5 part cap. 82. that he thought to plant himselfe here he sent for Ronouen his daughter who came in with 16. saile After he had got footing in the land first he conteined himselfe in certaine boundes but after at a Sea he brake ouer the bankes and ouerflowed the maine land He obtayned of king Votigerne first so much land as he could lay out with a Buls hide which he cut out into thonges and hee compassed a great circuit of ground with it Thongcastle Fabian the 5 part cap. 83. and built him a Castle thereon and he called it thonge Castle And after he left cutting out of thonges out of the Buls hide and be fell to cutting out Prouinces and Countries out of the maine land in the East part of Briton Then in steed of Thongcastle Fabian the 5 part cap. 89. Hengist king of Kent Fabian the 5 part cap. 95. Ella his kingdome Fabian the 5 part cap. 94. Vffa his kingdome Fabian the 5 part cap. 96. hee made himselfe kinge of Kent and raigned there 24. yeeres and after him Ochra his sonne ruled other 24. yeeres This kingdome endured aboue 300. yeeres as Fabian rehearseth out of Polichronicon Ella another Saxon set vp his kingdome ouer the South Saxons Aurelius being then king of Briton And Vffa an other Saxon reigned ouer the Eastangles now called Norfolke Suffolke Thus they fel a deuiding the land amōgst thē first they came in for aide of king Vortigerne when diuision was in the land and after they fell to deuiding the land and making shares to themselues till they got land and al. Will not such examples of our owne experience in our owne Countrie heretofore make Englishmen wise against al practises of inuasions and forraine forces What hartes or bowels of nature haue they which can haue any lingering hope after forraine forces Doe they looke to aduaunce themselues in the ruins of their Countrie Either they knowe not or haue forgotten the saying of Caesar Caesar I loue treason but I hate the traytor The verie heathens abhorred them notwithstanding they reaped benifite by them Let all true harted subiectes of England beware of them which by the dore of diuision at home would let in forraine forces to make their shares out of the bodie and bowels of our Countrie The inuasion of the Danes Let vs looke into the inuasions of the Danes also which is an other glasse of like experience for all true Englishmen to looke into In the first inuasion of the Danes when they descried diuision in the land they ioyned themselues with one part made thēselues a partie with the West Britons against Egbert king of west Saxōs Fabian the 6 part cap. 158 And after they had made themselues a partie in the land so had their confederates in the land they

vs the God of Iacob is our defēce Thus far Dauid His prouidence doth checke controule forraine forces and inuasions which like floods are ready to rage ouer al. And when the plats are laid he saith it shal not goe foorth neither so come to passe Esai 7. Ahaz king of Iuda as he said in the Prophet Esai of the inuasions of the two kings Razin of Siria and Pechach of Israel against Ahaz king of Iuda Where his prouidence is the watch and wall the floddes of forraine forces cannot preuaile no more then they did against Asha the godly king of Iuda Zarah king of Ethiopia 2. Chro 14. when Sarach the king of Ethiopia came out against him with an host of ten hundred thousand and three hundred Chariots And when Asha ioyned battaile in the valley of Zephota with him Ashaking of Iuda he cryed vnto the Lord his God Helpe vs O Lord our God for we trust in thee and in thy name we goe against this multitude Thou art the Lorde our God and no man shall preuaile against thee And the Lorde smote the Ethiopians before Asha and Iuda and they were ouerthrowne as the Scripture saith that there was none of them left but were destroyed before the Lorde and before his hoast Thus the scripture of the inuasion of the Ethiopians vpon Asa king of Iuda And no more then the great multitudes of the Moabitas and Ammonites Iehosophas The Moabites Ammonits of mount Seir. and mount Seir could preuaile against Iehosophat the religious and faithfull king when they ioined their forces together to make inuasion vppon him and before the battaile stroke vp hee stood vp and said Heare me O Iuda and yee inhabitants of Hierusalem Put your trust in the Lord your God that you may bee found faithfull Giue credite to the Prophets 2. Chro. 20. and so shal yee prosper And their enemies were ouerthrowne with strokes among themselues as the Scripture saith and with their owne forces consumed themselues And no more then Sancherib king of Assur Hezechiab Sancherib Esay 37. who with an huge hoast of an hundred eightie and fiue thousand as the Prophet Esay setteth downe coulde preuaile when he made inuasion vpon Hezechiah king of Iuda who put on sackcloth and went vp to the temple to pray to God and he sent Heliakim others to the Prophet Esai that he should lift vp prayer to God for them And God sent out his Angell that slue the Assyrians hoast And after that Sancherib himselfe also was slaine in the temple of Nesrah his God by his owne sonnes Adramalach Saraser So notwithstanding the rabbles and multitudes of Sancheribs hoast the great hurliburly of his inuasion and the roaring out of blasphemous Rabsakeh his Captaine against Hierusalem Esai 36. as if it were but a morsel in Sancherib his mouth Gods determination was concerning the execution of his exploite and inuasion as the Prophet saith Hee shall not come into this Citie and shall shoote no arrow into it there shall no shield hurt it neither shall they cast ditches about it The same way that hee came hee shall returne and not come at this Citie saith the Lord. And I will keepe and saue the Citie saith he for my own and for my seruant Dauids sake So far the Prophet We may see what our refuge stay should bee against forraine forces and inuasions to trust in the mercifull prouidence of God and hartily to humble our selues in praier to God King Hezechiah as king Hezechiah and the Prophet Esay did against the roarings of Rabsakeh and the inuasions of Sancherib And with the godly king Ashah to crie vnto God King Asha reposing our trust and affiaunce in his tender mercy and almighty power when the raging Seas of forraine forces and inuasions are readie to breake in As Ashah did when the Ethiopians came mounting as the Ocean Seas to swallow vp his land King Iehosophat And as Iehosophat the zealous and religious Prince did for before he marched with his forces against the Moabites and Ammonites and them of mount Seir which came with rūning camps like roaring Seas and Gulfes of many wa●ers to ouerflow and deuour his land first he ●●ustred his people in publike prayer and supplication before God and begged comfort and conduct of God against the feareful inuasion and committed himself his estate affaires and exploites to the mercie of God and cryed to his people to beleeue the prophetes and all things shuld be prosperous to them God send vs such harts to commit our selues to the prouidence tender mercy of God in such cases to humble our selues in heartie prayers before God with assured persuasion trust and confidence in his help protection against all forces inuasions of enemies And that vnder the couert of the wings of his merciful prouidēce our Prince and Countrie may haue cōtinuall safetie defence and protection against all inuasions and enemies whatsoeuer Thus what hath been the state of this Realme in inuasions of strangers heretofore of other Countries likewise what our refuge stay should be against all forraine forces and inuasions The 12. chiefe matter The last is a generall warning to all subiects to shunne such vices as hinder true faith to God and true loyaltie to the Prince which are hypocrisie and a hollow hearte to God and hypocrisie and a hollowe heart to the Prince and estate and peruersnesse frowardnesse vncontentment of malcontents mislikers and murmurers against the Prince and state A generall warning to all subiects Touching the first hypocrisie and a hollow hart to God hinder true loialty to the Prince for they that are faithfull to God are also faithfull to their Prince Take example of the Prophet Dauid Psal 42. Who was more faithfull to God then he whose soule longed after God as the Harte desireth the water brookes and hee was so faithfull to the person of hys Prince that he was pricked in conscience for cutting off but a peece of the vesture of king Saul when in the Caue God put him in his hands How farre woulde hee haue been from offering any hurt or violence to the person of his Prince Eliakim Esai 22. Eliakim in the Prophet Esay is called a father of the house of Iuda and the key of the house of Dauid Hee was a faithfull seruāt to god he was faithful to his Prince for life And God saide of him I will fasten him as a nayle in a sure place and hee shall be the glorious seate of his fathers house A worthie glasse of faithfulnesse to looke in The faithfull to God and their Prince shall finde it at his hand True faithfulnesse shall weare the garland hypocrisie shal be vnder the hatch Sobna See the example of Sobna in the same Court of Hezechiah the godly king and mentioned in the same place of the Prophet Hee had a hollowe hearte to God and