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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19411	A treatise against traitors Meete for all faithfull subiects in these dangerous dayes. Taken out of the 40. chapter of Ieremye, the 13, 14, 15, 16. verses, and 41. 1, 2, 3, 4. Made and published for the benefite of the Church and common wealth of England: by Samuell Cottesford Minister and publique preacher of the woord of God.	Cottesford, Samuel.	1591 (1591)	STC 5840; ESTC S116422	48,076	146

his foote no flying ground no giuing way the one companye of Traytors with their swordes prouided for the turne the other their meate in their mouthes and the cuppes in their handes without any suspition of euill eating drinking and making merrie bidding welcome to these farre trauellers out of the coast of the king of the Ammonites where and with whome they had layd their plot for the executing of this treason But such a like manner of proceeding doe all Traytors take with whom if a man should but enter parle a while concerning magnanimitie and cowardise oh you should finde them in their owne conceites the odde men in the world like to the worthies of Dauid of whom as the holy Ghost reporteth 1. Chron. 12. 14. speaking of the sonnes of Gad of whom one of the least could resist an hundreth and the greatest a thousande But bring their manhood to the touch and you shall find all their bragging to be nothing but meere wordes and cowardlinesse white-liuered gentlemen such as in the reuenge of a quarrell holde it the best way by treachery and behinde the backe of their aduersarie to make the onset and not the worst point of their manhoode to end the matter with a sure stab without fighting a blow and after for them the best defence is foure legs are better then twayne a most horrible thing that the bloud of man is so little regarded in these dayes of the Gospell and that there should be any escape or pardon of life graunted to any one of so bloudie mindes for whom the law of God hath prouided no refuge who in their owne heartes carry the guiltines of the bloud of them to their graue Salomon Prou. 28. 17. describeth them A man that doth violence against the bloud of a person shall flee vnto the graue and no man shall stay him that is let no man pittie him nor once take compassion on him Exod. 21. 14. But if a man come presumptuously vpon his neighbour to slay him with guile sayth Moses thou shalt take him from mine alter that he may die Examples of such villanies committed we haue in the holy hystorie some in the 16. chap. 1. Kings 9. we read of Elah the sonne of Baasha who beeing King ouer Israell was by Zimri his seruant Captaine of halfe his Chariotes conspired against him as hee was in Tirzah drinking till he was drunken in the house of Arza steward of his house And Zimri came and smote him and killed him and what the end of Zimri was as followeth 18. verse And when Zimri sawe that the Citie was taken he went into the pallace of the kings house and burnt himselfe and the kinges house with him These kinds of cruell murthering men at vnwares the holy scripture condemneth of most impious crueltie in the 2. Sam. 20. 9. It is recorded that Ioab the Captaine of the hoste the cause being as it seemed in that Dauid had giuen the promise of his place to Amasa as appereth 2. Sam. 19. 13. therfore Ioab pretending peace came to him and sayd Art thou in helth my brother And Joab tooke Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kisse him But Amasa tooke no heede to the sworde that was in Joabs hand for therewith hee smote him in the fift ribbe and shed out his bowels to the ground and smote him not the second time so he died In the like bloudie manner dealt Joab with Abner pretending to speake peaceably with him in the gate 2. Sam. 3. 27. Concerning which treacherous manner Dauid left order with Salomon his sonne as is to see 1. Kings 2. 5. to the which order Salomon agreed and caused Benaiah to smite Joab hauing caught hold on the hornes of the Alter and there hee died In the like treacherous sorte dealt Absolon with Amnon 2. Sam. 13. making a great feast at a sheep-shearing whither as they his brethren the sons of Dauid were inuited by him and Absolon had giuen charge concerning Amnon to his seruants that when they saw Amnons heart merry with wine they should smite him and so they did In which acte although Amnon had done wickedly in defiling Thamar his sister who gaue Absolon any such commission in steede of publique iustice to be passed on him that he should so bloudily reuenge it as his owne priuate quarrel Some like feastes such hipocrites make and in the middest of their cups their hearts are most bloudy To omit the butchery of Abimilech vpoÌ„ his brethren for the placing of himselfe in the kingdome Iudg. 9. 5. verse To omitte only glauncing wise to speake of theÌ„ the poysoning of King Iohn King of England by a Munke of Swinsthead Abbey the murther fresh in memory done by a Fryer most bloudely vpon Henry the late King of France the villanous attempt vpon the Prince of Orange To passe ouer the abhominable crueltie of the Guizians bathing theÌ„selues in bloud in the time of the Massacer that practise against the Lord Chastillon the high Admirall of France And finally to omit to speake of Bothwell his villany not a whit behinde any of the rest in sauage crueltie for his treson against the late King of Scots And to draw to an end of this treatise wherin you haue seene layd forth the duties of faithful subiects towards their Princes especially coÌ„cerning their outward estate and towardes all other Magistrates as also the partes and duties of Princes on the other side towardes their subiects and people And finally the manner and forme of Traytors in the execution of their villanyes wheÌ„ce I am first to craue humbly of so many as this treatise shal come into their hands to be seene and read that they will especially consider the excellency of the history how it agrees with the present estate of this age vniuersally thorough out al the parts of Christendom requiring all of euery condition in the feare of God that according as they finde the truth set downe before their eyes they wil lay it to their hearts and make profite therof and with greater care of practise to proceed vnto a more full purpose of obedience vnto our Prince Counsellers and Magistrates in not only bridling their owne tongs from speaking or hearts from conceiuing ill against the Prince being expressely against the lawe of God prooued but also they will care not to giue their eares to heare ought froÌ„ others especially those runagates about the lande the Seminary men that eyther tendeth or may tend to the impeachment of the glory credite and estimation of her Maiestie and of her royall Crowne dignitie But with all their care and diligent endeuour they wold hence learne to discry these Seminaries and seedes men of high treasons that by discouering them and that in all conuenient time thereby they may stoppe the cause of any ill concerning reports or other mischiefes pretended against the present state of her Maiesty and people not giuing themselues

most puissant Princesse maintained and yet continued that in stead therof we heare not a strange song of spirituall and corporall bondage and captiuitie for the contempt of the word of God and the abuse of his graces vnder the enemies of GOD our Prince and country whose teethe are set on edge to be dealing with vs who thirste greatlye after our blood take heed that in stead of our songes had at our feastes and our epicurial banquets full of filthines abhomination tickling vp the vile fleshe vnto sensualitye and carnall lusts we heare not a song of famine and hunger our children crying and howling for the least of these morsels which in our fulnes they we and our seruants haue loathed though many our betters in Gods sight wated them and then we cannot haue them And in this description of the causes why God though he prolong his iudgmentes yet in th'end he paieth home Let vs not forget the great care of the flesh that the whole land hath concerning excesse in apparrell take heede once more I say that the disguising of our selues in the attire of euerye land not for the stuffe wherof the garments are made as cloth of Golde siluer embroidered worke silkes veluets fine cloth fine linnen lawnes and I knowe not what vse wherof there is for al persons regarde being had to eche mans degree but not thereby to fulfill the lusts of the flesh to vanitie and excesse not to pride and filthines not in such painting of faces in deuising newe disguised fashions but vnto decency and comelynes euery one according to the law of God continuallye beating our eares and the statutes of our own land for apparrell to the keeping of euerye degree of persons from breaking out of the bounds and lymits of their calling knowing this and remembring it well to the cutting of the combes of all degrees of persons that immediatly vpon the sinne of Adam came nakednes and so a prouiding by the Lord against our shame euen in apparell and clothing of vs and where we doo misiudge of some by their apparrell according to the statelines of it to be either in honorable place or of high degree as one saith when we lost our honor in Paradise then came we to be first apparrelled being the signe of our sinne and the badge of our rebellion and our shame Take heede we doo not here in stead of this song of our delightes the lamentable song of Iheremiah and of Esayah the Prophet the 3. Chapter from the 16. verse against the pride both of men and women whose woordes though they be long I will not referre you ouer to them but plainelye set them downe The Lord also saith Because the daughters of Zion are hautie and walke with stretched out neckes and with wandring eyes walking and minsing as they goe and making a tinckling with their feet 17. Therefore the Lord shall make the heads of the Daughters of Zion balde and the Lord shall discouer their secret partes 18. Jn that day shall the Lord take awaye the ornament of the slippers and the calles and the round tires 19. The sweete balles and the bracelets and the bonnets 20. The tyres of the head and the sloppes and the head bandes and the tablets and the eare ringes 21. The ringes and mufflers 22. The costly apparel and the vailes and the wimples and the crasping pinnes 23. And the glasses and the fine linnen and the hoodes and the launes In steade of this song which in as great pride and vanitie we haue sung to our flesh what shalbe the song of iudgement 24. And in steade of sweete sauour saith he there shalbe stinke and in stead of a girdle a rent and in stead of dressing the haire baldenes and in steade of a stomacher a girding of sackecloth and burning in stead of beautye This song haue the Iewes in Ierusalem the glorye of the world alreadye sung a people deerely beloued of the Lord and shall we vpon whome the Lord hath looked with so amiable and fatherly a face shall we remaining in our sinnes and vanities scape scotfree Nay take heede our owne toungs doe not also testifie against our selues as concerning the deliverance from the Spanish enemies of late that would in the pride of their harts haue bourded vs at home the victorie ouer whoÌ„e we begun with songs of praise and thanks giuing to the Lord to celebrate Take heede that our praising of God for that day and the memory of it being layde in water as we saye that God doo not cause vs to sing a dolfull dittie of some ruinous ouerthrowe which God in his mercy keepe back from vs and he contrariwise that at one Ionas his preaching to the Niniuites wrought their conuersion graunt to our Prince so mercifull to our nobles so honorable to our Bishops and ministers in their preaching of the word of God so comfortable and to our people so innumerable that so many sermons of so sundry Ionasses I hope doe not return back againe vnto the Lord in vaine without our repentance but contrariwise may as it hath begun faith in our Prince nobles and people make it effectual to Gods glory and the continuance of his mercy towards vs in preseruiÌ„g not Gedaliah a deputye but our Elizabeth the onely monarch princes of the world as thankes be to God he hath from many of Ishmaels crue traitors of our time the people may dwell in peace and safetye vnder her in all godlynes and prosperitie during her happie reigne But to leaue off to speak concerning the will end and purpose of God in blinding the eyes of Gedaliah in not beleeuing Iohanans reporte and let vs returne to speak of Gedaliah himselfe concerning his incredulitye in these wordes And he beleeued them not In whome this is to be obserued that he being a man as it seemed of a milde spirite and charitably affected towardes Ishmaell whom he had very familiarly conuersed with would not beledde with any suspition of euill against him following the rule of the Apostle Paule concerning the seuerall offices of charitie or loue as is to see 1. Cor. 13. 5. Loue thinketh not euill or is not suspicious of euill and besides he had no great delight to heare il reports against any least therby he might giue liberty to himselfe oftentimes in stead of truth to heare of falshoode and lyes wherein his commendation standeth iust For all Kinges and Princes especially aboue all other persons are not in any wise to maintayne flatterers slaunderers backbyters nor tale-bearers neyther yet alwayes to giue too easie credite to euerie tale brought them though by persons otherwise of good credite as Ishmael was with Gedaliah For those people especially the last doe great hurt in Princes Courtes of whom Salomon speaketh 16. Prou. 28. And a tale-bearer maketh diuision among Princes And in the 29. Prou. 12. verse Of a Prince that hearkdneth to lies all his seruants are euill For such

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