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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05463	The complaint of England Wherein it is clearely prooued that the practises of traitrous papists against the state of this realme, and the person of her Maiestie, are in diuinitie vnlawfull, odious in nature, and ridiculous in pollicie. In the which they are reprooued of wilfull blindnes, in that they see not the filthines of the Romish gouernment: and conuinced of desperate madnesse, in that they feare not the mischiefe of Spanish inuasion: the former whereof is exemplified by the Popes practises both here in England, and abroad in other countries: the later by the Spaniards outrages, in his exactions raised vpon Naples, and his tyrannies executed in the Indies. Lastly the necessitie, equitie, and benefits of the late proceeding in iustice are set downe; with a friendly warning to seditious papists for their amendment; and an effectuall consolation to faithfull subiectes for their incouragement. Seene and allowed.	[Lightfoot, William].	1587 (1587)	STC 15595; ESTC S108556	45,440	70

in his own Pallace O vnspeakeable grief all these valefull calamities to haue sprung from one Helena How much better had it bene that that Helena had neuer bene borne or being borne a thousand tymes better she should haue bene throwne into the middest of the sea with a milstone about her necke then to haue bin the subiect for so many tragedies When Iabin king of Canaan sought to oppresse Israel by the handes of Sisera his captaine ●udic 4. the Lord raised vp Deborah and Barak to ouerthrow his power But the mother of Sisera making iust reckoning of victorie looked out at the windowe and cried through the lattesse why is his Chariot so long a comming why tarrie the wheels of his Chariot haue they not gotten nowe they deuide the spoyle c. The mother sister cosin or friend of Sisera or howe soeuer she were allied vnto him looked long she looked but in stead of Sisera contrarie to her hope she saw Iehu come to doe iustice The Lord looked also downe from heauen hee saw your deuises hee liked them not but laughed because hee perceiued your day was comming yea hee looked long at last he sawe iustice done and it pleased him well For my part I will euer pray that I may rather beare the burthen of Deborahs song then the burthen of Phineas wiues sorrow The song of the one was So let all thine enemies perish O Lord Sic 〈…〉 di●●● 〈◊〉 bethae mal● v●lunt but they that loue him shal be as the sunne when he riseth in his might The sorrow of the other was The glorie is departed frō Israel for the Ark of the Lord is taken But because a liue dogge is more to be doubted then a dead Lion I wish that all theyr lurking holes may be narrowly searched and they ferretted out of theyr Conniburrowes Psalme 101. where priuily they lay wayt for innocent bloud I pray God her Maiestie may perfilly learn Dauids song Traytors presume upon her M●i●●●●●s mercie who said he would sing vnto the Lord of mercy and iudgement Her clemencie hath bene moste notoriously abused the musick had almost bene mard and all like to be brought into an vnpleasant discord while she harped so long vpon one string The seruauntes of Benhadad king of Syria 1. Reg. 2● what iniuries soeuer they had wrought Israel yet when they were fallen into the lapse they comforted themselues with these wordes Behold we haue heard saie that the kinges of the house of Israell are merciful kings let vs therefore put sackcloth about our loynes ropes about our heades and go to the king of Israel it may be that he will saue our liues They stood vpon what may be and what he wil do not vpon what must be what he ought to doe thus they made mercy the groundwork of their mischiefe But the king of Israel was reproued by the Prophet who tolde him because thou hast let goe out of thy handes a man whome I appointed to die thy life shal goe for his life thy people for his people No lesse are those runnagate ruffians to be regarded who practise to steale away the harts of the people crying out with the black mouth of Rabsakeh What say ye vnto me we trust in the Lord our God Esay 36. Is not that he whose high places whose altars Ezechias took down am I come vp without the Lord to this land therfore let not Ezechias deceiue you for he shall not be able to deliuer you And as Artabanus king of the Persians answered the letters of Alexander emperor of Rome saying In stead of paper J assigne him the field a lance for the pen bloud for inke wounds for words So these companions for disputations bring dispensations for reasons treasons arguing ab vtili and not ab honesto concluding neither honestum nor vtile arming their religion with atheisme and supporting theyr faith by faithlesse trecheries Yet when they are cut short by iustice Papistes make treason the truit of conscience they wouldimpudently face out the matter that they die for their conscience whereas God knoweth their conscience was dead long before But we may answere their great maister as king Richard the first did when the Pope sent to him commanding him to release the Bishop of Beauuois and his Archdeacon whome hee called his sonnes being taken by Earle Iohn the kinges brother in the field and by the king cōmitted to prison he sent to the Pope theyr complete armour with this message Genes 37. Vide an tunica filij tui sit an non sée whether this be thy sonnes coate or not Let the pope looke whether his Iesuites iett in the garments of godly Churchmen or rather of roisting vagabondes let him saie if these be the doings of men that deale vpon zealous conscience or rather vpon traiterous intent These are they that by their whispering tales would put men in fear where there is no cause of feare giuing false fires and striking vp hote alarmes when there is neither shot nor souldier nigh hād Papistes indeuour to amaze men with causelesse feare thinking to make men afraid of skarcrowes of their own shadows or rather of nothing at al. These are they that construe euerie accident that befalles to the aduantage of their purpose speaking as they would fayne haue it These are they that vse wicked consultation in holie places prophaning temples by their lewd conference and making the house of prayer a den of theeues In a Church-yard in Paris shortly after the bloudie massacre sprong vp a Palme tree which the Papistes straight interpreted to be a signe that the Protestants were fullie vanquished and the lott of victorie falne to theyr part But it was indeede a true token and Time which is Truthes mother hath prooued it so to be that howsoeuer they practised by violence to extirpate true professors yet maugre their malice his seruants should florish like the Palme trée and that from their blood as from the ashes of the Phenix should reuiue a glorious of spring For the blood of Martyrs is the séede of the Church And therefore as Alexander the great couragiously answered when his souldiors would haue disswaded him from going vnto India because the image of Orpheus swet what quoth Alexander doth Orpheus sweat then I know we shall make worke for the Poets so we though not Orpheus image but Orpheus Ape Neanthus whom I touched before though I say the Pope sweat and sweare and take on as one of his predecessors did for his pie yet we know that in mainetaining Gods truth obeying our soueraigne we shall doe a worke acceptable to him but they and you which doe the contrarie will make worke daungerous to your soules damageable to your countrie onely profitable for the hangman I wish you better I would I might hope better of you and when I sée you begin to amend then shall you sée me leaue off to mistrust But though faintnes now inforce me to shut vp my complaint yet vntill that time neither can I be fréed from feare nor you cleared from suspicion O Louing God and most mercifull Father A prayer for the preseruation of her maiestie and continuance of the gospel who holdest in thy hand the harts of all Princes turnest them which way standeth best with thy diuine pleasure we beséech thée so to order the thoughts of thy seruant our dread soueraigne and so to dispose all her actions that as a faithfull handmaide she may studie to please thée and as a carefull nurse séeke to cherish thy Church And forasmuch as thy glorie is chiefly shewed by bringing to passe thy will through weake meanes féeble instruments assist her we pray thée with thy spirite that being weake in her selfe she may be strengthened by thy arme to confound all such as shall with Holofernes assault thy people And as thou hast hertofore oftentimes redéemed her out of the mouth of the lion so defend her still that neither open force nor secret villanie at anie time preuaile against her And séeing thesmall graine of thy Gospell which by her hand thou hast graciously sown amongst vs in the field of thy Church hath béene so watered with the heauenly dew of thy blessing that the birdes come now build in the branches thereof and the slender vine that thou broughtest out of Egypt and plantedst in this land hath through thy goodnesse taken such roote that the mountaines are now couered with the shadow of it the boughes therof spread abroad like the goodly Cedar trées we beséech thée to watch ouer it that neither the Caterpiller which lurketh in corners consume it nor the wilde Boare out of the wood destroy it but that being nourished by thée it may grow vp before thée bring forth fruite vnto thée Remember not our former iniquities but let thy tender mercies preuent our imminent miseries And as in the daies of Iosua thou didst stay the sunne in the firmament vntil thy people had cleane vanquished their thine enimies so now maintaine the throne of thine annointed that her daies may be as the daies of heauen for brightnes and as that day of Iosua for continuance that she may wéed out the aduersaries of thy truth that so the worke which thou hast mercifully begun may be prosperously perfited by her Let it neuer be tolde in Gath that the glorie of Iacob is darkened let it neuer be published in Ashkelon that the scepter of Iudah is falne lest the daughters of the Philistines reioice and the vncircumcised begin to triumph But let all the world know that thou carest for thy people and vpholdest thine heritage As for thine enimies they shall be as the smoke that vanisheth in the wind as the waxe that melteth at the fire and as the dust that is scattered before the tempest They shall perish yea they shall all perish at the rebuke of thy countenance

well knowne Proditionem amo sed odi proditorem Me thinkes your dealings are liuely described in the picture of Furie who is painted with a sword in his hand and for the impatient desire of reuenge wherwith he is inflamed desperatly rusheth vpon a iauelin slayeng himselfe while he attempteth to annoie his aduersarie ye are farre more besotted than that foolish felow that was content to forgo one of his eies conditionallie his companion might loose both But if this that I haue said do not alter your minds I doubt whatsoeuer may be said will be insufficient And therefore in respect of your obstinacie I am to wish that ye might be dealt withall as the eagle dealeth with hir yoong ones who tumbleth such out of hir nest as can not stedfastly looke against the sunne beames or that there were some deuise for the riddance of traitorous papists out of the realme like to that which king Edgar inuented for the auoidance of wolues when he bound the Welshmen to paie their tribute with wolues skinnes If haply your maladie be past recouerie I will notwithstanding comfort my selfe by repeating the words which Mardocheus vsed in a case that threatned as great extremitie When Haman had obtained of king Assuerus that all the Iewes within his Prouinces should be destroied Ester 4 An example of singuler comfort to all faithfull subiectes had got the proscription cōfirmed vnder the kinges seale manuell Mardocheus being a Iewe vncle to quéene Ester certified her by the kings Eunuches of Hamans procéedings and sent her the copie of the commission charging her to become petitioner and frame supplicatiō to the king for her people When Ester heard the wordes of Mardocheus she commanded the Eunuche to tell him that the law was so whosoeuer should come into the kings presence vncalled must die vnlesse the king of his grace held forth his scepter vnto him Now saith she I haue not beene called to the king these thirtie daies which when Mardocheus vnderstood he returned her this answere Thinke not with thy selfe that thou shalt escape in the kinges house more then all the Iewes For if thou holdest thy peace at this time comfort deliuerance shall appeare to the Iewes out of another place but thou thy fathers house shall perish And who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time So though you being animated through the Popes absolution and in hope of I know not what lordlie preferments haue agréed among your selues to make away with such as shall not be found to haue an Auemaria sticking betwixt their téeth or an Agnus Dei couched in their bosome yet because your rage is raised against the Lord your tumult ascended into his ears I trust he wil doe to you to your confederats as he did to proud Senacherih put an hooke into your nostrils and a bridle into your iawes For as it was prophecied of Troie that it should not be subdued so long as the Palladium which fell down frō heauen vpō the wals therof remained within it so I am assured that England shall haue rest frō all her enimies so long as Gods holy word shal be sincerely preached diligētly followed Our sins the meanes to draw Gods plagues vpon vs. For there is nothing that can withdraw his blessings from vs or draw his punishments vpon vs but our stiffnecked and vncircumcised harts which neither haue thankfuly receiued his truth nor yéelded obedience vnto the same And were it not the there is a zealous Moses among vs whose praiers appeare before the Lord as incense the lifting vp of whose hands is as an euening sacrifice 1. Pet. 2. were there not a iust Loth who day by day vexeth his soul in seeing our vnlawfull deedes by continuall intercession slaketh the heat of Gods wrath I feare me your vngodly purposes had ere this preuailed his heauy indignatiō consumed vs. Exod. 17. But whensoeuer Moses hands shal begin to ware wearie when Loth shall once depart out of Sodome then I feare lest God lay the raines on your neck and the yoke on ours lest he grant vnto you power to despoile allott vnto vs sodaine destruction then I feare least as the floud was in the spring of the yeare and the burning of Sodome at the rising of the Sunne So I feare I say least Gods comming vnto vs be in the winter of our faith and the summer of our pride and least hee thrust the sickle of his vengeance into the full haruest of our iniquities Let vs therefore learne to loue him as a father and let vs not forget to feare him as a Lord. Let vs not despise the riches of hys bountifulnes patience and long sufferance knowing that by the same he allureth and leadeth vs on to repentaunce the differring whereof is most daungerous for so muche as it is to be giuen of hys mercie not commanded at our pleasure Nam qui promittit poenitenti veniā non promittit peccanti poenitentiam He the promiseth pardon to him that repentes doth not promise repentance to him the offends As for you let this suffise that there was a cursse denounced against him that shoulde build vp Iericho againe that Achan with his familie his cattell his implementes and all that hee had was stoned and burnt in the vallie of Achor because he had taken a Babilonish garment certaine shikels of siluer and a wedge of gold being excommunicate things and hid them in his tent dare ye then shrine such abhominatiōs in your harts Surely I greatly doubt the as the Lord plagued al Israel till they had punished Achan so hee will not leaue to scourge vs till we haue rooted out all of Achans brood The example of Tarquin in cutiing off the toppes of the poppies was moste happilie imitated to the glorie of God and benefite of the Realme for by that meanes I trust the stalkes will soone wither away The Queene of Scots the roote of infinite mischiefes But while the roote remained whole it nourished a great number of noisome and superfluous branches Our malcontent Romanists were so affectionately deuoted to the contriuing of her contentment as Aeolus was desirous to gratifie Iuno when hee sayd Tuus O Regina quid optes Explorare labor me iussa capessere fas est To thinke the thing thou faine wouldst haue pertaines O Queene to thee But to performe what ere thou craue that dutie longs to me Your villanies before theyr late discouerie seemed in your owne conceits wellnigh to haue attained the highest step of theyr perfection so that if Sinon could haue brought the horse within the gates of Troy he should then haue giuen the watchword to the Grecian Fleete houering aloofe at Tenedos Then would it haue bene to late to haue wished for Hector whē Politus should haue bene slaine at the altar and sanctuarie when Cassandra should haue bene rauished in the temple and Priamus murthered