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A06191	The kings shoe Made, and ordained to trample on and to treade downe Edomites; to teach in briefe, what is Edoms doome; what the carefull condition of the king, what the loyall submission of a subiect, and what proiects are onely to best purpose. Deliuered in a sermon before the king at Theobalds, October the ninth, 1622: by William Loe, Doctour of Diuinity, chaplaine to his sacred Maiestiy in ordinary.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1623 (1623)	STC 16686; ESTC S104104	30,137	54

instance in him ●…mong many who was in his first designes a most ●…ortunate Prince but in his later time when he ●…ilfully set himselfe against the Duke of Saxony ●…he Land-graue of Hessen Mauritius and others of ●…he reformed religion as if all had beene Edo●…ites he was most disgracefully beaten constrained to skale the Alpes by Torch-light and most ingloriously compelled at last to abandon the field 3. I could mention but that Wilfull inuasion in 88. and thats at home and somewhat moderne for which I hope we shall euer remaine thankfull to our God for our deliuerance At what time doubtlesse the Man of sinne that great Archimandrites the Pope of Rome had said in his heart Ouer England will I cast out my shooe But he spoke this in his humane slippers and not in his papall shooes For notwithstanding all that solemne Proiect long before consulted of in the Preparation and at the time of the Inuasion strongly set on of purpose to cast out and ouer to yet this vnwarranted Wilfulnesse was ouercast and receiued from God a memorable ouerthrow Nay yet I may come neerer home euen into our owne bowels what time neither God nor Angel nor Saint nor man were consulted withall but Diaboli podex in specu was the oracle I meane that matchlesse and mercilesse treason of the gunpouder plot The Wickednesse and Wilfulnesse of which Powder-blast I trust hath blowne vp all good opinion that any wise sober English heart should haue of such hellish Miscreants 4. By this we see then plainely that when great ones will make lust their law and their owne Wi●… their Warrant kings are dethroned and driuen out Duumvirs deiected Triumvirs reiected and Deuolutions of all estates by such exorbitancies became either miserably altered strangely changed or vtterly extinguished The bitter Mutations of estates proceed euen then from this when the true worship of God is turned into superstitious and supercilious conceits of men The translations of States when they are devolued from this people to that people as water is powred out of one vessell into another the dissipations of States when as by aberration of Anarchy they become as a vast and roaring Wildernesse and the ●…umultuous vexations grieuous garboiles of se●…erall signiories euen all these such like miseries proceed from hence because men of eminent place will not consult God in their actions but will goe a whooring after their owne Wilfull and ●…isleading inuentions 5. If then vnwarrantable proiects prosper not ●…ith Kings in case of state nor with Churchmen 〈◊〉 case of religion what hope can priuate men ●…aue to thinke that their deuises should doe good ●…r that their Guiles should be Gaines What meane ●…hen nay how dare the Macheavillian Deuiders ●…ractise their Diuide Impera without warrant ●…aying it is good to fish in troubled waters and ●…herefore they will practise to set diuision be●…eene the King the Subiect as if they were ●…ke the Ephori in the state of Lacedaemon or the ●…ribuni in the state of Rome or Demarchi oue●… the ●…enate of Athens endeuour to maintaine a power ●… the people against the higher powers founded ●…y God But God hath in all ages confounded such Babel builders who with Ludouicus Sfortia Caesar Borgia put in practise such heady and hellish positions The ends that befell these two for whom Macheauill that Florentine Secretary especially framed his hideous heape of politique proiects might bee a warning to all succeeding times the one comming to a violent and vntimely end the other liuing ingloriously in the Prince of Arragon his Kitchine and dying a death mos●… despicable Let such mischiefes befall all such Catiffes who take not God for their Oracle but like furious Iehues and big boned sonnes of Ana●… breake thorow all in their Wilfulnesse and dare the God of heauen to controle them 6. How dare those Measurers and improuen of their land grind the faces of the poore toyling sweating laborious husbandman with rackings and raisings of rents vntill they haue made vp the measure of their sinnes out of measure sinfull Doe they conceaue that their heires shall euer comfortably enioy their substance or their Babes after them the Remainders A Iesuiticall spirit first deuized these improuements to the racking of Heretiques as they tearmed them and others since who haue made great outward semblance of i●…tegritie haue yet beene like apes to imitate those misguiding miscreants Make a modell say they of a●… your land to a Mole-hill that so you may lie i●… your bed see in a view euery field closse groue●… meadow acre and head land in your Farme●… whereby you may set it to the vtmost aduantage For it is lawfull for you to make the most of your owne it makes no matter albeit the Tenant and his eate whig and whay and all that hee hath bee at your command whiles your great knightship and your new vpstart Mushrom ladie must like prodigious Commets be feared and awed in al the country In al this you no one whit consult with God who teacheth by his Apostle That Christian charity seeketh not her owne 1. Cor. 13. But to what passe comes all this great ouerture of impronement how doth it prooue with them Surely these improouers are like to the men of Babel who worshipped Succoth Benoth that is an hen and chickens as some Talmudists haue conceited so vaine is this great Landlords boasting for whiles he and his for a time doe ruffle in their silken ragges like some Montebankes of Italy his Will-ship Worship I would haue said is not an ace aboue a begger but must after a little while desire some of his Tenants to be bound with his greatnesse for taking vp of an hundered pound So light is the gentleman become in his dancing the measures 7. Yet it were somewhat mannerly if these Macheavellian statizers would cast out their shoe ouer their owne lands onely by their vnmeasurable and vnreasonable manner of Improuements rackings and grindings of the poore husbandmens faces but they will also and aske God no leaue rush into Gods Inheritance by Appropriating that to their profane vse which was giuen for the perpetuating of Gods seruice on earth But how doe you thinke Are not they trow ye traitours to God who 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 clip and washe the Coine that God hath set his own stamp vpon How much more they who sweepe all away and say Gilead is mine and Manasses is mine yea all is mine quoth the diuel when in truth they haue no interest nor title no not to or in the least tittle Yet ofttimes in such a depopulatiō not the tenāts houses only but the Chappell Church and Chancel Bels Baldricks all are troden downe vnder foot and are turned into vncouth Desolations for Ohim and Zim and dancing Satyrs for Owles and Iack-dawes to build in by day and to roust in by night Welfare the zeale of former times for our forefathers

when they gaue ought to the Church they set as a barre to posterity for touching it this fearefull execration Si quis dempserit clepseritue c. If any shall hèreafter seeke to alter or claime any thing from the Church to which we haue giuen let his account be without fauour in the day of the Lord. Memorable therefore shall that answer bee of a right worthy and noble personage of this kingdome to the question mooued what might be the cause that diuers of the Nobility and Gentry of our Nation do not in these times maintaine the ancient port hospitality good vsage towards their Tenants in their fines and takings as their forefathers haue done notwithstanding the heires haue improoued the Remainders left vnto them by almost a third and diuers also haue receiued almost a third more in fauours from their Soueraignes and yet all will not serue Surely saith he I see the former times were Datiue but ours are Ablatiue For our auncestours were neuer well but when they were giuing something vnto the Church and we in our time seeke and study nothing els but what we may pull and seuere from the Church and therefore I am perswaded God blessed them with plenty and blowes vpon vs and ours with penury For shall we hate the wolfe because he is rauening and thinke the foxe a goodly creature there is no colour for it in the world Besides we see our Pride Epicurisme and loose life haue compelled vs to leaue our ancient Mansions in the Countrey and to hide our selues in poore Celles in or about the chamber of the kingdome Elogium vere aureum viro longe nobilissimo dignum To which purpose and resolution of this ●…ious noble man it were easie out of the records and Court rowles of many Cathedrall Churches ●…n England to affront euen tabellis obsignatis the Gainesaiers of the truth For many Donations were giuen in dayes of Yore to the Church as thanksgi●…ings to God for recoueries of health after a long ●…nd dangerous sicknesse for deliuerances from ●…angers by sea by land and such like occasions ●…efore euer the tearmes of Satisfaction Merit ●…r Superarrogation were euer heard of in the world 8. What also may we deeme of those who en●…eauour to aduance no Ephramites or I●…daitz to ●…laces of eminency in Church and Common-wealth but those who are most corrupt in their manners and most corrupting others with bribes are set vp That scholler is learned enough with such if he can say these three words Do Dic●… Addico They care not whether he be Gileadite or Ephramite or whether he can say Sibboleth or Shibboleth so that he can tell who was Melchisedechs father and grandfather in their language that is scholler-ship enough Hinc illae lachrymae Heu serui dominantur aselli Ornantur phaleris dephalerantur equi 9. What God doe ye thinke these and such like painted sepulchers consult with Surely I conceiue they serue such a God as Lodovicus the eleuenth sometime the French king vsed to weare in his cap which was a leaden God amightie To which he would often say taking of his cap and kissing it Good God forgiue me this sinne also what miserable outrage or bloody act soeuer hee had committed as hee had done many and afresh would endeauour the like With Diotrephes these striue to haue the onely preeminence and to tread all others vnder foote These spend more in their shoes and shoe-strings then serued their more honest grand-fathers in their whole apparrell all their life time These willfull ones consult as Saul did with the strange woman that hath Ob that is with their harlots curtesans and whipsters and whatsoeuer they wish them to doe be it neuer so vngodly or base they wilfully wil doe it albeit they seem euen to themselues to rage with reasō Or els some barmie proiect worketh in their pates which causeth them to cast out their heeles very lightly or lift vp their heeles against God as did that foolish Dutch Dynasta who forsooth set his cap with a feather in it vpon a long pike in Triuio and all the boores that passe by that way must bowe and make a legge to his cap vpon paine of death which witlesse and senslesse proiect one William Tell refusing to obey was enioyned for to saue his life to cleaue an apple with an arrowe set vpon his sonnes head the child being set some distance of Thither comes the foolish proiectour and Tell and a multitude of people Tell brings with him ●…wo arrowes shootes one and by Gods direction cleaues the apple hurts not the child and saues his ●…wne life The multitude giue a shoute and mag●…ifie God for his mercy to the father and to the ●…onne The Dynasta askes Tell why hee brought ●…wo arrowes he being to shoote but one Tell ●…nswereth boldly if I had killed my sonne with the one I would haue killed thee with the other The tyrant commands hands to bee laide on Tell ●…e escapeth ouer an hedge draweth foorth his ●…rrow shoots and kills the barmie Proiector The ●…eople rise take part with Tell hence followes a ●…onfederation the cousenage of Princes which ●…rooues a great impeachment and preiudice to ●…he present state En quod temmulenti temerarii ●…tratagema yet here this Wilfulnesse resteth not ●…t is restlesse For some giddy headed lizards sticke not to make Gods Will to patronize their wilfull wicked and vncharitable courses Aske one of these why he dealeth so hardly with a neighbour to presse him so sore with his shoe in case of a forfeiture or the like O brother saith he this is an Edomite Ouer him I may cast out my shoe it is the will of God hee should fall into my hands that ●… may afflist and plague him for his impieties and impurities as you know c. But if you reply and say God will haue vs mercifull in some degree of Quality albeit not in Equality as he is mercifull Yea brother will he reioyne and say This is true in Gods antecedent Will but not in his consequ●… will Gods antecedent wil may be resisted his consequent cannot O the wit of man and the conceits of lizards to creepe into such thickets God blesse me from this hypocondriacall Diuinity Popisme indeede and Arminianisme tends this way But can a sober minded man thinke that Gods Wil albeit as Damascen saith it bee Antecedent and Consequent is contrary to it selfe The will of m●… we know is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereby man is mooued and doth mooue it selfe to that which is good only in shew and opinion of man and this is not the Will of thy God The Will of thy God is Abs●…lute as being an Absolute Agent hauing both Will Skil and Power which causeth absolute perfectio●… The conformity of our Wills with Gods is sec●…t in the forme which is the manner of Willing ●… in the end which is the glory of God or in the Efficient