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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02792	The solace for the souldier and saylour contayning a discourse and apologie out of the heauenly word of God, how we are to allow, and what we are to esteeme of the valiant attempts of those noblemen and gentlemen of England, which incurre so many daungers on the seas, to cut off or abridge the proude and haughtie power of Spayne. By Simon Harward.	Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614.	1592 (1592)	STC 12923; ESTC S112564	30,044	56

out whole realme as was found out by the dealings betwixt Mendozza and Throgmorton and also in his sending of troupes of armed men to inuade Ireland to bereaue her Maiestie of a part of her imperiall Crowne and dignitie And finally in casting about to surprise and intrap the whole Fleete of the English Marchants her Maiesties dutifull subiects when they meant him no harme but vnder the hope of the performance of his league did traffique without feare For I speake not now of any thing that he hath done fithence he hath shewed himselfe our professed enemie But thinke they the Bishop of Rome may dispence with all disloyaltie hee may dispose Kingdomes at his pleasure he hath taught vs that no faith is to be kept with heretikes this is our anchour this is our hold The Euangelist S. Luke setteth downe the words of the diuell to our Sauiour Christ when he shewed him all the kingdomes of the earth and the glorie of them All these sayd he are mine and I can giue them to whomsoeuer pleaseth me He lyed most blasphemously as he could not but lye being the father of lyes and a lyer from the beginning saith the eternall wisedome of God By me Kings raigne and Princes decree Iustice The diuell hath not so much as power of swine without the permission of Iesus Christ And as the diuell did most vntruly chalenge to himselfe the power and authoritie due to God only to giue and dispose all the kingdomes of the earth so his eldest sonne Antichrist doth inherite the same vntruth he may bestow al kingdomes as seemeth best to him hee may giue England to the Rebels in the North Ireland to Stukely and others France to the Leaguers the Indies to the Spaniards to be made two fould worse the children of hell then they were before and all the kingdomes of the earth how and to whomsoeuer he pleaseth So also his grandchild the King of Spayne doth imitate very well the steppes of his forefathers he may deale how he will in all kingdomes against league against right and against truth how and in what sort soeuer pleaseth him Thus ye see then how the Popes children sworn souldiers in Spayne first partly by their Idolatrie and partly by their damnable heresies doe vtterly deface the true worship of God secondly they wickedly vsurpe the offices and dignities of our Messias our anoynted King Priest and Prophet thirdly they fight against the truth of the humane nature of Christ and the veritie of his ascension the most noble fortresses of our saluation fourthly they seeke to obscure and ouerwhelme the fruites effects and merites of the passion of our Sauiour Christ And last of al they are such as in no wise may be trusted being not onely workers and permitters but euen professed patrones of all trecherie falshood and disloyaltie And therefore greater seueritie is to be shewed vpon the confederates of this so dangerous a conspiracie within the walles of the Church of God then is to be vsed to any forraine foes of the heathen whatsoeuer To beate downe this diuelish pride and falshood of the Antichristian band all true Christians which are armed with the authoritie of the Magistrate ought to goe on couragiously and cheerefully to tread the Winepresse of the Lords wrath as S. Iohn speaketh to reward the whore as she hath rewarded others and to let the smoake of her burning ascend for euermore But here me thinkes I heare some say vnto me That Antichrist and his confederates are to be beaten downe and destroyed we make no doubt nor question but this should be done in warre openly proclaimed and not in such priuie intrapping and laying in waite and rather should their whole realme be set on then the Merchants surprised which labour trulie and painfully for the reliefe of themselues and their families To the answere of which obiection we are first to be aduertised that whatsoeuer the enemies of the grace of God doe possesse howsoeuer they haue toyled for it and obtained it with the sweat of their browes yet is their possession no better thē the possession of brute beasts which as we see by the oxe horse and mule doe trauaile in their seueral kinds for that wherewith they are sustained There is no lawfull possession indeed but where the faith of Christ is embraced and receiued S. Paul sayth That all is ours as we are Christs and Christ Gods The world was made for the faithful Howsoeuer the enemies of Christian faith doe painfully trauaile in their seuerall trades of life yet are their goods not so their owne but that if they fall into the hands of the armie of the Lord vnder the authoritie of a lawfull Magistrate it may bee sayd of them as it was sayd by the Psalmist The Lord hath brought foorth his chosen with gladnesse and giuen them the lands of the heathen and they tooke the labours of the people into their possession The people of Canaan might labour painfully but the gaine and profite of their labours was the strength and maintenance of their princes and rulers as also now the wealth of the Spanish Merchant is the might and power of the King for as the Merchant groweth more and more in wealth so doth he build and fortifie his ship stronger and stronger and at the last the King commandeth both his ship and him And therfore as the people of Israel did then vnder Iosua so may we doe vnder our Christian Magistrate now euen so farre as God shall leade forth his chosen with gladnesse weaken the powers of the gouernours by taking the labours of the people into our possession Moreouer there are manie things which are in no wise lawfull in priuate men that are allowed and tolerated in those which are armed with the authoritie of the publike Magistrate against the professed enemies of the Church of God It is sayd to the one Auenge not your selues if they strike thee on the one cheeke turne to them the other also It is sayd of the other that they are the ministers of GOD euen for this purpose to take vengeance of euil doers and not to beare the sword in vayne It is commaunded the one to forget iniuries and as fully to forgiue as they hope to be forgiuen It is enioyned the other by expresse words to remember the iniuries of Amalec Remember sayth God what Amalec did vnto thee by the way when ye were come out of Aegypt And remember we may how the bloodie Spanyard hath fought at sundrie times by most dangerous conspiracies to rent our nation asunder Remember Amalec Remember how many godlie English Merchants their Inquisitors haue most cruelly tormented and spoyled Remember how hardly they haue delt in euill intreating such Ambassadours as haue been sent from our most gracious Soueraigne Remember how iniuriously they sent to inuade her Maiesties Realme of Ireland Remember how they attempted with their inuincible

and our comfort So is it in Military discipline what power and strength we haue therein is the holy handy worke of God though of many it be shamefully abused yet no abuse ought to make vs to condemne the good and lawfull ordinance of God Saint Paul when hee had shewed the Romanes that higher powers are ordayned of God he declareth that one end of their ordinance is to take vengeance on thē that doe ill and not to beare the sworde in vaine The Anabaptists which vtterly deny al magistracy affirme that the apostle speaking higher powers doth signifie such heathē tyrants as were thē the Romane Emperours for them to beare the sword to torment and punish others they confesse is a thing well sitting and beseeming for them But Christians must be all one for them to haue or be Magistrates they say it is in no wise tollerable If these phantasticall spirites would consider more deeply the doctrine of the Apostle they should see that hee alloweth Magistracie especially amongst Christians for he requireth such rulers as vnder whome we may leade a godly and peaceable life Vnder heathen tyrants the Christians may indeed liue godlily but howe is it possible that they should liue peaceably The Apostle doth will vs to pray for such Magistrates as vnder whome we may leade a quiet a peaceable life in all godlines and honestie When the Apostle Peter sayd to our Sauiour Christ beholde here are two swordes our Lord Iesus answered that they were enough allowing the hauing of them but he reprooued such striking with them as whereby Authority might seeme to be impugned That monstrous Pope Iulius the second who made as it were a pastime of the blood of man by whose cruell practises there perished with the dint of sworde more then two hundred thousand persons he made a iest and mockerie at the Apostles carying of swordes for matching once out of Rome with his Armie and his sword by his side like a valiant Champion in a furious rage he cast Saint Peters key into the riuer of Tyber crying out as a Spaniard doth report the historie Pues que la llaue de pedro ya no vale valga la espada de pablo Seeing that Saint Peters key will doe no good let the sword of Paul take place But the holy Father Saint Augustine doth reuerently and in the feare of God make better vse of the Apostles hauing a sword to wit that it is lawfull for Christians to beare the sword but that then onely we are to vse it when we are eyther commanded or permitted by the superior power so to doe for these two limits doth hee make of the right and wrongful vse of the sword He vnlawfully taketh the sword Qui nulla superiore legitima potestate vel iubente vel concedente in sanguinem alicuius armatur which no superiour and lawfull power eyther commanding or permitting is armed against another mans blood Many there are in our time which goe not so farre as the Aanabaptists to denie and vtterly take away the sword and Magistracie from Christians they will allow them to be vsed against malefactors at home or agaynst the heathen Turkes and Infidels abroad but in no case against the Spaniard professing as they say the same GOD with vs holding the same articles of Christian fayth members of the same Church partakers of the same baptisme and liuing in the same hope of life euerlasting We see in the holy Scripture that when Israel was once separated from Iuda and reuolted to Idolatry Iuda was inioyned no otherwise to accompt of them and no otherwise to deale with them then with the professed enemies of Gods truth Iehosaphat was reprooued of the Prophet for that he gaue any ayde to Achas king of Israel against Ramoth Gilead and hee was likewise condemned afterward for that he ioyned friendship with Ochosias king of Israel to make ships to goe vnto Tharsis Amaziah hired succour of Israel against the Idumeans but hee was willed rather to lose the mony then to haue any thing to doe with them Ochosius was condemned for helping Ioram the sonne of Achab against Hazael king of Syria What was the cause that the people of Israel might not so much as bee holpen against the heathen men and therefore indeed accompted worse then heathen Were they not the posteritie of Abraham after the flesh Did not they retaine as well as Iuda the name of the Church of God Had not they the same law amongst them as Iuda had and receiued the same seale of Circumcision with them No doubt they pretended all these things but in the meane time they committed Idolatrie and therefore they were vtterly cut off from the Church of God Boast they might of vaine titles but they were in no wise to bee counted the people of God nay rather so long as they continued Idolaters they were to be reputed taken as open and manifest traitors against the high Maiestie of the eternall God The Lord condemneth for Idolatrie not onely the worshipping of any heathen God or the resemblance therof but also all such visible formes and pictures as are made either in them or by them to worship the true God When the people of Israel did worship the golden Calfe they were not so sottish sencelesse as to thinke that the Calfe which they had made was truly God That which they thought was this that the honor which was done to the Calfe was done to GOD. The feast which they kept was called a feast to Iehoua and they cryed out these are thy Gods O Israel which brought thee out of the land of Egypt So Dauid sayth that they turned the glory of God into the similitude of a Calfe that eateth hay This was the Idolatrie of Ieroboam and the Children of Israel to make visible representments to worship in remembrance of the true God And this is the best that the popish rabble can make of their Idols and pictures that they worship not them but God in them Al is one and commeth to one and the selfe same poynt and eyther of them is condemned for Idolatry that is high treason against the Maiestie of God to seeke to thrust him out of his throne and to place in his stead the works of their own hands Besides their other most horrible Idolatry in the Masse where they erect and worship their wheaten God Maizim ascribing that to the creature which is due to the creator onely whose name be blessed for euer and euer Howsoeuer the Spaniards beare the name of Christians they are nothing lesse then what they pretend they may be in the Church but they are not of the Church and they are so much worse then the heathen Infidels as a rebell and traytor within the walles is more pernicious then a forraine or outward enemie whatsoeuer punishment then may be inflicted on our professed foes the same or much

greater may iustly be layd on them although indeede there is no more professed foe to the kingdome of our Sauiour Christ then they which by all meanes vpholde that man of sinne that sonne of perdition which doth fit in the Temple of GOD as God boasting himselfe that hee is God that Babylonian strumpet which sitting on the City that hath seuen hilles doe giue all nations to drinke of the cup of the wrath of her fornication which therefore beareth the name of Antichrist as the most bitter and professed enemy of the kingdome of Christ chalenging to himselfe all those offices which of right and duety do onely appertaine to our Sauiour Christ for howe is Christ our only King if the Romish Bishops haue power to giue the holy Ghost and to forgiue sinnes and so consequently to create fayth and repentance and to renew the inward man without which graces there is no remission of sinnes How is Christ our onely Priest if they haue power to offer vp the body and blood of Christ as a sacrifice for our sinnes No mortall man no worme of the earth no sinfull creature no nor yet any Angel in heauen was fit to offer vp the sacrifice of the body of Christ but one higher then the heauen of heauens euen Iesus Christ himselfe he was the Priest he was the sacrifice he offered himself once for all How is Christ our only mediator if they may erect so many new intercessours and aduocates ioyning them in commission with Christ for whome Christ shed his blood How is Christ our onely prophet if they may establish decrees and traditions to supplie the want of the Gospel of Christ as though they had an office appointed to make vp that perfect absolute which our heauenly Prophet Iesus Christ should leaue raw and vnperfect How may they bee said to holde the same faith with vs which are as far from vs in euery chiefe article as light is from darknesse or Christ from Belial We hold acknowledge that our Lord Iesus to satisfie the iustice of God took truelie flesh of the Virgin Marie like vnto vs in all things sinne onely excepted as the Apostle witnesseth to the Hebrewes Christ tooke not the nature of Angels but he tooke the seede of Abraham As if hee should haue said it had bin no iustice that God should haue punished the sinnes of man in an heauenlie or angelicall nature but as truely as mans flesh did sinne so truelie it was requisite that the flesh of man should paie the punishment And therefore Christ to answere that iustice of GOD tooke not an angelicall but a true naturall bodie like vnto vs in all things sinne onlie excepted And we beleeue further that our Sauiour Christ as the first fruits of them that slept and the pledge of our inheritance rose againe in the same humane nature and ascended into heauen there to take possession for vs and thereby to assure vs that as hee being our head is gone before so we the bodie shall in due time follow after What affinitie hath this our true faith in Iesus Christ with that mōstrous doctrine of the Antichristian Catholikes which attribute vnto Christ a phantasticall bodie and manie bodies and an infinite bodie and therefore indeede no true naturall bodie which dooth expreslie contradict two of the chiefest articles of our Christian fayth and as much as in them lyeth vndermine and cast downe the principall bulwark of mans saluation Moreouer we are assured by the holy word of GOD that the Lord doth giue vnto vs in and through his Sonne Christ full remission and pardon of all our offences both from the guilt of sinne and also from the punishment thereof for the Lord in respect of his infinite iustice will not forgiue a trespasse and afterward exact the danger of it and in respect of his vnspeakeable mercy he must needes giue a sound and a perfect benefite Thus doth the worde of God teach vs that there is no accusation at all or any laying of any thing to the charge of Gods elect that there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus that the Lord will no way impute their sinnes vnto them that the Lord will remember their sinnes no more but cast them from him as farre as the East is from the Weast or as the prophet speaketh binde them in a bundle cast thē into the bottom of the Sea They teach that the guilt of sin is forgiuē by Christ but that the punishmēt therof must eyther be paid by straight penance afflicting our bodies here or els after this life by the paines of Purgatorie and therefore flatly against the word that there is an accusation there is a condēnation there is an imputation there is a remembrance of sinne after the remission thereof then which doctrine nothing can bee more derogatorie blasphemous against the price of the blood of Christ which as Saint Iohn saith doth purge and clense vs from all our sinnes Furthermore we professe and are perswaded that as in all the whole life of a Christian there should be truth and fidelitie so especially in truces and leagues of kingdomes and common wealths as the scripture teacheth vs that loyaltie and leagues are to be kept euen with heathen men There was a league made betwixt the Israelites and the heathenish Gibeonits aboue foure hundred and foure score yeare after the league was broken the Lord was so offended at it that he sent three yeares famine and seuen sonnes of Saule were hanged vp as a token of Gods iudgement against truce breaking euen with heathen men Zedechias promised loyaltie to the heathen king the king of the Caldees he brake his league the wrath of God was so kindled against him that being vanquished he was compelled to flye in the flight he was taken his owne sonnes were slaine before his face his eyes were after thrust out he was bound in chaines and led prisoner into Babylon In truce-breaking the Lord punisheth euen the children and ofspring to testifie his wrath and seuere iudgement as the French men haue in verse God graunt they may haue it euer in minde Bien que le dieu du oiel ne piluit pas sur l' heure Le perfide 〈◊〉 sto●●● de ●a●●●● periure Il n' escappe pourtant sonire qui i'en flamme Et destruit a la fin luy see enfans femme Though for a time the Lord of heauen doe spare the periur'd wight Yet at the last on him and his Gods burning ire shall light But this Foedifragus the Hannibal of Spayne as he is taught and doth professe Fidem non esse seruandam cum haereticis that whomsoeuer the Church of Rome doth condemne for heretikes there ought no saith to bee kept with them so he hath shewed it in sufficient proofe both in practising secret conspiracies against