is a perfect Traytor or Gowrie for they two in this conspiracy had but one heart My Lord I am resolued saith he to perill life lands honor goods yea and the hazard of hell shall not fray mee though the scaffold were alreadie set vp A miserable resolution with a miserable confusion But hee had his demerits though not in so high a kinde as hee deserued and bloudy Gowrie strooken stone dead in the place where he intended and striued to act his Treason Cognatum imo innatum omni sceleri sceleris supplicium The fruits of Treason shame and death That it may be said of wicked Gowries and their adherents in the words of the Psalmist O enemy destructions are come to a perpetuall end their memoriall is perished with them The heathen are sunke downe in the pit that they made in the net that they hid is their foote taken CHAP. IIII. BVt not to insist thus in generall in the declaration of Traytors punishments I will specifie some part in particular which though they be commonly knowne yet may be propounded to good purpose as precautioÌ„s to posterity to feare to follow their bad examples lest they find their woful punishments The punishment of disobedience and treason is of two kindes 1 Punishments by God 2 Punishments by man Punishments by God are threefold externall internall eternall I will not take vpon me to be a Iudge in the heauenly Assises I will be as a Clarke to reade their punishments registred in Gods booke First externall and they are of two sorts eyther ordinary or extraordinary Ordinary as Ieremy denounces them The Nation and kingdome which will not serue Nebuchadnezzar King of Babell and will not put their neckes vnder the yoake of the King of Babell the same Nation will I visite saith the Lord with the sword with famine with pestilence vntill I haue wholly giuen them into his hands Extraordinary as Miriam for her murmuring against Moses was made leprous the murmuring Israelites punished with fire Core Dathan and Abiram were swallowed vp of the earth Absalom with his owne mule drawen vnder an Oake where hee was hanged vp by the hayre of his head 2 Internall and that specially tormented with the worme of a guilty Conscience for it is a fearefull thing when malice is condemned by her owne testimony and a Conscience that is touched doth euer forecast cruell things saith Wisedome her selfe this inbred monitor and notary of the soule signes euery bill of Inditement with Teste meipso which is in stead of a thousand witnesses A guilty Conscience who can beare It makes the wicked cry with Tiberius Dij me perdunt God and their owne conscience begin to confound them remembring with Iudas how they haue sinned in betraying the innocent bloud Quos diri conscia facti Mens habet attonitos surdoverbere caedit Occultam quatienti animo tortore flagellum The conscience of foule â—acts their soules affright And scourge with restlesse torments day night Eternall But those I leaue to the Iudge of all who holds in his hands the Keyes of Heauen and Hell for no sinne neuer so dangerous and damnable in it selfe except the sinne against the Holy Ghost but vpon true contrition grounded in a true Faith may receiue remission 2. Punishment of Traytors by the Lawes of Men and that foure wayes 1. By bodily death 2. By want of burial 3. In blood and posterity 4. In losse of liuing 1. By a violent death the manner of it I described in the Chapter before how wofull to runne such a wicked race as that body and soule must be diuorced before their time life ended before the line of life naturally finished and that by a shamefull death hanged vpon a Tree or the head cut off which conspired against the supreame Head all men reioycing at their deaths and point at them with their fingers Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit All Men saying that truly which they did of Christ most falsely He is worthy to die 2. In buriall yea rather in defect of buriall their bodies dismembered and their quartered parts fixed vpon gates and walles of Cities spectacles exposed to all beholders and reserued for remembrance to all Subiects to learne by their mangled and vnburied limbes to leade more dutifull and obedient liues It was a great punishment to Ieholakim that he should be buried as an Asse is buried none to mourne for his death saying Ah Lord or ah his glory but to be drawne and cast forth without the gates of Ierusalem But a Traytors buriall is worse then the buriall of an Asse for the dogges or beasts of the field soone deuoure them so are forgotten but these liue in shame in the relickes of their dead carkasses as monuments or mappes of their misery and mischiefe These want the sweet perfumes and balmes the honour of Funerals the faire Tombes of their Ancestors they lie inglorious and on their graues if they haue any it may be engraued as it was written vpon Pope Alexanders Tombe Iacet hic scelus vitium Whereas others if they haue beene loyall they goe to their graues in peace resting in their naturall lodging to the last day and if they haue beene of honourable Race and Rancke they vsually are graced with some sumptuous Monument to witnesse to the World their singular vertues to their succeeding generations Aen. 6. Nampius Aeneas ingentimole sepulchrum Imposuit suaque arma viri remumque tubamque Monte sub aerio qui nunc Mysenus abillo Dicitur aeternumque tenet per saecula nomen Whereas Traytors are vsed as I haue read how the Souldiers vsed Zisca the Commander of the Hussites who being dead they did flea him and tooke his skinne giuing his body to the wilde beasts and of his skinne did make a military drumme that his enemies who feared his sight aliue might feare the sound of his skin being dead so these infamously are dismembred their heads set vpon poles or high places to terrifie all men from trayterous attempts 3. In Blood and posterity Their names and honour attained as Salomon The name of the wicked shall rot The names of Traytors and Rebells giue an ill sent and sauour in the Land stayning and dishonouring all their Progeny leauing behind them an vnhappy and disgracefull memory so that the liuing issue of so leud a Progenitor may say as Iacob said of Simeon and Leui Ye haue troubled me and made me stinke among the Inhabitants of the Land What more odious names to all true Britains then the mention or memory of Kett Cade Straw Lopus Parrye Gowry Fawx with those Agents in the Powder-plot their names branded with contempt The portion of the wicked saith Iob shall be cursed in the Earth and they themselues are gone and brought low they are destroyed and cut off as the top of an eare of corne for
complaint is verified vpon vs My people are destroyed for lacke of knowledge the seeds-men of the worde sent from the blessed sower who broke vp our stony hearts and made them flexible and did labour to turne many to righteousnesse they are taken from vs and now Impius haec tam culta novalia miles habebit Barbarus has segetes Not Masse but Mars-Priests in the Churches field Possesse the fruits which others labours tilld These and more pittifull mones would haue beene fresh and frequent in this land crying with Ieremy The ioy of our heart is gone our dance is turned to mourning the Crowne of our head is fallen woe vnto vs that wee haue sinned our necks are vnder persecution wee are weary and haue no rest Our King a Nursing Father to the Church and Common-wealth Our Noble men of Sion comparable to fine Gold Our reuerend Prelates and Pastors the salt of the earth and light of the land the chiefe Iudges and choice Gentry of the Kingdom who were as eyes to the blinde and feete to the lame All the pillars of Church and Common-wealth maintainers of the Law and Gospell had perished in this intended Massacre So that the shepheard being smitten the sheepe will be scattered yea sheepe not hauing a shepheard will fall into the hands of wolfes who will deuoure their flesh and their fleeces And looke still further and behold these powder-traitors men nourished with Tygers milke who enterprised not onely to procure a temporall politicall and spirituall ouerthrow of Church and Common-wealth but also so farre as in their power they could seeked to procure the eternall death of body and soule vnawares by force of fire to part vnprepared soules and blow vp with a fiery Dimittis bodies and soules before they could haue time to say feelingly Inmanus tuas Domine O Lord into thy hands we commend our soules heerein shewing themselues desirous to be bloudy murtherers to murder the body with death temporall and also to make away the soule with death eternall which second death worse then millions of corporall deaths Continet Myriades mortis Prima mors animam dolentempellit de corpore secunda mors animā nolentem tenet in corpore as Austen The first death driues the pained soule out of the body the second death keepes the vnwilling soule in the body for then men shall seeke death and shall not finde it for in life there is some ease in death an end but in the second death neyther ease nor end Mors sine morte finis sine fine So that to draw all to a conclusion which should haue beene the conclusion yea confusion of vs all I may supply my defects in the description of this immatchable treason with the Poets excuse Non mihi si centum linguae sint oraque centum Ferreavox omnes scelerum cōprendere formas Omnia poenarum peccurrere nomina possem No tongue can tell no pen descry This Map of mischiefe the Powder-Tragedy The Lord of Hosts who neither slumbers nor sleepes who in pitty and prouidence prouides for the safety of his Church and Children beheld our English Israel and Popish Amaleck the members of the Church militant and malignant the one secretly plotting to blow vp the other but the Lord against whom no wisdome nor vnderstanding nor counsell can preuaile became an impenetrable shield suffered not one of his seruants haires to be burnt with fire but besotted these Traytors to communicate their counsels though darkly to others by which meanes they were discouered And we are perswaded and confirmed of the all-sauing protection of our good God towards his deare Seruant and our dread Soueraigne with the rest of the religious assembly congregated for the glory of his name and good of his Church in that Honourable House of Parliament that if the Lord had suffred them to haue made a further progresse to the instant of that disastrous and dismall action that hee would haue disabled the party who with his vnhappy hand should haue kindled that fatall fire as he did the hand of infamous Ieroboam in the very act of stretching it against the Prophet it withered or like the hand of Valens the Emperor when hee tooke his pen to confirme the sentence of Basils banishment strucken of God shooke and shrunke not able to hold the pen So surely the Lord would haue benummed that accursed hand which sought to ouerthrow Christs Church among vs for it is as easie to pull Christ from Heauen as to put his Church out of the Earth Christ cannot be a bodilesse Head nor the Church an headlesse body and though outward meanes of deliuerance to vs may seeme defectiue yet stand comforted and couragious for the gates of hell shall not preuaile against the Church It is a lame and halting confidence which cannot goe to God without the stilts and crutches of externall meanes for the Lord knoweth to deliuer the godly and in the very point and article of time will be a present helpe in trouble God came to Adam with a promise in the time of despaire to Abraham with supply in the time of sacrifice to Isaacke with reliefe in the time of famine and danger to Ioseph with honour in the time of exile to Elias with comfort in the time of persecution to Gideon with helpe in the time of battle to Daniel with safety in the Lyons denne to Ionas with release in the Whales belly to Susanna with life condemned to death to the three Children with a protecting Angell in the fiery Furnace yea to this Kingdome of England with a most mercifull preseruation neere the time of the appointed Powder-destruction to make all our English Israel alwayes in all distresses and dangers say with Moses Feare not stand still behold the deliuerance of the Lord which he shewed vnto you this day Dies Ista Salutis erat candore notabilis ipso The Lord would not haue this Powder-proiect to haue power to burne one haire of his seruants head or any smell of fire come vpon them yet caused some of these vault-pyoners to be wounded and disfigured with powder In quo peccarunt in eodem plectuntur Wherewith they sinned by the same they were also punished So that all these extraordinary mercies of Almighty God summed vp together should haue more then a Magneticall attraction to draw all Christian hearts euer to praise his infinite goodnesse and continually inuite and induce all to a serious consideration and conseruation of this admirable deliuery from this intended miserable calamity agnizing God the sole and supreme cause in preuenting of it and therefore ascribing all the glory to him who hath preserued still his Church in tranquility our King in glory the State in safety the Realme in prosperity Iutuere rupem erige ratem The snares of death and destruction prepared
Emperor who was a great Tyrant an Infidell and an enemy to Christianity who in the fift persecution after Nero troubled the Christian VVorld Saeuissima persecutione with most cruell persecution as some write yet teacheth that all Subiects should both Bene velle bene dicere bene facere wish well speake well and doe well for the Emperor the which three-fold Bene comprehends all loyall duties The first Ad Cor. 2. Ad Linguam 3. Ad opus as the Iesuite rightly teacheth in thought word and deed to be obedient So Iustin Martyr in the name of all Christians speakes to the Emperor Antoninus an infidell and a persecutor in these words Nos solum deum adoramus vobis in rebus alijs laeti inseruimus VVe worship onely God and in other matters are ioyfull to serue you So Saint Ambrose would not wish the people of Millan to disobey the Emperour Valentinian yet a fauourer and follower of the Arrian Heresie If the Emperor saith he abuse his imperial authority to tyrannize thereby here am I ready to suffer death we as humble suppliants flie to supplication if my Patrimony be your marke enter vpon it if my body I will meet my torments shall I bee dragged to prison or death I will take delight in both Oh Theologicall voice Oh Episcopall obedience These were the voices of the holy Fathers in the ancient times I but will some Popish Aduersary to the regall supremacy reply the times must be considered the people wanted power to resist No no that was not the matter when Iulian did dominere who was an Apostate and an Idolater as Austin yet his Souldiers who were for the most part Christians did obey him without resistance in all military matters and publike seruices yet they then had power to haue resisted him for most of Iulians Army did consist of Christians as their voices to Iouinian his Successor declare Omnes vna voce confessi sunt se esse Christianos as Ruffinus records it with a generall voice they all confessed themselues Christians So Constantius and Valens wicked Emperors and fauourers of the Arrian Heresie yet we doe not reade of any of the Orthodoxe Christianity that disobeyed them by rebellion or resistance Then Bellarmines doctrine was not in date Non est legitimum c It is not lawfull for Christians to tollerate an hereticall King his reasons I take to be as he writes because Reges coronas sceptra ab hominibus recipiunt adeorū placita tenent Kings doe receiue their Crownes and Scepters from men and hold them at their pleasures Strange stuffe for Kings receiue their Crownes from God as Ps 20. 3 and are enthroned by God By me Kings raigne Pro. 8. 15 They receiue their throne from God as Queene Sheba tels Salomon Diadema regis in manu dei Esay 62. 3 Sedebat Salomon in thron◠dei 1 Chro. 29. 23 Reges in solio collocat in perpetuum Iob 36. 7 the anointing is Gods With my holy oyle haue I annointed him Psa 89. 20. The Crowne the Scepter the Throne their annointing all from God stiled by God Vncti dei Gods Annointed Where is the Popes or Peoples claime what interest haue any except God in Kings Crownes who can remoue whom God appoints who can depriue whom God approues yet these absurd errors formenta romanae Cathedrae the corrupt leauen of Romes Pharises and Popes Parasites are moulded out by the mouthes of Cardinals that I may say with the Poet Iuuenal Adscelus atque nefas quodcunque est purpura ducit Sat. 13. The purple seruants or scarlet sinners of that purple woman are become as Trumpeters to the World to sound forth false alarums of disobedience to encourage peoples rebellion Tantum relligio potuit suadere malorum Quaepeperit scelerosa atque impia facta But to leaue these proud Cardinals enemies to Caesars who thinke their red Hat equall to a Regall Crowne who yet of late from a small beginning Origine parochi tantum sunt manipulus Curatorum or raysed specially by two Popes Innocentius the fourth and Paulus the second to such an height that now Capita inter sidera condunt They will write with Cardinal Wolsie Ego Rex I and the King and are too busie about Kings eyther to animate Traytors or alienate Subiects from obedience vnto Kings Let vs I say leaue them a while and listen to Salomon who was wiser then all of them My sonne saith he feare the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are seditious for their destruction shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both Let vs learne this lesson from our Sauiour to giue vnto Caesar that which is Caesars to giue loyall obedience for it is Caesars royall due So our Sauiour againe commands the multitude that they should obey the Scribes and Pharises who did sit in Moses chaire to obserue and doe what they did command In all things not repugnant to Gods Lawes we must and ought to obey Kings yet if they command contrary to Gods commands then wee must follow the Apostles rule and practise rather to obey God then man and to remember S. Austins counsell Si Deus aliud iubeat aliud Imperator quid iudicas maior potestas Deo da veniam ô Imperator tu carcerem ille gebennam minatur If God command one thing and the Emperor another thing what iudgest thou to be done Gods power is greater giue leaue ô Emperor thou dost threaten prison but God hell God that made these gods ought to be obeyed before them and duty bindes that God who is the King of Kings the maker and master of al Kings omnes Reges eius pedibus subiecti all Kings subiect subiects of that great King should be obeyed by them all and before them all Yet for all this we must not rebell against a King if he command contrary to Gods Lawes but imitate the three children obey in body and resist in spirit Regi qui potestatem habet super corpora nostra corporaliter subiaceamus siue sit Rex siue Tyrannus nihil enim hoc nobis nocet vt spiritualiter bene placeamus Deo spiritu saith Theophylact wee must prostrate our selues to the King who hath power ouer our bodies be he a King or a Tyrant for this nothing hinders vs spiritually to please the God of our soules Indeed it may happen that Potens the Ruler is not of God as the Lord complaines They haue set vp a King but not by me they haue made Princes and I knew them not As also the manner of getting Kingdomes is not alwaies of God as Aquinas vpon the 13. of the Romanes rightly determines it or as Aretius multa a Deo sunt quae tamen non confirmat sed quodammodo obiter ingrediuntur Deo tamen sic disponente at tamen non ordinat hoc est
vp Israel against Dauid and all Adoniahs that gape to take the kingdome from our Salomon all like them let them perish like them Then will all loyall subiects reioyce when they see the vengeance they shall wash their feet in the bloud of the wicked Let our feruent prayers be daily powred forth vnto God to defend him from all Traytors to reueale their plots and reuenge their purposes that they qui volunt occidere regem posse nolunt That they who would kill a King may neuer haue power to performe it that no danger may assault him no treachery may endanger him giue thine Angels charge O Lord to sentinell ouer him make his chamber like the tower of Dauid built for defence a thousand shields hang therein and all the targets of the strong men and his bed like Salomons threescore strong men round about it of the valiant men of Israel they all handle the sword and are expert in warre euery one hath his sword vpon his thigh for the feare by night that so no enemy may oppresse him nor the wicked approach to hurt him to destroy his foes before his face and plague them that hate him his seed long to endure and his daies as the daies of heauen So shall the Lord be gracious to his Seruant and mercifull to vs his people who continually pray God saue the King Corporally CHAP. X. 2. Spiritually GOD Saue the King Spiritually God euer keep him constant and couragious to maintaine the true profession of the Gospell and to labour to purge Gods Church of all superstition and to plant in it Gods true religion This is the first duety of Kingly seruice vnto God to cleanse his Church of all idolatry and superstition The good Kings Ezechias and Iosias were carefull in this behalfe Ezechiah when hee came to the Crowne of Iudah he tooke away the high places brake the Images and cut downe the groues and brake in peeces the brazen serpent c. that is rooted and raced out all Idolatry So Iosiah puts downe all Idols and Idolatrous Priests who defiled the Temple So Asa tooke the wicked Sodomites out of the land and deposed Maacha his Mother because shee had made an Idoll in a groue So Salomon installed in his kingdome built a Temple for seruice and worship of the Lord. It is the office of a King specially to take care to prouide that God may be religiouslie worshipped that his people may feare the Lord serue him in the trueth for the happinesse of King and Kingdome consists in the trueth of their religion For that nation and kingdome which will not serue the Lord shall perish and be vtterly destroyed saith the Prophet Esay Est boni Principis religionem ante omnia constituere saith Liuie It is the part of a good King first to establish true religion for that is the very fountaine and foundation of all felicity Beneficentia quae fit in cultum Dei maxima gratia That loue and care which is declared towards the true worship of God is most commendable for true religion is Cardo or Axis the very Pillar of all prosperity the soule of Tranquility the totall summe of true felicity Propter Ecclesiam in mundo durat mundus saith Luther Christs Church on earth is the cause of the continuance of this earthly world without the light of the Gospel Kings people liue in thraldome in the Egypt of wofull blindnesse it is but painted happinesse a vaine flourish nay a dangerous ship of state where God sits not at the sterne As all kingdomes stand luteis pedibus vpon clay feet so that Kingdome cannot stand at all which wants the foundation true religion It is the speech of an Heathen but may be the lesson of a Christian Religio vera est firmamentum reip c. True religion the foundation of a Common wealth and the chiefe care ought to be to plant the same So Dauid reioyces in nothing so much as in the Arke of God desirous rather to be a dore-keeper in Gods house then to rule in the tents of the vngodly Like to that good Emperor who gloried more to be membrum Ecclesiae then caput Imperij a member of Gods Church then an head of a great Empire Salomon begins well first in building an house for God knowing nothing can prosper without God Except the Lord keep the City the watchman watcheth but in vaine In vaine doe the Kings of the earth stand vp if they assemble against the Lord for then hee laughes them to scorne and shall haue them in derision Be wise now therefore O ye Kings serue the Lord in feare be wise in Diuine matters serue the Lord in feare for his feare is the beginning of wisedome to direct you to rule your selues and people in the seruice and worship of his holy name We read it recorded of Constantinus the Emperor that when he died he did much lament for three things which had happened in his reigne First the murther of Gallus his kinsman Secondly the liberty of Iulian the Apostate Thirdly the change and alteration of religion And surely there cannot be a greater cause of lamentation then an innouation or alteration of religion yea then a tolleration of a contrary religion It had beene a hard matter to haue had obtained a tolleration of such a thing as a Masse at Moses hands with a masse of money A godly Prince may not suffer any religion but the true religion in his Dominions and this we may proue by diuers reasons First the exercise of a false religion is directly against the honour and glory of God Ergo. Secondly consent in true religion is vinculum Ecclesiae the chayne and bond of Gods Church for there is but one faith therefore a difference and dissention in religion is a dissolution in Gods Church but no Prince ought to haue his hand in dissoluing Gods Church for Kings are nursing Fathers of the Church Thirdly it is the Princes duty to prouide for the safety of the bodies much more for the safety of the soules of his Subiects Now true religion is the foode but false the bane of soules and you know Qui non seruat periturum cum potest occidit He that doth not helpe one ready to perish being able to helpe kills him Fourthly the Angell of the Church of Pergamus is reprooued for hauing such in Pergamus as maintained the doctrine of Balaam and the doctrine of the Nicholaitans and the Church of Thiatyra reproued for suffering Iezabel to teach and deceiue Fiftly the Lords Altar and Baals Altar must not stand together Quae concordia Dei Belial No agreement twixt God and Belial Indeed the Papists haue beene very earnest to supplicate for a Tolleration for their corrupt religion and yet themselues neuer allow it The Pope neuer afforded such fauour to Protestants witnesse their
Inquisition Nay Bellarmine doth confesse that the Papists would not suffer any among them Qui ostendunt vllo signo etiam externo se fauere Lutheranis Who doe declare by any signe externall that they fauour the Lutherans but they doe mittere illos mature in locum suum send such quickly to their last home Read but Lencaeus the Louayne professor in his booke Devnica religione or Pamelius in his book De diuersis religionibus non admittendis Who both with might and maine dispute against Tollerations It was a great commendation in the Emperour Constantino who would not suffer Idolatry in any part of his Dominions as Eusebius writes of him And it was commendable in Amphilochius a Bishop who reproued Theodosius the Emperor that he so long winked at Arrius and suffered him to spread his pestilent heresie ouer the body of the Church and it was commended in the Emperor who was not angry with the words of iust reproofe but forthwith banished Arrius gaue him some part of his iust deserts But heerein we neede not seeke out forraine histories wee haue examples at home who neuer would yeeld to tollerate corrupt religion Edward the sixth a Prince most famous and vertuous was sollicited by Carolus the Emperour and his owne Counsellors to permit the Lady Mary to haue Masse in her owne house his resolution negatiue saying he would spend his life and all that he had rather then to agree and grant to that hee knew certainely to be against the truth The late Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory could neuer be perswaded to tollerate Popish Religion who after innumerable dangers and manifold persecutions with vnspeakeable courage notwithstanding many difficulties at home of Princes abroad and of the Diuell euerwhere professed to maintaine the truth of the Gospell and to deface Idolatry and superstition which with singular constancy shee continued all the dayes of her life And now this our great gracious Soueraigne followes the steps of those religious Princes not all the World can change his constant resolution in Christian Religion his eares and hearts abhorre their charmes who are Petitioners in this kind for the granting of such a request might much disquiet the Christian Church State and Gospell God euer keepe and blesse the King in this his holy and spirituall perseuerance in the truth of the Gospell make his heart like Mount Sion neuer to be remoued A King so constant in profession of the Gospell and so learned and profound in all spirituall knowledge that he is able to confute and conuince with sound arguments the enemies of the Gospell and thereupon it was as I take it that Suarez the Iesuit said That Learning did disparage the royall dignity because the Champions of Rome see that they are not able to incounter with his Highnes matchlesse knowledge And surely if learning grace any man it must be more gracious in a Monarch a Man of Men. What made Salomon so famous and so renowned but specially his wisdome and knowledge Iulius Caesar Constantine and Charles the Great Iustinian Leo Palaeologus Cantacuzaenus the Alphonsi and many more Sigismund the Emperor commended for playing the Deacon at the Councell of Constance Henry the eight writing for the seauen Sacraments whose Booke subscribed with his owne hands the Popish Priests glory to haue it in their Vatican The Cardinall of Millan thinkes it the highest commendation he could giue the late King of Spaine In eius regia dignitate vt verbo complectar sacerdotalem animum licet aspicere In his regall dignity to comprize all in a word wee may see his sacerdotall heart Iuuenal Haec opera atque hae sunt generosi Principis artes And in the sacred studies of diuine Learning our dread Soueraigne may carry the Palme and weare the royall Crowne who hath deliuered to the World better Principles of Theologicall knowledge out of his Chaire of State then the Mitered Pope did euer é Cathedra for a King to descend to the Preacher is a worke of piety as Salomon did I the Preacher haue beene King in Ierusalem but for the Priest to climbe into the Kings throne is to play the Popes part the part of Antichrist Our royall Soueraigne hath made it his last delight to delight in the Law of the Lord and in his Law doth hee meditate day and night In which spiritual labour hee hath so profited himselfe and others that hee hath taken Princely paines to publish the truth of Christ and to proclaime to the Potentates of the world the errors of Antichrist So that all people haue cause to pray God saue the King spiritually That a diuine sentence may be in the lips of the King and his mouth shall not transgresse in iudgement who like the good Emperour Constantine labours to decide matters of Religion by the true rule of Gods word for so Constantine commanded the Bishops to order all points by the Booke of God which Booke he placed for the same purpose in the middest of them And euen so speaks our dread Soueraign whatsoeuer I find agree with the Scriptures I will gladly imbrace what is otherwise I wil with their reuerēce reiect godly golden words The Lord euermore blesse his body and soule spiritually and enlarge the great Talent of his Princely wisdome giuing him as great a measure of knowledge as was giuen to Salomon yea such riches treasures and honours as none had before him or after him and as his Maiesty hath taken manifold paines to reduce the Popish Sectaries out of their spirituall blindnesse that they who will not bee wakened out of their slumbers of ignorance by the voice of so royall and religious a sheapheard may be compelled by the Sword of Magistracy to depart out of Babylon or out of his Dominion But herein it becomes not me to giue counsell rather fall to prayer that the Lord whose cause it is would take the cause into his owne hand and stirre vp the hearts and hands of all Christian Kings to compell all people who will not be moued by the word of Gods Ministery to come out of Babylon might be forced by the sword of Magistracy to depart from her least they receiue of her plagues Qui phreneticum ligat lethargicum excitat ambobus molestus ambos amat saith Austen He that bindeth a franticke man and awakes him that hath the lethargy loueth both though he be greeuous to both And as the same Father in another place Quod autem vobis videtur inuitos ad veritatem non esse cogendos c. Whereas you thinke that men are not to bee compelled to the truth against their wils ye erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God which maketh those willing though they be compelled against their wils Goe into the high wayes and compell them to come in saith our Sauiour Christ whereupon Saint Austen saith Qui compellitur quô
deceitfull and bloody men doe not liue out halfe their dayes they hasten death vpon themselues and shame to their posterities And as their names be disgraced so their posterity depriued of the honour and pedigree where before their fall they were interessed and lineally inuested for although Traytors in England are not vsed as they were in Persia that euery one of the Family should be put to death or as in Macedonia fiue of the Traytors nearest Kins-folke suffer with him yet are they punished here in name and posterity depriued of their lands liuings goods offices blood and honour which is the fourth greefe that might if it were possible euen vexe a Traytor in his graue to behold himselfe to be naked and destitute of all the goods of nature Fame and Fortune and by his fall to haue deplumed all his Progeny not onely of Pedigree but of Patrimony left them to the mercy of the Prince and the mifery of Time What Parent though like Romulus nursed vp with a Shee-wolâ—e or as stony-hearted as a Myrmidon Aut duri miles vlyssi Yet must be moued with immeasurable mourning though sencelesse of his owne sorrowes which are great and grieuous as losse of liberty liuing life goods and good name and when paine on earth is past yet still to be punished in his Issue and Posterity Maiorum culpas luere nepotes His children bred of his owne loynes by his leud life disinherited of their liuelihood and can challenge no more for their owne Nisi pontus aer VVho cannot but be moued with the loue of his owne children and especially when they are ruinated hy his owne fact and folly Quis si non genitus duris è cautibus horrens Caucasus vt stirpis modice moueatur amore VVho if not bred vpon a stony Rocke But fancy moues to loue his filiall stocke To behold his wife and children Pignora chara amoris exposed to all stormes of time and contempt depriued of all riches and respects who though he be regardlesse of his owne fall yet in this case must needs weep for himselfe and for his children or if he haue neither of these to weepe for yet may he iustly weepe for hauing an hand or heart in so foule a sinne as Treason is for which hee must suffer an ignominious death and haue his capitall offence recorded Ad perpetuam eius infamiam To his eternall infamy or if he regard not Fame or Name yet ought he to regard his Conscience which must needs accuse him for such a sinne and beholding the eternall Iudge stand before the doore able to cast body and soule into hell fire and there Vnusquisque quantum exigit culpa tantum illic sentiet poenam according to the greatnes of his sinne shall there find the grieuousnesse of his punishment And therefore to conclude this with Saint Cyprian Si quam turpem cogitationem in mentem tuam venire animadâ—â—rtis suscipe staâ—im iudicij extremi salutarem commemorationem If thou once perceiuest any filthy thoughts to enter into thy mind straight to call to mind the day of doome and last iudgement So let all men daily thinke of the manifold iudgements and punishments which Rebels and Traytors on earth haue suffered and receiued and without deepe repentance and diuine mercy must needs suffer at their final doome when Christ shall say Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity CHAP. 5. THus hauing in part set downe the fall and punishment of Traytors next let vs obserue the corrupt causes which produce these cursed effects for though in Treason the Diuell is alwayes primus motor being an Arch-Traytor to God and Man and reignes in the Children of disobedience and puts into the heart of Iudas to betray Christ yet are there also procreant causes in themselues to allure and procure the wicked to such wretched and wofull motions And the Mother of these mischiefs vsually is Ambition whose Daughter is superbia Pride which Saint Austen cals Cathedram pestilentiae The Chaire of Pestilence Ambition is a dangerous malady and as Saint Ambrose speakes of it Quos nullapotuit mouere luxuria nulla auaritia subruere facit ambitio criminosos habet enim for ensem gratiam domesticum periculum vt dominetur alijs prius seruit dum vult esse sublimior fit remissior Though Luxury or couetousnesse could not moue them yet Ambition makes them sinfull hunting for popular applause and hauing domesticall danger and that they might rule they will first serue and to be high they will seeme humble Saint Bernard paints out Ambition in perfect colours Ambitio secretum virus pestis occulta doli artifex mater hypocrisis liuoris parens vitiorum origo tinea sanctitatis excaecatrix cordium exremedijs morbos creans ex medicina languorem generans Ambition is a secret poyson an inward plague the contriuer of deceit the mother of hypocrisie the parent of enuie the originall of vice the moth of sanctity the blinder of hearts creating sicknesses of salues and of medicines maladies The World is now much infected with this plague and we may see and say with Bernard Limina Apostolorum amplius ambitio quà m deuotio terit vocibus eius tota die resultat palatiuÌ„ Ambition rather then Deuotion possesseth many in euery State gaping for promotion Honores ambiunt qui onera non sentiunt Though their desarts small their desires great and are neuer content with their present estate so that we may say with Salomon There be three things that will not be satisfied yea foure that say not It is enough The graue the barren wombe the earth and fire and among many more I will adde two more an ambitious man and a couetous Lawyer the one with honour the other with mony will neuer say It is enough Ambition liues in euery Climate and loued of euery Tribe In the state politicall the poore man would be a yeoman the yeoman after the death of his wife or dearth of corne would be a gentleman and will giue armes if the Herald will accept of Angels the Squire would bee a Knight the Knight a Baron the Baron an Earle the Earle a Duke the Duke a King the King Caesar and is the worlds Emperour still ambitious The Poet tels vs Iuuenal Vnus Pellaeo iuueni non sufficit orbis Aestuat infaelix angusto limine mundi One world is not enough for Alexander and therefore he weepes and is discontent as if he wanted sufficient elbow roome In the State Ecclesiasticall Ambition finds fauourites The Mendicant Frier would be the Master Prior The Prior the Abbot the Abbot a Bishop the Bishop an Archbishop the Metropolitane a Cardinall the Cardinall Pope the Pope God nay that is too little aboue all that is called God 2 Thess 2. 4. Ambitio ambientium crux quomodo omnes torques omnibus places saith Bernard O Ambition how painefull
comfortable In a spirituall sense impious and vnfaithfull men are vsurpers I meane by a spirituall right for godlinesse hath the promises of this life yet haue they a ciuill and sure title among men by birthright succession election or other acquisition by which titles such rights are deuolued to them that we say with Saint Austen Qui dedit Mario ipse Caesari He that gaue dominion to Marius the same gaue it to Caesar he that to Augustus the same to Nero he that to gentle Vespasian the same to bloody Domitian he that to Constantine the Christian the same to the Apostate Iulian for the Kingdome is the Lords and hee ruleth among Nations the most High hath power ouer the Kingdome of Men and giueth it to whomsoeuer hee will and appointeth ouer it the most abiect among men saith Daniel and suffereth for the sinnes of the people a Kingdome to be translated from one people to another yea an hypocrite or infidell to reigne ouer them neither must man seeke to displace or dispossesse an Infidell King but say with Dauid Either the Lord shall smite him or his day shall come to die or hee shall descend into battell and perish knowing the saying of the sonne of Syrack to be true Tyranny is of small indurance and he that is to day a King to morrow is dead 3. Heresie is not sufficient to depriue a King of his temporall Inheritance Popish Diuinity is herein knowne let Bellarmine be the mouth of all the rest Christians are not bound nor may with the euident danger of Religion tollerate an vnbeleeuing King when Kings and Princes become heretickes they may be iudged of the Church and bee deposed from the gouernement neither is there any wrong done them if they be deposed If any Prince of a sheepe become a wolfe that is to say of a Christian become an Hereticke the Pastor of the Church by excommunication may driue him away and withall command the people that they follow him not and so depriue him of his dominion ouer his Subiects so farre goes the Cardinall Now who are Heretickes All those Kings which decline from the Papacy and denie his Supremacy The Cardinall thinkes as much Regnante Constantino florebat fides Christiana c. While Constantine reigned the Christian Faith flourished when Constantius ruled Arrianisme when Iulian Ethnicisme when Henry the eighth and Edward the sixth Luthenarisme when Elizabeth Caluinisme prospered All Protestant Princes by the verdict of the Pope and his Parasites be Hereticks and so consequently to be deposed if this their heresie which yet is the Catholicke verity and sincere and sound profession of the Gospell be accompanied with the Popes excommunication and yet it is a great question and neuer yet proued by the Scripture that Kings are subiect to this censure of excommunication it is disputed much both wayes and let it be yeelded for argument sake Ex abundante That Saint Ambrose did iustly with Theodosius in that abstention for I doubt whether it was a complete excommunication for a King is subiect to the presbyteriall Cure not Court to be informed in his conscience in the Pulpet not to be corrected in the Consistory by punishment to be directed not iudged or remoued from the company of his faithfull Subiects much lesse to be deposed or depriued of his regiment ouer them yet let it bee granted for argument sake that Princes may be subiect to the censure of excommunication which yet is sparingly to be vsed against Princes as Austen counselleth yet though the sentence of excommunication be direfull making them for a time as Ethnicks Sit tibisicut Ethnicus saith our Sauiour Let him be vnto thee as an Heathen Man or Publicane It is tanquam nonplusquam as an Heathen man not worse then an Heathen Man Loyalty and obedience to Ethnicke Kings is to be performed as the precepts and presidents of Christ and his Apostles plainly teach all The spirituall sword onely depriues of spirituall rights to depriue him of the Sacrament not of the Scepter shuts out of the Kingdome of Heauen not meddles with the Kingdome of Earth Excommunication is not an extirpation it serues not to take away any mans temporall goods of body or life or Kingdome on Earth it hath power ouer sinnes not ouer possessions as Bernard to Pope Eugenius It serues to tame the soule not to terrifie or destroy the body it cannot bind Kings that they should not reigne or absolue Subiects that they should not obey or depose Kings from their regall authority by which pretence of diuellish pollicy in challenging a spirituall power of Kings excommunication the Pope hath plagued the World with many temporall rebellions 4. Apostacy takes not away Soueraignty Iulian an apparent Apostate and wicked Idolater as Saint Austen cals him yet as the same Father speakes of it Milites Christiani seruierunt huic Imperatori infideli quando dicebat producite aciem iâ—…ra illam gentem statim obtemperabant The Christian Souldiers serued this Infidel Emperor and when he called to produce the Army or to goe against any Nation they presently obeyed not because they wanted power to resist for his whole Army for the most part were Christians as their voices to Iouinian Iulians Successor testifie Omnes vna voce confessi sunt se esse Christianos They all confessed with one accord that they were Christians but their obedience grounded vpon Saint Austens reference Subiectes fuisse propter Dominum aternum Domino temporali Subiect to their temporall Lord for the eternall Lords sake And though some of the great Diuines of Rome say that the Apostles were subiect to Infidell or apostate Princes and many Martyrs obedient because they wanted power to resist and that they might haue lawfully resisted if they had had strength when rather I may say with Tertullian that they had power but might not lawfully resist The Apostles were no Temporizers to command to pray for Nero if the time and not the truth had not moued them to doe it for conscience sake Shall Subiects for Heathen or wicked Kings be enioyned to poure forth prayers supplications and withall be willing if they haue power to poure out their Soueraignes blood The Prophet Ieremy exhorted the exiled Iewes to offer vp their prayers for the life of the King of Babylon hee would not haue willed them to haue prayed for their persecutor if it had beene a duty contrary to Christian profession or for lacke of power to fall to supplication VVhen King Assuerus had made a decree to kill and destory all the Iewes both yong and old children and women in one day what doe they rebell or rise vp in armes to resist with violence No no sorrow and fasting weeping and mourning sackecloth and ashes are their weapons When Iulian the Apostate threatned the Christian World Lachrimae vnicum medicamentum aduersus eum saith
Nazianzene Teares the onely medicine against his mischeefe teares were their Speares Orizons their weapons They knew that they that resisted power resisted the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receiue to themselues damnation These had not beene catechized in the Popes Schoole teaching Subiects that the Pope hath power to depriue Kings if they be defectiue in their regiment or not pliable to his commandement but were obedient as the Apostle exhorts Propter conscientiam for conscience sake Oh but will Master Parsons reply We hold this point that a Prince is to be obeyed Propter conscientiam for conscience sake but not Contrae conscientiam Against his conscience And he is so stiffe in this assertion that he saith If one authority example or testimony out of Scripture Fathers or Councels contradict it we then speake to purpose VVe answer Against Conscience rightly instructed and warranted by the word It is true but there is Asinina lupina or leprosa conscientia A foolish woluish or leprous conscience which vicious or erroneous conscience is not rightly called conscience but error and peruersenesse and therein it failes If a King command things expressely contrary to Gods word the Apostles rule then is plaine VVe must obey God rather then men yet not fall to violence or outward resistance in body but in spirit submitting our bodies to suffer with patience what shall bee inflicted like the three Children to Nabuchadnezar but in our soules to shew our selues more then Conquerors for our Conscience sake Thus doe we see that the foure forenamed crimes Tyranny Infidelity Heresie Apostacy yet great and greeuous sinnes are not sufficient to depriue a King of his regall Inheritance or to free his Subiects from their obedience CHAP. XI I VVil in the next place briefly consider the goodly Harmony of the holy Doctors of Rome in the managing and maintaining of this new Doctrine of deposition of Kings by making their Pope an absolute Lord of all Temporalties and of the Spiritualties by vertue of which vaste omnipotency of power as being the Supreme spirituall and temporall Prince of all and ouer all they ascribe vnto his Holinesse this plenitude of power to haue the iurisdiction of both swords and so may passe against Kings if they bee faulty by tyranny infidelity heresie or apostacy or not Roman Catholickes Sentences of Excommunication Breues of Interdiction Depriuation Buls of Absolution of Subiects from Alleagiance yea giue Licence and Indulgences of pardon to misereants to murder them and yet this is not to be counted King-killing for a King excommunicated or deposed is no King in Popery Let vs see the consent of these Doctors or rather heare the confusion of their tongues in building of this Babell Some of the cheefe pillars of Popery defend the direct ordinary and inherent authority of the Pope whereby as Lord of the whole VVorld in all temporall matters hee may at his pleasure depose Emperors and Princes The cheefe of these is Cardinall Baronius and to alleadge his reasons I omit his Bookes are common and extant in the world And this opinion that the Pope is Lord of all the Temporalties and that the supreame Iurisdiction both in temporall and spirituall matters belong to Peters Successors which was the brainelesse assertion of old blockish Canonists and exploded of all sober Papists is now renewed and passeth for Catholick Doctrine Your Francis Bozius defends it that the Pope is directly Lord of things temporall and is the Ruler and Monarke of the whole world So Rodericus Sancius a Bishop of theirs goes further It is to be holden according to the naturall morall and diuine Law wth the right Faith that the Lordship of the Roman Bishop is the true and onely immediate Lordship of all the world not as concerning spirituall things onely but also as concerning temporall things and that the imperiall Lordship of Kings dependeth vpon it and oweth seruice and attendance thereunto as a meanes minister and instrument and that by him it receiueth institution and ordination and at the commandement of the papall Lordship it may be remoued reuoked corrected and punished In the gouernement of the world the secular Lordship is not necessary either of pure or meere or expedient necessity but when the Church cannot Resoluing this Article therefore we say That in all the world there is but one Lordship and therefore there must be but one Vniuersall and Supreame Prince and Monarke who is Christs Vicar according to that of Daniel He gaue him dominion and honour and kingdome and all people and languages shall serue him In him therefore is the Fountaine and originall of all Lordship and from him the other Powers flow so farre goes this Popish Bishop And diuers others agree with him It is iudged that no Christian Monarke hath his Crowne wholly giuen him from Heauen vnlesse it receiue firmenesse and strength also from Christs Vicar the Pope so Possevine Christ committed to Peter the Key-keeper of eternall life the right of earthly and heauenly gouernement and that in his place the Pope is the vniuersall Iudge the King of Kings the Lord of Lords saith another yea the holy Writer in the old law made the Priesthood an adiectiue to the Kingdome but Saint Peter made the Kingdome an adiectiue to the Priesthood faith the same writer Carerius a Doctor of Padua in his Booke De potestate Romani Pontificis which he made specially to confute Bellarmine who denied the ordinary and direct power of the Pope in the Temporalties doth in many places and pages maintaine that all dominion as well in spirituall things as in temporall is fetcht by Christ and the same is committed to Saint Peter and his Successors that Christ was Lord of all these inferior things not onely as he was God but also as he was Man hauing at that time dominion in the Earth and therefore as the dominion of the world both diuine and humane was then in Christ as man so now it is in the Pope the vicar of Christ That Christ is directly the Lord of the world in temporall things and therefore the Pope Christs vicar is the like and this power giuen to Peter is set out by the sole comming of Peter to Christ vpon the water for vniuersall gouernement is signified by the Sea As God is the Supreme Monarke of the world productiuely and gubernatiuely although of himselfe he be neither of the world nor temporall so the Pope although originally and from himselfe he haue dominion ouer all things temporall yet he hath it not by any immediate execution and committeth that to the Emperor by an vniuersall iurisdiction It would weary a man to reade ouer this worke of Carerius wherein he sweates and toyles himselfe striuing with arguments and laying a curse vpon his aduersaries that shal gainsay him or denie the ordinary direct power of the Pope in the
voide of Diuinity and Logick which the learned hisse at which yet goes for currant arguments among ignorant Papists who in the Infancy of their knowledge haue no skill and iudgement to discerne these things yet are so ouercarried yea infatuated with a doting fancy to beleeue any thing which is cloaked with a pretence of Catholike Truth or Doctrine of the Church of Rome that with great applause they will accept of these or the like vnlearned follies being like vnto that Frenchman in Geneua of whom Zanchius speakes that he protested If Saint Paul and Caluin should preach at the same houre that he would leaue Paul and goe to Caluin So these will euen deny Scripture to beleeue and cleaue to their Doctors and they know how to seduce them well enough making them firmely beleeue that Peter was the Primate and Prince of all the Apostles and that the Pope succeeds him in all his prerogatiues and sits in Peters Chaire So that we may say with Simeones Who when he saw Arsacius an vnlearned and vnworthy man placed in Chrysostomes roome cried out in these words Prohpudor quis cui Oh shame who and whom So wee may censure the Popes sitting in Peters Chaire Oh shame who and whom Peter was carefull to teach preach but for the Popes many of them cannot and all will not preach the Gospell Their Bennet that was Pope when he was not ten yeeres old and Iohn not aboue sixteene as their deare Baronius sayes oh then how worthily was Peters place supplied how able they were to feed the vniuersall flocke and to be the Supreame Heads of the Christian World And many of their Popes haue beene condemned and conuicted hereticks by themselues as * Marcellinus for idolatry worshipping Pagan Gods Liberius for Arrianisme Honorius the first was a Monothelite hereticke condemned for it in three generall Councels Gregory the 12 and Bennet the 13 deposed for notorious heretickes and schismatickes and many others oh then how was Peters Chayre adorned his place supplied the vniuersall flocke gouerned the Supremacy managed the Church edified Proâ—pudor quis cui How is Peters Chayre disparaged by a pretence of such vile Successors yea how opposite is the Pope to Peter or if you wil this Sir Peter or Pope-Peter to Saint Peter light and darkenesse are not more dislike Preaching Peter commanded all Feare God Honor the King Submit your selues c. Not onely to the good and curteous but to the froward for this is thanke worthy if a man for conscience sake toward God endure greefe suffering wrongfully But princely Pope-peter vnlooses men at his pleasure from their alleagiance and obedience to good and gracious Princes if they will not bow their Scepters to his Miter and will depriue them of their Crownes and if he can of their liues too being blasted by excommunication then proceed to deposition and to make it take better effect hee will authorize murder and rebellion yet all this vnder a faire vizard of spirituall good and for the saluation of soules but Quic quid id est timeo Danaos dona ferentes Beware of these same Pope-pilles sugred ouer yet full of deadly poyson Peter his precepts and patterne compared with the Popes practise argue a plaine separation or secession no succession Peter commanded and performed obedience to Princes excommunicated none deposed none depriued none freed no Subiects from alleagiance or excited them to any resistance but suffred if we may credit their Register to proue his being at Rome as a Martyr yet these Princes were no Catholickes yea Heathens Was it because hee wanted power as some haue dreamed why he had the power of Miracles hee could doe that which neuer any Pope did or shall doe Surge ambula Acts 3. 6 Arise and walke which had power to heale a creeple from his Mothers wombe He raised the dead to life yea sont the liuing to death could with his shadow heale the â—icke Wanted he power no rather he wanted this pride and impiety wherewith the Pope swels and abounds he knew that his Kingdome promised by Christ was not of this World here the Kings of the Gentiles should reigne ouer him and his fellow Disciples but hereafter in the heauenly Kingdome they should sit vpon seates and iudge the twelue Tribes of Israel But this Pope-Peter or prince-like Pope fearing his Kingdome is not of that world would faine erect vp his Monarchy in this world and would sit vpon his seate or chayre to iudge all the Tribes of the world and would faine be a Iudge ouer the Tribe of Iudah to make Kings be subiect to his Ferula and Rod of correction and so then surfet them with his cup of corruption and if they will not submit themselues to his domination hee will by censure and sentence of excommunication seeke to dethrone them and depose them free their subiects from the yoake of obedience and oath of alleagiance to them and arme and animate them to take vp armes against them and all this pestilent power he would deriue from Peters Chaire making it a Chaire of pestilence to arrogate such a pernicious supremacy by which meanes hee hath beene the primus motor the cheefe agent of all the mischeefes murders and massacres treasons and rebellions in these latter times So that I may conclude that papall excommunication of Kings and Doctrine of deposition of them haue beene the cheefe nurseries of most treasons and rebellions And this hath moued me to take a little suruey of it diuerting out of the intended Roade of my discourse for which former prolixity I will requite my Reader with following breuity CHAP. XII I Haue thus farre discoursed in generall now I will make our conclusion a connexion with some particular relation of the vnnaturall and bloody conspiracy of these Trayterous Gouries attempted against the Kings Maiesty August the fift Anno Dom. 1600 with the manner of his deliuery and happy preseruation as also the end and Tragedy of these Traytors receiuing in part a due doome for their Treason His Maiesty lying at Falkland and going out in the morning to recreate himselfe with his pleasure of Buck-hunting before he was on Horsebacke Alexander Ruthwen second brother to the late Earle of Gowry hasted to meet his Highnesse who after a low curtesie bowing his head vnder his Maiesties knee Beware of such Creepers drawing his Maiesty apart as Ioab tooke Abner aside in the gate to speake with him peaceably doth begin a strange discourse to the King Virg. lib. 2. Aen. Dixerat ille dolis instructus arte Pelasga How he chanced in the euening before walking alone without the Towne of Saint Iohnstoun where his brother dwelt recountred a suspicious fellow who vpon some conference became amazed and his tongue faultred and vncasing him wrapt vp in a cloake and finds a great wide pot vnder his arme full of coyned gold in
of these bloud-thirsty Traytors euen emancipated to cruelty by a noble and notable deliuery and shall we not render vnto him a cordiall and continuall thankesgiuing of our lips ioyned with a reall thankesgiuing of our liues or shall we praise him with our mouthes and prouoke him with our sinnes Lip-labor is lost labour except with an internall thankefulnesse there goes an entire obedience Consider Christs caueat Sinne no more lest a worse thing come vnto thee Let our newnes of life expresse the greatnesse of our thankefulnesse God will not accept the sacrifice of mouth-praisers proceeding from vnsanctified liuers Let this our commemoration and recognition of Gods mercies past prouoke vs to all obedience in the reformation of our liues to come So shall wee make an holy vse of so happy a deliuery Singula illius mala erunt nobis singula bona Their banefire of powder our bonefire of praises And withall to make vs more vigilant to vn-earth these foxes who will creepe into holes vnder the ground to worke our ouerthrow foresight is the wise mans Beacon Melius est praecauere quam pauere Take vs the foxes the little foxes which destroyes the vines for they are a part of that generation of whom speakes Salomon Whose teeth are as swords their iawes as kniues they will not spare in the day of vengeance and like the whorish woman will hunt for the pretious life of man Remember therefore the counsell of the sonne of Syrach Who will trust a thiefe that is alwaies ready And let this our true thankefulnesse to God be a durable seruice not like a morning dew and cloud that goeth away or a Widdowes ioy oritur moritur gotten and forgotten in an houre a suddainefit or momentaâ—y passion or entertained like an annuall guest as if the force and fruite of our thankefull ioy should be confined to one day or like a common retainer should haue but a yeerely acceptance no I haue appointed thee a day for a yeere euen a day for a yeere saith God to his Prophet but this of ours est Dies pro omnibus annis a day to thanke God all the yeeres of our life alwayes to say and sing with Deborah praise yee the Lord for the auenging of Israel yea euen the starres in their course fought against Sisera So let thine enemies perish O Lord. And thou O Lord which didst keepe vs from the conspiracy of the wicked and from the rage of the workers of iniquity by discouering their villanie to thee most mighty and mercifull God we offer vp our bodies and soules as a liuing sacrifice desirous to doe thee all prostrate seruice in body and soule which thou hast preserued in peace appointed by the wicked to haue perished in powder we will neuer forget this mercy or forbeare our humble thankes to thee for our deliuery but so long as the Sunne and Moone endureth wee with our posterities till time shal be no more will cherish the remembrance of it with an immortall thankfulnesse saying to thee with holy Melchi-sedecke after Abrahams victory Blessed be the most high God which hath deliuered our enemies into our hands to which King euerlasting immortall inuisible vnto God onely wise be all the honor and glory for euer and euer Amen CHAP. IIII. A description of the Persons THe Romish professors who teach the people to eate their God and kill their King were the chiefe instruments in the Powder-treason all the Actors and adherents were great Recusants Lay Recusants Catesby Percy Winter Tresham Wright c. deuised the plot and then the lesuits fell in with them allowed and ratified by Garnet Gerard Oâ—â—corne Greenewell c. Iesuits and Popish Priests Garnet imparted the Popes Breues to Catesby a right Catiline whereby he was stirred vp to deuise some way to worke a generall ouerthrowe This Catesby was the inuentor of this Villanie Accipe nunc Danaúm insidias crimine ab vno disce omnes Learne by this Traytors odious fault and fall Yee Papists to abhorre Treason in generall This Canniball or Roman-catholicke Catesby hauing bethought him of the powder-plot for the blowing vp of the Parliament house in generall rearmes breakes the case to Garnet What if in some case the innocent should be destroyed with the guilty He answers they might so that it were for a good able to recompence the loâ—se of the innocent And afterward the plot plainly propounded to him not by way of confession as his Procters pleade for him but in conference about it as he voluntarily confessed before his death that Greenewell with this Catesby was heard of him not confessing but consulting yet if it had beene by way of confession for his owne confession prooues the contrary he should haue reuealed the plot if not the parties yea the parties also if hee would follow the example of his fellow-confessors Bodin doth relate an example heerein how a Norman had a purpose to kill King Francis yet afterward changed his minde these farre from such thoughts and opens this sinne in his confession to a Minorite Frier of his former yet forsaken purpose the Frier doth enioine him penance and grants absplution yet declares all to the King and the Iudges of the Court of Paris cause him to be executed But these who before had turned them from the true religion and tutored them in the Schoole of rebellion were so far from reuealing as that their heads and hearts were with them to 〈◊〉 well of the accomplishing Gerard gaue the Traytors the Sacrament to kind them to secrecy Hammond in 〈◊〉 house absolued the Traytors the Treason reuealed Oldcorne alias Hall defends the plot being discouered and willes the Catholickes not to be discouraged Tesmond plotted with Garnet and goes vp and downe to raise vp Armes The publicke writings of our state and records heerein with some of their owne confessions examinations and subscriptions are inuincible witnesses against all the cauels of deprauing Papists who labour to cleere these their polyprogmaticke Priests from hauing an hand in so hellish a plot by desperate and notorious vntruths But it is manifest by the mouth of Time Truth that these Priests were priuie to the Powder plot against all Popish calumniations suggested to the contrary and these Lay Recusants hauing first suckt the pestilent poyson of this vnheard Treachery out of the ill humors of Popish doctrine infused into them by the treasonable Tribe of Iesuits who teach Treason and cause Traytors to be canonized in Romes Calender Proh Superi quantum mortalia pectoracaecae Noctis habent ipso sceleris molimine Tereus Creditur essepius laudemque á crimine sumit O Lord what hearts possessed with the night Of deepest ignorance depriu'd of sauing light Can grace with praise such deedes of darknesse right These politicke Priests knowing these their Lay-disciples to be of turbulent and
the politicke body of the Kingdome all cut off at one blow the kingdome left headlesse heartlesse hopelesse depriued of her directing Iethroes Dij quibus imperium hoc steterat Virg. The pillars and supporters of this Christian Monarchy and changed it to a confused Anarchy then preuailing as Garnet the Arch-Priest and Archtraytor praied Auferte gentem istam perfidam de finibus credentium Take away this perfidious nation meaning vs Protestants from the borders of true belieuers vnderstanding Romanists vt laudes Deo debitas alacriter persoluamus that we may praise God for the same ioyfully But such prayers of the wicked is an abhomination vnto the Lord and though they make many prayers the Lord will not heare them because their hands are full of blood the enemies to our King and Kingdome opened their mouthes against vs saying Let vs deuoure them Certainely this is the day that we looked for yea which they longed for wherein they hoped to haue swallowed vs vp quicke when their wrath was kindled against vs to haue ouerthrowne the temporall and politicke estate of our Kingdome by the ruine of the royall Head and the most noble members of the same but the Lords eyes were vpon the faithfull of the Land to shield them vnder the shadow of his wings when as the proud had laid a snare for them and spread a net with cords in their way and set grins for them then did the Lord deliuer them from those euill men and preserued them from those cruell men and recompenced them their wickednes and destroied them in their owne malice to moue all Gods people in great Britanny to say with Zachary That being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies we should serue him without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the dayes of our liues Yea this pernicious proiect had not onely procured a fatall disturbance and destruction of the temporall and politicall welfare of the Kingdome but also aimed to alter the State of our Religion and to set vp the abhomination of desolation in the holy place to establish the corrupt profession of popish superstition this was the Helena for which these Greekes contended Then all of vs might with the children of Israel led captiue to Babilon cry like them By the riuers of Babilon we sate downe and wept when wee remembred thee O Sion for then wee should haue liued in captiuity to the Romish Babilon and haue sung the songs of Sion in a strange land and strange tongue Then England should haue beene againe as once one called it the Popes Asse to beare his burthens in a miserable bondage Those debosht and banished Popelings Iesuites Seminaries and Masse-Priests who can cry to their Images like Baals Priests O Baal heare vs lo then Hagar and Ismael not long since cast out with bagge and baggage reen tring againe insolently insulting ouer honourable Dame Sara and would driue her and Isaak out of the familie VVhat heart zealous of the glory of God and religious to the pure Gospell of Christ that would not with Dauid euery night water his couch with his teares to behold the Candlestickes of our Church who hold the light of the word broken in peeces I meane the spirituall labourers in the worde to be thrust out of the vineyard of the Church and the loyterers of Rome haruest-men for Antichrist to take the howses of God in possession So that with Dauid we might cry * O God thine enemies are come into thine inheritance thy holy Temple they haue defiled c. Romes wolues in sheepes cloathing worrying the Lambes of Christ Sathans Foxes running vpon the mountaines of Sion and stealing away the soules of the simple making them drunke with the dregs of the Romish grape enchanted with their Circes cup in which is the wine of infection spirituall fornication and abhomination The people then should haue beene depriued of the pure riuer of the water of life and for lacke of the bread of life compelled to complaine in the famine of their soules like the distressed Iewes in the famine of their bodies Where is bread and drinke where is the Manna which once was tasted the worde of grace wherewith wee once were feasted where are the painefull Pastors of our soules who once refreshed vs fedde our hearts with bread from heauen and filled our cares with comfortable tidings of peace who prayed for our soules with zealous spirits and spent themselues like vnwearied messengers in the worke of the Gospell Oh the Priests lippes which preserued knowledge they are silenced and sent to their graues expelled the Church or put in prison or turned to ashes in Popish flames their persecutors are swifter then the Eagles of heauen who pursue them vpon the mountaines and lay wait for them in the wildernesse they hunt their steppes that they cannot goe in the streetes their end is neere for their daies are fulfilled their end is come Oh this is come vpon vs for our cold loue and churlish entertainement of the Gospell when we had free liberty to call one another Come let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the God of Iacob and hee will teach vs his waies and we will walke in his paths but then wee stopped our eares like deafe Adders against the voice of those charmes most expert in charming they piped vnto vs but we would not dance we then regarded not those songs of Sion and now both harpes and harpers are hung vpon the willow trees our soules are starued with Latine Masses wee haue no English Bibles wodden blockes are called the Lay-mens bookes we cannot see the way we should walke in but must like blinde men be guided by the spectacles of purblinde guides we must beleeue as they beleeue and yet doe not know what they beleeue all ready to repeat that wishing voice of Iob Oh that wee were as in times past when God preserued vs when his light shined vpon our heads and when by his light we walked through darkenesse all saying with Valerius though not in the same case who when Caligula that monster was killed and it could not be found out who had done it Noble Valerius rose vp and said vtinam ego would to God I had killed that monster So will they cry vtinam ego would to God wee had killed that monster which whisome wee indulgently cherished in our bosomes Ingratitude and Contempt of the Gospell then while we had the same in plenty and purity without commixtion of drosse and darnell trash and tares we began with the Israelites to loath this Manna We can see nothing but this Manna our soule loatheth this light bread and now Verbum amissum quaerimus inuidi Wee wander from Sea to Sea and from the North to the East to seeke the worde of the Lord and cannot finde it Now the Lords
by the wicked were by the wisedome of our gratious God escaped and the wicked were snared in the worke of their owne hands A deliuery deseruing eternall Trophies of Triumphs to glorifie God with our prayers and praises with our lips and liues and neuer follow them of whom the Apostle who glorified not God neyther were they thankefull but may continually call vp our hearts to this duty and cry with the Psalmist Come and hearken all yee that feare God and I will tell you what hee hath done to my soule for he hath deliuered our soules from death and our feet from falling that we should walke before God in the land of the liuing Therefore praise our God yee people and make the voice of his praise bee heard and say with the children of Reuben Gad and Manasses God forbid that we should rebel against the Lord and turne this day away from the Lord c. And as the children of Israel after their returne from the captiuity in Babilon and hearing Ezra reade the Law the ioy of their soules Ezra praised the Lord the great God and all the people answered Amen Amen lifting vp their hands and bowing themselues worshipping the Lord with their faces towards the ground and Nehemiah with Ezra and the Leuites tels the people This day is holy vnto the Lord your God so let our English Israel deliuered from the intended bondage of Babilon hearken to their Ezraes in the Pulpit made for the preaching of Gods Law wherof they should haue beene depriued and with their Priests praise the Lord our great and good God answering Amen Amen bowing themselues in all humility at the footestoole of Gods Maiesty annually celebrating the fift day of Nouember with praises of thankesgiuing and saying This day is holy vnto the Lord our God This day shall be vnto vs a remembrance and wee will keep it an holy feast vnto the Lord throughout our generations we will keep it holy by an ordinance for euer to remember this maruellous worke of Englands deliuerance from the plotted powder-destruction to praise Gods holy name and glory in his praise singing and saying cheerefully with our tongues and deuoutly with our hearts Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for euer audeuer and let all the people say Amen Amen To the ternall and eternall glorious Godhead Father Sonne and holy Ghost one and the same God in nature and number indiuisible inuisible inuincible our sole and soueraigne protector and preseruer God ouer all blessed for euer be all praise power faith feare glory and maiesty yeelded by vs by ours and by all his redeemed for all his mercies in generall and for this speciall deliuerance in particular humbly heartily holily for euer and euer Amen Glory be to God in the high Heauens and peace on earth Luke 2. 14. FINIS A SHORT DISSVVASIVE FROM POPERY To all Lay-Papists who desire to be true seruants to their Sauiour or good Subiects to their Soueraigne 1. Kings 18. 21. How long halt yee betweene two opinions If the Lord be God follow him but if Baal be he then goe after him Tert. de resurr carn Aufer haereticis quae cum Ethnieis sapiunt vt de Scripturis solis quaestiones suas sistant stare non poterunt Hugo de Claustro anim lib. 1. Superstitio dicitur verae religioni superaddita falsa religioÌ„ Melancthon Ex malo dogmate malis moribus dignoscuntur lupi By SAMVEL GAREY a Preacher of Gods Word and a perpetuall petitioner to God for your happy conuersion to Gods holy Truth LONDON Printed by Iohn Beale for Henry Fether stone and Iohn Parker 1618. To the Right VVorshipfull Sir Philip Kniâ—et Baronet and his worthy Lady The Spirit of Grace Truth and Wisedome be multiplied Right VVorshipfull I Am bold vpon experienced acquaintance with your generous qualities and gentle fauours towards me to send this vnworthy Treatise to your worthy viewe I know whose iudgement it must passe yet am fearelesse not in a grosse stupidity of mine owne weakenesse but in an hopefull presumption of your vsuall Gentlenesse a disposition euen naturalized in your courteous breasts whereof I acknowledge with gratefulnesse the acceptable fruites of your long and large loue towards me and for which I euer rest your thankefull friend and ingaged debtor in part of requitall whereof I haue presumed to offer to you this Handfull of my duty and hearty loue towards you and vnder your worthy name to send it to the world that they who are bettered by it may thanke you for it A short Disswasiue from Popery necessary for these Times wherein you may behold in part some points of the corrupt Doctrine of the Romish Church which is the common Mother of corruption superstition For that Church must needes be a Chappell of errors which enlarge the sacred Canon with Apochryphalls diminish the authority of the Scripture with Traditions ouerthrow the Originall with Translations peruert the Text with Glosses as the Romish Church doth Yea to maintaine her errors she conceales the light of Truth the Scripture from Lay people vnder the curtaine of the Latin language and euen in the Schooles among the learned she is put to poore shifts often forced to conclude arguments out of meere Allegories lame Similitudes fained miracles naked names of Fathers hired Testimonies of Schoolemen and other deboshed vassailes and proctors of the Romane Court who with all artificiall pollicy labour to adorne the Romane Harlot with painted trimmings whereby the vnwary young age of many more credulous then iudicious is deceiued and deluded The whole subiect of our former worke well perused and indifferently weighed doth giue good light looking vpon her corrupt precepts and cursed practises to discouer that smooky Kingdome of Antichrist but perchance you may say to me with Seneca Quidme torques lacer as in quaestâ—…bus Subtilius est contempsisse quam 〈◊〉 Why doe you trouble me with such questions it is more subtilty to contemne them then to confute them Worthy Sir it shall not be I hope labour lost if to your priuate contemplations you shall adioyne these short and sacred speculations specially penned for your seruice and published for the beâ—…e of all who are willing to open their eyes to walke in Truth I giue all but a small kind of taste in these points of Popish fragments if any mans appetite long for it I dare promise him heereafter more full dishes The Lord giue vnto you a Christian care in the profession of the Truth which with a sincere heart I haue preached vnto you and perfit your first Progresse in the grace of God to the holy Sanctification and happy Saluation of your bodies and soules for euer For which mercy and grace to be bestowed on you I shall euer vnfainedly pray to God and rest Your Worshipes poore Orator in Christ Samuel Garey A SHORT DISSVVAsiue to all Lay-papists who desire
Church that is the Pope concerning any place of Scripture although he neyther know nor vnderstand whether and how it agreeth with the words of Scripture yet notwithstanding he hath ipsissimumverbum Dei the very word of God saith Hosius voices most odious to all the Fathers whom they boast of to name but one S. Chrysostome saith Scripturis sacris potius credendum quam omnibus hominibus in mundo VVe must beleeue the Scripture before all the men of the world and not to cleaue to the Popes exposition for as the same Father Sacra Scriptura seipsam exponit auditorem errare non sinit the holy scripture expounds it selfe and will not suffer the hearer to erre Their Cardinall Cusanus hath written a booke which he entitleth De Authoritate Ecclesia Concilij supra contra Scripturam of the authory of the Church and of a Councell aboue and against the Scripture with many others who haue vomited out blasphemous speeches and would infringe the authority of the worde of God robbing it sacrilegiously of her all-sufficiency and bestow it vpon their Pope the Master of the mystery of iniquity and herefie 4 They prohibit the people to read the Scripture and odiously exclaime against vs as Bellarmine the Rhemists because our translated Bibles be in the hands of euery husbandman artificer prentise boy girle mistresse maide man and for the maintaining of their practise to depriue the people of the worde they would colour it with certaine paradoxes 1 The Scripture makes heretickes 2 Ignorance is the mother of deuotion 3 Images are the Lay-mens Bookes 4 They must belieue as the Church belieues implicitly Christ commands all Search the Scriptures but they say The Scripture makes heretickes Paul saith Let the worde of Christ dwell in you plenteously but they say Ignorance is the mother of deuotion Iohn saith Babes keepe your selues fram images but they say They are the Lay-mens bookes Abakuk saith The iust shall liue by his faith but they say You shal liue by another mans faith beleeue as the Church beleeues and doe not know what the Church beleeues Their doctrine to the Scripture is as opposite as heauen is to hell and therfore would not haue the people acquainted with the Scripture It is lamentable to reade how impiously they write in this kind their great Cardinall and president in the Trent Councell Hosius saith It was fitter for women to meddle with their distaffe then with Gods word So Duraeâ—â— God hath left them not the bookes of the Scriptures but Pastors and Doctors They take away from the Christian Souldier his weapon scriptum est and in stead thereof giue him traditum est a wooden dagger pictures legends and fables forsaking the fountaines of liuing waters and digge them broken pits that can hold no water They imitate the malicious Philistims who stopped the wells of Abraham and filled them vp with earth to put their memoriall out of minde so that they might challenge the ground so these stop the veines of life found in the Scripture with the earthly drosse of traditions legends Sathans songs to make a merchandize of ignorant soules and to starue them with a famine of Gods worde as if the contents in the Scripture were like the mysteries of the goddesse Ceres which might not be reuealed making the bread of life like the shew-bread whereof it was lawfull for none to eat of it but the Priests onely To colour this Gorgon with a cleanly vizard they say Ignorance is mother of deuotion Pessima mater est saith Austen itidem pessimae duae filiae falsitas dubietas illa miserior ista miserabilior illa perniciosior ista molestior Ignorance is the worst mother and her two daughters worst falshood and doubtfulnes that very wretched this more miserable that more pernicious this more troublesome but they make much of this mother for she is the vpholder of the Popes chaire Pythagoras said well Aboue all take care to keepe thy body from diseases the city from sedition and thy soule from ignorance But we may say to these popish Interpreters of the Law as our Sauiour did to the Pharasaicall ye haue taken away the key of knowledge yee enter not in your selues and them that came ye forbad I haue the longer insisted vpon this marke a red lattise to shew the house of the great whore which sits vpon many waters by which signe I may say Pulchrum est digito monstrari dicier haec est The second meretrician marke is her outward face pontificall pompe and gouernment How vnlike is her Pope to Peter Peter arrogated no primacy no Episcopall vniuersality painefull to preach the worde neuer medling with the temporall sword To feed Christs sheep was all his ioy he neuer had Emperor hold his stirrop or kisse his toe neuer deposed King from his Crown neuer freed subiect from obedience hee gaue himselfe no other title but an Apostle of Iesus Christ He neuer gloried in these smoaky titles Vicarius Christi sponsusecclesiae the Vicar of Christ the husband of the Church Vniuersalis Episcopus caput Ecclesia Vniuersall Bishop Head of the Church or as others stile him lumen orbis the light of the world or vice-deus in the roome of God not a meere man but mixt with other Luciferian titles which by me are elsewhere touched his vsurped prerogatiues and power they may that will finde in Bellarmines bookes de Romano pontifice yea as some say the Goates of Candie haue al their eyes fixed vpon the canicular star when it ariseth in the Horizon so all popish eyes fixed vpon this star of Rome homagers to his chaire all their tongues saluting with Gallinae fillus albae Peter and the Apostles were no fishers of Gold as it may be said of these Popes praedam quaerunt non animas they fish for siluer not for soules Innocent the third a Pope of Rome told Aquinas being in his Gallery among his gold that Peter could not shew so much gold when he said siluer and gold haue I none to whom Aquinas gaue a good answere and saide your Holinesse cannot doe that which Peter said and did to the cripple surge ambula arise and walke How vnlike are Romes Cardinalls to Christs Apostles State pride ambition and policy are their foure cardinall vertues Their stile ego Rex I and the King their purple hat and scarlet habit will scarce giue way to regall robes The pride ambition and vaine-glory of the Romane prelacy hath beene taxed in most histories yea their owne side hath condemned them for these sinnes and are branded with these markes by Cusanus Zarabella Marsilius Occham Duareaus c. Their selling of Pardons symoniacal corruption hath made it a common by-word omnia venalia Romae Templa sacerdetes altaria sacra coronae Ignis thura preces coelum est venale deusque