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A96595	Vindiciæ regum; or, The grand rebellion that is, a looking-glasse for rebels, whereby they may see, how by ten severall degrees they shall ascend to the height of their designe, and so throughly rebell, and utterly destroy themselves thereby. And, wherin is clearly proued by holy Scripturs, ancient fathers, constant martyrs, and our best modern writers, that it is no wayes lawfull for any private man, or any sort or degree of men, inferior magistrates, peeres of the kingdom, greatest nobility, lo. of the councel, senate, Parliament or Pope, for any cause, compelling to idolatry, exercising cruelty, prastizing [sic] tyranny, or any other pretext, how fair and specious soever it seems to be, to rebell, take armes, and resist the authority of their lawfull king; whom God will protect, and require all the blood that shall be spilt at the hands of the head rebels. And all the maine objections to the contrary are clearly answered. / By Gr. Williams, L. Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1643 (1643)	Wing W2675; Thomason E88_1; ESTC R204121	92,613	114

Chamberlaines their Treasurers and their servants of nearest place and greatest trust And though Aaron the High Priest or Bishop doth impose his hands on others and admit them into sacred Orders above their brethren to be neare the Lord and bestow all the preferment they can upon them yet with Corah these unquiet and ungratefull spirits must rebell against their governours For I think I may well demand which of all of them that now rebell against their King have not had either their Grand-fathers Fathers or themselves promoted to all or most of their fortunes and honours from that crown which now they would trample under their feet Who more against their King then those that received most from their King Just like Judas or here like Corah Dathan and Abiram I could instance the particulars but I passe So you see who were the Rebells most ungratefull most unworthy men CHAP. II. Sheweth against whom these men rebelled that God is the giver of our Covernours the severall Offices of Kings and Priests how they should assist each other and how the people labour to destroy them both SEcondly 2. Part against whom they rebelled we are to consider against whom they rebelled and the Text saith Against Moses and Aaron and therefore we must discusse 1. 2. Points discussed Qui fuere who they were in regard of their places 2. Quales fuere what they were in regard of their qualities 1. In regard of their places we finde that these men were 1. The chiefe Governours of Gods people 2. Governours both in temporall and in spirituall things 3. Agreeing and consenting together in all their Government 1. They were the prime Governours of the people Moses the King or Prince to rule the people and Aaron the High-Priest to instruct and offer sacrifice to make attonement unto God for the sinnes of the people and these have their authority from God for though it sometimes happeneth that potens Hos 8.4 the ruler is not of God as the Prophet saith They have reigned and not by me and likewise modus assumendi the maner of getting authority is not alwaies of God but sometimes by usurpation cruelty subtilty or some other sinfull meanes yet potestas the power it self whosoever hath it is ever from God Aristot Polit. lib 1. c. 1. Ambros Ser. 7. for the Philosopher saith Magistratûs originem esse à natura ipsa And Saint Ambrose saith Datus à Deo Magistratus non modo malorum coercendorum causà sedetiam bonorum fovendorum in vera animi pietate honestate gratiâ And others say the Sunne is not more necessary in heaven then the Magistrate is on earth for alas how is it possible for any Society to live on earth cum vivitur exrapto when men live by rapine and shall say Let our strength be to us the law of justice therefore God is the giver of our Governours and he professeth Per me regnant Reges And Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar That the most high ruleth in the Kingdome of men and he giveth it to whomsoever he will Dan. 4.25 Vide etiam c. 2. v. 37. 2. These two men were Governours both in all temporall and in all spirituall things as Moses in the things that pertained to the Common-wealth and Aaron in things pertaining unto God And these two sorts of Government are in some sort subordinate each to other and yet each one intire in it selfe so that the one may not usurpe the office of the other for 1. The spirituall Priest is to instruct the Magistrates 2. Governours both in temporall and spirituall things and to reprove them too if they do amisse as they are members of their charge and the sheepe of their sheepfold And so we have the examples of David reproved by Nathan Achab by Elias Herod by John Baptist and in the Primitive Church Euseb l. 6. c. 34. Sozomen lib. 7. of Philip the Emperour repenting at the perswasion of Fabian and Theodosius senior by the writings of St Ambrose 2. The temporall Magistrate is to commend and if they offend to correct condemne the Priests as they are members of their Common-wealth for Saint Paul saith Rom. 13. Bernard ad Archiepis Senevensem Let every soule be subject to the higher powers and if every soule then the soule of the Priest as well as the soules of the People or otherwise Quis eum excepit ab universitate as Saint Bernard and so Theodoret Theophylact and Oecumenius are of the same minde and the examples of Abiathar deposed by Solomon and a greater then Solomon Christ himselfe not refusing the censure of Pilate though for no fault Saint Paul appealing unto Caesar Caecilian judged by the Delegates of Constantine Flavianus by Theodosius and all the Martyrs and godly Bishops never pl●●●●● 〈…〉 from their persecuters doe make this point 〈…〉 〈…〉 Governours were not onely consanguinei 3. Governours well agreeing in their government two 〈…〉 so were Cain and Abel to whom totus non suffi●● 〈…〉 were also consentanei like the soule and body of man of the same sympathie and affection for the performance of every action for the Church and Common-wealth are like Hippocrates twyns so linked together as the Ivie intwisteth it selfe about the Oake that the one cannot happily subsist without the other but as the Secretary of nature well observeth That the Marygold opens with the Sunne and shuts with the shade even so when the Sunne-beames of peace and prosperity shine upon the Common-wealth then by the reflection of those beames the Church dilates and spreads if selfe the better as you may see in Act. 9.31 and on the other side when any Kingdome groaneth under civill dissention the Church of Christ must nee is suffer persecution And therefore to the end that the Prince and Priest might as the two feet of a man helpe each other to support the weight of the whole body and to beare the burthen of so great a charge God at the first severing of these offices which before were united in one person as the Poet saith of Anius Rex idem hominum Phoebique Sacerdos And the Apostle saith of Melchisedech that hee was both a King and the Priest of the most high God did chuse two naturall brethren to be the Governours of his people and that quod non caret mysterio Aanon was the eldest and yet Moses was the chiefest to signifie as I take it that they should rather helpe and further each other then any wayes rule and domineere one over the other because that although Aaron was the eldest brother and chiefe Priest yet Moses was the chiefe Magistrate and his brothers God as God himselfe doth stile him and therefore this should terrorem incutere and teach him how to behave himselfe towards his brother and though Moses was the chiefe Magistrate yet Aaron was the chiefe Priest and his eldest brother which had not lost like Reuben the prerogative of his birth-right and

TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE Most Gracious Soveraigne I Have beene long ashamed to see the Aegyptian loacusts the emissaries of Apollyon and the sonnes of perdition under the name of Christ so much to abuse His sacred truth as to send forth so impudently and most ignorantly such lying Pamphlets so stuffed with Treason to animate Rebellion and to poyson the dutifull affections and the obliged loyalty of your Majesties seduced Subjects and seeing we ought not to be sleeping when the Traytors are betraying our Master I have been not a little grieved to see so many able men the faithfull servants of Christ In publicos hostes quilibet homo miles and most loyall to Your Majesty either over-awed with fear or distempered with their calamities or I know not for what els to be so long silent from publishing the necessity of obedience and the abomination of Rebellion in this time of need when the tongue and pen of the Divine should aswell strengthen the weak hands of faithfull subjects as the sword musket of the souldier should weaken the strength of faithlesse Rebels therfore not presuming of mine ability to eqalize my brethren but as conscious of my fidelity both to God and to your Majesty as in my yonger yeers I fearlesly published The resolution of Pilate Non sine meo magno malo so in my latter age though as much perplexed and persecuted as any man driven out of all my fortunes in Ireland hunted out of my house and poore family in England and after I had been causelesly imprisoned and most barbarously handled then threatned beyond measure yet I resolvedly set forth this Tract of The Grand Rebellion and though it be plaine without curiosity Qualem decet exulis esse Yet I doe it in all truth and sincerity without any sinister aspect for my witnesse is in Heaven I had rather have all the estate I have plundred and pillaged my wife and children left desolate and destitute of all reliefe and my selfe deprived of liberty life by the Rebels for speaking truth in defence of whom myconscience knoweth to be in the right then to have al the praise and preferment that either people Parliament or Pope can heap upon me for sowing pillows under their elbows and with idle distinctions false interpretations and wicked applications of holy Writ hypocritically to flatter and most sediriously to instigate the discontented and seduced spirits and others of most desperate fortunes to rebell against the Lords annionted I presume to present the same into your sacred hands God Almighty which delivereth your Majesty from the contradiction of sinners and subdueth your people that are under You blesse protect and prosper You in all Your waies Your royall Queen and all Your Royall progeny Thus prayeth Your Majesties most loyall devored subject and most faithfully obliged servant GR. OSSORY TO THE READER CHristian Reader being here at Dublin attending the affaires of the Kingdome and seeing the manifold miseries and almost insupportable calamities of us the poore Protestants of this Kingdome and the not much lesse misfortuns that are fallen or falling upon the Rebels and perhaps upon many innocents of the Popish Natives I much deplored this most lamentable estate and sad face of things and weighing with my selfe the causes of these distresses which I find to be the Rebellion of some proud some simple and some discontented Peeres and Gentlemen fomented by those Jesuiticall and parasiticall trencher-Priests the Seminaries of all wickednesse that are amongst our people as thicke as the Anti-Episcopall and Anabaptisticall non conformist of England or Caterpillers in the Land of Egipt I lighted upon some few notes that about 25. yeares agone I had collected upon the Rebellion of Corah which I see now and never till now risen and revived out of the pit wherein those grand Rebels were swallowed and having some leisure I thought good though I had not my bookes about me which perhaps may shew me the lesse exact in some quotations to reduce them into some order and among them I have transferred not in a little out of D. O. his Anti-Paraeus yet with such explanations abreviations and translocations of them as might best fit mine own method and matter I ayme at no body in thesi but onely as a Divine I set downe the truth in hipothesi if any man be aggrieved let him blame himselfe not me for in all this I speake the truth in Christ Jesus and lye not and as I have lived so I will dye in this truth and will daily expect that death if God should deliver my life in to the Rebels hands and not rather preserve me from their mercilesse cruelty And therefore my prayer shall ever be for all that our good God would blesse us and give us obedience while we live and patience whensoever we shall be brought to suffer death and so both in life and death I rest Thy faithfull and affectionate brother GR. OSSORY The Contents of the severall Chapters in this TREATISE CHAP. I. Sheweth who these Rebels were how much they were obliged to their Governours and yet how ungratefully they rebelled against them Page 1. CHAP. II. Sheweth against whom these men rebelled that God is the giver of our Governours the severall offices of Kings and Priests how they should assist each other and how the people laboureth to destroy them both Page 8 CHAP. III. Sheweth the assured testimonies of a good and lawfull Governour their qualifications our duties to them and wherein our obedience to them consisteth Page 14 CHAP. IV. Sheweth the objection of the Rebels to justifie their Rebellion the first part of it answered that neither our compulsion to Idolatry nor any other injury or tyranny should move us to rebell Page 19 CHAP. V. Sheweth by Scripture the doctrine of the Ckurch humaine reason and the welfare of the weale publique that we ought by no meanes to rebell A threefold power of every Tyrant Three kinds of tyrannies The doubtfull and dangerous events of Warre Why many men rebell Jehu's example not to be followed Page 29 CHAP. VI. Sheweth that neither private men nor the subordinate Magistrates nor the greatest Peeres of the Kingdom may take armes and make Warre against their King Buchanans mistake discovered and the Anti-Cavalier confuted Page 39 CHAP. VII Sheweth the reasons and the examples that are alleaged to justifie Rebellion and a full answere to each of them God the immediate author of Monarchy inferiour Magistrates have no power but what is derived from the superiour and the ill successe of all rebellious resisting of our Kings Page 51 CHAP. VIII Sheweth that our Parliament hath no power to make Warre against our King Two maine Objections answered The originall of Parliaments The power of the King to call a Parliament to deny what he will and to dissolve it when he will Why our King suffereth Page 62 CHAP. IX Sheweth the unanimous consent and testimonies of many famous learned men and Martyrs

the King when with all their might and maine they strive to take away his power to pull the sword out of his hand and to throw his Crowne down to the dust which is so strange a kinde of equivocation as might well move men with Pilate to aske what is truth which we can never understand if any of these things can be true which as one saith most truely is one of the absurdest gulleries that ever was put upon any Nation The tale of an Anabaptist much like that Anabaptist which I knew that beat his wife almost to death and said he beat not her but that evill spirit that was in her Therefore the Lord hateth this abhominable sinne because it is unpossible the people should be so soon drawn into rebellion if they did not credit these defamations But the wise man tells us that Stultus credit omni verbo therefore no wise man will beleeve those false and wicked slanders that such malicius Rebels doe spread abroad against their King Prince or Priest or any other Governour of Gods people 8. After they had thus slandered these good men they fell to open rayling against them 8 Rayling as you may see Numb 16.13 14. for now they had eaten shame and drunke after it and therefore they cared not what they sayd and so now we finde how the Rebels deale with our King and with our Bishops too with our Moses and with our Aaron for here in Ireland they rebell against their Soveraigne because he is no Papist and will not countenance the Papists as they desire And in England they rayle at him and rebell against him because they say hee is a Papist and doth connive at Popery and hath a designe to bring in Popery into the Kingdome which is as slat a lye as the father of lyes hath ever invented So the Bishops here are driven out of all as my selfe am expelled aedibus sedibus and left destitute of all reliefe because we are no Papists but doe both preach add write against their errors as much as any and more learnedly then many others And in England we are persecuted and driven to flie from place to place or to take our place in a hard prison as my selfe have beene often forced to flie and to wander in the cold and dark long nights because we are Papists and so Popishly given good God what shall we doe whither shall we goe or what shall we say for Nusquam tutae fides nec hospes ab hospite tutus We cannot confide in the confiders to whom we are become malignant enemies for speaking truth noither dare we trust in the followers of the publique faith nor in the professors of the Catholique faith whereof men maliciously rejecting their godly Bishops rebelliously fighting against their lawfull King and wortally wounding their owne soules have made a shipwracke But If they called the Master of the house Beelzebub if they said he was a glutton and a drunkard what wonder if they say these things of us and if Christ the King of Kings was crucified betwixt two Theeves what marvell if this servant of Christ our King be thus pressed opposed and abused betwixt two rebellious factions and when we see our Saviour and our King thus handled it is lesse strange to finde the Bishops and the Priests persecuted and crucified betwixt two hereticall and tyrannicall parties Well Jerusalem Jerusalem that killest the Prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee take heed lest the King of peace shall say unto thee Verily thou shalt see me no more till thou sayest Blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord. 9. When they were growne thus impudent 9. Disobedience from bad to worse both over shooes and over bootes then disobedience must needs follow and therefore now putting on their brazen foreheads they tell Moses plainly We will not come to thee wee will doe nothing that thou willest but will crosse thee in all that thou intendest this is our most peremtory resolution And so we see that Nemo repente fit pessimus but the wicked grow worse and worse first you must lend then you must give if not we will take or if you deny your goods we will have your bodies so at first what soever we doe it is for the King and because this is so palpable a mockery that as every man knoweth that they fight against the Earle of Essex and his Army doe warre against the Parliament so they that fight against the Kings Army do as certainly warre against the King then we grow so impudent as to justifie any rebellion against our King as in England Goodwin and that seditious Pamphleter in opening the glorious name of the Lord of Host doe but a little lesse for which application of Gods glorious name and abusing the holy Scriptures to such abominable transgression of Gods holy Precepts to instigate the subjects to warre against their Soveraigne and to involue a whole Kingdome into a detestable distraction I doe much admire that they are not apprehended and transferred to the Kings Bench Barre to be there arraigned and condemned to be punished according to their deserts 10. 10. Rebellion See the place Joshua 1.16 17 18. When these Rebels had proceeded thus farre then contrary to the loyall obedience which they owed unto their Prince and which the people promise unto Joshua They ascended to the height of odious rebellion which may not unfitly be called Monstrum borendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum and is as Thucydides saith all kinde of evill Et qui facit pecatum non facit sed ipse totus est peccatum and therefore Samuel saith that Rebellion is as the sinne of Witchcraft when men doe confederate to give their soules unto the Devell for now these Rebells are ready to take armes against Moses and they had reduced all civill order to confused paritie deposed and destroyed their Governours if the Governour of all the world by whom Kings doe reigne and who hath promised to defend them had not prevented the same from Heaven And the reason why they did all this The reason of their rebellion and proceeded thus far against Moses and Aaron is intimated in the words of my Text AEmulati sunt because they would emulate or imulate Moses that is to play the Moses or play the Kings and play the part of the chiefe Priest themselves for this is certaine that none will envy murmure at slander and disobey his King so farre as to make any open rebellion against him but they that in some sort would rule and be Kings themselves especially when they shall seeke so farre to debilitate their Prince as that hee shall be no wayes able to make resistance for they thinke if Treason prosper 't is no Treason what 's the reason if it prosper who dares call it Treason and none would disobey their Bishops or chiefe Priests but they that would and cannot be Bishops

maintaine the Liberty of his Subjects the just Priviledges of Parliaments and the true established Religion in the Kingdome of England and likewise to rule over us according to our Lawes in this Realme of Ireland And we have least reason to rebell and take armes against him and therfore let us not be perswaded by any meanes by any man to doe it because God will preserve his annointed and will as you see plague the Rebels but let us pray for our King and praise God night and day that he which might have given us a bramble not onely to teare our flesh but also to set us all on fire hath given us such a Cedar such a gracious and a pious King and if either forreigne foes or domestique Rebels doe presse him so that he hath need of us let us adde our helpe and hazard our lives to defend and protect Him that protecteth us and suffereth all for the protection of Gods service as it was established in the purest time of Reformation and for the preservation of our Lawes from any corrupt interpretation or arbitrary invasion upon them by those factious men that under faire yet false pretences have with wondrous subtilty and with most subtile hypocrisie seduced so many simple men to pertake with them not onely to overthrow the true Religion to imbase the Church of Christ that hitherto hath continued glorious in this Nation and by trampling the most learned under feet to reduce Popery into this Kingdome and to bring in Atheisme or Barbarisme into our Pulpits when they make their Coach-men and Tradesmen like Jeroboams Priests the basest of the people to become their trencher Chaplaines and the teachers of those poore sheep for whom the Son of God hath shed his precious bloud but also to change the well-setled government and to subvert the whole fabricke of this famous Common-wealth either by their tyranny or bringing all into an Anarchie for if we have any regard of any of these things either true Religion or ancient Government a gracious King and a learned Clergy a glorious Church and a flourishing Kingdome we ought not to spare our goods or be niggards in our contributions to helpe his Majestie yea as Debora saith To helpe the Lord against the mighty Or if we be cold and carelesse herein pinurious and tenacious of our worldly pelfe preferring our gold before our God or fearing gracelesse Rebels more then we love our gracious King It may fall out as Saint Augustine saith Quod non capit Christus vapit fiscus or as it did with the Carthaginians who because they would not assist Hanniball with some reasonable proportion of their estates they lost all unto the Romans and with the Constantinopolitans that for denying a little to Paleologus lost all unto the Turkes so we may be robbed and pillaged of all because we would not part with some and I had rather the King should have all I have then that the Rebels should have any part thereof Therefore I hope I shall perswade all good men to honour God with their riches and to assist His Majesty to the uttermost of their powers even to the hazard and to the losse both of liberty and life And doing this our God which is the King of Kings will blesse us and defend us from all evill and make us Kings and Priests to live with him for ever and ever through Jesus Christ our Lord To whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be all praise and glory and dominion from henceforth for evermore Amen Amen Hester 4.16 If I perish I perish Yet Esdras 4.41 The truth is great and will prevaile Iehovae liberatori FINIS O Eternall and Almighty God thou Lord of Hoasts that givest victory unto Kings and deliverest David thy Servant from the perill of the sword save and defend our King from all dangers strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies and be with us O Lord that are thy faithfull servants and for thy sake his Loyall Subjects to preserve us from the gathering together of the froward and from the insurrection of the wicked doers that are confederate against thee and against thine Anointed for Iesus Christ his sake in whom we have ever trusted through whom we shall never be confounded and to whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen

themselves because pride and ambition are the two sides of that bellowes which blowes up disobedienee and rebellion But they that are ill servants will prove worse masters they that will not learne how to obey can never tell how to rule and if Moses were as these Rebels suggested a Tyrant yet the Philosopher tels us we had better endure one Tyrant then as they were 250 Tyrants And the Humilie of the Church tels us that contrary to their hopes God never suffers the greatest treasons or rebellion for any long time to prosper Therefore when under loyall pretences we see nothing but studied mischiefes and most crafty endeavours to innovate our government or to imbroyle the Kingdome in a civill war that so they may fish in a troubled water let us never be so stupid as to secure them in these actions to produce our discredit for our simplicity and destruction for our disloyalty but rather let us leave them as Delinquents to the justice of our Lawes and the mercy of the King and this will be the rediest way to effect peace and happinesse to our Nation CHAP. XII Sheweth where the Rebels do hatch their Rebellion The heavy and just deserved punishments of Rebels The application and conclusion of the whole 4. WE are to consider Vbi facerunt 4. Part. Where they did all this where they did all this in castris non in templis that is in their owne houses not in the house of God for in Gods house we teach obedience to our Kings and beat downe rebellion in every Kingdome this is the Doctrine of the Church But in our houses in our cabines and corners in private conventicles they teach rebellion which is the Doctrine of those Schoolcs Our houses are our castles And these Schooles are called Castra Tents or Castles because indeed every mans house is his castle or his fort where he thinkes himselfe sure enough so did those rebels and they would not come out of them neither Moses the King could compell them nor Aaron the Priest could perswade them to come out of their castles and forsake their strong holds which their guilty consciences would not permit them to doe and so all other rebels will never be perswaded to forsake their places of strength untill God pulleth them as he did these Rebels out of their holes for were it not for these Castra the Citties and Castles that they possede they could not so like subtle Foxes runne out and in to nullisie the property and to captivate the liberty of the Kings faithfull subjects as they doe for though they doe all this under those faire pretences for the defence of the true religion the maintainance of our liberties and the property of our estates yet for our religion it is now amongst us as it was in the dayes of S. Basil Basilius de Spiritus Sancto c. ult 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every one is a Divine and then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. all the bounds of our fore-fathers are transgressed the foundation of doctrine and fortification of disciplin was rooted up and the innovators which never had any other imposition of hands but what they laid upon themselves have matter enough to set forward their sedition and for the other pretences I dare proclaime it to all the world that mine owne experience beleeveth the liberty of the subjects and the property of our goods and the true Procestant Religion could not possibly be more abused then it hath beene by them that came in the name and for the service of the Parliament and therefore I would to God that all the oppressions injustice and imprisonments that have beene made since the beginning of this Parliament were collected and recorded in a booke of remembrance that all the world might see and read the justice and equity of our Parliament and the iniquity oppression and rapine of them that to enrich themseves deprive us of our estates and liberties How the Paliament Rebels have inriched themselves in Ireland and that under the Parliaments name for I heare that as many have beene impoverished so many both of the Lords and Commons in this Kingdome of Ireland that before the Conjunction of these malevolent martiall Planets were very low at an ebbe and their names very deep in many Citizens books have now wiped off all scores paid all their debts and clad themselves in Silkes and Scarlet but with the extorted moneys and the plundered goods of the loyall subjects I hope it is not so in England Yet as Platina tels us Platinas story of the Guelphes and Gibilines that when the Guelphes and the Gibilines in the Citie of Papia were at civill discord and the Gibilines promised to one Fecinus Caius all the goods of the Guelphes if he assisted them to get the victory which he did and after he had subdued the Guelphes he seized upon the goods of both and when the Gibilines complained that he brake his Covenant to pillage their goods Catus answered that themselves were Gibilines but their goods were Guelphs and so belonged unto him So both in England and Ireland I see the Parliament Forces and the Kebels I hope contrary to the will of the Parliament make little difference betwixt Papist and Protestant the well affected and disaffected for they cannot judge of their affections but they can discerne their estates and that is the thing which they thirst after Haud ignota cano But you will say these are miseries unavoidable accidents common to all warre when neither side can excuse all their followers I answer Woe be to them therefore that were the first suggesters and procurers of this warre and cursed be they that are still the incendiaries and blow the coales for the continuance of these miserable distractions I am sure his Majesty was neither the cause nor doth he desire the prolonging thereof for the least moment but as his royall father was a most peaceable Prince so hath he shewed himselfe in all his life to follow him passibus aequis and to be a Prince of peace though as the God of peace is likewise a man of warre and the Lord of Hosts so this peaceable Prince when his patience is too much provoked can as you see change his pen for a sword and turne the mildenesse of a Lambe into the stoutnesse of a Lyon and you know what Solomon saith that The wrath of a King is the messenger of death especially when he is so justly moved to wrath And so much for the particulars of this Text. 2 Having fully seene the uglinesse of this sinne 2. The punishment of these rebels you may a little view the greatnesse of the punishment for Although I must confesse we should be slow to anger slow to wrath yet when the Magistrate is disobeyed the Minister despised and God himselfe disclaimed it makes our hearts to bleed and our spirits angry within us yea though the King were as gentle and as meek

as Moses the meekest man on earth and the Bishops as holy as Aaron the Saint of the Lord yet such disobedience and rebellion would anger Saints Tirinus in h. psal for so Tirinus saith Irritaverunt they angred Moses in their Tents and Aaron the Saint of the Lord Nay more then this they angred God himselfe so farre that fire was kindled in his wrath and it burned to the bottome of hell And as these rebels were Lords and Levites Clergy and Laity so God did proportion their punishments according to their sinnes for the Levites that were to kindle fire upon Gods Altar and should have beene more heavenly and those 250 men which userped the Office of the Priests He sent fire from heaven to devour them and the Nobility that were Lay Lords the Prophet tels you the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the Congregation of Abiram A most fearfull example of a just judgment for to have seene them de ad upon the earth as the Egiptians upon the shore had beene very lamentable but to see the earth opening and the graves devouring them quick was most lamertable and so strange that we never read of such revenge taken of Israel Basiil hom 9. never any better deserved and which is more S. Basil saith quod descenderunt in infernum damnatorum they fell into the very pit of the damned which dolefull judgement though they well deserved it yet I will leave that undetermined And if these rebels proceeding not so farre whatsover they intended to offer violence and to make an open war against Moses were so heavily plagued for the Embrio of their rebellion what tongue shall be able to expresse the detestation of that sinne and the deserts of those rebels that by their subtilty and cruelty would bring a greater persecution upon the Church then any that we read since the time of Christ and by a desperate disobedience to a most Gratious King would utterly overthrow a most flourishing State a rebellion and persecution the one against the King the other against the Church that in all respects can scarce be paralleled from the beginning of the world to this very day And therefore except they doe speedily repent with that measure of repentance as shall be in some sort proportionable to the measure of their transgression I feare God in justice will deale with them as he did with the Jewes 2. Chron. 36.17 deliver them into the hand of their Enemies that will have no compassion upon young man or maiden old man or him that stoopeth for age or rather as he did with Pharaoh King of Egypt deliver them up to a reprobate sense and harden their hearts that they cannot repent but in their folly and obstinacie still to fight against Heaven untill the God of heaven shall overthrow them with a most fearefull destruction the which I pray God they may foresee in time and repent that they may prevent it that God may be still mercifull unto us as he useth to be to those that love his Name And so much for the words of this Text. Now to Apply all in briefe if God shall say to any Nation The application of all I will send them a King in my wrath and give them Lawes not good let them take heed they say not we will take him away by our strength for we have read that hee hath authority to give us a King in his displeasure but you shall never read that we have authority to disobey him at our pleasure and to say Nolumus hunc regnare super nos or if any do let them know that he which set him up and setled him over them is able to protect him against them they that struggle against him do but strive against God and therefore they have no better remedie then to pray to God which hath the hearts of Kings in his hand that he would as the Psalmist saith Give the King his judgements and his righteousnesse unto the Kings Son that he would either guide his heart to right and direct his feete to the way of peace or as he hath sent him in his fury so hee would take him away in his mercy But for our selves of these Ilands we have a King and I speak it here in the sight of God and as I shall answer for what I say at the dreadfull judgement not to flatter him that heares mee not but to informe those of you that know him not so well as I that had the happinesse to live with my ever honoured Lord the Noble Earle of Pembroke and Montgomery 16. or 17. yeares in the Kings house and of them 6. or 7. yeares in the Kings service He is a most just pious and gracious King and I beleeve the best Protestant King that ever England or Ireland saw neither Popishly affected nor Scismatically led to disaffect but most constantly resolved to be a true Defender of that true Protestant Faith which is established by Law in the Church of England and he is such a King of so unblameable life so spotlesse in all his actions so clement and so meeke towards all men and so mercifull towards his very enemies that the mouth of Envie cannot truly tax him nor malice it selfe disprove him in any thing Yet wee know that as Moses the meekest among men and David the best of Kings were sore afflicted slandered and persecuted not a little by many of their owne obliged subjects yea and the best Kings have had the greatest troubles so this good King hath had for his tryall a great part of the like usage I know not by whom neither do I indend here to accuse others but to instruct you and by what I shewed out of this text to teach you above all to take heed of disobedience and Rebellion towards your King and to let you understand that what priviledges in the New Test are acknowledged to be due to Heathen Princes and what prerogatives the spirit of God hath in the Old Testament warranted unto the Jewish Kings and what the universall Law of Nature hath established upon all the supreme Governours do all of them appertaine by unquestionable right unto his most sacred Majesty and yet his Majesty out of His incomparable goodnesse insisteth not to challenge all these but vouchsafeth to accept of these rights and prerogatives which are undoubtedly afforded him by the Lawes of His own Lands and these come far short scarce the moity of the other because we know if our Historians have not deceived mee how many of them were obtained by little better then by force and violence compelling Kings to consent unto them whereas Lawes should be of a freer nature And therefore of all the Nations round about us besides that God hath intrusted Him with us all wee have most reason to entrust him and to give credit unto His Majesties many protestations too high to be forgotten by him or misdoubted by us for His resolution to