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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14936	A pithie exhortation to her Maiestie for establishing her successor to the crowne Whereunto is added a discourse containing the authors opinion of the true and lavvfull successor to her Maiestie. Both compiled by Peter Wentworth Esquire.	Wentworth, Peter, ca. 1530-1596.	1598 (1598)	STC 25245; ESTC S119716	85,250	228

protest before the Almightythe searcher of al harts that true and heartie loue first towards God and his true Religion secondlie a loyall and dutifull affection towardes your highnes person preseruation lastly a minde by all lawfull meanes vnfainedly wishing the good peace prosperity of this our natiue country of England and no other respectes whatsoeuer haue moved and stirred vs vp first to deuise and write and nowe to offer and deliuer vnto your Maiestie this short discourse following Whereby though it might be feared we shall incurre your graces displeasure are not ignorant that the anger of a Prince is as the roaring of a Lyon and euen the messenger of death because it is so said in the Scripture yet notwithstanding the former respects haue so preuailed with vs that wee durst not but aduenture thus far forthough the matter which herein wee labour to perswade you vnto be such that by great likely-hood it wil at the first prouoke you to wrath and kindle your displeasure towards vs yet wee nothing doubt but that we shall make it appeare to bee a thing moste necessarie profitable and honorable for your highnesse The knowledge of the second person necessarie before God and man to yeeld vnto both before God and man and the most safe meane for your Maiesties present preseruation also We therefore presume and therewith wee haue encouraged ourselues that such is your graces wisdome and gratious disposition that in the end this our enterprise both will be well taken and fauorablie construed For our consciences beares vs witnesse before God that we aime at nothing else herein but his glory your safety The writers purpose most allowable the good of the Church and profite of this noble Realm according to which our meaning we humblie craue that all that we haue written may be expounded For as loath are we needlesly and wilfullie to offend your Maiestie as any poore subiects you haue But yet you knowe such is or ought to be the faithfull loue of euerie true hearted Christian subiect towards his soueraigne that feare to offend A true subiect regarde●● the saiftie of his Prince more then the feare of his vn●ust cause him may not stay vs from performing of a necessarie profitable and honorable seruice vnto God our Prince countrie Wee beeing therefore perswaded and fullie resolued that euen such is this present now tendred seruice of ours we hope we shall not be blamed of you Meere regard of consci●nce to God glorie and the good of the Prince hath e●●●●ced ●he Author ●o hi● d●●course sithence a desire to shewe our selues true louing and faithfull subiectes to God and to your Maiestie hath ouerweighed with vs all humaine feare Wherfore we in the behalfe of all your true and faithfull subiects do lye euen prostrate before your Graces feete most humblie and heartilie beseeching your Maiestie to peruse these fewe leaues following and as the matter therin handled is waightie so to consider accordingly what we your faithfull and loyall subiects haue therein vttered vnto you In perusing whereof this we woulde wishe to be still in your Maiesties minde that if we a fewe of the insufficientest of many thousands of your subiects haue saide thus much that then very much more it is that can and may be saide to this end The Lord of heauen earth who hath the harts of al Princes in his hand to rule them as it pleaseth him so direct in his fauour your Royall heart herein that you may reade willinglie marke attentiuelie and performe spedilie and effectuallie the wholsome counsell ministred therein vnto you THe thinge most Gratious Soveraigne which wee and all true English hearts haue long wished which now wee would most gladlie perswade The aime and drift of this book and the method thereof your highnes vnto is this That it would please your Grace with all convenient speede in Parliament to cause all titles and claimes to the Crowne of England after your Maiesties decease throughlie to be tried examined And then forthwith by sufficient authoritie thereof to declare and make knowne to your subiects in whom the right to succeede you resteth Concerning which point as this discourse is like to want all kinde of eloquence so also it will want all order and methode First we will set downe the reasons and arguments which as we conceiue ought to moue your Highnes to yeelde heerevnto which done wee will confute all the obiections of anie force which wee can imagine haue beene or can be made to staye you from yeelding herevnto First we presume that you will easilie yeelde that it is your duetie to doe that The first argument Princes ought to obey God which God by his written word hath enioyned all Christian Princes to doe and that therein the setling of the Imperiall Crowne is enioyned to all such Princes as a most necessarie dutie plentifully and diuerslie it appeareth For first therin it is an vsuall thinge with the holy Ghost to cal you Princes Gods nursing Fathers Psal 82. Esay 46. 23. and nursing mothers vnto his Church What Princes are to learne in that they are called Gods and nurses by the holy Ghost Which names and titles as they proue the honorablenesse and lawfulnesse of your high callings against all Anabaptisticall spirites so they are giuen you to teache you your duties and what you ought to bee towardes the people committed vnto your charge Namely that your dutie towards them is to be as gods and naturall fathers and mothers for the resemblance that is betwixt the office of God towards man his creature and parents towardes their Children is the ground certaine cause why these high names are communicated and giuen vnto you by the spirit of God Now who is so simple but he knoweth and wil confesse that God not onlie careth and prouideth for his people for the present time or some certaine season onlie but also for al times seasons And it is most euident that nature hath taught parents to think that they do not their duties vnlesse they prouyde not onlie what they may for the good of their children whylest they them-selues liue but also for their wealth and prosperity to the vttermoste of their powers after their death Wherefore if your Maiestie would bee iustlie honoured with these high and regarde-full titles and haue right indeed vnto them then you see that it is not enough for the tyme present while you your self liue to prouide for the safetie and welfare of your subiectes what you may but also that you are bound to doe what lyeth in you for their peace safetie wealth and prosperitie after you bee gone And how can this be by anie meanes The conclusion of the first argument ioyned with an exhortation more conueniently then by yeelding to this motion yea if this be not yeelded vnto you beeing of that rare wisdom fore-sight that you are you