all But at Her Royall feet on 's knees to fall Present His wrongs and humbly crave redresse Resolved yet by force the Queen to presse And thus His Gracious Mistresse would compell To do what He thought Good This was not well Behoâ—d the Fault his Honour did commit And Law adjudged Him to death for it My Noble Lord on this but think a while And let your Judgement not your self beguile Can Subjects seek their Prince to over-awe And not offend Divine and Humane Law All Subjects know the Kings Supremacie He must command and not commanded be No Subjects Laws can make Kings to command And if by Force such thing they take in hand It is Rebellion All the Learned know All Laws of God and Man have stil'd it so Since Reign of Henry of that name the first This now Rebellion is of all the worst Worse luck my Lord that in this war of all You should become Rebellions Generall And lead an Army even in open sight Against so good a King as ours to fight But if your Lordship say in this I lie I would I did your Honour cleer'd thereby My Noble Lord our good King Charles you knowâ— His Royall Person in the field doth show So do Prince Charles and Princely Duke of York Both with the King by your rebellious work Are seen in Warre by force themselves defending The Subject fatall violence 'gainst them intending And though you see the Royall Standert pitcht Yet like a Mad-man or one that 's bewitcht You draw your Army forth all in Array You beat Your Drums and Colours do display And then your Horse your Foot most strongly guarding With Trumpets sound Rebellion still enlarging You beat th' Alarm and sound a Charge let flie Like raging Fiends 'gainst Soveraign Majesty Against His Person Crown and Dignity And Princes of His blest Posterity Gainst Laws and Statutes Humane and Divine To higher pitch can Prides Rebellion climbe To root out all What Barbarisme is this Thy self know Essex See thine own amisse When Subjects 'gainst their King such force do trie Who saith It is Rebellion doth not lie And in such work Rebellions Generall Must heare Truth in her stile Majâ—sticall In holy Iob my Lord the words are found And there Gods Spirit doth your sentence sound His head though reaching Heaven in mens account And though his Excellence doth clouds surmount Yet shall he perish even as his own doung Thus speaks the Spirit in the Scriptures tongue Then Moble Earl Be to thy self a friend This way cannot hold prosperous to the end But you will say You bear your Arms 'gainst those The Kings bad Counsellours our Countreys foes Them to remove and from our King expell Is that you seek and think it wondrous well Such course to take Your errour to refell Our Cronicle a story will you tell Earl Lancaster * without his Kings consent Did raise an Army for the same intent Which you pretend and bravely on did go Takes Gaveston that King and Countries foe Commands his death For which unlawfull fact When once arraign'd to justifie his act He for himself did plead your own pretence This lessen'd not the ill of his offence Because as you do now even so he did And doing so most justly lost his head A Prince he was and of the Royall Blood Five Earledoms then in his possession stood Yet He and all the Lords that with him sided The Law for them as for himself provided Then Noble Essex know they happy are Whom others fatall harms make to beware And let me once more work upon this heat Whil'st I the fellow-story do repeat Proud Lester * that Law-giver to his King At Evesham aske what did become of him His naked body on the ground did lie His Head struck off Face upward laid thereby His privy parts were from his body cut And they on either side his Nose were put A spectacle of shame and infamy In him was left to all Posterity As if that sight unto the world should tell Such Noses might like shamefull dangers smell The Waterman that he may forward row With safer speed looks strictly backward So If by your Lordship this be rightly done Your Noble self may future dangers shun But yet me thinks some neerer president May wâ—ll be made your Lordships document To shew your wayes 'gainst God himself are bent Whiâ—'st you 'gainst Gods Annointed are intent That God the Cause into his hand hath took And bids your Lordship on your self to look When he himself the blow did strike which then Did rowze your Honour from your warlike Denne 'T was when that you in Camp well form'd did lie Besieged by his Royall Majesty Whose Royall Person though your self beheld Yet scorning unto Him your self to yeeld You mann'd each Trench cast up with warlike skill Proceeding stoutly in Rebellion still Indeed my Lord you were encamp'd so strong As if your works to Pirrhus did belong Your Rampiers you so strongly up did raise Had it not been against your King your praise Might have advanc'd the Honouâ— of your name But being as it was therein your shame Appears and shews it was a shamefull thing When done against the Person of Your King You trusted to the strength of your defence Your Sconces Forts Mounts Bulworks and from thence Your Cannon Bullets and Case-shot let flie Against the Forces of His Majestie Indeed you were right strongly fortified And Roman-like with all things well supplied And well you might for all the Kingdoms wealth Y' had taken from the King by open stealth At Sea not yours but your Kings Ships did tend Upon your Army ready still to send Unto your Honour all things you should want When you in this your power your self did vaunt Behold the mighty work of God how he Did check your Greatnesse and did make you see Him make his Winds a constant gale to blow And keep from you provisions which you know You sorely wanted This you had in view But God would have you know 't was not for you The Ships that rode in sight could not enjoy One blast for them into the River Foy Nor up that stream convey supplies expected Our Gracious God had so your hopes rejected Your Honour then as one amazed stands To see your Camp and all your Armed Bands Left desolate your Souldiers hunger-sterved And nothing but despair for you reserved In this distresse Warres Counsell you do call And there resolve your Infantry should fall To some good Composition with the King And so their persons out of danger bring Though Rebels yet their blood to him was dear As by his mercy shewed did appear He but dis-arms them and doth give them leave To march away That none might them bereave Of what they had nor offer violence Unto their persons but might safely thence Unto their Rebell-Garrison repair A Convoy granted is which brings them there But first my Lord of you I needs must say That down the River
Papists meet They do most lovingly each other greet If such a course mongst us were wisely taken The Sword of Warre should be no longer shaken Against our Peace Our King should Papists find As Protestants in France to bear like mind Then Protestants and Papists surely would Our King and Kingdoms Peace alike uphold And those that did attempt this way to trie They did not deal therein unfaithfully Shall I for this a Papist judged be And one that would uphold Romes Popery 'Twixt Roman Church and Poperies rule therein I know not but a difference may be seen Romes Church had once no Vniversall Power But was in Faith and Truth a Church like our Romes being of a Church not quite distruct Rome still a true Church is though much corrupt From Rome as shee 's a Church we do not sever But where she is corrupt in that we leave her The Scripture hath to us this truth revealed We Babilon would heal she 'd not be healed Come out of her Corruptions then with haste Lest staying in them we her judgements taste Romes Church that was we must thereof allow We onely shunne those vile corruptions now Which are in Rome and do that Church deface We dare not for our Souls such stuffe embrace With Papists yet in outward things we may Hold such a Peace as doth not Truth gainsay This Truth Saint Paul doth by his Doctrine reach And so indeed doth his example preach To Jewes a Jew to Greeks a Grecian Paul Would shew himself becoming all to all That he might by his sacred Ministry Gain some to Christ And why then may not I In imitation of so holy a Saint My self with those of Roman stamp acquaint When Paul himself doth thus the Church advise Have Peace with all as much as in you lies This may be done Faith kept uprightly sound For we our Faith upon Gods word do ground The sacred certain grounds of our Salvation Our Church will hold without an alteration Those Fundamentals are and must be kept Romes newer Creed by us to Rome is left But to disturb the Peace of God and King For what is but a Circumstantiall thing A Ceremony we in sober sadnesse Do utterly abhorre such factious madnesse Who for such things themselves in Faction sute A Bride-well School may best with them dispute And still the better honest minds to stay And drive from them all jealous fears away Let no man fear in Christian world to see The Papall Monarchy advanc'd to be Free Kings and Princes now so wise are grown As under Christ they know to hold their own And not admit Romes Papall Jurisdiction Which to the world hath wrought such great affliction Shall it again a work of praise be counted To mount up him by whom themselves dismounted Have been so shamefully Kings will nor be The Stirrop-holders to Romes Papacy The Pope His Asse the Emperour shall be No more brought on the stage to make up three Romes Triple-Crowned Prince shall at no rate With what is theirs nor they with his estate Once meddle He his Oare shall never thrust Into anothers boat for that 's unjust And so will prove when Judgement once comes thither When He and Rome in flames shall burn together Christ's Church to have an Vniversall Head Besides himself must not be seen nor said Pope Gregory the Great shot not beside The mark who call'd it Antichristian pride Deer Protestants then let your hopes not quaile For of great power is truth and will prevaile All Protestants in truth who tightly are Let them the Peace of God and King preferre Gods Spirit which into all Truth doth lead In Scripture for the Churches Peace doth plead And doth beseech to mark with diligence The causers of all Schism and difference And to avoid them For indeed such are The causers raisers of Rebellious Warre I would to God each Brownist Seperatist Each Anabaptist and each Familist The brats of strife and workers of Division Whose Tenets Sound Divines have in Derision Were either banish't out of Englands ground Or here to punish them some course were found Laws ready made if executed well Have Force enough their Factions to refell These have a new Division made most strange Which hath in Subjects wrought a dangerous change The Person of the King they set a side And to the Laws His Royall Power divide A strange Division whereby Subjects may Rebell against their King yet Laws obey When as the Laws do in the King subsist His Royall Person gives to them their list If Laws be none of his whose are they then The Laws of Subjects given to other men Who as themselves are Subjects and no more This is a strain of wit not known before A Constable with power is heard to say I charge you in the Kings name to obey His Laws then in his Person do subsist And those who them His Person do resist His Crown and Dignity and every thing Which doth adorn the Person of a King These are the Sophisters whose slye dispute Enwrapt the Kingdom in a Mourning Suâ—e Had five of them at first been put away It had been happy for us at this day Westminster builded was a Monument Of Regall State and power Magnificent Westminster now a Monument hath built Which staines her Glory with Rebellions guilt That Cloud dispers't a Sunne will shine upon her And her restore unto her Ancient Honour The Kings and Countreys Peace from her shall flow And make them both in glory up to grow That man or woman is too much to blame Whose heart and mind doth not desire the same If Protestants would all in one agree That true Religion might upholden be And as dâ—er Children of our holy Mother The Church of Christ in England love each other And keep the truth of Faith with full consent Submitting to our Churches Government We then might Peace enjoy and every one Be both true Christian and good Subject known And let not Fools though they Divisions see Think that mongst us no Church of Christ can be The Spouse though black yet like the tents of Keder She comely is and on the mounts of Bether * Her glorious Husband Iesus Christ is found As Roe or Hart about that Hilly ground In Christ his Church offences will fall out But woe to those by whom they 'r brought about know Christ knows his own they him their Shep heard This Church of Christ no power can overthrow In England Christ hath his beloved choice And those are they who hearken to his voice And follow him unto their last of breath And hee 'l prâ—serve them both in life and death His Church as Tirzah doth appear in sight Most beautifull her glory shining bright And as an Army terrible is shee With Banners spread Her foes will fear to see The Majesty of Her well ordered form Which threatneth them with a most fearfull storm The Captain of Iehovahs Host doth lead The Battell on He for his
That they should dare a seeming shâ—w to make As if they did all for Religions sake When true Religion never yet durst take Up Arms against Gods annointed and forsake The word of truth Religions onely stay Which doth command all Subjects to obay Their King And rules he ill or well They must not dare against Him to Rebell When Heathen Kings the Christian world did sway For them the Christians did most humbly pray And low obedience to their Thrones did yeeld And herein they Religions Law fulfill'd Th' Apostate Iulian had his Armies He Of Christians there might many thousands see Of force sufficient him to have depos'd Obedience yet their Christian hearts inclos'd To datelesse shame he makes himself a debter Rebelling 'gainst a Christian King none better But Christians now unto Religions shame Rebellion shrowd under Religions Name And do by this their foule and vile transgression Most fouly wrong the Protestants profession Shall Protestants such as be of thy Faction Gainst holy truth maintain each Popish Action Hast thou a Bull sent from the Roman Sea That makes thee bold to plead Rebellions plea Is this the way to keep out Popery Accurs'd is all your foule Hypocrisy A door most wide to let Romes Popery in Is opened by thy Hands The more 's thy sinne Both Church and Common-wealth to over-throw No other fruit forth from thy Root can grow Thy factious Teachers in thy mind have bred That error which hath thee so much mis-led Yes without doubt for of them there 's a swarm Whose stinging doth both King and Kingdom harm A faithfull Minister as Christ should Preach And not repugn what Christ himself doth teach Give unto God that which is Gods do this And unto Cesar give what Cesar's is Christ King of Kings in him 't is Gods Command Who are they then that dare against him stand Whos'ever shall against his mandates speak With Rod of Iron he 'l them in peeces break To give to God what 's Gods they vainly trie Who what is Cesar's Cesar doth deny For God and for my King good Subjects say And so indeed good Subject should obay And with this truth our Humane laws comply Gainst God our King his Crown and Dignity Offenders sinne Enditements fram'd are so The Guilty found from Barre to Gallows go And whether then think you should they be sent Who with full purpose of their wills intent Rob God himself when they his Churches spoile And 'gainst their King keep a Rebellious coyle In Robbing him of all his proper own By Sea and Land Ships Castles Towns all known Unto his Crown most justly to belong Offenders when endited for such wrong Must they not needs thereof be guilty found In this leâ— Law the following sentence sound The Danger such what is 't that hope doth bring But onely this the mercy of their King Our King so good and mercifull to see Shall he without all mercy used be By Subjects â—Tis a work so mercilesse No Tongue nor penne can to the full expresse And use Religions name for their excuse No heathen story can the like produce Now sure that man doth make his shot the worse Which makes Religion but his stalking Horse Earl Manchester wilt thou a gunning go Among those gunners workers of our woe What folly nay what fury makes thee then To rank thy self among the worst of men Whose foul dishonour Trump of Fame hath whirld With shames report even round about the world Although some Lords their lost Estates when viewing Will raise themselves upon their Countreys ruine 'T is not thy cause an Earls Estate thou hast And never did'st thy substance vainly waste By any loose or riotous expence No no thy breeding baâ—â—es thee that offence Yet now thou do'st a fouler sinne commit And do'st thy God thy King and self forget When impiously thou fully do'st intend In this bad Warre thy whole Estate to spend Didst thou but spend on wanton vanity Thou then should'st be but thine own Enemy But spending it upon Rebellions part To King and Countrey Enemy thou art But see thy self consult with thy own mind Who will not see then such there 's none more blind Search the Records and truth of History And learn to know and that for certainty What shew so'ere may varnish thy intent Thy actions are with high Rebellion bent Against thy King and thou shalt find them then To be against the Laws of God and Men If so thou do thy judgement then advance And be not led by impure Puritants Now though I know they Calvin do alledge And on their part his reputation pledge I will make bold in that which I have read To shew his words to no such sense will lead His Institutions Fourth Book neer the end Last Section saving one his words are penn'd Whose entrance Orthodox divinely sings The Soveraign power of annointed Kings His Song in Magistracies name he sets And willingly the name of Kings forgets Democracy 'gainst Monarchy doth stand Geneva so mis-led their Calvins hand As man might Calvin into error fall The Proverb is wise Bernard sees not all And Calvin to himself hath got this gain His vertues pride and Avarice did stain But when to change his note he doth begin A peradventure brings his matter in And of the power of three estates he speaks And thereby all the Laws divine he breaks For this I 'me sure he can no warrant bring That Subjects may bear Arms against their King For any cause what 's ever they pretend As private ones may not therein offend So no Authority of Subjects must Or can allowed be their King to thrust From lawfull Rights belonging to his Crown Kings do not grant a power to throw down Themselves nor raise they any Court so high Themselves of Kings to make no Kings thereby The power of Kings though Calvin's fourth Book speaketh i th' former part yet in the last he breaketh What he before with weighty reasons taught And they who have by him occasion â—ought To make his words with force and power be bent Gainst present state of Englands Government To King and State they proudly offer wrong A question then may stay their clamorous tongue Where is the King that rules by Tyranny That down doth trample his poor Comminalty Our good King Charles his Commons to content Hath given them a Trienniall Parliament A Royall favour never given before Should we not therefore love our King the more And those last Acts made with our Kings consent Are powerfull Objections to prevent And shew his Subjects that in Royall love He would from them all grievances remove The Commons and those trusted by them then May find just cause to rest contented men And Calvins words not spoken to his praise Can give no cause Commotions up to raise To make such Laws our King is well content As may consist with Monarchs Government And now my Lord our noble mind to move With fervency desired Peace to love Your Honour may