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

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

Lord wil now graunt to his swelling pride such a time of downe-fall that as swiftly he shall fal away as euer he mounted vp He pretendeth the Catholike faith to be the ground of all his warres but that is nothing but as the Italians speake Coprire con legiadro mantello iniquissimi dissegni with a fayre cloake to couer most filthy pretences Did the Earles of Eghmont and Horne finde any fauour in the Low countries for that they were Romish Catholikes Were they not put to death bearing crosses in their hands and shriuen of the Priest Haue the Portingales now any fauour for that they professe the same fayth with the King No truly they are made the miserablest slaues in al the whole world If the poorer sorte of them bee taken captiues abroad he wil not giue a half-penie for their ransome He will part with great summes for a Spaniard but with nothing at all for a Portingale As for the Nobler and richer sorte hee suffereth them to bee murdered and spoyled at home Hee is content to be king of them and to receiue the kingly reuenewes but he will in no case haue any kingly care of them He suffereth the Spaniards to come daylie amongst them to abuse their wiues and daughters that their children may be doubtfull and indeede doth seeke nothing else but to bring the same vpon them which hee hath brought vpon Naples and the Indies and other places where he hath set in foote that is vtterly to dispeople them to murder and make hauock both of Nobles and Commons and vtterly to make an ende of them that they shuld be no more a people vpon earth They pretend Religion till they can preuaile but as soone as they come to beare rule all their doings declare what was the marke that they chiefly aymed at I know the miscreants of the Popish crew doe terme the gouernmēt of our most gracious Soueraigne to be bloodie cruel for that sundry as they say Catholikes haue bin at seuerall times put to death since the continuance of her Maiesties raigne But there is none vnlesse he bee wilfully blind but must needs confesse that their absoluing of her Maiesties subiects from all loyalty and alleageance their practising of secret conspiracies against the whole Realm their withdrawing of the obediēce of the people frō their Prince whom God blood and the law hath set ouer thē to giue it to a forraine prelate a Priest of Rome were such dangerous treasons as might in no wise be spared And yet of the authors and procurers of such haynous trecheries to some her Grace hath giuen their lands to remaine to their posteritie to some also their liues when they haue deserued a thousand deaths with such mercy clemencie as was neuer heard of in Prince before Her lenitie in gouernement hath not only bin milde but euen mildenesse it selfe the Lord grant that her dayes may bee as the dayes of heauen and the Lord giue grace to those her rebellious subiects once duely and to their bettering to consider the kinde and bountiful mercies of so louing and gracious a Soueraigne The enemie may mutter what he will of tyrannie cruelty to obscure this her mildenes in gouernement but the beames of her glory in this vertue doe shine so bright that no cloud of euil speeches can ouerwhelme or darken them As the fame of Queene Elizabeth for wisedom is spred as far as with it she is worthy to gouern that is ouer the whole earth as also for knowledge in all the languages of Christians and good literature she is and may be a mirror to all Princes or euer so likewise for mercie and clemencie she is and maugre the despight of all slaunderous speeches must be renowmed so long as the worlde shall continue But the Spanish Inquisition which is drunken with the blood of GODS Saints doth not proceede against rebels but against those that doe most chiefly abhorre and derest all rebellion and treason for the obedient and dutifull Christians whom they torment doe beleeue and professe that euery soule ought to be subiect to the higher powers euen euery soule be hee Prophet be he Patriarke be hee Apostle bee hee of what condition or vocation soeuer that they ought to be subiect to Kings and Princes and they desire nothing more then that their King might bee deliuered from rebels I meane those Cardinals and Abbots c. which detaine the King in slauerie and bondage for the popish Clergie in Spaine haue all and do all they are the King they are the Merchant The trauailes and paynes as many of their mariners vpon their owne coast confessed vnto me often be indeed of the sea-faring men but the goods and wealth of this and that Cardinal and this and that Bishop They haue gotten al into their owne hand they make what lawes seemeth good vnto themselues in a word they doe both with King and people what them list These most certainly are rebels most dangerous and if any duetiful subiect doe but open his mouth against these they by and by prepare for him most exquisite torments Besides their tyrannicall crueltie in seeking to oppresse and dispeople all nations about them whome our gracious Prince in al pitie and mercy doth fauourably relieue and succour It may be sayd of the Spaniard setting all countries about him on fire as the Spanish song goeth of Nero Mira Nero de Tarpeia A Roma como se ardia Gritos dan ninnos y vieios Y el de nada se dolia From Tarpeia Nero doth behold Rome hard by burnes Though cries be made of young and olde He nothing mournes By dismissing of late many English men francke and free he would seeme now to make shew of some fauour vnto England that he doth not beare that bloodie minde against vs as commonly is surmized But I hope wee shall trust him neuer the better Hee was a blacke diuel before and now he is as white as that diuell that doth turne himselfe into an Angel of light With honie is often times conueied deadly poyson and vnder the greenest hearb may lurke a hissing serpent His imbruing his handes in the blood of those that professe the same fayth with him doth sufficiently admonish vs what we are to looke for at his hands The butcherly kniues which they brought with thē when they came in good earnest to inuade England with this poesie grauen vpon them An absolution for the heretikes of England doe tell vs plainly that the mercy which they pretend nowe is but in iest or rather in deepe dissimulation and that if wee come vnder their blessing wee must looke for no other absolution but cutting of throates The cause why he so earnestly seeketh the conquest of our neighbours about vs is that thereby hee may the better worke his purpose vpon vs wee are to assist them in respect of themselues or else were we verie vniust for as sayth the Orator