vnder thys clause et cetera which wordes et cetera can not be referred to nothyng And therfore I playnly gather that to play the good plaine Papist to affirme the Popes hedshyp of the Church of England or to denie the Quéenes supremacie in her owne realme so farre as her maiestie by the law hath it and as it is incident to her croune is to play or rather in good earnest to be a hye traitor As for the maner of affirmation maliciously aduisedly and directly mencioned in the statut if it be affirmed by a man sober it wil easelie enough be iudged to be aduisedly and maliciously And I nothing doubt that the terme directly doth not restrayne to the same forme of syllables but at least to any plaine certaine or indicatiue proposition concluding or expressing the same effect But now how haue these good fellowes shewed their good affection in practise For sothe some the great ghostlie fathers whereof some yet liue et insidiantur saluti bonorum reipub and lie in waite for destruction of the state and of good subiectes refuse to acknowledge her Maiesties authoritie and that so doubtfully as it is not expressedly certaine how soeuer it be consequently euident whether they sticke at the matter of the supremacie or the very title of the crowne Other some are such as one of them euen openly in her Maiesties hiest court of Parliament made such mone that his counsell was not followed in Quene Maries time to hew vp the roote as all men plainly saw and vnderstood his greefe that the Quenes Maiestie was not in her sisters time dispatched And it is sayd that some other made graue motions for her disheritance Other because they can not get her highnesse to cesse to be their lawful quene them selues haue deuised to cesse to be her actuall subiectes Because they can not shift her Maiestie from her crowne they haue shifted them selues out of her highnesses dominions and are fled beyond the oseas Some being there send hether their heretical seditious and traitorous bookes yet licenced there against good president of Princes and against the example of her Maiesties honorable demeanour toward the same Princes which by them selues or their Officers rather ought to haue restrained such doinges then to leaue so shrewd occasion of taking harme them selues by the like In these bookes her right is impugned her faith is defamed her gouernement is discredited her honour is touched her Maiestie is many wayes violated and abated the Religion that her highnesse holdeth and publisheth is called schismaticall heretical deuellish and with as many ill fauored names as they can reherse being yet in such eloquence perfecte oratours the Preachers and professers of the religion that her highnesse setteth forth and professeth are termed worsse then Infidels her title of supremacie ouer all her subiectes is defaced for an vsurped and vndue name And yet forsothe they thinke this geare gayly colored and thereby conducted to haue safe passage among her subiectes if they can say not that the Queene is an heretike a schismatike worse then an Infidel not to be heard not to be obeyed not to be esteemed to haue in dede the holy places and offices whose title she beareth but pardie that al they be such that holde the same religion which the Quene doth not only hold but also aduise commaund procure to be holden They thinke it trimly handled if they do not say that the Quene chalengeth and vsurpeth a proude wrongfull and false title but onely that her Clergie haue fastened vpon her such a title which it is well knowen that with free conscience she vseth They thinke them selues cunning fellowes and their bookes well warranted in England if they do not call the Quene in plaine speache Tirant Infidel Arrian and such like when vndirectly they implie it and do applie to her cause the examples of pagane Arrian tirānous and wicked Kinges and Emperours Who seeth not this so grosse a mockerie offered to so wyse a Prince as if for good maners sake they would forbeare to say that Iohn is a foole and onely say that he that is in Ihons skinne is a foole God rid their skinnes of vntrue subiectes This is done like fine men all together as suttle and as false as our late Rebelles that rising in armour with actuall rebellion against her Maiestie and her gouernance would yet nedes proclaime that they were true and faithfull subiectes well disposed persons and had very good meanings Yet were those false traytours somewhat more curious of their honestie and truth than these good writers for those Rebelles yet reserued one sure starting hole to defend their fastnesse to the Quene because they haue not told vs what Quene they meant An other companie of good sure men at home receiue these goodly bookes sprede them abroade rede them in audiences and corners commend them defend them geue them great praises for learning and substantialnesse as matters vnanswerable they amplifie them they set them out much like to false seditious talebearers that during this late rebellion spred rumors in the quiet partes of the Realme what numbers of thousandes these rebelles were how armed how horsed what rank riders what mighty strong actiue and couragious fellowes what Giantes as if all the rest of England were but shepe what wonderous confederates what aydes by land by sea from Hierusalem and no man knoweth whence I thinke euen out of Purgatorie as the popish Festiual telleth of the dead felowes in the churchyard that rose with their spades shouelles other tooles that they vsed in their life to defend him that was impeached by theeues to say De profundis for their soules And all this was no more but to discourage the Queenes true subiectes and soldiers and to rayse vp in doutfull men inclined to papistrie a daring to ioyne themselues to such a supposed strong side and faction And yet these be not taken for seditious as they are the reason is because they are not yet hanged as they ought An other knot of such good companie be common rumorspreders of whom the publike fame is that there be or haue bene certaine notable and noted walkers in Paules and such places of resort so common that the very vsuall places of their being there are ordinarily knowen by the names of Papists corner and liers bench sauing that I heare say now of late many of them flocke more into the middle isle which is supposed to be done partly for better harkening and partly for more commodious publishing The suspition grudge talke goeth among the Quenes good subiectes how such fellowes be the coyners of newes In the beginning of the rebellion how lustie they were how their countenances their fléering their flinging paces their whisperinges shewed their hartes how they had newes of euerie encrease of euery going forward and of euerie auantageable doing of the Rebelles how they haue newes out of Fraunce and
blowen vp in Christendome that can not yet be quieted and all because the Pope hath instilled an opinion into his Papistes that Princes if he dispense with them are not bound to kéepe fayth and promise no not the word of a king wherby no peace can yet be assured Whereof yet riseth one good admonition to trust them no more and to be well ware of them and specially to thinke of this one particular that wicked persons which haue geuen occasion of dangerous rebellions against the Quéenes maiestie their chiefe and onely succour and refuge will neuer be witholden by any respecte from attempting or procuring to be attempted any most hie and hainous treason and mischiefes against our soueraigne Ladies safetie if auantageable opportunitie may serue them so long as such persons are infected with Papistrie and can thinke the Pope hable to pardon or rather willing to reward them yea so farre as they shall suppose them selues not onely to winne the kingdome of England therby but also the kingdome of heauen It is perilous to thinke what traitorous rage may do being armed with dronken superstition It is a sore thing to consider the impotentie of ambition specially when it is ioyned with the furie of reasonlesse loue The common experience is how dangerous those knottes of théeues be where there is a woman in the companie Thus is it plaine that for as much as the Pope claimeth such wrongfull vsurpation and tyrannie ouer kinges and realmes and sith Papistes holde that he saith true and claimeth but his right and can not erre in discerning it all such Papistes are traitors to all kinges and kingdomes As for the second conclusion which accuseth English Papistes of treason to the Quéenes maiestie it is sufficiently proued for that it is as a particular within a generall included in the former Yet for the speciall confirmation of it it hath certaine priuate and seuerall reasons It is well knowen how they sought her graces death in her sisters time what practises what fetches were vsed for it what examinations what searchinges were to finde color of her destruction yea if it be true which is credibly sayd how farre without color they proceded if God had not miraculously kept her to the preseruation of this Realme and the comfort of whole Christendome But to make some demonstration of their hatred to her maiestie by reason and after to descend to the examples and practises let vs examine the causes Whereas the Papistes holde that the Pope is head of Gods vniuersall Church and that such authoritie as the Quéene claimeth in England ouer ecclesiasticall persons and in ecclesiasticall causes as due to her highnesse in right of her crowne is not due to her but belonging to the Pope in so saying they must say that her maiestie claimeth an vniust tyrannicall power And whosoeuer shall so say though not in the same sillables is an vniust and an errant traitor and can not loue her that hath pulled downe him whom they call head of their Church Also where Papistes affirme the Chirch of Rome to be the true Catholicke Chirch of God and that as out of Noes Arke there was no safetie from drowning so out of the Romane Church there is no escape of damnation is there any hope that they so thinking can or do loue her highnesse that hath dismembred them from the body of that Chirch and plucked them out of that Cocklorelles boate Where Papistes holde the heresie of transubstantiation and the bread to be Christes naturall bodie the blasphemie of Popishe Masse to be an auailing sacrifice for quicke and dead the Popes pardons to be hable to deliuer them from hell and damnation is it likely that they loue her whom they thinke to depriue them of so great treasures Where the Papistes holde our whole forme of seruing of God which forme the Quéenes maiestie hath prescribed and deliuered to her subiectes to be schismaticall our lawes in spirituall thynges no lawes our sacramentes no sacramentes our Bishops no Bishops our Clergie no Clergie surely they thinke our Coronations no Coronations our Quéene no Quéene or at least they are sory she is so Where Papistes beleue a Purgatorie and that Masses Diriges and such other gainfull marchandise of the Popish Clergie be beneficiall for their frendes soules and their owne and do in the meane time imagine that theyr fathers grandsires grandames wiues and other frendes soules lie frying in vnexplicable tormentes and the Quéenes maiestie holdeth from them the onely meane to release them thinke you such persons grudge not at her excéedingly Where the Pope hath accursed the Quenes maiestie as an heretike and schismatike all those Papistes which suppose that the Pope hauing the disposition of Gods sentence and the thunderbolt of excommunication in his hand can not erre do also suppose that the Quenes highnesse our Quene Elizabeth I meane is not lawfull Quene of England for so must all Papistes hold that hold the Pope to say true for the Pope doth not so accept her And true it is that the refusall of the othe for the acknowledging her Maiesties supremacie ouer ecclesiasticall persones and in ecclesiasticall causes is for very good reasons to be suspected that for the most part it is but coloured with pretense of conscience for ecclesiasticall causes and to be thought that in very deede it dependeth chefely vpon this poynt that sith her Maiestie hath bene suspended excommunicated and declared out of the church by the Pope they thinke her Maiestie not lawfull Quene of England For the like example or preiudice haue the like Papistes geuen heretofore at many times and namely when Elizabeth Barton that hipocriticall harlot sometime called the holy mayde of Kent with whose false traitorous practises were fowly spotted and entangled More and Fisher the new Romishe Saintes published as a reuelation from God a traytorous article suggested vnto her by popishe Priestes and Monkes with whom she carnally and filthily liued that the Queenes Maiesties most noble father after a time by them limited was not King of England one houre in the sight of God The like interpretation did Papistes make of king Iohn And Papistes haue published that Gospellers whom they call heretikes ought not to haue any office among Gods people much lesse a kingdome And this poynt is well to be considered that they which take from the Quéenes maiestie the supremacie ouer ecclesiastical persones and causes do transferre the same iurisdiction to the Pope for they neuer yet bouch saued to geue it to any other ▪ and I am sure that after so many parables and examples of bées and beastes and other thynges they will not now haue any particular church hedlesse and destitute of a supreme gouernor either vniuersall like a monarch as they wold haue it or speciall vnder God of eche kingdome or dominion as Gods good disposition hath sorted it If then the Pope haue in theyr opinion any ecclesiasticall iurisdiction in
that be busiest to pull it downe I haue thought good therfore as a faythfull subiect staying my whole trust of well doing vpon the well continuing of thys blessed estate without other respect or rather prospect beyond it to disclose in briefe collection of the common brute of good and honest men that loue thys estate and be carefull for it so much as I haue noted or rather common experience euident truth hath opened concerning the dispositions of sundry dangerous thinges doinges and persons agaynst God the Quéenes highnesse the Realme and her most noble gouernment to the entent that vpon laying abrode of their faultes them selues may be reformed or her highnesse by warning so armed as they may be lesse dangerous that is to say more restrayned and dishabled and her maiesties true subiectes more strengthened and emboldened Surely all true Christians and all true Englishe subiectes ought to beleue and may wel know that these are true conclusions First that euery papist that is to say euery one that beleueth all the Popes doctrine to be true is an enimie traytor agaynst the maiestie and honor of God agaynst the crownes and dignities of all kinges and temporall princes and against the wealth and safetie of all ciuile kingdomes policies and common weales Item that euery such English Papist is a traytor to the Quéene of England and hateth her life wisheth the alteration of her gouernement and liueth in hope of an other world which euen by an ordinary byword it is sayd that them selues doo call theyr Golden day Item that euery such Englishe Papist is a speciall traytor to the realme of England and hath no regarde into what slauerie conquest subiection to foren tyrannie dishonor or other miserie it be throwen so that theyr false idolatrous and supersticious religion be restored with libertie to spoyle and murder without respect of dignitie age sexe learning reuerence honestie or nature Item that no clemencie gentlenesse benefites or louing dealing can winne a Papist while he continueth a Papist to loue her maiestie how much so euer he dissemble nor bring them to ascribe theyr safetie to any her benefites nor to any prayse of her owne goodnesse but either to theyr own dissimulation practise and falshed which some call cunning or to the holinesse of theyr cause for whom God forsoothe so prouideth as his anoynted ones may not possibly by any law or at least execution of law be touched where in deede if they continue still vnpunished it must be thought that God so purueyeth ▪ because the punishmentes of this world are not sufficient for them But yet in the meane time it serueth to make them vnexcusable by whose default so dangerous wolues remayne in the flocke Item that Papistrie hath this propertie of heresies contrarie to the nature of Gods truth that is to be throwen down with aduersitie and to florishe with indulgence and lenitie Item that as it is reason that the owner of a shepebiter mastife knowing his dogs qualitie should either hang vp his dog or paye for the shéepe that his dog worieth so those that haue notorious Shepebiters murderers of Gods flocke in theyr custodie and power must make theyr accompt either to hang vp or otherwise dispatch their curres or ells to answere to God for the bloud of his shéepe both such as they haue destroyed and such as they may destroy by any possibilitie hereafter Item that all aduises to great personages to persuade neutralitie or an enterteyning of contrary sides in religion with vncertaintie of countenance and fauor is the way to supplant assured safetie to make sure enimies and vnsure frendes to yle open to parasites traytors to be vnknowen to other and to be vnhable to discerne what other be to them Item that timorous policie is the worst policie that may be what soeuer the cause be good or bad and worst of all it is in best causes wherein as her maiestie hath neither want of constant magnanimitie nor cause of feare so is it méete that her enimies haue no stomake to contemne her nor by excesse of clemencie to misconstrue her goodnesse as lacke of daring Item that by the great nouelties and alterations of times that haue happened within our memorie there is risen a common policie among people to ioyne to strong and safe sides whereby they are aliened from the fearefull and therefore it is to be prouided that there be a boldnesse of safetie to serue the Quéene truely and zelously and an assurednesse of danger to her enemies Item by boldnesse and sharpe execution vpon enemies the frendes are encoraged and contrariwise if the dangerous traytor be not remoued the true subiect may be left in perill and thereby the rest of good subiectes disabled or at lest discouraged to venture so farr agayne and the fréedome of consultation in the meane time for preseruing the prince empeched Item that it is truely sayd Improbum hominem praestat non accusasse quam absoluere It is better not to meddle with a dangerous noughty man than to let him goe for what were it els than to set a house a fier and runne away by the light Item that occasions and fitte opportunities ouerslipped are not recouerable Item that many times it is as small an offense to geue a warrant to kill a true man as to pardon a murderer or traytor as a wise shepeherd will rather geue leaue to a hunter to kill the best lambe in hys flocke than to let goe a foxe or a wolfe Item that the liues of kinges and princes are the liues and soules of theyr kingdomes and common weales whereby they are to consider that in being prodigall of theyr owne safeties in excesse of clemencie to traitors or in securitie of exposing theyr persons to perils Largiuntur ex alieno they be liberall of that which is not theyr owne to geue Item that no traytor is more perilous than he that wresteth the law to rayse an vnderminer of the princes crowne to her danger Item that he is iustly to be suspected that shall practise with any vayne deuise of pacification or colored clemencie to rebator blunt the edge of the princes sworde or so to tye it in the scaberde that it may not be drawen for her defense as if such qualifiers hiders and clokers should séeke to abuse that most reuerend and holy signe of maiestie to no good ende or other end than God ordeined it Item that God can not well take it if he be lesse zelously serued than the diuell that there be lesse feruencie shewed by truly learned princes for auauncing of Gods honor against his enemies than hath ben by abused and deceiued princes for setting vp of the kingdome of the diuell and Antichrist Item that Gods commandementes of placabilitie and forgeuenesse extend to our owne enemies but not to his enemies against reuenge of priuate displeasures and not against seueritie sharpe execution in cases of Gods honor and common weales wherein is
and sufficiencie of hys word that haue coyned false heresies abated true doctrines so do publish and vtter them Also if corrupting and counterfaityng of Princes seales and geuing out or annexing his seales to false charters of theyr owne in the Princes name be hye treason are they not hye traitors to God that corrupt his seales his Sacramentes and set forth new priuate institutions of their owne as Masses and such bagages in stede of them I meane not onely the inuenters and forgers but also the receiuers publishers vtterers and cariers abrode of such abhominable vntruthes Also what greater offense agaynst Maiestie can be than to commaunde the Princes subiectes not to beleue the Princes word or writyng nor any thyng that shall passe by his authoritie without such offenders confirmation and allowance And that the Princes word and writyng suffiseth not to direct the subiectes dutie without such offenders explication and addicions And that such offenders may adde at their pleasure And that such addicions are to be holden equal with the Princes word And that the Princes word must euer be so taken as such offenders expound it none otherwise Then must the Papistes in theyr discredityng the word of God in their dishablyng it as not sufficyng to the instruction of our fayth for the saluation of our soules ▪ in theyr clayming false and vndue authoritie to theyr traditions and in their restrayning the word of God to their expositions though directly against the word against the spirite of God nedes be accompted hye traitors agaynst Gods maiestie Also the greatest honor and dignitie that God hath and chalengeth ielously to hym selfe among men is the redemption and iustification of man The Papistes which draw that from God to man from grace to workes as they are most haynous and blasphemous traitors to God in denying his frée graciousnesse therin so are they most arrant theues to Christian men in robbyng them of the benefite therof Also if to deny that the Prince ought to enioye the stile kyngly name and dignitie of the realme with al preeminences to they same belongyng be hye treason are the not hye traitors to God that take from God the name of our onely Iustifier and from Christ the title of our onely redemer and Aduocate and from the holy ghost the office and stile of our onely true and sufficient Instructer Also seing that to defile the kynges wife is hye treason wherby the succession of hys crowne may growe to dishonor and oncertaintie are not Papistes then hye traitors that haue made the church the spouse of God to commit so many fowle spirituall whoredomes with idolatries heresies and yeldyng her selfe to be abused of strangers So appeareth it euidently that if violatyng of maiestie if denyng the kyng to be the onely kyng and hed of hys owne realme if vsurpyng supreme gouernance without the kynges assignement if makyng and receiuyng lawes and proclamations in the kynges name without hys warrant if destroyeng and defacyng in contempt the kynges charters if leuyeng warre agaynst the kyng within the realme and murderyng hys subiectes if counterfaityng the kynges coyne or seales if annexyng hys seales to false writynges if abatyng hys coyne by clippyng or otherwise if vtterance of such forged or abated ware if discredityng the Princes word and authoritie and auauncyng their owne aboue it if denyeng the kinges right to hys kyngly office if takyng from him hys royal stile name dignitie if corruptyng hys wife with adulterie if any of these if all these together be hye treason Papistes are hye traitors to the maiestie of almightie God But these parhappes may be thought to be but allegoricall or figuratiue treasons so litle the matters of God do moue vs and in the eye and consideration of the law of the realme they are none other yet are they in very dede truely treasons offenses agaynst the hyest maiestie euen the same maiestie by whom kynges do reigne and are vpholden and the same maiestie for which kynges ought to be carefull if they will haue hym to prouide for theyr maiesties Yea they are the very sedes of ciuil temporall treasons For vndoutedly as no man breaketh out into actuall sinne agaynst men that hath not first yelded to an assent to offend God so no man procedeth so farre as to commit treason agaynst the Prince that hath not first conceiued a traiterous minde to rebel against God And as of ordinarie course and naturall necessitie it foloweth that full and strong sedes throwen in ground fit for them cherished with conuenient moisture and comfortable heate of norishyng sonne must rankly growe and bring forth herbes or wedes of theyr propre kynd so these traitorous sedes layed vp in fat soile of Papistes bosomes if they be watered with welth and indulgence and shyned vpon with the cherefull glimses of opportunities will surely bryng forth the frutes of theyr owne qualitie treasons agaynst princes And for this respect other offenses that haue in tymes past ben wrongfully supposed to be of this nature haue ben also punished by the lawes of the realme In ancient order of Letes and other courtes they haue ben enquired vpon before treasons done to the prince They haue had theyr seuerall formes of punishmentes yea in some cases they haue ben and in some places and causes they yet be exempted from the Princes power to pardon They haue bene termed by speciall names of heresies and blasphemies and theyr punishementes byside temporall peynes haue ben extended in opinion to the further reuenge of the eternall Maiestie whoes crowne and dignitie they haue ben thought to violate And surely if in discernyng which were heresies and blasphemies they had not erred if they had not mistaken and executed the true man for the traitor the generall care which was pretended to mainteyne truth and the church stode well with the dutie of Christian Princes as viceroyes and deputies iustly zelous for theyr superior or rather supreme Lord king of kynges and Lord of lordes the true monarch of whole vniuersalitie And though the same late new deceiued antiquitie swarued from true iudgement of the persons and causes I can not well sée howe that should be a warrant to disburden Princes of imitation of that zele when it is ones ioyned with right vnderstandyng no more than the wrongfull hangyng of a true man by mistakyng hym for a thefe or a murderer ought to be a discharge for the very thefe or murderer when he is afterward taken in dede And without doubt more holesome and profitable it were for these hereticall traitors agaynst God I meane the Papistes them selues to be in this lyfe by some sharper law and execution driuen to repentance than to be repried or reserued to arrainement before the last iudge whoes knowledge can not be deciued whoes iusties can not then be entreated whoes execution hath neither end nor measure and so a litle more hardnesse with them a while would
flowing in vntrue defacing the clergie of the realme their liues examples mariages doctrines some tell of the liberalities of times past some of the old mery world And all this is but to this end to driue into subiects a lothing of present gouernment a misliking of the state wherin our good prelates preachers are mainteined An other spitefull dangerous sort being placed or rather left in places of good countenance and credit either in Colleges houses of studie offices in the greatest houshold in Courtes in Cathedrall churches worshipfull roomes in the countrey and such like with the very shew of their countenance with their liking or disliking pulling forwarde or pressing down open preferring or secret pinching so handle the matter that many times it is more safe or at least more commodious and auantageable to be taken for a Papist than for a Christian For well you wot how men will smell men of their owne faction And sometyme by these meanes vnconstant Gospellers for necessitie or profites sake become yelders and dissemblers till at length by Gods grace forsaking them and by his iust plage ordinarilye lighting vpon yelders and halters they slide by degrées from hypocrites to playne apostataes which are in déede the most desperate kinde of Papistes And if this be not redressed in vaine the Preacher preacheth in vaine the Prince and Counsell setteth forth true doctrine For this they can say when the Preacher hath sayd he hath done but continuall execution carieth away the power credite and people Trow ye these be good meaning men to her Maiestie that so persecute vndermine the religion whereof her Maiestie is vnder God and by Gods prouision the great base and meane of stay in this Realme But aboue all other dothe it not plainly appeare what hartes papistes beare to her maiestie when papistes them selues and notorious open traitors and rebelles made their plaine accompt that to rebel against the Quene to practise the alteration of her gouernement the ouerthrow of her estate the displacing of her counsell the foysting in of a farre worse in her stead whosoeuer it be and the destruction of her persone is the very naturall humor affection and desire of papistes Consider the rebellious Earles loke vpon their companie and assistantes viewe them wel note their ensignes of woundes and crosses the inscriptions about them In hoc signo vinces in this signe thou shalt ouer come abusing the wordes of Constantine to encoragement of their false hipocrisie Note their procedinges their tearing and burning the booke of God their breaking the Communion table their prophaning of Churches with vile Idolatrie their erecting of abhominable Masse their chaplens leud and seditious sermons and chefely rede their first proclamation Find you not there in their proclamation where their trust was reposed forsothe in men of that sort which they call the old and Catholike religion to whome their proclamation was directed Finde you not there in their proclamation the summe of their complaint â–ª the cause and color of their rebellion forsothe that euell disposed persones about the Quéene haue ouercome the old and catholike religion within the realme Finde you not there in their proclamation the declaration of their intent purpose forsothe to restore old customes and liberties to the Churche of England If these be true pretenses then is papistrye being the ground thereof plainely flatly and truely treason If they be not true but false and vaine colors abused by these rebels to deceiue and drawe moe subiectes to take their partes then sée what foloweth then must it nedes consequently be euident that they them selues yet supposed knew papistrie to be the very likely and apt color and meane to allure men to rebellion and treason against the Quéene as the very kindely baite and as their naturall affection daily gaping for such opportunitie howsoeuer at this time inconuenience of season vnripenesse of matter vntowardnesse of aide vnredinesse of prouision unfitnesse of guides preuenting of counsels stay of their heds colors with other good meanes of gods merciful prouidence repressed their vnhappy courages which yet daily lâ—ke for new time circumstances of lesse encombrance But in the meane time as God gathereth his glory out of al things yea euen out of sinnes so let vs out of this great euell yet gather some good a good example and a good lesson to learne to know that papistrie is treason and he that is infected with treason is a traitor and so to prouide agaynst them thereafter Whense come I pray you the prophesies commonly talked of in the beginning of her most gratious and blessed reigne how many yeares and how many months her maiesty should continue Whense came the leude coniurers conference with the deuill how long the Quéenes highnesses gouernement and this religion should endure Commeth not this geare from traytorous affections of those well disposed persons Commeth it not from the same fountayne of treason from whense did flow the supplications which the late monster Gardiner penned and preferred in Quéene Maries time for restitution to the heyres of the northen rebelles that rose in her most noble fathers daies yea and adding the consideration of theyr restitution to be because they were in armour agaynst the king her father for defense of religion meaning Papistrie and for reuenge of iniuries and dishoners as they sayd done to her mother Commeth it not from the same affections that haue raysed the great and lamentable tumultes in the realme And trow you the same affection still lodgeth not with the same opinion I am halfe afrayd that out of this fountaine should also spring a few blinde demie prophecies enterlaced in prognostications as Nestradamus and others pretie bywordes and this that lately hath written Alas the Moone shall be called in the house of enemies and prison wherby is like to happen to vs specially to the common people much aduersitie c. and some other such toyes to fill the peoples heads with buzzes But let the best of such be construed Yet I would for frendshippe and learninges sake tell those authors if I were acquainted with them that such vanities might be spared and onely so much out of that art would be set out to the people as is commodious and fitte for them to sée and lawful standing with good discretion for the writers to publish Such a writer might happe to be a man so holden suspected of Papistrie as he mought so encrease the misdemyng agaynst his owne person shrewdly I speake nothing of the prognosticating toy of a mariage sent vp to be printed But let vs sée moe examples Remember I pray you Gardiners sermon at Paules crosse in Quéene Maries time vpon this text Hora est iam nos è somno surgere It is now time for vs to rise out of sléepe There he shewed how God dispenseth eche thing and eche successe in conuenience of times he declared what wayes had
and holesome foode We pray that we may once see euery title destroyed whatsoeuer it be either in ciuill respect or ecclesiasticall that hath or shall any way threaten her Maiesties danger that hath or shall any way clayme the crounerom frm her hed or her power out of her hand that hath or shall seke any dispossession of her estate and the inuasion of her land specially the titles and lewd hopes of Romish Popes that haue by notorius wickednesse excedyng the olde Romane Emperours shewed them selues vnmete to lyue among Christian people much lesse to gouerne them that haue by murrible and vnnaturall murders and hoactise of poysoning and other mischieues shewed that them selues and their Papistes are not to be wonne with kindenesse to be true to the Queene that could not be holden by nature from slaughter of tâ—eir own as by many euident histories appeareth yea where their treason may be rewarded with a kingdome yea with the kingdome of heauen those fained and wicked titles we say of Romish vsurpation that haue interrupted the blessed yeaâ—e which we haue so long enioyed that haue drawen into conspiracie alliance knottes of fauour those of whom her Maiestie hath well deserued that hath armed the rebell against lour most good swete soueraigne Ladies life croune and dignitie and put weapon in traytors handes to cut true subiectes throtes and vtterly to destroy the wealth safetie and honor of England We pray that we may see when those that shall wrest or procure to change law to erect the courage of any dangerous Viper to such endes or to any aspiring hope of preuenting and vndermining vnder whatsoeuer colour name preteÌ„ce or shew in proclamation or otherwise or to the safegard of their persones that haue so attempted may be declared and executed as enemies to this estate and to the Quenes safety We pray that we may se such laws prouided for her highnesses preseruation the same so executed without restraint or slacknesse for any respect as the hope of Papistes such as be enemies to God the Quéene and the realme may if they repent not be cut of for euer We pray to liue to sée that none may haue place office nor accesse into her Maiesties court nor houshold no nor once to her presence that shall not be well knowen to fauour both God and her so far as any circumspection and policie may prouide it We pray God that we may once sée the administration yea and studie of law and iustice wholly taken from those that shall not be knowen to fauour the law of God and to acknowledge her Maiesties right that is head of law and iustice in the realme We pray God that her Maiestie and her Counsell may haue such particular knowledge of men that her enemies may be weakened and her frendes strengthned al auantages vsed for her safetie all neutrall aduises suspected for surtle vnderminings We trust it wil be so for God hath not drawen these late mischiefes into light for nothing But afore all thinges we pray God to send vs true repentance more ioyfull receiuing of his Gospel and more vertuous ensuing it least as we lost our best king with liuing ill so we may lose our best Quene with liuing worse And that therewith it may please him to direct all the doinges of her Maiestie and Counsell to procéede in their good aduauncing his glorie and preseruation of the state which without ielous circumspection for preseruing the Queenes most royall person can not be done and that such good meanes and prouisions as God offereth to that end be not refused or neglected which were to tempt God to forsake his cause to betray our noble Prince and to geue away or rather cast away the realme These be the dayly and nightly prayers of good subiectes And while we busie our selues with these praiers we do after our principall confidence in Godes goodnesse rest our selues vpon the trust of her Maiestie and her most honorable Counsell for whom we prayse God and to them we referre the guiding of vs and ours ready to follow them when we are commaunded with the vttermost of our power and perill knowing how they spare not their vttermost endeuour and perill with susteyning the most vnpleasant life God wot that may be for our sakes for our quiet profite and defense Consider these thinges ye that haue bene and haue not yet ceased to be such Papistes remember how in that state ye be neither true Christian men nor true English men wherby if ye repent not you are not worthy to liue in the kingdome of England and you are sure not to come in the kingdome of Heauen Let euery good thing moue you to truth and to your prefitte Let euery euill thing fray you from treason from eternall vndoing Learne religion of God alone render your allegeance to your prince alone liue in bond of countrey with English men alone Acknowledge how God hath sent his truth to shine vpon you her maiestie hath poured all benefites of her good gouernaunce among you her true subiectes desire euery way both in soule and body to be comfortable to you Put of onely the cankerd affection or rather passion of inhumanitie Doo but once come home from those articles that can not stand with out treason to the prince and state bynde not your selues your soules and fayth to the authoritie of any mortall and sinfull man geue euer infinitly to God resort faythfully to him pray deuoutely to him to shew you his truth by his owne worde And so I dout not but hauing once forsaken foreine subiections and being once so farre vnpapisted that ye may come into the number of true subiectes for the rest God shall accord vs and shall reueale vnto you sinceritie of all truth in time and in such time as shall be the greatest comfort that euer you felt in your liues And so yet till other errors be purged by Gods grace working by the hearing of his word we shall al goe vnder the gentle yoke of our naturall soueraigne there let vs draw louingly together and then saye and sing merily God spede the ploughe of England Amen ¶ God saue our Queene Elizabeth and confound her enemies ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye dwelling ouer Aldersgate These Bookes are to be solde in Paules churchyarde at the signe of the Crane The Q. precious The Queenes good gouernement Resest solliciti plena timoris amor A figure of the Northren rebellion Sero medicina paratur cum mala per longas inualüere moras True couclusions Not all Papistes traitors Which Papistes be traitors Learned Papistes wilfull traytors Treason offence against maiestie Treason against God Kinges should haue care of Gods honour Papistrie sede of ciuile treason Heresies punished by temporall law Mercie to punish Papistes Papistes traitors to kinges and kingdomes Traitorous doctrines of Popes for kinges and kingdoms Traiterous doinges of Papistes against kinges and kingdomes Pope teacheth to keepe no fayth Ladie of North. English Papistes traitors to the Q. Traian Papistes take not the Q. for Queene Papistes refuse the othe because they beleue not the Q. title to the crowne In the statute of her atteâ—â—nder Papistes draw obedience from the Q. Papistes meritorious treason Refusers of the othe mete to be well examined Popish dispensations to dissemble Interrogatories for Papistes Papistes traitors by statute Practises of Papists against the Q. Storie Lonanists Seditious writers Spreders of seditious bookes Spreders of rumors Good chirch will it neuer be Clubbe Basto Ouerthwart Papistes â—op c. Papistes counterfaiting Gospellers 〈◊〉 of the Q. good doinges Railers vp on the clergie Papists in places of credit A gentle prouerbe Let 〈◊〉 haue their wordes Treason the natural humor of Papistrie Traitorous prophecies Prognostications Gardiners traitorous sermon He did not foresee the fall of Rose pens to nothing Accipe nunc 〈…〉 et crimine ab vno â—â—ce omnes Filii huius mundi English Papistes traitors to England Romish religion Rebelles confedered with strangers Prouing of 〈◊〉 Plures adorant solem orientem quam occidentem Mutantem regna Cometen Nouissimus error peior priore Haud recte temporibus diuisa sunt tibi ista Daue Popish clergie no good subiectes Harding Wolsey Traitours not true to theyr owne fellowes Monckes forswore theyr countrey and naturall dutie Therefore many Bishops wold not be consecrate till they were made Monkes Cruelties of Papistes Clemencie can not winne a Papist â–ª Periuri que arte Sinonis Vnum nôris omnes nôris Papistes obedience vntrue Papistrie encreaseth by lenitie Papistes dangerousâ—â— cherished No crueltie for simple opinions Old shepebiters perilous to be kept Matters of facte not knowen but 〈…〉 Onely Christians true to the Queene Romane tyrannies and cruelties Treasons of Papists Good couÌ„sell to Papistes