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A15700	An armoure of proufe very profitable, as well for princes, noble men; and gentlemen, as all other in authoritie, shewing the firme fortresse of defence, and hauen of rest in these troublesome times and perilous dayes. Made by Iohn VVoolton minister of the Gospell.	Woolton, John, 1535?-1594.	1576 (1576)	STC 25974; ESTC S106615	49,980	114

stoute Germayne the bolde Britayne the hautie Spaniarde the politike Frenchman neither subtile Egyptian with warlike weapons were euer able to vanquish in the plaine field could not auoyd in the Senate at Rome in tyme of peace the short daggers of such faithlesse friendes And that I may omit those common speeches that true faith and constant promises can not settle themselues about high estates The deuil himselfe when hee spyeth the weapons and wittes of wicked men blunt and dull in such eases as hee hath bin an insatiable murderer from the beginning so then doth bee practise all his olde policies and attempteth all meanes to cast downe the Magistrates and with them to ouerthrowe the whole multitude And that those things are moste true many woorthye wightes haue approued and confessed who studying to apply all their endeuours with commendation and good conscience to execute their callinges haue seene good meanings and deuises for the most part turned vpside downe These things caused Tiberius the Emperour often to call Regiment a monstrous beast Whē Pompeius Magnus was aduertised by letters sent vnto him from the Senate that all power and authoritie was conferred from Scylla vnto him by the generall consent of the people hee sorowfully smit him selfe vppon the breast saying thus Ah troubles and sorowes without end Had it not bi●better for mee to haue discended of obscure parentes than thus to bee wasted with publyke cares to bee vndermined with malice and Enuie and euer to bee a straunger not only in my owne house but to my deare and louing wife and children Of Pompey his iudgement haue byn many excellent men who being delited with the prinate and quiet life and wearied with weighty offices in the common wealth haue most willingly resigned and giuen vp their authoritie It is written of Diocletianus Augustus that of his own electiō he left his dignitie refused his Crowne willing to passe his latter dayes rather in some solitarie place in the coūtrey thā in a Palace in the eye as it were of a mightie Empire I am not ignoraunt what some Authors reporte of that facte of Diocletianus but howsoeuer it was it swarueth not from this purpose Dyon in the lyfe of Adrian maketh mention of one Similis who often vsed to saye that hee accompted that priuate condition of his which he lead in Campania to be his lyfe but these other dayes spent in Court be called death and not lyfe For so soundeth that Epitaphe which hee willed to bee ingraued vpon his Tombe Here lyeth Similis whose name was auntient but in deede he liued only seuen yeares The noble man made so small accompt of that his tyme spente in prease of mightie men himselfe the chiefe in all honour and dignitie Xenophon in that dialogue intituled Tyrannus seemeth of purpose to induce Hiero disputing with Socrates often repeting and confirming by his owne experience the priuate and meane estate of lyfe farre to excell the publique callyng of officers and the high condition of noble menne not only in tranquillitie of mynde and ease of bodie but oftentymes in competent and laudable wealth and riches All these wise men did well perceiue that to exploite weightie affayres and to guyde the common wealth is a matter of much moment enwrapped aboue all other kyndes of lyfe in infinite perilles and most desperate and daungerous troubles The Emperours of Rome haue well confirmed these things for of fourtie of them nexte succeeding Iulius Caesar scarce ten dyed naturally in their beddes And so much did men shunne that calling the end whereof by experience they often did see to be eyther the piersing swoorde or priuie poyson that by coaction or constraint they supplyed the office And in these our tymes beyng no doubte the laste and yron age of the worlde wherein all liuing thinges in strength and might doe decaye the firmament and earth growne olde and in force and power spent and as it were worne out what other thinges see wee than iniquitie according to the worde of Christ to abounde and especially disobedience in all degrees almoste to superabounde The late conspiracies tumultes and vprores in thys our natyue countrey and the harde harte of Adamante not possible to be mollifyed without bloude hath openly displayde a I cocenesse in discipline an obliuion of loyaltie a monstruous contempt of a moste mylde mothers meekenesse and mercy Sathan hath spitte out his poyson agaynst the prince and magistrates he hath discharged his great ordinance against the Castle of peace and concord The sedulitie and great care of the magistrate hath not wanted in watching and warding the same but vnlesse the lord of heauen and earth had kept this forte all the keepers had watched in vayne If he had not bin on our syde then as the Prophet sayth had we bin swallowed vp quicke Then had the swelling waters gone ouer-our soule and we lyke to them that goe-downe into the Pitte These things deepely weighed and oftentimes considered of the noble for they ought neuer to be forgotten admonisheth them not only to bee thankefull to God for so miraculous a deliuerance who hath not giuen them as a pray vnto their enimies teeth but moreouer teacheth them what protection defence they ought principally to prouide hereafter in sembable tumults and troubles The Heathen Magistrate would accompt his chiefe suertie and best defence to consist in store of money in great horses in valiant Souldiers in great and mightie armies The Christian Magistrate wil not refuse these externall helpes but principallye will acknowledge his defents to come from God therefore will not feare what man may doe vnto him The Heathen Magistrate would make flish his right hande and comforte The Christian Magistrate wil lift vp his eyes vnto the mountaynes make the Lorde his ayde and helpe and will seeke his consolation out of Gods worde The infallible and present consolation and the firme fortresse of christian Princes and Magistrates consisteth vpon foute principall pyllers First of his vocation and callyng Secondlye of the worthie and moste notable promises of God in the scripture that hee wil bee their helper and defendour Thirdly of the honour and obedience which God seuerely commaundeth to be giuen vnto magistrates Fourthlye of innumerable examples in holye write whereby wee see the good Magistrates alwayes to haue bin mayntayned and preserued and the rebellious and disobediente to haue bin suppressed and punished ¶ The first Consolation of the Magistrate in respecte of his calling and of the dignitie thereof The Magistrate is a person ordeyned and instituted of God himselfe both to bee a maynteyner and defendour of the firste Table wherein those thynges are especially comprehended whiche appertaine to the worshipping of God and also to be a keeper and preseruer of the second Table conteyning externall disciplyne and obedience in humane societie and to be gods Liefetenant sounding the voyce of the lawe

chance but to be disposed and distributed as it were with Gods hand And touching the prosperitie of the wicked whom it pleaseth God to aduance euen vnto the highest steppe of honour and dignitie we haue the cause alleged by God himself of Pharao after this maner For this cause haue I appoynted thee to shewe my power in thee and to declare my name throughout all the world In this text God expresseth plainly that of his owne purpose will he anaunted and obdured Pharao which his will hee proueth good and iust by two reasons Fyrst to shewe his iustice and power secondarily that his name might be renoumed throughout the whole worlde which two things had bin hidden hidden tyme if Pharao his strength and power had not bin famous among the nations round about and therefore that new and straunge punishement in drownyng so mightie an armye of the Egyptians in the red Sea and in sauing his own simple and vnarmed people the Israelits did note the same The wicked then clyme alofte by Gods appoyntment that their great and beauye ruyne may bee more apparant and their worldlye honour and glory is notable that their shame and dishonor may be more notable Whereof bessdes Pharao of Egypt Nabuchodonozer of Babylon Chusan of Mesopotamia Eglon of Moab Synacherib of Assyria Edward the second and Richarde the thirde of Englande do yeld vnto vs firme proofe and playne declaration so that the most mighty Empires of the world haue their exaltation and declination and Tyrants haue their fall and are punished for their riottousnesse pride oppression and esfusion of innocent bloud euen by the hands of bloudy men and one wicked succeedyng another in a long tract and course of time doe murther one another vntill at last the Empire come vnto one vertuous Prince who with much a doe dieth naturally in his bedde The Chroniles of England make large mētion of such punishmēts in this land betweene the Kings of the Saxons and Danes from the raigne of Brithricus vnto the time of Swainus by the tearme of 255. yeeres And who can be ignorant that hathe but a little turned ouer our countrey histories of a heape of such Tragicall examples from Edward the third vnto Henry the seuenth by the space of one hundred and fiue yeeres And if one Tyrante oppresse not another which most commonly commeth to passe according to the Poet Ad generū Cere is sine cade sanguine pauci Descendunt reges sicca morte Tyranni Then God sendeth eyther his destroying Angell which happened to Senacherib Herod and Iulian or sharpneth their owne daggers whiche came to passe in Saul Zamry and Herod Wherfore let good Princes put their affiance in God who alone is able to turne Tragedies into Comedies sorowe into ioy and take away the stormes of calamitie and shine vpon vs with the beames of prosperitie God knoweth best what is expediente for vs and how long it is profitable for his people to cōtinue in miserie and thraldome in Egypt and Babilon He alone hath in his hand the hartes of Kings and he it is that hardneth Pharao Senacherib Holofernes and againe that molifieth Cyrus Nabuchodonozer and Assuerus And if God suffer wicked Tyrants with quietnesse and peace to descend vnto their graue as he suffered the rich glutton of whome wee reade in the Gospell It is an euident argument that such one is reserued vnto the paines of the world to come whiche neuer shall haue end wher weeping and gnashing of teeth shal be as we see it chanced to the foresaid glutton vnto whom God said Sonne remember tha● than in thy life time receyuedst thy pleasure contrariwise Lazarus receiued payne but now be is comforted and thou art punished The holy Apostle saith What son is he whome the father chastiseth not If ye be not vnder correction whereof all are partakers then are yee bastards and not sonnes A terrible end therefore abideth them which in this world licentiausly without punishmēt do sinne for al such be bastrads not sonnes therfore haue they no part of the hauēly inherit●ce And those vol voluptuous Epirures whiche in this worlde saye Come let vs enioy the pleasures that are le● vs some vse the creature like as in youth Let vs fil our selues with good wine pyntment let there no flour of time goe by vs Let vs crown our selues with roses before they be withered Let there be no faire medow but our lust go through it Let euery one of you be partakers of our voluptuousnes Let vs leaue some tokē of pleasur in euery place for that is our portion else get we nothing c. But such in time to come shal crie out in this maner say We haue erted from the way of trueth the lyghte of ryghteousnesse hathe not shined vppon vs Wee ●aue wearied our selues in the way of wickednesse and distruction Tedious wayes haue we gone but as for the way of the Lord we haue not knowen it c. Such words shall they that haue sinned speake in the Hell. For the hope of the vngodly is like a dri● Thistill flower that is blowen away with the winde The felicitie of the vngodly therefore in thys life is extreame miserie and a signe of theyr heauie gretuous punishment in hell torments The C●huikes also donbted the ende of suche men ad continued long in greate prosperitie and affirmed some vnhappie end to ensue as Amasis writ to Polycrates This Polycrates was chiefe gouernour of Samus who was so happie in all his life that hee seemed to be the very sonne and heire of good fortune For hee ●asting of purpose into the Sea a ring most excellently wrought wherein was set as He●●dotus writeth a Smargde but Plinie calleth it a Sardonichem precious stones of no shall price minding as some coniecture with that greate losse to preuente and anoyde misfortune It chaunced within fiue dayes after a fisher to take a goodly great fishe which being bought for the King and brought to the C●●●● to be br●ssed behold in the drawing the ●●ng was founde in the bellie of the fishe and was broughte out of hande to Poly●●●●●● Whereof when Amasis king of Egypt had●● inte 〈…〉 by the said king his letters he answered againe to Polycrates largely and ●●mayling mans slipp●●●● of that among 〈◊〉 things 〈◊〉 this deuine ●●●●ence 〈◊〉 as leade their life in thes world●● all felicitie ●●do end their life in great miserie Whiche 〈…〉 in deede in Polycrates For 〈…〉 app●●●●nded by the policie of a King of the Persons and being 〈…〉 abused was in the end most shamefully hanged Herevnto agreeth that historie of S. Ambrose who trau 〈…〉 Rome by the way wente 〈…〉 rich mans housE to lodge and in his inter●●●●ment there fell out communication of the rich mans ●●●ate who ioyfully 〈◊〉 lesse ●ostingly answrred The worlde 〈◊〉 fid wned vppon me but all things haue