Iustice defend the Faith and promote the Church So we read that when the Emperor is crowned the Archbishop of Colen propounds seuerall demands An Ecclesiam defensurus Iustitiam administraturus Imperium conseruaturus viduas orphanosque protecturus c. Whether hee will defend the Church Administer Iustice Preserue the Empire and protect the widdowes fatherlesse and friendlesse The Kings of Sparta at their Coronation did sweare to raigne according to Lycurgus Lawes and I thinke it is the order of most Christian Kings at their Coronation to sweare to rule according to Iustice and to maintaine the lawes and liberties of their kingdomes for farre be it from Kings thoughts to say with Thrasymachus Principum vtilitate libidine omne ius definiri All Law to be defined by their pleasures and profit for that is to say with the Mother of Antoninus Caracalla to him quodlibet licere any thing to be lawfull for him or with Caracalla himselfe Imperatores leges dare non accipere Emperors giue Lawes but doe not liue by them The foundation of well-gouerned Kingdomes hath two supporters saith Machiauell bonas Leges bona Arma good Lawes and good Armes And that famous Emperor Iustinian saith Imperatoriam Maiestatem non solum armis decoratam verùm legibus oportet esse armatam Imperiall Maiesty not onely to be adorned by Armes but also armed by Lawes and then the Lawes will be best obeyed when the Law-makers obey themselues It was a woe our Sauiour denounced against the Interpreters of the Law because they did lode men with burdens greeuous to be borne and they themselues touched not the burdens with one of their fingers Promulgers and publishers of Lawes ought to be practisers of the same It was a royal speech of the Emperor Traian when he deliuered the sword praefecto praetorij saying to him Si bene imperauero prome sin contrà aduersus me stringito If I rule well draw out that sword for me if otherwise against me and happy is that Kingdome whose supreame head giues good Lawes to others and liues by them himselfe it animateth all to obey Ad te oculos auresque trahis tua facta notamus nec vox missa potest Principis ore tegi Principis vita est censura ciuium saith Plinie The life of King the life of imitation his good life as powerfull to draw people to goodnesse as good Lawes Claud non sic inflectere sensus Humanos edicta valent quam vita regentis The Rulers godly life like a good Glosse vpon a Text makes a perfect commentary vpon the Law to moue vulgar obedience O then let vertue and piety flame in the breasts of Princes cherish these O sacred Potentates at your high Altars and then your excellent actions will produce exemplar imitations Persius Regibus hic mos est centum sibi poscere voces Centum ora centum linguas Many millions of men are your spectators nay the world is your stage wherein your actions are euen axioms to draw that many-headed beast the multitude eyther to vertue or vice What a glorious and most applauded of all the Saints of Heauen is your well-acted taske and office if you render vp your Crownes to him that is the King of Crownes and Scepters with a commended plandite then indeed you shall worthily Pers Sat 1. Os populi meruisse Cedro digna locutum linquere Leaue happie monuments on earth of your immortall same and at your farewell from your earthly thrones leaue a lamenting and bewailing world but attended vnto heauen with the praiers of your people with an army of Angels to welcome your arriuall And heerein how are the people of great Britaine bound to render perpetuall praises to Almighty God who hath blessed them with such a godlie and gracious King who with his life lawes and labours by his publicke example in the true seruice of God by the integritie of his life industry in sacred studies clemencie in gouernment delight and diligence in hearing Church-exercises making his Court as it was said of Constantines Ecclesiae instar like a Church their publicke Seruice and Sermons deuoutly performed and religiously accepted and embraced labouring Regis ad exemplum totum componere regnum by a Kingly patterne of deuotion to excite all to an holie imitation So that wee ought to giue God more thanks then Plato did who yet thanked God for three things 1. pro ratione 2. pro natione 3. pro eruditione for his reason nation and learning 1. for his reason being made a man not a beast 2. for his nation a Grecian not a Barbarian 3. for his liuing in the daies of learned Socrates of whom hee reaped great knowledge Wee ought also to thanke God for these and other blessings beeing not meerely men but Christian men liuing vnder the reigne of a most Christian King a Defender of the Faith and cherisher of the Gospell a louer of Peace that wee may truely say as the people did at the death of Pertinax the Emperour Dum illeregnabat tranquille viuebamus neminem metuebamus While hee reigned wee liued quiet and feared no enemies So now euery man may sit in peace vnder his Vine and Figtree beare a part in the song of those heauenly Souldiers praising God and saying Glory be to God in the high heauens for our peace on earth VVe enioy that blessing promised to Salomon I will send peace and quietnesse vpon Israel in his daies A blessing worthie of thankesgiuing So that wee may in a Christian peace serue the God of peace and praise him for our peace and pray to him for the preseruation of the happy instrument of this our peace for peace is a nurse of Religion but bloudie warre the mother of misery mischiefe and abhomination for Nulla fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur In time of Warre the God of peace neglected True faith and Pitty is then reiected Let all from head to foote from our Salomon in the Throne to the poorest member in the kingdom prostrate their humble soules to the throne of God the giuer of all blessings and in all faithfull obedience tender him their dutifull seruice seruing the Lord in feare and reioycing in trembling ascribing all praise and thanks to God saying Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord and his blessing is vpon the people Gratias agere Deo possumus referre non possumus giuing God all possible thankes for his blessings the least whereof is more worth then all our thanks yet Ascensus gratiarum descensus gratiae the ascending of our thankes doe bring descending graces And with our best and faithfull seruice to our good God the King of Kings let our loyall and dutifull seruice be neuer wanting to his vertuous vicegerent his annointed deputy on earth our high and dread Soueraigne Qui tangit eum tangit pupillam oculi ipsius as the Lord speakes of Sion Hee
mighty Caesar take Of which I may thy tombe begin to make Your Highnes needs not these aduertisements the memorie whereof presage our lamentations though it shall bring you in present possession of perpetual glorification who liue and labour to passe off this worlds Kingly Theater with that approbation bene fidelis serue Well done faithfull seruant enter into thy Masters ioy Our hearty and humble prayers shall euer be powred foorth to the King of Kings from the bottome of our soules that your Highnesse may still reigne many happie yeares on earth in prosperous health Kingly honour and all happinesse and may oft renew and reuiue our hearts with these annuall ioyes and when the last period comes that God may make you as glorious a Saint in Heauen as you are a great gracious high and happy King on earth and leaue behinde you the succession of your loynes to sit vpon the Throne to the worlds end and all your faithfull seruants and subiects will ioyne with mee in this prayer and say Amen Amen Next to your Honors most graue and wise Senators the politicke Statists of the land who represent Romanos rerum dominos gentemque Togatam The most honourable Counsell to the royall head whom for fidelity I may compare to the heart of England to you by right of office place and charge this faithfull seruice principally appertaines to procure and pray for the Kings safety who is as it was said of Iudith the exaltation of Ierusalem the great glory of Israel the great reioycing of our Nation That hee may enioy many Alcion daies and reigne many golden yeares in safety and securitie Virg Aurea securi quis nescit saecula regis It is your noble taske carefully to consult in the preuention of publicke mischiefes and though wee may now say with Agamemnon Victor timere quid potest What need the Conqueror feare yet Cassandra will tell vs Quod non timet feare that you doe not feare feare procures precaution precaution preuention feare the plots and proiects of the sonnes of Anak the Popes Giants traiterous Iesuites of whom I may say as Ammianus Marcellinus writes of the Saracens Nec amici nobis vnquam nec hostes optandi si amici perfidi si hostes foedifragi VVee need not to wish them to be our friends or foes if friends they will proue treacherous if foes perfidious Circumspect precaution is the life of pollicy for stultum est cum sit is fauces tenet puteū fodere for that is like the Phrygians sero sapere to be wise too late But why doe I like an vnexpert Phormio dispute of warres in Hannibals presence you are the Nestors of this kingdome wise as Serpents but innocent as Doues be careful to take the Foxes which would destroy our Vine Faber cadit cum ferias fullonem neyther state nor statute free till the Realme be freed of them being like Nouatus whom S. Cyprian describes in these colours Saepe blandus vt fallat aliquādo saevus vt terreat semper curiosus vt prodat nunquam fidelis vt diligat Alwaies flattering to deceiue sometimes cruell to terrifie alwaies curious and cunning to betray neuer faithfull to loue But your Honours know best how to preuent the mischiefes of such miscreants who desire the ruine of King and Country for you can best tell how to doe it Propert lib. 2. Nauita de ventis de tauris narret arator enumeret miles vulnera pastor oues I will not meddle with your high affaires rather follow mine owne duety fall to prayers for you that God may euer be present and president at your Counsels giuing you the spirit of counsell and of courage wisely to foresee and happily to preuent all misfortunes and miseries intended against our King and Country and that our Iudah and Israel may dwell without feare euery man vnder his vine and figtree from Dan euen to Beersheba al the daies of our Salomon That God would still multiply these happy yeares and grant that our high and princely Cedar with all the faire goodly branches may long flourish in this land and that all his subiects high and low may safelie shelter vnder the shadow of his gracious gouernment blessing your Honors the very supporters of the state the pillars of the land with grace and wisedome from aboue to prosper your Counsels and euer direct you to consult for the glory of God the good of the King the comfort and welfare of Church and Common-weale To you also the bright stars of Court blest with the dailie beames and influences of the Regall Sunne who like orient Pearles serue to adorue the golden Diadem to you I may fitly tender these present meditations who no doubt dailie doe meditate vpon this Theame to say and pray God saue the King You faire flowers of honor who flourish in the courtly Canaan a place which flowes with plenty and pleasure the very garden of delight where the Bee gathers hony and the spider poyson where you may reape all earthly pleasures which are like Ionas Gourd content a while but not continue your eies behold the subiect of our prayers the ornament of our land Nay I may say with the Poet Hor. lib. 4. od 14. od 2. O quâ Sol habitabiles Illustrat oras maxime Principum Quo nil maius meliusue terris Fata denavere bonique diui Nec dabunt quamuis redeant in aurum Tempora priscum Vpon no shoares the Sunne doth shine Blest with a King more diuine The fire of your feruent prayers for the welfare of the King should perpetually flame at the high Altar of deepe deuotion being graced with all kingly fauours and aduanced with honour and rewards if you should proue disloyall or vndutifull to the King hee might rightly vse the Prouerbe Mercedes locat in pertusum sacculum Put his rewards in a broken bagge and might iustly frowne on you and his wrath like the roaring of a Lion and euen strike you dead with a Quos ego If you desire the Kings fauour which is the way to honor be faithfull and loyall This raised Mordecai to ride on the Kings horse in royall apparell a Crowne of gold on his head c. and to be eternized with the eternall Crowne of truth It raised Ioseph to ride in the second Chariot of Egypt Daniel to be clothed in purple and a chaine of gold about his necke Look vpon King Dauids gratuitie for Barzillays loyalty who commanded Salomon on his death bed to let the sons of Barzillai to eate at his table This is the onely way to winne the Kings fauour which if you lose you are but falling starres your Fame obscured your Names contemned Macro salutes Seianus no longer then he is in Tiberius fauour Actum est ilicet peristi But your faithfull seruice to your Soueraigne will be commendable to God and men seruing in soule the King of
vpon the regall Throne so long as the Sunne and Moone endureth Haec regnd tenere Et natos natorum qui nascentur ab illis That all his Subiects may euer pray for him obey him and honor him aswel in deeds as words heaâ—ts as tongues saying and praying God saue the King CHAP. VII THE fourth duty of Subiects to be duly rendred and tendered to their annointed Soueraignes is loyall and faithfull seruice thinking themselues as Tiberius said of his People Homines ad seruitutem nati Men borne to doe them seruice And therefore it was a commendable order as Melancthon records it that euery Citizen did sweare taking a corporall Oath Pugnabo pro sacris pro legibus pro aris focis solus simul cum alijs ne patriam meam deteriorem qua accepi posteris tradam omnibus viribus enitar I will fight for Religion for our lawes c alone with others and I will with all my might rather endeauour to better then to make worse my Countrey to posterity acknowledging themselues seruants to their Countrey and vowing their best endeauours to doe her faithfull seruice So all true subiects are bound by the Lawes of God and men to be faithfull seruants to their Soueraignes and if they neglect or reiect this duty I may say to them as Dauid did to Abner Ye be worthy to die because ye haue not kept your Master the Lords Annointed because you haue not been faithfull seruants to your anointed Soueraignes If any Bighthan or Teresh seek to lay hands on our gracious Soueraigne with faithfull Mordecai and Ester speedily preuent it by reuealing it If any King of Aram takes counsell with his seruants against the King of Israel with faithfull Elisha reueale it to your Caesar euen the words he speakes in his Priuy Chamber nay not onely reueale it but reuenge it In reos Maiestatis publicos Hostes omnis homo miles est saith Tertullian against Traytors and publike enemies euery man is a Souldier yea in this kind and sence we may and must in fortitudine nostra sumere cornua with Zedekiah make hornes of iron to push these treachercus Aramites vntill wee haue consumed them giue couragious resistance to treacherous violence vntill they may receiue deserued doome by Iustice And for the performance of this loyall seruice to their appointed Soueraignes no condition of men vnder the Sunne can pleade immunity neither Popes Priests nor People the Pope cannot pleade priuiledge if he will stand to his owne and old title Seruus seruorum A seruant of Seruants but he carries himselfe now adayes as if his Prentiship were out and would change his stile to be Dominus Dominorum A Lord ouer his Lord as the old Poet tels vs Roma tibi quondam fuerant Domini Dominorum Seruorum serui nunc tibisunt Domini For he disclaimes in action his old appellation the seruant of seruants neuer vses it but by way of equiuocation But to let him goe for Senex psittacus non capit ferulam He is too old to learne and happy are those Kings that haue least part of his seruice but if it please the Pope to be like the High Priests and I thinke that title is high enough for him they were content to call themselues seruants vnto Kings as Abimilech accounted himselfe Sauls seruant Let not the King impute any thing vnto his seruant c. And Zadocke the High Priest called by Dauid his seruant So Aaron to Moses Ne indignetur Dominus meus Let not the wrath of my Lord waxe fierce In a word Summi sacerdotes regibus subdebantur saith their Iesuite Their chiefe Priests were subiects and seruants to Kings in the Law and the chiefe Apostle euen Saint Peter from whom they would fetch their Pedegree of Primacy enioynes all in the Gospell to submit themselues for the Lords sake whether it be vnto the King as vnto the superior So that their freedome from seruice to the Princes of the Earth hath no warrant except from the Prince of the Ayre to whom Rome dedicates her scepter and seruice And this loyall seruice of the members vnto the royall and Princely Head ought to be dutifull faithfull and perpetuall that is the happy seruice which comes from an hearty obedience many things may seeme so in apparance which are not so in eslence It is the practise and very prayers of the wicked to cry thus Hor. 1. Epist 16. Da mihi fallere da iustum sanctumque videri Noctem peccatis fraudibus obijce nubem If they seeme trusty in shew though treasonable in heart they care not like bad seruants not in singlenesse of heart but with seruice to the eye as men-pleasers obey they their regall Masters This Age is full of such treacherous hearts as deceiptfull as Ioab to Amasa who tooke him aside to speake with him peaceably and smote him vnder the fift rib that he died or like Dalilah to Sampson with faire words and weeping to betray him to the Philistines No treason but in trust Decipimur specie recti The fained voice of Fowlers catcheth the Partridges Plouers The Mother of Error puts on her maske to bee taken for the Daughter of Time truth The Wolfe in sheeps cloathing scarce knowne from the sheapheards dogge Ptolomie the sonne of Abusus vnder a faire vizard of loue and kindnes feasting Simeon and his two sonnes killes them in his banquetting house Herod when he would play the wolfe he counterfetted a Foxe Goe and search diligently for the Babe and when ye haue found him bring me word that I may worship him his meaning was to worrie him So Iudas comes with his Aue Rabbi Haile Master betraying him with a kisse Do'i non sunt doli nisi astu celas Plautus So many a perfidious Traytor will cry Aue Caesar God saue the King but it is with such an affectioÌ„ as Antoninus Caracalla said of his brother Geta Sit diuus modo non viuus Let him be a Saint or a King in Heauen so he be not a King on Earth Beware of dissemblers parasites and equiuocators His nomina mille mille nocendi artes Such are full of fraud full of villany beleeue them as the people of Rome belieued Carbon swearing neuer to credit him They are like to Polypus haue various shapes changing themselues into Angels of light but Malus vbi se bonum simulat tunc est pessimus A bad man when he counterfetteth to be good is worst Simulata sanctitas est duplex iniquitas A counterset holinesse is a two fold wickednesse Let vs performe according to our place faithfull hearty and trusty seruice to our dread Soueraigne and though the wicked labour to darken with a cloud of slaunder our faire and faithfull seruice yet at last that eclips of enuy will vanish of it selfe and our owne innocency
ouer the night So in the firmament of the vniuersall Church God hath set two great dignities the authority of the Pope and Emperor of the which two this our dignity is so much the weightier as that we must giue account to God for the Kings of the earth and for the Lawes of men Wherefore know ye Emperors that ye depend vpon the iudgement of vs and we must not be reduced to your will for looke what difference there is betweene the Sunne and the Moone so great is the power of the Pope ruling ouer the day that is ouer the spiritualty aboue Emperors and Kings ruling ouer the night that is ouer the Laity Now seeing then the Earth is seauen times bigger then the Moone and the Sunne eight times greater then the earth it followes that the Popes dignity many degrees doth surmount the estate of Emperors And although Constantine the great writing to a Pope alleadged the words of Peter 1 Pet. 2. 13. Submit your selues to euery humane creature as to Kings c. Yet in their Decretals they expound the minde of Peter to exhort all subiects and not his successors to be subiect proouing the Priesthood to be aboue Kings by the wordes of Ieremy Behold I haue set thee ouer Kings and Nations c. Neyther must Kings and Princes thinke it much to submit themselues to my iudgement for so did Valentinianus the Emperour and also Carolus For my power is not of man but of God who by his celestiall prouidence hath set me Master and gouernour ouer his vniuersall Church whereby all criminall causes as well of Kings as all other to be subiect to my censure For my Church of Rome is Prince and head of all nations the Mother of the Faith the foundation cardinall whereupon all Churches doe depend as the doore doth vpon the hinges The first of all other seates without spot or blemish Lady mistresse instructer of all Churches a glasse and spectacle to all men to be followed in all whatsoeuer she obserues Against which Church of Rome whosoeuer speakes any euill is forthwith an hereticke yea a very Pagan a witch an Idolater and Infidell hauing fulnesse of power onely in her owne hands in ruling deciding absoluing condemning casting out or receiuing in To which Church of Rome it is lawfull to appeale for remedy from all other Churches although it was decreed otherwise in the Councell of Carthage that no man should appeale ouer the Sea vnder paine of excommunication yet Gratians glosse can helpe that with a limitation Nisi forte Romanam sedem appellauerint Vnlesse they appeale to the Sea of Rome Of the which Church of Rome the Pope is Head the Vicar of St. Peter yea not the Vicar of St. Peter properly but the Vicar of Christ and successor of Peter Rector of the vniuersall Church and directer of the Lords vniuersall flocke chiefe Magistrate of the whole world Lex animata in terris A liuing Law in the earth hauing all Lawes in the chest of my breast Yea Nec Deus nec homo quasi neuter inter vtrūque Being neyther God nor man but the admiration of the world and a middle thing twixt both The Pope hath both swords in his power both of Temporall and spirituall iurisdiction able by his owne power alone without a Councell to depose the Emperor to transferre his kingdome and to giue a new election as hee did to Fredericke and diuers others to whom Emperors and Kings bee more inferior then lead is to gold for doe you not see the neckes of Kings and Princes bend vnder our knees yea and think themselues happy and well defenced if they may kisse our hands What doe wee talke of Kings The Pope is aboue Angels as his Clarke Antoninus writes That hee is greater then Angels in foure things 1 In iurisdiction 2 In administration of Sacraments 3 In knowledge 4 In reward And so in Bulla Clementis the Pope commands the Angels of Paradise to absolue the soule of man out of purgatory and to bring it into the glory of Paradise Who is able to comprehend the greatnes of my power and seate For by me onely generall Councels take their force and confirmation and the interpretation of the said Councels and of all other causes doubtfull must stand to my determination yea my Letters and Epistles Decretall are equiualent to Generall Councels and whereas God hath ordained all causes of men to be iudged by men he hath only reserued me that is the Pope of Rome without all question of men vnto his owne iudgement and whereas all other Creatures be vnder a Iudge onely I which am Iudge of all can be iudged of none neyther of Emperor nor the whole Cleargy nor of Kings nor yet of people For who hath power to iudge vpon his Iudge so that I differ in power and maiority and honor reuerentiall from all degrees of men For the better declaration of it the Canonists make three kindes of powers in earth 1. Immediata which is mine immediately from God 2. Deriuata which belongeth to other inferiour Prelates from mee 3. Ministralis belonging to Emperors and Princes to minister for me for the which cause the anointing of Princes and my consecration differ for they are annoynted in the arme or shoulders and I in the head This order of Priests Bishops Archbishops Patriarkes and Cardinals the Church of Rome hath instituted following the example of the Angelicall Army in heauen and the Apostles on earth For among them there was a distinction of power and authority albeit they were all Apostles yet it was granted to Peter they all agreeing to it that hee should haue superiority ouer them all and therefore had his name giuen him Cephas that is say they head or beginning of the Apostles whereupon the order of Priesthood first in the new Testament began in Peter to whom it was said Thou art Peter and vpon thee will I build my Church Math. 16. 18. And I will giue thee the keyes of the kingdome of Heauen Whatsoeuer thou shalt binde vpon earth c. v. 19. Seeing then such power is giuen to Peter and to the Pope in Peter as his successor who is then in all the world that ought not to be subiect to my Decrees which haue such power in heauen in hell in earth with the quicke also the dead whereupon Pope Clement in his Bull of lead sent to Vienna granted to all such as died in their peregrination to Rome that the paine of hell should not touch them And all such as tooke the holy Crosse vpon them should euery one at his request not onely be deliuered but also deliuer 3. or 4. soules out of Purgatory And againe Christ said to Peter I haue
prayed for thee that thy faith shall not faile hauing such a promise and assurance who then will not beleeue my doctrine So that all they that beleeue not my doctrine or stand against the priuiledge of my Church of Rome I pronounce them heretickes for he goeth against the Faith which goeth against her who is the mother of the Faith And moreouer to shew the strange vertue of the Popes keyes his Schoole Doctors haue a twofold distinction 1. Clauis ordinis the key of order hauing authority to binde and loose but not ouer the persons whom they binde loose which authority they take not immediately from Christ but from the Pope the Vicar of Christ 2. Key is Clauis Iurisdictionis the key of Iurisdiction which the Pope hath from Christ immediately as being his Vicar hauing not onely power to binde and loose but also dominion ouer them on whom this key is exercised By the iurisdiction of which key all are subiect to the Pope the Emperours ought to subdue their executions to him Onely the Pope is subiect to no creature no not to himselfe except hee list in foro poenitentiae to his ghostly father submitting himselfe as a sinner but not as a Pope the papall maiesty euer remaining vnminished No man must iudge or accuse the Pope of any crime as murder adultery simony c. but as the Iewes were commanded to obey the High Priest of the Leuiticall Order so are all Christians bound to obey the Pope Christs Lieutenant in earth Concerning whose obedience or disobedience reade Deutron 17. 12. where their ordinary Glosse payes it home saying That he who denieth to the Priest obedientiam obedience lyeth vnder the sentence of condemnation as much as he that denieth to God his omnipotentiam his omnipotence The greatnesse of the Popes priesthood began in Melchisedech solemnized in Aaron continued in his children perfectionated in Christ represented in Peter exalted in the vniuersall iurisdiction and manifested in Syluester c. So that in regard of this priestly preheminence it may be verified of the Pope which the Psalmist writes Psalm 8. 6. 7. c. Thou hast put all things vnder his feete all sheepe and oxen the beasts of the field the fowles of the aire and the fish of the Sea c. which place his owne Antoninus hath applied to the Pope and with a clearkely Paraphrase hath expounded thus By Oxen are signified the Iewes and heretickes by the Cattell of the fielde Pagans by Sheepe all Christian men Princes Prelates and people by the Birds Angels and powers of Heauen by the Fishes of the Sea the soules departed in paine or purgatory as Gregory by his prayer deliuered the soule of Traiane out of hell By them which passe through the paths of the Sea are signified such as are in Purgatory and stand in need of others helpe and yet be in their iourney Viatores de foro Papa passengers and belong to the Court of the Pope and may be relieued out of the storehouse of the Church by the participation of Indulgence And though it be truely doubted that pardons haue no power to extend to the departed yet Romes Doctors can helpe that for though it was said to Peter Whatsoeuer thou shalt loosevpon earth and so being not on earth they cannot be loosed yet they will dissolue that doubt by a distinction vpon super terram vpon the earth that may be taken two waies eyther to the looser and so a Pope being dead cannot loose or to the loosed which must be vpon the earth or about the earth But what do I talke of the Popes power in such points the whole Quire of the Popes Cleargy in their books tractations distinctions glosses summaries c. sing altogether such notes The Pope say they being the Vicar of Iesus Christ throughout the whole World in the stead of the liuing Lord hath that dominion on earth which Christ would not haue yet had it in habitu and gaue it to Peter in Actu that is the vniuersall iurisdiction both spirituall and also temporall which double iurisdiction is intimated by the two swords in the Gospell and by the wisemens offering of Incense and Gold to Christ to signifie that the dominion spirituall and temporall belong to Christ and his Vicar And as Christ saith All power is giuen to him both in Heauen and Earth so it is holden inclusiue that the vicar of Christ hath power on things cclestiall terrestriall and infernall which he tooke immediatly of Christ and all other take it mediatly by Peter and the Pope And they that say The Pope hath onely dominion in spirituall things may be compared to the Counsellors of the King of Aram 1 Kin. 20. 23. Their Gods are Gods of Mountaines and therefore they ouercame vs but let vs fight against them in the plaine or vallies and doubtlesse we shall ouercome them So Counsellors flatter Kings saying Popes and Prelats be Gods of Mountaines that is of spirituall things but not of vallies that is of temporall things Therefore let vs fight against them in the vallies in the power of temporall possessions and so we shall preuaile ouer them But what saith God v. 28. Because the Aramites haue said that the Lord is the God of mountaines and not God of the vallies therefore will I deliuer all this great multitude into thine hands and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Which place though very impertinent in this point they vrge with great importunity to proue the Popes power ouer all mountaines and vallies that is say they ouer spirituall and temporal matters and so very vnthankfully they regard Constantines gift of their patrimony to Syluester saying It was not so much a Donation as a Restitution Yea they say the Pope is superior to Emperors yea superior to Lawes and free from all Constitutions Who is able of himselfe and by his interpretation to preferre equity being not written before the Law written The Faith Supremacy Chaire of Peter Keyes of Heauen power to bind and loose all these be inseparable to the Church of Rome being presumed that God prouiding and Saint Peter assisting the Diocesse of Rome that it shall neuer fall from the Faith and though the Pope be not alwayes good yet the merites of Saint Peter be sufficient for him who bequeathed a dowry of merites with inheritance of innocency to his posterity And if the Pope be an Homicide or an Adulterer he cannot be accused but rather excused by the murders of Sampson the thefts of the Hebrewes the adultery of Dauid or if any of his Clergy be found imbracing of a woman it must be presupposed that he doth it to blesse her To be briefe All the Earth is the Popes Diocesse and he the Ordinary of all men hauing the authority of the King of Kings vpon Subiects yea God and his vicar haue
as the very naming of them is a confutation Simancha and Creswell haue concluded that no hereticke that is a Protestant is capable of a Crowne and though a lawfull heire yet no iust possessor hauing obtainedit And to this effect Pope Clements Bull was After the death of the late Queene whether by course of nature or otherwise whosoeuer should lay claime or Title to the Crowne of England though neuer so directly or neerely interessed therein by descent and Blood royall yet vnlesse he were such an one as would not onely tollerate the Catholicke Romane religion but by all endeuours and force promote it they should admit or receiue none to the Crowne of England And Samancha Tit. 64. Sect. 75. faith The father may be deposed for an hereticke and his sonne and heire also excluded from claime of succession vnlesse he be a Romane Catholicke Thus they seeke to dispossesse Kings who are enthroned by God and haue their Scepters from the King of Kings yea they â—ind Kings to their good behauiour if they doe displease the Pope then depose them and so no Kings Molina saith The King can vse his Temporall sword but at the Popes becke Tract 2. de Institut Di. 29. Thus debasing Kings the highest powers on earth to be subiects to the Pope who yet in a counterfeit style cals himselfe Seruus seruorum a seruant of seruants Sonat humilit as in voce sed superbia in actione Saith Gregory Iacobs voice and Esawes hands Hypocriticall humility is worse then manifest pride And truly if the Pope had a sparke of the spirit of humility he would condemne his Parasites voices Papa est per queâ—reges regnant The Pope is he by whom Kings reigne Saith Bozius or Papa data est omnis potest as in caelo in terra Dominatur amarivsque admare à flumine vsque adtermin os orbis To the Pope is giuen all power in heauen and earth and reignes from one Sea to an other from the stood to the end of the world or Papa potest omnia facere quae Deus potest The Pope can doe all that God can doe horrible impiety and intollerable flattery And these tell the world he can make and vnmake Kings and the Popes like it well enough excommunicating Kings deposing them and disposing of their Kingdomes to others So that it mooued Art 〈◊〉 King of Peru to say as Benzo and Lopez tell it Insigniter fatuum esse opertere papam qui quae non haberet alijs liberaliter largitur vel carte impedentem nebulonem qui eiectis veris possessoribus alienas terras peregrinis addiceret in mutuas cades mortale genus armaret That either the Pope was an egregious Sot who would liberally giue things which he had not or a very impudent companion who expulsing the true possessors giues it to strangers arming the world to mutuall yea mortall slaughters I will not trouble my selfe to behold the nakednesse rather wickednesse of these drunken Noes vncouered in the midst of their Tents vomiting out vile positions full of sedition and disobedience against the Kings of the earth it require rather teares to bewaile it then a pen to report it and the learned heerein know more then I write and for the ignorant it is good for them in this case to be ignorant still yet I confesse I aimed most in this labour to informe the ignorant hauing no minde to meddle with seducing Priests I cannot charme such deafe Adders if this litle handfull of my loue and labour presented vnto you may be profitable to win any of you I will say and end with the Apostle Iames Brethren if any of you haue erred from the Truth and some man hath conuerted him let him know that hee which hath conuerted the sinner from going astray out of his way shall saue a soule from death and shall hide a multitude of sinnes The Lord who is a God of Truth for his mercy sake and for Christs merits sake open all your eies to behold the Truth and your hearts to embrace it that we may all hold one Head in vnity and haue one heart in verity that all with one minde and mouth may praise and pray vnto the Lord in the militant Church on earth and be thrice happy members of the Triumphant Church in heauen Amen Candido lectori Humanum est errare errata hic corrige lector quae penna aut praelo lapsa fuisse vides FINIS * Epist 34. * Baron annal tom 1 ad an 1. fol. 53. * Math. 2. 11. * Walafriâ— Strabo lib. de rebus Eccles * Epist 77 * Eccluâ— 24. 39. * 1 Cor. 4. 3. * Le moribus a 2 Kings 11 3. b 2 Chr. 22. 9. 10. 11. c 2 King 11. 4 d 2 Chr. 23. 2. e 2 Kin. 11. 4. f 2 Ch. 23. 3. g 2 King 11. 6. 11. h 2 Chr. 23. 11. i 2 Kin. 11. 12. * A queene ouer men a queene ouer her selfe for a maiden queen k Mundi totius vna decus Beza Epigram in class hisp Anno 1588. l Gen. 27. 41. Ad certum tempus sunt Christiani postea peribunt redibunt Idola verum tum cum expectas miserinfidelis vt transeant Christiani transis ipse sine Christianis Aug. in P s 70 m Quo nil praestaÌ„tius orbe nobiliusque nihil nostro sol aspicit aeuo Mortua regina quasi non est mortua quia reliquit similem plus quam fimilis hic n Quem beneficia accepta memorem non redduÌ„t is grauius suppliciuÌ„ meretur Chrysost de Sacerd. lib. 4. o Tertul. in Apâ—log c. 30. p Psal 132. 18. q Plut. in vita Flaminij r 1 Kin. 1. s 1 King 1. 40. t 39. Proditor est martyr coeli certissimê° hares u Mariana de reg lib. 1. c 7. * Maria. p 60. Vid orat sixt Qt habit in consistoria Saunders Fra de Verone Azorius Philopater Allen aly x Tertul in Apol. Spolia opima Joui Sen. Prosperum scelus vocatur virtus y 1 Chr. 16. 22. z Reu. 17. 46. a Machau Princ. c. 11. b Psal 21. 8. 9. c Psal 129. 6. a 1 Tim. 2. b Tribus argumeÌ„tis ostendit oranduÌ„ esse proregibê° quorum duo sumpta sunt ab effectu vtili Pisc in locuÌ„ c Plin 2 Panegy ad Traianum Rex sapiens est stabilimentum populi Wisd 6. 24. Rex si bonus est nutritor est tuus si malus tentator tuus est Aug. ser 6. de verb. dom secund Math. Bellua multorum capitum homine nullum morosius animal nec maiori arte tractandum Sene. d Quot capita tot sententiae quot homines tothumores quot humores tot mores Lipsius e Exod. 18. 19. f Psalm 2. 10. g 2 Chr. 1. 10. h Wisd 6. 21. i Magna seruituâ— est magna fortuna nam ipsi Caesari cui omnia licent propter hoc ipsu multa non licent Seneca consolat ad
noster Deus Papae Our Lord God the Pope or Papa participat vtramque naturam cum Christo or vice-deus supreame head of the Church Which title one of the Gregories named the first called Titulum stultum superbum peruersum scelestum prophanum and stiled Iohn the Bishop of Constantinople who affected this pontificall sublimity Lucifer supra astra caeli exaltabo solium and of all flattering Sycophants the trencher-wormes and platter-friends to Popes of Rome were some of the clawbacke Canonists who by hypocriticall and hyperbolicall praises were the first dreamers of Popes supremacie and since them many Friers and Iesuites haue beate their braines to make the Regall Scepter stoope to the Popes Miter stiling their Popes superiours to all Emperours supreame vice-gods Gods on earth Kings triple crowned Iudges of all the earth heads of the faith the high Bishops Monarchs of the whole world so that Bellarmine saith it is hard to describe what the Pope is such is his greatnesse Yea sacrilegium est disputare de potestate Papae saith Victoria It is a kinde of sacriledge to dispute or argue about the power of the Pope Potestas spiritualis temporalis in vno eodemque summo pontifice est vtraque in summo saith Syluester Spirituall and Temporall power in our high Pope is in the highest point and degree Nay it was not only the base flattery of mercenarie vassals and priuate Proctors and Promoters of the Chayre of Rome but also practised by councels giuing the Pope the sublimity of the true Antichrist as the last Councell of Lateran giues to Pope Leo the tenth Omnem potestatem in coelo in terra c. verifying S Pauls description of Antichrist exalting himselfe aboue all that is called God and fitting as God in the Temple of God shewing himselfe that hee is God It was strange impudencie of that Imposter and crouching Parasite Gabriel to adde a fifth Euangelist to the foure and to offer this title Quintus Euangelista to Clemens the eight and it was as great arrogancie in Clemens not to reiect it Baronius acknowledges it and puts it into his Annals It would make a man wonder to reade the immodest and immoderate follie and flatterie of Popes parasites saying That though the Pope should carry many soules to Hell yet Nemo poterat dicere Papae cur ita facis Dist. 40. c. si papa And againe Papa volens nolens errare non potest Though he would he cannot erre or as Canus saith Priuilegium infallibilitatis habet He hath the priuiledg of not erring which yet is incident to humanity in the Popes brest is erected the Monopolie of the infallible spirit of our Sauiour Or againe Papa potest conficere nouum symbolum multiplicare articulos fidei in omnibus articulis multa addere saith Austinus de Ancona The Pope can make a new Creed and adde more articles to our beleefe Thus thus these paltry and palpable parasites would haue their Pope like the sonne of pride which cast lottes vpon the Nations saying I will ascend into heauen and exalt my throne aboue beside the starres of God I will ascend aboue the highest of the clouds and I will be like the most Highest So they goe about to make him as proud as Typhoeus the Giant who would haue an higher firmament vnder which hee might walke and bigger starres to giue bigger light otherwise he would pull them downe and fight with Iupiter So that he is growne to that height of pride as Constantius the Emperour once said of the Pope Quod ego volo pro canone sit What I will shall stand for a commanding Canon veryfying a Tyrants voyce like a Nero or a Nimrod Sic volo sic iubeo stat pro ratione volunt as And indeed the Popes of Rome are so proud that they would haue Kings kisse their feet or hold their styrrop or crowne Emperours with one foote and strike it off with the other tread vpon their neckes abusing that place of Scripture Thou shalt walke vpon the Lion and Aspe the young Lion and the Dragon shalt thou tread vnder thy feet Henry the fourth walked three daies at the Popes gate in frst and snow bare footed Abbas Vrsp Platin in vit Gregor 7. Dishonouring Gods high Lieutenants debasing that dignity which is the highest vpon earth seeking to haue the superiority aboue them to depose them from their Kingdomes and depriue them of their liues witnesse the Bull of Pius Quintus against Queene Elizabeth of happie memorie wherein as Gabutius a popish writer saith Cogitabat Pius reginam è medio tollere Pius did think to haue made Queene Elizabeth away or as Catena another Papist Pius omni studio faciendum curauit vt incolarū animos ad Elizabethae destructionem facta rebellione commoueret Pius tooke care and study to bring to passe to moue by rebellion the mindes of the inhabitants of England to the destruction of Queene Elizabeth So as wee may say of Popes as the people of Pilate You are not Caesars friend loth that they should weare a Crowne of gold and therefore would giue them a Crown of thornes and crucifie to death Vnctos Domini the Annointed of the Lord at the Iewes did Vnctum Dominum the Annointed Lord. The times were you gaue Emperours and Kings more honour more obedience when as you acknowledged your selues their vassals and reuerenced and obeyed them for your Lords as for a long time the Popes did to the first Christian Emperors yea the Election of the Pope was a long time in the Emperours hands who had the right of chusing the Pope confirmed by a Synod of the Popes to Charles the great Leo the first with many of his Bishops vsed their knees intreated the Emperor and his VVife for a Synod And then no doubt but you gaue them honor and homage too and you also were forced to pay then money to the Emperor for confirmation and this lasted 700 yeares after Christ as Historians write nay not onely elected by Emperors but also reiected and deposed from your Popedomes if the Emperor found any good cause for it as the Emperor Otho deposed Pope Iohn the twelfth Henry the third Emperor deposed 3. Popes as Benedict the ninth Syluester the third and Gregory the sixt and other Emperors haue done the like Then the Spirituall and Temporall sword was not in the power of the Pope as since Gregory the eight said the Emperors had it in their owne hand and then you feared them if not honoured them as you ought But after that Gregory the seauenth otherwise called Heldebrand began bacchari in Caesarem Caesareos to play his hellish part to seeke to depriue of his Empire Henry the fourth for this Heldebrand was the first that euer attempted such a Luciferian preheminence if the Historian doe write true Lego
AND if euer Praiers needfull in this kinde now is the time Nolite tangere abhorred of Heathens is now applauded and defended of false Christians Religion and superstition now comes forth with her knife ready to cut Kings throats it beeing the generall rule of them Occide haereticum Kill an hereticke make away with him giue him an Italian posset poyson him though it be in the Sacrament as Henry the seuenth Emperour poysoned in Sacramentall bread Victor the third Pope in the Sacramentall cup and yet they say that Christs bloud is really in the wine how then comes that poyson of death mixed with that sacred substance of life The Patrons and Proctors to plead for King-killers I meane the Iesuites with their adherents make this for a conclusion That any priuate man may be an executioner of a King excommunicated and deposed by the Pope and Caesar Baronius alledges commends out of Iuo a breue of Pope Vrban the second wherein it is pronounced that they are no homicides who kill such as are excommunicate for wee doe not iudge them to bee murtherers who burning with the zeale of their Catholike mother against such as are excommunicate happen to haue killed any of them And so Suarez the Iesuite in his last booke against our King writes After sentence condemnatory is giuen of the King c. then hee that hath pronounced the sentence or he to whom it is committed may depriue the King of his kingdome euen by killing him if hee cannot doe it otherwise and the very Cannibals are not more thirsty of bloud then these false Catholickes commending commanding murther the murther of Gods Anointed Kings which any heart not stupified with Atheisme or reprobate sence would tremble at it and appropriate the doing of that deed onely to Papists for so Suarez saith If his lawfull successor be a Catholike and so that hee be a Catholike that succeedes in the right challenging the right of committing so execrable villany to appertaine to none but onely to Romish Catholikes disdaining that any should haue an hand in so horrible and hellish mischiefes against the King but onely a friend and follower of the Popes religion true-borne children of their bloudy Mother the whore of Babilon the mother of murder drunken with the bloud of Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Christ Iesus If the Pope cries against any King with the Citizens in that parable Nolumus hunc regnare Wee will not haue this man to reigne presently pollicie villany mischiefe and murder fraud and deceit all shall conspire to accomplish the Popes desire If poyson and policie faile power shall â—reuaile like to him when intreaty could not moue laid his hand on his sword saying At hic faciet but this shall doe it if Mercurie be too weake Mars shall second him then leaue Apolloes harpe and take Hercules club both pens and pikes heads hearts and hands are too nimble to hurt Kings Sanguiuolenta est mens Sanguinolenta manus A bloudy heart must haue a bloudy hand How many Princes of Christendome hath that Sea of Rome swallowed and deuoured A Sea indeede nay a red Sea of bloud or Mare mortuum wherein that Leuiathan makes his Sea as the Lord tells Iob like a potte of oyntment Sed mors in illa ella Death is in the pot Out of this Sea creepe those Crocodiles I meane Iesuites Seminaries and men vsually troubled with the Kings euill Treason These Romish rats creepe into regall Pallaces at last take and taske their owne bane like the spirits of Deuils of whom S. Iohn worke myracles to goe vnto the Kings of the earth and those whom they cannot draw by their collusion they would deuoure by effusion I may say of them as Polymnestor speakes in the Tragedie of Hecuba Hastifera armata equestris Marti obnoxiagens They are well weaponed people dagges and daggers charmes poysons powder all tragicall and traiterous engines and instruments they haue to touch Gods Anointed the Kings of the earth corporally In olde time scarce any treason without a Priest in our time scarce any without a Iesuite As Iudas was the antesignanus of traytors chiefe Captain of the cursed crue so since him the false stiled Iesuits but the true Iudaites are the cheefe Shibas to blow aloud the trumpet of rebellion And there was a wicked man named Sheba the sonne of Bicri a man of Iemini and hee blew the Trumpet and said We haue no part in Dauid nor inheritance in the sonne of Ishai Euery man to his tents O Israel 2 Sam. 20. 1. And there are many of Israel that follow these Shebas but the men of Iudah claue fast vnto their King from Iordan euen to Ierusalem All good subiects will cleaue with the men of Iudah faithfully to their King and will goe with Ioab to pursue these Shebas vntill their heads be cut off and throwne to them ouer the wall These Shebas make Kings the markes of their murther saying with treacherous Achitophel I will smite the King onely or with the King of Aram Fight neyther against small or great saue onely against the King of Israel Feriunt summos fulmina montes The highest mountaines most exposed to Thunders And to perpetrate such crying and capitall murders they will hazard the perill of their liues and losse of their soules and but that the Lord hath giuen his Angels a charge ouer his Anointed to keepe them in all his waies the attempts of such desperate miscreants were deadly dangerous for as Seneca Vitae tuae dominus est quisquis suam contempsit He is Master of thy life who contemnes his owne Cato when hee had got a sword though therewith to kill himselfe cried out Now am I my owne man So these desperate villaines who runne with desire to their owne deaths are their owne men to act murder but God doth bring to nought their desires and deuices and raiseth vp for his seruants in extraordinary dangers extraordinary deliuerances The imminent danger of King Croesus yet a Heathen King opened the mouth of his dumbe sonne to tell it Bessus his parricide discouered by the chattering of Swallowes verifying Salomons wordes The fowles of the ayre carrie that voice God can cause euery fowle of heauen and euery creature on earth to finde a tongue to tell treason to deliuer his Anointed Our gracious King is a speaking mappe of many wonderfull deliuerances in extraordinary dangers still we cry and craue with Dauid Domine saluum fae Regem Lord saue the King cloath all his enemies with shame and breake them in peeces like a Potters vessell Let thy hands O Lord finde out all that hate him make them like a fiery ouen in the time of thine anger and destroy them in thy wrath Deliuer his soule from the sword and saue him from the Lions mouthes confound all Shebas that would stirre
vp Israel against Dauid and all Adoniahs that gape to take the kingdome from our Salomon all like them let them perish like them Then will all loyall subiects reioyce when they see the vengeance they shall wash their feet in the bloud of the wicked Let our feruent prayers be daily powred forth vnto God to defend him from all Traytors to reueale their plots and reuenge their purposes that they qui volunt occidere regem posse nolunt That they who would kill a King may neuer haue power to performe it that no danger may assault him no treachery may endanger him giue thine Angels charge O Lord to sentinell ouer him make his chamber like the tower of Dauid built for defence a thousand shields hang therein and all the targets of the strong men and his bed like Salomons threescore strong men round about it of the valiant men of Israel they all handle the sword and are expert in warre euery one hath his sword vpon his thigh for the feare by night that so no enemy may oppresse him nor the wicked approach to hurt him to destroy his foes before his face and plague them that hate him his seed long to endure and his daies as the daies of heauen So shall the Lord be gracious to his Seruant and mercifull to vs his people who continually pray God saue the King Corporally CHAP. X. 2. Spiritually GOD Saue the King Spiritually God euer keep him constant and couragious to maintaine the true profession of the Gospell and to labour to purge Gods Church of all superstition and to plant in it Gods true religion This is the first duety of Kingly seruice vnto God to cleanse his Church of all idolatry and superstition The good Kings Ezechias and Iosias were carefull in this behalfe Ezechiah when hee came to the Crowne of Iudah he tooke away the high places brake the Images and cut downe the groues and brake in peeces the brazen serpent c. that is rooted and raced out all Idolatry So Iosiah puts downe all Idols and Idolatrous Priests who defiled the Temple So Asa tooke the wicked Sodomites out of the land and deposed Maacha his Mother because shee had made an Idoll in a groue So Salomon installed in his kingdome built a Temple for seruice and worship of the Lord. It is the office of a King specially to take care to prouide that God may be religiouslie worshipped that his people may feare the Lord serue him in the trueth for the happinesse of King and Kingdome consists in the trueth of their religion For that nation and kingdome which will not serue the Lord shall perish and be vtterly destroyed saith the Prophet Esay Est boni Principis religionem ante omnia constituere saith Liuie It is the part of a good King first to establish true religion for that is the very fountaine and foundation of all felicity Beneficentia quae fit in cultum Dei maxima gratia That loue and care which is declared towards the true worship of God is most commendable for true religion is Cardo or Axis the very Pillar of all prosperity the soule of Tranquility the totall summe of true felicity Propter Ecclesiam in mundo durat mundus saith Luther Christs Church on earth is the cause of the continuance of this earthly world without the light of the Gospel Kings people liue in thraldome in the Egypt of wofull blindnesse it is but painted happinesse a vaine flourish nay a dangerous ship of state where God sits not at the sterne As all kingdomes stand luteis pedibus vpon clay feet so that Kingdome cannot stand at all which wants the foundation true religion It is the speech of an Heathen but may be the lesson of a Christian Religio vera est firmamentum reip c. True religion the foundation of a Common wealth and the chiefe care ought to be to plant the same So Dauid reioyces in nothing so much as in the Arke of God desirous rather to be a dore-keeper in Gods house then to rule in the tents of the vngodly Like to that good Emperor who gloried more to be membrum Ecclesiae then caput Imperij a member of Gods Church then an head of a great Empire Salomon begins well first in building an house for God knowing nothing can prosper without God Except the Lord keep the City the watchman watcheth but in vaine In vaine doe the Kings of the earth stand vp if they assemble against the Lord for then hee laughes them to scorne and shall haue them in derision Be wise now therefore O ye Kings serue the Lord in feare be wise in Diuine matters serue the Lord in feare for his feare is the beginning of wisedome to direct you to rule your selues and people in the seruice and worship of his holy name We read it recorded of Constantinus the Emperor that when he died he did much lament for three things which had happened in his reigne First the murther of Gallus his kinsman Secondly the liberty of Iulian the Apostate Thirdly the change and alteration of religion And surely there cannot be a greater cause of lamentation then an innouation or alteration of religion yea then a tolleration of a contrary religion It had beene a hard matter to haue had obtained a tolleration of such a thing as a Masse at Moses hands with a masse of money A godly Prince may not suffer any religion but the true religion in his Dominions and this we may proue by diuers reasons First the exercise of a false religion is directly against the honour and glory of God Ergo. Secondly consent in true religion is vinculum Ecclesiae the chayne and bond of Gods Church for there is but one faith therefore a difference and dissention in religion is a dissolution in Gods Church but no Prince ought to haue his hand in dissoluing Gods Church for Kings are nursing Fathers of the Church Thirdly it is the Princes duty to prouide for the safety of the bodies much more for the safety of the soules of his Subiects Now true religion is the foode but false the bane of soules and you know Qui non seruat periturum cum potest occidit He that doth not helpe one ready to perish being able to helpe kills him Fourthly the Angell of the Church of Pergamus is reprooued for hauing such in Pergamus as maintained the doctrine of Balaam and the doctrine of the Nicholaitans and the Church of Thiatyra reproued for suffering Iezabel to teach and deceiue Fiftly the Lords Altar and Baals Altar must not stand together Quae concordia Dei Belial No agreement twixt God and Belial Indeed the Papists haue beene very earnest to supplicate for a Tolleration for their corrupt religion and yet themselues neuer allow it The Pope neuer afforded such fauour to Protestants witnesse their
done wrong to or whom haue I hurt c. And all the People of Britanny must answere with the people of Israel there Thou hast done vs no wrong nor hurt vs nor taken ought of any mans hand the Lord is witnesse His Highnesse speciall care and gracious desire is to haue Gods Religion sincerely imbraced Iustice executed Vertue promoted Vice punished Gods Lawes and the good Lawes of the Land generally maintained and obserued so that the Church finds him a true Defender of the Faith the Common-wealth a Father the proud a powerfull Prince the meeke and humble a mercifull Gouernour All find him a most religious and vertuous King carefull of the good of Church and Common-wealth that all the politicke members of this Princely Head may leade a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty These Princely properties and sacred graces will procure his Maiesty an eternall Crowne of glory in Heauen as God hath promoted him to a soueraignety and supremacy here on Earth and may truely moue all sound members of this politicke body whereof his sacred Highnesse is supreame Head to pray with the Psalmist Giue thy Iudgements to the King O Lord and thy righteousnesse vnto the Kings sonne then shall he iudge the people with righteousnesse and thy poore with equity In his dayes shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace shall be so long as the Moone endureth yea to pray like the Isralites for the life of our King and the life of his royall Queene his Princely Sonne the County Palatine of Rhene with the Princesse Elizabeth and their Progeny that all their dayes may be vpon the Earth as the dayes of Heauen and that God would giue vs strength and lighten our eyes that we may liue vnder their shadow and may long doe them seruice and find fauor in their sight That God would confound all their enemies and put them to a perpetuall shame That the Lord of Hosts may be euer with them and the God of Iacob may be their Refuge to protect and direct them to hide them from the conspiracy of the wicked and from the rage of the workers of iniquity that God may euer blesse them and preserue their going out and comming in from henceforth and for euermore So we thy people and sheep of thy Pasture the louing and loyall subiects and seruants of the Lords Annointed will praise thee for euer and pray vnto thee from generation to generation God saue our King Corporally Spiritually Politically Peroratio I will draw these lines to the maine Center of all making our conclusion short and gratulatory First to your Grace sacred Soueraigne the mighty Monarch of these flourishing Kingdomes shall I that am but dust and ashes prefume to speake vnto my Lord and King Let not my Lord be angry though I speake once and how happy shall this poore Embrio be if euer it be graced with the milde aspect of your Princely eyes and once but touched with your Regall hands which holds the Iacob staffe to measure the height of all learning Giue patient leaue and licence to your vnworthy and vnable vassall prostrated in all submissiue obedience at your Highnesse feete to celebrate and congratulate the happy day of your Maiesties entrance into this kingdome A day of good tidings and who can hold his peace A day which was the beginning to multiply and aduance our chiefest ioyes on earth making vs sing with the Psalmist This is the day which the Lord hath made let vs be glad and reioyce in it O Lord I pray thee saue now Lord preserue him whom thou hast giuen giue him O King of Kings good successe peace prosperity multiply these good daies grant him many of these happy yeares Annos vt annis addat è nostris Deus Eusebius the Bishop of Caesarea thought himselfe much honoured that he was appointed to preach at the inauguration of Constantinus the Emperour so I take it as my great ioy that I the most weake of all our tribe am one of the first in this kinde to write the aniuersary of Englands happinesse by your Maiesties entrance to put them in a perpetuall remembrance to reioyce with thankefulnesse And if I should remember in your presence the innumerable benefits and blessings your subiects of great Brittaine enioy by your Princely comming to this Crowne I might be iudged a flatterer a creature most odious in your Graces eyes modesty compels me to be silent I will onely say that which I haue read the Painter Zeuxes did who being to make the portraiture of Iuno chose out certaine amiable Virgins put the seuerall beauty of them all into that picture so indeed the wise Creator of all hath made you such a King the liuing picture of all earthly perfections and as it was an old saying That in one Austen there was many Doctors in one Iulius Caesar many Captaines so in one and our King Iames many Kings the very perfection of most Kings But I will turne our praises into prayers remembring Antaloides saying to a certaine Orator making a long oration of Hercules praises cut him off thus Quis eum vnquam sanus vituperauerit VVho euer in his right wits discommended him So who dare nay who can except the seed of the serpent dispraise your Highnesse whose vertues finde fauour with God and men euery tongue pronounces your name with ioy and euery heart affects your Maiesty with content and comfort As God hath giuen you power in hand so haue you pittie in heart Clementia Regis est quasi imber serotinus saith Salomon The pitty or fauour of a King is like the latter raine and your princely delight is not in sono catenarum in the noyse of chaines but like the good Emperor rather desirous to call the dead to lise then put the liuing to death So that I may say to your Grace as Mecaenas saide of Octauius Caesar Omnes te tanquam parentem seruatorem suum intuentur te moderatum vita inculpata pacificum amant c. All people fixe their dutifull eyes vpon you as vpon the publike Father of the Common-wealth loyally louing you being milde and mercifull holy in life and peaceable in gouernment So that though at last there must be a translation to an incorruptible Crowne in Heauen yet all your Subiects pray the time of that transmigration may bee long dedeferred Horac Serus in coelum redeas diuque Laetus intersis populo Britanno I need not heere play the part of King Philips Page to cry at your Princely chamber dore Memento te esse mortalem Remember you are mortall or with the Artificers of the Emperors tombes at the day of the Emperors Coronation offer a lap full of stones with these verses Elige ab his Saxis ex quo Augustissime Caesar ipse tibi tumulum me fabricare velis Of these same stones most
heauen and seruing loyally the King on earth not to prefer earth before heauen to say with some Mart. lib. 9. Seeke others for to feast with Iupiter aboue I heere on earth my Iupiter will loue But first seeke the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse and this wil teach you to serue your King with faithfulnesse and to pray for his preseruation in all humble and harty diligence and obedience saying God saue the King Also to your Honors right noble Peeres this taske belongeth alwaies to pray God saue the King being noble by birth or place this will ennoble your persons more if you say faithfully as Iudith did to Bagoas concerning Holofernes feignedly Who am I that I should gaine say my Lord surely whatsoeuer pleaseth him I will doe speedily and it shall be my ioy vnto the day of my death then your names and fames shall euer stand registred in the Chronicle of honor free from the blacke Characters of disloyall infamie And though Fortunes image be made of glasse brittle and mutable yet your honourable memoriall shall neuer perish Death which is the true Herald of Armes blazoning mans pedegree to be but genus lutulentum a picture of dust be he a Prince in his pallace or a begger vnder a bush yet corruption is their Father and the wormes their mother and sister Their good workes following them but their pompe left behinde them onely their sanctitie to God and seruice to their King and Countrie shal make them glorious in heauen and famous on earth Posteritie will hold them worthy of honor and desire to reserue a Catalogue of their names and will say These were the Noble men that loued their God their King and Countrie Many haue done vertuously but these surmounted them all Archidamus told King Philip after his victory at Cheron that if he should measure his shadow he should not find it an haires breadth bigger or longer then before so let no vaine-glory fill you with empty wind it cannot make your shadowes bigger or longer glory more in your owne vertuous actions then in your renowned Ancestors for though some doe boast to be A loue tertius Aiax yet Quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voca Ouid. It is the honour of a noble man when he doth excell in vertue his forepassed Ancestors when he is religious to feare God and to honour the King saying of his Soueraigne as Isaac said to Iacob Cursed be he that curseth thee and blessed be hee that blesseth thee and wishing with the Apostle would to God they were cut off which doe disquiet him alwayes loyall to his Soueraigne and louing to his Countrey willing to aduenture in their seruice his limbes or life euer wishing and praying God saue the King and Countrey Likewise to your Fatherhoods most right and reuerend Fathers the Heads and louing Brethren of the Tribe of Leui whose place and office bind you in all duty to be loyall to the royall Tribe of Iudah to you I may without offence proffer this poore present who spend your spirits at Gods Altar to offer a morning and an euening incense of seruent prayers for the preseruation of Gods Annointed exhorting with Paul that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giuing of thankes be made for Kings and for all that be in authority And indeed before all and aboue all we of the Church the vitall spirits of the politicke body haue manifold motiues to pray for our Soueraigne who vnto vs against the tempest of these times is a refuge an hiding place from the wind and as the shadow of a great rocke as it was said of King Ezechiah His Maiesty is a Defender of the Church as he is a Defender of the Faith and against the Atheists and Alexanders of these dayes that would doe vs much wrong he stands to pleade our cause to grace our calling that we may say with the Poet â—unen Sat. 6. Et spes ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum Solus enim tristes hac teÌ„pestate camaen as respexit Though the Church be made blacke blacke by customary contempt and continuall oppression and persecution yet the King kisseth her with the kisses of his mouth and his loue is better then wine we will reioyce and be glad in thee we will remember thy loue more then wine the righteous doe loue thee And herein if we may boast in any thing we may boast in this That our Church was neuer the Author of Treason The Mother of Soules should not be the murderer of Kings members inclined to rebellion were neuer well possessed of Religion As we haue hitherto beene faithfull obedient and loyall so still euer be from the Church Sit procul omne nefas Let the mother of blood and treason still dwell vnder the roofe of Romish Babylon the mother of whoredomes and of these abhominations drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus Christ which cloake these murders and massacres vnder the mantle of Religion like the Rulers of Ephesus distressed with a terrible battery in that Seige her Gouernours tied with ropes the wals and gates to Dianas Temple that so being consecrated to the Goddesse that enemy should assault them at his perill Euen so the Popish pollicy is to tie euery thing to the Temple Conspiracies Murders Treasons all tied to the Church cloaked vnder a colour of Religion that I may say with their owne Leo Ecclesiae nomine armantur contra ecclesiam dimieant They arme themselues with the name of the Church to fight against the Church and to destroy the pillars of the Church Hi Christum simulant sed Sathanalia vivunt Well let our preaching and praying tend to this end to giue Caesar obedience to feare God and to honour the King knowing that all must submit to the Higher Powers for conscience sake and for the Lords sake and they that will not doe it they are none of Gods Clergy none of the Heritage of the Lord They haue neither conscience nor calling like to certaine Bishops in Ambrose dayes of whom he writes Quod dedit cum episcopus ordinaretur aurum fuit quod perdidit anima fuit cum alium ordinaret pecunia fuit quod dedit lepra fuit That which he gaue when he was made a Bishop was gold what he lost was his soule when he made another it was for money what he gaue was a leprosie But these Bishops liue beyond the Alpes I hope there is none in Albion It is our comfort and our Crowne that our calling and conscience is such which burnes in zeale and duty to God and loyall obedience to our graciour Soueraigne Morning and euening at noone and at night at bed and boord praying God saue the Church God saue the King To you the wise and worthy Iudges
of the Land who are the eyes and eares of this politicke Body who well know Scita patrum leges iura fidemque deosque To you I may dedicate and appropriate these our labours whose places and paines serue to this purpose to serue the King and Countrey and to helpe to preserue the welfare of the King and Kingdome Your publike paines and priuate prayers speake to the World these words God saue the King You are sworne to this seruice and sweat in it neuer more Malefactors in this kind and as Paul tels Timothy In the last dayes shall come perillous times for men shall be Traytors heady high-minded c. You know the Nilus where these Crocodils are bred and fed vse all good diligence to catch them spread your nets not Vulpina retia Foxes nets but Regni retia The Lawes of the Land if you can take them you shall doe God and the King good seruices Spare none of this kind who dare lift vp their hand against the Lords Annointed for they are worthy to die Bonis nocet qui malis parcit He hurts the good which spares the bad yea in all your loyall and legall seruice let neither feare or fauour flattery or bribery blind your eyes or deafe your eares remembring that you exercise not the iudgement of man but of God and thinke vpon this verse in your Iudgement seate Hic locus odit amat punit conseruat honorat Nequitiam pacem crimina iura bonos Farre bee that leprosie from the Iudges of our Land which so corrupted them in Ciceros dayes that he could say His iudicijs quae nunc sunt pecuniosum hominem non posse damnari In these iudgements which are now a monied man cannot be condemned But bribery foules not your hands who to corrupting Simons say with Symon Peter Thy money perish with thee Neither let any of Agesilaus letters moue you who writ to a Iudge for his fauourite in this stile Si causa bona pro iustitia sin mala pro amicitia absolue If his cause be good dismisse him for Iustice sake if bad for friendship sake Let Iustice be vnpartially executed yet tempered with lawfull pitty thinke vpon that Christian caueat Duo sunt nomina peccator homo quod peccator corripe quod homo miserere These are two names an offender a man as an offender punish him as a man pitty him be not too seuere with Draco Ne superet medicina modum Least the medicine exceed the malady nor too remisse with lenity for that is a kind of cruelty Tam omnibus ignoscere crudelitas quam nulli saith Seneca To pardon all is cruelty as well as to pardon none But Sus mineruam You know best to keepe the meane and Medium tenuere beati So shall you performe laudable seruice to God King and Countrey if you execute Iustice punish disobedience which is the falling sicknesse of a corrupt Common-wealth Command all to giue * Caesar his due represse all his enemies by force of lawes and cut them off with the sword of Iustice that their exemplary punishments may terrifie all others from such attempts and bee like monitors and remembrancers to all people crying Discite iustitiam moniti non temnere diuos Virg. Let others harmes admonish thee and learn not to despise these supreame powers for which offence so many Traytors dies Seauenthly to the Common-wealth Last of all to you the inferior yet sound members of the supreame Head the natiue and nationall children of our common Mother whom I may fitly compare to the hands and legges of this politicke body to fight and stand strongly for the defence and welfare of our King and Kingdome To you I hope this little Booke will be welcome and therefore say to you as the Angell said to Iohn Take this little Booke and eate it and if you be good Subiects it will be sweet in your mouthes and not bitter in your bellies for you cannot be true Christians vnlesse you be true Caesarians there is no true Religion in that heart which entertaines a motion to rebellion it is a rotten member that will not be obedient to the regall Maiestie And consider with your selues the happy blessings you enioy by the mercifull prouidence of God in giuing to this Realme so godly and gracious a Soueraigne to reigne ouer you and it will make you cry forth with the Psalmist Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord and his blessing is vpon the people O Lord how fauourable hast thou beene vnto our Land in placing ouer vs so religious and renowned a King so absolute and compleate a Prince in wisdome learning and religion and it will stirre vp all thankefull hearts to say with the Psalmist Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee Sing prayses to God sing prayses sing prayses vnto our King for hee hath chosen our inheritance for vs euen the glory of Iacob whom he loued If we be not truly thankefull for so great benefits it may be truly verified of vs which was said of Canaan Bona terra sed gens mala A good Land but in it there be bad people O vnthankefull and vngratefull Britaines if euer you forget so great blessings Vae vobis propter ingratitudinem Woe be vnto you for your ingratitude Ingrata patria Vngratefull Countrey it is an infamous name odious to nature and Nations Gratiarum actio est ad plus dandum inuitatio Giuing of God thankes for fauours receiued is a kind of supplication and inuitation to obtaine more The Anatomists tell vs that euery creature hath foure muscles about the eyes but a man fiue foure serue to turne about the eyes the fifth serues to lift vp the eye and looke vpward to Heauen Man should not with other brutish creatures looke altogether vpon the earth but lift vp his eyes hands and heart to Heauen to giue God due and true thankes for his daily and fatherly fauours and mercies bestowed vpon him The Oxe knowes his Owner and the Asse his Masters Crib yea the Riuers are tributary to the Sea from whence some say they first come and againe returne All Creatures seeme in their kind to be gratefull debtors to their curteous Benefactors except the Swine whose mast makes him forget the tree from whence the Acornes fall or the Moon which being at the full by interposition of the earth darkens the Sunne from whence yet shee borrowes all her light It was Israels sinne vnthankefulnesse I pray God it be not Englands sicknesse vngratefulnesse to God Woe vnto vs if we scant God of our fruits who hath not scanted vs of his fauours Bring presents to the King of glory giue vnto the Lord glory due vnto his Name worship the Lord in his glorious sanctuary Not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy Name giue the glory for thy louing mercy and for
thy truths sake Be euer thankefull to God and then he will euer be mindfull of you to blesse you the Lord will increase his graces towards you euen toward you and your children therefore praise the Lord from henceforth and for euermore for he hath not dealt so with euery Nation and if our deseruing were put into the lottery of other people wee should bee rewarded with a blanke Gods loue and gracious fauour to vs is ignis accendens fire to set vs on fire Let our thankefulnesse to God be ignis accensus a fire flaming to God in all zeale loue duety thankes seruice and deuotion God hath set England as it were vpon an hill a spectacle to all Nations strengthened by sea and land ad miraculum vsque to the admiration of all people blessed it with an extraordinarie peace prosperity of long continuance we are the worlds enuie let vs not become their declamation Nothing but our vnthankefulnesse to God our licentiousnesse in life our disobedience to his Word our securitie in sin our contempt of good meanes and mercies offered can worke our ouerthrow and these if we doe not drowne them quickly in the riuers of repentance so one may breed and bring our wofull downefall The Lord hath blessed this land with great and gracious blessings in it the golden bels of Aaron are powerfully rung the word by faithfull teachers mouingly deliuered Oh let our perpetuall prayers praises and thanks ascend to heauen because Gods graces and mercies plentifully descend to earth Et si desint gratiae quia nos ingrati If any grace be wanting it is because we want grace to be thankefull for this our happy gouernment hauing a prosperous peace and that which is the procurer of peace with God and men that blessed passage of the Gospell Si totum me debeo pro me facto quid debeo pro me refecto saith a Father If wee owe God our selues for our creation what doe we owe vnto him for our regeneration preseruation and saluation We therefore that haue tasted of the great cup of Gods mercy let vs with Dauid take the cup of saluation giue thanks and praise the name of the Lord let vs praise God for these aboundant mercies and euer pray vnto him to preserue the happy instrument of manifold benefits and blessings to vs our most dread and deare Soueraigne duty bindeth vs to this taske our owne welfare mooues vs to this duety for his prosperity is our tranquillity his safety is our felicity the blessing redounds to vs and if he should miscarry which God forbid we should be partakers of his misfortunes Therefore be alwaies obedient and diligent to serue our royall Head golden in all vertues and princely perfections in all loyall and Christian dueties louing his Highnesse in our hearts which is the best earthly defence for a King Inexpugnabile munimentum est amor ciuium saith Seneca The loue of the people is an inuincible munition and as that great Rabbi of pollicie Machiauel hath set it downe for a sure rule Contra regem quem omnes magnifaciunt difficilis coniuratio oppugnatio irruptio Against that King whom all highly esteem and reuerence conspiracy or treachery is very difficult or if attempted seldome succeedes Let vs bee in pace Lepores but in praelio Leones in peace like Hares timerous to offend his Grace in any way of disobedience but like Lions fight for him against all his enemies with an vnwearied courage vndanted magnanimity ioyning with our fighting hands our feruent prayers to God like faithfull Israelites against all rebelling Amalekites Oratio coelos penetrat hostes in terravincit saith Origen Prayers pierce heauen and ouercome enemies on earth plus precando quam praeliando more by praying then by fighting Dauids encountring with Goliah in the name of the Lord was more powerfull then his fling and fiue stones Let vs make it one part of our daily praiers to God to keepe our King as the apple of his eye and hide him vnder the shadow of his wings to saue him from all enemies bodily or ghostly to consume them in his wrath consume them that they bee no more let them know that God ruleth in Iacob euen vnto the ends of the world beseeching God of his great mercie euer to prosper this most peaceable and puissant Monarchie of great Brittaine Arise vnto it as vnto thy resting place Turne not away thy face from thine Anointed who hath now happily to our immeasurable ioy worne the imperiall Diadem of great Brittaine these 15. * yeares Many more happie and prosperous yeares wee pray to be continued prolong his daies O Lord as the daies of heauen and grant that his Highnesse and his Princely posterity may in these kingdomes reigne so long as the world endureth Enlarge and enrich his royall heart with all Regall gifts and Diuine graces sutable for his high calling Saue and defend him from the tyranny or treachery of all forraine and Antichristian power and from the plots and proiects of domestical aduersaries Let them couer themselues with their confusion as with a cloake Blesse his most gracious spouse and bedfellow Queene Anne let thy Angels O Lord encampe about her to guide guard her in a safe protection and euer continue thy most heauenly hand of benediction vpon the high mighty Prince Charles the famous Prince of Wales the second ioy of great Britaine Lord looke vpon him from heauen Giue thy iudgements vnto the King and thy righteousnesse vnto the Kings Sonne Teach him O Lord in his tender yeares like a good Iosias to learne and loue thy true religion the way to winne the eternall Crowne of life Be gracious O Lord to the County Palatine of Rhene Fredericke Prince Elector and to his most vertuous and gracious wife Princesse Elizabeth with their Princely progenie O Lord preserue them with thy mightie and out-stretched arme giue them a most happy peace and prosperity in a Princely honor felicity all the daies of their liues O Lord scatter the deuices of the crafty that their hands may not accomplish any wicked thing they do enterprise Confound all them that haue ill will at Sion that repine at the peace of the Church the welfare of great Britaine the prosperity of his Maiesty his royall progenie that howsoeuer they haue shift of faces and maske vnknowne yet let vs pray that that stone which is cut without hands may breake the Images of such Traitors in peeces giuing him victory ouer all his enemies Cloath them all with shame but vpon him let his Crowne flourish and grant him an happy multiplication of many prosperous yeares to renew with many returnes these our cordiall and annuall Ioyes long to sit vpon his Throne and make his foes his footstoole And let high and low rich and poore young and old yea let Heauen and earth
with the Monarchie of greate Britaine and all good Christians professors of the Gospell be deuoted Suppliants to the King of Kings with ioyfull tongues and zealous hearts to pray and say God saue our King God saue King IAMES Viuat valeat vincat God saue the King Corporally Amen Spiritually Amen Politically Amen ΤÎλος Gloria Tri-vni Deo in secula Caesaris Hostes OR THE TRAGEDY OF TRAITORS For the fift day of August The day of the bloudy GOWRIES Treason and of our Kings blessed preseruation I will sing a new song vnto thee O God and sing vnto thee vpon a Viole and an Instrument of ten strings for it is hee that giueth deliuerance vnto Kings and rescueth Dauid his seruant from the hurtfull sword PSALM 144. 9. 10. Dum iniusti saeuiunt iusti saluantur vtilitati bonorum militat potest as prauorum Gregor in Moral By SAMVEL GAREY Preacher of Gods Word LONDON Printed by IOHN BEALE for HENRY FETHERSTONE and IOHN PARKER 1618. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE S ir FRANCIS BACON Knight Lord Chancellor of England Right Honourable Lord IT was the saying of St Hierome to Celantia Summa apud Deum nobilitas est clarum esse virtutibus Yea the wise Moralist vnchristened Seneca could say Nobilitas animi generositas est sensus nobilitas hominis est generosus animus The which true Nobility of the minde is your inherent and hereditary honor famoused for Piety Iustice Learning and Liberality so that the world sees you write not your desires in the dust We blesse God and wonder to behold in you so admirable a patterne of true Nobility moues vs to say with K. Lemuel Many haue done vertuously but you surmount them all in your great perfection of Arts and happy progresse in Grace the world can number but few such Vereor ne violem frontem tuaÌ„ sedem honoris testem verecundiae I know the sound of the trumpet of your praises is no musick to your eares neyther doe I loue such straines the land in generall ecchoes your renowned applause and God who hath so blessed you and by the Kings Maiesty promoted you to so honourable a Place continue you an happy instrument of much good to Church and Common-wealth and prosper your noble proceedings according to the promise of your admired entrance And now most honorable Lord I humblie craue your pardon in presuming to present so simple a Present vnto the view of so approued a iudgement who haue Mercurium in lingua MineruaÌ„ pectore yet although not the manner being meane and homely yet the matter handled may iustly merit your noble acceptance being a description of the hainous sin of Treason the fall and Tragedy of Traitors plagues which the Arch-traitor to mankinde hath added to the world and also a seasonable subiect for the Time August the fift against which day it was and is prepared as an annuall obiect And I know there is none within the compasse of Great Brittaine poures forth more hearty prayers to God with a more feruent and faithfull soule then your Honor doth for the preseruation of our most deare and dread Soueraigne and for the detection and destruction of all pestilent and truculent Traitors Wherefore in a hopefull affiance of your honorable acceptance I humbly offer this little labor a Testimony of my great obseruance with my selfe perpetually to your seruice not after a ceremoniall submission but from a serious agnizing and feeling of mine owne imbecillity euery way so obscure and weake that ingenuouslie I confesse Et scripfisse pudet quia plurima cerno me quoque qui feci iudice digna lini And of all others I know your Honors censure and iudgement is most substantiall yet my weakenesse thus farre encourages me that your Honor will like my willing mind commend the matter though not the manner and I hope will fauourablie accept this Mite and put it into your richer Treasurie and countenance it with your worthy protection which will be like Aiax buckler to shield it safe against detraction Ringanter rumpantur liueant improbent maledici si Honori tuo arriserit instar mille Platonis calculus I would not bee a monster to please all but some and say with the Poet Lucilius Me paucis malle à sapientibus esse probatuÌ„ So giuing my farewell to this feeble Infant saying as Iakob did when he parted with his beloued Beniamin * Goe and the Lord shew thee fauour in his sight and sovpon the bended knees of my prostrated heart to God I shall euer incessantly pray to the Lord Keeper of Heauen and Earth to make your paths euery way prosperous blessing your Honour with happy preseruation and a longioyfull life on earth and grant you an eternall Patent sealed by the euerlasting Decree of the sacred Trinitie of immortall possession of a glorified life in Heauen Your good Honors euer to be commanded in all duety and seruice SAMVEL GAREY Caesaris Hostes OR The Tragedie of TRAYTORS Now these are examples to vs. 1 Cor. 10. 6. If thou hast any enemy or Traytor send him hither and thou shalt receiue him well scourged 2 Macch. 3. 38. CHAP. I. THE memory of Gods great and glorious workes either of iudgement vpon his enemies or mercy towards the Church ought to be preserued with a thankefull remembrance So the Iewes being preserued by the meanes of Queene Ester and godly Mordecai from the intended plot by Haman kept the foureteenth day of the moneth Adar yeerely with feasting and ioy So when God had deliuered his people of Israel from the tyranny of Tryphon by the meanes of Simon their Captaine he ordayned that the same day of their deliuerance should be kept euery yeere with gladnesse So when the people of Israel were deliuered from the captiuity of Babylon and restored to Gods true Religion they kept a Feast seauen dayes together to the Lord with reioycing and thanksgiuing The Feasts of the Passeouer Pentecost Tabernacles were commanded by Moses to be kept holy in remembrance of great benefits receiued at Gods hands Hence it was that in times past the Patriarks Prophets and people of God would not forget any memorable act of Gods prouidence without setting some remarkeable Memonto vpon it that so it might remaine fresh to succeeding generations that the children vnborne might tell it to their children That valley wherein Iehoshaphats aduersaries were ouerthrowne was called Beracah a valley of blessing that so the Name might present to their minds to praise God for their maruellous victory Iacob did call the place where God appeared to him Bethel The House of God which before was called Luz and Dauid the place where Vzza was smitten Perez vzza i. the diuision of Vzzah and Abraham the place where Isaac was deliuered from the bloody knife Iehouah-ijreh i. The Lord seeth or prouideth and the Iewes called those holy-dayes which they solemnized for their deliuerance from Hamans deuice
â—lla Like the noise of thornes burning vnder the Pot as Salomon Eccle. 7. 8. And therefore these fulminations were againe confirmed by Pius Quintus his successour Gregory the 13. Yet all these plots instar vaporis euanuerunt vanished away like smoake proceeding out of that smoaky Kingdome of Antichrist and her Crowne and person by the fauour of the Almighty vnder whose shadow shee was protected safely defended and reigned forty and foure yeeres foure moneths and eight dayes a Virgin Queene and died in peace in a full and glorious age so beloued so honoured and so esteemed of her subiects at home and Princes abroad as neuer any Queene more so that it was verified of her truly which the Psalmist of Christ typically Why did the Heathen rage together and the People imagine a vaine thing The Kings of the Earth stand vp and the Princes assembled together against the Lord and against his Annointed but he that dwelled in the Heauens did laugh them to scorne the Lord had them in derision for there is no wisdome neither vnderstanding nor counsell against the Lord. And this our deare and dread Soueraigne whom the Lord of mercy still preserue hath beene subiect to sundry dangers by wicked Traitors as his Maiesty doth witnesse it himselfe not onely since his birth but before his birth euen in his Mothers belly but especially to two most horrible Treasons this in Scotland attempted by the bloudy Gowries the fift of August and the other in England the fift of Nouember the Gun-powder Treason from both which barbarous and monstrous proiects the latter no age can parallel the like the great King of all Kings in his great mercy graciously protected him that both King subiects may say with Zachary Being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies we may serue him without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the daies of our liues So that our King may vse the Psalmists words When the wicked euen mine enemies and my foes came vpon me to eat my flesh they stumbled and fell The Lord did reward them according to their deeds and according to the wickednesse of their inuentions Therefore giue vnto the Lord O ye sonnes of the mighty giue vnto the Lord all the glory for your deliuerance CHAP. III. TREASON hath beene alwaies accounted an heynous sinne and by Iustinian ranked next to Sacriledge Crimen laesae Maiestatis proximuÌ„ Sacrilegio c. Treason is next to Sacriledge the one a robbery of God this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fighting with God so odious that the sole intention without action or execution is death for Voluntas reputatur pro facto in causa proditionis The will is accounted for the deede in Treason Principis in rehus voluisse sat est And therefore there was a statute made in the reigne of Edward the third That whosoeuer shal imagine the Kings death are guilty of rebellion and high treason This statute toucheth all Iesuites who are perduellionum signiferi the ring-leaders of Rebels to animate them to rebellion vnder a colour of religion If the meere intention of Treason be so capitall what then is the Action Clamitat im coelum vox sanguinis The voyce of blood cryes to heauen for reuenge VVhat doth the voyce of royall bloud spilt by the hands of execrable Parricides destroying Gods owne image the Lords Annointed May I not call such as Polycarpe called Marcion Daemonis filiolos the Deuils children and say as our Sauiour did to the Iewes Ye are of your Father the Deuill he hath beene a murtherer from the beginning Nay the very Heathens void of Gods word did greatly abhorre Traitors and seuerely punish them Traitors among the Greekes were brought to Delphos and they did offer them a quicke sacrifice to Apollo The Persians did bury such quicke and the Romanes brought such to the publicke Theaters where they were hewed in peeces per gladiatores by the sword-players Cn Pompeius the Great made a Law as Pomponius relates it to punish Parricides destroyers of Fathers or Mothers in this kinde To put them into a great vessell or tun or such like instrument inclosing with them in it a Dogge a Viper a Cocke and an Ape and to cast them into the Sea VVhat then shall be done to the publicke Parricides destroyers of Kings and Countries Our Lawes of England hath prouided for them a fit punishment which is this A Traytor conuicted hath his punishment to be drawne from his prison to the place of execution as being vnworthy any more to tread vpon the Mother earth and that backward his head downe-ward as hauing beene retrograde to the naturall course of obedience after hanged vp by the necke twixt heauen and earth as deemed vnworthy of both his priuy parts cut off as vnfit to leaue any generation behinde him his bowels and entrailes burned which in wardly conceiued and concealed Treason his head cut off which imagined such mischiefe and last of all his body quartered as a prey for the birds of the aire and as it was said of a traiterous Iesuite Sic bene pascit aues qui malè pauit oues In life he had no care the sheepe to feede And now his carkasse serues the fowles in neede The Apostle Paul saith That they that resist shall receiue to themselues iudgement The greeuousnesse of iudgement should be proportionable to the heynousnesse of the crime for if the law requireth an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth life for life what death sufficient for a Traytor that kills a King a murderer of many who is worth ten thousand of vs so that hee cannot be sufficiently punished of man but God also will punish him who is a reuenger of such sins Neuer did I reade of any Traytor that did euer escape both the hand of man hand of God Looke vpon Absalom a double Traytor to his Father and his King his end sutable First his chiefe Counseller and plotter Achitophel hanged himselfe twenty thousand of his adherents were slaine in battell Last of all Absalom by the hand of Heauen was hanged vp by the hayre of his head in stead of an halter vpon an Oake tree in stead of a gallowes or gybbet Sheba that traiterous Rebell lost his head for his treason against Dauid King Ammon the sonne of King Manasses an euill King was slaine by his seruants who conspired against him slew him in his owne house but this bloudy fact of King-killing was so odious to the people of the land that they slew them al that had conspired against King Ammon Treacherous Zimri slue his King but the people hearing of it made Omri King to take Zimri who fired the Kings house and died in the fire Bigthan and Teresh who sought to lay hand on King Assuerus were both hanged on a tree The Scripture is plentifull
is thy pleasure which hath beene the ouerthrow of the Angels in Heauen and our Parents in Paradice and many men on Earth Potestatis ambitio Angelum faelicitate angelica priuauit c Euam promissi honoris ambitio illecebrosa decepit An ambition of power depriued the Angell of Angelicall happinesse and the inticing ambition of the promised honour to be like God knowing good and ill deceiued Eue and shee Adam and euer since all the sonnes of Adam haue beene deceiued by her hoping of a rise haue found a fall Excellently Seneca Ambitio non patitur quenquam in ca mensura beatorum conquiescere qua quendam fuit eius votum nemo agit de Tribunatu gratias sed conqueritur quod non est ad Praeturam vsque perductus si Consulatus nec etiam sufficit sivnus est vltra cupiditas non vndevenerit respicit sed quô tendit Ambition will not suffer any man to rest in that measure of state which once he wished none wil giue thanks for a Tribuneship but complaines because not raised to be a Praetor or if a Consull yet that suffices not if alone supreme yet would rise higher for this insatiable ambition lookes not from whence they came but whither they would still repining at others higher aduancement Heu melior quanto sors tua sorte mea est The Poets did very well and wittily figure the fall and folly of Ambition by Phaetons chariot Icarus wings and Ixions wheele who as they had a great desire to rise so they found a grieuous descent and fall Iuuen. Sat. 10 Haec Crassos haec Pompeios euertit illum Ad sua qui domitos deduxit flagra Quirites Ambitious Crassus Pompey and Caesar accorded to the ouerthrow of all the rest and Crassus dying Pompey could not endure an equall nor Caesar a Superior Lucan Nec fert Caesar ve priorem Pompeiusve parem But their Ambition brought both to a bloody fall Lepidus Antony and Octauius reared vp to kill their enemies a Triumuiratus till at last they fell out for the chiefe place Richard the third an vsurper and the ambitious Duke of Buchingham conspired against King Edwards children and friends till they fell out in the end to their owne subuersion All Histories and Chronicles affoord many presidents how ambitious men hungry of supremacy haue brought themselues to misery Yet such a Siren Ambition is that it tempts many to hazard their fall in hope of their rise liquorous to rule and had rather be King of a Mole-hill then Lord of a Mountaine These hungry Vultures which follow the Army watching for the prey before it fall and doe praesagire caedem Foretell a slaughter that like Pharoes seauen leane Kine they might deuoure the fat so these ambitious vultures vse all pollicy stratagems deuises mischiefes and Machauelismes waiting for Moab ad praedam Moab to the spoile these State-anglers fishing with deadly hookes in such troubled waters desirous of change of Rulers that so they might chance to rule seruing all times and turnes Treacherous Timists vnworthy to be trusted varying into all formes and fashions Regnandi causa To get superiority They are like Leontius Bishop of Antioch who being in heart an Arrian couered his Religion by dissimulation and ioyned with the Councell of Nice in the outward profession of the Truth His soule was led by the diuell and his body by the world and so are they tempted with the Diuell and temporizing with the world Iniquitas pulsat animum ambitio continet manum colludunt ad inuicem mater filia iniquitas ambitio haec vendicat sibi publicum illa secretum saith Innocentius Iniquity knocks at the heart Ambition containes the hand for a time the Mother and the Daughter dally together Iniquity and Ambition the one would seeme in publike good the other in secret is most wicked The ambitious would seem vertuous yet is vitious humilitatem simulat honestateÌ„ mentitur affabilitatem exhibet benignitateÌ„ ostendit subsequitur obsequitur cuÌ„ctos honorat vniuersis inclinat frequentat curias visitat optimates assurgit amplexatur applaudit adulatur Counterfeits humility seemes honest shewes himselfe affable and courteous crouching and creeping honouring all tractable to all frequenting Courts visiting great men rising vp and reuerencing applauding and flattering all degrees labouring to be popular which yet is an imperfection in a Politician according to Machiauels rule qui populari inâ—…tur aura domum in luto extruit Hee that relies vpon popular affection raises his house vpon a muddy foundation So Absalom that double Traytor seeking to aspire to his Fathers Throne how plausible hee is putting forth his hand and taking them and kissing them his lippes drop hony-combes Oh that I were made a Iudge in the land c. that I might doe Iustice stealing away the hearts of the men of Israel hoping they would adhere to him when hee had made an head And as Tacitus Leaud men misdoubting the present and expecting change prepare aforehand friends O ambition how many Traitors hast thou bred and shortned the daies of many Emperors and rulers The Chronicles of euery particular Nation furnished with frequent examples What caused Henry the fift the Emperor by force to depriue his Father from his Empire and to keepe him in prison till he died there but abhominable ambition What mooued Mawfroy the Prince of Tarentum to strangle his owne Father Fredericke the Emperour but trayterous ambition Ambition caused Antoninus sonne to the Emperour Seuerus to stabbe his brother Geta with a dagger and tempted Solyman King of the Turkes to strangle his owne son Sultan Mustapha Octauius Caesar by the treason of his wicked wife Liuia impatient to tarry the inthronizing of her sonne as is the nature of Ambition the nearer the goale the faster it runnes tooke away his life at Nola Tiberius Caesar poysoned by his ambitious Nephew Caius Claudius poysoned by his ambitious and incestuous wife Agrippina that her sonne Nero might raigne Galba killed by ambtious Otho Titus brought to his graue not without a vehement suspition of his bloudy brother and successor Yea most of the Caesars killed by the treachery of their ambitious Competitors or procurements The Italian figges of ambitious Cardinals hoping of the Popedome at the next vacancy haue poysoned many a proud Pope This traiterous ambition hath robbed many a King of his Crowne and life and sometimes hath raysed ignoble and obscure men like Agathocles who ex figulo factus Rex or like Adramit tenus who beeing borne of poore Parents yet Regali Sceptro honoratus was honoured with a Regall Scepter when the right heyre by miserable fate factus faber was faine to be a Smith as Dyonisius was faine to be a Schoolemaster VVhen once proud ambition hath inchanted them with this charme aut Caesar aut nâ—llus either a King or no body then though
but one Consistory and can almost doe all that God can doe Clane non errante Hauing an heauenly arbiterment able to change the nature of things Substantialia vnius rei applicando alteri de nihilo potest aliquid facere Applying the substantiall parts of one thing to another and of nothing make something His Doctors according with his decrees and boasting with Pope Nicolaus that Constantine the Emperour sitting in the generall Councell of Nice called the Prelates of the Church all Gods If Prelates by Constantines voice bee Gods what is the Pope the Prince and primate of all prelates aboue all Gods So that his vsurped exaltation hath verified Saint Pauls prediction Boasting himselfe aboue all that is called God dispensing with Gods precepts making it no murder to kill them that bee excommunicate dispensing with Matrimony in prohibited degrees and such like Antichristian power in papall dispensation which cases and causes may be found in his darling Hostiensis de effi◠Legit. So that by the immodest and immoderate extolling of himselfe seconded by his Canonicall Parasites of old time glosing vpon the Popes decrees and corrupt constitutione enacted in the ignorance of times and arrogance of Popes to magnifie the man of sinne the pragmaticall and dogmaticall Antichrist the succession of Popes making Emperors to hold their bridles and stirrups and Kings going before them and to surrender their Crownes vnto them crowning them with their feet and to kisse their toes and to kisse their Legates knees and to waite vpon them at their Pallace gates bare footed to excommunicate Kings to depriue them of their Soueraignty and to absolue their Subiects from Allegiance with such like Pope-like pollicy haue beene the stratagems to exalt the papall Chayre aboue the Imperiall Throne and at first vnder the femblance of humility haue ascended to this sublimity temporizing with the world being darkened with the mist of ignorance yet affected to a blind deuotion and charmed to this Chayre of superstition haue made this Serum Seruorum A Seruant of Seruants to bee Dominus Dominorum a Lord of Lords making Kings his vassayles and doe him homage debasing the Lords Annointed deposing them at his pleasure and disposing of their Kingdomes freeing their Subiects from all obedience and exciting them to violence and villany in rebelling which hath been the cheefe procurer of the shedding of much royall blood the massacres of men and mischiefs and miseries of most Times which wee shall elsewhere more plainely demonstrate I will in the next place touch a little which yet hath beene handled by elaborate and accurate pensels this point of Popes deposition of Kings the very fountaine of Treason founder of Rebellion and confounder of Religion where it is practised or beleeued I will very briefly wright of it least I should seeme to make Iliads after Homer CHAP. IX THE Romane Church or rather Court of Rome wholly degenerated and arrogating a temporall Monarchy swelling with a forged puffe of pride and primacy appropriated to the Papall Chaire challenge an exorbitant and vsurped power of deposition of Kings and of absolution of Subiects from alleagiance to them which two-fold power is termed the principall warders of Saint Peters Keyes without which the Church could not haue beene well shut or opened This power of excommunicating deposing and depriuing Kings and of absoluing Subiects from obedience to them they principally assume from a pretended primacy belonging to the Pope ouer all spirituall and temporall men or matters deriued to them as they pleade from a supremacy in Peter whose Successorship hath intitled them to such a power and priority two points oft alleadged yet neuer proued yet this primacy of Popes as their Bellarmine saith is the chiefe point of Catholike Faith and the foundation of all Religion For which power the Champions of Rome stoutly stand and among the rest the statizing Cardinall Romes-Rabbi Bellarmine the most expert Gamester at the Popes Primero in seuerall workes yet specially in his fift Booke De Romano Pontifice The whole summe of it containing arguments and examples to proue that the Pope may by his Imperiall power though indirectly and in order to the Spirituals depose Princes from their States and Thrones And as the same Bellarmine personating Tortus saith Conuenit inter omnes posse Pontificem maximum iure deponere It is agreed vpon among all that the Pope of Rome may by right and law depose Princes which speech was too generall for many popish Doctors doubt of it and denie the papall intrusion into Caesars Chaire and some that did hold it haue recanted it as Tanquerellus commanded so by the Court of Paris Florentinus Iacobus and Thomas Blanztus the two last holding this for a proposition Pontificem in omnes habere temporalem potestatem That the Pope hath a temporall power ouer all but they came to recantation nay Hart an hearty louer of the Pope yet his opinion different from Bellarmines Whosoeuer make the Pope aboue Kings as a temporall Lord Nihil habere rationis aut probabilitatis to haue neither shew of reason or probability saith he Yet I confesse the generall voice of moderne Papists and among the rest the Iesuites who dispositiuè naturally are inclined to disobedience and pragmatically and dogmatically declare the same These are the chiefe Instruments but Treason consummatiue comes from the Pope first deposing then commanding and warranting disloyalty and conspiracy against them Augustinus Triumphus saith The Emperor of Heauen may depose the Emperor of the Earth in as much as there is no power but of him but the Pope is inuested with the authority of the Emperor of Heauen hee may therefore depose the Emperor of the Earth and as the same saith The Emperor is subiect to the Pope two wayes 1. By a filiall subiection in all spirituall things 2. By a ministeriall subiection in his administration of temporall things for the Emperor is the Popes Minister by whom he administers temporall things so he In like sort saith Aluarus Pelagius that the Pope hath vniuersall Iurisdiction ouer the whole world not onely in spirituall things but in temporall things albeit he exercise the execution of the temporall sword and iurisdiction by his sonne the Emperor as by his aduocate and by other Kings and Princes of the world The Pope may depriue Kings of their kingdomes and the Emperor of his Empire So he Capistranus agrees with him The Emperor if hee be incorrigible for any mortall sinne may bee deposed and depriued the sentence of the Pope alone without a Councell is sufficient against the Emperour or any other It is manifest therefore how much the Popes authority is aboue the Imperial celsitude which it translates examines confirmes or infringes approoues or reiects if hee offends he punishes deposes and depriues him So he Thomas of Aquine in this is also very popish Any man sinning by infidelity may be adiudged to
comfortable In a spirituall sense impious and vnfaithfull men are vsurpers I meane by a spirituall right for godlinesse hath the promises of this life yet haue they a ciuill and sure title among men by birthright succession election or other acquisition by which titles such rights are deuolued to them that we say with Saint Austen Qui dedit Mario ipse Caesari He that gaue dominion to Marius the same gaue it to Caesar he that to Augustus the same to Nero he that to gentle Vespasian the same to bloody Domitian he that to Constantine the Christian the same to the Apostate Iulian for the Kingdome is the Lords and hee ruleth among Nations the most High hath power ouer the Kingdome of Men and giueth it to whomsoeuer hee will and appointeth ouer it the most abiect among men saith Daniel and suffereth for the sinnes of the people a Kingdome to be translated from one people to another yea an hypocrite or infidell to reigne ouer them neither must man seeke to displace or dispossesse an Infidell King but say with Dauid Either the Lord shall smite him or his day shall come to die or hee shall descend into battell and perish knowing the saying of the sonne of Syrack to be true Tyranny is of small indurance and he that is to day a King to morrow is dead 3. Heresie is not sufficient to depriue a King of his temporall Inheritance Popish Diuinity is herein knowne let Bellarmine be the mouth of all the rest Christians are not bound nor may with the euident danger of Religion tollerate an vnbeleeuing King when Kings and Princes become heretickes they may be iudged of the Church and bee deposed from the gouernement neither is there any wrong done them if they be deposed If any Prince of a sheepe become a wolfe that is to say of a Christian become an Hereticke the Pastor of the Church by excommunication may driue him away and withall command the people that they follow him not and so depriue him of his dominion ouer his Subiects so farre goes the Cardinall Now who are Heretickes All those Kings which decline from the Papacy and denie his Supremacy The Cardinall thinkes as much Regnante Constantino florebat fides Christiana c. While Constantine reigned the Christian Faith flourished when Constantius ruled Arrianisme when Iulian Ethnicisme when Henry the eighth and Edward the sixth Luthenarisme when Elizabeth Caluinisme prospered All Protestant Princes by the verdict of the Pope and his Parasites be Hereticks and so consequently to be deposed if this their heresie which yet is the Catholicke verity and sincere and sound profession of the Gospell be accompanied with the Popes excommunication and yet it is a great question and neuer yet proued by the Scripture that Kings are subiect to this censure of excommunication it is disputed much both wayes and let it be yeelded for argument sake Ex abundante That Saint Ambrose did iustly with Theodosius in that abstention for I doubt whether it was a complete excommunication for a King is subiect to the presbyteriall Cure not Court to be informed in his conscience in the Pulpet not to be corrected in the Consistory by punishment to be directed not iudged or remoued from the company of his faithfull Subiects much lesse to be deposed or depriued of his regiment ouer them yet let it bee granted for argument sake that Princes may be subiect to the censure of excommunication which yet is sparingly to be vsed against Princes as Austen counselleth yet though the sentence of excommunication be direfull making them for a time as Ethnicks Sit tibisicut Ethnicus saith our Sauiour Let him be vnto thee as an Heathen Man or Publicane It is tanquam nonplusquam as an Heathen man not worse then an Heathen Man Loyalty and obedience to Ethnicke Kings is to be performed as the precepts and presidents of Christ and his Apostles plainly teach all The spirituall sword onely depriues of spirituall rights to depriue him of the Sacrament not of the Scepter shuts out of the Kingdome of Heauen not meddles with the Kingdome of Earth Excommunication is not an extirpation it serues not to take away any mans temporall goods of body or life or Kingdome on Earth it hath power ouer sinnes not ouer possessions as Bernard to Pope Eugenius It serues to tame the soule not to terrifie or destroy the body it cannot bind Kings that they should not reigne or absolue Subiects that they should not obey or depose Kings from their regall authority by which pretence of diuellish pollicy in challenging a spirituall power of Kings excommunication the Pope hath plagued the World with many temporall rebellions 4. Apostacy takes not away Soueraignty Iulian an apparent Apostate and wicked Idolater as Saint Austen cals him yet as the same Father speakes of it Milites Christiani seruierunt huic Imperatori infideli quando dicebat producite aciem iâ—…ra illam gentem statim obtemperabant The Christian Souldiers serued this Infidel Emperor and when he called to produce the Army or to goe against any Nation they presently obeyed not because they wanted power to resist for his whole Army for the most part were Christians as their voices to Iouinian Iulians Successor testifie Omnes vna voce confessi sunt se esse Christianos They all confessed with one accord that they were Christians but their obedience grounded vpon Saint Austens reference Subiectes fuisse propter Dominum aternum Domino temporali Subiect to their temporall Lord for the eternall Lords sake And though some of the great Diuines of Rome say that the Apostles were subiect to Infidell or apostate Princes and many Martyrs obedient because they wanted power to resist and that they might haue lawfully resisted if they had had strength when rather I may say with Tertullian that they had power but might not lawfully resist The Apostles were no Temporizers to command to pray for Nero if the time and not the truth had not moued them to doe it for conscience sake Shall Subiects for Heathen or wicked Kings be enioyned to poure forth prayers supplications and withall be willing if they haue power to poure out their Soueraignes blood The Prophet Ieremy exhorted the exiled Iewes to offer vp their prayers for the life of the King of Babylon hee would not haue willed them to haue prayed for their persecutor if it had beene a duty contrary to Christian profession or for lacke of power to fall to supplication VVhen King Assuerus had made a decree to kill and destory all the Iewes both yong and old children and women in one day what doe they rebell or rise vp in armes to resist with violence No no sorrow and fasting weeping and mourning sackecloth and ashes are their weapons When Iulian the Apostate threatned the Christian World Lachrimae vnicum medicamentum aduersus eum saith
Nazianzene Teares the onely medicine against his mischeefe teares were their Speares Orizons their weapons They knew that they that resisted power resisted the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receiue to themselues damnation These had not beene catechized in the Popes Schoole teaching Subiects that the Pope hath power to depriue Kings if they be defectiue in their regiment or not pliable to his commandement but were obedient as the Apostle exhorts Propter conscientiam for conscience sake Oh but will Master Parsons reply We hold this point that a Prince is to be obeyed Propter conscientiam for conscience sake but not Contrae conscientiam Against his conscience And he is so stiffe in this assertion that he saith If one authority example or testimony out of Scripture Fathers or Councels contradict it we then speake to purpose VVe answer Against Conscience rightly instructed and warranted by the word It is true but there is Asinina lupina or leprosa conscientia A foolish woluish or leprous conscience which vicious or erroneous conscience is not rightly called conscience but error and peruersenesse and therein it failes If a King command things expressely contrary to Gods word the Apostles rule then is plaine VVe must obey God rather then men yet not fall to violence or outward resistance in body but in spirit submitting our bodies to suffer with patience what shall bee inflicted like the three Children to Nabuchadnezar but in our soules to shew our selues more then Conquerors for our Conscience sake Thus doe we see that the foure forenamed crimes Tyranny Infidelity Heresie Apostacy yet great and greeuous sinnes are not sufficient to depriue a King of his regall Inheritance or to free his Subiects from their obedience CHAP. XI I VVil in the next place briefly consider the goodly Harmony of the holy Doctors of Rome in the managing and maintaining of this new Doctrine of deposition of Kings by making their Pope an absolute Lord of all Temporalties and of the Spiritualties by vertue of which vaste omnipotency of power as being the Supreme spirituall and temporall Prince of all and ouer all they ascribe vnto his Holinesse this plenitude of power to haue the iurisdiction of both swords and so may passe against Kings if they bee faulty by tyranny infidelity heresie or apostacy or not Roman Catholickes Sentences of Excommunication Breues of Interdiction Depriuation Buls of Absolution of Subiects from Alleagiance yea giue Licence and Indulgences of pardon to misereants to murder them and yet this is not to be counted King-killing for a King excommunicated or deposed is no King in Popery Let vs see the consent of these Doctors or rather heare the confusion of their tongues in building of this Babell Some of the cheefe pillars of Popery defend the direct ordinary and inherent authority of the Pope whereby as Lord of the whole VVorld in all temporall matters hee may at his pleasure depose Emperors and Princes The cheefe of these is Cardinall Baronius and to alleadge his reasons I omit his Bookes are common and extant in the world And this opinion that the Pope is Lord of all the Temporalties and that the supreame Iurisdiction both in temporall and spirituall matters belong to Peters Successors which was the brainelesse assertion of old blockish Canonists and exploded of all sober Papists is now renewed and passeth for Catholick Doctrine Your Francis Bozius defends it that the Pope is directly Lord of things temporall and is the Ruler and Monarke of the whole world So Rodericus Sancius a Bishop of theirs goes further It is to be holden according to the naturall morall and diuine Law wth the right Faith that the Lordship of the Roman Bishop is the true and onely immediate Lordship of all the world not as concerning spirituall things onely but also as concerning temporall things and that the imperiall Lordship of Kings dependeth vpon it and oweth seruice and attendance thereunto as a meanes minister and instrument and that by him it receiueth institution and ordination and at the commandement of the papall Lordship it may be remoued reuoked corrected and punished In the gouernement of the world the secular Lordship is not necessary either of pure or meere or expedient necessity but when the Church cannot Resoluing this Article therefore we say That in all the world there is but one Lordship and therefore there must be but one Vniuersall and Supreame Prince and Monarke who is Christs Vicar according to that of Daniel He gaue him dominion and honour and kingdome and all people and languages shall serue him In him therefore is the Fountaine and originall of all Lordship and from him the other Powers flow so farre goes this Popish Bishop And diuers others agree with him It is iudged that no Christian Monarke hath his Crowne wholly giuen him from Heauen vnlesse it receiue firmenesse and strength also from Christs Vicar the Pope so Possevine Christ committed to Peter the Key-keeper of eternall life the right of earthly and heauenly gouernement and that in his place the Pope is the vniuersall Iudge the King of Kings the Lord of Lords saith another yea the holy Writer in the old law made the Priesthood an adiectiue to the Kingdome but Saint Peter made the Kingdome an adiectiue to the Priesthood faith the same writer Carerius a Doctor of Padua in his Booke De potestate Romani Pontificis which he made specially to confute Bellarmine who denied the ordinary and direct power of the Pope in the Temporalties doth in many places and pages maintaine that all dominion as well in spirituall things as in temporall is fetcht by Christ and the same is committed to Saint Peter and his Successors that Christ was Lord of all these inferior things not onely as he was God but also as he was Man hauing at that time dominion in the Earth and therefore as the dominion of the world both diuine and humane was then in Christ as man so now it is in the Pope the vicar of Christ That Christ is directly the Lord of the world in temporall things and therefore the Pope Christs vicar is the like and this power giuen to Peter is set out by the sole comming of Peter to Christ vpon the water for vniuersall gouernement is signified by the Sea As God is the Supreme Monarke of the world productiuely and gubernatiuely although of himselfe he be neither of the world nor temporall so the Pope although originally and from himselfe he haue dominion ouer all things temporall yet he hath it not by any immediate execution and committeth that to the Emperor by an vniuersall iurisdiction It would weary a man to reade ouer this worke of Carerius wherein he sweates and toyles himselfe striuing with arguments and laying a curse vpon his aduersaries that shal gainsay him or denie the ordinary direct power of the Pope in the
great peeces whereupon he brought the fellow backe and priuately without the knowledge of any man bound him in a priuy house and locked many doores vpon him and his pot with him and so hasted by foure of the clocke in the morning to aduertise his Maiesty according to his duty and desirous that the King in his person priuately would bee pleased to behold this spectacle To this perfidious Sinon the King giues a Princely audience Ignarus scelerum tantorum artisque Pelasga Virg. Returning to him at first this answere That hee would send backe with the said Alexander a seruant of his owne with a warrant to the Prouost and Bayliffes of Saint Iohnstoun to receiue the alledged fellow a man in the Moone and the money supposed till his further pleasure was knowne To be briefe his Highnesse importuned by the in sinuations of this faire-spoken yet false Iudas resolues the chace being ended and not dreaming that his Princely person should haue beene hunted by such a fawning yet bloody hound to goe to Saint Iohnstoun to see with his Princely eyes the newes which this meale-mouthed Traytor had related to his Graces eares and so rides thither with a very little Trayne and they followed after among which was the Duke of Lennox and the Earle of Marre The King comming to Saint Iohnstoun he was met by the late Earle of Gowry a Iudas with an Aue Rex and some three or fourescore men accompanying him the Kings Trayne not aboue fifteene persons and all vnarmed yet his Maiesty by the way vpon occurrences of discourse and stupide behauiour of Alexander requesting the King to stay the Duke and Earle from following him beganne to suspect some treasonable deuice Well the King hauing beene there partaker of a bad dinner and the said Earle standing pensiue and with a deiected countenance Oh quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu And not welcomming his Maiesty or shewing any harty forme of entertainement and the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Court being now set at dinner Alexander rounding in his Maiesties eares and said Now is the time to goe This is your very houre and the power of darkenesse The King accompanied onely with the said Alexander goes vp a Turne-pecke through three or foure chambers Alexander locked behind him euery doore he passed a brother to Alexander the Coppersmith which had done Paul much euill vntill at last his Maiesty passing through three or foure sundry houses and all doores locked behind him by this Cerberus his Maiesty entred into a little study where hee saw standing with a very abased countenance not a bond man but a free man with a dagger at his girdle Now mee thinkes I here that desperate voice Virg Heu quae nunc tellus inquit quae me aequora possunt Accipere aut quid iam misero mihi denique restat Or as Dauid said to God I am in a wonderfull straite fallen into the hands of bloody men O God hast thee to deliuer me make hast to helpe me O Lord O my God deliuer me from mine enemies defend mee from them that rise vp against me deliuer mee from the wicked doers and saue mee from the bloody men for loe they haue laid waite for my soule c. Thus this vile Alexander hauing brought the King into this close Closet of his intended death Rectè collâ—cat aretia expectant praedam Now this Traytor changes his countenance puts his hat on his head and drawes the dagger from the girdle of the other fellow holds the point to the Kings breast Horresco referens Whither bendest thou thy sword thou monster of mankind as Clytemuestra said to her wicked sonne Orestes A Monster and no Man to desire to murder a Monarke of Men. Viscera sunt vobis crudelia pectora ferro Durantur silicesque rigent praecordia circum Qui tantum sceleris potuistis velle patrare Nam patrasse supergreditur genus omne loquendi Behold this cursed and Copper-Alexander facing the King with a brazen impudence saith Now it did behoue the King to be in his will and vses him as he list swearing bloody oathes That if the King cried out or did open a window to looke out that dagger should presently goe to his heart Surely some Nero with heeles forward borne Sire to this slaue so bloody and forlorne The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord and he will preserue it against the hands of such diuellish Traytors This bloody villaine opens his blacke mouth and tels the King That now he knew his conscience was troubled for murthering his Father Loe this Caine talkes of conscience yet makes no conscience to attempt to kill a most innocent King His Highnesse wondring at so sudden an alteration and standing naked as an innocent Lambe before a rauenous wolfe like the woman standing before the red Dragon beginnes pathetically and powerfully to dilate to Alexander telling him how horrible a thing it was to meddle with his Maiesties innocent blood a drop whereof could not bee shed without reuenge from Heauen and Earth for the voice of blood cries for vengeance to Heapen and God had on Earth giuen his Highnesse children and good Subiects which would reuenge it yea God would raise vp stockes and stones to punish so vile a deed protesting before God that his conscience was not troubled for the execution of his Father he being then a Minor of age and then guided by a Faction which ouerruled his Maiesty the rest of the Country and what was done to his Father was done by the common course of Law Iustice Appealing to the said Alexanders owne conscience a sinfull and seared conscience how well his Grace had at all times since deserued at the hands of all his race restoring them to their lands and dignities freely and voluntarily of his regall clemency bringing vp two or three ofhis sisters as it were in his owne bosome by a continuall attendance vpon his dearest bedfellow in her priuy Chamber and if all these had beene too little he would haue giuen him as it was said to Dauid such and such things but here in them verified which Seneca deliuered Quidam quô plus debent magis oderunt c. Certaine men being bound to loue for some benefits rather the more beginne to hate Quid autem miserius saith the same wise man cui beneficia dantur gratias agere iniurijs What more wretched thing then hauing receiued benefits to reward the giuer with iniuries These are Esops Snakes His Maiesty promised him on the word of a Prince that if he would spare his life a Soueraigne a suppliant to a subiect an abiect begges mercy of this miscreant to spare his life hee would neuer reucale it to any flesh liuing what was betwixt them at that time nor neuer suffer him to incurre any harme or punishment for the same A speech able to make a Cannibals heart to relent being vttered
with such feeling as accompanies such feares This his Maiesties perswasiue language some what amazed and calmed this terrible and truculent Traytor so that hee swore the Kings life should bee safe if hee would behaue himselfe quietly without noyse or crying and that hee would goe downe and bring in his brother the Earle to speake with his Maiesty And so goes downe and lockes the doore after him leauing his Maiesty with that man was there before whom this Alexander appointed the Kings Keeper till his returne Then his Maiestie demanded of that man who was a seruant to the late Earle of Gowrie his name Andrew Henderson whether he was appointed to be the murderer of him and how far he was vpon the counsell of that conspiracy who with a trembling and astonished voice and behauiour answered with solemne and deepe protestations that he was neuer acquainted with that purpose being put in there perforce and the doore locked vpon him and indeede all the time of Alexanders menacing the King this Henderson trembled and requested him for Gods sake not to doe the King any harme The King commands him to open the window on his right hand which hee did for Alexander had made the King sweare not to cry out nor open any window Wherein behold the miraculous prouidence of almighty God that he who was put in there to vse violence on the King should be an Instrument for the Kings safety vppon the sight of the King as Belshazzar did when he saw the hand writing on the wall trembling and quaking rather like one condemned then an executioner of such an enterprize VVhile the King was all this while like Daniel in a Lyons den and by the Lord so assisted strengthened that afterward hee was deliuered like Paul out of the mouth of the Lyon his Maiesties Trayne rising from dinner the Earle of Gowry with them one of the Earle of Gowries seruants comes hastily saying His Maiesty is horsed and away through the Inshe which the Earle reporting to the Noblemen and the rest all rush forth in great haste and enquiring of the Porter which way his Maiesty went the Porter affirmed the King was not yet gone whereupon this Gowry reuiles the Porter and turning to the Duke and Earle of Marre said He would presently get certaine word whether the King was gone or no and so ranne through a close and vp the staires hauing a purpose to speake with his Brother Presently the Earle returnes and runnes to the Noblemen telling them the King was gone out at the backe gate to which place all of them repaired This inhumane wretch Alexander hauing had a little pawse and parly with his bloudy brother comes backe againe to the King Ingrediturque domum luctus comitatur euntem Et pauor terror trepidoque insania vultu Casting his hands abroad in a desperate manner said he could not mend it his Maiesty behoued to die Traytors haue bloudy hearts and hands they will not abstaine a sanguine suffocate from bloud and strangled not one word falls from his foule mouth but dismall hee had promised before to preserue the King safe but they who haue made a league with hell will neuer keepe league or promise with any on earth neyther great gifts or good turnes can turne their mindes to mercy oportet mori is the foote of the fatall song the death of Patroclus saith Achilles the death of my Father saith Alexander will not suffer me to thinke of mercy Therefore this treacherous Philistine comes with a garter to binde our Soueraigne as the Philistines bound Sampson swearing hee behoued to be bound Accursed caitife to threaten the King descended from as royal predecessors as any Prince liuing with an inglorious death he must not dye by the hand of a woman which Abimelech held dishonourable and therefore willed his Page to runne him through with his sword he must not die fighting cominus eminus hand to hand but hee would haue him die as a condemned Malefactor or as a foole goeth to the stockes bound hand and foote though hee ruled with glory yet goe to his graue with ignominy It behoueth you to be bound saith this abhorred wretch but died Abner as a foole dieth Thy hands were not bound nor thy feet tied in fetters of brasse but as a man falleth before wicked men so didst thou fall His Maiesty hearing this villaine talke of binding said he was borne a free King and should die a free King Beholde the worke of the Lord animating our King Iames as the Lord did Ioshua Be strong and of good courage feare not nor be discouraged for I the Lord thy God will be with thee c. He can make fiue to chase an hundred and an hundred to put ten thousand to flight little Dauid to kill Goliah our Salomon void of weapon to ouercome anned Gowrie and indeed how can he fall in fight whom heauen earth assists God and his Angels beheld this fray and heard the secret petition of our Soueraignes soule Saue mee from him that persecutes me and deliuer mee lest hee deuoure my soule like a Lion and teare it in peeces while there is none to helpe The Lord did heare him in the day of his trouble the name of the God of Iacob did defend him deliuering his soule from the sword his desolate soule from the power of the dogge This Alexander degenerating in nature from the signification of his name which signifies as Ierome auxiliator virilis an helper of men he rather to be tearmed with his Masters Title Abaddon or Apollyon destroying and comes to his Maiesty griping him by the wrist of the hand to haue bound him his Maiesty relieued himselfe suddenly of his gripes whereupon as he put his right hand to his sword his Maiesty with his right hand seazed vpon both hand and sword and with his left hand clasped him by the throat like as he with his left hand claspt the King by the throat with two or three of his fingers in his Maiesties mouth to haue stayed him from crying out In this strugling the King perforce drew him to the window which Henderson before opened and vnder the which passed O rare most singular prouidence of God the Kings traine and the Earle of Gowrie with them The King holding out the right side of his head and right elbowe cryed They were murdering him Virg Aeucid lib. 2. Quaevâ—n vt voâ—it adâ—â—reâ— Obstupuere animi gelidusâ— perima 〈◊〉 Ossa Tremâ—â— The Kings voyce instantly heard and knoweâ— to the Duke of Leâ—noâ— Earle of Marre and the other Court-traine no winged Pegasus could poast more speedily to doe their best seruice for their Soueraignes safety all of them then like Asahel as light on foote as wilde Roes but Gowrie the vnworthy and wretched Earle euer asking what it meant taking no notice of any voyce heard The Duke of Lennox and Earle of
Ioh O earth couer not thou my blood A murtherer is the very Image and picture of the Deuill who was a murtherer from the beginning as our Sauiour saith and they that practise or doe purpose to murder men poyson Princes destroy Countries blow vp Cities fire vp Parliaments are of their Father the Deuill and led by his Spirit And truly this practise as it was of extraordinary ascendencie so it had a rare discouery by a letter of their owne darke doubtfull and Sphinxian deliuered strangely and when accepted it might haue beene thought to haue beene an idle gull or pasquill and neuer further haue come to light or being further examined they might haue missed the marke in the interpretation of the mischiefe but God so ordered that this foolish letter as it might haue bin iudged was the meanes to discouer their treachery and confound their villanie And further though a Treason suspected yet nothing detected till the very night before the day of their intended slaughter they had almost brought it to this passe Paulominus in inferno habitasset anima nostra Our soule had almost dwelt in silence yea they had almost consumed vs vpon the earth we were in articulo mortis not onely as men appointed to dye but at the point to dye but God who is adiutor in opportunitatibus a refuge in due time of trouble did breake the snare and we were deliuered It pleased God to permit the Deuill to feede these his true seruants with false hopes let them go on freely without rub till they had fully wouen their Spiders web and come to the very point of execution and deliuery of that deuillish monster whereof they had so long trauailed and might say with those mourning messengers of King Ezechiah sent to Esay the children are come to the birth and there is no strength to bring forth when we were albicantes ad messem white for the haruest and ready to be cut downe and wanted nothing but thrusting in of Falx their sickle to cut vs downe or Fax the fire to burne vs vp or Faux euen Guido Faux or Faux Erebi hellish Faux to swallow vs vp when we might say with Dauid there is but a step betwixt vs and death being at the mouth of the pit then the Lord takes vs as brands out of the fire or as Amos like firebrands pluckt out of the burning When our enemies thought they had the prey in their hands and all had beene sure when the danger was most deadly and deliuery desperate then the Lord did fight against them in our cause Now will I arise saith the Lord now will I be exalted now will I lift vp my selfe Yee shall conceiue chaffe and bring forth stubble the fire of your breath shall deuoure you as you haue sowen iniquity so shall you reape affliction ye haue sowen the winde yee shall reape the whirle-winde Then did the Lord dash their deuices in peeces and made their Sun set at noone as Amos 8. 9. or rather caused their sinne to be discouered at midnight All the former part of the night their hellish factor Faux was about his worke of darkenesse in preparing all his Engines and snares of death ready for the morning and yet before the morning watch I say before the morning watch they were disappointed and discouered and their chiefe Agent Faux apprehended Sorrow might endure a night but ioy comes in the morning Redeunt spectaculâ— manâ— VVhen these Romish Idumeans enemies to our Israelites had said like them in their hearts Who shall bring vs downe to the ground then did the watchman of Israel who neyther stumbers noâ— sleeps bring the deuices of the wicked to light manifesting their mischiefe detecting their conspiracy saying to these sinners as to the seas Thus farre shall ye goâ— and no further Eâ—… Deus 〈…〉 When God arose his enemies were soone scattered they also that hate him shall flye before him to make all to say with Esay Heare ye that are a far off what I haue done and ye that are neâ—e know my power when the wicked had said in their hearts Let vs destroy them alltogether 〈…〉 Lord awake as one out of sleepe and as a Giant refreshed with wine and smote his enemies in the hinder parts and put them to a perpetuall shame praised be his blessed name for euer And that no heart of man should presume to detract or defalke any part of the glory from Gods entire and plenary praise in the work of this deliuerance or sing like them Saul hath slaine his thousand and Dauid his ten thousand Consider the gracious and wonderfull prouidence of God that the malefactor and Powder-Monster Faux was taken when hee was new come out of the vault from working his fire-worke hauing three matches and all other instruments ready in his pocket whereas if this Sinon had beene taken while hee was enclosed in his Troian Horse hee confessed hee would not haue failed to haue blowen vp the house himselfe and his takers all together for as the Poet well writes of such Nihil est audacius illis Depraensis iram ac animos à crimine sumunt Such wretches taken and their deeds once seene Harden theis hearts and doe increase their spleene Yet such was the ouer-ruling power and prouidence of God herein without any secondary causes that the party assigned for the deed should be then without who if hee had beene within had done the deed in part and in stead of touching the parties had ouerturned the place To moue all King and Subiects not to sacrifice to their owne nets as if any worldly policy could haue preuented this wretched impiety but that alone the sacred goodnes and prouidence of our most deare and blessed God might triumph in this deliuerance Not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name giue the glory Thou art worthy O Lord to receiue all the glory honor and power and let all the Creatures in Heauen and Christians on earth fay Praise and honor and glory and power be vnto him that sitteth vpon the Throne and to the Lambe for euermore who hath deliuered vs from this ocean of misery this odious Massacre And should mooue all Head and members to cry with Ezra Seeing that thou our God hast stayed vs from being beneath and hast giuen vs such a deliuerance should we return to breake thy commandements and ioyne in affinity with the people of such abhominations Seeing the Lord in this extraordinary worke hath declared such liuely markes and expresse Characters of his diuine maiesty might and mercy towards vs shall we not magnifie the Lords mercy with Miriams melody Sing ye vnto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he ouerthrown in the Sea He hath confounded the barbarous immanity and inhumanity
the Ablatiue of grace A Bishop or Priest should be no striker or fighter no warrior no man of bloud no tutor to Traytors no teacher of rebellion to publish doctrine of King-killing Oh but will some Iesuite reply It is abhominable to kill a King marke their euasion or equiuocation but a King excommunicated or at least deposed by the Pope is no King no King in popery then if he command take him by the throat presently In hunc Tarba 〈◊〉 â—…sa They will haue some desperate Rauilliacke Chastell or Gerard to touch the Lords Annointed Iesuites will compasse Sea and land Sollicitando pollicendo as Simo chargeth Crito in the Comedie solliciting promising and perswading no obedience is to be giuen to Kings excommunicated or deposed as Parsons and Campian did after the Bull of Pius the fift and what followes Rebellion in the North. Haec Cornua quibus ventilabis Israel These are the hornes which proceed from Papall Bulles rebellion treason which if at any time it succeeds according to their expectation they triumph in it and say Hic digitus Dei est It was the Lords worke and as Salomon of the wicked They reioyce in doing euill imitating Dyonisius who after the robbing of a Temple finding the winde and weather fauourable to his shippes burst foorth into this hellish voice Ecce dij approbant sacrilegium Behold the gods approue of our sacriledge but let them know that at last though perchance too late they shall finde and confesse Nec surdum nec Tiresiam quenquam esse deorum God is not deafe or blinde he sees all sin Abhors all sinners who delight therein And therefore you of the Church of Rome who are or should be guides for the blinde iustructers of them who lacke discretion teachers of the vnlearned hate and abhorre your former doctrine the doctrine of Deuils in teaching disobedience to Gods Annointed or to be your selues actors authors or fautors of so abhominable practises as King-killing for know this Religion with bloud builded will be in bloud buried and that voice from heauen concerning this Babilon shall bee verified Reward her euen as she hath rewarded you and in the cup that she hath filled to you fill her the double For the Lord will condemne this great whore which corrupts the earth with her fornication and auenge the bloud of his seruants shedby her hand And you who style your selues Lay-Romane-Catholikes behold the persons plotters of this treason brought to a miserable confusion Consider ortum scelerum obitum sceleratorum the birth of their treason the death of these traytors God confounding both scelera sceleratos the actors and their actions Gods eyes are pure and abhorre such practises and likes not such who walke in the counsell of the vngodly for both the workes and the way of the wicked shall perish As for the final and eternall doom of the Iudge of quicke and dead vpon these dead Malefactors it belongs not to vs to search after it and say with Gregorie Diuina iudicia nesciuntur non audacisermone discutienda sunt sed formidoloso silentio veneranda Gods iudgements are vnknowne to vs and are not rashly to be spoken of but with fearefull silence to be reuerenced he will haue mercy vpon whom hee will haue mercy They that were apprehended satisfied Iustice on earth yet mixed with mercy so that for the persons I haue no more to say but end this in the Apostles wordes Now these are examples to vs to the intent wee should not lust after euill things as they lusted and are written to admonish vs to beware of sinne and aboue all such capitall and crying sins as these Sequitur Rebelles vltor à tergo Deus Gods plagues and punishments hang ouer Rebels heads Ex vitio alterius sapiens emendat suum and therefore let others harmes make all beware to flie from this sinne of treason as from a serpent CHAP. VIII 3. The Causes THE motiues or inducements which prouoked these Practisers and Conspirators to inuent this Tragedy was onely and meerely religion they were no bankerupt persons or discontented vpon occasion of any disgraces done vnto them for then it might haue seemed a worke of reuenge but it was onely as they confessed the cause of religion which moued them to this Treason A deplored and desperate religion which must stand for a stawking-horse to practise rebellion This colour of religion like the Fowlers glasse and feather serues to draw some within the reach and net of treason to lay snares to catch the children of God and bring them to destruction Grace vses no sword Faith no knife the Church no bloudy tooles Non mactando homines Christumque fidemque docere Ecclesia arma ara non laniena macelli The Church by force the faith did neuer plant Her Altar-prayers her Armes she shambles want But the Church of Rome vses these tooles when their prayers can doe no good they fall to weapons and would seeme to doe the Lords worke in the destroying of the Lords people farre better were it for them to follow the counsel of Elias to try themselues whether they be Baals Prophets or no to call vpon the name of their God to prepare a sacrifice and see if the Lord will send a fire from heauen as hee did for Elias to manifest the trueth of their cause and religion but their prayers are so bad inuocating dead Saints and adoring dumbe Images that though they cry like Baals Priests from morning vntill noone not a voice or word can they get from their woodden gods no fire from heauen then they will fetch fire from hell the hope of the plantation of their Romish religion shall be the ruine of an whole nation for Non stetisset nostra Troia si cecidisset noster Priamus for our Land could not haue stood happy if our Priamus Prince Peeres and Parliament had beene destroyed as they intended And indeed a long time these Pope-Catholike men haue vsed a pretence of religion by which goodly vizard they haue practised most horrible butchery cruelty and abhomination It is lamentable which is of late reported of Ferdinandus Mendoza a Spanish Catholike who with his cruell company in Westphalia spared neyther sexe nor age no not them which submitted themselues ripping vp womens bellies taking out their infants and hung them about their Mothers neckes compelled the men with long famine to eat their owne children with such brutish butchery as is abhominable And so the Pope when he sent his secular armes the Spaniards among the Indians vnder a faire errand to winne them to religion they vsed them in an heathenish yea hellish cruelty rosted them with fire worried them with dogs c. so that in forty yeares space they destroyed as some write fifteene millions of men that is 150 hundred thousand wasted and vnpeopled fiue times as
complaint is verified vpon vs My people are destroyed for lacke of knowledge the seeds-men of the worde sent from the blessed sower who broke vp our stony hearts and made them flexible and did labour to turne many to righteousnesse they are taken from vs and now Impius haec tam culta novalia miles habebit Barbarus has segetes Not Masse but Mars-Priests in the Churches field Possesse the fruits which others labours tilld These and more pittifull mones would haue beene fresh and frequent in this land crying with Ieremy The ioy of our heart is gone our dance is turned to mourning the Crowne of our head is fallen woe vnto vs that wee haue sinned our necks are vnder persecution wee are weary and haue no rest Our King a Nursing Father to the Church and Common-wealth Our Noble men of Sion comparable to fine Gold Our reuerend Prelates and Pastors the salt of the earth and light of the land the chiefe Iudges and choice Gentry of the Kingdom who were as eyes to the blinde and feete to the lame All the pillars of Church and Common-wealth maintainers of the Law and Gospell had perished in this intended Massacre So that the shepheard being smitten the sheepe will be scattered yea sheepe not hauing a shepheard will fall into the hands of wolfes who will deuoure their flesh and their fleeces And looke still further and behold these powder-traitors men nourished with Tygers milke who enterprised not onely to procure a temporall politicall and spirituall ouerthrow of Church and Common-wealth but also so farre as in their power they could seeked to procure the eternall death of body and soule vnawares by force of fire to part vnprepared soules and blow vp with a fiery Dimittis bodies and soules before they could haue time to say feelingly Inmanus tuas Domine O Lord into thy hands we commend our soules heerein shewing themselues desirous to be bloudy murtherers to murder the body with death temporall and also to make away the soule with death eternall which second death worse then millions of corporall deaths Continet Myriades mortis Prima mors animam dolentempellit de corpore secunda mors animā nolentem tenet in corpore as Austen The first death driues the pained soule out of the body the second death keepes the vnwilling soule in the body for then men shall seeke death and shall not finde it for in life there is some ease in death an end but in the second death neyther ease nor end Mors sine morte finis sine fine So that to draw all to a conclusion which should haue beene the conclusion yea confusion of vs all I may supply my defects in the description of this immatchable treason with the Poets excuse Non mihi si centum linguae sint oraque centum Ferreavox omnes scelerum cōprendere formas Omnia poenarum peccurrere nomina possem No tongue can tell no pen descry This Map of mischiefe the Powder-Tragedy The Lord of Hosts who neither slumbers nor sleepes who in pitty and prouidence prouides for the safety of his Church and Children beheld our English Israel and Popish Amaleck the members of the Church militant and malignant the one secretly plotting to blow vp the other but the Lord against whom no wisdome nor vnderstanding nor counsell can preuaile became an impenetrable shield suffered not one of his seruants haires to be burnt with fire but besotted these Traytors to communicate their counsels though darkly to others by which meanes they were discouered And we are perswaded and confirmed of the all-sauing protection of our good God towards his deare Seruant and our dread Soueraigne with the rest of the religious assembly congregated for the glory of his name and good of his Church in that Honourable House of Parliament that if the Lord had suffred them to haue made a further progresse to the instant of that disastrous and dismall action that hee would haue disabled the party who with his vnhappy hand should haue kindled that fatall fire as he did the hand of infamous Ieroboam in the very act of stretching it against the Prophet it withered or like the hand of Valens the Emperor when hee tooke his pen to confirme the sentence of Basils banishment strucken of God shooke and shrunke not able to hold the pen So surely the Lord would haue benummed that accursed hand which sought to ouerthrow Christs Church among vs for it is as easie to pull Christ from Heauen as to put his Church out of the Earth Christ cannot be a bodilesse Head nor the Church an headlesse body and though outward meanes of deliuerance to vs may seeme defectiue yet stand comforted and couragious for the gates of hell shall not preuaile against the Church It is a lame and halting confidence which cannot goe to God without the stilts and crutches of externall meanes for the Lord knoweth to deliuer the godly and in the very point and article of time will be a present helpe in trouble God came to Adam with a promise in the time of despaire to Abraham with supply in the time of sacrifice to Isaacke with reliefe in the time of famine and danger to Ioseph with honour in the time of exile to Elias with comfort in the time of persecution to Gideon with helpe in the time of battle to Daniel with safety in the Lyons denne to Ionas with release in the Whales belly to Susanna with life condemned to death to the three Children with a protecting Angell in the fiery Furnace yea to this Kingdome of England with a most mercifull preseruation neere the time of the appointed Powder-destruction to make all our English Israel alwayes in all distresses and dangers say with Moses Feare not stand still behold the deliuerance of the Lord which he shewed vnto you this day Dies Ista Salutis erat candore notabilis ipso The Lord would not haue this Powder-proiect to haue power to burne one haire of his seruants head or any smell of fire come vpon them yet caused some of these vault-pyoners to be wounded and disfigured with powder In quo peccarunt in eodem plectuntur Wherewith they sinned by the same they were also punished So that all these extraordinary mercies of Almighty God summed vp together should haue more then a Magneticall attraction to draw all Christian hearts euer to praise his infinite goodnesse and continually inuite and induce all to a serious consideration and conseruation of this admirable deliuery from this intended miserable calamity agnizing God the sole and supreme cause in preuenting of it and therefore ascribing all the glory to him who hath preserued still his Church in tranquility our King in glory the State in safety the Realme in prosperity Iutuere rupem erige ratem The snares of death and destruction prepared
by the wicked were by the wisedome of our gratious God escaped and the wicked were snared in the worke of their owne hands A deliuery deseruing eternall Trophies of Triumphs to glorifie God with our prayers and praises with our lips and liues and neuer follow them of whom the Apostle who glorified not God neyther were they thankefull but may continually call vp our hearts to this duty and cry with the Psalmist Come and hearken all yee that feare God and I will tell you what hee hath done to my soule for he hath deliuered our soules from death and our feet from falling that we should walke before God in the land of the liuing Therefore praise our God yee people and make the voice of his praise bee heard and say with the children of Reuben Gad and Manasses God forbid that we should rebel against the Lord and turne this day away from the Lord c. And as the children of Israel after their returne from the captiuity in Babilon and hearing Ezra reade the Law the ioy of their soules Ezra praised the Lord the great God and all the people answered Amen Amen lifting vp their hands and bowing themselues worshipping the Lord with their faces towards the ground and Nehemiah with Ezra and the Leuites tels the people This day is holy vnto the Lord your God so let our English Israel deliuered from the intended bondage of Babilon hearken to their Ezraes in the Pulpit made for the preaching of Gods Law wherof they should haue beene depriued and with their Priests praise the Lord our great and good God answering Amen Amen bowing themselues in all humility at the footestoole of Gods Maiesty annually celebrating the fift day of Nouember with praises of thankesgiuing and saying This day is holy vnto the Lord our God This day shall be vnto vs a remembrance and wee will keep it an holy feast vnto the Lord throughout our generations we will keep it holy by an ordinance for euer to remember this maruellous worke of Englands deliuerance from the plotted powder-destruction to praise Gods holy name and glory in his praise singing and saying cheerefully with our tongues and deuoutly with our hearts Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for euer audeuer and let all the people say Amen Amen To the ternall and eternall glorious Godhead Father Sonne and holy Ghost one and the same God in nature and number indiuisible inuisible inuincible our sole and soueraigne protector and preseruer God ouer all blessed for euer be all praise power faith feare glory and maiesty yeelded by vs by ours and by all his redeemed for all his mercies in generall and for this speciall deliuerance in particular humbly heartily holily for euer and euer Amen Glory be to God in the high Heauens and peace on earth Luke 2. 14. FINIS A SHORT DISSVVASIVE FROM POPERY To all Lay-Papists who desire to be true seruants to their Sauiour or good Subiects to their Soueraigne 1. Kings 18. 21. How long halt yee betweene two opinions If the Lord be God follow him but if Baal be he then goe after him Tert. de resurr carn Aufer haereticis quae cum Ethnieis sapiunt vt de Scripturis solis quaestiones suas sistant stare non poterunt Hugo de Claustro anim lib. 1. Superstitio dicitur verae religioni superaddita falsa religioÌ„ Melancthon Ex malo dogmate malis moribus dignoscuntur lupi By SAMVEL GAREY a Preacher of Gods Word and a perpetuall petitioner to God for your happy conuersion to Gods holy Truth LONDON Printed by Iohn Beale for Henry Fether stone and Iohn Parker 1618. To the Right VVorshipfull Sir Philip Kniâ—et Baronet and his worthy Lady The Spirit of Grace Truth and Wisedome be multiplied Right VVorshipfull I Am bold vpon experienced acquaintance with your generous qualities and gentle fauours towards me to send this vnworthy Treatise to your worthy viewe I know whose iudgement it must passe yet am fearelesse not in a grosse stupidity of mine owne weakenesse but in an hopefull presumption of your vsuall Gentlenesse a disposition euen naturalized in your courteous breasts whereof I acknowledge with gratefulnesse the acceptable fruites of your long and large loue towards me and for which I euer rest your thankefull friend and ingaged debtor in part of requitall whereof I haue presumed to offer to you this Handfull of my duty and hearty loue towards you and vnder your worthy name to send it to the world that they who are bettered by it may thanke you for it A short Disswasiue from Popery necessary for these Times wherein you may behold in part some points of the corrupt Doctrine of the Romish Church which is the common Mother of corruption superstition For that Church must needes be a Chappell of errors which enlarge the sacred Canon with Apochryphalls diminish the authority of the Scripture with Traditions ouerthrow the Originall with Translations peruert the Text with Glosses as the Romish Church doth Yea to maintaine her errors she conceales the light of Truth the Scripture from Lay people vnder the curtaine of the Latin language and euen in the Schooles among the learned she is put to poore shifts often forced to conclude arguments out of meere Allegories lame Similitudes fained miracles naked names of Fathers hired Testimonies of Schoolemen and other deboshed vassailes and proctors of the Romane Court who with all artificiall pollicy labour to adorne the Romane Harlot with painted trimmings whereby the vnwary young age of many more credulous then iudicious is deceiued and deluded The whole subiect of our former worke well perused and indifferently weighed doth giue good light looking vpon her corrupt precepts and cursed practises to discouer that smooky Kingdome of Antichrist but perchance you may say to me with Seneca Quidme torques lacer as in quaestâ—…bus Subtilius est contempsisse quam 〈◊〉 Why doe you trouble me with such questions it is more subtilty to contemne them then to confute them Worthy Sir it shall not be I hope labour lost if to your priuate contemplations you shall adioyne these short and sacred speculations specially penned for your seruice and published for the beâ—…e of all who are willing to open their eyes to walke in Truth I giue all but a small kind of taste in these points of Popish fragments if any mans appetite long for it I dare promise him heereafter more full dishes The Lord giue vnto you a Christian care in the profession of the Truth which with a sincere heart I haue preached vnto you and perfit your first Progresse in the grace of God to the holy Sanctification and happy Saluation of your bodies and soules for euer For which mercy and grace to be bestowed on you I shall euer vnfainedly pray to God and rest Your Worshipes poore Orator in Christ Samuel Garey A SHORT DISSVVAsiue to all Lay-papists who desire