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A14305	The arraignment of slander periury blasphemy, and other malicious sinnes shewing sundry examples of Gods iudgements against the ofenders. As well by the testimony of the Scriptures, and of the fathers of the primatiue church as likewise out of the reportes of Sir Edward Dier, Sir Edward Cooke, and other famous lawiers of this kingdome. Published by Sir William Vaughan knight.; Spirit of detraction, conjured and convicted in seven circles	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1630 (1630)	STC 24623; ESTC S113946	237,503	398

resolued once to translate the Papacy to Auinion in France if that a certaine Cardinall wiser then himselfe had not disswaded him The originall cause of all this hatred is iealousie together with a false perswading humor that our Church vsurps his holy power which somtimes he pretends from the Emperour Constantine and some other times from S. Peter Whether this exercising of another mans authority be legitimate or spurious let them who thinke themselues iniured redreste the iniury how they can In the meane time we perceiue the minde of man impatient of vsurpers and Detractors to boile for reuenge as if an euerflaming Torch were set vnder it No maruell then if Princes punish forgery and other detracting crimes He that detracts his Kings Prerogatiue with a malicious purpose to attribute the same to himselfe is Laesae Maiestatis r●●s guilty for wounding the Royall Maiesty and to be attainted of high treason Will King IAMES our dread Soueraigne suffer any subiect of his to weare a crowne of golde to de● act his royall authority to leuie armes at pleasure to encampe himselfe to hang a man without due course of law or to coine golde No it is against his prerogatiue against his Iurisdiction The world abides not two Sunnes No more can the vnited Empire of great Britaine endure but one supreme Monarch He that sueth into the Court of Rome detracts from the Kingly glory and therefore encuires the danger of Premunire Euen so if a subiect of this Realme bring in a Bull of Excommunication from Rome against another subiect it is by the auncient common law high treason against the King his crowne and dignity as hath beene adiudged in the Raigne of Edward the first For the King of England is the Vicar of the ●●ghest King In a Constable or any other it is forgery and detraction to write a warrant in a Iustice of Peace his name without his consent Yea and a Justice himselfe was fined in the Star-chamber circa 30. Elizab. Reg. for sending his warrant vpon suspition of felony with a blanke or window to put in ones name which he knew not at his friends request without certainly acquainting him with the matter before What a tedious quarrell continued with vnsheathed swords betweene the Turkish Ottoman and the Persian Sophy about the very colour of the Turbant which both were bound by their ceremonious law to weare Such another friuolous iatre hapned among the Friers touching the colour of their frizen weedes One stood vpon blacke betokening mourning another vpon white the displayed ensigne of innocency This busie body claimed it to be gray that their weeds being like vnto ashes might moue them to repentance That hare-brain'd Scholer proued out of Schoolemen and profound Dunces that all the rest of the Disputants were arrand Heretickes for their sinnes being as redde as Scarlet or as purple they ought not to hold with any other colour Many brawles many factions yea and bloud-sheds arose about these Idly vsurped colours till after diuers commotions decrees and orders on all sides infringed a finall end with much adoe was established by the generall Councell of Christendome There was a dangerous tumult in France very like to chance betwixt a famous Auncestour of mine out of Wales and the Lord Norris concerning their armes Both gaue the Rauen both challenged it from the same house from one Vrian Prince of Rheged otherwise called Carict in Scotland who eyther by conquest or marriage seated himselfe in our countrey of West-Wales My said Auncestour as our Walsh nature relies ouermuch vpon Genealogies and Heraldry and his Walsh company being no lesse then fifteene hundred horsemen and footemen could by no meanes be disswaded from the quarrel vntill the Duke of Nors●lke whose daughter sithence Countesse of Bridgewater was married vnto his heire sollicited King Henry the eight then in camp to take vp the Controuersie and order the Lord Norris to giue it flying and the others as he did before If mens mortall feuds conceiued against their emulous concurrents for light occasions and as the Prouerbe termes them for a Goats haire be so heynous hereditary so frequent so customary in all Countreyes why doe we tempt the Lord our God and doubt that his eternall Maiesty in whom there is not the least spot of sinfull perturbation hates Detractours of his euer-shining glory and also them which attribute his miraculous deedes to his creatures or enemies I say why doe we doubt that he detesteth them in a faire higher degree then if they were profested Atheists blinded with ignorance Hee that knowes his Masters will and doth it not is worthy of many stripes Wherefore I constantly auerre that the Lord hateth Antichristians Euchanters Coniurers and Witches for their detractions forgeries delusions and false miracles worse then the Heathen with all their Idolatries To this end that auncient Father affirmeth If any that went afore vs eyther of ignorance or simplicity hath not obserued that which the Lord commanded his simplicity through the Lords indulgence may be pardoned but we whom the Lord hath taught and instructed cannot be pardoned Where the Spirituall Steward lends one talent there he looketh the interest of one againe but where he exposeth out twenty talents there he iustly expecteth the encrease of twenty againe Like as a simple seruant sent out in a darkesome night and misseth his way deserues his pardon more freely then he which purposely gaddes and goes out of his way in the cleare day light preferring his own wanton pleasures before his Masters profite so the ignorant Christian sinning of meere simplicity is farre more tolerable then the enlightned Gospeller which afterwards dissembles and detracts vpon a greedy or gaudic hope of golden mountaines LINEAMENT XII 1 Wherefore God diuerteth his naturall creatures against mankinde 2 That all crosses and misfortunes proceede onely from God 3 That in any wise we must not delay repentance 4 An obiection against sudden death by the spirit of Detraction out of the Letany with a consutation thereof THus the starres haue their ordinary motions the Elements their courses and the Metcors their voluble dispositions except otherwhiles it please their Arch-mouer to diuert some of them as terrible alarums for our admonishment Then euery thing fights against vs Our natiue ayre strangles our wearied winde-pipes Our nourishment through gluttony works our latter end Fire water conspire against vs One dieth by fire another by water Thus armes he nature against nature creature against creature and man against man eyther for his glorie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that mortall men may know his strength and acknowledge their owne weakenesse or for mens tryall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to trie their integrity to mollifie their stony hearts and to shape their inward man to regeneration Others he smites 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 33 vessels of wrath to perpetuall punishment though commonly he lets them flourish in this world like Palme trees reseruing them to damnation

inconueniences a wise Emperour of Rome forbad by an expresse decree any Citizen in Rome to build a house aboue fortie or fiftie foot high And thou deare Christian which readest this humble booke I admonish thee to build low to carry a low saile to lay aside thy Peacocks plumes to behold thy feete I meane the earth from whence thou camest and lastly I warne thee to prostrate thy thoughts before thy heauenly Father the worlds great Thunderer following the Poets counsell Vi●e tibi quantumque potes praelustria vita Saeuum praelustri fulmen ab arce venit Liue to thy selfe and shunne the stateliest roome For thunder doth from highest Castle come LINEAMENT VIII 1 How God sendes thunder and lightening eyther for his glory for mens triall 〈◊〉 for their punishment 2 Examples asw●ll moderne as auncient of forcible thunders and lightening IN all ages it pleased God to manifest his ●aiesticall power of thunder and lightenings among mortall men eyther for his glory or for monition sake or for their punishment At Mount Sina● to shew the Israe●●●● is glorious strength and Maiestie he appeared with exceeding loud Trumpets with terrible thunders and lightnings which the Prophet Dauid thus expressed The Lord thundred out of heauen and the most High gaue out his voyce hailestones and coales of fi●e Another time to trie Iobs faith and to make the Diuell a lyar in impeaching his innocence and integritie God caused his heauenly fire to descend and to consume his seruants and flockes of sheepe Likewise for the conuersion of the Israelites at the prayers of Elias he sent fire from heauen to consume the sacrifice The like did he againe at the praier of the said Elias send downe to destroy Ahaz●as men And this very weapon of lightning and sulphureous fire vsed he against Sodome and Gomorrhe Alladius an ancient King of the Latines who reigned before Romulus had his Palace set on fire with lightning from heauen and perished himselfe therein A king of Clide was strickē with a thunderbolt frō heauē A maide of Rome trauelling to Apulis was killed with lightning no harme outwardly appearing in her bodie and at the same instant her garments were also shaken off without any rent her horse also killed his bridle and girthes shaken off without any breach It is reported of King Mithridates when he was a very infant lying in his cradle that the lightning caught the swadling cloathes and set them on fire but neuer touched or hurt his body saue only there remained a litle marke of the fire vpon his forehead againe when he was growne it chanced that the lightning pierced into the bedchamber where he was asleepe and for his owne person it was not so much as singed therewith but it blasted a quiuer of arrowes that hung at his bed side went through it and burnt the arrowes within There was at Rome a souldier who keeping the Centinell vpon one of the temples of the Citie chanced to haue a flash of lightning to fall very neere vnto him which did him no hurt at all in his bodie but only burnt the ●atchet of his shoes and about the same time whereas there were certaine small boxes and cruets of siluer within wooden cases the siluer within was found all melted vnto a masse in the bottome and the wood not iniured at all but continued entire and found Many haue died by reason of thunder or lightning without any marke or stroke wound scorch or burning seene vpon them whose life soule for very feare hath flowed out of their bodies like a bird out of a cage Olimpius an Arrian Bishop had his bodie sodainly burnt with lightning at Carthage which iudgement of God fel vpon him as many thought for blaspheming the blessed Trinitie One Prester the sonne of Hyppomenes for blaspheming God was striken with a thunder and perished Anastasius the Emperour in the yeare of Christ 499. being addicted to Magicke and the Manichean heresie did perse cute such Christians as reproued his finnes and wickednesse But at the last lightning came fearefully about his house called Tholotum he crept from chamber to chamber to seeke where he might be safest but nothing would preuaile The flashes in the end ouertooke him and he perished miserably Hatto the Bishop of Mentz when in the yeare of Christ 918 by the instigation of Conrade the Emperour he endeuoured to murder Henry Duke of Saxony was sodainly slaine with a stroke of lightning In the yere of our Lord 653. at Frisazium a towne of Saxony a great nūber both of houses and people were destroyed by lightnings It is writtē that the mother of Hierom Fracastorius who afterwards became one of the most learned and famous Phisitians of Christendome hauing the said Hierome in her armes then an infant was her selfe killed with lightning But her child was not hurt at all In the yeare of our Lord 15●4 the Citie of Claraualla in France being stricken with lightning about noone daies did so fiercely burne that in three houres space their towne castles Churches were vtterly consumed In the yeare of our Lord 1551. an honest Citizen of Crentzburge standing by his table and a dog lying by his feete were both of them sodainly slaine by a lightning yet a young child which stood hard by his Father was preserued safe It is not long since Paules proudsteeple ouercrowing all the spires in England felt the blowes of diuine iustice with her sister Babell the one by lightning the other by confusion One Wyman a Citizen of Glocester as many there yet liuing can testifie about fortie yeares past hauing a son called Arthur Wyman at the Vniuersitie in Oxford very earnestly required another sonne of his one William Wyman to carry some prouision of victuals vpō a Whitsonday to his said sonne in Oxford This younger sonne after many excuses was at the last forced vpon that high day nolens volens to go forwards on his iourny to Oxford But by the way in a thicket of wood he was found strickē dead with lightning yet his body in outward appearance was without any marke The mare whereon he rode was also smitted dead and sauored very strong of brimstone And the meat which he caried as Kid Lamb c. were so corrupted with blackish sent and stunke so ill fauouredly that no man could abide the smell thereof Mistresse Lowbell a Gentlewoman of Colchester yet liuing about two and twentie yeares ago or there abouts was sodainly stricken downe with lightning and so scorched and singed in her bodie with the sulphureous slame that she could hardly be cured within a quarter of a yeare after About the said time at a place called Croes-Askurne in the Countie of Carmarthen vpon the day of a Gentlemans marriage as they were making merry there a very strange accident hapned There came a thunderbolt and pierced quite through the said house and also a certaine