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A03851	A view of the Romish hydra and monster, traison, against the Lords annointed: condemned by Dauid, I. Sam. 26. and nowe confuted in seuen sermons to perswade obedience to princes, concord among our selues, and a generall reformation and repentaunce in all states: by L.H.; View of the Romish hydra and monster, traison, against the Lords annointed: condemned by David, I. Sam. 26. and nowe confuted in seven sermons.	Humphrey, Laurence, 1525 or 6-1589.	1588 (1588)	STC 13966; ESTC S118809	105,796	218

A VIEW OF THE ROMISH HYDRA AND MONSTER TRAISON AGAINST THE LORDS ANNOINTED CONDEMNED BY DAVID 1. SAM 26. AND NOWE CONFVTED IN SEVEN SERMONS To perswade Obedience to Princes Concord among our selues and a generall Reformation and Repentaunce in all states By L. H. Psal 11 Behold the wicked bend their bowe they haue made readie their arrowes vpon the string to shoot in the darcke at those that are righteous in heart Psal 5 Destroy them O God let them fal from their Counsels cast them out for the multitude of their iniquities because they haue Rebelled against thee AT OXFORD Printed by IOSEPH BARNES and are to be solde in Paules Church-yearde at the signe of the Tygers head 1588. The Dialogue and talk of Dauid and Abishai touching King Saul whether he being cast into a dead sleepe shoul● be killed or no taken out of the first booke of Samuel and 26. Chapter 8 Then said Abishai to Dauid God hath closed thine enemy into thine hande this daie nowe therefore I pray thee let mee smite him once with à speare to the earth and I will not smite him againe 9 And Dauid said to Abishai Destroy him not for who can lay his hand on the Lords annointed and be guiltlesse 10 Moreouer Dauid said As the Lord liueth either the Lord shal smite him or his day shal come to dy or hee shall descend into battle and perish 11 The Lord keepe me from laying mine hand vppon the Lordes annointed but I pray thee take now the speare that is at his head and the pot of water and let vs goe hence 12 So Dauid tooke the speare and the pot of water from Sauls head and they gate them awaie and no man saw it nor marked it neither did any awake but they were al asleepe● for the Lord had sent a dead sleepe vpon them TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORD ROBERT DVDLEY EARLE OF LEICESTER BARON OF DENBIGH KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER OF HER MAIESTIIS most Honorable priuy Counsaile Chauncelour of the Vniuersitie of Oxford LAVRENCE HVMPHREY WISHETH GRACE PEACE AND MERCY FROM GOD THE FATHER OVR LORD IESVS CHRIST THERE are Right honorable as farre as I can iudge Two perilous poin●● of popery in the Romish Religion two principall parts and peremptorie pointes corrupt Opinions and outragious Actiōs both drawen and borrowed from our common Aduersary who one way soweth in darkens and in the night among the wheat of gods word the cockle darnel of pernicious doctrine the other way he murdreth them from the beginning Iohn 8. 1. Pet. 5. and roareth like a Lyon and in his continuall and cruell circuite seeketh whom he may deuour euerie way hunteth after blood and our destruction spiritual and corporal As Christ is humble and meek as the cognisaunce of Christians is loue so the badge of Antichrist is bloody ful of cruelty voide of charity To passe ouer the corruptions of doctrin This second Monster of Rome Hydra of Rome hath many heads this Hydra is of many heades These Actions of Popes are diuerse both here seen and felt and vnderstood abroad and euery where practised As Ashur was Gods rod and Vespasian his seruāt against the Iews so this reputed Vicar of Christ hath been the whippe of Princes the scourge of all Christendome By his opinion in Masse he hath learned to offer an vnbloody sacrifice In his Actions he is Pilat mingling sacrifices with mans blood Lu● 13. By his opinion hee is guilty of that which is written Psal 144. His mouth speaketh lies In his actions of that which followeth His right hande is the right hand of iniquity But ô that al Princes were of King Dauids mind not to meddle nor to communicate with such bloody sacrifices Psal ● nor to haue these false cruel gods names in their lips Although your Lordshippe knoweth his dooings in this realme better then I can deliuer yet I purpose by your good leaue and licence to set down the proceedings of this Hydra and his actions by degrees and steps for some Instruction and a Caueat to my countrymen The first Act and head The first head of this Romish Monster is a Temporal sword open defiaunce against kings and kingdomes misliked by him He wil be not onely a Bishop of Bishops but a king nay a Conquerour of kings Hee hath in his hande the wheele of fortune to make kings goe vp and goe downe according to his pleasure in driuing guiding the chariot and maketh them thus to say Regno regnabo regnaui sum sine regno One saith I doe raigne another I wil raigne another I haue raigned another I am put from my raigne He maketh Apollo to giue ouer the chariot of the Sunne and to resigne it to any rechles rash Phaeton though he set on fier heauen and earth Hee wil win the horse or loose both horse and saddle He can be content that Dauid or any other godly Prince bee vnhorsed and vnseated and that wanton and rebellious Absalom bee placed and setled This bloodie action of warring is performed sometime in their owne person as Iulius the second that fought against the French with Paules sword and others both Popes and Cardinals may bee witnesses sometime by inciting and setting on other Princes against a Realme or Seignory As Pippin Charles were imploied against the Lombardians by the commaundement of Adrian Cau. 23. q. 8 And Gregory the great willeth the Tuscans to doe the like Thom. walsing in Ed●ar 1. Boniface by letters sollicited the King of England against the French King and promiseth aide And another time Kings of Fraunce are set vp against England Al these experimentes fal out in our time by a Catholick cōsent in the councel of Trent that all Catholicke Princes should prepare against England and others of the reformed religion This cannot be good for euen the Pope himselfe saith that it is not good Cau. 23 q. 8 ● Tim. 2. Pope Nicolas saith to Charles the Emperour No man that is a souldior to God entangleth himselfe with secular businesse And if the souldiours of the woorlde apply themselues to warfare what hath the Bishoppes and souldiours of Christ to doe but to goe to their praiers Quid ad Episcopos milites Christi nisi vt vacent orationibus If this head of Hydra by Gods mightie mercifull hand bee cut off so that forreiners wil not nor cānot satisfie the turn his lust The 2. head a trumpet of ciuil warre beholde another head riseth A Proclamation of Rebellion to al Catholickes against their dread Soueraigne for he will set all at six and seuen and mooue euery stone he wil goe thorough thicke and thinne Examples wee haue in England and Ireland with banners of ciuill dissension displaied to the offence of Almighty of God to the disturbance of our publicke and godlie peace to the vtter ouerthrowe of noble families Yet there is another

would I feare God neither durst I rashlie offend the King ordained by him neither am I ignoraunt where I haue read He that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God 1. Peter 2. Peter exhorteth to bee subiect to all maner of ordinaunce of man in the Lord and Paul especially aboue all beseecheth vs to make supplications A reason in nature drawen from commoditie of obediēce praiers intercessions giuing of thanks for Kings and for al that are in authority and al this is proued to bee profitable for common tranquillity to obey Nero and such like although they were heathen men in profession and conuersation The commodity of that heathenish gouernment is thus set foorth Hee is the minister of God for thy good Rom. 13.1 Tim. 2.1 Pet. 2. we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life vnder them in al godlines and honesty Gouernours are sent for the punishment of euill doers and for the praise of them that doe wel Chrysostome sheweth the commodities of this politicke gouernment In that there are principalities in that some commaund and some obey Ad Ro. 13. and in that al things are not turned vpside downe by fortune and chaunce and the people are not tosted hither and thither I affirm it to be the work of the wisedome of God And hee saith it is for the auoiding of discordes and dissensions in these words Because the equality of honour and state bringeth in commonly fighting and braules God hath ordeined many principalities and many subiections namely of the husband and the wife of the sonne and of the father of the ould man and the young of the seruant and of the free of the Prince and the subiect of the schoole-maister and the scholer he concludeth thus Innumera bona c. Infinite commodities come to cities by Magistrates which if you take away al things wil come to wreck Now let vs recount with our selues if this be the blessednes of gouernment vnder the heathen how much more are we bound to God for a Christian and godly regiment Euen Nabuchadonezer a tyraunt and infidel was to be praied for And the Iewes are willed to pray for him for Babylon and to seeke the peace of that City where they were captiues for thus saith Ieremie Ierem. 29. In the peace thereof shal you haue peace This is the office and duty of the Iewes though straungers toward the Babylonians notwithstanding their straunge and idolatrous religion O that our great soiourner receiued in England with fauour Q. of Scots entertained with honour vsed with al liberal liberty pardoned many times by mercy woulde haue sought the peace of the land where shee harboured or at least had not sought the disquietnes of the state the disturbaunce of the realme the hauocke and vndooing of manie Gentlemen the perill of the person of the Prince of the land so gratiously affected towarde her beeing but a Queene quondam a Queene without a Kingdome and onely in name Such soiournours haue been here not a few What shal I say a Snakish and Serpentine generation I might so Thomas Walsingham remembreth in his Chronicle of three vnkind guests a Mouse in a wallet a Serpent in ones bosome and fier in the lap Nay I might say woorse They passe some Serpents In Aegypt an Aspis or Serpent by nature learned this to shew friendship to a friend and an host for beeing brought vp in a poor mans house deliuered of young-ones and perceiuing that one of that brood had with byting and stinging killed the good mans Sonne shee did sley al her children and was neuer after seen in that house O admiranda Dei virtus saith Baptista Fulgosus O wounderful power and vertue of God! A cruel Serpent towards her host would shewe her selfe thankfull euen with the death of her younglings and with her own discommodity and a man Ful. l. 5. c. 7. a reasonable creature oftentimes more cruell than the Aspis will destroy man and host Doubtles a great and grosse ingratitude But now what reward either forreiners or domestical practisers and traytours haue had from time to time among these heathen vnder the Law of nature giue me leaue by exampls somewhat to make manifest vnto you Great Pompeie flying for succour into Aegypt and requesting to soiourne vnder Ptolomeie a young King a Councell was called about it and whereas one thought him to hee admitted another to be repelled Theodotus Chius Schoole-master to Ptolomeie in the Art of Rhetorik agreed to neither of them For if they receiued him they should haue Caesar an enemy if they should refuse him it woulde turne to some reproch to them and bee offensiue to Pompeie Wherefore the best is quoth he to dispatch him adding as Plutarch saith merily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dead men bite not J●●i●e Pom●●● and yet here was no present practise by Pompeie but a fear of some troubles and treacheries by him Among the Romanes it hath bin seuerely punished whensoeuer any such trayterous prancke hath beene displaied either against their country either against their frindes or foes Lib. Offic. Ambrose commendeth highly Fabritius the Romane who perceiuing that a Physitian offred to poyson Pyrrhus his Kingsent the traitour backe againe to his Master to suffer condigne punishment for it Metius Suffetius keeping touch neither with the Albanes nor with the Romans as he was double and trayterous in heart so with wild horses his body was rent and diuided where Tullus cōfesseth that there is no war greater or more perilous than cum proditione persidia sociorum Liui. decad 1. lib. 1. when there is falshoode in fellowship Tarpeia the daughter of the Lieuetenaunt of the tower or Capitolium in the battell betwixt the Romanes and the Sabines corrupted In vita Romul either by bracelettes as Plutarch writeth or for gold as Liuie telleth betraieth the tower vnto Tatius and had rewarde but such as choked her Maximinus killed men as it were beasts against whom when the Osdroens bowmen had made a faction and commotion and chosen a newe Emperour one Macedonius did slay him and brought his heade to Maximinus who thanked him with courteous woordes but afterward in seuere maner as a traytour put him to death What should I repeat the traiterous Schoolmaster of the Faliscians who bringing out of the city his scholers as the maner was for their recreation now cōmeth into the camp of Camillus and deliuered Principum liberos Noble mens children vnto him ioyning with his wicked act more wicked speach that the Valerians did yeelde themselues into the hands of the Romanes in that he yeelded into their power those children whose parents were the heads and chiefest there but Camillus espyeng the treachery after his sharpe aunswere to him stript him naked tyed his hands behinde his back committed him to the boies with rods in their hands to whip the traitor into the city againe whereby Camillus got thankes and renowme of the

shamefull fact of the father of Christians the Pope that set him a woorke to goe this voyage so vnchristianly vncharitably to betray him abroad and to inuade his countryes and dominions at home Dum Imperator oues Christi ne à lupo discerpantur ense suo tutatur as defendit Pontifex radit deglubit deuorat saginatas Hoc est enim verè pascere ones This is he that claimeth three Pasce Feede feed feede for his triple crown triple Regiment but of a feeder is become a sheep-biter yea a woolfe swallowing and deuouring the sheepe God blesse vs from such fleaing butcherly sheepe-hards Of these and such like Acts we may cry out with Cuspinian O integritas Romani Pontificis And againe In Frides ô scrinium pectoris sanctum This is the honesty of the Byshoppe of Rome This is the holy chest of his brest Thus the poore Emperours and Princes are made vassals and subiect to the check and censure yea to the slauery and slaughter of the Pope either by himself immediatly or by others his means and instrumentes How did Gregory the seuenth otherwise Hildebrand practise traiterously against Henry the fourth Varijs modis he did manie waies laie in wait to destroy him but especiallie once when the Emperour was at his deuotion in S. Maries Church at Rome Cardinal Bem●● euen in that time and in that place this Pope from the top of the Church by a stone did minde to murder him and for that purpose had hyred a young Nouice to do the feyt but while hee was tempering his stone by the waight of it the bord brake he with his stone fel downe to the ground was brused dashed in peeces The citizens of Rome worthily incensed at it caused his foote to bee tied with a rope to be drawn through the streets of the city for the space of three daies Thus the Pope was disappointed and his conduict and hyred man condignely punished and the Emperour by God his prouidence mightily preserued This practise of theirs is principally wrought by themselues as you haue heard and sometimes by others their deputies by sword A double practise of Pope● by themselues and their Agents Jn Philog l●b 28. dag dagger poyson and so forth For the Pope hath his Popelings and Parasites more than euer had Gnato in his schoole of Flattery very like those clawebackes of whom R. Volaterrane reporteth to be among Sontiates a people of France whose king hath flatterers called by them in french Silodures by the Graecians Euolimi or rather by transposition of letters Euomili sweet-tounged men or fair-spoken men who alwaies cleaue to him hang on him follow him whithersoeuer he goeth do as he doth whether he laugh or weep apishly fashioning whatsoeuer he delighteth in if he lie they lie or if he dy they dy with him Euen so the Popes adherentes and Silodures are at his beck to go to run to flee to execute al his commaundements vpon any Prince in the world in such sort as he prescribeth I told you of Gregories slattering factour that brake his neck for his labour A Nou●●● the Pope● factour King Iohn by the Pope was excommunicated and released vpon this condition that hee and his successours the Kings of England should acknowledge themselues tributaries to the Bishop of Rome but afterward he was poisoned with confected wine in the Abby of Swinsheade by a Monke A Monke who perished with the King Henrie the Emperour the seuenth of that name or rather the sixt as I take it Carion l. 3. was poysoned by Paulinus a Friar A Friar corrupted by money Denarijs pluribus florenis at the receiuing of the Sacrament of whom thus it is written in certaine auncient rithmes Sic Satanae Archangelus Transformat se sicut Angelus Jn lib. Poemat Infector luculentus Post vitae alimoniam Dat mortis acrimoniam Amicus fraudulentus The same Henrie the sixt was called Lucemburgensis by Raph. Volaterrane In Anthropolog l. 23. and by Baptist Ignatius Lucelburgensis mentioning also of his poisoning in the Eucharist An other instrument was of late our Cardinal Pole the Popes penne-man A Cardinal who in his booke for the Supremacy of his great master the Byshop of Rome incited Charles the Emperour then preparing against the Turke to bende his force against his owne country of England and against his soueraigne Lorde King Henry the eight a Prince indeede of famous memory but by the opinion of Pole woorse then the Turke for these be his words In Anglia sparsum nunc est hoc semen vt vix à Turcico inter nosci queat idque anthoritate vnius coaluit Terming the good seed of Gods word sowen by the appointment of God Mat. 13. and spreade by Authority of the King in England to bee but a Turkish seede and worse then that for that the Turke doth compell no man as King Henry did when he commanded his subiects to renounce subiection to the Pope to yeeld it to their owne natural Prince I neede not speake of late hyrelings against the Prince of Orenge nor of the latter Mercenary men against our dread soueraigne Queene Elizabeth by Pius Quintus and his successours Parrie and other hyrelings against Q. Elizabeth and al is as they bear men in hand for the Religion of the Catholick Church Such a Catholicke faith must be maintained by such Catholicke meanes namely by open rebellions priuie practises in a Catholicke and vniuersall manner that is by all vnlawfull meanes A peece a part of this religion is a Vow not of forced chastity but of voluntary cruelty which the Pope giueth presumptuously and the Popelings take foolishly Such there haue beene and such are among vs whome Ambrose reprooueth Saepe plerique constringun● seipsos iurisiurandi sacramento c. Off●● lib. ● cap. 13. Religious votaries against Princes Can. 22. quaest 4. ● inter cae● Oftentimes the most part of men bind themselues with an oth and when they themselues knowe that it should not haue been promised yet they doe it in respect of their oth Is not their owne Law contrary to this Is not there forbidden euery oth that is the hande of iniquity And is it not an vniust band when wee sweare the spoile of Princely blood No man liketh the vow that Iepthe made seemed to keepe for the slaughter of his owne Daughter Iud. 11. Dura promissio acerbior solutio as Ambrose thinketh Lib. 3. c. 13. No wise man wil allowe the rash vowe perfourmed by Herode for the beheading of Iohn Baptist at the motiue of a dauncing damsel the Daughter of Herodias Matth. 14. neither yet the vowe of the Iewes Act. 23. who swore they would neither eat nor drinke til they had killed Paul And why shall our men bind themselues by a cruel oath and make a cōscience in obseruing it Ex Hid●r● in Syno● In

a Traytor of the King of England a most wicked Pirat as it is in another history tāquam de Monacho factus Daemoniachus as it were of a Monk made a Demoniacal man and possessed of a Diuel But this diuelish man was drawn out of the pump of the ship where he hid himselfe and his ende was the chopping off of his head by the hande of the Earle of Cornwal Richard the Kings brother carried to the King Ma● Da●●● in He●●●● and so to diuerse places of the Realme which the Moucke woulde haue redeemed with an mestimate masse of money but coulde not Adam Adam the Byshop of Hereford was accused of treason and yet was protected by the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury of Yorke and of Dublin Th. Walsing in 〈◊〉 wardo● and of ten other Bishops and with violence and with the Arch-bishops crosses was pluckt out from the place of iudgement but afterwards being found guilty by the sworne Iurie of all the crimes obiected was so pronounced his goods confiscated the traiterous and horned Priests blancked for so these verses signifie Nostri cornuti sunt consilio quasi muti Sunt quasi consusi decreto legis abusi This Adam as this history reporteth was arrested openly in the Parlament at London to the great reproch of the cleargy and preiudice of the whole church of England Against Henry the fourth Conspiratours against He● the 4. what conspiracies were there not by Earls and specially by Cleargy men whose meaning was sodenly at the castle of Winsor in the time of Christmasse plaies to rush in to kill him his children but their Christmas py was a deadly pie to them some ran away to London and so ment to passe beyond the sea but the wind being against them they were taken and beheadded The cleargy men Maude Ferby Maudlin Maude and William Ferbie were hanged drawen and beheaded at London others at Oxford The Priest of Ware that had matriculated in a roole the names of the conspirators whereof some were innocēt had the same iudgement The Prior of Laune once Canon of Dunstable Walter Baldock a Prior. Walter Baldocke confessing himselfe to be priuy to it for conceiling it was hanged so were the Minorit Friers euen in the habit of their religion Friers An Abbat of Westm As for the Abbat of Westminster a chiefe stickler in this matter in whose house after the feast this conspiracy was deuised was by God himselfe stricken with a palsey and by by was dum and so died At the same time Thomas Walsingham writeth of Owen Glendar a Welch man Owen de Glendour In Henr. 4. a rebel against the same King intending by his Magicall coniuration to kill the King the Diuel so working by raine winde snowe haile stones and al tempests against the King and his camp Jbidem Fuerunt plures si fas sit credere qui dicerent haec aduersa arte fratrum Minorum contra Regem fuisse commentata It was a common rumour then that Friers hauing familiarity with Diuels wrought brought al these miseries against the King as friendes to the Welch but you heard how the Diuell was ouertaken by God The Minorites executed by the King in their best and most holy weedes and so Owen Glendar in the absence of the King following his prophecy wandred miserably vp and downe in the desert and in solitary places by penury and hunger pined away The like iudgement fel vpon Falcasius a rebel against Henry the third of a great rich man so miserably poore that he in banishment begged his bread in Fraunce and had not a bolster to lay his head vpon I might haue reckoned vp many Iackes as Iacke Strawe Th. Walsingham n. Hypod. Neusiri● or Wat Tiler Iack Miller Iacke Carter against King Richard the second and also Iack Cade of Kent who was in a cart brought to London taken before in a garden in Sussex and his head set on London bridge his quarters sent into Kent in the time of Henry the sixt but these are matters of rebellion indeede but not so much for Religion which is my purpose and chiefe scope And yet all these drink of one cup bitter enough here for such and most bitter in the life to come Now to come nearer vnto our time memory Late Popish traytours for their Religion R. Holinsh in Henr. 8. Rebellions for religion vnde● Henr 8 our Popish Traitours haue had no better successe In the raigne of Henry the eight by Parliament the Lords praier and the ten commandements were decreed to be learned in English for this good seruice to God and to the common weal the blind people seduced by blind guides Monks Priests made a commotion in Lincolne shier In Lincolne shiere God fought for his cause for his King and gaue to him the victory The multitude by proclamation was pardoned a new oath of fealty to the King receiued Captaine Cobler Doctor Mackarel a Monke named Doctor Mackarel and others put to death How fel it out in the North by their religious rebellion In the North an holy pilgrimage It was forsooth for the Cacholicke Church It was called a holy blessed pilgrimage In their banners was painted Christ hanging on the Crosse a Chalice with a painted cake in the sleeues of the souldiours were embrodered the fiue wounds of our Sauior But God ouerturned al their purposes and they were supplaunted and by a floud on Simon Iudes Euen their heat was cooled A butcher a Priest executed and a butcher at Winsor wishing that these good fellowes of the North had some carkases of his sheepe with a Priest procured to preach in fauour of Rebels were adiudged to dy by Law Martial Good king Edward the sixt proceeded in zeale as his father began Rebellions for religion in the time of Edwa. 6. Jn Cornewall and more sincerely reformed religion but alas in Cornewall and Deuonshire it was not brooked nor digested the king his Commissioner in Cornwall was slaine but God did not suffer it is remaine vnreuenged a Priest was taken and executed in Smithfield by Law In Deuonshiere they did rise for the six Articles In Deuonshiere they would haue Masse holy water holy bread but they wilfull men lacked all they famished for want of bread The Lorde Russel the Lorde Grey the kings army ouercame them Sir Peter Carewe and Gawine and other faithfull subiects with the city of Exceter perseuering true and loyall were rewarded highly commended but Welch vicar of Saint Thomas in Exceter a newe reformer of religion was hanged vp in chains vpon the top of the church with his sacring Bel holy water bucket and sprinkle beeds and other Popish trash the chiefe captaines most disloial carried to London to be executed In Northfolke was another rebellion of such as partly were deceiued In Northfolke or not throughly persuaded in religion they had an