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 shoulâ— 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 asleepeâ— 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 poinâ—â— of popery in the Romish Religion two principall parts and peremptorie pointes corrupt Opinions and outragious ActioÌ„s 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 seruaÌ„t 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 Luâ— 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 â— 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 Edâ—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 coÌ„sent 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 â— 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 caÌ„not 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
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 Bemâ—â— 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 Popeâ— by themselues and their Agents Jn Philog lâ—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 Nouâ—â—â— the Popeâ— 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 constringunâ— seipsos iurisiurandi sacramento c. Offâ—â— lib. â— cap. 13. Religious votaries against Princes Can. 22. quaest 4. â— inter caeâ— 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 coÌ„science in obseruing it Ex Hidâ—râ— in Synoâ— In
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 obedieÌ„ce 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 Jâ—â—iâ—e Pomâ—â—â— 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 coÌ„fesseth 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 coÌ„meth 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
for the other that they may be conuerted Their conuersion will bee the Popes destruction and a consolation for vs and for all the Godly Therefore O Lord so be it Say Lord Jesus Amen The totall Summe which I haue nowe spoken of in this latter argument The Conclusion compriseth these three pointes First the Popes owne Decrees and Constitutions which are sound Secondlie their owne breaches of the same which are manie The third their deserued end and iudgement which from time to time falleth vpon them sometimes by man and alwaies by God whom they doe grieuously offend The same God turne them or bridle them that we and our gouernours being deliuered from the handes of al our enemies may serue him in holines and righteousnes all the daies of our life who bee praised for euer and euer Amen 1. SAM 26. And Dauid said to Abishai Destroy him not for who laieth his hand on the Annointed of Iehoua and be guiltlesse THE FIFTH SERMON I HAVE cōfuted in the last sermon Abishai of Rome and al trayterous Remainstes by their owne Laws of Rome Canonical◠in name and indeede good Rules against al kind of murder I haue complained iustly of their irregular and vnruly rashnes in contemning and breaking their owne rules and making their owne will their law and rule I am now to speak to Englishmen and out of English laws and others A proofe of Dauids Reason out of English Lawes to admonish you Fathers Brethren and Countrimen in such ordinaunces and practises as come to my knowledge which I wish some learned Law yer would take in hande and better performe it In the meane time I exhort you which now by Gods onely goodnes securely dwell in the Land to think of your loyalty and to be more and more thankful A vertu the more to be exercised by vs al for that it is most rare very hard to be found in the world And a woride it is to see the worlde altogether grudging and spiting such Principall persons and Peeres as are excellently qualified Murmuring and vnthankefulnes against the best and haue infinitly well deserued of the common weale When Tully had defended by his eloquence Ch. Popilius in a doubtful cause much perplexed and hazarded and was by his meanes quitte and returned safe and sound to his country and neither in deede nor word hurt at any time by the said Tully yet he such was his vnkindnes Tully maketh request vnto Antonie that hee might be sent to cut his throat vpon the graunt he runneth to Caieta commaundeth his Orator to yeeld his throte and by and by cutteth off the head of the Romane Eloquence Lib. 5. the most noble right hand of peace neuer remēbring that he caried that head which had made an Oration for his head I report almost the very words of Valerius Maximus Lycurgus of whome Apollo gaue this Oracle Lycurgu◠that hee knew not whether hee should number him among men or among Gods was notwithstanding cast at with stones sometimes cast out with a publicke and popular rage and by Alcander had his eye put out and in the ende was driuen out of his country and in that cuntry where he had made enacted established many good Lawes Let vs not be Spartans churling and spurning against our Lycurgus nay our Christian Lawe-maker Let vs not bee vnthankfull Popilians to couet the heade of our Soueraigne who hath saued and preserued many heades Harken therefore welbeloued Countrimen to our own Lawes ould and new and afterward to other constitutions Examples abroad among our neighbours if occasion serueth An old Law was by Canutus Canutus Edgar Alured that he that railed onely against a publicke person Aluredus should haue his toung cut out If a man fought before the Kings counsailour or in the house of a counsailor hee was amerced and fined for it Jnas If in the court hee was amerced in his goods and whether he should dy or no it was in the Kings pleasure and discretiō Another Law of Alure du was That whosoeuer laid wait to kil trayterously the King either alone or accompanied with others Jn Archaeonomia hee should loose liuing and life The Law of King Aethelstane was that if a man wrought mischiefe against his lord it was a capital crime and the losse of his head Euen at that time as you may cōceaue by the premisses were lawes deuised not only to punish man-slaughter but woundes not only woundes but blowes not only blowes but words This Canutus as he was a good Law-maker so hee practised the same against Traytors euen against the traitours of Edmond King of England his enemy Fabian 6. c. 205. R. Holinsh lib. 7. who after the peace made betweene him and Canutus was trayterously slaine at Oxford as hee sate dooing his necessaries of nature And yet Canutus perswading his Countrymen the Danes to pay the tithes truely that ministers might be the better relieued was contrary to the Law shamefully murdered of them in Saint Albanes Church whereof more at large you may reade in Iac. Lib. 3. Am◠Meyer in the Chronicle of Flaunders In this and in other examples hereafter you shal finde to be true that against these blood-thirsty mē Sunt leges legum paenae Their be Lawes and penalties of Lawes not lawes as a sword hid in the scabbard but drawen out executed vpon them and also that there is no succour by Law or by dispensation for Lawe-breakers according to that saying in Lawe Lauxilium 37. ss Raphael Holinshed Frustralegum auxilium implorant qui in leges cōmittunt King Richard the first though a warrior and now marching towardes the holy Lande yet made Lawes among his souldiours against murderers that if it were cōmitted in the ship Rich. 1. he should be cast into the Sea with the corps if vpon the Land he should be bound with the dead body and buried quick with it And these cases were of smaler weight than treason cōmitted against great estates It is therefore prouided that a traytour should be halfe hanged and taken down aliue his bowels cast into the fier and in the end quartred if he were a male if a woman burned These Lawes notwithstanding Disobedience against the lawes yet the vnbridled and cruel Subiectes haue alwaies vnkindly and vnnaturally conspired against Prince and against their own country What inuasion hath there been in this Iland either by Iulius Caesar and the Romanes either by the Danes either by the Saxons either by the Normanes but by the vnthankful and gracelesse children of this our common Mother Gildas complaineth of the Britanes that they were conquered non armis not by battle but by their own slouthfulnes treachery and as Demosthenes accuseth his countrymen the Athenians Jn Olynthiacis that Philip King of Macedonia thriued and prospered not so much by his own strength England alwaies subdued by
a Traytor of the King of England a most wicked Pirat as it is in another history taÌ„quam 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 Maâ— Daâ—â—â— in Heâ—â—â—â— 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 〈◊〉 wardoâ— 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 Heâ— 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 innoceÌ„t 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. Neusiriâ— 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 vndeâ— 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
he ministreth vnto him a refection or confection or rather an infection Saxo Granâ—â— lib. 16. Hisâ— Danicae and willeth him to sleepe but it was woorse then Tardemáh the deadly sleep of Saul for they returning in again found him to be sine voce speachlesse and dead Semblably Iesuites murdering Phisicians these Iesuites haue promised vnto the people of England in secret corners shutting vs out of dozes sospitateÌ„ al health of body and soul but it was sospitate that Popish illusio that not only pickt our purses but is able to kil our souls shal these be nourished amuÌ„g vs by whoÌ„ the people haue bin bewitched the realme of many a subiect robbed the church troubled the state indaungered our gracious Queene hazarded I am no perswader of crueley but of seuerity reasonable and requisit in such a case that England may be rid of them You may remember the general Lawes of Emperours against those that do not communicate Aug. cont epist Parmenian c. 7. lib. 1. with the catholick church but are gathered together in secret seueral coÌ„uenticles We haue by these meetings conferences many Nouices made in seminaries beyond the sea many mo in od Seminaries at home where they haue learned a new Catechisme a new religion new lessons of rebelling of poisoning other new kindes of murdering These younglings of the Pope will prooue to be whelpes of the Woolfe Let them not grow for such wolues cannot agree with the sheep of Christ You are the Pastors of our flock mark the complaint of a seely sheep in the greek Epigram I giue milke with my vdders to a woolfe against my will the folly of the sheepherd compelleth me but after he hath been fed vp and growen big by me he wil first turne against me his nature cannot be chaunged by any curtesies Therefore before this Citation come be zealous for your God for his law otherwise the day of the lord wil come vpoÌ„ al the Cedars of LibanoÌ„ be they neuer so high Esai 2. vpon al the Okes of Bashan be they neuer so stroÌ„g vpoÌ„ the mouÌ„tains towers I meane with the Prophet the greatest the strongest the highest shal be shaken in that day This Citation shall be set vpon the dores of all Clergy men that enter in by Simon Magus â—o Ckeargie â—en either be idle bellies that will not either be ignorant and caÌ„not preach the word of God either so couetous that with Balaam had as leiue curse as blesse our Israel But these sinners as vntouched in my Text I passe ouer and yet it wil hasten Gods Citation This Citation wil reach to all the people of this Land where shall be laid to their charge many thinges many articles To the people and to all but I will touch that onely which may be gathered out of this Text. A general sleep A general slumberâ— and securitie a drowsines and dronkeÌ„nes of the land For as here not only Saul but Abner his whole host are in a sleepe Euen so wee al from the greatest vnto the lowest liue in security which I fear wil be our vaine A foul fault in rulers or captains in this our life which is a continual warfare It is not for AgameÌ„noÌ„ or the ruler to sleep the whole night Homer Jâ—liadae Plutarch ad Principem indoctum Epaminondas alone was in watch ward vpoÌ„ the wals when the Thebans were feasting If the King of Persia had euery morning his chamberlaine saying O King rise and haue care of thy businesse which Mesoro-Masdes willeth thee much more ought our gouernors be carefull in publick affaires of the church and the common weal in such things as our God hath coÌ„manded The law of Canutus was that if the souldior appointed to watch to keep his standing did so sleepe Saxo. Hist Dan. li. 10 that a man might take his weapon or apparel from him sleeping he had discipline and punishmeÌ„t for it was thought vnworthy to be in the Kings seruice Many Princes and Kings yea and Kingdoms were taken and destroied by security Isbosheth sleeping in his bed at Noon 2. Sam. 4. Iudic. 5. by the sons of Rimnon was smitten in the fift rib and Sisera by Iael and Scipio Affricanus and others What realme hath not bin by security conquered Grauely Cato as Austine alleadgeth out of Salust against Catiline De Ciuit. Dei lib. 5. cap. 12. amongst other vices of the Romans as riot couetousnes ambitioÌ„ hath these words We folow idsenes and pleasures at home and hunt after mony and fauor of men and therefore inferreth Eo sit vt impetus fiat in vacuam Remp. hence coÌ„meth it that euery man may enter into the country as voide and open for euery man Balthazar at a feast rioting with his Nobles concubines Dan. 5. lost his Kingdome which passed from the Chaldeians to the Medes and Persianes Troia being drowned and buried in wine sleepe was taken spoiled Saxo GraÌ„maticus writeth that ther is nothing more pernicious and hurtful in war then carelesse quietnes dissolute negligence bould and presumptuous confidence So Frotho a captain besieging the City Peltisca by munition inuincible by this policy took it For he fained himself to be dead and in token thereof his funerals were solemnised Saxo. Hist Dan. lib. 1. whereupon Vespasius the King persuaded that this was true in his security sports and plaies was slain So we read of Hannibal and his souldiours as by manhood and paines they ouercame the Romanes at Cannae so they lost the victory by their effeminat and loose behauiour afterward So Britany or England was this way conquered by Iulius Caesar Saxo. li. 1â— as before I touched and in England Herald son of Godwine caused the army of the Danes to be slain in the night wheÌ„ they were fast asleep In summe that which Bernard said of a Monk Dormientem Monachum Deo mortuum esse Marullus lib. 1. ca. 1â—â— nec sibinec vlli vtilem so generally we may say A man sleepy and drowsy is a dead man nether profitable to himselfe nor to others I omit other transgressions of the Land as periury discord dissentions hypocrisie in all estates and other sinnes bicause they are not touched in my Text. These and such like sins abound raign in this Land The whole body is thus diseased and sick from the sole of the foot to the head as Esay complaineth ful of wounds and sores and botches Esai 1. God forbid that we should not recouer out of this malady If wee be vncureable then must the Prophets Text conclude vpon vs as vpon Iewes Your Land is wast your cities are burnt straungers deuoure your Lande you shal creepe out of corners like wormes out of their holes Mich. 7. you shal be troden down like myre in the streetes Now dearly beloued what remedy haue we to cure our selues from these imminent daungers Iuda can haue no help from AEgypt if God bee displeased there are but two waies proposed by God Deut. 30. either the right hand or the left either life or death good or euill If you heape sin vpon sin if you turne to the left hand you dy if you repent and keepe the right hand you liue There must be the best way deuised Serpents and Eagles know many remedies to take away poison and to driue away their euils saith OrigeÌ„ And again in the same place Serpents vse fenel to sharpen quicken their sight Origen contra Celsum lib. 4. the Eagles take the stone Aetites fouÌ„d out for the preseruation of their youÌ„g ones cary it to their nest And is there no help nor remedy for vs Yes dearly beloued to return to him by repentance from whoÌ„ we haue by sin departed Quisquis Deum offenderit whosoeuer shal offeÌ„d god Thoeph in Ose c. 5. he hath this only hope help left to be recoÌ„ciled to him again Walk therfore sincerely in a single heart before God let rebels be subiects let Papistes with the Ephesian exorcists burn their magical masse-books let superiors oppresse no more let the cold be inflamed with zeal of Justice religion let the drowsy sluggards be watchfull against the euill day Take heed al that Saul wake not againe He hath hitherto bin cast into a deadly sleepe by God It is he that must continue him in that sluÌ„ber If we wil repent he will haue mercy vpon the house of Iuda wil saue England yea the Lord will saue not by bow nor by sworde nor by battle nor by horses Ose 1. nor by horsemen but by himselfe which God grant To whom c.