old Oak a tree not of life to them but of death called by them the tree of Reformation The tree of Reformation but it was the tree of Absalom vppon the which Miles their Gunner and two of their false Prophets were executed for they trusted in vaine Prophecies which were partly vttered in these verses The country gnuffes Hob Dick Hick With clubs and clouted shoone Shal fil vp Dussin dale with bloode Of slaughtered bodies soone This prophecy was a dreame their captaine Ket crept into a corner but was openly put to death his other brethren were hanged in chaines the rest of meaner sort hearing the pardon proclaimed by an herauld of Armes cast downe their weapons and lifted vp their voices praying to God to preserue King Edward There brake out a new stur in Yorkshier In Yorkeshiere False Prophecies cause of rebellion by false prophecies by a fond misliking of the Kings proceeding But here also the captains that thought to raise a great flame and to set al on fier made but a smoke wherewith they were choked themselues namely a poore man William Ombler and a simple parish clerke Thomas Dale and such like All these ment vnhappily by extraordinary means to turn al the Lawes of God and ordinaunces of Princes topsie-turuie About that time of these rebellions wee had set foorth by the authority of the King to these rebels an Eloquent oration by a great learned man Sir Iohn Cheeke Schoolemaster to the King Sir I. Cheek grauely and pithily dehorting them from such vprores as contrary to Gods word the honour of a King and the safety of the comon-weale which in mine opinion would make any hard heart to melt These former and foolish attemptes in the beginning pernitious and tragicall in the end might haue persuaded our countrymen to haue learned by their fore-fathers to keepe themselues within their tedder compasse of obedience The Raign of Q. Elizabeth But alas our Soueraign Queen Elizabeth hath felt too much of their wilfull disobedience and they tasted somewhat of hir prouoked seuerity Wherefore did Thomas Pearcie Earle of NorthuÌ„berland Charles Earle of Westmerlande against the Lawes of God and man by forcible meanes set vp Masses burne Bibles and bookes of Communion Why did they rise themselues when they might haue been quiet And raise the people which should haue been taught obedience Let the death of the one and the miserable flight of the other the execution of Parson Plumtree at Duresme and of others hanged and beheaded at Knaues Mire not farre from Yorke be instructions and examples for subiects These and many mo cannot warne vs neither the history of Iohn Story prouidently caught beyond the Seas and trimly shipped into this lande and afterward iustly executed vpon a newe paire of Gallowes euen at this day commonly bearing his name Saunders li. 7. de visibili Monarchia Ann. 1566. neither the terrible end of Iohn Felton who vpon Corpus Christi day at London at the Bishoppes gate published the Declaratory sentence of Pius Quintus Pope making this Realme of England and the Queenes Maiesty a pray and a spoil to our neighbours and to al nations neither the beggerly and lamentable state of Iames Desmond neither of Iohn Desmond bearing himselfe too bould vpon an Agnus Dei and a ring sent from the Pope neither of Nicolas Saunders himself the rebellous preacher to the Irish-men Saunders and the rest in the end taken with a frensie these al while they bend the vttermost of their wittes and of their forces against the Maiesty of our Prince whom the Maiesty of God hath enthronized they al I say haue but knocked their heels against the prick spurned to their owne destruction and to the confusion of that Popish sect By these and manie others neither Campion nor the rest of the Iesuites new Incommers Campion other Iesuites and Inmates in this Realme coulde beware neither yet by them other new cutters and practisers could be warned neither yet to this day the people coulde bee taught or perswaded but that their holy fathers Buls and Decrees Declarations must be obeyed and that his waxe and his lead and his Pontifical presentes consecrated by his execrable authority may preserue exempt them from al daungers touch of our law hereafter from al perill punishment either in hel or in purgatory I am to passe ouer at this time other examples and ordinaunces of other countries adioyning to vs as of Flaunders and Fraunce which wee must differre till another time if God will In the meane time let vs aliena frui insania by the madnes of these men learne to bee wise as many of our predecessors both Princes and learned men of this Vniuersity haue doone and know that the Queenes Maiestie hath waded no farther in these causes than other Kinges of this Land who haue broken the yee before King Stephen perceiuing that Theobald Arch-Bishoppe of Caunterburie brought Popish laws from Rome into Englande by decree of Parliament condemneth them burned them as hurtful to a common weale Iohn Bale cent 2. in apeâ—â—lice as Iohn Sarisbury beareth witnes in his eight book and two twentith chapter of Polycrat King Richard the second also molested with Romish affaires and tyranny of the Pope in Parliament holden at Westminster decreed and enacted that it shoulde bee lawfull for no man for any cause to pleade before the Byshoppe of Rome Polyd. Vir. lib. 20. for excommunication of any English-man by his authoritie and if anie such commaundement came from him it shoulde not bee executed vpon paine of losse of all their gooddes and perpetuall imprisonment and therefore great marueile that any such sentence of excommunication from such a forreiner and vsurper against our gracious Prince shuld in these daies of more knowledge by our countrimen be either receiued or harkned to or feared You dearly beloued I hope wil not and that you may not take an example by old Oxford Studentes who could ne would like of a Bull of Gregory directed against Iohn Wicliffe and therefore are chidden of the Pope that would suffer cockle and darnel of his heresie to grow among pure wheat in the beutifull fieldes of their Vniuersity You may also cal to minde that are ancients the daies of Henry the eight and Edward the sixt and iustifie the thinges to be true which I haue alleadged and much more which might bee said to this purpose to the proofe of this argument of Dauid that whosoeuer laieth hand of the lords annointed shal not be accounted innocent but shal be plagued for it The Lord giue vs grace to haue this doctrine fixed and setled in our heartes and expressed in our liues To whom bee all honour c. 1. SAM 26. 9 And Dauid said to Abishai Destroy him not for who can laie his hande on the Lords annointed and bee guitlesse 10 Moreouer Dauid said As 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 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
the murdering hande the murdering tongue the murdering heart against Princes be guilty also by this Law't We vnderstaÌ„d what they say in their Popish Decrees And this also I would haue our couÌ„trymen note that if any haue taken an oath to Pope or any other C. 12. q. 5. 〈◊〉 Glossa Tamen contra propriaÌ„ patriam non iuuabit ipsum He shal not aid any man or master against his own couÌ„try And whereas in sundry places of scripture we are bound by the commaundement of God to obey to honour to fear the King and al higher power as the places rehearsed before declare now their Law inforceth that beeing a precept or commaundement it must be doone and followed Whosoeuer obeyeth not commandements C. 14 q. 1. is guiltie and a debtour of the penaltie out of Austin De sermone Domini in Monte. And in the same Title out of Gregory That which is giuen in precept is commaunded that which is commaunded must needs be don if it be not done Paenam habet it hath the penalty Why then should any Pope dispense with any Princes subiect and not incurre double punishment in that hee breaketh himselfe and causeth many thousands to commit the like The Popes law can tel him Quod alter mandato nostro facit nos reputamur fecisse The Popish Schoolmen teach That if a man doth not fulfil his penance enioyned to him by his ghostly father he committeth deadly sin Scot. in 4. d. 15. and so doth Bonauenture require obedience to a Prelate vnder paine of death And to disobey a Prince shal it be venial and a thing of nothing Nowe let vs set their owne sayinges and doings in one ballaunce and see how far they disagree from this authority of these fathers The Popes Actes contrarie to their lawes alleadged by their Gratian. It is written that Pope Innocentius the third of that name when he had intermedled and made debate by his double dealing betweene Otho the first and Frederik B. Fulgos lib. 6. he made a cunning collation at Rome in the holy time of Lent of peace and agreement but this iudgement was giuen of that Sermon by a noble Citizen of Rome Iohn Capocius O holy father your wordes are the wordes of God but your deedes are the deedes of the diuell So may wee iudge of the rest of the rabblement of Popes whose lawes compiled out of these fathers are godly in some cases but their own woords works are diuelish Touching woords Nâ—c 〈◊〉 C. 9. quâ—sâ— in their owne high maiestical stile thus they speake It is certainly most euident that the iudgment of the Apostolical See whose authority is greatest must not be retracted of any man neither is it lawful for any man to iudge of her iudgementes And againe Junnocent cap. Nemâ— The iudge must not be iudged neither of the Emperour neither of al the cleargy neither of Kings And againe The Church of Rome alone by her own authority may iudge of al Calixenâ— but it is not permitted to any to iudge of her It is a great vsurpation of the Byshop of Rome both in his notorious claime of all Kingdomes and in his oppression of all Kinges which by generall terms and particular discourse may be found in Histories and are couched together in Augustin Steuchus a great Proctor of the Pope euen out of the bowels and priuities of the Popes Epistles Registres De Donaâ—â— Constant cont I aur Vall. The Vniuersality of Rome The generals are Papam habere vetustissimum vniuersalemque Dominatum c that the Pope hath a most auncient and vniuersal dominion ouer the King domes of al the west Church That Rome is content King Pope Queene Rome destroieth all Kinges and Queenes The speciall and peculiar Prouinces of the Pope Sect 93. Spaine and suffereth Kinges to rule so that they acknowledge hir to be Patronam Dominam ac Reginam as the Patronesse Lady and Queen so that al pensions be payed to her and shee as Queene to be saluted worshipped Adoretur These specialties be many Gregory otherwise Hildebrand giueth the Kinges of Spaine to vnderstand Regnum Hispaniae ex antiquis constitutionibus Beato Petro Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae in ius potestatem traditum esse That the Kingdome of Spaine by auncient Recordes and constitutions hath beene giuen vp and deliuered to the right propriety of Blessed Saint Peter and of the holy church of Rome Sect. 94. Hungarie The same Pope writeth to Salomon King of Hungary in like sort chalenging that Kingdome as his proper possession Pope Alexander the third certifieth William Conquerour that before King Iohn offered vppe England to the Church of Rome England it was in the hand of the Prince of the Apostles and vnder his Tutorship or tuitioÌ„ vntil some others came who following the pride of Satan Pactum Dei abiecerunt Sect. 95. Anglorum Populum à via veritatis auerterunt that is Vntil they did cast away the couenant of God and turned the people of England froÌ„ the way of truth And praiseth English men as faithful Contributours butours Exhibebâ—e and Exhibitors to the See Apostolical by a yearly Pension partly to the Byshop and partly to Saint Maries Church Quae vocatur Schola Anglorum which is called the Schole of English men It is likely our English Seminaries receiue some portion and peece of this Exhibition at Rome Rhemes which our Popish Iesuites bragge to bee the Popes liberality The Pope giueth a Pig to our Papistes of our owne Sow But there is another effertuous point in that Popish Register A sure and certaine warrant to William that he shal haue Peter a pitifull and gracious debeour Pium propitium debitorem I know not with what measure of mercy and pitty Saint Peter hath paied this debt to King William but Queene Elizabeth and her predecessours of late haue receiued smal Alms but rather haue felt a shroad recompense The same Alexander chalengeth Denmarke Denmarke tanquam peculium vectigal Romanae Ecclesiae As his owne peculiar and trybutary to his church Sect. 96. Ex Regist Imâ—â—c 3. Alex. 3. Paschalis Bohemia Genua Sect. 97. c Item the Kingdomes of Aragonia of Sardinia of Portugal of Boemeland Swethland Norway DaÌ„tia are subiect with like conditions as also Ianua in Italy Our neighbour Fraunce is so holden and King Demetrius and the Queene of Ruscia so confesse to Gregory the seuenth That they receaued it Ex dono Petri Of the ree gyft of Peter And yet their printed Text is in a Distinction against these Registres Imperator non habeâ— Imperium à Papa Abbas Vrs fol. 231. sod à Deo The Emperour hath his Empire not of the Pope but of God I omit the rest as Croatia Dalmatia who acknowledge that they haue their RegimeÌ„t per vexillum c. By the banner sword Scepter and Crown rendred from Gebyzo the Legate
treachery of her owne children as by their default Euen so our king Egilred or as others terme him Ethelred complaineth in an Oration in this sort Wee are ouercome of the Danes not with weapon or force of armes but with treason wrought by our owne people The cause is opened by Matthaeus Westmonasteriensis Pag. 396. that when the King and his Sonne Edmond were like to haue the vpper haÌ„d against Cneuto or Canutus the King of the Danes Edrike Traitour Eadricus plaied the traytour went about by sleight and subtilty and allured of the Kinges Nauy forty shippes and he slipped to Canutus and subiected himselfe to his dominion whereby west-Saxonie and the Mercians with their horses and artillery offered themselues to him Intimatum est Regi quod nisi cautius sibi prouideret ipse à Gente propria hostibus traderetur It was priuily told the King that if hee did not prouide for himselfe more warily hee should bee berraied into the handes of his enemies by his owne nation I signified before how King Edmond surnamed Ferreum Latus Iron-side at Oxford being at the Priuy on Saint Andrewes night was slaine by the Sonne of Eadrik through the fathers instigation the father after the fact coÌ„meth to Canutus with this salutatioÌ„ Aue Rex solus Matth. Westmona pag. 402. Polyd. Vir. Ang. Hist lib. 7. Hail O King alone but he heard this his rewarde by Canutus Ego te hodie ob tanti obsequij meritum cunctis regni proceribus reddam celsiorem For this your great seruice I wil exalt you set you higher than al the Peers of the realm Periury and perdition or treason had in this realme euermore according to their desert When King Edward the Confessour kept his solemnity of Easter at Winchester at dinner Earle Goodwine being burthened at the table with the treacherous murder of his brother Aelfredus Earle Goodwin added to the murther periury and desired of God as hee was true and iust that the morsell of bread which hee held in his hand might neuer passe his throate if his brother by himselfe or by his counsail at any time were neerer to death A terrible example against forswearing and any way further from life so putting the bread into his mouth with an il conscience was choked by it When the King sawe him pale and without breath Carry out saith he this dog Jn vita Edwardi Confessor this traytour bury him in the quadrangle for he is vnwoorthy to enioy Christian burial Another traytor in the time of Egilred or Ethelred was Elfrik who being made Lieutenant of the Kings army left his Master Elfrick and took part with the Danes vpon the suddain when he should haue discharged vpon the enemies of the King and the country Polyd. Vir. lib. 7. but afterward being Admiral of the Kinges Nauy and destitute of all hope of preferment with the enemy because he returned to the King craued pardon his punishment was mitigated for he saued his life with the losse only of his eies In the time of King Edwarde the first the Scots breaking peace which they had made to their liege Lorde King of England and conspiring nowe with the king of Fraunce partly because Iohn Beliol by the king of England was made their King one Thomas Turbeuile more acquainted with chiualry than honesty Th. Turbeuile plaid on both sides promising to the French-men that by treason they should possesse the Kingdome of England vppon condition to receiue a large summe of mony land leauing for assurance his two children as Hostages And so that deceiuer returning from beyond the Sea tolde the King of England another Parasiticall tale howe hee escaped hardly out of prison how he had learned the weaknesse of Fraunce But here a crooked Snake lurked hee caried poyson mingled with hony wherewith they that touched it might be infected creeping into fauour into the secret counsels of the Realm set down al in writing directed theÌ„ to the Prouost of Paris This fraude fact being opened by the prouidence of God who is wel called of the autor Exterminator impioruÌ„ The destroier of the wicked declared to the king he was immediatly by sergeants apprehended bound with cordes carried to iudgement accused and by his owne confession condemned First laid vpon an Ox hide drawen at horse tailes thorough London guarded with disguised tormentours baited at railed on by the way mocked was hanged his body vnburied the people passing by scornfully asking Mat. West in Edou 1. Is this Thomas Turbeuile Whose Epitaph a versifier wrote in this sort That Turbeuile was a troubler of the tranquillity quietnes of the Realme therefore hee that would bee an hoate burning sparkle was become a dead spark himselfe as in those rythmes may appeere at large whereof this is the beginning Turbat tranquilla clam Thomas turbida villa Qui quasi scintilla fuit accidit esse fauilla In the time of Edward the second Andrew Earle of Carlile Andreas Hartlee created Earle of Carlile at York sent by the King into Scotland to King Robert to intreat of Peace made another matter turned it into a message for war priuily fraudulently to compasse the destruction of his owne King This though contriued secretly yet it was certified to the King hee immediatly at his returne vpon the commandement of the King Polyd. Vir. Hist Ang. lib. 18. was attached taken by the guard so by by coÌ„uicted put to death Ita Andreas crucem sibi construxit ex qua penderet So Andrewe prepared for himselfe a Gallose to hang vpon made a rodde for his owne tasle In the time of Edwarde the third like conspiracies against the Prince had the like measure Polyd. l. 19. when Edmond Earle of Kent Roger Mortimer others were beheadded Thus you see exemplified by these traitors that which was by Lawes enacted as also by another example of an Italian indeuouring to betray Calice to the French An Itaâ—â—â— trick against Calice For when an English man had committed it vnto the Italian the French-man knowing the nature of that Nation to be most couetous of golde secretly dealt with him that he would sel the castle to him for twenty thousand crownes The Englishman being made priuy of this dissembleth all thinges driueth out the French and taketh them with them the principall cause of that treachery In the time of Richard the second there was a conspiracy of some Jn Epit. Frosardi lib. 1. Eccle. 10. Ansley and Carton that had in their mouth the Prouerbe of the Hebrues Woe be to the Land whose King is a Childe And of others euen in the court as of Iohn Ansley knight and of Hugh Carton minding with their complices to set vpon the King and to murder him although they two were enemies before yet in this made one agreeing too
Decemb. 28. A Table of the special points and common places OVT OF THE FIRST SERMON THE practise of traitours was prophecied of before and is auncient Treason against the Countrie and Prince detested The manner of traitours double Examples of hypocrisie and flattering in traitours A warning to Princes and Noble men to expel such deceitful persons out of their courts and houses 4 Motiues and causes inducing men to weasons Vnbridled and licentious libertie Couetousnesse and ambition Enuie and Jngratitude and Religion pretensed and speciallie Popish And the Pope by specialties is declared to bee the Abishai in our daies Two waies the Pope vseth by himselfe or by his instruments Nouices Monks â—riars Cardinals c. Papistes in their Religion make bloodie vowes which ought to be broken The Popes Religion dispenseth with good oathes of allegeaunce made to Princes and he can depose them by his Religion OVT OF THE SECOND SERMON SEdition and discord disproued The aunswere of Dauid to Abishai threefold 1 Dauids prohibition in which he forbiddeth the murdering of Saul The reason of Dauid by the effect and discommodities expounded at large Jn the person of a Prince are two circumstances by condition as man by calling as King the Lords annointed Whether any man maie be killed of anie priuate man and how The Exposition of the law Thou shalt not murder out of Augustine Princes ordained not of themselues nor of fortune nor of Iupiter but of Almightie God and therefore not to bee touched but by God whether he be good or euil Why euil Magistrates are aduanced The office of a Prince in that he is called a God The true oile wherewith Princes are annointed is onelie the holie Ghost The office of Subiects to a Prince as being God also a double Jmage of God A proofe of Dauids opinion for obedience to superiours by nature a good schoolemistresse as in beasts birdes fishes serpents and other naturall creatures Also in the time of Nature before the Law and to natural and Ethnish Princes with the commodities of such obedience to the heathen gouernours The punishments inflicted vpon traitors by the iudgement of these naturall Ethnish men among the oulde Romanes Turks and other infidels OVT OF THE THIRD SERMON THE Pope a Zoganes or a Lord of misrule A viperous and Serpentine broode from Rome spread among vs. Chrysostome excellentlie discourseth of this obedience of Dauid A general rule of reuenge Like wil haue like The Law of Nature a good argument Other particulars in Nature of dogs horses panthers and men Lawes in Jndia The Law of God in the old testament giuen to the Iewes and examples there to perswade this obedience Against Accessaries and Iustifiers of Traitours A notable pattern of Obedience is Dauid and his example a sufficient glasse to looke in Particular Lawes against murderers and Mutiners Lawes and examples in the new testament The opinion of the fathers after Christ the dutifulnes of our first Christians towardes their wicked gouernours The Ciuil Lawes against al abuses touching a Prince in fact in purpose and intent in his coine c. Executions and experiments of Ciuil and Christian Magistrates against such disorders and outrages OVT OF THE FOVRTH SERMON A Rule of Chrysostome necessary for Preachers Decrees and authorities out of the Canon and Popish lawes against murder Three kinds of murder The Popes sayings doings contrary to his decrees borowed out of fathers The verdict of Iohn Caposius against Pope Innocentius verified in the rest of the Popes The savings of Pope Nicolas and others presumptuous against Princes The sayinges of Aug. Steuchus out of the Popes Register for the claime of an vniuersal dominion ouer al the west church The special claime made of Spaine England c. A Seminary or School of Englishmen at Rome erected long since The doings and practise of Popes agreeable to his owne proud sayings and brags The plagues and iudgements of God against these proud priests of Rome and their factours and. Adherents The periury of Papists notably punished by Turkes The Turk better in this matter of faithfulnes then the Pope The hand of God vppon Popes by themselues one vppon another Athenians Romans are mouÌ„ting Eagles but plucked The monster in Pope Iulius time a figure of this monstrous Popedome Popes enemies to Fraunce and yet Fraunce a friende to Popes OVT OF THE FIFT SERMON THE vnthankefulnes of people against Magistrats Lawes of Canutus Edgar and Alured Richard the first and others in England Disobedience against the Lawes in England England subdued by Iul. Caesar Danes Saxons and that cheifely by discord and treachery of our owne countrimen A terrible example of periury Traisons in the time of diuers Kings in England punished Treachery and prodition by an Italian in betraying Calice to the French Auncient practises of English Rebells for the defense of their Popish religion and yet frustrated vain A concubinary Priest and traitour made a Martyr of the Popish people in England Welch prophecies defeated Traisons of Bishoppes Abbats Priors Minorite Friars Monkes and Priestes in England and some executed in their best habit of Religion New traitors for the Religion of the Pope in the time of K. Henry the 8. K. Edward the 6. and of Queene Elizabeth rebelling rising but had alway a â—al an euil end The Queens maiesty foloweth the example of her Ancestors in this Realme resisting the pride authority of the Pope OVT OF THE 6. SERMON FOrreine examples in Fraunce and Flaunders The law of Conscience the last and worst witnes and tormentour of murderers and Traitors Of the trembling and terrour of an euill conscience in this Act. Dogges Fishes Swallowes rauens al creatures terrifie astonish a murdering and guilty conscience The conclusion of the first part of Dauids reply against Abishai 2 The second part is Dauids Protestation in himself detesting that fact with the reason annexed that god hath waies to kill Saul at his pleasure and therfore he wil not take vpon him gods office in that behalfe Death common to all and of the late mortalitie among vs. The vanity of this world and end of all flesh wee are all the naked image of Hippocrates Infants and yongest must die The great personages Saul and such Princes must dy by one of three kinds of death set downe by Dauid and vnder that his diuision manie are comprehended The death of persecutours and traitours Their brauerie and bragges against the godly but all in vaine Examples thereof ould and fresh in memorie No Eloquence can saue from death The Pope that deliuereth others out of purgatorie and by battle Bul killeth Princes cannot deliuer himself froÌ„ death whereof he is warned by his owne ceremonies and it maie appeare by the end of many Popes speciallie euen in the very Act of their rage against Princes Albeit these wicked men must die as Saul did yet the godlie delight not in their death no more then Dauid did in the death of Saul