Otto Bishoppe of Ostia the Popes Legate was Ab. Vrsperg in chro in an 1086. and there VVekill was made an heretike and called an Arch-heretike This Otto president of this Councel was after the death of Gregory the 7. who died at Salern made Pope in his place and then hee fell a cursing of Henry the 4. as his predecessor had done No maruaile though hee were so apt to coyne heresies and to challenge them to bee Arch-heretikes which helde disputations for the Emperor against the Pope Trowe you what should Otto Bishop of Frising haue bin in their mouthes Wherefore Bishop Otto leaueth his iudgement in suspence if hee had intermedled his iudgement for Henry the 4. against the popes proceedings Would they not haue forgotten his religion his monkerie of Morimond the order of Cistertians whereof hee was professed he should haue been an Arch-heretike as Wigbert and Wekil were Therefore Bishoppe Otto seeing the daunger though he were of the Imperiall house himselfe lappeth it vp in his owne conscience and saith he wil not deale in determining the cause but layeth down the storie Yet hath he left a loupe-hole to loke into his iudgment Thus he qualifieth it with soft words videntur tameÌ„ saith hee culpandi sacerdotes per omnia qui regnum suo gladio quèm ipsi ex regum habent gratia ferire conantur Otto Frisin Episc lib. 7. in Prolog Popes haue receiued their swordes of Princes which they turne on theÌ„ Yet saith he the Priests algates seeme culpable which take in hand to strike the kingdome with their sword which of the grace of Princes they haue receiued Thus Otto And least he should seeme to haue launched to deepe by and by he layeth to a plaster except parhaps saith he they thinke to follow Dauid which first by Gods might ouerthrew the Philistine and after killed him with his owne sword He dare not bide by it least he able for it as the Emperour did Therefore he frameth an excuse for them out of Dauids example who killed the Philistine with his own sword So they are Dauids in this construction and Princes Philistines which are killed with their owne sworde that they gaue to them But howsoeuer Otto seemeth to houer and not to giue directe iudgement in the Emperours cause for drawing himselfe in suspicion and daunger also And howsoeuer he gloseth this example for them they are Philistines in the right intendment which contrarie to Goddes ordinances strike Dauids and Princes elected of God with the sword that of the grace of Princes they haue receiued Otto pointeth at the sore but feareth to lanche it too deepe in saying that Popes strike Princes with the sword which they haue receiued of them The Primitiue Church was striken with the sworde of Princes for the faith of Christ the Popes Church striketh Princes against the ordinance of Christ with the sworde which they haue receiued of Princes Pope Paschal the second who cursed both the father and the sonne Henry the fourth first Pope Pasc cursed the father and the sonne and Henry the fifth after the death of his father in the councell of Rome saieth the Primitiue Church florished with the blood of martirs before God but not before men After in the ende kinges and Emperours The councell of Rome and Roman Princes were conuerted Qui matrem suam ecclesiam sicut boni filij honestauerunt Who to their mother the Church didde honestie and honour in aduauncing her Abbas Vrsperg in aâ— 1112. And bestowed landes reuenewes and royalties on her as Constantine the Emperour and other the faithfull and the Church began to florish then so well before God as â—â—fore men So farre the wordes of Pope Pachal He confesseth from whom they haâ—â— their principalities and royalties and the sworde of which Otto speaketh which they haue turned vpon Princes of whom they first receiued it Further at the same time Pope Paschal said as Albertus Kranz and the Abbat of Vrsperg reporteth his wordes much like in effect Habeat saith he mater ecclesiae dona principum Let mother Church saith hee haue the giftes of Princes dispence dispose and giue them to whom lawfully she may wil. Thus farre Pope Paschals words It is apparant by their own confession froÌ„ wheÌ„c they haue reuenewes royalties principalities and their worldly countenance and the sword mentioned of Otto before If the donation of Constan as they cal it were true as Laurence Valla a noble Roman with long discourse proueth it to be forged yet from the Roman Emperour they claime it Laurence Valla against the donation of Constant But Gregorie the 7. who cursed Henry the fourth before Paschal the second setteth Pope Paschal to schoole and fetteth his conuayance of Rome from Christ Grego 7. Alb Kranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 7. as Alb. reporteth the verse which with a Crowne he sent to Duke Rodolph that by rebellion against Henry the â—â—â—th he should winne the Crowne and wear 〈◊〉 A fit Champion to giue first onset on Emperours as Otto his opinion is to curse them to strike theÌ„ with the sword which they haue receiued of theÌ„ as an vnkind Impe persecuting plaging the Empire out of which it sprang Hederae Anaplexicaulis Mathe. in lib. 2. Dios cap. 75. Theophrast wryteth of Hedera the Iui that is called Amplexicaulis Matheolus citing it because it groweth about trees and girdeth them in so ouergroweth them in the end that the trees decay and it florisheth in the decayes of the trees as he saith Necat exiccat ablato alimento it killeth starueth trees by sucking away their nurrishment from them So Popedom hath been to Thempire it growed first out of Thempire after it hath so ouergrowen girded in continually sucked the Empire that it hath starued in manner Thempire The Church of Rome mounted in the decaies of the Empire Otto Fris Epis lib. 7. in prologo in respect of the former estate therof and florisheth it self in the decayes of it and by the fall of the auncient Empire Emperors it is mounted aloft Bishop Otto saith by the decay of TheÌ„pire the Church is growen to a great mountaine and began to grow in great state and authoritie And before he meÌ„tioneth the opinioÌ„s of some Non desunt saith he qui dicunt deum ad hoc regnum immini volitisse vt ecclesia exaltetur There lacke not saith he that say that therfore God would haue the kingdome to deâ— that the Church should be exalted thus Oâ—to Thei glorie of the exaltation of their Church by the decayes of the Empire and ruines of Emperors whoÌ„ by treasons rebellions and outrage of subiectes against their Princes and of the sonne against his owne father they haue ouerthrowen How doth Antichrist exalt himselfe and lift vp his hornes as Vrspergensis spake of lifting vppe the hornes of the Church of Rome Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. by plucking Henry
Fabian termeth it and fawning flatterie and glauering glosing of the which hollow hypocrits make an art in Pallaces of Princes and houses of estate that he aduaunced him to one of the foure regimentes of England called Mercia Notwithstanding he could not keepe himselfe true to his Prince that hadde beene drawne through so many treasons for that is rooted in the marrow and bones will not out Hee was taken tardie in treason againe and being accused and conuicted iudgment was giuen immediatly executed his head cut off and his body cast into a foule and filthy place Ranulph saith Edricus the traytors death that he was slain by the kings agreement within his Pallace at London his bodie with the head throwne after into the towne ditch Whether for his treasons against king Edmond before he dyed as some write or for his treason against king Knoght after as others tell all agree that he dyed for his treasons whether his head were exalted on the highest gate of London for king Edmonds death or whether his head and bodie were cast into the towne ditch for treason against king Knoght Pol. Verg. Hist Au. li. â— So his treasons turned on his owne head Polidor telleth how king Knoght after the death of kinge Edmonâ— greatly endeuoured himselfe to banishe thâ—â— sonnes of kinge Edmond who as he sayth departed into Pannonia and there were well intreated and ended their liues in exile Chronica Fructus temp the 6. parte And Chronica Fructus temporum telleth how that after the death of king Edmond Edrick aforesaid surprised the sonnes of king Edmond and presented theÌ„ to king Knought to put himselfe in great fauour with him and that of the king they were sent after to Denmarke from whence by a Dane called Walgar that pittied them they were conuaied to the king of Hungarie Saxo Gram. Hist Danicae lib. 10. Saxo GraÌ„maticus the auncient famous wryter of the storie of the Danes telleth that king Kanutus was very careful not to be touched with suspition of the death of king Edmond whoÌ„ he called Edward And that some reporte the king Edmond whoÌ„ he calleth Edward by Kanutus commaundment and practise came to his death and that by his coÌ„maundment likewise more greeuous execution was don on the traytors to cleere him selfe of the suspitioÌ„ thereof yet notwithstanding saith he the same thing did greatlie rack the kings fauour in his houshould those that were neere him Thus out of Saxo. Fabian reporteth of him Fab. in Chro. the 6. part cap. 205. that he did so abhorre the vnnaturall treason of the English men that hadde sworne to bee true to the blood of kinge Edmond that though by their treasons the Crowne wholy was deuolued to him and his posteritie yet hee hadde the workers against kinge Edmond his sonnes in continuall mistrust whereas they thought they should haue beene in high fauour with him And as Fabian telleth he dispatched the more part of them some by banishment some were slaine some by Gods punishment soddenly died Canutus loâ—thed traytors though he gained by them Thus traytors are loathed of them that gayne by them and their treasons turne on the heades of the workers of them Touching the end of kinge Edmond his sonnes Fabian thus reporteth it out of the opinion of some that kinge Canut sent Edmond and Edward king Edmond his sonnes to Swanus his brother kinge of Denmarke to bee made away And that hee abhorring the deede sent them to Salomon king of Hungarie where Edmond died and Edward suruiuing was surnamed the outlaw because he neuer returned into England againe Caesar Caesar was wont of treasons traytors to say that he loued treasons but he loued not traytors he loued treasons to serue his turne Plutarchus in vita Rom. but he shunned traytors as moÌ„sters in the ciuil body the wold be ready to practise on him that they haue proued in others Plutarch telleth Plutarcus in Apoth Rom. that the king of Thraci vpbraied him at the table that from Anthonie he had reuolted to him He rouned 〈◊〉 other king that satte by him in the eare anâ— sayeth that he loued treason but not traytors In like sort king Philip said Philip. that hee loue not traytors but those that would betray meaning though he had his turne serued by them he would not trust them Io. Stub There was in the time of this Edrick of Sratton Elfricus vnder king Egelred and when the Danes pressed the land in diuers places an other traytor of great countenance and estate called Elfricus maister or Admirall of the kings Nauie Fab. in Chro. the 6. part cap. 197. as Fabian calleth him who was bought and sold of Danes against his Prince and Countrie When with the kings nauie furnished he lay for the Danes to encounter them he was blinded with bribes and the Danes had their chase and rechase by sea and land notwithstanding him Fabian the 6. part cap. 199. He was by sea like to the scharcrow by land which standeth with bow bent and the arrow set in the bow and yet is blind and cannot discharge Such a watch was Elfrick by sea the Portes and passages were open to the Danes Polidore saith he was a hot and fierce man Polidor Hist Angl. lib. 7. but the Danes so cooled his courage with corruption that there was no valew in him for his Prince and Countrie When he shoulde fight a battaile with the Danes by sea and trye for the maine chance then Elfrik fled to the Danes Pol. Angl. Hist li. 7. the Nauie was dispersed some taken some drowned Thus Elfrick by sea and Edrick by land played their partes in flying when they should fight and when they were most trusted betraying their Prince and Countrey This Elfrick after his first fight was recoÌ„ciled to the king againe After he fled the 2. time Then the king as Fabian saith in wreak of the father commaunded the eyes of the sonne Algarus to be plucked out of his head Fab. the 6. part cap. 197 Polidor reporteth that wheÌ„ the Danes came not of with their rewardes to Elfrick his contentment hee put himselfe to the mercie of kinge Eldred or Egelred to whom saith he the king Effossis oculis vitam condonauit After his eyes were plucked out of his head pardoned his life Thus traytors come short of their reckning and Gods iudgmentes suddenly ouertake them as they did Elfrick and Edrick Polidor Hist Angl. lib. 7. Because Elfrick was blind when he should see the kings enemies therefore the king plucked out his eyes that he should not see his own freindes It was the iust iudgment of God reuenge suddenly ouerreacheth the wicked in the parts they offend eftsoones they are punished What marueile when ther were 2. such as Elfrick and Edricâ— were though king Eldred or Egildred was fayne to flee the lande the Councell of the land was bewrayed the seruices
auncient father reporting it Tertul. in Apolog cap. 2. Se nihil aliud de sacris eoruÌ„ coÌ„perisse quà m caetus antelucanos ad canendum Christo Deo ad confirmandaÌ„ disciplinaÌ„ homicidiuÌ„ adulteriuÌ„ fraudeÌ„ perfidiaÌ„ ac caetera scelera prohibentes That saith he of their religion and seruice he could boult out no other thing but their asseÌ„blies before day were to sing to Christ and God that for coÌ„federating their discipline they forbade murder adulterie fraude trechery other hainous offences Thus much Plinie of the conuersation and maners of the ancient Christians A worthie glasse to be set before Christians of our time to whet their dull deuotion to God and for reformation of such hainous offences amongst them And if thus the ancient Christians shewed themselues in subiection and fidelity to their Princes though they were Panims so forbade loathed treacherie homicide and shedding of blood that as the same Tertul. saith of them Tertul. in Apolog cap 37 In our profession saith he more lawfull it is to be slain then to flea how would they haue abhorred treachery the shedding of blood of Christian Princes whose principates and powers serue as handmaids to the Gospel of Christ whose blood will crie to God against treacheries only inteÌ„ded against theÌ„ not only before the executioÌ„ of theÌ„ but after as the blood of Abel cried to God from the ground after it was shed They write that Renelphus the yong king of Mercia was by treason of Quendred his Sister slaine and after the murther cast into a thicke wood Fabian in his Cronicle of Englande 〈◊〉 6. part â—â—p 158. that by a piller of diuine light shining froÌ„ the corps as Fabian in the English Chronicle telleth it the corps was first discouered after entred Quendred by gods vengeance apparentlie striken For the truth of the circuÌ„stance of the storie I leaue to the author But surely by diuine light froÌ„ heauen treasons against princes plats of murders Treasons and murders woÌ„derfully are discouered by lights from heauen and marueilous meane on earth euen before the atteÌ„pt practise of them wonderfully are discouered as of late marueilously wee haue seen By what means soeuer they are descried gods prouidence appointeth the meanes on earth And by diuine light froÌ„ heauen the inferior meanes are directed on earth as wonderfully we haue seen O let vs magnifie alwaies the mercies of the glorious God for it ThaÌ„kfully we recognise his wonderful work Only the fear is the worldly securitie do not swallow it vp by forgetfulnes it fade away For securitie coÌ„meth stealing on Against securitie and forgetfulnes vnthaÌ„kfulnes is redie continually to assaile vs forgetfulnes to ouerflow vs vnlesse wee hold fast lock vp in thaÌ„kfull memory the blessed and wonderfull worke of God Therefore that it perish not in the gulf of vnthaÌ„kfulnes let vs renue keepe it fresh in remeÌ„brance what our portion had been if Gods prouidence had not preuented prouided for vs. All England should haue rued faithful seruaÌ„ts to god true harted subiects to her M. might with Hieremy haue written new lameÌ„tations Hier. lament the roule of the booke deliuered to Ezech. the prophet Ezech. 2. writteÌ„ with lamentatioÌ„s within wtout had been fit for our doleful state Hiere 9. We might haue said with Hier. Who will giue vs eyes as fountaines of waters to bewaile the wrackes of Gods Church and of our Countrie Herem 9. if that dolefull day had commen on vs. But God hath wiped the teares feom our eyes Reue. 7. as he doth wipe the trares from the eyes of the Saints as S. Iohn saith and he hath put of our sackcloth Psal 30. and girded as with ioye as the Prophet Dauid sayth and hath turned the dolefull day to ioy and the booke of lamentations into the booke of praysing of God and hath opened the good affections of faithfull subiectes to her Maiestie to the great comfort and reioysing both of her Maiestie and of all that beare true harts to her Thus how the auncient Christians framed their affections and obedience to their Princes though they were panims and how they abhorred trecheries homicides and shedding of blood and such other haynous offences And howe Gods prouidence maruelously worketh in the discouerie of such offences The 4. principall point and cheefe matter The fourth is what an acceptable thing to God it is when the people ioyne their harts to Godly Princes in true faith to God and hartie fidelitie to their Princes Let vs lay downe examples herof out of the holy Scriptures How acceptable a thinge was it to God when vnder Iehosaphat the godly king his people assembled together Iehosaphat his people ioyned their hearts heartie praiers with their Prince to God at what time the ruÌ„bling rumor was vp of great multitudes of enemies of the childreÌ„ of Moab Ammon 2. Chro. 20. of mount Seir comming on them And presentlye they receaued comfort of God Iehaziel The spirite of God came vpon Iehaziel a Leuite who deliuered sweet comfort to them from God their enimies swordes were turned on themselues Likewise when vnder the godly king Asa Asa and his people the people commons with such heartie affection fidelity were ioyned to God their prince that they made a couenant as the scripture saith to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart 2. Chro. 15. with al their soule and whosoeuer will not seeke the Lord God of Israel shal be slaine whether he be small or great man or woman And they swore vnto the Lord with a loud voice with showting with trumpets and with corners And all Iuda reioysed at the oth for they had sworn to the Lord with al their hart sought him with a whole desire he was fouÌ„d of theÌ„ And the Lorde gaue them rest round about Hitherto the words of the scripture So likewise vnder Hezechiah the gracious prince Hezechiah his people when Rabshakeh sent froÌ„ Sancherib king of Assur began to roare out blasphemies against God Esai 37. and minaces against the prince people and Eliakim and other the seruants of king Hesechiah sent with him rent their cloathes And Hesechiah put on sackcloth and went to the house of the Lord to make his mone to God in prayer and his people were ioyned in true fidelity to their Prince God seÌ„t them comfort by the Prophet Esai and sent his Angel to distroy the huge host of Sancherib an hundred fourscore and fiue thousand And when they arose vppe earely in the morning behold saith the Prophet they were slayne and all was ful of dead bodies Iosiah and his people So vnder Iosiah the religious Prince when the booke of the lawe of God was found of Helkiah the Priest Shaphan the
vs the God of Iacob is our defeÌ„ce Thus far Dauid His prouidence doth checke controule forraine forces and inuasions which like floods are ready to rage ouer al. And when the plats are laid he saith it shal not goe foorth neither so come to passe Esai 7. Ahaz king of Iuda as he said in the Prophet Esai of the inuasions of the two kings Razin of Siria and Pechach of Israel against Ahaz king of Iuda Where his prouidence is the watch and wall the floddes of forraine forces cannot preuaile no more then they did against Asha the godly king of Iuda Zarah king of Ethiopia 2. Chro 14. when Sarach the king of Ethiopia came out against him with an host of ten hundred thousand and three hundred Chariots And when Asha ioyned battaile in the valley of Zephota with him Ashaking of Iuda he cryed vnto the Lord his God Helpe vs O Lord our God for we trust in thee and in thy name we goe against this multitude Thou art the Lorde our God and no man shall preuaile against thee And the Lorde smote the Ethiopians before Asha and Iuda and they were ouerthrowne as the Scripture saith that there was none of them left but were destroyed before the Lorde and before his hoast Thus the scripture of the inuasion of the Ethiopians vpon Asa king of Iuda And no more then the great multitudes of the Moabitas and Ammonites Iehosophas The Moabites Ammonits of mount Seir. and mount Seir could preuaile against Iehosophat the religious and faithfull king when they ioined their forces together to make inuasion vppon him and before the battaile stroke vp hee stood vp and said Heare me O Iuda and yee inhabitants of Hierusalem Put your trust in the Lord your God that you may bee found faithfull Giue credite to the Prophets 2. Chro. 20. and so shal yee prosper And their enemies were ouerthrowne with strokes among themselues as the Scripture saith and with their owne forces consumed themselues And no more then Sancherib king of Assur Hezechiab Sancherib Esay 37. who with an huge hoast of an hundred eightie and fiue thousand as the Prophet Esay setteth downe coulde preuaile when he made inuasion vpon Hezechiah king of Iuda who put on sackcloth and went vp to the temple to pray to God and he sent Heliakim others to the Prophet Esai that he should lift vp prayer to God for them And God sent out his Angell that slue the Assyrians hoast And after that Sancherib himselfe also was slaine in the temple of Nesrah his God by his owne sonnes Adramalach Saraser So notwithstanding the rabbles and multitudes of Sancheribs hoast the great hurliburly of his inuasion and the roaring out of blasphemous Rabsakeh his Captaine against Hierusalem Esai 36. as if it were but a morsel in Sancherib his mouth Gods determination was concerning the execution of his exploite and inuasion as the Prophet saith Hee shall not come into this Citie and shall shoote no arrow into it there shall no shield hurt it neither shall they cast ditches about it The same way that hee came hee shall returne and not come at this Citie saith the Lord. And I will keepe and saue the Citie saith he for my own and for my seruant Dauids sake So far the Prophet We may see what our refuge stay should bee against forraine forces and inuasions to trust in the mercifull prouidence of God and hartily to humble our selues in praier to God King Hezechiah as king Hezechiah and the Prophet Esay did against the roarings of Rabsakeh and the inuasions of Sancherib And with the godly king Ashah to crie vnto God King Asha reposing our trust and affiaunce in his tender mercy and almighty power when the raging Seas of forraine forces and inuasions are readie to breake in As Ashah did when the Ethiopians came mounting as the Ocean Seas to swallow vp his land King Iehosophat And as Iehosophat the zealous and religious Prince did for before he marched with his forces against the Moabites and Ammonites and them of mount Seir which came with ruÌ„ning camps like roaring Seas and Gulfes of many waâ—ers to ouerflow and deuour his land first he â—â—ustred his people in publike prayer and supplication before God and begged comfort and conduct of God against the feareful inuasion and committed himself his estate affaires and exploites to the mercie of God and cryed to his people to beleeue the prophetes and all things shuld be prosperous to them God send vs such harts to commit our selues to the prouidence tender mercy of God in such cases to humble our selues in heartie prayers before God with assured persuasion trust and confidence in his help protection against all forces inuasions of enemies And that vnder the couert of the wings of his merciful prouideÌ„ce our Prince and Countrie may haue coÌ„tinuall safetie defence and protection against all inuasions and enemies whatsoeuer Thus what hath been the state of this Realme in inuasions of strangers heretofore of other Countries likewise what our refuge stay should be against all forraine forces and inuasions The 12. chiefe matter The last is a generall warning to all subiects to shunne such vices as hinder true faith to God and true loyaltie to the Prince which are hypocrisie and a hollow hearte to God and hypocrisie and a hollowe heart to the Prince and estate and peruersnesse frowardnesse vncontentment of malcontents mislikers and murmurers against the Prince and state A generall warning to all subiects Touching the first hypocrisie and a hollow hart to God hinder true loialty to the Prince for they that are faithfull to God are also faithfull to their Prince Take example of the Prophet Dauid Psal 42. Who was more faithfull to God then he whose soule longed after God as the Harte desireth the water brookes and hee was so faithfull to the person of hys Prince that he was pricked in conscience for cutting off but a peece of the vesture of king Saul when in the Caue God put him in his hands How farre woulde hee haue been from offering any hurt or violence to the person of his Prince Eliakim Esai 22. Eliakim in the Prophet Esay is called a father of the house of Iuda and the key of the house of Dauid Hee was a faithfull seruaÌ„t to god he was faithful to his Prince for life And God saide of him I will fasten him as a nayle in a sure place and hee shall be the glorious seate of his fathers house A worthie glasse of faithfulnesse to looke in The faithfull to God and their Prince shall finde it at his hand True faithfulnesse shall weare the garland hypocrisie shal be vnder the hatch Sobna See the example of Sobna in the same Court of Hezechiah the godly king and mentioned in the same place of the Prophet Hee had a hollowe hearte to God and
enflame the sonne against his father they admired extolled crowned him with great commendation as if hee had gotten the garland of Religion and pietie by treason and rebellion against his father They commend him for that he did not intermedle in their dealing in councell but referred himselfe to their decrees And therein Albertus commendeth his modestie and Vrspergensis his humilitie and prudencie So they may haue their owne scope in councels and their doctrines and decrees without checke and controlement of Princes they will extoll and magnifie them Alber. Cranz Saxo. Lib. 5. cap. 17. Albert commendeth him for his grauitie and prudencie aboue his yeeres in making answere to demaunds of subiectes made vnto him And to take all aduantages of commendations for him they prayse him for his apparrel for his countenance and the protestation of his speech Hee was brought foorth saith the Abbat in abiectes apparel Ab. Vrsperg in chro in an 1105. abiecto productus habitu as dolefull for his fathers case and with his countenance as Albert telleth set to the ground with grauitie he deliuered his answeres His protestation he made with teares standing or trickling by his cheekes The summe of all was this Henry the 5. his protestation if his father will bee subiect to Peter and Pope of Rome hee will yeeld humble obeisance and alleageance vnto him if not then rebellion and treason though against his own father was turned into religion and pietie for Peter and the Pope of Rome This was the sum of his protestation So in this councell treason rebellion against his his father was piety to the pope of Rome in respect of the execution of his curse vpon his father No maruaile where Ruckard the rebell was president of the councell though rebellion bee good religion in respect of the Popes curse If one should rake hell for councels Treason and rebellion counted pietie to the Pope decrees and doctrines of Deuils coulde hee bring more seditious pernitious doctrine against publike states gouernmentes and the ordinance of God Where there is such a Clergie that clappeth their hands to the son the rebelleth against his owne father how monstrous is the head that by cursing of Princes setteth the son vpon the father the subiect vpon the Prince If there be good nature in vs good disposition to publike estates gouernmeÌ„ts true loyaltie to our Soueraigne let vs shun the solicitors of such deuilish suggestions councels and attemptes and abhorre the practisers of them Thus for what cause the Popes cursed Henry the 4. and on what pretence Henry the 5. rebelled against his owne father how he was set on and what commendations of the Clergie were cast vppon him The second cheefe matter of the discourse of this storie is The 2. The paricicidial warre of the vnnatural and parricidiall war of the son against the father Their own writers call it a parricidial warre in the which the son rebelleth took armour against his owne father So the Abbat of Vrsperg notwithstanding his bitter affection against the father calleth it a parricidiall warre Albertus Kranz entring into the story Alb. Kranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 16. and stopping at the strauÌ„gnes therof saith The noueltie of the thing would cause the reader to bee astonied Quis enim patri rebellantem filium tanto ardore audiuit For who hath heard saith he the sonne with such broyle to rebell against his father Quis iura naturae intercidisse tam penitus commeminit vt omni existimatione omni honore exuatur pater a filio Who hath remembred the lawes of nature so cleere to bee abollished that the father of his owne sonne should thus bee turned out of all estimation all honour and his kingedome Thus Albert his very bowels are ready to turne in him when hee looketh first into this vnnatural rebellion of the sonne against the father though otherwise in religion hee was current with the Church of Rome Otto Bishoppe of Frising who was a monk of the order of Cistert before hee was Bishop and lacked not blinde affection to Romish religion reaueth deeper in the outrage of this parricidiall warre Videres saith he lachrimabiles miserabiles apparatus Otto Frisin lib. 7. cap. 9. cerneres mundum contemptum sui luce clarius prodentem quod videlicet contra legem naturae filius in patrem assurgeret Thou mightest see saith hee the lamentable and miserable preparation thou mightest see the worlde by his effectes bewraying his own contempt because against the law of nature the son did rise against his father and contrary to the rule of iustice the souldier did assault the king the seruant his master and brother stood vp against brother and cosin against cosin and intended the shedding of his blood that was neere to him in blood Will not this vnnaturall and vnquoth fact of the worlde prouoke vs to the contempt of it Thus farre Bishoppe Otto of this parricidiall warre Bishop Otto his lesson of the contempt of the world Hee teacheth vs a lesson of contempt of the world by such monstrous effects and wicked workes thereof hee maketh it a Schoole of contempt of the world to vs since the great states and pillers thereof are so out of course and such vnnatural outrage is in it if we can put on godly affection to learne his godly lesson This is the fruite of stories to make them schooles of godly lessons not by words but by actions and practise set before vs. And at the incounter like to haue beene at Mens betweene the father and the sonne the father keeping the Citie Ab. Vrsp in chro in an 1105. the sonne comming with force to assaile it the hartes of the noble men did begin to melt and they consulted howe to staye the outrage of the paricidiall war in which both nature and ciuil gouernment warred vpon it selfe Likewise in the confines of Beme by the riuer of Danubius where both the father and the sonne had pitched and bickering begane nature began to worke in the nobles againe that as Albert sayth Rem impiam execrati ibant redibant detesting the impious worke Alb. Cranz Sax. lib. 5. cap. 17. they went to and fro to stay the bloodie battaile And when the sonne had passed the riuer and the battaile ready to strike as if hee felte nature in his owne bowels fighting a battaile within him he turneth on his owne battaile and cryeth what doe wee Pater est Dominus est Imperator est qui tendit ex aduerso The battaile of nature in the boâ—â—ls of the sonne Impietate plena est si venit victoria tanto miserabilor exitus si vincamur Nolim parricida esse si de totius mundi dominio quis pacisceretur It is saith he my father my Lorde and Emperour which commeth against vs. The victorie though it fall to vs is full of impietie and if we bee ouerthrowen so muche more miserable is
the ende I would not be a parricide to gaine the soueraigntie of the whole worlde After he willeth them to put swords in sheaths and let vs fight with Counsell saith hee and not with armour Thus Albert how nature fought a battaile in the very bowels of the sonne when hee was readie to ioyne battaile with his father Though nature thus began to bleede in him when the battaile beganne to ioyne against his father yet hee leaueth not persecuting of him with parricidiall warre and traiterous attempts so long as life lasted in him hee sacked his fathers treasures hee threwe his faithfull Subiects out of their liuings he betrayed him in his nearest frends by whose fidelitie and force hee was most supported Aâ—h. Kranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 18. At Spires hee ransacked his fathers treasures at Ratispon at Herbipolis hee draue out the faithfull Bishops to his father and set others of his own crue conspirators in their place And when his father beganne to vade hee brought Ruckard the ranck Rebell of Mens home to his Sea againe Otto Frisin Episc li. 7. cap. 8. So the faithfull friendes of the father went to wracke as if the course of nature beeing chaunged in the rebellion of the sonne agaynst the father the ciuil gouernmeÌ„t followed the same course also Thus howe hee betrayed him in his treasures and in his faithfull friends Now how he betrayed him euen in his neerest friendes by whose force chieflie he was garded and furnished as Henrie Duke of Beme Henry Duke of Beme Leopold Marques of Austria Otto Frisin Episc lib. 7. cap. 9. and Leopold Marques of Ostrige whose sister Duke Henrie had wedded And he lured Marques Leopold to his side by promising him the marriage of his sister Agnes the widdowe of Frederick Duke of Sueuia So he betrayed his father in his neerest and dearest friends of greatest account Agnes Dutches of Sueuia and he made his sister and daughter to Henrie the fourth the instrumeÌ„t of his practise to betray the father Thus of his parricidiall warre and continuall persecuting of his father and the betraying of him in his treasures in his faithfull friendes and principall peeres by whome hee was supported The 3. The 3. chiefe matter in the discourse of this storie is of the taking and deposing of the father Let vs heare how by treason of the sonne the father was taken as hee was comming to the Councell and diet of Princes at Mens The taking and deposing of Hen. the 4. there to haue audience of his cause Thus the father himselfe telleth it in his letters from Ledes directed to the states of the Empire Ab. Vrsper in chro in an 1106. as the Abbat of Vrsperg laieth there downe Because saith the Emperor in his letters at the counsell and request of our sonne vppon faith and securitie both of my life and honour first receiued from him I addressed my selfe hauing a desire therto to come to Mens into the presence of the Roman Legates and Princes there Henry the 4. letter to the states and further to doe as they shoulde take order there so well concerning the state of the Church and honour of the Realme as for our soules health also And thus comming with this obedience hee sticked not contrarie to his faith and safe-conduit to take vs and euen to the brinke of death in maner to bring vs And we dare not so to put our selues into his handes to bee euill intreated by iniuries and reproch of him at his pleasure as heeretofore we haue been Thus farre out of the letter of Henrie the fourth written to the states of the Empire how hee was entrapped by treason of his sonne as hee was comming to the Councell of Mens to haue audience and order for his cause The Abbat of Vrsperg telleth it more smothlie in the behalfe of the son Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. â—n anno 1106. as if the Princes fearing the Emperors comming into opeÌ„ presence least the people should fall to him and make tumult for him by generall consent and councel perswaded him to resigne send to his sonne the imperial robes and ornamentes the Crosse the Speare the scepter the globe and crowne Bishop Otto who was of the Emperiall house himselfe Otto Frisin Episc lib. 7. cap. 11. and neere about those times more indifferentlie reporteth it How he was committed to a certain castle requiring audience the Princes met him at Inglehelme that there by their many wordes he was aduertised or saith he iuxta alios circumuentus ac coactus insigniareg ni resignare filio mittere Or saith Otto as others say circumuented and compelled to resigne the ornaments of estate and to send them to his sonne Thus Bishop Otto But the father in his letters telleth the flat truth howe hee was taken by treason of his sonne as hee was comming to the counsell of Mens to haue audience Thus wee may see when treason is a foote how one treason is on the backe of an other and there is no hoe of treasons Let vs heare now how likewise he was deposed The deposing of Henrie the 4. Alb. Kraâ—â— Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 1â— Albert telleth it thus out of the Chronicle of Germanie Some saie sayth he that being absent he was depriued deposed from all Emperiall honor and that mandate was giuen to the Bishops of Mens Colon and Wormes to go take froÌ„ him the Imperiall ensignes and ornaments perforce And when they came into the sight of the elder at Inglehelme where Charles the great had made a Palace the bishops shewed the maÌ„date of the Councell The order of the deposing of Hen. the 4 out of the Chronicle of Germanie requiring the voluntarie he would râ—signe the Imperial ensignes WheÌ„ he demaded the cause of so rigorous a senteÌ„ce pronoâ—ced of the CouÌ„cell against him wtout audience of his cause they did obiect against him as report goeth of theÌ„ Simonie in collating of bishopricks Abbaries TheÌ„ said the Emperor tell me Bishop of Mens you of Colon in the name of the eternall God what I haue taken of you Henry the 4. cleareth himselfe of Simonie in collating of Bishopricks They said nothing Then said the Emperor Glory be to God on high that euen in this matter wee haue been found faithfull surely your great dignities would haue yelded great gain to our cofers if we had been of the minde My Lord of Wormes doth knowe whether for gain or of our grace inducing it we haue admitted him Do not O fathers violate your faith allegeance suffer a while do not end our glory with confusioÌ„ We craue a generall court of audience If wee must yeelde with our owne hands we will yeelde the ensignes to our sonne Thus the Emperors wordes to the Bishops that came to depose him The executions dealings after Albert telleth in this sort And when the Bishops withstoode and offered violence
fall in trauaile with their wicked plattes Plin lib. 8. cap. 17. Panthers and Pardes haue spottes by nature without in their bodies but they haue spots of hypocrisie infidelitie and treason in their soules Serpents haue many wreathes Mathe. de Lâ—b in obser hypocrites traytors haue many wyles Conuoluulus according to the name windeth and bindeth it selfe about plants and plucketh them down The shuts and springs of the hearbe called Impia Plinii Plin. lib. 24. cap. 19. Math. in lib. 4. Dios cap. 572. doth ouergrow the principall stump or stocke Cassutha hath no rootes of it selfe but liueth on other herbes and lodeth them When the winding Beathwine is ridde from plantes they prosper the better They are daungerouse shoutes that ouergrowe the stocke that norisheth them That lacke rootes of fidelitie themselues wil liue of them and lade them whome they would bring downe Is is good cheifely for Princes persons of high estate to looke into their housholds and to those that are neere to them and about them to rid from them wicked and vnfaithfull imphes daungerous to their persons and estate which would like the shuts of the hearbe Impia ouerclime them or like Cassutha ouerlay and ouerlade them lacking the rootes of true fidelitie in them The example of Dauid in looking into his houshold The example of the Propheticall king Dauid maye bee a mirror principally for all Princes and estates of honour and high callings in the wisdome of God out of his word to looke vnto their estates and housholds and those that are neere them and vse to be about theÌ„ and into their gouernments as he layeth downe example in himselfe his owne estate Psal â—01 houshold gouernment First hee looketh into his own estate touching God by whose wisdome vnlesse hee be directed all wil runne on wheeles headlong He prayeth therefore to God for vnderstanding let me haue saith he vnderstanding in the way of godlines when wilt thou come vnto me I wil walke in my house with a perfect hart I wil take no wicked thing in hand I hate the sin of vnfaithfulnes there shall no such cleeue vnto me A froward hart shal depart from me Thus how he looketh into his own estate and prayeth for the conduicte of vnderstanding from God to lead a godly life and maketh profession of the vprightnesse soundnesse of his hart that he will clense his hart from vnfaithfulnesse and frowardnesse Then hee sheweth from whom he wil withdraw his hart and countenance and whom by his princely power hee will suppresse Who so priuilie saith he slaundereth his neighbour him will I destroy who hath also a proud looke and high stomacke I wil not suffer him And after he sheweth whoÌ„ he wil haue in his houshold There shall none that worke deceit or with a deceitfull hand or deceitful person as some expound the sence dwel in my house The word Remiia is expouÌ„ded of some by the substantiue of some by the adiectiue Such are they that contriue craftes warpe wiles work by sleight conuaiance legerdemaine to beguile deceiue others He ioineth an other fit mate vnto him he the telleth lies saith he shal not tarry in my sight He detesteth such as pernicious persons in court the are deceitful liers 〈◊〉 not Hist lib. 9. câ—â— 36. who with lies slaunders pray on others with their euil tongs As Purpura the fish with his sharp tong perseth the shelles of other fishes so prayeth on them so there is no armour of proofe of sufficient defence against the lying tongues of such which perse through al defences of truth They hoise vp the sailes of their tongues say as the Prophet Dauid describeth them with our tongues say they shal we preuaile Psal 12. we are they that ought to speake who is Lord ouer vs. And as Purpura the fish aforesaid hath in his mouth the humor which is the mother of the right orient purple colour so thogh they pearse with their tongues as Purpura doth yet they carry in their mouthes such orient colours with which they so paint out their lyes Plin. lib. 9. cap. 36. Carneades Plin. nat lib. 7. cap. 30. as though there were none other truth Cato said it was hard to finde truth wheÌ„ Carneades spake because he painted out his owne purposes left truth dim hardly to be discerned So hard it is to discerne truth when they speake whose tongues are embrued with lies Of such liers the Prophet sayeth they shal not tarry in his sight After he hath shewed whom he will abandon from his court hee sheweth likewise whoÌ„ he wil place plant mine eyes saith he ar to the faithful of the earth that they may dwel with mee Who so leadeth a godly life he shal be my seruant Thus by the directioÌ„ of Gods spirit he maketh choise of his houshould whoÌ„ he wil haue nere about him Valerian the Emperor his Courte â—useb eccle hist lib 7. cap. 10. of Eusebius is commended as a Church of God because of the godly faithfull that were in it till after he relapsed to bee an open enemie and persecutor of the Church of God Epist ad Phile. Rom. 16. 1. Cor. 16. Iosua 24. The houses of Philemon Priscilla Aquila are commended of S. Paul as little Churches Iosua the noble Prince and the chosen captain of Gods people after the death of Moses setting himselfe and his housholde as example to the people saide I and my house will serue the Lord. And the people prouoked and encouraged by his example said wee will serue the Lord also Abraham Isaac Iacob Ioseph and the Patriarches had the like godly care of their housholdes to haue the godly and faithfull dwelling with them God blesseth Countries kingdomes for the godly faithful that are found in theÌ„ Egypt had the great blessing of God vnder king Pharao by the gouernment of Ioseph Ioseph Gen. 41. Iacob Gen. 46. Daniel 1. and for the receite of Iacob the Patriarche and the faithfull people of God God blessed Darius his kingdom in the chief gouernment of Daniel and for the faithfull seruants of God Dan. 6. Nehemiah â— â—â—d 2. Nehemiah as he wayted at the cup of Athaxerxes was heauie of heart cheare for the breaches and ruines of Ierusalem the Citie of God and God gaue him fauour thereuppon in his suite to his Prince for the people of God and God blessed king Athaxerxes for him and the fauourable support of his people Eliakim Eliakim in the court of the godly king Hezekiah is called a father of suche as dwell in Hierusalem Esay 22. and in the house of Iuda Suche are the blessings of God in Courtes of Princes and gouernmentes of Countries God blesse the Prince Court and Countrie with such godly and faithfull Eliakims Daniels Nehemies Iosephs and blesse our Prince with long and prosperous raigne ouer vs to the singuler
saieth to the Hebrewes that they were dull of hearing notwithstanding the iewels of Gods word are most precious 1. Cor. 4. And to the Corinthians that they were full and reigned without him But this late woonderfull woorke of God hath awaked vs out of slumber and whetted dull affections in vs and hath set an edge on vs to be more mindfull and thankefull for Gods blessinges Act. 20. After Paul had said to the elders of the Church of Ephesus for whom he sent to Miletum to take his last farewell of them that henceforth they should see his face no more they wepte all aboundantly and fell on his necke and kissed him The last farewell and departing from a deare frend is dolefull much more from a deare mother and most of all from the most deare mother of our countrey and the good nurse of the Church of God The verie remembrance thereof would rase the bowels of good natures and the mention of it doth in manner wound tender hartes of faithfull subiectes As for the vngodlie they are without good affections of nature Paul calleth them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is without naturall affection trucebreakers traitors The fidelitie of kinge Dauids seruants 〈◊〉 the treaâ— Let vs heare of the true fidelity and louing affections of king Dauid his seruantes when he was assailed with the treasons of Absalon WheÌ„ king Dauid begaÌ„ to decline 2. Sam. 15. Absalon had blowen the blast of his treason abroad and gathered great strengthes about him the heartes of the men of Israel turned after him as the Scripture witnesseth king Dauid his father was fayne to flie And as hee went vppe the mount of Oliues he wepte and had his head couered and went barefooted Then did the true heartes of faithfull subiectes shew themselues in the right vaine to the reskewe and comforte of their Prince The Scripture telleth how the people that were with him had euery man his head couered and as they went vppe 2. Sam. 15. Ioab Abishai Ittai Zadok Abiathar The Leuite Ahimaaz Ionathan they wepte Then flocked his faithfull subiectes about him Ioab and Abishai his brother and Ittai the Gittit as captaines of special trust were at hand with him Zadok and Abiathar the Priestes cleaued vnto him and the Leuites bearing the Arke of the Lorde Ahimaaz Zadok the Pristes sonne and Ionathan the sonne of Abiathar the Priest were as running postes to bring tidinges from Herusalem and Absolons Campe to King Dauid They aboad in En-Rogel because they might not be seene to come into the Citie But they were descried 2. Sam. 17. And when Absalons seruants searched after them they went downe into a well in Bahurim and a faithfull woman that bare true heart to Dauid spread a couering ouer the wels mouth with ground corne theron so by her fidelitie they escaped brought intelligence to Dauid what councel Architophel had giuen against him 2. Sam. 15. The Cherethites and all the Pelethites the Gittites which wer of his chief garrison gard or as som note of his principal bands euen sixe hundreth men issued out of Gath after the king marched before him Ittai the Gittit a stranger Ittai the Gittit a stranger followed his Soueraigne in no hand could be parted froÌ„ him for when king Dauid willed him to prouide for himself because he was a stranger late come he answered said the Lord liueth as the Lord the king liueth in what place my Lord the king shal be whether it be in death or life euen there surely will thy seruant be Then Dauid vpon trial of such trust made him leader of the third parte of his Armie And wheÌ„ Dauid was come to Mahanaim Shobi of Rabbath of the children of Ammon whom Lyra the Interlinearis note for the sonne of the king of Ammon and Machir out of Lodebart Shobi Machir Barzelai and Barzelai the Giliadite brought Beds Basons earthen vessels Wheate and Barlie and Flower and parched Corne and Beanes and Lentils and Hony and Butter and sheepe and cheese of Kine for Dauid and for the people for they said the people are hungrie and weary and thirstie in the wildernesse But let me not forget Hushai the Archit Hushai the Archit which came against Dauid with his coat torne and hauing earth on his head Whom Dauid sent backe after â—o the Citie where by his counsell God so disposing it he was the meane to dash the counsell of Architophel thereby to ouerthrowe Absalon and to deliuer Dauid Thus of the fidelitie that king Dauid found in his friends and faithfull subiects when he was distressed with treason And in the late dangers which Gods prouidence from heauen turned away would it not reioyce good heartes to see howe the faithfull Hushaies Shobees Berzillaies and Ittaies shewed themselues in true loyalty and fidelitie to their Prince The most honorable and persons of nobilitie and honor hath by their prouident counsell care and true loialtie got great honor good wil of al the beare good heartes to her Maiestie The faithfull subiects haue had their deserued praise The whole estate of the Ministerie like Zadok Abiathar and the Leuites entirely cleauing to their Dauid and Soueraigne and vnder God depending of her in forward fidelitie and true loyaltie haue shewed themselues Finallie all faithfull subiects flocked about the roiall person of their Prince with their heartes and with tender affection garded her and woulde haue gaged their bodies and bowels also for the safetie of her Royall person and estate if such occasion had required it Many Ittaies would haue been founde in England to haue said to their Dauid and Soueraigne Whersoeuer our Soueraigne Ladie and Mistresse the Queene be whether it be to life or death there her seruaunts will be also For if shee should faile whom the tender mercie of God long continue among vs then might the faith full Hushai and true hearted subiect of England goe with earth on his head and in steede of renting his clothes rent his heart and wail in woe But whither doth my pen wade in sorow The tender affections of faithfull subiects hath carried me on this far God vouchsafe long to blesse suche Hushaies Shobies Berzillaies Ittaies and all of the right rase of true hearted subiects to her Maiestie of what state or name soeuer they be Thus of the coÌ„mendation of louing affections in faithfull subiects to their Princes From whence such affections are Now from whence such affections good will are They are inspired of God who as he boweth and bendeth the hearts of Princes as pleaseth him according to Salomons saying so by his grace he worketh frameth good affections Pro. 21. good will in subiects to their princes also 1. Sam. 10. After that Saul from God by Samuel was appointed king and hee went home to Gibeah there followed him the bande of men of chiualrie or strength
sacrifice of Absalon when he was entring into his rebellion against king Dauid Ignatius Epist 2. ad Trallian Ignatius the ancient Father with the examples of Dathan Abiram Saul rehearseth the example of Absalon of whom he saith Absalon parricida existens diuino iudicio arbori appensus sed cor eius quod malè cogitauerat sagitta transfixum est Absalon saith he a parricide who cōspired the death of his father by gods iudgement was hanged at a tree his hart that euill had thought was shot through with an arrow So far Ignatius What auailed his sacrifices out of a disloyall rebellious hearte offered to God before Ignatius noteth the dreadfull iudgement of God on the very heart which bred and brought foorth the treasons It was pearsed saith he with an arrow A fearefull example of the vengeaunce of God on the very heart that conceiued the treasons and on the wretched bodye that executed them was for them executed by the almightie hand of God Let this example warn all subieccs to keepe their hearts true to their Liege Soueraigne according to Gods ordinance that the vengeaunce of God pearse not the very hearts of them that breed treasons as it did the heart of Absalon 2. Sam. 18. whose hart as it had a time of pride presumption so it had also a time of wofull panting when hanging at the thicke bough Ioab thrust darts into it This example is as a spectacle set vp of God to warne all to keepe their heartes from suche presumption treason and rebellion least they pluck the iudgements of God on their heartes which contriue it and on their bodies whiche practise it Let thē purge therfore their harts from such presumptuous wicked affections and clense purifie them by true faith whose true effect it is as Peter saith by vnfained repentance obedience to the word of God Act. 15. to princes according to the ordinance of God Suche godly affections are wrought by the spirite of God by cleansing our hearts and renuing right spirites in vs Psal 51. as Dauid by his owne experience felt in himselfe such godlie affections are as sweete sacrifices accepted of God Thus of the commendation of godlie affections in faithfull subiects to her Maiestie and how such godly affections are of God and of what value they are in the sight of God of presumptuous contrarie affections which prouoke the wrath iudgements of God The 2. is The second cheefe matter how we shuld frame our affectiōs and obedience to the rules of the word of God Our Sauiour in his owne person hath giuen vs example of subiection and obedience to the higher powers in paying tribute for himselfe and Peter Mat. 17. And when the Pristes and Scribes sent spies to tempte him and to trappe him in his speech and to deliuer him vnto the power and authoritie of the Gouernour as Luke sayth he made them resolute answeare Luke 20. Giue vnto Caesar the things which are Caesars and to God those which are Gods And Saint Paul warneth Titus as a watchman to warne others Tim. 3. Put them in remembrance saith he that they be subiect to the principalities and powers and that they be obedient and ready to euery good worke And the Apostle S. Peter touching the great ordinance of God in this behalfe sayth thus 1. Pet. 2◠Submit your selues vnto al manner ordināce of man meaning publike gouernmentes for the Lordes sake whether it be to the king as hauing the preeminence or vnto gouernours as vnto them that are sent of him for the punishment of euill doers Rom. 13. and for the prayse of them that doe well And after feare God honour the king Thus the Apostle Peter S. Paul the Apostle preacher and crier as he calleth himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Gospell of Christ maketh generall proclamation of the great ordinance of God touching subiection and obedience to Princes and higher powers Let euery soule saith he be subiect to the higher powers for there is no power but of God The powers that be are ordayned of God Whosoeuer therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receiue iudgment or damnation to themselues For Princes are not to be feared for good works but for euil Wilt thou then be without feare of the power Doe well so shalt thou haue prayse of the same for hee is the minister of God for thy wealth But if thou doe euill feare for he beareth not the sworde for naught for he is the minister of God to take vengeance on him that doth euil Wherefore we must be subiecte not because of wrath only but for consciēce sake And for this cause paye you tribute also for they are Gods ministers seruing for the same purpose Giue to all men therefore their dutie Tribute to whom tribute is due Power notes in the wordes of S. Paul touching subiection obedience custome to whom custome feare to whom feare honour to whō honour belongeth Hitherto S. Paul In this treatise of the Apostle I note cheefly foure principall pointes first the generaltie of the charge Secondly to whō this subiection obedience is due whereof he giueth in charge Thirdly howe and in what sorte fourthly the outwarde signe thereof by which it is shewed Touching the first In the generaltie of the charge thereof 1. The generaltie of the charge there is no exception vnlesse one can pleade exception out of the nūber of soules cōprised in the generaltie of the charge Chrisostom specifieth the generaltie hereof in perticuler vocations and estates euen in the highest degree of such as vnder pretence of Religion and holinesse might seeme to plead exception and freedome from it Whether thou be saith he an Apostle or whether thou be an Euāgelist or a prophet or whatsoeuer thou be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrisosto in cap. 13. Epist ad Ro. for saith he this same subiection doth not ouer throwe pietie and godlinesse Thus Chrisostom Is there any that in the earth might challenge more preheminence and exception then our Sauiour for his owne person while he liued on earth Who vouchsafed for his owne person as man to pay tribute to Caesar Luke 20. His example and doctrine added to it commaunding to giue to Caesar the thinges that are Caesars and to God those thinges which are Gods concludeth all Who can plead preheminence exception or exemption herin seeing our Sauiour in signe of subiection as man Mat. 17. caused tribute to be paid for himself Peter This doctrine and answere of our Sauiour the soldiers of Henry the fifth Emperour of that name when hee came to Rome to receiue the imperiall Crowne caried from him Albertus Kranz Sax lib. 5. cap. 33. and as it were thrust it in the teeth of Pope Paschal the second of that name saying that his demaundes were not to
Prince And if Lylla did so for king Edwin a Prince as then heathen and but ouer a corner of this land much more will faithfull subiectes with their bodies and bowels defend the sacred person of so Christian and gracious a Prince and good mother of all England against the swordes of all traytors and enemies vnto her England is the mother of manie Lyllas in these daies and hath fostered and bred many such faithfull subiectes for life to their Prince God send many such and long continue them and blesse vs with the long life prosperous continuance of our Prince Thus of the example of Lylla his famous fidelitie in defence of the royall person of his Prince The 7. cheefe matter The seuenth is howe the late occasions and daungers should encrease true loue loyaltie and vnfayned fidelitie in the hartes of all good subiectes to her Maiestie The late daungers should enflame loue loyaltie in true subiectes Iohn 16. The feare daunger to depart frō a persō most deere to vs doth encrease and enflame more loue in vs. When our Sauiour had resolutely tould his disciples that he must depart from them their hartes were filled with sorrowe And they fell on the necke of Paul and wept on him Act. 20. after he had tolde them of Ephesus that they should see his face no more When Sixtus the auncient byshop of Rome Sixtus Laurentius Platina in vita Sixti 2. was going to martyrdome for the faith of Christ Laurence his Archdeacon cryed out after him Whither goest thou father without thy sonne He so loued him in life that in death he was loth to be parted frō him three dayes after he followed him in martirdome also Ex passione Cypriani à Pontio eius diacono edita When Cyprian the Archbishop of Carthage was brought to the place of his martyrdome and stoode vppe in lynnen ready for the executioner the peoples hartes so rued on him that they cryed let vs dye with our holy Bishop The people of Constantinople Chrisostoms first banishment so entyrely loued Chrisostom their Archbishop that the first time by Eudoxia the Empresse her meanes hee departed into banishment they made a mutenie in the Cittie After at the Emperour his cōmaundemēt being recalled home againe the people ran on heaps to meet him and shouted about him and as rauished with ioy of his returne they would needs perforce haue him to the great Church there out of his old place to heare his voice againe And after his second banishment Chrisostoms second banishment many the could not temper their zeale affection to him sequestred banded thēselues in a factiō were called Iohannitae after his name great sturre eftsoones was made for him And if so greeuous their departing was from their Bishop deere to them how doleful would the departing haue been from such a gracious Prince and naturall mother of our whole Countrie And therefore the late feare and daunger thereof should encrease and enflame the fier of true loue loyaltie and vnfeyned fidelitie in the hartes of all true and naturall subiectes to her Maiestie The 8 cheefe matter The eight is how directed in wisedome from God we may take the right way long to obtaine her of the mercie of God by making harty prayers and supplications to God for her That he wil set the watch of his prouidence about her and send the garrison of his Angels to garde her That the euil spirits and those by whom they worke and that work and practise by them may haue no power against her With what minds we shuld pray to God for her that he may accept our praiers That wee may longe obteine and enioy the blessing of her royall person and soueraignetie amongest vs the right way in the direction of godlie wisedome is to haue continuall recourse to God by making hartye prayers supplications to him for her These be the safest munitions of Princes on earth as it were Castles in heauen to keep her on earth frō al treacheries practises of enemies and euil spirites whatsoeuer The safest munitions of Princes are hartie prayers of the faithfull vnto God for them Let vs build for her bulwarkes on earth in the bowels of harty affections of faithfull subiectes and Castles in heauen with hartie prayers and supplications vnto God for her That God will vouchsafe to be a continuall Castle to her on earth as he was to his seruant Dauid Psal 18. whose glorie was that the Lorde was his rocke strength and defence Psal 61. And that he will be a Tower of strength to her against all her enemies and that he wil prepare his mercie and faithfulnesse to preserue her This is the impregnable Castle Tower of defēce as Salomon saith The Tower of strength Prou. 18. is the name of the Lord. That the mercie of God wil vouchsafe cotinually to keep her for his poore Church and our Countrie let vs ioyne our selues as Tertullian speaketh as in an army to God and as if by violent force of feruent prayers we would win it of God Ad deum saith he quasi manu facta praecationibus ābiamus Tertul. in Apolog cap. 39 And let vs with heauenlie affections beat at heauen gates and touch God in our prayers as Tertullian sayth in an other place Coelum tudimus saith he deum tangemus Tertul. in Apolog cap. 40 Such violēce and force of faith is acceptable to God as the same Tertullian saith Tertul. in Apolog cap 39 Haec vis deo grata est This violence is acceptable to God As he that knocked at his neighbours dore at midnight and would not giue vp till he opened and gaue him that he came for Luke 11. And as the widowe that hanged about the iudge till he graunted her suite Luke 18. And as the woman of Canaan that followed our Sauiour with open mouth Mat. 15. til she obtayned that she came for of him Marke 10. Bartimaeus And as blind Bartimaeus the begger the sonne of Timaeus begging by the high way when Christ passed by he left not begging crying after him till he cōmaūded him to be brought vnto him then off went the beggers cloake that lighter and without let he might run to him and his running and casting of his cloake was not in vaine for of a darke man he was made to see he glorified the mercy of our Sauiour to him If we awake but a little out of the dreames of worldly vanities for mortall creatures in respect of their worldly states Psal 90. as Dauid saith are like a sleep or dreame what are worldly states portes countenances but as Bartimaeus his beggers cloake in the sight of God If we behold them in the glasse of true valewe of the wisdome of God by his blessed worde Eccle. 1. Psal 62. all is but most vaine vanitie as Salomon
king to heare thee O that I were made iudge in the land that euery man that hath matter might come to me that I may doe him iustice Thus as a malecontent himselfe he eggeth the people to discontentment mutening against the state and gouernment of king Dauid his father And after from discontentment hee fell to flat treason So likewise Dathan Coreh Dathan Coreh and Abyram Nu. 16. and Abirā first began with discontentment and mislyking after they fell to murmuring and mutening and at last to open rebellion Sheba blewe vppe his trumpe and said Sheba wee haue noe part in the sonne of Isai so in disdaine he called Dauid 2. Reg. 20. He was a murmuring malecontent at first a ranke rebel after Beware we be not touched with the first lest happely wee bee tised on to the later Where affections are framed perswasion is halfe made The fier flyeth to the tow The match and powder are soone mette Euill affections open a gap to others to make an entrance into vs to assaile vs and to lay snares for vs and so they become stumbing blockes to vs and bring vs to ruine Take heed therefore they doe not carrie vs on and be occasions to plucke vs into the gulph of great daungers by custome they growe into an habit as into an other nature then ther is no sence feeling or remorse of them as in the sicknesse called Hectica Febris when it is growne into an habite and nature Hectica Iowbertus de curan sc lib. 2. cap. 1. and setled in the substance of the bodie though they be in daungerous state yet they lacke sence and feeling of greeuous paine Beware that our mindes be not possessed with like sicknesse whereof though we haue not feeling and remorse by reason it is so rooted and setled yet it may plunge vs into daungerous state It is good therefore to hearken to the councell of the holy Ghost by S. Paul 1. Thess 4. 2. Thess 3. how we should carry our selues in outward dealings affaires That we endeuour ourselues to be quiet and to imploy our owne businesse and not to stake our owne and to bee curious in the affaires of others and as busie bodies whome likewise the Apostle S. Peter reproueth to spie and prie in other mens dealings 1. Pet. ◠to be as controulers of other mens causes to put our sickle into other mens corne to haue an oare in other mens matters to bee climing aboue our calling and to put our selues in great and dangerous actions not appertaining to vs. But let euery one as he is called so cōtent himselfe as Paul exhorteth vsing better if God giueth 1. Cor. 7. and beware that by vncontentment he grow not into bitter affections or eager humours against the Prince and estate and become vnquiet and troublesome in publike and priuate dealings mingling his speech with gall and his actions with bitternesse but that he with a quiet minde keepe himselfe within the precinct of his vocation and within the limites of affaires and actions belonging to him least by aspyring with Adonias and by venturing hazarding and ouerreaching hee loose himself and by lifting at burthens too heauie for him he bee crushed of them God giue grace to all Subiectes to carry themselues in true faith to God true fidelitie to their Prince and to nourish louing and loyall affections in dutifull hearts to their Prince and to powre out heartie prayers and supplications to God for her long life and the long preseruation of her Royall person and prosperous raigne ouer vs to the glory of God the singular comfort of his Church and the great blessing of our whole Countrie THE Second part Against Treasons Rebellions and such like disloyalties PSALME VII Behold hee trauaileth with mischiefe or iniquitie hee hath conceiued sorrowe and brought foorth a lie or vaine thing Hee hath grauen and digged vp a pit and is fallen himselfe into the pit or destruction that he hath made for his trauaile shall come vpon his owne head and his wickednes shall fall vpon his own pate I wil giue thanks or praise vnto the Lord according to his righteousnesse and will sing praise to the name of the Lorde the most highest · DEXTRA · TVA · SVSTENTAVIT · ME · Psal 63 · MR · IN · IVGIS · AD · RHENVM · FLV · ¶ The Contentes principall points and chiefe matters of this Treatise 1 THE Bishop of Rome is the great Patron and practiser of treasons rebellions and such like disloyalties against Christian Princes and Countries with his adherents followers and practisers for him and by colour of authoritie from him In the treatise of this matter I followe this order 1 What engin he hath vsed continually vseth in the practise of such thinges by excommunicating cursing banning of princes cursing and interditing of countries 2 What time chiefly he began to vse this engin of cursing banning Princes lands and practising of treasons rebellions and such disloyalties against them 3 By what meanes the Bishop of Rome and his followers doe manage carrie on their practises of treasons rebellions such disloialties against christiā Princes Realms 4 Of the iudgements of God vpon the cursing and banning Popes 2 Of the conceiuing of treasons rebellions and such like disloyalties by occasion of these words of Dauid in the seuenth Psalme Psal 7. He hath conceiued sorrow 3 How they trauaile with their treasons rebellions and such like disloyalties and wickednesse by occasion of the wordes of Dauid in the same Psalme Hee trauaileth with iniquitie or mischiefe 4 What fruites Traitours Rebels and such like bring foorth by occasion of these words of Dauid in the same Psalme He bringeth foorth a vaine thing or a lie 5 Of the end of Traitors Rebels and such like by occasion of the words of Dauid in the same Psalme Hee hath grauen and digged vp a pit is falne himselfe into the pit or destruction that he hath made for his trauaile shall fall vpon his owne head and his wickednesse shall fall vppon his owne pate 6 Of giuing of thankes and praise to God for his righteousnesse and our deliuerance by occasion of the wordes of Dauid in the ende of the same Psalme I will giue thankes or praise to the Lorde according to his righteousnesse and wyll sing praise to the name of the Lorde the most high Against Treasons Rebellions and such like disloyalties NOw I wil bring foorth the vglie monster of treason rebellion such disloialties into the viewe and sight of all As the Lacedemonians were woont to bryng foorth their slaues and vnderlings whē they were drunken to the open gase and sight of the people that all by seeing of them might abhorre the vice that so disfigured man So I will bring foorth the vglie vice that all may see it and see into it that they may shun and loth it And first I will bring
of Vrsperg proceedeth in his answere to Bishop Otto Such things also saith he otherwhere and in our times haue bin seen to be done yet though the Roman Bishops doe ascribe and take to themselues the doing thereof we find saith he these things to bee done by diuine iudgement the sinnes of Emperors so requiring Princes and people vniting themselues to resist them Heere hee rippeth vp the roote out of which such actions grow the diuine iudgement for sinnes of the Emperors stirryng vp Princes and people against them and that the Bishop of Rome doth but take it on as if hee by cursinges did cut of Emperors Princes from their estates and carued out kingdomes at his pleasure The Abbat to his former saying putteth two examples the one of Fredericke the first Emperor of that name Frederick the first who was excomminged cursed of the popes Hadrian and Alexander and other there successors yet neuer lost the Empire So Philip the sonne of the same Frederick Philip the Emperor notwithstanding the cursings of Celestin the 3. about our time saith the Abbat neuer lost the Empire Thus the Abbat voucheth these exāples to shew that Emperors and Princes though excomminged of Popes yet notwithstanding kept their soueraignties estates kingdoms Emperors excōminged of popes kepe their empires as Frederick Philip and manie other And hereof we haue a mirrour of the great mercie of God in the heauenly happie light of his word Queene Elizabeth in Elizabeth our Soueraigne sent of God who by diuine prouidence notwithstanding the cursings of proud Popes not onelie keepeth her royall right and seat but for their cruell curses hath receiued boūtiful blessings of God not only shewed on her Royal person but on the whole Realme Euen right as the Prophet Dauid saith Though they curse Psal 109. yet thou shalt blesse they shall arise and bee confounded but thy Seruant shall reioyce God giue all subiects grace with true hearts to pray to God that he will turne their cruel curses into aboundance of blessinges on her Royall person and estate and his Church and our whole Countrie Thus what time chieflie the Roman Bishops began to practise suche things against Christian Emperors and princes of Bishop Otto his protestation of the Abbat of Vrsperg his answere how by diuine prouidence notwithstanding the cursing of popes christian Emperors haue kept their soueraignties estates and Realmes heretofore The 3. chiefe point of the first matter The third chiefe matter of my first part is by what means the Bishops of Rome doe manage and carrie on their practises THE vsuall meanes of their practises is after their cursing to set on Subiects against their Princes Greg. 7. Rodol Duke of Sueuia as Gregorie the 7. did set on Duke Rodolph of Sueuia or as Platina noteth of Saxonie or as Vincentius of Burgundy or as Cuspinian Coūtie of Reinfield to rebell against Henry the 4. Emperor his Soueraigne and not only subiectes but the sonne to rebell against his owne father as Henry the 5. Henricus 5. against Henry the 4. Emperor of the name his own father In these two exāples as glasses set before vs wee may see the treacherie and practise of the Bishops of Rome against Christian Emperours and Princes Briefly I will set down the first touching the rebellion of Duke Rodolph against Henrie the 4. The exāples of Duke Rodolph and Henry the 5. and his repentance for it The latter example I will lay foorth at large because it is a notable storie to set foorth the horrible treasons vnnatural warres and raging rebelliōs not only of subiects but of the sonne against his own father Soueraigne Lord vpon pretence of the Popes excōminging cursing the father for executing of the popes curse And therfore in the Popes cause it is counted pietie though it be ioyned with treason rebelliō vnnaturall outrage against his own father Touching the first example of Rodulph against Henry the fourth I will note his setting on his rebellion Duke Rodolph his setting on to rebellion and after his repentance He was set on to falsifie his faith and to rebell against Henry the fourth by Pope Gregorie the 7. called Hildebrand the monk before and to pul him on to this troublesome action with all hee sent him a Crowne or diademe with this posie or word Alb. Cranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 7. Albertus reporting it Petra dedit Romain Petro tibi Papa coronam The rocke that is Christ gaue Rome to Peter the Pope hath giuen the Crowne to thee Thus he allured him to trayterous rebellion against his Prince to whom he had sworne fidelitie Now of his rebellion Euil chiued the Crowne that Pope Gregorie had sent him Henry the fourth whom the Pope had cursed notwithstanding wore and bare the Crowne by Gods prouidence giuen to him Rodolph that of the Pope receiued the Crown could not escape notwithstanding the curse wrath and iudgment of God in this worlde for his periurie treason and rebellion against his Prince but that he repented in the ende So whom the Pope cursed God blessed Rodolphos Rebellion The sequel of the rebellion Whom the Pope blessed God cursed Touching the sequele of the action in this world Rodolph with the Popes blessings spedde euill Henry the Emperor with the Popes curse wan the field Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. Rodolph discomfited hauing his right hand cut off as the Abbat of Vrsperg reporteth it was carried out of the battaile to Morisburg and straight after died Alber. Krāz. Saxoniae lib. 5. cap. 5. Albert telleth that he was carried out of the field to Herbipolis wounded in the right hand whereof he dyed Thus of Duke Rodolph his rebellion Duke Rodolph his repentance Now let vs heare of his repentance Whē Duke Rodolph sawe the stump of his hand he said to them that set him on there present This same is the right hand with which I haue sworne fidelitie to my Lorde Abbas Vrspergensis in chro Behold now I leaue my life with his reigne See you to it which made me clime to this place should haue led me the right way following your aduertisementes Thus wofully he moued himselfe to the Bishops that set him on Alb. Cranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 7. Albert thus reporteth it that he sent for the nobles Bishops of his side to Herbipolis elata dextra in astantes and lifting vp his hand saith he to those that stood by Duke Rodolph his dolefull mone for his rebellion this is the right hād with the which I sware to Henry my Lord but by your vrging so oft with such euil hap I haue fought against him goe fulfill your fidelitie to your king for I shal goe the way of my fathers so he died Thus the rufull words of Duke Rodolph repenting his rebellion before the nobles Bishops of his side His conscience not onely his right
hand was wounded for his periurie A warning to all treason and rebellion against his Prince This may be example to all estates and persons to keepe their hartes and hands true to their Prince according to Godes ordinance least Gods vengeance fall on their harts heads as it did vpō Absolon the traytours hart and vppon their hand which they lifte vp against their Prince as it did vppon the right hand of Duke Rodolph rufully repenting for it Thus the example of Duke Rodolph by whom and how hee was set on of his rebellion and euill successe last of his rufull repentance Now will I discourse the storie of Henry the 5. Henry the 5. his rebellion against Henry the 4. his father The Order the treason and rebellion against Henry the 4. his owne father And for the more orderly treating of it I will referre my selfe to these cheefe pointes First of his cause and pretence and setting on to this treason and rebellion against his father Secondly of the vnnaturall and parricidial warre of the sonne against the father Thirdly of the taking and deposing of Henry the fourth Fourthly of his death and crueltie shewed on his corpes Fiftely of the mone and iudgment of their owne wryters of his case Laste of all of the iudgement of God on Henry the 5. in the ende Thus the order of my discourse◠this storie The first The cause pretence of rebellion of Henry the 5. against his father The first is his cause and pretence and setting on to that horrible treason and rebellion against his owne father The cause and pretence of his treason and rebellion against his owne father was Pope Gregorie the seuenth Pope Vrbane the second and Pope Paschal the second their curses on Henry the fourth his father and withall their priuing him of his Empire What the cause and his desert was that the Popes thus cursed and priued him let vs heare out of their owne writers The Abbat of Vrsperg very parciall on the Popes side against the Emperour noteth this to bee the cause Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1075. Because two Popes of Rome solemnly cited the Emperor to make his apparance at Rome before them and he came not and for contempt against them and because he would not submitt himselfe to them he was of Gregorie the seuenth excomminged and cursed then of Vrbanus the second after of Paschal the second Another cause by Albertus reporte is aleaged out of the aunsweres of the Bishop of Mens and Wormes to the Emperour when they came to depose him for Simonie in collating Bishoprickes Abbacies which they cal the inuesting of Bishoppes and Abbates Alber. Krāz. Saxoniae lib. 5. cap. 20. by the hande of Princes into their royalties they hould of them Thus as in the right of their imperial prerogatiues The imperial right in inuesting of Bishoppes Abbates c Emperours haue held and continued from the time of Charles the Emperour surnamed the great and vnder 63. Bishoppes of Rome aboue 300. yeeres as Cuspinian noteth And after the thousand yeere that the Deuill was let lose out of the bottomlesse pitte Reue. 20. as out of the Reuelation I haue noted he raged in the Bishoppes of Rome against the principates of the earth making a quarrell for inuesting Bishoppes and Abbates by ley hand to the royalties of their dignities which they termed simenicall heresie I wil lay downe the wordes of Iohn Cuspinian concerning the cause Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 5. who was a man of great authoritie and a counceller to Maximilian the Emperour and though he were of their Religion yet without partialitie layeth down the cause Discordiae somes erat saith he talis The cause that bread the discord was such Now 380. yeeres and moe from Charles the great vnder 63. The case of inuestiture for which Popes cursed Emperors Bishoppes of Rome it was lawfull for the king to collate Episcopal dignities Abbatices by a ring a rod which now by authoritie custome most auncient preuileges by the space of so many yeeres was established But after Popes ordeyned that eccelsiasticall dignities or inuestiture might not of any ley parson bee collated and they were excomminged that were inuested in that sort Hitherto Iohn Cuspinian his wordes in the storie of Henry the fift Albertus Cranz Deane of Hanburg Alb. Cranz Sax. lib. 5. cap. 37. and a writer of their owne side doth thus speaking of Henry the 5. lay downe his iudgment of the case If saith he the Emperour meaning Henry the 5. who after was cursed of the Pope likewise for the same cause that he rebelled against his owne father did aske nothing but only the inuestiture of the lands called the graunt of the royalties the free elections to Churches and Abbaies reserued in the vacation he seemeth to demaund right Thus Albert his wordes touching the cause of inuestiture only he doth not like that the prouision for the person shall goe with it for the which he sayeth the controuersie was betweene the kingdome and the priesthood The Abbat of Vrsperg also speaking of the reconciling of Henry the fifth to Pope Calixtus sayth Ab. Vrsp in an 1122. hee did relinquishe the inuestiling of Churches which the German kinges so long hadde exercised and which hee purposed neuer during life to haue left least thereby he should preiudice the honour of his kingdome Thus Vrspergensis And yet otherwhere hee raueth against Henry the fourth Abbas Vrsperg in an 1106. for resisting the Popes censures and calleth him Nabuchodonezer and Iulian and sheweth his euill affected minde to him and his partialitie in wryting his storie which of Cuspinian also is noted Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 4. though in religion he be concurring with him Thus the bishoppes of Rome about that time that Sathan was loosed out of his chaine made schismes and hurleburlees in Christendome by encroching the auncient right of the mperiall prerogatiue touching the case of inuesting aforesaid which continued in the body of the Empire from Charles the great the first Emperour of the West after the diuision of the Empire and vnder 63 Bishoppes of Rome and more then 300. yeeres as Cuspinian noteth And because Henry the fourth would not yeeld vppe this imperiall prerogatiue and the auncient right of the Empire he was cursed of Gregorie the seuenth and other Popes and priued of his Empire though he continued Emperour about 50 yeeres lacking one as the Abbat confesseth And after that auncient right imperiall prerogatiue thus confirmed by authority Abbas Vrsperg in an 1102. custome and most ancient priuileges as Cuspinian witnesseth was called Simonicall heresie In the Lateran councell vnder Paschal the 2. Paschal 2. in Lateran councel who cursed Henry the fourth the father and Henry the fifth the sonne for the case of inuesting and for their mainteyning the Emperial prerogatiue therein and who himselfe had released the inuesting of
Churches according to the right imperiall before to Henry the 5. Gerhardus Bishop of Engelesme and Legate in Aquitania saide Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. anno 1112. that this inuesting by Emperours and Princes was against the holy Ghost and canonical institution the Councel there consenting to it At what time Pope Paschal there did recant and retract the release that he had made thereof to Henry the fifth before and he prayed pardon for it and prayed them to praye for him Such conscience he made for releasing of the imperiall right to the Emperour But where was this conscence in their predecessours time vnder 36. Bishoppes from the time of Charles the great Was it then counted against the holy Ghost and simonicall heresie Wherefore is now the case thus altered Because as Cusp toucheth the quicke post vero pontifices sanxerunt Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 5. But after the Bishops of Rome haue decreede so that it is not lawfull for any to be inuested of any lay man they were excomminged that were inuested of thē So as Popes rule cases herisies are made That vnder so many Bishops of Rome was yeelded as the lawfull imperiall right now is said to be against the holie Ghost and flat heresie Henriciana haeresis Wig bertina Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1106. Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna And because they would bring the Emperors name into publike hate they call it haeresis Henriciana Henries heresie they call it also haeresis Wigbertina Wigbertes heresie Because Wigbert Archbishoppe of Rauenna after Gregory the 7. was hunted out of Rome by the Emperour for his cursing of him at the request of the Romans was made Bishoppe of Rome for him and by the name of Clemens with great solemnitie of many Bishoppes inthronised But because he was placed by the Emperour they haue deuised an heresie after his name Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. in an 1080. to bring his name also in hate which they call Wigbertina So that maketh not on their side for maintayning their kingdome is called heresie What intollerable tyranny and monstrous presumption is this of Bishoppes of Rome as Lucifer mounted in pride Princes praerogatiues made heresie of Popes to take on them to curse and priue Emperours for keeping their auncient right and imperiall prerogatiue and to make heresie as pleaseth them where as they swallowe vppe such a number of Idolatrous heresies of theirowne and they call the doctrine deliuered to vs out of the liuely worde of God heresie and light darkenesse darkenesse light are therfore vnder the curse of God Esai 5. as the Prophet Esay witnesseth But though they call light darknes truth error prerogatiues of Princes heresies their followers daunce after their pipe as those that are bitten of the venemous spider of Italie called Tarantula because by Tarentū there is store of thē so soone as they heare the pipe or minstrel Tarantula they fall a daūsing and cannot leaue till they haue by daunsing digested the poyson which vaporeth out by sweetes as Matheolus thinketh Mathe. in Com. in Dios lib. 2. cap. 57. so they that are bitten with the venemous Spider of Italie the Tarantula of Rome cannot but daūce after the Popes pipe and cannot giue vp and digest the poyson of Poperie vntil God renue them by special grace as it were new make and alter them Thus for what cause Gregorie the 7. and other Popes after excōminged and cursed Henry the 4. Because the Pope of such pretenced quarrel cursed the father therfore should the son rise in armour rebel against his own father God hath made the son himself iudge in the cause for euē for the same cause that the father was cursed on pretence wherof he took on him the treason rebellion against his father he also was cursed of 3. popes after And touching the setting on of the son against his father The setting on of the son against the father the trūpet of pietie was blowen vp before the son because he vndertook the treason in the Popes cause and for executing the Popes curse on his own father Therefore as such impiety outrage against his own father against the ordinance of God is blazed out as pietie to the Pope mother church of Rome So vnder the pretence and visard of pietie religion the treason and rebellion of the son is disguised Alber. Krāz. Saxoniae lib. 5. cap. 16. Albert Kranz saith of him Multis persuasit filius sola se pietate in deū terreni patris ad tempus oblitum esse The sonne saith he persuaded many that only in respect of piety to god he had forgotten for a season his father on earth Otto Frisin Epis lib. 7. cap. 8. Otto Bishop of Fris saith Rebellionē sub specie religionis eò quod pater eius a Rom. pontificibus excōmunicatus esset aggreditur Vnder color of religion he attempteth rebelliō because his father was excomminged of the Roman Bishops The Abbat of Vrsperg saith vnder colour of religion Patrem excōmunicatū priuauit regno He priued his father of the Empire being excōminged before Ab. Vrsperg in chro in an 1124. Let vs heare how of the Popes clergie he is magnified set a gog to this vnnaturall treason and rebellion vnder pretence of pietie religion After that he shrunk from his fathers side as Vrspergensis telleth and raysed rebellion against him Abbas Vrsperg in chro in an 1105. there hee professed saith he obedience to the sea of Rome though with treason he rent the Empire and the bowels of nature in his owne father that begat him it is not treason or rebellion any more but Religion and pietie He condēneth the heresie afore mentioned which they forged against his father for the which he after the death of his father was cursed of Popes also Hee withdrawed himselfe into Saxonie which then was a fitte place for mutenie and rebellion against his father Alb. Cranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 17. And at Northuson in Saxonie was a meeting appointed of the nobles and people as Albert telleth and the Clergie kept a Synod there Then after he had displaied his banner of treason and rebellion against his father the Popes Clergie flocked vnto him and hanged about him and rebellious Ruckard Archbishoppe of Mens Ruchard Archbishop of Mens and Geberhardus Bishoppe of Constans helde a great councell of Clergie at Northuson a fit councell for such a practise This Ruckard as Otto calleth him sometime Archchbishop of Mens was bānished of Henry the fourth for his disloyalties in Saxonie hee had made mutenies and conspiracies against him and being an Archrebell and traytor is now become president of this councel whom Henry the 5. by force would haue restored to his sea againe as Bishoppe Otto telleth but that his father was gotte within the towne with his garrison Otto an a. lib. 7 cap. 8. In this councel to
Saxo. li. 5. cap. 20. he told him the processe of their proceedings who pitying his case conducted him to Colon with 800. souldiers After this beeing toyled and persecuted of his sonne and brought as it were to the pits brinke as in his letters written to the estates of the Empire frō Ledes he pitifully cōplained he dieth at Ledes The crueltie shewed on the corps of Henrie the 4. Now let vs heare the crueltie that was shewed vpon his corps whom they thus persecuted aliue they persecuted also in his graue The Abbat of Vrsperg telleth how that the Bishop of Ledes others that tooke the Emperours part were reconciled to the Pope Ab. Vrsperg in an 1106. and receiued into the communion of the Church vppon this condition among others that they shoulde dig vp the corps of the Emperor buried of them before The corps digged vp and without all honor of funeral lay it in an vnhalowed place which decree he saith was made with the cōsent of the Archbishops Bishops that were there Alb. Saxo. li. 5. cap. 24. Albert reporteth that the corps stoode in a desert chappell at Ledes vnburied by the space of fiue yeeres and after was buried at Spires Ab. Vrsp in an 1106. The Abbat of Vrsperg telleth howe that the Corps was transported to Spires with consent of the king his sonne and there remained without the church vnburied by the space of fiue yeeres Thus whom they woulde not suffer to rest while hee liued they woulde not suffer to rest in his graue also The Popes curse ransacketh the graues of the dead The graues cannot hide their corses for his crueltie Wigberts the Archbishop of Rauenna his corps digged vp Wigbertes the Archbishop of Rauenna his corps bicause he was set vp of Henrie the 4. to be Bishop of Rome for Grego the 7. was also turned out of his graue and the corses of other Bishops also which were made of Wigbert Bishops corps cast out of Churches were cast out of the Churches as the Abbat reporteth This was the persecutiō of corses Death quencheth not the malice of Rome but she runneth to graues to turne vp corses as if shee were mad Hiaena As the mad Hiaena turneth vp graues Plinie witnessing it and rageth in corses Mantichorae Plini natu hist li. 8. cap. 30. Pli. nat hist lib. 8. cap. 21. And as the monstrous Mantichora mētioned of Plinie also is greedie of mans flesh euen to plucke it out of the graues But it is zeale saieth Vrspergensis not malice or crueltie for speaking of the rāsacking of corses of false Bishops as hee termeth them out of their graues he brayeth out In tantum diuinae legis subito zelus efferbuit So greatlie saith he the zeale of Gods law sodainly boyled vp Ab. Vrsperg in an 1106. Is it maruaile though he call Henrie the fourth Iulian Aman Nabuchodonezer who calleth the turning of corses of Princes and Bishops out of theyr graues the zeale of Gods Lawe It is zeale but not acording to knowledge as the Apostle Paule calleth it Rom. 10. Blind zeale 1. Cor. 2. Blinde zeale crucified Christ If they had knowne the Lorde of glorie they woulde not haue crucified hym Blinde zeale continually persecuteth the members of Christe ransacketh their very graues and triumpheth ouer corses The Abbat of Vrsperg bringeth in the Churche of Rome triumphing with hornes on her head to runne vpon her enemies and to make the liuing agast when they see corses of the dead turned out of their graues Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. Iam enim saith he exaltatus diuinitus ecclesia Romana cornibus ad incutiendum timorem cunstis vsque quaque scismatum membris c. Nowe saieth hee the Church of Rome hauing her hornes by diuine power exalted The hornes of the church of Rome set on by the Abbat of Vrsperg to make all the members of schismes to quake caused the bones of Wigbert their head by Henrie the 4. placed pope Archbishop of Rauen. before to be cast out of his graue Thus the Abbat bringeth foorth the Church of Rome in her triumphe castyng out bodies of the dead out of their graues to make the liuing to be afraid of her As Zedekia the false Prophet made hornes of yron Zedekiah and saide to Ahab the wicked and idolatrous king 2. Re. 22. with these hornes shalt thou pushe the Syrians vntyll thou haue made an ende of them And the false Prophets prophesied euen so goe vppe to Ramoth in Gilead and prosper for the Lorde shall deliuer it into the kings handes But kyng Ahab was brought home dead in his Chariot So the Abbat hath made yron hornes for the Church of Rome to push downe all her enemies and to cast them out of their graues and they come vnto her as they did to Ahab goe and poosper The Lorde shall deliuer all into thy hands If any Church may weare iron hornes and tryumph with them the Chuche of Rome may as for turning corses out of graues none euer might compare with her Thus of the death of the Emperor Henrie the fourth and the crueltie shewed on his corse The fift chiefe poynt of the discourse of this storie is The 5. The iudgement of their owne writers the iudgement of their owne writers of the case Otto Bishop of Frising of the Imperiall line touching his parentage and in superstition not behinde for hee tooke Monkerie on him Otto B. of Frising and among the Monkes of Morimond hee died and touching his storie for his indifferencie in laying it downe he is commended of Aeneas Syluius Aeneas Syluius in hist Aust Historiae sayth hee legem seruauit vt neque cognatio veritati neque cognationi officeret veritas Hee kept saieth hee the lawe of storie that neerenesse of blood shoulde not hinder truth because hee was neere of the Imperiall blood nor trueth neerenesse of blood This rebellion and outrage of Henrie the fift against Henrie the fourth hys father Otto Frising Episc anna lib. 7. cap. ◠vppon pretence of the Popes curse hee calleth Tam inauditum inhumanum hoc mundi factum So vnquoth and neuer the like hard of and vnnaturall a fact of this worlde which may prouoke vs to the contempt of the worlde as hee saith to see suche outrage in it Alb. Kranz Sax. lib. 5. cap. 16. Albert Deane of Haumburg maketh a wonder of it in the worlde and sayth Brethren haue made warre one against another and most neere frendes haue fought togeither Sed filium saith he insurgere patrires est sine exemplo But the sonne saith he to rise against the father is a thing without example Thus Albert as if nature it selfe were wounded wondereth at so monstrous a facte procured and practised vnder pretence of the Popes curse the execution whereof they coūt pietie though it be treason and rebellion of the sonne against his owne
the fourth and faithfull Bishoppes to him out of their graues doth he not exalt himselfe by the oppression of the liuely word of God and of Princes and ciuill gouernments and such horrible and monstrous outrages in the world But Otto lamenteth the great outrages of the world in this exaltation of the Church of Rome Rome it selfe was not free from them as the mother of the mischeifes Otto Frising Episc lib. 6. cap. 35. For as Otto saith Roma obsessa capta vastata Papa super Papam c. Rome it selfe saith he was besieged taken ransacked Pope vpon Pope and king vpon king c. And because of the number of the great vnnaturall outrages of those times of Hen. the 4. and Henry the 5. of which he writeth he sayth these our times for of his own experience not onely of report he wryteth the storie of those times as very neere them himselfe for hee wrote the storie of Friderick the first vnder whom he liued and dyed in great honour which are thought to be the last times drawing former sinnes to their ende by the outrage of sinnes threatning the end of the world If this he spake of his time about 4. Outrages of sinnes a signa of the worlde drawing to an ende hundred yeeres agone and more what shall we say of the outrage of greeuous sinnes and practises and vnnatural and monstrous treasons in these latter times in which the Deuil finding his time to be but short as S. Iohn sayth in the Reuelations striueth to winne the mastery of himselfe Reue. 12. and to exceede himselfe in contriuing and practising bloody treasons and outrages against the Church of God and Princes set vp of God to bee nurses thereof But our comforte is 1. Cor. 1. faithfull is the Lord as Paul sayth by whom we are called into the fellowship of his son Iesus Christ And thus he comforteth the Thes faithfull is he which called you who will also doe it 1. Thes 5. And feeling experieÌ„ce of this comfort courage in himself to Tim. he saith 2. Tim. 4. the Lord wil deliuer me froÌ„ euery euil worke wil preserue me to his heauenly kingdom The hairs of our head are told our states euer are in his sight this prouideÌ„ce preueÌ„teth immineÌ„t dauÌ„gers Ther is a monument or memoriall booke written before him as Malachi calleth it Zepherziccharon Mala. 3. for them that feare the Lord and for theÌ„ that thinke on his name God geue vs grace with hearty prayer to sue to him that 〈◊〉 memoriall booke may continually bee before him for the long and prosperous preseruation of Elizabeth our Queene against al immineÌ„t daungers conspiracies and treasons at home and abroad whatsoeuer The 6. The Iudgement of God on Henry the 5. for his rebellion and treasons against his father The sixte of the chiefe pointes of my discorse of this storie is the iudgment of God on Henry the 5. for his treason and rebellion against his father Wherin I will note the iudgement of God on him touching the cause touching the cursing of Popes touching the treason and rebellion of his owne subiects touching his warres touching his treasure touching lacke of fruit and touching his own body First note touching the cause First touching the cause wherefore his father was cursed of the popes It was obiected to him of the Bishoppes that deposed him Albert reporting it out of the Chronicles of Germany for that hee would not yeeld to Popes the ancient right prerogatiue of the Empire from Charles the great 1. Emperor of the West continued by the space of 300. yeeres vnder 63 Bishops of Rome Cuspinian witnessing it Touching the inuesting of Churches which they called Symony or the Symonical heresie and excomminged those that receiued such inuesting of Princes by lay hand as they terme it Henry the 5. Henry the 5. his sonne after he came to the Empire maintayned the same right and auncient prerogatiue of the Empire against Popes and was purposed neuer during life to leaue it Ab. Vrsper in chro in an 1122. as Vrspergensis noteth least he should preiudice the honour of his kingdom While it was his fathers case he took part with Popes against him While his father opposed himselfe against Popes in the defence of the auncient right and prerogatiue of the Empire he by practise of Popes and vpon pretence of religion opposed himself against his father professed obedience to the Sea of Rome Ab. Vrsperg in chro in an 1105. condemned the heresie afore said betrayed his owne father tooke armes vpon him and rebelled in the Empire against him But after by persecution he had worn out his owne father by the practise and backing of Popes and their Clergie and that he was Emperor himselfe and it was now his owne case then was the case cleane altered It was heresie no more it was vnlawfull obedience to the Sea of Rome to yeeld vp the ancient right and priueleges of the Empire Then could he send aunsweare by his souldiers to Pope Paschal that such demaundes were not to be graunted because it was written â—â—ue to Caesar those thinges that are Caesars and to God those that are Gods Then the case remayning on his conscience was cleane chaÌ„ged Then he made not conscience to lay violent hands vpon Pope Paschal by his souldiers in the Church and to carry him prisoner into his campe there to put him in sure gard â—il by solemne instrument he had yeelded vp the claime Alb. Kranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 33. as Albert wryteth it But while it was his fathers case it was heresie in him religion in himselfe to rebell against his father Otto Frisin Episc lib. 7. cap. 8. as Bishoppe Otto said Rebellionem sub specie religionis eò quòd pater eius a Romanis Pont. excoÌ„municatus esset molitur Rebellion vnder colour of religion he attemteth because his father was excomminged of the Roman Bishops Religion was the pretence but ambitioÌ„ of soueraigntie appeareth to bee practise as the same Otto saith Otto Frising Epis lib. 7. cap. 9. The 2. note The Roman kingdom for ambitioÌ„ to raigne was diuided not onely ciuilly but parricidially Thus Otto touching the cause wherfore hee rebelled against his owne father The second note is of the iudgment of God touching the cursings of Popes on him also Pope Pasc the 2. which cursed the father tyced Henry the 5. the son to treason and rebellion against him and who to the counsel of mens wher his father required audience sent his Legats to renue and confirme his old curses against him after that Henry the 5. Ab. Vrsper in chro in an 1106. Paschal 2 Gelatius 1. Calixtus 2. was Emperour for the same cause and claime fell a cursing him also 3. Popes in a row Paschal the 2. Gelasius the 2. and Calixtus the 2. did set on him with cursing and banning for the same cause They
set their axes to the tree to hew it downe as they did to Henry the 4. before and others Their curses were their axes with which they were wont to hew downe Princes But now they are but blind blasts in the which they doe but spend their breath After Paschal Gelasius made a fresh assalt on him He was driuen to his fathers practise As he set vp Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna to be Pope for Gregorie the 7. Abbas Vrsperg in chro in an 1118. Ab. Vrsperg in an 1119. so the sonne set vp one Burdinus a Spaniard against Gelatius the 2. who withdrewe himselfe after whose death Calix the 2. prosecuted the cause curse and Burdinus dayly decayed whoÌ„ they termed the Idol because he was set vp of Hen. the 5. So as his father was cursed 〈◊〉 Popes so for the same cause he that for Popes rebelled against his father was cursed of 3. also The 3. The 3. note note is the iudgment of God touching the treason and rebellion of his own subiects against him Ab. Vrsp in an 1115. In Saxonie where rebellioÌ„ began first against his father there also began treason and rebellion against him And there they fought a battaile with him the bishop of Halbarstat being cheef coÌ„ductor of it Abbas Vrspergensis â—n an 1116. And as the Archbishop of Mens was ringleader of the rebellion against his father so likewise the Archbishop of Mens stirreth the coles kindleth matters against him At ColoÌ„ they wer haÌ„mering of a practise against him when he saw the fire of rebellion thus blowen vp against him he strake his sayles and vealed his boÌ„net and sent Ambassadors to Rome for reconciliation And being then cumbred with rebellion of the Archbishop of Mens and the Saxons in processe he submitted himselfe to the bishop of Ostia for the Pope resigned the inuesting of churches by ring rod the which Germaine kings so long had exercised as Vrsp saith â—b Vrsp in 2â— 1122. with he thought neuer to depart withal during his life reseruing this that the person chosen shuld by scepter receiue his royalties of him And Bishop Otto saith Otto Frisin Episc li. 7. cap. 16. that the RomaÌ„s say this to haue been graunted to him but in fauoâ— of peace not to his successors Thus of the iudgment of God touching treasons and rebellion of his subiectes against him The 4. note The 4. note is of Gods iudgment touching his wars God blessed him not in his wars with good successe as Vrsp doth witnes Ab. Vrsperg in an 1124. wher as his father was lucky in warres and al his life he was drawen in warres Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 5. Thus of Gods iudgment shewed in his warres The 5. The 5. note note is the iudgment of God touching his treasure As he ransacked his fathers treasure in his rebellioÌ„ at Spires so he left his treasures hee knew not to whom as Vrspergensis saith Ab. Vrsperg in an 1124. he heaped vpinfinit treasure he knew not for whom as the scripture saieth dying without issue himselfe Thus of Gods iudgement touching his treasure The sixt note is The 6. note of Gods iudgement touching lacke of fruite God blessed him not with fruite because â—ee rebelled against the bowels out of which he came The seuenth note is the iudgement of god in his body The .7 note He had a strange disease that hanged vpon him called Dracunculi Alb. Kranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 45. of which he died at Traiect and at his death he discouered it to the Queene and those that were neere to him Thus of the iudgement of God vppon Henrie the 5. who rebelled against his owne father because he was cursed of Popes The last of the chiefe matters of the first part is The last of the chiefe matters the iudgement of God vppon the cursing Popes GRegorie the 7. Greg. 7. that first cursed Henrie the 4. was chased out of Rome by him fled to Salern and there miserably dyed Bonifacius 8 Boniface the eight who cursed Philip king of France surnamed the Fayre was by a sodain rush of Sarra and others made on him at Anagnia taken prisoner and carried to Rome where in sorrow he died Hadrian 4. After Pope Hadrian at Anagnia Abbas Vrsperg in chr De scismate subâ—rto as Vrspergensis testifieth had denounced the excommunication and curse against Frederik the first Emperor of that name after a few dayes he walked forth to take the ayre with such of his seruants which were about him and when he came to a certain fountaine he dranke therof and by and by as it is said a Flee chopped into his mouth and stuck in his throat and by no art of Phisicke coulde be rid away till hee gaue vp the ghost Thus Vrsperg telleth the cursing Pope his ende Our Sauiour said of the Pharises that they swallowed Cammels strained gnats They Popes are the great Pharisees in the church of God now Mat. 23. They drawe Christian Princes thorow their throates as gulfs they gape to swallow them vp but sodainly God stoppeth vp their pipes as hee sent a Flee to choke vp Pope Hadrian in the end Vrbanus 3. Vrbanus the third Pope of that name beeing a Millainer in hate of the Emperor Frede. the first as Vrsperg witnesseth did excoÌ„municate curse him because hee had plagued brought vnder his countrie for their rebellioÌ„ against him Therfore as the Abbat saith they called him Turbanum Abbas Vrsperg in chr in an 1185. because hee reared new turmoyles troubles in christendom in reuenge of his countrie which for their sundry rebellions was ouerrun of the Emperor And the Abbat of Vrsperg touching his ende saith Sed Nutu dei percussus interijt But saith he being striken of Gods hande he died the was a Pope but of one yere Two of the Popes that cursed Hen. the 4. Henrie 4. Hen. 5. died before him Two of the popes that cursed Hen. the 5. died likewise before him Three popes that cursed Frede. the first Emperor of that name Frederick 1. departed this life before him the 4. likewise that was but entring into matters against him Two of the popes that cursed Fred. the 2. Fred. 2. Emperor of the name peaked out of the worlde before him Two of the popes that cursed Ludo. Ludouick of Bauare TheÌ„peror surnamed of Bauare left their curses corses behind them before him And 2. of the popes coÌ„tinuing their cursed vaine against Q. Elizabeth our gracious soueraign Queene Elizabeth haue bin soÌ„moned out of this life before the euerlasting iudge Wee humbly beseech the tender mercie of God for their curses to powre numbers of blessings on her royall person and estate that long she may liue prosperously raigne ouer vs to the vtter ruine of Poperie and to the perpetuall establishing of Gods worde and true religion
sorrow the Septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is labor or trauail other molestiaÌ„ trouble or disquietnesse and the word amal that the Prophet vseth signifieth wretchednesse griefe sorrowe labour wearinesse So the worde importeth the true nature and qualitie of such things as in themselues and in sequell and true iudgement they are for euen in the conceiuing and contriuing of their wicked Councels plats they shall feele gripings of sorrow boyling of conscience gnawing of vnquiet minds wheÌ„ they would rest they shall finde themselues in many strange moodes As they that in conceiuing by reason of a sicknesse commonly called Pica Pica haue strange appetites and longings after thinges because of the distemperature of their stomacks Trinka de rati curan lib. 7. cap. 2. so because the state of their mindes wholy is distempered such as are conceiued with such wicked intentions haue moÌ„strous appetites longings aspirings and find themselues in many strange moodes and because of their conceiuing and contriuing their wicked Councels such fruites ensue they are called by the name of trouble trauail sorrow wretchednes wearinesse Thus in true iudgement they are and the word that the Prophet vseth giueth vs notice of the true nature of the thinges God endue vs with true iudgement to shunne such thinges Because iudgement is corrupt in them that conceiue suche thinges therefore they seeme not so to them for the Diuell singeth sweete songues and tunes vnto them till hee hath made them sure in his snares The Fowler hath pleasaunt calles to bring the foule to his Nets Hiena the cruel beast hath a familiar call to call out shepheardes by name Pli. hist nat lib. 8. cap. 30. as Plinie telleth and when they come shee falleth vpon them to deuour them So the Diuell hath a familiar call in the very bosomes of the wicked by euil suggestions and councels to bryng them into his ginnes to destroy them hee sheweth them sweete hanging hopes and lyngering expectations in one hand and in the other hee bringeth snares halters shame and payne Therfore if with the eye of true iudgement wee looke into such thinges they are rightly as the holy Ghost calleth them wretchednesse toyle trauaile trouble sorrow vnquietnesse as the nature of the word doth induce That they seeme pleasaunt and plausible to those that are conceiued with them it is longing of the suggestions of Sathan which are like sweete songes to them but they turne to sorrowe Hee transfigureth himselfe into an angell of light 2. Cor. 11. as S. Paul saieth And in the humors of the wicked hee transfigureth himelfe as hee listeth and by secrete suggestions turneth himselfe into such shapes as he will But in right iudgement the conceiuing of suche wicked intentions and councels in them is like the running of soranses and spreading of Malanders that cannot stay Am. Pareuâ— li. 12. ca. 10. which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and because they growe into ill qualities and habite they are called Cacoethe that will not yeeld to cure and these are like to fretting cankers and eating Gangrenes 2. Tim. 2. to which S. Paul compareth the speache of Himenaeus and Philetus There is no remedie for eating cankers and resolute treasons Psal 55. Dauid saith of the churles of Coila that woulde haue betrayed him for the good hee had doone to them there is no change with them or they will not turne and feare God Can the Ethiopian or man of India as Hieremie sayeth of the Iewes hardened in their wickednesse chaunge his hew Hier. 13. or can the Leopard change his spots No more can they leaue to do euill that are taught trained and giuen vp vnto it The holy ghost giue them grace to be reclaimed from such wicked waies and direct them with the light of true iudgement to flie and shunne them Thus what in true iudgement they doe conceiue sorrowe trouble trauaile toyle wretchednes and wearinesse The 3. principall part Of the trauailing with treasons rebellions such like disloyalties vppon the wordes of Dauid Hee trauaileth with iniquitie or mischiefe Of traueling with treasons WIth a generall worde is noted and imployed all wickednesse The Septuagint translate the word auen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vnrighteousnesse some expound it a vaine thing others mischiefs Such is the trauaile of the wicked wheÌ„ they imploy themselues to bring foorth their wicked intentions and purposes In this treatise I will note first what trauailing is The order of this part then who setteth them on to trauaile after howe they watche for oportunities and occasions The first of this part First what trauailing is It is a bending of all their wittes abilities and forces to the vttermost to put in execution their wicked intentions What trauailing is and to bring them to passe As we see when a woman is in trauaile she doth all that possibly she can to bee deliuered of her fruite And heere wee may note that the wicked when they are conceiued and resolute in their wicked plats imploy their whole minds and maine mights to the vttermost to put theÌ„ in execution and to accomplishe them After that Adonias had conceiued in his aspyring minde to sit on Dauids seate after him Adonias 1. Reg. 1. hee gate him horses and chariots horsemen and fiftie men to run before him with other confederates and men of armes and he thought by such means to carry it and to be his own carâ—er but he missed the garland Absalon for gods prouidence had appointed it to Salomon Absalon the Traitor to king Dauid his owne father 2. Sam. 15. was long in trauaile with his treasons hee wood the people with fawning flattery as the scripture setteth him foorth At last he sounded his trumpet that Absolon was king and Dauid was downe but Gods prouidence sodainelie turned Absolon downe and Dauid continued in the royall seat Sheba the rebell Sheba had gotten a walled towne ouer his head assoone as Ioab with the kings hoast came thither his head was trilled ouer the wall by the counsell of a wise woman the perswaded them Dathan Dathan Coraah and Abiram Coraah Abiram made a great mutenie against Moses began to make theÌ„selues stroÌ„g against him but while they wer in trauaile of their treason rebellion against him sodainly the earth opened swallowed them vp quick Iudas had coÌ„ference with the Pharisees and Priests for the betraying of his master to theÌ„ Iudas Mat. 26. after he trauailed with his treasons and came with forces hy night with lanterns weapons but assoone as they came they reeled back and fell on grouÌ„d Ioh. 18. Before his hand was in the dish with our Sauior at his last supper Luke 22 after he had receiued the sop at our Sauiour his hand as S. Iohn saith the diuell entred into him Ioh. 13. by and by hee was in trauaile with the treasonâ— which
Gagwin â—n anna Reg. Franc. lib 2. Holderich the traitor iâ—â—reward and seeing Gods iudgement on them vtterly they may shun and detest them The wickednesse of traitors commeth on their owne heads their mischief on their own pates What was Holderich the olde and ranke traitour and murderer his rewarde who of Fredegonde Queene of Soisons in Fraunce was hired to murder Queene Brunchild in her Courte Hee was putte to torture and the bastinado And after hee came to Queene Fredegond for her reward shee charging him with cowardice caused his hands and feete which in treasons and murders long he had abused to bee cut off and that was the traitours rewarde The two Traitours that of the same Fredegond were set sent to kill Sigisbert king of Mees or Austracia according to Fabian in his campe Ro. Cagw in annali Fran. â—ib 2. awaiting their time committing the murder were hewen of the souldiers in peeces Edricus the traitor Edricus surnamed of StrattoÌ„ was a rank traitor first to Egelred after to king Edmond surnamed Ironside after him to king Canutus the first king of Danes that after Edmond reigned ouer the land to his own country in the inuasion of Danes How euer the Prince changed Edricus did not chang but was a traytor to his Prince a traytor to his Country He was grown in great estate of honour vnder king Egelredus and vnder others after But hee coulde not containe himselfe in his estate He turned truth into treason With many treasons hee trauailed and hee reaped the reward of his treasons in the end Because it is a notable example of our owne Countrie and worthy as a spectacle to be set vp to warne all I wil open it more at large Edricus was from a low state and birth as Fabian saith by king Egelredus first aduaunced to bee Duke of Mercia Fab. in chro 6. par ca. 199 and hee coÌ„mited the conduct and regiment of soldiers vnto him And when vpon the kings commaundement hee hadde assembled the west Saxons to withstand the entrie of the Danes vnder Swanus their king and the hoastes should ioyne Edricus sicke when he should fight Edricus fayned himselfe sicke and fled from his people to the great aduantage and comfort of the enemies Thus when it coÌ„meth to a dead lift Fabian in Chro. the 6. part cap. 198 Edricus treasoÌ„ in the battaile treason betrayeth al. And vnder king Edmond called Ironsid in a battaile in Worcestershire as Fabian telleth it when the Danes were like to be discomfited Edricus the traytor pight a dead mans head on a speares head and cryed to the English hoast Fabian in Chro. the 6. part cap. 240 that it was the head of kinge Edmond to daunt the courages of English men and to set the Danes agog vpon them But king Edmond sped him to that parte of the field and so incouraged his souldiers that he had rather the better then the woorse After Edricus fearing the great courage and good successe of kinge Edmond and to saue his land as Fabian saith humbly shued to be receiued into his grace and fauour Fab. in chro 6. par ca. 204 swore to bee true subiect to him But olde trecherie would not suffer new sworne truth to take place in him for after when the hoasts of king Edmond and Canutus mette at Ashdown Edricus after long sight fled to the coÌ„fort of the Danes Thus fighting and flying it was all one with Edricus for when hee should fight he would flee or be sick and haue some excuse and with smooth words set forth matters of small importance Edricus the traytors excuses His flying out of the battaile at Ashdowne he did so excuse as Fabian saith that no man might charge him with any defaulte Hee would turne himselfe vnto manye excuses as Poets fayne that Proteus kinge of Egypt would turne himselfe into manie formes Proteus king of Egypt because the manner was of the Egyptian kings to weare on their heades the formes and forepartes of a Lion Bull Dragon Caro Ste. in dictio Hist Poe. or armes of their estate and sometimes a tree or fire or fragrant ointmentes and thereof Poets fayned of Proteus that he chaunged himselfe into many formes So Edricus could change himselfe into many formes of excuses Hee was eloquent of speech as Fabian sayth and false of heart Fabian in Chro. 6. part cap. 199. and with faire wordes would blanch out fowle treasons Hee was onely constant in his inconstance warbling with a wayward minde and doubling in dealings of great importance He practised treason gainst his owne Country for the Danes vnder kinge Egeldredus and vnder kinge Edmond after him Fabian telleth the reporte of Guido King EdmoÌ„d killed at the withdraught howe by his and Edricus his sonne their treasons Edmond came to his death As hee satte at the withdraught Edridus his sonne awayting him strocke him with a speare into the fundament wherof shortely after hee died Then Edricus the father with great haste sped him to king Canutus Edricus the traitors head exalted on the highest gate who then with king Edmond reigned ouer halfe the lande for by composition for ending of ciuill warres the land was deuided betweene them and hee thought for his tidinges greatly to haue been exalted But king Canutus according to Guido his reporte cammaunded his head to be stricken of and pight on a speare and exalted vpon one of the highest gates of London Chronica Fructus temp the 6. parte Thus according to that storie Edricus was exalted for his treasons which returned to his own head Though it seeme fabulous to Polidore that Chronica Fructus temporum telleth of king Edmonds death and Edricus treason yet because of the straÌ„gnes of the deuise I wil note it This Edrick of Stratton inuited king Edmond to lodge at his house and at night as the king should goe to his lodging in the way was set vppe a beautifull Image with a bowe bent and an arrowe in it and when the king approched to see it anone it discharged the arrowe and shot the king through the bodie for it was an engin made for that purpose to lure the king to the gase and to slea him And after that Edricke his report to king Knoght thereof for Canutus so is called hee abhorred him for his treason and as a traytor commaunded him to be bound and cast into the riuer of Thames Thus Chronica Fructus temporum rehearseth the storie or the deuise in steed of the storie as it seemeth to Polidor Fabian noteth out of Marian the Scot another varietie of the storie that king Edmond dyed at London of naturall sicknesse for there out of the same Marian he telleth that after the death of king Edmond Edricus flatterie Fabian in Chro. 6. parâ— cap. 205. this Edrick grew in such deepe fauour with king Knoght or Canut by his sugred wordes as
then disgarnished of the robes of his estate Polid. Hist Angl. lib. 18. and after put in execution Polidor telleth of a pacte or platte of treason made with Robert kinge of Scotes by him with his owne opinion in the ende Thus Sir Andrew Herkelies treason turned on his owne head in the ende Sir Roger Mortimer surnamed of Wigmor may for his aduauncemeÌ„t first Sir Roger Mortimer Fabian the 7 part in an 1324. corruption and treasons after well bee ioyned to him Vnder Edward the second being committed to the Tower hee made escape by giuing a sleeping drinke to his keepers as Fabian witnesseth Then he gotte him into Fraunce to Queene Isabell daughter to Philippe Lebew and wedded to kinge Edward Polidor Hist lib. 18. whom kinge Edward with her sonne hadde sent into Fraunce to intreat a concord and peace betweene Charles the French king and him After the returne of Queene Isabell Prince Edward her son with force of armes after the deposing of Edward the 2. in the Parliament holden at London Fabian in an 1328. Fabian the 7 part in an 1326. Sir Roger Mortimer who returned likewise in their retinue was by the singular fauour of Queene Isabell in wthose Court he bare the sway aduaunced in the Parliament of Salisburie vnder Edward the third to bee Earle of March as Sir Andrew the aforesaid was vnder Edward the second his father preferred to bee Earle of Carlile or Cardoile as is mentioned before And in the end this Sir Roger of Wigmor was executed for treason against his Prince and Countrie as the same Sir Andrew was But this Sir Roger was mounted farre higher in fauour in the Court and in the regiment dealings of estate and cause of profite that did accrew to the Crowne And hee had great troupes and routes hanging on him Chronica Fructus temp the 7. parte as Chronica Fructus temporum telleth what a number of knightes were retayned to him when hee was taken The regiment of the lande and affayres of profitte passed through the Queenes hands and his And the Lordes before assigned to haue the guiding of the yong king were sequestred so that alone the rule of the lande as Fabian sayeth rested in the Queene and the said Sir Roger Fabian the 7. part in an 1328. And great things of the realme saith he were out of order But Sir Roger bare himself so high that at length hee plucked both the king and his Councell vppon him So that in time by the king his assent and the meanes of Sir William Montague and sir Rafe Stafford and sir Iohn Neuel and others hee was by a compassed meane as Fabian termeth it arrested and takeÌ„ in the castle of Nottingham Fabian the 7 part in anno 1329. where the king and Queene then lay The keyes of the castle were daily and nightly vnder the ward and keeping of the said sir Roger as Fabian saith Chronica Fructus Temporum telleth Chro. Fruct temp 7. part that the Constable of the Tower led sir William Montague and his companie a priuie way vnder earth euen into the Tower where sir Roger was lodged From thence with sir Simon of Bedford and others he was sent to the Tower of London And in the end for his priuitie to the death of king Edward the second the king his father Fabian the 7 part in anno 1330. for other treasons charged and proued against him in the Parliament at London he was by authoritie of the same Parliament Fabian witnessing it iudged to death And vppon S. Andrewes euen next ensuing at London he was drawen and hanged He was charged not onely with treason against Edward the seconde the kings father to haue been the meanes of his most traiterous death fearing least nature woulde worke in the young king to set him at libertie againe Polidor hist Ang. lib. 18. as Polidore noteth and because Queene Isabel had written likewise letters of kindnesse vnto him but also hee was charged with treason against king Edward the 3. his sonne against his countrie to haue been the meane that the Scots escaped from the king at Stanhop park where they had fallen into the kings danger ne had byn the fauour of the said sir Roger then shewed to them further that an vnprofitable dishonorable peace as Fabian termeth it was by his meane concluded betweene the king and the Scots For first as Fabian writing of the Parliament of Northampton saith the king released to the Scots their fealtie and homage Fabian the 6 part in anno 1327. And he deliuered to them olde auncient writinges sealed with the seales of the kings of Scots Lords of the land both spiritual and temporal with many other Charters and Patentes by the which the kings of Scots obliged theÌ„ to bee â—eodaries to the crowne of England At which season also were deliuered certaine iewels which beforetimes had been wonne from the Scots The blacke crosse of Scotland Chro. Fruct temp in Edward â—qe 3. among the which the blacke Crosse of Scotland is specially named Chronica Fructus TemporuÌ„ according to the blacke darknesse of the superstitious time saith that this black Crosse was a ful precious relike which good king Edward conquered in Scotland brought it out of the Abbey of Stone And maketh mentioÌ„ also of the famous Indenture called Ragman Ragman the Indenture of the homages and fealties of Scotlande which the Scots made to king Edward king Henry his son in which were conteined all the homages and fealties first of of the king of Scotland all the Prelates Earles and Barons of the Realme of Scotland with their seales set there vnder other charters remembrances that king Edward and his Barons had of their right in the aforesaid realm of Scotland Fabian the 7 part in anno 1327. Of this Indenture Ragman mention is made also in the article obiected to this sir Roger at his arraignment before the iudges of the Parliament in London Thus the said sir Roger for sundrie treasons against his Prince Countrie was openly arraigned condemned executed as is aforesaid And thus of the treasons of Edric of Stratton of Eltrick the Admiral sir Andrew Hardikel sir Roger Mortimer of Wigmor and the executioÌ„ done on theÌ„ To these I will adde the notable exaÌ„ple of Hebert Earle of Vermandois in France of his treason against Charles king of France surnamed the Simple Hebert his execution vnder Lewes the 5. of the name And the example of Q. Brunchild in France Brunchild for her treasons the straÌ„ge execution done on her Metius Suffetius And likewise on the murderers of Charles Earle of Flaunders on Metius Suffetius and on two Traitors of the chamber of Frotho king of Danes Polido And these abundantly may suffice for the ending of this treatise First touching Hebert his treasons against Charles the Simple Ro. Gag
in an Reg. Fran lib. 5. then of his iudgement and after his execution This Hebert Countie of Vermendoies humbly inuited Charles surnamed the simple king of France to lodge at his castle of Peron as he returned out of ciuill warres against Robert the sonne of Eudo who contrary to his alleageance had seased certaine Cities and holds of the kings inheritance whome the king had slaine in the field The king surnamed the Simple casting no perils though Earle Heberts wife were sister to Duke Robert late slaine of the king in the fielde vouchsafeth his courteous inuiting and came to lodge with him After great feasting when the king was lodged and his strength sequestred from him Hebert by the setting on of his wife in reuenge of her brother Roberts death taketh the king prisoner and maketh him away that neuer he was enlarged and raigned againe Thus of Heberts treason against his Prince vnder colour of inuiting him to his castle and lodging him Now of his iudgement vnder Lewes the 5. After the making away of king Charles by treason of Hebert Lewes the 5. his son reigned in his place Hee in reuenge of Heberts treason deuiseth this manner of iudgement that Hebert out of his owne mouth vnwares and in a pretensed case shoulde pronounce sentence of death vpon himselfe Ro. Gag in an Re. Fran. lib. 5. This deuise and plat was furnished in this sort As hee sate in councel with his Lords in the Citie of Laon whither this Hebert was also warned procured to be present as Robert Gagwin a famous writer of the French story reporteth it a suborned Poast came thither in Englishe mans array with a letter of hast praying the kings presence and being brought to presence he deliuered the letter And at the secrete reading therof by the king his Secretary to him the king smiled The Lordes as if his smiling boded good said they trusted there was good newes out of England Then hee saieth that one Herman as Gagwin telleth it Fabian the â— part ca. 186. but as Fabian saith one of his owne cosins and especiall friends of England moued him of a case in his letter asking his iudgement and resolution in it He proponeth the case among theÌ„ to heare their opinions and iudgements of the case The case was of a countrie or husbandman that inuited his Lorde to his house and there murdered him Say my Lordes saieth he as Gagwin vttreth his speech what death you deeme and iudge him worthie of Theobald of Blois a sage Counceller first gaue seâ—tence Theobald of Blois his iudgement that though he was worthy of sundrie tortures yet it seemed good to him that the hangman should trusse him at the gallowes strangle him with a rope And after his verdit all assented to it and Earle Hebert also accorded to it Earl Heberts iudgemeÌ„t out of his owne mouth on himselfe and his own sentence was as it were the cord to trusse him vp Iudgement out of his owne mouth was giuen on himselfe there remained no more but execution The Foxe was taken in his owne case Thus iudgement was contriued in a deuised case and Heberts mouth pronounced iudgement of death vppon himself Now of the execution Sodainly rushed in the crue appointed of the king before they caught giltie Hebert Earl Heberts execution and according to his owne sentence carried him to a hill without the citie of Laon hoised him to the Gibbet or gallowes and before the hangman straÌ„gled him Ro. Gag in an Re. Fran. lib. 5. the king turned to him as Gag reporteth and said Thou Hebert art the same countrieman that madst away my Lorde and father and thy Soueraign in prison bonds now according to thy desert suffer thy deserued death Thus Heberts iudgement was deuolued on himselfe and his treason against his Prince returned on his owne head May it not be a mirror of gods iudgement touching the ende execution of traitors which intrap others with treasons sodainly are trussed vp themselues Little thought Hebert to hang at the gallowes at Laon when he came to the kings presence to sit with the Lords in couÌ„cell Little know traitors what sodainly will befall theÌ„ Gods reuenge ruÌ„neth after theÌ„ and will sodainly ouertake theÌ„ He was too suttle for the simple king As a guest the king came to his house but as a lamb he fell into the butchers hands God seeth not this Hebert saith in his hart there is no God to reuenge Psal 14. as Dauid saith of that Nabal the is the foolish wicked maÌ„ His wife wil haue her reuenge of her brothers death Hebert is the executioner of reuenge See how gods iudgemeÌ„t meateth him his owne measure He commeth to Laon as a guest inuited to sit in couÌ„cell his own mouth vnawares giueth iudgement on himself The crue appointed carieth him away to make him away As by treason he made away his Soueraign vnawares so by gods iustice he is taken vnawares for his secret treasoÌ„ hath open executioÌ„ The hill on which Hebert was haÌ„ged Heberts hill was after called Heberts hill Edric Edric the traitor had his head exalted on a high gate or his head body cast into a stinking ditch as some say Elfric had his eies plucked out Elfric Sir Andrew Hardikell Sir Roger Mortimer Sir Andrew Hardikell sir Roger Mortimer were drawn as traitors to death God giue al grace to bee warned by the example of Hebert of France Edric Elfric of England such like traitors against their Soueraignes set vp by Gods prouidence to raigne ouer countries Thus of the treason iudgement and executioÌ„ of Hebert Earle of Vermandois in France Now let vs brieflie tell of the strange execution of Queene Brunchild wife sometime to Sigisbert king of Mees or Austracia according to FabiaÌ„ for her manifold treasons murders of Princes of her owne blood Queene Brunchild Shee is noted in the storie to haue been the death of ten Princes of royal blood beside others She sette her owne sonnes and brethren Theodobert and Theodorich on blooddie warre together and one to teare out an others throate And after king Theodobert was slain in the warres by treason and Theodorich by poyson made away shee set vp a base of Theodorich called Sigisbert against king Clotare who discomfited him and took Brunchild in the field on whoÌ„ all the hoast cried a shamefull death as Gagwin telleth Ro. Gag in an Re. Fran. lib. 2. and after shee was beaten with a cudgell foure times king Clotare commaunded her to be set on a horse and to bee carried about all the hoast then by the haire of the head and armes to be tyed to the taile of a wilde horse and so to bee trailed and drawne to death And this was the 〈◊〉 iudgement and execution of Burnchild king Clotare Let 〈◊〉 heare likewise of the strange iudgement and execution done on the traitors